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Money matters are some of the most difficult areas for spouses to approach in an open and honest way. They are also some of the leading causes of breakups and divorces. This innovative, life-changing book will forever improve readers' relationship as a couple by teaching them budgeting and money-management techniques that will last a lifetime. Whether readers have been together for many years, a few years or are just starting out, this book will show them how to permanently resolve all their money issues. Its unique approach does not offer a quick fix, but, rather, an evolutionary process that will teach readers how to make their money life work in a way that fosters a strong, committed, lifelong partnership. Readers will learn how to work together in a financial partnership focused on budget and cash flow. Even as their life as a couple changes and the numbers in their budget fluctuate, readers will be able to effectively employ the methods, strategies and skills they learn in this book for a lifetime. This book identifies the three communication responses couples use that do not work to create a long-term financial partnership, the four cornerstones of a healthy money partnership, the two absolute rules of budgeting, the three negative consequences that result from living without defined couple goals and what your mutual values are. It provides a step-by-step structure for developing a workable budget that both members of the couple are committed to emotionally and intellectually. In addition, readers will find this book readily accessible and easy to read. It presents case studies from the author's consultation practice, along with examples and step-by-step practical instructions that all readers will be able to use in their day-to-day life as a couple. The case studies will encourage readers and help them see that they are not alone; the concise, easy-to-use information will show them why thousands of couples have benefited--and continue to benefit--from the author's unique approach to money management for couples.
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Spending plan for Two.......2003-01-05
This book offers detailed direction for couples to set up and follow through on money management. Many books offer a quip here or there to account for two checkbooks. This author takes you through step by step. The truth is that many households have two wage earners or at least two money handlers. Coordinating spending is difficult. I have read numerous books on this topic and this one stands out to me.
This review would have been 5 stars if more detail had been given regarding the dual income impact of online payments, automatic billing, reimbursable business expenses, etc. However, I have not found a book yet that adequately addresses these.
Not helpful if your relationship is healthy already!!.......2002-09-06
From what I heard on Sound Money, I thought this would be just what I was looking for - a book that would give me information on filing jointly, wills and survivorship, joint accounts, examples of how other couples had chosen to manage joint finances, information on shared insurance, shared assets, combined debt, prenups, investment, and other essential things that make the money part of couple-money different from single-money.
Instead, I found that it was a relationship counseling book that presumes that your relationship is already suffering and that you fight constantly about money. The steps recommended are preachy and geared toward people who live a heavily unexamined life and have poor communication skills.
If all you are seeking is practical advice on how managing your finances will need to change as you go from single to partnered, this book is about as far from what you need as you can get. If your relationship is about to fall apart and money is the central issue about which you fight, it might be of some help.
Best budget book ever!.......2002-02-22
At first I was put off by the main title of this book. However, I soon realized that the title of the book wasn't talking about becoming richer materialistically as much as it is talking about your relationship!
The book starts at the real beginnings-- Your beginnings, to reflect on how you look at and value money. Then your partner and you REALLY begin to communicate about the deeper issues which have made the mere money issues break down before. Only after all of the emotions are understood do you begin to really budget in Chapter 7, and the introduction is small so as to get used to the system first. Then you get into the real meat of it quickly and finally things just start working!
I've read many budget books before, but by far this was the best one for couples.
#1 Marriage Saver!! THIS BOOK CHANGED MY LIFE!!!!!.......2001-04-01
I can not emphisize enough how this book significantly impacted my marriage and my life. My husband and I had seen marriage councelors and therapists and the arguing about money, and building resentment never really went away. By chance I happened to see an article in a local paper's bridal section about money problems in marriage. It recommended this book-which I had never heard of before. I am totally amazed that all of the trained psychologists didn't have the insight that this woman has. She takes you and your partner, step by step, through chapters with questions for both partner to answer on their own and then recommends scheduled times for meeting to discuss the answers. She gives specific guidelines and rules to keep it short and respectful of both partners. The program methodically goes through a series of questions alongside actual dialogue of several case study couples struggling with different money issues. I saw bits of my husband and I in each of the couples arguments. I saw the blaming that had them stuck, and the familiar roles of one being the "responsible" one and one being the "spend thrift"...and then I learned how and why the blame was paralyzing them and ME! My husband and I are learning through this book how we are each responsible for the quality of our marriage, and our marriage's money life. This book is full of practical steps to awareness and change. I literally feel it was an answer to a prayer.
