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THE SICILIAN DIET is a clinically proven diet and lifestyle plan that helps you restore your intrinsic health and increase your longevity. More good news: you''ll enjoy the process.Written by a noted nutritional cardiologist / integrative medicine physician, with recipes supplied by his wife, also a physician (and a native of Sicily), THE SICILIAN DIET is much more than a credible, delicious way to eat well while losing excess weight and fat; it is a complete lifestyle plan that addresses all the elements essential to physical and mental wellness at any age. In the truest sense of the word, it is the "diet" for a good long life.The content of THE SICILIAN DIET presents an appealing, do-able plan. Organized in three parts, the book leads the reader through a fundamental understanding of what shapes our health; the lifestyle steps that put and keep us on track; and the unique 90-day Sicilian Diet Plan, which includes a sampling of can''t-wait-to-eat-that! Sicilian recipes. Using down-to-earth language, the author condenses his years of study of longevity, diet, and the connection between lifestyle and disease to show us how easy-and enjoyable-is to live long and well.Internationally recognized medical research shows that the current Standard American Diet (SAD) and lifestyle are the cause of an epidemic of heart disease, diabetes and cancer. But, there is good news coming out of these studies, too: a good diet and thoughtful lifestyle can not only prevent serious disease-it can also reverse it. THE SICILIAN DIET offers you that plan.

In Two Friends-From a Life-Threatening Stroke to a 66-Year-Old Model! Geri Rockstein, shares her deeply inspiring true-life tale of strength over adversity, of discipline and determination over devastation and of the priceless value that comes from genuine friendship to help chart the path. This is a saga anyone facing seemingly unbeatable obstacles can use as a light to show their way forward. -Gregory CheadleThis book is an inspiration to anyone going through recovery for a stroke or any other debilitating illness, and for their families as well. I highly recommend it; it will have you laughing and crying, often at the same time!-Sharon WalderReading Two Friends-From a Life-Threatening Stroke to a 66-Year-Old Model! was a great heart-warming read about true survivorship. From being at the will of the body to the body being healed by personal will, Geri describes her experience in the most authentically charming way. I absolutely loved it and highly recommend it to anyone looking to be encouraged." -Bethel

"That's when it hit me. The voices of my teachers were clear. And what they said to me changed the course of not just my work, but my life. Their advice led me to discover and represent tremendous talent, pioneer new ways of doing business, and have my work recognized throughout the entertainment industry. More importantly, their guidance has made me a better husband, and father, and friend. What I realized that day is what this book is all about."Harry Abrams (Founder and Former Chairman/CEO, Abrams Artists Agency) delivers a detail-oriented blueprint of how to succeed in the talent agency business whether you are just getting started or a seasoned professional. Citing specific examples of how he came to work with greats just as Eddie Albert presenting a commercial spot for The Lipton Tea Company when Harry was just out of the MCA mailroom to household names including Jennifer Lopez and Liam Neeson, Harry presents a step-by-step outline of his experience helping his clients achieve their best. Integrity and trust play crucial roles in developing talent and business relationships no matter what may be happening in a turbulent industry or economy. Staying true to these maxims help provide a foundation for building success.

"The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. -Sun Tzu, author, The Art of WarThe challenge is this: how can America's fractured democracy and diverse society respond to a centrally orchestrated strategy from China that ultimately may challenge our interests and our values? Some Chinese-Americans and Chinese residents-perhaps only a relative handful-have cooperated in obtaining technology for China. And many Chinese nationals who obtained years of experience working at American companies have returned to China to help competitors there. The Chinese have a nickname for these individuals, haigui, or returning sea turtles who come ashore once a year to lay their eggs. This book outlines the contemporary issues and offers solutions.

