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And I Haven't Had a Bad Day Since: From the Streets of Harlem to the Halls of Congress

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And I haven't Had a Bay Day Since: From the Streets of Harlem to the Halls of Congress
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And I Haven't Had a Bad Day Since: From the Streets of Harlem to the Halls of Congress
Charles B. Rangel
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ASIN: 0312372523
Release Date: 2007-04-03

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In this inspiring and often humorous memoir, the outspoken Democratic congressman from Harlem—now the chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee—tells about his early years on Lenox Avenue, being awarded a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart for wounds sustained in a horrific Korean War battle (the last bad day of his life, he says), and his many years in Congress.
A charming, natural storyteller, Rangel recalls growing up in Harlem, where from the age of nine he always had at least one job, including selling the legendary Adam Clayton Powell’s newspaper; his group of streetwise sophisticates who called themselves Les Garçons; and his time in law school—a decision made as much to win his grandfather’s approval as to establish a career. He recounts as well his life in New York politics during the 1960s and the grueling civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery.
With New York street smarts, Rangel is a tough liberal and an independent thinker, but also a collegial legislator respected by Democrats and Republicans alike who knows and honors the House’s traditions. First elected to Congress in 1970, Rangel served on the House Judiciary Committee during the hearings on the articles of impeachment of President Nixon, helped found the Congressional Black Caucus, and led the fight in Congress to pressure U.S. corporations to divest from apartheid South Africa.
Best of all, this is a political memoir with heart, the story of a life filled with friends, humor, and accomplishments. Charles Rangel is one of a kind, and this is the story of how he became the celebrated person and politician he is today.
He opens his memoir with a preface about the 2006 elections and an outline of his goals as chairman of Ways and Means. From day one he wants to put the public first so that more Americans can say they haven’t had a bad day since.

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Charlie Rangel's Book.......2007-05-15

This book is excellent reading for all of America.
If you want to understand politics, racism and urban communities ,then this is the must read book for 2007.

Evolution of a Good Man.......2007-05-13

A candid telling of the development of a good man by the man himself. Without rancor, he recalls a time in America when change was commonplace and opportunity for a black man grew as a result of the efforts of good men and women.

Determination and Faith.......2007-05-12

This shows what a person can do when in a situation when you let your onw selt go and think of what needs to be done. He showed bravery in combat and has taken it into his life. His strong Faith needs to be stressed in today's world. Very good book.

And I haven't Had a Bay Day Since: From the Streets of Harlem to the Halls of Congress.......2007-04-28

Meeting and talking with Congressman Rangel, one would never even imagine the kind of tough street life he lived through in his youth. Despite his upbringing in an environment where drugs, alcohol and gangs played such a devastating havoc on many of the youth of the community, Charles Rangel projects the persona of the Catholic altar boy that he was, and to many of those who have known him in his professional life he is nothing like what he describes he was early in his life. What one immediately notices are his gentlemanly and conciliatory demeanor, his championship for democratic values, and sensitivity to the needs of his constituents. His book, "And I Haven't Had a Bad Day Since ..." is a chronicle of his life experiences and observations for over 70 years beginning in the 1930's. It is a special story, a book of Americana, in which community, national and international politics are explained with wisdom and wit. It describes the congressman's early struggles growing up in Harlem; his combat experiences in Korea where he became a decorated war hero, but after his return home once again back on the street with no education or job; then studying his butt off for all his lost time at New York University and Saint John's Law School with the help of the GI Bill; his subsequent elections to city, state and finally to the US Congress where he reached to the position of "Chairman-in-Waiting" for the House Ways and Means Committee. The book documents the congressman's legislative agenda on a local and national level, vividly details the arcane art of constituent politics and political alliances, and his dealings with local and national leaders, including with past and present United States Presidents. The book is a great lesson in politics, morality, legislative and leadership skills, and diplomacy all rolled in one. I found it highly educational, entertaining and fascinating. It is one of the best books I have read in a long time.

D. H. Mariam

Excellent Book.......2007-04-07

Mr. Rangel is a combat veteran and a great American. This is a wonderful book. A must read!! A man who has worked his way from the ghetto to the halls of congress!!

A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland Indiana (Today Show Book Club #3)

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Just What I Needed ....
Delightful and witty!
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A Wonderful Memoir, No Matter Your Perspective

A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland Indiana (Today Show Book Club #3)
Haven Kimmel
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When Haven Kimmel was born in 1965, Mooreland, Indiana, was a sleepy little hamlet of three hundred people. Nicknamed "Zippy" for the way she would bolt around the house, this small girl was possessed of big eyes and even bigger ears. In this witty and lovingly told memoir, Kimmel takes readers back to a time when small-town America was caught in the amber of the innocent postwar period–people helped their neighbors, went to church on Sunday, and kept barnyard animals in their backyards.

