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An enlightening conversation continues with The Art of JAMA II. In 1997, an initial one hundred reproductions and essays were published in a handsome, coffee table volume - The Art of JAMA - to generous acclaim. The much-anticipated new volume, The Art of JAMA II: Covers and Essays from The Journal of the American Medical Association, brings you:
-One hundred new art cover reproductions culled from the years 1988, 1989 and 1990
-Opposite each full-page color illustration, Dr. Southgate's essay awaits the inquisitive reader, offering a thoroughly fresh approach to viewing art
-A wide range of artwork from the world's finest museums, chosen by Dr. Southgate
-Portraits, landscapes, still lifes and abstracts from the Italian Renaissance, 19th century French Impressionism, Spanish Realism, Dutch flower painting and modern American art
This remarkable new collection will be a cherished addition to your personal library and a worthy companion to Volume I, The Art of JAMA
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Learning Curves: A Novel of Sex, Suits, and Secret Affairs
Gemma Townley
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From the dazzling author of Little White Lies and When in Rome . . . comes a rollicking new novel of love and lust in the boardroom.
Jennifer Bell used to travel the planet with her boyfriend, fighting the good fight for mother Earth. But after the breakup (not a good fight), Jen moved back to London to work for another mother: her own. Harriet Bell founded Green Futures, a consulting firm, after splitting up with Jen’s big-shot father, who runs a rival (and Harriet thinks corrupt) company. But Harriet can’t expose his crimes without proof. And she wants Jen to find some.
Since Jen hasn’t seen her dad in more than fifteen years, it’s a snap to infiltrate his company . . . under an assumed name, of course. Soon she’s worming her way into the good graces of the company’s managers to find evidence of wrongdoing. What she discovers is that her father’s world is a whole lot different from her own–filled with Palm Pilots, MBAs, martini lunches, designer suits, and Daniel Peterson, a guy who puts the gorge in gorgeous. Suddenly Jen is torn between Birkenstocks and Jimmy Choos, tree-hugging and air-kissing. Could it be that her Big Bad Dad isn’t the monster her mom made him out to be? Or is Jen simply being seduced by the power of hard deals, hot nights, and wads of cash? Only time will tell–preferably from a Cartier watch on the wrist of Daniel Peterson. . . .
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Among the more enjoyable and intelligent chick-lit out there.......2006-06-18
Since I used to live in London, I buy any chick-lit that's based there, whether I think it looks interesting or not. This book stuck out at me since it's rare to see a chick-lit book that explores mildly-intellectual things (business ethics for example) while still telling a single-girl-coming-into-her-own story.
The premise of the book is that Jen's mother wants her to infiltrate her estranged father's company to find evidence that he is linked to some illegal business dealings. Jen's parents divorced nastily fifteen years before, and her mother went on to start an "ethical" business consultancy to compete with her father's "big business" company. Jen joins the company, and quickly right becomes wrong, left becomes right, the good guy becomes the bad guy.
With a neat and tidy little twist at the end, the book is clever and tells a good story. It drags on in parts, and the dialogue isn't the greatest (the "real life" conversation between Jen and her boyfriend ordering takeout made me want to scream) but I definitely think it's a great escapist chick-lit book, ranking up there with Sophie Kinsella and Helen Fielding.
Learning Curves about Life, Family, Business.......2006-05-15
This book was truly enjoyable. This book is the 2nd I've read written by her. I enjoyed it and kept wanting to read more!
Took a while to get into it but glad I stuck with it.......2006-05-07
I had a really time getting interested in this book. I wasn't a big fan of the character, Harriet (Jen's mom), and wasn't looking forward to reading too much more about her and her interactions with Jen. Luckily Harriet was not in all that many scenes in the book.
Once I got going with the book I enjoyed it. I found most all the characters likeable. I didn't necessarily feel like I got to Jen all that much but there was enough to work with and relate to.
The book picked up and I sat down and read straight through the last 80 pages. I would recommend it.
Found it hard to get through.......2006-04-19
To me, this book was straight chick lit, and poor chick lit at that. The writing was so full of cliches and stilted language and the "intrigue" was not interesting. In fact I am having trouble finishing it even though it's a fast read.
A witty quick read.......2006-04-17
This "chick lit" book is better then most - an intelligent heroine does more then just worry about her love life. There is a bit of mystery to it as well. It is not often you read books about MBA students - as an MBA grad myself, it was great!
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Wouldn't it be nice if you could sit down with a lawyer who normally charges $600 per hour without any concern as to the amount of the legal fees you would incur? To get some expert, straightforward advice for yourself, a family member or friend who is contemplating marriage or divorce? Now is your chance to blow the bank on legal fees without actually doing so. A top family law attorney for twenty years provides hard-won reflections and commonsense advice (with witticisms) on love, marriage, and living together. Don't even think about tying the knot, breaking up or starting all over again without reading this lively, invaluable book.
