JOHN MUIR: APOSTLE OF NATURE (The Oklahoma Western Biographies , Vol 8)

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JOHN MUIR: APOSTLE OF NATURE (The Oklahoma Western Biographies , Vol 8)
Thurman Wilkins
Manufacturer: University of Oklahoma Press
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John Muir Apostle of Nature
Thurman Wilkins
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Most of the worst, but still required wrestling reading.

Funny Read

The Best Of The Worst

I loved it

Hysterical! A Fun Read

WrestleCrap: The Very Worst of Pro Wrestling (WrestleCrap series)
R.D. Reynolds , and Randy Baer
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ASIN: 1550225847

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Outrageous costumes, cartoonish characters, and scripted storylines are featured in this retrospective look at the no-holds-barred stunts pro wrestling promoters have used to attract viewers. Covering such entertainment catastrophes as an evil one-eyed midget, George Ringo the Wrestling Beatle, and Goobledy Gooker, the wrestler who emerged in the arena from an egg, this merciless evaluation of such organizations as World Championship Wrestling and the World Wrestling Federation will leave wrestling fans and critics alike in stitches. The choices of promoters and producers are reviewed in an effort to understand the motivations and imaginations behind the often incomprehensible and laughable stunts that have baffled even die-hard fans.

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Most of the worst, but still required wrestling reading........2007-10-17

I bought this because I saw the rave reviews and thoroughly enjoyed RD's other book 'the Death of WCW'. I enjoyed the presentation of that, and figured this was continuing in the nature. It did just that, but included far more humorous affair. The book spotlights several, not every single one, but a big chunk of some of the worst gimmicks and events to happen in the modern sport of entertainment we know as Professional wrestling.
Two of the key things I was concerned about was that the book not just be a repetition of 'Death of WCW', and that they didn't just rip on Hogan the entire time. They did a good job keeping that stuff separate, although everything example they give about Hogan in this book is sadly valid.
But make no mistake about it, this book isn't solely about cheesey 80s to the failure of WCW in the last chapter, it keeps going, further proving there will always be more Wrestlecrap to write about.
I strongly recommend you read this book as well, it's a very educated read and will shock you:
The Death of WCW: WrestleCrap and Figure Four Weekly Present . . . (WrestleCrap series)

Funny Read.......2007-05-07

The laughter received from reading the book was worth the money spent. I am surprised that no mention of Dusty Rhodes as the Midnight Rider was mentioned. Good book to take a trip down memory land and revisit the lapses of judgement along the way.

The Best Of The Worst.......2006-10-11

After reading WrestleCrap, you will be left wondering who in their right mind came up with these stupid characters. Rest assured it wasn't the wrestlers.

From the comic-book superheroes from the WWF to David Arquette capturing the WCW championship - and toss in the Doink "family," Red Rooster, IRS and the KISS Demon - there is enough dumb characters with equally stupid storylines from the annals of pro wrestling that authors R.D. Reynolds and Bryan Alvarez had a ton of material to review.

The introduction is written by John Tenta, who passed away in June 2006. Tenta wrestled under numerous gimmicks - Earthquake, Avalanche and Golga - but one really marked his career. While under contract with WCW, Tenta - as The Shark - was urged by management to alter his LSU Tiger tattoo to a shark. Soon after he changed the tattoo, the suits decided to eliminate his character.

The book is a spin-off from the website created by Reynolds in 2000 and still going strong today.

I confess my all-time favorite piece of garbage is the WCW series where Cactus Jack stars in "Lost in Cleveland." Due to amnesia, CJ flees the company - really, not a bad move at the time - and a reporter then searches the streets of Cleveland for clues to where he lives. It got so convoluted that the staff writers couldn't keep up with the storyline. But in the end, Cactus is Captain Jack!

There are plenty of laughs in WrestleCrap; but please remember the biggest joke is on the management teams who came up with this stuff.

