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The Art of M&A, Third Edition, is the leading answer book in today's fast-changing, enormously complex merger world. Written in a handy, easy-reference Q&A format, this no-nonsense handbook covers everything from the early stages of locating a suitable target--or finding that you are a target--through the postmerger trials of turning multiple companies into one.
Synopses of nearly three dozen landmark cases give real life insights into legal rulings from previous high profile mergers. Over the past decade, The Art of M&A has helped thousands of executives make sound decisions. Now, let it provide all the information you will need to buy or sell companies, whether public or private, domestic or foreign.
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Fourth Edition Due in March 2007.......2006-11-18
FROM THE CO-AUTHOR. Please be advised that a new FIVE STAR edition will be available in or around March 2007. The 1999 edition being sold here will be replaced at that time. Alexandra Reed Lajoux (Co-Author)
Very dated material.......2005-11-28
The Q&A approach adopted in this book is very useful. It would provide for a very useful reference manual on M&A if its content were not so dated. Its discussion of taxes, accounting, and deal structures does not reflect recent changes in rules and M&A practices. It would be helpful if the author would update the material. Other more current and more comprehensive books on the subject that I have found useful include Mergers, Acquisitions, and Other Restructuring activities by Depamphilis and Bruner's M&A book.
Excellent reference for beginners in M&A.......2005-10-11
Easy to use reference, it helped me get the answer instantly.
Great Reference Book.......2003-07-12
This is a fantastic reference tome for anyone involved with M&A. As a private equity Associate, I have found this book to be invaluable on multiple levels as both a reference guide for securities law, as well as for procedural issues such as sample formats for term sheets, DD check lists, etc.
Also, while it is a dense read, I think this would be invaluable for people just entering either Investment Banking or Private Equity to read as an introduction to the rules, regulations and procedures surrounding mergers/acquisitions.
Yes, this is a very focused topic, but it is a great book!.......2002-07-03
The very size of this book on such a specialized topic may seem daunting. However, the writing is so lively and the organization by question and answer is so easy to use that you will find this a very useful and comprehensive handbook.
It is NOT a theory laden textbook. Rather, it is a very useful and practical guide to the field and will help the careful reader avoid many pitfalls. There are many ways to make mistakes in buying companies and this book can open your eyes to quite of few of them. In fact, if you are the target of a buyout, this book can be of special importance and interest.
I admit to being fascinated by this topic so take that into consideration when evaluating what I say about this book. But even so, mergers and acquistions are so much in the news (for good and ill) that it can only help to get more background on what is really going on and how these deals are (or at least should be) put together.
The book reads MUCH shorter than its size and is fairly comprehensive on the subject - from the methods in selecting candidates for acquisition to what to do when you are a target of an acquisition to some very specialized topics. It also deals with M&A issues with both public, private, and even family firms.
Honestly, I am surprised at how glad I am that I bought this book. It is terrific.
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The New "Typical American".......2005-05-05
I saw Gish Jen read and bought Typical American so I could get her signature and say I had a signed copy. So everyone would envy me. I didn't know when I would get around to reading it.