"As an educated and experienced financial executive, I have read countless books and listened to dozens of speakers on this topic. The work of a successful financial adviser is premised on building a trusted relationship with the client - a relationship that not only adds value to one's portfolio but also adds value to one's life. That is a fitting description of Scott's approach to his profession. Thank you, Scott, for your professionalism and for putting pen to paper to share your knowledge and experience." -Ed Imparato, CMA, MBA, Senior Financial Executive and Inspired Leader, 2010 CFO of the Year - Private Companies - NJBIZ"Scott Lask in his book presents some good basics of investment strategy for these unstable and troubled financial times. An easy to grasp comfortable read and addition to serious investors libraries."-Dr. Robert Goldman MD, DO, PhD, World Chairman-International Medical Commission"Scott presents an easy-to-understand approach to investing and financial security. It's an easy read for novices and a great refresher for the more experienced investor. He has made me smarter and more confident in my retirement."-Steve Cook, Partner, Trusted Talent"I strongly recommend this book for anyone looking for a holistic approach to wealth management. I love his positive and easy to follow examples still leaving room for you to formulate and execute your investment plan. A must read for anyone looking to improve their wealth."-Steven Schussler, Chairman of the Board, CEO & Founder, Schussler Creative, Inc. Inventions, Ideas, Contraptions and Dreams¿Scott Lask is a veteran of Wall Street with four decades of investing, money management, retirement and legacy planning experience. Having lived through-and navigated his clients through The Great Crash of 1987, the Dotcom craze, the Dotcom crash, the mortgage market collapse & Great recession, Scott has learned the tell-tale signs of the financial markets. He shares his experience to help investors win with wealth preservation and accumulation strategies. This book presents sensible advice and guidance for investors at every stage of life.Scott founded The Scott Lask Wealth Management Group, LLC in 2004. A core value of the practice: to understand each client's relationship with money on an emotional level to create a customized plan to reduce stress and worry when financial markets are volatile. Scott sees his primary job as being his clients advocate and to provide stewardship to their financial life & legacy. Scott hosts Strive for a Work-Optional Life! a monthly webinar. https://scottlask.com/live-events/

The New Gold Standard To Future Proof Your BusinessAll business plans and business models (at best) produce a temporary competitive advantage. They need to be constantly updated or expanded to maintain a durable year-over-year business through all lifecycle stages of development and growth. The world is changing rapidly and so are our customers', preferences, technology capabilities, funding sources, investor shareholder dictates, and demands requiring an innovative, flexible, workforce and leadership.This book covers a methodology to define the essentials needed to prepare and maintain business practices that lead to short-term and synergistic, long-term success in the marketplace. Central to this methodology is the emphasis on reaching and maintaining competitive superiority via perpetual planning and continuous improvement of core capabilities, which are critical for developing business longevity justification, reduction of risk rationale, increased value substantiation, and the avoidance of business failure.

Monica Randall grew up on the Gold Coast of Long Island and was fascinated by the massive estates and their tantalizing stories. Millionaire F. W. Woolworth built Winfield, the grandest of its manors in the 1910s. On a clear day, you can see the New York City skyline from its balustraded roof, yet for nearly a century few have been allowed to enter its gates. In the 1960s Monica was living in one of the fabled mansions built by a Five-and-Dime heiress. While there, she began a career scouting locations for movies; she used many of the surrounding estates including Winfield. After a brief incarnation as a charm school, Winfield was closed and auctioned off. At the auction, Monica met a mysterious European businessman, who bought the house. After a whirlwind romance, they became engaged, and Monica moved in to Winfield, only to have her suspicions confirmed: Winfield is haunted. Amid magnificent gilded carvings and marble, a labyrinth of secret passageways, hidden chambers, and deserted tunnels help reveal the true nature of its eccentric builder. Through exhaustive research and countless interviews, Monica gradually uncovered stories of the Woolworths' sad past: the suicide of Edna Woolworth (Barbara Hutton's mother), Woolworth's obsession with Napoleon and the Egyptian occult, and the rumors surrounding the unsolved fire which burnt the first Winfield to the ground. This riveting memoir explores the culture and history of an era gone by, filled with enthralling stories of infamous scandals and breathtaking Gilded Age tales of New York society. Captivating and impossible to put down, this book will enchant readers everywhere. Throughout the last fifty years the Gold Coast mansions were regularly razed for sub-developments; Winfield is the last of the marble palaces still standing.

