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B0001AFIGK,"Nature'S Alchemy - Carrier Oil, Sweet Almond Sweet Almond Oil is probably the most popular base for massage oilsbecause of its luxurious emollient feel and absorbability. It is used both byitself and in combination with other oils to make custom blends",beauty;body;health & personal care;moisturizers;nutrition & wellness;oils;skin care;vitamins & supplements,8
0740733028,"Pooch Cafe: All Dogs Naturally Know How To Swim Paul Gilligan studied illustration and animation at Sheridan College in Toronto and comedy writing at the National Film Institute. He has won awards for both illustration and design as a freelance illustrator for a diverse array of publications such as Entertainment Weekly, the Wall Street Journal, Men's Fitness, Disney Magazine, NFL Properties, and Bon Appetit, among others. Pooch Cafe is his first syndicated comic strip. He lives in Toronto.",books;cats;comic strips;comics & graphic novels;dogs & animals;humor;humor & entertainment;rural life,8
0932323111,"The Radical Women Manifesto: Socialist Feminist Theory, Program And Organizational Structure Since its founding in 1967, the grassroots organization Radical Women ""has kept alive the militant spirit of feminist rebellion... by being audacious, multiracial, queer and straight, socialist feminist advocates for the overthrow of capitalism!"" The Radical Women Manifesto: Socialist Feminist Theory, Program and Organizational Structure will resonate, these women believe, with the most outspoken second-wave feminists and provide younger activists with a how-to guide to running a bare-bones organization and working effectively on behalf of a variety of meaty and, in some cases, controversial issues, ranging from the availability of quality, affordable health care to the legalization of prostitution. Not for the faint of heart, this little book will speak volumes to a select audience. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.	Radical Women, a unique socialist feminist organization, has been continuously active on every social issue since it's founding in 1967. It has branches today in numerous U.S. cities and in Australia.	INTRODUCTION by Megan Cornish (excerpt)    As I write this introduction, I think back to the exhilarating mass challenge that met the World Trade Organizations 1999 Seattle meeting. It was an upsurge the like of which hadnt been seen since the 1960s-era revolt against the Vietnam War. The Battle in Seattle against global corporate rule reverberated far beyond U.S. borders and signaled growing, revitalized ferment among young people and workers. Once again, it was cool to be young, radical, in sync with political events, and involved in changing the world!    It is to this new wave of rebels and revolutionaries that The Radical Women Manifesto will speak most directly, offering a cutting-edge guide for their search to build and sustain a movement for redesigning society.    Some may be surprised at that statement, since Radical Women (RW), founded in Seattle in 1967, is older than many of these young activists! But consider: out of the profusion of womens liberation groups  consciousness-raising circles, utopian collectives, and action coalitions  that spanned the political spectrum of the 1960s and early 70s, only Radical Women has kept alive the militant spirit of feminist rebellion. And Radical Women has not merely survived, but dramatically changed the political landscape.    Why have we had such an impact? Precisely by being audacious, multiracial, queer and straight, socialist feminist advocates for the overthrow of capitalism! Precisely by embracing a theory that explains why war, environmental devastation, and all forms of oppression are the order of the day under a system run for private profit. And precisely by, on the organizational front, having a democratic structure that enables us to act swiftly and decisively when it matters most.    When I first met Radical Women in 1972, the Manifesto took up only two mimeographed pages, yet it already encapsulated Radical Womens core beliefs on the cause of, and cure for, womens oppression. It described the origin of patriarchy in the rise of private property. And it explained that womens emancipation could only be achieved through socialism  which for its part, could only be won by a movement of the most oppressed, with women, especially women of color, playing a defining role. These were heady and subversive concepts  and they still are today!....    PREAMBLE (excerpt)    As political radicals, we anticipate and organize toward a revolutionary new world, reborn free.    As women, we anticipate and organize toward a new historical level of human relations based on equality and mutual respect.    As Radical Women, we understand and promulgate the concept that the Woman Question is a decisive issue in the unfolding international revolution because the exploitation of women has created a specially oppressed sex whose potential for revolt and capacity for leadership are second to none.    The current mainstream leadership of the womens movement is largely professional, middleclass and white. But the movement was founded by radicals and today its leftwing leadership is gaining strength, rising from the vast ranks of militant women from the working class, especially women of color and lesbians.    These women are doubly- and triply-exploited; they come into direct and daily conflict with bosses on the job and with racists and sexists on every level of life. They develop a keener awareness and consciousness of the triple nature of oppression  class, race and sex  than is possible for most white, nonworking, middleclass women.    The raw battle for survival in the everyday world has equipped women of color, women workers, and lesbians with a talent for discipline and respect for theory because the life of the poor woman, the working mother and the independent woman depends upon clearheadedness, self-control and organization. Accordingly, they demand these qualities in any movement that claims to be mature and realistic, and have no patience for idlers, triflers, coquettes, leeches and self-seekers within the movement. They have the least to lose and the most to gain by eliminating capitalism. They are radicalized and tempered by their actual victimization in life, not just by intellectual choice. Their experience is indispensable to a movement that must challenge the pinnacles of the bourgeois state and ultimately go so far as to seize power on behalf of all the humiliated and outcast.    It is precisely such women, who join nothing lightly but are ready to devote their lives completely when they do commit, who are destined for leadership of the entire movement. It is the historic responsibility of the movement to make an ideological connection to these women, a connection that always exists in the real world of jobs and workingclass/people of color communities, where women must fight together and, in the course of those battles, find solidarity and comradeship.    Our struggle for womens emancipation is not an easy one. The changes needed to free women from the bondage of inferior economic and social status involve a prolonged conflict, an endeavor that is met with great hostility and resistance at every step of the way. This resistance is twofold: from outside enemies as well as from within the movement, which is itself fraught with its own contradictions and inconsistencies.    Radical Women knows that the womens movement will have ups and downs, and that only a confident grasp of history, social theory, and tested organizational principles can provide the ballast to weather the storms ahead. The Radical Women Manifesto is our guide to achieving equilibrium amidst the chaos and corruption of the society around us, a guideline firmly grounded in womens historical past  in the beginnings of our oppression as a sex.",books;feminist theory;new;political science;politics & social sciences;social sciences;used & rental textbooks;women's studies,8
0689868413,"Room for a Little One: A Christmas Tale PreSchool-Grade 1On a cold winter night, Kind Ox invites one visitor after another into the shelter of his stableOld Dog, Stray Cat, and Small Mouse, who rest together in harmony. When Tired Donkey appears, he brings with him Mary and Joseph, and all of the animals welcome Jesus when He is born. The slightly fuzzy yet realistic acrylic paintings are dappled with multicolored blurry dots that add a touch of magic to the scene, although young children may simply assume that it's snowing. The very short and simple text, the catchy refrain, and the lovely illustrations make this title a fine choice for young listeners.E. M. Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	PreS-Gr. 2. 'Tis the eve of Christmas--a cold winter's night--when Kind Ox offers to share his stable by the inn. Assuring each tentative visitor that ""there's always room for a little one,"" he first gives shelter to Old Dog, then, in quick succession, Stray Cat, Small Mouse, and Tired Donkey, who is accompanied by Joseph and a weary Mary. As predators and prey gather together in ""the peace of a stable,"" they learn lessons about tolerance and generosity. Finally, they bear witness to the birth of the most wondrous ""Little One"" of all: the baby Jesus. Waddell, the author of the popular Little Bear series illustrated by Barbara Firth and many others, delivers another winner here. Quiet, meaningful, and ideal for the youngest readers, Waddell's simple text in large, easy-to-read type is rendered magical by Cockcroft's glowing acrylics. A majestic addition to any holiday collection. Terry GloverCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	Daisy is an inspired creation!  -- The Independent	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Martin Waddell is the award-winning author of many books for children, including Can't You Sleep, Little Bear? and the other Little Bear books, illustrated by Barbara Firth, Farmer Duck, illustrated by Helen Oxenbury, and Owl Babies, illustrated by Patrick Benson. He lives in Northern Ireland.Jason Cockcroft won the first ever Blue Peter Award in England for his illustrations in John Bunyan's A Pilgrim's Progress, retold by Geraldine McCaughrean. He illustrated Daddy's Lullaby by Tony Bradman, which was selected as one of the Best Books for Babies by the Beginning with Books Center for Early Literacy. He lives in North Yorkshire, England.",animals;books;children's books;christian;christmas;holidays & celebrations;literature & fiction;religious fiction,8
0880117222,"Focused for Tennis: Featuring the 3-R's Mental Training System ""I choke, you choke, we all choke. The question is how you handle it. Thats one of many questions that this easygoing, engaging, practical book will answer."" Cliff Drysdale Tennis Commentator, ESPN and ABC Sports Former U.S. Open Champion ""Great players execute well during points (10% of match time), but they also give the appearance of champions between points (90% of match time). The three Rs give you a way to test yourself and provide practical, specific ideas on how any personality type can be more effective in handling the critical between-point time."" Stan Smith Former U.S. Open and Wimbledon Champion ""This book provides players at all levels with important guidelines for coping with challenges to the emotional aspect of competitive tennis."" Jeff Moore Womens Tennis Coach University of Texas ""This book is a valuable tool for both the established touring pro and the weekend player. Sports psychology is really only useful when it can be applied in a practical way. The methods and lessons expressed in this book are truly unique and comprehensive. This book is as essential to your game as is your racquet."" Benjy Robins Tour Manager 1981-1991 Association of Tennis Professionals ""Karl Slaikeu and Robert Trogolo give valuable advice on how tennis players can best use the 25 seconds between points. Their 3-Rs system is laid out in a practical, easy-to-follow manner. Their use of the ""STOP"" technique, the three distinct game plans and application to performance anxiety and other sports is especially useful."" Dave Snyder Mens Tennis Coach University of Texas ""The 3 Rs is a great way to keep your composure and regroup time and again while on the tennis court. I am positive that it would have helped me during my tennis career if it were available. I strongly recommend that you should read this book and implement the 3 Rs to your game."" Danie Visser Davis Cup Captain Federation Cup Captain ""If the mental aspect of your tennis game is getting you down, read this book! The 3Rs system makes your mind work for you instead of against you."" Billie Jean King Director and Co-Founder World TeamTennis Holder of a record 20 Wimbledon titles	Karl Slaikeu, Ph.D., a lifelong tennis enthusiast, lives in Austin, Texas, and is president of Chorda Conflict Management, Inc. He also offers sport psychology consultation to tennis players at all levels, as well as their families, and conducts workshops and seminars for coaches. The creator of the 3 Rs model, Slaikeu played tennis at the collegiate level and now has two children active in tennis as well. In his spare time, Slaikeu enjoys reading, trout fishing, and, of course, playing tennis. Robert Trogolo has spent many years as a professional tennis player and coach. After spending several years on the pro tour, he went on to coach players such as Michael Chang, Kevin Curren, and Richey Reneberg. He also coached the Malaysian Davis Cup team. Through Trogolo Tennis International, Inc.(based in Austin), Trogolo consults tennis clubs and advises players new to the womens and mens pro tennis tours.",books;contemporary;fitness & dieting;health;literature & fiction;racket sports;sports & outdoors;tennis,8
0801859433,"On Being a Jew Ideal for students, parents, and rabbis, and those who wish to resolve what it means to be a Jew. (Judaica News )This book is more than a highly readable presentation of the basics of Judaism. It is a provocative and persuasive argument that the true meaning of being a Jew has been obscured for many Jews today as well as a stirring reflection on some of the deepest themes in Jewish practice and belief. (Jewish Star )A compelling introduction to being a religious Jew. (Moment )An honest, provocative and important work. (Jewish Action )For today's generation, this book is a necessary acquisition. (Jewish Libraries Newsletter )No apologist, and no fan of what he terms the 'halfway affair'of American Judaism, [Kugel] demonstrates the deepest continuities of Jewish history. (Economist )I hope that readers will not only savor Jim Kugel's engaging conversation about Judaism, but will participate in it. (Adin Steinsaltz )	James Kugel  is the Starr Professor of Hebrew Literature at Harvard University and Professor of Bible at Bar Ilan University, Israel. He is the author of  Poetry and Prophecy, Early Biblical Interpretation and  The Idea of Biblical Poetry, the last available from Johns Hopkins. His  The Bible as It Was, an introduction to the Torah's ancient interpreters, was published in 1997.",books;history;jewish;jewish life;judaism;religion & spirituality;religious;world,8
187568025X,"How to Be the Best Speaker in Town Doug Malouf is an international sales trainer, business consultant and educator. He is the author of Power Up Your People Skills, How to be the Best Speaker in Town and How to Teach Adults in a Fun and Exciting New Way.",books;business & investing;education & reference;guides;job hunting & careers;language & grammar;public speaking;words,8
0415284651,Samurai Zen: The Warrior Koans Text: English (translation) Original Language: Japanese	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	Trevor Leggett was the former head of Japanese Service of the BBC in theUK,books;buddhism;humanities;new;philosophy;religion & spirituality;religious studies;used & rental textbooks,8
0385489765,"High-Tech Heretic: Reflections of a Computer Contrarian Clifford Stoll, the Frank Zappa of cyberculture, dances around and about  information architecture in High-Tech Heretic: Reflections of a Computer  Contrarian. His friendly, just-folks style is accessible and entertaining,  even for the painfully postmodern readers who most desperately need Stoll's  quiet skepticism. The 23 short essays are split between education and more  general computer-related topics, but each reflects a unique and consistent  viewpoint that is marginalized, at best: computers might be neat, but they  aren't revolutionary. He walks a narrow path, and eschews both the utopians'  rosy, mirrored shades and the Luddites' monkey wrenches in favor of the least  sexy accessory of all--critical thought. Why are we supposed to wire every  classroom? Whose best interests are served by programs that offer ""computer  literacy?"" Can we really meet people online? Stoll asks the reader to check  assumptions and suspend judgments, while we determine what's really best for our  children and our culture. His ideas aren't the stuff of which sound bites are  made, although his writing has enough pith and charm to keep even the most rabid  techno-partisan engaged. It must be a blast to infuriate the smug and unthinking  punditocracy for a living; High-Tech Heretic lets us join the fun,  stretch our eye-rolling muscles, and exercise our old-fashioned seawater brains.  --Rob Lightner	An often funny and acerbic look at the new computer priesthood. --The Christian Science MonitorStoll's long experience with technology gives him authority. . . . His claims are based on facts, logic and common sense. --The Seattle TimesWonderful. . . . Stoll has Internetted there, computed that and seen through the hype about computers and education.--Chicago Sun-TimesWhen Stoll says something, gearheads and non-gearheads alike usually listen. Not only is he an entertaining writer, but he is completely sensible in his approach about the role computers should play in our lives.--The San Diego Union-TribuneWonderful...SHould be in the hands of every school administrator ready to sign a check for more computers.-Chicago Sun-Times	The cry for and against computers in the classroom is a topic of concern to parents, educators, and communities everywhere. Now, from a Silicon Valley hero and bestselling technology writer comes a pointed critique of the hype surrounding computers and their real benefits, especially in education. In High-Tech Heretic, Clifford Stoll questions the relentless drumbeat for ""computer literacy"" by educators and the computer industry, particularly since most people just use computers for word processing and games--and computers become outmoded or obsolete much sooner than new textbooks or a good teacher.As one who loves computers as much as he disdains the inflated promises made on their behalf, Stoll offers a commonsense look at how we can make a technological world better suited for people, instead of making people better suited to using machines.	""An often funny and acerbic look at the new computer priesthood."" --The Christian Science Monitor""Stoll's long experience with technology gives him authority. . . . His claims are based on facts, logic and common sense."" --The Seattle Times""Wonderful. . . . Stoll has Internetted there, computed that and seen through the hype about computers and education.""--Chicago Sun-Times""When Stoll says something, gearheads and non-gearheads alike usually listen. Not only is he an entertaining writer, but he is completely sensible in his approach about the role computers should play in our lives.""--The San Diego Union-Tribune""Wonderful...SHould be in the hands of every school administrator ready to sign a check for more computers.""-Chicago Sun-Times	Clifford Stoll, an MSNBC commentator, a lecturer, and a Berkeley astronomer, is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Cuckoo's Egg and Silicon Snake Oil. He lives with his family in the San Francisco Bay area.	A Literate Luddite?Am I the only one scratching my head over the relentless invocation of the cliche computer literacy? Is a supermarket checkout clerk computer literate because he operates a laser scanner, a digital scale, and a networked point-of-sale computer? Is my sister computer literate because she uses a word processor? Are the mirthless robots at the corner arcade computer literate because they reflexively react to Nintendo droids?Our nation now spends about three billion dollars a year to wire our classrooms, with an aim of making our country's students computer literate. But how much computing does a high school student need to know?I'd say a high school graduate, intent on going to college, should be able to use a word processor, manipulate a spreadsheet, know what a database does, be able to use e-mail, and know how to browse the World Wide Web.But not every high school graduate needs to be able to program spreadsheets or lay out databases. It's a waste of time to teach competency on specific programs . . . software taught in high school probably won't be used elsewhere, or will soon be outdated. Instead, we should teach what a database does and where it's useful, so that if that student winds up running a warehouse or keeping an address book, she'll know to turn to a database program.So, how long did it take you to learn a word processor? A day? Maybe three? Aside from the mechanical typing lessons, this just isn't challenging stuff.To cover what I've outlined is hardly difficult--perhaps a few weeks on a computer. Unworthy of much time or academic attention. Learning how to use a computer--as opposed to programming a computer--is essentially a mechanical task, one that doesn't require or encourage creativity.Of course, using a computer requires learning to type. Oops, I mean acquiring keyboarding proficiency. Again, hardly rocket science.Computer literacy doesn't demand the same level of instruction as English, American history, or physics. It doesn't require the same amount of effort, either. Spending semesters teaching computing simply subtracts time from other subjects.Probably because computers are so easy for students to learn, educators love to teach computer techniques. But what are their students prepared for? A lifetime of poking at a keyboard for eight hours a day. It's one more way to dumb down the school, giving the appearance of teaching futuristic subjects while dodging truly challenging topics.Today, practically all office workers know word processing. Most learned it late in life, well past age eighteen. But some subjects, while easy for a child to learn, are impossible for adults . . . languages, for instance. The earlier you start, the easier to become fluent. Same with playing a musical instrument. Or drawing. Or public speaking. Gymnastics. Plenty of people wish they'd learned a musical instrument or a foreign language as a child. But I've never heard anyone complain that they were deprived because they weren't exposed enough to computers or television as a kid.Which gives you more advantages in business: having a long history of computer experiences, going back to programming Logo? Or fluency in Japanese, German, French, and Chinese? Which is more likely to lead to a rich, happy life: a childhood of Nintendo and Playstations, or one of hikes and bikes?When I point out the dubious value of computers in schools, I hear the point Look, computers are everywhere, so we have to bring them into the classroom.Well, automobiles are everywhere too. They play a damned important part in our society and it's hard to get a job if you can't drive. Cars account for more of our economy than do computers: General Motors' revenues are many times those of Microsoft.But we don't teach automobile literacy. Nor do we make driver's education a central part of the curriculum--indeed, many schools are now dropping driver's ed, recognizing that teenagers can learn to drive without intensive schooling.Sure, cars and computers play a prominent role in our lives. Hey--soft-drink ads dominate our skylines and our globe's awash in a syrupy, brown sugar solution, yet we don't push Coca-Cola into elementary schools. At least, we didn't until educators invited Channel-1 and the advertising-laden Internet into classrooms.But since computers seem ubiquitous, don't we have to bring them to school? Well, no. Television, which is certainly omnipresent, has been relegated to a fairly minor role in education, and politicians aren't funding new initiatives to buy more classroom TV sets.Want a nation of dolts? Just center the curriculum on technology--teach with videos, computers, and multimedia systems. Aim for highest possible scores on standardized tests. Push aside such less vocationally applicable subjects as music, art, and history. Dolts are what we'll get.Mathematician Neal Koblitz recognizes the anti-intellectual appeal of computers: They're used in the classroom in a way that fosters a golly-gee-whiz attitude that sees science as a magical black box, rather than as an area of critical thinking. Instead of asking whether or not technology can support the curriculum, educators try to find ways to squeeze the curriculum into a mold so that computers and calculators can be used.Computers encourage students to turn in visually exciting hypermedia projects, often at the expense of written compositions and hand-drawn projects. Pasting a fancy graphic into a science report doesn't mean an eighth grader has learned anything. Nor does a downloaded report from the Internet suggest that a student has any understanding of the material.Yet the emphasis on professional reports sends students the message that appearance and fonts mean more than content. Kids stuck with pencils feel somehow inferior and out of place next to those with computer-generated compositions. The computer-enabled students spend more time preening their reports, rather than understanding the subject matter.At a high school science fair, I saw a multicolor map of the Earth, showing global temperature distributions. I asked the report's author why the Amazon rain forest seemed so cold--the map showed the jungle to be thirty-eight degrees. I don't know, he shrugged. I found the map from the Internet. The guy never considered that the data might be in Celsius, rather than Fahrenheit.",books;business & management;computers & technology;culture;education & reference;schools & teaching;science & math;technology,8
0312251920,"I'm Wild Again: Snippets from My Life and a Few Brazen Thoughts Never shedding the ""Cosmo Girl"" identity she created and perfected over 32 years as editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan, the redoubtable Brown muses over her life, career and philosophy. Relentlessly candid, she reveals a difficult childhood: her mother was a depressed young widow, and her older sister contracted polio before the vaccine was developed. Brown was a veteran of 17 secretarial jobs before writing the provocative bestseller Sex and the Single Girl. She also reveals a brief stint at being kept (""keptive"") by a married man, and an affair with boxing great Jack Dempsey, among other romances. Brown's self-portrait as stingy and demanding is in sharp contrast to that of her husband of 40 years, movie producer David Brown, whom she paints as a dapper, generous genius. A good portion of her memoir is given over to Brown's relentless quest for a youthful appearance, which may trouble some readers. She's probably kidding when she calls exfoliating dead skin one of life's pleasures, but she is deadly honest about her diet (""skinny is sacred to me""), exercise regimen (two 45-minute sessions seven days a week, even now), breast augmentation, and battle with thin hair. She's equally open about having had a lumpectomy for breast cancer. Brown, who transformed Cosmo into a powerhouse, is a publicity pro who can still charm (though replaced in the editor's chair at age 74, she is still editor-in-chief of the international editions). Whether playfully describing a man as ""wife-encumbered"" or fretting over a ""poochy tummy,"" Brown's voice is uniquely hers, although the book feels padded and repetitious. Overall, to use one of Brown's favorite words, it's only ""pippypoo."" 16-page photo insert not seen by PW. (Feb.) Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information, Inc.	For former Cosmopolitan editor Brown, work, sex, and good looks have not lost their importance even at age 75. Full of spice, this memoir reveals Brown's past, growing up in Little Rock, AR, and explains the prodigious energy that sustained her through 17 secretarial jobs and then over 30 years running Cosmopolitan. The author of seven previous books, including Sex and the Single Girl, shocking for its time, and New York Times best seller Having It All, Brown writes in a chatty, anecdotal style about face lifts, her brush with lung cancer, and the constant battle to stay thin, occasionally providing information on how to keep a man and succeed in a career. Despite tiresome name-dropping and bragging, Brown has a giggle-inspiring sense of humor that--combined with her ""live life to its fullest"" philosophy--makes this book entertaining and fun to read.-Nancy R. Ives, SUNY at Brockport Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.",arts & literature;authors;biographies & memoirs;books;leaders & notable people;rich & famous;specific groups;women,8
0671581201,"Italian III - 1st Ed. Rev. (Pimsleur Language Program) Dr. Paul Pimsleur devoted his life to language teaching and testing and was one of the worlds leading experts in applied linguistics. After years of experience and research, Dr. Pimsleur developed The Pimsleur Method based on two key principles: the Principle of Anticipation and a scientific principle of memory training that he called Graduated Interval Recall. This Method has been applied to the many levels and languages of the Pimsleur Programs.	      --This text refers to the 							Audio CD	 edition.",books;education & reference;foreign languages;humanities;italian;new;politics & social sciences;used & rental textbooks,8
0762710462,"Insiders' Guide to Portland, 2nd (Insiders' Guide Series) Insiders' Guide to Portland, Oregon offers travelers, newcomers, and locals the best, most comprehensive information on what's happening in the area. Known for its livability, the City of Roses is more than just microchip manufacturers and coffeehouses. The thriving arts scene of the Pearl District, the tranquil Japanese Gardens, and the kid-friendly Oregon Museum of Science and Industry are just a few of the highlights of what this region has to offer. Use this guide to discover the scenic Columbia Gorge as well as limitless opportunities for fun, dining, shopping, and adventure. (6 x 9, 520 pages, b photos, maps)",books;general;oregon;pacific;portland;travel;united states;west,8
0439165857,"In Their Own Words: Pocahontas Acclaim for Helen Keller and Abraham Lincoln:In Their Own Words biographies focus on famous people who left a record of their own lives. Beginning with an explanation of the difference between primary and secondary sources, Sullivan seamlessly interweaves information about his subject with excerpts from primary sources. In the case of Helen Keller, Sullivan uses her autobiographical works; for Lincoln, he draws on speeches and letters. Both Keller and Lincoln have been covered in numerous biographies for young people (Sullivan's own Picturing Lincoln was published last fall), but these volumes are worthwhile. The short chapters, large print, simple vocabulary, straightforward narrative, and attractive illustrations, as well as the addition of the subjects' own words, make them fine choices for early-grade biographies. They fit nicely between David Adler's Picture Book Biography series books and more challenging volumes such as Russell Freedman's classic Lincoln: A Photobiography (1987).      --Booklist... These may not be unique biographies, but they are still well written, fast moving, and highly readable, squeezed into a small format that should appeal to many students. Both books feature black-and-white photos and reproductions, a useful index, a short bibliography of primary and secondary sources, and a short list of further readings, along with places to contact for further information. Certainly much has been written about how these two figures and many libraries will find their shelves already well stocked. Those needing more materials, however, will find these to be solid choices.      --School Library Journal	Author George Edward Sullivan was born on August 11, 1927, in Lowell, MA. Between 1945 and 1948, he was in the U.S. Navy, where he served as a journalist. He has written over 200 nonfiction books for children and young adults on a wide variety of topics. In 2005, his book BUILT TO LAST was honored with the Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children. Sullivan is a member of PEN, Authors Guild, Authors League of America, and the American Society of Journalists and Authors. He lives in New York with his wife.",biographies;books;children's books;colonial & revolutionary;historical;history;people of color;united states,8
B000NXHQRE,"Girl Rearing: Memoir of a Girlhood Gone Astray Successfully recounting a life without true suffering requires a certain degree of cool objectivity, critical self-awareness and humane wisdom. Unfortunately, Aldrich's first book of roughly chronological essays (some of which originally appeared in the Northwest Review) lacks such depth. Aldrich grew up as the comfortably middle-class child of an estate lawyer and a homemaker. The grievances of her childhood seem to be that her room was too pink; she didn't like her given name; she had to eat tomatoes; and her mother was overwhelmingly tidy. It can be hard to see beyond the kvetching to the writing, but even that can seem strained, as in these two passages about the loathed fruit: ""So I ate the tomato, but not without consequences for her who made me eat it"" and, later, in a deeply improbable dialogue, ""I hate the way sliced tomatoes lay inert on cold white plates. Lizzie Borden hated tomatoes."" What the reader immediately sees, but Aldrich doesn't seem to, is that her mother, the child of an early divorce whose first husband (not Aldrich's father) and eldest daughter both died tragically, desperately needed to impose order and control in the domestic sphere that she lacked in the larger world. And though she might have been a neatnik, she did rebel against the tyranny that dinnertime held over a woman's life in the '50s and '60s when Aldrich was growing up. For her part, Aldrich, like many other comfortable baby boomers, lacked specific grievances but luxuriated in the romance of rebellion. By comparison to memoirs of dire poverty, abuse, persecution, this comes across as profoundly self-indulgent. Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	Aldrich begins this overwhelmingly sad memoir by detailing her birth in an alley. Devastated by her foiled plans for the birth, Aldrich's mother continues to block the experience and, indirectly, her new daughter out of her mind. Isolation and guilt haunt Aldrich for the rest of her life and keep her with ""one foot in life and one foot in death, precarious there, balancing."" In the tradition of Wally Lamb's fictional She's Come Undone (LJ 5/1/92) Aldrich's story moves through an adolescence where, among other horrors, she helplessly stands ashore as one of her sisters drowns in a storm, and an adult life filled with failed romantic and platonic relationships. All of this leads to a nervous breakdown that forces her to analyze her past and question some of her deepest feelingsAincluding her very real fear of repeating the pattern with her own daughter. Though Aldrich succeeds in drawing the reader into her tragedies, her unwavering sadness will defeat many others.AEmily Jones, ""Library Journal""Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	Aldrich's raw anger and inventive writing make ""Girl Rearing"" a fresh read on a familiar subject.  -- Detroit News/Free Press, Judy Rose, 1 November 1998	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.",biographies & memoirs;books;parenting;parenting & relationships;politics & social sciences;specific groups;women;women's studies,8
B000GA8S9Y,"KIK® 8-pc Forstner Bit Set KIK 8-pc Forstner Bit Set	Includes: 3/8"",1/2"", 5/8"", 3/4"", 13/16"", 7/8"", 1"", 1-1/4""	Indexed in an attractive wooden case.	GREAT GIFT FOR THE WOOD WORKERS!",cutting tools;drill bits;forstner drill bits;industrial & scientific;industrial drill bits;power & hand tools;power tool accessories;tools & home improvement,8
0886776546,"Werewolves In 1995 Martin H. Greenberg was honored by the Mystery Writers of America with the Ellery Queen Award for lifetime achievement in mystery editing. He is also the recipient of two Anthony awards. Mystery Scene magazine called him ""the best mystery anthologist since Ellery Queen."" He has compiled more than 1,000 anthologies andis the president of TEKNO books.He lives in Green Bay, Wisconsin.",anthologies & literary collections;books;contemporary;general;genre fiction;horror;literature & fiction;united states,8
0765311992,"The Americans at Normandy: The Summer of 1944--The American War from the Normandy Beaches to Falaise Long on engrossing combat vignettes but short on historical perspective, this fine-grained narrative covers some 80 days of the American campaign in France, from the bloody stalemate in the hedgerows to the decisive breakout and defeat of the German army in Normandy. In line with the Stephen Ambrose school of populist historiography that sees the campaign as the Greatest Generations finest hour, military historian McManus (The Americans at D-Day, etc.) challenges historians who have characterized the U.S. Armys performance as sluggish, tactically inept and dependent on a colossal superiority in numbers and firepower over its German opponents. He does so by focusing on the battlefield exploits of small infantry units and individual GIs, whom he feels displayed plenty of drive and tactical ingenuity. These well-paced and often moving stories, based on veterans first-hand reminiscences, are full of blood and guts, squalor and heroism, pathos and despair, and they add up to an indelible portrait of the horror of war. But McManuss conclusion that the Americans were ""better soldiers"" than the Germans is both unfair and untenable. The details of his account make clear that American infantry tactics did indeed rely on the crushing assistance of tanks, artillery and airpower. Meanwhile, he avoids meticulous comparisons of front-line strengths that would reveal how hopelessly outnumbered and outgunned the Wehrmacht was, while his exclusive interest in the American side neglects the tactical achievements German soldiers pulled off with incomparably skimpier resources. The many war stories McManus offers make for a gripping read, but they add up to a seriously biased picture of the Allied victory.Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	McManus, a professor of military history, follows up his widely praised Americans at D Day with a worthy successor. The narrative begins the day after the Normandy landings. There is a common misconception that, with the beachheads secured, success was a foregone conclusion, because of overwhelming Allied materiel and numerical superiority. McManus convincingly refutes that assumption. From the beaches to the hedgerows to the breakout and slaughter at the Falaise gap, the Americans fought bravely, effectively, and often brilliantly against a tenacious and well-led opponent. McManus seamlessly weaves the experiences of individual soldiers into the broader strategic picture. The result is a tough, inspiring, but often heartrending portrait of ordinary men compelled to do extraordinary things in combat. Jay FreemanCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	""McManus has written an epic, an American Iliad, of the ordinary, mortal men who fought and won the pivotal battle of World War II. His scope is monumental. An extraordinary achievement.""---Stephen Coonts on The Americans at D-Day and The Americans at Normandy""Required reading on a bitter battle that won't be---and never should be---forgotten."" ---W. E. B. Griffin on The Americans at D-Day and The Americans at Normandy""Far more gripping than Saving Private Ryan. Comprehensively detailed...Utterly fascinating. McManus's style fits the slam-bang fighting that characterized one of the most crucial periods of the war, and he makes every battle---and every soldier---count as if it were the last round in the clip.""---Walter J. Boyne, New York Times bestselling author of Operation Iraqi Freedom on The Americans at D-Day and The Americans at Normandy""Awesome! A definitive account of a turning point in American and world history.""---Thomas Fleming on The Americans at D-Day and The Americans at Normandy""I thought I knew something about war and men at war until I read John C. McManus's deeply insightful book. I stand humbled by what I consider nothing less than a definitive work on a subject whose scope is simply so vast that no writer until now has put it in perspective and made it real.""---David Hagberg on The Americans at D-Day and The Americans at NormandyMcManus has written an epic, an American Iliad, of the ordinary, mortal men who fought and won the pivotal battle of World War II. His scope is monumental. An extraordinary achievement. (Stephen Coonts)Required reading on a bitter battle that won't be---and never should be---forgotten. (W. E. B. Griffin)Far more gripping than Saving Private Ryan. Comprehensively detailed...Utterly fascinating. McManus's style fits the slam-bang fighting that characterized one of the most crucial periods of the war, and he makes every battle---and every soldier---count as if it were the last round in the clip. (Walter J. Boyne New York Times bestselling author of Operation Iraqi Freedom)Awesome! A definitive account of a turning point in American and world history. (Thomas Fleming)	JOHN C. MCMANUS is a professor of military history at the University of Missouri.  He has traveled extensively in researching his books about the American experience in World War II.",books;history;humanities;military;new;united states;used & rental textbooks;world war ii,8
B0007WTAX4,"Manfrotto 190MF3 3-Section MagFiber Tripod without Head The 190MF3 represents the top of Manfrotto's lightweight tripod range. The 190MF3 provides professional photographers with a tripod that's very light, compact, simple to use, strong, and extremely versatile to position. Without compromising on stability or rigidity of the tripod, Manfrotto engineers reduced the weight of the 190MF3 by utilizing carbon fiber legs with quick action lever locks in magnesium and resin. In addition, they incorporated the patented design of the 3001PRO series top spider which offers four leg angle settings, and converts the center column into a lateral arm.  The center column itself is of the latest generation of aluminum and resin materials. The low-angle adapter forms the top section of the center column and is easily detached by simply unscrewing the knob at the bottom of the column. This enables the head to be left mounted on the center column when switching between low-angle and normal shooting positions.  All parts are assembled using a proven pressure clamp technology for greater durability and in-the-field serviceability. To make transportation even easier, the 190MF3 is supplied with a hand padded carrying strap that can also double as a hook to hang weight and increase stability during extreme wind conditions.  Features include:  Carbon Fiber three-faced tubes for the tripod legs Aluminum and nylon polymer center column Magnesium die casting for all tripod parts and stainless steel nuts and bolts Ergonomic, user friendly features such as quick-action adjustable leg lever locks that instantly secure leg extensions firmly in place with no slippage or rotation Push buttons to operate leg angles to offer four degrees of inclination Center column with vertical/horizontal positioning Built-in low angle adapter   What's in the Box: Tripod, carrying strap.	The new 190MF3 provides professional photographers with a tripod that?s very light, compact, simple to use, strong, and extremely versatile to position. Without compromising on stability or rigidity of the tripod, engineers reduced the weight of the 190MF3 by utilizing carbon fiber legs with quick action lever locks in magnesium and resin. In addition, they incorporated the patended design of the 3001PRO series top spider which offers four leg angle settings, and converts the center column into a lateral arm. The center column itself is of the latest generation of aluminum and resin materials. The low-angle adapter forms the top section of the center column and is easily detached by simply unscrewing the knob at the bottom of the column. This enables the head to be left mounted on the center column when switching between low-angle and normal shooting positions. All parts are assembled using a proven pressure clamp technology for greater durability and in-the-field serviceability. To make transportation even easier, the 190MF3 is supplied with a hand padded carrying strap that can also double as a hook to hang weight and increase stability during extreme wind conditions. Features: Carbon Fiber three-faced tubes for the tripod legs Aluminum and nylon polymer center column Magnesium die casting for all tripod parts and stainless steel nuts and bolts Ergonomic, user friendly features such as quick-action adjustable leg lever locks that instantly secure leg extensions firmly in place with no slippage or rotation Push buttons to operate leg angles to offer four degrees of inclination Center column with vertical/horizontal positioning Built-in low angle adapter.",accessories;camera & photo;complete tripod units;digital camera accessories;electronics;tripod heads;tripod legs;tripods & monopods,8
0631145036,"Blackwell's Tales of Belkin (Blackwell's Russian Texts) Text: Russian, English",books;classics;education & reference;foreign languages;humanities;literature & fiction;new;used & rental textbooks,8
0764174363,"Profiles of American Colleges with CD-ROM (2003 Edition) Profiles of More Than 1650 Accredited Four-Year CollegesIndex of College Majors Charts on tinted pages list all schools according to majors to help students pinpoint schools that best suit their needsBarron?s Exclusive Rating System  Ranks each college according to degree of academic competitiveness in five classification that range from Less Competitive to Most CompetitiveCD-ROM  Identifies schools that meet student needs regarding location, costs, size, choice of major,  average SAT I and ACT test score, and more",books;college & university;college guides;education & reference;new;reference;test prep & study guides;used & rental textbooks,8
B0006TP9LK,"Magnate 1855 Hinge Boring Bit, 10mm Shank - 15mm Cutting Diameter; Left Hand Rotation Good for creating recesses for hinges when using a hinge template guide and also good for cleaning out rough dado cuts. For laminates, plastics, pressed boards and solid woods. These bits create clean entry holes with smooth interiors. This carbide tipped bit is specifically designed and manufactured for the high quality demanded by woodworking industrial applications. The cutting edges of this router bit are made from high industrial grade micrograin carbide tips brazed onto a heat-treated high-carbon steel body thus leading to exceptional hardness and rigidity. Its cutting edges are radially relieved for a strong smooth cut in addition to avoiding rubbing and burning. It is precision ground, hardened, and tempered in order to stand up to a variety of materials. It is also equipped with wide open gullets for easy disposal of wood chips. It is suited for softwoods, hardwoods, chipboard, plywood and etc. In case a bit doesn't come with a speed chart. You may try the following suggestion. This is merely a guideline to start, result likely varies due to the varieties of edge and material hardness: Run 24,000 rpm maximum for 1"" overall diameter router bits; Run 18,000 rpm maximum for 1-1/4"" overall diameter router bits; Run 16,000 rpm maximum for 2-1/4"" to 2-1/2"" overall diameter router bits; Run 12,000 rpm maximum for 3"" to 3-1/2"" overall diameter router bits;",boring drill bits;cutting tools;drill bits;industrial & scientific;industrial drill bits;power & hand tools;power tool accessories;tools & home improvement,8
B0002F9YIC,"Lexol 1115 Leather pH Cleaner Spray 16.9 oz. (500mL) Lexol Leather pH Cleaner Spray seep-cleans dirt, oil and leftover perspiration salts that build up and destroy leather interiors. Lexol Cleaner is adjusted to the pH of leather, so it will not harm the finish or fibers of the leather. It rinses easily and quickly with water, leaving no residue or dulling film. Apply with either a damp Lexol Applicator Sponge or a damp soft cloth to work up a foam that lifts out the dirt. Rinse thoroughly with another clean, wet sponge or cloth. Once all traces of cleaner have been rinsed off, pat dry with a soft, 100% cotton towel. To keep your interior in top condition, clean the leather about twice a year and immediately follow with Lexol Conditioner. Do not use on suede.",automotive;car care;equestrian sports;interior care;leather care;saddles;sports & outdoors;tack,8
078576383X,"Charlie Anderson (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) Kindergarten-Grade 3-- Two sisters, Elizabeth and Sarah, adopt the cat who appears on their doorstep every evening--but never during the day. Soon he is sleeping on their beds and answering to the name of Charlie. The girls visit their father in the city every weekend, but on weekdays, when they are home with their mother, Charlie is always there by suppertime. One night the cat doesn't come. The next day the girls discover that he lives in a house with a family on the other side of the woods, where he is called Anderson, fed by day and let out by night. They all call the cat ""Charlie Anderson,"" and realize that he, like Elizabeth and Sarah, ""has two houses, two beds, two families who love him."" Graham's soft-toned, realistic paintings of the charming little girls and the furry gray cat are delightfully appealing, perfectly conveying the mood and message of the story. --Shirley Wilton, Ocean County College, Toms River, NJCopyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Booklist Graham's softly blended full-color paintings reflect the gentle warmth of Abercrombie's prose, which capably employs a simple text to reinforce the good fortune of the cat an the girls...	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Barbara Abercrombie, an author of books for both children and adults, teaches creative writing in the Writers' Program at UCLA Extension and conducts writing workshops for the Wellness Community. She lives with her husband in Santa Monica, California, and Twin Bridges, Montana.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",animals;books;cats;children's books;family life;literature & fiction;marriage & divorce;social situations,8
0748616144,"New Terror New Wars (Contemporary Ethical Debates) "" New Terror, New Wars has real merit. Gilbert is well informed both on relevant philosophical literature and on current developments, and presents his argument with care and acuity."" -- John Langan, SJ, Rose Kennedy Professor of Christian Ethics, Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.	Paul Gilbert is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hull. His previous books include The World, the Flesh and the Subject (with Kathleen Lennon, 2005), New Terror, New Wars (2003), Peoples, Cultures and Nations in Political Philosophy (2000), The Philosophy of Nationalism (1998), Terrorism, Security and Nationality (1994), and Human Relationships (1991).",books;ethics & morality;international & world politics;philosophy;politics & government;politics & social sciences;specific topics;terrorism,8
B00004RA8D,"Oregon 14-Inch Semi Chisel Chain Saw Chain Fits Homelite, McCulloch, Remington S50 Oregon S50 14 inch saw chain features top performing Chamfer Chisel cutters and a notched bumperdrive link for low kickback performance, good chip flow, and a smooth cutting action. The twin corners of the cutters on S50 chain deliver superior performance on the many popular saws which use low profile 3/8 in. pitch chain. S50 chain also features four way symmetrical tie straps which simplifies the joining of chain loops. To find the correct replacement parts and accessories for your chainsaw go to www.oregonchain.com	14"" 91VG Low Profile Xtraguard Premium C-Loop Chain, 50 Drive Links Chain, Chain Meets ANSI Standards and Is UL Classified, Fits Remington, Stihl and Solo Chain Saws, Made In USA.",chain saw accessories;chain saw chains;lawn & garden;mowers & outdoor power tools;outdoor power tool accessories;patio;power & hand tools;tools & home improvement,8
0939693615,"Theatre: Its Art and Craft Stephen M. Archer is Professor Emeritus of Theatre History at University of MissouriColumbia. Among his published works are American Actors and Acting: A Guide to Information Sources, How Theatre Happens, and Junius Brutus Booth: Theatrical Prometheus. His articles and reviews have appeared in Theatre Journal, Dramatics Magazine, Theatre History Studies, and other journals. Cynthia M. Gendrich teaches acting, directing, introduction to theatre, and dramatic literature at Wake Forest University. Recent Wake Forest productions she's directed include Off the Map, A Lie of the Mind, and The Marriage of Bette & Boo. Interested in acting and directing history, theory, and practice, she publishes and directs regularly. Recent articles include, Noise and Nudity: Kyoto's dumb type in Theatre Forum, and several articles on the Madrid theatre scene.Woodrow B. Hood is associate professor of theatre arts at Catawba College.",arts & photography;books;humanities;humor & entertainment;new;performing arts;theater;used & rental textbooks,8
1576101487,"High Performance Windows Graphics Programming: Your High-End Guide for Creating Fast, High-Impact Graphics with Microsoft's DirectDraw API Stan Trujillo (Oakhurst, CA) has done programming work for Los Alamos National Laboratories, the California Institute of Technology, and the U.S. Department of Energy in areas such as graphics, neural nets, and distributed computing. He is an author of Cutting-Edge Direct3D Programming, C++ Games Programming, Windows 95 Games Programming, and other computer books.",books;computers & technology;desktop publishing;graphic design;graphics & multimedia;programming;software;web development & design,8
0811726908,"Twilight of Heroes This is a strong, beautifully written adventure from an author whose previous efforts--Flames of Heaven, The Perfect Soldier, and Red Army--marked him as a rising star. American Army Colonel John Church, waiting for his retirement papers, blames himself when a team of his soldiers building a medical clinic in Bolivia is massacred by drug dealers. Church lurches into action to revenge his men and finish their mission, but all kinds of people don't want him to succeed.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Peters (Red Army) is closing in the big leagues of thriller writers with this convincing novel of international drug trade. After the mysterious massacre of a U.S. military team on a mission of mercy in remote Bolivia, the aging Col. John Church takes the blame. As a self-imposed penance, he also takes on the aborted mission and unwittingly becomes America's latest hero. What follows is a story of deceit, disease and despair that captivates even as it infuriates with its depiction of men betrayed. Don't be surprised if Peters's climactic battle scene, so penetratingly and movingly written, reduces some readers to tears. Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	"". . . as lucidly literate as he is humanly insightful . . .""  -- Chicago Sun-Times""Peters writes with a style that is lucid and so direct it seems to be almost effortless.""  -- San Diego Union""The thinking-man's Tom Clancy.""  -- The Wall Street Journal	Fox News Strategic Analyst Ralph Peters is the author of 27 books, including bestselling and prize-winning novels.  He has experience in over 70 countries and, as a journalist, has covered multiple conflicts.  His work has appeared in a wide range of publications and he serves on the advisory board of Armchair General magazine. He lives in Virginia.",books;contemporary;genre fiction;literature & fiction;mystery;thriller & suspense;united states;war,8
B0006HW60E,Compucessory Under-Desk Keyboard Drawer Keyboard drawer features a gel wrist rest and retractable mouse station. Keyboard tray extends and locks into position while in use. Retracts inside metal cabinet for storage. Conserves valuable work space by storing keyboard out of the way. Track length is 18. Keyboard drawer offers smooth and quiet ball-bearing suspension rails as well as screws to the underside of the desk. Designed for use with standard workstations. Mousing surface can be used to the left or right of the keyboard. Keyboard drawer is not height adjustable.,desk accessories & workspace organizers;furniture accessories;keyboard drawers & platforms;office & school supplies;office furniture & lighting;office products;platforms;stands & shelves,8
B00006JPUE,NADY PS-115 ProPower Series 500 Watt Portable PA Speaker Integrated recessed carrying handles for easy handlingLightweightSized for easy portabilityHeavy duty plastic protective cornersDurable black carpet coverAll horns with high compression piezo drivers,electronics;home audio;live sound & stage;musical instruments;pa systems;speakers;stereo components;studio recording equipment,8
B000PYDIYG,"AeroGarden 9110-00Z Herb Appeal Collection Learn how to enhance everyday meals with the flavor of fresh herbs in the 45-minute DVD featuring tips and recipes from Chef Charles Dale.  A 36-page, full-color guide features tips, recipes and techniques from getting the most from your AeroGarden herbs.  3 flexible Designer Cutting Mats make it easy to chop and use your AeroGarden herbs.",garden center;gardening;germination kits;lawn & garden;patio;plant germination equipment;power & hand tools;tools & home improvement,8
B0002SDLK6,Exposure II Parka - Men's Carbon XL by Mountain Hardwear Features:  Specifications:,clothing;clothing & accessories;down & parkas;jackets;men;outerwear & coats;sports & outdoors;trench & rain,8
B0000545VK,"Raging Heart: The Tragic Marriage of O.J. Simpson and Nicole Brown Simpson Here, for the first time, is the intimate untold story of O. J. and Nicole Brown Simpson's tragic, tumultuous marriage. Author Sheila Weller was granted unprecedented cooperation by Nicole's family and exclusive access to friends who reveal private information. Raging Heart is filled with gripping revelations and shocking scenes from the lives of the dangerously romantic couple - Nicole, the beautiful, devoted wife and mother, and O.J., the charismatic football legend whose dark side was ignored by his worshipping buddies. This is a tumultuous story of love, obsession, provocation, violence, the hope of an ideal family, and the crushing tragedy that shocked the world.",biographies;biographies & memoirs;books;politics & social sciences;social sciences;sports & outdoors;true accounts;true crime,8
B000BYENGW,"Bosch 09463 Premium Spark Plug Wire Set State-of-the-art manufacturing technology and quality control systems ensure that Bosch Premium Wire Sets meet, and often exceed, the performance of the original equipment wire sets that they replace. That's true for all of the components, including the wire set boots and connectors.",automotive;ignition & electrical;ignition parts;performance parts & accessories;replacement parts;spark plugs & wires;wire sets;wires,8
193154302X,"Vogue Knitting on the Go: Chunky Knits Chunky is in. Using chunky yarns (or multiple strands of yarn) and large needles, today's busy knitters are happily churning out sweaters and accessories in a fraction of the time it used to take to get wearables off the needle. Unfortunately, some of these garments either make their wearers look like the Pillsbury Dough Boy or are so loosely knit that you could slip your fist between the stitches. This volume comes to the rescue with a selection of garments that are fast to knit and stylish. In addition to sweaters and vests, colorful accessories include a cashmere cabled hat and a Kilim tote. All patterns include full-color illustrations, materials lists, gauge information, and schematics. Most public libraries will want this one, especially if other titles in the series have been popular. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.",arts & photography;books;crafts;crafts & hobbies;fashion;hobbies & home;knitting;needlecrafts & textile crafts,8
B000FZEJW0,"Integrating Aerospace Science into the Curriculum: K-12 (Gifted Treasury Series) This resource book for the media specialist or for use in the G/T classroom offers substantive information combined with an activity orientation that aims to ""demystify space"" for today's students. The text provides a comprehensive overview of the whole field of space science. It presents hands-on activities that integrate space science with other curriculum areas. These range from man's first contemplation of flight to rockets, space shuttles, hypersonic planes, space colonies, and space stations.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	This resource book for the media specialist or for use in the G/T classroom offers substantive information combined with an activity orientation that aims to ""demystify space"" for today's students. The text provides a comprehensive overview of the whole field of space science. It presents hands-on activities that integrate space science with other curriculum areas. These range from man's first contemplation of flight to rockets, space shuttles, hypersonic planes, space colonies, and space stations.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",aerospace;books;curricula;education & reference;engineering;instruction methods;professional & technical;schools & teaching,8
B00025642Q,"Fluval Peat Granules, 500 Gram/17.6 Ounce Fluval Peat Granules are the all-natural way to soften aquarium water and achieve the pH levels required for breeding and rearing certain tropical fish. Peat contains humic acid, tanning agents, and trace elements that are essential for various life processes. Highly concentrated for maximum effectiveness, Fluval Peat Granules are recommended for fish that prefer soft, acidic water. To ensure optimal conditions, it's best to test the water with Nutrafin pH and KH test kits on a regular basis to verify that desired levels are being maintained.",all aquatic & pond;filter accessories;fish & aquatic pets;fluval;hagen;pet supplies;pet supplies: international shipping available;pumps & filters,8
B000BCIHKW,"Fanmats Philadelphia Eagles 20x30 Starter Rug Add the perfect finishing touch to your den or ""fan cave"" with this officially licensed NFL team starter rug from Fanmats. The 100% nylon carpet boasts non-skid Duragon latex backing and is Chromojet-painted in the team colors. The 20"" x 30"" rug is adorned with the team name and a team helmet graphic.",auto accessories;automotive;fan shop;floor mats;floor mats & cargo liners;floormats;interior accessories;sports & outdoors,8
B000GC1YAC,"Moist Heating Pads - TheraTherm Digital Moist Heating Pads The Theratherm Digital Moist Heating Pad, as opposed to dry forms of heat, draws moisture directly from the air. There is no water to add, no water to boil, no dripping packs and no towels to prepare. Moisture is drawn from the humidity in the air and retained in a specially designed 100% cotton cover. When the hot pack is turned on, the retained moisture is rapidly heated by high-grade ceramics, forcing the moisture out of the flannel cover onto the patient's skin, allowing deeper penetration of heat into the bodys tissue. The moisture acts only as a means to transmit heat more deeply into the tissue, so only a small amount is needed. TheraTherm, unlike all competitive products on the market, has a digital hand control allowing the operator to program the following parameters: treatment temperature, treatment time and on/off. Competitive units, including Thermophore, require the operator to make continual contact with a single-loaded switch to generate and maintain heat from the pad. This is positioned as a safety feature. TheraTherm has a conventional on/off control switch. Lockout mode protects against accidental changing of the control settings.",arthritis;health & personal care;health care;heating pads;hot & cold therapies;joint & muscle pain relief;pain relievers;treatments,8
020154413X,"Digital Signal Processing: A Practical Approach (Electronic Systems Engineering) Purpose of this bookThis book was born out of our experience in teaching practically oriented courses in digital signal processing (DSP) to undergraduate students at the University of Plymouth and the Sheffield Hallam University, and to application engineers in industry for many years.  It appeared to us that many of the available textbooks were either too elementary or too theoretical to be of practical use for undergraduates or application engineers in industry.  As most readers will know from experience, the gap between learning the fundamentals in any subject and actually applying them is quite wide.  We therefore decided to write this book which we believe undergraduates will understand and appreciate and which will equip them to undertake practical digital signal processing assignments and projects.  We also believe that higher degree students and practising engineers and scientists will find this text most useful.  Our own research work over the last two decades in applied DSP has also inspired the contents, by identifying practical issues for discussion and presentation to bridge the gap between theoretical concepts and practical implementation, and by suggesting application examples, case studies, and problems.   The current great interest and developments in DSP both in industry and academia are likely to continue for the foreseeable future.  The availability of numerous digital signal processors recognizes the commercial potential of DSP.  Its major attraction lies in the ability to achieve guaranteed accuracy and perfect reproducibility, and in its inherent flexibility compared with analogue signal processing.  In industry, many engineers lack the necessary knowledge and expertise in DSP to utilize the immense potential of the very powerful digital signal processors now available off the shelf.  This book provides insight and practical guidance to enable engineers to design and develop practical DSP systems using these devices.   In academia, DSP is generally regarded as one of the more mathematical topics in the electrical engineering curriculum, and based on our experiences of teaching we have reduces the mathematical content to what we consider useful, essential, and interesting; we have also emphasized points of difficulty.  Our experiences indicate that students learn best if they are aware of the practical relevance of a subject, and while more theoretical texts are essential for completeness and reference as the student matures in the subject, we believe in producing graduates equipped also with practical knowledge and skills.  This book was written with these considerations in mind.   The book is not a comprehensive text on DSP, but it covers most aspects of the subject found in undergraduate electrical, electronic or communication engineering degree courses.  A number of DSP techniques which are of particular relevance to industry are also covered and in a few years, we believe, these will find their way into undergraduate curricula.  These include techniques such as adaptive filtering and multirate processing.   The emphasis throughout the book is on the practical aspects of DSP.  C language programs are provided to enable readers to explore the concepts presented in the book, to design and analyse their own DSP systems, and to gain a deeper understanding of DSP.   Commercial DSP software is available and plays a key role in the design and analysis of DSP systems.  However, with most commercial software, it is difficult actually to find out or follow how a given operation is performed.  The programs given in this book are useful in verifying results obtained manually.  For example, by inserting break points the user can check the intermediate results of computation and follow the way the computation is made.  Having acquired a sound knowledge of the principles, commercial software packages with good graphics support and user-friendly interfaces may then be used in most designs.Main features of the bookProvides an understanding of the fundamentals, implementation, and applications of DSP techniques from a practical point of view.Clear and easy to read, with mathematical contents reduced to that which is necessary for comprehension.DSP techniques and concepts are illustrated with practically oriented worked examples.Provides practical guidance to enable readers to design and develop actual DSP systems.  Complete design examples and practical implementation details are given, including assembly language programs for the TMS320C10 and C25 processors.Provides C language implementation of many DSP algorithms and functions including programs for:-- digital FIR and IIR filter design,  -- finite wordlength effect analysis of user-designed IIR filters,  -- converting from cascade to parallel realization structures,  -- correlation computation,  -- discrete and fast Fourier transform algorithms,  -- inverse z-transformation,  -- frequency response estimation, and  -- multirate processing systems design.PC-based C programs are available on a computer disk to encourage readers to participate more actively in the learning process (see the section How to obtain the program disk for this book in this preface for details).Contains many real-world application examples.Contains many end-of-chapter problems.Use of realistic examples to illustrate important concepts and to reinforce the knowledge gained.The intended audienceThe book is aimed at engineering, science and computer science students, and application engineers and scientists in industry who wish to gain a working knowledge of DSP.  In particular, final year students studying for a degree in electronics, electrical or communication engineering will find the book valuable for both taught courses as well as their project work, as increasingly a greater proportion of student project work involves aspects of DSP.  Postgraduates studying for a masters degree or PhD in the above subjects will also find the book useful.  Undergraduate students will find the fundamental topics very attractive and, we believe, the book will be a valuable source of information both throughout their course as well as when they go into industry.   Large commercial or government organizations who undertake their own internal DSP short courses could base them on the book.  We believe the book will serve as a good teaching text as well as a valuable self-learning text for undergraduate, graduate and application engineers.Contents and organizationChapter 1 contains an overview of DSP and its applications to make the reader aware of the meaning of DSP and its importance.  The chapter presents, from a practical point of view using real-world examples, many fundamental topics which form the cornerstone of DSP, such as sampling and quantization of signals and their implications in real-time DSP.  Discrete-time signals and systems are introduced in this chapter, and discussed further in Chapter 3.   Discrete transforms, particularly the discrete and fast Fourier transforms (FFT), provide important mathematical tools in DSP as well as relating the time and frequency domains.  They are introduced and described in Chapter 2 with a discussion of some applications to put them in context.  The derivation of the discrete Fourier transform (DFT) from the Fourier transform and the exponential Fourier series provides a logical justification for the DFT which does not require coverage of the discrete Fourier series which would unnecessarily increase the length of the book (and the amount of work for the student!).  The discussion has also been restricted to the description and implementation of the transforms.  In particular, the topic of windowing has not been included in this chapter but is more appropriately discussed in detail in Chapter 10 on spectrum analysis.   In Chapter 3 the basics of discrete-time signals and systems are discussed. Important aspects of the z-transform, an invaluable tool for representing and analysis discrete-time signals and systems, are discussed.  Many applications of the z-transform are highlighted, for example its use in the design, analysis and computation of the frequency response of discrete-time signals and systems.  As in the rest of the book, the concepts as well as applications of the z-transform are illustrated with fully worked examples.   Correlation and convolution are fundamental and closely related topics in DSP and are covered in depth in Chapter 4.  The authors consider an awareness of all the contents of this chapter to be essential for DSP, but after a preliminary scanning of the contents the reader may well be advised to build up his or her detailed knowledge by progressing through the chapter in stages.  The contents might well be spread over several years of an undergraduate course.   Chapters 5, 6 and 7 include detailed practical discussions of digital filter design, one of the most important topics in DSP, being at the core of	FeaturesApplications and case studies demonstrate how DSP systems are built.  Coverage of modern techniques, such as adaptive filtering, spectral estimation, and multirate processing.   Demonstrates how to use DSP chips for signal processing design.  Programs are written in C.SupplementsTransparency Masters: Please write to aw.eng@aw to request them.	Emmanuel Ifeachor  is Professor of Intelligent Electronic Systems and Director of the Centre for Communications, Networks and Information Systems at the University of Plymouth, UK.         Barrie Jervis  is Professor of Electronic Engineering at Sheffield Hallam University, UK.        This book evolved from the authors' extensive experience in teaching practically oriented courses in DSP to both undergraduates and engineers in industry. Their own research in applied DSP has influenced the contents of the book and provided many of the examples and case studies.  	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Hardcover	 edition.	Purpose of this book   In the last five years, digital signal processing (DSP) has continued to have a major and increasing impact in many key areas of technology, including telecommunication, digital television and media, biomedicine, digital audio and instrumentation. DSP is now at the core of many new and emerging digital products and applications in the information society (e.g. digital cellular phones, digital cameras and TV, and digital audio systems). The need and expectations for electronic, computer and communication engineers to be competent in DSP have grown even stronger since the first edition. DSP is now a core subject in most electronic/computer/communication engineering curricula.    This second edition of the book has been modernized by including additional topics of increasing importance, by providing MATLAB-based problems, and by offering a companion handbook and a home page on the web. These additions have been made in response to software developments, the wider availability of information technology, developments in the teaching of signal processing, and reader demand. Universities are increasingly making use of web-based materials and signal processing software tools such as MATLAB. We have consequently found a demand amongst our readers for MATLAB-based material. This high-level language permits sophisticated signal processing and the immediate display of results with relatively few commands. It is possible to have fun in developing signal processing and the solutions to problems without the distraction of having to produce detailed programs. We believe that the MATLAB examples and exercises in the book will enhance the learning experience of the student and increase the teaching resource available to the instructor.    As in the first edition, the second edition aims to bridge the gap between theory and practice. Thus, we have retained the main features of the book, namely coverage of modern topics and the provision of practical examples and applications. As in the first edition, we have mixed practical examples and systems with theory, to keep students' interest and motivation high in order to enhance learning. Many of the chapters have been extensively revised, to bring the materials up to date and to improve clarity. End-of-chapter problems have been extended to test, reinforce and extend understanding. In revising the book, we have drawn from our experience and feedback from readers, worldwide, over the last eight years since the first edition was published.    The new topics introduced include oversampling and bandpass sampling techniques in analog/digital conversions to exploit the advantages that DSP offers; wavelet transforms used for time-frequency representation and resolution of signals; blind signal deconvolution for identifying input signals from the output of an unknown system; parametric spectrum estimation for greater resolution applicable to shorter signals and with fewer pitfalls; architectures of new DSP processors and practical schemes for round-off noise reduction in fixed-point DSP systems; and computer-based multi-choice questions to aid revision. Throughout the book, MATI;AB-based examples and exercises are provided.    This book was born out of our experience in teaching practically oriented courses in digital signal processing to undergraduate students at the University of Plymouth and the Sheffield Hallam University, and to application engineers in industry for many years. It appeared to us that many of the available textbooks were either too elementary or too theoretical to be of practical use for undergraduates or application engineers in industry. As most readers will know from experience, the gap between learning the fundamentals in any subject and actually applying them is quite wide. We therefore decided to write this book which we believe undergraduates will understand and appreciate and which will equip them to undertake practical digital signal processing assignments and projects. We also believe that higher degree students and practising engineers and scientists will find this text most useful.    Our own research work over the last two and a half decades in applied DSP has also inspired the contents, by identifying practical issues for discussion and presentation to bridge the gap between theoretical concepts and practical implementation, and by suggesting application examples, case studies, and problems.    The great interest and developments in DSP in both industry and academia are likely to continue for the foreseeable future. The availability of numerous digital signal processors is a testimony to the commercial importance of DSP. Its major attraction lies in the ability to achieve guaranteed accuracy and perfect reproducibility, and in its inherent flexibility compared with analog signal processing. In industry, many engineers still lack the necessary knowledge and expertise in DSP to utilize the immense potential of the very powerful digital signal processors now available off the shelf. This book provides insight and practical guidance to enable engineers to design and develop practical DSP systems using these devices.    In academia, DSP is generally regarded as one of the more mathematical topics in the electrical engineering curriculum, and based on our experiences of teaching we have reduced the mathematical content to what we consider useful, essential, and interesting; we have also emphasized points of difficulty. Our experiences indicate that students learn best if they are aware of the practical relevance of a subject, and while more theoretical texts are essential for completeness and reference as the student matures in the subject, we believe in producing graduates equipped also with practical knowledge and skills. 'this book was written with these considerations in mind.    The book is not a comprehensive text on DSP, but it covers most aspects of the subject found in undergraduate electrical, electronic or communication engineering degree courses. A number of DSP techniques which are of particular relevance to industry are also covered and in the last few years are beginning to find their way into undergraduate curricula. These include techniques such as adaptive filtering and multirate processing.    The emphasis throughout the book is on the practical aspects of DSP. An important feature of the second edition is the inclusion of MATLAB examples and exercises for signal processing, analysis, design and exploration in a time-efficient manner. The reader is encouraged to carry out the MATLAB exercises to gain further insight into DSP. We have also provided the C language DSP software tool from the first edition, after minor revisions, as this has proved popular.    MATLAB is now widely used as a generic tool in industry and academia and requires less programming skills than C. It has good graphics and display facilities and provides a good environment for developing DSP. We believe that MATLAB is a useful tool for students to become familiar with, and competence in it is a valuable transferable skill to acquire. All the MATLAB m-files referred to in the book are available electronically via the web. These include MATLAB m-files which may be used to perform similar tasks as several C-language programs in the first edition. In addition, the m-files (as well as the C-language programs from the first edition) are also available on the CD in the companion handbook (see below for details of how to obtain copies of these).   Main features of the book   Provides an understanding of the fundamentals, implementation and applications of DSP techniques from a practical point of view. Clear and easy to read, with mathematical contents reduced to that which is necessary for comprehension. DSP techniques and concepts are illustrated with practically oriented, fully worked, real-world examples designed to provide insight into DSP. Provides practical guidance to enable readers to design and develop actual DSP systems. Complete design examples and practical implementation details are given, including assembly language programs for DSP processors. MATLAB examples and problems to provide hands-on experience. Provides C language implementation of many DSP algorithms and functions, including programs for:   digital FIR and IIR filter design, finite wordlength effects analysis of user-designed fixed-point IIR filters, converting from cascade to parallel realization structures, correlation computation, discrete and fast Fourier transform algorithms, inverse z-transformation, frequency response estimation, and multirate processing systems design.   PC-based MATLAB m-files are available electronically on the web (the C programs from the first edition are available on the CD that comes with the companion handbooksee the section 'Website, CD and companion handbook for this book' in this preface for details). Contains many end-of-chapter problems and provides multiple-choice questions to assist with revision. Uses realistic examples to illustrate important concepts and to reinforce, the knowledge gained.   The intended audience   The book is aimed at engineering, science and computer science students, and application engineers and scientists in industry who wish to gain a working knowledge of DSP. In particular, final year students studying for a degree in electronics, electrical or communication engineering will find the book valuable for both taught courses as well as their project work, as increasingly a greater proportion of student project work involves aspects of DSP. Postgraduates studying for a master's degree or PhD in the above subjects will also find the book useful.    Undergraduate students will find the fundamental topics very attractive and, we believe, the book will be a valuable source of information both throughout their course as well as when they go into industry.    Large c...	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Hardcover	 edition.",books;electrical & electronic engineering;electrical & electronics;engineering;new;professional & technical;telecommunications;used & rental textbooks,8
155199027X,"Blue Trust: The Author, the Lawyer, His Wife, and Her Money Cameron's storytelling is excellent, with characters and events introduced early on and a climax that pays off later ... this true-life tale is thrilling and tragic. -- The Gazette (Monteal)	      --This text refers to the 							Mass Market Paperback	 edition.	Blue Trust has all the ingredients of a gripping thriller -- except it's all true. In the late 1980s Bruce and Lynne Verchere had it all. He was a successful tax lawyer whose clients included Brian Mulroney, and bestselling novelist Arthur Hailey. She was a computer software entrepreneur whose innovative systems revolutionized office management throughout North America.When Lynne's company was sold Bruce could finally afford the extravagances he had long coveted: a plane, a yacht, a summer home in Maine, and a condo in Telluride. Through intricate manipulation, he was able to secrete his family's wealth beyond the reach of the taxman and even his wife.Then Bruce Verchere fell in love. The desperate affair and dangerous ultimatum that followed provide this true story with a chilling climax. Blue Trust is a complex tale of high drama brilliantly told by one of Canada's most admired investigative journalists.	      --This text refers to the 							Mass Market Paperback	 edition.	""Cameron's storytelling is excellent, with characters and events introduced early on and a climax that pays off later ... this true-life tale is thrilling and tragic."" -- The Gazette (Monteal)	      --This text refers to the 							Mass Market Paperback	 edition.	Stevie Cameron is one of Canadas foremost investigative journalists. The founding editor of Elm Street magazine and a contributing editor at Macleans, she is currently writer at large at the Globe and Mail. Her most recent book, Blue Trust: The Author, the Lawyer, His Wife, and Her Money, appeared on the national bestseller lists for two years; On the Take: Crime, Corruption and Greed in the Mulroney Years, her 1994 bestseller, is the most successful work of political journalism ever published in Canada.From the Hardcover edition.	      --This text refers to the 							Mass Market Paperback	 edition.",arts & literature;authors;biographies & memoirs;books;canadian;historical;lawyers & judges;professionals & academics,8
0471987190,"The Value Net: A Tool for Competitive Strategy * What will be the new key success factors?* What are the economic rules governing a networked economy?* How can we define competitors and other competitive forces in industries with blurred boundaries?As paradigms shift and industries reconfigure, these questions can no longer be adequately answered using traditional methods of analysis. As boundaries blur it is impossible to consider concepts of 'industries' and 'enterprises' in the traditional way. In this book, the author begins the search for the additional elements which will provide a better description of the complex phenomena underlying the new economic paradigm.	Once you come to believe in a map, it is very difficult to change it, and, if your facts are wrong then you will be relying on a map that is wrong too. Too often 'mental maps' act like blinkers rather than guides - preventing us from acting effectively. Rafael Ramirez (from the Preface) The Value Net A Tool for Competitive Strategy Cinzia Parolini SDA Bocconi, School of Management, Milan, Italy Faced with a continuously changing, and an increasingly competitive, business environment, strategic analysts and senior managers are still reluctant to forsake the familiar and traditional tools and models which were conceived in the very different world of the 1970s and 1980s. However, these methods of analysis are less and less applicable to the blurred and shifting boundaries of today's business world. This book challenges the tools and models that we use when looking at how value is created, shaped and maintained and presents a new and completely viable methodology - the value net. This methodology provides the reader with a new way of dealing with value in the modern environment. Above all it can be used for the analysis of competitive systems that cannot adequately be analysed using established models. Supported by an impressive array of case studies from industries with which most people will be readily familiar - books, online trading, music, coffee etc. - the book argues that in order to remain competitive, strategists, planners and managers should not use yesterday's tools for today's decisions. This well-structured and highly readable book will help create a brand new perspective in strategic analysis and formulation and will interest managers, strategy consultants, MBA and Executive students in these areas. Business Strategy	Cinzia Parolini is Associate Professor of Business Administration at Bocconi University and Senior Faculty Member at the Strategic Management Department of SDA Bocconi. She is responsible for in-company research in the field of competiti ve intelligence and strategic management and co-ordinates a research team that applies the Value Net methodology within different industries on behalf of individual companies.",books;business & finance;business & investing;management;management & leadership;new;systems & planning;used & rental textbooks,8
B000OVLJPK,"The Book of Air and Shadows Starred Review.  In this ingenious literary thriller from Gruber (The Witch's Boy), the lives of two men are changed forever by William Shakespeare and the letters of Richard Bracegirdle, a 16th-century English spy and soldier. Jake Mishkin, a Manhattan intellectual property attorney and a bit of a rake, goes on the run from Russian gangsters. Albert Crosetti, an aspiring filmmaker working for an antiquarian bookstore, finds that life is more exciting than moviesperhaps too exciting. Together, Mishkin and Crosetti travel to England in search of a previously unknown Shakespeare manuscript mentioned by Bracegirdle. Though the pace sometimes slows to allow Mishkin, Crosetti and Bracegirdle to divulge interesting aspects of their personal lives, these digressions only make the story more engaging. The suspense created around the double-crosses and triple-crosses works because of the close connection readers forge with Crosetti in particular. The mysterious murder of a Shakespearean scholar, shootouts in the streets of Queens and an unlikely romance all combine to make for a gripping, satisfying read. (Apr.) Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	With literary-historical thrillers still piling up on bookstore shelves, Michael Gruber (Night of the Jaguar, ***1/2 July/Aug 2006) took a risk with The Book of Air and Shadows. While the novel will appeal to those who enjoyed The Da Vinci Code or The Rule of Four, critics agree that its lively dialogue, compellingly flawed characters, sense of humor, and intelligent exploration of religion and cryptology elevate it far above the genre's standard fare. Readers expecting car chases, kidnappings, globe trotting, sex, and murder won't be disappointed, either. A few reviewers stumbled a bit over the excerpts of the Jacobean-style letters, but all agreed that the novel hits the ground running ? until disparate plot threads are brought together in a heart-stopping climax (Denver Post).Copyright  2004 Phillips  Nelson Media, Inc.	*Starred Review* Codes 'n' classics have shown some staying power despite even the so-so prose of both the book that started the avalanche, The Da Vinci Code, and its imitators. The plot summary of The Book of Air and Shadows--ciphered seventeenth-century letters found in a rare book trigger a race to find an undiscovered Shakespeare play--might seem like yet another rubbing of the grail were it not for Gruber's intelligence and engaging style. This big bibliothriller stars a self-loathing, weightlifting intellectual-property lawyer; a timid wannabe film student; and a prickly bookbinder with a mysterious past, all marginally allied against untrustworthy scholars, Russian mobsters, and a mystery man. Though he ambitiously uses three different time lines and three points of view, Gruber deftly raises the thriller stakes and accelerates the plot while still creating convincing personal journeys for his characters. Even better, he finds time to thoughtfully explore related concepts, such as the ways movies inform our behavior and the nature of industries built to profit on creativity. All that and a tantalizing imagining of Shakespeare's personality, too. Try Ross King's Ex-Libris (2001) and Jim Nisbet's Syracuse Codex (2005) for two wildly different but related takes. Keir GraffCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	Very good...ingenious and suspenseful.	Michael Gruber has been a marine biologist, a restaurant cook, a federal government official, and a political speechwriter. Stephen Hoye has won more than a dozen AudioFile Earphones Awards and two prestigious APA Audie Awards, including one for Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki. He has recorded many other notable titles, such as Every Second Counts by Lance Armstrong and The Google Story by David A. Vise and Mark Malseed.	Reviewed by Ron Charles Contrary to what you may have heard, the life of a book reviewer is not unending adventure. It's lots of speed-reading and sitting around in your bathrobe, trying to finish the next review while scouring the cupboard for more chocolate chips and wondering if that mole on your shoulder is looking weirder. Oh sure, There is no frigate like a book/ To take us lands away, but give me a frigate  break; sometimes you wouldn't mind a few thrills.Which may be why I'm such a sucker for this relatively new genre of books that are literally literary thrillers  --  stories in which some pudgy book guy is propelled into a vortex of romance, crime and intrigue. If you love books  --  their physical presence, the craft of making them, the art of collecting them  --  then you already may well have enjoyed Ross King's Ex Libris, Carlos Ruiz Zafn's The Shadow of the Wind and a dozen others. Now make room on the shelf for a new guilty pleasure from Michael Gruber called The Book of Air and Shadows. It's smart enough to let you think you're still superior to that cousin who raves about The Da Vinci Code, but it's packed with enough excitement to keep your inner bibliophile as happy as a folio in vellum.  Gruber's story revolves around the search for the most sought-after document in the world: a new play by William Shakespeare. In his own handwriting. To get an idea of how precious such a treasure would be, consider that for 400 years the entire Shakespeare industry has managed to find only six tiny samples of the playwright's handwriting: signatures (all misspelled) on a few legal documents. What would a Shakespeare scholar do to find an entire play in the Bard's hand? Whom would a criminal mastermind kill to steal it?Enter The Book of Air and Shadows, stage right. The story begins with a fire at a rare bookshop on Madison Avenue. The next day, while trying to salvage some of the merchandise, Carolyn Rolly (gorgeous, mysterious) and Albert Crosetti (lives with mom) discover some pages hidden in the binding of an old book. After struggling for hours with the difficult handwriting and archaic spelling, Crosetti determines that he's reading a letter written by a 17th-century soldier on his deathbed. Excerpts of this letter appear throughout the novel in alternating chapters, and it's not easy going: Now my father seeyng this taxed us sayyng what shal you not only be idle thyselfe but also tayke my clerke into idlenesse with thee? You'll be tempted to skip these rough patches, but don't. First of all, they get easier as you get used to them, and second, they're a chance to experience the mingled tedium and thrill of discovery. The letter describes a spectacularly exciting life, which culminated in an assignment to spy on a popular playwright and suspected Roman Catholic, Shakespeare.Meanwhile, another thread of the novel takes up the story of Jake Mishkin, an intellectual-property lawyer who's holed up in a cabin in the Adirondacks. While waiting for some Russian gangsters who will surely kill him, he's typing out the story of how he got in this mess. Although there is a kind of lawyer who can reasonably expect a certain level of physical danger as part of the employment picture, he writes in his witty, rambling narrative, I am not that kind of lawyer. Once an Olympic weightlifter, he's long since settled down to shuffling paper, cheating on his wife and leading a generally dull and morally vacuous life. But several months earlier, a frightened English professor came to his office. He wanted advice about how to secure the rights to a 17th-century letter that may point to the location of an unknown manuscript by Shakespeare. Jake promised to advise him and took possession of the letter, but soon after that meeting, the professor was found tortured to death, and Jake found his exquisitely ordered and pampered existence thrown into deadly disarray.What follows is a wild story of double-crossings, forgeries, kidnappings and murders that's engrossing even when it's ridiculous. (At one point, the code secret is tattooed on a beautiful woman's thigh  --  so handy.) We've got Russian mobsters, Jewish gangsters, Nazi thieves, international models and currency traders, oh my. And all of this madcap adventure in the present is mirrored in a story we gradually decipher from that 17th-century letter, describing a nefarious plot by radical Puritans to entrap the secret papist Shaxpure. While twisting the plot into great knots of complexity, Gruber mixes in fascinating details about rare manuscripts, intellectual property, and ancient and modern cryptography. Sadly, the women in this novel don't come off much better than they do in the average James Bond movie, but Jake is a truly engaging narrator, who's forced by this crisis to face up to a lifetime of moral weakness. And young Crosetti, who works in the rare bookstore only to put himself through film school, constantly reminds us  --  even in the most dire circumstances  --  that movies determine our sense of how to behave. . . . Movies shape everyone's reality. That's a pop echo of Harold Bloom's Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human (1998), which argued that the Bard's plays literally created modern consciousness, assembling a vast index of human personalities and experiences in which we continue to find ourselves. Gruber never reaches for Bloom's gravitas (thank God), but, as Bottom would say, it's a very good piece of work, I assure you.  Copyright 2007, The Washington Post. All Rights Reserved.	Stephen Hoye takes a calculated, possibly fatal, risk in his approach to narrating this thriller about a lost Shakespeare manuscript. His portrayal of the protagonist, Jake Mishkin, a self-loathing intellectual property lawyer, is arid to the point putting off the listener. Its a reasonable choice for a character we are not meant to like but does not create a person one looks forward to spending hour after hour with. It doesnt help that Hoye affects an annoying, sometimes disappearing, Queens accent for the other major character, a young would-be screenwriter who is drawn into the dangerous search for the missing manuscript. Happily, Gruber himself comes to the rescue, with colorful characters and clever, intricate plotting.  M.O.   AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine-- Copyright  AudioFile, Portland, Maine",books;kindle ebooks;kindle store;literature & fiction;mystery;suspense;thriller & suspense;thrillers,8
B00009UTIP,"Rotatrim RC M24 24-Inch Cut Rotatrim Professional-24 Cutter This Pro M Series range of 8 superbly engineered machines is the one by which all others are judged! Over 300,000 are in use worldwide; in workshops, studios, schools and offices, where their robust construction is rigorously tested, day-in, day-out. With cut lengths from 12 inches to 54 inches each model features the unique chromed steel twin guide rails, silent glide action and all metal cutting head and end frames. These smooth running Pro M Series cutters are designed to withstand high volume applications and will cleanly cut virtually all flexible materials up to 3.0mm thickness. Fully guaranteed for 5 years. Each Pro M Series is screen-printed with a very useful 10mm grid, A size indicators and two additional metric / imperial scale bars. Full range of accessories available. TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS: cut capacity: 0.12 in.; cut length: 24.02 in.; height: 3.74 in.; length: 30.63 in.; weight: 15.65 lbs.; width: 15.04 in.",accessories;camera & photo;computer accessories;computers & accessories;electronics;photo studio;printer accessories;printer cutters,8
B000FJBN3E,"Information and Its Role in Nature (The Frontiers Collection) Aus den Rezensionen:        "" eine Buchreihe ... Begrndet und redaktionell betreut von Physikerin Angela Lahee, hat sie das Ziel, den Lesern eine Erweiterung und Reflexion der eigenen Wissensgrenzen zu ermglichen.  Die zentrale Rolle der Information in der Natur  Quantentheorie, Biologie, Genetik und Hirnforschung  errtert der Physiker Juan G. Roederer  auerordentlich lesenwert. was wir brauchen, ist nicht der Wille zu glauben, sondern der Wille herauszufinden  Die interdisziplinre, unkonventionelle Frontiers Collection  hat ihn sogar zu ihrem Leitspruch erhoben.""        (Rdiger Vaas, in: Naturwissenschaftliche Rundschau, 2007, Vol. 60, Issue 4, S. 212 ff.)	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	Presents an in-depth interdisciplinary discussion of the concept of information and its role in the control of natural processes.     Reviews brieflyclassical and quantum information theory.    Addresses numerous questions, including: Is information reducible to the laws of physics and chemistry? Does the Universe, in its evolution, constantly generate new information? Or are information and information-processing exclusive attributes of living systems, related to the very definition of life? If so, what is the role of information in classical and quantum physics? In what ways does information-processing in the human brain bring about self-consciousness?     Accessible to graduate students and professionals from all scientific disciplines, this stimulating book will help to shed light on many controversial issues at the heart of modern science.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.",biological sciences;biology;books;computer science;computers & technology;new;science & math;used & rental textbooks,8
0701180978,"Shadow of the Silk Road Starred Review.  In his latest absorbing travel epic, Thubron (In Siberia; Mirror to Damascus) follows the courseor at least the general driftof the ancient network of trade routes that connected central China with the Mediterranean Coast, traversing along the way several former Soviet republics, war-torn Afghanistan, Iran and Turkey. The author travels third-class all the way, in crowded, stifling railroad cars and rattle-trap buses and cars, staying at crummy inns or farmers' houses, subject to shakedowns by border guards and constant harassmenteven quarantineby health officials hunting the SARS virus. Physically, these often monotonously arid, hilly regions of Central Asia tend to go by in a swirl of dun-colored landscapes studded with Buddha shrines in varying states of repair or ruin, but Thubron's poetic eye still teases out gorgeous subtleties in the panorama. Certain themes also color his offbeat encounters with localsmost of them want to get the hell out of Central Asiabut again he susses out the infinite variety of ordinary misery. The conduit by which an entire continent exchanged its commodities, cultures and peoplesThubron finds traces of Roman legionaries and mummies of Celtic tribesmen in western Chinathe Silk Road becomes for him an evocative metaphor for the mingling of experiences and influences that is the essence of travel. (July 3) Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Colin Thubron has spent a lifetime exploring Asia, and he displays his significant regional knowledge and experience in Shadow of the Silk Road. Universally acknowledged as one of our best living travel writers, Thubron brings to this book the astute perception for which he is known and the beautiful prose style he has honed for more than 40 years; what is even more impressive, however, is the incredible sense of enthusiasm he brings both to his journey and to his writing. As Jonathan Yardley wrote in the Washington Post, ""Colin Thubron [is an] intrepid, resourceful and immensely talented writer who has made a career out of going to out of the way places and then writing brilliantly about them."" Shadow of the Silk Road is Thubron at his best.Copyright  2004 Phillips  Nelson Media, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	The Silk Road was an ancient trade route between China and the Mediterranean Sea, extending 7,000 miles and linking the Celestial Empire with the Roman one. Marco Polo followed the route on his journey to Cathay. Thurbron, the author of 15 other books, chronicles his trip along the legendary road from China into the mountains of Central Asia, across northern Afghanistan and the plains of Iran, and into Kurdish Turkey. He vividly describes the people he meets, the restaurants he eats in, the hotels in which he stays, and the beauty of the mountains, rivers, deserts, and trees. He talks to policemen, traders, farmers, camel drivers, and a band of pilgrims kneeling in the dunes to pray; he takes pleasure in remembering ""food palaces worked by waitresses in crimson and gold-frogged uniforms who were giggling and careless"" and an old woman asleep by a holy spring, her head resting on the gnarled trunk of a tree. An illuminating account of a breathtaking journey. George CohenCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	A beautiful and profound travel bookMail on SundayA masterpiece of travel writing ... a classicNew StatesmanFrom the Hardcover edition.	Colin Thubron was born in London in 1939. He left publishing to travel -- mainly in Asia and North Africa, where he made documentary films which were shown on BBC and world television. Afterwards, he returned to the Middle East, and wrote five books on the Area. In 1984, the Book Marketing Council nominated him one of the twenty best contemporary writers on travel.From the Hardcover edition.	Jonathan Keeble gives a superb reading of this captivating account of a 7,000-mile, eight-month journey from Xian, China, to Antioch, Turkey, along the ancient silk route. Traveling by foot, camel, taxi, truck, train, and cart, Thubron sleeps in yurts, mud huts, vermin-infested inns, and six-bunk train compartments as he traces the routes history and encounters its present. Speaking Mandarin, Russian, and English, he talks with a colorful array of locals belonging to many countries, tribes, clans, and religious groups. Keeble captures the conversations vividly and paces the reading so that listeners hear every exhausted step, rail at each bribe-hungry petty bureaucrat, and thrill to the magnificence of the scenery. An amazing adventure, expertly told.  R.E.K.Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award  AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine-- Copyright  AudioFile, Portland, Maine	      --This text refers to the 							Audio CD	 edition.",asia;books;education & reference;general;research & publishing guides;travel;travel writing;writing,8
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031228098X,"Here Comes the Corpse A Tom & Scott Mystery Teacher Tom Mason and baseball pro Scott Carpenter's blow-out wedding ceremony is going beautifully that is, until Tom finds his mortally wounded ex-boyfriend bleeding in a bathroom stall in Here Comes the Corpse. Add in a troubled teenager, a secret sports pornography business, the dead man's mystery lover and a few more deaths, and there's a lot for the dynamic duo to figure out in Lambda Literary Award-winner Mark Richard Zubro's ninth appealing Tom and Scott mystery. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.	What's the world coming to? It's getting so a couple of decent guys can't even tie the knot in peace any more, what with murder victims popping up in bathroom stalls and runaway nephews skulking around the crime scene. Schoolteacher Tom Mason and major-league pitcher Scott Carpenter finally decide to marry, in style in a Chicago hotel's 20-story atrium ballroom, all done up with orchids, rainbow-flag bunting, Godiva chocolate centerpieces, and an ice sculpture nearly as long as most housefronts. The occasion is marred by the sudden, uninvited appearance of Ethan, Tom's high-school flame, who has treated him badly in the past but now urgently needs to talk with him. But Ethan winds up dead in the john before Tom has the slightest idea what he might have wanted. Old flames die hard, though, and Tom cannot decline Ethan's parents' plea that he look into the homicide. Zubro's fans will cheer just about everything in the new Tom and Scott mystery--even Scott's sulky adolescent nephew. Whitney ScottCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	Mark Richard Zubro is the author of over a dozen mysteries, including the Lambda Literary Award winning A Simple Suburban Murder, and, most recently, Sex and Murder.com.  He is a high school teacher and lives in Mokena, Illinois.	Here Comes the Corpse1The man looks good in anything: white cotton briefs, black silk boxers, a leather thong, baggy Bermudas, tight faded blue jeans, his baseball uniform, a hand-tailored business suit, leather pants, a muscle T-shirt, or torn old sweatpants, but he is especially gorgeous in a tux. That afternoon I watched him dress. I do that on occasion, and this occasion was more special than most. Size thirty-two, white Jockey shorts, black socks, a Hugo Boss tux, white shirt tucked into black pants, his bow tie tied, his jacket shrugged into. I enjoy the fact that I'm the only one who is intimate with the body that is encased in clothes he'll show to the world.""Ready,"" he said.I stood in front of him. Scott always ties my bow tie. I know I could learn to do it and he knows that, too. It's just a moment we enjoy before attending a big, dress-up, formal event. Facing a full-length mirror, I stand with my back to him. His arms reach around me, and he leans in close. I snuggle my backside into him. His hands twirl the ends of the bow tie into the requisite knot. I inhale deeply the smell of him, almost maskedin his aftershave and deodorant. The feel of him enfolding me in his warmth before venturing out in public is sublime ecstasy. I shut my eyes. I try to stop all conscious thought and melt into his presence around me.This day he took his time with the bow, then placed his hands on my shoulders and murmured in my ear, ""You are a very sexy man, Tom Mason.""I turned around. Our arms entwined and we held each other. I said, ""I love you, Scott Carpenter.""""I love you, too,"" he said, and we kissed.Further passion was pointless at this moment. We were off to be married, and we weren't about to be late. Besides, both sets of our parents were waiting in the living room. No, they wouldn't hear us if we became amorous. The penthouse was huge and the walls were well constructed, but there wasn't time, and something about the proximity of parents can cool the fervor of the most ardent lovers.""Nervous?"" he asked.""Yeah, you?""""Yep."" He smiled. ""Luckily there ain't nothin' we can do about anything now.""Everything was set and planned for to the last detail: the caterers, the flowers, the banquet hall, the band, the emcee, the deejay, all the requisite marital accouterments ready to go. With all that could go wrong on such a day, you either laughed hysterically or had a nervous breakdown. With any luck we'd get laughter.Unfortunately, I'm a worrier. This is not good when facing a party of the scope and diversity of this one. Keeping a lid on my ability to worry had been one of the things Scott had insisted on as we discussed having an elaborate wedding. No matter how perfectly anything is planned, doesn't everyone still worry? I wanted everything to go right, for people to havea good time. And with the amount of money we were spending a whole lot of people should have one hell of a fantastic time.Our wedding day was certainly special. Unique. Amusing. A hit. A marvel. We got nothing but raves until the corpse turned up.With a stunning amount of good fortune, we had got through the planning without a major fight. We'd both realized early on that we'd created a monster. In the abstract, getting married is a great idea; reaffirming our commitment, a fine concept. Having a big party is not inherently an evil undertaking.Here's a wedding tip. No matter how tempting, don't invite a dead body to the reception. Even at the exchange of vows at the church, the presence of the deceased is an iffy proposition. Trust me, in either venue the reactions of your nearest and dearest will most likely range from distinctly miffed to decidedly overwrought. Even the more distantly related, or those invited more out of obligation than desire, tend to become disconcerted. Those more sensitive might have a physically negative response. Leaving aside normal human reactions, things don't go better with corpses. The flowers are not prettier, the food doesn't taste better, and the band doesn't play more popular songs. Nothing good comes of a corpse at the wedding.Although with the addition of a corpse, you can be sure everyone will talk about your wedding for years. If you're going for a sensation, for a day that will be gossiped about by everyone's grandchildren, if you're after a ""we want CNN at our wedding"" effect, then by all means invite a corpse. It will be just the thing you're looking for. Miss Manners might be hard-pressed to approve of our having a dead body, but the Pope was already pissed off at us, so what did we have to lose? And we didn't actually invite the dead guy. Ethan Gahainwould never have been invited to the wedding or the reception.The Pope was pissed because we were having a gay wedding. Yes, Scott and I had lived together for years, but we wanted to make it official, and we wanted to make a statement. It was not going to be just your run-of-the-mill, let's-quietly-pledge-our-love-and-not-bother-anybody affair. We were going to do it right, and we were going to do it big.And none of this ""commitment ceremony"" crap. We were having a wedding, and by God, we were going to call it a wedding. Besides, to me, a commitment ceremony sounds as if the community is ritualizing the placing of an unfortunate and sometimes criminal person in a psychiatric facility. Not the image I was going for here. We knew we were more than a couple of ""out"" gay people declaring our true love. This was a loud, garish affirmation for ourselves and maybe as well a statement for all those gay and lesbian couples who'd like to make a public pronouncement but couldn't.We weren't getting married because we wanted to be just like straight people. There's a legitimate division in the gay community about the importance or validity of being just like ""them."" Trust me, no matter what position you take on an issue, someone in the community isn't going to like it, will make a stink about it, and/or picket and protest, all for generally insane and illogical reasons. What these people mostly desire is their fifteen minutes of fame while tearing down something they perceive is better than they are, or something that someone else has that they want. My general response to this more-than-sharklike political feeding frenzy in the gay community is ""fuck 'em."" Which very much summed up how I felt about anybody's disagreement with what we were doing. We loved each other. We were getting married. End of story as far as I was concerned.Our wedding would be major news. We were public figures. Scott, as an openly gay baseball player, and I as his lover had both been on numerous talk shows. Notice would be taken even if we didn't want it to be.We knew the right-wing screamers would make a big deal out of what we were doing. We'd never be able to keep even a small ceremony out of the tabloids. Because of the hatred felt toward us by many, when gay people do something publicly, that public thing often becomes a political statement whether we like it or not.So, if it was going to be big, we figured why not make it really big? The actual rite of committing our lives to each other would be reasonably quiet, but also make a political statement. Our immediate families and six select friends, three for Scott and three for me, would witness this ritual. Three hundred sixteen clergymen and clergywomen would officiate. That little oddity happened for several reasons.We got the idea for a clergy-infested ceremony from two incidents. In Chicago, one United Methodist minister had performed a gay commitment ceremony and gotten the sack. In northern California, fifty-seven United Methodist ministers had performed the same ritual and had not gotten in trouble. If there was to be safety in numbers, we would have a ministerial mob officiate at the ceremony. I'd gotten in contact with gay-friendly clergy in numerous denominations. As word spread of our plan, all kinds of brave priests and ministers came out of the woodwork. The notion of doing it en masse appealed to the willing but timid. We wound up with United Methodists, Presbyterians, Episcopalians, Unitarians, Lutherans, United Church of Christ, Congregationalists, Reform rabbis, and Catholic priests. Even six daring Southern Baptists came forward.Admittedly, Scott and I were doing a bit of rubbing it inthe right-wing's faces. The right-wing might have its moments, for example, when a gay Republican congressman addressed the Republican convention and delegates protested before, prayed during, and claimed after that it wasn't precedent-setting. This was ours. We decided we would make our marriage a bigger deal than any right-wing fools could.It was the thirty-nine Catholic priests' participation that got the Pope pissed. Or maybe he was angry because he was one of the few people we didn't invite. Then again, maybe not. When the Vatican got wind of that many priests taking part in such a ritual, the powers that are decided to send out orders and decrees. Not a one of the priests backed out. What with the brouhaha about gays in Rome during the Catholic ""holy year,"" and censoring a priest and a nun who had been working with gay Catholics, and us officially being ""intrinsically disordered,"" it was impossible to ignore us.Before getting a final commitment from each of the clergy, we sent them a copy of the vows and an outline of the ceremony and asked for feedback. We wanted to be sure they were absolutely clear about what they were getting into. We'd decided beforehand that anyone who insisted on major changes would be told no thank you.One danger with so many clergy in attendance was the possibility that they might burst into spontaneous prayer. We'd checked the credentials of all of them, so no loony religious-right fanatics were likely to slip in, but you never knew. We didn't want our ceremony beginning as a number of high school football games in the South recently h...",books;fiction;gay;gay & lesbian;literature & fiction;mystery;thriller & suspense;united states,8
0671690981,"Simon & Schuster's Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians of the World (Nature Guide Series) Text: English (translation)  Original Language: Italian	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Chapter 1  1 DERMOPHIS MEXICANUS Mexican caecilian  Classification Order Gymnophiona, Family Caeciliidae.  Distribution Central America, from southern Mexico to Panama.  Identification The front of the head is pointed and triangular in shape. The eyes are covered by skin and a small tentacle which enhances the sense of smell is found in a depression below and in front of the eye. The limbs are absent and the relatively long, stocky body bears numerous and conspicuous annular rings. The tail is virtually nonexistent, the body ending in a blunt point. The back is grayish or olive-brown and the belly usually yellowish. There is a prominent yellow spot on the cloacal region. Total length: 16-24 in (40-60 cm).  Habitat Moist soils with plenty of ground litter.  Biology This worm-like amphibian is for the most part a burrower and surfaces only at night and on rainy days. It digs rapidly, hunting insects, termites, and earthworms in underground tunnels. Strong jaws and numerous small hooked teeth enable it to grasp and swallow prey. The species is viviparous, each female giving birth on the ground to 3-4 young, similar in all respects to the adults but only two inches long.  2 ICHTHYOPHIS GLUTINOSUS Ceylonese caecilian  Classification Order Gymnophiona, Family Ichthyophiidae.  Distribution Sri Lanka.  Identification The head is oval and relatively small. The eyes are minute, covered by skin, but visible. A tiny finger-like, chemical-detecting tentacle is situated between the eye and nostril, near the edge of the upper lip. There are no limbs and the body displays 350-390 annular rings, very close to one another. The conical tail is very short. The color of the back is uniformly dark brown with a few violet tints, and the belly is somewhat paler. A yellow stripe extends along the flanks from head to tail. Total length: 12-16 in (3040 cm).  Habitat Muddy and swampy ground close to water.  Biology The species lives in tunnels, not too far from the surface, dug in the mud. Food consists mainly of earthworms and various arthropods. After mating, the female digs a burrow close to water and lays as many as 54 eggs there. She coils herself around the eggs until they hatch. The newborn larvae immediately head for nearby ponds or streams and remain there until they complete metamorphosis.  3 AMBYSTOMA MACULATUM Spotted salamander  Classification Order Caudata, Family Ambystomatidae.  Distribution Eastern North America, from Ontario and Nova Scotia to Georgia and Texas.  Identification This salamander is black, blue-black or brownish, with two conspicuous irregular rows of round, yellow or orange spots which extend from head to tail. The underside is uniformly gray. The body is robust, with 12 distinct costal grooves on the sides. Total length: 6-9 3/4 in (15-25 cm). (9 3/4 in = record size.)  Habitat Deciduous woods close to small ponds and pools.  Biology The species spends most of its life underground. Adults move to the mouth of their tunnels at night or on particularly rainy days, to ambush earthworms and other passing small invertebrates. In winter or at the beginning of spring rains, sexually mature individuals migrate to ponds to breed. The females lay one or more masses containing about 50-100 eggs. The larvae hatch in 1-2 months.  4 AMBYSTOMA TIGRINUM Tiger salamander  Classification Order Caudata, Family Ambystomatidae.  Distribution North America, from Canada to Mexico.  Identification Largest of the land-dwelling salamanders, it is stoutly built and has a broad head with small eyes. The back is dark brown or blackish, with numerous light patches, varying in shape and arrangement, but sometimes fused with one another to form transverse stripes. The sides of the body have 11-14 distinct costal grooves. The relatively long tail is compressed laterally. Total length: 6-14 in (15-35 cm).  Habitat Arid plains and pine barrens to wet meadows and mountain forests.  Biology Adults spend most of the day under plant detritus or in abandoned crayfish or mammal burrows. During the night, especially after heavy rainstorms, they leave their shelters and surface to look for small tasty prey such as earthworms and snails. Breeding occurs at the end of winter or in early spring in temporary pools or fishless waters. The females lay jelly-like masses of 50-100 eggs on submerged debris. The larvae hatch within about one month and undergo metamorphosis in the summer.  Copyright  1989 by Arnoldo Mondadori Editore S.p.A., Milan English translation copyright  1989 by Arnoldo Mondadori Editore S.p.A., Milan",animals;biological sciences;books;fauna;nature & ecology;reptiles & amphibians;science & math;zoology,8
0881664065,"My Dog Ate My Homework: A Collection of Funny Poems Bruce Lansky has edited a number of poetry anthologies (including Rolling in the Aisles, Kids Pick the Funniest Poems, If Kids Ruled the School, A Bad Case of the Giggles, Miles of Smiles, and No More Homework! No More Tests!), and 3 silly songbook anthologies. Lansky created the popular GigglePoetry.com website for children and the PoetryTeachers.com website for teachers. He also created the Girls to the Rescue series, the New Fangled Fairy Tales series, and the Can You Solve the Mysteries series.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;children's books;humor;humor & entertainment;humorous;limericks & humorous verse;literature & fiction;poetry,8
0060167688,"After All These Years Once again Isaacs proves a dab hand at rattling skeletons in the closets of Suburbia--here, murder and adultery are skewered with this author's typically savvy wit. In Long Island's tony Shore Haven, Rosie Meyers makes an unsettling discovery in her kitchen just after her 25th wedding anniversary bash: the body of her husband, peremptorily dispatched with a butcher's knife. The 40-something ""suburban schoolteacher with a bit of a Brooklyn accent"" fears--accurately, as matters turn out--that she will become the odds-on favorite for prime suspect, and goes on the lam to prove her innocence. With a heroine who gives new meaning to the word ""feisty"" (and a host of other smartly drawn characters), Isaacs shows herself in top form. Her barbs and witticisms garner laughs largely through a kind of recognition factor: she makes observations many of us might have thought, but lacked the verbal virtuosity to express. As if to reinforce the familiarity of her consistently on-target humor, she drops dead-on references to pop-culture icons--Dirty Harry movies, L. L. Bean apparel, etc. She has a field day lampooning upper-class mores (in Rosie's land of the privileged, a housekeeper might commit ""some upper-class atrocity, like folding the napkins for morning coffee into rectangles instead of putting them in rings""), but also weaves into this thoroughly diverting caper unexpected moments of genuine tenderness and sly social commentary. A sure candidate for the bestseller lists. 150,000 first printing; $200,000 ad/promo; Literary Guild main selection; author tour. Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.	YA-A cleverly written, witty, sophisticated and down-to-earth novel. Rose Meyers, 47, is a high school English teacher who has two grown sons, an upscale home in an affluent New York City suburb, and friends. On the day after her 25th wedding anniversary party, her husband announces that he is leaving her for a younger, more sophisticated woman. Waking up from a deep sleep, Rose goes to the kitchen and stumbles over Richie's body in the middle of the kitchen floor. After innocently touching the murder weapon, she discovers that her husband is dead, and she is subsequently charged with his murder. Before she can be arrested, she flees her home and goes into hiding to find the real killer. Readers learn about the Meyers' life, past and present, through clever flashbacks and quick, humorous dialogue. The novel is filled with believable characters, mostly believable situations, and mystery, plus friendship, trust, and honest relationships.Debbie Hyman, R.E. Lee High School, Springfield, VACopyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Again, Isaacs's (Magic Hour, etc.) formulaic plot device is almost beside the point as she tickles readers' funny bones in her latest Long Island melodrama-cum-satire--this time featuring a middle-aged millionairess who's accused of her estranged husband's murder. ``After nearly a quarter of a century of marriage, Richie Meyers, my husband, told me to call him Rick,'' reports Rosie Meyers, a high-school English teacher whose husband struck it rich years before by cofounding a computer-research firm and thereby launching the two of them into the stratosphere of Long Island monied society. Had she not been so cheerfully enmeshed in her resolutely middle-class teaching career, Rosie adds, she might have seen the writing on the wall: Richie was in the midst of a midlife crisis that featured an affair with Data Associates's very young and very blond vice-president, Jessica Stevenson. Weeping (unrepentantly), Richie leaves Rosie shortly after their silver wedding anniversary, and Rosie suffers one long, miserable, solitary summer--until one night, woken from a Xanax-induced slumber, she stumbles across Richie on her kitchen floor, stabbed to death with one of her own carving knives. The police assume the spurned wife is the culprit, and Rosie is forced to flee to Manhattan to do her own investigating and prove them wrong. Along the way she learns some hard truths about her husband's secret life, and though the true killer's identity becomes clear far too early, Isaacs's ability to keep readers laughing through Rosie's darkest moments should prove cathartic for many among her loyal readers. Broad humor, ebulliently proffered. (First printing of 150,000; Literary Guild Dual Selection for September) -- Copyright 1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.	Biting and funny. (New York Daily News)Loaded with wit, crammed with memorable characters, endlessly entertaining and beautifully written. (Los Angeles Times)A great ride. (San Francisco Chronicle)Susan Isaacs should captivate all hearts. (Newsday)Provides tears-down-your-face laughs, including barbed send-ups of the even richer neighbors and a sidesplitting funeral scene. (Cosmopolitan)Isaacs is once again at the top of her satiric form in After All These Years. (Chicago Tribune)A mean, funny book. (USA Today)The razor-sharp wit of a Joan Rivers and the sexual relish of an Erica Jong. (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)Terrific. (Detroit Free Press)	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Susan Isaacs is the author of eight novels including Red, White & Blue, Lily White, After All These Years, Compromising Positions, and Shining Through and one non-fiction title Brave Dames And Wimpettes: What Women Are Really Doing on Page and Screen. She lives on Long Island with her husband.    	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;contemporary;family saga;genre fiction;literature & fiction;mystery;thriller & suspense;united states,8
1931859094,"The Case for Socialism Alan Maass is the longtime editor of Socialist Worker newspaper and the daily Web site SocialistWorker.org. He lives in Chicago, Illinois.",books;communism & socialism;education & reference;history & theory;ideologies & doctrines;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences,8
B00008NV07,"TRENDnet PS/2/VGA KVM Cable, 10ft (Male to Male) TK-C10 Trendnets TK-C10, 10 feet KVM Cable, comes with each connector needed to connect a keyboard, monitor and mouse and will allow you to extend each of these peripherals from a KVM Switch to a laptop or desktop system, up to 10 feet in length. Along with TRENDnets TK-200 2- Port, TK-400 4-Port and TK-800R 8-Port KVM switches, you made the perfect choice to control and manage multiple PCs with just one keyboard, monitor, and mouse.",cables & interconnects;computer accessories;computers & accessories;electronics;external components;kvm switches;networking products;switches,8
0883685515,"Derek Prince On Experiencing Gods Power ""These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.""John 15:11  God's Best for Your Life  Derek Prince shows how to receive God's promises regarding healing, marriage, spiritual warfare, finances, prayer, the Holy Spirit, and much more. By utilizing the scriptural principles outlined in this book, you will discover how to...  * Impact world events * Wage spiritual warfare * Be a bold witness for Christ * Find peace in troubled times * Have your prayers answered * Know God's will for your life * Become truly united with God * Use God's powerful weapons to fight evil * Overcome rejection, betrayal, and shame  Derek Prince on Experiencing God's Power is a unique and valuable guide for helping you to achieve powerful results in your spiritual quest.	Internationally recognized as a Bible scholar and spiritual patriarch, Derek Prince (19152003) was educated as a scholar of classical languages at Eton College and Cambridge University in England, and later at Hebrew University in Israel. While serving with the British army in World War II, he began to study the Bible as a philosophical work and, as a result, experienced a lifechanging encounter with Jesus Christ. Derek Prince taught and ministered on six continents for more than sixty years, imparting God's revealed truth, praying for the sick and afflicted, and sharing his prophetic insights into world events in the light of Scripture. He wrote over fifty books, which have been translated in over sixty languages and distributed worldwide. He pioneered teaching on such groundbreaking themes as generational curses, the biblical significance of Israel, and demonology. Derek Prince Ministries, with its international headquarters in Charlotte, North Carolina, carries on the good work that God began in and through him by distributing his teachings and by training missionaries, church leaders, and congregations through its worldwide network of offices.",books;charismatic;christian books & bibles;christian living;pentecostal;protestantism;religion & spirituality;worship & devotion,8
0595377769,"The Heart Eating Humans of Hollywood Brad T Gottfred wrote and directed the award-winning feature film The Movie Hero, in which Blakes adventures continue. You can experience more of his work at cyur.com.  He lives in Hollywood, Californiaand still has his heart.",books;contemporary;fantasy;genre fiction;literary;literature & fiction;movie tie-ins;science fiction & fantasy,8
0893815322,"Edward Weston: Nudes Lee Friedlander's photographs of women in their birthday suits leave me  cold, but they invite comparison with Edward Weston's classic black and white nudes.  Bare breasts and buttocks took on another dimension when Weston was behind the  camera; his headless torsos more closely resemble the work of painters and sculptors  than the passionless images of ladies decapitated by Friedlander and other  contemporary photographers. Charis Wilson's memoir of posing for (and living with)  Weston--and her under-the-skin take on the thought process behind his nude studies--is  fascinating.	""To Weston's eye . . . the landscape of the human body was an unending revelation of forms both voluptuous and abstract. His genius as an artist lay in his ability to respond to both with equal passion.""--Hilton Kramer, the New York Times""It was as though the things of everyday experience had been transformed for Weston into organic sculptures, the forms of which were both the expression and the justification of the life within. The exhilarating visual purity of Weston's work is the product of a deeper achievement:  He had freed his eyes of conventional expectation, and had taught them to see the statement of intent that resides in natural form.""--John Szarkowski, Looking at Photographs""Edward Weston understood thoughts and concepts which dwell on simple mystical levels. His work--direct and honest as it is--leaped from a deep intuition and belief in the forces beyond the apparent and factual. He accepted these forces as completely real and part of the total world of man and nature, only a small portion of which most of us experience directly. . . . And it was Weston who accomplished more than anyone, with the possible exception of Alfred Stieglitz, to elevate photography to the status of fine-art expression.""--Ansel Adams	The daughter of Harry Leon Wilson, a popular novelist of the 1920s, Charis Wilson was born in San Francisco on May 5, 1914, and grew up in Carmel. There she met Edward Weston in 1934 and offered to pose for him. For the next ten years, she was Weston's model-- posing for approximately half of all his recorded nudes-- as well as his lover (they were married in 1939). In 1936 Wilson urged Weston to apply for a Guggenheim fellowship, took his original four-line application and turned it into four pages, and helped him become the first photographer ever to win the award. Wilson described the Guggenheim travels in California and the West, published in 1940.Edward Weston was born March 24, 1886, in Highland Park, Illinois. He made his first photographs in 1902 with a Kodak Bull's Eye #2 camera-- a gift from his father. In 1911, five years after moving to California, he opened his own portrait studio in Tropico (now Glendale), California, and began to earn an international reputation for his work. But it was not until 1922 that he came fully into his own as an artist, with his photographs of the Armco Steel mill in Ohio. During 1923-26 he worked in Mexico and in California, where he lived with his sons, Chandler, Brett, Neil, and Cole. Though he continued to support himself with portrait work, Weston turned increasingly to subjects of his own choosing, such as nudes, clouds, and close-ups of rocks, trees, vegetables, and shells. During 1937-39, on a Guggenheim Fellowship, he traveled and photographed throughout the American West. Three years later, he toured the South and East, taking photographs for a limited edition of Whitman's Leaves of Grass, until the attack on Pearl Harbor cut short his journey. In 1948 Weston made his last photograph; he had been stricken with Parkinson's disease several years earlier. On January 1, 1958, he died at Wildcat Hill, his home in Carmel, California.",arts & photography;books;catalogues & exhibitions;collections;erotic photography;individual artists;photo essays;photography,8
1573456640,"The Book of Mormon Sleuth Real Page Turner, September 22, 2008 By Janell Excellent for those soon to be turning 12, as well as adults!	      --This text refers to the 							Kindle Edition	 edition.",books;children's books;explore the world;farm life;literature & fiction;travel & cultures;united states;where we live,8
159228387X,"The Revolution in Horsemanship: And What It Means to Mankind ""A fascinating mix of history, science, sociology and horse sense, The Revolution in Horsemanship brings a new clarity and a unique perspective to the phenomenon of natural horsemanship.  Whether you currently own horses, had them as a child, or have always admired them from afar, this book will cause you to see them with new eyes, and meet them at a richer, deeper level.""---Dr. Marty Becker, resident veterinarian on Good Morning America, co-author, Chicken Soup for the Horse Lover's Soul.""A fascinating history of horse training.""--Horse Connection	Robert M. Miller, D.V.M., the distinguished equine veterinarian , is the author of several books, including the highly-acclaimed Imprint Training of the Newborn Foal and Most of My Patients Are Animals. He has produced several videos on imprint training of foals, and lectures widely on the subject. He lives in Thousand Oaks, California.Rick Lamb is the producer of the successful syndicated radio program, ""The Horse Show."" He lives in Phoenix, Arizona.",books;crafts;equestrian;hobbies & home;horses;individual sports;pets & animal care;sports & outdoors,8
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0966914953,"Sensual Massage for Couples A classic...your master key to the good life. --The Doubleday Bookclub BulletinA Stunning book...focuses on sensuality and pleasure. --The Literary Guild	Sensual Massage for Couples makes an ideal romantic gift.	Gordon Inkeles' bestselling books have become standard reference works on massage throughout the world. His work has been translated into ten languages and reprinted more than sixty times. His book The Art of Sensual Massage has sold over one million copies. His film/video The Art of Sensual Massage played to SRO crowds at the Cannes Film Festival. Nationally known as a college lecturer and leader of massage workshops, he lives with his family in Northern California.	In the twenty-one years since the first edition of this book, (originally called ""The New Massage"") appeared weve raced headlong into the speedy computer age. Indeed, we do seem to be getting more donebut at what cost to the human body? Unlike computers, people need to take breaks and relax. Those who cant manage to slow down can now turn to a wide range of mood altering drugsand pay the inevitable physical and mental penalties. The alternative, the drug-free stress control solution, is presented in these pages. Nothing in life will relax you more thoroughly than a well-executed full body massage. Sensual Massage for Couples provides a comprehensive full body massage which can last for an hour or more; however, the reader should feel free to approach the strokes piecemeal. Each one will stand by itself as a delightful sensual experience.  Massage has definitely come out of the closet in the past 21 years; virtually every town, hotel and resort has its dedicated practitioners. Better yet, many readers have taken the time to write to me about how massaging at home has made life more pleasurable. Like fine cooking, the best massage experiences are often those you create yourself.When choosing a school, keep in mind that massage is a minor skill, which is easily mastered. Beware of massage schools that make the certification course as complex as possiblewith an eye on your pocketbook. Avoid painful and complex practices masquerading as ""advanced"" therapy. A short, supplementary course in anatomy will serve you better.   ""Sensual Massage for Couples"" is meant to enhance your relationship. The techniques are easy-to-learn; you can begin massaging minutes after you open the book. If you are new to massage, every page of this book will contain undiscovered pleasures. My hope is that you will share them with your partner tonight.  Gordon Inkeles gi@humboldt1.com January, 2002",alternative medicine;books;fitness & dieting;health;massage;relationships;self-help;sex,8
B000FJC554,"Wave Physics: Oscillations - Solitons - Chaos (Advanced Texts in Physics) From thereviews:  ""The book has qualities that one looks for in an undergraduate text: good organization, lucid text, well-thought-out sample problems, and problems to develop solid understanding of the subject."" Applied Mechanics Reviews  "" A stimulating book for the undergraduate who is strong mathematically."" Contemporary Physics    	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	This textbook is intended for those second year undergraduates in science and engineering who will later need an understanding of electromagnetic theory and quantum mechanics. The classical physics of oscillations and waves is developed at a more advanced level than has been customary for the second year, providing a basis for the quantum mechanics that follows. In this new edition the Green's function is explained, reinforcing the integration of quantum mechanics with classical physics. The text may also form the basis of an ""introduction to theoretical physics"" for physics majors. The concluding chapters give special attention to topics in current wave physics: nonlinear waves, solitons, and chaotic behavior.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.",books;engineering;mechanical;optics;physics;professional & technical;science & math;waves & wave mechanics,8
0941532976,"Paths to Transcendence: According to Shankara, Ibn Arabi & Meister Eckhart (Spiritual Masters) [Shah-Kazemi] analyses as `case studies' the writings of what are by general scholarly agreement understood to be the three most outstanding (if not necessarily unvaryingly orthodox) representatives of the mystical traditions of three of the world's great religions, Hinduism, Islam and Christianity, from the perspective of the `Perennialist' or `Traditionalist' school in the philosophy of religion.... Shah-Kazemi's book is a very welcome addition to the study of comparative mysticism. -- Eckhart Review  2007	The aim of this book is to contribute to the elucidation of an important but much neglected theme in comparative religion and mysticism: that of transcendence. More specifi cally, we intend to shed light on the meaning of transcendence both in itself and as the summit of spiritual realization; thus, both as a metaphysical principle and as a mystical attainment, our principal concern being with the concrete dimensions of the spiritual paths leading to what we shall be calling here ""transcendent realization."" What we wish to offer is an interpretive essay on this theme, taking as our starting point what three of the worlds greatest mystics have said or written on this subject.	Reza Shah-Kazemi is a Research Associate at the Institute of Ismaili Studies in London. Professor Shah-Kazemi has also contributed to Paths to the Heart (World Wisdom, 2003) as well as Islam, Fundamentalism, and the Betrayal of Tradition: Essays by Western Muslim Scholars (World Wisdom, 2004). He has regularly contributed to Sophia, Sacred Web, and The Journal of Islamic Studies (Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies. He also translated Doctrines of Shi'i Islam (Manshur-i Aqa'id-i Imamiyya, and edited Algeria: Revolution Revisited. He lives with his wife in Kent, England.	The first question that needs to be asked is whether the transcendent Absolute is in any way conceivable, in such a manner that one can speak of the concept thereof. If, as is maintained by Shankara, the Absolute is That from which words fall back, that which ignorance (avidya) alone would attempt to define, then what function is served by the variety of names by which the Absolute is referred to--Brahman, Atman, Om, Turiya?",books;christian books & bibles;fitness & dieting;health;hinduism;islam;psychology & counseling;religion & spirituality,8
0878422099,"Roadside Geology of New Mexico (Roadside Geology Series) ""With desert lowlands in the south and high peaks to the north, New Mexico presents many faces to its residents and visitors . . . faces that in part can be attributed to the sate's varied geology."" --California Geology	Halka Chronic received a doctorate in geology from Columbia University in 1949. Her career has taken her all over the globe--from teaching at Haile Selassie University in Ethiopia to identifying geologic landmarks for the United States Park Service in the southern Rockies. She now lives in Sedona, Arizona.",books;earth sciences;geology;mountain;science & math;travel;united states;west,8
9812582762,"Hanoi Insight Fleximap (Fleximaps) Since 2000. Hammond, American Map, Langenscheidt Dictionaries, Insight travel Guides, Delorme -  the famous names in the Langenscheidt family. These represent the most authoritative, up-to-date, and extensive travel and reference products available. In January 2003, the renowned Berlitz Publishing became part of the Langenscheidt Group.     The Langenscheidt Publishing Group, the premier group of map and travel companies, offers over 4,000 North American and international street maps, road maps, atlases. language-learning, bilingual dictionaries, and travel-related products covering countries, cities, and languages in every continent.",asia;atlases & maps;books;education & reference;southeast;travel;vietnam;world,8
0792272889,"Return to Titanic Expeditions to find Titanic began in 1953, but all of them failed until 1985, when Ballard (in collaboration with French explorer Jean-Louis Michel) pinpointed the ship's location and photographed it in detail. Since then, Ballard has retained a deep emotional connection to Titanic. ""The ship wouldn't change much in my lifetime,"" he says, ""if left unmolested by treasure hunters."" But ""salvagers, pirates, filmmakers, [and] thrill-seekers"" have, in his view, raped a cherished monument, a view that has faced fierce opposition by many. With co-writer Sweeney, Ballard thoroughly reviews Titanic's history and the catastrophic events that led to her demise. He describes his dream of turning the ship into a museum on the ocean floor, easily explored from above by computer. As he discusses his 2004 return voyage to the wreck, Ballard will hold Titanic-philes riveted by the human and scientific elements of the tragedy. He gives specific detail, writing, ""[the] mast from which the lookouts issued warnings had collapsed into the well deck."" Although the text recycles much familiar material, it's Ballard's passion and expertise that make this book tick. The book's most unique contributions are the numerous photos of those who have died while analyzing and photographing the wreckage, and the pictures of the intricate equipment used to accomplish the monumental task of undersea exploration. Photos. Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	On the night of April 14, 1912, Titanic sank in the icy North Atlantic, and 1,523 people aboard the ship drowned. About 6,000 artifacts have been removed from the vessel and the water around it since Ballard discovered the ship 13,000 feet below the surface in 1985. In May 2003 Ballard returned to document the damage done to the ship since then. ""Ensuring Titanic's preservation was at the heart of the expedition,"" he writes. Ballard wants to give the vessel the same kind of protection ""that has shielded other national and international treasures."" He tells how his team discovered the ship and how they returned a year later to explore the wreckage in a three-man submersible. He chronicles their return in May, documenting the damage and decay that has occurred. Additionally, Ballard recounts the ship's history, describing in moving detail the night it went down. The book, with 125 photographs, is a remarkable account of this disaster and its aftermath. George CohenCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved",archaeology;books;history;politics & social sciences;professional & technical;ships;transportation;world,8
0800627067,"Roots of Egyptian Christianity (Studies in Antiquity & Christianity (Augsburg)) ""Opens large windows on a poorly known field of study and offers some important correctives to widely held misconceptions.""  -- E. Glenn Hinson, Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond",books;christian books & bibles;christianity;church history;history;orthodoxy;religious;world,8
B000067R9L,"Jack The MP3 Ripper Quickly and easily back up all your favorite CD's to MP3.  Jack the MP3 Ripper is an extremely efficient ripping tool that enables the user to extract audio from a CD and export the music into either *.mp3 or *.wav format.   It can rip to WAV or MP3 format files, with a choice of encoders.   Jack can rip at different frequencies, ranging from 32 KBPS through to 320 KBPS for as good if not better than CD quality.   No need to run through and rename every track that you rip, with Jack once the CD is inserted it will down load the CD information from an online database, this includes the title of the CD, Artist and track names.",computer recording;illustration & design;mp3 editing & effects;mp3 software;musical instruments;software;studio recording equipment;video & music,8
0521245850,"Theory of Holors: A Generalization of Tensors Attempts to simplify the complexities of the holor a mathematical entity made up of one or more independent quantities including most hypernumbers, such as complex numbers, scalars, vectors, matrices, tensors, quaternions. Considers all types of holors and develops a holor algebra and a holor calculus.",books;mathematical physics;mathematics;new;physics;science & math;science & mathematics;used & rental textbooks,8
B000QGTYQ4,Martin Kilpatrick Cyclone 4-Player Set The Martin Kilpatrick one-star 4 Player Set features four hardbat rackets and three 1 star balls.,game room;game room games;games;leisure sports & games;sports & outdoors;table tennis;table tennis sets;toys & games,8
0670031119,"On the Road with Hillary: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Journey from Arkansas to the U.S. Senate Politics fanatics and Hillary buffs will jump at Halley's account of his nine-year stint as advance man for the first-lady-turned-senator the person responsible for organizing her public appearances and creating the perfect photo op. Whether rubbing elbows with Pamela Harriman or trying to keep Hillary Rodham Clinton and Fidel Castro on opposite ends of the same hotel, Halley thrived on the chaos behind the pomp. Neither jet lag, temperamental ambassadors nor stubborn heads of state were too much for the resourceful, hyperorganized and admittedly demanding Halley, who seemed born knowing how to fill seats and mediate disaster. Although unafraid to confront political leaders Halley once got in a shoving match with then President Clinton he consistently exudes humor, childlike wonder and a pinch-me sensibility about his job. Readers hoping for an expos should look elsewhere, as Halley has nothing but praise for the Clintons. He blames the intensity of their scandals on cutthroat Republicans and ""media jackals,"" and highlights the Clintons' love and support of each other and Chelsea. Although no secrets get revealed (unless one counts the occasional unsightly bad mood), Halley gives readers satisfying scenes of normality: Hillary worrying about her luggage and an underwear-clad Bill highlighting passages from Seamus Heaney. ""This woman was the real thing,"" thought Halley when he first met Hillary, and through 36 countries, 25 states, a slew of scandals and endless excitement, Halley's initial impression only strengthened.Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.	Here's an unusual book: a positive portrait of Hillary Rodham Clinton. Actually, it's more like a love letter. Halley, who served as Clinton's campaign advance man, has nothing but praise for the woman whom he has worked with since 1992, culminating in his role in the campaign that resulted in her successful bid for the Senate. Along the way, Halley advanced trips for Clinton in 36 countries and 25 states. The Hillary Clinton he describes is focused, prepared, caring, and gracious. Though Halley saw less of her husband, President Clinton is also a central player in this story, and he emerges as a more enigmatic figure, although his charisma and willingness to work hard clearly come through. Much of the material that Halley amasses here will only interest a political junkie. And he makes the mistake of portraying himself as the hero of a story that really belongs to Hillary. Still, this insider's account does offer a fascinating look at what goes on behind the scenes on campaign and White House trips; readers won't be able to resist the chance to peek through the keyhole. Ilene CooperCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	Patrick S. Halley has worked on the campaigns of a number of prominent Democrats, and in 1992 he became an advance man for Hillary Clinton, a position he held until early 2001.",biographies;biographies & memoirs;books;leaders & notable people;political;regional u.s.;south;sports & outdoors,8
B000HHNANK,Johnson FX-600 Fifties Tremolo Pedal This tremolo can produce a great variety of effects. The pedal features a wave control knob that lets you pick anything from a sawtooth wave to a square wave. Rate and depth allow you to dial in how fast and how much tremolo you want.,chorus;effects;electric guitar effects;flange & tremolo;guitar & bass accessories;instrument accessories;musical instruments;single effects,8
0520204352,"On the Postcolony (Studies on the History of Society and Culture) ""A masterpiece of rhetorical and discursive styles . . . a landmark text not just in terms of the thematic of African colonial and postcolonial realities, but more significantly, about the forms through which this thematic is to be methodologically refracted.""--Ato Quayson, ""African Studies Review	Text: English (translation) Original Language: French	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Achille Mbembe lives in Cape Town, South Africa. He is the author of three books published in French, including La naissance du maquis dans le Sud-Cameroun(1920-1960): Histoire des usages de la raison en colonie (1996).",africa;books;ethnic studies;history;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific demographics;world,8
0962935824,"Mama Can't Remember Anymore: Care Management of Aging Parents and Loved Ones ""I'm happy to tell you that I am using the second edition of Mama Can't Remember  Anymore:Care Management of Aging Parents and Loved Ones as a supplementary text in my  teaching.  In the Economics of Aging, we emphasize issues of health and long-term care. The book is  especially valuable in giving students your unique practitioner-based perspective on assisted  living, nursing homes, Alzheimer's Disease, and the profession of geriatric care management. It  provides the human, professional, and geriatric perspective to which all of these students should  be exposed.""  -- Neal E. Cutler, University of Pennsylvania Adjunct Professor of Gerontology and Social Policy...your contributions to the field through your writing,  speaking, referrals and overall participation are unparalleled. -- Peter S. Belson, Family Logistics, former President, National Association for Professional Geriatric Care ManagersA comprehensive layperson's guide on how to handle the complicated issues of parent care.  -- Storm Rogers, MSW, LCSW, GerontologistA formidable work for consumers, very well written and informative. It will have a special place  on my shelf.  -- Peter J. Strauss, Esq., Author, Aging and The LawA terrific and helpful book that is also highly readable.  Will help assuage the guilt and frustration with elder care. -- Jeanne Gordon, writer and Newsweek contributor, in GCM JournalI have recommended it as required reading to family members. One of the most helpful resources that they have encountered. -- Paula P. Tchirkow, LSW,ACSW, President, Allegheny Geriatric Consultants, Pitt., PAIt saved my sanity and perhaps my life.  Your book is my bible.  My children and I thank you. -- Anna Renetsky, Westake Village, CAThis manual provides the answers to the many perplexing questions for potential caregivers.  Wexler's book is not a do-it-yourself manual... It is a guide for people who must provide for an  elderly loved one. Wexler is a pioneer in the field of private geriatric care management. This  manual provides the answers to many perplexing questions for potential care-givers, She presents  a convincing case for the need for qualified personnel in this new field... It is an important  manual for professionals and for families with elders....  -- Sol H. Marshall, B'nai Brith Messenger	A gerontologist in practice for over 20 years, Nancy Wexler, MFT, specializes in the problems of middle-aged and older adults who are caring for their aging parents and loved ones. She has help thousands find their way through the complex maze of medical, psychological, legal, and custodial care options.",aging;aging parents;books;family relationships;fitness & dieting;health;parent & adult child;parenting & relationships,8
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0595175163,"Aliyah!: The Exodus Continues Dr. Dell F. Sanchez is an academician and broadcaster with an international influence reaching the Americas, Iberia and Israel. He is the founder of an educational television station in San Antonio, Texas. Dell and his wife Helen travel internationally and regularly visit Israel in their Sephardic-Anusim journey. For seminars and lectures contact him at www.4sephardim.com.",17th century;books;education & reference;genealogy;history;jewish;modern (16th-21st centuries);world,8
0943396476,Solar Astronomy Handbook Text: English (translation)  Original Language: German,astronomy;astronomy & astrophysics;astronomy & space science;books;new;science & math;science & mathematics;used & rental textbooks,8
0737300906,"The Liver Disorders Sourcebook Howard Worman, M.D., a professor at Columbia University, serves on the editorial board of the medical journal Hepatology and is an assistant attending physician at the Presbyterian Hospital in New York.",abdominal;books;diseases & physical ailments;fitness & dieting;health;new;parenting & relationships;used & rental textbooks,8
0460112872,"Jane Eyre (Everyman's Classics) ''At the end we are steeped through and through with the genius, the vehemence, the indignation of Charlotte Bronte.'' --Virginia Woolf	      --This text refers to the 							Audio CD	 edition.	Cambridge Literature is a series of literary texts edited for study by students aged 14-18 in English-speaking classrooms. It will include novels, poetry, short stories, essays, travel-writing and other non-fiction.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Charlotte Bronte's impassioned novel is the love story of Jane  Eyre, a plain yet spirited governess, and her arrogant, brooding Mr.  Rochester. Published in 1847, under the pseudonym of Currer Bell, the  book heralded a new kind of heroine--one whose virtuous integrity, keen  intellect and tireless perseverance broke through class barriers to win  equal stature with the man she loved. Hailed by William Makepeace  Thackeray as ""the masterwork of great genius,"" Jane Eyre is  still regarded, over a century later, as one of the finest novels in  English literature.	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.	Charlotte Bronte's impassioned novel is the love story of Jane Eyre, a plain yet spirited governess, and her arrogant, brooding Mr. Rochester. Published in 1847, under the pseudonym of Currer Bell, the book heralded a new kind of heroine--one whose virtuous integrity, keen intellect and tireless perseverance broke through class barriers to win equal stature with the man she loved. Hailed by William Makepeace Thackeray as ""the masterwork of great genius,"" Jane Eyre is still regarded, over a century later, as one of the finest novels in English literature.From the Paperback edition.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Jane Eyre, the story of a young girl and her passage into adulthood, was an immediate commercial success at the time of its original publication in 1847. Its representation of the underside of domestic life and the hypocrisy behind religious enthusiasm drew both praise and bitter criticism, while Charlotte Bront's striking expose of poor living conditions for children in charity schools as well as her poignant portrayal of the limitations faced by women who worked as governesses sparked great controversy and social debate. Jane Eyre, Bront's best-known novel, remains an extraordinary coming-of-age narrative, and one of the great classics of literature.	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.	Charlotte Bront (1816-1855) was an English novelist, the eldest of the three Bront sisters whose novels are English literature standards. Charlotte Bront, who used the pen name Currer Bell, wrote Jane Eyre.	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.	There was no possibility of taking a walk that day. We had been wandering, indeed, in the leafless shrubbery an hour in the morning; but since dinner (Mrs. Reed, when there was no company, dined early) the cold winter wind had brought with it clouds so sombre, and a rain so penetrating, that further out-door exercise was now out of the question.I was glad of it: I never liked long walks, especially on chilly afternoons: dreadful to me was the coming home in the raw twilight, with nipped fingers and toes, and a heart saddened by the chidings of Bessie, the nurse, and humbled by the consciousness of my physical inferiority to Eliza, John, and Georgiana Reed.The said Eliza, John, and Georgiana were now clustered round their mama in the drawing-room: she lay reclined on a sofa by the fireside, and with her darlings about her (for the time neither quarrelling nor crying) looked perfectly happy. Me, she had dispensed from joining the group; saying, 'She regretted to be under the necessity of keeping me at a distance; but that until she heard from Bessie, and could discover by her own observation that I was endeavouring in good earnest to acquire a more sociable and childlike disposition, a more attractive and sprightly manner,something lighter, franker, more natural as it wereshe really must exclude me from privileges intended only for contented, happy, little children.''What does Bessie say I have done?' I asked.'Jane, I don't like cavillers or questioners: besides, there is something truly forbidding in a child taking up her elders in that manner. Be seated somewhere; and until you can speak pleasantly, remain silent.'A small breakfast-room adjoined the drawing-room. I slipped in there. It contained a book-case: I soon possessed myself of a volume, taking care that it should be one stored with pictures. I mounted into the window-seat: gathering up my feet, I sat cross-legged, like a Turk; and, having drawn the red moreen curtain nearly close, I was shrined in double retirement.Folds of scarlet drapery shut in my view to the right hand; to the left were the clear panes of glass, protecting, but not separating me from the drear November day. At intervals, while turning over the leaves of my book, I studied the aspect of that winter afternoon. Afar, it offered a pale blank of mist and cloud; near, a scene of wet lawn and storm-beat shrub, with ceaseless rain sweeping away wildly before a long and lamentable blast.I returned to my bookBewick's History of British Birds: the letter-press thereof I cared little for, generally speaking; and yet there were certain introductory pages that, child as I was, I could not pass quite as a blank. They were those which treat of the haunts of sea-fowl; of 'the solitary rocks and promontories' by them only inhabited; of the coast of Norway, studded with isles from its southern extremity, the Lindeness, or Naze, to the North Cape'Where the Northern Ocean, in vast whirls,Boils round the naked, melancholy islesOf farthest Thule; and the Atlantic surgePours in among the stormy Hebrides.'From the eBook edition.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	What a joy to hear a favorite classic performed with excellence! Nadia May's skill as a storyteller has the listener soon believing Jane Eyre is speaking directly to him or her, ""the gentle reader."" The story of Jane, orphan governess, and her tragic love, Mr. Rochester, has the same plot as many of today's romances, but Bront''s masterful use of language and description moves it to a higher plane. Her portrayal of the social milieu of the times and Jane's view of realities and her yearnings to transcend them will give present-day women much to ponder. A timeless work flawlessly presented.  T.R. An AUDIOFILE Earphones Award winner   (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;classics;history & criticism;literary;literature & fiction;movements & periods;regency;romance,8
1880238292,"Crazy Horse In Stillness (American Poets Continuum) For Heyen, Crazy Horse embodied the spirituality of Native American culture as well as the fierce passion of a people under attack. The stillness of Crazy Horse would cause the air and the words around him to hum with an energy these poems echo in soft, intense vibration. Indeed, for Heyen, Crazy Horse seems to function as a muse in the ether, guiding the rhythm and topic of each poem. Heyen also includes many poems about Elizabeth Custer, left at home and reading the letters of her battle-weary husband, painting a portrait of Iron Horse, and remembering fragments of her life. Finally, Heyen draws apt parallels between General Custer and Crazy Horse, giving the collection thought-provoking as well as lyrical qualities.  Elizabeth Millard	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Ever since Homer's time, poets have wrestled with the difficulty of transmitting historical events through the prism of verse, attempting to balance recorded facts with intuited truths. William Heyen's recounting of America's most legendary adversarial relationship - that of Sioux leader Crazy Horse and Army General George Custer - awards pride of place to the imagination. Though informed by published histories, letters and diaries, this series of more than 450 lyric poems constitutes a ""fusion of dream & time,"" an unpredictable extrapolation of the psychological, social, and spiritual energies that led the principals and their nations to a fateful, bloody meeting on June 25, 1876.  Avoiding rhetorical bombast and scholarly clutter, Heyen allows the rich imagery and tragic ironies of the West to emerge: a buffalo herd frozen to death in a canyon; the young Crazy Horse attempting to capture an eagle while cadet Custer struggles with a term paper on ""the red race;""  the grim, exhausting labor of extracting tens of thousands of buffalo tongues for shipment to chic Eastern restaurants; Custer's wife Elizabeth in a prairie tent, experiencing the ""terror of being late, that some day/hundreds of men would have to wait/because a woman had lost her hat pins.""  Whether or not we believe Heyen's stated claim to psychic  kinship with the spirit of Crazy Horse, his ability to maintain the reader's sense of surprise andwonder through an avalanche of poems both surreally plain  (""Footnoted"") and plainly surreal (""Custer in Cyberspace"") is an amazing achievement in itself, enriching our sense of the past with a singular sense of the present. -- From Independent Publisher",american;books;literature & fiction;native american studies;poetry;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific demographics,8
B00000K52P,"KCRW: Morning Becomes Eclectic Every city should have a radio show as fresh and intelligent as Morning Becomes Eclectic from KCRW in Santa Monica. Unencumbered by narrow genre classifications, the show has built up an audience for left-of-center singer-songwriters, art-pop bands, world beatniks, jazz fusionists, and hip-hoppers. All are featured on this compilation of live, on-air performances. While the previous four-volume KCRW series, Rare on the Air, may have featured more legends (including Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, and Joni Mitchell), and hence more consistent material, the sense of discovery and adventure of this latest sampling is seductive. The strongest cuts tend to be the most stripped down: Afro-pop chanteuse Angelique Kidjo's a cappella ""Blewu,"" Beth Orton's tingling voice and guitar performance on ""Sugar Boy,"" Mercury Rev's Velvet Underground-meets-the-Band ""Opus 40,"" and P.J. Harvey's eerie dirge ""Is This Desire?"" --Roy Kasten	Out-of-print 17 track collection of LIVE performances from the legendary KCRW studios. John Martyn, Cake, Air, Lyle Lovett, PJ Harvey etc. Great version of Ednaswap's TORN. Light scuff on disc will not affect play.",alternative rock;country;dance & electronic;folk;music;pop;rock;world music,8
1413700535,"Prairie Rattlers, Long-Johns and Chokecherry Wine: Memoirs From The Silent Prairie Emma Willey's book a tribute to the mettle of U.S.'s heartland Pioneers -- The News-Review,Reader comment: ""Both young and old need to hear this story."" Emmas book sure to delight readers of all ages. -- Dakota Herald, Lemmon, South Dakota",americas;biographies & memoirs;books;history;memoirs;specific groups;united states;women,8
B0001ZTLC2,"Amazon.com: UNDER ARMOUR Men's Sideliner Beanie,Midnight Navy,Large: Clothing Classic cuffed acrylic beanie lined with UA moisture wicking fabric, embroiered logo, rubber patch on back.",accessories;clothing;clothing & accessories;hats & caps;men;skull caps;skullies & beanies;sports & outdoors,8
0553213598,"NOSTROMO (Bantam Classic) This involved, philosophical novel is not for the casual listener, especially one who is supposed to be concentrating on the road ahead. Writing in 1904, Conrad invented a complex South American country with a turbulent history and a potentially explosive population, ranging from the wealthy gringo running the Sulaco silver mine to the poorest worker loading cargo on the docks. Although the story teems with lively characters, the dazzling figure of Nostromo eclipses them all. A natural leader?brave, handsome, and incorruptible?he naturally becomes the epicenter of the revolution that soon devastates Sulaco. With characteristic eloquence, Conrad has focused on the dramatic action of the revolution to explore challenging themes: capitalism, imperialism, revolution, and social justice. Unfortunately, this audio program, read by Frederick Davidson, is disappointing. Despite fine dramatic characterizations, the narrator's posh British accent is so pronounced that it often detracts from the text. Since Nostromo has also been narrated by Frank Muller (Recorded Books) and Wolfram Kandinsky (Books on TapeR), perhaps this version may not be the best choice.?Jo Carr, Sarasota, Fla.Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	""Ruth Nadelhaft's new edition of Nostromo is a timely addition to the Broadview Editions series. Without neglecting the traditional critical and biographical approaches, the supplementary materials and lucid introduction place Conrad's difficult masterpiece fully and clearly within its contemporary contexts (especially the events surrounding the Panama Canal project), and in relation to our own debates about imperialism, colonials, and alleged racism in Conrad's work. Broadview's Nostromo, like its companion volumes, is truly a text for the way we teach now."" (David Latane Jr.)""Nadelhaft negotiates the impasse between existential and political responses to the book. In reaffirming that the personal is the political, she demonstrates how Nostromo represents the process whereby 'imperialism transmits the virus of alienation.' Joined with the historical apparatus so characteristic of Broadview Editions, such theorizing genuinely reopens a book that hasn't yet received its due."" (Michael Coyle)	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	13 1.5-hour cassettes	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Conrad's foresight and his ability to pluck the human adventure from complex historical circumstances were such that his greatest novel, Nostromo -- though nearly one hundred years old -- says as much about today's Latin America as any of the finest recent accounts of that region's turbulent political life. Insistently dramatic in its storytelling, spectacular in its recreation of the subtropical landscape, this picture of an insurrectionary society and the opportunities it provides for moral corruption gleams on every page with its author's dry, undeceived, impeccable intelligence.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	Nostromo, first published in 1904, is arguably Conrad's greatest and most complex novel. A compelling adventure story, it is also a novel of profound psychological insight and of powerful political implications. It tells the story of a Central American state whose silver mine serves both literally and metaphorically as the source of the country's value. Written at the time of the development of the Panama Canal, Nostromo is set in the imaginary province of Sulaco, which secedes from the federation of Costaguana in order to protect its natural resource, the silver mine. The parallels with the 'revolution' formented in Panama by the United States in 1903 are striking; just as Panama seceded from Columbia to satisfy the material interests of the canal builders, so the secession of Sulaco serves the material interests of 'the Gould concession.' In this edition a variety of documents from the period (including material concerning American involvement in Central America in the early twentieth century, early critical notices, and family letters of Conrad's) help to set the text in context.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	Tony Tanner is Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, and author of Adultery in the Novel, The Reign of Wonder, Venice Desired (forthcoming) and Studies of James, Bellow, Pynchon and Jane Austen.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	From Brent Hayes Edwards's Introduction to NostromoJosephConrad called Nostromo his ""largest canvas,"" and since its publication in 1904, it has rightfully been considered one of the first great modernist novels in the English language. He also called it an ""achievement in mosaic,"" and in some ways this is the more precise description: for Nostromo is not just a single novel, but a stunning orchestration of many novels at once. It is an adventure story, narrating the extraordinary exploits of the courageous Italian sailor of the title; it is a comedy of errors, offering scene after scene of the entire spectrum of human failings, from unmerited arrogance to the self-destruction of the grandest plans; it is a masterful symbolic architecture, as the silver of the San Tom mine comes to take on a diabolic significance for every character who comes near it; it is a story of hidden treasure; it is a novel of political intrigue, the double-crossing and scheming behind the scenes of monumental historical events; it is the tale of a particular place and people, recounting the violent origins of the Republic of Sulaco; it is a love story, drawing the reader into the courtship between the strong-willed daughter of the aristocracy, Antonia Avellanos, and the skeptic Martin Decoud, the ""idle boulevardier"" and disillusioned journalist who is driven to action by his passion; it is a novel of imperialism, a many-layered portrait of the effects of European and U.S. intervention in the affairs of a small country in South America. In his ""Authors Note"" to the 1917 edition (included here), Conrad explains that for him, Nostromo marked ""a subtle change in the nature of the inspiration [for his writing],"" and the novel is important in his oeuvre not only because it is his most ambitious work, but also because it signals the transition between his two most fruitful periods: from his works dealing with European colonialism in Asia and Africa, especially Lord Jim (1900) and Heart of Darkness (1899), to what are sometimes termed his political novels, stories of revolutionary unrest set mainly in Europe, including The Secret Agent (1907) and Under Western Eyes (1911). For the first time, Conrad attempted in Nostromo a novel more of the land than of the sea (""A Tale of the Seaboard,"" as the subtitle puts it almost wistfully), and a novel only tangentially based on his personal experience as a sailor.The novel began as a short story, and expanded in length and scope as Conrad worked on it assiduously from December 1902 until August 1904. From the beginning, it was a traumatic enterprise. Conrad had traveled to South America only once in his life, when in 1876, working as a nineteen-year-old steward on the French ship the Saint-Antoine, he sailed to the Caribbean, stopping in St.-Pierre in Martinique, Cartagena in Colombia, Puerto Cabello and La Guaira in Venezuela, St. Thomas, and Haiti. He was ashore only briefly in South America: twelve hours in Puerto Cabello, three days in La Guaira. Not surprisingly, when he attempted to draw on his memories of this experience for Nostromo, he was not able to dredge up much. As he began working on the book, Conrad wrote to his lifelong friend R. B. Cunninghame Graham, the famous Scottish aristocrat, radical socialist, and accomplished writer who had lived many years in South America, almost shamefacedly asking for help: ""I want to talk to you of the work I am engaged on now. I hardly dare avow my audacitybut I am placing it in Sth America in a Republic I call Costaguana"" (May 9, 1903, in Collected Letters, vol. 3, p. 34; see ""For Further Reading""). Cunninghame Graham provided invaluable information to Conrad, but in July 1903, the latter was still writing to say that he was ""dying over that cursed Nostromo thing. All my memories of Central America seem to slip away. I just had a glimpse 25 years agoa short glance. That is not enough pour btir un roman dessus [to build a novel upon]"" (July 8, 1903, in Collected Letters, vol. 3, p. 45).Conrads correspondence of the period is filled with elaborate descriptions of what he termed the ""atrocious misery of writing"": In one letter to the novelist H. G. Wells, he wrote that he was ""absolutely out of my mind with worry and apprehension of my work. I go on as one would cycle over a precipice along a 14 inch plank. If I falter I am lost"" (NovemberDecember 1903, in Collected Letters, vol. 3, p. 80). In his autobiographical A Personal Record (1912), describing the composition of Nostromo, Conrad would again figuratively describe the writing process as a kind of extreme nautical distress:Neglecting the common joys of life that fall to the lot of the humblest on this earth, I had, like the prophet of old [Jacob in the Old Testament], ""wrestled with the Lord"" for my creation, for the headlands of the coast, for the darkness of the Placid Gulf, the light on the snows, the clouds on the sky, and for the breath of life that had to be blown into the shapes of men and woman, of Latin and Saxon, of Jew and Gentile. These are, perhaps, strong words, but it is difficult to characterise otherwise the intimacy and the strain of a creative effort in which mind and will and conscience are engaged to the full, hour after hour, day after day, away from the world, and to the exclusion of all that makes life really lovable and gentlesomething for which a material parallel can only be found in the everlasting sombre stress of the westward winter passage round Cape Horn (pp. 9899).By December he was calling it a ""disastrous year,"" and moaning, ""if I had written each page with my blood I could not feel more exhausted at the end of this twelvemonth"" (Conrad to David Meldrum, December 26, 1903, in Collected Letters, vol. 3, p. 100). Conrad had reason to worry, because he had agreed to publish the novel in serial form starting in a few weeks. Nostromo appeared in TPs Weekly from January 29 until October 7, 1904, and Conrad found the regular demands of this pace nearly impossible to meet. The Conrad family was renting lodgings from the novelist Ford Madox Ford during the spring of 1904, andhaving already established a close friendship and an (unsuccessful) series of collaborations (including the novels The Inheritors in 1901 and Romance in 1903) with the younger writerConrad was forced to ask Ford to help him keep up with the installments. Ford composed a small section of Nostromo: about sixteen manuscript pages of chapter 5 in the second part of the novel. (Ford would also be integral to the composition of Conrads The Mirror of the Sea [1906], and scholars have suggested that he may have written part of Heart of Darkness as well.)	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	This abridgment of Joseph Conrad's classic keeps in mind that the story is as much about the fictional province of Sulaco and the San Tome silver mine as it is about Nostromo, the ""incorruptible"" sailor who ends up concealing a fortune in silver. Although Nostromo is a presence throughout the novel, his tale actually begins on Side six. It preserves much of Conrad's fine detail, background history of Sulaco, and prose style, making the listener almost forget that this is an abridgment. Joss Ackland speaks Conrad's descriptive passages with a clear, refined voice that brings an authoritative air to this fictional history, while giving its main characters rougher voices.  J.A.S.  AudioFile 2001, Portland, Maine-- Copyright  AudioFile, Portland, Maine	      --This text refers to the 							Audio Cassette	 edition.",books;classics;humanities;literary;literature;literature & fiction;new;used & rental textbooks,8
0764106708,"Guinea Pigs: A Complete Pet Owner's Manual Text: English (translation) Original Language: German	(back cover)   Information and advice to help you take good care of your Guinea Pigs   The typical Guinea Pig:  origins, anatomy, life cycles, and more   Expert advice:  feeding, behavior, caging, health care   Understanding your Guinea Pigs:  their body language and its meaning    Step-by-step directions for everyday care  Informative and attractive checklists and sidebars  Filled with handsome color photos  (picture caption)  Guinea Pigs make unusually interesting household pets, both for children and adults	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;crafts;education & reference;hamsters & guinea pigs;hobbies & home;mice;pets & animal care;rabbits,8
1558852689,"Trino's Choice Run or die, seventh-grader Trino thinks when he sees rat-faced Rosca and some other eighth-graders beating up the neighborhood convenience store owner, and they see him. Desperate, he ducks inside a dark bookshop, which he briefly considers robbing before some ""school types,"" including the lovely Lisana, show up, interested in an upcoming poetry reading by a Latino poet who writes about the barrio. Although Trino and Lisana go to the same school, their lives seem worlds apart. Living in a Texas trailer park with his working mother, three younger stepbrothers, and freeloading drunk of an uncle, Trino hates his life and, frustrated, is drawn by Rosca's offer to hang out and maybe make some quick cash, which leads to tragedy. Although the story's pat last line reads like a heavy-handed, middle-school equivalent of riding off into the sunset, overall, this is a dramatic and realistic contemporary novel, in the tradition of Frank Bonham's Durango Street (1965) and Walter Dean Myers' Scorpions (1988), about a Latino boy struggling to grow into manhood and somehow make the right choices in the absence of adult guidance or even his own understanding of the serious consequences.  Annie Ayres	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Realistic characters and settings . . . Skillful descriptions . . . Conversations are genuine . . . Deserves a sequel. -- VOYA [Voice of Youth Advocates] Tough, gritty . . . will keep readers turning the pages. --Sacramento [California] Bee	Trino's Choice has been selected as:  An Austin Writers' League ""Teddy"" Award winner  Best Young-Adult Book of the Year by ForeWord Magazine  Best Young Adult Fiction in English by the Latino Literary Hall of Fame  Finalist, Toms Rivera Mexican-American Children's Book Award.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Diane Gonzales Bertrand is the author of several young-adult novels including Lessons of the Game, Sweet Fifteen, and Alicia's Treasure, and she is now working on a sequel to Trino's Choice. She is also a writer of picture books for younger children, including Sip, Slurp, Soup / Caldo, Caldo, Caldo (with illustrator Alex Pardo DeLange) and Family, Familia (with illustrator Pauline Rodriguez Howard). Diane Gonzales Bertrand is a lifelong resident of San Antonio and teaches at St. Mary's University, where she is now Writer-in-Residence.",books;children's books;hispanic & latino;literature & fiction;multicultural stories;self-esteem & self-respect;social situations;travel & cultures,8
B0000009TV,"Strictly Genteel: Classical Introduction If you found Have I Offended Someone to be a bit, ah... distasteful, perhaps you'd like to dust off the evening gown or tux and spend the night with Strictly Genteel, a collection of Zappa's finest instrumental compositions. There's nary a dirty word to be found in the entire record, in fact. Even your mother would like it (and she's always hated most of that crap you listen to.)  Do it for mother. And you don't even have to put on your best suit, though you should.	This CD is an out of print collectible! It is the original 1997 release.",alternative rock;classic rock;classical;jazz;miscellaneous;music;pop;rock,8
039914742X,"Preventing Arthritis: A Holistic Approach to Life Without Pain An estimated 21 million Americans will develop arthritis, and three out of five of those will be diagnosed with the disease while under 65. Yet, in Preventing Arthritis: A Holistic Approach to Life Without Pain, physician Ronald M. Lawrence and health writer Martin Zucker (co-authors of The Miracle of MSM) argue that arthritis need not be an inevitability. In addition to exploring the ways that people who already suffer from arthritis can find relief, they also explain how readers can prevent arthritis through diet, exercise, yoga, massage and sex. Agent, Jack Scovil. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.	Lawrence, a neurologist with expertise in pain, geriatrics, and  sports medicine, has worked with health writer Zucker to produce  a balanced program for preventing and coping with  osteoarthritis. The authors previously collaborated, with  Stanley Jacob, on The Miracle of MSM: The Natural Solution for  Pain. Their latest effort discusses the osteoarthritis disease  process and how it can be prevented or minimized by exercise,  appropriate body mechanics, diet, supplements, and  complementary/alternative therapies. Though the book is written  at a high reading level, medical terminology is explained in  context. The authors include appropriate disclaimers (advice to  consult with a physician) and references to scientific  literature, as well as information from interviews with  alternative therapy experts. Individual case reports are used to  illustrate the benefits of health practices advocated throughout  the book, and web references are included in the text for  additional information on supplements and alternative therapies.  This book will appeal to health-conscious readers who have some  awareness of the problems created by arthritis, as well as to  those in the early stages of arthritis. Recommended for public  and consumer health libraries. Margaret Allen, Library  Consultant, Stratford, WI   Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Ronald M. Lawrence, M.D., Ph.D., is a founding member of the International Association for the Study of Pain and the American Association for the Study of Headaches. Health writer Martin Zucker has written extensively on natural healing, nutrition, fitness, and alternative medicine for more than twenty years.",alternative medicine;books;diseases & physical ailments;fitness & dieting;health;holistic;musculoskeletal diseases;parenting & relationships,8
0312328176,"Oh Danny Boy (Molly Murphy Mysteries) In Agatha-winner Bowen's entertaining if imperfect fifth Molly Murphy mystery (after 2005's In Like Flynn), the feisty Irish lass, who has immigrated to New York City and become a PI, comes to the rescue of someone very near and dear to her, NYPD cop Daniel Sullivan. Daniel's been accused of taking a bribe, but Molly is sure he's innocent. Before his arrest, Daniel was trying to track down the East Side Ripper, a prostitute-murdering brute. Molly suspects someone wanted Daniel off the case and set him up. While trying to prove Daniel's innocence, Molly realizes that their one night of passion has left her pregnant. She contemplates an abortion, but can't go through with it. If the solution to Molly's predicament is a predictable cop-out, Bowen deserves kudos for her recreation of early 20th-century New York. She avoids the temptation to give cameos to every famous figure of the day, but those she does work inlike New York's first ""lady policeman""are wonderfully chosen. (Mar.) Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	New York City in the summer of 1902: Molly Murphy is seriously considering giving up her dream of being a private investigator to move west, away from the alluring-but-deceptive police captain, Daniel Sullivan. But when Daniel suddenly winds up in jail, the target of a bribery probe, Molly has no choice but to help him clear his name--a challenge that becomes far more complicated when Molly has to track down a serial killer as well. This is the fifth Murphy mystery, and it's a beautifully constructed historical one that catapults readers back in time and immerses them in turn-of-the-twentieth-century New York. David PittCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	""Absorbing, well-plotted . . . This complex tale comes to a bittersweet and heartfelt conclusion.""--Publishers Weekly on In Like Flynn""It's hard not to be charmed by this young immigrant woman who fled murder charges in Ireland to become a detective in turn-of-the-century New York.""--Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on In Like Flynn""Rhys Bowen continues her evocative look at the immigrant experience . . . a compelling, detailed look at life in 1901 New York.""--Hartford Courant on For the Love of Mike""Molly grows ever more engaging against a vibrant background of New York's dark side at the turn of the century.""--Kirkus Reviews (starred review) on For the Love of Mike""There is nail-biting suspense as the book nears its end and...the setting of those scenes is frighteningly well-done.""--Mystery News on For the Love of Mike""An evocative trip through old New York---including the poets, painters, playwrights, and private investigators of Greenwich Village, 1901--in the company of Irish immigrant Molly Murphy, a spirited and appealing guide.""--S. J. Rozan, author of Winter and Night, on Death of Riley""It's always a delight to discover a new book from the pen of Rhys Bowen.""--Tampa Tribune  Times on Murphy's Law""[We] look forward to Molly's return.""--Chicago Tribune on Murphy's Law	I have no alternative, Miss. Im only obeying orders, mark you, but Im placing you under arrest. With that he clapped a handcuff onto one wrist before I knew what was happening to me.  I stared down at the wrist in horror and indignation. Jesus, Mary, and Joseph! How dare you! Release me this minute or Ill make the biggest fuss you can imagine. Im really sorry, Miss Murphy, but Ive been told to bring you to Captain Sullivan and bring you I will, even if I have to carry you over my shoulder like a sack of potatoes. Youre taking me to jail? On what charge? Is this Daniel Sullivans idea of a joke? The constable shook his head. Its no joke, Miss. Its deadly serious, Im afraid, or the captain wouldnt have had you brought in this way. But he had no alternative. Hes in serious trouble, Miss Murphy. Hes under arrest and being held in the Tombs pending his trial.In turn-of-the-century New York City, Irish immigrant Molly Murphy is contemplating giving up PI work for something a little less complicated, less exciting. Molly has had quite enough excitement recently, thank you very much. Especially from the handsome but deceptive NYPD captain Daniel Sullivan, whom shed like to avoid completely. But when Daniel is accused of accepting bribes and lands himself in the Tombs, thenotorious city jail, he begs Molly to help prove he was framed, and after everything theyve been through, she cannot turn him down.As she finds herself drawn further and further into the case, she begins to fear that Daniels trouble is related to one of his investigations the Eastside Ripper, a serial killer who is targeting prostitutes.Oh Danny Boy marks Edgar Awardfinalist Rhys Bowens triumphant fifth installment in the award winning Molly Murphy mystery series.	""Absorbing, well-plotted . . . This complex tale comes to a bittersweet and heartfelt conclusion.""--Publishers Weekly on In Like Flynn""It's hard not to be charmed by this young immigrant woman who fled murder charges in Ireland to become a detective in turn-of-the-century New York.""--Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on In Like Flynn""Rhys Bowen continues her evocative look at the immigrant experience . . . a compelling, detailed look at life in 1901 New York.""--Hartford Courant on For the Love of Mike""Molly grows ever more engaging against a vibrant background of New York's dark side at the turn of the century.""--Kirkus Reviews (starred review) on For the Love of Mike""There is nail-biting suspense as the book nears its end and...the setting of those scenes is frighteningly well-done.""--Mystery News on For the Love of Mike""An evocative trip through old New York---including the poets, painters, playwrights, and private investigators of Greenwich Village, 1901--in the company of Irish immigrant Molly Murphy, a spirited and appealing guide.""--S. J. Rozan, author of Winter and Night, on Death of Riley""It's always a delight to discover a new book from the pen of Rhys Bowen.""--Tampa Tribune  Times on Murphy's Law""[We] look forward to Molly's return.""--Chicago Tribune on Murphy's Law	Rhys Bowen's novels have garnered an impressive array of awards and nominations, including the Anthony Award for For the Love of Mike, and the Agatha Award for Murphy's Law, the first Molly Murphy mystery. Her books have also won the Bruce Alexander Historical Award and the Herodotus Award, and have been shortlisted for the Agatha Award, the Macavity Award, and the Mary Higgins Clark Award. Rhys Bowen is also the author of the acclaimed Evan Evans mystery series, which was a finalist for the Edgar Award, and several short stories, including the Anthony Award--winning ""Doppelganger."" Rhys Bowen was born and raised in England and now lives in San Rafael, California. Visit her Web site at jqh.home.netcom.com.	Chapter OneNew York, August 1902There was that maniacal laughter again. I looked around, but I couldnt detect where it was coming from. It seemed to be part of the very darkness itself. Black water lapped up at me as I stepped onto the iron lacework of a walkway. I thought I could hear a childs voice calling, Save me, save me, and I started toward it. But beneath me were other faceless forms, and they held up white arms to me, calling out, Help us first.The laughter grew louder until it was overwhelming. I started to run. Water splashed up at my feet and when I looked down at my shoes they were black. Thats when I noticed it wasnt water at all. It was blood.I woke with my heart pounding and sat up, my hands grasping the cool reality of the sheet before I realized I was in my own room. I sat still for a while, conscious of the empty quiet of the house around me, wondering what the dream might mean. It was the third time I had dreamed it this week. The first time Id put it down to an exotic Mongolian meal at my friends house across Patchin Place (they were into a nomad phase at the moment), but dreaming the same thing three times must mean more than just plain indigestion.Back in Ireland dreams were always taken seriously. My mother would have been able to interpret mine for me in a wink, although I rather think her interpretation would be influenced by the fact that I was rude, didnt mind my elders, and was heading for a bad end. But I recall the women sitting around in our cottage over a cup of tea, debating whether dreaming of a black cow meant future wealth or a death in the family. What would they say about an ocean of blood? I shuddered and wrapped my arms around myself.My life had certainly been in turmoil since I had returned from my assignment on the Hudson, but I couldnt think what could have sparked such a terrifying nightmare. There was my frightening ordeal in the river, of course. That might have prompted me to dream of water. And I had almost lost little Bridie OConnor to typhoid. She was still far from well and had been sent to a camp for sickly city children in Connecticut, run by the ladies at the settlement house on Sixth Avenue. Was it her voice I had heard in the dream? Had she been calling for me to come to her? Should I have gone to the country to be with her?I got up and walked across the landing, feeling the cold of the linoleum under my bare feet. I paused at what had been Bridie and Shameys door, almost expecting to hear the childrens regular breathing. But the only sound was the rhythmic ticking of the clock on the mantel downstairs. I shivered suddenly, although it was still midsummer and the night was warm. I went back to bed, but I was afraid to sleep again. It occurred to me that this was the first time in my life that Id been alone in a building. Normally I would have been proud to be mistress of my own establishment, but at this moment all I felt was overwhelming loneliness. I sat hugging my knees to my chest, staring out of the window at the shadows dancing on the houses across the alleyway. When the first streaks of dawn showed in the sky I got up and made myself a cup of tea, drinking it with one eye on the front window until I saw my neighbor Gus go out to buy their breakfast rolls from the Clement Family Bakery around the corner on Sixth Avenue.I dearly wanted company at the moment. I knew I was always welcome at their house, but my pride and disgust with my own weakness wouldnt let me barge in on them uninvited at this early hour or tell them about the dream. So I waited until Gus returned, opened my front door with the pretence of shaking out crumbs, then feigned delighted surprise at bumping into her. Of course she invited me in for breakfast, and of course I accepted.Look who I just found, Sid dear, Gus called as we went down the hall to their bright and airy kitchen. At this hour it was still cool. The French doors were open, and the sweet scent of honeysuckle competed with the enticing aroma of freshly brewed coffee.Sid was standing at the stove, dressed this morning in an emerald green silk gentlemans smoking jacket and baggy black pants that looked as if they had come from a harem. The striking effect was completed with her black hair, which she wore straight and chin length, like a childs pageboy bob.Molly, my sweet. How good to see you. Youre looking pale. Sit down and have some coffee and a hot roll. Sid gave me a beaming smile and started pouring thick, murky liquid into a small cup, then handed it to me. I took a sip, pretending, as always, that I liked my coffee to look and taste like East River sludge. Sid always insisted on Turkish coffee and French croissants in the morning. Id no objections to the croissants, but Id never learned to appreciate the coffee.I sat in the chair that Gus had pulled out for me and accepted the still warm roll from her basket.And what were you doing up and about so bright and early this morning? Gus asked.I didnt sleep so well last night. I was willing to confess to that much. I just needed to get out of the house and breathe good fresh air.Youre missing those OConnors, that whats the matter with you, Gus said.I most certainly am not, I replied indignantly. Ive spent most of my life looking after someone elses children. Im glad to be taking a break from them.The knowing look that passed between Sid and Gus didnt escape me.And anyway, theyll be back soon enough when Bridie is quite recovered and healthy again, I went on. Shes making splendid progress, you know. And in the meantime, Im doing some serious thinking about my future.They looked at each other again, this time with amusement.Did you hear that, Gus? Serious thinking about her future. Will she be reconsidering the earnest Mr. Singers proposal, do you think?I picked up The New York Times that had been lying on the table. Would you be quiet, you two? Why should you of all people think that any young womans future would automatically have to be linked to a marriage proposal? I have no intention of accepting any proposals, decent or indecent.Then I opened the paper and buried myself in the advertisements page, ignoring their chuckles.How about Nebraska? I looked up expectantly from the The Times and saw two bewildered faces staring at me.Nebraska? Gus asked.Yes, listen to this. Schoolteacher needed for one-room schoolhouse. Start August. Must be unmarried, unencumbered, Christian, and of impeccable character. References required. Accommodation provided. Apply to the school board, Spalding, Nebraska.  I paused and looked up again. My friends were still smiling.Dearest Molly, are you suggesting that you should become a schoolmarm in Nebraska? Sid asked, pushing her bobbed hair back from her face.Why not? I demanded. Do you not think Im up to life on the frontier? And where is Nebraska anyway?At this they both broke into merry laughter. Gus reached across to me and patted my hand. You are priceless, my sweet, she said. Who would make us laugh if we let you escape from our clutches?And why this sudden desire for the frontier, anyway? Sid looked up from spreading more apricot jam on a croissant.Because Ive had enough of New York City. Life has become too complicated.And you think it would be less complicated having to kill grizzly bears with your Bible on the way to school each morning or having to fight off amorous pioneers in need of a wife? Sid asked.I put down the newspaper and sighed. I dont know. I just want to make a new start somewhere faraway. Never have to see Daniel Sullivans odious face again. Never have to convince myself that I dont want to marry Jacob Singer, however well behaved and earnest he is.One can accomplish both these things without going to Nebraska, I should have thought, Gus said. If youve finally decided to give up this crazy notion of being a lady investigator, Im sure we could help you make a new start in the city here. But if you insist on escaping, Im sure I can come up with some connections in Boston for you, even if my own people dont want to know me anymore.I looked at Guss sweet, elfish face, framed in its pile of soft, light brown curls, and finally smiled. Youre really too good to me by half. I dont deserve your friendship. I do nothing but interrupt your breakfast with my whining and complaining.Nonsense, Sid said. Just think how dull and ordinary our lives would be without you.Since Sid and Gus lead the least ordinary lives I had ever encou...",books;contemporary;historical;literature & fiction;mystery;thriller & suspense;united states;women sleuths,8
184018907X,"Soldier Five: The Real Truth about the Bravo Two Zero Mission Mike Coburn was born in New Zealand and spent ten years in the Special Forces of both the New Zealand and British Special Air Service. After a number of years based in the UK, he has returned with his wife and their three children to Australasis and now works as an international consultant in the security industry.",asia;biographies & memoirs;books;history;iraq;iraq war;middle east;military,8
0679781447,"The Married Man: A Novel Edmund White majored in sexual explicitness with his boldly autobiographical trilogy--A Boy's Own Story, The  Beautiful Room Is Empty, and The Farewell Symphony.  Now, explicitly as ever, he trains his unflinching eye on a new  subject: a young man's death from AIDS. Austin is a fiftysomething American  expat in Paris; Julien is a young married man he meets at the gym. Much  to Austin's surprise, Julien calls him and soon they are sharing a bed  and a life. The Married Man is White's Henry James novel: the  first couple hundred pages show us a satirical portrait of young  Julien as a stuffy Frenchman and a more elliptical portrait of Austin's apprehension of French culture through his lover. With Julien, ""Austin was always learning things, not necessarily reasoned or  researched information but rather all those thousands and thousands of  brand names, turns of phrase, aversions and anecdotes that make up a  culture as surely as do the moves in a child's game of hopscotch.""    But White wants to take us all the way to the end of this relationship. Austin is HIV positive, and it soon becomes clear that Julien has AIDS.  As Julien's health unravels, the two travel to Providence, to Key West,  to Venice, to Rome, and ultimately to Morocco. The author coins a  darkly appropriate phrase for this urge to move: he calls it  ""AIDS-restlessness."" White, in fact, unveils a whole gallery of startling  images as Julien nears death. Julien is ""the bowler hat descending into  the live volcano."" Thin and brown and bearded, he looks ""like the  Ottoman Empire in a turn-of-the-century political cartoon."" Though he  can't read it, Julien acquires a copy of the Koran. ""It was the perfect  book for a weary, dying man--pious, incomprehensible pages to strum, an  ink cloud of unknowing."" White has found a language both magical and  clinical to describe a horrible death. --Claire Dederer	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	In recent years, veteran novelist White (A Boy's Own Life; The Farewell Symphony) has turned to transatlantic themes (as in his biography of Genet). This Jamesian turn continues in the tale of Austin Smith, an expatriated scion of decayed Southern gentry, who lives on Ile Saint Louis, in Paris. Austin, an expert on 18th-century French furniture, is HIV positive but healthy when he becomes the lover of Julien, a married architect more than 20 years Austin's junior who is in the process of divorcing his wife. Throughout the first half of the novel, Austin maintains a protective distance, allowing him to see, all too clearly, Julien's pretensions and foibles. Austin keeps his HIV status secret from Julien until the latter gets the flu, which frightens Austin into a confession. When Austin gets a job teaching in Providence, R.I., he brings Julien with him. But a complication with Julien's visa, and Austin's restlessness, have the pair repeatedly flying back and forth between America and France. Meanwhile, Julien is diagnosed with AIDS, and his health disintegrates. The couple become a frustrated threesome when Austin feels responsible for a whiny, dim ex-lover named Peter, also dying of AIDS; Peter and Julien instantly detest each other. White's candor about the ways egotism is incompletely subsumed in love shows up in many wonderful touches; White illustrates perfectly, for example, the ways in which Austin's generosity to Julien and Peter, both much younger men, infantilizes them. His descriptions of Paris, Venice and Morocco are infused with an almost Matisse-like sensuality, but sometimes the author's evident intelligence seems wasted on his self-absorbed characters. In the perspicuity of White's art, however, even the vapid Julien, dying in Morocco, evokes pathos and terror, bestowing this love story with a classically tragic aura. BOMC featured selection; QPB selection; Reader's Subscription selection; to be featured in BOMC's new, as-yet-unnamed gay and lesbian book club. (June) Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Chubby, healthy, and HIV-positive, Austin is a fiftyish connoisseur of French furniture who lives in Paris. His days are pleasant but a bit unfocused, his love life sexually charged if romantically emptyDuntil, in the midst of one of his desultory workouts at the gym, he meets Julien. A much younger, bisexual, married, and oh-so-French architect, Julien is quickly smitten with Austin. Their courtship is one of the greatest boy-meets-boy stories ever, as engrossing and satisfying as can be found in any romance fiction. Paris, with its dinner parties and sophisticated society, serves as a dazzling backdrop, giving White (The Farewell Symphony) ample opportunity for hilarious social commentary. Just when the couple seems to settle into marriage, the most unexpected happens: young Julien becomes sick. With unflinching honesty, White chronicles Julien's illness and Austin's care for him, as they move from Paris to Providence to Key West, back to Paris, and, finally, to the Sahara. This shift from fun and frothy Paris to a more closed and personal world of illness and loss is brilliant; the reader can only be left devastated. As always, White writes beautifully, but there is a greater urgency in the telling and a new emphasis on character. Nowhere in his writing has he created someone as powerfully alive as Julien, ""the married man."" Recommended for all public libraries.-DBrian Kenney, Metropolitan Museum of Art Lib., New York Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	A shrewd social observer with a great gift for dialogue, White composes quicksilver scenes bright with wit, then sets aside comedy-of-manners for the luster of tragedy. In this love story in the age of AIDS, he draws on his own years in Paris and his fresh view of the U.S. upon his return from France. Austin, White's candid and generous narrator, is an American expert on eighteenth-century French furniture living in Paris. He supports his AIDS-afflicted ex-lover, Peter, and has just embarked on an affair with a married Frenchman named Julien. Older than his enigmatic new lover, Austin initially conceals his HIV-positive status, but it is Julien who develops AIDS. As though to outrun the virus, Austin takes Peter and Julien traveling, in spite of their mutual animosities, and White's depictions of Venice, Disney World, Cancun, and Providence, Rhode Island, are masterful, saturated with his characters' conflicting emotions. Austin muses that between gay men ""no union could ever be a matter of course. Everything had to be invented, reimagined,"" a creative act that, in White's exquisite rendering, exemplifies love. Donna SeamanCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	White leaves the first-person, autobiographical world of his trilogy (The Farewell Symphony, 1997, etc.) and portrays a romanceand its dissolutionacross three continents and six countries with his characteristic wisdom and sexual frankness, darkened by a new sense of foreboding.Fifty-ish, HIV-positive, and recently heartbroken Austin Smith is an American scholar living in Paris, where he writes primarily about furniture. In his gym, he meets Julien, a married French architect some 20 years his junior. With effortless narrative velocity, a romance ensues, and so does the novels travelogue, first with short excursions around the Paris area, then outward to detailed passages in Nice, Venice, Rome, Vermont, Montreal, Disney World, Key West, the Yucatan peninsula, and finally Morocco. In the early Paris sections, Austins relationship with Julien develops against a background of elegant salons, privileged expatriates, and an assimilated gay subculture, with White sharply and drolly observing social mannersas well as the ethical issue of when to tell a lover about a dread disease. Midway through the story, Austin accepts a teaching position at a university in Providence, Rhode Island; Julien divorces, leaves his firm, and follows. In something of a reversal, the Providence sections introduce complications the initial set-up didnt anticipate: Austin discovers the malignant, politically correct demagoguery of academiabut its Julien who develops the much more serious problem of full-blown AIDS. Austin compromises principles, grows if not robust than rotund, while the once apparently healthy Julien goes into a sad and rapid decline. At heart here are issues of loyalty and the suspension of the erotic in the face of a terminal disease. The music of tragedy swells to operatic proportions in Morocco, where Juliens lingering death invokes elements of the divine, the clinical, and the macabre. Here, the graphic sex of Whites earlier work is replaced with graphic medicalia, and its thematic urgency by a poignant, bone-weary resignation to the now sadly predictable injustices of life and death in the gay community.A wise, sorrowful tale. Book-of-the-Month/QPB selection -- Copyright  2000 Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	The most beautifully written of White's novels.... [A] deeply moving story of human love and loss.?Atlanta Journal?Constitution?Deeply moving...White rings new changes on the old themes of mortality and forgiveness.??The New York Times Book ReviewA potent mix of tragedy, romance, and cultural comedy.... The Married Man underscores White's reputation as a supremely gifted stylist.?The Boston Phoenix	""A shrewd social observer with a great gift for dialogue, White composes quicksilver scenes bright with wit, then sets aside comedy-of-manners for the luster of tragedy. . . . A creative act that, in White's exquisite rendering, exemplifies love.""-- Booklist (starred review)""Effortless narrative velocity. . . . A wise, sorrowful tale.""-- Kirkus (starred review)""This Jamesian turn continues in the tale of Austin Smith. . . . [White's]  descriptions of Paris, Venice and Morocco are infused with an almost Matisse-like sensuality. . . . In the perspicuity of White's art [even] Julien, dying in Morocco, evokes pathos and terror, bestowing this love story with a classically tragic aura.""-- Publishers Weekly""Although it's essentially about the mutability and elusiveness of human relationships, The Married Man is also a comically observant look at the way identity fractures along the fault lines of nationality, gender and class.""-- Time Out New York""White really has performed some sort of alchemy. The Married Man is undoubtedly one of his best novels. The prose is lyrical. . . . We are left with writing that is truly supple, adapting itself to comedy or tragedy as required . . . An unexpectedly heartening novel."" -- Sunday Times (London)""White is a worthy heir of that earlier anatomist of the transatlantic relationship, Henry James--subtle, complex, unsparing and profound."" -- Tom Holland, London Daily Telegraph""Written with characteristic brilliance and the particular flair for poetic detail that so distinguishes his books, Edmund White's new novel is arguably his best to date. . . . The great elegist of an aids-devastated generation . . . far from being a depressing book, White's novel is marvelously life-affirming. . . . Nobody since Proust has written so well of Paris and paid such scrupulous attention to visual detail. . . . In short, nothing less than brilliant.""-- Jeremy Reed, London Times""A superb novel . . . Here, as in White's other novels, the gay world, with its complicated codes and hierarchies, makes perfect literary sense.""--  The Evening Standard""A finely written, closely observed and very moving portrait of a doomed love affair . . . a compelling piece of storytelling.""-- Literary Review""Told in sensible, stripped-down prose, this is a beautiful story of love amid the threat of impending loss.""-- The Independent""The Married Man is a page turner, informed at every turn by Edmund White's all-inclusive and  compassionate genius. Most of all, it is a devastating love story in which nothing quite turns out as one expects. We enter the lover's journey unprepared for Julien's final words; we put down the novel unable to forget them.""-- Peter Carey""The Married Man is one of the most powerful, candid, devastating, and moving novels I've read in recent years. It is both beautifully written and unsparing in its honesty.""-- Joyce Carol Oates""Edmund White is a great writer, and in The Married Man he is at the height of his powers: moving, funny, and a brilliant social analyst.""-- Diane Johnson""Edmund White writes with so much brilliance and so much heart, I defy any reader to resist this love story.""-- Melissa Bank	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	In Edmund White's most moving novel yet, an American living in Paris finds his life transformed by an unexpected love affair. Austin Smith is pushing fifty, loveless and drifting, until one day he meets Julien, a much younger, married Frenchman. In the beginning, the lovers' only impediments are the comic clashes of culture, age, and temperament. Before long, however, the past begins to catch up with them. In a desperate quest to save health and happiness, they move from Venice to Key West, from Montreal in the snow to Providence in the rain. But it is amid the bleak, baking sands of the Sahara that their love is pushed to its ultimate crisis.	The most beautifully written of White's novels.... [A] deeply moving story of human love and loss.?Atlanta Journal?Constitution?Deeply moving...White rings new changes on the old themes of mortality and forgiveness.??The New York Times Book ReviewA potent mix of tragedy, romance, and cultural comedy.... The Married Man underscores White's reputation as a supremely gifted stylist.?The Boston Phoenix	Edmund White lives in New York City.	Chapter OneAustin was twenty years older than everyone else in the gym--and the only American. It was a place for serious people who wanted a quick workout--pairs of students from the nearby branch of the Paris university system or solitary young businessmen who trudged about with Walkmen plugged into their ears making a dim, annoying racket. Not very many Frenchmen wanted to build huge muscles, at least not very many straight guys.This was by no means a gay gym. It was just a small workout room that looked down through smudged glass panes onto a public pool below. The pool was Olympic size and even through the glass still reeked of hot chlorine. It had been built in the Belle Epoque and recently restored. Austin thought there might be more action in the pool and the shower rooms, but he didn't like swimming and he'd sort of given up on cruising. He wasn't young enough and what he had to offer--his accent, his charming if broken-down apartment, his interesting profession, his kindness--wasn't visible in a shower room.For some time Austin had been looking occasionally at a particular newcomer. They had already exchanged two smiles and many glances, brilliant little flashes of curiosity in this unfriendly place where looks never lingered and even those guys who stood watch over someone lifting dangerously heavy weights never used the occasion as an excuse for striking up a conversation.Now the younger man was struggling under a bar loaded with too much weight, nor had he secured the metal plates--he was about to let the whole thing go crashing to the floor. Austin came rushing up behind him, lifted the bar and put it safely back on the stand at the head of the board where the stranger was lying on his back. None of the other men seemed to have registered the near crisis; Austin could hear the Walkman of the guy next to them jittering away like cicadas in a tin can.Thank you! the young man exclaimed in French as he stood up. He spoke in a deep, resonant voice, the sort of voice from the balls that so many Latin men cultivate. He scrutinized Austin intensely. Austin was highly flattered by the attention. He'd long admitted to himself that he was the sort of man who needed constant transfusions of interest and affection. If his phone didn't ring for a day or if he didn't have a dinner date lined up he was suicidal by dusk. If his date yawned he was ready to bolt from the restaurant or do a tap dance on the table. Now here was this young man who, if he wasn't exactly Austin's type, had become so by taking an interest in him.I could see that you were, perhaps, unfamiliar--It's all completely new to me, the young man exclaimed. Austin noticed that his white shorts were cut high, which only emphasized the power of his legs, not in a sexual but rather in a boyish way. Are you English? he asked.Austin had come to count on French people commenting on his accent. It not only provided them with a safe topic but he knew everyone under forty in France wanted to live somewhere in the English-speaking world, at least for a year or two.American. He anticipated the next question and said, New York. Then the next and added, Although I've been here eight years. Finally, he offered, As you can hear, it's difficult to learn another language after forty. He wasn't fishing, he just wanted to lay to rest right away the question of his age. Is this your first time here? Austin asked.Yes. My wife comes here to swim. She's down there somewhere.He waved toward the pool with a vague hand, although his glance remained fixed on Austin.The young man asked Austin to show him how to do the exercise properly, but, though observing the demonstration politely, he scarcely took it seriously, as his bright eyes and slight smile suggested. He seemed too alive to the moment to pay any attention to it.When asked, Austin said that he was a cultural journalist who was writing a book on French furniture of the eighteenth century.The Frenchman happened to be in the small locker room dressing to leave at the same time as Austin. He turned modestly away when he pulled on his bikini underpants and revealed nothing but the expected hairy buttocks, full, even luscious. Austin was ordinarily alert to even the grubbiest sexual possibility. That's what he was always on the lookout for, but today he'd already picked up a hint of romance, as though this guy could be courted but not groped. They kept up their banter which, if overheard, would have sounded forced, schoolboyish, but it was melded and, somewhat, liquefied by the flow of their exchanged smiles, glances, nods.When they were on the street the Frenchman said he had to rush back to work. He was an architect on the other side of Paris.I'd love to see you again, Austin said, knowing he had nothing to lose except his dignity, which he didn't care much about.Me, too.Here's my number.Oh, you Americans are always so well organized with your calling cards. If you give me another, I'll write my number on it for you.Your home number? Austin asked, pressing his advantage.My work number, the man said with a big smile.Austin was surprised by the slight stiffening of his own penis. For weeks he'd been nearly impotent even in expert arms, and here he was, excited by a stranger's mere presence and the hint of a date. He liked that they were both dressed in coats and ties on a strangely warm day early in April at the wrong end of the Boulevard Saint-Germain.Hey, what's your name anyway?Julien.Really? Austin said. That's the name of the guy who just dropped me.Julien smiled, Austin guessed, not at his misfortune but at the explicitness of his remark. Sometimes it's okay to be American, Austin thought; we have a reputation for being brazen we must live up to.",books;contemporary;fiction;gay;gay & lesbian;literary;literature & fiction;romance,8
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B00007FYEN,"The Jini(TM) Specification (The Jini(TM) Technology Series) What does Sun's Jini technology mean for the future of distributed computing? To find out, take a look at The Jini Specification, a guide written for IS managers and Java developers alike. The book starts with what Jini is and how it works. (In short, Jini allows Java clients to invoke remote services easily through Java.) The authors present a chat message server and explain the Jini architecture where clients look up and ""lease"" remote services.  The heart of this book is its coverage of classes in the Jini specification. First there's an overview of Jini illustrated with a printer service. Then it's a close look at how clients ""discover"" Jini services, either through multicast or unicast protocols. (The authors also present useful built-in utility classes here.) Next comes material on storing entries for Jini services (used for identifying them across the network) and the classes used to ""lease"" remote services. An interesting section on remote events contrasts them with local JavaBean events. Then it's on to Jini transactions, including the two-phase commit process used to manage work done remotely. Later the book turns to the new JavaSpaces classes, which permit sharing data between Java processes in order to facilitate parallelism. An intriguing appendix reprints a white paper in which the Sun team outlines its philosophy of distributed computing. (They argue that local and remote objects need to be handled differently: object location transparency is a myth.) With a mix of technology briefing and nuts-and-bolts detail, The Jini Specification delivers a valuable perspective on the latest advance in Java distributed computing from Sun. --Richard Dragan	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	""This book contains all the Jini Specifications....it offers a convenient package for the specifications, which are the best way to really understand this technology.""  -- artima.com - a resource for Java and Jini Developers	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Perfection is reached, not when there is no longer anything to add,but when there is no longer anything to take away. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery    The Jini architecture is designed for deploying and using services in a network. Networks are by nature dynamic: new things are added, old things are removed, existing things are changed, and parts of the network fail and are repaired. There are therefore problems unlike any that will appear in a single process or even multiple processes in a single machine.    These differences require an approach that takes them into account, makes changes apparent, and allows older parts to work with newer parts that are added. A distributed system must adapt as the network changes since the network will change. The Jini architecture is designed to be adaptable.    This book contains three parts. The first part gives an overview of the Jini architecture, its design philosophy, and its application. This overview sets up the following sections, which contain examples of programming in a Jini system. The first section of the introduction is also usable as a high-level overview for technical managers.    The sections of the introduction that contain examples are designed to orient you within the Jini technology and architecture. They are not a full tutorial: Think of them as a tour through the process of design and implementation in a Jini system. As with any tour, you can get the flavor of how things work and where you can start your own investigation.    The second part of the book is the specification itself. Each chapter of the specification has a brief introduction describing its place in the overall architecture.    The third part of the book contains supplementary material: a glossary that defines terms used in the specifications and in talking about Jini architecture, design, and technology, and two appendices. Appendix A is a reprint of ""A Note on Distributed Computing,"" which describes critical differences between local and remote programming. Appendix B contains the full source code for the examples in the introductory material.   History   The Jini architecture is the result of a rather extraordinary string of events. But then almost everything is. The capriciousness of life--and to the fortunate, its occasional serendipity--is always extraordinary. It is only in retrospect that we examine the causes and antecedents of something interesting and decide that, because they shaped that interesting result, we will call them ""extraordinary."" Other events, however remarkable, go unremarked because they are unexamined. Those of us who wrote the Jini architecture, along with the many who contributed to its growth, are lucky to have a reason to examine our particular history to notice its pleasures.    This is not the proper place for a long history of the project, but it seems appropriate to give a brief summary of the highlights. The project had its origins in Sun Microsystems Laboratories, where Jim Waldo ran the Large Scale Distribution research project. Jim Waldo and Ken Arnold had previously been involved with the Object Management Group's first CORBA specification while working for Hewlett-Packard. Jim brought that experience and a long-term background in distributed computing with him to Sun Labs.    Soon after joining the Labs, Jim made Ann Wollrath part of the team. Soon after, observations about many common approaches in the field of distributed computing led Jim, Ann, and the other authors to write ""A Note on Distributed Computing,"" which outlined core distinctions between local and distributed design. Many people had been trying to hide those differences under the general rubric of ""local/remote transparency."" The ""Note"" argued that this was not possible. It has become the most cited Sun Laboratories technical report, and the lessons it distills are at the core of the design approach taken by the project.    At this time the project was using Modula 3 Network Objects for experiments in distributed computing. As Modula 3 ceased to be developed, the team looked around for a replacement language. At that time Oak, the language an internal Sun project, seemed a viable replacement with some interesting new properties. To a research project, the fact that Oak was commercially insignificant was irrelevant. It was at this time that Ken rejoined Jim on his new team.    Soon after, Oak was renamed ""Java.""    When it was still Oak, it once had a remote method invocation mechanism, but that was removed when the mechanism failed--it, too, had fallen into the local/remote transparency trap. When Bill Joy and James Gosling wanted to create a working distributed computing mechanism, they asked Jim to lead the effort, which switched our team from the laboratories into the JavaSoft product group. As the first result of this effort, Ann, as the Java RMI architect, steered the team on an exploration of what could be done with a language-centric approach to distributed computing (most distributed computing systems are built on language-neutral approaches).    After RMI became part of the Java platform, Bill Joy asked the team to expand its horizons to include a platform for easier distributed computing, coining the name ""Jini.""1 He convinced Sun management to put the RMI and Jini project into a separate unit. This new unit started with Jim, Ann, Ken, and Peter Jones, and was soon joined by Bob Scheiffler who had extensive distributed computing experience from the X Windows project that he ran. This put together the original core architectural team: Jim, Ann, Ken, and Bob.    As the team grew, many people had a hand in the direction of various parts of the architecture, including Bryan O'Sullivan who took over the design of the lookup discovery protocol. Mike Clary took the project under his wing to give it time to grow. Mark Hodapp joined the team to manage its software development and run it in partnership with its technical leadership. Gary Holness, Zane Pan, Brian Murphy, John McClain, and Bob Resendes all reviewed the primary architecture documents and had responsibility for various parts of the tool design, implementation design, and the implementations themselves. Laird Dornin and Adrian Colley joined the RMI sub-team to continue and expand its development. Charlie Lamb joined the architectural team to oversee work with outside companies, starting with printing and storage service standards. Jen McGinn joined the team to document what we had done, later with the help of Susan Snyder on production support. Jimmy Torres started out as our release engineer and has changed to working on helping build our public developer community. Frank Barnaby took over the release engineering duties. Helen Leary joined early and kept our infrastructure humming along.    Our QA team was Mark Schuldenfrei and Anand Dhingra, managed by Brendan Daly. Alan Mortensen wrote the conformance tests and their infrastructure. Emily Suter and Theresa Lanowitz started out our marketing team, with Franc Romano, Donna Michael, Joan MacEachern, and Paula Kozak joining later. Jim Hurley started setting up our support organization, and Keith Thompson and Peter Marks joined to work on sales engineering. Samir Mitra led a marketing and business development team that included Jon Bostrom, Jaclyn Dahlby, Mike McNerny, Miko Matsamura, Darryl Mocek, Sharam Moradpour, and Vince Vasquez. Many others, too numerous to mention, did important work that made the Jini architecture possible and real.   Acknowledgments   As the specifications were written, almost every member of the team made important contributions. Their names are listed above; we note the fact here to express our gratitude. A good idea and a dollar will buy a bad cup of espresso--you need people who will make that idea live, sand off any rough edges, and help you rework any bad parts of the idea into good ones. We had those people--some of the best we've ever worked with. Without them the Jini architecture would be some rather nice ideas on paper. Because of their commitment to adopt the vision as their own, to make it better, and to make it real, there are people (like you, the reader) who care about these ideas and can do something with them. We thank the entire team for what they have done to improve the Jini architecture and to help us write and release the Jini technology.    Bill Joy created the environment in which the Jini architecture could be developed and nurtured, and fed the architecture with his own reviews and ideas. His vision and support inside and outside of Sun made the project possible. This book itself is also his idea.    Bob Sproull gave the Large Scale Distribution project scope and support that has continued to this day, through all its many twists and turns, even after we were no longer were part of his Sun Labs organization. Mike Clary's protection and guidance was critical to fostering the creative atmosphere around the Jini project.    Jen McGinn and Susan Snyder did a lot of work to make this book possible, including hours in front of a screen converting the specification documents from their original form into that of the book. Jen also worked hard to improve the content of the specifications and introductory material during their creation, making them clearer and their English more correct. Dick Gabriel contributed to the content and organization of the Jini Architecture Specification, making it clearer and easier to use.    Many people reviewed the introductory material, making comments that improved it tremendously: Liz Blair, Charlie Lamb, John McClain, Bob Resendes, and Bob Sproull. Lisa Friendly has applied her experience as series editor with the Java Series to help us create this sibling Jini Series. We would also like to thank the people at Addison-Wesley's Professional Computing group who worked with us on this book and the series: Mike Hendrickson, Julie DeBaggis, Sarah Weaver, Marina Lang, and Diane Freed. And without Susan Stambaugh's help, communicating with Bill (and sometimes Mike) is not merely difficult, but probably theoretically impossible.    To these and many others too numerous to mention we give our thanks and appreciation for what they did to make these ideas and this book possible.------------------------------------------------------------------------   1. Jini is not an acronym. To remember this, think of it as standing for ""Jini Is Not Initials."" It is pronounced the same as ""genie.""0201616343P04062001	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	This book contains the formal specification for the Jini technology. It offers a review of distributed computing fundamentals, an overview of the Jini architecture, and an introduction to the key concepts that are the source of the technology's simplicity and power--remote objects, leasing, distributed events, and a two-phase commit protocol. The formal specification provides the definitive description of every element of the Jini architecture, including detailed information on such topics as:  Jini Discovery and Join protocols Jini Entry usage and the AbstractEntry class Jini Distributed Leasing concepts Jini Distributed Event programming model Jini Transaction model and semantics Jini Lookup service and lookup attribute schema Jini device architecture As networks continue to pervade our personal and professional lives, there is an urgent call for the flexible and robust network infrastructure that Jini represents.0201616343B04062001	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Ken Arnold, formerly senior engineer at Sun Microsystems Laboratories, is a leading expert in object-oriented design and implementation. He was one of the original architects of the JiniaA A  technology, and the lead engineer of Sun's JavaSpacesaA A  technology. Bryan O'Sullivan, while at Sun Microsystems, Inc., developed the Jini Discovery and Join Protocol. He supports his rock climbing habit by designing and building distributed systems.    Robert W. Scheifler, is a Senior Staff Engineer and one of the original architects of Jini technology with Sun Microsystems, where he has been responsible for the design and implementation of the lookup service and the associated discovery protocol and attribute schema. Before joining Sun, he spent nine years as Director and then President of the X Consortium, a non-profit organization devoted to the development and evolution of the X Window System. He was chief architect of the X Window System protocol, and created the Consortium originally while a principal research scientist at the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science.   Jim Waldo is a Distinguished Engineer with Sun Microsystems, where he has been the lead architect for the Jini project since its inception. Prior to the Jini project, Jim worked in Sun's Java Software group and in Sun Microsystems Laboratories, doing research into the areas of object-oriented programming and systems, distributed computing, and user environments. Jim is also on the faculty of Harvard University, where he teaches distributed computing in the department of computer science.   Ann Wollrath is a Senior Staff Engineer with Sun Microsystems where she is the architect of the Java Remote Method Invocation (RMI) system and one of the original architects of the Jini technology. Previously during her tenure at Sun Microsystems Laboratories and at the MITRE Corporation, she researched reliable, large-scale distributed systems and parallel computation.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Foreword The emergence of the Internet has led computing into a new era. It is no longer what your computer can do that matters. Instead, your computer can have access to the power of everything that is connected to the network: The Network is the Computer(tm). This network of devices and services is the computing environment of the future. The Java programming language brought reliable object-oriented programs to the net. The power of the Java platform is its simplicity, which allows programmers to be fully fluent in the language. This simplicity allows debugged Java programs to be written in about a quarter the time it takes to write programs in C++. We believe that use of the Java platform is the key to the emergence of a ""best practices"" discipline in software construction, to give us the reliability we need in our software systems as they become more and more widely used.  The Jini architecture is designed to bring reliability and simplicity to the con-struction of networked devices and services. The philosophy behind Jini is language-based systems: a Jini system is a collection of interacting Java programs, and you can understand the behavior of this Jini system completely by under-standing the semantics of the Java programming language and the nature of the network, namely that networks have limited bandwidth, inherent latency, and partial failure. Because the Jini architecture focuses on a few simple principles we can teach Java language programmers the full power of the Jini technology in a few days. To do this we introduce remote objects (they just throw a RemoteException), leasing (commitments in a Jini system are of limited duration), distributed events (in the network events aren't as predictable on a single machine), and the need for two-phase commit (because the network is a world of partial failures). This small set of additional concepts allows distributed applications to be written, and we can illustrate this with the JavaSpaces service, which is also specified here. For me, the Jini architecture represents the results of almost 20 years of yearning for a new substrate for distributed computing. Ever since I shipped the first widely used implementation of TCP/IP with the Berkeley UNIX system, I have wanted to raise the level of discourse on the network from the bits and bytes of TCP/IP to the level of objects. Objects have the enormous advantage of combin-ing the data with the code, greatly improving the reliability and integrity of sys-tems. For me, the Jini architecture represents the culmination of this dream. I would like to thank the entire Jini team for their continuing hard work and commitment. I would especially like to thank my long time collaborator Mike Clary for helping to get the Jini project started and for directing the project; the Jini architects Jim Waldo, Ken Arnold, Bob Scheiffler, and Ann Wollrath for designing and implementing such a simple and elegant system; Mark Hodapp for his excellent engineering management; and Samir Mitra, for committing early to the Jini project, helping us understand how to explain it and what problems it would solve, and for driving the key business development that helped give Jini technology the momentum it has in the marketplace today. I would also like to thank Mark Tolliver, the head of the Consumer and Embedded division, which the Jini project became part of, for his support. Finally, I would like to thank Scott McNealy, with me a founder of Sun and its longtime CEO. It is his continuing support for breakthrough technologies like Java and Jini that makes them possible. As Machiavelli noted, it is hard to intro-duce new ideas, and support like Scott's is essential to our continuing success. Bill Joy Aspen, Colorado April, 1999	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;computers & technology;education & reference;networking;networks;new;protocols & apis;used & rental textbooks,8
047123995X,"The Chronic Bronchitis and Emphysema Handbook This invaluable work offers new hope to the 20 million sufferers from chronic respiratory disorders, teaching them how to self-manage the disease and lead happy, healthy lives. In an easy-to-follow style, readers are shown how to tailor a rehabilitation program to their life-style. Highlights include: comprehensive and practical guidance featuring the latest techniques developed at one of the nation's top clinics; rehabilitation programs that slow the progress of the disease at any age and dramatically improve the quality of life; selecting the right medication; finding the right doctor; managing stress and anxiety; physical therapy; job retraining; an appendix of community and public resources and a guide to other information sources.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Dr. Franois Haas is an unusually gifted scientist and a compassionate human being.HOWARD A. RUSK, M.D. Founder and Chairman, Rusk InstituteThe bestselling guide for chronic bronchitis and emphysema sufferersnewly revised and expanded. For the millions of people diagnosed with chronic bronchitis and/or emphysema, this bestselling guide is now revised and expanded to offer the most up-to-date information available. From helping you understand your disease and its proper care to showing you how to restore vitality and satisfaction to your relationships, Dr. Franois Haas and Dr. Sheila Sperber Haas provide you with the facts and information needed to find the right treatment and take full advantage of it. Written in a clear and helpful style, The Chronic Bronchitis and Emphysema Handbook now includes current information on useful complementary approachesincluding herbal therapyplus effective exercises and the latest medical advances. Youll discover:How to find the right doctor for you and discuss your treatment optionsHow to deal with HMOs and the companies that provide supplemental oxygen Which new surgical techniques are most promisingHow to manage stress and anxietyHow to slow your disease and substantially improve your quality of lifeA variety of helpful resources accessible by phone or webThe newsletters written by experts that will keep you up-to-date	FRANCOIS HAAS, Ph.D., directed the Pulmonary Function Lab of the New York University Medical Centers for 18 years and now heads the Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation research program. SHEILA SPERBER HAAS, Ph.D., is a psychologist, medical writer, and managing editor of the newsletter Complementary Medicine for the Physician. They live in New York City.",allergies;books;diseases & physical ailments;fitness & dieting;health;lung & respiratory diseases;parenting & relationships;respiratory,8
B00002S6QJ,"My Deluxe Invoices Estimates Add a professional touch to your small business by generating tailored invoices and estimates, using My Deluxe Invoices and Estimates. This kit allows you to create invoices using simple, business-specific templates. Invoices can be printed for monthly statements or just for those overdue. The software also allows for detailed cash tracking, using reports such as sales by customer, territory, and sales person; sales tax; and trend.	my invoices and estimates deluxe",accounting;accounting & finance;business & office;business accounting & finance;computers & accessories;electronics;personal finance;software,8
1558285393,"teach yourself...PageMaker® 6.5 for Macintosh® and Windows® David D. Busch has been a leading demystifyer of computer technology and a pioneering denizen of the online and Internet world since 1981, back when CompuServe was sometimes known as MicroNet. Dave has also been a writer and contributing editor for many leading computer publications, and racked up four lead/cover stories in NetGuide magazine in the past year. He has designed variety of Web pages and set up a variety of Web pages for commercial clients and himself. Dave can be reached at dbusch@dbusch.com.",books;computer science;computers & technology;desktop publishing;graphic design;new;used & rental textbooks;web development & design,8
1586390007,"4 Steps to bring the Right Person into your life Right Now! This is the book smart singles have been crying out for. Reading this book is like talking to a wise friend, Courtney freely shares her trials and triumphs with delightful humor. Practical, inspirational and life changing. This book delivers on its promise. -- From the Publisher	Philippa Courtney, a respected business consultant who advised scientists and engineers at major technological companies, was less successful in her personal life, until she developed a process based on the very principles that worked so well for her clients. This 4 step process produced amazing results for her and then for the students at her popular workshops.  Also a former writer of situation comedies, her refreshingly revealing book engages the reader with humorous anecdotes and provides innovative yet practical tools.  She substantiates her common sense strategies with real life business and personal examples.	Even though I spend a small fortune on dating services and met and dated lots of men, I just couldn't find the right one. The how-to-kiss-and-dress and the theoretical relationship books weren't the answer. That's why I created this process-to bring into my life the special person I had only dreamed of finding.  It worked beyond my expectations.  Now I've written this book for all the smart, single and divorced men and women who are also tired of the dating games and ready to have the right person in their life.	A refreshingly common sense, intelligent book for smart people who happen to be single. Business Practical Heart Centered Positive Focus Based on the real-life success of a Fortune 500 management consultant.	Finally! An Intelligent Solution for Smart Singles Discover how you can apply sound leadership and achievement principles to your search for love.  Forget all the games and rules. In this book, an accomplished Fortune 500 business consultant provides a simple, four-step process, using real business and dating examples, to help you define and meet the right man or woman for you.  Laugh and learn from the author's humorous anecdotes of her own desperate dating adventures. This book answers relevant questions from men and women just like you. 4 Steps to bring the Right Person into your life Right Now! * How Can I Tell the Difference between Who's Right and Wrong?  Learn how to define the kind of person with whom you'll be the happiest-the kind of person who will accept and like you just the way you are. * I Know Who I Want, Why Can't I Find Them?  Discover how to go beyond just creating a list of attributes that you want in someone; harness your analytical thinking, intuitive skills, and emotional awareness to become a magnet for the right person. * Who Has Time to Find the Right Person? Learn how to identify the most qualified people for you. Discover how to select, and effectively use, six different types of dating services. Learn marketing techniques for creating online profiles and romance ads that attract the right people. * Why Can't I Be Attracted to the Right People?  Learn how to deal with the Urge to Merge and distinguish between lust, romance, and long-term potential. Discover three key thoughts that guide you to people with whom you can have all the sizzle- plus the comfort of a good friend. Philippa Courtney, a respected business consultant, developed this innovative, step-by-step process to bring the right man into her life. For her, the process went well beyond filling a void-it brought her a life-partner who fills her soul. She brings warmth and humor to her AskPhilippa advice column on the Internet and the Meant2Be Seminars she teaches.  Philippa lives and works in the San Francisco Area with Robert, her husband and business partner.	Philippa Courtney, a respected business consultant, developed this innovative, step-by-step process to bring the right man into her life. For her, the process went well beyond filling a void--it brought her a life partner who fills her soul. She brings warmth and humor to her AskPhilippa advice column on the Internat and to the Meant2Be Seminars she teaches.  Philippa lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area with Robert, her husband and business partner.	From Chapter 2 The skills you learn in the Meant2Be Process can be applied to many areas of your life, not just the romantic.  You'll learn to be more conscious, more aware of how you feel and how you want to feel with people. You will go beyond the facts and impressions you have about someone and start to tune into who they really are.  If you have children in the picture, being tuned in can help you sense how your family will feel if the person you are dating becomes part of your lives.",books;dating;happiness;interpersonal relations;mate seeking;relationships;self-help;success,8
0060953764,"You're Smarter Than You Look: Uncomplicating Relationships in Complicated Times Judge Judy Sheindlin established herself as a tough but fair judge in New York's family court. She is the presiding judge for Judge Judy, a nationally syndicated daily television show based on real court cases, and the author of two best-selling adult books and a children's book. She lives in New York City with her husband, Jerry, a New York Supreme Court Judge. She is the mother of five and a grandmother of four.",books;conflict management;family relationships;interpersonal relations;parenting;parenting & relationships;relationships;self-help,8
B0000DD1QM,"Super-Gold+ Odorless 1oz CA Adhesive Glue Super-Gold+ Odorless 1oz CA Adhesive GlueSUPER-GOLD and SUPER-GOLD+ are our odorless INSTA-CURE CAs They are non-frosting and take only 2 or 3 seconds longer to bond. There are no fumes that irritate the nose and eyes. The SUPER-GOLDs do not attack white foam; therefore, they can be used in the building of foam core wings and the assembly and repair of plastic and foam ARFs. They will not fog clear plastic. SUPER-GOLD+ is ideal for attaching clear canopies in plastic model kits; however, MAXI-CURE is still recommended for assembling the rest of plastic kits. Wood can be bonded to white foam with SUPER-GOLD + in less than fifteen seconds. For bonding foam to foam, spray a very light fog of INSTA-SET to one piece and apply SUPER-GOLD+ to the other before joining. Excess INSTA-SET may create too much heat, which can melt the foam. Both SUPER-GOLDs cure to a more flexible consistency for better shock absorbtion. Whenever a large amount of CA is to be used in such applications as saturating fiberglass or Kevlar, SUPER-GOLD eliminates the irritating fumes from the evaporating monomer that make repeated use of CA unpleasant at times.",adhesives;adhesives & fasteners;adhesives & glue;education & crafts;liquid white glues;office & school supplies;office products;tape,8
0778708438,"The Magnificent Mummies (Bananas) Grade 1-2-Three books for fluent beginning readers. Mummies is an  implausible story about Mommy, Daddy, Tut, and Sis Mummy, who  live in a pyramid ""in the Land of Sand."" Archaeologist Sir Digby  Digger is shocked to discover the Mummies, but they give him  dinner and lots of artifacts, and help him obtain a used camel  when his car won't start, and he helps them relieve the distress  of a whale that is trapped in the river. Children will need the  help of patient adults and Chatterton's cartoons to make sense  of the twisted plot and mixed historical references. In Shoot,  Mayfield describes the soccer game between Jamie Crocker and his  team and Ricky's Rockets. Jamie's teammates are introduced via  poems that have some choppy lines and rhymes, but a smoother  narrative is achieved once the game begins, and soccer fans will  revel in the drama, descriptions, and clever ending. Cox's bold  cartoons of the action provide wonderful contextual clues,  foreshadowing, and additional laughs. In Haircut, Lucy agrees to  let mom cut her long, tangled hair with the condition that she  can cut her mother's hair if she is not pleased with the result.  Obviously, mom gets a haircut. Humor, hair gel, and spiky  hairdos save the day. Newsham's colorful illustrations give the  characters life with movement, emotion, and supportive  contextual clues. Pass on the first reader; consider the other  two additional.Laura Scott, Baldwin Public Library, Birmingham,  MI   Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.",action & adventure;activities & toys;books;children's books;education & reference;humor;literature & fiction;sports & games,8
