people-first autobiography anti-semitism wheeler-dealer

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People First: Achieving Balance in an Unbalanced World (People First Series)

32 reviews
Jack Lannom

Lannom, Inc., 2005

Simply Powerful
It doesn't take a rocket scientist, it takes a Jack Lannom, an artist adept at teaching you to be a better you through a delightful story that reads like a parable.

Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson's First Season

29 reviews
Jonathan Eig

Tantor Media, 2007

Putting the emphasis where it belongs
Jonathan Eig is developing an expertise at rehabilitating hackneyed young-adult biography heroes. First with Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig and now with "Opening Day", Eig takes a baseball player whose legend has become tarnished by excessive praise, and retells the story from its original context, restoring a sense of wonder. The story of Jackie Robinson has with time become ...

Principled Profit: Marketing That Puts People First

14 reviews
Shel Horowitz

Accurate Writing & More, 2003

Feel Good About the Marketing You Do!
This is the sales and marketing book for the folks that don't want to feel sleazy about the whole process. Shel Horowitz shows how to sell more while doing good for the world and feeling good about yourself and your efforts. He gives specific, practical examples of people and organizations that are doing the things he advocates, and talks about ways to adapt the techniques to a variety of ...

Mary and O'Neil

25 reviews

Delta, 2004

UNIQUE AND WONDERFUL READ
Just finished reading Mary and O'Neil, and I know that it will stay with me for a long time. I laughed and cried, sighed and nodded my head as I read. This a very well crafted novel comprised of short stories, reminding me of the chapters of our lives. The relationships between parents and children, siblings, spouses and friends are realistically portrayed. Thanks to the author for a special ...

Built to Serve: How to Drive the Bottom Line with People-First Practices

13 reviews
Sanders, Stephen Covey, ...

McGraw-Hill, 2007

The Image & Imprint of God in You is Evident By Your Serving One Another
The most difficult thing a person can achieve naturally is a requirement and achievable in Christ, and that is to serve another human being. We try and do things our way only to end up pursuing wealth, power, status, stuff and things. All along we miss out on the one thing that will bring fulfillment into our lives. There are many books written on Management and Leadership; most ...

People of the Lakes (First North Americans)

40 reviews
W.Michael Gear, Kathleen O'Neal Gear

Tor, 1995

Another homerun
But I have loved all the books in the series. That being said, this one was fabulous. They Gears do a good job of making the stories interesting and entertaining but if you are into the pre-history there is so much information in there well placed in broad daylight but it all blends together beautifully.

People of the Silence (First North Americans)

20 reviews
W. Michael Gear

Topeka Bindery, 1997

People of the Silence (The First North Americans series, Book 8)
I really enjoy this series in my oppion it is best to read the series starting with Book 1 so that you know what is being talked about. If you are a Indian or love to read about Indians and their history then this is a Great Series of Books to read. It gives great in sight to the beliefs of the Indian Nations and their ways of life.

WHEN IN DOUBT...BLAME A JEW!: A PERSONAL AND PEOPLE'S MEMOIR OF ANTI-SEMITISM

50 reviews
ARNOLD P. ABBOTT

1st Books Library, 2004

Intriguing and informative
"When in Doubt...Blame a Jew!" was one of the most enlightening and educational books I have read. I am of Jewish faith, went to Hebrew school, and was bat-mitzvah'd but never have I gained as much insight about the Jewish religion as I did from reading this book. It covered the history in great depth and also added humor which really made it a pleasure to read. The author's ability to relay his ...

Whale Song: A Novel

47 reviews
Cheryl Kaye Tardif

Kunati Inc., 2007

An engrossing, powerful story
Only child, star in her parent's crown, Sarah's fairytale life takes a startling and sad turn. Whale Song is beautifully written, and though not an action novel, it is a page turner. The novel is emotionally evocative (I shed tears for Sarah and her companions) but there are many, many heartwarming and encouraging aspects. You quickly become embroiled in the narrator's life, and Sarah's voice ...

Customer Comes Second: Put Your People First And Watch 'Em Kick Butt

15 reviews
Hal F. Rosenbluth, Diane McFerrin Peters

Diane Pub Co, 2002

Common Sense and Company Culture
As an Executive Coach and a close observer of many corporate cultures it did my poor old tired heart a world of good to read this book. If what Hal Rosenbluth says about his company is even half true, it puts his organization at the forefront of employee value and relationship management. Beyond all that, it makes perfect common sense. Why we would think in our wildest imagination that an ...

