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2009-11-18T00:20:00.000-08:00

12 Speed Reading Tips

Choose your reading material intelligently
Browse the material from back to front
Read Early in the Day
Prioritize Your Reading
Skim Material First for Main Ideas
Consider the digital version (If available)
Read in the Proper Environment (Comfort, Lighting, quiet etc.)
Decide what you want to accomplish by reading this material
Avoid Highlighting as it can be distracting and slows you down!
Preview Topics, titles and the forward Before Reading
Use a Flexible Reading Speed
Enroll in a Speed Reading Class if you have not achieved "The Read Speed"

2009-09-16T08:52:00.000-07:00

eBook defined
Users can purchase an eBook on diskette or CD, but the most popular method of getting an eBook is to purchase a downloadable file of the eBook (or other reading material) from a Web site (such as Barnes and Noble) to be read from the user's computer or reading device. Generally, an eBook can be downloaded in five minutes or less. An e-book (short for electronic book, also written eBook or ebook) is an e-text that forms the digital media equivalent of a conventional printed . An eBook is an electronic book, one you read digitally on your computer, laptop screen or on devices called ebook readers.

You will find them in various formats and until the industry has a standard accessible in all devices these various formats will exist.
PDF format is a popular format for ebooks. All platforms are able to gain access and read PDF formatting. So regardless if you have a PC or Mac, you are in business! PDF requires the Acrobat Reader but this software comes on many new computers and if not included, it's a free downloaded from Adobe http://www.adobe.com/.

There are still many who prefer printing out the pages of an ebook to read and PDF files have always been good for this purpose. Other popular formats include: HTML (which can be read on your computer screen, laptop. Microsoft LIT (requires the free Microsoft Reader installed on your computer, laptop or Pocket PC device)Palm likewise!

So, why would you want an ebook? As you discover this new industry with your surfing over the Internet, you will discover ePublishers and eBookstores gradually growing in numbers. Take a look at what they offer and what they have to say about their authors and titles. Thousands upon thousands of authors write books yearly. Of those, a small percentage have the good fortune of being accepted by a publisher. This is not because they don't make the grade, but because of the vast numbers.

The Internet is a wide open medium. Excellent, talented authors can take their books to the Net, market/promote and sell those books themselves. Others are coming to the growing epublishing houses and taking that route. It is guaranteed as you journey through the epublishing world, you are going to find outstanding, spell-binding, and top-class works, which are well worth the read.

2009-09-10T14:30:00.000-07:00

GET THE HEALTH CARE YOU DESERVE!!!

As a physician and a retired medical group president and medical insurance executive, Bob Sheff thought he knew everything about the health care system. Then he became a patient himself and found out firsthand just how intimidating, confusing, and downright scary it can be to face the rules, regulations, and physician attitudes that now define America's medical care culture. The result of his experiences is this useful guide to navigating every aspect of what Dr. Sheff calls "our messed-up medical system." His compassionate, easy-to-understand text shows you how to become your own medical advocate and get the kind of care you deserve, when you want it, from whom you want it, and where you want it-no matter what your insurance company says.

The Medical Mentor offers rare insider information about selecting and handling insurance companies; hospital practices that can put you in jeopardy; how to protect your health in the doctor's office and your life in the hospital or a special-care facility; and how to know which sources (including medical web sites) to trust and which not to trust. This indispensable guide provides all the information you need to know before you need to use it. We have this book for you.

2009-09-01T15:37:00.000-07:00

TOP 50 MAGAZINES

1-10

1. Wired. After a wobbly post-boom period, Wired has transformed itself from an insider computer monthly into a slick, smart and playful cultural journal. The reporting is excellent ("The Future of Food," "The New Diamond Age," for instance) and the graphics deliver some of the best short-form journalism in the business. The back-page feature Found" and the upfront section "Start" are consistently strong, and even the "Letters" page crackles with energy. The writing staff is lively yet authoritative, and columnists Lawrence Lessig and Bruce Sterling are smart without being snooty. Even the ads are cool. Finally: We dare you to show us a better magazine Web site (Wired.com).
2. Real Simple. This gem seduces and delivers the goods with teasers such as "A cleaner house in less time: 23 breakthrough tools and tips," "Swimsuits to flatter every figure" and "With a simple box of yellow cake mix, you can make any of these seven sweet desserts." The magazine is a breeze to read, filled with charts, photos, where-to-buy, how-to-order, how-to-make data right there, front and center.