I loved it.......2006-04-27

im too young to remember most of the things from the mid-1980's (Red Rooster evades my memory), but this book is a must-have for all wrestling fans who are old enough to remember the glory days of the wrestling in the 80s and 90s. The sarcastic commentary will soften the blow of self-realization that once upon a time we wasted our dollars and our time watching stuff like the Repo Man and Bstion Booger and KISS Demon

Hysterical! A Fun Read.......2005-04-20

I bought this book to support the Wrestlecrap.com site. Most of the book pretty much gives brief descriptions of the website inductions. Still, the book will keep you in stitches as you read about the absurdity behind some of pro-wrestling's absolute WORST gimmicks and booking decissions in history. The guilty parties being Vince McMahon of the WWF (now WWE), the multiple moronic bookers WCW had, and even one of AWA's worst with grown men fighting over a raw turkey (good going Bischoff).
There were a few chronological errors that only hardcore fans would pick up like the nWo splitting into 2 factions and then rejoining after the finger poke of doom. The book depicts it differently. Mike Awesome was the "Fat Chick Thriller" in the summer of 2000 and later evolved (or devolved) into "That 70's Guy" (which was a gimmick I found to be entertaining even though it was stupid, but gave Mike Awesome a chance to improve on his mic skills). It wasn't detremantal to his career like the Red Rooster gimmick was to poor Terry Taylor's...
RD Reynolds sticks to his guns by not bad mouthing the original Doink the Clown gimmick played to perfection by Maniac Matt Borne. He explains that the gimmick sucked when Borne left the promtion and a jobber was given the clown garb and made into a "goodguy." And a "Mini-Me" version was created named Dink, Men On a Mission and the Bushwackers dressed up like him at Survivor Series '93 (which I had the displessure of seeing in person). And yes, Jorge Gonzalves' "ass crack" Sashskwatch bodysuit would've made a very symbolic backcover picture for the book. It would be where wrestlecrap comes from and also what the promoters were using to think up some of these horrible gimmicks!
Towards the end of the book you get a sneak preview feel of his latest book; The Death of WCW which is an excellent read.
Are you a glutten for punishment? Would you like to relive some of the worst in pro wrestling history? Be warned! Wrestlecrap is definitly a funny and entertaining read!

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The perfect guide to signing for everyone!
Never before has learning to sign been so simple and so much fun! Whether you are a teacher or a parent, this lively self-guided book of American Sign Language (ASL) will quickly become your kids' new favorite teacher!
Learn to Sign the Fun Way goes beyond the manual alphabet and teaches the beautiful language of sign—the United States' fourth most pervasive language—in a simple, interactive format. Signers-to-be will discover:
·Great games to make learning ASL an entertaining adventure
·Activities for both the individual and the classroom
·Cool groups of signs that appeal esspecially to kids
·And much more!
Kids love to sign, whether it be to communicate with a hearing-impaired individual or as a "secret" language with their friends. With this illustrated book they'll quickly and easily become signing superstars!
Inside are cool signs for kids, including:
·People signs
·Alphabet and numbers
·Animals
·Food and drinks
·Home signs
·Clothing
·Color
·Sports
·Activity signs
·Thoughts and feelings
·Action signs
·Body parts
·School talk
·Calendar signs
·Silly and fun signs

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Great for Teaching!!.......2007-08-05

Illustrations are much clearer than in older sign language books. Signs are up-to-date, whereas a book like "The Joy of Signing" contains some antiquated signs. I very much enjoy teaching beginners sign language from this text. Very creative and fun!

Activity and Games.......2007-05-14

It is excellent sign language book with activity and games to be fun!

The Kids Like It.......2006-11-06

I teach ASL for high school foreign language credit. My students enjoy the games offered in this book. Good practice sentences for beginners.

Cool.......2006-08-23

The book is fun. I found a couple pages where the answers didn't match the signs but it's still a fun book.

