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We saved $230 the first month we used this system!

What's for Dinner? combines a self-guided workbook with a DVD ofthe workshop Organized Audrey has taught for 13 years. What's forDinner? will save families thousands of dollars a year and makedinner-time a manageable and family-focused event.

Planning your meals and grocery shopping in two, three or four weekincrements can save the average family of four, $1,500 to $2,000 eachyear. If you have ever walked into the supermarket for a 39-cent canof mushrooms and come up with a 30-dollar bag of groceries...thiscourse is for you!

Included is the 75-minute DVD video, the 40 page workbook withbudget planning tool, menu ideas, guidelines for picky eaters, mealcalendars, grocery and household item lists and much more.

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Lee Miller, Olive Thomas, Evelyn Nesbit, Audrey Munson, Charis Wilson, Loie Fuller, Julie Bell, Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau, Harriet Sohmers Zwerling, James K. Van Brunt, Josephine Hopper, Nan Wood Graham. Excerpt:Audrey Munson Audrey Munson (June 8, 1891 February 20, 1996) was an American model and actress, known variously as "Miss Manhattan," "the Exposition Girl," and "American Venus." She was the model or inspiration for more than 15 statues in New York City . Biography Audrey Marie Munson was born in Mexico, New York , near the city of Syracuse . Her parents, Edgar Munson and Katherine "Kittie" Mahaney, divorced when she was young and Audrey and her mother moved to New York City . In 1906, when Audrey was 15 years old, she was spotted in the street by photographer Ralph Draper, who in turn introduced her to his friend, sculptor Isidore Konti . Konti persuaded the young woman to model for him. For the next decade Munson became the model of choice for a host of sculptors and painters in New York City . By 1915 she was so well established that she was chosen by Alexander Stirling Calder as the model of choice for the Panama-Pacific International Exposition held that year. She posed for three quarters of the sculpture at that event as well as for numerous paintings and murals. Audrey Munson posed for this figure Fountain of the Setting Sun by Weinman . In 1916, probably as a result of her exposure in California at the PPIE, Munson moved to California and entered the movies. In all Munson starred in four silent films. The first of these, Inspiration , the story of a sculptor s model, featured the first time that a woman appeared fully nude on film. The censors were reluctant to ban the film, fearing they would also have to ban Renaissance art . The films were a box office ... ... Read more

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Living with chaos, clutter and confusion? Think a stress-free lifestyle is nothing more than a myth? No matter how disorganized you are (or how disorganized you think you are), you can begin to transform both your surroundings and your life.

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We all want a stress-free life. But living with chaos, clutter and confusion contributes to greater stress. Audrey Thomas, author of The Road Called Chaos, presents simple and logical tips and techniques that allow even the most disorganized person to organize and simplify their lives.

The Road Called Chaos not only identifies the organizational problems in life but assists in identifying the reasons that contribute to disorganization. She then facilitates the transformation of our surroundings based on individual personality and learning styles.

Thomas discusses the different learning styles and personality types and gives definitions, which I found particularly helpful. And to further help us she provides actual case studies for different situations.

This is a compact and concise book filled with practical information to help us get organized and accomplish more.
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Frame by Frame III continues the work of documenting the participation of African Americans in cinema and illuminating their important contributions to the art of filmmaking. African Americans are screenwriters, actors, producers, directors, musicians, and consultants who contribute their talents to a film industry that scarcely recognizes them. Frame by Frame I includes productions from 1900 through 1977; Frame by Frame II extends coverage through 1994. With this volume, Audrey Thomas McCluskey and the staff of the Black Film Center/Archive at Indiana University bring the work of this essential resource into the 21st century. Covering the years from 1994 to 2004, the volume includes listings of black cast members, directors, executive producers, film composers, performers, producers, screenwriters, and Academy Award winners and nominees. ... Read more

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Presents the surprising story of the woman who, for her first twenty-one years, lived as Cathy Deupree, and who then discovered that she was the child of country music great Hank Williams. Reprint. ... Read more

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Unimpressed
I am stuck in a vacation cabin and it is raining and there isn't much around here to read, so I read this book. On the one hand, the story is kind of interesting. It is amazing the depths humans will sink to when there is money involved. On the other hand, the author is a whiny narcissist who blames everybody else for her problems.

For example, her mother ruined her wedding and her best friend wasn't invited until the last minute, and then didn't speak to her for seven years. What kind of a person allows that to happen?

Later, she goes to an awful lot of trouble to track down her half-siblings in California. Then she shows up at the meeting liquored up, and gets in a fist-fight with her older sister who she just met. Nice. Real class act.

She describes how she meets a lawyer who asks her if she can sing and play the guitar, and then piles on lavish praise at her obvious talent. Right. If she has so much talent, why didn't she pursue music when she was young? Why didn't she do anything notable when she was young, other than be a victim?

Her birth father had a difficult and painful childhood, and yet he rose to greatness. She had a few bumps in her life, as everybody does, and rose to mediocrity.

So this book is all about "Look at me, poor little me, everybody picked on me, look how great I am, look how talented I am, look how I'm beautiful like my birth mother, look how much money I got."