3. The Economist. The no-nonsense font and rigid layout style make it look like a class handout on the first day of an MBA program, but don't be dismayed. This magazine features the most succinct, globe-encompassing wrap-ups of politics and economics on the market. Even often overlooked cultural features such as book reviews glisten with insight.

4. Cook's Illustrated. Our biggest complaint with this always readable mag? That they haven't come out with a gardening version that gives the topic the same thorough, skeptical treatment. We'll say it again: Not taking ads and writing about the actual cooking process so the average home cook can understand gives this magazine an authority that few others in any field enjoy.

5. Esquire. We suspect we're not as good-looking as we think we are. We know we're not clever enough. Esquire is the antidote to our human frailty. Snazzy, gorgeous, well-dressed, smart and that's just the magazine itself. The writing within is consistently great and sometimes beautiful, offering heaping portions of journalism, fiction, essays and helpful advice columns. Even if we doubt we'll ever wrestle with the great trouser-cuffs-and-suspenders debate, we love it that Esquire does.

6. The New Yorker. With Seymour Hersh's series of revelations about the abuses at Abu Ghraib prison, the New Yorker demonstrates yet again how a weekly magazine can still beat the pants off the 24-hour press. And with the presidential election season upon us, look to this book for insight and access into the process and players. Its coverage of pop culture also continues to shine.

7. American Demographics. There are more interesting facts about Americans in one issue of this than in 20 weekly newsmagazines put together. An unparalleled cruncher and analyst of census data, this is the place to learn which ethnic groups buy which products, what counties are the bigger lovers of boats and every detail about how and where we die, among other omnipresent realities.

8. Men's Health. Self-deprecating, funny and jammed with great information. Even those unbearable true-life weight-loss stories are turned into clever contests. Yes, it's full of sex and sultry women with pouty lips, but regular features such as Jimmy the Bartender ("on women, work and other stuff that screws up men's lives") and topical stories make it worthwhile for both sexes.

9. Jane. This fashion and features mag is unapologetically girlie but, surprisingly, is not content-free. For cover stories, celebs such as kate Winslet and Meg Ryan let down their guard and answer real questions posed by the mag's chatty yet persistent interviewers, and the fashion and beauty advice is actually realistic. Who says a fashion mag has to be glossy, blase and written for stick figures?

10. Consumer Reports. The scolds of the American marketplace, they continue to set themselves apart from an advertising-driven (and, too often, advertising-influenced) media and give the straight dope on everything from dishwashers to insurance. In a world of daily ethical fudging, they're true-blue in giving us cold-blooded assessments of our obsessive consumer culture.

2009-08-29T20:58:00.000-07:00

Definition of a "Rare Book"

noun: a book that is distinguished by its early printing date, its limited issue, the special character of the edition or binding, or its historical interest.
Definition: any book that is hard to find due to its early printing date, limited issue, special character of an edition or binding, or its historical interest

We have Rare Books

Basic American Government (Hardcover)by CLARENCE CARSONPublisher: AMERICAN TEXTBOOK COMMITTEE; 1St Edition edition (1996) ASIN: B000OL5VK4

2009-08-25T09:43:00.000-07:00

Knock 'em Dead 2009 by Martin Yate (Paperback)

This is an excellent book if you are job hunting. Bookjet has this in stock.

Buy it here!

Praised by the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, and USA Today as one of the best career books on the market, this book is better than ever in this timely 2009 edition. It includes updated information on Internet resources for job searching, networking, and company research. The 2009 edition contains a lot of new information: fresh examples of interview types; up-to-the-minute strategies to make applicants stand out from the crowd; new examples of what questions interviewers ask and the best answers to give, and more! This book gives readers all the tools they need to make a dynamic, lasting impression. In today’s competitive world, this is the book job seekers need to get the job they want.
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Paperback: 352 pages Publisher: Adams Media (October 17, 2008) Language: English ISBN-10: 1598696726 ISBN-13: 978-1598696721 Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.9 x 0.8 inches Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds

