Boxing Day Books

Mr. Jaymes takes the reader on his journey with such vivid imagery that you can see, feel, hear, and smell everything as if you were trudging through the mud right beside him. His keen sense of humanity breathes life into the video clips that inundated the airwaves following the infamous 2004 tsunami that devastated Southeast Asia. But Boxing Day isn't simply about this tragic event, it's about being a citizen of the world.

With Boxing Day, Mr. Jaymes has accomplished what all writers dream of: to transport their audience - body, mind, and soul - to another time and place. As I turned page after page wondering what was going to happen to me next, and who I was next going to meet, I came to realize that I had become him - or he had become me.

I could not put this book down!!! IT'S REALLY FUNNY!!!!! i was assuming a book about the tsunami in thailand would be morbid but i have always been curious about it so i bought BOXING DAY. i started it thinking it would just be a book to kill time on the plane.. and ended up laughing and crying and sharing the passages with my nieghboring flyers! i had to keep re-reading certain parts because i was reading so fast to try to keep my suspense at bay! this isn't just a book about the tsunami (although the author paints a vivid picture of what i was like) ..its a book about self discovery and it's one of the most entertaining and insightful books i have ever read.
I found myself in an environment of absurd characters common in a Hunter Thompson novel, while enjoying the self-deprecating banter of a Woody Allen film, and experiencing an emotional and spiritual awakening one would hope to find at a Wayne Dyer seminar.
Mr. Jaymes tells such an amazing story!! He writes from his heart and really taps into all the fears that anyone would feel while being on such a journey ... and he writes all the things that i would actually be thinking instead of beating around the bush or trying to make himself seem noble. i have been to thailand and his description of Koh Lak and Samui were so distinct .. he gets pretty graphic in his descriptions of decomposing bodies and water logged corpses, but it's actually quite beautiful becuase it's told with such a cool innocence. His determination to push through his own fears , left me questioning my own intentions in my every day actions and made me be honest with myself.
Christopher Jaymes is a brilliant story teller and his book should be made into a movie!!!!!!

I was taken on a journey that to date experienced only thru the media's eyes. Mr. Jaymes grasped my heart and soul in his reality of one of the worlds largest disasters. I laughed I cried I felt as though I was there, living in the moments and the journey next to his side. He truly gave me a new appreciation for my life.
Thank you Mr. Jaymes for many things that one will only understand by reading this book

SAY IT WITH MUSIC is a biography of Jane Froman. If you surf the internet, places like Wikipedia, you can find details of the singer such as...

Jane Froman had classical voice training, early in her career she was drawn to the songs of the era's brilliant young songwriters, George and Ira Gershwin, Cole Porter, and Irving Berlin, who were inspiring a resurgence in popular music. In 1934, at age 27, she became the top-polled "girl singer."

She is credited with three movies, Kissing Time (1933), Stars Over Broadway (1935) and Radio City Revels (1938). From 1952 to 1955, she hosted her own TV show The Jane Froman Show - initially called USA Canteen - on the CBS network. The show was 15 minutes long and initially alternated with The Perry Como Show. The very first hit song to be introduced on television, I Believe, was written for Froman by the show's musicians, Ervin Drake, Irvin Graham, Jimmy Shirl, and Al Stillman and earned her a gold record in 1953.

Barbara Seuling's book takes these facts and many more to blend a beautiful true story. With her words, she'll transport the reader back in time, giving intimate details surrounding Froman's life, how she felt and how others felt about her.

In 1943, she was severely injured by an aircraft crash when a USO plane crashed into the Tagus River in Portugal. Froman sustained horrible injuries and underwent 39 operations over the years and stubbornly fought amputation. She was forced to wear a leg brace the remainder of her life. Seuling takes readers through what happened.

By the end of the book, I felt like knew her personally. The meticulous details recorded such as letters to her mother drew me in and wrapped me tightly in its pages. Seuling has gifted us with a part of history, but told in the most interesting fashion.

