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Dont Eat This Book by Morgan Spurlock: Lightweight But Convincing Expose of the Fast Food Industry


For those of you who've been on another planet for the past year or so, Morgan Spurlock is a filmaker who spent an entire month eating nothing but McDonald's food and filming the decline in his health, expanding waistline and other alarming consequences of this damaging diet.The result was the gripping documentary, Super Size Me, which earned a well-deserved Oscar nomination.

HIV-Muscles: This is the Title of a New Book about One Mans Battle with HIV


Today Lavaine is doing well and able to go about life in a manner which would never have been thought possible in 1986. This was the year which he was diagnosed as HIV+.

The Legend of Juggin Joe - A Preview of the Comedy Sensation You Dont Want to Miss!


THE FROGGIN INCIDENTAs I recall this particular happenin', which we all referred tah as the "Froggin Incident", it all started out innocent enough. T'were on a pleasant summer Saturday gatherin at Doc an' Isabel's.

Men of Extreme Action - Book Review


"Action, thriller and humor - this book has it all! Men of Extreme Action by Joseph Kochanoff is one of the better books I have reviewed this year. Based in the action movie making industry, Joseph incorporates murder, excellent fight scenes and sabotage.

Gilleland Poetry: A Book Review


For me, poetry is often too obtuse and difficult for me to get into. Whether it is the abstract metaphors, or difficult line structure, I end up struggling more than I would like to.

Story Structure - Three Heroes


Three Heroes Story Structure follows the Hero's Journey mould but distinguishes itself by making both the hero and the shape shifter both likeable and deserving of the final prize.The Classic Hero's Journey also makes the shape shifter likeable and deserving of the prize but in Three Heroes, we get more of the Shape Shifter's back-story and surprisingly little of the Hero's.

Amazing Holy Grail Discovery


In a profound and provocative work of scholarly detection, best-selling UK author Philip Gardiner shakes the foundations of modern belief by at last revealing the true origins of The Holy Grail, Elixir of Life and Philosopher's Stone. Shrouded in mystery, these highly enigmatic symbols have long been revered and The Serpent Grail proves, without doubt, that all three are inextricably linked, originating from the same ancient source.

Story Structure - Classic Hero's Journey


The Classical Hero's Journey is one of the most detailed story structures containing 106 sequences overall and 32 in Act III alone.A descendant of Campbell's Hero with a Thousand Faces and containing references to all the normal and less usual Archetypes: Peer Brothers, the Failed Hero and more, it allows the screen or story writer to quickly map out a step outline, template or first draft screenplay.

Her Backyard: Book Review


Her Backyard by Doreen Lewis is an adventure, romance novel that depicts a career woman in the middle of self-discovery. It is about making choices that may not be so easy to make and complex relationships between co-workers, siblings and friends.

The Southwest Airlines Way - AchieveMax® Top Ten Book Review


Over the years, several books and countless magazine and newspaper articles have been written about Southwest Airlines. Numerous MBA programs highlight the Southwest structure, its culture, its CEO, its low fares and other reasons as to why it is the bright spot in an otherwise dismally performing industry.

What Really Works - AchieveMax® Top Ten Book Review


If you watch television, read the newspaper and/or magazines, frequent the Internet, or simply move in any kind of a business circle, you must have, at one time or another, pondered the following:Why do some organizations consistently outperform their competitors?What do managers at the best companies know-and do-to keep their organizations on top?When it comes to implementing management practices that can propel a company to lasting success ..

Getting Hip


Getting Hip by Sigrid Macdonald is a delicate story of one woman; Sigrid Macdonald and her beginning to end on a road to preparations and recovery from a total hip replacement. This book is a source of beneficial information for anyone who is searching for the facts about hip surgery.

Hug Your Customers - AchieveMax® Top Ten Book Review


Don't panic. Jack Mitchell, the author of Hug Your Customers: The Proven Way to Personalize Sales and Achieve Astounding Results, isn't suggesting that you take his title literally.

How Would You Move Mount Fuji? - AchieveMax® Top Ten Book Review


For a number of reasons, today's hiring managers from Wall Street to the Silicon Valley are totally restructuring their approach to interviewing job prospects. Few will admit it has anything to do with the fact that our litigious society makes it very difficult to ask almost any personal question of today's job applicant.

Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life - AchieveMax® Top Ten Book Review


Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life is another book focusing on the obvious. We've heard it all before.

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Move over, books; Hollywood now basing movies on well-known brand names
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By SANDY COHEN AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Hollywood is known for snatching up best-selling books and turning them into big-screen blockbusters: "Twilight," "Harry Potter," "The Hunger Games," "The Help" and countless others.
Got story? Hollywood builds tales on famous brandsBoston.com

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Arthur Vershbow, collector of rare books, donated works to MFA
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By Emma Stickgold A rhinoceros and two fantastical creatures appear on the page of an 18th-century Italian book in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. The real and unreal fusing on the page delighted Arthur Vershbow, the Newton rare-book ...
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Book Review: Tough Shit: Life Advice From A Fat Lazy Slob Who Did Good by ...
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ORG You know a book by Kevin Smith, a guy famous for making movies about "dick and fart jokes," is bound to be crude, lewd and rude. However what might surprise most people, especially those who believe he makes movies about dick and fart jokes and ...



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Chicago Sun-Times
BY AP May 17, 2012 5:40PM Mitch Albom's publisher says the best-selling author's latest book — The Time Keeper — will be released on Aug. 28. It marks Albom's return to fiction. His last book, 2009's Have a Little Faith, was nonfiction.



Book trailers: Meg Cabot's 'Insatiable,' Simone Elkele's 'Chain Reaction'
USA TODAY
This week I went in search of book trailers that are unique — funny, weird, campy, over-the-top. Let's just say that there are lot of … um ... weird ones. 'Nuff said. This trailer from Meg Cabot for her book Insatiable features Meg being Meg ...



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Banned books? Not in Lucas County
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The aforementioned titles are all books banned at various times by school, library, town, city, and even state officials. 50 Shades of Grey was recently given the boot by some library districts in Florida, Georgia, and Wisconsin, which objected to ...
Fifty Shades of Grey flying off local shelves amidst controversyWDAY
Bill Cotterell: Careful what you call 'censorship'Tallahassee Democrat (blog)
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'Three Cups of Tea' readers who claim author lied in books take case to ...
Washington Post
Three people who bought Greg Mortenson's books are taking their claims of fraud against the humanitarian to a federal appeals court. Last month, US District Judge Sam Haddon dismissed their lawsuit that alleged that Mortenson, his publisher, ...

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Wall Street Hellhound Puts JPMorgan's Loss in Perspective: Books
Bloomberg
We discussed books on the Great Depression and what they tell us about today's economic slump, austerity fatigue and battles over banking rules. 'Distant Mirror' Pressley: You appear to have immersed yourself in books on the Depression.

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Book Talk: Museum conservator finds life in automaton
Reuters
The museum backdrop, of the book which was published this week, is not immediately familiar to the layman, yet in restoring a swan automaton, a mechanical device that resembles and replicates the real bird, the conservator Catherine finds solace and ...

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Read It: The Future of Books en Español
Fox News
Over 67000 people attended the second Spanish-language book fair in Los Angeles May 11 – 13, known as “LeaLA,” or “Read It” in Spanish, nearly twice the attendance of the previous year. The organizers of the event, the International Book Fair of ...


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