2009-08-18T10:54:00.000-07:00

NYT 10 Best Books of 2008
The editors of the Book Review have selected these titles from the list of 100 Notable Books of 2008.
FICTION

DANGEROUS LAUGHTER
Thirteen Stories
By Steven Millhauser.
Alfred A. Knopf, $24.
In his first collection in five years, a master fabulist in the tradition of Poe and Nabo¬kov invents spookily plausible parallel universes in which the deepest human emotions and yearnings are transformed into their monstrous opposites. Millhauser is especially attuned to the purgatory of adolescence. In the title story, teenagers attend sinister “laugh parties”; in another, a mysteriously afflicted girl hides in the darkness of her attic bedroom. Time and again these parables revive the possibility that “under this world there is another, waiting to be born.” (Excerpt)

A MERCY
By Toni Morrison.
Alfred A. Knopf, $23.95.
The fate of a slave child abandoned by her mother animates this allusive novel — part Faulknerian puzzle, part dream-song — about orphaned women who form an eccentric household in late-17th-century America. Morrison’s farmers and rum traders, masters and slaves, indentured whites and captive Native Americans live side by side, often in violent conflict, in a lawless, ripe American Eden that is both a haven and a prison — an emerging nation whose identity is rooted equally in Old World superstitions and New World appetites and fears. (First Chapter)

NETHERLAND
By Joseph O’Neill.
Pantheon Books, $23.95.
O’Neill’s seductive ode to New York — a city that even in bad times stubbornly clings to its belief “in its salvific worth” — is narrated by a Dutch financier whose privileged Manhattan existence is upended by the events of Sept. 11, 2001. When his wife departs for London with their small son, he stays behind, finding camaraderie in the unexpectedly buoyant world of immigrant cricket players, most of them West Indians and South Asians, including an entrepreneur with Gatsby-size aspirations. (First Chapter)
2666
By Roberto Bolaño. Translated by Natasha Wimmer.
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, cloth and paper, $30.
Bolaño, the prodigious Chilean writer who died at age 50 in 2003, has posthumously risen, like a figure in one of his own splendid creations, to the summit of modern fiction. This latest work, first published in Spanish in 2004, is a mega- and meta-detective novel with strong hints of apocalyptic foreboding. It contains five separate narratives, each pursuing a different story with a cast of beguiling characters — European literary scholars, an African-American journalist and more — whose lives converge in a Mexican border town where hundreds of young women have been brutally murdered. (Excerpt)

UNACCUSTOMED EARTH
By Jhumpa Lahiri.
Alfred A. Knopf, $25.
There is much cultural news in these precisely observed studies of modern-day Bengali-Americans — many of them Ivy-league strivers ensconced in prosperous suburbs who can’t quite overcome the tug of traditions nurtured in Calcutta. With quiet artistry and tender sympathy, Lahiri creates an impressive range of vivid characters — young and old, male and female, self-knowing and self-deluding — in engrossing stories that replenish the classic themes of domestic realism: loneliness, estrangement and family discord. (Excerpt)

NONFICTION
THE DARK SIDE
The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals
By Jane Mayer.
Doubleday, $27.50.
Mayer’s meticulously reported descent into the depths of President Bush’s anti¬terrorist policies peels away the layers of legal and bureaucratic maneuvering that gave us Guantánamo Bay, “extraordinary rendition,” “enhanced” interrogation methods, “black sites,” warrantless domestic surveillance and all the rest. But Mayer also describes the efforts ofunsung heroes, tucked deep inside the administration, who risked their careers in the struggle to balance the rule of law against the need to meet a threat unlike any other in the nation’s history.

THE FOREVER WAR
By Dexter Filkins.
Alfred A. Knopf, $25.
The New York Times correspondent, whose tours of duty have taken him from Afghanistan in 1998 to Iraq during the American intervention, captures a decade of armed struggle in harrowingly detailed vignettes. Whether interviewing jihadists in Kabul, accompanying marines on risky patrols in Falluja or visiting grieving families in Baghdad, Filkins makes us see, with almost hallucinogenic immediacy, the true human meaning and consequences of the “war on terror.” (First Chapter)