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2005 Pennsylvania Manufactures Register (Pennsylvania Manufacturers Register)
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As a waist gunner aboard Black Hawk, a B-17 Flying Fortress operating from bases in England, Sgt. Jack Novey, and 18 year-old from the streets of Chicago, survived some of the most dangerous bombing missions of WWII. Deserves a place among the best memoirs of the air war against Germany. 42 b&w photos.
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Outstanding account of battle aboard a B-17.......2001-08-08
Jack Novey's account of life as a waist gunner aboard the B-17 "Black Hawk" is incredible. He writes with such clarity that you'd swear he just arrived back from the war. The details of the people and things around him conjure up emotions of awesome fear, musty smells and high adventure. It was difficult to put the book down and I was often left sleepless thinking about what I had read. This is by far one of the most engrossing books about WW II I've ever read because it didn't glamorize the war but captured the real life struggles Mr. Novey encountered. Thanks Jack for such a wonderful account of your experience.
A feeling of authenticy and honesty.......2001-08-05
I bought Jack Novey's book because all my life I have been remembering two air attacks by American bombers over Paris. I witnessed those from the garden of my parents in Marly-le-Roi, a small city, at the time, belonging to the west outskirts of the capital. The sight of the flying fortresses coming into view in droves, their being immediately under flak fire and fighters' attack, their attempts at dodging, their being set aflame or cut into bits and pieces, their dropping their bombs, the fall of the German planes, the parachutes, of which many did not fully open, all this left a permanent spur in the eleven year-old boy I was at the time. Another reason I remember these two raids, is that my father worked at the time at the Renault works, their primary target. (he came back in the evening and related the destructions to us). So it might very well be that I was a witness of Jack Novey's specific mission on September 15 1943 as he describes it on page 87 of his book. For many years I had been wondering about the kind of men who were willing to put their life on the line for such tasks. Jack Novey's book has answered my question: they certainly did not like what they did, but they did not want to fail before their comrades and, mostly, before themselves. Despite the long time that has elapsed since the events he relates, Novey's book conveys a feeling of authenticity. One feels the permanent fear and the unbearable conditions under which these young men fought in the cold blue sky with the dismal perspective of not making it to the magic 25th mission. But it is also honest: Novey conceals nothing of the human weaknesses that manifest themselves in such situations. After having read the book one can only marvel at what man can endure. Read Jack Novey's book. I personally will never forget.
A real look at War in a B-17.......2001-07-21
Mr Novey was one of the few lucky ones who survived 25 missions in a B-17 in the early days of the war. This is not a glorified account, but shows the truth, the brutality, and the reality of war in a B-17. This tells it as it was, with no exceptions from the need to pee and crap in your pants and the smell of men after a long mission, to the fear of freezing to death in the Cold Blue Skies. This may not be the best B-17 memoir I have read, there are a few I have liked more, but it will keep you interested and is well worth the time and money. Mister Novey is also honest when it comes to showing his war time love life, which appears to be get all the sex you can while you can. A ladies man (women were attracted to me.) He promises nothing, but takes what he can. This is not a love story, but more a tale of youthful need and desire. Somewhat understandable when you are 18, alone and scared, and every day could be your last. Mister Novey is brutally honest about taking advantage of British widows, wives, and girl friends left at home in England while their husbands were off to war. I guess many men and women were tempted to seek comfort where ever it could be found with death ever so near, and fear and the fight for survival a constant daily struggle. Sometimes you wished he would have gone into more detail on his conquests, but then that is not the main point of the book. More honest than most, Novey has done us a favor by sharing his memories of those dangerous days in the Cold Blue Sky. Buy the book, you will enjoy it.