B000I3VRRO,"Extech FG100 Combustible Gas Leak Detector The Extech FG100 Combustible Gas Leak Detector detects combustible gases such as liquefied natural gas (LNG) and liquefied propane gas (LPG) from 500 to 6500ppm. It has a highly sensitive detection circuitry and an audible and visual alarm. This detector has continuous operation for up to 4 hours and has LED indicators for gas leakage and static absorption. Incorporated in 1970, Extech Instruments is based in Waltham, Massachusetts USA, just west of Boston. Recognized for the breadth and depth of its Test & Measurement offering and strong distribution network, Extech was acquired by FLIR Systems in November 2007. Extech Instruments high-value, handheld test instruments and FLIR-branded infrared thermal imager are sold through a network of national catalog houses, regional stocking distributors, internet, and international master distributors. The company has become one of the largest manufacturers and suppliers of test equipment and portable printers and the Extech Instruments brand is regarded in many industries as the brand of choice. ISO 9001:2000 certified by TUV, Extechs enviable reputation is built on innovative products that offer unique and patented designs with features, functions and reliability at an affordable price.	Extech FG100 Combustible Gas Leak Detector",carbon monoxide detectors;fire safety;household sensors & alarms;measuring & layout tools;power & hand tools;safety & security;scanners & testers;tools & home improvement,8
0615123791,"$1,265 Gold My goal in writing $1,265 GOLD was quite simple, to be right. Investing can be easier if people have an understanding of what drives an investment. Investors need a source of information from someone not motivated by commissions or fees. Ned W. Schmidt, CFA, CEBS	Ned W. Schmidt,CFA,CEBS has thirty years of investment experience. His methodology is a strict and traditional value approach. Years of study of the global financial picture give him a unique insight into today's financial perils.     And if you email him at the address on the cover he will send you three months of THE VALUE VIEW GOLD REPORT which includes the weekly TRADING THOUGHTS.",antiques & collectibles;books;business & investing;crafts;hobbies & home;introduction;investing;precious metals,8
1596680008,"Knitted Babes ""Uses very little yarn, lots of imagination and fulfills my urge to create."" Spun Magazine""The retro rag-doll Babes have distinct personalities and trendy wardrobes to match...The dolls work up in no time."" Family Circle Easy Knitting""The Babes are funky and fabulous, odd but endearing, stylish and at the same time sure to become cherished toys."" Knit 'N StyleSometimes knitters just want to have fun...You don't have to be a little girl to enjoy this book. Bangor Daily News""Beginning and experienced knitters alike will enjoy personalizing their Babes."" Library Journal""A charming book that should appeal to young girls and those still young at heart."" Yarn: The Australian Magazine for Knitting and More	Clare Garland has designed tapestry kits that are distributed around the world.",books;crafts;crafts & hobbies;hobbies & home;knitting;needlecrafts & textile crafts;toymaking;toys & models,8
0976324644,"Olympic Wandering: Time Travel Through Greece Adult/High SchoolPart travelogue, part mythological tale, Wandering takes readers on a journey to prove that the Greek people are the modern-day equivalents of the characters in the Iliad and the Odyssey. The first part of the book follows the seldom-told tale of Ulysses's life as a young king in Greece and the events leading up to and following the Trojan War. It reads as both a novella and a history book. There's plenty of adventure, from Ulysses's quest to find Achilles to his 10-year, perilous trip home after the war. The second half focuses on the author's travels to the various Greek islands and other parts of the country, weaving together travel narrative, history, and culture. Lundberg masterfully uses historical references as a framework. Readers need not know much about Greek history or Greece as everything is explained in an easy-to-understand manner. This approach to history and culture shows that the people of Greece embody everything that existed in Ulysses's time. Although the few illustrations serve mainly as decoration, Lundberg's descriptions of the scenery and people provide more than enough information to paint a vivid portrait of the country.Erin Dennington, Fairfax County Public Library, Chantilly, VA Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	""David Lundberg takes the reader on a travelogue of adventure. OLYMPIC WANDERING is masterfully done!"" -- Dr. Edward Fort, Chancellor Emeritus, North Carolina A State University""a wonderful, well-narrated journey...witty and shrewd, and reveals a great love for Greece, its people past and present."" -- Nikos Kotziamanis, sculptor of the New Colossus of Rhodes""vivid descriptions of the country...memoir, history, travelogue, cultural commentary, and tribute to a country that Lundberg loves."" -- The Virginia Quarterly Review""you feel compelled to read every word on every page, reveals a land of enchantment, a place of dreams."" -- The Greensboro News and Record(Lundberg) marvels at the Greeks' strong sense of self, retained through thousands of years of invasion, conflict, and occupation. -- Bostonia MagazineDavid Lundberg is getting heaps of praise for his travelogue/memoir/historical novel. His love of Greece is evident. -- Austin American StatesmanWeaving together travel narrative, history and culture, (it) paints a vivid portrait of the country. -- Dreamscapes Travel and Lifestyle Magazine	""Experience a magical romp through time & culture!""Combining high adventure and lush travel narrative, Olympic Wandering takes you on a journey through time. Follow Ulysses on the seldom-told tale of his life as a young king within Greece. Then come with the author across the centuries, exploring the spirit of a people clinging to a beautiful peninsula surrounded by sparkling islands in the center of the world.The islands, the people and the spirit of the gods endure, and we become part of it.	Since graduating from the United States Air Force Academy, David Lundberg has worked as a warehouse supervisor, an environmental engineer, and a university professor. Along the way, he spent seven years living on the shores of the Mediterranean. A prolific writer, he has contributed to the Journal of Career Development, the Journal of Humanistic Education, the Journal of Technology in Counseling and numerous other books and publications. He currently serves as President of the Association for Assessment in Counseling and Education.",books;europe;general;greece;miscellaneous;olympic games;sports & outdoors;travel,8
B0006WXHMA,"Vanished Arizona: Recollections of the Army life of a New England woman I'm pleased to inform you that VANISHED ARIZONA is featured in the October issue of our library newsletter ""Reviewer's Bookwatch."" This review also appears in the September issue of our book, ""Internet Bookwatch."" It has been posted on internet discussion groups.......has forwarded for inclusion in Gale Research Company's ""Book Review Index""; and has been posted to the internet bookstores Amazon.com; ReadersNdex; Book Stacks Unlimited; and BookWire. I look forward to your next title.  -- The Midwest Book ReviewWhen will you have other titles released? I find that I have a friend in the narrator and don't want her to stop.  -- A customer, G. Shouse	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Beverly Van Horn is married, has three grown children and eight grandchildren. She was a journalist 30 years, having founded two weekly newspapers in Colorado; started an Indian gallery and boutique in Colorado and Tucson, which she sold after 14 years; and is now now producing womens diaries of the 1800's on audio cassettes.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Beecher reads the adventures of a nineteenth-century U.S. cavalry wife in the Old West with vigor and aplomb. Taking place first in Wyoming and then Arizona, this memoir describes in graphic detail the grim realities of life in Western forts; it was quite a shock for a New England Victorian lady. Beecher uses a consistent tone but varies pacing and volume when expressing Martha's fear, despair, and dismay. Braving Indian attacks; childbirth alone; and extreme heat, cold, and dirt, Martha remains upbeat, and Beecher's lilting presentation adds more charm to this oral history. Listeners will agree that it is too short.  S.C.A.  AudioFile 2001, Portland, Maine-- Copyright  AudioFile, Portland, Maine	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",arizona;biographies & memoirs;books;general;specific groups;travel;united states;women,8
0553572733,"Before the Storm (Star Wars: The Black Fleet Crisis, Book 1) The New Republic faces a terrifying threat from the darkest depths of the Empire.	The New Republic faces a terrifying threat from the darkest depths of the Empire.	In the blockbuster bestselling tradition of Heir to the Empire comes this thrilling addition to the Star Wars(r) saga, as peace gives way to a new threat...It is a time of tranquillity for the New Republic. The remnants of the Empire now lie in complete disarray, and the reemergence of the Jedi Knights has brought power and prestige to the fledgling government on Coruscant. Yesterday's Rebels have become today's administrators and diplomats, and the factions that fought against imperial tyranny seem united in savoring the fruits of peace.But the peace is short-lived. A restless Luke must journey to his mother's homeworld in a desperate and dangerous quest to find her people. An adventurous Lando must seize a mysterious spacecraft that has weapons of enormous destructive power and an unknown mission. And Leia, a living symbol of the New Republic's triumph, must face down a ruthless leader of the Duskhan League, an arrogant Yevetha who seems bent on a genocidal war that could shatter the fragile unity of the New Republic...and threaten its very survival.	PrologueEight months after the Battle of EndorThe Empire's orbiting repair yard at N'zoth, code-named Black 15, was of standard Imperial design, with nine great shipways arrayed in a square.On the morning of the retreat from N'zoth, all nine slips were occupied by Imperial warships.Under most circumstances, nine Star Destroyers together would have been an intimidating sight to any who might come under their guns.But on the morning of the retreat from N'zoth, only one of the nine was ready for space.That was the sorry assessment of Jian Paret, commander of the Imperial garrison at N'zoth, as he looked out on the yards from his command center.The orders he had received hours ago were still playing before his eyes:You are ordered to evacuate the planetary garrison to the last man, at best possible speed, using any and all ships that are spaceworthy.Destroy the repair yard and any and allremaining assets before withdrawing from the system.Paret's assessment was shared by Nil Spaar, master of the Yevethan underground, as he rode the work shuttle up from the surface with the first commando team.The orders he had given hours ago were still ringing in his ears:Notify all teams that an Imperial evacuation has been ordered.Execute the primary plan without delay.It is our day for retribution.Our blood is in those vessels, and they will be ours.May each of us honor the name of the Yevetha today.Nine ships.Nine prizes.The most badly damaged, Redoubtable, had taken terrible punishment in the retreat from Endor.The others ranged from old medium cruisers being upgraded and recommissioned, to the EX-F, a weapons and propulsion test bet built on a Dreadnaught hull.The key to them all was the massive Star Destroyer Intimidator, moored at one of the open slips.Spaceworthy but completely unblooded, it hat been sent to Black 15 from the Core for finish work, to free up a super-class shipway at the commands home shipbuilding yard.There was more than enough room aboard it for the garrison, and more than enough firepower aboard to destroy the yard and the hulls within.Paret transferred his command to the bridge of the Intimidator within an hour of receiving his orders.But Intimidator could not leave the yard as quickly as Paret would have liked.He had only one-third of a standard crew aboard, a single watch--too few hands to quickly ready a ship of that size to fly free.Moreover, nine of every ten workers on Black 15 were Yevetha.Paret despised the gaudy-faced skeletons.He would have liked to seal the ship in the interest of security, or to draft additional work details in the interest of speed.But either act would prematurely alert the Yevetha that the occupation force was leaving N'zoth, threatening the withdrawal from the surface.All Paret would do was call a surprise departure drill and wait out its lengthy checks and countdowns, letting the normal work details continue until the troop transports and the governor's shuttle had lifted off and were en route.Then, and only then, could his crew close the hatches, cut the moorings, and turn its back on N'zoth.Nil Spaar knew of Commander Paret's dilemma.He knew all that Paret knew, and much more.For more than five years he had worked to position allies of the underground throughout the conscript workforce.Nothing of importance happened without Nil Spaar's swiftly hearing of it.And he had taken the information he had collected and woven it into an elegant scheme.He had put an end to the rash of minor mistakes and accidents, demanding that those who worked for the Empire show diligence and strive for excellence--while learning everything they could about the ships and their operation.He had seen to it that the Yevetha made themselves indispensable to the Black Fleet's yard bosses and earned the trust of its commanders.It was that trust which had allowed the work slowdown in the months since the Battle of Endor to go on unquestioned.It was that trust which had given his Yevetha the run of both the yard and the ships moored in the slips.And it was the patient and calculating exploitation of that trust which had brought Nil Spaar and those who followed him to this moment.He knew that he no longer need fear the Harridan, the Victory-class Star Destroyer that had been protecting the yard and patrolling the system.The Harridan had been ordered to the front three weeks ago, joining the Imperial force fighting a losing rear-guard action at Notak.He knew that Paret could not seal the Intimidator against his men, even by ordering a battle-stations lockdown.More than a dozen external hatches in Sections 17 and 21 had been rigged by Yevetha technicians to report that they were secured when they were not, and to report that they were closed when they were not.He knew that even if Intimidator got free of the slip in which it was moored, it would not have a chance to escape or turn its guns on the abandoned vessels.The packages of explosives concealed inside Intimidator's hull would break it open like an egg the moment its shields went up and blocked the signal that was safing the bombs.As the work shuttle neared the receiving dock, Nil Spaar felt no fear, no apprehension.Everything that could be done had been done, and there was a joyful inevitability about the fighting to come.He had no doubt what the outcome would be.Nil Spaar and the first commando team entered Intimidator through the hatches in Section 17, while his second, Dar Bille, and the backup team entered through Section 21.There was no talking.None was necessary.Every member of both teams knew the layout of the ship as well as any Imperial crewman.They moved through it like ghosts, down corridors closed or cleared by friends on work devils, through crawlways and up access ladders that appeared on no construction blueprint.In minutes they had reached the bridge--without ever being challenged, or drawing a weapon, or firing a shot.But they entered the bridge with weapons drawn, knowing exactly which stations would be occupied, where the guard suction was, who could sound a shipwide alarm.Nil Spaar shouted out no warnings, made no theatrical announcement, demanded no surrender.He simply walked briskly across the deck toward the executive officer, raised his blaster, and burned the officer's face away.As he did, the rest of the team fanned out behind him, each to his own assigned target.Six of Intimidator's bridge crew were struck down in the first seconds, sitting at their stations, because of the power that rested at their fingertips.The others, including Commander Paret, quickly ended up facedown on the floor, hands bound behind them.Taking the ship was not difficult.Timing the raid to avoid retribution had always been the challenge.Signal from the governor's shuttle, called out a Yevetha commando, slipping into the seat at the communications station.The transports are leaving the surface.No trouble reported.Nil Spaar nodded approvingly.Acknowledge the signal.Advise the crew that we're moving out to pick up the garrison.Notify the yard that Intimidator is leaving.Like a cluster of insects returning to the hive, the flea of Imperial transports rose from N'zoth toward the great dagger-shaped Star Destroyer. More than twenty thousand citizens of the Empire were crammed into the insect fleet--soldiers and bureaucrats, technicians and families.Open all hangars, said Nil Spaar.Their destination in sight, the transports slowed and began to align themselves on approach vectors.Activate all autotargeting batteries, said Nil Spaar.There was a collective gasp from the prisoners on the bridge, who were watching the same display screens as the Yevethan commandos who now occupied their stations.You're all cowards, Commander Paret called out to the invaders, his voice bitter with contempt and anger.A real soldier would never do this.There's no honor in killing the defenseless.Nil Spaar ignored him.Lock on targets.You vicious, pathetic fool.You've already won.How can you justify this?Fire, said Nil Spaar.The deck plates barely vibrated as the gun batteries erupted and the approaching transports disappeared in balls of fire and fragments.It did not take long.None escaped.Moments later the cornmunications station began to scream with shocked and panicked inquiries from all over the ship.There had been many witnesses to the carnage.Nil Spaar turned away from the tracking display and crossed the bridge to where Commander Paret lay on the decking.Grabbing the Imperial officer by the hair, he dragged Paret out of line and rolled him over roughly with his booted foot. Seizing the front of Paret's tunic with one hand, Nil Spaar lifted him half off the deck.For a long moment he loomed over the officer, looking like a tall, vengeful demon with his colt, black, widely set eyes, the white slash down his nasal ridge, and the deep scarlet-splashed ridges that furrowed his cheeks and chin.Then, hissing, the Yevethan made a fist with his free hand and cocked it back. A sharp, curving dewclaw em...",action & adventure;adventure;books;genre fiction;literature & fiction;science fiction;science fiction & fantasy;space opera,8
0385121857,"Pele, My Life and the Beautiful Game This autobiography is an excellent, descriptive anology of a great athelete who exceeded far more than any other player in the history of game. The story is told through the eyes of the man behind the legend, in his own words. It is a motivational story for any player, any age, at any level in the game. Pele's encounters are an inspiration to anyone who reads this book. -- From the Publisher	This book is an autobiography.  Perhaps by learning of his life as he saw it himself,we can come to understand a bit more of the mystery of this extremely complex person...",( p );a-z;biographies;biographies & memoirs;books;people;soccer;sports & outdoors,8
0963331531,"Legendary Whitetails: Stories and Photos of 40 of the Greatest Bucks of All Time All the famous deer are here - the Jordan, the Breen, the  Hole-in-the-Horn, and current world records for both typical and  non-typical categories. Included for each are stunning photographs,  scoresheets, and in-depth stories of how the deer were taken.  Besides  a fine collection of hunting stories, the accounts include fascinating  details of how the great heads of the past came to be acknowledged and  revered today. [..] -- Kansas Wildlife & Parks Magazine / Mike BlairLegendary Whitetails is a story and photographic history of 40 of the  greatest whitetail record book bucks of all time. The principle author  is legendary big trophy buck hunter Dick Idol with personal  contributing writing by some of this countries best big buck hunters.     -- New Hampshire Wildlife / The Outdoor Bookworm / Book Reviews by Bill CarneyThis book is the best whitetail book ever printed. You not only get  excellent photos of the 40 greatest bucks of all time, but the hard  facts about them.  A must for all serious hunters.  No library should  be without this book.  -- Town Talk / The Great Outdoors by Jim Kulp[..]    he book describes in detail how each hunter bagged his trophy buck.  It is accompanied by beautiful full-page pictures.  Some of the  hunters stalked their trophys for weeks or even years for that right  moment.  Others took their deer of a lifetime by just being in the  right place at the right time.     -- The Palladium-Times / Outdoors Report by Doug Fuegel[..]  Whitetails hunters are dreamers and this book is the stuff of which  those dreams are made.  Among the featured deer are the kings of them  all - the world-record typical and non-typical.  Included are the  inside stories of how these mystical bucks came to their lofty #1  position. -- American Sportsman Magazine",animals;biological sciences;books;hunting;hunting & fishing;science & math;sports & outdoors;wildlife,8
097605762X,"The Drum of Immortality: Compassion of Buddha, Christ and Compassionate Conservatives while he lived as U.S. Foreign Service Officer in India, Vietnam  and Laos during the Vietnam War years. The son of a Presbyterian  minister and a former Sunday school teacher, he had almost forgotten in  the insanity of the war that Christ's teaching had any meaning at all.  He was fortunate at his last post in findings a Shangri-La where he  could concentrate, for a while, on the wonderful peace of a devout  Buddhist civilization being torn apart all around it by two maddened  Superpowers.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	The author, the son of a minister, is a World War II veteran and former U.S.A. I.D. Foreign Service officer who lived for many years in India, Vietnam, Laos and Thailand. He became close friends with Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs, Jains, and Buddhists, visited their temples, read their Holy Scriptures and discussed their beliefs with them. As a result, he compared the messages of Buddha and Christ and found them to be so similar as to be called identical for all practical purposes.",books;buddhism;comparative religion;philosophy;politics & social sciences;religion & spirituality;religious;religious studies,8
0826312012,"High Noon in Lincoln: Violence on the Western Frontier ""In research, writing, and interpretation, High Noon in Lincoln is a superb book. It is one of the best books (maybe the best) ever written on a violent episode in the West.""--Richard Maxwell Brown	Robert M. Utley is a retired Chief Historian of the National Park Service and has written over fifteen books on a variety of aspects of history of the American West. His writings have received numerous prizes, including the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Center's Wrangler Award, the Western Writers of American Spur Award, the Caughey Prize from the Western History Association, and the Samuel Eliot Morison Prize from the Society for Military History. He resides in Georgetown, Texas.",19th century;americas;books;history;modern (16th-21st centuries);south america;state & local;united states,8
0735613834,"Microsoft Windows XP Step by Step (Cpg-Other) Online Training Solutions, Inc. (OTSI) is a traditional and electronic publishing company specializing in the creation, production, and delivery of computer software training. OTSI publishes the Quick Course and Practical Business Skills series of computer and business training products.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;computers & technology;home computing & how-to;microsoft;operating systems;software;windows os;windows xp,8
0195027779,"Persians (Greek Tragedy in New Translations) ""[An] exciting, audacious, yet careful translation....Herington's scholarly evocation of the 'archaic wholeness of vision' supports the translation brilliantly.  A very useful text.""--Michael shaw, University of Kansas	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	Text: English, Greek (translation)	Janet Lembke, a poet, is the author of Bronze and Iron, and is co-translator of the forthcoming edition of Euripides's Suppliants, also in the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series.C. John Herington is Professor of Classics and Talcott Professor of Greek at Yale University. He is the author of several books, including Poetry into Drama and Aeschylus.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",books;classical & early;drama;ethics & morality;greek & roman;literature & fiction;philosophy;politics & social sciences,8
0743227980,"The Yeats Reader: A Portable Compendium of Poetry, Drama, and Prose This already marvelous 1977 portable containing a wide selection of Yeats's prose, poetry, and drama has been revised and expanded by editor Finneran to include 57 additional poems. The appendix also has been updated to provide early and later drafts of six works for easy comparison. A good thing made even better. Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	The late Richard J. Finneran was general editor, with George Mills Harper, of The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats for many years; series editor of The Poems in the Cornell Yeats; and editor of Yeats: An Annual of Critical and Textual Studies, among other works. He held the Hodges Chair of Excellence at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville; was a past president of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association; and served as executive director of the Society for Textual Scholarship.WilliamButlerYeatsisgenerallyconsideredtobeIreland'sgreatestpoet,livingordead,andoneofthemostimportantliteraryfiguresofthetwentiethcentury.HewasawardedtheNobelPrizeinLiteraturein1923.",books;british;british & irish;criticism & theory;drama;history & criticism;literature & fiction;poetry,8
B000005ZEF,"Bliss From the first heavily produced notes of ""Fault Lines"" from Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan's collaboration with Michael Brook, Bliss dances lightly into a relaxing exercise in musical solitude. Several interesting and notable artists are included in this quilt of choice songs plucked from already-released albums. Among the more interesting of the synthed tunes are Sarmila Roy's ""Svetasvatara Upanisad,"" emitting an eerie, lovely color rooted in Indian classical music; the nocturnal and darkly soothing ""Mekong"" from Jam Nation; and Sheila Chandra's ""Excerpt from ABoneCroneDrone,"" featuring long, thick synth under her delicate, exotic voice. Holding up the slightly livelier tone of the album's second half is Afro Celt Sound System's ""Inion,"" a melancholy yet punchy little number. With music from Southeast Asia, the Far East, Africa, and Europe, Bliss handsomely meshes the spiritual beyond with the here and now. --Karen Karleski",country;dance & electronic;jazz;miscellaneous;music;new age;pop;world music,8
1576103935,"MCSD VB6 Core 3 Exam Cram Pack (Exam: 70-100, 70-175, 70-176) To become a Microsoft Certified Developer (MSCD), you need to pass a total of four certification tests. MSCD Visual Basic 6 Core 3 Exam Cram Pack can help you tackle three of them: the MSCD Visual Basic 6 Distributed test (70-175), the MCSD Visual Basic 6 Desktop exam (70-176), and the MSCD Architectures test (70-100). The set provides a thorough introduction to the details of Visual Basic 6. It gives you a tour of basic VB used on the client, including an overview of new features and tools available in version 6. Once you've mastered the fundamentals, you can focus on distributed applications with MSCD Visual Basic 6 Distributed Exam Cram, which surveys thin-client computing on the Windows platform with VB. You'll learn how to build COM objects that take advantage of MTS on the middle tier for better scalability and performance. Of course, VB is also good at building browser-based interfaces, and you'll learn how here. This title will be especially valuable if you have experience with traditional VB and want to make the leap to a thin-client multitiered computing paradigm. MSCD Architectures Exam Cram, the third in the set, is a quick-start tour to the Microsoft Solution Framework (MSF), the official step-by-step software design process promoted in Redmond.  The companion CD-ROM for each book contains an electronic version of the text, which makes searching easy. The standout feature of the set is that the practice exams are now given online--a much more realistic simulation of the actual certification testing process. Whatever your level of knowledge, if you want to get certified as an MSCD, you can perhaps do no better than this set of three valuable titles. MSCD Visual Basic 6 Core 3 Exam Cram can help you succeed in obtaining the coveted professional credential. --Richard Dragan Topics Covered: Overview of the Microsoft Certified Software Developer (MCSD) program; MCSD exam 70-175, exam 70-176, and exam 70-100 test preparation guides; fixed-length and adaptive test strategies; conceptual, logical, and physical designs; Visual SourceSafe and source control; installing and configuring MTS; user services; COM components; ASP- and browser-based clients in VB; WebClasses and the DHTML Designer tool; ActiveX control tutorial; ActiveX Documents; business services; MTS-enabled components; data services; introduction to SQL; ADO basics; testing and debugging distributed applications; deployment; using DCOMCNFG.EXE; maintaining distributed applications; load balancing; versioning; Visual Basic data types; types; enumerated types; arrays; VB procedures; control basics; menus; VB 6 language extensions; collections and dictionaries; classes; interapplication communications; OLE Automation; ActiveX; linking and embedding; DDE; calling Win32 API functions in VB; ActiveX components; error-handling techniques; database APIs; ADO classes; using the ADODC control; the DataEnvironment tool; reports; online help options; debugging tips; VB compiler options; p-code vs. native code; deployment options; history of information systems; the Microsoft Solution Framework (MSF) overview; MSF team; process, application, and solution models; business requirements; security; performance; scalability; multitiered systems; data storage options; relational database basics; normalization; conceptual and logical designs; designing user interfaces; user services; prototypes; iterative software development process; internationalization tips; physical designs; practice questions; and sample test.	Certification Insider Press (CIP) is a leading provider of self-study exam preparation products. With over 4 million guides in print, CIP offers a complete line of learning systems that cover the primary academic college entrance exams and all of the major technical certification programs. CIP authors have the experience, credentials, and insight to deliver the most effective and in-demand learning systems for self-study or instructor-led testing candidates.",books;certification;computers & technology;education & reference;languages & tools;programming;software;visual basic,8
1928746195,"Mendel Rosenbusch: Tales for Jewish Children Gr 3-6-These Czech folktales are the work of a gifted writer who perished at Auschwitz. The title character, a good and wise man, is granted the power by the Almighty to become invisible at will. He uses his talent to help neighbors who are faced with crises and problems. Mendel is especially interested in the poor and children. Despite the supernatural element, Weber's tales paint a knowing portrait of small-town pre-Holocaust Jewish life in Central Europe. Her characters are multidimensional, interesting, and unpredictable. Their strengths and weaknesses mirror human nature. Her plots are original and filled with humor. The collection is imbued with the traditional Jewish beliefs that people can change for the better, and that doing the right thing for the wrong reason can lead to a more positive motivation. Moral lessons are subtle. An afterword by translator Hans Fisher describes how these tales were rediscovered and made available to English-speaking children. The author's fate and the fate of the communities about which she wrote lend poignancy to this excellent collection. The cover illustration of an old-fashioned-looking Mendel could deter readers.Libby K. White, Jewish Vocational Services, Baltimore, MDCopyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.	Text: English (translation) Original Language: German	Ilse Weber was born in 1903 in Austria-Hungary. A prolific playwright, radio producer, childrens author, and poet, she published three books in Czechoslovakia. At age thirty-nine she and her family were deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto, where she spent the most difficult, and creative, two years of her life, composing poetry and performing her songs for children and the elderly. She perished at age forty-one at Auschwitz in 1945, along with her son Tommy.",anthologies;books;children's books;classics;education & reference;fairy tales;folk tales & myths;multicultural,8
3540002855,"Marketing 2.0: Strategies for Closer Customer Relationships The dynamic changes in the market and the competitive environment demand a reorientation of marketing strategies. Developing and cultivating direct customer relationships and building customer trust are becoming key success factors. With new technologies such as broadband internet and mobile communication, companies are able to create closer dialogs with key customers. These new technologies will have far-reaching consequences for marketing, sales and customer service. This book analyses the enduring changes marketing is undergoing and present the four most important new concepts: Holistic brand management, customer relationship marketing, real-time marketing and multi-channel marketing. The text is accompanied by selected case studies from all over the world.",books;business & investing;management;management & leadership;marketing;marketing & sales;popular economics;research,8
0812932501,"Online Investing: The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition's Complete Guide to Becoming a Successful Internet Investor The editors of the online version of The Wall Street Journal have produced a comprehensive overview of the best Web sites and resources available to the online investor. ""There's no question that the Net has empowered a new generation of investors, giving them access to information and tools that were once available only to the privileged Wall Street few,"" say authors Dave Pettit and Rich Jaroslovsky in Online Investing.  Both the neophyte and savvy investor will find this book an informative and useful resource. It tells where to find the best interactive tools, online calculators, and worksheets for selecting stocks and mutual funds and for researching and charting investments. There's plenty of practical information here, such as how to pick an online broker and how to invest online in IPOs, bonds, futures, and options. Newsletters, bulletin boards and chat rooms are covered, and there's a detailed chapter on how to avoid the online scams, frauds, and deceptions that author Pettit specializes in exposing in his online column ""Heard on the Net."" For those already victimized, a chapter entitled ""Recourse"" includes contact information for state and federal regulators and details as to how to proceed. Concluding chapters explain how to choose an online banking service, and how to find the best online deals on credit cards, home mortgages, and insurance.  There is much of practical value here for those who use the Internet to research, trade, and track investments and finances. As a guide to the best of these sites on the Web, this book is highly recommended. --Scott Harrison	The only book investors need to reap the rewards and avoid the treacheries of the investing cyber jungle.When it comes to personal investing, the Internet has changed all the rules. The sophisticated tools and access to information once enjoyed only by financial professionals and the most well-heeled of investors are now easily available to anyone with a computer and a modem. But online investing can be a treacherous cyber jungle. Who better than the reporters and editors of The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition, the online version of The Wall Street Journal, the world's most authoritative source of business and financial information, to provide you with the best and most complete coverage of everything you need to know about online investing?This is a book any investor can use, whether you're just starting a portfolio or have years of experience in the markets. Online Investing provides basic, must-know information on stocks, mutual funds, and bonds. It then shows how to take advantage of the vast power of the Internet to become a savvy and successful investor. The coverage includes:How to trade stocks online (and a rundown on the biggest, most popular online trading firms) How to use the Internet to research and take part in initial public offerings (IPOs)The online resources for choosing the best mutual fundsHow to navigate the complicated world of bonds, futures, and optionsTools of the trade. A guide to the wealth of information and resources available on the Net: from stock quotes and news stories to Wall Street research reports, corporate documents, investment primers, and sophisticated spreadsheetsHow to find a message board for your investing needs and interpret the information you findHow to spot scams and deceptionsRecourse: What to do if you lose money, have a dispute with your broker, or are scammedElectronic banking: How to use the Web to get the best deals on credit cards, mortgages, and insurance	Dave Pettit is deputy managing editor of The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition. He launched the Interactive Journal's Heard on the Net column, which examines online investing and acts as a watchdog to alert users to misinformation and scams on the net.Rich Jaroslovsky helped create The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition and is its managing editor. A veteran Journal reporter and editor, he has been national political editor and was responsible for The Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll. He teaches public policy at Duke University and is the first president of the Online News Association.	Gary Kline has had a beating heart at his fingertips. A skilled cardiac surgeon on the faculty of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, he obviously isn't a guy afraid of responsibility. But for years, when it came to making investments, he left the decisions up to someone else. Most of his ideas came from his Salomon Smith Barney broker.Then came the Internet.Today, he gets most of his stock picks on the Net and places trades through an online trading firm. I've kind of cut myself off from brokers, he said. I just don't view them as having the same credibility. Dr. Kline is a frequent visitor to online stock-discussion sites, where he swaps information with other investors. He believes individuals who do enough research can be every bit as savvy about the market and stocks as any broker -- and going online yourself is a lot cheaper and easier. So much is just a mouse click away.Gone are the days when investors had to call their broker at every turn for stock quotes, for investment tips, for business news. Gone, too, are the $100, $200, or $300 commissions they once paid for the simplest of stock trades. Those are sky-high by the standards of today, when you would be hard-pressed to find an online broker charging more than $30 for the same trade. Shop around, and you'll pay less than $10.When it comes to personal investing, the Internet has changed all the rules. Sure, other businesses have been altered by the Net -- book-stores, drugstores, even telephone and cable television companies. But no other field has been transformed, so totally and so rapidly, as has personal investing. Trading securities is all about obtaining information and executing transactions. The Internet offers quicker, cheaper, and more efficient ways to do both.It is quicker and cheaper than traditional trading because online trading allows you to get rid of the middleman -- your traditional full-service broker. It is more efficient for several reasons. Few would dispute the revolutionary nature of the Internet as a means of communication. And tapping an order into your computer often offers a clearer shot into the stock market than reading it into the phone.All this has been quite a blow to your broker. After all, for years he has been the nexus for trading and information. That arrangement provided for him quite well. If he had you on the phone, maybe he could sell you on a trade. And if you had enough money, he'd try to get you on the phone all the time. Under this traditional, commission-based sales structure, every trade was more money in the bank -- for him.Now, you log on to the Net. You can check out price quotes on any one of hundreds (maybe thousands) of Web sites. You can comb for investing ideas on financial news and information sites -- or on online message boards, where investors swap ideas among themselves. You can dig into company information and Wall Street research, or pick and choose mutual funds with screening tools that used to sit only on your broker's desk. And, of course, you can hop on to any one of scores of online brokerage sites to place a trade.All of this emerged just as two other powerful forces were being felt on Wall Street. Since the mid-1980s, individual investors have become more and more interested in managing their own finances -- partly out of necessity as old-time pension plans have been replaced by so-called self-directed plans, such as 401(k)s. Meanwhile, the stock market was enjoying an unprecedented bull market: During the 1990s, stocks rose higher (and more consistently) than they ever had -- in history. In what seemed to be a can't-lose environment, it was easy to become a do-it-yourselfer. Of course, it isn't really a can't-lose environment. You can lose --  and many do -- often with the help of the Internet. The same attributes that make the Net a quick and efficient way to invest also make it an easy conduit for quick losses. Even as it puts more power in your hands, it has breathed new life into the same investing scams that have been around for years by making it easy to reach many thousands of people more quickly than ever before. Now, instead of using the phone to hype stocks, scamsters can use phony investing Web sites or message boards, cloaking their identity.The efficiency of online-trading sites has given birth to a new generation of stock speculators, who quickly dart into and out of stocks, not investing so much as gambling. Some people quit their jobs for what they believe will be an easy, work-at-home life of day trading. But a study by state regulators shows that most people lose money day trading. If trading stocks for a profit every day were as easy as many people seem to think, brokers wouldn't waste their time pitching stocks over the phone -- they would have all retired rich by now. Words to the wise: The basic rules of the markets and of investing haven't changed. The lucky soul who takes a flier in the market and retires with a fortune remains the rare exception. Selecting investments carefully and holding them for the long term is still the best way to make a buck in the markets. The Internet has simply given you new tools -- in many ways better tools -- to select, buy, and sell those investments.",books;business & investing;business & management;computers & technology;introduction;investing;manager's guides to computing;popular economics,8
0895872129,"Middle Tennessee on Foot Hikes in the Woods & Walks on Country Roads From the lowlands along Kentucky Lake to the heights of the Cumberland Plateau, Middle Tennessee on Foot covers every trail in the Midstate over a mile in length that's worth hiking.  The Hidden Springs Trail at Cedars of Lebanon State Park epitomizes the hiking opportunities in the Central Basin. Here, you'll experience an environment unlike any other in the United States: deep sinks, caves, disappearing streams, rock gardens, Middle Tennessee's unique cedar glades. On the Highland Rim, there's the Montgomery Bell Trail, which visits impressive hardwood forests, scenic lakes, and numerous sites of historical interest. On the Cumberland Plateau, there's the challenging Fiery Gizzard Trail, which travels a wild gorge among waterfalls, cascading mountain streams, and pinnacles.  Middle Tennessee on Foot also includes a section of walks on country roads, intended for people who love to walk but who aren't hikers_those who like to stay on pavement.  Written for both the merely curious and serious hikers, this book contains a wealth of information about Middle Tennessee's topography, forests, wildlife, and history. Its hike descriptions offer lively reading even for those who never set foot on a trail or a country road.	Nashville attorney Robert Brandt is the author of Touring the Middle Tennessee Backroads and Tennessee Hiking Guide. His writing has appeared in such periodicals as Tennessee Historical Quarterly, Tennessee Conservationist, Sierra, Nashville Scene, and The Tennessean.",books;excursion guides;general;hiking & camping;sports & outdoors;tennessee;travel;united states,8
0867164301,"Armchair Mystic: Easing into Contemplative Prayer ...is clear about ways to keep our committment to prayer even when our experiences are not as we imagined -- Buena Vista Resource PageHe [Thibodeaux] presents both the practicalities and the mysteries of prayer with clarity, humor and easy-to-understand examples. -- Catholic Parent, March/April 2002Thibodeaux guides the lay reader through contemplative prayer, its evolution, its difficulties and its ultimate goal. -- Theology Digest, Winter 2001Thibodeauxs easygoing style is a genuine help. Its an appetizing mixture: personal anecdotes, inviting exercises, and solid instruction. --Emilie Griffin	Mark E. Thibodeaux, S.J. draws from the experiences in his own prayer life to show readers how to improve their prayer lives.  He shows readers that contemplative prayer is not as difficult as it may seem.  ""Contemplative prayer is not necessarily easy,"" says Thibodeaux.  ""In fact, there are parts of the experience that are very difficult.  But the point is that if I have the strong will and desire to pray contemplatively, I do not have to shave my head and join a monastery to do it.  The armchair that sits in my house is just as capable of being the 'holy ground' of contemplative prayer as the monastic stall of a cloistered church.""  Armchair Mystic will prove invaluable to individuals and small groups who are new to contemplative prayer, or who wish to deepen their experience of it.	My purpose in writing this book is to help ordinary folk with their experience of contemplative prayer.  It explains the evolution or process of contemplative prayer and encourages readers to trust in this process as well as in themselves.  It shows them how they are already on the path to prayer.  It explains in simple, everyday language the goal, process, pitfalls, joys, and challenges of contemplative prayer.	MARK E. THIBODEAUX, S.J., is a spiritual director, retreat director, high school teacher and a Jesuit priest. He holds a Master of Divinity from Weston Jesuit School of Theology in Cambridge, Massachusetts.",books;catholicism;christian books & bibles;christian living;prayer;religion & spirituality;spirituality;theology,8
0312717385,"A Shine of Rainbows Lillian Beckwith (Lillian Comber) was born in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, in 1916. She went to live in the Hebrides before the Second World War and stayed there for nearly twenty years, living first on Elgol, Isle of Skye, and later on the nearby and smaller Isle of Soay. Her hilarious initiation into crofting life is captured in the heart warming book 'The Hills is Lonely'. She acquired her own cottage, and living and working on her own croft gave rise to a series of magical Hebridean books such as 'The Sea For Breakfast'. She retired to the Isle of Man, where she died in 2004.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;british;contemporary;literature & fiction;mystery;psychological thrillers;thriller & suspense;thrillers,8
0688125522,"Brother Rabbit Kindergarten-Grade 3.  Trickery reigns supreme as clever Brother Rabbit gets the best of everyone. His main opponent is a crocodile, whom he convinces to ferry him across the river in exchange for a cure for his scaly skin. From that point on, the two constantly spar for the upper hand. In the end, Rabbit extricates himself from the crocodile's belly by pretending to be thrilled at the prospect of eating crocodile guts. The story is well told, with just enough detail to capture all the outrageous activity in Rabbit's day, and children will take delight in his exuberant mischief. A lengthy note places Brother Rabbit in a cultural context but the book includes no source note. Hewitson uses watercolor and paint in a highly accomplished manner that mimics complex, heavily patterned scratchboard illustrations. Each single- or double-page spread features a different border that barely contains the rabbit's foolish actions. Even though the pictures include a host of details depicting Cambodian village life, the illustrations look great at a distance, making this eminently suitable for group sharing.?Ellen Fader, Multnomah County Library, Portland, Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Gr. 1^-4. When a river separates a hungry rabbit from food, the resourceful creature tricks an enormous crocodile into ferrying him across the swiftly-moving water to his feast. Soon after, Brother Rabbit outsmarts a market woman and an elephant mother and her child. But greater trouble awaits in the form of the angry, revenge-seeking crocodile. Hewitson's bright watercolor-and-ink illustrations cleverly enhance this Cambodian folktale's sense of place and lend suspense and drama to the rabbit's misadventures. A distinctive border frames each page, and Hewitson imbues each illustration with an exceptional sense of texture and movement that pairs with the text to race the story along. Older students may find this a good choice for storytelling or for comparing with other trickster tales or Brother Rabbit stories. No notes are provided, but the authors discuss the place of folklore in Cambodia and relate the story's theme to Cambodian history.  Karen Morgan",asia;asian;books;children's books;explore the world;fairy tales;folk tales & myths;travel & cultures,8
B000CSSRCI,"Bulbrite 15F10A 15W Fiesta Style Chandelier Bulb, Candelabra Base, Amber Fiesta style bulbs have added ripple design to accent any fixture	15 watt - 130 volt - F10 - Candelabra Screw (E12) Base - Amber - Fiesta - Chandelier - Decor | Bulbrite Incandescent Light Bulb",ceiling lights;connectors;electrical;light bulbs;lighting & ceiling fans;rail & cable lighting;tools & home improvement;track,8
1560728086,Magnets for Health : A Practical Guide Jose Luis Hinojosa MD,alternative medicine;books;education & reference;fitness & dieting;health;new;reference;used & rental textbooks,8
1555716385,"Conquered, Not Defeated: Growing Up in Denmark During the German Occupation of World War II Peter Tveskov was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, and lived there until three days after his fourteenth birthday in 1948, when he and his mother moved to Venezuela where he completed his secondary education. After returning to the States, he   studied Mechanical Engineering at Yale University and earned the degree of   Bachelor of Engineering in 1956. Following ten years working in the oil fields of West Texas, Venezuela, and Brazil, he became the physical plant manager first at Yale University and later at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. Later in his career, he served as a consultant in facilities operations that took him to assignments at Brown University, Connecticut College, and elsewhere. He retired in 1997 and currently lives in Connecticut.",biographies & memoirs;books;denmark;europe;history;memoirs;military;world war ii,8
B000FO7IMO,"Illustrated Theatre Production Guide This invaluable guide takes a step-by-step approach to many common theater production practices and covers important issues related to the construction of wooden, fabric, plastic, and metal scenery used in stage plays.  Illustrated Theatre Production Guide contains a brief history of physical theatres and the development of various forms such as thrust, proscenium, and black box venues. Operation of theatre equipment is covered in detail in the chapters on rigging and curtains. Instructions for operating a fly system and basic stagehand skills such as knot tying and drapery folding, are clearly outlined. The use of metal tubing as a structural element is explored as an alternative to wooden scenery. The chapter on lighting discusses electrical theory as well as the practical aspects of hanging and focusing lights. The final chapter in Illustrated Theatre Production Guide is a compilation of many different projects that are easy to approach and to complete, and have practical value for a theatre group.                                       * Important building instructions for flats, steps, decking systems, doors, and windows are carefully detailed* Includes special chapters devoted to hardware and shop supplies* Over 700 hand-drawn, labeled illustrations of tools and techniques	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	This invaluable guide takes a step-by-step approach to many common theater production practices and covers important issues related to the construction of wooden, fabric, plastic, and metal scenery used in stage plays.  Illustrated Theatre Production Guide contains a brief history of physical theatres and the development of various forms such as thrust, proscenium, and black box venues. Operation of theatre equipment is covered in detail in the chapters on rigging and curtains. Instructions for operating a fly system and basic stagehand skills such as knot tying and drapery folding, are clearly outlined. The use of metal tubing as a structural element is explored as an alternative to wooden scenery. The chapter on lighting discusses electrical theory as well as the practical aspects of hanging and focusing lights. The final chapter in Illustrated Theatre Production Guide is a compilation of many different projects that are easy to approach and to complete, and have practical value for a theatre group.                                       * Important building instructions for flats, steps, decking systems, doors, and windows are carefully detailed* Includes special chapters devoted to hardware and shop supplies* Over 700 hand-drawn, labeled illustrations of tools and techniques	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",arts & photography;books;direction & production;education & reference;humor & entertainment;performing arts;stagecraft;theater,8
0380975920,"VIOLET HOUR H Richard Montanari combines some unusual ingredients (the ethnic  sociology of Cleveland, Ohio; the poetry of T.S. Eliot; the eccentricities of e-mail and chat rooms) with some of the more familiar elements of genre fiction (the hungry journalist who lucks into a good story; a series of current crimes linked to an old atrocity) to excellent effect in The Violet Hour.  Writer Nicky Stella--beseiged by debts and responsibilities of his own--tries to save his career by finding out why poetry students who went to a party at Case Western Reserve University 20 years ago are suddenly dying in very nasty ways. With its ecclectic mixture of new technologies and classic mystery plotting, The Violet Hour is a sleek and dark story of delayed revenge. Montanari's equally chilling, well-received first thriller, Deviant  Way, is available in paperback. --Dick Adler	A serial killer takes long-delayed revenge on the friends whom he blames for his girlfriend's heroin overdose in this consistently surprising if somewhat implausible novel of suspense. When Cleveland freelance reporter Nicky Stella hears from his cousin, Father Joseph LaCazio, of the messy heroin-related deaths of Father John Angelino and a young prostitute, Nicky smells a story that could get a loan shark off his back. Clued by brand marks on the drug wrapper, he calls in markers from black undercover narc Willie T. in order to get an interview with the dealer. Soon Nicky's legwork links more Cleveland murders to Fr. Angelino's, and a T.S. Eliot poem e-mailed to the priest's laptop provides a list of future victims. Nicky's underworld contacts lead him down a slime trail to the killer's lair, while the killer himself stalks the wife and daughter of his next intended victim. The likable, bumbling hero, the competent female characters and the distinct voices of a diverse, if cartoonish, cast distract from certain nagging questions about the premise. (Why, for example, does the killer wait 20 years to take his revenge?) Montanari (Deviant Way) keeps the reader deliciously off balance throughout, letting the novel accrue horrors and deft misdirections right until its gory end. Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.	A lot of novelists have trouble pulling off a last-minute surprise; in his second novel (after 1995's The Deviant Way), Montanari pulls off three of them, and they're real shockers. In 1978, a college Halloween party went haywire, and a young girl died. Now, 20 years later, someone is getting revenge for her death, killing the former partygoers in particularly gruesome ways, one at a time, until he's left with one person: the man who, in the costume of a pirate, was most responsible for the girl's death. It's up to freelance journalist Nick Stella to ferret out the killer. This is an especially interesting thriller because the identities of two principal characters are kept secret. But, unlike some writers, Montanari doesn't use suspense as a substitute for craftsmanship. The novel is, like the nameless killer's victims, well executed--and, like the killer himself, fiendishly twisted. A real page-turner.  David Pitt	Quite a 20th reunion for the Case Western Reserve class of 1978: An avenger with an addiction to T.S. Eliot is killing off the members of the self-anointed AdVerse Society. The opening scene is something of an entrance exam. If you can buy the premise that Cleveland's Father John Angelino, a.k.a. Johnny Angel, would fall victim to a lethal heroin overdose and the removal of his eyes courtesy of his inability to resist the tempting flesh of Kiki Holt, the prostitute who sets him up for a killer who calls himself Mac, then you're ready for the rest of Mac's murderous peregrinations. It's quite a tour: Mac likes to trap his victims in helpless positions one at a time, remind them that they're doing penance for what happened to Julia Raines back in college, and torment them with 70s trappings--Rolling Stones recordings, videotaped episodes of The Love Boat, patchouli oil, lava lamps--before executing and mutilating them in ways nearly as ghoulish as getting them to sit through ABBA. Cheapjack journalist Nicholas Stella, a cousin of the priest who shared Johnny Angel's rectory, seems to be the only one to notice any common elements in the grisly chain that threatens not only such sleazeballs as epicene estate appraiser Geoffrey Coldicott and AdVerse faculty advisor Sebastian Keller, voyeuristic plastic surgeon Dr. Bennett Crane and hungry lesbian Jennifer Schumann, but also squeaky-clean Amelia Saintsbury, practically a single mother since her errant husband's confession of fumbling adultery. Wonder what order Mac will choose to pick off his victims, and whether he'll still be stoked on heroin, Eliot, and kinky sex when Montanari (Deviant Way, 1995) finally lets him get a crack at Amelia in this naughty, harmlessly thrilling Halloween for grownups? No reviewer could hope to outdo Nicky Stella's dazzling insight that ``this wasn't an Andrew Vachss novel.''  -- Copyright 1998, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.	""Consistently surprising ... Montanari keeps the reader deliciously off balance throughout, letting the novel accrue horrors and deft misdirections, right until its gory end"" Publishers Weekly ""The novel is, like the nameless killer's victims, well executed. And like the killer himself, fiendishly twisted. A real page turner"" Booklist ""Told at breakneck pace, with more than one truly frightening villain, and a protagonist whose tenacity in the face of evil makes him a hero for our times, you turn the pages as if your very life depends on it"" Daily Mail ""A relentlessly suspenseful, soul-chilling thriller that hooks you instantly"" -- Tess Gerritsen ""A no-holds-barred thriller that thrusts the reader into the black soul of the killer ... those with a taste for Thomas Harris will look forward to the sure-to-follow sequel"" Library Journal	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Richard Montanari is the Sunday Times top ten bestselling author of The Echo Man, The Devil's Garden, Play Dead, The Rosary Girls, The Skin Gods and Broken Angels, as well as the internationally acclaimed thrillers Kiss of Evil, Don't Look Now (previously published as Deviant Way) and The Violet Hour. He lives in Cleveland, Ohio. To find out more about Richard Montanari visit his website at www.richardmontanari.com.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;contemporary;literature & fiction;mystery;suspense;thriller & suspense;thrillers;united states,8
B000FC1E1W,"The Haunted Hotel [with Biographical Introduction]: AND The Dream Woman Wilkie Collins was born in London in 1824. Collins is best remembered for his novels, particularly The Woman in White (1860) and The Moonstone (1868), which T. S. Eliot called 'the first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels'. His later, and at the time rather sensational, novels include The New Magdalen (1873) and The Law and The Lady (1875). Collins died in 1889.",books;classics;fiction classics;genre fiction;horror;kindle ebooks;kindle store;literature & fiction,8
1580890172,"It's Raining, It's Pouring (Nursery Rhyme) Dan Adlerman is an author, comic book collector, and avid fan of situation comedies. When not busy making children's books, he makes faces at his own three children. He currently lives in New Jersey with his wife and co-author, Kim. Kim and Dan have published under the pseudonym Kin Eagle.    Illustrator:    A native New Yorker, Rob Gilbert has spent the past several years on the West Coast designing children's educational software. He lives in Seattle, Washington with his wife Juliette, their baby boy, and their cat and dog. They enjoy hiking, gardening, traveling, and just being silly.",anthologies;arts;books;children's books;crafts & music;fairy tales;folk tales & myths;music,8
0658015338,"Better Birthing with Hypnosis : Mindful Pregnancy and Easy Labor Using the LeClaire Method Simple strategies to reduce the pain, rekindle the joy, and recognize the power of giving birth!""The Leclaire Method . . . provides women with exactly what they need to know to reclaim their inborn ability to birth normally, joyfully, and easily.""--Christiane Northrup, M.D., author of Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom""Wonderful . . . the guide every expectant woman and her partner needs to experience the miracle of life.""--Susan Love, M.D., author of Dr. Susan Love's Hormone BookBetter Birthing with Hypnosis presents the highly successful Leclaire Method--a Lamaze program for the twenty-first century that incorporates hypnosis to help you experience labor and childbirth calmly, joyously, and painlessly! Developed by Michelle Leclaire, a medical professional and mother, this holistic method draws on both modern science and ancient wisdom to present pregnancy as the glorious, instinctive event it should be.Leclaire's systematic approach gives you back control over your mind and body during childbirth when you may feel it slipping away. Through techniques including self-hypnosis, meditation, massage, and visualization, you learn to ease childbirth jitters, improve bonding between you and your baby, and facilitate your baby's peaceful, painless entry into the world. In addition, the Leclaire Method can prevent unhealthy birth weight, ease the transition to breastfeeding, and create the healthiest possible environment for a new life!",books;education & reference;fitness & dieting;health;hypnosis;pregnancy & childbirth;self-help;women's health,8
0743459032,"Vic and Blood: The Continuing Adventures of a Boy and His Dog : A Graphic Novel Admirers of Ellison's Nebula-winning novella A Boy and His Dog (which was the basis of the cult film of the same title) will undoubtedly embrace this perplexing look at the creative process. The author disavows the film's misogynistic conclusion, but he realizes the strength of its characters: teenaged Vic and his telepathic dog, Blood, who are trying to survive in a post-WWIII wasteland. With this basis, Ellison wrote two more short stories about Vic and Blood (after A Boy and His Dog), explaining more of their prickly but trusting relationship, and showing the emotional consequences of Vic's actions in the original story. Now, Ellison says he's finished telling the overall story by writing Blood's a Rover as a screenplay that he'll later convert into a novel. In the meantime, this worthwhile book collects the texts of all three existing stories, along with some commentary. Unfortunately, a comics adaptation by Corben precedes each story, detracting from what Ellison is doing. Corben is best when depicting extremely grotesque situations, such as his version of Hodgson's The House on the Borderland. But that's only one aspect of Vic and Blood's world. When, for example, Vic is trapped in a ""downunder""-one of the huge fallout shelters where WASP America has tried to preserve its way of life by severing ties to the survivors on the surface-he is nauseated by its banal wholesomeness, but Corben's inability to execute subtle exaggeration fails to suggest this. Still, an Ellison performance is always fascinating. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.",books;comics & graphic novels;graphic novels;literature & fiction;science fiction;science fiction & fantasy;short stories;single author,8
059525652X,"The Phenomenology of Astral Magic: A Guide to Combating Astral Oppression through Directed Projection G. Travels is the appointed writer of the Astral Alliance, and has authored two previous books, The Techniques of Astral Combat and Resisting Astral Attack. He has had a lifetime of experience with astral beings and the mysteries of the astral planes.",alternative medicine;books;energy healing;fitness & dieting;health;occult;religion & spirituality;spirituality,8
B00007FY8W,"High Performance Oracle8 Object-Oriented Design: Your Complete Guide to Creating Fast, Efficient Database Systems High Performance Oracle8 Object-Oriented Design...  introduces the many new object-oriented (OO) features in the latest version of the popular commercial database product, Oracle8. The book aggressively addresses the real-world problems of data modeling, and, in particular, how a traditional relational database programmer would decide when and how to actually use the new ""object relational database"" tools. Written by an experienced database consultant, the book will appeal to persons who have actually experienced the data modeling problems that relational databases cannot easily handle.  In High Performance Oracle8 Object-Oriented Design, Anstey explains that while relational databases work extremely well in many business applications they also suffer from several drawbacks. These shortcomings include the ability to describe the semantics of a customer's business using the set-oriented rules defined by relational systems. For example, relational systems cannot adequately combine the behavior of an entity with data about the entity, nor can they model the recursive nature of complex objects, such as engineering parts lists where ""parts"" may contain more ""parts."" Anstey presents the solutions to these problems using a flowing and informal style mixed with many ""lessons learned"" from his extensive experience working with databases.  High Performance Oracle8 Object-Oriented Design contains numerous diagrams,  illustrations, and example snippets of code to illustrate the points in the  book. I found this particularly refreshing given the dearth of concrete code in  other database books. Anstey very nicely explains each subject, provides a  diagram, if appropriate, to illustrate the subject, and then supplies the actual  SQL statements that enact the subject. This makes each topic very easy to follow  and will appeal to readers who, like me, want to see how something really works.  Chapter 5, ""Oracle Reference Pointers and Database Design,"" provides one of the  highlights of the book. In it Anstey describes the use of reference pointers to  implement some of the most difficult real-world data modeling scenarios. Anstey  again uses extensive examples and code segments to illustrate the possible  solutions. Through them, the reader can easily see how to use the new object  extensions to a traditional relational database to implement complex objects,  recursion, and sequencing.   Despite the clear explanation of each topic, Anstey does not write for a novice  database developer. High Performance Oracle8 Object-Oriented Design assumes a  working knowledge of databases and especially current commercial relational  database technology. The reader does not have to have an extensive knowledge of  any particular product (e.g., Oracle7), although it would help. Anstey both  explains the new features in Oracle8 as well as emphasizing the important new  design issues that come with mixing relational and object paradigms to solve  realistic, practical problems.  Anstey covers a wide range of topics, from object extensions to SQL and the  emerging SQL3 Standard to planning for the support of class hierarchies and  inheritance due in a future incremental release of Oracle8. The book has  detailed explanations and examples of how to model relational object systems, to  include an entire chapter devoted to the Unified Modeling Language (UML). Anstey  also explains how two popular new toolsets, Oracle's Object Database Designer  and Logic Works' OR-Compass, support the new object-relational environment.  Specifics include:   object tables, object views, and other OO features of Oracle8, variable arrays (VARRAY) and nested tables, nls_date_format settings to address the Year 2000 data conversion problems, conversion of existing LONG data to make use of the new, more efficient Large Object (LOB) data types, and, user-defined Data Types (ADTs) provided with the Objects Option for Oracle8.   I found Oracle8: Object-Oriented Design easy to read and to follow. Anstey  colors his book with many anecdotes and real-life experiences. I found these  sections particularly enlightening as they add considerable credibility to the  advice and guidelines put forward in the book. High Performance Oracle8  Object-Oriented Design will make a useful addition to the library of any current data modeler, database programmer, database administrator, or consultant. -- Jeffrey S. Poulin, Lockheed Martin Federal Systems.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Oracle is already the world's most popular high-end database  management system, selling four times as many units as its nearest  competitor. Now, with its new object oriented features, Oracle8 is  poised to roll over the database world like a tidal wave. Countless  Oracle database designers and analysts will need the clear, complete  guidance they'll find in High-Performance Oracle8 Object-Oriented  Design.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	The book addresses the following key features: Covers all the  new object extensions in Oracle8, including user defined data types,  Object IDs, REFs (pointers to rows), object tables and views, and  methods to fuse data and behaviors. Includes a detailed explanation  of the systems development life cycle and the impact that Oracle8's new  object extensions bring to bear on system design. An introduction  to the Unified Modeling Language (UML) which will become the de facto  standard for analysts and developers of object relational  systems. Explains how to use leading-edge object oriented concepts  and techniques with Oracle8's new features. The CD-ROM includes the  following: A hot link to download the latest version of Logic Works new  object relational modeling tool, OR-Compass. A full function  evaluation copy of Logic Works database modeling tool, ERwin/ERX  version 3.0. An evaluation coy of Platinum SQL-Station, an editing  and debugging tool for SQL.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	David A. Anstey (Fort Worth, TX) is a senior systems analyst in  the Dallas/Fort Worth area. His 11 years of computer science experience  include consulting, as well as designing and developing Oracle based  applications and client/server systems. David is president of the Fort  Worth Oracle Users Group (FWOUG) and the editor-in-chief of the ODTUG  Technical Journal (formerly briefCASE). He has written several articles  for the ODTUG Technical Journal and presents regularly at local and  regional Oracle conferences.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;computers & technology;database design;databases;object-oriented design;programming;software design;testing & engineering,8
1871438225,Remembering Aleister Crowley Kenneth Grant,books;earth-based religions;occult;philosophy;politics & social sciences;religion & spirituality;wicca;witchcraft,8
0740754912,"The Holly Wreath Man Christopher Scanlan is a senior faculty member at the Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Fla., and director of the National Writers Workshops. For two decades he was an award-winning feature writer for the St. Petersburg Times, a national correspondent for Knight-Ridder Newspapers, and a reporter for the Providence Journal. Christopher produces Chip on Your Shoulder, a writing advice column on Poynter's Web site (http://www.poynter.org/shoulder). His articles, fiction writing, and essays have appeared in numerous media outlets. Katharine Fair is an award-winning advertising copywriter and a freelance writer.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;christian books & bibles;christmas;fiction;holidays;literature & fiction;religion & spirituality;united states,8
B0006LIULO,Amazon.com: Mens Jersey Workout Pant by Pitbull in your choice of color: Clothing Jersey workout pant with two side pockets. Features a 2 inch elastic waistband.,active;active pants;clothing;clothing & accessories;men;pants;sports & outdoors;sweatpants,8
B0009KF47U,"Kelsyus Outdoors Chair Canopy Protect yourself from the sun's harmful ultra-violet rays while hanging out at the beach or campsite with the Kelsyus Beach Chair Canopy, which blocks 94 percent of UV rays. It springs open and attaches to the chair easily to provide shade when you need it most. It collapses into a 17-inch disc and comes with a zip storage bag for easy transport.  Feature Detail:  Unfolded dimensions: 58 by 38 inches Folded dimensions: 17-inch diameter Material: 98 percent nylon, 2 percent polyester	Attaches to any Kelsyus Chair, Canopy replaces the traditional beach umbrellas and folds up into 17 disc",camping & hiking;canopies & shade;lawn & garden;outdoor recreation;patio;patio furniture & accessories;sports & outdoors;umbrellas,8
089716802X,"Rainbow Arc of Fire: Harmony of Spheres Rainbow Arc of Fire: The Series The stories are engaging and far from predictable. -Rex Rivers --Electronic Gay Community Magazine	Greg Sanchez was born in Tampa, Florida, in 1949; raised in Southern California in the 1950's and 1960's; stationed in North Dakota with the Air Force in the 1970's; and has lived in Colorado for the past 32 years, after being assigned to teach English at the United States Air Force Academy near Colordo Springs. He currently lives on Capitol Hill in Denver Colorado, with two cats, Tabby and Pudge.  He continues adding to the Rainbow Arc of Fire series of novels.	Chapter One ""Each new day can certainly reveal something unexpected,"" observes Paul Graham, a dark-brown-haired and handsome man of 37, as he shuffles through the newspaper that he brought with him the day before.  A bright lantern's glow illuminates the newsprint at a snow-covered campsite in the mountains high above Denver, Colorado, during the pre-dawn morning of March 20.  ""I agree,"" replies his 46-year-old lover Greg, nodding emphatically as he glances up from lacing his insulated boots while contemplating the fuller ramifications of his partner's casual observation: ""That's what most of us are afraid of the unexpected!""  He ironically laughs, ""We have this nagging fear that one day something dreadful will occur for which we have made not the slightest preparation."" Greg gazes skyward through the pines at the myriad stars winking down upon the Earth and shakes his head.  The two are awaiting an aerial signal that their pagan friends, gay and lesbian members of the Rainbow Arc of Fire, whom they accompany into the wilderness four times a year, are about to observe their Spring Equinox ceremony on a nearby mountaintop at the rising of the sun. During two earlier celebrations, 21 and 18 months ago, respectively, first Greg and then Paul received extraordinary powers, apparently from the sun's light that was energized through a sacred crystal prism, held aloft by the nominal leader of this pagan band, Joseph Johnson.  Several months later, on a journey to Colorado Springs to lay to rest the remains of Greg's beloved cat Schnozz, four of their closest pagan friends, Joan and her lover Marina, and Joseph and his lover William, were given different supernatural powers by Hades, pagan deity and ruler of a vast underground realm, for helping to rescue his consort Gaia, the Earth goddess of ancient mythology. ""If you've ever been rudely awakened by an earthquake or a tornado,"" Greg reminds Paul, ""you understand explicitly why human beings cling to safe routines and comfortable prejudices, almost as if their predictable behavior will ward off any unexpected catastrophe.  Unfortunately, such rituals can seldom be counted upon for protection."" ""I've been fortunate enough not to experience an earthquake or a tornado,"" Paul confesses. ""Of course, with my command of earth, air, fire, and water, any natural disaster might not have the same impact on me as it would on an ordinary mortal.""  ""But a natural disaster would certainly be detrimental to me,"" Greg smiles, giving his partner a hug. ""My telepathic powers would prove rather useless if the Earth were suddenly to begin tearing itself apart all around me.""  ""That's why we're a team,"" Paul grins, returning the hug. ""You take care of people problems, and I handle the rest.""  Noting a brightly luminous burst of rainbow light in an otherwise dark sky above them, Greg tells his partner, ""There's Marina's signal.  We better get going.""  Turning off the lantern, Paul concludes, ""It's encouraging to see how the other four have further mastered the powers that Hades unleashed in them last year.""  ""Yes, Paul, you never know when any of our abilities may prove indispensable in a crisis.""",adventure;books;fiction;gay;gay & lesbian;literature & fiction;science fiction;science fiction & fantasy,8
1580256007,"Cody's Data Cleaning Techniques Using SAS Software Cody's Data Cleaning Techniques Using SAS Software will become the 'bible' for any person whose responsibility is to collect data for further analysis. Ron extensively covers, with numerous examples, the tedious task of validating raw data. Written for the novice SAS user with easy-to-follow code, but comprehensive enough that any experienced user will find data cleaning techniques to add to their tool box. --Bob Schechter, Systems Engineer, AstraZeneca PharmaceuticalsCody's Data Cleaning Techniques Using SAS Software is the perfect solution for anyone faced with the problems of dealing with messy data. This is an easy-to-follow, very comprehensive exploration of the techniques needed to get data in shape for analysis and reporting. It is an ideal book for the beginning SAS user, loaded with many clear examples of different types of data problems and step-by-step explanations of the solutions.  Intermediate and advanced SAS users will also find it quite beneficial. It provides a solid introduction to new data cleaning features available with SAS 7 and 8 and is an ideal refresher for often overlooked, simple solutions. This book is a 'must have' addition to the SAS library of anyone who prepares and cleans data for analysis and reporting. --S. David Riba, CEO, JADE Tech, Inc.The author, Ron Cody, has a well-deserved reputation in the SAS world as a writer and as a speaker, with several other books and professional papers to his credit. In this book Ron uses an informal, almost chatty style to present various methods to verify the contents of input data sets. Ron ensures that the reader understands WHY a particular solution was suggested and HOW it actually works.  However, if the reader only takes the material at face value, he is doing himself a great disservice. Cody's Data Cleaning Techniques Using SAS Software can be used as a fantastic tool to learn some general SAS usage techniques! The beginning SAS programmer can find numerous examples of how to apply various DATA step tools such as formats and functions, and PROCs such as FORMAT, TABULATE, and UNIVARIATE, to real-world examples. The principles discussed in Ron's book can easily be understood and applied by those who have no interest in the stated topic of 'data cleaning.' Even the more experienced SAS programmer can find techniques that they might not have thought of independently. And, for those who want further information about the coding techniques, Ron frequently includes references to outside materials that delve further into the current topic. Overall, I found this to be an outstanding publication, and it will be an excellent addition to my professional library. --Andrew T. Kuligowski, Southeast SAS Users Group	Ron Cody, Ed.D. Ron Cody has over 20 years of experience using and teaching the SAS System.  As author of The SAS Workbook and Solutions and coauthor of two other successful SAS programming books, SAS Programming by Examples and Applied Statistics and the SAS Programming Language, Fourth Edition, Ron brings expert writing and programming skills to his newest SAS book.  He has been a prolific and popular contributor to national, regional, and local user group conferences.  In his spare time, Ron is a professor and researcher at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.",books;computers & technology;mathematical & statistical;mathematics;operating systems;science & math;software;technology,8
0740752154,"Ziggy: 2006 Wall Calendar Tom Wilson began drawing Ziggy in 1987. The cartoonist's lifestyle came very naturally to Tom, whose father created the cartoon and whose family includes many artists. Tom studied graphic design at Miami University and fine art and illustration at Boston University. Although he is no longer involved in the day-to-day drawing of Ziggy, he continues to have an ongoing passion for creative development as president of Ziggy and Friends, Inc.Online:www.gocomics.com/ziggy/	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.",books;calendars;contemporary;education & reference;humor;humor & entertainment;literature & fiction;quotations,8
0312266928,"Waiting for My Cats to Die: A Morbid Memoir She'd cringe at the comparison, but  Stacy Horn is a  real-life Bridget Jones. Except, of course, that Stacy's situation is worse:  she's fortysomething, not thirtysomething, and already lives with two cats.  What's even worse is that her cats--who aren't related, by the way--are both  diabetic. She's having a midlife crisis, watches too much TV (""Look, I'm not  saying it's ideal, but I would call watching TV a life""), and is obsessed with  death: I keep coming back to death the same way I can't stop touching a sore  tooth with my tongue to see if it still hurts. Death. Still terrifying? Yes. How  about now? Yes. And now? Yes. She spends her days drumming with a samba group, pulling weeds in graveyards,  praying to dead relatives, caring for her diabetic cats, crafting detailed  fantasies, and running EchoNYC, the online community that she created. Why on  earth would anyone want to read about that? Because it's funny; sometimes, even  laugh-out-loud-then-feel-sheepish-because-you're-on-the-bus funny. Stacy's  shocked realization that she is in the unconscious habit of shouting out her  cats' nicknames while she walks down the street (""Munches!"" ""Boo!"" ""Belly!"") is  worth the price of the book alone: So it hit me: I am one of those crazy people who talks to herself on the street,  one of the ones who makes you wonder where she came from and how she got to this  sorry state. Great. How did I get to this sorry state, yelling to cats  who are not there? Waiting for My Cats to Die also can be heartbreaking, however, as in some  of the brief interviews that she conducts with elderly people, or when she  reveals her fears that she'll spend the rest of her life alone, or when one of  her cats does indeed die. In the end, however, Stacy is hopeful, past her  midlife crisis, and resolved that, in the absence of ""one true love,"" she will  ""fall in love with everyone and everything a little.""  Tama Janowitz  describes reading the book as being ""like getting to hang out with a wonderful  friend."" We should all be so lucky to have friends as genuine, and funny, as  Stacy Horn. --Sunny Delaney	Horn, a cyber-pioneer who launched Echo, a successful Gotham-based online community in the early '90s (and documented it in 1997's Cyberville), assembles haphazard thoughts on her samba drumming career, her diabetic cats, death and the single life, in this morbid but engagingly quirky memoir. Although she has no reason to believe that her own mortality is imminent (she's in her early 40s), Horn dives into the subject with all the zeal of a Baptist preacher. She discusses it online with peers and on the phone with elderly people, analyzes her cats' reactions to aging, and even explores the mystery of a ghost who supposedly haunts her apartment. That zeal is what holds this otherwise confused approach to understanding midlife together. In some chapters, Horn discusses particular aspects of her life and their deeper meaning, from what she presents as her hopelessly pudgy stomach to the fate of her business. In other sections--the book's tightest--she interviews senior citizens in an attempt to prove that wisdom comes with old age. However, what she finds through many of her conversations is that those who've lived a great deal of life often have no special secrets or knowledge to impart. The polls she conducts among Net-savvy New Yorkers on Echo add to her research and demonstrate that she's not alone in wistfully envying a 24-year-old's body. Although this work lacks focus and a clear thesis, it's a remarkably candid account of one woman's acceptance of aging, piqued with heartening moments of exhilaration. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.	Despite the subtitle's claim of morbidity, Horn's memoir turns out to be uplifting and hopeful. In her early forties, without a serious relationship, running a failing online business, and nursing two diabetic cats, Horn spends a lot of time thinking--and talking--about death. Although fascinated by dying, she is never suicidal; rather, she examines the fact of death with an almost scientific detachment. She interviews old people, asking them about their fears, hopes, and regrets, and she visits cemeteries to find graves of dead relatives. Horn's thoroughly honest appraisal of herself and her life will so endear her to readers that many will wish they could hang out in the tiny Greenwhich Village apartment with her, the cats, and the resident ghost. Indeed, to read these moving, surprisingly funny essays is to see the world through Horn's intelligent, caring, if death-obsessed, eyes and, remarkably, to enjoy the view. For someone who can't stop talking about death, Horn makes a strong and lovely statement about the joy of life. Jenny McLarinCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	Stacy Horn is the founder of ECHO, a New York-based online community, and author of Cyberville.	Waiting for My Cats to DieMUSICI DIDN'T SEE IT COMING. One minute my future is endless, and the next minute I have a stomach and a very very short time left before I die, horribly--and I know I will. I read the peaceful-death-fantasy-shattering accounts in Sherwin B. Nuland's book How We Die. (It's going to be bad.) I finished it just before my fortieth birthday, which I then spent in sheer, mortal panic. Now what are you going to do, now what are you going to do, oh God oh God oh God, my thoughts ran, like a faucet turned on full blast. Then I thought, Well, there's always the rock star option, and everything was okay again. Like everyone else in the United States, and perhaps the entire Western world--not that I would know, I never go anywhere--I have fantasies about being a rock star. It would save me. It gives my panic a direction. You're going to be a rock star now. Okay. It's going to be okay. Except I don't have much of a voice, I can't play the guitar,the essential rock star instrument, and I only took a year's worth of piano lessons. I'm so unprepared, I think. Where should I start?Twenty years ago I was sitting on the corner in the West Village of Manhattan, where I live, where I've lived for my entire adult life, watching the Halloween parade, when a pack of drummers marched by. There had to have been over fifty of them. I stood up and started dancing in the street. I danced with them for twenty blocks straight. I didn't stop until they stopped. Now, I am not a dancing-in-the-streets kind of girl. I would like to think I am, instead of the overly self-conscious, trapped, and paralyzed person that I am, who chants, ""I hate myself, I hate myself, I hate myself,"" every morning in the shower. Why couldn't I be more like my friend Aly's girlfriend, the pretty, vivacious, and Italian Maria? Of course, she had to be from Rome on top of everything else. I met Maria around the same time I first heard the drummers, when we were both just starting out in life. I was a small, dark troll beside the light and lovely and carefree Maria. Watching her made me ache. Maria would have danced in the streets and not thought twice about it. I would think about it. For the next twenty years I would think about it. But it wasn't the dancing I couldn't forget. It was the drumming.Then, just before I turned forty, I read about a group of drummers called the Manhattan Samba Group. I was sure these were the same guys. I called them. Six months later I was drumming in the Halloween parade. I was so terrified about fucking up that I could have been in any city on any day, and not in front of thousands of oddly dressed people screaming and cheering us on block after block. All I could concentrate on was getting it right. Must! (drum-drum) not! (drum-drum) make! (drum-drum) any! (drum-drum) mistakes! I thought, head down, staring furiously. The angry little drummer girl. I don't think I looked up from my drum once.The following summer I ran into Maria. I hadn't seen her for twenty years. Quit haunting me, Maria. I had met her at the beginning of my adult life; then she moved back to Rome, and now I've hit the middle and here she was again. Only now, everything about her was all wrong. There was something funny about her mouth. She carried herself like she was still vivacious, but it was as if someone had thrown a blanket over her head. She was muffled. What had been charming in a twenty-year-old was just a little bit unsettling in a forty-year-old who wasn't pulling it off anymore. I fled. I couldn't talk to her. When I was twenty I couldn't talk to her because all I could think about was what a loser I was. I couldn't talk to her when I was forty because she was still supposed to be the life of the party and she wasn't. There was something funny about her mouth. It was the first time I could remember staring mortality in the face, and okay, I'd rather feel like a loser.So now I'm a regular member of the Manhattan Samba Group. We drum every Saturday night at SOB's (Sounds of Brazil) from two to four o-fucking-clock in the morning, which makes Sunday a total waste of a day for me. I don't care. I never really liked Sundays anyway. They're supposed to be peaceful, a day of rest. The only thing I've ever felt on Sundays is dread.I'm not a rock star, but I'm close enough. Sometimes when we walk through the crowd, carrying our drums up to the stage, a few people raise their fists and yell ""Manhattan Samba!""WAITING FOR MY CATS TO DIE. Copyright  2001 by Stacy Horn. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. For information, address St. Martin's Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.",aging;biographies & memoirs;books;fitness & dieting;health;memoirs;specific groups;women,8
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1576752577,"Moral Capitalism: Reconciling Private Interest with the Public Good Stephen Young is the Global Executive Director of the Caux Round Table, a network of senior business leaders around the world dedicated to corporate responsibility. The Caux Round Table is creator one of the most well-developed and widely publicized codes of corporate ethics.  Young has worked extensively in foreign relations. He has worked with the Council on Foreign Relations and consulted for the United States Department of State. He discovered the Bronze Age civilization of Ban Chiang Thailand, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site; and he opened America to the refugees from the Vietnam War in 1975. He successfully suggested to Hanoi and the Bush, Sr. Administration in Washington to support his proposal for a United Nations Interim Administration of Cambodia. He was Honorary Consul-General of Singapore from 1990 to 1996. Young's 's law career is equally broad-based. He brought reform to the Harvard Law School as Assistant Dean for Student Affairs, and he championed an innovative law-school curriculum as Dean of the Hamline Law School. As an attorney, he sought to prevent diversion of $425 million of public proceeds of the tobacco settlement in Minnesota from the states treasury into private pockets. He challenged in Federal Court under the First Amendments separation of church and state the use of a radical religious approach to the environment in management of public lands.  Young has written commentary for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Pioneer Press, and The StarTribune. He has provided commentary on foreign affairs for television stations. His web commentary is available at Fifthcolumnmag.com.	Individuals are happiest and most productive when they believe that their work is not only serving their interests but also has a higher purpose of service to important goals. Individuals possess common sense that blends moral concerns with self-interest. Moral Capitalism presents the value pyramid by which individuals infuse values into their actionsvalues and ideals are at the top of the pyramid and self-interested actions are at the bottom, waiting to be guided by higher levels of standards and goals.  The moral character of an individual shapes the degree to which higher levels of moral value are imposed on lower levels of action. If a person seeks to be happy in their work, they need to consider what values govern their value pyramid. Sustainable profitability of a business requires common sense blending of social responsibility and service of customer needs. Virtue and interest must go together for profit maximization. The value pyramid gives rise to two versions of capitalism: Moral Capitalism where social values of responsibility prevail and Brute Capitalism where only narrowly focused ego needs set goals and standards. Moral Capitalism permits win-win solutions, while Brute Capitalism promotes win-lose outcomes. Moral Capitalism is the form of capitalism Adam Smith advocated in The Wealth of Nations; Brute Capitalism is often called Social Darwinism for validating the survival of only the fittest. The Caux Round Table (CRT) Principles for Business set standards for Moral Capitalism. These Principles blend the Japanese ethic of Kyosei (""human dignity"" from Catholic theology on social justice) and American Protestant notions of stewardship. The CRT Principles describe 7 principles and then define certain responsibilities towards 6 stakeholder groups: consumers, employees, owners and investors, suppliers, competitors, and communities.  The CRT Principles can be decentralized into management benchmarks and objectives, permitting continuous improvement in a companys level of social responsibility. The CRT obligations for each stakeholder group are as follows: Consumers. The moral values of capitalism are brought to the markets by consumers. Businesses create wealth by meeting the needs of consumers Employees. Employees should be accepted as agents participating in a fiduciary relationship of mutual respect and obligation, not as mere sellers of labor Owners and Investors. Moral Capitalism argues for the advantages of disclosure, honest and good corporate governance Suppliers. Moral Capitalism builds on the learning of the Total Quality Movement to advocate relationship ties with suppliers rather than one-time purchases based on price alone Competitors. Competition in moral capitalism uses quality and innovation rather than price for business success Communities. Business needs to pay a return on social capital in order to survive and to maximize its profits Moral Capitalism creates wealth and ends poverty. Social capital must be in place for business to perform its social office. Government has the responsibility in the first place to build reserves of social capital. Business, as it grows, must then add to those reserves. The CRT presents Principles for Responsible Government as a companion guide for governments, which will foster conditions in which companies can prosper and be socially responsible using the CRT Principles for Business. In Moral Capitalism, business leadership demands the assertion of values. Those who seek to lead must first go inside themselves to find the values that they will place atop their personal values pyramid. Selfish values will not do; the search for meaning does not stop with the self, but transcends the self, invoking each persons moral sense. Moral character, not position, is the foundation of leadership. Then, leaders must develop intellectual skills of judgment and application of principles to factual situations in the manner of law judges. Leaders build Moral Capitalism and prevent the spread of Brute Capitalism.",books;business & investing;business life;ethics;ethics & morality;philosophy;politics & social sciences;popular economics,8
B00006IZNV,"Coco de Mer Lush fusion of traditional French, Italian & Latin arias, live orchestration and instruments, which are elegantly stitched together with sensual, down-tempo dance grooves and modern ambient music. Digipak. Tommy Boy. 2002.",classical;dance & electronic;miscellaneous;music;new age;pop;r&b;world music,8
1550460781,The Ferry Steamers: The Story of the Detroit-Windsor Ferry Boats William Oxford,americas;books;history;professional & technical;ships;state & local;transportation;united states,8
1570623503,"Breath by Breath: The Liberating Practice of Insight Meditation In any meditation class, one of the first things one learns is the importance of breathing. For Larry Rosenberg, a seasoned instructor of insight meditation, the breath is everything. And he's not in bad company since the Buddha himself delivered a sutra on the subject. Rosenberg's Breath by Breath is an elaboration on this short classic but couched in familiar language, liberally spiced with anecdotes from Rosenberg's decades of practice and teaching. It's Rosenberg's earthy humor and patient instruction that make him such a popular teacher and that make Breath by Breath a rewarding read. He takes the beginning student from the wandering ""doggy mind"" to becoming a chicken, along the way getting a teacher's bite and sitting like a frog. For the hurried and harried, he includes a nutshell, two-step version of the sutra's 16-step practice (appended in the full text of the sutra). More of a coach than a disciplinarian, Rosenberg takes a see-what-happens attitude. ""You don't make liberation happen,"" he says. ""To contemplate breathing is to contemplate life itself."" --Brian Bruya	Rosenberg, a teacher at the Insight Meditattion Center in Cambridge, MA, provides a clear description of meditative practice. The technique is based on the Anapanasati Sutra, the Buddha's own instructions to meditators. Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Breath by Breath is a unique contribution to our understanding of the liberating path of meditation. Larry Rosenberg beautifully elucidates one of the most important and profound Buddhist teachings in a way that is wonderfully accessible and relevant. His great wisdom, clarity, and humor shine throughout.Joseph Goldstein, author of Insight Meditation	Larry Rosenberg is founder and resident teacher of the Cambridge Insight Meditation Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a guiding teacher at the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts.",books;buddhism;consciousness & thought;eastern;other eastern religions & sacred texts;philosophy;politics & social sciences;religion & spirituality,8
0192805541,"Seduction Of Place `Review from previous edition A wealth of incidental observations and reflections by a mature scholar' The Washington Post Book World`A great historian ... one of the profession's treasures and a writer of sobriety and dash' Architecture`[Rykwert] writes elegantly and well, and he knows his subject ... the narrative truly swings along, from city to city, continent to continent, with great verve and pace' The Wall Street Journal`Far-ranging, idiosyncratic, discursive' The New York Review of Books`Rykwert is a gloriously erudite, ingeniously speculative historian and critic of architecture' Susan Sontag`This is a necessary book. At a time when the future of cities is being discussed worldwide, Joseph Rykwert offers us an overview of the subject from its tentative beginnings in the Middle East some 10,000 years ago' Sunday Times`rich in detail, entertaining to read and provocative in its conclusions' Christopher Hirst, Independent`coming as it does with a track-record of scholarly distinction, it reads as a word from the wise, as a reminder of some fundamental concerns, of which we as a society should never lose sight' Professor Andrew Ballantyne, University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne`an informed meditation on the future' The Art Newspaper	Joseph Rykwert is Paul Philippe Cret Professor of Architecture Emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of ten previous books, including The Idea of a Town, and is an eminent and widely-respected author in both Britain and America.",architecture;books;politics & social sciences;professional & technical;rural;social sciences;sociology;urban,8
0972030107,"There is Eternal Life for Animals I have just finished reading the book and feel that it was well done. --Rev. Dr. Jack Van Impe, Jack Van Impe Ministries, MichiganExcellent, Outstanding and Life Changing! --Rev. Shirley Johnson, FloridaIt is a privilege to recommend There Is Eternal Life For Animals. --Rev. Dr. Peter Hammond, Founder & Director of Frontline Fellowship, South Africa	Niki Behrikis Shanahan is the author of ""There Is Eternal Life For Animals,"" ""The Rainbow Bridge: Pet Loss Is Heaven's Gain,"" and ""Animal Prayer Guide."" She has a very unique Christian animal ministry. Niki donates much of her time in grief counseling for pet owners, and in praying for sick and lost animal companions.",books;christian books & bibles;crafts;hobbies & home;pets & animal care;reference;religion & spirituality;theology,8
0312145861,"The Diary of Emily Dickinson The most glaring difference between the work of Emily Dickinson and this novel ""in the style of"" the belle of Amherst can be simply put: offered the real McCoy, the reader never wonders if his time is being wasted. Fuller brings an unmistakable talent for research and an ear for language to her first book, but she doesn't demonstrate much purpose. Here, she simulates entries and poems in a diary ""kept"" by Dickinson from 1867 to 1868, then ""annotates"" these with factual material and published verse. While her use of language is reasonably convincing, she doesn't interpret Dickinson's life with much imagination. Essentially, she unravels Dickinson's correspondences and Dickinson research, then threads her findings into diary entries. For example, Emily reports returning a copy of Nicholas Nickleby to her sister-in-law, although she does not comment upon it; the appended note reveals that the book is part of the Dickinson family library now at Harvard. Elsewhere, this Emily schoolgirlishly appraises Aurora Leigh ; comments on newspaper items; and, unavoidably, issues passionate declarations about poetry and cryptic statements about those she loves. If anything, Fuller has made an already circumscribed life seem even narrower. Illustrations not seen by PW. Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	A translator of Russian poetry, Fuller sets herself a difficult task in this fictional diary of Dickinson's life in the years 1867-68, since the work must mimic the richly metaphorical and highly idiosyncratic style that characterizes Dickinson's poetry and prose. The book is constructed as a scholar's analysis, containing commentary and references to Dickinson's life and work after the diary entries. Fuller, however, rarely manages to echo Dickinson's style or make the reader believe that she would have written this diary. The entries read not as those of an utterly unique mind but rather as those of a typical 19th-century housewife, complete with discussions of cooking, sewing, and ailing parents. This is equally true of the 25 poems that Fuller has inserted as Dickinson's long-lost work. A sincere and attractively designed book, this is nevertheless too deeply flawed to be recommended.- Ellen Finnie Duranceau, MIT Lib.Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	A private diary kept by the poet at age 37 (March 1867-April 1868), with introduction and notes by its imaginary scholarly editor. Discovered in a wall of the Dickinson family house during renovations in 1915, the diary at last has fallen into the hands of its present editor, who presents it here for the light it casts on the private life of the great and enigmatic poet. And what light is that? Well, not really very much, it seems, other than that Emily Dickinson lived quietly with her family in Amherst, wrote her poetry unobtrusively, died unmarried, and became hugely famous only later. Fuller takes no liberties here of the adventuring or gothic sort, conjuring up no ghost, perversion, trauma, or previously unknown disaster to explain her subject's perplexing reclusiveness and preternatural modesty. Instead, this Emily Dickinson is skeptical and intelligent, obedient but observant as a daughter, intensely dedicated to the cultivation of her poetic gift--and not so much repressed as simply unlucky in the department of passion, her love for the somewhat older Judge Otis Phillips Lord, for example, being unfulfilled thanks to time's cruel snatching away of opportunity less than (although room for interpretation is allowed) to the repression of desire. A real-life and common-sense Emily Dickinson emerges, then, captivating not for the operatic whisperings of dark secrets, but for the quiet authenticity of voice, place, and time that Fuller deftly conjures up. Her own hand at Dickinsonian verse is considerable (25 ``new'' poems are included), and, except for occasional stumblings in diary entries too expository to be realistic (``It was in summer at our Commencement tea that I let my heart deceive me''), so is her gift for the finer sounds of prose (``When the Bible proclaims eternal life, I hear only the silent drop of Death''). Lovely in conception, words, character, detail--but extraordinarily motionless and still. -- Copyright 1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;british;criticism & theory;genre fiction;historical;history & criticism;literature & fiction;movements & periods,8
1593103395,"Coffee Rings: Three Women, One Tragic Event, Nineteen Years Later, Secrets Surface... A splendid, awful web of human sin and divine grace. Savor it like a freshly brewed cup of coffee. -- RT Bookclub	They met in college, three young women with unstoppable dreams--until one tragic event pulled them in separate directions. Nineteen years later they each find themselves living back in Laurel Ridge, North Carolina, and covering their deeply held pain with genteel social behavior. Annette is widowed and running a coffee shop. Ruby is married to a minister and raising three children. Lara is divorced and managing a women's boutique. When their long-held secrets surface, how will they hold the fragile pieces of their lives together? Are the stains of the past too deeply imbedded for true forgiveness to occur?	A genteel Southern lady with a twist of good humor, YVONNE LEHMAN, has written award-winning fiction for several years. She lives in the heart of North Carolina's Smoky Mountains with her husband.They are the parents of four grown children, as well as grandparents. In addition to being an inspirational romance writer, she is also the founder of the Blue Ridge Christian Writers' Conference. Although inspirational and secular romances contain many of the same elements, Yvonne sees a special ingredient that sets inspirationals apart from the rest of today's romance novels: hope.",books;christian books & bibles;contemporary;fiction;literature & fiction;religion & spirituality;romance;united states,8
0877939810,"Savoring God: Praying with All Our Senses (Unique and Imaginative Way to Pray!) ""Kathleen Finley shows that we needn't look far to find entry points to connect with God. With imagination, wit, and a lively faith, Finley guides us to a fresh, yet ancient way to pray.""	Kathleen Finley speaks regularly about family life and spirituality at workshops around the country. The author of numerous books and articles, Finley is also an instructor in the Religious Studies department at Gonzaga University. She and her husband Mitch live in Spokane, Washington.",books;christian books & bibles;christian living;meditations;prayer;religion & spirituality;spirituality;worship & devotion,8
B0002IA1M2,"Graphic Style : From Victorian to Digital STEVEN HELLER, art director of the New York Times Book Review and co-chair of the School of Visual Arts MFA/Design program, has written over 70 books on graphic design, illustration, and political art. The recipient of the 1999 AIGA Medal for Lifetime Achievement, he lives in New York City.  SEYMOUR CHWAST is co-founder and now director of The Pushpin Group, an internationally acclaimed design firm. His award-winning illustrations and designs have been used in advertising and posters as well as in 30 books for children.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",19th century;20th century;arts & photography;books;graphic design;history;history & criticism;modern (16th-21st centuries),8
3822881678,"Batters 1 (Amuses Gueules) Text: English, French, German	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",arts & photography;books;equipment;individual artists;photo essays;photography;portraits;techniques & reference,8
B00006WNRN,"Sila Fresh Home Deodorizer - Air Purifier Neutralize nasty odors and airborne pollutants anywhere in your home. Great for refrigerator, trash can, Hamper, pet area or anywhere odors may occur.		This nifty, compact device discreetly takes on the most pungent odors and replaces them with clean, fresh air. It has attachments that allow you to hang it over the lip of a hamper or attach it easily to a nearby wall. Four C batteries power this odor zapper for up to four months, and when the batteries are low, an orange LED light signals that it's time to replace them.		ow does it work?	It works with Ionic Super Oxidating Sanitizing Technology, or SOS. The pollution control system introduces negative ions into the air through Lentk's Ionic technology. The negative ions attach to the airborne pollutants causing them to fall to the ground.",air fresheners;air purifiers;cooling & air quality;health & personal care;heating;hepa air purifiers;home & kitchen;household supplies,8
B0009WRJ5I,"Philips Aurelle 13678-8 LED Rechargeable Candle, Tulip Create the illusion of soft ambient candlelight on the patio or kitchen table with Phillips' new Aurelle rechargeable candle. Free of the fire hazards and wax spills that accompany real candles, the Aurelle candle also requires no wires or excessive batteries to illuminate a space for ultimate convenience. The stylish tulip-shaped lantern meshes well with any dcor, whether perched on a patio railing or on a bedside table.  The candle's vase body is crafted of frosted glass for soft lighting. Lit by LED technology, the fully charged candle provides up to 10 hours of light. A 2.4-volt nickel metal halide powers the candle and has an estimated lifespan of 500 cycles. To recharge the candle, Phillips includes circuit-protected charger and adaptor. The UL-listed charger can simultaneously charge up to four candles at once. The adaptor fits into any common straight plug outlet, with a power cord that spans 6 feet. While weather-resistant, the candle should under no circumstances be immersed in water to ensure product and user safety. Keep the candle away from heat sources and out of the reach of small children. The candle measures 4.8 by 3.04 inches with a 4mm glass thickness. This item weighs 1 pound upon shipping. --Jessica Reuling	Combining LED technology with the beauty and simplicity of candlelight is the idea behind Philips Lighting's latest innovation.  Aurelle, LED candles combine the warm glow and gentle flicker of a candle without the risks and nuisance associated with open flames.  With Aurelle, using candles to create atmosphere and to add warmth to your home is made safer and easier.  Aurelle, LED candle is comprised of four components: a frosted glass cover, a candle, a recharger and adapter.  The frosted glass cover is available in four decorative shapes: round, triangle, square and tulip.  The candle consists of a LED rechargeable battery that provides a smooth glow similar to a candle flame providing 10 hours of continuous light with 10 hours of charge time.  In addition, recharging is safe and robust with the patent pending magnetic recharging mechanism.  Aurelle candles are ideal for indoor (intimate dining, family gatherings, bedtime relaxation) and outdoor use (picnics, backyard dining poolside or at the beach).",lawn & garden;lighting & ceiling fans;lighting accessories;outdoor lighting;patio;phillips lighting company;tabletop lighting;tools & home improvement,8
B00002EQAF,"Peg Perego Battery 12 Volt (Drop Ship Pack) Give your child the gift of non-stop fun with an extra Peg-Prego rechargeable battery!  Kids want to keep riding their Peg-Prego battery-powered ride-ons.  So when they've used up all the charge, switch that battery out with this extra 12 Volt Battery, fully charged, and away they go!	Replacement battery for 12-volt Peg-Prego vehicles.",accessories & supplies;batteries;chargers & accessories;electronics;ride-on toys;scooters & wagons;toys & games;tricycles,8
B000CQI1AS,"WARN 69069 ATV Synthetic Rope Extension ATV riders can now extend the reach of their WARN winch with the new 50' WARN ATV Synthetic Rope Extension. The 1/4"" diameter rope is lightweight, easy to handle, and won't rattle in a cargo box. Easily attaches to the winch cable to provide an additional 50 feet of distance. 4,000 lb. single line capacity and reinforced end loops.",atv winches;automotive;exterior accessories;industrial & scientific;material handling products;pulling & lifting;towing products & winches;winches,8
B000ASGFNI,"Garmin 010-10569-00 Lithium-Ion Battery Pack for Rino 520 and Rino 530 The Garmin Lithium Ion Battery Pack (replacement) for Rino 520 and Rino 530 provides mobile power to your Garmin Rino series GPS unit. This battery pack is an exact replacement for the one that comes with the unit. This Garmin battery pack has a high-capacity 7.4 volt 2400 mAh Lithium-Ion battery that typically provides up to 16 hours of power for your GPS unit, and weighs approximately 119 grams.	For extended outings with your Rino series unit bring an extra Li-ion battery pack. Product : GARMIN LI-ION BATTERY FOR RINO 520/530 Manufacturer : GARMIN PARTS Manufacturer Part No : 010-10569-00 UPC : 753759049980",accessories;batteries;boating;boating & water sports;cb & two-way radios;electronics;portable audio & video;sports & outdoors,8
B000PSBNCG,"DELUXE PICKLE PINCHER 8"" Pickle Pinchers - set of 2",flatware;home & kitchen;kitchen & dining;kitchen utensils & gadgets;pickle & olive forks;serving forks;serving utensils;tabletop,8
B0009KIQRA,"New York Yankees Official Clubhouse Door Sign Awesome full colors graphics with official team colors and logos. Measures 19"" wide x 9"" tall. Perfect of the door, wall, cubicle or just about anywhere. Durable plastic construction with protective coating over the logos and lettering. Built to be enjoyed for years to come. Pre-drilled and ready to hang. Lightweight plastic construction. Hangs easily with thumbtacks or brads, even double-sided tape. Vibrant colors and crisp graphics. Officially licensed by the league and the team. A terrific gift idea.",fan shop;home & garden;lawn & garden;outdoor décor;patio;sports & outdoors;street signs;yard signs,8
B00005AAPU,"Timeline Michael Crichton's latest novel opens on the threshold of the 21st century. It is a world of exploding advances on the frontiers of technology. Information moves instantly between two points, without wires or networks. Computers are built from single molecules. Any moment of the past can be actualized - and a group of historians can enter, literally, life in 14th-century feudal France. Imagine the risks of such a journey. Not since Jurassic Park has Michael Crichton given you such a magnificent adventure. Here, he combines a science of the future - the emerging field of quantum technology - with the complex realities of the medieval past. In a heart-stopping narrative, Timeline carries you into a realm of unexpected suspense and danger, overturning your most basic ideas of what is possible.",books;literature & fiction;mystery;science fiction;science fiction & fantasy;suspense;thriller & suspense;thrillers,8
B0006O7HJM,"Revell 1:25 '05 Chevy Impala Police Car Over the years, the Impala has always been a vehicle that's been all things to all people. Whether that meant running the kids off to school, or a police officer running a suspect into the station, the Impala is one of America's favorite choices in cars.	132617 Features: -Chevy Impala Police C.-Highly detailed chassis and interior.-Rolling vinyl tires with realistic tread design.-Optional custom peel 'n stick decals.-Contains small parts which may be swallowed.-For ages 10+. Assembly Instructions: -Easy snap-together assembly no gluing or painting needed.-illustrated assembly instructions.-Assembly required. Disclaimer: -Warning: Keep from small children.",cars;cycling;hobbies;kids' bikes & accessories;kids' helmets;model building kits & tools;sports & outdoors;toys & games,8
0671869973,"Feminine Force Mosbacher, CEO of her own cosmetics company, learned self-reliance at an early age. When she was seven, her father died, leaving her mother with four children and no income. In a few years Mosbacher was working to help support the family while her mother encouraged her to pursue her dream of a glamorous lifestyle. After two failed marriages (one to an abusive man), she married Robert Mosbacher, who became U.S. Secretary of Commerce. Throughout the book, the author urges women to stand on their own, not depending on a man to support them, but this advice is offered with what seems like cynicism and a general distrust of men. The book is so filled with personal anecdotes, Mosbacher never really gets around to showing women how to achieve their goals. Much attention is given to such topics as personal appearance, cosmetic surgery and networking, but these things often require financial and social resources beyond the reach of many women. Mosbacher seems to forget that it is the exception rather than the rule for a woman to get a hefty divorce settlement. There are a few gold nuggets here, but the overall message may be summed up by the third of her ""Feminine Force Principles"": ""Life isn't fair--so what?"" She also says, however: ""I start by accepting my reality, then I change it."" Photos not seen by PW. First serial to Cosmopolitan and New Woman. Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Up from poverty with ``beautiful, glamorous'' ex-Washington ``social hurricane'' Mosbacher, 45, who here releases her secrets for getting what she wants--including marrying a millionaire (in her case, three); buying and selling businesses at a profit (using her divorce settlements as seed money); and conquering the Washington social scene by raising pots of money for political campaigns. The moral: Any woman can serve her own interests if she'll harness the gale-force drive called ``feminine force.'' Like most books promoting the power of positive thinking, this is part inspirational biography, part celebrity gossip, and part instruction manual. Mosbacher's ``feminine force'' was handed down through three generations of poor but independent Indiana women, and outlived two divorces--from kind but boring (and possibly insufficiently rich) L.A. mogul Robert Muir, whom the author married at 23, and from George Barrie, the elderly, drunken, and abusive but very rich and powerful CEO of Faberg. (Later, the author pressed into marriage a reluctant ex-secretary of commerce, Robert Mosbacher, richer and more powerful than either of her previous husbands.) Feminine force has carried Mosbacher through the buying and selling of La Prairie cosmetics, the founding of her own company, and the painful episode of discovering that her beloved brother is an alcoholic. Her secret: Early on, she remade herself to ``bring out the inner me.'' She understands that ``attention is power'' and so promotes her image wherever she goes- -including to White House dinners her husband can't attend. Although she never gives up, she does compromise: ``There are differences between men and women,'' she writes, including a man's natural inability to worry about dinners and clean socks--that's a woman's job. A thoroughly American, unflaggingly cheerful view of life that will appeal to many readers. What sourpuss would ask for rigorous honesty besides? (Eight pages b, eight pages color photographs- -not seen) (First serial rights to Cosmopolitan and New Woman) -- Copyright 1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Georgette Mosbacher shares the lessons life has taught her. When she created her own cosmetics company, Exclusives, she refused to consider any result but succss. Her voice is appropriately matter-of-fact. She speaks clearly and distinctly, increasing pace and volume to emphasize important concepts. Her voice is rather flat and harsh, yet she intends to instruct, not to entertain, and she has a good deal to tell.  M.G.S. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine",biographies & memoirs;books;feminist theory;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific groups;women;women's studies,8
0886292247,"Merry Hearts Make Light Days Probably the most valuable book on the War of 1812 to surface in years.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	Donald E. Graves, one of Canada's best known military historians, is the author, co-author or editor of 18 full-length books dealing primarily with the War of 1812 and the Second World War. He lives near Ottawa.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",biographies & memoirs;books;dictionaries;dictionaries & thesauruses;education & reference;new;reference;used & rental textbooks,8
B000F4W036,"Puppy Playpen with Plastic Pan Size: 36"" D x 36"" W (Medium), Floor Grid: 1"" Floor Grid 236-10 Size: 36"" D x 36"" W (Medium), Floor Grid: 1"" Floor Grid Features: -Top and side openings for convenient access.-Adjustable floor grid keeps dogs elevated and clean.-Folds flat for easy transportation and storage.-Safe and secure slide-bolt latches.-Tough, easy to clean plastic pan.-Additional floor grids available. Options: -Available in 3 sizes. Color/Finish: -Double-nickle chrome plated finish. Dimensions: -Small: 30'' H x 36'' W x 24'' D.-Medium: 30'' H x 36'' W x 36'' D.-Large: 30'' H x 36'' W x 48'' D.",crates & kennels;dogs;fencing & containment;houses;kennels;kennels & pens;pet behavior center;pet supplies,8
B0002D6PNQ,"Sonnett Podfreq FM Transmitter for iPod Sonnet PODFREQ Premium FM Transmitter for the iPod - Cut the wires Sonnet's Podfreq wirelessly broadcasts your iPod's tunes to any nearby FM radio. Find a frequency on the FM dial with no station, select the same frequency on the Podfreq, and play your music it's that simple. How does it sound? Superb. Podfreq's advanced audio design ensures superior music quality.  Transmitter Range -  10-35 feet (3-10.7 m), depending on FM receiver/antenna   Frequency Response -  50 Hz to 15,000Hz   Ports -  6-Pin FireWire and mini USB 2.0   Unit Dimensions -  Width 2.87 x Height 5.46 x Depth 1.35 inch   Sonnet 1-Year Warranty   NOT COMPATIBLE WITH THE iPOD MINI or iPOD PHOTO!",computer components;computers & accessories;electronics;fm transmitters;mp3 player accessories;mp3 players & accessories;portable audio & video;video capture cards,8
0156007223,"Best New American Voices 2004 PRAISE FOR the BEST NEW AMERICAN VOICES series""Fifteen tales selected from writing programs' best and brightest . . . The breadth of approach is what's most encouraging here. Varied and risky.""-Kirkus Reviews""Demonstrates the potent force of American writers emerging from distinguished writing programs.""-Elle""Since its launch in 2000, this series has discovered some of the best new writers."" (Chicago Tribune 20031005)""You''ll be greatly taken by more than a few of these vivid samplings."" (Dallas Morning News 20040210)""Michelle Hoover, Courtney Jones, and Mary Stewart Atwell especially deserve props for their writing chops."" (Flaunt Magazine 20031001)""Beautifully written and richly felt.  Worth reading again and again."" (Madison Capital Times )	John Kulka is executive editor-at-large at Harvard University Press and lives in Connecticut. Natalie Danford is a freelance writer and book critic whose work has appeared in People, Salon, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Sun-Times, and many other publications. She is the author of a novel, Inheritance, and lives in New York City.John Casey is a recipient of the National Book Award, for his novel Spartina.  He received a MacArthur Grant in 1992 and is now a professor of English Literature at the University of Virginia.  He lives in Charlottesville. lt;brgt;",anthologies;anthologies & literary collections;books;contemporary;general;literature & fiction;short stories;united states,8
1930846371,"The Cuckoo's Boys The dozen stories in Reed's second Golden Gryphon collection (after 1999's The Dragons of Springplace) showcase this prolific author's ability to put a fresh spin on traditional SF themes. A dazzling variant on Harry Bates's classic Farewell to the Master is the spell-binding ""Night of Time,"" in which the apparent servant is actually the master. Whereas the discovery of a message from an alien world would once have been story enough, in the ironically titled ""On the Brink of That Bright New World"" that revelation allows a man to get away with murdering his unfaithful wife and her lover. Sometimes, though, Reed's soaring imagination drops too easily into cloying preciosity and self-conscious wordplay, as in ""River of the Queen"" (a sequel of sorts to ""Night of Time"") or into didacticism, as in ""Coelacanths."" Still, Reed at his best ranks high in the SF firmament. Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	The subjects of the stories in Reed's new collection range from an unexpected side effect of first contact in ""On the Brink of That Bright New World,"" in which a man describes a crime of passion he got away with because everyone was distracted by the news, to a virtual projection of the president visiting every household in the nation on ""First Tuesday."" In between are more stories of first contact, including ""The Children's Crusade,"" the titular subject of which is, depending on point of view, either much more hopeful or vastly more terrible than its namesake, for in it the income and enthusiasm of children are used to fund space missions. Reed turns to alien civilizations living together on an unimaginably vast ship in ""River of the Queen"" and ""Night of Time"" (the latter, Reed says in the afterword, may be the seed of a novel). Reed's stories afford mysterious and occasionally creepy glimpses of futures that are sometimes strange, sometimes totally familiar. Regina SchroederCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	""With his command of prose, characterization, and ideas, Robert Reed is the new centurys most compelling SF voice."" Stephen Baxter, Hugo Awardnominated author, The Time Ships""Scientific speculations are balanced by an underlying quiet sanity about how to depict and to illumine human beings."" John Clute and Peter Nichols, editors, The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction""Reed....manages to keep up a very high standard of quality while being prolific."" Gardner Dozois, editor, The Years Best Science Fiction anthology series""Reaffirms SF's function as a thoughtful and paradigm-subverting literary form... one of the strongest genre collections of the year."" Locus""Showcase[s] this prolific author's ability to put a fresh spin on traditional SF themes."" Publishers Weekly""Mysterious and occasionally creepy glimpses of futures that are sometimes strange, sometimes totally familiar."" Booklist	Robert Reed is the author of more than a dozen novels, including Marrow and The Well of Stars, and a number of stories that have appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, The Magazine of Fantasy  Science Fiction, and Science Fiction Age. He lives in Lincoln, Nebraska.",adventure;books;literature & fiction;science fiction;science fiction & fantasy;short stories;single author;united states,8
1886939691,"Have a Great Year Every Year: A Four-Point Program for Maximizing Your Performance Dave Yoho is what he writes about.  He believes achievement is a journey - not a destination.  He credits his experiences growing up on the streets of inner city Philadelphia as getting a Ph.D. in street smarts.  He attended Temple University night school while holding down a full-time job, and throughout his formal education he believed every step, no matter how difficult, paid off handsomely.  He is proud to relate how his penchant for reading and research, coupled with his ability to retain information, has enabled him to combine formal education with street savvy to jumpstart a highly successful business career. Dave's first job after graduation was as a trainee salesman in a company that soon became a division of Reynolds Aluminum.  He rapidly became one of the top ten salesmen in its 500-man sales organization and went on to become a branch manager within two years.  By age 25 he was part of its executive management team.  At 27 he left to start his own business, which, by the time he sold his interests in it 22 years later, had become a $60 million volume conglomerate. Now president and CEO of a consulting company representing Fortune 500 companies as well as many moderate and small size businesses, Dave has delivered 5,000 speeches at conventions and seminars in all 50 states and in 18 countries.  He has appeared in over 100 training video series for corporations and his first book, How To Have A Good Year Every Year (Berkley Press, 1991), became a bestseller.",books;business & finance;business & investing;business life;economics;finance;new;used & rental textbooks,8
1597775274,"Burning Down My Masters' House: A Personal Descent Into Madness That Shook the New York Times We know that Blair is a world-class Pinocchio. During his tenure at the New York Times  (1998e padding though. In a nod to the book's subtitle, Blair lavishes attention on his (presumably legitimate) coverage of numerous stories, especially of the D.C.-area sniper case, failing to realize that readers' interest will fade when he stops discussing the inner workings of the Times and the mechanisms and consequences of his lying. But we will credit Blair and consider this as nonfiction. The memoir begins with the collapse of his house of cards, then flips back to his early upbringing in Columbia, Md., and swiftly forward to his hiring as a Times intern while at the University of Maryland. Blair's chronicle of his Times years brims with the inside gossip newshounds love, and he names names while dishing it. Throughout, he levels serious (albeit generally unsubstantiated) charges at the newspaper. One is racism, in both the Times's coverage (""The one thing that was clear was that it took a lot of dead Africans for anyone to notice on West Forty-third Street"") and its treatment of employees (""a black recovering drug addict at The Times was not going to be given the same leeway that a white one might be""). Blair claims that Metro desk editor Jonathan Landman, who first cast doubts on his reporting, wrote in an internal note that ""minority candidates [for hiring] were always sub-par compared to others."" Then there's the bartering of news coverage for favors. ""Public relations people,"" Blair reports, ""substituted theater tickets, free meals and drinks and, sometimes, even sex for mentions. Journalists at The Times were considered to have a weak spot for sex...."" Most startling, though, are Blair's accusations of shoddy journalistic practices condoned by Times management. ""The message was clear: getting it right was not as important as getting it fast."" He contends that the Times allowed ""star"" reporters to slap their byline on stories written in part or wholly by stringers and freelancers, and he exposes what he calls ""toe-touch"" reporting: ""A toe-touch was a popular and sanctioned way at the newspaper to get a dateline on a story by reporting and writing it in one location, then flying in simply so you could put the name of the city where the news was happening at the top of the story. It is hard to imagine how many thousands of dollars are spent on 'toe-touch datelines' each month at The Times."" Blair also accuses the newspaper of ""no-touch"" reporting. These charges will make the book necessary reading for some, but they serve Blair, too, apparently providing for him some basis for his actions. ""The cognitive logic of my belief that I could get away with not visiting a city that I was supposed to be writing from can easily be understood, though not excused""; so rather than reporting from the field, as he told colleagues and friends he was, Blair composed many of his stories while hiding out in his Brooklyn apartment, relying on information from phone interviews and the Internet to fill the column inches. The book, in fact, is filled with excuses-cum-explanations, most of a personal nature. Blair says that for years he suffered from alcohol and cocaine addiction (he's been sober since early 2002) and from depression, then manic depression, that led him, during his last days at the Times, into psychosis and a suicide attempt described here in detail. And while he claims to take responsibility for his actions, he swipes steadily at the Times and its ""callous"" managers, and at its ""end-justifies-the-means"" environment, where he was treated like ""a rag doll."" It is Blair's notoriety that will first draw attention to this book, and it is his charges against the Times that should push it onto bestseller lists. His rancor, his excuses and his predilection for payback undermine the integrity of his admissions and apologies, however, and will go far to demoting the entire matter and his part in it to a cautionary footnote to the history of journalism. As for the charges, in spite of Blair's reputation for lying, the Times must respond to them; if true, then by acting upon them the newspaper will only increase the transparency committed to by its hiring of an ombudsman, a direct result of the Blair affair. Yet Blair himself remains opaque, despite the book's confessional nature; the evident slyness of so much of this chronicle speaks at the least of a manipulation of truth. It may be that what we read in this fierce, self-indulgent, self-aggrandizing volume is truth, albeit one man's version; it may also be that once again the author is hiding out, as it were, weaving fairy tales that we buy at our own risk.Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Contains some of the most poignant and moving passages ever to appear in a book of its kind. -- The Weekly StandardHe bypasses excuses, and holds only himself responsible for the journalistic fiasco that he created. -- The Amsterdam NewsI can recognize the newsroom ... The facade of the building is familar, but the foundation is rotten. -- Black Issues Book ReviewThe gravamen ... doesn't have to do with the Times at all but with Blair's psychological condition, which he diagnoses, persuasively. -- The New YorkerThe inside dope he provides to readers about what allegedly goes on there are anything but a boring read. -- The Washington Post Bookworld	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	For several years, Jayson Blair was a promising young reporter at The New York Times until his self-destruction tendencies, pride and substance abuse sent his career astray. Just as Blair appeared to be turning things around at The Times  getting clean and sober and being assigned to cover national affairs, including the Washington, D.C. area sniper shootings  Blair began suffering the full force of a psychotic form of manic depressive illness. Before Blair was willing to admit that something was terribly wrong, he had spent eight months fabricating and plagiarizing portions of dozens of articles, eventually leading to his resignation from the paper.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	NEW YORK TIMES journalist Jayson Blair created a furor when his bosses discovered he had faked his reporting of a major story, plagiarizing some facts, inventing others. Lest his disgrace and ruined career be a total loss, he has penned an account of his downfall and its antecedents, which he narrates in this abridged recording. The novelistic approach he takes, complete with lengthy dialogue scenes, would call his veracity into question, were it not already eroded. His narration is uneven. At times he sounds as if he badly needs sleep; intermittently he jumps to life. Most of the time he's listenable, if uninspired.  Y.R.  AudioFile 2004, Portland, Maine-- Copyright  AudioFile, Portland, Maine	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",biographies & memoirs;books;customs & traditions;journalists;memoirs;politics & social sciences;professionals & academics;social sciences,8
0446694746,"SuperSized Kids: How to Rescue Your Child from the Obesity Threat That America is raising a generation of obese and unhealthy kids is not in dispute. Knowing what to do and who should do it is the challenge, but Dr. Walt Larimore and Sherri Flynt get it right in their timely and ground-breaking book, SuperSized Kids: How to Protect Your Child from the Obesity Threat. These two authors get the parents off the bench and into the game of coaching their kids to better health and fitness. It's too bad this book wasn't required reading for parents over the past generation! ---- Mike Huckabee, Governor of ArkansasNot sure where to start to get the whole family to a healthy weight? Look no further; SuperSized Kids is the book you've been waiting for. Walt Larimore and Sherri Flynt are personable, realistic and inspirational, and their principles offer easy ways to change your family's way of life. -- --DAVID STEVENS, MD, MA (Ethics) Executive Director, Christian Medical & Dental AssociationsNot sure where to start to get the whole family to a healthy weight? Look no further; SuperSized Kids is the book you've been waiting for. Walt Larimore and Sherri Flynt are personable, realistic and inspirational, and their principles offer easy ways to change your family's way of life. ---- DAVID STEVENS, MD, MA (Ethics) Executive Director, Christian Medical & Dental Associations	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	AUTHORBIO: Walt Larimore lives in Monument, Colorado.",books;diets & weight loss;fitness & dieting;health;nutrition;parenting;parenting & relationships;weight loss,8
0694016454,Spider-Man: Spider-Man Saves the Day Acton Figueroa is the bestselling author of the original SpiderMan Festival Readers.,action & adventure;animals;books;bugs & spiders;children's books;fantasy & magic;literature & fiction;science fiction & fantasy,8
059515199X,"The Inward Arc: Healing in Psychotherapy and Spirituality ""The clearest and most accessible text on a spiritual approach to psychology and psychotherapy available today.""  -- Bryan Wittine, Ph.D., Psychotherapist	Frances Vaughan, Ph.D. is a psychologist and author of several books integrating psychotherapy and spirituality. She was formerly on the clinical faculty of the University of California, and president of the Associations for Humanistic and Transpersonal Psychology. She has studied several spiritual traditions and is a practicing psychotherapist in Mill Valley, California.",books;fitness & dieting;happiness;health;psychology & counseling;psychotherapy;self-help;ta & nlp,8
B000H8XLKG,"TYC 20-5234-91 Ford Crown Victoria Driver Side Headlight Assembly Meets or exceeds DOT/SAE standards, with particular consideration for photometric and safety compliance. There is a special coating on the lens surface that prevents hazing and fading, ensuring proper illumination and operational safety. Rigorous and accelerated cycling tests are carried out to ensure product service quality and durability.",automotive;exterior accessories;lighting;lighting & electrical;lighting assemblies;lights & lighting accessories;replacement headlight assemblies;replacement parts,8
079101875X,"Spike Lee (Black Americans of Achievement) Grade 8 Up?The flamboyant personality of Spike Lee is documented in this intelligent examination of his life and career. A brief account of his close-knit family is followed by an in-depth analysis of the original style and unique vision of his films, from She's Gotta Have It to Crooklyn. Lee's continued dedication to African American issues and his success as a businessman are also presented. A smattering of black-and-white photos and movie stills enhance the book, which is stronger than Bob Bernotas's Spike Lee (Enslow, 1993). As a resource or good read, Hardy's title is a welcome addition.?Judie Porter, Media Services Center, Portsmouth School Department, RICopyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.",arts;biographies;books;children's books;crafts & music;film;people of color;performing arts,8
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193049310X,"An Ocean View: Perspectives in Marine Science The author is a professor of Marine Science at Leeward Community College of the University of Hawaii in Oahu, Hawaii.     He has been teaching and working as an oceanographer for 30 years. He is the recipient of two Fulbright Fellowships; one to Greece and another to Cyprus. He has published many journal articles on the subject of marine ecology.     He received his doctorate at the Florida Institute of Technology, an M.S. at the University of Wisconsin, and a B.S. at the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis. He also spent time at Oxford University in England, doing plankton ecology; in Ischia, Italy at the Ecological Station, and also at the University of Parma, Italy; and at the Hopkins Marine Station at Stanford.",biological sciences;biology;books;marine biology;nature & ecology;oceanography;oceans & seas;science & math,8
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1418402885,"Amazing Grace **PRESS RELEASE**  Souls Search for the Holy Grail  Author Discovers Ancient Way to Treat Modern Problems  GRANADA, Spain - For more than 20 years, while crossing 36 countries, Lee Albert searched for his Holy Grail in the hopes of releasing his soul from the inexplicable suffering, fears and trauma imprisoned within. It was in desperation, after forsaking all belief and undergoing many types of therapy, that he allowed himself to find solace in an ancient African tradition, which he has brought to the 21st century in his new book, Amazing Grace (now available through AuthorHouse).  This book outlines a unique perspective on Irish society and its history, offering insight into the root causes of many of the social problems of today. Born into a culture of sexual ignorance and denial, Albert felt unable to realize his deepest dreams being oppressed by a profound sense of shame and inexplicable fear. His restless soul took him on a 21 year quest that crossed 36 countries. Eventually, he realized he was a captive prisoner and turned to a little known African sacramental plant called eboga (aka iboga). Part of an ancient initiation, the plant allows users to unravel their lives, often healing hidden trauma, and make contact with their ancestors. Its principal component, ibogaine, has been pioneered for the past 30 years in the USA by Howard Lotsof as a means for addiction interruption (eg. heroin). Albert seeks to go further in its application, having unravelled its potential to treat deep psychological wounds based on a proper understanding of the Eboga healing mechanism involved.  In this first ever popular book to describe in such detail an eboga (ibogaine) session, based on 6 years of personal experience, Albert seemlessly merges Eboga spirituality with modern psychology resulting in the healing system he calls ""The Eboga Process""  - outlined in the book...He details his experience with the plant and the Eboga spiritual entities. Albert offers factual information and shows how eboga succeeded where numerous other therapies failed.  Albert has a masters degree in chemistry and is a qualified systems engineer. This, the first of three books on his quest, follows in the tradition of Carlos Castenada and the pioneering spirit of Howard Lotsof. Amazing Grace movingly and powerfully describes the adaptation of an ancient tradition to Western society and offers a powerfully effective ""new"" way to heal the hurt and pain that lies in all of us.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	This book discusses the use of eboga (aka iboga, aka ibogaine) which is a powerful African sacramental plant and should not be confused with hallucinogens such as LSD which access high angelic realms. Eboga deals with the inner world of ones own personal life. It works to bring a person to a state of emotional, mental, spiritual and physical wholeness. It is a teaching plant and has enormous therapeutic and spiritual benefits. It is in no way a recreational substance.	Hardback - Front Flap  Eboga Spirituality in a Western context expresses itself in a deepening respect for the earth, the community, the ancestors, ones parents and in particular oneself and ones family. Eboga is the circle of life that brings you directly in contact with your heart, your soul, and the ones you love. It draws its energy and resources from the cradle of human life and is therefore an African spirituality. It is a way to God. It's spirit is carried by a serpent.  Hardback - Back Flap  The journey to wholeness is the development of perfect harmony between nature and spirit. Man's perfected nature is an intelligent and compassionate being which acts holistically when it is in perfect balance with its spirit. That is the Holy Grail Quest and it requires that the individual have faith in their own life experience. Hence, the Western world's accent on the individual is probably the greatest and most important hallmark of Western culture today.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	In a relentless search forfreedom from lifelong problems and a burning desire to realize his dreams hespent 2 years in an Irish seminary, underwent intensive Primal Therapy, trainedas a Emotional Release facilitator, explored thethoughts of Krisnamurti and finally in desperationforsook all belief. He has an M.Sc.in Chemistry and is a qualified Systems Engineer and trained? Windsurfing Instructor. He has lived,and traveled, through 36 countries and worked as a teacher in Africa.He completed his search through what he calls ?The EbogaProcess??, andembarked on a miraculous journey of self-discovery and reconnection to hisinner self. His interest now is the way toconfront personal past history leading to self-discovery, happiness,fulfillment and one's own immortality.",action & adventure;books;christian books & bibles;fiction;genre fiction;literature & fiction;religion & spirituality;spirituality,8
B000H3ACCQ,"Spalding 4160 Single Shot Electronic Basketball Game A unique combination of family fun and skill challenge, the Spalding Electronic Basketball Game replicates arcade-style pop-a-shot games for years of entertainment room fun. It features a durable steel tube construction and it's fully netted to keep the balls in play (and off of the floor). Other features include electronic scoring for one or two players and three basketballs with pump. It measures 8 by 2.3 by 7.6 feet.	Electronic scoring for 1 or 2 players; 60 second games; 3 mini basketballs included.",electronic basketball;game room;game room games;games;leisure sports & games;sports & outdoors;table games;toys & games,8
0521499127,"The Knight's Tale (Selected Tales from Chaucer) A well-established and respected series with titles in the original Middle English.	CHARLES D. JONES, Regents Professor of Art, is the director and master printer of the LaNana Creek Press at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas and has taught printmaking since 1971. MARC GUIDRY received his Ph.D. from Louisiana State University. He has published essays on Chaucer in The Chaucer Review and Medieval Rhetoric, a Routledge casebook.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	Theseus returns from the wars in Thebes and imprisons the brother knights Palamon and Arcite, who both vie for the affections of Theseus's fair daughter, Emily. Here's a fascinating and surprising performance from the world's leading experts on Chaucerian pronunciation. Chaucer's evolving tongue drew from a huge melting pot of ornate Norman and Latin word endings combined with guttural Celtic and German roots. The late Richard Bebb employs a heightened performance and complete command of the original Middle English to draw out the meter, meaning, and emotion of this somber and classically based selection from THE CANTERBURY TALES. This may not be the easiest listening, but hearing Chaucer's words as he heard them is well worth the effort.  B.P.  AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine-- Copyright  AudioFile, Portland, Maine	      --This text refers to the 							Audio CD	 edition.",books;british;education & reference;instruction methods;literature & fiction;poetry;schools & teaching;teens,8
0800757556,"Lady of Light (Brides of Culdee Creek, Book 3) Claire Sutherland swore she'd never trust a man with her heart or her future. But from the first moment she meets Evan McKay, she feels strangely drawn to this man and the close ranch community he describes to her. After a whirlwind courtship, Evan and Claire journey to Colorado to begin a new life together as husband and wife. Though nervous about leaving the familiar Scottish highlands, Claire looks forward to being part of a real family for the first time. But when confronted with her husband's old flame, frustrated with her brother's erratic behavior, and plagued by the haunting secret of her past, insecurities rush in. Claire begins to wonder if she's made the biggest mistake of her life. What people are saying about author Kathleen Morgan: ""Kathleen Morgan is a phenomenal writer!""--The Talisman ""A marvelous storyteller.""--Romantic Times ""Kathleen Morgan puts a new spin on romance! Her characters are passionate and memorable!""--The Literary Times	Kathleen Morgan has written more than fifteen novels, including Daughter of Joy and Woman of Grace.",books;christian books & bibles;fiction;historical;literature & fiction;religion & spirituality;romance;united states,8
1891603035,"Avant-Guide San Francisco: Insiders' Guide for Cosmopolitan Travelers Brutally Honest Insiders Give You The Straight Scoop So You Dont Feel Or Look Like A Tourist. -- The IndependentFor Cutting Edge In A City That Teeters Between Conservative And Revolutionary, This Is The Book To Buy. -- Toronto SunSharp Writing And A Thrilling Layout Make It A Guidebook You Can Read From Cover To Cover Without A Yawn. -- San Francisco ExaminerThis Fledgling Series May Soon Do For Travel Guides What Hitchcock Did For Film. -- Chicago TribuneWhip Smart, Seductively Stylish And Completely Up-To-Date. -- Consumer Reports	Avant-Guide is the only travel guidebook series expressly edited for the post-Let's Go, pre-Fodors crowd. These books are intelligently written and brutally honest. And because they're ""fast-forward"" in content and design, each is also a highly entertaining read.     Every listing is packed with crucial details, including phone numbers, opening hours, and exact prices. And our editors work particularly hard to create the best indexes in the business. Avant-Guide's full-color city, regional, and transport maps are built for speed. Plus, quick-view gatefold maps in the back covers are thoroughly tested, minutely detailed, and indexed down to the last blind alley.	Avant-Guide is not just different, its better. We recognize that the world has changed since the last generation of guidebooks was invented. And that's why we create Avant-Guide for smart and sophisticated adults. We sub-head our books ""Insiders Guides for Urban Adventurers"" because they are for independent people like us who want to know about the best restaurants, hotels, shops and nightspots.Free, downloadable upgrades summarize all the changes that affect the latest books until the next edition is published.	Each Avant-Guide is created by an independent team of local experts who are intimately involved with the subjects they write about.     Avant-Guide photographers shoot for the world's most respected publications, from Travel + Leisure to The New York Times.    The series is directed by Dan Levine, one of the world's top travel experts. He has written 10 best-selling guidebooks to the world's most-visited places, produced travel television for HBO and NBC, and appeared on The Travel Channel, BBC-2, and PBS.    Each book is individually designed by an innovative European creative team. They are intensively styled with house-made fonts, pioneering graphics, and even flip-film animations incorporated into the paginations. And with their matte-laminate and spot-gloss coatings, our colorful, poster-quality covers are the most stylish jackets around.",books;california;general;pacific;san francisco;travel;united states;west,8
1932021086,"Come and See: A Photojournalist's Journey into the World of Mother Teresa When Schaefer first showed up unannounced at Mother Teresa's headquarters in Calcutta in 1995 and begged to be allowed to do a photo book of the nun's life and work, the answer was a humble but firm ""no."" Instead, Mother Teresa put Schaefer to work as a volunteer, changing diapers and playing with the children in one of the Missionaries of Charity's 40-odd orphanages. Over time, as Schaefer's motivations shifted from a drive to merely document to a desire to participate in the ministry, the nun permitted her to bring out the camera. The result is this unique, behind-the-scenes collection of photos from various outreach centers throughout India, including a leper colony and a hospice for the dying. Schaefer draws on her own experiences and on interviews with other volunteers, who come from many different nationalities and religious backgrounds. In all, this is a very appropriate tribute to Mother Teresa on the eve of her canonization, since it celebrates not just the woman's life, but the people who were her life's work. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Despite the carping of British socialist Christopher Hitchens, most people consider the ministry of the late Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity to the orphans, lepers, and dying, whom many have called the poorest of the poor, the most powerful argument for Christianity in the world today. Schaefer was affected powerfully enough by her ministry to pursue ardently the opportunity to photograph the order's leader and work, and then to put it off a bit, at Mother Teresa's request, to help care for the inmates at one of the order's facilities for the dying. Her account, unaffected to the point of naivete, of her encounters with Mother Teresa, India, and a cross section of the order's members and voluntary helpers stirs the emotions as hers were stirred by the order's work, even without the complement of 155 color photographs she eventually took of Mother Teresa and her work. In combination with those pictures, this unpretentious album's power is immense. A lovely testament of the healing of sufferers, healers, and observer alike. Ray OlsonCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved",arts & photography;books;catholicism;christian books & bibles;evangelism;missions & missionary work;photography;photojournalism,8
078624688X,"I, Richard In her first story collection, eminent British author George (A Traitor to Memory) presents five nimbly written and gripping tales, each with a stunning conclusion. ""Exposure"" concerns declining sexual prowess, as gossipy architecture students speculate about Polly Simpson, who is suspiciously friendly with elderly men touring Abinger Manor, where one oldster dies mysteriously just as some historic silverware is stolen. In ""The Surprise of His Life,"" high-powered CEO Douglas Armstrong, obsessively jealous and mistrustful of his young wife, learns too late that she's planning an astonishing final surprise for both him and the reader. Similarly, a young widow in ""Remember I'll Always Love You"" is horrified to discover the secret double life led by her late husband, purportedly a sales director for a biotech firm, but in reality something far more sinister. A melancholy tone pervades ""Good Fences Aren't Always Enough,"" in which an elderly Russian refugee, Anfisa, scandalizes her socially conscious neighbors in fashionable East Wingate with her determination to live life her own way. In the title story, ambitious and murderous schoolteacher Malcolm Cousins is determined to perpetuate the reputation of his hero, Richard III, while also absconding with the wife and substantial legacy of a former school chum. A brooding, gloomy dust jacket suggests gothic themes, but the tales are thoroughly modern in setting and subject. Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Hardcover	 edition.	George, author of the deservedly popular Thomas Lynley/Barbara  Havers mysteries, tries her hand at the short story form with  this collection of five tales. Each story is introduced by  George, who describes how she came to write it. ""Exposure"" is a  condensed version of a Thomas Lynley mystery, while both ""The  Surprise of His Life"" and the title story mix horror with humor  to portray the desperate acts of men at mid-life, ending with a  wittily vindictive twist that will appeal to fans of Ruth  Rendell. ""Good Fences Aren't Always Enough"" probes a clash  between a fiercely family-oriented young mother and her new  neighbor, an aging, eccentric Russian immigrant. In ""Remember  I'll Always Love You,"" Charlie Lawton, a grieving young widow,  sets out to find her deceased husband's estranged family and  discovers a deadly secret. George, whose last novel, A Traitor  to Memory, ran to nearly 800 pages, excels at writing in a more  condensed way. Satisfying and memorable, this collection is  highly recommended for most public libraries.--Jane la Plante, Minot State Univ. Lib.,  NDCopyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Hardcover	 edition.	Best-selling novelist George's fourth collection of short crime stories shows her skill at delivering distilled shocks to the reader's nervous system. In five fairly long tales, George serves up psychological detection in one, Stephen King-like horror in another, a puzzle mystery, a history mystery, and one that gives an O. Henry twist to the O. J. Simpson case. As in her novels, George is in absolute command of the stomach-wrenching realization and the sudden, sickening turn of events. Only one story, ""Exposure,"" falters. This is a reworking, with a new point of view and a new victim, of an old George story based on murder on an architectural tour of a stately home. George's tone is inexplicably acidic and mean-spirited toward all her characters in this one story, making the reader uneasy for all the wrong reasons. The introductions provided for each story are marvelous in themselves, offering insights into George's working methods and thought processes. Her introduction to ""The Surprise of His Life,"" for example, examines both the possible motivation and time line in the O. J. Simpson case and her transformation of this material into an effectively creepy story. Jealousy, greed, obsession, rats, Richard III, and bioterror--what more could a crime collection have? Connie FletcherCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Hardcover	 edition.	""Ms. George can do it all, with style to spare.""-- The Wall Street Journal (Wall Street Journal )	Hailed by The New York Times as ""a master of the British mystery,"" award-winning author Elizabeth George is one of our most distinguished writers, cherished by readers on both sides of the Atlantic. Her first collection of short stories is an extraordinary offering that deftly explores the dark side of everyday people--and the lengths to which they will go to get what they want most....In these five tantalizing and original tales, George plumbs the depths of human nature--and human weakness--as only she can. From the chilling tale of a marriage built on an appalling set of lies that only death can reveal, to the final, title story about a penniless schoolteacher whose ambition turns murderous, I, Richard is filled with page-turning drama, danger, and unmatched suspense. Whether the setting is urban or suburban, affluent or middle class, no one is safe from menace. Thanks to Inspector Thomas Lynley, a squabbling group of Anglophiles discovers a killer in its midstBut little help is on hand when a picture-perfect town is shattered by an eccentric new resident's horrifying pet project.... And when a wealthy husband is haunted by suspicions about his much-younger wife, it becomes clear that a man's imagination can be his own worst enemy...Ironic, revealing, and undeniably entertaining, this imaginative collection proves once again why Elizabeth George is one of today's best-loved authors. I, Richard belongs in the library of each and every mystery devotee. From the Hardcover edition.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	In her first story collection, eminent British author George (A Traitor to Memory) presents five nimbly written and gripping tales, each with a stunning conclusion.--Publisher's WeeklyPraise for Elizabeth George:Elizabeth George reigns as queen of the mystery genre. The Lynley books constitute the smartest, most gratifyingly complex and impassioned mystery series now being published. --Entertainment WeeklyA master of the English mystery.--The New York TimesMs. George can do it all, with style to spare. --The Wall Street JournalIts tough to resist Georges storytelling, once hooked. --USA TodayGeorge is a master...she upholds the English tradition beautifully. --Chicago TribuneGeorge explores her characters dreams and fears with a penetrating grace that makes reading her books a joy.--The Washington Post Book WorldA fascinating list of subjects...wrenching stories...George conveys them all with exceptional grace. --PeopleFrom the Hardcover edition.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	Elizabeth George is the author of highly acclaimed novels of psychological suspense. Her first novel, A Great Deliverance, was honoured with the Anthony and Agatha Best First Novel awards in America and received the Grand Prix de Litterature Policiere in France.  It was made into a BBC 1 Drama in March 2001.  Well-Schooled in Murder was awarded the prestigious German prize for international mystery fiction, the MIMI (1990). An Edgar and Macavity Nominee as well as a New York Times and international bestselling author, Elizabeth George divides her time between California and Kensington, London.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	ExposureWhen members of the history of british architecture class thought about the Abinger Manor Affair later on, each one of them would say that Sam Cleary had been the likeliest candidate for murder. Now, you might ask yourself why anyone would have wanted to kill a harmless American professor of botany who--on the surface at least--had done nothing more than come to Cambridge University with his wife to take part in a summer session at St. Stephen's College. But that's the crux of the matter, you see, the with his wife part of it. Old Sam--seventy if he was a day and a spiffy dresser with a bent for bow ties and tweeds even in the middle of the hottest summer England had seen in decades--tended to forget that his wedded Frances had come along for the experience as well. And when Sam forgot that Frances was there, his eyes started wandering in order to take a visual sampling of the other ladies. It appeared to be second nature to the fellow.This visual sampling might have been something that Frances Cleary could have overlooked. Her husband, after all, couldn't be expected to walk around Cambridge with blinders on, and Cambridge in the summer brought out fine ladies like mayflies looking for barbecues. But when he took to spending long evenings in the college pub, entertaining their classmate Polly Simpson with tales of everything from his childhood spent on a farm in Vermont to his years in 'Nam where, according to Sam, he saved his entire platoon single-handedly . . . well, that was too much for Frances. Not only was Polly young enough to be Sam's granddaughter and then some, she was--if you'll pardon the expression--drop-dead gorgeous and blonde and curvy in a way that poor Frances hadn't been even in her glory years.So when the night before the Day in Question saw Sam Cleary and Polly Simpson in the college pub laughing, talking, teasing each other as usual, giggling like kids--which at twenty-three Polly still was, as a matter of fact--and acting otherwise like individuals with Something Specific on Their Minds till two in the morning, Frances finally had words with her husband. And her husband wasn't the only one to hear them.Noreen Tucker was the messenger delivering news of this delicate subject over breakfast the next day, having been awakened by the sound of Frances's accelerating displeasure at two twenty-three in the morning and having been kept awake by the sound of Frances's accelerating displeasure till exactly four thirty-seven. That was when a slamming door punctuated Sam's decision to listen no more to his wife's accusations of heartless insensitivity and insidious infidelity.Under other circumstances, an unwilling eavesdropper might have kept her own counsel regarding this overheard marital contretemps. But Noreen Tucker was a woman who liked the spotlight. And since she had so far achieved precious little recognition in her thirty years as a romance writer, she took her bows where she could.That's what she was doing on the morning of the Day in Question, as other members of the History of British Architecture class gathered to break bread together in the cavernous dining hall of St. Stephen's College. Dressed in Laura Ashley and a straw boater in the mistaken belief that projecting youthfulness equated to youthfulness, Noreen imparted the salient details of the Clearys' early-morning argument, and she leaned forward with a glance to the right and the left to underscore both the import and the confidential nature of the information she was sharing.I couldn't believe my ears, she told her fellow students in breathless summation. Who looks milder mannered than Frances Cleary, I ask you, who? And to believe she even knew such language existed . . . ? Why, I was just slayed to hear it, truly. I was completely mortified. I didn't know whether I should knock on the wall to quiet her down or go for help. Although I can't imagine the porter would have wanted to get involved, even if I'd gone for him. And anyway, if I'd actually gotten involved in some way, there was always the chance that Ralph here might've been pushed into the middle of it, trying to defend me, you know. And I couldn't put him at risk, could I? Sam might've asked him to step outside, and Ralph here is in no condition to get into a brawl with anyone. Are you, sweetheart?Ralph here was more a blob in a safari jacket than an actual person, Noreen's shadow and constant companion. No one in the History of British Architecture class had managed to get more than ten words from the man in the eleven days they'd been in Cambridge, and there were those among the larger group of students taking other classes in St. Stephen's College who swore he was altogether mute.What went for his condition was hypoglycemia, which was the topic Noreen segued into once she was done dissecting the Cleary marriage and Sam's attraction to the ladies in general and Polly Simpson in particular. Ralph here, she informed her listeners, was an absolute martyr to the ailment. Low blood sugar was the curse of Ralph here's family, she explained, and he had the worst case of any of them. He'd even passed out once at the wheel of their car while on the freeway, don't you know. It was only through Noreen's quick thinking and even quicker acting that utter disaster was avoided.I grabbed the wheel so fast, you'd think I'd been trained as a rescue professional of some sort, Noreen revealed. It's astonishing the level we can rise to when the worst happens, don't you agree? As was her bent, she waited for no reply. Instead, she turned to her husband and said, You've got your nuts and chews to take on the outing today, don't you, sweetie my own? We can't have you passing out cold in the middle of Abinger Manor, now can we?Up 'n the room, Ralph said into his bowl of corn flakes.Just make sure you don't leave them there, his wife replied. You know how you are.How you are is henpecked, was the description offered by Cleve Houghton as he joined their table. Ralph needs exercise, not that junk you keep feeding him every time he turns around, Noreen.Speaking of junk, was Noreen's rejoinder with a meaningful look at the plate he carried, overloaded with eggs, sausage, grilled tomatoes, and mushrooms. I wouldn't be so quick to cast stones, Cleve dear. Surely that can't be good for your arteries.I did eight miles along the backs this morning, he replied. All the way to Grantchester with no heavy breathing, so my arteries are fine, thank you. The rest of you should try some running. Hell, it's the best exercise known to man. He tossed back his hair--thick and dark, it was, something a man of fifty could be proud of--and caught sight of Polly Simpson just entering the dining room. He amended his comments with, The second best exercise, and smiled lazily and with hooded eyes in Polly's direction.Noreen tittered. Goodness, Cleve. Rein yourself in. I believe she's spoken for already. Or at least she's spoken about. Noreen used her own comment as introduction to the topic she'd covered before Cleve's appearance on the scene. But she added a few more thoughts this time round, most of them centering on Polly Simpson as a Natural Born Troublemaker and someone certainly fingered by Noreen on Day One to cause some sort of dissension in their midst. After all, when she wasn't sucking up to their instructor--the better to massage her final grade, no doubt--with exclamations over the beauties in every slide the tiresome woman foisted daily upon her students, she was cozying up to one man or another in a way that she probably thought of as friendly but anyone else with a grain of sense would have called outright provocative. What's she actually up to, I ask you? Noreen demanded of anyone who was continuing to listen at this point. There they sit with their heads together night after night, she and Sam Cleary. And doing what? You can't tell me they're discussing flowers. They're laying their plans for afterwards. Together. You mark my words.Whether the words were marked was something no one commented upon since Polly Simpson was fast upon her classmates, carrying a tray on which she'd placed a virtuously weight-conscious single banana and a cup of coffee. She wore her camera slung round her neck as usual, and when she set down her tray, she strode to the end of the table and focused her shutter on the group at their morning meal. On the afternoon of their first session in the History of British Architecture class, Polly had declared to them that she would be the seminar's official historian, and so far she'd been as good as her word. Believe me, you'll want this as a souvenir, she announced each time she caught someone in her lens. I promise. People always like my pictures when they see them.Jesus, Polly. Not now, Cleve groused as the girl made adjustments to her lens at the far end of the breakfast table, but he sounded good-natured about his complaint and no one missed the fact that he ran one hand back through his hair to give it just the sort of GQ tousle that promised to make him look thirty again.The whole class isn't present, Polly dear, Noreen said. And surely you want everyone in the picture, don't you?Polly looked around, then smiled and said, Well, here's Em and Howard showing up. We've got most of the crowd.But surely not the most important people, Noreen persisted as the other two students joined them. Don't you want to wait for Sam and Frances?Not everyone needs to be in every picture, Polly said, quite as if Noreen's question hadn't been fraught with enough undercurrents to drown a gorilla.All the same . . . Noreen murmured, and she asked Emily Guy and Howard Breen--two San Franciscans who'...	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	The recent PBS ""Mystery!"" program featuring Inspector ThomasLynley created new interest in Elizabeth George's intriguingseries. Many listeners have enjoyed her audiobooks, both abridged andunabridged. This collection of George's stories is a real departure,and although performed in the capable voice of Derek Jacobi, anunsuccessful one. Several of the stories are set in the U.S., andCalifornia, land of the boogie board and macram, is not Jacobi'shome turf. He's so out of context, that he unfavorably colors thebelievability of characters and narrative. In the title story, ""I,Richard,"" and another that features Detective Lynley, Jacobi isexcellent, but the short story form does not seem to show off George'sstrengths. However, the afterword interview with the author is a plus.R.F.W.  AudioFile 2003, Portland, Maine-- Copyright  AudioFile, Portland, Maine	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;contemporary;literature & fiction;mystery;short stories;single author;thriller & suspense;united states,8
0967877776,"Primitive Wilderness Living & Survival Skills: Naked into the Wilderness ""--the best.---Only book I have reviewed that actually work.""  -- Keith Burges, Outdoor writer and book reviewer, Australia ""I have bought all eight of the previous volumes in your series, and use them regularly in teaching prehistoric/aboriginal technology...""  -- Prof. John S., Dept. of Anthropology Harvard University ""This is without doubt the best training guide for real primitive living skills""  -- Museum of the Fur Trade Quarterly	We have spent a considerable portion of our lives in the learning of these skills, and some seven years writing them up. We well remember the physical pains that one goes through when applying some of these skills and the frustration that comes with not successfully completing them. All the little tips left out of other how-to's that we were attempting to learn from. Well, we put them here for you. This book will teach you how to accomplish these skills whether you want to learn them or not.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	If you have been accustomed to reading books on wilderness skills that entertain you but fall short of actually teaching you how to accomplish the tasks and skills at hand, you are in for a pleasant surprise. The authors know of what they write - this is not a compilation of other authors' works nor a rehashing and perpetuation of myths. The McPhersons not only know their stuff but also how to present it.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	John & Geri McPherson are leaders in the field of primitive technology.They are not arm chair primitives but daily practitioners.If they are not doing, they are gathering materials/learning/researching or teaching primitive skills. This is not a job to them.....they live it. This vast experience is reflected in their teachings. They are in their fourth year of teaching these same skills to the U.S. Army Special Operations S.E.R.E. Survival Instructors.",books;cookbooks;food & wine;hiking & camping;instructional;outdoor cooking;sports & outdoors;survival skills,8
0694010723,"Pots and Pans This boisterous picture book, a kindred spirit to Eve Merriam's Bam Bam Bam (1995), is a rollicking salute to the utter chaos created by a curious tot let loose in the kitchen. Skillfully epitomizing the boundless inquisitiveness of toddlers, Hubbell describes the exuberant explorations of one mischievous child. Bouncy rhymes crescendo with the growing excitement of a baby as it experiments with different objects: hitting, slamming, and banging them together, creating a cacophony of sound. Children will enjoy ``reading'' the sound effects, set in a bold typeface that stands out from the rest of the text. DeGroat's colorful illustrations humorously depict the antics of a cat, a dog, and a baby as they revel in this lively impromptu performance. (Board book. 1-3)  -- Copyright 1998, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.	Patricia Hubbell has been writing poetry since she was eleven years old. In 1998, her Wrapping Paper Romp was selected as a Parents Magazine Book of the Year. Patricia Hubbell lives with her husband, Harold Hornstein, in Easton, Connecticut, the small town where she was born. Remembering how much their children and grandchildren loved to bounce when they were very young prompted her to write Bouncing Time. ""Bouncing is one of the joyous things little kids do,"" she says. ""It reflects their constant enthusiasm.""Diane deGroat is the illustrator of more than 120 children's books and the author-illustrator of another I Can Read Book about Gilbert, Gilbert, the Surfer Dude, as well as bestselling picture books about Gilbert, including: Ants in Your Pants, Worms in Your Plants! (Gilbert Goes Green); April Fool! Watch Out at School!; Mother, You're the Best! (But Sister, You're a Pest!); Last One in is a Rotten Egg!; Trick or Treat, Smell My Feet; Jingle Bells, Homework Smells; Happy Birthday to You, You Belong in a Zoo; No More Pencils, No More Books, No More Teacher's Dirty Looks!; and the New York Times bestseller Roses are Pink, Your Feet Really Stink. She is also the illustrator of Charlie the Ranch Dog by Ree Drummond.",activity books;books;children's books;education & reference;family life;games;social situations;sports & games,8
B00004VWLX,"Weber 9816 Stainless Steel Flavorizer Bars What exactly are Flavorizer bars, you ask? They're a key feature of Weber's gas grills. By placing these long-lasting stainless-steel bars under your cooking grate, just above the heat source, you can impart mouthwatering flavor to meats. Their juices vaporize and turn into smoke when they drip onto the specially angled heated bars, so you won't lose a lick of cooking flavor. --Rhonda Langdon	Stainless steel flavorizer bars for Genesis Silver B and C, Genesis Gold B and C (2002 and newer models) Spirit 700 and Weber 900 gas grills.  5 replacement bars.",all weber;flavorizer bars;grill & smoker accessories;grills & outdoor cooking;lawn & garden;patio;replacement parts;weber,8
0785799877,"The Night Crossing (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) Set in Austria in 1938, this tale of a Jewish family's escape to Switzerland, said PW, ""has plenty of heartstopping moments... [but] the historical details are treated lightly."" Ages 7-11.- the historical details are treated lightly."" Ages 7-11. Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	Grade 3-4-Clara treasures the two antique dolls that came with her grandmother when the family fled from the pogroms in Russia to Austria. Now the family is planning to escape from Nazi-occupied Austria, and Clara intends to take them with her. When Mama sews her treasured silver candlesticks into the petticoat of her oldest daughter, they make noise and Papa is afraid they will clank and alert the border guards. Clara then suggests hiding the candlesticks in the dolls' straw stuffing since this is their second ""night crossing,"" and they are not afraid. This is a suspenseful escape story written for transitional readers. The danger is clear but not belabored. The stress is on the family's closeness and courage. The dolls and candlesticks are tangible representations of continuity and tradition, which comfort and sustain the family. An epilogue reveals the fate of the Jews who did not escape, including Clara's grandmother. Ackerman's writing is clear and direct; despite its simplicity, it is never banal. This is an excellent fictional introduction to the Holocaust that is slightly easier to read, but for the same audience as, Claire Bishop's Twenty and Ten (Peter Smith, 1984). It will also be a good choice for less proficient older readers wanting World War II novels.Louise L. Sherman, Anna C. Scott School, Leonia, NJCopyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Gr. 2-5. This simple docu-novel about a Jewish child escaping from the Nazis in 1938 introduces the Holocaust to young readers. On the first page, Clara overhears her parents whispering that they must leave their home in Innsbruck, Austria, ""before it is too late."" Then we see why: Clara and her older sister are chased home by a group of screaming anti-Semitic kids, including her former best friend. All around them, Jewish businesses are being vandalized, their owners sent to camps, their homes burglarized. Clara's parents sell their precious belongings and cut off their yellow stars, and the family steals away in the night. Of course, they are nearly caught, but they bribe and trick and make it past the border guards and walk over the mountains to Switzerland. There's little of the immediacy and depth here of the best personal accounts for middle readers, such as Ida Vos' Hide and Seek (1991) or Isabella Leitner's Big Lie (1992); and the massacre and brutality are only hinted at. Rather, Ackerman's brief chapter-book, in large, clear type and with illustrations (unseen in galley), gives younger kids a first look at the essentials of what it was like to be an ordinary child in danger at that terrible time.  Hazel Rochman	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	With the air of family history reshaped as fiction, a Jewish family's escape on foot from Innsbruck to Switzerland just after Hitler's 1938 annexation of Austria. Ackerman's unadorned narrative begins with midnight arrests and the betrayal of friends, but these are described so matter-of-factly that they lose most of their terror. Deciding to flee, Clara's parents sell their valuables, including Mama's wedding ring but not two heirloom Sabbath candlesticks. Stitched into older sister Marta's petticoat, these provide the chief drama: Since they tend to clank together, they are rehidden, at the border, inside another treasure--two dolls that Grandmother carried years ago on her ``night crossing'' from Russia to escape the pogroms, and which Clara has insisted on bringing. (This seems incredible: why wasn't the problem with the candlesticks resolved sooner, since silence has been vital throughout the long journey?) An epilogue follows the family to England and relative prosperity during the war, noting that many neighbors and relatives were less fortunate. Realistic if rather gentle, a simple dramatization that will be useful in introducing young children to the Holocaust. B illustrations not seen. (Fiction. 7-10) -- Copyright 1994, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	An excellent fictional introduction to the Holocaust.--School Library Journal	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	Illus. in black-and-white. It's hard to leave your home and friends, but the Nazis have invaded Clara's native Austria, and her Jewish family is no longer safe. Clara and her family take only what they can carry and travel by night to the Swiss border, where they hope to escape to freedom. Soldiers are everywhere, and it is Clara's heroism that carries the family across the border, their lives and few precious possessions intact.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	""An excellent fictional introduction to the Holocaust.""--School Library Journal   	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",books;children's books;europe;family life;historical fiction;holocaust;literature & fiction;social situations,8
0140447423,"Germinal (Penguin Classics) mile Zola (1840-1902) was the leading figure in the French school of naturalistic fiction. His principal work, Les Rougon-Macquart, is a panorama of mid-19th century French life, in a cycle of 20 novels which Zola wrote over a period of 22 years.",books;classics;contemporary;criticism & theory;history & criticism;literary;literature & fiction;world literature,8
0316084905,"Athenais: The Life of Louis XIV's Mistress, the Real Queen of France Beautiful, haughty, well bred and, by the author's account, ""a superlative lover,"" Athenais de Montespan was a shoo-in for the role of official mistress to King Louis XIV. Despite being married, she spent 12 years in a passionate relationship with the Sun King, commanding his attention in a way that his own wife couldn't: she teased him, told him jokes, even scolded him and threw tantrums, and he rewarded her with not only his adoration, but jewels bigger than those he gave his wife. In independent scholar Hilton's well-researched but unevenly paced account of Montespan's ""reign,"" the queen, Marie-Therese of Spain, is a pitiful and unattractive blight on the royal landscape, unable to compete with Montespan's manifold attractions. It may be true, but Hilton's scathing descriptions of the other women who crossed Louis's path-one was ""so extremely plain"" that a platonic relationship ""was the best she could hope for,"" while Marie-Therese with her ""lumpy Hapsburg nose"" was ""frankly far too unattractive"" for sex with her ""to be anything more than an obligation for the king""-raises questions about her evenhandedness. Distracting, too, is her tendency to wander off the topic, though some of the tangents are memorable-among them, that red-headed wet nurses were unpopular in 17th-century France because redheads were thought to be ""a product of sex during menstruation."" The life of a royal mistress usually offers an intriguing perspective on her lover's reign, and Montespan is no exception, but Hilton's debut biography would have had more impact if she had been more focused in choosing her material. 8 pages of b photos.Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.	This fascinating historical romp chronicles the life of Athenais, patroness of the arts and notorious mistress of the Sun King, Louis XIV of France. Although the beautiful and intelligent marquise de Montespan became Louis' favorite mistress and bore him several children, she was eventually accused of witchcraft and attempting to obtain poisons for unsavory purposes. In addition to documenting the incredible adventures of a woman who lived brazenly, defying seventeenth-century conventions, this biography also provides an intimate glimpse into court life. The elaborate political intrigue and complex machinations that characterized life at Versailles are resurrected in dramatic detail. Hilton provides both a captivating portrait of a multifaceted woman and a window to a long-lost world. Margaret FlanaganCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	""...a strong debut...Hilton writes with the confidence of a veteran historian...a compelling portrait of an astounding figure...""  -- Kirkus, 9/15/02	Lisa Hilton graduated from New College, Oxford, and studied fine art at Christie's in Paris. In 1999 she was runner-up for the ""Vogue"" Young Writer of the Year. She is 26 and lives in Milan, Italy.",biographies & memoirs;books;europe;france;historical;history;specific groups;women,8
0590452355,The Ladybug and Other Insects (A First Discovery Book) Text: English (translation)  Original Language: French,animals;biological sciences;biology;books;bugs & spiders;children's books;entomology;science & math,8
B00004S7V8,"Microplane 40020 Classic Zester/Grater For fluffy, evenly sized cheese shreds, this is the perfect grater. Its design is based on that of a rasp, the small and efficient woodworking tool. The cutters are especially sharp, which guarantees easy grating. But this also means you'll need to exercise extra caution--no one likes grated knuckles. The large handle allows for a firm grip, and the completely flat grating surface makes it easy to move the cheese across the blades. Carrots, onions, and medium to firm cheeses all worked beautifully with this grater. It's also an excellent choice for larger strips of citrus zest or ginger. --Jill Lightner	Microplane 40020 Zester/Grater, Black Handle		 	 	 For Grating/Zesting of Chocolate, Hard Cheese, Citrus Zest, Coconut, Ginger and Garlic 	 	 	 Blade made of surgical grade stainless steel. Plastic handle. 	 	 	 Dishwasher safe 	 	 	 Cover included 	 	 	 Made in USA",cheese tools;fruit & vegetable tools;graters;home & kitchen;kitchen & dining;kitchen utensils & gadgets;peelers & slicers;zesters & reamers,8
1841124745,"Business Across Cultures (Culture for Business Series) "" readable and informative."" (People Management, April 2004) useful and informative  a valuable asset for any business library. (Management Today, June 2004)very accessible, with some excellent scenariosan excellent read, if not essential. (Personnel Today, 5th October 2004)a lively, engaging read(written in a) light-hearted style (www.dialogin.com)	As business becomes more global and our workforces ever more diverse, the issue of culture has become perhaps the single most important issue for leaders and managers to tackle head on.Most work in this area tends to focus on knowledge of cultures. Business Across Cultures, however, is pioneering in its approach to knowledge for cultures. Trompenaars and Woolliams provide a new framework for dealing with the business implications of culture and provide a practical toolkit for managers and leaders by helping them develop a new mindset for working with and across cultures. There is an entirely different logic flowing through this book, one that breaks away from traditional Anglo-American thinking.Business Across Cultures is the keystone book in the Culture for Business series. It provides an overview of subjects handled in the other books of the series. Its particular aim is to provide executives with a cross cultural perspective on how companies meet the diverse needs of customers, investors and employees; to introduce the main ideas in business in a multicultural context; and to show how they all fit together.	Business Across Cultures is the keystone book in the Culture for Business series. It provides an overview of all subjects tackled in the other books of the series. Its particular aim is to provide executives with a cross-cultural perspective on how companies meet the diverse needs of customers, investors and employees; to introduce the main ideas in business in a multicultural context; and to show how they all fit together.	FONS TROMPENAARS is Director of Trompenaars Hampden-Turner, an innovative centre of excellence in intercultural management. He is the world's foremost authority on cross-cultural management and is author or co-author of several best-selling books in the field, including Riding the Waves of Culture, Die the Pediestrain Die? and 21 Leaders for the 21st Century.PETER WOOLLIAMS is Professor of International Business at Anglia Business School. He is also an owner/partner in Trompenaars Hampden-Turner.",books;business & finance;business & investing;decision-making & problem solving;management;management & leadership;new;used & rental textbooks,8
0877040494,"The Perfection of Wisdom (Wheel Series, 1) Text: English (translation)	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;buddhism;inspirational & religious;literature & fiction;philosophy;poetry;politics & social sciences;religion & spirituality,8
0618714863,"The Large Print Roget's II Thesaurus, Revised Edition The Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries are a team of professional lexicographers with advanced degrees in various scholarly fields. The editors familiarize themselves with the vocabulary in specific subject areas, collect materials on new developments and usage, and work with expert consultants to ensure that the content of our publications is as accurate and as up-to-date as possible.",books;dictionaries;dictionaries & thesauruses;education & reference;new;reference;thesauruses;used & rental textbooks,8
B000HZE8GK,"Enchantmints Prince and Princess Music Box Enchantmints Prince & Princess Music Box.  Measures 6""x4""x6"". The tallest style is excellent for tiny treasures. Earrings, bracelets, charms and sachets are all safe and comfortable inside. Four drawers, one in front and one on each side. Music Box plays ""Invitation To Dance"".	The tallest style of Jewelry Boxes is excellent for tiny treasures. Earrings, bracelets, charms and sachets are all safe and comfortable inside. Four drawers, one in front and one on each side. This jewelry box is specially designed to be cherished for years, our Treasure Boxes are just right for keeping jewelry, collectibles, photographs and precious little finds. Outside are endearing illustrations in a gentle wash of patters and colors. Inside is a safe home for all those happy memories and personal treasures. This 'Just in Case' Jewelry Box has a hinged top, an inside mirror and a lovely velvet-flocked paper lining. Castle-fanciers... Princes and Princesses - It's a fairy tale come true!  NOTE: Made of solid hardware Medium Density Fiberboard with a High Resolution Graphic Printed Paper. Plays the music ""Invitation to the Dance"" while the Prince and Princess are twirling.  Dimensions: 6""L x 4""W x 6""H",accessories;beauty & fashion;dress up & pretend play;jewelry;jewelry boxes;jewelry boxes & organizers;jewelry music boxes;toys & games,8
0688147305,"I Spy: An Alphabet in Art The perfect art book for small children is one that opens their eyes and makes them want to keep looking. I Spy, surely the most cultured alphabet book around, is just right. Parents can leave it out on a table and let it work its magic silently. Its cover picture--Ren Magritte's Son of Man, a painting of a man in a Homburg and overcoat who inexplicably has a green apple where his face ought to be--has just the right touch of whimsy to grab a toddler's attention, but older children (up to about age 80) should love it, too. Inside, there are 26 paintings: large, clear, colorful, and one  to a page. Across from each plate is an alphabet letter, shown both capitalized and lowercase, and the words, I spy with my little eye something beginning with... The Magritte starts off the alphabet (A is for apple, of course), and then Henri Rousseau's Football Players keeps the ball rolling, so to speak. Lucy Micklethwait includes wonderful selections of pictures children can dream about, including an Indian painting, Workmen Building the Palace of Fatehpur Sikri (E for elephant), Goya's incomparable Don Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zuniga (M for magpie), and Mir's Woman and Bird in the Moonlight (S for star). Click to see the spread with Marc Chagall's The Bride and Groom of the Eiffel Tower (V for violin). Compilation and text  1992 by Lucy Micklethwait. Permission by Greenwillow Books. (Preschool and  older) --Peggy Moorman	From the simplest of premises, Micklethwait has fashioned a remarkably rich investigation into the pleasures of looking at paintings. In search of an object beginning with a specific letter, the reader's eye roams pictorial worlds ranging from a 15th-century manuscript illumination to a David Hockney poolside. Spotting the clues hidden in abundant Dutch still lifes, vibrant genre scenes or a Goya portrait can be tricky, but the hunt is never dull, thanks to the author's unusually creative choices and their faithful reproduction. Often, more than one object in a painting satisfies the letter requirement, a subtle hint that art may prompt many questions and reward an alert viewer with multiple answers. Micklethwait understands this truth and uses it well; the images she has chosen will linger with children. All ages. Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Grade 2-6-- A is for apple, B is for ball, but in this alphabet game the apple is found in Magritte's Son of Man , and the ball in Rousseau's Football Players . Some of the word choices are obvious, but it will take a sharp eye to spy the G for guinea pig in van Kessel's Still Life with Fruit and Flowers on a Table , the P for peacock in Crivelli's The Annunciation with St. Emidius , or the Y for yacht in Seurat's Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte. Micklethwait has chosen splendid examples of museum art, which are beautifully reproduced on glossy pages in this oversized picture book. Here are some of the Western world's greatest paintings (along with one from Asia), to be puzzled over, explored, and enjoyed. Adults sharing this book with children will appreciate the richness of the pictures, the interweaving of art styles and periods, and the knowledge that the book gives youngsters the opportunity to become familiar, in the most pleasant of ways, with a gallery of great paintings. --Shirley Wilton, Ocean County College, Toms River, NJCopyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	""A remarkable rich investigation into the pleasures of looking at paintings."" -- -- Publishers Weekly""Gives youngsters the opportunity to become familiar, in the most pleasant of ways, with a gallery of great paintings."" -- -- School Library Journal	Lucy Micklethwait says, ""I began to play 'I Spy' with paintings with my own children when they were very young. Over and over again my children pointed out things which I had never noticed beforean apple that had fallen to the floor, a funny-shaped shoe, an expression on a face. Although we were simply 'looking at pictures,' I was well aware that, by making these paintings accessible, I was enabling my children to build up a store of images in their own minds which must inevitably lead to some interest in fine art."" Ms. Micklethwait's books for children include I Spy Shapes in Art; I Spy: An Alphabet in Art; I Spy Two Eyes: Numbers in Art.",art;arts;books;children's books;crafts & music;education & reference;games;sports & games,8
0300099193,"Kenneth Tynan: A Life Also available by Dominic Shellard: British Theatre Since the War	Dominic Shellard is Reader in English Literature at the University of Sheffield. His previous book was British Theatre Since the War (ISBN 0 300 08737 3, paperback [pound]11.95*), also published by Yale University Press.",arts & literature;arts & photography;authors;biographies & memoirs;books;entertainers;humor & entertainment;performing arts,8
B000J19B8W,"Fluke 117/322 Electricians Multimeter and Clamp Meter Combo Kit This combo kit pairs the new Fluke 117 DMM with a Fluke 322 clamp meter for productive and effective troubleshooting in one total solution, including the new C115 durable soft carrying case for protection and easy meter transportation.	ELECTRICIANS MULTIMETER AND CLAMP METER COMBO KIT",electrical;measuring & layout tools;multi testers;power & hand tools;scanners & testers;stud finders;testers;tools & home improvement,8
0521529964,"A Question of Trust: The BBC Reith Lectures 2002 '... the philosopher Onora O'Neill, a Cambridge academic who purges the ivory-tower associations with a clarity of thought and expression addressed to real issues.' Martin Hoyle, Financial Times'... the principal of Newnham College, Cambridge, is winning praise for her calmly diffident description of a society whose accountability mania puts it too much in the power of a manipulative central government, for her criticism of human rights rhetoric and her belief that a virtuous individual's action can change history.' The Times'Onora O'Neill is talking more good sense than any previous lecturer I can recall.' Sunday Telegraph'The Sun welcomes this debate on cynicism in public life.' Sun'She is brilliant at making a lazy society define its terms ...'. Jasper Gerard, The Sunday Times'... the principal of Newnham College, Cambridge, is winning praise for her calmly dissident description of a society whose accountability mania puts it too  much in the power of a manipulative central government, for her criticism of human rights rhetoric and her belief that a virtuous individual's action can change history.' Vanora Bennett, The Times'As a moral philosopher, O'Neill specialises in that dizzying thing: teasing out contradictions and confusions within concepts that the rest of us unthinkingly bandy about.' Elisabeth Mahoney, Guardian'Her lectures are therefore fascinating because they are both thoughtful and relevant.' Rachel Sylvester, Telegraph'O'Neill ... writes with great clarity and verve. Being a philosopher, she is concerned to raise issues for consideration, to provoke debate, to make us think more deeply ... she articulates and gives depth to issues that must be in many people's minds.' Catholic HeraldThe combination of serious philosophical discussion with journalistic presentational skills has been brought to a fine art by O'Neill ... The subject of these lectures [is] of enormous and immediate importance ... if anything is transparent, it is the truthfulness and good sense of this most admirable lecturer' Baroness Warnock, The Times Higher Education Supplement'... a stimulating and lively read ...'. Practical Philosophy	Onora O'Neill's timely new work highlights a great paradox: in order to inspire trust, we, the public, require more accountability, more transparency. But the more we learn about our financial institutions, our politicians, our medical practitioners, our clergy, and many other people who have a direct effect on our lives, the less willing we are to trust them. Their word is doubted, their motives questioned. Whether real or perceived, this crisis of trust has a debilitating impact on society and democracy. Can trust be restored by making people and institutions more accountable in a modern democracy? Or do complex systems of accountability and control damage trust? O'nora O' Neill challenges current approaches to accountability, investigates sources of deception in our society and re-examines questions of press freedom. |L O'Neill presented these ideas this spring as a part of the BBC Radio 4's reith Lectures. Established in 1948, the Reith Lectures are presented to advance public understanding about significant issues of contemporary interest. Previous lecturers include Bertrand Russel, Robert Oppenheimer, and J.K. Galbraith.	Onora O'Neill is Principal of Newnham College, Cambridge and has written widely on political philosophy, ethics, international justice and Kant.",books;ethics & morality;history & theory;logic & language;philosophy;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences,8
0312141289,"Qigong for Health & Vitality In this lucid introduction to the ancient Chinese health exercise known an Qigong, Hong Kong native Tse expertly guides readers through the origins and philosophy of Qigong before offering illustrated, step-by-step instructions. After a discussion of the benefits of Qigong (stress reduction, improved posture, weight loss, etc.), the volume presents clear, sequentially arranged directions for executing the precise movements that mimic animals (e.g., a ""peeping"" monkey and a flying pigeon) or rely on simple balancing and other continuous actions. Tse concludes with advice on meditation and proper breathing. Readers interested in exploring Eastern forms of exercise should take a look at this one.  Sue-Ellen Beauregard	Michael Tse, founder of the Tse Qigong Center in London, studied Qigong in Hong Kong and China, where he was accepted as a personal student by some of the country's finest teachers.  He now teaches Qigong in London, his current residence, but gives consultations and treatments worldwide.",alternative medicine;books;exercise & fitness;fitness & dieting;health;herbal remedies;injuries & rehabilitation;tai chi & qi gong,8
076422073X,"Ties that Bind (Ribbons West) (No 3) In the conclusion to the popular ""Ribbons West"" trilogy (Westward the Dream, Separate Roads), Jordana Baldwin yearns to travel since her sister Victoria is now happily married and settled down. When her letters home are picked up by an Eastern newspaper under the byline ""J. Baldwin,"" she seizes her chance to go undercover investigating the competition between the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific Railroads as they race to complete the first transcontinental railway. In disguise, Jordana takes to the rails as her fictitious brother ""Joe"" and soon runs into an old friend, Capt. Rich O'Brian. As Jordana struggles with her newfound feelings for Rich, he is tormented by his first wife's death and vows never to care so deeply for another. By placing their faith in God, Jordana and Rich find a common ground. Though the premise of the beautiful Jordana passing herself off as a man is too much of a stretch, fans of the series will enjoy this wrap up. Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Jordana Baldwin dreams of a new adventure. When her writing catches the attention of an eastern newspaper, she soon finds herself reporting on the high-stakes competition between two railroads as they work to link the nation, east to west. Taking on the guise of a man, she becomes a spy for the Central Pacific. Then Jordana discovers that her friend Captain Rich O'Brian now works for the Union Pacific. Though the attraction they share can't be denied, a painful past and uncertain future looms between them. Will competing interests keep Jordana and Rich apart...or bring them together?	Judith Pella is a bestselling author whose writing career spans two decades and more than 30 novels. She and her husband make their home in Scapoose, Oregon.Tracie Peterson is the bestselling, award-winning author of more than 70 novels. She and her family live in Belgrade, Montana.",books;christian books & bibles;fiction;historical;literature & fiction;religion & spirituality;romance;united states,8
0471380741,"A Manager's Guide to Hiring the Best Person for Every Job ""...Clearly written with useful references, with an easy style and font...Without doubt, this title would be an asset to anyone involved in recruiting staff.""(Training, March 2001)	A Manager's Guide to Hiring the Best Person for Every Job* Using the Master Match Matrix(TM)* How to structure the interview* Effective questioning techniques* Understanding the candidate's personality typeHiring-and retaining-great employees shouldn't be left to chance.In today's competitive job market, hiring top employees is absolutely critical. Mistakes could be costly for the company that wants to stay ahead. Yet most managers-no matter how skilled-continue to give short shrift to interviewing job candidates, as if they're letting fate, not expertise, make their hiring decisions.Now there's a comprehensive how-to guide for hiring accurately-the first time around!A Manager's Guide to Hiring the Best Person for Every Job is a step-by-step, intelligent strategy guide to hiring-and retaining-the best job candidates. Chock-full of the most valuable interviewing tools and techniques ever packed into a single volume, A Manager's Guide walks both new and seasoned managers through the 40-minute interview, pointing out highlights-and pitfalls-along the way.With more than 800 sample open-ended questions and a unique interview dialogue with play-by-play commentary, A Manager's Guide gives you tips that will get you past the traditional pat answers and interviewing superficialities and right to the heart of the interview. You'll learn:* Why ""traditional"" methods of interviewing are the least accurate predictors of future job performance* How to structure the interview so you're in control* Which abilities are most important to a candidate's long-term success* How to read body language and probe for the real story* How active listening can save your company thousands* How to use the Master Match Matrix(TM) to identify the trade-offs among competing candidates* How to avoid legal problems and pitfalls in the hiring-and firing-processA Manager's Guide to Hiring the Best Person for Every Job gives you a practical interviewing strategy that generates superior results. For minimum time investment with maximum return on payroll dollars, you can't beat this book.	DeANNE ROSENBERG has specialized in management education for 28 years. The first woman to speak under the auspices of the American Management Association, Ms. Rosenberg is a popular international speaker. Her work has been published in such periodicals as Industry Week, Quality Digest, Executive Excellence, and Supervisory Management. Her clients include IBM, United Airlines, Digital Equipment Corp., GTE Systems, and the U.S. Department of Commerce. She is a member of the American Society for Training and Development and the National Speakers Association, which awarded her the coveted Certified Speaking Professional designation in 1985.",books;business & investing;entrepreneurship;human resources & personnel management;industries & professions;job hunting;job hunting & careers;small business & entrepreneurship,8
B000F5W35A,PIAA Plasma Ion Yellow Bulb H4 Headlight Bulbs These PIAA bulbs are sold in 2 Single Pack cases.,automotive;exterior accessories;headlights;lamps;lighting;lighting & electrical;lights & lighting accessories;replacement parts,8
0813523079,"Women of Belize: Gender and Change in Central America ""Insightful and inspiring.""  -- O. Nigel Bolland, Colgate University""McClaurin has sensitively enable three Belizean women to speak frankly about their difficult lives...""  -- Zee Edgell, author of Beka Lamb""Provides a vivid and evocative portrait of the dynamics of gender and of the evolution of women's consciousness...""  -- Daphne Patai, author of Brazilian Women Speak: Contemporary Life Stories	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	This engaging ethnography is set in the remote district of Toledo in Belize, Central America, where three women weave personal stories about the events in their lives. Each describes her experiences of motherhood, marriage, family lives, emigration, separation, work, or domestic violence that led her to recognize gender inequality and then to do something about it. All three challenge the culture of gender at home and in the larger community. Zola, an East Indian woman without primary school education, invents her own escape from a life of subordination by securing land, then marries the man she's lived with since the age of fourteen-but on her terms. Evelyn, a thirty-nine-year old Creole woman, has raised eight children virtually alone, yet she remains married ""out of habit."" A keen entrepreneur, she has run a restaurant, a store, and a sewing business, and she now owns a mini-mart attached to her home. Rose, a Garifuna woman, is a mother of two whose husband left when se would not accept his extra-marital affairs. While she ekes out a survival in the informal economy, she gets spiritual comfort from her religious beliefs, lover of music, and two children.  The voices of these ordinary Belizean women fill the pages of this book. Irma McClaurin reveals the historical circumstances, cultural beliefs, and institutional structures that have rendered women in Belize socially disenfranchised and economically dependent upon men. She shows how some ordinary women, through their participation in women's grassroots groups, have found the courage to change their lives. Drawing upon her own experiences as a black woman in the United States, and relying upon cross-cultural data about the Caribbean and Latin America, she explains the specific way gender is constructed in Belize.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	Irma McClaurin is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Florida. She has published three books of poetry and is currently working on an intellectual biography of Zora Neale Hurston.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",anthropology;books;cultural;hispanic american studies;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific demographics;women's studies,8
0787965456,"The Miracle of the Seventh Day: A Guide to the Spiritual Meaning, Significance, and Weekly Practice of the Jewish Sabbath This companion for the Sabbath table is intended for novices as well as those well-versed in Shabbat law and observance. It is a tribute to Steinsaltz-rabbi, scholar, author and teacher-that he navigates both audiences successfully, balancing a step-by-step guidebook with a treasury of information about the history, development and significance of prayers and traditions. The Sabbath, Steinsaltz explains, is not just a day of passivity based on a set of laws that prohibit work, but an opportunity to transform inactivity to joy and inner peace. He reveals the reasons for many customs and laws, from the number of loaves of bread (two, to match the double batch of manna that fell on the Sabbath) to the practice of standing during kiddush, the blessing over the day with a cup of wine. (This, he says, is like bearing testimony, which Jewish law stipulates must be done standing up.) His illuminating commentaries, replete with mystical allusions, are not for those who want a quick or abridged version of Sabbath ritual. Instead, Steinsaltz provides the text for a lengthy celebration meant to extend the joy of Shabbat, complete with zemirot (traditional Shabbat songs). All texts appear in Hebrew, with a transliteration and English translation. A few quibbles include the non-grammatical line breaks in the Hebrew text; traditional gendered translations; and lack of music for the songs. These considerations, however, should not deter readers from absorbing Steinsaltz's scholarship and carefully crafted wisdom. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.	This companion for the Sabbath table is intended for novices as well as those well-versed in Shabbat law and observance. It is a tribute to Steinsaltzrabbi, scholar, author and teacherthat he navigates both audiences successfully, balancing a step-by-step guidebook with a treasury of information about the history, development and significance of prayers and traditions. The Sabbath, Steinsaltz explains, is not just a day of passivity based on a set of laws that prohibit work, but an opportunity to transform inactivity to joy and inner peace. He reveals the reasons for many customs and laws, from the number of loaves of bread (two, to match the double batch of manna that fell on the Sabbath) to the practice of standing during kiddush, the blessing over the day with a cup of wine. (This, he says, is like bearing testimony, which Jewish law stipulates must be done standing up.) His illuminating commentaries, replete with mystical allusions, are not for those who want a quick or abridged version of Sabbath ritual. Instead, Steinsaltz provides the text for a lengthy celebration meant to extend the job of Shabbat, complete with zemirot (traditional Shabbat songs). All texts appear in Hebrew, with the transliteration and English translation. A few quibbles include the non-grammatical line breaks in the Hebrew text; traditional gendered translation; and lack of music for the songs.  These considerations, however, should not deter readers from absorbing Steinsaltzs scholarship and carefully crafted wisdom. Apr.) (Publishers Weekly, March 31, 2003)	""In this modest but powerful book the great teacher and scholar Adin Steinsaltz brings the gift of Shabbat's rest and joy to all readers, whether or not they are Jewish or, for that matter, whether or not they call themselves religious at all.""  Robert Pollack, professor of biological sciences and director of the Center for the Study of Science and Religion, Columbia University""Adin Steinsaltz's insights into the Sabbath could not be more timely. The light he casts on Judaism's reflective, receptive surrender to the holy day of rest will open both Jewish and Christian readers' eyes to long-lost dimensions of their own spiritual traditions.""  Stephen J. Dubner, author, Turbulent Souls and Confessions of a Hero Worshiper""For decades, Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz has come to be relied upon by countless Jews throughout the world as our teacher and spiritual guide. With The Miracle of the Seventh Day, Rabbi Steinsaltz once again reveals both the basic information we need to know as well as a doorway to the beauty, inner depths, a nd profound nature of his subject. This is an essentia l book for every Jewish home where the Sabbath is remembered and observed.""  Arthur Kurzweil, author and teacher	In the fourth of the Ten Commandments, God instructs us to observe the Sabbath, to withdraw temporarily from our workaday activities and to rest, to conduct our lives on the seventh day in a way that brings us back in touch with the miracles of life, the people we love, the world we live in, and our connection to the Divine. Consequently, Jews have been taking this commandment very seriously ever since, understanding that the Sabbath is God's gift to humankind and an opportunity for each of us to renew our self and experience personal transformation.In The Miracle of the Seventh Day, the internationally renowned and highly acclaimed Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz offers the definitive explanation of the miraculous potential of the Sabbathwhat it means, and how it can be observed at home with your family. Much like the Haggadah, the guide to the Passover seder, with its step-by-step directions and explanations, this book provides a simple but complete guide to the spiritual content and ritual practice of the seventh day in the home, including commentary on every appropriate observance, ritual, prayer, and song. The book is both an introduction and a program for observing the Sa bbath at home, focused on the core intention and goal of this weekly spiritual renewal.Impeccably written and beautifully designed, The Miracle of the Seventh Day is a book that will be cherished by Jewish families and individuals for a lifetime of reading and reference.	The observance of the Sabbath is one of the most important precepts in Judaism. In The Miracle of the Seventh Day, world-renowned Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz provides an ideal companion and guide for the Sabbath table at home. The book is designed for both those who know very little and for those well-versed in the rituals, traditions, and customs of Shabbat, as celebrated in the family at home. For those with little knowledge, it may serve as a guidebook to assist them in following or conducting a Shabbat meal, complete with blessings before and after the meal and hymns sung at the table. For those already knowledgeable, the book will shed new light upon the spiritual significance of various elements of the Sabbath and provide further insight into the history and development of the prayers and traditions of the day. This is a definitive work that every Jewish individual and family should have for basic reference and lifetime of practical use.	Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz is internationally regarded as one of the greatest rabbis of this century and of the last. Scholar, teacher, mystic, scientist, and social critic-- and hailed by Time magazine as ""once-in-a-millennium scholar""-- Rabbi Steinsaltz has been a resident scholar at Yale University, at the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton, and at the Woodrow Wilson Institute in Washington, D.C. Best known for his monumental translation of and commentary on the Talmud, Rabbi Steinsaltz has also founded a network of educational institutions and outreach programs in the United States, Israel, and the former Soviet Union, Great Britain, and Australia. He is the recipient of the Israel Prize and of the French Order of Arts and Literature. The author of many books including the contemporary classic, The Thirteen Petalled Rose, Rabbi Steinsaltz is widely known throughout the world as an extraordinary teacher. He has been featured on Good Morning America and National Public Radio, as well as in People, Newsweek, and many other publications and media.",books;humanities;jewish life;judaism;new;religion & spirituality;religious studies;used & rental textbooks,8
1591050758,"Moon of Little Winter A perfect 10! ... A thrilling ride of suspense, love, and hidden truths. -- Romance Reviews TodayFor a provocative, eerie and romantic escape into the occult and mysterious, read Moon of Little Winter. -- Heartstrings",books;contemporary;genre fiction;ghosts;horror;literature & fiction;occult;romance,8
B000NMK4OW,"Brussel's Dawn Redwood Grove,7 Tree Dawn Redwoods were thought to be totally extinct until they were discovered at a temple in China in early 20th century. These trees have beautiful feather-like foliage and a formal, upright style which is visually powerful and majestic.",garden center;gardening;germination kits;lawn & garden;patio;plant germination equipment;power & hand tools;tools & home improvement,8
B000FO4Y7G,"Fatigue Testing and Analysis: Theory and Practice ""If you have only one book on fatigue, this should be the one. This book is an excellent blend of theunderlying science of fatigue and the application of this knowledge to the art of fatigue design and analysis. It will be useful to both testing and design engineers...This book is an excellent beginning for practicing engineers who wish to gain a better understanding of the various techniques used for fatigue assessment of structures and components. At the same time experts will find it a useful reference for many of the newer methods and techniques."" - International Journal of Pressure Vessels and Piping	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	This book is a summary of experimental and analytical techniques that are essential to students and practicing engineers for conducting mechanical component design and testing for durability.  There is a serious need for engineers to have an overview on the entire methodology of durability testing and reliability to bridge the gap between fundamental fatigue research and its durability applications.                                        	Covers the useful techniques for component load measurement and data acquisition, fatigue properties determination, fatigue analysis, and accelerated life test criteria development, and, most importantly, test plans for reliability demonstrations.  	Written from a practical point of view, based on the authors' industrial and academic experience in automotive engineering design.	Extensive practical examples are used to illustrate the main concepts in all chapters.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.",books;civil;engineering;mechanical;mechanics;physics;professional & technical;science & math,8
0698116356,"Tanya and Emily in a Dance for Two The wiggly, petite dancer last seen in Bravo, Tanya continues to express her joie de ballet in this rousing encore. When Emily joins Tanya's dance class, everyone (including Barbara, Tanya's ballerina bear) recognizes that Emily is a prima ballerina: she's lithe and limber, able to execute even the difficult cabriole. At first Emily is ""always alone"" and Tanya ""always goes her own way."" But when the two girls meet by chance in the park zoo, Tanya's imitative, free-spirited ostrich dance captivates Emily, who joins with Tanya to dance the flamingo, the panther, the giraffe and the ""wild leaping goat"" (otherwise known as the cabriole). From then on, the two enter into a special friendship. The disciplined Emily helps Tanya refine her movements, while Tanya brings laughter to Emily. As in the other Tanya stories, Ichikawa applies her dexterous, empathic humor to the text through lively watercolors. With a palette varied in brightness and tone, Ichikawa evokes mood and place, whether inside the dusky dance hall or in the crisp outdoors. Even more impressively, she conveys Tanya's state of perpetual motion and Emily's unusual grace. Ichikawa and Gauch, like the girls, partner each other beautifully. Ages 4-8. Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	PreSchool-Grade 3-As in Dance, Tanya (1989) and Bravo, Tanya (1992, both Philomel), this little girl's passion for movement shines through here, and she dances in her own, sometimes unconventional, way. She's the wiggliest in the class, always at the end of the line, but finds joy in everything about ballet. When a newcomer, Emily, joins the class, she does everything properly. On a walk through the park, Tanya teaches her new friend to find many inspirations to dance, and Emily teaches Tanya how to do a cabriole. Neither girl is alone anymore, and their friendship reinforces their complementary skills. Ichikawa's watercolors are equally deft in depicting Tanya's free spiritedness and Emily's grace. Like the girls, her lines are always in motion, and Tanya and Emily leap off the pages. The palette is brighter than in the first two books, and Ichikawa uses grays to paint the offsets, which show the companions working and practicing before they actually perform the steps. This book has a larger format than the previous two and reflects that Tanya, too, has grown. Children will be inspired to create their own steps and encouraged by the idea that there is room for more than one style of expression.Cheri Estes, Dorchester Road Regional Library, Charleston, SCCopyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Ages 4-8. Tanya, the ""smallest and wiggliest"" student in her ballet class, looks up to the new girl, Emily, who stands, walks, stretches, and dances like a ballerina. Yet as they walk through the zoo after class, it is Tanya who shows Emily how to make a dance by mimicking the movements of the animals. They become friends, and later they perform a pas de deux in the recital. Ichikawa's charming and expertly executed line-and-watercolor wash illustrations portray the two girls and their movements to perfection. Even at the end, Tanya's positions and movements look a bit unpolished compared with Emily's more graceful ones, yet her contribution to their friendship is as clear as her energy and love of dance. Another beguiling picture book, for children who enjoyed Dance, Tanya (1989) and Bravo, Tanya (1992).  Carolyn Phelan	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	The little girl first introduced in Dance, Tanya (1989) isn't the most talented member of her dance class, but she's the most exuberant; she dances always and everywhere, even in bed at night. Then Emily joins her class and sets a new standard: Her arabesques, her pirouettes, even her cabrioles are perfection. ``A prima ballerina!'' whispers Tanya's toy bear. Still, going home through the park, Tanya dances as blithely as ever, imitating zoo animals. Emily--also alone--is curious. Soon the two are taking turns: Tanya dances a flamingo and Emily a penguin, Tanya a leopard and Emily an antelope, then both dance giraffes, and Emily shows Tanya that a cabriole is really ``a leaping, wild goat.'' And at the next recital, they do a spirited (if not perfectly matched) pas de deux. Ichikawa's rhythmic compositions subtly contrast Tanya's childish charm with Emily's more polished performances while deftly capturing the grace of both and the animals they mimic. An unusually appealing book with an unobtrusive message: Tanya may never match Emily's achievement, but when she shows her friend the playful side of their art, both are enriched. (Fiction/Picture book. 4-8) -- Copyright 1994, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",arts;books;children's books;crafts & music;dance;friendship;performing arts;social situations,8
B000BP7700,"Amazon.com: Flashlight - Flashcard: Clothing Unique, credit card size flashlight fits most anywhere... and is ready when you need it",flashlights;hand tools;handheld (standard) flashlights;power & hand tools;related accessories;shoes;tools & home improvement;wallets & money organizers,8
B000JMKTLY,"Atlantis (Jack Howard) Marine archeologist Jack Howard may have found the key to uncovering Atlantis, the legendary sunken city purportedly built by a flourishing culture. A scrap of papyrus discovered in an Egyptian desert, which may contain a secondhand account of the lost city, sends Jack scrambling to assemble a team, including Costas, an MIT- and Stanford-trained expert in submersible technology and Katya, a beautiful Russian Atlantis specialist. Once prepped and in position in the Aegean Sea, Jack and company find themselves caught up with Kazakhstan terrorists and a multicountry fight over a missing Soviet nuclear submarineand that's before they've uncovered the ancient secrets of the lost city. It's thrilling stuff for sure, but the story limps along on complicated, exposition-heavy science that's doled out much too slowly (characters walk each otheroften and at lengththrough their particular areas of expertise as the plot requires). Gibbons, an underwater archeologist and Cambridge University Ph.D., knows his science; still, things don't pick up until the second half of the story, when the dive gives way to a more straightforward kidnapping plot. The historical conspiracy angle gives the book Da Vinci-esque appeal, and the intense visual details of the team's marine discoveries make it naturally cinematic, but if history and science lectures aren't your cup of Dramamine, you might want to give this one a pass. (Oct.) Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	The historical conspiracy angle gives the book Da Vinci-esque appeal, and the intense visual details of the team's marine discoveries make it naturally cinematic.Publishers WeeklyFrom the Paperback edition.	A native of Canada, at the age of fifteen David Gibbins dived on his first shipwreck in the Great Lakes.  He has worked in underwater archaeology all his professional life.  After taking a PhD from Cambridge University, he taught archaeology in Britain and abroad, and is a world authority on ancient shipwrecks and sunken cities.  He has led numerous expeditions to investigate underwater sites in the Mediterranean and around the world.  He currently divides his time between fieldwork, England and Canada.	Chapter OneI'VE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE IT BEFORE!The words came from a dry suited diver who had just surfaced behind the stern of the research vessel, his voice breathless with excitement. After swimming over to the ladder, he removed his fins and mask and passed them up to the waiting barge chief. He hauled himself laboriously out of the water, his heavy cylinders causing him momentarily to lose balance, but a heave from above landed him safe and sound on the deck. His dripping shape was quickly surrounded by other members of the team who had been waiting on the dive platform.Jack Howard made his way down from the bridge walkway and smiled at his friend. He still found it amazing that such a bulky figure could be so agile underwater. As he negotiated the clutter of dive equipment on the aft deck he called out, his mocking tone a familiar part of their banter over the years.We thought you'd swum back to Athens for a gin and tonic beside your father's pool. What've you found, the lost treasure of the Queen of Sheba?Costas Kazantzakis shook his head impatiently as he struggled along the railing towards Jack. He was too agitated even to bother taking off his equipment. No, he panted. I'm serious. Take a look at this.Jack silently prayed that the news was good. It had been a solo dive to investigate a silted-up shelf on top of the submerged volcano, and the two divers who had followed Costas would soon be surfacing from the decompression stop. There would be no more dives that season.Costas unclipped a carabiner and passed over an underwater camcorder housing, pressing the replay button as he did so. The other members of the team converged behind the tall Englishman as he flipped open the miniature LCD screen and activated the video. Within moments Jack's sceptical grin had given way to a look of blank amazement.The underwater scene was illuminated by powerful floodlights which gave colour to the gloom almost one hundred metres below. Two divers were kneeling on the seabed using an airlift, a large vacuum tube fed by a low-pressure air hose which sucked up the silt covering the site. One diver wrestled to keep the airlift in position while the other gently wafted sediment up towards the mouth of the tube, the action revealing artifacts just as an archaeologist on land would use a trowel.As the camera zoomed in, the object of the divers' attention came dramatically into view. The dark shape visible upslope was not rock but a concreted mass of metal slabs laid in interlocking rows like shingles.Oxhide ingots, Jack said excitedly. Hundreds of them. And there's a cushioning layer of brushwood dunnage, just as Homer described in the ship of Odysseus.Each slab was about a metre long with protruding corners, their shape resembling the flayed and stretched hide of an ox. They were the characteristic copper ingots of the Bronze Age, dating back more than three and a half thousand years.It looks like the early type, one of the students on the team ventured. Sixteenth century BC?Unquestionably, Jack said. And still in rows just as they were laden, suggesting the hull may be preserved underneath. We could have the oldest ship ever discovered.Jack's excitement mounted as the camera traversed down the slope. Between the ingots and the divers loomed three giant pottery jars, each as tall as a man and over a metre in girth. They were identical to jars that Jack had seen in the storerooms at Knossos on Crete. Inside, they could see stacks of stemmed cups painted with beautifully naturalistic octopuses and marine motifs, their swirling forms at one with the undulations of the seabed.There was no mistaking the pottery of the Minoans, the remarkable island civilization that flourished at the time of the Egyptian Middle and New Kingdoms but then disappeared suddenly, around 1400 BC. Knossos, the fabled labyrinth of the Minotaur, had been one of the most sensational discoveries of the last century. Following close on the heels of Heinrich Schliemann, excavator of Troy, the English archaeologist Arthur Evans had set out to prove that the legend of the Athenian prince Theseus and his lover Ariadne was as grounded in real events as the Trojan War. The sprawling palace just south of Heraklion was the key to a lost civilization he dubbed Minoan after their legendary king. The maze of passageways and chambers gave extraordinary credence to the story of Theseus' battle with the Minotaur, and showed that the myths of the Greeks centuries later were closer to real history than anyone had dared think.Yes! Jack punched the air with his free hand, his normal reserve giving way to the emotion of a truly momentous discovery. It was the culmination of years of single-minded passion, the fulfilment of a dream that had driven him since boyhood. It was a find that would rival Tutankhamens tomb, a discovery that would secure his team front place in the annals of archaeology.For Jack these images were enough. Yet there was more, much more, and he stood transfixed by the screen. The camera panned down to the divers on a low shelf below the clump of ingots.Probably the stern compartment. Costas was pointing at the screen. Just beyond this ledge is a row of stone anchors and a wooden steering oar.Immediately in front was an area of shimmering yellow which looked like the reflection of the floodlights off the sediment in the water. As the camera zoomed in, there was a collective gasp of astonishment.That's not sand, the student whispered. That's gold!Now they knew what they were looking at, the image was one of surpassing splendour. In the centre was a magnificent golden chalice fit for King Minos himself. It was decorated in relief with an elaborate bullfighting scene. Alongside lay a life-sized golden statue of a woman, her arms raised in supplication and her headdress wreathed in snakes. Her bare breasts had been sculpted from ivory, and a flickering arc of colour showed where her neck was embellished with jewels. Nestled in front was a bundle of golden-handled bronze swords, their blades decorated with fighting scenes made from inlaid silver and blue enamel.The most brilliant reflection came from the area just in front of the divers. Each waft of the hand seemed to reveal another gleaming object. Jack could make out gold bars, royal seals, jewellery and delicate diadem crowns of intertwined leaves, all jumbled together as if they had once been inside a treasure chest.The view suddenly veered up towards the ascent line and the screen abruptly went blank. In the stunned silence that followed, Jack lowered the camera and looked at Costas.I think we're in business, he said quietly. *** Jack had staked his reputation on a far-flung proposal. In the decade since completing his doctorate he had become fixated on discovering a Minoan wreck, a find that would clinch his theory about the maritime supremacy of the Minoans in the Bronze Age. He had become convinced that the most likely spot was a group of reefs and islets some seventy nautical miles north-east of Knossos.Yet for weeks they had searched in vain. A few days earlier their hopes had been raised and then dashed by the discovery of a Roman wreck, a dive Jack expected to be his last of the season. Today was to have been a chance to evaluate new equipment for their next project. Once again Jack's luck had held out.Mind giving me a hand?Costas had slumped exhausted beside the stern railing on Seaquest, his equipment still unbuckled and the water on his face now joined by rivulets of sweat. The late afternoon sun of the Aegean drenched his form in light. He looked up at the lean physique that towered over him. Jack was an unlikely scion of one of England's most ancient families, his easy grace the only hint of a privileged lineage. His father had been an adventurer who had eschewed his background and used his wealth to take his family away with him to remote locations around the world. His unconventional upbringing had left Jack an outsider, a man most at ease in his own company and beholden to nobody. He was a born leader who commanded respect on the bridge and the foredeck.What would you do without me? Jack asked with a grin as he lifted the tanks off Costas' back.The son of a Greek shipping tycoon, Costas had spurned the playboy lifestyle which was his for the asking and opted for ten years at Stanford and MIT, emerging as an expert in submersible technology. Surrounded by a vast jumble of tools and parts that only he could navigate, Costas would routinely conjure up wondrous inventions like some latter-day Caractacus Pott. His passion for a challenge was matched by his gregarious nature, a vital asset in a profession where teamwork was essential.The two men had first met at the NATO base at Izmir in Turkey when Jack had been seconded to the Naval Intelligence School and Costas was a civilian adviser to UNANTSUB, the United Nations anti-submarine warfare research establishment. A few years later Jack invited Costas to join him at the International Maritime University, the research institution which had been their home for more than ten years now. In that time Jack had seen his remit as director of field operations at IMU grow to four ships and more than two hundred personnel, and despite an equally burgeoning role in the engineering department, Costas always seemed to find a way to join Jack when things got exciting.Thanks, Jack. Costas slowly stood up, too tired to say more. He only stood as high as Jack's shoulders and had a barrel chest and forearms inherited from generations of Greek sponge fishermen and sailors, with a personality to match. This project had been close to his heart as well, and he was suddenly drained by the excitemen...",action & adventure;books;british;contemporary;genre fiction;kindle ebooks;kindle store;literature & fiction,8
B000005P4U,"Narada Collection 3 16 tracks, performed by David Arkenstone, Martin Kolbe, Eric Tingstad, Nancy Rumbel, and more",folk;jazz;miscellaneous;music;new age;pop;rock;world music,8
B0000DI82U,"Orbit 57008 Sprinkler System 9-Station Indoor Mounted Sprinkler System Control Timer This easy-to-program 9-station timer has text messaging in English, Spanish and French. The convenient one touch sliding bars adjust watering duration of each station, making it ideal for sun versus shade, lawn versus flowers and differing soil conditions.	9 Station, Indoor Timer, Easy To Program & Install, 1 Touch Sliding Bars Adjust Watering Duration Of Each Station, Ideal For Sun Versus Shade, Lawn Versus Flowers & Differing Soil Conditions, 3 Independent Programs Can Set Your Watering Time From 1 To 120 Minutes, Great Water Conservation Features Such As Rain Delay With A Range Of 1-99 Days, Text Messaging In English, Spanish & French.",garden center;gardening;hose timers;lawn & garden;patio;power & hand tools;tools & home improvement;watering equipment,8
0966039025,"Is God a Chauvinist? The Bible and Women: A Complete Look Elreta Dodds is an Associate Minister of Faith Christian Community Church located in Port Huron Michigan where Rev. Link Howard III is Pastor. She has authored and published four books, the titles of which are, ""For Christians who are Seriously Dating or would like to Be (2004),"" ""Is God a Chauvinist? The Bible and Women (2002), "" ""What the Bible Really says about Slavery, (2000)""  and ""The Trouble with Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam (1997)."" Dodds is certified in Advanced Church Ministry through the Evangelical Christian Association and is also certified in Ministry through the Faith Center for Christian Education. She has a Master of Arts degree in Guidance and Counseling and a Bacholor of Arts degree in Psychology, both of which were obtained from Wayne State University where she graduated with Honors. Dodds is also a Licensed Professional Counselor as well as a Licensed Masters Level clinical Social Worker. She has signed books and lectured throughout the country since 1998. Dodds has also been interviewed on several radio and television programs including ""American Black Journal "" (Fall of 2006) and the Christian Television Network. She has been guest speaker at churches in New York, California, Miami Florida, Chicago, Dubuque Iowa, Southfield Michigan, Flint Michigan, Port Huron Michigan, Smith's Creek Michigan, and Detroit. For more information about Elreta Dodds click onto her website at www.elretadodds.com.",books;christian books & bibles;christian living;education & reference;reference;religion & spirituality;religious studies;theology,8
9626342552,"Lives of the Artists: A Selection (Biography) `...a book which has come to be recognised as the single most important contemporary source of information on hundreds of artists of the Italian Renaissance period.' --Irish Independent	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	GIORGIO VASARI (1511-1574), born in Tuscany, studied in Florence with Michelangelo while he was still a boy. When his patron, Duke Alessandro, was assassinated, Vasari wandered round Italy filling his notebooks with sketches; during this period, he conceived the idea of the Lives. By his thirties, Vasari was a highly successful painter; when his Lives were published they were received enthusiastically. He returned to Florence in 1555, where he was appointed architect of the Palazzo Vecchio. After a grand tour of Italian towns he published the revised and enlarged edition of his Lives in 1568. Vasari was knighted by Pope Pius V in 1571.	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Audio CD	 edition.	Giorgio Vasari (1511-74) was born during one of the greatesteras of art, and five centuries later his work gives readers acontemporary window on the Renaissance. In these excerpts from hismassive work, LIVES OF THE PAINTERS, SCULPTORS AND ARCHITECTS, Vasarinot only describes the artists' major works, but shares personalreflections about the men themselves. Narrator Neville Jason, who alsohas chosen and abridged the selections, is skillful with the Italianand clearly shares Vasari's ear for entertaining anecdotes. This ismost obvious in the substantial sections on Brunelleschi andMichelangelo, although some of the selections--there are 40 in all,some only five or six minutes--are too brief to be engaging.D.B.  AudioFile 2003, Portland, Maine-- Copyright  AudioFile, Portland, Maine",architects & photographers;artists;arts & literature;arts & photography;biographies & memoirs;books;history;history & criticism,8
0887764282,"The Nose from Jupiter Gr. 5^-8. Alan Dingwall doesn't really mind that Norbert, a tiny alien from Jupiter, has taken up residence inside his nose. In fact, Alan quite likes Norbert. The problem is Norbert speaks his mind, giving everyone the idea that Alan is a master ventriloquist. When Norbert mouths off to school bullies and helps beat them at soccer, Alan sees big trouble on the way. The premise may seem far-fetched, but Scrimger pulls it off. Alan's perspective on life is hilarious (even in the face of his parents' divorce), making this a delightfully funny, fast-paced story that will turn readers into instant fans. Alan's comical insights and outlook on life even help him win the heart of his favorite girl. A surefire hit, especially among reluctant readers, including some who are older than the target audience.  Helen Rosenberg	How do you shut up when your nose is doing all the talking?Alan is not big or strong. He hates playing soccer and can barely keep up in math class. Moreover he?s fodder for every bully for miles around. But all that changes the day Norbert, an alien from Jupiter, comes to earth on an exploration mission and moves into ? Alan?s nose. Soon Alan isn?t acting like himself, but is Norbert really to blame? Loud, pushy and hilarious, Norbert teaches Alan to stand up for himself, even when the odds are stacked against him.	A columnist and novelist, Richard Scrimger grew up in Toronto, always writing but never really considering it a career, until after the birth of his first two children, twins, when he discovered the only time he could seriously write was during their naps. His style clearly demonstrates the influence of his experiences as a waiter in Torontos upscale restaurants, and as a stay-at-home father to his four children. Genuinely witty, his work can be described as multi-dimensional - comic elements ride upon the surface, supported by varying levels of seriousness underneath. Columns detailing Richards adventures in parenthood have been published in The Globe and Mail, Chatelaine, and Todays Parent, and were compiled in a collection titled Still Life with Children. His first adult novel, Crosstown, was a finalist for the City of Toronto Book Award. His first childrens novel, The Nose from Jupiter, won the 10th annual Mr. Christie Book Award, was selected as an A.B.A. Kids Pick of the List title, and was a finalist for the Ontario Library Associations 1999 Silver Birch Award.Richard Scrimger is also the author of The Way to Schenectady about the adventures of the Peeler family on the road; Mystical Rose, an adult novel; and a sequel to The Nose from Jupiter entitled A Nose for Adventure. In 2001 Scrimger published Bun Buns Birthday a picture book illustrated by Gillian Johnson, and a Peeler Christmas story called Of Mice and Nutcrackers. He and his family live in Cobourg, Ontario.	Chapter 1: How'd I Get Here?Dont you hate it when everyone in the room is wearing clothes and youre not? The doctors wearing a dress with a white coat on top, and the nurse has on one of those green uniforms. Moms wearing her new tweed suit  a bit wrinkled after a day at work and half the night sitting beside my bed  but still, a suit. And me? I have underpants. Period. I had a hospital gown that didnt do up the right way, but they made me take it off. So now Im wearing dark green Y-fronts and a smile, and thats about it. No, I forgot. I have a bandage on. It isnt doing me much good, modesty-wise, because its on my head.The doctor introduces herself. Shes new. I forget her name immediately. Ive seen the nurse before; her name is Angela. Shes okay. The doctor smiles down at me, pokes and prods for a bit, and lets me put on my gown again. Thats a little better.So youre the boy who talks to himself, she says, taking the laser out of her pocket. All right, its not really a laser but it looks like one, and it feels like one. The other doctors all had them too. Angela here has been telling me about you.I dont say anything. She tilts my head and shines the light in my eye. Ouch. Like a laser.Whats your name? she asks.Doctors have to go to school for a long time. Everyone knows how smart they are. They sure know it. But they must think the rest of the world is as thick as a brick because they ask really obvious questions. Ive seen lots of doctors since I woke up, and every one of them has asked my name. Some of them asked more than once. And its not like its a tough name to remember.Alan, I say. Alan Dingwall. Dont say it. Its my name; Ive had to live with it all my life. Im still thirteen, I say.Still?Everybody keeps asking how old I am. Im the same age I was a couple of hours ago. Im still in Grade Seven. I still live in Cobourg. My birthday is still October 16th. The doctor chuckles. And my head still hurts.Oh, you poor thing. I cant see her, but thats my mom. Who was the English queen with Calais written on her heart? My mom has Oh, you poor thing on hers.We want to know how much you remember, Alan, says the doctor. Thats why we ask the same questions over and over again. You were unconscious for almost five hours. Thats a long time. Weve done lots of tests, but some of them were . . . inconclusive.You think I have trouble remembering my own name? Or where I live?The doctor tilts my head, stares up my nose. The last doctor did this too. What do they think is up there? Then she goes back to my eyes. How much do you remember, Alan? Do you remember the accident?Ive tried, I say. I remember the rain and the mud. And the creek running high. Norbert was running too  I had a cold. I try to take a breath. Im still really stuffy. Even stuffier than I was.Norbert is a friend of yours?Uh  kind of, I say.And then?I dont know.What about your other friend? the doctor asks. The little dark-haired girl?Miranda? What about her?Shes in the report from the Cobourg Hospital. She pulled you out of the river and called the ambulance. Dont you remember?I shake my head. Ouch. Funny that I dont remember about Miranda. Not funny ha-ha, funny weird. She doesnt usually walk home from school with me. She takes a bus. Normally Id remember being with her. And this afternoon she couldnt have been with me. I know that, though I dont remember why.Drat. Its like theres a hole in my memory, and everything about the accident has fallen in  Miranda, the river, the collie dog, everything. I hope I can find them all again.Wait a minute. Miranda has brown hair, doesnt she?I wish I could remember more, I say.Thats okay. Youre lucky to live in Cobourg, Alan. Ive been there once or twice. Its such a pretty place, right by the lake. Look to the left. And to the right. Dont move your head. Just your eyes.Im happy to keep my head still. It hurts when I move it. I wonder if Ill ever remember what happened, I say.Probably. Dont worry about it. You always wear green shorts? the doctor asks suddenly.Huh? I say.Your underpants. You like green ones?I not really, I say.Good. I dont either. And by the way, just for the record, are those green underpants clean, or did you wear them yesterday too?Hey!Just trying to think of fresh questions. I dont like boring my patients. Now shes shining the light in my other eye. I cant tell if shes smiling but she sounds like it.Im not bored, I say.Good. Dont look at the light. Look left again. Now how about this  whats the cube root of four hundred and eighty-nine?I blink. I dont know.The doctor turns off the light. I can see she is smiling. Good, she says. I dont know either. Id worry if you did know.At that point the door opens and my dad comes in. Is this the right room? he asks. Hes moving fast, looking worried and important, until he sees me. Then he stops as if hes been punched hard in the stomach. He takes a slow, careful step toward my bed. And another one. Youre awake! he says.I smile feebly.I thought you were unconscious, he says. Sorry I took so long to get here. My flight didnt get in to Toronto until midnight, and the cab broke down on the way to the hospital. He notices my mom. You said he was in a coma, he says.My mom is beside the window, looking out. I dont know what she expects to see at this time of night. My dad is standing in the doorway. Whenever theyre together, which isnt very often, my parents seem to drift to opposite sides of the room. Youd think they were two like poles of a magnet. Like poles repel, dont they? After the divorce my dads company moved him away from Cobourg  first to Chicago, and then Minneapolis. Now he lives in Vancouver. Drifted right across the continent. Give him another couple of years and Ill have to fly to Thailand every summer to see him.The doctor goes over and introduces herself to my dad. I miss her name again. Congratulations, Mr. Dingwall, she says. Your son is going to be okay. He was in what we call a light coma, but he came out of it earlier this evening.Great, says my dad.Angela the nurse is holding my hand. Like I said, shes nice.Can I go to sleep yet? I ask. Ive been trying to get to sleep since I woke up  that doesnt sound right, does it, but I woke up a little after dinnertime and Ive been yawning and yawning ever since. And they havent let me go to sleep for more than an hour at a time.Do you want something to drink first? asks the nurse. Some ginger ale or juice?Oh yes, I say. Please. Im thirsty. And sleepy. And I have a headache.Better than being in a coma.My dad insists on staying with me. I wonder if he really wants to, or if hes just trying to get my mom upset. She wants to stay with me too. You look awful, Helen, my dad tells her. Why dont you go home and get some rest? Ill sit up with Alan. And the nurse and doctor smile, like were a TV family where everyone cares. What we need is a dog, or maybe a pesky little sister. And a crazy neighbor who drops in during every episode.You look pretty lousy too, she says.Not as lousy as you. Your hairs a mess.So is yours. And you spilled something gross on your shirt. Gravy, or something.Yeah, well, I was in a hurry.And you still turned up too late.Too late for what? To see my son in a coma? And anyway, I cant change the airline schedule. I came as fast as I could.A family fight; not the first one Ive ever heard. Looks like well have to cancel The Dingwalls in mid-season. Parents  who needs them? The doctor and nurse are edging toward the door. I wish I could go too.Look, Ive traveled three thousand miles to see my son; Id like to spend some time with him. Is that too much to ask? My dad is sounding reasonable. A business voice. His job is in human relations. Moms a social worker, counsels kids in trouble. Ironic, or what? Like that old proverb where the shoemakers kids go barefoot, and the bakers kids are hungry, and the candlestick makers kids are in the dark. Nowadays, instead of candlestick makers, we have managers and co-ordinators and directors, and their kids are unmanageable and unco-ordinated and lacking direction. Sometimes I think Lizzie Borden had the right idea.Why dont...",books;children's books;emotions & feelings;humor;literature & fiction;self-esteem & self-respect;short story collections;social situations,8