NOTHING TO BE FRIGHTENED OF
By Julian Barnes.
Alfred A. Knopf, $24.95.
This absorbing memoir traces Barnes’s progress from atheism (at age 20) to agnosticism (at 60) and examines the problem of religion not by rehashing the familiar quarrel between science and mystery, but rather by weighing the timeless questions of mortality and aging. Barnes distills his own experiences — and those of his parents and brother — in polished and wise sentences that recall the writing of Montaigne, Flaubert and the other French masters he includes in his discussion. (First Chapter)

THIS REPUBLIC OF SUFFERING
Death and
the American Civil War
By Drew Gilpin Faust.
Alfred A. Knopf, $27.95.
In this powerful book, Faust, the president of Harvard, explores the legacy, or legacies, of the “harvest of death” sown and reaped by the Civil War. In the space of four years, 620,000 Americans died in uniform, roughly the same number as those lost in all the nation’s combined wars from the Revolution through Korea. This doesn’t include the thousands of civilians killed in epidemics, guerrilla raids and draft riots. The collective trauma created “a newly centralized nation-state,” Faust writes, but it also established “sacrifice and its memorialization as the ground on which North and South would ultimately reunite.” (First Chapter)

THE WORLD IS WHAT IT IS
The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul
By Patrick French.
Alfred A. Knopf, $30.
The most surprising word in this biography is “authorized.” Naipaul, the greatest of all postcolonial authors, cooperated fully with French, opening up a huge cache of private letters and diaries and supplementing the revelations they disclosed with remarkably candid interviews. It was a brave, and wise, decision. French, a first-rate biographer, has a novelist’s command of story and character, and he patiently connects his subject’s brilliant oeuvre with the disturbing facts of an unruly life. (First Chapter)

2008-12-14T20:17:00.000-08:00

2008-12-02T13:07:00.000-08:00

The 10 Best Books of 2007

MAN GONE DONE By Michael Thomas. Black Cat/Grove/Atlantic, paper, $14. This first novel explores the fragmented personal histories behind four desperate days in a black writer’s life.

OUT STEALING HORSESBy Per Petterson. Translated by Anne Born. Graywolf Press, $22. In this short yet spacious Norwegian novel, an Oslo professional hopes to cure his loneliness with a plunge into solitude.

THE SAVAGE DETECTIVESBy Roberto Bolaño. Translated by Natasha Wimmer. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $27. A craftily autobiographical novel about a band of literary guerrillas.

THEN WE CAME TO THE ENDBy Joshua Ferris. Little, Brown & Company, $23.99. Layoff notices fly in Ferris’s acidly funny first novel, set in a white-collar office in the wake of the dot-com debacle.

TREE OF SMOKEBy Denis Johnson. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $27. The author of “Jesus’ Son” offers a soulful novel about the travails of a large cast of characters during the Vietnam War.
Nonfiction

IMPERIAL LIFE IN THE EMERALD CITY: Inside Iraq's Green Zone.By Rajiv Chandrasekaran. Alfred A. Knopf, $25.95; Vintage, paper, $14.95. The author, a Washington Post journalist, catalogs the arrogance and ineptitude that marked America’s governance of Iraq.

LITTLE HEATHENS: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression.By Mildred Armstrong Kalish. Bantam Books, $22. Kalish’s soaring love for her childhood memories saturates this memoir, which coaxes the reader into joy, wonder and even envy.

THE NINE: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court.By Jeffrey Toobin. Doubleday, $27.95. An erudite outsider’s account of the cloistered court’s inner workings.
THE ORDEAL OF ELIZABETH MARSH: A Woman in World History.By Linda Colley. Pantheon Books, $27.50. Colley tracks the “compulsively itinerant” Marsh across the 18th century and several continents.

THE REST IS NOISE: Listening to the Twentieth Century.By Alex Ross. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $30. In his own feat of orchestration, The New Yorker’s music critic presents a history of the last century as refracted through its classical music.

