Move Your Stuff, Change Your Life : How to Use Feng Shui to Get Love, Money, Respect and Happiness

Book Description

Promising health, wealth, and happiness, feng shui offers endless appeal -- at least in concept. Unfortunately, feng shui's seemingly complicated methods are often difficult to learn and apply in a meaningful way. Fortunately, Move Your Stuff, Change Your Life is written in plain and simple English for the modern Western reader. Revealing the ancient Chinese secrets that are as useful and necessary today as they have been for centuries, Move Your Stuff, Change Your Life communicates how to:

* MEET "THE ONE"

* FIND A DREAM JOB

* EARN BETTER GRADES IN SCHOOL

* ENJOY A BETTER SEX LIFE

Customer Reviews:

Feng Shui - Simplified!.......2007-07-10

This book makes feng shui easy and fun! Karen Rauch Carter uses the Black Hat style which is a very simple, but effective, form of feng shui. With this book you don't need a compass, pendulum or certified feng shui expert, in order to enjoy the benefits of this timeless art. You'll be able to start making changes to your home, and your life, immediately with the easy to follow instructions that are provided.

Inside, you will find a chapter for each of the 9 sections of the Bagua. Immediate action items and a short summary are provided at the end of each chapter, which can be referred to over and over. Karen will keep you entertained though out the entire book with her quirky sense of humor! She also provides loads of examples and stories of how feng shui can improve your life. I am an antique dealer, by trade, and I own my own business. I can honestly say that after decluttering my laundry room (my prosperity area) and painting it a pretty shade of lavender, I immediately noticed and increase in sales at my shop!

Just A Tip: Make sure you read chapter 12 before you start making changes in your home, the affirmations in this chapter will make all of your actions much more effective!

Well written and easy to understand.......2007-05-20

This is probably on the top five list of good feng shui books that I've ever read. Very informative and easy to understand and follow. It's really put together nicely.

While I do think there is definately something to harmonizing the energy around you, I don't think that moving your stuff is any guaranteed way to bring a certain thing to yourself. I have a love/hate relationship to books like this. I find some really good ideas, and some I think are silly and just don't work. I know that there are other issues involved. -Like what's in a person's birth chart for example. If someone is having a difficult planetary aspect in their money house, then, no amount of moving furniture/furnishings is going to change that aspect. Although, I do think it COULD help the person deal with it better. By moving something, it could represent a shift in how one has arranged or re-arranged their thinking about the problem. So, in that way, I think it could have a beneficial side.

I found many interesting things in this book, for example, in my helpful people/travel section of my home, that's where I already have the computer (World wide web) and I just happened to have a world map there. I found a lot of other helpful information too.

This is a fun and interesting book, and it's not gonna hurt anything to give something a try afterall. Just see what works for you.

Full of facts, well written.......2007-04-12

Excellent explanations and suggestions without getting bogged down in thousands of years of history. Written in 21st century speak with humor and intelligence. The best Feng Shui book in my bookcase (I have a few) -topping Lilian Too's series. Even tells you the anecdote when the sink is in your romance corner!

Rave Reviews for this book.......2007-04-03

I LOVED this book, and I am having so much fun with this, I have completely redecorated my home, using mostly stuff I already had, and all my friends are commenting "What have you done?" "It feels different in here" and "Everything seems to flow better". I hung a cutglass windchime in my missing "family" space to energize the space as recommended, and within minutes my youngest daughter called me. Amazing! And so much FUN! Now I am waiting for my romance energy to imporove!

A lot of Nonsense.......2007-03-19

I purchase several feng shui books and this one was the easiest to understand. However, nothing happened after purchasing several hundred dollars of feng shui items. Instead it seems bad things were happening to me. I junked all the stuff. I think it's total nonsense and more like witchcraft...stay away from it.

Big Book of 5000 Fonts: (And Where to Get Them)

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Funny book to read for fun, not good reference book
Not for IDing Type Faces!
The Quick Brown Fox is Done Jumping
Good for browsing fonts, less so for identifying fonts.
Hard to find fonts.

Big Book of 5000 Fonts: (And Where to Get Them)
David E. Carter
Manufacturer: Watson-Guptill Publications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Turtleback

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ASIN: 0823004899

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Funny book to read for fun, not good reference book.......2007-08-02

If you read the text, you will be laughing so hard! This man is very funny. He knows how to make other graphic designers laugh about how we feel.
However, if you want to use it as a reference book for the names of fonts and where to find them, well, it's pretty random. Note to the author. I really wish you'd make a new edition which has fonts organized by type library (who sells it) and where to find, then by style. And I would rather that you put them in styles such as the styles in "graphically speaking," where they are organized by descriptive words like "humorous, youthful", and "powerful,"
I think maybe I should buy Adobe Type Library instead. That is all I own. I can't afford all these fonts this guy has in this book!