Not too impressed.......2005-10-18

While the book is written in an easy flowing, understandable manner ...it's illustrations leave much to be desired. Not only are the illustrations small, they aren't clear enough to judge the readers ability to sign correctly. You'll definitely need someone who knows sign to help you form the signs accurately.

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makes one think

Enjoyable.

Bogus, Ridiculous, Badly-Written, Silly, Lame, Dumb, And It Sucks

every word is true!! June 1, 2005

Worst book I've ever read!!!

In Her Own Words: The After-death Journal of Princess Diana
Christine Toomey
Manufacturer: English Rose Pr
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ASIN: 0967596130

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Princess Diana talks about her life and the principal characters in it (such as Charles, Camilla, James Hewitt, and Dodi El Fayed), the circumstances of her death, life in "heaven" and the spirits she meets regularly, including Chris Farley and John Lennon. She describes the levels of healing that a "new arrival" may go through and how they then help other new arrivals. She also discusses her past lives and her preparations for her next life.

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makes one think.......2006-12-28

I bought this book out of curiosity, and while I'm not sure I buy everything in it, the story (or set of circumstances) makes one think about life after death and the possiblility of a different exsistance than what the religions would teach. If nothing else, this book lends to discussions and deeper thinking - whether you accept her 'truths' or not. My only crit. is that the same story could've been told without using Princess Diana as reference - but then again, Auntie M's story wouldn't have sold as many copies as Di's

Enjoyable........2006-06-29

I found the book to be rather reviting. It certainly does offer an alternative view of what happens "after death," than we get from mainstream sources. Weather this is a "made-up fantasy" or not (you have to decide that), I think even the skeptic would enjoy the story it tells from the perspective of the person of Princess Diana.

Bogus, Ridiculous, Badly-Written, Silly, Lame, Dumb, And It Sucks.......2005-08-29

Those who want to think this book was written by the late Princess Diana will probably ignore anything I have to say, so I'll be brief. If this makes anyone happy, great, but I found this book at a yard sale in among comic books and romance novellas in a box marked "FREE" so I took it with me. The lady who was giving it away told me, "That's the dumbest thing I ever read." I don't agree but it's in the top 50 on my worst ever list. I read this and was disgusted by it. Is this Princess Diana being channeled from the Great Beyond via the author of this book? Who knows? But if I was dead and given the chance to speak from the next life, I think I'd talk about things that were of more importance. I'd also like to think I'd sound a bit more like myself instead of as the mouthpiece of an author's spiritual BUSINESS.

Maybe I shouldn't review this silly book at all since I didn't finish it, but I read enough to stand by everything I've said.

I wish I could say this book is good for a bit of a laugh, but it's too insulting to someone's memory to be that. Prince Charles and his son William, and Harry, Diana's other son, can't be happy books like this get written.

What's next, Elvis speaks from the beyond? Ronald Reagan? The dead career of Michael Jackson? I foresee a series coming on here...

every word is true!! June 1, 2005.......2005-06-02

I thought this book was garbage before I read it but soon after read it I believed that this book was true. I recommend this book to all Diana fans.

Worst book I've ever read!!!.......2004-09-29

Out of all the books I've ever read in my life, this one has got to be the worst. Not only do I not believe that the words came from Princess Diana herself, but I don't believe any of the information came from anyone on the other side. Now I am not a non-believer of afterlife or most of what is stated in the book, I just found the information general and more or less intended for someone in their early teens searching for ways to better their life and to understand life a little better. If Princess Diana really wanted to get a message accross to us, I could not find one bit of information important enough to have the overpowering desire to contact Ms. Toomey to write a book on her behalf. Princess Diana's life was extrodinary and this book does not even capture the warmth of her heart at all. In this book, Princess Diana (supposedly Princess Daina) talked about how she took a nap in heaven, how she swam with the dolphins in heaven; and how after all this, she finally realized she had long flowing hair in chapter four. How the women spirits were "shorter and rounder" and the men "taller and thinner." The family and friends she talked to on earth and in heaven while in heaven was odd in itself because not once did she talk to the two people who meant the most to her -- her two boys. I think they would have been her number one priority. I found nothing worthy of my time to read in this book. In my opinion, there are people who use the good name of Princess Diana, as well as other famous people, to make financial gains. I believe this book is one of those. It's a shame, but it does happen. This book was so bad, I would not recommend it anyone.