0812927370,"The Edison Trait: Saving the Spirit of Your Free-Thinking Child in a Conforming World Lucy Jo Palladino defines the Edison Trait (named after Thomas Edison) as divergent vs. convergent thinking. Edison Trait kids--one in five children--have the qualities that make innovative leaders, inventors, explorers, yet they often have a hard time in school where their personality traits may be seen as weak or negative. Palladino recasts these children in a positive light and gives specifics on understanding and becoming an ally for your Edison Trait child. The book is convincing, reassuring, and accessible. Perhaps it will help parents of nonconforming kids resist the pressure to make their kids just fit in.	""The Edison Trait brings together much of the best of current scientific research on the developing mind, along with much original advice. The result is a satisfying blend of information and guidance that will greatly assist parents in allowing their child's creativity to come forth. It is a book that is sound, well researched, and fun to read.""--Robert Ornstein, author of The Psychology of Consciousness and The Right Mind	""My daughter lives in her own world, sitting in the back of the classroom, doodling unicorns. She's a bright kid who's getting lost. How do we reach her?""""My son can program my laptop, but I have to hound him constantly to do the simplest things. How can I motivate him?""""My kid has to get his own way. And he's always racing around, always on the go. How can such a smart kid be so hard to live with?""Millions of children--one in five--have what psychologist Lucy Jo Palladino, Ph.D., calls the Edison trait: dazzling intelligence, an active imagination, a free-spirited approach to life, and the ability to drive everyone around them crazy. They have the raw talent to succeed in our fast-paced, information-rich, techno-magic world. But, unbridled, their talent also brings conflict into their lives. Edison-trait kids excel at thinking divergently, brimming over with one idea after the other. However, schools, organized activities, and routines of daily living reward convergent thinking, which seeks to focus on one idea at a time. Parents and teachers get frustrated by the Edison-trait child's apparent intractability and lack of focus. A mismatch between school and child can mask the child's considerable gifts for creativity and independent thinking.Drawing on examples from over two decades of private practice, Dr. Palladino helps parents, teachers and others appreciate this challenging aspect of their child's intellect and personality. She distinguishes and describes the three main styles of the Edison trait. Dreamers live in their own world, following no one's schedule but their own. Discoverers insist on learning about and experiencing the world firsthand. Dynamos are full of energy, with a flair for surprises, power, and speed. A small percentage of Edison-trait kids also have Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), which puts them at even greater risk for problems in school. To address parents' concerns, The Edison Trait includes chapters on defining, diagnosing, and treating ADD. Thomas Edison, who flunked out of school was able to harness his talents to give the world some of its finest inventions. Today this same ability to brainstorm thrives in creative geniuses such as Maya Angelou, Bill Gates, and Ted Turner.Dr. Palladino offers eight guidelines for parents to understand and help Edison-trait kids: 1 Believe in your child.2 Watch what you say.3 Build a parent-and-child team.4 Encourage your child's interests.5 Teach your child self-control.6 Coach your child to learn how to achieve.7 Take care of yourself.8 Take care of your family.The Edison trait is on the rise in our younger generation, who are growing up in a world of accelerated change. Dr. Palladino reveals the link between Edisonian thinking and Information Age success. She explains how Edison-trait children are born leaders of the twenty-first century. Her inspiring and reassuring book will light the way.	Lucy Jo Palladino, Ph.D., is an award-winning psychologist who has spent twenty years evaluating and treating children and their families. She has served on the faculty of the University of Arizona medical school and has published widely in her field. Dr. Palladino practices in Encinitas, California.",books;child psychology;fitness & dieting;health;parenting;parenting & relationships;psychology & counseling;reference,8
0815607644,"Jonah and Sarah: Jewish Stories of Russia and America (The Library of Modern Jewish Literature) This is Shrayer-Petrov's seventeenth book and the twentieth in Syracuse University's Library of Modern Jewish Literature series. The author writes that these 13 stories bear testimony to 16 years of ""setting roots in my new country."" Almost half of the stories were written before 1987, when he and his family emigrated from the Soviet Union to the U.S. Spanning two decades of Jewish themes and characters, this collection retrospectively showcases about one-third of Shrayer-Petrov's short fiction. Three of the stories deal with love and marriage between Jews and Gentiles. Others concern such topics as anti-Semitism, totalitarianism, love, and alienation. Powerfully inventive and haunting, these are works of stunning imagination from a profoundly gifted storyteller. George CohenCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	A brilliant writer now among us, [Shrayer-Petrov] is worthy of continued attention. -- The Providence Journal January 11, 2004[T]he attentive reader may sense the spirit of the master of the genre, Isaac Babel, hovering over every page. -- The Boston Globe 28 November 2003	David Shrayer-Petrov's deeply moving short stories in ""Jonah and Sarah: Jewish Stories of Russia and America"" evoke art, love, and survival in Russia and in diaspora. After he declared his intention to emigrate in 1979, Shrayer-Petrov was unable to publish in the Soviet Union, and spent nine years as a refusenik before he moved to the U.S.  This translation of his stories by his son, Maxim D. Shrayer, is an expression of family love and the power of literature to transcend time and culture.	The Library of Modern Jewish Literature ""We have been waiting a long while for a new collection of Jewish tales to arrive and      finally they are here. . . . An excellent collection. . . . Highly recommended."" Ray Bradbury  ""A lively and artful set of stories. [Shrayer-Petrov's] sharp wit and deeply moving prose sweep us into ripping memories of a past awash with personal struggle against a fierce Soviet Union and through the strains and expectations of a new immigrant to America. . . . Engaging insights, with colorful, unforgettable, characters. . . . A triumph.""  Rabbi Harvey J. Fields	David Shrayer-Petrov, a well-known contemporary Russian-American writer and medical scientist, has published sixteen books, including the novel Herbert and Nelly, which was longlisted for the 1993 Booker Russian Prize. His recent work includes a novel, Tstemaa Castle, and a poetry collection, Form of Love.  Maxim D. Shrayer, the author's son, is professor of Russian and English at Boston College. His books include The World of Nabokov's Stories, Russian Poet/Soviet Jew, and the forthcoming An Anthology of Jewish-Russian Literature, 1800-2000.",anthologies;anthologies & literary collections;books;fiction;general;literature & fiction;religion & spirituality;short stories,8
0743508793,"The Passions of Chelsea Kane The clues to the identity of the heroine in this contemporary romance can be obvious and heavy-handed, but the variety of characters Delinsky ( A Woman Betrayed) presents provides ample entertainment. Mystery surrounds the birth of Chelsea Kane. Adopted by the Kanes, she knows only that she was born in Norwich Notch, a small New Hampshire town. An architect, Chelsea gains her first uncertain foothold in Norwich Notch by buying into its largest business, a financially troubled granite company. Locals resent Chelsea's intrusive presence, but two who take to her are Hunter Love (in a friendly sort of way) and ""stunningly male"" Judd Streeter (passionately). Someone who obviously doesn't take to her, however, scares her with late-night telephone calls and torches her barn. Chelsea's efforts to earn a place in the community and in Judd's heart are endangered when she learns she is pregnant. Judd is not the father, and Notch residents disapprove of unwed mothers. In this small-town romance Delinsky refreshingly takes the opportunity to poke fun at social snobbery and moral hypocrisy. Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to the 							Mass Market Paperback	 edition.	Barbara Delinsky has written many bestselling novels over the past two decades, including Flirting With Pete, An Accidental Woman, The Woman Next Door, and Coast Road. Published in twenty-five languages worldwide, her books regularly appear on the bestseller lists of The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Publishers Weekly. Delinsky is a lifelong New Englander who loves communicating with her readers. She can be reached at P. O.",books;contemporary;literature & fiction;mystery;romance;suspense;thriller & suspense;thrillers,8
158180069X,"Self-Promotion Online The book is absolutely stunning, supporting great content with  equally impressive design.  We must also compliment ... oh,  practically everything.   -- Visual Arts Trends.com	Illise Benun is editor and publisher of the quarterly newsletter, The Art of Self-Promotion. She is a national speaker and has conducted self-promotion workshops at the HOW Design Conference since 1993.",arts & photography;books;business & investing;computers & technology;graphic design;marketing;marketing & sales;techniques,8
0312238983,"Sacred Language, Ordinary People: Dilemmas of Culture and Politics in Egypt the book is a welcome contribution to the field of Arabic linguistics.--International Journal ofMiddle East Studies[T]his is one of the most interesting books I have ever read on language. It is certainly unique insofar as the study of Arabic is concerned, for no linguistic ethnography exists for Classical Arabic.-Steven C. Caton, Professor of Contemporary Arab Studies, Harvard University I dont know of anyone who has carved out the subject Haeri is pursuing in such original fashion. She writes clearly about a very complicated set of issues, and she has a wonderful way of blending theory with empirical work.-Philip S. Khoury, Professor of History, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyHaeris fine book explores one of the most fundamental distinctions in human communication systems-formal versus informal-by examining one of the worlds most important official languages-Classical Arabic. She shows that understanding the role of formal language in society is crucial to an understanding of the state and its relation to symbolic capital. This subtle and well-written analysis is only possible because Haeri relies on concrete ethnographic data of language in practice for her examples.-Joel Kuipers, George Washington University, Institute for Ethnographic Research	Niloofar Haeri is Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. She was a Bunting Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University (1999-2000) and is an internationally recognized scholar of Arabic. She has conducted research on language change and its relation to class and gender in Egypt. Among her publications are The Sociolinguistic Market of Cairo: Gender, Class, and Education (Kegan Paul International, 1996) and Structuralist Studies in Arabic Linguistics: Papers Published by Charles Ferguson 1948-1992, with K. Belnap (E. J. Brill, 1997).",anthropology;books;cultural;education & reference;politics & social sciences;religion & spirituality;religious studies;sociology,8
0226670325,"Plato's Sophist: Part II of The Being of the Beautiful (Being of the Beautiful, Part II) Professor Cobb manages remarkably well to sustain a conversational tone to the dialogue while maintaining precision and accuracy. The large issues stand out clearly and the small details are carefully rendered to enhance it..... (Harrison J. Pemberton)	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Text: English, Greek (translation)	William Cobb is Professor of Philosophy at the College of William and Mary in Virginia.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;greek & roman;history & surveys;humanities;new;philosophy;politics & social sciences;used & rental textbooks,8
0226735478,"Smoldering City: Chicagoans and the Great Fire, 1871-1874 (Historical Studies of Urban America) Sawislak combines the copious detail of a historian with the vivid portrayals of a storyteller in her investigation of the infamous Chicago fire. Drawing historical accounts from one of the nation's first media frenzies, she examines the various philosophical debates the city faced after the fire in dealing with homelessness, the care and feeding of much of the population and the problem of rebuilding amidst political chaos and people working at cross purposes. She also explains the events that led up to the inferno. ""Intensely dry conditions, a 20-m.p.h. southwest wind, and an unfortunate spark at approximately 10 o'clock on the night of October 8 all combined to turn Chicago into what two historians of the Great Fire would describe as 'a vast ocean of flame.'"" The rift between the immigrant working class and the wealthy ""native-born"" Chicagoans made Catherine O'Leary (and her infamous bovine) a perfect scapegoat for anti-Irish, anti-working class invective. Highlighted by historical maps, plates and engravings, with an epilogue and notes, Smoldering City presents an extremely thorough and engaging study of this extraordinary disaster. Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",19th century;americas;books;history;midwest;modern (16th-21st centuries);state & local;united states,8
061807404X,"The Best American Short Stories 2001 If the 20 stories in this year's collection have any one thing in common, it is their substance and seriousness of purpose. This is mostly a good thing entries by veteran writers like Alice Munro, John Updike and Annette Sanford, and by relative newcomers like Andrea Barrett, Barbara Klein Moss and Peter Orner are intellectually stimulating and satisfying but the inclusion of a few lighter selections might have leavened the mix. Munro is her usual magical self in ""Post and Beam,"" in which a young Vancouver wife comes to terms with the immutability of married life. Ha Jin, in ""After Cowboy Chicken Came to Town,"" tells of the impact an American fast food franchise in China has on both employees and customers, imparting a number of reasons why East and West will never see eye to eye. ""Servants of the Map,"" the extraordinary novella- length story by Barrett, tells the tale of an English mapmaker in 1860s India struggling with his demanding job, loneliness and, most of all, his unquenchable desire to be a botanist. In Orner's brief tale, ""The Raft,"" a grandfather ushers his grandson into a closet to tell him an old WWII story in a new way. Sanford's contribution short, too tells how a 16-year-old girl seemingly doing nothing for the summer is preparing for adult life. The careful character development, subtle drama and pristine prose of these selections should once again thoroughly satisfy fans of quality short fiction. $200,000 marketing campaign; sweepstakes promotion. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	In his introduction to Prize Stories 2001, editor Dark notes an  increase in the number of longer stories, or novellas, being  published in literary journals. To reflect this trend, Dark  chose to publish three longer pieces, bringing the total number  of stories in this year's volume to 17 rather than the usual 20.  One of these, Mary Swan's ""The Deep,"" an absorbing account of  twin sisters in the World War I era, was chosen as the best  story of the year. Runners up were Dan Chaon's ""Big Me"" and  Alice Munro's ""Floating Bridge."" Munro also receives a special  citation for her continued notable work in the short story form.  Dark writes that he was torn between Munro's above-mentioned  story and her equally fine ""Post and Beam;"" happily, the latter  appears in Best American Short Stories 2001. Kingsolver narrowed  her selections by opting for only those that ""tell me something  I don't already know."" So we get funny and intriguing views of  other cultures, such as Ha Jin's ""After Cowboy Chicken Came to  Town,"" which is about the workers in an American fast-food  restaurant in China; Katherine Shonk's ""My Mother's Garden,"" set  near post-disaster Chernobyl; and Trevanian's sly Basque fable,  ""The Apple Tree."" Two well-deserving stories, Elizabeth Graver's  ""The Mourning Door"" and Andrea Barrett's ""Servants of the Map,""  appear in both volumes. Both volumes are valuable additions to  academic and larger public libraries. Christine DeZelar-Tiedman,  Univ. of Minnesota Libs., Minneapolis   Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	As is customary for the guest editors in this series, Kingsolver explains in her introduction the rationale for making her selection of 20 stories from the original 120 or so passed on to her by the series editor: ""They've told me something remarkable, they are beautifully executed, and they are nested in truth."" Her selections include stories from familiar names, such as Alice Munro, Rick Bass, Rick Moody, John Updike, and the late Dorothy West, and from relatively unknown writers, such as Barbara Klein Moss and Katherine Shonk, all of them revealing ""something remarkable,"" albeit with vastly different inflections. Moody's ""Boys"" is a wry, five-page paragraph on the various conditions under which two brothers ""enter the house"" and occupy themselves growing up and entering the house over and over and over. Shonk's ""My Mother's Garden"" traces the tragic dislocations of self, family, and community brought about by the contaminations of the Chernobyl nuclear accident and the immediate imperative eventually defied by a few to abandon their homes and the lives they once led with each other. James O'LaughlinCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	No BioBarbara Kingsolver is a contributor for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt titles including: The Best American Short Stories.	ForewordIN THE 1942 VOLUME of The Best American Short Stories, the  anthologys new annual editor, Martha Foley, attempted to define the  form. A good short story, she wrote, is a story which is not too  long and which gives the reader the feeling he has undergone a  memorable experience.    Over the past eleven years, during my own tenure as annual  editor of this eighty-six-year-old series, Ive run across numerous  other writers attempts to come up with some sort of standard by  which to measure the short story. Few have managed to add much to Ms.  Foleys democratic and rather obvious criteria.   At symposiums and writers conferences, Ive learned to duck  and weave around the inevitable question What do you look for in a  short story? I wish I knew! Heart? Soul? Truth? Voice? Integrity of  intention and skill in execution? The answer is all of the above, and  none of the above. For I dont really look for anything; when a  story works, I know it in my gut, not in my head, and only then   after laughing, after brushing away a tear, after taking a moment to  catch my breath and return to the here and now  do I set about  analyzing the successes and failures of a writers effort. It would  certainly be nice to have a checklist, a foolproof grading system, a  tally sheet of pluses and minuses. But reading is a subjective  activity, even for those of us who are fortunate enough to read for a  living. We editors may read more pages than the average American, and  we may read faster, but when it comes right down to it, I believe we  all read for the same reason: in order to test our own knowledge of  life and to enlarge on it.   Out of the three thousand or so short stories I read in any  given year, I may file two hundred away. And I always marvel at how  precious this stash of chosen fiction seems to me; these are the  stories that, for one reason or another, exerted some kind of hold on  the priorities of my heart. Even now, I have boxes of old stories,  going back a decade and more, stacked up in the basement; Ive saved  every file card Ive filled out since 1990 as well  a treasure trove  of stories, a kings ransom of human wisdom caught and held on those  hundreds of moldering pages. When it comes to cleaning closets, Im  ruthless. But those stories . . . well, how could I throw them away?  Who knows when a particular bit of fiction will prove useful?  Someday, I think, someone will need that story about the emotional  roller coaster of new motherhood; or this one, which reminds us what  sixteen years old really feels like; or that one, which could help a  friend prepare for death . . .   Toward years end, I sift through the current piles and begin  to ship batches of tales off to the guest editor, always wondering  whether he or she will share my tastes and predilections and curious  to know whether the narrative voice that whispered so urgently in my  ear will speak with as much power to another. Truth be told, it is an  anxious time. Just as, when I was a teenager, I wanted my parents to  agree that my boyfriend was indeed Prince Charming, I cant help but  hope that the guest editor will share my passion for the years  collection of short story suitors.   I have no clue about Barbara Kingsolvers taste in men, but I  discovered right away that she and I could fall in love with the same  short stories. And when her introduction to this volume came spooling  through my fax machine, I stood there reading it page by page,  nodding in agreement with her discoveries and full of gratitude for  the pickiness (her word) and devotion she brought to this task of  reading, judging, and finally choosing. And then, as the next-to-last  page emerged into my waiting hands, I saw it: a new definition for  the short story, at last. To Martha Foleys sixty-year-old criteria  we can now add Barbara Kingsolvers useful dictum: A good short  story cannot simply be Lit Lite, but the successful execution of  large truths delivered in tight spaces. Writers take heed!   In choosing this years collection of The Best American Short  Stories, Kingsolver has done writers and readers a great service, for  her own love for the form and her exacting standards have resulted in  a volume that is as varied in subject matter, style, voice, and  intent as even the most eclectic reader could wish for. Collectively,  these stories hum with the energy of twenty disparate voices raised  under one roof. They are a testament to our contemporary writers  vigorous engagement with the world and to the robust good health of  American short fiction.   Some years ago, John Updike revealed, Writing fiction, as  those of us who do it know, is, beneath the anxious travail of it, a  bliss, a healing, an elicitationn of order from disorder, a praise of  what is, a salvaging of otherwise overlookable truths from the  ruthless sweep of generalization, a beating offfff daily dross into  something shimmering and absolute. Mr. Updike, who made his first  appearance in The Best American Short Stories in 1959, returns this  year for the twelfth time as a contributor. (He also served as guest  editor in 1984 and coedited The Best American Short Stories of the  Century, published in 1999.) He is the only writer in the history of  the series to appear in these pages for six consecutive decades  an  achievement that we feel is worth noting. May he continue to beat the  daily dross into such shimmering and absolute works as Personal  Archeology, which begins on page 326.The stories chosen for this anthology were originally published  between January 2000 and January 2001. The qualifications for  selection are (1) original publication in nationally distributed  American or Canadian periodicals; (2) publication in English by  writers who are American or Canadian, or who have made the United  States or Canada their home; (3) original publication as short  stories (excerpts of novels are not knowingly considered). A list of  magazines consulted for this volume appears at the back of the book.  Editors who wish their short fiction to be considered for next years  edition should send their publications to Katrina Kenison, c/o The  Best American Short Stories, Houghton Mifflin Company, 222 Berkeley  Street, Boston, MA 02116.K.K.IntroductionI HAVE ALWAYS WONDERED why short stories arent more popular in this  country. We Americans are such busy people youd think wed jump at  the chance to have our literary wisdom served in doses that fit  handily between taking the trash to the curb and waiting for the  carpool. We should favor the short story and adore the poem. But we  dont. Short story collections rarely sell half as well as novels;  they are never blockbusters. They are hardly ever even block-denters.  From what I gather, most Americans would sooner read a five-hundred- page book about southern France or a boy attending wizard school or  how to make home decor from roadside trash or anything than pick up a  book offering them a dozen tales of the world complete in twenty  pages apiece. And I wont even discuss what they will do to avoid  reading poetry.   Why on earth should this be? I enjoy the form so much myself  that when I was invited to be the guest editor for this collection,  forewarned that it would involve reading thousands of pages of short  fiction in a tight three-month period, I decided to do it. This trial  by fire, I thought, would disclose to me the heart of the form and  all its mysteries. Also, it would nicely fill the space that lay  ahead of me at the end of the year 2000, just after my planned  completion of a novel and before its publication the following  spring. The creative dead space between galley proofs and a books  first review is a dreaded time in an authors life, comparable to the  tenth month of a pregnancy. (Ive had two post-term babies, so I know  what Im talking about.) I look at the prepublication epoch as a  Great Sargasso Sea and always try to fill it with satisfying short- term projects. I reexamined the previous editions of this series on  my shelf and considered the assignment. Amy Tan, who edited The Best  American Short Stories 1999, described the organized pleasure of  reading one story a day for three months. That sounded like a tidy  plan to put on my calendar. Editing a story collection, plus a short  family vacation to Mexico and a week-long stint lecturing on a ship  in the Caribbean, would fill those months perfectly, providing just  enough distraction from my prepublication doldrums.   If you ever want to know what it sounds like when the  universe goes Ha! Ha! just put a tidy plan on your calendar.   My months of anticipated quiet at the end of 2000 turned out  to be the most eventful of my life, in which I was called upon to  attend to an astonishing number of unexpected duties, celebrations,  and crises. I weathered a tour and publicity storm with the release  of my new novel, eight months ahead of schedule. While handling this  plus the lectures at sea, I learned of a family members catastrophic  illness, I was invited to have dinner with President and Mrs.  Clinton, and I took my eighth-grader to the funeral of her beloved  friend  not to mention the normal background noise of family  urgencies. These two months of our lives were stitched together by  trains, automobiles, the M.S. Ryndam, and thirty-two separate  airplane flights. (A perverse impulse caused me to save my boarding  passes and count them.) Naturally this would be the year when I also  experienced a true airplane emergency, and I dont mean the garden- variety altitude plunge. I mean that I finally got to see what those  yellow masks look like.   Through it all, as best I could, I read stories. On a cold  Iowa afternoon with the white light of snowfall flooding the windows,  sitting quietly with a loved one enduring his new regime of  chemotherapy, I read about a nineteenth-century explorer losing his  grasp on life in the Himalayas. On another day, when I found myself  wide...",anthologies;anthologies & literary collections;books;general;literature & fiction;short stories;single author;united states,8
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0387972846,"Introduction to Statistics: The Nonparametric Way (Springer Texts in Statistics) ""The text is well-written and provides some unique approaches which will be appreciated by the students.""  (Journal of Quality Technology)",books;education & reference;mathematics;new;science & math;science & mathematics;statistics;used & rental textbooks,8
0963202545,"Loyalty Marketing: The Second Act Brian Woolf is a global leader in loyalty marketing. In addition to writing three definitive works on the subject, Measured Marketing: A Tool to Shape Food Store Strategy, Customer Specific Marketing, and Loyalty Marketing: The Second Act, he spends his time helping retailers develop and strengthen their loyalty programs.    The techniques and metrics he has developed have become guiding principles for those operating some of the world's most successful programs. He is the President of the Retail Strategy Center, and is a frequent speaker at conferences in the US, Europe and Japan.    Prior to his total commitment to loyalty marketing, his corporate roles included Deputy Managing Director of Progressive Enterprises, a major New Zealand retailer; Chief Financial Officer of Food Lion, a leading US food retailer; and President of One Price Clothing, a women's discount apparel chain. He has an M.Com. (Economics) from Auckland University, New Zealand, and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.",books;business & investing;consumer behavior;customer service;industries & professions;management & leadership;management science;marketing & sales,8
1857236874,"Wish You Were Here Tom Holt is the author of such comic fantasy classics as WHO'S AFRAID OF BEOWULF?, EXPECTING SOMEONE TALLER and OVERTIME.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;contemporary;fantasy;interpersonal relations;literature & fiction;relationships;science fiction & fantasy;self-help,8
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B000PWQMS2,"Circle Time for Young Children (The Nursery World/Routledge Essential Guides for Early Years Practitioners) Circle time is a simple yet effective strategy, proven to be one of the most effective ways of promoting positive behaviour and respectful relationships in early years environments. This highly practical book will explain how to put the principles for early years education into practice through well-structured and purposeful circle time lesson plans. Jenny Mosley, the UK's leading expert on circle time, provides accessible guidance on: * incorporating the curriculum for personal, social and emotional development* enabling children to understand universal moral skills* developing young children's emotional intelligence* helping them to practise problem-solving skills. Each chapter in this book explains circle time in a 'why? what? how?' format, and includes tick-sheets, bullet-pointed pages and examplesshowing how thetheory works in practice.  Developed to closely mirror one of the major modules in the GNVQ in Childcare (levels 1 and 2), this an invaluable and fun tool for developing young children's understanding of their feelings and relationships.",books;early childhood education;education & reference;elementary school;kindle ebooks;kindle store;preschool & kindergarten;schools & teaching,8
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1860111513,"Another Fool in the Balkans: In the Footsteps of Rebecca West One of this year's key novels.' - Time Out An astonishing and audacious novel.' - Michael Bracewell	Tony White wrote a critically acclaimed novel Foxy-T (Faber and Faber) and was a featured writer in the All Hail the New Puritans anthology. Previously an editor on a UK art magazine, he is now Literary Editor of The Idler magazine. His fascination for the Balkans began during the early years of the war, and he was the first UK novelist to read his work in Belgrade following the fall of Milosevic. His fiction is published in the former Yugoslavia and he has given readings for the British Council in Croatia. He is co-editing an anthology of UK and former Yugoslavian fiction, with Matt Thorne, which will be published by Serpent's Tail in 2004. He lives in London.",books;education & reference;europe;general;research & publishing guides;travel;travel writing;writing,8
B00007E1KC,"Cinderella's Castle Designer Cinderella's Castle Designer builds on the creative and compelling legacy of Disney Princess games by giving girls ages 5 and older the opportunity to create and decorate the castle of their dreams. Once finished, they will experience a wonderful storybook adventure that enables them to free Cinderella from the magic spell that locks her in the Fairy Tale book. Girls can customize the exterior of the castle, design the landscaping, and furnish the entire castle in a unique 3-D interface that lets them explore every nook and cranny of their castle creation.	Design the 3D Castle of Your Dreams!Product InformationCinderella's Castle builds on the creative and compelling legacy of DisneyPrincess games by giving girls the opportunity to create and decorate the castleof their dreams. Once finished they will experience a wonderful storybookadventure that enables them to free Cinderella from the magic spell that locksher in the Fairy Tale book. Girls can customize the exterior of the castledesign the landscaping and furnish the entire castle in a unique 3D interfacethat lets them explore every nook and cranny of their castle creation!Design and decorate all of the rooms in five             different magical castles using hundreds of accessories! Create a             beautiful ballroom to dance in an enchanted chamber to hold all             your gorgeous gowns or even a fantastic garden for a royal tea             party.Product Features  Decorate your own beautiful castle    Create the royal bedroom of your dreams    Design your very own throne roomSystem Requirements  Windows 98 Me XP    Pentium II class processor 300MHz    64MB of RAM    100MB free hard disk space    8X CD-ROM Drive    16 bit DirectX 8.1 compatible sound card    8MB video card with 3D acceleration 16               bit color depth DirectX 8.1 compatible    DirectX 8.1 (included)",children's;games;home & hobbies;home publishing;illustration & design;pc;software;video games,8
0130413968,"Roads to Geometry (3rd Edition) This book provides a geometrical experience that unifies Euclidean concepts generally discussed in traditional high school geometry courses with various non-Euclidean views of the world. It offers the reader a ""map"" for a voyage through plane geometry and its various branches, as well as side-trips that discuss analytic and transformational geometry.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	This new book clarifies, extends, and unifies concepts discussed in basic high school geometry courses. It gives readers a comprehensive introduction to plane geometry in a historical context.  Chapter topics include axiomatic systems, axiom sets for geometry, neutral geometry, Euclidean geometry of the plane, analytic and transformational geometry, non-Euclidean geometries, and projective geometry.  For anyone in need of a refresher course in geometry.	The goal of this book is to provide a geometric experience that clarifies, extends, and unifies concepts that are generally discussed in traditional high school geometry courses and to present additional topics which assist in gaining a better understanding of elementary geometry. As its title indicates, this book is designed to provide the reader with a ""map"" for a voyage through plane geometry and its various branches. As prerequisites, this book assumes only a prior course in high school geometry and the mathematical maturity usually provided by a semester of calculus or discrete mathematics.    Preparations for our voyage begin in Chapter One with a discussion of the ""Rules of the Road"" during which time the reader is familiarized with the properties of axiomatic systems and the application of the axiomatic method to investigation of these systems. A discussion of several examples of finite and incidence geometries provides a framework upon which to investigate plane geometry.    With preparations complete, our voyage actually begins in Chapter Two, where we are confronted with ""Many Ways to Go."" Here, within a historical perspective, we travel a variety of ""roads"" through plane geometry by investigating different axiomatic approaches to the study of Euclidean plane geometry. Axiomatic developments of geometry as proposed by Euclid, David Hilbert, G. D. Birkhoff, and the School Mathematics Study Group (SMSG) are compared and contrasted. A brief discussion of non-Euclidean geometries is also included.    In Chapter Three, by ""Traveling Together,"" we investigate the content of Neutral Geometry. The first fifteen of the SMSG postulates provide our pedagogical choice for a ""main arterial"" as we prepare ourselves to choose between the Euclidean and non-Euclidean ""exits"" that appear on the horizon.    Chapter Four provides ""One Way to Go"" as we travel through Euclidean Plane Geometry. In this chapter we extend ideas developed in Neutral Geometry to provide a traditional look at the geometric topics of congruence, area, similarity, circles, triangles, and constructions from a Euclidean perspective. At the end of Chapter Four you will find a set of laboratory investigations that make use of Geometer's SketchPad or Cabri II Geometry software.    While still traveling through Euclidean Plane Geometry, Chapter Five offers ""Side Trips"" through analytical and transformational approaches to geometry. The real numbers, algebra, isometries, similarities, analytical transformations, and inversion and their applications to proving geom2tric theorems are discussed.    In Chapter Six we consider ""Other Ways to Go:"" We return briefly to Neutral Geometry, in preparation for our venture into non-Euclidean Geometry. In addition to a discussion of hyperbolic geometry, this chapter contains a detailed description of the Poincare disk model and a brief excursion into elliptic geometry. Appendix E contains a collection of scripts, custom tools, and macros that allow for a dynamic investigation of the Poincare disk. Like Chapter Four, Chapter Six ends with a collection of laboratory activities that provide students with an opportunity to explore the hyperbolic plane first hand.    Finally, in Chapter Seven, ""All Roads Lead To... "" projective geometry. Here we delve into a more general geometry than we have studied in previous chapters as we investigate the real projective plane in addition to the ideas of duality, perspectivity, and a brief look at projective transformations.    New to the third edition of Roads to Geometry are enhanced problem sets at the end of each section and the inclusion of Laboratory Activities using Geometer's SketchPad and Cabri II Geometry at the end of Chapter Four, Euclidean Geometry of the Plane, and of Chapter Six, Non-Euclidean Geometries.    This text is appropriate for several kinds of students. Pre-service teachers of geometry are provided with a rigorous yet accessible treatment of plane geometry in a historical context. Mathematics majors will find its axiomatic development sufficiently rigorous to provide a foundation for further study in the areas of Euclidean and non-Euclidean geometry. By using the SMSG postulate set as a basis for the development of plane geometry, we avoid the pitfalls of many ""foundations of geometry"" texts that encumber the reader with such a detailed development of preliminary results that many other substantive and elegant results are inaccessible in a one-semester course.    The chapters of this book separate nicely into independent units. The material in Chapters One and Two provides preliminary groundwork for the study of geometry. Instructors who feel that their classes are exceptionally well prepared could omit these chapters in the interest of freeing time for material that is presented later in the book. Instructors teaching more typical classes will find the discussion of axiomatics in Chapter One and the comparisons of the various axiom sets in Chapter Two very helpful in conveying the notion of mathematical rigor. Instructors can teach a semester of Euclidean Geometry using Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. Instructors more interested in nonEuclidean Geometries can opt to cover Chapters 1, 2, 3, and 6.    At the end of each section is an ample collection of exercises of varying difficulty that provides problems that both extend and clarify results of that section, as well as problems that apply those results. At the end of each of chapters, Three through Seven, is a summary which lists all of the new definitions and theorems of that chapter.    The authors gratefully acknowledge the following mathematicians who look of their time to review the current manuscript: David Bellamy, Univer',Bity of Delaware; Jack Tsui, Oakland University; Julia Wilson, State University College of New York at Fredonia; Peter Stiller, Texas A University; Money Davidson, Kent University; Kimberly Cervello, State University College of New York at Geneseo; and Joel Zeitlin, California State University at Northridge.    The authors hope that Roads to Geometry will in some way encourage the reader to more fully appreciate the marvelous worlds of Euclidean and non-Euclidean Geometry and to that end we wish you bon voyage.    E.C. Wallace S.F. West June 2003",books;education & reference;geometry;mathematics;new;science & math;science & mathematics;used & rental textbooks,8
0312343639,"Game of Patience After A Far Better Rest (2000), an homage to Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities, Alleyn returns to postrevolutionary Paris in her second novel, a taut police procedural. In the fall of 1796, police spy Aristide Ravel, who's haunted by fears that he has helped send dozens of innocent victims to the guillotine, and his employer, Commissaire Brasseur, investigate the slaying of Jean-Louis Saint-Ange, a property owner who lived on his rents, and Saint-Ange's ex-lover, Clie Montereau. Saint-Ange had apparently been extorting money from aristocratic families, and few, including his colorful porter, Grangier, mourn his demise. Despite qualms about ""mistakenly being the cause of a man's death,"" Aristide dutifully interviews anxious former associates of Clie and her well-to-do parents in search of the truth. Full of authentic historical detail, ranging from the rise of General Bonaparte to the antics of flamboyant incroyables (cross-dressers), the story builds to an emotionally charged climax in which Aristide reveals painful secrets from his own past. (Mar.) Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	Alleyn brought revolutionary-era France to life vividly in her debut novel, A Far Better Rest (2000), a reimagining of Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities, and she revisits the era in this mystery. Aristide Ravel, an associate of the police force, is called in when Louis Saint-Ange, a man of means but questionable repute, is found murdered alongside a young woman. At first Ravel and his associate, Commissaire Brasseur, focus on Saint-Ange, a blackmailer with dirt on many upper-class denizens, but when they identify the girl as Celie Montereau, a young woman from a wealthy family, they begin to dig into the girl's past only to discover she bore an illegitimate child and had a clandestine lover. Ravel and Brasseur track the young man, but even as the evidence mounts against him, Ravel fears he might be innocent and loathes the idea of convicting an innocent man in an climate that has already seen so much bloodshed. Grounded by a complex, haunted hero, the suspense in this layered mystery builds slowly but reaches a breakneck speed. Kristine HuntleyCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	Susanne Alleyn was born in Munich and grew up in western Massachusetts and New York City, earning a bachelor's of fine arts in theater from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. She has been fascinated with the French Revolution since childhood and has been exploring and writing about it since her teens.	Chapter One9 Brumaire, Year V of the Republic(October 30, 1796)Aristide did not often set foot in the Place de Grve. It was an ill-omened place, the Golgotha of Paris, the site of uncounted butcheries across five centuries, and he loathed public executions.He shivered and cast a fleeting glance toward the guillotine, waiting high above the heads of the crowd, as the sharp breeze of a Parisian October whipped lank dark hair into his eyes. Perhaps,he brooded, not for the first time, he was oversensitive for a man who worked for the police. Police officials, his friend and employer Brasseur among them, did their duty and washed their hands of the affair, leaving the rest to the Criminal Tribunal and the public prosecutor. But the police and the law courts, he thought, in their determined efforts to maintain order in a city still unsettled after seven years of revolutionary upheaval, could sometimes be wrong.He elbowed his way onward, through the clamorous crowd of errand boys in smocks, domestics in shabby castoff finery, and craftsmen in work aprons who slouched about, playing truant from their trades for half an hour's free entertainment. The muddy square between the city hall and the Seine swarmed with spectators, pushing, joking. Here and there a spruce bourgeois or stylish incroyable, flaunting the exaggerated fashions of the season, blossomed like a hothouse flower amid the weeds. Though Aristide wore no tricolor sash, the mark of a police inspector or commissaire, they made way for him, reluctantly parting ranks before the austere black suit that instantly placed him among such traditional dignitaries as police, civil servants, or magistrates.He shouldered his way through the spectators until he could push no farther against the eager, humming barricade of bodies. He could see well enough; he stood half a head taller than most of his neighbors. The guillotine loomed above him against the leaden sky like a doorway to nowhere. Two men, silently overseen by a third in a fashionable black frock coat and tall hat, hovered about it, brisk and impassive, tightening ropes, testing moving parts, greasing grooves and hinges. Aristide offered a silent prayer of thanks that at least the guillotine was far swifter and gentler than the punishment meted out to murderers and bandits in the decades before the Revolution.The crowd stirred and muttered, growing bored with idling. A few fights broke out. Rough-voiced street peddlers sold rolls, oranges, vinegar-water, hot chocolate, and cheap brandy.A pair of mounted gendarmes appeared at the edge of the square. Behind them creaked the executioner's cart and the murmur grew into an uproar. Those who often attended such free public entertainment self-importantly pointed out the approaching actors: there the attending priest in civilian costume; there the old executioner, come out of retirement for the day, Old Sanson who had topped the king, and Danton, and Robespierre, and so many others, in those disagreeable years 1793 and 1794; there his assistants. Young Sanson, the new master executioner, they told one another, was already waiting on the scaffold: a good-looking, well-made young fellow, wasn't he?In the cart a splash of crimson, a smock the color of blood. The central performers of the show stood between executioner and priest. One of the three condemned men had fainted and was lying nearly out of sight in the bottom of the cart.A shout pierced the crowd's babble.""I am guilty!""The man in the crimson smock leaned forward across the cart's rail, straining at his guard's tight grip on his bound arms.""I am guilty, citizens! But Lesurques is innocent!""""That's Courriol,"" said someone in the crowd, ""one of the bandits....""Aristide swallowed and squeezed his hands together behind his back as a chill crept from the pit of his stomach to the center of his chest. When even a confessed killer insisted upon his comrade's innocence...The second man stood erect in the cart, his pale, youthful face betraying neither fear nor hope. His fair hair was cropped short for the blade, but unlike his companion, he wore no red shirt, the emblem of a condemned murderer; waistcoat, culotte, shirt cut open at the neck---all were spotless white.Absence of the usual formalities betrayed some belated sympathy on the public prosecutor's part. What must it be like, Aristide wondered, to live in doubt, to have to ask yourself for the rest of your life whether, in the performance of your duty, you had condemned an innocent man?""Lesurques is innocent!"" Courriol repeated. His crimson smock fluttered in the wind. ""I am guilty!""The cart creaked to a stop before the scaffold. Above, Young Sanson waited silently, hands at his sides, ignoring the wind's bite.A raindrop stung Aristide's cheek. Mathieu had died on just such a day as this, he recalled, a bleak autumn morning with a cold, leaden sky and spattering rain. Three years ago...the last day of October 1793. Perhaps under the same steel blade. He closed his eyes for an instant at the touch of another cold drop.The assistant executioners lowered the cart's tailboard and lugged the unconscious man up the narrow steps. Carefully impassive, they strapped him to the plank and slid it forward beneath the blade. The wooden collar clapped down over his neck. Young Sanson stepped to the machine's right-hand upright and tugged at a lever.Aristide blinked. Did anyone ever see the blade in the midst of its fall? Yet there it hung, at rest at the bottom of the uprights, smeared with glistening red, and blood was weeping between the boards of the scaffold onto the sawdust below.""I am guilty! Lesurques is innocent!"" shouted Courriol as hands reached for him and swung him down from the cart. He struggled a moment, twisting about to shout once again to the crowd as the executioners marched him toward the waiting plank. ""Lesurques is innocent!""Aristide watched, motionless. Here, at least, simple justice had taken its course. But God help us all, he thought, if the criminal court has condemned a blameless man.""Lesurques is---""The crowd grew silent as Lesurques climbed the steps. Upon reaching the platform, he paused.""I am innocent of this crime. May God forgive my judges as I have forgiven them.""For the third time, the great blade scraped and thudded home.Aristide thrust his way past the gawkers and paused at the edge of the square, gasping for breath. At last he found an upturned skiff on the riverside and dropped down on it, elbows on knees, staring into the murky shallows of the Seine. Had the police he worked for, so determined to keep the peace, instead been so horribly wrong?He clasped cold hands before him, shivering suddenly, not from the chill river breeze alone. Men made mistakes; it was the natural way of things. Impossible that you would never make a mistake, accuse wrongly, perhaps unwittingly destroy a life...He sat brooding a while longer, watching the stray raindrops ripple across the river as it slid silently past. Forget this, he told himself at last. You can do nothing about it. Even if you could somehow learn the truth, and clear his name, he will still be beyond help. There is nothing you can do. He sighed, pushed himself to his feet, and turned his steps westward along the quay, letting the walk and the chill breeze calm him.Like a great ship, the le de la Cit parted the river, the cathedral at one end of the island and the Law Courts at the other. As Aristide passed along the shore of the Right Bank, the brooding medieval towers of the Conciergerie, the ancient prison attached to the courts, caught and held his gaze. All his misgivings returned in a rush.What if I, too, in my time, have sent innocent men to that place, and even to the executioner?Copyright  2006 by Susanne Alleyn",books;contemporary;genre fiction;historical;literature & fiction;mystery;police procedurals;thriller & suspense,8
0892965223,"Torsos Not for the faint-hearted or squeamish, Cooke's fact-based thriller takes a graphic look at a seamy side of 1930s Cleveland. A serial killer stalks male prostitutes and vagrants during Eliot Ness's post-Chicago tenure as Safety Commissioner. In-the-closet cop Hank Lambert recognizes the head lying near other parts of a dismembered body as that of homosexual pimp Eddie Andrassy, the first of many butchered corpses to be found in Cleveland's grimy Kingsbury Run section over the next five years. Lambert's association with a young male hooker with a heart of gold reveals the gay life of the period and eventually leads to the rich, politically well-connected killer, who taunts Ness by leaving gift-wrapped body parts closer and closer to his headquarters. Some readers will be offended by the explicit and kinky sex (notably a bathhouse episode involving a trucker and a chicken), and the ending is an into-the-sunset contrivance, but the talented Cooke ( Out for Blood ) has pulled an interesting switch by casting male characters in the classic women-in-peril roles of a typical slasher novel. Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.	In the politically corrupt Cleveland of 1935, a number of dismembered bodies, mostly male, are discovered in the seedier parts of town. New Safety Commissioner Eliott Ness, working with homicide detective Hank Lambert, suspects the killer may be a psychopathic homosexual. What he doesn't know is that Lambert, a closet gay, has formed an attachment to a young street hustler connected to the victims. Basing his story on actual unsolved murders, Cooke ( Out for Blood , Avon, 1991) nicely re-creates the atmosphere, squalor, and dubious morality of a Depression-era city and provides some nail-biting suspense as the murderer stalks his victims. Shallow characterizations, unnecessarily graphic sex, and a somewhat melodramatic ending mar the author's accomplishment, but this is still a compelling and unsettling read. For large fiction collections.- Eric W. Johnson, Teikyo Post Univ. Lib., Waterbury, Ct.Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.	This unbelievably lurid novel (the title alone tips it off) is based on a real-life case and is notable for featuring a setting never before used in the annals of fiction: the homosexual underground community of 1935 Cleveland. Cooke introduces Hank Lambert, a bisexual police detective assigned to investigate two gruesome murder-mutilations. The number of decapitated torsos quickly escalates, and in the midst of a political power struggle, city hall enlists the help of world-renowned ""untouchable"" Eliot Ness to help investigate the crime. Simultaneously, young male prostitute Danny Cottone slowly figures out just who the Torso Killer is, and the final pages are a race against time for Hank and Ness to save innocent Danny (who is treated almost like a female ingenue) from the clutches of the evil madman. This is no literary masterpiece, but it keeps the reader's interest, though the setting alone may be off-putting to mainstream readers. It features some scenes of homosexual sex, and the violence is incredibly graphic; but the gay police detective is treated sympathetically despite his betrayal of his wife and family. (Basically, his encounter with the male prostitute is a homosexual variation on the good-cop-falls-for-the-hooker-with-a-heart-of-gold clich{}e.) Ness, in what is obviously a lesser case in his career, is woefully underused, and the novel in general plays like a gay version of a Republic ""B"" movie from the 1930s.  Joe Collins	Headless trunks litter the grimy, Depression-era Cleveland scenery in a raunchy crime novel--Cooke's hardcover debut--based on actual, awful events. Homicide detective Hank ``Lucky'' Lambert, perhaps the only cop in Cleveland not on the take, leads the investigation into a growing number of grisly murders. It's revealed early on that the victims have all been decapitated and largely dismembered by handsome, smooth-talking pharmacist and machete-wielding homosexual sadist Mott Hessler, estranged scion of a prominent oil-refining family. Detective Lambert has plenty of complications in his difficult investigation: local politics are in an uproar as the Democratic machinery breaks down; new safety director and historic figure Eliot Ness's hosing out of the police stables leaves Lambert without his clever-but-bent partner; Hessler's victims are mostly anonymous drifters and prostitutes with no political constituency; and Lambert, gay but married and closeted, is falling in love with handsome young Danny Cottone, a hustler and one of the very few people to have known some of the victims. Ness, fresh from his well-publicized Chicago triumphs, has his own worries: He needs fresh victories; the city fathers would like the case wrapped up without any stink; the mayor is dangling future political office before him; and his marriage is collapsing. Ness and Lambert, both professionally straight and emotionally bent, work well together- -but not fast enough. Butchered bodies keep popping up, and Mr. Hessler gets closer and closer to poor dumb Danny. Not for the fainthearted. Graphic sex and violence and Photoplay-style prose will have gentler readers reaching for the oxygen. -- Copyright 1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.",books;literature & fiction;mystery;police procedurals;psychological thrillers;thriller & suspense;thrillers;united states,8
B0002CKD9E,"Amazon.com: Men's Camouflage Insulated Coveralls: Clothing This insulated coverall will help keep the outdoors man warm, whether you are hunting, snowmobiling, hiking or just doing chores around the homestead. The leg zippers makes it simple to get the pant leg over the boot, but snug enough to keep the wind out.",clothing & accessories;men;military;novelty & special use;overalls & coveralls;women;work utility & safety;work wear & uniforms,8
0964164051,"Bodybuilding a Realistic Approach: How You Can Have a Great Body Frank A. Melfa competed in and won several bodybuilding contests including the Mr. Rutgers Title. He managed the Personal Training Program at Johnson & Johnson World Head Quarters. There he and a team of trainers trained over 150 employees with various fitness goals. At Johnson & Johnson, Frank wrote articles for the Company Health Newsletter, titled, For The Health Of It. This inspired him to write and publish his own book which has sold extremely well, over 10,000 copies. It currently ranks about 30,000 in Amazon.com sales ranking ( first edition ranking).    Frank has a bachelor's degree from Rutgers University and an MBA from  Faileigh Dickinson University. In addition to managing Power Writings,  he continues to build his career selling pharmaceutical products for  Lederle Laboratories.	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.	Building Muscle Using Basic Exercises  Building muscle is very difficult to accomplish. It takes a lot of  planning, discipline, hard work, proper nutrition, and the right  exercises. This book provides the right plan and exercises, the rest  is up to you (see Eat to Build in the Nutrition chapter). Below are  the most commonly asked questions specific to building muscle. I think  I already answered the results and time oriented question. (Also in  this chapter are several examples of training programs).  What exercises should I perform?  To build muscle, using basic exercises such as presses, rows, squats,  and deadlifts are extremely important.  As I mentioned in Chapter 1,  basic exercises target the major muscle groups and help you establish  a foundation to build on. These exercises will put muscle on your  frame. They will allow you to use maximum weight for each body part  because they require maximum effort from other major muscle groups as  well. For example, during exercises such as bench presses and dips the  shoulders and triceps are also working hard to help build your  chest. Cable crossovers on the other hand will not do much for  building muscle. Let others waste their time performing cable  crossovers while you add mass to your chest by performing weighted  dips. I have used cable crossovers, not to build muscle, but to define  and shape my chest. This is what I mean by building a strong  foundation. Use ""defining"" exercises once you have added some muscle  to your frame. You can't define what's not there! Don't get me wrong,  it's not like I never perform cable cross-overs. I do occasionally to  add some variety to my chest workouts. But you want to build muscle  If you plan on competing in a bodybuilding contest, then save these  defining exercises for the remaining few months before a  contest. Cutting up or defining exercises are discussed in the  precontest chapters.  Using proper form when performing your exercises can make a big  difference when trying to build muscle. Lifting heavy weights does not  guarantee the best physique. You want to use a full range of motion  when performing all of your exercises. A full range of motion means  using lighter weights assuring the use of more muscle fibers.  For  example, I see too many people use too much weight when performing a  bench press. As a result, they bounce the bar off their chest using  momentum to lift the weight. Lifting this way limits range of motion  and greatly increases risk of injury.  How many sets and reps per body part?  When building size is your goal, performing multiple sets, lower reps,  and longer rests in between sets are required.  As a rule of thumb,  perform a realistic range of 10 to 12 sets for large body parts,  (chest, back, shoulders, and legs) and six to eight sets for smaller  body parts, (biceps, triceps, calves, and forearms). You should  gradually pyramid your weights allowing a range of four to ten  reps. Pyramiding your weights simply means gradually increasing your  weights every set. This means as you increase your weights, you will  naturally perform fewer reps.  Performing three to four sets of three to four different exercise for  each large body part and two to three sets of three different  exercises for each small body part is ideal. For example, perform four  sets of pullups for your back, three sets of one-arm rows, and three  sets of seated rows. For triceps, you can perform three sets of  close-grip bench, three sets of French-curls and three sets of  pushdowns.  Your current level of muscle development, size, and endurance, will  also determine the range of sets and reps to use. I sometimes perform  15 to 18 sets of chest, back, and legs and 12 sets of biceps and  triceps without overtraining. This is not realistic or recommended for  a beginner. In example above, a total of nine sets of triceps was  given. This contradicts my recommendation of performing six to eight  sets for small bodyparts such as triceps. But my recommendations are  just that, recommendations. For the most part my recommendations are  ranges of sets to be performed. If I say a range of six to eight sets,  that could also mean five sets or nine sets. Nothing is set in stone!  The important thing to remember is that you don't want to overtrain a  muscle group. And your arms are easy to overtrain because they are an  attractive muscle group and you want them to get big by training them  harder than the rest of your body.  If you train large body parts hard and intensely, using a full range  of motion, then 10 to 12 sets is all you really need. Same goes with  small bodyparts. Six to eight hard and intense sets will do the  job. Once you have reached an advanced level of bodybuilding where you  have competed at least once or have been lifting weights for an  extended period of time, then you may consider performing more that 12  sets for large body parts and more than eight for small body parts.  How much rest between sets?  Longer rests between sets are needed to give the muscles time to  recover from previous sets to allow you to lift heavy weights  repeatedly. However, that does not mean talking to your buddy for  three minutes or taking five minute water breaks either. Rests between  sets should be no longer than a minute and a half. Try performing abs  or calves between your sets rather than standing around doing nothing  (see Staggered Sets).  How many days?  Your fitness level, goal, and the number of days you can devote to  training will determine the number of days to train. If building  muscle is your goal, and you are just getting started, training three  days per week consistently is ideal. The key word here is  consistently. That means three days week in and week out. Narrowing  your training to two days per week obviously won't be as beneficial as  three consistent days. I currently try to train at the very least  three days, but usually get a fourth day during the weekend. I'm not  looking to get any bigger, but want to maintain my size and  shape. When I was competing, I would always get four to five days of  heavy training during my building stage of contest preparation. When I  was a few months away from contest, I was in the gym almost every  day. But if your goal doesn't include competing, then three to four  days is more than enough to build size.  I will be discussing different split routines, but the important thing  to remember is try to train on the same days every week. This will  ensure consistency because training on the same days means a less  chance of interruptions during the week. On the other hand, if you  don't plan your days and just decide to wing it, there will be less  consistency in your training. That means missed workouts.  If you decide on three days, you can split it up in different  ways. You can train every other day. For example, Monday, Wednesday  and Friday, training chest, bies, and abs on Monday, Back and Tries on  Wednesday, and Shoulders and Legs on Friday.  If you are just starting out, I would suggest at least one day rest  between workouts. More than likely, you will be very sore and will  need to recuperate between workouts even if you train different muscle  groups. For example suppose you train chest and biceps and Monday. On  Tuesday, not only will your chest and biceps be sore, but there's a  good chance that your shoulders and triceps will also be sore. And  trying to train any muscle group with sore shoulders is difficult and  not recommended.  Three days per week, one day rest between workouts:  *Monday--Wednesday--Friday  *Chest---Back-------Shoulder  *Bies----Tries------Legs  *abs  You can also use a two day split where you train two days in a row  take the third day off and resume on the next day. For example, train  chest and biceps on Monday, back and triceps on Tuesday, take  Wednesday off and train shoulders and legs on Thursday.  If you had to, you can train three days in a row, making sure you  break up your body parts.  Three days in a row:  *Monday--Tuesday--Wednesday  *Chest---Back-----Shoulders  *Bies----Tries----Legs  If you decide to train four days per week, you use a can train three  days on, one off, where you train three days in a row, take the fourth  day off to rest and start again on day five. As a rule of thumb, never  train the same body parts two days in a row; your muscles need a  chance to recover. I usually wait one full week before training the  same body part again.  But if you use this spit routine, you can train  one body part twice in one week.  For example, if you train chest and  biceps on Monday, you can train it again on Friday, if you are not  still sore from Monday's workout. From here, you can start the next  week with back and triceps on Monday and repeat that workout on  Friday. This way you rotate training different body parts twice per  week rather than just training chest and biceps twice per week.  Besides, if you train chest and biceps on Monday and then again on  Friday, Saturday and Sunday will probably not be enough time to train  them again the following Monday.  You can split your four day routine however you want it to fit your  schedule. You can train two days in a row, take the third day off and  train another two days in a row. It really doesn't matter. Be sure not  to overtrain by training sore muscle groups. Try to be consistent and  plan. Use your calendar as a tool (see Planning Is Everything). Be  prepared for changes in your schedule.  Grouping Bodyparts  The grouping of bodyparts shown above is my personal preference which  I discuss fully in Chapter 2. But I do change it up once in a while  for variety. Here are other examples:  *Monday---Tuesday---Wednesday---Thursday---Friday  *Chest----aerobics--shoulders---aerobics---biceps  *Back---------------legs--------abs--------triceps  In this example, I train chest and back on the same day. I know I  suggested earlier not to train two large body parts in the same  workout. If you are just starting out and want to build muscle, I  wouldn't suggest it. But I have been doing this for a long time. I  have the muscle endurance to sustain an intense workout that includes  two large muscle groups. I usually use staggered sets for chest and  back (see Staggered Sets).  I never train chest and shoulders in the same workout because the  shoulders are working hard during benchpresses, especially during  incline bench presses. I would never be able to lift heavy weights. My  shoulders would be totally fatigued, resulting in a nonproductive  workout. Also, there would be tremendous amount of pressure on the  shoulders, working chest and shoulders together. This would greatly  increase your risk of a serious shoulder injury.  If you decide that you want to concentrate on building your thighs,  you can train them alone. You can train hamstrings and calves on a  separate day. If you train your thighs with great intensity, you want  to save all your energy to train them alone.  If you decide to train five days, you can train four days in a row  with one or two days to rest before resuming your workouts. If you  train four days on and one off, try to train legs on the fourth day to  give your upper body a two day rest. Taking at least a one day rest  when trying to build muscle is very important.  Two days per week to  rest is recommended resulting a five day training week. Remember, your  muscles grow when they rest, not while you work them. They need ample  time to rest and rebuild in order to grow.	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.",alternative medicine;books;exercise & fitness;fitness & dieting;health;massage;sports & outdoors;weight training,8
0195211596,"The Illustrated Guide to the Bible Porter, a former fellow of Oriel College, Oxford, has written a general introduction to the Bible and the Apocrypha that shows how its most important ideas and images may be more reliably interpreted through comparison with the art and artifacts of ancient and modern cultures. Porter's introduction offers a survey of the formation, transmission, and translations of the Bible. His discussion of the role of archaeology and historiography in biblical interpretation is critical and well balanced; he also conveys the importance of the role of myth and mythological concepts. His richly illustrated work demonstrates his appreciation for Western art as a vehicle for conveying the history of scriptural interpretation. The appendixes feature a book-by-book summary of the Bible, separate glossaries of terms and abbreviations, a list of works for further reading, a subject index, and a list of illustration sources. Highly recommended for general readers and informed lay readers, as well as theological researchers.?Robert H. O'Connell, DenverCopyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.	""This book, with over 300 full-color illustrations is a user-friendly introduction to the Bible, and a handy resource when seeking information about biblical figures or events.""--Bookman's Weekly""This richly illustrated guide makes an excellent introduction to the Bible. It is vivid and readable, with a simple and sensible basic structure.""--The Tablet	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	About the Author: J.R. Porter is Professor Emeritus of Theology at the University of Exeter, England, and a former Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford. He served for twenty years as a member of the General Synod of the Church of England. His many publications include Moses and Monarchy and Proclamation and Presence; in addition, he has contributed to numerous publications, including The Extended Family in the Old Testament: A Source Book of the Bible for Teachers and A Basic Introduction to the Old Testament.",books;christian books & bibles;humanities;new;reference;religion & spirituality;religious studies;used & rental textbooks,8
1843533081,The Rough Guide to Croatia Country Map (Rough Guide City Maps) Produced for Rough Guides by the World Mapping Project,atlases & maps;books;bosnia;croatia & herzegovina;education & reference;europe;travel;world,8
0395563372,"They Went: The Art and Craft of Travel Writing (The Writer's Craft) These essays, which originated as a series of lectures at the New York Public Library, have been carefully edited by Zinsser ( On Writing Well ) so as to preserve the energy and liveliness of the writers' speech. Although the authors entertain with travel anecdotes, some charming, some hair-raising, their insights into the genre of travel writing are unextraordinary. For Mark Salzman, who taught English in China, a ""bleak or beautiful"" landscape means nothing ""until a person walks into it, and then what interests me is how a person behaves in that place."" On a more practical note, Ian Frazier concludes that the only acceptable mode of transportation for seeing the U.S. is a car, even though his driving tour through the Great Plains ""sent two and a half tons of carbon into the sunny skies."" Because the authors have written elsewhere about their travels, the references here to their experiences feel truncated. Still, these fragments can be engrossing, particularly Tobias Schneebaum's account of a tribe of cannibals in Indonesia. Set down in their midst by helicopter--stark naked so as to better assimilate--Schneebaum knew not whether he would be welcomed and fed or welcomed and eaten. Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Ian Frazier is the author of On the Rez, Great Plains, Family, Coyote v. Acme, and, most recently, Dating Your Mom.Vivian Gornick, ""one of the most vital and indispensable essayists of our cultural moment"" (Phillip Lopate), has written for The New York Times, The Village Voice, and other journals.",academic & commercial;books;education & reference;literature & fiction;research & publishing guides;travel;travel writing;writing,8
B0000AV756,"Freud PB-107B Precision Shear 7 Piece 1/4 Inch to 1-Inch Serrated Edge Forstner Drill Bit Assortment Precision Shear Forstner Bits feature a double-ground, razor-sharp serrated edge that slices throughout the rotation of the bit for less splintering and chipping, producingflawless flat-bottom holes.  This unique geomtric design has multiple cutting edges that produce greater shearing action, allowing for faster rotational speeds and more efficient cutting.  Competitive forstner bit designs produce small chips and dust that collect in the cutting area, increasing friction and heat, thus causing the bit to dull quickly.  Those designs also create holes with rough edges that require sanding.  In addition to serrated edges, Precision Shear Forstner Bits include a hardened steel body for longer life and sharper edge, an ultra sharp spur to ensure accurate holes and less ""walking"", and steep angled cutting edges to produce holes that are smooth and flat.  This set contains 1:  1/4"", 1/2"", 3/4"", 1"", 3/8"", 5/8"" and 7/8"" bits.	Precision Shear Forstner Bits feature a double-ground, razor-sharp serrated edge that slices throughout the rotation of the bit for less splintering and chipping, producingflawless flat-bottom holes. This unique geomtric design has multiple cutting edges that produce greater shearing action, allowing for faster rotational speeds and more efficient cutting. Competitive forstner bit designs produce small chips and dust that collect in the cutting area, increasing friction and heat, thus causing the bit to dull quickly. Those designs also create holes with rough edges that require sanding. In addition to serrated edges, Precision Shear Forstner Bits include a hardened steel body for longer life and sharper edge, an ultra sharp spur to ensure accurate holes and less ""walking"", and steep angled cutting edges to produce holes that are smooth and flat. This set contains 1: 1/4"", 1/2"", 3/4"", 1"", 3/8"", 5/8"" and 7/8"" bits.",cutting tools;drill bits;forstner drill bits;industrial & scientific;industrial drill bits;power & hand tools;power tool accessories;tools & home improvement,8
0764226673,"Spring's Gentle Promise (Seasons of the Heart #4) SPRING'S GENTLE PROMISE I can't believe it. Grandpa and Uncle Charlie signed all the official papers and now the farm is mine--really and legally mine. Joshua Chadwick Jones they read, clear as can be. I couldn't be more thrilled. I mean, what other fella my age has a farm all his own, title clear and paid for? If the crop fetches a good price, I might even be able to buy one of them new Ford motorcars!  And then there's this other thing going on inside me. I've been feelin' a desire for a family of my own. I still don't know how they finagled it, but Grandpa and Uncle Charlie got two gals my age livin' at our house--Mary, our housekeeper and cook, and Matilda, the schoolteacher. I've always thought of the girls as friends, but something in my heart is changing a bit. Is one of them the gal God has in mind for me?	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Janette Oke (pronounced ""oak"") pioneered inspirational fiction and is the leading author in the category today. Love Comes Softly, her first novel, has sold over one million copies. Janette is now the bestselling author of over 70 books, 32 of which have been translated into fourteen languages. Her books have sold over 22 million copies. Janette receives fan mail from all over the world and answers each letter personally. She received the 1992 President's Award from the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association for her significant contribution to Christian fiction, the 1999 CBA Life Impact Award and has been awarded the Gold Medallion Award for fiction.  Janette and her husband, Edward, have four grown children and enjoy their many grandchildren. They make their home in Canada.",books;christian books & bibles;contemporary;fiction;historical;literature & fiction;religion & spirituality;romance,8
034073504X,"Tainted Lives 'Mandasue has played a real blinder with this fantastic novel' -- Martina Cole on Forget Me Not 'A cracking page-turner' -- Manchester Evening News on Forget Me Not 'Powerful writing' -- Scotland on Sunday on Forget Me Not 'Alarming and beguiling' -- The Scotsman on The Front	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	Mandasue was born in Cheshire and moved to Manchester in 1982. She spent ten years living in the notorious Hulme Crescents which have since become the background to her novels. Not only is she a talented writer, but she has also sung in cabaret and rock groups, seventies soul cover bands and blues jam bands.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",action & adventure;books;genre fiction;literature & fiction;mystery;suspense;thriller & suspense;thrillers,8
0446606677,"A.K.A. Jane Coy debut action-romance featuring a British secret agent turned bestselling mystery novelist who can't quite stay out of the spy business. After her parents are murdered in an apparent IRA strike, Jane Nichols is raised by her kindly grandfather, a retired British Navy admiral who guides her toward the fatherly MI5 chief Douglas MacDonald. Packing a Walther PPK (one of James Bond's trademark weapons), Nichols takes to dangerous, violent IRA infiltration like a seasoned pro--until her lover (and fellow spy) Brian Hurst dies trying to protect her from a contract killing ordered by a red-headed, American-based IRA terrorist. Nichols tries to work out her romantic frustrations by pounding out a pseudonymous American trenchcoat mystery series that becomes successful enough for her agent to warn her to prepare for tax problems. Then Nichols's next spy job results in the death of a British undercover cop. Racked by nightmares and guilt, she quits MI5 and retires to a cozy bed-and-breakfast in Savannah, Georgia, intending to tour the swamps and continue her writing career. But, alas, she can't help but discover that her erstwhile red-headed adversary, Jim O'Neil, is a respected pillar of the local community. Newcomer Tan owes more to Sharon McCrumb than John le Carr, as Nichols submits to the advances of tough-talking Savannah Police Chief Alex Callaghan, a fan of her mysteries. As the two of them expose O'Neil, who drops into brogue as he strangles his victims, Tan piles on the clichs- -numerous blows, for example, cause Nichols repeatedly to ``explode'' in pain. At last, the besotted, Callaghan will murmur to Nichols, ``You're one tough cookie.'' Predictable but crisply written female fantasy, frothy and fun. -- Copyright 1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",action & adventure;books;genre fiction;literature & fiction;mystery;spy stories & tales of intrigue;thriller & suspense;thrillers,8
0924486961,"Yachtsman's Ten Language Dictionary ""A very handy book."" Multihull Review (March 2009)  ""very good value, as well as being a budding etymologist's starter book."" Nautical Magazine (June 2009)  ""an essential for the boat bookshelf."" sailers.co.uk (February 2009)  ' This is a very handy book! ' Multihull Review (Spring 09)  'Congratulations to the author, contributors, and publishers...very good value, as well as being a budding etymologist's starter book.' The Nautical Magazine (June 2009)	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Text: English	The Cruising Association was founded in 1908, and has over 6000 members  and a worldwide network of 350 Honorary Local Representatives.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",boating;books;education & reference;miscellaneous;reference;sailing;sports & outdoors;water sports,8
B000Q7HY5Q,"NCAA Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets Reversible Tote Functional and stylish, this universal tote is made of 100-Percent cotton and measures 19-Inch x 14-Inch. It is reversible with logos inside and out. Primary team color with a single primary team logo on one side and the secondary team color with repeating logo design on the other side.",bags;casino equipment;clothing accessories;fan shop;game room;leisure sports & games;packs & accessories;sports & outdoors,8
0809324458,"The American Game: Baseball and Ethnicity (Writing Baseball) [T]oday baseball reflects the American population as well as or better than any other sport or enterprise. In fact, with each year, more and more of our players come from foreign countries, particularly the great talent that has come from the Caribbean and Latin America. At the start of the 2000 major-league baseball season, 198 players, nearly 24 percent of all players on major league rosters, were born outside the fifty states. They represented sixteen different foreign countries and Puerto Rico.Bud Selig, Commissioner of Baseball, from the Foreword	These nine essays selected by Lawrence Baldassaro and Richard A. Johnson present for the first time in a single volume an ethnic and racial profile of American baseball. These essayists show how the gradual involvement by various ethnic and racial groups reflects the changing nature of baseball-and of American society as a whole-over the course of the twentieth century.   Although the sport could not truly be called representative of America until after Jackie Robinson broke the color line in 1947, fascination with the ethnic backgrounds of the players began more than a century ago when athletes of German and Irish descent entered the major leagues in large numbers. In the 1920s, commentators noted the influx of ballplayers of Italian and Slavic origins and wondered why there were not more Jewish players in the big leagues. The era following World War II, however, saw the most dramatic ethnographic shift with the belated entry of African American ballplayers. The pattern of ethnic succession continues as players of Hispanic and Asian origin infuse fresh excitement and renewal into the major leagues.	Lawrence Baldassaro, a professor of Italian and comparative literature and director of the University Honors Program at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, is the editor of The Ted Williams Reader.Richard A. Johnson has served as the curator of the Sports Museum of New England since 1982. His seven books include DiMaggio: An Illustrated Life, The Twentieth-Century Baseball Chronicle, Red Sox Century, and Boston Braves.	""[T]oday baseball reflects the American population as well as or better than any other sport or enterprise. In fact, with each year, more and more of our players come from foreign countries, particularly the great talent that has come from the Caribbean and Latin America. At the start of the 2000 major-league baseball season, 198 players, nearly 24 percent of all players on major league rosters, were born outside the fifty states. They represented sixteen different foreign countries and Puerto Rico.""--Bud Selig, Commissioner of Baseball, from the Foreword",african-american studies;baseball;books;ethnic studies;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific demographics;sports & outdoors,8
0345425952,"Shadow Dancing Lusty and gutsy and sexy and true. Louise Meriwether has written a woman's book which will knock men's socks off. We will all enjoy Shadow Dancing.--MAYA ANGELOU	Acclaimed author of Daddy Was a Numbers Runner and the historical novel Fragments of the Ark, Louise Meriwether now gives us this resonant and revealing contemporary story about the struggle to love in the shadow of our fears. . . A successful writer for BlackSpeak magazine, Glenda Jackson is gifted, dynamic, and respected in her field. She's determined to take control of her emotional life. While reviewing a new play at Harlem's innovative Aldridge Ensemble, she meets the enigmatic director, Mark Abbitt, the driving force behind a renaissance in black theater.The charismatic director proves to be as complex as one of his dramas. Haunted by memories of Vietnam, blind to the manipulations of his ex-wife, Mark is determined to be a good father to his four-year-old son. If Glenda's not to be eclipsed by Mark's powerful presence, she must confront her own deep fear of intimacy to find out if love is enough to heal a damaged soul. Yet against all the odds, these two remarkable people step into each other's shadow . . .and begin to dance.	JUNE 1981The walls were white. She could see them through the mist, slowlydissolving to let her through. And that blaze of light was the sun beamingthrough a curtainless window and glistening on the metallic table beneathit. Glenda did not own a white metallic table nor the gismo she was hookedup to that was dripping fluid into her arm. I'm in a hospital, sherealized, and felt a thudding pain in her chest. There was also a nastytaste in her mouth as if she were having her period. Menstruation alwaysmade her mouth taste slimy. She stared at her other arm not hooked up tothe IV. It was bandaged, lying limply on the blanket as though it did notbelong to her. Weakly she tried to wiggle her fingers but couldn't. Andher head felt pinched as if it also was swathed in bandages. Dear God,what's happened to me? Where am I?Jagged images raced through her mind, a kaleidoscope of the Earth moving,but before she could piece the images together they disappeared, her minda blackboard wiped clean by an eraser. A brooding shadow seated at herbedside moved, became concrete and spoke.Glenda, sweetheart, are you awake?Focusing hard to keep his figure from flying dizzily off into space, shestared at his handsome, night-dark face. His shirt was open at the neck, afamiliar sign. He always wore sport shirts or a dashiki, never a tie.Questioning reality, she whispered his name. Mark?He did not disappear like the figures in her head but leaned over her, hisblack presence filling her vision, a blessed sight.I'm so glad you're finally awake. He flinched involuntarily, as thoughthe sight of her pained him. She had been reduced to a defenseless lumpbeneath the sheet, her curly head wrapped in bandages. Swollen bruisespurpled her brown face, making it darker. Her eyes were bloodshot.Where are we? Glenda whispered. Her voice circling around the pain inher chest did not sound familiar to her.Columbia Medical Center.In Manhattan? For a minute I thought I was back in L.A.No. You're here in the Big Apple, baby. With me.Mark's voice was husky, tender, as he lightly brushed his lips against hercheek.Ordinarily when he called her baby like that, such an innocent little wordthat defined her as his own, it made Glenda melt. She didn't like to becalled mamma or bitch, which some men thought was so endearing at theheight of passion. Fuck me, bitch, she had once been ordered in the heatof the moment, and she had done so, galvanized and sweating. That had beenfucking, not making love. But when Mark called her baby, with that tendercatch in his throat, it released something within her that she routinelykept hidden, and she had to touch him, fleeting pilfered touches. On thepretence of getting her deodorant, she would enter the bathroom morningswhile he was showering, but really it was to feast her eyes on the breadthof his chest, the fullness of his butt, the taut beauty of his thighs. Orwhen he bid her good-bye at night, which always bruised her because hewouldn't stay over, she still had to touch him, to discreetly whisk animaginary speck of dust off his shoulder. He was so masculine andself-contained that she had to conceal from him her consuming passion,afraid that to reveal her feelings would be a weakness he could exploit.Mark, she wailed now, I don't remember what happened. Why can't I--Don't sweat it, he soothed, her panic obvious. The doctor said youmight have a temporary loss of memory. You've suffered a nasty concussion.And what else? Glenda wondered. Again she tried to move her legs and herarm, the one not hooked up to the I.V., but couldn't make them budge. Itwas terrible, this sense of total vulnerability, of having no control.Mark. Am I paralyzed?He shook his head. No, put that out of your mind. You have severalcontusions, and they've loaded you with painkillers. That's the rule ofthumb these days. If you're not a dope addict when you come in here,you'll be one by the time they cut you loose.Glenda wanted desperately to believe him. No bullshit, please. He wasstill leaning over her, his broad shoulders blocking out the light, as shesearched his face to ferret out the truth. He was a burnished black, withsienna tones, and his features were sculptured, especially the long, cleanlines of his mouth. She loved his mouth, particularly when a half smilelurked in its corners. His eyes, too, had a humorous glint, as though hewere privy to a cosmic truth he would willingly share if you cared tolaugh with him at life's absurdities. Mark was not smiling now and did notavoid Glenda's scrutiny; instead, he looked at her with total attention asif nothing else in the world mattered at the moment.All right, Glenda murmured, believing him. So tell me, what happened?She felt terribly exhausted but had to know.Mark cleared his throat, and the rasping noise seemed to reverberateinside her skull, disturbing the images that came out of hiding. A hazyform evolved into a panting dog. Then a man's face took shape, Mark'sface, twisted with anger. Slowly the images faded, and from deep withinthe well of herself Glenda heard Mark speak, his voice mournful andmuffled at her bedside.I blame myself. It was terrible . . . he began.And it was terrible, that sudden rush of blood to her head, which explodedlike a clap of thunder, cutting out all other sound. The room trembled,and Glenda lay there shivering, her body in acute distress. Every bone inher chest felt shattered. Every nerve ending screamed with pain. I hurt,she whimpered silently, and wondered if she had ever told Mark those twosimple words: I hurt. The walls began to shimmer out of shape, Markdisintegrating along with them. It was as though her mind, not ready torelive the incident, had decided to shut down. Evasively, as she had doneso often before, she ran inside herself and slammed the door. Glenda's eyes drifted shut, darkness claiming her once again.The pert, blond nurse Mark summoned assured him that Glenda was not incrisis. Before entering the room, she had checked her patient's vitalsigns on the monitor at her station. She replaced the empty bottle ofglucose on the IV stand and adjusted the needle taped to Glenda's arm.Then she looked at Mark pointedly, sizing him up, and waited with an airof expectation.I'm going to stay here for another few minutes, he said, addingpolitely, that is, if it's all right with you.The nurse headed toward the door. Don't stay too late. Visiting hours arealmost over.",books;domestic life;friendship;literature & fiction;multicultural;romance;united states;women's fiction,8
B0002VJ6AW,Mens Sliding Short with Hard Cup (Available in 4 Colors) Waistband color may vary between black and white depending on the size ordered.,baseball;protective gear;sliding pads;sports;sports & outdoor play;sports & outdoors;team sports;toys & games,8
B00005A8A8,"Slow Music for Fast Times This double compilation CD from pioneering New Age label Hearts  of Space is the perfect soundtrack for an escape from the pressure  cooker of a frenetic world. With featured artists such as Mychael Danna, Robert Rich, Coyote Oldman, Rasa, Bill Douglas, Steve Roach, and Al Gromer Khan,  Slow Music for Fast Times is a paradise of ambient, atmospheric  music, ranging from the introspective to the dynamic. The music has  been sequenced in the format of the popular Hearts of Space radio  program, heard on public radio stations nationwide since 1983. Overall,  this effect makes for an easy, effortless listen, as the selections  blend into each other gracefully. Included in this collection are  time-honored favorites, such as John Doan's  beautiful acoustic rendering of ""The Lamentation of Turlough  O'Carolan,"" Paul  Sauvanet's exotic ""Oasis,"" and recent releases such as Tim Story's ""Flame  and Circle,"" and David Darling's  ""Children."" What separates Slow Music for Fast Times from other  New Age compilations is the merit of the music and artists represented,  all of them innovators in their respective fields. This is a unique  treasure of a compilation CD, a musical expedition into a many-layered  forest of fascinating mystery. --Leslie R. Marini",alternative rock;dance & electronic;jazz;music;new age;pop;rock;world music,8
B000JX8O5G,"AP Plus Arnica & Pomegranate Ointment Our new AP Plus Arnica & Pomegranate Ointment is formulated to help relieve pain and inflammation from sore muscles, joint pain & stiffness, strains, sprains, and bruises; caused by overexertion, sports injuries, or other physical trauma.		This product was created for and tested by our young and elderly customers. If you have tried other topical analgesics, or other over the counter anti-inflammatory medications with little or no success you may want try this product. Our customers love this product! It does not have a strong scent, is readily absorbed into the skin without a greasy feeling, and most important ""It Works""!",arthritis;health & personal care;health care;joint & muscle pain relief;pain relief rubs;pain relievers;rubs & ointments;treatments,8
B0000AS2E6,"Yard Machines 24AD585F000 8 HP 31 Ton Vertical/Horizontal Log Splitter Let the ax gather dust in the tool shed this winter, while you split firewood with this easy-to-use log splitter from YardMachines. With an 8 HP Tecumseh XL engine, the powerful machine cuts logs both vertically and horizontally. Simple and quick to use, it also saves your back, arms, and shoulders from the physical stress that often results from chopping wood.  With 31-ton ram pressure, the machine cuts in 15-second cycles for speedy kindling production. A two-stage hydraulic pump, with a 7-gallon hydraulic tank and durable pressure hoses, maintains a maximum of 3200 PSI while splitting wood. The replaceable cast-iron wedge chops logs up to 25 inches in diameter. A useful splitter strips wood, while the mechanized cylinder return and forward ram provide added safety. To alternate from horizontal to vertical splitting, simply flip the spring-loaded latch.  Use the included 1-7/8-inch locking ball hitch and jack stand to tow the splitter by truck or car--so you can cut wood on location rather than hauling heavy logs home. The splitter maneuvers diverse terrains on 16-inch pneumatic tires with wide ABS fenders. For best results, allow oil in the hydraulic tank cool before recirculation for enhanced longevity on valves and seals. Keep oil capped off by monitoring levels with the included dipstick.  YardMachines ships this machine mostly assembled. Some minor assembly is required. A one-year limited warranty covers the pump, cylinder, and valves. A two-year limited warranty covers the rest of the tool. This item weighs 668 pounds when shipped. --Jessica Reuling	This 8hp tec engine log splitter comes with 31 ton ram pressure for fast, effortless splitting.  The 15-second cycle time with automatic cylinder return minimizes chore time and maximizes productivity.  It has a 25"" log capacity and allows splitting in both the vertical and horizontal positions for added convenience.  It has a spring-loaded quick connect latch for easy conversion.  A replaceable cast-iron cutting wedge with wood-stripper plate is included to eliminate jamming.  Other features include the two-stage hydraulic pump which ensures that maximum 3200 PSI are maintained during operation.  The 7-gallon hydraulic tank provides necessary capacity for oil to cool before re-circulating, reducing wear on valves & seals; dip-stick included for easier maintenance.  The 16"" pneumatic tires provide smooth over-the-road towing. Extra-Wide ABS fenders are standard. It also comes equipped with a 1 7/8"" locking ball hitch & jack stand that is a universal size to fit most cars or trucks.  Heavy duty pressure hoses and standard log cradle is another feature that seperates this log splitter from the competition.  And it is pre-assembled in the crate with only minimal assembly required!",lawn & garden;log splitters;mowers & outdoor power tools;outdoor power tools;patio;power & hand tools;power tools;tools & home improvement,8
0199246556,"The Worlds of Possibility: Modal Realism and the Semantics of Modal Logic `Chihara's book is a commendable source to everyone not yet familiar with the foundational issues.' Years Work in English Studies`exciting ...Chihara's account of the relationship between formal and informal semantics is interesting, clever and persuasive.'  Michael Byrd, Brit. Jl. Phil Sci. 51, No.2 (2000).`Chihara has produced an excellent book.  It contains careful and penetrating criticisms of some of the leading modal metaphysical positions today, it forces us to rethink the fundamentals of applied semantics and it contains a new and exciting way of understanding possible worlds semantics without possible worlds.  In short, this book is a deep and important contribution to our understanding of modality.'  Michael Byrd, Brit. Jl. Phil Sci. 51, No.2 (2000).	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Charles S. Chihara is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley.",books;humanities;logic;logic & language;new;philosophy;politics & social sciences;used & rental textbooks,8
080507564X,"The Accidental Empire: Israel and the Birth of the Settlements, 1967-1977 Starred Review. [Signature]Sarah F. GoldMidway through Gorenberg's revelatory account comes a striking irony, one of the many that emerge from this troubling history of Israeli settlements in the territories occupied after the 1967 Six Day War. In 1970, army commander Ariel Sharon said settlements would ""wean the Arabs of the Gaza Strip from the illusion that we will eventually get out of there."" Who could foresee that 35 years later, Prime Minister Sharon would bow to reality and spearhead the dismantling of those settlements and Israel's withdrawal from Gaza? The power of another illusionthe Israelis' belief that ""creating facts"" by establishing settlements, could cement their sovereignty over contested lands and help guarantee its securityis a defining element of this tragic tale. It's an illusion that led to Israel's knowing violation (despite the warning in a top secret legal memo that Gorenberg cites) of the Fourth Geneva Convention. It led to the eviction of peaceful Bedouin from their land to make way for Israeli settlers. It led, according to Gorenberg, to the awakening of militant Palestinian nationalism. Ultimately, says Gorenberg, the settlements fed the escalating passions and violence that created the stalemate we know today. Militant, messianic nationalism was also the motivating force of the Israeli settlers, and Gorenberg dramatically describes this fervor's spread. Awakened by Israel's stunning 1967 victory, it led young religious Israelis to defy a government crippled by internal conflict over what to do with the occupied territories, and to settle in what the activists called ""Judea and Samaria."" The first settlement in the Golan Heights, however, was not founded by religious extremists, but by secular followers of socialist nationalist Yitzhak Tabenkin. One of Gorenberg's strengths is his deep knowledge of Zionist history and his skill in illuminating the emotional and ideological roots of all the settler factions.These emotional roots also help explain the paralysis of Israel's leaders in the face of defiant settlers. While brutally honest about the failings of Golda Meir (intolerant of dissent), Moshe Dayan (who thought occupation could be benign) and other Israeli figures (as well as those of their Arab opponents), Gorenberg, an associate editor of the Jerusalem Report, understands their secret sympathy for the settlers. Leaders like Yitzhak Rabin and Levi Eshkol were among Israel's founders, and the settlers' love of the land evoked their own pioneering youth and the heroic struggle to create a Jewish state. Nostalgia for the past clouded their vision and prevented the formulation of a sound policy for Israel's future. Today, with Ariel Sharon critically ill after a massive stroke, that future remains very much in question, and Gorenberg's book is an even more essential guide to understanding Israel's own contribution to its current tragic pass. 8 pages of photos; maps. (Mar. 9) Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	*Starred Review* Most empires are not built by way of a conscious, planned, systematic execution of a policy of territorial expansion. Goren-berg, a journalist in Jerusalem, examines the evolution of the Israeli policy of settlement of the territories conquered in the Six Days' War, of 1967. He convincingly illustrates that the policy was the result of myriad small decisions and actions by both major and minor players on the Israeli political, military, and religious landscapes.  At no time could one speak of a clear, coherent, and constant government policy that contemplated massive settlement and eternal control of these territories. Rather, Gorenberg describes a series of spasmodic efforts, sometimes led by religious zealots, sometimes led by secular, left-leaning Zionists, and sometimes by military pragmatists.  At times the government encouraged these movements; at other times, the government seemed a semiparalyzed bystander. It was only with the fall of the Labor Party and the emergence of the Likud under Menachem Begin, in 1977, that settlement and retention of the West Bank and Gaza were crystallized as government policy. Given recent developments in both Israeli- and Palestinian-controlled areas, this is a timely, vital, and even riveting analysis of how the current territorial and ethnic Gordian knot developed. Jay FreemanCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	A thoroughly documented, pathbreaking analysis of Israel's disastrous settlement project in the occupied territories; it reads like a chapter in Barbara Tuchman's well-known book, The March of Folly."" --Amos Elon, author of The Pity of It All and The Israelis: Founders and Sons ""The Accidental Empire is an extraordinary book. It offers insight and understanding into a period that has never been well understood. After the 1967 war, few in Israel recognized the inherent problems of building Jewish settlements beyond the Green Line, for they were torn between reason and spiritual attachment to the land. As Gershom Gorenberg shows in this wonderfully written history, the building of settlements took on a life of its own--too easy to do, too hard to stop, and too easy to simply let happen.""--Dennis Ross, former U.S. envoy to the Middle East, and author of The Missing Peace: The Inside Story of the Fight for Middle East Peace""A groundbreaking investigation into the origins of one of the most contentious issues in Arab-Israeli relations--and in the Middle East--and a valuable reference for journalists, students, and scholars interested in the region.""--Michael B. Oren, author of Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East""Gershom Gorenberg has given us a meticulously researched, dispassionate and highly readable history of how Israel slipped into the settlement of occupied lands. The Accidental Empire is an invaluable guide to one of the Middle East's most complex issues and will puncture illusions on all sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict."" --Jackson Diehl, columnist, The Washington Post ""The Accidental Empire casts a stark light on Israel's settlement of the lands it gained in the Six-Day War. Gershom Gorenberg contends that the Israeli left, as well as the Orthodox right, backed a policy that, though born of a felt need for security, encumbered the quest for peace--and that Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger also failed to foresee the long-term costs. This tragic tale suggests how a fearful nation helped foster the very threats it sought to escape.""--David Greenberg, Rutgers University, author of Nixon's Shadow: The History of an Image	Gershom Gorenberg is a columnist and associate editor at The Jerusalem Report. He is the author of The End of Days: Fundamentalism and the Struggle for the Temple Mount and co-author of Shalom, Friend: The Life and Legacy of Yitzhak Rabin. He has written for The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, The New Republic, The American Prospect, Mother Jones, Ha'aretz, and Ma'ariv. Born in America and educated at the University of California and Hebrew University, Gorenberg lives in Jerusalem with his wife and three children.	THE ACCIDENTAL EMPIRE (Chapter 1)The AvalancheOne day in early May 1967, General Uzi Narkiss stood in the shade of pine trees on the breeze-stroked hilltop of Kibbutz Ramat Rachel, at the edge of Israeli West Jerusalem, and looked out past the armistice line at Bethlehem and the Judean Desert in the Jordanian-held West Bank. With him stood journalist Haim Gouri and a young intelligence officer. It was a clear day in the brief Israeli spring, after the rains have stopped, before the dry heat scorches the last pale green from the hillsides and leaves them yellow-brown. Still, when Gouri wrote of his day with the general for his newspaper, his tone would be overcast, melancholy with nostalgia. He and Narkiss were looking at the territory of memory--as unreachable as one's youth.1Narkiss, forty-two years old and the head of the Israeli Defense Forces' Central Command, turned his binoculars to a flat-topped mountain to the southeast, site of a ruined fortress built by King Herod of Judea two millennia ago. Narkiss had hidden there for a day, he told the intelligence officer, back in 1946: His unit of the underground Haganah had attacked the Allenby Bridge over the Jordan River, as part of an operation aimed at driving the British from Palestine. Afterward they escaped by boat across the Dead Sea and climbed the desert cliffs to the ancient fortress, took cover there through daylight, then hiked through the hills to Ramat Rachel.The young officer looked at Narkiss and mapped the line between Israeli generations: ""You've passed through those places,"" he said. ""Our experiences are different."" He added, in the vague wish of someone with many years ahead of him, ""Still, we'd like to go one day--let's hope in a time of peace.""On maps, the armistice line between Israel and Jordan was drawn in green. The line wrapped around West Jerusalem as if it were a peninsula of Israel surrounded by a sea of Jordanian territory. Ramat Rachel was a tinier peninsula, a promontory pointed southward toward Bethlehem and, beyond that, Hebron. After curling around the kibbutz, the Green Line sliced through Jerusalem, cleaving neighborhoods. Splotches of land were designated as demilitarized zones by the armistice agreement signed in April 1949, at the end of Israel's war of independence. The agreement looked forward to a permanent peace settlement, but that never came, so the Green Line remained the border, temporary in perpetuity.2 Israel's parliament, the Knesset, stood just over a mile from the frontier; the prime minister's house, two-thirds of a mile. On the Jordanian side, the walled Old City nuzzled up against the border.Gouri was accompanying Narkiss for a tour of the urban frontier. The two were friends, members of an aristocracy of old fighters. They had met in pre-state days as young recruits to the Palmah, the elite force of the Haganah. The Palmah had been closely tied to a pro-Soviet movement of farm communes, kibbutzim, known as Hakibbutz Hame'uhad, the United Kibbutz, whose original goal had been turning all of Jewish Palestine into a single collective. Some people had called the Palmah ""the Red Army of the United Kibbutz.""3 Now Gouri wrote for the daily newspaper of the party tied to that movement.""It's so quiet here,"" Narkiss said, looking at the hills. ""It seems like you're allowed to just get up and walk over there.""How long, Gouri asked, could the strange situation continue in Jerusalem? ""We should be prepared to live like this for years and years,"" Narkiss answered. ""It might last forever, and it could change any day. We know this is the border, and that's that.""READING NARKISS'S words from the standpoint of history, looking back through the smoke of burning Egyptian tanks in the Sinai sands, one might suspect he was being disingenuous, that behind blank words he hid plans of war and conquest. But history can mislead us: It tells how things turned out. That is precisely what people living not-yet-history, looking forward into uncertainty, cannot know. What appears inevitable, even intentional, in retrospect, is often a series of accidents in real life.Narkiss was being forthright: The top brass of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) did not expect war. Earlier in 1967, Colonel Shlomo Gazit, the head of Military Intelligence's research department, had presented Armored Corps commander General Yisrael Tal with a report on the atrocious level of training of Egyptian tank crews. ""If you are right,"" Tal replied, ""they have no possibility of contending with us militarily."" Tal's response only reinforced Military Intelligence's repeated evaluations that, even though the Arab countries aspired to destroy Israel, war was unlikely.4 In March 1967, at a briefing for top commanders, General Aharon Yariv, the head of Military Intelligence, declared there was no chance of war in the Middle East in the next eight years. Egypt, the most powerful Arab country, was tied down in a civil war in Yemen; other Arab countries would not fight Israel on their own.5That hardly meant that Israel was ready to convert tanks into tractors. Indeed, one reason for confidence was Israel's deterrent power. Through the mid-1960s, Prime Minister Levi Eshkol and military Chief of Staff Yitzhak Rabin had worked to acquire new arms, especially for the air force and armored corps, to convince Arab leaders they should not attack.Still, tensions had been growing since 1964 on the eastern border. To cripple the Jewish state, Syria had tried to divert the headwaters of its main water supply, the Jordan River; Israel foiled that plan by bombing the earthworks.6 Syria sponsored Palestinian groups, particularly the Fatah movement, that aimed at reclaiming Palestine from the ""Zionist entity"" via ""armed struggle"" and that launched terror attacks from both Syrian and Jordanian territory. The Israeli army responded with cross-border retaliation raids. A de facto peace between Israel and Jordan--including secret meetings between top Israeli officials and the young King Hussein--evaporated.7Along the 1949 armistice line with Syria--on the eastern shore of the Sea of Galilee and along the deep, humid valley of the Jordan River--were demilitarized zones that Israel regarded as its territory, a claim Syria rejected. On the ground, each side held part of these zones. Each time Israel sent tractors to farm disputed land, Syria answered with gunfire, sometimes shelling kibbutzim in the valley from the Syrian heights that rose steeply to the east. Recent Israeli histories argue that the Israeli generals deliberately initiated some such incidents: Syrian fire provided a pretext for a stronger Israeli response, really intended as retaliation for Palestinian attacks.8 The clashes grew worse. On April 7, 1967, Syria answered a foray by two Israeli tractors with mortar and cannon fire, to which Israeli warplanes retorted by strafing and bombing Syrian positions. Israeli jets downed Syrian planes in dogfights over Damascus; Syrian shells leveled Kibbutz Gadot, inside a demilitarized zone on the Jordan River bank, north of the Sea of Galilee.9Yet as Gazit has admitted, ""Israeli intelligence erred in not drawing conclusions from the escalation, and did not warn that it could lead to a major conflagration.""10 Rather than being a deliberate prelude to war, the sparring testified to Israel's confidence that it could punish Syria without risking all-out conflict.Nor was conquest on the Israeli military agenda. The army's five-year development plan, put together under Eshkol and Rabin, presumed that Israel could ""realize fully its national goals"" within the armistice lines.11That reflected the position of Eshkol's ruling Mapai party. Mapai--the Workers Party of the Land of Israel--was established in 1930. Its founders were Jewish immigrants from places such as Minsk, Kiev, Warsaw, and Lvov, who had abandoned traditional Judaism as outmoded. Facing two shining secular ideas of utopia, they chose both: socialism along with Zionism, the belief that Jews must return to their homeland to build their own nation. In the Jewish community of British-ruled Palestine, where everything from unions to health clinics to sports teams belonged to parties, Mapai dominated.In 1937, when a British government panel called the Peel Commission first proposed solving the ethnic conflict between Jews and Arabs over Palestine by dividing the land into two states, Mapai leader David Ben-Gurion failed to win his party's unqualified support for the plan. The Arabs rejected the Peel plan completely, and the British abandoned it. But ten years later, when the United Nations voted to split Palestine into Jewish and Arab states, Mapai endorsed partition, which promised immediate independence for a state with a Jewish majority.12The U.N., though, did nothing to enforce its own decision. First Palestine's Arabs took up arms against the Jews and partition. When the British pulled out and Ben-Gurion led the Jews to declare Israel's independence on May 14, 1948, the neighboring Arab countries invaded--so that the moment of statehood marked a graduation from ethnic conflict to a war between sovereign nations.By the war's end, Israel's forces had pushed back the Arab armies and won land beyond the U.N. partition lines, and as many as 750,000 Palestinian Arabs had fled from their villages and cities in the new Jewish state or had been expelled by Jewish forces, becoming refugees. Six thousand Jews were killed, out of the 650,000 Jews in Palestine when the war began. No Palestinian Arab state arose. The kingdom of Transjordan annexed the piece of Palestine its army had seized, on the West Bank of the Jordan River, and the kingdom's name became Jordan. The Gaza Strip, a sliver of Palestine packed with refugees on the Mediterranean coast, remained under Egyptian military rule. Parts of Israel's borders matched the old internationally recognized boundary of British Palestine, but elsewhere the country's territory was defined only by the armistice lines, which meandered crazily through the countryside, defying topography. North of Tel Aviv, Israel n...",books;europe;history;humanities;israel;middle east;new;used & rental textbooks,8
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0720610710,"Darling Georgie: The Enigma of King George V Psychiatrist Friedman (Inheritance: A Psychological History of the Royal Family, 1993. o.p.) looks at the life of King George V by analyzing his upbringing. Any reader of British royal biographies will already be familiar with most of what Friedman discusses. The king's extraordinarily close relationship with his ""Motherdear,"" Alexandra; his respect for his often absent father, the philanderer Edward VII; and his private education with only his older, slower brother Prince Eddy for companionship have been analyzed before. With little new to add, Friedman often repeats facts and occasionally contradicts himself (he mentions a famous scandal involving Prince Eddy's being caught in a raid on a homosexual brothel, stating that George seemed to be unaware of his brother's involvement, yet a mere ten pages later he writes that ""nothing had horrified him more than the revelation of his brother's homosexuality at the time of the Cleveland Street scandal""). Readers will be better served by Kenneth Rose's King George V (LJ 2/15/84). Friedman's work is recommended only for libraries that collect everything on the British Royal family.AElizabeth Mellett, Brookline P.L., MA Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.",biographies & memoirs;books;england;ethnic & national;europe;historical;history;irish,8
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0931340616,"A History of the Concerto Roeder (music, Univ. of Alberta) offers an exhaustive survey of the concerto from its conception during the late Renaissance to its present-day maturity. Roeder highlights a number of important works for especially detailed analytical treatment and aesthetic discussion, and he includes mention of even the least significant composers who worked within the genre. While the subject matter is thoroughly covered and technical terms are fully explained, the subject itself is narrow enough to limit the appeal of this volume to working musicians, music students, music teachers, and lay readers with a special interest in the concerto. Music libraries will find this well-written volume a necessary purchase, while large public libraries will find it a useful addition.- James E. Perone, Canisius Coll., Buffalo, N.Y.Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.	In the popular imagination, the concerto is a piece of music shaped by the interplay between a virtuoso soloist and an accompanying orchestra. In fact, from its earliest days in the Baroque era, there have been concertos involving just the orchestra or, in the concerto grosso, the orchestra and a small body drawn from its ranks, and there are numerous examples of the solo concerto. As one of music's oldest forms, the concerto has a long and varied history that continues today. Roeder covers this history in detail (including musical examples) and quite accurately, starting with the concerto's origins in sixteenth-century Italy. He considers the form's treatment by music's masters and provides reliable information about lesser and virtually unknown figures who have worked with it. He explains well the interplay between an era's overall musical style and its concertos. Generally well-written, Roeder's effort accurately reflects its subject's protean history and is even up-to-date.  John Shreffler",arts & photography;books;classical;music;musical genres;performing arts;songbooks;theater,8
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1400062497,"Isherwood: A Life Revealed Christopher William Bradshaw-Isherwood's consistently rebellious, fictional self-reinventions are put into perspective alongside his exhaustive, introspective diaries in this authoritative and lively life. Of the generation of English writers who defined the 1930s, Isherwood (19041986) alone came from landed gentry; he recast himself as a serious novelist, a left-wing playwright, a political journalist and a pacifist. Meticulously following the rootless Isherwood from Weimar Berlin to war-torn China, Parker delves incisively into his relationship with Stephen Spender and with Auden. Parker portrays the frequent collaboration with the latter (highly acclaimed, at the time) as more emotionally crucial to Auden than to Isherwood. Their split upon emigrating to America just before the outbreak of WWII  gave Isherwood, who settled in Hollywood, far from Auden's New York, further opportunity for self-exploration and expression. 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All rights reserved	This is the major biography that Isherwood deservesa thorough look at the details of his complex itinerary, geographical, artistic and spiritual. It is a lively, informed account of his milieu and the interweaving of his life with those of Auden and Spender and Upward. . . . Parker manages all this toing and froing with acrobatic aplomb, lending any given episode neither too much nor too little weight.EDMUND WHITE, The Times Literary Supplement	PETER PARKER is the author of The Old Lie: The Great War and the Public-School Ethos and a biography of J. R. Ackerley. He is the editor of A Readers Guide to the Twentieth-Century Novel and A Readers Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers. He is an associate editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and writes about books and gardening for a wide variety of publications. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1997 and lives in Londons East End.	ONEIn the first days of 1986, christopher isherwood lay dying at his home  in Southern California. He had not said much for several weeks, and he  was drifting in and out of consciousness. He occasionally cried out for  his mother or for his old nanny. Traveling forward into the unknown, he  was also traveling backward through loops of memory, across thousands  of miles, to where he started out on the long journey that was about to  end. The world, and Isherwoods circumstances, had changed almost  beyond recognition since 1904, but despite adopting many roles over the  years, despite shedding both names and nationality, Isherwood had  always known that the past was inescapable. It lay in hiding, as it  always had, ready to leap out and reclaim him.Isherwoods relationship with the past was complicated. He respectedor  fearedit enough to give the word a capital initial, more often than  not, when he wrote it down, a tribute he also accorded his mother. For  Isherwood the Past and my Mother were almost the same thing. This  was partly because his mother had a characteristically English  reverence for anything that happened in earlier times, in particular  before the First World War. She also had a genuine and well-informed  interest in old buildings, paintings and furniture, but this  antiquarianism struck her son as having more to do with psychology than  scholarship. For Kathleen Isherwood, the past represented a place to  which she could escape, the place where she had been most happy; for  Christopher Isherwood, the past was a treacherous bog into which you  would be sucked down and suffocated. He once said that by going to live  in America, he was separating himself from Mother and Motherland at  one stroke. Much of his life, and the many journeys he made, can be  seen as a series of attempts to put as great a distance as he could  between himself and the person he imagined his family and society  wanted him to be.Before emigrating to America in 1939, Isherwood tried to settle his  account with the past. Like Robert Graves before him, he waved goodbye  to all that in a fictionalized autobiography. Lions and Shadows opens  with an account of the author in the Sixth Form of his unnamed public  school. Years later, Isherwood complained that what he disliked about  conventional autobiographies was that the author says (in effect)  before I tell you about me I shall tell you about them and so the  parents are forever separated from the child who is doing the  tellingwhen, actually, the opposite is true, the parents are now only  alive within the child and as a part of him. In fact, Isherwoods  mother was very much alive when he published Lions and Shadows, but she  is ruthlessly excised from the narrative, as is his younger brother,  and his father, who was killed in the First World War. The book  contains several vague references to my family, but the reader has no  idea of its individual components. In order to scratch his parents and  brother from the record, Isherwood also had to avoid much mention of  his childhood. It is as if he wished to present himself as arriving in  the world fully formed, having already attained the age of reason.This attempt at parthenogenesis is characteristic of Isherwoods  approach to public self-presentation. More even than most writers,  Isherwood liked to imagine himself his own creation, and he was quite  prepared to rewrite history in order to improve on the facts for  aesthetic or personal reasons. He did so with every appearance of  candor, for he was a consummate actor both on the page and in person.  His boyish appearance, which persisted well into middle age, and his  clear blue eyes were not only seductive but suggested a frankness and  openness of character. He possessed a great deal of charm, which he  often used strategically but which also became at times something he  switched on almost without noticing. His writing frequently  beguilesand even misleadsthe reader in much the same way.Isherwoods distrust of the past did not of course prevent him from  making use of it in his work. Few writers have relied as much upon  their own lives as Isherwood did in order to write books. Almost  everything he wrote, even his occasional book reviewing, contains an  autobiographical strand. Toward the end of his career, having exhausted  the possibilities of using his own life to generate fiction, Isherwood  turned to more or less straight autobiography, although in both  Kathleen and Frank and Christopher and His Kind, he referred to his  younger self in the third person, as if writing about a separate  character whose connection with the narrator was at best tenuous. After  toying in novels with fictional characters called William Bradshaw  (his own middle names) and Christopher Isherwood, who are to all  intents and purposes self-portraits, he ends up writing books that  supposedly present his life undisguised and unadorned. On the opening  page of Christopher and His Kind, he refersrather as if it had very  little to do with himto a book called Lions and Shadows, published in  1938, which describes Christopher Isherwoods life between the ages of  seventeen and twenty-four. In that book, he continues: The Author  conceals important facts about himself. He over-dramatizes many  episodes and gives his characters fictitious names. Having dispensed  with this rival chronicler of his life, Isherwood states: The book I  am now going to write will be as frank and factual as I can make it,  especially as far as I myself am concerned. Once again, the reader is  led into believing that everything that follows is true, but in this  book, as in the books about his parents and his guruas indeed in Lions  and Shadowsfacts are concealed, episodes are over-dramatized and real  people are given fictitious names. There were perfectly honorable,  non-literary reasons for some of this, largely to do with protecting  peoples identity or privacy, but Isherwood was still intent on molding  his life, finding patterns and, increasingly, proselytizing.Isherwoods tardy interest in family history was largely solipsistic.  His antecedents were interesting insofar as Christopher Isherwood was  the end result. His approach to them was archaeological rather than  strictly genealogical, discovering his family within himself.  Consequently, generations of respectable forebears are ignored and only  those whose characters seemed in some way to have contributed to  Isherwoods own personal mythology make their appearances in Kathleen  and Frank. How far these characters are full and true portraits of  historical figures is open to doubt. When Isherwood began work on the  book, his brother Richard suggested that he was inclined to focus on  those aspects of their father that made him seem most like the sort of  man Isherwood wanted him to be. Thereafter Isherwood had to be on guard  against a tendency to remake his father in his own image. He also  needed to reconcile the woman who emerges from the diaries she kept  throughout her long life with the Mother he had created, or at any rate  over-dramatized, in order to represent everything he wanted to  reject. Isherwoods notions about his parents were evident in the title  he originally gave Kathleen and Frank, a title bestowed on the work  even before it was in progress, before he had done any research at all:  Hero-Father, Demon-Mother.Isherwoods family background was important not only because he made  use of it in his fiction but also because it gave him something  tangible against which to rebel. Of the writers who came to be  associated with the 1930s, Christopher William Bradshaw-Isherwood was  socially by far the grandest. W. H. Auden, Edward Upward, C. Day-Lewis,  Louis MacNeice and Stephen Spender had all been born into the British  bourgeoisie, the sons of doctors, clergymen and journalists.  Isherwoods father may have been a professional soldier, but he came  from a family of landed gentry which had a seat in Cheshire and was  able to trace its origins back into the sixteenth century. The  landowning classes against whom writers of the Left spent much of  their time inveighing were incarnated in almost cartoon fashion by  Isherwoods own grandfather, John Henry Bradshaw-Isherwood, Justice of  the Peace and squire of Marple. It was Kathleen Isherwoods almost  mystical reverence for Marple Hall and the traditions it represented,  rather than a passion for social equality, that made the young  Isherwood want to see the place reduced to rubble. For Isherwood the  political was always, from the very outset, personal.The landed gentry is a section of upper-middle-class English society  whose lineage is elaborately set out between the red covers of a stout  volume popularly known as Burke. The weight of the past, about which  Isherwood so often complained, was not in fact as heavy for his family  as for others recorded in this book. In the 1952 edition of Burkes  Landed Gentry, Isherwoods ancestors come under the heading  Bradshaw-Isherwood of Marple, but are listed alphabetically under I  for plain Isherwood, as if there were some doubt as to the authenticity  of this double-barreled name. Indeed, it is the Bradshaws who are  traceable back beyond the sixteenth century, not the Isherwoods. The  Bradshaws may have been gentry, but they did not become landed until  1606 when a certain Henry Bradshawe, who had lived as a tenant at  Marple Hall and Wyberslegh Hall in Cheshire, bought both properties  from his landlord. The Isherwoods did not enter the picture for another  170 or so years, when Henrys great-great-granddaughter Mary married en  secondes noces Nathaniel Isherwood of Bolton-le-Moors in neighboring  ...",arts & literature;authors;biographies & memoirs;books;criticism & theory;gay & lesbian;history & criticism;literature & fiction,8
B0000547E0,"What If? Part 2: Watersheds, Revolutions, and Rebellions In the second volume of What If?, today's foremost historians gather to speculate on what-ifs. This time the collection of essays delves into Napoleon's missed opportunities, the Spanish Armada, and how the Civil War might have turned out differently. Listen as watersheds, revolutions, and rebellions are turned topsy-turvy to jumble history and change the face of the world as we know it today. This provocative collection of never-before-published essays provides a fascinating new perspective on history's most pivotal events.",books;genre fiction;historical;history;literature & fiction;military;napoleonic wars;strategy,8
1878923161,"L.A. Despair: A Landscape of Crimes & Bad Times John Gilmore was born and raised in Hollywood and has worked as a child actor, a stage and motion picture player, poet, screenwriter, low-budget film director, journalist, true-crime writer and novelist. He has headed the writing program at Antioch University and has taught and lectured extensively. He is the author of Severed: The True Story of the Black Dahlia Murder, Manson, and his first book of memoirs, Laid Bare.",biographies & memoirs;books;crime & criminals;murder & mayhem;serial killers;specific groups;true accounts;true crime,8
0030335825,"Organic Chemistry ""The major strengths of the Brown book are the clarity of discussions and the overall organization and order in which topics are presented. Just reading through any chapter, discussions typically provide a very polished and direct explanation of the topic at hand. Moreover the organization of the text proceeds in a manner that builds nicely, for example the reactions of alkyl halides are directly preceded by reactions to generate them.""-Zachary D. Aron, Indiana University""The strengths of the Brown book are, a reasonable organization, a fairly good mechanistic approach to organic chemistry, the biological highlights are very strong, very good selection of problems in chapter and at the end, the reaction summary at end of chapter is very useful, and the mechanisms within colored areas in the text help them stand out.""-Jean Chmielewski, Purdue University	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	William H. Brown is emeritus professor of chemistry at Beloit College, where he was twice named Teacher of the Year. His teaching responsibilities include organic chemistry, advanced organic chemistry, and, more recently, special topics in pharmacology and drug synthesis. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University under the direction of Gilbert Stork and did postdoctoral work at California Institute of Technology and the University of Arizona. He is a coauthor on INTRODUCTION TO GENERAL, ORGANIC AND BIOCHEMISTRY, 10e (Cengage Learning/Brooks Cole).Christopher S. Foote received his B.S. in 1957 from Yale University and his Ph.D. in 1962 from Harvard University. His scholarly credits include Sloan Fellow 1965-1967; Guggenheim Fellow 1967-1968; ACS Baekland Award, 1975; ACS Cope Scholar, 1994; Southern California Section ACS Tolman Medal, 1996; President, American Society for Photobiology, 1988-1989; and Senior Editor, ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH. He was Professor of Chemistry at UCLA.Brent L. Iverson received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1982 and currently teaches at University of Texas, Austin. He is a distinguished teacher and respected researcher. Iverson's research group has developed methods for recombinant antibody or enzyme cloning and has directed its evolution. In collaboration with the Georgiou group, he pioneered a novel E. coli surface expression/FACS selection technology that has allowed the group to enhance antibody affinity.Eric Anslyn is the Norman Hackerman Professor of Chemistry at The University of Texas at Austin. Highly respected in organic chemistry, he earned his Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology and has won numerous teaching awards. Anslyn's research focuses on the cutting-edge area of bioorganic chemistry.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.",books;chemistry;education & reference;new;organic;science & math;science & mathematics;used & rental textbooks,8
059528860X,A War That Never Ended: The Story of an Eurasian OrphanHer Life & Loves During the Vietnam War Tom Williams had a 27-year career with the U.S. Army that ended in 1992. His tour in Vietnam as a combat engineer coincided with the Tet Offensive during 1968. He currently lives in Florida with his wife where they are both pursuing their literary and business interests.,action & adventure;books;contemporary;genre fiction;historical;literature & fiction;romance;war,8
0876124694,"Living Fearlessly: Bringing Out Your Inner Soul Strength (How-to-Live Series) Born in India on January 5, 1893, Paramahansa Yogananda devoted his life to helping people of all races and creeds to realize and express more fully in their lives the true beauty, nobility, and divinity of the human spirit. After graduating from Calcutta University in 1915, Yogananda took formal vows as a monk of India's venerable monastic Swami Order. Two years later, he began his life's work with the founding of a how-to-live school since grown to twenty-one educational institutions throughout India where traditional academic subjects were offered together with yoga training and instruction in spiritual ideals. In 1920, he was invited to serve as India's delegate to an International Congress of Religious Liberals in Boston. His address to the Congress and subsequent lectures on the East Coast were enthusiastically received, and in 1924 he embarked on a cross-continental speaking tour. Over the next three decades, Paramahansa Yogananda contributed in far-reaching ways to a greater awareness and appreciation in the West of the spiritual wisdom of the East. In Los Angeles, he established an international headquarters for Self-Realization Fellowship, the nonsectarian religious society he had founded in 1920. Through his writings, extensive lecture tours, and the creation of Self-Realization Fellowship temples and meditation centers, he introduced hundreds of thousands of truth-seekers to the ancient science and philosophy of Yoga and its universally applicable methods of meditation. Today, the spiritual and humanitarian work begun by Paramahansa Yogananda continues under the direction of Sri Mrinalini Mata, one of his closest disciples and president of Self-Realization Fellowship/Yogoda Satsanga Society of India since 2011. In addition to publishing his writings, lectures and informal talks (including a comprehensive series of Self-Realization Fellowship Lessons for home study), the society also oversees temples, retreats, and centers around the world.",books;fitness & dieting;health;hinduism;religion & spirituality;self-help;spiritual;spirituality,8
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0140269967,"The Power to Harm Cornwell (Earth to Earth) reconstructs the story of Joseph Wesbecker, on medical leave from his job in a Louisville, Ky., printing plant, who returned to his workplace in 1989 and shot 20 fellow employees, killing eight of them before killing himself. He also relates the battle by the Eli Lilly pharmaceutical company to fight the damage suit brought by the survivors of Wesbecker's murder spree and the families of the dead, who alleged that his action had been caused by his use of Prozac. The antidepressant drug accounted for about a third of Lilly's multibillion-dollar sales, and eventually the company settled the case via a payout kept secret even from the judge. Cornwell discusses questions being debated by neuroscientists and psychopharmacologists about the link between brain states and human behavior, with some affirming the Cartesian dualism of mind and body, others believing in a narrow reductionism in which the brain is seen as a ""meat machine"" capable of being controlled, still others asserting the nonmechanistic opinion that human beings have a measure of mental freedom. Cornwell presents a profound analysis of the fundamental question of human identity and of epistemological matters sure to be ongoing concerns as pharmacology becomes even more prevalent in treating the emotionally unstable. Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	In 1989, Joseph T. Wesbecker went on a shooting spree at his former place of employment, Standard Gravure, in Louisville, Kentucky. After killing eight people and injuring 12, he took his own life. Wesbecker, on long-term disability leave owing to work-related stress and a history of mental illness, was taking the antidepressant Prozac. The survivors of his rampage sued Eli Lilly, the manufacturer. Journalist Cornwell, a senior research fellow at Cambridge University and visiting fellow at the Neurosciences Institute at Rockefeller University, covered the trial for the London Sunday Times Magazine. Here he addresses not only the trial but also Wesbecker's personal life, the stress faced by blue-collar workers in postindustrial America, the nature of depression, and the development and marketing of Prozac. Cornwell does an excellent job of making the science of psychopharmacology understandable to the lay person and conveying the drama of the trial. He does slightly less well in his attempt to analyze the larger questions raised by the trial?the nature of mental illness, personality, and identity, and the ethics of pharmacological tampering. Transitions between chapters are a bit choppy, but the story itself is gripping. This title will appeal to true-crime readers as well as anyone concerned about the widespread prescription of mood-altering drugs.?Eris Weaver, Marin Inst. for the Prevention of Alcohol & Other Drug Problems, San Rafael, Cal.Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	In September 1989, a worker at a Louisville, Kentucky, printing plant opened fire with an assault rifle, shooting 20 coworkers before killing himself. When it was revealed that the worker had been taking Prozac, the surviving victims and the families of the dead filed suit against the manufacturer of the drug, Eli Lily. Although Lily maintained the worker was destined to become a mass murderer, the plaintiffs argued that Prozac had a history of severe reactions and that Lily was selling a drug known to be dangerous. Cornwell, who originally covered the case for the London Sunday Times Magazine, presents Lily's executives as desperate to win, worried that a finding against Prozac could send Lily stock plummeting. And they would do anything to win, eventually wangling an out-of-court settlement that thoroughly manipulated the U.S. legal system. A truly disturbing picture of corporate greed and power.  Brian McCombie	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",anthropology;biographies & memoirs;books;cultural;murder & mayhem;politics & social sciences;true accounts;true crime,8
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0964423464,A Vocabulary of the Unami Jargon (American Language Reprints) Text: English (translation)  Original Language: Swedish,books;education & reference;foreign language dictionaries & thesauruses;foreign language study & reference;foreign languages;humanities;new;used & rental textbooks,8
0060237112,"The Sailor Who Captured the Sea: A Story of the Book of Kells Grade 1-3-- A story of three brothers set in Ireland, a.d. 804, during the time of the writing of the Book of Kells. They seek sanctuary from the invading Vikings at a monastery and become involved in the work of the Book, which will allegedly save them from attack. One brother, a sailor named Broghan, so longs for the sea that he cannot be the scribe his brothers have become. After he rescues a Viking boy whose boat crashes on the rocks, however, Broghan is inspired not only by that vessel's carvings, but also by the urgency of the task itself. Months later, the Viking king arrives at the monastery, recognizes the ship's design in the artwork, realizes what Broghan has done, and spares them all. The fine detail that iwa s the wonder of the Book of Kells is beautifully recalled in a lavish style that retains the spirit and the beauty of the genuine article. Lattimore's story pays tribute to and teaches readers about the dedication and years of labor required by the great book. As is evident from some of her other works, such as Why There Is No Arguing in Heaven (1989) and The Flame of Peace (1987, both Harper), Lattimore is in her element when retelling legends, using rich and stylized artwork to surround and accompany her words. This is true here, as fierce dragons, rich in color, roar down from the latticed borders. --Jane Marino, White Plains Public Library, NYCopyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",arts & photography;books;calligraphy;children's books;commercial;graphic design;illustration;other media,8
1886513686,"What You Need to Succeed: Making Car Sales a Career Rather Than a Job Every salesperson will want to apply these basic steps and skills to their daily work plan. -- Tim Amdahl, Redwing MotorsRadar is the complete package: experience and knowledge, with the ability to convey both with zeal and enthusiasm. -- Scott Lambert, Minnesota Auto Dealers AssociationThe classroom that you can take home. -- Jeff Stearns, Kline Auto World	Mike ""Radar"" Radosevich is an experienced car salesperson and trainer of car sales people for dealers across the upper midwest.",automotive;books;business & investing;marketing & sales;motivational;professional & technical;sales & selling;self-help,8
0812545079,"Rolling Thunder Stock Car Racing: First To The Flag Don Keith is an Alabama native and attended the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa where he received his degree in broadcast and film.  He has won numerous awards from the Associated Press and United Press International for news writing and reporting, as well as Billboard Magazine's ""Radio Personality of the Year"" during his more than twenty years in broadcasting. His first novel, ""The Forever Season,"" won the Alabama Library Association's ""Fiction of the Year"" award. Keith lives in Indian Springs Village, Alabama, with his wife, Charlene, and a black cat named Hershey.	The TestThe tall, sandy-haired young man sat slouched in a heap in the private plane's stuffed-leather rear passenger seat. He appeared to be fast asleep, even though he was arranged in what might have been considered to be an awkward position for a catnap. But with his mouth open and his eyes tightly closed, he snored softly anyway. The kid was clearly oblivious to the awkward tilting of the King Air as it circled for its approach to the airport, to the bumpy air it chopped through as it descended, to the casual conversation between the plane's pilot and the other occupant who sat in the copilot's seat.Rob Wilder had become a master at grabbing sleep wherever, whenever, he could manage it. The cabin of the King Air was downright luxurious compared to some of his more recent accommodations.The other passenger, the older man who occupied the right seat up front, dropped his chat with the pilot when he got busy on the radio talking and responding to his landing instructions. He turned then to see how the kid was doing and was not at all surprised to see him still dozing peacefully.Billy Winton smiled. It had been only a short time ago when the young man had been petrified at the very thought of flying, terrified most of takeoffs and landings. Now he was usually fast asleep on the taxi out to the runway and had to eventually be shaken awake when the plane had already been parked.Then, as he watched the handsome youngster sleep, Winton noticed something else telling. The kid's right foot twitched slightly. So did his right hand, as if he was performing some sort of coordinated maneuver in his sleep.Billy smiled even more broadly. He's dreaming of driving that race car, he thought. And likely of being first to the checkered flag.That was a safe guess. That was about all Rob Wilder dreamed about, all he talked about, all he seemingly lived for. Driving Billy Winton's race cars as fast as he could until he could finally win his first big-time stock car race on the Grand National circuit.Now they were on an approach to a legendary place where he might just do that very thing. It was a shrine to speed where, Billy suspected, young Rob Wilder would feel very much at home, though he had never been there before in his slightly less than twenty years on this planet. At least not while awake. And within an hour, they would not only be there but they would be testing one of the new cars they would soon use to start their first full season of serious racing together.He hated to wake the kid from his dreams.The last several days had no doubt been far more tiring for Wilder than driving a five-hundred-mile race in a day at Charlotte would have been. The young man had been pushed and shoved through a three-day series of promotional stops and special appearances on behalf of their team's major new sponsor. Billy had been his constant companion on the trip and he was admittedly sapped, bone-tired as well. But he had merely been along for the ride and had not had to shake hundreds of hands or sign all those autographs or answer all those silly questions with a good-humored smile and pretend it was the first time he had ever heard them.Even now, this far down the road, Billy sometimes wondered why he had stepped back into the middle of the swirling tornado of serious stock car competition and dragged all these other lives along with him on his obsessive quest. As the chief mechanic of one of the most successful teams in the sport's history, he had gotten more than his fair share of the glamour and glory during the seventies and eighties. And the money, too. Enough of the spoils of victory that, well invested as it was, he could have lived comfortably for the rest of his days without ever having to do any more grueling personal appearances or gritty all-night work sessions, or brutal early morning track tests.But the money and glory were not what had drawn him to the game in the first place. It was the winning. And Billy Winton had missed that one addictive element so badly he had willingly stepped back into the maelstrom. It had been on a limited basis at first, but he had soon realized that halfway didn't quite feed his habit. Then he took the plunge again big time when Rob Wilder had dropped into his world.No, normally he would have let Rob sleep all the way to the terminal so he would be a few minutes better rested for the job ahead of him this day. But something was coming up he wanted the kid to see. The turboprop engines changed pitch again as the plane made another turn, a course that brought them perpendicular to the shimmering white-sand beaches and put the orange ball that was the morning sun directly behind them.He touched the boy's sneaker with his own boot.""Robbie! Wake up, son. You'll want to see this.""The youngster's eyes popped open and it was clear he was disoriented for a moment, maybe still chasing checkered flags in his sleep. Then he blinked in the bright sunlight that filled the cabin, rubbed his eyes with the backs of his hands much as a child might, and then leaned forward as much as the seat belt would allow to see what Billy was pointing at below.A green carpet of pine and scrub oak and pasture stretched off into the far distance, while houses and streets and store parking lots claimed the foreground. The towering beachfront resorts and condos seemed to reach up toward them from directly below where they flew. The ocean was a cold slate gray behind them except for the fiery streak painted by the rising sun.""Hey, kid,"" Billy shouted over the drone of the engines, and indicated he should be looking down and to the left. ""There she is.""It took Rob a moment to see what Billy was pointing at. Then it emerged from beneath the plane's wing. Even then he had to look twice to make sure it was what he thought it was: a perfect replica of a big framed photo that hung on the wall in Billy Winton's office back in Chandler Cove, Tennessee.And it was one of the most beautiful sights he had ever seen. The gigantic speedway at Daytona Beach! He glanced over at Billy and there was a look on the young man's face that hinted he might think he was still dreaming.""That's her, all right. Daytona. What you think?""""Whoa! That is Daytona!""""The grand old lady herself. The place where legends are born. Built for speed and nothing but speed. Beautiful, don't you think?""Rob didn't answer as he stared out the plane's window, his nose against the glass, again almost kidlike. The stands were empty, the pits and garage almost deserted, but for an instant he thought he saw movement out there on the track. Petty and Pearson dueling for the checkered flag. Earnhardt nudging someone aside to take the lead. Bobby and Davey Allison, father and son, finishing one-two. Rob could almost see the highlight reels spinning in his mind as he stared at the hook of the tri-oval track down below, its famous tower overlooking the start/finish line.""It's hard to believe we're looking down on the same place where all those great races were run,"" he said.""I've been lucky enough to see a bunch of them from down there close at hand. I watched Richard Petty and Jodell Lee and the others come to the checkers at two hundred miles an hour. And even after five hundred miles of racing, they'd get to the finish and be so close that you still couldn't tell who crossed the line first. Lots of guys who can win races can't win on that track down there, Robbie. It's where they separate the car jockeys from the racers.""Billy left his next thought unsaid. That strip of track that was sliding beneath their airplane would be the next place this young driver would have a chance to prove his own mettle, too. So far, so good, in this young driver's career, but Rob Wilder had not yet faced Daytona.""It is hard to imagine all that speed from up here,"" Rob was saying. ""It almost looks like an interstate highway with sharper curves.""""Oh, she's plenty fast. Too fast sometimes.""Billy let the words hang as he allowed a whirlpool of memories to claim him. He had spent times both wonderful and tough down there when he had worked with Jodell Lee and his team. Lee had been one of the best the sport had seen, but Daytona had taken a bite out of him more than a time or two as well. Billy Winton and Jodell Lee, along with Jodell's engine builder and first cousin, Joe Banker, and their crew chief, Bubba Baxter, always came to this place fully expecting to win whatever race it was that had brought them here. They had cut their teeth on this track before Billy had joined them. Besides, most of the other teams readily acknowledged that Jodell knew the banks of Daytona even better than he did the mountain roads where he had once run illegal moonshine whiskey for his grandfather. Yessir, this place held special memories for Billy Winton, and now he had high hopes of adding some new ones with his fresh, young crew.The King Air glided in low over turn three, making its final descent down along the track's long backstretch. For an instant Rob thought the pilot was going to set the plane right down in the racing groove itself, but then he remembered another detail from the picture on Billy's wall. The Daytona Beach airport was right next to the track.The kid could not take his eyes off the place. That is, until it disappeared out of view as the plane's wheels finally touched down on the runway with a screech and a puff of blue smoke. And even as they taxied over to the flight service hangar, Rob replayed in his head the majestic view he had just commanded.So this was it! He had finally seen the speedway he had every intention of conquering when they came back here to race in just a bit over a month. Today was to be only a test.This was Daytona!From the ground, as he hopped down from the plane's steps, he got a much better perspective of the actual size of the place. It was massive! There was no other way to describe it.Will Hughes, their crew chief, was waiting for them at the door of the flight service building. He showed them his usual dour expres...",action & adventure;books;genre fiction;humanities;literature;literature & fiction;new;used & rental textbooks,8
0395966493,"Choose to Lose Weight-Loss Plan for Men : A Take-Control Program for Men With Guts to Lose Men are luckier than women when it comes to weight loss. For one thing, men tend to store most of their fat in their midsections, and abdominal fat is much easier to lose than fat stored in the thighs or buttocks. For another, men have more muscle mass, which means a higher metabolic rate, and thus more calories burned throughout the day. So why aren't all men thin? Because of the fat they eat, say Drs. Ron and Nancy Goor. And the lack of exercise. And the fact they don't eat enough fiber-rich carbohydrates. In fact, the Goors are the polar opposites of those who tell people they've gained weight because of the way their bodies react to sugar and other carbohydrates. They say it's actually very difficult for your body to convert carbohydrates into fat, but that the fat you eat is easily turned into the fat you wear. (The Goors include a section debunking all the claims of the high-fat, high-protein, low-carbohydrate diet gurus.) Thus, the cornerstone of their program is a ""fat budget."" You figure out your ideal weight and calculate how many fat calories you can afford to eat at that weight. Then you add in daily aerobic exercise--they recommend 30-minute walks--and make sure you never skip a meal. In fact, the meals they recommend are huge--cereal, fruit, yogurt, toast, and orange juice for breakfast; two turkey sandwiches for lunch; soup, chicken, rice, and vegetables for dinner. All that, plus snacks. Food tables make up about half the book, telling you how many fat calories are in fast foods, restaurant meals, meats, fish, and just about anything else a person would eat. Blessedly, the Choose to Lose program is scientifically sound--virtually all weight-loss research points to the diet-and-exercise combo as the key to successfully dropping pounds and keeping them dropped--but ultimately puts a premium on discipline. Starvation isn't required, but keeping your fat intake down around 20 percent of total calories in a fat-saturated world is a heck of a trick to maintain for life. --Lou Schuler	Men are luckier than women when it comes to weight loss. For one thing, men tend to store most of their fat in their midsections, and abdominal fat is much easier to lose than fat stored in the thighs or buttocks. For another, men have more muscle mass, which means a higher metabolic rate, and thus more calories burned throughout the day.So why aren't all men thin? Because of the fat they eat, say Drs. Ron and Nancy Goor. And the lack of exercise. And the fact they don't  eat enough fiber-rich carbohydrates.In fact, the Goors are the polar opposites of those who tell people they've gained weight because of the way their bodies react to sugar and other carbohydrates. They say it's actually very difficult for your body to convert carbohydrates into fat, but that the fat you eat is easily turned into the fat you wear. (The Goors include a section debunking all the claims of the high-fat, high-protein, low-carbohydrate diet gurus.)Thus, the cornerstone of their program is a ""fat budget."" You figure out your ideal weight and calculate how many fat calories you can afford to eat at that weight. Then you add in daily aerobic exercise--they recommend 30-minute walks--and make sure you never skip a meal. In fact, the meals they recommend are huge--cereal, fruit, yogurt, toast, and orange juice for breakfast; two turkey sandwiches for  lunch; soup, chicken, rice, and vegetables for dinner. All that, plus snacks.Food tables make up about half the book, telling you how many fat calories are in fast foods, restaurant meals, meats, fish, and just about anything else a person would eat.Blessedly, the Choose to Lose program is scientifically sound--virtually all weight-loss research points to the diet-and-exercise combo as  the key to successfully dropping pounds and keeping them dropped--but ultimately puts a premium on discipline. Starvation isn't required, but keeping your fat intake down around 20 percent of total calories in a fat-saturated world is a heck of a trick to maintain for life. --Lou Schuler  Amazon.com	Dr. Goor, an expert on diet, cholesterol, and heart disease, served the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), National Institutes of Health, as the National Coordinator of the Coronary Primary Prevention Trial, the landmark study that proved that lowering cholesterol reduces the incidence of heart attack. He subsequently became the first coordinator of the National Cholesterol Education Program in the Office of the Director of the NHLBI. His personal as well as professional involvement with cholesterol led him and his wife Nancy to write the best-selling book Eater's Choice. He and Nancy developed The Eater's Choice(r) Cholesterol Lowering Program, a small-group counseling program based on the book and offered in many hospital and worksite wellness programs and cardiac rehab centers around the country. Because so many people lost weight following Eater's Choice, the Goors wrote a book on weight loss, Choose to Lose, and subsequently developed the Choose to Lose Weight Loss/Healthy Eating Program based on the book. Dr. Goor received a B.A. from Swarthmore College and earned his Ph.D. at Harvard University and an M.P.H. degree at the Harvard School of Public Health. Nancy Goor is the writer of the team. Using humor and a light style, Nancy has created an understandable and encouraging text for both the books and the program. She also developed the more than 320 recipes in the books. These are recipes which the Goors, their family, and guests enjoy all the time. Her recipes, such as Cajun Chicken, Chili Non Carne, and Onion Flat Bread, prove resoundingly that low-fat cooking can be delicious, healthy, and can keep you lean forever. Nancy Goor received a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.F.A. from Boston University.	1. You Are a Lucky ManCONGRATULATIONS! You have taken the first step to  becoming a lean and healthy man. Whether you have  been inspired by your soaring cholesterol level, an  inability to keep your buttons from popping off,  energy and stamina approaching the level of a limp  rag, a sense you could definitely feel better than  you do, or you are just fed up with being overweight,  you have made an important decision that will totally  change and improve your life. The Lean You is just  under the surface waiting to break out. With little  effort, you can become the healthy, fit, active man  you want to be. You are a lucky man.Being a Man: The Upside    You are lucky because you are a man. Men have  a tremendous advantage in fighting the battle of the  bulge. Men (even fat men) are endowed with  substantial muscle mass. Muscle is the tissue that  burns fat. So it follows that most men can lose fat  quickly. In addition, since most men have not been  dieting since birth, they don't have the diet-related  hangups that many women have. Many men do not even  realize how overweight they are. Men who want to lose  their beer belly or love handles have nature on their  side.Being a Man: The Downside    Being a man may make losing weight easier,  but men who eat a high-fat, high-saturated-fat diet  clog their coronary arteries faster than women do. In  fact, simply being a male is a risk factor for heart  disease. Men who persist in following an unhealthy  lifestyle are more likely to suffer strokes or colon  cancer than women. So take advantage of the upside of  being a male to ensure that you never suffer the  downside. You can easily reduce your risks and  increase your chances for a long and healthy life.  Choose to Lose Weight-Loss Plan for Men will show you  how.STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS You can capitalize on your fat-burning muscle mass to  eat your way to a lean and healthy body. You can eat  regular foods that you choose - you don't have to  limit your diet to rabbit food. (In fact, salads are  often a bad weight-loss choice.) You can eat  satisfying portions so you're never hungry. You won't  even have to spend half your day in a gym running  around the track or lifting weights. You will be in  control of your food choices, your weight, and your  health. You just have to do three things: 1.   Eat a low-fat diet (with an occasional high- fat splurge).2.   Eat plenty of nutritious food.3.   Exercise aerobically about 30 minutes a day  (walking is great).1. Eat a Low-Fat Diet    Let's start with Strategy #1: Eat a low-fat  diet. Extensive scientific research and the  experience of thousands of Choosers to Lose have  shown that FAT makes you fat. The less fat you put  into your body's fat stores, the less fat you will  have to remove later.   But how much fat are you eating? One of the  reasons you are heavier than you want to be is that  you are probably eating more fat than you realize.  How do you know how much fat you should eat or how  much fat is in foods?   Choose to Lose Weight-Loss Plan for Men gives  you a simple tool: a Fat Budget. This budget - the  maximum amount of fat you can eat each day and still  reach and maintain your desirable weight - is like  your salary. Imagine how difficult it would be to  make financial choices if you didn't know your  salary. How would you know what kind of car to buy or  what kind of vacation to take? Could you afford a  Lexus or a Taurus, a trip to the beach or a cruise  around the world? Your salary is one of the most  powerful behavior modification tools in your life.   Like your salary, your Fat Budget empowers  you to make choices - food choices. When you know  your Fat Budget and the number of fat calories in  foods,* you can decide which combination of foods you  can afford to eat. No food is prohibited; no food is  required.   Here's how the Fat Budget works. Say you are  at the office Christmas party. Your Fat Budget is 400  fat calories a day. Instead of chug-a-lugging 3 cups  of eggnog (510 fat calories) and causing a  significant overdraft in your Fat Budget, you will  ask, ""Are 3 cups of eggnog worth 510 fat calories?""  Why not spend 0 fat calories for wine or beer  instead? It's your Fat Budget and your choice.   The Fat Budget even allows for splurges.  Maybe 1 cup of eggnog is worth 170 fat calories to  you. Budget it in. You don't have to give up  everything. You just learn to make better choices.  Eventually, your tastes may even change. Many men  following Choose to Lose have told us that they can  no longer stomach the high-fat, greasy foods they  once ate with gusto. This may happen to you too.Maximizing Fat Loss. Eating less fat is essential ffor  weight loss, but you can't stop there. To shrink the  fat stores, you must not only add less fat to them;  you need to remove the fat that is already there. The  next two strategies are aimed at removvvvving the stored  fat.2. Eat Plenty of Nutrient-Dense, Fiber-Rich  Carbohydrates    Strategy #2 is to eat low-fat, nutritious  food to lose weight. You need to eat enough calories  to keep your metabolism chugging along so you will  burn fat at a maximum rate and thus help reduce your  fat stores. Of course, you can't eat just any food.  Not high-fat foods that add to your fat stores. And  not empty calories like fat-free cakes and nonfat  crackers, which only slow down your weight loss  because your body burns them in preference to fat. We  mean fruits, vegetables, whole grains - high-fiber,  nutrient-dense carbohydrates. These foods have a lot  of bulk and fill you up without filling you out. They  are chock-full of vitamins and minerals too, which  ensures your good health now and in the future. Add  low-fat meats like chicken, turkey, fish, seafood,  and some lean cuts of red meats, and you'll have a  full, delicious, healthy diet.   Not only will these foods rev up your  metabolism, they will keep you full and satisfied so  you won't build up high-fat cravings and fall off the  healthy-eating wagon. They will keep your energy at  an all-time high. It is the carbohydrates in foods  that give you energy and stamina - the prerequisites  to fulfilling the third strategy: daily aerobic  exercise.3. Exercise Aerobically Every Day    The third strategy for losing weight (and  getting healthier) is daily aerobic exercise. Daily  aerobic exercise is vital because it increases your  energy needs. To satisfy the increased demand, the  body burns fat from the fat stores and you lose  weight. In addition, exercise builds and preserves  muscle. Muscle is the tissue that burns fat. The more  muscle you have, the higher is your capacity to burn  your stockpiled fat. Before you insist that you are  much too busy to run 5 miles a day or work out 2  hours each morning, rest assured that the exercise we  recommend is not time-consuming or punishing. All you  have to do is walk. We recommend walking for at least  30 minutes a day - the more, the better. The longer  you exercise nonstop over 20 minutes, the more fat  you burn and the leaner you'll become. It need not be  intense. In fact, you should be able to carry on a  normal conversation without becoming breathless. Of  course, if you want to do something more vigorous,  like bicycling or rowing, that's fine. Strength  training and stretching are not aerobic but will also  add enormously to your fitness and quality of life.  (See Chapter 13 for more on exercise.) Choose to Lose for Life    You are going to be making major lifestyle  changes, but it won't be difficult. Choose to Lose  Weight-Loss Plan for Men is easy to follow and  incorporate into your life - forever. The most common  comment we hear from men following Choose to Lose  Weight-Loss Plan for Men is, ""Why didn't I start  doing this years ago?"" Patience    You probably noticed that the word patience  is at the center of the success triangle. Being a man  and having a lot of muscle gives you an added  advantage in losing weight (fat), but don't think  that by next week you'll be mistaken for a skeleton.  It takes time for all that excess fat to be pulled  out of your body's fat stores and burned. Think about  how long it took to pack your fat stores. You will  lose weight - some Choosers to Lose have lost more  than 165 pounds - and reach your goal, but don't  expect to lose weight on a strict timetable.* In  fact, the best policy is to focus on how much  delicious low-fat food you are eating, how good you  feel, how healthy you are becoming, and not on pounds  at all. Choose to Lose Weight-Loss Plan for Men is  about so much more than weight loss.The Benefits Are Great, or Good-bye, Heartburn    Here are some of the benefits you can expect  to achieve following Choose to Lose Weight-Loss Plan  for Men:  Reduced risks of heart disease, cancer, diabetes -  you'll be so healthy your doctor will ask you for  advice. Increased energy and endurance - you'll have to  find younger friends to keep up with the New You. A more attractive you - you'll look in the mirror  and like what you see. No more heartburn - throw away your lifetime supply  of antacids. Increased self-esteem - you'll be in control and it  will show. Improved sex life - you'll have more vigor and  stamina, and you won't crush your partner.   Now that you are ready to embark on Choose to  Lose Weight-Loss Plan for Men and eat more good food  than you have ever imagined, lose weight, and be in  control of your life, read the next chapter to  understand the scientific basis of the plan. The  science makes sense. Understanding how and why the  three Choose to Lose strategies work is a great  motivator.Turn Your Vicious Cycle Into a Virtuous Cycle The Vicious Cycle goes like this: You eat too much  fat so you become overweight. Because you are  overweight, you find it difficult to exercise and you  don't make the effort. Because you aren't exercising,  you lose muscle. With less muscle, you burn less fat  and become fatter. You feel bad because you are fat,  so you eat more fat and become even fatter.   This is the Virtuous Cy...",books;diets & weight loss;fitness & dieting;general;health;men's health;nutrition;weight loss,8
0393038300,"Sudden Fiction (Continued): 60 New Short-Short Stories These short-short stories (approximately 2000 words apiece) compiled by the editors of Sudden Fiction and Sudden Fiction International are fiction in a whirlwind. The authors maintain a fast pace and full, vivid characters and descriptions while keeping the stories masterfully short. It would be difficult to choose the best; all are outstanding in one way or another. There are some translations from Czech, French and Spanish that have the feel of oft-told folktales, and the more bizarre selections are interspersed with poignantly ordinary stories. Thomas McGuane's ""War and Peace"" is the tale of a friendship that cannot withstand change. A professor and student discuss Roman history from different points of view in ""The Liberation of Rome"" by Robin Hemley. In ""Sundress"" by Terese Svoboda, two vagrants set up housekeeping in a vacationing family's house, befriending the entire neighborhood, which much prefers them to the real owners. With contributions by Margaret Atwood, Alice Walker, William Maxwell and many others (those whose names aren't as recognizable certainly deserve notice), the collection is rich and varied?perfect for reading in the hammock. Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Shapard and Thomas clearly have struck a chord, gathering 60 more of the best short-short stories (each no more than 2,000 words long) in their third collection (after Sudden Fiction, 1986, and Sudden Fiction International, 1989, both still in print). These selections, made with the assistance of the editors' colleagues and students, include the work of such established and award-winning authors as Margaret Atwood, Alice Walker, William Maxwell, Don DeLillo, Madison Smartt Bell, and Robert Olen Butler and represent styles ranging from realism to fantasy and from traditional to experimental. No reader will embrace each of these stories equally, and some may lament the absence of their own favorite writers of short-short stories (such as Andre Dubus, Binnie Kirshenbaum, and Roxana Robinson). But quibbles aside, this is fiction perfectly suited to the pace of modern life, designed to be read whenever a person can snatch a few minutes of time and savored all the more for it.  Michele Leber	With the noise of the contemporary world increasing . . . and people trying to drown you with words alone, these stories have managed a neat trick: they put up and shut up. (Charles Baxter)	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	Robert Shapard teaches literature and creative writing at the University of Hawaii, and co-edited Flash Fiction Forward.James Thomas teaches literature and creative writing in Yellow Springs, Ohio, and co-edited Flash Fiction Forward.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",anthologies;anthologies & literary collections;books;general;literature & fiction;romance;short stories;united states,8
0192892355,"An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion (Opus) ""An excellent revision of an already superb overview of both classical and contemporary issues.  Incisive, lucid, and provocative.""--Robert Segal, Tulane University""Excellent, thorough introductory text.  Well organized, written, with excellent bibliography.  Perfect to structure a course around.""--Andrew Pessin, Kenyon College""An excellent survey of the state of the field for the beginning student.""--D.L. Adams, Concordia College""A superbly written, clear presentation of the vast array of issues which arise in the philosophy of religion.  It is worthy for both introductory classes and as a synoptic text at the beginning of upper level classes.""--Donald G. Schley, University of Colorado""Excellent format, clearly written....Good text to stiumlate discussion for beginning students.""--Russ Bush, Southeastern Seminary, NC	Brian Davies has taught at Bristol, and in Rome and New York. He is a Dominican Friar, Lecturer in Philosopher and Theology, and Regent of Studies at Blackfriars, Oxford.",books;education & reference;humanities;new;philosophy;politics & social sciences;religious;used & rental textbooks,8
0415931711,"Rethinking Language Arts: Passion and Practice (Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Education) [Zaragoza's] views have received more than customary acceptance in the past by education professors who assign required reading material in their courses on language arts instruction in elementary schools.Teacher's College RecordInterweaving stories, dialogues, plays, poetry, lesson plans, course designs, and students' journals with reflections on philosophical, pedagogical, political and psychological questions arising in teaching, Nina Zaragoza unfolds before our eyes the drama of educating our young, with all its challenges and paradoxes and joy and rewards. In the spirit of Paulo Freire and in her aspiration to Be the change you want to see, the author of Rethinking Language Arts] compels us to ponder what it is to be a teacher and helps us learn how to be a good one..Xin Liu Gale, Author of Teachers, Discourses, and Authority in the Postmodern Composition Classroom	Nina Zaragoza is currently an English Language Teacher/ Consultant at The American Home in Vladimir, Russia.",books;education;education & reference;elementary education;instruction methods;new;schools & teaching;used & rental textbooks,8
1840241462,Gringo Trail 'The expected litany of amazing experiences and 'wow moments' feature regularly... inspiring ideas for anyone planning a backpacking trip.' Real Travel	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.	Mark Mann lives in London and Sydney. He writes travel articles and is the author of The Good Alternative Travel Guide for Tourism Concern.	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.,books;education & reference;general;research & publishing guides;south america;travel;travel writing;writing,8
0912299592,"Coyote Hunting Phil Simonski is the ideal person to put together a complete guide on hunting coyotes. He has put many years into acquiring, firsthand, the kind of knowledge that sets him apart as an expert on the coyote. From his earliest days growing up in the eastern part of the country on to his becoming a professional forester and moving to the West, he's been an avid hunter of big game, small game, and predators. He now lives in western Oregon.",animals;biological sciences;books;hunting;hunting & fishing;mammals;science & math;sports & outdoors,8
0595088783,"The House at Trinity Corners I opened my eyes to brilliant, piercing light and immediately clamped  them shut. I opened them again -- more slowly this time. Through  thin slits I saw a blinding, white fire broiling somewhere far out at  sea. A gap in the drawn drapes had allowed a narrow band of morning  sunlight to lay itself directly across my pillow. The rest of the room  was in shadows. I closed his eyes and lay quiet. Slowly, the faint  scent of her perfume came to my nostrils. I turned my head and looked  at the figure sleeping in bed beside me. She was lying on her side  with her back to me. Her blonde head -- hair cut short to shoulder  length -- rested in a large, deep pillow. The edge of the white bed  sheet lay under her bare arm and shoulder. Her back was exposed to the  waist. I let my gaze follow the curves of her body; the gentle  downward slope of the back, the narrow waist, the rise of the hip  under the sheet, the sheet-draped fullness of her buttocks, the long  taper of her leg. The sheet had been kicked back at the bottom and a  naked calf and knee lay bare to the thigh.    The sight of all this nakedness stirred something deep down inside; a  warm ticklish feeling rumbling along an ancient fault line. Rolling  over on my side under the sheet, I moved closer to her. My knee  touched the back of hers as my arm moved lightly around her waist. My  hand came to rest on the slow, rise and fall of her stomach. Her skin  felt cool; her body soft to the touch. She stirred and snuggled up  close. Gently, I pulled her closer. Her bare shoulder looked  inviting. I pressed a soft kiss to it. She came wide awake. She turned  in the bed and smiled up at me.    Some time later, showered and wrapped in identical white, terry cloth  robes, we ate breakfast at a table beside a large window that  overlooked the harbor and the town pier.    My name is Peter Wyckoff and this story took place in the summer of  1973. It is a story about lost gold and I don't know why I want to  start it at this point except, somehow, this day and this incident in  particular, marked a change in my life; a major change, and I will  always remember the view from that window.    We were staying at a motor inn in Scituate, Massachusetts; a large,  rambling, wood and stone structure that sat on the corner where Front  Street ends at the edge of the harbor. As we ate, we watched the sun  rise slowly over the ocean. In the early morning hours, with the sun  sitting just above the horizon, a lone lobster boat chugged its way  across the harbor heading out on its morning run. The wake of its  passing sent an ever-widening, golden, V shaped ripple across the  placid surface of the water. The harbor was dotted with small boats:  motor launches and sail boats tethered to their moorings. Caught in  the wake of the lobster boat, the small boats swayed in a rhythmic  roll and pitch, and somewhere off in the distance a channel buoy  bounced and tugged at its anchor chain setting its bell clanging  softly through the morning stillness.    The town pier was a working pier. Even at this early hour there was a  truck parked out at the end where a fishing trawler rocked lazily  against its mooring lines. Men were busy unloading the trawler. As  they conversed, their quiet voices -- amplified by the stillness  -- echoed across the water and rose to the open window. The  trawler's nets -- still dripping sea water -- were hung high  from its mast, drying in the morning sunshine.     Leaning back in my chair, holding my coffee cup in both hands, elbows  resting on the arms of the chair, I looked across the table at her;  across the white linen table cloth, past the small vase of fresh cut  flowers, past the tall, chromed coffee pot, across the egg-stained  breakfast dishes and pieces of half-eaten toast, and I studied her as  she gazed out at the morning scene.    With the sun shining on her freshly scrubbed face, even with her blond  hair dark and damp and stringy from the shower, Susan Collins was a  beautiful woman. Classically sculpted features: a small straight nose  slightly turned up, a wide, full mouth with inviting soft lips and  laugh lines that gave her an almost, perpetual smile. So, why did I  find it so difficult to make love to her? This thought had been  troubling me for some time. Our relationship was almost like father  and daughter. (Almost, but obviously, not quite.) Most of the time I  saw her as a delicate piece of beautiful, fragile,  porcelain. Something to be handled very gently. With patience. Never  rushed. Only on rare occasions like this morning would my lust prod me  to make the first move. And make no mistake about it, what I was  feeling was pure lust. A hauntingly pleasurable lust. The kind of lust  old men feel when they look at a beautiful young woman.    But, as pleasurable as our love making was, it always left me feeling  empty afterwards. It always seemed unnatural. The experience always  left me with a nagging sense of guilt.",books;literature & fiction;mystery;psychological thrillers;romance;suspense;thriller & suspense;thrillers,8
0814736661,"Christian Theologies of Scripture: A Comparative Introduction This volume does what its title promises: it gives an introduction to Christian theologies of scripture, and it does so very well.-Religious Studies Review,What does it mean to call biblical writings the word of God? This fine collection of readable essays based on current research gives an excellent overview of Christians' answers to that question from the third century to the present and undermines widespread caricatures and over-simplifications.-David H. Kelsey,Yale Divinity SchoolProvides a state-of-the-art introduction to how Christian theories of scriptural interpretation have been intimately bound up with beliefs about life with God, examining both the outlooks of movements and periods, and the contributions of great theologians. No one with an interest in theological exegesis of biblical hermeneutics can afford to miss this book.-David S. Yeago,Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary[I]t represents more than a collection of essays. It is a helpful, at times profound, mapping of Christians reflections on their Scriptures.-Choice, Recommended,	Justin S. Holcomb is a lecturer in the religious studies and sociology departments at the University of Virginia and a lecturer in theology at Reformed Theological Seminary.",books;christian books & bibles;christianity;humanities;new;religious studies;theology;used & rental textbooks,8
156584503X,"Cigarettes: Anatomy of an Industry from Seed to Smoke Observing that ""the cigarette is the only consumer product that, when used as the manufacturer has intended, can be deadly,"" Wall Street Journal reporter Parker-Pope writes an absorbing and informative history of cigarettes, addressing why we start smoking, why we continue and what it costs us, while simultaneously charting the growth of an industry that boasts profit margins as high as 40% to 50%. With its extraordinary profits, low-cost product and loyal and expandable customer base, the cigarette industry, she claims, is the envy of modern business, though not all industries can hope to manufacture a product that is as addictive. Since nobody naturally craves nicotine, the industry has had to persuade its customers to buy something they don't really need--a conundrum that has been handily resolved with $5 billion worth of seductive advertising that sells $53 billion worth of cigarettes per year in the U.S. alone, according to Parker-Pope. Her up-to-date coverage of the recent tobacco industry litigation is not only concise and accessible, but illuminating about tobacco companies' ability to use the litigation to stay in business, reduce their future liability and increase sales. While business may proceed as usual in the cigarette industry and the ranks of smokers may grow worldwide, Parker-Pope makes certain that her readers cannot ignore that once a person becomes a regular smoker, nicotine becomes such a necessary part of the body's chemistry that only 10% of smokers can successfully quit, that in 1999 smokers spent $730 million on smoke cessation products such as patches and gum, that 3.5 million people worldwide die annually of smoking-related ailments and that Americans spend $50 billion each year on smoking-related health care. Illus. (Feb.) Forecast: Jacketed in an eye-catching cigarette pack design and less intimidating in girth than other recent chronicles of the cigarette industry, this slim and hard-hitting report--part everything-you-needed-to-know-about-cigarettes and part documentary expose--could ride the wave of continuing public concern about cigarette manufacturers and their advertising techniques.Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.	This book has great possibilities, as it draws together the history of tobacco with the story of modern marketing efforts to get people hooked on smoking, the emergence of health issues, and the legal battle over the massive costs of tobacco-related death and disability. Unfortunately, journalist Parker-Pope (Wall Street Journal) attempts all this in 200 pages of breezy prose filled with extraordinarily simplified analysis. Her historical treatment is at best sketchy and sometimes highly suspect. At one point, she comes very close to implying that tobacco was a significant cause of the Revolutionary War. She relies almost exclusively on ""tobacco historians"" rather than searching more broadly for perspectives on the emergence of tobacco within the larger agricultural economy and society. Cigarettes does have some useful points, including a nice summary of the evolution of the health issue during the 20th century, but the book generally proves to be disjointed and disorganized. Although it never attempts to match Richard Kluger's massive Ashes to Ashes (LJ 6/15/96. o.p.), we still await a brief alternative. Not recommended.ACharles K. Piehl, Minnesota State Univ., Mankato Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Adding to the never-ending controversy of big tobacco companies and the selling of cigarettes is this examination of the $49 billion industry by a Wall Street Journal reporter. In what she calls a primer on a business that is a paragon of the capitalistic ideal, Parker-Pope begins with a brief history of cigarettes and blames Christopher Columbus for introducing them to European society. She then discusses the cigarette economy and the cultivation, packaging, and distribution of the product. The author examines marketing and advertising campaigns and the health hazards of smoking, claiming that the tobacco industry has adopted a strategy of cover-up and misinformation to suppress many of the findings that link smoking and disease. She discusses antismoking crusaders dating back to the 1600s in England; King James I called it a stinking habit, and in the early 1900s nonsmokers began to complain about secondhand smoke. The big tobacco companies all come under fire in Parker-Pope's probing study of why we smoke and why we shouldn't light up. George CohenCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	A probing study of why we smoke and why we shouldn't light up.  -- BooklistA useful guide to the world's most lethal legal industry.  -- The New York Times Book ReviewFull of fascinating tidbits...a journalistic portrait, alternately affectionate and damning, of the world's favorite weed.  -- Kirkus ReviewsTraces the human fascination with tobacco...using anecdotes, court documents and scientific studies.  -- The Wall Street Journal[A] useful guide to the world's most lethal legal industry.  -- The New York Times Book Review	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	Tara Parker-Pope has been a reporter for the Wall Street Journal since 1993. Previously, she worked as a consumer-products and marketing reporter in London, as a government reporter for the Houston Chronicle, and as a local reporter for the Austin American-Statesman. She lives in New York City.",addiction & recovery;books;business & investing;fitness & dieting;health;industries & professions;popular economics;smoking,8
B00068NGH0,"Marmot Men's Eldridge Long Sleeve Like an old friend, you can count on this. The sanded mid-weight fabric of this long sleeve button-up is truly comfortable and good for long days outside, thanks to generous UV protection.",button-down shirts;camping & hiking;clothing;clothing & accessories;men;outdoor recreation;shirts;sports & outdoors,8
1593370555,"The Everything American Government Book: From the Constitution to Present-Day Elections, All You Need to Understand Our Democratic System (Everything Series) Nick Ragone (Jersey City, NJ) is a public relations executive in New York City and a graduate of the Eagleton Institute of Political Science at Rutgers University and the Georgetown University Law Center. He has worked as a speechwriter for several elected officials in New York and New Jersey, and has served as a consultant for gubernatorial, congressional, county executive, and state senate officials and candidates in three states. Mr. Ragone is a frequent political columnist and radio commentator, and is the author of Operation Underworld: The Secret Collaboration Between the Navy and Organized Crime.",americas;books;history;national;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;united states,8
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014044470X,"The Fiancee and Other Stories (Penguin Classics) Text: English, Russian (translation)",books;classics;contemporary;literary;literature & fiction;short stories;single author;world literature,8
0977213307,"Software Conflict 2.0: The Art and Science of Software Engineering Bob Glass is one of these rare individuals in the software business consistently worth listening to. -- Gerald M. Weinberg, 2005Bob's essays focus on the realities facing practitioners. -- Andrew Hunt, Pragmatic ProgrammersEntertaining, informative, and thought-provoking...There is food for thought for everyone. -- Professor Daniel E. Cooke, International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge EngineeringEntertaining, informative, and thought-provoking...food for thought for everyone... -- Don Chand, Computing ReviewsIn Software Conflict 2.0 Glass presents insights from some of the timeless debates in the field. -- Karl Wiegers, 2005	I think wisdom in the field of software engineering comes from stepping back, extracting our heads from the details, and thinking more deeply. The nearly 60 essays in Software Conflict 2.0 do just that.	Robert L. Glass held his first job in computing in 1954. Author of over 25 books, he is one of the true pioneers of the software field. He is the editor and publisher of The Software Practitioner, and also writes regular columns for Communications of the ACM and IEEE Software. In 1995 he was awarded an honorary Ph.D. from Linkoping University of Sweden, and in 1999 he was named a Fellow of the ACM professional society. His unique viewpoint and timeless writings have for decades offered insights to practitioners, managers, professors, entrepreneurs, researchers, and students alike.	EXCERPT: Preface to the Second Edition If you're read the Preface to the First Edition, you know what this book is about. Software Conflict identifies and elaborates the fundamental conflicts in the field of software engineering, coming down on the side of each conflict that is closest to the viewpoint of a software practitioner. The problem with that original Preface, however, is that it describes a book that is over 15 years old. Why should you have any interest in reading even an update of a software engineering book that is 15 years old? After all, software is a fast-paced, deeply technical field, one that tends to obsolesce thinking that is over 5 years old. What makes me, the author of this 15 year old book, think that you should find it of any value? To be frank, when the prospect of producing this updated version of Software Conflict first presented itself, I felt the same way. Not only was this material over 15 years old, but I personally have gone on and written more than half a dozen books since then, each with (of course) newer and more up-to-date thinking. Was this project really worth my time to write and yours to read? To answer that question, I re-read that terribly old first edition with a fresh, 21st century viewpoint. And what struck me as I read was that so much of that material is still fresh and new. How is that possible? As a student of software engineering, the perspective I take on most subjects is philosophical and conceptual. I don't have a whole lot of interest in ""how-to"" material. I choose not to take sides on today's platform and language wars. I think wisdom in the field of software engineering comes from stepping back, extracting our heads from the details, and thinking more deeply. And that, I found, is what I had done in this book. Oh, there's some detail-level stuff about programming languages (for example, Ada), methodologies (for example, the structured methods), and tools (for example, CASE) that makes me cringe a little in recognition of its obsolescence. But at the same time, that detail-level stuff is now and was then beside the point. What remains relevant are the current-as-tomorrow concepts and philosophy, and yes, the conflicts that accompany them. So it comes as a pleasant surprise to me, and perhaps as a satisfying surprise to you, that this very old book still contains some very current messages. As you'll find as you progress through these essays, I've added a new retrospective essay to the end of each section, explaining more specifically what I see as outdated, and what I see as lasting, about the preceding essays. I wouldn't have done this new edition of this old favorite if I didn't think there was something in it for you, my reader. Now it's your turn to judge. I hope you enjoy Software Conflict 2.0 as much as did the readers of the original Software Conflict circa 1991. Truth to tell, not a whole lot has been written during the last 15 years to either identify or resolve the conflicts that the original book identified and addressed. In that sense, this book is still as relevant today as it was when it was originally published--unfortunately! -Robert L. Glass Fall, 2005",books;computers & technology;education & reference;programming;software;software design;software development;testing & engineering,8
067977453X,"Sources of Strength: Meditations on Scripture for a Living Faith (Random House Large Print) What Carter has done and is doing as an international peacemaker is without compare in the world today. What motivates him to take up this work, with all the personal sacrifices and risks it involves, are his deep spiritual convictions.?From Irwin Abrams's speech nominating Jimmy Carter for the Nobel Peace Prize	Former President Jimmy Carter has won the respect and affection of millions for his long career as a humanitarian, a peacemaker, and a model of faith in action. The Sunday school classes he leads at his hometown church in Plains, Georgia, are legendary. ""These weekly sessions . . . are remarkable for the ability of regular folks to walk in, grab a seat, and exchange views with the thirty-ninth president of the United States,"" says The New York Times. ""But they are also remarkable for what Mr. Carter has to say."" For Sources of Strength, President Carter has culled fifty-two of his favorite Bible lessons--one for each week of the year--from the fifteen hundred or so he has taught over the decades. A thoughtful and inspiring book, Sources of Strength captured the heart of the country when it was published in hardcover, and became an immediate national bestseller. Now available in paperback, it can be enjoyed on its own or as the companion volume to Carter's bestselling spiritual autobiography, Living Faith. Jimmy Carter was president of the United States from 1977 to 1981. He is the author of thirteen other books, including Always a Reckoning, The Virtues of Aging, and Living Faith. In 1982 he founded the Carter Center, a nonprofit and nonpartisan organization in Atlanta that addresses national and international issues of public policy. Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, live in Plains, Georgia.	Jimmy Carter was the thirty-ninth president of the United States. He is the author of eleven previous books, including the national bestseller Always a Reckoning and the acclaimed spiritual autobiography Living Faith. He and his wife Rosalyn live in Plains, Georgia and lead an active life of service in their community, their nation, and the world	CHAPTER ONEWhat It Takes to Be a Christian The jailer asked, What must I do to be saved? Paul answered, Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved--you and your household.--Acts 16:30-31 Many people have asked the question the jailer does here, and Paul's simple response is the answer that has been accepted by almost two billion Christians living around the world today. As a young man, I joined other members of our church in carrying this same message about Jesus Christ to the families in our rural community who were not Christians. This was very difficult for me, because I was always doubtful about the reception we would receive. I usually knew the families well, so I was somewhat embarrassed about implying that I was superior in some way, having knowledge or a privileged position that they didn't. However, the company of another man always strengthened me. We were well versed in the rudimentary tenets of what we called The Plan of Salvation, which was the basis for our brief presentation. Later, beginning in the mid-1960s, I traveled to more distant places for a week or so as a volunteer lay missionary, joining others in Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and in the suburbs of Atlanta to visit homes and share our faith in Christ. We approached each family with sincere prayers, and learned to rely on the presence of the Holy Spirit to overcome our timidity and uncertainties. In other words, we just did our best and had faith enough to relax and leave the results to God. The Plan of Salvation is still an integral part of my weekly Bible lessons. I often outline it briefly when I receive a question about the nature of Christian faith from a visitor or when the lesson text has an evangelical meaning--as most of them do. In this first meditation, I want to share the Plan of Salvation with you, relying more on a few passages of Scripture than on my own words. 1. God loves all of us. For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish, but may have everlasting life (John 3:16). For God, who is rich in mercy, out of the great love with which he loved us even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ--by grace you have been saved (Ephesians 2:4-5). 2. All of us are sinners. Some of us may be satisfied with the way we are, feeling that we don't need God's mercy, but the Holy Scriptures are clear: All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way (Isaiah 53:6). There is no one who is righteous, not even one (Romans 3:10). And All have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God (Romans 3:23). 3. Sin separates us from God. What are the consequences of our violating God's moral code? There is a clear and disturbing answer: For the wages of sin is death (Romans 6:23). 4. We cannot save ourselves. Only God can save us, through our faith. Even the Hebrew patriarch Abraham did not earn his righteousness before God; it came because of his belief, or faith: For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God. For the scripture says, 'Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness' (Romans 4:2-3 and Genesis 15:6). For by grace are you saved through faith, and this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God--not the result of works, so that no one may boast (Ephesians 2:8-9). 5. Jesus came to remove the barrier of sin. But God proves his love for us in that while we still were sinners Christ died for us (Romans 5:8). He himself bore our sins in his body on the cross, so that, free from sins, we might live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed (1 Peter 2:24). 6. It is through our faith in Christ that we receive these blessings. If you confess with your lips that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For one believes with the heart and so is justified, and one confesses with the mouth and so is saved (Romans 10:9-10). These are the premises that all Christians have accepted. Some people may think this path to salvation is too simple and easy--that something else must be required for us to receive God's mercy and everlasting life. After all, most of the achievements in life--education, a good family, a successful career--require hard work, persistence, and sacrifice. Yet God's forgiveness and blessings are given to us freely, by pure grace. This mistaken attitude reminds me of the reaction of the Syrian general Naaman, who went to the prophet Elisha to be cured of leprosy. Without leaving his tent, Elisha sent word that Naaman needed only to bathe in the little Jordan River seven times to be cured. The powerful man stormed away, furious at the simplicity of the prescription. But his servants said, If the prophet had commanded you to do something difficult, would you not have done it? How much more, when all he said to you was, 'Wash, and be clean'? So he went down and immersed himself seven times in the Jordan, according to the word of the man of God; his flesh was restored like the flesh of a young boy, and he was clean (2 Kings 5:13-14). The simple but profound fact is that our lives can be changed--beginning now--by professing our faith in Jesus Christ. The rest of this book will explore the fascinating, exciting, and remarkable ramifications of this basic, life-giving truth. From the Hardcover edition.",books;christian books & bibles;christian living;inspirational;meditations;religion & spirituality;spirituality;worship & devotion,8
B000NVL64A,"PC Modding For Dummies (For Dummies (Computers)) a good introduction to modding, for the capable yet inexperienced modder (PC Utilities, March 2005)	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Modding involves adding cool elements like fans, windows, custom cooling systems, and lights to a PC case, as well as beefing up the works by overclocking processors and adding high-performance components, video cards, and more      While modding is a booming hobby, this will be the first book that gives the beginner simple, user-friendly instructions in the easy-to-follow For Dummies style      Guides the reader through choosing parts, cutting windows and blowholes in the case, installing fans, lights, and custom cooling systems, painting the case, and fine-tuning performance components	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;computers & technology;design & architecture;hardware;maintenance;pcs;repair & upgrading;software,8
089381296X,"At Twelve: Portraits of Young Women ""Haunting black-and-white studies of children, shown here as surprisingly sensual and often distant beings, the magical keepers of some obscure and vaguely frightening secrets.""--Karen Lipson, Newsday""Sally Mann's photography is a clear pane...not intrusion, but revelation. These young women distill something for the eye...something beautiful and sad and moving, something purely female.""--Diane Sawyer""Sally Mann is the real thing. Just look at these photographs! At Twelve is an American classic.""--Annie Dillard	Sally Mann has exhibited and taught nationally. Her work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Chrysler Museum, the Corcoran Gallery, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and other major collections around the country. She has received grants from the NEA, the NEH, the Friends of Photography, and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. Her first book was Second Sight. She lives in Virginia with her husband and three children who are the subject of Immediate Family (Aperture, 1992). In July 2001, Time magazine named Sally Mann ""America's Best Photographer.""Ann Beattie, a preeminent writer of her generation, has written several books, including the novels Chilly Scenes of Winter and Falling in Place; the short-story collections Distortions and Where You'll Find Me; and Alex Katz, a monograph of the painter's work.",arts & photography;books;equipment;individual artists;photo essays;photography;portraits;techniques & reference,8
0007151330,"Mind Maps For Kids: An Introduction Mind Maps are fun for all ages. The Independent (Top 10 Best Revision Guides)         The whole world should Mind Map.'THE EXPRESS         'The biggest name in memory.'THE NEW YORKER         'Tony Buzan deserves a medal for coming up with the sanity-saving concept of Mind Maps, which make difficult mental tasks possible, even pleasurable, by engaging the right side of the brain, where colour and creativity reignThe system can be a lifesaver for children with dyslexia-type difficulties. Time Out	Tony Buzan is the world-renowned inventor of Mind Maps and the multi-million copy bestselling author of Head First, Head Strong and The Mind Map Book. He appears regularly on television and lectures all over the world. His work has been published in 100 countries and 30 languages.",books;education & reference;fitness & dieting;health;politics & social sciences;study skills;studying & workbooks;teens,8
0415125790,"Thinking German Translation This book is an insightful and extremely practical resource for students who will seek a career in translation, be it in a literary, technical, or commercial environment. The book is so clearly written and well organized that it could easily be used for independent study Moreover, the established scholar or translator may find the book, especially the chapters on modal particles and focus, to be a useful reference work. Christopher D. Sapp on LinguistList 'A well-conceived and extremely useful book, the only one of its kind available, and particularly to be valued for its emphasis on the creative and decision-making aspects of translation.' - Jean Boase-Beier, UEA '[There is a] decisive increase in the introduction of translation programmes, mainly at postgraduate level, but now also at undergraduate level. Textbooks therefore are essential, and the present one has a lot to offer in this respect.' - Christina Schaffner, Aston University	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.	The late Sndor Hervey was Reader in Linguistics at the University of St Andrews. Michael Loughridge was Lecturer in German at the University of St. Andrews and is now a full-time translator with MITI status. Ian Higgins is Honorary Senior Lecturer in French at the University of St Andrews.	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.",books;education & reference;humanities;language & grammar;linguistics;new;used & rental textbooks;words,8
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0804744912,"Science in the Modern World Polity: Institutionalization and Globalization This book presents empirical studies of the rise, expansion, and influence of scientific discourse and organization throughout the world, over the past century.  Using quantitative cross-national data, it shows the impact of this scientized world polity on national societies. It examines how this world scientific system and national reflections of it have influenced a wide variety of institutional spheresthe economy, political systems, human rights, environmentalism, and organizational reforms.The authors argue that the triumph of science across social domains and around the world is due to its institutionalized cultural authority rather than to its instrumental utility for societies or for their dominant elites. Thus, following the Stanford approach to institutional theory in sociology, the book emphasizes the symbolic or religious role science plays in the modern world.	Gili S. Drori is Lecturer in the International Relations Program, Stanford University. John W. Meyer is Professor of Sociology Emeritus at Stanford University. Francisco O. Ramirez is Professor of Education at Stanford University. Evan Schofer is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Minnesota.",books;globalization;history & philosophy;politics & government;politics & social sciences;science & math;social sciences;specific topics,8
0801091837,"The Complete Worship Service: Creating a Taste of Heaven on Earth People want a taste of heaven. Here's how your church can satisfy this longing.In The Complete Worship Service, experienced worship leader and pastor Kevin Navarro shows you how to create a complete worship service by implementing a four-part pattern of worship: longing for, preparing for, experiencing, and talking about a taste of heaven. Recognizing worship as a form of hospitality, Navarro shares practical considerations and ideas to help you make all the elements work together, from greeting guests to using music to teaching the Word. The Complete Worship Service can help you build a church that experiences God's presence and welcomes others to the celebration.Kevin Navarro explores this vital connection between our fragmented experience in the here and now and the hope we all share for the time that certainly will come when heaven will come for us.-Michael Card, award-winning musician; author, A Sacred SorrowThe Complete Worship Service is a timely, passionate antidote to the worship humanism saturating contemporary services.-Sally Morgenthaler, founder, Sacramentis.com; author, Worship Evangelism When I closed this book, I felt a tremendous mixture of hope, excitement, affirmation, and renewed devotion to the work of crafting weekly worship services.-Nancy Beach, teaching pastor and creative director, Willow Creek Community ChurchKevin J. Navarro (D.Min., Fuller Theological Seminary) is senior pastor at Bethany Evangelical Free Church in Littleton, Colorado, and the author of The Complete Worship Leader.	Kevin J. Navarro (D.Min., Fuller Theological Seminary) is senior pastor at Bethany Evangelical Free Church in Littleton, Colorado and the author of The Complete Worship Leader. As an artist, theologian, and pastor, he has been using his extensive musical and theological background to teach about and lead worship in the local church and in parachurch ministries for over twenty years.",books;christian books & bibles;church administration;ministry & church leadership;other religions;practices & sacred texts;religion & spirituality;ritual,8
B0009RF9RI,"Purell Instant Hand Sanitizer 8 fl oz (236 ml) Leaves hands feeling soft & refreshed with Aloe & Vitamin E. Kills 99.99% of germs. Purell kills 99.99% of most common germs that may make you sick. Use anytime, anyplace without water or towels. Leaves hands feeling soft and smooth with Aloe and Vitamin E. Leaves hands feeling refreshed without stickiness or residue. The active ingredient in Purell is ethyl alcohol, a safe and effective antiseptic. Keep a bottle at work, in the classroom, and at home. Hypoallergenic. Dermatologist tested. Non-toxic. This formula is not sold in stores under any other brand name. Store below 110 degrees F (43 degrees C). May discolor certain fabrics or surfaces.",antibiotics & antiseptics;beauty;first aid;hand sanitizers;hands & nails;health & personal care;health care;skin care,8
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0618003614,"Because Your Daddy Loves You Kindergarten-Grade 2This book pays tribute to a father's unconditional love and patience. Instead of hurrying along, scolding, or ignoring his daughter, this daddy takes time, understands, and pays attention. The two spend the day at the seashore, where the father rescues his child from a slew of mishaps. The repetition of the phrase your daddy could say...But he doesn't, as in your daddy could say,/We've read that old story/ over and over./But he doesn't, reinforces the theme, and the color cartoon illustrations echo the lighthearted mood. Some children may relate to this depiction of fatherhood, but many will know that real dads do not always live up to these idealized expectations. Unlike Clements's previous work, this book belongs to the genre of sentimental keepsakes.Holly T. Sneeringer, University of Maryland, Baltimore Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	PreS-K. There aren't enough books that promote the father-child relationship, and that's what may make this one worth buying. A dad and his child (Son? Daughter? Unkempt hair and unisex clothes) spend time together. Common childhood experiences, such as a bad dream, are the focus of two-page spreads. The point of the text is that Daddy always knows the right thing to do or say, and that's the flaw. ""Your daddy could say, 'Shh. Just go back to sleep.' But he doesn't. He . . . sits beside you until you fall asleep again."" Yes, but there are plenty of dads (and moms) who would say words to that effect. And what's wrong with a dad telling a child not to play too close to the waves instead of just retrieving a beach ball? Kids whose father's words and behavior are more don'ts than do's may be confused or even disheartened. On the other hand, most children will recognize from their own lives the many kind things dads do, including rereading favorite stories or carrying a tired child inside. The cartoon-style art with its average-looking dad brings some much needed humor. Ilene CooperCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	""Give this child's-eye view of a day at the beach with an attentive father high marks for coziness."" KIRKUS Kirkus Reviews""Sure to enjoy a long life as a gift book and a bedtime story."" BCCB Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books""Pays tribute to a father's unconditional love and patience...the color cartoon illustrations echo the lighthearted mood."" SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL School Library Journal	Andrew Clements is the author of picture books and novels for young readers, including the perennial bestseller Frindle (Simon  Schuster.. He lives in Westborough, Massachusetts.  R. W. Alley is the illustrator of many beloved books, including the Paddington Bear picture book series. He lives in Barrington, Rhode Island. Visit him at www.rwalley.com.",books;children's books;family life;friendship;humor;literature & fiction;parents;social situations,8
1579903886,"Making Bead & Wire Jewelry: Simple Techniques, Stunning Designs Dawn Cusick lives and works in Asheville, North Carolina as an editor.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",beadwork;books;crafts;crafts & hobbies;hobbies & home;jewelry;jewelry & beadwork;metal work,8
B0009PUQAU,"Coleman 1-Burner Dual Fuel Sporter II Liquid Fuel Stove The Coleman 533A700G One-burner Dual-fuel Gas Stove is an easy-to-use and easy-to-pack portable stove for most of your camping cooking needs. Equipped with one 10,500 BTU burner, this Coleman one-burner stove can boil a quart of water in just four minutes. The smaller size of this Coleman stove makes it easier to pack and carry than many stoves. This dual-fuel gas stove can be powered by 1.1-pints of Coleman fuel or by everyday unleaded gasoline. This convenient stove has a burn time of 1.75 hours when on high and 6.5 hours when on low, and measures only 6.44-inches by 7.25-inches by seven-inches. Manufacturer Warranty Limited lifetime warranty	The Coleman Duel Fuel Sportster II stove offers 10,500 BTUs of cooking power in an economical, compact package. Coleman's Duel Fuel engineering gives you the convenience of filling the fuel tank with either cleaning-burning Coleman Liquid Fuel or unleaded gasoline. A full 2.1-pint tank runs approximately 2 hours on High. The stainless steel Band-a-Blu burner is fully adjustable for optimal cooking control. Coleman's WindBlock system shields the burner from wind, for maximum heat and reliable operation in all weather conditions. A filter funnel is included for clean, easy fuel filling.",camp kitchen;camp stoves;camping & hiking;coleman;lawn & garden;outdoor recreation;patio;sports & outdoors,8
1592799167,"The Mayan Glyph This exciting thriller is a powerful action-packed tale that is a one-sitting read. --Hariet Klausner, Reviewers-choice.comThis is a story that packs a full punch, dragging the reader in, capturing them in the intricate plot. --Kelley, loveromances.com	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.	Larry Baxter is a consulting engineer, a jazz misician, and the technical founder of several electronics companies.  He is  currently living in Gloucester, MA and enjoys skiing and mountain biking.	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.",action & adventure;books;genre fiction;literature & fiction;medical;mystery;thriller & suspense;thrillers,8
B000F6Z8OM,"Secrets of the City : A Novel Originally published as a serial in the New York Jewish periodical the Forward, this latest novel by Roiphe (Lovingkindness, etc.) achieves an enviable sense of excitement and urgency, its concerns as fresh as today's news. In short chapters in which plot lines overlap and one problem arises as another is resolved, Mel Rosenberg, the Jewish mayor of a Gotham-like city that is never named, must contend with such problems as terrorist killings of the city's birds, the failure of the welfare system, the constant threat of an overstretched budget, the heartbreaking corruption of one of his friends and the deaths of some yeshiva students threatening to turn into an ethnic war. In the meantime, there are the troubles in the mayor's own family: his scientist daughter, Ina, struggles to love her husband, Sergei; Sergei's immigrant brother, Leonid, makes shady deals that threaten the family; Mel's uptight lawyer son, Jacob, wants to get his kids into a prestigious private school; Jacob's WASP wife, Brooke, develops a penchant for shoplifting and a yen for Leonid; and Mel himself, devoted to his wife, Ruth, finds himself pursued by an attractive journalist. Though the novel can sometimes seem Judeo-centric-Brooke and the corrupt official, the two significant non-Jewish characters, don't come off very well-Mel is a fundamentally decent, universally appealing character, and his folk solutions to the city's problems, along with the appearance of spirits like the ""Imp of Mischief,"" occasionally give the novel the feel of a Jewish folk tale even as it deals with present-day issues. Roiphe's headlong, jumpy prose satisfyingly evokes the frantic, hilarious struggle of living in and maintaining a city of millions of separate souls.Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	From the pages of The Forward comes celebrated author Anne Roiphe?s episodic and brilliant novel of a big-city mayor and the struggles that shape the fortunes of his city, the life of his family, and the condition of his soul. Mel Rosenberg is the mayor of a city uncannily similar to New York, which is being terrorized by a string of unusual attacks. Hundreds of ducks are found dead in the park; animals mysteriously die at the zoo; dozens of people are killed by poisoned food; all of the elevator operators in one building are murdered; and the mayor is kidnapped. In addition to handling the city?s multiple crises, Mel must also contend with the pressures of his imperfect family?a daughter-in-law who is a compulsive shoplifter; an ungrateful son obsessed with status; an insecure daughter with a troubled marriage?not to mention a sexy, aggressive newspaper reporter who aims desperately to be his mistress. On top of it all, he becomes entangled in a high-profile political scandal that could ambush his aspirations of being elected the first Jewish president of the United States.With Secrets of the City, Anne Roiphe has delivered a fast-paced, engaging story written with humor, shrewd insight, and tenderness. Her characters explore issues that are as contemporary as they are timeless, and the plot has as many unexpected twists and turns as the West Village streets. This is an insider?s peek at life in the fast lane in the most brilliant and brutal city in the world, with all its secrets laid bare.From the Hardcover edition.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Anne Roiphe is the author of seven novels, including Up the Sandbox, Lovingkindness, and The Pursuit of Happiness. Her nonfiction books include National Book Award nominee Fruitful: A Real Mother in the Modern World; 1185 Park Avenue: A Memoir; and Married: A Fine Predicament. For more than three decades, she has illuminated the complex realm of womens lives with her provocative insight.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	1The Demon FoiledThe new mayor of the city was Jewish, which didn't mean he wouldn't celebrate Kwanzaa. Also Christmas Mass at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Sea, which spread solid and squat across two blocks of prime downtown real estate. He would appear at the food kitchen serving the homeless a meal of turkey and cranberries, and sing along with a gospel choir. The camera would find him at a shelter for abused women dressed as Santa Claus some weeks before the actual birth date of the significant baby. He had been elected by a mere hair and was quite sure that many felt he was not up to the task, too inexperienced, too much an outsider, not a man of the people at all. He was aware that the schools were rundown and class sizes too large and the bridges in need of overhaul. For months now he had been worrying about bottom lines, the appearance of favoritism here or there, the failure of those he had appointed to stem the tide of disarray. He knew that the taxi drivers might strike along with the elevator operators and sanitation workers and at least half the libraries might have to close because the funds were not there. He knew that the prisons were so crowded that riots were imminent but the citizens still felt unsafe in their neighborhoods, that the police sometimes behaved like warlords, and that the minorities in his city did not trust the particular minority that had nurtured the mayor himself. All this gave him a headache, the kind that two aspirin hardly touched.The mayor's wife had prepared for Hanukkah as she always did. The children and the children's children would come for supper. There would be presents for the younger children, and then they would light the candles; this year they would do so for the cameras. His aides had thought it would be helpful to show the mayor to his fellow citizens as a man who respected his tradition, a man of God, a family man. The mayor's wife had purchased a larger, more elaborate silver menorah than they had ever had before. This one had an eight-inch Lion of Judah at the base and grape leaves and pomegranates engraved on the cups that would hold the blue and white candles. The mayor's grown daughter, Ina, had placed red velvet ribbons in her own baby daughter's hair and had insisted her three-year-old son, Noah, wear his jacket. The mayor's son, Jacob, who privately felt that his father was a bit old for the job and should have let a younger man take his place at the top of the ticket, shaved so thoroughly that he cut himself and arrived with his five-year-old twins, Kim and Kelly, at the mayor's house with a bit of bloody tissue pressed to his cheek. He reminded his twins not to say Merry Christmas to their grandparents. In silent pluralism lay unity was his policy.This year the mayor's wife did not make the potato pancakes herself. The cook made them and burned them and made a new batch. The children did not eat them because they did not like them and never had, although each year the mayor's wife offered them. The cook had to make them pasta with butter instead. They also did not like gefilte fish, rugelach, brisket, matzo balls, or apples with honey. So be it. They could always have pasta. The mayor wanted to tell the children how his own mother had grated potatoes and added onions and fried them on her old stove, and the smell clung to his clothes for days. But he had told them all that before. There was nothing new to say. For the cameras he had prepared a speech. He had rehearsed it as he dressed in the morning and added to it during the day in the seconds between appointments. He had thought of the ending in the five minutes before his luncheon guest, the CEO of a major firm who was thinking of moving the company's offices out of town and was angling for some tax concessions (also tickets to the opening game of the baseball season), had arrived. He had polished it while waiting for his internist, who had dismissed his stomach ailments as an occupational hazard and suggested a week in Florida, which could not and would not be fit into the schedule.The computer games his wife had purchased for the children seemed to be accepted with pleasure, but then one of them was lost in the pile of blue and white and silver paper on the floor. The new owner of the game wept and stamped her feet, and the mayor's son had to fold each piece of paper before it was found. The baby whimpered and howled and would not be comforted. The room is too hot, said the mother of the infant. The windows were opened. It's too cold, said one of the twins, who wrapped herself in the mayor's wife's velvet evening coat. The stuffed mouse and the soft elephant were greeted with hugs but then forgotten behind the couch. The daughter and the son made polite conversation, but the mayor saw ice floes forming as they spoke. It had always been that way. Their conversation was strained through the sieve of years, through the small resentments and the larger ones that formed a toxic plume snaking its way across the living room rug. The mayor preferred to ignore these particular hostilities. The mayor of such a city knew all there was to know about jockeying for personal advantage, about the petty adversarial words of one for another, and wished with all his heart that he had not been persuaded to invite the press to his home for the lighting of the candles. But he had.The time came. The party assembled around the now cleared dining table. The TV cameras moved in to show the glorious menorah. There was a moment of quiet. Then the mayor's wife said the prayer, which was not so short because it was the last night of Hanukkah. The mayor's son helped his daughters take the match to the large candle and light it, and then he lit all the candles, one after another. The TV cameras rolled, and the children's faces in the candlelight glowed, their cheeks were pink. The picture was picture perfect, and the mayor cleared his throat, ready to give his speech, when suddenly the candles that had been lit went out, one by one, just as they had been lit, each leaving behind a little wisp of smoke that curled upward toward the ceiling. It must be a draft; it must be the open window. Cut, cut, said the mayor's campaign manager, Moe Alter, to the TV cameramen, who did not stop their cameras. The mayor's son picked up the matches and relit the candles. The mayor's wife said the prayer again, not sure if that was the right thing to do or not. The candles burned for a moment and then again, as if the wicks were made of river water, sank into darkness. The mayor's daughter tried, and the mayor's son-in-law, Sergei, tried, and each time the candles flamed up and then died as if a great breath had blown on them. Everyone in the room turned toward the mayor. He would have to explain this. He would have to explain the failure of his menorah to light to all the citizens of the city who would see it on the evening news.The mayor was mute. His eyes were frightened. He could find no words for this strange, unnatural occurrence. His wife had tears in her eyes. His daughter was sulking her terrible sulk. His son was not entirely dissatisfied. What was this? The mayor searched his mind. Was it a sin of his? Was it sign that God had deserted his people? Was it a sign that he had gone too far in calling the cardinal Your Excellence the week before? What had he done that his candles would not light?Behind the drapery the Spawn of Lilith, the Demon of Political Turmoil, had waited, stamping his little feet and hugging himself in malicious delight. Now, unseen by human eyes, he floated past the mayor, a tip of his scaled hoof brushing across the forehead of the sweating politician. There was noise in the room. The aides were trying to spin the situation: cold air, bad candles, damaged wicks, sabotage by the other party. Then the mayor raised his arms and spoke. He understood the reverse miracle, which was itself a sort of miracle. This was a year for darkness, for lights that would not light. This is a promising sign, a menorah in rebellion against taking things for granted. Clearly this is a hint of good things to come, a positive miracle, because, said the mayor, although this was not the speech he had rehearsed at all, out of darkness creation began, out of the void there came a new beginning, and this darkness will be the beginning of all our people of our city living together not in a grim truce but in mutual respect and true affection one for another. The darkness of this menorah is the beginning of our new light. It is our opportunity to create a better world than the one we live in now. Take a moment, everyone, respect the darkness cast by the nonlighting candles. Out of the void the beautiful world was once formed. These candles are not burning, and in their not burning they leave us in darkness, and this darkness tells us that light will surely return, spring will come, that men are brave and nations can defend themselves against evildoers. We are not afraid of the dark.The Demon, hearing these words, knew he was defeated. Depressed, deflated, he left the mayor's house disguised as an uneaten potato pancake. Before he departed he hid the computer games in the bag of a cameraman who would not find them until long after Easter.The mayor shot so high in the polls that there was talk of his running for president. After all, someone has to be the first Jewish president.2The Angel of Death Is HoveringRuth Rosenberg woke up with a start. Mel was snoring, but that was not what had broken her sleep. Without waking he rolled over to her side of the bed and pulled his woman to his side, pinning her down among the tangled sheets. The snoring subsided as he tangled his legs around hers. She stroked his back and put her lips on the bald expanse on the top of his head. The dream that woke her was slipping away. Something horrible about invisible spores, visible to the dreamer, heading in V formation like geese on a flight through the window of her daughter's apartment and settli...	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;genre fiction;horror;literature & fiction;mystery;psychological thrillers;thriller & suspense;thrillers,8
0231068549,"Waiting for the Wind: Thirty-Six Poets of Japan's Late Medieval Age (Translations from the Asian Classics) Text: English, Japanese (translation)",books;history & criticism;japanese & haiku;literature & fiction;medieval;movements & periods;poetry;world literature,8
0671014307,"Covert Warrior: A Vietnam Memoir Publishers Weekly   Rich in suspense and adventure, replete with stories of secret intelligence missions that went unrecorded by reporters. -- Review",americas;asia;books;history;military;southeast asia;united states;vietnam war,8
1416914234,"The Quillan Games (Pendragon) D.J. MacHale is the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Pendragon series and the Morpheus Road series. He has written, directed and produced many television series and movies for young people that have been seen on Nickelodeon, The Disney Channel, HBO, Showtime, PBS, Discovery Kids, and the broadcast networks. D.J. lives with his family in Southern California.	D.J. MacHale ratchets up the tension in Book Seven of the addictive Pendragon series, and narrator William Dufris keeps perfect pace with the drama. Hero Bobby Pendragon is dropped into Quillan, a territory where games have deadly consequences. Dufris continues his solid voicings of the bemused, desperate, and warrior sides of Bobby. Each book adds new friends and foes whom Bobby must learn to trust or fight. Dufris masters them as quickly as they appear. He's at his strongest orchestrating the hollow-sounding, mesmerizing broadcasts of the ever-present games. Within those broadcasts, Dufris's portrayal of the deranged media personalities Veego and LaBerge are perfectly amusing and perfectly disturbing.  K.C.  AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",action & adventure;books;children's books;fairy tales;fantasy & magic;folk tales & myths;literature & fiction;science fiction & fantasy,8
B000CCDCOC,"Q-Imaging Q-Copy New Replacement Toner Cartridge for Canon E31/F41-8801-710/1491A002AA and E40/F41-8801-200/1491A002CA (Q-E30/E40) Black Q-Copy releases Q-E40 alternative toner cartridge for Canon copiers. The Q-E40 cartridge, in tradition of Q-Imaging's commitment to innovation and engineering, comes with significantly enhanced features that greatly improve copier maintenance and ease of use. Manufactured in accordance with the ISO9001 quality standard, the Q-E40 cartridge, like most Q-Imaging products, exceeds OEM standards in a recent independent evaluation.  Features include:  Is 100% brand new, not recycled, not remanufactured  Proven to meet OEM standards in print quality and exceed OEM standards in performance  Features design innovations that improve ease of use and maintenance  Does not void OEM printer warranty Comes with a warranty of two years from date of purchase   For use in: Canon FC200 series, FC300 series, FC500 series, PC300 series, PC400 series, PC500 series, PC700 series, PC800 series, PC900 series.	You do have a choice!  And you don't have to compromise on quality.  Q-Brand cartridges are 100% NEW.  Nothing in our products is ever used or recycled or otherwise re-manufactured.  Q-Brand cartridges have been independently tested and have been shown to be on par in terms of quality and performance with the original equipment manufacturer's replacement cartridges.  Q-Brand cartridges are made under strict manufacturing standards and are guaranteed to work with the printers and business machines specified, without infringing on manufacturers' patents or affecting printer manufacturers' warranties.  ISO9001 Quality System certified. Q-Brand, the Original Alternative.",computer accessories;computers & accessories;electronics;laser printer toner;office & school supplies;office products;paper;printer ink & toner,8
B0006ABS3W,"Musical Movements - Plays ""Silent Night"" (Set of 2) Manufactured by Sankyo, the world's leading producer of musical movements, this sturdy 18 note movement is the most widely used type of musical movement placed in craft, hobby, gift and novelty projects. The mechanism on this movement is encased in a white plastic shell that can be removed if you wish. The movement with shell measures 2- 1/8""L x 1- 7/8"" W x 1- 1/16""H. When fully wound it plays approximately 2-1/2 minutes. It has 18 notes to provide a nice range of tones. It winds from the bottom and a gold colored 23/32""L winding key is provided. This offer is for two Musical Movements that play ""Silent Night"".",accessories;beauty & fashion;dress up & pretend play;jewelry;jewelry boxes;jewelry boxes & organizers;jewelry music boxes;toys & games,8
9874336935,"Tango Discovery Series, Men's Technique Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Mauricio Castro is the founder of Tango discovery and a renowned dancer and teacher of Argentine Tango. He created and developed a personal style of dancing and teaching tango in Buenos Aires and then, through Tango discovery, he brought it to the rest of the world. To his solid musical education at the prestigious Berklee College of Music (Boston, USA), he added contemporary dance and movement technique studies (Laban Analysis, Bartenieff Fundamentals and The Skinner Releasing Technique, among others). In addition, he also studied Human Sciences in Neuro Linguistic Programming, Design Human Engineering and Human Ecology. The joining of these disciplines and influences allowed him to create his particular and unmistakable style, systematizing it into an innovative method to accelerate the process of learning to dance. Breaking out from rigid sequences, his focus is to develop improvisation skills through a simple and dynamic technique where students discover not only a relaxed and released style, but also a new way of expressing and communicating with their bodies. The synthesis of his method, recognized worldwide by hundred of dancers, is available not only by attending his classes but also in his books and cutting-edge multimedia CD-ROMs, available in several languages. From the beginning, Castro insists that the tango may and should be for anyone, something so pleasurable and common like breathing . From a review of Tango, The Structure of the Dance Vol. 1 . In the newspaper La Nacin (10/07/2001). Argentina.",arts & photography;books;dance;education & reference;performing arts;popular;self-help;tango,8
0934802459,"Rock Climbing (Basic Essentials (Globe Pequot)) Mike Strassman is a director, author and cinematographer residing in Mammoth, CA.  He has worked with some of today's pre-eminent climbers to produce Moving Over Stone, a video that is recommended t be used with this book.",books;education & reference;hiking & camping;instructional;mountain climbing;mountaineering;rock climbing;sports & outdoors,8
B00008W2L3,Panasonic BQ390A/2PK NiMH Battery and Charger 2 AA Nickel Metal Hydride Rechargeable Batteries / 1950mAH Each Battery / Smart Charger Charges Batteries in 2 Hours,accessories;batteries;batteries & chargers;camera & photo;camera batteries;electronics;health & personal care;household supplies,8
B00068U7MW,"Palmgren 11351 AVC35 Angle Vise, 3.5-Inch (4-Inch) 4"" Palmgren cradle style angle vise is the quickest way to set your work between 0? and 90?.  Jaw Width: 4"" Jaw Depth: 1-1/2"" Jaw Opening:      4""  Base Size: 7-3/8"" x 7-9/16""	4' Palmgren cradle style angle vise is the quickest way to set your work between 0? and 90?. Jaw Width: 4' Jaw Depth: 1-1/2' Jaw Opening: 4' Base Size: 7-3/8' x 7-9/16'Made from FC25, fine grain cast iron; Trapezoidal-thread lead screwLess than 0.002' jaw deflection at 2,000 lbs. clamping pressure; Jaw surfaces square to 0.002'Solid iron construction with stress-relieved design; Replaceable jaw platesPin stops every 15? for quick angle set-ups. Heavy steel cam locking mechanism for securing vise at any angle; Scale indexed in 1? increments from 0? to 90?Fixed jaw is grooved horizontally and vertically for holding round stock",bench vises;industrial & scientific;industrial power & hand tools;power & hand tools;power tool accessories;stands;tools & home improvement;workholding,8
1585444596,"A Dazzle of Dragonflies Dragonflies, those ""mosquitohawk"" denizens of wetlands, are the subject of this beautiful book. The authors, scientists at the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, needed to identify dragonflies while working on a water--quality project. They invented a technique for using a flatbed scanner to create extremely detailed images of living dragonflies, which accurately reproduced their colors and anatomical details, and they created a Web site to display these images. This book grew out of their desire to promote greater awareness and understanding of these aerial predators. The first few chapters cover the folklore and fossil history of dragonflies, along with their natural history and daily lives. Watching dragonflies through binoculars and collecting them for study (much easier said than done!) each receive a section. Two extremely interesting chapters complete the text: one on water gardening to attract dragonflies, including rearing larvae in containers, and the other on photographic and digital scanning techniques. This is a passionate look at a ubiquitous group of insects. Nancy BentCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	The digital scans of living dragonflies offer an unparalleled view of these beautiful insects. . . Authors Mitchell and Lasswell have assembled an enormous amount of useful and interesting information on dragonflies as well as offering practical advise for field and laboratory work--John and Gloria Tveten, authors of Our Life with Birds: A Nature Trails Book (John and Gloria Tveten, authors of Our Life with Birds: A Natur )	Forrest L. Mitchell Research entomologist Forrest Mitchell has been fascinated with insects since childhood. This has translated into a career in entomology with the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station and Texas AM University. Although the main direction of the research program is oriented toward sustainable mitigation of insect-transmitted plant diseases, there is always plenty of time for dragonflies. Forrest lives in Stephenville, Texas.James L. LasswellJames Lasswell is the director of field research for the Entomology Department of the Texas Agriculture Experiment Station in Stephenville, Texas. An avid outdoorsman, he became interested in dragonflies while a graduate student at Texas AM University. He began photographing dragonflies, and other creatures of nature in 1994. He is an invited speaker or tour guide at a number of educational, civic, and naturalists meetings and festivals each year, where he shares his fascination with dragonflies and other aquatic life with the general public. James lives in Stephenville, Texas.",animals;biological sciences;biology;books;entomology;insects & spiders;nature & ecology;science & math,8
1400052858,"Fresh Every Day: More Great Recipes from Foster's Market This follow-up to The Foster's Market Cookbook offers new simple, spruced-up recipes from the author's North Carolina gourmet takeout shops. In the tradition of Martha Stewart, with whom Foster coauthored the previous book and worked as a chef in the '80s, the effortlessly elegant food also reflects Foster's Southern background, with its prevalence of sweet potatoes, cornmeal and black-eyed peas. Flavorful marinades, fresh herbs and seasonal ingredients maximize taste for quick meals on the grill or hands-off roasts. Numerous salsas and sides enliven each plate, and alternatives ""for all seasons"" to standards, like Twice-Baked Potatoes, Rice Pilaf, and Sauted Shrimp, provide year-round variety. Desserts are unfussy crowd-pleasers such as Mom's Apple Cobbler with Buttermilk Biscuit Topping, and Individual Chocolate Pudding Cakes. Sidebars on ""Basics"" and ""Tricks of My Trade"" share tips on techniques, shortcuts and gadgets. Busy cooks will learn to love leftovers when delicious Slow-Roasted Pork Shoulder is transformed into spicy Green Chili, and Skillet Cornbread becomes rustic Panzanella, an Italian bread salad. This is homey, American food with a kick, sure to appeal to cooks in search of easy ways to revitalize their repertoire. 160 color photos. (May 24)	Sara Foster is the rarest cook I know. She has a sensible, down-to-earth approach that eludes others. She understands good food. More important, she knows intuitively how to create dishes to please the widest audience imaginable. I love her style, which is graceful and homespun at the same time. She has taught me that great food really is in the details. Jonathan Waxman	Sara Foster is the founder and owner of Fosters Market, the cheerful, country-style market/cafs in Durham and Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Author of The Fosters Market Cookbook and a contributing food editor for Cottage Living magazine, Sara previously worked as a chef for Martha Stewarts catering company. Sara and her husband, Peter Sellers, live on a farm outside of Durham. Carolynn Carreo writes for Saveur and the Los Angeles Times and has coauthored several cookbooks, including Once Upon a Tart and 100 Ways to Be Pasta.	Pan-Seared Red Snapper with Fresh Butter Beans, Tomatoes, and CornThis is probably my favorite fish dish to make in the summer, when fresh shell beans, corn, and tomatoes are at all the farmers markets.Serves 44 red snapper fillets, cut 12 inch thick (about 6 ounces each), skin on3 tablespoons olive oil1/2 teaspoon salt, plus more to taste1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper, plus more to taste10 basil leaves, cut into thin strips1 tablespoon unsalted butter1 cup dry white wine1 cup fresh shelled or frozen butter beans1 tomato, cored and choppedKernels from 2 ears fresh corn (about 1 cup)1 lime, quartered1. Rinse the snapper fillets under cool water and pat dry with paper towels. Place the fillets, skin side down, on your work surface and rub with 1 tablespoon of the olive oil. Season with salt and pepper and press the basil strips into the flesh side of the fillets.2. Heat the remaining 2 tablespoons olive oil and the butter in a large nonstick skillet over medium-high until the oil starts to sizzle. Place the fillets in the skillet, skin side down, and saute for about 3 minutes, until the skin side is crisp. Turn and saute the fish about 1 minute longer, until the undersides are light brown. Pour the wine into the skillet, reduce the heat, cover, and simmer for about 1 minute longer, or until it is opaque and tender and flaky when pierced with the tip of a sharp knife.3. Remove the skin from the fillets and transfer the fillets, skinned side down, to a serving platter; cover loosely with foil to keep warm.4. Add the beans, tomato, and corn to the pan you cooked the fish in and simmer for 3 to 5 minutes, until the beans are crisp-tender. Add the remaining basil and additional salt and pepper to taste and spoon the succotash over and around the red snapper fillets. Serve immediately with the lime wedges.",books;cookbooks;culinary arts & techniques;food & wine;regional & international;seasonal;special occasions;u.s. regional,8
0396081916,"Winning in One-Designs Dave Perry is an All-American sailor, champion racer, coach and teacher as well as a US SAILING Senior Certified Judge and member of the U.S. Appeals Committee.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",boating;books;education & reference;miscellaneous;reference;sailing;sports & outdoors;water sports,8
B00004T0UN,"Flamenco: A Windham Hill Guitar Collection One could argue that flamenco music, with its delicate acoustic guitar  and husky vocals, is the sexiest, most seductive music in the world. Just  watching flamenco dancers in action is proof enough, but one can also enjoy  simply listening to the music. On this release, Windham Hill collects six  classic catalog tracks and adds two new ones each from highly regarded musician  Adam del Monte and New Age artist Sean Harkness. Flamenco is inarguably the  music of Spain, but this collection also highlights influences from the Middle  East, North Africa, and Eastern Europe. Vicente Amigo's ""Three Notes to Say I  Love You"" is a bit on the schmaltzy side, but it's nicely balanced by the  intense fretwork on del Monte's ""Sombra del Paraiso."" Mostly instrumental and  fairly subdued, Flamenco is a broad-ranging collection that will hip the  curious to some of the best names in the business while also providing ample  proof that flamenco is not music with a singular sound. --Tad Hendrickson",folk;jazz;latin music;music;new age;pop;rock;world music,8
0865546711,"THE GENTLEMAN FROM GEORGIA ""The Gentleman from Georgia is a richly informative chronicle of the career of Newt Gingrich.  The book presents a clear portrait of Newt as an audacious thinker, bold political strategist, and talented campaigner.  Mr. Steely's account shows us step by step how Newt Gingrich became Speaker of the House and changed the face of the US Congress and American Politics."" -- US Senator Paul D. Coverdell""The Gingrich who emerges from these pages is quite different from the caricature which often appears in the press.  This Newt shares the liberal desire to include blacks and women, preserve the environment, and uplift those at the bottom of society.  He differs profoundly with the left on how best to accomplish those noble ends.  Written in plain, clear language, The Gentleman from Georgia is a well-documented account of the rise to power of one of the most significant politicians of our age."" -- Thomas A. Scott, Kennesaw State University	Mel Steely is professor of history and director of the Georgia Political Heritage Program at the University of West Georgia in Carrollton, Georgia. He worked as an administrative aide for Newt Gingrich and also served as campaign chairman and manager for Gingrich during four elections.",biographies & memoirs;books;leaders & notable people;political;politics & government;politics & social sciences;state;united states,8
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0882821849,"Edgewalkers: Defusing Cultural Boundaries on the New Global Frontier The traditional ""melting pot"" ideal has emphasized assimilation, while advocates of multiculturalism have argued that cultural groups should maintain distinct boundaries to facilitate political empowerment. Psychologist Krebs (Changing Woman, Changing Work) coins the phrase ""edgewalkers"" for those who will fully live in ""a borderland"" between the two approaches. In 1995, when Tiger Woods objected to press descriptions of himself as African-American by asserting that he was equally of Thai descent, he exemplified edgewalking by making the difficult choice to claim a complex identity. Edgewalkers also manifest the ability to change cultural gears without compromising themselves: for example, psychologist Satsuko Ina recounts how she left her confrontational role as the leader of a Gestalt group to return home, where she was to take part in her father's funeral as a traditional Japanese daughter. Not solely confined to ethnicity, Krebs's term also includes feminists negotiating their way in male-dominated work settings, spiritual seekers who absorb other faiths without departing from their religions of origin and American Caucasians who step outside of the mainstream culture to serve the disenfranchised. Primarily addressing edgewalkers seeking support and guidance, Krebs smoothly blends interviews with broad social analysis, intentionally simplifying a complex subject. Each chapter closes with a recap that would be helpful for classroom instruction. (Sept.) Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Some diversities are seen as threatening: those who do not fit in with whatever ""our"" culture is are at best ignored and at worst reviled. In this thoughtful work, Krebs, a corporate consultant and psychologist, summarizes her interviews with some 40 individuals she calls edgewalkers (always in italics), people who have chosen to ""embrace cultural complexity, to see differences as enriching rather than debilitating, to walk the edge."" Affirmation of multiculturism, the development of mutual insights, and the cultural sensitivities of these edgewalkers' lifestyles and mindsets are hopeful examples of positive approaches to the development of attitudes that will encourage peoples with diverse, seemingly conflicting, beliefs to ""get along"" with each other. Krebs calls this ""cultural competence,"" the acquisition of strategies for living successfully in different worlds, treating differences with respect rather than a reaction of insecurity, contempt, or fear. Recommended for public and academic libraries.ASuzanne W. Wood, SUNY Coll. of Technology, Alfred Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Edgewalkers: Defusing Cultural Boundaries on the New Global Frontier focuses on that unique and expanding group of individuals who belong to two or more ethnic, cultural or spiritual worlds as they strive to embrace their differences while participating fully in contemporary mainstream society.  By bridging cultural gaps and maintaining their uniqueness, edgewalkers are working toward creating a new way of handling diversity.  By fostering cross-cultural communication and utilizing their uniqueness and creativity to solve cultural problems, people as diverse as pro-golfer Tiger Woods, congresswoman Loretta Sanchez, and actress Halle Berry are carving out their own identities as part of the new multicultural mix.  Author Nina Krebs notes how these efforts contrast sharply with such social ills as those that produce gang conflicts, political gridlock, and ethnic warfare.  Edgewalkers is a seminal, groundbreaking work that will be of immense interest to scholars, educators, policy makers, bi-cultural edgewalkers, and non-specialist general readers.  -- The Bookwatch, The Midwest Book Review-September 1990	The idea for Edgewalkers came to me a couple years before I began writing the book.  I procrastinated because delving into the volatile realm of cultural conflict and what to do about it seemed overwhelming to me.  As I began work on the project, though, I became more and more entranced by the people who sustain the integrity of their culture of origin, unconventional sexual orientation, or a particular spiritual path, and also deal with the mainstream effectively. This is no small accomplishment from either a psychological or sociological perspective.  But, despite-or maybe because of-its complexity, it offers a wealth of self-understanding, as well as capacity for relating to others from different backgrounds. I hope that as you read about these edgewalkers, you will tune into the ways you further the cause of cross-cultural harmony in your own way.  My goal in writing the book is to clarify some of the ways people who identify with a micro-culture communicate effectively with people in their particular culture and the mainstream as well.  They point out how they deal with the internal conflicts that result, and how they support themselves psychologically and emotionally as they dance between two cultures.  The best way to understand this process comes through in the words of people who are doing it. Racism, sexism, and prejudice against ""difference"" stand in bold relief against the ideals of inclusion in our culture.  Dealing with these social ills is within the grasp of each one of us when we personally relate to people different from ourselves.  Interviewing edgewalkers, visiting them in their homes and offices, and hearing their stories has been a deeply moving experience for me.  I hope they speak with you in ways that embolden and encourage your journey on the edge.",anthropology;books;cultural;ethnic studies;minority studies;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific demographics,8
