A book intended to commemorate the author's father gives intimate details of her childhood.

Especially Father (A Pine Street Press reprint edition)

Literature & Fiction

Taber, Gladys Bagg

Classics

Pine Street Press

Robert Kerwin loved being surrounded by celebrities. Cruise, Newman, Streisand, Hepburn, Nicholson, The Duke, Kojak and the Fonz. You name them, he knew them. Hollywood Hack is a heartfelt account of what extreme obsession with celebrity can do to ordinary people. As a celebrity profiler for hundreds of media outlets for more than twenty years, Kerwin tells the story of someone desperately needing to be Somebody, and believing celebrity is the answer. He wants badly to “arrive,” to be on the inside ... to rise out of a workaday existence and into the world of the rich and famous. Kerwin works his way up the celebrity ladder and becomes hooked by the allure and endless possibilities that seem to come with fame and fortune. Along the way he meets hundreds of celebrities, who are revealed as brittle and often wicked caricatures of themselves. An often hilarious and sometimes heartrending portraiture of celebrity, Hollywood Hack is peppered with pertinent anecdotes (including many confrontational scenes) about every star from Mae West to Tom Cruise and beyond; also it takes a good look at the inner workings of high-end celebrity journalism. Though brimming with household names, this is not another dose of cool, slick Hollywood trivia tell-all. The protagonist here is non-cool and non-slick; Hollywood Hack is about Us and Them.

Hollywood Hack: Adventures of a Celebrity Wannabe

Kerwin, Robert W.

Biographies & Memoirs

In 2012, more than 48,000 applicants applied to Teach For America for just over 5,800 positions. With fewer than 1 in 10 students from low-income families graduating from college today, our country’s children need the most talented people teaching them. If your dream is to join Teach For America, this book is for you.
 Whitman, a TFA alumnus and former recruiter, will teach you how to join this movement by helping you build the skills that Teach For America values most. The book includes advice from more than 20 current corps members and alumni, step-by-step methods to gain leadership skills, and real preparation strategies for your application and interviews.
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 With this step-by-step guide, learn how to:
<li>Best exhibit the seven core qualities that Teach For America uses in its admissions process</li> <li>Craft a letter of intent and resume that will blow away the selection team</li> <li>Secure a meeting with the recruitment director, and ask the right questions</li> <li>Plan the Five-Minute Lesson for the final interview using backward planning</li> <li>Become a leader in your quest to join Teach For America</li>
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 Teach For America ranked 16th toughest job interview in America, more difficult than Facebook! - Reported in Forbes Magazine, July 26, 2012
 Teach For America ranked the #7 best company with which to launch a career by Business Week!
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 Table of Contents
 Introduction
 Preparation Timeline 
 Part 1: Understanding Teach For America and Where You Fit In
 Chapter 1: Deciding to Apply to Teach For America
 Chapter 2: Teach For America's Mission and Vision
 Chapter 3: The "Ideal" Applicant
 Chapter 4: Developing the Skills to become a Successful Applicant
 Part 2: Recruiting, Applying, and Interviewing
 Chapter 5: The Recruitment Process
 Chapter 6: The Application Process
 Chapter 7: The Application
 Chapter 8: Online Activity and Recommenders and References List
 Chapter 9: The Phone Interview
 Chapter 10: Choosing Locations and Subjects
 Chapter 11: The Final Interview
 Chapter 12: I Got Accepted! Now What?
 Afterword
 Appendix 1: Book Recommendations
 Appendix 2: Sample Letter of Intent
 Appendix 3: Sample Resume
 Appendix 4: Sample Extracurricular Activity Submission

Destination: Teach For America: Building Leadership, Mastering the Application, Acing the Interviews

Business & Money

Whitman, Jake

Job Hunting & Careers

The most important people in any courtroom are the jurors. Unfortunately, jurors are often hiding from the lawyers, knowingly or unconsciously repressing their innermost feelings. This repression, unexposed, can doom even the best cases and lawyers to defeat. 
 With more than 30 years of experience in front of juries, Whitman explains how to use proven psychological and psychiatric principles and methods in the courtroom to lead the jury to a verdict and damage award for the plaintiff. He explains how such principles as transference, positive regard, unity, group dynamics, and humanism can overcome natural juror resistance to awarding large–or even small–damages and verdicts. He explains how to incorporate the strategies of respected trial scientists, such as David Ball (Damages) and Rick Friedman (Rules of the Road), into his own psychology-based methods to maximize the change of success in the courtroom. 
 Whitman's thesis is that instead of focusing on their own performance and inner struggles, the most successful trial lawyers concentrate on what the jurors need from the lawyer and how the jury perceives the trial.

The Inner Jury: Winning Trials With Strategic Psychology, Modern Trial Science, Emerging Principles from Other Disciplines

Whitman, Bruce

Rules & Procedures

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