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"Sleep. And when you awake everything you know of the twentieth century will be gone from your mind. Tonight is January 21, 1882. There are no such things as automobiles, no planes, computers, television 'Nuclear' appears in no dictionary. You have never heard the name Richard Nixon."

Did illustrator Si Morley really step out of his twentieth-century apartment one night -- right into the winter of 1882? The U.S. Government believed it, especially when Si returned with a portfolio of brand-new sketches and tintype photos of a world that no longer existed -- or did it?.
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Written by veteran organizer Sara Pedersen, this book will answer all your questions about the amazing career of professional organizing and guide you through the process of starting your own organizing business. This manual is designed to give prospective and new professional organizers the inside scoop on today's organizing industry. Its easy-to-read style will answer all your questions about this amazing career. SARA GUIDES YOU through the process of starting your own organizing business, teaching you fundamental lessons and clarifying expectations. As you read this manual, you'll: Review talent, skill, & education recommendations + Set salary & time commitment expectations + Understand your clients' clutter tendencies + Walk through a typical client assessment & organizing session + Learn affordable, business-boosting marketing ideas + Get the inside scoop on personal & business safety + Identify a variety of small business resources + Uncover donation resources for your clients' cast-offs + Give yourself an advantage over other new organizers. THE MANUAL ALSO INCLUDES: stores that carry great organizing products; donation resources; sample assessment form, press release, announcement letter, coupons; and more! This manual is also recommended by the National Association of Professional Organizers as an exam study resource for NAPO's certification program. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Veteran Professional Organizer Sara Pedersen has offered hands-on organizing assistance for countless Twin Cities residents. She helps them organize, simplify, and discover time to do the things they love. She also coaches new and prospective professional organizers and offers marketing services and products for small business owners..
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My fellow Americans:

It is our pleasure, our honor, our duty as citizens to present to you Duck for President. Here is a duck who began in a humble pond. Who worked his way to farmer. To governor And now, perhaps, to the highest office in the land.

Some say, if he walks like a duck and talks like a duck, he is a duck.

We say, if he walks like a duck and talks like a duck, he will be the next president of the United States of America

Thank you for your vote..
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In Baseball's Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy and the follow-up Jackie Robinson Reader, Jules Tygiel focused his historian's eye on what was arguably baseball's most stunning single event. Dissecting it from every angle, he followed its consequences through the weft of the national fabric in a pair of consummate, readable, and marvelously entertaining books that painted an arresting portrait of a remarkable man and his remarkable ordeal. In Past Time Tygiel widens his focus to turn his considerable narrative and interpretive skills loose on the broader tapestry of the game itself. The result is a superb collection of essays on American history filtered through the national pastime's lens. "If there is a unifying theme"--and there certainly is--"it is that while the game of baseball itself has changed minimally since its origins, the context and format in which Americans have absorbed and appreciated the game have dramatically shifted."

Drawing on his encyclopedic knowledge of the game, Tygiel uses the game as his doorway for entry into--and airing out--several rooms of the American past. Though the nine essays that make up Past Time reflect the game's nine innings and are presented chronologically, they are each entities unto themselves and can be read in any order. Rarely stepping onto the playing field, they avoid the mushiness and rhapsodizing that baseball tends to evoke. Instead, they take provocative looks at the often overlooked--like why statistics hold the game together, and why holding the game together was crucial to an America emerging from the Civil War--and fresh looks at old warhorses like baseball and the Depression era, baseball and civil rights, and baseball and America's post-World War II geographical shift. The final "inning" examines such recent obsessions as rotisserie leagues and fantasy camps, and the chapter on Bobby Thompson's famed home run and how the ways we would experience the game in the early years of the Cold War would change is thoroughly absorbing. But, then, so is the rest of Past Time. It has you wishing for extra "innings." --Jeff Silverman.
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Today's young women are bombarded with messages contrary to the Christian life. They need a clear vision of purpose in order to walk as "princesses in God's court." For Such a Time as This: The Disciplines of Destiny, by Lisa Ryan, cohost of The 700 Club, helps women from the ages of twelve to twenty-five find their unique gifts and destinies It draws on the biblical example of Esther, as well as modern-day role models, to deliver nugget-sized lessons on character traits such as courage, chastity, grace, and dignity. For Such a Time as This will transform young readers into mature women of God..
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In The Landlord’s Survival Guide, Jeff Taylor shares fresh ideas and fresh perspectives that will help make any landlord more productive

- Leigh Robinson, author of ,Landlording: A Handy Manual for Scrupulous Landlords and Landladies.