0891416536,"Devil Dogs: Fighting Marines of World War I Clark, a former Marine and a historian of the Corps, does an excellent job of showing how the identity of the U.S. Marine Corps was forged in the experiences of the American Expeditionary Force in 1917- 1918. Combining published records with private sources, Clark tells the full story of the Corps in the Great War, from the training camps to the front lines, occupation and demobilization. Clark demonstrates that the Marines were no better prepared than their Army counterparts for the trenches of France. Most enlisted men were green wartime recruits, and few officers had experience commanding formations as large as those used in the Great War. The consequences were predictable: time after time, Marine units lost contact with one another and with their supporting artillery, and colonels and majors were remote from the battles their men were fighting. Clark is a stern critic of these command failures. His judgments indeed may be excessively harsh: no WWI army solved the problems of liaison and control. But at the company and platoon levels, Clark tells of how the Marines redeemed their superiors' shortcomings, overcoming uncut wire and damaged machine guns with raw courage buttressed only toward the end of the war by tactical sophistication. The front-line Marines' lot was not unique. What was unique was the way these experiences have become central to the Corps identity. Clark's text establishes beyond question the WWI origins of the synergistic emphasis on small-unit leadership, sharp-end initiative and esprit de corps that, for good and ill, characterizes and defines the U.S. Marine Corps. Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Writing in a chatty, sometimes anecdotal style, Clark gives us the most detailed popular history available of the U.S. Marines in World War I. With a maximum strength of 75,000, the corps sent only two brigades to France. Only the Fourth Marine Brigade saw combat, and in France the ""Devil Dogs,"" as the Germans nicknamed them, were a long way from their parent organization, the navy, and close to the army, which did not like marines. Clark includes a thorough account of the marines' most famous action, in the battle of Belleau Wood, as well as of the other six major battles in which they fought, including the bloody and botched, not to mention largely unknown, assault on Blanc Mont. Although rather free with his opinions, Clark has mined every available source and discovered new ones to back himself up. The final product is a collective portrait of men who, though initially unfamiliar with the Western Front and often poorly led by senior officers, prevailed with sheer courage and determination.  Roland Green	An interesting but unexceptional look at the Marine Corps actions of WWI, authored by a military historian who is also the owner of a antiquarian bookstore specializing in military history. At the onset of American involvement in the war, the Marines were an orphan force (though officially under the aegis of the navy) and unwelcome by the army, which saw no need for a second ground force. Clark covers the background maneuvering that finally allowed the Marines to be shifted over to a furious General Pershing and thus to live up to their motto of ``First to Fight.'' Once they were overseas and in the field, the battles waged by the Marines remain among the best remembered of the American stage of the war: Verdun, Belleau Wood, Soissons, Marbache Sector, the Meuse, and several others. Clarks at his best when describing skirmishes on the ground and quoting generously from archival telegrams, reports, and letters to create a telling picture of the field of battle. Also useful is his discussion of hurdles to be overcome in nearly any operation (but usually, and regretrtably, unlikely to find their way into the accounts of historians). Though pages here frequently become jumbled with unit numbers and acronyms, the overall narrative is readable, adding to the available information on America in WWI. (44 b photos, 21 maps, not seen)  -- Copyright 1998, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.",books;history;humanities;military;new;united states;used & rental textbooks;world war i,8
0972441638,"Field Adventures in Paleontology This book is a page-turner...because it reminds us why we all hunt for fossils in the first place. -- Steve Brusatte, Dino Land Gazette, October 2, 2003	I want to convey to the reader just what's involved in paleontological fieldwork, be it a professional dig or a personal collecting trip--and just how much fun it is!  If you are a student, an armchair paleontologist, or a seasoned collector who's never been on a professional dig, I've written this book for you. Come along with me as I unearth dinosaur bones in the Arctic, fossil cycads and trilobites in the desert, mammal bones in a cave, insects and plants in the mountains, and much more...and cover time periods from the Cambrian to the Pleistocene.	Lynne M. Clos holds a Master's degree in museum studies from the University of Colorado with a specialization in vertebrate paleontology.  She has done research on fossil varanid lizards and named a new species from the Miocene of Africa. She has visited 5 continents and collected fossils for 25 years.  Currently she edits and publishes Fossil News: Journal of Avocational Paleontology and has extensive experience in technical, journalistic, and creative writing.	From Chapter 19, Dinosaurs from the Land of the Midnight Sun: Thursday, July 25--I walked with Jonathan to the site this morning because I was doing dishes and missed the boat.  We stayed off the mud as much as we could, but had to cross the flats where we saw tracks of sandhill cranes, caribou, and a bear.  Today started out cool and sprinkly but quickly warmed up when the sun came out.  It must have been close to 80 degrees this afternoon.  I found one complete phalanx 2 from digit II of a juvenile hadrosaur foot.  The rest were just rib fragments and more ossified tendons.  Jonathan found a second metatarsal--must be from a subadult because it's much bigger.  Roland thinks there was a creche of young which died while crossing a river and then were redeposited in a crevasse splay.  The film crew left today.  Back to camp and I took a shower at the sun shower and I feel so much better.  After dinner it was so clear that we could see the Brooks Range, 150 miles to the south.  As long as the weather holds, I'm having a great time.  Apprehensive as I was about this trip, it's turning out that I was very well-prepared, and that makes all the difference in the world.  The things that worried me most were insects and getting cold; but my bug suit keeps the mosquitoes off, we haven't encountered any black flies, the weather has been better than I expected, and I have plenty of warm, dry clothes.  So none of my worries has come to pass, the people are wonderful, and the bones are plentiful; this has to be one of my best vacations ever. From Chapter 10, Hunting for Fossil Cycads in the Petrified Forest: I traced the grey claystone layer around the base of a small hill, looking for a place where it would be relatively easy to remove the overburden and get to some fresh rock.  A deep, narrow arroyo on the west side of the hill provided me with the access I needed.  It was late in the afternoon and the arroyo was in shadow by the time I began quarrying, but in the hour or so that I worked before my rendezvous with Doug, I uncovered enough plant hash (mashed up leaves and stems) to determine that I had found a promising locality. Doug, Vince, and I returned the next day with a large pick for removing the overburden in an expedient manner.  Once this had been done, Doug and I remained to work the quarry.  It's hard to explain, but I could just ""smell"" cycad fossils (then again, maybe it was merely optimism).  But before lunch I began finding detached leaflets that looked very much like those of a modern Zamia in their shape and venation.  Doug was working on the opposite side of the wash and stratigraphically a little higher than I was, where he was finding mostly plant hash, some of which looked like the giant horsetail Neocalamites.  It was after lunch that, getting tired, I was swinging my rock hammer rather nonchalantly at some broken, blocky stones when out popped a beautiful pinnate leaf!  A spontaneous ""Hallelujah!  There it is!"" sprang from my lips.  The frond was not complete, but the rachis and about a dozen pinnae on each side were preserved as a black carbonaceous film in the rock.  Doug was suitably impressed and immediately stopped what he was doing to help me search for the counterpart, which he found on the floor of the arroyo.  It lacked the carbonized film but showed the perfect mirror image as a shallow impression.  It was spooky to see how closely the frond resembled one of a modern Zamia, given the incredible timespan that separates them.  The fossil lacked the conspicuous constriction of the pinna bases common to the modern Zamias, and the pinnae were squared off at their ends rather than tapering as in the modern forms in my collection.  But it was obviously a cycad-like leaf. The adrenalin began flowing and I didn't feel tired any more.  I just knew there were more cycads waiting to see their first glimpse of daylight in 220 million years!  We immediately christened the locality ""Cycad Wash"" and worked the quarry for the remainder of the afternoon.  By the time we had finished, we had a backpack full of carefully-wrapped specimens, almost all of which appeared to be leaves of the same cycad.  When the sun was getting low, we shouldered our hammers and packs, and set out to hike back to civilization, knowing that some of the fossils we were carrying would be good enough to be curated into the Petrified Forest museum collection.",biographies & memoirs;biological sciences;books;paleontology;professionals & academics;science & math;scientists;technology,8
0440403960,"Me, Mop, and the Moondance Kid Myers combines wit, sensitivity and insight to create this funny, fast-paced story about three orphaned children and the Elks, a Little League baseball team. T.J., his brother Moondance and their best friend Mop had all lived with the nuns in the Dominican Academy until the two brothers were adopted. Now Mop is convinced that the coaches of their baseball team, Marla and Jim Kennedy, want to adopt her, provided that she is a worthy child. What better way to prove her worth than to be the star of the Elks? But she has to work fast, because the Academy is being closed. Carmelita, an accident-prone nun, Taffy the llama and a killer cat are among the humorous characters that complicate the children's lives. While T.J. and Moondance are adapting to their new home, the excitement of the baseball season is mounting, as are Mop's hopes to be adopted. Myers's keen sense of humor, quick, natural dialogue and irresistible protagonists make this novel a winner. Ages 8-12. Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Grade 4-6 Eleven-year-old T. J. and his younger brother Billy, a.k.a. the Moondance Kid, have been living with their adoptive parents for about six months, and are settling in well. They are worried that their friend Mop, a girl who has not yet been adopted, may be transferred to an orphanage some distance away. Mop decides to join T. J.'s little league team in order to get close to the coach and his wife, whom she suspects are interested in adopting her. Subplots abound: there are rumors that the old orphanage may be closed, the orphans' pet llama is missing when threatened with zoo life, an aging wino finds redemption in helping the children improve their ball playing, an unscrupulous and bullying rival coach gets his comeuppance, Mop is adopted, and all ends happily. These side elements detract from the central issues of T. J.'s relationship with his adoptive father and Mop's attempt to ensure her own adoption. The whole becomes more a series of isolated incidents than a smoothly flowing storyline. Interesting characters are introduced, but there simply isn't room to flesh them out into rounded personalities. Undemanding readers will probably be pulled along by the game action, but only libraries with a very heavy demand for sports fiction will want this title. Elaine Fort Weischedel, Turner Free Library, Randolph, Mass.Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Myers combines wit, sensitivity and insight to create this funny, fast-paced story about three orphaned children and the Elks, a Little League baseball team....Myers' keen sense of humor, quick, natural dialogue and irresistible protagonists make this novel a winner.--Publishers Weekly.	An ALA Notable Children's Book.	""Myers combines wit, sensitivity and insight to create this funny, fast-paced story about three orphaned children and the Elks, a Little League baseball team....Myers' keen sense of humor, quick, natural dialogue and irresistible protagonists make this novel a winner.""--Publishers Weekly.	Born in Marinsburg, West Virginia in 1937, Walter Dean Myers is one of the premier authors of books for children. His mother died very early in his lifean event that propelled him into experiences that later influenced him to write. It was difficult for Myers' father to raise eight children alone, and eventually, a nearby couple, Herbert and Florence Dean, took in three-year old Walter and moved to Harlem, New York. Harlem became my home and the place where my first impressions of the world were set, says Myers.As a child, Myers went to school in his neighborhood and attended bible school almost every day of the week. Myers had a speech impediment which made communicating difficult for him, and often found himself in fights, defending himself against kids who taunted him. After a while, one of this teachers suggested to his class that they could write something to read aloud. Young Myers began writing poetry to give voice to his thoughts and feelings, and at age sixteen, won a prize in an essay contest and a set of encyclopedias for a long narrative poem. Later, his father bought him a used typewriter, which he used to churn out a seemingly endless stream of stories.Along with the many things he was discovering about himself, Myers was also learning how to survive. One day he had the courage to break up a fight between three gang members and a kid who had just moved into the neighborhood. He became a marked manand felt his life was in danger.For example, once, he was sitting in the tree in Morningside Park, across from the building he lived in, reading O'Neill's Mourning Becomes Electra, when some gang members spotted him and surrounded the tree. Myers jumped to the ground, flashed a stiletto in order to fend them off, and made a mad dash for his building. He escaped, but he never forgot the incident. Later he enlisted in the army, got married, had a child, went through a turbulent creative struggle, got divorced, got married againand during all of this, kept writing, whether his work pleased him or not.But Walter Dean Myers' life is not the story of a tormented, embittered artist. Rather it is the story of a gifted, complex person committed to sharing that gift with young readers. Myers' stories and novels paint a powerful picture of the pressures of growing up on big city streets. Yet, he emphasizes close relationships, trust, and personal growth.It seems that one of Myers' greatest struggles was to understand what type of writer he wanted to be. As the years passed and his books became more and more popular, Walter Dean Myers came to believe that his work filled a void for African American youths who yearned for positive reading experiences and role models. He frequently writes about children who share similar economic and ethnic situations with his own childhood. But my situation as a parent did not mirror that of my childhood, he says. While my parents were quite poor, my children are thoroughly entrenched in the middle class experience. To them African prints go well with designer jeans, pizzas go down easier to a reggae beat, and shopping malls are an unmistakable part of their culture. It is clear that Myers' understanding of both the world he was raised in and the world of his children allows him to bring an authority to his work that resonates with his young readers. It is one of many attributes that has made him one of the most important children's and young adult authors writing today. Among his many honors are two Newbery Honor books for Scorpions and Somewhere in the Darkness. He is also a two-time recipient of the Coretta Scott King Award for Now Is Your Time! and Fallen Angels. In addition, Myers has received the Margaret A. Edwards Award for his contribution to young adult literature.Myers' novel, Darnell Rock Reporting, is a warm and humorous story about thirteen-year-old Darnell Rocka boy who works on his school newspaper. The book is sure to appeal to reluctant readers. Myers' recent picture book, How Mr. Monkey Saw the Whole World, is a cautionary fable about a watchful monkey who sees that a greedy buzzard gets his comeuppance.Myers recent work, 145th Street: Short Stories (A Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book) captures the heartbeat of one memorable block in Harlem, New York. These powerful, often gripping stories range from humor and celebration to terror and grief.Walter Dean Myers, the father of three grown children, lives with his wife in Jersey City, New Jersey.",african-american;books;children's books;family life;literature & fiction;multicultural stories;social situations;travel & cultures,8
0060419032,"English simplified English Simplified is a conciseonly 64 pagesand inexpensive grammar handbook that covers every aspect of grammar and usage, as well as paragraphs, essays, and an introduction to research and documentation. English Simplified has long been the choice of instructors searching for a brief, inexpensive, easytouse handbook.  English Simplified, 10/e continues to provide comprehensive coverage of grammar and usage, and also includes new material: tips for ESL writers, easytoread tables that clarify verb tenses and forms, expanded coverage of word choice, the latest updates on documentation style, and expanded material on note taking, source evaluation, and avoiding plagiarism. A separate, inexpensive exercise book is also available.For anyone interested in improving basic grammar skills.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;education & reference;humanities;language & grammar;linguistics;new;used & rental textbooks;words,8
B000AXUY6M,"Amazon.com: Columbia Men's Trickster Glove, Black, Medium: Clothing Features Bergundtal nylon with MicroTemp lightweight insulation. Omni-Tech waterproof/ breathable bladder. PU grip palm and wrapped fingers and elastic wrist with one hand adjustment are included in this glove.",accessories;clothing;clothing & accessories;cold weather;gloves;men;mittens & liners;sports & outdoors,8
0870848755,Community Policing: A Contemporary Perspective Eastern Kentucky University	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.,books;education & reference;law;law practice;legal reference;new;reference;used & rental textbooks,8
0764553860,"Cruise Vacations for Dummies 2002 Your insider's guide to the best cruise lines and valuesSet sail on the right cruise for you With scores of great cruises to the Caribbean, Alaska, and the Mediterranean, how do you choose one that's right for you? Relax! The updated edition of this easy-to-understand guide is all you need to navigate the world of cruise vacations ? and sail into the sunset.Discover:Down-to-earth cruise-planning advice The best ships and packages for every budgetConcise tips on sightseeing and shopping at ports of callDozens of detailed mapsTravel smart! www.dummies.comSign up for daily eTips at www.dummiesdaily.comChoose from among 33 different subject categories	About the Author Fran Wenograd Golden writes about cruises and travel for the Boston Herald and Concierge.com, among other venues. She is also the author of Frommers European Cruises and Ports of Call 2000 and TVacations: A Fun Guide to the Sites, the Stars, and the Inside Stories Behind Your Favorite TV Shows (Pocket Books, 1996), and coauthor of Frommers Alaska Cruises  Ports of Call, Frommers Greece, and Honeymoon Vacations For Dummies. Raised mostly in West Hartford, Connecticut, she lives north of Boston with her husband and two teenagers.	Introduction Check Your Hassles at the Door When you take a cruise vacation, you dont want to spend a lot of time thinking and worrying. You want to relax, and the whole cruise experience is designed to help you do just that. Sure, you may have to wait in line to get aboard, but after you get through that process your experience should be relatively hassle-free  just unpack your bags and let your floating hotel take you to interesting ports. Head up to the Pool Deck and wave your hand for a cold beer or pia colada. Grab a book and find a quiet corner, or join in on one of the numerous daily activity offerings. No need to make dinner plans: The kitchen crew is busy preparing the evenings delights, while the cabin crew is fluffing your pillows. Youre fed, pampered, and taken care of. You dont even have to worry about money, because you paid upfront; and for the extras, like drinks, the ship operates with a cash-free system (of course, your credit card will be charged for that beer or pia colada at the end of the cruise). When you get to port, you can take an excursion offered by the ship, designed to get you to and from the top activities or attractions, or you can go off exploring on your own. Its your choice. This vacation is yours, and its all about you having a good time. A Resort by Day. . . Just because youre on a ship doesnt mean you have to give up the kind of daytime activities available at land-based resorts. Most cruise ships, especially the newer and bigger ships, boast lavish spas and gyms, often with ocean views; extensive childrens programs designed to keep your kids well occupied so that you have a chance to play, too; and organized activities that range from the sublime to the ridiculous including silly pool games, contests, bingo, craft classes, art auctions, bridge tournaments, and intellectual lectures. Sports enthusiasts may find (depending on the ship) basketball, racquetball, tennis, trapshooting, golf, as well as the traditional shuffleboard and ping-pong. And thats not to mention water sports, including scuba and snorkeling classes. And at the ports, if you go to a warm-weather destination, you have ample time to enjoy the beaches and additional water sports offerings. Want more? How about video arcades (the newest and best, even boasting virtual reality games) and movie theatres showing first-run releases. You can shop on the ship for souvenirs and even diamonds and pearls (all duty-free). And thanks to satellite technology, you may even be able to watch a live sporting event, with some ships boasting sports bars. And you can send and receive e-mail at the ships Internet cafe (one of the newest trends aboard ships). As if thats not enough, you can focus on eating: You can start with an early risers continental breakfast at 6 a.m., followed by a full breakfast (buffet or sit-down), enjoy a mid-morning snack, eat lunch at a buffet or in the dining room, grab a slice of pizza, and then have afternoon tea. But save room for dinner! . . .A Total Entertainment Experience by Night Nighttime is one of the liveliest times on a cruise ship. You have the five-course meal to look forward to, for one thing. And then, depending on the ship, you can head off to a lounge to dance to your old-time favorites, pulse to the beat in the disco, try your luck in a glitzy casino, sip drinks at a piano bar, light up a stogie at a cigar bar, hear lounge-lizard or comedy acts, see a Vegas- or Broadway-style review, or just plain walk on the deck and stare at the stars until sunrise. And dont forget the midnight buffet. Best of all, its all included in your cruise fare. You dont pay admission charges to any of the entertainment events, you pay only for your drinks (which are usually quite reasonably priced). And if youre in a port at night, you can also partake of the local nightlife, including discos, casinos, and nightclubs.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",almanacs & yearbooks;books;cruises;education & reference;general;reference;specialty travel;travel,8
0721686060,"Saunders Student Nurse Planner: A Guide to Success in Nursing School The essential on-the-spot reference and time-management tool for nursing students!	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Susan C. deWit, MSN, RN, CNS, PHN, Formerly, Instructor of Nursing, El Centro College, Dallas, TX; and Allan Hancock College, Santa Maria, CA	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;education & reference;fundamentals & skills;medical books;medicine & health sciences;new;nursing;used & rental textbooks,8
B00006KUMU,"Realty Bluebook Contains new tax laws, tables, financing, checklists, and clauses.	Contains new tax laws, tables, financing, checklists, and clauses.",business & investing;economics & economic theory;humanities & social sciences;industries & professions;magazine subscriptions;professional & trade;real estate;tax & tax law,8
0060733667,"Peliculas de Mi Vida, Las: Una Novela (Spanish Edition) Born in Santiago de Chile, Alberto Fuguet spent his early childhood in California. He is one of the most prominent Latin American authors of his generation and one of the leaders of the literary movement known as McOndo, which proclaims the end of magical realism. He has been a film critic and a police reporter. He lives in Santiago de Chile.Alberto Fuguet naci en Santiago de Chile, y pas su infancia en California. Es uno de los autores latinoamericanos ms destacados de su generacin y uno de los lderes de McOndo, el movimiento literario que proclama el fin del realismo mgico. Ha sido crtico de cine y reportero policial. Vive en Santiago.",books;contemporary;education & reference;foreign language fiction;foreign language study & reference;literature & fiction;united states;world literature,8
B000ANO3N2,"Nylabone Healthy Edible Bone, Roast Beef Flavored with Vitamins Healthy Edibles Roast Beef Flavor Bone with Vitamins, Triple Pack: A tasty and completely edible chew that is easily digestible providing a safe and enjoyable alternative to traditional rawhide. NO plastic and NO added sugar. Delicious roast beef flavor bone with added vitamins. Made in the USA.",biscuits & snacks;bones;cookies;dogs;pet supplies;pet supplies markdowns;rawhide;treats,8
0679403582,"Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States It would be difficult to find a more powerful and moving attack on capital punishment than this plea for its abolition by a nun, member of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Medaille. Prejean was working with the poor in a New Orleans housing project in 1982 when she began corresponding with Patrick Sonnier, a convict on death row in the Louisiana State Penitentiary. Before long, she had become his spiritual adviser and, while not condoning the crime of which he was convicted, spearheaded the unsuccessful attempt to have his sentence commuted. After Sonnier's execution, Prejean counseled Robert Willie, another condemned man, until he too went to the electric chair. Her well-publicized efforts on these men's behalf drew resentment from the victims' relatives, but she was sensitive to their continuing pain as well; she played a major role in setting up a victim assistance program in New Orleans. Yet Prejean remains an absolutist on the death penalty: ""Killing by anyone, under any conditions, cannot be tolerated."" Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Prejean, a Catholic nun, has written a moral indictment of capital punishment. This book is the result of her visits to two death-row inmates at the Louisiana State Penitentiary where she serves as a spiritual advisor. Although she documents the inequalities of the judicial system that has condemned these men, her main point is that if society is to inflict this extreme punishment, it should, itself, be perfect. Needless to say, it is not. Opponents of the death penalty will find reinforcement for their cause here. The general reader, however, will probably find the book too narrow in focus, too self-righteous. Prejean writes well, but her material will not attract the wide audience she wants. An optional purchase.- Frances Sandiford, Green Haven Correctional Facility Lib., Stormville, N.Y.Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.	A Catholic nun's impassioned memoir of her friendship with two death-row inmates, coupled with a plea for the abolition of capital punishment. In 1982, Prejean, a member of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Medaille, agrees to correspond with convicted rapist and murderer Patrick Sonnier, awaiting execution in Louisiana's electric chair. Letters lead to visits, and Prejean becomes spiritual advisor to the condemned man. Her counsel takes hold, and Sonnier dies repentant--far more so than Prejean's second death-row friend, the arrogant Robert Lee Wilson, also a rapist and murderer. Both killers come off as repellently fascinating, but the real interest here is in Prejean, who begins as a frail but courageous soul, utterly out of place inside a prison, and winds up as a fierce spokeswoman for the right to life--even of those who have taken the lives of others. Her arguments against capital punishment are well known but preached with passion: The death penalty is racist, barbaric, and doesn't deter crime; innocent people get killed, etc. But her real brief lies in the grim details of execution, both in the degradation of the long weeks of waiting and in the torture of the execution itself--which involves, says Prejean, extreme physical and mental pain. The details will turn heads and stomachs: last-minute meetings with the governor, who always has his own agenda; last meals with the prisoner (Sonnier feasts on steak and apple pie, and thanks the cook); the last seconds of life, as the condemned man's face is covered by a veil (Wilson winks at Prejean as the cloth descends). To Prejean, the whole story is a web of crimes--the original murder; the execution; the moral hypocrisy of the judicial system; the suffering inflicted upon the families of both killer and victim--to which the only moral response is love inspired by Christ, who ``refused to meet hate with hate and violence with violence.'' Touching and compelling. (First printing of 30,000) -- Copyright 1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.	Destined to become the most influential anti-capital punishment statement since Albert Camus wrote' Reflections on the Guillotine ' in 1957...This unblinking book about the deliberate killing of human beings refuses to turn a blind eye to the sins of the murderers--be they prisoners or prison officials. The author, Sister Helen Prejean, is a Roman Catholic nun who has lived and worked with poor black families in New Orleans. Walking explores her personal and spiritual evolution into both a death penalty opponent and victims advocate, an evolution that begins when she serves as the spiritual advisor to two condemned men. --Washington Post Book WorldThis arresting account should do for the debate over capital punishment what the film footage from Selma and Birmingham accomplished for the civil rights movement: turn abstractions into flesh and blood. Tough, fair, bravely alive--you will not come away from this book unshaken.--Bill McKibbenFrom the Trade Paperback edition.	""Destined to become the most influential anti-capital punishment statement since Albert Camus wrote' Reflections on the Guillotine ' in 1957...This unblinking book about the deliberate killing of human beings refuses to turn a blind eye to the sins of the murderers--be they prisoners or prison officials. The author, Sister Helen Prejean, is a Roman Catholic nun who has lived and worked with poor black families in New Orleans. Walking explores her personal and spiritual evolution into both a death penalty opponent and victims advocate, an evolution that begins when she serves as the spiritual advisor to two condemned men."" --Washington Post Book World""This arresting account should do for the debate over capital punishment what the film footage from Selma and Birmingham accomplished for the civil rights movement: turn abstractions into flesh and blood. Tough, fair, bravely alive--you will not come away from this book unshaken.""--Bill McKibben	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	In 1982, Sister Helen Prejean became the spiritual advisor to Patrick Sonnier, the convicted killer of two teenagers who was sentenced to die in the electric chair of Louisiana's Angola State Prison. In the months before Sonnier's death, the Roman Catholic nun came to know a man who was as terrified as he had once been terrifying. At the same time, she came to know the families of the victims and the men whose job it was to execute him--men who often harbored doubts about the rightness of what they were doing.Out of that dreadful intimacy comes a profoundly moving spiritual journey through our system of capital punishment. Confronting both the plight of the condemned and the rage of the bereaved, the needs of a crime-ridden society and the Christian imperative of love, Dead Man Walking is an unprecedented look at the human consequences of the death penalty, a book that is both enlightening and devastating.From the Trade Paperback edition.	When Helen Prejean is invited to write to a prisoner on Death Row who brutally killed two teenagers, she has little idea how much it will change her life.  Although she abhors his crime, she befriends one man as he faces the electric chair.  Dead Man Walking is Helen Prejean's gripping true story, which formed the basis for a major motion picture event. As powerful an indictment of the death penalty as has ever been written, her book was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	CHAPTERIWhen Chava Colon from the Prison Coalition asks me one January day in 1982 to become a pen pal to a death-row inmate, I say, Sure. The invitation seems to fit with my work in St. Thomas, a New Orleans housing project of poor black residents. Not death row exactly, but close. Death is rampant here-from guns, disease, addiction. Medical care scarcely exists.I've come to St. Thomas to serve the poor, and I assume that someone occupying a cell on Louisiana's death row fits that category. I had learned that back in 1977 at a lecture by John Vodicka, one of the founders of the Louisiana Coalition on Jails and Prisons where Chava now works. I had also learned that the death penalty in the United States has always been most rigorously applied in Southern states-mostly toward those who kill whites. The Prison Coalition office is near Hope House, where I teach high-school dropouts, and Chava and I run into each other fairly often.After he has written the name of the death-row inmate he says, Maybe I ought to give you someone else. This guy is a loner and doesn't write. Maybe you want someone who will answer your letters.But he's already written the name and I say, Don't change it. Give me his name. I don't know yet that the name on this tiny slip of white paper will be my passport into an eerie land that so far I've only read about in books.I look at the name and address that Chava gave me: Elmo Patrick Sonnier, number 95281, Death Row, Louisiana State Penitentiary, Angola.Almost all the killings here in St. Thomas seem to erupt from the explosive mixture of dead-end futures, drugs, and guns. But when Chava describes what Sonnier has done, my blood chills. On November 4, 1977, he and his younger brother, Eddie, abducted from a lovers' lane a teenage couple, David LeBlanc and Loretta Bourque. They raped the girl, forced the young people to lie face down, and shot them in the head.I look down at the name in horror. Do I really want to know such a man?He's a Cajun from St. Martinville, Louisiana, Chava says.Which makes the murders all the more vicious, because St. Martinville, at the center of Acadiana, is one of the friendliest, most hospitable places on earth. Here and in the surrounding towns French-speaking people, mostly farmers and fishermen, cook good food, swap stories and recipes, and dance the two-step and the zydeco. They love to talk, even to strangers. If murders are prone to happen anywhere on the face of the earth, this is the place one would least expect.I wonder what I can say to this man. What will he have to say to me?quot;We have files at the office, Chava says, if you want to read about the case.I take the piece of paper with the name on it back to the apartment in the project where I live with five other nuns.A year ago, in June of 1981, I had driven a small brown truck loaded with my personal possessions to the apartment on 519 St. Andrew Street and hoped to high heaven I wouldn't be shot. We were practically the only whites-all women-among one thousand five hundred residents in the six square blocks of beige brick buildings tucked between the central business district and the garden district. After my first night in the project apartment, I wrote in my journal:Didn't sleep much. Noisy until about 3:00 A.M. People standing on the corner talking and drinking. Feel nervous, unsettled. Heard a gunshot. Had checked when I got into bed to make sure my bed was under the windowsill in case a bullet came through.Is this New Orleans? I feel like I'm in another country.I came to St. Thomas as part of a reform movement in the Catholic Church, seeking to harness religious faith to social justice. In 1971, the worldwide synod of bishops had declared justice a constitutive part of the Christian gospel. When you dig way back into Church teachings, you find that this focus on justice has been tucked in there all along in social encyclicals. Not exactly coffee-table literature. The documents have been called the best-kept secret of the Catholic Church. And with good reason. The mandate to practice social justice is unsettling because taking on the struggles of the poor invariably means challenging the wealthy and those who serve their interests. Comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable-that's what Dorothy Day, a Catholic social activist said is the heart of the Christian gospel.1In 1980 my religious community, the Sisters of St. Joseph of Medaille, had made a commitment to stand on the side of the poor, and I had assented, but reluctantly. I resisted this recasting of the faith of my childhood, where what counted was a personal relationship with God, inner peace, kindness to others, and heaven when this life was done. I didn't want to struggle with politics and economics. We were nuns, after all, not social workers, and some realities in life were, for better or worse, rather fixed-like the gap between rich and poor. Even Jesus Christ himself had said, The poor you will always have with you. Besides, it was all so complex and confusing-the mess the world was in-with one social problem meshed with other problems. If you tried to get a handle, say, on improving housing for poor people, you found yourself in a morass of bureaucracy and waste in government programs, racist real estate and banking policies, unemployment-a mess.Enlightenment had come in June 1980. I can remember the moment because it changed my life. My community had assembled at Terre Haute, Indiana, to grapple with directions of our ministries for the 1980s, and the chief speaker was Sister Marie Augusta Neal, S.N.D.deN. A sociologist, she described glaring inequities in the world: two thirds of the peoples of the world live at or below subsistence level while one third live in affluence. Did we know, she asked, that the United States, which comprises about 6 percent of the world's population, consumed 48 percent of the world's goods? What were we to do about such glaring injustices? She knew her facts and I found myself mentally pitting my arguments against her challenge-we were nuns, not social workers, not political. But it's as if she knew what I was thinking. She pointed out that to claim to be apolitical or neutral in the face of such injustices would be, in actuality, to uphold the status quo-a very political position to take, and on the side of the oppressors.But it was the way she presented the message of Jesus that caused the most radical shift in my perspective.The Gospels record that Jesus preached good news to the poor, she said, and an essential part of that good news was that they were to be poor no longer. Which meant they were not to meekly accept their poverty and suffering as God's will, but, instead, struggle to obtain the necessities of life which were rightfully theirs. And Jesus' challenge to the nonpoor, she emphasized, was to relinquish their affluence and to share their resources with the dispossessed.Something in me must have been building toward this moment because there was a flash and I realized that my spiritual life had been too ethereal, too disconnected. I left the meeting and began seeking out the poor. This brought me one year later to the St. Thomas housing development.I had grown up in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in the 1940s and 1950s in as solid and loving a family as one could hope for-a mother and father who lavished attention and affection on their children and a brother, Louie, and sister, Mary Ann, whom I could spar with and tease and argue with and love. We grew up in a spacious two-story house, were educated in Catholic schools, and traveled extensively across the United States, Canada, and Europe.As a child, at Mama's urging, I knelt by my bed at night for prayers and always included poor people who have no place to sleep tonight. But poor people occupied a land somewhere out there with Cinderella and Hansel and Gretel. I did not have any direct experience with poor people.I did not then consider the colored people who worked for us as poor. They were just, well, colored people doing what colored people did, which was working for white people, and living where coloredquot; people lived, which was usually in shacks out in the country or, in nigger town in the city. In my early childhood a black couple lived in the servants' quarters, a small house behind ours. The man took care of the yard, the woman in a white uniform helped in the house. They never used the family bathrooms and they always ate in the kitchen. Only whites went to the elementary and high school I attended, and in our church blacks could sit only in a niche of pews over to the side and had to wait until last to receive communion. They had to sit at the back of the bus, and it was a great dare for a white kid to go to the back of the bus and sit with the blacks for five seconds. I had taken on the dare more than once, then rushed back to the front of the bus to amused, giggling friends.Yet, even when I was a child there was something in black people that drew me to them. Once, when I was five years old, I remember making my way over to the group of black men Daddy had hired to remove a stump from our front yard, and I watched and listened as they swung axes in fluid motion and moaned bluesy songs and swapped stories about women and drinking and going to jail. This was life so raw, so earthy, so uncushioned, yet so vibrant, so tenacious, so enduring. I was fascinated. Mama was not. She spotted me and told me to get inside.I was twelve years old the first time I witnessed physical violence against a black person. Elise Gauthier, my friend and classmate, and I rode the bus one December day in 1952 to Third Street to do our Christmas shopping. We were in seventh grade; everything was funny that year, and we had a grea...",biographies & memoirs;books;criminology;new;political science;politics & social sciences;social sciences;used & rental textbooks,8
1576832007,Parenting Without Perfection: Being a Kingdom Influence in a Toxic World lt;brgt;	John Seel is a writer  cultural analyst  educational reformer  and cultural renewal entrepreneur.  He is a Senior Fellow at the Work Research Foundation specializing in research on educational reform and cultural change.  He has served as a writer and viral marketing consultant to Walden Media.  He has a M.Div. from Covenant Theological Seminary and a Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Maryland (College Park).  He is an adjunct professor at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary.  John is the author of numerous books including Parenting Without Perfection (NavPress  2000) and Special Forces in Kingdom Service (Canon Press  2009).  He is a Contributing Editor for Critique and the Society for Classical Learning Journal.  He and his wife  Kathryn  live in Cohasset  MA.,books;christian books & bibles;christian living;inspirational;parenting;parenting & relationships;religion & spirituality;spirituality,8
B000GH3H3O,"The Myth of Ownership: Taxes and Justice ""The thoughts in this book deserve examination, especially the views of Nagel and Murphy on the self-interest each taxpayer reasonably has in the social justice purchased by hard-earned money....[They] offer ideas that would improve the national debate.""--David Cay Johnston,New York Times Book ReviewTheir research is impressive, their reasoning precise.... should be on every public economics reading list.""--Journal of Economic Issues	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	In a capitalist economy, taxes are the most important instrument by which the political system puts into practice a conception of economic and distributive justice. Taxes arouse strong passions, fueled not only by conflicts of economic self-interest, but by conflicting ideas of fairness. Taking as a guiding principle the conventional nature of private property, Murphy and Nagel show how taxes can only be evaluated as part of the overall system of property rights that they help to create. Justice or injustice in taxation, they argue, can only mean justice or injustice in the system of property rights and entitlements that result from a particular regime. Taking up ethical issues about individual liberty, interpersonal obligation, and both collective and personal responsibility, Murphy and Nagel force us to reconsider how our tax policy shapes our system of property rights.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",accounting;accounting & finance;books;business;education & reference;law;professional & technical;property,8
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0314411607,American Indian Law in a Nutshell (Nutshell Series) Arizona State University 	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.,administrative law;books;education & reference;law;law practice;reference;state & local government;urban,8
B000MZHWTA,"High-Impact Interview Questions: 701 Behavior-based Questions to Find the Right Person for Every Job Like many of the offerings from Amacom, the publishing arm of the American Management Association, High-Impact Interview Questions: 701 Behavior-based Questions to Find the Right Person for Every Job has a no-nonsense, practical bent. Focused on both the art and the science of effective job interviews, it's clearly intended as a manual for everyday use by hiring managers and human-resource professionals across a wide range of organizations. Author Victoria Hoevemeyer has worked for over 20 years in organizational development and leadership coaching from her home base of Illinois, and her expertise shows through in the direct, straightforward tone suffusing this book.    If the interactions between job seekers and job interviewers can resemble a cat-and-mouse game, with each group trying to outwit and to stay one step ahead of the other, High-Impact Interview Questions serves as recruiters' foil to the books popular with candidates, such as How Would You Move Mt. Fuji? and Best Answers to the 201 Most Frequently Asked Interview Questions . It opens by describing three different kinds of questions which dominate most modern job interviews: conventional questions (""What are your greatest strengths and weaknesses?""), situational questions (""How would you handle a crisis in which your boss asked you to do something that you considered unethical?""), and brainteaser questions (""Why are manhole covers round?""), and analyzes the shortcomings of each approach. These techniques for sorting good job candidates from bad are fundamentally flawed, according to Hoevemeyer, because they are far too predictable and artificial, and don't illuminate the qualities that actually make a difference to new employees' success.    Instead, Hoevemeyer advances a philosophy which she terms ""Competency-Based Behavioral Interviewing"" (CBBI). Her basic premise is that past performance is the best predictor of future performance, and that the more recent a particular behavior, the stronger of a predictor it will be. If you accept those assumptions, then much of what follows in the book's explanations of CBBI are highly logical.    The most valuable part of High-Impact Interview Questions is its extensive catalog of sample interview questions, grouped according to the underlying quality which they're meant to uncover. After introducing CBBI and showing how it ties specific and precise interview questions back to the functional competencies job seekers will need in a particular position, the book provides a very handy guide to sample questions which any interviewer can use. Interested in a candidate's decision-making ability? Try ""Describe a time you had to make a quick decision with incomplete information?"" How about attention to detail? For that, the book prescribes queries like, ""Tell me about a time when you caught an error that others had missed.""    Esoteric philosophical tome, this isn't. But for those job interviewers who believe in competency-based questions and want an efficient guide to learning about interviewees' true potential, this book is a worthwhile read. --Peter Han	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	""Tell me about a time..."" The words evoke a child's fairy-tale innocence. Yet when used by an interviewer, they can help to determine the suitability of a job candidate by eliciting real-world examples of behaviors and experience that can save you and your organization from making a bad hiring decision. High-Impact Interview Questions shows you how to use competency-based behavioral interviewing methods that will uncover truly relevant and useful information. By having applicants describe specific situations from their own experience during previous jobs (rather than asking them hypothetical questions about ""what would you do if...""), you'll be able to identify specific strengths and weaknesses that will tell you if you've found the right person for the job. But developing such behavior-based questions can be time-consuming and difficult. High-Impact Interview Questions saves you both time and effort. The book contains 701 questions you'll be able to use or adapt for your own needs, matched to 62 in-demand skills such as customer focus, motivation, initiative, adaptability, teamwork, and more.  It allows you to move immediately to the particular skills you want to measure, and quickly find just the right tough but necessary questions to ask during an interview. Asking behavior-based questions is by far the best way to discover crucial details about job candidates. High-Impact Interview Questions gives you the tools and guidance you need to gather this important information before you hire.""	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",books;business & investing;human resources & personnel management;industries & professions;interviewing;job hunting & careers;management;management & leadership,8
0253210852,"The Registration of Baroque Organ Music ""In this book, Barbara Owen has created a rich resource of historical information coupled with strategies for interpreting that information on today's instruments."" oJournal of the American Musical Instrument Society ""... Barbara Owen has succeeded admirably in distilling three centuries of organ registration practice into a volume less than three hundred pages long... Anyone with an interest in the history of the organ and its music ... will not want to ignore this book."" oSixteenth Century Journal ""It is rare to find a book that combines such careful scholarship with a practical focus that makes it accessible to performing musicians as well as research specialists."" oNotes ""An excellent volume from historical, musical style and interpretive standpoints. Highly recommended for all large academic and professional music collections."" Choice "" ... recommend this book to all serious organists."" oThe American Organist Magazine	Barbara Owen, an active lecturer, teacher,recitalist, and organ consultant, is Librarian of the Organ Library at Boston University and author of The Organ in New England, E. Power Biggs: Concert Organist, and articles in the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians and many organ journals. She is also co-author (with Peter Williams) of The Organ.",arts & photography;books;business;humor & entertainment;instruments;music;piano;woodwinds,8
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0595096107,"Death in America: Short Stories about Terminal Illness and Death Born on an Indiana farm in 1940, Robert Klassen started working in hospitals as a college student in 1963. He has been a respiratory therapist since 1968. Having seen much of death, he wrote these stories to help the living cope with this experience",anthologies;books;contemporary;genre fiction;literature & fiction;medical;short stories;single author,8
B000O173PU,"Should Never Have Been ""Beguiling Illusions"" describes the author's 10 years in a convent where she grew up overnight, having to make the decision to continue living in illusion or face reality.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	""Beguiling Illusions"" describes the author's 10 years in a convent where she grew up overnight, having to make the decision to continue living in illusion or face reality.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",biographies & memoirs;books;catholicism;christian books & bibles;church institutions & organizations;leaders & notable people;ministry & church leadership;religious,8
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0942617428,"World War I: The Rest of the Story and How It Affects You Today, 1870 to 1935 (Uncle Eric Book) Grade 9 Up-Maybury is a lecturer and geopolitical analyst. In a statement of disclosure, he expresses his disdain for objectivity, basing his viewpoint on Juris Naturalism, a belief that natural law is higher than any government. Clearly, his series offers a biased perspective. Utilizing an epistolary style of writing, he plays the role of an economist using letters to explain World War I to his nephew. He examines the causes, events, and effects of the conflict, discussing the nature of war and how it influences economics and society in general. There is no documentation for his views except for introducing readers to ""Uncle Eric's Model of How the World Works.""-L. R. Little, Penticton Public Library, British Columbia, CanadaCopyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Richard Maybury is a great author! In his two-volume world war series, 'World War II' along with the companion volume 'World War I', Maybury will give you a new perspective on wars and history, filled with facts of interest rarely mentioned elsewhere. 'Uncle Eric' writes succinctly and in a way to be understood. Highly, highly recommended! --Jim Cox, Author, The Concise Guide to Economics, Associate Professor, Georgia Perimeter College	Richard Maybury, also known as Uncle Eric, is a world renowned author, lecturer, and geopolitical analyst. He consults with business firms in the U.S. and Europe. Mr. Maybury is the former Global Affairs editor of Moneyworld and widely regarded as one of the finest free-market writers in America. Mr. Maybury's articles have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and other major publications. He has penned eleven books in the Uncle Eric series. His books have been endorsed by top business leaders, including former U.S. Treasury Secretary William Simon, and he has been interviewed on more than 250 radio and TV shows across America.",books;children's books;history;humanities;military;new;used & rental textbooks;world war i,8
1880985438,"I Need More With his collection of personal vignettes, I Want More,  Iggy Pop gives us a highly charged and stylized view into one of rock  music's more colorful and important characters. Ranging from a few  terse paragraphs to several pages, the book's sections chronicle the  patchwork of Iggy's early life, following Jimmy Osterberg as he makes  the complete transformation into Iggy Pop.    While detailing the escapades in his life and career up to the 80s,  Iggy's nakedly autobiographical style bridges the public view of the  rock innovator (first famous for rolling in glass onstage) with the  private man from Ann Arbor, Michigan, who swore that ""I will not  let myself disappear."" We see Iggy high on coke, stabbing himself  with drumsticks, and living through what most people can only read  about. But by the end of the book, Iggy has become more than a punk  rock icon; he has become a real person with a tangible history.    The anecdotes and philosophical musings in I Need More are  surrounded by a wide variety of black-and-white photographs as well as  lyrics from songs written throughout Iggy's rise to international  stardom. The photos are diverse, with baby photos of Jimmy Osterberg  and Iggy's first bands, The Iguanas and The Prime Movers, set next to  ones taken during Stooges years and during Pop's collaborations with  David Bowie. Many of the photos are live and candid, though there are  also a number of professional rock portraits familiar to Rolling  Stone readers.     I Need More provides an open, honest view into one musician's life  at the beginning of the punk rock movement, a musical and political period  both inspired and influenced by Iggy and his best band, The Stooges. The  book's raw prose manages to capture the excess and power that marked punk  rock's rebellion against the establishment, drove the Stooges' sound, and  propelled the man and the band to a rock-and-roll recklessness that had  been lost in popular music.",arts & literature;arts & photography;biographies & memoirs;books;composers & musicians;music;musical genres;rock,8
B000OI0G34,The Return: An Inspector Van Veeteren Mystery The mystery of a headless corpse . . . brings insight to the puzzle of human behavior. The New York Times Book ReviewForeboding. . . . A number of crime writers try to explore morality and motivation. . . . Nesser achieves more than most.Deseret NewsEvery bit enjoyably creepy as his previous offering.Entertainment WorldMystery fans should rejoice. Richmond Times-DispatchFrom the Trade Paperback edition.,books;kindle ebooks;kindle store;literature & fiction;mystery;police procedurals;thriller & suspense;world literature,8
0618340734,"Snobbery: The American Version Noted essayist and former American Scholar editor Epstein, having enlightened us on ambition (Ambition: The Secret Passion), now turns to its companion, snobbery. The topic is ripe with promise, but Epstein's observations are less revelatory than entertaining. Underneath their pretentious exteriors, he writes, snobs are insecure people who have latched onto arbitrary measures of status to prove they're worthier than those around them. It's natural fallout, he says, in a world where complete fairness is nonexistent. The best antidote to snobbery, Epstein suggests, is to treat people the same, regardless of their circumstances, and to value things for their intrinsic worth rather than their cachet. Epstein shares his own snobbish tendencies and biases at the outset. From childhood, he writes, his snob radar was fully operational, and by his senior year in high school he was already ""an impressively cunning statustician."" Epstein goes on to deal with a range of past and present pretensions relating to class, work, democracy, possessions, parenting, college, clubs and intellectualism. In one delicious instance, he describes an American reaction to visiting royalty. ""Princess Diana, not long before she died, visited Northwestern University, where I teach,"" he writes. ""The spectacle of the university president, a smallish man in glasses, following the Princess about the campus, yapping away, reminded one of nothing so much as that of a Chihuahua attempting to mount an Afghan hound."" The chapter on name-dropping is particularly sharp, citing a variety of ways people exploit connections to well-known individuals for social profit. Epstein has a wickedly wonderful sense of humor and keen observational skills, both on display in the firsthand anecdotes scattered throughout this essayistic assemblage. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	This readable but serious work examines the nature and place of  snobbery and its various manifestations in America, from the  country's founding to the present. Epstein (English & writing,  Northwestern Univ.) defines snobbery as the practice of making  oneself feel superior at the expense of others and argues that  as long as people are seeking self-affirmation, it will long  live on. He writes of snobbery in the workplace; of its presence  in evaluating education, taste, dress, wealth, and race as  factors in determining ""class"" inclusion; and of the snob  factors involved in ranking one's status and prestige in all  walks of life and situations. He identifies celebrity-level  requirements in today's world, compares his own snobberies with  those he discerns in others, and overviews Americans'  interactions with the cultures of England and the European  continent. While Epstein's argument is quite witty and  thoughtful, the scant bibliographic references and  conversational tone will limit this book's appeal in academic  libraries. It is, however, highly recommended for all general  readers and public libraries. Suzanne W. Wood, SUNY Coll. of  Technology, Alfred    Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Man-of-letters Epstein does precisely what a reader hopes for with a topic as prickly yet slippery as snobbery: he grasps it firmly, holds it under a bright light, and merrily dissects it. Believing that snobbery didn't come into its own until the advent of democracy and an insecure, in-flux society, Epstein traces the evolution of American snobbery with the help of various novelists, ""our keenest sociologists,"" and entertaining confessions of his own snobbishness. He wittily defines downward- and upward-snobbery, reverse snobbery, ""with-it"" snobbery, and the fuzzy alignment of taste and social class; analyzes the fall of the WASP aristocracy; and observes the way children have become the favorite game pieces in the perpetual tournament for bragging rights. Epstein also takes on the ""snobbery of intellectuals"" and political snobbery, coining the word virtucrats for those who believe that their views are not only correct but also morally superior. Every bracing page is a mirror in which readers can't help but recognize themselves, and each offers a quotable quip--""Snobbery, like bacteria, is everywhere""--and much to think about. Donna SeamanCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	""[SNOBBERY is] like a chorus line of wonderful observational one-liners . . . All these gems add up to a fun and funny read."" --Joan O'C. Hamilton Business Week""[SNOBBERY] is a captivating jeu d'esprit of a book, one that brims over with illuminating perceptions . . ."" --Daphne Merkin Elle""It's hard to criticize a writer who can make you laugh out loud on every third page . . ."" --Martha Bayles The New York Times Book Review""[E]ngaging . . . Epstein [is] one of America's best essayists . . ."" --Richard Stengal Time Magazine"". . . [W]onderfully engaging . . . marvelous . . ."" --David Brooks The Wall Street Journal"". . . [Epstein] has a wickedly wonderful sense of humor and keen observational skills . . ."" Publishers Weekly""A deliciously readable analysis of the origins of snobbery and its myriad cultural manifestations . . ."" Harper's Bazaar	JOSEPH EPSTEIN is the author of the best-selling Snobbery and of Friendship, among other books, and was formerly editor of the American Scholar. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harpers Magazine, the Atlantic Monthly, and other magazines. He lives in Evanston, Illinois.	1 It Takes One to Know OneRather than imply his superiority to his subject, the author of a  book about snobbery ought to set out, fairly briefly, his own  experience of snobbery. He ought to let his readers know if he has  been a victim of snobbery, and of the sorts of snobbery to which he  is susceptible, to allow them to judge his own relationship to the  subject.   Perhaps the best way for me to begin, then, is to explain my  social origins. These are a bit complicated. They seem to have been  culturally lower middle class but with middle- and, later, upper- middle-class financial backing. Neither of my parents went to  college. My father, growing up in Canada, in fact never finished high  school; my mother took what was then known as the commercial course  at John Marshall (public) High School in Chicago. They were both  Jewish, but, against the positive stereotype of Jews loving culture  and things of the mind, my parents had almost no cultural interests  apart from occasionally going to musical comedies or, in later years,  watching the Boston Pops on television. Magazines  Life, Look, later  Time  and local newspapers came into our apartment, but no books. I  dont recall our owning an English dictionary, though both my parents  were well spoken, always grammatical and jargon-free.   Politics was not a great subject of family conversation. The  behavior of our extended family and neighbors, money, my fathers  relations with customers at his business, these made up the main  conversational fare  unspeculative, nonhypothetical, all very  specific. Education was another subject of little interest; no time  was spent, say, discussing the differences between Amherst and  Williams colleges, for the good reason that neither of my parents had  ever heard of such places.   My father, I believe, hadnt a speck of snobbery. It would  not have occurred to him to want to rise socially in the world, and  the only people he looked down upon  apart from crooks of one kind  or another  were people who seemed to be without the ambition to  take measured risks in business. We had a distant cousin who was a  lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army, and my father was baffled by the  notion of a Jewish man settling for a career in the regular army. It  pleased my father to give ample sums to charities (many of them  Jewish charities) and, in later years, to travel to foreign  countries  once, with my mother, to Paris on the Concorde and back  from London on the QE2. Above all, it pleased him to have made enough  money to help out his family and be able to establish his financial  independence, which he did at the age of seventeen. But he barely  acknowledged the social realm in which snobbery takes place. For him  the world of status, where style, rank, and social climbing were  central, was a mystery he felt no need to fathom.   My mother, though no snob either, had a greater awareness of  snobbery. She was on the alert for snobberies used against her, and  could be vulnerable to them. In her friendships she sought out women  who were goodhearted, for she was goodhearted and generous herself.  She also had an unashamed taste for what, by her standard, passed for  luxe, which meant driving big cars (Cadillacs), owning lavish  furniture, dressing well (furs, expensive dresses, Italian shoes,  jewelry). She was made a bit nervous by people who had more money  than she, and tended to arrange her social life among people who were  her financial equals or inferiors. But I never saw my mother  or my  father  commit a single socially mean act: I never saw them fawn  over anyone better off than they, or put down anyone beneath them for  reasons one would think to call snobbish.   Why, then, did the eldest of their two sons, the author of  this book, have so keen a sense, almost from the outset of his  consciousness, of the various arrangements that make for snobbery:  social class, money, taste, religion, admired attainments, status of  all kinds. As a small boy, I sensed who was richer than whom, noted  people who lived more grandly and more poorly than we, immediately  grasped what excited the envy of others, felt stirrings of incipient  envy of my own. Where this came from I cannot even now say, but it  was, beyond argument, in place. Nor, to this day, has it ever left me.   When men gathered in my parents apartment to talk about  world affairs, I could not help noticing that the wealthier ones  generally did most of the talking, or at least talked most  authoritatively and were listened to most closely. A pleasant man  named Sam Cowling, living in the apartment building next to ours, was  a comedian on a popular radio show called The Breakfast Club, and  this, clearly, lent him a certain allure. Moneey and celebrity, I  early recognized, counted for quite a bit in the world. Some work in  life carried greater prestige than other work  as in baseeeeeball,  shortstop was a more admired position than second base, and in  football, quarterback was more admired than interior lineman.   In grammar school I was able to arrange to play both  shortstop and quarterback. I also became a fair tennis player, a  sport with all sorts of interesting connections to snobbery, from its  then country-club settings to its emphasis on stylishness, which  tends to vaunt appearance over reality  a phenomenon at the heart of  much snobbery.   I went to a high school where status was spelled out with a  brute clarity I have not since encountered elsewhere. At Nicholas  Senn High School on the North Side of Chicago, status was at least as  carefully calibrated as at the court of the Sun King at Versailles,  though the food was less good and the clothing nowhere near so  elegant. The school had roughly fifty clubs, fraternities, and  sororities for boys and for girls, each with its own colorful  jackets. Some had Greek-letter names  Alpha, Beta, Delta; some had  the names of animals, real and mythological  Ravens, Condors,  Gargoyles; some had names with aristocratic shadings  Dukes,  Majestics, Imperials, Gentry; some had neologisms for names   Raynors, Chiquitas, Fidels, Iaetas. But each club, each fraternity  and sorority had a social character that was distinct and apparent to  the student body: this club represented the best athletes, this  sorority the cutest girls, this fraternity the most fearsome thugs,  this the dreariest nerds (science bores, we called them).   It didnt take me long  perhaps a couple of months at the  outside  to decode all these groups with their various social  gradations. Because I had in those days a superficial charm that  allowed me to make friends easily, I was soon invited to join the  best of the clubs and fraternities, which meant those whose members  were among the best athletes and most socially fluent of the schools  male students. The ease with which I was able to do this may have  left me a touch jaded. Sufficiently so, at any rate, so that during  my senior year in high school I was invited to join a boys honor  society called Green & White and turned it down, perhaps the first  boy in the history of the school to do so. I didnt want it, I didnt  need it, and, besides, I understood that turning it down would confer  greater status upon me than accepting it. From a fairly early age,  then, I was a fairly cunning statustician.   Because I was not an uninterested student, and because my  family had no knowledge of the social and financial implications of  attending the better American colleges and universities  which for  snobbish reasons remain, I believe, considerable  I went to the  University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana, which in those days had,  for residents of the state, an open-enrollment policy and low fees.  Illinois turned out to be one of the most Greek  that is, most  fraternity- and sorority-ridden  campuses in the United States. With  my small talent for making myself acceptable, I arranged to be  invited to join the best Jewish fraternity on campus. (And let me add  that  with a feeling of slight shame cannot shake off even now, more  than forty years later  I left behind my two best friends, who were  not invited to join the same fraternity.) I italicize the word Jewish  not only because the fraternitys membership was exclusively made up  of Jews, but because fraternities and sororities during the middle  1950s were strictly segregated by religion, with almost all Gentile  fraternities and sororities not accepting Jews and some not  permitting Catholics to become members.   Here I ought to underscore that my being Jewish may well have  increased my sensitivity to the realm of snobbery. Although an  agnostic in religion, my father was keen on sniffing out anti- Semitism, having lived with a great deal of it among the Quebecois in  Montreal when he was a boy and then through the nightmare that Hitler  created during World War Two. One of his few repeated and heavily  emphasized lessons to me was to be on the qui vive for anti-Semitism,  which could crop up anywhere. People might hate you, he said, for  no better reason than your name. Be careful. Stay on the alert. Anti- Semitism may itself be the first and perhaps the longest lasting and  most virulent form of snobbery, though when stepped up to the level  of pogroms, not to say genocide, it becomes, like racism, something  much greater than mere snobbery.   Given all this, I never found myself much upset by the  religious segregation practiced in the Middle West in the years I  grew up there. That Jews were not wanted in Gentile fraternities at  the University of Illinois was not in the least troubling to me.  Jewish snobbishness of its own, reinforced by Jewish chauvinism,  doubtless kicked in (who needs them!), but I never felt it a serious  social deprivation not to be able to join any fraternity or country  club, or even live in certain then Judenrein, or restricted,  neighborhoods or suburbs in and around Chicago, of which there were  quite a few.   I soon became bored by this fraternity and what seemed to me  its rather patheti...",books;customs & traditions;essays;essays & correspondence;literature & fiction;politics & social sciences;social sciences;sociology,8
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0765344637,"Sims In a world in a time frame parallel to our own, the bioengineering firm SimGen, run by two brothers with a dirty secret, has created the biological equivalent of robots: simians who are genetically altered to become servile apes smarter and more capable than chimps but still subhuman. Sims work in jobs often deemed degrading by humans. They are leased out by SimGen and sent back to the company when they ""go D... defective, disabled, diseased or decrepit"" (rules reminiscent of US Robotics and Mechanical Men Corporation's policy on robots in Isaac Asimov's pioneering SF about robots (I, Robot, etc.). In this first novella of a proposed series, one group of sims has hired a lawyer, Patrick Sullivan, to defend their right to be a family. Sexually inactive, sims' only family comes from workmates, but as they are legally considered property their lessees can trade them at any time, just like slaves. Wilson's novella is all setup and promises. Just when the reader is fully clasped in the anticipatory grip of a good battle and the revelation of sinister deeds, the book ends. It's too early to tell how Wilson's new series will pan out, but if it fulfills the promise of its first installment, readers should be satisfied both emotionally and morally. (Sept.) Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	SimGen is one of the most powerful corporations in the world, thanks to their monopoly on their one product, a laboratory-created species between chimpanzee and human. Created solely for slave labor, the Sims are leased like property to employers all over the world. The anti-exploitation voices have gone largely unheeded until a small group of Sims wants to unionize and the ""product"" finds a new ally in the form of Patrick Sullivan, an attorney specializing in labor and management issues. SimGen and its shadowy, powerful network of investors rush in to stop Sullivan, and the jousting quickly escalates into all-out war. Wilson will lose no fans with this novel and will undoubtedly gain many new ones. His latest offering is full of action and suspense that will quickly hook the reader, for elements of mystery are woven in as well. Clues and misdirection suggest a number of possibilities, but Wilson's novel is full of rewarding surprises. Gavin QuinnCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Praise for Sims:From a stew of greed, biomilitary secrets, and genetic engineering, he has created a Frankenstein for our era.""David Morrell""As a timely warning of what we mustn't do, where we mustn't go, this is a must read.""--Brian LumleyCreepy, satisfying. . . . Each section adds intrigue, portents of doom and layers to the characters  good and bad. While he neatly ties up all the loose ends in his frighteningly possible world, Wilson offers no simple answers.Publishers WeeklyWilson turns some pretty good phrases . . . [and] keeps the intrigue up nicely.The Union-Tribune [San Diego, CA]""[Wilson uses] his medical background to create a memorable plot . . . . grippingly detailed [and] credible.--Kirkus Reviews (starred review)Sims does what good a narrative should do: it provides an interesting and suspenseful story involving characters deserving of the spotlight shone upon them. And for this reviewer, at least, the novel does something equally important: it encourages the reader to think.The Laissez Faire Electronic TimesF. Paul Wilson is a writer's writer, and I grab anything he's written with enthusiasm. Sims is no different.--Joe R. Lansdale	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	F. Paul Wilson, a New York Times bestselling author of horror, adventure, medical thrillers, science fiction, and virtually everything in between, is a practicing physician who resides in Wall, New Jersey.	IWESTCHESTER COUNTY, NYSEPTEMBER 20A good walk spoiled, Patrick Sullivan thought as he trudged toward the rough where his slicing golf ball had disappeared. Somebody had got that right.Patrick didn't actually hate golf, but he suffered from a condition he'd come to call GADD--Golf Attention Deficit Disorder. Nine holes and he'd had it. Maybe that was because during his first nine holes he racked up more strokes than most golfers did in eighteen. But today he was playing with Ben Armstrong, CFO of the Jarman department store chain and a valued client, who, although even less skillful than Patrick on the links, seemed immune to GADD.Maybe it was the clothes. Armstrong, a florid-faced fellow in his sixties, sporting a neat goatee the same steel-gray shade as his hair, had decked himself out in a blue-and-raspberry-striped shirt, raspberry pants, and white golf shoes. Patrick wasn't into sherbet shades; he wore a white shirt, navy slacks, and tan shoes.Golf or not, he was having a good walk on a bright September day among the luxuriously verdant rolling hills of upper Westchester where the Beacon Ridge club nestled its links. The air was redolent of fresh-mown grass and money.Christ, he wanted into this place. Not so much for the golf, but because golf was such a great way to do business.Like today. Armstrong, a club member, had asked Patrick out for a twosome. Wanted to get caught up on the upcoming negotiations with the salesclerk union. Patrick's specialty was labor law, and though he worked both sides, lately he'd found himself billing more and more hours to the management end.Beacon Ridge was packed with heavies like Armstrong. A goldmine of potential clients and billable hours. Patrick's firm loved billable hours--little else mattered at Payes  Hecht--and if he could tap into this mother lodeA sudden screech from ahead and to his left drew his attention. His caddie was pointing at the ground. ""Here, sir, here! I find! Here!""""Good eye, Nabb,"" Patrick said as he walked over.""Yessir,"" Nabb said, his head bobbing as he grinned broadly at the praise. ""Good eye, good eye.""Typical of the Beacon Ridge caddies, Nabb was an average size sim, about five-three, maybe 130 pounds; he sported a little more facial hair than most sims. Armstrong's caddie, Deek, was a bit different--beefier, and seemed taller, although that might be due to better posture. They looked like hominids yanked from the Stone Age and wrestled into the Beacon Ridge caddie uniform of lime green shirt and white pants, but they moved with a certain grace despite their slightly bowed legs.Beacon Ridge had introduced sim caddies a couple of years ago, the first golf club in the country to do so. Caused quite a stir at the time, but the club members seemed to enjoy the status of being pioneers in the transgenic revolution. Other clubs soon followed suit, but Beacon Ridge remained famous for being the first. By now sims were practically part of the scenery around the links.""Come on, movie star!"" Armstrong called from the green. ""You can do it!""Movie staron their first meeting he'd said Patrick reminded him of Axel Sommers, the latest digital heartthrob. Patrick figured Armstrong needed glasses. Sure, they both had blue eyes and slightly wavy blond hair, but Sommers looked just a little too pretty for comfort.Patrick waved and turned to Nabb. ""Let me have the five wood.""The sim's dark brown eyes shifted between the ball nestled in the rough against a broad-leafed weed, and the green a hundred yards away atop a slope. ""Seven better, sir.""""That five's especially made for rough""--Christ knows I'm in it enough--""and this is as rough as it gets.""Nabb pulled out the seven and handed it to him. ""Five too far, sir.""""What makes you think you know my game?"" Patrick said, trying to keep his annoyance out of his tone. He'd take golf advice from just about anyone, even a sim, but he knew his own limitations. ""This is the first time you've caddied for me.""Nabb watch Mist Sulliman before.""""Really?"" He didn't get to play here all that often. How could this creature know his game?The sim thrust the iron forward. ""Seven.""Patrick snatched the club. ""Okay. We'll do it your way. But if--I should say, when--it falls short and rolls back down that hill, I'm gonna have your hide.""Nabb said nothing, simply stepped back to give Patrick room.Patrick took two practice swings, stepped up to the ball, and whacked it. The ball sailed high, sailed straight, and plopped out of sight somewhere atop the slope.Armstrong started clapping. ""Nice shot! Less than a dozen feet from the |hole!""Patrick turned to Nabb and had to laugh when he saw the huge grin on the sim's apelike face. ""Don't say you told me so!""""Nev say, sir. Just want Mist Sulliman win.""Wants the nonmember to win? Odd. But who could figure what went on in an animal's head.Patrick one-putted and birdied the hole--an event rare enough to warrant a victory jig, but he resisted. Armstrong's caddie seemed as pleased as Nabb.As they strolled toward the next tee, Patrick noticed swelling and bruising around Deek's right eye.""What happened to you?""""Bump door, sir.""""Deek ver clums,"" Nabb said. ""Always bump self. Not watch where go.""""Quit jawing with the help, Patty,"" Armstrong said. He laughed. ""Next thing you know you'll be trying to unionize them.""Nabb dropped Patrick's golf bag.""Sorry, sir,"" he said as he knelt to gather up the clubs. ""Sometime Nabb too ver clums.""Copyright  2003 by F. Paul Wilson",books;high tech;literature & fiction;mystery;science fiction;science fiction & fantasy;thriller & suspense;thrillers,8
0446605212,"Threshold A science thriller, Threshold features a face-off between Dr.  Jason Waters, the founder of the DNA-researching Tucsome Project, and Jeremy Ross, a young and brilliant Ph.D. Their scientific and investigative paths cross when Secretary of Defense Warren T. Walker is found dead with gouge wounds to his face, apparently by his own hand. When Ross, working with the CIA, discovers that Waters has pilfered $60 billion to unlock the source of DNA coding, a showdown ensues that leads to an explosive climax.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	""Do you know what we call a man with a perfect genome?"" asks the villain of Mezrich's first novel. ""We call that man God."" Yes, yet another mad scientist is on the loose, but that cliche and the sketchiness of other characters here don't obscure the author's clever handling of the issues raised by his topical theme of genetic engineering, or his impressively intricate plotting. Jeremy Ross, a brilliant fourth-year medical student, finds himself investigating the mysterious death of the U.S. secretary of defense at the behest of the deceased's daughter, Robin Kelly, Jeremy's former lover. Jeremy's search leads him to Tucsome, a classified research center in South Carolina. There, scientists have found a way to accelerate the genetic mapping of human DNA, with deadly implications. Jeremy soon learns of massive cover-ups, several murders and billions of dollars funneled into a project that threatens human life as we know it. This potboiling stew of thriller throwaways tastes of Crichton and Cook, though without the former's cool control or the latter's antic energy. Mezrich writes fast-moving prose that will hook readers, and he knows how to make science suspenseful. But an absurdly melodramatic climax featuring the hero and heroine, that mad scientist, ravenous wolves and assault by gun, test tube, baseball bat and liquid nitrogen finally marks Mezrich, who's in his mid-20s, as a writer of some talent but, as yet, of only limited craft. 100,000 first printing; $100,000 ad/promo; author tour; foreign rights sold to Japan, Spain, Holland, Germany and Bulgaria; U.K., translation, first serial, dramatic rights: Garon-Brooke. Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Secretary of Defense Walker dies before he can announce dramatic budget cuts. Believing that he was murdered, his daughter, Robin, asks former boyfriend Jeremy Ross for help. Jeremy, a fourth-year medical student with an extraordinary grounding in genetics and other sciences, follows evidence to a top-secret, government-funded genetic research project called Threshold, located in South Carolina. Jeremy infiltrates the operation, while Robin attempts to get the CIA involved. With their lives in danger at every moment, the pair evades the deadly and ubiquitous U.S. Special Security Operations agents to stop the release of genetic matter that could alter the human race forever. Unfortunately, the suspension-of-disbelief ""threshold"" is too high in this unevenly written first novel. Most libraries can pass.?V. Louise Saylor, Eastern Washington Univ. Lib., CheneyCopyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Twenty-seven-year-old Mezrich makes a bid for Grisham-level success with this flimsy thriller featuring a mad scientist bent on creating a master race--though cardboard characters and a predictable plot keep getting in his way. Jeremy Ross is happily immersed in the chaotic life of a fourth-year medical student at New York City Hospital on the night that Robin Kelly, a former girlfriend when the two were at Dartmouth, drops into the emergency room to ask for his help. Robin--tearful, terrified, yet lovely as ever--confides to Jeremy her suspicion that the recent death of her father, Secretary of Defense Warren T. Walker, was the result of foul play. She wants Jeremy to steal a copy of her father's death certificate and tell her what he thinks. Dazzled by Robin's beauty, the 24-year-old genetics enthusiast performs as asked--and what he finds makes him wonder whether someone could have introduced a deadly virus into Walker's cells. Jeremy's concern--along with evidence that Robin is indeed being threatened with murder--leads him to the Tucsome Project for Genetic Research, a facility funded largely by the Defense Department, and one that Walker was known to have visited. Enlisting as an intern at the Project, Jeremy investigates the recent death of a researcher with whom Walker had had contact; snoops into the secret activities of charismatic lab director and genetics genius Jason Waters; and wonders about the horrifically disabled children under study at the facility's adjoining hospital. It's hardly surprising that Walker's death turns out to have been genetically engineered--but the murder of a government official is only the tip of the iceberg here, as Jeremy learns while fighting his own nightmares and trying to protect his former love. TV-level melodrama on a big-screen budget. (First printing of 100,000; $100,000 ad/promo; author tour) -- Copyright 1996, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Somebody should option it for the movies. -- The New York Times Book Review, Colin Harrison	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;contemporary;literature & fiction;mystery;spy stories & tales of intrigue;technothrillers;thriller & suspense;thrillers,8
0613511115,"Hidden Secrets: A Complete History Of Espionage And The Technology Used To Support It (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) The handsomely illustrated Hidden Secrets: A Complete History of Espionage and the Technology Used to Support It spotlights the most dashing figures in the annals of spy craft, such as George Washington's double agent, John Honeyman, who convinced British army officers at Trenton they had nothing to worry about, or Richard Sorge, the WWII Russian spy who was able to befriend Goebbels. Science journalist David Owen (Hidden Evidence) offers an introduction to the history of intelligence gathering, focusing mainly on European and American espionage in the last two centuries. Along with the big names, he lovingly details the big gadgets from the Enigma machine to today's reconnaissance aircraft. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	This is a compelling overview of the history of espionage that features abundant color photographs and illustrations. The book is aimed at those who are fascinated with intelligence but as yet unfamiliar with its techniques, strategies, and equipment. Owen divides his subject up according to standard sources of secret information: human agents, coded or enciphered transmissions, electronic emissions, and overhead reconnaissance. While relating the basic background of four dozen case studies, from George Washington's spy operations to the Cambridge Five to recent exposures of turncoats in the CIA and the FBI, Owen impresses readers with the difficulties of infiltrating and running human spies. Protecting them and securing their communications comes under the ""tradecraft"" that is Owen's reigning theme. An eye-catching introduction to the ""wilderness of mirrors"" that is intelligence. Gilbert TaylorCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Succeeds admirably as a good overview ... well worth reading for its entertaining and enriching value. (Kurt F. Jensen bout de papier 2002-01-00)Cipher machines, miniature cameras, U2 spy planes, and surveillance satellites are just a few of the tools of the trade Owen explains in his fascinating narrative ... Hidden Secrets is the most up-to-date introduction to the world of espionage now available and is recommended to all public libraries. (Jim Doyle Library Journal 2002-04-01)This is a compelling overview of the history of espionage that features abundant color photographs and illustrations ... A thorough, sometimes dark, history, outstanding for both war and gadget buffs. (Gilbert Taylor Booklist 2002-04-01)Owen details all aspects of intelligence and information techniques employed during the past 100 years. The book is loaded with pictures and illustrations. (Science News 2002-04-01)A fascinating review of the history of espionage ... hundreds of color photographs and illustrations. (Cryptologia 2004-10-00)The book is packed with useful, informative, and interesting illustrations. (Lorien Foote American Reference Book Annual 2003-01-00)	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	David Owen is the author of the best-selling book, Hidden Evidence. A graduate in engineering, David moved from the aerospace industry into scientific writing and journalism. His works include publications on military deception and air accident investigations plus radio and television documentaries on electronic intelligence and computer crime.     Antonio J. Mendez was a CIA Intelligence Officer for over twenty-five years working undercover around the world and creating disguises and identities for other CIA agents. In 1997 Mendez was one of only 50 CIA officers to be awarded the Trailblazer Medallion. Mr. Mendez is a consultant to the International Spy Museum opening in Washington D.C. this year.  	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Introduction      People involved in espionage or, to be more correct, the intelligence services often like to say that theirs is the world's second oldest profession. Whether or not it can claim such a title is arguable. What is beyond dispute is that trying to steal the secret ideas, plans or capabilities of an actual or potential adversary, which is what espionage amounts to, can be traced to the very beginnings of human society. Soldiers, whose business is also one of the world's oldest professions, have always yearned to know what lies over the hill. Hidden in dead ground, secure from their sight, does the enemy have a strongpoint, reserves of men or materiel, or a potentially fatal weakness that cries out to be exploited? Information like that can be worth diamonds by the bucketload, often providing the opportunity to change the outcome of a battle or shorten a campaign and save countless lives.    Even in times of             international tension rather than real war, spies deal in potentially vital information. When countries are embroiled in negotiating treaties or arguing over claims to disputed territory, knowledge of a competitor's true negotiating position confers a priceless advantage. Any diplomat who is aware of his opposite number's ultimate fallback position is in the happy situation of a poker player who has glimpsed his opponent's hand. With facts like that at one's disposal, the rest is pure ritual and face-saving protocol. The outcome, in terms of power politics, is effectively already decided.    Yet, espionage and the information it generates have presented one problem, almost from the very beginning. In terms of human intelligence gatherers, who is the real spymaster? Is the agent who returns from enemy country really telling you what you need to know, or what your adversary wants you to believe? Even where inanimate forms of espionage, like signals, communications or              image intelligence, are involved, a wide range of deceptions can be used to produce a false picture with the information.    This double-edged nature of the espionage weapon is one of the main reasons why spy stories retain their fascination in an increasingly sophisticated technological world. The idea of the double, triple or even multiple agent creates an image of shadowy half-truths and clever guessing games upon which hang terrible consequences. If an agent is suspected of working for the other side, the benefits from turning the tables on those who really employ him far outweigh the damage-limitation priorities of catching him and cutting off the channel of tainted information he represents.    By feeding the double agent with false information, you can reassure the enemy that he or she is doing an effective job, allowing them to relax in the belief that their true secrets remain hidden. In reality, the information the spy takes back to              them represents what you want them to believe, while the planted information brought to you offers a priceless clue to what the enemy wants to hide. Unwittingly, the double agent has become a triple agent, and the true value of the information carried back and forth is switched between the two opposing sides.    Seen in this objective manner, the trade of the spy may appear to be a simple matter of searching for information and sending it or carrying it back to whoever controls the network of agents to which each spy usually belongs. In human terms, though, the cost of espionage is appallingly high. For reasons that vary from genuine ideological conviction or hatred of the target country to a greed for money or power, the spy is always under threat of exposure, capture and disgrace, with the prospect of a long prison sentence or even execution in the offing. To avoid these terrifying eventualities, he or she must trust no one and must learn to live a cover story              to the full. Not for them are the normal compensations of career, family life and friendships, save under the most carefully controlled circumstances.    Even when the work is done, and the agent is pulled out of the front line to enjoy a well-deserved retirement in a country grateful for his or her efforts, the blessings can be mixed. Usually the host country is not one in which they were born or spent most of their lives, since the best agents are native to the societies where they trawl for information and where they can merge without detection. A country that was the focus of their loyalty and the source of their protection during the tense operational years may be less inviting as a home without a job, in an alien society that often speaks a different language, even though their continued loyalty is not in question.    In the wider espionage picture, agents continue to play an important role, even though now the major discoveries tend to              be made by more technologically based techniques. A human agent can reveal secrets that the most sophisticated intelligence gathering systems would not pick up. These may include the intentions of a nation's leaders in a particular campaign or crisis, the existence of dissident groups or individuals who could be recruited as additional agents to widen the sources of information, and shifts in public attitudes that may be significant at times of heightened tension.    Nevertheless, today traditional spies have to earn their keep in an immeasurably more complex and capable world than their predecessors. Since the invention of radio and radar, reconnaissance and intelligence gathering aircraft and satellites, and systems for intercepting and decrypting communications, the secrets revealed by the most successful of human agents contribute to a much wider and more detailed picture assembled from all these varied sources.    Different chapters of              this book are devoted to SIGINT (signal intelligence, obtained from the interception and decrypting of messages, and the analysis of traffic), ELINT (electronic intelligence, involving remote sensors and traffic surveillance), FALSE INTELLIGENCE (employing deception, subversion, misinformation and the use of double agents) and IMINT (image intelligence, including video intelligence and airborne information gathering using technology like infrared line-scan -- IRLS -- and satellite surveillance.    This book encompasses all the aspects of intelligence and information gathering, and the efforts that countries and their counter intelligence organizations employ to keep their secrets safe from prying eyes. Yet, there remains one positive aspect of espionage, which can act across national boundaries and help to make the world a little safer. So many wars have broken out because one nation misunderstood another's capability, attitude or intention. At one time,              revealing hidden secrets could convince a potential aggressor that an attack was feasible. Later, in the context of the Cold War, the balance of terror required that both East and West remained in no doubt at all of the opposition's ability to ensure MAD -- Mutual Assured Destruction -- and thereby deter the pressing of the nuclear button. In this respect, the value of the spy as a channel of communication to prevent fear of a preemptive strike was supreme, and reluctantly acknowledged by both sides.    Today, with a greater number of less powerful potential adversaries, perhaps the place of the agent and the secrets that remain the target of his or her operations have reverted to the espionage traditions of the past. The world of 21st-century espionage, examined in the closing chapter, is challenging and so far largely unpredictable. Yet, one factor is certain -- revealing the hidden secrets of tomorrow will continue to engage the best minds and the bravest              agents, who will be faced with the most determined efforts of those who guard them. For the second oldest profession, the future promises to be every bit as busy as its long, varied and colorful past.  	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;canada;history;intelligence & espionage;military;science & math;technology;teens,8
0761946179,"Developing Learning Communities Through Teacher Expertise ""There are many books on the market covering school improvement and teachers as experts as well as staff development; however, this book is concise, provides excellent templates, and is backed by real experiences and expertise. (Suzanne C. Fonoti, Principal )No book I have read in the past ten years has made clearer to me the difference between what I am doing as a professional developer and what I should be doing. It is so unremittingly honest about the difficulty of our work, and yet so rich in practical examples that I cannot help but feel inspired to move forward and change the way I teach and learn with teachers. (Richard W. Strong, Vice President )""This book will benefit all teachers who are interested in professional growth and development, even if their schools might not yet be considered 'larning organizations.' One committed teacher could spark interest in developing a learning community that would enrich the entire school, and this book provides a basic introduction to that process."" (NSTA Recommends, November 2004 )	Giselle Martin-Kniep is a teacher educator, researcher, program evaluator, and writer. She is the President of Learner-Centered Initiatives, Ltd., an educational consulting organization specializing in comprehensive regional and school-based curriculum and assessment work. She is also the CEO of the Center for the Study of Expertise in Teaching and Learning, an organization committed to the discovery and dissemination of teacher expertise.  Dr. Martin-Kniep has a strong background in organizational change and has graduate degrees in communication and development, social sciences in education, and educational evaluation from Stanford University. She has taught at Adelphi University, the University of British Columbia, and the University of Victoria. In the last fourteen years, she has worked with hundreds of schools and districts nationally and internationally in the areas of alternative assessment, standards-based design, school change, and action research.  Dr. Martin-Kniep has written extensively. Her most recent books are Why Am I Doing This: Purposeful Teaching with Portfolio Assessment, published by Heinemann; Capturing the Wisdom of Practice: Portfolios for Teachers and Administrators; and Becoming a Better Teacher: Eight Innovations that Work both published by ASCD.",books;education;education & reference;instruction methods;new;pedagogy;schools & teaching;used & rental textbooks,8
B000EHQ7F6,"Bossa N' Stones 2 A second volume of 12 all-time Rolling Stones classics set to seductive electro-bossa. Bossa N' Stones 2 maintains the attraction and the distinction of its predecessor yet ups the ante by increasing the subtlety of these hits with inspired musical arrangements and a fresh sound concept. After the success of the first volume (which has already gone platinum), Volume 2 presents early hits like 'I'm Free', 'As Tears Go By' and 'Paint It, Black', as well as the major 70's numbers like 'Tumbling Dice', 'It's Only Rock N' Roll' and 'Emotional Rescue'. The album reaches forward into the 80's with 'Mixed Emotions', one of the highlights of the disc. Once again, a number of musicians from different latitudes have joined forces to bring a different perspective and have created a must-have album for all who enjoy really great music.",classic rock;dance & electronic;jazz;latin music;music;pop;rock;world music,8
074349783X,"Sineater This grim, claustral story is about the consequences of a primitive form of Christianity practiced in the mountains of Virginia, the author's home state. The sineater is a man shunned by all, a man whose face should never be seen. He performs the valuable service of absorbing all the sins of each person who dies, by eating ritual food laid out on their corpses. When the sineater's son, Joel, is allowed to attend school, a series of  violent omens convinces the fanatic locals that God is punishing them and that  Judgment Day is nigh. As Joel searches for the real perpetrator of the crimes,  along with other adolescents who reluctantly listen to him, the plot (the  weakest part of the book) begins to resemble a wandering sort of whodunit. The  focus of the novel, though, is on the well-evoked mood of fear and despair.  Elizabeth Massie works her horror effects with an intimate approach, closing in  on her characters as if she's trapping them. And her descriptions do justice to  the rustic setting, where people live in four-room cabins and honeysuckle winds  around the knotty rails of the fences. Sineater won a Bram Stoker Award for First Novel in 1993. Massie also won  a Stoker for her novella Stephen, published in the first Borderlands anthology. As Tom Monteleone writes in Borderlands 3,  Massie wields a subtle power that rips at your emotions with velvet  claws. --Fiona Webster 	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Winner of England's Bram Stoker Award, Massie's first novel works better as a convincing and original story about the potential horrors of backwoods religious fervor than as a traditional supernatural thriller. Young Joel Barker lives with a special stigma: his father, Avery, is the ""sineater,"" chosen by their Blue Ridge Mountain religious sect to live alone in the woods and bear the sins of the community's dead. Though Joel is universally ostracized, Burke Campbell, the nephew of the sect's leader, Missy Campbell, befriends him in defiance of his aunt, whose mumbo jumbo he despises. When death and mutilation begin to be visited on anyone who has dealings with Joel's family, Missy blames the sineater and mounts a crusade against him and his kin. The two boys set out to stop the sineater and to end the religious madness that is sweeping the town, only to discover that they may be seeking the wrong enemy. Massie's sharp observations and eye for detail bring her characters to life and lend credence to the unfamiliar setting and bizarre plot. But so much is invested in setting the stage that the story line fails to gain momentum; though it's well-organized and the pivotal scenes are gripping, it never takes off in the same way as some other horror novels about rural religious terror, such as Thomas Tryon's Harvest Home or Robert R. McCammon's Mystery Walk . Massie's evident talent puts this well ahead of many other would-be literary debuts but, ironically, horror fans may find that it packs less terror than the average thriller. Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;genre fiction;horror;literature & fiction;mystery;suspense;thriller & suspense;thrillers,8
0060655186,"Who Wrote the New Testament?: The Making of the Christian Myth Mack's (The Lost Gospel; A Myth of Innocence) newest book is one of those rare volumes that, upon completion, makes one wonder how we could possibly have lived without it. The clarity of Mack's prose and the intelligent pursuit of his subject make compelling reading. Of course, the question Mack asks is not one Christians have been encouraged to ask, which only adds to the book's interest. Mack's investigation of the various groups and strands of the early Christian Community?out of which were generated the texts of Christianity's first anthology of religious literature?makes sense of a topic that has often been confusing. Regrettably, in an effort to appeal to a popular audience, Mack's treatment has been pruned of much of its scholarly apparatus; his notes would have been a welcome resource. Certainly, as the number of publications emerging from Jesus Seminar draw attack from conservative seminaries, such apparatus will become essential, popular audience or no. Nonetheless, this is an important book; a must-read for any student of the New Testament. Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Certainly Mack's book should take a place in the front ranks of the many fine introductions available to students of the New Testament in both academic and nonacademic settings. A comprehensive synthesis of New Testament scholarship that is nevertheless popularly accessible, it will make a particularly useful introductory text in an area where such texts are in great demand. But it is more than an excellent introduction. As the subtitle suggests, the book is also a critical account of the making of the Christian myth--an invitation to critical reflection on the social construction of a foundational epic that has shaped (and been shaped by) the history and behavior of the West since Constantine. That makes it an introduction to mythmaking that is more than a colonial criticism or classification of other people's myths; it is an invitation to cultural self-criticism, an invaluable contribution to liberal education that is a potentially important corrective to triumphalist practices as tempting in our multicultural age as they were in the multicultural matrix out of which Christian scripture emerged.  Steve Schroeder	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	""A powerful, compact, yet detailed introduction to the New Testament and the origins of Christianity. Mack has sketched the panorama of early Christian literature and social development in a lucid, convincing, and magisterial performance.""  -- Robert W. Funk, founder of the Jesus Seminar, co-author of The Five Gospels""Burton Mack's lucid description of early Christian mythmaking and social formation clarifies how the Bible came to be, and why we should care. Highly recommended for anyone who is interested in public discourse about the Bible and culture.""  -- Ron Cameron, Wesleyan University, author of The Other Gospels""Certainly Mack's book should take a place in the front ranks of the many fine introductions available to students of the New Testament in both academic and nonacademic settings. A comprehensive synthesis of New Testament scholarship that is nevertheless popularly accessible, it will make a particularly useful introductory text in an area where such texts are in great demand. But it is more than an excellent introduction. As the subtitle suggests, the book is also a critical account of the making of the Christian myth--an invitation to critical reflection on the social construction of a foundational epic that has shaped (and been shaped by) the history and behavior of the West since Constantine. That makes it an introduction to mythmaking that is more than a colonial criticism or classification of other people's myths; it is an invitation to cultural self-criticism, an invaluable contribution to liberal education that is a potentially important corrective to triumphalist practices as tempting in our multicultural age as they were in the multicultural matrix out of which Christian scripture emerged.""  -- Booklist""Where Bible history ends, the philosophy of scripture begins. In this book, Burton Mack adds a deeply pondered thesis about the consequences of scripturalism for religion and of scriptural religion for society to his already influential account of the origins of Christianity. The result is a clarified picture of how the Christian Bible--not just the New Testament--came into being and, more important, how and why its influence continues.""  -- Jack Miles, author of God: A BiographyCertainly Mack's book should take a place in the front ranks [of New Testament introductions].  -- -- Booklist	A radical Jesus scholar reveals who really wrote the Gospels and  other books of the New Testament--and why.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	""The New Testament is commonly viewed and treated as a charter document that came into being much like the Constitution of the United States. According to this view, the authors of the New Testament were all present at the historic beginnings of the new religion and collectively wrote their gospels and letters for the purpose of founding the Christian church that Jesus came to inaugurate. Unfortunately for this view, that is not the way it happened."" (from the Prologue) With innovative scholarship and an engaging, detective-like style, an eminent and controversial scholar of Christian origins presents the first comprehensive yet popular explanation of who wrote the New Testament--and why. Burton L. Mack, who won wide acclaim for The Lost Gospel, scrupulously examines the Christian Testament and fleshes out both the social and the cultural context from which it emerged. In contrast to the widely held view of the gospels as complementary accounts of single set of events, Mack offers a history of divergent Christian communities and their anonymous writers who wrote widely different chronicles for distinct purposes and audiences over a period of more than one hundred years. He delineates how Christians in later centuries assigned the names of apostles and disciples to the anonymous stories about Jesus and his teachings, adjusted the chronology, and erased cultural differences in an effort to present a coherent history of the faith and invest the new church with authenticity. This trailblazing reconstruction of early Christianity, which makes cutting-edge scholarship thoroughly accessible to a popular audience, reveals how the Christian Bible was created. Who Wrote the New Testament? challenges us to envision the New Testament as dynamic myth, reinterpreted many times through the course of Western cultural history, rather than as the static statement of any single truth. Much as The Iliad and The Odyssey mythologized events and figures in the remote Greek past, the New Testament writings, Mack shows, transform the historical Jesus, a counter-cultural philosopher with no grand messianic pretensions, into the Christ, the dying and rising son of God. Ultimately, then, the New Testament consists of a powerful religious mythology comparable to those of other great religions. Vital reading for all serious students of the Bible and Christian origins, Who Wrote the New Testament? should also prove enormously enlightening for those who seek to uncover the true story of how the historical Jesus was transformed into the mythologized Christ of faith.	A landmark account of Christian origins. In this groundbreaking and controversial book, Burton Mack brilliantly exposes how the Gospels are fictional mythologies created by different communities for various purposes and are only distantly related to the actual historical Jesus. Mack's innovative scholarship--which boldly challenges traditional Christian understanding--will change the way you approach the New Testament and think about how Christianity arose. ""Finally! Someone has penetrated the theological agenda that has informed a century of New Testament scholarship to provide a thoroughgoing historical overview of Christian origins. Mack's consummate account of early Christian writings as the mythmaking products of diverse social formations, and of the final selection and shaping of these writings into the Christian Bible according to the requirements of an emergent 'centrist' myth, not only provides a compelling explanation for the continuing fascination with this text throughout the history of Western culture but sets forth a new framework for understanding that text itself."" (Luther H. Martin, author of Hellenistic Religions)	Burton L. Mack is John Wesley Professor of the New Testament at the school of Theology at Claremont and the author of The Lost Gospel: The Book Q and Christian Origin and A Myth of Innocence: Mark and Christian Origins.",books;christian books & bibles;education & reference;folklore & mythology;politics & social sciences;reference;religion & spirituality;social sciences,8
0786277033,"Chill Factor Lust, jealousy and murder suffuse Brown's crisp thriller (after White Hot), set in the snowbound mountains of North Carolina. Lilly and Dutch Burton's marriage didn't withstand the loss of their three-year-old daughter, despite their attempt at a fresh start with the purchase of a vacation cabin in bucolic Cleary, N.C., where the novel opens on the divorced couple discussing its sale. Dutch is now Cleary's chief of police, and Lilly is a magazine editor in Atlanta. As she races back to the city to beat a blizzard, her car skids out, striking a hiker emerging from the woods. Turns out he's a man she knows: handsome freelance writer Ben Tierney, whom she met and flirted with the summer before. With no choice but to wait out the storm in the cabin with Ben, who is injured, Lilly calls Dutch, but he can't reach her via the now impassable mountain road. Meanwhile, Cleary is haunted by the case of five missing womenall now feared dead. With Lilly still stranded, Dutch goes ballistic when the FBI arrives in town with evidence that Tierney is the serial killer. The snowy suspense will cool off Brown's fans during the dog days of summer. (Aug.) Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Brown's new yarn is set in the small town of Cleary, North Carolina, where magazine publisher Lilly Martin is packing up her things at the cabin she shared with her ex-husband, Dutch Burton. Now the police chief of Cleary, Dutch desperately wants another chance with Lilly. She refuses, and he leaves the cabin, warning her of an impending blizzard. On her way down from the mountains, she accidentally hits a man in the road. She manages to get the man, Ben Tierney, back to her cabin, where they decide to wait out the storm. But the more time she spends with Tierney, the more Lilly fears he might be the serial killer dubbed ""Blue,"" who has been abducting women in Cleary for the past year. Despite her mounting concerns, Lilly can't help her growing attraction for the man. Back in town, Dutch is frantic when he learns Lilly is trapped up in the cabin with Tierney, whom the FBI also suspects might be Blue. Dutch's concern grows, and he mounts a desperate attempt to rescue his ex-wife. The suspense builds as Brown's novel chugs toward a gripping, surprising conclusion. Kristine HuntleyCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Virtuoso plot twists...Brown's latest thriller engages the primal senses.-- Kirkus Reviewsbr /br /Lust, jealousy, and murder suffuse Brown's crisp thriller. --Publishers Weekly	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Sandra Brown is the author of fifty-seven New York Times bestsellers, including Smoke Screen. Brown began her writing career in 1981 and since then has published over seventy novels, most of which remain in print. As of 1990, when Mirror Image made the New York Times bestseller list, each subsequent novel, including reprints of earlier books, have become Times bestsellers. Sandra and her husband, Michael Brown, live in Arlington, Texas.Stephen Lang 's Broadway credits include Wait Until Dark, A Few Good Men, The Speed of Darkness (Tony and Outer Critics noms), and Death of A Salesman (Drama Desk nom). Among his feature films are Last Exit to Brooklyn, Tombstone, Gettysburg, and Manhunter. His television work includes, The Fugitive, Crime Story, Babe Ruth, and Death of A Salesman.	      --This text refers to the 							Audio CD	 edition.	Chapter 1  The grave was substandard.  The storm was forecast to be a record breaker.  Little more than a shallow bowl gouged out of unyielding earth, the grave had been dug for Millicent Gunn -- age eighteen, short brown hair, delicate build, five feet four inches tall, reported missing a week ago. The grave was long enough to accommodate her height. Its depth, or lack thereof, could be remedied in the spring, when the ground began to thaw. If scavengers didn't dispose of the body before then.  Ben Tierney shifted his gaze from the new grave to the others nearby. Four of them. Forest debris and vegetative decay provided natural camouflage, yet each lent subtle variations to the rugged topography if one knew what to look for. A dead tree had fallen across one, concealing it entirely except to someone with a discerning eye.  Like Tierney.  He took one last look into the empty, shallow grave, then picked up the shovel at his feet and backed away. As he did, he noticed the dark imprints left by his boots in the white carpet of sleet. They didn't concern him overmuch. If the meteorologists were calling it right, the footprints would soon be covered by several inches of frozen precipitation. When the ground thawed, the prints would be absorbed into the mud.  In any case, he didn't stop to worry about them. He had to get off the mountain. Now.  He'd left his car on the road a couple hundred yards from the summit and the makeshift graveyard. Although he was now moving downhill, there was no path to follow through the dense woods. Thick ground cover gave him limited traction, but the terrain was uneven and hazardous, made even more so by the blowing precipitation that hampered his vision. Though he was in a hurry, he was forced to pick his way carefully to avoid a misstep.  Weathermen had been predicting this storm for days. A confluence of several systems had the potential of creating one of the worst winter storms in recent memory. People in its projected path were being advised to take precautions, stock provisions, and rethink travel plans. Only a fool would have ventured onto the mountain today. Or someone with pressing business to take care of.  Like Tierney.  The cold drizzle that had been falling since early afternoon had turned into freezing rain mixed with sleet. Pellets of it stung his face like pinpricks as he thrashed through the forest. He hunched his shoulders, bringing his collar up to his ears, which were already numb from cold.  The wind velocity had increased noticeably. Trees were taking a beating, their naked branches clacking together like rhythm sticks in the fierce wind. It stripped needles off the evergreens and whipped them about. One struck his cheek like a blow dart.  Twenty-five miles an hour, out of the northwest, he thought with that part of his brain that automatically registered the current status of his surroundings. He knew these things -- wind velocity, time, temperature, direction -- instinctually, as though he had a built-in weather vane, clock, thermometer, and GPS constantly feeding pertinent information to his subconscious.  It was an innate talent that he had developed into a skill, which had been finely tuned by spending much of his adult life outdoors. He didn't have to think consciously about this ever-changing environmental data but frequently relied on his ability to grasp it immediately when it was needed.  He was relying on it now, because it wouldn't do to be caught on the summit of Cleary Peak -- the second highest in North Carolina, after Mount Mitchell -- carrying a shovel and running away from four old graves and one freshly dug.  The local police weren't exactly reputed for their dogged investigations and crime-solving success. In fact, the department was a local joke. The chief was a has-been, big-city detective who'd been ousted from the department on which he'd served.  Chief Dutch Burton now led a band of inept small-town officers -- yokels outfitted in spiffy uniforms with shiny badges -- who had been hard-pressed to catch the culprit spray-painting obscenities on the trash receptacles behind the Texaco station.  Now they were focused on the five unsolved missing persons cases. Despite their insufficiencies, Cleary's finest had deduced that having five women vanish from one small community within two and a half years was, in all probability, more than a coincidence.  In a metropolis, that statistic would have been trumped by others even scarier. But here, in this mountainous, sparsely populated area, the disappearances of five women were staggering.  Further, it was a generally held opinion that the missing women had met with foul play, so finding human remains, not the women themselves, was the task facing the authorities. Suspicion would fall on a man carrying a shovel through the woods.  Like Tierney.  Up till now, he had flown under the radar of Police Chief Burton's curiosity. It was crucial to keep it that way.  In pace with his footsteps, he clicked off the vital statistics of the women buried in the graves on the summit. Carolyn Maddox, a twenty-six-year-old who had a deep bosom, beautiful black hair, and large brown eyes. Reported missing last October. A single mom and sole supporter of a diabetic child, she had cleaned rooms at one of the guest lodges in town. Her life had been a cheerless, nonstop cycle of toil and exhaustion.  Carolyn Maddox was getting plenty of peace and rest now. As was Laureen Elliott. Single, blond, and overweight, she had worked as a nurse at a medical clinic.  Betsy Calhoun, a widowed homemaker, had been older than the others.  Torrie Lambert, the youngest of them, had also been the first, the prettiest, and the only one not a resident of Cleary.  Tierney picked up his speed, trying to outrun his haunting thoughts as well as the weather. Ice was beginning to coat tree limbs like sleeves. Boulders were becoming glazed with it. The steep, curving road down to Cleary would soon become unnavigable, and it was imperative that he get off this goddamn mountain.  Fortunately, his built-in compass didn't fail him, and he emerged from the woods no more than twenty feet from where he'd entered it. He wasn't surprised to see that his car was already coated with a thin layer of ice and sleet.  As he approached it, he was breathing hard, emitting bursts of vapor into the cold air. His descent from the summit had been arduous. Or perhaps his labored breathing and rapid heart rate were caused by anxiety. Or frustration. Or regret.  He placed the shovel in the trunk of his car. Peeling off the latex gloves he'd been wearing, he tossed them into the trunk as well, then shut the lid. He got into the car and quickly closed the door, welcoming shelter from the biting wind.  Shivering, he blew on his hands and vigorously rubbed them together in the hope of restoring circulation to his fingertips. The latex gloves had been necessary, but they hadn't provided any protection against the cold. He took a pair of cashmere-lined leather gloves from a coat pocket and pulled them on.  He turned the ignition key.  Nothing happened.  He pumped the accelerator and tried again. The motor didn't even growl. After several more unsuccessful tries, he leaned back against the seat and stared at the gauges on the dashboard as though expecting them to communicate what he was doing wrong.  He cranked the key one more time, but the engine remained as dead and silent as the women crudely buried nearby.  ""Shit!"" He thumped both gloved fists against the steering wheel and stared straight ahead, although there was nothing to look at. A sheet of ice had completely obscured the windshield. ""Tierney,"" he muttered, ""you're screwed.""  Copyright  2005 by Sandra Brown Management Ltd. Chapter 2  The wind has picked up, and there's icy stuff falling out there,"" Dutch Burton remarked as he let the drape fall back into place over the window. ""We'd better start down soon.""  ""I need to empty these few shelves, then I'll be done."" Lilly took several hardcover editions from the built-in bookcase and placed them in a packing box.  ""You always enjoyed reading when we came up here.""  ""That's when I had time to catch up on the latest best-sellers. Nothing to distract me here.""  ""Except me, I guess,"" he said. ""I remember pestering you until you put your book aside and paid attention to me.""  She glanced up at Dutch from where she sat on the floor and smiled. But she didn't pursue his fond recollection of how they'd spent their leisure time in the mountain retreat. Initially they had come here on weekends and holidays to escape their hectic schedules in Atlanta.  Later they'd come here simply to escape.  She was packing what remained of her personal belongings to take with her when she left today. She wouldn't be coming back. Neither would Dutch. This would be the last page written -- an epilogue, actually -- of their life together. She had hoped to make their final farewell as unsentimental as possible. He seemed determined to stroll down memory lane.  Whether his recollections of times past were designed to make him feel better or to make her feel worse, she didn't want to engage in them. Their good times together had been so eclipsed by their bad ones that any memory reopened wounds.  She steered the topic back to pragmatic matters. ""I made copies of all the closing documents. They're in that envelope, along with a check for your half of the sale.""  He looked down at the manila envelope but left it lying on the oak coffee table where she had placed it. ""It's not right. My getting half.""  ""Dutch, we've been through this."" She folded down the four sections of the box top to seal it, wishing she could close the argument as easily.  ""You paid for this cabin,"" he said.  ""We purchased it together.""  ""But your salary made that possible. We couldn't have afforded it on mine.""  She pushed the box along the floor to the door, then stood up and faced him. ""We were married when ...	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Stephen Lang's breathy baritone adds a deep sense of disquiet as writer Ben Tierney buries a body--next to three other bodies. Is he the serial psycho, ""Blue,"" who's been abducting women? The FBI thinks so. But Lilly Burton knows him simply as a guy she flirted with last summer. Lang keeps things intriguing enough to involve listeners as the plot struggles toward its obvious setup: A car accident and a monstrous blizzard combine to leave Lilly and Ben stranded alone at Lilly's cabin. As the pace picks up, Lang keeps anxiety on the front burner. Apprehension mounts, suspense builds, and the climax holds listeners to the headphones.  S.J.H.   AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine-- Copyright  AudioFile, Portland, Maine	      --This text refers to the 							Audio CD	 edition.",books;literature & fiction;mystery;romance;romantic suspense;suspense;thriller & suspense;thrillers,8
156286291X,"Building a New Performance Vision This book definitely serves as a step-by-step road map to help... HPI practitioners become 'value-added' business partners.  -- Richard Chang, CEO, Richard Chang Associates, Inc., and Author, The Passion Plan at Work and Co-author, Performance ScorecardsTom LaBonte has given the business world a virtual buleprint to create a successful human performance vision.  -- Sheila T Harrell, Vice President, Customer Service, Strategic Planning & Analysis, Federal Express CorporationWhat a concept - all organizational functions, which focus on people,  aligned under a shared process and supporting a shared goal! -- Dana Gaines Robinson, Co-author, ""Performance Consulting"" and ""Moving From Training to Performance""	Tom LaBonte is an HPI professional with experience as a training director and HR director in business, government, and academia. Tom is currently an independent consultant. Previous assignments include serving as an HR executive with Centura Banks and senior vice president of performance improvement and training at PNC Bank. Tom wrote an article with Jim Robinson for the August 1999 issue of Training & Development entitled ""Performance Consulting: One Process, One Team."" He wrote in 1998 a chapter entitled ""Skills and Work Environment Required for Performance Consultants"" for the book Moving From Training to Performance: A Practical Guidebook, edited by Dana and Jim Robinson.     Tom is a frequent speaker on HR and training strategy, performance consulting, and OD at national conferences. Tom serves on several boards of directors including ASTD, the ISPI Carolina chapter, and the Mecklenburg Council of the Boy Scouts of America. Tom earned undergraduate and graduate degrees at the University of Maryland at College Park.",books;business & investing;human resources & personnel management;industries & professions;leadership;management;management & leadership;training,8
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0571211925,"No Applause--Just Throw Money: The Book That Made Vaudeville Famous Starred Review. Much has been written about the American institution of vaudeville, but readers would be hard-pressed to find an account as humorous and sharp as writer and performer Trav S.D.'s tasty chronicle. Although critics in the early 20th century lambasted vaudeville as crude, sometimes clever, but generally ""trite and empty,"" the author points out that from 1881 to 1932, vaudeville ""was the heart of American show business,"" so ubiquitous that ""if you were beyond the reach of vaudeville, then you were really in the sticks."" He comments on the artistic and commercial ties between vaudeville and Hollywood's glamour industry and Broadway; they often shared performers in hit plays and films (though Trav S.D. also reveals how essential managers were to the medium, since ""performers, as Jesus said of the poor, are always with us""). There are candid moments about the resistance to hiring black players in a few fascinating segments about minstrelsy and blackface, as Trav S.D. writes of the trials African-American legend Bert Williams endured. Throughout, the author, a humorist, never forgets to get his laugh quota, whether he's talking about audiences (Midwestern crowds were tough: ""Do they like me? Hate me? Are they alive? Hello?"") or burlesque (""a sort of bush league for broad comedians""). The result is a well-researched, riotous book about a cultural mainstay, ""the theatrical embodiment of freedom, tolerance, opportunity, diversity, democracy, and optimism."" Bw illus. (Nov.) Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	Late in the nineteenth century, America's variety theatrewhich was notorious for the brawling, drinking, thieving, gambling, stripping, whoring, and cursing that went with itwas supplanted by the comparatively clean-cut vaudeville. ""Don't say 'slob' or 'son of a gun' or 'Holy Gee' on the stage unless you want to be canceled peremptorily,"" one manager's memo read. Trav S.D., himself a performer, describes with infectious relish such acts as a banjo-playing Shakespeare reciter, a one-legged tap dancer, a man who wrote backward, a comic lecturer on human anatomy, a drag trapeze artist, and ""The VaggesWorld Champion Bag Punchers."" Vaudeville withstood critics from Hitler to Henry Ford, along with innumerable tough crowds (Yale students were reportedly among the worst), to become a big business with a lasting impact; Bob Hope, George Burns, Fred Astaire, Buster Keaton, and the Marx Brothers all got their start there.   Copyright  2006 The New Yorker	*Starred Review* Milton Berle once joked that vaudeville was dead and ""TV was the box they buried it in."" Trav S. D. takes issue with both forks of that quip, wittily arguing that vaudeville isn't dead and that TV is but one of the places where it, or at least a mutation of it, continues to thrive. He also points to the current resurgence of variety, burlesque, and vaudeville-like performers and shows on the theatrical fringes. Both performer and theater historian, he knows of what he speaks. His rich, well-researched history of American vaudeville from its roots in the 1880s onward is a rare enough feat made all the more startling by the wit, zest, and fresh eyes Trav S. D. brings to the subject. He succeeds in enlivening all facets of vaudeville history--not just the oft--recorded lives of performers on ""the Road"" but also how ""the Road"" itself was formed during the rise of the railroad and how different cabals of producers and managers dominated and eventually monopolized the business. He also discusses the social history of the late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century American middle class in the context of explaining how vaudeville acts were ""sanitized"" to be ""fit"" for the whole family. He writes with the passion of an aficionado, which doesn't, however, keep him from a clear-eyed account of the dark side of the business: its cutthroat competition, nearly constant double-dealing, and sad legacy of racism. Jack HelbigCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	""A delicious cultural history...The writing is as snappy as these troupers and headliners deserve. And the scholarship is high-class. Nothing reveals a people more clearly than what entertains them and how they define it."" --The New York Times""No Applause is a lively, vivid and evocative tumble through the rollicking age of American vaudeville. Trav S.D.'s thoroughly engaging book grabs you by the lapels and whisks you back in time to one of the most fascinating and important periods in show business history. "" --David Isay public radio producer and creator of StoryCorps ""No Applause is a fabulous book worthy of its fabulous topic. Clever, thoughtful, and comprehensive, it is beautifully written and exhaustively researched, and it reminds us of the myriad ways in which vaudeville dominated urban America for half a century and more."" --Kenneth T. Jackson, professor of history, Columbia University and editor of The Encyclopedia of New York City""Trav S.D. has created an essential (and very funny) history of American popular entertainment, particularly for those of us trying to create popular entertainment today."" --Greg Kotis, creator of Urinetown	Trav S.D. is top banana at the American Vaudeville Theatre. His writing has appeared in The Village Voice, American Theatre, Time Out New York, and Reason.	Excerpted from No ApplauseJust Throw Money by Trav S.D. Copyright  2005 by Trav S.D. Published in November, 2005 by Faber and Faber, Inc. An affiliate of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC. All rights reserved.THE OVERTUREVaudeville is dead.By the early days of talking pictures and coast-to-coast radio broad-casts, vaudevilles corpse hadnt even cooled, yet the phrase was already proverbial. But, as Poe observed, burials can bepremature. My contention is that this quintessentially American form of entertainment, which had been ubiquitous for half a century, only seemed to pass away in the early 1930s, yet in reality kept on kicking.First, it lived on in the aesthetics and attitudes of its most successful veterans, some of whom (George Burns, Bob Hope, Milton Berle) continued to influence American pop culture into the 1980s. Certainly the first decade of talkies (as Henry Jenkins has observed in What Made Pistachio Nuts?) was dominated by the vaudevillian sensibility, as were USO shows in the Second World War, television variety shows from the 1940s through the seventies, andeternally, it seemsstage shows in Las Vegas. But, second, vaudeville, like a phoenix, appears to be rising from the ashes, with scores, perhaps hundreds, of new variety venues popping up at alternative theaters and nightclubs throughout the nation. For a growing subculture of young people at least, vaudeville is back. So, while vaudeville as an institution may have passed away seventy years ago, its ghost has continued to haunt us thereafter, and has even possessed the souls of the living in order to walk the earth again. Not only do Abbot and Costello Meet the Mummybut in a certain sense Abbot and Costello (and performers like them) are the mummy!And yet as potent as this resurgence is among performers, I suspect that most people in the mainstream of society remain unaware of the historical importancelet alone the historyof vaudeville. Vaudeville utterly dominated American popular culture during its formative years at the turn of the last century. When Groucho Marx and Charlie Chaplin were born, vaudeville (in the form of its precursors, variety and music hall) had already been going strong for decades. Some of the most popular twentieth-century vaudevillians were alive until quite recently. One could make the argument that the story of American show business is the story of vaudevilleand yet that story is quite forgotten. (Just how utterly it has been covered by the sands of time is manifested to me in the blank and uncomprehending faces of some of the people to whom I have confided my work as master of ceremonies of my own vaudeville show. The telling and terrifying responseVaudeville? Whats that?has chilled my blood on occasion, making me feel like Charlton Heston encountering the half-buried Statue of Liberty in the final scene of Planet of the Apes. You fools! I want to scream. You blew it up!)Despite our contemporary amnesia, the fact remains that for approximately fifty yearsthe period spanning 1881 to 1932vaudeville was the heart of American show business. Its stars were Americas first stars in the modern sense. People all over the country knew their names, read about them in magazines. Children collected their playing cards. If you were beyond the reach of vaudeville, then you were really in the sticks.An illustration of just how influential vaudeville was in the popular culture may be obtained by tracing the evolution of a single stage and screen property and marking the number of vaudevillians attached to it. Because it was my favorite movie as a child, and the prime mover of the lifelong journey that led me to this book, I choose The Wizard of Oz. Two years after the publication of L. Frank Baums childrens book, the story was turned into a Broadway vehicle starring vaudevilles premier eccentric dance team, Dave Montgomery and Fred Stone (who played the Tin Man and the Scarecrow, respectively). The latters performance inspired a young Ray Bolger both to become a dancer and to stop at nothing to play the same role someday. A 1925 film version starred one of the silent screens biggest comedy stars, Larry Semon, a second-generation vaudevillian. (In this drastically rewritten version, Semon plays a farmhand who disguises himself as a scarecrow. The production also features a pre-Laurel Oliver Hardy.) The 1939 MGM version, however, is the mother lode. Every single principal cast member with the exceptions of Margaret Hamilton (the Wicked Witch of the West) and Clara Blandick (Aunt Em) had been in vaudeville: not only the aforementioned Bolger (who played Scarecrow), but also Jack Haley (Tin Man), Bert Lahr (Cowardly Lion), Judy Garland (Dorothy), Billie Burke (Glinda), Frank Morgan (the Wizard), Charley Grapewin (Uncle Henry), and even Singers Midgets (the Munchkins, of course). Dancer Buddy Ebsen, cast first as the Scarecrow, then as the Tin Man, then released due to illness, was a vaudeville veteran, as was W. C. Fields, orginally up for the part of the Wizard. (A character who, incidentally, seems not a little based on P. T. Barnum and the many medicine-show hustlers L. Frank Baum no doubt encountered during the years he spent living out west. As we shall see, such humbugs would play a major role in the genesis of vaudeville.) Producer Mervyn LeRoy had been a singer in vaudeville. Edgar Allan Woolf, an important author of vaudeville playlets, was one of the principal screenwriters, and Harold Arlen, who co-wrote the songs, had played in vaudeville jazz bands. Over the years, many attempts have been made to recapture the magic of that 1939 film in sequels. All have failed miserably and the reason why should be obvious. The school that produced those incredible artist is no more.*The watchword of vaudeville was variety. The opposite of a variety show, you might say, is a monotony show. Twelve hours of monks chanting the same mantra over and over againthats monotony. Twelve minutes of monks chanting the same mantra, clad in fabulous silken outfits, accompanied by mysterious dry-ice smoke and a very Chinese-sounding gong, preceded by a man who plays the vibes with his toes, and succeeded by a barbershop quartetthats variety.In this post-MTV, post-postmodern, attention-deficit-ridden age of electronics-induced schizophrenia, I make bold to suggest that few of us will have a problem with this fractured aesthetic. Most of us have not only grown comfortable with the idea of watching a singer-followed-by-a-dancer-followed-by a-stupid-pet-trick but can also somehow manage to digest the inclusion of a car wreck, a baseball game, and a panel of old white men arguing about politics. Would it were ever thus. A hundred years ago, when variety entertainment was enjoying a golden age, some critics made the willfully blind error of deploring it for the very features for which it was so beloved. Typical are the observations of social scientist Michael Marks Davis, who wrote the following in a 1911 treatise. The Exploitation of Pleasure: A Study of Commercial Recreations in New York City:The humorous, sentimental, acrobatic and musical acts pass in succession like the grinning figures at a shooting gallery. Some are wholly crude, a few are decidedly clever; the majority are trite and empty; and as a whole there is no imagination behind their creation, and still less in the managers mind to enforce their harmonious combination.Vaudevillemay be described as a succession of acts whose stimulus depends usually upon an artificial rather than a natural, human, and developing interest; these acts having no necessary and as a rule no actual connection.Davis makes the critical mistake, common for his day, of measuring the variety show against the dramatic theater, with its Aristotelian laws of structure and development. But vaudeville (and the other variety arts) never were, and never claimed to be, any such animal. It is its own form, with its own laws. One minute it is a concert; the next a freak show; the next a one-act play; the next a gymnastics display. Because of this, variety is much more like a parade, or a walk through a museumor, as Marks puts it so disapprovingly, but without much comprehension, a shooting gallery.*A 1974 animated film called Journey Back to Oz deserves honorable mention, though. With show-biz vets Milton Berle, Herschel Bernardi, Paul Ford, Jack E. Leonard, Ethel Merman, Liza Minnelli, Mickey Rooney, and Danny Thomas providing the voices, the producers were at least in the right universe.",arts & photography;books;comedy;history & criticism;humor;humor & entertainment;performing arts;theater,8
1561677655,"Be a Contender, Not Just a Contestant! This book is a training manual for ""Spiritual"" athletes seeking guidance to become champions for Jesus Christ. -- Barbara Jung, American Literary Press, Inc., December 1, 2002	Reverend Kenneth L. Gainous is the Pastor of the Christian City of Praise (CCP) non-denominational church fellowship in Augusta, Georgia.  He has worked diligently to grow a ministry that has become a spiritual transformation point for many people who worship there.  Reverend Gainous has been in ministry for over twenty years and has served as the director of teaching ministry and other key ministerial positions within the Church. Reverend Gainous has also served in the military for over twenty years, to include commanding a Logistics Support Battalion (LSB) in the United States Army Reserves.  He has ministered and worked in ministries all over the world, including Iraq and Saudi Arabia where he commanded a tactical Signal company during Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm.  God has given him a unique ability to motivate people to be all they can be in the Lord, despite their environment!  His diverse spiritual background and experiences have enabled him to help numerous people who have struggled to overcome obstacles in their lives.  Reverend Gainous has received a great vision from God to build a ministry at CCP that reflects the power and witness of Gods presence in the world.  God has anointed him and given him a message that will build spiritual lives and challenge people everywhere to ""Be a Contender, Not Just a Contestant!""",books;motivational;new;occult;personal transformation;religion & spirituality;self-help;used & rental textbooks,8
1591020840,"Unintelligent Design ""...a devastating refutation of ID nonsense in all its forms."" -- Reports of the National Center for Science Education, May-Aug., 2004""...an important addition to the science and religion debate...those interested in the field should read it."" -- Metanexus Online Journal, December 8, 2004""...this book would be useful for those wishing to sharpen their critical thinking skills generally..."" -- Fortean Times, May 2004""If you enjoy watching a first-rate mind at work, you will get a lot of pleasure from reading this book."" -- Australian Humanist, Winter 2004""It would be a real service...if the book was required reading for school board members and teachers..."" -- Quarterly Review of Biology, September 2004	Spurred on not only by the quasi-scientific agenda of the so-called intelligent design theorists, who seek to prove the existence of God mathematically, but also by his personal contact with otherwise rational scientists, physicist Mark Perakh sets out to reveal the falsity of the claims of neocreationism with a thorough, carefully detailed series of arguments aimed at the very heart of those who would see evolutionary theory discarded.  Perakh strips away the reader-unfriendly ""mathematizing"" present in the neocreationist theses in order to reveal their flawed logic and their meaninglessness. His work is divided into three parts: first, an attack on the specifics of intelligent design, a theory spearheaded by the writings of William Dembski (THE DESIGN INFERENCE, INTELLIGENT DESIGN, NO FREE LUNCH), Michael Behe (DARWIN'S BLACK BOX), and Phillip Johnson (DARWIN ON TRIAL, THE WEDGE OF TRUTH, DEFEATING DARWINISM BY OPENING MINDS); second, a critical dismantling of several arguments closely related to the intelligent design movement, such as attempts to ""harmonize"" the Bible with modern scientific understanding of the universe, the anthropic principle, and nonrandom evolution; and finally, a discussion of proper scientific method and probability theory, as well as an infamous account of science gone bad for the sake of religion--the Bible code theory propagated by Doron Witztum, Eliyahu Rips, and Yoav Rosenberg. This thoughtful and incisive critique from a veteran scientist genuinely concerned about the integrity of the scientific enterprise wastes no diplomacy on those who would see its purpose twisted to ideological ends.  Perakh successfully ties his opponents' arguments together by demonstrating how most of them are based on the same mistaken view of probability theory and the same disregard for impartial objectivity in testing hypotheses.  This is a must-read for anyone interested in separating scientific facts from religion masquerading as science.	Mark Perakh is a prize-winning professor emeritus of physics at California State University at Fullerton and the author of four books and nearly 300 scientific articles.",books;education & reference;evolution;psychology;religion & spirituality;religious studies;science & math;science & religion,8
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0060739282,"Fight Back and Win: My Thirty-year Fight Against Injustice--and How You Can Win Your Own Battles Gloria Allred is the most prominent women's rights attorney in the United States and is one of the highest-profile attorneys in the world. She has been a television commentator on Fox News Channel, CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, and Court TV, and is a three-time Emmy nominee for her television commentary on KABC Television Eyewitness News in Los Angeles. She was rated one of the most important radio talk show hosts in America by USA Today, and has won the President's Award from the National Association of Women Lawyers and the 1986 President's Volunteer Action Award for her work in child support enforcement, presented to her by President Ronald Reagan at the White House. A founding partner in the Los Angeles law firm of Allred, Maroko & Goldberg, Allred lives in Southern California.",biographies & memoirs;books;lawyers & judges;memoirs;professionals & academics;self-help;specific groups;women,8
0312053940,"Break Writer's Block Now! (Writer's Library) Jerry, the block I had when I came to see you eighteen months ago  is definitely gone.  My novel is almost done.  I am grateful to  you for giving me the tools that I needed. Thank you again. You  are a great teacher, with a gift of clarity and of gentleness an   insight. Judy Collins, Grammy Award winner, Singer, Songwriter, Author     Jerry Mundis is the drug of choice for writer's block.  If you  want to get off your ass and onto the page, he can make it  happen. Lawrence Block, Winner of The Mystery Writers of America Edgar & Grand Master Awards, Author of the Matt Scudder series.    After three dreary months of staring at a blank computer screen,  a single afternoon with Jerry Mundis broke down the barriers that  were keeping me from starting my novel.  He offers a gentle yet  disciplined approach to making the words flow productively.   Wendy Low Contributor to ""Esquire,"" ""The Atlantic"" & Other Magazines    What I never expected was how, after months of high anxiety whenever I passed by the computer, I would be so quickly and completely released. In a matter of hours, Jerry freed me to resume my work.  I'm sure he can do it for almost anyone at anytime.  I continue to apply his techniques on a daily basis.   Janet Capron, Graduate Student, Columbia University     Jerry Mundis has the map to the netherworld of a writer's anxieties and doubts.  He works as a guide, teaching you how to recognize and cope with the dangers. The result is a reliable professionalism that enables one to work steadily whatever one's emotional landscape may happen to be at the time.   Suzannah Lessard, Former Staff Writer for ""The New Yorker"", Author of *The Architect of Desire*    After years of agonizing over unfinished manuscripts and late assignments, I equated writing with pure suffering.  Now, because of Jerry, I find the process easy, exciting, and even fun.  This system is nothing short of miraculous.   Patricia Lawrence, M.S.W. Psychotherapist.    This works: A few hours with Jerry Mundis got me back to writing  on a productive daily schedule -- and kept me there. Patrick Tresem, TV Writer-Producer&  Author of Two Books.    My problem with writer's block was so severe that I had come to  believe I would have to leave academia because of it.  But Jerry  demystified both the writing process and my struggle with it, and  provided me with a clear path I could follow to achieve my goals.  He literally changed my life.    Ellen Hyman-Browne, J.D., LL.M., Associate Professor of Law, CUNY Law School at Queens     Jerry Mundis has thought deeply about what happens when you sit  down to write, and what doesn't happen when you don't.  If you  you do what Jerry says -- which is easy -- you'll finish whatever you want to finish.  And you'll stop hating yourself.    Charles M. Young, Contributor to ""Rolling Stone,"" ""Playboy,"" ""The Atlantic"" & Other Magazines     I spent four hours with Jerry Mundis and a miracle occurred. For thirty years I had struggled with my resistance to writing. Jerry knew every reason why and communicated with me clearly, effectively, and with kindness.  The proof of the pudding is in the eating.  The first month after meeting Jerry I finished a piece   had been struggling with for over a year.  And I enjoyed it!    year and a half later, I finished, and sold, my first book.    have received a new skill, a new career, and a new way of seeing myself.  James Michael McMahon, Ph.D. Psychoanalyst Author of *The Price of Wisdom*  and *Letting Go of Mother*	A Final Note    Here are quotes from some of the writers for whom I have broken  block, using the concepts and techniques in this book.",books;education & reference;language & grammar;research & publishing guides;rhetoric;words;writing;writing skills,8
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159658212X,"Santa Clara University (Off the Record) The real lowdown on campus life. --Laura Randall and Kimetris N. Baltrip, New York Times, January 18, 2004The new kid on the block when it comes to student-to-student assessments of college campuses. --Benjamin Gilbert, Washington Post, April 27, 2004The prospective college student's antidote to the Princeton Review doldrums. --Melissa Kaplan, Boston Globe, May 23, 2004",books;college & university;college entrance;college guides;counseling;education & reference;schools & teaching;test preparation,8
8479531622,"Aumente Su Autoestima (Spanish Edition) Hace ms de veinte aos que el Dr. Lair Ribeiro, un eminente cardilogo brasileo que complet su formacin en algunas de las mejores universidades de Estados Unidos, se dedica a estudiar el cerebro y el comportamiento humano. En sus obras, muchas de ellas autnticos bestsellers, se sirve de la tecnologa de la Programacin Neurolingstica y de sus conocimientos en el campo del desarollo personal para proporcionar a sus lectores las ms modernas harramientas para el cambio.",books;contemporary;education & reference;foreign language fiction;foreign language study & reference;literature & fiction;self-esteem;self-help,8
0786866012,"Shakespeare in Charge: The Bard's Guide to Leading and Succeeding on the Business Stage Both of these books present palatable lessons on leadership, change, risk management, crisis management, power, and emotion, though Corrigan's book has a unique chapter, ""Listening to Fools and Knaves."" Corrigan's approach is more closely tied to Shakespeare's individual characters, while Augustine and Adelman focus on entire plays and the interaction of characters. Their writing style is also the more casual and engaging of the two. A passage from their introduction effectively captures the rationale for studying the lessons of Shakespeare in a high-tech world: ""While the accoutrements of corporate life are now dramatically high tech--dominated by e-mail, cell phones, the web, and PCs--the basics still hinge on human nature."" Both books link lessons from Shakespeare to modern-day business practitioners, although Corrigan tends to repeat the well-known names, while Augustine and Adelman refer to less well known, smaller-scale success stories. The latter use more actual passages from the Bard's work and end each ""Act"" with lessons for today's business leaders. Either or both books would make valid additions to collections of all sizes. If you have succumbed to Dilbert, Winnie the Pooh, and Goldilocks in your business collections, Shakespeare deserves to be represented.-Susan Dimattia, ""Library Journal"" Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.	In order to receive my high-school diploma, like many others I was required to memorize various Shakespearean passages. To this day, I can spout soliloquies from Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth. Beyond helping with crossword puzzles and being fun at parties, there doesn't seem to be much practical use for this kind of specialized knowledge.But in their lively book Shakespeare in Charge, Norman Augustine and Kenneth Adelman offer a surprising reason to dust off the old textbooks: Studying Shakespeare's characters - and the sticky situations they find themselves in - can offer busy execs advice about surviving in today's competitive marketplace, the authors argue.Consider The Taming of the Shrew: Petruchio's goal is to train Katherine to become a model wife so he can marry her and obtain her dowry. Each time Katherine displays her shrewlike behavior in response to his wooing, Petruchio must regroup and redefine his plan of attack. The lesson, the authors say, is to adapt to a changing environment, as 3M learned when it developed Post-it notes out of a failed attempt to create superstrength glue.In Julius Caesar, Cassius convinces Brutus to help him kill Caesar, a popular and effective leader. Although Caesar receives warnings to ""beware the ides of March,"" he disregards them and is stabbed in the back by conspirators. But Cassius' inability to stand up for what he believes and Brutus' inability to work with others, combined with their combined failure to plan for a successor to Caesar, lead to their downfall. You get the idea.In Shakespeare's play, King Henry V of England gained valuable information when he disguised himself and walked among his soldiers the night before a battle. Unlike the sugar-coated advice he got from his lieutenants, the leader didn't always hear what he would have liked from the rank and file. As the authors recount, AOL learned that lesson after an outside consultant said it was on the wrong track to increase sales. So AOL gave the consultant the reins and the result is the now successful Web network iVillage.com.The layout of Shakespeare in Charge cleverly mimics the structure of a play. Divided into Acts I through V, each section contains a ""prologue"" that introduces the ""scenes"" (plot synopses) as well as ""acting lessons,"" which cover the act's characters and how their actions translate to the world of modern corporate life.The book uses examples from many of Shakespeare's plays and sonnets, but focuses its bard-business comparisons on five major works: Henry V, The Taming of the Shrew, Julius Caesar, The Merchant of Venice and Hamlet. The fundamentals of a successful business are detailed, such as basic leadership strategies, intelligent risk-taking in the corporate world, effective communication between executives and employees, and expedient crisis management.While entertaining, Shakespeare in Charge provides more of a course in Business 101 rather than any major revelations. Ultimately, however, Augustine and Adelman have managed to make both Shakespeare and the fundamentals of business accessible and entertaining for anyone on the corporate stage. -- From The Industry Standard",books;business & investing;entrepreneurship;leadership;management;management & leadership;small business & entrepreneurship;teens,8
0495188344,"Basic Concepts in Biology (with CD-ROM and BiologyNOW™™-Personal Tutor with SMARTHINKING, InfoTrac 2-Semester Printed Access Card) For the past two decades, Cecie Starr has been known as one of the best-selling biology textbook authors. Her texts, appreciated for their clarity in both the written word and the visual representation of biological concepts, include multiple editions of BIOLOGY: THE UNITY AND DIVERSITY OF LIFE, BIOLOGY: CONCEPTS AND APPLICATIONS, and BIOLOGY TODAY AND TOMORROW. Her original dream was to become an architect. Instead of building houses, she now builds, with care and attention to detail, incredible texts based on this philosophy: ""I invite students into a chapter through an intriguing story. Once inside, they get the great windows that biologists construct on the world of life. Biology is not just another house. It is a conceptual mansion. I hope to do it justice.""",biological sciences;biology;biology & life sciences;books;new;science & math;science & mathematics;used & rental textbooks,8
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B0002VM226,"Hitachi 725096 Spline 1-Inch x 17-Inch x 22-Inch Hammer Bit 4 Cutter The Hitachi 725096 Spline Shank 1-Inch by 17-Inch by 22-Inch Hammer 4-Cutter Drill Bit is for use with demolition hammers, rotary drill hammers and combination drills to work in concrete, masonry and natural stone. The aggressive and durable carbide tip allows for easy centering and fast drilling. The dynamic, chisel-shaped bit head ensures rapid penetration. The multi-fluted spiral flute quickly channels debris from the hole. The bit features reinforced flute geometry, which reduces vibration, and transfers more impact energy. The 4-cutter drill bit measures 1-inch in diameter, 17inch in drilling depth and 22-inches in total length. The Hitachi 725096 Spline Shank 1-Inch by 17-Inch by 22-Inch Hammer 4-Cutter Drill Bit is warranted to the original purchaser to be free from defect in materials and workmanship for a period of 30-days from the original purchase date. Every Hitachi accessory is designed to the highest standards and is rigorously tested for both performance and durability. Since its inception, Hitachi has pioneered innovative technologies that have improved the quality of craftsmanship worldwide. Hitachi is a leader in power tool research and development and has achieved many firsts in the power tool industry. Today, Hitachi continues the tradition of innovation and engineering with new features in addition to classic quality.	Hitachi 725096 Spline Shank 1-Inch by 17-Inch by 22-Inch Hammer 4-Cutter Drill Bit",cutting tools;drill bits;industrial & scientific;industrial drill bits;masonry drill bits;power & hand tools;power tool accessories;tools & home improvement,8
B000FMRTTS,"A Mother is Born: Preparing for Motherhood During Pregnancy Unlike most guides for new mothers, which focus on practical skills for daily care of infants, this one emphasizes the necessary emotional and psychological transformation required for a woman to become a mother. Psychotherapist Leonhardt-Lupa explores the impact of her own mothering, changes in self-identity, unreasonable expectations for motherhood, and changes in sexuality and the body to help women prepare for the challenges of mothering a new baby. A lengthy case study reinforces her insights. Although Leonhardt-Lupa writes with warmth, she is unflinching in presenting the negative and painful aspects of first-time motherhood, and in the process, she provides unusual and effective reality checks for women who have chosen to assume this responsibility.  Kathryn Carpenter	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	""A wise and gentle guide, Merete Leonhardt-Lupa takes the reader's hand and accompanies her on a most extraordinary journey: pregnancy through new motherhood. A Mother is Born reminds us that the psychological, emotional, and physical transformations of the mother-to-be are no less wondrous or complex than the new life she harbors. Leonhardt-Lupa helps us understand how a woman struggles, grows, develops, and is empowered as she becomes a mother. This is a life-affirming book that both new mothers and new fathers will benefit from reading."" Evelyn Bassoff, Ph.D. Author of Between Mothers and Sons: The Making of Vital and Loving Men	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",books;family relationships;fitness & dieting;health;motherhood;parenting & relationships;pregnancy & childbirth;women's health,8
1580050409,"Desert Sojourn: A Woman's Forty Days and Nights Alone (Adventura Books) ""I'm going to the desert... because if I don't I think a part of me will die."" After attending an out-of-town business seminar, Holmes-Binney, a frustrated editor in a failing marriage, was convinced that she must do something radical to reshape her life. In this memoir, the author recounts how she returned to her family in California and announced her plans to spend 40 days in a remote region of Utah's Great Salt Lake Desert. But she was little prepared for the harsh realities of her journey. Almost immediately, Holmes-Binney had to contend with torrential rains that soaked her clothes and ruined food. After the rain came a fierce snowstorm that essentially froze Holmes-Binney into her small shelter. Holmes-Binney describes her physical and psychological ordeal in detail. At one point, she thought she heard the ringing of a cell phone, an impossibility in the remote region: ""not a single human print, and I'm totally mystified until it strikes me that perhaps whoever-it-is isn't in the canyon. It's possible that the sounds came from the other side of the cliffs .And that's when the phone rings again."" Even readers unable to understand how Holmes-Binney could walk out on her children to undertake this journey will feel a part of her pain and fear. While this book may not persuade people to undertake a spiritual journey similar to the author's, the telling of her sojourn is crisp, vivid and realistic. (July) Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.",adventure;biographies & memoirs;books;specialty travel;specific groups;travel;travel writing;women,8
B000005JUM,"Gling-Glo 1990 release on UK Smekkleysa/ Mother/ One Little Indian, ajovial jazz album the Icelandic nymph cut with a jazz triowhile she was still the vocalist for the Sugarcubes. 16tracks, with all but two sung in Icelandic: covers of Leiber/ Stoller's 'Ruby Baby' & Oscar Hammerstein II/ JeromeKern's 'I Can't Help Loving That Man'. Highly acclaimed  recommended for anyone looking to augment their Bjorkor Sugarcubes collections!",alternative rock;broadway & vocalists;dance & electronic;jazz;music;pop;rock;world music,8
B00000DFET,"Acid Jazz Story: Old Testament 1988-96 46 original recordings licensed from the Acid Jazz, SonyMusic Entertainment & A Man Called Adam labels in the '80s &'90s. Nearly four hours long, it was compiled by Acid Jazzemployee Dean Rudland & features top tracks of the genre,including Jamiroquai ('W",alternative rock;dance & electronic;jazz;music;pop;r&b;rap & hip-hop;rock,8
0688137032,"The Invisible Thread The author of such accomplished children's works as The Bracelet and The Jar of Dreams offers a firsthand account of life in a Japanese American internment camp during WWII. Ages 11-up. Copyright 1995 Cahners Business Information, Inc.	""An eye opener."" -- --School Library Journal""Fascinating reading."" -- --Booklist",asian american;biographies & memoirs;books;ethnic & national;japanese;literature & fiction;teens;united states,8
0130843768,"Differential Equations with Graphical and Numerical Methods This book presents analytical, graphical and numerical methods in a unified wayas methods of solution and as means of illuminating concepts. Numerical methods are introduced in the first chapter, interpreted in the light of graphics, and provide the core theme around which the first seven chapters revolve.  These chapter titles are: The First Order Equation y = f(x,y); First Order Systems Introduction; Higher Order Linear Equations; First Order SystemsLinear Methods; Series Methods and Famous Functions; and Bifurcations and Chaos. The other three chapters cover the laplace transform; partial differential equations and fourier series; and the finite differences method.  A unique combination of the traditional topics of differential equations and computer graphics, for anyone interested in taking advantage of this learning package.",books;computer science;computers & technology;mathematics;new;science & math;science & mathematics;used & rental textbooks,8
B000NA1XXU,"John Madden's Heroes of Football Grade 36This title traces the evolution of professional football from its humble beginnings as an Ivy League-college pastime in the 19th century to one of the most popular spectator sports in the United States. In a somewhat dry narrative, Madden focuses on the development of the game, presenting chronological chapters that introduce significant time periods and identify key players and teams. The text emphasizes rules, prominent athletes, and strategies with sidebars and full-color photographs offering additional information. The author's name recognition through video games and his visibility as a sports commentator will be a natural lure for young readers. This clear, well-organized account is appropriate for report writers and is a solid choice for libraries needing to update their sports-history collections.Michael Giller, South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts and Humanities, Greenville Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	The emphasis in this picture-book-size volume is on pro rather than college football. The book relates how the game changed from a rough-and-tumble league sport centered in small Midwestern cities into the corporate powerhouse that it is today. Along the way, the authors discuss rule and strategy changes and major stars who made the modern game. Lots of photographs and sidebars are included, although many fans will wish for more pictures instead of the sometimes redundant text. Of course, John Madden has become a brand name, but his distinctive voice, heard in his TV color commentary, is apparent only in his brief, somewhat confusing introduction. Most of the text is rather workmanlike, so this is recommended only for libraries needing additional material on the history of the professional sport. A few additional sources, Web sites, and a glossary are appended. Todd MorningCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	Readers will enjoy the plethora of game photos and glimpses of the games greats in action. -- Kirkus Reviews	John Madden has spent his entire professional life as a football player, coach, or commentator. As head coach of the Oakland Raiders, he led his team to victory in Super Bowl XI. He has won fourteen Emmy Awards for his work in the booth and is the author of four New York Times bestsellers. Mr. Madden lives in Pleasanton, California, with his wife, Virginia.",biographies;books;children's books;football;literature & fiction;sports;sports & games;sports & recreation,8
1558533532,"Life's Little Instruction Book (Life's Little Instruction Book , Vol 3) Over five hundred suggestions and reminders on how to live a happy life are packed into this third volume of a winning best-seller. There are numerous copycats around which mimic the format and content; but Brown's suggestions are clear winners, providing positive and uplifting advice.  -- Midwest Book Review	H. Jackson Brown, Jr. is a New York Times number-one-best-selling author who lives in Nashville, Tennessee. He is the author of Life's Little Instruction Book (volumes I, II, and III), Live and Learn, and Pass It On (volumes I, II, and III), When You Lick a Slug Your Tongue Goes Numb, The Little Book of Christmas Joys, with Rosemary Brown and Kathy Peel, and with Robyn Spizman, A Hero in Every Heart. He has also written fourteen Life's Little Treasure Books and two Kids' Little Treasure Books.	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.",books;christian books & bibles;christian living;education & reference;fitness & dieting;health;religion & spirituality;spirituality,8
1570744424,"The Book of Jasher: Referred to in Joshua and Second Samuel Text: English (translation) Original Language: Hebrew	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.	--This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.	Believed by some to have been the original beginning of the Old Testament, The Book of Jasher has been suppressed and rediscovered numerous times since its initial translation from the Hebrew in AD 800.   Referred to in Joshua and Second Samuel, this apocryphal book of the Bible expands upon some of the stories we know so well: we meet Cain and Abel's three sisters, are privy to a more detailed account of the awful circumstances of the Great Flood and Noah's conduct toward the multitudes who assembled before his ark, and learn more about the women of the Bible.   Jasher's version of the story of Abraham is considered by many to be the most beautiful as this new perspective on the Old Testament will inspire believers and intrigue readers of ancient literature.	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.",ancient;books;history;humanities;new;religion & spirituality;religious studies;used & rental textbooks,8
0195111559,Innovations in Practice and Service Delivery across the Lifespan (Innovations in Practice and Service Delivery with Vulnerable) David Biegel and Arthur Blum are both at Case Western Reserve University.,books;politics & government;politics & social sciences;public affairs & policy;social sciences;social services & welfare;social work;sociology,8
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B000NKYPNU,Musical Story Books (various titles) Covers open to show the musical mechanisms 8 storybook styles,accessories;beauty & fashion;dress up & pretend play;jewelry;jewelry boxes;jewelry boxes & organizers;jewelry music boxes;toys & games,8
0071376097,"Paul Elvstrom Explains the Racing Rules of Sailing, 2001-2004 Paul Elvstrom is a renowned Olympic gold-medal sailor and has represented Denmark in nine Olympic games.  Soren Krause is a leading authority on the rules, a frequent judge on international regatta committees, and a member of the ISAF rule-making authority.",boating;books;education & reference;miscellaneous;reference;sailing;sports & outdoors;water sports,8
0895865793,"The Pleasures of Afternoon Tea Prior to the Boston Tea Party, tea-drinking was as much a social institution in this country as in England, notes Hynes (coauthor of The Silver/Gray Beauty Book. Two early 20th century American contributionsiced tea and tea bagsmay have been ""regarded as sacrilegious by true tea buffs,"" but they did increase the beverage's popularity here. Aimed at those readers susceptible to romance, tradition and Anglophilia, this work is somewhat self-conscious and lacks the personality and depth of Michael Smith's recent The Afternoon Tea Book (Atheneum). Notwithstanding, Pleasures meets high artistic standards (mouthwatering color photographs and an appealing design) and, most important, its recipes are varied and delicious. Hynes presents the traditional farescones, breads and buns, cakes, cookies and tartsas well as such hearty savories as Scotch eggs, Cornish pasties and mushroom turnovers, and more delicate finger sandwiches and filled puffs. Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.",books;coffee & tea;cookbooks;cooking by ingredient;drinks & beverages;food & wine;salsa & garnishes;sauces,8
0929371658,"Thank You, God! A Jewish Child's Book of Prayers PreSchool-Grade 2-Soft watercolors and a simple text introduce Jewish liturgy and tradition. These prayers honor daily experiences, holidays, and even death. Brief explanations precede each Hebrew prayer, followed by a phonetic transliteration (with an explanatory guide) and an English phrase usually thanking God for his blessings. Pastel illustrations, often used as a border, focus attention on the varying sizes of text. Containing more blessings and gentler pictures than Michelle Edwards's Blessed Are You (Lothrop, 1993), this is an excellent choice for family sharing and to balance religious collections.Bonnie Siegel, Westacres Public Library, West Bloomfield, MICopyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Ages 3-7. Haas' finely worked watercolors evince a sense of serenity, as though echoing one of prayer's purposes. The morning sun highlights the silhouettes of two awakening children; parents' heads bend in a sheltering posture over the children with whom they are welcoming Shabbat; the havdalah candle's broad flame reflects from the faces of youngsters transfixed by its flare. Children catching fireflies and decorating a succah are among the other tenderly painted images that frame the blessings and prayers, which are printed in Hebrew block letters, with a Roman alphabet transliteration and an English translation below. In addition, brief, explanatory notes often place the prayers within a relevant context for youngsters. This thoughtfully prepared book not only teaches the blessings that herald the holidays and that welcome and close each day and each meal, but also includes parts of the Mi Sheberach and the Kaddish, prayers to turn to as needed when a loved one is ill or has died or when praying for peace. There is surprisingly little duplication between this and Edwards' Blessed Are You: Traditional Everyday Hebrew Prayers.  Ellen Mandel	Simple and eloquent...wonderful watercolor washes evoke a sense of quiet and reverence and are prayers in themselves.  -- The Forward	Text: English, Hebrew (translation) Original Language: Hebrew	Judyth Groner and Madeline Wikler founded Kar-Ben Publishing in l974 and have authored several of its over 150 titles.  They have been honored by the Women's National Book Association and the Association of Jewish Libraries.",books;children's books;christianity;devotional;education & reference;judaism;prayer;religions,8
0609605658,"My Deepest Sympathies...: Meaningful Sentiments for Condolence Notes and Conversations, Plus a Guide to Eulogies Never are we more concerned with getting it right than when writing to one who has suffered a loss. In My Deepest Sympathies--, letter-writing guru Florence Isaacs guides us through the ins and outs of offering comfort and support with short yet meaningful notes that will long be remembered by their recipients. She offers guidelines for diverse situations, with sample letters to draw on, so that it's easy to strike the appropriate tone every time.         Isaacs explains that the individual circumstances help determine what's appropriate to say in a sympathy note, and she provides specific techniques for a wide range of relationships, from the death of a coworker's spouse to the loss of a friend's elderly parent from Alzheimer's. She also addresses complex situations like the death of an ex-wife, an estranged sibling, or a longtime companion. She even includes thoughtful words for the death of a pet.Whether it's for a blank note or a few extra lines on a card, Isaacs's advice runs the gamut from personal to professional. And she explains how to provide real help to the bereaved by making phone calls, running errands, or simply lending an ear. Information on funerals, memorial services, and proper etiquette when someone of a different culture has died will help readers avoid missteps in potentially awkward situations. Isaacs closes with techniques for effective eulogies, plus a special appendix of actual eulogies that illustrate ways in which readers can memorialize a loved one for family and friends.         Filled with practical information, My Deepest Sympathies-- makes it simple to say and do the right thing at difficult times.	A past president of the American Society of Journalists and Authors, FLORENCE ISAACS has contributed regularly to Good Housekeeping, Woman's Day, Redbook, Self, Parents, McCall's, and Reader's Digest, among others. She is the author of Just a Note to Say--, Business Notes, and Toxic Friends/True Friends. Isaacs is a native of Brooklyn, New York, and now lives in Manhattan with her husband.",books;business & investing;death & grief;education & reference;etiquette;grief & bereavement;reference;self-help,8
1594861250,"Creating the Good Life :Applying Aristotle's Wisdom to Find Meaning and Happiness To adopt O'Toole's own categories, this is a self-help book not for the many but for the rest of usthose willing to expend intellectual and emotional discipline in planning a life to fulfill one's potential: the true source of happiness, according to the author. O'Toole, a senior fellow at the Aspen Institute and author of more than a dozen books, confesses to having hungered in vain after literary stardom. Prompted by this disappointment to reconsider his life path, O'Toole began to ponder the relationship between happiness and success, and in this chatty, stimulating and at times gossipy self-help guide for professionals and business people, he shares his findings. Turning to Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics, he finds that the ancient philosopher forces one to ask oneself tough questions and to abandon youthful fantasies about money, power and fame. O'Toole goes on to critique in Aristotelian terms the values, life choices and deeds of prominent ""successful"" Americans, including Rudolph Giuliani, Bill Gates, Silicon Valley legend Jim Clark, high-tech entrepreneur Larry Ellison and numerous leading CEOs. He discusses what he casts as the immaturity of Bill Clinton and praises the ""truest Aristotelian"" he knowsa former high school chum who abandoned a business career to mentor 29 underprivileged children. O'Toole's dogged application of Aristotelian principles to the business world is thought provoking and engaging. Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	JAMES O'TOOLE is research professor in the Center for Effective Organizations at the University of Southern California and Mortimer J. Adler Senior Fellow of the Aspen Institute. He has written 14 books, the most recent being Leadership A-Z. He lives in San Francisco, California.WALTER ISAACSON, the president of the Aspen Institute, has been the chairman of CNN and the managing editor of Time magazine. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller Benjamin Franklin.",books;business & finance;business & investing;new;personal transformation;self-help;spiritual;used & rental textbooks,8
0335204953,"Social Structure (Issues in Society) Jose Lopez is a lecturer in Sociology at the University of Nottingham. He is the co-editor of After Postmodernism: An Introduction to Critical Realism (2000).  John Scott is Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex and at the University of Bergen, Norway. He has previously taught at the Universities of Strathclyde and Leicester. He is the editor of the student magazine Sociology Review and, with James Fulcher wrote the introductory text Sociology (1999). His most recent books include Sociological Theory (1995), Poverty and Wealth (1994), and Stratification and Power (1996).",anthropology;books;cultural;new;politics & social sciences;social sciences;sociology;used & rental textbooks,8
0152163980,"To Market, To Market ""In this clever riff on the old nursery rhyme, a plump matron makes a series of increasingly calamitous purchases of animals at the supermarket. This is one market trip children will wish to take again and again,"" PW said. Ages 5-8. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.	PreSchool-Grade 3?What begins with the traditional serene nursery rhyme turns into a slapstick excursion filled with mishap and mayhem. A ""fat pig"" is not enough for this ambitious shopper. The elderly woman makes return trips to the market for a hen, trout, lamb, cow, duck, and goat. While she is acquiring more, her earlier purchases are wreaking havoc. Patterned, staccato verses tell the zany tale, but it is Stevens's wonderfully wild illustrations that bring it to life. The conventional home's interior is pictured in flat gray charcoal tones. The woman and her animals are colorful, oversized figures that burst off the pages. The collage technique allows for the contrasting colors and styles that magnify the uncontained boisterous fun of this very imaginative book. Visual format, repetition, and rhyme make this title an ideal choice for sharing aloud. It could also be used as a springboard for writing projects as children start with a familiar rhyme and make it their own. All-in-all, a delightful, albeit raucous, romp.?Heide Piehler, Shorewood Public Library, WICopyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	A marketing trip from Miranda (Glad Monster, Sad Monster, p. 1309) that jiggity jigs off in time-honored nursery-rhyme fashion, but almost immediately derails into well-charted chaos. The foodstuffs--the fat pig, the red hen, the plump goose, the pea pods, peppers, garlic, and spice--are wholly reasonable in light of the author's mention of shopping at traditional Spanish mercados, which stock live animals and vegetables. Stevens transfers the action to a standard American supermarket and a standard American kitchen, bringing hilarity to scenes that combine acrylics, oil pastels, and colored pencil with photo and fabric collage elements. The result is increasing frazzlement for the shopper, an older woman wearing spectacles, hat, and purple pumps (one of which is consumed by her groceries). It's back to market one last time for ingredients for the hot vegetable soup she prepares for the whole bunch. True, her kitchen's trashed and she probably won't find a welcome mat at her supermarket hereafter, but all's well that ends well--at least while the soup's on. (Picture book. 4-8) -- Copyright 1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	An ideal choice for sharing aloud.School Library JournalThe skillfully wielded visual anarchy explodes off the page....This is one market trip children will wish to take again and again.Publishers WeeklyHowl as Miranda's retake blindsides Mother Goose with a shopping cart.The Bulletin	ANNE MIRANDA has written many childrens books, including Night Songs, which she also illustrated, and Glad Monster, Sad Monster: A Book About Feelings.  She lives in Madrid, Spain.JANET STEVENS is the author-illustrator of many books for children, including the Caldecott Honor Book Tops  Bottoms, the Texas Bluebonnet Award winner Cook-a-Doodle-Doo!, and, most recently, And the Dish Ran Away with the Spoon, which she cowrote with her sister, Susan Stevens Crummel. She lives in Boulder, Colorado.",animals;books;children's books;education & reference;farm animals;humor;literature & fiction;schools & teaching,8
1418423742,"Action Has No Season: Strategies and Secrets to Gaining Wealth and Authority Michael Roberts is the classic American entrepreneur. Born to middle class hard working parents, educated in the St. Louis public school system, he worked his way through college and law school to become one of St. Louis' leading businessmen. Throughout his rise in business, Mr. Roberts maintained a strong commitment to the African-American community from which he came. Locating his headquarters in the heart of this community, his endeavors over the last twenty-nine years have created thousands of jobs and entrepreneurial opportunities, raised the level of economic activity and enhanced the quality of life for the African-American community. Mr. Roberts' broad range of professional knowledge and experience developed as both a business owner and public official (St. Louis Board of Aldermen, 1977-1985) encompasses the application of innovative financing strategies for large public projects, public-private sector development negotiation strategies, and successful management techniques for urban commercial properties. His leadership in the creation of innovative strategies for financing of redevelopment projects propelled the City into a major redevelopment phase that lasted throughout the 1980s. Roberts-Roberts & Associates (RR) was founded by Michael Roberts and his brother Steven in 1974. RR is a minority-owned business consulting and construction management firm headquartered in St. Louis, MO. RR serves major corporations, governmental and quasi-governmental agencies, and private owners in the management of all phases of a construction project, including the design and management of programs to ensure the participation of Minority-owned, Women-owned, and Local Small Businesses. RR as served as consultant to a wide variety of public and private sector clients over the past twenty-nine years. Under the leadership of Michael Roberts, RR has been responsible for managing MBE/WBE participation as construction",books;business & finance;business & investing;humanities;new;philosophy;politics & social sciences;used & rental textbooks,8
0425183858,"Deal with the Dead A new Deal is always cause for celebration. In this sixth outing for  Standiford's broody antihero, the Miami contractor is ready to break out the  champagne and celebrate the big contract he's just been awarded. The job will  not only put DealCo in the black again, it may also restore the luster on the  family business that was tarnished by the suicide of its founder, Deal's larger- than-life old man.  But Deal soon learns there are strings attached to the contract, and they are  all tied to his father's friendship with Lucky Rhodes, a long-dead gangster  whose son wants something besides the multimillion dollar project he's hired  Deal to build. It's not only Richard Rhodes who needs Deal to find the treasure  entrusted by Lucky to Barton Deal for safekeeping a generation ago. The corrupt  federal agent who set Deal's father up as a snitch and maybe even a murderer  back then is still looking for Lucky's money and has no compunctions about  trapping Barton's son in the same snare. Deal with the Dead shows off  Standiford's superb pacing. The action doesn't stop, but no nuance of character  development is sacrificed to the swiftly developing plot. The suicide of Barton  Deal and its effect on his son has been an underlying theme in Standiford's  thrillers since he first introduced John Deal in Done Deal. Here the  talented author not only explains this back story, but he uses it to tell a  powerful tale of redemption and family honor. The result is the best so far in a  long-running and justly popular string of thrillers that will more than satisfy  readers who may have enjoyed and appreciated Standiford's recent non-Deal  mystery, Black Mountain,  but still missed the popular series hero. --Jane Adams	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	After a 30-month-long hiatus that produced the Deal-less action chiller Black Mountain (Forecasts, Jan. 31), erudite suspense author Standiford brings back urban Miami builder John DealAa sort of ""Galahad with a claw hammer""Ain this artfully crafted, ingeniously layered noir fiction. Moving easily back and forth from the late '50s-early '60s (when Deal's construction mogul father, Barton Deal, played a major part in building the Gleason/Sinatra-era skyscrapers of Miami and Miami Beach) to time present, when John is struggling to restore the fortunes of DealCo, the novel also hopscotches from Turkey to Paris, the Caribbean and South Florida, taking scion Deal and his ex-cop sidekick Vernon Driscoll on a collision course with the past. When Deal learns he has been selected as the winning bidder on a lucrative government-funded project, he is visited by a mysterious figure claiming to be a federal spook. John is told that, to save himself from bankruptcy, his father was coerced into an alliance with a Mafia kingpin, then forced to turn informer for the same covert government agent. Caught between the forces of good and evil, Deal's father was ordered to assassinate his friend Grant Rhodes, a high-rolling owner of a gambling ship and several casinos. His betrayal of the mob led to the elder Deal's apparent suicide. In time present, John is caught up in a similar quandary as Rhodes's son shows up to collect his father's treasure stash. Standiford endows his sixth Deal adventure with a gloriously labyrinthine plot, Arthurian characters and Gatsbyesque atmospherics, proving once more that he is a master of crime fiction. Considering that Deal fans have been waiting more than two years for their fix, this satisfying addition to the series should enjoy brisk sales. (Feb.) Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	In his combination of toughness and erudition, Standiford's series hero, John Deal, is similar to Robert B. Parker's Spenser. Deal's wounds and conflicts, however, are far closer to the surface than the implacable Spenser's. In this, Deal's sixth appearance, the independent building contractor working in South Florida is still marinating in his guilt over how his wife was nearly killed during his last caper and his agony over the splintering apart of their marriage. A blast from Deal's late father's checkered past, in the form of a visit from one of Dad's cronies just after Deal has been awarded a lucrative waterfront project, threatens to annihilate his carefully pieced together recovery. Deal learns how his father had to pay for his success and learns that he must follow the same path, unless he can find the key to breaking out of the blackmailing cycle that extends up to the Department of Justice. Standiford presents a classic ""call from the grave"" mystery, filled with emotional intensity, as Deal struggles to retrieve his father's reputation while battling the killers out to get him and his family if he doesn't cave in to their demands. The action is nonstop, the setting of volatile South Florida from the 1950s to the present is fascinating, and the characterization of a man forced to defend what he loves because of the greed of others is compelling. Connie FletcherCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	...an essential addition to the [John Deal] series.  -- Miami Herald	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Les Standiford is the author of seven previous novels, and is the past recipient of the Frank O'Connor Award for Short Fiction and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. He is the director of the creative writing program at Florida International University in Miami.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;contemporary;literature & fiction;mystery;suspense;thriller & suspense;thrillers;united states,8
1890434558,"Pride of the Inland Seas: An Illustrated History of the Port of Duluth-Superior C. Patrick Labadie directed Duluths Canal Park Marine Museum (now Lake Superior Maritime Visitors Center) from its founding in 1973 until 2001. During those years he became a noted speaker and writer on Duluth-Superior and Great Lakes history. The son and grandson of shipyard workers, Labadie was reared in Detroit and attended the University of Detroit. He began his career with the Dossin Great Lakes Museum, became director of the Saugatuck (Michigan) Marine Museum, then earned a masters license for tugs and worked for Gaelic Tugboat Company in Detroit. In 2003 he was appointed historian for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrations National Marine Sanctuary in Alpena, Michigan. Labadie collaborated with Bill Beck in chronicling the early years of Pride of the Inland Seas.",americas;books;education & reference;history;professional & technical;state & local;transportation;united states,8
0764539973,"Teach Yourself VISUALLY Word 2003 Are you a visual learner? Do you prefer instructions that show you how to do something -- and skip the long-winded explanations?   If so, then this book is for you. Open it up and youll find clear, step-by-step screen shots that show you how to tackle scores of Word 2003 tasks, from side-by-side document comparisons and using the Reading Layout view to researching information without leaving Word.   ""Your Teach Yourself VISUALLY books are incredible and I can use them in my computer classes. All my students love them!""   -- Michele Schalin(Lockhart, TX)   ""What fantastic teaching books you have produced! Congratulations to you and your staff.""   -- Bruno Tonon (Melbourne, Australia)         ""Teach Yourself VISUALLY"" sidebars offer practical tips and tricks Full-color screen shots demonstrate each task   Succinct explanations walk you through step by step Two-page lessons break big topics into bite-sized modules	Ruth Maran (Mississauga, Ontario, Canada) has over 10,000,000 books in print and translated into 26 languages. She is part of the award-winning maranGraphics family. Her end-user and programming books alike are best sellers and have appeared on the Publishers Weekly best seller list. Some of her best selling titles include Teach Yourself VISUALLY Windows XP, Master VISUALLY Windows XP, and Windows XP Simplified, all of which are on Bookscan's Top 50 Computer Book list.",books;computer science;computers & technology;home computing & how-to;microsoft;new;used & rental textbooks;word,8
0743254945,"How to Organize (Just About) Everything: More Than 500 Step-by-Step Instructions for Everything from Organizing Your Closets to Planning a Wedding to Creating a Flawless Filing System As this massive guide shows, anti-clutter expert Walshs expertise extends well beyond closets and cabinets. The star of TLCs Clean Sweep offers advice on how to organize your whole life, from education (""Plan Your Course of Study in College"") to finances (""Organize a Loan Application"") to social life (""Plan a Prom""). And while you may not think you need to know what to do in case of an Ebola outbreak, can it hurt to be prepared? Most of the 500 subjects are covered in a page of clear, commonsensical advice, with warnings and extra little tips highlighted along the margins of the page. You may think more than one page is needed to explain how to be happy, but Walsh actually offers a concise summary of the basic points found in hundreds of self-help books. You could save yourself a lot of time by getting this useful compendium.Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	Don't fool yourself. This is so much more than simple organization; in fact, cable TV Clean Sweep host Walsh has corralled 11 contributors to help cover the universe of how-to's. Inside the 16 sections are 501 activities, both the usual and out-of-the-ordinary tasks, from getting organized and planning a remodeling project to joining the Peace Corps or becoming an astronaut. Each features the step-by-step procedures, tips, a warning (if necessary), and ""who knew?""--additional advice designed to make the activity a success: for instance, for running errands, arrange sticky notes in the sequence of the stops you need to make. A personal favorite may turn out to be the last activity--be happy--which features steps like dream big, make a conscious decision to be happy, eat chocolate, work out, find satisfaction in little things, and take care of yourself. A great humane reference anytime, anywhere, for any occasion. Barbara JacobsCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	Peter Walsh helps harried individuals and Fortune 500 companies alike by integrating simple design strategies with classic organizational principles. His techniques can be seen in action on TLC's hit series Clean Sweep where he works magic with a couple's out-of-control clutter and disorganization in only two days. Peter divides his time between Los Angeles and his native Australia.	Foreword  Is your household a fine-tuned model of efficiency? Or do you simply close the door when the piles and heaps get out of control? If your home, your calendar and your inbox are bursting at the seams, rest assured, that you're not alone: We're all guilty of acquiring more and more stuff and have fewer places to put it. Schedules are overrun with commitments, checkbooks stagger under ever-increasing debt loads, and closets long for breathing room. Where does it end?  Being organized is the key to a simpler life, in which the things we own reflect who we are and everything has its place. How to Organize (Just About) Everything covers the typical organizing dilemmas -- closets, garage, desk -- but goes beyond mere cosmetic fixes to the root of the problem. You'll find tried-and-true strategies that will help everything from the hopelessly scattered to the chronically late -- bringing relief to the most hard core pack rat.  This definitive guide will help you organize your life from cradle to grave whether you're planning your family or planning your estate. Tackle affairs of the heart and meet Mr. Or Ms. Right, arrange a wedding and orchestrate the perfect conception. Stay on top of your kids' schedules, homework and birthday parties. When you need to get away from it all, investigate a trove of travel tips to help plan your honeymoon, a fishing trip to Alaska or the perfect day at Disneyland. Discover a surprising range of topics in chapters devoted entirely to improving your community, planning celebrations and events and dealing with life's unexpected situations.  Your first tip: Start with chapter one (Get Organized) and get a handle on the basics. You'll learn how to Write an Effective To-Do List, Overcome Chronic Disorganization, Get Rid of What You Don't Want and Set Goals. Check the difficulty level for each topic -- the more paper clips, the more challenging the task -- and the Tips, Who Knew? and Warning sidebars for additional insight. You'll be primed to declutter your home, streamline your workday, plot your career, master your finances and much, much more.  Thanks to all of our authors and professional organizers for expertly distilling organizing principles into concise topics (read more about them on the Contributors page). A top of the hat to Julie Thomson and Ginny McLean for diving into the breach with flair and to managing editor Jennifer Block Martin for nailing it time and time again with style and grace. Special thanks to Brynn Breuner for deftly steering the project and without whom this book would never have seen the light of day, and to Ken, for making me brave.  So, conquer that clutter, find your keys and welcome deadlines with open arms. With How to Organize (Just About) Everything, you'll be ready for anything life throws at you.  Peter Walsh  Copyright  2004 by Weldon Owen Inc.",books;crafts;education & reference;fitness & dieting;health;hobbies & home;planning;weddings,8
B000GFJBCC,"NFL Football Team 16 Ounce Stainless Steel Travel Coffee Mug Ever wonder why your morning coffee is always cold before you're able to enjoy it on the way to work? What you need is our dependable, stainless steel NFL football team travel mugs that will keep that steamy brew hot while you're driving. Not only can you lock in the heat or keep the ice cool in your beverage, but you can also sport the colors and logo of your favorite NFL team! The plastic liner and lid inside keep your drink safe from unwanted outdoor temperatures. Each NFL football team collector stainless steel travel mug contains a uniquely sculpted and enameled three dimensional pewter emblem that is designed to depict both the team and its community. Each mug stands 7"" tall and holds approximately 16oz of your favorite beverage. In addition, it is insulated to make sure that hot drinks stay hot. New design features a screw-on lid with drink spout to ensure that the lid won't accidentally pop off and spill your beverage. Remember to show your pride and drink right with our NFL Football Stainless Steel Travel Mugs!",commuter mugs & tumblers;fan shop;home & garden;home & kitchen;kitchen & dining;sports & outdoors;storage & organization;travel mugs,8
0786715723,"The Palace Tiger: A Detective Joe Sandilands Mystery (Joe Sandilands Murder Mysteries) Starred Review. The fourth Joe Sandilands whodunit (after 2004's The Damascened Blade) places Cleverly in the first rank of historical mystery writers; with each successive novel, she has displayed an increasingly impressive ability to depict a convincing, three-dimensional colonial India through the perspective of her rugged, insightful sleuth, who balances acumen and action. This time, Sandilands, a Scotland Yarder whose temporary posting to the Raj keeps getting extended, investigates the death of an Indian royal prince. As the maharajah, the dead man's father, is himself in failing health, and the future leadership of his domain is of vital importance to the British, Sandilands must ascertain whether foul play was involved. But as soon as Sandilands arrive on the scene, the next heir to the throne falls victim to a fatal accident. The detective divides his attention between unraveling the hidden alliances within the royal family and seeking to protect the maharajah's third son, the new presumptive heir. Cleverly's trademark twisty plotting rises to new heights, and while the clues are all hidden in plain sight, even veteran mystery readers may find it a considerable challenge to arrive at the correct solution. As the author's research and period detail are exemplary, this should have crossover appeal to Paul Scott readers and others fascinated with the waning years of the British Raj. Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	Scotland Yard inspector Joseph Sandilands is once again in India visiting Governor Sir George Jardine. It is 1922, and the Maharajah of Ranipur, a British ally, has requested assistance. A man-eating tiger is terrorizing the villagers, so the governor sends Sandilands and Edgar Troop, an experienced hunter, to kill it. The tiger, however, turns out to be the least of their problems. The maharajah is dying, and the line of succession is unclear. His first son died in a suspicious incident involving a panther, and the second died in a plane crash. The remaining son, only 12 years old, is the British favorite to succeed his father. Sandilands and Troop must ensure his survival while tracking down the murderer and navigating the rough terrain of the palace social order. As always, Cleverly (The Last Kasmiri Rose, 2002; Ragtime in Simla, 2003; The Damascened Blade, 2004) draws readers into the British raj with colorful historical details, a complex plot, and fascinating characters. This fine addition to the series will please readers who enjoy visiting colonial India. Barbara BibelCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	""  'The atmosphere of the dying days of the Raj is colourfully captured. An enjoyable read.' Sunday Telegraph   '..combines attention to colourful historical detail with a modern rendition of the classical mystery novel.' The Observer""	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Barbara Cleverly is the author of five novels of historical suspense, including The Damascened Blade, winner of the CWA Historical Dagger Award, The Last Kashmiri Rose, Ragtime in Simla, The Palace Tiger, and The Bees Kiss.  She lives in Cambridge, England where she is now at work on the second Laetitia Talbot mystery, which Delta will publish in 2008.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	Chapter OneNorthern India, 1922Putli's mother, her hands on her hips, straightened painfully, glad after two hours to break the rhythmic coordination of arm and shoulder, glad to stand back and count the mounting bundles of tall cut grass that had fallen to the steady swish of her sickle. The weight of the coming baby was beginning to unbalance her and slow her down. There was no doubt of that, but an early start while the oat grass was still wet had paid off and she was pleased. She called out a practised musical cry answered by her daughter working a few yards behind her on the steep slope that led up to the forest beyond the village. Glad to share this pause, mother and daughter smiled with wordless tenderness.Her mother looked with satisfaction at the eight-year-old girl. Yesterday had been the most important day of her daughter's life. She had been feted and spoiled by the whole village and fed to bursting with puris and rich milk and sweetmeats. It had been her wedding day. Putli's mother had been proud to see the pretty girl, her eldest child, dressed for the first time in the costume of a married woman. No longer the infant in simple cotton dress, she was now wearing the tight blue bodice, the short skirt and the chaddar of the women of her tribe.Putli's mother remembered the two small brown right hands clasping each other as the bride and groom made their marriage vows and she had been happy to see that the boy chosen from a neighbouring village was as strong and handsome as her daughter. The bridegroom's mother, a distant cousin, had earned her approval too, and this was very important for Putli's mother. In a few years Putli would leave her family home and go to join her young husband as his wife and become a part of his family. This was the way of it with girl children. Putli's mother acknowledged and accepted it but she would be sad. Oh, she had two good sons who had come after Putli and of these she was rightly proud, but it was her oldest child who was secretly her joy. She had a loving husband who had allowed her without question to rear Putli, although not all mothers of first-born girl children were so lucky. And her care had been rewarded by the constant good humour and energy of the child. She would miss her sleepy smile as she rose uncomplaining in the early morning to help with the meal and polish the cooking pots; she would miss her chatter as they brought back the cows or harvested the wheat. The light of her life would too soon be shining at another woman's hearth.Putli opened her mouth to shout something to her mother but her mother never heard the words. In deep and stealthy silence a gold and black shape detached itself from the grass behind Putli and leapt at her. An iron-clad paw scythed through the air and severed the slender neck with one blow. The dark head, still entangled in its chaddar, fell to the ground and the tiger, seizing the body in its jaws, turned to make off through the long grass towards the trees above. With a despairing howl, Putli's mother swung about. Rage, disgust and hatred gave strength to her slim arm and she hurled her sickle in a glittering arc at the savage face. By the grace of the jungle spirits, the spinning blade hit the tiger in the eye and, half blind, his shattering roar changed to an almost human cry of pain and affront. Releasing his prey, the beast shook the sickle from his great head, turned and in a second was again a shadow amongst the grasses. The crumpled body of Putli lay at her mother's feet.Chapter TwoSimla, May 1922Ambling down the Mall, Joe Sandilands steered his sweating hireling through the thickening crowds to return it to the stables at the Chummery, enjoying, as always, the early morning sounds of the waking town. Simla, the summer capital of British India, rose early and went about its business at a brisk pace. Uniformed men were striding between the military establishments along the Mall, red-coated chaprassis, message boxes on hips, were speeding from Post Office to government buildings, their energy fuelling the flow of information spreading out from this unremarkable street and pulsing around the world. Joe shook his head half in admiration, half in disbelief. The eccentric little town perched in the Himalayan foothills half-way between the scorching plains of India and the frozen summits of the Tibetan mountains looked like nothing so much as a displaced Godalming. And yet, between March and November, the mighty British Empire was governed from here and that meant half the world, Joe supposed, conjuring up a memory of the pink-coloured lands he'd studied on his globe as a child.Already the first nursemaids pushing baby carriages down the street were greeting each other, their fluting voices a treble accompaniment to the distant pounding of marching feet. As he wove through the purposeful crowds, Joe felt a stab of puritanical guilt to be at leisure when this small world was at work.Not all of this small world though! He took comfort in the thought that his own temporary lack of occupation was as nothing to the endemic sloth he would find at the house he was about to visit. Eight o'clock. The four inhabitants of the Chummery would most certainly be still in bed sleeping off whatever had been the indulgence of the previous night, or, at best, tremulously astir. With any luck he would be able to sneak off back to the Residence without announcing himself. But then he remembered that there was in his pocket a telegram. He had been charged by Sir George Jardine, his host, the acting Governor of Bengal, to deliver this to Edgar Troop. Edgar, the leader of the louche coterie that inhabited the once grand house on Mount Pleasant, earned his position in the group by being the oldest, the most enterprising and the most unscrupulous. Unaccountably, he seemed to have Sir George's confidence. He did not have Joe's confidence, and though they had stood shoulder to shoulder in dangerous circumstances in the wilderness with that instinctive understanding and trust that two military men fighting towards the same objective experience, Joe found Captain Troop enigmatic, his style of living repellent. When he asked himself why he continued to spend more than a polite five minutes with the man, he had to admit that Edgar's cheerful cynicism and his appetite for life were ultimately seductive.You'll be returning your horse to the Chummery? Well now, when you get there I'd like you to deliver this to Edgar in person, Sir George had said. Don't entrust it to anyone else in that hopeless establishment! Why? I don't often call at the Chummery but the last time I did so there were two telegrams on the mantelpiece. One was a year old and the other--goddammit!--was nearly two years old. Both unopened and one was from me! This could be important and I don't want it to go astray.Joe didn't want to do this. He knew that if he was intercepted it would be nearly impossible to avoid a second breakfast leading to a drink or two, a morning of inconsequential gossip shading off into tiffin and imperceptibly into an afternoon moving lethargically round the snooker table. He wondered whether, if he rode round the back, he could hand his horse over, leave the telegram with a servant and make a discreet withdrawal, and this he resolved to try. To no avail. He had hardly turned into the compound before a window banged open and a cheerful voice summoned.Must have smelled the coffee, Sandilands! Hospitably, the beaming face of Jackie Carlisle appeared at the window. Come on board and tell us the latest news! You who have the ear of the great and good must have something interesting to tell us in this otherwise uneventful town.Joe knew that he was caught and Jackie continued, Heard someone say the other day, 'Where Sandilands goes, trouble follows.' Come on, Joe, live up to your reputation--enliven our dull lives.Reluctantly, Joe handed his horse to a syce who had hurried forward on hearing the hooves on the gravel. In the Chummery, Joe had discovered, the grooms knew their business, but the house servants, of whom there seemed to be a number varying from day to day and from two to ten, seemed to take their pace from their employers. He let himself into the house and made for the breakfast room. Here at least there was order. The table was laid for four with piles of bread and fruit and a large steaming bowl of porridge. A large pot of coffee too--good coffee. That you could count on. Three of the inmates were already gathered around the table and dressed in their usual crumpled white linen suits. Jackie Carlisle entered clad in a silk dressing gown and made his way to the sideboard. Joe watched in awe as Jackie poured himself out a drink and threw it down in one gulp. His eyes bulged and his purple face took on a darker shade. He crowed, he stuttered as he fought for breath.Christ! said Joe, impressed. What was that, Jackie? and he waited while Jackie spluttered on.Oh, for God's sake--someone loosen his stays, muttered Edgar.Only thing that gets me going these days, Jackie managed at last. Want some?I'd need to know what it was, said Joe guardedly.Edgar intervened. Don't touch the bloody stuff! he said. It's wormwood. Absinthe.Absinthe? said Joe, surprised. I thought it was illegal?Yes, said Jackie, wiping his mouth and looking round vaguely, I believe it is.So it should be, said Bertie Hearne-Robinson. It'll kill him sooner or later.Edgar picked up the glass and sniffed it. This is nothing, he said. When I was in the Russian army, most of my fellow officers imbibed it nasally.Edgar, is that linguistically possible? Joe asked.Possibly not. But certainly physically possible! Witnessed it many times. Th...	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	Joe Sandilands, Scotland Yard detective and WWI hero stationed in India, is  sent to Ranipur to help kill a man-eating tiger. Upon his arrival, the heir to the Maharajah of Ranipur is killed in an airplane accident. Caught in the byzantine intrigue of the Indian royal family, Sandilands realizes that his death and the death of the previous heir were not accidental. Terry Wale's crisp accents and varied pacing subtly differentiate each character, whether Scots, British, Indian, or American. Sandilands's investigation is painstakingly detailed, and Wale's narration is precise as the author weaves motivation and method into palace politics and murder. M.B.K.  AudioFile 2005, Portland, Maine-- Copyright  AudioFile, Portland, Maine	      --This text refers to the 							Audio CD	 edition.",books;british;british detectives;genre fiction;historical;literature & fiction;mystery;thriller & suspense,8
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0931674468,"Brave as a Bunny Can Be Alison Julian  2001      The road to writer/illustrator of a childrens books can be an interesting one, and that is never more true than for Alison Julian,  author/illustrator of Brave As a Bunny Can Be.    Her story, in her own words:    Although I have a degree from Cal State in graphic design, I am a self-taught painter. Maybe I come by it naturally, since two of my grandparents and both of my parents were all working artists.    My early work was in the animation/film background industry and has included everything from feature films to TV commercials to teaching others her craft.  Along the way I earned Emmys for two different  hour TV specials.    The move in the animation industry to computer-generated images has taken away the fun of working in animation.  It was my disappointment in the kind of work the industry was doing that was an incentive for me to try writing and illustrating childrens books.    I love to paint gorgeous things and I love books, so this journey has been truly a labor of love. I think books provide children with tiny educations, a way of exploring their inner and outer worlds in ways they otherwise could never hope to do.      I hope that children will be able to get lost in these illustrations, to experience that momentary, delightful suspension of time and duty, to travel with their minds as I did when I was a child.  For me, it was as wonderful as the idea of being able to fly.  If I can be the stewardess on some childs flight of fancy, Ill be overjoyed, but Ill happily settle for folks to say, ooooh.    Alison and her husband Darrell Dooley live in Los Angeles with an assortment of cats, a dog, and a collection of misbehaving wild animals who visit their back yard feeders.  They have one daughter and one granddaughter.",animals;books;children's books;emotions & feelings;family life;literature & fiction;rabbits;social situations,8
1558749438,"Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul on Tough Stuff: Stories of Tough Times and Lessons Learned (Chicken Soup for the Soul) Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen, the New York Times and USA Today best-selling coauthors of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series, have dedicated their lives to the personal and professional success of others.Kimberly Kirberger is the author of the New York Times best-selling Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul series as well as Chicken Soup for the College Soul and Chicken Soup for the Parent's Soul. Kirberger is also the author of the successful Teen Love series and is president of Inspiration And Motivation for Teens, Inc. (I.A.M. for Teens. She frequently speaks to, and in support of, teens nationwide.	Our Song   You asked me to sing to you. I complained, Aw, Mom, I'll wake people up. Once again, I let my ever-present stage fright come before you. Looking back, it's hard to believe I was so selfish. But you persisted, and eventually I caved.  I sang our favoritesBarbra Streisand, Linda Ronstadt and Bette Midler. My voice was quiet and hushed, commiserate with the dim light in the room. I made sure the sound didn't penetrate the walls. You listened with your eyes closed, then thanked me, and told me how lovely and peaceful it was.  When we brought you home that last week in January, I would sit with you in the evenings. I read to you from The Tragedy of Richard the Third, knowing it was your favorite. Of course, I made sarcastic comments along the way. Lady Anne was the biggest idiot in the world. My eyes searched yours for a response, hoping they would open and smile at my glib attempts.  I read you poetry from Robbie Burns and Walt Whitman, and rubbed lotion on your hands. Finally, I worked up the courage to sing to you again. You weren't able to ask me this time. Grandma peeked through the door and gave us a tearful smile. I stopped. Keep singing to your mother, she said. When I finished Dad asked me, Would you sing at the memorial service? You were lying right beside me, and suddenly it seemed so perverse to have this conversation in front of you. I don't know if I can. I'll try. We didn't speak of it again.  That Saturday, after you were gone, I went home and practiced with a little help from the Absolut bottle. I needed you to hear me one last time, beautiful and unblemished.  And then there I was, standing at the podium. I didn't tell anyone what was planned in case I chickened out. While the minister told me when to come up during the service, Shirley, who was giving the eulogy, asked, But what if someone stands up before Jennifer? I shot back, Well, now, they'll just have to wait, won't they? She laughed, You are just like your mother. I smiled and thanked her for the compliment.  My hands shook as I faced the microphone. I spoke a few words to gather my courage and compose myself. Then, very quietly, I sang Somewhere over the Rainbow.  I thought back to when I was a little girl. You would call me on the phone during one of your trips to watch The Wizard of Oz with me on TV. Miles apart and racking up the long-distance charges, we would both squeal during the tornado scene. We sang duets, and trios when Ashlea rode in the car with us. It was our song.  I finished the last line, If happy little bluebirds fly, beyond the rainbow, why oh why can't I? Then I whispered, Mom, you have beautiful wings now. May they take you wherever you want to go. . . .  At least a hundred people witnessed the most difficult moment of my life, but only one person mattered. Of course, I will sing for you, Mom. Feel free to ask me any time.  Jennifer Dalrymple-Mozisek       What She Doesn't Know  My friend has a problem, and sometimes I feel like I'm the only one who notices her when she's lost and she's tormented and she's alone in the world. And when she's high. She comes to me and she tells me what she's done today, whether it's speed or cocaine or something bigger and faster, something harder and louder, something else that takes the person I laugh with and depend on somewhere she can't stay.  She is ripping herself away from her truth, and the only way I can reach her is to let her know that I care about her. All I can do is listen to her babble when she's high and weep when she's coming down, because I can't fix her. All I can be is a friend to her until she realizes she has a problem, until she stops running from her daytime self to the lure of things that make her worries rest. I can't make her stop. So it's been hard to have her pass out and the line go dead. To have her come to my house running on speednot to be with me, but so that she doesn't get caught.  It is my right to help her. And to point out to her how strong she is, how real and breathing and clear she is to me, and to everyone. Because she is calling for help, but doesn't know it yet. She is yelling and swallowing her tears, because somewhere she knows that she can't keep packing herself away. Sometime this anger or fury or sadness will find her, and she needs to stand in its torrential downpour and get filled by it, because somewhere inside her she is empty. I can't be her mother, and I can't be with her all the time, telling her what she can put in her body and what she can't. So she has gotten lost somewhere in the deep end, and I can't pull her out, but I can show her how she can do it herself.  I am watching her, and I am hugging her and trying to remind her of the countless reasons why I am so much better from knowing her. I can listen to her when she needs me, and when she doesn't. I can let her know that no matter what she does she is my friend, and nothing will change that. I can take a step back and see what's taking parts of her away. I can encourage her to answer honestly when I ask how she is. I can remind her about moderation. I can point out the people who love her. I can show her how much she needs to stop for herself. I can be a positive influence on her. I can listen to her when her voice hints of this thing that she is missing and can't find. She needs to see for herself that her daytime self is alive and beating and multi-colored. I can help her remember what her life was like before the dealers and the midnight fixes. I can help her stand tall and strong, on feet and legs and ankles she trusts. I can help her see that life is not about three-hour solutions that make her wake up feeling dead. I can be someone safe to her. I can care about her so much that I point her to the exit and hold her hand as she gets there.  My friend has a problem, and I am helping her. I am listening and I am talking and I am working with her and I am learning how to be the best to her. I have unshakable confidence in her, and I know that she can stand where she is and she can stop. I can be the person she turns to, because she can't see right now that she can turn to herself. She can't see it yet, but soon.  Kate Reder   Our Song 2000 Jennifer Dalrymple-Mozisek. What She Doesn't Know 1998 Kate Reder. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Reprinted from Chicken Soup for Teenage Soul on Tough Stuff 2001 by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Kimberly Kirberger. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the written permission of the publisher. Publisher: Health Communications, Inc., 3201 SW 15th Street, Deerfield Beach, FL 33442.",books;education & reference;inspirational;parenting;parenting & relationships;religion & spirituality;spirituality;teens,8
0937381578,"101 Ideas for Homebrew Fun The only book with 101 bizarre, interactive, and zany activities for   homebrewers of all levels and anyone who relishes beer!    Only Ray Daniels could have devised so many outrageous activities to celebrate beer and the   art of homebrewing. His book is filled with fun ideas for social get-togethers, homebrew   clubs, and individuals and is brimming with cool adventures and beermaking advice.    Activities include:  Brewing in wacky places, like the zoo, in an art gallery under a Picasso, at your local   campground, or on top of the Sears Tower in Chicago.   Creating culinary delights with homebrew ingredients, like Malt Waffles, Spent Grain   Cookies, Smoked Porter Cheesecake, and A Soft Spot for Pretzels.   Brewing weird beers, like Hobgoblin's Great Pumpkin Beer, A Jolly Ale for Old Saint   Nick, Are You Porter or Stout?, Hard Cider That's a Snap, Mead from Heaven, and   Sour Mash Beer.    And last but not least, grab your pith helmet, khakis, and petri dish for a yeast safari, and   learn how to harvest thousand of different yeast strains.	Ray Daniels",agricultural sciences;beer;books;cookbooks;drinks & beverages;food & wine;food science;science & math,8
0819189626,"The Bridge People Jackson Underwood is Research Anthropologist, Adaptation of the Homeless Mentally Ill Project, Department of Psychiatry, UCLA.",books;education & reference;new;politics & social sciences;poverty;social sciences;sociology;used & rental textbooks,8
1563977419,"Speaking of Journals In this awkwardly framed compendium, Graham interviews 27 children's authors of varying degrees of fame, asking them to reflect on the role of journal-writing in their professional and personal lives. Recurring topics include the mechanics of keeping a journal or sketchbook, inspirations for journal entries and the often symbiotic relationship between the authors' private jottings and their published work. While some of the interviews ramble, the writers are often eloquent and their insights into the creative process will especially please fans of the individual authors, children's literature buffs and aspiring writers. However, Graham's plodding introductions to each writer unnecessarily--and gratingly--paraphrase or quote from the interview that immediately follows in its entirety, so that much of the material appears twice. Readers are better off going straight to the diverting tidbits embedded in the interviews: in high school, Judith Logan Lehne ""lied"" in her diaries when she wrote that a boy she never dated had asked her out and she ""almost fainted."" (""I worried about this lying until I decided to be a fiction writer,"" quips Lehne.) Jack Gantos recalls that he inserted the corpse of a ""roadkill mouse"" into his boyhood diary to keep his sister out; Gretchen Will Mayo's brothers once pulled pages out of her locked diary with tweezers and sold them to a neighbor for five cents. Other contributors include Jean Craighead George, Graham Salisbury, Bruce Coville, Jacqueline Woodson and Naomi Shihab Nye. All ages. Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information, Inc.	Gr 4-8-This collection of essays by and interviews with writers for children and young adults is a rich source of material for teachers who want to expose their students to a variety of diary, journal, and notebook-keeping practices. From David Harrison's manila envelopes crammed full of clippings and notes to Naomi Shihab Nye's notebooks, which she describes as ""a useful jumble...a secret room,"" Graham documents the writers' habits and practices. Each chapter focuses on a different person and begins with a childhood photograph and a short essay about his or her journal writing, followed by material from an interview with the author. The interviews are generally chock-full of interesting, salient details, but by repeating much of the information (in some incidences, almost to the exact words) in her introductory piece, Graham dilutes their power. The book includes 27 authors with a good balance between female and male voices, but Jacqueline Woodson is the only nonwhite author included.-Barbara Scotto, Michael Driscoll School, Brookline, MA Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information, Inc.",activity books;arts & literature;authors;biographies & memoirs;books;children's books;education & reference;sports & games,8
0856675660,In Monet's Light: Theodore Robinson at Giverny Sona Johnston is Senior Curator of Painting and Sculpture at The Baltimore Museum of Art,arts & photography;biographies & memoirs;books;catalogs & exhibitions;collections;history;history & criticism;individual artists,8
0070444382,"Workbook to Accompany Rendez-vous: An Invitation to French (Fifth Edition) Judith A. Muyskens is Professor of French at the University of Cincinnati, where she teaches courses in methodology and French language, supervises teaching assistants, and is department head. She received her Ph.D. from Ohio State University in Foreign Language Education with a minor in twentieth-century French literature. She is a coauthor of several other French textbooks.Alice C. Omaggio Hadley, Ph.D., Ohio State University, is Associate Professor of French at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she is Director of Basic Language Instruction. She supervises teaching assistants and is responsible for the curriculum development, testing, and administration of the elementary and  intermediate language program. She is coauthor of several French textbooks.",books;dictionaries & thesauruses;education & reference;foreign languages;french;humanities;new;used & rental textbooks,8
9626346949,"Little Women (Junior Classics) Grade 7-12-Louisa May Alcott's story about the four March sisters who learn the hard lessons of poverty and of growing up in New England during the Civil War.Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	How would one describe this latest recording of the classic story from Alcott (Little Men, Audio Reviews, LJ 11/15/96)? The answer must be, clear, competent, and unexciting. Laura Grafton is a precise reader, but her voice lacks expressiveness, and she makes little attempt to vocally differentiate (and/or animate) the characters. The result is an inoffensive and slightly dull rendering. There's nothing wrong; the tapes just won't grab the attention of the casual listener. The producer has made a praiseworthy attempt to reduce costs by having each cassette side carry double text. At $22.95, this tape set is an excellent value. Unfortunately, this double-track format requires a stereo cassette player with a fully functioning balance control. Most portable cassette players and some car stereo systems do not have this feature. Since, at least anecdotally, a large percentage of recreational audiocassette library borrowers are commuters or exercisers, one should consider whether this format would be used by patrons. Libraries purchasing this format might also consider purchasing (and lending) the associated headphone adaptor plugs. Recommended for libraries with limited audiobook budgets and/or appropriate user populations.AI. Pour-El, Iowa State Univ., AmesCopyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	The American female myth.Madelon BedellFrom the Trade Paperback edition.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	Little Women is one of the  best loved books of all time.  Lovely Meg, talented  Jo, frail Beth, spoiled Amy: these are hard  lessons  of poverty and of growing up in New England during  the Civil  War. Through their dreams, plays,  pranks, letters, illnesses, and  courtships, women of all  ages have become a part of this remarkable  family  and have felt the deep sadness when Meg leaves the  circle of  sisters to be married at the end of Part  I. Part II, chronicles Meg's  joys and mishaps as a  young wife and mother, Jo's struggle to become a   writer, Beth's tragedy, and Amy's artistic pursuits  and unexpected  romance. Based on Louise May  Alcott's childhood, this lively portrait  of  nineteenth-century family life possesses a lasting vitality  that  has endeared it to generations of readers.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	Louisa May Alcott's beloved tale about Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy is presented in a beautiful Everyman's Library Children's Classics edition. The story of the four sisters' dreams, quarrels, and romances are brought to vivid life in this edition that features full cloth binding in bold, bright colors; silk ribbon marker and headband; two-color illustrated endpapers and illustrations throughout. A brief biography of Alcott is also included.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	Little Women, Louisa May Alcotts masterpiece of Childrens literature, is the story of the March sisters, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy. Living in a small Massachusetts town, the girls and Mrs. March must make do while Mr. March is away serving as an Army Chaplain during the Civil War. At the storys center lies Jo who, as she approaches adulthood, must reconcile her duties to her family with her desire to become a successful writer. The many appendices in this Broadview edition include materials on the early womens movement, the novels composition, and Alcotts literary influences.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) won international renown with the publishing of Little Women and its sequel, Good Wives. Her works include An Old Fashioned Girl, Eight Cousins and Jack and Jill. Alcott grew up in Concord, Massachusetts, where her family befriended such literary greats as Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson.	      --This text refers to the 							MP3 CD	 edition.	Playing PilgrimsChristmas won't be Christmas without any presents,grumbled Jo, lying on the rug.It's so dreadful to be poor!sighed Meg, looking down at her old dress.I don't think it's fair for some girls to have lots of pretty things, and other girls nothing at all, added little Amy, with an injured sniff.We've got father and mother, and each other, anyhow,said Beth, contentedly, from her corner.The four young faces on which the firelight shone brightened at the cheerful words, but darkened again as Jo said sadly?We haven't got father, and shall not have him for a long time. She didn't say perhaps never,but each silently added it, thinking of father far away, where the fighting was.Nobody spoke for a minute; then Meg said in an altered tone, You know the reason mother proposed not having any presents this Christmas, was because it's going to be a hard winter for every one; and she thinks we ought not to spend money for pleasure, when our men are suffering so in the army. We can't do much, but we can make our little sacrifices, and ought to do it gladly. But I am afraid I don't;and Megshook her head, as she thought regretfully of all the pretty things she wanted.But I don't think the little we should spend would do any good. We've each got a dollar, and the army wouldn't be much helped by our giving that. I agree not to expect anything from mother or you, but I do want to buy Undine and Sintram for myself; I've wanted it so long,'said Jo, who was a bookworm.I planned to spend mine in new music,said Beth, with a little sigh, which no one heard but the hearth-brush and kettle-holder.I shall get a nice box of Faber's drawing pencils; I really need them, said Amy, decidedly.Mother didn't say anything about our money, and she won't wish us to give up everything. Let's each buy what we want, and have a little fun; I'm sure we grub hard enough to earn it,cried Jo, examining the heels of herboots in a gentlemanly manner.I know I do, teaching those dreadful children nearly all day, when I'm longing to enjoy myself at home, began Meg, in the complaining tone again.You don't have half such a hard time as I do, said Jo. How would you like to be shut up for hours with a nervous, fussy old lady, who keeps you trotting, is never satisfied, and worries you till you''e ready to fly out of the window or box her ears?It's naughty to fret, but I do think washing dishes and keeping things tidy is the worst work in the world. It makes me cross; and my hands get so stiff, I can't practise good a bit. And Beth looked at her rough hands with a sigh that any one could hear that time.I don't believe any of you suffer as I do, cried Amy; for you don't have to go to school with impertinent girls, who plague you if you don't know your lessons, and laugh at your dresses, and label your father if he isn't rich, and insult you when your nose isn't nice.If you mean libel I'd say so, and not talk about labels, as if pa was a pickle-bottle, advised Jo, laughing.From the Trade Paperback edition.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	Liza Ross's narration enhances our appreciation of this literary classic. Her appealing voice travels easily between lengthy prose sections and passages of vivid dialogue. Ross smoothly creates an atmosphere steeped in virtue, humor, and familial warmth that faithfully portrays the underlying religious and moral tone of the novel. Her repertoire of vocal characterizations brings to life the novel's range of richly drawn characters--the maturity and experience of Mrs. March, the authority and affirmation of Jo, the innocence of young Beth, and the humor and energy of Laurie. Interludes of classical music help establish the setting while they effectively separate the chapters.  R.M.  AudioFile 2001, Portland, Maine-- Copyright  AudioFile, Portland, Maine",books;children's books;classics;humanities;literature;literature & fiction;new;used & rental textbooks,8
1569719365,"Creatures Of The Night The brevity and recycled nature of current fantasy supernova Gaiman's new book at first suggests he's milking the old cow pretty hard. Its two stories are adaptations of prose-only versions in Smoke and Mirrors (1998), in which they weren't the most memorable entries. And only 48 pages? Fortunately, the artwork quashes all kvetching. Zulli mixes the precision of pen-and-ink and the lushness of full-spectrum watercolor to produce one glowingly lovely panel after another. The full- and two-page single images are big beauties suitable, as they say, for framing. Note, in particular, the two-page transition between the prologue (an interior scene) to the narrative proper (an exterior) in ""The Daughter of Owls."" It's ravishing, though not as intensely colored as many other panels, especially in ""The Price,"" which gives the lie to those who sneer at the idea of a guard cat. Oh, there is one odd scene in ""Daughter"" in which the story vaults alarmingly from seventeenth-century England to . . . Solomonic Jerusalem, isn't it? Even that looks marvelous. Ray OlsonCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	www needcoffee.com 1 Feb 2005: "" Just about every page looks good enough to frame.""; www thealienonline.net 19 January 2005: "" ..beautiful volume of short stories from Gaiman, gorgeously illustrated by Zulli.""; www thefourthrail.com January 2005: ""...Gaiman and Zulli craft such beautiful and enduring stories that its hard to resist.9/10.""	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Neil Gaiman is the best-selling author of the novels American Gods and Neverwhere, and the writer of the award-winning graphic novel series. The Sandman, as well as the graphic novels Harleguin Valentine and Violent Cases. He is currently adapting his graphic novel Death: The High Cost of Living for the big screen. Michael Zulli's evocative artwork can be seen on various Sandman titles, as well as webspinners: Tales of Spider-Man and Witchcraft: La Terreur.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;comics & graphic novels;dark horse;fantasy;graphic novels;horror;publishers;science fiction & fantasy,8
1886383499,"How Apollo Stole Pride ""Every Queer down in Queerville liked Pride Day a lot. But Apollo, whose loft overlooked it . . . did NOT!"" In this hysterically funny look at Gay Pride celebrations everywhere, French ha created a new classic with this spoof on How the Grinch Stole Christmas.	Tom French is the author of the cartoon strip ""Apollo's World"" which appears regularly in the Baltimore Alternative and other fine publications. He has also writen music and lyrics for over fifteen produced musicals, indlucing a critically acclaimed adaptation of The Velveteen Rabbit, a personal favorite. When not on the road, Tom lives in historic Ellicott City, Maryland.",books;contemporary;fiction;gay;gay & lesbian;humor;humor & entertainment;literature & fiction,8
B000GGSI6Q,"Essentials of Paediatric Intensive Care This is an essential handbook for all those involved in the care of critically ill children. It covers all of the key aspects of paediatric intensive care and also features a comprehensive 'list' of drugs commonly used in paediatric anaesthesia and intensive care, including those used for premedication, anaesthesia, local anaesthesia, analgesia, cardiac anaesthesia, antibiotics, emergency and resuscitation drugs, inotropes, 'new' drugs (e.g. calcium infusions, epoprostenal).	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	This is an essential handbook for all those involved in the care of critically ill children. It covers all of the key aspects of paediatric intensive care and also features a comprehensive 'list' of drugs commonly used in paediatric anaesthesia and intensive care, including those used for premedication, anaesthesia, local anaesthesia, analgesia, cardiac anaesthesia, antibiotics, emergency and resuscitation drugs, inotropes, 'new' drugs (e.g. calcium infusions, epoprostenal).	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",books;critical & intensive care;critical care;internal medicine;medical books;medicine;nursing;pediatrics,8
0152165290,"The Boy Who Could Fly Without a Motor Set in 1935, Taylor's (The Cay) slim yet whimsical tale introduces lonely nine-year-old Jon, the son of the lighthouse keeper on remote Clementine Rock off the California coast. Possessing ""an imagination as broad as the sweep of the light,"" the lad sometimes hears the moaning of ghosts of passengers who died when their ships allegedly crashed on the rock, among them the Clementine, a vessel carrying Chinese laborers to San Francisco in 1850. To combat his loneliness, the boy begins to practice telepathy after reading about it in Popular Science, beseeching anyone listening to send him ""advice on how to body fly"" so he can escape the tiny island.  Ling Wu, the pompous ghost of a magician aboard the Clementine, sent by the Manchu dynasty to entertain the laborers, answers his call. He teaches Jon how to use his brain cells to levitate yet makes him promise he will never reveal the secret ""on threat of being boiled in dragon's bile."" Though the child initially practices within the confines of his room, one night he flies out over the ocean, where he's spotted by the shocked crew of a fishing trawler. This sighting precipitates a government investigation, culminating in Jon demonstrating his skill to FDR, other officials and the media at the White House. A facile denouement brings the narrative down to earth a bit abruptly. But Taylor's tight writing and flair for the fanciful otherwise keeps this caper agreeably airborne. Ages 8-12. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.	Grade 3-6-Taylor spins a fantasy about Jon Jeffers, a lonely nine-year-old who lives with his parents in a lighthouse on an island 19 miles off the San Francisco coast. Anxious to break the tedium of his isolated life and fascinated by a parapsychology article in Popular Science, he summons Ling Wu, the ancient ghost of a Chinese magician, who teaches the boy to fly. Jon ignores his warning to levitate only ""where no one will see,"" nearly provoking an international incident involving the Army, the Coast Guard, and the FBI. Finally Jon confesses that he, and not a ""scout for Martian invaders,"" is responsible. He becomes so famous that he is invited to the White House to meet President and Mrs. Roosevelt. However, his joy in flying is short-lived because carrying heavy cans of paint becomes the only way he can stop from levitating and he wearies of the Coast Guard patrolling to ensure that communist Russians don't kidnap him. Jon eventually resummons Ling Wu, who cures him of his special skill, leaving the child earthbound but happy to play with his dog. The many references to world events-Lindbergh, the invention of radio, Communism, and J. Edgar Hoover-firmly ground the book in 1935. Although some of the dialogue strains credulity, the plot, the large-size font, and the many references to the paranormal will appeal to many children.Ellen Fader, Multnomah County Library, Portland, ORCopyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.	Gr. 3-6. A wry, small fantasy that a grandfather might spin from his own youth. It is 1935, and nine-year-old Jon lives off the coast of California in a red cottage near the lighthouse his father tends. Lonely and deeply imaginative, Jon decides that if he could only fly, he could visit the mainland--and anywhere else--any time he wanted. He practices telepathy and finally succeeds in conjuring up the irascible Great Ling Wu, a green-eyed magician and ghost. Although Ling Wu is annoyed by Jon's telepathic importunings, he teaches the boy to fly, swears him to secrecy, and disappears. Jon works hard at controlling his gift, but soon he's levitating all over the place, attracting the attention not only of his parents but also of the Coast Guard and the FBI. He even meets President and Mrs. Roosevelt! Jon sends out frantic messages to Ling Wu, hoping to free himself from his newfound gift, and Ling Wu grudgingly complies. By turns, amusing, thoughtful, and odd. GraceAnne DeCandidoCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	""[A] compelling fantasy.""--Parenting	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	THEODORE TAYLOR is the author of many award-winning and widely praised middle grade and teen novels, including The Bomb, The Weirdo, the modern classic The Cay, and its prequel-sequel, Timothy of the Cay. He lives in Laguna Beach, California.	ONE A MERE FIFTY-TWO POUNDS, FOUR-FEET-two-inches tall, brown eyed and brown haired, nine-year-old Jonathan Jeffers thought he was the loneliest boy on Earth. He lived with his father, James, and his mother, Mabel, in a red-painted cottage on Clementine Rock, near Three Fathom Shoal and Persiphone Reef, next to an old white-painted brick lighthouse, nineteen miles off the coast of California. He had a big brown-and-black dog named Smacks, a dog of many breeds. They were constant companions, as Jon desperately needed a friend. Smacks served him as best he could just by being there. All night and on foggy days, the strong beam of the lighthouse went around and around, warning ships to stay away from the rock, the shoal, and the reef. The light was powered by a big generator, and Jon's father, a boatswain mate first class in the United States Coast Guard-or bosun-was the keeper.  On a clear night, the light could be seen from passing ships twenty-two miles away. When the heavy, cold mists rolled in toward San Francisco, which was to the north  of Clementine, the hoarse foghorn also bellowed. Hour after hour. Sometimes day after day. AHHHHHH-RURH-RRRR-AAAA- AAAATS. It sounded like ""Ah, rats"" to Jon, who had a strong oval face and an imagination as broad as the sweep of the light. He hated the fog and the ""Ah, rats"" horn. And he didn't exactly like the seals that barked most of the day on the outlying rocks, either. On the nights when the eaves were dripping and the horn was blowing, Jon sometimes thought of the famous Ghosts of Clementine. The rock was named after the sailing ship that had crashed into it in 1850. The ship had been bound for San Francisco, carrying Chinese workers from Canton to build railroads. All of the 129 men had died, and their ghosts were still around the rock, or so Jon had been told by an older girl, Eunice Jones, the daughter in the Coast Guard family the Jeffers had replaced. Eunice was thirteen, tall for her age, and skinny as spaghetti. She knew the rock's history. She'd said that when the gray fog blanket was thick, the ghosts rose out of the sea and climbed up the steep sides of Clementine, which was shaped like a long high box with coarse grass on top. The sodden ghosts moaned in sorrow as they climbed. Jon had had some horrendous dreams as the result of Eunice's stories and that deep-throated foghorn. Eunice had said she'd met some of the ""living-dead"" ghosts herself and that Jon would likely meet a few as well. They were spooky but pitiful and harmless, and they lived under the rock, she'd said. Jon had thought Eunice was a little spooky herself. She had long fingers and lisped. There also were ghosts of shipwrecked sailors out at Three Fathom Shoal and Persiphone Reef, Eunice had told him. The rusted prow of a steel ship still rode the reef, sticking up like an open shark's jaw, water washing over it. Altogether more than three hundred people had died on the rock, the shoal, and the reef before the government had erected the lighthouse sixty years ago. Jon's mother and father said that the ghosts were utter nonsense. Ghosts do not exist, they said. Ghosts do not swim, they said. And they do not live under the rock. Jon tried to believe them, but on some nights, when the horn went silent for its programmed thirty seconds, Jon thought he heard the ghosts moaning and was afraid to peer out his window into the rolls of thick mist. Perhaps a dripping, pitiful Chinese face would be there, staring in at him. Even Smacks seemed nervous on these occasions. His father said, ""Jon, don't let your imagination hear sounds that aren't there."" But Jon's problem was his ears, not his imagination. His hearing was too sharp and the sounds seemed too real, so he wrapped his head with his pillow those nights and shivered, hoping the ghosts wouldn't come in. Eunice had said he would go crazy out there. Maybe he would go crazy. His father had to serve three years on the rock. One year had gone by so far. Jon did have things to keep him occupied. He'd gone through primary school in San Francisco, and now his mother taught him five mornings a week, with textbooks and exams from the mainland. They also had a radio, and after he listened to the many programs, Jon had dreams that carried him around the globe. New York, London, Tokyo, Paris. Anywhere but Clementine. Anywhere! To amuse himself during his free daylight hours, Jon kept an eye out for big ships passing Clementine Light. He'd run up to the tower, Smacks at his heels, and watch them through his father's powerful telescope. If they came close enough, Jon would wave and record their names in his logbook. Anything to entertain himself. Anything to stay busy. In good weather, private planes on Sunday joyrides would come out from shore and circle the lighthouse. Jon would again run to the light platform and wave. The pilots would often wave back. The open-cockpit biplanes were his favorite. Jon also built model airplanes, mostly World War I fighters, to pass the time and take his mind off the Clementine ghosts.Copyright  2002 by Theodore TaylorAll rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.Requests for permission to make copies of any part of the work should be mailed to the following address: Permissions Department, Harcourt, Inc., 6277 Sea Harbor Drive, Orlando, Florida 32887-6777.www.HarcourtBooks.com",action & adventure;books;children's books;fantasy & magic;humor;literature & fiction;science fiction & fantasy;social situations,8