But then I started reading it, and it's become an entirely charming, engrossing, compelling page-turner. I have plenty of other things to do, miles to go before I sleep, but I can't quit reading about these people--Ralph, his sister Theresa, and his wife, Helen. What engaging people. And Gish Jen--she's funny, great sense of style to her prose; she's wry and moving both. Gish Jen--please, turn me loose. But no, don't. This is the kind of book that's so enjoyable I don't want it to end. Apart from the pure pleasure of reading, moreover, there's a serious purpose to this book: Gish Jen is doing something important for us, in a vein similar to Maxine Hong Kingston. Jen is redefining what a "typical American" is. At a number of points, the gradually more Americanized Chinese immigrants at the center of the story scoff at "typical Americans" for their wastefulness, for their laziness, for many qualities that people from other countries have begun to associate stereotypically (perhaps with some justice) with Americans--satisfied, not wanting to put out too much energy, complacent, arrogant. But in the meantime, Ralph, Theresa, and Helen are themselves becoming "typical Americans." Not in the sense they criticize, but in several new senses. On the one hand, they integrate themselves into the revelation of the American dream--the house outside the city, the green lawn, the rewards for hard work, planning, and desiring. On the other hand, they are becoming the "typical Americans" in the sense that they represent the new Americans who are changing the character of America: from its Euro/Judeo/Christian origins (the people who set aside the Native American tradition) to its new roots in both native peoples (not an issue in this book) and in the new immigrants, who come, struggle in their new environment, have disappointments and successes, individual and cultural quirks, experience resentment and hostility from those who have become settled and consider themselves the rightful "owners" of the land (I'm thinking of an incident where Ralph takes his family to a ball game and is jeeringly advised to go back to his laundry--he's actually a mechanical engineer with a PhD). These are the new typical American: they arrive from exotic lands speaking a language that has no European connection, and put a new face on the country; but by the same token, they are typical in the old sense, the same sense as the Irish, Germans, Jews, Eastern Europeans, etcetcetc: they come from foreign lands to the place of nearly unlimited opportunity, work hard to establish themselves, and finally begin to reap the fruits of their monumental labors. Thus the title has multiple resonances, both ironic (its references to the complacent entrenched) and, I would almost say, reverent in its compassion--its focus on these very amusing and sympathetic newcomers who genuinely love what they are able to gain (the new home with its many rooms in a new neighborhood) after having lived in near despair and poverty. At one point, after Ralph finally passes a driver's license test, they take a drive to their old apartment building, which, they find, has indeed had part of a wall break off--the very part they feared would crumble when they lived there. They had covered the crack with a filing cabinet. When they removed the cabinet, they discovered blue sky showing through the wall.
This book is filled with more imaginative, ironic, amusing incidents and character observations and descriptions than I can possibly enumerate in what is ceasing to be a brief review. I'll just say that the book is a reward at the end of a long day. Read it and be touched.
A Typical Story, Typically Told.......2005-01-21
The immigrant experience in America is well-trodden ground and unfortuntely Gish Jen's Typical American doesn't really add much to this well-established body of literature. Her writing style is good, the story she tells is moderately compelling (if frequently unrealistic) and on, and on, and on. There's nothing wrong with Typical American, but that's hardly a good reason to pick it up and read it. If you're interested in the American immigrant experience, I recommend Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides or Call it Sleep by Henry Roth. If Chinese family life is your interest, Wild Swans by Jung Chang or Life and Death in Shanghai by Nien Chang are far more worthy of your investment of time.
Disappointing .......2004-11-17
I purchased this book ages ago at a used book sale (OK, not great condition, 50 cents). I finally got around to reading it this past weekend, and I finished it last night.
Like I indicated in my title, it was disappointing. I was expecting more from this debut novel, but it didn't deliver. The characters/situations did not ring true in the least, and the humor that was promised by the blurbs on the cover, well, I personally couldn't locate it.
I like stories about the immigrant experience in America. But for a book to be good (for me), the writing has to be fluid, the situations and characters must, absolutely must, ring true, and if it illustrates its themes with at least a soupcon of humor, then you usually have a winner, And last, but most definitely not least, it has to be a book you don't want to put down.
If you're on this page I'm sure you're already familiar with Amy Tan. But if not, I heartily recommend her four novels. Here is a list of them, in the order of my favorites:
The Joy Luck Club (perfection)
The Kitchen God's Wife (perfection)
The Bonesetter's Daughter
The Hundred Secret Senses
A wry, ironic, emotionally complex novel- a brilliant debut........2002-03-23
It's only after reading this fascinating book that one fully appreciates the irony intrinsic to the title. This is a book that is thoroughly atypical in virtually all its aspects.
Typical American follows the lives of three Chinese immigrants in New York: Ralph Chang, his sister Theresa, and Theresa's roommate Helen, who becomes Ralph's wife. Theresa becomes a doctor, Ralph earns a Ph. D. in mechanical engineering and gets a job teaching at a local college, and Ralph and Helen have two daughters.
As they each become caught up in achieving the American dream, they must make difficult choices about the importance of success, family loyalty, and the people they hope to become.