One of the great joys of life is cracking open a book out of curiosity, expecting no more than a diversion, and instead to be transported into something completely unexpected and moving. This book is like that. It is a love story on many levels: between a stuttering, gifted Midwestern singer and her music on the way to superstardom; between a shattered singing star and the man who rescued her after a plane crash; between that singer and the group of teenaged girls who camped and her doorstep and became lifelong friends. It is a story of triumph over adversity, over years and years of devastating surgery -- with dignity, compassion, and a love of music. It is a damned good, moving story and an eye-opener into a near-forgotten personality. Well worth a read.

What's so great about this book is that author Seuling actually knew Jane Froman as a friend. Reading the book, one gets a clear picture of the singer/entertainer. Seuling's writing is conversational and always interesting whether she discusses the plane crash that nearly killed Froman, the long and arduous path back to performing, her heroic efforts entertaining in tent shows across Europe, or her revitalized career on TV after the release of her screen biography, "With a Song in My Heart." There is so much more than Hollywood included, and Seuling fills in the missing information about a woman who overcame amazingly painful injuries and forged ahead with her career. I especially enjoyed the chapter "Stoop Sisters Society," about the fans who spent Saturday afternoons sitting on the steps of Froman's Manhattan brownstone in the 1950's. The author's effortless writing gets the facts right, and presents them in captivating fashion.

I declare with scant Hesitation that Mr. Egan's marvelous Book, first published in London in A.D. 1829, is indeed a Classic -- not only for the aspiring Pugilist or lowly Street Brawler -- but even amongst those with little taste for the Fancy. Truly, I assert that this handsome facsimile Edition of BOXIANA will find great favour amongst Historians of Georgian England -- Students of 19th-Century English Prose Stylings -- and Folk-Lorists of All Stripe.

In this Exemplary Tome, Mr. Egan memorializes many of the Great Pugilists of his Day. Hearken to Ring-Side Accounts of Battles between the Great Jack Broughton, Jack Slack, Tom Cribb, and Dan Mendoza. Readers will find most colourful Descriptions of Dozens of brave Fighters, including: Bill Steevens - the Nailer; Steven Oliver, alias Death; Symons, the Old Ruffian; Tom Molineaux; Dutch Sam; and Henry Pearce, A.K.A. The Game Chicken!

Ne'er to be Outdone, this most entertaining and edifying Author includes Practical Advice on Training (Vegetables must be avoided!), the most Admired Boxing Chaunts (to be sung at Convivial Evenings), and a Note on Female Pugilists from 1722!

Well done, Egan! Bravo!

Throw Pistols, Poniards, Swords, aside,
And all such deadly Tools;
Let Boxing be the Briton's Pride,
The Science of their Schools!

BOXIANA is heartily recommended to All!

A thoroughly enjoyable and motivating read. This is a remarkable collection of exclusive interviews with the best American sports coaches of the last 40 years. The author has packed a voluminous amount of wisdom, inspiration and facts into what amounts to a road map to a good life. "How to Succeed in the Game of Life" is a brilliant compilation of advice that offers inspiration at every turn.

Game of Life is an insightful book on the thoughts of many of the world's best known coaches. It provides a biography on each of the 34 coaches (which I recommend reading first to gain a better appreciation of the field and achievements of each coach) and asks them a number of questions that can relate to both on the field and life in general. I have gathered a number of relavant quotes that I will use both personally and professionally. A highly recommended read for sporting buffs and managers.

After buying a copy of this book for both myself and my father I was thoroughly impressed. The book was both an easy read yet very informative. I gave a copy of the book to my father, who is not one to read a book, and he was so taken back by how interesting he felt the content was. He picked up the book in the morning and had it finished by mid afternoon. He must have called me 15 times to tell me how inspiring he felt it was and how he was amazed at "all the tricks it taught an old dog"...He thought he had heard all there was to hear about inspirational quotes. We were both pleasantly surprised with how well written the book was. Both my dad and I would highly recommend this book with two thumbs up.