Laced with fine storytelling, sharp wit, dead-on observations, and moments of sheer joy, Haven Kimmel's straight-shooting portrait of her childhood gives us a heroine who is wonderfully sweet and sly as she navigates the quirky adult world that surrounds Zippy.

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Laced with fine storytelling, sharp wit, dead-on observations, and moments of sheer joy, Haven Kimmel's straight-shooting portrait of her childhood gives us a heroine who is wonderfully sweet and sly as she navigates the quirky adult world that surrounds Zippy.

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Just What I Needed ...........2007-06-27

I just picked this book up at a rummage sale. Whoever donated it to the sale has my undying gratitude because this book was the sweetest and funniest book I have read in quite some time. I am a fan of memoirs and biographies but this one is so unlike any others that I am now hooked on Kimmel's writings. I want more Zippy!

Like Zippy, who is four years older than I am by the way, I grew up in a small midwestern town but not as small as hers! I would be considered big city girl in comparison! But the midwestern attitude is so familiar that reading this book was like traveling down memory lane for me! She's the youngest in a family of three kids. Her older brother and sister were already in Junior high by the time she arrived. Her mother refers to her lovingly as an "after thought." That is how the book started out (well, almost). Named Haven at birth, her dad decided to call her Zippy since she could never sit still. You can say that her memories of childhood reeked of love, laughter and cigarettes.

Zippy is precocious. Zippy is curious. Zippy is Zippy, a character that you will never forget. My favorite part is the scene where her sister told her that she's adopted. Outraged, she stomps in and asks her mother if that's true. Her mother stops reading for a moment and says, yes, you are. A band of roving gypsies with a pack of wolves that stand up and preach during a full moon came through the area. The whole conversation had me repeating it to my husband as it was so hilarious and something exactly like what my father would spin out to me when I was a child.

I haven't raved about a book in a real long time though I have read lots of really good books ~~ but this book is something I am going to urge my book club to read sometime in the next year. It is something I think we'll enjoy because not only is it funny and engaging, but it talks about a childhood that is now lost in the mists of time. Building your own bike? Who does that anymore? There are many instances in this book that I remember doing as a kid or have heard my parents do when they were kids. I know that Christmas is more different today than it was in the early 70s. It seems to be a simpler time back then even though it was harder especially after the Vietnam War ended. It was a time of change but Zippy had a happy childhood and those memories are funny and bittersweet.

This book comes highly recommended. If you need a laugh, this book is a good place to get one! It is just a really good read and perfect for a summer read!

6-28-07

Delightful and witty! .......2007-06-04

This book is a fascinating escape; it brings the reader back to childhood and also reminds us of questions we have long since given up asking. A great hammock swinging summer read!

Zipped right through it!.......2007-05-21

It was a required read for our book club. Can't say I would have picked it on my own. Felt like reading someone's journal although I liked the style of writing, you could visualize every event. It was a nice finish to our reading season, we take the summer off. I would recommend it to certain individuals but not everyone.

Ignore the book cover !.......2007-05-15

This is a good summer read with some sweet memories of "the good old days." Pick it up or put it down as you will, the characters (they live right in your neighborhood or under your roof) are easy to remember. And, while it seems to be a bit fluffy it does give the reader a good glimpse inside the life and love of a 60's family, warts and all!

A Wonderful Memoir, No Matter Your Perspective.......2007-04-15

"A Girl Named Zippy" has been called a love letter to a town - and the story of a happy childhood.

These might not be the first thoughts that come to every reader's mind.

Zippy's town is small and backwards, with a postmaster who won't allow people to subscribe to magazines because he thinks they should have to buy them at the drugstore in front of everyone.

As for her happy childhood, Zippy's tales are fraught with physical peril, angry and abused domestic animals, and terrifying adults, including mean teachers and the old lady across the street who wishes Zippy were dead.

On the other hand, Zippy has parents who love her and appreciate her keen intelligence and insight. She has dear friends. She has routines and comforts. She has a near-perfect bicycle.

What does seem to come to the minds of many readers is that "A Girl Named Zippy" is heart-warming, touching, deep, and lovely. Whether that's because it is a love letter about a happy childhood, or a tale told by a sensitive child who feels things deeply and sees the peccadilloes of her town and its people, isn't important. It's not what is said about this autobiography that matters, it's what it contains.

"A Girl Named Zippy" is wonderful, no matter your perspective.