Including Advise & ConsentSenator Susan CollinsConstitution & Race President Barack ObamaThis edition of the United States Constitution features the complete text of the Constitution and its twenty-seven amendments in a definitive and easily read version that has been approved by leading congressional and constitutional scholars.Illuminating this historic document are essays and commentary by some of America''s leading statesmen, Former Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, and Senator Robert Dole.Senator Charles McC. Mathias Jr. considered by many to have been the most distinguished senatorial scholar on the Constitution, conveys the fascinating story of the Constitution in an essay that can be enjoyed by all who cherish its freedoms.

 In the late 1930s bombshell of a book appeared which told the story of the lords of wealth and their glittering clans. It was called AMERICA''S SIXTY FAMILIES. It rocked the nation and became a classic.  Lundberg showed how America was ruled by a plutocracy of inherited wealth, even under the New Deal. At the time he could only provide a sampling of the economic and political patterns of those families, which, for one reason or another, had come under public scrutiny. In addition to the Sixty Families he dealt with in depth, he was able to outline the probable holdings of a few hundred other families.  The author, in writing THE RICH AND THE SUPER-RICH, had at his disposal infinitely richer data, monographs, Congressional investigations than were available three decades ago. They have made it possible for him to give us a book which is much more than a mere updating of AMERICA''S SIXTY FAMILIES. It is, rather, a systematic study of the entire wealthy class and its familial structure. (In one important aspect it resembles AMERICA''S SIXTY FAMILIES: It is written for the layman to awaken the reader to the real and little-known situation.)These families have all the old levers of power and wealth plus a whole host of new ones created for them during the intervening decades by the politicians, lawyers and judges who serve them. Although published in 1968 and rocketed to the top of the bestseller list, the wealth managed by these families remains a significant force in today''s economy and should not be underestimated.

"Bill Holstein nails it. This is exactly the right book at the right time. Holstein knows because he has spent decades observing events closely around the world and interpreting them especially in terms of what they mean for real people in America. His observations are deeply insightful and U.S. leaders need to pay attention to his suggestions. The book is also a fun read." -Clyde Prestowitz, veteran trade negotiator and author, The World Turned Upside Down: America, China, and the Struggle for Global Leadership. The rapid spread of the coronavirus demonstrated how deeply interwoven our societies have become, yet we have failed to understand the Chinese Communist system and its values. The Chinese Communist Party have taken advantage of the worldwide pandemic to push their agenda and their interests far more aggressively than at any point in the "engagement" we have had with them for some forty years. I was there in southern China when it started.

A very special collection of short biographies offers insightful sketches of the lives and accomplishments of 150 of history's most influential and brilliant women, including Clara Barton, the legendary Trung Sisters of medieval Vietnam, and many others. Ranging from an ancient Egyptian ruler (Queen Hatshepsut) to a contemporary athlete (Billie Jean King), these highly readable thumbnail sketches cover areas from literature to politics, fashion to aviation, music to science. The 120 entries offer concise overviews of specific women's lives and accomplishments, with a thoughtful blend of professional and personal details. In addition to often-profiled figures (Susan B. Anthony, Eleanor Roosevelt), the collection also includes less well known but influential women like the seventh-century Chinese ruler Wu Chao and Vietnamese activist Nguyen Thi Binh. The team of nine women authors (including Ashby and Ohrn) employs a conversational tone that encourages leisurely browsing. Many selections are prefaced with a revealing excerpt from the subject's writings, and each is accompanied by a photograph or artistic likeness. Ages 10-up.