Having read only excerpts, I was shocked to read that Tony Dungy was hired as head coach by the Indianapolis Colts in 2002 by owner Robert Irsay. Irsay had been dead for five years (longer than that mentally). Hopefully the rest of the book does not contain such shoddy information.

This book went through various questions about succeeding in life and listed all the responses from each coach. It was interesting but somewhat repetitive in that many said basically the same thing. I enjoyed reading this book because it had a lot of good advice from a lot of successful coaches. The advice I remember most is to work harder than anyone else, never quit, always be honest, do your best, failure is opportunity for a comeback, and be passionate about what you do. All of them agreed that making a lot of money does not mean you are successful, but money can be a by-product of being successful. The last chapter included short summaries about each coach. My favorite chapter was the one of their favorite quotes.

I recommend this book to anyone interested in philosophy, or who is looking for some advice or inspiration about success.

Karen Arelttaz Zemek, author of "My Funny Dad, Harry"

I first checked this out from our local library...it was so GREAT, I went out and bought one for my company. The book comes with a CD that has templates that you fill in the blanks...it also tells you in Layman's terms what the documents are, when/where/how/why to use them, provides clear examples, and steps on how to fill out the templates. I would highly recommend this and "How to Form Your Own Texas Corporation" (from the same author).

* NOTE: I have the 2nd Edition, which is no longer available, but there is a 3rd Edition.

The new version of this book is now being sold under a different title: "The Corporate Records Handbook". Don't buy this old version.

I've recently set up several corporate structures for small business ventures. In preparation, I took a couple of short classes at a local community college and read several books.

Most of the information in other books was very general. They would say something like, "you must do X to protect your corporate status," without telling you *how* to do it.

This is the only book I've found that clearly describes all the steps needed to properly set up and maintain your corporation. It does not cover choice of corporate structure or the actual incorporation process, but instead explains all the things you must do to maintain the legal and tax protections provided by your corporation once it is established. It also includes an extensive set of forms, all on CD-ROM. The forms are supplied in Rich Text Format, also known as rtf, and can be read by most word processors.

(Note to Macintosh users - although the book says that the CD-ROM is not "supported" on the Mac, I had no trouble opening and using the forms.)

I borrowed this from the library to check it out and now I own it. It covers everything you can think of needing. And it explains every form in detail ....the why and how.

I borrowed an older version of this book from the library and had to buy it. This is THE best book on corporate minutes I hve ever read...and I have read many! It is very specific. It has all the forms in print and on disk. It not only tells you how to fill in the forms but why! If you run a small corporation and don't want to pay a lawyer to do all you minutes, this book is a must!

I sent away for this book to Amazon UK because I couldn't wait for Carroll & Graf in NYC to issue the US edition in September 2007. When the package arrived I was all a tremble, just like in the days of my childhood when a new Agatha Christie would arrive just in time for Christmas. Gilbert Adair's one of my favorite contemporary novelists, and I loved what he did for the Alice books and Peter Pan too, so I anticipated that his re-imagining of Christie's MURDER FOR CHRISTMAS would be a great treat. But was I ever wrong! It's just kind of crummy and unsuspenseful and written, as far as I can see, without any real love or even respect for the genre.

The traditional trappings may all be there, but until the very end of the book there's no detective work at all. All the suspects just relate their innermost secrets without any provocation, it's totally unbelievable and of course, wildly different than anything Christie ever wrote. I did enjoy Evadne Mount, but it's silly to say she is anything like Christie (or like Ariadne Oliver, the fictional detective novelist Christie enjoyed using as her spokeswoman). She and the actress Cora Rutherford are just patchwork nonce figures made up out of the lurid parts of old Tallulah Bankhead scrapbooks. It's as though Adair must have thought, that his plot was such a corker there was no need to inevtn characters to populate it.

