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I always found it interesting how people always write about the people that they would like to understand. They study certain people in certain circumstances because they want to understand them and then write about their research. That doesnt necessarily mean they come to understand them. They may...

Heres about the book: Twenty-one years after leaving Vietnam for the first time, the author attends a reunion of former pilots who flew helicopters in Vietnam. Reuniting with his classmates and some of his fellow pilots he flew with in Vietnam brings back a rush of memories and stories of times past....

During the course of our lives, trials, challenges, and tribulations will come despite the fact that we do not have a desire for them to manifest. Most of us would prefer to live a problem-free life. However, life is not designed that way. We learn valuable lessons from situations and circumstances...

This is the story of my illness and how I recovered with the help of psychologists, psychiatrists, 12 Step groups, Christian ministers and family and friends who understood my condition. Its the story of the Hell I went through, and my deliverance from it. Healing can be instant or take a long time,...

The reason for my writing this book is to not only to document my familys history, but to celebrate a long history of family togetherness, love and growth. From humble roots we came and appreciate our heritage and look forward to the future. From the union of two people, sprang an abundance of children,...

"Temples of Tamilnad" takes us to the Tamil-speaking countryside of South India, to a collection of temples each remarkable for its veneration of the major gods of the Hindu pantheon, Vishnu and Siva. They often appear in one of their many incarnations, some with a quaint but unhelpful Dravidian...

Tell It Like It Is: Truisms of Fundraising by T. Christian Rollins, MBA, CFRE Why This Little Book? Like baseball, fundraising has truisms. By telling it like it is, this little book is intended to set young fundraisers on the right path, remind us all of the basics, and...

Forward Dear Paul M y friend Paul LeBlanc and I have had many wonderful adventures together over the years. I knew we were going to be friends when we first met on a film called Silence of the North in 1981. We were shooting in northern Canada in40 degree temperatures. I had a scene where I had to...

Live at the ContinentalThe inside story of the world famous Continental Baths I built the Continental Baths in 1968 and discovered Bette Midler in 1969. The Baths were not only an expression of sexual liberation, but also heralded in a rebirth of Cabaret in the city of New York. Artists of...

As a refugee from Nazi Germany, Siegmund Spiegel came to the United States in 1938. Shortly before the United States declared war on Germany, he volunteered for the Army to help defeat his homeland which destroyed the lives of his family and so many others. He spent three years overseas, serving in...

The generation before the great baby boomers is the less-known silent generation. They do not get the credit like the boomers, but they did provide the glue and butter to the American system that was needed to hold our American way of life together. They historically document the perspective and view...

This book is about the lives and times of a real familynot only the struggles and the unbelievable heartaches and disappointments in our lives, but also how the Lord worked in our lives in the midst of it all. It is with godly fear and much humility that I undertake the task of writing this book as...

This book is dedicated to all women who find themselves in a similar situation and need help to find out the truth. If you are a working housewife with kids and in a strange place with no friends and nobody to turn to and no money to spare to hire a private investigator, you can pool all your resources...

This handbook is the result of the authors experience in solving crosswords (almost exclusively from the New York Times) for a period of over 10 years and is designed to help puzzle solvers of all abilities. It covers such strategic subjects as themes in puzzles and what a clue is attempting to elicit,...