A Mind of Her Own: The Evolutionary Psychology of Women

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A Solid Piece of Work
Very influential book about womens behaviors

A Mind of Her Own: The Evolutionary Psychology of Women
Anne Campbell
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ASIN: 0198504985

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Theories of human evolution portray ancestral men as active individuals who shaped future generations by testosterone-driven competition, creating a critical gulf between reproductive winners and losers. But what role is left for women within such evolutionary thinking? Their role has been constricted to mere consumers of the fruits of male competition accepting the winning male genes to pass to their children. Allegedly devoid of the need and capacity for competition amongst themselves, women could be neither winners nor losers in the reproductive stakes and so could contribute nothing to the genetic variability that drives selection. Is it any wonder that feminists are dismissive of such evolutionary approaches? That many have sought to ignore the contribution that evolutionary theory can make to our understanding of women? But have women really just been bit part actors in the whole story of evolution? Have they not played their own role in ensuring their reproductive success? In this highly accessible and thought provoking new book, Anne Campbell challenges this passive role of women in evolutionary theory, and redresses the current bias within evolutionary writing. Guiding us through the basics of evolutionary theory, she proposes that women have forged their own strategic way forward, acting through their own forms of competition, rivalry, aggression, and sexuality, to shape their own destiny. Throwing down a challenge to feminist theories, Campbell argues that evolutionary theory can indeed teach us plenty about the development of the female mind - we just need to get it right. This is an important book that will force others to re-evaluate their own assumptions about the evolution of the female mind.

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A Solid Piece of Work.......2005-11-01

Anne Campbell looks at why females are too easily presumed to be merely passive receivers of winning males' sperm.

Considering the enormous burden of motherhood and a mothers need for resources for both herself and her limited number of potential offspring it should follow that females will compete with each other for resources and there will be differential reproductive success amongst females.

But it is also essential for females to preserve their own health throughout their reproductive lifetime so open, physical aggression is not normally an option. (It is an option for males who can maximise their number of offspring in a brief spell of copulatory access to a number of females.)

So female competition is indirect and low-level harrassment except when the mother needs to show full aggression to directly protect her offspring.

Campbell discusses hormone studies - particularly serotonin and dopamine - suggesting that different levels of these in the sexes provide a braking system on female emotions and impulsive behaviour but less so on males. Hence greater male impulsivity, risk-taking, violence and even suicide. Only the male had the potential for reproductive gains via this weaker braking system.

Campbell also makes many more points about females and males such as the rarity of male parental care in nature and the possible reasons for monogamy eg the female trades sex for the protection of one male against numerous other males who may also be infanticidal. She also discusses female crime and female friendship.

And regarding modern women she points out that there is nothing new about women working except that women have to leave their children to do so.

This is a solid, wide-ranging book providng sound evolutionary reasons for women's psychology and behaviour. She includes the important points about variation within the sexes and the overlap of the sexes. But by considering the reality of how males and females achieved reproductive success in different ways during evolution she explains much about the differences between the sexes today.

Highly recommended.

Very influential book about womens behaviors.......2004-01-17

Quite simply, I am impressed with the value and scope of this manuscript. It is the most influential piece of work written about the mind and behavior of women to appear in history (and yes that is a bold statement, read it you won't be disappointed). I say kudos for taking on a topic of such magnitude, and bringing to light the fact that women too have an evolutionary past. This book is loaded with insight about women's behaviors such as social aggression, friendship, love and marriage. And far from offering simple opinions, the ideas and explanations are backed up by a stagering mound of scientific data. Whether you are an academic or the average Jane, this book is bound to be a classic read for anyone interested in the unique behaviors of women.

