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Reviewer: N. Goldman
Self-help books reviewed by Norm Goldman & Other Bookpleasures' Reviewers
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Helping Me Help Myself: One Skeptic, Ten Self-Help Gurus, and a Year on the Brink of the Comfort Zone
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Helping Me Help Myself: One Skeptic, Ten Self-Help Gurus, and a Year on the Brink of the Comfort ZoneAuthor: Beth LisickISBN: 978-0-06-114396-0 I was amazed to learn that the self-help industry pulls in annually over a billion dollars in revenue. The outgrowth of the industry is quite apparent just by looking over Amazon’s list of self-help books where you will notice that there are over 150, 000 books listed. Beth Lisick, author of the New York Times...
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3-14-2008
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Red Rubber Duck’s Learning & Study Skill Guide
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Red Rubber Duck’s Learning & Study Skill GuideAuthor: Dan VandonISBN: 978-1-4196-8160-8 How often have we heard students cry that they botched their exams or didn’t do as well as they expected even though they studied so hard? If you are one of these students or is someone looking for practical guide to improve your study and learning skills, check out Dan Vandon’s Red Rubber Duck’s Learning & Study Skill Guide. Vandon, who has a background in...
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3-17-2008
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Scams & Swindles: How to Recognize and Avoid Internet Era Rip-Offs
Author: The Silver Lake EditorsPublishers: Silver Lake PublishingISBN: 1563437864 The following review was submitted by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews There is a well-known wise saying, Caveat Emptor, which is the Latin for Buyer Beware.
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5-19-2006
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Zone Mind, Zone Body:How to break through to new levels of fitness and performance-by doing less!
Author : Roy PalmerISBN: 1-905823-06-1Until I read Roy Palmer’s Zone Mind, Zone Body, How to break through to new levels of fitness and performance-by doing less, I was clueless as to what athletes mean when they describe their performances as being in The Zone. What is this unique and mystical place where their performances are exceptional and consistent and furthermore how do we go about reaching it? To answer these questions I turned to Palmer’s Zone Mind, Zone Body and I was not...
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2-24-2007
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Celebrate Your Life: The Art of Celebrating Every Day
Author: Melissa GaltISBN: 978-0-9790103-0-9The shelves of bookstores cry out with the weight of countless books about how to lead a fulfilling and rewarding life that would probably sink a ship and any author who turns another one of these self-help tomes loose on readers had better have a good angle amid all the rivalry. Fortunately for the countless readers who devour these books, Melissa Galt has just such a hook with her Celebrate Your Life: The Art of Celebrating Every Day. This compact...
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5-19-2007
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Create Your Retirement by Barbara M. Walker
One of the questions I constantly received from many individuals when I announced my retirement was-what are you going to do?
This, no doubt, is one of the key considerations before anyone decides to take the plunge.
Educator Barbara M. Walker has put together a neat slim guidebook entitled Create Your Retirement that provides the reader with 55 valuable ways to reply to the question-what you are going to do in your retirement?
Walker divides her advice into 5 principal sections...
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1-1-1970
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Facing Your Fifties: A Man’s Reference Guide to Mid-Life Health by Gordon Ehlers:M.D. and Jeff Miller
The following review was contributed by:
NORM GOLDMAN, EDITOR OF BOOKPLEASURES
Many of us men who have reached our fifties or about to attain the big “five O” have been told that it is all- downhill from here on end!
How often do we begin reading our morning newspaper by first turning to the obituaries? As heart disease and cancer are the principal killers of the male species when they attain their fifties, we cringe at the thought of perhaps spotting the name of one of our buddies,...
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1-1-1970
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Happy About Online Networking: The Virtual-ly simple way to build professional relationships
Author: Liz RyanISBN: 1-60005-015-8Over the past several years there has been a great deal of hype as to how the Internet has changed our lives. To a certain extent there is some validity to some of these claims, however, for the most part many of these should be taken with a grain of salt. One topic, however, that has not been fully explored is that of the benefits of online networking-something that I personally can attest to as being beneficial in providing a more efficient, cheaper and...
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2-5-2007
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How To Be A Gardener by Alan Titchmarsh (Author): Jonathan Buckley (Photographer)
The following review was submitted by: NORM GOLDMAN, EDITOR OF BOOKPLEASURES Peeking out of my widow on an early Montreal spring morning I was depressed and horrified to notice snow on the ground! Although, where I live, you never know when winter ends and spring arrives; it still came as a shock! In all probability, this would drive some to go for a swig of cognac in order to alleviate their winter blues, however, I decided to think positively and I began planning my garden. Every spring I...
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10-11-2004
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Idiots 'R Us
Author: Phillip ReedISBN: 141964114XThe following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews
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9-6-2006
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Live Your Dreams: Let Reality Catch Up
Author: Roger Ellerton ISBN: 1412047099The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's ReviewsTo read Norm's Interview with the Author Roger Ellerton, CLICK HERETomes pertaining to the quest for success and how to improve your lives are to publishing what sitcoms are to television. There certainly is no lack of them, wherein it seems that every week some author touts that he or she has the magic formula. The trick is to separate...
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12-16-2005
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Taming Technology: You Can Control The Beast by Brian J. Nichelson
Have you ever felt you need an engineering degree to figure out how some of our modern technology works? How often were you tempted to pick up your computer and throw it out the window?