I will never forget this book..........2000-12-28
I did not want to put this book down once I started it. Facsinating because its all true, yet as entertaining as any work of fiction. Also highly recommended from an educational perspective. In this era of unprecendented freedom and prosperity, our youth would be well-served by reading this book. Unforgettable!
Excellent true-life account of a waist gunner in WW II.......2000-08-03
There are some books that are written simply because there is an important story to tell. Novey's account of his experiences as a waist gunner in a B-17 heavy bomber with the Eighth Air Force is a book that gives us a real-life look at what it was to be young, terrified, brave, and caught up in a world war that quickly made boys of 17 and 18 age well beyond their years. A horde of books such as the Cold Blue Sky exist. Some are good, a few are great, but none captures the spirit, fears, and loyalty to their crew that Novey's book does. The author begins his book with a fine account of qualifying for gunnery school,which was not an easy process. From there it is on to England and the task of completing the required 25 missions to earn a trip home. It is easy for an author to write of tactics, leaders, and battles, but not as easy to convey what it is really like to be a soldier. Wars are fought by people, very young people. It is hard, very hard to risk your life each few days and maintain a sense of equilibrium. It is almost as hard to write about what is was like. Novey succeeded and all of us are the benefactor.
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these are four books that answer questions all children ask great illustrations
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7 Titles By William H. Lovejoy : Delta Blue Phantom Strike Shanghai Star Black Sky Cold Front Delta Green White Night. Seven mmpb books.
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The Cold Blue Sky
Jack Novey
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The acclaimed first volume of this definitive biography of W. B. Yeats left him in his fiftieth year, at a cross-roads in his life. The subsequent quarter-century surveyed in The Arch-Poet takes in his rediscovery of advanced nationalism and his struggle for an independent Irish culture, his continued pursuit of supernatural truths through occult experimentation, his extraordinary marriage, and a series of tumultuous love affairs. Throughout he was writing his greatest poems, from the stark simplicity of 'The Fisherman' and 'The Wild Swans at Coole', through the magnificent complexities of the sequences reflecting the Troubles and Civil War and the Byzantium poems, to the radical compression of his last work - some of it literally written on his deathbed. The drama of his life is mapped against the history of the Irish revolution and the new Irish state founded in 1922. Yeats's many political roles and his controversial involvement in a right-wing movement during the early 1930s are covered more closely than ever before, and his complex and passionate relationship with the developing history of his country remains a central theme. Throughout this book, the genesis, alteration, and presentation of his work (memoirs and polemic as well as poetry) is explored through his private and public life. The enormous and varied circle of Yeats's friends, lovers, family, collaborators, and antagonists inhabit and enrich a personal world of astounding energy, artistic commitment, and verve. Yeats constantly re-created himself and his work, believing that art was 'not the chief end of life but an accident in one's search for reality': a search which brought him again and again back to his governing preoccupations: sex and death. He also held that 'all knowledge is biography', a belief reflected in this study of one of the greatest lives of modern times.
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Messin' With Ellmann et al.......2004-05-22
I agree, largely, with what I've read here. Foster *is* an anteater, to quote one Amazon reviewer.
On the other hand, you're dealing with Yeats. Yeats was probably the most sophisticated thinker about literary persona and literary stance that Western literature has ever produced. Only Shakespeare--who, as far as we know, never theorized explicitly about any of this, much less wrote it down--surpasses him, and not by design. Such figures as Pound are nothing in comparison. It should come as no surprise that Yeats' own autobiographical material is forbidding in the extreme; if you get past that you have Ellmann to deal with, and you'd best go loaded for bear.
