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Introducing Multi Book Margaret Tanner

By valeri On August 24, 2010 No Comments

Margaret Tanner belongs to the Romance Writers of Australia, Romantic Novelists Assoc. UK, the Melbourne Romance Writers Group and EPIC.

She has won or been commended in competitions on several occasions. In February 2008, she won the Australian Author of the Year Award from aussieauthors.com. Her unpublished manuscript Storm Girl has made it into the semi-finals in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Contest.

Her World War 1 novel, Devil’s Ridge, from Whiskeycreek Press, finished in the top thirty in the 2007 Preditors and Editors poll.

She has had numerous short stories published over the years, but writing Historical romance novels is her passion. Her favorite historical period is the 1st World War. Not only has she painstakingly researched this era, but was fortunate enough to make a poignant pilgrimage to the battlefields of Gallipoli (in Turkey), France and Belgium.

She is married with three grown up sons, and one grand-daughter. Margaret lives in Australia. She

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Preface & Introduction to a hockey book – Hockey’s Most Tragic Deaths

By valeri On August 19, 2010 No Comments

Preface

It was to be a compilation of short stories detailing the lives and tragic deaths of several former NHL hockey players. I was somewhat skeptical about the project at the time, reasoning that a comprehensive range of tragic stories about former pro hockey players had already been compiled in a single book, and that, in any event, such an undertaking would be too extensive and exhaustive for us to realistically complete. My findings from an initial wave of research were that, indeed, several hockey biographies had already been published about players I wished to profile, such as Howie Morenz, Terry Sawchuk, Tim Horton, and John Kordic. There was not, however, a single source which brought together several of these stories. My research also confirmed my initial belief, that the task at hand would be daunting.

The process

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HOW TO READ A PERSON LIKE A BOOK. U MUST KNOW HOW TO READ A BOOK

By valeri On August 19, 2010 No Comments

BOOK WRITTEN BY IRAIARIGNAR Email:  dtc1660@yahoo.com

                 In the Name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.

           ‘Praise be to God, The Cherisher and Sustainer of the Worlds’.

May Peace and Blessings of God be upon app. 124thousand Prophets of God from Adam, Noah, Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Ayub, Idris, Zul-kifl, Job, Luqman, Salih, Suhaib, Lot, Jonah, Moses, Aaron, David, Solomon, Eliza, Zachariah, Elia’s (John) Jesus Christ and Muhammad (Sal).  

May Peace and Blessings of God be upon thee and thine family.

 

“‘PEACE’ A WORD OF SALUTATION FROM THE LORD MOST MERCIFUL”

 

                                              R   E   A   D .

 

I read an article, ‘HOW TO READ A PERSON LIKE A BOOK.’

 

One should know, ‘How to read a book.’

R E A D : Means to understand the context of the paragraph or verses READ.                                              

 

Seeing they see not, hearing they hear not, neither they understand nor do they come to the right path.”  

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Book Review, ?churchill and America” by Martin Gilbert

By valeri On August 17, 2010 No Comments

The prolific and exceptional historian and Churchill biographer Martin Gilbert has produced another interesting volume for the expanding library of Churchilliana. Gilbert’s look at the complex (and hardly submissive) relationship between Churchill and America, is edifying reading given the current threats faced by the once “Anglo” powers and Britain’s increasing Euro-centric orientation. Inter-state relations are necessarily complex, and Gilbert does a great job of detailing Churchill’s 60 year relationship with America, and outlining why, for world peace and prosperity, an Anglo-US partnership is vital. Churchill, for all his disputes with the Americans, certainly felt so.

The book runs about 400 pages and much of the material will be familiar to those acquainted with Mr. Gilbert’s copiously informative official biography. What is new is the refraction of events during Churchill’s long career, with America and the surprisingly profound fixation Churchill possessed about preserving US-British harmony. Chapter headings confirm Churchill’s appreciation of

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COMMENTS ABOUT THE BOOK , D-DAY, BY STEPHEN AMBROSE

By valeri On August 14, 2010 No Comments

[01]     Stephen E. Ambrose was in Whitewater, Wis., on D-Day, and his father in the Pacific. He was 10 years old and collected cans for fun at that time. In 1964, he was a Civil War historian, and got a call from General Eisenhower, who asked him to write his biography, having seen Ambrose has written Civil War books before, and for him, it should be very difficult to do so, without being interested in D-Day 01.