By the end of the book, we are supposed to be happy she got all that money and fame, and recognition, and a singing career. All because of an accident of birth. How special for her.

Amazing story!!!
I just happened to findthe book once before in a discount bookstore.The story interested me, and so I picked up the book.What a story this girl has to tell. I recently saw a play on the life of Hank Williams, and decided I needed to read it again.It's an amazing story about this girl who was adopted, and did not learn her true identity until almost 30 years later.

It's also an amazing story of all the hurdles that she had to go through to PROVE that she was Hank's daughter.She is a fighter, that girl.

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A great book.

Very Heartbreaking at Times but Thankfully Triumphant at the End
Very well written story about how they tried to destroy a life twice. First, her biological family tried to send her into oblivion via adoption thereby possibly she might never have known her real father and legacy. Then her adoptive mother disinherited which was a double whammy she sure didn't need when her adoptive father certainly intended to take care of her just like her biological father had intended to. But Jett Williams was able to overcome it with the help of a lawyer who believed in her. Because without that lawyer, whom she married, she never would have been able to claim her legacy.

A Happy But Bittersweet Ending...
The premise of this book is so sad it makes me want to cry.Hank Williams was an unreliable country singer (like George Jones who came along later), who did things he would not have done had he not been on drugs and a hard drinker.Before his death, he signed a written contract that a child had been born to a woman in Montgomery.Actually, he had signed a notarized contract acknowledging his paternity of Bobbie Jett's as yet unborn child on October 15, 1952, three months before her birth.She was to be "wholly and completed supported by him."

He was a lanky, boyish-looking man (not good looking) with eyes much older than his years.Drugs, liquor, and hard-living caught up with him on New Year's Eve, 1952, in Knoxville, Tennessee, at the Andrew Johnson Hotel -- six days before Jett was born. Bobbie Jett moved from Montgomery to California after the birth, and Hank's mother adopted her only to die and leave the child unprotected.She was with a foster home, as a ward of the state, then adopted again at the age of three when she went to live in Mobile, Alabama.

On her 21st birthday, her mother visited her where she was attending the University of Alabama and presented her with two thousand dollars her grandmother had bequeathed to her to receive at that time.So the truth is out.She did have a famous father from whom she had inherited his talent."My guitar was my best friend growing up," she said; the radio was mine, and I sang along with the pop songs and could mimic them perfectly, and pantomime difficult recordings such as Teresa Brewer who always sang in a hurry.My dad used to sing the Hank Williams' songs, 'Hey, Good Lookin' and "I'm so lonesome I could cry' along with 'Beautiful, beautiful brown eyes' to me as he played his guitar.His father sang church music and played harmonica.I did try 'Your Cheatin' Heart' on the Cas Walker Show once, but I was not country enough to suit his high standards and went back to the love of my life, pop music.

She'd wondered where she had gotten her deep love of music, but now knew and also realized that "Hard to believe I'd been so wanted after all."She discovered that her mother had married and had five other children but, when Jett called to speak with her on the phone, she leared that her mother was dead, too.So, now she is an orphan.Just knowing she was loved after all was the lifting of a tremendous burden.

You must see the photo sections in the book to realize just how far this woman has come.Her biological mother was beautiful, could have been my sister, dark eyes and all.There is a photo of Hank and Aubrey (Hank, Jr.'s mother) with a group called 'The Drifting Cowboys."Jett made a tour in 1989 with this same group (old men now) and it was called "Jett Williams and the Drifting Cowboys."Life comes full circle.There is an article in August, 2005, edition of 'Guideposts,' an inspirational publication called "Birthright" about her present life in Hartsdale, Tennessee.She looks like her dad.

FACT IS STRANGER THAN FICTION...
Jett Williams' story is the sort of tale for soap opera fodder, only better, because it's based on true life. This book has everything...fame, sex, sabotage, covertness, secrets, lies, legal battles...and all within the same family. It's sad to know that the family of such an inspiring talent as Hank Williams, Sr., could stoop to such cruelty and greed...and even more amazing that Jett was able to rise above it all, claim her heritage and be recognized for her own talent. She should be a spokesperson for open adoption records everywhere! Her struggle is an inspiration to adoptees everywhere who hope for a biological reconnection. ... Read more

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Once hailed as the most influential black woman in the U.S., Mary McLeod Bethune has received little scholarly attention in the histories of the period.McCluskey and Smith examine the complex career of this leader, demonstrating her role as stateswoman, politician, educational leader, and visionary.A unique blend of original documentation and scholarship, highlighting over 70 documents from 1902 to 1955. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Montalbán, published by Universidad Catolica Andrea Bello on January 1, 2000. The length of the article is 1466 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.

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Title: Colson, Audrey Butt. 1998. Fray Cary-Elwes S.J. and the Alleluia Indians.(incluye otras resenas )(Resena de libro)
Author: Angelina Pollak-Eltz
Publication: Montalbán (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 2000
Publisher: Universidad Catolica Andrea Bello
Page: 332(3)

Article Type: Resena de libro

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