Mind of My Own: The Woman Who Was Known As "Eve" Tells the Story of Her Triumph over Multiple Personality Disorder

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Read only if you're interested in HOPE and HEALING!
Better Than the Prequel, But That's Not Saying Much

Mind of My Own: The Woman Who Was Known As "Eve" Tells the Story of Her Triumph over Multiple Personality Disorder
Chris Costner Sizemore
Manufacturer: William Morrow & Co
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ASIN: 0688081991

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Read only if you're interested in HOPE and HEALING!.......2002-10-14

Forget the writing style!!! It is readable for anyone interested in making changes and progress! But NOT a How-To book! A sincere, shared story of recovery and hope from someone who does understand what it's like!

Better Than the Prequel, But That's Not Saying Much.......2001-08-22

Yes, this is better than it's prequel, I'm Eve, in terms of writing style. However, it is terribly non-engaging. I couldn't even bring myself to suffer through it on an incredibly boring train ride when I had nothing else to read. Enough said.

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Anita's Mexico

Anita Brenner: A Mind of Her Own
Susannah Joel Glusker
Manufacturer: University of Texas Press
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ASIN: 0292728107

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"Anita Brenner should be a figure of great interest to current-day readers. Apart from her accomplishments, she was one of the culturally hybrid individuals whose heterogeneity exerts a fascination."

—Naomi Lindstrom, author of The Social Conscience of Latin American Writing

Journalist, historian, anthropologist, art critic, and creative writer, Anita Brenner was one of Mexico's most discerning interpreters. Born to a Jewish immigrant family in Mexico a few years before the Revolution of 1910, she matured into an independent liberal who defended Mexico, workers, and all those who were treated unfairly, whatever their origin or nationality.

In this book, her daughter, Susannah Glusker, traces Brenner's intellectual growth and achievements from the 1920s through the 1940s. Drawing on Brenner's unpublished journals and autobiographical novel, as well as on her published writing, Glusker describes the origin and impact of Brenner's three major books, Idols Behind Altars, Your Mexican Holiday, and The Wind That Swept Mexico.

Along the way, Glusker traces Brenner's support of many liberal causes, including her championship of Mexico as a haven for Jewish immigrants in the early 1920s. This intellectual biography brings to light a complex, fascinating woman who bridged many worlds—the United States and Mexico, art and politics, professional work and family life.

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Anita's Mexico.......2000-03-06

A fascinating book for those interested in Mexican-American relationships. Anita's active role in the rich cultural life of Mexico in the twenties, and her friendship with such figures as Diego Rivera, Frida Khalo and Tina Modotti, provide a valuable insight into an also fascinating country. Her bright intelligence proved to be well ahead of times. A true and sincere fighter against stereotypes of Mexico in American minds, she was one of the very few to challenge them, contributing with her work to a better understanding among both countries. Such conscious research by Ms. Glusker deserves much praise. One wishes that she had included a much more deep insight into Anita's persona and emotions, as well as her work in the family's farm in her late years. Anita's wide variety of interests seemed to have no limits.But maybe that is material for another book.

A Mind of Her Own: Helen Connor Laird and Family, 1888-1982 (Wisconsin Land and Life)

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A Mind of Her Own: Helen Connor Laird and Family, 1888-1982 (Wisconsin Land and Life)
Helen L. Laird
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ASIN: 0299214508

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A Mind of Her Own: Helen Connor Laird and Family 1888–1982 captures the public achievement and private pain of a remarkable Wisconsin woman and her family, whose interests and influence extended well beyond the borders of the state. Spanning almost a century, the history speaks to the way we were and are: a stridently materialistic nation with a deep and persistent spiritual component.