Foster has taken a blunderbuss, since Ellmann showed up with a rifle. Nonetheless, both approaches are invaluable. Foster's work is magisterial, even if it's not a great literary biography *taken as such*. On the other hand, it offers an incredible resource for the serious student of Yeats. Detail aside (helpful as that is to scholars) Foster makes a very good case for Yeats' persona-management in public and private, something I have come to feel is essential to understanding the poet and which, along with the occult study, has been imperfectly examined. (See Maddox's ridiculous effort for an example of this at its worst.)
Read together, though, both major biographies tend to compliment each other very nicely. Give that a try.
Te Diem.......2002-06-02
If I may be permitted to speak oxymoronically, this book as it once indispensable and utterly useless. It is indispensable for the sheer wealth and weight of fact it carries. The book constitutes a veritable rhapsody of small details, collected without due regard for relevance and with every regard for hanging on the the myriad fruits of bibliophilia. How then is it useless?It is useless because it dispenses with the immense effort - at once imaginative and cognitive - of reconstructing the relationships and the world to which the work and activity of Yeats was a response and against which he defined himself. This task of reconstruction is never only a matter of painstaking factual excavation. It is a question of reimagining a whole "field of force" (Wittgenstein) into which, so to speak, the poet was "thrown". This bok is a heroic but antiquarian leviathan.
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There are several biographies of the great Irish poet to choose from, and the one you'll prefer depends on how much biography you want. Subtitled "The Apprentice Mage, 1865-1914," this is the one for completists (though they'll have to wait for Volume Two to get through Yeats's death in 1939). The author, a noted Irish historian, renders Yeats's life almost day to day, giving a particularly lively sense of the helter-skelter nature of his early years and a nice depiction of his tumultuous engagement with the Abbey Theatre.
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The acclaimed first volume of this definitive biography of W. B. Yeats left him in his fiftieth year, at a crossroads in his life. The subsequent quarter-century surveyed in The Arch-Poet takes in his rediscovery of advanced nationalism and his struggle for an independent Irish culture, his continued pursuit of supernatural truths through occult experimentation, his extraordinary marriage, and a series of tumultuous love affairs. Throughout he was writing his greatest poems: 'The Fisherman' and 'The Wild Swans at Coole' in their stark simplicity; the magnificently complex sequences on the Troubles and Civil War; the Byzantium poems; and the radically compressed last work - some of it literally written on his deathbed. The drama of his life is mapped against the history of the Irish revolution and the new Irish state founded in 1922. Yeats's many political roles and his controversial involvement in a right-wing movement during the early 1930s are covered more closely than ever before, and his complex and passionate relationship with the developing history of his country remains a central theme. Throughout this book, the genesis, alteration, and presentation of his work (memoirs and polemic as well as poetry) is explored through his private and public life. The enormous and varied circle of Yeats's friends, lovers, family, collaborators, and antagonists inhabit and enrich a personal world of astounding energy, artistic commitment, and verve. Yeats constantly re-created himself and his work, believing that art was 'not the chief end of life but an accident in one's search for reality': a search which brought him again and again back to his governing preoccupations: sex and death. He also held that 'all knowledge is biography', a belief reflected in this study of one of the greatest lives of modern times.
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Informative biography of a complicated man.......2004-03-01
William Butler Yeats offers a life of contradictions. Born in Dublin to a middle-class Protestant family, Yeats went on to become one of the premier poets of the twentieth century. As a writer and member of the Irish literary community, he also helped to forge Irish national identity through his words and his deeds. In this biography, the first of two volumes, Roy Foster offers an account of Yeats' development into one of the leading figures of the Irish literary scene.
This is not an easy book. Foster recounts Yeats' life in what is sometimes excruciating detail, covering every movement and literary battle the poet undertakes. Moreover, as he does so he assumes the reader's familiarity with both the background of late nineteenth century Ireland and the members of the Irish literary community. People appear in his narrative with little introduction, creating a confusing jumble of names that limits the appreciation of their role in Yeats' life.