You Haven't Taught Until They Have Learned: John Wooden's Teaching Principles and Practices

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You Haven't Taught Until They Have Learned: John Wooden's Teaching Principles and Practices
Swen Nater , and Ronald Gallimore
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Not only was John Wooden a great basketball coach, he was a master teacher. In fact, he was a great coach because he was a master teacher. What Wooden has learned from others in the classroom and perfected on the practice court are fundamental principles of effective teaching, which are conveyed in You Haven't Taught Until They Have Learned: John Wooden's Teaching Principles and Practices. Co-author Swen Nater, one of Wooden's former players at UCLA, provides insightful first-hand accounts on the many life lessons he learned from Wooden that he has applied to his life since becoming a teacher himself.

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Excellent study on Wooden's teaching methodology.......2007-02-11

If you've read a lot of Coach Wooden's books, you may be familiar with his wisdom, maxims and his wonderful pyramid of success; this book studies the methodology of his teaching and how he applied his wisdom to the successful transfer of knowledge and skills. If you're a teacher, buy this book!

Timeless Insights about Teaching and Learning.......2006-05-28

Ron Gallimore and Swen Nater combine their incredible knowledge about teaching and basketball to deliver a new and insightful look at the teaching practice of John Wooden. The book is a wonderful balance of personal stories from Nater and insights about teaching and learning from Gallimore that demonstrate just how incredibly wise, intentional, and gifted The Coach was and is. This book demonstrates the hard work, preparation, courage, and commitment to continuous learning that defines quality teaching. A must read for every teacher and coach.

Swen Nater's book: You WILL learn!.......2006-03-23

Swen Nater knows John Wooden - that much is clear. Clear too, is what a great teacher John Wooden was and, continues to be. This is a book any teacher can learn from. Sure it is great for coaches, but when a teacher is looking for guidance on how to handle varying student potential within their class, is it better to treat everyone the same - or to treat each individual differently, according to their personality, talent, ability, commitment etc. as Wooden did? Swen does a great job of interjecting his own life's experience into the priniciples Wooden taught. And he uses those of "Alcindor", Wicks, Walton, Allen and others to make the stories fit the lesson. This is textbook material, or should be required reading for aspiring or experienced teachers - 5 Stars plus!

Hamptons Havens: The Best of Hamptons Cottages and Gardens (Hamptons Cottages & Gardens)

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Hamptons Havens: The Best of Hamptons Cottages and Gardens (Hamptons Cottages & Gardens)
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Hampton Havens Review.......2006-08-27

The book was purchased for an anniversary gift for my daughter who resides on one of the Hamptons. She liked the book and even was familiar with the owner of the garden on the cover.

She Got Up Off the Couch: And Other Heroic Acts from Mooreland, Indiana

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Pretty good but I guess I just don't "get it" like other reviewers
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She Got Up Off the Couch: And Other Heroic Acts from Mooreland, Indiana
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Haven Kimmel's memoir She Got Up Off the Couch might have been called The Further Adventures of Zippy, since it picks up where her bestselling A Girl Named Zippy left off, and is reeled out in much the same vein. The person who got up off the couch is Zippy's mother, Delonda, who for years sat on the titular sofa, ate, read, and watched TV until she weighed 268 pounds and life was nearly unbearable. You would never know the bad parts from Haven Kimmel, who always concentrates on the bright side, even though she lived in a house without heat, food, indoor plumbing, a dependable water suppy or even a modicum of cleanliness. Kimmel loves her parents inordinately, even at their most unlovable.

Delonda takes a College Entrance exam, passes it and enrolls at Ball State, where she completes a degree in two years, goes on for a Master's and gets a job as a high school teacher. That sounds fairly straightforward but it wasn't easy. Bob Jarvis, Delonda's husband and Zippy's father, gave her no help at all; in fact, he ridiculed her and ignored her progress. Eventually, he found someone else while Delonda was busy reclaiming her life. We could read this as a tale of the times, where a woman takes charge of herself, loses 120 pounds and, against all odds, gains an education and a livelihood. It is all of that, and more.

Life in Mooreland, Indiana, in the 1970s is not very exciting, but Zippy finds wonder everywhere and often laughed until she "tipped right over." There is an unquenchable spirit in the girl, and then in the woman, that keeps popping up despite a very sketchy upbringing. The neighbors fed and bathed her, she wore the same pair of pants to school every day for an entire school year--without benefit of laundry. Her brother and sister lit out at the first chance they had--though Melinda ends up only a few blocks away and becomes another safe port for Zippy. She is a victim of benign neglect, not malice or meanness.