Not for IDing Type Faces!.......2004-09-27

This book is done in a unique fashion and I wasn't disappointed with it. If you are simply looking for type faces, it fills the bill rather nicely. If you are trying to identify a type face, it doesn't offer enough for a comparison. Unfortunately, there are few capital letters shown so one cannot tell how the type face appears when composed in all capital letters. In a few instances, the name of the font isn't the font that is shown! Yikes! In any event, it is a helpful addition to your library since many of the type faces shown in this book can be found at no other single source.

The Quick Brown Fox is Done Jumping.......2003-05-12

Carter's laid out the fonts by category:
Comic book, retro, calligraphic, block letter, roughish, display, pseudo cultural, grunge, script, technological, illustrated and kids stuff, type-label-stencil, ornamental, others sans, other serif. The organization is clean.

Instead of using the boring text sample that litters the letters sampled in font catalogs, "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog," Carter gifts us with vignettes. The font Scotty Normal is shown with the sample, "Would I have been a PGA Champion?" This could be read as a stream-of-conscious novel if it weren't a font book. With each sample, he lists the name and which type house sells it. The sources for the fonts are listed at the end, including several listings for free fonts.

It is indispensable for a new designer, or a student of typography. For me, as someone who uses typography as a secondary part of my job, I found it a strong tool for familiarizing myself with font families. I'd say a seasoned might not find it as useful, as much of this kind of information can be found elsewhere.

Anthony Trendl
editor, HungarianBookstore.com

Good for browsing fonts, less so for identifying fonts........2003-04-01

This is a book of font samples. You won't find any information on making your own fonts or installing and using them on a computer. This book won't outline font history or anatomy. It won't tell you how to design with fonts. It's simply page after page of sentences or sentence snippets, each rendered in a different typeface. Each font's name and manufacturer is listed below each sample.

The book is great if you're a would-be font designer and are looking for inspiration. It's great if you're looking for a font to add pizzazz or personality to a graphic or flyer. It's also great for the casual typeface fan who simply enjoys looking at typefaces.

I agree with the author's statement in the book's introduction that he wanted a font book that "didn't have one mind-numbing sentence repeated time after time" throughout the book. While pangrams such as "The quick brown fox..." are standard and useful in that they (by definition) show every letter in the alphabet, it can become tedious to see the same words again and again. Having the fonts set in different sentences also adds interest to the look of the pages, and benefits those who wish to see how a font looks in a different combination of letters.

There are a few of problems with the book:
1. Fonts are listed by general category and then alphabetically by name. This makes it difficult and time-consuming to search for just one font if you don't know its name and have only a limited idea of what it looks like.

2. There just isn't enough sample text to truly get a good taste the font. The sentences and snippets probably average 8 words long and consist of a dozen different letters, which, in my opinion, is not enough to truly get a sense of the typeface.

Identifying fonts using this book will inevitably prove difficult. Each passage is unique and does not use every letter in the alphabet. So if you are relying in the distinct gap between the strokes of the letter G in a font to help you ID it, you may be out of luck if the sample text doesn't have words with G.

Ideally, font samples should display every letter twice (in capitals and lowercase forms), numbers, and punctuation characters. Granted, it's not realistic to expect that a book covering 5,000 fonts would be able to accomodate such thorough samples.

Of course, these are only problems if you're relying on the book to ID fonts for you. And in this book's defense, these weak points are common to a lot of font books.

On the whole, I found this book a welcome change from other font books that seem to think themselves pieces of art and are bent on showing me how modern and cool typography can be. If you just want a really big font book that will show you nothing but ton of samples, this is the book for you.

Hard to find fonts........2003-01-15

This book is creatively written, but has been really no use to me in finding specific fonts. I wish the book were laid out with the same sentence "The Quick Fox Jumped Over the Lazy Brown Dog" instead of a bunch of free-flowing sentences. I'm not able to find fonts in this book because I can't pinpoint a single letter.

