Miss America by Day: Lessons Learned from Ultimate Betrayals and Unconditional Love

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Miss America by Day: Lessons learned from Ultimate Betrayals and Unconditional Love

A gift to those who've suffered

Believing Our Children

Excellent resource

This book gave me hope

Miss America by Day: Lessons Learned from Ultimate Betrayals and Unconditional Love
Marilyn Van M. Derbur
Manufacturer: Oak Hill Ridge Pr
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Binding: Paperback

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A former Miss America from Colorado tells the gripping story of her life as an incest survivor. A Colorado best seller in hardcover, new in pb.

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Miss America by Day: Lessons learned from Ultimate Betrayals and Unconditional Love.......2007-10-08

I have a friend that went through sexual abuse with your father and has been suffering from this all her life. It was good to read the book to be able to understand her better and also feel it would be a good book for those that have been sexually abused by their father or any other person. You realize that you are not alone and the book helps you to understand what you are going through and why you are feeling the way you do.

A gift to those who've suffered.......2007-09-15

I read the article in People Magazine when Marilyn Van Derbur first told the world she had been a victim of incest. I shuddered and literally sobbed because it triggered a new memory for me. I'd just learned a couple years earlier I, too, had been a victimized, and I was in the process of healing. When I read her book I could relate over and over again to what she'd been through. This is a must-read for victims who want to become (or already have become) VICTORS! Soar Unafraid: Learning to Trust No Matter What

Believing Our Children.......2007-04-02

Painful as this book was to read, as a mother and a massage therapist I found it invaluable. It gives not only a gripping and heart wrenching story, but also useful ways that we can protect our children from abuse. Incest is not what you think, it affects so many more people in so many more ways than I ever thought possible. Miss Van Derbur uses her own remarkable story with statistical facts that make it impossible for anyone to say 'it would never happen to my child'. I'm so grateful that someone recommended this book to me for my own awareness of how our bodies store trauma. I have told almost every mother I know about some of the shocking facts this book reveals. Most importantly, it reminds us to talk to our children and believe them when they tell us the truth!

Excellent resource .......2007-01-10

This is a great book for both rape survivors and those who love them. This book talks about the social stigma over survivors, how they are not the ones who should feel shame, but those who abused them, helping rape and incest survivors understand they can be proud of the people they are. It also makes a beautiful connection that it doesn't matter what someone did to you, if it was a word, a touch, a brutal attack, it is how that interaction made you feel, how it hurt your spirit. This book does not minimize what happened to you and how that made you feel. It is a guide with eye opening stats, and useful advice to help protect children along with conversation starters. Even if you do not know anyone who has had this life experience, but unfortunately we all do, this is a great read for everyone to be better educated to support someone or prevent others from being hurt. Please read this book.

This book gave me hope.......2006-07-20

If you - or someone you love - has been raped or sexually violated, read this book. It is a step by step guide to recovery.

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During his first tour in Vietnam - 1967-68 - Dick Taylor was a well trained and highly motivated amateur assigned to advise a hard-bitten ARVN infantry battalion working in the mud and streams of IV Corps. He became savvy in a hurry and found that he was both brave and resourceful. He barely survived Tet 1968, then served on an advisory team staff.

For the next two years, Taylor earned a Ranger tab, served on a division staff, and schooled on. He met his wife, and married her days before he returned to Vietnam.

Taylor's second tour - 1970-71 - was altogether different. He immediately assumed command of Bravo Company, 1/7 Cav, and excelled as a commander and a leader. He was aggressive in the field, confident in his command, and assertive with his superiors. He fought a good war, a successful war, and when he was forced to take a staff job it was as his battalion's intelligence officer. But the war was winding down, its purpose lost. Taylor's spirit's flagged, but not his fidelity.

This well-written combat memoir is heartfelt, earnest, honest and just a little melancholy.

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Outstanding new Vietnam Memoir.......2003-12-05

I read this in advance galley and submitted a review to a periodical. This is an outstanding book about a young lieutenant (Richard Taylor) who traveled to Vietnam as a boy and became a man very quickly. As he notes, he was looking for an adventure of a lifetime and he found it. Prodigal is a remarkably moving story. It is naturally enough a combat memoir, but it is a heartfelt and at times (almost too) personal autobiography detailing Taylor's pair of tours to Nam.