Her tales of church camp, days with her friends, driving with her Dad, going to a play with her Mother, her love for her niece and nephew and her discovery that her Dad is having an affair are all told in typical Zippy-style: they are humorous, poignant, exuberan, and often breathless. Stay tuned: this book ends when Zippy is only thirteen. Hopefully there's more to come. --Valerie Ryan

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After twenty years of burrowing into the corner of the family couch, eating junk food, and reading science fiction, Indiana mother Delonda Jarvis did something that shocked her family: she went to college. Or, as her younger daughter, Haven Kimmel, writes, she "stood up, brushed away the pork rind crumbs, and escaped by the skin of her teeth."

Despite having no money, no car, and a resentful husband, Delonda managed to obtain a master's degree in English. The former teenage bride also dropped one hundred pounds, learned how to drive, and became a breadwinner. But as she reclaimed herself, her marriage disintegrated.

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A true pleasure for old fans and new ones alike, She Got Up Off the Couch is a gorgeous encapsulation of an innocent time when a child didn't understand that her mother was depressed or felt stifled, but just noted on her way out the door that Delonda was a fixture in the living room. Kimmel captures the seminal moments of her mother's burgeoning empowerment with the full strength of her distinctive, deft storytelling, and with the overflowing sense of humor that made A Girl Named Zippy a favorite of readers everywhere.

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Pretty good but I guess I just don't "get it" like other reviewers.......2007-06-26

I guess this book was a victim of bad timing. If I'd read it BEFORE I read The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio (PWDO) I might have been more sympathetic towards Delonda and enjoyed it more. I know that few women can live up to the example set by Evelyn Ryan in PWDO, she is supernaturally energetic, resourceful and capable. But it ruined me for both A Girl Called Zippy and She Got Up Off The Couch. Throughout both books (and I read them back to back, right after I read PWDO) I wanted to smack Zippy's mom and yell, "get up and do something about your crappy house, narcissistic hubby and dirty kids!" I had to keep reminding myself that I would probably react to her circumstances like she did - escape into books and deny that my life was crumbling around me. In Delonda's defense, I would have traded my mom for Delonda and her benign neglect in an instant. As I think about it, I would have traded my dad and step-dad for Bob Jarvis in about a nanosecond. No doubt about it.

I wish I had liked the little girl, Zippy. I really wanted to like her...but I didn't. She seemed like a mean little brat, self-centered and someone I would have avoided like the plague. And for the life of me, I cannot figure out what the other reviewers found so funny. I chuckled a few times but that was it. Another reviewer said that too many things were left unexplained and I agree. People appear and disappear and you don't know if it's because Zippy just didn't think about them all that much or because they were minor players in her life (ex: Olive, Big Fat Bonnie, Bob's Mom). I would have like to know more about these people.

This book was OK, but not one of my favorites. I enjoyed the nostalgic feel of it (I'm Zippy's age and I grew up in Ohio, which is pretty much a clone of Indiana); I certainly identify with the music she liked, the way she talked, the celebrities she had a crush on and even the bike she rode. That part was great fun and the reason I gave this book 3 stars.

The Best Memoir You'll Ever Read.......2007-05-31

This book is simply wonderful. I read "A Girl Named Zippy" first, but you certainly don't have to. I actually liked this book better than the first. The characters are much more developed and this was a much more sentimental view of the people and places in Zippy's life. The book is hilarious, beautiful, and you will see many of your own childhood experiences here. Anyone who grew up in a small town will feel right at home. I don't know how to express my love for Zippy and her books; it's unlike anything I've ever experienced. I am fiercely protective of my copies...you will be, too.

A wonderfully written sequel for Zippy.......2007-04-05

Haven Kimmel knows the secret of life: that it's both sad and funny, often at the same time. For those who want to idealize childhood as a breezy, "best-time-of-your-life," perfectly carefree time, this book may seem dark. But in fact, Zippy's recounting of her family's life is wide-eyed and realistic, while still humorous and always loving. It's the story of all of our childhoods in that way: the things we saw and did, the people we adored and those we merely tolerated, and then the way we came to accept that those we love often are imperfect. Wildly imperfect, even. I found Haven Kimmel's voice to be flawless--never self-pitying, never bitter, and with a willingness to see the best in people without falling into the trap of oversentimentalizing. I want to read everything this woman writes!

darker sequel memoir loses zip, diffuses focus and forfeits energy .......2007-03-27

Bestselling memoirist Haven Kimmel never quite decides whether her sequel to "A Girl Named Zippy" is humorously sad or sadly humorous. Anecdotally told, "She Got Up Off the Couch" lamentably ignores Mark Twain's timeless advice: "The secret source of humor is not joy, but sorrow." Lacking the innocence and irreverence of the first work, this memoir, which focuses on Zippy's coming to grips with her family's dysfunction and her mother's heroic acts of self-reclamation, never gains focus. For every chapter that is pitch-perfect in capturing the depressing disorganization and not-so-benign poverty of Zippy's household, there are chapters that struggle for a punch line or beg for laughter. In her introduction, Kimmel shrugs her shoulders at her success and figures that the same happily disjointed story-telling technique which catapulted "A Girl Named Zippy" to the top of the charts would do the same to her sequel. Both her family and her readers deserve better.

