books about: self-taught     books:       What Shamu Taught Me About Life, Love, and Marriage: Lessons for People from Animals and Their Trainers37 reviews Amy Sutherland Random House, 2008 Put on your laughing hat! Put on your laughing hat and get ready to bust your seed! I didn't just like this book, I LOVED it! So insightful to see how I, as a broth swilling man of distinction, can be trainable like the bear (GRR) I am. I would love to have the author over for a night of java logs and Iphone Scrabble and hopefully end the date with a lovely pink sock!             It's How You Play the Game: The Powerful Sports Moments That Taught Lasting Values to America's Finest3 reviews Brian Kilmeade HarperEntertainment, 2007 Good book... Good price! I ordered the book ("It's How You Play the Game") for my 12 yr. old son. He is a sports junkie and enjoys reading about sports icons. This book tells of many of his sports heroes and tells of their fight to become successful. It encourages the reader that no matter your background, what you get out of life is what you put into it. This is a great message, especially for the younger ...             Yoga Self-Taught10 reviews Andre Van Lysebeth Weiser Books, 1999 An excellent self-contained introduction to yoga If you're looking for a book on yoga that will plant you firmly at the feet of a guru and introduce you to all the Hindu theosophical accretions that have built up around the asanas over the last two or three millennia, start with Iyengar's _Light on Yoga_. This book isn't it. But if you're interested in yoga as a form of physical exercise that will help you to inhabit your body (and this ...             Cajun Self-Taught : Learning to Speak the Cajun Language5 reviews Rev. Jules O. Daigle Swallow Pubns, 2000 Learning Cajun Made Easy I was so greatful to find a tool that would help me expand my knowledge of my native tongue. This book is easy to comprehend and gives you great information about this beautiful language and culture.             The Five Lessons a Millionaire Taught Me About Life and Wealth53 reviews Richard Paul Evans Fireside, 2005 Now I can buy whatever I want. Five Lessons helped me realize what I wanted out of finances in my life - peace. All the other books I have read on making money made me focus on acquiring money and/or things. At one point I was working 3 jobs. Sure, I was able to buy stuff, but I never slept. About the time I was starting to wonder how much would I pay to take a nap, just a short little nap, a friend gave me this book. The ...             Getting Started with Latin: Beginning Latin for Homeschoolers and Self-Taught Students of Any Age24 reviews William E. Linney Armfield Academic Press, 2007 Wow! Best language book I've ever used. My husband and I are homeschooling our children, and have studied Russian, French, and Biblical Greek between us. When we decided to introduce Latin to our 2nd grader, we both dreaded finding a book that would be easy to learn from and interesting for our daughter. Now we are all learning Latin together - and having a great time. Our only dilemma now is to decide how to proceed when we finish ...             Japanese Step by Step : An Innovative Approach to Speaking and Reading Japanese43 reviews Gene Nishi McGraw-Hill, 2001 A fabulous reference for the beginner and intermidate student! First off, this book it not going to have you speaking japanese once you finish reading it. What is will do, and do VERY well, is explain to you the complicated and heady rules and structures of japanese sentences and grammar. I found it to be a fabulous tool in showing everything from conjugating verbs to structuring simple sentences, all the way up to more comlicated sentences. Until I ...             My Life as a Furry Red Monster: What Being Elmo Has Taught Me About Life, Love and Laughing Out Loud23 reviews Kevin Clash, Gary Brozek Broadway, 2006 Fantastic As the mother of an Elmo-crazy toddler, I became intrigued with the little red guy and started looking on You-Tube for interviews with his puppeteer. I found him to be hysterically funny and never willing to comprimise Elmo's status as a "3 and a half year old" to get laughs on any adult talk shows, like some performers might. I bought this book and now I am a true fan. Kevin Clash is smart, ...             What Jackie Taught Us: Lessons from the Remarkable Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis39 reviews Tina Santi Flaherty Perigee Trade, 2005 Fun, entertaining, historical and most of all inspirational Whatever age you might be, whatever era you are from, you absolutely do not want to miss reading this book! Most of us recall the special "charm" that was Jackie, but few of us really knew or understood the details of this remarkable woman. What made her tick? What made her do what she did? Tina Sant Flaherty answers questions...looking into Jackie's childhood, young adulthood and her life as a ...             The Art of Dueling: 17th Century Rapier as Taught by Salvatore Fabris5 reviews Tomasso Leoni Chivalry Bookshelf, 2005 Wow! Some years ago I obtained a translation of Salvator Fabris' rapier fencing treatise made by a professional translator in the 19th century. Reading Tom Leoni's translation really makes me appreciate the art involved in this process and the importance of having a translator who is not only fluent in both languages, but is fluent in the subject of the book being translated. In fact The Art of ...             A Man and His Meatballs: The Hilarious but True Story of a Self-Taught Chef and Restaurateur6 reviews John Lafemina William Morrow Cookbooks, 2006 Great Story The is the perfect book for anyone who has ever wanted to own a restaurant. The first half of the book is compelling and funny, and gives a lot of insight into what it takes to open a restaurant in NYC. I couldn't put it down!             