The Health Care Mess: How We Got Into It and What It Will Take To Get Out

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Excellent reading for students of medicine and public health
Misses the biggest problems
Faults of Style and Substance
Couldn't Read It

The Health Care Mess: How We Got Into It and What It Will Take To Get Out
Julius B. Richmond , and Rashi Fein
Manufacturer: Harvard University Press
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ASIN: 0674019245

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If we can decode the human genome and fashion working machines out of atoms, why can't we navigate the quagmire that is our health care system? In this important new book, Julius Richmond and Rashi Fein recount the fraught history of health care in America since the 1960s. After the advent of Medicare and Medicaid and with the progressive goal to make advances in medical care available to all, medical costs began their upward spiral. Cost control measures failed and led to the HMO revolution, turning patients into consumers and doctors into providers. The swelling ranks of Americans without any insurance at all dragged the United States to the bottom of the list of industrialized nations.

Over the last century medical education was also profoundly transformed into today's powerful triumvirate of academic medical centers, schools of medicine and public health, and research programs, all of which have shaped medical practice and medical care. The authors show how the promises of medical advances have not been matched either by financing or by delivery of care.

As a new crisis looms, and the existing patchwork of insurance is poised to unravel, American leaders must again take up the question of health care. This book brings the voice of reason and the promise of compromise to that debate.

Customer Reviews:

Excellent reading for students of medicine and public health.......2006-05-05

In reading the previous reviews, I must say that they are quite accurate in many of their findings - the style of writing tends to be verbose and there isn't much in the ways of "how to do fix the US health care system." But that is not what this manuscript is about.

Let me quickly rebut a few points from each of the previous reviews.

From Mr. Weston: " When I bought the book, I was hoping the authors' would answer the question "What is equitable health care?" Is it equitable for the government to pay for medications that control blood pressure, insulin response, and bone density when all of these could be managed by diet and exercise? Americans have a problem giving welfare to those who can work. Why give "healthfare" to those who can diet and exercise? "

First of all, equity is in the eye of the beholder. This is an area where even the most brilliant health economist cannot give a true answer. Our basis for equity depends upon our own moral upbringing.

Secondly, it is obvious from the latter half of his comment that he does not have anything to do with the health care delivery system. Lifestyle modifications for hypertension, diabetes, and osteopenia/osteoporosis, while certainly beneficial, are not effective to the degree needed to prevent stroke, heart attack, or hip fractures. However, I will concede that doctors often over-utilize healthcare resources of limited benefit.

Moving on to Ms. Clendenen's excellent review:
" The three that immediately come to mind are the complete neglect in discussing the impact that the cost of pharmaceuticals has had on the overall cost of health care, the impact that malpractice litigation and the threat of malpractice suits have had, and the incredible cost of the administrative labyrinths that exist for most providers. "

It would appear that for her, a serious health economist, this book misses the mark. There, however, is a brief discussion of malpractice litigation in Chapter 7. I believe the authors spent considerably less time on this subject than on the subjects of medical education and "orgranized medicine" because malpractice litigation appears to have limited effect on total national health expenditures (estimated to be about 1/2 of 1%).

I agree with her that this book does little to explain the impact of administrative complexities on physicians. I can firmly attest that I spend far too much time doing paperwork than seeing patients. However, in the concluding chapter, the authors suggest a system - albeit a system closer to the single-payer edge of the political spectrum - that naturally would result in less administrative hassles for everyone involved compared to our current "nonsystem".

And now onto Ms. Craig: Her thoughtful review begins to introduce the concept, not discussed in this book, that a small percentage of patients represent the largest percentage of medical expenditures. She also refers to ICU stays - where I have witnessed survival rates less than 30% - that account for a tremendous fraction of our health care dollar. As a nation we do spend too much money on care in the last 6 months of life. Unfortunately, we often times cannot tell when someone will die. Additionally, even when death is virtually around the corner (by that I mean, when there is no chance for a "meaningful" life) we have families who want doctors to keep their loved ones "alive" for extended periods of time. As a nation, our culture of life may be in opposition to our appropriate use of health care resources.

Okay, enough of the rebuttals (I only do it because I liked this book). I believe the point of "The Health Care Mess" is to introduce the layman to the history of the American healthcare system. It does this while addressing issues relevant to physicians - medical education and the American Medical Association's persistent interference with progressive health reform. I believe this book may not be best geared towards the practicing health economist or the policy maker. "The Health Care Mess" is best designed for motivating a sleeping constuency - medical professionals and medical students. These folks are far too overburdened with their work to realize that they also need to be involved in the health care debate. Perhaps that is why the authors suggest making our current disorganized health care system focus attention on the academic medical centers as "hubs" for healthcare.