Essentially, however, like all immigrant tales, the underlying aspect of the story is one of assimilation. Usually tales of Chinese assimilation into the American mainstream demand the forsaking of Chinese customs; conversely, preservation of Chinese traditions requires the rejection of any possibilities of assimilation. The dramatization of such cultural conflicts has become somewhat formulaic, and Chinese-American writers seem locked in this conventional depiction of the Chinese immigrant experience.
Not Gish Jen. In Typical American Gish Jen rewrites the formula that has long dominated Chinese-American immigrant fiction, and complicates firm notions of Chinese and American identities that have been staple elements of that formula.
Normally these assimilation tales are multi-generational sagas where the conventional opposition between American and Chinese cultures is usually played out through generational conflicts, in which the older, immigrant generation's insistent preservation of Chinese traditions are pitted against their first -generation offspring's desire to cast off those manacles.
Not here. Eschewing this "typical"' setting for her narrative, Jen breaks from the paradigmatic use of Chinatown that has been a staple of Chinese immigrant narratives. This also removes the Changs from the clutches of parental demands or strict Chinatown societal codes. Rather than settling in an established Chinese community for moral and financial support Ralph, Helen and Theresa remain very isolated in their new life in America. This isolation from the "parental' or "traditional" elements of Chinese culture enables Jen to illustrate the conflicts inherent to cultural assimilation within the context of the individual rather than a group. And, so, while the characters strive mightily to achieve "typical American" status-the full middle class lifestyle with all the accouterments and benefits that implies-they nevertheless still see many of the traits and behaviors attendant to that lifestyle through Chinese eyes and refer to these behavioral traits in Anglos pejoratively as "typical American" Behavior. Thus they are in the position of decrying what they actively seek to attain, thus brilliantly illustrating the often schizoid process of assimilation.
The first line of the book asserts that this is "an American story", but in fact this is neither a "typical Chinese-immigrant" story, nor a ""typical American" one. In the end, no one is "typical" anything. Ralph's revelation at the end is not the disillusionment of a Chinese nor an American, but simply a man confused by the complexity of the new context that surround him: "Kan bu fian. Ting bu fian. He could not always see, could not always hear. He was not what he made up his mind to be.
Both Ralph's and Helen's revelations at the end of the book 'are critical moments in which Jen invalidates the generational/ cultural conflict paradigm; she has deftly shown that the notion that the choice that one "stay Chinese" or "become American" is an illusion. In fact, the "typical" immigrant will never be either.
This is a wry, ironic, emotionally complex novel that is well worth reading.
There Is No Such Thing As American Dream.......2002-03-22
Ralph, Helen, and Theresa immigrated from China to escape political instability in the post-War era. The trio of young ambitious Chinese immigrants slowly transformed into everything they once despised in the typical American as they set out after their dreams and created their own suburban paradise. Ralph, like many of his counterparts, struggled with his visa but mangaged to finished his PhD in mechanical engineering and obtained a university tenure. Together with his wife Helen (introduced to him by his sister Theresa), the young couple set out to make the so-called "American dream" come way in all possible ways: finding a split-level home in the suburbs of Connecticut, making huge bucks in fast food (America is such a fast food nation), walking dog and sending dog to training school, making excursions into adultery. Theresa studied to become a doctor who later on engaged in an affair with a man. Ironically, as the ambitious trio fulfilled their "American dream" (ahhhammm) they have become someone whom they despised in the first place-typical American: the typical American no-good, typical American don't-know-how-to-get-along, typical American just-want-to-be-the-center-of-things, typical American no-morals, typical American use-brute-force, typical American just-dumb, typical American no-manners, and typical American eating-junk-and-not-healthy. The trio began to adopt to more American vocabular but still retained their Chinese ways of thinking like "xiang ban fa"-think of a way. In a way, the American dream has corrupted the trio. Ralph became so money-oriented that he believed he can only fit in the society if he made good money. If he couldn't make a lot of money, he would be dubbed Chinamen. "Money, in this country, you have money, you can do anything. You have no money, you are nobody. You are Chinaman! Is that simple!" Even Helen, she allowed himself to engage in sexual quickie in her own house behind her husband's back with Grover Ding, who represented a typical American-born-Chinese that was not rooted in any traditional Chinese values. Afterall, the American dream will never be the same again. Gish Jen's writing has astutely portraited a typical immigrant experience through her witty style and choice of waords. As a Chinese-American, I can deeply relate to the Chang's experience-the desire to fit in but at the same time the quest for prosperity, success, and respect. The novel might seem funny but who can really understand immigrants' life struggles if not being one?
