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“A dragon darkens our dells. A witch haunts our woods. Bandits roam our moors” . . . King Stromgard swept on. “In the tradition of so many monarchs, I offer my daughter’s hand in marriage and half my kingdom to the prince who can rid us of these evils, restoring peace and prosperity to our realm.”
And so the contest in the Kingdom of Greeve begins. But Princess Margaret is not your traditional princess. Meg firmly objects to her parents’ giving her away, and she certainly has no intention of remaining in the tower where she is sequestered. Instead, she sets out to win the contest herself by enlisting the help of her good friend, her loyal maid, an eager guardsman, a young wizard, and a tenacious witch. Does Meg find her distinct place in the kingdom, or is she doomed to fulfill her royal duties?
Kate Coombs weaves a magical tale full of pesky princes, enchanted frogs, a beady-eyed scarf, and invisibility juice – a tale of wonder, but a story familiar to all who struggle to find their own place in the world.
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Amazingly enjoyable.......2006-12-25
I adored this novel. I have read dozens of books that have redone the classical fairy tale setting, but this is the best one I have ever had the pleasure to open. Coombs has a simple, yet elegant and easy to read writing style. The character interaction is hilarious, and the heroin is very likable and strong. Wonderfully done Kate Coombs! I hope there is a sequel.
A New Favorite.......2006-09-19
RUNAWAY PRINCESS isn't your grandma's fairy tale. The princess in the tower? Yeah. She has no intention of staying there. And all those witches, bandits and dragons? Misunderstood. Kate Coombs gives us a fresh take on the well-known fairy tale world with clever touches, endearing characters, and unique twists, all adding up to a delightful and entertaining read.
Following closely on the heels of Coombs' lovely debut book THE SECRET KEEPER, RUNAWAY PRINCESS does not disappoint. It's sure to become a favorite of discerning readers everywhere.
WOW! You got to read this!.......2006-09-19
This book was awsome! In my English class we had to pick a book for pleasure reading. I choose this one and believe me, it was PLEASURE reading. I couldn't put it down! The characters are so real and you find yourself rooting for them. This book is a clever twist on any fairy tale you've ever known. You'll find yourself laughing out loud and counting down the minutes till you can read it again. The twists, turns and halarious plot and characters make "The Runaway Princess" a must read!
Priceless Princess.......2006-08-13
Kate Coombs has done it again! Once again this gifted author takes a fairy-tale world and stands it on its head. Princess Meg stands up to her father and the Kingdom of Greeve will never be the same again. All the ingredients for a delicious romp through a world of wicked witches and fantabulous frogs await those clever enough to pick up this story. A winner!
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"Black is Beautiful!" The words were the exuberant rallying cry of a generation of black women who threw away their straightening combs and adopted a proud new style they called the Afro. The Afro, as worn most famously by Angela Davis, became a veritable icon of the Sixties. Although the new beauty standards seemed to arise overnight, they actually had deep roots within black communities. Tracing her story to 1891, when a black newspaper launched a contest to find the most beautiful woman of the race, Maxine Leeds Craig documents how black women have negotiated the intersection of race, class, politics, and personal appearance in their lives. Craig takes the reader from beauty parlors in the 1940s to late night political meetings in the 1960s to demonstrate the powerful influence of social movements on the experience of daily life. With sources ranging from oral histories of Civil Rights and Black Power Movement activists and men and women who stood on the sidelines to black popular magazines and the black movement press, Ain't I a Beauty Queen? will fascinate those interested in beauty culture, gender, class, and the dynamics of race and social movements.
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Author Carol Shaffer has won countless contests and sweepstakes as a contest hobbyist. She's won a new luxury automobile, a $10,000 shopping spree, a trip to the Olympics in Australia, and much, much more. In fact, her winnings total more than $150,000!
In Contest Queen Carol shares her successful gimmicks and strategies for winning. Anyone can do it, if they know how to go about it. Contest Queen gives the nuts and bolts of how to win-from national contests, to local in-store drawings. It tells the reader how to find the best contests, what judges look for, and how to create the winning entry. It explains how to get on TV game shows, and how to make Internet contesting pay off. It even goes into how contesting for children can make the hobby of contesting fun for the whole family. Contest Queen is an invaluable reference tool for any contest and sweepstakes enthusiast, or for anyone who has ever dreamed of winning.