""Mr. Landlord's ideas have increased the profits from my apartments every time I've applied them! If you want bigger cash flows and smaller hassles, read this book!""

- Peter Conti, co- author of Investing in Real Estate Without Cash or Credit.

""Not only is The Landlord’s Survival Guide great for new and part-time real estate investors, it is extremely helpful for new property managers who are starting out managing other people's property or for the long time property managers wanting new tips and a great reference guide."" - Melissa Prandi, author of the Unofficial Guide to Managing Rental Property and past president of the National Association of Residential Property Managers

The Landlord’s Survival Guide by best-selling author Jeffrey Taylor, is for real estate investors just like you, who want full-time profits from their rental properties but only want to deal with them part time.

Taylor, also known as Mr. Landlord, shows you a new way of managing properties in this competitive and ever-changing marketplace. Today's renters want things ""their way"" and this guide shows you how to give residents what they want while giving you what you want - maximum profits.

Mr. Landlord’s step-by-step advice removes all the guesswork and gets you on the road to building wealth with rental property. This book shows how to: • Fill vacancies quickly with ideal residents even in a tough rental market

• Identify and avoid “problem” residents and situations Collect on-time payments

• Keep residents beyond the standard one-year lease period

• Double your monthly cashflow and maximize your profits

• Let residents to ""work with you"" to reach your real estate goals faster

Complete with all the action steps to help you implement Mr. Landlord’s money-making management system, The Landlord’s Survival Guide is a must-read for landlording newbies and veterans who want bigger profits..
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A powerful and moving tale, the Mahabharata recounts the history of the five heroic Pandava brothers. Cheated of their kingdom and sent into exile they set off on a fascinating journey.Profound spiritual themes underlie the thrilling narrative, making it one of the worldÕs most revered texts. Culminating in an apocalyptic war, Mahabharata is a masterpiece of suspense, intrigue, and illuminating wisdom..
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The tortoise and the hare--not to mention a popular '60s-era adage--warned us that Speed Kills. Not so fast, contend Jason Jennings and Laurence Haughton, international consultants who have worked together since 1976. In It's Not the Big That Eat the Small... It's the Fast That Eat the Slow, the two argue that only the swiftest of corporations will thrive in the 21st century. They then outline a program, based on best practices developed by contemporary speedsters like Charles Schwab and AOL that readers can work into their own businesses by similarly focusing on "commerce, resource deployment, and people." Its four parts examine ways to create environments that anticipate the future, reassess operations and personnel and make appropriate adjustments whenever necessary, launch a "crusade" while "staying beneath the radar," and maintain velocity through institutionalization and close customer relationships. "This book will show you how to think and move faster than your competition," they write, adding that "being faster doesn't mean being out of breath. It means being smarter." Many of their suggestions will be familiar to those who follow the business of business improvement, but the singular (and quite convincing) context to which Jennings and Haughton now apply them help make this book unique. --Howard Rothman.
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“On the morning of March 6, 1970, in the subbasement of 18 W. 11th Street in Greenwich Village, a piece of ordinary water pipe, filled with dynamite, nails, and an electric blasting cap, ignited by mistake…”

So begins this stunning memoir of a white middle-class girl from Connecticut who became a member of the Weather Underground, one of the most notorious groups of the 1960s. Cathy Wilkerson, who famously blew up and escaped from a Greenwich Village townhouse, here wrestles with the legacy of the movement, at times looking at contradictions of the movement that many others have avoided: the absence of women’s voices then and in the retelling; the incompetence and the egos; the hundreds of bombs detonated in protest which caused little loss of life but which were also ineffective in fomenting revolution. While proud of many of the accomplishments of the 1960s, years later Wilkerson examines why, in 1970, she in effect accepted the same disregard for human life practiced by the government. In searching for new paradigms for change, Wilkerson asserts with brave humanity and confessional honesty an assessment of her past—of those heady, iconic times—and finds hope and faith in a world that at times seems to offer neither.

Cathy Wilkerson was active in the civil rights movement, Students for a Democratic Society, and the Weather Underground. In 1970, she, along with Kathy Boudin, survived an explosion in the basement of her parents’ townhouse that killed three Weathermen, forcing the two underground. For the past twenty years she has worked as an educator teaching teachers in the New York City schools.

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