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...The story of how the founder of the Famous Amos Cookie Company lost everything, including his name----and turned adversity into opportunity. This revealing book chronicles Wally's loss of the cookie empire that he had built, ...

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...Wally Amos, who rose from relative poverty to fame and fortune as "Famous Amos" details the components for a successful personal, financial and spiritual life using his ten secret ingredients for inner strength. He discusses his struggle to overcome personal and professional problems to find genuine love and inn...

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...The longest running independent newspaper at Williams is the Williams Record, a weekly broadsheet paper published on Wednesdays. The newspaper was founded in 1885, and now has a weekly circulation of 3,000 copies distributed ...

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...0 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia— Book 4 A Look at Human Values 1 ―. . . ... ... ISBN 978-0-9823076-3-2 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS IN THE HOTEL .................................................................... .................................................... 163 BUDGET DEFICITS AND NATIONAL DEBTS ............................................................... ...IC INQUIRY .......................................................... 180 HISTORICAL EVIDENCE .......................................................... ................................................................. 330 Spying on the citizens has value from a self centered point of view ................. ...ture, too, is valuable or not valuable at different times and in different places. Bribery in one situation is OK, in another it is not. ―Pe... ...that he or she will make an informed decision. In the U.S. a study by the Department of Education showed that 5% of Americans are not literate. Of H... ...kind, and monopolize power and profit.‘ And ‗Whenever we read the obscene stores of the Bible, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous ... ...redit cards always carry a fee, another type of card might be required to register the transaction. Rich people may use tax shelters if they are avai...

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...er Originally Published in 1981 by Praeger Publishers. 3 TABLE OF CONTENTS THE MARKETING OF IDEAS AND SOCIAL ISSUES 1 TABLE OF ... ...riginally Published in 1981 by Praeger Publishers. 3 TABLE OF CONTENTS THE MARKETING OF IDEAS AND SOCIAL ISSUES 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS 3 F... ...ons For Further Investigation 65 SUMMARY 65 6 THE COMMUNICATION OF IDEASS 67 AN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE 67 Theories of Communication 68 Idea Mark... ...ing, antismoking, or better environment. Fine is the first person to write a book on the general principles of social marketing and he is to be con... ... shoe producer sponsoring the idea of nature hikes or group walks through historic places. The adoption of the idea of walking, while ultimately inc... .... Again, physical fitness is an idea that quickly becomes asocial cause in time of national emergency. So, in terms of group process, ideas frequen... ...l (1), nonprofit tangibles, include purchases made at a consumer cooperative or in stores operated by charities such as the Salvation Army. Voluntar... ...y related to product promotion. Many have community affairs and/or public affairs departments. Thus the United States Brewers Association maintain... ...o warn them of their potential liabilities. The various campaigns to get aliens to register every January or to get young men to register for the dr...

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...Chapter 1: The Universe. Pgs 1-112 How the Universe came into being. Chapter 2: Life Pgs 113-131 Structural dynamics of the Universe and Life Chapter 3: Hominids Pgs 132-187 A: How we evolved into Humans ...

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Excerpt: The Muse of the Department by Honore de Balzac, translated by James Waring.

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...Introduction: Immediately after Lincoln?s re-election to the Presidency, in an off-hand speech, delivered in response to a serenade by some of his admirers on the evening of November 10, 1864, he spoke as follows: ?It has long been a grave question whether any government not too st...

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...Excerpt: This is America--a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves. The town is, in our tale, called ?Gopher Prairie, Minnesota.? But its Main Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere. The story would...

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