books about: line     books:       One Line a Day: A Five-Year Memory Book (Five Year Memory Book)1 review Chronicle Books Staff Chronicle Books, 2009 Love it! This is a great little journal. It's very nicely made and a good size to take anywhere. I'm looking forward to tracking five years of my life in this lovely little book.             Line by Line: How to Edit Your Own Writing19 reviews Claire Kehrwald Cook Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1985 One of the Best I've bought a lot of grammer books over the years. Some of them are well written some are not. They don't help me much but I keep buying them and hoping that someday I'll find one that helps me with all my style problems. I consider Elements of Style the best of the lot, but this one is a close second. Her examples of good writing as opposed to poor writing are very helpful. She provides not ...             On the Line41 reviews Eric Ripert, Christine Muhlke Artisan, 2008 AMAZING!!! With years in fine dining myself, I can honestly say this book has taken the place of "The French Laundry Cookbook" as my most influential book of all time. Ripert, La Coze and the entire staff of "Le Bernardin" are of a caliber that stands alone as the ultimate hosts of grace, etiquette and respect. They are wholly committed, and as a result, this books shines as a beacon that all culinarians ...             New York, Line by Line: From Broadway to the Battery2 reviews Robinson Universe, 2009 Original Look at New York City It isn't easy finding new ways to view New York City, but the German-born artist who went by the name Robinson did just that in the 1960s and now again in an updated edition due out in October. "New York Line by Line: From Broadway to the Battery" is an intensely detailed examination and rendering of the city's grand offerings of buildings and streets. The city's landmarks: Radio City Music ...             Leadership on the Line: Staying Alive Through the Dangers of Leading36 reviews Martin Linsky, Ronald A. Heifetz Harvard Business Press, 2002 Extremely Valuable Heifitz and Linsky write that leading people through difficult change, challenging what they hold dear, can be a dangerous enterprise. They say, "This book is about putting yourself and your ideas on the line, responding effectively to the risks, and living to celebrate the meaning of your efforts" (3). The book is arranged according to three fundamental questions the authors attempt to answer: ...             A Fine Line: How Design Strategies Are Shaping the Future of Business8 reviews Hartmut Esslinger Jossey-Bass, 2009 Any business library needs this A FINE LINE: HOW DESIGN STRATEGIES ARE SHAPING THE FUTURE OF BUSINESS comes from a designer and founder of Frog Design Inc. and provides a series of tips of better business through better branding designs. This tells of the author's change from an industrial design genius to a global innovation powerhouse in the new global economy, telling how he and Frog blend creative design into company ...             Crossing the Finish Line: Completing College at America's Public Universities William G. Bowen, Matthew M. Chingos, ... Princeton University Press, 2009 Long revered for their dedication to equal opportunity and affordability, public universities play a crucial role in building our country's human capital. And yet--a sobering fact--less than 60 percent of the students entering four-year colleges in America today are graduating. Why is this happening and what can be done? Crossing the Finish Line , the most important book on higher education to appear since The Shape of the River , provides the ...             Star Trek: Ships of the Line: 2010 Wall Calendar4 reviews LLC Andrews McMeel Publishing Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2009 Boldly Going In 2010! The 2010 calendar has some truly lovely images this year. Although there is plenty of the Original series & Original movie Enterprise representation, this time around, there is no hint of Voyager or the Enterprise E in sight & only one image dedicated to the Enterprise NX. Although I have no qualms about the quality of the images, I do think over the run of this entire line of calendars, that ...             The Dummy Line35 reviews Bobby Cole Context Publishing Company, LLC., 2008 The dummy line This is a great read for anyone, not just an outdoors person. My wife read it first and couldnt put it down. I read it in two nights and loved it. This is an adreneline filled adventure story and anyone who likes Clancy, Crais or Patterson will love this book. Bobby Cole makes the woods come alive and made my imagination run wild. Thanks Bobby             On the Line47 reviews Serena Williams Grand Central Publishing, 2009 On The Line, Good Read of A Great Tennis Champion If you want mess, drama, and gossip, watch The Wendy Williams Show (that's what I do, cause its funny)..."How U dou-ingg?" LOL This is a very very good book about Serena, her growing up with her family, and how she felt about tennis and things. I loved it. I felt her...I cried with her in places because she allowed us to feel her pain in certain places (something she didn't have to do). ...             The Long Gray Line: The American Journey of West Point's Class of 196656 reviews Rick Atkinson Holt Paperbacks, 2009 From the daughter of a class member of '66 Well, I never had a good relationship with my father. We were people from two different generations. This book was in our library and one day I decided to read it. I couldn't put the book down. Suddenly, everything I thought I knew about my father changed. I understood why he responded differently to situations and why he was closest to his classmates. I was also filled with respect for him. ...             