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These Chinese medicinal porridges - called jook in Cantonese and congee or porridge in English - can be a healthy alternative to the typical Western breakfast. Cooked in a crockpot overnight and combining specific grains, vegetables, meats, eggs, or various Chinese herbs, there are medicinal porridges for every type of ailment. Included are hundreds of herbal porridge recipes for both prevention and remedial purposes. This book is great for laypersons as well as professional readers.
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Rare Information in the West.......2007-09-10
This book is specific to a very specialized diet, for example, if you are sick, the recipes have some rare, odd ingredients. The Book of Jook is very handy for those practicing Chinese medicine or Medical Qigong.
It is easy to read and understand what steps to make congee for various health restoring and body purifying and toning purposes.
The Book of Jook may be a bit hard core for a person trying to do something such as convert to healthy vegetarian eating, but for the specific uses described within, it rocks.
a book for professionals.......2007-02-13
this book is meant for professionals of tcm who have on the first hand theoretical and practical diagnosis knowledge and on the second hand an easy access to chinese medicinals.
you won't be able to cook most recipes by yourself because they need special ingredients.
however, the theoretical introduction is great and the last 20 recipes in the book are health-strengthening, rather than meant for sick people, and their ingredients are common and easy to find.
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Great idea .......2007-01-25
This is a great idea if you can find all the exotic ingredients.
This book is an excellent overview.......2006-10-18
From Flavor & Fortune published by the Institute for the Advancement of the Science and Art of Chinese Cuisine
Combinations of any number of grains, vegetables, meat, eggs, and/or Chinese herbs make porridge known as Jook or Congee. For most folk, they are breakfast foods. They can easily be made overnight in a crock pot. They are economical, popular among the elderly, nutritious, and delicious; and all are healthy alternatives to typical Western breakfasts. They surely beat bacon and eggs on any health-rating chart; and, when you try them, you are bound to change your morning food practices, even some of those for lunch.
Bob Flaws, a Traditional Chinese Medical practitioner (TCM) considered an authority on Chinese medicine, shares recipes collected from a number of Chinese language sources, all listed in the preface. Some have ingredients available only at a Chinese herbalist or a specialty store, but don't let than deter your efforts at tasting them even though it is difficult, perhaps, to find a Chinese food or herb source. Many only use ingredients available at your large local supermarket. One that may not be easy to make might be the recipe for Deer Antler Gelatin Congee. However, it can serve as an illustration of how the Jook recipes are presented. They start by listing their functions--in this case--it "Supplements the kidneys and fills the essence," then offers indications: "Essence insufficiency, infertility," etc., and next gives ingredients: "colla couru cerir (lu jiao jiao) 20 g., seven gyzae sativae (i.e. fresh ginger, sheng jiang), 3 slices" etc. Then the method of preparation and administration follows. In this case you first cook the rice into porridge, then add the powdered deer antler gelatin and ginger. It advises to: "eat for 3-5 days, most suitably in winter."
Those without culinary concerns and those who enjoy experimentation will find this book an excellent overview of beliefs and practices of professional TCM practitioners and it is a useful means of learning about TCM's philosophy and complexity. Readers and health providers who find diet central to the development and treatment of many diseases should explore these Medicinal congees. They should not be overlooked when attempting to prevent disease. As books about Chinese medicinal therapy and TCM go, this one is simple and it has tasty recipes that are a wonderful and warm way to start your day. ©1997
The Book of Jook.......2000-07-24
Excellent advanced research of Chinese diet and medicine. The theories of this book are in line with other books that I've read. I would recommend this to anyone wanting to change their eating habits to a more healthful Eastern diet.