2008-11-27T15:55:00.000-08:00

NYT SELLERS (112708) HARDCOVER FICTION

Top 5 at
a Glance

1. THE CHRISTMAS SWEATER, by Glenn Beck with Kevin Balfe
and Jason Wright
2. JUST AFTER SUNSET, by Stephen King
3. DIVINE JUSTICE, by David Baldacci
4. THE HOUR I FIRST BELIEVED, by Wally Lamb
5. A MERCY, by Toni Morrison

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

Top 5 at
a Glance

1. TOO FAT TO FISH, by Artie Lange with Anthony Bozza
2. AMERICAN LION, by Jon Meacham
3. DEWEY, by Vicki Myron with Bret Witter
4. HOT, FLAT, AND CROWDED, by Thomas L. Friedman
5. THE SNOWBALL, by Alice Schroeder

PAPERBACK TRADE FICTION

Top 5 at
a Glance

1. THE SHACK, by William P. Young
2. THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES, by Sue Monk Kidd
3. WORLD WITHOUT END, by Ken Follett
4. THE BRIEF WONDROUS LIFE OF OSCAR WAO, by Junot Díaz
5. REMEMBER ME?, by Sophie Kinsella

PAPERBACK MASS-MARKET FICTION

Top 5 at
a Glance

1. THE DARKEST EVENING OF THE YEAR, by Dean Koontz
2. ONE SILENT NIGHT, by Sherrilyn Kenyon
3. DEAD UNTIL DARK, by Charlaine Harris
4. FOUL PLAY, by Janet Evanovich
5. DOUBLE CROSS, by James Patterson

PAPERBACK NONFICTION

Top 5 at
a Glance

1. THE AUDACITY OF HOPE, by Barack Obama
2. DREAMS FROM MY FATHER, by Barack Obama
3. CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN, by the editors of Time
Magazine with a foreword by Barack Obama
4. MARLEY & ME, by John Grogan
5. THREE CUPS OF TEA, by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver
Relin

HARDCOVER ADVICE

Top 5 at
a Glance

1. BAREFOOT CONTESSA BACK TO BASICS, by Ina Garten
2. THE LAST LECTURE, by Randy Pausch with Jeffrey Zaslow
3. YOU: BEING BEAUTIFUL, by Michael F. Roizen, Mehmet C.
Oz et al.
4. FLAT BELLY DIET!, by Liz Vaccariello and Cynthia Sass
5. THE PURPOSE OF CHRISTMAS, by Rick Warren

PAPERBACK ADVICE

Top 5 at
a Glance

1. TWILIGHT, by Mark Cotta Vaz
2. THE LOVE DARE, by Stephen and Alex Kendrick with
Lawrence Kimbrough
3. RACHAEL RAY’S BIG ORANGE BOOK, by Rachael Ray
4. WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU’RE EXPECTING, by Heidi
Murkoff and Sharon Mazel
5. THE FIVE LOVE LANGUAGES, by Gary Chapman

CHILDREN'S BOOKS

Top 5 at
a Glance

1. BARACK OBAMA: SON OF PROMISE, CHILD OF HOPE, by Nikki
Grimes
2. GALLOP!, written and illustrated by Rufus Butler
Seder
3. BIG WORDS FOR LITTLE PEOPLE, by Jamie Lee Curtis
4. SWING!, written and illustrated by Rufus Butler Seder
5. GINGERBREAD FRIENDS, written and illustrated by Jan
Brett.

2008-11-22T08:03:00.000-08:00

We have Ball Four by Jim Bouton(Signed)
Twentieth-anniversary edition of a baseball classic, with a new epilogue by Jim Bouton. When first published in 1970, Ball Four stunned the sports world. The commissioner, executives, and players were shocked. Sportswriters called author Jim Bouton a traitor and "social leper." Baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn tried to force him to declare the book untrue. Fans, however, loved the book. And serious critics called it an important social document. Today, Jim Bouton is still not invited to Oldtimer's Days at Yankee Stadium. But his landmark book is still being read by people who don'tordinarily follow baseball. Want it? Contact us at for pricing

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2008-11-20T05:43:00.000-08:00

This is a great collectors item. It is here for you and priced well. Contact us.