The Line of Beauty: A Novel109 reviews Alan Hollinghurst Bloomsbury USA, 2005 Lovely rendering of a young man learning to love and live in his 20s encompassing the bigger themes in 1980s London The Line of Beauty... It's difficult to find words that do it justice. Nick Guest is a young man just out of Oxford, one who doesn't quite belong to that rarified world of his classmates, and who yearns for it in a way only someone who doesn't belong can. At the start of the book he has just moved in with one of his Oxford's classmate's family, the Feddens, in a gorgeous house in a posh part of ...             Tan Lines: Sand, Surf, and Secrets; Rays, Romance, and Rivalry; Beaches, Boys, and Betrayal (Summer)3 reviews Katherine Applegate Simon Pulse, 2008 The perfect book read! I read Beach Blondes and liked the characters a lot. I knew I had to read Tan Lines after that. I was hooked! This was far better than Beach Blondes was! There's was more drama and betrayal which makes is far more fun to read =) . I'm a little sad that there isnt more. There's a big unanswered thing in the end and we never do get to see it resolved. I dont know if Katherine Applegate is ever ...             In the Line of Fire: How to Handle Tough Questions...When It Counts41 reviews Jerry Weissman Prentice Hall, 2005 If you've ever flubbed a question from the audience... ..and who hasn't, this book is for you. I've been speaking in public for 40 years now, and I've found that one of the biggest areas where speakers flub the ball is in Q&A. It's not because they're giving bad answers, but really that an intuitive approach to answering questions that 'seems right' really fails to connect with the audience after what may be a very good speech. As the ...             Life on the Color Line: The True Story of a White Boy Who Discovered He Was Black55 reviews Gregory Howard Williams Plume, 1996 Heart stopping... What can I say...this book is written with so much feeling that it's felt so strongly while reading. I can imagine the heartache that these two innocent young men went through while growing up. My grandmother often said "if God put you in it, he will bring you through it" and he did as promised for these two young men. This book should be required reading for all school age kids. Its about race, ...             The Lumby Lines29 reviews Gail Fraser NAL Trade, 2007 Lumby Lines a winner. This series - I read all three books - was just the kind I like. You get acquainted with the characters and feel you know the little town of Lumby before you finish. The characters are lovable and have substance! I can't wait until the new book comes out later this year. And, the author has a web site where you can continue the Lumby experience.             Applique Outside the Lines with Piece O'Cake Designs: No Rules-No Ruler (Piece O Cake Designs)7 reviews Becky Goldsmith C&T Publishing, 2009 crazy new ideas Due to the fact that I add applique to every quilt I make, I purchased this book. I have to say that as I read the book, cover to cover, (unusual for me), I got excited and confused at the same time. My brain was in the "applique traditional method" mode. Soo0oo I read it two more times. By the time I was finished, I had decided that this was the way I would go with the next few quilts that ...             White Line Fever: The Autobiography28 reviews Lemmy Kilmister Citadel, 2004 Right From The Horse's Mouth Himself - Superb Read! I'me on my 4th read of White Line Fever. How could it be any better when Lemmy is doing all of the talking? The man has been on the scene since The Beatles and has lived to tell it all. Other than Dee Dee Ramone, there is no other autobiography as interesting to read.             Learning Outside The Lines: Two Ivy League Students With Learning Disabilities And ADHD Give You The Tools50 reviews Jonathan Mooney, David Cole Fireside, 2000 The Best Damn Book About ADHD EVER!!! I don't care how many F*** the writer put down on this book. This book has life! It reminded me of who I am. A person who are Dyslexic who has ADHD who suffer like hell in school being bullied and treated unfairly. Those years in a grammar school was the worst days of my life, elementary school were no better. Just a number of handful teachers that I remembered that really cared and took me under ...             The Triple Bottom Line: How Today's Best-Run Companies Are Achieving Economic, Social and Environmental ...13 reviews Andrew W. Savitz Jossey-Bass, 2006 The age of corporate accountability has arrived. The old monopolistic practices of industrial-age robber barons and captains of industry of the early 20th century will likely continue to cast a long shadow deep into the 21st century. Even today, the expectations surrounding corporate conduct and responsibility continue to rise with heightened demands, vocalized by various stakeholders, that companies help address issues around human rights; ...              search for books achieving, america, american, applique, autobiography, best-run, betrayal, broadway, business, calendar, college, companies, completing, crossing, dangers, designs, disabilities, discovered, economic, environmental, five-year, leadership, learning, outside, questions, romance, rules-no, strategies, students, universities books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen book: The Wyrdest Link home  impressum - about us