If THE ACT OF ROGER MURGATROYD is a pastiche of anything, it's a pastiche of MURDER BY DEATH, the insipid Neil Simon comedy movie of the 1970s. Gilbert Adair, when you went straight you forgot that you would lose your sense of humor; now you're a mere emblem of your former glory.

Oops, I should say no more. In the British press, the only unfavorable review of MURGATROYD was written by Michael Dibdin, -- and look what happened to him! Critical voodoo!

Adair succeeds in evoking the classic golden age mystery with his snowbound-country-house-party-embroiled-in murder tale. It includes eccentric English country characters, an impossible murder in a locked room, and amateur sleuths. It also had maybe a few too many long monologues from each character, but if you let yourself be taken along for the ride it's great fun.

I am convinced that the positive reviews his written anonymously are by Seloc representatives. I own an 8hp and a 115hp Mercury.

This manual is almost completely worthless when it comes to specific details. Because it covers so many models the level of detail is very limited. Also there have been numerous times when the information provided is not accurate. It has been rare that I started a job and got any real benefit from this manual that was not quickly available by Googling (eg. wiring diagrams.) On almost every difficult job I had to resort to further research because this manual did not provide the answers I needed. Save your money.

Not too much details but if you have a little clue of what you're messing with, it will help a lot!

This manual doesn't cover everything in finite detail but it is thorough enough that you will be able to figure out the rest. It was good enough for me to replace the water pump and seals in my 175HP Merc Lower unit with no previous experience with boat motors.

dont waste your money on the online manual version of anything seloc.
the pictures are small and dont correspond with the model that youve chosen, the info is generic and useless. "be safe when changing the spark plugs", they have a no return policy, better off to just stare at your motor and hope the answer pops into your head than to waste your money on this product.

The book tries to cover too much with little detail. The information on my 40 HP Outboard did not match the electrical or fuel system. Pay the extra money and get the service manual for your Outboard.

While Jeff Wells does an excellent job capturing the tenor of the times he does Tommy Burns a grave disservice in treating him as the bad guy of his story, and Johnson the great hero. Burns could have done what previous holders of the heavyweight championship had done, and flatly refused to give Johnson a shot at the title. But, unlike the others, he allowed Johnson, a black man, his big chance. It was Johnson who turned his back on his race and denied similar opportunities to Sam Langford, Joe Jeannette, and Sam McVea. Jack Johnson was a talented fighter, but not much of a human being.

A couple of weeks ago I was invited over to Lyle's house for dinner for some weird Canadian holiday called "Boxing-Day". When Lyle first called me and asked if I wanted to come over I was a little hesitant to make myself public again because I might have to talk about the Jack-Russell-Terrier. After listening to that Dog-Rat bark over and over, I decided it was in my best interest to go over to Lyle's and regain some of my sanity that the Jack-Russell-Terrier has been stripping away from me since it's un-holy insulting arrival to MY house. I called Lyle back and told him I'd be there ONLY if no-one would mention the Jack-Russell-Terrier or Morris (unless of course they had found him).

After I hung up the phone with Lyle, I realized that I did-not know anything about this Canadian-custom of Boxing-Day. Since both mom and Dad were home I was unable to go on Dad's "golden" computer and research it, so I had to research it in my head and on Home-Box-Office's-boxing-show. As I watched two guys in a ring punch each-other merciless for a while, Dad walked in and started talking at me about something or another, so I just went up to my room and closed the door. Doesn't he know I don't want to speak with him due to his treachery against Morris?

As I sat in my room I wrote down the things I noticed about watching the boxing show:

Boxing Gloves
Robe
Shorts
Angry-Faces

Due to my time limit I was forced to prepare my outfit for the Boxing-Day celebration quickly. I snuck into Mom's room and grabbed a robe that closely resembled what the gladiators wore to the ring. There was a problem though. I noticed some loop in it that said some-thing about some-one named Victoria, I ripped at it until it came off, tearing a hole in the robe in the proccess. I was upset with the robe at first, but I figured that the hole probably made it look like I've used it before in other Boxing-Day celebrations. I wanted to fit in.