A Mind of Her Own: The Life of Karen Horney (Radcliffe Biography Series)

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has all the elements of a solid biography
first female psychiatrist & pioneer in psychoanalytic theory

A Mind of Her Own: The Life of Karen Horney (Radcliffe Biography Series)
Susan Quinn
Manufacturer: Perseus Books
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ASIN: 0201155737

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has all the elements of a solid biography.......2004-01-21

This book is not only well-researched and referenced, but written in a pleasant narrative style that takes the reader through key events in the life of psychoanalyst and neoanalyst Karen Horney. Deft use of quotations from journals, letters, and interviews brings to life not only Horney herself as she moves through the stages of her life, but the historical background in which she taught, analyzed, loved, and struggled to trust the voice (in Carol Gilligan's sense of that word) which even Freud tried to disparage, emanating as it did from a woman--or as many of Horney's opponents were forced to acknowledge, from THAT woman.

Horney, a brilliant analyst, did stupid things on occasion, as all of us do. She could be impatient, unempathic, and impulsive. Her cheery humanistic view of human nature may have led her at times to underestimate what Jung called the shadow side of psyche. Nevertheless, the impact and originality of her ideas inspired generations of analysts and sympathetic readers all over the world. She refused to keep silent in the face of dissent, and thousands, perhaps millions, of us are the better for her courage.

The author mentions that Horney had a gift for inspiring the feeling, "She's talking about me!" More than twenty years ago, I picked up a book more or less at random one day, read it, and have been training in psychology--my own therapy, BA, MS, and now PhD--ever since. The book was Karen Horney's SELF-ANALYSIS. This fine biography helped me understand more about the analyst who stood by spiritually at the start of my own vocation.

first female psychiatrist & pioneer in psychoanalytic theory.......1998-08-24

There are two particularly interesting points of focus in Quinn's book, the more obvious being the development of Horney's work as the first feminist psychiatrist (and Freudian psychoanalyst) at a time when psychoanalysis was not acceptable to the new specialty of psychiatry (that itself had only just become acceptable to neurology by declaring itself to be a specialty of brain diseases). The second theme, a natural concomitant of the first, is the revelation that Europe just before the turn of the century--the time and place where Horney was coming of age and beginning her study of medicine--was, contrary to popular belief, rather sexually open (at least among the intelligentsia) and a time of great advances in women's rights. Her life, from her first diary entries in 1898 at age 13 to her death in 1942, was a struggle to dissect herself to achieve self-understanding. Her earliest work was a slight divergence from pure Freudian theory; her later work was a true Horneyan theory, derived less from the brilliant organization of Freud and more from her life experience as a woman and a human being. From the beginning, Horney measured the validity of Freud's theories against her own experience, concluding that the female experience was worthy of its own body of theoretical work. Quinn has allowed Horney to be human, painstakingly documenting her genius, as well as her chaotic personal life that clearly furnished much of the material for developing her own psychoanalytic theory.

A Mind of Her Own: A Life of the Writer George Sand

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A Mind of Her Own: A Life of the Writer George Sand
Tamara Hovey
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A Mind of Her Own: The Life of Karen Horney

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A Mind of Her Own: The Life of Karen Horney

Manufacturer: Addison-Wesley
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ASIN: B000GX311Q

Light Your Fire, a Program for Men (Light Your Own Fire, Light Her Fire, Workbook and Audio Tape Set)

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Light Your Fire, a Program for Men (Light Your Own Fire, Light Her Fire, Workbook and Audio Tape Set)
Ellen Kreidman
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Binding: Audio Cassette

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ASIN: B000RY7RI2

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This is the complete program set that includes two audio tape sets and two corresponding workbooks. Includes audio book LIGHT YOUR OWN FIRE, and LIGHT HER FIRE, and both workbooks that go with each audio tape set.

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Mind of Her Own
Veronica Boyle
Manufacturer: Vantage Press
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 0533062055

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