As Zippy recounts the end of her childhood and the onset of adolescence, she gains greater insight into the emotional workings of her dispirited family. Dominated by a distant, disenchanted and cynical father, the Jarvis household holds itself together with scotch tape and spit. Zippy eats more meals at the neighbors house than she does at her own. In reality, it truly does take a community to raise her, because little active parenting occurs in the Jarvis home. Her grossly overweight mother, Delonda, comforts herself by reading science fiction and gorging on snack foods, rarely moving from the couch. It's little surprise that the oldest son, embittered by a remote father and repulsed by the lack of possibilities in Mooreland, Indiana, leaves and doesn't return. Zippy's beautiful, ironic and insightful older sister, focuses her talents on raising her own coherent family. Melinda stands as a painful counterexample to Delonda.

When Kimmel analyzes the painful degradation her mother has experienced, "She Got Up Off the Couch" shines. As Delonda determines to attend college, to learn to drive a car and to take literal control of her own life, she disgorges "the twenty-four years of poverty and terror and ennui." For nearly a generation, Delonda "could not clean a condemned house with no running water,...could not cook meals with food that did not exist." The burdens this now inquisitive, enthusiastic and profoundly dedicated late-in-life student had encountered "were elemental, heavy as a dead planet." This is the type of sorrow that Twain believed was the genesis of humor, and when Kimmel regales us with the nearly incredible misadventures of Delonda at Ball State University, her memoir soars.

Unfortunately, "She Got Up Off the Couch" does not sustain that emotional intensity, and, once forfeited, the memoir loses some integrity and much energy. There are too many paeans to childhood friends, too many malapropisms interjected for laughs. There is even a bit of smugness in Kimmel's description of her own perspicacity as a child. The younger Zippy amazed; the older Zippy simply tires you out. By the time she's ten, this kid needs to learn to comb her hair, wear shoes and stop eating dirt. When the memoir focuses on her mother's courageous determination to become autonomous; when the author forces herself to understand that her parents' marriage is terrible, readers wince with empathy. When Kimmel simply gives us more madcap Zippy stories, her previously admirable style falters.

A wordsmith's wordsmith.......2007-03-20

Her words, her imagery, her insights are golden. You will see yourself in her childhood memories and be staggered at how deftly she turns a phrase and how incredibly she brings a thirty year old memory alive. If perfect phrasing makes you want to shout to the heavens and dance like Snoopy, read everything that Haven Kimmel writes.

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Hypnotherapy Scripts; A Neo-Ericksonian Approach To Persuasive Healing by
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Hypnotherapy Scripts 2nd Edition
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In this innovative and informative revision of their classic text, Havens and Walters provide a clear description of the hypnotic experience and a compelling explanation of its therapeutic potential within the clinical setting. The poetic and metaphorical communication patterns integrated into this hypnotic technique are designed to create therapeutic change efficiently and effectively while providing a healing relationship within which deeper personal meanings may be explored. Verbatim sample transcripts of various induction and therapeutic suggestion procedures offer an exhaustive range of possible applications.
This revised edition incorporates recent research and writings on the role of unconscious processes, wellness, and positive psychology along with new metaphor scripts for problems and disorders not included in the first edition. It also includes specific guidelines for creating one's own hypnotherapeutic inductions and metaphors, as well as a detailed explanation of the therapeutically efficientand effective Diagnostic Trance process.

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Hypnotherapy Scripts; A Neo-Ericksonian Approach To Persuasive Healing by .......2007-01-03

No professional library would be complete without this book.

Use it with every client.......2006-11-10

I use at least one of these scripts with every client that I have. I addition, the way the book is organized into induction scripts, direct & metaphor scripts, and a termination script, allows you to select different inductions from your own work or from another script book and still use the direct and termination scripts in this book that others do not have. I have yet to find a termination script as useful as this one.

Great "patter" revitalizer!!!.......2006-02-23

After 20 years as a hypnotherapist--to much of my induction and suggestion talk had become--automatic. This book has put new energy--new emotion into my sessions.

Expanded Edition - Much Bigger Than Original.......2004-10-27

This second edition of the book is about one third bigger than the original edition. It has all the contents the first book has, plus much more.

