books about: unconventional     books:       A Primate's Memoir : A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons67 reviews Scribner, 2007 An All Time Favorite This book is hard to classify: Is it autobiography? Primatolgy? Travel adventures? Humanist philosophy? Humor? Basically it is all of these and more. It is a real page turner. Sapolsky has a truly marvelous sense of humor that includes knowing how to laugh at himself. I rank it with in the top 10 favorite books I've ever read. Bravo!             THE SECRET KEEPING: Special Kindle Edition14 reviews BROOKE DONNY, 2008 316 Stars My original title for this review was going to be "raising the bar for lesbian fiction", but then I thought, well that's just not saying enough, considering where it sits. Francine Saint Marie has not just raised the bar, she's taken it to a different planet. I am currently packing up and planning to move there. As readers of lesbian fiction, especially romance, we have come to expect, well, ...             Dragon Days: Time for "Unconventional" Tactics12 reviews H. John Poole Posterity Press, 2007 Unconventional military approach The author is well-known in the military and academic environments. With the last FM-100, it was supposed that everything was now mentioned. But, not. A tradition, inherited from the Civil war, exists in the USA, of saving grunts lives, avoiding the combats at close distances and using with profusion the heavy fire support to win always. It does not serve to gain the hearts and the minds of the ...             Be Unreasonable: The Unconventional Way to Extraordinary Business Results11 reviews Paul Lemberg McGraw-Hill, 2007 Plan To Spend Some Time With This Amazing Book I am a fast reader, and I can zip through the average business book on a plane trip. You know . . .yadda, yadda, yadda, think outside the box . . .yadda, yadda, yadda, be proactive . . . "Be Unreasonable" is NOT your average business book. I found myself stopping every few pages to absorb the powerful concepts presented, think about what they mean to me, and generate ideas that will transform ...             The Tiger's Way: A U.S. Private's Best Chance for Survival19 reviews H. John Poole Posterity Press, 2003 A fantastic implementation of Tokakure Ryu for the modern day I have not finished this book, you should know. However, you should also know that this book made enough of an impression of me that I am writing a review before I have finished in violation of my own rules. I am an author myself and I value these reviews greatly - I wouldn't write if I didn't mean what I say. This is a great book. In short, it takes the premises - as best we know - of ...             Are You Ready to Succeed? Unconventional Strategies to Achieving Personal Mastery in Business and Life29 reviews Srikumar S. Rao Hyperion, 2006 Practical mental exercises to improve your attitude and make you happier Before enlightenment, chop wood carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood carry water.* I read the book's title as meaning "You're successful, are you ready for that?" rather than "Do you want to succeed?" emphasizing the word "ready". And just as reaching enlightenment does not obviate the need to perform the more mundane chores of life, being ready to succeed does not obviate earning a ...             Annabel: An Unconventional Life8 reviews Lady Annabel Goldsmith Phoenix, 2005 Supberb I loved this book and believe it is not to be missed. She comes across as being a very warm being, and while most people who write their autobiographies portray themselves as being good and kind people, I prefer to give Lady Annabel the benefit of the doubt. I feel the fact that she and her first husband spontaneously decamped to Austria to help Hungarian refugees in 1956 to speak for her ...             Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters: 400 Unconventional Tips, Tricks, and Tactics for Landing Your Dream Job65 reviews Jay Conrad Levinson, David Perry Wiley, 2005 Worked for me . If you a re looking for a job, either a specific job or just ANY job, the tips and techniques in this book will make your search much more effective and a great deal shorter. It is well worth the price.             Unconventional Flying Objects: A Scientific Analysis21 reviews Paul R. Hill, Richard M. Wood Hampton Roads Publishing Company, 1995 The best explanation of the Lorentz Transformation I didn't really buy this book with any expectations. and I'm not really a UFO buff but I do have an open mind about such things. When I received this book, I read it cover to cover and didn't take my hands off of it. This book, hands down, has the best explanation of the mathematics behind Relitivity, using the Lorentz Transformation, of any book I have read. After reading this book and absorbing ...             Bebop to the Boolean Boogie: An Unconventional Guide to Electronics (with CD-ROM), Second Edition13 reviews Clive Maxfield Newnes, 2002 Great Guide For The Electronically Perplexed I grew up watching my neighbor, a mechanic, work on cars and it helped me pick up the basics. When I would try to take apart a transistor radio and figure out how it worked I was left with an assortment of colorful bits and no clues. This book is the remedy for my total ignorance of things electronic. Just how good it is I do not know due to my lack of knowledge in the field. I reccomend it to ...             Limitless Living, A Guide to Unconventional Spiritual Exploration and Growth6 reviews Prentice Kinser III Ancient Otter Publishing, 2007 terrific book I think this book does a beautiful job of highlighting ways that we can tap into our spiritual lives to enable "limitless living". The stories from the author's own life are amazing, inspirational, and sometimes mind-blowing. You will enjoy the exercises that he provides, from meditations to instructions on tai chi. I highly recommend this book!             