This memoir describes the authors experiences as a young archaeologist participating in the American archaeological excavations at ancient Knidos at south-west Turkey in 1971. Knidos, once a great classical metropolis and now entirely abandoned, is situated at Cape Crio, an isolated but glorious location at the end of a mountainous finger jutting out towards the Dodecanese islands. The ancient metropolis is famous for its marble statue of the goddess, Aphrodite, the scandalous first naked image of the deity made by the renowned sculptor, Praxiteles in the 4th century BC and imitated throughout antiquity. The book describes ('the mad consul') Charles Newton's epic excavations at Knidos during the Crimean War when, with Parliamentary support and a frigate, he excavated tons of sculpture which was dispatched the British Museum. Newton's excavations set the scene for Iris Cornelia Love's excavations (1967-77)-the Guggenheim heiress from Manhattan, who believed she discovered Aphrodite on the day American astronauts landed on the moon. This is a story about adolescence, place, archaeologists, the lost world of Turkish peasants and…… love. It portrays a major Mediterranean dig and a restless search for trophies. It also tells a tale about an extraordinarily magical place.Knidos is about classical archaeology in Victorian and modern times, the spirit of this magical place in Aegean Turkey. It also describes the mix of many personalities on this excavation, from the USA in the Vietnam War era (featuring a New York heiress, Iris Cornelia Love) and of course the local, Turkish hired peasants. Based on youthful participation on the excavations, it aims to recall some of the excitement of archaeology. Central to the story is the quest for Praxiteles's celebrated naked statue of Aphrodite, the goddess of love.

"Insightful…Entertaining… A reminder of how much we owe our forefathers."-Richard Beeman, author of Plain, Honest Men: The Making of the American Constitution."Inventing America is a terrific way to introduce our nation's founders to a new generation of Americans."-Gleaves Whitney, presidential historianAt the close of the Constitutional Convention of 1787 in Philadelphia an elderly woman approached Benjamin Franklin as he was leaving the Pennsylvania State House. "Tell me, Dr. Franklin, she said, "do we have a republic or a monarchy?" Dr. Franklin replied: "A republic, madam, if you can keep it."What would our Founding fathers think if they could see our country today? Would they turn over in their graves? Or would they be astonished that our republic is still alive? George Washington, who presided at the 1787 convention, predicted it wouldn't last twenty years, so take a guess.Inventing America: Conversations with the Founders takes you behind the scenes of the creation of the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, and the Bill of Rights. See how these are not just dusty old parchments stored away in a museum but how they define us as Americans and serve-through good times and bad-as a beacon of freedom to the world.

"Insightful…Entertaining… A reminder of how much we owe our forefathers."-Richard Beeman, author of Plain, Honest Men: The Making of the American Constitution."Inventing America is a terrific way to introduce our nation's founders to a new generation of Americans."-Gleaves Whitney, presidential historianAt the close of the Constitutional Convention of 1787 in Philadelphia an elderly woman approached Benjamin Franklin as he was leaving the Pennsylvania State House. "Tell me, Dr. Franklin, she said, "do we have a republic or a monarchy?" Dr. Franklin replied: "A republic, madam, if you can keep it."What would our Founding fathers think if they could see our country today? Would they turn over in their graves? Or would they be astonished that our republic is still alive? George Washington, who presided at the 1787 convention, predicted it wouldn't last twenty years, so take a guess.Inventing America: Conversations with the Founders takes you behind the scenes of the creation of the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, and the Bill of Rights. See how these are not just dusty old parchments stored away in a museum but how they define us as Americans and serve-through good times and bad-as a beacon of freedom to the world.

¿The Village of Dering Harbor was incorporated in 1917 after many successful years as a resort community formed in 1873 as Shelter Island Park. The centerpiece of the community was the great Manhanset House that opened in 1874 serving the well-to-do of the late 19th century during the summer season. As the hotel was nestled overlooking a protected harbor with access to both Long Island Sound and Block Island Sound with LIRR service from Brooklyn, the community attracted many yachting families from the New York Yacht Club, Atlantic Yacht Club, and other clubs from New York Harbor to Long Island Sound to Bristol Rhode Island. One of the many legacies is the large fleet of Herreshoff 12 ¿ footers located at the Shelter Island Yacht Club not to mention the burgees of some of the Club's earliest members displayed as you find your way to the head. Many of the original cottages built in Dering Harbor were either private homes or houses owned and operated by the hotel. The styles range from period Victorian, Federal Style, Classic Revival to Queen Anne. Two buildings in use today were originally carriage houses. The Village also hosts the third oldest golf course in the Unites States, incorporated as the Manhanset links in 1896 now known as Gardiner's Bay Country Club. The Village of Dering Harbor has frequently been called the smallest incorporated village in New York State, perhaps in the whole country. The late Ian Brownlie, former mayor, once spoke of his bailiwick as "the smallest political unit in the United States" and has not, so far, been contradicted. Ghost towns of smaller dimensions and zero populations may perhaps be found in the once-golden west but Dering Harbor is decisively not that sort of community. Skeletons in closets, maybe; ghosts not yet!