The book has a a variety of inductions, emerging scripts and scripts for dealing with assortment of situations a hypnotherapist may encounter in his practice. Most scripts contain metaphors which may work more effectively in one-on-one practice if they are adapted to the one's that may be more meaningful for the client.
Here's a sample script from this collection:

SWEET DREAMS SCRIPT
Tonight, perhaps tomorrow too,
your unconscious mind
can give you a dream,
a very special dream
that clarifies the problem
indicates the source perhaps,
but tells you quite clearly
how to solve that problem now.
And each night afterwards,
until you understand it,
until you decide to do it or not,
that dream can return to you
in one form or another.
And every day
as you go about your business,
your unconscious can find something,
some thought, perception, awareness,
a taste perhaps or a sensation,
or even a color,
that seems familiar
and reminds you of something,
reminds you fo what your unconscious mind
is trying to tell you,
until you fully understand
and use that understanding for you.

Inspiring Scripts.......2003-05-01

The book has a a variety of inductions, emerging scripts and scripts for dealing with assortment of situations a hypnotherapist may encounter in his practice. Most scripts contain metaphors which may work more effectively in one-on-one practice if they are adapted to the one's that may be more meaningful for the client.

Here's a sample script from this collection:

SWEET DREAMS SCRIPT
Tonight, perhaps tomorrow too,
your unconscious mind
can give you a dream,
a very special dream
that clarifies the problem
indicates the source perhaps,
but tells you quite clearly
how to solve that problem now.
And each night afterwards,
until you understand it,
until you decide to do it or not,
that dream can return to you
in one form or another.
And every day
as you go about your business,
your unconscious can find something,
some thought, perception, awareness,
a taste perhaps or a sensation,
or even a color,
that seems familiar
and reminds you of something,
reminds you fo what your unconscious mind
is trying to tell you,
until you fully understand
and use that understanding for you.

All About Annuities: Safe Investment Havens for High-Profit Returns
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Gordon K. Williamson
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The People's Guide to Mexico (Peoples Guide to Mexico)
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Peoples Guide to Mexico

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indispensable

An Education on Traveling in Mexico

You even need this book to know what is going on in Iowa

The People's Guide to Mexico (Peoples Guide to Mexico)
Carl Franz , and Lorena Havens
Manufacturer: Avalon Travel Publishing
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ASIN: 1566917115

Book Description

Now in its updated 13th edition, The People's Guide to Mexico still offers the ideal combination of basic travel information, entertaining stories, and friendly guidance about everything from driving in Mexico City to hanging a hammock to bartering at the local mercado.

Features include:
- Advice on planning your trip, where to go, and how to get around once you're there
- Practical tips to help you stay healthy and safe, deal with red tape, change money, send email, letters and packages, use the telephone, do laundry, order food, speak like a local, and more
- Well-informed insight into Mexican culture, and hints for enjoying traditional fiestas and celebrations
- The most complete information available on Mexican Internet resources, book and map reviews, and other info sources for travelers

Customer Reviews:

Peoples Guide to Mexico.......2007-06-12

It actually is a fun book-- lots of odd information that I like to have-- but for my trip, it was more fun info than useful info--
So, if you're looking for information al la hippie era backpack/how to do..... it's great.

Excellent.......2007-05-16

With this book and one of the Moon Handbooks, you can survive and enjoy Mexico! Moon provides the immediate basics and the People's Guide provides the expanded answers. I'm still reading and re-reading it. Having done a lot of traveling, I know that there is nothing that will completely prepare you for your first arrival or even second and third to a country and its culture. But this book gets closer than most.

indispensable.......2007-03-24

if you want a guide to resorts and attractions, look elsewhere.

if you want a highly informative companion for exploring and
engaging with mexico on its own terms, don't question...just
buy it now.

An Education on Traveling in Mexico.......2007-03-22

This is the book that folks love and there are good reasons why.
This is more than a travel book it is and education about Mexican culture and manners, like having a best friend tell you what is the best way to do something and what to expect. Anyone going to Mexico should read this book it will increase your enjoyment of Mexico and help you avoid some miss-understandings.

You even need this book to know what is going on in Iowa.......2007-03-17

I have been in many places in Mexico, most often traveling alone. I've gone into the Tapo bus station in Mexico City and chosen my destination based on what bus was leaving soonest (Chiapas). I've eaten in Maya, Zapotec, Totonac, and Mixe village kitchens. One Holy Thursday I happened into a Mixe curing ceremony (which included a turkey sacrifice) on the peak of a remote mountain, then joined the indigenous speaking curandera, her client, and the client's mother in a drink of pulque afterwards. I've traveled by every class of bus, top to bottom, day and night. In every case, I have always had a sense of what was happening culturally thanks to Carl and Lorena's book, The People's Guide to Mexico. It is the only book I know of that could prepare one for Mexico. When the men are slaughtering a pig behind the house, while women are kneading masa and washing banana leaves to make tamales for a fiesta; from banana trees to eating cactus paddles; during impromptu living room sing-alongs; or drinking homemade capolin wine; you will not be unprepared. With Carl's illustrated discussion of Mexican hand signals, his introduction to Mexican cooking, and references to Mexican music you will be an insider.

