Selasa, 27 September 2005

The Cypresses Believe in God: Spain on the Eve of Civil War A Novel

The Cypresses Believe in God: Spain on the Eve of Civil War   A Novel

The Cypresses Believe in God: Spain on the Eve of Civil War A Novel

Considered by many critics to be the greatest novel about the Spanish Civil War, this classic work by Spaniard Jose Maria Gironella is an unbiased account of the complicated events, movements and personalities that led up to the war. Beginning in 1931, Cypresses covers the next five years of political unrest, culminating in the explosion of the brutal war that wreaked such great havoc on Spain and its citizens. In his epic novel, both gripping and suspenseful, Gironella deftly portrays the human conflict, both internal and external. The most influential philosophical movements of the 20th century are embodied in various characters. Through them, the reader is introduced to every faction involved--ancharist, communist, Catholic, royalist, existentialist, and others."

ISBN: 1586170465
Author: José María Gironella
Publisher: Ignatius Press
Rating: 4.13

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Selasa, 13 September 2005

The Family First Workbook: Specific Tools, Strategies, and Skills for Creating a Phenomenal Family

The Family First Workbook: Specific Tools, Strategies, and Skills for Creating a Phenomenal Family

The Family First Workbook: Specific Tools, Strategies, and Skills for Creating a Phenomenal Family


In Dr. Phil's #1 New York Times bestseller Family First: Your Step-by-Step Plan for Creating a Phenomenal Family, he gives parents courage and a solid understanding of the principles for making your family phenomenal. Now, with The Family First Workbook: Specific Tools, Strategies and Skills for Creating a Phenomenal Family, Dr. Phil puts you to work practicing purposeful parenting, walking you through scenarios and exercises in which you and your family will act on these proven principles to build pride, unity and hope for the future. You'll master a host of concrete, in-depth tools for raising happy children who approach the world with integrity, honesty and respect.

Dr. Phil wants to help parents get their priorities back in order by putting family at the center of their lives. Families don't have to suffer through mediocrity because of parents who don't communicate and children who act out because they aren't receiving the right balance of guidance and discipline. You can shape your household into a functional, supportive, stimulating and safe place -- a place that you and your kids are happy to call home.

With innovative individual and group exercises, challenging self-appraisals, a Daily Intention Journal, specific guidelines on managing conflict, special material for divorced and blended families, and much more, the workbook will show you how to be the best role model, guide and advocate for your child.

Dr. Phil makes you ask yourself the hard questions, and he reveals the hard truths. You are raising America's future; you must invest the time and energy to do it right. The reward -- a happy, fulfilled home life that lets your children thrive -- will be well worth the work.

ISBN: 0743280733
Author: Phillip C. McGraw
Publisher: Free Press
Rating: 3.44

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Family First: Your Step by Step Plan for Creating a Phenomenal Family

Family First: Your Step by Step Plan for Creating a Phenomenal Family

Family First: Your Step by Step Plan for Creating a Phenomenal Family


From Dr. Phil's Letter to Parents:

I want to talk to you about family: yours and mine. I know and feel that as parents, you and I share some very important priorities. Just like you, I love my family more than anything in this world and I want us all to be safe, healthy, happy and prosperous in everything we do both within our family and as we go out into the world. Cynics will tell you that in our fast-paced society "family" is becoming obsolete, that it is just an old-fashioned, lost concept, getting buried in a busy world of "enlightened" people. I'm here to tell you that that is not right, not even close. Family is even more important today than in generations past, and its erosion is unacceptable. This is a fight we can and must win. This is a fight we will win if we just do our homework and plug in. What I intend to do in Family First is tell you with great precision what you need to stop doing and what you need to start doing to lead your family with such a pure purpose and power that the competing messages and influences are drowned out. I plan to help you define success and then take the steps to create and claim it for you and yours. Your children are the stars in your crown and it is time for them to shine; it is okay for them to shine and, if you do your job, shine they will. -- Dr. Phil

ISBN: 074327377X
Author: Phillip C. McGraw
Publisher: Free Press
Rating: 3.67

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Kamis, 01 September 2005

Windows on the World Complete Wine Course: 2006 Edition

Windows on the World Complete Wine Course: 2006 Edition

Windows on the World Complete Wine Course: 2006 Edition

"One of the best start-from-scratch wine books ever written."--Frank Prial, The New York Times.

OVER 2 MILLION COPIES SOLD!

Celebrating 20 years of wine mastery...

The world's finest wine book gets a complete redesign for its 20th birthday. Thirty-two pages of brand new material, enhanced color, and even more cartoons grace this Anniversary Edition, which will thrill wine lovers once again as they get a taste of Kevin Zraly's unequaled advice. One thing hasn't changed, however: Zraly's inimitable, irreverent style. He answers every question about wine; offers the most up-to-date recommendations; provides advice on buying wine in stores and on the Internet; takes you on a country-by-country, region-by-region ratings tour of the latest vintages; and starts you on your way to becoming a wine connoisseur. Abundant full-color labels and maps complete the enticing picture. More current, more informative, more concise and precise than ever, this remains the wine guide against which all others are judged.

"A visually exciting, intelligently structured reference."--Bon Appetit

"Are you intimidated by wine stewards? Read Kevin Zraly's new edition of Windows on the World Complete Wine Course and order with aplomb"--Playboy

"The liveliest short course on wine ever wrapped between two covers"--Boston Globe

"Brims with enthusiasm... breezy, down-to-earth...Reads like an interesting conversation."--Chicago Tribune

"As entertaining as it is informative. A masterful job of simplifying a complex subject and making it fun in the process."--New York Daily News

"The top introductory book available."--Booklist

ISBN: 1402726392
Author: Kevin Zraly
Publisher: Sterling
Rating: 4.09

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Bitten: True Medical Stories of Bites and Stings

Bitten: True Medical Stories of Bites and Stings

Bitten: True Medical Stories of Bites and Stings

STARTLING TRUE CASES OF BITE ATTACKS, RESULTING INFECTIONS, AND ENSUING TREATMENTS---
From ticks, ants, and flying bats to elephant seals, Komodo dragons, rhesus macaques, and deadliest of all, humans.

We've all been bitten. And we all have stories.
The bite attacks that Pamela Nagami, M.D., has chosen to write about in Bitten take place in big cities, small towns, and remote villages around the world and throughout history, locales as familiar as New York or Hollywood, or exotic as Africa, the Middle East, or Indonesia. They include a six-year-old girl who descended into weeks of extreme lassitude from a tick bite; a diabetic in the West Indies who awoke to find a rat eating two of his toes; a California man who developed "flesh-eating strep" following a penile bite; and more.
With reports from medical journals, case histories, colleagues, and her own twenty-five-year career as a practicing physician and infectious diseases specialist, Pamela Nagami offers readers intrigued by infection, disease, and mesmerized by creatures in the wild a compulsively readable narrative that is entertaining, sometimes disturbing, and always engrossing.

ISBN: 0312318235
Author: Pamela Nagami
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Rating: 3.85

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