0878931899,"Evolutionary Biology ""...will no doubt find a place on the bookshelves of almost all practicing evolutionary biologists."" -- Daphne J. Fairbairn, The Quarterly Review of Biology",biological sciences;biology;books;evolution;genetics;medical books;organic;science & math,8
B000FZEGY6,"In Praise of Film Studies: Essays in Honor of Makino Mamoru A collection of essays on Japanese cinema. The volume is in appreciation of Makino Mamoru, the authors' colleague, teacher and friend.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	A collection of essays on Japanese cinema. The volume is in appreciation of Makino Mamoru, the authors' colleague, teacher and friend.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",books;education & reference;guides & reviews;history & criticism;humor & entertainment;movies;reference;theory,8
B000C9I14Q,"Midland AVPH1 Open Face Helmet Headset for Midland GMRS Here's a speaker/microphone solution for using Midland GMRS/FRS radios on your bike, for a clear commication option on the open road. Designed For Open-Faced Helmets The boom microphone is specifically designed for open-face helmets. If you have a flip-top helmet you'll want to opt for the AVP-H2. In-Helmet Speakers/Microphone Included are two low-profile speakers that attach inside your helmet, and a boom microphone that also fits inside. An extra-long cable connects the devices to your GMRS radio elsewhere on your bike/person. PTT Button A PTT (push-to-talk) button is included as well, and wraps around your handle bar for quick and easy access without having to reach for your helmet. Compatibility The AVP-H1 works with all Midland GMRS/FRS radios. What's in the Box Microphone/Speaker Unit, PTT Unit, Cable, Documentation	Midland Open Face Helment Headsets for use with all Midland GMRS",accessories;boating;boating & water sports;cb & two-way radios;electronics;headsets & microphones;portable audio & video;sports & outdoors,8
1931875073,"Buttmen 3: Erotic Stories and True Confessions by Gay Men Who Love Booty Filled with wonderful tales [and] unadulterated, anal-centric fetish fantasies. Men who love butts will find plenty of new ideas. -- X-Factor (Phoenix, AZ)",books;erotica;gay & lesbian;literature & fiction;nonfiction;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific demographics,8
B000CCZLWI,Congoleum Commercial No Rinse Cleaner 1 Gallon 128 Ounces Congoleum commercial no-rinse cleaner. One gallon of concentrate makes up to 64 gallons of cleaner. Easy one step no-rinse formula saves time. Does not leave a residue. Removes tough dirt on contact. Can be used on all tile and resilient floors. This is not the Congoleum Bright 'N Easy cleaner but has very similar qualities.,floor & carpet cleaning supplies;floor care;floor cleaners;health & personal care;household cleaning;household supplies;industrial & scientific;janitorial & sanitation supplies,8
0758204493,"Ninja Soccer Moms (Samantha Shaw Mysteries) Sports moms waiting for practice to end will enjoy the third bubbly entry in Apodaca's cozy series (after 2003's Dying to Meet You) starring Samantha Shaw, amateur sleuth and owner of Heart Mates, her ""beloved and struggling dating service"" in Lake Elsinore, Calif. When her old friend Janie Tuggle tells her that ex-husband Chad, the head coach of the Soccer Club of Lake Elsinore (SCOLE), has been embezzling funds, Sam is anxious to help. Janie should know, since she managed the club's accounts for years, until Chad left her for a younger woman. No sooner does Sam manage to copy the disk with SCOLE's accounts than Chad is murdered in his office, and Sam and Janie become prime suspects. A number of potential allies stonewall or even hinder Sam's investigation. Now why on earth would they do that? The tension grows as Sam zeroes in on the killer. Amusing characters and situations add to the frothy fun. Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	""One can almost hear Miss Marple saying, 'You go, girl!'""	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;contemporary;literature & fiction;mystery;romance;thriller & suspense;united states;women sleuths,8
1891525042,"Living With Brain Injury, (VHS Tape) HealthSouth Rehabilitation Institute, San Antonio, TX",books;fitness & dieting;health;medical books;medicine;nursing;parenting & relationships;sports medicine,8
0738601101,"CLEP Western Civilization I The Best Test Preparation for the CLEP Western Civilization I (REA) EARN COLLEGE CREDIT WITH CLEP  GET THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE ON THE MARKET TODAY!    CLEP Western Civilization I    The Most Complete CLEP Western Civilization I Subject ReviewEverything you need to know for the CLEP Western Civilization I exam. Comprehensive review chapters completely align with all the subjects tested on the exam.    The Best CLEP Western Civilization I Practice Exams Available2 full-length CLEP Western Civilization I practice tests based on official CLEP exam questions released by the College Board.    Total Explanations of Questions  AnswersEach CLEP Western Civilization I practice test comes with detailed feedback on every question. We dont just say which answers are right  but why the others are wrong  so youll be prepared for the CLEP Western Civilization I exam.    Proven Test-Prep MethodsREAs focused content and practical advice have helped millions succeed on their exams. With our step-by-step plan, you can score high on the CLEP Western Civilization I exam and earn the college credit you deserve!      What is CLEP?CLEP is the College Boards credit-by-examination program for more than 30 subjects. Each exam passed earns the student between 3-12 credits at more than 2,900 colleges and universities in the U.S. and abroad. REA has the largest library of CLEP test preps that can help you earn college credit while saving you valuable time and money.	Robert Ziomkowski, Ph.D., teaches at Ithaca College, Ithaca, N.Y. andreceived a postdoctoral degree at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies at the University of Toronto in 2002. He earned his doctorate in history from Cornell University in 2000. In 2002-2003, Dr. Ziomkowski curated an exhibition of Cornell's medieval manuscripts and published an online version, From Manuscript to Print:The Evolution of the Medieval Book. Dr. Ziomkowski's teaching repertoire spans Western Civilization, Medieval History, Ancient History, Science in the Western Tradition, and Paleography.	About this book This book provides you with complete preparation for the CLEP Western Civilization I exam. Inside you will find a concise review of the subject matter, as well as tips and strategies for test-taking. We also give you two full-length practice tests, which are based on the official CLEP Western Civilization I exam. Our practice tests contain every type of question that you can expect to encounter on the actual exam. Following each practice test you will find an answer key with detailed explanations designed to help you more completely understand the test material.All 34 CLEP exams are computer-based. As you can see, the practice tests in our book are presented as paper-and-pencil exams. Even so, the content and format of the actual CLEP subject exam are faithfully mirrored. We detail the format and content of the CLEP Western Civilization I on pages xvii-xviii.About the ExamWho takes the CLEP Western Civilization I and what is it used for?CLEP (College-Level Examination Program) examinations are typically taken by people who have acquired knowledge outside the classroom and wish to bypass certain college courses and earn college credit. The CLEP is designed to reward students for learning-no matter where or how that knowledge was acquired. The CLEP is the most widely accepted credit-by-examination program in the country, with more than 2,900 colleges and universities granting credit for satisfactory scores on CLEP exams.Although most CLEP examinees are adults returning to college, many graduating high school seniors, enrolled college students, military personnel, and international students also take the exams to earn college credit or to demonstrate their ability to perform at the college level. There are no prerequisites, such as age or educational status, for taking CLEP examinations. However, because policies on granting credits vary among colleges, you should contact the particular institution from which you wish to receive CLEP credit.There are two categories of CLEP examinations: 1. CLEP General Examinations, which are five separate tests that cover material usually taken as requirements during the first two years of college. CLEP General Examinations are available for English Composition (with or without essay), Humanities, Mathematics, Natural Sciences, and Social Sciences and History.2. CLEP Subject Examinations, which include material usually covered in an undergraduate course with a similar title. The CLEP Western Civilization I is one of 29 subject examinations. Who administers the exam?The CLEP tests are developed by the College Board, administered by Educational Testing Service (ETS), and involve the assistance of educators throughout the United States. The test development process is designed and implemented to ensure that the content and difficulty level of the test are appropriate.When and where is the exam given?The CLEP Western Civilization I is administered each month throughout the year at more than 1,300 test centers in the United States and can be arranged for candidates abroad on request. To find the test center nearest you and to register for the exam, you should obtain a copy of the free booklets CLEP Colleges and CLEP Information for Candidates and Registration Form. They are available at most colleges where CLEP credit is granted, or by contacting:CLEP ServicesP.O. Box 6600Princeton, NJ 08541-6600Phone: (800) 257-9558 (8 a.m. to 6 p.m. ET)Fax: (609) 771-75088Website: www.collegeboard.com/clepMilitary personnel and CLEPCLEP exams are available free-of-charge to eligible military personnel and eligible civilian employees. The College Board has developed a paper-based version of 14 high volume/high pass rate CLEP tests for DANTES Test Centers. Contact the Educational Services Officer or Navy College Education Specialist for more information. Visit the College Board website for details about CLEP opportunities for military personnel.How to Use this BookWhat do I study first?Read over the course review and the suggestions for test-taking, take the first practice test to determine your area(s) of weakness, and then go back and focus your study on those specific problems. Studying the reviews thoroughly will reinforce the basic skills you will need to do well on the exam. Make sure to take the practice tests to become familiar with the format and procedures involved with taking the actual exam.To best utilize your study time, follow our Independent Study Schedule, which you'll find in the front of this book. The schedule is based on a four-week program, but can be condensed to two weeks if necessary by collapsing each two-week period into one.When should I start studying?It is never too early to start studying for the CLEP Western Civilization I. The earlier you begin, the more time you will have to sharpen your skills. Do not procrastinate! Cramming is not an effective way to study, since it does not allow you the time needed to learn the test material. The sooner you learn the format of the exam, the more time you will have to familiarize yourself with it.Format and content of the CLEP The CLEP Western Civilization I covers the material one would be taught in the first semester of a two-semester course in Western Civilization. The exam questions deal with the civilizations of Ancient Greece, Rome and the Near East; the Middle Ages; the Renaissance and Reformation; and Early Modern Europe.The exam consists of 120 multiple-choice questions, each with five possible answer choices, to be answered within 90 minutes.The approximate breakdown of topics is as follows:8-10% Ancient Near East15-17% Ancient Greece and Hellenistic Civilization15-17% Ancient Rome23-27% Medieval History13-17% Renaissance and Reformation10-15% Early Modern Europe, 1560-1648ABOUT OUR COURSE REVIEWThe review in this book provides you with a complete background of all the important persons, events and developments of Western Civilization from ancient times through the first half of the seventeenth century. It will help reinforce the facts you have already learned while better shaping your understanding of the discipline as a whole. By using the review in conjunction with the practice tests, you should be well prepared to take the CLEP Western Civilization I.Scoring your practice tests How do I score my practice tests?The CLEP Western Civilization I is scored on a scale of 20 to 80. To score your practice tests, count up the number of correct answers. This is your total raw score. Convert your raw score to a scaled score using the conversion table on the following page. (Note: The conversion table provides only an estimate of your scaled score. Scaled scores can and do vary over time, and in no case should a sample test be taken as a precise predictor of test performance. Nonetheless, our scoring table allows you to judge your level of performance within a reasonable scoring range.)When will I receive my score report?The test administrator will print out a full Candidate Score Report for you immediately upon your completion of the exam (except for CLEP English Composition with Essay). Your scores are reported only to you, unless you ask to have them sent elsewhere. If you want your scores reported to a college or other institution, you must say so when you take the examination. Since your scores are kept on file for 20 years, you can also request transcripts from Educational Testing Service at a later date.  Studying for the CLEP It is very important for you to choose the time and place for studying that works best for you. Some students may set aside a certain number of hours every morning, while others may choose to study at night before going to sleep. Other students may study during the day, while waiting on a line, or even while eating lunch. Only you can determine when and where your study time will be most effective. But be consistent and use your time wisely. Work out a study routine and stick to it!When you take the practice tests, try to make your testing conditions as much like the actual test as possible. Turn your television and radio off, and sit down at a quiet table free from distraction. Make sure to time yourself. Start off by setting a timer for the time that is allotted for each section, and be sure to reset the timer for the appropriate amount of time when you start a new section.As you complete each practice test, score your test and thoroughly review the explanations to the questions you answered incorrectly; however, do not review too much at one time. Concentrate on one problem area at a time by reviewing the question and explanation, and by studying our review until you are confident that you completely understand the material.Keep track of your scores and mark them on the Scoring Worksheet. By doing so, you will be able to gauge your progress and discover general weaknesses in particular sections. You should carefully study the reviews that cover your areas of difficulty, as this will build your skills in those areas.Test-Taking tipsAlthough you may not be familiar with computer-based standardized tests such as the CLEP Western Civilization I, there are many ways to acquaint yourself with this type of examination and to help alleviate your test-taking anxieties. Listed below are ways to help you become accustomed to the CLEP, some of which may be applied to other standardized tests as well.Read all of the possible answers. Just because you think you have found the correct response, do not automatically assume that it is the best answer. Read through each choice to be sure that you are not making a mistake by jumping to conclusions.Use the process of elimination. Go through each answer to a question and eliminate as many of the answer choices as possible. By eliminating just two answer choices, you give yourself a better chance of getting the item correct, since there will only be three choices left from which to make your guess. Remember, your score is based only ...",ancient;books;clep;college & university;early civilization;education & reference;history;test preparation,8
0613287401,Arbol de La Vida: Historias de La Guerra Civil (Spanish Edition) Text: Spanish	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.,books;education & reference;historical study & educational resources;history;humanities;new;reference;used & rental textbooks,8
B000009N9G,"Return To Pride Rock: Songs Inspired By Disney's The Lion King II - Simba's Pride To answer your question: no, there's no ""Hakuna Matata"" here. (Did you really expect one to accompany this straight-to-video sequel?) But that's alright. Ladysmith Black Mambozo (on two tracks), Angelique Kidjo (who contributes the album's best original song, ""We Are One""), and a duet between Kenny Lattimore and Heather Headley account for the starpower here, and all are strong. But the real essence of this collection is the African-flavored pop of tracks like ""I Want to See the Moon,"" on which both your children and yourself might be introduced to some great new sounds. (There's a great, if slower than you'll be accustomed to, version of ""The Lion Sleeps Tonight,"" too.) As both a soundtrack and an introduction to an entire sound, Simba's Favorites is a success. --Randy Silver",broadway & vocalists;children's music;music;pop;r&b;rock;soundtracks;world music,8
003008587X,"Español en español Text: Spanish, English",books;education & reference;language & grammar;new;reference;translating;used & rental textbooks;words,8
0891348123,"Painting the Drama of Wildlife Step by Step In a book that uses a broad definition of wildlife, Isaac explores the realistic textures of fur, feathers, grass, and water in 12 demonstrations. The book covers dramatic wilderness landscapes as much as the wildlife one expects from its title. This approach will be particularly useful for artists who have advanced beyond Rod Lawrence's fine Painting Wildlife Textures Step by Step (LJ 3/15/97). If possible, purchase both to satisfy beginning and advanced levels.Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Terry Isaac is one of the most often selected ""feature artists"" at national and international wildlife art exhibitions. His work has been featured in Audubon's Bird Handbooks, Painting Birds Step by Step and The Best of Wildlife Art.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",animals;arts & photography;biological sciences;books;oil painting;painting;science & math;wildlife,8
B000BW8VSK,"Mr. Gasket 1989 Transmission Oil Cooler Mounting Kit Mr. Gasket Transmission Oil Cooler Mounting kits include mounting rod, button lock and protective pad. They are used with most engine oil coolers mounted in front of the radiator. These kits are easy to install and are backed by a limited warranty.",automotive;engine cooling;engine oil coolers;exterior accessories;fans & parts;hitch accessories;performance parts & accessories;towing products & winches,8
0826604676,"Chasidic Perspectives: A Festival Anthology ""...Provides fresh insight into the festivals and great themes of Jewish life..."" -- The Topeka Capital Journal - October 12, 2002""...centuries of traditional Jewish scholarship and chasidic spirituality in an easy-to-read collection that will appeal to all Jews."" -- Yeshiva University Review, Summer 2002""The reader is sure to find the message clearly delivered, comprehensible, and above all, translatable into his own religious practice."" -- Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb - Executive V.P. of the Orthodox Union	""Chasidic Perspectives: A Festival Anthology is ably translated into English and deftly adapted for contemporary readers by Rabbi Alter B. Metzger and features impressive and thoughtful essays written by Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, The Lubavitcher Rebbe, about traditional Jewish holidays such as Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Chanukah, Shavuot, and more. Each Penetrating, scholarly essay shows a meticulous insight into the history, understanding, and visceral meaning of these celebrated days, and ponders at length the role these holidays play in personal and family life, as well as in the ritual observance of the Jewish faith. Chasidic Perspectives is a welcome and highly recommended contribution..."" - THE MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW",books;jewish life;judaism;kabbalah;movements;orthodox;religion & spirituality;sacred writings,8
0786283556,"Beloved Physician (Frontier Doctor Trilogy #2) Al LacyBestselling author Al Lacy has written more than 100 historical and western novels, including those in the Angel of Mercy, Battles of Destiny, and Journeys of the Stranger series. JoAnna Lacy is his wife and longtime collaborator, as well as the coauthor of the Hannah of Fort Bridger, Shadow of Liberty, Mail Order Bride, and Orphan Trains series. The Lacys make their home in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. JoAnna LacyBestselling author Al Lacy has written more than 100 historical and western novels, including those in the Angel of Mercy, Battles of Destiny, and Journeys of the Stranger series. JoAnna Lacy is his wife and longtime collaborator, as well as the coauthor of the Hannah of Fort Bridger, Shadow of Liberty, Mail Order Bride, and Orphan Trains series. The Lacys make their home in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;christian books & bibles;contemporary;domestic life;fiction;literature & fiction;religion & spirituality;women's fiction,8
1588515958,"Graven Images As a child, Cally Jo McAllister testified against Albert Boone,  the janitor at her family's church, and sent him to prison for  murdering her mother. Now in college, Cally works part-time as a  sketch artist for the police, creating eerily realistic  portraits of criminals from the basic facts provided by  witnesses. Detective Dan Christopher thinks that she taps into a  higher power, but Cally has always scoffed at the ideaDuntil  recently. Her childhood nightmares have returned, and she  gradually realizes that she may have sent the wrong man to  prison and that the real killer may be her estranged father. As  Cally struggles to find the truth, a mysterious stranger seeks  her out. Will her slowly developing faith help her heal the  wounds of the past and create a future, or has the past returned  to claim another victim? Mehl's solid debut mystery will appeal  to mainstream and secular audiences, especially fans of Dee  Henderson, Terri Blackstock, and Lorena McCourtney's Whirlpool.   Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Mesmerizing! Nancy Mehl is an artist of the highest quality. -- Jonathon David MastersNancy Mehl has skillfully crafted a tightly woven suspense thriller. I was mesmerized. -- Midwest Book ReviewTop marks to a mystery with a warm heart and an intricate, surprising solution. -- Ellen Kennedy, Author of IRREGARDLESS OF MURDER	GRAVEN IMAGES looks at childhood trauma and what happens when families are torn apart by tragedy.  Cally is a young woman who believes that the only miracles are the ones she creates herself.  Isolated from friends and family by the murder of her mother, she will find that love and faith can conquer pain - and that good can come from great evil. GRAVEN IMAGES is based on detailed research in the areas of dreams and interpretation, as well as the psychological effects caused by traumatic circumstances. Cally's experiences as a police sketch artist were researched carefully with assistance from a police officer with the Wichita Police Department. I hope you will enjoy, GRAVEN IMAGES.	Graven Images is Nancy Mehl's first published mystery.  She is also a book reviewer and writes a column about writing  for MyShelf.com.  She has reviewed books in print and on TV.  She is represented by the Hartline Literary Agency.",books;contemporary;literature & fiction;mystery;psychological thrillers;suspense;thriller & suspense;thrillers,8
0060286229,"Incredible Me! PreSchool-K-Bouncy rhymes and energetic illustrations combine to create an ode to individuality. Appelt's brief text catalogs the special qualities of a perky child, while Karas's colorful, contemporary artwork shows her, her teddy, and her doll engaged in a variety of real and imagined activities. Some listeners may be turned off by this confident girl's relentless self-praise, but many will appreciate her obvious pride and enjoyment in herself. And whether the message appeals or not, there's no denying that it's packaged perfectly. The catchy, creative text begins with a focus on basic body parts (""Nobody has my singular nose/Nobody tips on my ten toes"") and continues as the unnamed narrator lists numerous other unique (yet universal) traits before declaring, ""I'm the pearl in the oyster, the A to the Z/I'm the one, the only, incredible Me!"" The playful use of language keeps the tone light. The illustrations are buoyant and playful as well, as the girl with carrot-colored hair dances her way through cozy interiors and imaginary outdoor scenes. Occasionally, patterns and textures give the crisp illustrations the look of a collage; the overall design is delightfully simple and focused on the narrator. The ongoing demand for books intended to boost children's self-esteem will make this title a useful addition.Lisa Dennis, The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, PACopyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.	PreS-K. A little, redheaded girl romps through this book delighting in herself: she's a star, and she knows it. Her vivacity and self-confidence are apparent from the start, when she revels at her reflection in a mirror (""Nobody has my singular nose / Nobody taps on my ten toes""), to the end, when she dances with flowers in her hair, singing, ""I'm the pearl in the oyster, the A to the Z / I'm the one, the only, incredible ME!"" Karas imbues his cartoon-style illustrations with the energy of the very young, and together writer and artist show how much fun it is to watch a child discover herself. Kathy BroderickCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	Appelts joyful tale underscores the message that there is something wonderful to cherish in everyone. (Kirkus Reviews)Karas imbues his cartoon-style illustrations with the energy of the very young. (Booklist)Together, writer and artist show how mcuh fun it is to watch a child discover herself. (Booklist)Bouncy rhymes and energetic illustrations combine to create an ode to individuality. (School Library Journal)	Kathi Appelt is the award-winning author of many children's books, including Bat Jamboree, illustrated by Melissa Sweet, and Incredible Me!, illustrated by G. Brian Karas. Ms. Appelt teaches creative writing to both children and adults and lives in College Station, Texas.G. Brian Karas has written and illustrated several award-winning children's books, including On Earth and  Home on the Bayou: A Cowboy's Story, a Boston GlobeHorn Book Honor Book. The picture books he has illustrated include Are You Going to Be Good?, a New York Times Best Illustrated Book written by Cari Best. Mr. Karas lives in Rhinebeck, New York.",books;children's books;emotions & feelings;explore the world;literature & fiction;self-esteem & self-respect;social situations;travel & cultures,8
0700608087,"Fighting with the Soviets: The Failure of Operation FRANTIC, 1944-1945 ""Conversino's story is as interesting as it is unfamiliar and succeeds in opening up FRANTIC's many dimensions, including the personal as well as the political, strategic, and operational. His revelations regarding the interactions between American servicemen and Ukrainian Russians are especially valuable and underscore the immense difficulties of implementing alliances at the grass roots level.""--Dennis Showalter, author of Tannenberg: Clash of Empires    ""Well written and, in places, humorous and highly entertaining, Fighting with the Soviets fills an important gap in our understanding of the German-Soviet War and of U.S.-Soviet cooperation during that conflict.""--David M. Glantz, coauthor of When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler	Mark J. Conversino is a major in the United States Air Force and a professor of airpower history and theory at the School of Advanced Airpower Studies, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama.",americas;books;europe;history;military;russia;united states;world war ii,8
0812511719,"Wild Country ""Ing remians a superb describer of physical and mental combat.""--San Francisco Examiner""Hard-hitting action and adventure.""--Guns and Action	Dean Ing has worked as a USAF interceptor crew chief, a senior research engineer in the aerospace industry, a builder and driver of sports-racing cars, and a university professor.  He has a doctorate in communications theory. Ing is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Ransom of Black Stealth One, The Nemesis Mission, and The Skins of Dead Men.  He lives in Ashland, Oregon.",books;literature & fiction;mystery;science fiction;science fiction & fantasy;technothrillers;thriller & suspense;thrillers,8
159160494X,"Mormonism: A Latter Day Deception Martin Wishnatsky, a Jewish man, was born in 1944 in Newark, New Jersey. In 1977, during a time of distress in his life, and after receiving prayer from a believer, he began to read the Bible and was drawn from darkness to light, from the power to Satan to Jesus Christ. Mr. Wishnatsky is a graduate of Harvard College (1966), and holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard University (1975). He is the author (Martin Weil) of A Pretty Good Club: The Founding Fathers of the U.S. Foreign Service (W.W. Norton and Co., 1978).	FROM THE CONCLUSION.    It has not been easy to tell the truth about the Church of Jesus   Christ of Latter-day Saints  to conduct a controlled extraction   of the teeth of this cunning dragon. The Ku Klux Klan, by comparison,   is a model of sincerity. Surely Mormon missionaries should be   required by the municipalities in which they proselytize to wear a   button reading: ""Warning: Mormonism may be dangerous to your   health."" Under the pretense of ""bearing a message from Jesus   Christ,"" the missionaries are really seeking to lure the unwary   into an oath-bound organization from which there is no escape except   on terror of death. At least an initiate into the Ku Klux Klan   understands the nature of the institution he is joining. A Mormon   convert, however, as he prepares for his momentous and soul-stirring   first trip to the Temple, is told that he will enter an atmosphere of   ""simplicity, dignity and quiet . . . there to ponder quietly the   eternal things of God."" ""There is a feeling of timelessness and   peace found there that exists nowhere else,"" writes BYU Stake   President and Professor of Physics J. Duane Dudley. ""The only way   to prepare for the temple,"" he continues, ""is to prepare your   spiritual self. You should go to the temple in a spiritual frame of   mind and be ready to learn spiritually."" There is little in such   language to prepare the novice for irrevocable membership in a secret   society sealed by blood oaths. The fact that it is over seventy years   since anyone has published the truth about Mormonism is an indication   of the effectiveness of the terror instilled in the Endowment   rooms. So sinuous and seductive is the preparation for this   experience that the initiate is baffled, embarrassed and terrified to   admit that he has been taken in and played for a sucker. (He also may   be too busy adjusting to the discomfort of wearing his Mormon   underwear continuously to think about much else.) If he wavers or   quavers, his priesthood leaders will hover over him. ""He is having   trouble with his testimony,"" they will say and spend time   ""prayerfully"" re-educating the weakling and carefully exclude   him from any position of responsibility in the apparatus.    An indication that other first-time endowees have been surprised and stunned by the experience may be seen in the carefully chosen remarks of Elder W. Grant Bangerter at the April, 1982 General Conference. ""Having the privilege of working each day in the administration of the temples,"" said Elder Bangerter, swinging easily into temple-ese, ""I am constantly impressed with the richness, the holiness, and the glory of the blessings administered there."" And now the point: ""Questions come to us about the ordinances performed in the temple."" (What a world of anguish lies behind his affected innocence!) ""We, of course, are not permitted,"" explains the faithful servant of God, ""to discuss them outside the temple, because of their sacred nature."" Apparently some members had complained at the sharp contradiction between what happens in the Endowment rooms and what they are led to expect. ""Others press for a preparatory orientation so that those who enter the temple will not be confused."" No chance, says Elder Bangerter that we will give the dupes a break. ""I want to emphasize that the preparation to enter the temple lies in the gospel. Nothing is said or done in the temple which does not have its foundation in the scriptures.""    The truth is that not until one is in the Endowment Room of the temple, the doors closed and guarded, the spotters vigilantly watching every gesture, does the truth of total ""consecration"" on penalty of death come out. There is no aisle in the Endowment Room should one decide to run out; he would have to clamber over the bodies of the other experienced ritual throat-slitters, dodge past the spotters, and then race out of the building before anyone could react fast enough to stop him. Whether or not it would be more or less difficult to hitch a ride on the Capitol Beltway dressed in Temple robes is difficult to say. One would be considered either a lunatic and studiously ignored or a herald of the Second Coming and graciously assisted.  NOTE: My experience in the Mormon Temple in Washington, D.C. took place in 1980-81. A lot of the terror was airbrushed out in the 1990 rewrite.",books;christian books & bibles;christian living;mormonism;occult;religion & spirituality;religious warfare;spirituality,8
B0006M6Y8O,"Klein J2000-48 8-Inch Journeyman Diagonal Cutting Pliers, Blue and Black 8-Inch Journeyman diagonal-cutting pliers  angled head, heavy-duty cutting	2532-7826 Features: -High-leverage design.-Rivet is closer to the cutting edge for 36pct greater cutting and gripping power than other pliers design.-Cuts ACSR, screws, nails, and most hardened wire.-Angled head design for easy work in confined spaces.-Short jaws and beveled cutting edges permit close cutting of wire.-Induction-hardened cutting knives for long life.-Hot-riveted joint ensures smooth action and no handle wobble.-Standard cutting knives. Color/Finish: -Features combination polished and black-oxide finish.-Light Blue and Black Journeyman handle finish.",electrical;hand tools;multi testers;pliers;power & hand tools;side-cutting pliers;testers;tools & home improvement,8
B000LDHBP8,"Georgia-Pacific 567-01 White Steel Singlefold Towel Dispenser, 11.625&#034; Width x 8.125&#034; Height x 6.625&#039;&#039; Depth Our space saver singlefold towel dispenser holds up to 500 singlefold towels. This simple, white metal dispenser complements any decor, and the covered key-lock design protects against waste and pilferage while making refilling towels quick and easy.",home & kitchen;industrial & scientific;janitorial & sanitation supplies;kitchen & dining;paper products;paper towel dispensers & holders;paper towel holders;storage & organization,8
0789722593,"MCSE Core Certification Exam Guide 6-in-1 (Exam Guides) MCSE Core+1 Certification Exam Guide is a strictly exam-related tutorial that helps you fully understand the topic. This book facilitates memorization--the most important aspect of exam preparation--through repetition, summary and practice. The Quick Study bonus booklet aids retention before, during and after each chapter is read. Chapter summaries reiterate important points and help you draw conclusions about what you have learned. A self-assessment test/answer key helps you gauge your learning progress and helps you review. This book also provides additional information, such as addresses for on-line help and supplemental sample tests, testing locations, test-taking tips and strategies, and emotional preparation.",books;business;computer science;computers & technology;education & reference;new;software;used & rental textbooks,8
B000GE519A,Hagen Crabworx Diner The Crabworx Diner is a decorative ornament for your Hermit Crab's habitat. It acts as a feeding station for Hermit Crabs. The Crabworx Diner makes it easy to ensure that your hermit crabs have an ample supply of food. The Crabworx Diner is ideal for habitats that contain large or multiple Hermit Crabs.,all aquatic & pond;aquarium décor;crabworx;fish & aquatic pets;hagen;ornaments;pet supplies;pet supplies: international shipping available,8
0060002255,"Wallace's Lists Three reasons to read coauthors Bottner and Kruglik's (Pish and Posh) new tale: 1. The two unlikely mouse heroesthe cautious, list-making Wallace and his light-hearted companion Albertdevelop a friendship in which Wallace's shortcomings turn out to be assets. 2. The book might dare readers to discover something new about themselves, too. 3. The plot inspires Landstrm's (the Boo and Baa series) tongue-in-cheek artwork, which provides lots of witty entertainment. Wallace, a bespectacled mouse in shorts and a bowtie, wants to say hello to his new neighbor, but he can'tit's not on his list of things to do that day. (Readers are treated to many of Wallace's lists, written neatly on lined paper.) Albert wears an old undershirt, sports long hair and never hesitates to revise his plans: ""Changing my mind is an adventure,"" he tells Wallace, who listens, appalled but rapt. Eventually Albert's rash adventure-seeking casts Wallace in the reluctant but gratifying role of hero. He remains steadfast in crises, it turns out, and comforts Albert when his wacky plans go awry. Taking a leaf from classic '30s cartoons, Landstrm furnishes interiors with many small but solid-looking items, visual tokens of Wallace's need for familiarity. His hilarious spreads make liberal use of crosshatching and gestural lines: cats are drenched with water; lightning strikes; luggage carousels send Wallace flying. Bottner and Kruglik don't insist on a magic transformation from Wallacehe just has to learn to bend a little. This one goes on the recommended list. Ages 4-7. (June) Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	PreSchool-Grade 2An earnest and likable mouse is so careful that he lives his life by lists. When a new neighbor introduces himself in the hallway of their apartment building, ""Wallace would have liked to say,  'Hello. My name is Wallace,' but saying hello was not on his list."" Albert's spontaneity and joie de vivre slowly win him over. The story culminates in a whirlwind adventure through the airport, into a luxury high-rise, and then back home again, where Wallace makes another list with his new best friend's name on it. The writing is memorable, and the authors provide just the right details. Larger than life in all sorts of ways, the chubby Albert spouts wise statements such as ""Laundry is laundry... but music is life!"" Landstrm's pictures are expressive and witty, with soft colors, strong lines, and lots of personality. The world depicted is an intriguing one, an urban setting where the mice-sized mice coexist with human-sized humans. With its positive message about trying new experiences and embracing the horizon-expanding wonders of friendship, this picture book is a winner.Lauralyn Persson, Wilmette Public Library, IL Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	K-Gr. 2. Picture books boast a rich tradition of lovably neurotic characters, from Toad, in Arnold Lobel's Frog and Toad series, to the anxious lemur in Helen Lester's Something Might Happen (2003). Joining their risk-averse ranks is a list-loving mouse named Wallace. Every morning Wallace writes down the day's tasks and then doggedly ticks each one off the list. The drawbacks of this system become obvious when lively, intriguing Albert moves next door: ""Wallace would have liked to say, 'Hello, my name is Wallace,' but saying hello was not on his list."" As Albert shares his laid-back philosophies (""Wherever I go, there I am"") and demonstrates the joys of spontaneity, it's not long before Wallace begins to experiment with following his nose. The artwork, by the illustrator of the Baa and Boo books, is charmingly messy with crosshatchings and squiggly fillips, initially providing a humorous contrast to Wallace's rigidity and then reflecting his increasingly laissez-faire mood. Kids and parents alike will appreciate this gently satirical commentary on our increasingly overprogrammed lives. Jennifer MattsonCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	Worried little Wallace  is an endearing hero  and Bottner and Kruglik chronicle his blossoming with affectionate wit. (Bulletin of the Center for Childrens Books)With its positive messagethis picture book is a winner. (School Library Journal (starred review))The book might dare readers to discover something new about themselves, too. (Publishers Weekly (starred review))This one goes on the recommended list. (Publishers Weekly (starred review))	Barbara Bottner is the author of many favorites for young readers, including Two Messy Friends, which she also illustrated, the ever-popular Bootsie Barker Bites, illustrated by Peggy Rathmann, Bootsie Barker Ballerina, also an I Can Read Book, illustrated by G. Brian Karas, as well as the recent picture books Charlene Loves To Make Noise, illustrated by Alexander Stadler, and The Scaredy Cats, illustrated by Victoria Chess. She lives with her husband -- physician, coauthor, and best friend -- Gerald Kruglik, in Florida.",animals;books;children's books;friendship;guinea pigs & squirrels;hamsters;mice;social situations,8
0804731578,"A Waka Anthology - Volume One: The Gem-Glistening Cup ""Building a cathedral takes time and determination.  And a cathedral A Waka Anthology is.  ...A Waka Anthology's two volumes do give us a sense of what is possible if one is Edwin Cranston.""Ivo Smits, Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies""Monumental in size and extraordinary in quality. . . . As a translator, Cranston is unexcelled, both in the uncompromising accuracy of his readings and in his sense of the weight and music of English words.""Choice.""A review of The Gem-glistening Cup is almost superfluous. It is literally without peer. . . . It is a monument that will dominate the field of Japanese literary studies in English for the foreseeable future and beyond. . . . Cranston's translations are as good as one could expect from his excellent versions of the Izumi Shikibu Diary. . . . This will be the foundation of many courses in years to come.""Japan Forum""Cranston is one of the finest translators of classical Japanese. . . . A Gem-glistening Cup makes an invaluable contribution for students of Japanese literature.""South Atlantic Review	Text: English (translation) Original Language: Japanese	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Monumental in size and extraordinary in quality. . . . As a translator, Cranston is unexcelled, both in the uncompromising accuracy of his readings and in his sense of the weight and music of English words.Choice.A review of The Gem-glistening Cup is almost superfluous. It is literally without peer. . . . It is a monument that will dominate the field of Japanese literary studies in English for the foreseeable future and beyond. . . . Cranstons translations are as good as one could expect from his excellent versions of the Izumi Shikibu Diary. . . . This will be the foundation of many courses in years to come.Japan Forum	Edwin A. Cranston is Professor of Japanese Literature at Harvard University.",anthologies;anthologies & literary collections;books;general;japanese & haiku;literature & fiction;poetry;world literature,8
080102286X,"The Poetry of Piety: An Anotated Anthology of Christian Poetry The Lord has promised good to me  His word my hope secures;:  He will by shield and portion be  As long as Life endures  -from ""Faith's Review and Expectation"" by John Newton  Poetry has always been an elegant, effective means of expression and reflection. It is no surprise then that, like John Newton, many Christians have used this medium to express the profound joys and struggles they have encountered in their journey with the church. With this in mind, renowned biblical scholar Ben Witherington III has teamed up with Christopher Mead Armitage to produce this innovative annotated anthology of Christian poetry.  	The Poetry of Piety offers both expert literary and theological analysis of a wide range of Christian poetry from the sixteenth century to the present. Each section consists of a brief biographical introduction to the author, a literary critique and theological analysis of one or more poems, and questions for personal reflection/formation. Works from twenty-eight authors, including John Donne, George Herbert, C. S. Lewis, T. S. Eliot, Langston Hughes, and John Updike, are covered.     Ben Witherington III (Ph.D., University of Durham) is professor of New Testament at Asbury Theological Seminary and author of more than twenty books. Christopher Mead Armitage (Ph.D., Duke University) is professor of English at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.	Ben Witherington III (Ph.D., University of Durham) is professor of New Testament interpretation at Asbury Theological Seminary and author of more than twenty books. Christopher Mead Armitage (Ph.D., Duke University) is professor of English at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.",anthologies;books;christian books & bibles;classics;inspirational & religious;literature & fiction;poetry;united states,8
0385410794,"My Enemy My Love Sifting through American culture for latent signs of man-hating, or ""misandry,"" Levine shows wit and erudition but fails to strike a mother lode. Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	This post-feminist treatise discusses gender stereotypes and the reasons why man-hating exists in our culture. According to Levine, women hate their lovers, fathers, and even sons--although not without ambivalence. Ambivalence is the crux of the underlying relationship problem. Levine illustrates her salient points by drawing information from a variety of current sources: television programs, radio, popular magazine articles, and art. Her sure-to-be-controversial work addresses the problems of men as defined by the women around them. The final third of the book examines specific women and their conflicts. The book ends with a section on negotiation. Recommended for academic collections in women's studies.- Lisa Wise, Steele Memorial Lib., Elmira, N.Y.Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Here, a contributing editor to New York Woman convincingly argues that some degree of man-hating (``misandry'') is practically universal among American women today. For evidence of man-hating, Levine draws on 80 in-depth interviews with women of various social classes, ethnic backgrounds, occupations, and sexual orientations. Nearly all women, she finds, perceive men as fitting one or more stereotypes: either that of needy ``Infant,'' exploitative ``Betrayer,'' or testosterone-poisoned ``Beast.'' Levine goes on to describe the genesis of such attitudes in women's first relationships with their fathers, and represents the feminist movement of the 60's and 70's as the first time that women recognized the commonality of these feelings and claimed the right to express them. Her discussion concludes with portraits of individual women and the strategies they have found for dealing with their hatred or ambivalence: total avoidance of men; intimacy marred by strife; rage and disappointment; utter capitulation. In only one couple does Levine find an egalitarianism that exemplifies her own vision of a future in which gender will be seen simply as interesting difference, not superiority or inferiority, and in which the work, concerns, and privileges of both sexes will be shared equally. Thoughtful and balanced, despite its volatile subject, and deserving a place on the same postfeminist shelf as Deborah Tannen's You Just Don't Understand, Myriam Miedzian's Boys Will Be Boys, or Susan Faludi's Backlash. -- Copyright 1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.	""A writer who's thought profoundly about these stereotypes and the way in which they serve to protect and perpetuate the status quo.""	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;fitness & dieting;gender studies;health;politics & social sciences;psychology & counseling;social sciences;specific demographics,8
068483135X,"El secreto de Selena: la reveladora historia detrás de su trágica muerte A popular anchorwoman of Primer Impacto, a top-rated TV program seen here and throughout Latin America, Arraras offers an exclusive interview with Yolanda Saldivar, the convicted killer of Tejano music queen Selena Quintanilla. Interest in this title should be boosted by the recently released film Selena, featuring Edward James Olmos and Jennifer Lopez.?Ondina ArrondoCopyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Mara Celeste Arrars is the host and managing editor of ""Al Rojo Vivo con Mara Celeste"" (Red Hot Live with Maria Celeste), produced by Telemundo/NBC. She is also a guest host for NBCs Today show and has collaborated with Dateline and NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams. This Emmy award winner is also the bestselling author of Selenas Secret and The Magic Cane. She has been featured on the cover of People en Espaol more times than any other celebrity and was selected by Newsweek magazine to appear on the cover of its 20 Most Powerful Women of the Next Generation"" issue.",arts & literature;biographies & memoirs;books;composers & musicians;entertainers;humor & entertainment;murder & mayhem;true accounts,8
0972537996,"Jack of All Trades, Master of None? From personal examples to thought provoking self assessments, you will be glued to the pages until  the end... -- Stacie N.C. Grant, C EnterprisesIt contains basic info that  most  people overlook or just don't know about starting or running a business. -- Anthony Ortiz,Owner, Video Store and Barber ShopIt's like a bolt of confidence you have sent my way, encouraging me closer to my goal and dreams. -- Alon BennettA. Bennet, Event PlannerSimones down to earth approach takes the complexities out of marketing and makes it  easy to get positive results! -- Natasha Haughton, Business and Lifestyle Coach	Simone Kelly, CEO of GTHI, Marketing   Gots to Have It, Marketing (GTHI) provides innovating marketing, empowering events, and business resources for entrepreneurs. Kelly also writes a monthly Gots To Have It, newsletter that provides proven insights and tips from highly respected marketing professionals and entrepreneurs.",books;business & investing;entrepreneurship;management & leadership;marketing;marketing & sales;motivational;small business & entrepreneurship,8
0385264666,"Palace Walk: The Cairo Trilogy, Volume 1 This first volume in the 1988 Nobel Prize winner's Cairo Trilogy describes the disintegrating family life of a tyrannical, prosperous merchant, his timid wife and their rebellious children in post-WW I Egypt. ""Mahfouz is a master at building up dramatic scenes and at portraying complex characters in depth,"" lauded PW. Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.	This extraordinary novel provides a close look into Cairo society at the end of World War I. Mahfouz's vehicle for this examination is the family of al-Sayyid Ahmad, a middle-class merchant who runs his family strictly according to the Qur'an and directs his own behavior according to his desires. Consequently, while his wife and two daughters remain cloistered at home, and his three sons live in fear of his harsh will, al-Sayyid Ahmad nightly explores the pleasures of Cairo. Written by the first Arabic writer to win the Nobel Prize, Palace Walk begins Mahfouz's highly acclaimed ""Cairo Trilogy,"" which follows Egypt's development from 1917 to nationalism and Nasser in the 1950s. This novel's enchanting style and sweeping social tapestry ensure a large audience, one that will eagerly await the English translation of the entire trilogy. A significant addition to any collection. Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 9/15/89.- Paul E. Hutchison, Fishermans Paradise, Bellefonte, Pa.Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	The alleys, the houses, the palaces and mosques and the people who live among them are evoked as vividly in Mahfouzs work as the streets of London were conjured up by Dickens. NewsweekRich in psychological insight and cultural observation. . . . A majestic and capacious accomplishment. The Boston GlobeA tale told with great affection, humor, and sensitivity, in a style that in this translation is always accessible and elegant. The New York Times Book ReviewPalace Walk is a feast indeed. Chicago Tribune	Text: English (translation) Original Language: Arabic	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Volume I of the masterful Cairo Trilogy. A national  best-seller in both hardcover and paperback, it introduces the  engrossing saga of a Muslim family in Cairo during Egypt's occupation  by British forces in the early 1900s.	Volume I of the masterful Cairo Trilogy. A national best-seller in both hardcover and paperback, it introduces the engrossing saga of a Muslim family in Cairo during Egypt's occupation by British forces in the early 1900s.	Naguib Mahfouz was born in Cairo in 1911 and began writing when he was seventeen. A student of philosophy and an avid reader, his works range from reimaginings of ancient myths to subtle commentaries on contemporary Egyptian politics and culture. Over a career that lasted more than five decades, he wrote 33 novels, 13 short story anthologies, numerous plays, and 30 screenplays. Of his many works, most famous is The Cairo Trilogy, consisting of Palace Walk (1956), Palace of Desire (1957), and Sugar Street (1957), which focuses on a Cairo family through three generations, from 1917 until 1952. In 1988, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the first writer in Arabic to do so. He died in August 2006.	1She woke at midnight. She always woke up then without having to rely on an alarm clock.A wish that had taken root in her awoke her with great accuracy. For a few moments she was not sure she was awake. Images from her dreams and perceptions mixed together in her mind. She was troubled by anxiety before opening her eyes, afraid sleep had deceived her. Shaking her head gently, she gazed at the total darkness of the room. There was no clue by which to judge the time. The street noise outside her room would continue until dawn. She could hear the babble of voices from the coffeehouses and bars, whether it was early evening, midnight, or just before daybreak. She had no evidence to rely on except her intuition, like a conscious clock hand, and the silence encompassing the house, which revealed that her husband had not yet rapped at the door and that the tip of his stick had not yet struck against the steps of the staircase.Habit woke her at this hour. It was an old habit she had developed when young and it had stayed with her as she matured. She had learned it along with the other rules of married life. She woke up at midnight to await her husband's return from his evening's entertainment. Then she would serve him until he went to sleep. She sat up in bed resolutely to overcome the temptation posed by sleep. After invoking the name of God, she slipped out from under the covers and onto the floor. Groping her way to the door, she guided herself by the bedpost and a panel of the window. As she opened the door, faint rays of light filtered in from a lamp set on a bracketed shelf in the sitting room. She went to fetch it, and the glass projected onto the ceiling a trembling circle of pale light hemmed in by darkness. She placed the lamp on the table by the sofa. The light shone throughout the room, revealing the large, square floor, high walls, and ceiling with parallel beams. The quality of the furnishings was evident: the Shiraz carpet, large brass bed, massive armoire, and long sofa draped with a small rug in a patchwork design of different motifs and colors.The woman headed for the mirror to look at herself. She noted that her brown scarf was wrinkled and pushed back. Strands of chestnut hair had crept down over her forehead. Grasping the knot with her fingers, she untied it. She smoothed the scarf around her hair and retied the two ends slowly and carefully. She wiped the sides of her face with her hands as though trying to erase any last vestiges of sleep. In her forties and of medium build, she looked slender, although her body's soft skin was filled out to its narrow limits in a charmingly harmonious and symmetrical way. Her face was oblong, with a high forehead and delicate features. She had beautiful, small eyes with a sweet dreamy look. Her nose was petite and thin, flaring out a little at the nostrils. Beneath her tender lips, a tapered chin descended. The pure, fair skin of her cheek revealed a beauty spot of intensely pure black. She seemed to be in a hurry as she wrapped her veil about her and headed for the door to the balcony. Opening it, she entered the closed cage formed by the wooden latticework and stood there, turning her face right and left while she peeked out through the tiny, round openings of the latticework panels that protected her from being seen on the street.The balcony overlooked the ancient building housing a cistern downstairs and a school upstairs which was situated in the middle of Palace Walk, or Bayn al-Qasrayn. Two roads met there: al-Nahhasin, or Coppersmiths Street, going south and Palace Walk, which went north. To her left, the street appeared narrow and twisting. It was enveloped in a gloom that was thicker overhead where the windows of the sleeping houses looked down, and less noticeable at street level, because of the light coming from the handcarts and from the vapor lamps of the coffeehouses and the shops that stayed open until dawn. To her right the street was engulfed in darkness. There were no coffeehouses in that direction, only large stores, which closed early. There was nothing to attract the eye except the minarets of the ancient seminaries of Qala'un and Barquq, which loomed up like ghostly giants enjoying a night out by the light of the gleaming stars. It was a view that had grown on her over a quarter of a century. She never tired of it. Perhaps boredom was an irrelevant concept for a life as monotonous as hers. The view had been a companion for her in her solitude and a friend in her loneliness during a long period when she was deprived of friends and companions before her children were born, when for most of the day and night she had been the sole occupant of this large house with its two stories of spacious rooms with high ceilings, its dusty courtyard and deep well.She had married before she turned fourteen and had soon found herself the mistress of the big house, following the deaths of her husband's parents. An elderly woman had assisted her in looking after it but deserted her at dusk to sleep in the oven room in the courtyard, leaving her alone in a nocturnal world teeming with spirits and ghosts. She would doze for an hour and lie awake the next, until her redoubtable husband returned from a long night out.To set her mind at rest she had gotten into the habit of going from room to room, accompanied by her maid, who held the lamp for her, while she cast searching, frightened glances through the rooms, one after the other. She began with the first floor and continued with the upper story, reciting the Qur'an suras she knew in order to ward off demons. She would conclude with her room, lock the door, and get into bed, but her recitations would continue until she fell asleep.She had been terrified of the night when she first lived in this house. She knew far more about the world of the jinn than that of mankind and remained convinced that she was not alone in the big house. There were demon who could not be lured away from these spacious, old rooms for long. Perhaps they had sought refuge there before she herself had been brought to the house, even before she saw the light of day. She frequently heard their whispers. Time and again she was awakened by their warm breath. When she was left alone, her only defense was reciting the opening prayer of the Qur'an and sura one hundred and twelve from it, about the absolute supremacy of God, or rushing to the latticework screen at the window to peer anxiously through it at the lights of the carts and the coffeehouses, listening carefully for a laugh or cough to help her regain her composure. Then the children arrived, one after the other. In their early days in the world, though, they were tender sprouts unable to dispel her fears or reassure her. On the contrary, her fears were multiplied by her troubled soul's concern for them and her anxiety that they might be harmed. She would hold them tight, lavish affection on them, and surround them, whether awake or asleep, with a protective shield of Qur'an suras, amulets, charms, and incantations. True peace of mind she would not achieve until her husband returned from his evening's entertainment.It was not uncommon for her, while she was alone with an infant, rocking him to sleep and cuddling him, to clasp him to her breast suddenly. She would listen intently with dread and alarm and then call out in a loud voice, as though addressing someone in the room, ""Leave us alone. This isn't where you belong. We are Muslims and believe in God."" Then she would quickly and fervently recite the one hundred and twelfth sura of the Qur'an about the uniqueness of God. Over the course of time as she gained more experience living with spirits, her fears diminished a good deal. She was calm enough to jest with them without being frightened. If she happened to sense one of them prowling about, she would say in an almost intimate tone, ""Have you no respect for those who worship God the Merciful? He will protect us from you, so do us the favor of going away."" But her mind was never completely at rest until her husband returned. Indeed, the mere fact of his presence in the house, whether awake or asleep, was enough to make her feel secure. Then it did not matter whether the doors were open or locked, the lamp burning brightly or extinguished.It had occurred to her one, during the first year she lived with him, to venture a polite objection to his repeated nights out. His response had been to seize her by the ears and tell her peremptorily in a loud voice, ""I'm a man. I'm the one who commands and forbids. I will not accept criticism of my behavior. All I ask of you is to obey me. Don't force me to discipline you.""She learned from this, and from the other lessons that followed, to adapt to everything, even living with the jinn, in order to escape the glare of his wrathful eye. It was her duty to obey him without reservation or condition. She yielded so wholeheartedly that she even disliked blaming him privately for his nights out. She became convinced that true manliness, tyranny, and staying out till after midnight were common characteristics of a single entity. With the passage of time she grew proud of whatever he meted out, whether it pleased or saddened her. No matter what happened, she remained loving, obedient, and docile wife. She had no regrets at all about reconciling herself to a type of security based on surrender.Whenever she thought back over her life, only goodness and happiness came to mind. Fears and sorrows seemed meaningless ghosts to her, worth nothing more than a smile of pity. Had she not lived with this husband and his shortcomings for a quarter century and been rewarded by children who were the apples of her eye, a home amply provided with comforts and blessings, and a happy, adult life? Of course she had. Being surrounded by the jinn had been bearable, just as each evening was bearable. None of them had attempted to hurt her or the children. They had only played some harmless pranks to tease her. Praise God, the merit was all God's. He calmed her hear and with His mercy brought order to her life.She e...",books;family saga;genre fiction;historical;history & criticism;literary;literature & fiction;urban life,8
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0310228654,"Duh-Votions You Dont Have to Be Deep to Hear Gods Voice! Its so simple! So simple a shallow person can understand it. What Ive found out about God is that he is totally trustworthy, and I can relax in his plans. And besides that, all he wants isare you ready for this?for me to be his person. Just be his person, for heavens sake! All I can say to that is, Duh! Who knows? Next I may be writing a six-volume Bible commentary! Sue Buchanan in Duh-Votions Meet Sue Buchanan. She says to audiences, I may as well tell you because youll figure it out anyway: Im not that deep. Im shallow. But Im deep for a shallow person. Sue offers a merry and witty look at life from the shallow end of the gene pool in sixty fun devotions. From entertaining angels with chicken andaluza to listing her not-so-favorite blond jokes, from a debate on Spam vs. baloney to dramas between mothers and daughters, shell make you laugh . . . and think about some important lessons in life. This very funny lady shows us all that we dont have to be deep to hear Gods voice. All we have to do is listen and well find his message about love and redemption in even the smallest details of everyday life -- Publisher	Sometimes the trick to seeing the lighter side of life, is, well, looking for it! Life in a fallen world offers ample reasons to feel stressed and depressed, but Christians always have the option to focus on the joy of their salvation. According to Sue Buchanan, God communicates in mysterious ways, and one of those ways is through humor.  Sue presents 60 fun and funny devotionals to help women decompress the fast way--by exploding in laughter! Writing with the same sharp and sprightly sense of humor that has brought a chuckle to thousands of Women of Faith conference attendees, Sue helps women get their minds off their problems through her hilarious stories and biblical wisdom. What God wants from us isn't all that complicated, she writes. He wants us to see him and hear his voice in the craziness of everyday life. Duh-Votions is the perfect pick-me-up for women who need to lighten up!	SUE BUCHANAN is vice president of Dynamic Media, Inc., producers of video and computer-based business presentations. She is the author of Im Alive and the Doctors Dead. Together with her best friends, Gloria Gaither, Joy MacKenzie, and Peggy Benson, she is coauthor of Friends Through Thick and Thin and has spoken at several Women of Faith conferences in 1998. Sue lives in Nashville, TN	Sue Buchanan charms audiences wherever she goes, revealing the terrible truth about herself: ""I may as well tell you because you'll figure it out anyway: I'm not that deep. I'm shallow. But I'm deep for a shallow person. What I've found out about God is that he is totally trustworthy, and I can relax in his plans. And besides that, all he wants is -- Are you ready for this? -- for me to be his person. Just be his person, for heaven's sake! All I can say to that is, Duh! Who knows? Next I may be writing a six-volume Bible commentary!"" Sue offers a merry and witty look at life from the ""shallow"" end of the gene pool in sixty fun devotions, sure to leave you laughing and pondering some of life's most important lessons. This very funny lady shows us all that we don't have to be ""deep"" to hear God's voice. All we have to do is listen and we'll find his message about love and redemption in even the smallest details of everyday life.	Sue Buchanan is the coauthor of the best-selling I Love You This Much.  She is also the author of I'm Alive and the Doctor's Dead, Girls Just Gotta Have Fun, Duh-Votions, and Mud Pie Annie, and coauthor of Friends Through Thick and Thin.  Sue lives in Nashville, TN.	Introduction When it comes to daily devotions, there really are people out there who hold the Bible in front of them, let it fall open, then point and read! Im one of those people. Dont pretend to be shocked. You bought this book! For many years I tried to hide the fact that Im not a spiritual giant  that I am, in fact, quite shallow. Then I wrote a book, then another (Who said you have to be deep to write a book?), and my publisher insisted I be out there speaking in order for the book to sell. So now Im a Christian speaker, which proves once and for all that God has a terrific sense of humor. Im so shallow when it comes to Bible knowledge that for years I thought Solomon had 500 wives and 500 porcupines, and that Lots wife was a pillar of salt by day and a ball of fire by night. When someone mentions the great religious author and intellectual Francis Shaeffer, I still have to ask, ""Is that a man or a woman?"" Once at an Evangelical Christian Publishers awards banquet, where all the top books in the industry are honored, I overheard this comment about the guest speaker, a prolific and well-loved author: ""Well, he certainly is a better writer than he is a speaker."" Those words haunted me when I began to accept speaking dates, so I decided to tell my audience the truth right up front. I say, ""I may as well tell you, because youll figure it out anyway: Im not that deep."" They laugh. ""Im shallow."" They laugh. ""But Im deep for a shallow person."" They laugh again. But heres whats really funny! Afterward a lot of people  Im talkin a lot of people  come up to me and say, ""Im just like you. Im shallow too! Ive just never admitted it before."" Im beginning to think there are more people like me than there are like them  and you know who the thems are! They are the ones who know who begot whom and can explain why the Holy Scripture insists that the "" .   .   . meek will inherit the earth .   .   .""  when it seems to be the other way around. Ive not only used the ""let-the-Bible-fall-open-and-point"" method for my devotions, but Ive been known to meditate for thirty minutes after passing one of those big neon church signs that proclaims such truths as ""Do your givin while youre livin, then youre knowin where its goin."" That particular sign convinced me to hurry home and write out my check for missions. I have some sign ideas of my own, including, ""Let God use youeveryone else in town has."" Sometimes I ponder spiritual truths because of something another person says or does, or because Ive listened to a tape or heard a song on the radio. Sometimes I even dare call it ""devotions."" Perhaps the point of this book is that God can speak in unexpected ways, and you dont have to be deep to hear his voice. With this in mind, enjoy the book (be sure to buy one for your pastor  at least half of his congregation is shallow); and if by chance a message comes through, I hope its that God loves you no matter how deep or shallow you might be; that his message, which is about love and redemption, is so simple that even we (and we know who we are) can understand it. What he wants from us isnt all that complicated. He wants us to see him and hear his voice in the craziness of everyday life.	Introduction When it comes to daily devotions, there really are people out there who hold the Bible in front of them, let it fall open, then point and read! I'm one of those people. Don't pretend to be shocked. You bought this book! For many years I tried to hide the fact that I'm not a spiritual giant --- that I am, in fact, quite shallow. Then I wrote a book, then another (Who said you have to be deep to write a book?), and my publisher insisted I be out there speaking in order for the book to sell. So now I'm a Christian speaker, which proves once and for all that God has a terrific sense of humor. I'm so shallow when it comes to Bible knowledge that for years I thought Solomon had 500 wives and 500 porcupines, and that Lot's wife was a pillar of salt by day and a ball of fire by night. When someone mentions the great religious author and intellectual Francis Shaeffer, I still have to ask, 'Is that a man or a woman?' Once at an Evangelical Christian Publishers' awards banquet, where all the top books in the industry are honored, I overheard this comment about the guest speaker, a prolific and well-loved author: 'Well, he certainly is a better writer than he is a speaker.' Those words haunted me when I began to accept speaking dates, so I decided to tell my audience the truth right up front. I say, 'I may as well tell you, because you'll figure it out anyway: I'm not that deep.' They laugh. 'I'm shallow.' They laugh. 'But I'm deep for a shallow person.' They laugh again. But here's what's really funny! Afterward a lot of people --- I'm talkin' a lot of people --- come up to me and say, 'I'm just like you. I'm shallow too! I've just never admitted it before.' I'm beginning to think there are more people like me than there are like them --- and you know who the thems are! They are the ones who know who begot whom and can explain why the Holy Scripture insists that the ' .   .   . meek will inherit the earth .   .   .' --- when it seems to be the other way around. I've not only used the 'let-the-Bible-fall-open-and-point' method for my devotions, but I've been known to meditate for thirty minutes after passing one of those big neon church signs that proclaims such truths as 'Do your givin' while you're livin', then you're knowin' where it's goin'.' That particular sign convinced me to hurry home and write out my check for missions. I have some sign ideas of my own, including, 'Let God use you---everyone else in town has.' Sometimes I ponder spiritual truths because of something another person says or does, or because I've listened to a tape or heard a song on the radio. Sometimes I even dare call it 'devotions.' Perhaps the point of this book is that God can speak in unexpected ways, and you don't have to be deep to hear his voice. With this in mind, enjoy the book (be sure to buy one for your pastor --- at least half of his congregation is shallow); and if by chance a message comes through, I hope it's that God loves you no matter how deep or shallow you might be; that his message, which is about love and redemption, is so simple that even we (and we know who we are) can understand it. What he wants from us isn't all that complicated. He wants us to see him and hear his voice in the craziness of everyday life.",books;christian books & bibles;christian living;devotionals;religion & spirituality;religious studies;spirituality;theology,8
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0810113708,"The Psychoanalytic Movement: The Cunning of Unreason (Rethinking Theory) The Psychoanalytic Movement was recognized as a classic upon its publication. Jos Brunner's new introduction places the argument within the context of the Freud wars, making it clear that the book was as concerned to explain the fabulous success of psychoanalysis as to debunk its pretensions. This may be Gellner's greatest book, containing as it does a general view of the history of philosophy and the character of modernity. John A. Hall, McGill University !--end--Previous praise for The Psychoanalytic Movement:A marvel This is a brilliantly written book, every page sparkling with intelligence, style and substance. Gellner provides a welcome and literate overview of the latest philosophic controversy about the logical status of psychoanalytic propositions. Its every page instructs and enlivens and represents a tribute to humane intelligence. New StatesmanIn a stylish, witty and deceptively readable book, Gellner exposes the secular religious nature of the psychoanalytic enterprise. He admits that a compelling, charismatic belief must possess more than merely the promise of succour in a plague and links with the background convictions of the age. NatureThis is the first determined effort to account for a very odd historical and sociological phenomenon in realistic and meaningful termsand it makes very good sense. Gellner is incisive, agreeable to read and often witty. Institute of Psychiatry Journal	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.	How did the language of psychoanalysis become the dominant idiom in which the middle classes of the industrialized West speak about their emotions? Ernest Gellner offers a forceful and complex answer to this intriguing question in The Psychoanalytic Movement. This landmark study argues that although psychoanalysis offers an incisive picture of human nature, it provides untestable operational definitions and makes unsubstantiated claims concerning its therapeutic efficacy. In a new foreword Jose Brunner expands on the central argument of The Psychoanalytic Movement. Placing Gellner's work in the context of contemporary hostile critiques of Freud, Brunner argues that these two blatantly different thinkers might also be seen as kindred spirits.	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.	How did the language of psychoanalysis become the dominant idiom in which the middle classes of the industrialized West speak about their emotions? Ernest Gellner offers a forceful and complex answer to this intriguing question in The Psychoanalytic Movement. This landmark study argues that although psychoanalysis offers an incisive picture of human nature, it provides untestable operational definitions and makes unsubstantiated claims concerning its therapeutic efficacy. In a new foreword Jos Brunner expands on the central argument of The Psychoanalytic Movement. Placing Gellner's work in the context of contemporary hostile critiques of Freud, Brunner argues that these two blatantly different thinkers might also be seen as kindred spirits.	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.	His first book, Words and Things (1958) prompted a leader in The Times and a month-long correspondence on its letters page over his attack on linguistic philosophy. As the Professor of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method at the London School of Economics for 22 years, the William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge for eight, and finally as head of the new Centre for the Study of Nationalism in Prague, Gellner fought all his lifein his writing, his teaching, and through his political activismagainst what he saw as closed systems of thought, particularly communism, psychoanalysis, relativism, and the dictatorship of the free market.",books;criticism & theory;fitness & dieting;health;history & criticism;literature & fiction;psychoanalysis;psychology & counseling,8
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0062500813,"The Tao of Psychology: Synchronicity and Self The Tao of Psychology is the most useful integration of Eastern religion and Western psychology since Wilhelm's translation of the I Ching and The Secret of the Golden Flower. -- George Wilson, M.D., Northern California, Psychiatric Society NewsletterCharming and interesting....The Tao of Psychology may dispel the sense of alienation and loneliness and pull the reader to believe there is indeed a linkage between us all. -- Walter E. Barton, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus, Dartmouth Medical School; Past President, American Psychiatric AssociationDr. Bolen makes the dynamics of Tao and synchronicity come alive.  The Tao of Psychology  expands horizons for psychotherapy no less than quantum physics does for physicists."" -- Joseph B. Wheelwright, M.D., Clinical Professor Emeritus, University of California School of Medicine; Past President, International Association for Analytic PsychologyScholarly....fascinating. -- OMNIThe Tao of Psychology is a small but real gem.  In clear and persuasive language, it attempts to synthesize several of the main strands of non-rational phenomena -- the occult, religious mysticism, parapsychology, to name a few -- and integrate them with popular psychology and Jungian theory in arguing a connection between the inner and outer worlds, between the visible and invisible. -- Minneapolis TribuneThis slender book blends persona, insight and experience, sensitive scholarship and graceful writing.  Its transcendent vision is articulated most clearly in the last chapter, ""The Message of the Tao Experience:  We are Not Alone."" -- Marilyn Ferguson, editor, Brain/Mind Bulletin, author, The Aquarian Conspiracy	As befitting a book about synchronicity, from its inception this book (and my becoming an author) came about through a series of synchronistic circumstances. which brought me together with my editor.  The Tao of Psychology was published in 1979, and went out into the world without publicity or marketing efforts, which was typical for a first-time author, minimal print-run book.  Readers then wrote to me of the uncanny timing and coincidences that led them to read it.  Whether by word of mouth, or by synchronicity, I am delighted that it is still in print, some twenty years later, and am glad that it now has a Mark Rothko painting on its cover, besides. Synchronistic events in my own life played a significant part in the events that I wrote of in Crossing to Avalon: A Woman's Midlife Pilgrimage.  They also contributed to the writing of Close to the Bone: Life-Threatening Illness and the Search for Meaning.	A woman dreams about an event which then happens.  A man thinks about being out of contact with an old friend; the phone rings and the caller is that friend.  Someone experiences sympathetic pains while a relative undergoes surgery.... The Tao of Psychology rejects the commonly-held notion that these are interesting, but isolated events.  Such uncanny coincidences often bring in their wake an all-too-fleeting awareness of being part of an infinite yet meaningful whole.  The Tao of Psychology explores the interrelationship between ""meaningful coincidences"" and the intuitive sense that we are part of the oneness of the universe. The underlying principle is called Tao in Eastern philosophy and synchronicity in Jungian psychology. Coincidental events which are significant to us and cannot be explained in any rational way are synchronistic. Now, Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D., shows how to apply this important concept to everyday life.  She shares her methods of recognizing authentic ""meaningful coincidences,"" shows how they function as ""waking dreams"" -- compact, symbolistic messages to the consciousness -- and demonstrates her ""Agatha Christie approach"" to unraveling the meaning of each occurrence.  To appreciate a synchronistic event, one needs the ability to note an inner subjective slate, a thought, feeling, vision, dream, or premonition and to intuitively link it with a related outer event.  Each synchronistic experience is unique; Dr. Bolen's methods allow the reader to enter this wholly new, individualistic means of experiencing. The Tao of Psychology also points out how synchronicity operates as the foundation of the Tarot, horoscopes, and--most importantly--the I Ching.  By relating the concepts of the Tao and synchronicity, Dr. Bolen reveals important links between Western psychology and Eastern spirituality, right brain and left, the individual and the external world.  An understanding of this principle also sheds light on research into parapsychology--especially such areas of ESP as precognition, telepathy, and clairvoyance.   Synchronistic events can assure us when we are on the right life-path and advise us when we are not; at the most profound level, they reassure us that we are not mere observers, but always participators in an interconnected cosmic web.	Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D., is an internationally known Jungian analyst, clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California at San Francisco, and a former member of the board of the Ms. Foundation for Women. She lives in Mill Valley, California. Contact jean Bolen at www.jeanbolen.com.",books;modern;occult;personal transformation;philosophy;politics & social sciences;religion & spirituality;self-help,8
0312261330,"Spinning Blues into Gold: The Chess Brothers and the Legendary Chess Records Polish Jewish immigrants who moved to Chicago in 1928, Leonard and Phil Chess founded an independent record company that produced classics by rock and roll pioneers, along with jazz, soul and gospel artists. An engaging stroll down memory lane combining meticulous scholarship with indelible portraits of musical greats, this history of Chess Records, founded in 1950, and its permutations (Checkers, Argo, etc.) traces the genesis of hits including Chuck Berry's ""Rock 'n Roll Music,"" Etta James's ""At Last,"" the Monotones' ""The Book of Love"" and Fontella Bass's ""Rescue Me."" Cohodas (The Band Played Dixie) sensitively explores the complicated dynamic between the Jews who dominated the early ""indie"" music business and the black performing artists whose music they produced. Although allegations of exploitation and underpayment of royalties led to lawsuits against the Chess brothers in the 1970s, Cohodas stresses the large common ground between Jews and blacks. Leonard's Macomba Lounge, the club he opened in Chicago in 1946, became a magnet of African-American nightlife. His radio station, WVON (Voice of the Negro), was an integral part of Chicago's black community in the 1960s. While long stretches of this book are a workmanlike chronicle of business dealings, Cohodas vibrantly tracks the crossover of R to the pop charts, and she dispels many myths and false legends surrounding the Chess brothers, e.g., Keith Richards's fabricated story that he saw downtrodden blues legends Muddy Waters on a ladder painting the Chess studio's ceiling. 16-page photo insert. (May) Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.	As boys in the 1920s, Leonard and Phil Chess left Poland and immigrated to the Jewish section of Chicago. After an unhappy apprenticeship in their father's junk business, the Chess brothers began operating the Macomba Lounge, which catered to rural blacks recently arrived in the city. Grasping the profitability of the music business, they eventually formed Chess Records, which would reshape American popular music with its roster of blues icons Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, and Willie Dixon and rock'n'roll pioneers Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley. The many artists who regarded the brothers more as friends than bosses belie myths about the mistreatment of musicians and the withholding of royalties. Much more in-depth than John Collis's The Story of Chess Records (LJ 2/15/99), this provides a bibliography that includes citations from Chess recording sessions and the private papers of Chess family members. An essential purchase for any serious popular music collection; Cohodas also wrote The Band Played Dixie.-Dan Bogey, Clearfield Cty. P.L. Federation, Curwensville, PA Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Looking for a corporate history with a backbeat? Try the saga of the brothers Chess, Phil and Leonard, told before but not as fully referenced as Cohodas' take on it. Cohodas presents the Chess story as an ethnic stew, in terms of interactions between the brothers and the musicians who recorded for them, and also in terms of those who bought the records. And the Chesses were involved in more than recording. In 1959 Leonard managed to acquire a radio station, and soon the brothers owned several small stations, including the Chicago-area outlet they dubbed WVON, for Voice of the Negro. Cohodas tells how the two old-worldish, Jewish businessmen became giants of the ""race"" record industry and providers of race-conscious broadcasting patiently, enticingly, and fully. Anyone who finds a Bo Diddley, Muddy Waters, or Willie Dixon beat irresistible will find Cohodas' book pretty fascinating, and that includes many fans of the Rolling Stones and the other blue-eyed blues bands inspired by the music the Chesses recorded. Mike TribbyCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	""Filled with facts and funk, Spinning Blues into Gold tells a rough-and-tumble American story: how Chicago's Leonard and Phil Chess got black electric blues on wax and sent it round the world.  A compelling, at times poignant book, superbly researched and sensitively written by Nadine Cohodas."" ---Michael Lydon, author of Ray Charles: Man and Music	Nadine Cohodas is the author of Strom Thurmond and the Politics of Southern Change and The Band Played Dixie: Race and Liberal Conscience at Ole Miss.	Leonard and Phil made little distinction between office and home.  Family was business and vice versa.  So it was not surprising that Marshall's bar mitzvah on April 17, 1955, became something more than a traditional worship service.  A centuries old ritual combined with present day business, the event became an RB convention, Hebrew chants mixed in with blues.  Ahmet Ertegun and Jerry Wexler from Atlantic Records and disc jockey Alan Freed and his wife came from New York.  Randy Woods of Randy's Record shop and Dot Records came from Gallatin, Tennessee; disc jockey Zenas Sears came from Atlanta, WLAC's Gene Nobles came from Nashville, Record presser Buster Williams and his wife came from Memphis, and so did a host of Chicago area music makers including prominent black disk jockeys Sam Evans, Al Benson and McKie Fitzhugh, and some of the Chess musicians.  It was one of the few times blacks came to a worship service at Agudath Achem, the family's synagogue.",arts & photography;blues;books;business;history & criticism;humor & entertainment;music;musical genres,8
0882405411,"Kumak's House: A Tale of the Far North In an Inuit interpretation of a popular Yiddish folktales, a family complains of cramped accommodations then learns a lesson about being happy with what they have in Kumak's House: A Tale of the Far North by Michael Bania. An author's note explains Inuit customs. Ages 4-8.Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.	Kindergarten-Grade 2-When Kumak complains to the village elder that his home is too small, she advises him to invite rabbits into his house. They soon multiply, and the next illustration shows the family being crowded out of bed by the newcomers. Next, Aana Lulu tells Kumak to invite foxes in, and continues to encourage him to take larger and larger animals into his home. The family is eventually squished in with bears, caribou, otters, and a prickly porcupine. When she suggests that he take in a whale, he reaches the limit of his hospitality and kicks out all of the animals. Suddenly, there is plenty of room for Kumak's family. This traditional story set in the Arctic is relayed in traditional storytelling fashion, with all of the requisite repetition. Children will be able to predict what will happen next and chime in. Information on Eskimo culture is woven into the story. Pastel watercolors emphasize the chaos of the family's home, and also impart the serenity of their lifestyle. Even the animals look friendly. Illustrations vary in size and shape, keeping the text flowing. Some of the most charming pictures are oval, focusing tightly on the crowded house and its occupants. This delightful story will entertain children as they learn about a different way of life.Susan Marie Pitard, formerly at Weezie Library for Children, Nantucket Atheneum, MACopyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	PreS-Gr. 2. Kumak lives in the Arctic with his family in a crowded little house. Unhappy with his cramped quarters, he seeks advice from Lulu, the wise elder. Every time Kumak visits, Lulu tells him to add another animal to the household until a rabbit, fox, caribou, porcupine, otter, and a bear have moved in. Unable to stand the chaos, Kumak gets rid of all of the newcomers, and his house feels wonderfully spacious. This traditional tale finds new life in its unusual setting. The author spent two decades in the Arctic, and the authentic details enhance the story at every turn. Lulu is always involved with a local custom: stitching a sealskin mukluk, sifting through a pail of salmonberries, or boiling whale blubber into soup. These and other Arctic traditions are explained at length in an author's note. The watercolor-and-ink illustrations capture the humor and setting with expressive characters and a wintry palette of purple, blue, and yellow. Children who are familiar with this tale will delight in this new angle; those unfamiliar are in for a treat. Helen RosenbergCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	The watercolor-and-ink illustrations capture the humor and setting with expressive characters and a wintry palette of purple, blue, and yellow. Children who are familiar with this tale will delight in this new angle; those unfamiliar are in for a treat. --- Booklist, Helen Rosenberg, Sept 2002 This traditional story set in the Arctic is relayed in traditional storytelling fashion, with all the requisite repetition. Children will be able to predict what will happen next and chime in. Information on Eskimo culture is woven into the story. Pastel watercolors emphasize the chaos of the familys home, and also impart the serenity of their lifestyle. Even the animals look friendly. Illustrations vary in size and shape, keeping the text flowing. Some of the most charming pictures are oval, focusing tightly on the crowded house and its occupants. This delightful story will entertain children as they learn about a different way of life. --- School Library Journal, January 2003, Susan Pitard, The Book Review, Preschool to Grade 4.  In an Inuit interpretation of a popular Yiddish folktale, a family complains of cramped accommodations --- then learns a lesson about being happy with what they have --- in Kumaks House: A Tale of the Far North by Micheal Bania. Authors note explains Inuit customs. Publishers Weekly, June 2002	At the edge of a great frozen river, Kumak and his family lived in their house by the willows. Though their house was warm and cozy, Kumak was not happy. His wife was not happy. His sons and daughters were not happy. His wife's mother was not happy. Too small, this house, said Kumak. I will go to see Aana Lulu. She will know what to do. Set in an Inupiat Eskimo village in the northwest Arctic, KUMAK'S HOUSE is a folktale that conveys a humorous lesson on life with Kumak as the foil. As Kumak treks again and again to elder Aana Lulu for advice, the book's charming illustrations incite laughter and introduce children to traditional Inupiat activities and animals of the Arctic.	CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People  2003  Alaska Battle of the Book Selection	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	For almost twenty years, Michael Bania lived above the Arctic Circle. While residing in various Inupiat villages, she actively participated in the local culture and developed an understanding and respect for a distinct way of life. Here she met her husband, raised a family, and taught the children who would become the inspiration for Kumak and his tall tales from the far north. Art and illustration is a big part of Michaels life. She wrote and illustrated her first childrens book at age six. Today she maintains her studio in Southeast Alaska.	Though their house was warm and cozy, Kumak was not happy. His wife was not happy. His mother was not happy. His sons and daughters were not happy. ' Too small, this house', said Kumak. ' I will go see Aana Lulu. She will know what to do. ' Anan Lulu was the oldest and wisest elder in the village.",books;children's books;fairy tales;folk tales & myths;literature & fiction;multicultural stories;native north & south americans;travel & cultures,8
1857443489,"Winning Chess Endings (Winning Chess - Everyman Chess) Approach every endgame with a winning strategy!Good books about endgames for beginners are few and far between. Winning Chess Endings is a great one - a gripping introduction to what you need to know to win chess endings, taught by American Grandmaster Yasser Seirawan. His entertaining, easy-to-understand style, incisive stories and insiders advice will help you develop a solid grasp of proven principles that you can apply with confidence whenever a game goes the distance. You'll learn to prevail time and again in endgames with common and uncommon combinations and pieces.Winning Chess Endings explains how to: relentlessly find checkmates, from easy to hard, in all basic endgame patterns; master the intricacies of King and Pawn Endings; win consistently in the most common endgame - the Rook ending; master the pros and cons of Bishop vs. Knight Endgames; seize the advantage in Rook Pawn and Queen Pawn endings; play like a grandmaster in solitaire endingsWinning Chess Endings teaches endgame strategies in an exciting new way - by putting you in the middle of the action with firsthand stories taken directly from famous matches. Pull up a chair and watch the world's most exciting chess endings. Then become an endgame master!	Yasser Seirawan is the highest-rated American chess professional on the Federation Internationale des Echecs (FIDE) rating ladder and the first American to vie for the World Championship title since Bobby Fischer. He is a three-time U.S Champion, the 1989 Western Hemisphere Champion and an eight-time member of the U.S chess Olympiad team. Currently one of the worlds top-ranked chess players, he is one of only a handful of players to have defeated world champions Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov in tournament play.",arts & photography;board games;books;chess;humor & entertainment;instruments;music;puzzles & games,8
B0001X4Z4I,Delkin Devices Sony NP-FT1 Rechargeable Battery ( DD/NPFT1 ) Make sure you have a charged spare battery on hand to capture life's most important moments. This third-party Delkin battery is an affordable replacement for Sony's NP-FT1 680 mAh Lithium-ion rechargeable battery. It's compatible with Sony Cybershot DSCT1 and DSCL1 digital cameras.	Keep a spare battery charged up and on hand for your Sony digital cameraSave money when you buy a third-party batteryCompatible with Sony Cybershot DSCT1 and DSCL1 digital cameras680 mAh,accessories;adapters;batteries;batteries & chargers;camera & photo;camera batteries;digital camera accessories;electronics,8
0595328695,"St. Hubert's Stag A retired newspaper editor/writer, John Richard Lindermuth is also the author of Schlussel?s Woman, and has published articles, stories and illustrations in a variety of magazines. He is currently librarian of the Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, Historical Society.",books;contemporary;literary;literature & fiction;mystery;psychological thrillers;thriller & suspense;thrillers,8
0070324883,"Printed Circuit Board Materials Handbook (Electronic Packaging and Interconnection) Everything you need to know about printed circuit board fabrication--in one single source! This book covers the total PCB construction process from the first glob of glass to the finished board, giving you all the materials information you need to make your designs work. It goes into depth like no other book has before, describing how the basic raw materials are used to make various types of printed wiring boards along with their physical, mechanical, and electrical properties. Whether you're an electrical or mechanical engineer working with PCBs or a materials, processing, or manufacturing engineer, you'll find problem-solving guidelines to help you understand the materials and processes that go into making a reliably designed product. For example, design engineers who don't know the electrical properties or thickness of a material to use can turn to chapter 2 for details on properties of the material and material thickness and chapter 9 to find out how much material, preprep, and laminate is required. Or quality engineers who need to make sure they have a good reliable product can turn to chapters 31 and 32 for details on microsection analysis and electrical tests required to ensure a good product. And process engineers who need to make sure they have a good reliable product can turn to chapters 31 and 32 for details on microsection analysis and electrical tests required to ensure a good product. And process engineers whose plating solutions are not depositing the required thickness can see chapter 25 for a full description of plating bath make-up and chemical analysis procedures. Key features of the handbook include: full start-to-finish coverage of the PCB fabrication process; expert advice on controversial cleaning issues and CFC problems; practical sections on troubleshooting and failure analysis. It's a unique single-source reference on the products and processes used in making PCBs, jam-packed with practical information to help engineers understand how their designs are affected by the materials and processes they choose--making the difference between a slow, unreliable failure and a successful design.	Martin W. Jawitz (Chatsworth, CA) has approximately 40 years in the Printed Wiring Board Industry. He is currently the senior editor of Flexible Circuits Engineering Magazine.  Prior to that, Marty was employed by Jet Propulsion Labs in Pasadena, California, Litton Industries, Lockheed Electronics, and Singer Kearfott. He has published many articles in the trade press, chairs many IPC meetings, and has taught extensively in the PWB field.",books;education & reference;electrical & electronic engineering;electrical & electronics;engineering;new;professional & technical;used & rental textbooks,8
076031246X,"Big Book of Barris David Fetherston is a writer, photographer, and artist. He has written several books, including Big Book of Barris, Barris TV and Movie Cars, Hot Rod Memorabilia and Collectibles, and American Woodys. Fetherston resides in Sebastopol, CA.",americas;automotive;books;history;professional & technical;state & local;transportation;united states,8
B0001KOA78,"Gaggia 7001 Burr Grinder, White This popular Gaggia MM burr grinder holds 6 ounces of coffee beans and comes with adjustable grinding burrs. Choose from 9 degrees of fineness to produce uniform grinds. Grinding duration is controlled with a push-button switch. The ground coffee container slides out for ease of use and cleaning.",coffee;coffee grinders;food grinders & mills;home & kitchen;kitchen & dining;small appliances;specialty appliances;tea & espresso,8
1590520351,"Two Hearts Praying as One (Family First) The cofounders of FamilyLife, a branch of Campus Crusade for Christ, bring their insights to the matter of a faith-filled marriage in the latest installment of their Family First series, a 30-day prayer devotional designed for husbands and wives. ""Praying together may be the single most important spiritual discipline you and your spouse will ever share,"" say the Raineys (Growing a Spiritually Strong Family and Moments Together for Couples). Using personal anecdotes as well as stories theyve encountered through their ministry, they propose that prayer with a spouse can reduce conflict, protect against divorce and even improve a couples sex life. Each day of their devotional includes suggestions for prayer and a reflection section designed to spark deeper thought and discussion. Although geared toward marriages in which both partners are committed Christians, the book appropriately offers ideas for those whose spouses do not share their faith. From practical advice (how to pray) to spiritual generosity (prayers for the salvation of all people), this little volume offers readers warm encouragement in their prayer lives. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Dennis RaineyDennis and Barbara Rainey are co-founders of FamilyLife, a division of Campus Crusade for Christ, and authors of the bestselling books Moments Together for Couples and Staying Close. Dennis cohosts the daily radio program FamilyLife Today, heard by 4 million people each week. The Raineys have six children and two grandchildren and live in Little Rock, Arkansas.Barbara RaineyDennis and Barbara Rainey are co-founders of FamilyLife, a division of Campus Crusade for Christ, and authors of the bestselling books Moments Together for Couples and Staying Close. Dennis cohosts the daily radio program FamilyLife Today, heard by 4 million people each week. The Raineys have six children and two grandchildren and live in Little Rock, Arkansas.",books;christian books & bibles;christian living;devotionals;inspirational;prayer;religion & spirituality;spirituality,8
B0002DWKXK,"Otto Link Metal Tenor Saxophone Mouthpiece, 7 In the world of professional mouthpieces for saxophones, one name stands out among the crowd. It is Otto Link! These bell metal mouthpieces have been the choice of numerous touring professional saxophonists in every genre of music from pop and rock to jazz, classical and R With their superior tone and wide range of facing sizes available, your sound will ascend to unheard of levels. Find out why these mouthpieces are the ""choice of the world's greatest artists""!",instrument accessories;mouthpieces;musical instruments;parts;saxophone;saxophones;tenor saxes;woodwind accessories,8
B000FBFO0K,"Sex: A User's Guide a mind-bogglingly good read Manchester Evening News	The latest instalment in the corporate adventures of Alex, the pinstriped cartoon character who appears in the pages of the 'Daily Mail'. It's been a tough year for the investment banker: his world is rocked by financial scandals and he faces a fight to keep his job. A collection of Cook's finest and funniest writings - many of which have never been published before. Christmas verse: under influence of gin, turkey and baby look confusingly alike. Why does the baby smell of stuffing? What has the family eaten for Christmas dinner? Hundreds of short stories picked up from the world's news wires during the last year.	Stephen Arnott is the author of Now Wash Your Hands! a cultural history of the toilet, and The Languid Goat is Always Thin, a collection of the world's strangest proverbs. Born in Jamaica, he currently lives in North London.	BIRDS DO IT, BEES DO ITSex in the Animal KingdomSex is often thought of as an animal activity (You're a tiger!), and the animal kingdom is as good a place as any to start a comparative sex education. Evolution has thrown up innumerable sexual variations in the living world. Some creatures, like aphids, manage to do without sex at all and reproduce using a cloning process, while others can't seem to get enough of it, the humble single-celled paramecium evolving (somewhat extravagantly) eight sexes rather than the more usual two. Some creatures (many species of reef-living fish, for example) have distinctly shaky sexual identities and will change gender at the drop of a hat. Others like spiders and bristle worms combine sex with cannibalism. Indeed, compared to many animals, the sex lives of the most infamous human libertines seem positively lackluster.The Naked ApeAs might be expected, when compared with animals, human sex lives most closely resemble those of our nearest relatives--the chimpanzees--rather than gorillas and our more distant cousins the monkeys. Gorillas have tiny penises compared to body size; on average they come in at 1 14 inches. Orangutans aren't much bigger at 1 12 inches, while the relatively small chimps are a whopping 234 inches. Humans come out best with an average of 5 12 inches, but there seems to be no reason for this relatively huge size; a 2-inch penis would do the job just as well. Gorillas don't need to be well equipped in this respect because a dominant male keeps a harem of females. This means there's very little day-to-day competition with other males. In contrast, chimps live in large groups where females mate with a number of different males every day. Chimps need a relatively large penis and a high volume of sperm production to compete. The sperm acts as a douche, washing out the sperm left by a female's previous lovers. It's the male chimp who produces the most sperm who will father the most children. This is why chimp testicles weigh around 4 ounces each, while the more monogamous humans clock in at only an ounce and a half.Proportionally the largest testes in the primate world belong to the woolly spider monkey. Females of the species have been known to mate as many as eleven times a day when in heat and literally overflow with sperm. This excess is treated as a nutritious snack, and spider monkeys lick it up by the mouthful.Giving Him the BoneAn interesting difference between humans and animals is the lack of a human penis bone, also known as an os penis. The majority of mammals, including bears, cats, dogs, weasels, moles, shrews, and most primates, possess such a bone, and why humans don't is a mystery. The size of these bones varies. Walruses have os bones two feet long, resembling ivory truncheons, while bats have tiny ones. As a rule, fish lack an os bone (which would spoil their streamlined shape), as do most birds (where they'd be an unnecessary weight).Bird PenisesSome birds have penises; these are usually found among flightless birds (where the extra weight isn't a disadvantage) and aquatic birds like swans, ducks, and geese (where aquatic mating means there's a chance of sperm being washed away). It's probably a coincidence that penis-owning waterfowl seem to be the ones that most commonly indulge in rape. Male ducks have a reputation for this sort of thing and often take part in gang bangs--large numbers of drakes mobbing a female for sex and sometimes drowning her as a consequence. Bird penises tend to resemble mammalian penises but do not contain a urethra to drain the bladder. Some can be remarkably long; the Argentine lake duck commonly has an 8-inch penis, but the largest reach 16 inches.For those who'd like to see one, fresh ostrich penises can be bought over the Internet as an aphrodisiac.Big PenisesThe record for the world's largest penis is held by the world's largest mammal, the blue whale, which has an organ just over ten feet long and one foot in diameter. The sperm whale (named after spermaceti, a mysterious white oily substance found in its head) comes a close second with a nine-footer. A whale's penis is known as a dork, which is where the insult comes from.Among land mammals, giraffes have erections reaching four feet long, while elephant erections can reach five or six feet. One enterprising biologist has even gone as far as to calculate the average weight of an elephant penis--59.5 pounds (with testicles at 4.4 pounds each). Rhinos tend to be shorter in this department, their penises being around two feet long; however, they make up for it by being prodigious ejaculators, some coming as many as ten times during a half-hour session. These genitals have been put to some unusual uses in the past. In India golf bags have been made from elephant penises, while in Africa rhino and hippo penises were often stretched and dried to make whips.Weird PenisesSmaller animals may be less impressively equipped, but many make up for it by having bizarre penis shapes. Some animals, like marsupial opossums, have two--one for each of the female opossum's paired vaginas.Pigs have corkscrew-shaped penises; the male pig makes semirotary motions to literally screw himself into his mate. Spider monkeys have barbed penises to help them hang on during mating. Tomcats also have barbed penises; the pain caused by withdrawal is the stimulus that causes the female to release her eggs. Like pigs, some bulls have corkscrew penises, though in this case it's an undesirable medical condition that makes mating difficult.Insects have unusual penises. For example, dragonflies have shovel-shaped organs designed to scoop any previously deposited rival semen out of a female. One of the most bizarre boners belongs to the European rabbit flea, which has a penis consisting of two coiled rods, with sperm wound around the smaller one like springs. Some earwigs have two penises--they are very brittle and a spare is needed in case the main one breaks off. Male bees (drones) have alarming-looking genitals. Even more alarming is the fact that they explode. Once the drone has mated with a queen bee in flight, his genitals burst with a pop that can be heard some distance away. The explosion blocks the queen's genitals so she can't receive sperm from any other male.Barnacles have developed a penis to help solve their immobility problem. Once it's glued itself to something solid, a male barnacle is stuck for life; however, its penis is commonly 150 percent longer than its body and is able to snake out and molest any female within striking distance.Super SpermWe're used to thinking of sperm as numerous and tiny, but many creatures produce a small number of relatively enormous sperm cells. The house centipede produces a sperm cell that is as long as its body (commonly over 4.7 inches), and some beetle species go one better and produce sperm that are longer than their owners, coiling them up like springs inside the body. An unfortunate side effect is that after fertilization the female often has to waddle around with a sperm tail sticking out of her rear end. Proportionally, the record for the longest sperm belongs to the fruit fly, Drosophila bifurca; it has sperm 2.4 inches in length, twenty times longer than its entire body.Some creatures produce spermatophores, dense packets of sperm coated with protective gels. Octopi use spermatophores that are three feet long and as thin as a pencil. Some octopus spermatophores have barbs to stop them from being withdrawn once they're placed inside the female, a necessary precaution, as unbarbed spermatophores are often removed and eaten. Katydids (relatives of the grasshopper) also make use of sperm as food; here females have to be bribed with sperm food parcels before they'll allow their eggs to be fertilized.Perverts of the Animal KingdomBedbugs have extremely unsavory sexual habits. Female bedbugs are born without vaginas, so sperm is passed on during an act of traumatic copulation. The bedbug's penis is a swordlike rod stabbed into the female's body, depositing sperm into her gut. The sperm then travels via the bloodstream to a special storage gland, where it is kept for further use. This system has a benefit for the female, as in hard times she can use this sperm as a free meal. Some African bedbugs play a variation to this game by indulging in male rape. They stab other males in the hope that, when the attacked male mates with a female, some of their sperm will be passed on as well. To obtain a free sperm meal, some males deliberately invite an attack by disguising themselves as females.Some bean weevil species are equally repellent, having spine-covered penises that deliberately cripple the female. The lacerations caused by these penises are often fatal: the female lives long enough to lay her eggs but not so long that she has a chance to mate with rival males.Coming in a close third in the pervert stakes are banana slugs. Slugs are hermaphroditic, and some pairs mate as equals, playing both male and female roles. Others use this moment of intimacy as an opportunity to gnaw off the penis of their sex partner, forcing them to become exclusively female. These penises represent a hearty meal; banana slugs are commonly 5 inches long but may have penises as long as 30 inches.Another animal with kinky habits is the American slipper snail (Crepidula fornicata). Here a male snail attaches itself to a rock and becomes a female. Another male snail will then settle on the female and mate with her; should a third male land on the second snail, then snail number two will change into a female and be mated with. This might carry on until up to fourteen snails are welded in a tower of lust.Vaginal PlugsAfter mating, many male organisms seal up the vaginal canal of their sex partners. Some parasitic worms exude a glue that seals the fema...",books;education & reference;humor & entertainment;kindle ebooks;kindle store;puzzles & games;trivia;trivia & fun facts,8
1573921815,"The Roving Mind ""Want to encourage your offspring to pursue a career in science?  Buy them this book."" -- Midwest Book ReviewThe book remains as edifying as ever, and as deserving of a place in every school library in the nation.   -- Analog, Tom Easton	Isaac Asimov's death on April 6, 1992, was a great loss to literature, science, and free thought. The vision of one of America's most prolific authors is unmatched today, and his pointed honesty shines through in this fascinating collection of essays, now reissued in this special tribute edition.   Asimov demonstrates his extraordinary skill at disseminating knowledge from across the scientific disciplines as his roving mind ranges from the polemical to the persuasive, from the speculative to the realistic. The sixty-two essays in this volume include such subjects as creationism, the distinction between real science and pseudoscience, censorship, the population explosion, technophobia, the social consequences of technological progress, cloning, the possibility of contacting extraterrestrial life, and the wonders of the cosmos. There are also thoughts on his style of writing, stories about his personal life, and recollections of family history--all written in the clear and elegant prose for which Asimov was noted.",books;classics;essays;essays & correspondence;history & philosophy;literature & fiction;science & math;united states,8
0851318673,A History of the Horse Volume 1: The Iberian Horse from Ice Age to Antiquity Paulo Gaviao Gonzaga is past President of the Brazillian Association of Lusitano Horse Breeders.,animals;biological sciences;books;crafts;hobbies & home;horses;pets & animal care;science & math,8
0970373422,German Survival Guide: The Language and Culture You Need to Travel With Confidence in Germany and Austria Elizabeth Bingham has made a specialty of preparing travelers for trips abroad. She has lived and traveled extensively in Germany and Austria and has a Ph.D. in Foreign Language Education. She has also written Italian Survival Guide (9780970373441).	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.,austria;books;education & reference;europe;general;germany;literature & fiction;travel,8
B00004Y32N,"White Cannibal ""His band sounds like a cross between Davis Bitches Brew and the JBs. He Be Punk Funk Brother #1 !""  -- Melody Maker UKAn assault, not a seduction. He flings the funk in your face. You better dance and duck.  -- NME UKAn excellent document of James best band so far. Unequivocally recommended.  -- Glenn OBrien- Interview	In the late 70s and early 80s no artist represented the heart and soul of the No Wave/New Wave movement as clearly as James Chance. His James Chance and the Contortions and (alter-ego) James White and the Blacks were media stars all over the U.S.A. and Europe, heralding a new movement of Jazz/Punk/Funk. He was a prime time creator, leader, catalyst and motivating force. His early Brian Eno produced cuts on No New York (Antilles 1978) followed by two full vinyl albums on Mikal Zilkhas Ze Records launched a career that seemed to be like a shooting star across the musical firmament.	In 1981, ROIR then a cassette-only Company, released James Chance And The Contortions Live In New York as its first release. Many regard it as James best work. Recorded in late 1980 and early 81, live at The 80s Club and Peppermint Lounge NYC, it is now 20 years later an essential document of New Wave history. We are now finally releasing it again, but this time digitally remastered, and renamed White Cannibal- fittingly so as James devours himself, his lyrics, his band and the audience! It sounds better today than ever. Liner Notes: Glenn O'Brien.",alternative rock;dance & electronic;jazz;music;pop;r&b;rock;world music,8
0738524204,"Greer: From Cotton Town to Industrial Center (SC) (Making of America) An educator for 28 years, Ray Belcher is presently a college history instructor. He has also written and lectured on historical topics of local and regional interest. Co-author Joada P. Hiatt, former English professor and professional storyteller, manages the Jean M. Smith Library of Greer. Together, they present historic images and engaging stories as a tribute to the southern spirit of this town and its people.",agriculture;americas;books;business & investing;history;industries & professions;state & local;united states,8
B000CNBPZY,Explorer Pro Comp 13132 97'Ford F150 Add-A-Leaf Add height without an overhaul.These Pro Comp Add-A-Leaf kits are the perfect way to add 1 1/2 in. to 2 1/2 in. of ride height to your vehicle without completely overhauling your suspension. Each kit includes two single leaves and new centering bolts.,automotive;engine parts;engines & engine parts;performance parts & accessories;replacement parts;rocker arms;rocker arms & parts;roller rockers,8
0763607118,"The Snail House What if one day you and your siblings shrunk down to a tiny, tiny size,  crept out under a crack in the door, and went to live in a snail house... on the  back of a moving snail? That's precisely what happens in Allan Ahlberg and  illustrator Gillian Tyler's quiet, lovely picture book The Snail House,  told in a folksy, story-time voice by Grandma to her grandchildren Hannah and  Michael and their baby brother. (""'It have a TV?' Hannah said. 'No TV,  sweetheart, not in those days. But a radio, yes.'"") Young children will adore poring over every delicate detail of Tyler's  exquisitely drawn snail's-eye view of the world, a universe where falling apples  cause earthquakes and babies can be lost in a forest of grass. The snail  house--complete with doors, windows, porch railings, tiny furniture, and  toys--provides fodder for hours of close examination. Scary moments like the  arrival of a giant snail-eating thrush (""'No!' cried Hannah"") contrast with  peaceful times, such as stretching a clothesline between the snail's eyestalks,  reading books, and washing windows. All in all, this fine book is a visual feast  with the miniature-world appeal of The Borrowers. Preschoolers can  revel in the fascinating picture story without having to read a word. (Ages 3 to  7) --Karin Snelson	Tyler's (The Good Little Christmas Tree) paneled, watercolor and pen-and-ink pictures in miniature play a pivotal role in revealing the engaging action in this creatively designed, horizontal volume. Small-scaled, wispy and finely detailed, her art bears an uncanny resemblance to that of the late Janet Ahlberg. In his story within a story, author Ahlberg introduces a brother and sister who climb into their grandmother's ample lap while their baby brother dozes in a stroller. The woman tells them about three siblings portrayed in the pictures as their look-alikes who one day shrink to a tiny size and take up residence in a snail's shell: ""It was a proper house too, with a door and windows, roof and chimney, table, chairs, three little beds, curtains, and crockery everything!"" Side panels show the siblings battling bugs with a broomstick and hanging laundry on a line fixed between the snail's feelers. As the children eagerly interrupt their grandmother to comment on her tale, the nimble, conversational narrative describes a trio of adventures that the children embark upon before bidding farewell to their snail. Ahlberg again displays his gift for storytelling in a work that will surely set young imaginations loose and may well color the way readers view diminutive garden dwellers. Tyler's paintings prove that she is equally adept at depicting these likable human characters as she is the natural world. Ages 5-8. Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.	K-Gr 3-Sitting on the steps of a country farmhouse after a full day of strawberry picking, Grandma weaves a tale of fantasy for Michael, Hannah, and the baby. ""Once upon a long, long time ago there was a boy and his sister and their little baby brother who all of a sudden got so very, very small that they could leave that house of theirs by a crack under the door-."" The tiny youngsters set up housekeeping in a mobile snail house and adventures await as they move through the garden. Their experiences allow readers to understand the beauty, strength, and fragility of the natural world that lies in their own backyards. The illustrations are integral to enhancing this message. Although the artist is well known for her detailed wood engravings in fine book press editions, these watercolor and pen-and-ink drawings are no less exquisite. The detail of each frame, regardless of size, infuses the story with a visual sensitivity and imagination. The action can be followed by younger children without having to read a word. The story and artwork together kindle the magic for anyone who has ever dreamed of unseen worlds with secret doors.-Tina Hudak, St. Bernard's School, Riverdale, MDCopyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.	Ages 4-6. Michael and Hannah climb into Grandma's lap to hear a story about three children very much like Michael, Hannah, and their baby brother, who suddenly became ""so very, very small that they could leave that house of theirs by a crack under the door--and no one notice[d]."" The tiny children take up housekeeping in the shell of an amiable snail and have three adventures. In the first, an apple falls beside the snail. Next, the baby wanders off alone. Finally, a thrush is about to attack the snail, when a cat scares it away. Ahlberg's narrative has a leisurely, yet sure footed pace. Tinted with watercolors, the lively pen-and-ink drawings reflect the appealing, old-fashioned air of the text. Sometimes the interior tale is illustrated through a series of small frames or panels, as in a comic book, but with a delicacy of color and intricacy of detail seldom seen in that format. Certain children will be fascinated by Tyler's imaginative depiction of the lilliputian domestic details of snail-house life. Carolyn PhelanCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	""* ""Gillian Tyler's delightful illustrations lovingly depict the miniature world."" The Spectator * ""A lovely, old-fashioned story... Stunning botanical illustrations."" The Daily Mail * ""A joyful combination of words and pictures... this is an absorbing book to inspire imaginations."" Junior Education * ""Exquisitely detailed and idiosyncratic."" The Observer	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Allan Ahlberg is one of the most acclaimed and successful authors of childrens books, particularly in partnership with his wife Janet, who died in 1994. Among his numerous classic picture books are THE JOLLY POSTMAN books, BURGLAR BILL, EACH PEACH PEAR PLUM, and PEEPO!Gillian Tyler is highly regarded as an illustrator, particularly for her detailed miniatures of the natural world. What I enjoyed most about illustrating THE SNAIL HOUSE, she says, was the challenge I faced in observing and drawing nature from such a close point of view.",books;children's books;family life;multigenerational;nature;nature & how it works;science;social situations,8
0393315401,"The End of a Primitive: A Novel (Old School Books) Chester Himes aficionados who've followed detectives Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones from one grisly Harlem crime scene to the next will find a meaner, harsher reality in The End of a Primitive. In this early work, Himes paints an angry, doomed sexual relationship between a tough-guy black writer down on his luck and a wayward white party girl on a slippery slide toward addiction and abuse. Tough stuff, especially for 1955, when the novel first appeared in a bowdlerized version, and it still carries a tragic punch today, down to its classic pulp diction. Himes, a black writer who did crimes and hard time in his youth, and whose personal quest for a measure of peace finally led him to leave the United States altogether, gives the sure sense of knowing the rough turf and hopeless lives he describes.	In 1953, Himes, an important, provocative, yet largely forgotten African American novelist, left America for France in a deep depression over a lifetime of hardship to write this racially conscious roman noir. Himes (If He Hollers, Let Him Go) relates the story of two lonely, angry people in racially troubled McCarthy-era America whose lives intersect briefly in New York, an encounter that results in sex, violence and death. One character is an infertile, divorced white woman named Kriss Cummings (pun intended) who considers black men sexual trophies, of which she has many ("" 'Kriss is solving the Negro Problem in bed.' ""). The other, Jesse Robinson, is a black writer rooming in Harlem who is on the outs with his publisher (his latest work is "" 'too sordid.... Why don't you write a black success novel?' "") The two, who met previously in Chicago, reconnect to smoke, swear, drink endless amounts of bourbon, and cut each other down. Their oddly sheltered world is one of sexual frustration, racial injustice and total despair. Himes's plot line is deceptively simple; the complex racial and sexual issues raised by this deliberately unshapely narrative are ugly and unresolved. Part of the Old School Books series of reprinted pulp fiction by black authors, the book has a hardboiled style with a racial twist that is both unsettling and addictive: ""Black son of a bitch has got to have some means of joining the human race. Old Shakespeare knew. Suppose he'd had Othello kiss the bitch and make up. Would have dehumanized the bastard."" Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.	A shockingly raw study of the sexual encounter between a black man and a white woman, two people so angry at the world, so frustrated by personal failure in a racist, sexist society, that their affair is bound to end in violence. . . . The story is pure ugly, but Himes puts some powerful writing in it. (Marilyn Stasio - New York Times Book Review)	After arriving on the American literary scene with novels of scathing  social protest like If He Hollers Let Him Go and The Lonely Crusade,  Chester Himes created a pioneering pair of dangerously charming   African-American sleuths, Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson, who  attempt to maintain some kind of order in a series of violent and funny  page-turners.",books;contemporary;genre fiction;literature & fiction;mystery;thriller & suspense;united states;urban life,8
B000U0VN4C,"NCAA 28"" X 40"" Collegiate Banner Flag Showcase your favorite Collegiate team with a banner flag. Decorative flags are a great home and garden decoration for every season and reason! The unique production process that goes into Evergreen Enterprises flags is your guarantee that your flag will retain shape, fabric durability and vivid color through any weather condition & for many years to come!",fan shop;flags;home & garden;lawn & garden;outdoor décor;outdoor flags;patio;sports & outdoors,8
0815411189,"Japan's War: The Great Pacific Conflict ""Using the official 101-volume Japanese-language history of World War II, which has never before been mined by Western historians, Hoyt has compiled a brilliantly accurate history of the war from the Japanese standpoint"" was how LJ's reviewer praised this 1986 volume. Juxtaposing the histories of both Japan and the United States from 1853 to the 1950s, Hoyt concludes that the Pacific war was an inevitable clash. ""Huge in scope, superbly researched, and eminently readable, this is essential for World War II collections."" Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Edwin P. Hoyt, a former soldier, is a distinguished historian in the field of World War II studies, and the author of Inferno, The GI's War, and Hitler's War. He lives in Tokyo, Japan.",19th century;asia;books;history;japan;military;modern (16th-21st centuries);world war ii,8
1857073843,The Book of Greek Myths Pop-Up Board Games Brian Lee is a British children's book artist whose books include several titles in the Tango Pop-Up Board Games series.,ancient;books;children's books;fairy tales;folk tales & myths;games;history;sports & games,8
1591021421,"A Passion for Freedom: My Encounters With Extraordinary People ""...Full of intriguing insights and vignettes... is a fascinating record of people, ideas, and history in the making..."" -- SirReadaLot.org, May 17, 2004""...a fascinating memoir which also offers vignettes of twentieth century politics and world affairs."" -- The Commonwealth Lawyer, December 2004""Those who wish to make the workd a better place...would do well to ponder Leonard Sussman's words..."" -- St. Croix Review (MN), August-September 2004	A fascinating life makes for fascinating reading - the adventures of press-freedom advocate and globe-trotter Leonard R. Sussman testify to this claim. Having traveled to fifty-nine countries over several decades, Sussman has made his life the epitome of cosmopolitanism and world citizenship, understanding the role and the responsibility of the press in the formulation of a free, democratic world order. Effortlessly moving from domestic and European think-tank forums on democracy to work in the field monitoring first-time elections in developing countries, he recounts here his dynamic travels and contributions to the fight to build a global society tolerant of diverse and sometimes contrasting viewpoints, revealing to us some of the thinkers and agents who have influenced and inspired him along his ""walk in the midway."" In the first part we learn of Sussman's family and life at home, from which stem some of his earliest influences - such as his father, who ""felt elitist but reveled in being a regular guy"" with family connections to the infamous Tammany Hall, and his eventual sister-in-law, politically oriented poet Muriel Rukeyser, who frequently clashed with her conservative family. Additional chapters are devoted to small-town publishers Edith and Armstrong Hunter and their family, as well as a discourse on the strife in the Middle East from the perspective of Reform Judaism. The second, larger, part details the author's contact with other press- and political-freedom fighters across the globe: Luis Munoz Marin, social revolutionary in Puerto Rico; Andrei Amalrik, Soviet dissident who died tragically young; South African parliamentarian Helen Suzman, a longtime opponent of apartheid; Aristedes Katoppo, an Indonesian newspaper editor exiled and later editorially ""beheaded"" for publicizing issues the government disapproved of; the Rubins, a husband-and-wife radio team fighting censorship in dictatorial Paraguay; and many others. Also included are chapters on political philosophers such as Alexander Bickel, Sidney Hook, Charles Frankel, and Edward Shils. The appendices include Sussman's 1987 interview with civil rights contributions of the NAACP's Roy Wilkins with those of Martin Luther King Jr. Leonard Sussman's lifetime of experience in world affairs has led him to the singular conclusion that only a path of give and take - a ""middle way"" that eschews religious and political extremes - can bring about the true freedom and tolerance that is the right of every human to enjoy. The passion he feels for this ideal is evident in his depictions of the lives that have touched him along his path.	Leonard R. Sussman (New York, NY) is Senior Scholar in International Communications of Freedom House and formerly its executive director (1967-1988). He is the author of ten books and numerous articles on issues of freedom and democracy.",biographies & memoirs;books;leaders & notable people;new;political;political science;social sciences;used & rental textbooks,8
1886411867,"Linux in the Workplace: How to Use Linux in Your Workplace ""...a book for the productivity-minded person using a Linux based machine.""   -- Billings Gazette""A useful and freindly KDE-centric introduction to Linux for nongeeks."" -- Slashdot""If you've got a Linux computer you'd like to use, this will show you how to get the job done."" -- The Sacramento Bee""The book is a fast and excellent way to learn how the leading Linux programs can work efficiently for you.""   -- Booklover's Review	SPECIALIZED SYSTEMS CONSULTANTS, INC. (SSC) publishes Linux Journal, the premier magazine of the Linux community, and is an established leader in the Linux, Open Source, and UNIX fields",books;computers & technology;linux;mathematics;operating systems;science & math;software;unix,8
0670878286,"The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty These days, Frank McCourt would seem to have  cornered the market on lyrical depictions of Celtic poverty. But never fear, Sebastian Barry--the brilliant Irish playwright, poet, and prose-wrangler--is here. His new novel, The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty recounts the odyssey of a  small-town innocent, who grows up in circumstances more bucolic, but no less threadbare, than McCourt's. It's clear from the very first paragraph, however, that Barry means to take a wide-angle view of his Irish urchin: ""In the middle of the lonesome town, at the back of John Street, in the third house from the end, there is a little room. For this small bracket in the long paragraph of the street's history, it belongs to Eneas McNulty. All about him the century has just begun, a century some of which he will endure, but none of which will belong to him.""  Having handily survived his Sligo childhood, Eneas joins the British Army in time for World War I--and upon his return home, finds himself shunned as a collaborator. Tarred with this very Britannic brush, he goes one better and enlists in the Royal Irish Constabulary. Alas, this move only cements his fate as a marked man, and his father is soon issued a warning: ""Let your son keep out of Sligo if he wants to keep his ability to walk."" With a price on his head, Eneas commences a life of wandering, from Mexico to Africa to Nigeria (which the moonlight, he notices, ""brings closer to Ireland."") From time to time he sneaks back to Sligo and is promptly expelled.  In another author's hands, this epic of dislocation could well be a bitter one. Yet the stoical and simple-minded Eneas is surprisingly free of anguish, and even his constant fear ""has become something else, could he dare call it strength, a privacy anyhow."" And the reader, at least, has the delightful distraction of Barry's prose, in which the occasional Joycean notes are entirely subsumed by the author's own colloquial brilliance. In the end, The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty is less a novel than an exhibition of bardic fireworks--a latter-day  Aeniad that's actually  worthy of the name. --James Marcus	Known in England as a playwright (The Steward of Christendom), novelist and poet, Barry brings all the attendant skills to this stunning novel, with its evergreen theme of the parallels between a personal life and the political life of a country?in this case the fiery history of 20th century Ireland. Eneas McNulty is born in 1900 in Sligo, the eldest child of a dancing mother and a musician father. By the age of 10, he has forged a magnetic bond with his chum Jonno Lynch, an orphan and Eneas's lifelong opposite. WWI is the pivotal event in Eneas's life; he loses his footing and never regains it. Driven by a vague dream of fighting in French fields, he enlists in the British Merchant Navy and finds himself in Galveston, Tex., hauling machine parts. He returns home to find postwar Ireland in political turmoil and economic dire straits. Jonno, who has devoted himself to the ""world of shillings and employment,"" won't acknowledge Eneas because of his connection to the British. After a jobless year, he signs up with the Royal Irish Constabulary, which cements the community's conviction that he's a British loyalist. To take his name off the ""black list,"" Jonno and his crowd demand that Eneas become an assassin against the RIC. While Eneas doesn't fear his own death, he can't kill anyone else. And so his permanent exile begins. He works as a herring fisherman in the North Atlantic, joins the British army for WWII, digs a canal in Nigeria, opens a hotel for homeless veterans in London's Isle of Dogs. Eneas is in many ways an Everyman in this century of the migrant and the dispossessed, but Barry is careful to intersperse flashes of humor as well as moments of bone-deep longing in his protagonist's bleak odyssey. Work and the rare moments of fellow-feeling it produces are Eneas's solace as even his memories of home are salted with the menace of the men who've vowed to hunt him down. Barry's lyric prose, astute use of detail and poignant insight are a fit match for his tragic theme of an innocent buffeted by history. Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Irish author Barry, perhaps best known on this side of the Atlantic as a playwright (The Steward of Christendom), brings beautiful and poetic language to bear on a painful and unsettling part of Irish history. Eneas McNulty, a Sligoman, sets out at a tender age to save France at the outbreak of World War I. After spending the war with the British Merchant Navy, he returns to Sligo, joining the Royal Irish Constabulary at a time when Ireland has begun to fight for independence. Eneas is tragically apolitical, but his presence in the Constabulary is noted by Sligo rebels and in particular by his boyhood friend Jonno Lynch. He is offered a chance to remove himself from the rebels' blacklist but at the price of becoming an assassin. When he refuses, he must flee, and so begins his life of wandering?through England, France, and Africa. His thoughts of home never desert him, but neither does the specter of the men in dark coats who have placed him under a death sentence. A surprising and emotional novel; highly recommended.?Dianna Moeller, WLN, Lacey, WACopyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.	This story of a wandering Irishman, alienated from his country by history and politics, is elevated to epic status by an exuberantly poetic narrative voice that is as natural and tragicomic as any of the great bards. It is a voice so persuasive that the reader, transported by the magic of the language, hears the words as much as reads them. It tells the story of Eneas McNulty, who, having run afoul of the revolutionaries, is banished from his native Sligo under penalty of death. His crimes were that he served in the British merchant marine during World War I, then did a short stint in the Royal Irish Constabulary, and later refused to take part in the betrayal and execution of a notorious British gunman. The insult and the tragedy are that Eneas' death sentence is pronounced on him by his boyhood friend, Jonno Lynch. Leaving behind his family and the only woman who ever captured his heart, Eneas wanders Europe and Africa for more than 40 years, hauling his memories, his hopes, and his fears with him. And while he briefly returns twice to Sligo to see his family, it is his bond of friendship and antagonism with Jonno Lynch that ultimately transcends space and time.  Frank Caso	Another Irishman's reimagining of classical epicsome 75 years after Joyce's Ulyssesgives impressive depth and pathos to this first novel from the versatile writer best known for his recent play The Steward of Christendom. Barry's eponymous hero is ``exiled'' from his home in Sligo when a passion for the culture of his beloved France inspires him to enlist in the British Merchant Navy (in 1916). But Eneas is shipped instead to Galveston, Texas, and his disillusionment increases when he returns to Sligo to a traitor's welcome. Making matters worse, he joins the Royal Irish Constabulary and is subsequently marked for execution by his homeland's revolutionaries, one of whomhis boyhood friend Jonno Lynchdedicates himself to pursuing the vagrant Eneas. The elusive wanderer's travels then take him to England, France at last (where he literally labors in vineyards), furtively back home to visit his subdued (though still loving) parents and sister Teasy (now a cloistered nun), and, most interestingly, to Nigeria as another World War looms. But Lagosas Eneas ruefully notes, a near anagram of ``Sligois also haunted by ``Deathly, killing, seducing politics,'' though there is the lifelong friendship Eneas forms with Harcourt, an epileptic native Nigerian with whom he'll eventually be reunited when at last, in his 70th year, he returns to Sligo to await the carrying-out of the sentence pronounced on him decades before. Eneas's story, which climaxes with a surprising fulfillment of the violent fate he has long expected, is crowned by a complex and honestly earned vision of ``redemption.'' And Barry tells it in a gorgeous, mellifluous rush of passionate language that often alludes specifically to Virgil's Aeneid (it's especially tempting to view Harcourt as a male counterpart of Aeneas' beloved Carthaginian queen Dido) while accommodating both magnificent invective (``You low dog on all fours, you poor fighting pup with your tail bitten off by a tinker at birth'') and sorrowfully lyrical meditations on the ruin of Eneas' country and people. One of the best novels out of Ireland in many a year.  -- Copyright 1998, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.	From the first sentences of the book we know we are in the hands of a master storyteller with important things to say about history and the individual's role in it....   -- The Wall Street Journal, Richard TillinghastIn the end, what makes Eneas McNulty a hero is the very ""fire of concern and regard"" that glows so cozily in the hearth of his youth. Barry vividly creates Eneas's warm humanity. -- The New York Times Book Review,  Aoibheann SweeneyMr. Barry's novel covers the entire life of McNulty, a harmless Irishman badgered all the way by evils not of his making. As a youth, ""having no desire to loiter the rest of his days,"" he joins the Royal Irish Constabulary, a terrible mistake at the start of the successful liberation campaign of the 1920s. He becomes an exile, with no safety or comfort to be found anywhere. It is a lively story, however, and compels interest both in Eneas as a character and in the varied, usually savage, circumstances that he encounters. Mr. Barry, who is a poet and playwright as well as a novelist, has a delightful, idiosyncratic, and very Irish way with words.   -- The Atlantic Monthly, Phoebe-Lou AdamsThe story that emerges through Barry's lens is so cohesive, so gracefully rendered, that his words have the stony allure of the Irish poets and the lyrical pull of an epic storyteller.... A beautiful story. -- Boston Globe, Gail Caldwell	Sebastian Barry was born in Dublin in 1955. His plays include Boss Grady's Boys (1988), The Steward of Christendom (1995), Our Lady of Sligo (1998), The Pride of Parnell Street (2007), and Dallas Sweetman (2008). Among his novels are The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty (1998), Annie Dunne (2002) and A Long Long Way (2005), the latter shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. His poetry includes The Water-Colourist (1982), Fanny Hawke Goes to the Mainland Forever (1989) and The Pinkening Boy (2005). His awards include the Irish-America Fund Literary Award, The Christopher Ewart-Biggs Prize, the London Critics Circle Award, The Kerry Group Irish Fiction Prize, and Costa Awards for Best Novel and Book of the Year. He lives in Wicklow with his wife Ali, and three children, Merlin, Coral, and Tobias.",books;british;contemporary;domestic life;genre fiction;historical;literature & fiction;women's fiction,8
B000ILVP5K,"Paris Review Publishes fiction and poetry of various genres, styles and modes.	Publishes fiction and poetry of various genres, styles and modes.",by region;humanities & social sciences;language & literature;literary magazines & journals;literature & fiction;magazine subscriptions;mid-atlantic;professional & trade,8
0340928344,Teach Yourself Quick Fix French Grammar 'A brilliant tool.'  -- France Magazine 20051101	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.	Wendy Bourbon lectures in French for Buckingham Open College Network and has many years' experience of teaching French to adults at all levels. Duncan Sidwell is at present Senior Lecturer in Languages at the Open University. Elaine Haviland is a languages editor producing French teaching/learning materials for the Open University.,books;education & reference;grammar;language & grammar;slang & word lists;study & teaching;vocabulary;words,8
B000B8L6NG,"Lansky Universal Mount This universal device, from cutlery sharpening company Lansky, is a two-piece mount that optimizes Lansky Sharpening Systems by providing a strong base and increased sharpening leverage. It's made of lightweight yet remarkably strong aluminum with a pre-drilled base. The entire unit stows in the included kit case for easy storage and transport, as well.  Warranty This Lansky product includes a limited one-year manufacturer's warranty against defects in materials and workmanship.	A two-piece mount that optimizes the Lansky Sharpening System by providing a strong base and increased sharpening leverage",accessories & supplies;electronics;hunting;hunting & fishing;hunting & tactical knives;hunting sharpeners;mounts;sports & outdoors,8
B0002MA03I,"HELLA 003001791 Dual Tone Air Horn Kit Sound Level 118 dB, Power consumption max 240W, Impact resistant plastic trumpets, Kit contains horns, Compressor with air filter, Relay, Mounting bracket and installation instructions",automotive;electrical;exterior accessories;horns & accessories;ignition & electrical;lighting & electrical;performance parts & accessories;replacement parts,8
0965826112,"7 Steps to Wellness: Control Your Weight, Control You Life Dr Howard Rankin is one of the world's leading wellness and weight control authorities. He has vast clinical experience, having run a large eating disorders unit, and has much academic credibility having edited one of the world's foremost journals of addiction for nearly ten years. He combines his extensive knowledge and expertise with an easy style and creativity that makes reading his books entertaining as well as instructional.	there is no point losing weight if you are merely going to regain it all. Fad diets or programs that only focus on reduced calorie intake are doomed to fail. The secret to successful management of your health is balance. Behaviors you need for wellness are almost the same as the ones you need to manage your weight. 7 STEPS TO WELLNESS will help you achieve lasting weight control and wellness by showing you how to... Create motivation Defeat craving and temptation Deal with saboteurs and get support Cope with high risk situations And more! Be the best you can be, whatever your goal.	As a nationally acclaimed author Howard  J. Rankin is in demand whenever people want to learn about how to take charge of their health and their lives. Howard's goal in both his writing and his highly celebrated seminar series, is to provide practical tools for overcoming life's obstacles. Through his research, academic background and vast clinical experience, Howard teaches people to motivate, communicate and develop resilience. He is just as effective in large organizations as he is with small groups. Howard is as comfortable doing stand-up comedy as he is delivering a serious keynote address. Using previous experience as a comedy writer and as the only person ever to have written a scientific paper in limerick form, Rankin is a entertaining as well as inspirational speaker. He has  a natural ability  to turn academic and research data into easily understood principles with real life application. As a result, his seminars are highly acclaimed. Howard has been described as ""the best stand-up comedian in the serious subject of health,"" ""a master communicator, "" and ""the leading lifestyle change expert."" Rankin's work has been featured on ABC's ""20/20"" as well as CNN and other national television and radio shows. He has been a consultant to the World Health Organization and the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Howard's work has also been featured in many newspapers and print media, including The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, The Baltimore Sun, The Dallas Morning News, The Cleveland Plain Dealer, Ladies Home Journal, Prevention, Family Circle, Mademoiselle, Health, New Woman and weight watchers to name but a few.	Balance and The Seven Steps Seven Steps to Wellness is not just a wellness program - it is a set of tools that you can use to maximize your performance. I am convinced, on the basis of my own clinical experience in this area as well as my understanding of the scientific literature, that regardless of which particular diet or exercise regimen or stress management techniques you prefer the key issue is your implemetation - how do you develop the behaviors that you want to achieve? Success requires three main elements - motivation, organization and skills. The Seven Steps show you how to harness your motivation, develop your organizational resources and learn the skills you need to make wellness and weight loss a reality. In addition to these Seven steps, there is an underlying philosophy that is essential in any endeavor including wellness. That philosophy  is .. The secret to successful management of your health is -- balance.  Unfortunately, we live in a society that assumes that more is always better. As far as health is concerned, more is not always better -- in fact, more is often worse. For example, megadosing with certain vitamins has shown to have detrimental effects, as does exercising compulsively. The body, like the rest of nature, is a complex system that needs to stay in harmony. Our immune system is designed to work most efficiently when it is in balance. Too little immune system activity results in vulnerability to opportunistic infections, like tuberculosis and influenza and too much immune system activity leads to autoimmune diseases like multiple sclerosis, lupus and rheumatoid arthritis. Being in balance, having a life that satisfies your important needs, is an essential part of wellness. When you are out of balance you are in danger of falling over.",books;diets & weight loss;education & reference;fitness & dieting;health;other diets;reference;weight loss,8
0815605420,"Cue the Bunny on the Rainbow: Tales from Tv's Most Prolific Sitcom Director (Television Series) Alan Rafkin, an Emmy award-winning television director, has more than eighty television series to his credit. After a career that has spanned four decades he now lives in Rancho Mirage, California, and Rollins, Montana. This is his first book.",arts & literature;biographies & memoirs;books;direction & production;entertainers;humor & entertainment;shows;television,8
0300060777,"Louis XVI This is not a general life-and-times biography of the man who was king of France from 1774 to 1792. The reader learns little of France outside Versailles and Paris. Indeed, in several chapters more space is given to such royal ministers as Maurepas, Necker, and Vergennes than to the king himself. What Hardman (history emeritus, Univ. of Edinburgh) offers, however, is a masterful analysis of the workings of the royal government in the waning years of the Old Regime and early years of the French Revolution. The research in archival sources is impressive. Hardman's portrait of the king reinforces the work of other recent historians. Louis XVI was not stupid or lazy, although he could be quiet or indecisive. Hardman convincingly demonstrates that by 1789 Louis XVI favored a constitutional monarchy and cooperation with the Third Estate. His failure to communicate these feelings to the Estates General in the spring of 1789 was a tragic error. For academic libraries.- T.J. Schaeper, St. Bonaventure Univ., N.Y.Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",18th century;biographies & memoirs;books;historical;history;leaders & notable people;modern (16th-21st centuries);royalty,8
1556709633,"Stairs Rein Jansma is a well-known architect in the Netherlands and co-owner of the architectural firm, Zwarts & Jansma. Among other projects, his office has designed the Dutch Pavilion at the 1992 World Exhibition in Spain and the expansion of the Rembrandt House in Amsterdam.",appreciation;architecture;arts & photography;books;professional & technical;sculpture;self-help;stress management,8
0975596306,"What's Cheap and Free in Cancun and the Yucatan Brenton S. Mulliner, formerly a yellow pages publisher, has traveled to Europe, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Tahiti, Fiji and the Hawaiian Islands. He lived in Argentina for two years and visited that country from Buenos Aires to Tierra del Fuego.    Brenton and his wfie have been exploring Mexico since 1996 and they have lived in the Cancun area off and on during that time with their five children.    All of the photos in the book and the video footage on the DVD for Whats Cheap And Free In Cancun and The Yucatan have been taken by the author!     Brenton, born and raised in Riverside, California, speaks, reads and writes Spanish fluently.  He and his family currently split thier time living in Scarborough, Maine and Playa del Carmen, Mexico.",books;budget travel;cancun & cozumel;mexico;specialty travel;travel;united states;yucatan peninsula,8
0521304326,"The Mechanical Universe: Mechanics and Heat, Advanced Edition This innovative physics textbook intended for science and engineering majors develops classical mechanics from a historical perspective. The presentation of the standard course material includes a discussion of the thought processes of the discoverers and a description of the methods by which they arrived at their theories. However the presentation proceeds logically rather than strictly chronologically, so new concepts are introduced at the natural moment. The book assumes a familiarity with calculus, includes a discussion of rigid body motion, and contains numerous thought-provoking problems. It is largely based  in content on The Mechanical Universe: Introduction to Mechanics and Heat, a book designed in conjunction with a tele-course to be offered by PBS in the Fall of 1985. The advanced edition, however, does not coincide exactly with the video lessons, contains additional material, and develops the fundamental ideas introduced in the lower-level edition to a greater degree. -- Book Description	This textbook is aimed at undergraduate students of physics and engineering. Thus the authors go into certain questions more deeply, are more concerned in describing the scientific development and consider more fully the verification, implication and justification of the ideas discussed than in the lower level book.	Steven C. Frautschi joined the California Institute of Technology faculty in 1962 and became professor emeritus in 2006. His publication list includes 80 research papers on the theory of high energy physics, and the book 'Regge Poles and S- Matrix Theory'.  He has served as Master of Student Houses and has won three student teaching awards.Richard P. Olenick is currently the chair of Department of Physics at University of Dallas.  He was Associate Project Director of the PBS Series The Mechanical Universe and Beyond the Mechanical Universe, which accompanied this textbook and its successors. He has received numerous grants from the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Education for his work in physics education. His current project is C3P, which developed an inquiry-based curriculum for high school physics. In 1995, Dr Olenick was named Texas Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation and in 1997, he was named a Minnie Piper Steven Professor. In 2003, he became the Nancy Cain Marcus and Jeffrey A. Marcus Chair in Science and in 2005 he received the King Award from the University of Dallas, which is the highest honor the University can bestow on a faculty member.Tom M. Apostol joined the California Institute of Technology faculty in 1950 and is now Professor of Mathematics, Emeritus. He is internationally known for his textbooks on Calculus, Analysis, and Analytic Number Theory, which have been translated into 5 languages, and for creating Project MATHEMATICS!, a series of video programs that bring mathematics to life with computer animation, live action, music, and special effects.  The videos have won first-place honors at a dozen international video festivals, and have been translated into Hebrew, Portuguese, French, and Spanish. His list of publications includes 98 research papers, 46 of them published since he retired in 1992. He has received several awards for his research and teaching. In 1978 he was a visiting professor at the University of Patras in Greece, and in 2000 was elected a Corresponding Member of the Academy of Athens, where he delivered his inaugural lecture in Greek.Dr. David L. Goodstein is Vice Provost and Professor of Physics and Applied Physics at the California Institute of Technology, where he has been on the faculty for over 35 years. In 1995, he was named the Frank J. Gilloon Distinguished Teaching and Service Professor. In 1999, Dr Goodstein was awarded the Oersted Medal of the American Association of Physics Teachers, and in 2000, the John P. McGovern Medal of the Sigma Xi Society. He has served on and chaired numerous scientific and academic panels, including the National Advisory Committee to the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate of the National Science Foundation. He is a founding member of the Board of Directors of the California Council on Science and Technology. His books include States of Matter and Feynman's Lost Lecture, written with his wife, Dr. Judith Goodstein. In the 1980s, he was Director and host of The Mechanical Universe television program.",books;education & reference;mechanics;new;physics;science & math;science & mathematics;used & rental textbooks,8
B000099SKA,"Dome Zip Code Directory, Paperback, 750 Pages (5100) Alphabetical list of cities and towns in the U.S. with detailed zip code maps of principal cities. Features updated area code directory with cross reference by city and state. Latest postal rates for domestic and foreign mail, plus UPS information.",address books;calendars;card files;desk accessories & workspace organizers;holders & racks;office & school supplies;office products;planners & personal organizers,8
0962720933,"An Ascension Handbook: Material Channeled from Serapis Excellent material explaining the way reality works, the ascension process, and the nature of matter and time. -- Iasosseminal new age work -- Bridging Heaven and EarthExcellent material explaining the way reality works, the ascension process, and the nature of matter and time. -- Iasosseminal new age work -- Bridging Heaven and Earthis #1 on the unofficial list of new age favorites of Salem New Age Center. -- Salem New Age Centeris on the required reading list for Nirvana School. --The Nirvana School of Enlightenmentis #1 on the unofficial list of new age favorites of Salem New Age Center. -- Salem New Age Centeris on the required reading list for Nirvana School. --The Nirvana School of Enlightenment	Born in England, Tony Stubbs received a scientific and engineering education and holds a Master's Degree in Computer Science from London University. After moving to the United States in 1979, he continued in the computer field, but also woke up to metaphysics. In 1988, he started to channel, made contact with Serapis (a higher aspect of his being) and began cooperative writing with Serapis.",books;channeling;metaphysics;new age;occult;philosophy;politics & social sciences;religion & spirituality,8
B000EOFDY0,"Penn State - NCAA Polyester Flags This series of college flags is available now in addition to our standard line of collegiate flags. These full color Officially Licensed 3' x 5' flags are 100% polyester, have two grommets for flying outdoors or make a great wall dcor indoors. The flags have been approved by Collegiate Licensed Products and the University. This flag also has an extra wide headband and is made of 150 denier polyester.",fan shop;flags;home & garden;lawn & garden;outdoor décor;outdoor flags;patio;sports & outdoors,8
B00005155S,"Adtran Nt1 Ace 3 Standalone Triple ISDN Br DETAILS:   ADTRAN solutions maximize performance, lower costs, and help companies achieve the best return on investment. ADTRAN is committed to achieving success for customers by offering ""best-in-class"" products with outstanding value. Let ADTRAN work for you.PRODUCT FEATURES:Converts three BRI U-Interfaces into three S/T-Interfaces;Ideal for 384 Kbps videoconferencing applications;Provides U-Interface lightning protection;LED display to indicate power and network status;Includes 120 VAC power supply.   Product Description  ADTRAN NT1 ACE3 - ISDN NT1 Device Type: ISDN NT1 Enclosure Type: External Dimensions (WxDxH): 9 in x 6.4 in x 1.6 in Weight: 9.5 oz Digital Signaling Protocol: ISDN 5ESS, ISDN DMS-100, ISDN - 1(NI-1) Line Coding Format: 2B1Q Power: AC 120 V Manufacturer Warranty: 5 years warranty  ALTERNATE ITEM #:  1200236L1   UPC:  0607565000591",carts & stands;computer carts & machine stands;computers & accessories;electronics;modems;networking products;office furniture & lighting;office products,8
0486431673,"Babbitt (Dover Thrift Editions) ''[It is] by its hardness, its efficiency, its compactness that Mr. Lewis' work excels.'' --Virginia Woolf''Sinclair Lewis is one of the major prophets of our time.'' -- William Allen White, Pulitzer Prize winner ''Babbitt is an authentic modern American classic, a biting satire of middle-American values that retains much of its poignancy today.'' --Library Journal''Mr. Lewis is a genius. . . an idealist, an artist.'' --London Observer	      --This text refers to the 							MP3 CD	 edition.	HARRY SINCLAIR LEWIS (1885-1951) attended Yale University, where he was an editor of the literary magazine. After a few of his stories had appeared in magazines and his first novel had been published, he was able to write full time. He was awarded the 1926 Pulitzer Prize for Arrowsmith but refused to accept it. However, he accepted the Nobel Prize awarded him in 1930, traveling to Stockholm to receive it formally.	      --This text refers to the 							MP3 CD	 edition.",books;classics;humor;humor & entertainment;literature & fiction;satire;self-help & psychology;teens,8
B000N33C5Y,"Minka Aire DR512BK 12"" Downrod Black 3/4"" ID Finish:Black, Size:12' Downrod Downrod with 3/4' Diameter",accessories;ceiling fans & accessories;cooling & air quality;heating;home & kitchen;household fans;lighting & ceiling fans;tools & home improvement,8
B000KNSJ7S,"Tronex Model 731 Round Nose Pliers with Ergonomic Handles Tronex Model 731 round nose pliers with 4 1/2"" long ergonomic handles, long jaw consisting of two cones, exceptionally fine tips, each tip is .030"" in diameter. Cushion grips (ESD Safe) with SS leaf springs. Strong joint with unique Tronex bearing rings. Made in USA.",arts;beading & jewelry-making;crafts & sewing;hand tools;jewelry-making tools & accessories;pliers;power & hand tools;tools & home improvement,8
0756501504,"The Battle of the Little Bighorn (We the People (Compass Point Books Hardcover)) Grade 4-6-These titles have large-print texts and generous white  space, and are illustrated with archival photos, paintings,  maps, and documents. The Bill of Rights focuses on the political  and historical development of the document. The Great Depression  has an extensive explanation of its causes as well as the varied  perspectives and programs offered to counteract its devastating  effects. The Battle of the Little Bighorn portrays the needs and  emotions on both sides of this battle with Custer's downfall as  the primary focus. Teachers and students studying these subjects  will find these titles useful for basic information.Janie  Schomberg, Leal Elementary School, Urbana, IL   Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Marc Tyler Nobleman is a Capstone Press author.",1800s;biographies;books;children's books;history;military & wars;people of color;united states,8
9707182040,"Magritte: Spanish-Language Edition (Artistas serie mayor) (Spanish Edition) ""I don't believe in the unconscious, except when we are asleep."" Magritte.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	Jacques Meuris (b. 1923 in Liege) is a writer, photographer and art critic; he is the author of numerous books, catalogue articles and commentaries on modern art, literature and photography. He is Professor Emeritus of the Ecole Superieure des Arts Visuels (La Cambre, Brussels), a member of the Libre Academie de Beigique and a director of the Association Internationale des Critiques d'Art (AICA).	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",arts & photography;books;criticism;history;history & criticism;literature & fiction;movements & periods;surrealism,8
B00007DXIG,Lone Rhino Japanese Limited Edition in an LP-STYLE Slipcase.,alternative rock;classic rock;hard rock & metal;jazz;miscellaneous;music;pop;rock,8
0590271415,"Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire The third-grade narrator lies to make herself seem special?which only leads to more fibs. Ages 7-9. Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Grade 2-4?In Korman's latest offering, the title's familiar childhood taunt is directed at Zoe Bent, the biggest liar in Mrs. Moore's third-grade class. Zoe feels as though she needs to invent a fantastic explanation for being late to school and claims to have an eagle's nest in her backyard to impress her classmates. Her lies inevitably lead to telling more lies to cover up earlier ones. As a result, no one believes her when she is telling the truth. With the help of a friend, Zoe eventually realizes that she has a special gift?a great imagination. The message that everyone is special in their own way is a bit heavy-handed, but it is, nonetheless, a message that children cannot hear too often. Korman's language is colloquial and humorous. Zoe often makes exaggerated statements, such as ""Principal's letters were automatic bad news. It was a law."" Adinolfi's illustrations feature flat, often skewed perspectives and expressive, stylized figures that enhance the quality of the book.?Robin L. Gibson, Muskingum County Library System, Zanesville, OHCopyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Zoe, worried that she is not special, has the bad habit of making up outrageous stories and trying to pass them off as the truth in order to make herself appear more interesting. Her constant lying has made her classmates, teacher, and parents suspicious of anything she says. Even when Zoe tells the truth, no one believes her except her devoted younger brother, Joey, and her kind friend, Michael, and even they are getting fed up. The didactic intent is hammered home with such force by Korman (Why Did the Underwear Cross the Road, 1994, etc.) that even readers who aren't paying attention will know they are being lectured. The messages--lying is bad, imagination is good, everyone is special--are both cloying and obvious. In her odd and childlike black-and-white illustrations, Adinolfi is behind the most imaginative aspects of the book; Korman displays little affection for his main character and even less for the readers for whom this story is intended. (Fiction. 7-9) -- Copyright 1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Gordon Korman is the author of The 39 Clues Book 2: One False Note, which debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list, and The 39 Clues Book #8: The Emperor's Code. Gordon has written more than sixty books for kids and young adults, including Zoobreak, Swindle, and Son of the Mob, as well as the On the Run series and the Island, Everest, Dive, and Kidnapped trilogies.  A native of Ontario, Canada, Korman now lives with his family in Long Island, New York.",activity books;books;children's books;humor;literature & fiction;school;social situations;sports & games,8
9812465413,"Berlitz Pocket Dictionary Korean-English (Berlitz Dictionaries) (English and Korean Edition) In January 2003, the renowned Berlitz Publishing became part of the Langenscheidt Group.  The Langenscheidt Publishing Group, the premier group of map and travel companies, offers over 4,000 North American and international street maps, road maps, atlases, language-learning, bilingual dictionaries, and travel-related products covering countries, cities, and languages in every continent.",books;dictionaries;dictionaries & thesauruses;education & reference;english;new;reference;used & rental textbooks,8
0684864320,"LAKE NEWS : A Novel Both Lily Blake and John Kipling grew up in Lake Henry, New Hampshire, and both left after high school to pursue their dreams--singing for Lily and writing for John. Now the two have returned separately to seek shelter in the small lakeside town due to the disastrous results of paparazzi fever--Lily as a victim, John as a member of the press responsible for a tragedy. Falsely accused and hounded by the press, her privacy violated and destroyed, Lily finds refuge in a cottage on the lake, while her sister and the other residents of Lake Henry close ranks, refusing to discuss her with the media hordes that soon come knocking. But Lily can't avoid John, who also lives on the lake and at first sees Lily's story as prime fodder for the novel that can break him into publishing. But soon the vulnerable, besieged woman elicits far different emotions from him, and John becomes fiercely committed to helping Lily find justice. Layered with complicated family relationships and richly textured with the sights, sounds, and colorful characters of a small town, Barbara Delinsky's Lake News will satisfy longtime fans as well as those anxious to read a timely and thought-provoking tale from one of the genre's top authors. --Lois Faye Dyer	The deserved popularity of Delinsky's novels resides in her ability to create appealing, believable characters who don't need to drop names and fashion labels to earn the reader's attention. Cabaret singer, pianist and music appreciation teacher Lily Blake, 34, finds pleasure in singing, since it's the only time she's free of the stutter that's plagued her all her life. She also finds comfort in her friendship with Archbishop, now Cardinal, Francis Rossetti. Whether they're performing together at archdiocese events or the exclusive Essex Club in Boston, Lily knows she can depend on the priest for understanding and comfort. But when a malicious reporter fabricates a story that Lily and the Cardinal have an illicit sexual relationship, Lily sees her name dragged through the mud. Suspended by the school where she teaches and told by the Essex Club not to return to work, a besieged Lily retreats to her small New Hampshire hometown of Lake Henry. There she holes up in the cabin her grandmother left to her, and confronts her estranged relationship with her widowed mother, Maida. Lily finds an unexpected ally in 40ish John Kipling, once a ruthless big-city journalist himself but now editor of small-time Lake Henry's newspaper. He is equally outraged at the lies that invade Lily's privacy, and together they fight for justice. Delinsky (Coast Road) plots this satisfying, gentle romance with the sure hand of an expert, scattering shady pasts and dark secrets among some of her characters, while giving others destructive family patterns and difficult family dynamics to contend with. Nature, and how it colors small town living, is described in clean, unembellished prose that only occasionally lapses into an awkward attempt at rural New Hampshire dialect. Agent, Amy Berkower. Doubleday Book Club main selection; Literary Guild Super Release; Reader's Digest Condensed Books; Simon & Schuster Audio. (July) Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.	In the latest from the author of Three Wishes, a nasty reporter has falsely accused Lily Blake of an affair with a cardinal, forcing her to retreat to her home town in New Hampshire. There she links up with John Kipling, another renegade from big-time media who's now running the local paper.Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Delinsky, author of the best-seller Three Wishes (1997), and more than 60 other novels, delivers an unusual plot and contemporary story line in her latest effort. Lily Blake's happy life is shattered after a rumormongering reporter accuses her, in print, of having an affair with a newly appointed cardinal. Although Lily and the cardinal were close friends, there was no love affair between them. The scandalous story has taken root, however, and Lily, besieged by reporters, finds that she is unable to return to her Boston apartment, where they are permanently camped out. Shunned by her friends, neighbors, and employer, who are all embarrassed by the false revelations, she soon realizes that she has no alternative but to escape to her hometown of Lake Henry, in rural New Hampshire. Vulnerable and wary, she makes the trip home, and once there, must dodge sneaky reporters and confront old demons in the face of a cold and unloving mother and a town that is still whispering about her youthful indiscretions. Despite her initial distrust and intuitive suspicions, she decides to ally herself with the town's handsome newspaperman (who has trust ""issues"" of his own) when he offers to help her exact revenge on the reporter who ruined her life. Neither as steeped in overblown sentimentality nor as chock-full of surprises as some contemporary romances, this hard-luck, happy-ever-after tale still will satisfy romance fans.  Kathleen Hughes	Worldwide bestseller Delinsky, with over 60 romances to her credit (Coast Road, 1998, etc., etc.), dreams up a plot with echoes of scandal. Lily Blake's name, pure as driven snow, is soiled seemingly forever by the Boston Post's Terrence Sullivan when he fabricates a tale about Lily and newly ordained Cardinal Rossetti having been loversplus maybe some hanky-panky with the governor of New York as well. Actually, Lily at 34 is a cabaret pianist/singer at Boston's posh Essex Club, as well as a part-time music-appreciation teacher at the Winchester School on Beacon Hill. Yes, sh-sh-sh-she (Lily stutters) and the cardinal did play the piano together at the Essex Club, which is owned by the cardinal's nephew, but an affair? The smeared woman, now an embarrassment to the Church and swamped by paparazzi, loses her teaching post, gives up her cabaret job, and goes back to her small hometown, Lake Henry in New Hampshire, where she joins up with John Kipling, editor of the Lake News, in an effort to regain her good name. Kipling himself has fled the big city papers he once worked for and now helps prepare a blade to run through Terry Sullivan. Delinskys legion of fans, as ever, will be happy. (Literary GuildSuper Release/Doubleday main selection)  -- Copyright 1999, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.	""[An] engaging tale."" -- People""Delinsky may be as adept at chronicling contemporary life in New England as any writer this side of John Updike."" -- Times Union (Albany, NY)	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	Barbara Delinsky has written many bestselling novels over the past two decades, including Looking for Peyton Place, The Summer I Dared, Flirting with Pete, An Accidental Woman, The Woman Next Door, The Vineyard, Lake News, Coast Road, Three Wishes, A Woman's Place, and For My Daughters. She is also the author of a nonfiction book, Uplift: Secrets from the Sisterhood of Breast Cancer Survivors, available from Washington Square Press. Published in twenty-five languages worldwide, her books regularly appear on the bestseller lists of The New York Times, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and Publishers Weekly. Delinsky is a lifelong New Englander who loves communicating with her readers. She can be reached at P.O. Box 812894, Wellesley, MA 02482-0026, or visit her website: www.barbaradelinsky.com.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Chapter One  Lake Henry, New Hampshire  Like everything else at the lake, dawn arrived in its own good time. The flat black of night slowly deepened to a midnight blue that lightened in lazy steps, gradually giving form to the spike of a tree, the eave of a cottage, the tongue of a weathered wood dock -- and that was on a clear day. On this day, fog slowed the process of delineation, reducing the lake to a pool of milky glass and the shoreline to a hazy wash of orange, gold, and green where, normally, vibrant fall colors would be. A glimpse of cranberry or navy marked a lakefront home, but details were lost in the mist. Likewise the separation of reflection and shore. The effect, with the air quiet and still, was that of a protective cocoon.  It was a special moment. The only thing John Kipling would change about it was the cold. He wasn't ready for summer to end, but despite his wishes, the days were noticeably shorter than they had been two months before. The sun set sooner and rose later, and the chill of the night lingered. He felt it. His loons felt it. The foursome he watched, two adults and their young, would remain on the lake for another five weeks, but they were growing restless, looking to the sky lately in ways that had less to do with predators than with thoughts of migration.  As he watched now, they floated in the fog not twenty feet from his canoe, not ten feet again from the tiny fircovered island in whose sheltered cove they had summered. The island was one of many that dotted Lake Henry. Between the clarity of the water, the quiet of the lake, and the abundance of small fish, those islands lured the loons back year after year -- because they didn't do well on land. Their feet were set too far back under large, cumbersome bodies. So they built nests on the very edge of these islands, where they could more easily enter and leave the water. John found it painful watching them lurch even those precious few inches from water to nest.  In all other respects, though, the loons were a sight to behold. Since the chicks' birth, in July, he had watched their plumage go from baby black to toddler brown to a rather drab juvenile gray, but they had their parents' tapered beaks and sleek necks, and a promise of future brilliance -- and those parents, ahhhh, those parents were brilliant indeed, even in fall, with their plumage starting to dull, even this morning, through the veil of an ashy mist. They were beauties, with crisp checkerboards of white-on-black backs, white-stripe necklaces around black necks, solid black heads, distinctive pointed beaks. As if that weren't impressive enough, they had riveting round red eyes. John had heard that the red enhanced underwater vision, and he could believe it. Those eyes didn't miss much.  The birds lay low in the water now, swimming gently around the cove, alternately rolling and contorting to groom themselves and submerging their heads to troll for fish. When one of the adults compressed its body and dove, a webbed power propelled it deep. John knew it might fill its belly with up to fifteen minnows before resurfacing a distance away.  He searched the fog until he spotted it again. Its mate continued to float near the island, but both adults were alert, those pointed bills tipped just a little higher as they scoured the fog for news. Later that morning they would leave their young, run laboriously across the surface of the lake, and lumber up into the air. After circling a time or two until they gained altitude enough to clear the trees, they would fly to a neighboring lake to visit other loons. Breeding was a solitary time, and with two fledglings to show for months of vigilance and work, this pair had done well. Now they had to refresh their social skills in preparation for wintering in larger groups on the warmer Atlantic coast.  For an eon, loons had repeated this ritual. The same intelligence that had assured their survival for so long told the current crop of birds that September was halfway done, October would bring colder days and evening frost, and November would bring ice. Since they needed an expanse of clear water for takeoff, they had to leave the lake before it froze.  And they would. In all his years growing up on the lake, then returning as an adult to watch again, John hadn't seen many icebound loons. Their instincts were good. They rarely erred.  John, however, erred -- and often. Hadn't he done it again this morning, setting out in a T-shirt and shorts, wanting it to be summer still and finding himself butt cold now? He sometimes had trouble accepting that he wasn't twenty anymore. He was over forty -- and, yes, still six three and fit, but his body didn't work the way it once did. It ached around the knees, wrinkled around the eyes, receded at the temples, and chilled in the extremities.  But cold or not, he wasn't leaving. Not yet. There might not necessarily be the makings of a big best-seller in it, but he hadn't had his fill of the loons.  He sat rock still in the canoe with his hands in his armpits for warmth and his paddle stowed. These loons were used to his presence, but he took nothing for granted. As long as he kept his distance and respected their space, they would reward him with preening and singing. When the world was eerily quiet -- at night, at dawn, on mornings like this when the fog muffled other noise that life on the lake might make -- the loons' song shimmered and rose. And it came now -- breathtaking -- a primitive tremolo released with the shiver of a jaw, so beautiful, so mysterious, so wild that it raised the hair on the back of his neck.  It also carried a message. The tremolo was a cry of alarm. Granted, this one was low in pitch, which made it only a warning, but he wasn't about to ignore it. With the faintest rasp of wood on fiberglass, he lifted his paddle. Water lapped softly against the canoe as he guided it backward. When he was ten more feet away, he stabilized his position and quietly restowed the paddle. Hugging his elbows to his thighs for warmth, he sat, watched, listened, waited.  In time, the loon closest to him stretched his neck forward and issued a long, low wail. The sound wasn't unlike the cry of a coyote, but John would never confuse the two. The loon's wail was at the same time more elemental and more delicate.  This one was the start of a dialogue, one adult calling the other in a succession of haunting sounds that brought the distant bird gliding closer. Even when they were ten feet apart, they continued to speak, with their beaks nearly shut and their elongated throats swelling around the sound.  Goose bumps rose on his skin. This was why he had returned to the lake -- why, after swearing off New Hampshire at fifteen, he had reversed himself at forty. Some said he'd done it for the job, others that he'd done it for his father, but the roundabout truth had to do with these birds. They signified something primal and wild, but simple, straightforward, and safe.  A loon's fife consisted of eating, grooming, and procreating. It was an honest life, devoid of pretense, ambition, and cruelty. The loon harmed others only when its own existence was threatened. John found that totally refreshing.  So he stayed longer, though he knew he should leave. It was Monday. Lake News had to be at the printer by noon on Wednesday. He already had material from his staff correspondents, one per town. Assuming that the appropriate bins held articles promised by local movers and shakers -- ""movers and shakers"" being a relative term -- he would have a wad of reading and editing, keystroking, cutting and pasting. If those articles weren't in the bins, he would call around Lake Henry and the four neighboring towns serviced by the paper, take information on the phone, and write what he could himself -- and if he still ended up with dead space, he would run more	Political scandal is the theme of this book about Lily Blake, falsely accused of having an affair with a newly appointed cardinal, and John Kipling, a local journalist whose career has been destroyed by political stories that he wrote. Melissa Leo brings out the tension and anger of Lily's situation. Leo balances romance, interpersonal relations and intrigue as she creates vocal personalities for all characters.  M.B.K. (c) AudioFile, Portland, Maine	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;contemporary;domestic life;literary;literature & fiction;romance;united states;women's fiction,8
B000PDZFXO,"Till Next We Meet This retelling of the Cyrano story begins promisingly with the return of Colonel Moncrief to Scotland from the French and Indian wars to apprise Catherine Dunnan of husband Harry's death in battle. Married only a few months, she'd truly fallen in love with Harry through the letters he'd sent faithfully from the New World. What she doesn't know is that the author of those letters was not the callow Harry but Moncrief, who has fallen in love with her. Determined to rescue Catherine from her grim surroundings, Moncrief marries her in hasteand then must decide how to reveal his secret. The story glides along evenly, offering glimpses of other mysteries at its core, but even the revelation that someone is trying to kill Catherine feels unexciting. The earnest, noble lovers have little external conflict to keep them apart, and after a while, readers get the sense that they're just marking time waiting for one of them to eject Harry's ghost from their marriage once and for all. Though Ranney (So in Love, etc.) is known for her darker, almost gothic stories, this outing lacks the heightened drama that would push it out of the drawing room and into the bedroom. Agent, Damaris Rowland at the Rowland and Axelrod Agency. (May) Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	Karen Ranney wanted to be a writer from the time she was five years old and filled her Big Chief tablet with stories. People in stories did amazing things and she was too shy to do anything amazing. Years spent in Japan, Paris, and Italy, however, not only fueled her imagination but proved that she wasn't that shy after all. Yet she prefers to keep her current adventures between the covers of her books. Karen lives in San Antonio, Texas",books;historical;historical romance;kindle ebooks;kindle store;literature & fiction;romance;united states,8
0465086071,3 Essays in Sexuality Text: English (translation) Original Language: German,books;cognitive;fitness & dieting;health;medical books;psychology;psychology & counseling;sexuality,8
0714836583,"Christian Boltanski (Contemporary Artists (Phaidon)) Text: Italian, English	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.	Lynn Gumpert is an art historian, critic, and independent curator based in New York and Paris. She contributes frequently to art periodicals and is the author of numerous exhibition catalogues of contemporary art.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",art;arts & photography;books;history;history & criticism;humor & entertainment;individual artists;pop culture,8
B0000546QZ,"Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage No espionage missions have been kept more secret than those involving American submarines. Now Blind Man's Bluff shows for the first time how the Navy sent subs wired with self-destruct charges into the heart of Soviet seas to tap crucial underwater telephone cables. It unveils how the Navy's own negligence might have been responsible for the loss of the USS Scorpion, a submarine that disappeared, with all hands lost, 30 years ago. It tells the complete story of the audacious attempt to steal a Soviet submarine with the help of eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes, and how it was doomed from the start. And it reveals how the Navy used the comforting notion of deep-sea rescue vehicles to hide operations that were more James Bond than Jacques Cousteau.",books;canada;history;intelligence & espionage;military;military science;naval;united states,8
0300091397,"Old English Literature: Critical Essays ""A great resource for students grappling with translating the works most often encountered in an introductory Old English course, as well as for those reading them in translation. Liuzza provides an elegant introductory essay suggesting the challenges and joys of interpreting literature written a millennium ago."" Jonathan Wilcox, University of Iowa, editor of the Old English Newsletter ""This invaluable volume fills an obvious gap in the field by offering a series of first-rate essays that introduce students to the culture, historiography, and literature of Anglo-Saxon England. Liuzza's introduction to the book is written with his characteristic lucidity, directness, and wit."" Nicholas Howe, The Ohio State University ""The essays in this stimulating collection are thought-provoking, never dull, and occasionally controversial. They represent some of the most exciting work in the field today."" Daniel Donoghue, Harvard University	""A great resource for students grappling with translating the works most often  encountered in an introductory Old English course, as well as for those reading them in translation. Liuzza  provides an elegant introductory essay suggesting the challenges and joys of interpreting literature written a  millennium ago.""Jonathan Wilcox, University of Iowa, editor of the Old English Newsletter ""This invaluable volume fills an obvious gap in the field by offering a series of first-rate essays that  introduce students to the culture, historiography, and literature of Anglo-Saxon England. Liuzza's  introduction to the book is written with his characteristic lucidity, directness, and wit.""Nicholas Howe,  The Ohio State University ""The essays in this stimulating collection are thought-provoking, never dull, and occasionally controversial.  They represent some of the most exciting work in the field today.""Daniel Donoghue, Harvard University	R. M. Liuzza is associate professor of English at Tulane University.",ancient & classical literature;books;british;criticism & theory;history & criticism;literature & fiction;medieval;movements & periods,8
0910055424,"Sueñan, lloran, cantan / They Dream, They Cry, They Sing: Poems for Children from Spain & Spanish America PERRY HIGMAN, editor and translator, is the editor and principal translator of Love Poems from the Spanish (City Lights, San Francisco, 1989). He is Professor of Spanish and Director of the Honors Program at Eastern Washington University.",books;children's books;foreign language fiction;historical fiction;literature & fiction;poetry;spanish;united states,8
0310577713,"Worldviews in Conflict: Choosing Christianity in a World of Ideas Ronald H. Nash is professor of philosophy and theology at Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando, Florida. He is the author or editor of many books, including Faith and Reason and Is Jesus the Only Savior	This world is a battlefield in the arena of ideas. The prize is the heart and mind of humankind. In this book, Ronald Nash outlines the Christian way of looking at God, self, and the world. He holds that worldview up against the tests of reason, logic, and experience, particularly discussing the problems of evil and the alleged ""nonsense"" of the historic Christian doctrines and of Jesus' incarnation and resurrection. He finds the Christian worldview sound and urges Christians to equip themselves intellectually to defend the faith on that battlefield. He particularly hits the attractions to our generation of naturalism and the New Age movement, pointing out their weaknesses and pitfalls as well as those of older worldviews. ""Christian theism,"" he writes, ""is a system that commends itself to the whole person""; but he stresses that a great difference exists between ""belief that"" and ""belief in.""	Ronald H. Nash (PhD, Syracuse University) was professor of philosophy at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. He is the author of numerous books, including The Concept of God and Faith and Reason.",20th century;books;christian books & bibles;history;modern (16th-21st centuries);religion & spirituality;religious studies;theology,8
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1893622150,"Madison in New York Libby Pataki, the co-author of two other children's books, had been the First Lady of New York State since 1995.",books;children's books;city life;explore the world;literature & fiction;travel & cultures;united states;where we live,8
0789712210,"The Big Basics Book of Microsoft Office 97 Following the tradition of the best-selling Big Basics Book   series, this updated edition will guide readers through the intricacies   of Microsoft Office 97's enhanced individual applications. Using   step-by-step techniques, real-world examples, and illustrated lessons,   this hands-on guide shows readers how to create and publish Web   documents, collaborate with others on the Internet or a corporate   intranet, and use the features of this powerful suite to their   advantage.  - Shows how to effectively use the applications   individually-and together    - Explores installation, networking, file   management, hardware, and more",books;business;computers & technology;home computing & how-to;microsoft;office;software;windows os,8
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1551522012,"Empathy (Little Sister's Classics) Lesbian writer Schulman follows her well-received After Delores and People in Trouble with this insightful allegory, which explores the feminine and masculine qualities said to coexist within every personality. The novel is prefaced by a troubling quote from Freud, which alleges that lesbianism results from a woman's frustrated Elektra complex and desire to punish her father. This theory is challenged by protagonist Anna O (meant to suggest a famous Freud patient), a lesbian secure in her attraction to women yet struggling with male sexism, her family's homophobia and her feelings that she is unlovable. Anna consults ""street-corner psychiatrist"" Doc, who roams New York's Lower East Side and charges patients $10 an hour for his listening skills. Representing the female and male halves of a complete person, Anna and Doc discover that together they can confront conventional mores, their own guilt and a woman, symbolically clad in white leather, who broke their hearts. In a resolution that better serves the book's allegorical aims than its dramatic development, Anna and Doc are composites that masquerade as characters. In a plain-spoken, often funny narrative, Schulman makes provocative statements about gender roles, sexual orientation, AIDS, homelessness, drugs and the therapeutic value of an attentive ear. Author tour. Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Anna, the main character in Schulman's ( People in Trouble , LJ 1/90) new novel, tries to make some sense of her crazy, mixed-up life with the help of Doc, her therapist and alter ego. She wants to resolve the anger and resentment she feels toward her intolerant family so that she can accept herself. This work might better have been called Guilt , since her characters more often act out of guilt and embarrassment than any other feeling. Anna feels guilt for not helping the poor and homeless and for not being normal or feminine enough. She tells Doc that the most important thing to remember about families of lesbians is that ""you just can't outwit them. . . . No matter how normal you try to be, you'll never be normal."" The novel relies on characters who engage in dream sequences to make their points. Not very much plot action unfolds, but, while the dialog is at times offbeat and disjointed, it is always witty and irreverent. When the characters are unmasked at the end, readers will be surprised at the deftness with which this story is told.- Lisa Nussbaum, formerly with Cambria Cty. P.L., Johnstown, Pa.Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	With Empathy, the lesbian novel comes of age.Fay Weldon (Fay Weldon Fay Weldon)Insightful . . . funny . . . makes provocative statements about gender roles, sexual orientation, aids, homelessness, drugs, and the therapeutic value of an attentive ear.Publishers Weekly (Publishers Weekly)	A Little Sister's Classic: the subtly transgressive novel about identity, sexual politics, and self-esteem.	Sarah Schulman is the author of eleven previous books, including eight novels, the latest being The Child (2006). As a journalist, her essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, and Interview. She has won a Guggenheim Fellowship and two American Library Association Gay & Lesbian Book Awards. She lives in New York. Kevin Killian is the author of a novel, a short-story collection, and books of poetry; he is also co-author of Poet Be Like God: Jack Spicer and the San Francisco Renaissance. He lives in San Francisco.",books;fiction;gay & lesbian;lesbian;literature & fiction;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific demographics,8
0738709085,"Murder on the Rocks (Gray Whale Inn Mysteries, No. 1) ""Murder on the Rocks mixes a pinch of salt air, a hunky love interest... and, of course, murder."" -- Lea Wait, Antique Print Mysteries""Murder on the Rocks has just what's needed for a cozy evening in front of the fire..."" -- Cynthia Riggs, Martha's Vineyard Mystery series""Murder on the Rocks has just what's needed for a cozy evening in front of the fire..."" -- Cynthia Riggs, Martha's Vineyard Mystery series""Murder on the Rocks mixes a pinch of salt air, a hunky love interest... and, of course, murder."" -- Lea Wait, Antique Print Mysteries""Sure to please cozy readers."" -- Library Journal, April 1, 2006""[An] appealing debut this is a new cozy author worth investigating."" -- Publishers Weekly, March 27, 2006	Critically acclaimed author Karen MacInerney also teaches writers' workshops and drives a mean carpool. Her book Murder on the Rocks was selected as an Agatha nominee for Best First Novel. When she's not writing or chauffeuring children, she loves to read, drink coffee, attempt unusual recipes, and hit the local hike-and-bike trail. She lives in Austin, Texas, with her husband, two children, and a rabbit named Bunny, and escapes to Maine as often as possible.	one      The alarm rang at 6 AM, jolting me out from under my down comforter and into a pair of slippers. As much as I enjoyed innkeeping, I would never get used to climbing out of bed while everyone else was still sleeping. Ten minutes later I was in the kitchen, inhaling the aroma of dark-roasted coffee as I tapped it into the coffeemaker and gazing out the window at the gray-blue morning. Fog, it looked likethe swirling mist had swallowed even the Cranberry Rock lighthouse, just a quarter of a mile away.     I grabbed the sugar and flour canisters from the pantry and dug a bag of blueberries out of the freezer for Wicked Blueberry Coffee Cake. The recipe was one of my favorites: not only did my guests rave over the butter-and-brown-sugar-drenched cake, but its simplicity was a drowsy cook's dream.     The coffeepot had barely finished gurgling when I sprinkled the pan of dimpled batter with brown-sugar topping and eased it into the oven. My eyes focused on the clock above the sink: 6:30. Just enough time for a relaxed thirty minutes on the kitchen porch.     Equipped with a mug of steaming French-roast coffee, I grabbed my blue windbreaker from its hook next to the door and headed out into the gray Maine morning. As hard as it was to drag myself out of a soft, warm bed while it was still dark outside, I loved mornings on Cranberry Island.     I settled myself into a white-painted wooden rocker and took a sip of strong, sweet coffee. The sound of the waves crashing against the rocks was muted, but mesmerizing. I inhaled the tangy air as I rocked, watching the fog twirl around the rocks and feeling the kiss of a breeze on my cheeks. A tern wheeled overhead as the thrum of a lobster boat rumbled across the water, pulsing and fading as it moved from trap to trap.     ""Natalie!"" A voice from behind me shattered my reverie. I jumped at the sound of my name, spilling coffee on my legs. ""I was looking for you."" Bernard Katz's bulbous nose protruded from the kitchen door. I stood up and swiped at my coffee-stained jeans. I had made it very clear that the kitchen was off-limits to guestsnot only was there a sign on the door, but it was listed in the house rules guests received when they checked in.     ""Can I help you with something?"" I couldn't keep the anger from seeping into my voice.     ""We're going to need breakfast at seven. And my son and his wife will be joining us. She doesn't eat any fat, so you'll have to have something light for her.""     ""But breakfast doesn't start until 8:30.""     ""Yes, well, I'm sure you'll throw something together."" He glanced at his watch, a Rolex the size of a life preserver. ""Oops! You'd better get cracking. They'll be here in twenty minutes.""     I opened my mouth to protest, but he disappeared back into my kitchen with a bang. My first impulse was to storm through the door and tell Katz he could fish for his breakfast, but my business survival instinct kicked in. Breakfast at seven? Fine. That would be an extra $50 on his bill for the extra guestsand for the inconvenience. Scrambled egg whites should do the trick for Mrs. Katz Jr. First, however, a change of clothes was in order. I swallowed what was left of my coffee and took a deep, lingering breath of the salty air before heading inside to find a fresh pair of jeans.     My stomach clenched again as I climbed the stairs to my bedroom. Bernard Katz, owner of resorts for the rich and famous, had earmarked the beautiful, and currently vacant, fifty-acre parcel of land right next to the Gray Whale Inn for his next big resortde-spite the fact that the Shoreline Conservation Association had recently reached an agreement with the Cranberry Island Board of Selectmen to buy the property and protect the endangered terns that nested there. The birds had lost most of their nesting grounds to people over the past hundred years, and the small strip of beach protected by towering cliffs was home to one of the largest tern populations still in existence.     Katz, however, was keen to make sleepy little Cranberry Island the next bijou in his crown of elite resorts, and was throwing bundles of money at the board to encourage them to sell it to him instead. If Katz managed to buy the land, I was afraid the sprawling resort would mean the end not only for the terns, but for the Gray Whale Inn.     As I reached the door to my bedroom, I wondered yet again why Katz and his assistant were staying at my inn. Bernard Katz's son Stanley and his daughter-in-law Estelle owned a huge ""summer cottage"" called Cliffside that was just on the other side of the preserve. I had been tempted to decline Katz's reservation, but the state of my financial affairs made it impossible to refuse any request for a week in two of my most expensive rooms.     I reminded myself that while Katz and his assistant Ogden Wilson were odious, my other gueststhe Bittles, a retired couple up from Alabama for an artists' retreatwere lovely, and deserved a wonderful vacation. And at least Katz had paid up front. As of last Friday, my checking account had dropped to under $300, and the next mortgage payment was due in two weeks. Although Katz's arrival on the island might mean the eventual end of the Gray Whale Inn, right now I needed the cash.     Goosebumps crept up my legs under the wet denim as I searched for something to wear. Despite the fact that it was June, and one of the warmer months of the year, my body hadn't adjusted to Maine's lower temperatures. I had spent the last fifteen years under Austin's searing sun, working for the Texas Department of Parks and Wildlife and dreaming of someday moving to the coast to start a bed-and-breakfast.     I had discovered the Gray Whale Inn while staying with a friend in a house she rented every summer on Mount Desert Island. I had come to Maine to heal a broken heart, and had no idea I'd fall in love all over againthis time with a 150-year-old former sea captain's house on a small island accessible only by boat.     The inn was magical; light airy rooms with views of the sea, acres of beach roses, and sweet peas climbing across the balconies. I jotted down the real estate agent's number and called on a whim, never guessing that my long-term fantasy might be within my grasp. When the agent informed me that the inn was for sale at a bargain price, I raced to put together enough money for a down payment.     I had had the good fortune to buy a large old house when Austin was a sleepy town in a slump. After a room-by-room renovation, it sold for three times the original price, and between the proceeds of the house and my entire retirement savings, there was just enough money to take out a mortgage on the inn. A mortgage, I reflected as I strained to button my last pair of clean jeans, whose monthly payments were equivalent to the annual Gross National Product of Sweden.     I tossed my coffee-stained jeans into the overflowing laundry basket and paused for a last-minute inspection in the cloudy mirror above the dresser. Gray eyes looked back at me from a face only slightly plump from two months of butter-and sugar-laden breakfasts and cookies. I took a few swipes at my bobbed brown hair with a brush and checked for white hairsno new ones today, although with the Katzes around my hair might be solid white by the end of the summer. If I hadn't already torn all of my hair out, that is.     When I pushed through the swinging door to the dining room at 7:00, Bernard Katz sat alone, gazing out the broad sweep of windows toward the section of coastline he had earmarked for his golf course. He looked like a banker in a blue pinstriped three-piece suit whose buttons strained to cover his round stomach. Katz turned at the sound of my footsteps, exposing a line of crooked teeth as he smiled. He was a self-made man, someone had told me. Apparently there'd been no money in the family budget for orthodontic work. Still, if I had enough money to buy islands, I'd have found a couple of thousand dollars to spare for straight teeth.     ""Coffee. Perfect."" He plucked the heavy blue mug from the place setting in front of him and held it out. ""I'll take cream and sugar."" I filled his cup, congratulating myself for not spilling it on his pants, then plunked the cream pitcher and sugar bowl on the table.     ""You know, you stand to earn quite a bit of business from our little project."" Katz took a sip of coffee. ""Not bad,"" he said, sounding surprised. ""Anyway, there's always a bit of overflow in the busy season. We might be able to arrange something so that your guests could use our facilities. For a fee, of course.""     Of course. He leaned back and put his expensively loafered feet on one of my chairs. Apparently he was willing to cough up some change for footwear. ""I know starting a business is tough, and it looks like your occupancy is on the low side."" He nodded at the room full of empty tables.     ""Well, it is an hour and a half before breakfast."" He didn't have to know that only two other rooms were bookedand one of those was for Barbara Eggleby, the Shoreline Conservation Association representative who was coming to the island for the sole purpose of preventing his development from happening.     ""Still,"" he went on, ""this is the high season."" His eyes swept over the empty tables. ""Or should be. Most of the inns in this area are booked to capacity."" My first impulse was to respond that most of the inns in the area had been open for more than two months, and that he was welcome to go to the mainland and stay at one of them, but I held my tongue.     He removed his feet from my chair and leaned toward me. ""Our resort will make Cranberry Island the hot spot for the rich and famous in Maine. Kennebunkport won't know what hit it.     Your place will be perfect for the people who want glitz but can't afford the price tag of the resort.""     Glitz? The whole point of Cranberry Island was its ruggedness ...",books;literature & fiction;mystery;suspense;thriller & suspense;thrillers;united states;women sleuths,8
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B00006J6VK,"CyberHome CH-RVD2000 DVD Player/CD Recorder Not just a great surround-decoding DVD player, the CH-RDV 2000 features an extra disc tray for recording and playing CD-Rs and CD-RWs, letting you copy audio and data CDs, as well as MP3 CDs, right from a DVD player. An onscreen burner interface makes it easy to duplicate an entire disc or to select only specific tracks. Video technologies include a 24-bit video processor for true 16-bit RGB Graphics (YUV), advanced vertical flicker filtering for outstanding video quality, and a powerful, 81 MHz/32-bit RISC processor. In the audio realm, the unit feature Dolby Digital and DTS digital-audio outputs (coaxial and optical), Dolby Digital and DTS 5.1-channel digital surround decoding (for use with surround receivers bearing 5.1-channel analog inputs), and programmable disc playback for both audio and MP3 tracks. For hookups, the CH-RDV 2000 offers high-quality component-video, S-video, and RCA-type composite-video outputs for compatibility with most televisions. Stereo RCA analog-audio outputs can be plugged directly into a TV, stereo, or surround receiver. Other features include parental control with password protection and a multifunction, 48-key remote control. The box includes a remote control with batteries, a power cable, a stereo analog-audio interconnect, an RCA-type composite-video cable, and a user's manual.	This 17"" widescreen LCD monitor with DVD player from CyberHome lets you enjoy DVDs and high-resolution broadcast TV from your office. The compact unit's TV mode offers widescreen or standard viewing, is HDTV ready and has close captioning and V-chip. The 5.1-channel slot-in slim DVD-ROM drive plays DVD, VCD, SVCD, CD-DA, MP3, AC3 and MPEG discs. Other monitor functions include an HDTV input component of 1080i and 720p, ultra-bright LCD panel, 17"" TFT LCD flatscreen, 1280x768 WXGA resolution, 2Wx2 internal speakers, PC VGA, S-video, composite and audio inputs, AC adapter, power and PC VGA cable and a fully functional remote control. Monitor weighs 25 lbs. Imported. 12Hx21Wx26L"".",cd players & recorders;cd recorders;dvd players;dvd players & recorders;electronics;home audio;stereo components;television & video,8
1585010499,"Novel Writing: The Official Sterling and Davidson Bluebook (Editor's & Publisher's Guide to Writing Series) CYNTHIA STERLING is the author of The Cross Burns Brightly, published by Zondervan/Harper Collins, which received the Golden Medallion Award for excellence in writing. Her other books include Bird Without Feathers, Ghost Tales from The Ghost Trail, and Writing Aerobics I. Ms. Sterling has a doctorate in Philosophy from the American Institute of Holistic Theology, and is the founder of the Sterling Foundation, a nonprofit organization that assists writers and artists.    MEGAN DAVIDSON is the author of three historical romances, all published by Kensington Books Publishing. She is the coauthor of Writing Aerobics I and has an MFA in Writing from the University of Pittsburgh.",books;creativity;education & reference;fiction;literature & fiction;research & publishing guides;self-help;writing,8
0974229024,"The American Dream Geela s journey is a testament to how the human spirit can triumph over adversity with courage and unshakable faith. Geela s Principles for Successful Living TM are uplifting and should be savored by anyone who wishes to experience a richer, fuller life. --Mark Victor Hansen, Co-creator, #1 New York Times best-selling series of Chicken Soup For The Soul Also, Co-author, The One Minute MillionaireGeela s message in The American Dream featuring her Principles for Successful Living TM, is all about arriving at spiritual awareness, balancing the needs of the world with the needs of the self (spiritual roots) in this cut-throat world of materialism and madness. At first glance these ideas strike us as crazy. And that s the first revelation: we re so spiritually exhausted and numb that anything that speaks of recapturing a connection with the self appears weird, New Age, or On The Edge. But in truth, it s we as collective society that is on the edge. Geela seemingly wrote The American Dream to help pull us from the precipice. A unique vision indeed...written melodically and eloquently. --The Electric ReviewGeela is an inspirational author and a singer who strives for global peace, seeking to help children who are victims of wars and abuse. In The American Dream she explores her journey toward her goal of reaching global unity. It s a story of how one person can make a difference in a big way. --Joseph Farah, WORLDNETDAILY.COM	Geela Parish is known best for her passion and dedication to transforming lives. She is an accomplished international recording artist and a musical legend with many albums, awards and rave reviews to her credit. She is the author of the critically-acclaimed book The American Dream, founder of One Spirit, One World, a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting world peace, and Global Vision Media, an innovative media company which blends entertainment with contemporary vision to effectively address pressing social issues. As a life-long humanitarian, Geela has created unique humanitarian efforts: Women Changing the World/Imagine Peace, Operation Spiritual Relief and The Spirit Club. In addition to raising sprits, for many years Geela has been donating her time, talents, and her own resources to support humanitarian causes including raising funds for reputable nonprofit organizations and schools. As such, she has worked closely with the Los Angeles City Council on educational matters and with the Los Angeles Lakers and the Los Angeles Unified School District to help kids in inner-city schools stay in school and off drugs. Geela is currently in a process of publishing her second inspirational book entitled The Messenger of God. The book, which is based on divine revelations, offers a totally unique approach to effectively tackling societal problems and transforming communities and individual s lives. She is also taking her shared mission to new frontiers by launching her own innovative national television talk show to make a greater impact.   Geela is not only living proof that the possible always exceeds the impossible. She personifies the true spirit of the American Dream, which was built on perspiration, innovation, risk and reward. Her extraordinary story of courage, hope and high vision proves that with determination and dedication, not only success is within everyone s grasp, but anyone can make a significant impact on the world. Geela, her husband John, and their daughter Ashley reside in Westlake Village, California.",administrative law;books;emigration & immigration;law;motivational;self-help;spiritual;success,8
B0001Q2DKS,"Case Logic ACC-15 Black Center Console Organizer Case Logic is obsessed with organization. No matter who you are, what toys, tools or technology you have, where you are, or where you are going, Case Logic is your partner in managing the things that matter to you. We are the ""stuff wranglers"" that make life easier.  The Caselogic  Center Console Organizer (Black) holds easy-to-reach items such as drinks, cell phone, flashlight, maps first aid kit, etc. Conveniently sits between bucket seats, in cargo area or on top of seat. Secure tab tucks in gap of seat to secure organizer in place. Collapsible dividers provide multiple storage compartments. 25 Year Warranty.",audio & video accessories;automotive;car & vehicle electronics;electronics;floor mats;floor mats & cargo liners;interior accessories;vehicle electronics accessories,8
031229493X,"A Year in the South: Four Lives in 1865 Stephen V. Ash's remarkable A Year in the South is a multifaceted biography of four ""ordinary people in an extraordinary time."" The year is 1865. The four are a 32-year-old mulatto slave in Alabama; a 42-year-old Virginian who has lost both her husband and her home; an 18-year-old East Tennessee farm  boy (a Confederate forced to pledge allegiance to the United States); and a  31-year-old Mississippi minister. After a succinct prologue, which follows the four up to 1865, Ash, with quiet elegance, limns his characters lives chronologically through the year, each character appearing sequentially in four chapters linked to the seasons. A brief epilogue traces the postwar lives of the four. Interestingly, all lived to see the beginning of the 20th century. It is difficult to overstate the achievement of this book: by focusing on the quotidian struggles of these unsung refugees--for that is what, in many ways, they were--in their new and forever-changed land, and by his wise refusal to succumb to either regional ruefulness or political pedantry, Ash has painted vivid, telling portraits. By way of his skillful, evenhanded narrative, the unknown blossoms into the memorable. --H. O'Billovich	Drawing on a rich array of primary and secondary sources-particularly the diaries and memoirs of four Southerners who lived through the final year of the Civil War-Ash, associate professor history at the University of Tennessee, has drawn a vivid picture of everyday people scrambling to survive with Darwinian tenacity as their world collapses around them. Through his intelligent choice of diverse subjects-an upper-class Confederate widow reduced to drudgery and a diet of beans and scraps; an enterprising slave who tucks away a nest egg and learns to read while still in bondage; a young farmer whose discovery of faith and love renews his enthusiasm for life; and a 31-year-old preacher from a prosperous slave-owning family, who survives the dissolution of the institution that had sustained their prosperity-Ash tells a tale that reads like a novel, while illuminating important historical themes: the impact of the war on women and slaves, the powerful influence of evangelical Christianity, and, most important, the nuanced political, social and cultural landscape of a tottering Confederacy that was anything but monolithic or harmonious. This book-an original blending of social, military and local history, crafted by an author with a muscular style, a keen eye for memorable details and the good sense to avoid scholarly jargon and weighty theory-is refreshingly difficult to pigeonhole and will be of interest to both Civil War buffs looking for something new, and to those who simply like a good yarn well told. Illus.Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.	""...Ash offers considerable insight into the lives of ordinary people in the South...""--Lee Milazzo, The Dallas Morning News""...Ash vividly recounts the hopes, fears, and uncertainties of that year...Highly recommended.""--D. Butts, Choice""Ash writes history with the vision of a scholar but with the skills of a novelist.""--Fred brown, Knoxville News-Sentinel""The book's a good read-compelling, detailed, yet swift.""--Ralph Bowden, Nashville Scene""This well-written and researched exploration will . . . interest new readers of the period. Highly recommended.""--Kathleen Conley, Library Journal ""A compelling narrative set skillfully within a rich Civil War context. . . . Ash's deft and eloquent portraits are emblematic of war's chaotic thrall.""--Catherine Clinton, author of Fanny Kemble's Civil Wars""Stephen Ash has taken us deep into one of the most exciting times in American history. With sensitivity, imagination, and skill, Ash recreates the South of 1865, allowing us to see it from perspectives we have never seen before. This is a remarkable book.""--Edward L. Ayers, Dean of the College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Virginia""This book enables readers to experience, through the eyes of four southerners of disparate backgrounds and geographical locations, the transforming events of 1865. Avoiding the common device of using the death of the Confederacy as a closing point, Ash employs his witnesses to tell a gripping story that includes the fateful last months of the Civil War as well as the tumultuous early transition to a postwar world that would offer hardship and promise in full measure. Few Americans have had to wrestle with more unsettling times, as Ash's excellent narrative makes abundantly clear.""--Gary W. Gallagher, John L. Nau III Professor of History at the University of Virginia The book's a good read-compelling, detailed, yet swift (Ralph Bowden Nashville Scene 2003-02-05)This well-written and researched exploration will interest new readers of the period. Highly recommended. (Kathleen Conley Library Journal 2003-03-01)	Stephen V. Ash is Associate Professor of History at the University of Tennessee. He is the author of several books on the Civil War, including When the Yankees Came: Conflict and Chaos in the Occupied South, 1861-1865.",19th century;americas;biographies & memoirs;books;civil war;historical;history;united states,8
B00006JEGH,"Eastman Outdoors Tabletop Patio Heater Portable, efficient, and entirely self-contained, this  tabletop patio heater from Eastman Outdoors improves the comfort level  of cool-weather activities. Designed for uniform heat distribution, the  heater combines a durable stainless-steel heating element with a  22-inch aluminum reflector dome. The heater ranges from 7,000 to 11,000  Btu's per hour and runs on a standard 1-pound propane cylinder that  stores out of sight in the base (this hatch is not childproof). The  unit comes equipped with an internal Piezo electric ignition and a  safety switch to cut power if the heater tips over. The base is wide  for stable positioning, while the dome protects against wind and rain.  A chrome wire guard keeps hands a safe distance from the heat. Just  eight pounds and 36 inches high, the heater is light enough for most  picnic tables. Assembly is required. --Emily Bedard	This compact tabletop version of our commercial grade heater is perfect for picnics, parties, backyard, camping and tailgating.  Adjustable from 7,000 to 11,000 BTUs.  The 22-Inch reflector dome generates vortex heat flow.  Uses a standard 1-Pound propane cylinder, has a wide, stabilizing base and auto safety shut-off feature.  A wire safety guard surrounds the commercial-grade stainless steel heating element.",all eastman outdoors;eastman outdoors;heaters;lawn & garden;outdoor heaters;outdoor heaters & fire pits;patio;tables & gazebos,8
0449211150,Golden Unicorn Courtney had been the perfect adopted child. But around her neck hung a time bomb on a chain--a tiny gold unicorn that brought her face-to-face with the violent intrigues of the past--and the murderer her real mother had not escaped....,books;literature & fiction;mystery;romance;suspense;teens;thriller & suspense;thrillers,8
B000ICL5HM,"Feel Your Groove The debut album by the much acclaimed keyboard giant Ben Sidran. At the time of the first release for ""Feel The Groove"" back in 1971 Ben was very much aprt of the rock world due to his extensive involvement with The Steve Miller Band both as musician, co-writer and eventually producer.  ""Feel Your Groove"" features many well know guests including fellow Steve Miller accomplice Boz Scaggs, Humble Pie's Peter Frampton & Greg Ridley, Charlie Watts of The Rolling Stones, Jazz Trumpeter Blue Mitchell, Mimi Farina (the late sister of Joan Baez, session giant Jin Keltner and numerous other well known West Coast and Texas musicians.",blues;classic rock;folk;jazz;music;pop;r&b;rock,8
B000AB9YP6,"Amazon.com: Canvas German Style Alpine Rucksack FULL SIZE - Military Spec - Unisex - Olive: Sports &amp; Outdoors Replica of German Army Alpine Rucksack; Large main compartment with storm flap, drawstring cordlock closure; Inside pocket with Velcro closure, two side pockets with fitted storm flaps and quick release closures; Polypro reinforced padded shoulder straps",accessories;clothing & accessories;men;military;novelty;novelty & special use;women;work wear & uniforms,8
B000684DKO,"KitchenAid Professional Egg Slicer, White Even cholesterol watchers who avoid eggs can put this handy kitchen gadget to good use. An updated version of the egg slicer of yore, this sleek KitchenAid model with chrome-finish lifter and hinge case not only beautifully slices hardboiled eggs but mushrooms, soft cheeses, and fruits such as kiwi and banana. The bowl-shaped holder keeps food from slipping around, and the stainless-steel cutting wires stay taut and sharp.  To use, simply lift the top, place food in the holder, and lower the top. The wires slice as they push through the food. Ease of use means slices can be churned out fairly quickly and uniformly, great for creating just the right size slices for hors d-oeuvres and sandwiches, and for adding embellishments to salads or cakes (Aussies who decorate their traditional meringue dessert, the pavlova, with kiwi, banana, and strawberry slices will love this device). Made of durable plastic that wipes clean and stays stable thanks to rubber feet, the egg slicer measures 6-1/2 by 4 by 1-1/2 inches and is conveniently dishwasher-safe. KitchenAid covers the slicer with a one-year warranty. --Ann Bieri	Egg slicers for just slicing eggs are a thing of the past. With this KitchenAid Professional Egg Slicer you can slice mushrooms and even soft cheese with ease. Makes perfect slices for hors d'oevres, sandwiches, and salads. It has a non-skid bottom for added stability and is available in Red, Black or White. This egg slicer is dishwasher safe",egg separators;graters;home & kitchen;kitchen & dining;kitchen utensils & gadgets;mandolines & slicers;peelers & slicers;specialty tools & gadgets,8
B0000541NU,"Viking RFM56KPCMOT 56K PC Card Modem Cellular Ready for Motorola Guaranteed Compatibility View a listing of PCs, notebooks, PDAs, digital cameras, or other products that are guaranteed compatible with this Viking product.  Making sure you have guaranteed compatibility is very important because of the hundreds of different brands, types, and configurations of memory available. As a result, memory that works in one product doesn't necessarily work in another--and there's nothing more frustrating than buying something you can't use.   Because compatibility is so critically important, Amazon has forged a strategic relationship with Viking Components and created the Memory Finder. The Memory Finder is a tool that can help you find memory that works with your specific product, taking the guesswork out of buying memory.   Benefits of Additional Memory Below are listed just a few of the many reasons to purchase additional memory:   Increased Speed: Increasing your computer's memory will speed up access times and translates to faster processing speeds. For example, doubling the memory in your computer often results in 50 percent faster data processing.   Increased Power: Increasing your computer's memory will enable it to process more data. You can have more windows and documents open at the same time. Computer game play becomes faster and more fluid, and high-end graphic programs perform more quickly.  Increased Performance: Increasing your computer's memory can decrease the amount of times your computer crashes. The number one reason for ""blue screens"" in Windows is because the computer runs out of available memory to carry out a function.  Cost Savings: Adding more memory to your computer can lead to dramatic increases in performance for a relatively low price. In some cases, it can even eliminate the need to purchase a new computer thus saving you hundreds of dollars.  Quality Products Viking Components has registered ISO 9000 certified facilities.  ISO 9000 provides a framework for quality management and quality assurance.  ISO authorized accredited registrars frequently visit Viking Components to perform internal quality audits to verify that all quality activities comply with documented procedures and to measure the effectiveness of Viking's quality systems, including the organizational structure, responsibilities, procedures, processes and resources for implementing quality management.   Viking has established and maintains documented procedures for handling, storage, packaging, preservation and delivery of product to ensure the highest quality and complete standardization compliance during each process. Viking's ISO 9000 certification guarantees that our quality processes and standards conform to specific requirements to ensure consistency of product for our customers worldwide.  Superb Service Since 1988, Viking has built customer loyalty and long-term partnerships as the industry leader in customer service. Viking is known throughout the industry for having superb customer service programs for both the reseller/retailer as well as the end user.  In fact, focus panel studies conducted by CMP Publications, the industry's largest publisher, have rated Viking first in service consistently every time.  When you purchase this item you can expect the industry's best customer service policies including: a lifetime replacement warranty, guaranteed product compatibility, 24/7 toll free technical support, a liberal returns policy, and a 24 hour replacement policy in the unlikely event of a Viking product failure.   If you have any further questions about this product, please feel free to send an email to: amazoninfo@vikingsupport.com",computer components;computers & accessories;electronics;laptop network adapters;memory;modems;network adapters;networking products,8
0874175496,"In The Shadow Of The Strip: Las Vegas Stories (Western Literature Series) About the Editors  Richard Logsdon, Todd Moffett, and Tina D. Eliopulos are professors of English at the Community College of Southern Nevada and editors of ""Red Rock Review.""    About the Contributors  H. Lee Barnes's is the author of ""Gunning for Ho: Vietnam Stories,"" ""Dummy Up and Deal,"" and ""The Lucky.""    Felicia Campbell, Ph.D., is professor of English at UNLV, chair of the Asian Studies Program, executive director of the Far West Popular and American Culture Association, and former book critic for KNPR public radio.     Robert Dodge grew up in the small town of Cincinnatus, New York. Since 1970 he has taught at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where he is a professor of English.     Dayvid Figler is a lawyer for Clark County, Nevada. His practice is limited to defending those accused of murder, including death penalty cases. On the brighter side, he has performed his off-kilter brand of humorous poetry/prose around the country since 1994. He is currently a featured commentator on KNPR.    Andrew Kiraly is a Las Vegas-based freelance writer and an MFA student in UNLV's fiction program.    David Kranes is a writer of both dramatic and prose fiction. He is the author of five novels and two books of stories. He retired early from teaching at the University of Utah in June 2001 to devote full time to his writing.    Matthew O'Brien is a staff writer for CityLife, a news and culture paper based in Las Vegas.     Thomas A. Porter is a writer living in Alaska.    Germn Santanilla was born in Colombia and moved to Las Vegas in 1964. He currently works as a Spanish Interpreter/ translator with the state and federal district courts.     David Scott has played center field for the rookie league team of the California/Anaheim Angels, surfed professionally in Hawaii and Australia, and worked as an accountant for the Laguna Dam in Yuma, Arizona. Currently, he is leading adventure tours in Nepal, India, and Peru.    Jos Skinner is the author of ""Flight and Other Stories"" For many years he worked as a Spanish-English translator and interpreter.     John L. Smith is an award-winning columnist for the Las Vegas Review-Journal and the author of ""Running Scared: The Life and Treacherous Times of Las Vegas Casino King Steve Wynn,"" ""On the Boulevard,"" and several other books.     Michael Ventura's earliest essays on Las Vegas were included in his first book, ""Shadow Dancing in the USA."" His novel, ""The Death of Frank Sinatra,"" is, in Michael's own words, ""my psychological map of Vegas.""",anthologies;anthologies & literary collections;books;general;literary;literature & fiction;short stories;united states,8
1841765511,"M60 Main Battle Tank 1960-1991 (New Vanguard, 85) There is no knocking the New Vanguard series. They're cheap, informative and very user friendly.	The unrivalled illustrated reference on fighting vehicles, transport and artillery through the ages. Each volume is illustrated throughout, making these books uniquely accessible to history enthusiasts of all ages.	Richard Lathrop was born in 1967, received his BA in History from Glassboro State College. He has always had an interest in military subjects and enjoys collecting and restoring military vehicles. He is married and lives in New Jersey. John McDonald has worked for more than 24 years in the production and maintenance of combat vehicles and their weapon systems. His experience includes thirteen years as a Worldwide Armored Vehicle Consultant and Overseas Co-production Manager. He has also conducted numerous operator, tactical and maintenance training classes for the US military.",armored vehicles;books;conventional;history;military;military science;united states;weapons & warfare,8
0140159762,"The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific Despite the euphoric title, Oceania as Theroux ( Riding the Iron Rooster ) experienced it was only occasionally a carefree paradise. In the Trobriand Islands, celebrated by anthropologists for their supposed sexual freedom, the novelist and travel writer found prostitution and fear of rape. Samoa struck him as noisy, vandalized, with American-style conspicuous consumption. The intrepid Theroux discussed world politics with the king of Tonga, encountered class consciousness in Honolulu, mingled with street gangs in Auckland, and lived in a bamboo hut in Vanuatu (formerly New Hebrides), where he investigated a cargo cult and rumors of cannibalism. In Australia he braved the Woop Woop (remote outback) to camp with Aborigines. This exhilarating epic ranks with Theroux's best travel books. It is full of disarming observations, high adventure and memorable characters rendered with keen irony. First serial to New York Times Magazine; BOMC featured alternate; QPB alternate. Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	The best-selling author of My Secret History ( LJ 4/1/89) and Riding the Iron Rooster ( LJ 6/15/88) spent 18 months in a one-man collapsible kayak exploring such exotic Pacific islands as New Zealand, Australia, the Soloman and Cook Islands, Fiji, Samoa, Tahiti, Easter Island, and Hawaii. Never a kind-hearted chronicler of place, he sets out on this voyage in an especially dour mood, leaving behind a failed marriage and expecting to be diagnosed with cancer at any moment. Soon after he escapes the crowded towns of Australia, however, he starts to lose some of his harsh edge and enjoy his travels, which ultimately heal him. A brilliant storyteller with an eye for the absurd, Theroux takes the reader to little-known places where time seems to have stood still and people lead simple lives totally unrelated to 20th-century America. Highly recommended for all libraries. Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 2/1/92.- Lisa J. Cochenet, Rhinelander Dist. Lib., Wis.Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	The peripatetic author of Riding the Iron Rooster, etc., etc., ventures with a collapsible kayak to the remote and scattered islands of the South Pacific. With a farewell to his marriage, and loneliness at his back, Theroux begins his extraordinary mission in New Zealand's Fiordland (``As long as there is wilderness there is hope''), moves on to Australia (a continent ``terrified by its own emptiness''), and then to Melanesia, Polynesia--Samoa, Tonga, Fiji, Tahiti, New Guinea's Trobriands, etc.--and, finally, Hawaii. He paddles the sea, he says, in the wake of myth-makers Melville, Stevenson, Gauguin, Maugham, and the Frenchman Captain Bougainville, who, in 1768, believed he'd found not only the Garden of Eden but Venus when a ``barebreasted Tahitian girl'' climbed into his ship from a canoe. To keen-eyed Theroux, the Polynesian islands are ``pleasant and feckless'' but far from paradise. Even Gauguin's Marquesas are ``dramatic at a distance'' but ``close up--muddy and jungly and priest-ridden.'' Traditional islands are ``riddled with magic, superstition, myths, dangers, rivalries and its old routines.'' Always interesting are Theroux's encounters with archaeologists who have disproved Thor Heyerdahl's popularizing theories about Polynesia. Sifting through human and animal bones, they study a still-mysterious people who carved some 800 stone statues on Easter Island and who boasted navigational skills that sent them migrating during what was Europe's Dark Ages. A sense of being beyond the reach of civilization comes when, in his intrepid kayak, off Easter Island and between the rock-battering surf and the Pacific, Theroux removes his headphones, ``hears the immense roar of waves and the screaming wind,'' and is terrified. A vast and contemplative book, seeing the ``Pacific as a universe, and the islands like stars in all that space.'' Informative not only for the voyager, but also for those wanting a new perspective on the Western continents of home. (Sorely lacking a map.) -- Copyright 1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	""Engaging and at times brilliant...he goes places where the rest of us might fear to paddle, often beaching his kayak on a small South Pacific island without the foggiest idea whether those awaiting him will be friendly, indifferent, or anxious to give him a good thwack...well worth reading."" USA Today""A superb blend of sharp-eyed observation and pungently expressed opinion. It's hardly paradise, this lovely part of the world, but Theroux makes it endlessly fascinating."" Newsday""Feisty, eloquent, and vast in scope...a multilayered odyssey."" The San Francisco Chronicle""Perceptive, terribly readable, and wickedly funny...[An] exhilarating book."" --Book Review The Los Angeles Times	""Possibly his best travel book...an observant and frequently hilarious account of a trip that took him to 51 Pacific Islands.""TIMERenowned travel writer and novelist Paul Theroux has been many places in his life and tried almost everything. But this trip in and around the lands of the Pacific may be his boldest, most fascinating yet. From New Zealand's rain forests, to crocodile-infested New Guinea, over isolated atolls, through dirty harbors, daring weather and coastlines, he travels by Kayak wherever the winds take him--and what he discovers is the world to explore and try to understand.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Paul Theroux was born in Medford, Massachusetts, in 1941, and published his first novel, Waldo, in 1967. His subsequent novels include Picture Palace, winner of the Whitbread Prize for Fiction, The Mosquito Coast, and the hugely acclaimed, Kowloon Tong. His travel books include The Great Railway Bazaar and The Pillars of Hercules.",australia & south pacific;books;education & reference;general;micronesia;research & publishing guides;travel;writing,8
0448443082,"Freak Out!: Animals Beyond Your Wildest Imagination (Penguin Young Readers, L3) Ginjer L. Clarke has written many books for Penguin Young Readers, including Gross Out! and Watch Out!",animals;books;children's books;education & reference;literature & fiction;mystery & wonders;nature & how it works;science,8
B000FJGO1A,"Challenges This collection, based on several of Lang's ""Files"", deals with the area where the worlds of science and academia meet those of journalism and politics: social organisation, government, and the roles that education and journalism play in shaping opinions. In discussing specific cases in which he became involved, Lang addresses general questions of standards: standards of journalism, discourse, and of science. Recurring questions concern how people process information and misinformation; inhibition of critical thinking and the role of education; how to make corrections, and how attempts at corrections are sometimes obstructed; the extent to which we submit to authority, and whether we can hold the authorities accountable; the competence of so-called experts; and the use of editorial and academic power to suppress or marginalize ideas, evidence, or data that do not fit the tenets of certain establishments. By treating case studies and providing extensive documentation, Lang challenges some individuals and establishments to reconsider the ways they exercise their official or professional responsibilities.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	This collection, based on several of Lang's ""Files"", deals with the area where the worlds of science and academia meet those of journalism and politics: social organisation, government, and the roles that education and journalism play in shaping opinions. In discussing specific cases in which he became involved, Lang addresses general questions of standards: standards of journalism, discourse, and of science. Recurring questions concern how people process information and misinformation; inhibition of critical thinking and the role of education; how to make corrections, and how attempts at corrections are sometimes obstructed; the extent to which we submit to authority, and whether we can hold the authorities accountable; the competence of so-called experts; and the use of editorial and academic power to suppress or marginalize ideas, evidence, or data that do not fit the tenets of certain establishments. By treating case studies and providing extensive documentation, Lang challenges some individuals and establishments to reconsider the ways they exercise their official or professional responsibilities.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",books;business & investing;business life;ethics;history & philosophy;philosophy;politics & social sciences;science & math,8
B000NA2UCS,"AC/DC: Back In Black (The World's Greatest Albums) A dedicated team of professionals, including AC aficionado and author Paul Stenning and journalist and author Carol Clerk, review the key factors in the conception and creation of the band. One of the most important elements in Back was the killer production by Mutt Lange, and here experts Tony Platt (engineer and producer) and Simon Davie (Angus Young in top tribute act Dirty DC) give their industry insight into what really made this album buzz. With rare archive performance and interview footage, this film will take you behind the faade of the official release, in an uncompromising and complete review of one of the best Rock n Roll albums ever made!",classic rock;hard rock & metal;movies & tv;music;pop;rock;tv;world music,8
1892389975,"The Course of the Heart An unspoken secret that warps the lives of three Cambridge graduates is a springboard into mysteries of the heart and spirit in British author Harrison's enigmatic dark fantasy. Lucas Medlar, Pam Stuyvesant and the novel's unnamed narrator are all middle-aged intellectuals mired in the entropy of their lives. Lucas and Pam are in a deteriorating marriage, and the narrator uses work as a refuge from family and friends. All three are beholden to Yaxley, a creepy acquaintance from their schooldays who shows up periodically, always speaking in metaphysical riddles about a sensual realm called ""the Pleroma."" Meanwhile, Lucas entertains Pam with a fanciful history of ""the Coeur,"" a symbol-laden quest that spans centuries and continents and is linked to the understanding of the Pleroma. The meaning of the Pleroma and the Coeur, and how they relate to visions of awe and terror that taunt all three characters over the course of the story, are just part of the weird aura that cloaks all the novel's events and points back to a strange shared experience from their youth. Harrison (Things That Never Happen) tantalizes the reader with explanations that are always just out of reach, and this sense of imminent revelation heightens the tale's mystery and suspense. Readers who like fantasies tinged with the transcendent will find much to enjoy. Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.",books;contemporary;fantasy;literary;literature & fiction;science fiction;science fiction & fantasy;united states,8
0973298707,"Staying Alive!: Cookbook for Cancer Free Living : Real Survivors, Real Recipes, Real Results Nourishing ourselves and our loved ones involves a major expenditure of time, energy and inspiration. We spend many hours collecting or growing our food, preparing it to be eaten, eating it and then cleaning up afterwards. Add to this the substantial cost of food during a lifetime and we begin to realize the great importance of food in our lives.    Twenty years ago, the ""experts"" told us that there was no relationship between nutrition and cancer. Nutritionists have since dispelled the fallacy of this notion. Sally Errey focuses on the very important role of healthful nutrition in patients with cancer. Trevor Simpson has done a beautiful job preparing eight compelling case histories showing how each person overcame his or her problem with cancer through good management and sound nutrition.     A very important contribution of ""Staying Alive! Cookbook for Cancer Free- Living"" is the emphasis on ""wholism"" in our daily liveslooking at all the things that support our health and healingquality nutrition, regular exercise, quality sleep, healthy lifestyle and a positive attitude.     Although the book is dedicated to the subject of cancer, its emphasis is just as important for anyone who has a desire to be well and to stay well.     Sally has succeeded in making the sometimes complicated subject of nutrition easier for all of us to understand. She has provided more than 100 recipes to ease the transition from less wholesome foods to a complete, nourishing diet. Also invaluable is the list of 20 ""cancer-conquering foods"" and a ""Nutritional Top 40"". Sally not only shows us how a nutritious diet can help to restore our health, she takes the extra step to show that sound nutrition can be a means of preventing disease, by ""optimizing our immune system.""    The contents of this book make us fully aware of powerful marketing systems that encourage the public to make unhealthy choices in the marketplace. The information motivates us to take a common-sense approach to food and helps us to avoid the pitfalls when exploring new foods and recipes. Tips and details about kitchen equipment help make food preparation more efficient and enjoyable. The importance of organic foods, the risks of processed foods, how to cook food and how to plan menus are all included.     This book is far more than a cookbook. In short, Sally has created a very important blueprint for upgrading nutrition and healthy living. Her lively approach and sense of humour make for easy-to-understand and enjoyable reading and referencing. ""Staying Alive!"" is a ""must read"" for not only the lay person or those with cancer, but also for physicians and nutritionists who work with people with cancer.    Thank you, Sally, for your contribution to the community's well-being.	Sally Errey, RNCP is an acclaimed speaker on optimum health and longevity through healthy nutrition and lifestyle choices. Her 17 years of experience, combined with her love of food is reflected in her being the Nutrition Expert, Featured Chef and Food Stylist for alive magazine's Canada's Healthy Living Guide, as well as the Resident Nutritionist on Shaw TV's Studio 4. Sally is frequently invited to appear at Health Shows and Food Festivals.     Her company, Simple Nutrition Solutions provides consulting services for those people seeking to manage and prevent illnesses such as diabetes, heart disease, arthritis and cancer.     Currently, Sally's seminar clients include the Canadian Cancer Society, the Heart and Stroke Foundation, various Corporate and Government agencies, and the University of British Columbia.     Drawing on her experience of the body's immense capacity to heal, she brings vitality, a sense of adventure and humour to the field of nutrition     Sally also provides services at the Centre for Integrated Healing, a Canadian national model for providing complementary care and alternative options for those living with cancer. Her lectures, cooking classes and consultations have helped to transform many people's lives",books;cancer;cookbooks;diseases & physical ailments;fitness & dieting;food & wine;health;special diet,8
1585675970,"Hour of the Cat Quinn (Banished Children of Eve) illuminates New York City on the eve of WWII in his noir second novel. As Hitler's army encroaches on the Sudetenland and his doctors put the ""science"" of eugenics into practice, New York private dick Fintan Dunne seeks to exonerate Wilfredo Grillo, a Cuban immigrant accused of murdering a neighbor. As in any good boilerplate detective novel, Dunne's search for the killer takes him from the tenements of Hell's Kitchen to a respected sanatorium in the Bronx and unveils a cabal of conspirators. While Dunne fights late-Tammany era corruption, Quinn indicts America's indifference to the impending war in Europe through the characters of an English traveler writer, Ian Anderson, and a young journalist, John Taylor. On the German front, the chief of military intelligence, Admiral Canaris, tries to balance his reluctance for Germany to be at war again and Hitler's mad vision of ""destiny."" When Canaris learns of an SS agent operating in New York, he tries to surreptitiously alert Anderson, who once interviewed him. Shuttling between the opposing narratives, which eventually connect, Quinn's novel is as much a rebuke of the systematized violence of war as it is straight-up spy thriller: noir purists will blanche at the work's attempted reach, while fans of historical fiction will champion Quinn's method.  Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	In this ominous account of the marriage of medicine and murder, circa 1938, Fintan Dunne, a classic hard-boiled gumshoe, pounds the streets to save an innocent man on death row and uncovers information that could save millions. As the Nazis and the Republicans both clean up their respective ""sewers"" to popular acclaim, an English agent tries, Cassandra-like, to convince the heads of German and American intelligence of the coming apocalypse as the science of eugenics edges toward the tipping point of genocide. More history than mystery, the meandering plotlines take a long time to develop and coalesce, but Quinn imbues the story with a wealth of historical detail and atmosphere, as well as a vivid sense of how the hellish memory of the trenches still haunts these men, occluding their view of the horrors to come. Thrill-seekers and puzzle-solvers may lose patience, but this is a good choice for those who enjoy a rich, stylish period piece that, like Philip Roth's The Plot against America [BKL Ag 04], explores the fickle fate of men and nations and the destructive power of a really bad idea. David WrightCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	Extremely readable...deserves a place next to classic World War II mysteries.  A Gotham version of Philip Marlowe. -- The Chicago Tribune, June 26, 2005	A simple New York City homicide, indistinguishable from hundreds of others in 1938: a spinster nurse is killed in her apartment; a suspect is caught and convicted.  Fintan Dunne, the P.I. lured into the case and coerced by conscience into unraveling the complex setup that has put an innocent man on death row, will soon find this to be a murder with tentacles that stretch far beyond the crime scene - to Nazi Germany, in fact.  Following it to the end leads him into a murderous conspiracy of a scope that defies imagination. Grim clouds are roiling over Berlin; plans for a coup are forming among a cadre of Wehrmacht officers in Berlin.  Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, head of Military Intelligence, is gripped by paralysis over the choice he must make: join the plotters in treason and violate every value he holds as an officer, or betray them to the Gestapo and forsake the country's last hope to avert utter destruction and centuries of shame.  With no limits to Hitler's manic pursuit of territorial expansion, with crimes against his people lauded as a program of racial cleansing at the vanguard of the ""scientific"" eugenics movement launched in America and Britain, the ""hour of the cat"" looms when every German must make a choice.  When Canaris recieves an order to assist in a sinister covert operation on foreign shores, his hour has come. Writing with masterful command of fact and fiction, Peter Quinn transports readers to a pre-war New York and Berlin brimming with atmosphere and consequence.	Peter Quinn is the author of the novel Banished Children of Eve (winner of an American Book Award) and previously served as speechwriter for New York governors Hugh Carey and Mario Cuomo. A third-generation New Yorker whose granparents were born in Ireland, he is currently Editorial Director for Time Warner and lives in Hastings, New York.	On the eve of WWII, PI Fintan Dunne investigates the wrongful imprisonment of a man convicted of killing a nurse. As he investigates, Dunne crosses paths with a deadly German spy. Ned Schmidtke reads this thriller with the uninflected delivery of a 1950s' hard-boiled detective. As the writing is flat, in the mode of film noir, the narrative style works pretty well. Schmidtke's pacing, though, could use some fine-tuning; he tends to pause when the text doesn't lend itself to a break. And his American male characters sound rather alike.  A.C.S.  AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine-- Copyright  AudioFile, Portland, Maine	      --This text refers to the 							Audio CD	 edition.",books;genre fiction;hard-boiled;historical;literature & fiction;mystery;thriller & suspense;united states,8