None of my adventures duplicates any of Carl's accounts. Like the best kind of education, Carl and Lorena teach one how to understand Mexican culture in order to use the understanding in new or unusual circumstances, of which Mexico has an endless supply.

Even if you have a Mexican spouse, you need this book. The truth is that one even needs this book to understand what is going on in Postville, Iowa these days.

Tax Havens Today: The Benefits and Pitfalls of Banking and Investing Offshore

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The Best on the Topic, and More
Eye Opening
A Handbook for Paranoid Dreamers

Tax Havens Today: The Benefits and Pitfalls of Banking and Investing Offshore
Hoyt Barber
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Book Description

Filled with in-depth insight and expert advice, Tax Havens Today arms you with the knowledge, strategies, and contacts needed to avoid expensive mistakes and make the most of your offshore endeavors. Divided into four comprehensive parts, this timely resource will bring you completely up to speed on a variety of issues that anyone aspiring to go offshore must be familiar with.

Customer Reviews:

The Best on the Topic, and More.......2007-05-03

I recommend this book as a fascinating read to anyone, whether or not they are interested in minimizing their tax-load legally. (And who isn't?) But while this book delivers brilliantly on that score, it is also an authoritative, entertaining manual that serves as a wake-up call on the state-of-the world these days. It treats the both the big picture and the important details of offshore, and provides excellent contacts for not just legally avoiding taxes, but also for protecting one's assets, future, and indeed, one's personal safety and sovereignty. Further, this is not only the best book on the topic by far, but it is the only current book by several years. And the author truly knows his topic. Fascinating, excellent read.

Eye Opening.......2007-02-24

This is an eye opening book you must experience. Regardless of your politics, nobody likes excess and unfair taxation. Taxation without representation started the American Revolution, however the American Spirit is dead. We are the only industrialized nation that taxes our citizens living abroad. As I write this review, there is small business legislation in congress, hidden inside of that legislation is a law that would allow the IRS to tax assets of Americans who decide to expatriate to a country with less of a tax burden. A must read book. For additional information, visit The Sovereign Society website. In addition, The Patriot Act has allowed our government investigators to replace "probable cause" with "suspicion" when investigating your (the taxpayer's) financial privacy.

A Handbook for Paranoid Dreamers.......2007-02-05

Whatever practical advice this book offers is undermined by its paranoid anti-government tone: would you really contact - and entrust your money to - a financial advisor in a foreign country on the basis of a recommendation by someone who opens with dark warnings such as "Certain special interests in the world today are trying to close particular doors as we speak"? Or, "The trick is that governments with certain behind-the-scene agendas regularly redefine those parameters in an attempt to control their taxable subjects and hang on to revenues for support of their ever-expanding plans and budgets. As James Bond said, 'World domination, same old dream.'" (Page 3). If you're writing an adolescent spy-thriller, this book will be fine background. If you're planning an estate or have real financial responsibilities, look elsewhere.

CHOOSE PANAMA...the PERFECT RETIREMENT HAVEN

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A very entertaining read and retirement planning tool
Useful Book on a Pleasant Country
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Choose Panama, I liked it!
Better Than the Other One

CHOOSE PANAMA...the PERFECT RETIREMENT HAVEN
WILLIAM HUTCHINGS
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Book Description

Will your fixed income cover your living expenses when you retire? Or will you struggle every day? Modern Maturity, the monthly magazine published by AARP, has listed Boquete, Panama as one of the four best places in the world to retire! Choose Panama . . . has the answers: · Can I make ends meet on $1,200 a month? · Is excellent medical care available? · Is private medical insurance available? · Is the cost of living really low? · Can I afford a maid? A gardener? · What will a new house cost? Can we rent? · What about recreation? Things to do? · Is there a community of fellow expatriates? · Are we desperately far from the family? · How's the climate? What about the "bugs"? · Is the country politically stable? · Is the US Dollar really the currency? The Republic of Panama welcomes retirees with unheard of financial incentives. No other country in the world treats retirees like this! Discover why Panama is the perfect retiree's haven!