You will not find answers in this book. But you will find that political stumbling blocks are typically the reasons why most recommendations to modify our current system have failed. It is the politics, not the science, that is important in changing health policy. This is where the focus lies in "The Health Care Mess."

Misses the biggest problems.......2006-03-25

This book does a good job at pointing out how broken the American health care system is. I really enjoyed the retrospective look at how we got where we are today. Some of the reasons for the problems are pointed out well, as in the discussion of community rating of insurance. Unfortunately, the book misses some of the most important reasons for the health care mess. The solutions proposed also strike me as at best unworkable.

The book's authors are big fans of national health insurance. As they point out, national health insurance does have some things going for it. However, I just don't see how national health, if implemented in today's health care climate, would bring about any savings at all. The Medicare program is the closest thing we have now to national health insurance; far from saving us money, from what I see its costs are completely out of control and headed through the roof. The book never discusses this. The book makes no mention at all of how to deal with bringing down costs at the high end; the 5% or so of patients who create probably 80% or more of all health care costs. The fact is that at some point you have to be willing to say no, we are going to send this patient to a hospice to die instead of treating him, because his treatment is just too expensive.

I see the American health care system as caught in a trap of diminishing returns. In terms of quality of life, we get by far the most benefit from the first few dollars spent on a patient. By the time you get up to spending millions of dollars on a single patient, you are getting next to nothing for your money. Keep in mind that money has to come from somewhere; taxes, or premiums, or cuts in quality of service. Spend a million dollars on a one-pound micro-preemie in a neonatal ICU, and it will take hundreds of overburdened nurses scrimping on their time with other patients to make up for it. Some of those neglected patients will die as a result. No amount of money is going to relieve the human condition. All of us are going to die someday, no matter what is spent on our care. The authors never seem to realize this.

The book also misses the biggest problem with medical research today, which is that a treatment available only at exorbitant cost is actually worse than no treatment at all. Take the use of heart transplants to treat heart failure. By definition, each heart transplant requires at least two complex and expensive surgeries and decades of follow-up care due to immunosuppression. Many transplant patients die on the operating table or in the postoperative period, which pushes the cost per successful outcome even higher. There are also huge costs from maintaining the system to allocate donated organs. When you look at how else the money could be used, treatments like this hurt more people than they help. Research focused on complicated high-tech medicine is making public health worse.

As I see it, we have only two choices if we really want to cut medical costs: we can regulate the industry to outlaw the most costly procedures; or we can get rid of medical insurance altogether. I don't see much hope of the former. We may end up getting the latter by default. Medical insurance suffers from the basic problem that the doctors who are the ones who make the decisions over what care will be provided aren't the ones who have to deal with the people who pay the bills. This leaves us in a fog filled with conflicts of interest. Our current legal standards for malpractice cases, which don't allow cost considerations to enter into medical decisions, only make the problem worse.

The authors also ignore the reasons behind Americans' poor lifestyle decisions. Doctors are always telling us to eat less and exercise more. Somehow the doctors never mention that sweet and greasy foods are subsidized by our government to the tune of billions of dollars every year. Agricultural subsidies are what make corn syrup, bread, rice, cooking oil, hamburger, and cheese cheaper than fruits and vegetables. Government subsidies, crazy zoning laws, and parking requirements are why we live so far from our jobs and end up driving everywhere.

For a far more interesting perspective on the health care mess than the one provided by this book, I would suggest Hadler's "The Last Well Person." For more on what the automobile is really costing us, see Kunstler's "The Geography of Nowhere" and Shoup's "The High Cost of Free Parking."

Faults of Style and Substance.......2006-01-04

As a student of health care economics (due to being employed in a managerial position in a health care enterprise,) I embarked on reading this book with great anticipation and was left with great disappointment. My disappointment stemmed from faults in both style and substance.

As to style, the writing is replete with complex sentences with subordinate clause following on subordinate clause until one can no longer remember what the subject or the verb is, much less make any sense of the meaning of the sentence. I read extensively in professional journals as part of my employment and feel that the stylistic mannerisms of this book significantly diminished its impact. There were a number of simpler grammatical errors that should have been caught by the editors at Harvard Press. I was dismayed that two so presumably eminent scholars should write in such a confusing and obfuscating way.

As to matters of substance, I was surprised that some of the more significant influences on the current state of the US's health care "system" were either ignored or brushed aside as being uninmportant. The three that immediately come to mind are the complete neglect in discussing the impact that the cost of pharmaceuticals has had on the overall cost of health care, the impact that malpractice litigation and the threat of malpractice suits have had, and the incredible cost of the administrative labyrinths that exist for most providers. Also glossed over is the exorbitant amount of money being taken out of the health care system in the form of profits for shareholders of for-profit healthcare entities (not just big pharma)and salaries and bonuses for the high-flying executives of these for-profits.