0764803379,"In Search of Belief A refreshing and contemporary analysis of the true meaning of the Creed. Honest and thought provoking, In Search of Belief calls us to a spiritual adulthood...Not for the spiritually faint-hearted. --Edwina GatelyChittister's meditations on the mysteries that her belief affirms in the Creed are rich. She cautions that disbelief in God inevitably leads to a myopic affirmation of one's own divinity, and she repeats the ancient caveats against creating God in our own image, or believing that a human being is able to grasp God intellectually...Her characterization of heaven is both refreshing and challenging...Her reflections on the annunciation and incarnation soar with hope as she affirms the reality of miracles, the active presence of God who fills human flesh 'with an insatiable capacity for the divine.' --America MagazineEach age has those who understand more deeply than most the essence of belief and the need to liberate religion from itself -- and God from the constrictions of religion. Joan Chittister brings a religious vision, one deeply considered and richly experienced, to the task. In doing so, she offers us the way to new eyes and new hearts when we pray, ""I believe."" --Tom Roberts, National Catholic ReporterChittister's meditations on the mysteries that her belief affirms in the Creed are rich. She cautions that disbelief in God inevitably leads to a myopic affirmation of one's own divinity, and she repeats the ancient caveats against creating God in our own image, or believing that a human being is able to grasp God intellectually...Her characterization of heaven is both refreshing and challenging...Her reflections on the annunciation and incarnation soar with hope as she affirms the reality of miracles, the active presence of God who fills human flesh 'with an insatiable capacity for the divine.' --America MagazineA refreshing and contemporary analysis of the true meaning of the Creed. Honest and thought provoking, In Search of Belief calls us to a spiritual adulthood...Not for the spiritually faint-hearted. --Edwina Gately	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.	Joan Chittister is a Benedictine sister, past president of  the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, and a social  psychologist with a doctorate in speech communication theory.",books;catholicism;christian books & bibles;christian living;inspirational;religion & spirituality;spirituality;theology,8
0471286702,"Classical Cooking: The Modern Way Recipes, Third Edition Text: English (translation) Original Language: German	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Hardcover	 edition.	Classical Cooking the Modern Way Recipes Third Edition Philip Pauli Classical Cooking the Modern Way: Recipes, Third Edition embodies over 780 extraordinary recipes from the famed Pauli family. A wider breath of readers now have the opportunity to benefit from this newly revised translation. The original Rezeptbuch der Kche from Switzerland is the most widely-used culinary reference in German-speaking countries. Catering to everyone from apprentice to master chef, this comprehensive collection of classical recipes is one to be savored. Pauli makes recipes even easier to follow by including chefs notes from over 60 respected European chefs he has gathered for review. The translation stays meticulously faithful to the Swiss text.Listing recipe titles in English, German, and French.Providing weights and measures in U.S. equivalents.Suggesting substitutions for ingredients hard to find in the U.S.This edition is deliciously highlighted with 32 full color photos (finished dishes elegantly arranged to spark ideas for presentation) and supported with significant background data about cooking methods, ingredients, nutritional information, and sanitation concerns. Discover dishes seldom found on menus today, along with updated methodology that stresses basic tried and proven prep techniques that foster a foundation for experimentation. As a reference youll find excellent answers to all your classical cooking concerns. As a manual for learning basic skills youll be guided by clear descriptions for making sauces, stocks, main dishes, and desserts. Just one taste illustrates why Paulis Classical Cooking the Modern Way: Recipes, Third Edition remains a staple on every professional chefs shelf.	PHILIP PAULI is the trustee and a partner of Pauli + Reichsteiner Treuhand AG in Winterthur, Switzerland, and is the author of Classical Cooking the Modern Way: Recipes, Third Edition (Wiley), which presents 780 extraordinary recipes from the famed Pauli family.	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Hardcover	 edition.",books;cookbooks;education & reference;food & wine;professional;professional cooking;quantity;regional & international,8
B000000DSP,"Singing in the Bathtub In the late '70s the Cheap Suit Serenaders--fronted by comix legend Robert Crumb but also featuring fellow old-time music artistes Robert Armstrong, Bob Brozman, Al Dodge, Tom Marion, and Terry Zwigoff (who would later produce a whole film on Crumb)--were the only group around who would even think about still producing 78s. After all, that's where all their favorite music came from. Those platters are now highly collectible, but their albums live on, reissued on CD. Singing in the Bathtub collects some of their best work--humorous originals such as ""Suits Crybaby Blues"" and plenty of covers of tunes from obscure 78s. Their playing is flawless (you probably haven't heard the steel guitar, banjo mandolin, or musical saw played with such virtuosity as here), the tunes are mostly fun and spirited, and the music styles are varied. In the hands of the Cheap Suits, old-time music is alive and well. --Jason Verlinde",blues;classic rock;country;folk;jazz;music;pop;world music,8
B00007E9C9,Burlington Baby Large White Willow Basket Set with Liner Our large 2 piece willow baskets are hand made in china. They come in a 2 piece set with liners. These are great for storage in any room. They are 16 x 16 baskets that nest into each other.	Burlington Baby 3132 Pink Features: -Large willow basket set. -Baskets color: white. -2 piece willow basket. -Pink gingham liners. -Great for storage. -Liner is machine washable.,baby products;baskets & liners;furniture;gear;nursery;nursery décor;nursery storage & organization;storage baskets,8
0156006103,"Unravelling Aimee Slater is a young women struggling to find herself among the traditions of a 19th-century New Hampshire town and the burgeoning factory life of Lowell, Massachusetts. Alternating between her past and present experiences, she melds a story of family relations, her desire to succeed, and her attempt at an independent life. Her parents reluctantly allow her to leave home for the ""City of Spindles,"" yet almost immediately she mourns their absence. Is the wedge between her and her family created by her headstrong choices, as her mother claims, or does she simply draw deeper inside herself as a result of events she cannot understand? Like Ellen Glasgow's Barren Ground (1925), Aimee's struggle takes place in the absence of any strong male presence. This is a captivating novel about regrets, action, and reaction and the final achievement of understanding and contentment. Graver's first attempt to deviate from her well-received short stories (Have You Seen Me?, LJ 7/91) is a success. Recommended for readers who enjoy history, women's development, and mother-daughter issues.?Laurel Duda, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Mass.Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Aimee Slater, born in 1829, grows up on a small New Hampshire farm, always wanting, always filled with desire for something else, for more. In a story that moves back and forth in time from Aimee's childhood, to her year from 15 to 16 in the textile mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, to her present when she lives alone on the edge of her parents' property, Graver holds us in Aimee's heart and mind. It is a scary place, so full of need. In exquisite prose that draws on contemporary accounts, history, and local folklore, Graver spins out the relationships between Aimee and her siblings, the townsfolk, the other girls at the mill, her lovers, but most especially, her relationship with her mother. Its unrelieved and tangled intensity is the book's core. Occasionally, Aimee's voice sounds a bit too modern, and incest, pregnancy out of wedlock, and mental and physical disabilities are sometimes cast in ways that seem too twentieth century, but Graver's mastery of emotional resonance carries the reader along.  GraceAnne A. DeCandido	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	A Drue Heinz winner for her stories (Have You Seen Me?, 1991), Graver offers a debut novel about a 19th-century New Hampshire farm girl who goes off to the fabric mills of Lowell, Mass., finds herself pregnant and abandoned a la Tess Durbeyfield, then returns home to live a life of remorse and penance ever after. When her first child was born in 1829, Aimee's mother picked the baby's name from a magazine called The Ladies' Pearl. And with the name came early beauty, a quick mind, very stubborn disposition, and extraordinarily passionate temperament. By the time Aimee, at 15, implores her parents to let her go off to the mills, she's already come close to bursting with her new sexuality, has lusted after an itinerant mill-agent, and, in the hayloft, has had an innocent enough--to modern eyes and ears--sexual experience with her tubercular brother Jeremiah that like a memory of sin will stay with her (not altogether convincingly) all her life. Jeremiah's death soon after brings an inconsolable sense of loss to Aimee that's more than compounded when she delivers twins who are whisked off at once to waiting foster parents, never to be seen again. The author, luckily, paints this melodrama on a cloth made sturdily from the actual detail and texture of real 19th-century life, both at the mills and down on the farm--where Aimee, as scandalous to the town as a Hester Prynne (albeit without her Pearl), nurses her grief in a 12-by-12-foot bogside cabin on the edge of her parents' land. There, the years will pass; eremite Aimee's only two friends, each also crippled in one way or another, will become her symbolic husband and child; and the novel--trudging increasingly as it nears its close--will mete out the healing years. A familiar old tale told by an author who doesn't make it new, but much of the time makes it lovely, vivid, and touching. (Quality Paperback Book Club selection; $50,000 ad/promo) -- Copyright 1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Like Margaret Atwood in Alias Grace, Elizabeth Graver examines what happens when a nineteenth-century woman defies the conventions of her place and time. . . . This tender, thoughtful novel pays tribute to the way a woman can ultimately patch together her crazy quilt of independence and fulfillment.""-GlamourA pleasure, quiet and increasingly gripping. In images as simple and specific as that of Aimee's blind rabbit sniffing its salt lick, Graver endows the habits of coping with a profound dignity.""-The New Yorker  This beautiful novel captures the bittersweet relationship between mothers and daughters, where what is not said is just as important as what is.""-Seventeen	ELIZABETH GRAVER is the author of Unravelling and The Honey Thief. She teaches at Boston College and lives in Massachusetts",books;contemporary;domestic life;genre fiction;historical;literature & fiction;mothers & children;women's fiction,8
B000MTEKSM,"Adobe Photoshop cs in 10 Simple Steps or Less (10 Steps Or Less) If you are looking to create exciting Web graphics and need to define and edit images quickly and easily, then this book is for you-whether you're new to Adobe's latest graphics editing software or you need a refresher on Photoshop's wide range of resources. Open the book and you'll discover clear, easy-to-follow instructions for more than 250 key Photoshop tasks, each presented in ten quick steps-or less. Easy - to - navigate pages, lots of screen shots, and to-the-point directions guide you through every common (and not so common) Photoshop challenge-and help you get more done in less time.    * Each solution is ten steps-or less-to help you get the job done fast    * Self-contained two-page spreads deliver the answers you need-without flipping pages     * A no-fluff approach focuses on helping you achieve results    * A resource packed with useful and fun ways to get the most out of Photoshop cs    * Make it simple and get productive fast! - find full-color images and links to resources, downloads, and companion and plug-in software on this book's Web site	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	If you are looking to create exciting Web graphics and need to define and edit images quickly and easily, then this book is for you-whether you're new to Adobe's latest graphics editing software or you need a refresher on Photoshop's wide range of resources. Open the book and you'll discover clear, easy-to-follow instructions for more than 250 key Photoshop tasks, each presented in ten quick steps-or less. Easy - to - navigate pages, lots of screen shots, and to-the-point directions guide you through every common (and not so common) Photoshop challenge-and help you get more done in less time.    * Each solution is ten steps-or less-to help you get the job done fast    * Self-contained two-page spreads deliver the answers you need-without flipping pages     * A no-fluff approach focuses on helping you achieve results    * A resource packed with useful and fun ways to get the most out of Photoshop cs    * Make it simple and get productive fast! - find full-color images and links to resources, downloads, and companion and plug-in software on this book's Web site	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",adobe photoshop;books;computers & technology;digital media management;game programming;graphics & multimedia;photo editing;programming,8
B000K8VV50,Tampa Bay Buccaneers NFL Collector's Plate Go Half Time Tampa Bay Buccaneers NFL Collector's Plate is great to display at work or home and measures 11 3/4 inch X 5 13/16 inch.,auto accessories;automotive;exterior accessories;fan shop;frames;license plate covers & frames;license plate frames;sports & outdoors,8
0393037703,"The Book of Knowledge: A Novel The chasm between appearance and reality, between expectations and disillusionment, is the theme of Grumbach's latest novel, whose dark message emerges from the unfulfilled sexual identities of her four characters. None of the four preadolescent youngsters who meet during the summer of 1929 in the town of Far Rockaway, N.Y., will achieve a happy life. Caleb and Kate Flowers, raised by their widowed, reclusive mother in the beachside community, are propelled by their pleasantly claustrophobic existence and their ""twinned sensibility"" to be best friends, and later, innocent explorers of each other's bodies. The fathers of Roslyn Hellman and Lionel Schwartz are wealthy Manhattan stockbrokers who will soon lose their jobs and money in the stock market crash. Grumbach (Coming Into the End Zone) follows these characters episodically during the ensuing 15 years, ""in which the nadir of financial ruin and depression reached the zenith of war and prosperity."" Their lives, however, never reach a comparable high point. When Caleb and Lionel meet again at Cornell, they recognize their homosexual bond, but Caleb sunders their relationship out of fear that disclosure might ruin his career. Roslyn gets the first glimmers of her lesbian predilection at summer camp (these scenes ring with authenticity), but society confines her to a conventional path. Kate, unable to break her incestuous bond with her brother, subsumes her sexuality in religion. Grumbach tells her story in laconic prose that is most successful in the beginning section, which reads like a fable, but later lapses into some awkwardness (the overuse of the phrase ""could bear no longer"") and some sledgehammer moralizing. As an honest portrayal of self-realization sacrificed to social conventions, however, the book has a visceral impact.Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Grumbach's latest novel is grimly compelling in its portrayal of four lives filled with stifled desires, major depression, incest, self-sacrifice, and thwarted love. The four meet as children in the summer of 1929 in the Long Island beach town, Far Rockaway. Caleb and Kate Flowers, sheltered by their widowed mother, encounter two children of the ""summer people,"" Lionel Schwartz and his playmate from New York City, the intelligent, domineering Roslyn Hellman. As the quartet swims and croquets through the summers and pubescence, Grumbach paints a glowing picture of warmth, security, and safety that is shattered by the Great Depression. Ultimately, societal constraints on sexual expression, not financial reversals, prove the undoing of the four, who, though creative and imaginative, are caught in a whirlpool of homosexual and incestuous love yet find no long-lasting outlet for their obstructed passions. With death at an early age presented as a happy alternative to living inauthentically, this is a ruthlessly ugly depiction of interwar America that emphasizes the tragedy of lives lost to tradition and convention.  Whitney Scott",books;contemporary;criticism & theory;fiction;gay;gay & lesbian;history & criticism;literature & fiction,8
B000QDVNOI,"JVCC V-36 Colored Vinyl Tape: 1 in. x 36 yds. (Purple) JVCC V-36 Colored Vinyl Tape is a durable tape used for marking floors/lanes, color coding, decorating, temporary striping on vehicles and boats, and to identify restricted or hazardous areas. Used extensively on school gym floors all kinds. Helps with safety coding to meet OSHA requirements. Can also be used for masking of hard chrome plating and anodizing, harness and pipe wrapping, and duct and joint sealing. JVCC V-36 Vinyl Tape is also known as Dance Floor Tape, Marley Tape, or Splice Tape. Features include: ""Write-on"" capability. Highly conformable and good abrasion/impact resistance. Provides vapor/moisture barrier. Resistant to aging, sun, water, fungus/bacteria, acids/chemicals. No corrosion to copper, brass, steel, or aluminum. Widths shown in dropdown are in inches. NOTES: Sizes shipped will typically be the tape industry standard metric-cut sizes, i.e. 24mm for each 1 inch of nominal tape width ordered (rolls are approximately 5% narrower than the nominal size). This product's actual size is 24mm x 33m. This tape is typically cut to width from log rolls so most sizes ship on a plain white core.",adhesive tapes;adhesives & sealants;industrial & scientific;painting supplies & wall treatments;prep materials;tape;tapes;tools & home improvement,8
0883685345,"Smith Wigglesworth On Spirit Filled Living God confirmed Smith Wigglesworth's ministry through powerful signs and wonders. These included the restoration of hearing and sight, the creative formation of missing limbs, the disappearance of cancerous growths, the recovery of mental wholeness by the violently insane, and the raising of several people from the dead. His words continue to provide spiritual, financial, emotional, and physical healing as they inspire and build faith.   In these riveting messages, Smith Wigglesworth reveals the privileges that believers have and how they can claim their rich inheritance in Christ. These pages will inspire your faith and explode your vision as you learn how to... Secure God's favor on your life Obtain freedom from sin Practice the presence of God Take authority over Satan Live in the joy of the Lord Experience the miraculous Receive divine wholeness and health  Discover the power that is available to you right now through Christ, and change from ordinary to extraordinary living as God's grace transforms your life.   God's Power Released in You ""Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?""  1 John 5:5 NKJV	Smith Wigglesworth (18591947) was born in England in 1859. Immediately after his conversion as a boy, he had a concern for the salvation of others and won people to Christ, including his mother. He became a plumber by trade, yet he continued to devote himself to winning many people to Christ on an individual basis. In 1882, he married Polly Featherstone, a vivacious young woman who loved God and had a gift of preaching and evangelism. It was she who taught him to read and who became his closest confidant and strongest supporter. They both had compassion for the poor and needy in their community, and they opened a mission, at which Polly preached. Significantly, people were miraculously healed when Wigglesworth prayed for them.   In 1907, Wigglesworth's circumstances changed dramatically when, at the age of fortyeight, he was baptized in the Holy Spirit. Suddenly, he had a new power that enabled him to preach, and even his wife was amazed at the transformation. This was the beginning of what became a worldwide evangelistic and healing ministry that reached thousands. He eventually ministered in the United States, Australia, South Africa, and all over Europe. His ministry extended to the time of his death in 1947.",books;charismatic;christian books & bibles;ministry & church leadership;pentecostal;protestantism;sermons;worship & devotion,8
0192545205,"Master Humphrey's Clock and A Child's History of England (Oxford Illustrated Dickens) Charles Dickens (1812-70) is one of England's greatest novelists. Born into a poor family (his father was once imprisoned for debt), Dickens became both rich and famous in his lifetime.",books;british;children's books;classics;genre fiction;historical;literary;literature & fiction,8
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B000EB43T4,"Mizuno Custom Classic Maple Bat (Mahogany) Amazon.com Baseball Bat Guide Choosing the Right Baseball Bat For a relatively simple piece of equipment, the variety of options when it comes to buying a baseball bat--wood or composite? what size is right for me? should I pay $30 or $300?--can be intimidating. The most important factor to keep in mind, from Little League to the pros, is that buying a bat is a personal decision. It's critical to select a bat properly tailored to your height, weight, skill, and strength levels, within your budget, but equally important is simply how the bat ""feels"" to you.  Improvements in technology have given today's players more options than ever. A few basic rules of thumb, however, can help narrow your search:  Weight: Heavier bats provide more power while lighter bats enable faster swing speeds. Are you strong and athletic, or smaller and more likely to benefit from greater swing speed? Practice-swing a number of differently weighted bats until you find one that's right for you. Length: Longer bats provide greater reach and ability to connect with pitches on the other side of the plate, but the added weight can reduce swing speed and power. Once again, the best approach is to experiment with different lengths to find a bat that suits you. Barrel Diameter: As a general rule of thumb, players age 12 and under should use a 2.25-inch barrel diameter to comply with the majority of youth league regulations. Older players, through high school and college, are typically restricted to a 2.625-inch barrel diameter. League Rules: Most leagues have their own bat requirements, and it's a good idea to be clear on your league's specifications before shopping. Feel: The most crucial factor ultimately comes down to whether a bat feels good to you. It should be comfortable in your hands, have a balanced and fluid swing, and seem like a natural extension of your arms.   Anatomy of a Bat While bat terminology and technology can seem complex, all bats are made up of three basic components--grip, bat taper, and barrel size.  Grip: The bat handle covering, typically made of leather or synthetic leather for a solid grip, or rubber (sometimes with cushioning) to decrease sting when striking the ball. Bat Taper: The diameter of a bat's handle, with a standard taper being 0.97-inches (which can vary based on weight). A larger taper reduces ball shock while adding weight, and smaller tapers enable faster wrist rotation while reducing weight. Barrel Size: Includes the length and diameter of the barrel, or top part, of the bat. Longer barrels provide larger, more forgiving sweet spots, and several different diameters are available.   Worth the Weight Bats are weighted in ounces with emphasis on balancing weight-to-length ratio, a measure called a bat's ""drop"" and shown as -6, -8, and so on. For example, a 34-inch bat with a -6 ratio weighs 28 ounces. Choosing the right weight depends on the type of player you are, as stronger players typically benefit from the power of a heavier bat, while smaller or younger players enjoy the increased swing speed and control of a lighter bat.  Different Materials for Different Players The sheer number of bat materials available today can boggle the mind, but ultimately the options are grouped into three categories--wood, aluminum, and composite.  Wood Although the sound of a wood bat hitting a baseball has become iconic, the number of players using wood bats is typically restricted to professionals and wood-bat-only leagues. Whether you're a Major Leaguer or simply a baseball purist, look for a bat with a long, wide grain, which indicates a dense, mature tree. Wood bats offer more choices in terms of shape and taper to customize to a player's swing. On the other hand, they have three significant disadvantages: tendency to crack or break, smaller sweet spot, and less hitting power than metal bats.  Composite Advances in technology have allowed manufacturers to use lighter, stronger composite materials--typically a combination of graphite, fiberglass, and resin--to produce bats with a unique, satisfying feel and large, forgiving sweet spots. Composite bats are lighter than traditional aluminum bats, increasing swing speed and power. Composites also come in single- and double-layer configurations, and graphite and titanium materials added to the inner wall help reduce vibration and ""ball sting"" when a ball is mis-hit.  Aluminum A majority of non-professional players today use aluminum bats, mostly due to their lighter weight (which increases swing speed and control) and better durability. Aluminum bats come in single- or double-layer construction, with double-layer bats offering greater durability, power, and rebound.  Aluminum bats are constructed from a variety of alloys. Lighter alloys are thinner and more durable, and the alloy used in an aluminum bat is typically the most significant cost factor. Nearly all aluminum bat alloys represent some combination of aluminum, copper, magnesium, and zinc. Here's a quick overview of today's most popular aluminum alloys:  7046: This durable alloy has been a baseball industry standard for many years, and offers a good balance of price and performance. CU31/7050: One of the first high-performance bat alloys, this proven option is more durable than 7046 as a result of greater levels of copper, magnesium, and zirconium. C405/7055: A common alloy used in more expensive, high-end aluminum bats, this alloy includes greater zirconium content than CU31/7050 for added strength. C555: The addition of scandium to this alloy results in up to 10% more strength than C405/7055.   Selecting the Right Bat Size The optimal bat size varies based on height and weight for a given player, and can impact technique, swing speed, and other vital components of your game. Selecting the right size from the table below will help ensure you get the most out of your equipment.          Baseball Bat Sizing           Weight     Height                3' - 3'4""     3'5"" - 3'8""     3'9"" - 4'     4'1"" - 4'4""     4'5"" - 4'8""     4'9"" - 5'     5'1"" - 5'4""     5'5"" - 5'8""     5'9"" - 6'     6'1"" +           Under 60 pounds     26""     27""     28""     29""     29""                                    61-70 pounds     27""     27""     28""     29""     30""     30""                               71-80 pounds          28""     28""     29""     30""     30""     31""                          81-90 pounds          28""     29""     29""     30""     30""     31""     32""                     91-100 pounds          28""     29""     30""     30""     31""     31""     32""                     101-110 pounds          29""     29""     30""     30""     31""     31""     32""                     111-120 pounds          29""     29""     30""     30""     31""     31""     32""                     121-130 pounds          29""     29""     30""     30""     31""     32""     33""     33""                131-140 pounds          29""     30""     30""     31""     31""     32""     33""     33""                141-150 pounds               30""     30""     31""     31""     32""     33""     33""                151-160 pounds               30""     31""     31""     32""     32""     33""     33""     33""           161-170 pounds                    31""     31""     32""     32""     33""     33""     34""           171-180 pounds                              32""     33""     33""     34""     34""           181+ pounds                                   33""     33""     34""     34""              Most Popular Size By Age           Age     5-7 years old     8-9     10     11-12     13-14     15-16     17 and over           Bat Length     24-26""     26-28""     28-29""     30-31""     31-32""     32-33""     34""	Mizuno Custom Crafted Maple bats are hand selected in Japan",baseball;bats;player equipment;sports;sports & outdoor play;sports & outdoors;team sports;toys & games,8
B000GT43CG,"Norton NorZon Plus 3X Portable Abrasive Belt, Zirconia Alumina, 3&#034; Width x 24&#034; Length, Grit 50 (Pack of 5) For high speed sanding and finishing of flat surfaces on wood, plastic and fiberglass, grinding and finishing of all metals, blending welds and abrasive plaining of wood	The Norton 3X portable abrasive belt offers more durability over an uncoated abrasive while resisting chip loading. This belt is used for paint stripping, sanding and finishing on composites and fiberglass, and all-purpose bare wood sanding.   Coated abrasives have individual abrasive grains spaced at a predetermined distance from one another. This is a closed-coat belt. A closed coat covers 100 percent of the surface with abrasive grains, for more stiffness and better surface finish than an equivalent open coat, where abrasive grit covers 50 to 70 percent of the surface. The cloth backing is stiffer, tougher, and thicker than a paper backing. Cloth resists tearing while bending and flexing during use. This belt features a resin bond. Resin bonds have good moisture resistance, are harder and less flexible than glue bonds, and have good heat resistance and grain retention. Resin bonds are useful for abrasive operations with high operating speeds, impact, and sudden loading, as the resin bond is strong. This belt features a resin bond. Resin bonds have good moisture resistance, are harder and less flexible than glue bonds, and have good heat resistance and grain retention. Resin bonds are useful for abrasive operations with high operating speeds, impact, and sudden loading, as the resin bond is strong.  Coated abrasives have individual abrasive grains spaced at a predetermined distance from one another. An open coat covers about 50 to 70 percent of the coated surface with abrasive, for greater flexibility and resistance to clogging than a closed coat, which has 100 percent grain coverage. An open coat allows for longer usage time by clogging less, while a closed coat offers a finer surface finish than an equivalent open-coat abrasive. This belt is open-coat. The stearate coating offers more durability over an uncoated abrasive while resisting chip loading. Stearated abrasives are non-pigmented to eliminate color transfer to the work surface. These belts are typically used on portable belt sanders and portable file belt machines.  Zirconia alumina is a self-sharpening abrasive that allows for a faster cut rate and longer life than aluminum oxide, due to its ability to fracture and refracture, creating new cutting edges. Zirconia alumina is often used for high stock removal on wood and metals.  Abrasives are used for a variety of applications from shaping a part to fine finishing, depending on the grit size. Low grit numbers like 40 are coarse and are used for removing excess material and shaping a part. High grit numbers like 400 are fine and help to create a smooth surface finish. Abrasives, because they use many small cutting particles, provide more controlled material removal and better surface finish than cutting tools like end mills and saws, but do not operate as quickly.  Norton Abrasives manufactures a wide variety of sanding, grinding, and polishing abrasives, and has been located in the United States since 1885. In 1990, Saint-Gobain purchased Norton, keeping its manufacturing facilities and offices in the same location.  Norton/Saint-Gobain has been recognized as a Global 100 Sustainable Company, as well as earning ISO 9000 and 14001 certification for quality and environmental management standards.",abrasive & finishing products;abrasive belts;belts;industrial & scientific;power & hand tools;power tool accessories;sander accessories;tools & home improvement,8
0446611158,"Slow Hands A familiar formula alpha male revisits the small town he scorned and the high school sweetheart he abandoned in order to seek redemption fuels Lauren Bach's (Lone Rider) Slow Hands, a pedestrian offering that substitutes sex for romance. Special agent Alec Dempsey has been sent to his hometown to protect his first love, Keira Morgan, from a convicted felon recently released from prison who's convinced she's responsible for the deaths of his brothers. Alec and Keira clash early on, but it isn't long before the arrogant alpha angles his way back into her heart and her bed. With its egocentric hero, weak-willed heroine and profusion of romance cliches (""His voice was a caress""; ""Her heart stopped""), this tepid offering isn't likely to turn many heads. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.	""a sense of dangerpassionate, fiery love scenesa surprise endingBach shows she's a writer to be reckoned with."" -- Amanda Killgore, ROMANCEATITSBEST.com - August 2002""all the winning elements for superb romantic adventure: a couple in jeopardy, fast-paced action and s-l-o-w steamy lovemaking."" -- Patricia Rouse, ROMANTIC TIMES COLUMNIST - August 2002""engrossing, entertaining If you like romantic suspense, second chance stories, or steamy Southern romances, don't miss SLOW HANDS..."" -- RomRevToday.com, August 2002""fast paced, suspensefuldoes not let up until the end. A breathtaking romance mixed with intrigue"" -- TheBestReviews.com, Aug. 02""sizzles with sexual tension and erotic love scenes that could scorch the pages  A highly recommended book "" -- ARomanceReview.com, Aug - 02""taut suspense with a sensual romance that will keep you glued to its pagesthe perfect summer read."" -- TheRomanceReadersConnection.com, Aug. 02""tense, thrilling  a slow, controlled burn...both pulse pounding and deeply sensual will set fire to a reader's imagination"" -- Heartstrings Reviews, August 2002Sensually sexy and suspensefully spine-tingling, SLOW HANDS will be the book that you can't put down this summer."" -- Julie Singleton, ESCAPETOROMANCE.COM - August 2002	Lauren Bach loves to write almost as much as she loves to read.  A member of Romance Writers of America and Heart of Carolina Romance Writers, Lauren writes contemporary romantic fiction with a definite sensual slant.  Her love of writing can be traced back to her childhood.  One of seven children, she was born in Iowa, but raised in Florida.  She currently resides in North Carolina and is busy working on her next book.",books;contemporary;literature & fiction;mystery;romance;suspense;thriller & suspense;thrillers,8
1400053609,"Fortissimo: Backstage at the Opera with Sacred Monsters and Young Singers Murray, who eventually became a staff writer for the New Yorker and the author of some 30 books, including several racetrack-themed mysteries, initially had planned a career in opera (he died earlier this year at age 78). Writing this study of a year in the life of an entering class at Chicago's Lyric Opera Center, one of the world's top programs for training young opera talent, was both his way of experiencing his own ""road not taken"" and an opportunity to explore modern techniques of operatic training. Murray went to Chicago for the school's 20032004 season and sat in on everythingmaster classes, rehearsals, auditions and opening nightstalking with students, coaches and directors. Inevitably, some performance would remind him of an anecdote about one of opera's larger-than-life stars, its ""sacred monsters."" While hard-core opera aficionados may already know Murray's Pavarotti stories, and may even be able to trump his Zeffirelli tales, in the opera world, stories grow better the more they're told. This affectionate, appreciative tribute to the world of opera and its next generation of stars should please fansand help their dates make better cocktail party conversation. 8-page bw photo insert. Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	William Murray was a staff writer at The New Yorker for more than thirty years and authored more than twenty novels and works of nonfiction, including City of the Soul and The Last Italian. He died shortly after completing this book.	Chapter 1The CellThe studio Gianna Rolandi refers to as The Cell is a long, rectangular room with a grand piano at one end and a full-length mirror along one wall. In a corner is a large, yellow rubber ball on which Rolandi sometimes asks her young artists to sit as they sing; it forces them to adopt a correct posturefeet planted solidly on the oor, torso erect, shoulders straightto support the tone. On a typical day early in November 2003, I stopped by The Cell to see what might be going on that morning at Lyric Opera Center for American Artists (LOCAA), in Chicago. Rolandi, with the help of one of the companys staff accompanists, was busily at work on Sibels aria from Faust with Lauren McNeese, the young mezzo-soprano about to sing the role for the first time on the Lyric stage a few days later.McNeese is a slender, strikingly beautiful young woman with blond hair and green eyes. Three years earlier she had been accepted into the LOCAA program for young singers, after auditioning with arias from the heavier mezzo repertory. Once in, however, she was told that she had to make changes; it was much too early in her career for her to tackle the big dramatic parts. Rolandi and her colleague Richard Pearlman, who had been running the Opera Center since 1995, put McNeese to work on arias by Rossini, especially the coloratura passages that require breath control and vocal agility. McNeese labored with Rolandi several times a week. Im famous for making her hoarse when we first started, McNeese told me. She was demonstrating all these things she wanted me to do, all these difficult methods, so we worked for hours. Having been a coloratura soprano diva herself, at the Metropolitan Opera and elsewhere until her retirement fourteen years earlier, Rolandi was just the person to teach McNeese; but it wasnt easy for the young mezzo. My voice was placed farther back and darker then and this new technique was very difficult for me. I had to place my voice forward, make it lighter. Nevertheless, by the end of that first year in the program, McNeese found herself singing not only Rossini but also Bellini and Mozart. Gianna lets you know there are no barriers, she said.At this session, no sooner had McNeese begun to sing the opening phrases than Rolandi stopped her. You need to get your words smaller, she told her. You need to think in terms of funneling the sound. After the second attack on the aria, Rolandi exclaimed, This is good! There you go! She then asked McNeese what she was doing onstage as she sang, which consisted mostly of gathering up flowers to make a bouquet. Its really pretty, Lauren, but you also need to think about the words. She asked the young mezzo to speak the words of the aria in order to get the right French vocal sounds: Lean into that word bnie. She made McNeese hold the tip of her nose while singing. Better! Better! There it is! she said. You know where it is; the other wont carry. McNeese put on a nose clip before singing a soaring climactic high note on the difficult vowel sound ee. Lauren, dont be discouraged, Rolandi said at the end of the hour- long session, Im being really picky here. Whens your next rehearsal? It was scheduled for one oclock, McNeese told her. Youve been singing a lot, Rolandi said. Be sure to mark. (Marking is the operatic term for not singing full voice.)I dont think thatll be possible, McNeese said, smiling as she gathered up her belongings and score, then quickly left.The rest of that morning I sat there watching and listening to Rolandi work with three more of the young singers in the LOCAA program. Lauren Curnow, a tall, handsome, short-haired blonde with the strong-looking jaw characteristic of many opera singers, was preparing arias from Mozarts La Clemenza di Tito and Meyerbeers rarely performed Les Huguenots. Curnow, a first-year LOCAA member listed on the Opera Centers roster as a mezzo, sounded more like a soprano to me and was much less self-assured than McNeese. Before Curnow had even finished singing an opening phrase, Rolandi bounded out of her chair to move in on her. Lauren, its the right idea, but youve got to sing every note. You have to sell each one. The whole thrust of her coaching was aimed at getting Curnow to move her voice forward into what the Italians call la maschera (the mask), which is the upper jaw and the nasal passages above it. Standing close together now, Rolandi and Curnow faced the mirror. You have to get all that extra gunk out from under there, Rolandi said, out of the back of the throat, otherwise your voice wont carry. Most pop singers never get out of their throats, but stick mikes up against their teeth to make any kind of sound, she explained, grinning at me. She made Curnow sing now while holding both hands up to cradle her neck. Thatll help move it forward, Rolandi said, then looked at me again. All these mezzos fall in love with that darker sound. After a few more phrases, she went to work with Curnow on making sure her tongue was in the right place. Right, Lauren, youre getting it, she said. Just make sure your tongue feels like a piece of liver. Tongues, if not properly aligned, can almost literally strangle a singer; mostly they should be lying flat behind the lower teeth.As Curnow continued to work on mastering not only her vocal technique but also her dramatic approach to what she was singing, Rolandi kept moving around behind, beside and in front of her, energetically dispensing advice, admonitions and always constructive criticism, making her repeat phrases over and over until she got them right. It was an amazing performance, not unlike that of a great coach coaxing a well-trained but inexperienced athlete into mastering his sport.As I listened to and watched Rolandi work with her charges that morning, I found myself marveling at how different an experience these young singers were having from the one Id had during the years Id been hoping for a career and then later hanging around Madam La Puma. The twelve young singers currently in the LOCAA program were not students but already well-trained vocal artists. In addition to McNeese and Curnow, the roster included sopranos Erin Wall and Nicole Cabell, mezzo Guang Yang, tenors Patrick Miller, Roger Honeywell, and Scott Ramsay, baritones Levi Hernandez and Quinn Kelsey, and bass Christopher Dickerson. Before coming to Chicago they had all graduated from prestigious conservatories or university opera programs, theyd studied for years with private teachers and most had sung professionally for various American opera companies. LOCAA was just the sort of career launching pad that hadnt existed back when I was studying, or for many years thereafter. In the fifties, sixties and well into the seventies, young American opera singers, even the best-trained ones, had nowhere to go but Europe to begin their careers. The conservatories and universities that had opera programs were largely unsatisfactory training grounds due to the absence on their staffs of good singing teachers and the requirement that students master other musical disciplines, such as music history and sight-reading, that had little directly to do with training the instrument in your throat. No one at the New England Conservatory of Music, in Boston, or at the Manhattan School of Music, in New York, where I studied, ever explained to me how the vocal cords worked, what the larynx looked like or how the tone should be supported on a column of air by the diaphragm muscles. Then there were the private teachers, who were prohibitively expensive (ten dollars for a half- hour lesson back in the mid-forties), especially if they had been great opera stars themselves, and who were mostly as incompetent as the earnest pedants in the conservatories. Great singers dont necessarily make great teachers; singing comes too easily to them or theyve forgotten how they got there.In Boston, while establishing a reputation as a goof-off through five terms at Harvard, I studied with a middle-aged ex-soprano who made me learn a half-dozen classical Italian songs without telling me anything about breathing or how to sing anything above an F, the last note an untrained tenor can sing without having to go into what is usually called a passage note, which leads into the so-called head tones any tenor has to master to sing in his upper range. In New York I studied with two great Wagnerian baritones, Friedrich Schorr and Herbert Janssen. Schorr hadnt a clue what to do with me and saw me only once a week. Janssen, who was still singing at the Met and elsewhere, taught all of his students to funnel the sound by pursing the lips to make it look as if we were sucking bananas. Not a word from either man about breath support. Matters didnt improve much when I finally left for Italy in 1948 to pursue my studies there. My first teacher in Rome was a celebrated baritone named Riccardo Stracciari, a famous Rigoletto and the singer who persuaded Ruggiero Leoncavallo to let him interpolate a high A-flat into the Prologue, the opening aria of I Pagliacci. Stracciari would sit at his upright piano in his apartment in Rome dressed in his pajamas and bathrobe while belting high notes off the walls in an effort to show me by example how to do it. Eventually, I wound up at the Calcagni School of Music, off the Corso, in the heart of the city, where, as one of about thirty aspirants, I showed up every day, ve days a week, to sing solos, duets and ensembles with my fellow students. Countess Calcagni, who had been a successful lyric soprano herself, taught the women; the Count, who co...	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",arts & photography;books;history & criticism;humor & entertainment;music;musical genres;opera;performing arts,8
0442003781,"The Color Compendium That color is an art, a science, a culture, fashion and flowers, is all borne out in the pages of The Color Compendium.  We tried to provide ready and quick access to the language of color, the artists, theories, and history that make color a factor in every aspect of our lives.	Augustine Hope, who holds a degree in philosophy from Oxford University, is an international color authority and journalist who works from New York and London.  We was formerly an associate editor of American Fabrics and Fashions Magazine. Margaret Walch is director of The Color Association of the United States and author of Living Colors: The definitive guide to color palettes through the ages.  She is a frequent lecturer at corporations, professional associations, and educational institutions. Her comments on color often appear in the press.",art;arts & photography;books;education & reference;encyclopedias;graphic design;techniques;use of color,8
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1400132215,"The Thin Place Davis's unconventional style of writing this novel is not well-suited to the audio format. Chapters are told from many different characters' perspectives, and the narrative jumps around from past to present. Since Frasier does not vary her delivery or do much to differentiate the voices of the characters, it's easy to lose the thread of what's going on. The novel frequently tosses in ""list-style"" items, such as police logs and daily horoscopes, which are slow, distracting and repetitive when read aloud. Frasier's cool, objective voice matches the author's narrative tone, but it makes such potentially exciting scenes as a gunman taking hostages in a church flat and dull. The strength of the audio medium is in its intimacy and emotion, the ability of a talented reader to bring characters and stories to life. A novel such as this, told in the detached tone of an impartial observer, does not play to the medium's strengths. It works better on the page. Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Audio CD	 edition.	In the opening pages of this brilliant, peculiar book, three small-town girls discover a man's corpse at the edge of a lake, and one of them, Mees Kipp, mysteriously brings him back to life. Davis writes hallucinatory, literate prose, and adopts a cosmic perspective: she is concerned with nothing less than describing the town's every waking moment. The experiences of Mees's dog, trotting through a clearing that smells of porcupine, stand alongside those of a minister's wife reading her morning paper and ""confronting whatever form the devil had chosen to assume overnight."" In any other book, a magical resurrection would be a central event; for Davis, it's just another moment in a particular place.   Copyright  2006 The New Yorker	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	The thin place is a Celtic term used to describe the diaphanous realm where the spiritual and physical worlds combine. In her lyrically brilliant sixth novel (after Versailles, 2002), Kathryn Davis imagines a town rooted in the thin place. Every living thing is intricately connected here: humans, animals, and vegetables all have their say. Critics admit the novel is difficult to summarize, but all commend the powerful poetry in Davis's loopy, mystical examination of time, morality, and everyday joys. What it lacks in page-turning plotone exists, but it is secondaryis trumped by the revelatory narrative voices.Copyright  2004 Phillips  Nelson Media, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	*Starred Review*  Cosmic in her vision, provocative and comic in her storytelling, Davis draws on sources as diverse as quantum physics and tales of saints and miracles and makes place a key element in her exploratory fiction. Here, following her unusual historical novel Versailles (2002), she depicts a small town along the Canadian border on a glacier-carved terrain encompassing the aptly named Black Lake and teeming with beavers, bugs, birds, dogs, cats, and grasses. Three girls come across a man lying on the beach, seemingly dead. Two go for help, one stays. The man recovers. This girl has unusual powers. Davis' wry, sometimes gleeful, sometimes gloomy omniscient narrator turns her attention to a woman restoring a diary from 1872 kept by a schoolteacher responsible for a terrible tragedy. Davis then tunes in to the consciousness of Helen--smart, classy, and impatient with life in a home for the aged, her handsome son, the two women he is involved with, various animals wild and domestic, and even plants. As strange and deadly events unfold, Davis works out a calculus of the accidental and the inevitable and maps the interface of the natural and the supernatural, the human and the divine. Donna SeamanCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	""""The quirky, immensely gifted Davis has been compared to Kafka, Dinesen and Hans Christian Andersen. A delightful, surprise-filled narrative: Davis's best yet.""""	Kathryn Davis has received a Kafka Prize for fiction by an American woman, the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. The Thin Place is her sixth novel.   In addition to narrating audiobooks, Shelly Frasier has appeared in many independent film and theater projects in Arizona and southern California, and she has developed character voices for animation projects and done voice-over work for commercials.	Varennes is a fictional town in upstate New York where the rules of space and time are suspended and miraculous things occur. Kathryn Davis gets inside her characters' humanity, innocence, and terrible secret evils, exposing the humor and tragedy in each life. Shelly Frasier's quiet, unassuming narration allows Davis's graceful images to cast their spell. Listeners are treated to a poetic landscape, with waking daydream the primary reality. Frasier handles the voices of dogs, cats, beaver, and lichen as calmly and matter-of-factly as she does those of preteen girls and ancient women. Asking the big questions and offering truths most people would rather avoid, Davis's story brings imaginations to tingling life.  S.J.H.  AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine-- Copyright  AudioFile, Portland, Maine	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Audio CD	 edition.",books;contemporary;fantasy;genre fiction;literary;literature & fiction;metaphysical;science fiction & fantasy,8
0567083977,"Introduction to Biblical Studies, Second Edition (T&T Clark Approaches To Biblical Studies) Steve Moyise is Professor of New Testament at the University of Chichester and author of The Old Testament in the Book of Revelation (Sheffield, 1995) and The Old Testament in the New (Continuum, 2001). He is the series editor of The Tamp;T Clark Approaches to Biblical Studies.",books;christian books & bibles;education & reference;humanities;new;reference;religious studies;used & rental textbooks,8
B0009H5BTE,"Shop-Vac 963-07-00 6 Gallon 2-1/2 Horsepower Wet/Dry Blower Vacuum 6 gallon 2.5hp wet/dry blower vac. Complete with 1 1/4"" wands, floor nozzle, squeegie, 6' long hose, 2 1/2"" wand, blower nozzle, and tank tool storage tool holder.	6 Gallon 2.5 Peak HP Vac with Portable Blower. This wet/dry vac makes vacuuming easy! Swivel wheels make this vac easy to move even when the high capacity canister is filled. 6 Gallon capacity holds dry and wet waste. 2.50 Peak horsepower. Motor head removes and converts to a blower. Accessories included: 7' x 1.25"" Hose 3 - 1.25"" Extension wands 10"" x 1.25"" Wet/Dry nozzle 1.25"" Gulper nozzle 1.25"" Crevice tool 1.25"" Round brush 2.5"" Extension wand 2.5"" Utility blower nozzle 2.5"" Concentrator nozzle. Dimensions: 15.5"" L x 15.5"" W x 20"" H Weight: 16 lbs.",floor care;industrial & scientific;janitorial & sanitation supplies;power & hand tools;power tools;tools & home improvement;vacuums;wet-dry vacuums,8
0787972762,"Narrative Inquiry: Experience and Story in Qualitative Research ""The literature on narrative inquiry has been, until now, widely scattered and theoretically incomplete. Clandinin and Connelly have created a major tour de force. This book is lucid, fluid, beautifully argued, and rich in examples. Students will find a wealth of arguments to support their research, and teaching faculty will find everything they need to teach narrative inquiry theory and methods."" (Yvonna S. Lincoln, professor, Department of Educational Administration, Texas A University)""This book reveals the journey of two scholars who, for the past two decades, have explored the way narrative deepens our understanding of educational experience. Their encounters with seemingly intractable issues provide a model of intellectual courage. Narrative Inquiry invites us to take their journey with them. And it is a journey highly worth sharing."" (Elliot W. Eisner, professor of education and art, Stanford University)""An illuminating story of coming to narrative, and of how to proceed with narrative inquiry. This book about the study of experience demonstrates how narrative has emerged from the margins into the center of academic discourse."" (Amia Lieblich, professor, Department of Psychology, The Hebrew University)""Their exemplary use of the method in the writing of this text is masterful."" (Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2002)	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Their exemplary use of the method in the writing of this text is masterful. --Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2002The literature on narrative inquiry has been, until now, widely scattered and theoretically incomplete. Clandinin and Connelly have created a major tour de force. This book is lucid, fluid, beautifully argued, and rich in examples. Students will find a wealth of arguments to support their research, and teaching faculty will find everything they need to teach narrative inquiry theory and methods.--Yvonna S. Lincoln, professor, Department of Educational Administration, Texas AM UniversityThis book reveals the journey of two scholars who, for the past two decades, have explored the way narrative deepens our understanding of educational experience. Their encounters with seemingly intractable issues provide a model of intellectual courage. Narrative Inquiry invites us to take their journey with them. And it is a journey highly worth sharing.""--Elliot W. Eisner, professor of education and art, Stanford University	Their exemplary use of the method in the writing of this text is masterful. --Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2002  The literature on narrative inquiry has been, until now, widely scattered and theoretically incomplete. Clandinin and Connelly have created a major tour de force. This book is lucid, fluid, beautifully argued, and rich in examples. Students will find a wealth of arguments to support their research, and teaching faculty will find everything they need to teach narrative inquiry theory and methods.--Yvonna S. Lincoln, professor, Department of Educational Administration, Texas AM University  This book reveals the journey of two scholars who, for the past two decades, have explored the way narrative deepens our understanding of educational experience. Their encounters with seemingly intractable issues provide a model of intellectual courage. Narrative Inquiry invites us to take their journey with them. And it is a journey highly worth sharing.""--Elliot W. Eisner, professor of education and art, Stanford University	In this definitive guide, Jean Clandinin and Michael Connelly draw from more than twenty years of field experience to show how narrative inquiry can be used in educational and social science research. Tracing the origins of narrative inquiry in the social sciences, they offer new and practical ideas for conducting fieldwork, composing field notes, and conveying research results. Throughout the book, stories and examples reveal a wide range of narrative methods. Engaging and easy to read, Narrative Inquiry is a practical resource from experts who have long pioneered the use of narrative in qualitative research.Praise for Narrative Inquiry""Their exemplary use of the method in the writing of this text is masterful.""Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2002""The literature on narrative inquiry has been, until now, widely scattered and theoretically incomplete. Clandinin and Connelly have created a major tour de force. This book is lucid, fluid, beautifully argued, and rich in examples. Students will find a wealth of arguments to support their research, and teaching faculty will find everything they need to teach narrative inquiry theory and methods.""Yvonna S. Lincoln, professor, Department of Educational Administration, Texas AM University""This book reveals the journey of two scholars who, for the past two decades, have explored the way narrative deepens our understanding of educational experience. Their encounters with seemingly intractable issues provide a model of intellectual courage. Narrative Inquiry invites us to take their journey with them. And it is a journey highly worth sharing.""Elliot W. Eisner, professor of education and art, Stanford University	D. Jean Clandinin is professor and director of the Centre for Research for Teacher Education and Development at the University of Alberta.F. Michael Connelly is professor and director of the Centre for Teacher Development, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto.",books;education;education & reference;education theory;new;research;schools & teaching;used & rental textbooks,8
1573442216,"The Ultimate Guide to Anal Sex for Women, 2nd Edition ""A book that's long overdue! Informative, sexy, and inspirational."" -- Betty Dodson, Ph.D., author of Sex for One""America's anal sex guru."" -- Penthouse""An essential how-to for beginners and a valuable reference for enthusiasts."" -- Cathy Winks, coauthor of The Good Vibrations Guide to Sex""The bible of female anal sex."" -- Salon.com""Tristan Taormino is the go-to girl on anal sex."" -- Time Out New York	Tristan Taormino is the author of True Lust: Adventures in Sex, Porn and Perversion and Down and Dirty Sex Secrets. She is series editor of all thirteen volumes of Best Lesbian Erotica, two of which have won Lambda Literary Awards. She is director, producer, and star of two videos based on her book, Tristan Taorminos Ultimate Guide to Anal Sex for Women 1 and 2, the first of which won two Adult Video News Awards in 2000. She returns to the world of adult video in 2006 as director and producer of Tristan Taorminos House of Ass, which will be released by Adam & Eve Pictures. She is the sex columnist for the Village Voice, a columnist for Taboo and Velvetpark, and the former editor of On Our Backs. She lectures at top colleges and universities, where she speaks on gay and lesbian issues, sexuality and gender, and feminism. She teaches sex and relationship workshops around the world and does private coaching sessions for individuals and couples. She lives with her partner and their three dogs in New York City",books;education & reference;fitness & dieting;general;health;self-help;sex;women's health,8
1564774538,"A Knitter's Template: Easy Steps to Great-Fitting Garments Hometowns: St. Petersburg, Florida; Los Angeles, California    Laura Militzer Bryant currently serves as president of The National Needlework Association and is the owner of Prism, a hand-dyed yarn company. She has published more than 20 pattern books, and has been recognized with grants from the National Endowments for the Arts. Barry Klein is the owner of Trendsetter Yarns and is past president of The National Needlework Association. He has designed patterns and written articles for Vogue Knitting, Interweave Knits, and Knitters magazines.     Also by Laura Militzer Bryant and Barry Klein:  Knitting with Novelty Yarns",arts & photography;books;crafts;crafts & hobbies;fashion;hobbies & home;knitting;needlecrafts & textile crafts,8
0002232472,"The Pool of Saint Branok (Daughters of England) Carr, aka Victoria Holt, employs her storytelling prowess in an entertaining historical romance that moves between Victorian England and Australia. The tale is long and complicated, but attention is held as Angelet, daughter of Annora and Rolf of Midsummer's Eve, begins to enter adulthood. One incident marks her indelibly. At the superstition-laden pool of St. Branok in Cornwall, she is saved from a rapist by Ben, a young family connection on a visit from Australia. When she and Ben dispose of the attacker's body in the pool, their bond is strengthened. Ben returns to Australia in pursuit of gold; Angelet debuts in London and marries a charming scapegrace, a gambler who will eventually take her to Australia in pursuit of a fortune. There the stage is set for Angelet, by now a widow, and Ben, a putative widower. Doubleday Book Club selection; Literary Guild alternate. Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	At the age of nine Angelet Hanson, granddaughter of Jake Cadorson ( The Return of the Gypsy), meets Benedict Landson, and subsequent encounters and a shared misadventure assure a lifelong mutual attraction. Lest the course of true love run too smoothly, however, an inevitable series of complications arise: prolonged separation, treks to Australian goldfields, marriages for both parties, etc. These are at last resolved in the anticipated, if not wholly satisfactory manner. Transparent plot devices and tenuous connections serve to hold the story line togther, but such weaknesses will scarcely discourage the author's legion of fans. Literary Guild alternate; Doubleday Book Club main selection. Judith Gifford, Salve Regina Coll. Lib., Newport, R.I.Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;england;europe;genre fiction;historical;history;literature & fiction;romance,8
1412000866,"Dancing with the Moon: Book One of the Dragon's Tear Chronicle (The Dragon's Tear Chronicle, 1) Dancing with the Moon is David Conlin McLeod's first published work. David was born on August 17th, 1975 and currently resides in West Hartford, Connecticut. When he isn't writing and conjuring up manuscripts, he enjoys painting, hanging out with his friends, role-playing games, eating sushi, playing drums if he can, and watching the Hartford Wolf*Pack - the local AHL hockey team in the town next door. David had attended Northeastern University in Boston, Mass. and studied Elementary Education and History, before seriously dabbling into Psychology and Music Literautre. At Middlesex Community College he focused more of his interests into History and Psycholgy. David has been writing seriously since the summer of 1997, having produced two novels and several manuscripts which he hopes to see published at some point. His most favored genre is horror fiction, particularly vampire novels. He claims his literary influences include the works of Stephen King, Anne Rice, Bram Stoker, Sir. Arthur Conan Doyle, and such science fiction masters as Arthur C. Clarke and Issac Asimov. You can send David your thoughts and feedback by writing to vampie_gram@yahoo.com.",books;contemporary;fairy tales;genre fiction;ghosts;horror;literature & fiction;mythology & folk tales,8
1560973676,"Barry Windsor-Smith: Opus Vol. 1 In the early 1970s, Windsor-Smith rose to almost legendary status as the illustrator of Marvel Comics's Conan the Barbarian. After that, he left the comics field but has ""returned"" periodically ever since. This five-volume series collects much of his published and unpublished works and commentary on everything from his own life to the paranormal. The book's arrangement is eclectic: for example, the illustrations, which range from color comic book panels to full-page illustrations (both color and black-and-white), are presented in a confusing stream-of-consciousness manner rather than chronologically. Still, because his work had a tremendous impact in the early 1970s, this book is recommended for larger public and academic libraries where popular culture studies are important.AStephen Weiner, Maynard P.L., MA Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.	I have trouble believing that anyone who reads Opus with an open mind won't be somewhat changed by the experience, both in their appreciation of the author and artist and in their contemplation and understanding of themselves....Opus 1 is a divine work. (Comic Book Galaxy)Neither art book nor autobiography nor graphic novel, but an unsettling combination of all three. (Rain Taxi Literary Review)	Barry Windsor-Smith, 2008 Eisner Award Hall of Fame Inductee, has been creating extraordinary comics art and stories since 1967, introducing diverse artistic influences to graphic storytelling, and developing a distinctive, naturalistic narrative style. Conan the Barbarian, X-Men, Weapon X, Archer  Armstrong, RUNE, and Barry Windsor-Smith: STORYTELLER  are among the many works of his 30+ year career. Windsor-Smith is also an acclaimed painter of Romantic fantasy, co-founder of The STUDIO, and author of BWS:OPUS, a series of art books collecting his paintings and drawings. The text of the series, called Time Rise, is an anecdotal, sometimes humorous, memoir of his paranormal experiences. He lives in Kingston, NY.",arts & photography;books;comics & graphic novels;fantagraphics;fantasy;graphic novels;history & criticism;publishers,8
B000CMF3PS,"Grant 1146 Frmla Gt 3Spke Blk/Red Formula GT Wheel. Black hand stitched perforated and red leather grained vinyl grip, black anodized aluminum spokes, 3 spoke design. 13 diameter, 3 dish including styling sleeve.",automotive;body & trim;interior;paint;replacement parts;steering system;steering wheels;trim,8
0553563343,"Breath of Magic Arian Whitewood is a beautiful seventeenth-century enchantress who learns the power of her mother's amulet when she's suddenly whisked three hundred years into the future and into the arms of a handsome, cynical billionaire.  Can Arian cast enough spells to save Tristan from his enemies?	Boy millionaire Tristan Lennox, a pagan satyr in a $2000 suit, throws an annual magic contest in Manhattan to try to trace his former partner, who stole a magic computer program named Warlock and disappeared into the ether. Smack into the middle of his special event, riding her willow broom, flies Arian Whitewood, a 17th-century witchlet from Massachusetts, who rubbed her emerald amulet and conjured herself away from the mob of Puritans who were trying to drown her. Arian, petite and fiery, has to contend with the new magic of the 20th century; and Tristan has to learn to trust again, as is the vogue. Medeiros is unrelievedly cute as she shuttles her characters back and forth across the centuries. It's a fairy tale wherein Prince Charming carries condoms. Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Bestselling author Teresa Medieros was chosen as one of the Top Ten Favorite Romance Authors by Affair de Coeur magazine and has won the Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice Award for Best Historical Love and Laughter. A former Army brat and a registered nurse, she wrote her first novel at the age of twenty-one and has since gone on to win the hearts of critics and readers alike. The author of thirteen novels, Teresa makes her home in Kentucky with her husband and two cats.",books;contemporary;fantasy & futuristic;historical;literature & fiction;romance;time travel;united states,8
1585746436,"The Men of the Gambier Bay: The Amazing True Story of the Battle of Leyte Gulf This is the vivid story of men at all levels-from the captain to the seamen-and the Japanese they faced in battle, first at the Marianas in June 1944 and finally on October 25, 1944, during the Battle of Leyte Gulf. In that engagement, the Navy bloodied the Japanese sorely, but at a grim price: The Gambier Bay became the only U.S. aircraft carrier in World War II to be sunk by naval gunfire.The story of the Gambier Bay is a tale of uncommon courage under fire.	Edwin P. Hoyt has had a long and varied career as a historian. He is a prolific author of books on military and nautical history, including How They Won the War in the Pacific, Yamamoto, and The Last Cruise of the Emden.",asia;books;history;military;naval;philippines;united states;world war ii,8
0395869366,"Best Places to Stay in New England, Seventh Edition (The Best Places to Stay Series) New England is a remarkably compact region of the country, yet even within those six tightly knit states there's an incredible amount of diversity and variety of terrain, scenery, and atmosphere. Therefore, in planning a vacation getaway, location is usually the first priority, and accommodations are the next, since where you stay provides the flavor and tone that colors your trip, and it will be the hub from which you branch out and explore. In fact, depending on the sort of holiday you have in mind, where you lodge may assume prime importance, because a charming country bed-and-breakfast or village inn can become the destination itself. So for a weekend ramble, a romantic tryst, a family reunion, ski-lodge experience, a spa splurge, business excursion, island escape, bed-and-breakfast retreat, or resort indulgence, what you chiefly need is a guide to lodgings, and that's what Christina Tree and Kimberly Grant provide. They visited and tirelessly researched more than 1,000 accommodations across New England, and from that vast pool selected 350 places to stay that appeal to various tastes, preferences, and budgets. There's the Whalewalk Inn on Cape Cod, a tranquil and romantic retreat on 3.5 acres of an isolated 1830s estate. In Sugar Hill, New Hampshire, is Sunset Hill House--a country inn atop a 1,700-foot ridge in the White Mountains, with full country breakfasts, mountain-range views, fireplaces, a luxurious pool and golf/ski facilities, plus hiking, biking, or horse-drawn sleigh rides, depending on the season. Or there's Quisisana in Center Lovell, Maine, a resort for music lovers with one-, two-, and three-bedroom cottages on one of Maine's deepest lakes. Founded in 1917 as a place where musicians could play together for their own entertainment, the 47-acre compound features more than 70 conservatory students who cook and serve food by day, and perform chamber music, operas, and concert arias by night. Browsing through Best Places to Stay is a pleasure, surpassed only by the actual vacation it may launch. --Stephanie Gold	Dealing exclusively with country inns in New England, this guide provides a fresh approach by organizing the inns into 23 categories of interest, e.g., lakeside, beach, farm, village, etc. Indexes guide the user to choose inn by sport or by location. The authors describe the inns in leisurely, colorful detail. The pertinent data on owners, addresses, rates, credit cards, children, and pets is provided. This is an inexpensive, well-researched and -written, and uniquely useful guide to the inns and bed and breakfasts of New England. A worthwhile purchase. Norma Allenbach, Amherst P.L., N.Y.Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Christina Tree has written six travel guides and is a contributor to the Boston Globe.Kimberly Grant is the author of Cape Cod and the Islands: An Explorer's Guide and Best Places to Stay in Hawaii.",books;food;hotels & inns;lodging & transportation;new england;northeast;travel;united states,8
0070119589,"Instant Trainer ""Since youre so good at this, I want you to put on a series of training sessions to teach the others!"" You can panic when you hear this from the boss, or you can grab The Instant Trainer . Designed to transform you into a skilled instructor in as little time as possible, no matter what size group or what kind of subject matter you cover, this savvy guide is a rich resource of ideas, techniques, and practical tips on how to teach others what you know. Written by two seasoned trainers and facilitators who love their craft and share their enthusiasm, The Instant Trainer will teach you how to prepare, deliver, evaluate, and fine-tune presentations that keep trainees riveted and leave them smarter and more capable. The book will help you deal with a staggering range of issues facing the first-time trainer, including: How do I overcome stage fright? How do I break the ice? What support materials work best? How do I get shy people to participate? How can I use todays technologies?  What if my trainees are apathetic? When do I use humor?  How do I reach diverse group members? And many more!    Featuring checklists, sample forms, and lists of essential training resources, The Instant Trainer is so complete it even provides a co-author hotline if you have a question thats not answered in the book! Whether you are a new trainer or an in-house topic expert who is unexpectedly ""invited"" to share your knowledge and expertise, this book is the perfect short course on classroom skills.	C. Leslie Charles is a certified professional speaker who specializes in presentations on training, quality service, employee development, and classroom skills to businesses, public sector agencies, and trade associations throughout North America.  Chris Clarke-Epstein is also a certified professional speaker and serves on the Board of Directors for the National Speakers Association. The coauthors of The Instant Trainer speak to 40,000 people a year and include among their clients IBM, Deloitte & Touche Consulting Group, Novell, Ameritech, GTE, J.C. Penney, Johnson & Johnson, and Bank One.",books;business & investing;entrepreneurship;human resources & personnel management;industries & professions;management & leadership;small business & entrepreneurship;training,8
1560443642,"It Happened in Colorado (It Happened In Series) Fascinating stories about thirty-four events that helped make Colorado what it is today. Read about Kit Carson, silver miners, Native Americans, Jesse James, and many more, including little-known episodes that shaped Colorado's colorful history.",americas;books;history;mountain;state & local;travel;united states;west,8
0764300156,"Zenith Transistor Radios: Evolution of a Classic Norm Smith is a longtime collector of transistor radios who still uses his original Zenith Royal 500H purchased new in 1962. Norm and his wife Susan reside in Bradenton, Florida.",antiques & collectibles;books;crafts;electrical & electronics;engineering;hobbies & home;professional & technical;transportation,8
0716020688,"Chinese Cookery Secrets: How to Cook Chinese Restaurant Food at Home (Right Way S.) Deh-Ta Hsiung was born in 1933 in Peking (Beijing) and educated amongst other places at University College, Oxford, and the Slade School of Fine Art, University College, London. His career has included the following: food and wine consultant to Chinese restaurants in the UK, Hong Kong and India; teacher of Chinese cooking regularly around the world (including France, Ireland, Finland, India and at Ken Lo's Chinese Cookery School in London); Chinese restaurant inspector for a prestigious guidebook and for several major food manufacturers. He is also the author of numerous books on Chinese cooking, including two he co-authored with Ken Lo. But his accolade must be as special Guest Chef at the Savoy, London, for their staff on several occasions.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",asian;books;chinese;cookbooks;food & wine;new;regional & international;used & rental textbooks,8
0838754570,"Certain Chance: Poems 35 Candle Power  Another You  Atalanta  Beach  Conch  Could Be Any Day  Difficult Woman  Distracted Woman  Dominion  Far West  Favorite Altitude  Forgotten  Frame  Friend  The Gift Of Matter  Goodbyes  The Greedy Guest  His Triumph  Hurried Traveler  Illusions  Imaginings  Imminence  Juice  The Key To February  Looking At The Invisible  Lover Beside Me  Madrid-any Street  The Missing Tree  More  Movie Theater: Darkness  Movie Theater: Light  My Faith  Navacerrada, April  Numbers  Oceans  Page  Path Of Haste  Peacefulness  Pleasure, At Eleven O'clock  Recent Yes  Route Nationale  Seeking, Finding  Shore  Solitudes Of Creation  South, With Wind  Transition  Valley  Vocation  Warning  Watercolor  Without Voice, Naked -- Table of Poems from Poem Finder",books;criticism & theory;history & criticism;literature & fiction;movements & periods;poetry;spanish;world literature,8
0673991970,"The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1877 The American Nation, 13th Edition, Volume I  Mark C. Carnes  John A. Garraty     It took the voices and actions of many different people to produce the singular structure of the United States, and because of this, the countrys political history is intimately tied with its social, economic, and cultural development. In The American Nation, co-authors Mark Carnes and John Garraty explore this complicated and fascinating relationship between politics and people.    Long renowned for its elegant narrative style, The American Nation, 13th Edition retains its most significant strengthits rich and memorable prose. Paired with features such as Debating the Past, Mapping the Past, and Re-Viewing the Past, Carnes and Garraty explore the depth and complexity of the United States political framework, while making it easier for students to understand and explore.     New Features   New chapter introductions tie the historical events of the chapter with contemporary issues, and offer a unique way for the text to show the relevance of history to students lives.     Revised and updated scholarship throughout the book offers new perspectives while streamlining and sharpening the prose. For example, Chapters 1-2 have been extensively revised to expand the discussion of Native American societies.    New Questions for Discussion are included in the Re-Viewing the Past, Mapping the Past, and American Lives features in order to spark class discussion and analysis or to prompt writing assignments.    A new Glossary at the end of the text defines several important concepts, events, or phenomena highlighted as key terms in each chapter.  Available versions of The American Nation  Single Volume Edition ISBN 0-205-56272-8  Volume I (to 1877) ISBN 0-205-56805-X  Volume II (since 1865) ISBN 0-205-56810-6    Visit us at www.ablongman.com/history	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Mark C. Carnes received his undergraduate degree from Harvard and his Ph.D. in history from Columbia University, where he studied and trained with Professor John A. Garraty. The Ann Whitney Olin Professor History at Barnard College, Columbia University, Professor Carnes has chaired both the departments of History and American Studies at Barnard. In addition to this textbook, Carnes and Garraty have co-authored Mapping Americas Past: A Historical Atlas and are co-general editors of the 24-volume American National Biography, for which they were awarded the Waldo Leland Prize of the American Historical Association, the Darmouth Prize of the American Library Association, and the Hawkins Prize of the American Association of Publishers. In addition, Carnes has published numerous books in American social and cultural history, including Past Imperfect: History According to the Movies (1995), Novel History: Historians and Novelists Confront Americas Past (and Each Other) (2001), and Invisible Giants: 50 Americans That Shaped the Nation but Missed the History Books (2002). Carnes also created Reacting to the Past, which won the Theodore Hesburgh Award, sponsored by TIAA-CREF, as the outstanding pedagogical innovation of 2004.     Garraty preaches a particular doctrine on historical writing, expounding on the details of a complex process whereby the murky abstractions of the past are distilled into clean, clear narrative. He insists that the writers sole duty is to readers. This literary alchemy is all the more wondrous for being so devoid of artifice, Carnes observes.     John A. Garraty. Holding a Ph.D. from Columbia University and an L.H.D. from Michigan State University, Professor Garraty is Gouverneur Morris Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia. He is the author, co-author, and editor of scores of books and articles, among them biographies of Silas Wright, Henry Cabot Lodge, Woodrow Wilson, George W. Perkins, and Theodore Roosevelt. Along with Mark Carnes, he is co-editor of the American National Biography. Garraty has also contributed a volumeThe New Commonwealthto the New American Nation series and edited Quarrels That Shaped the Constitution. He was a member of the Board of Directors of American heritage magazine and served as both vice president and head of the teaching division of the American Historical Association. His areas of research interest include the Gilded age, unemployment (in a historical sense), and the Great Depression of the 1930s. Of his collaboration with Carnes on The American Nation, Garraty says, Although this volume is the work of two authors, it is as nearly the product of a single historical sensibility as is possible. Marks scholarly specialization in cultural and social issues, especially gender, complements mine in politics and the economy. The book has benefited, too, from his special interest in postwar America. Over the many years of our collaborations, one of our favorite topics of discussion has been the craft of historical writing. We share a commitment to clarity and conciseness. We strive to avoid jargon and verbiage. We believe that while the political history of the nation provides a useful narrative framework, its people are what give the story meaning.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",americas;books;history;humanities;new;united states;used & rental textbooks;world,8
0930031725,"The Northern Forest Environmental writers Dobbs and Ober detail the land and people of the Northern Forest, an area of ""26 million acres stretching across upper New England and New York."" Each chapter covers the forest in a particular state--New Hampshire, Maine, Vermont, and New York--with each chapter delving into the people, politics, and economics of the state it covers. The many individuals interviewed here are all tied to the land in some way. Everyone gets his or her say, from loggers and mill workers to farmers and people working in the tourist industries; and these folks are really the center of this book. Their lives are compelling and complex, as is their relationship to the land. Intelligent and objective.  Brian McCombie",biological sciences;books;forests & forestry;natural resources;nature & ecology;plants;science & math;trees,8
059532469X,"Visibility Natalie Irving is the teenage daughter of the world s only invisible woman. Jadyn Irving is largely invisible from Natalie s life as well, and because her mother has refused to work with the authorities for the public good, Natalie must also deal with living in the shadow of someone who is widely disliked as well as famous. Her one constant is body-gaurd Peter, but even he has a mysterious past he keeps secret from her. With no one to really trust, Natalie must decide whether to keep her own secrets when she suddenly manifests invisibility powers herself. Unfortunately someone else has noticed.In this confident first novel, Neufeld takes a very down-to-earth view of what it might be like if people really had powers. The story is refreshingly free from even a whiff of super villains, focusing instead on the more mundane evils of petty classmates, cold parents, and merciless crime lords. Echoing the powers motif and Peter s desire to become a comic book artist several pages of paneled artwork by Meister are scattered throughout the book. Although an interesting device and a cute nod to the book s content, these pages do not actually add much to the story, simply representing graphically scenes that have already been described. Natalie narrates the tale but is mostly a reactive character, and beyond her relationships, readers do not learn much about her. As a coming-of-age story, the book is solid and fun, enlivened by the extra ingredients of superpowers, but it does not quite push beyond interesting to exciting.-- Lisa Martincik --Voice of Youth Advocates, August 2008	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Sarah Neufeld is a home-schooled world traveler who is heavily influenced by her time living in Japan. Her admiration for the artistic storytelling in graphic novels, combined with a love of manga, served as inspiration when writing Visibility. Sarah currently works as a freelance Japanese translater. When she isn t busy writing, she can be found learning more languages, hiking in the urban forests around Portland, Oregon, and enjoying manga over a cup of tea.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;children's books;fantasy & magic;literature & fiction;mystery;science fiction & fantasy;thriller & suspense;thrillers,8
0060968257,"The Big Picture: An American Commentary Ranging from stiletto sharp to delightfully wry, Brown's satirical observations on the American way of life combine new material with some of his best work from his Saturday Night Live features. No topic or personality is safe from Brown's slings as he roasts one victim after another from Reagan to Santa Claus. Brown has gathered a number of loyal fans in his five years as a regular on SNL , and this collection shouldn't be a disappointment to them. In fact, it should appeal to any hip audience, regardless of political persuasion or familiarity with Brown's television work. Not an essential purchase, but one that will be popular among aficionados of contemporary social and political satire.- Joe Accardi, Northeastern Illinois Univ. Lib., ChicagoCopyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.",20th century;americas;books;history;humor;humor & entertainment;satire;united states,8
B00006JBS3,"Video Game Storage X-Post in Titanium The beauty of Pipex is its simple, modular design. The system is built through the connection of three different types of pipes: T-joints, 90-degree elbow pieces, and 18-inch straight pipes. The system also has circular pieces that can be used as tops for storing electronics or accessories or as a base for the system. If you've ever used LEGOs or any other building-block toys, you'll surely be able to construct a Pipex storage system to fit your needs. And because it's modular, you'll be able to expand your system as your media collection grows by simply adding new pieces. The pipes have a modernist metallic finish, and each is slotted to accommodate CD-case media (PlayStation and Dreamcast games) and DVD-case media (PS2, Xbox, and GameCube games), so you can store music, movies, and most video games in any arrangement. With this X-Post, you can hold 28 CD cases or 12 DVD cases. The T + 18 set holds 60 CD cases or 30 DVD cases--or even a combination like 30 CD cases and 15 DVD cases. The 90 + 18 set holds 47 CD cases or 28 DVD cases. Combining them, of course, is how you build the system that's right for you. For example, by connecting one X-Post to the T-joints of two T + 18 sets, you could build a media storage goalpost-shaped system that would hold 148 CD cases, 72 DVD cases, or a combination in between.",accessories & supplies;electronics;gamecube;hardware;more systems;playstation;playstation 2;video games,8
0312341385,"The Borgia Bride: A Novel Against the backdrop of 15th-century Italian internecine feuds, debauchery and Vatican corruption, Kalogridis's latest historical novel (after The Burning Times) chronicles with compelling sweep the story of the ravishing and iron-willed Sancha de Aragon, princess of Naples. Illegitimate daughter to the coldhearted duke of Calabria (briefly king of Naples), she is used to establish ties to the feared and influential House of Borgia when her father betroths her to the younger scion, Jofre. Much to the dismay of her beloved younger brother Alfonso, Sancha is sent from Naples to rule with Prince Jofre in remote Squillace. War with the French will later briefly return her to Naples, but rumors of her beauty reach her lecherous father-in-law, Pope Alexander VI, who recalls her and Jofre to opulent Rome. There, she avoids the pope's advancesand her jealous sister-in-law Lucrezia's animositybut falls into a steamy affair with her brother-in-law, the dashing Cesare, cardinal of Valencia. Cesare becomes furious when she refuses to leave Jofre, and he sets out on a warpath that includes her brother Alfonso, who has also married into the Borgia clanto Lucrezia. Kalogridis spins a dramatic tale from a heady mix of royal power plays and passion. Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	""From sexual passion to mortal danger, the dramatic shift of real historical events will keep the reader turning the pages.""---Philippa Gregory, author of The Other Boleyn Girl	Jeanne Kalogridis lives with her partner on the West Coast, where they share a house with two dogs. She is the author of The Scarlet Contessa, The Devils Queen, and other dark fantasy and historical novels. Born in Florida, Kalogridis has a B.A. in Russian and a masters in linguistics, and taught English as a second language at The American University for eight years before retiring to write full-time.",books;contemporary;friendship;genre fiction;historical;literature & fiction;romance;women's fiction,8
0072972106,"&#191;Qu&#233; te parece? Intermediate Spanish Student Edition with Online Learning Center Bind- In Card James F. Lee is the Head of the Department of Spanish and Latin American Studies at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. His research interests are in the areas of second language reading comprehension, input processing, and exploring the relationship between the two. His research has appeared in a number of scholarly journals and publications, including the co-authored books with Alessandro Benati Second Language Processing: Theory, Problems and Possible Solutions (2007, Continuum) and Delivering Processing Instruction in Classrooms and Virtual Contexts (2007, Equinox). Other publications include the book Tasks and Communicating in Language Classrooms (2000, McGraw-Hill) and the co-authored book Making Communicative Language Teaching Happen, Second Edition (2003, McGraw-Hill). He has also co-authored secveral textbooks, including Sabias que? Beginning Spanish, Vistazos, Qu te parece?, and Ideas: Lecturas, estrategias, actividades y composiciones. He and Bill VanPatten are series editors for the McGraw-Hill Second Language Professional Series.Dolly J. Young (Ph.D., the University of Texas) is Associate Professor of Spanish in the Department of Romance Languages at the University of Tennessee. She supervises the first- and second-year Spanish programs and provides teacher training for graduate students. She has published widely in the areas of language anxiety and foreign language reading. She co-edited the first languge anxiety volume Language Anxiety: From Theory and Research to Classroom Implications, with Elaine K. Horowitz, co-wrote a supplementary Spanish reader, Esquemas, with the late Darlene F. Wolf, and co-wrote the second-year Spanish textbook Qu te parece? with Dr. James Lee, Darlene Wolf, and Paul Chandler.Rodney Bransdorfer received his Ph.D. in Spanish Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has taught at Purdue University, the University of Illinois at Chicago, and Gustavus Adolphus College. He is currently Professor of Spanish at Central Washington University. He has presented papers at national conferences such as AATSP and AAAL. In addition to his work on the Pasajes series, he has authored or co-authored several other McGraw-Hill titles including: Avance!, Second Edition (2008), Qu te parece?, Third Edition (2005), the instructor's annotations for Nuevos Destinos: Spanish in Review (1998), and the instructor's annotations for Destinos: Alternate Edition (1997).",books;dictionaries & thesauruses;education & reference;foreign languages;humanities;new;spanish;used & rental textbooks,8
0141310995,"Love Among the Walnuts: or, How I Saved My Family from Being Poisoned This is a fabulous book!  -- VOYA",books;children's books;family life;humor;literature & fiction;multigenerational;mysteries & detectives;social situations,8
0736904964,"One Silent Night : Women's Stories of Christmas Janice Chaffee is the author of several books, including Sisters: The Story Goes On, a frequent conference speaker on women's relationships, and the co-executive producer for two albums, one of which was nominated for a Dove Award. She lives in Tennessee.",books;christian books & bibles;christian living;christmas;holidays;inspirational;religion & spirituality;spirituality,8
0425208478,"Dead Center: The Shocking True Story of a Murder on Snipe Mountain In 1995, the body of Dodson was discovered by Janice, his wife of three months, lying dead near their campsite on Colorado's Snipe Mountain. An experienced hunter, Janice was taking her husband on his first trip to shoot deer and elk. Dodson had been shot three times and died from a bullet that went straight through his chest. Daniels, a district attorney in western Colorado and an expert on fossilized wood (Petrified Wood) investigated the case for four years. He concluded that Janice, with or without the help of her ex-husband, who was hunting in the same area, killed Dodson in order to inherit an estate valued at half a million dollars. Daniels recounts here the many interviews he and his team conducted and the forensic and ballistic discoveries they made that led him to successfully prosecute Janice for first-degree murder, although all of the evidence was circumstantial and the murder weapon was never found. Unfortunately, the author's writing and characterization skills do not match the suspense of this true crime story. Daniels paints Dodson as a good-natured victim while describing Janice as manipulative and disturbed, but neither character comes alive. The enormous amount of sometimes confusing detail Daniels presents did convince the jury of Janice's guilt, but does little to enliven this tawdry tale.Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	""A fantastic story!"" -- Carole Arnold, Carole Arnold Show KOMA-AM. December 8, 2003""A great book!"" -- Jack Roberts, CRN National Radio, December 11, 2003""A gripping book ... dogged detective work. Three deadly bullets were greedy bride's gift to new husband."" -- Globe Magazine, November 4, 2003""Profoundly interesting ... so interesting in the way it takes us into the heart of an investigation."" -- The Morning Show, Greg Berg, WGTD-FM Milwaukee, Dec. 2003Daniels does a good job of delineating what it takes to conduct an investigation that builds a solid case. -- Rocky Mountain News, October 3, 2003Greed, betrayal, shocking conclusions.- Recommended for all those who enjoy true, inside stories of criminal investigations and the justice system. -- Cody's Books, September 2003	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	With all other murder cases I have worked on in the past twenty years, once the trial and sentencing were over, I put the case behind me. This case was different. Even though the trial had been over for two years, I could not get this case out of my head. I also had another reason for writing this book. Although we convicted one person for murder, a few of the details continued to bother me. I have never been sure this person did it alone. I am hopeful that this book will bring forth new information about a possible accomplice, if indeed there was one. The initial investigation lasted over three years, but we kept working on it after the arrest to the time of trial, which was almost five years after the murder. It seemed that every time we sent evidence to the crime lab to be tested the results led to more questions, rather than providing answers. This was particularly true with the firearms evidence. At one point, well into the forensic testing, we exhausted the firearms analysis capabilities of the Colorado Bureau of Investigation and asked the FBI Lab for assistance. This is the only case I have worked on where I felt we could not have obtained the result without the help of FBI laboratory experts. This book is different from other crime related books in a few ways. Since I wrote it from the perspective of the prosecuting attorney, details of the investigation and trial take center stage. I trust the reader to be able to follow the evidence as the investigation uncovered it, even though some of the firearms evidence is fairly complex and detailed. I have also included details from the trial. The forensic evidence is unique and exciting. The characters involved, several of whom are from the piney woods of East Texas, add flavor to this true tale of unmitigated greed, where one hunter became the hunted. I would like to hear your opinion: Do you think one person alone committed this murder? Send me an email at snipemountain@aol.com.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	When three bullets strike first time hunter and newly married John Bruce Dodson high on beautiful Snipe Mountain in Colorado, nearly everyone is able to label his death an accident. After all, each year there are hundreds of hunting accidents in the United States, many fatal and most involving shotguns or rifles.  However, Colorado District Attorney Frank Daniels' suspicions about Dodson's unlucky accident are raised after learning from his forensics team that Dodson was hit by three bullets - one tearing through his chest, dead center. Delving deeper into the case, he discovers that Dodson's new wife is not only a crack marksman but half a million dollars richer from her recently deceased husband's insurance.  A taut and gripping legal thriller, this is Daniels' own account of the case that changed his life. A fascinating tale of violent homicide, complex and tangled evidence trails and the trial of Daniels' life, Dead Center is a riveting behind-the-scenes story of greed, violence, and a crusading prosecutor's quest for justice.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Frank J. Daniels has been a prosecuting attorney for twenty years and for the past ten years the elected District Attorney for a district in Western Colorado. He earned his law degree at the University of Colorado. Also an inveterate hiker, climber, and backpacker, he is an expert on fossilized wood and the author of Petrified Wood: The World of Fossilized Wood, Cones, Ferns, and Cycads (Western Colorado Publishing Company, 1998) He lives in Grand Junction, Colorado with his wife and daughters.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",biographies & memoirs;books;criminal law;forensic science;law;murder & mayhem;true accounts;true crime,8
0060279001,"The Wish Ah, the ancient mysteries of life. Why are the popular people popular? What's different about them--what makes them special? In The Wish, award-winning author Gail Carson Levine (Ella Enchanted, Dave at Night) explores the age-old question with a simple premise: a girl who is granted one wish by an old lady on the subway wishes to be ""the most popular kid at Claverford."" As is the fate of many who are granted only one wish, Wilma doesn't think through her wish carefully enough. While she is now adored by boys and girls alike, she is a mere three weeks away from graduating from Claverford. At Elliott, her next school, she'll be back to her lowly, oft-ridiculed self. Tension builds for Wilma until her graduation-night dance, the night before her popularity--and maybe even her relationship with her wonderful new boyfriend--will invariably come to a screeching halt. This fun, witty, insightful novel thoroughly examines the nature of ""popularity,"" and what it means to be true to yourself. It's not just because of the old woman's spell that Wilma ponders, ""'To thine own self be true.' But who was mine own self? That's what I wanted to know."" Wilma is a funny, smart, no-more-awkward-than-most character with whom young readers of all social echelons will identify completely. When her popularity runs out (and the spell does end), her true friendships remain, and she's left standing on her feet. (Ages 9 to 12) --Karin Snelson	Levine (Ella Enchanted; the Princess Tales) turns from fairy godmothers in the Brothers Grimm era to modern-day magic in this provocative meditation on what it means to be popular. Eighth-grader Wilma Sturtz is a nice New York City girl, but she's not popular--until she gives up her seat on the subway to a feeble elderly woman who grants her one wish. ""I want to be the most popular kid at Claverford,"" Wilma tells the woman. Like many other books in this genre, the author explores the ramifications of ""be careful what you wish for,"" adhering to the exact wording of the wish and demonstrating the fallout after graduation day. But, as always, Levine adds a refreshing twist to the fairy tale model: because Wilma has integrity, she uses her popularity to benefit others besides herself. The heroine, acutely aware of her unconditional popularity, adheres to the quote she most appreciates from Hamlet, ""To thine own self be true."" Because Wilma remains Wilma despite her popularity, she ultimately discovers who her true friends are when the wish's magic concludes. A flesh-and-blood supporting cast of imminently recognizable clique fixtures, as well as the unpopular outsiders whom Wilma also befriends, will offer readers much to ponder in their own lives. Ages 8-12. (May) Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Grade 4-8-Wilma Sturtz is having a lonely time in eighth grade since one of her best friends has moved away and the other has switched to a different school. She feels herself on the outside of the various cliques that have formed and her perceived ostracism is aggravated when a teacher reads one of her essays aloud in class. Wilma's wish-to be the most popular kid at Claverford Junior High-is granted by an old woman on the subway to whom she has given her seat. Jared becomes attracted to her, and though he is not one of the really cool guys, the security of her new popularity allows their friendship to develop. Her new life is everything she could have hoped for, but she realizes that her wish will come to an end in a few weeks with graduation. Wilma is a well-drawn, believable, and likable character. As in Ella Enchanted (HarperCollins, 1997), Levine is on target in her creation of multidimensional characters. Jared is especially appealing in his candor and self-possession. Through the use of fantasy, Levine allows her readers to explore the qualities of true friendship and the very real need for approval and acceptance. An enjoyable, thought-provoking, and absorbing selection.Renee Steinberg, Fieldstone Middle School, Montvale, NJ Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Wilma is unpopular, and her fate seems sealed when a teacher reads an essay that Wilma has written from the point of view of Reggie, her dog (""Then I sniffed Celeste's anus. It was rich and full of Celeste""). But when Wilma gives an old lady a seat on the subway, things change. In return for her kindness, Wilma is granted a wish, and she chooses popularity at her school, Claverford. Immediately, girls adore her, boys want her, and Wilma sees how wonderful life can be when one is favored. But Wilma soon realizes her phrasing of the wish means she will only be popular as long as she is at Claverdford--and she's graduating in three weeks. As each precious day goes by, Wilma is aware that the closer she gets to her friends and a terrific new boyfriend, the more difficult it will be to give it all up. Naturally, this all turns out better than Wilma expects, but Levine stays true to her promise and has the wish expire. The fun is watching the nerdy girl, with whom readers will identify, blossom into a self-assured kid, who lucks out the most by learning what it takes to be a friend, not just have friends. Although much of this is well-traveled territory, there are some laugh-out-loud moments here and plenty of scenes that are believable and fun. Kids will get a kick out of this one.  Ilene Cooper	Set in New York City, this is a highly entertaining, funny, poignant modern fairy tale of a lonely adolescent who receives the sudden gift of popularity. Wilma is at the end of the most excruciating eighth-grade year. Her existence defines unpopular; not only is she friendless, her clueless Language Arts teacher has read aloud a point-of-view assignment in which Wilma spends a day as her Airedale Terrier, Reggie. She describes in loving detail the joys of doghood, waiting anxiously for Beloved Wilma to come home, lifting a leg to pee, and sniffing a Dalmatian's rear. That's the last straw. Wilma is constantly taunted. Anonymous woofs and snuffles follow her down the school corridor. Suzanne, a particularly nasty classmate, takes every opportunity to ask if Wilma has sniffed an anus lately. One morning while dreading yet another day of isolation, Wilma gives up her subway seat to an elderly woman who looks a bit faint. In return, the woman grants Wilma one wish. She wishes to be the most popular student at her school, Claverford. It is only after the spell begins to work that Wilma realizes her error. The spell will only be in effect at Claverford until graduation, which is only three weeks away. Levine (Ella Enchanted, 1997) captures the day-to-day lives of tortured teens, their language, their anxieties, and their joys while spinning a light tale with deeper meaning. (Fiction. 10-13) -- Copyright  2000 Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.	Read by Ari Meyers4 hours, 3 cassettesThere is nothing wrong with Wilma Sturtz that a little popularity won't fix?or so she thinks.  And luckily for her, she meets a witch on the subway who makes her wish to be popular come true.  Almost instantly, Wilma becomes the center of attention at her junior high school.  She has more friends than she can keep track of and forty invitations to the Graduation Night Dance?plus someone is writing her love poetry.  What more could a girl want?  But what will happen when the wish ends?  How can Wilma make sure she is never unpopular again?In this original modern-day fairy tale, Gail Carson Levine takes an ordinary girl and gives her an extraordinary chance, and along the way reveals the truth about what it really means to be popular.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Gail Carson Levine grew up in New York City and has been writing all her life. Her first book for children, Ella Enchanted, was a 1998 Newbery Honor Book. Levine's other books include Dave At Night, an ALA Notable Book and Best Book for Young Adults; The Wish; The Two Princesses of Bamarre; and her Princess Tales books: The Princess Test, The Fairy's Mistake, Princess Sonora and the Long Sleep, Cinderellis and the Glass Hill, For Biddle's Sake and The Fairy's Return. She is also the author of the picture book Betsy Who Cried Wolf, illustrated by Scott Nash. Gail, her husband, David, and their Airedale, Baxter, live in a two-hundred-year-old farmhouse in the Hudson River Valley. In Her Own Words...""I grew up in New York City. In elementary school I was a charter member of the Scribble Scrabble Club, and in high school my poems were published in an anthology of student poetry. I didn't want to be a writer. First I wanted to act and then I wanted to be a painter like my big sister. In college, I was a Philosophy major, and my prose style was very dry and dull! My interest in the theater led me to my first writing experience as an adult. My husband David wrote the music and lyrics and I wrote the book for a children's musical, Spacenapped that was produced by a neighborhood theater in Brooklyn. ""And my painting brought me to writing for children in earnest. I took a class in writing and illustrating children's books and found that I was much more interested in the writing than in the illustrating. ""Most of my job life has had to do with welfare, first helping people find work and then as an administrator. The earlier experience was more direct and satisfying, and I enjoy thinking that a bunch of people somewhere are doing better today than they might have done if not for me.""	Ari Meyers captures the innocent, awkward adolescence of Wilma Sturtz, an eighth-grader who yearns to be popular. From the grating voice of spiteful Nina, to the geeky, nasally voiced boyfriend, Jared, this performance brings the self-consciousness of early adolescence to the fore with painful accuracy. Superbly narrated in the first person, the story transports the listener back to junior high school with all the wishful thinking, personal explorations, and hard lessons that everyone has experienced. Adolescents, or the parents of adolescents, can find something to relate to here. This presentation is a wish come true.  D.L.M.  AudioFile 2001, Portland, Maine-- Copyright  AudioFile, Portland, Maine	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;children's books;fantasy & magic;friendship;literature & fiction;school;science fiction & fantasy;social situations,8
1592530257,"Decorative Embellishments For Scrapbooks: 32 Recipes for Enhancing Your Pages with New Techniques Trice Boerens has worked in the craft industry for the past 22 years. She has spent most of her time in publishing, working as an author/designer for such companies as Better Homes and Gardens, Martingale and Company, Sterling Publishing and Watson-Guptill Publishers. She was employed by Crafts Magazine as the creative editor during it's relocation from Peoria, Illinois to Salt Lake City, Utah.",books;crafts;crafts & hobbies;decorating;hobbies & home;papercrafts;scrapbooking;stamping & stenciling,8
B000000WDC,"The Saint: Music From The Motion Picture Soundtrack This '90s update of the classic U.K. television series of the '60s was roundly criticized for its murky, convoluted plotting and quirky performance by Val Kilmer in the title role of Simon Templar. But its soundtrack--a typically market-driven collection of modern pop--is actually one of the better efforts of the '90s. Leaning heavily on electronica influences (Orbital's conservative rendering of Edwin Astley's TV theme, Moby's driving Oil, The Chemical Brothers' Setting Sun, and others), The Saint at least holds together as a cohesive musical statement, something many similar collections can't claim. Also includes songs by the Sneaker Pimps, Duran Duran, David Bowie, Everything But the Girl, and Duncan Sheik. --Jerry McCulley	CD Comp",alternative rock;classic rock;dance & electronic;music;new age;pop;rock;soundtracks,8
B00072OXOU,"A manual for writers of term papers, theses, and dissertations Newly revised to conform with the Chicago Manual of  Style, Turabian's Manual for Writers provides  comprehensive, detailed, superior guidance to writers of research  papers. From ""Parts of the Paper"" (including the niceties of  copyrights and dedications) to ""Sample Layouts,"" everything  to do with format is covered. Mechanics of style (abbreviations to  quotations) are reviewed, there's help on tables and illustrations,  and chapters on bibliographies, parenthetical references, note taking,  and citations. There are suggestions for manuscript preparation, hints  on word-processing software, and formatting for research papers' more  complex features. When you're up to your eyebrows in research data,  it's a vast relief to have quick, accessible, reliable answers to your  questions of structure, scholarly propriety, and academic style.  --Stephanie Gold	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	A mainstay in high-school and college libraries for nearly 60 years, Turabian has now been updated to incorporate references to the fourteenth edition of The Chicago Manual of Style [RBB O 1 93]. Founding author Turabian died in 1987; this edition was revised by John Grossman and Alice Bennett, who edited the most recent edition of The Manual of Style. The arrangement of the book remains the same. Chapters 13 and 14 show the ubiquity of computers. It is assumed that students now write their papers on a PC; typewriter users are referred back to the previous edition. The documentation chapters tell how to cite CD-ROM and online sources, and the bibliography at the end of the book has been updated. However, much of the book is unchanged. Librarians will want to see what kind of condition their 1987 edition of this book is in when deciding whether to purchase this new one.  Sandy Whiteley	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.",authorship;books;education & reference;new;publishing & books;research & publishing guides;used & rental textbooks;writing,8
0500051437,"Final Report: An Archaeologist Excavates His Past In this charming memoir, archaeologist Coe (Breaking the Maya Code) does for archaeology what E. O. Wilson's Naturalist did for evolutionary biology, looking back on a fruitful career, acknowledging his own good fortune and giving us a deeply humanist look at one man's life in science. His Long Island childhood and young adult years are related with both dry amusement and youthful wonder, as is his first trip to Yucatan as an unfocussed Harvard undergraduate, when he became fascinated with the mysteries of the Maya and decided to pursue anthropology. His stint as a CIA operative in the Far East during the Korean War takes him further into the world of archaeology, introducing him to Chinese history and important Taipei scholars. He covers his subsequent travels to such exotic locales as Thailand, Sri Lanka, Guatemala and Tennessee. Coe also writes lovingly of his wife, the late Sofie Dobzhansky, daughter of the brilliant geneticist, Theodosius Dobzhansky, and how her fluency in Russian would become crucial to his work. Coe's vivid description, keen insights and clear prose will keep readers engaged and wanting more; fortunately, a bibliography of his principal publications is included. 41 b illustrations.Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	Michael D. Coe is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Curator Emeritus in the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University.",archaeology;biographies & memoirs;books;education & reference;memoirs;politics & social sciences;professionals & academics;scientists,8
0471580392,"Telescope Power: Fantastic Activities & Easy Projects for Young Astronomers Designed to challenge and motivate young readers interested in telescopes and astronomy. Contains complete instructions on setting up equipment, progressing to the use of simple eyepieces and filters. Offers an abundance of simple yet intriguing subjects for observation with explicit guidelines on locating them. Exercises are intended to teach children about the universe and thus learn what science is all about. Packed with photos and illustrations. Includes moon and seasonal star maps.	Learn to unleash the awesome power of your telescope and take a fascinating tour of the Universe Astronomer Gregory Matloff introduces you to all the fun and excitement of astronomy by helping you to discover the full potential of any telescope. Packed with dozens of fun and easy stargazing projects and activities. Telescope Power doesnt just tell you about all the beauty and mystery of the stars but lets you see it all for yourself! You begin your tour of the Universe by setting your sights on nearby neighbors in our Solar System. Youll hunt for blue lunar flashes, spot lunar landing sites, and use color filters to observe the changing seasons on Mars and the spectacular rings of Saturn. From there, its off to more distant stars. Youll learn how to read a star atlas and identify the various constellations: locate binary stars Mizar and Alcor; use a finder chart to observe the beautiful Globular Cluster M-13 and the Ring Nebula Lyra: visit the Great Spiral Galaxy in Andromeda (twin sister to our own Milky Way Galaxy); and a lot more. Youll also learn about the different types of telescopes and how they work; how to set up your telescope; the care and feeding of telescopes; the best accessories to try, including different eyepieces, filters, clock drives, and star wheels; and how to share your experiences with other young astronomers.	GREGORY L. MATLOFF is a consulting astronomer for the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation. He has taught astronomy to young people in both the classroom and the field, and is the author of several adult books on astronomy.",astronomy;astronomy & space;books;children's books;education & reference;experiments & projects;nature & how it works;science,8
B000NK3MHU,"Wood Plug For Screw Hole (Flat Head) 3/8"" Birch (Bag of 100) Screw Hole Plug - Flat 3/8 BIRCH",biscuits & plugs;fasteners;hardware;industrial & scientific;nails;plugs;screws & fasteners;tools & home improvement,8
B000OFOUJI,"Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An Entrepreneur's Odyssey to Educate the World's Children John Wood discovered his passion, his greatest success, and his life's work--not at business school or leading Microsoft's charge into Asia in the 1990s--but on a soul-searching trip to the Himalayas. Wood felt trapped between an all-consuming career and a desire to do something lasting and significant. Stressed from the demands of his job, he took a vacation trekking in Nepal because a friend had told him, ""If you get high enough in the mountains, you can't hear Steve Ballmer yelling at you anymore.""    See how John Wood came to start Room to Read and write Leaving Microsoft to Change the World in this video clip: high bandwidth or low bandwidth    Instead of being the antidote to the rat race, that trip convinced John Wood to divert the boundless energy he was devoting to Microsoft into a cause that desperately needed to be addressed. While visiting a remote Nepalese school, Wood learned that the students had few books in their library. When he offered to run a book drive to provide the school with books, his idea was met with polite skepticism. After all, no matter how well-intentioned, why would a successful software executive take valuable time out of his life and gather books for an impoverished school?  But John Wood did return to that school and with thousands of books bundled on the back of a yak. And at that moment, Wood made the decision to walk away from Microsoft and create Room to Read-an organization that has donated more than 1.2 million books, established more than 2,600 libraries and 200 schools, and sent 1,700 girls to school on scholarship-ultimately touching the lives of 875,000 children with the lifelong gift of education.  Leaving Microsoft to Change the World chronicles John Wood's struggle to find a meaningful outlet for his managerial talents and entrepreneurial zeal. For every high-achiever who has ever wondered what life might be like giving back, Wood offers a vivid, emotional, and absorbing tale of how to take the lessons learned at a hard-charging company like Microsoft and apply them to one of the world's most pressing problems: the lack of basic literacy.	Starred Review. It's a rare business book that not only provides savvy insights for better business practices but transcends the category altogether, to rank as an infectiously inspiring read. Wood takes the reader on an engaging journey from his life as a rather ordinary marketing director at Microsoft through the transformative decision to launch the nonprofit organization Room to Read (www.roomtoread.org), which has created more than 2,000 schools and libraries for children across Asia. From his first trip to Nepal, where he was struck by the country's 70% illiteracy rate, through his courageous decision to leave Microsoft, to the logistics of growing and expanding the Room to Read initiative, Wood endears himself to the reader with his introspection and honesty. Crediting his former employer with giving him the business skills and drive to aim high, he outlines the concrete steps he took to make his vision a reality. Marked by sincerity and savvy, this is the kind of book that business colleagues will discuss with their acquaintances, spouses and friends. (Sept.) Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	Adult/High SchoolAs much about business practices as about personal discovery, this book lives up to its name as it details how the author traded in the executive lifestyle to champion his own nonprofit organization, Room to Read. Wood describes his life at Microsoft as a marketing director for Australia and, later, China. Young business enthusiasts familiar with Steve Ballmer and Bill and Melinda Gates will be entertained by the glimpse into their respective management styles and by the author's efforts to pattern himself in their likeness. He also describes his lack of personal fulfillment and his eventual redirection, brought on by a visit to the mountains of Nepal. With vignettes from profitable fundraising activities for Room to Read, he documents how to successfully start up a nonprofit organization and how to sustain it. Originally named Books for Nepal, Wood's organization focused initially on providing books to the disadvantaged schools of Nepal, but eventually he expanded its scope (and renamed it) so as to include the building of schools, Tsunami relief, and educational programs for the children of Asia. Corporate-minded adolescents interested in giving back to society will enjoy this title and glean practical advice from it.Brigeen Radoicich, Fresno County Office of Education, CA Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	If work is the rent you pay for the space you occupy on Earth, then Wood's journey into the world of nonprofits is testimony to that old adage. His is a story told simply, with many touch points that will resonate with baby boomers. This corporate warrior (Microsoft marketing director, to be exact) experienced an epiphany during a 1998 Himalayan vacation, by way of a request from a Nepalese schoolteacher that ""Perhaps, sir, you will some day come back with books."" In less than a year, Wood quit his comfortable job and established Books for Nepal (eventually renamed Room to Read), which collected books for Asian children, then built schools and libraries. He documents the building of more than 210 schools and 2,500 school libraries and the donation of nearly 1.5 million books. Didactic at times, but always inspirational, this book is guaranteed to prompt many readers to open their hearts, if not their wallets. Barbara JacobsCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	In this captivating memoir....Wood provides recipes for how to succeed at operating nonprofit firms globally, regardless of local cultures. (Library Journal )The bottom line is passion, and it seems the world is better off for John Wood having followed his. (USA Today )One-third business saga, one-third world travelogue, and one-third human drama -- a 100% great book .... (Marc Andreessen, co-founder, Netscape Communications )Room to Read is one of the best long-term investments I have made. (Don Valentine, founder, Sequoia Capital, early investor Apple, Electronic Arts, Google, Oracle, and Yahoo )	After earning an MBA at the prestigious Kellogg School of Management, John Wood worked for several years in banking before joining Microsoft in 1991. Through hard work and determination, he ascended rapidly, earning coveted overseas assignments in Australia and China. While serving as Microsoft's Director of Business Development for the Greater China region, Wood decided to change his life's focus to help children break the cycle of poverty through the lifelong gift of education. In 2000, he founded Room to Read, a nonprofit organization that promotes literacy in Nepal, India, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, and soon in Africa. When not traveling the world fund-raising and visiting Room to Read communities, he lives in San Francisco.",books;business & investing;entrepreneurship;industries & professions;nonprofit organizations & charities;politics & social sciences;small business & entrepreneurship;social sciences,8
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042516571X,"Moonglow Ghosts, werewolves, and intrepid heroines roam the moonlit pages of this magical collection of short novellas that arrives just in time to add its own passionate and supernatural touch to the October romance lineup. Diverse in both setting and style, these stories range from the fast-paced and humorous to the steamily erotic and include ""Musketeer by Moonlight,"" Maggie Shayne's modern, upbeat story of a tough private investigator and her protective musketeer; Lindsay Longford's sexy, hypnotic, and occasionally eerie ""Midnight Lover""; ""Shades of Moonlight,"" Angie Ray's ghostly Regency mystery with an unexpected twist; and Katherine Sutcliffe's dark, somewhat intense ""The Wolf Keeper."" This eclectic collection features veteran best-selling or Rita-winning authors, and while the quality definitely varies, most paranormal fans will find several that appeal.Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.	For a supernatural tingle in your romance reading this Halloween, pick up this collection of stories by best-selling, award-winning authors. In ""The Wolf Keeper,"" Sutcliffe sends an innocent novice into the clutches of the wolfish earl of Lycaon to tutor his son. Maggie Shayne's ""Musketeer by Moonlight"" is enough to make a tough female PI swoon over the results of a spell gone awry. Angie Ray's romp, ""Shades of Moonlight,"" follows a recently departed rake in his quest to run the decidedly feminine new owner out of his house. And Lindsay Longford offers the ""Midnight Lover"" of a young widow's dreams. These stories run the gamut from comedic to sinister, contemporary to historical. Fans of Shayne may be disappointed by the carefree touch she uses here after the impact of her deeply emotional, supernatural Annie's Hero (1997) and her Wings of the Night series for Silhouette, but the discovery of Ray's and Longford's solid stories more than make up for it.  Melanie Duncan",anthologies;books;gothic;historical;literature & fiction;romance;short stories;united states,8
B0006N6T0Q,"Estes 2179 Guardian Flying Model Rocket Kit Protect the airspace around your neighborhood from surprise attack with the Estes Guardian. This Skill Level 2 kit was created with a multiple-fin design, representative of the Nike ground to air missiles that were used in our countrys defense for years. Between 1954 and 1974 many USA cities were ringed by Nike missile sites, intended to protect against attack by enemy bombers. The first versions of the missiles were armed with high explosive warheads, so they could bring down the target even with a near miss. The Guardian stands just over 19 ""  (48.3 cm) and features two body tubes, a transition section, laser cut balsa fins, molded nose cone and high quality self-stick decals.  Altitudes over 700 ' (213 m) can be reached when launching on standard Estes engines.  A reliable recovery is in store with its shiny 12 ""  (30 cm) parachute.  With its exceptional looks and high altitude performance, the Guardian will make a great addition to your rocket collection. Get protected today, get a Guardian for your arsenal. The Guardian requires more skill in building and painting.  Building tools, finishing supplies, Estes engines and launch supplies also required - sold separately. Recommended for ages 10 and up with adult supervision for those under 12.	Protect the airspace around your neighborhood from surprise attack with the Estes Guardian. This Skill Level 2 kit was created with a multiple-fin design, representative of the Nike ground to air missiles that were used in our country?s defense for years. Between 1954 and 1974 many USA cities were ringed by Nike missile sites, intended to protect against attack by enemy bombers. The first versions of the missiles were armed with high explosive warheads, so they could bring down the target even with a near miss. The Guardian stands just over 19   (48.3 cm) and features two body tubes, a transition section, laser cut balsa fins, molded nose cone and high quality self-stick decals.  Altitudes over 700 ' (213 m) can be reached when launching on standard Estes engines.  A reliable recovery is in store with its shiny 12   (30 cm) parachute.  With its exceptional looks and high altitude performance, the Guardian will make a great addition to your rocket collection. Get protected today, get a Guardian for your arsenal. The Guardian requires more skill in building and painting.  Building tools, finishing supplies, Estes engines and launch supplies also required - sold separately. Recommended for ages 10 and up with adult supervision for those under 12.Features include: Representative of the Nike ground to air missilesOver 19   tallSkill Level 2Die cut Balsa finsFlies over 700 '",board games;games;hobbies;model rockets;play vehicles;rockets;toys & games;vehicles & remote-control,8
0826310923,"The Northern Navajo Frontier, 1860-1900: Expansion Through Adversity ""A work as unique and beautiful as a Navajo rug."" -- Clifford E. Trafzer""This as a fine example of the kind of analysis possible when native people's perspectives are examined."" -- Laura Graves, Ethnohistory	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	Robert S. McPherson is the editor of The Journey of Navajo Oshley: An Autobiography and Life History, which one the 2000 Evans Handcart Award, and the co-author of River Flowing from the Sunrise: An Environmental History of the Lower San Juan, which won the 2001 Norris and Carol Hundley Award.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",americas;books;history;native american;native american studies;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific demographics,8
0609601024,"Every Grain of Rice: A Taste of Our Chinese Childhood in America There's something of a warning for all readers in this book: blend too well with the American melting pot and you may lose the way things tasted when you were a child. Such was almost the case with Ellen Blonder and Annabel Low, who grew up together in Chinese families in California.  ""For all the time we spent helping in the kitchen while we were growing up,"" Blonder writes, ""we missed the next step of mastering the recipes on our own; we lost our connection to the old ways of cooking. We can teach our daughters how to deal with corporations, but we couldn't pass down the simplest technique for dealing with taro root."" While compiling a collection of favorite family recipes meant as a wedding gift, Blonder and Low realized there was a deep hole in their heritage: when push came to shove, they really didn't know how their parents had prepared a lot of their favorite foods. Fortunately for their families and any other families that open and use this book, their rediscovery developed into a gem of a book.  Blonder's illustrations alone are worth the price of the book. The reminiscences open up a chapter of American immigrant history too often hidden, and the recipes and careful instructions for assembling the dishes bring the special foods of a particular village in China to anyone's table.  There may well be better Chinese cookbooks on the market, but Every Grain of Rice is special for the implied invitation to sit down and eat with the two authors, their families, and all their ancestors stretching back in time to the place where the recipes were originally developed. Invitations like that don't show up every day. The experience may turn readers back to their own favorite foods, and their own heritage, and encourage them to save what they can while the information is still available. That, in and of itself, is a very special sauce to add to any dish. --Schuyler Ingle	Low and Blonder, aunt and niece born within 16 days of each other, offer glimpses of their Chinese-American childhood in California in this utterly charming and strikingly illustrated (by Blonder) cookbook. Recipes are for home-style foods but are sometimes complex, like the one for Savory Jeng, a glutinous rice mixture cooked in carefully folded bamboo leaves. Both Green Loofah Squash with Prawns and Long Beans with Ground Pork in Lettuce Packets make use of more exotic vegetables. Chinese New Year's Cake with mashed yams and brown sugar is described as being similar to ""a soft caramel."" More familiar Chinese-American favorites like Fried Rice and Vegetarian Chow Mein are not neglected either. Even stronger than the recipes are the anecdotes provided by both authors, which are personal without being too sentimental: Low remembers her imposing and impressive father, Low Hop Joe, proprietor of the Hong Kong Cafe in Sacramento, and Blonder reflects on the Chinese tradition of never accepting a compliment. This book is both appetizing and engaging. Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Blending together favorite Chinese recipes with personal recollections from the two authors, this beautifully written book celebrates the way food ties one Chinese American family together. Over 80 authentic recipes, covering everything from Tomato Beef Chow Mein to Chinese New Year's Cake, are woven together with short reflective essays on topics such as Jeng and Dim Sum. Suggestions of sample menus are provided as well as a helpful glossary of Chinese food techniques and food terms. The delicate color illustrations by Blonder are a delightful addition. Certain to charm and delight readers, even noncooks, this is highly recommended for all libraries.?John Charles, Scottsdale P.L., Ariz.Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.	...charming watercolor illustrations...Learning new techniques was a bonus to this lovely book full of good food.  -- Taunton's Fine Cooking, January 1999...enchanting watercolors are among the book's pleasures...These dishes are a joy to cook, not only for their ultimate goodness but also because the authors and their families are so much a part of each dish...  -- New York Times, June 24, 1998Certain to charm and delight readers, even noncooks, this is highly recommended...   -- Library Journal, February 15, 1998Graceful recollections of family and food are scattered among the recipes, along with Blonder's harmonious, informative drawings.  -- Gourmet Magazine, December 1998	Fried Green Tomatoes with Flank Steak. Pan-Fried Prawns in Ketchup Sauce. ?Stand Back? Chicken. Turkey Jook. Sticky Rice with Sausage and Taro Root. These are the foods that say ?family? and ?home? to Ellen Blonder and Annabel Low. In Every Grain of Rice they have collected more than 120 outstanding recipes for the delicious homestyle and special occasion dishes they remember so vividly from their childhoods but have rarely found in conventional Chinese cookbooks. Studded with recollections from their years as part of an extended Chinese-American family and with Ellen Blonder?s exquisite watercolor drawings, it is a remarkable debut from two major new talents on the culinary scene.An aunt and niece who are separated in age by only 16 days, Annabel and Ellen were raised virtually as sisters, dividing their time between Ellen?s family farm and the renowned cafe where Annabel?s father was chef/proprietor. From him, and from their mothers, aunts, and uncles, Ellen and Annabel learned to make such satisfying everyday fare as Steamed Minced Pork, Wonton Soup, and Uncle Bill?s Chow Mein, as well as more elaborate dishes as Sweet-and-Sour Whole Fish and festive bamboo-leaf-wrapped Jeng. Special occasions and family gatherings were marked by steaming trays of dim sum and pork-filled Bao, Low Hop Joe?s glistening Soy Sauce Chicken, and the magnificent Boned Stuffed Duck. In chapters ranging from ?Comfort in a Bowl? on soups and jooks to ?Fish and Seafood? and ?Bearing Gifts,? which features foods for holidays and family celebrations, the authors cover the range of traditional Chinese cooking as it was prepared in their childhood homes. The more than 120 recipes and variations offer careful explanations of unfamiliar techniques along with suggestions for replacing hard-to-find ingredients and lowering the fat count of many dishes, and each recipe and story is illustrated with Ellen?s delightful watercolor paintings.With a comprehensive glossary of ingredients and detailed listing of equipment and techniques, Every Grain of Rice is a perfect introduction to the art of Chinese cooking and a moving celebration of food and family.	Ellen Blonder is an illustrator and designer whose work has appeared in books as well as on stationery, dinnerware, and textiles. She lives with her husband and daughter in Northern California.Annabel Lows interest in cooking was sparked by her father, whose Hong Kong Cafe was a Sacramento institution for many years. She and her husband, daughter, and son live in Northern California.	Some of the translations for dim sum are hearts delight, touch your heart, and a little bit of heart. Dim sum includes an amazing assortment of small dishes and snacks that are enjoyed in restaurants and occasionally in homes.For the uninitiated, we highly recommend a trip to a dim sum restaurant, where customers are surrounded by bustling waiters and waitresses pushing carts full of morsels from which customers select whatever suits their fancy: char siu bao (buns filled with barbecue pork), ha gow and siu mai (stuffed savory dumplings), egg rolls, pot stickers, bite-sized portions of pork spareribs, stuffed bell peppers, lek doi (Chinese doughnuts), curried meat pastries, chicken in foil, dry-fried prawns, deep-fried taro root turnovers, beef meatballs on spinach beds, shrimp toast, and don tot (custard tarts) are only a sampling of what is offered. The dim sum are served with a variety of savory, sweet, spicy, or hot dips. (See the Sweets chapter on page 173 for additional recipes.)Few people take time now to make dim sum, but women in our family used to gather to socialize and make hundreds of those treats at a time. We hope youll try making them with your friends, too.Ha Gowmakes about 28 ha gowIn dim sum restaurants, ha gow are single bites filled with shrimp and some bamboo shoots. The ha gow we used to make also included pork, water chestnuts, and black mushrooms and couldnt be eaten politely in just one bite.filling 23 black mushrooms 4 ounces pork shoulder (not too lean), cut into 1-inch cubes 5 ounces shrimp, peeled and deveined 23 fresh or canned water chestnuts, peeled if fresh, and sliced 2 ounces bamboo shoots, sliced 1/4 teaspoon sugar 1/4 teaspoon salt 1/8 teaspoon white pepper  Few drops of sesame oil 1 teaspoon vegetable or peanut oil 1 teaspoon cornstarch mixed with 1 tablespoon waterdough 2 cups wheat starch 1 1/2 cups boiling watercondiments 2 teaspoons Colemans Hot Mustard mixed with 1 teaspoon water (optional), soy sauce, chili oilPut the mushrooms in a small bowl with hot water to cover. Let stand 30 to 45 minutes to soften. Cut off and discard the hard stems. Rinse the caps, squeeze them dry, and cut into 1/4-inch-thick slices.Put the pork, shrimp, water chestnuts, black mushrooms, bamboo shoots, sugar, salt, pepper, and sesame oil in a food processor and chop coarsely (or chop the ingredients finely with a Chinese cleaver).Place a wok or skillet over high heat and heat the oil. Add the pork mixture and stir-fry 4 to 5 minutes, breaking up the mixture with a spatula. Stir in the cornstarch mixture and cook 1 minute longer, until the liquid has thickened. Set the filling aside and let cool.Oil two or three 9-inch round cake pans. Set a rack in a pot and add water to a depth of 1 1/2 to 2 inches. (If you are using a steamer, fill the lower tier of the steamer with water.)Put the wheat starch in a bowl. Bring 1 1/2 cups of water to a boil, then pour it over the wheat starch, stirring with chopsticks or a fork until the dough becomes too thick to stir. Allow the dough to cool just long enough to handle, then knead it with your hands in the bowl. (Be careful handling the hot dough, but dont wait too longyou will get a better result if the dough doesnt cool too much before you knead it.)Turn the dough out onto a board lightly dusted with wheat starch. Knead 1 minute, until the wheat starch is well incorporated. (Overkneading will make the dough too chewy, while underkneading will make a dough more prone to cracking or splitting open while cooking.)Divide the dough into quarters and shape each into a 1 1/2-inch diameter roll. Keep the unused portion in a bowl or on the board, covered with a damp cloth.Cut the first roll into 7 equal segments. Form one segment into a ball. Roll out into a circle about 3 1/2 inches in diameter. (If you want your ha gow to be uniform, use a 3 1/2-inch-diameter cookie cutter, open-ended can, or drinking glass. A 6-ounce tuna can works well. Scraps may be kneaded together and rerolled.)Pinch 6 or 7 pleats around half the circumference of the circle, creating a pocket. The pleated side should resemble the toe of a baby slipper. Spoon a heaping teaspoon of filling into the pocket, being careful to keep it from touching the edge of the dough. Firmly pinch the pleated side to the unpleated side to seal in the filling. Place the finished ha gow in the oiled pans 3/4 to 1 inch apart. (They will expand when they cook, so dont try to fit more than 8 to a pan.)Bring the water in the pot or steamer to a boil. Lower a pan onto the rack (or upper tiers of the steamer), cover, and steam 8 minutes over high heat. The dough will look raw and white when you open the pot but will become translucent as soon as it cools a little. Keep warm while you cook the remaining batches, adding water to the pan as needed. Serve hot, with small dishes of condiments for dipping.",asian;books;chinese;cookbooks;cooking by ingredient;food & wine;regional & international;rice & grains,8
B000GX21P8,Your Place for My Space [Old Version] Show Off Your Personality with Your CustomizedMySpace. Webpage!Product InformationMySpace. is your place to connect with friends and meet new people - and youwant your page to be different from everyone elses. Your Place forMySpace. is a unique program that gives you all of the tools you need tocreate a customized MySpace. page - plete with cool text effects uniquebackgrounds photo slide shows and more! Start a buzz with your creativity hookup with some old friends and start making some new ones today.As easy as 1-2-3 Create it! Choose fro one of the hundreds of pre-made page layouts or create your own within the Layout Editor. Personalize it! Make it your own! Add your favorite stuff - backgrounds photos ticker text glitter text falling symbols and more. Post it! Upload your page with the lick of a mouse - Your Place for MySpace. creates the code for you!Your Place for MySpace. is a one-of-a-kind tool that allows you to createcool personalized pages for the world to see on MySpace..Unique AdvantagesChoose Your Page Layout.Select from over 500 of pre-made layouts and set your creativity free! Dontsee a template thats just perfect? Edit the layouts with the powerfulLayout Editor to create the custom page layout thats totally YOU.Select Your Art  Make Your Page Your Own.Add fun page borders select your favorite color insert table textures andchange your scroll bar colors a few quick changes and your page will trulytake on your personality!Bring Some Bling to Your Page!Add unique special effects to your page that will have your friends talking!Choose from glitter text effects falling symbols and even ticker text that youcan change any time you want. You can even add your favorite photos and createslide shows with the click of a mouse!Post it for the World to See.Preview your cool new page then get ready to post it! Your Place forMySpace. automatically create,education & reference;home & hobbies;illustration & design;pc;programming & web development;software;video games;web development,8
B0007U07KQ,"PTC Home & Garden Folding Baker's Rack, Black This versatile hand-made, wrought iron baker's rack is well suited for both indoor and outdoor use.  The attractive powder-coated finish protects the rack from rusting when left outdoors and is weather resistant year round. Each sturdy shelf can hold all of your favorite indoor or outdoor items.  This rack was specifically designed to fall within the size limits of UPS transportation saving money on shipping costs.  The dimensions of the top two shelves are 21 wide by 6 deep.   The dimensions of the bottom three shelves are 21 wide by 11 deep.",baker's racks;furniture;home & kitchen;kitchen furniture;lawn & garden;patio;ptc home products;standing baker's racks,8
B0002E1P6M,"Meyer Hard Rubber Alto Saxophone Mouthpiece 6 Medium Easy-to-blow Meyer rubber mouthpieces can be played by almost anyone --from student to virtuoso, making them a top choice of players at every level. For exquisite playing response and smoothness of tone, these mouthpieces stand alone. Meyer...because there is no substitute for quality.",alto saxes;instrument accessories;mouthpieces;musical instruments;parts;saxophone;saxophones;woodwind accessories,8
1577362683,"Journey into the Land of Trials Cobia has articulately redefined our perception of Davy Crockett who emerges as a public-spirited, liberty-loving frontier republican. -- William R. Chemerka, Editor, The Alamo JournalCobia writes a rare episode that's very interesting, well written account of the last days of Crockett's life. -- Lonnie E. Maness, Prof. Emeritus of History, UT Martin	Like so many others of his generation, Manley Cobia's interest in Davy Crockett began in the 1950s with his first viewing of Davy Crockett: King of the Wild Frontier. Cobia is a graduate of Florida International University, where he majored in history. A longtime member of the Alamo Society, he currently lives in Miami, Florida.",19th century;americas;biographies & memoirs;books;historical;history;state & local;united states,8
0452273730,"Winning Your Divorce: A Man's Survival Guide New York City divorce lawyer Horgan cautions men that, once divorce is undertaken, a man's relationship with his wife becomes adversarial--and that, contrary to women's longstanding complaint, the system is unfair to men. He then spells out such safeguards as protecting assets, hiring a competent lawyer, keeping emotions in check, fighting for either child custody or reasonable visitation rights (the man is always the plaintiff, according to Horgan), arranging alimony and child support (recommended are payments that increase or decrease with the payer's income). Horgan also offers advice on ""discovery,"" the process by which evidence is presented, and courtroom behavior. The book is fair-minded, since it is not a guide to vanquishing the woman, but to aid the man in not being vanquished. Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",administrative law;books;divorce;education & reference;family relationships;law;parenting & relationships;self-help,8
0435909509,"Your Name Shall Be Tanga (African Writers Series) Calixthe Beyala, born in Cameroon, is the author of Loukoum, The Sun Hath Looked Upon Me and Your Name Shall Be Tanga.",books;contemporary;education & reference;humanities;literature;literature & fiction;new;used & rental textbooks,8
0671876155,"Chrome Circle (The Serrated Edge, Bk. 4) On a recruiting mission for Fairgrove Industries, test driver Tannim Drake becomes embroiled in a battle between feuding dragons and Unseleighe fairies. The latest adventure in Lackey and Dixon's ""Serrated Edge"" series features fast cars and cold iron in a world where elves-both good and bad-have found a niche in modern America. Car chases and magical duels abound in this fast-paced adventure, which should appeal to fans of cross-world fantasy.Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.",books;contemporary;epic;fantasy;literature & fiction;science fiction;science fiction & fantasy;united states,8
0743520718,"5 Steps To Successful Selling Zig Ziglar has motivated the sales forces of multi-national corporations, as well as the thousands of individuals who have attended his seminars and read his books. He is the president of the Zig Ziglar Corporation and the author of the bestsellers Secrets of Closing the Sale, Success and the Self-Image, 5 Steps to Successful Selling, How to be a Winner, and How to Get What You Want.",books;business;business & investing;law;marketing & sales;sales & selling;self-help;success,8
0415070384,"Baudrillard Live: Selected Interviews ""This book is--what might sound like a contradiction in terms--an ideal teaching book on Baudrillard.""  -- Scott Lash, Lancaster University	Mike Gane is Senior Lecturer in Social Sciences at Loughborough University. He has published Baudrillard's Bestiary and Baudrillard, both from Routledge.",biographies & memoirs;books;memoirs;new;politics & social sciences;social sciences;sociology;used & rental textbooks,8
1878346512,"Free Money and Help for Women Entrepreneurs Matthew Lesko is the #1 Source in the U.S. on Free Government information, expert advice, and money. A New York Times best-selling author and winner of two Best Reference Book of the Year Awards from the Amerian Library Association, Lesko tops the charts with his best-selling books ""Information USA"" and ""Getting Yours"". He has written over 80 books including his national bestsellers, ""Gobs and Gobs of Free Stuff"", and ""Free Money To Change Your Life"". His credentials include syndicated columns for the New York Times and Good Housekeeping Magazine, and a frequent guest on national TV talk shows including Larry King, Good Morning America, Jay Leno's Tonight Show, Oprah, and The Today Show.",books;business & investing;catalogs & directories;education & reference;entrepreneurship;finance;small business & entrepreneurship;women & business,8
B000P2A0DA,"Efficient Algorithms for MPEG Video Compression (Wiley Series in Telecommunications and Signal Processing) ""...for some every page will be worth the cost..."" (Visual Systems Journals, July/August 2002)""...presents a new framework for allocating bits to the compression of pictures in an MPEG video sequence."" (SciTech Book News, Vol. 26, No. 2, June 2002)	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	Video compression is the enabling technology behind many cutting-edge business and Internet applications, including video-conferencing, video-on-demand, and digital cable TV. Coauthored by internationally recognized authorities on the subject, this book takes a close look at the essential tools of video compression, exploring some of the most promising algorithms for converting raw data to a compressed form.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.",algorithms;books;computers & technology;electrical & electronics;engineering;professional & technical;programming;telecommunications,8
B00004W4AT,"Microsoft Application Center 2000 CD (1 Processor License) [Old Version] Microsoft Application Center 2000 is the deployment and management tool for Web applications built on Windows 2000. This application is designed for administrators responsible for ongoing operations of business-critical Web applications. It allows users to easily deploy and manage Web applications across clusters of PC and Web servers. It enables these applications to achieve on-demand scalability and mission-critical availability through software scaling, while also reducing operational complexity and costs. Application Center 2000 makes managing groups of servers as simple as managing one. Simplified application-management features include reduction of application complexity (manage each application as a single entity that includes content, components, and configuration settings; and manage many servers as one, applying changes across the cluster); streamlined application deployment (simplify the migration of applications through the development life cycle and the deployment of updates across the cluster); and on-demand scalability (easily expand or reduce capacity using off-the-shelf PC hardware).	MICROSOFT D93-00013 APPLICATION CENTER 2000, CD, 1 PROCESSOR LICENSE",business & office;linux servers;networking;programming & web development;servers;software;web development;web site hosting,8
0764306723,"Big Book of Kitchen Design Ideas (Schiffer Design Book) Bouknight provides a comprehensive look at kitchen design, discussing planning, cabinets, shelves, countertops, appliances, flooring, and light. Information on the choices with the advantages and disadvantages of each is provided. What makes this book especially useful are the numerous photographs that illustrate how all these materials have been used in actual kitchens. Skinner has compiled a picture book of kitchens, dividing the photographs, primarily supplied by product manufacturers, into chapters that cover contemporary, country, classic, and retro styles, and ending with a section of the National Kitchen and Bath Association's design award winners. Bouknight's book makes a perfect complement to Jan Weimer's Kitchen Redos, Remodels & Replacements (LJ 9/15/97) and is a good choice for public libraries and interior design collections.Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Tina Skinner is a professional writer and editor specializing in design books. Her other home improvement titles with Schiffer Books include Pure Deck-adence: A Guide to Beautiful Decks, Outdoor Wood Works: With Complete Plans for Ten Projects, Redwood Decks: Ideas and Plans for Contemporary Outdoor Living, and 20th Century Bathroom Design by Kohler",books;crafts;crafts & hobbies;decorating;hobbies & home;home decorating & design;home improvement & design;interior design,8
0135934915,"Modern Elementary Statistics This solid text has been revised to present ideas and concepts more clearly for students who have little or no background in statistics. The Ninth Edition retains all of the elements and style that educators nationwide have come to expect--clear prose, excellent problems and precise presentation of the mathematics involved--while eliminating some of the computational drudgery.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	FEATURES:   The text uses many of the different technological packages available in statistics, such as MINITAB.  The book features display screens of the TI-83 graphing calculator.  Many of the exercises deal with real or realistic data.  The tenth edition has cumulative review exercises for sets of related Chapters 1-4, 5-7, 8-10, 11-14 and 15-18.  Cross-referencing within the text has been simplified greatly by numbering the examples throughout each chapter. 	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	John E. Freund. Professor of Mathematics Emeritus  Arizona State University Educated at the University of London, U.C.L.A., Columbia University, and the University of Pittsburgh, Doctor Freund's interest in Mathematics, Logic, and the Philosophy of Science led him to a career in statistics. Keynoted by his approach to statistics as a way of thinking, and as such a refinement of everyday thinking, his textbooks in statistics at various levels and for various fields of application have been bestsellers for fifty years.  	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	This edition of Modern Elementary Statistics, like all the preceding editions, is keynoted by the statement that ""In general, statistical methods are nothing but a refinement of everyday thinking."" These words paraphrase the statement made by the prominent scientist Albert Einstein that ""the whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.""    Many changes to the introductory statistics course have been advocated in recent years, consisting of more emphasis on data analysis utilizing real data and decreasing the level of mathematical rigor, particularly in the area of probability. Our views have remained basically unchanged and we present this new edition with the belief that this is an appropriate introduction to statistics that should be taught as a vital part of one's general education. It is difficult to deny the importance of emphasizing the analysis of real data, but it is more important to recommend that it be interesting real data. A classical example of the former, often used in the past, consists of the number of deaths resulting from the kick of a horse per year per army corps of the Prussian army! Such data fit the conditions for so-called Poisson data (see Section 8.5).   EXERCISES   Many of the more than 1200 exercises are new or updated from previous editions. Of course, the reader is not expected to work each one, but there is an adequate variety to provide exercise material for just about everyone, regardless of his or her primary area of interest.    Among the new exercises in this edition, there are essentially two kinds. First, there is the conceptual kind that makes one think rather than devote one's time to tedious arithmetic. Such exercises are easy to spot because they are marked with an icon, based on Rodin's famous statue ""The Thinker."" The second kind serves to check whether a set of data satisfies the conditions required by a particular statistical procedure.   COMPUTER PRINTOUTS   The purpose of the computer printouts and the graphing calculator reproductions is to make the reader aware of some of the most popular and some of the most up-to-date technologies that are available for work in statistics. All the computer printouts from the tenth edition are replaced by new ones generated by MINITAB. The reproductions from the display screen of a TI-83 graphing calculator were first transferred to a computer with the use of a TI-GRAPH LINK and then printed with the use of the computer.    With one exception, neither computers nor graphing calculators are required for the use of our book. Indeed, the book can be used effectively by readers who do not possess or have easy access to computers and statistical software or to a graphing calculator. The one exception is Section 9.3, the check for normality.    Some of the exercises are labeled with a special icon for the use of a computer and/or the icon for the use of a graphing calculator, but this is optional.   	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;education & reference;mathematics;new;science & math;science & mathematics;statistics;used & rental textbooks,8
1591097290,"Thinkers' guide to Koran Basically trained to be a Biotechnologist (Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras), I have worked as a Scientist in some reputed environments of India, Japan, France and USA. I am a son, brother, friend, husband, father, neighbor, citizen and above all, a self-centered person who goes into relations seeking my well-placed interests. A few years back, I took a break from a very rewarding career in biological research to focus more on generating a sustainable societal life. This work is an output of two years of my pursuits in that direction",books;education & reference;education theory;islam;philosophy & social aspects;quran;religion & spirituality;schools & teaching,8
B0006VBBCO,"Oregon Scientific RMR603HGA Thermo-Hygrometer with Clock Oregon Scientific keeps you in touch - know the indoor and outdoor temperature, precise time and date at a glance with the RMR603HGA Wireless Weather Station and Self-Setting Clock.  Unit also displays the humidity in a graphical format to help you predict future weather. A wireless remote sensor transmits outdoor readings to the main unit within a 100 foot range.  The self-setting atomic clock accurately sets itself via radio transmissions - never needs adjusting - and features a crescendo alarm with snooze function and a calendar.",home & kitchen;home décor;hygrometers;lawn & garden;outdoor décor;outdoor thermometers;patio;weather instruments,8
1570753865,"Confession: Doorway to Forgiveness Forest relates in his introduction that the purpose of this book is to help revive the once common practice of confession among Christians, which has been abandoned or neglected, to help the reader prepare a better confession and to help those who hear confessions better serve as Christ's witness. The author, who describes himself as an Orthodox Christian and who lives in the Netherlands, begins with a brief history of the tradition. He draws on scripture, stories from the saints, personal experiences, and even Dostoevsky's novels Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov. Forest explains the key elements in confession and discusses the Ten Commandments, the Beatitudes, the Last Judgment, and the Prayer of Ephraim the Syrian (recited by Orthodox Christians daily throughout Lent). Forest also explores the subject of finding a confessor and offers a selection of stories about confessions culled from his friends--laypeople, nuns, monks, and priests. This informative book includes a list of biblical texts to read in preparing for confession. George CohenCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	Comes alive with biblical and contemporary reflections and examples of repentance, forgiveness, and reconciliation. --ChurchCPA Book Award Winner --Catholic Press Association	Jim Forest is the author of several award-winning books, including Praying with Icons, Ladder of the Beatitudes, Love Is the Measure: A Biography of Dorothy Day, Confession: Doorway to Forgiveness, The Wormwood File: E-mail from Hell, and Living with Wisdom: A Life of Thomas Merton. He lives in the Netherlands.",books;christian books & bibles;christian living;church institutions & organizations;devotionals;ministry & church leadership;religion & spirituality;spirituality,8
B000CMFPJ2,Holley 26-105 Vacuum Line Cap Kit This cap kit features various vacuum tube caps to fit different sized vacuum ports.,automotive;carburetors & parts;complete kits;exhaust & emissions;exhaust system;fuel system;performance parts & accessories;replacement parts,8
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B000E0DZH6,"Panasonic CGR-S006A/1B Li-ion Battery for Panasonic FZ50, FZ7, FZ18, and FZ30 Digital Cameras - Retail Packaging The rechargeable Panasonic CGA-S006A battery is designed for the Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ30 digital camera. A lithium ion battery, the CGA-S006A holds a long-lasting charge to give you more shots before you need to recharge. The 7.2-volt, 700mAh battery is compact and lightweight, so whether you're traveling, attending a party with friends or colleagues, or just spending time at home with family, you'll want to bring it along with your digital camera so that you'll be able to catch all of those memorable shots.	The rechargeable Panasonic CGA-S006A battery is designed for the Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ30 digital camera. A lithium ion battery, the CGA-S006A holds a long-lasting charge to give you more shots before you need to recharge. The 7.2-volt, 700mAh battery is compact and lightweight, so whether you're traveling, attending a party with friends or colleagues, or just spending time at home with family, you'll want to bring it along with your digital camera so that you'll be able to catch all of those memorable shots.",accessories;batteries;batteries & chargers;battery chargers;camera & photo;camera batteries;digital camera accessories;electronics,8
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1575666669,"The Biograph Girl The birth of the film industry and the advent of the world's first film star, Florence Lawrence, the original ""Biograph Girl,"" form the basis of this fictionalized account of one woman's life in a burgeoning industry that changed the parameters of entertainment. The real silent film actress Lawrence committed suicide in 1938 by drinking ant poison. In Mann's version, LawrenceAwho was at the height of her fame in 1910, but by the late '30s had faded into oblivionAand a besotted physician-fan use the suicide of Lawrence's housemate as a ruse to allow Lawrence to disappear gracefully from an industry that no longer wants or cares about her. The fictional Lawrence not only goes on to have her own life, but lives to the ripe old age of 107. Lawrence's compelling story could easily stand alone: she starts out in show business as a stagestruck child, famous as ""Baby Flo"" for her whistling talents; has a knack for hooking up with the wrong men; and in her new incarnation emerges as an independent, insouciant dame doing her own thing with ?lan. Mann (Wisecracker) unfortunately burdens this lively material with a cumbersome plot device concerning twin brothers at odds with each other. While researching a piece, New York Times journalist Richard Sheehan discovers that the legendary Florence Lawrence is alive, living in a Catholic nursing home as Florence Bridgewood. Struck by the ex-actress and her remarkable life, he decides to write her biography. His brother, Ben, however, has other plans. Once a film student wunderkind and now stuck in an unrewarding advertising job, Ben intends to use Florence's storyAand Florence herselfAto make his way back into the film industry. Though the subplot revolving around the brothers' rivalry pales next to the vivacious incarnation of Florence Lawrence, Mann builds each tale on the other, leading up to a fittingly cinematic grand finale. Agent, Malaga Baldi. (June) Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	What if the first star of the silent screen, Florence Lawrence, didn't die in 1939 from ingesting ant poison, but is 106 and living in a nursing home in Buffalo, New York? Gay freelance writer, Richard Sheehan, finds her by chance while interviewing the elderly for a New York Times article. His ambitious, straight twin, Ben, makes a documentary about her in the hopes that it will jump-start his career. He sends her out on the talk-show circuit, but questions are raised about who is buried in Florence's grave. Still cagey, she refuses to talk about certain aspects of her life, happy just to bask in the limelight once again. Old age finally catches up to her, and Florence's decline brings the conflicts between the two Sheehan brothers to a head. Seamlessly combining actual people, including Florence, who worked for D. W. Griffith, with fictional characters, Mann presents a wonderfully entertaining look at the ups and downs of the life of a star and of the film world, from its inception to the present day. Patty EngelmannCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Skillfully blending facts, fancy, and a vision of the earliest days of moviemaking, the artful Mann (Wisecracker, 1998, etc.) resurrects the first movie star as a hot-ticket 107-year-old discovered in a Catholic nursing home in Buffalo by twin brothers who promptly start fighting over her to further their own agendas.In reality, Florence Lawrence was the Biograph Girl, cinema's brightest star, by 1910, and a suicide by 1938. Here, she's a sharp-witted, caftan-clothed, chain-smoking centenarian named Flo, stumbled upon by freelance journalist Richard Sheehan when the man he was supposed to interview in the home turns out to have just died. Captivated by her, Richard wants her story, but the first tantalizing clues that she's the Biograph Girl run up against the seemingly insurmountable fact of her having committed suicide. While Richard's sleuthing eventually gets the LAPD involved, with the result that the body in Florence Lawrence's Hollywood grave is exhumed, his idealistic documentary filmmaker brother Ben also takes an interest in Flo, spurred on by the sympathetic nun in charge of the home, who sees in Ben's eyes the eyes of her former lover. Ben's high-powered agent catches wind of Flo's mysterious and glamorous past, along with the scandal surrounding her at present, and suddenly Ben is having a script greenlighted by Hollywood's biggest mogul--on the condition that he can tease the truth from the reluctant Flo and turn it into docudrama. Will Ben sell out? Will Richard save Flo from his brother? Will forcing Flo to confront the shadows in her past be the end of her?For all the camp and melodrama, a finely detailed and satisfyingly complicated mystery, aided in its allure by several characters simultaneously coming to terms with how they came to be who they are. -- Copyright  2000 Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;contemporary;fiction;gay;gay & lesbian;genre fiction;historical;literature & fiction,8
0954255534,Talking Sheepdogs Derek Scrimgeour is one of the UK's premier sheepdog handlers and well known internationally for his 'dog whispering' techniques that makes his training methods so successful. When not training others to train there dogs he is a sheep farmer in the picturesque Lake District of England.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.,agricultural sciences;animal husbandry;books;crafts;dogs;hobbies & home;pets & animal care;science & math,8
B000CNLCES,"Flex-a-lite 1017 Dark Blue Star Aluminum Blade 17"" Low Profile Belt Fan The Flex-a-lite low profile belt fan works great in areas with limited clearance. The low pitch reduces load on the engine which equates to higher performance and improved gas mileage.",automotive;engine cooling;engine cooling & climate control;fans;fans & parts;performance parts & accessories;replacement parts;rigid fans,8
1571970525,"Operation Stagecoach Red A great adventure relating to a great subject Mr. Courage (main Character code name)loves his Jack Daniels on the rocks and hates the NVA. Hired by the CIA to kidnap the mastermind behind the NVA, Courage takes you deep behind enemy lines and straight through NVA and Viet Cong camps on his way to conduct a kidnapping  the US Militry does not even know about. A colorful suspense  -- Shep from WashingtonEasy to understand for us non-Vietnam era people. ""I couldn't put this book down. I don't know much about the Vietnam War but this book was so easy to understand.In A society that loves to believe in CIA conspiracies, this book sheds light on the real store.  -- Dave from WisconsinInsight wartime CIA Thriller. The Authors first hand knowledge provides a fact based journey into the ficticious world of covert operations, less the hollywood glitz. This book is gritty, to the point and in all cases a good read. The notion that the author is not well known only lends further to the mystery of a no-nonsense approach to telling the story  -- Reader from Wisconsin	60 years of age, former Green Beret and CIA Operative I spent 32 months in Vietnam and have first hand knowledge of CIA operations during the era of the war. Book is doing very well in bookstores, but I need more exposure. Second book Traitor in White Laces is completed and ready for publication. 3rd book Alpha Blue Eagle will be completed in 2000.",biographies & memoirs;books;genre fiction;literature & fiction;true accounts;true crime;united states;war,8
0387105034,"Gasdynamic Laser (Springer Series in Chemical Physics) Text: English, Russian (translation)",books;light;new;physics;science & math;science & mathematics;technology;used & rental textbooks,8
0967794803,"Taoist Master Chuang ...classic of modern Taoist studies, providing a rare  first-person account of the daily life of a Taoist practitioner in  Hsinchu...  -- Ian Johnson, Beijing Correspondent, The Wall Street Journal/The Asian Wall St. Journal Taoist Master Chuang is a must-read for anyone who aspires to  a greater understanding of modern, living Taoism.  -- Brock Silvers,  President - The Taoist Restoration Society Taoist Master Chuang presents a rare view of Taoist history,  philosophy, religion, and ritual, spiced with lively anecdotes... -- Professor Kenneth S. Cohen, Author - The Way of Qigong: The Art and Science of Chinese Energy Healing	Michael Saso, Professor Emeritus at the University of  Hawaii, has researched and written about Taoism for over thirty years.  An initiated Taoist Zhengyi Sect Priest, he is one of the world's best  known Taoist teachers and lecturers.  Professor Saso has authored  fourteen books and countless articles on a variety of Taoist topics.",books;eastern;occult;other eastern religions & sacred texts;philosophy;politics & social sciences;religion & spirituality;taoism,8
0807821128,"Ethnomimesis: Folklife and the Representation of Culture This is a book to dream with, and on.Journal of Popular CultureA brilliant meditation on modernity and its discontents.American CraftA work of keen intelligence.Richard Price, coauthor of Equatoria	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	Robert Cantwell is a visiting associate professor of American studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and author of Bluegrass Breakdown: The Making of the Old Southern Sound.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",books;customs & traditions;holidays;literature & fiction;mythology;mythology & folk tales;politics & social sciences;social sciences,8
074326407X,"The Ballet Companion: A Dancer's Guide to the Technique, Traditions, and Joys of Ballet Gaynor Minden, a former dancer who now heads a dancewear company, has been immersed in the world of ballet for much of her life, and in this book shares dancer-to-dancer advice, much of which is aimed at beginning-to-intermediate level dancers, or adults who are either starting or returning to a childhood passion; dancers who have been committed to the art for a couple of years will already know on the finer points of finding a school, how to behave in class and the basic positions and movements, though the crisp photographs of professionals demonstrating steps are quite useful. The chapter on pointework, Gaynor Minden's specialty, is more widely valuable, and the pages devoted to dancer health contain vital information on eating disorders, injuries and supplemental physical training that teachers and students of all levels would do well to review. Brief sections called ""The Curious Dancer"" give introductions to ballet-related skills and trivia (how to apply stage makeup; ballet on Broadway), as well as intermittent features on great ballet companies and famous dancers of both early and modern times. Her explanation of the differences between the six major ballet styles, along with the superb glossaries of terms and dance history timeline, make this book a valuable resource for dance studios and a great primer for dancers in the early stages of training. Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	""Everyone involved with or interested in ballet should read this book. Comprehensively researched and packed with valuable information, The Ballet Companion is a treasure-trove for ballet enthusiasts.""  -- Kirk Peterson, Ballet Master/Choreographer, American Ballet Theatre""This is the very book I would have loved to have discovered when I first started to study ballet.""  -- Allegra Kent, former Principal Dancer, New York City Ballet and author of Once a Dancer""This is the very book I would have loved to have discovered when I first started to study ballet.""  -- Allegra Kent, former principal dancer, New York City Ballet and author of Once a Dancer""Unique and comprehensive, this is a wonderful companion and guide for anybody who loves dance.""  -- Edward Villella, former principal dancer, New York City Ballet and founding artistic director, Miami City Ballet""Eliza Gaynor Minden captures our imagination, taking us into the magical world of ballet.""  -- David Howard, internationally acclaimed master teacher and coach""A superb reference book -- all the information today's students need but can't get just by taking class. Every dancer's library should have it.""  -- Angel Corella, principal dancer, American Ballet Theatre""This book is a broad canvas of the history, elements, and components of dance. It is must reading for those who love dance and wish to explore its functions and derivation.""  -- Melissa Hayden, former principal dancer New York City Ballet, faculty, North Carolina School of the Arts""This comprehensive guide to the world of ballet is a must-have for all dance enthusiasts.""  -- Gillian Murphy, Principal Dancer, American Ballet Theatre""A smorgasboerd of information about the world of ballet!""  -- Alexandra Ansanellli, Principal Dancer, New York City Ballet""This offers a wealth of information as well as being extremely interesting.""  -- Mignon Furman, director, American Academy of Ballet	""Everyone involved with or interested in ballet should read this book. Comprehensively researched and packed with valuable information, The Ballet Companion is a treasure-trove for ballet enthusiasts."" -- Kirk Peterson, Ballet Master/Choreographer, American Ballet Theatre ""This is the very book I would have loved to have discovered when I first started to study ballet.""  -- Allegra Kent, former Principal Dancer, New York City Ballet and author of Once a Dancer ""Unique and comprehensive, this is a wonderful companion and guide for anybody who loves dance."" -- Edward Villella, Former Principal Dancer, New York City Ballet and Founding Artistic Director, Miami City Ballet  ""The Ballet Companion is exactly that, a companion for dancers wishing to expand their knowledge of the art form and its ever changing yet lasting community. Finally, a book that reveals its rich history and strong tradition and how incredibly fortunate we are to belong to it."" -- Lourdes Lopez, former Principal Dancer New York City Ballet ""Eliza Gaynor Minden captures our imagination, taking us into the magical world of ballet."" -- David Howard, internationally acclaimed aster teacher and coach ""This book is a broad canvas of the history, elements, and components of dance. It is must reading for those who love dance and wish to explore its functions and derivation."" -- Melissa Hayden, former principal dancer New York City Ballet, faculty, North Carolina School of the Arts ""This comprehensive guide to the world of ballet is a must-have for all dance enthusiasts."" -- Gillian Murphy, Principal Dancer, American Ballet Theatre ""A smorgasboard of information about the world of ballet!"" -- Alexandra Ansanellli, Principal Dancer, New York City Ballet ""This offers a wealth of information as well as being extremely interesting."" -- Mignon Furman, director, American Academy of Ballet ""A unique book that blends a behind-the-scenes look at ballet with a bit of history, and how-to information. The Ballet Companion is a must have for every dance student and enthusiast."" -- Maria Youskevitch, principal teacher, American Repertory Ballet's Princeton Ballet School	Introduction   When Anna Pavlova was a young dancer in Russia, she faced stiff competition from a bevy of imported hotshot Italian ballerinas. With their tricked-out shoes and their formidable technique they performed marvels on full pointe: endless balances, dazzling pirouettes, even an unheard-of thirty-two fouetts. Pavlova toiled to make herself into a virtuosa in their mold.   Fortunately her teacher Pavel Gerdt advised her to leave off the tricks and turns and focus on developing her own innate qualities: delicacy, lyricism, expressivity. In the end Pavlova triumphed as a Romantic dancer at a time when hard-boiled classicism was all the rage, and she went on to foment balletomania the world over. Of course, she never stopped working on her technique; she even got the greatest Italian ballet master of all, Enrico Cecchetti, to give private lessons to her and no one else. And she did adopt the newfangled Italian shoes (albeit doctored in her secret way), but not just for flash or bravura. Pavlova did the opposite: she used pointework to convey achingly beautiful vulnerability.   Pavlova became a legend by tapping into her genius for self-expression rather than by technique alone. She cultivated her own eloquent ""voice."" And you can do the same even if you never set foot on a stage. Certainly executing steps well provides tremendous satisfaction. But ballet's joy lies not just in doing steps; it's in dancing them -- in the pleasure of expression through movement, of union with music, of singing with your body. I hope this book helps you not only in developing proficiency but also in discovering your voice.   The Ballet Companion offers a discussion of technique that is not just how to, but why. You already know what tendus are because you do them in class. But you may not realize why you do so many, or that the meaning of the word in French (""stretched"") defines the quality of the movement, or that a famous choreographic passage, the opening of Balanchine's Theme and Variations, is based on them -- or how by perfecting your tendu you can improve your technique overall. Throughout the book, I connect the work you do in class to the bigger picture.   That picture, of course, includes performance. Looking as much as doing sparked my own love of ballet. My Wrst impressions were formed watching Fonteyn and Nureyev, Baryshnikov, Fracci, Makarova in Swan Lake, Kirkland in Giselle, and the opening night (a school night at that) of Balanchine's 1972 Stravinsky Festival with its landmark premieres. Granted, that's a hard act to follow, but every generation has its own superb dancers. Let today's inspire you.   In the back of this book you will find a collection of choreographic ""greatest hits"" along with some of my favorites that are less well known. Go to the ballet as often as you can. If you can see a work repeatedly, that's even better. A second or third viewing reveals the craftsmanship in the choreography and lets you compare different interpretations. In deciding what you admire and what you don't, what you allow to influence you and what you reject, you will shape your own character as a dancer.   Sometimes the first step toward finding your voice is to realize that it's okay to have one. This book is generously sprinkled with nuggets of ballet history that show how often a distinctive choreographic or performing personality has influenced and enriched ballet. Things we take for granted today -- the one-act ballet, the tutu, the overhead lift, the blocked pointe shoe, even women dancing professionally -- all were innovations in their time and sometimes bitterly resisted. Dance history is full of skirmishes between rebels and traditionalists, but ultimately dance embraces new voices and rewards those who take risks.   As a student I was captivated by ballet history and contrived to write every school term paper I could on a ballet subject. An assignment on great Americans became an essay on Ted Shawn, an art history project a study of Diaghilev's collaborations. My poor logic professor asked for an example of a well-constructed argument and got a scathing critique of the dance program at Yale. I took great pleasure in using my obsession with dance as a means of enlivening schoolwork; you might, too.   Ballet history is delicious -- it's rich and glamorous and fun. It's also important for your dancing in a serious way. You develop an informed artistry when you understand why the Sylph holds her arms differently from the Sugar Plum Fairy, or why a Bournonville allegro must bounce along the way it does. Petipa and Ivanov's Swan Lake and Fokine's Dying Swan were choreographed only ten years apart and both feature swan-women in white, feathered tutus. But to dance Fokine like Petipa would be to miss the point. Fokine loathed -- among other things -- classicism's stale verticality and lack of expressivity, so his reforms included a liberation of the arms and upper body. This isn't a stylistic nicety; it's a wholly different approach. We know about it from history: from his own manifesto and from the accounts of the dancers he trained.   I hope the historical tidbits in this book intrigue you enough so that you read more. Dancers' autobiographies are often delightful and engrossing. It's fascinating to read about your own familiar exercises and routines as they were in other times: in Imperial Russia or with the Ballets Russes or under Communism or for Balanchine. Some of the dancers' stories will surely resonate with you and contribute to the creation of your own dancing personality.   Ballet training rightly focuses on technique and artistry, but dancers are not indestructible, and they ignore their health at their peril. Ballet has become more overtly athletic. Although dancers still pretend not to sweat on stage, and still conceal their exertions under serene smiles, their bodies are being pushed and pulled as never before. Fortunately, there is now far more awareness and knowledge of dancers' health.   A whole new field of medicine has sprung up, and its practitioners have much to offer on the subject of injury prevention and safe training. Eating disorders, once a shameful secret, are now brought into the sunlight for compassionate confrontation and cure. Cross training is widely recognized as a complement to class that can speed the process of building strength and flexibility. I have devoted an extensive section of this book to the healthy dancer.   Like a strong and flexible dancer, ballet itself is hardy. It phoenixed out of the aristocratic pomp of the Baroque age. Powdered wigs and snuff boxes are long gone, but ballet has endured and maintained its traditions -- vestiges of its royal origins -- while resiliently absorbing new ideas. From a boys-only club to the cult of the ballerina, from six-foot hoop skirts to nudity, from courtiers elaborately curtsying to the king to performances that incite antigovernment protest, throughout its rich history ballet has repeatedly remodeled itself and survived.   So go ahead: cultivate your technique, your voice, and your ideas. No great choreographer ever picked a boring dancer for a muse. Ballet needs distinctive personalities to inspire new choreographic genius, to make the classics fresh, and to keep the audience interested. Your self-expression may lead you beyond ballet to other forms of dance, or to the theater. You may become a choreographer, dance teacher, dance historian, dance doctor, dance critic, dance notator, dance photographer, dance administrator or, as I did, a pointe shoe designer. You may decide to be the next Martha Graham and invent a whole new dance language. In all these endeavors your ballet technique, along with your knowledge of ballet's traditions, is the foundation on which you build. And even in nondance pursuits, qualities you develop in the studio -- physical intelligence and confidence in your own voice -- will serve you very well outside it. I hope this book helps you in joyfully creating your foundation. I hope it encourages you to soar.    Part One: To Be a Dancer    Getting Started   Selecting a Ballet School   Your mother says you danced in the crib. You love moving to music. Perhaps you want to perform. Perhaps performing is not for you, but the exhilaration of a well-executed tour jet in class is. Perhaps you've been advised to try it for medical reasons, to make you strong or improve your posture. Or maybe, like Alexandra Ansanelli, principal dancer at the New York City Ballet, you were knocked out cold on the soccer Weld and your parents wanted you in something safer. Whatever draws you to ballet, finding the right school will make all the diVerence to your experience.   In the United States anyone can hang out a shingle and call him - or herself a ballet teacher. There is no organization or governing body to license teachers and maintain standards. But there are many indicators of a school's merits. Here are some things to look for when considering where to study, many of which are described in more detail later in this book:    Teacher's Credentials  The instructor with the most glamorous and prestigious performing credentials may not be the best teacher. The ability to dance brilliantly is different from the skills that make a great teacher: the ability to analyze, to break down steps, to explain, to inspire. Some people possess both performing and teaching abilities; some don't.   In France no one is allowed to teach without a state diploma. In the United States, the Cecchetti Society, the Cecchetti Council of America, and the London-based Royal Academy of Dance (R.A.D.) are highly respected institutions whose founders cared deeply about how ballet is taught. Teachers who have been trained through these organizations have learned a well-established syllabus -- a known commodity with a proven track record of providing safe, solid, classical training. These are by no means the only good choices. There are other major training systems (see...	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",arts & photography;books;classical;dance;education & reference;humor & entertainment;performing arts;reference,8
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1887368841,"Harbingers: A Repairman Jack Novel This 10th appearance of Wilson's outside-the-box paladin (after 2005's Infernal) provides everything that fans of this excellent and frequently horrific series have come to expect. Repairman Jack, the New York City paranormal ""fix-it guy,"" is approached by a regular at Julio's bar to find his missing teenage niece, Caitlin. Jack tracks her down, but not before some other apparently well-intentioned agents rescue her and discover Jack in the process. Caitlin's rescuers believe that Jack is the champion of the otherworldly force opposing a supernatural menace known as the Adversary, a role that Jack admits he has played in the past. As the Adversary begins picking off Jack's new allies, Jack's girlfriend and unborn child are endangered, but by whom is unclear. In this brisk update on the series, Jack must make some difficult decisions as he learns that the enemy of his enemy is not necessarily his friend. (Sept.) Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Repairman Jack, the fix-it guy who is the point man in a supernatural battle for world domination, reluctantly agrees to find a friend's missing niece. Naturally, he is immediately plunged into a chain of events that quickly turns darker and nastier. Although avid fans of the Repairman Jack series (this is the eighth entry) are likely to enjoy any new appearance of their hero, others will be painfully aware that Wilson has taken us down this evil road before--even Jack appears almost bored. It may be time to give the series a rest, despite its charms for those who like the blending of the crime and horror genres. David PittCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Praise for Harbingers""Part hard-boiled detective novel, part ""Matrix""and all fun, Wilson's latest and, perhaps, greatest kept me up all night. A pulse-pounding novel that grips you by the throat and doesn't let go even when it's over."" --Eric Van Lustbader, author of The Testament""F. Paul Wilson's Repairman Jack is a cultural icon. If you haven't crossed paths with him, you're out of the loop. Get with the program.""--David Morrell, author of Creepers""Provides everything that fans of this excellent and frequently horrific series have come to expect."" -- Publishers Weekly	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	F. Paul Wilson is the New York Times bestselling author of horror, adventure, medical thrillers, science fiction, and virtually everything in between. His books include the Repairman Jack novels, including Ground Zero, The Tomb, and Fatal Error; the Adversary cycle, including The Keep; and a young adult series featuring the teenage Jack. Wilson has won the Prometheus Award, the Bram Stoker Award, the Inkpot Award from the San Diego ComiCon, and the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Horror Writers of America, among other honors. He lives in Wall, New Jersey.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Chapter OneHey, Jack, can I bother you a minute?Jack sat at his table in the rear of Julios. He looked up from his coffee and saw Timmy OBrien, one of Julios regulars. A fiftyish guy, thin, hangdog face, watery eyes, and wearing a Hawaiian shirt in January.Julios, an Upper West Side bar that had fought the good fight and succeeded in holding on to its working-class roots through the neighborhoods decades of legitimization, rehabilitation, restoration, and gentrification, had been Jacks hang for years. Julio always saved him a table where he could sit with his back to the wall.Bother?Well, yeah. I mean, I know about what happened last month, and Im really sorry for your loss. I know youve still got to be bummed, but I could really use some help, Jack.What kind?Your kind.Jack sighed. Hed been on sabbatical, ignoring e-mails and voice mails from prospective customers. Didnt feel he could focus enoughor care enoughto earn his fee. That was part of it. Truth was he was having trouble caring about much of anything outside his small, immediate circle. No interest, no energy, and probably drinking too much these past three weeks.He didnt need a shrink to tell him he was depressed. But a shrink would want to give him pills, and Jack didnt want pills. He preferred beerbut not before lunch.He couldnt find the energy to get up and get out and get moving again. What was the point? Who cared? And when he got right down to it, did anything he did, anything hed ever done, matter in the long run? Had he ever made a difference?He wondered.But Timmy looked so needy. Jack wasnt ready to venture outside his self-circumscribed world of Julios, Abes, Gias, and his own place, but maybe he could make a few suggestions.He pointed to the seat across from him.Shoot.As Timmy settled his butt in the chair and his draft on the table, Jack reviewed what he knew about the man.A dozen years ago Timmy had been an advertising hotshot, near the peak of the copywriter heap. Lots of money, but too much of it going up his nose. His agency had been on the short list for a big Citibank account and he had this idea that he was sure would clinch it for them. Hed once shown the Julios gang a mockup of the ad.A big, neon-bright lettered cross with tiny letters below it:Jesus a v e sat CITIBANKEveryone here at Julios had thought it was way cool, but the new Timmy said he had no idea where his old self had come up with such a stupid idea. The agency brass had told him to forget it, but coke-fueled grandiosity mixed with his own hubris had convinced him that this was the only way to go. So against all advice and all orders, hed pitched it to the bank officers, telling them that though he knew it would be controversial, that very controversy would make Citibank a household name.The officers agreed, but figured the banks name would be associated with other words in those householdslike hell-bound and damned and sacrilegious.The multimillion-dollar account went elsewhere. And soon after, so did Timmy.After bottoming out a few years later, he put himself in rehab, joined NA, and cleaned up his act.But the clean and sober Timmy was not the same man. The guy whod had his finger on the pulse of Americas wantswhod even created some of those wantscould never quite localize that throb again. He was still in advertising, but working far below the apogee of his heyday. Always a little out of steplike the Hawaiian shirtever functioning just outside the norm. No longer big-time, resigned to be forever small-time.In other words, a prototypical Julios regular.But Jack didnt remember ever seeing him here before five oclock. And a morning beereven if it was late morningwasnt like the new Timmy. Something had to be bothering him.Its about my niece.How old?Fourteen.Oh, man.A problem with a fourteen-year-old girl. That could mean anything from promiscuity to drugs to being an all-around wild child. None of which Jack could help with.Timmy held up a hand. Now, now, I know what youre thinking, but its nothing like that. Cailins a good kid. She goes to Mount Saint Ursula, scholarship and allstraight-A student, field hockey, the whole thing.Then what is it?Shes gone.Ran off?I told you, Cailins not like that. But this morning, somewhere between her house and school, she disappeared.This morning? Jack shook his head. Hell, Timmy, shes been gone, what, four hours? Shes probably off with her boyfriend.Except her boyfriends in school.What do the police say?Same as you: Hasnt been gone long enough. If someone had seen foul play, thatd be a different story. But with kids running away all the time, theyre pretty blas about the whole thing. Like, Yeah-yeah, come back when its been a coupla days. So Im coming to you, Jack.Jack sighed. He could see Timmy was worried, but he had to lay out a few facts of life.I dont do missing persons, Timmy, especially a hot case. And theres a very good reason for that: I cant. I dont have the resources. Im just one guy, and the cops are many. And theyve got all those computers and databases and people from CSI: New York.But theyre not using them!The other thing is, Im not a detective. Im a fix-it guy.Well, then, fix this.TimmyDamn it, Jack!Timmy slammed his palms on the table. His beer mug and Jacks coffee cup jumped. The midday regulars looked over, then went back to their drinks and talk. He lowered his voice.My sisters going nuts, Jack, and so am I. I never had kidstwo wives but no kids. Cailins been like a daughter. I couldnt love her more if she were really mine.That struck a nerve. Jack knew the feeling. He had the same relationship with Vicky.What do you think I can do, Timmy?You know people, and you know people who know peoplepeople the cops dont know.As in, Ive Got Friends in Low Places?You know what I mean. Put the word outa sort of street-level Amber Alert. Ill pay a rewardfive hundred, a thousand, my apartment, anything. His throat worked as his voice choked. I just want her safe and sound. Is that too much to ask?It might be, but Jack supposed he could make a few calls. Timmy was a regular here, and Julios regulars tended to watch each others backs. How could he say no?Okay, Ill call some people. He kept his phone list at home. A quick walk from here. But five hundred wont be enough.Timmy spread his hands. I know you dont come cheap, but like I said: anything.What Im trying to tell you is were venturing into Whats-in-it-for-me Land. Some of the guys I call, and most of the guys they call, arent going to pass the word around out of the goodness of their hearts. Theyre going to need incentive.Name the figure.Jack had done this before and knew it had to be set up so, in case of success, everyone along the chain walked away with something. What hed tell his first-line contacts was that if someone in their contact string found the girl, theyd get the same reward as the finder. This would go down the line: If A tells B who tells C who tells D who finds the girl, all four get the same reward. Five hundred bucks apiece seemed like a good incentiveone that looked better and better as it moved down the chain, ballooning to a bonanza by the time it reached the street people.Probably cost you twenty-five hundred, although it might go as high as five.Timmy slumped with relief.Done. I cant think of anything better to spend it on.Got a pen? When Timmy handed him one, Jack grabbed a napkin and readied to write. Whats she look like? What was she wearing?She left the house in a blue coat over a typical Catholic girls school outfit. You know: white blouse, blue sweater, blue-and-white plaid skirt, blue knee socks.Jack shook his head. Got to be a gazillion kids dressed like that in the city.Yeah, but they dont have Cailins hair. Its bright redall naturaland wild. Shes always complaining about how nothing she tries will control it.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;contemporary;genre fiction;horror;literature & fiction;mystery;thriller & suspense;thrillers,8
0971708908,"Lies and Deceptions With a fast paced book reminiscent of a sex and shopping novel,  Kenneth Harrison gives us the story of gay and straight people living  in a small New England city.  Lies and Deceptions follows three  couples through the final months of the year 2000 as they attend  parties, gossip about one another and wade through all the deceptions  that come with the search for love.    As with many of Harrison's stories, nothing is quite what it seems.  A controlling misogynist comes off looking like the perfect gentleman,  a self loathing stalker is seen as a rejected lover, and some of the  nicest men are viewed as enemies. The central characters are: Dale, a  Madonna obsessed hairdresser whose ex-boyfriend is stalking him; Iris,  an interior designer who tries to convince herself that she is in love  with Ian, but is really in love with Andrew; Jay: a college student  who has to lie about his age to keep his present boyfriend from  dumping him.  Can these three people find love while wading through  the lies they tell one another and themselves?	Kenneth Harrison is also the author of two collections of short stories and a novel, Bad Behavior. His short stories have also been included in the anthologies Butch Boys and Grave Passions. He lives a quiet life in Providence, RI.",books;erotica;gay & lesbian;humanities;literature;literature & fiction;new;used & rental textbooks,8
B00005Q55G,"Area 51: The Grail The Great Wall of China, the immense carvings on Easter Island, Egypt's pyramids, UFOs. What is the chilling connection? The answer, unearthed by an elite band of soldiers and scientists based at Area 51, is rewriting human history - to include the aliens who shaped it! Now, in this heart-pounding audio, Area 51 personnel embark on a top secret search for the Holy Grail, a glittering artifact with the power to save the world...or lead to its destruction.Special Forces officer Mike Turcotte has paid his dues in battle and in blood. Now assigned to Area 51, he fights the toughest enemy of his career: the alien race who arrived on earth millennia ago and has returned to claim the planet. Mike has dodged bullets and faced weapons of mass destruction to give humanity another day of reprieve. But when his lover, scientist Lisa Duncan, falls into evil hands, Mike must decide which prize means most to him - the woman he loves or the legendary Grail. It's a decision that could damn him...or us all.",books;literature & fiction;mystery;science fiction;science fiction & fantasy;spy stories & tales of intrigue;thriller & suspense;thrillers,8
1931896127,"The Cemetery of Chua Village and Other Stories (Voices from Vietnam) ""...Doan Le's gorgeous stories, socially astute and suffused with a warm humanity, are great news from Vietnam."" -- St. Petersburg Times ""A wide range of human emotion--anger, jealousy, delusion, resentment--is depicted in these simple tales."" -- MuliCultural Review""Vietnamese short stories with a fantastical edge and some starling twists and turns."" -- Seattle Post	Born in 1943. Le was one of post-war Vietnam's first film actors, and later became a script writer and author of numerous highly praised works of fiction.",asia;books;contemporary;genre fiction;history;literature & fiction;vietnam;war,8
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1576835774,"Who Was Adam?: A Creation Model Approach to the Origin of Man The authors of this study are distressed that many people, from scientists to judges, define creationism as a religious view rather than a legitimate scientific theory, and they attempt to redeem it as a science. (It is worth noting that both authors hold doctorates, one in chemistry and one in astronomy.) Early on, they state they define a creationist as ""anyone who believes in the existence of a supernatural Creator,"" but it quickly becomes clear that in fact they mean something much narrower. Their model posits that God created the first people, Adam and Eve; that humanity began in a specific geographic location, the Garden of Eden; and that this creation took place between 10,000 and 100,000 years ago. They then marshal evidence from various disciplines, such as archaeology and astronomy, to support their views. They also argue that ""changes in Earth's cosmic radiation environment"" have dramatically decreased human lifespan-thus it is wholly plausible that people once lived the 100-plus years of the biblical patriarchs and matriarchs. The authors depart from their scientific grid only to toss out a canard common in evolution-versus-creation debates: the insistence that adopting a ""naturalistic process of evolutionary descent"" leads to a world stripped of meaning. Rana and Ross are to be commended for purging their prose of unnecessary scientific jargon; the writing is clear enough that a lay-person can follow along. Nonetheless, this book is unlikely to persuade anyone who is not already in agreement with the authors' views.Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.",books;christian books & bibles;history & philosophy;religion & spirituality;religious studies;science & math;science & religion;theology,8
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B000OT8GVW,"Great Jobs for Business Majors (Great Jobs for ... Majors) What can I do with a degree in business? If you're like many business majors, you chose this course of study because it promised the smoothest career transition after graduation. In today's volatile job market, however, nothing is guaranteed. Even a business major has to approach the job search with creativity and competitive zeal in order to succeed. Great Jobs for Business Majors is the perfect place to start. Designed to help you put your major to work, this handy guide covers both the basics of a job search as well as detailed profiles of possible careers in your field. From sales to nonprofits, retail to health care, you'll explore a variety of job sectors for business majors--including some you never knew existed--to determine the best fit for your personal, professional, and practical needs. In this updated edition, you'll find:  Thorough explanations of job-search basics such as crafting resumes, writing cover letters, and interviewing dos and donts  Revealing self-assessments to help you determine your best professional fit  Investigative tools to help you uncover those jobs that will make the most of your major  Networking tips to get your face out in the field and your foot in the door before the resume is even sent  True-life tales from practicing professionals who detail what daily life on the job is really like  Up-to-date statistics on earnings, advancement, and the overall career outlook  Extensive listing of resources--journals, associations, websites--that provide the inside track on job opportunities in your field   With the information and inspiration packed into Great Jobs for Business Majors, you'll discover how to explore your professional options, target your ideal career, and use your college major as an asset in landing your dream job.	Stephen Lambert is the director of career services at Plymouth State College in New Hampshire where, in addition to counseling students and developing year-round career workshops, he serves as a representative to the New Hampshire College and University Council's Adviser's Committee. He developed this series with Julie DeGalan, a former administrator and career counselor at Plymouth State College.",books;business & investing;careers;guides;job hunting;job hunting & careers;kindle ebooks;kindle store,8
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1563152932,"The Monsoon Mystic This intriguing and exciting novel exposes the greed and  ruthlessness of those who prey on innocent victims.  A thrilling  backdrop of terrorism gives Christine's story a very contemporary  feel.  The author, born and raised in India, has published three books  in Malayalam, his native language; The Monsoon Mystic is his first  novel in English.",books;contemporary;literature & fiction;mystery;suspense;thriller & suspense;thrillers;united states,8
0123497035,"Differential Equations, Dynamical Systems, and an Introduction to Chaos, Second Edition (Pure and Applied Mathematics) ""The exposition is excellent. I particularly liked how the proofs are fairly easy to follow... There are several instances where 'What if...?' questions come up naturally and the authors explore these as though they were reading your mind."" - Gareth Roberts, Holy Cross""This text contains exactly what a student entering graduate school in Dynamical Systems needs to know; it is Dynamical Systems from three mathematicians who are not only among the world's most prominent experts in dynamical systems, but who are also among the world's best mathematical expositors. The book contains the benchmark models of chaos to which much of current research is compared"" - Bruce Peckham, University of Minnesota""The presentation is very clear and often supported by carefully selected key-examples. The book meets very high pedagogical standards and certainly is a worthy successor of the original version.""-R. Steinbauer, Wien, in MONATSHEFTE FUR MATHEMATIC, VOL 147	Rigorous yet accessible introduction to differential equations and dynamical systems	By Dr. Morris W. Hirsch, Dr. Stephen Smale and Dr. Robert Devaney	Rigorous yet accessible introduction to differential equations and dynamical systems",algebra & trigonometry;books;education & reference;mathematics;new;science & math;science & mathematics;used & rental textbooks,8
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B000JFIJ5Y,"DMI Sports FT250DS Table Soccer Turn your basement or garage into the neighborhood rec room with this 55-inch foosball table from DMI Sports. Outfitted with a stylish light cherry laminate exterior and heavy-duty 5-inch square legs (with levelers), the attractive table both pleases the eye and satisfies the desire for competitive table soccer play. Serious players will dig the table's wood handles--which cover the solid, chrome-plated steel rods to provide excellent play and a secure grip--while casual players will love the pair of plastic cup holders, which are perfect for stabilizing a soda or brew. Other details include replaceable ball-bearing action, abacus-style scoring, and a steady, level playing surface. The table measures 55 by 35 by 29 inches (W x H x D).	The DMI Sports FT250DS Foosball table is constructed of a tough light cherry laminate with 5"" heavy duty legs. Features 5/8"" solid chrome plated steel rods, Chrome plated leg cross bars, Wood handles, Leg levelers, and two cup holders. 55.125"" x 29""",foosball;game room;game room games;games;leisure sports & games;sports & outdoors;table games;toys & games,8
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1894963350,"1955 in SPORT: A Year Like None Other It is widely remembered as the year the Brooklyn Dodgers finally defeated the New York Yankees in the World Series, but 1955 was so much more than that. It was a watershed 12 months in the history of sports: a year the world was introduced to high school senior Wilt Chamberlain, All-American Bill Russell and PGA rookie Arnold Palmer; a year Mickey Mantle was booed by Yankee fans, while, across town, Willie Mays solidified his superstar status and Duke Snider became a champion; a year heavyweight champ Rocky Marciano stepped proudly into retirement and Sugar Ray Robinson stormed gallantly out of it; a year Doak Walker won another NFL scoring title  and quit; a year Maurice ""Rocket"" Richard lost an NHL scoring title  and ignited a riot; a year the worlds top tennis player, Pancho Gonzalez, couldnt find a match; and a year Bill Vukovich set out to win an unprecedented third consecutive Indianapolis 500 but lost his life instead. Half a century later, 1955 in Sport: A Year Like None Other celebrates the people and events of that remarkable year in an anthology of outstanding writing and photographs that originally appeared in SPORT magazine.	Dave Anderson is a Pulitzer Prize winning sports columnist of The New York Times and author of 22 books, including two bestsellers with John Madden: One Knee Equals Two Feet and Everything Else You Need to Know about Football; and All Madden: Hey, I'm Talking Football. He has authored more than 350 magazine articles and his writing has been included in several anthologies. In addition to his 1981 Pulitzer Prize, Anderson has won numerous writing awards, including the 1994 Associated Press Sports Red Smith Award for distinguished sports column writing, and in 1990 was inducted into the National Sports Writers and Sportscasters Hall of Fame.",20th century;baseball;books;history;history of sports;miscellaneous;modern (16th-21st centuries);sports & outdoors,8
006017420X,"Life Preservers: Staying Afloat in Love and Life This collection of letters and replies, some of which were previously published in the author's New Woman magazine column (""Harriet Lerner's Good Advice""), covers many issues. Lerner (The Dance of Deception) offers advice to women on love, friendship, marriage, parenting and sexual politics. Her warm, conversational style is engaging and meshes well with her commonsense approach to problem solving. Lerner advises women that many emotional problems between people spring from a lack of communication, and that differences must be faced before they can be solved. A self-described feminist, Lerner is pro-choice and believes that same-sex love is as ""normal"" as heterosexuality. Despite the format, which dictates short answers to broad questions, the author provides thoughtful comments geared to helping women surmount their difficulties. Author tour. Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Lerner (The Dance of Intimacy, HarperCollins, 1993) pulls off a flourishing pirouette with her latest offering. Appearing monthly, her New Woman magazine column ""Good Advice"" (from which this book is drawn) answers some of her readers' most frequently asked questions with brevity and conciseness. Friendship and marriage, children and parents, sexuality and health, and loss and betrayal are just a few of the topics covered. Each reply includes a number of solutions for the reader, and each entry also ends with a quote?a ""golden nugget,"" if you will, of insight into each particular situation. The book's question-and-answer format makes it a joy to read, and readers will feel that they are perusing a letter from a good friend. Essential.?Marty Dean Evensvold, Magnolia Branch Lib., Tex.Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.	""A joy to read....essential.""  -- Library Journal	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	Is my therapy working? Should I stay or leave him? Why do I  always pick the wrong guys? Am I a lesbian? Here is good (actually, the  best) advice when you need it most. In a user-friendly question and  answer format, you will find Dr. Lerner's short, witty and incredibly  wise answers to womens big questions on love and life. Just when  you thought you couldnt digest another directive on how to live  your life, Dr. Lerner cuts right through the confusion and tosses a  life preserver your way. Plus, the most provocative and  thought-provoking ""Good Marriage Test"" youve ever seen.	Harriet Lerner, Ph.D., is one of our nations most loved and respected relationship experts. Renowned for her work on the psychology of women and family relationships, she served as a staff psychologist at the Menninger Clinic for more than two decades. A distinguished lecturer, workshop leader, and psychotherapist, she is the author of The Dance of Anger and other bestselling books. She is also, with her sister, an award-winning children's book writer. She and her husband are therapists in Lawrence, Kansas, and have two sons.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",& style;beauty;books;fitness & dieting;grooming;health;psychology & counseling;self-help,8
0793500710,"The Best Rock Songs Ever (Best Ever) Founded in 1947, Hal Leonard Corporation has become the worlds largest print music publisher, representing some of the greatest songwriters and artists of all time. We are proud to publish titles of interest to all musicians as well as music lovers, from songbooks and instructional titles to artist biographies and instrument price guides to books about the music industry and all the performing arts.",arts & photography;books;instruments;music;musical genres;reference;rock;songbooks,8
8120801520,"Concise Sanskrit-English Dictionary Prin. Vaman Shivaram Apte came from a well-to-do family in Konkan. In the Marathi Stats of Sawantwadi, in the small village of Asolopal (Banda Pets) his father was known as a noble-minded Pandit of high integrity of character. But his obliging nature brought the family to straitened circumstances at the time of his death, for standing surety for a friend. Vaman was then only eight years old. He was born in 1858 in the same village and had his primary education there. His mother, a brave lady, saw no future for the family in that native place and came to Kolhaput with her two sons (Vaman and his elder brother) and with great difficulty brought up her children.",books;education & reference;foreign language dictionaries & thesauruses;foreign language study & reference;foreign languages;humanities;new;used & rental textbooks,8
0802117368,"Repetition A spy novel about a French agent in 1949 Berlin becomes an oedipal journey into the agent's past and an adventure in unreliable narration in this work by nouveau roman pioneer Robbe-Grillet, his first in 20 years. Henri Robin (or so his passport identifies him) is a spy crossing Europe on a train, pondering a mission that has yet to be revealed to him. As he enters the ravaged city, Robin is haunted by flashbacks, even though, ostensibly, he has never been to Berlin before. His assignment, he learns, is to watch a murder that's supposed to take place in an outdoor plaza. Robin observes closely, but when he goes to recount the details, his story is confused and contradictory, and Robin finds himself in the heart of the murder investigation. As the nebulous case plays out, Robin comes to live with the murder victim's wife and adolescent daughter, Gigi, the latter representing a pivotal link to Robin's family history as well as the espionage machinations. Robbe-Grillet shifts back and forth between the criminal investigation, the espionage plot and the playful Freudian analysis of Robin's childhood and subconscious. Extensive footnotes introduce the possibility that Robin may in fact be a lunatic. Newcomers braced for surreal narrative lurches will find this an entertaining introduction to Robbe-Grillet's work. As the title coyly suggests, his admirers will find much of this territory familiar, but that only adds another layer of irony to Robbe-Grillet's witty allusions. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.	In Fifties France, Robbe-Grillet helped originate the nouveau roman, or ""new novel,"" which challenged traditional concepts of narration. He returns after a 20-year silence with a sort of literary thriller, set in 1949 Berlin. Henri Robin doesn't know why the French Secret Service has sent him to the devastated city, but he has the uneasy feeling that he has been here before. Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.	The grand old man of the nouveau roman has published his first novel in two decades, and, faithful to its title, it is not at all new but, rather, a variation on old themes and obsessions. In fact, Repetition is a sort of deliberate distortionor alteration, or rewriting, or retellingof Robbe-Grillet's earlier books, in particular the first, The Erasers (1953). The plot, such as it is, concerns a French secret agent who, in 1949, is sent to Berlin, where he witnesses a murder. This leads him to search out his own past. The reader, meanwhile, is led to distrust every narrator who pops up. Robbe-Grillet's conviction that the true writer has nothing to say, only the way he says it, remains undimmed, but seldom has the nouveau roman seemed so ancien.   Copyright  2005 The New Yorker	French writer Robbe-Grillet has been at the forefront of the nouveau roman movement since the publication of his first novel, The Erasers, in 1953, writing a number of richly labyrinthine and allusive works. It's been 20 years since his last novel, and his newest, elegantly translated by Howard, transforms a tale of espionage set in 1949 Berlin into a psychological quest into one man's precarious sense of self, persistent Oedipal urges and regrets, and sadistic erotic fantasies. Robbe-Grillet's mysterious noir spy story begins on a crowded train when a special agent traveling with papers attesting to multiple identities is stunned to come face-to-face with his doppelganger. This encounter is the first of many confounding meetings with doubles and twins as this covert man of many names, beset by baffling memories, dreams, and hallucinations, finds himself emerging from drug-induced stupors in the city's ruins somehow implicated in murder, kidnapping, and torture. Illusion, lust, deception, criminality--all are employed in Robbe-Grillet's eerie exploration of the strange force of repetition, of compulsively recollecting and reinventing the painful past. Donna SeamanCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	Text: English (translation) Original Language: French",books;literary;literature & fiction;mystery;spy stories & tales of intrigue;suspense;thriller & suspense;thrillers,8
0672316544,"Pure Java 2 Pure Java 2 is a substantial and focused reference for professional Java programmers. This book begins with an accelerated introduction to Java 2 so that you can quickly understand the new concepts and begin developing your own applications. Professional programmers prefer to learn by examining code, so Pure Java 2 also contains hundreds of programming techniques, complete with well-commented code examples that you can immediately use in your own Java programs.	Kenneth Litwak, Ph.D. is a certified Java instructor with Sun Microsystems. He is a professional Java developer who also teaches Java programming and software engineering courses at UC Berkley. Kenneth is a dedicated, experienced Java software developer, skilled in all phases of the software development life-cycle, including planning, scheduling, analysis, design, programming, and testing.  He speaks frequently at Java conferences and other software development industry events.",books;computers & technology;education & reference;java;languages & tools;networking;programming;software,8
0670880191,"Happy Alchemy: On the Pleasures of Music and the Theatre The following passage reveals Robertson Davies's great love of the theater, and it shows that these collected pieces, numbering 33, transcend mere criticism: For as long as I can remember, playgoing has stood first among all pleasures with me, and although to most people it is simply a pastime, I think that I have brought qualities to it which raised it above that.... I sincerely believe that I have been a good playgoer, and that is something better, perhaps, than having been a well-known critic. One's admiration for this literary master doubles when remembering that drama was Davies's academic field, and it constituted one of his three successful careers (he acted with the Old Vic in England). By 1962, Davies had begun to craft his playgoing notes into the Theatre Diary--snippets of which appear in this posthumously published collection. Each of these 33 pieces, introduced by the author and followed by a diary entry or two, demonstrates Davies's enormous and diverse erudition. Included are speeches, prologues to plays, articles about the theatre and opera, a discussion of folksong, a children's opera, a story set to music, and a preliminary sketch of a film script. Several personal essays shed light on his own ambitions as a playwright. Many of these pieces were lectures, and they enjoy the immediacy and cadence of the spoken word. A spacious tone ensues; that is, complex ideas are delivered clearly, because they are intended for a listening audience. Surprisingly, this enhances the pleasure of reading them. Happy Alchemy may not appeal to the reader whose interest in theater and opera is only occasional but certainly will to any ardent Robertson Davies fan who delights in the turnings of a learned and sophisticated mind. --Hollis Giammatteo	Last year, Davies's widow, Brenda, and their daughter, Jennifer Surridge, worked to compile The Merry Heart, a collection of Davies's speeches and writings on reading, writing and books. Davies had consented to the plans for that book in the last months of his life. This, however, seems to be purely a production of his estate and is, truth to tell, uneven. There are some wonderful pieces: His speech on ""The Noble Greeks"" wanders convincingly from Greek religion and culture to Jim Jones and David Koresh to troubles with translation; while ""Lewis Carroll in the Theatre"" is a fine work on Carroll generally, but one that puts him into the context of 19th-century theater. But for someone who was an actor and playwright married to a former stage manager, many of the theatrical pieces are slight?introductions to his plays; an encomium on the event of Stratford's 40th; a perfectly nice, but not notable book review of Michael Holroyd's third volume on Shaw. Two well-executed pastiches stand in distinction to Davis's libretto for an ""Operetta for Young People"" (""O love, you hang on Fillpail's horns/And swell her splendid udder!/Triumph, O Fillpail, win today,/The alternative makes me shudder!""). Midway, a piece in defense of the emotional immediacy of melodrama leads neatly into several very good works: on how weak or badly bowdlerized literature gives way to great opera; on the operatic juxtaposition of tragedy and comedy; and on the possible uses (exploited and un-) of Celtic folklore in opera. In these pieces Davies warms to themes of myth and archetype and wonder. In these pieces one hears the voice of the old mage. Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Prolific and popular Canadian novelist Davies (The Cunning Man, LJ 10/1/94) was also a playwright and a devoted student of the theater. Following his death in 1995, his wife and daughter collected 26 short pieces, mostly on literary themes, in The Merry Heart (LJ 6/15/97); now they have brought together 33 more speeches, lectures, and essays dealing with the performing arts. Several deal with opera, a special love of his, but there are also republished introductions to his own plays, appreciations of Laurence Olivier and set designer Tanya Moiseiwitsch, and even the unpublished libretto of an ""operetta for young people."" One of the most delightful aspects of this book is the inclusion of quotations from Davies's 40 years of theater notebooks in the introductions to each piece. In his heart, Davies was too generous to be a critic, and these works totally lack in polemic or aesthetic agenda?aside from delight in a good production of a well-told tale. The result will not advance anyone's serious study of the drama, but it will entertain, and occasionally inform, anyone who enjoys an evening in the theater. For most collections.?Eric Bryant, ""Library Journal""Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Davies wrote 15 works of fiction, 7 plays, and 10 books of criticism. The fiction made him world famous, but his great love was always for the theater. Early in his career, he worked for the Shakespearean director Tyrone Guthrie, and he maintained a lifelong connection with the Stratford Festival in Ontario, delivering occasional lectures on theater in its Celebrated Writers series. He contributed essays on theater to various literary and theatrical publications, and he penned Shavian introductions to the printed editions to his own plays. This nice, fat, immensely readable anthology gathers Davies' previously unpublished writings on and about theater and a few that address his related interest in music. They include the full texts of several Stratford lectures, those introductions to his plays, and even a short, satirical film scenario written in the '90s but never produced. Sprinkled throughout are excerpts from the journal Davies kept specifically to record his opinions about theater. Davies' mischievous, erudite wit shines through every line of this exceptional collection.  Jack Helbig	On the evidence of his immense legacy in print, the late novelist Davies was a man of profound artistic appetite; this, the second posthumous collection of his criticism, shares the exuberant and casual erudition of the first (The Merry Heart, 1997). The material here, most of it previously unpublished, was culled by the author's wife and daughter from his vast archive of speeches, interviews, articles, and errata, including excerpts from the copious diaries he kept throughout his life. Though the majority of pieces deal with the theater, Davies, like George Bernard Shaw, with whom he enjoyed much fruitful contact over the years, cultivated a dynamic relationship to music, and the ruminations on offer here attest to the depth of his engagement. Of Verdi's Rigoletto and distaste for fine verse that would distract from his music, he provocatively notes that ``the inferiority of what he made his librettists produce from the bleeding ruins of Macbeth and Othello is proof of his musical genius, but certainly not of his literary taste,'' praising the crudity of its melodrama as essential to the composer's intent. Elsewhere we encounter subtle observations on the psychology of folk music, the performance style of renowned pianist Benno Moiseiwitsch, for whose daughter the author held a deep affection, even a musical ghost story that Davies wrote for the Young People's Theatre in Toronto. His remarkably droll humor is on display here, most notably in a letter, from fictional ``necromantic suppliers'' friars Bacon and Bungay, to Tanya Moiseiwitsch, director of the Stratford Festival Theatre in Davies's native Canada, offering to sell the eclectic ingredients necessary to perform the famous witches' scene in Macbeth, part of which was omitted during the festival's 1962 production of that play. Lovingly collected, these scatterings of Davies's singular talent are typically abundant and a welcome addition to a corpus like no other in contemporary literature.  -- Copyright 1998, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.	The book in thoroughly entertaining fashion acquaints us with Davies' expansive erudition and gift for rendering literary and historical complexities in simple, human terms.   -- The New York Times, Peter Marks[These] essays, speeches, parodies and playlets display ... wit, charm and insight....   -- The New York Times Book Review, Diane Cole",books;criticism & theory;essays;essays & correspondence;history & criticism;literature & fiction;movements & periods;world literature,8
0811846059,"The Tailgating Cookbook: Recipes for the Big Game Bob Sloan is the celebrated author of Great Burgers (0-8118-4293-2). Based in New York, Bob is a busy guy who teaches and writes mysteries and other books on a variety of topics. He is an equal opportunity tailgater, firing up his grill at soccer, baseball",barbecuing & grilling;books;cookbooks;food & wine;outdoor cooking;regional & international;tailgating;u.s. regional,8
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B000FNWG04,"Carbon and High Performance Fibres Directory and Databook - Sixth Edition This is a worldwide directory of all commercially available  advanced composite fibre materials. All product tables in the  directory are  indexed by the name of the manufacturer in each section  and numbered  for easy cross-referencing. In addition, where  appropriate, the  individual product grades are classified and ranked  so that they can  be compared. An invaluble source of information for  all those  concerned with advanced composites.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	This is a worldwide directory of all commercially available  advanced composite fibre materials. All product tables in the  directory are  indexed by the name of the manufacturer in each section  and numbered  for easy cross-referencing. In addition, where  appropriate, the  individual product grades are classified and ranked  so that they can  be compared. An invaluble source of information for  all those  concerned with advanced composites.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",biography & history;books;business & investing;chemical;company profiles;engineering;materials;professional & technical,8
0688139310,"Treasured Recipes from the Charleston Cake Lady: Fast, Fabulous, Easy-To-make Cakes For Every Occas Since 1984, Teresa Pregnall, also affectionately known as the Charleston Cake Lady, has baked and shipped more than 20,000 cakes from her own kitchen to satisfied customers all over the country. Her cakes have received attention in The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, Victoria, and Country Living. She lives in Charleston, South Carolina.",baking;books;cakes;cookbooks;desserts;food & wine;regional & international;u.s. regional,8
0934161151,"Day Hiker's Guide to Southern California A Southern California classic.  -- Los Angeles TimesGood directions, clear maps, colorful histories and descriptions.  -- Sunset MagazineThose unfamiliar with the wild landscapes just a short ride from the  metropolitan area are in for some surprises.   -- Pasadena Star News	John McKinney is the longtime hiking columnist for the Los Angeles Times and author of a number of guidebooks. He frequently contributes to several national publications, and serves as a consultant to the fast-growing walking industry, including The Wayfarers, a British-based walking vacation company.",books;excursion guides;hiking & camping;pacific;sports & outdoors;travel;united states;west,8
0968876889,"The Rabbits Grade 2-8-An allegorical picture book about ecological and cultural destruction, illustrated with remarkable and highly stylized art. Small, reddish-brown armadillo/numbatlike creatures describe what happens when newcomers arrive in their homeland-""The rabbits came many grandparents ago."" Their numbers and technology take over, with devastating effects: ""Sometimes we had fights, but there were too many rabbits. They chopped down our trees and scared away our friends and stole our children."" In the end, the land is devastated and the animals wonder, ""Who will save us from the rabbits?"" The brief, bleak text is simple, and its message fairly obvious, but it is the stunning ink, oil, and wash artwork that adds complexity and the visual experience of a culture and landscape being overrun. The sharp-angled, streamlined white rabbits in formal suits and uniforms start out the same size as their rounded unclothed compatriots, but soon take over the foreground in ever-expanding size. The tiny innocent smokestack of their first vehicle and the predatory prow of their massively looming ship become the ominous portent of mechanization that runs amok. Though aspects of both illustrations and text make the parable particularly pertinent to Australia, the nonspecific language and highly stylized art are easily generalized and parallels can be drawn to any study of colonial history. The story's point of view provides a clear understanding of, and unsentimental empathy with, the experience of indigenous cultures, while its extraordinary art offers a thought-provoking, powerful look at a land and people overwhelmed.-Nancy Palmer, The Little School, Bellevue, WA Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	John Marsden was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1950. In 1969 he began an Arts/Law Degree at the University of Sydney, but soon abandoned this for a series of exotic jobs. It was not until 1978 that he found a career which suited him: that of teaching. His first book, So Much to Tell You, was published in 1987. It won the 1988 Children's Book of the Year and the U.S.'s Christopher Medal, and was named Notable by the U.S. Library Association. After a few more books, he left teaching to write full time. Tomorrow When the War Began, published in 1994, was the first in a trilogy which has smashed sales records, but more importantly gripped the hearts and imaginations of young readers worldwide. After more than 25 books, he is arguably one of the best-known and best-respected novelists for young adults.  Award-winning artist and author Shaun Tan has achieved international recognition for his work, including the CBCA Picture Book of the Year Award for this book, an Honor Book Award for Memorial (with G. Crew) and The Lost Thing, an APA Design Award, an Honorable Mention at the Bologna Book Fair, three Aurealis Awards, and Spectrum Gold and Silver Awards. In 2001 he was named best artist at the World Fantasy Awards in Montreal. A graduate of the University of Washington in 1995, with honors in fine arts and English literature, he lives in Perth, Australia.",animals;books;children's books;multicultural stories;native north & south americans;rabbits;social situations;travel & cultures,8
3764301724,Digital Hadid Patrik Schumacher teaches at the Architectural Association in London.,architecture;arts & photography;books;humanities;individual architects & firms;new;professional & technical;used & rental textbooks,8
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0582064716,The Origins of the Greek Civil War (Origins of Modern Wars) 'David Close's superb new studyxxx;offers the most articulate and comprehensive expression to date of a new approach to the war. It is difficult not to praise the book too highly. It is based on extensive and imaginative research and will surely help to bring Greek history and historiography into a wider domain.' Mark Mazower in the Journal of Modern Greek Studies,books;europe;greece;history;humanities;military;new;used & rental textbooks,8
0875847420,"Succeeding Generations: Realizing the Dream of Families in Business Ivan Lansberg, a coauthor of Generation to Generation, is a principle of Lansberg, Gersick and Associates and cofounder of the Family Firm Institute.",books;business & investing;education & reference;entrepreneurship;leadership;management & leadership;reference;small business & entrepreneurship,8
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0299086909,"Norsk, nordmenn og Norge 1: Textbook for Beginning Norwegian Text: Norwegian, English	Kathleen Stokker is professor of Norwegian at Luther College. A frequent lecturer on the Norwegian language, she has written numerous articles on Norwegian folklore, history, and traditions.",books;education & reference;foreign language dictionaries & thesauruses;foreign language study & reference;foreign languages;humanities;new;used & rental textbooks,8
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014130121X,"The Sin Eater This ""engrossing"" first novel about the death of a boy's parents ""shows... how stories can keep loved ones alive,"" said PW. Ages 10-14. Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Grade 6-8.  This intriguing title explores both the immediate and the enduring benefits of preserving family history. Two years after his mother's death, Cole and his seriously depressed father move in with his mother's aging parents on their New Hampshire farm. Dad holes up in a bedroom, but Cole fits in quickly, taking up his share of the chores and making new friends. Tending the family graveyard one day, Cole comes upon a mystery: a nameless tombstone with the inscription, ""Who Are We To Judge?"" Schmidt weaves the boy's search to discover who lies beneath that stone into a rich tapestry of small-town life: seasonal and longer cycles; memorable residents both living and dead; rivalries, friendships, and interfamily relations that sometimes go back for generations. In the anecdotes and reminiscences Cole gathers, he finds a piece of the puzzle in the century-old story of the Sin Eater, a man who, it was believed, could ease the pain and guilt of others by assuming their sins. Cole also learns a great deal about his mother from the memories of those who knew her?and, after tragedy strikes again, about his father, too. The prose is infused with feeling, and shot through with sobering, hilarious, startling, lovely, always well-told incidents. While some of the subplots are not as fully developed as others and the story occasionally breaks down under the weight of its own complexity, it is nonetheless a haunting, thoroughly admirable fictional debut.?John Peters, New York Public LibraryCopyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Gr. 6^-9. After his mother dies, Cole and his father move to her parents' New Hampshire farm. Dad immediately retires to the hired man's room, but Cole grows comfortable with his cantankerous grandfather, makes some friends, and becomes involved in hearing the stories told to him about the families in the area, in particular, the tales about the Sin Eater, who was able to take on the dishonor and pain that others in the community could not bear to shoulder. Cole finds peace in his new life, but his father, who has been drifting further away, commits suicide, and then it is up to Cole to begin the process of reconciliation once more. Schmidt, a first-time author, offers some wonderful moments. His characters are engaging; Cole's grandparents, especially, spark every page that they are on. Schmidt also has a way with description, though he overdoes it a bit for the age group. But his central image of the Sin Eater, though interesting, and its recurring role are not well integrated with the rest of the story. It will take very astute readers to make the connections that Schmidt tries to establish. Schmidt's sin might be that he is overly ambitious the first time out, but there is definite promise here.  Ilene Cooper	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;children's books;death & dying;death & grief;family life;parents;self-help;social situations,8
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1574883844,"Mickey Mantle: America's Prodigal Son ""Riveting. . . . A balanced portrait of a flawed hero.""	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	Places Mickey Mantle and the Mantle mythology within the context of 1950s and 1960s America	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	F MICKEY MANTLE HADN'T lived, broadcaster Mel Allen once said, he would have been invented. In a sense, then, Mickey Mantle, like most heroes, was a construction; he was not real. He was all that America wanted itself to be, and he was also all that America feared it could never be. The post-war America of the mid-twentieth century was like all societies with the need for heroes not because they coincidentally made them up on their own but because heroes like Mantle express a deep psychological aspect of human existence.They can be seen as a metaphor for the human search of self-knowledge. In his time, Mickey Mantle showed us the path to our own consciousness through the power and spectacle of his baseball heroics, particularly his prodigal home runs often backlit by the cathedral solemnity of Yankee Stadium. In the atomic age of the 1950s, the tape-measure blasts in our national pastime took on the form of peace-time symbols of America's newly established military dominance. After all, Hank Greenberg, the first Jewish slugger in the game, said that when he had hit his home runs from the mid-1930s into the 1940s, he was hitting them against Hitler. In the 1950s, Mickey Mantle came to reflect the appearance and values of the dominant society in the world. He was the hero of America's romance with boldness, its celebration of power, a nation's Arthurian self-confidence in strength during a time when we last thought might did make right.Mickey Mantle was a figure through which an America profoundly affected by nuclear fear, by a dizzying plethora of atomic panaceas and proposals, and by endless speculation on the social and ethical implications of the new reality, reconciled the conscious and unconscious aspects of the national psyche. People feared the bomb itself, yes, and such fears were probably overstated by authorities who wanted every new home to be built with fall-out shelters. The bomb made mid-century Americans fear more acutely what they already had feared: that things that had been whole in their lives would now split, and that such splitting could not be controlled. The evolution, or maybe revolution, in technology, race relations and the very fabric of national culture that Americans could whimsically reassure themselves every time they looked at a Norman Rockwell painting on the cover of theSaturday Evening Post-- all of that was changing; and it affected a nation that naively had believed its world had been made safe when Hitler had been defeated. But as the poet Rolf Humphries noted, in the profession of anxiousness, there is an element of fashion. In the 1950s, that fashion was also a last vestige of stability: pinstripes, the New York Yankees and baseball. Thus, when Mantle hit a home run, he was not only slugging a tape-measure dinger in the real world, but also facing an aspect of the unconscious.When I was playing, Mantle said looking back from retirement, I used to feel like everything was happening to some other guy named Mickey Mantle, like I was just me and this guy called Mickey Mantle was another person.Or as Mantle's close personal friend George Lois put it:Mickey Mantle was the last American hero. He was a walking shrine to an age of innocence and a symbol of a time when all was right with the world.Even had he not reflected the times, Mantle would have been walking Americana. He failed at what he set out to do, at what his father groomed him for: to be the greatest player who ever played the game. Still, his career was storybook stuff, hewing more to our ideas of myth than any player since Babe Ruth. Mantle himself came to realize that Ruth and Joe DiMaggio represented a state of mind that never existed beyond the abstract. They were a mirage, just as he, too, would become an icon. A lesson to be reaffirmed, sportswriter Richard Hoffer once suggested about Mantle and perhaps heroes altogether, is that we don't mind our heroes flawed, or even doomed. In America, failure is forgiven of the big swingers, in whom even foolishness is flamboyant -- and that the world will always belong to those who swing from the heels.Ted Williams was a real hitter, Mantle himself once observed. Me, I just got up there and swung for the roof ever' time and waited to see what would happen.Long before baseball Ruth and DiMaggio, long before baseball became an industry of multi-national owners and millionaire players, Walt Whitman wrote, Well, it's our game. That's the chief fact in connection with it: America's game. It has the snap, go, fling of the American atmosphere. It belongs as much to our institutions, fits into them as significantly as our Constitution's laws, is just as important in the sum total of our historic life. Baseball is, to be sure, an American cultural declaration of independence. It has come to express the nation's character - perhaps never more so than during the intense, anti-Communist, post-World War II period, when a preoccupation with defining the national conscience might be expected, particularly defining the national self in a tradition that is so culturally middle of the road. As American Studies authority Gerald Early put it: I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they study this civilization - the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball...We knew there was something poignant about Mickey Mantle before we knew what poignant meant, recalled broadcaster Bob Costas. We didn't just root for him. We felt for him. Long before many of us ever cracked a serious book, we knew something about mythology as we watched Mickey Mantle run out a home run through the lengthening shadows of a late Sunday afternoon at Yankee Stadium.The view of Mantle as a Homeric hero is correct, I think, Bryan M. Davis, a specialist on heroes in pop culture, said in an interview discussing Mantle as a heroic figure. He reminds me much more of Achilles or Hector -- heroes we revere for their ability to overcome the shortcomings of simply being human but finally having to succumb to those weaknesses -- rather than an archetypal hero such as Moses or King Arthur. But the religion of baseball tends to deify its greats. Perhaps, in a thousand years, another civilization will look back and remember the hero Mantle, who slew the demon baseballs with a mere stick and led the people in ritual song every seventh inning.Perhaps it is too much to say that, like Arthur, Mickey Mantle was one with his country, unless you believe that the grail Mantle set off to find - greatness in baseball - simply reflected the greatness America believed was its entitlement after World War II. In a sense, though, baseball has been a metaphor for American greatness. Indeed, baseball literature and films historically have been about what America could and should be: Men seeking redemption on the ballfield; baseball spoken of in religious terms, as if it had the power to heal; the nostalgia for lost idealism. In Mickey Mantle, more than any player, we also see that baseball is not only about heroes and rebels but also about fathers and sons. Baseball is about the loving father exposed and vulnerable and about the boy in the father made whole. Mantle is the eternal youth playing catch, forever trying to play with the father.The only thing I can do, Mantle was to ultimately conclude about his reason for being, is play baseball. I have to play ball. It's the only thing I know.Excerpt from Mickey Mantle: America's Prodigal Son	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	Tony Castro is a former staff writer for Sports Illustrated who did graduate work on socio-psychology in American studies while a Nieman Fellow at Harvard. His previous book on Yankees history was Mickey Mantle: America's Prodigal Son (""Heartfelt... Mantle's story has been told by others, though not with [such] detail.""  New York Times). His work has also appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, and other publications. Castro lives in Beverly Hills, California.",americas;baseball;biographies;books;history;sports & outdoors;state & local;united states,8
B000FO7I9C,"IFP/Los Angeles Independent Filmmaker's Manual, Second Edition, Second Edition Praise for the second edition:""Having worked with both Nicole and Eden, I can say that no one knows more about indie filmaking.   And they share their deep knowledge in this incredible tome."" - Doug Liman, Director, Swingers, Go, Bourne Identity""This manual is an powerful tool for anyone wanting to produce or direct a film. Going beyond theory, Eden has put together practical information that can be put to use immediately, from breaking down the script to financing to distribution.  Eden is a hands on producer working at the top levels of independent film and an invaluable source for anyone wanting to take the leap and make a film.""  - Meg LeFauve Praise for the first edition:""If only there'd been a book like this when I was starting out. Heck, I'm glad it exists even at this point in my career, so page-packed with useful info is this indispensable tome. Trust me, first-timers, read it from cover to cover and avoid the pitfalls and hang-ups most of us had to learn firsthand. You hold in your hands the perfect marriage between practical and technical advice, and breezy, entertaining anecdotes. What Nicole and Eden have wrought, let no filmmaker put asunder.""-Kevin Smith, writer/director, Clerks, Chasing Amy, and Dogma""...A clear, insightful and commonsense guide for anyone involved in making a low-budget film that is also a labor of love. Unlike most how-to books which provide clinical step-by-step directions on how to do budgets and schedules, this book explores the nuances of the creative process by walking us through the living, breathing experience of line producing.""- Denise Mann, Vice-chair, Producer's Program, UCLA	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	Backed by the resources of Independent Feature Project/West, co-authors Nicole Shay LaLoggia and Eden H. Wurmfeld have written the definitive low-budget production manual. Using examples from the Swingers and Kissing Jessica Stein, this comprehensive manual offers the independent filmmaker a single volume reference covering every aspect of making a film: script rights and rewrites, financing, breakdown, scheduling and budgeting, pre-production, production, postproduction, and distribution. A resource guide listing useful references and organizations, as well as a glossary, complete this guide. The companion CD-ROM features interviews with important figures in the independent film industry, including Billy Bob Thornton and Ang Lee. Forms that are illuminated in the text are also included on the CD for ease of use. The new edition is updated with thorough coverage of digital and HD-how to decide which to shoot on, what the financial impact is, and the effect on preproduction. There is also a new chapter on distribution and expanded material on postproduction.                                        *Learn how to make and distribute your independent film from experienced producers*Includes a CD-ROM with interviews with leading independent filmmakers such as Billy Bob Thornton and Ang Lee as well as frequently used production forms in reusable template format*Extensive resource guide of references, organizations, and terms	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",books;business & investing;direction & production;humor & entertainment;industries & professions;movies;performing arts;television,8
0618381414,"Mary Middling and Other Silly Folk: Nursery Rhymes and Nonsense Poems PreSchool-Grade 2Culled from Fyleman's Fifty-one New Nursery Rhymes(Doubleday, 1932; o.p.), these 20 nonsense verses in rhyming couplets abound in quirky characters and good humor. Sprightly illustrations drawn in Chinese ink and scanned and colored in Adobe Photoshop capture the absurdity of the verses and complement the folksy humor. The short and catchy rhymes read aloud well and will elicit giggles from young listeners.Sally R. Dow, Ossining Public Library, NY Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	Reviewed with Kate McMullan's Baby Goose.PreS. These nursery rhyme collections will have great appeal for the lap-sitting crowd. First published in 1931, Fyleman's original nonsense poems appear in picture-book form for the first time, with clear ink-and-watercolor illustrations that express the silly slapstick of the words. In the spirit of Mother Goose, the verses' thumping rhythms (""Meg Moriarty bought a cow, / She tried to milk it, but didn't know how"") and absurd scenarios are great for reading aloud. The pictures pick up the silliness, and sometimes the delicious wickedness, of the rhymes.There's nothing wicked about McMullan's 27 cozy, traditional rhymes, which are organized into four sections--from wake up to good night. Most of the rhymes are true to the original, but a few have been slightly modified: for example, instead of whipping her children soundly before putting them to bed, the Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe ""sang them a song."" Also, in some rhymes, babies replace adults as the active characters (""Baby Foster went to Gloucester""). Lemaitre's clear, cuddly, exuberant cartoon art, in pencil and watercolor, will have toddlers pointing at the characters and singing the words. Hazel RochmanCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	""As fresh as if they were newly minted... a fine introduction to a poet well-worth remembering."" THE HORN BOOK Horn Book""Sprightly illustrations...folksy humor...The short and catchy rhymes read aloud well and will elicit giggles from young listeners."" SLJ School Library Journal""short, humorous rhymes about farm animals and colorful characters...heavily outlined illustrations...suited to old-fashioned nursery rhymes"" KIRKUS REVIEWS Kirkus Reviews""takes poems first published in the US in 1932...adorns them with new illustrations...preserves a somewhat nostalgic look"" PUBLISHERS WEEKLY  Publishers Weekly""great appeal for the lap-sitting crowd...pictures pick up the silliness and sometimes the delicious wickedness, of the rhymes"" BOOKLIST Booklist, ALA	Neil Philip is a noted folklorist and anthologist who has written several books on Native American and multicultural themes for Clarion, including IN A SACRED MANNER I LIVE, which was named both a YALSA Best Book for Young Adults and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. He lives in England.The late Rose Fyleman's poems have been included in many well-loved British and American anthologies for young readers. She lived in England.",books;children's books;humor;humor & entertainment;humorous;limericks & humorous verse;literature & fiction;poetry,8