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You are a winner.......2007-07-26
When I was looking for a book on sweepstakes this is the one I found and it helped me start my hobby. I loved the detail that Carol shared and the distinction she made between sweepstakes and contest. The book really helped to get me started and encouraged me with the stories of what she had won. It made the whole sweepstakes concept easy and fun.
Disappointing.......2007-03-10
I was disappointed in this book. Although she does give some good tips, they could all have fit into less than two pages. The rest of the book consisted of lists prizes she's won and famous people she's met. Boring!
Poor editing.......2005-08-20
The editor of this book either must have been in a hurry when working on this book or has no business in the field of literature. Their are numerous grammatical structure errors and word misspellings, i.e. Bush [sic] Stadium should be Busch Stadium. In another paragraph a reference is made to bugs bunny [sic] then in the next sentence it is spelled correctly as Bugs Bunny. I see the book nothing more than a list of prizes that she won and how she won them.
"It's A Winner".......2002-06-29
What a fun book! Easy to read and lots of information on how to win contests and sweepstakes. To date I have won a pair of airline tickets, a $50 gift card, and lessons at a cooking school. Now I'm hooked and I can't wait to enter other contests/sweepstakes. It is so easy using Carol's techniques and most exciting when you win a prize. The book is also interesting with Carol telling about her experiences meeting celebrities. I highly recommend this book for anyone wanting to find a new and exciting hobby.
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Mirror, mirror, on the wall, are you the hottest of them all?
The next book in the sexy, sassy interactive Miss Adventure series -- following Tangle in Tijuana -- invites you to Reno, Nevada, as a contestant in the Miss Liberty Pageant. There you'll dodge back-stabbing competitors and a lecherous host in a race for the crown on a nationally televised competition. With a Miss Adventure, it's only natural that the choices will be way more fun than selecting an evening gown....
Will you be forced to room with a neurotic pageant lifer -- and her domineering stage mom?
Will you team up with the troublemaking Miss Texas to dose the other girls with Ecstasy?
Or will you walk away with the crown on your head -- and the hottie son of the wealthy pageant sponsor on your arm?
The good news is that you can have as many "do-overs" as it takes to win in Beauty Queen Blowout: simply flip back to the start and make new choices the next time around. So tape up those boobs and get your best elbow-elbow wrist-wrist wave ready -- you're going to the Miss Liberty Pageant!
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Awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.......2003-09-18
Ok, first of all, this is not the only book in the series there is the first one, Tangle in Tiajuana (equally as fab!)and I here that the talented authors plan on writing more brilliant smut (well, it's not tooo smutty, unless that's what you like). And this book is a choose your own adventure, not some lame cartoonish book for book wormish teen wall flowers. It is the kind of book you sit down with some friends and drinks and read aloud to each other, laughing all the way to the end, and then over again with different choices. This is the book that NEVER stops giving. BUy it and live happily forever and ever.
A crazy ride!.......2003-09-18
I loved Choose your own adventure as a kid -- but this brings it to a whole new level. This time, you are a contestant in a Miss America pageant, and have to make choices to try to win. And winning is hard! Unlike most pageants, this is all sex, drugs and even rock and roll, with a healthy dose of post-feminism to boot. Loved every ending.
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Each year over 700,000 beauty pageants are held in cities and towns the world over. Here is a celebration of that glitz and that glory. From Miss Universe to Miss Potato Blossom, this colorful book showcases pageants large and small, focusing on the heyday of beauty contests from the 1930s to the 1970s. Chapters on fashion, talent, bathing-suit competitions, and congeniality are packed with insider information on exactly what it takes to win the crown, secrets to looking perennially polished and poised, and tidbits on the beauty queen wave, talent dos and don ts, and pageant etiquette. With over 100 vintage photos, Beauty Queen is a sweetly nostalgic ode to pageantry perfection.
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Beauty pageants--as competition and performance--are wildly popular cultural events world-wide. They have, however, received surprisingly little scholarly attention. What literature there is on beauty pageants has mostly been limited to American pageants. This collection brings together studies of pageants in fourteen different cultures. The chapters range from studies of community queen pageants in Guatemala, Nicaragua, Andalusia and rural Minnesota, to studies of international contests held in Thailand, Belize, British Virgin Islands, Tonga and Tibet, and include a study of a Moslem Philippine transsexual beauty queen contest, and an ethnographic account by a contestant in the Miss Moscow 1989 pageant.