All in all, this book was so narrowly focused on medical schools and medical education as to be nearly useless in explaining how we have gotten to where we are. Critical Condition, by Barlett and Steele, is a much better book in describing the history behind the current state of affairs, and offers a much better solution than Richmond and Fein propose.

Couldn't Read It.......2005-12-13

Note: This review was done after only reading the first 20 pages of the book. Please keep that in mind when evaluating the reasonableness of my review.

I bought this book as an impulse purchase after hearing the authors on Al Franken's show on Air America Radio on 11/15/05 because I wanted to get an understanding of, and solutions to, the health care problem.

I stopped reading for two reasons. First: the authors immediately expressed an assumption in the book's introduction that I felt would unhelpfully bias their presentation and recommendations. Second: the writing was so wordy that I felt the author's were trying to add weight to a simple message that was buried so deep in the book that it wasn't worth my effort to dig it out.

In support of my first reason regarding the authors' bias, consider the following sentences in the second paragraph on page 4: "We deplore the wide disparities not only in health care but in income, education, housing, and other important factors that affect well-being and opportunity . . . We seek a system in which the financing and distribution of health services reflect our image of a just society, a society in which economic arrangements reflect a moral dimension."

Now I agree that there are very poor and very rich people in America. I also agree that there are very sick and very healthy people. But the existence of extremes doesn't negate the fact that most people in America are generally satisfied with their lives because they are relatively healthy and are meeting their daily needs. When I bought the book, I was hoping the authors' would answer the question "What is equitable health care?" Is it equitable for the government to pay for medications that control blood pressure, insulin response, and bone density when all of these could be managed by diet and exercise? Americans have a problem giving welfare to those who can work. Why give "healthfare" to those who can diet and exercise?

In support of my second reason regarding the authors' wordiness, consider these sentences in the second paragraph on page 20: "It would have been easy to conclude that all that was needed [regarding medical education] was a marginal adjustment here and a bit of tweaking there. Such a conclusion would have been valid if medicine and medical education could have stood apart from the society in which they were embedded. But, of course, they could not do so. They necessarily were influenced by the world outside of medicine, and that world, that external environment and its influences, was changing."

Now couldn't the authors' have assumed their readers already knew, 1) medicine and medical education are influenced by the world in which they operate, 2) the world refers to the external environment, and 3) the external environment is always changing? It was wordiness like this that forced me to put the book down rather than continue my struggle to find what new truths the authors' had to offer on the topic of health care and public policy.

Since I still want to understand the health care mess and how we can get out of it, I ordered Paul Starr's Pulitzer Prize-winning book "The Social Transformation of American Medicine." I found the book by scrolling down the product page for "The Health Care Mess" and seeing what "Customers who bought this book also bought." I clicked on the link "One Nation Uninsured: Why The U.S. Has No National Health Insurance by Jill Quadagno." I then read the Washington Post's Book World review on that product's page, which referred to Paul Starr's book.

This is what I love about shopping for books and other products on Amazon. I would have never found Paul Starr's book unless Amazon had provided those links and reviews. If you are also shopping for a book to understand the health care mess, read the reviews, the table of contents, and the excerpts for Paul Starr's book in Amazon. Notice that this information is not available for "The Health Care Mess". I googled "The Health Care Mess" and the only reviews available are those on the book's back cover, which are from prestigious individuals who no doubt didn't take the time to read the book.

The truth is out there. Seek and ye shall find.

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A great book for little boys
This is a fabulous book!
Hardworking Trucks.....
Great for Storytime!

Get to Work, Trucks

Manufacturer: Roaring Brook Press
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Binding: Hardcover

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Join eight hardworking machines for a day at the building site. Don Carter combines the irresistible lure of heavy machinery with simple learning concepts and bright dimensional art -- as vivid and appealing as the toys in the toy box.

Customer Reviews:

A great book for little boys.......2007-01-05

My 2 year old loves this book because of the pictures of all the construction vehicles in action. The text is a little too simple and does not seem to flow very well for my taste.