B000HVKJSA,"Rane SSLVINYL Colored Vinyl Control Record for Scratch LIVE (Red) The Second Edition Scratch LIVE vinyl (CV02) is different from the first edition (CV01) in two ways. Firstly, the record was mastered on much better equipment than the original, and does not suffer from any noticeable pitch variation (0.0026% max). Secondly, the absolute positioning signal used in CV02 differs from CV01, enabling the software to distinguish which version of the vinyl is being used, and even which side is playing.The second edition is distinguishable by the red band on the upper right corner of the sleeve. The label on the vinyl, besides being marked CV02, has large A and B markings to easily tell between the 10:00 and 15:00 sides. Scratch LIVE software version 1.2 and higher is required to use the second edition vinyl.",accessories;bags & cases;cartridges;dj;dj equipment;electronic music & karaoke;musical instruments;studio recording equipment,8
1565109457,"Opposing Viewpoints Series - Media Violence (hardcover edition) ""Long-standing series about controversial contemporary issues continue(s) to turn out exceptional titles.  Greenhaven's Opposing Viewpoints presents multiple perspectives on hot topics such as abortion, the death penalty, and censorship through excerpts from primary materials ranging from speeches to cartoons.""  -- Booklist (October 2001) (Booklist 20011015)""The format and approach are identical to other titles in the series; both sides of a particular issue are explored in depth.  Each essay is prefaced by questions that will help students focus their reading and each chapter concludes with suggestions for further reading and research.  Students will find the articles helpful in examining these controversial and often emotional issues.""  -- School Library Journal (August 2002) (School Library Journal 20020801)""As usual for books in this series, there are plenty of follow-up sources for students to pursue.""  -- Booklist (June 2002) (Booklist 20020615)""The language is understandable but not simplistic, the pieces are clearly titles for easy identification, and a few cartoons and charts break up the dense text.  This unbiased collection is a welcome resource for researchers and debaters.""  -- School Library Journal (June 2002) (School Library Journal 20020601)""Written by educators, scientists, journalists, doctors, veterinarians, members of the clergy and advocates.  This excellent volume will elicit group discussion and help to develop critical thinking and analysis of sensitive issues.""   -- School Library Journal (May 2002) (School Library Journal 20020501)""This supplemental reader is perfect for getting students involved in discussion.  The resulting debates are sure to reinforce any primary readings and will breathe life into any standard lecture oriented course.  This supplement is a useful tool for instructors to get students involved.""  -- Crime and Justive International (May 2002) (UNKNOWN 20020501)""As always in the Opposing Viewpoints series, there are voices from many sides of the debate.""  -- Booklist (April 2002) (Booklist 20020415)""Most present clear, fact-supported points that readers will find valuable for speeches and reports.  Editorial cartoons, anectdotes, and statistics break up the essays, make reading easier.  This is a well-balanced approach to the issues, argued with studied analysis rather than bind emotion.""  -- Booklist (April 2002) (Booklist 20020401)""This series is invaluable for preparing students for debates, classes, or research assignments.  Opposing Viewpoints books help prepare high school students for critical thinking and make them aware of issues that affect society today.  Recommended.""  -- The Book Report (March-April 2002) (Book Report 20020401)""Most useful in schools with religion and/or philosophy courses, but should also appeal to general readers.""  -- School Library Journal (April 2002) (School Library Journal 20020401)""Well-balanced collection of essays.  Sometimes complementary, sometimes contradictory, the many views clearly articulated here make this volume an excellent starting place for any thoughtful discussion.""  -- Booklist (Febraury 2002) (Booklist 20020215)""This Opposing Viewpoints selection uses essays that swing wildly toward extremes to cover the topic.  The writing becomes even more heated in the following sections...The shocking arguments and sometimes-blatant absurdity makes nearly all the essays compelling reading, wth students needing only a glimpse at an article's title to determine tone and subjectivity of the author.  Most essays are short, get right to the core of their arguments, and blast readers with examples that fit the emotional topic.""  -- Booklist (September 2001) (Booklist 20010915)""Short in length but long in substance, these essays tackle questions about the impact of media violence, viewer and listener response, and the pros and cons of government intervention.  Highlighted quotes and bulleted points enhance accessibility.""--School Library Journal (October 2004) (School Library Journal 20041001)",books;education & reference;parenting & relationships;politics & social sciences;social issues;social sciences;teens;violence in society,8
0966857909,"Summer Lightning ""A very special kind of love story, destined for special things."" -- Philadelphia Inquirer	Judith Richards is a midwesterner gone south.  She has written five novels about the south and often drawn on the childhood experiences of her husband, author C. Terry Cline.  Her recent novel Too Blue To Fly was on the short list for the Lillian Smith Award.",action & adventure;books;genre fiction;humanities;literature;literature & fiction;new;used & rental textbooks,8
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B0007DERTU,"Strange empire,: A narrative of the Northwest ""It sensitively recounts an important episode from the tragic side of the continent's history that needs to be known and remembered.""  -- Michigan Historical Review	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",( r );a-z;biographies & memoirs;books;ethnic & national;louis;people;riel,8
1584721855,"Common Sense These are the times that try men's souls, begins  Thomas Paine's first Crisis paper, the impassioned pamphlet that  helped ignite the American Revolution. Published in Philadelphia in January  of 1776, Common Sense sold 150,000 copies almost immediately. A  powerful piece of propaganda, it attacked the idea of a hereditary monarchy,  dismissed the chance for reconciliation with England, and outlined the  economic benefits of independence while espousing equality of rights  among citizens. Paine fanned a flame that was already burning, but many  historians argue that his work unified dissenting voices and persuaded  patriots that the American Revolution was not only necessary, but an  epochal step in world history.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	""Edward Larkin's new edition of Common Sense will be welcomed by readers. With a lively and detailed introduction, thorough scholarly notes, and a representative selection of the contemporaneous responses it provoked, this should become the definitive new edition of Paine's classic tract."" (Richard Boyd)""The big problem with Paine is that current readers have trouble seeing why his ideas did not seem so common-sensical to eighteenth-century people. Larkin addresses this problem with supplementary texts that focus on the debate over independence in America; along with his interesting and approachable introduction, the combination makes for the best edition of Paine's Common Sense available."" (Daniel Vickers)""There are many fine editions of this indispensable American text. But this one is richer and more rewarding than the others. It invites readers to encounter Common Sense in the fullness of its historical setting. And as it does, it makes plain how utterly Tom Paine towered above all other Revolutionary writers."" (Michael W. Zuckerman)""Edward Larkin's new edition of Tom Paine's Common Sense will be a boon to teachers and students. It thoughtfully contextualizes Paine's pamphlet while highlighting the singularity of his voice. Most importantly, it will aid students in placing Common Sense in that absolutely central eighteenth-century culture war: the beginning of the unfinished argument over modern democracy."" (Michael Meranze)	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	Designed for school districts, educators, and students seeking to maximize performance on standardized tests, Websters paperbacks take advantage of the fact that classics are frequently assigned readings in English courses. By using a running thesaurus at the bottom of each page, this edition of Common Sense by Thomas Paine was edited for students who are actively building their vocabularies in anticipation of taking PSAT, SAT, AP (Advanced Placement), GRE, LSAT, GMAT or similar examinations. PSAT is a registered trademark of the College Entrance Examination Board and the National Merit Scholarship Corporation neither of which sponsors or endorses this book; SAT is a registered trademark of the College Board which neither sponsors nor endorses this book; GRE, AP and Advanced Placement are registered trademarks of the Educational Testing Service which neither sponsors nor endorses this book, GMAT is a registered trademark of the Graduate Management Admissions Council which is neither affiliated with this book nor endorses this book, LSAT is a registered trademark of the Law School Admissions Council which neither sponsors nor endorses this product. All rights reserved.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	In 1776, America was a hotbed of enlightenment and revolution. Thomas Paine not only spurred his fellow Americans to action but soon came to symbolize the spirit of the Revolution. His elegantly persuasive pieces spoke to the hearts and minds of those fighting for freedom. He was later outlawed in Britain, jailed in France, and finally labeled an atheist upon his return to America.""No writer has exceeded Paine in ease and familiarity of style; in perspicuity of expression, happiness of elucidation, and in simple unassuming language.""--Thomas Jefferson	      --This text refers to the 							Mass Market Paperback	 edition.	When Common Sense was published in January 1776, it sold, by some estimates, a stunning 150,000 copies in the colonies. What exactly made this pamphlet so appealing? This is a question not only about the state of mind of Paine's audience, but also about the role of public opinion and debate, the function of the press, and the shape of political culture in the colonies.   This Broadview edition of Paine's famous pamphlet attempts to reconstruct the context in which it appeared and to recapture the energy and passion of the dispute over the political future of the British colonies in North America.  Included along with the text of Common Sense are some of the contemporary arguments for and against the Revolution by John Dickinson, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson; materials from the debate that followed the pamphlet's publication showing the difficulty of the choices facing the colonists; the Declaration of Independence; and the Pennsylvania Constitution of 1776.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	Thomas Paine was an English-American political activist, author, political theorist and revolutionary. As the author of two highly influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution, he inspired the America Patriots in 1776 to declare independence from Britain.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	Of the Origin and Design of Government in General. With Concise Remarks on the English Constitution   Some writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher.   Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one; for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we might expect in a country without government, our calamities are heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer. Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise. For were the impulses of conscience clear, uniform, and irresistibly obeyed, man would need no other lawgiver; but that not being the case, he finds it necessary to surrender up a part of his property to furnish means for the protection of the rest; and this he is induced to do by the same prudence which in every other case advises him out of two evils to choose the least. 	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	Thomas Paine alienated his British countrymen by championing the American and French Revolutions. In fact, he ended up alienating the Americans and French, too--but not before publishing passionate and influential writings that still stir hearts and minds. His pamphlet COMMON SENSE (1776) provided a concise, plain-language rationale for America's break with the mother country. It still makes valuable reading. Narrator George Vafiadis captures the essay's passion and sincerity, but skimps on the meaning. He has so wrapped himself up in an orator's mannerisms that he leaves little room for the sense of COMMON SENSE, aside from marking the punctuation.  Y.R.  AudioFile 2003, Portland, Maine-- Copyright  AudioFile, Portland, Maine	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",americas;books;history;humanities;new;revolution & founding;united states;used & rental textbooks,8
0385484194,"By the Lake of Sleeping Children This novelistic portrait of Tijuana garbage pickers and dump dwellers is variously funny, sad and startling. Americans who think that they have encountered real poverty in the south Bronx will be in for a shock when they read this book. And yet this is not a story of desperation. Urrea (born of a Mexican father and an American mother) does not ask pity for his subjects. Neither does he repeat childish political slogans about inequality (except to make them sound silly). Rather, he reveals the fascinating lives of resourceful Mexicans living along the border.	Urrea has an almost evangelical zeal to communicate the sad lot of Mexico's ""untouchable class,"" a border population abandoned by their country, at times by their own kin. This collection of repportage, like his Across the Wire, originates in Urrea's years helping California missionaries deliver food and medicine to orphanages and inhabitants of a moldering garbage dump near Tijuana. Here, people's lives are wholly delimited by this universe of decomposing waste. They mine their livelihood in hidden treasures?a can of food, cast-off clothing, scrap wood for a house. Passions fester and erupt; nobility and sacrifice coexist with greed, cruelty and rage. A dual government of armed toughs and community respect prevails. In 10 stark, intimate, riveting essays, Urrea passes no judgment, but attempts to show why his subjects risk all for the chance of something better across the border. Their privation provokes incomprehensible acts, incomprehensible unless one has been in their situation. Urrea has shared their lives and he emerges with strong opinions on those responsible for such misery, and fears of what it forebodes for the course of America's future. Well worth reading in our age of escalating xenophobia. Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.",anthropology;books;cultural;ethnic studies;minority studies;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific demographics,8
158435027X,"Torpor (Semiotext(e) / Native Agents) While it's being billed as a novelalmost certainly for legal reasonsthis is actually the third installment in Kraus's series of memoirs, begun momentously with I Love Dick (1997) and followed up in Aliens and Anorexia (2000). Kraus's estranged husband, Sylvre Lotringer, is a Columbia French professor and the founder, with Kraus, of Semiotext(e): he figures prominently in all three books; here, the two are named Sylvie Green and Jerome Shafir, respectively. Kraus's third-person narrative seems coy compared with the too-close-for-comfort first-person of the two previous books, but her opening tales of Sylvie's desire for a child and of Jerome's initial unwillingness to parent with her (she has two abortions at his behest) are wrenching. Eventually, in 1991, the two haplessly take a trip to Romania to adopt an orphan. The trip is the book's center, and Sylvie fugues around it brilliantly, ruminating on art and the art world, sex and sexism, marriage and children, Judaism and the Holocaust, urbanism and ruralismas all relate to her life as a perennial outsider. Kraus, whose writing about the L.A. art scene was collected as Video Green (2004), is an underrated thinker and critic; her books form a compelling record of recent art and culture, and make substantial contribution to both. (Apr.) Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	""Chris Kraus believes in 'subliminal cross-referencing' of times and cultures and describes it in a lively and highly entertaining language free of unnecessary academic musings. Somewhat like that great art historian and sociologist Arnold Hausser, the author believes in the spirit of her own age but is able to treat it with 'grace' that is refracted through the multicontoured mirror of all other preceding eras."" Nina Zivancevic , American Book Review ""Chris Kraus combines fiction, autobiography and criticism in ways that are as funny and provocative as her titles ( Aliens and Anorexia, for example)."" Los Angeles Times Book Review""Chris, and her generation of feminist theoreticians, e.g., Avital Ronell, Jane Gallup, Kathy Acker, Eileen Myles, did much more to embody the possibilities that were made possible by May 1968 and the critical writing of Tel Quel, etc., than the men who staked out all the early positions before succumbing to tenure."" Rick Moody  "" Torpor is as good a Grand Tour love story as James or Wharton, as good a memoir of Upstate New York as Edmund Wilson or Frederick Exley, a brilliant study of a Holocaust survivor, a brilliant study of the moral character of philosophers, the art world, academia, ambition, real estate, sex, orphans, and the fall of Romania. Kraus is as fun a travel writer as Ian Fleming, with a touch of Travels With Charley, and she writes about the strangeness of the world in a clear American prose filled with emotion, but with no vapors of style and forced effect to hide behind. I""ve read all of her books. Chris Kraus is a great writer."" Michael Tolkin , author of Among the Dead  ""[The narrative is] so startling that it resuscitates words long fallen out of fashion: Torpor is honest and true."" Alex Kitnick The Believer "" Torpor concerns itself with a feminist filmmaker consumed and confounded by the intellect and desire of a rapacious philosopher-lover. It""s personalized and smart with open thought and independent energy."" Vanity Fair "" Torpor is a brilliant, funny, and moving novel about the failure of a marriage and the moral vacuum created by the global ""success"" of contemporary American culture."" Rain Taxi ""A very cool surprise."" Thurston Moore Arthur ""Chris Kraus believes in 'subliminal cross-referencing' of times and cultures and describes it in a lively and highly entertaining language free of unnecessary academic musings. Somewhat like that great art historian and sociologist Arnold Hausser, the author believes in the spirit of her own age but is able to treat it with 'grace' that is refracted through the multicontoured mirror of all other preceding eras."" Nina Zivancevic American Book Review ""Dazzling... [A] hilarious and biting satire of academia and the art world."" Leslie Camhi Nextbook ""Kraus is an underrated thinker and critic; her books form a compelling record of recent art and culture, and make substantial contributions to both."" Publishers Weekly Kraus's occasionally terse style, her use of time and place and lexicon and architecture and cultural mood in place of communications or feelings is a new language. A non-emotional language for emotions. I want to tell her thank you, and mazel tov. Lisa Carver The Globe and Mail	""Chris Kraus combines fiction, autobiography and criticism in  ways that are as funny and provocative as her titles (Aliens and Anorexia,  for example)."" --Los Angeles Times Book Review (this is a general Kraus plaudit, not  Torpor-specific)	The author of four novels, the most recent of which is Summer of Hate, and two books of criticism, Chris Kraus was recently described by the New York Observer as ""the art world's favorite fiction writer."" She teaches at European Graduate School and lives in Los Angeles.",books;contemporary;history & criticism;literature & fiction;movements & periods;politics & social sciences;sociology;united states,8
B0000009O9,"Singles 69-93 A more exhaustive selection than the one-disc Changesbowie, The Singles also falls much harder on the idiosyncratic side--a perfect place for a Bowie retrospective. For every Fame, there's a Sorrow; for every Let's Dance, a Beauty and the Beast. This record also does the right thing by focusing on every facet of Bowie's '70s output and breezing quickly past the ever-blander post-Modern Love era. Even if you're a Bowie fan who leans toward having everything, this is about as everything as a compilation of A-sides can be. --Rickey Wright	Tracks are: Disc 1  1. Space Oddity  2. Changes  3. Starman  4. Ziggy Stardust  5. Suffragette City  6. John, I'm only dancing 7. The Jean Genie  8. Drive in Saturday  9. Life on Mars?  10. Sorrow  11. Rebel Rebel  12. Rock & Roll Suicide  13. Diamond dogs  14. Knock on Wood  15. Young Americans  16. Fame  17. Golden Years  18. TVC 15  19. Sound & Vision  20. Beauty & The Beast Disc 2  1. Heroes  2. Beauty & The Beast 3. Boys keep swinging  4. D.J.  5. Alabama song  6. Ashes to Ashes  7. Fashion  8. Scary Monsters (and super creeps) 9. Under pressure (featuring Queen)  10. Wild is the wind  11. Let's Dance  12. China Girl  13. Modern love  14. Blue Jean  15. This is not America (featuring Pat Methany)  16. Dancing in the streets (featuring Mick Jagger)  17. Absolute beginners  18. Day-in Day-out  19. Jump They Say",alternative rock;classic rock;folk;hard rock & metal;music;pop;r&b;rock,8
B000IGGCCG,Sony MSXM8GS 8 GB Memory Stick PRO Duo (Retail Package) Sony Memory Stick 8GB,accessories;blank media;camera & photo;computer accessories;computers & accessories;electronics;memory cards;memory sticks,8
B0006VOR1G,"Raindrip R559DP Automatic Drip Watering Kit The Raindrip automatic drip watering kit comes complete with an electric timer designed to water up to 20 potted plants, hanging baskets, or planter boxes. The kit's mini in-line drippers and PC (pressure compensating) drippers are great for all types of container drip watering. The set includes 75 feet of 1/2-inch poly hose, two 1/4-inch barbed connectors, 15 1/4-inch barbed tees, two 1/4-inch barbed elbows, 15 4-inch support stakes, 10 1/2-gph PC drippers, 10 1-gph mini in-line drippers, five 1/4-inch tube end clamps, one 3/4-inch hose thread swivel to 1/2-inch compression adaptor and filter washer, 10 1/4-inch mounting clamps, 10 gph PC flow controls, and one electronic water timer. What's in the Box 75 feet of 1/2-inch poly hose, two 1/4-inch barbed connectors, fifteen 1/4-inch barbed tees, two 1/4-inch barbed elbows, fifteen 4-inch support stakes, 10 1/2-gph PC drippers, 10 1-gph mini in-line drippers, five 1/4-inch tube end clamps, 3/4-inch hose thread swivel to 1/2-inch compression adaptor and filter washer, 10 1/4-inch mounting clamps, 10 gph PC flow controls, electronic water timer",automatic irrigation equipment;garden center;gardening;gardening tools;lawn & garden;patio;sprinkler heads;watering equipment,8
0792272943,Egypt of the Pharaohs Brian Fagan was bom in England and studied archaeology and anthropology at Cambridge University.,ancient;asia;books;early civilization;egypt;history;middle east;world,8
0736659080,"The Virgin Queen: Elizabeth I, Genius of the Golden Age A skillful storyteller and historian, Hibbert ( Cities and Civilizations ) here refreshes long-familiar facts with the drama befitting such an epochal personality as Elizabeth I, the child of executed Anne Boleyn. Succeeding to the crown at age 25, the queen ruled during England's renaissance in the arts, with the emergence of Shakespeare, Marlowe, Spenser, Lyly et al. Although she promised her subjects tolerance, Elizabeth rivaled her father and half-sister, ""Bloody Mary,"" in mercilessly dealing with any threat to her throne. It may be significant that Gloriana's death at age 70 in 1603 marked the realm's decline in prosperity and classic works--the end, in every sense, of the glittering Elizabethan era. Illustrations not seen by PW. Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Queen of England from 1558 until her death in 1603, Elizabeth I is an endlessly fascinating figure. This engaging biography is essentially personal rather than political history. Hibbert is the author of many histories for the general reader, most recently The English: A Social History, 1066-1945 ( LJ 5/15/87). There are many biographies of Elizabeth, and more than a few good ones, but Hibbert's is solid and sure to charm. Perhaps not essential, given the many treatments of Elizabeth that most libraries hold already, but nevertheless a reliable and highly readable choice for general collections.-Nancy C. Cridland, Indiana Univ. Libs., BloomingtonCopyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	9 1.5-hour cassettes	Christopher Hibbert has written many well-received biographies, including, most recently, Queen Victoria. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and an Honorary Doctor of Letters of Leicester University.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	Christopher Hibbert is an excellent popular historian--scrupulous and unsentimental, with a fine eye for the telling detail. In ELIZABETH I, he finds a personality as rich, complex, and challenging as any biographer could hope for. David Case's measured enunciation proves to be a good vehicle for this author's precise and condensed style. Case effectively handles the broad array of titles, personalities, religious and political crosscurrents, and glorious pageantry that comprised the reign of this great queen and England's most glorious age. Case is also good at conveying different levels of British dialect and courtly nuance, but, alas, his vocal rendering of the great queen is strictly camp.  D.A.W.  AudioFile 2001, Portland, Maine-- Copyright  AudioFile, Portland, Maine",( e );a-z;biographies & memoirs;books;elizabeth i;leaders & notable people;people;royalty,8
067985617X,"Diego Grade 1-4-- An accessible picture book about the life and work of Diego Rivera sounds like an oxymoron, but Winter and Winter succeed beyond belief. His early life is the focus; the text in Spanish and English captions the paintings. It does a journeyman's job of conveying facts in well-condensed sentences; the Spanish translation is clear and easy to follow even for those readers without fluency in the language. Each picture is bordered with Mexican folk-art designs done in vivid, resonant, tropical tones. The paintings themselves are done in Rivera's own colossal style, even though they actually measure only a few inches square. Winter displays her clear knowledge of and love for her subject. Frida Kahlo appears in one scene without any identification other than her distinctive eyebrows; this subtle allusion is the only mention of Rivera's tempestuous personal life. The last pictures show him as a young man, perched on his scaffolding, brushes in hand, beckoning viewers on with his ardent glance. Readers will wish they could follow. --Ruth Semrau, Lovejoy School, Allen, TXCopyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	A bilingual life of the great Mexican muralist Diego Rivera, weighted toward his early life (he was a poor scholar whose sympathetic parents provided plenty of artistic materials and sent him to art school quite young) and his pride in his heritage. Winter's small, bordered paintings, in rich, intense colors, nicely evoke folk motifs and other themes in Rivera's work, including his concern for ``poor people'' and their ``war for equality.'' An excellent beginning biography. (Biography/Picture book. 6-10) -- Copyright 1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	An accessible picture book about the life of Diego Rivera sounds like an oxymoron, but Winter and Winter succeed beyond belief. His early life is the focus; the text in Spanish and English captions the paintings. It does a journeyman's job of conveying facts in well-condensed sentences; the Spanish translation is clear and easy to follow. The paintings are done in Rivera's own colossal style, even though they actually measure only a few inches square. Winter displays her clear knowledge of and love for her subject.--(starred) School Library Journal. ----------Una excelente primera biograf#237a. -- Kirkus Reviews Ganadora del Premio New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book y del Reading Rainbow#153 Book	Text: English, Spanish	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	This story of Diego Rivera, the greatest muralist of Mexico--and of the world--is told in Spanish and English. Vibrant miniature paintings convey the sense of adventure and magic that marked Rivera's early years. And the story shows how his passion for painting and love for his country combined to make a powerful art celebrating the Mexican people----------Es la historia de Diego Rivera, el gran muralista Mejicano--y del mundo--y est contada en Espaol y en Ingls.Vibrantes pinturas en miniatura transmiten el sentido de magiay aventura que marcaron los primeros aos de Rivera y la historia nos muestra como al combinar su pasin por la pintura y el amor por su pas logr un poderoso arte que reconoce al pueblo Mejicano.	""An accessible picture book about the life of Diego Rivera sounds like an oxymoron, but Winter and Winter succeed beyond belief. His early life is the focus; the text in Spanish and English captions the paintings. It does a journeyman's job of conveying facts in well-condensed sentences; the Spanish translation is clear and easy to follow. The paintings are done in Rivera's own colossal style, even though they actually measure only a few inches square. Winter displays her clear knowledge of and love for her subject.""--(starred) School Library Journal.   ----------""Una excelente primera biograf	Jeanette Winter has written and illustrated almost 50 books for children. She lives in New York City.Jonah Winter has written numerous books for children, including Frida and Roberto Clemente: Pride of the Pittsburgh Pirates. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.From the Hardcover edition.",art;arts;biographies;books;children's books;crafts & music;history;literature & fiction,8
0139140379,"Foundations of Earth Science An abbreviated version of the best-selling text, Earth Science, 7/E. This text offers a user-friendly overview of our physical environment, placing a particular emphasis on readability, with clear, example-driven explanations.	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.	This overview of the physical environment presents geologic concepts in a user-friendly style. Clear, readable discussions with a minimum of technical language combined with a crafted art program and coverage of current events, make up this comprehensive book.  Contains a unique chapter on geologic time. The book includes as many current events as possible, such as the floods of 1997-98, the Hale-Bopp Comet, and the volcanism of Montserrat. The theme of Earth systems is woven throughout the book  without dominating the structure  to cover Earth systems science and demonstrate how different processes interact.	About the Authors       Fred Lutgens and Ed Tarbuck have been good friends and colleagues since 1970. Between them, they have more than 57 years of experience teaching geology to undergraduates, and both have been recognized with awards as excellent and inspiring professors. They share a special interest in introducing geology to beginning students and a belief in the value of field experiences for students of all levels.    Lutgens and Tarbuck published their first college text, Earth Science, in 1976. That book, winner of the McGuffy Award from the Text and Academic Authors Association, is now going into its tenth edition. In 1983, as the first edition of Earth was being prepared, gifted geology illustrator Dennis Tasa joined the author team. Since then the three have collaborated on more than twenty projects. Not only do Tarbuck, Lutgens, and Tasa work well together creatively; they also enjoy spending time in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains near Tasas New Mexico studio.    Tarbuck enjoys downhill skiing in Colorado, fly fishing near his childhood home in Northern Minnesota, and spending time in the Cascades. Lutgens is an avid runner, and when he can make the time, truly enjoys hiking the canyons of the Colorado Plateau. Although Lutgens and Tarbuck think alike on many issues, they dont agree on everything. Lutgens is devoted to jazz and classical music, whereas Tarbuck prefers pop artists or a good country station.    	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;earth sciences;education & reference;geology;new;science & math;science & mathematics;used & rental textbooks,8
B0002VNTE6,"Amazon.com: Russell Athletic Men's Scrimmage Mesh Short, Burnt Orange, X-Large: Clothing Russell Athletic Practice Gear has been trusted by generations of athletes. This is the same gear worn by hundreds of top collegiate programs across the country. Drill after drill, these teams have come to rely on Russell Athletic Practice Gear's superior strength and durability over the course of a season. Russell Athletic Practice Gear delivers the same high quality that you have come to expect from a brand that has stood the test of time. Our Scrimmage Short has been constructed using resilient yet lightweight, 2.8 ounce 100% nylon. The comfortable multi-needle covered elastic waistband has an inside draw cord. 2-ply fabric offers non-see-through strength with a soft, roomy drape. Additional details include double-needle hemmed leg openings, a 7-inch inseam. The R logo on the lower right leg signifies Russell Athletic's commitment to quality and performance.",active;active shorts;clothing;clothing & accessories;men;shorts;sports & outdoors;workout shorts,8
087441251X,"Contemporary Hebrew Text: English, Hebrew",books;education & reference;foreign language dictionaries & thesauruses;foreign language study & reference;foreign languages;humanities;new;used & rental textbooks,8
1564781852,"Innovations: An Anthology of Modern & Contemporary Fiction (American Literature (Dalkey Archive)) Robert L. McLaughlin, a professor of English at Illinois State  University, received his Ph.D. from Fordham University in 1987 with a  dissertation on Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow. He has published articles in a variety of journals, and, in 1993, he became managing editor of the Review of Contemporary Fiction.",anthologies;anthologies & literary collections;books;classics;general;literature & fiction;short stories;united states,8
B000256UMA,"Amazon.com: Royce Leather Mini Jewelry Case (Black): Clothing Cute and compact, this zippered case has a ring bar, two button snap pockets and a removable drawstring pouch.",accessories;clothing & accessories;jewelry;jewelry boxes;jewelry boxes & organizers;luggage & bags;packing organizers;travel accessories,8
B000PHC9JS,"Michigan Wolverines Removable Wall Decals Get your team spirit on with this set of Collegiate multi-sports wall stickers!  Our University of Michigan peel and stick appliques can be placed safely onto any smooth, dry, and clean surface!  Great on painted walls (they never leave any sticky residue) for bedrooms, dorm rooms, and offices!  You can move them around at will (they are repositionable over and over) - and you can even replace them on their original liner for later use.  So, use them to decorate a room during the next football party.  Works on tiles, accessories, mirrors, lockers, refrigerators, laptop covers....oh...and also on cars!  Yes!  They do go through the car wash with no problem.  This is so much more versatile than a conventional sticker.  And our RoomMates are scaled and designed with ""room decor"" in mind.  They make for a great gift too.  So check out our other Collegiate teams!	Get your team spirit on with this set of NCAA multi-sports wall stickers! Our Michigan Wolverines peel and stick appliques can be placed safely onto any smooth, dry, and clean surface! Great on painted walls (they never leave any sticky residue) for bedrooms, dorm rooms, and offices! You can move them around at will (they are repositionable over and over) - and you can even replace them on their original liner for later use. So, use them to decorate a room during the next football party. Works on tiles, accessories, mirrors, lockers, refrigerators, laptop covers....oh...and also on cars! Yes! They do go through the car wash with no problem. This is so much more versatile than a conventional sticker. And our RoomMates are scaled and designed with ""room decor"" in mind. They make for a great gift too. So check out our other Collegiate teams! Includes (4) 10"" x 18"" sheets (23 decals).",décor;fan shop;home & garden;painting supplies & wall treatments;sports & outdoors;tools & home improvement;wall decals;wall stickers & murals,8
B000BM6D2Q,"SKIL 90084 84-Piece Drilling and Driving Set in Plastic Case Drill and drive sets by Skil offer the right mix of accessories to complement a power drill for any job. 19 twist drill bits ideal for drilling in wood can also be used for drilling in plastic and metal. 50 insert bits and 8 power bits meet all screwdriving needs for the most common screw heads. This set includes 6 nutsetters screw guide and heavy duty case.	Includes 84-Piece Drill/Drive Bit Set - 90084, (19) Multi-purpose Drill Bits, (50) Insert Bits, (8) Power Bits, (6) Nutdrivers, Magnetic Bit Holder, Heavy-Duty Case",cutting tools;drill bits;industrial & scientific;industrial drill bits;power & hand tools;power tool accessories;tools & home improvement;twist drill bits,8
0193863049,"The Oxford Book of Spirituals The twenty-eight spirituals included are listed in chronological order of publication, which is helpful in program building. The arrangers are all well known, and include distinguished composers of the caliber of Norman Luboff and Robert Shaw ... Something in fact, for everybody ... This is a well-prepared collection, and worth including in any good choral society's library, while being invaluable to specialists in this field. Well done, Mr Hogan! Henry Howell, Australian Music Teacher Magazine April 06  This is a well-prepared collection, and worth including in any good choral society's library, while being invaluable to specialists in this field. Well done, Mr Hogan! Henry Howell, Australian Music Teacher September 03  Overall, this collection covers a wide range of styles and moods ... The arrangements cover a range of choral abilities and this excellent collection should encourage many more choirs to explore this fascinating repertoire. Sadly, Moses Hogan died earlier this year at the untimely age of 45. He was proud of this publication, and deservedly so; it serves as a fitting memorial to both his scholarship and his enthusiasm. Alan Bullard, Choir and Organ July 03  Part of the value of this collection is this retrospective look at the growth of the concert spiritual arrangement style over the last century. The Oxford Book of Spirituals represents a ""who's who"" of spiritual arranging in the European classic concert choral style over the last century. Choral Journal (US) Vol. 43, No. 8  Any title beginning 'The Oxford Book of ... raises expectations of comprehensiveness, academic integrity and distinguished editorship. None of these is disappointed in The Oxford Book of Spirituals ... The earliest, Listen to the lambs by Nathaniel Dett inhabits the same world as late Dvorak, harmonically and geographically, and the whole collection is notable in displaying the familiar thumbprints of gospel harmony without descending into cliche. cont ...  ... cont Apart from its interest and integrity, this is an immensely practical collection. Any choir should be able to tackle the simple textures of Let us break bread together and Little innocent lamb, and the wily conductor can steer a gently developing course towards more complex textures, subtler rhythms and more delicious harmonies. Moses Hogan's spectacular Battle of Jericho with its eight-part divisions need not overshadow the simpler settings, for all are written for those who, in the editor's words, 'listen with the heart as well as the ear. Rosemary Broadbent, Church Music Quarterly June 02  Arranging and performing spirituals is a big part of Hogan's livelihood, and his inside role disseminating African American culture gives this volume authority ... But at 236 pages, covering 28 arrangements for SATB chorus of spirituals at their powerful, emotive best, this volume is the real McCoy. Matthew Greenall, The Singer, May 02	Internationally renowned as a pianist, conductor, and arranger, Moses Hogan is recognized as a leading force in promoting and preserving the African-American musical experience. Since 1980, he has focused his musical energy in the area of arranging spirituals, forming The New World Ensemble and the acclaimed Moses Hogan Chorale to preserve and extend the spiritual tradition. His contemporary settings of spirituals, original compositions, and other works have become staples in the repertoires of high school, college, church, community, and professional choirs worldwide. Through his subsequent work with the Moses Hogan Singers -- including concerts and recordings -- as well as his participation in festivals and workshops as both clinician and guest conductor, Hogan has been responsible for a growing interest in the spiritual as a choral art form.",arts & photography;books;christian;gospel;music;musical genres;religious & sacred music;songbooks & chorale music,8
140120175X,"Blood and Water Nothing seems to be going right for Adam. A case of food poisoning gave him hepatitis A, he takes a laundry list of medications, and now doctors tell him he has inoperable cancer of the liver and wont live long. When best friends Joshua and Nicole hear the bad news, they reveal that theyre vampires and can help him beat his illness by making him a vampire, too. Reborn as undead, Adam has never felt better. Unfortunately, his vampire friends unleashed an ancient evil when they helped him, one hell-bent on finding them and making them dinner. Offbeat characters, dark humor, the story, and the grim realism of the artwork add warped excitement to this welcome departure from the usual trappings of the vampire genre. --Carlos Orellana",books;comics & graphic novels;dc comics;genre fiction;graphic novels;horror;literature & fiction;publishers,8
B000A8NU5Y,Guidecraft Firehouse Bookshelf Sound the alarm! Now everyone can play fireman using this sturdy firehouse bookshelf from Guidecraft. Use for dramatic-play or as a room storage solution. This brightly colored Firehouse will add excitement and hours of fun to any room Assembly required. Dimensions: 43.5 x 12x 47.,bookcases;cabinets & shelves;décor & storage;furniture;home & kitchen;kids' furniture;storage racks & chests;toys & games,8
0758208391,"The Pink Ghetto Answering an ad for a job with a ""well-known publishing house,"" Rebecca finds herself way over her head when she is hired as an associate editor by a woman who is impressed by the name of Rebecca's former employer, an elderly woman Rebecca ran errands for. This famous house publishes hundreds of paperback romance novels each year, and there is romance in store for Rebecca, who is intrigued by a sexy-sounding literary agent and a gorgeous lawyer who is often in the same elevator. But a backstabbing coworker, a duplicitous friend, and a faux pas or two at romance conferences leave Rebecca fearing for her job. This laugh-out-loud-funny novel gives readers an insider's view of romance publishing. Romance readers will love it for its affectionate view of the romance fiction industry as well as for the happily-ever-after ending. Diana Tixier HeraldCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved",books;contemporary;contemporary women;domestic life;literature & fiction;single women;united states;women's fiction,8
0443073007,"Textbook of Natural Medicine, 2-Volume Set, 3e Confidently recommend the most effective natural therapies to your patients.	Joseph E. Pizzorno, Jr., ND, President Emeritus, Bastyr University, Kenmore, WA, USA; and Michael T. Murray, ND, Faculty, Bastyr University, Kenmore, WA, USA",alternative medicine;books;fitness & dieting;health;medical books;medicine & health sciences;new;used & rental textbooks,8
0864426933,"Lonely Planet Japan From Antarctica to Zimbabwe, if you're going there, chances are Lonely Planet has been there first. With a pithy and matter-of-fact writing style, these guides are guaranteed to calm the nerves  of first-time world travelers, while still listing off-the-beaten-path finds sure to thrill even the most  jaded globetrotters. Lonely Planet has been perfecting its guidebooks for nearly 30 years and as a result, has the experience and know-how similar to an older sibling's ""been there"" advice. The original backpacker's bible, the LP series has recently widened its reach.  While still giving  insights for the low-budget traveler, the books now list a wide range of accommodations and  itineraries for those with less time than money. This thorough guide is the perfect companion for discovering the classical and contemporary delights of Japan. The more than 170 maps have keys in both English and Japanese script and there's a 30-page arts section covering everything from calligraphy to rock music and an enticingly descriptive  guide to the joys of Japanese cuisine. Whether your interests lean toward culture and history or the great outdoors, this book will get you there. --Kathryn True 	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.	As usual the guidebook standard is set by Lonely Planet-- Outside	Few countries make such conflicting claims on the imagination as Japan.  The mere mention of the word Japan is enough to set off a cascade of contrary images: ancient temples and futuristic cities; mist-shrouded hills and lightning-fast bullet trains; kimono-clad geisha and suit-clad businessmen; quaint thatch-roofed villages and pulsating neon urban jungles. Amazingly, all of these images are accurate.  This peculiar synthesis of the modern and the traditional is one of the things that makes travel in Japan such a fascinating experience.  It also ensures that no matter what your taste, you'll find a side of Japan that suits your interests. If traditional culture is your thing, you can spend weeks in cities like Kyoto and Nara, gorging yourself on temples, shrines, kabuki, no, tea ceremonies and museums packed with treasures from Japan's rich artistic heritage. If modern culture and technology is your thing, you'll find Japan's cities an absolute wonderland - an easy peek into the future of the human race, complete with cool cafes and great restaurants! Outside the cities, you'll find natural wonders the length and breadth of the archipelago.  From the coral reefs of Okinawa to the snow-capped peaks of the Japan Alps, the giant cedar trees of Yaku-shima to the wide-open spaces of Hokkaido, most visitors are pleasantly surprised to discover that Japan has more than enough natural wonders to compete with its cultural treasures. But for many visitors, the real highlight of their visit to Japan is the gracious hospitality of the Japanese themselves.  Indeed, a night in a good ryokan (traditional Japanese inn) may well put you off hotels for the rest of your life.  From the deep bow of the hostess at the door, to the steaming ofuro (Japanese bath), to the thick futon laid out for you after you dine, you'll find the whole experience unforgettable. Then there's Japanese food.  No matter how much Japanese food you've eaten outside the country, nothing can prepare you for how delicious the genuine article is when served in its home country.  Whether it's impossibly fresh sushi in Tokyo, perfectly battered tempura in Kyoto or a hearty bowl of ramen in Osaka, if you like eating, you're going to love Japan! Best of all, Japan is an incredibly easy and safe country in which to travel.  The Japanese public transport system is one of the best in the world.  From the sleek bullet trains to humble local buses and trams, you will find that getting around the country is an absolute breeze.  And with an extensive network of information offices spread across the nation, figuring it all out is remarkably easy. The fact is, whatever your image of Japan, it probably exists somewhere on the archipelago - and is just waiting for you to discover it.  So what are you waiting for?	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.",asia;books;food;general;hotels & inns;japan;lodging & transportation;travel,8
0805064508,"The Home Office and Small Business Answer Book: Solutions to the Most Frequently Asked Questions about Starting and Running Your Business So you, too, want to join the ranks of the self-employed and start your own business at home or in a small office nearby. How do you choose the right field? Get customers? Price services? Protect property? Raise funds?  Concise information on hundreds of basic issues that stem from such questions can be found in the updated second edition of The Home Office and Small Business Answer Book. Janet Attard--a journalist who has operated her own business for two decades and written extensively about the process--presents the essentials in a clear Q format divided into logical sections on selecting, starting, maintaining, and growing a business. Included is advice on franchising and multilevel marketing (pros and cons, how to assess); business and marketing plans (why they're needed, what's included); price structuring and financials (hourly vs. per-job billing, estimating expenses); equipment (what's needed, what it costs); marketing (obtaining publicity, placing ads); and much more. There is a wealth of information here, although additional specifics are necessary before many of the larger projects (like creating a business plan) can be fully executed. For that, however, Attard supplies ample resources in the appropriate sections and in six indexes. --Howard Rothman	""...Janet Attard's Home Office and Small Business Answer Book provides [a] well-thought-out game plan for making that dream a reality. -- Mike Espindle, managing editor, Home Office Computing	Janet Attard is the owner of Attard Communications, Inc and the founder BusinessKnowHow.com., a popular small business website. An expert on small and home businesses,Janet has a background in publishing and started working as a freelance writer when her children were young. Tired of trading her time for money, she seized on the opportunity the early online services offered to turn her writing and editing skills into an online business. She won contracts to publish small business forums on GE's GEnie service,America Online,and the early MSN, and also managed a website for the US AirForce Small Business Office for many years. She founded the BusinessKnowHow.com website in 1996, and started focusing herefforts on thatafter the last of her contracts with commercial online services expired in 2001.The Business Know-How website now reaches close to 4 million people a year.",books;business & investing;education & reference;home based;new business enterprises;popular economics;reference;small business & entrepreneurship,8
0395291283,"Having Twins: A Parents Guide to Pregnancy, Birth and Early Childhood The well-received first edition ( LJ 11/15/80) served as a core book on the topic for many years. Now, Noble has revised and expanded this indispensable tool on the history and physiology of twinning. New material on prenatal care, birthing, bonding, and emotional coping provides updated information. The excellent section on nutrition has been enhanced to include modern, alternative choices, and the section on exercise remains unchanged and one of the best for multiple-birth mothers. Both physical and emotional needs are equally considered by Noble, as her realistic treatment of possible complications is balanced by her sensitive, and at times personal, insights. The bibliography, source list, and appendixes complement this highly recommended book.- Mary Hemmings, Univ. of Calgary Law Lib., AlbertaCopyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Elizabeth Noble is the author of seven books, including Essential Exercises for the Childbearing Year, Childbirth with Insight, and Having Your Baby by Donor Insemination. She is the founder of the Obstetrics and Gynecology Section of the American Physical Therapy Association, and of the Maternal and Child Health Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts.",books;family relationships;fitness & dieting;health;parenting & relationships;pregnancy & childbirth;twins & multiples;women's health,8
0976789450,"Mina's Joint (Triple Crown Publications Presents) Growing up, Keisha Ervin received numerous accolades and awards for her writing skills. She has been honing those skills and practicing her art since childhood. However, by the time she reached her turbulent adolescent years, fate interceded, altering her childhood dreams. At the age of 18, Ervin experienced first-hand the results of teen pregnancy and her literary career would be a dream deferred. Refusing to become a victim of circumstance, Ervin buckled down and analyzed the direction of her life. Accepting motherhood as a blessing in disguise, she was forced to mature. Realizing that she had another life depending on her for survival, Ervin cleaned up her act, severed street ties and made the successful transition to motherhood and author. Hailing from the Midwest - St. Louis, Missouri to be exact - Ervin is determined to bring more long-deserved recognition to her birthplace, just as rappers Nelly, The St. Lunatics and Chingy have done. Keisha Ervin is the Essence Best-Selling Author of Me & My Boyfriend, Chyna Black, Mina's Joint, Hold U Down and Torn.",books;genre fiction;literature & fiction;multicultural;romance;romantic suspense;united states;urban life,8
B00000JJKP,"Future Jazz For his latest book, Future Jazz, critic Howard Mandel compiled essays from years of writing for mags such as Downbeat, Jazziz, and The Village Voice. A poetic, eclectic scribe, Mandel sees the big picture behind such commercial labels as classic, free, and smooth jazz, and he knows they're all a crock. His book contrasts uptown (Lincoln Center and Wynton Marsalis) with downtown (Tonic, Dave Douglas), and Duke Ellington with John Zorn. The CD Future Jazz attempts the same thing. ""Breakthrough tracks from Blue Note and Knitting Factory Records,"" proclaims the cover art, next to a hipster blasting on a trumpet. As breakthrough as some of these tracks are, they are also very listenable, a veritable overview of potent, left-of-center jazz from the '80s and '90s that you may not have heard. Eric Dolphy's ""Hat and Beard"" from 1964's Out to Lunch is one of the first offerings, a rip-roaring snort of a track that sets the stage for what follows. Mandel's choices dart from free and frothy to cultured and melodically romantic, but each track has the same vibrant spirit of adventure that marks the best jazz, regardless of style. Pianist Don Pullen offers a zesty ensemble doing the samba, while flutist James Newton adapts a more traditional ensemble to his arrangement of Ellington's ""Black and Tan Fantasy."" Guitarists get their due, too: John Scofield gets appropriately funky on ""Kool""; Pat Metheny and Derek Bailey offer a tortured noise feast on ""The Rule of Three""; and Messrs. Vernon Reid, Elliot Sharp, and David Torn concoct a squirming, atmospheric beat haze on ""Xenomorph."" Future Jazz is full of cracks, which Mandel fills with untidy free jazz by saxophonists Charles Gayle and Joe Lovano, pianist Marilyn Crispell, and flutist Thomas Chapin. More fragrant though is an absolutely lovely performance by Cassandra Wilson (""Find Him"") and a downright wacky version of ""If I Were a Bell"" by the Jazz Passengers. Is Future Jazz about the jazz future or jazz past? Throw this in a time capsule and check back in the year 2525. Jazz this potent is always good to go, no matter what the era. --Ken Micallef	All products are BRAND NEW and factory sealed. Fast shipping and 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed.",alternative rock;jazz;miscellaneous;music;pop;r&b;rock;world music,8
B0000775SH,"All These Wounds "" Arin's songwriting is influenced by many styles of music including jazz, blues, and folk. Her dynamic and stirring voice is complimented by her intelligent and well crafted lyrics, which will draw you into her songs and make you laugh, cry, and think in the manner of all the great songwriters. Arin is an artist to watch out for. Highly recommended!"" -Jazz guitarist, Mimi Fox    Five months after Arin was born in the city of Tehran, Iran, Arin's parents brought her to New York City in pursuit of higher education.  This short trip soon became permanent when the Islamic Revolution of '79 drastically swept through Iran.  Although Arin adapted to an American way of life in school and with friends, her home was always filled with Armenian and Iranian song and dance, which subtly colors her music today. After studying ballet and classical piano throughout her childhood years, Arin bought a used classical guitar at 17 and started singing. Since then, she has touched her listeners with her ululating vocals and hypnotic melodies, tinted with sounds of the middle-east.   In one breath, Arin sings with the passion and power of  Ani Difranco or  Fiona Apple, and in the next, she sings you into a dreamy feeling reminiscent of  Norah Jones or Sade. Arin first fell in love with the honesty of contemporary and traditional folk greats such as Ani Difranco, Joni Mitchel, Dar Williams, Cat Stevens, and Gillian Welch. Recently, Arin's musical world has opened up to artists such as Susana Baca, Nina Simone, Stevie Wonder, and Astrud Gilberto. From this wide array of influences, Arin's songwriting emerges with a unique and refreshing style. ""All These Wounds"", Arin's debut CD, is a  mosaic of breezy folk songs, swampy blues, and latin-jazz grooves.  Produce by Mimi Fox (world renound guitarist), and recorded by Jon Evans (Tori Amos), this trio came together to create a sound that is lush yet pure, with swirls of clarinet, jazz guitar, afro-cuban percussion, and accoustic bass.  The title track ""All These Wounds"" tells the story of Arin's journey towards self love. We can heal the world, we can heal eachother, but only by healing our own wounds first, she suggests as she sings   ""we are leaving behind the tangles of ivy for truth"".  Arin exposes all of our demons and angels and dances with them in her songs. ""Arin Simonian sings beautiful, poetic songs with a jazz complexity and folk accessibility. A 'sensitive songwriter' in the best sense of the term, her smooth as cream soprano wraps itself around strong images and addictive melodies against her gorgeous guitar textures. A little bit Joni Mitchell, a little bit early Ani Difranco, a little bit Astrud Gilberto.""   -Singer-songwriter, Green  ""Arin's breathy jazz-folk ululations are a highlight [of ""Best of Berkeley"" CD compilation].""   -East Bay Express   ""A combination of Jewel and Rickie Lee Jones. Her songs are hook-free streams of consciousness with good lyrics.""    -Eugene Weekly	This creamy, sensual, lilting voice is a treat for Arin's listeners. ""All These Wounds"", Arin's debut CD, is a  mosaic of breezy folk songs, swampy blues, and latin-jazz grooves.  Produce by Mimi Fox (world renound guitarist), and recorded by Jon Evans (Tori Amos), this trio came together to create a sound that is lush yet pure, with swirls of clarinet, jazz guitar, afro-cuban percussion, and accoustic bass.  The title track ""All These Wounds"" tells the story of Arin's journey towards self love. We can heal the world, we can heal eachother, but only by healing our own wounds first, she suggests as she sings   ""we are leaving behind the tangles of ivy for truth"".  Arin exposes all of our demons and angels and dances with them in her songs.",blues;folk;jazz;latin music;music;pop;r&b;world music,8
0965089908,"Fortunate Souls Everything you ever wanted to know, but were afraid to ask, about Hare Krishna recruitment and training. This manual has been written by the person who setup the system used throughout the world. Includes fascinating excerpts from insider newsletters. --From the Publisher	His Holiness Danavir Goswami (Dr. Dane Holtzman) was born in Los Angeles in 1949. He studied sociology and economics at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). While there he excelled in athletics and was selected the Most Valuable Player of 1970 (indoor volleyball) by the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) and won the international 2-man beach volleyball tournament at Santa Cruz. On June 11, 1970, he met His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada and received initiation from him in February of 1971. Later that year, he was appointed temple president of the Portland, Oregon branch of ISKCON. Then he became the national sales manager for ISKCONs Spiritual Sky Scented Products Company, until he was asked to institute the world s first Bhakta Program in October of 1974 at the Los Angeles temple. Under the direction of Srila Prabhupada, Danavir Goswami proceeded to inaugurate Bhakta Programs elsewhere in America, Europe, Africa, India, etc. Presently this comprehensive educational system for new devotees is standard throughout ISKCON. In 1980, Danavir Goswami inaugurated Friends of Lord Krishna (FOLK), a lay congregational network in the UK, likely the Society s first. Thereafter, he became director of ISKCON Scotland, Israel, Greece, Cyprus, Holland and Belgium. In 1987 he was elected to ISKCONs thirty-man world Governing Body Commission and authorized as an initiating spiritual master. In 1989 he returned to America to co-direct KrishnaFest, a national traveling Vedic cultural festival which included music, lectures and multimedia theater. In the 1990s he commissioned the establishment of a permanent center in Osafia, Israel to teach Israeli Druze about Krishna consciousness. He has earned the Bhakti-sastri and Bhakti-vaibhava degrees from ISKCON and his Masters and Doctoral degrees in Vaisnava Philosophy and Vaisnava Administration in 1996 from the Florida Vedic College. Danavir Goswami has taught courses in five major universities, lectured at over 100 colleges and many diverse religious institutions, and appeared on numerous TV and radio talk shows. He is the author of Fortunate Souls, His Divine Grace, Change of Heart, Vedic Cosmology, RVC Prospectus and co-author/editor of Vedic Paradigm, Diksa Diksa, Poison Antidote, Uttama Sloka, If Attacked Ill Chant Hare Krishna, Pocket Temple Song Book, and six volumes of Vaisnava Society Journal. He currently serves as ISKCONs Global Director of Monastic Recruitment and Education as well as inaugural president of Rupanuga Vedic College (RVC) in Kansas City, Missouri.",books;education & reference;exercise & fitness;fitness & dieting;health;hinduism;religion & spirituality;yoga,8
B00009R7S2,"Celestron 94014 Lens Shade for Schmidt-Cassegrains (11 "") A Lens Shade/Dew Cap is a tube, of approximately the same diameter as your telescope tube, designed to fit on the front end of the telescope to reduce the amount of dew that builds up on the corrector plate. It also serves as a Len Shade by preventing stray light from falling on the corrector plate, which greatly improves contrast. Celestron also offers a complete line of rugged, but soft Foamex plastic lens shades that can be put away flat after usage. They use a thicker material and won't crack easily as other manufacturer's products do. The quality level is a step above all others as all material is sewn (not glued in some places) for a long life.	Celestron Lens Shade for Celestron 11in Schmidt-Cassegrains Telescopes 94014",accessories;binoculars;camera & photo;electronics;filters;telescope accessories;telescopes;telescopes & optics,8
B000Q90XTS,"Poulan Pro 16-Inch Chain Saw Bar 952044369 Poulan Pro 16-Inch Bar #952044369. The ideal combination of safety and performance is available in this Poulan reduced-kickback bar designed for use with 3/8"" professional-type chains. Features a slim shape for low weight, small-radius reduced-kickback nose and professional quality nose sprocket and bearings. Symmetrical contour, reversible for longer life.	Fits models:	Poulan 200	Poulan 225	Poulan 260	PoulanPRO PPB3416	Poulan 205	Poulan 235	PoulanPRO 260	Poulan PPB3416",chain saw accessories;chain saw bars;lawn & garden;mowers & outdoor power tools;outdoor power tool accessories;patio;power & hand tools;tools & home improvement,8
B000KL17BU,"Gilmour Circle Pattern Ring Sprinkler 306UPC Teal Gilmour's stationary sprinklers are ideal for small areas, low water pressure areas and fast, accurate coverage.	306UPC Features: -Sprinkler. -Material: Plastic. -Polymer construction. -3 Rows of outlet holes. -Waters 900 square feet maximum. -Carded.",garden center;gardening;lawn & garden;patio;power & hand tools;sprinklers;tools & home improvement;watering equipment,8
081296201X,"Great Songs of the Sixties, Vol. 1 Founded in 1947, Hal Leonard Corporation has become the worlds largest print music publisher, representing some of the greatest songwriters and artists of all time. We are proud to publish titles of interest to all musicians as well as music lovers, from songbooks and instructional titles to artist biographies and instrument price guides to books about the music industry and all the performing arts.",arts & photography;books;education & reference;humor & entertainment;music;musical genres;popular;songbooks,8
0877887942,"Help for the Harried Homeschooler: A Practical Guide to Balancing Your Child's Education with the Rest of Your Life Homeschooling moms and dads can be overwhelmed by the demands on their time. Between their children?s educational needs; their roles as spouse, parent, and more; and their own individual desires and goals, these mothers and fathers struggle to accomplish all that must be done. In Help for the Harried Homeschooler, experienced homeschooler, author, and mother of four Christine Field offers sound advice for parents who want not only to achieve homeschooling success but also to reach a balance in their lives.	Christine M. Field and her husband homeschool their four children in the Chicago, Illinois area. Christine is the author of four other books, including Life Skills for Kids. She speaks nationwide, writes columns for Homeschool Digest and Open Arms magazines, and has contributed to such publications as Hearts at Home, Focus on the Family Magazine and Single Parent Family. Christine has appeared in the media on Family News in Focus, on Moody Broadcasting Network, on USA Radio Network, on the Home Education Network, and on Family Life Today with Dennis Rainey. Readers can visit her website at www.HomeFieldAdvantage.org.",books;education & reference;education theory;homeschooling;parenting;parenting & relationships;reference;schools & teaching,8
0759100446,"Participant Observation: A Guide for Fieldworkers Kathleen and Billie DeWalt have produced a stellar addition to our increasingly sophisticated library of anthropological research methodology. My feeling is that every doctoral student headed for fieldwork will be well-equipped if she or he is carrying copies of Russ Bernard's Handbook of Methods, The Ethnographer's Toolkit by Schensul and LeCompte, and Participant Observation. I am particularly impressed with the contents as practical, daily-use information in the field. It is presentedin an eclectic, 'pick what you like' range of styles and possibilities, with excellent examples from a wide array of sources. The book provides a remarkably clear demystifying view of 'participant observation,' the usually hazy concept that is a definingaspect of field anthropology. Their discussion makes it clear that participant observation is not synonymous with ethnographic fieldwork . . . and that anthropological fieldwork consists of a medley of methods, for which participant observation is usually the foundation and framework, enabling and enhancing other, more structured, data-gathering. The book is remarkably free of unnecessary jargon, and the authors make excellent use of concrete examples from their own and other peoples' field experiences t (Pertti J. Pelto )Kathleen and Billie DeWalt have produced a stellar addition to our increasingly sophisticated library of anthropological research methodology. My feeling is that every doctoral student headed for fieldwork will be well-equipped if she or he is carrying copies of Russ Bernard's Handbook of Methods, The Ethnographer's Toolkit by Schensul and LeCompte, and Participant Observation. I am particularly impressed with the contents as practical, daily-use information in the field. It is presented in an eclectic, 'pick what you like' range of styles and possibilities, with excellent examples from a wide array of sources. The book provides a remarkably clear demystifying view of 'participant observation,' the usually hazy concept that is a defining aspect of field anthropology. Their discussion makes it clear that participant observation is not synonymous with ethnographic fieldwork . . . and that anthropological fieldwork consists of a medley of methods, for which participant observation is usually the foundation and framework, enabling and enhancing other, more structured, data-gathering. The book is remarkably free of unnecessary jargon, and the authors make excellent use of concrete examples from their own and other peoples' field experiences to illustrate each significant point. The DeWalt's use a remarkably wide range of fieldwork literature, ranging from Cushing (19th century) and Malinowski down to their own and others' recent research experiences. This highly effective use of examples from so many different types and locations of fieldwork gives added strength to their generalization that participant observation as method can be fitted with practically all theoretical perspectives. (Pertti J. Pelto )	Kathleen M. DeWalt is Professor of Anthropology and Public Health and New Director of the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Pittsburgh; Billie R. DeWalt is director of Carnegie Museum of Natural History and holds appointments as distinguished professor of public and international affairs and professor of anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh.",anthropology;books;cultural;new;politics & social sciences;research;social sciences;used & rental textbooks,8
0941532925,"The Essential Frithjof Schuon (Library of Perennial Philosophy) ""His writings are universal, not only because the formless Essence is universal, but also because even on the level of forms he does not confine himself solely to a particular world, period or region. Schuon's works are also comprehensive and all-embracing in the sense that they include practically the whole mountain of knowledge understood in the traditional sense From the point of view of sheer scholarly knowledge it is hardly possible to find a contemporary corpus of writings with the same all-embracing and comprehensive nature combined with incredible depth.""Seyyed Hossein Nasr	Seyyed Hossein Nasr is one of the worlds most respected authorities on traditional Islam and Sufism. He is University Professor of Islamic Studies at George Washington University and author of over 30 books and 300 articles. He lives in Bethesda, MD.	""One of the keys to the understanding of our true nature and of our ultimate destiny is the fact that the things of this world never measure up to the real range of our intelligence. Among all the intelligences of this world the human spirit alone is capable of objectivity, and this impliesor provesthat what confers on our intelligence the power to accomplish to the full what it can accomplish to the full what it can accomplish, and what makes it wholly what it is, is the Absolute alone.""",books;christian books & bibles;education & reference;other eastern religions & sacred texts;prayer;religion & spirituality;spirituality;theology,8
B000P4LLH2,"CMT 537.350.31 Forstner Bit 35mm Cutting Diameter, 10mm Shank CMT offers a wide range of HHS Forstner Bits in the most popular diameters, including difficult to find metric sizes. These bits are available individually or in beautiful wooden box sets. You get high performance stagger tooth design on all larger diameter bits (over 1 or 25mm) for clean sharp holes with straight sides and flat bottoms. These bits are ideal for drill presses, electric and cordless drills.  CMT Forstner bits are 3-9/16"" in overall length.	From the Manufacturer	CMT offers a wide range of HHS Forstner Bits in the most popular diameters, including difficult to find metric sizes. These bits are available individually or in beautiful wooden box sets. You get high performance stagger tooth design on all larger diameter bits (over 1 or 25mm) for clean sharp holes with straight sides and flat bottoms. These bits are ideal for drill presses, electric and cordless drills. CMT Forstner bits are 3-9/16"" in overall length.",cutting tools;drill bits;forstner drill bits;industrial & scientific;industrial drill bits;power & hand tools;power tool accessories;tools & home improvement,8
1550546961,"Story As Sharp As a Knife: The Classical Haida Mythtellers and Their World ""Accomplished poet and linguist that he is, Bringhurst hones his Haida verse translations to a point which makes them read like orations. These stories, he says, are like Beowulf, The Odyssey, Gilgamesh, Giottos frescoes and Bachs fugues: unique, formative ways of thinking about ones experience of the world.""Norbert Ruebsaat, Vancouver Sun (Norbert Ruebsaat Vancouver Sun )	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Text: English (translation)	Robert Bringhurst is one of Canada's most respected poets, designers and most probing cultural historians. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow, lectured on Native American art and oral literature at universities around the world, studies linguistics at MIT under Noam Chomsky in the 1960s, and worked as a professional translator from Arabic and Greek.He is the author of the bestselling treatise on typography Elements of Typographic Style.Bringhurst began to study the Haida language in 1982. His translations of Haida oral poetry have since appeared in major scholarly journals and in Brian Swann's groundbreaking anthology Coming to Light: Contemporary Translations of the Native Literatures of North America.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",books;literature & fiction;native american;native american studies;politics & social sciences;social sciences;specific demographics;united states,8
B000GCE85A,Pretz Refill Moisturizing Nasal & Sinus Solution with Yerba Santa - 32 Oz For crusting and dryness of nasal and sinus conditions.,allergy;cough & cold;health & personal care;health care;moisturizing sprays;nasal sprays & drops;sinus & asthma;sinus medicine,8
0664257321,"What Christians Really Believe & Why Grenz, professor of theology and ethics at Carey Theological College in Vancouver, British Columbia, places Christianity in the context of competing belief systems for today's seekers. Grenz presents the central tenets of the Christian faith clearly and concisely, conveying the major doctrines of the faithAGod, humanity, Christ, the Holy Spirit, the Church and last things. Grenz poses questions that many Christians ask of their faithA""Why believe at all?""; ""Who is Jesus and what did he do?""Ato direct his study of Christian doctrine. Grenz contends that many North Americans now revel in God's immanence within the universe so much that God meshes almost completely with the world. Grenz contends that the Christian understanding of God actually seeks a balance between immanence and transcendence. Grenz argues that humankind can reach the goal of its quest only by turning from self toward the triune God as we leave behind our old identity and discover who we are created to be within the fellowship of the community of Christ. Grenz's guide is an accessible introduction to the Christian faith. Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Stanley J. Grenz was Pioneer McDonald Professor of Theology at Carey Theological College in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada,and Professor of Theological Studies at Mars Hill Graduate School in Seattle, Washington, prior to his death in 2004. He authored a number of books, including What Christians Really Believe & Why; and Sexual Ethics: An Evangelical Perspective.",books;christian books & bibles;christian living;ethics;evangelism;religion & spirituality;religious studies;theology,8
B00007KN3A,"Wake Double CD condensed compilation of highlights chosen by Brendan Perry from the out of print limited edition box set released by 4AD in 2001. It spans the band's entire career (eight critically acclaimed and highly individual albums over 17 years with 4AD). Since the band's split in 1998, both Lisa Gerrard and Brendan have continued making music. ""...a breathtaking fusion of ancient and modern sounds, the results of which often transcend the stylistic entrapments of a specific culture for something larger"" - CMJ.",alternative rock;classic rock;dance & electronic;music;new age;pop;rock;world music,8
0890875774,"Journeys on Mind Mountain Journeys on Mind Mountain are Nature's Essays.  Not essays  about Nature, but how Nature might speak if it was foolish enough to  have a mouth.  Everything BlueStone writes is the whole, even if it is  only a part.  There is a seamless laughter to his intense blue sky,  and the Truth which is really more visible than the Lie is ""a  conundrum that momentarily challenges the habitual functioning by its  very immensity.""   -- BookReader, Spring/Summer 1999	G. BlueStone",alternative medicine;books;education & reference;fitness & dieting;health;meditation;occult;religion & spirituality,8
095429632X,"Advanced Wiccan Spirituality, Volume 1: Revitalising the Roots and Foundations Kevin Saunders is a Wiccan High Priest living in and working from Glastonbury, England. New Wicca is the fastest-growing religion in the U.K. and Kevin Saunders is one of its leading practitioners.",books;earth-based religions;occult;religion & spirituality;self-help;spiritual;wicca;witchcraft,8
0446678546,"The Hell with Love: Poems to Mend a Broken Heart Those looking to poetry to ease a recent breakup won't have to thumb through painfully irrelevant odes to joy any longer. The pocket-sized The Hell with Love: Poems to Mend a Broken Heart, edited by Mary D. Esselman and Elizabeth Ash Velez, organizes its contents according to the stages of heartbreak (""anger,"" ""sadness,"" etc.). Most are by well-known 20th-century U.S. poets: William Carlos Williams, Louise Gleck, Sharon Olds, though Donne, Shakespeare and Larkin also make appearances. Predictable selections (Margaret Atwood's ""You Fit Into Me"") are balanced out by a few eccentric, perhaps witty curatorial decisions, such as the inclusion of Auden's ""Musee Des Beaux Arts"" in the section called ""Moving On."" Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.	""The greatest anthology of poetry I have ever read... reminds me why I fell in love with poetry...""  -- Andrew Carroll, Director,The American Poetry and Literacy Project",anthologies;books;literature & fiction;love & loss;love poems;poetry;relationships;self-help,8
B0006NVZBO,"Orange Blossom Energizer 1.70 Ounces Orange Blossom Energizer is a 2-Phase skin care composition which gives the skin exactly the right amount of moisture and lipids to restore its natural balance. The results are immediately noticable - the skin becomes firmer, more vital and radiant.",beauty;face;face treatments;health & personal care;herbal supplements;nutrition & wellness;skin care;vitamins & supplements,8
B000P27BQO,Kate Aspen Luggage Tag Now boarding for all romantic destinations! Travel buffs and frequent fliers alike will adore the utility of this special little favor. What a great way to thank your guests for traveling to your event. Brides will love the touch of sophisticated whimsy these placecard holders add to any reception table. Each cruise ship shaped tag is crafted of substantial chrome and is dotted with a charming heart steering the ship. Attached is a black adjustable leather strap. These luggage tags could easily double as placecard holders. Each luggage tag comes packaged in a black bottom gift box with sheer organza ribbon and retro luggage thank you tag. Measures 3-1/4-inch by 2-1/4-inch. .,clothing & accessories;favors;health & personal care;luggage & bags;luggage tags;party supplies;stationery & party supplies;travel accessories,8
0883969661,"To My Son, with Love (A Little Bit of Series) SUSAN POLIS SCHUTZ grew up in the small country town of Peekskill, New York. In 1969, she and her husband, acclaimed artist Dr. Stephen Schutz, moved to Colorado, where their intense love for each other and their desire to be together at all times prompted them to begin silk-screening posters of Susans poetry and Stephens artwork. From this union of their talents and love, SPS Studios was born. Today, Susan is the author of eleven bestselling poetry books, and her poems have been published on millions of greeting cards. Whether she is writing about her feelings on motherhood, her love for Stephen, her fondness for nature, or her thoughts on life, her heartfelt words are the ones people look to for help in understanding and expressing their own emotions.",books;family relationships;literature & fiction;motivational;parenting;parenting & relationships;poetry;self-help,8
037583611X,"Duck & Goose PreSchool-Grade 1In this goofy story, a duck and goose mistake a big spotted ball for an egg. Each one claims it and they fight over taking care of it. In the end, they realize their foolishness and become friends, enjoying their ball together. The themes of getting along, sharing, and settling one's differences come across loud and clear, and the author does a good job with the subject without becoming too didactic. While the narrative is fairly straightforward and has touches of childlike humor throughout, it's the bright and colorful artwork that will attract youngsters' attention. The cartoon-style oil paintings set against soft-focus, almost impressionistic backgrounds keep Duck and Goose center stage, and their expressions are priceless. A sweet addition.Lisa S. Schindler, Bethpage Public Library, NY Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	PreS-Gr. 2. A poultry odd couple stars in this story about a friendship forged through a finders keepers dispute. Duck and Goose simultaneously discover a giant polka-dotted sphere, which they take to be a very large egg: ""I saw it first,"" says Duck; ""I touched it first,"" says Goose. They spend hours sharing space on the egg's summit to keep it warm, first grudgingly, then companionably as they bond over their shared purpose. When a passerby points out that their prized egg is actually a child's toy ball, Duck and Goose decide the ball is lovely, too--just right for playing with together. Hills might have found ways to introduce more variety into his compositions, even given the somewhat limited situation, but the fresh, vivid colors draw the eye, and his whimsically rendered Duck and Goose (think bath toys with expressive eyebrows) will instantly endear themselves to children. Choose this for springtime and Easter story hours, paired with Dr. Seuss' classic Horton Hatches the Egg (1940) and Mem Fox's Hunwick's Egg (2005).  Jennifer MattsonCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	Starred Review, Publishers Weekly, December 12, 2005:""Hills' feathered heroes enact a dialogue familiar to anyone who has negotiated with siblings or playground rivals.""Starred Review, Kirkus Reviews, December 15, 2005:""Every artistic decision underscores the humor with deft mastery ... Readers will hope to see more of this adorable couple.""Review, Parents Magazine, March 2009:The title characters have a big fight over a giant egg. When it turns out to be a ball, they learn to play with it together.	Tad Hills is the author and illustrator of the New York Times bestselling picture books Duck  Goose and Duck, Duck, Goose. He has created six board books featuring the same characters, including What's Up, Duck?, an ALA Notable Book; Duck and Goose, 1, 2, 3; Duck  Goose, How Are You Feeling?; and Duck and Goose Find a Pumpkin. He is also the illustrator of Waking Up Wendell, by April Stevens; My Fuzzy Friends; and Knock, Knock, Who's There? Tad Hills lives in Brooklyn with his wife, their two children, and a dog named Rocket.",animals;books;children's books;ducks & other waterfowl;friendship;humor;social situations;values,8
030681434X,"Passion Is a Fashion: The Real Story of the Clash Former Mojo editor Gilbert presents an entertaining, definitive look at what is arguably punk rock's seminal band. For a group known for its integrity and political ethos, the ClashJoe Strummer, Mick Jones, Paul Simonon and Topper Headonhad surprising origins, constructed and ruled with an iron fist by impresario Bernie Rhodes, a friend and contemporary of Sex Pistols creator Malcolm McLaren. Gilbert charts the Clash's risefrom long days spent in dank, freezing rehearsal spacesto their descent: Headon's drug addiction and dismissal, personality conflicts, management problems and a bad record deal. Still, theirs is a triumphant story. The Clash bonded with fans like no other band in the late 1970s, choosing to play small venues over arenas, even designing their own fashions. Critically, the band was often vilified, especially for its experimental triple album, Sandanista! But, Gilbert shows, despite being called sellouts for signing with CBS, the Clash defined what it really means to be punk by eschewing the trappings of rock stardom, resisting the pressure to write hits and seizing the creative freedom to do innovative things, such as infusing their music with reggae and ska. Sadly, Strummer unexpectedly died in 2003 from an undiagnosed congenital heart defect. Photos.  Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	""A page-turning look at a band that blended fierce leftist politics with an eye for fashion."" -- Rock Pile, November 2005""Fills in [the Clash's] roots with admirable clarity...Gilbert not only does the Clash proud, he does them justice."" -- Village Voice7/5/05""Gilbert breaks some new ground while providing a detailed history of the legendary band from inception to dissolution."" -- Idaho Statesman, 12/25/05""Portrays beautifully the fine art of falling apart ...Likely to last while weightier tomes languish in dustbins."" -- East Bay Express 7/27/05""Rare and wonderful...[Gilbert] digs deep to tell the story of punk rock's most potent, powerful and political band."" -- Eonline.com7/12/05""The definitive biography of the band ...Entertaining and insightful...A must for die-hard Clash fans...and all those fascinated by pop culture."" -- Curled Up with a Good Book 7/25/05""This is a heartbreaking and heartening story of punks growing up and growing old, the real story indeed. Essential."" -- Library Journal, starred review 5/1/05""[Gilbert's] grasp of that band goes far beyond stale stuff...A model for all band bios."" -- Illinois Entertainer, December 2005""[Gilbert] weaves a blow-by-blow narrative rich in color and loaded with trivia."" -- Harp Magazine June, 2005""[Told] lucidly and readably, at a brisk, even pace...plenty of new information...research-wise Gilbert has done some serious legwork."" -- Boston Globe5/29/05	Pat Gilbert is a former editor of Mojo, the best-selling and internationally acclaimed music magazine. He has also contributed to Q magazine, the Guardian, the Times, and the Sunday Times.",arts & literature;arts & photography;biographies & memoirs;books;composers & musicians;humor & entertainment;music;rock,8
0801871158,"Consumers in the Country: Technology and Social Change in Rural America (Revisiting Rural America) Kline's work is strong in a number of areas... The study is a well written and well researched compilation... and should be standard reading for those interested in the transformation of rural America in the twentieth century. (Allen Shepherd Nebraska History )Kline fills a real gap in our understanding of the ways rural Americans incorporated technology into their daily lives. (Melissa Walker Journal of American History )His social historical-technological approach makes any historical study of technology ultimately much more valuable. (Tyler O. Walters Journal of Illinois History )Kline's work is a welcome addition to this body of scholarship. (Pamela Riney-Kehrberg Kansas History ) Consumers in the Country provides an important and very welcome venture into both the history of consumption patternsan underdeveloped subject in our fieldand nonurban people. (Deborah Fitzgerald Technology and Culture )Careful, meticulously researched, and well written. (David Blanke Annals of Iowa )This extremely thorough presentation presents a clear picture of how industries changed, and were changed by, farm families. (Choice ) Consumers in the Country makes important contributions to scholarship in the history and theory of technology and the social history of rural life. (Mark Finlay History: Reviews of New Books )Well-researched, entertaining, and generally convincing. (Brian Q. Cannon Western Historical Quarterly )Kline does a fine job in describing the ways in which rural people made new technologies part of their lives, noting regional, class, and gender implications. His writing is clear, thoughtful, intelligent, and often highly amusing. (Jeanette Keith Journal of Appalachian Studies )Kline's presentation of farmers as historical actors who controlled acceptance of technology on their own terms is valuable and should inform future studies of agricultural communities. (Barbara Handy-Marchello Great Plains Research 2003)Kline displays a confident grasp of technology. He really understands how things work and he has the ability to explain this to readers. This is a rare and valuable quality. He also has an exemplary understanding of the social dimension of technology, throwing new light on the relationship between farm people and modernizers. (David B. Danbom, North Dakota State University )A welcome addition. (Pamela Riney-Kehrberg Kansas History )	Ronald R. Kline  is a professor of history of technology at Cornell University, with a joint appointment in the Department of Science and Technology Studies and the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.",20th century;americas;books;history;modern (16th-21st centuries);politics & social sciences;social sciences;united states,8
0139235256,"McSe: Implementing and Supporting Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5 (Mcse Series) Introduction This book is a must-have resource for Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) candidates and for all Exchange professionals seeking concise, to-the-point information about properly installing, configuring, and maintaining an Exchange 5.5 server. Not only does this book cover all aspects and stages of an Exchange messaging system implementation, from e-mail subsystems to information management, but it also, for the MCSE candidate's convenience, covers the official MCSE requirements. Further, this book is a complement to the limited documentation that comes with Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5.  WHOM THIS BOOK IS FOR This book is aimed primarily towards advanced users who are working on their MCSE certification, to help them prepare for the MCSE Exam 70-081 ""Implementing and Supporting Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5."" If you're an MCSE candidate, this Microsoft approved book will help you, step-by-step, to learn everything you need to pass the exam. Although this book covers the whole content of the class syllabus, I do suggest that you attend it if you can, as it will help to connect the dots of your new skill set.  This book is aimed also to systems and network administrators, as well as to Internet Managers, advanced users, service technicians, and network administrators involved not only with e-mail messaging systems at their corporations but also groupware and Internet enabled applications.  WHAT YOU'LL NEED The most important requirement for you to take full advantage of this self-paced study book is to have Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5 loaded on your computer and to try the step-by-step instructions in this book. There are, however, some topics that involve more than one computer, for instance, those topics exploring networking and connectivity options. Thus, I recommend that you have, if possible, two computers, one loaded with Microsoft Exchange Server and the other one with the client version, configured as described here, so you can make the most out of every topic discussed in this book. You will need the following:   A computer listed on the Microsoft NT Hardware Compatibility List A Pentium-based processor computer for the Exchange server and at least a 486DX2 66Mhz for the client version 64MB of RAM for the server and 16MB of RAM for the client A pagefile of at least the amount of RAM plus 12MB of RAM for each computer. At least 500MB of hard disk space 3Z\x 1.44MB floppy drive SVGA video and monitor Mouse or equivalent point device CD-ROM drive (the faster, the better) Network Interface Card (NIC) A miniport hub to create a test network (or to be part of a nonproduction network) Microsoft Windows NT server installed as Primary Domain Controller (PDC) for the server and Windows 95/98 or NT Workstation for the client   HOW THIS BOOK IS ORGANIZED This book is divided into five parts, each part focusing on a specific aspect of the MCSE curriculum and the objectives for every stage you will undertake when implementing and supporting Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5.  Part 1: Planning Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5 Implementation This part includes Chapters 1 through 5. The key word for this series of chapters is Planning. Chapter 1 covers planning Microsoft Exchange 5.5 implementation steps. Chapter 2 discusses planning Exchange organization and site topology. Chapter 3 discusses planning for Exchange client needs. Chapter 4 covers the planning of Exchange messaging systems, and Chapter 5 discusses planning for disaster recovery.  Part 2: Installing and Configuring Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5 This part includes chapters 6 through 12. Chapter 6 covers the installation of Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5. Chapter 7 discusses the installation of Exchange core components. Chapter 8 covers the installation of Exchange connectors. Chapter 9 covers the setup of Exchange recipients. Chapter 10 presents an overview on remote procedures calls (RPC) and the way they work with Exchange. Chapter 11 discusses the setup on Exchange's Information Store. Chapter 12 walks you through the installation and setup of Microsoft Exchange client.  Part 3: Managing Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5 and Resources Chapters 13 and 14 are covered here. Chapter 13 discusses Microsoft Exchange resource management and the Administrator program. Chapter 14 provides an overview of X.500 directory and Exchange.  Part 4: Monitoring and Optimizing Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5 This part includes Chapter 15, which discusses the maintenance, monitoring, and optimization of Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5.  Part 5: Troubleshooting Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5 and Clients In this part, you'll find Chapter 16, which discusses the basic Exchange troubleshooting techniques and provides an outline of several third-party troubleshooting tools.  Appendixes A-D Designed as information resources, these appendixes provide topics ranging from a bug list with workarounds, to a glossary of key terms. Appendix A provides the correct answers to the review questions at the end of each chapter. Appendix B is a Microsoft Exchange Bug List. Appendix C is a list of Exchange support providers, including training centers, listservers, Web resources, books, and so on. Appendix D contains a glossary of terms.  CONVENTIONS USED IN THIS BOOK This book uses different features to help highlight key information. New or important terms are typeset in italic. Courier new font is used to denote options and/or buttons as they appear on the actual screens and file menus.  Chapter Syllabus The primary focus of this series is to address those topics that are to be tested in each exam. Therefore, each chapter opens with a syllabus that lists the topics to be covered. Each topic directly corresponds to the Level 1 headings in the chapter. So if there are six Level 1 headings in a chapter, there will be six topics listed under the Chapter Syllabus. If a syllabus topic and Level 1 heading are MCSE-specific, they will be accompanied by an MCSE icon (see the following icon description). However, there may be instances when the topics are not exam-specific. In these cases, the chapter syllabus highlights and corresponding Level 1 headings appear without the MCSE icon.  Icons Icons represent called-out material that is of significance and that you should be alerted to.  Chapter Review Questions Each chapter ends with a series of review questions. These questions are a combination of multiple choice, true/false, and open-ended questions designed to simulate part of an actual exam and to reinforce what you have just learned. The number of questions will vary depending on the length of the subject matter of the individual chapter  ABOUT THE CD-ROM The CD-ROM includes the following CBT Systems interactive Exchange 5.5 module and a Readme file: EX5508E Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5: Connectors. This course provides you with detailed instructions on how to install and configure MS Exchange connectors.	Covers every key exam objective-in-depth! Objective and independent coverage, from planning through maintenance and beyond! Integrate Microsoft Mail and Lotus cc:Mail systems Integrate Outlook and Schedule+ clients Comprehensive troubleshooting and optimization help Includes complete sample test and 100+ additional Q! Pass Microsoft's Exchange Server 5.5 exam-with flying colors! Successfully deploying and managing Exchange Server 5.5 is no easy task-and neither is passing Microsoft's MCSE Exchange Server Exam 80-081. With this book, you can do both!   *You simply won't find a more valuable Microsoft Exchange resource-or a better exam guide!  Marcus Goncalves, who has personally led enterprise-wide Exchange migrations, tells you all you need to know to plan, implement, configure, and maintain Exchange Server 5.5. You'll start with a detailed overview of Exchange Server, its components, and how it works. You'll discover battle-tested techniques for integrating Exchange with NT Server and third-party e-mail systems, optimizing each core component, setting up Message Transfer and Information Store, configuring users, replicating and synchronizing directories, and much more.   *Supercharge your training with EXCLUSIVE Web & interactive resources!  We've teamed with CBT Systems, the world's #1 developer of IT self-paced training, to include a state-of-the-art interactive training course on CD-ROM-worth $225! And that's not all: Every Prentice Hall PTR MCSE book is 100% integrated with its own exclusive MCSE training Web site, delivering all this, and more...   *Interactive test Q section  *Projects you can complete-with detailed solutions  *Virtual Study Lounge: interact with students, authors, and trainers on-line!  *Author's Corner: Book & exam updates, training news, and more  BONUS! Look inside for coupons offering valuable discounts on additional training at Scholars.com, the world's #1 interactive training site!	MARCUS GONCALVES holds an MS in CIS and is a Sr. IT Analyst for Automation Research Corporation. Marcus has published several books such as ""Protecting Your Web Site With Firewalls,"" ""Windows NT Server Security Guide,"" ""Windows NT Server Management and Control,"" and ""Architecting and Administering Microsoft BackOffice."" He's also a regular contributor for several magazines such as Enterprise Compaq, BackOffice, Developer's, and WEBster. He's a member of the Internet Society, International Computer Security Association (ICSA), the Association for Information Systems (AIS), and the New York Academy of Sciences.",books;computers & technology;education & reference;home computing & how-to;mathematics;microsoft;science & math;windows os,8
0822311798,"San Camilo, 1936: The Eve, Feast, and Octave of St. Camillus of the Year 1936 in Madrid By general agreement, San Camilo, 1936 is the best novel of this Nobel laureate's later career; it's also his most daunting. Densely written and unparagraphed, it records the baser aspects of Madrilenian life on the eve of civil war, as filtered through the consciousness of a cynical young student. Public events intrude, but for the most part the focus is on the private and sordid, the tone one of disgust and self-inquisition. Recommended for academic collections and for public libraries with strong literary collections.- Grove Koger, Boise P.L., Id.Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.	A 20-year-old, skein-like novel by the 1989 Nobel winner--a tour-de-force that proceeds in chapter-length sentences, on-rushing with asides and tiny glimpses into the life of a neighborhood and its people during the first few weeks of the Spanish Civil War. So full of characters is the book, and so unconcerned to identify them by anything but repetition, that translator Polt has appended a helpful list of characters and references at the end. But it isn't strictly necessary. Cela's constitutional pessimism (an amalgam of venery, political cynicism, and astonishing mood- changes) sweeps everyone into the same tossed-about boat; and the effect achieved is probably the one that was wanted: we see people very large in their private lives turned utterly small and interchangeable by public life, revolt, and death. At times every woman in this novel is a whore--there is a grungy stylization of desire as antidote to ideas--every man a pig, every person a liar and poseur. Yet when Franco and his generals revolt and the militias form in response and everyone must produce identities to anyone with a gun who asks for them, suddenly the book becomes very moving and shocking: the scatter of characters begins to diminish by murder, and names we were tripping over stop showing up altogether. Far from an easy or enjoyable read, but this may be Cela's bitterly flowing masterpiece. -- Copyright 1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.	Cela continues to anticipate and outlast his peers.  Few contemporary writers can match his range, verbal richness, and purity of means.  Few have given better evidence of dwelling in awfulness while caressing beauty.  No other artistexcept Picassohas tapped such energies at the age when most gentlemen tend their gardens.  Camilo Jos Cela approaches dusk with a steadfast gaze that only a few writers of genius can turn upon the face of chaos. Eduardo Gonzlez, The Nobel Prize Annual 1989	Text: English Original Language: Spanish	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;classics;contemporary;education & reference;genre fiction;historical;literature & fiction;war,8
B00062NSYW,"Amazon.com: Columbia Men's Peak Expedition Glove, Silver Sage, Medium: Clothing The Columbia Sportswear Peak Expedition Glove is constructed of soft supple Omni-wind fleece. It is light weight but very warm due to the windproof technology. Great for moderate temps or just around town when you arent concerned about getting wet.",accessories;clothing;clothing & accessories;cold weather;gloves;men;mittens & liners;sports & outdoors,8
0760313598,"Electric Locomotives Brian Solomon is one of todays most accomplished railway historians. He has authored more than 30 books about railroads and motive power, and his writing and photography have been featured in Trains, Railway Age, Passenger Train Journal, and RailNews. Solomon divides his time between Massachusetts and Ireland.",automotive;books;electric & hybrid;engineering;power systems;professional & technical;railroads;transportation,8
B000FQ4HUI,"Dynamic Leader Adaptive Organization: Ten Essential Traits for Managers Features an author who is a regular commentator on CNN and has built a reputation as a top expert on innovative strategies.Explains how to use Network Leadership to create a networked organization structure of internal and external alliances and flexible decision processes.Shows readers how to self-diagnose the personal and organizational characteristics of their company; how to effectively communicate and to forge relationships internally within the company and externally; and ways to use an assessment to implement Network Self-Leadership through an eight-step plan.Present case illustrations of a diverse range of corporations, including Shell Oil Co.Esquire magazine, Southwest Airlines, Amazon.com, and Xerox.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	Features an author who is a regular commentator on CNN and has built a reputation as a top expert on innovative strategies.Explains how to use Network Leadership to create a networked organization structure of internal and external alliances and flexible decision processes.Shows readers how to self-diagnose the personal and organizational characteristics of their company; how to effectively communicate and to forge relationships internally within the company and externally; and ways to use an assessment to implement Network Self-Leadership through an eight-step plan.Present case illustrations of a diverse range of corporations, including Shell Oil Co.Esquire magazine, Southwest Airlines, Amazon.com, and Xerox.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.",books;business & investing;business life;entrepreneurship;management;management & leadership;motivation & self-improvement;small business & entrepreneurship,8
0385315848,"Looking for a Fight The author was in her mid-30s and ""looking for a fight"" after a  humiliating divorce, when she began training as a boxer at Gleason's, the  legendary Brooklyn gym. She wasn't there just to blow off steam, however. A  veteran journalist, whose research had driven her to perform as a stripper and  tour as a roadie for a heavy metal band, Picket ""wanted the real deal,"" as she  told Gleason's owner. And she got it: her brisk, no-frills prose cogently  conveys the sweaty, muscle-fatiguing slog of training; the visceral fear that  she experienced in her first sparring matches; the elation that was prompted by  her trainer's approving comment, ""You hit like an animal""; and the shock of her  realization--when she punched a guy who accidentally spilled beer on her while  they were watching a match--that, ""once violence is learned, it cannot be  unlearned."" The squeamish are unlikely to yearn to pick up gloves after reading  Picket's vivid descriptions of swollen knuckles mottled with bruises, blood  pouring down her injured face, and blackened toenails dropping off; she makes  the physical toll of boxing very real, particularly in a sobering afterword  about the sport's high incidence of brain damage. The author herself quit after  her first big bout (which she won), concluding that fighting was a misguided  attempt ""to settle a score that was started back in sixth grade when I was  pushed off the swings by a bully."" Yet, she limns emotions that are familiar to  many women (""I wanted to feel powerful, to take up space in the world, to stop  apologizing"") and chronicles a personal journey in which boxing was, perhaps, a  necessary way station. --Wendy Smith	Hurt by the dissolution of her marriage and enraged by the pitying looks that followed the divorce, Snowden Picket released her frustration by entering the underworld of boxing. It wasn't the first time the author had tried on a new life. For her first book, Nine Lives, the ""participatory journalist"" worked as a stripper, a cop, a housewife and a rape-crisis counselor. Not that Snowden Picket was completely unprepared to enter the ringAshe was already a serious athlete who had run the New York MarathonAbut the sport she describes in this gritty memoir is a world away from the boxing training offered at most white-collar gyms. For one thing, the author trains at Gleason's, the Brooklyn gym famous for its stars and its ""grimy, no-frills, blood-and-guts"" atmosphere. For another, she takes blows to the face. Though Snowden Picket's memoir culminates in a brutal ring fight, the book's real story is about her drive to overcome a dogged feeling of helplessness, which crystallizes in her frequent panic attacks. When her trainer tells her she hits like a man, Picket takes it as the highest compliment: ""So there it was. I wanted to be a man. As a woman I was vulnerable and vulnerability led to pain."" Soon her aggression begins boiling up in unexpected ways. She punches a teenager when he tries to frighten her and beats up her boyfriend's brother when he sucker punches her at a party. Although not as eloquently written as Kate Sekules's The Boxer's Heart (Forecasts, Aug. 28), this memoir features a lighter tone and emphasis on personal transformation that may make it more popular. (Nov.) Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.	What made journalist/TV commentator Picket head for the boxing ring? A nasty divorce and the desire to get a sense of power. Here's her story. Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.	In 1995, fresh from an emotionally draining, angry divorce, Picket sought solace in the stark but physically seductive world of boxing. She did the running, the sit-ups, the speed bag, and the heavy bag. These days you'll see a scattering of women working out at legendary Gleason's gym, whose grungy appearance has given it a kind of chic in the eyes of many New York professionals. But Picket got in the ring at Gleason's and sparred with men. Though seldom did they unleash their full fury, she took a lot more punishment than she dished out. But the blows she did land were sweet indeed, and she earned the respect of the gym's serious fighters and trainers. Readers may initially pair this book with Julie Sekules' The Boxer's Heart [BKL S 1 00], another female-in-boxing memoir, but the books differ significantly. Sekules examines boxing from within and writes of its beauty and its obvious shortcomings. Picket utilizes the sport as a catalyst for self-examination. She felt her stature had been diminished by divorce, and she chose boxing as a unique venue to reassert her independence and reestablish her sense of self. Boxing fans will find much to enjoy in Picket's tough-as-nails depictions of life at Gleason's, but there is much more going on than a Plimptonesque stab at participatory sports journalism. This is a personal odyssey in which body blows and short left hooks are effective antidotes for modern angst. Wes LukowskyCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	Friends and family had long since realized that a sure way to get me to do something I didn't want to do, or was afraid to do, was to accuse me of being scared to do it.As someone whose identity hinged on appearing to be brave, I was prone to remark that the worst thing a person could be was a coward. Foolish enough to believe my own hype, I absolutely thought I could climb into a boxing ring with real boxers and prevail simply because I had courage on my side.-- From Looking for a Fight	Looking For A FightA Memoir""I should have been alarmed at the canvas I had, in my bullheadedness, unwittingly stepped into--but I never could back down from a challenge,"" writes Lynn Snowden Picket in her frank, powerful memoir. An accomplished journalist, Lynn had just completed the New York Marathon and was toned and fit, but underneath she was smarting from a recent and hurtful divorce. Seeking an outlet for her stifled aggression, her trainer led her to a sweat-stained gym in Brooklyn, a place renowned for producing skilled, hard-hitting boxers. At Gleason's, Lynn would learn how to fight.Lynn steps into the ring with a cockiness that is ""part navet and part rage."" Before long she's sparring with men twice her size, with years more experience. For the men at Gleason's, fighting is sometimes their only available path to glory, money, and fame. At their hands, three times a week, Lynn's ribs slam against her lungs, her face bruises, her hands swell. More difficult to overcome, however, are the tenacious panic attacks that come both in and outside the ring. Gleason's has become the focal point of Lynn's life; its mixed smells of machismo, adrenaline, and fear have become her own. After ten months Lynn is ready for her first public fight against a woman, her equal in weight and strength. This match will be the greatest test of Lynn's skill. The greatest test of her courage, however, will be knowing when to quit.	Friends and family had long since realized that a sure way to get me to do something I didn't wan to do, or was afraid to do, was to accuse me of being scared to do it. As someone whose identity hinged on appearing to be brave, I was prone to remark that the worst thing a person could be was a coward.  Foolish enough to believe my own hype, I absolutely thought I could climb into a boxing ring with real boxers and prevail simply because I had courage on my side.-- from Looking for a Fight	Lynn Snowden picket's first book was Nine Lives.Her work appears regularly in Mademoiselle and Gear, and she has written for George, Spin, Outside, Harper's Bizaar, Esquire, and The New York Times.She lives with her husband in New York City	GLEASON'S there's a gritty smell of old cement in Gleason's gym, of stained leather and ancient vinyl, the greasy reek of the small on-site snack bar and the ordered-in meals of rice and beans--the staple, I would later learn, of a trainer's diet. I can detect sweat, old sneakers, and the oily tang of metal weights, of gym bags that are never emptied or aired, of mildew and something else, something that I came to understand was the adrenaline scent of fear. Fear postponed, fear arriving, fear diverted.Then there's the noise: the thudding of fists on vinyl, the staccato beat of punching bags, the thwacking of jump ropes, the bellowing and barking of fighters and trainers, and the brutish finality of gloves landing hard on skin. Suddenly, there is a short, nearly cheerful-sounding bzzzz, a sound much like the front-door buzzer in a prewar building. This signals the two-and-a-half-minute mark in a three-minute round, the time for a final, heroic burst of effort. The noise level reaches a new crescendo until the sound of a prolonged flat alarm. The signal of a thirty-second break. Without the noise of physical exertion, the instruction, the yelling, the exhorting, a chorus of voices in English and Spanish suddenly bursts forth like a previously overpowered section in an orchestra.Trainers mop foreheads, dispense water, reprimands, and advice until the flat buzzer sounds again. This is the start of a new round. It is a routine as predictable and time-driven as any factory work floor.Gleason's consists of one very large room and at its center are four rings--three for boxing, one for wrestling. The heavy bags are hung in a large square near the main office. The paint is peeling off in flaky patches on the walls, and a few boxing posters (Sly Stallone as Rocky) break the monotony of neglect. The concrete floor is painted in spots and, in others, covered with shabby remnants of low-pile carpeting. There is no elevator, no handicapped access, no climate control, no classes, and no locker-room attendants.The minute it takes me to cross the room toward my new trainer's office is enough to attract the attention of everyone in the place. At least twenty men are here working out, and about seven trainers and their assistants are milling around, plus assorted friends. Parked on some of the benches against the wall are old men who like to live vicariously through thick brutish bodies, and young toughs with no place else to hang out; both camps sometimes shout advice to boxers in the ring closest to them. I had just successfully completed the New York Marathon, but here, at Gleason's, I'm not a fellow athlete, I'm a visitor. Or worse, a girl.In the fourth ring, the one for wrestling, two men are working on their routines. Theirs is not Olympic Greco-Roman-style combat, but the professional kind seen on television: blue-haired, leotard-wearing competitors with lightning bolts painted on their faces. In this ring, the ropes will stretch for slingshot antics, and the corners are padded. Until I went to Gleason's, I didn't realize professional wrestlers practiced their pratfalls. These men have a beer-brawler's build, broad and stocky, but no muscular definition. They ignore the bells and rest between falls, going at each other with a kind of impersonal, resigned determination, like football players in a practice scrimmage. They are, without question, the loudest individuals in the room, and the most completely ignored by all present. Wrestlers are boxing's ugly stepchildren.I arrived at this place because I was looking for a fight--though I didn't know it at the time. I came into Gleason's the week before to buy boxing gear. My trainer, Mark Tenore, was not a serious boxing coach, so he knew that once I saw the gym, I would immediately crave its authenticity and would dare myself to come back.Gleason's may be the most famous boxing gym in the world. Founded in 1937, it was originally located in the Bronx but moved to its present location on the Brooklyn waterfront in 1984. Every great boxer has passed through its doors, from Jake LaMotta and Muhammad Ali to more recent champions such as Junior Jones, Lonnie Bradley, and Riddick Bowe. The grimy, no-frills, blood-and-guts appeal is further enhanced by its low membership dues; aspiring boxers looking to fight their way out of poverty train beside champions and also, perhaps, the occasional lawyer or doctor looking for a workout beyond the confines of a health club.Bruce Silverglade owns Gleason's. He is remarkably soft-spoken, of medium height and build, with dark curly hair that is beginning to recede. Mark and I were in his office buying the equipment when the talk turned to trainers. By this time I'd decided that Gleason's was for me, and Bruce knew it. Bruce doesn't look like a boxer, or a manager, or a gym owner, but more like an accountant who's stopped in to look at the books. His office, located off the gym floor, is a large spare room with two nearly empty steel desks, a few metal chairs, and two dingy beige touch-tone telephones.Two young Hispanic guys seated by the wall were watching our every move with interest. Their legs were splayed outward, and they were leaning over like benched basketball players watching a game. They had the lanky bodies of boys in adolescence that baggy clothes can't quite disguise. A couple of filthy windows looked down onto a narrow side street, and all available wall space was covered with fight posters and framed, autographed photos of boxers who'd passed through these doors. There was also a giant blowup of the famous Esquire magazine cover of Muhammad Ali glowering down at Sonny Liston, his face twisted in victorious triumph and macho rage.Bruce asked me about what I wanted in a trainer, and I told him I imagined working with someone who dealt with real boxers, professionals, not white-collar dilettantes. As someone who makes a living as a participatory journalist, I wanted the real deal at all times. I became a stripper to write a story about a strip club, I toured with a heavy- metal band as a roadie, I spent three days and nights on an aircraft carrier and a month with two police officers on their beat in Greenwich Village, all in the name of a story.Enter Hector Roca: a heavyset Hispanic man with a face like a brick wall. He strode in, wearing a navy blue sweat suit with pristine white sneakers, and a large, thick gold rope chain around his neck. Bruce introduced us. Reaching to shake his hand, I instinctively braced myself for a crushing grip, but in fact his grip was gentle, tentative. I looked him directly in the eye, exactly the way he looked at me, and tried, without success, not to feel intimidated.I'm very tough, Hector said without smiling. His voice was rough, with a heavy accent. I nodded solemnly. I had my coat opened, so he could see I was in good shape; I was wearing a tight black turtleneck, black stretch pants, and boots. He'd taken this in already, as had the two kids by the wall, who'd been assessing my body for some time now. They looked at me in the same way that I've seen bettors at the track assess a horse.Don' go cryin' because I'm tough, said Hector.Don't worry about me, I said. He glanced at Mark, who looked at his feet.Les go talk. Leave you bodyguar' here, he said with a chuckle. I followed him back out into the hubbub of the gym proper, to his office, the second one down from Bruce's. The door, which was ajar, had a few fight posters on it, plus a paper sign with hector roca handwritten in labored Gothic lettering.That was Mark. He's a trainer at my gym, I told him on the short walk. I didn't want him thinking that Mark is someone who might cause trouble here if someone punched me. I wanted to establish that I'm not a woman who lets a man fight all her battles.A very young-looking Hispanic man with a baby face and velvety, hairless skin was on his way out of Hector's office. We were introduced. Hector looked at the young man in satin shorts with a mixture of awe and pride. I didn't catch his name, but the kid had the smug assurance of the lower-tier professional athlete who is convinced that everyone knows who he is.Maybe I have you spar with heem, said Hector. The kid laughed at the outrageousness of this suggestion. He was a little shorter than I am, so I extended my arm.My reach is longer than yours, I said to him, as if my reach were going to help against this wiry guy who could take me apart in less than twenty seconds. I sounded like an arrogant jerk, but it felt like the only fitting retort after he'd laughed at the thought of fighting a woman.I wouldn't have that reaction today, but back then my bravado was part navet and part rage. Stunned by the recent dissolution of my marriage, and angry with my ex-husband, I was infuriated to find myself suddenly alone. Worse than that was the knowledge that I was now being perceived by my family and friends as vulnerable, helpless, and victimized, someone to be pitied and worried over. My mother, whom I adore, is nonetheless a chronic worrier. She would call me every day and I would be compelled to calm her fears about the future and ignore my own. And though my father said all the right things, I could tell he was thinking he'd have to now step in and take care of me. The fact that I'd supported myself since college seemed to be irrelevant. Single friends would grab my hand and ask if I was okay--as if I'd contracted a terminal illness. Married friends asked for details to reassure themselves they weren't headed down the same path. Maybe if you'd had kids . . . ventured my friend Susan, as if that would have provided a distraction from the far deeper problems of my marriage.The kid shook his head, smiled, and swaggered away. This was the first indication that the verbal sparring that had become second nature to me wasn't going to work worth a damn in this place.I should have been a...",biographies;biographies & memoirs;books;boxing;individual sports;specific groups;sports & outdoors;women,8
0825438500,"Vanished: A Novel Protracted, slow novels padded with unnecessary scenes, characters, settings and points of view are endemic in the inspirational market, and at almost 700 pages, Tanneberg's sequel to Without Warning exemplifies these problems. The story line follows a tried-and-true adventure formula. While 12-year-old Jessica Cain and her father, John, are on a tour of Israel, Islamic terrorists abduct Jessica. John returns home, but when Jessica is rumored to have been taken to Iran, it's clear the U.S. government doesn't want to instigate an international incident by trying to rescue her. At his wit's end, John travels to Iran, where terrorists hold Jessica hostage. Coincidentally, just as he arrives at the house where she is imprisoned, Jessica escapes out of a conveniently unlocked window. Jessica stows aboard a ship and encounters terrorists in Croatia, while her family combats even more terrorism in the United States. Tanneberg's details about the Middle East are laudably specific, but he tends to bury the reader under an avalanche of information. There are also myriad and superfluous point-of-view shifts, which hurt the pacing. Buried within are some interesting scenes, but few readers will have the stamina to persist to the novel's conclusion. A ruthless edit could have massaged this novel into a fast-paced suspense read, but at twice the length it needs to be, it fails to engage the reader. Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	""It isn't very often I begin a book and find it difficult to put it down unless sheer exhaustion takes over. However, Vanished is like that; from the first page right through to the very last page. . . . Although Vanished is a tale of high adventure and danger, Ward Tanneberg does a phenomenal job in character development and keeping the story at a believable level. . . .   it will certainly grab your attention and keep you that way until you arrive at the back cover. You don't want to miss this one!"" (Jack P. ""Wise B.S., M.S."" www.bookreviewscafe.com 2005-11-01)""It isn't very often I begin a book and find it difficult to put it down unless sheer exhaustion takes over. However, Vanished is like that; from the first page right through to the very last page. . . . Although Vanished is a tale of high adventure and danger, Ward Tanneberg does a phenomenal job in character development and keeping the story at a believable level. . . .   it will certainly grab your attention and keep you that way until you arrive at the back cover. You don't want to miss this one!"" (Jack P. ""Wise B.S., M.S."" www.bookreviewscafe.com 2004-12-01)""A definite page-turner, Vanished is full of well-drawn characters, realistic emotion, excellent plotting and pacing, and it definitely doesn't fall into the chasm of boring fiction. Ultimately, Tanneberg has succeeded in portraying ordinary people who become righteous warriors of God in a thriller that might not only hold its own, but also out-distance mainstream novels."" (E. Dian Moore Christian Book Reviews 2005-01-02)""A definite page-turner, Vanished is full of well-drawn characters, realistic emotion, excellent plotting and pacing, and it definitely doesn't fall into the chasm of boring fiction. Ultimately, Tanneberg has succeeded in portraying ordinary people who become righteous warriors of God in a thriller that might not only hold its own, but also out-distance mainstream novels."" (E. Dian Moore Book Pleasures.com 2005-04-01)""A definite page-turner, Vanished is full of well-drawn character, realistic emotion, excellent plotting and pacing, and it definitely doesn't fall into the chasm of boring fiction."" (E. Dian Moore Sisters in the Lord.org 2005-05-01)A definite page-turner, Vanished is full of well-drawn characters, realistic emotion, excellent plotting and pacing, and it definitely doesn't fall into the chasm of boring fiction. Ultimately, Tanneberg has succeeded in portraying ordinary people who become righteous warriors of God in a thriller that might not only hold its own, but also out-distance mainstream novels. (E. Dian Moore BookPleasures.com 2006-05-01)""The action and fast-paced turns of events in this novel are remarkable and challenged me to finish it in one sittingall 525 pages. The plot takes amazing twists and turns, and Tanneberg exhibits real genius at keeping the stakes high. Vanished alternates between Jessica's and her father's viewpoints, at once providing a look into the frustration of a parent and the panicked, but resourceful, actions of his child. A definite page-turner, Vanished is full of well-drawn characters, realistic emotion, and excellent plotting and pacing. Ultimately, Tanneberg has succeeded in portraying ordinary people who become righteous warriors of God in a thriller that not only holds its own, but also stands up well against many secular novels."" (Matt Conner Infuze Magazine 2006-10-30)	Marwan Doshas first wave of jihad may have failed. But he is determined to carry out his plans to destroy the infidels. And this time he has the perfect pawn . . . pastor John Cains twelve-year-old daughter.  Driven to the brink of despair by Jessicas disappearance, the Cains know this is more than a personal nightmare. Countless lives may be lost if they fail to solve Doshas ominous riddle of revenge: That which flows from under the Temple will poison the earth. Tens of thousands will die, and the world will finally understand that they can resist us no longer. In the tradition of James Clavells Whirlwind, Ward Tannebergs Vanished takes us into the heart of the Middle East, makes us breathless over the disappearance of a child, and touches our own spiritual journey. A page turner set in a contemporary world with the faith of the ancient world to sustain us and give us hope. Jane Kirkpatrick   Best-selling author of A Name of Her Own  Tanneberg has done it again. A compelling novel that not only entertains the reader page after page, but enlightens us to the dangers we all could face. This is destined to be a bestseller! Bill Carmichael   Author of Seven Habits of a Healthy Home Ward Tanneberg is the executive pastor and senior associate teaching leader at Westminster Chapel in Bellevue, Washington. An award-winning writer, he is the author of Without Warning and has been published in a variety of newspapers, magazines, and periodicals across the country.	Ward Tanneberg is the Executive Pastor of Westminster Chapel in Bellevue, Washington. An award-winning author, he has been published in a variety of newspapers, magazines, and periodicals across the country.",books;christian books & bibles;contemporary;fiction;literature & fiction;mystery;religion & spirituality;united states,8
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0138358931,"Sports Marketing: Competitive Business Strategies for Sports Offering a hands-on approach to becoming an efficient sports marketing strategist, this guide shows readers how to develop their own idea for a sports product/event, create a strategic plan, and apply these ideas to a real-world business venture.  Exposing the day-to-day realities of putting together a sports business venture, the handbook begins with two case studies that introduce the overall situation facing sports managers as they attempt to make decisions regarding the correct direction to take their organization ... then walks readers step by step through the many different aspects that are part and parcel of a successful sports marketing plan, such as seeing and seizing an opportunity, understanding markets, the structure of the sport industry, sport publics, sport markets and sport products, the adult sport participant, conducting market research, sponsorship within the corporate marketing framework, designing sport packages, putting the sport sponsorship plan together, pricing sponsorship packages, sponsorship publicity, hospitality programs, analyzing competitive forces, image control, market share strategy, and writing a strategic plan. The guide also includes examples taken directly from the sports business world and highlights the vast scope of job opportunities available in the primary and secondary sport infrastructure.  Ideal for both beginning and seasoned sports marketing professionals.",books;business & finance;business & investing;industries & professions;new;sports & entertainment;sports & outdoors;used & rental textbooks,8
B000FO7WL6,"Sir Banister Fletcher's A History of Architecture. ( Twentieth Edition ) '..the whole point of Banister Fletcher is that it does cram everything into a single volume. It will remain one of the most thumbed tomes in Building Design's office library..above all, gloriously and frustratingly, invaluable.'Building Design, October 1996'..clearly a bargain.'The Architect's Journal, October 1996'...a revolution has taken place in Banister Fletcher. The timid modernizing, the anxious realignments of the past fifty years are over; under Dan Cruickshank's editorship, it has achieved a thoroughness and flexibility one would never have thought possible within the grandiose shell of this late Victorian institution. Half the pleasure, as half the volume, of Banister Fletcher is its pictures. The thousands of photographs are, as always in Banister Fletcher, unimprovably fine.'The Times Educational Supplement, November 1996is 'a monument in itself'Book Reviews on the Internet 1996""A thundering classic appears again with useful additions. As Sir Banister Fletcher said, 'The study of architecture opens up the enjoyment of buildings with an appreciation of their purpose, meaning, and charm.' These words aptly summarise what this book has become for generations of students and architects. No serious fan of architecture should be without it.""American Institute of Architects.'It is such a remarkable book, containing so much detail and so skilfully illustrated, that it is a must for all architectural and surveying offices at such a reasonable price.'ASI Journal, Jan 1997'An easy-to-use reference book with all the world's major architecture described, explained and, in many cases, fully illustrated.'B & M Architecture & Design'Students would be well advised not to waste money on a pile of discounted colourful coffee-table books, but rather to concentrate resources on this single volume... It will continue its usefulness beyond the years of study and become an additional aid to everyday practice.'Times Higher Educations Supplement'...the bible of architectural history... Banister Fletcher remains a potted history with remarkably pithy writing.'Building'...succinct characterization of individual architects and a liveliness of both criticism and description'The Times Educational Supplement	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	The 20th edition of Sir Banister Fletcher's A History of Architecture is the first major work of history to include an overview of the architectural achievements of the 20th Century. Banister Fletcher has been the standard one volume architectural history for over 100 years and continues to give a concise and factual account of world architecture from the earliest times.   In this twentieth and centenary edition, edited by Dan Cruickshank with three consultant editors and fourteen new contributors, chapters have been recast and expanded and a third of the text is new. * There are new chapters on the twentieth-century architecture of the Middle East (including Israel), South-east Asia, Hong Kong, Japan and Korea, the Indian subcontinent, Russia and the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and Latin America. * The chapter on traditional architecture of India has been rewritten and the section on traditional Chinese architecture has been expanded, both with new specially commissioned drawings * The architecture of the Americas before 1900 has been enlarged to include, for the first time, detailed coverage of Latin America and the Caribbean * The book's scope has been widened to include more architecture from outside Europe * The bibliography has been expanded into a separate section and is a key source of information on every period of world architecture * The coverage of the 20th century architecture of North America has been divided into two chapters to allow fuller coverage of contemporary works * 20th century architecture of Western Europe has been radically recast * For the first time the architecture of the twentieth century is considered as a whole and assessed in an historical perspective * Coverage has been extended to include buildings completed during the last ten years * The coverage of Islamic architecture has been increased and re-organised to form a self contained section  This unique reference book places buildings in their social, cultural and historical settings to describe the main patterns of architectural development, from Prehistoric to the International Style. Again in the words of Sir Banister Fletcher, this book shows that 'Architecture ... provides a key to the habits, thoughts and aspirations of the people, and without a knowledge of this art the history of any period lacks that human interest with which it should be invested.'                                        *Winner of the International Architecture Book Award, The American Institute of Architects Book of the Century.*THE source book for the historical development of architecture	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.",architecture;books;criticism;education & reference;history;professional & technical;reference;study & teaching,8
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1576834824,"""Mom, Dad . . . I'm Pregnant"": When Your Daughter or Son Faces an Unplanned Pregnancy (TH1NK LifeChange) Mom, Dad...I'm Pregnant.  These are words you never want to hear from your unmarried daughter. In an instant, your dreams and hopes for your daughter or son permanently change. You feel battered by an array of conflicting emotions. What you and your family need now more than ever is compassion, understanding, and direction.  Long-time educator, writer, and speaker on family life issues, Jayne Schooler offers a comprehensive guide to the challenges faced by parents of children who experience unplanned pregnancies.   As a mother and grandmother, Jayne also chronicles her own family's experience--from the initial heartbreak and shock upon hearing her daughter's news to a new level of love, maturity, and spiritual commitment. By sharing her own story and those of other parents, as well as the expertise of a broad range of professionals, Jayne offers deep insight and hope to those who need to know that God's love and grace is readily available for all.	Jayne E. Schooler is the author of four other books, including the award-winning Telling the Truth to Your Adopted or Foster Child, with Betsy Keefer. A nationally known educator, writer, and speaker on family life issues, Jayne regularly conducts workshops and brings insight and empathy to audiences of both families and professionals. She holds a master's degree in life issues counseling from the Master's Graduate School of Divinity. Jayne and her husband, David, live in Dayton, Ohio.",books;christian books & bibles;christian living;fitness & dieting;health;pregnancy & childbirth;religion & spirituality;women's health,8
0141018666,"End of Poverty: How We Can Make It Happen in Our Lifetime Celebrated economist Jeffrey Sachs has a plan to eliminate extreme poverty around the world by 2025. If you think that is too ambitious or wildly unrealistic, you need to read this book. His focus is on the one billion poorest individuals around the world who are caught in a poverty trap of disease, physical isolation, environmental stress, political instability, and lack of access to capital, technology, medicine, and education. The goal is to help these people reach the first rung on the ""ladder of economic development"" so they can rise above mere subsistence level and achieve some control over their economic futures and their lives. To do this, Sachs proposes nine specific steps, which he explains in great detail in The End of Poverty. Though his plan certainly requires the help of rich nations, the financial assistance Sachs calls for is surprisingly modest--more than is now provided, but within the bounds of what has been promised in the past. For the U.S., for instance, it would mean raising foreign aid from just 0.14 percent of GNP to 0.7 percent. Sachs does not view such help as a handout but rather an investment in global economic growth that will add to the security of all nations. In presenting his argument, he offers a comprehensive education on global economics, including why globalization should be embraced rather than fought, why international institutions such as the United Nations, International Monetary Fund, and World Bank need to play a strong role in this effort, and the reasons why extreme poverty exists in the midst of great wealth. He also shatters some persistent myths about poor people and shows how developing nations can do more to help themselves. Despite some crushing statistics, The End of Poverty is a hopeful book. Based on a tremendous amount of data and his own experiences working as an economic advisor to the UN and several individual nations, Sachs makes a strong moral, economic, and political case for why countries and individuals should battle poverty with the same commitment and focus normally reserved for waging war. This important book not only makes the end of poverty seem realistic, but in the best interest of everyone on the planet, rich and poor alike. --Shawn Carkonen	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Sachs came to fame advising ""shock therapy"" for moribund economies in the 1980s (with arguably positive results); more recently, as director of Columbia University's Earth Institute, he has made news with a plan to end global ""extreme poverty""--which, he says, kills 20,000 people a day--within 20 years. While much of the plan has been known to economists and government leaders for a number of years (including Kofi Annan, to whom Sachs is special advisor), this is Sachs's first systematic exposition of it for a general audience, and it is a landmark book.For on-the-ground research in reducing disease, poverty, armed conflict and environmental damage, Sachs has been to more than 100 countries, representing 90% of the world's population. The book combines his practical experience with sharp professional analysis and clear exposition. Over 18 chapters, Sachs builds his case carefully, offering a variety of case studies, detailing small-scale projects that have worked and crunching large amounts of data. His basic argument is that ""[W]hen the preconditions of basic infrastructure (roads, power, and ports) and human capital (health and education) are in place, markets are powerful engines of development."" In order to tread ""the path to peace and prosperity,"" Sachs believes it is encumbant upon successful market economies to bring the few areas of the world that still need help onto ""the ladder of development."" Writing in a straightfoward but engaging first person, Sachs keeps his tone even whether discussing failed states or thriving ones. For the many who will buy this book but, perhaps, not make it all the way through, chapters 12 through 14 contain the blueprint for Sachs's solution to poverty, with the final four making a rigorous case for why rich countries (and individuals) should collectively undertake it--and why it is affordable for them to do so. If there is any one work to put extreme poverty back onto the global agenda, this is it. (Mar. 21)  Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Sachs, economist and advisor to the UN, offers a blueprint for eliminating--by 2025--the hunger and extreme poverty responsible for millions around the world dying because of disease and lack of drugs. With a foreward by rock star Bono, this book tells how to achieve the goal of a world safe from poverty and the terrorism it feeds. He explains how to fight disease, promote good science and universal education, put into place critical infrastructure, and help the poorest global citizens. Noting that aid from the U.S. constitutes a very small percentage of its GNP, Sachs challenges the U.S. to transfer part of its military budget to global security through economic development and calls on the wealthiest Americans to provide extra assistance. This is an excellent, understandable book on a critical topic and should be required reading for students and participants in public policy as well as those who doubt the problem of world poverty can be solved. Mary WhaleyCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	""The End of Poverty is a gripping read... Sachs argues that extreme poverty can be obliterated altogether by 2025."" -- The Guardian...Sachs has attempted to construct a new way of looking at the plight of the world's poorest people... -- Time, March 14, 2005Book and man are brilliant, passionate, optimistic and impatient.... Outstanding. -- The EconomistSachs writes as passionately as he speaks. -- BusinessWeek, April 11, 2005The informative and impassioned work is highly recommended for all libraries. -- Library Journal, starred review, May 1, 2005[Paul Wolfowitz] should read Jeffrey Sachs's compelling new book, The End of Poverty. -- Fareed Zakaria, Newsweek	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Jeffrey Sachs is the Director of The Earth Institute, Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, and Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University as well as Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan. He is internationally renowned for his work as economic advisor to governments in Latin America, Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, Asia and Africa.	Jeffrey D. Sachs's guided tour to the poorest regions of the Earth is enthralling and maddening at the same time -- enthralling, because his eloquence and compassion make you care about some very desperate people; maddening, because he offers solutions that range all the way from practical to absurd. It's a shame that Sachs's prescriptions are unconvincing because he is resoundingly right about the tragedy of world poverty. As he puts it, newspapers should (but don't) report every morning, ""More than 20,000 people perished yesterday of extreme poverty.""  That appalling toll has given Sachs his life's mission. Two themes recur in his long career of advising heads of state in poor nations, which he chronicles in fascinating detail in this book. First is his favored approach of ""shock therapy"" (a term he dislikes but has found impossible to shake): a comprehensive package of economic reforms that attempts to fix all problems simultaneously and quickly. Second is his conviction that the West should always give a lot of money to support these packages. These two themes unify a book that sometimes seems like a disparate collection of Sachs's adventures in Bolivia, Poland, Russia and Africa on issues ranging from stopping high inflation, leaping from communism to capitalism, canceling Third World debt, curing malaria and AIDS, and now eliminating poverty in Africa and everywhere else. Over the past two decades, Sachs has simply been the world's greatest economic reformer. It's perhaps fitting that he has enlisted Bono, the lead singer of U2 and development activist, to pen an introduction: the rock star as economist meets the economist as rock star. Perhaps someone so gifted and hardworking can be forgiven if his narrative is a little self-serving -- for instance, when he portrays his plans as responsible for early successes in Bolivia and Poland. At the same time, he prefers a more complicated analysis for the failures in which he was involved, like the chaos in Russia, later stagnation in Bolivia and Africa's perpetual crisis (their geography was bad, they didn't follow his advice, the West didn't give them enough aid, etc.). The climax of The End of Poverty is Sachs's far-reaching plan to end world poverty -- a sort of Great Leap Forward. His characteristically comprehensive approach to eliminating world poverty derives from his conviction that everything depends on everything else -- that, for instance, you cannot cure poverty in Africa without beating AIDS, which requires infrastructure, which requires stable government, and so forth. Social reformers have found two ways to respond to this complexity; Karl Popper summed them up best a half-century ago as ""utopian social engineering"" versus ""piecemeal democratic reform."" Sachs is the intellectual leader of the utopian camp. To end world poverty once and for all, he offers a detailed Big Plan that covers just about everything, in mind-numbing technical jargon, from planting nitrogen-fixing leguminous trees to replenish soil fertility, to antiretroviral therapy for AIDS, to specially programmed cell phones to provide real-time data to health planners, to rainwater harvesting, to battery-charging stations and so on. Sachs proposes that the U.N. secretary general personally run the overall plan, coordinating the actions of thousands of officials in six U.N. agencies, U.N. country teams, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. Sachs's Big Plan would launch poor countries out of a ""poverty trap"" and end world poverty by 2025, as the book's title advertises. The world's rich countries would pay for a large share of the Big Plan -- somehow doing an exact financial ""Needs Assessment,"" seeing how much poor country governments can pay and then having rich donors pay the rest. The donors will fill what he calls the ""financing gap"" by doubling donor-nation foreign aid in 2006, then nearly doubling it again by 2015. What's the alternative? The piecemeal reform approach (which his book opposes) would humbly acknowledge that nobody can fully grasp the complexity of the political, social, technological, ecological and economic systems that underlie poverty. It would eschew the arrogance that ""we"" know exactly how to fix ""them."" It would shy away from the hubris of what he  labels the ""breathtaking opportunity"" that ""we"" have to spread democracy, technology, prosperity and perpetual peace to the entire planet. Large-scale crash programs, especially by outsiders, often produce unintended consequences. The simple dreams at the top run afoul of insufficient knowledge of the complex realities at the bottom. The Big Plans are impossible to evaluate scientifically afterward. Nor can you hold any specific agency accountable for their success or failure. Piecemeal reform, by contrast, motivates specific actors to take small steps, one at a time, then tests whether that small step made poor people better off, holds accountable the agency that implemented the small step, and considers the next small step. What's the evidence on how well the two approaches work? Sachs pays surprisingly little attention to the history of aid approaches and results. He seems unaware that his Big Plan is strikingly similar to the early ideas that inspired foreign aid in the 1950s and '60s. Just like Sachs, development planners then identified countries caught in a ""poverty trap,"" did an assessment of how much they would need to make a ""big push"" out of poverty and into growth, and called upon foreign aid to fill the ""financing gap"" between countries' own resources and needs. This legacy has influenced the bureaucratic approach to economic development that's been followed ever since -- albeit with some lip service to free markets -- by the World Bank, regional development banks, national aid agencies like USAID and the U.N. development agencies. Spending $2.3 trillion (measured in today's dollars) in aid over the past five decades has left the most aid-intensive regions, like Africa, wallowing in continued stagnation; it's fair to say this approach has not been a great success. (By the way, utopian social engineering does not just fail for the left; in Iraq, it's not working too well now for the right either.) Meanwhile, some piecemeal interventions have brought success. Vaccination campaigns, oral rehydration therapy to prevent diarrhea and other aid-financed health programs have likely contributed to a fall in infant mortality in every region, including Africa. Aid projects have probably helped increase access to primary and secondary education, clean water and sanitation. Perhaps it is also easier to hold aid agencies accountable for results in these tangible areas. (Many of Sachs's specific recommendations might make sense as piecemeal reforms -- i.e., if done one at a time in small steps, with subsequent evaluation and accountability.) Indeed, the broader development successes of recent decades, most of them in Asia, happened without the Big Plan -- and without significant foreign aid as a proportion of the recipient country's income. Gradual free market reforms in China and India in the 1980s and '90s (which Sachs implausibly argues were shock therapy in disguise) have brought rapid growth. Moreover, the West itself achieved gradual success through piecemeal democratic and market reforms over many centuries, not through top-down Big Plans offered by outsiders. Do we  try out shock therapy only on the powerless poor? ""Success in ending the poverty trap,"" Sachs writes, ""will be much easier than it appears."" Really? If it's so easy, why haven't five decades of effort gotten the job done? Sachs should redirect some of his outrage at the question of why the previous $2.3 trillion didn't reach the poor so that the next $2.3 trillion does. In fact, ending poverty is not easy at all. In those five decades, poverty researchers have learned a great deal about the complexity of toxic politics, bad history (including exploitative or inept colonialism), ethnic and regional conflicts, elites' manipulation of politics and institutions, official corruption, dysfunctional public services, malevolent police forces and armies, the difficulty of honoring contracts and property rights, unaccountable and excessively bureaucratic donors and many other issues. Sachs, however, sees these factors as relatively unimportant. Indeed, he seems deaf to the babble and bungling of the U.N. agencies he calls upon to run the Big Plan, not to mention other unaccountable and ineffectual aid agencies.So, in Sachs's eyes, what does matter in producing poverty? His book blames the perception of bad government in Africa on racial prejudice in the West, an insult to the many courageous Africans who have protested against their often appalling rulers. To Sachs, poverty reduction is mostly a scientific and technological issue (hence the technical jargon above), in which aid dollars can buy cheap interventions to fix development problems. But that's too neat. What about the World Bank studies in Guinea, Cameroon, Uganda and Tanzania, which estimated that 30 to 70 percent of government drugs disappeared into the black market rather than reaching the patients? Sachs calls for huge increases in aid to his favorite countries, like Malawi and Ethiopia, overlooking inconvenient factors such as the worsening of Malawi's famine because corrupt officials sold off its strategic grain reserves and because autocratic Ethiopian rulers have favored their own minority Tigrean ethnic group. Sachs is right that bad government is not disproportionately an African problem; democracy has been making progress in Africa, while rulers in Azerbaijan, Cambodia and Turkmenistan make some African autocrats look like Thomas Jefferson. But Sachs's anti-poverty prescriptions rest heavily on the kindness of some pretty dysfunctional regimes, not to mention the famously inefficient international aid bureaucracy. Perhaps we can excuse these allegedly easy-to-achieve dreams as the tactics of a fundraiser for the poor -- someone who's out to galvanize public opinion to back dramatically higher aid abroad. Sachs was born to play the role of fundraiser. And it's easier to feel good about his sometimes simplistic sales pitch for foreign aid if it leads to spending more dollars on desperately poor people, as opposed to, say, wasteful weapons systems. The danger is that when the utopian dreams fail (as they will again), the rich-country public will get even more disillusioned about foreign aid. Sachs rightly notes that we need not worry whether the pathetic amount of current U.S. foreign aid -- little more than a 10th of a penny for every dollar of U.S. income -- is wasted. Foreign aid's prospects will brighten only if aid agencies become more accountable for results, and demonstrate to the public that some piecemeal interventions improve the lives of desperate people. So yes, do read Sachs's eloquent descriptions of poverty and his compelling ethical case for the rich to help the poor. Just say no to the Big Plan.  Reviewed by William Easterly Copyright 2005, The Washington Post Co. All Rights Reserved.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	The path from poverty to development has come incredibly fast in the span of human history. Two hundred years ago, the idea that we could potentially achieve the end of poverty would have been unimaginable. Just about everybody was poor with the exception of a very small minority of royals and landed gentry. Life was as difficult in much of Europe as it was in India or China. With very few exceptions, your great-great-grandparents were poor and most likely living on the farm. One leading economic historian, Angus Maddison, puts the average income per person in Western Europe in 1820 at around 90 percent of the average income of sub-Saharan Africa today. Life expectancy in Western Europe and Japan as of 1800 was probably about forty years.There was little sense a few centuries ago of vast divides in wealth and poverty around the world. China, India, Europe, and Japan all had similar income levels at the time of European discoveries of the sea routes to Asia, Africa, and the Americas. Marco Polo, of course, marveled at the sumptuous wonders of China, not at its poverty. Corts and his conquistadores expressed astonishment at the riches of Tenochtitln, the capital of the Aztecs. The early Portuguese explorers in Africa were impressed with the well-ordered towns in West Africa.Until the mid-1700s, the world was remarkably poor by any of todays standards. Life expectancy was extremely low; children died in vast numbers in the now rich countries as well as the poor countries. Disease and epidemics, not just the black death of Europe, but many waves of disease, from smallpox and measles to other epidemics, regularly washed through society and killed mass numbers of people. Episodes of hunger and extreme weather and climate fluctuations sent societies crashing. The rise and fall of the Roman Empire, for Arnold Toynbee, was much like the rise and decline of all other civilizations before and since. Economic history had long been one of ups and downs, growth followed by decline, rather than sustained economic progress.The Novelty of Modern Economic GrowthIf we are to understand why vast gaps between rich and poor exist today, we need therefore to understand a very recent period of human history during which these vast gaps opened. The past two centuries, since around 1800, constitute a unique era in economic history, a period that the great economic historian Simon Kuznets famously termed the period of Modern Economic Growth, or MEG for short. Before the era of MEG, indeed for thousands of years, there had been virtually no sustained economic growth in the world and only gradual increases in the human population;	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.	Jeffrey D. Sachs, director of Columbia University's Earth Institute and a UN adviser, looks at successes and failures in the global war on poverty, considers how the gap between rich and poor nations developed, and outlines a plan for ending the worst poverty by 2025. Malcolm Hillgartner makes his delivery heartfelt while maintaining Sachs's optimistic tone and outlook. While the work has dry patches that relate statistics and facts, Sachs's personal anecdotes give Hillgartner room to voice passion and even occasional anger. He admirably represents Sachs, a believer in ""capitalism with a human face,"" and gives listeners plenty of food for thought on sweatshops, the Marshall Plan, debt relief, the responsibility of the world's richest people, and U.S. spending on world poverty.  J.A.S.   AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine",books;business & investing;economics;politics & government;politics & social sciences;popular economics;public affairs & policy;social services & welfare,8
0967234611,"Healing the Eye the Natural Way ""Anyone with Eye-Related problems needs this book. Dr. Kondrot talks to us in an easy-to-understand language, gives us many ways to help keep our eyes healthy, and discusses the medical ramifications of macular degeneration simply and in a straight forward manner.  It is a joy to have a medical doctor finally embracing the many alternative medicine 'tools' that are out there today in an intelligent manner - and from experience.""  -- Eileen Naumann, Author of Homeopathy 911""I just read ""Healing the Eye the Natural Way"", and it is terrific.  The book is organized, factual, and simple yet thoroughly explained with great examples to clarify complex ideas about macular degeneration."" ""This is a very practical guide that patients can use to evaluate their condition, make choices and initiate a reasonable program for themselves.  Hope reigns eternal, and hats off to you for explaining why it should, on a mind, body and spiritual level that emphasizes self empowerment."" (Dahlia Hirsch, MD (Ophthalmologist and Wholistic Doctor)) -- Dahlia Hirsch, MD (Ophthalmologist and Wholistic Doctor)""When my husband found out that he had Stargardt Macular Degeneration, we were told by our doctor that there was nothing we could do but go home and wait for blindness to set in.  I tried to stay positive and searched the Internet for cure.  I found some interesting facts and herbs but no real cure.  Finally, by the grace of God, I discvered your practice.  Without you we would be preparing for a seeing eye dog, Braille lessons, and other life altering changes.""  -- Robin Buchman, Patient's Wife	Why another book dealing with alternative medicine and vision problems??  I felt there was a need for a book that goes beyond nutrition, vitamin and mineral thgerapy for the treatment of macular degeneration.  Over 20 years of practice have convinced me that there are alternative therapies that can be of great value in the treatment of this disabling condition.  I want to share with the reader important information regarding vision therapy, homeopathy, chelation and micro-current stimulation that can change the life and sight of many people.	Dr. Kondrot is a medical ophthalmologist who has been in practice for over 20 years in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  Since 1988, when he was introduced to the science of Homeopathy, he has become an avid student of classical homeopathy receiving his diploma from the Hahnemann Medical College.  In fact, at this time, he is the only ophthalmologist in the country who specializes in Classical Homeopathy.  Due to his genuine interest in helping people with degenerative eye disorders, he has developed a comprehensive protocol to guide us not only for healthy eyesight but also a healthier life.  He has spent a number of years researching and using various natural therapies to help his patients with Age Related Macular Degeneration restore their sight, or at least arrest the progress of this disorder which may lead to severe visual impairment.",alternative medicine;books;chelation;fitness & dieting;healing;health;homeopathy;medical books,8
B00071YISC,"A Stillness at Appomattox (Franklin Library of Pulitzer Prize Classics) If every historian wrote like Bruce Catton, no one would read fiction. This marvelously well-told account of the final year of the Civil War marches readers from Wilderness, through Petersburg, and finally to the climax at Appomattox. The surrender scene, when Grant and Lee meet at last, is spine tingling. This is the third book of Catton's Army of the Potomac trilogy. It's also the best of the bunch, even though the first two, Mr.  Lincoln's Army and Glory Road, are both exceptional. Not to be missed. --John Miller	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	When first published in 1953, Bruce Catton, our foremost Civil  War historian was awarded both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book  Award for excellence in nonfiction.  This final volume of The Army  Of The Potomac trilogy relates the final year of the Civil War.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	When first published in 1953, Bruce Catton, our foremost Civil War historian was awarded both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for excellence in nonfiction. This final volume of The Army of the Potomac trilogy relates the final year of the Civil War.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",americas;appomattox;books;campaigns & battlefields;civil war;history;regimental histories;united states,8
9872064202,"Food and Drink in Argentina Dereck Foster was born in Buenos Aires in 1931 and except for the period 1953-1959 spent in Spain, South Africa and other countries outside of Argentina, has lived there all of his life. While in Spain, he visited his first winery and his passion for food and wine was born. He has always been a journalist specializing in gastronomy and travel, which has allowed him to visit 36 countries on five continents. He has been the Buenos Aires Herald's Food and Wine columnist since 1967 and lately its Food and Wine editor. Dereck lectures widely and for eleven years lectured on food and drink at the Salvador university in Buenos Aires.    Richard Tripp, or Dick as he is more commonly called, was born in North Carolina in 1940. As an active duty officer in the US Navy, he traveled extensively and continued to do so after his retirement in 1988 when he moved to Brussels with his wife, a member of the US Foreign Service, and other posts in Madrid and Buenos Aires. Dick became interested in food and cooking when he was young and his interest in wine started to develop in 1967 during four years of duty in Northern California, close to the California wine centers.",argentina;books;dining;food;general;lodging & transportation;south america;travel,8
0425192644,"Death at Glamis Castle (Robin Paige Victorian Mysteries, No. 9) Paige's ninth Victorian mystery (after 2002's Death at Dartmoor) enmeshes married sleuths Lord Charles and Kate Sheridan yet again in royal intrigue and scandal, but with less success than usual. The Sheridans' holiday is interrupted by a summons from Edward VII to investigate strange occurrences at legendary Glamis Castle. The old story of the Monster of Glamis-a half-man, half-monster rumored to be a deformed scion of a noble family-gains new life when the castle's labyrinthine quarters are used to conceal the presence of Lord Osborne, who lives in isolation, tended to by a small staff of servants. Osborne's disappearance, which coincides with the brutal slaughter of a housemaid, proves worthy of the king's attention when the Sheridans learn that the victim's throat was slit in a manner consistent with the crimes of Jack the Ripper-and that Osborne is actually the king's eldest son, Edward, duke of Clarence, himself a one-time Ripper suspect, whose death was announced by Buckingham Palace a decade earlier. Although the Sheridans ""solved"" the Ripper murders in the earlier Death at Whitechapel, they can't eliminate the duke from suspicion. Their inquiry takes place amid increasing British tensions with imperial Germany, which adds a potential espionage angle to the murder. While the book is a quick read, there's little suspense or deduction, and the pleasant if underdeveloped main characters don't do enough to hold the reader's attention.and Susan Albert Wittig, the latter author of Indigo Dying and other titles in her China Bayles detective series.Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	""If you don't fall in love with Glamis Castle, you haven't a wee dram o' romance in your soul."" -Kirkus Reviews	Robin Paige is the pseudonym of husband-and-wife team Susan Wittig Albert and Bill Albert. Susan Wittig Albert is the author of the China Bayles mysteries Thyme of Death, Witch's Bane, Hangman's Root, Rosemary Remembered, Rueful Death, Love Lies Bleeding, Chile Death, Lavender Lies, Mistletoe Man, and Bloodroot. Bill Albert is the coauthor, with his wife, of more than sixty novels for young adults. They live in the Texas hill country.",books;contemporary;genre fiction;historical;literature & fiction;mystery;thriller & suspense;united states,8
B000BAUM6G,"Amazon.com: ECWCS Polar Fleece Jacket/Liner - Black: Clothing This extra warm garment can be worn as a jacket or used as a ECWCS jacket liner. Features include upper body and elbow patches, full front zipper, armpit zippers, drawstring waistband and hook and loop sleeve adjustments. Made of polyester, and has 2 inside mesh pockets and front slash zipper pockets",clothing;clothing & accessories;jackets;men;military;novelty & special use;sports & outdoors;work wear & uniforms,8
096233183X,"Everything You Need to Know About Nursing Homes: The Family's Comprehensive Guide to Either Working with the Institution or Finding Care Alternatives Invaluable. Unique. Compassionate/realistic look at aging services. Model  of advocacy for elderly/infirm at every level of healthcare system. -- Library News, March/April 2006, (Vol. 6)A comprehensive consumer's guide to facilities and services. -- Pomona College Magazine, May 2005Exhaustive, invaluable comsumer's guide . . .a model of advocacy for the elderly and disabled, and an eye-opener on the healthcare field. -- University of Chicago Magazine, 2005Important information. Very useful for dealing with the elderly and end of life issues. -- Wanda Franz, Ph.D., President, National Right To LifeWith Medicare/long-term care being important topics of discussion for our aging population, this book is a must have. -- Jan Nathan, Executive Director, The Independent Book Publishers Association	This book is an invaluable consumer's guide. It provides thousands of tips, and instruction and advice on not only selecting a nursing home and alternatives to it, but on: understanding the nursing home bureaucracy; working with the institution to receive promised care & finding solutions to care problems; advocating for physical, speech, and occupational therapies; right-to-life and life support issues; mental /physical stimulation for elders; how to care for bedridden & ambulatory elders; long-term care insurance covering home care and care facilities; how families can cope with illness & death; and reforming the healthcare system, in general.In addition, this book contains appendices on organizations and websites for elders & caregivers; healthcare/legal terminology; and useful books.This is simply an outstanding, unique book for its firsthand information and insight. It's the only book you'll ever need on nursing homes. It's a book for all families and for professionals in healthcare and related fields who work with the ill and elderly.Finally, this book is a real eye-opener not only into the aging services field, but into the healthcare field. A monumental work for its thoughtfulness, and a model of advocacy for the elderly and infirm at every level of the healthcare system.	This book is really for everyone, not just family and adult children. It is for older adults, nurses, social workers, family counselors, hospital discharge personnel, doctors, physical/speech/occupational therapists, elder law attorneys, gerontologists, gerontology professors, geriatricians, nursing school professors,nursing students, ministers, long-term care ombudsmen, and state inspectors of long-term care facilties. It is also for family members who already have loved ones at nursing homes, so they can find solutions to problems with care and work with staff to resolve them. Hopefully, family members will learn from the mistakes that I made. This book includes ample checklists for basic care for the elderly; checklists for housing options available to the elderly; sample letters to healthcare personnel regarding care; a summary of effective communication to use with healthcare personnel; an extensive index and appendices. I have made every effort to make it!  reader-friendly.	Charlotte Digregorio holds a graduate degree from the University of Chicago. She is an educator, journalist, and award-winning author of four books. She has taught, lectured, and done consulting at universities throughout the country. Countless healthcare consumers can attest to Digregorio's healthcare advocacy. As Dr. Helen Paulus of the State of Washington confirms about the author's book: Outstanding! A classic! Invaluable! The author pulls no punches and lays it on the line as to the system. I was desperate for information concerning the care of my father. This book was a powerhouse for me. I plan to urge anyone who will be facing the rigors of placing a loved one in care or be facing it themselves to read it. It's mandatory education for us all. It was my life raft. And, The Nation's Health, The Official Newspaper of the American Public Health Association, confirms Digregorio's dedication to healthcare advocacy: This new consumer's guide by Charlotte Digregorio helps readers select a nursing home and understand and maneuver through the nursing home bureaucracy. The book discusses basic care requirements, insurance, coping skills, health care reform, life-support issues and more.",administration & medicine economics;books;consumer guides;education & reference;health care delivery;home & community health;medical books;nursing,8
0205270093,"Foundations of Education: The Challenge of Professional Practice Key Benefit: This lively, provocative, issues-oriented book provides a fresh look at traditional topics in educational foundations and adds an exciting technological and global perspective for the information age. Key Topic: This book prepares would-be and current teachers to think and act as professionals in today's classrooms and in today's world. Market:  This book is for anyone who has a stake in our educational system, but especially would-be and beginning teachers.",books;education;education & reference;instruction methods;new;pedagogy;schools & teaching;used & rental textbooks,8
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1884737811,"The Heart Rate Monitor Log Book for Outdoor or Indoor: A Heart Zone Training Program (Heart Zone Training Program Series) Edwards has raced for 30 years and won the women's divisions at the 1997 RAAM (Race Across America) and the Western States 100 Miler, and formerly held the master's world record at the Ironman Triathlon and the Iditashoe 100 Mile snowshoe race. She is a professional triathlete, having finished all 55 of the Danskin Triathlons over the past 10 years, and serves as the national spokesperson for the event. She has had top finishes at the Eco-Challenge Adventure Race, the Outdoor Quest in China, and the Olympic Marathon trials. She is a professional speaker who gives speeches on both fitness and success in life to audiences around the world.Reed is the athletic director of the Bellevue Club, a large multipurpose club and hotel in Bellevue, Washington, and the creator of the training system used in the Heart Zones Cycling series. For the past three years, she has traveled around the country writing, speaking, and teaching workshops at camps, seminars, and programs on Heart Zones Cycling. She has written more than 100 workouts, three manuals, including an intructor's manual for the Heart Zones Cycling training program, and has led seminars and workshops as the founder, master trainer, and spokesperson for Heart Zones Cycling.",books;cycling;education & reference;fitness & dieting;health;individual sports;reference;sports & outdoors,8
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0966173546,"Hysterectomy? The Best or Worst Thing That Ever Happened to Me?: A Collection of Women's Personal Experiences ""Elizabeth Plourde has done women everywhere a great service by documenting all the possible outcomes that can result from hysterectomy."" -- Christine Northrup, M.D., Author of Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom""This book is a forum to many other women ,to describe, and often process, their experiences after having surgery."" -- myrrha2u, September 2003""This book is an excellent resource for women who may be needing or considering hysterectomy."" -- Jennifer R. Berman, M.D. & Laura A. Berman, Ph.D., Authors of For Women Only	Elizabeth Plourde is a licensed Clinical Laboratory Scientist, with a B.S. in Biological Science and M.A. in Psychology. She is currently completing a Ph.D.  This training in the fields of both medicine and psychology is augmented by invaluable experience gained while working with cutting-edge medical research laboratories for over a decade. Her 18-years of research and expertise in the field of womens health have resulted in her appearances on ABC's 20/20, Berman & Berman: For Women Only, Good Morning America, The Gary Null Show, and numerous network news programs and radio shows across the country.",books;fitness & dieting;general;health;parenting & relationships;politics & social sciences;women's health;women's studies,8
1896209424,"A Wounded Tigress: India Through the Eys of As a fine story teller...she succeeds in her attempt to make  the points she wants to. The sad tales that reveal many aspects of  prevailing social evils will be fine grist to social worker's mill and  at the same time serve to stir up a serious instrospection into  despicable unfairness to women. The text as well as the presentation  are extremely engaging to the reader.  -- tHE The Hindu, Madras, IndiaIn ""A Wounded Tigress"", Vyas portrays a vivid picture of  India's social customs and conventions. Her easy, fluid style of  carrying her readers along through the book is delightful. But what  makes it truly remarkable is the way her female protagonists emerge as  the proud survivors of the very society that once condemned them.  -- Dilara Hashem, Voice of AmericaYou write with a refreshing simplicity and a sensitive  insight about India and its people. I am sure foreigners who read your  novellas will be able not only to look at life in India beyond the  usual stereo-types but alsp drawn to find out more about the country.  -- Shiv S Mukherjee, Ministry of Press, Information & Culture, Embassy of India	Mridula Mitra Vyas - poet, lyricist, journalist and now an  author - lives in the Washington D.C. area. She arrived in New York as  a young journlist from India, got married and had a son. After her  divorce, contrary to expectations, she remained in USA, to bring up  her son who is now in now a college student. She, then, wrote about  herself, fiction based on facts about her life in the India she grew  up and USA where she now lives.  She is now writing a full novel based  on India and USA.",anthologies;anthologies & literary collections;books;contemporary;general;literature & fiction;short stories;united states,8
0520245776,"Encountering the Dharma: Daisaku Ikeda, Soka Gakkai, and the Globalization of Buddhist Humanism In a readable and engaging study, Hamilton College professor Seager (Buddhism in America) argues that Soka Gakkai, a recent form of Japanese Buddhism, is ""best understood as a liberal or modernist movement"" that intentionally tries to adapt Buddhism to contemporary society. Peace, culture and education sit at the heart of the movement; adherents understand these as three important ways to express the dharma in a world beset by inequality and injustice. In Seager's view, Daisaku Ikeda, the current president of Soka Gakkai International, has, more than any other leader, developed the movement's Nichiren Buddhist Humanism. Several chapters focus on the exportation of Soka Gakkai to the rest of the world, including the U.S. and Brazil. Soka Gakkai has aroused much controversy over the yearsonlookers have worried, for example, that Ikeda is a power-mad potentate. Seager airs but ultimately dismisses these concerns. He capably infuses the book with a strong first-person element. Shortly before Seager began this book, his wife died, and his bereavement transformed a disinterested scholarly project into something of a personal quest. Still, the finished product is an academic study, not a memoir, and Seager integrates autobiography to good effectit illumines but does not overshadow Soka Gakkai. (Mar.) Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	""Seager does a superb job of giving outsiders an inside look at Soka Gakkai Buddhism."" - David Machacek, author of Soka Gakkai in America: Accommodation and Conversion ""This book paints vivid portraits of the major players of Soka Gakkai. Seager is forthright about the checkered political path Soka Gakkai has taken in Japan, while providing insight into why the rough spots occur."" - Phillip Hammond, D. Mackenzie Brown Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara ""Encountering the Dharma is a marvelous book that bristles with fresh observations about Japanness and Americanness, the local and the global, spirituality and secularity. Exhaustively researched and elegantly written, this is the definitive work on the globalization of Soka Gakkai."" - Stephen Prothero, author of American Jesus: How the Son of God Became a National Icon""	""Seager does a superb job of giving outsiders an inside look at Soka Gakkai Buddhism as it is understood and experienced by practitioners themselves.  This is an important contribution to the field, and stands out for its intriguing thoughts about the way the movement straddles boundaries of East-West, sameness-difference, and past-future.""David Machacek, author of Soka Gakkai in America: Accommodation and Conversion""This book paints vivid portraits of the major players of Soka Gakkai.  Seager is forthright about the checkered political path Soka Gakkai has taken in Japan, while providing insight into why the rough spots occur. The story is clear and interesting, full of intimate details, and the writing flows wonderfully well.""Phillip Hammond, D. Mackenzie Brown Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara""Encountering the Dharma is a marvelous book that bristles with fresh observations about Japanness and Americanness, the local and the global, spirituality and secularity. Exhaustively researched and elegantly written, this is the definitive work on the globalization of Soka Gakkai, but it is also a powerful new model for truly humane scholarshipa model in which both scholar and subjects are fully present, and the author's interpretations, rather than springing fully formed from some supposedly universal mind, emerge out of particular, even peculiar, circumstances and evolve in real time.""Stephen Prothero, author of American Jesus:  How the Son of God Became a National Icon	Richard Hughes Seager, Associate Professor of Religion at Hamilton College, is author of Buddhism in America, The Worlds Parliament of Religions: The East/West Encounter, Chicago, 1893, and The Dawn of Religious Pluralism: Voices from the Worlds Parliament of Religions, 1893.",books;buddhism;education & reference;humanities;new;religion & spirituality;religious studies;used & rental textbooks,8
0806985151,"The Civil War Years: A Day-By-Day Chronicle of the Life of a Nation Denny traces the events of the Civil War through letters, diaries and books by soldiers and civilians involved in it; Doubleday Military Book Club selection. Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.",19th century;americas;books;civil war;history;military;modern (16th-21st centuries);united states,8
0395424801,"Reading the River: A Voyage Down the Yukon In a sense, this recounts a journey of expiation: Hildebrand and his wife had gone to Alaska in the early 1970s, hoping to homestead and be self-sufficient. The death of a child and breakup of the marriage forced a change of plans. Ten years later, Hildebrand returned alone, to set to rest the ghost of his dream by canoeing the length of the Yukon. He particularly wanted to meet people who had gone to the wilderness and remained. In his three-month, 2000 mile journey, Hildebrand met trappers, aging hippies, biologists, dog mushers, fishermen, Athabascan Indians, Eskimos, missionaries and politicians. He camped in abandoned cabins during rainy weather. As he approached the Delta, he was beset by wind, rain and rough water; 90 miles from the sea, he left the river, sold the canoe and flew home to Wisconsin. His book is more than an adventure story; it is a fine portrait of individual people and communities in a rugged environment. Illustrated. Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.	In the early Seventies, dreaming of the simple life, the author wandered to Alaska, built a cabin, and taught English to Indians and Eskimos at the the University of Alaska-Fairbanks. But the dream collapsed, and he left the area. Ten years later he returned, seeking the ""North that had eluded"" him. He canoed the length of the Yukon River, drifted into other peoples' lives, and sought how life there used to behow for some it continues to be. The result is a vivid, sometimes lyrical picture of the Alaska of homesteaders, fishers, woodcutters, and small town people, who live off the land in a way the author could not. It also is a finely written account of coming to terms with one's self, of the realities of one's dreams. Recommended for anyone who would follow Thoreau into the woods, even now.Roland Person, Southern Illinois Univ. Lib., CarbondaleCopyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.	For many of us the North has been the one place where a certain elemental experienceof land, water, and peoplecan still be had. John Hildebrands personal account of this experience has a particular freshness and poignancy. It is the record of a journey, as much inward as it is outward, and all the better for that.John Haines, author of The Stars, The Snow, The Fire A finely written account of coming to terms with ones self, of the realities of ones dreams. Recommended for anyone who would follow Thoreau into the woods, even now.Library JournalHildebrand has every skill of mind and craft to enfold us in his experience.The New Yorker	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	With a new Preface.  Publishing history:  Houghton Mifflin  hardcover, 1988:  c. 8,000 sold.  Houghton Mifflin paperback, 1989:  c.  8,000 sold.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	John Hildebrand is professor of English at the University of WisconsinEau Claire. His most recent book is the acclaimed Mapping the Farm: The Chronicle of a Family.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",alaska;books;general;nature & ecology;science & math;travel;travel writing;united states,8
097548107X,"It's Not My Fault or Can a Rabbi's Son Find Happiness as a Tennis Pro? This book is the culmination of a dream. I have actually been writing it off and on for over twenty years. It was the convergence of several events that caused me to finally bring this baby to life. The most important of these are things that happened to me below the surface - subtle changes that have caused me to think differently about purpose, accomplishment, and fulfillment. I can honestly say, as I put the final touches on this manuscript, that it's been a helluva ride so far, but the best is yet to come.	Dan Waintrup was born in Abington, Pennsylvania and it was there that he started playing tennis when he was 15 years old. He attended and played on the varsity squad at Temple University before becoming a country club pro in New England. He currently works at an investment firm in Boston and resides in Brookline, Massachusetts with his wife, Linda. It's Not My Fault is his first book.",biographies;biographies & memoirs;books;ethnic & national;jewish;racket sports;sports & outdoors;tennis,8
0374155755,"Fixer Chao Building from an amusing satirical premise, Ong's quintessentially of-the-moment debut expands into a scathing commentary on life in contemporary New York. Gay Filipino hustler William Paulinha stops turning tricks in the Port Authority Men's Room after he meets Shem C, a failed writer who wants revenge on the Manhattan upper crust who have spurned him. Under Shem's plan, William pretends to be Feng Shui expert Master Chao and preys on Shem's unsuspecting victims by demanding royal payment for the marvelously nonsensical advice he gives to perpetually disenchanted wealthy homeowners. Inevitably, he is found out. Written with acidic wit, Ong's novel is sharp and savvy, smashing sacred cows casually but forcefully. When William is verbally assaulted by a client who has discovered the scheme, he responds in kind, asking a moneyed but miserable homeowner, ""Did you think that Feng Shui could repair your ugly soul?"" The narrative paints painfully contrasting pictures of privileged society and New York's underbelly, of which Ong offers an invigoratingly clearheaded view, as William encounters numerous loners in his forays into their seedy milieu. Ong also brings the Asian perspective into his work with considerable subtlety. Although William frequently feels watched and suspected, he does not allow racial prejudice to hinder him as he moves through the Caucasian world; Ong seems most concerned that his readers awaken to the world's hypocrisy. 3-city author tour. (Apr.) Forecast: MacArthur Fellowship winner Ong's stage plays, Dark Bakersfield and Middle Finger, have already earned him an audience among young people on the scene. This hip, unsparing tale has word-of-mouth potential. Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Recently, feng shui the Chinese art of arranging a living space in such a way that good fortune is induced as a result has begun to infiltrate American public consciousness. It was only a matter of time before the concept appeared somewhere in our literature. Fortunately for us, playwright Ong puts feng shui to good use in this superb and scathingly satirical first novel that paints a fiercely condemning portrait of a shallow and overprivileged upper class. Set in the always class-stratified Manhattan, this novel tells of William Narcisco Paulinha, a Filipino male prostitute who is offered the opportunity to escape his wretched existence by Shem C, a writer bent on revenge owing to his lack of success. At Shem's insistence, William assumes the role of Master Chao, a feng shui expert, and the two begin to rob New York's superwealthy of both their money and their well-being by ""fixing"" their homes. As William moves through the class spectrum of Manhattan, he offers sardonic and keen observations about social, racial, and cultural distinctions and privileges. Ong's strong writing keeps the plot moving at a good pace, and his abilities as a playwright serve him well in rendering excellent dialog. Highly recommended.  ""Library Journal"" Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Recruited into a baroque revenge scheme by a bitter writer, a gay Filipino hustler leaves behind the demimonde of Times Square dive bars for the glittering world of Manhattan society. As the feng-shui consultant Master Chao, he commands exorbitant fees, playing on his clients' guilt and insecurities while deviously arranging to mess up their chi. Casting a cool, satirical eye on the herd movement and exotic fetishism of the tastemaker class, this first novel is equally sensitive to Chao's ambivalent seduction by the new world he inhabits; paradoxically, in order for his con to work, he must believe that feng shui has the power to harm.  Copyright  2005 The New Yorker	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	""A book of substance...A fable, rendered as satiric realism"" -- Darcy Cosper, Bookforum""Bitter and brilliant."" -- Mark Rozzo, The Los Angeles Times""BrilliantThis ambitious book skewers a worthy class and a ripe subject."" -- Lisa Levy, Entertainment Weekly, April 13 2001""Hilariously bitchyExtremely satisfying and even movingAn unrelenting aria of high bitchiness and scathing satire."" -- Amy Benfer, Salon""Ong is a writer of great style[Fixer Chao is] a deliciously mean send-up."" -- Erica Sanders, NewsdayAn original and perversely entertaining creation: a luminous picaresque with a distinctive mixture of farce and savagery. -- Kirkus, February 15, 2001Fresh and memorableforging a vision of the American dream that is imperfect and ribald, but ultimately redemptive. -- John Freeman, San Francisco ChronicleIntriguing[with] appealingly skewed observations and clever set-up. -- Aaron Gell, W Magazine[A] superb and scathingly satirical first novel...Highly recommended.  -- Library Journal, February 15, 2001[An] inventively malevolent debut novelvividOng [has a] gift for quick, acerbic caricatures and piercing observations about contemporary culture. -- Janet Maslin, The New York Times, April 5, 2001	Born and educated in the Philippines, Han Ong came to the United States as a teenager and was named a MacArthur Fellow in 1997. He is the author of several critically acclaimed plays. Fixer Chao is his first novel.",books;contemporary;fiction;gay;gay & lesbian;literary;literature & fiction;united states,8
0786844418,So Weird #5: Web Sight Pam Pollack and Meg Belviso are also the  authors of Doug: The Funnie Mysteries #4: The Curse of  Beetenkaumun and Malcolm in the Middle #3: The Exchange  Student.,books;children's books;education & reference;fantasy & magic;literature & fiction;mysteries & detectives;science fiction & fantasy;social situations,8
B000JUTBEC,"Dean Electric Guitar Starter Pack with EVO XM Natural, 10 Watt Amp, Gig Bag, Cord, Strap, Picks An entire guitar rig with everything you need to get rolling! The Dean EVOXM and Amp Pack includes the Dean EVOXM Guitar, Dean M10 Guitar Amp, gig bag, tuner, cord, strap, and picks.                  An ideal guitar the beginning guitarist. Click to enlarge.                           Compact 10-watt practice amp with plenty of gain. Click to enlarge.          Dean EVO XM Guitar The EVO XM is a perfect blend of vintage design, old world craftsmanship and decades of guitar building technology. This affordable yet stylish axe has a lightweight basswood body in a mahogany stain for a ""high-end"" look, with a maple neck and 22-fret rosewood fingerboard. A set of Dean high-output humbuckers deliver the sonic goods, while the adjustable TOM-style bridge keeps you in tune for the length of the gig. Great for players of any level, but is truly ideal for the beginning guitarist who wants an attractive model as their first guitar.  EVO XM Features:    Solid Basswood Body   24 3/4"" scale   Maple Neck   Rosewood fingerboard   Sealed Tuners   Pearl DOT inlay   Black hardware   Tune O Matic Bridge   Dean Humbucker Pickups   Slim Neck Profile  Dean M10 Amplifier The M10 Amp is a compact 10W amp with one 6.5-inch speaker and a stereo headphone jack for private practice.   Dial in your sound with treble, mid and bass controls. Dial in some dirt while you're at it, with the gain control. If you want to take it to palm-muting heaven, use the boost button. A great practice amp for any style. Accessories Dean also includes a gig bag, strap, instrument cable and picks so you'll have everything you need to start playing. What's in the Box EVO XM Guitar (Natural), Dean M-10 Amplifier, Gig Bag, Instrument Cable, Strap, Picks	Natural mahogany EVOXM guitar pack with gig bag ,amplifyer,cord,and strap",beginner kits;electric guitars;guitar & bass accessories;guitars;instrument accessories;musical instruments;straps;straps & strap locks,8
0195073541,"The Oxford Thesaurus: American Edition There is an art to a fine thesaurus. When you seek the right word, you want a thesaurus that's useful (helpful, fruitful, effective), convenient (handy, expedient, user-friendly), and current (contemporary, informed, up-to-date). The Oxford Thesaurus combines the best of two worlds: an A to Z arrangement of words and a Roget's-style index. The first search is as simple as looking up a word in a dictionary, while the synonym index helps fine-tune the intense lexicographic hunt. It requires a delicate balance of many qualities. The Oxford Thesaurus emphasizes current English, but includes enough quaint terms and plenty of regional, idiomatic, and slang terms in English from around the world to provide colorful options. Most entries provide sample sentences, but the bulk of the tome is composed of synonyms, so you needn't wade through lots of excess verbiage when what you really want is the phrase that says what you have in mind, with the right tone and flair. The Oxford Thesaurus makes it effortless. --Stephanie Gold	These two thesauruses take different approaches to the problem of finding alternative words with similar meanings. Roget's 150-year-old plan of organizing words within eight broad classes has been revised by Chapman to create a simpler, more natural, and contemporary arrangement of 15 new classes. These classes (e.g., body, feelings, place) are further divided into 1,073 categories (e.g., birth, pleasure, space). The advantage of such a scheme is that words with close semantic relationships are grouped together by logical category. This stimulates word associations, the closest of which are found within clusters or domains set off by semicolons. These features are consistent with prior editions of this thesaurus, as is the task of approaching the appropriate category through the use of an extensive index. Urdang's arrangement for The Oxford Thesaurus eliminates the double search by alphabetically listing headwords (frequently used words) followed by synonyms ordered according to how closely they match the meaning of the headword. Semicolons separate subgroups of synonyms, and each group has at least one illustrative sentence. Despite its being an ""American edition,"" British and other geographical variations are given much attention. A synonym index may be referred to if the word in mind is not a headword. This book is initially easier and faster to use than Roget's , though it does contain more elaborate instructions. The organization of Roget's is more complex but may prove more utilitarian overall. Instructions are brief, and typefaces and format are more legible. A third variation in thesaurus arrangement is found in Barbara A. Kipfer's Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus in Dictionary Form ( LJ 9/1/92). All three thesauruses are attractively priced works edited by highly qualified lexicographers and featuring current usage, and all three are recommended for reference collections.- Stanley P. Hodge, Ball State Univ. Lib., Muncie, Ind.Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.	About the Editor:Laurence Urdang is a distinguished lexicographer and publisher, founder of Market House Books, and editor of Verbatim, the Language Quarterly. He was Editorial Director of The Collins English Dictionary, Managing Editor of The Random House Dictionary of the English Language, and Editorial Director of The Longman Synonym Dictionary.",books;dictionaries & thesauruses;education & reference;english;new;reference;thesauruses;used & rental textbooks,8
B0002ASELU,"Marina Aquascaper Red Ludwigia Plant Let the Marina Aquascaper Red Ludwigia Plant add some lush, colorful landscape to your aquarium. Design your very own aquatic paradise with authentic, realistic-looking plastic plants, all molded after the real thing. Choose from a variety of styles and colors so you can customize your own stunning aquarium display. The Marina Aquascaper Plants are completely safe for all aquarium occupants, and are a great way to provide your fish with a fun and colorful environment to live in. Your fish will love the new additions to their home.",all aquatic & pond;aquarium décor;fish & aquatic pets;hagen;marina;pet supplies;pet supplies: international shipping available;plastic plants,8
0781801508,"Armenian/English-English/Armenian Concise Dictionary (Hippocrene Concise Dictionary) This completely modern and up-to-date Armenian-English/English-Armenian Dictionary provides a quick reference to a needed word in Armenian and English.  It is a useful tool for travelers, business people, and students.  It has over 9,000 entries in both languages in a concise easy-to-use format.  Every entry contains a pronunciation guide and lists basic grammar characteristics.	Diana and Susanna Aroutunian",books;education & reference;foreign language dictionaries & thesauruses;foreign language study & reference;foreign languages;humanities;new;used & rental textbooks,8
1579651682,"Vegetable Love Barbara Kafka, inveterate food professional and cookbook writer, she of Roasting: A Simple Art, Soup: A Way of Life, and Microwave Gourmet among others, now brings us the last word on vegetables with the awe-inspiring and massive Vegetable Love: A Book for Cooks. This book has 200 pages dedicated simply to background information on vegetables--buying and storing, cutting, basic cooking techniques, yields and equivalences, etcetera. And then there are the recipes, all 750 of them!  She's a canny lass, Barbara Kafka, with as much respect for the culture of vegetables as for their preparation and cooking, and has divided Vegetable Love into four basic sections: Vegetables of the New World; Vegetables of the Mediterranean Basin, Europe, and the Arab World; Vegetables of Asia and Africa; and, Citizens of the World. For those inclined to think that vegetables come from supermarkets, Kafka takes you back to the roots, the origins, then revels in the ways in which these foods have found their way around the globe and into everyone's kitchen. Rhubarb, the pie plant of New England spring gardens, finds its beginnings in China and is as much at home in sweet pies as savory lamb stews.  You'll find recipes from all over the world in the New World section because that's the home of potatoes,  green beans and their kin (Szechuan green beans anyone?), peppers, summer squash, certainly corn, but tomatoes and peanuts, too. Asparagus, beets, chard, carrots--those vegetable garden stalwarts--are found in the Euro/Arab section. Recipes are short, direct, to the point. Kafka minces no words.   But that's where the final sections come into play. One is Basic Recipes and Techniques, taking into account all manner of dressings, sauces, marinades, stocks, doughs, pastries, pastas, egg dishes, etcetera. And the other, that 200 page compendium, The Cook's Guide, fills in around the spare edges of the recipes. Vegetable Love is easily three books in one.   Barbara Kafka knows that when it comes to cooking for friends or family or oneself in this busy modern world, a recipe that is simple, brief, and to the point is like gold. With Vegetable Love Barbara Kafka delivers true wealth. --Schuyler Ingle	Kafka, a 20-year veteran cookbook writer whose credits include Roasting: A Simple Art and Soup: A Way of Life, allows vegetables to take center stage in this encyclopedic tome. Her collection of inspired recipes isn't about vegetarianism; many include meats, fish and dairy. Rather, it's about the pure enjoyment of the taste of vegetables: ""the sweet seductive perfume of slowly sauting onions, the impossibly vivid red of roasted peppers, the slow dance of eating an artichoke."" Kafka's treatment is broad (she covers avocados, tomatoes and rhubarb) and includes classic dishes like Braised Fennel or Chilies Rellenos with Corn alongside more inventive fare,  la Green Bean Frapp, and A Satin of Oysters and Tapioca. Sections on unusual foodstuffs like nettles and cactus pads are fascinating, but less charming is the book's layout, which unhelpfully groups vegetables according to their area of origin. A generic ""Cook's Guide"" at the end strays rather startlingly from the book's trajectory, providing techniques and recipes for basic sauces, breads, stuffings and more, plus tips for choosing and storing various vegetables, which might have been more helpful in the sections featuring each vegetable. Nonetheless, Kafka has created an appetizing addition to the kitchen bookshelf. 50 photos. (Dec.) Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	*Starred Review*  Love appears at first an emotionally extreme hyperbole to describe someone's relationship to mere plant products, but readers of Kafka's newest cookbook may conclude that the term is wholly appropriate. Once again, she has triumphed with an outstanding, indispensable cookbook that not only summons the reader to get into the kitchen and cook but also constitutes a valuable and comprehensive reference tool. Kafka has imaginatively arranged her book by the vegetables'origins: corn, tomatoes, squash, potatoes, and peppers from the Americas; beets, carrots, cabbages, asparagus, artichokes, and broccoli from the Mediterranean basin; peas, eggplant, okra, rhubarb, and cucumbers from Asia and Africa; and onions, mushrooms, and herbs that appear seemingly worldwide. The recipes by no means reflect simply native techniques but treat these vegetables as they have been adopted and adapted worldwide. Kafka's vegetables interplay with meats, seafood, dairy products, and one another to create wildly diverse dishes from potato gratins to stews, chicken soups to pizzas, quiches to salads. She even finds ways to make ice creams from many of these vegetables. Mark KnoblauchCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	Few have done more to define how Americans prepare food than Barbara Kafka, whose IACP and James Beard award-winning books Roasting and Microwave Gourmet made two underutilized techniques central to everyday cooking. Ms. Kafka is a former food editor of Vogue and a frequent contributor to The New York Times. She lives in New York and Vermont. The author of Artisan's Soup: A Way of Life and Vegetable Love, Barbara Kafka's immense achievements were recognized once more in 2007, when the James Beard Foundation gave her its Lifetime Achievement Award. Her most recent book is The Intolerant Gourmet: Glorious Food Without Gluten  Lactose.Christopher Styler has enormous culinary range. He is a chef, cookbook writer, editor, restaurant consultant, and culinary producer of some of PBS-TVs most successful cooking series. He lives in New Jersey.",books;cookbooks;essays;food & wine;gastronomy;special occasions;vegetables;vegetables & vegetarian,8
B00029190E,"Love Warrior Kofy Brown is unique and original. Armed with her trademark word-song delivery, creative passion and smoky alto voice, Kofy's free spirited attitude bends musical categories and expectations. Originally from Washington DC, the statuesque and lithe powerhouse is firmly established in the Oakland, California Hip Hop/Soul scene. Kofy and her band The KBB are well known for their electrifying stage show which is full of priceless vitality. Kofy Brown's music demonstrates an intensely gratifying mix of cool soul, electric funk and moving lyrics. This, her sixth album, and first to be released in the UK, features 16 funky soul cuts. These vary from the spoof blaxploitation title track to the funky groovers ""Keep On Movin'"" and ""Mind Travelin'"" to the funk rock of Erotik and Curtis Mayfield influenced ""Walking Out of Time"" and ""Just A Woman"" to the eclectic ""Alright"" and downbeat 'hidden' track ""Cold Lampin"".",jazz;miscellaneous;music;pop;r&b;rap & hip-hop;rock;world music,8
B0000C2IXY,"Blow-Up! (2003) A collection of live performances and music videos.	Coldplay ""Clocks"" (Live)	The Dandy Warhols ""We used to be Friends""	Liz Phair ""Extraordinary""	The Star Spangles ""Stay Away From Me""	The Music ""Take the Long Road and Walk it""	Fischerspooner ""Emerge 2003""	Verbena ""Way Out West"" (Live)	Idlewild ""A Modern Way of Letting Go""	Doves ""Pounding""	Ok Go ""Get Over It""	Tlpopmusik ""Breathe""	Dirty Vegas ""Simple Things Part 2""	The Vines ""Outtathaway"" (Live)	Radiohead exclusive footage",alternative rock;classic rock;hard rock & metal;movies & tv;music;pop;rock;tv,8
0736042040,"52-Week Hockey Training (52-Week Sport Training Series) ""This is a great reference for helping both a player and a coach design an effective fitness program that meets the specific demands of playing hockey.""Dave KingHead Coach Columbus Blue Jackets	This is a great reference for helping both a player and a coach design an effective fitness program that meets the specific demands of playing hockey.Dave KingHead Coach  Columbus Blue Jackets	""This is a great reference for helping both a player and a coach design an effective fitness program that meets the specific demands of playing hockey."" Dave King Head Coach  Columbus Blue Jackets ""Half the battle of conditioning is staying motivated, especially in the off-season. Don and Gails program will help you keep your focus and meet your conditioning goals all year long!"" Shjon Podein Colorado Avalanche	Don MacAdam is head coach and director of hockey operations for the Charlotte Checkers. A former professional ice hockey player himself, MacAdam has more than 25 years of coaching experience at various elite levels, including teams in the National Hockey League (Detroit Red Wings), the American Hockey League (Edmonton Oilers and Ottawa Senators Farm Teams), the IHL (Milwaukee Admirals), Major Junior(500 Greyhounds), and the Japan Ice Hockey League (the Nippon Paper Cranes), as well as several minor-league teams. He has also served as a consultant with Canadas world championship team, evaluating NHL players as candidates for Team Canada and coaching the team during the Bauer Cup. MacAdam is the coauthor of three previous hockey conditioning books: The Hockey Conditioning Handbook, How to Make the Best Use of Your Ice Time, and Hockey Fitness: Year-Round Conditioning On and Off the Ice. With a special focus on conditioning for the sport, he lectures at hockey clinics throughout Canada and the United States. MacAdam earned his masters degree in physical education from the University of New Brunswick. He currently lives in Charlotte, North Carolina. His interests include home renovation, carpentry, reading, biking, hiking, and playing golf.Gail Reynolds is an exercise physiologist who has been developing training programs for amateur and elite hockey players and teams over the past 22 years, including NHL stars. A former professor of exercise physiology at the University of New Brunswick, she currently runs her own fitness consulting company. A member of the committee that developed Canadas coaching certification program, Reynolds has also spoken at several Canadian Amateur Hockey Association Level 4 and 5 clinics and lectured at the York symposium for elite coaches. Her articles have appeared in Coaching Review and the Journal of Applied Physiology.Reynolds earned her masters degree in physical education from the University of Western Ontario, where she specialized in exercise physiology and psychology. She lives in Ingersoll, Ontario, where she enjoys hiking with her dogs, writing sports fiction, and renovating and landscaping her home.",books;coaching;contemporary;hockey;literature & fiction;sports & outdoors;training;winter sports,8
0460870653,"Arthurian Romances (Everyman's Library) Text: English (translation)	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Founded in 1906 by J.M. Dent, the Everyman Library has  always tried to make the best books ever written available to the  greatest number of people at the lowest possible price. Unique editorial  features that help Everyman Paperback Classics stand out from the crowd  include: a leading scholar or literary critic's introduction to the text,  a biography of the author, a chronology of her or his life and times, a  historical selection of criticism, and a concise plot summary.  All books  published since 1993 have also been completely restyled: all type has  been reset, to offer a clarity and ease of reading unique among editions  of the classics; a vibrant, full-color cover design now complements these  great texts with beautiful contemporary works of art. But the best  feature must be Everyman's uniquely low price. Each Everyman title offers  these extensive materials at a price that competes with the most  inexpensive editions on the market-but Everyman Paperbacks have durable  binding, quality paper, and the highest editorial and scholarly  standards.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Chrtien de Troyes was a French poet and trouvre who flourished in the late 12th century. Little is known of his life, but he seems to have been from Troyes, or at least intimately connected with it, and between 1160 and 1172 he served at the court of his patroness Marie of France, Countess of Champagne, daughter of Eleanor of Aquitaine, perhaps as herald-at-arms (as Gaston Paris speculated). His work on Arthurian subjects represents some of the best regarded of medieval literature. His use of structure, particular in Yvain, the Knight of the Lion, has been seen as a step towards the modern novel. Chrtien's writing was very popular, as evidenced by the high number of surviving copies of his romances and their many adaptations into other languages. Three of Middle High German literature's finest examples, Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival and Hartmann von Aue's Erec and Iwein, were based on Perceval, Erec, and Yvain; the Three Welsh Romances associated with the Mabinogion, Peredur, son of Efrawg, Geraint and Enid, and Owain, or the Lady of the Fountain are derived from the same trio. Especially in the case of Peredur, however, the connection between the Welsh romances and their source is probably not direct, and has never been satisfactorily delineated. Chrtien also has the distinction of being the first writer to mention the Holy Grail (Perceval) and the love affair between Queen Guinevere and Lancelot (Lancelot), subjects of household recognition even today.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;contemporary;education & reference;literature & fiction;mythology;mythology & folk tales;politics & social sciences;social sciences,8
0856356603,"Virgil's Aeneid aA new and noble standard bearer . . . Thereas a capriciousness to Faglesas line well suited to this vast storyas ebb and flow.a a""The New York Times Book Review"" (front page review)  aFaglesas new version of Virgilas epic delicately melds the stately rhythms of the original to a contemporary cadence. . . . He illuminates the poemas Homeric echoes while remaining faithful to Virgilas distinctive voice.a a""The New Yorker""  aRobert Fagles gives the full range of Virgilas drama, grandeur, and pathos in vigorous, supple modern English. It is fitting that one of the great translators of ""The Iliad"" and ""The Odyssey"" in our times should also emerge as a surpassing translator of ""The Aeneid,""a aJ. M. Coetzee	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Founded in 1906 by J.M. Dent, the Everyman Library has  always tried to make the best books ever written available to the  greatest number of people at the lowest possible price. Unique editorial  features that help Everyman Paperback Classics stand out from the crowd  include: a leading scholar or literary critic's introduction to the text,  a biography of the author, a chronology of her or his life and times, a  historical selection of criticism, and a concise plot summary.  All books  published since 1993 have also been completely restyled: all type has  been reset, to offer a clarity and ease of reading unique among editions  of the classics; a vibrant, full-color cover design now complements these  great texts with beautiful contemporary works of art. But the best  feature must be Everyman's uniquely low price. Each Everyman title offers  these extensive materials at a price that competes with the most  inexpensive editions on the market-but Everyman Paperbacks have durable  binding, quality paper, and the highest editorial and scholarly  standards.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Aeneas slips from the burning city of Troy, turning west towards  Italy to fulfill his destiny: nothing less than the foundation of what  will become glorious Rome.  His trials and adventures, guided by Venus  and harassed by Juno, have entranced and inspired every generation  since Virgil's death.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Publius Vergilius Maro, more famous as Virgil, was a Roman poet who is most famous for his unrivaled epic The Aeneid, which has greatly influenced literature through the ages and made him a legendary. This epic brilliantly captures the splendour of the Roman realm and established Virgil as a genius. Virgil was one of the Alexandrians  a group of poets influenced by Greek bards of the 3rd century. Virgil's works are still extensively translated and widely read.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;classics;humanities;literature;literature & fiction;new;poetry;used & rental textbooks,8
2880467004,"On Screen In Time: Transitions in Motion Graphic Design for Film, TV and New Media Melanie Goux is Design Director and Partner of Television by Design, specialising in the design and production of on-air identities for TV stations. Her work has appeared on over 200 TV stations throughout the United States and Canada.",arts & photography;books;computers & technology;graphic design;history & criticism;science & math;techniques;technology,8
1412007607,"The Smart Mom's Guide to Staying Home: 65 Simple Ways to Thrive, Not Deprive, on One Income Christine Walker spent over a decade working in politics and business-to-business sales before making the jump to stay-at-home mom. Having made this challenging transition herself, she was inspired to help other parents who wanted to spend more time with their children. Christine lives in suburban Chicago with her husband and three young children, still amazed that she was able to find time to write this book.",books;budgeting & money management;business & investing;family relationships;motherhood;parenting & relationships;personal finance;popular economics,8
1405102764,"The Modern Theologians: An Introduction to Christian Theology Since 1918 (The Great Theologians) ""An excellent textbook overview of the theology of our time ... comprehensive, clearly written, fair and most informative."" Journal of Religion (of the first edition) ""A distinguished and outstanding work."" Theology (of the first edition)""The coverage provided is good, with no significant gaps evident."" Reformed Theological Journal ""The Modern Theologians is a unique and valuable introduction to Christian theology. [...] It is to be warmly commended as a fresh resource for anyone seeking a path into the breadth and rigours of theological conversation today, and over the past one hundred years."" Revd Dr Simon Oliver, University of Wales Lampeter, Church Times ""This book represents exceptional value for money, all too rare in theological publishing. We are in the editors' debt. Buy it, read it, and be lured onto new theological ground. I hope its spine is up to the use it will no doubt get."" Philip McCosker, Reviews in Religion and Theology, 13:2 A valuable resource for anyone trying to find an entry point into understanding the cacophony of modern theologies.John F. BrugWisconsin Lutheran Quarterly	The Modern Theologians provides a comprehensive and accessible overview of the main Christian theologies of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Each chapter is written by a leading theologian and gives a clear picture of a particular movement, topic or individual. Together these provide an unparalleled picture of the development of modern theology. The third edition includes: new and updated treatments of topics covered in earlier editions; a new section on six classic theologians of the twentieth century; expanded treatment of the natural sciences, gender, Roman Catholic theology since Vatican II, and African, Asian and Evangelical theologies; revised and updated introduction and epilogue by David F. Ford; new chapters on spirituality, pastoral theology, philosophical theology, postcolonial biblical interpretation, Pentecostal theology, Islam and Christian theology, Buddhism and Christian theology, and theology and film. As in previous editions, the text opens with a full introduction to modern theology. The Epilogue discusses the present situation and prospects of Christian theology in the twenty-first century.	The Modern Theologians provides a comprehensive and accessible overview of the main Christian theologies of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Each chapter is written by a leading theologian and gives a clear picture of a particular movement, topic or individual. Together these provide an unparalleled picture of the development of modern theology.The third edition includes: new and updated treatments of topics covered in earlier editions; a new section on six classic theologians of the twentieth century; expanded treatment of the natural sciences, gender, Roman Catholic theology since Vatican II, and African, Asian and Evangelical theologies; revised and updated introduction and epilogue by David F. Ford; new chapters on spirituality, pastoral theology, philosophical theology, postcolonial biblical interpretation, Pentecostal theology, Islam and Christian theology, Buddhism and Christian theology, and theology and film. As in previous editions, the text opens with a full introduction to modern theology. The Epilogue discusses the present situation and prospects of Christian theology in the twenty-first century.	David F. Ford is Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of numerous books, including: Theology: A Very Short Introduction (2000), Self and Salvation: Being Transformed (1999), The Shape of Living (1997), Meaning and Truth in 2 Corinthians (1988, with Frances M. Young), Jubilate. Theology in Praise (1984, with Daniel W. Hardy), and Barth and Gods Story. Biblical Narrative and the Theological Method of Karl Barth in the Church Dogmatics (1981). He also directs the Cambridge Interfaith Programme and is a member of the editorial board of a number of major journals, including Modern Theology and Scottish Journal of Theology.Rachel Muers is Lecturer in Theology at the University of Exeter and author of Keeping Gods Silence (Blackwell, 2005)",20th century;21st century;books;christian books & bibles;christian living;history;modern (16th-21st centuries);theology,8
0312245149,"Eyes of a Killer/Behind Enemy Lines At twenty-one years of age, identical twin brothers Kane & Abel are already recognized worldwide for their involvement in the multi-platinum success of the notorious No Limit Records.  They are dedicated to bringing the often unheard--yet undeniable--voice of the ghetto directly to the literary world.",books;contemporary;literature & fiction;mystery;spy stories & tales of intrigue;thriller & suspense;thrillers;united states,8
0595385125,"The Hell You Say: The Third Adrien English Mystery British born Josh Lanyon is the author of two other Adrien English mysteries, FATAL SHADOWS and A DANGEROUS THING published through the Gay Mens Press. Josh currently lives in Los Angeles, California, with his partner, a former LAPD Detective. For more information visit Josh at www.joshlanyon.com.",books;fiction;gay;gay & lesbian;literature & fiction;mystery;police procedurals;thriller & suspense,8
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1401204643,"Green Arrow: City Walls Judd Winick's writing credits include Detective Comics, Exiles, Green Lantern and Blood + Water. Phil Hester has worked on a number of comics including Swamp Thing, Negative Burn, Foot Soldiers and Deadline USA. Ande Parks has inked numerous titles including Daredevil and Wonder Woman.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",arts & photography;books;comics & graphic novels;dc comics;graphic design;graphic novels;publishers;superheroes,8
0942211294,"The Wilderness Campaign ""A painstaking, thorough, and revealing study of one of the Civil War's most important campaigns. It throws much new and valuable light on the logistics and on the generalship of Grant and Lee."" -Bell I. Wiley, author of The Life of Billy Yank, The Life of Johnny Reb, and Confederate Women 	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",americas;books;campaigns & battlefields;civil war;history;new;united states;used & rental textbooks,8
159116057X,"One Piece, Vol. 2: Buggy the Clown Eiichiro Oda debuted in Weekly Shonen Jump in 1997 as a comic creator and artist with ONE PIECE. One of the most popular comic artists in Japan today, Oda started out by winning the Hop Step Award (a monthly award given by Jump for amateur artists) as well as the esteemed Tezuka Award. His art style is reminiscent of Akira Toriyama, Sergio Aragones, and the movie Yellow Submarine.",action & adventure;books;children's books;comics & graphic novels;fantasy;graphic novels;manga;science fiction & fantasy,8
0299170047,"Vertical Margins: Mountaineering And The Landscapes Of Neoimperialism An interesting and important contribution to the study of exploration and the understanding of mountaineering literature. Vertical Margins combines scholarship and just plain good story telling.L. Mikel Vause, author of On Mountains and Mountaineers	Reuben Ellis is an experienced mountaineer and professor of English at Prescott College in Prescott, Arizona. He is the editor of Stories and Stone: Writing the Anasazi Homeland and Beyond Borders: The Selected Essays of Mary Austin.",books;education & reference;mountain climbing;mountaineering;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;sports & outdoors,8
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0684193744,"Ring Around the Bases: The Complete Baseball Stories of Ring Lardner Like his contemporary Damon Runyon, Lardner (1885-1933) began his career as a sportswriter, and, as this collection attests, his journalistic background colors his keenly observed fiction. Gathered here are 32 short stories, a sketch performed in the 1922 Ziegfeld Follies and some of Lardner's baseball reporting, including a generous selection on the notorious 1919 World Series. (One wonders at the subtitle's claim of inclusiveness, as Bruccoli's introduction claims that Lardner wrote 46 baseball stories.) Some of the entries are well known--""Alibi Ike,"" for example, and the Jack Keefe stories of You Know Me Al (1916)--while less familiar works include five more epistolary yarns featuring classic ""busher"" Keefe and his semiliterate braggadocio, and a similar series written in the '30s. Although a sameness of tone and focus makes extended reading of the volume tough going, most pieces hold up well individually. Lardner's bludgeon-like irony gives his writing an undeniable strength, and his turns of phrase pack a wallop. Who else would describe an umpire by writing that ""he was so homely that dogs wouldn't live in the same town""? Photos not seen by PW. Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Lardner was the first great American writer to see the diverse possibilities of baseball as a subject. Indeed, as Bruccoli writes in his introduction, ""Lardner's 130 short stories, 46 of which are baseball stories, show a remarkable range."" This volume collects all those diamond-related tales, including the famous Jack Keefe epistolary stories that made up the well-known volume You Know Me Al (1914), plus some prime journalistic pieces containing such eternally true statements as, ""Baseball is a business, a mighty big one."" They all display the writer's excellence in capturing the idiom and nuances of baseball talk. Recommended, despite some overlap with previous Lardner story collections.- Paul Kaplan, Dakota Cty. Lib., Eagan, Minn.Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.	""...this collection provides the opportunity for a new generation of baseball aficionados to come home to Lardners wonderful stories."" -- Booklist""As a baseball writer, Ring Lardner still stands alone."" -- St. Louis Post-Dispatch""Read Lardners baseball tales, and youll be thrown into a world where... the game truly becomes a metaphor for life."" -- People""Ring Around the Bases: The Complete Baseball Stories of Ring Lardner is the baseball literary event of the year."" -- USA Today	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",anthologies;books;contemporary;genre fiction;literature & fiction;short stories;sports;united states,8
B000H1R0KK,"Feels Good With the release of their much-anticipated album Feels Good , Take 6 returns to their rich musical heritage bringing the listener along for one of their most uplifting, funky and inspirational joy rides to date. Feels Good makes you feel just that good. Its warm sonic tapestry weaves around the soles of your feet and up until it tickles the very baby hairs on your arms. Take 6 began crafting Feels Good a year and a half ago, yet this project represents everything that devout Take 6 fans, over the years, have come to love and expect from this multifaceted sextet. With a nod to their history, Feels Good boldly looks forward attacking Acapella in new exciting ways.  With a staggering eighteen Grammy-Award nominations, Take 6 is the most nominated Gospel, Jazz, Pop or R artists in Grammy history. Yet along with their solid 10 Grammy wins, 10 Dove Awards, one Soul Train Award and two NAACP Image Award nominations already on their mantel, Take 6 have set yet another challenge for themselves.",broadway & vocalists;christian;folk;gospel;jazz;music;pop;rock,8
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B00005WU14,"The shining A master storyteller. Los Angeles TimesScary! . . . Serves up horrors at a brisk, unflagging pace. The New York TimesThis chilling novel will haunt you, and make your blood run cold and your heart race with fear. Nashville BannerGuaranteed to frighten you into fits. . . . with a climax that is literally explosive. CosmopolitanThe most wonderfully gruesome man on the planet. USA TodayAn undisputed master of suspense and terror. The Washington Post[King] probably knows more about scary goings-on in confined, isolated places than anybody since Edgar Allan Poe. Entertainment WeeklyHes the author who can always make the improbable so scary youll feel compelled to check the locks on the front door. The Boston GlobePeerless imagination. The Observer (London)	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	Stephen King is the author of more than fifty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. Among his most recent are 11/22/63; Full Dark, No Stars; Under the Dome; Just After Sunset; Duma Key; Liseys Story; Cell; and the concluding novels in the Dark Tower saga: Wolves of the Calla, Song of Susannah, and The Dark Tower. His acclaimed nonfiction book, On Writing, is also a bestseller. He was the recipient of the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, and in 2007, he received the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America. He lives in Maine with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.www.stephenking.com	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	Excerpted from Chapter OneJack Torrance thought: Officious little prick. Ullman stood five-five, and when he moved, it was with the prissy speed that seems to be the exclusive domain of all small plump men. The part in his hair was exact, and his dark suit was sober but comforting. I am a man you can bring your problems to, that suit said to the paying customer. To the hired help it spoke more curtly: This had better be good, you. There was a red carnation in the lapel, perhaps so that no one on the street wouldmistake Stuart Ullman for the local undertaker. As he listened to Ullman speak, Jack admitted to himself that he probably could not have liked any man on that side of the deskunder the circumstances. Ullman had asked a question he hadnt caught. That was bad; Ullman was the type of man who would file such lapses away in a mental Rolodex for later consideration. Im sorry? I asked if your wife fully understood what you would be taking on here. And theres your son, of course. He glanced down at the application in front of him. Daniel. Your wife isnt a bit intimidated by the idea?Wendy is an extraordinary woman. And your son is also extraordinary? Jack smiled, a big wide PR smile. We like to think so, I suppose. Hes quite self-reliant for a five-year-old. No returning smile from Ullman. He slipped Jacks application back into a file. The file went into a drawer. The desk top was now completely bare except for a blotter, a telephone, a Tensor lamp, and an in/out basket. Both sides of the in/out were empty, too.Ullman stood up and went to the file cabinet in the corner. Step around the desk, if you will, Mr. Torrance. Well look at the hotel floor plans.He brought back five large sheets and set them down on the glossy walnut plane of the desk. Jack stood by his shoulder, very much aware of the scent of Ullmans cologne. All my men wear English Leather or they wear nothing at all came into his mind for no reason at all, and he had to clamp his tongue between his teeth to keep in a bray of laughter. Beyond the wall, faintly, came the sounds of the Overlook Hotels kitchen, gearing down from lunch.Top floor, Ullman said briskly. The attic. Absolutely nothing up there now but bric-a-brac. The Overlook has changed hands several times since World War II and it seems that each successive manager has put everything they dont want up in the attic. I want rattraps and poison bait sowed around in it. Some of the third-floor chambermaids say they have heard rustling noises. I dont believe it, not for a moment, but there mustnt even be that one-in-a-hundred chance that a single rat inhabits the Overlook Hotel.Jack, who suspected that every hotel in the world had a rat or two, held his tongue.Of course you wouldnt allow your son up in the attic under any circumstances.No, Jack said, and flashed the big PR smile again. Humiliating situation. Did this officious little prick actually think he would allow his son to goof around in a rattrap attic full of junk furniture and God knew what else?Ullman whisked away the attic floor plan and put it on the bottom of the pile.The Overlook has one hundred and ten guest quarters, he said in a scholarly voice. Thirty of them, all suites, are here on the third floor. Ten in the west wing (including the Presidential Suite), ten in the center, ten more in the east wing. All of them command magnificent views.Could you at least spare the salestalk?But he kept quiet. He needed the job.Ullman put the third floor on the bottom of the pile and they studied the second floor.Forty rooms, Ullman said, thirty doubles and ten singles. And on the first floor, twenty of each. Plus three linen closets on each floor, and a storeroom which is at the extreme east end of the hotel on the second floor and the extreme west end on the first. Questions?Jack shook his head. Ullman whisked the second and first floors away.Now. Lobby level. Here in the center is the registration desk. Behind it are the offices. The lobby runs for eighty feet in either direction from the desk. Over here in the west wing is the Overlook Dining Room and the Colorado Lounge. The banquet and ballroom facility is in the east wing. Questions?Only about the basement, Jack said. For the winter caretaker, thats the most important level of all. Where the action is, so to speak.Watson will show you all that. The basement floor plan is on the boiler room wall. He frowned impressively, perhaps to show that as manager, he did not concern himself with such mundane aspects of the Overlooks operation as the boiler and the plumbing. Might not be a bad idea to put some traps down there too. Just a minute...He scrawled a note on a pad he took from his inner coat pocket (each sheet bore the legend From the Desk of Stuart Ullman in bold black script), tore it off, and dropped it into the out basket. It sat there looking lonesome. The pad disappeared back into Ullmans jacket pocket like the conclusion of a magicians trick. Now you see it, Jacky-boy, now you dont. This guy is a real heavyweight.They had resumed their original positions, Ullman behind the desk and Jack in front of it, interviewer and interviewee, supplicant and reluctant patron. Ullman folded his neat little hands on the desk blotter and looked directly at Jack, a small, balding man in a bankers suit and a quiet gray tie. The flower in his lapel was balanced off by a small lapel pin on the other side. It read simply STAFF in small gold letters.Ill be perfectly frank with you, Mr. Torrance. Albert Shockley is a powerful man with a large interest in the Overlook, which showed a profit this season for the first time in its history. Mr. Shockley also sits on the Board of Directors, but he is not a hotel man and he would be the first to admit this. But he has made his wishes in this caretaking matter quite obvious. He wants you hired. I will do so. But if I had been given a free hand in this matter, I would not have taken you on.Jacks hands were clenched tightly in his lap, working against each other, sweating. Officious little prick, officious little prick, officiousI dont believe you care much for me, Mr. Torrance. I dont care. Certainly your feelings toward me play no part in my own belief that you are not right for the job. During the season that runs from May fifteenth to September thirtieth, the Overlook employs one hun- dred and ten people full-time; one for every room in the hotel, you might say. I dont think many of them like me and I suspect that some of them think Im a bit of a bastard. They would be correct in their judgment of my character. I have to be a bit of a bastard to run this hotel in the manner it deserves.He looked at Jack for comment, and Jack flashed the PR smile again, large and insultingly toothy.Ullman said: The Overlook was built in the years 1907 to 1909. The closest town is Sidewinder, forty miles east of here over roads that are closed from sometime in late October or November until sometime in April. A man named Robert Townley Watson built it, the grandfather of our present maintenance man. Vanderbilts have stayed here, and Rockefellers, and Astors, and Du Ponts. Four Presidents have stayed in the Presidential Suite. Wilson, Harding, Roosevelt, and Nixon.I wouldnt be too proud of Harding and Nixon, Jack murmured.Ullman frowned but went on regardless. It proved too much for Mr. Watson, and he sold the hotel in 1915. It was sold again in 1922, in 1929, in 1936. It stood vacant until the end of World War II, when it was purchased and completely renovated by Horace Derwent, millionaire inventor, pilot, film producer, and entrepreneur.I know the name, Jack said.Yes. Everything he touched seemed to turn to gold... except the Overlook. He funneled over a million dollars into it before the first postwar guest ever stepped through its doors, turning a decrepit relic into a show- place. It was Derwent who added the roque court I saw you admiring when you arrived.Roque? A British forebear of our croquet, Mr. Torrance. Croquet is bastardized roque. According to legend, Derwent learned the game from his social secretary and fell completely in love with it. Ours may be the finest roque court in America.I wouldnt doubt it, Jack said gravely. A roque court, a topiary full of hedge animals out front, what next? A life-sized Uncle Wiggily game behind the equipment shed? He was getting very tired of Mr. Stuart Ullman, but he could see that Ullman wasnt done. Ullman was going to have his say, every last word of it. When he had lost three million, Derwent sold it to a group of California investors. Their experience with the Overlook was equally bad. Just not hotel people.In 1970, Mr. Shockley and a group of his associates bought the hotel and turned its management over to me. We have also run in the red for several years, but Im happy to say that the trust of the present owners in me has never wavered. Last year we broke even. And this year the Overlooks accounts were written in black ink for the first time in almost seven decades.Jack supposed that this fussy little mans pride was justified, and then his original dislike washed over him again in a wave.He said: I see no connection between t...	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	Little Danny Torrence can read thoughts, and the stories in his father's mind scare him nearly to death. Stephen King's 1977 classic follows Danny's family through a terrifying winter as they care for a deserted Colorado hotel whose history is anything but bucolic. Campbell Scott brings a refreshing perspective to the spooky story. Understated, yet fully engaged, he changes point of view between Danny and his parents, leading the listener effortlessly. Scott colors the secondary characters with slight shades of regional accents, bringing them to life without overperforming them. His detached, choppy rendering of horrors from the hotel's past contrasts with his effusive illustration of its present, wringing every drop of terror from both.  R.L.L. 2006 Audie Award Finalist  AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine-- Copyright  AudioFile, Portland, Maine	      --This text refers to the 							Audio CD	 edition.",books;contemporary;genre fiction;horror;literature & fiction;mystery;thriller & suspense;thrillers,8
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0805411968,"Make a Life Not Just a Living Jenson, chairman of High Ground Associates and MaxLife LLC, attempts to teach you how to be successful by explaining that you must first define the word success for yourself?and that being rich and powerful are rarely things of which the dying are proud. Yet nearly all his examples of successful people are wealthy executives. The outline of the book is well thought out; however, much of the text appears to be filler, often unrelated to the point at hand. Some of Jenson's statements are interesting, some are obnoxious, and some are even factually inaccurate. There are many books out there of this genre (The Road Less Traveled, Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, etc.), which are better. Given his poor writing style and reiteration of what others have already said?and said better?there is not a lot to recommend this offering.?Elizabeth Caulfield Felt, Washington State Univ., PullmanCopyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;business & investing;business life;christian books & bibles;christian living;motivation & self-improvement;self-help;success,8
0674005104,"Justice as Fairness: A Restatement Few philosophers have made as much of  a splash with a single book as John Rawls did with the 1971 publication of A Theory of Justice. Thirty years later, Justice as Fairness rearticulates the main themes of his earlier work and defends it against the swarm of criticisms it has attracted. Throughout the book, Rawls continues to defend his well-known thought experiment in which an ""original position""--a sort of prenatal perspective ignorant of our race, class, and gender--provides the basis for formulating ethical principles that result in a harmonious liberal state. In addition, he supplies carefully worked-out responses and, in some cases, reformulations of his theory. Those coming to Rawls for the first time will find a lucid portrayal of his position; those embroiled in the ongoing debate will encounter a closely argued and subtle rejoinder to his adversaries. Readers will be pleased that the daunting volumes of Rawls's previous work have been distilled to a digestible 214 pages. --Eric de Place 	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	Rawls set out his contractualist conception of justice in A Theory of Justice and revised it in a later edition. From 1974 to 1989, he published articles whose theses varied somewhat from the detailed account of that work. In this self-contained attempt to reconcile the differences, he reorganizes his ""original position"" argument; revises his liberty principle to emphasize that there is not a single ""liberty"" that governments should aim at, but a set of liberties that ground citizens' powers to form and act from conceptions of justice and of a fully worthwhile life; and reanalyzes justice as fairness, so as to emphasize its political aspects. This book is the capstone to a half-century's deep thinking about its subject and will reward careful study. Recommended for most libraries. Robert Hoffman, York Coll., CUNY Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Justice as Fairness is a concise, self-contained, and up to date presentation of Rawls' views...While Justice as Fairness does not present any theoretical departures from Political Liberalism, it deals with important topics Rawls never fully addressed before such as Marx's critique of liberalism and the moral short-comings of welfare state capitalism...Rawls' long-time readers will also be pleased to find that Justice as Fairness includes careful replies to Sandel, Sen, Okin and other critics on issues ranging from health care to the legal status of gender differences. (Robert Briscoe Boston Book Review 2001-07-01)Rawls is one of the two or three most important political thinkers of the 20th century. His accounts of 'justice as fairness' and of 'political liberalism' are among the most widely discussed and cited in the field of political philosophy...[Justice as Fairness] provides an integrated statement of his political theory, drawing together and presenting in a unified way, and for the first time, the major arguments and both strands of his work. Even though it is a challenging volume, it will no doubt be the principal introduction to his thinking...An essential text. (J. D. Moon Choice 2001-11-01)There have been millions of words written about A Theory of Justice and many articles and several books by Rawls defending and expanding its doctrines. Justice as Fairness will almost certainly be the last of these, and it should take its place as the best and most comprehensive statement of Rawls's eventual position. It is an exemplary work in every way. Rawls's own virtues shine through. He follows the argument where it leads. He listens to his critics and acknowledges his supporters; he gives way when it is necessary, but remains firm where he can take a stand. Anybody convinced that political thought is all about disguised power, or rhetoric, or ideology in the bad sense of the word, should confront this book. (Simon Blackburn Times Literary Supplement 2001-09-28)	John Rawls was James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard University. He was recipient of the 1999 National Humanities Medal.Erin Kelly is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University.",books;ethics;ethics & morality;humanities;new;philosophy;politics & social sciences;used & rental textbooks,8
B00005N7XN,"Orlando Magazine Orlando Magazine is edited to reflect the lifestyle and interests of an educated, urban-oriented audience which poses both the income and the inclination to indulge in a diverse range of pursuits.  It features the writers and photographers of the region.	Orlando Magazine is edited to reflect the lifestyle and interests of an educated, urban-oriented audience which poses both the income and the inclination to indulge in a diverse range of pursuits.  It features the writers and photographers of the region.",florida;magazine subscriptions;orlando;regions;south;states;travel & regional;united states,8
B00005X6O9,"Who you are when no one's looking : choosing consistency, resisting compromise One of the most influential books I read as a student. --StudentSoul.org, July 31, 2007	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.	Bill Hybels is pastor of Willow Creek Community Church in the Chicago suburbs, where over 15,000 attend each weekend. Willow Creek's ""seeker sensitive"" approach to worship has influenced many churches across the U.S. and throughout the world. Hybels has written a number of books, including Honest to God, Becoming a Contagious Christian, Making Life Work and Too Busy Not to Pray.	      --This text refers to the 							Audio CD	 edition.",books;christian books & bibles;christian living;ethics;inspirational;religion & spirituality;religious studies;spirituality,8
157779009X,Ruffing It: The Complete Guide to Camping With Dogs Richmond and Barash are avid campers who wouldnt dream of leaving their canine pals behind!,books;camping;crafts;dogs;hiking & camping;hobbies & home;pets & animal care;sports & outdoors,8
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0062585304,"A Walk Along Land's End: Discovering California's Unknown Coast In what he considers ""the adventure of a lifetime,"" intrepid   nature writer John McKinney sets out on a six-month, solitary hike to   map the first continuous footpath from Mexico to Oregon along the   California coast.",books;california;general;individual sports;running & jogging;sports & outdoors;travel;united states,8
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B0000223K3,"Hitachi RP30SA 7-1/2 Gallon Stainless Steel Industrial Shop Vacuum Our tests found the Hitachi 7-1/2-gallon industrial vacuum to be a quiet-running but heavy-duty machine that features a durable stainless-steel tank and the kind of high performance we've come to expect from the well-respected Hitachi motor. Of course, the bottom line when talking about a vacuum is how well it picks up debris. Suction in wet/dry vacs is measured in static water lift. The Hitachi rates 90 inches of static water lift, which is about as powerful as you can get for this class of machine. Hitachi's quiet-flow air design helps keep the vacuum running at a subdued 66 decibels (which, to give you an idea, is probably about half the noise made by your dad's old wet/dry vac). The stainless-steel tank is about as stout as any on the market, but, at just a little over 21 pounds, the unit doesn't feel unwieldy or tough to maneuver. A wide footprint and well-built casters make it nimble yet stable when moving it around the shop floor. The vac comes with a plastic filter for wet applications and a washable fabric filter for dry and dusty applications. --Mark McDonald	The Shop Vacuum from Hitachi has a super efficient design with 8.0 Amp motor and 90 inches of static water lift.  The quiet air flow design reduces operating noise to only 66 dB.  A stainless steel tank for commercial wet/dry applications.  The max air volume is 106 CFM at 6 Gallons of dry material capacity.  Liquid is 6.4 Gallon capacity.  Double insulated to prevent shock and is very light weight and portable on its 4 wheel base.  Hitachi Power Tools are backed by a 30-day satisfaction guarantee and a one-year limited warranty on parts and labor.  Includes: Hose - 308463, 2 Extension tubes - 309455, Handle - 308461, Pedal brush 314710, Fluid nozzle - 308459, Dry dust filter - 314708, Wet & dry dust filter - 314709, Bag tensioned basket - 308455.",floor care;industrial & scientific;janitorial & sanitation supplies;power & hand tools;power tools;tools & home improvement;vacuums;wet-dry vacuums,8
0029266254,"Quality Is Personal: A Foundation For Total Quality Management Harry V. Roberts is the Sigmund E. Edelstone Professor of Statistics and Quality Management in the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago. He is the author or coauthor of more than 10 books and 60 articles on subjects related to statistics and Total Quality Management.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Chapter 1QUALITY, PERSONAL QUALITY, AND PERSONAL QUALITY CHECKLISTS1. QUALITY AND TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENTAlthough our primary interest is quality for the individual -- in work and in everyday life -- we begin with a brief survey of organizational quality, or, as it is frequently called, Total Quality Management (TQM). (Parts of this survey are drawn from the Report of the Working Council on Core Body of Knowledge for the Procter amp; Gamble Total Quality Forum of 1992.)The working assumption of TQM is that continual organizational improvements, small and large, are not only possible but are necessary for long-term survival. Opportunities for improvement are recognized primarily by continuing reexamination of all existing constraints on the way that work is done. This reexamination is focused on all organizational processes, and it is guided by three basic ideas, which have to be sold to all employees:1. Orient all efforts towards delighting customers and removing waste in (or constraints on) internal processes.2. Stress team effort at all levels inside and outside the organization, including cooperative efforts with suppliers and customers.3. Use data and scientific reasoning to guide and evaluate improvement efforts, and to hold the gains from past improvements.These three ideas, when applied systematically, lead to management practices that are very different from traditional practices. The new practices are so appealing that many people, upon first encountering them, will insist that they have been following them all along.The ideas of TQM lead to much more than meets the eye on first glance. And they pose a profound psychological challenge: they say that, no matter what we have done in our lives up to now, we must be prepared to find that we can do enormously better. This is gratifying in the sense that improvement is always gratifying. But it also suggests that what we have done in the past is going to look bad in the light of present knowledge. For many of us, that is hard to accept.The detailed management tactics of TQM go beyond traditional optimization within fixed constraints to shoot at ever-moving improvement targets by relaxing or eliminating constraints. Since there is no end to opportunities to relax or eliminate constraints, improvement is never ending.Relaxing Constraints""Relaxing a constraint"" is an abstract expression. One of the authors offers a personal example of what it means. In 1968 the author and his teenage son were jogging along a mountain trail in North Carolina when they were confronted by a large eastern timber rattlesnake who was visibly and noisily blocking the trail. They stopped abruptly about ten yards short of the rattler. The father picked up a large dead branch and advanced on the snake, intending to make him move off the trail so that they could continue the run. The son called out in alarm, ""Dad, let's just walk around him!""They took a wide semicircle around the snake and continued on their way. The rattler went on rattling, but the confrontation had been avoided. Here, the constraint was the assumption that the process of jogging demanded that they stay on the trail; the removal of the constraint permitted the run to continue without a potentially disastrous incident.A Definition of TQMTQM is a people-focused management system that aims at continual increase of customer satisfaction at continually lower real cost. This is a total system approach (not a separate area or program), and an integral part of high-level strategy; it works horizontally across functions and departments, involves all employees, top to bottom, and extends backward and forward to include the supply chain and the customer chain. TQM stresses learning and adaptation to continual change as keys to organizational success.The foundation of TQM is philosophical: the scientific method. It includes systems, methods, and tools. The systems permit change; the philosophy stays the same. TQM is anchored in values that stress the dignity of the individual and the power of community action.TQM is in one sense a highly democratic system, but it requires dedicated and informed leadership from senior management, leadership that is aware of the obstacles to successful implementation. TQM goes beyond specific improvements, however desirable these may be, to the transformation of organizations and organizational cultures from what they are today to something very different.What Is In an Acronym?TQM is only one of many acronyms used to label the management system that we have just described. Some of these acronyms are widely used, especially CQI for Continuous Quality Improvement. Others are specific to given companies or organizations. Three comments are in order:* The substance that underlies the acronym is what matters.* Labeling a given organization's activities by one of these acronyms does not in itself demonstrate that the organization is implementing the management system we are discussing.* All the current acronyms could pass out of use without affecting the usefulness of the management system here described. An organization could implement the concepts without using any acronym at all.Definition of QualityThis approach to TQM suggests that customer satisfaction -- even customer delight -- is a useful definition of ""quality."" Customer satisfaction has many dimensions, of which conformance to specifications is only one. In addition, in Building a Chain of Customers (New York: The Free Press, 1988), Richard Schonberger, distinguishes:* performance** quick (some suggest ""timely"") response* quick change expertise* features** reliability** durability** serviceability** aesthetics** perceived quality** humanity* valueThe eight starred items are taken from a listing by David Garvin, Managing Quality: The Strategic and Competitive Edge (New York: The Free Press, 1988). Schonberger points out that the four unstarred items are not just variations or extensions of the first eight: they are basic and vital in their own right. Thus quality, considered carefully, includes more than has been traditionally subsumed in the term, certainly much more than conformance to specifications. Conformance to specifications is desirable -- essential -- when the specifications are aimed at achieving customer satisfaction.But even more, quality becomes everyone's job; it cannot be delegated to inspectors or a quality assurance department. This is where personal quality fits in. This seems like a blinding glimpse of the obvious, but it does need to be discussed, elaborated, and, above all, made concrete in terms of what we do from day to day.Manufacturing Quality and Service QualityMuch of the work and literature on TQM has been focused on manufacturing. Quality in manufacturing requires meeting or exceeding customer expectations by making products that consistently operate within customer-based specifications.Although manufacturing quality and service quality are similar -- manufactured products are desired only to the extent that they provide services to customers -- it is easier to understand and visualize good quality in manufacturing. People nod their heads in assent when they hear about service quality, but they don't know how to go about making it happen.From manufacturing experience, we know that managing quality has two key components: to count and reduce defects; and to measure and reduce cycle time, the time that it takes to complete a given process, such as the assembly of a car. These fundamentals carry over to services. If you do not address these two fundamentals, you will not achieve your quality objectives. Do a good job on these fundamentals, and the rest is straightforward; it's fun. This requires, however, that every person in a service organization count defects or measure cycle time for those process...",books;business & finance;business & investing;management & leadership;new;quality control;total quality management;used & rental textbooks,8