Title: The Growth of the American Republic (Volume II)
ISBN: 0195025946
EAN: 9780195025941
Authors: Samuel Eliot Morison, Henry Steele Commager, William E. Leuchtenburg
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA Format: Hardcover

2008-11-13T23:06:00.000-08:00

TOP 10 HARD COVER FICTION 11-04-08

Top 5 at a Glance

1. THE GATE HOUSE, by Nelson DeMille
2. EXTREME MEASURES, by Vince Flynn
3. THE BRASS VERDICT, by Michael Connelly
4. THE LUCKY ONE, by Nicholas Sparks
5. A GOOD WOMAN, by Danielle Steel

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

Top 5 at a Glance

1. DEWEY, by Vicki Myron with Bret Witter
2. AGAINST MEDICAL ADVICE, by James Patterson and Hal
Friedman
3. THE SNOWBALL, by Alice Schroeder
4. A BOLD FRESH PIECE OF HUMANITY, by Bill O’Reilly
5. HOT, FLAT, AND CROWDED, by Thomas L. Friedman

PAPERBACK TRADE FICTION

Top 5 at a Glance

1. THE SHACK, by William P. Young
2. THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES, by Sue Monk Kidd
3. WORLD WITHOUT END, by Ken Follett
4. THE ROAD, by Cormac McCarthy
5. THE BRIEF WONDROUS LIFE OF OSCAR WAO, by Junot Díaz

PAPERBACK MASS-MARKET FICTION

Top 5 at a Glance

1. THE DARKEST EVENING OF THE YEAR, by Dean Koontz
2. SMALL TOWN CHRISTMAS, by Debbie Macomber
3. DOUBLE CROSS, by James Patterson
4. FOUL PLAY, by Janet Evanovich
5. DUMA KEY, by Stephen King

PAPERBACK NONFICTION

Top 5 at a Glance

1. THREE CUPS OF TEA, by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver
Relin
2. MARLEY & ME, by John Grogan
3. THE AUDACITY OF HOPE, by Barack Obama
4. DREAMS FROM MY FATHER, by Barack Obama
5. EAT, PRAY, LOVE, by Elizabeth Gilbert

HARDCOVER ADVICE

Top 5 at a Glance

1. BAREFOOT CONTESSA BACK TO BASICS, by Ina Garten
2. FLAT BELLY DIET!, by Liz Vaccariello and Cynthia Sass
3. THE LAST LECTURE, by Randy Pausch with Jeffrey Zaslow
4. MARTHA STEWART’S COOKING SCHOOL, by Martha Stewart
with Sarah Carey
5. THE SECRET, by Rhonda Byrne

PAPERBACK ADVICE

Top 5 at a Glance

1. TWILIGHT, by Mark Cotta Vaz
2. THE LOVE DARE, by Stephen and Alex Kendrick with
Lawrence Kimbrough
3. SOUL COMMUNICATION, by Zhi Gang Sha
4. WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU’RE EXPECTING, by Heidi
Murkoff and Sharon Mazel
5. A NEW EARTH, by Eckhart Tolle

CHILDREN'S BOOKS

Top 5 at a Glance

1. GOODNIGHT GOON, written and illustrated by Michael
Rex
2. BATS AT THE LIBRARY, written and illustrated by Brian
Lies
3. BIG WORDS FOR LITTLE PEOPLE, by Jamie Lee Curtis
4. GALLOP!, written and illustrated by Rufus Butler
Seder
5. SWING!, written and illustrated by Rufus Butler Seder

Important picture-taking tips

2008-11-07T16:21:00.000-08:00

Do you wish you were a better photographer? All it takes is a little know-how and experience. Keep reading for some important picture-taking tips. Then grab your camera and start shooting your way to great pictures.

1. Look your subject in the eye
2. Use a plain background
3. Use flash outdoors
4. Move in close
5. Move it from the middle
6. Lock the focus
7. Know your flash's range
8. Watch the light
9. Take some vertical pictures
10. Be a picture director

2008-11-02T10:42:00.000-08:00

Attention Golfers

To buy this calender, simply click on it!

Diehard golfers know that it is likely they will never master the game they love. Certainly, this can be frustrating, and yet golfers persist in calling this sport relaxing. Why? Let’s consider... The scenery, the lush, well-manicured, and well laid-out terrain of a golf course has a great deal to with the satisfaction and relaxation that golfers enjoy. Golf course design is about finding the perfect balance between the natural lay of the land and the artificial creation of holes and hazards. When done right, it’s art. This 2009 Golf Courses calendar surveys a collection of signature holes from spectacular courses in the U.S. and Canada.

Calendar: 24 pages
Publisher: BrownTrout Publishers Inc;
Wal edition (March 18, 2008)
Language: Multilingual
ISBN-10: 1421634058
ISBN-13: 978-1421634050
Product Dimensions: 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.1 inches
Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces

To buy this calender, simply click on it!