The D-Day book we've read is a 754 page-translation, in Portuguese, portraits the essential facts, that took place in Europe, referring to several different perspectives of the great battle of the World War II, written for those who were part of the history, and were born during the false prosperity of the 20’s, raised in the tough reality of depression extended to the 30’s. In the author’s opinion, they were the soldiers of

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Kelley Blue Book – A Trusted Vehicle Information Resource

By valeri On August 11, 2010 No Comments

He started distributing a want list to car dealers and banks. The list consisted of types of automobiles that he was interested in buying, along with the amount that he was willing to pay for each. As a whole, the automotive community felt that Kelleys judgment was such an accurate reflection of values that they began to request the list for their own individual use. Kelley realized that the list could provide an ongoing business opportunity and so the Kelley Blue Book was born.


First published as the Blue Book of Motor Car Values, the new guide featured the factory list price and cash value on thousands of vehicles from Cadillacs to Duesenbergs. Everyone began to recognize the value of this handy guide, including the banking and insurance industries.


After World War II, even the United States government accepted the values as fact and used the book to place

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Comic Book History

By valeri On August 9, 2010 No Comments

In the United States, the first comic book was published in 1934. Ever since the first comic came out, the leading producer has been the United States. The first comics were similar to the comics found in early newspapers; however, they were published as their own books. The first comic books were mostly about adventure stories and depicted some type of superhero character. Historians break up the history of American comic books into different eras. There are four eras starting with the Golden Age, the Silver Age, the Bronze Age, and the Modern age of comic books.

The Golden Age of comics is said to have last from the 1930s to the late 1940s. During this time, comics became main stream and readers were introduced to superheroes such as Batman, Captain America, and Wonder Woman. Superman was the first known superhero and made his debut in 1938. After Superman, almost all

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Top Ten Comic Book Characters

By valeri On August 8, 2010 No Comments

There are thousands of comic book characters in existence from past to present. Many are well known while the majority are more obscure to the general public. And while top ten lists are generally subjective and based on opinion, there are certain comic book characters that will be discussed in this article that are worthy of that distinction by most standards. These are in random order.

Superman - There absolutely cannot be a top ten list of comic book characters without the Man of Steel. He's one of the first (arguably THE first) superhero to ever grace the four-color world, and thus his history is one of the richest. He's also one of the most popular in both comics and worldwide as viewed by the general public. He represents truth, justice, righteousness and morality. And while many find it hard to relate to him, those same people look up to his

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American Theocracy, a Book Review

By valeri On July 31, 2010 No Comments

In his two most recent books, American Dynasty and Wealth and Democracy, Kevin Phillips has perhaps rightly earned the prestigious moniker of America's premier analyst and critic. Now, in his new release, a doom and gloom tome some 480 pages long, Kevin Phillips assails three overlapping, growing, forces that threaten to rain on the parade of the American way of life. Actually, American Theocracy : The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century, at $26.95 retail is still a great value because it is really three books in one, with just enough threads woven between the very different but often interrelated fabrics to help illustrate the upcoming perfect storm.


Kevin Phillips, as a former Republican strategist and observer for over 30 years, has a keen sense of the current political and economic landscape. When contrasted against his commanding historical

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American Era History Book Review: The Civil War Through The Camera

By valeri On July 31, 2010 No Comments

Book Title/Title Page:

The Civil War Through The Camera.

Hundreds of vivid photographs
Actually Taken in Civil War Times
Sixteen Reproductions in Color of Famous War Paintings
A Complete Illustrated History of the CIVIL WAR

By Henry W. Elson, Professor of History, Ohio University

Copyright 1912
By Patriot Publishing Co., Springfield, Mass

About This Version

The antiquarian version reviewed here is a high quality hard bound book in a large format, with beautifully decorated and framed pages, excellent quality paper and printing of text, and images, mostly actual photographs, and includes sixteen full page color reproductions of Civil War paintings. Editing and production are flawless; a modern word processing program could not have done better.

This book consists of about 260 textual pages, and 317 photographs and images, and the sixteen color prints.

Comments:

Do not be misled by the title; this is not a picture book, though it is loaded with hundreds of fascinating photographs. Published almost

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