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French Toast: An American in Paris Celebrates the Maddening Mysteries of the French
Peter Mayle may have spent a year in Provence, but Harriet Welty Rochefort writes from the wise perspective of one who has spent more than twenty years living among the French. From a small town in Iowa to the City of Light, Harriet has done what so many of dream of one day doing-she picked up and moved to France. But it has not been twenty years of fun and games; Harriet has endured her share of cultural bumps, bruises, and psychic adjustments along the way. In French Toast, she shares her hard-earned wisdom and does as much as one woman can to demystify the French. She makes sense of their ever-so-French thoughts on food, money, sex, love, marriage, manners, schools, style, and much more. She investigates such delicate matters as how to eat asparagus, how to approach Parisian women, how to speak to merchants, how to drive, and, most important, how to make a seven-course meal in a silk blouse without an apron! Harriet's first-person account offers both a helpful reality check and a lot of very funny moments. .
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The Control Freak Revolution: Make Your Most Maddening Behaviors Work for Your Company and to Your Advantage
Leaders in business are typically criticized as control freaks. The Control Freak Revolution shows you that being a control freak is actually a good thing, and why CEOs look for leaders who can use control to increase employee and team effectiveness. But leadership is a tough job. You face a number of challenges, such as: * Attracting new employees and keeping good ones. * Managing different personalities and different generations. * Getting tasks done quickly, accurately, and under pressure. All these challenges can be met with ease when you are able to control and influence others to perform at the highest levels possible. In this practical, no-nonsense guide, author Cheryl Cran teaches you how to be a successful "control freak" leader in seven easy steps, with exercises to help you implement the ideas in each chapter. The book will show you how to: * Evaluate and improve your leadership style. * Set up systems that support the results you want. * Bust through the myths that limit growth within the organization. * Get your employees to review your performance as a leader. Also included are telling insights and anecdotes from real CEOs and famous leaders such as Donald Trump, Martha Stewart, and Rudy Guiliani, who have used control to their advantage. With The Control Freak Revolution, any leader at any level can learn how to be a positive control freak who creates positive results..
Price: $9.54
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Maddening Behaviors: Some I Hear, A Lot I See: Stories
Eleven young women leave America to find adventure in Africa. Seeking magic, purpose, and friendship they settle with 'host' families in the villages and urban centers of South Africa and Mozambique. While staying in the home of a mixed-race Cape Town family, Shaquan's perception of black solidarity is shaken to its core. Jaha, while surprising her lover on a trip, is shocked to find that the love and lover she thought were hers have drastically transformed. Instead of a carefree weekend in the resort of Sun City, Kano is confronted with the harsh legacy of the struggle against Apartheid by a demure waitress in the resort's restaurant. A joyous wedding shower for a group of former women revolutionaries is too much to bear for Portia, pushing her to resort to desperate measures in order to prove her worth. For these women and others, misunderstanding, grace, tragedy, and truth are revealed when they least expect it. Set in the 1990s, the stories of the women in Maddening Behaviors show the hilarity and tragedy that occur because of the foreign eye's perceptions and limitations-an eye that is often at odds with what is real and what is fantasy..
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A Maddening Minx
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A Few Marbles Left: A Close-Up Look at TV News in All Its Agonizing, Maddening Lunacy (And Its Occasional Moments of Glory)
A Few Marbles Left contains more than 75 essays, rants, news bloopers and observations about television news, as well as serious considerations on improving the craft, who's the top journalist in America, the inside story behind the best news cassette ever shot, and the real issue of the public good versus news excess. Corcoran is by turns outrageous, poignant, hilarious and maddening, but always truthful and never dull. "This book could only be written by someone out of the business for good," he says. "Anyone as honest as I am would be fired immediately by one of the boneheads running it. That being said, I'm always open to offers of work that don't involve selling my conscience or heavy lifting." John Corcoran spent twenty years in television as an on-air entertainment reporter and critic in Washington, D.C., Boston, and Los Angeles. Then he got out of the business and and the real fun began. A Few Marbles Left started as a series of missives to the legendary TV newletter ShopTalk, where his "Pesky Gadabout" letters drew praise, condemnation and, most frequently, laughter. Writing from Los Angeles, "a city where anyone with a set of car keys and a 'Darwin Was Wrong' tattoo can hijack a television newscast for hours at a time," Corcoran has traveled the country observing local news markets from San Louis Obispo, CA, to Portland, ME. Corcoran skewers TV news with outrageous comments like, "I think it's time that the public accepted the reality that TV news is no longer fact-driven. Facts impede flow, cause delays in getting to live shots, confuse the viewer, lead to unwanted litigation and are frequently hard to prove." A Few Marbles Left is a mandatory read for anyone who is in the business, who has been in the business or who watches television news. They will recognize the characters and the calamities, and the occasions when TV rises above them and does the extraordinary work it is capable of doing, but so rarely does. More importantly, anyone contemplating a career in television will be well served by Corcoran's cautionary tales and lessons learned. "If I can keep just one person from making a lifetime mistake and working in TV news for the wrong reasons, well, I'm pretty sure my publisher will be upset. No I'm hoping to influence thousands of bright young people, get them to change majors and become attorneys, doctors, con men or dropouts - plus make a few bucks for the publisher and myself at the same time.".
Price: $4.98
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