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WAY TOO EXPENSIVE...
WAY TOO EXPENSIVE...ILLUSTRATIONS ARE JUST AS GOOD AS WHAT YOU FIND ONLINE...EBAY EVEN.HISTORY IS HIGHLY INFORMATIVE, HOWEVER. THANKS.

Beautiful.
Fantastic history and beautiful illustrations. It has almost everything you've wanted to know about Louis Vuitton.
Full of History
This book is filled with the history of the company from the person, Louis Vuitton's childhood, up through the generations that came after him.There are pictures of LV pieces scattered throughout the book.Not enough for those of us who love to look at LV bags and luggage.Overall a great addition to a collectors collection.The book retails in the boutique for $135. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Art & Art Instruction    2. Business    3. Business & Economics    4. Business History    5. Business/Economics    6. Corporate & Business History - General    7. Design    8. Fashion    9. History    10. Infrastructure    11. Luggage    12. Rich & Famous    13. Trunks (Luggage)    14. Art / Fashion    15. History of specific subjects    16. Product design   

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Most people were unfamiliar with Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl before his kidnapping and murder in Pakistan. In Read more

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A sad but true story
This is an amazing book, beautifully written, unfortunately, it tells an extremely sad and horrible story. Daniel Pearl is a true hero and Mariane, his wife, an inspiration. I highly recommend this book, it is one of the best I have ever read. We need to read about stories like theirs, in order to gain conscience about what is happening in our world and what we can do to help.

A Mighty Heart: Mariane Pearl
Mariane Pearl's account of the life and death of her husband, Danny Pearl is rivetting...not so much for the amazing details she provides about what happened, but for the extraordinary courage and love she displays as she refuses to give in to despair."My religion is defiance", says Mariane Pearl...defiance of all that which stands in the way of truth and love...This in the story of one woman's fight for the life of her husband...and the hope she holds out in the face of all odds.This is the story of a mother who writes furiously so that her unborn son, Adam, will know his father through this passionate story told by his mother. This is the story of a woman who included in her world of support Pakistani and American secret police, presidents and wives of presidents, Buddhists all over the world, and her dearest Muslim friends, who became her confidantes...together as one big family working together, sharing meals and laughing and crying...this is a woman who dared to be real and to speak her truth and lead a search that is so powerful, so inspiring that it is unforgettable.
Personalizing Terrorism With Honesty and Passion...Sadly True
I cannot imagine the unrelenting nightmare Mariane Pearl, five months pregnant, must have felt for those endless weeks back in early 2002 when her husband, Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, was being held hostage by radical Islamic terrorists in Karachi. It is a tribute to her as both investigative reporter and grieving widow that she has written such a moving and cogent book about her husband's kidnapping and expands the picture to include an unblinking portrait of the man responsible, Omar Shiekh. His conversion into a jihadi is treated just as comprehensively as Pearl's more personal account of her relationship and eventual marriage to her husband. I was particularly moved by her story about how they went to Cuba to return her mother's ashes to her birthplace. As a former reporter herself, she is never overly sentimental, but you cannot help but be touched by the loving portrait of her husband, a tough-minded reporter who was also a charming dilettante and avid mandolin player. Her lucid narrative paints a marriage of great passion and mutual trust, and she successfully articulates his mission of building understanding between Islam, Christianity, and his own Judaism.
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Subjects:  1. Biography    2. Biography & Autobiography    3. Biography / Autobiography    4. Biography/Autobiography    5. Crimes against    6. Editors, Journalists, Publishers    7. General    8. Journalists    9. United States    10. Biography & Autobiography / General    11. POLITICS & GOVERNMENT    12. Political activism   