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S.O.S. Social Skills in Our Schools: A Social Skills Program for Verbal Children with Pervasive Developmental Disorders and Their Typical Peers by Michelle Dunn is an innovative approach to social skills learning. Despite the often serious deficits children with pervasive developmental disorders exhibit, most schools do not provide social skills intervention through trained therapists to these students. However, simply exposing children with PDD to typically developing children does little to develop their social skills. They do not learn appropriate social interaction by osmosis. The widely tested S.O.S. program addresses this issue head-on. Operating on a schoolwide basis, the S.O.S. program consists of four major components that come together to increase the social skills of children with PDD as well as create tolerance and a sense of fairness among typical children: Pull-out social skills lessons for children with PDD, social skills lessons in the classroom for all children, peer mentoring and parent information
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SOS Social Skills in Our Schools.......2007-01-11
This is a great resource, important for all educators to own.
An Exceptional New Book: Dr. Michelle A. Dunn's, S.O.S. - Social Skills in our Schools.......2006-03-22
Dr. Dunn's exceptional new book, S.O.S., Social Skills in our Schools, describes a comprehensive social skills curriculum for school age children with Pervasive Developmental Disorder. Dr. Dunn, a pediatric neuropsychologist, is a nationally known researcher and an experienced clinician. Her social skills program has already proved highly successful in numerous school districts in the NY tri-state area.
I am the director of a preschool program in Tenafly, NJ. For the past three years, under Dr. Dunn's direction, we have been implementing the S.O.S. program (modified for preschool children) and the results have been spectacular!
The book is thorough, well-written, amply illustrated and easy to use! Dr. Dunn's groundbreaking curriculum would be an asset to any school including children with special needs.
S.O.S. - An Inspired Approach.......2006-02-17
This is a fascinating book that contains vital information on how to teach emotional awareness to autistic and PDD children. It is very visually appealing and user-friendly. There are programmes on vital aspects of succeeding with social relationships that I haven't seen covered so effectively before, such as "being a friend", "playground survival" and "being assertive". The concept of booster lessons to act as reminders to children of what they have learned is inspired. Altogether a fascinating book.
SOS - - At last, much needed social skills help for our children!.......2006-01-12
As a parent of a child with a Pervasive Developmental Disorder, I know first-hand how Dr. Michelle Dunn is one of the definitive experts in the field of children on the PDD spectrum. Her intervention with our daughter has been invaluable over the past year and one-half. I am also mindful of how difficult it can be for one to access a definitive expert in this growing field. "S.O.S. Social Skills in Our Schools" gives us all the access to Dr. Dunn and her social skills program (S.O.S.)that we simply can't afford to pass up. I consider myself lucky to have personally learned how Dr. Dunn truly understands children on the spectrum, and has a unique ability to offer intervention to both address their deficits and utilize their strengths. Her particular specialty - - understanding and addressing the social skills deficits of children with Autism, Aspergers or PDD NOS - - is no doubt a crucial area of intervention for any child diagnosed on the spectrum. And while there are a number of other books and programs which address social skills, this book and the S.O.S. program specifically target social skills in schools with a mainstream or integrated population. It is here that our children spend so much of their day, and readily struggle with the social demands placed upon them. While these skills come more naturally to typical children, they simply do not to our children on the spectrum. Therefore, like any other "skill" in school, such as reading and math, social skills must also be taught to a child on the spectrum. This book, detailing the S.O.S. curriculum, helps teach you how. It is written comprehensively and concisely so that it is understandable by the parent and educator. Moreover, unlike other social skills programs/books, S.O.S. incorporates the benefit of Dr. Dunn's vast expertise and research. Dr. Dunn understands how the brain of a child on the spectrum works and has tailored the S.O.S. program accordingly. In addition, unlike other social skills programs, generalization opportunities are embedded into S.O.S. The program incorporates small group pull out, as well as reinforcement in the larger class, and has a peer mentoring component, as well as parent and teacher training. Therefore, it provides the necessary education for EVERYONE involved to work collaboratively and effectively: The child with the social skills deficits; his/her "typical" peers; the parents and educators. This program works. I can already see the benefit in our school and specifically to our child. Whether you are a parent or educator, don't miss this opportunity to make a difference in the social skills deficits of a child.
