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Hal Leonard Guitar Method, Complete Edition: Books & CD's 1, 2 and 3 65 reviews
Will Schmid, Greg Koch
Hal Leonard Corporation, 2002
Great book for beginners
Starts you off slow and takes you step by step through the rudiments of playing guitar. Would buy again.
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Body for Life: 12 Weeks to Mental and Physical Strength 931 reviews
Bill Phillips, Michael D'Orso
Collins, 1999
I've benefited from BFL yet recommend SFL even more highly
I've benefited immensely from Bill Phillips' 1999 mega-bestseller, Body for Life: 12 Weeks to Mental and Physical Strength (BFL). It dramatically helped to rekindle my passion for fitness.
Using the BFL approach, by combining dreaming; goal-setting; planning; tracking; frequent small meals; weight training and brief but intense aerobic training, I personally completed multiple, 12 week ...
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You: On A Diet: The Owner's Manual for Waist Management670 reviews
Mehmet C. Oz, Michael F. Roizen
Free Press, 2006
Physicians On Diet
How refreshing to have physicians write scientifically-based books that promote a healthy body, healthy living, and disease prevention. Maybe these authors will inspire their colleagues to talk more to patients about living healthfully. The book is written in a way that makes nutrition and physiological insights readable and understandable by people who do not have a strong science background. ...
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Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon--And the Journey of a Generation50 reviews
Sheila Weller
Atria, 2008
Girls Like Us
I gave this book to my 68 year old wife for mother's day and she absolutely loved it. My daughter, who lives in the Netherlands, and her 40 something friends, are also reading it and loving it. They want to know what is behind their mothers' sixties attitudes.
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Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality438 reviews
Donald Miller
Thomas Nelson, 2003
Short and Sweet
Wonderful explanation of what people mean when they say 'cookie cutter Christians' although, the author never uses this term. I found the first chapter difficult to read, kind of rambly, but very intriging.
The book is about his journey to find his place in religion his true, unique way, not the way that others told him to be, but the way he wanted. Not to say that he invented his own way ...
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Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain65 reviews
Oliver Sacks
Knopf, 2007
another excellent book by Sacks
I have always liked Oliver Sacks' writing. His mix of clinical
observation, erudite philosphical musings, combined with the
deep empathy for the patients he describes is unique. However,
this book is quite different from his previous offerings since he
chooses a single underlying theme. It would appear that the
cases discussed and conclusions drawn would be more limited
than the far ...
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An Inconvenient Book: Real Solutions to the World's Biggest Problems416 reviews
Glenn Beck
Threshold Editions, 2007
An Inconvenient Book
I like this book! Glenn Beck has a great sense of humor, which he uses to advantage. Within the pages lie stark contrasting data opposite to the stupid notion by some fellow named "Gore" that the sky is falling. At least Beck hasn't put on 50-75 pounds flying his "green" jet all around the world spouting his unproven nonsense. Sounds like I'm a tad prejudiced, doesn't it? I simply like "just the ...
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Cinderella: The Love of a Daddy and His Princess 4 reviews
Steven Curtis Chapman
Thomas Nelson, 2008
This Will Bring Tears To Your Eyes
I was driving down the road a few days ago and heard the song "Cinderella" by Steven Curtis Chapman for the first time. I have been a fan of Steven Curtis Chapman for a long time. He has written and recorded several songs that grasp us and remind us of the importance of love and family. "I Will Be Here" has become one of the best wedding songs of all time.
I moved from Florida to Tennessee a ...
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The Clique Summer Collection #3: Alicia (Clique Series)1 review
Poppy, 2008
Best of the Summer Collection So Far!!
As for the Summer Series, Massie was pretty good, Dylan was disappointingly not well-written, so I picked up Alicia with some reservation. It was fabuloso times ten!! I loved the story line set in the beautiful five star Hotel Lindo in Spain. We get to know Nina once again- but see a very different view of her from the crush-stealer of Westchester we had previously met. After reading this book, I ...
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A Freewheelin' Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties9 reviews
Suze Rotolo
Broadway, 2008
Honest, truthful, sweet, generous, loaded with information and insight
Like almost all the reviewers so far I loved this book, and like some I was also in the same neighborhood as the events recorded in this wonderful book. In every instance where I knew someone or hung out at a place mentioned, the version here coincides exactly with what I remember but there is so much more I didn't know and so many people I only knew about second hand. This is a generous and kind ...
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Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes (Baby Board Books)16 reviews
Child's Play International, 2002
Pictures are great!
This book became one of our favotites at 4.5 months. My son loves looking at the pictures and hearing the song. We have this and row row row your boat. He chooses these two often when choosing stories, and he's only 6 months. The babies in the book are really cute!
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Wheels on the Bus (Pudgy Board Book)21 reviews
Jerry Smith
Grosset & Dunlap, 1991
Feedback
The book was shipped in a timely manner and was enjoyed by my daughter as she loves the song
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The Creative Family: How to Encourage Imagination and Nurture Family Connections23 reviews
Amanda Blake Soule
Trumpeter, 2008
Fantastic
a beautiful, heartfelt book that is enjoyable to read and great to keep for a reference.
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Heaven and Hell: My Life in the Eagles (1974-2001)35 reviews
Don Felder
Wiley, 2008
So What's All the Fuss About!?!
When HEAVEN AND HELL was first announced, word-of-mouth was that it was going to be so incendiary that Frey and Henley would need asbestos gloves to read the thing. After breezing through HEAVEN AND HELL - and it is a quick, entertaining read - we're treated to the following: The Eagles did a lot of drugs and booze. They jumped every woman that came near. Don Henley was a sour-faced, ...
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The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star236 reviews
Nikki Sixx
Pocket Books, 2007
Nikki
I thiank you so much. Fast delivery. What was said in Amazon was very true. I would buy from you again. You are great. A
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Willie Nelson: An Epic Life8 reviews
Joe Nick Patoski
Little, Brown and Company, 2008
I learned so much about Willie Nelson from Joe Nick Patoski's book
No matter how many stories you have heard about Willie Nelson, or what you know about him -- I promise that you will learn new things about him when you read Joe Nick Patoski's book, 'Willie Nelson: An Epic Life."
I have been reading Joe Nick's articles about Willie Nelson for years. It's always like I'm sitting down listening him to tell a story. You can kind of hear his southern accent ...
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The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music18 reviews
Steve Lopez
Putnam Adult, 2008
A Powerful and Compelling Book
Steve Lopez is a newspaper columnist for the LOS ANGELIS TIMES. A few years back, he had a difficult time finding a topic for his column and did what is natural to his profession: searched for the ideal story. Lopez is not a "sunny day at the beach" kind of writer, and looked for a subject at a place that could be the most notorious place in the United States--Los Angeles' Skid Row. On Skid Row ...
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National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America, Fifth Edition41 reviews
Jon L. Dunn, Jonathan Alderfer
National Geographic, 2006
Know your birds!
This book is very helpful in figuring out just what bird is outside your window. It does help if you have a general knowledge of birds.
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This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession 98 reviews
Daniel J. Levitin
Plume, 2007
Very interesting
I am a musician and although I have not yet finished the book it has captivated me and helped me realize why I am the way I am and maybe why others are the way they are as far as music choices. God made us incredible!
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The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century42 reviews
Alex Ross
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007
The Pedantic Mister Alex Ross
I've decided to give this book four stars for a number of reasons, including its highly informative content, its ability to transform and inspire the reader to become a musicologist in the model of the author, and its ability to make obscure, avant-garde pieces of music actually stand out with true color. Despite these positive assessments, I wish to briefly underline why I'm not giving this ...
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