A great book that shows one does not have to negate who they are in order to be successful. In fact, it even helps understand how to proudly embrace a Latino background as part of one's identity. I would recommend this book for Latinos looking to enter the business world in the US, anyone interested in the Latino experience in the US, and anyone that has experienced the embarrasing moment of standing in front of a large group of clients having said something that sounded "dirty" because of accent inflections - yes, there is still success after that (check out the story of the executive that prefers to use the word "bedding" instead of sheets). I believe the authors' met their goal by compiling great stories that offer lessons learned and successes along the way to the top. Truly inspiring!

This is a wonderful book for anyone that is chemcially dependent. My counselor let me borrow this book 3 years ago and I never returned it. I let the people I sponsor read this book and they find it extremely rewarding. I am ordering a book for my counselor that loaned me the book and one for myself. It explains the unexplainable and explains the things the things that people simple forget to tell you. A DEFFINATE must for everyone in recovery.

This book will give a reader an excellent idea what the international media did to Yugoslavia with its lies. Must read for anyone who wants to know the TRUTH. The truth will set you free and thats what this bok does.
Also my views and opinions on double standards of Yugoslavian war coverage have been pubslished 6 times locally and internationally so I happen to know a bit ab out the subject.
Also go rent or buy here on Amazon.com movie called "No Mans Land" this too will give you an idea about the people, media and UN coverage of war in Yugoslavia.

As a student at Roosevelt University, I was required to purchase this book for class. This book is comprised of mostly short stories/essays with some famous (i.e. Maya Angelou & Amy Tan) and not-so-famous authors. It also includes a 'before reading' set of questions, 'active reading' discussions, context comparisons and draft suggestions.

For any of you that enjoy book club discussions, this is excellent material. There is a large variety of topics covered, and can appeal to any audience. No need to wait a month to discuss what you think of the reading. I own both first and second editions of this book. The pieces included in each edition vary.

A Lonely Grave: The Life And Death Of William Redmond is the fascinating biography of a hitherto forgotten man who in his time came to represent the ambition, frustration, and self-sacrifice of a generation of Irish patriots who sought home rule for their country in the days preceding World War I. William "Willie" Redmond was the brother of John Redmond, leader of the Irish parliamentary party who, despite the general apathy of the Irish towards involving themselves in the British/German conflict on the continent, enlisted in the 16th (Irish) Division as an officer and received a fatal wound on the battlefield of Messines Ridge, south of Ypres, France. Dying in a field hospital of the Ulster Division later that same day, Redmond was the only officer of his 6th Royal Irish Regiment to be buried at Locre (the 16th Division's headquarters), and not with his fallen comrades into one of the official war cemeteries built after the war. His "lonely grave" is unvisited, and symbolizes Ireland's indifference to the fate of its soldiers who died in World War I. Terence Denman's superb biography, covering both Redmond's political and military career, is a fitting testament to a long neglected hero of both the Irish struggle for independence and Irish participation in the Great War.

If there is such thing as a "Bible" for real estate sales professionals, this is it. This is absolutely the best book I've ever read on the art of selling real estate. Weaver starts out with the basics, tried and true methods, that are a must for any sales professional. He takes the reader from interview to closing and everything in between. These easy to master techniques will make you money! Believe me. I've been very successful in real estate sales for over 15 years and Weaver's book is an incredible piece of work that you will be so glad you found.

Although the title suggests an assassination, it actually refers to Clarence Sinclair Bull, who was MGM's chief portrait and glamour photographer from the studio's inception in 1924 to his retirement in 1961. He began photographing Garbo with her last silent film The Kiss in 1929, and after that she wanted no one else to photograph her. Bull would take over 4,000 individual studies of Garbo, devoting 2 days in his gallery for each of her films. She would pose in the character she was playing, since she saw the stills as part of the film-making process. The stills from The Kiss are particularly striking, "suffused with an elegaic softness and allure" writes Terence Pepper in the text. Bull enclosed Garbo's face in a black shadowy background, and, in contrast to her previous demure studies where she averted her eyes, he had her look directly into the camera and communicate directly with the viewer, "preserving her inner mood". A beret photograph is so potent that the studio used it for the film poster, and it prefigures her think-of-nothing final close-up from her later Queen Christina. Bull also transposed a vignette study of Garbo's face onto a photograph of the Cairo Sphinx, to create "The Swedish Sphinx". When he timorously showed her the result, he was surprised that instead of being offended, she howled with laughter, and approved it's release. It may have become the most widely distributed of her images, but it remains camp at best. Bull would say that she had no bad side and no bad angle, which made her the easiest of all the stars to photograph. Plus he thought she enjoyed their sessions, never tiring of posing for him. The images confirm MGM's agenda of creating flawless beauty, held up before the admiring throng as "nothing less than the Hope diamond in the flesh". Garbo's skin has a statue-esque perfection, her hair lit to be look soft and pliable. She never smiles but emotion is still evident. The one study in colour is for Two Faced Woman, which is less flattering than the black and white stills. Her hair has been pulled back slightly with a hidden ribbon, exposing her large forehead, and the hardness of her later Cecil Beaton studies emerges, her mouth almost in a sneer of disdain. Perhaps she knew making the film would be a mistake and an end to her film career. We also have a study of Chris, Garbo's stand-in, who apparently was even more mysterious than the one she doubled for. After Garbo retired, perhaps it is only the studies of Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn that can match the iconoclastic grandness of Bull's work with Garbo, which proves that no matter how talented the photographer, the subject is everything. This kind of portraiture would decline with the collapse of the studios, and when you see the later studies of less arresting faces, perhaps this was for the best. Garbo flourished in a period where the ideals of beauty she radiated were desperately needed, but she always a reluctant star. When the world became indifferent, so did she.

To evaluate this book, the reader needs to know what it does and doesn't attempt to do. It isn't intended to be a complete introduction to the subject of heraldry, and very fairly warns the reader of this right off the bat, recommending Warne's _Observer Book of Heraldry_ or something like it for any reader lacking knowledge of the basics. (Having said that, though, this book does explain how to read a blazon, and in describing the evolution of medieval heraldry will give you *some* grounding in the basics.)

In restricting its scope to heraldry of the medieval period, the book is geared toward the military role of heraldry and its usage in the 14th and 15th centuries, so it only goes into the aspects one would have seen on a battlefield or in a tournament. (It doesn't try to go into all the finicky details of mottoes and supporters, for example.) Wise has attempted to cover continental heraldry as well as English heraldry, but gives warning that since many European Colleges of Heralds no longer exist (and thus, no central repositories of records exist for the affected countries), there is a bias toward English heraldry simply because that's where the records are most complete, easily available, and written in a language accessible to a wide audience.

In discussing the evolution of the role of heralds and shields, the basic rules of reading a blazon are eventually presented, but also which tinctures (colours) one would be likely to see, and what colours had to be added as the growing number of registered insignia forced heralds to work harder at coming up with unique devices.

While some examples are given (8 pages of colour plates, and quite a few illustrations of various coats of arms, particularly notable English insignia of the medieval period), the book is not intended as an encyclopedia of medieval blazons; there are too many, and they vary too much depending on a campaign setting. It'll give you the tools to find what you need in such a reference book, though.