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Gen. Manstein's Own Account of His Amazing Victories across WWII Europe
By the end of WWII, General von Manstein was widely recognized by most German soldiers as the Wehrmacht's most brilliant strategist, a man of honor, and easily the most obvious choice for the Wehrmacht's Commander-in-Chief. Manstein was responsible for formulating most of the strategy that won Germany its great early victories using blitzkrieg tactics in Poland, France, and the Crimea. From Fall 1942 - Spring 1944, Manstein's heroic efforts against hugely overwhelming odds consistently frustrated every attempt to cut off and destroy Germany's armies in the Ukraine.
Not for everyone
The five stars is for what it is supposed to be-- a detailed military memoir by an exceptional leader of German armed forces. Manstein was by any judgment a first rate staff officer, who excelled with troops and shone in use of combined force tactics and strategy on a large scale. His impact in WWII was immense -- on both the Western and Eastern Front.
The Best of the Best
It is generally recognized that the greatest military mind produced by any nation during World War II belonged to Erich von Manstein. His qualifications for such a laurel are numerous, and include the detailed plan which lead to the conquest of France in six weeks in 1940, the conquest of the Crimea in 1942, and Germany's last major victory on the Eastern Front, the recapture of Kharkov in 1943. It is Manstein's record as a "defensive" general, called in to restore the collapsing southern wing of the Eastern Front after Stalingrad, however, which cemented his reputation. Any general can win brilliant victories with first-rate troops, air superiority and unlimited supplies, but it takes a very special type of brain to be able to repeatedly fight off a numerically superior enemy who enjoys all these advantages. As von Moltke the Elder once commented, when told by an admirer that he was destinted to go down as one of the greatest marshals in all history: "No, for I have never conducted a retreat." Manstein did, under the most difficult circumstances imaginable, and in doing so probably saved the whole southern wing of the German army in Russia from annihilation.
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Subjects:  1. Biography / Autobiography    2. Campaigns    3. Europe    4. Germany    5. History    6. Military    7. Military - World War II    8. Personal Memoirs    9. Strategy    10. World War, 1939-1945    11. History / Military / World War II   

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Very Good Treatment of a Little Known Subject
I generally agree with the other reviewers that this is an outstanding work, made all the more remarkable by the recognition that Hunter has remained so obscure to the general reader over the 200+ years since he lived and worked.Author Moore's writing style is engaging and straightforward, and the book is an easy and enlightening read.But I do have a couple of cavils.First, and even considering our two centuries' remove, there is a discernible remoteness or lack of intimacy in the description of Hunter and his activities, e.g., "he must have thought", "he probably knew", and so forth that is a bit off-putting until the reader is informed near the end of the book that Hunter's spiteful brother-in-law burned most of his papers, including correspondence with prized pupils like Jenner, after Hunter's death, inevitably depriving biographers of enriching details.I believe it would have been helpful if she explained this fact earlier in the work.Second, the book just cries out for illustrations.The sole "portrait" of Hunter is a small, almost cartoonish depiction, and Moore constantly--if inadvertently--teases the reader with references to the superb illustrators who worked for Hunter over the years, but does not include even one of their drawings; very frustrating.With these exceptions, readers who enjoy the work of physician-cum-historian Roy Porter will certainly feel right at home with this very entertaining book.

"He made surgery a science."
Wendy Moore's magnificent book, "The Knife Man," is a thoroughly researched account of the life and times of John Hunter, one of the most controversial and fascinating figures of the eighteenth century.Born in 1728 in Scotland, Hunter was the tenth child of humble farming parents.He was an indifferent student who preferred learning through observation and experimentation rather than by reading dusty texts.During his teenage years, John's father and six of his siblings died.This was not surprising during an era when "burials far exceeded baptisms."Matters were not helped by the use of such toxic "remedies" as bloodletting, purging, and blistering to cure the sick.Doctors never washed their hands or sterilized their instruments; if the disease didn't kill the patient, the physician's intervention would probably do the trick.
Very Good
This is a well written and enlightening biography of the great 18th century British physician-scientist John Hunter.Moore has done a real service by bringing Hunter before the reading public.Known largely to historians of medicine as an important figure in the history of surgery, Moore shows Hunter to be definitely that and much more.Hunter is also a remarkable personal story.An expatriate Scot and son of impoverished parents, largely uninterested in formal education as a youth, Hunter became the outstanding anatomist of his time under the tutelage of his older brother William and by virtue of his great natural talents.Similarly, he had relatively little in the way of formal medical education, though given the primitive state of medical theory and practice in his time, this was arguably an advantage.By the end of his life, he was perhaps the preeminent surgeon in Britain, enjoyed an international reputation as a scientist, and inspired a large number of students to pursue his brand of empirical, more scientifically oriented practice and research.Though Hunter's story is in some respects a lurid one, with the reliance on grave robbers for cadavers and the vicious professional rivalries characterizing some of his career, Moore does very well to show the essential nature of these events without letting them overpower the narrative.The most interesting aspect of the book is actually not Hunter's medical accomplishments, though these were very important, but Moore's description of his other achievements.Moore shows Hunter to be a profoundly important teacher who influenced a whole generation of British and American surgeons and physicians including important individuals like Jenner.Hunter's achievements as a biologist, particularly his work in anatomy, comparative anatomy, and what would become physiology, were substantial.Moore makes the good point that Hunter's achievements may have been unappreciated in part because credit for some of his achievements were attributed to his older brother and after John Hunter's death, appear to have been appropriated by his shameless brother-in-law.Hunter appears also to have been at the center of the British Enlightenment.His friendships included a number of notable British intellectuals like the great naturalist Joseph Banks and he was on good terms with individuals like Gibbon and Adam Smith.
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Subjects:  1. 1728-1793    2. Biography    3. Biography / Autobiography    4. Great Britain    5. Historical - General    6. History    7. History Of Medicine    8. Hunter, John,    9. Medical - General    10. Science    11. Science/Mathematics    12. Surgeons    13. Science / General   

