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Secrets of Six-Figure Women: Surprising Strategies to Up Your Earnings and Change Your Life

Barbara Stanny

Collins Business, 2004

You'll read this book over and over
In Secrets of Six-Figure Women, Stanny takes you through a process of recognizing why so many women underearn and what we can do to earn what we are worth. From dealing with our fears about stepping out of our comfort zone and challenging longstanding beliefs to ...

Healthiest Meals on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth About What Meals to Eat and Why

Jonny Bowden

Fair Winds Press, 2008

Another winner from Bowden
I loved this book. Here's why: First of all, if you've read anything of Jonny Bowden's before, you know he has a great writing style, strong opinions, a huge amount of knowledge and he's funny. That alone should make anything he writes worth buying. But this book ...

The Book of Mychal: The Surprising Life and Heroic Death of Father Mychal Judge

Michael Daly

Thomas Dunne Books, 2008

A National Hero
Daly, Michael. "The Book of Mychal: The Surprising Life and Heroic Death of Father Mychal Judge", Thomas Dunne Books, 2008. A National Hero Amos Lassen Father Mychal Judge became a hero after his death. He died while he was helping victims at the World Trade ...

The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth About What You Should Eat and Why

Jonny Bowden

Fair Winds Press, 2007

Great Book!
For me, this is the best book Jonny has written. Packed with info in an easy to understand format, I reference this regularly, and have sent copies to family. Lets you know what foods to eat for optimum health, and the reasons why. If you believe that eating a ...

Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth about Your Weight
Linda Bacon

Benbella Books, 2008

Fat isn't the problem. Dieting is the problem. A society that rejects anyone whose body shape or size doesn?t match an impossible ideal is the problem. A medical establishment that equates "thin" with "healthy" is the problem. Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight by Linda Bacon, PhD, presents a well-researched, ...

The Trouble with Boys: A Surprising Report Card on Our Sons, Their Problems at School, and What Parents and ...

Peg Tyre

Crown, 2008

Why are boys falling behind?
This book is a follow on to the author's Newsweek cover story about the widening gap between boys and girls academic performance in the United States. She makes the case that, just as we rallied in the 90s to help girls catch up to boys in math and science, we need to ...

Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire

Judith Herrin

Princeton University Press, 2008

Quick Depth
Judith Herren's study of Byzantium is a quick jaunt into the stream of history for the novice or expert. Anecdotal but thorough, the book sweeps through more than a thousand years of history without pausing for tendentiousness. A fine book.

Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why

Jonny Bowden

Fair Winds Press, 2008

The most effective natural cures on earth.
This book was written by Jonny Bowden, author of several health related books. He has researched and studied the subject well. The book is written to be easily understood. Hippocrates said: "The natural healing force within each of us is the greatest force in getting ...

How Not to Die: Surprising Lessons on Living Longer, Safer, and Healthier from America's Favorite Medical ...
Jan Md Garavaglia

Crown, 2008

WHEN THIS DOCTOR TALKS, YOU SHOULD LISTEN. Thousands of people make an early exit each year and arrive on medical examiner Jan Garavaglia?s table. What is particularly sad about this is that many of these deaths could easily have been prevented. Although Dr. Garavaglia, or Dr. G, as she?s known to many, could not tell these individuals how to ...

Never Shower in a Thunderstorm: Surprising Facts and Misleading Myths About Our Health and the World We Live ...

Anahad O'Connor

Times Books, 2007

Great Fun and Most Informative
This book was great fun to read. Many myths, legends, sayings, old wives' tales, etc., all related in some way to health and life, are either debunked or confirmed - and rationales are provided. The author appears to have researched each topic quite exhaustively - not ...

The Rhino with Glue-On Shoes: And Other Surprising True Stories of Zoo Vets and their Patients

Delacorte Press, 2008

Fascinating Book for all Ages
Rhino has special appeal because of its various points of view and authors; because of its short essay-length articles; because of the variety of animals and ailments; because of the connections between animal health and human health. In short, it's a terrific book ...

The Shape of Me and Other Stuff: Dr. Seuss's Surprising Word Book

Dr. Seuss

Random House Books for Young Readers, 1997

The perfect first book
This was one of the first books I purchased for my son. As a small infant (1-3 months old) he would get bored with other books, but the shapes and bright colors in this book kept him interested. It was the only book he'd pay attention to until he was 4 or 5 months ...

How to Win at College: Surprising Secrets for Success from the Country's Top Students

Cal Newport

Broadway, 2005

Books like this are why I get self-help books on Amazon
If you're looking at reviews for this book then you're likely looking for some insight into the college process on a deeper level than surface-level advice. In that case, you should undoubtedly get this book. I'm going to college next year, and I'm the type of ...

Impossible?: Surprising Solutions to Counterintuitive Conundrums
Julian Havil

Princeton University Press, 2008

In Nonplussed! , popular-math writer Julian Havil delighted readers with a mind-boggling array of implausible yet true mathematical paradoxes. Now Havil is back with Impossible? , another marvelous medley of the utterly confusing, profound, and unbelievable--and all of it mathematically irrefutable. Whenever Forty-second Street in New York is ...

The Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought ...

Colin Woodard

Harvest Books, 2008

The Golden Age of Piracy: crime and adventure in its context
The Golden Age of Piracy, roughly a 30 year period at the beginning of the 18th century, has taken on such a romantic notion in the modern mind, that when you actually discover the true events of the period, that the true story becomes much larger than the caricature ...