"The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. -Sun Tzu, author, The Art of WarThe challenge is this: how can America's fractured democracy and diverse society respond to a centrally orchestrated strategy from China that ultimately may challenge our interests and our values? Some Chinese-Americans and Chinese residents-perhaps only a relative handful-have cooperated in obtaining technology for China. And many Chinese nationals who obtained years of experience working at American companies have returned to China to help competitors there. The Chinese have a nickname for these individuals, haigui, or returning sea turtles who come ashore once a year to lay their eggs. This book outlines the contemporary issues and offers solutions.

¿Bamber says BEAR TRAP is not an exposé, not a tell-all tale. Instead, he says it's a book about the human drama of watching a venerable global institution's untimely collapse. Released on the day Lehman Brothers declared bankruptcy, BEAR TRAP rocketed to the near top of the bestseller lists as the country held its breath waiting for the Panic and "Great Recession" that followed."This (book) just tells the story from someone who's there. It takes the reader and puts them into my seat. We all know how this ended, but (this book) is really all about the journey there.'" -Anthony Cronin, Business Editor, The Day's BusinessBear, Stearns & Co., a storied Wall Street firm with a maverick reputation had endured many crises in its 85-year history. Nothing however could have prepared the firm for the sudden death spiral that would lead to its takeover for a pittance. In a dramatic showdown with JP Morgan and the Fed, this is the tragic story of how fortunes were made and lost.No one has the advantage of hindsight, but BEAR TRAP tells the story of what it was like in the trenches watching your world collapse around you. What can you do? Nothing? Get out if you can with your life savings? Wait and see? Or learn from Bill's experience as he sees it in real time. The choice is up to you.

[Eric Wiberg] "...builds a character both attractive and intriguing to the reader. I ended genuinely curious about what might come next, and confident that I was in the hands of an expert story-teller." -William F. Buckley Jr. "Eric Wiberg's ability, to unearth obscure historical facts, keeps me in a constant state of surprise. I commend his relentless determination to verify every detail, with local sources in Nassau's historical community, for corroboration of his findings."-Capt. Paul C. Aranha, Author, The Island Airman . . . and his Bahama Islands Home. "Eric Wiberg has made a significant contribution to the bibliography of World War II history." -J. Revell Carr, Santa Fe, N.M. This book tells one more key part of the big story and is one more piece in the giant puzzle of the history of World War II. Its value for historians cannot be underestimated. Throughout the stories of the attacks by German and Italian submarines on Allied shipping in the water around the Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos, several consistent themes emerge in Wiberg's thorough accounts. Prime among them is the heroism of the merchant mariners who time and again put themselves in danger as they performed the critical task of moving supplies, military and civilian, which were vital to ultimate victory. We read of numerous instances of sailors having their ships shot out from under them and then continuously going back to sea and having additional ships torpedoed and sunk. We can also recognize what we know today as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), which was seldom recognized 75 years ago. Wiberg pays proper credit to the controversial Duchess of Windsor, whose husband was the wartime governor of the Bahamas. Just as she carried out this official duty, this book relates the heartening tales of everyday Bahamians, often poor and on outlying islands, who generously provided for these desperate castaways. Wiberg also acknowledges the heroism of the Axis submariners as he recounts not only their victories but also their deaths as many of the subs were eventually tracked down and sunk. History isn't great events, it is the continuum of many small events carried out by real people. U-Boats in the Bahamas and Turks and Caicos gives us an intimate glimpse of those events and, importantly, those people. J. Revell Carr Santa Fe, N.M. Eric Wiberg grew up in the Bahamas, the son of the Swedish Consul-General there. A licensed maritime lawyer, his thesis for a Master's Degree in Marine Affairs was published as Tanker Disasters. For three years he commercially operated tankers in Singapore. Over 25 years he has sailed on 100 vessels, most of them sailboats, for 75,000 miles, including voyages across the Atlantic and Pacific and over 30 ocean passages to or from Bermuda. He has published four books, the latest being Round the World in the Wrong Season. A graduate of Boston College, he studied at Harris Manchester College, Oxford, and in Lisbon. Employed in the shipping industry in New York City, he lives with his wife and son in Westport, Connecticut.