This is a fabulous book!.......2004-12-27

My son has been into trucks since he was 6 months old. I bought this book for him last year (when he was one) and it quickly became a favorite! It's the only book we even took on our vacation last summer, because we knew he would never tire of it. We did, however, so now we have made up a tune to the book and sing it as a song. My son loves "reading" the book to us, singing the song,and when he plays in his sandbox, he recites the book as he is playing with his tractors "digger digs hole" "bulldozer fills hole."
I'm not sure I really appreciate the book at his level, but then again, I don't get how a 2 year old boy can be fascinated with the wheel on a touring bus!
If you're thinking about it, just buy it -- I don't think you'll be sorry you did!

Hardworking Trucks............2002-10-01

Get up early in the dark, quiet morning, and join the workers traveling to the worksite. It's time to "get to work, trucks!" There are big trucks and little trucks, busy all day, and hard at work. Meet the loader and the dump truck. Watch the digger dig a deep hole, and the bulldozer push dirt into other holes. The cement mixer is hard at work mixing and mixing. The crane lifts beams high in the sky, and the roller flattens the road on the ground. And as a special treat, see if you can find the visitor on each page who just can't get enough of heavy equipment.... Don Carter's simple, descriptive text, written in short sentences, is kept to a minimum. The real story is told through his bold, bright, and busy, eye-popping illustrations. Each two page spread dazzles with vivid color, texture, energy, and humor, and little ones will be itching to hop aboard the dump truck, or maybe the bulldozer, or crane, and get right to work. Perfect for preschoolers, Get To Work Trucks is an engaging and informative little gem of a book, that's sure to become an instant favorite at your house.

Great for Storytime!.......2002-03-20

Using acrylic paint, foam board and plaster to create his colorful illustrations, the artist and author has created an entertaining look at the heavy equipement needed to build a bridge. Each double-paged spread has one or two sentences describing the action. A turtle who gets in the way of the construction workers is never mentioned, but provides humorous visual action in the story. Although the illustrations appear bold and simple, there is enough detail to invite close inspection of each picture. This will work very well as a book for a child to look at alone, and for use in group sharing, such as storytime.

Get Carter: Backstage in History from JFK's Assassination to the Rolling Stones

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Very nice book
historical events, famous people and gripping stories . . .
Get Carter
"Shedding light on some of the most intruiging events of the twentieth century"
Bill Carter is a true American original

Get Carter: Backstage in History from JFK's Assassination to the Rolling Stones
Bill Carter , and Judi Turner
Manufacturer: Fine's Creek Publishing LLC
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For most of his life, Bill Carter has been hearing two words that either struck fear in his heart or caused it to race for an entirely different reason: Get Carter. Early in his career, this Arkansas maverick established himself as the "go-to guy" in difficult situations. Whenever there was a tough job to do, the call went out to "Get Carter." A Secret Service agent when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas on November 22, 1963, Carter quickly found himself thrust squarely into the forefront of history. As one of the agents investigating the president's murder, Carter found himself convicted of one truth: that Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone assassin in Dallas, and he acted alone. No other member of the Warren Commission investigating team has told the inside story, until now. As an attorney in private practice after leaving the Secret Service, the Arkansan found himself being called upon repeatedly by the powerful leader of the Arkansas Congressional delegation, Rep.Wilbur Mills. When the Rolling Stones needed help negotiating with the State Department when they were denied entry into the States to tour, Mills suggested they get Carter. When Stones' guitarist Keith Richards found himself in legal trouble in Canada that could have meant the end of the powerful rock band, the command was issued, "Get Carter." Whether it was Jimmy Hoffa's pardon dilemma or Steve McQueen's body being held hostage in Mexico, Carter was the one to intervene. Get Carter is an insider's fascinating look at the mysterious world of politics, rock and roll and intelligence. Bill Carter is an attorney and television producer. He lives outside Nashville, Tennessee with his wife Marlow. Judi Turner is a freelance writer who lives in Nashville,Tennessee.

Customer Reviews:

Very nice book.......2007-04-07

As the leading civilian authority on the Secret service, I recommend this book from former agent William Carter (despite reservations I have about his post-assassination work--see chapter 12 of my book). Still, a great read and well put together. Worth your time and money. Get it!

historical events, famous people and gripping stories . . ........2006-02-18

"Wow! Bill Carter's life can only be described as a giant thrill ride and one which everyone should accompany him on. Not only will you be held hostage by the historical events, famous people and gripping stories in this book, but you will be reading a roadmap to high achievement in your own life. Get Carter. Get Reading."

Get Carter.......2006-02-17

What a life! Just when you think his life couldn't get anymore interesting you turn the page and presto, it's more interesting. Great life and great book.