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Not just a successful start up story
Philosophy, international labor, high tech, economics, globalization, the internet and virtual universes are all neatly wrapped together in this book.It is a very successful telling by Mr. Dibbell of what is going on right now...not just in the MMO world but in many aspects of society.It was so fascinating for me to read.He did not hype up the metaverse phenomenon.But, he did make it a bit less complicated.You really get the message that what is currently undergoing is not trivial and has serious implications to how we all live our lives.Play versus work, the lines are getting more blurry.But, it might not necessarily be a bad thing.If "Liar's Poker" is the must read for the financial markets, "Play Money" should definitely be the counterpart for virtual economies.

Patchy
This book is well-written (mostly) and a good look at an interesting subject.However, the author seems not to trust his own subject, since he constantly moves away from the interesting part of the book (the story of how the strange market in imaginary goods works) in order to pad the book out with boring digressions on watching his daughter play, or even more boring half-baked essays on What It All Means (no surprise that the author is a contributor to Wired magazine.)Still, if you read the reporting parts, which are good,and skip over the self-indulgent, meandering attempts at philosophy, which are not, you'll learn a lot and enjoy yourself.

Making Hay
Play money is a fantastic read.It pulls you into its tale of Internet adventure and doesn't let go until the final word.I loved its refusal to separate the author's exploration of internet games, and his meditation on the economies they've generated, from the events of his off-line life -- child care, depresssion, marital break-up.Like a teenager, he starts out killing lizardmen in the fabulous realm of Ultima Online and ends up selling enchanted swords, pieces of gold, and miraculous suits of armor for a living.A real living, not a virtual one. (Is this play or is it work is the question.) The race to see if he can meet a deadline proving that he can earn more selling magic weapons and gold pieces than he can at his day job keeps the pages turning, and the painful -- and sometimes joyful -- unfolding of events in his actual life is riveting.
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Subjects:  1. Biography / Autobiography    2. Business    3. Business & Economics    4. Business/Economics    5. E-Commerce - General    6. Economic aspects    7. Electronic commerce    8. Fantasy games    9. History - General History    10. Modern - General    11. Sales    12. Video & Electronic - General    13. Virtual Reality    14. Investment & securities   

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A must read for all current/future teachers and those who love them!
I happened into this book about a year ago in Done's hometown of Mountain View. From the minute I picked it up and read the back cover, it had me hooked.By the time I actually bought the book, I had probably read five chapters.Since finishing the book the first time, I must have recommended this book to a hundred people (as recently as this evening).As a high school counselor, I advise students everyday about pursuing their dreams.I have nearly demanded any student who even hints that they want to teach kids (especially primary school) to buy this book as a way of further endearing themselves to their journey, or running like hell in the other direction!It takes a special person to teach kids and Done's wit is as solid as his dedication to his cause.When I read and re-read this book, I often think "wow - he should have done stand up"...and then I remember that he does...everyday in the classroom!

teacing children
This is a chanukah gift for my daughter Rachael who teaches preschool.I found the book most delightful, so much so I would call my sister a retired 2nd grade teacher and have to read her a passage as I was reading the book..I am also going to give a fellow professor still involved with grade school children on a volunteer basis through Boston College the in formation about this book..I loved it.The author writes well and makes every day events enteraining and causes you to look at them in a different way..