His first was 1967, when Taylor was assigned to a veteran Army of the Republic of Vietnam outfit. Taylor details the patrols and enemy action, and the boredom and yearning for home very well. His tour ended with his involvement in the middle of the 1968 Tet Offensive, in which he was almost killed. The book is just starting. Taylor meets and falls for Sandy and the second half of the book is about his second tour and his long distance relationship (very sad, very moving). He returned in 1970 to lead Bravo Company (1/7 Cavalry). Without doubt Taylor was a good combat officer. He mentions a lot of other men and officers, offers assessments, is pretty straightforward about the whole affair.

The book includes maps (which are good) and photos (which I have not seen as they were not in the advance galley). Prodigal is a fine story, and one of many finally coming from the pens of a generation of soldiers who gave everything they had and have yet to be fully thanked.

Thank you, Colonel.

The Regulatory Craft: Controlling Risks, Solving Problems, and Managing Compliance
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re-thinking the role of government

The Regulatory Craft: Controlling Risks, Solving Problems, and Managing Compliance
Malcolm K. Sparrow
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This book tackles one of the most pressing public policy issues of our time: the reform of regulatory and enforcement practice. Malcolm K. Sparrow shows how prescriptions for reform that are centered on the concepts of customer service and process improvement fail to take account of the distinctive character of regulatory responsibilities—which involve the delivery of obligations rather than just services.

Sparrow identifies a central notion at the heart of a new regulatory craftsmanship: "pick important problems and fix them." This simple approach presents complex implementation challenges with profound consequences for the way regulators organize their work and report their performance. The author explores the underlying nature of the risk-control or problem-solving art, and specifies the organizational infrastructure and managerial practices required to place effective risk control at the heart of routine agency operations.

The Regulatory Craft will be especially valuable for regulatory and law-enforcement practitioners, as well as legislators, students, and others who care about the nature and quality of regulatory practice.

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Excelent book.......2006-03-25

A powerful and clear combination of theoretical and practical analysis of the regulatory work, with useful insights and tools to be used and developed.

re-thinking the role of government.......2000-07-14

Author Malcolm Sparrow suggests something so simple about the role of government that it's revolutionary -- agencies should be in the business of finding important problems and fixing them.

Simple -- but difficult.

Anyone who works in government would tell you they solve problems all the time. But most objective looks at government show that government's primary job is to "implement programs." Those programs often deftly solve problems. Yet they leave much undone. It is the undone problems that Sparrow's book deals with.

Sparrow is an old cop, turned top-level educator. He's got a doctorate and teaches at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. He is a recognized expert in results-based reform of government. Personally, he is glib and practical.

His experience with policing seems to drive his philosophy. At the crux is this quote from his mentor, Herman Goldstein:

"...policing becomes more effective if police, rather than processing 911 calls one after another and in isolation, could learn to identify underlying patterns and then fashion tailor-made solutions that prevent recurrences." (page 72)

Sparrow shows how identifying patterns and fashioning tailor-made solutions is the crux for most government -- not just police. He ampley cites examples from environmental agencies, customs, OSHA and others to show this. He tells the real-life obstacles to achieving this, too (page 112). Overall, he tells how government could do better and who's doing it.

The book implies a unique slant on deterrence. While getting tough may achieve a deterrence effect, too often it happens after the evil deed. Sparrow suggests that government deter before the deed. How? Analyze patterns of unsolved problems, then tailor interventions to deter BEFORE the problem happens. This is not to rule out enforcement punch -- just to focus it on those against whom it's most effective. He shows that it can be done using case studies.

Sparrow's thinking should appeal to the pragmatist. This book is not pie-in-the-sky theory. It blends top-level thinking and on the ground experience. If you think government could be doing better, you could do worse than picking up a copy of "The Regulatory Craft."

The Art, Craft, and Science of Evaluation Capacity Building: New Directions for Evaluation (J-B PE Single Issue (Program) Evaluation)
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The Art, Craft, and Science of Evaluation Capacity Building: New Directions for Evaluation (J-B PE Single Issue (Program) Evaluation)
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'Incredible women' helped craft Clinton plan: adviser. (Shoshanna Sofaer)(NAIW Convention Report): An article from: National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management
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This digital document is an article from National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management, published by The National Underwriter Company on July 4, 1994. The length of the article is 667 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: George Washington University Medical Center Dept of Health Care Services Associate Chair for Research Shoshanna Sofaer delineated the contribution women have made to the creation of health care reform, at the National Assn of Insurance Women's annual meeting. She mentioned Hillary Clinton and Tipper Gore, as well as Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna Shalala and Policy Analyst Judith Feder.

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