2008-11-02T10:28:00.000-08:00

To read is to empower To empower is to write To write is to influence To Influence is to change To change is to live. ~ Jane Evershed ~

More than a Tea Party Read, read, read.
~ William Faulkner ~

2008-10-27T20:08:00.000-07:00

2008-10-25T04:26:00.000-07:00

The World's Most Expensive Book Will Remain Under Lock and Key Until the March 2009

Author Tomas Alexander Hartmann will present the world's most expensive book, "the task" to the public one last time at the Art Dubai in March 2009. After the exhibition, the book will never again be accessible to audiences. Hartmann justifies this decision with the statement that he is tired of the many questions he finds himself confronted with.

The book's price tag of EUR 153 million is considered the highest in history and it comprises only thirteen pages of written copy.

The author claims to have answered the three final important questions of humankind in less than three hundred sentences: Where do we come from? Where are we going? And: What is the real task we still have to take on?Despite the extreme price tag, the book is remarkably simple in appearance.Hartmann argues that the price of EUR 153 million is based on the value of the book's contents. This is likely the reason he has foregone the diamonds that would otherwise be expected in this price segment.

The author: "The high price of a book stands for the deepest insight, which makes the value of the book priceless indeed." Nevertheless: The record breaking book is allegedly a masterpiece of German book binding artistry - made by a former purveyor of the Court of a Weimar duke. By the way, the copy is actually written in the language of the buyer. The text will ultimately be translated into one hundred and fifty languages, and, using a special technique, will be inserted into a cover made of the finest gold. At that point all licensing rights will be assigned to the buyer.At the Frankfurt Book Fair in October 2008, at a price of merely EUR 1.53 million, the author plans to offer "only" his poem, which is nominated for the Lyrics Award.

2008-10-23T08:05:00.000-07:00

They're an American staple, yet they can be so much more than just a patty in a bun. In the Best Burger Cookbook, you will find delicious, easy-to-follow inspiration, all within these easy-to-clean pages . From the Burgers Supreme to the Tangy Surprise Burgers, you will find a burger for every taste. For an international flavor, try the Teriyaki and Mediterranean Burgers. For maximum excitement, don't miss the Sassy Burgersor the Jalapeno-Blue Cheese Burgers! Savory recipes forsalmon, tuna, and turkey burgers give you plenty of options.You will find recipes for out-of-this world French Fries andRanch Fries—the perfect burger companions—as well! Delicious, easy, and fun, the recipes in the Best Burger.

To buy this book- click the hamburger

2008-10-23T06:58:00.000-07:00

How to buy reading glasses

1
peak with your optometrist if you think you need reading glasses. Don’t do as I did and self diagnose. Determine exactly what it is that you can't see and or read as well as you used to. An optometrist will be able to assess how severe your problem is, and recommend the proper eyeglass strength.

2
Consider trying on different pairs if purchasing reading glasses at a doctors office to gauge the necessary strength. Reading glasses range from plus one diopter to plus 3.5. Check the chart at the eyeglass stand, which will include an eye chart for testing various glasses. If you can read the chart comfortably, without straining, it's probably the right pair for you. Also, read magazines, books, your daily routine of doing things wherein you would need reading glasses and determine if you have the right pair of reading glasses.

3
Do you sit in front of computer? Use a smart phone or PDA, then you might consider computer reading glasses. This type of reading glasses is relatively new, so ask your optometrist where to purchase them. There is a selection of such glasses typically at most computer stores

4
After determining your reading needs, determine if you need bifocals, which contain magnification in the bottom half of the glasses. You can see over the top of the frames without straining when using bifocals.

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Choose a pair of glasses that first fills the vision needs that that doctor has determined for you. Aesthetics should be considered if looks are important. Whether your buy your pair of reading glasses at a drugstore, from your optician or over the Internet, there are countless frame colors, styles and patterns available to fit your personality.