Best book about teaching
This is the best book about teaching that I've read.It shows exactly what it is like to be a teacher.Mr. Done's words reflect many of my own thoughts and feelings.I recommend this book to anyone- teachers (for obvious reasons) and non-teachers (so they can see what it is like to be a teacher).Wonderfully written and a fun read. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Biography    2. Biography & Autobiography    3. Biography And Autobiography    4. Biography/Autobiography    5. Done, Phillip    6. Education / Teaching    7. Educators    8. Elementary    9. Essays    10. Teachers    11. Teaching    12. Teaching At The Elementary School Level    13. Teaching Methods & Materials - General    14. United States    15. Education / General   

Subjects:  1. 20th century    2. American Letters And Correspondence    3. Authors, American    4. Biography / Autobiography    5. Correspondence    6. Editors, Journalists, Publishers    7. Journalism    8. Journalists    9. Letters    10. Literary    11. Literary Collections    12. Literature: Classics    13. United States    14. United States - 20th Century    15. Women - 20th Century History    16. Biography & Autobiography / General   

Editorial Review

Esmé Raji Codell has written a funny, hip diary filled with one-liners and unadorned thoughts that speak volumes about the raw, emotional life of a first-year teacher. Like Ally McBeal in the classroom, the miniskirted and idealistic Codell sometimes fantasizes her career is a musical. Her inner-city Chicago elementary school fades to black as the lunch lady strikes an arabesque or a struggling student performs the dance of the dying swan, all set to her interior soundtrack. (Tina Turner's "Funkier Than a Mosquita's Tweeter" echoes whenever her idea-stealing, dimwitted principal harangues her.) She's a rash, petite, white lady who roller-skates through the halls and insists that her fifth-graders call her "Madame Esmé." But it's not all fun and games: she introduces us to children who fling their desks and apologize in tears, and at one point, after reporting a disruptive student to her mother, who subsequently thrashes the young girl, she dry heaves into her classroom's trash can. Read more

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Remember...It's a diary....
Simply -- I loved this book. I agree with many of the "less positive" reviews of this book where readers stated that Esme seemed overly smug BUT what you have to remember is that this is titled a DIARY. I know she wrote it to be published as a book but at the same time, she wrote it in the same style one would write a diary entry. I can guarantee you if anyone read MY diary, they would probably think the same things about me...how often do we accurately capture the "other side of the story" when we're writing how we feel in a journal or diary?

Enjoy
I laughed out loud and agreed with her so many times.It is refreshing to see someone at the beginning of a teaching career with this savy perspective.

Great book- fun read
I really liked this book- it is great for those considering going into the teaching profession, and also for those who are already teachers. It is funny and insightful. At times, there seems to be some exaggeration, but overall I thought this book was great. Also, it is a very quick read. I definitely reccomend this book! ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Biography / Autobiography    2. Chicago    3. Diaries    4. Education    5. Educators    6. Elementary    7. Elementary school teachers    8. First year teachers    9. General    10. Illinois    11. Teaching Methods & Materials - General    12. Women    13. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women    14. Biography & Autobiography / Educators    15. Biography: general    16. EDUCATION / General    17. Teaching of specific groups    18. Teaching skills & techniques   

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It's hard to think of anyone more intense or opinionated, or who wears as many hats as James Cramer. In Read more

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Good autobiography but bad investing book
This book is more about his autobiography, and albiet amusing at times, isn't a real investing book. His other one: Jim Cramer's Real Money: Sane Investing in an Insane World is much better.

Honest
Unlike most, I wasn't a big Cramer fan before picking up this book.I'd read his columns at the [...] during the dot com craze, but now only occasionally catch his act while channel surfing.However, I'm a big fan of biographies and thought his would make an interesting read.
Tells it as it is
By far one of the best AutoBiography I have read, fast paced with his ups and downs, not really a book for learning to trade but has a lot of hidden wisdom if you can read between the lines.
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Pick Fick
I'm not a Marine, but I feel like one.Fick's account is a compelling look into the training and deployment of the Corps.Extremely well written to the point where the book is a real world page-turner.
A Leader and A Writer
This is a very good read - a good story by a good writer(a Marine officer with a B.A. in classics). Based on his story and writing I'd follow this man, this officer into battle. This book should be considered a companion read of GENERATION KILL by Evan Wright. Mr. Wright was an embedded reporter with Captain Fick's Marines. Read both books, not just one or the other. BOTH.