If you were fortunate to have young children around during our present technological revolution, consider yourself lucky. They probably have become your gurus or experts, when it comes to operating the VCR, or showing you how to use the many software programs you always dreamed about, but were afraid to...
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1-1-1970
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The Complete James Bond Lifestyle Seminar
Author: Paul KyriaziISBN: 0971618305The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews Author, writer and director of several feature films, Paul Kyriazi, is quite anexpert on James Bond, as evidenced from his recent tome, The Complete James BondLifestyle Seminar. Kyriazi promises to put you on the path to turning your lifearound and realize your dreams, provided you follow his twenty-one rules of theJames Bond lifestyle. The...
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1-11-2006
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The Craft and Business of Songwriting-Second Edition by John Braheny
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to write a hit
song?
Perhaps you have asked yourself why do some songs become
commercial successes while others end up in the dustbin?
Journalist, talk show host, teacher and consultant, John
Braheny, provides us with the answers to these queries as well as many other topics in his blue-ribbon manual The Craft and Business of Songwriting-Second Edition.
Braheny was one of the founders, along with Len Chandler, of
the Los Angles Songwriters...
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1-1-1970
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The Fearless Flight Kit: The Remedy for a Fearful Flyer by Captain Ron Nielsen and Tim Piering
The following review was contributed by:
NORM GOLDMAN EDITOR OF BOOKPLEASURES.COM
To read Norm’s Interview with Captain Ron Nielsen click
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It is difficult to imagine that there are millions of people who suffer from “aviophobia”-the fear of flying. These unfortunate souls will do almost anything to avoid taking a flight, even if it means driving for days to their destination or spending endless hours on a train.
I can remember an incident recounted to me by someone who...
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1-1-1970
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The Fine Artist’s Guide To Marketing And Self Promotion by Julius Vitali
The following review was contributed by:
NORM GOLDMAN EDITOR OF BOOKPLEASURES
As I am married to an artist, I can well appreciate the immense difficulties artists face when they are endeavoring to sell their art- work.
It is with this in mind that I decided to read and review Julius Vitali’s updated edition of The Fine Artist’s Guide To Marketing And Self Promotion.
Vitali’s question in his introduction- how do fine artists create a reputation and career that will ultimately allow...
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1-1-1970
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The Musicians’ Guide To Brides: How To Make Money Playing Weddings
Click Here To Purchase The Musicians’ Guide To Brides: How To Make Money Playing Weddings Author: Anne RoosISBN: 978-1-4234-3874-8Publisher: Hal Leonard Books If you are a musician and your looking for another avenue of revenue, you may want to pick up a copy of Anne Roos’ The Musicians’ Guide To Brides: How To Make Money Playing Weddings. Although, I have not done any extensive research on the subject, I doubt if there is any other manual on the market that is as comprehensive as this
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10-1-2008
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The Penny-Pinching Hedonist: How To Live Like Royalty With A Peasant's Pocketbook by Shel Horowitz
TITLE: The Penny-Pinching Hedonist: How To Live Like Royalty With A Peasant’s PocketbookAuthor: Shel HorowitzISBN: 0961466642The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures &CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews To read Norm's interview with Shel Horowitz click HERE The term frugal has many meanings, each of which conjures different perspectives. For example, for some of us, if you are thrifty, it automatically follows you are cheap. The nickname “el...
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11-22-2004
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The Resiliency Advantage
Author: Al Siebert, PhDISBN: 9781576753293 The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews After reading Dr. Al Siebert’s enlightening book, The Resiliency Advantage, I was reminded of the old adage that was often drummed into me by my parents, that our life is not determined by what happens to us but how we react to what happens, not by what life brings to us, but by the attitudes we bring to life. Thinking positively...
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10-28-2005
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Trusting Yourself: How to Stop Feeling Overwhelmed and Live More Happily with Less Effort: by M.J.RYAN
The following review was contributed by:
NORM GOLDMAN EDITOR OF BOOKPLEASURES
“To thine own self be true.” How often have we heard this famous Shakespearean quotation? Did we ever stop and think about it for a moment- probably not.
In modern vernacular this advice would be rephrased as- “trust yourself.” This is particularly good advice when many of us our overwhelmed with our everyday activities and responsibilities.
On any day or night of the week we turn our televisions on and we...
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1-1-1970
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Who’s Looking Out For You? by Bill O’Reilly
The following review was contributed by:
NORM GOLDMAN EDITOR OF BOOKPLEASURES.COM
Two-time Emmy Award winner for excellence in reporting, Bill O’Reilly, most appropriately describes himself in his latest book, Who’s Looking Out For You, when he quotes one media analyst who stated: “O’Reilly comes off like a jerk or a genius depending on who you talk to.”
There is no shortage of useful advice in O’Reilly’s most recent tome, wherein he advises his readers in a frank tone (be they his...
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1-1-1970
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Yahoo! To The Max An Extreme Searcher Guide
Author: Randolph HockISBN: 0910965692 The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures &CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's ReviewsIn 1994 Yahoo was started by two Stanford University graduate students, David Filo and Jerry Yang. It was at the time when the Internet was just beginning to take off and there were an increasing number of web sites available to Internet buffs.These two enterprising students developed a collection of selected sites arranged in...
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7-11-2005
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