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Promising theses but not much legal advice.......2007-08-07
I wish the author really shared his legal expertise with the reader rather than beating around the bushes. The book could and should be much more succinct and to the point, while still easy to read/listened. Instead we get a lot of common sense notions, and many repetitions of the obvious, and not enough actual legalistic information.
I've listened it in the digital format, and from more than 7 hours of audio, no more than 1 hour can be classified as legal advice. The rest is crowd-pleasing filling. Based on the subtitle $600 per hour legal advice, I defintely didn't got $4200 worth of legal advice.
Must read for all- married or not.......2006-01-24
What were you thinking... we have all asked ourselves that question many times! This book really makes you ask yourself the tough questions that are useful before, during, or after a marriage (or any relationship for that matter). The expertise and insight that Barondess has in regards to marriage and divorce is unique, as well as entertaining! Just the tips on working with an attorney in general are invaluable! I believe everyone who has had, or is thinking of having, a committed relationship (not just getting married), should read this book!
Very insightful on the impact of marriage and divorces.......2006-01-10
The author tends to engage in conjecture at times, but overall, his book is very insightful on the divorce process and it definitely makes one realize all the practical implications of a marriage. People often decide to marry when they are on such an emotional high that they do not realize how tough it is to merge lives and property together.
I would have liked to have seen more commentary by relationship experts such as Dr. Phil instead of celebrities, but I suppose the author is trying to show how even celebrities have the same marital issues as everyone else.
What Were You Thinking?.......2005-10-30
I am only 1/8 through this book and I WISH I had read this when I was 18. I am 52 and have been married to two sociopaths. A lot of the book verbalizes things many of us KNOW but we IGNORE. I recommend reading this to anyONE contemplating marriage. It's a wake up call. Makes you THINK. Some of us need someone to SAY things clearly in black and white. That would be ME. Well here it is... I plan on writing another review after completing reading this book. Stay tuned...
HILARIOUS... BUT TOO LATE FOR ME.......2005-10-19
My bride (we are still writing thank you notes for our wedding gifts) and I sat up until 2am the night we were given this book, laughing and reading parts of it aloud to each other. We both loved the part cautioning readers that whatever bugs you about your intended before the wedding will only get worse as the years pass... so true. The author, a tough divorce attorney, takes a pretty hard line: if you don't want to get divorced, then don't get ever get married. Well, we already did exactly what he advises against, but there was still plenty of valuable reading here. It gave this newlywed lots to think about... particularly enjoyed the interview with Gene Simmons, of all people, about relationships. Funny cartoons. Very enjoyable book.
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Excellent work.......2006-04-05
The book is very informative about western fashion, as constrasted to traditional forms of dress, such as the sari or chador. It's mainly about how the suit evolved. In the process, it explains a great deal about fashion, why fashion changes, why fashion is not linked to social and political changes as we so often imagine, and why it means so much to us. Whether we like it or not, Hollander points out we all dress according to fashion (we're not still wearing doublets, after ll) and what we wear gives information about us. She examines why the man's suit, which began in the late 1700s, has lasted for so long, why it has satisfied so many in all cultures, though it began in the west. She examines the tradition by which the suit and by extension all male clothing has been regarded as serious, while women's fashion has been regarded as silly and frivolous. She points out that to look good in so many situations, a man puts on a suit and is transformed into something respectable and also something sexy. On the other hand, a woman has many more choices, and many more chances of going wrong in her selections. The book is fascinating. It is not a light read, however. Her sentences are beautiful and complicated and have to read with attention. I can't read them and watch TV at the same time.
What We Wore & Why, From Fashion's Birth to the Modern........2004-11-27
"Sex and Suits" traces the evolution of dress, in men and women, from the abandonment of traditional dress and the adoption of "fashion" in Western Europe of the late Middle Ages until just a decade ago. Author Anne Hollander is an art historian who chooses to view dress as art, not as specifically symbolic of socio-political circumstances. I found this a welcome limitation. Although the creation of fashion 600 years ago was, indeed, the result of an extraordinary change in the self-images of Western humans, there is more than enough fascinating and revealing material to be covered in discussing fashion in its own right. Hollander asserts that male fashion has always been the avant-garde, with women's fashion only recently having caught up. And she focuses particularly on the evolution of the tailored suit, that neo-classic staple of truly modern dress that appeared in its current form about 2 centuries ago.