A story every American man and woman should read.
Nathanial Fick's "One Bullet Away" is a book that everyone should read.I was very intrigued by the book and found myself feeling like I was right there with the platoon and Lt. Fick in Iraq.The book really helped me to understand the emotional conflicts that these warriors face when they are in battle and how difficult and terrifying their decisions can be....these Marines are so human!!Nathanial Fick does a phenomenal job of describing his experiences and really touches the reader by expressing the Marine Corps. values with his close platoon mates; honor, courage, and committment. The strength and beauty of their brotherhood and the loyalty in the platoon spoke loudly and was so impressionable. As I neard the end of the book, I did not want it to end because I felt like I had become a part of the platoon.I felt as if I was sharing all of these emotions with these men I have never even met.
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Subjects:  1. Afghan War, 2001-    2. Biography & Autobiography    3. Biography / Autobiography    4. Biography/Autobiography    5. Iraq War, 2003-    6. Marine Corps    7. Military    8. Military - General    9. Military - Persian Gulf War    10. Military - United States    11. Military - Veterans    12. Military History (General)    13. Military Training    14. Officers    15. Personal Memoirs    16. Personal narratives, American    17. Training of    18. United States.    19. Biography & Autobiography / Military   

Editorial Review

In 1995 Gopnik was offered the plush assignment of writing the "Paris Journals" for the Read more

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Love this book!
I wanted this book to go on forever.I found it to be a very comforting, curl up in front of the fire, listening to jazz kind of book.Maybe I relate to it because I have to boys and adore Paris, I don't know... but I really enjoyed it.
4.5 stars is a good read, as long as you are not expecting something it's not.
It's not an atmospheric travel memoir; it's not a memoir of youth (except in so far as a father relates to his young son); it's not "Almost French".
Beautiful writing, warm, personal narrative, intimate story telling
Contrary to many of the reviews provided for this book, I have cherished this book as one of my favorite books on France.I lived in Tokyo, Japan as an expat for five years and felt an immediate kindred spirit with the author.I found my own personal experiences to be not that different from his own and related to many of his experiences on a deep, personal level.His gift of prosaic writing is a rare and wonderful treat within the travel essay genre, and I was delighted to be invited in to such an intimate and personal account of life in Paris.While most travel essay books are written by amateur writers, offering shallow accounts of brief stays in foreign lands, this book combines the rare writing talents of Adam Gopnik along with a fascinating, intimate portrait of Paris, a city that offers so much but which reveals so little for most of us who don't have the time to absorb and observe and experience what he was able to enjoy and write about for the rest of us. ... Read more

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Deeply moving and inspiring
I devoured this book. It had story after story that opened my eyes to possibility and brought me peace. Twist is wonderfully human as she writes about her journey that would humble the best of us. The book is very well written. It develops it's points skillfully. And it is a great read full of stories that lighten my spirit.

A beautiful, soulful, and unique book
This book causes one to think and look deeply into money as a true reflection of our state of being. So much more than a shallow "make a lot of money" book, or even a slightly shallow "manifest a lot of money" book, if you allow yourself to really reflect on Lynne Twist's words, they will bring you to reflect deeply on the mentaility of scarcity (that we can inhabit in any moment, no matter how much money we have), and the mentality of sufficiency (which, too, we can have no matter how much money is in our pockets).
The Soul of Money
Excellent book that talks about the model of sufficiency and not scarcity. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business / Economics / Finance    3. Business/Economics    4. Conduct of life    5. Money    6. Motivational & Inspirational    7. Personal Finance - General    8. Personal Finance - Money Management    9. Personal Memoirs    10. Psychological aspects    11. Social Scientists & Psychologists    12. Mind, Body, Spirit    13. Personal finance   

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Wonderful; couldn't put it down
This book does a wonderful job of bringing the story of the world's first HUMAN heart-transplant to life--and for those of us who might be in the medical field--some insight, down the road, of what must have driven other heart surgeons.Remember, the University of Mississippi's James Hardy?Did you know that he used a Baboon's heart--and implanted it into a human?Later, in the 1980's, did you know Dr. Bailey (Loma Linda) used a baby baboon's heart and put it into "Baby Fae"?Remember this?Heart surgeons have been plagued by the Prima Donna syndrome for years--and justifiably; however, this book UNDOES history's fame on Christan Barnard and makes him out to be a fame-driven, and ultimately, sorrowful individual stripped of his fellowship in the American College of Surgeons--while making the American surgeons (Drs. Shumway, Lower, Stinson, Kantrowitz) the real heroes of the heart transplant.I couldn't put this book down. . .and you won't be able to either.Christian Barnard's greatest achievment to science was NOT the heart transplant:it was his discovery of the cause of intestinal atresia, and the help his work in transplantation led the American's to re-define the definition of death from "heart" death to "brain-dead."The hero of the heart transplant is Richard Lower and Norman Shumway.Simply outstanding reading.