Showdown at Big Sandy: Youthful Creativity Confronts Bureaucratic Inertia at an Unconventional Bible College ...5 reviews Greg Doudna The Scrollery, 2006 Powerful personal account Greg Doudna was a student at Ambassador College, Big Sandy during the turbulent Seventies, and this is his story. Showdown at Big Sandy seems to be mercifully free of the hobbyhorse apologetics that spoil many books of this sort. This is, in addition, more than just an AC alumnus on a nostalgia trip. The author, who later returned to his Quaker roots, is in fact something of an authority on the ...             Delusions of Immortality: Surviving an Unconventional Life5 reviews Steven S. Dawson Outskirts Press, 2007 Delusions of Immortality Dawson has chronicled a fascinating life of high adventure that kept me on the edge of my chair throughout each chapter. It is a "must read" for anyone that yearns for the excitement of extraordinary exploits that test a person's physical and mental toughness while exhibiting rational courage. His ability to relate incidents that required him to perform feats of extreme endurance with a strong ...             Guerrilla Retailing: Unconventional Ways to Make Big Profits from Your Retail Business (Guerrilla Marketing ...5 reviews Jay Conrad Levinson, Elly Valas, ... The Guerrilla Group Press, 2004 Must read! A terrific, comprehensive manual for anyone who sells anything! Whether you hawk hot dogs on a corner or sell diamonds to debutants, this book has everything you need to know about the art and science of retailing. I got some great, inexpensive promotional ideas and learned how to find and keep the best people for our restaurant.             Nellie Taft : The Unconventional First Lady of the Ragtime Era4 reviews Carl Sferrazza Anthony, 2005 An engaging look at an independent First Lady I read Carl Sferrazza Anthony's biography of Florence Harding a few years ago and thought it was terrific. Mrs. Harding deserved a full-fledged biography, given her push to make her husband president and the scandals that followed. I was less interested in Nellie Taft and wondered if this woman warranted 411 pages of text. Mr. Anthony proved that it was worth it. The initial chapters of this ...             HITLER'S MIRACLE WEAPONS: The Secret history of the Rockets and Flying Crafts of the Third Reich Volume 2 - ...4 reviews Friedrich Georg Helion and Company Ltd., 2005 Hold On!! Since the Berlin Wall fell a whole new generation of investigator has arisen in Germany. Friedrich Georg is one of these and he has uncovered a whole new world of facts regarding secret German weapons and technology. But this is not the kind of book you read in one sitting. It takes time for the mind to get around what Mr. Georg has uncovered. You can curl up in you favorite chair for this book ...             Dare to Lead!: Uncommon Sense and Unconventional Wisdom from 50 Top Ceos6 reviews Mike Merrill Career Press, 2004 Dare to Lead: thought provoking and fast paced I'm always so hopeful when I start a business book that there will be real "meat"; information of value that can be internalized and used in my own working life. Mr. Merrill crafted a fast paced book broken into small bite-sized chunks that makes it easy to grasp and a joy to plow through. More important, he brings to life a wide variety of business examples that we are all familiar with (or ...             Living High: An Unconventional Autobiography4 reviews June Burn Griffin Bay, 1992 June Burn: Adventuress of the Great Northwest. In regard to a world where the concept of old world adventure and romance is getting harder and harder to grasp, comes the most extradinary story of one young woman's life building a not-so-ordinary family while adventuring with her husband amidst the beautiful Pacific Northwest. Homesteading Sentinel Island in the Puget Sound, teaching school in isolated Alaska, and traveling around the ...             Real Life Entertaining: Easy Recipes and Unconventional Wisdom7 reviews Jennifer Rubell William Morrow Cookbooks, 2006 Perfect for those intimidated by dinner parties I throw a fair number of parties but struggle with how to enjoy them more. I decided to test this book before reviewing it by having 6 person dinner party. Everyone raved about the food (I made the skirt steak & parmesan/fig potatoes) and I actually did end up enjoying the process more. I followed Jennifer's advice and asked for help from the guests - one couple brought the appetizers, one ...             Diagnosis Unknown: Our Journey to an Unconventional Cure7 reviews Randy Smith Hampton Roads Publishing Company, 1997 nothing else like it ever written! I am a medical physician. I have purchased and perused scores of well-written books put out by experienced practitioners for other health professionals. Many of them have proved quite useful. None however has given me the sense of what it is like to be the bewildered patient who has just seen a dozen primary care and specialist physicians for a steadily worsening condition, and now does not know ...              search for books achieving, analysis, autobiography, bureaucratic, business, confronts, creativity, delusions, diagnosis, electronics, entertaining, exploration, extraordinary, guerrilla, immortality, limitless, marketing, neuroscientist, personal, retailing, scientific, showdown, spiritual, strategies, survival, surviving, uncommon, unconventional, unreasonable, youthful 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 ABCs of CBM: A Practical Guide to Curriculum-Based Measurement ... 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