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From earliest infancy, a typically developing child imitates or mirrors the facial expressions, postures and gestures, and emotional behavior of others. Where does this capacity come from, and what function does it serve? What happens when imitation is impaired? Synthesizing cutting-edge research emerging from a range of disciplines, this important book examines the role of imitation in both autism and typical development. Topics include the neural and evolutionary bases of imitation, its pivotal connections to language development and relationships, and how early imitative deficits in autism might help explain the more overt social and communication problems of older children and adults.
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Especially recommended for field scientists and professionals........2006-11-05
Edited by psychiatry experts Sally J. Rogers and Justin H.G. Williams, Imitation and the Social Mind: Autism and Typical Development is an anthology of essays by learned authors concerning the process of imitation as a building block of social development, and the interference that autism brings to the process of imitation. Essays ponder such topics as "Does Imitation Matter to Children with Autism?", "A Cognitive Neuroscience View of Imitation", "Longitudinal Research on Motor Imitation in Autism", and much more. A highly scholarly and technological collection of the latest up-to-date research, especially recommended for field scientists and professionals.
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Once a Native American hunting ground, the industrial melting pot of Monessen, in western Pennsylvania, rises over a horseshoe bend in the Monongahela River. Established in 1898, this powerhouse town boomed for close to 60 years, producing vast amounts of steel and other crucial industrial materials. Known for its cultural diversity, Monessenís predominantly immigrant populationówith the highest naturalization rate in the United States at the turn of the twentieth centuryóand the vibrant neighborhoods they established were entirely sustained by the local mills. The battles for decent pay, job protection, benefits, and an 8-hour day kindled fiercely for decades until Monessen and towns like it in the Monongahela Valley gave the average person a dignity denied them for centuries: decent pay for decent work. Families thrived. Children went to college. It was the American dream. Then, neighborhoods began to unravel, foreign imports stole jobs, and finally the mills, the only support of the town, closed. ÝÝDemonstrating their unyielding spirit, Monessen residents have struggled to fight for the recovery and rebirth of their hometown. In this new history, Monessen: A Typical Steel Country Town, informative narrative highlights the rapid expansion and gradual demise of a society built almost solely on its industrial endeavors and recounts how a disjointed populace has come together to restore their proud community. Over 100 striking photographs depict the dominating presence of the mills, the quiet faces of the people who toiled there, scenes of daily life, and memorable events through the years, as well as the dramatic changes that have marked Monessenís unique history. ÝÝ
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At six years old, Hilary Duff was following in her big sister's footsteps and traveling as a dancer. But she knew that acting was her true passion, and before long the precocious preteen had charted a course for Hollywood. Little Hil wowed fans with her performances in Soul Collector and Casper Meets Wendy, but it wasn't until a television show called Lizzie McGuire that Hilary became a household name.
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Get your Facts Right Before you Speak!!!!.......2006-09-02
This book is essential for Hilary Duff fans but watch out- it's not official so there are mistakes such as.......
Hilary Duff: a not-so-typical teen
MISTAKES!!!!!!
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-Pg 57: Bonnie Hunt's character in Cheaper by the Dozen was not `Mary' but `Kate'.
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-Pg 60: Hilary's song is not called `Voice in my Head'. It's called `Little Voice'. Also, her movie `A Cinderella Story' is not called `The Cinderella Story'.
-Chapter 12: In numerology Hilary's number is not 4 as her middle name is wrong. Her number is actually 2.
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Hilary Duff Dictionary.......2006-07-08
I have written a reveiw before on this product which sounded cocky, so I am going to rewrite it. I admire Hilary Duff alot like most people do but there is alot we don't know about hilary and buy this product will help u learn more about her. Also it includes some cute pics, for u to look at. Some things in the book I already knew about and u might too. But there is also I lot I learned , I am not sure if it is all facts but I would like to believe it is.