The Fundamentals of Pa Kua Chang: The Methods of Lu Shui-Tien As Taught by Park Bok Nam Vol. II(Fundamentals ...22 reviews Park Bok Nam Unique Publications, 2005 Superb introduction into BaGua mechanics ~I'm finally glad they got Vol. 1 on this website. I'd written a review for Vol.2 awhile ago, but had to imply that there was a Vol.1 to be read, as well. It's been a while, and others have already gotten to it, but I thought I'd plug in my 2 cents... WONDERFUL! In retrospect, there is some mystery here. BaGua, as with many Chinese martial arts styles, is all about your instructor, your ...             Hebrew Reading and Writing: Self Taught2 reviews Fern Margolis 1st Books Library, 2003 Easiest book for English-only speakers to learn Hebrew I didn't know an alef (Hebrew "A") from a leaf (think trees) when I opened this book. After doing the excercises I was reading, writing in both Hebrew print and cursive! It took days not months of work. The gradient of learning is like walking up stairs. It doesn't make you feel stupid and it manages to keep you focused and progressing. I'm also impressed by the way this book gets you speaking ...             Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom (The John Hope Franklin Series in African ...3 reviews Heather Andrea Williams The University of North Carolina Press, 2007 profound piece of scholarship African American efforts to become literate during slavery is frequently associated with the experience of bondage in the U.S. The story of Frederick Douglass is emblematic of the enslaved person's attempt to assert, through literacy,his or her humanity. The written word represented to those trapped in the blight of slavery a means to free the mind. As Heather Williams so brilliantly documents in ...             Everyday Genius: Self-Taught Art and the Culture of Authenticity3 reviews Gary Alan Fine University Of Chicago Press, 2006 A Must Read for Any Folk Art Collector This book addresses everything: the folk art (the term I'm used to) world, the art world and the whole world, because ultimately, any and all worlds are about socio-economic factors. This book is practically a unified theory on socio-economic relationships. If you liked Tom Wolfe's Painted Word, you should read this one. Everyday Genius does a great job of revealing the insiders' world of ...             The Making of a Butterfly: Traditional Chinese Martial Arts As Taught by Master W. C. Chen14 reviews Phillip Starr Blue Snake Books, 2006 A student-eye view of solid martial arts instruction. As a ShoDan-level assistant karate instructor, I'm always looking for good books to help me become a better teacher and practitioner. I've found martial arts-based memoirs to be particularly helpful and encouraging. I recently stumbled across "The Making of A Butterfly," and it was no exception. Phillip Starr began his martial arts journey in the 1950s. His family moved a lot due to ...             How to Hit a Curveball, Grill the Perfect Steak, and Become a Real Man: Learning What Our Fathers Never ...3 reviews Stephen James, David Thomas Tyndale House Publishers, 2008 Great Read The authors have succinctly articulated the essence of Christian masculinity, and have shared experiences about their marriages and parenting that largely "ring true" to me personally. Their thoughts about work and the responsibility of providing for one's own correctly captures the dichotomy of responsibility vs. personal fulfillment, and the integral part personal sacrifice and service to ...             #1 Self Taught Arabic Book2 reviews Nisreen Beshqoy Nisreen Beshqoy, 2004 #1 Self Taught Arabic Book I learned Southern Lebanese Arabic years ago, but this has really helped more with grammar. I'm going to Egypt, Jordan, Saudia Arabia soon and I hope to at least find the ladies room and not ask for water and not insult someone. Nicely placed chapters.             The Secrets of Chinese Meditation: Self-Cultivation by Mind Control As Taught in the Ch'An, Mahayana and ...5 reviews K'Uan Lu Yu, Charles Luk Red Wheel / Weiser, 2007 A Treasure Trove of Teachings! This text deserves all the praise heaped on it by one of the reviewers.There is not a wasted word in it. It is thoroughly practical, and rightly so, because (a) based on the teachings of experienced masters and (b) translated by an eminent lay-practicioner. Master Hsu Yun (1840-1959) recommended that Lu KUan Yu (Charles Luk) should present these texts. Be it the Surangama Sutra, Ch'an (Zen,T'ien ...             The Dog Diet, A Memoir: What My Dog Taught Me About Shedding Pounds, Licking Stress and Getting a New Leash ...20 reviews Patti Lawson HCI, 2006 A great, fun book! I loved this book! I really enjoyed reading it and I got some great dieting ideas (and life perspectives). For example, I am now implementing her idea of having a salad box. Actually, I have two of them that are about the size of shoeboxes that I bought for $1 each at the 99cent store. Now, as soon as I buy my salad veggies, I clean them, chop or remove whatever leaves I need to, and put them ...              search for books american, approach, authenticity, beginning, butterfly, cultivation, curveball, education, fundamentals, hilarious, homeschoolers, innovative, jacqueline, japanese, laughing, meatballs, meditation, millionaire, powerful, remarkable, restaurateur, salvatore, self-cultivation, self-taught, shedding, shui-tien, speaking, students, traditional, trainers 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: Accidental Genius: Revolutionize Your Thinking Through Private Writing leave a comment home  impressum - about us