These essays discuss the ways gender ideologies are represented and reinforced in beauty pageants and highlight the cultural specificity of notions of beauty and femininity that figure in the selection of pageant queens. We see the strategic and political uses to which pageants are put, by sponsors and contestants alike. Questions of gender aesthetics, performance, and display are engaged in a way that recognizes the agency of pageant participants even as it underscores the ideologies and structures of power within which they operate.
Beauty Queens on the Global Stage considers beauty contests as key sites for formulating, negotiating and challenging national and group identities, and shows how identity is portrayed and utilized in an international arena. Each of these essays looks at beauty pageants and contestants in the broader context of struggles over identity.
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Cat, Becka, and Josie learn a lesson about promises........1998-05-21
Cat's friend, Marla is feeling really down. Cat wants to help her feel better, so she promises to help her become homecoming queen. But later, Cat finds out that she is nominated too! She has always dreamed of becoming queen, but will she still keep her friends promise? Meanwhile, Becka and Josie have promises of their own to keep. They all learn an important lesson about keeping promises.
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The Archery Contest (King & Queen)
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Dud!.......2000-12-24
I really thought this book was going to be good, with its title and subject and all. It was just an average book though, no excitement and no point. Kit Carson was told by many people that she was beautiful, but I truly believe that beauty is an opinion.
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In 1972, three scientists from MIT created a computer model that analyzed global resource consumption and production. Their results shocked the world and created stirring conversation about global 'overshoot,' or resource use beyond the carrying capacity of the planet. Now, preeminent environmental scientists Donnella Meadows, Jorgen Randers, and Dennis Meadows have teamed up again to update and expand their original findings in The Limits to Growth: The 30 Year Global Update.
Meadows, Randers, and Meadows are international environmental leaders recognized for their groundbreaking research into early signs of wear on the planet. Citing climate change as the most tangible example of our current overshoot, the scientists now provide us with an updated scenario and a plan to reduce our needs to meet the carrying capacity of the planet.
Over the past three decades, population growth and global warming have forged on with a striking semblance to the scenarios laid out by the World3 computer model in the original Limits to Growth. While Meadows, Randers, and Meadows do not make a practice of predicting future environmental degradation, they offer an analysis of present and future trends in resource use, and assess a variety of possible outcomes.
In many ways, the message contained in Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update is a warning. Overshoot cannot be sustained without collapse. But, as the authors are careful to point out, there is reason to believe that humanity can still reverse some of its damage to Earth if it takes appropriate measures to reduce inefficiency and waste.
Written in refreshingly accessible prose, Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update is a long anticipated revival of some of the original voices in the growing chorus of sustainability. Limits to Growth: The 30 Year Update is a work of stunning intelligence that will expose for humanity the hazy but critical line between human growth and human development.
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Essential reading, but only part of the story.......2007-08-12
No one likes limits, but they're with us all our lives, from the restrictions our parents place on us as children to the limits that society and Mother Nature compel us to adhere to as adults. The authors do a clear and thorough job of explaining how physical limits affect the Earth and the human society evolving within it.
Updating their mathematical model and learning from three decades of experience since the original 1972 study, the authors reinforce their earlier finding that persistently overshooting the Earth's carrying capacity could lead to any one of a variety of unhappy scenarios for humanity. While expressing due respect for technology development and the effects of free markets, they emphasize that these are necessary but not sufficient tools for getting us through the 21st century.
The authors have been criticized as doomsayers whose predictions have proven wrong. Such criticism obviously has come from people who have not actually read their work. They have not produced just a single computer run of their model and then proclaimed, "This is what will happen." They have done hundreds of runs to attempt to illustrate how important variables - such as population growth, industrial production, technological development, and pollution - interact to shape future scenarios in a 100-year timeframe. A thorough reading of this book demonstrates that rather than being disproven, their original scenarios are looking ominously accurate.
Chapter 5 is the book's good-news story, providing a case study on how the world got together to tackle the ozone depletion problem over the last quarter century. This and the final two chapters demonstrate that the authors have not given in to hopelessness.