Think You Know Everything About Hil? Pick Up This Book!.......2005-07-12
"Hilary Duff: A Not So Typical Teen" is the perfect book for any Hilary Duff fan. If you think you know everything about Hilary now, pick up this book and read it! I bought it and it's sooooo cool! It includes lots of fun facts, a peek into a week of Hil's life, numerology fun, an interview with Hil's best advice, a few pages of coloured photos of Hil, fast facts, a "Are You A Duff Buff?" quiz, Hilary websites, a filmography, discography, and much much much more. Here are the names of all of the chapters in this book:
1. "I Think I'm A Regular Kid"
2. A Star Is Born!
3. The Soul Of An Actress
4. Stepping Into Lizzie's Shoes
5. Out Of Platforms And Into A Uniform
6. Saving The World, And Other Secret Agent Tricks
7. Lizzie Goes Rome-in'
8. Dozen This Seem Fun?
9. A Week In The Life
10. Peer Into The Crystal Ball
11. A Lovable Libra
12. Here's Hil's Number (number in numerology, not telephone number)
13. Words To Live By
14. Fifty Fast Facts
15. Are You A Duff Buff?
16. Hilary Site-ings
Overall, I think that this book is a must have book for any Hilary Duff fan. It's really awesome, and has everything Hilary Duff. The 411 on her movies, lots of Lizzie stuff, stuff straight from Hilary, and much much more!
Hilary Duff Book Review.......2005-03-10
This book has some cool pics of Hil. It also has detailed information and says lots about her personality. It'll take you on the set of her movies, and it even has a super duper Hilary quiz at the end. It tells about her life as a kid, and following in her sister's footsteps. It says some personality traits and ways to find your own.....your traits could be like Hilary's! Can't tell you more....better read this to find out!
Informative Book.......2005-02-26
I really enjoyed reading this book about Hilary. It gave a lot of information and detailed stuff about her life as a teen star. I also enjoyed the fact it has Hilary information and quizzes. I think that made it a better experience when reading. I admire Hilary and even her sister Haylie. I think they're both very talented. The only thing I did not like about this book was the cheap paper. Other than that, very interesting book, with a few colored photos.
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Construction Databook
Sidney M. Levy
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Stay on top of construction details and procedures with the help of this illustrated data handbook. It offers fast access to hundreds of tables, charts, diagrams, and illustrations, covering all the components of construction utilized at a typical job site.This complete reference manual will provide you wiht a single source of specifications, codes, checklists, conversion factors, and "how-to" instructions for the most commonly used construction materials, including lumber, masonry, concrete, steel, doors, windows, hardware, and mechanical and electrical components.
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Comprehensive record of Locomotives of all types; profusely illstd with photos, diagarms and period advertisements
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- ahh, Romance...
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Typical Male (Man Of The Month/Man Of The Month Anniversary, The Blaylocks) (Silhouette Desire, 1255)
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Great sizzle!.......2003-08-25
Passion in Wyoming. Tyrell Blaylock came home to find peace---not to wrangle with Celine Lomax, the hot-mouthed firebrand who'd invaded his mountaintop retreat. She would stop at nothing to reclaim her family's land that she believed stolen by the Blaylocks years ago.
Tight tale, great passion, spirited characters. Terrific!
ahh, Romance..........2000-11-08
It's one thing that lacks in day to day life, but important; recognized. Maybe it's why Cait London writes such books - Romance! If it does lack in your reality, thank your gods for fantasy, and that's a perfect example of what you'll get from this book.
You can see, the cover offers you a lovely image of the stud we all grow to love, Tyrell. The story goes through the struggle that is the relationship between our stud and the heroin of the tale, Celine. It's a typical battle between a boy and a girl, both equally independant and equally stubborn, that ultimately ends with love as the conquerer of all.
It's obvious, by the cover alone, that this book is targeted at women. Maybe it's time for the men to get onboard, and learn how to strike up the passion. Maybe this could be the book, fellas, that gives you fleeting ideas for romantic ventures. Maybe your just a Typical Male...
This is not your Typical book.......2000-06-27
There is nothing typical in the struggle between two very stubborn and independent people. The sizzling tension between these two characters have you on the edge of your seat watching their growing love for each other play out. The location of the plot incorparates all the local traditions one would see in a small town. The supporting characters keep you smiling with all their sideline antics. The book should definitely be on the buy list.
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