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Life 2.0: How People Across America Are Transforming Their Lives by Finding the Where of Their Happiness Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I'm a 17-year resident of Palo Alto, California, land of the $700,000 fixer-upper, and it's indeed a wonderful place to live if you can afford the price of admission: safe, excellent schools, a mild climate, pleasant & bicycle-friendly tree-lined streets, and a community life strongly flavored by...

Alden B. Dow: Midwestern Modern Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This is a beautifully done book reviewing the life and work of Alden B. Dow, a prairie school architect based in Midland, Michigan. I grew up in Midland, so I'm very familiar with his excellent work. It is nice to see it all in beautiful pictures.Click Here to see more reviews about: Alden B. Dow: Midwestern...

Eckhart Tolle's Findhorn Retreat: Stillness Amidst the World: A Book and 2 DVD Set Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)If you loved 'The Power of Now' you will be blown away with the clarity and depth of this talk. Eckhart is one of the most important spiritual teachers alive and this CD set is one of his best talks. Highly Recommended to all who are ready to hear the truth and experience deep stillness and presence....

Electrifying America: Social Meanings of a New Technology, 1880-1940 Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Did you know, in the early days of electricity, the power went off at 11:00 pm each night? Or that electricity was billed at a flat rate of $1 per day? Or that most homes had only one or two outlets and a light bulb hanging from a string?This book is a compendium of both fascinating facts and substantial...

Strategic Management for Hospitality and Tourism Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I find it really interesting and updated. I like the combination between theory and practice, and also the great case studies at the end.Click Here to see more reviews about: Strategic Management for Hospitality and TourismStrategic Management in the International Hospitality Industry: content and process,...

Marketing Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I got this book for my Marketing 101 class and is not that bad. It used real like cases of all sorts of companies to explain the concepts outlined in the book. I personally am not a fan of reading, especially for school, but this book is pretty good. The only reason it doesn't get 5 stars is because...

Smart Communities: How Citizens and Local Leaders Can Use Strategic Thinking to Build a Brighter Future (Wiley Desktop Editions) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Finally, an exceedingly hopeful book about how to effect meaningful change in a community, large or small. Here, Dr. Suzanne Morse, in her characteristic lively and to-the-point style, has given us a guide, repleat with documented examples of how to move the needle on those issues we're all too familiar...

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America: 2-Volume Set Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I picked up this set because I immensely enjoy reading the Oxford Companion to Food and refer to it often.Unfortunately, while the scope of the OEFDA is wide and many of the articles are informative and interesting, the quality of the writing is not as high as in the OCF. Perhaps Oxford University Press...

Renewing American Compassion Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)It is hard reviewing this book because although its message is very important it is also biased against what he calls 'liberals'. The only people I know who do volunteer work at homeless shelters are liberals yet he suggests that not only have the Democratic cabinets ruined the most unfortunate of our...

Man on Wire Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This is a beautiful book that proves dreams do come true if you really want something bad enough and are willing to work hard enough no matter what the risk to reach that goal. It was Paris, 1968, when young 18-year-old street performer Philippe Petit saw a sketch of the proposed World Trade Center towers,...

Woodworking Business: Start Quickly and Operate Successfully: An Expert Woodworker Reveals The Keys To Succeeding In The Woodworking Business Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I find this book very informative and well written. Mr. Benitez has been in the field and has experience and information that anyone who wants to start a woodworking business needs to know. I really like the book for all it's practicality, but I believe it could have had more pictures. Overall this is...

Visions of the East: Orientalism in Film Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Visions of the East explores mass media biases and prejudices towards the Arab. It's an easy, interesting read; it focuses on examples and backrounds as a means of illustrating the inherant reacism ("Arabism") in popular culture. Too often we don't realize the stereotypes being publicized are just that-...

ZigBee Wireless Networks and Transceivers Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This book is excellent for learning ZigBee/IEEE802.15.4 and short-range wireless networking. I found this book very useful and it has answered many of my questions. I am impressed with its content and this book should be the definitive starting purchase for any ZigBee or IEEE 802.15.4 developer. I manage...

Lonely Planet Quebec Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Last year I had a conference/holiday trip to Quebec (City). I bought this guide and it made my life so much easier over there. The detailed maps of both Quebec City and the Quebec Region are a big help. I used many of the recommendations in the book for sightseeing and tours. There are suggestions for...

Rick Steves' Great Britain 2009 Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Rick Steves' travel philosophy is to travel better by traveling cheaper and closer to the people. If your idea of a dream vacation is sleeping on the eighth floor of a high-rise hotel for a fortune every night, this is the wrong book for you. If your idea of wonderful is to sleep in an exquisite four-poster...

Vanishing Portland (Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I love old photos, especially photos of locations where you can see how things used to look and compare them to the current landscape. I ran across the book Vanishing Portland by Ray and Jeanna Bottenberg on our library RSS feed, and jumped on it immediately. It was a delight to see both early Portland...

Fodor's Nova Scotia & Atlantic Canada, 10th Edition: With New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland & Labrador (Fodor's Gold Guides) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)My fiance and I are going to Nova Scotia on our honeymoon this summer. This guide was the best one I've found. We're also going to Prince Edward Island and this book covers all of the Atlantic provinces. It even has sample itineraries which have been helpful because we are creating a honeymoon registry....