"Shedding light on some of the most intruiging events of the twentieth century".......2006-02-12

"Shedding light on some of the most intruiging events of the twentieth century, Bill Carter delivers delicious tales of someone privileged to have a rare view in one of the front seats of our world. Bill rode the events of history and tells you about them in his unique and entertaining way.

Read "Get Carter" and take a seat next to Bill in this enlightening book!"

Terri Marie - Award-winning author of "Be The Hero of Your Own Game."
www.herobookonline.com

Bill Carter is a true American original.......2006-02-11

Reading Bill Carter's book was like traveling through a time warp with stops at many of the important historical and social events that make up the history of the last half of the Twentieth Century. What an enjoyable ride! Bill Carter is a true American original. A fascinating personality.

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The Best of British Crime

Get Carter
Ted Lewis
Manufacturer: Allison & Busby
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0749001216

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The Best of British Crime.......2005-05-14

Originally titled "Jack's Return Home", this stellar crime novel became a smash hit in the 70's due to the popularity of the film version of it starring Michael Caine. A lesser film version came out a few decades later with Stallone in the lead role. Both movies have their good qualities, though the Caine version is glaringly superior and much more like the novel.

In this, his second novel (his first one being the sorrowful, art-school love affair story entitled "All the Way Home and All the Night Through"), author Ted Lewis crafts a powerful crime drama in which there are no heroes. There are only villians doing wrong and other villains doing right in wrong ways.

The story begins with loan shark collector/hit-man Jack Carter coming back to his home town to investigate the death of his estranged brother. There is depth in the fact the two had not spoken in many years prior to the demise and yet Jack insists on looking into it and paying his respects. See, Frank Carter, his brother, dies in a car wreck due to drunk driving. But he didn't drink.

This search through the underbelly of the town sends Jack clashing with all sorts of crooked tycoons and low-life hoods from his past. Lewis' writting is tense when needed, over-all dark and gloomy, and filled with breathless emotion. Though Jack is a hard man, his hardness has been molded about him, poisoning him since youth, and the reader gets to delve deep into his troubled soul as he releases all the wrath of his vengeance, doing so in the name of his family, even though he is sacrificing everything he has in the process.

I don't want to give anything away, so I'll just say that the reasons behind Jack's brother's death are odious and give even more cause for revenge. The nobility of Jack's cause makes the book somewhat like a western in this manner. There is intense violence in the book and yet at the same time there is incredible poetry to it all, particularly in the stunning ending (which was changed in both film versions).

I think this book is a must read for all fans of dark literature, noir and crime fiction. Ted Lewis was one of the most visionary voices in fiction before he passed away pre-maturely, and his other works, particularly BOLDT, GBH, and PLENDER, are also works of genius in the world of gritty revenge tales.

Trying to Get to Heaven: Opinions of a Tennessee Talker

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A Great Book To Keep and Revisit
a wonderful surprise
Dixie Carter mesmerized me!
Dixie Carter kindles the flame of beauty in our lives.

Trying to Get to Heaven: Opinions of a Tennessee Talker
Dixie Carter
Manufacturer: Fireside
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ASIN: 0684826992

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"has an opinion on just about everything--from the inside scoop on plastic surgery to the importance of etiquette and grooming, from the value of the family to the courage to be yourself. This book is one long conversation that you never want to end. Photos throughout.

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A Great Book To Keep and Revisit.......2006-11-04

This book has had a lasting influence on me, and I've admired Dixie Carter every since I first read it. She really has a gift for writing with warmth, humor, and a heart full of down-to-earth wisdom. As a woman, her book made me feel "normal" again, and for that I'll always be grateful! Dixie has a knack for writing with vibrance and her stories are so interesting you don't want the book to end. I so hope that she will come out with another book.

a wonderful surprise.......2000-02-11

always on the lookout for "bargain" books in bookstores, i chanced upon dixie's book being closed out. liking her anyway in "designing women", i knew i would enjoy her book, but i was not prepared for my fascination. by the time i was finished reading the book, i felt i knew her--she was someone i could drop in on for coffee. she echoed my own sentiments of missing the people being polite to each other, and of loving discipline seldom taught to children today and more than once made me nostolgic for the rich childhood she had--the things that are possible for children and which every child deserves. she writes the way she speaks which is a joy. the book is never dull and in truth, you do not want it to end. i hope she determines to write another book. i want the first copy.

Dixie Carter mesmerized me!.......1999-08-10

After I started reading this book I could not put it down. Dixie covers almost every subject, from beauty tips to romance. Her Southern charm adds so much to this book. I highly recommend this to everyone.