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Revisit the strength, comfort level and effectiveness within 6 months or as needs dictate

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"Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors." Joseph Addison (1672-1719)

"Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life." Mortimer J. Adler (b.1902)

"He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men." John Aubrey (1626-1697)

2008-10-21T15:04:00.001-07:00

2008-10-21T14:05:00.000-07:00

95 percent of all returned gadgets still work, Americans don't read manuals

Blame it on poor usability or just not reading the frickin' manual, but it turns out that 95 percent of all returned gadgets actually work despite what customers may say or think. That's right -- of the $13.8 billion worth of returned products in 2007, only 5 percent were because gadgets were truly broken. According to Accenture, 68 percent of all returns work but aren't meeting customer expectations -- or they are simply too confusing to use. The other 26 percent are returned due to straight-up buyer's remorse (AKA significant other budgetary freak-outs). Accenture executive Terry Steger believes that the complexity of gadgets is to blame here, and not the fickle nature of American consumers who tend to give up on product setup within a few minutes. We believe this is all actually due to the implicit nature of -- ooh, look at that shiny thing over there!

2008-10-21T13:40:00.000-07:00

The Complete Bike Book
(To purchase, click the book image)

All cycling enthusiasts, from beginners to would-be Tour de Francecompetitors, will want to consult this book again and again. Theauthor begins with a short history of the bicycle, charting itsevolution from a simple two-wheeled machine propelled by foot power(the draisine, patented in 1817) to today's ultramodern,high-tech vehicle. Individual chapters discuss such matters asproper cycling attire, how to teach a child to ride, how to tailoryour diet to maximize its effectiveness, and how to maintain andrepair your bike. But the book's showpiece is its bike gallery, aseries of detailed photographs describing each and every conceivablevariation on the two-wheeler theme. The whole is copiouslyillustrated, but this section, which runs to nearly 40 pages, issimply beautiful. The book is perfect for newbies, for someone whocycles to work, and for the off-roader, the racer, and the personwho sees cycling as a healthy workout.

Book Description
Covering all kinds of bicycles, types of riding, basic and advancedmaintenance and repair, as well as the best techniques for riding onand off road, the Complete Bike Book is the ultimate guide for anybicycle enthusiast. Following the groundbreaking success of DK'sbest-selling Richard's Ultimate Bike Book and Bicycle Repair Manual,this fully illustrated features detailed pages of step-by-stepriding techniques and maintenance, as well as anatomical spreads onevery type of bike showing exactly how parts fit together.

Hardcover: 240 pages
Publisher: DK ADULT; 1 edition (April 21, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0789493373
ISBN-13: 978-0789493378
Product Dimensions: 11.4 x 8.7 x 0.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.5 pounds

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Beware of the man of one book. ~ Anonymous ~

Good children's literature appeals not only to
the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child. ~ Anonymous ~

A library is a hospital for the mind. ~ Anonymous ~

People die, but books never die. ~ Anonymous ~

2008-10-20T07:47:00.000-07:00

This time of the election cycle begs for book like this one. I read this book and found it to be very imformative. In the coming days, I will be writing about the details that peaked my interest.
Robt

How to Be President
by Stephen P. Williams(Author)

Why do we( the Bookjet Team) like this book?

This is a great book for anyone who wants to learn about what is involved in becoming President of the United States. Congratulations! You've won the election and taken your oath. You wake up on your first day in the White House—now what do you do? Where's the bathroom? How do you get breakfast? What time is your first meeting? When can you use Air Force One? Can you order a pizza from the Oval Office? What line do you use for personal phone calls? This fully illustrated, how-to, hands-on handbook explains the nuts and bolts of being the President of the United States. Discover how to read a teleprompter, greet foreign dignitaries, and light the White House Christmas tree. Learn where to sit at Cabinet meetings and whether you need to bring your own ball to the White House bowling alley. Your job benefits, vacation schedule, and all the other perks and duties are clearly explained in this indispensable manual. It's a tough job, and somebody's got to do it.

Some highlights:
chapter four: "Getting Serious—Dealing with Crises and the Press." Among its handy tips is this piece of cynical advice: embarrassing news should be released on Friday afternoon because people pay less attention to the Saturday news. Elsewhere, Williams answers the FAQ how does the president get snacks? But even readers who have no plans to become POTUS will find unusual info here, such as detailed maps of the West Wing and Air Force One, and an explanation of what the "nuclear football" is. Sometimes funny, sometimes informative, this volume will amuse anyone obsessed with presidential trivia.

The Bookjet Team - Robert Carper

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