Indian Gaming Business wrote, "Class Act, Gary Green has brought Las Vegas flamboyance¿and big profits to Indian Country."Casino City Times called him "The Donald Trump of Indian Casinos" and in fact he is a former Trump Vice-President.How did these casinos come into being?Are the games "legitimate"? Can players win?What have Donald Trump, Caesar's Place, MGM, and Steve Wynn done with or about Indian Casinos?How is the money made and who gets it?What role do non-Indian entrepreneurs play in developing and operating these casinos?Is there organized crime?How are these casinos managed?Is there investment opportunity?Do the states have any recourse, control, or ability to tax?Do these casinos solve or provide retribution for the poverty, neargenocide, and abuse Native Americans have suffered since Europeans arrived?

Whether you're in the rapturous throes of endless love or the first moments of stomach-churning awareness that your marriage is falling apart, this book is for you. It's for every woman who understands that self-preservation will not happen if you rely on someone else to save you. You need to maintain-or begin to establish-your personal independence and financial solvency if you want to be self-sufficient no matter what life throws at you. You can lean on someone, but you have to be able to stand on your own two feet at a moment's notice, and that's what this book is about.

I have met and worked with many entertainers in my life. The idea of this book came to me one evening while visiting Cuba. I expand on this in the chapter ΓÇÿFinding a seed inside Havana.ΓÇÖ Also, the wonderful actress Doris Roberts came for dinner one evening and wrote a letter that stated, ΓÇ£An extraordinary cook who takes pleasure in inviting his friends to his home for an evening of great food, wine and interesting conversation. The table is so beautiful that you hate to sit down to mess it up. The food that he cooks takes time, thoughtfulness and knowledge and he spends hours preparing it. Did I mention the aroma that greets you when you walk into his house?ΓÇ¥

A New York Times Bestseller In The Life And Death of Adolf Hitler, biographer Robert Payne unravels the tangled threads of Hitler's public and private life and looks behind the caricature with the Charlie Chaplin mustache and the unruly shock of hair to reveal a Hitler possessed of immense personal charm that impressed both men and women and brought followers and contributions to the burgeoning Nazi Party. Although he misread his strength and organized an ill-fated putsch, Hitler spent his months in prison writing Mein Kampf, which increased his following. Once in undisputed command of the Party, Hitler renounced the chastity of his youth and began a sordid affair with his niece, whose suicide prompted him to reject forever all conventional morality. He promised anything to prospective supporters, then cold-bloodedly murdered them before they could claim a share of the power he reserved for himself. Once he became Chancellor, Hitler step by step bent the powers of the state to his own purposes to satisfy his private fantasies, rearming Germany, slaughtering his real or imaginary enemies, blackmailing one by one the leaders of Europe, and plunging the world into the holocaust of World War II. THE LIFE AND DEATH OF ADOLF HITLER is the story of not so much a man corrupted by power as a corrupt man who achieved absolute power and used it to an unprecedented degree, knowing at every moment exactly what he was doing and calculating his enemies' weaknesses to a hair's breadth. It is the story of a living man. Robert Payne (1911-1983) was born in Cornwall, U.K. His father was English, his mother French. He was educated at St. Paul's School in London and at the universities of Liverpool, Capetown in South Africa, Munich and The Sorbonne. During his lifetime he had over a hundred books published on a wide range of subjects, the widest range of any known author. He was known chiefly for his biographies and history books, among them Hitler, Lenin, Stalin, Gandhi, Leonardo, Chaplin, the Christian Centuries, The World of Art. He also wrote novels and poetry. Librarians loved him; critics raved about him. Orville Prescott of The New York Times referred to him as "a literary phenomenon of astounding versatility and industry."