Now with that taken care of I ran to the basement to get my boxing-gloves that I use on my Sock'em-Bop-Buddy inflatable punching-man. I wanted to make sure I still had some of my old moves, so I punched at it for a while (mental note: tape picture of the Jack-Russell-Terrier to it when I'm done with this review). I snuck past Mom and Dad to return to my room to grab a pair of addias-soccer-shorts. I'm pretty sure Lyle and his family won't mind, due to me being American and all, and not having a real pair of boxer-shorts. I put the outfit on. I looked pretty good for a First-Time-Boxing-Day-Rocky. I looked over my list again, and noticed I still needed the angry-face to complete the out-fit. I stared at my mirror until it was time to go, practicing my angry-face. MAN did I make some angry-faces! You should have seen them! Watch this, I'm gonna make one now! GRRRRRRRRRRR! AAArrrrrrrrRRR! Oh man, you guys should see this! ARARARARRRRR! Now THAT was a good one! Okay, here I go watch---Oh yeah, the review. Anyways, I threw my coat over the out-fit so Mom and Dad wouldn't want to take my picture, or some other weird parent thing.

When I arrived at Lyle's, (oh yeah, for my fans knowledge, it's really hard to drive with Boxing-Gloves on), any-who, back on track. When I arrived at Lyle's I walked in and threw off my coat to show them my Boxing-Day out-fit. I thought they would be really impressed with my respect for their culture. They sat there wide-eyed for a moment, so I thought I would further impress them and I threw out some jabs and a hay-maker style air-punch. Lyle's father and brother started to laugh, Lyle's mom told Lyle to get me some "proper-attire". I followed Lyle to his room confused, I spent all that time on this out-fit to impress them and I got laughed at. Maybe I was too pre-mature, and we would switch after dinner.

Lyle gave me some clothes to put on, and informed me that it wasn't that type of Boxing... He did note he was pleased with my enthusiasm though. We walked down to the dinner-table and Lyle's Dad called me Sugar-Ray for some reason. What the HECK!? Is that how Canadians do Boxing? With verbal-punches? I thought I'd join in and made a comment on his HUGE bald spot. Lyle and Lyle's Mom and Brother laughed. I said "how'd you like that verbal upper-cut?". Then I layed into him with some verbal jabs about his chronic-alcoholism. Lyle's Mom quickly interjected by lecturing me about how Boxing-Day did not have aaaannnyyy-thing to do with Boxing, physical or verbal. She then went on with some snore about church donations and this-and-that. What I thought was a great idea for a holiday, just pulled a one-eighty. For some reason though, Lyle's dad continued to call me Sugar-Ray for the rest of the evening. What the HECK kind of thing is that to call a GUEST in your house!? What's next, Honey-Bottom? Candy-Striper? Cinderella-Man!? He was probably just drunk.

In Conclusion, I blame the turn-out of this evening on my own Dad. Since he doesn't allow me on the computer all that much, it didn't allow me the time to do the proper research. I might have to invest in a book on Canadian customs so this won't happen again. They have this Thanks-Giving prequel type thing that I don't want to get embarrassed about either. Pfffft. Those Canadians LOL! Whatever, leave me alone. My dog ran away and you should stop reading this and go help me find him you lazy Americans. Later.

howardtuttleman.com

As I am not a fan of this journalist, I must admit I was a bit prejudiced when it came to reading this book. Credit where credit is due though, this book is very good. It reveals an insight into the world as it was in the early part of the 20th Century and especially Australia, the scene of the Burns - Johnson World Heavyweight title fight in 1908. The author brings to light the personalities of these two boxers and how the public reacted to these personalities at varying times. Overall it is a well-balanced and entertaining read.