The Great Race
For those who lived through the sixties, the space race was a thrilling and defining endeavor.Few who remember it, however, will have forgotten another race that captured people's imaginations at the same time, the race to get a human heart transplanted.Maybe, like the space race, it was overhyped and exaggerated, but like the space race, the competition was a sensation that had serious aspects and effects on the future.In _Every Second Counts: The Race to Transplant the First Human Heart_ (Putnam), Donald McRae has told an important story, the exciting tale of pioneers competing on the frontiers of medicine, with the losers making lasting contributions and the winner descending into a tragic chaos fueled by fame.
A Medical Page Turner
Many of us remember the news of the first heart transplant, done, of all places, in South Africa.But only those on the inside knew that several physicians were on the brink of reaching this medical mile stone.Donald McRae describes four physicians working diligently toward the first human heart transplant. The efforts, creativity, egos and motivations of these doctors lay the background to this fascinating medical story.It reads like a medical research timeline, interwoven with facts and factoids about the major players involved.
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Subjects:  1. Biography    2. Consumer Health    3. Diet / Health / Fitness    4. Diseases - Heart    5. Heart    6. Heart surgeons    7. History    8. History Of Medicine    9. Medical    10. Medical - General    11. Organ Transplantation    12. Surgery - Thoracic    13. Transplant surgeons    14. Transplantation    15. Biography & Autobiography / Medical   

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I hope every nurse reads this
I was inspired to become a nurse by stories of the "lady with the lamp" but it took more than 30 years before I found this book and learned just why Florence Nightingale deserved to be my inspiration.The pictures alone are worth the price of this book, and the story too is well told.

Profound and inspiring
Dr. Barbara Dossey, founder of the American Holistic Nursing Association, has written an inspiring and insightful biography of Florence Nightingale that has much to teach us about being bold, tough minded, task oriented, creative, passionate andcompassionate.Nightingale conscientiously developed the strongly focused conceptual, organizational and networking skills that contributed to her formidable accomplishments in the fields of nursing, housing, sanitation and statistics and did it all despite chronic illness, criticism, sexism and other major life challenges.Most of all, we learn that Nightingale was a visionary and mystic, whose life story challenges all of us to know, accept and realize our God-given purpose in this world.

A Most Inspiring Book
I knew of Florence Nightingale's nursing activities before reading this book but had no idea of the extent of her self-discipline, dedication and accomplishments.She was a systems analyst, administrator, networker and mystic who devoted her life to doing God's work.She was also a prolific writer of books, lay reports, pamphlets and thousands of letters.The author provides a wealth of background material describing the historic times and placesassociated with Florence Nightingale. One of the things I appreciated about this book were the many maps and photographs appropriately placed near the text about the person or places. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. 1820-1910    2. Biography    3. Biography & Autobiography    4. Biography / Autobiography    5. Biography/Autobiography    6. England    7. Medical - General    8. Medical - Nurses    9. Nightingale, Florence,    10. Nurses    11. Nursing (General)    12. Nursing - Management & Leadership    13. Women    14. Biography: political    15. Medical / Nursing / Issues    16. Nursing    17. Social forecasting, futurology    18. United Kingdom, Great Britain   

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I Can't Do it Justice
This is a wonderful book, easy to read and will appeal to you no matter what your gender, age, race, color, creed...
Great family tale
Since I barely watch TV, I had no idea who Mike Leonard was.He works for NBC, and contributes to the Today show.I was really impressed with this first book.It has the main aspects I love in a good memoir, humor, self-effacing honesty, wit and history.Mike takes his eccentric parents, 80'ish, and three of his grown children on a motorhome trip across America.Oh, the stories you'll love in this one.
Pleasant reading, but a little pointless.
I think this book was a little too personal to be widely interesting to a large readership.The writing style was pretty good, and there are a lot of pretty funny incidents.But, in a way, it was easy to put it down and forget to pick it up again.I had to read it for my book club (and paid for the book!) or I probably would have set it aside and picked up something more compelling.
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Subjects:  1. Biography    2. Biography & Autobiography    3. Biography / Autobiography    4. Biography And Autobiography    5. Biography/Autobiography    6. Editors, Journalists, Publishers    7. Essays & Travelogues    8. Irish American families    9. Irish Americans    10. Personal Memoirs    11. Recreational vehicles    12. Travelers    13. United States    14. Biography & Autobiography / General