Sam the Alchemist Proler created his American Dream from nothing more than ambition, sweat, and chutzpahand this is his story. Born to poor, newly immigrated parents in 1917, Proler is a first-generation American who made the most of the opportunities he found and created. With only an eighth-grade education, he became one of the best-known twentieth century entrepreneurs and inventors in his field. At twelve, he helped his father in the familys backyard junk business. Soon, the motivated teen parlayed that into the foundation of his future empire. By his eighteenth birthday, he was running the business. Over the next forty years, his vision became Proler Steel, with associated plants all over the world. Sam Prolers inventions and processes, copyrighted, trademarked, and patented, revolutionized the entire steel industry starting in 1955. Some of his processes are still used to this day. These memoirs are also about Sammy Proler, the family man. After retirement, Sammy the father, grandfather, and great-grandfather has devoted the rest of his life to his wife and large family. He insists that his grand- and great-grandkids call him Sammy, so they could always enjoy life with him as their friend. Caution: Youre About to be Prolerized! shares not only Sam Prolers life, but also his philosophy. Feel free to laugh and cry as you experience his mysterious aura, and you become Prolerized!
While the customary path to achievement in traditional China was through service to the state, from the earliest times certain individuals had been acclaimed for repudiating an official career. This book traces the formulation and portrayal of the practice of reclusion in China from the earliest times through the sixth century, by which time reclusion had taken on its enduring character. Those men who decided to withhold their service to state governance fit the dictum from the Book of Changes of a man who "does not serve a king or lord; he elevates in priority his own affairs." This characterization came to serve as a byword of individual and voluntary withdrawal, the image of the man whose lofty resolve could not be humbled for service to a temporal ruler. Men who eschewed official appointments in favor of pursuing their own personal ideals were known by such appellations as "hidden men" (yinshi), "disengaged persons" (yimin), "high-minded men" (gaoshi), and "scholars-at-home" (chushi). What distinguished these men was a particular strength of character that underlay their conduct: they received approbation for maintaining their resolve, their mettle, their integrity, and their moral and personal values in the face of adversity, threat, or temptation. This book reveals that those who opted for a life of reclusion had a variety of motivations for their decisions and conducted widely divergent ways of life. The lives of these men epitomize the distinctive nature of substantive reclusion, differentiating them from those of the intelligentsia who, on occasion, voiced their desire for disengagement or for retreat, but who nevertheless found or retained their places in government office. Throughout, the author places the recluse and reclusion within the social, political, intellectual, religious, and literary contexts of the times.
The title of this semi-memoir is also the heading for Chapter 1 of this compilation of short stories, satirical articles and poems created by the author.Berkowitz is a skilled tall-tale-teller, who recreates his life in the many adventures which life has taken him. His story-telling is similar to that of O. Henry's writings with a little Mark Twain in his narratives. As an adjunct to a serious career of engineering and consulting, Alan B. Berkowitz claims to have found his key to happiness in being other people: Santa Claus for over 40 years to children in three states, characters (he says "leads") in numerous community playhouses and movies, the entertainer as background pianist at clubs, parties, and restaurants, and the author of several genres of books, including his co-authored historical novel, The Jazz Girls and the Flyboy, his biography of Sam Proler: “CAUTION: You're About to be PROLERIZED” and Skyjack 911! (A timely survival guide) published within one month of the tragedy. There are over 40 chapters in his latest book. Stories include the humorous side of winning a car raffle, having a New York haircut, his encounters with a gang bosses letter, and a nutty employee encounter. Also, Berkowitz recreates parts of his childhood, and his first Porn Movie at age 12.On the serious side he tells of his near kidnapping experience in the Caribbean, a near death encounter, a job interview from Hell, and others. His poetry runs the gamut of sweet to comical as Berkowitz finds a new genre for poems made from One-liner jokes, and various dilemmas. In addition to his personal characterization as Santa, the author also introduces another alter-ego, a wise, advice giver in the form of the great rabbinical sage, Reb Schmeuli Rabinowitz, his personal Hanukah Harry.Read it all at once, or read a story and put the book down until the next time. Either way, you will be enlightened and entertained.
The sign on the door proclaims, It Takes A Village, family counseling services. By appointment only. That's what it says. If it were truthful, the sign would say, It "does"Takes a Village, International detectives and spy operations. Thus, the Village family are known by most local, state and Federal agencies as adjunct working consultants. In this book the team is met with the challenge of Suicide Bombers and plots to kill specific enemies of the Muslim Brotherhood. "She was wearing what seemed to be some sort of Muslim attire... covered her whole body. The burqah hung loosely so that her shape was not apparent..." "What the hell are you doing?" I heard myself exclaiming in shock, as she shrugged her shoulders and the remaining gown fell to the floor..." ..".Her total nakedness exposed the only thing that covered her statuesque femininity... the dynamite-laden webbed belt that was strapped to her slim waist. A bomb of a bikini stared back at me.
Jewish teenage sweethearts are forced to leave their small town in Germany shortly after Kristalnacht in 1938 due to Hitler's persecution of the Jews. Follow their lives and adventures in war-torn Germany, as well as to New York, New Orleans, Miami, England, and Israel. Marc Hildebrandt gets his revenge on the Nazis as an RAF and US Air Corp Hotshot Ace Pilot (Flyboy) , as Laura Levine gives her life a new start as a Jazz Pianist and entertainer in the 1940s Jazz Capital, New Orleans. Experience with them the Jewish world they faced on the streets of Manhattan, the Bronx, and the French Quarters of Jazz era New Orleans. Get a front row seat at Laura's performances at The Roosevelt Hotel's Blue Room. Climb into the cockpit with Marc in the dogfights of WWII's battles in the air on the ground. Venture with Marc and his buddies as they finish one war and continue in a second war; this one a war of redemption, hope and faith in Israel's fight for self-determination, concluding in the Declaration of Independence of the State of Israel"--Cover, p. 4.
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