"Sex and Suits" observes that fashion came to be in the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance, when men and women began to express their sex by dressing differently, although still making use of the same basic forms and ornamentation. The author then notes the divergence, if not actually schism, that occurred during the 17th century with the formation of the first professional dressmakers guild. Then, for the first time, women designed and constructed women's clothes and male tailors made men's, creating a difference in the way clothes were conceived and made that would take 150 years to change and whose effects last into our own time. As the 19th century approaches, the book temporarily abandons discussion of female fashion to concentrate on the genesis of the modern male suit, the quintessence of Modern Fashion. The suit is described and lauded from its neo-classicist roots to its only slightly altered contemporary form. Eventually, we pick up the progression of women's fashion again, from the first male "fashion designers" for women in mid-19th century Paris, to the late-19th and early-20th century, when women's fashion finally became modern, on to the throwback years of the 1950s, with its conformity and frivolity. The second half of the 20th century sees men's and women's fashion become thoroughly modern, converging and borrowing from one another, including the universal adoption of jeans and t-shirts that were previously men's work clothes and undergarments.
The last section of "Sex and Suits" offers an interesting essay on how and why contemporary people choose to dress as they do. Anne Hollander sees fashion, itself, as a good thing with great personal and social implications, but never calls any particular fashion either good or bad. She explains what the fashion was and why . Her prose is literate and packed with detail. "Sex and Suits" shows us just how much has been and continues to be communicated through dress, and banishes the thought that clothes are unimportant.
Dry and lacking any real substance..........2004-06-03
If you're looking for a good clothing history, don't bother with this book. Hollander's arguments are poorly written and unsupported. There's no evidence that she did any research.
An Interesting Historical Perspective.......1997-03-23
Forget the titillating implication of the title, this is a serious
and well-written history of how we came to wear the clothes
we do. Undoubtedly loaded with the author's biases, it still
gives some perspective on the styles, especially in men's suits,
that we rarely think about. Not a "Gee, Whiz" type of book but worth reading.
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A Must Have, Where is the Reprint?.......2002-09-04
Divorce Dirty Tricks by this team of attys. is the ultimate in
information on how to get the proper legal representation including gutsy questions to ask an atty before you retain them.
It is written in an easy to read and vastly interesting format.
For every legal situation they provide various situations with
various outcomes... and a concise wrap up called "Moral of the story". It is both an offensive and a defensive book in covering
everything imaginable involved with divorce. My only criticism is
that there has never been a reprint of this must have for anyone
who is or about to be married,no matter how well it is going.
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Brutes in Suits: Male Sensibility in America, 1890--1920 (Gender Relations in the American Experience)
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Are men truly predisposed to violence and aggression? Is it the biological fate of males to struggle for domination over women and vie against one another endlessly?
These and related queries have long vexed philosophers, social scientists, and other students of human behavior. In Brutes in Suits, historian John Pettegrew examines theoretical writings and cultural traditions in the United States to find that, Darwinian arguments to the contrary, masculine aggression can be interpreted as a modern strategy for taking power. Drawing ideas from varied and at times seemingly contradictory sources, Pettegrew argues that traditionally held beliefs about masculinity developed largely through language and cultural habit -- and that these same tools can be employed to break through the myth that brutishness is an inherently male trait.
A major re-synthesis of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century manhood, Brutes in Suits develops ambitious lines of research into the social science of sexual difference and professional history's celebration of rugged individualism; the hunting-and-killing genre of popular men's literature; that master text of hypermasculinity: college football; military culture, war making, and finding pleasure in killing; and patriarchy, sexual jealousy, and the law. This timely assessment of the evolution of masculine culture will be welcomed and debated by social and intellectual historians for years to come.
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Release Date: 1994-08-23 |
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Author: Daniel Hays
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excellent book - but somewhat cobbled together.......2006-03-04
This is an excellent book on real estate taxation.
I read the 18th edition published in 2004. If you do buy this book, make sure that you get the latest edition as tax laws are constantly changing. You likely will need to check the author's website.
A few critiques:
* There were some minor typographical errors
* Examples that had been written in earlier editions should have been updated for the latest version. For example, Reed argues that you should expect a 20% annual return on your money as a real estate investor and justifys this in part by contrasting investing in real estae with investing in notes where he says that first mortgages yield a 10% annual return. In 2004, first mortgages would yield closer to a 5% annual return.
* There is not a uniform style to the chapters. They often feel like a collection of distinct articles that were loosely grouped together into a book. For example, one chapter is written in the form of questions and answers.
* Did not cover owning real estate in IRAs. There are currently apparently effective ways to own real estate from within a retirement plan. This book did not cover this topic at all.
On balance I am very happy with this book and it's sensible approach to real estate and taxation.
a must have reference book for real estate investors.......2002-09-11
I can not imagine not having John T. Reeds books, especially this one, on my bookshelf. I constantly refer to this book whenever I am reviewing my investment strategies for my properties. I have found his philosophy extremely clear & concise. I appreciate his material so much because it stands out far above many other Real Estate books by "so-called" gurus who are basically pedalling snake oil to the general public. He gives purposeful & useful information. I own 5 of his books and have always found them to be a worthy investment.
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