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This pocket-sized handbook features all the skills a modern lady needs!
 
This little gift book is packed with tips, tricks, and life hacks for women who need to know everything. With advice on etiquette and social situations, entertaining and cooking tips, do-it-yourself instructions, health information, self-defense techniques, and much, much more, this is the ultimate—but petite!—reference guide for go-getters, self-starters, and independent women everywhere. Featuring:
 
·      How to Ask for a Raise     
·      Ten Stylish Pieces Every Woman Should Own     
·      How to Throw a Football     
·      Good Responses to Bad Pick-Up Lines     
·      How to Host a Cocktail Party     
·      How to Parallel Park

To perform the dangerous, awe-inspiring stunts and daring feats for Hollywood’s top action movies, stuntwoman Danielle Burgio needs to stay in peak physical condition. Now she shares the exclusive fitness program that allows her to meet any challenge on the big screen and in real life. This full-color fitness book provides a comprehensive workout that shows regular people how to get in action-star shape. You’ll learn to:

    * Shed pounds with cardio exercises and muscle toning
    * Strengthen your body with martial arts and gymnastics
    * Increase focus, flexibility, and coordination with exercises that promote total body awareness and overall wellness
    * Energize workouts with speed and endurance exercises

With more than 50 exercises that build strength, concentration, and well-being, The Stuntwoman’s Workout is your ultimate guide to staying fit-and embracing a life full of action.

DANIELLE BURGIO is a longtime Hollywood stuntwoman who has worked on The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions, Daredevil, Pearl Harbor, Blade, Angel, Birds of Prey, Crossing Jordan, Monster-in-Law, Will & Grace, and other TV shows and movies. She lives in Los Angeles.

JENNIFER WORICK is the coauthor of The Action Heroine’s Handbook. She lives in Philadelphia.

Great news! Whoever you are, whatever you do, there is a patron saint who wants to help you- specifically you-with your life. There is a patron saint of booksellers. There is a patron saint of traveling salesmen. There are patron saints for vegetarians, cab drivers, and cancer patients. For astronauts, horseback riders, and dysfunctional families. For men who are physically unattractive. For families stressed by houseguests. These saints are ready to help, and their services are absolutely free!

This Saint Will Change Your Life! describes the real-life histories of more than 300 saints and explains how they have become associated with certain people, places, and professions. Also included are 300 gorgeous full-color holy cards that depict these heavenly allies in all their glory. First published in 2007, this revised edition includes a fresh new design and a sprinkling of new saints-like St. Francis De Sales, patron saint of bloggers!

Thomas J. Craughwell is the author of several books about saints. He's appeared as an expert on CNN, the BBC, and Inside Edition and has written articles about saints for the Wall Street Journal, Inside the Vatican, and Catholic Digest, among other national publications. He lives in Connecticut.

In Wine Secrets, forty of the world’s top wine experts share the tricks, techniques, and wisdom they’ve learned through decades of experience. Celebrity chef Jacques Pépin shares the best uses for leftover wine in the kitchen. Sommelier Oliver Boru proves that you sometimes can judge a wine by its label. Restaurateur Piero Selvaggio tells diners the best way to send back an unacceptable bottle. Plus tips on tasting, drinking, ordering, storing, and more.

Each technique is described in the expert’s own words, along with a short profile and commentary from author/sommelier Marnie Old. With advice ranging from the basics (does anything pair well with broccoli?) to the extreme (yes, you can freeze open bottles of wine!), Wine Secrets will appeal to beginners as well as established oenophiles.

MARNIE OLD is one of the country’s top sommeliers and wine authors, and a breath of fresh air in the stuffy wine world.  She teaches for New York’s Astor Center and hosts the webisode series Uncorked at Philly.com.  Marnie has designed many of Philadelphia’s finest wine and cocktail programs, such as those at Parc and Continental Midtown.  Her first book, He Said Beer, She Said Wine, is an entertaining debate on food pairing with co-author Sam Calagione, founder of Dogfish Head Craft Brewery.  Formerly the director of wine studies for Manhattan’s renowned French Culinary Institute, Marnie also served as the founding education chair for the American Sommelier Association. For more info, visit www.marnieold.com

The cards in this kit may look like an ordinary deck of playing cards. But looks can be deceiving . . .

These are the tricks magicians and playing-card impresarios have used for centuries to confound the common man, captivate audiences, and make women swoon. Now you, too, can attain that power. Lift the lid, read the illustrated book, and explore the possibilities of The Amazing Magical Wonder Deck.

The magic box contains a 52-card “tapered” deck—indistinguishable from ordinary playing cards, but slightly tapered at the bottom—that allows magicians-in-training to keep track of cards removed from the deck and astonish friends by appearing to read their minds! The kit also contains a set of 16 “gimmicked” cards, including:

• An Eight of Clubs that makes a matchstick levitate!
• A Jack of Spades that can be pierced with a pencil—without leaving a hole!
• Four kings that mysteriously transform into four queens!
• Two fours that mysteriously transform into blank cards!
• Plus two-sided cards, disappearing cards, and more!

MR. MYSTERIO was a world-famous magician during the early twentieth century. Upon his death in 1936, he left these secrets to be discovered by generations of future magicians.

Here’s the ultimate modern guide to magic tricks for everyday situations, using cell phones, floppy disks, airsickness bags, TV remote controls, and other everyday items. This handbook features more than 40 do-it-yourself illusions to perform in your home, office, car, in transit, or out on the town, with step-by-step instructions and illustrations throughout.

Learn to:
• Magically Feed a Parking Meter
• Make Yourself Levitate
• Pull a Banana Out of Thin Air
• Make a Calculator Predict the Future
• Make a Shot Glass Disappear
• Make Time Stand Still
• And More!

With so many amazing tricks, Amazing Irv’s Handbook of Everyday Magic brings instant fun to family outings, business meetings, cocktail parties, and dozens of other situations.

IRV FURMAN teaches a course in magic at Temple University and is the owner of the Hocus Pocus Magic Shop in Philadelphia.