The most critical shortcoming of the authors' work is one they clearly acknowledge. They address flows of population, materials, energy, and emissions that can be mathematically modeled, but do not include factors such as military conflict, large-scale corruption, natural disasters, pandemics, or severe economic stresses like currency and debt crises. If these things are taken into account, one could view the Limits to Growth model as wildly optimistic. What would this study look like with a non-quantitative social futurist perspective added to it?
The authors have done a remarkable job of clearly explaining concepts such as positive and negative feedback loops and the Earth's sources and sinks as they apply to the model. But the 284 pages of text may be more than can be absorbed and digested by the wider audience this book deserves. Perhaps a condensed version is needed, one that captures the message and its urgency but is short enough to get even policy-makers to read it.
Here we go again..........2007-02-03
This book was required reading for me in my Political Science class over 20 years ago when I was in college. By this point in human history, humanity was supposed to be doomed. I agree with a previous reviewer who pointed out that the authors simply fail to take into account human ingenuity and the resilience of the planet and its inhabitants.
But hey, if you want to incessantly worry and fret, this book is probably for you.
limits to growth CD.......2007-01-10
I hoped the CD would contain more material but it didn't give me more than reading the book.
Please don't misinterpret the book.......2006-09-29
MG Phelps (below) misinterprets the work of LtoG by thinking it was a gloom and doom prediction. Quite to the contrary, we can place the research of Donella, et al within the context of the argument Phelps makes and see that its cautions and suggestions are phenomenologically healthy responses of a system attempting to adapt to changes. The books argues what must change, not HOW that change ought to occur. I wonder if Phelps even read the research at all, or just read reviews of it from the neo-classical economists that still believe growth is the solution to the problems that growth is causing us.
Others also point out that the original LtoG report was "inaccurate" because people (and our economy) DID respond to it proactively--but only to the point of delaying the inevitable. The fact of the matter is that human resource consumption is still rampantly (exponentially) growing, that we have exceeded our global ecological carrying capacity, and that our future is dimmer than it otherwise would be for the reason that we will have less clean air, soil, water, nonrenewable minerals, etc to work with. So tell me what the economy would substitute for clean mineralized water??
In this sense one might hope that humanity DOES NOT for its sake find another source of cheap low entropy matter-energy to exploit (like fossil fuels), because if it does, it makes the systemic collapse of global ecosystems (and the ecosystem services they provide us) that much more likely. Right now we are showing the collective maturity of a bacteria colony in a petri dish. Again, I ask, what does the author propose we subsitute for ecosystem services such as the cleaning of our air? A technological solution will not work because it is inherently reductionist, whereas the factors that are currently involved in cleaning our air are much more efficient, effective and multifunctional (trees aren't just air scrubbers).
Also, why wait until all wood becomes prohibitively expensive before stopping the rampant destruction of forests? By then, it will be too late. As the ecological economist Robert Costanza points out, those trees and forest ecosystems are more valuable as ecosystems than as "aggregates of resources for exploitation" within our economy.
Failed predictions.......2006-08-19
I admit to not ahveing read the latest edition of this work. But I have read the previous two and unless there have been changes of substance, which other reviews here suggest has not happened, I will not be wasting my money on the new edition. The reason is that the authors' work entirely fails to take into account the way in which human ingenuity, stimulated in part by price changes which scarcity should surely bring about, has made, and can be expected to continue to make, adaptations in how resources are used and extracted. Indeed things that were never thought to be resources can be made into resources; deposits that were uneconomic to exploit can become economic if prices rise. The issues were all set out very clearly by economists when the first great scare broke out in the mid 1970s (when we were told we were going to run out of crucail resources by the year 2000). I suggest googling two important papers by Yale's William Nordhaus in Brooking Papers for a comprehensive critique of the two previous editions. This is not to say that resources are infinite, they clearly are not. But nor is the life of this planet, which is doomed to end when our sun reaches later stages of its life cycle. The big question is when we run out of renewable resouces and how soon we can replace thenm by renewable ones. The sort of analysis in the work of the Limits to Growth team ignores so much of the possible adaptations that a well funtioning economic system can be expected to make that it is of no help in answering the big question.
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