Dixie Carter kindles the flame of beauty in our lives........1998-08-26

I do not think that Dixie Carter has ever been one of *People* magazine's "Fifty Most Beautiful People in the World", and it is a crying shame. Carter has in spades what gets people on that list: all-encompassing beauty. In *Trying to Get to Heaven* she, in a sense, shares that beauty with us. She tells us about the people who have inspired her, instructs us on behavior(such as yoga and decorating), reveals to us some of her most heartfelt memories, and articulates her beliefs about beauty. Beauty, to her, is the guiding principle by which life is well-lived. By showing us how beautiful her life has been, and by doing it in such a lyrical, richly-detailed, entertaining, and, sometimes, humorous way, she sets an excellent example.

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Get Carter: A British Film Guide
Steve Chibnall
Manufacturer: I. B. Tauris
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Mike Hodges' bleak gangster film was released in 1971 to controversy and mixed reviews. Three decades later in the British Film Institute's millennial poll, the film was voted one of the 20 best British films of all time. Steve Chibnall's enjoyable and fresh account relates the film to others in its genre like Point Blank and Dirty Harry, profiles the people involved in its making and presents a fascinating analysis of the film text itself. He completes the story-so-far, looking at the critical reception, and cultural context and the two remakes: the 1972 blaxploitation film Hit Man and the new Stephen T. Kay movie, set in the US.

Getting the Best of Your Anger: Before It Gets the Best of You

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Getting the Best of Your Anger: Before It Gets the Best of You
Les Carter
Manufacturer: Revell
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ASIN: 0800731751
Release Date: 2007-08-01

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Everyone knows someone whose anger can get out of hand. Getting the Best of Your Anger describes what anger is and why it can sometimes get out of control. Anger management expert Dr. Les Carter encourages readers to take a middle-of-the-road approach to anger, neither suppressing it or letting it explode. He helps readers • identify anger in their lives • self test to determine their level of anger • realize the things that can make anger an enemy • understand the ways anger is expressed • map out a realistic strategy for handling anger • and learn constructive ways to express anger.

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Bright and Bouncy like our favorite little man
The little cuite is back!!
Aaron Carter is cute
Good Book..................GREAT TOPIC

Aaron Carter Come Get It
James Preller
Manufacturer: Aladdin
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ASIN: 0689844115

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He's a show-stealing sensation climbing the pop charts. He's the younger brother of Backstreet Boy Nick Carter. He's already got four (count 'em, four!) Top Ten hits in his hip pocket -- and the best is yet to come. He's a down-to-earth goofball, a lollipop-sucking dream boy, an energetic daredevil, a beautiful show-off, a star. He's Aaron Carter...

Come Get It!

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Bright and Bouncy like our favorite little man.......2002-01-31

This very colorful book is packed full of information on Aaron. There are lots of pictures and all kinds of info about him, like:
where he was born and raised, his favorite foods, his favorite hobbies, his favorite collectibles, and of course his favorite sports. Most of the pages have an "Aaron sez" quote where he comments on Nick, video shoots, future plans, and recording his albums. You've gotta have this book if you're a fan cuz we have to know everything now don't we?? I think you'll definitely learn some new stuff.

The little cuite is back!!.......2001-11-08

This book is a verry good book about our fave little prince Aaron Carter! In the book you can find pictures, tons facts and a little quiz. I think the book are verry good but the book that his mom write is a quite better...read it to..!!
this book is good for you that vanna get to now Aaron better, what he likes, what his fav food & drink is ??
I can just say READ THIS BOOK!

Aaron Carter is cute.......2001-05-03

Everybody that reads this messagemust be a Aaron fan. If your a fan. Get this your need it. If your a Aaron lover. I like this book. You should get it. Oh ya if you can't get enough of aaron visit his site at www.aaroncarter.com Later.

Good Book..................GREAT TOPIC.......2001-03-22

HI I know a lot of u people want books on Aaron Carter with super great pictures and u dont care alot about the reading. If UR like that get this book. Mostly pictures......great........LOVE AARON CARTER.....If u want to know some of the REAL facts on Aaron how he became a singer U HAVE TO GET Aaron Carter Litle Prince of Pop.The book by his mom. I gave this a 5 because it has pictures.........No offense Jane but in Litle Prince of pop ya need some more pics. I will be waiting 4 the sequel. I hope u get what ya need and c that thing at the bottom where it says WAS THIS REVIEW HELPFUL 2 YA? Hit yes ................. Come on r u that LAZY???

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