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Paperback. Condition: Good. Bought from Russia in 1867, Alaska is the 49th and largest state in the USA. This guide offers travel advice, as well as background information about Alaska's history and local culture.

Paperback. Condition: Good. This guide to Alaska aims to show the traveller how to see as much as they want on a reasonable budget. Now in its fifth edition, the book includes climate charts, information on outdoor activities and a highlights section to help travellers decide where to go to suit their interests.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. Jim Owen leads a massively successful seminar that is in huge demand by financial groups, teachers' organizations, and professional associations. His first book, Cowboy Ethics, has sold more than 60,000 copies in two years. Now Owen continues his nonpartisan message, offering the legacy of the cowboy as a model of accessible, positive qualities that all can agree on, regardless of religion or political persuasion. This new book explains the enduring values he observed in cowboys, ones that can lead us to personal and professional fulfillment: a can-do spirit, authenticity, courage, strength of character, humbleness, chivalry, and heart. Accompanied by striking full-color photos, this motivational guide is the only book of its kind, and it will inspire readers from all walks of life in the tradition of best sellers such as Fish , Good to Great, and Think and Grow Rich. …

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No one should smile before the sun rises. On the happiness scale, content is about as good as you can get to in these dark hours. I wake early most every morning because content works for me. Since becoming the father of two, this tiny portion of the day is all the me-time I have left. If people were honest, which they mostly aren't, I think they would admit to wanting more time alone. It's 5:47 AM and I'm sitting quietly in the kitchen, where there are no responsibilities, no guilt, and no unmet expectations. Simply silence. Mitch Pederson, a forty-something executive in the high-tech world, made no allowance for blackmail in his comprehensive plans to ascend to the top of an electronics company. His carefully ordered world quickly unravels into a chaos that threatens everything he cares about. As he puts the pieces of his life back together he discovers something about himself that is much more than the sum of the parts.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. -- Offers suggestions for other activities along the trails-- Many trails begin or end near a campground-- Provides trip length, difficulty level, and recommended season for each hikeThe opportunities in Michigan for short hikes, fun walks, and easy backpacking adventures are almost unlimited. The eighty outings compiled in this book represent a variety of trails and a wide range of physical challenges for children, from easy strolls through the woods to steep climbs up sand dunes. Learn about wildlife and history, too. On the Cherry Island Marsh Trail, for example, have fun spotting a variety of birds, including great blue herons, egrets, bald eagles, ospreys, and migrating hawks. Most of the hikes outlined in this book cover the best scenery Michigan, a state blessed with a treasure of natural jewels, has to offer.…

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Finally, a truly creative?and hilarious?guide to creative writing, full of encouragement and sound advice. Provocative and reassuring, nurturing and wise, The Lie That Tells a Truth is essential to writers in general, fiction writers in particular, beginning writers, serious writers, and anyone facing a blank page. John Dufresne, teacher and the acclaimed author of Love Warps the Mind a Little and Deep in the Shade of Paradise, demystifies the writing process. Drawing upon the wisdom of literature's great craftsmen, Dufresne's lucid essays and diverse exercises initiate the reader into the tools, processes, and techniques of writing: inventing compelling characters, developing a voice, creating a sense of place, editing your own words. Where do great ideas come from? How do we recognize them? How can language capture them? In his signature comic voice, Dufresne answers these questions and more in chapters such as "Writing Around the Block," "Plottery," and "The Art of Abbreviation." Dufresne demystifies the writing process, showing that while the idea of writing may be overwhelming, the act of writing is simplicity itself. …

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