Customer Reviews:

A very entertaining read and retirement planning tool.......2007-05-17

A very entertaining read. The author persuades that Panama is an inviting place to retire -- even on Social Security income alone. He describes the possible retirement addresses: an island off Panama's Caribbean or Pacific coasts, or a mountain village like Bouquete, or a city like Panama City. Homesickness not a problem, with the meetings and potlucks the American expatriate communities afford. And Miami is, after all, only a short flight away.

Recent personal interviews of Americans now living in Panama were valuable, adding authenticity. A couple can rent a small two bedroom house, furnished, with water and gardener included in the rent, for $295.00 a month. Hutchings shares the "inside skinny" on government stability (rated "safe" by Pinkerton Global Protection Agency), neighborhoods to avoid, cultural missteps to avoid, etc. The cover photos hint at Panama's many facets--its lovely shoreline, its pastoral country roads, and its exciting cityscapes. He gives straight talk on cost of living, housing, medical care, and the U.S. dollar as the currency. Panama has never had a hurricane. Panama is not a jungle filled with crocodiles. Hutchings' book reveals Panama, instead, as a very enticing retirement possibility.

Useful Book on a Pleasant Country.......2006-04-21

First a disclaimer, I lived in Panama, went to high school and college in the old Canal Zone. I have nothing but pleasant memories. In part because I left before Noriega came to power. His dictatorship was a horrible period for both countries. This well-written, up to date book points out what so many Zonians knew for generations: Panama is a lovely place to live. It has beaches, hot steamy rain forests, cool valley's, historical sites and even very chilly coffee producing mountains. Its two large major cities at both ends of the canal are very cosmopolitan. They are modern, have good medical facilities, etc. A tourist mecca for sure.
As the book points out, what is new -- since Noriega, is that the government is trying hard to entice foreigners to live there, to work there and most assuredly to retire there. It's a smart move on their part. This book carefully points out the benefits and the pitfalls. It should help those seeking a retirement haven. Nevertheless, visit before you move.

Disappointed.......2006-04-16

Before I moved to Panama I read all of the books on the subject. Despite having some good info. this book really turned me off.
First, the title is not original. The author took the title from Choose Mexico and Choose by renowned travel writer, John Howells. Thus, he played on the popularity of two popular books by an established.

Second, the books should be about half as thick as it is. It was padded to look longer. Triple spacing is used between most paragraphs and the text is about a quarter of the width of the page in some places. The quality of the photos and paper used to print the book also leaves a lot to be desired. First'class travel do not use this format. Check out Lonely Planet books ane Moon publications guides to see the correct format.

The author also says that almost everyone speaks English in Panama. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Many Panamanians do NOT speak English.

Perhaps all of this is due to the fact that this guide is the author?s first travel book. He is is indeed a neophyte.

Choose Panama, I liked it!.......2006-03-26

My wife and I are going to retire in Altos del Maria, Panama in the next few years. I bought this book to add to the library and see what the author had to say. It is a great first book or an add-on to a collection. With nearly four years of research and visits to Panama, I found few things I would disagree with and a few new items which I didn't know. The hotel and resturants section is nice although guessing prices is a moving target. At times, the author seems to become a cheerleader and promoter, but, that may be because the subject is truly exciting. I would recommend this purchase to anyone for pre-visit/dreaming of retirement fare. Pay attention to the social and cultural sections; they are right on. And, IN CAPITAL LETTERS, take his advice on getting a lawyer for any official business regarding property purchase or obtaining a Visa.

Better Than the Other One.......2006-01-04

I liked this book better than Christopher Howard's. "Choose Panama" is essentially a record of the author's own journey to find the best place for him to retire. Lots of useful information, well edited, and not self serving like "Living and Investing in Panama". The lay out could be better in "Choose Panama", but it works. In the end, if you are serious about Panama, you should buy both books. What's a few dollars spent on a decision that will effect the rest of your life?

I was bothered by how Mr. Hutchings described how cheap it was to hire a maid or gardener. Yes, cheap labor is great for the retired gringo, but there seemed to be no consideration by the author as to how the low pay effects the Panamanian worker. Also no thought given to the morality of living the life of Riley while the poor locals work and work and work to make $300 per month. And how does that effect the safety of the gringo, doesn't it make you a prime target for theft? Do you really want to live in a house with barred windows? It's like a jail.

And what happens if Hugo Chavez has success with his movement in Venezuela? What happens when the poor Panamanians figure out he's offering a better deal and vote his type of government into office in Panama? I'll tell you what will happen, a lot of lazy freeloading gringo retirees will be shown the door.

The author seems to have a 1950's mentality, "oh, they're poor and are lucky to have us give them pennies to slave all day, isn't it great!?" The times, they are a changin'!

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