Into the Tiger's Jaw : America's First Black Marine Aviator - The Autobiography of Lt. Gen. Frank E. Petersen

13 reviews
Frank E. Petersen, J. Alfred Phelps

Presidio Press, 1998

A Literary And Historic Masterpiece
It's one thing to hear about how great someone is; it's something totally different to have met that person and to KNOW how great that person is. Lt. Gen. Petersen was my Wing Commander while I was stationed in Okinawa (Headquarters, G-3) during my '83-'84 tour of "The Rock." Though we chatted briefly on a few occasions after his afternoon workouts (yes, he ran daily with that bad hip), he ...

Wheeler-dealer: The Rip-roaring Adventures of My Uncle Gordon, a Quadriplegic in Hollywood

11 reviews
Chip Jacobs

First Person PR, 2006

IT WAS MY SUMMER READ, AND I RELISHED EVERY WORD!
There is something so gripping in Chip Jacobs' biography of his uncle, Gordon Zahler. The author never caricatures his relative, but enfleshes him with boundless objectivity, even when recording his personal distaste in his responses to his mother's brother. I find the ability to do that a rare gift in writing. And the prose, the turn of a phrase and the point in a paragraph, hold the reader's ...

Grace in the First Person: Growing into Life and Faith

9 reviews
Lee Pearson Knapp

Fleming H. Revell Company, 2003

life's simple pleasures and living through them
I loved this book!! It helped me confirm that my ordinary life is really quite extraordinary....wait...or is it the other way around...?!! I will recommend it to all of my friends.

Raising Self-Reliant Children in a Self-Indulgent World: Seven Building Blocks for Developing Capable Young ...

12 reviews
Jane Ed.D. Nelsen, H. Stephen Glenn

Prima Lifestyles, 1988

Very Interesting and Motivational.
The first 25 pages or so make the case that today's families are more dispersed and isolated than they were pre-WWII, that our nation's growing affluence has led to self-indulgence, and that technological advances have dramatically increased isolation within nuclear families. The result of this shift is "American children at the onset of puberty (who) face and incredible smorgasbord of ...

Misty: First Person Stories of the F-100 Fast FACs in the Vietnam War

9 reviews
USAF (Ret ). Major General Don Shepperd

1st Books Library, 2002

The RAF in Vietnam
This is the companion book to "Bury me Upside Down". Any complaints that you might have about that book not staying on message are immediately dispelled in the more than 600 pages and 81 personal "stories" by the Misty pilots. The stories would seem fantastic if fictional, but these are real life stories. From the training in the US to the POW camps in Hanoi, from the multiple ejections to the ...

Facts and Fabrications: Unraveling the History of Quilts and Slavery: 8 Projects, 20 Blocks, First-Person ...

12 reviews
Barbara Brackman

C&T Publishing, 2006

Super book on African-American quilt history
This is a beautiful book of history on African-American quilt making and is chock full of photos, patterns, and basic American history as well. She pulls no punches, tells no lies or tales, and tells you what is an absolute FACT and what is questionable. If you are interested at all in the subject, you must have this book. It is way beyond the info in E.Burns Underground Railroad book. (Which ...

Music for the Third Ear

10 reviews
Susan Schwartz Senstad

Picador, 2001

Powerful, a must read!
Music for the Third Ear in eerie synchronous plotting seeks to and successfully connects two twentieth century holocausts, the Nazi atrocities and the Yugoslavian. Although fictional, it achieves an immediacy and a depth of understanding, particularly about the victimization of people from the Bosnian War. By putting names, faces, and personal histories in front of us, we can't avoid becoming ...

The Mud People: A Parable of Recovery

10 reviews
Laney MacKenna Mark

Warner Books, 1998

Very touching
Laney MacKenna Mark is my great aunt.And in the book the sister refered to as Reene was my grandmother, so for me this book ment more than it would to the average reader. But if I were to look at this as an regular person I would still rate it the same. I recommend this book to anyone and everyone..

The Light at the End of the World

10 reviews
Lorraine Dopson

1st Impression Publishing, 2002

This book could be set to music -
The minute you sit down and start this book, you can slip into the story. Though the setting is farther back than I've ever even dared to imagine, it grounded me to look around and think more about the possibility of what eternity is. To me it didn't undermine what I believe the story of creation to be; it only has expanded it's possibilities and helped me to realize the unlimited power our ...

People of the Weeping Eye (First North Americans)

12 reviews
W. Michael Gear, Kathleen O'Neal Gear

Forge Books, 2008

Peple of The Weeping Eye
I have read all the books in this series and they were all wonderful. The Gears havw given us an in depth history of the early peoples of this land. I am waiting impatiently for the sequel to the last book.

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