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    you’re in bed‚ you’re dead” (131‚ Mitch Albom). This was one of Morrie’s first and most meaningful aphorism in the book but the symbol was the Morrie’s bed itself. The bed represents the surrendering of his body too the disease in the book. Morrie wakes up every morning and immediately gets out of bed and moves to another room in the house‚ mostly he goes to his study where all his books are. When you are in bed your not doing anything‚ your not being productive with your day. When your laying in bed

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    relationship you have with your employees and your customers. If your employees trust you‚ respect you and believe in your goals then all the other factors like good customer service‚ product quality‚ pricing‚ marketing and delivery comes automatically. This book is all about how to create a positive environment at home and at work. This can be attained by catching people doing things right and praising them when they make progress. At work‚ building positive relationships helps you become more productive‚

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    corporate life and a successful career in human resources. He is currently corporate ombudsman at KeySpan. Glen Rifkin: A veteran business journalist who ahs written extensively for the New York Times and coauthored many groundbreaking business books such as Radical Marketing‚ The CEO Chronicles and The Ultimate entrepreneur. A Summary: The CEO and The Monk‚ is an inspiring story of a company’s search for greater purpose and its endeavor to justify its existence beyond mere pursuit of

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    In Bill O’Reilly’s thriller Killing Lincoln he opens the book with shifting point of views between Lincoln’s killer‚ John Wilkes Booth‚ and the front lines of the increasingly hostile Civil War. Taking place at the end of the war‚ O’Reilly goes into great detail describing the malicious battle between two famous generals. Robert E. Lee‚ general of the confederate army and Ulysses S. grant‚ general of the Union forces. Detailed plans for battle and battle strategies are explored for both the Union

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    A Raisin In The Sun‚ is a book about a family‚ well‚ one family in particular. The Younger family is a rather normal African American family. They all live together in a little apartment‚ and they all have many struggles to face daily. Walter Lee Younger‚ is a limousine driver‚ and is not liking his job‚ he wants to own and operate a liquor store to get more money‚ and to have a better life‚ every morning‚ his wife Ruth makes him eggs. Every time Walter brings up his dream‚ Ruth quiets him with

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    deploy the architecture and landscape of enslavement on plantation and farms. 3- Fraser‚ V. (1990). The Architecture of Conquest: Building in the Viceroyalty of Peru‚ 1535-1635. New York; Cambridge [England]: Cambridge University Press. This provocative book seeks to study the philosophy and practice of the colonial architecture of the towns‚ cities‚ and churches in Latin America‚ referring specifically to the Viceroyalty of Peru between 1535 and 1635. It focuses on the significant identity and characteristics

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    Vittorio Bufacchi has written an intriguing book on social injustice. It’s a combination of twelve essays‚ ten written over the duration of 2000-2008 and two written specially for this volume. He covers a wide a range of subjects through his essays to show how social injustice is present in the society. A thought-provoking essay on torture has been co-authored by Jean Maria Arrigo. Another one is a response to his critics (Matthew Fetenstein and Eddie Hyland) on political ‘scepticism’. Several essays

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    SYNOPSIS OF THE BOOK MARLEY AND ME Soon after their wedding‚ John and Jenny Grogan escape the brutal Michigan winters and relocate to a cottage in southern Florida‚ where they are hired as reporters for competing newspapers. At The Palm Beach Post‚ Jenny immediately receives prominent front-page assignments‚ while at the South Florida Sun-Sentinel‚ John finds himself writing obituaries and two-paragraph articles about mundane news like a fire at the local garbage dump. When John senses Jenny

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    importance to the world of physics is staggering given the recent advancements in the world of quantum physics. Yet Einstein the man is a much a different person than Einstein the scientist. It is Einstein the man that we see here‚ in this wonderful book by Maree Ferguson Delano. Delano‚ who also wrote The Photogbiography of Thomas Alva Edison‚ returns to the photobiography format here as well‚ and it’s a good thing because Einstein is difficult enough to digest as it is. Photo after photo shows Einstein

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    he original story that addicted readers to Sherlock Holmes A Study in Scarlet (1887) is the first novel of legendary Sherlock Holmes series written by Arthur Conan Doyle. It was the second novel for Doyle next to “J.Habakuk Jephson’s Statement”‚ (1884) and it first appeared in Beeton’s Christmas Annual for 1887. While other Holmes’ stories are arguably much better written crime/detective mysteries‚ the origin of the best detective story for over a century consecutively delivers electrifying

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