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From bestselling author and columnist Vicki Lansky--hers are ideas to trigger your imagination and help you thing of many more wonderful ways to give love away to the one who matters most in your life. Whether it's a simple walk in the moonlight, a champagne dinner for two, a practical gift certificate, or a love note under the pillow--Vicki Lansky's romantic suggestions are sure to charm and delight. Line are throughout.

Static Web pages are out. Interaction with Java is in. Experienced C or C++ programmers will find everything they need to get started with Java. Clear code and detailed commentary supplement every tip. The accompanying CD-ROM includes all the code from the book as well as Sun's free Java Developer's Kit.

More of a source for ideas than a how-to guide, 101 Businesses You Can Start on the Internet offers inspiring advice on starting a business on the Internet. After a very basic section on Internet fundamentals and business practices, the book presents 101 business ideas and actual case histories. The case histories represent a vast melange of businesses: The Maui Windsurfing Report, Flower Stop Marketing Corp., The Virginia Diner, Mail Order Food, Sausage Software--Software Publisher, Mesh-Inside Cyberspace, and News Service. Additionally, testimonials from over 50 entrepreneurs provide practical advice on starting and running various businesses. Although this guide will start you thinking about a business you can create on the Net, you will probably need a more detailed book to help implement your ideas.

Despite the recent avalanche of books on doing business on the Internet, the problem of which specific businesses should be started online is rarely tackled. 121 Internet Businesses You Can Start from Home fills this gap. The 121 online businesses discussed in this book can all be started from home by Internet beginners, and many on a shoestring budget. In addition, the book also includes a complete beginner's guide to starting a business online. It leads the novice through every step of starting a business on the Internet: from establishing an Internet site to promoting it on a tight budget. The hundreds of Internet sites' addresses given in this book (especially of services and businesses Internet entrepreneurs must contact to set up or promote a commercial site) ensure that entrepreneurs will be able to use it not only as a guide but also as a reference book. Ron Gielgun is an Internet consultant and editor of an online magazine for Internet entrepreneurs.

a guide to internet advertising

Oprah has announced her September book-club selection! Pearl Cleage's What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day is a chronicle of two African American sisters contending with life in the troubled 1990s.

What if you were a 40-year-old housepainter, horrifically abused, emotionally unavailable, and your identical twin was a paranoid schizophrenic who believed in public self-mutilation? You'd either be a guest on the Jerry Springer Show or Dominick Birdsey, the antihero, narrator, and bad-juju magnet of I Know This Much Is True. Somewhere in the recesses of this hefty 912-page tome lurks an honest, moving account of one man's search, denial, and acceptance of self. This is no easy feat considering his grandfather seemed to take parenting tips from the SS and his grandmother was a possible teenage murderess, his stepfather a latent sadist, and his brother, Thomas, a politically motivated psychopath. Not one to break with tradition, Dominick continues the dysfunctional legacy with rape, a failed marriage, a nervous breakdown, SIDS, a car crash, and a racist conspiracy against a coworker--just to name a few.

"The first time my husband hit me I was nineteen years old," begins Fran Benedetto, the broken heroine of Anna Quindlen's Black and Blue. With one sweeping sentence, the door to an abused and tortured world is swung wide open and the psyche of a crushed and tattered self-image exposed. "Frannie, Frannie, Fran"--as Bobby Benedetto liked to call her before smashing her into kitchen appliances--was a young, energetic nursing student when she met her husband-to-be at a local Brooklyn bar. She was instantly captivated by his dark, brooding looks and magnetic personality, but her fascination soon solidified into a marital prison sentence of incessant abuse and the destruction of her own identity. After an especially horrific beating and rape, Fran realizes that the next attack could be the last. Fearing her son would be left alone with Bobby, she escapes one morning with her child. Fran's salvation comes in the form of Patty Bancroft and Co., a relocation agency for abused women that touts better service than the witness protection program. Armed only with a phone number, a few hundred dollars, and the help of several anonymous volunteers, Fran begins a new life. The agency relocates her to Florida, where she becomes Beth Crenshaw, a recently divorced home-care assistant from Delaware. Fran and her son adapt, meeting challenges with unexpected resilience and resolve until their past returns to haunt them. Quindlen renders the intricacies of spousal abuse with eerie accuracy, taking the reader deep within the realm of dysfunctional human ties. However, her vivid descriptions of abuse, emotional disintegration, and acute loneliness at times numb the reader with their realism.

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