Such problems aside, this is a first-rate biography. Foster does a great job examining Yeats' life, in a text that while long is never dense. His coverage of Yeats' occult interests is particularly good, as is that of the poet's involvement in nationalist causes - both integral aspects of his poetry. Foster's argument that Yeats' involvement in the mystical was a reaction to the declining position of Protestants in Ireland, an effort to cope with the sense of dislocation by asserting psychic control, is a compelling one that helps to fit more of his poetry into its contemporary context. Foster helps this process; while he asserts that his biography is about what Yeats did rather than what the poet wrote he does offer a perceptive commentary on aspects of Yeats' work, which helps us better appreciate the connection between the man and his writings. Thanks to this, we have a book that is essential for understanding such a complicated literary figure and the role he played in his times.
The Lighthouse and the Anteater.......2003-05-02
For the first 100 pages or so, this book had me completely. Roy Foster writes with elegant brio and has a historian's eye for the wider events and contexts that shaped Yeats's early years. Where previous biographers like Ellman take a sort of lighthouse approach to their subject, treating the passions and conflicts of Yeats's day as fuel for the poetry that was destined to outshine them, Foster is more like an anteater, eagerly snuffling up the everyday bits of information that give the flavor of Yeats's multifaceted life as he actually lived it, before his later fame and incessant revisions smoothed it into a pattern.
After a while though, the book tends to bury Yeats in a mass of trivia that include everything from the menu at one of his literary dinners to the prices he charged for his lectures. This level of detail could be enlightening if Foster stopped for breath more often to tell us why these things are important. Too often though he keeps his head firmly down with the ants, cataloging the day-to-day intrigues of a very complicated life without linking them to any kind of larger interpretation of Yeats's personality or development. Instead, Foster spends his 500+ pages introducing new names at the rate of one or so per page, most of them disappearing by the end of the chapter never to be heard from again. We get the intrigues of various Irish nationalist factions, potted bios of minor figures on the Dublin and London art scenes, humorous sketches of Yeats's fellow-travellers in his sundry mystical societies. It was hard to see Yeats after a while with all these minor figures crowding the stage.
If Foster does have an interpretation of his own, as far as I can tell it's a revisionist one. Where Ellman or Jeffaries saw Yeats's life as a drama of painful self-creation, Foster sends to see an ambitious man on the make, an aggressive networker who wasn't beyond bending the truth if it helped his own advancement. Even his life-long passion for Maud Gonne, one of the key sources of his poetry, was, according to Foster, in part a self-conscious realization that a great poet needed a great passion to write about. In trying to bring Yeats back down to earth, I think Foster overcompensates by making him more canny and worldly than the sexual naivete, table rapping, faery talk and aesthetic posturing of these years suggest. Worst of all, Foster shows almost no interest in Yeats's poetry, the reason we're reading the biography in the first place. I put down the book admiring Foster's energy and mastery of such a huge anthill of facts, but I couldn't shake the feeling that a lot less would have told us a lot more.
Surprises!.......2001-07-04
This is loaded with surprise after surprise. Foster's insights into the poetry, through historical and social readings, are often revelatory. My only complaint is that many of the tales he tells tend to have the same emotional architecture due to a descirptive repetition: this makes it a little monotonous at times. But this is a quibble. This book is great. When is Vol. 2 going to be published?
The Definitive Yeats Biography.......1999-12-12
R.F. Foster's two-volume biography (second volume to come in 2000) is a model of articulate and knowledgable scholarship, arguably comparable to the great biographies of Joyce and Wilde written by Richard Ellman. Foster's work leaves nothing to be desired. It easily excels previous Yeats biographies written by Cootes, Jeffares, etc.
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Beyond faeryland.("W. B. Yeats: A Life Volume II: The Arch-Poet, 1915-1939")(Book Review): An article from: New Criterion
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Title: A life like a novel.(W. B. Yeats: a Life Volume II: The Arch-poet 1915-1939)(Book Review)
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