0892967749,"A Cruel Season for Dying Assured prose helps redeem a routine plot in Moore's mystery debut, which pits Japanese-American NYPD lieutenant James Sakura against yet another deranged serial killer. Sakura's adversary seems to target gay victims, who are found dead of unknown causes with swan feathers inserted into slits in their backs to simulate angel wings. The high-profile crimes focus both media and departmental pressures on Sakura, who races the clock to stop the murderer from killing again. A forensic psychiatrist and his disgraced former partner assist in developing a profile, a task that becomes more challenging when the MO appears to change. Promising leads come from a Yeshiva University professor, who directs the team to clues from the apocryphal Book of Enoch. Predictably, those close to the homicide detective fall into jeopardy. Flashbacks to Sakura's Japanese upbringing and his relationship with his blind wife provide glimpses of hidden depths, but these suggestive elements contribute little to his investigative approach, which ultimately depends too much on chance. Despite the novel aspects of Sakura's struggles to live as part of two cultures, fans of such serial-killer classics as Thomas Harris's Red Dragon may find this effort overly formulaic. Hopefully, in any future books about this sleuth who for now remains more enigmatic than intriguing, Moore will couple his writing talent with more creative story lines.Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.	*Starred Review* Real-life serial killers may still exert a ghoulish fascination on the modern psyche, but their fictional counterparts have become a genre cliche. It takes a talented writer with a genuinely fresh approach to overcome the plot-by-the-numbers sameness of most serial-killer thrillers. Fortunately, first-novelist Moore displays both the requisite talent and freshness in this gripping story of a Japanese American homicide detective tracking a killer who sews swan's wings onto the shoulders of his victims, displaying them as if they were fallen angels. Juxtaposing Lieutenant James Sakura's investigation of the murders with glimpses of his marriage to Hanae, a blind woman whom he met in Japan, Moore effectively contrasts the serenity of Sakura's home life with the horror of the crimes he investigates. And, yet, it is not as simple as that. Turbulence roils beneath the domestic serenity, and the crimes mask a tortured killer's psychotic attempt to achieve an addled version of peace. Moore brings a remarkably multitextured depth to his characters--to Sakura, his wife, and the killer as well as to a wide range of supporting figures. The crime is solved, but the human drama remains shrouded in ambiguity. Not only does this outstanding novel breathe new life into the serial-killer subgenre but it also leaves the door open to what could become a truly original, psychologically rich series in which the multicultural framework is far more than window dressing. Bill OttCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	""Not only does this outstanding novel breathe new life into into the serial-killer subgenre...a truly original, psychological rich series....""  -- Booklist, 5/15/03",books;literature & fiction;mystery;police procedurals;suspense;thriller & suspense;thrillers;united states,8
0756774896,"Higher Than Everest: An Adventurer's Guide To The Solar System Higher Than Everest is the kind of book that will appeal to armchair alpinists everywhere, and one that sets the standard for twenty-second-century aficionados of extreme sports....Compared with Mars, journeys to the outer Solar System are technically challenging and fraught with uncertainty. But despite this, Hodge leaves the reader feeling that one day they might just happen....the scope of this study is impressive, and this well-researched book deserves a place on the bookshelf of anyone interested in the Solar System and its origins. --Nature, Jan. 2002",astronomy;astronomy & astrophysics;astronomy & space science;books;new;science & math;science & mathematics;used & rental textbooks,8
B0009XH4CU,"Age of Empires III You determine the fate of an empire, you must conquer the New World! Command one of eight mighty European powers grappling to conquer the New World. Gain wealth and power for your home country, and colonize vast, uncharted territory.",games;home & hobbies;home publishing;illustration & design;pc;software;strategy;video games,8
9879131851,"Creacion de Aplicaciones Multimedia con MS Visual Basic con CD-ROM: Manuales Users, en Espanol / Spanish (PC Users; La Computacion Que Entienden Todos) (Spanish Edition) Baltazar Birnios, Licenciado en Informatica, tuvo contacto  con su primera PC alla por comienzos de los 90, y desde entonces  emprendio lo que seria un camino de ida (sin vuelta). Actualmente  trabaja en el Departamento de Publicaciones Electronicas de la revista  PC Users como editor de software, escribe su propia columna llamada  Webeando, y culmina con exito su carrera de Ingenieria en Informatica.    Mariano Birnios se relaciono con una computadora cuando era apenas un  adolescente. Su espiritu curioso lo llevo a crear sus propios  programas en lugar de usar otros de terceros, y poco a poco la  programacion se fue convirtiendo en una pasion, junto con el  deporte. Asi, llego a competir en las Olimpiadas Argentinas de  Informatica, y siguio aprendiendo con gusto tanto como podia.    Actualmente estudia Ingenieria de Sistemas en la Universidad  Tecnologica Nacional (FRBA) y trabaja en el departamento de  Publicaciones Electronicas de MP Ediciones, programando los CD-ROMs  que acompanian las ediciones extra de la revista PC Users, para la  cual tambien escribe la seccion A Programar.    Other books:  MS Visual Basic 6.0  Manual de referencia, coleccion CM",books;computers & technology;education & reference;languages & tools;programming;visual basic;web design;web development & design,8
0691004048,"Ancient Mosaics While most books on ancient mosaics concern themselves mainly with the ""how-to"" of a specific monument, Ling offers a broad and accessible overview. The evolution of ancient mosaics began in the Greek late Classical period with floors decorated with pebble mosaics and culminated in the lush wall and vault mosaics of Christian Rome. Ling follows the progress of mosaics across the span of the Greco-Roman world, from Britain to Egypt and Spain to Syria, carefully examining stylistic development, techniques, materials, and influences. In addition, he places the mosaics carefully in the context of the world for which and in which they were created. Because of the durable material used, many mosaics are still available for viewing, and Ling has selected a generous sampling for detailed illustration. A solid work by a respected author, this is recommended for both academic and public libraries. --Mary Morgan Smith, Northland P.L., PittsburghCopyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Roger Ling is Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology at the University of Manchester. His other publications include The Greek World (published as Classical Greece in its second edition), Wall Painting in Roman Britain (with Norman Davey) and Roman Painting.",architecture;arts & photography;books;ceramics;history;history & criticism;other media;professional & technical,8
B00005VE7S,"And Still We Rise: The Trials and Triumphs of Twelves Gifted Inner-City Students The typical image of South-Central Los Angeles doesn't lend itself to peaceful and productive high schools. But as Los Angeles Times reporter Miles Corwin chronicles in this troubling yet uplifting book, the ills of the inner city have not completely defeated Toni Little's advanced-placement students at Crenshaw High School, with whom Corwin spent the 1996-1997 academic year as a silent observer. Having grown weary of writing about gang violence, drive-by shootings, and drug arrests, Corwin wanted ""to find a way to write about the other children of South-Central, the students who avoid the temptations of the street, who strive for success, who, against all odds, in one of America's most impoverished, crime-ridden neighborhoods, manage to endure, to prevail, to succeed."" He also wanted to show ""how truly slanted the playing field remains, how inequality is built into a system touted as a meritocracy."" Though 98 percent of the students in the gifted program go on to attend college, it takes a near superhuman effort for them to reach graduation day. In And Still We Rise, Corwin details exactly why. Corwin's poignant portraits of the students and his sensitive evocation of the effort it requires for them to pursue their education are among the many strengths of the book. There's Olivia, the abused former runaway, ward of the county, and gifted student; Sadikifu, the promising Muslim rapper who constantly fights the gritty allure of gang life; and Toya, who lost her own mom to domestic violence and who struggles to balance schoolwork and motherhood. Corwin further explores the intricate intersections of affirmative action, educational expectations, urban neglect, and racism. By turns shocking and inspiring, this is journalistic work that gets to the core of its subject to reveal students who ""value education, sacrifice much to further their educations, and overcome many obstacles--including even their own teachers--in order to obtain their educations."" It shouldn't be so hard. --Eugene Holley Jr. 	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Los Angeles Times reporter Corwin offers a viscerally affecting glimpse inside the world of an inner-city high school. Hewing to the approach of his first book, The Killing Season: A Summer Inside an LAPD Homicide Division, he followed the seniors in an Advanced Placement (AP) English class from their first day of school in 1997 to graduation. Overcrowded, underfunded Crenshaw High School has a dropout rate of almost 50%. Notorious as the setting for the movie Boyz 'n the Hood and as home base for one of L.A.'s worst gangs, Crenshaw is located in the impoverished and crime-ridden South-Central district. The struggling students whose stories Corwin adroitly interweaves face trying circumstances: some have parents on welfare, in prison or addicted to crack; many work at part- or full-time jobs; several cope with the scarring effects of physical or sexual abuse. Yet most minority students in Crenshaw's ""gifted magnet program"" manage to get As and go on to college. Corwin succeeds admirably in avoiding the cliched image of inner-city schools, with wide-eyed, altruistic teachers and menacing students. For example, he describes Toni Little, the white AP English teacher (nearly all of whose students are black), as a volatile, histrionic personality who frequently involves students in her bitter ongoing battle with administrators. California voted to end affirmative action in 1997, and Corwin passionately argues that affirmative action programs are an imperfect but necessary measure to level a grossly uneven playing field. His profiles of high achievers who shun the temptations of the street are sure to inspire. Agent: Barney Karpfinger. (Apr.) Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	During the year that California began dismantling affirmative action at state universities, Los Angeles Times reporter Corwin chronicled youngsters who would be affected by that change. He spent a school year at Crenshaw High School in South-Central L.A., and he profiles Crenshaw students who braved great odds to even get to the point of college admission. Those students came out of poverty, abusive families, and gang-infested neighborhoods, and they fought to maintain the demanding academic standards of an advanced placement program. Among them were Toya, who, pregnant before her final year, struggled with impoverished teen motherhood; determined and fiercely independent Olivia, a ward of the foster care system; and Sadikifu, who labored to keep distant from friends in gangs. Corwin also portrays the tensions between two dedicated English teachers who disagreed about how to prepare low-income, minority students for the academic challenges of college and the social realities of life beyond South-Central. This is a compelling portrayal of 12 gifted but disadvantaged students and the broader issue of affirmative action. Vanessa BushCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	""Splendid."" -- --Los Angeles Times Book Review	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	A native of Los Angeles, Miles Corwin is an award-winning reporter for the Los Angeles Times and the author of the critically acclaimed The Killing Season, a national bestseller. He lives with his family outside Los Angeles, California.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",books;education & reference;education theory;philosophy & social aspects;politics & social sciences;schools & teaching;sociology;urban,8
B00002N5MC,"Nicholson Rectangular Mill Carded Hand File Without Handle, Single Cut, American Pattern, Bastard Cut, 6&#034; Length Nicholson 6"" American Pattern Mill File, bastard cut. Designed for sharpening mill or circular saws plus filling and finishing of metals.	Nicholson, 6"" Black Diamond Mill Bastard File, Used For Sharpening Mill Or Circular Saws, For Draw-Filling & Finishing Metals, Rectangular Shape, Single-Cut On Sides & Edges, 2 Square Edges, American Pattern, All Sizes Taper Slightly In Width, .",cutting burs;cutting tools;file handles;files & rasps;hand tools;industrial & scientific;power & hand tools;tools & home improvement,8
B000IEDH0I,"Wilson EZ Catch Series Baseball Glove 10 Inch (Right-Handed Throw) The Wilson EZ Catch  Baseball Glove Series features EZ Catch technology which is a revolutionary design which makes catching twice as easy because the pocket is twice as big. The X-Web combines the flexibility of an open web with the ruggedness of a closed web. The EZ Flex flexible hinges in the palm deliver more closing power. Two fingers in one stall provide big closing power. Features Soft Vinyl, this model is 10 "", ages 5-7 and is designed for all positions of the playing field. Wilson is the Official Ball Glove of Major League Baseball.",baseball;gloves & mitts;player equipment;sports;sports & outdoor play;sports & outdoors;team sports;toys & games,8
0878338098,Beauty and Cancer: Looking and Feeling Your Best The easy-to-follow text and diagrams offer useful information about coping with the results of surgery and the side effects of cancer treatments. (Orlando Sentinel ),& style;beauty;books;cancer;diseases & physical ailments;fitness & dieting;grooming;health,8
843760057X,Don Alvaro o la fuerza del sino (COLECCION LETRAS HISPANICAS) (Letras Hispanicas/ Hispanic Writings) (Spanish Edition) Text: Spanish,books;continental european;drama;foreign language fiction;literature & fiction;poetry;spanish;world literature,8
B0002VN8AG,"Amazon.com: Russell Athletic Men's Dri-Power Mesh Short, Blackness, XX-Large: Clothing Whether it's running bases or running through the park, the Dri-Power Mesh Short will keep you dry and energetic. Dri-power is a base layer with moisture management technology that transfers sweat away from the skin to keep athletes dry and comfortable. This loose fitting short pulls sweat away from your body for rapid evaporation. Constructed using single-ply 5.8 ounce 100% polyester, this short features a multi-needle covered elastic waist, inside draw cord, double-needle hemmed legs with side vents and 7-inch inseam. Dri-Power tab in right side seam. Inside coin pocket. The R logo on the lower right leg signifies Russell Athletic's commitment to quality and performance.",active;active shorts;clothing;clothing & accessories;men;shorts;sports & outdoors;workout shorts,8
1580812678,"On the Waterfront (Library Edition Audio CDs) (L.A. Theatre Works Audio Theatre Collections) *Starred Review*  Johnson was a New York Sun reporter who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1949 for his series of 24 front-page articles in 1948, detailing crime on the New York waterfront. The series exposed what he called an ""outlaw frontier,"" where organized criminals had a stranglehold on the ports. These gangs enforced their reign of terror through thievery, control of narcotics traffic, smuggling, shakedowns, kickbacks, bribery, extortion, and murder. They were allied with a crime cartel that Johnson labeled the syndicate--now known as the Mafia--that controlled organized crime in the U.S., including the powerful International Longshoremen's Union. Among the crime bosses were Charles (Lucky) Luciano, Frank Costello, and Meyer Lansky. Johnson's stories served as primary source material for investigations, as well as for novels, radio and TV shows, and movies--most notably On the Waterfront in 1954. Haynes Johnson, a Pulitzer Prize--winning journalist and son of Malcolm Johnson, has written an engrossing foreword. Budd Schulberg, the author of What Makes Sammy Run? (1940) and the screenplay for On the Waterfront, has written an equally informative introduction and related articles that appeared later in magazines. The book will renew interest in On the Waterfront with its brilliant cast that included Marlon Brando, Rod Steiger, Eva Marie Saint, Lee J. Cobb, and Karl Malden. The book is a gripping account of one man's courage and foresight that eventually brought down the Mob. George CohenCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	A recovered jewel! -- Scott Liell, author of 46 Pagesbr /br /An intriguing episodic account of true crime and survival on New York's outer edges. -- Kirkus Reviewsbr /br /On the Waterfront is a notable example of reportage that has outlasted its dateline. -- Matthew J. Bruccoli, author of Some Sort of Epic Grandeurbr /br /One of the proudest monuments in the history of investigative journalism.... -- Benjamin C. Bradlee, former editor, Washington Postbr /br /Told brilliantly and authoritatively through the eyes and ears of a fearless reporter, ON THE WATERFRONT is a remarkable achievement. --James MacGregor Burns, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian	Budd Schulberg has created a major uproar in 1941 Hollywood when, at the age of 27, he published his scathing, satrical expose of the film industry, What Makes Sammy Run? Schulberg was 17 when Paramount hired him as a publicist; he bacame a screenwrite at age 19. Throughout the 1940's Schulberg worked in Hollywood as a screenwriter, an experience that led to The Disenchanted, Schulberg's fictionalized account of his collaboration with F. Scott Fitzgerald on a screenplay. Other novels include The Harder They Fall and his screenplays include A Face in the Crowd and Wind Across the Everglades. In 1954, he wrote the screenplay On the Waterfront, and won an Academy Award.",arts & photography;books;drama;literature & fiction;performing arts;poetry;theater;united states,8
088730740X,"Double Your Profits: In Six Months or Less ""Double your profits in six months or less,"" says management consultant Fifer, simply by following his rather Draconian cost-cutting suggestions. Fifer shares his Fortune 500 consulting experiences with these 78 ways to leave your losses, such as eliminating unnecessary management, bidding on supplier goods, paying invoices later, and controlling all expenses at the top. Of this list, 24 are standard customer service and sales rep motivation tips, all more completely covered elsewhere. Furthermore, in today's lean organizations, most of these decisions have already been implemented. Executives now are focusing on the real cost control that comes from unnecessary process steps, rework, and management tampering. Pass on this one.Dale Farris, Groves, Tex.Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Double Your Profits is terrific ... it's insightful, practical, and comprehensive. -- Larry Bossidy, Chairman and CEO, Allied Signal/HoneywellA highly readable, eminently common sensical guidepost to success in business. Every chapter is a mini-refresher course on controlling costs, satisfying customers, motivating people, improving profits and building pride.It's a safe bet Double Your Profits will be a high-yield investment. --Norman R. Augustine, Chairman and CEO, Martin MariettaI've given Double Your Profits to many colleagues and clients over the last few years. Best book my wife ever gave me. Best common sense business book I've ever read. It's a book that needs to be read periodically by any business owner and their associaties. --Ted Fagan, President, Eco Mist Solutions Inc.I made Double Your Profits required reading for all the up and coming assistants I trained. We increased our sales and nearly tripled our profits in one year! This book is one of my top five must-have books on business/life. --Mark W. Shelby, CKMSMr. Fifer doesn't hold back anything. His sage advice rolls off of every page. If it's time for you to get a wake-up call about your business, this could be the bell. --The Net Review of Business Books""Simple and straightforward."" -- --Jack Welch, Chairman of GE	Fifer delivers what he promises--a ""step-by-step road map to a lean, mean organization."" The author runs through his material at a fast-paced clip that takes a minute to get used to. But this information is ideally suited to audio. In two hours the listener receives 78 cost-cutting tips capable of satisfying even the most hard-nosed capitalist. However, those looking for insight into the softer side of business won't find it here. Fifer acknowledges that one must be stubborn to implement these suggestions, but he maintains that employees will respect their bosses more for doing so. Distracting plugs for Fifer's consulting firm pepper the program, but some of these ideas, especially those for increasing sales and pricing, are worth the commercial interruptions.  D.M.G.  (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",accounting;accounting & finance;books;business & investing;finance;management;management & leadership;professional & technical,8
1928658008,"The Other Side of the Coin ""...Because of your highly personal style of interviewing we were able to bring out the emotions that usually don't come out about an issue when you are only dealing strictly with the facts.""  -- Alexander Odishelidze, Congressional Lobbyist for Puerto Rican status change, Registered Investment Advisor for Employee Benefits Associates, Inc.""Barbra Alexander has been writing the ""Spare Change"" column and periodic feature cover stories for The Sun Weekly newspaper since February 1997.  Ms. Alexander gained an instant following with her common sense look at the financial world.    Barbra's ""Follow the Money"" mantra leads to insightful revelations about what's really behind a multitude of issues from supermarket marketing, the use of electronic money and national ID cards.  Barbra has written well-received stories on state propositions, union strikes and the smoking ban, to name a few.  I can count on Barbra to peel back the pretty wrapping and see who's trying to get rich.  Barbra's common sense style cuts across political affiliations and urges us to open our eyes to see who's digging into our wallets and our freedom. She often makes us laugh at the absurdity of it all.   Barbra Alexander is required reading for anyone wishing to hang on to their money.""  -- Elizabeth Cowley, publisher, The Sun Weekly""I can see why you have such a great following...You have way of making even complex topics come across so that the layperson can understand them easily.""  -- Dr. Scott Sawyer, Chiropractor	The Other Side of the Coin  A Humorous Look at Our Financial World  By Barbra Alexander  Illustrations by Carey Crockett  Copyright (c) 1998 by Barbra Alexander  Printed in the United States of America	*Host of a syndicated radio talk show--Money Hot-Line--for 6 years *Columnist  *MA Psychology *Financial services provider for over 15 years *Public speaker on a wide range of subjects including personal business marketing, becoming a success despite your past parential influences, and baby-boomers refusing to participate in the graying of America	From Chapter 3: Browsing in Chaos Lamenting the 'good old days and ways' is more than likely the province of a certain age.  By engaging in this retrospection I'm probably dating myself, but I really miss Butcher Shops, and the independence they represented.  Chain grocery stores are not my favorite places to hang out.  I'll do almost anything not to have to go to the store to shop for food.  It has to do with size and fluorescent lighting and perfectly placed items on perfectly coordinated shelves.  These stores are physically chilly, inhospitable and passionless.  Their only goal is to get you moved through the line as quickly as humanly possible.   Impulse buying designed by the makers of chewing gum, candy and colorful pencils with obscene erasers in the shape of current cartoon favorites are not only odious, but are openly intended to make small children holler for these items as their overwrought parent is trying to pay the bill.   Point of purchase ATM or Credit Card payment for groceries, along with coupons, and now grocery discount cards are equally abhorrent.  Just what we need, another card for every store we saunter into.  And the Lottery encourages us to gamble while we shop for the bare, life sustaining necessities.  But wait, that isn't all.  The absolute worst is yet to come. Imagine my dismay when I discovered that banks, insurance companies, the post office and a photographer had taken stall like spaces inside that same, cold grocery store.  Huge signs herald loan interest rates, free checking, designer stamps, insurance programs and family pictures right next to the checkout counters. Now I ask you, do you really think about your changing insurance needs while waiting to get your groceries bagged?...",books;business & investing;consumer guides;credit ratings & repair;education & reference;introduction;investing;personal finance,8
B000O14F10,FRANKLIN SPORTS INDUSTRY 13052 Clas Volleyball Set/Bag Volleyball: Official size and weight performance Soft-Spike? volleyball with inflating pump Poles: 1.5? telescoping octagon PVC poles Net: Official size 32? x 3? x 4? with deluxe tarpaulin binding and top net cable for increased net tension and performanc,court equipment;pole sets;sports;sports & outdoor play;sports & outdoors;team sports;toys & games;volleyball,8
B0000224P4,"RotoZip TC1 Tilecut Bit The Carbide Zip Bit is specially designed for use with RotoZip tools on ceramic wall tile (only soft tile with glazing), cement board, stucco and plaster.	1/8"" Solid Carbide Zip Bit, For Irregular Cuts Such As Angles, Pipe Holes & Outlet Holes Through Ceramic Wall Tile, Cement Board, Cultured Marble & Plaster Up To 1"" Thick, Cuts Throught Ceramic Wall Tile & The Attached Drywall Or Cement Backer Board With One Cut, For Use With RotoZip, RotoMite & SpiraCut Power Tools.",cutting tools;drill bits;industrial & scientific;industrial drill bits;power & hand tools;power tool accessories;rotary tool accessories;tools & home improvement,8
B0000C5GFM,Reversible Sparring Vest Reversible vest features red scoring zone on one side and blue on the other.,chest & rib guards;martial arts;other sports;protective gear;sports;sports & outdoor play;sports & outdoors;toys & games,8
B00009R8J3,"Falcon / Marshall Personal Size Straight Blade Paper Cutter for Photo & Digital Paper - 14"" Handles prints up to 14"". Uses standard replaceable single edge razor blades for a sharp, clean paper trim. The blade is completely enclosed for safety, but allows you to see exactly what and where you are cutting. Includes 5 blades.",accessories;camera & photo;cutting & measuring devices;electronics;office & school supplies;office products;paper trimmers & blades;photo studio,8
0805035869,"Decorative Mosaics: How To Make Colorful, Imaginative Mosaics-12 Projects (Contemporary Crafts (Henry Holt)) Elaine Goodwin is one of the leading mosaic artists at work today. She regularly works on commission, producing mosaics for both outdoors and indoors.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;crafts;crafts & hobbies;decorating;hobbies & home;models;pottery & ceramics;toys & models,8
B000QB05AI,"NBA Live 08 When the game is on the line and the ball is in your hands, what will you do? Will you penetrate, drive the lane, and rise above the rim for a monster dunk, or find an opening on the perimeter and sink a game-winning three? Take control of the game with a full arsenal to win the one-on-one match-up from every spot on the floor with NBA Live 08.  Providing an unrivaled level of authenticity to the sport, NBA Live 08 introduces all-new signature go-to moves that capture the essence of the NBAs best, and you can now play the game on a console like you see it from the stands.  Pass the ball inside and rule down low with ""own the paint"" post play. String together combos of fakes and shots to fool your defender into committing and create space for the game-defining bucket. On the perimeter, in the paint, and with unparalleled depth, dominate with your go-to move with NBA Live 08.  Features:  Dominate in the paint: put the ball in the hands of your big men and have them battle down low with all-new pump fakes, drop-steps, hooks, spins, and other new moves. Find your range: all-new Hot Spots based on real player stats show you where to shoot, where youre cold, and where to take that game-winning shot. All-new FIBA World Championship: prove your global dominance by challenging premier international teams in a FIBA tournament, including the United States, Spain, France, and more. Signature go-to moves: Break out authentic go-to moves of the games greatest players when the team needs you most. Turn the momentum with familiar fadeaways, floaters, stepback jumpers, and more. All-new Dynasty scenarios: Play when it counts. Simulate in Dynasty mode then take back control during the most crucial possessions of the game.",basketball;fan shop;games;playstation 3;sports;sports & outdoors;video games;video games & accessories,8
0895943026,"Over the Hill: Reflections on Ageism Between Women Lesbian activist Copper offers a frank, provocative analysis of what ageism means for American women. Although she decries the general tendency of American society to worship youth and to treat older women as useless and worthless, the 68-year-old author is most sharply critical of the ways in which her fellow feminists participate in this oppressive behavior. The source of this betrayal of sisterhood, asserts Copper, is women's internalized ageism, which causes them to fear and hate their bodies as they age. In addition, Copper believes that many seek an idealized mother figure in every older woman, someone who selflessly nurtures and supports the younger generation. To break down the barriers of fear, loathing and idealization, Copper calls for a revival of the feminist consciousness-raising groups prevalent in the early 1970s. Although the slim volume assumes that its audience is cognizant of lesbian-feminist political issues, it deserves a wide hearing. Readers who persevere will be richly rewarded by Copper's powerful, forthright insights on ageism. Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Copper is angry that old women provide most of the ""mule work"" in modern societies, from the peasants who sweep Soviet streets to the American grandmothers, whose resignation to raising two generations has liberated their daughters to seek rewards and fulfillment outside the home. In doing this, Copper believes that such women pass up opportunities for radical change and self-expression, from which all women would benefit; she blames younger women for not understanding this reality, for their own self-absorption, and for trying to push older women back into self-sacrificing rolls. Copper offers some wonderful insights and ideas, but her message may be lost to women unfamiliar with the world from which she draws many of her examples. Beverly Miller, Boise State Univ. Lib., Id.Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.",books;fitness & dieting;health;politics & social sciences;psychology & counseling;social sciences;specific demographics;women's studies,8
0842321950,"Through the Flames (Left Behind: The Kids #3) Starting just a few days after Jesus Christ snatched the faithful to heaven in The Vanishings (the first book in the Left Behind: The Kids series), Through the Flames opens with our four teen heroes shacked up in Judd's abandoned house. Judd, Vicki, and Lionel are still trying to convince Ryan that he should accept Christ if he knows what's good for him--Judd even makes Ryan go to church and Bible study as a condition of living with them. (""As long as you live under my roof, you follow my rules...."") But even bigger problems are brewing. The four must stay on the lookout for the Antichrist, whom their Bible mentor Bruce says will trigger seven years of tribulation once he signs a pact with Israel.  And Lionel has to investigate the mysterious circumstances of his drug-addled uncle's supposed death. The Evangelical Christian science fiction series Left Behind: The Kids is a youth-oriented story line based on Jerry B. Jenkins and Tim LaHaye's bestselling Left Behind. (Ages 9 to 12) --Paul Hughes	Jerry B. Jenkins, former Vice President for Publishing and currently Writer-at-Large for the Moody Bible Institute of Chicago, is the author of more than 150 books, including the best-selling Left Behind series. Sixteen of his books have reached the New York Times best-seller list (seven in the number one spot) and have also appeared on the USA Today, Publisher's Weekly and Wall Street Journal best-seller lists. Tim LaHaye is an internationally known author, teacher, and expert on Bible prophecy. He is married to Beverly, who is the founder of the largest women's organization in America, Concerned Women for America. The LaHayes live in southern California.",books;children's books;christian;christian books & bibles;literature & fiction;religious fiction;science fiction;science fiction & fantasy,8
B0000088LX,"King of Skiffle Tracks Include: Rock Island Line, Tom Dooley, Battle of New Orleans, Bring a Little  Water Sylvie, Nobody Loves Like an Irishman and More.",broadway & vocalists;classic rock;folk;jazz;music;pop;rock;world music,8
0714831484,"Frank Lloyd Wright Of all the books that have appeared in the last 10 years on Frank Lloyd Wright and his architecture, this is the one that will last. It is in all ways comprehensive: its text is as organized and complete as a set of blueprints; its striking pictures of projects as small as the modest Usonian houses or as grand as the Guggenheim Museum are arranged in order by the visual information they reveal about each project; and even its copyediting is noticeably coherent, with dates just where one expects such details to be, in the first picture captions for each project. The book as a whole is so carefully conceived that, reading it, one knows exactly where to look for any particular bit of history. And while, for casual readers, the essays may offer too much to digest at first, Robert McCarter's prose is agile and passionate. Wright understood buildings to be the background or framework for human existence, he writes. Architecture gave dignity to daily life. --Margaret Moorman	This book is not a biography of Frank Lloyd Wright but rather an investigation into Wright's philosophy of design and space. McCarter (architecture, Univ. of Florida) dulls his attempt, however, by writing a chronological narrative in the irritating manner of a tour guide, using the first-person plural ""we."" The reader is bombarded with descriptions of sizes and shapes of rooms and hallways, heights of ceilings, and textures of concrete slabs; there is so much minutiae that it is impossible to see the theory through the clutter. The book is filled with beautiful photographs and illustrations, as most books on Wright's works are, but they do not aid in the tour, and often we are left to our own imagination concerning the appearances of rooms and their decor. The author does offer valid insights into Wright's philosophy, but these expositions are buried under page after page of details. More discussion and less description would have greatly improved this book. Recommended only for specialized architectural and interior design libraries; general collections should consider Neil Levine's The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright (LJ 6/1/96).?Glenn Masuchika, Chaminade Univ. Lib., HonoluluCopyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.	'One of the handsomest books yet on America's architect of the century' (The Sunday Times) 'Robert McCarter's volume is a masterly achievement.' (Times Literary Supplement) 'As a presentation of Wright's complete career, it is difficult to imagine McCarter's book being bettered.' (Architects Journal) 'Of all the books that have appeared in the last 10 years on Frank Lloyd Wright and his architecture, this is one that will last. Robert McCarter's prose is agile and passionate.' (amazon.com) 'A sumptuous and revealing book ... an intensely human and at times poetically interpreted description of Wright's work and life.' (World Architecture)	This monograph explores the underlying themes and principles of Frank Lloyd Wright's architecture. It examines the consistent and systematic qualities underlying all of Wright's designs. The text's chronological presentation, which emphasizes key designs and those related to them thematically, is paralleled by an examination of the development of three primary principles, simultaneously active in Wright's work, and singled out by him as being of fundamental importance in his understanding of architecture. First, Wright's development of concepts and methods for making architectural space; how these ideas derived from his designs for interior spaces and their experience; and how in Wright's architecture the occupant's movement (position) was critical to the experience of the spatial order (composition). Secondly, Wright's development of concepts and methods for ordering space through the manner of its construction; how this order determined his search for ""the nature of materials"" and structures. The author then considers the third aspect of Wright's designs: the architect's development of concepts and methods for establishing the relationship between his architecture and the landscape; and how he designed buildings where landscape, interior space and construction materials are woven together to become the setting for the repeated rituals of daily life. 	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	Robert McCarter is prominent architectural historian and practising architect, and is Professor of Architecture at the University of Florida. He is the author of On and By Frank Lloyd Wright: A Primer of Architectural Principles, Louis I Khan, and Unity Temple and Fallingwater in Phaidon's Architecture in Detail Series.",architecture;biographies & memoirs;books;buildings;criticism;individual architects & firms;professional & technical;reference,8
B00021GLO6,"Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : An Inquiry Into Values In his now classic Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert Pirsig brings us a literary chautauqua, a novel that is meant to both entertain and edify. It scores high on both counts. Phaedrus, our narrator, takes a present-tense cross-country motorcycle trip with his son during which the maintenance of the motorcycle becomes an illustration of how we can unify the cold, rational realm of technology with the warm, imaginative realm of artistry. As in Zen, the trick is to become one with the activity, to engage in it fully, to see and appreciate all details--be it hiking in the woods, penning an essay, or tightening the chain on a motorcycle.  In his autobiographical first novel, Pirsig wrestles both with the ghost of his past and with the most important philosophical questions of the 20th century--why has technology alienated us from our world? what are the limits of rational analysis? if we can't define the good, how can we live it? Unfortunately, while exploring the defects of our philosophical heritage from Socrates and the Sophists to Hume and Kant, Pirsig inexplicably stops at the middle of the 19th century. With the exception of Poincar, he ignores the more recent philosophers who have tackled his most urgent questions, thinkers such as Peirce, Nietzsche (to whom Phaedrus bears a passing resemblance), Heidegger, Whitehead, Dewey, Sartre, Wittgenstein, and Kuhn. In the end, the narrator's claims to originality turn out to be overstated, his reasoning questionable, and his understanding of the history of Western thought sketchy. His solution to a synthesis of the rational and creative by elevating Quality to a metaphysical level simply repeats the mistakes of the premodern philosophers. But in contrast to most other philosophers, Pirsig writes a compelling story. And he is a true innovator in his attempt to popularize a reconciliation of Eastern mindfulness and nonrationalism with Western subject/object dualism. The magic of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance turns out to lie not in the answers it gives, but in the questions it raises and the way it raises them. Like a cross between The Razor's Edge and Sophie's World, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance takes us into ""the high country of the mind"" and opens our eyes to vistas of possibility. --Brian Bruya	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	""A miracle . . . sparkles like an electric dream."" -- The Village Voice""An unforgettable trip."" -- Time""It is filled with beauty. . .a finely made whole that seems to emanate from a very special grace."" -- Baltimore Sun""Profoundly important...full of insightsinto our most perplexing contemporarydilemmas.""  -- -- New York Times""The book is inspired, original. . . . The analogies with Moby-Dick are patent."" -- The New Yorker	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	The extraordinary story of a man's quest for truth. It will  change the way you think and feel about your life. ""The cycle you're  working on is a cycle called 'yourself.'"" ""The study of the art of  motorcycle maintainence is really a study of the art of rationality  itself. Working on a motorcycle, working well, caring, is to become  part of a process, to achieve an inner peace of mind. The motorcycle is  primarily a mental phenomenon."" -- Robert M. Pirsig ""Profoundly  important... full of insights into our most perplexing contemporary  dilemmas... It is intellectual entertainment of the highest order."" --  The New York Times  ""It lodges in the mind as few recent  novels have... The book is inspired, original... As the mountains  gentle toward the sea--with father and child locked in a ghostly  grip--the narrative tact, the perfect economy of effect defy  criticism... The analogies with Moby Dick are patent. Robert  Pirsig invites the prodigious comparison... What more can one say?"" --  The New Yorker  ""It's a miracle.. sparkles like an electric  dream. Freshness, originality... that seduces you into loving  motorcycles, as tender in their pistons as the petals in the Buddah's  dawn lotus."" -- The Village Voice	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	The extraordinary story of a man's quest for truth. It will change the way you think and feel about your life.""The cycle you're working on is a cycle called 'yourself.'""""The study of the art of motorcycle maintainence is really a study of the art of rationality itself. Working on a motorcycle, working well, caring, is to become part of a process, to achieve an inner peace of mind. The motorcycle is primarily a mental phenomenon."" -- Robert M. Pirsig	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	""Profoundly important... full of insights into our most perplexing contemporary dilemmas... It is intellectual entertainment of the highest order."" -- The New York Times ""It lodges in the mind as few recent novels have... The book is inspired, original... As the mountains gentle toward the sea--with father and child locked in a ghostly grip--the narrative tact, the perfect economy of effect defy criticism... The analogies with Moby Dick are patent. Robert Pirsig invites the prodigious comparison... What more can one say?"" -- The New Yorker ""It's a miracle.. sparkles like an electric dream. Freshness, originality... that seduces you into loving motorcycles, as tender in their pistons as the petals in the Buddah's dawn lotus."" -- The Village Voice	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Robert M. Pirsig was born in 1928 in Minneapolis. He studied chemistry and philosophy (B.A., 1950) and journalism (M.A., 1953) at the University of Minnesota and also attended Benares Hindu University in India where he studied Oriental philosophy. He is also the author of a sequel to this book, entitled Lila.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Although more than twenty years have passed since the book's original publication, Pirsig's philosophies on technology and science, nature and love still offer much to this generation. Lawrence Pressman's delightful performance conveys the author's deep awareness and self-discovery. The combination of the book's vivid imagery and Pressman's contemplative delivery help ease the listener into Pirsig's lesson: we should pay less attention to ""what things mean,"" more attention to ""what they are.""  R.A.P.    (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",biographies & memoirs;books;inspirational;memoirs;philosophy;politics & social sciences;religion & spirituality;spirituality,8
0312968949,"Duplicity In this page-turner that fuses thriller and romance, Air Force attorney Captain Tracy Keener has been assigned the toughest case of her careerAthe defense of Captain Adam Burke, an Intel operative accused of killing and abandoning his men while on a covert mission. Opinion around the base is unanimous about Burke's guilt, and the attorney becomes the target of numerous death threats and attempts on her life. Keener's idealistic nature prevails over fear, pushing her to search for the truth, even after Burke is supposedly killed in a prison fire and she is ordered by superiors to close the case. Burke's mysterious return and collaboration with Keener allow the pair to uncover a widespread governmental conspiracy, dubbed ""Project Duplicity,"" that involves dangerous new chemical technology. Although the ending will seem too neat for some readers, Hinze (Shades of Gray; Festival, under the pen name Victoria Barrett) has a knack, as illustrated in Burke and Keener's complex relationship, for combining compellingly realistic characterizations with suspense and a romantic plot line. Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Military lawyer Capt. Tracy Keener is ordered to defend Adam Burke, who has been accused of treason, cowardice, and killing his own men. However, meeting Adam plants the seeds of doubt in her mind, and when he is apparently murdered, Tracy vows to find out what really happened. Her search for the truth puts her own life in danger. Written in the tradition of A Few Good Men, this highly suspenseful story of a solitary woman's fight against an evil military conspiracy is one readers won't want to put down. Hinze, a resident of Niceville, FL, is the author of another military intrigue, Shades of Gray.ASM Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.	""[A] tautly crafted thriller...A roller coaster ride of sizzling suspense, deadly betrayal, and courage.""  --Merline Lovelace, Colonel, USAF (Ret), author of Call of Duty ""Vicki Hinze guarantees her readers an edge-of-their-seat thrill ride.  You want intrigue, danger, and romance?  Ms. Hinze proves she can supply them!""  --Romantic Times	Vicki Hinze is the award-winning, bestselling author of nearly 30 novels, 4 nonfiction books and hundreds of articles published in as many as 63 countries.  She's recognized by Who's Who in the World as an author and an educator, and served as Vice President on the Board of Directors for International Thriller Writers.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",books;contemporary;literature & fiction;mystery;romance;suspense;thriller & suspense;thrillers,8
B00016LQM4,"BSN Ultimate Volleyball Net Fits Ultimate Volleyball System Net: 3.0 mm braided HTPP Headband: 2"" HD white polyester canvas Cable: 34' Kevlar top cable, poly rope bottom Sides: 2"" HD white polyester side pockets, fiberglass dowels with 3 integrated D-rings for net tension ropes Measures 32' x 3'",court equipment;nets;sports;sports & outdoor play;sports & outdoors;team sports;toys & games;volleyball,8
0743528964,"Vietnamese, Q&S: Learn to Speak and Understand Vietnamese with Pimsleur Language Programs (Pimsleur Quick & Simple) Dr. Pimsleur devoted his life to language teaching and was one of the world's leading experts in applied linguistics. After obtaining his Ph.D. in French from Columbia University, he taught French Phonetics and Phonemics, and supervised the language laboratory at UCLA. He went on to become Professor of Romance Languages and Language Education, and Director of The Listening Center at Ohio State University; Professor of Education and Romance Languages at the State University of New York at Albany; and a Fulbright lecturer at the University of Heidelberg. Dr. Pimsleur was a member of the American Association of Teachers of French (AATF), American Educational Research Association (AERA), Modern Language Association (MLA), and a founding member of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL). His many books and articles revolutionized theories of language learning and teaching. After years of experience and research, Dr. Pimsleur developed a new method that is based on two key principles: the Principle of Anticipation and a scientific principle of memory that he called Graduated Interval Recall. This program incorporates both of these principles to provide you with the most simple and effective learning method possible.",books;education & reference;foreign language study & reference;foreign languages;humanities;new;politics & social sciences;used & rental textbooks,8
1400130611,"Heart of Darkness (Library Edition) As powerful a condemnation of imperialism as has ever been written Observer Once experienced, it is hard to let Heart of Darkness go. A masterpiece of surprise, of expression and psychological nuance, of fury at colonial expansion and of how men make the least of life ... endlessly readable and worthy of rereading Telegraph	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Hesperus Press, as suggested by their Latin motto, Et remotissima prope, is dedicated to bringing near what is farfar both in space and time. Works by illustrious authors, often unjustly neglected or simply little known in the Englishspeaking world, are made accessible through a completely fresh editorial approach or new translations. Through these short classic works, which feature forewords by leading contemporary authors, the modern reader will be introduced to the greatest writers of Europe and America. An elegantly designed series of exceptional books.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	For generations an exclusively white community of literary critics treated a variety of thematic and stylistic issues (often with great subtlety and insight) while ignoring ""Heart of Darkness"" as a commentary on imperialism and racism. My edition does both.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	He cried in a whisper at some image, at some vision  he cried out twice, a cry that was no more than a breath, The horror! The horror!'	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	The story of Marlow travelling upriver in central Africa to find Kurtz, an ivory agent as consumed by the horror of human life as he is by physical illness, has long been considered a classic, and continues to be widely read and studied This edition, edited by one of the leading figures in 'the Conrad controversy,' includes an introduction and explanatory notes, as well as a fascinating variety of contemporary documents that help to set this extraordinary work in the context of the period from which it emerged. The introduction and bibliography have been updated, and two new appendices have been added; the second of these is a selection of Alice Harris's extraordinary but little-known photographs documenting the horrors of colonialism in turn-of-the-century Congo.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	Scott Brick has performed on film, television and radio. His stage appearances throughout the U.S. include Cyrano, Hamlet, and MacBeth. He's read over 150 audiobooks in four years-for that, AudioFile magazine named Scott ""a rising and shining star"" and awarded him as one of the magazine's Golden Voices. The Audie- and Earphone Award-winning actor has read several Macmillan Audio audioBooks, including Dune: The Butlerian Jihad and Dune: The Machine Crusade by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson. In addition to his acting work, Scott choreographs fight sequences, and was a combatant in films such as Romeo and Juliet, The Fantasticks and Robin Hood: Men in Tights.Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) grew up amid political unrest in Russian-occupied Poland. After twenty years at sea with the French and British merchant navies, he settled in England in 1894. Over the next three decades he revolutionized the English novel with works such as Typhoon (1902), Youth (1902), Nostromo (1904), The Secret Agent (1907), Under Western Eyes (1911), Chance (1913), and Victory (1915). ""From the Trade Paperback edition.""	Poor fool! If he had only left that shutter alone. He had no restraint, no restraint just like Kurtz  a tree swayed by the wind. As soon as I had put on a dry pair of slippers, I dragged him out, after first jerking the spear out of his side, which operation I confess I performed with my eyes shut tight. His heels leaped together over the little doorstep; his shoulders were pressed to my breast; I hugged him from behind desperately. Oh! he was heavy, heavy; heavier than any man on earth, I should imagine. Then without more ado I tipped him overboard. The current snatched him as though he had been a wisp of grass, and I saw the body roll over twice before I lost sight of it forever. All the pilgrims and the manager were then congregated on the awning-deck about the pilot-house, chattering at each other like a flock of excited magpies, and there was a scandalised murmur at my heartless promptitude. What they wanted to keep that body hanging about for I can't guess. Embalm it, maybe. But I had also heard another, and a very ominous, murmur on the deck below. My friends, the woodcutters, were likewise scandalised, and with a better show of reason  though I admit that the reason itself was quite inadmissible. Oh, quite! I had made up my mind that if my late helmsman was to be eaten, the fishes alone should have him. He had been a very second-rate helmsman while alive, but now he was dead he might have become a first-class temptation, and possibly cause some startling trouble. Besides, I was anxious to take the wheel, the man in pink pyjamas showing himself a hopeless duffer at the business.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	In HEART OF DARKNESS, Marlow, the narrator, undertakes both an outer and an inner journey. The outer journey takes him into the heart of Africa, where he encounters representatives of every colonial stripe. Performing the work instead of simply reading it, Scott Brick emphasizes this aspect of Conrad's classic, clearly conveying class differences and a range of foreign accents, as well as pidgin. Conrad's prose is dense and complex, but Brick delivers it smoothly and gracefully. However, Marlow's inner journey--during which he confronts the mysterious Mr. Kurtz--remains too distant and intellectualized to fully capture the emotional charge of the moment.  G.T.B.  AudioFile 2003, Portland, Maine-- Copyright  AudioFile, Portland, Maine	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;classics;literary;literature & fiction;mystery;psychological thrillers;thriller & suspense;thrillers,8
0811830950,"The Christmas Cookie Book Prolific food writer Pappas is the author of more than 30 other  cookbooks. Her latest includes recipes for Christmas cookies  organized by category, from ""Timeless Traditional Cookies"" to  ""Elegant Party Cookies."" The recipes are fine, but there are  only 40 of them, and many of them are familiar. Most libraries  with more extensive cookie books, such as Nancy Baggett's recent  All-American Cookie Book (LJ 8/01) and Nick Malgieri's Cookies  Unlimited (LJ 8/00), can skip this; only for comprehensive  baking collections.    Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Lou Seibert Pappas is the author of many cookbooks, including Crepes (0-8118-1696-6), Coffee Cakes (0-8118-2215-X), and Sorbets and Ice Creams (0-8118-1573-0). She lives in Palo Alto, California.Frankie Frankeny is a San Francisco-based photographer whose work has illustrated many books, including Wookiee Cookies (0-8118-2184-6) and The Christmas Cookie Book (0-8118-3095-0).",baking;books;cookbooks;cookies;food & wine;holidays;seasonal;special occasions,8
1576836541,"Hannah's Hope: Seeking God's Heart in the Midst of Infertility, Miscarriage, and Adoption Loss Hannah's heart beat with a mother's love long before she was blessed with a child. Through the years of waiting and longing, her gentle heart was nearly crushed under the weight of grief.   You can meet Hannah in the pages of 1 Samuel, chapters 1 and 2. The Bible says she was barren, and we know she suffered heartache, anguish, and grief because of her empty arms. Perhaps you do too.  Hannah's Hope is for all who long for a child yet to be conceived, grieve for a baby too soon passed from the womb, or have lived through the no-man's-land of failed adoption. It is intended as a guide to assist you in making wise decisions as you struggle through your grief. And by the end of the journey, God may surprise you by the ways He uses to answer your heart's cry.  Compassionately written by a woman who knows well these painful struggles, Hannah's Hope will direct you to the Source of strength, whose name is the God of all comfort.	Jennifer Saake and her husband, Rick, are the founders of Hannah's Prayer Ministries (www.hannah.org), a nonprofit organization whose mission is to help women who are infertile or have suffered miscarriage or adoption loss. Since their infertility battle began in 1992, the Saakes have lost ten children via miscarriages and failed adoption attempts and have been blessed with two living miracles.",adoption;books;christian books & bibles;christian living;fertility;parenting & relationships;reference;religion & spirituality,8
0471713031,"Getting Started in Currency Trading: Winning in Today's Hottest Marketplace An accessible introduction to the burgeoning foreign exchange trading marketGETTING STARTED IN CURRENCY TRADINGThe Foreign Exchange (FOREX) market is the largest financial market in the world, with a volume of over $1.5 trillion a daymore than three times the total amount of the stocks and futures markets combined. Up until 1995, FOREX trading was only available to banks and large multinational corporations, but today, thanks to the proliferation of the computer and a new era of Internet-based communication technologies, this highly profitable market is open to everyone. This huge international market offers unmatched potential for profitable trading in any market condition or any stage of the business cycle. All you need is a computer, a high-speed Internet connection, and the information contained within this book.Getting Started in Currency Trading is both an introduction and reference guide for beginning and intermediate FOREX traders. This information-packed resource opens with a clear description of the FOREX market and a section of FOREX terms clearly defined with examples. After this brief overview, Getting Started in Currency Trading moves on to discuss: The mechanics of FOREX tradingorder types as well as order execution and confirmation How fundamental and technical analysis can help you create successful trading strategies How to find a reliable FOREX broker or open an online trading account The psychology of trading the FOREX market Advance trading topics, such as rollovers, hedging, and arbitrageFilled with in-depth insight, practical advice, and numerous screen shots that illustrate what to expect inside a dealer's trading platform, Getting Started in Currency Trading will guide you through the complexities of FOREX trading and put you on the road to success.Michael duane Archer has been an active commodity futures and FOREX trader for over thirty years. Mike has also worked in various registered advisory capacities, notably as a CTA (Commodity Trading Advisor) and as an Investment Advisor. He is currently CEO of CommTools, Inc., a corporation focusing on nonlinear solutions to trend forecasting, with a special emphasis on cellular automata models.	Michael Duane Archer (Golden, CO) has been an active commodity futures and Forex trader for over thirty years. He has also worked in various advisory capacities, notably as a Commodity Trading Advisor and SEC registered Investment Advisor. He is currently CEO of CommTools, Inc., a think-tank focusing on cellular automata and complexity theory market forecasting solutions.Jim L. Bickford is a twenty-seven-year software engineering veteran, technical analyst, and a very active FOREX day trader with an academic background in applied mathematics and statistics. He has numerous books to his credit and recently published Chart Plotting Algorithms for Technical Analysts.",books;business & investing;finance;foreign exchange;international;investing;personal finance;popular economics,8
084994287X,"Grace In Autumn (Heavenly Daze Series #2) Copeland and Hunt have teamed up to produce another tender-hearted yarn just as inviting as the first...each time...  -- August 2001, Romantic Times Magazine	Lori Copeland is member of the Missouri Writers Hall of Fame. Her works have won numerous honors, including the Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice Award, Walden's Books' Best Seller, and Holt Medallion Awards.Christy Award winner Angela Hunt writes stories for everyone who enjoys the unexpected. She is the best-selling author of Uncharted, The Debt, The Note, The Pearl, and many more.",action & adventure;books;christian books & bibles;contemporary;fiction;genre fiction;literature & fiction;religion & spirituality,8
0198184913,"Love's Madness: Medicine, the Novel, and Female Insanity, 1800-1865 ""Focusing on texts both widely known and obscure, but bringing to all the same discriminating and lively intelligence, the author succeeds in doing exactly what she ascribes to such authors as Jane Austen: she breathes now meaning and life into old and constricted conventions....A fascinating and rewarding contribution to the reader's understanding of every text she considers.""--Choice""Focusing on the figure of the love-mad woman, this study provides a significant reassessment of the ways in which British medical writers and novelists of the early nineteenth century thought about madness, about femininity and about narrative convention.""--Nineteenth-Century Literature""Small's thorough attention to context, registering social and political resonances, allows her to offer genuinely fresh readings of...canonical treatments of love's madness...as well as to bring fresh interest to lesser-read works...""--The Wordsworth Circle""Small illuminates and complicates the intersection between literary and scientific studies, and her book will appeal to literary theorists and social historians.""--H-PCAACA	Helen Small is at University of Bristol.",19th century;books;british;history;history & criticism;literature & fiction;modern (16th-21st centuries);movements & periods,8
B000FO536C,"Intangible Management: Tools for Solving the Accounting and Management Crisis ""Ken Stanfield is among the greatest thinkers in the field of KM. He addresses real issues that enterprises are grappling with. His approach to Intellectual Asset Management helps business leaders to make the transition from the traditional way of valuing business enterprises. This book is long overdue. Congratulations Ken and team.""--Nsombi Jaja, Director, Quality Management Consulting, Jamaica	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	For the recorded history of management, the world has managed value creation according to what can be seen, touched and proven. In today's knowledge-based economy, value creation is derived primarily from how well firms manage intangibles (knowledge, service, expectations, response time, innovation, change management, etc). The large capital outlays that signified the manufacturing economy are no longer required. In fact, such 'tangibles' now explain less than 20% of the value of most publicly listed firms. For example, Time Warner has only 6.49% of its value attributable to tangibles. As such, for every $1 of true value, only $0.065 cents is being measured and managed by conventional management practices. For Oracle Corporation, tangibles account for only 4% of its value. For General Electric (worth over US$450 billion), tangibles account for less than 11% of its value.Intention, context, emotional intelligence, escalation, and sustainability are words that are generally absent from the operational management techniques of managers worldwide. They form, however, the basis of skills required to manage organizations in today's knowledge-based economy. The authors investigate the ways that intangible values can be identified, measured, and managed. Their revolutionary and innovative taxonomy not only reveals fundamental differences between a manufacturing economy and one which creates value through knowledge, relationships, and time. By using case studies, a compelling mixture of theory and applications, and a set of accounting tools, the authors demonstrates how a new value framework can protect investors while giving companies the ability to generate long-term growth.                                        *Shows how intangible values can be identified, measured, and managed*Presents a revolutionary and innovative taxonomy with a new set of accounting tools *Demonstrates with case studies how a new value framework can protect investors while enabling companies to generate long-term growth	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",books;business & investing;entrepreneurship;finance;management;management & leadership;popular economics;small business & entrepreneurship,8
1578861535,How to Increase Phonemic Awareness In the Classroom Lynn Settlow is the middle school and high school reading specialist for the Churchill School in New York City. Margarita Jacovino has worked as a Speech and Language service provider for 9 years. She is an elementary school instructional support specialist for the NYC Department of Education.,books;counseling;curricula;education & reference;education theory;homeschooling;language experience approach;schools & teaching,8
1841767336,"British Light Infantryman of the Seven Year's War: North America 1757-63 Insights into the real lives of history's fighting men, packed with full colour illustrations, highly detailed cutaways, exploded artwork of weaponry and armour, and action-packed battle scenes.	Lieutenant Colonel Ian McCulloch is a military historian, the former Deputy Director of History & Heritage, and now serves as the Special Assistant to the Director-General of Health Services for the Canadian Armed Forces in Ottawa. He has published historical articles in numerous North American journals and magazines and is finishing a book on the 7th Canadian Infantry Brigade in World War I.",18th century;books;england;europe;history;ireland;military;modern (16th-21st centuries),8
B0002S9ZYC,"Streetglow ANHSV2GR Green Xenon Headlight Strobe Kit, (Pack of 2) For strobe effects on your headlights, this two pack of green xenon headlight strobes are ideal.  The bulbs come with a transformer, have V2 technology and have a unique mounting system.",automotive;exterior accessories;headlights;lamps;lighting;lighting & electrical;lights & lighting accessories;replacement parts,8
B000PA5FT6,"SportDOG Replacement Transmitter for SportHunter SD-1800 Dog Training System Replace that lost transmitter or divide your multiple-dog training system into two smaller systems with this replacement transmitter from Petsafe. Designed as a replacement for the Petsafe  SportHunter SD-1800 transmitter, this unit also programs to any SportDog training receiver. Perfect for hunting and retrieval training, the unit is waterproof and submersible to 25 feet.   An incredibly versatile training transmitter, low continuous stimulation levels and gradual increases between levels on the SD-1800 are great for sensitive dogs. The unit transmitter adjusts with the turn of a dial and press of a button to facilitate a wide variety of training needs. The SportDog SD-1800 has a 3/4-mile range and expands to control up to 3 dogs by adding SportDOG Add-A-Dog collars. The transmitter powered by a standard 9-volt battery (included). Incredibly customizable, the transmitter offers 7 pre-set modes with up to 16 levels of extended stimulation or 16 levels of momentary stimulation with changes made instantly at the transmitter's easy-to-turn dial. A tone-only button lets you communicate with the dog with sound. A built in toggle switch lets you modulate between different frequencies for training more than one dog at the same time (other collar-receivers sold separately).   The transmitter is equipped with rechargeable, user-replaceable Ni-MH batteries that offer 40-60 hours of operation between charges. A low-battery indicator lets you know when its time to recharge. The transmitter is backed by a manufacturer limited lifetime warranty. Antenna and charger are sold separately.",dogs;pet supplies;pet supplies: international shipping available;petsafe;sportdog;training;training & behavior aids;training collars,8
1411629035,"Classroom Blogging: A Teacher's Guide to the Blogosphere David Warlick has been a Social Studies, Science, and Math Teacher; a district Director of Technology; and staff consultant for the North Carolina State Department of Public Instruction.  He currently operates The Landmark Project, a staff development and innovations firm.  David is a prolific programmer and writer, and has delivered keynote addresses and workshops in nearly every state and for audiences in Europe, Asia, and South America.",books;education;education & reference;education theory;language experience approach;new;schools & teaching;used & rental textbooks,8
B000C01796,"Scotch Masking Tape for Hard-to-Stick Surfaces, 1.88-Inch by 60-Yard Scotch(R) Lacquer Masking Tape 2060 also offers high adhesion on rough, uneven or hard-to-stick surfaces. It conforms well to most surfaces and produces an excellent paint line.",adhesive tapes;adhesives & sealants;industrial & scientific;painting supplies & wall treatments;prep materials;tape;tapes;tools & home improvement,8
0880117109,"Rhythmic Gymnastics """"""""This book represents a truly scientific analysis of rhythmic gymnastics-never done as a whole before. Once you have read it carefully, you'll realize how difficult and long the road to real mastery of this sport is. So far, the achievements of rhythmic gymnastics as a sport are far ahead of the literature written about it. In this respect, this book will show you that including the sport in the Olympics was not accomplished merely by chance. This is a brilliant primer for coaches.""""""Vera AtkinsonPress Officer, British GymnasticsWorld Champion, Rhythmic Gymnastics-Group Exercises (1968, 1971) """"""This book is an interesting overview of rhythmic gymnastics written from the Eastern European perspective.""""""Nancy MarshallAthlete Wellness Program Manager, USA GymnasticsMember, U.S. Olympic Artistic Gymnastics Team (1972) ""	""    """"This book represents a truly scientific analysis of rhythmic gymnastics-never done as a whole before. Once you have read it carefully, youll realize how difficult and long the road to real mastery of this sport is. So far, the achievements of rhythmic gymnastics as a sport are far ahead of the literature written about it. In this respect, this book will show you that including the sport in the Olympics was not accomplished merely by chance. This is a brilliant primer for coaches.""""Vera AtkinsonPress Officer, British GymnasticsWorld Champion, Rhythmic Gymnastics-Group Exercises (1968, 1971) """"This book is an interesting overview of rhythmic gymnastics written from the Eastern European perspective.""""Nancy MarshallAthlete Wellness Program Manager, USA GymnasticsMember, U.S. Olympic Artistic Gymnastics Team (1972)  ""	""This book represents a truly scientific analysis of rhythmic gymnasticsnever done as a whole before. Once you have read it carefully, youll realize how difficult and long the road to real mastery of this sport is. So far, the achievements of rhythmic gymnastics as a sport are far ahead of the literature written about it. In this respect, this book will show you that including the sport in the Olympics was not accomplished merely by chance. This is a brilliant primer for coaches."" Vera Atkinson Press Officer, British Gymnastics Federation World Champion, Rhythmic GymnasticsGroup Exercises (1968, 1971)  ""This book is an interesting overview of rhythmic gymnastics written from the Eastern European perspective."" Nancy Marshall Athlete Wellness Program Manager, USA Gymnastics Member, U.S. Olympic Artistic Gymnastics Team (1972)  ""Rhythmic Gymnastics is one of the most comprehensive books available on the sport.  Its an excellent reference for coaches, and a suitable training companion for gymnasts at all levels looking to improve their RSG skills.  This is also a helpful guide for fans and parents who want a better understanding of the sport, as well as an ideal book for coaches and gymnasts involved in artistic gymnastics."" Cetate Sports	Nadejda Jastrjembskaia has been involved in rhythmic gymnastics at many levels-as a scientist, educator, coach, administrator, judge, and gymnast. Born in the USSR, she graduated from P.F. Lesgafts Academy of Physical Culture with a Candidate of Pedagogical Science degree. She coached for a Kaliningrad Regional RSG School and taught RSG courses at Kaliningrad State University. Most recently, she was the chief coordinator for Malaysias RSG development program and a consultant for the Malaysian Gymnastic Federation. In 1998 she opened her own gymnastics center. Jastrjembskaia makes her home in Madison, Alabama.Yuri Titov is the former president of the International Gymnastics Federation. He was a member of the USSR gymnastics team from 1956 to 1966. During that time, he participated in all Olympic Games and World Championships, winning a total of 33 medals, including 11 gold medals. Titov lives in Moscow, Russia.",books;contemporary;fitness & dieting;gymnastics;health;individual sports;literature & fiction;sports & outdoors,8
0727860674,"Holy Terror In British author Masterton's convoluted thriller, Conor O'Neil, a former NYPD cop who now serves as chief of security at a swanky Manhattan jewelry store, breaks up a robbery of his store's vault, only to discover the safe deposit boxes empty and himself the prime suspect in a massive heist. Investigating while on the run as a fugitive, O'Neil finds he's been the victim of a team of powerful hypnotists, and the subsequent robbery was a means to cover their tracks. As O'Neil delves deeper into the intricacies of hypnotic suggestion and attempts to clear his name, he unearths a bizarre extortion scheme designed to provide operating funds for the Rev. Dennis Evelyn Branch, a Christian fundamentalist terrorist bent on infecting the world with an incurable virus unless everyone on the planet converts to his brand of evangelical Protestantism. Despite a preposterous plot and several blatantly manipulative action scenes, Masterton remains a mesmerizing storyteller whose fascination with the fine points of human weakness and deft touch for the total gross-out keep the pages turning. The extensive descriptions of the mechanics of hypnotism are also fascinating in their own right. Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	Graham Masterton's first novel, T""he Manitou,"" was a bestseller and an instant classic and was made into a feature film. Masterton has won an Edgar Award and France's prestigious Prix Julia Verglanger. Several of his stories have been adapted for television. Masterton's more than one hundred novels include ""Charnel House, The Chosen Child,"" and ""Maiden Voyage"" (a"" New York Times"" bestseller). He has written for adults, young adults, and children and edited several anthologies. Earlier in his career, Masterton edited men's magazines, including ""Penthouse,"" He has written a number nonfiction books on sex, including ""How to Drive Your Man Wild in Bed,"" which has sold more than three million copies. Masterton and his wife, Wiescka, live in Ireland.",books;contemporary;genre fiction;horror;literature & fiction;mystery;thriller & suspense;thrillers,8
B000QC6ENO,"JVCC V-36 Colored Vinyl Tape: 2 in. x 36 yds. (Yellow) JVCC V-36 Colored Vinyl Tape is a durable tape used for marking floors/lanes, color coding, decorating, temporary striping on vehicles and boats, and to identify restricted or hazardous areas. Used extensively on school gym floors all kinds. Helps with safety coding to meet OSHA requirements. Can also be used for masking of hard chrome plating and anodizing, harness and pipe wrapping, and duct and joint sealing. JVCC V-36 Vinyl Tape is also known as Dance Floor Tape, Marley Tape, or Splice Tape. Features include: ""Write-on"" capability. Highly conformable and good abrasion/impact resistance. Provides vapor/moisture barrier. Resistant to aging, sun, water, fungus/bacteria, acids/chemicals. No corrosion to copper, brass, steel, or aluminum. Widths shown in dropdown are in inches. NOTES: Sizes shipped will typically be the tape industry standard metric-cut sizes, i.e. 24mm for each 1 inch of nominal tape width ordered (rolls are approximately 5% narrower than the nominal size). This product's actual size is 48mm x 33m. This tape is typically cut to width from log rolls so most sizes ship on a plain white core.",adhesive tapes;adhesives & sealants;industrial & scientific;painting supplies & wall treatments;prep materials;tape;tapes;tools & home improvement,8
B000FO7S3I,"Piping Engineering Leadership for Process Plant Projects Uniquely focused on the position of ""lead in charge"", the author of the book, James Pennock-a lead for 39 years at Fluor Daniel, compiles his vast experience into this practical how-to guide. -Chemical Industry Digest	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	James O. Pennock has compiled 45 years of personal experience into this how-to guide.  Focusing on the position of ""lead in charge,"" this book is an indispensable resource for anyone, new or seasoned veteran, whose job it is to lead the piping engineering and design of a project.  The ""lead"" person is responsible for the successful execution of all piping engineering and design for a project, technical and non-technical aspects alike.  The author defines the roles and responsibilities a lead will face and the differences found in various project types.                                        Incorporates four decades of personal experience in a How-To guideFocuses on the position of ""lead in charge""Includes coverage of topics often ignored in other books yet essential for success:  management, administrative, and control responsibilities	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.",books;chemical;civil;engineering;industrial;manufacturing & operational systems;mechanical;professional & technical,8
B000IUPEHG,"Bvlgari Eau Parfumee Au The Rouge Body Lotions Bvlgari red tea contains notes including red tea, seville orange, bergamot, red tea, pink pepper, walnut, musk, balsamic notes",beauty;body;eau de parfum;fragrance;lotions;moisturizers;skin care;women's,8
B000KKIFT8,"Kozy World KWP324 25,000-BTU Vent-Free LP-Gas Infrared Wall Heater with Thermostat Accommodating spaces up to 1,000 square feet, this 25,000-BTU LP-gas wall heater helps provide a cozy, warm living environment. The unit's electronic piezo ignition system offers quick start-ups with one simple step (no matches, batteries, or other lighting sources required), and its top-mounted controls make it easy to adjust the heat level from low to high, depending on the amount of heat desired. Once started, the unit radiates instant infrared heat that directly heats objects in the room, which in turn warm the air. The unit runs with 99-percent efficiency, costing only pennies an hour. Best of all, its built-in thermostat senses the room temperature, so when the room exceeds the set temperature, the burner will shut off; the burner will cycle back on when the room temperature drops below the set temperature--no need for constant adjustments. The unvented heater should be used as supplemental heat, in addition to a home's primary heat source; however, if the power goes out or in an emergency situation, it can be safely used as a primary heat source. For peace of mind, the heater comes equipped with an array of safety features, including a ""safe watch"" pilot assembly, which will automatically shut off the flow of gas if the pilot becomes extinguished; a built-in oxygen-depletion sensor that extinguishes the flame if oxygen levels drop below A.N.S.I. standards; and a pressure regulator that maintains a steady gas flow for a safe, even burn. Wall-mounting brackets and detailed instructions come included for easy installation. The wall heater measures approximately 7 by 26-3/5 by 23 inches.	25k BTU LP Infrared Wall Heater w/T-Stat",building supplies;cooling & air quality;heaters & accessories;heating;heating & cooling;home & kitchen;space heaters;tools & home improvement,8
1591160944,"Flame of Recca, Vol. 3 Nobuyuki Anzai's Flame of Recca first appeared in 1995 in the prestigious Japanese magazine Shonen Sunday. Also the author of R Princess.",action & adventure;books;comics & graphic novels;fantasy;genre fiction;literature & fiction;manga;science fiction & fantasy,8
0736400389,"Rub-a-Dub, Pooh A Chunky Roly Poly book: sturdy board books for little hands.",activities & toys;animals;bears;books;children's books;family life;social situations;sports & games,8
B00087LX2O,"Four years in the Stonewall Brigade, ""It was difficult for a soldier to figure out why a gold watch or money in the pocket of a dead soldier, who had been trying to kill him all day, did not belong to the man who found it as much as it did to anyone else."" John O. Casler	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	Robert K. Krick was for thirty years the chief historian at Virginias Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including Stonewall Jackson at Cedar Mountain and The Smoothbore Volley That Doomed the Confederacy.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",americas;books;civil war;confederacy;history;regimental histories;state & local;united states,8
0877882541,"When I Prayed for Patience Often written in a humorous way, this is not a frivolous book. Its for the person who needs to look to God and His Word to make sense of living and to grow in spiritual graces. (Librarians World 2004-06-03). . . Singleness, work, marriage, and parenthood have had their humorous and humbling experiences for Zornes. . . . An enlightening and encouraging volume for all of us who are pursuing eternity  yet have to run the race to get there. (Christian Retailing 2004-06-03)	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.	Earthy, pithy, practical, biblical, full of real stories . . . from a teacher [who] comes alongside to say Ive been there. Jerry B. Jenkins Speed dialing from a cell phone. Dishing up a microwave meal in minutes. Instant messaging a friend in Mozambique. Its so easy to think that everything in life should be immediateincluding spirituality. And yet, developing Christian character can be painfully slow, requiring a lifetime of day-to-day experiences that God uses to shape, mold, and even break us.  Through a humor-laced blend of anecdotes and Bible teaching, popular speaker Jeanne Zornes offers insight and help as you learn the biblical virtues of patience, forbearance, endurance, perseverance, and trust the only way they can be learnedthe hard way. Questions and Bible study suggestions at the end of each chapter make this encouraging book the right choice for both personal study and small-group discussion. Jeanne Zornes has published seven books and her articles have appeared in such periodicals as Moody Magazine, Todays Christian Woman, Christian Parenting, and Power for Living. When she is not on the road speaking, Zornes hangs her hat in Wenatchee, Washington with her husband and two children.	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.	Jeanne Zornes has published eight books and her articles have appeared in more than 50 magazines, including Moody, Today's Christian Woman, Christian Parenting, and Power for Living. When she is not on the road speaking, Zornes hangs her hat in Wenatchee, Washginton with her husband and two children.	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.",books;christian books & bibles;christian living;humor;humor & entertainment;inspirational;religion & spirituality;spirituality,8
0807521590,"Even Little Kids Get Diabetes (Albert Whitman Prairie Books) PreSchool-K-- A reasurring book for a potentially frightening discovery. Written for children who have recently learned that they have diabetes, it discusses symptoms, diagnostic procedures, and treatment. No punches are pulled: the young patient relates her hospital stay, explains how she must have injections everyday (and will eventually give them to herself), and states her frustration at never being able to eat sweets, even at a birthday party. Language is simple, age appropriate, and effectively gets the point across. The ink-and-watercolor drawings are lively and often upbeat, with small touches that reflect reality, such as a hospital scene in which the patient's teddy bear is outfitted with an I. V. board too. Perhaps the most valuable part of the book is the ""note for parents,"" which relates Pirner's personal experience over the last three years in caring for a diabetic child. The book fills a definite void, as other titles on the subject are geared for much older readers. --Denise L. Moll, Lone Pine Elementary School, West Bloomfield, MICopyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	""The book fills a definite void, as other titles on the subject are geared for much older readers.""School Library Journal""The book will be helpful to anyone who needs to explain this ailment to young children; a note for parents is appended.""Booklist	Easy language and simple explanations will help even very young children understand what it means to have diabetes. They will find some of their own experiences described and at the same time receive reassurance that they are still ""regular kids.""	Connie White Pirner is a published author of children's books. Published credits of Connie White Pirner include Even Little Kids Get Diabetes.Nadine Bernard Westcott is the illustrator of many popular books for children.",books;children's books;diseases;education & reference;fitness & dieting;health;nature & how it works;science,8
0970874707,"Phoenix Rising: 12 Golden Keys to Unlock Your Depression ""...It will, no doubt, serve to help many people in the future.""  -- David Lipkin, M.D.""An inspiration to all of us touched by depression. We look forward to adding a copy to our resource library."" -- Depression Wellness Network, July 2001""Anthony Schwarz synthesizes his experience with mental illness and 12-step models into a new model targeted for individuals with depression.""  -- Reader, Wildomar, CAA foundation for other self help organizations throughout the country...it will, no doubt, serve to help many people... -- David Lipkin, M.D., S.C.This book is a gift of love. Read it, find new hope and real answers...you can heal your depression. -- Catherine Carrigan, Author, Healing Depression: A Holistic Guide (New York: Marlowe and Co., 1999)	Why I Wrote This Book   If you are reading this book because you are depressed, try out for  yourself the program I tell you about. It can end your nightmare, too.   If you are a friend or family member of a depressive, this program  may assist you in helping someone you love. With the knowledge contained  in this book, you can avoid experiencing any guilt for the selfblame  and tough love you may need to help your beloved depressive  help himself or herself most effectively.   I developed the program by combining my spiritual principles with  the Twelve Steps first founded by Alcoholics Anonymous. I merged  these practices with my holistic health habits.   There is much confusion among helping professionals of all disciplines  about how to treat depression. This book is written in simple,  non-technical terms from a depressives viewpoint. I do not pretend  give anyone professional advice. I am not qualified to do so.   However, the school of hard knocks has taught me many lessons  that I am eager to share to ease the pain experienced by other depressives  and their families.   I wrote this book for the me I see in you. I invite you to take  what you want and leave the rest.	Tony Schwarz was a remarkable man. Among his many talents, he was a polished public speaker and developer of management training systems for corporate America. Tony studied, tracked and recorded his own mental roller coaster so he could better describe to other sufferers and their families what it would take to rise out of severe depression. He realized it was critical to focus on the keys necessary to unlock the disabling hold that depression inflicts on its victims. It was his sheer will and determination to give this gift to humanity that kept him on track.",addiction & recovery;books;depression;fitness & dieting;health;mental health;self-help;twelve-step programs,8
1597770507,"The Wrath of God 'Open a Jack Higgins novel and you'll encounter a master craftsman at the peak of his powers ! first-rate tales of intrigue, suspense and full-on action.' Sunday Express  'Higgins is a master of his craft.' Daily Telegraph  'A thriller writer in a class of his own.' Financial Times  'The master craftsman of good, clean adventure.' Daily Mail	Christopher Cazenove is a distinguished British actor, whose credits include playing the original Ben Carrington on TV's Dynasty.  His performance of The Wrath of God is outstanding.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Since The Eagle Has Landeda ""one of the biggest-selling thrillers of all timea ""every novel Jack Higgins has written, including his most recent works, Bad Company and Midnight Runner, has become an international bestseller. He has had simultaneous number-one bestsellers in hardcover and paperback, and many of his books have been made into successful movies, including The Eagle Has Landed, To Catch a King, On Dangerous Ground, Eye of the Storm, and Thunder Point. He has degrees in sociology, social psychology, and economics from the University of London, and a doctorate in media from Leeds Metropolitan University. A fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and an expert scuba diver and marksman, Higgins lives in Jersey on the Channel Islands.CHRISTOPHER CAZENOVE one of England's finest actors, has starred on stage and TV in the U.S. and Great Britain. His motion picture credits include ""A Knight's Tale, Eye of the Needle, Children of the Full Moon"" and ""Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill"". He played Ben Carrington on television's ""Dynasty"".	Christopher Cazenove characterizes three desperate men, Emmet Keough, Van Horne, and Janos, with distinction, keeping the listener well oriented as this action adventure unfolds in Mexico. Murder and robbery carry the listener from the electric beginning, with death hoods and rifle shots, to the conclusion with its shocking blow. Throughout the story Cazenova delivers the intriguing plot with rapid-fire precision that keeps the listener riveted. He achieves an outstanding performance, especially with a coarse, but realistic, Mexican accent, making this a fine choice for entertainment and intrigue.  G.D.W.  AudioFile 2002, Portland, Maine-- Copyright  AudioFile, Portland, Maine	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",action & adventure;books;contemporary;genre fiction;literature & fiction;mystery;thriller & suspense;thrillers,8
B0002ASF2I,"Marina Aquascaper Hornwort Plant Decoration Let the marina aquascaper plastic hornwort plant add some lush, colorful landscape to your aquarium. Design your very own aquatic paradise with authentic, realistic-looking plastic plants, all molded after the real thing. Choose from a variety of styles and colors so you can customize your own stunning aquarium display. Your fish will love them, too.",all aquatic & pond;aquarium décor;fish & aquatic pets;hagen;marina;pet supplies;pet supplies: international shipping available;plastic plants,8
1565232070,"Scroll Saw Workbook: Learn to Use Your Scroll Saw in 25 Skill-Building Chapters John A. Nelson is the author of 50 Easy Weekend Scroll Saw Projects, Advanced Scroll Saw Clocks, and Making Wooden Baskets on Your Scroll Saw. He lives in Dublin, New Hampshire.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;crafts;hobbies & home;home improvement & design;how-to & home improvements;power tools;projects;woodworking,8
0849914469,"Moral Dilemmas Kerby Anderson is the national director of Probe Ministries International. He has been featured on a number of radio talk shows, including ""Point of View"" (USA Radio Network), ""Open Line"" (Moody Broadcasting Network), and ""Fire Away"" (American Family Radio). He is the author of several other books, including Genetic Engineering, Living Ethically in the 90s, and Moral Dilemmas.",books;christian books & bibles;christian living;education & reference;ethics;religion & spirituality;religious studies;theology,8
B000MV8HDY,"The New Yellow Bulldozer Steve Augarde enjoys a reputation as a master illustrator of interactive books that impart just the right amount of information to the targeted age group including Garage and Vroom! Vroom!. He lives in Somerset, England, with his wife and two children, and	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;cars & trucks;children's books;heavy machinery;literature & fiction;nature & how it works;science;transportation,8
B000F3XY32,"Stiga Equinox Outdoor Table Tennis Table Designed for indoor and outdoor use, the Stiga Equinox features the TrueBounce all-weather blue aluminum top designed to provide consistent bounce and play and last for years of competitive play. The table is supported by a heavy-duty steel chassis and a 1--inch aluminum apron. Assembly is easy with the 1- by 1--inch oval self-opening legs--simply glide open, and you're ready to play. The 1- by 1-5/8-inch caster beam uprights provide extra stability, while the 4-inch ball-bearing mac wheel casters offer easy mobility. The table includes weather-resistant net and posts. It folds up  compact for easy storage. One-year limited warranty.	Stiga Equinox Outdoor Table Tennis Table",game room;game room games;games;leisure sports & games;sports & outdoors;table tennis;tables;toys & games,8
B00062P4U8,"adidas Women's Wildwood Short-Sleeve V-Neck ( sz. XL, Bloom/Purple Night/Reflective Silver ) ClimaLite technology helps wick away perspiration and keep you cool and dry while you run. Women's-specific cut. Non-chafing flat-lock seams and a stylish, sculpted hemline. Reflective brandmark. Breathable, quick-drying 100% polyester mesh. Imported.",active;active shirts & tees;clothing;clothing & accessories;shirts;sports & outdoors;t-shirts;women,8
0309037867,"Cities and Their Vital Systems: Infrastructure Past, Present, and Future (Series on Technology and Social Priorities) Jesse H. Ausubel and Robert Herman, Editors; Advisory Committee on Technology and Society",books;demography;new;politics & social sciences;professional & technical;social sciences;transportation;used & rental textbooks,8
B000CJ48YS,"Derale 13222 Frame Rail Transmission Cooler With the same 1/2 inch copper tubing expanded into aluminum cooling fins and embossed turbulators as our larger transmission coolers, this cooler uses a slim design to enable frame mounting in limited space applications. This kit comes with a complete transmission cooler hardware kit to easily install onto vehicles with 5/16 inch transmission cooler lines.",automotive;coolers & accessories;drive train;engine cooling;oils & fluids;performance parts & accessories;transmission & parts;transmission fluids,8
3899850734,"Fish and Seafood: From caviar to grouper, mussels, salmon and shrimp : From filleting to poaching and portioning ""From caviar to grouper, mussels, salmon and shrimp; from filleting to poaching."" These words on the title page are most of the explanation readers will get in this beautiful cookbook. But judging from the brief and garbled introduction, they should be grateful (""Large fish, small fish, crab, mussels, shellfish, algae, sea urchins, prawnseach desiring to be prepared freshly and flavoursome""). Primarily, it's the colorful full-bleed photographs and spreads that tell this cookbook's story, while the recipes are succinct and to the point. In fact, the photos sometimes offer more explanation than the recipes, as in Cod on a Bed of Beetroot with Warm Beans and Marinated Herbs (the photograph shows would-be cooks that they should use long, green beans, not round, brown ones). The beautiful images also offer blow-by-blow details for tasks like ""Preparing a sea bream"" (eight sequential photos accompany the directions). The recipes are organized by degree of difficulty in the table of contents (one star being the easiest, three the most complex) and are clearly marked throughout the book with stars and large numbers that give prep time. Measurements from around the world (in liters, fluid ounces or cups) make this an international book, which also means the fish and seafood included may not all be familiar to American readers (e.g., whelks, brill, Dublin Bay prawns, Saint Peterfish). The preparations are international too, drawing on the cuisines of Britain, France, Italy, Japan and elsewhere. Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.",books;cookbooks;cooking by ingredient;food & wine;meat;poultry & seafood;seafood;special occasions,8
B000QFHIAY,"Alamaba Crimson Tide Embroidered Towel from Team Golf Keep your clubs clean while supporting your favorite collegiate team with this officially licensed NCAA embroidered golf towel from Team Golf. The tri-fold, embroidered towel features a hook and grommet and measures 16-in x 25-in.",fan shop;golf;golf bag towels;golf equipment;on-course accessories;sports & outdoors;sports equipment;towels,8
B000000EFU,Paul Robeson Live at Carnegie Hall Paul Robeson Live at Carnegie Hall,broadway & vocalists;classical;folk;gospel;miscellaneous;music;new age;pop,8
0974036404,"Dangerous Peace-Making A must-read if you've ever asked how societies choose war and how they finally decide to make peace. -- Hal Spencer, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and Vietnam War veteran.Completely original and illuminating...personally challenging -- but the most interesting work on war I have read for many years. -- Sara Ruddick, author of Maternal Thinking: Towards a Politics of PeaceWars are becoming easier to fight, harder to stop. ...brilliantly argued case studies show the keys to making durable peace. -- Captain Larry Seaquist USN (Ret.), former warship commander and Pentagon official.	Helena Meyer-Knapp teaches politics and international relations at Evergreen State College. She has written for The Christian Science Monitor and has been interviewed on NPR and for Life Magazine. She lives in Olympia, Washington.",books;history;international & world politics;military science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;specific topics;war & peace,8
0792733053,"Invitation to Provence Adler is known for carefree and light destination/relationship fiction that features lush descriptions of landscapes and food, appealing characters, gently unfolding plots, and grown-up love stories. While this new novel shares with its predecessors a great sense of place, charming characters, and wonderful descriptions, it's too easily resolved, repetitive, and less well developed as it tells the story of Rafaella Marten and her home in Provence, Chateau des Roses Sauvages. Rafaella has lived a long and interesting life, but she feels it is ending badly, and loneliness drives her to invite her remaining family and friends to a three-week party at the chateau. In the time leading up to the party, readers meet each guest as characters interact and set the stage for future conflict. As the party date draws nearer, it seems that Rafaella's invitation has instigated a series of events, some dark, some lovely, that will change the lives of all involved. Adler's latest should appeal to her many fans. Neal WyattCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	""Lush descriptions of landscapes and food, appealing characters, gently unfolding plots, and grown-up love stories. Adler's latest should appeal to her many fans."" -- Booklist (Booklist )""Love is in the air again . . . sure to please."" -- Kirkus Reviews (Kirkus Review )""Adler's lyrical, romantic wrting style shines through . . . Captivating romance, picturesque landscapes, and charming characters fill the pages of this enthralling novel.""-- Romantic Times (Romantic Times )""Stunningly written, evenly paced, and peopled with magnificent characters. Adler moves this character driven story along brilliantly with exquisite narrative and pleasurable writing . . . a dash of romance, a soupcon of mystery, and hours of pure entertainment."" -- Affaire de Coeur (Affaire de Coeur )	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	Praise for the Enchanting Novels of Elizabeth Adler:""Adler is well known for her charming stories of modern romance...an endearing novel.""- Booklist on Hotel Riviera ""Adler transports one immediately to the French Riviera and paints an enchanting picture of the Cte d'Azur. If you're looking for a novel to take you away from it all...this is the one for you!""- Bookreporter.com on Hotel Riviera""Like Tuscany's beauty, this book is heaped with delicious words and literary creativity ...thoroughly engrossing."" - Bangor Chronicle on Summer in Tuscany""A very modern romantic comedy.""- Stuart News on Summer in Tuscany""The popular Adler gets the dynamics of a new relationship pitch-perfect.... But it's the detailed, realistic description of the trip to Francethat makes her latest great vicarious vacation reading."" - Publishers Weekly on The Last Time I Saw Paris""Outward adventures lead to an inward journey of self-discovery.""- Booklist on The Last Time I Saw Paris	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Elizabeth Adler was born in Yorkshire.  She is married with one daughter and has lived in Brazil, the USA, England, France and Ireland.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	When Franny Marten meets her lover's wife, Claire, she wonders what else can go wrong. Surprisingly, Franny and Claire become such close friends that when Franny is invited to France to meet family, Clair goes along for the adventure. Carrington MacDuffie's voice curls around the words of this romance as the two women relax in Provence, enjoy the simple village life, and meet men who win their hearts. Yet there are secrets in the family that Franny and Claire unwittingly discover. MacDuffie contrasts light French accents and American intonation. Love and hate are also set in sharp contrast in this charming story.  M.B.K. 2005 Audie Award Finalist  AudioFile 2005, Portland, Maine-- Copyright  AudioFile, Portland, Maine	      --This text refers to the 							Audio CD	 edition.",books;literature & fiction;mystery;politics & social sciences;romance;romantic suspense;thriller & suspense;thrillers,8
0671578057,"Werehunter "". . . highly, highly recommended. . . "". -- Kliatt",books;contemporary;fantasy;literature & fiction;science fiction;science fiction & fantasy;short stories;single author,8
9756663006,"Exploring Turkey Amy Chaple was born in 1966 in Connecticut.  She is a graduate of Babson College and the author of two books.    Amy is an art teacher in Istanbul, Turkey where she lives with her husband and two daughters.",activity books;books;children's books;europe;explore the world;middle east;sports & games;travel & cultures,8
B0000BYDR1,"Roma Food Strainer and Sauce Maker for Fresh Fruits and Vegetables With the Roma Food Strainer & Sauce Maker you can quickly and easily make healthy homemade sauces, jams, jellies, wines, juices and even purees for baby foods from just about any fruit or vegetable imaginable.  No More Peeling or Coring! The Roma Food Strainer & Sauce Maker does it all for you! The Roma is so easy to set-up & use, it will become indispensable to cooks & gardeners alike. Now you can use fresh ingredients for all of your recipes & never worry about additives or preservatives again.",colanders & food strainers;food strainers;home & kitchen;kitchen & dining;kitchen utensils & gadgets;play vehicles;toys & games;vehicles & remote-control,8
0762728396,"Insiders' Guide to Pittsburgh, 2nd (Insiders' Guide Series) Once youre there, let Insiders show you where to go.Insiders Guide to Pittsburgh offers travelers, newcomers, and locals the best, most comprehensive information on whats happening in the area. Once known only for its smoky steel mills, Pittsburgh today offers a chic downtown, innovative shopping centers, and a rich mix of culture and entertainment, from the Carnegie Science Center to the Andy Warhol Museum to professional football, baseball, and ice hockey. Enjoy Pittsburghs dramatic topography, its ethnic neighborhoods and traditions, and its diverse architecture with the help of longtime locals who share a behind-the-scenes look at this Renaissance city. Use this guide to discover Pittsburghs exciting attractions and activities as well as limitless opportunities for fun, dining, and adventure.	Jenn Phillips is a writer and editor based in Pittsburgh.  She founded her consulting business, Writing Well Communications, nearly a decade ago. Loriann Hoff Oberlin and Evan Pattak are Pittsburgh natives.",books;general;mid atlantic;northeast;pennsylvania;pittsburgh;travel;united states,8
B000EB8F0C,"Mizuno Custom Classic Maple Bat (Cherry) Amazon.com Baseball Bat Guide Choosing the Right Baseball Bat For a relatively simple piece of equipment, the variety of options when it comes to buying a baseball bat--wood or composite? what size is right for me? should I pay $30 or $300?--can be intimidating. The most important factor to keep in mind, from Little League to the pros, is that buying a bat is a personal decision. It's critical to select a bat properly tailored to your height, weight, skill, and strength levels, within your budget, but equally important is simply how the bat ""feels"" to you.  Improvements in technology have given today's players more options than ever. A few basic rules of thumb, however, can help narrow your search:  Weight: Heavier bats provide more power while lighter bats enable faster swing speeds. Are you strong and athletic, or smaller and more likely to benefit from greater swing speed? Practice-swing a number of differently weighted bats until you find one that's right for you. Length: Longer bats provide greater reach and ability to connect with pitches on the other side of the plate, but the added weight can reduce swing speed and power. Once again, the best approach is to experiment with different lengths to find a bat that suits you. Barrel Diameter: As a general rule of thumb, players age 12 and under should use a 2.25-inch barrel diameter to comply with the majority of youth league regulations. Older players, through high school and college, are typically restricted to a 2.625-inch barrel diameter. League Rules: Most leagues have their own bat requirements, and it's a good idea to be clear on your league's specifications before shopping. Feel: The most crucial factor ultimately comes down to whether a bat feels good to you. It should be comfortable in your hands, have a balanced and fluid swing, and seem like a natural extension of your arms.   Anatomy of a Bat While bat terminology and technology can seem complex, all bats are made up of three basic components--grip, bat taper, and barrel size.  Grip: The bat handle covering, typically made of leather or synthetic leather for a solid grip, or rubber (sometimes with cushioning) to decrease sting when striking the ball. Bat Taper: The diameter of a bat's handle, with a standard taper being 0.97-inches (which can vary based on weight). A larger taper reduces ball shock while adding weight, and smaller tapers enable faster wrist rotation while reducing weight. Barrel Size: Includes the length and diameter of the barrel, or top part, of the bat. Longer barrels provide larger, more forgiving sweet spots, and several different diameters are available.   Worth the Weight Bats are weighted in ounces with emphasis on balancing weight-to-length ratio, a measure called a bat's ""drop"" and shown as -6, -8, and so on. For example, a 34-inch bat with a -6 ratio weighs 28 ounces. Choosing the right weight depends on the type of player you are, as stronger players typically benefit from the power of a heavier bat, while smaller or younger players enjoy the increased swing speed and control of a lighter bat.  Different Materials for Different Players The sheer number of bat materials available today can boggle the mind, but ultimately the options are grouped into three categories--wood, aluminum, and composite.  Wood Although the sound of a wood bat hitting a baseball has become iconic, the number of players using wood bats is typically restricted to professionals and wood-bat-only leagues. Whether you're a Major Leaguer or simply a baseball purist, look for a bat with a long, wide grain, which indicates a dense, mature tree. Wood bats offer more choices in terms of shape and taper to customize to a player's swing. On the other hand, they have three significant disadvantages: tendency to crack or break, smaller sweet spot, and less hitting power than metal bats.  Composite Advances in technology have allowed manufacturers to use lighter, stronger composite materials--typically a combination of graphite, fiberglass, and resin--to produce bats with a unique, satisfying feel and large, forgiving sweet spots. Composite bats are lighter than traditional aluminum bats, increasing swing speed and power. Composites also come in single- and double-layer configurations, and graphite and titanium materials added to the inner wall help reduce vibration and ""ball sting"" when a ball is mis-hit.  Aluminum A majority of non-professional players today use aluminum bats, mostly due to their lighter weight (which increases swing speed and control) and better durability. Aluminum bats come in single- or double-layer construction, with double-layer bats offering greater durability, power, and rebound.  Aluminum bats are constructed from a variety of alloys. Lighter alloys are thinner and more durable, and the alloy used in an aluminum bat is typically the most significant cost factor. Nearly all aluminum bat alloys represent some combination of aluminum, copper, magnesium, and zinc. Here's a quick overview of today's most popular aluminum alloys:  7046: This durable alloy has been a baseball industry standard for many years, and offers a good balance of price and performance. CU31/7050: One of the first high-performance bat alloys, this proven option is more durable than 7046 as a result of greater levels of copper, magnesium, and zirconium. C405/7055: A common alloy used in more expensive, high-end aluminum bats, this alloy includes greater zirconium content than CU31/7050 for added strength. C555: The addition of scandium to this alloy results in up to 10% more strength than C405/7055.   Selecting the Right Bat Size The optimal bat size varies based on height and weight for a given player, and can impact technique, swing speed, and other vital components of your game. Selecting the right size from the table below will help ensure you get the most out of your equipment.          Baseball Bat Sizing           Weight     Height                3' - 3'4""     3'5"" - 3'8""     3'9"" - 4'     4'1"" - 4'4""     4'5"" - 4'8""     4'9"" - 5'     5'1"" - 5'4""     5'5"" - 5'8""     5'9"" - 6'     6'1"" +           Under 60 pounds     26""     27""     28""     29""     29""                                    61-70 pounds     27""     27""     28""     29""     30""     30""                               71-80 pounds          28""     28""     29""     30""     30""     31""                          81-90 pounds          28""     29""     29""     30""     30""     31""     32""                     91-100 pounds          28""     29""     30""     30""     31""     31""     32""                     101-110 pounds          29""     29""     30""     30""     31""     31""     32""                     111-120 pounds          29""     29""     30""     30""     31""     31""     32""                     121-130 pounds          29""     29""     30""     30""     31""     32""     33""     33""                131-140 pounds          29""     30""     30""     31""     31""     32""     33""     33""                141-150 pounds               30""     30""     31""     31""     32""     33""     33""                151-160 pounds               30""     31""     31""     32""     32""     33""     33""     33""           161-170 pounds                    31""     31""     32""     32""     33""     33""     34""           171-180 pounds                              32""     33""     33""     34""     34""           181+ pounds                                   33""     33""     34""     34""              Most Popular Size By Age           Age     5-7 years old     8-9     10     11-12     13-14     15-16     17 and over           Bat Length     24-26""     26-28""     28-29""     30-31""     31-32""     32-33""     34""	A unique design created by Mizuno's master craftsman Isokazu Kubota who has hand-crafted wooden bats for Mizuno for over 40 years.",baseball;bats;player equipment;sports;sports & outdoor play;sports & outdoors;team sports;toys & games,8
0613453514,"What's Happening to My Body? Book for Girls: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents ""I kept wanting it to happen. When it did I remember thinking, 'It's  about time.'"" ""I was worried at first. Then it really wasn't so bad after all."" ""I remember my brothers weren't allowed to hit me in the chest anymore. I was  kind of pleased about that."" What mysterious condition are these now grown-up girls talking about? Ah, yes,  puberty! With scads of personal stories and an abundance of useful, detailed  information about girls' changing bodies and feelings, author Lynda Madaras and  her daughter Area Madaras have expanded their guide for girls on the verge of  change. First published in 1983, the bestselling classic has been revised and  updated several times over the years to keep up with ever evolving facts and  wisdom about puberty in girls. In this third edition, the authors continue their  straight talk on the menstrual cycle, reproductive organs, breasts, emotional  changes, puberty in boys, body hair, pimples, masturbation, and all the other  fun, scary, and interesting things that go along with growing up. Filled with  anecdotes, illustrations, diagrams, and honest, sensitive, nonjudgmental  information for the young girl, the revised edition also addresses the new  scientific facts about when a girl actually begins puberty (earlier than  previously thought), advice on ""female athletic syndrome,"" eating disorders,  unwanted attention because of early development, and information on eating  right, exercise, AIDS, STDs, birth control, and so much more. A welcome,  reassuring book for parents and daughters, designed with the understanding that  some girls and parents will want to read it together, and some will want to read  it on their own; without a doubt, though, all will benefit. Got boys?  Don't miss What's Happening to My  Body? Book for Boys. (Ages 8 to 15) --Emilie Coulter	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Reviewed with Lynda Madaras' The What's Happening to My Body? Book for Boys. Gr. 4-8. In these new editions of her classic guides, Madaras has made significant changes to reflect the younger age at which children are now reaching puberty. She has cut out the chapters about sex, birth control, pregnancy, and STDs, although she includes a rich appendix of resources on these topics. Mostly, the books concentrate on the physical changes that occur during puberty, with new chapters designed to serve as ""owners manuals"": in Boys, there's new information about shaving and answers to questions about penis size; in Girls, there's an expanded ""all about having periods"" section. As in the previous editions, the tone is matter-of-fact and comforting, and Madaras has further simplified the sentence structure and word choices, in some cases perhaps too much; the section on sexual harassment, for example, is somewhat vague and slightly unfocused. Overall, however, these are excellent new editions that make fine resources even more accessible to a young audience. Sure to encourage dialogue between kids and parents. Gillian EngbergCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	""Lynda Madaras takes seriously the questions asked over the years in her sex education class and gives accurate, detailed answers.""  School Library Journal""These gender-specific titles take a modern and easygoing approach to pubertyexplains everything in a readable and reassuring style.""  VOYA: Voice of Youth Advocates""Must reading.""  Ralph I. Lopez, M.D., Adolescent Clinic, The New York Hospital Cornell Medical School""One of the most complete, well-written and clearly illustrated sex and health education texts to come off the press.""  Arkansas Democrat""Your book is a most helpful teaching toolYour books put the students at easemany, many thanks.""  Excerpt from a teacher's letter to Lynda Madaras	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Lynda Madaras is the author of 12 books on health, child care, and parenting. For more than 25 years, she taught puberty and health education in California schools, and she has appeared on Oprah, CNN, PBS, and the Today Show. Lynda Madaras es la autora de doce libros sobre la salud, el cuidado de ninos y la crianza de los hijos. Durante mas de veinticinco anos ha ensenado sobre la pubertad y la salud en escuelas de California, y ha sido invitada de Oprah, CNN, PBS y el Today Show.Area Madaras was just 11 years old when she assisted her mother on their first book. Now a communications consultant and mother of two, she lives in California and continues to assist her mother with the series. Area Madaras solo tenia once anos cuando colaboro por primera vez con su madre en un libro. Ahora es asesora de comunicaciones y madre de dos ninas, vive en California y continua trabajando con su madre en la serie.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;children's books;health;maturing;nature & how it works;science;sexuality;social situations,8
0812097122,"Turtles and Tortoises (Complete Pet Owner's Manual) (back cover)  Information and advice to help you take good care of your turtles and tortoises   Typical turtles and tortoises:  varieties, traits, behavior, and more  Expert advice:  feeding, determining sex, breeding, health care, and more  Understanding turtles and tortoises:  body language, changes in appearance, and their meanings   (picture caption)  You can keep those eyes bright and your pet active for many years to come.	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.",biological sciences;books;crafts;hobbies & home;pets & animal care;reptiles & amphibians;science & math;zoology,8
0888994486,"Stella, Fairy of the Forest Stella has as much moxie as Eloise and as much confidence (and  red hair) as Pippi, but her  spirit of adventure, overactive imagination, and older-sister omniscience  catapult her into a league of her own. We met the inquisitive, impulsive Stella  and her less reckless little brother, Sam, in Stella, Star of the Sea and in  Stella, Queen of the  Snow, but are newly delighted with Stella, Sam, and their faithful dog's  thoroughly charming foray into the forest. Stella has seen hundreds of fairies. Sam think he sees one, too, tiny and  beautiful, but it is only a butterfly, Stella tells him. ""'Do butterflies eat  butter?'"" asked Sam. 'Yellow butterflies do,' said Stella."" As much as Stella  seems to know, however, Sam knows a few things, too. That blue butterflies must  eat pieces of blue sky, for instance. And that despite her insistence to the  contrary, the ""rock"" in the stream was moving.  Marie-Louise Gay's friendly, engaging watercolors crawl with tiny snails and  other woodland creatures that readers might miss the first time through.  Stella, Fairy of the Forest will warm the hearts of children and adults  alike, especially those who believe that a walk in the woods is an at least  potentially magical adventure. (Ages 3 to 8) --Karin Snelson	The fiery redheaded star of Stella, Star of the Sea and Stella, Queen of the Snow, returns to lead her little brother Sam on an adventurous romp through the woods in Stella, Fairy of the Forest by Marie-Louise Gay. Turns out, he's not as timid as he seems. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.	reSchool-Grade 1-Once again, irrepressible Stella guides her timid and trusting younger brother on a journey through the natural world. While her quick imagination results in immediate joy in her surroundings, Sam's careful questioning and simple reluctance lead him slowly to join in his sister's appreciation of forest magic. Stella always has the answer in natural sibling chatter as little brother tries mightily to keep up with her and understand her unique explanations. Sam asks, ""Do butterflies eat butter?"" With Stella's reply that ""Yellow butterflies do,"" Sam simply concludes ""blue butterflies eat pieces of sky."" The author's flowing pen-and-ink and watercolor artwork offers rich interpretation of the children's journey and provides a variety of perspectives and details. The book perfectly depicts the independence and innocence of its characters, and the fluidity of the art matches the young heroine's joie de vivre. Expressions achieved with minimal pen strokes give personality to even the tiniest forest creatures, but readers' eyes are always drawn to the free-spirited Stella and her flowing red hair. A visual treasure for reading aloud.Mary Elam, Forman Elementary School, Plano, TXCopyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.	Ages 4-6. Imaginative, high-energy Stella, curly red hair streaming behind her, is back, once again playing teacher to her inquisitive little brother, Sam. It's summer--the trees are green and flowers dot the meadow--but it's fairies Sam wants to know about. Even so, Stella manages to pique his curiosity about other things-- from butterflies to sheep--as she leads him into the cool forest, where they talk about trees (""Are they older than Grandma?"") before getting down to the business of fairies--in time for Sam to take a turn at being teacher. Canadian author Gay invests this with the same warmth and charm she worked into Stella and Sam's previous adventures. Her freewheeling ink-and-watercolor illustrations are delightful, and it's obvious from the knowing text that she has listened to conversations between kids. Stella and Sam, so different, relish their respective roles and obviously love one another; they always seem to find something to share in their circumscribed but ever-intriguing world. Stephanie ZvirinCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	utterly charming Sam is particularly adorable' - NZ Herald11/5/02.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",activity books;books;children's books;family life;humor;siblings;social situations;sports & games,8
B0006IU3GM,"When Fish Fly: Lessons for Creating a Vital and Energizing Workplace In this revealing business advice book, the magic of the World Famous Pike Place Fish Market proves a dynamic example of what a group of people can create when they are aligned and living a powerful vision. Here for the first time, owner John Yokoyama explains in his own words just how he transformed his business into a workplace that is renowned worldwide. When Fish Fly offers Yokoyama's cohesive strategy for achieving world famous results for owners, managers, and front-line workers alike. Once you understand the generative principles behind the World Famous Pike Place Fish Market, you, too, can develop a culture that leads to excellent employee morale and legendary customer service.",books;business & investing;human resources & personnel management;industries & professions;leadership;management;management & leadership;motivational,8
1889322644,"Tools for Teaching Social Skills in School The authors have a combined 40 years of teaching experience in K-12 classrooms and now train other teachers, administrators, and other school staff across the United States in the Girls and Boys Town Education Model.  The Model emphasizes building relationships with students, teaching social skills, and reinforcement of positive behavior.",books;education & reference;education theory;instruction methods;parent participation;parenting;parenting & relationships;schools & teaching,8
1888125241,"Back of the Pack: An Iditarod Rookie Musher's Alaska Pilgrimage to Nome Don Bowers has accurately captured this marvelous  transformation in Back of the Pack, and has beautifully conveyed the  poetry and sense of awe and respect that come with it. He faithfully  shows us the joy and work and heartbreak and intensity of learning how  to drive dogs, culminating in an incredible journey to Nome in the  1,100-mile Iditarod Sled Dog Race. Before he could make it to the  finish line on Front Street, he discovered that he and his dogs were  capable of far more than he ever thought possible. Don's story is a  true-life example of learning how to ""Dream big and dare to  fail.""   Norman Vaughan    After reading Back of the Pack you'll watch the rookies heading down Fourth   Avenue at the start of the Iditarod with a much better insight. Don draws a   clear picture of what it's like to be a neophyte musher. Anyone with an interest   in dogs--or who just likes a good read--will thoroughly enjoy it. This may be the   best book yet about the Iditarod.  Phil Meyer, D.V.M. (20-year Iditarod and   Junior Iditarod race veterinarian)	Don Bowers lives at Montana Creek, Alaska, in a cabin he built  himself. Born in 1948 in Fort Smith, Arkansas, Don is an Air Force  Academy graduate with masters degrees from the Air Force Institute of  Technology and Alaska Pacific University. For most of his Air Force  career he was a C-130 Hercules transport pilot, flying Hurricane  Hunters in the Caribbean and Spectre gunships in Southeast Asia as  well as ""trash haulers"" all over Alaska. Don arrived on the Last  Frontier in 1975 and became involved with the Iditarod as a member of  the volunteer Iditarod Air Force. Upon retirement from the ""real"" Air  Force, Don set about to run the Iditarod with his own team, even  though he had virtually no experience as a musher. He is a certified  elementary teacher as well as a commercial pilot in Talkeetna during  summer. Don is the author of Alaska Airmen's Logbook for Alaska,  Northwest Canada, and Russia, published by the Alaska Airmen's  Association.",books;crafts;dogs;hobbies & home;iditarod & dog-sledding;pets & animal care;sports & outdoors;winter sports,8
1591823315,"Fake 6 (Fake) FAKE is the unlikely love story between two NYC cops named Dee and Ryo.  100% Authentic Manga Format.  Story by SANAMI MATOH.	If you're looking for something with an Asian spice to it, you might want to pick up Sanami Matoh's newest manga offering, FAKE... Hugely popular in Japan, especially among teenage girls, gay manga is making its way to these shores courtesy of TOKYOPOP, the Los Angeles-based publisher of graphic novels. FAKE, a six-part series that will wrap up in spring of 2004, is just one of many titles that offer somewhat more provocative fare than the usual stories, such as Cowboy Bebop or Akira. -- Metro Source",books;children's books;comics & graphic novels;fiction;gay;gay & lesbian;literature & fiction;manga,8
B00072H8MY,"Plagues and peoples No small themes for historian William McNeill: he is a writer of big, sweeping books, from The Rise of the West to The History of the World. Plagues and Peoples considers the influence of infectious diseases on the course of history, and McNeill pays special attention to the Black Death of the 13th and 14th centuries, which killed millions across Europe and Asia. (At one point, writes McNeill, 10,000 people in Constantinople alone were dying each day from the plague.) With the new crop of plagues and epidemics in our own time, McNeill's quiet assertion that ""in any effort to understand what lies ahead the role of infectious disease cannot properly be left out of consideration"" takes on new significance.	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.	McNeill's highly acclaimed work is a brilliant  and challenging  account of the effects of disease  on human history. His sophisticated  analysis and  detailed grasp of the subject make this book  fascinating  reading. By the author of The Rise  Of The West.	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.	Upon its original publication, Plagues and Peoples was an immediate critical and popular success, offering a radically new interpretation of world history as seen through the extraordinary impact--political, demographic, ecological, and psychological--of disease on cultures. From the conquest of Mexico by smallpox as much as by the Spanish, to the bubonic plague in China, to the typhoid epidemic in Europe, the history of disease is the history of humankind. With the identification of AIDS in the early 1980s, another chapter has been added to this chronicle of events, which William McNeill explores in his new introduction to this updated editon.Thought-provoking, well-researched, and compulsively readable, Plagues and Peoples is that rare book that is as fascinating as it is scholarly, as intriguing as it is enlightening. ""A brilliantly conceptualized and challenging achievement"" (Kirkus Reviews), it is essential reading, offering a new perspective on human history.	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.",books;communicable diseases;infectious disease;internal medicine;medical books;medicine;new;used & rental textbooks,8
0399234802,"Keeping Up With Roo Grade 1-3--Gracie has always had a special relationship with her Aunt Roo, who is mentally challenged, and the two spend endless hours playing together. However, as Gracie grows up, goes to school, and makes new friends, she is forced to recognize that her aunt is different from other grown-ups. When a new friend comes home with her for a visit, Gracie is at first embarrassed by her aunt's outlandish behavior. As she remembers all of the fun times she has shared with the woman, however, she eventually introduces Sarah to Roo, and invites her to participate in their games. Occasional changes of verb tense interrupt the story's flow, and muted, old-fashioned illustrations and language set this story in a nostalgic past that may seem distant to today's readers. Still, children may glean something positive from this honest depiction of Gracie's acceptance of her aunt.--Julie Roach, Malden Public Library, MA Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	K-Gr. 2. Gracie and her aunt Roo are best friends. On the farm where Roo lives with Grandma and Grandpa, they climb trees and play school, with Gracie always the student. Eventually, however, Gracie becomes the teacher, having advanced beyond Roo's limited capabilities. When a school friend visits, Gracie is embarrassed to introduce her to her aunt, but as she shows the girl around, she realizes all Roo has done for her. Anyone who has grown up with an older developmentally challenged relative will know the odd sensation of growing mentally beyond someone who is chronologically older, and Glenn does a good job of portraying Gracie's push-pull feelings. The problem is that children might not immediately catch on to the situation. The flap copy explains that ""Roo has the heart and mind of a child,"" but the book shows Roo as someone who calms Gracie as a baby and teaches her how to walk. Adreasen's graphite-and-oil art has a vintage feel that mitigates the problem somewhat, and the artwork's air of innocence, especially the expressions on Roo's face, is a clue to Roo's childlike nature. With some adult explanation, this will have many uses. Ilene CooperCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved",books;children's books;family life;friendship;multigenerational;school;social situations;special needs,8
1893984001,"Earl Nightingale's The Strangest Secret Millennium 2000 Gold Record Recording Earl Nightingale, radio hall of fame commentator; dean of motivation; personal development industry pioneer.",books;communication;education & reference;language & grammar;new;public speaking;used & rental textbooks;words,8
0894902768,"Born of Heat and Pressure: Mountains and Metamorphic Rocks (Earth Processes Books) Grade 6-12-- This volume attempts to enlighten readers on the subjects of metamorphic rock, earth movements and plates, rocks on other planets, and quite a few other bits of geology. As a result, it is not entirely successful. Topics pop up in different sections, and history is superficial or mixed into various chapters to illustrate a particular idea. Many good details will alert readers to the work of geologists. The writing is a little dry for average students who might be intially attracted to the idea of studying rocks. A couple of brief paragraphs on radioactivity in rocks are good, and information on the use of seismic computer tomography (CT) is well described. A chapter on earth resources and mining covers clay and stones as well as minerals and gems; it is almost too quick an overview. Useful in a limited way, this book is not well organized and is incomplete in its coverage. Most of the material can be found in current textbooks, so it's not an essential purchase. --Elizabeth Morrissett, Alaska State Library, JuneauCopyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.",books;children's books;earth sciences;education & reference;nature;nature & how it works;rocks & minerals;science,8
0879307609,"All Music Guide to Country: The Definitive Guide to Country Music ""A definite must for any serious music collector.""",arts & photography;books;country;education & reference;history & criticism;music;musical genres;reference,8
0152166955,"Iris and Walter and Cousin Howie Grade 1-3-Another installment in a popular series for beginning readers. Both Iris and Walter are eagerly awaiting Walter's cousin Howie's visit. But when the boy arrives, Iris feels left out. With help from her supportive family and an apologetic Walter, she realizes that their friendship is not threatened. Walter's conflicting feelings about his cousin and his reaction to Iris are clear in his facial expressions. The anticipation of the visit presents an interesting foil to the real Howie, who is not particularly friendly. Both the story and dialogue ring true and clearly capture the characters' feelings, while Davenier's pen-and-ink drawings add just the right amount of energy. A good choice for collections in which the other titles are popular and for children looking for an easy-to-read story about friendship.Ellen M. Riordan, Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore, MDCopyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	K-Gr. 2. The sixth easy reader about best friends Iris and Walter has the same warmth and candor as the earlier titles. Walter's cousin Howie comes to visit. He's mean to Iris, who feels left out. ""Does she have to do everything with us?"" Howie whispers to Walter, and Iris hears him. As always, Iris' family is there for her, not only comforting her when she's hurt but also reassuring her that it's okay to dislike the mean visitor. The relaxed dialogue brings the daily drama up close, and the body language in the watercolor-splashed pen-and-ink illustrations expresses the kids' hostility, uneasiness, and joyful reunion. Hazel RochmanCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	Praise for books in the Iris and Walter series:""Readers will delight in the youngsters' friendship, and bask in the reassuring love and support they receive from their families.""--School Library Journal (starred review)""Iris and Walter will join Frog and Toad and Henry and Mudge in a prominent place on the easy-reading shelves.""--The Bulletin	ELISSA HADEN GUEST is the award-winning author of the Iris and Walter series. She lives in San Francisco, California.CHRISTINE DAVENIER is the acclaimed illustrator of many popular children's books, including The First Thing My Mama Told Me by Susan Marie Swanson, a New York Times Book Review Best Illustrated Book of the Year. She lives in Paris.",books;children's books;christian;family life;friendship;literature & fiction;religious fiction;social situations,8
159309003X,"Everybody Got Issues: A Novel V. Anthony Rivers is the author of Daughter by Spirit, Everybody Got Issues, and My Life Is All I Have. He is a contributor to Zane's Love Is Never Painless.",books;contemporary;literature & fiction;mystery;psychological thrillers;thriller & suspense;thrillers;united states,8
0531300110,"A Is For Asia Kindergarten-Grade 3.  From the Middle East to northern Siberia, to China, Japan, and the Pacific Islands, the diversity of this vast continent is captured in childlike, stylized illustrations and 26 well-chosen words. Jade, kites, the monsoon, pandas, the Qur'an, water buffalo, and Zen are among the terms described in a decorative calligraphic type and pictured in gaily colored, naive, nonperspective drawings. Author and illustrator have created an attractive alphabet book that is useful for introducing Asia as a place of many different cultures, customs, languages, and climates.?Shirley Wilton, Ocean County College, Toms River, NJCopyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Ages 5^-9. From A for Asia to Z for Zen, the alphabet arrangement provides a panoramic introduction to the geography, culture, holidays, traditions, and animals of the area that is home to more than one-half of the world's population. The focus is on the traditional; on villages, rather than cities. There is a paragraph for each letter, not just naming but describing the Hindu Holi festival in India, kite flying in Korea, and yurts, the tentlike homes of the Mongolians. Heo's brightly detailed, pencil, oil, and collage illustrations pick up the extraordinary diversity of the huge area with a wide range of folk-art styles, from delicate batik craft in Indonesia to camel riders racing in Saudi Arabia. The alphabet itself gets attention: the word for each letter is written in an Asian language; for example, lotus is in Hindu, monsoon in Urdu, origami in Japanese. Starting with the map, children will look at the details and ask for more.  Hazel Rochman	Chin-Lee combines facts about the vast continent of Asia with the ABC format in a book admirable for its ambitions. The 26 short paragraphs offer scattered information on festivals, cultures, food, flora and fauna, beliefs, and more under headings such as ``A is for Asia,'' ``B is for batik,'' ``C is for camels,'' ``D is for dragon boats,'' etc., with the word for the main topic appearing in an appropriate language, either in a pictograph or in script (Asia is written in Tibetan, batik appears in Indonesian, etc.). The countries, many of which are mentioned throughout the book, appear on a map under ``A is for Asia'' that may be the best example of the continent's diversity (although it won't help children unearth the location of the Persian New Year celebration found under ``I is for Id al- Noruz''). Heo's primitive art, alternating between gleefully folkloric large paintings and modestly informational spot illustrations, rounds out this jumping-off point for further study into an inexhaustible, riveting topic. (Picture book. 5-9) -- Copyright 1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.",asia;books;children's books;explore the world;far east;history;literature & fiction;travel & cultures,8
B0009PUQXW,"Coleman 2-Burner InstaStart PerfectFlow Propane Stove The Coleman's Two-burner Propane Stove with InstaStart Technology is pretty much as easy as it gets and should happily satisfy most any portable-cooking needs. This Coleman two-burner stove has individual burner controls that go from simmer to a full boil for perfect outdoor cooking, while the PerfectFlow system of pressure-regulated propane provides consistent cooking performance (without flaring or flickering) by producing a steady fuel stream, even in cold weather, high altitudes, or when fuel is low. This Coleman stove is constructed of an aluminized-steel cooktop and removable, heavy-duty nickel-chrome grate so it resists rust and is incredibly easy to clean. With an output of 22,000 BTU in two high-performance burners you won't lack for cooking heat, and with the Windblock system you can shield the burners for maximum heat or fold the shields down into convenient side tables. Powered by a 16.4-ounce propane cylinder (not included) this grill stove lights easily with matchless electronic lighting, and will last for up to one hour with both burners on high. This Coleman two burner propane stove is dependable, durable, and easy to use. Manufacturer's Warranty Limited lifetime warranty About Coleman The Coleman Company has been creating and innovating products for recreational outdoor use since W.C. Coleman started selling gasoline-powered lanterns in 1900. Inventor of the hugely popular fold-up camp stove, Coleman developed a plastic liner for his galvanized steel coolers in 1957--the birth of the modern cooler--and the company has been improving their utility and design ever since. The array of products that bear the Coleman name now includes just about everything you might need to work or play outdoors, from tents and sleeping bags to boats, backpacks, and furniture.	Convenient and reliable, the Coleman 2-Burner InstaStart PerfectFlow Stove is a trustworthy choice for camping, backpacking, and any time you want to cook outdoors. This stove offers 22,000 BTUs in two high-performance burners that adjust individually from simmer to full boil, for perfect outdoor cooking. Coleman's InstaStart ignition provides easy push-button lighting, so you can leave the matches at hom. The stove features a heavy-duty nickel chrome grate that's rust-resistant and easy to remove and clean. The built-in WindBlock System shields the burners for maximum heat  or fold them down to make a convenient side table. Coleman's PerfectFlow pressure-control system ensures consistent cooking performance, even in cold weather, at high altitudes, and when fuel is low. One 16.4-ounce propane cylinder (sold separately) will last up to 4.5 hours on low, and up to 1.1 hours with both burners on high. CSA certified.",camp kitchen;camp stoves;camping & hiking;coleman;lawn & garden;outdoor recreation;patio;sports & outdoors,8
B00008Y0TU,"Celestron Eyepiece Filter Set 1-1/4 (12,25,56,ND-25) Eyepiece filters are an invaluable aid in lunar and planetary observing. They reduce glare and light scattering, increase contrast through selective filtration, increase definition and resolution, reduce irradiation and lessen eye fatigue. Celestron's filters are made of high quality, solid plane parallel glass with excellent homogeneity. They're anti-reflection-coated to prevent glaring and ghosting. All eyepiece filters are threaded to fit Celestron's and most other manufacturer's 1 1/4-inch eyepieces, and offer a full 26 millimeter clear aperture. Celestron color filters are mounted in black anodized aluminum cells with the Kodak Wratten series number individually engraved, and they come available in 4 assorted kits packed in plastic cases. The cells of each filter are double-threaded, so they can be stacked (piggybacked) in various combinations. This allows you to create different color combinations and transmission characteristics, or to have the same color characteristic but with a lower transmission. When stacking color filters, the effective transmission of the combination you create is equal to the product of the spectral transmission of each of the filters used. The effectiveness of the filters depends on several factors including the aperture and focal length of the telescope, the magnification being used, and seeing conditions.	2/8/200615-19-32...",accessories;binoculars;camera & photo;electronics;filters;telescope accessories;telescopes;telescopes & optics,8
063405628X,"Punk Rock: Guitar Play-Along Volume 9 (Hal Leonard Guitar Play-Along) Founded in 1947, Hal Leonard Corporation has become the worlds largest print music publisher, representing some of the greatest songwriters and artists of all time. We are proud to publish titles of interest to all musicians as well as music lovers, from songbooks and instructional titles to artist biographies and instrument price guides to books about the music industry and all the performing arts.",arts & photography;books;guitar;instruments;music;musical genres;punk;songbooks,8
B0006306MS,"Auto Meter 6159 Cobalt Full Sweep Electric Boost / Vacuum Gauge Auto Meter Cobalt Full Sweep Electric Boost / Vacuum Gauges have the look and feel of the gauges from back in the day but with a twist of styling. They feature a black face, anodized bezel, white numbering and blue accents. The explosion of Cobalt blue light shines through the dial and into any interior scheme during night time. The brilliant LED Cobalt blue light shines through the dial of the face to light up the numbers. Full sweep electric gauges are the best gauges available. They are powered by digital microprocessor-controlled, rugged stepper motor drives and laboratory grade sending units. They combine extreme durability and readability of 270 degree sweep mechanical gauges with easy installation and safe operation of short sweep electrics. They are track tested and race proven. The TCI electric transmission temperature gauge has an attractive easy-to-read face with a scale range of 150 degree to 300 degree F. Gauge comes with all necessary installation hardware. Electric design makes for easy installation. Boost gauge is mandatory when boost pressure is being modified to levels higher than OEM standard on a production turbocharged car. A boost gauge will measure pressure in either psi or bar and many also measure manifold vacuum pressure also in inches of mercury (in. Hg).",automotive;electrical;gauges;ignition & electrical;lighting & electrical;performance parts & accessories;replacement parts;vacuum,8
0801848962,"On the Limits of the Law: The Ironic Legacy of Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act ""Stephen Halpern has joined the growing number of scholars on the liberal-left of American politics who question the utility of pursuing social reform through the federal courts... this book represents a valuable contribution to the search for fresh ideas by the liberal-left on combating racial discrimination."" -- Robert McKeever, Political Studies""Stephen Halpern has written an important book about the 1964 Civil Rights Act. The thoughtful book explores important issues in a serious and careful manner... What Halpern so eloquently teaches us is that the progress we have made has come at considerable cost to the political fortunes of the liberal wing of the Democratic Party."" -- Dan A. Lewis, The Law and Politics Book Review	Stephen C. Halpern is professor of political science at the State University of New York at Buffalo and senior research associate at the University's Center for Applied Public Affairs.",books;civil procedure;law;political science;politics & government;politics & social sciences;rules & procedures;united states,8
B000GB72NQ,"Caged in Our Own Signs: A Book about Semiotics (Advances in Discourse Processes , Vol 55) Caged in Our Own Signs: A Book About Semiotics is a primer of semiotics, intended for general readers as well as communication majors. The first five chapters introduce the basic constructs, models, assumptions, frameworks for semiotic thinking, and other elements that underpin contemporary semiotics. This volume also provides the reader with semiotic methodology to analyze issues of postmodernism, of text semiotics, and of mass cultural semiotics. This book is written in such a way that the reader may easily apply the semiotic knowledge to the everyday conversation and discourse.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	Caged in Our Own Signs: A Book About Semiotics is a primer of semiotics, intended for general readers as well as communication majors. The first five chapters introduce the basic constructs, models, assumptions, frameworks for semiotic thinking, and other elements that underpin contemporary semiotics. This volume also provides the reader with semiotic methodology to analyze issues of postmodernism, of text semiotics, and of mass cultural semiotics. This book is written in such a way that the reader may easily apply the semiotic knowledge to the everyday conversation and discourse.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",books;communication;education & reference;fitness & dieting;health;language & grammar;psychology & counseling;words,8
0192142070,"The Oxford Book of Comic Verse In his introduction, Gross, also the editor of The Oxford Book of Essays, defines comic verse as primarily meant to amuse. From this bland definition he derives his principles of inclusion: funny poems that do not exceed the boundaries of good taste. No bawdy lyrics, no skewering satire here. Within these limits, he surveys the field from Chaucer to Glyn Maxwell (1962-), comforting readers with such old chestnuts as Tom Brown's ""Dr. Fell,"" the anonymous ""Elinor Glyn"" and Gellett Burgess's ""The Purple Cow,"" and delighting them with new suprises like Burgess's sequel, ""Cinq Ans Apres,"" Richard Wilbur's ""Prisoner of Zenda,"" C.S. Calverley's ""Flight,"" Virginia Graham's ""Ein Complaint"" and a host of others. Arguments could be made over the relative lack of American and, especially, female voices-where, for example, are Gertrude Stein, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Marianne Moore?-and over the inclusion of popular song lyrics, poems in French, or Burma shave ads. But this is, overall, an entertaining collection that updates and complements W.H. Auden's Oxford Book of Light Verse (1939, reprinted 1979) without in the least challenging Auden's more serious purposes. Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Even hardened poetry loathers enjoy comic verse now and then. Unfortunately, if said grumblers go only for filthy limericks, they'll hate this book, too; editor Gross acknowledges the appeal of the risibly risqu{}e but excludes it. Yet if those verse haters still enjoy nonfilthy limericks or Burma-Shave signs, maybe they'll at least read the examples of both herein and then let their eyes stray and discover plenty to raise a smile and brighten a day. It'll help during the first third of the book, which presents the pleasantries of bards from Chaucer through Tennyson, if they're literarily or historically informed, but thereafter nearly any good reader should find lots to enjoy: patter songs by W. S. Gilbert, parodies of serious poems and parodies of the loopy English language (see ""The Harbour of Fowey"" by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch), music hall recitations and Tin Pan Alley lyrics, the inimitable reflections on mundane madness of Ogden Nash, silly alphabets (including one from Barry Humphries' altered ego, Dame Edna Everage), and much by poets whose reputations are for heavier stuff.  Ray Olson	Those Two Boys by Franklin Pierce Adams The Three-toed Sloth by Karen Fleur Adcock R-e-m-o-r-s-e by George Ade Animula Vagula Blandula by Conrad Aiken Autobiographical Fragment by Kingsley Amis Mightier Than The Pen by Kingsley Amis Coming Right Up by Archie Randolph Ammons Their Sex Life by Archie Randolph Ammons On His Own Career by Clement Richard Attlee The Aesthetic Point Of View by Wystan Hugh Auden Give Me A Doctor Partridge-plump by Wystan Hugh Auden The Love Feast by Wystan Hugh Auden Passenger Shanty by Wystan Hugh Auden Statesmen by Wystan Hugh Auden The American's Apostrophe To Boz, Sels. by William Edmonstoune Aytoun The Royal Banquet by William Edmonstoune Aytoun A Description Of London by John Banks The Jackdaw Of Rheims by Richard Harris Barham Lines Left At Mr. Theodore Hook's House In June, 1834 by Richard Harris Barham I Had A Duck-billed Platypus When I Was Up At Trinity by Patrick Barrington Take Me In Your Arms, Miss Moneypenny-wilson by Patrick Barrington It's A Great Big Shame by Edgar Bateman The Carpenter's Complaint by Edward Baugh Out by Thomas Haynes Bayly Folk Song by Bruce Victor Beaver Addition To Kipling's The Dead King (edward Vii), 1910 by Henry Maximilian Beerbohm After Hilaire Belloc (1) by Henry Maximilian Beerbohm Chorus Of A Song That Might Have Been Written By...chevalier by Henry Maximilian Beerbohm In A Copy Of More's (or Shaw's Or Well's Or Plato's) Utopia by Henry Maximilian Beerbohm On The Imprint Of The First English Edition ... by Henry Maximilian Beerbohm A Red Sky At Night %is A Shepherd's Delight by Henry Maximilian Beerbohm Senilio Passes, Singing by Martin Bell Henry King, Who Chewed Bits Of String ... by Hilaire Belloc Imitation by Hilaire Belloc Is There Any Reward? by Hilaire Belloc Lord Heygate Had A Troubled Face by Hilaire Belloc Obiter Dicta by Hilaire Belloc On Lady Poltagrue: A Public Peril by Hilaire Belloc On Mundane Acquaintances; Epigram by Hilaire Belloc The Pacifist; Epigram by Hilaire Belloc The World's A Stage. The Trifling Entrance Fee by Hilaire Belloc Colonisation In Reverse by Simone Louise Bennett Bloomsbury Snapshot by Connie Bensley One's Correspondence by Connie Bensley Limerick by Gerard Benson Clerihew by Edmund Clerihew Bentley Clerihew by Edmund Clerihew Bentley Clerihew by Edmund Clerihew Bentley Clerihew by Edmund Clerihew Bentley Clerihew by Edmund Clerihew Bentley Clerihew by Edmund Clerihew Bentley Clerihew by Edmund Clerihew Bentley Clerihew by Edmund Clerihew Bentley Cecil B. De Mille by Nicholas Bentley The Londonderry Air by Nicholas Bentley On Lady A - by Nicholas Bentley A Couple Of Swells by Irving Berlin American Lights, Seen From Off Abroad by John Berryman The Ballad Of George R. Sims by John Betjeman A Hike On The Downs by John Betjeman Hunter Trials by John Betjeman Longfellow's Visit To Venice by John Betjeman The Old Land Dog by John Betjeman Reproof Deserved, Or After The Lecture by John Betjeman Air by Isaac Bickerstaffe An Expostulation by Isaac Bickerstaffe The Adventures Of Id by Morris Gilbert Bishop My Friend The Cuckold by Morris Gilbert Bishop An Epitaph by William Blake Imitation Of Pope: A Compliment To The Ladies by William Blake Sonnet: In Time Of Revolt by Rupert Brooke Oaths by Thomas (tom) Brown And Were I Not, As A Man May Say, Cautious by Robert Browning Dialogue Between Father And Daughter by Robert Browning Rhyme For A Child Viewing A Naked Venus In A Painting by Robert Browning Teaching German Literature by Vincent Buckley To Archbishop Lang (written At Time Of The Abdication, 1936) by Gerald Bullett Cinq Ans Apres by Frank Gelett Burgess Leave-taking by Frank Gelett Burgess The Purple Cow by Frank Gelett Burgess Trapping Fairies by Frank Gelett Burgess For The Common Market by Michael Burn The Deil's Awa Wi' Th' Exciseman by Robert Burns Holy Willie's Prayer by Robert Burns Poor Merry-andrew, In The Neuk by Robert Burns Boston by Samuel C. Bushnell The Presbyterian Knight [or, The Religion Of Hudibras] by Samuel (1612-1680) Butler Massenet by Anthony Butts Careless Content by John Byrom 14. by George Gordon Byron 15. by George Gordon Byron 16. by George Gordon Byron 17. by George Gordon Byron 18. by George Gordon Byron 19. by George Gordon Byron 20. by George Gordon Byron 21. by George Gordon Byron 218. by George Gordon Byron 219. by George Gordon Byron 220. by George Gordon Byron 90. by George Gordon Byron 91. by George Gordon Byron 92. by George Gordon Byron 93. by George Gordon Byron 94. by George Gordon Byron 96. by George Gordon Byron Epistle From Mr. Murray To Dr. Polidori by George Gordon Byron Lines To Mr. Hodgson, Written On Board The Lisbon Packet by George Gordon Byron A,b,c by Charles Stuart Calverley Ballad by Charles Stuart Calverley Flight by Charles Stuart Calverley In The Gloaming by Charles Stuart Calverley On Some South African Novelists by Ignatius Royston Dunnachie Campbell On The Same (on Some South African Novelists) by Ignatius Royston Dunnachie Campbell The Friend Of Humanity And The Knife-grinder by George Canning A Lilliputian Ode On Their Majesties' Accession by Henry (1687-1743) Carey Wit Was A Strange Unlucky Child by James Cawthorn The Monk by Geoffrey Chaucer The Summoner And The Pardoner by Geoffrey Chaucer The Aristocrat by Gilbert Keith Chesterton A Ballade Of Suicide by Gilbert Keith Chesterton The Fat White Woman Speaks by Gilbert Keith Chesterton On Reading 'god' by Gilbert Keith Chesterton The Song Against Grocers by Gilbert Keith Chesterton Mr. Slimmer's Funeral Verses ...: Willie by Charles Heber Clark Polly Perkins by Harry (1832-1872) Clifton Spectator Ab Extra by Arthur Hugh Clough Mutual Problem by William Cole If by Edward James Mortimer Collins Semele To Jupiter by William Congreve Lord Came Home by Cyril Vernon Connolly M Is For Marx by Cyril Vernon Connolly On Geoffrey Grigson by Cyril Vernon Connolly On Himself by Cyril Vernon Connolly Percy, My Pillon-proud by Cyril Vernon Connolly Something Is Going To Go, Baby by Cyril Vernon Connolly To Osbert Sitwell by Cyril Vernon Connolly She Was One Of The Early Birds by T. W. Connor Bagpipes At The Biltmore by George Robert Acworth Conquest Progress by George Robert Acworth Conquest Engineers' Corner by Wendy Cope Exchange Of Letters by Wendy Cope Lonely Heatfrs by Wendy Cope Serious Concerns by Wendy Cope Triolet by Wendy Cope Two Cures For Love by Wendy Cope The Distracted Puritan by Richard Corbet But, To Leave Fooling, I Assure Ye by Charles Cotton A Maid Compelled by Charles Cotton Our Country Air Was, In Plain Dealing by Charles Cotton Irish Song (rosie O'grady) by Noel Coward The Stately Homes Of England by Noel Coward 1x1 (one Times One): 11 by Edward Estlin Cummings 50 Poems: 8 by Edward Estlin Cummings No Thanks: 16 by Edward Estlin Cummings On Alderman W ---: The History Of His Life by John Cunningham Buttered Pippin-pies by John (1565-1618) Davies Francus by John (1569-1626) Davies Weapons Training by Bruce Dawe And A Shark That Once Began by Clarence Day Brooding Beast by Clarence Day In Mesozoic Days A War by Clarence Day In Those Old Days They Tell Us Of by Clarence Day On Lido's Shore by Clarence Day Once, They Say, A Bat-like Brute by Clarence Day The Real Objection To The Nude by Clarence Day Scents, Sounds And Views by Clarence Day Yesterday Explorers Found by Clarence Day Dear Sir by Walter John De La Mare Moonshine by Walter John De La Mare Pooh! by Walter John De La Mare The Shubble by Walter John De La Mare Sacred And Profane Love, Or, There's Nothing New by Peter De Vries Alternative Endings To An Unwritten Ballad by Paul Dehn From Potted Swan (a Condensed Version Of Shaakespeare) by Paul Dehn I'm Nobody! Who Are You by Emily Dickinson Abeecdary by Thomas M. Disch Zewhyexary by Thomas M. Disch Father William [questioned], Fr. Alice In Wonderland by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson Humpty Dumpty Recitation [or, Song] by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson The Hunting Of The Snark: Fit 2. The Bellman's Speech by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson The Long Tale by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson 'tis The Voice Of The Lobster; I Heard Him Declare by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson To An Undiscerning Critic by Arthur Conan Doyle Tyrannic Love, Or The Royal Martyr: Epilogue by John Dryden The [crown] Prince Of Dullness [names His Heir] by John Dryden Vers Nonsensique: 3 by George Louis Palmella Busson Du Maurier Vers Nonsensique: 4 by George Louis Palmella Busson Du Maurier Vers Nonsensique: 5 by George Louis Palmella Busson Du Maurier Vers Nonsensiques: 1 by George Louis Palmella Busson Du Maurier Vers Nonsensiques: 2 by George Louis Palmella Busson Du Maurier Honeymoon Postcard by Paul Durcan Sister Agnes Writes To Her Beloved Mother by Paul Durcan Tullynoe: Tete-a-tete In The Parish Priest's Parlour by Paul Durcan Ballad Of The Oedipus Complex by Lawrence Durrell Bustopher Jones: The Cat About Town by Thomas Stearns Eliot Lines For Cuscuscaraway And Mirza Murad Ali Beg by Thomas Stearns Eliot Just A Smack At Auden by William Empson The Evil Days by Dennis Joseph Enright Paradise Illustrated: 22 by Dennis Joseph Enright Paradise Illustrated: 3 by Dennis Joseph Enright Paradise Illustrated: 32 by Dennis Joseph Enright Posterity by Dennis Joseph Enright The Black Box by Gavin Ewart The Great Women Composers by Gavin Ewart 'it's Hard To Dislike Ewart' by Gavin Ewart One For The Anthologies by Gavin Ewart The Owl Writes A Detective Story by Gavin Ewart Semantic Limerick According To Dr. Johnson's Dictionary by Gavin Ewart Semantic Limerick According To The Shorted Oxford Dictionary by Gavin Ewart To The Virgins, To Make The Most Of Time by Gavin Ewart The Chosen People by William Norman Ewer Family by Nissim Ezekiel Goodbye Party For Miss Pushpa T.s. by Nissim Ezekiel Song To Be Shouted Out by Nissim Ezekiel When The Female Railway Clerk by Nissim Ezekiel Enigma by Catherine Maria Fanshawe You Will Be Hearing From Us Shortly by Ursala Fanthorpe Privy-love For My Landlady by George Farewell Quaere by George Farewell Trifles by George Farquhar God, A Poem by James Fenton Lower East Side: The George Bernstein Story by Edward Field A Fine Romance by Dorothy Fields Have Some Madeira, M'dear? by Michael Flanders An Appeal To Cats In The Business Of Love by Thomas Flatman The Mountains Of Mourne by Percy French The Queen's After-dinner Speech by Percy French King Arthur's Court by John Hookham Frere Whistlecraft by John Hookham Frere An Answer by Robert Frost Clear And Colder by Robert Frost Lucretius Versus The Lake Poets by Robert Frost The Objection To Being Stepped On by Robert Frost Born Too Soon by John Fuller The Red Light District Nurse by John Fuller Coptic Socks by Roy Fuller Did Ye See Me? by Robert Garioch A Fair Cop by Robert Garioch I Was Fair Beat by Robert Garioch Fables: 1st Ser. 40. The Two Monkeys by John Gay Lesser Epistles: To A Young Lady With Some Lampreys by John Gay Molly Mog, Or The Fair Maid Of The Inn by John Gay The Babbitt And The Bromide by Ira Gershwin Captain Reece Of The Mantlepiece by William Schwenck Gilbert Ferdinando And Elvira, Or The Gentle Pieman by William Schwenck Gilbert Nightmare, Fr. Iolanthe by William Schwenck Gilbert There Lived A King by William Schwenck Gilbert A Thought by William Schwenck Gilbert The Double Transformation by Oliver Goldsmith Sir Joshua Reynolds by Oliver Goldsmith From Number Nine, Penwiper Mews by Edward Gorey From The Bathing Machine Came A Din by Edward Gorey Some Harvard Men, Stalwart And Hairy by Edward Gorey To His Club-footed Child Said Lord Stipple by Edward Gorey Grandpapa by Harry Graham L'enfant Glace by Harry Graham Opportunity by Harry Graham Waste by Harry Graham Ein Complaint by Virginia Graham 1805 by Robert Ranke Graves Beauty In Trouble by Robert Ranke Graves Epitaph On An Unfortunate Artist by Robert Ranke Graves A Grotesque: 1 by Robert Ranke Graves Twins by Robert Ranke Graves The Weather Of Olumpus by Robert Ranke Graves Ode On The Death Of A Favourite Cat, Drowned In A Tub by Thomas Gray Sometimes I Dress, With Women Sit by Matthew Green Stately As A Galleon by Joyce Grenfell Everything In Its Place by Arthur Guiterman Woolworth's by Donald Hall Limerick by Gerry Hamill Don's Holiday by George Rostrevor Hamilton To A Pessimist by George Rostrevor Hamilton Liddell And Scott, On The Completion Of Their Lexicon by Thomas Hardy Alfred De Musset by Maurice Evan Hare Determinism by Maurice Evan Hare Burlington Bertie From Bow by William Hargreaves I Wish I Were In Love Again by Lorenz Milton Hart Plain Language From Truthful James by Francis Bret Harte Nomenclaturik by Harry Hearson Footnote To Belloc's 'tarantella' by John Heath-stubbs One by John Heath-stubbs Simcox by John Heath-stubbs From The Grove Press by Anthony Hecht Goliardic Song by Anthony Hecht The Smile Of The Goat by Oliver Brook Herford The Smile Of The Walrus by Oliver Brook Herford Picture-palaces by Philip Heseltine Limerick by R. J. P. Hewison I'm Fond Of Doctors by Samuel Hoffenstein Poems In Praise Of Practically Nothing: 5 by Samuel Hoffenstein Poems In Praise Of Practically Nothing: 6 by Samuel Hoffenstein Poems In Praise Of Practically Nothing: 9 by Samuel Hoffenstein Progress by Samuel Hoffenstein Song 13 by Samuel Hoffenstein Song Of Fairly Utter Despair (1) by Samuel Hoffenstein Historical Reflections by John Hollander No Foundation by John Hollander Old Sam by Stanley Holloway At The 'atlantic Dinner' by Oliver Wendell Holmes Cacoethes Scribendi by Oliver Wendell Holmes The Prince Regent by William Hone A First Attempt In Rhyme by Thomas Hood Her Birth by Thomas Hood No! by Thomas Hood A Parental Ode To My Son, Aged Three Years And Five Months by Thomas Hood A Public Dinner by Thomas Hood Sonnet To Vauxhall by Thomas Hood Mobius Strip-tease by Alec Derwent Hope Fragment Of An English Opera by Alfred Edward Housman The Pope by Alfred Edward Housman The Shades Of Night by Alfred Edward Housman Little Lyric (of Great Importance) by James Langston Hughes Morning After by James Langston Hughes Wake by James Langston Hughes Edna's Alphabet by Barry Humphries Christlike Is My Behaviour by Aldous Leonard Huxley Fifth Philosopher's Song by Aldous Leonard Huxley Second Philosopher's Song by Aldous Leonard Huxley On Professor Coue by Charles Cuthbert Inge The Book Of My Enemy Has Been Remaindered by Clive James Notes For A Revised Sonnet by Clive James Notes For A Sonnet by Clive James Revised Notes For A Sonnet by Clive James Parody Of Bishop Perry by Samuel (1709-1784) Johnson A Short Song Of Congratulation by Samuel (1709-1784) Johnson Comus's Song by Ben Jonson A Blurb For 'anna Livia Plurabelle' by James Joyce A Blurb For 'haveth Childers Everywhere' by James Joyce Post Ulixem Scriptum by James Joyce Makin' Whoopee by Gus Kahn The Passionate Profiteer To His Love by Olga Katzin Katzin Stalin Moy Golubchik by Olga Katzin Katzin Goldie Sapiens by Patrick Joseph Gregory Kavanagh 'all These Are Vile' by John Keats Lines Rhymed In A Letter From Oxford by John Keats There Was A Naughty Boy by John Keats On Who Wrote Icon Basilike? 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0727860046,"Sherlock Holmes and the Rule of Nine British author Roberts follows the mediocre Sherlock Holmes and the Crosby Murder (2002) with an equally unmemorable effort, which draws on two of Dr. Watson's legendary untold tales. Holmes's failure to bring the vicious thieves of the valuable Vatican cameos to justice rears its head seven years later, when the prime suspect, Cardinal Tosca, a prominent member of the Catholic Church, returns to England. Meanwhile, Holmes's probe into a protection racket victimizing small businesses leads him to a Mafia-like secret society known as the Rule of Nine. Predictably, the two cases quickly become one, and a real-life Italian-American undercover detective joins the campaign, posing as an organ grinder to infiltrate the gang. The search for the stolen cameos is sidetracked by a murder investigation in which the master detective typically disagrees with the theories of Scotland Yard. The solution to the murder turns on a set of coincidences that strain credulity. Despite his convincing portrayals of Holmes and Watson, the author, who has done some excellent pastiches in the past, fails at marrying a traditional tale of deduction with the adversaries he's chosen for Holmes-a ruthless organized crime syndicate. Conan Doyle did much better with a similar premise in ""The Adventure of the Red Circle."" Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	Sherlock Holmes fans will be delighted with Roberts' latest updating of the Conan Doyle series. Roberts' style is surprisingly similar to Doyle's, and the adventures he sets for Holmes and Watson are nearly as baffling as the originals. In this outing, Holmes and Watson are up against a gang called the Rule of Nine, headed by one Don Vito Corese. The New York-based gang has extended its reach to London, setting up a protection racket and forcing local shopkeepers to pay up or risk having their businesses destroyed. When a man's body is found crammed into a tea chest, Holmes is called in to assist and soon discovers that the protection racket is only a cover for a much darker scheme. In his usual inimitable style, Holmes (with help from Watson and a New York detective) employs disguises, trickery, logic, and legerdemain to confuse the perpetrators, amaze the police, stun even the unflappable Watson, and solve the case with flair and aplomb. A cleverly plotted, entertaining imitation that just might please even Holmes purists. Emily MeltonCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	Barrie Roberts has worked as a criminal lawyer for over twenty years. He is also the author of a series of popular Sherlock Holmes pastiches and books on true crime and the paranormal",books;contemporary;genre fiction;historical;literature & fiction;mystery;thriller & suspense;war,8
0974928984,"Security in the Boardroom Mark S.A. Smith is an electrical engineer, computer programmer, hardware salesman, software marketer, and author. Mark focuses on how to rapidly create sound business decisions in a fast-paced business world. He delivers innovative business strategies for entrepreneurial thinkers, executives, and sales professionals. Marks an expert in creating instantly implementable tactics to achieve real business success. Mark authored the critically-acclaimed Linux in the Boardroom: How Linux is Changing Corporate Computing and What Executives Need to Know and Do About It. He co-authored business best-sellers Guerrilla Trade Show Selling, Guerrilla TeleSelling, and Guerrilla Negotiating. A veteran professional speaker, he is past president of the National Speakers Association, Colorado chapter. Mark regularly appears at top industry events as a speaker, panel moderator, or emcee.",books;business & investing;business & management;computers & technology;leadership;management;management & leadership;manager's guides to computing,8
0942941063,"Brave New Child: Education for the 21st Century (Sane/Intelligent Living Series) Terrence Webster-Doyle is a martial arts sixth-degree black belt, former schoolteacher and administrator, Juvenile Delinquency Prevention Commission task force member, and parent of five daughters. He has written twenty-one internationally acclaimed, award-winning books on conflict education and the martial arts, and is co-founder and director of Martial Arts Partners for Peace.",books;children's books;education & reference;education theory;history;parenting;parenting & relationships;schools & teaching,8
1573420441,"Day Hikes Around Los Angeles, 4th Day Hikes Around Los Angeles is the essential guide to accessing this area's green space. Despite the imminent presence of the city, there are thousands of acres of natural, undeveloped land with miles of trails. Highlights include waterfalls, weather-sculpted canyons, rock formations, filming sites, architectural ruins, and ridge walks with sweeping views.Outdoor people living in the city will find the book indispensable. Hikes range in scenery and difficulty level, from coastal walks to mountain climbs with 360-degree views. Clear directions, concise summaries, and over 80 maps allow the hiker to choose a trail appropriate to their ability and desire.	For more than a decade, veteran hiker Robert Stone has been writer, photographer, and publisher of Day Hike Books. Robert resides summers in the Rocky Mountains of Montana and winters on the California Central Coast. This year-round temperate climate enables him to hike over 200 trails throughout the year. When not hiking, Robert is researching, writing, and mapping the hikes before returning to the trails. Robert has hiked every trail in the Day Hike Book series. With 20 hiking guides in the series, he has hiked over 1,000 trails throughout the western United States and Hawaii.",books;excursion guides;hiking & camping;pacific;sports & outdoors;travel;united states;west,8
1932111727,"Mac OS X Version 10.2 Jaguar Little Black Book Gene Steinberg is one of the very top Mac writers working today and his new Little Black Book was written to really get under the hood of the new Jaguar (OS X Version 10.2) operating system. His previous editions of Mac OS X Little Black Books have been best-sellers around the world and have been highly praised by Mac users in the know. The most unique feature of this new edition is the numerous hands-on ""immediate solutions"" that all Mac Jaguar users can put to work right away. Some of the features included in this book for Jaguar users are:     The information needed for a painless  Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar upgrade   Complete step-by-step instructions and  installation strategies   Discussion of the new features, including  Internet integration and networking  * Etensive troubleshooting and time-saving tips and techniques    The book is specifically written for:     Any Mac user preparing to upgrade to  Mac OS X Version 10.2 (Jaguar)  * All Mac OS X power users   System administrators needing to deploy the new OS on their networks	Gene Steinberg, author of 30 books and hundreds of articles on computer-related topics, has been involved with the Mac world since 1984. He is a regular columnist for ""USAToday.com"" and Gannett News Service and a contributing editor for CNET technology news service, and maintains a Mac support Web site at www.macnightowl.com. As a software/systems consultant, Gene's client list included bestselling author Tom Clancy.",apple;books;computers & technology;graphics & multimedia;home computing & how-to;os x;programming;software,8
0375708553,"The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee: Observations on Not Fitting In The final essay in this unfocused collection recounts Rekdal's search for evidence of a Chinese community that had settled in Natchez, Miss., in the early 1900s; her great-aunt was a member. At the visitor's center in Natchez, she is told there was no such community. The attendant explains, ""There's just us. Just Natchez. EveryoneDblacks, white, Chinese, we're all in here together."" Rekdal, the daughter of a Chinese-American mother and an American father of ""Norwegian stock,"" is attracted to the inclusiveness implied in the Natchezian's statement, but finds it difficult to believe. Traveling through America, Taiwan, Japan, Korea and China, she continually confronts the difficulty of negotiating her biracial identity and the hard truth that she ""cannot choose one identity without losing half of [her]self."" A poet (her first collection, A Crash of Rhinos, is forthcoming), Rekdal writes with a sure hand, though she stretches her broad subtitle to encompass travel sketches, childhood memories and meditations on sharks and BB guns. The essays are further diffused by her technique of continuously moving between past and present (her excursion to Taiwan, for example, serves almost entirely as backdrop for thoughts of her boyfriend in America). Perhaps the difficulty of Rekdal's position prevents her from seeing what could have been her focus. When trying to explain to the Japanese family she stays with that she is half-Chinese, she is sternly rebuked with ""I am sorry, but you are American"": what it means to be American is the insistent, unanswerable question that dogs Rekdal wherever she goes. Agent, Leigh Feldman, Darshanoff & Verrill Literary Agency. (Oct.) Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	Being biracial is a topic often left out of the Great American Dialogue on Race. Oddly, even the U.S. Census dodges the question: ""biracial"" was not one of the myriad racial categories on the forms this year. Rekdal, half-Chinese, half-Norwegian, hailing from Washington State, cleverly dissects what it means to be biracial in America and overseas in this artful collection of essays. The essays recall experiences from childhood, adolescence, and adulthood in America and as a student and teacher in Korea, Japan, and China. Rekdal artfully narrates the peculiar situations her dual identity has often placed her in, alternately funny, sad, poignant, or ironic. She probes nearly every possible relationship: lovers, friends, mother and daughter, father and daughter. The narrative structure is inventive and draws from her sharply honed skills as a poet. Some stories are told in a weaving, dreamlike fashion. Others are sharp and blunt. Tapped by the Village Voice as an up-and-coming ""writer on the verge,"" Rekdal has a lot to say. Ted LeventhalCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	Paisley Rekdal has taken that universal questionWho am I?and added to it another dimension: What am I? She has looked in the mirror, as well as the world around her, to examine issues of identity, ethnicity, culture, and race. No polemics here, just observations and experiences of the most personal kind. And shes funny too! Lisa See, author of On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American FamilyMakes us feel and see the complicated and violent nature of the issue of race and identity. Rekdal writes with eloquence, liveliness, and poignancya truly impressive achievement. Ha Jin, author of WaitingShe is the sort of observer we should all wish for:  disarming, frank, and intelligent. In setting out to explore three realmsChina, Japan, and Koreashe ends up learning much more about another one: herself. Arthur Golden, author of Memoirs of a GeishaInsightful and idiosyncratic. Rekdals essays are so engaging that it takes while to realize how much they reveal about the delicate, shifting balance between the ways others perceive us and how we choose to define ourselves.Us WeeklyAn engaging and artful memoirpoetic not in its diction but in it elisions, in the spaces she allows between thoughts.The New York Times Book ReviewCompelling, appealing, cinematic. . . With this entire collection, Rekdal refreshes the meaning and the image of being displaced in this world.  The Boston GlobeRemarkable. . .A keenly intelligent, restless witness to her mixed-race life, Rekdal is a writer with a deep and urgent story to tell.  NewsdayAn engaging and artful memoir. . .poetic not in its diction but in it elisions, in the spaces she allows between thoughts.  The New York Times Book Review	""The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee is an honest, intelligent book.  It makes us feel and see the complicated and violent nature of the issue of race and identity.  Paisley Rekdal writes with eloquence, liveliness, and poignancy--a truly impressive achievement.""-- Ha Jin""Paisley Rekdal is the sort of observer we should all wish for: disarming, frank, and intelligent. This self-portrait--refreshingly non-PC--shows that she is a talented writer too. In setting out to explore three realms--China, Japan, and Korea--she ends up learning much about another one: herself.""-- Arthur Golden""Paisley Rekdal has taken that universal question--Who am I?--and added to it another dimension: What am I?  She has looked in the mirror, as well as the world around her, to examine issues of identity, ethnicity, culture and race.  No polemics here, just observations and experiences of the most personal kind.  And she's funny too!""-- Lisa See, author of On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-YearOdyssey of My Chinese-American Family	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	When you come from a mixed race background as Paisley Rekdal does  her mother is Chinese American and her father is Norwegian thorny issues of identity politics, and interracial desire are never far from the surface.  Here in this hypnotic blend of personal essay and travelogue, Rekdal journeys throughout Asia to explore her place in a world where one's ""appearance is the deciding factor of one's ethnicity.""In her soul-searching voyage, she teaches English in South Korea where her native colleagues call her a ""hermaphrodite,"" and is dismissed by her host family in Japan as an American despite her assertion of being half-Chinese.  A visit to Taipei with her mother, who doesn't know the dialect, leads to the bitter realization that they are only tourists, which makes her further question her identity.  Written with remarkable insight and clarity, Rekdal a poet whose fierce lyricism is apparent on every page, demonstrates that the shifting frames of identity can be as tricky as they are exhilarating.	Paisley Rekdal has taken that universal questionWho am I?and added to it another dimension: What am I? She has looked in the mirror, as well as the world around her, to examine issues of identity, ethnicity, culture, and race. No polemics here, just observations and experiences of the most personal kind. And shes funny too! Lisa See, author of On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American FamilyMakes us feel and see the complicated and violent nature of the issue of race and identity. Rekdal writes with eloquence, liveliness, and poignancya truly impressive achievement. Ha Jin, author of WaitingShe is the sort of observer we should all wish for:  disarming, frank, and intelligent. In setting out to explore three realmsChina, Japan, and Koreashe ends up learning much more about another one: herself. Arthur Golden, author of Memoirs of a GeishaInsightful and idiosyncratic. Rekdals essays are so engaging that it takes while to realize how much they reveal about the delicate, shifting balance between the ways others perceive us and how we choose to define ourselves.Us WeeklyAn engaging and artful memoirpoetic not in its diction but in it elisions, in the spaces she allows between thoughts.The New York Times Book ReviewCompelling, appealing, cinematic. . . With this entire collection, Rekdal refreshes the meaning and the image of being displaced in this world.  The Boston GlobeRemarkable. . .A keenly intelligent, restless witness to her mixed-race life, Rekdal is a writer with a deep and urgent story to tell.  NewsdayAn engaging and artful memoir. . .poetic not in its diction but in it elisions, in the spaces she allows between thoughts.  The New York Times Book Review	Paisley Rekdal was born and raised in Seattle, Washington. She has received Fulbright and Hopwood awards and has published poems and essays in Poetry Northwest and The Sonora Review, among other periodicals. A book of her poetry, A Crash of Rhinos, will be published this year. Rekdal lives in Laramie, Wyoming, and teaches poetry at the University of Wyoming.	Age sixteen, my mother loads up red tubs of noodles, teacups chipped and white-gray as teeth, rice clumps that glue themselves to the plastic tub sides or dissolve and turn papery in the weak tea sloshing around the bottom. She's at Diamond Chan's restaurant, where most of her cousins work after school and during summer vacations, some of her friends, too. There's Suzy at the cash register, totaling up bills and giving back change, a little dish of toothpicks beside her and a basket of mints that taste like powdered cream. A couple of my mother's cousins are washing dishes be-hind the swinging kitchen door, and some woman called Auntie #2 (at her age, everyone is Auntie and each must take a number) takes orders at a table of women that look like Po Po's mah-jongg club. They don't play anymore. They go to the racetrack.The interior of Diamond Chan's restaurant is red: red napkins, red walls, red carp in the tank and in signature seals on the cheap wall hangings. Luck or no luck, it's like the inside of an esophagus. My mother's nails are cracked, kept short by clipping or gnawing, glisten only when varnished with the grease of someone else's leftovers. Still, she enjoys working here, its repetitive actions, the chores that keep her from thinking. The money my mother earns will soon get sucked into the price of a pink cashmere sweater for Po Po's birthday, along with a graduation photo of herself, also in a pink sweater, pearls, her face airbrushed fog-rose at the cheeks and mouth. Graduation? Unlike her brothers, she knows she's going to college. Smith, to be exact, though without the approval of the school counselor. Smith is . . . expensive, the school counselor told my mother only yesterday, which is why my mother is slightly irritated now, clomping around under the weight of full tubs of used dishes. Smith is not for girls like you. What does she plan to be when she grows up? A doctor? my mother suggests. Um, no. Nursing. Or teaching, perhaps, which is even more practical. Don't you think?My mother, who is practical above all things, agreed. So it's the University of Washington in two years with a degree in education. Fine. She slams down full vials of soy sauce onto each table, makes sure the nozzle heads are screwed on exactly. Someone the other week stuck chewing gum up under the lid of one, and my mother had to dig it out with an old chopstick and then forgot to fully tighten the lid. Black, sweet-smelling pool on the white tablecloth. Seeing it, she could feel the back of her throat fill up with salt. Smith is not for girls like her.Cindy! someone shouts. The kitchen door swings open. A momentary view: white chef shirts stained with red and brown grease. A woman wiping her brow with the back of her hand.It is not, my mother would argue, the fact she could be denied the dream of Smith so much that someone should tell her she could be denied it. My mother knows the counselor was hinting at some limitation my mother would prefer to ignore. Still, she is whiter than white, should intelligence be considered a pale attribute. Deep down she understands she has a special capacity for work; she likes it, she's good at it, she excels at school and its predictable problems. Hers is a discipline entirely lacking in the spirits of whatever loh fan may sneer or wonder at her in study hall; to be told by a fat, dyed-blond guidance counselor she may be inferior? The monkey calling the man animal. Now out of the kitchen erupts the newcomer, a smatter of duck fat and ash. Like everyone here, he's someone's cousin's cousin, though he talks like he's got marbles piled in his mouth. I come from Hong Kong, he told my mother on break in the alley. From real Chinese. Is there a substitute? He leers at Suzy, waves his hand dismissively over the carved dragon beams, the waitresses gossiping in English. He's two years older than my mother, lean, high-cheekboned, shaggy-headed. He has big plans for himself. He likes to whip his arms and legs around in the kitchen, threaten the other busboy. Already he's dropped a dish, insulted the cook, cut his thumb on a knife blade. He smells funny. Mr. B. O. Jangles, Suzy calls him. Kung Fooey. What the hell the matter with him? growls Auntie #2. I never seen nobody act like that before. It's all the rage in China, my mother says. She is repeating what he told her in a tone of voice that is meant to seem sarcastic but comes out another way. All the rage. In China.She stacks more dishes in her tub. From the kitchen comes a high-pitched human squawk and the sound of something clattering to the floor. He's going to get fired soon and my mother is never going to Smith. A waitress scurries out of the kitchen, bearing more food, a panicked look on her face. My mother stands and watches the kitchen door swing in place behind her. Back and forth, back and forth, back and forth.Around age thirteen, for summer vacation I come down with laziness heretofore unheard of in a child. I doze in bed till noon at least, stay up every night watching bad movies or reading. Sometimes, if it's a bad enough movie and she is not teaching the next morning, my mother wakes and joins me.Tonight is Enter the Dragon. I remember it because a year or two ago when it came out, all the boys on the block bought numchucks. We smacked our backs with the sticks on chains, left thumb-thick bruise prints on our rib cages. Jeff down the street still has the movie poster, still tells people he has a black belt in karate.My mother and I watch Bruce Lee set foot on the island, followed closely by the playboy and the black man who will die after the banquet and all his women. Bruce Lee narrows his eyes, ripples his chest muscles underneath his white turtleneck. I knew him, my mother tells me. I worked with him in a restaurant when I was in high school.Really? This is now officially the only cool thing about her. What was he like?I don't remember. No one liked him, though. All that kung fu stuff; it looked ridiculous. Like a parody. We watch in the dark as Bruce Lee confronts himself, over and over. In the hall of mirrors, his bloody chest and face seem outlined in silver. He is handsome and wiry; he caws at his opponents like an ethereal avenger. I peek at my mother beside me on the sofa. In the television light, her broad face twists into an expression I do not recognize. Then the light flickers, changes, makes her ordinary again.OneWe Do Not Live Here,We Are Only VisitorsIn Taipei one of the first things I notice are the white cotton masks strapped to the faces of the women. Men wear them, too, but the number of women wearing these makeshift face-filters exceed the number of men, and give Taipei the look of being run by a skinny, anonymous band of surgeons. After two days my mother, who notices this as well, wants to buy a mask for herself. I argue against it more vehemently than the situation requires, saying that we will only be in Taipei twelve days; whatever damage meant to be done to our lungs in that time will not magically be eliminated by a piece of cotton with two rubber bands. But my mother insists. Near the markets where they sell the masks, she spends minutes haggling with the merchant for a better price than she believes she is being offered. I lounge and snort, tug her away when the merchant's gesticulations become too frenzied to be understood. In restaurants we argue halfheartedly about the necessity of the masks until we reach a compromise. Now she walks around clutching an old scarf to her face and breathing shallowly. Soon we notice older Chinese women doing the same. Only the young women seem to have adopted the ear-band model. With my mother's wiry skunk hair and still-unlined almond eyes peeking over the tips of her scarf, she has the perfect outfit for traveling. Her brown scarf allows her to blend in with the crowds of older Chinese women in the markets and on the street while always covering her mouth, muffling the fact that she can't speak Chinese. At night in Taipei after my mother dozes off in front of the hotel television, I think about Mark in Seattle, how we argue in bed together about whether we should marry. Mark had almost proposed twice but thought better of it, he said, when he recalled how easily I became seasick. Mark is an Englishman from Kent who works as a navigator for certain shipping companies. We met in Ireland, where I lived for a year; he followed me home when I returned to Seattle. Mark had half the year off from work and decided, in his typically spontaneous fashion, to buy a plane ticket to the States the morning he drove me to the airport. Within two weeks of my return he was sharing my room in the house I rented with friends.Mark has hired himself out as a sailing instructor now and spends the better part of every weekend...",anthropology;biographies & memoirs;books;cultural;memoirs;politics & social sciences;specific groups;women,8
0809228440,"How To Settle Your Living Trust : How You Can Settle a Living Trust Swiftly, Easily, and Safely Henry W. Abts III holds a master's degree from the Stanford School of Business and is a licensed and registered investment adviser. He is cofounder and chairman of The Estate Plan, a company that creates and executes living trusts.",books;business & investing;education & reference;estates & trusts;law;legal self-help;personal finance;tax law,8
0471646407,"The Bombardier Story: Planes, Trains, and Snowmobiles When Joseph-Armand Bombardier invented the snowmobile in 1937, little did he know that his company would become a manufacturing powerhouse in the global transportation industry. As of 2001, Bombardier Inc. was number one in railway equipment, number two in recreational vehicles, and number three in civil aircraft.  Today, Bombardier products are everywhere. Millions of people travel daily on Bombardier subway cars, automated metros, and commuter trains that run around the world in cities such as New York City, Toronto, Chicago, Vancouver, Mexico City, and Kuala Lumpur. Hundreds of thousands travel to vacation and business destinations each year aboard Bombardier's intercity trains such as the Acela (a high-speed passenger service on Amtrak's Boston-Washington corridor), and on Bombardier's regional jets. Thousands of busy executives fly every day in Learjet, Challenger, and Global Express business jets made by Bombardier. And hundreds of thousands enjoy their leisure hours at play on Ski-Doo snowmobiles and Sea-Doo watercraft.  The Bombardier Story tells the fascinating tale of a company riding the ups and downs of a six-decade journey to the top. In the early 1970s, the Ski-Doo snowmobile accounted for over 90 percent of the company's revenue (one model was so popular that Canada Post even produced a commemorative stamp). But the rest of the 1970s were stormy times for Bombardier as rising energy prices, a maturing snowmobile market, and major economic forces sent the entire industry into a downward spiral. The Bombardier Story describes how close to ruin the company came, and how it survived a drastic shakeout that reduced the number of players in the snowmobile industry from over 100 to just three.  This near-collapse ensure that the company would never again depend so heavily on one sector. Diversification became a key strategy and led to a move into the manufacture of rail equipment, even as most other North American firms in the industry were withering away in what was deemed to be a declining industry. The Bombardier Story recounts the decisive turning point the $1 billion ""deal of a century"" in 1982 to provide over 800 subway cars to the city of New York. It was the breakthrough that launched Bombardier into the big leagues, but it was hard won, arousing the first of many controversies over government assistance.  Next came the diversification into aircraft manufacturing, where a similar pattern unfolded: while Bombardier was growing by leaps and bounds, rival firms were falling by the wayside, their products too costly and outmoded to compete. A key ingredient in the upward climb was the ""bet-the-company"" decision to develop the Canadair regional jet, a pioneering aircraft that many industry analysts thought at the time was a foolhardy initiative. Bombardier not only proved them wrong, but is now revolutionizing the air travel industry with this new kind of jet.  Bombardier's story is one of inspiring entrepreneurship, as well as outstanding leadership and management. The company has enjoyed phenomenal growth in it chosen markets through product innovation, strategic diversification, exemplary succession planning, and an amazing knack for acquiring ailing companies and making turnaround successes of them.  A fascinating cast of dedicated leaders has guided the company over the years. First, of course, was Joseph-Armand Bombardier, the passionate inventor-industrialist who turned a humble garage into a major manufacturing company, and his invention, the Ski-Doo, into a household name. Then the son-in-law, Laurent Beaudoin, whose career plan never included joining the family business, but who led the company for over thirty years, putting it on a fast-growth trajectory. Along the way he was assisted by able lieutenants, including the dynamic Raymond Royer, and the brilliant Yvan Allaire. Today, there is a new generation of leadership under CEO Robert Brown, who oversees a multinational corporation of five divisions, with $20 billion in annual revenues, and over 75,000 employees, but where the entrepreneurial spirit on which the company was founded still thrives.	""Bombardier was under attach again. This time, the flack was coming from the president of Berlin-based Adtranz, the rail equipment subsidiary of DaimlerChrysler AG. In 1999, he traveled to Toronto and made a speech in which he warned that Adtranz was coming to challenge Montreal-based Bombardier on its home turf of North America. His motive was retaliation: he did not like Bombardier's invasion of Adtranz's European markets. So he was going to put the upstart from the hinterlands in its place. 'The major player in the United States of the future will be, I believe, Adtranz,' he predicted.  ""In the spring of 2001, Bombardier acquired Adtranz. The purchase more than doubled annual revenues at Bombardier's rail equipment division and catapulted Bombardier into the number one spot in the railway equipment industry, ahead of the rail divisions of Franco-British conglomerate Alstom and German industrial giant Siemans.  ""What made Bombardier's progression in rail equipment all the more remarkable is that it occurred while yet another progression was under way at Bombardier's aerospace group. In 1986, the company decided to enter the aerospace sector by acquiring business-jet maker Canadair Ltd. of Montreal. This was followed by acquisitions of several other ailing aerospace companies, including world-renowned Learjet. Turning around these floundering assets, Bombardier came out of nowhere to become, in a little more than a dozen years, the third-largest member of the civil aerospace manufacturing industry. Only US giant Boeing and European colossus, the Airbus consortium, are larger.""   from The Bombardier Story	Larry MacDonald is a business journalist whose columns have appeared in the Montreal Gazette, Ottawa Citizen, Financial Post, Investor's Digest of Canada, and other publications. Previously, he was an economist with the Canadian federal government. He is also the author of two other books, Outperforming the Market: A Case-Study Approach to Selecting Investments (ECW Press, 1998) and Nortel Networks: How Innovation and Vision Created a Network Giant (John Wiley & Sons, 2000).",biography & history;books;business & investing;company profiles;leadership;management;management & leadership;systems & planning,8
8420655252,"Orlando (Biblioteca De Autor) (Spanish Edition) Text: Spanish, English (translation)	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Woolf's vivid fantasy spins out in dulcet tones as Swinton brings the beautiful, 300-year-old Orlando to life. Wealthy and elegant, he stumbles through the Elizabethan age, then transmutes into the cheroot-smoking lady of the Victorian era and thence to Thursday, October 11, 1928. All the while, Orlando carefully preserves and improves upon the manuscript that represents the paths of English literature. Being prose in its most grandiloquent dress, this book graciously renders itself to reading aloud. The sentences are  a joy, and Swinton presents them as such, delicately phrasing and warmly caressing the wit and soul of each.  S.B.S.  (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",biographical;books;classics;foreign language fiction;genre fiction;historical;literary;literature & fiction,8
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0847688712,"Counterfeit Community Counterfeit Community crackles with life as well as a certain healthy skepticism. The examples are down to earth, the range of topics John Freie pursues is delightful, and his probing observations are such a strength. Of course this is a controversial book, in its definition of what community should be and should not be and in terms of how the examples are read by the author. That is all to the good; it gets one thinking and sometimes even gets the blood moving. A sassy and valuable contribution to the whole community debate. (Fowler, Robert Booth )In each of his six analyses, Freie develops a strong argument for how to strengthen genuine community. (Rabrenovic, Gordana The Annals Of The American Academy Of Political Science )Freie's treatment of space from the perspective of ethics adds to an extensive literature in architecture, city planning, and postmodernism and is most welcome. (Christine E. Gudorf The Review Of Politics )	John F. Freie is associate professor of political science at Le Moyne College.",books;new;political science;politics & social sciences;social sciences;sociology;specific demographics;used & rental textbooks,8
0786257563,"Angels In The Gloom Starred Review.  This powerful and intense third novel in Perry's WWI series (after 2004's Shoulder the Sky) continues the Reavley family's anguished search for the ""Peacemaker,"" a shadowy figure responsible for their parents' murders two years earlier, and now intent on Anglo-German world domination as a means toward world peace. After Chaplain Joseph Reavley is badly wounded in Flanders attempting to rescue fellow Brits under fire, he returns home to bucolic St. Giles for rehabilitation, but finds the village consumed by issues raised by the war. Perry's deeply held antiwar feelings are again apparent in this moving story in which ""the searing scarlet of grief"" destroys families of loved ones lost in the service, and the local vicar questions fundamental beliefs in the wake of mounting casualties. When Theo Blaine, a scientist working on a secret weapon to end the war, is mysteriously slain, the town is torn apart by fears of a spy in their midst. Joseph's brother, Matthew, an intelligence expert, must work with seductive Irish double agent Detta Hannassey to determine the extent of Germany's knowledge of Britain's war strategies, despite his revulsion for her duplicity. A climactic U-boat hunt and naval battle conclude this stirring work. Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Hardcover	 edition.	The third entry in Perry's World War I series moves from the horror of the trenches to the English countryside, where chaplain Joseph Reavley, wounded at the front, has returned to recuperate under his sister's Hannah's care. Still fresh is his grief for their parents, both killed by the mysterious Peacemaker, who, in the guise of seeking an end to the conflict, is sabotaging Britain's war effort. The murder of a scientist whose work might have ensured Allied success leads Joseph (and his brother, Matthew, who works for British intelligence) on a twisted trail that they hope will lead to the Peacemaker. As in previous books in this series and in her Victorian detective series, Perry creates a meticulously detailed backdrop, whether home front or frontlines, while leaving plenty of room for her characters to contemplate issues of honor, loyalty, and love: Will Joseph return to the front or minister to the bereft at home? Will Matthew's growing affection for Irish double agent Detta Hannassey interfere with his mission? The characters, familiar now after two books, grow stronger and richer here, as Perry illuminates the emotional and physical character of war and asks the inevitable question, At what cost peace? Stephanie ZvirinCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Hardcover	 edition.	PRAISE FOR ANNE PERRYShoulder the SkyAn entertaining, suspenseful thriller . . . Perry is a skillful purveyor of popular fiction.The Washington PostPerrys bent for action and suspense greatly enlivens the story. . . . She is a careful researcher and adept storyteller. But those talents have taken a quantum leap with the World War I series.The Star-Ledger Excellent . . . [Perry] does a superb job.Publishers Weekly (starred review)No Graves As YetPerrys melancholy evocation of the eternal afternoon that would soon turn to night all over England is lovely.The New York Times Book Review[A] beautifully constructed book, the start of a new series of five novels about Englands favorite obsession, World War I.Chicago TribuneSuspenseful, often heartbreaking and riveting . . . This is Perrys probing, brooding landscape of the soul, which she masters and makes her own.Providence JournalFrom the Hardcover edition.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	Anne Perry is the bestselling author of two acclaimed series set in Victorian England: the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novels, including Buckingham Palace Gardens and Long Spoon Lane, and the William Monk novels, including Execution Dock and Dark Assassin. She is also the author of a series of five World War I novels, as well as seven holiday novels, most recently A Christmas Odyssey, and a historical novel, The Sheen on the Silk, set in the Ottoman Empire. Anne Perry lives in Scotland.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	CHAPTER ONE Joseph lay on his face in the ice-filmed mud. Earlier in the   night a score of men had gone over the top in a raid on the German trenches. They had taken a couple of prisoners, but been hit by a hail of fire on the way back. They had scrambled over the parapet wounded, bleeding, and without Doughy Ward and Tucky Nunn.Oi think Doughys bought it, Barshey Gee had said miserably, his face hollow-eyed in the brief glare of a star shell. But Tucky was still aloive.There was no choice. Under a barrage from their own guns, three of them went to look for him. The noise of the heavy mortars was deafening, but when they eased, Joseph could hear the quick, sharper rattle of machine guns. As the flare died, he lifted his head to look again across the craters, the torn wire, and the few shattered tree stumps still left.Something moved in the mud. Joseph crawled forward again as quickly as he could. The thin ice cracked under his weight but he could hear nothing over the guns. He must get to Tucky without sliding into any of the huge, water-filled holes. Men had drowned in them before now. He shuddered at the thought. At least they had not been gassed this week, so there were no deadly, choking fumes in the hollows.Another flare went up and he lay still, then as it faded he moved forward as rapidly as he could, feeling his way to avoid the remnants of spent shells, the tangles of old wire and rusted weapons, the rotting bodies. As always, he had emergency first aid supplies with him, but he might need more than that. If he could carry Tucky back to the trench, there would be real medics there by now.It was dark again. He stood up and, crouching low, ran forward. It was only a few yards to where he had seen the movement. He slithered and almost fell over him.Tucky!Hello, Chaplain, Tuckys voice came out of the darkness, hoarse, ending in a cough.Its all right, Ive got you. Joseph reached forward, grasped the rough khaki, and felt the weight of Tuckys body. Where are you hurt?What are you doing out here? There was a kind of desperate humor in Tuckys voice as he tried to mask his pain. Another flare went up, briefly illuminating his snub-nosed face and the bloody wound in his shoulder.Just passing, Joseph replied, his own voice shaking a little. Where else are you hit? He dreaded the answer. If it were only the shoulder, Tucky would have made his way back.Moi leg, Oi think, came the reply. Tell you the truth, Oi cant feel much. So damn cold. Dont seem they have summers here. Member summers at home, Chaplain? Girls all . . . The rest of what he said was drowned in another roar of gunfire.Josephs heart sank. He had seen too many die, young men he had known most of their lives, including Tuckys elder brother Bibby.Ill get you back, he said to Tucky. Once youre warmer youll probably feel it like hell. Come on. He bent and half lifted Tucky onto his back. Hearing a cry of pain as he inadvertently touched the wound, he apologized.Its all roight, Chaplain, Tucky gasped, gagging as the pain dizzied him. It hurts, but not too much. Oill be better soon.Bent double, staggering under Tuckys weight, and trying to keep low so as not to make a target, Joseph floundered back toward the line of the trenches. Twice he slipped and fell, apologizing automatically, aware that he was banging and jolting the injured man.He saw the parapet ahead of him, not more than a dozen yards away. He was sodden with mud and water up to the waist. His breath froze in the air and he was so cold he could hardly feel his legs.Nearly there, he told Tucky, although his words were lost in another barrage of shells. One exploded close to him, hurling him forward flat onto the ground. He felt a sickening pain in his left side, and then nothing. He opened his eyes with a headache so blinding it all but obliterated his awareness that the whole of his left side hurt. There seemed to  be other people around him. He could hear voices. It took him sev- eral moments to recognize that he was staring up at the ceiling of  the field hospital. He must have been hit. What had happened to Tucky?He tried to speak, but he was not sure if he actually made any sound or if the words were only in his head. No one came to him.  He seemed to have no strength to move. The pain was appalling. It consumed his whole body, almost taking his breath away. What had happened to him? He had seen men injured, lots of them, their arms and legs blown off, bodies ripped open. He had held them, talked to them as they died, trying simply to be there so they were not alone. Sometimes that was all he could do.He could not take up armshe was a chaplainbut the night before the war had been declared, he had promised himself he would be there with the men, endure with them whatever happened.Matthew and Judith, his brother and younger sister, had sat at home with him in St. Giles, watching the darkness gather over the fields, and spoken quietly of the future. Matthew would stay in the  Secret Intelligence Service, Judith would go to the front to do what she could, probably to drive ambulances, Joseph would be a chaplain. But he had sworn that never again would he allow himself to care about anything so much that he could be crippled by loss, as he had been by Eleanors death, and the babys. Naturally his married sister, Hannah, would stay at home. Her husband, Archie, was at sea, and she had three children to care for.There was someone leaning over him, a man with fair hair and a tired, serious face. He had blood on his hands and clothes. Captain Reavley?Joseph tried to answer but all he could manage was a croak.My names Cavan, the man went on. Im the surgeon here. Youve got a badly broken left arm. You caught a pretty big piece of shrapnel by the look of it, and youve lost rather a lot of blood from the wound in your leg, but you should be all right. Youll keep the arm, but Im afraid it is definitely a Blighty one.Joseph knew what that meant: an injury bad enough to be sent home.Tucky? The words came at last, in a whisper. Tucky Nunn?Bad, but I expect hell make it, Cavan answered. Probably going home with you. Now weve got to do something about this arm. Its going to hurt, but Ill do my best, and well repack that wound in your leg.Joseph knew dimly that the doctor had no time to say more. There were too many other men waiting, perhaps injured more seriously  than he.Cavan was right; the surgery was painful. Afterward, all Joseph did was swim in and out of consciousness. Everything seemed either the scarlet of pain or the infinitely better black of oblivion.He was half aware of being lifted and carried, of voices around him, and then a few very clear moments when he saw Judith. She was bending over him, her face pale and grave, and he realized with surprise how frightened she was. He must look pretty bad. He tried to smile. He had no idea from the tears in her eyes if he succeeded or not. Then he drifted away again.He woke up every so often. Sometimes he lay staring at the ceiling, wanting to scream from the pain that coursed through him till he thought he could not bear it, but one did not do that. Other men, with worse injuries, did not. There were nurses around him, footsteps, voices, hands holding him up, making him drink something that made him gag. People spoke to him gently; there was a womans voice, encouraging, but too busy for pity.He felt helpless, but it was a relief not to be responsible for anyones pain except his own.He was hot and shivering, the sweat trickling down his body, when they finally put him on the train. The rattle and jolt of it was dreadful, and he wanted to shout at the people who said how lucky he was to have a Blighty one that he would rather they left him alone where he was. It must still be March and the weather was erratic. Would the winds make the Channel crossing rough? He was too ill to cope with seasickness as well! He could not even turn over.In the event he remembered very little of it, or of the train journey afterward. When he finally woke up to some kind of clarity, he was lying in a clean bed in a hospital ward. The sun shone through the windows, making bright, warm splashes on the wooden floor, and there were bedclothes around him. Clean sheets? He could feel the smoothness against his chin and smell the cotton. He heard a broad Cambridgeshire voice in the distance and found himself smiling. He was in England, and it was spring.He kept his eyes open, afraid that if he closed them it would all disappear and he would be back in the mud again. A slight woman, perhaps in her fifties, bent over him and helped him up to drink a cup of tea. It was hot, and made with clean water, not the stale dregs he was used to. The woman was dressed in a starched white uniform. She told him her name was Gwen Neave. He looked at her hands around the cup as she held it to his lips. They were strong and sunburned.During the next two or three days and nights she seemed to be there every time he needed her, always understanding what would ease him a little: the bed remade, pillows turned and plumped up, fresh water to drink, a cold cloth on his brow. She changed the dressings on the huge, raw wounds in his arm and leg without any expression on her face except a tightening of her lips when she knew it must be hurting him. She talked about the weather, the lengthenin...	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	This heartbreaking saga of love, hate, obsession, war, and murder features the very English Reavley family and a shadowy, anonymous powerbroker, the Peacemaker. Michael Page's delightful but not overpowering British accent brings credibility to all the members of the Reavley family, as well as the St. Giles villagers and the Irish double agent, Detta Hannassey. Page uses subtle verbal nuances to add uniqueness to their voices. His sonorous voice and deliberate pacing bring gravity to the story, intensifying the dramatic and emotional dimensions of loss and war. Page captures the essence of Perry's third novel in her WWI series and delivers a riveting listening experience.  S.C.A.  Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award  AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine-- Copyright  AudioFile, Portland, Maine	      --This text refers to the 							Audio CD	 edition.",books;genre fiction;historical;literature & fiction;mystery;suspense;thriller & suspense;thrillers,8
0689831234,"Magenta and Me (Blue's Clues Ready-To-Read) Deborah Reber is an accomplished author for tweens and teens. A former children's television executive, Deborah uses her writing, speaking, and volunteering to empower and inspire girls everywhere to live their best life. Deborah is the author of two Simon Pulse non-fiction books: In Their Shoes and Chill. She lives in Seattle. Please visit Deborah at www.deborahreber.com or www.smartgirlsknow.com.",animals;books;children's books;dogs;education & reference;friendship;literature & fiction;social situations,8
B00029J1TK,"Quicken 2005 Premier Home & Business [Old Version] Quicken 2005 Premier Home & Business is the most powerful tool to manage your business and personal finances. Quicken 2005 Premier Home & Business contains all of the tools in Quicken 2005 Premier plus tools to help you to run your business. Manage your business finances with these powerful, easy-to-use, time-saving tools.  Features:  Create customizable estimates and invoices See where your business stands at a glance Generate business reports and graphs, including Schedule C  Automatically track taxes for Schedule C Track accounts receivable and payable Track vehicle mileage, jobs, and projects And more!    Also includes all of the features in Quicken 2005 Premier to help you to manage and optimize your personal finances:  Instantly connect to your bank and credit card sites with a push of a button. You'll have complete, up-to-date records without the effort. Connect to more than 1,800 financial institutions.* Monitor your investment holdings--without taking the time to enter every historical transaction. You can decide to add in transaction details later for tax purposes or performance analysis. See the average annual return for your entire portfolio and individual accounts compared to selected benchmarks for key periods (1 year, 3 year, 5 year) Maximize your net worth over time with the Net Worth Monitor. View the breakdown of your net worth by cash, property, or stocks. Schedules A, B, and D tax reports  *Online features require Internet access and are subject to change. Services vary among participating financial institutions or other parties and may be subject to application approval, additional terms, conditions, and fees.	Quicken 2005 Premier Home & Business helps you manage your personal and business finances,  with a set of tools that help you do it all. Over 100 customer-driven improvements to the  most-used Quicken features make it easier than ever to get what you need out of Quicken!   Simplify business taxes to track mileage and other business expenses for your Schedule C tax return   Optimize investment sales by estimating capital gains before selling   Check investment performance against the market for the past 1, 3 and 5 years",accounting;accounting & finance;business & office;business accounting & finance;investment tools;money management;personal finance;software,8
0789488590,"A Life Like Mine Presented in conjunction with UNICEF, DK's A Life Like Mine: How Children Live Around the World profiles 18 children and explores what life is like for them and other young people, spanning 180 countries. Organized into four sections-Survival, Development, Protection and Participation-the handsomely designed volume, with a bounty of photographs that transport readers to exotic lands, stems from the mission set forth by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Charts, maps and children's quotes add to the thoughtful and informative presentation. Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Created by the United Nations General Assembly in 1946 to help children after World War II in Europe, UNICEF was first known as the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund. In 1953, UNICEF became a permanent part of the United Nations system, its task being to help children living in poverty in developing countries.",books;children's books;education & reference;literature & fiction;nature & how it works;science;social science;travel & cultures,8
0345441753,"Criminal Intent In the latest Ben Kincaid mystery, one parish priest may be  going to heaven soon; he's facing the death penalty for murder.    Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Here's a series that found an audience early and has just kept rolling along, repeating its successful formula again and again. The eleventh Ben Kincaid novel (the first, Primary Justice, appeared in 1991) is pretty much like its predecessors: a solid, by-the-numbers legal drama, suspenseful enough but saddled with frequently awkward dialogue and off-the-rack characters. There's nothing particularly wrong with the Kincaid mysteries, but there's nothing particular right about them, either. They deliver the basic legal-thriller package, but without any of the style or intensity that readers have come to expect from, say, Philip Margolin or John Lescroart. This time around, Ben is defending an Episcopalian priest on a charge of homicide; the prosecution's theory is that this man of the cloth murdered an associate because she was among a group of parishioners who wanted him replaced because he permitted gay and lesbian groups to hold meetings at the church. There are witnesses, suspects, false leads, and various legal-thriller shenanigans, but it all has the feel of been-there-done-that. Still, Bernhardt clearly has found his readers, and they are a loyal bunch. Readers'-advisory librarians might like to try an experiment: for those who request this distinctly middling Ben Kincaid novel, recommend in addition Jane Haddam's thematically similar but far superior 2001 thriller, True Believers, which concerns a Catholic priest accused of murder and a parish that ministers to the gay community. David PittCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	When a priest with radical ideas and a parish council with traditional values lock horns over the beliefs they hold most sacred, there?s bound to be controversy?and consequences. But murder crosses the line between committing a sin and committing a crime, turning a battle over faith into a battle for justice. And smack in the middle of the explosive case is Tulsa attorney Ben Kincaid.Kincaid rescued Father Daniel Beale once before. When the priest?s renegade views and violent temper nearly cost him his position as rector of St. Benedict?s Church, Ben intervened and saved the day. Now Beale is the prime suspect in the brutal murder of a female parishioner?though lack of evidence has left the case unsolved. But as Father Beale struggles to escape the shadow of suspicion, another woman is savagely slaughtered. And this time, Ben himself discovers Beale literally red-handed . . . with the blood of the victim.As Father Beale declares his innocence, Ben and his team feverishly work to build a defense that will deliver the man of God from a date with the death chamber. But each new revelation that emerges in the packed courtroom only serves to tilt the scales increasingly in the prosecution?s favor. And Father Beale?s own shocking testimony ignites a firestorm of controversy that could doom his last best hope for acquittal. In his heart and in his gut, Ben knows Father Beale is innocent. But proving it means taking a leap of faith that will plunge Ben into the whirlpool of dark secrets and dangerous intentions that surround St. Benedict?s. And ultimately, it will force the idealistic attorney to confront the chilling face of evil in the most unexpected of places.Criminal Intent proves beyond a reasonable doubt that the author of Murder One has earned his critical reputation as the master of the courtroom drama whose novels of legal suspense consistently offer a one-of-a-kind reading experience.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	William Bernhardt is the author of fifteen books, including Primary Justice, Perfect Justice, Double Jeopardy, Naked Justicewhich led Library Journal to dub the author master of the courtroom dramaSilent Justice, and Murder One. He has twice won the Oklahoma Book Award for Best Fiction, and in 2000 he was presented the H. Louise Cobb Distinguished Author Award in recognition of an outstanding body of work that has profoundly influenced the way in which we understand ourselves and American society at large. A former trial attorney, Bernhardt has received several awards for his public service. He lives in Tulsa with his wife, Kirsten, and their children, Harry, Alice, and Ralph.From the Hardcover edition.	Father forgive me for I have sinned.Father forgive me for I have sinned.Father forgive me for I haveHelens voice broke off. She was breathless. She had murmured the words a hundred times, a thousand perhaps. But it didnt seem to help. Nothing seemed to help.She was on her knees in the church prayer garden, surrounded by birch trees and flowering plants and multicolored azaleas, a Garden of Eden recreated. Was she Adam, the one who submits to temptation and therefore must be cast out? Or was she Eve, the temptress who leads others to sin and degradation?Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done . . .Her hands were folded and her head was bowed. She was saying the words, chanting them like some arcane ritual. But who was listening? Who would hear the prayers of a woman who had done what she had done?Had done and been doing for years, she thought, and the sickness took hold of her, sending waves of nausea throughout her body. She doubled over in agony.At first, what they did had not bothered her. Or perhaps it had, but somehow she managed to suppress the guilt, to bury her true feelings in a morass of rationalization and intellectual posturing. And then one morning, not long ago, she awoke and realizedshe was a sinner. A pawn of Satan. What she had donewhat they all had donewas worse than mere sin. It was complete and utter corruption. Moral bankruptcy.It was evil.Father forgive me for I have sinned.Father forgive me for I have sinned.Father forgive me for I have sinned.She recited the words over and over again, but she obtained no comfort from them. She glared up at the ebony sky, but she found no answer, no release. What was she going to do now? She had gathered some of the others, had talked to them about it. Some had even admitted they shared her feelings. But it wasnt enough. Talking would never be enough. Action was required. She had to do something.She heard a noise behind her, from somewhere deeper in the prayer garden. The door at the base of the bell tower was closing. But who would be in there at this time of night? Was it the priest? One of the church regulars? An irrational fear gripped her. She didnt want to be seen, not in here, not now, not like this.What are you doing?She let out a small sigh of relief when she saw who it was. Nothing to worry about there. Im just . . . having a quiet moment. Spending some time alone. If you wouldnt mind . . .Could you please help me?Helen tried not to frown. This was one of the inescapable realities of being in a churchthere was always someone who needed help. An old woman wanting someone to run after her groceries. An Altar Guild guy recruiting help with the cleanup. And it always seemed to come at the least convenient time. I dont know. . . .Please. I really really really need your help.What is it?I saw something in the garden, near the base of the tower. Something strange and . . . frightening.Helen pushed herself to her feet. Show me.She followed down the cobbled sidewalk toward the bell tower, in one of the most isolated and secluded parts of the labyrinthine prayer garden. There were two marble benches flanking a small recess planted with honeysuckle and flowered hedges. Many of the parishioners had buried the ashes of loved ones here; a tall marble obelisk behind one of the benches stood as a memorial.So? . . .Over there. By the bench.Helen looked in the direction indicated. Someone had been digging. Signs of excavation were evident; an azalea bush had been all but uprooted.My God, Helen whispered. Had someone been digging up . . . one of the graves? She had been at the funeral last week, and she knew this was where Ruths sisters ashes had been buried. Why would anyone? Helens eyes widened with repugnance and amazement. You?She turned just in time to see the shovel right before it struck. It hit her on the side of the head, knocking her sideways. The pain was excruciating. She felt as if her brain had been dislodged, her jaw shattered. Her legs crumbled, and she fell down onto one of the benches.She remained conscious, but just barely. She watched as the shovel came closer, then closer, then closer still.But . . . why? Helen managed to gasp.Why not?Her assailants hands clutched her throat with a strong, unbreakable grip. Helen felt her consciousness fading, and she knew that in a few short moments she would be dead. Was this the penance she had been seeking? Was this what it took to make her feel clean again? Her brain was too muddled to make any sense of it. As she felt her life slowly trickling away, her thoughts were not focused on these questions of theology and personal redemption. As she stared into the face of her killer, all she could think was:I cant believe its you! I cant believe it could possibly be you!From the Hardcover edition.",books;contemporary;legal;literature & fiction;mystery;suspense;thriller & suspense;thrillers,8
0727891405,"Stone Cold (Claudia) In the fast-paced 11th Roman historical from Todd (Dream Boat, etc.), her series heroine, Claudia Seferius, is on the run from tax fraud charges in Gaul, and engaged in a love-hate relationship with handsome investigator Marcus Cornelius Orbilio. Claudia's personal quest for answers to her father's mysterious disappearance decades earlier leads her to quite a different inquiry as she stumbles on evidence that a serial killer has been preying on beautiful young women. At the same time, Orbilio is tracking a child slavery ring that's rumored to involve aristocrats. While Claudia may be a less compelling character than Steven Saylor's Gordianus the Finder (A Gladiator Dies Only Once, etc.), the spunky and independent sleuth will appeal to many readers, especially those who like a strong dose of romance in their mysteries. Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	Claudia Sefarius is a successful businesswoman in ancient Rome who also possesses a gift for sleuthing. Her latest case is a very personal one. She was abandoned by her father when she was 10, and she has decided it's time to find out what happened to him. She travels to Gaul, where her father was last seen, but when she arrives, she is distracted not only by the arrival of her old nemesis, Roman Security policeman Marcus Orbilio, but also by the news that beautiful young women have been disappearing from the area. Claudia is determined to find out what happened to her father and to the disappeared women. The book oozes authentic period detail, and Todd adds further spice with a combination of a skillfully tangled plot, smart dialogue, and hilarious badinage between the main characters. But it's the flamboyant, brash, clever Claudia who gives Stone Cold its real charm and appeal. Recommend this to fans of other series set in ancient Rome, by Steven Saylor and Lindsey Davis. Emily MeltonCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	      --This text refers to the 							Hardcover	 edition.	Marilyn Todd was born in Harrow, but now lives in West Sussex with her husband and two cats. Dark Horse is the eighth Roman mystery to feature the beautiful but formidable Claudia Seferius.",books;british;genre fiction;historical;literature & fiction;mystery;thriller & suspense;women sleuths,8
0404518540,"Book of the Courtier Text: English (translation) Original Language: Italian	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	Founded in 1906 by J.M. Dent, the Everyman Library has  always tried to make the best books ever written available to the  greatest number of people at the lowest possible price. Unique editorial  features that help Everyman Paperback Classics stand out from the crowd  include: a leading scholar or literary critic's introduction to the text,  a biography of the author, a chronology of her or his life and times, a  historical selection of criticism, and a concise plot summary.  All books  published since 1993 have also been completely restyled: all type has  been reset, to offer a clarity and ease of reading unique among editions  of the classics; a vibrant, full-color cover design now complements these  great texts with beautiful contemporary works of art. But the best  feature must be Everyman's uniquely low price. Each Everyman title offers  these extensive materials at a price that competes with the most  inexpensive editions on the market-but Everyman Paperbacks have durable  binding, quality paper, and the highest editorial and scholarly  standards.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Castiglione was born in 1478 and a member of an ancient aristocratic family.  A courtier throughout his life, his writings were always a secondary affair.  George Bull was an author and journlaist who translated six books for the Penguin Classics, including The Prince by Machiavelli.  He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was made a Knight Commander in 1999.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",books;ethics;ethics & morality;humanities;new;philosophy;politics & social sciences;used & rental textbooks,8
1564969029,"Web Tricks and Techniques: Layout: Fast Solutions for Hands-On Design Elisabeth Heinicke is a Web designer and educator. As the owner of Xuxy Grafix, a Boston-based Web design company, she has been designing and developing informational and e-commerce sites for her clients since 1996. Elisabeth teaches in the Internet Systems Management Program at Bentley College and has taught Dreamweaver at the Art Institute of Boston. Additionally, Elisabeth teaches HTML, DHTML, and Dreamweaver at the Interactive Factory in Boston.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",arts & photography;books;computers & technology;education & reference;graphic design;techniques;web design;web development & design,8
0618052844,"College Algebra, Fifth Edition Dr. Ron Larson is a professor of mathematics at The Pennsylvania State University where he has taught since 1970. He received his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Colorado and is considered the pioneer of using multimedia to enhance the learning of mathematics, having authored over 30 software titles since 1990. Dr. Larson conducts numerous seminars and in-service workshops for math educators around the country about using computer technology as an instructional tool and motivational aid. He is the recipient of the 2012 William Holmes McGuffey Longevity Award for PRECALCULUS: REAL MATHEMATICS, REAL PEOPLE and the 1996 Text and Academic Authors Association TEXTY Award for INTERACTIVE CALCULUS (a complete text on CD-ROM that was the first mainstream college textbook to be offered on the Internet.)",algebra & trigonometry;books;education & reference;mathematics;new;science & math;science & mathematics;used & rental textbooks,8
1932156879,"Start Your Own Hair Salon and Day Spa (Start Your Own Hair Salon & Day Spa) Cash In on the High Price of Looking Good Make money while making people look good.  If this sounds like a dream come true, then stop thinking and start styling!  Attractive hair, newfound energy and a revitalized appearance will remain invaluable commodities no matter what ups and downs await the economy.  Personal care is a growing industry where industries abound, so why not be the one to claim the wealth?   Start Your Own Hair Salon and Day Spa will take you step-by-step through the entire process, from having the dream to making it a reality.  Professional industry experts share inside information and invaluable advice, revealing how they have been successful in this lucrative business and, more important, how you can be successful, too. You will learn how to:  Analyze the market, write a business plan and advertise effectively  Establish a website to spread the world and bring in more revenue  Increase sales with no extra effort by applying simple upselling techniques  Keep track of your finances with ready-to-use work sheets Whether you love styling hair or prefer managing personnel, youll find that it pays to help people look and feel great.  This essential guide will show you the profitable way of making someones day.	McGraw-Hill authors represent the leading experts in their fields and are dedicated to improving the lives, careers, and interests of readers worldwide",& style;beauty;books;business & investing;fitness & dieting;grooming;health;small business & entrepreneurship,8
0595338712,"The New Global Investor: Using ETFs to Build Smarter, Simpler and Safer Portfolios Carl Delfeld has been an international stockbroker in New York, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Sydney, a banker in London, consultant to the U.S. Treasury and U.S. Congress and U.S. Representative to the Board of Directors of the Asian Bank in Manila.    He is President of Chartwell Partners, an investment advisory firm helping investors build global portfolios using ETFs as a core investment tool.",books;business & investing;economics;international;personal finance;personal transformation;popular economics;self-help,8
B000JKBW76,"Perry Como & Andy Williams Karaoke Disc - Legends Series CDG VOL 023 1 Hot Diggity Perry Como 	2 As Time Goes By Perry Como 	3 Catch A Falling Star Perry Como 	4 Some Enchanted Evening Perry Como 	5 If Perry Como 	6 It's Impossible Perry Como 	7 And I Love You So Perry Como 	8 Around And Around Perry Como 	9 Somewhere My Love Andy Williams 	11 Red Roses For A Blue Lady Perry Como 	12 More Andy Williams 	13 Born Free Andy Williams 	14 Exodus Andy Williams 	15 Days Of Wine And Roses, The Andy Williams 	16 Where Do I Begin Andy Williams",dj;electronic music & karaoke;karaoke equipment;miscellaneous;music;musical instruments;players;studio recording equipment,8
B000KYYEKS,"Corelle Livingware 8-1/2-Inch Divided Dish, Winter Frost White Corelle Livingware 8-1/2-inch Divided Dish, Winter Frost White",divided trays & platters;home & kitchen;kitchen & dining;serveware;serving dishes;serving trays;tabletop;trays & platters,8
B0002UQ6FG,"My Life...A Jesus Remix Born and raised on the New Jersey shore and the oldest of three boys, Fred David Kenney, Jr. began cultivating that relationship with the Lord when he was just a little boy.  And he's been fine-tuning that God-given skills ever since.  ""It all started in about the fourth grade when my parents purchased a trumpet so I could play in the grammar school band.  Later a broken down piano found its way to our family and my two brothers and I started playing that as well.""  Future additions of guitars, drums and a keyboard prove to have paid off with all three brothers entrenched in the industry.  Ben Kenney is the bass player for the platinum selling group, ""Incubus"" while Mike is working on tracks and scores for film. A self proclaimed ""Bible fiend"", these days Fred David Kenney Jr. is staying in the word by staying in class.  He is currently working through a degree in theology.  ""I need it like water or air.  I wanted to get a more structured study of God's word so I started a degree program.""  The reality of Fred's relationship with Christ rings clear through every cord and melody.   In addition to his music and studies, Fred David Kenney, Jr. balances his Christian walk with his role as a devoted husband.  Recently married to his ""best friend"", Katie, it certainly helps that she is his creative partner as well.  ""God has blessed me through my wife.  She is more than I ever wished for.  We are a true team.  As a graphic designer and marketing whiz, she compliments me and does the things that I can't do.""   Although Fred has walked with his Lord since youth, his debut CD is the first project done solely in the name and power of Jesus Christ.  Fred plans to continue to follow the Lord's lead in all things...this being just the start of his ""Christian Soul"" journey in the Music for his Maker.	After years of creating great music and working with some of R's best known names; like platinum selling Jill Scott and Columbia recording artist Vivian Green, producer/writer/performer Fred David Kenney, Jr. is taking center stage with his debut release, ""My Life... a Jesus Remix"". This debut carves out a unique place in today's Gospel and Contemporary Christian market. A dynamic combination of song & spoken word, these musical combinations echo a laid back R, neo-classical feel entwined with a Philly funk foundation. Completed by a canvas of Jazz inspired cords and classical string lines this ensemble fits best in its OWN categorythis is truly ""Christian Soul"" at its VERY best! Influenced by those spirited sounds of a melodic Philadelphia, this head-nodding harmony is, most importantly, doctrine-driven teaching Gods word in a manner far beyond typical praise and worship. Virtually every key verse and phrase is accompanied by a relevant Bible passage.  Music enthusiasts (with a Bible and this CD) are exposed to Gods word in proper context and in depth Bible concentration all wrapped up in the laid-back grooves our airwaves readily embrace. By incorporating essential Christian doctrine with praise and worship, this CD has all the makings of a Bible study in concert! ""From song #1 to the last its a ride for the listener.  If you want to grow in your knowledge of God and strengthen your walk why not do it to a tune you can groove to?""  And even if thats not your main objective at the very least youll find yourself intrigued by the message in the music, wondering just what this walk is all about!",christian;classical;gospel;jazz;miscellaneous;music;pop;r&b,8
1556115180,"Shadow Wars Add New York Times writer Clyde Farnsworth to the ranks of  foreign correspondents  who enter the thriller world with all their information-gathering equipment  turned up to full volume. In  Shadow Wars, Farnsworth invents a Russian physicist who discovers a way  to make the ancient  alchemists' dream of turning lead into gold come true. But his anti-Semitic  superiors reject his theories, so  Dmitry Sherbatov sneaks away to Israel to continue his work. A feud within the  Israeli secret service soon  brings the CIA and the Iraqis into the picture. Farnsworth's journalistic  abilities work to keep the story  credible, while his fictional talents have a field day with scenes of stealth  and action.	""We know too much,"" Israeli physicist Rachel Ravid tells American physicist Hillsdale Landover. ""Washington will write you off like a loan to Zaire."" The White House has recruited Landover to investigate rumors that Israel has discovered a way to create artificial gold. The rumor is true, but the gold is being diverted to finance a right-wing army plot against the government. The novice spies are among fearsome enemies: former KGB agents, Mossad muscle, an Arab killer team, and a rogue CIA agent. As the body count rises, the White House denies all knowledge of Landover and the Israelis declare Rachel a dangerous traitor, to be shot on sight. The book is slow to take off, and the juggling of multiple plot lines is a bit awkward, but novice novelist Farnsworth has penned a thoroughly enjoyable tale of rip-roaring high-stakes adventure. Recommended for all public libraries.?David Keymer, California State Univ., StanislausCopyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.	This first novel by former New York Times writer Farnsworth is familiar in many ways: a Russian scientist defects to Israel, and the Americans want to find him and make his new discovery their own. They recruit a prominent American physicist to find the Russian and bring his secret back. The physicist soon uncovers a rather diabolical plot. So far, it's a typical thriller. But Farns-worth manages to keep the proceedings fresh by going way out into left field to find his fictional scientific breakthrough: the Russian scientist has discovered a way to make artificial gold, cheaply and efficiently. By altering the world's economic structure, his discovery can literally destroy countries. This is not a great novel--aside from its typical plot, it features several characters who will seem mighty familiar to readers of political thrillers--but it ultimately satisfies, largely because its treatment of alchemy as a scientific reality is downright fascinating.  David Pitt",books;contemporary;literature & fiction;mystery;spy stories & tales of intrigue;thriller & suspense;thrillers;united states,8
B00003CWDR,"Monster Cable MP HTS800PLUS Home Theatre Power Center HTS 800 Plus Monster Cable MP HTS800PLUS (High Performance Home Theatre PowerCenter HTS800 with Satellite Plus) 8 outlets, 2 coax, 1 phone, Clean Power",accessories & supplies;batteries;chargers & accessories;computer accessories;computers & accessories;electronics;power strips;surge protectors,8
1580630456,"The Asian Grocery Store Demystified (Take It with You Guides) Though many Americans are eager to cook Asian dishes at home,  the thought of navigating an Asian grocery store is a different  story. For a non-Asian it can be bewildering territory full of pungent  aromas, packages with labels in Chinese, Japanese, Thai, Korean or  Vietnamese and odd-looking specimens you don't know whether to eat or  to plant. At last there is a book that takes you by the hand and gives  a clear and fascinating tour of these markets. It couldn't have a  better title, The Asian Grocery Store Demystified. The author,  Linda Bladholm, begins by describing the layout of an Asian grocery  store in her neighborhood in Miami. As she explains, there is indeed  an order to these markets. ""Asian markets are generally stocked  according to the principles of balance, "" she writes. ""Hot, spicy,  chili sauces and curry pastes are all in one place; salty items are  together in one row, and bitter, sour or sweet things are in other  sections."" That explanation changed my entire perspective, making  these markets seem more manageable and interesting. Ms. Bladholm not  only sorts out the cultural context of an Asian grocery store, but  also does it in such a way that makes you hungry to return. -- Book Description	Linda Bladholm is a regular contributor to the Miami Herald. She is also a designer, illustrator, and photographer who has contributed to Singapore and Asia Pacific Magazine and Big O magazine. She has designed books for Noto Publishing, and designed and illustrated for FEP/McGraw-Hill, Gunze Company, and World Books International. She resides in Miami Beach, Florida.",asian;books;cookbooks;education & reference;food & wine;international;reference;regional & international,8
B000FO7KO0,"Panaflex User's Manual, Second Edition '..an essential reference book for all film crews using the system.' F. Poperwell, Hon.Librarian, Image Technology March 1991 - Image Technology, March 1991 	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Developed in consultation with Panavision Inc, this Media Manual contains detailed illustrations and instructions on the entire Panaflex 'system' of cinematography.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",arts & photography;books;cinematography;direction & production;humor & entertainment;movies;photography;television,8
B0009XCESY,"7PC Forstner Bit Set The Hickory 7-Piece High-Speed Steel Forstner Bit Set is precision-sharpened to provide smooth cuts. For use in hand drills and drill presses, this set contains seven bit sizes: 1/4-inch, 3/8-inch, 1/2-inch, 5/8-inch, 3/4-inch, 7/8-inch and 1-inch. These fully hardened, machine steel bits have flat bottom holes and come with a plastic storage case.	DeWalt FBS1007 7 Bit 1/4-Inch to 1-Inch Forstner Bit Assortment",cutting tools;drill bits;forstner drill bits;industrial & scientific;industrial drill bits;power & hand tools;power tool accessories;tools & home improvement,8
0613959329,Oxford Picture Dictionary for Kids: English/Spanish Joan Ross Keyes is the author of many Oxford Picture Dictionaries for Kids and Kids Readers.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.,books;children's books;dictionaries;dictionaries & thesauruses;education & reference;english;foreign language study & reference;literature & fiction,8
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0822520370,"Barry Bonds (Amazing Athletes) Amazing Athletes  Inspire sports fans with the success stories of Amazing Athletes.  These attractive high-interest biographies include a description of a famous athlete's career from the beginning through his or her current achievements.  These books draw in reluctant readers and proficient readers alike!	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.	When San Francisco Giants player Barry Bonds swings his mighty bat, the baseball world stops to watch. Barry has crushed more baseballs over the fence for home runs than any player in the history of major league baseball. Having earned many MVP titles as well as fielding and hitting awards--including the record for the most home runs in a season--Barry is considered one of history's greatest baseball players. As he continues to raise the bar, some baseball experts are predicting that Barry Bonds will be the greatest baseball player ever.	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.	Jeff Savage has written dozens of books for young readers, many of them sports related. His other Amazing Athlete titles include LeBron James, Peyton Manning, Tom Brady, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Danica Patrick, and Travis Pastrana. He frequently visits schools around the country to talk to kids about his work.",baseball;biographies;books;children's books;people of color;sports;sports & games;sports & recreation,8
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1592573401,"The Complete Idiot's Guide to Critical Reading Amy Wall, an author and poet, studied literature, art, and theatre, earning a Masters degree in English and American literature in 1994. Regina Wall has taught creative writing at Michigan State University and American literature and art history at Vanier College in Montreal, Canada, and has conducted graduate seminars in literature at the University of Montreal.",antiques & collectibles;art;books;education & reference;encyclopedias;language & grammar;reading skills;words,8
B000FO6W08,"Aotus: The Owl Monkey ""The main purpose of this book is to bring together in one volume a diverse body of information about the owl monkey. One of the books great strengths is that it accomplishes this goal so well.""--Stephanie W. Krasnow, in ASLAP NEWSLETTER""The book is clearly written and well-edited overall.""--Mary V. Ashley in INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	This book is the first comprehensive treatment of Aotus, the nocturnal New World owl monkeys often used in behavioral and biomedical studies. Found in tropical forests from Nicaragua to Argentina, owl monkeys have been used in laboratories as model organisms for studies of diseases like malaria, and various forms of cancer, as well as studies of reproductive physiology and neuroanatomical structure and function. These and other recent studies of this fascinating primate are included in this new volume. As the only book devoted exclusively to owl monkeys, this volume is an invaluable addition to the library of anyone interested in primate biology, evolution, ecology, and behavior.                                       Key Features* Only book devoted entirely to owl monkeys* Surveys issues that pertain to wild and captive populations* Represents the breadth of studies that model organisms can engender	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",biological sciences;books;evolution;medical books;primatology;science & math;veterinary medicine;zoology,8
074752856X,"Dictionary of Contemporary Slang Rife with ribaldry, with an amusing contrast between tart words and cool, analytical definitions, this book may mobilize the censors. A typical entry has variant spelling or wording, geographical range, meanings, and comments--often guesswork--on tone, nuance, associations, social context, history, derivation, and related words. Pronunciation is sometimes left unclear. A few slang styles, such as backslang and pig Latin, are noted. Published as the Bloomsbury Dictionary of Contemporary Slang in Britain , this work covers Britain, the United States, and Australia well, other English-speaking areas lightly. The author, a lexicographer, draws from the media and personal observation of such users of slang as hippies and Valley Girls. Recommended more as a fun reflection of speech in recent decades than as definitive scholarship.- William A. Donovan, Chicago P.L.Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	""As up-to-date a dictionary of 'strikingly informal' contemporary language as you are likely to find."" www.mantex.co.uk/reviews  ""Thorne is a kind of slang detective, going down the streets where other lexicographers fear to tread."" Daily Telegraph	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Hardcover	 edition.	From A to Z:Aim archie at the armitage brownie hound cassava dingleberries el ropo four-by-two get Chinese have the painters in idiot dancing jam sandwich kangaroo it lip service meathooks necktie party Ozzie and Harriet pearl diver quiche out rough end of the pineapple surfboard tray-bits under velcrohead write one's name on the lawn x-rated yodel in the canyon zippersniffer.There is a linguistic riot going on the English-speaking world over, in the form of energetic, informal speech, extraordinary for its wit, quirkiness, and biting satire. The Dictionary of Contemporary Slang, the most comprehensive guide to slang, gathers more than 5,000 colloquialisms, puns, similes, metaphors, and double entendres -- from sex, drugs, and rock'n'roll; to fads, fashion, and cults; to taboos, obscenities, and euphemisms -- that have enriched our language for the past forty years. Most entries have multiple definitions that are enlivened by examples of usage.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Tony Thorne is has written and broadcast widely on the subjects of language and culture and is the director of the English Language Centre at King's CollegeLondon.	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Hardcover	 edition.",books;dictionaries & thesauruses;education & reference;foreign language study & reference;language & grammar;linguistics;slang & idioms;words,8
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0609602756,"Basic French: CD/Book Package (LL(R) Complete Basic Courses) Speak French with confidence in just 6 weeks!Living Language French Complete Course is a step-by-step guide to the basics of French conversation and grammar. This revised course uses the highly effective speed-learning method developed by U.S. government experts to teach foreign languages to overseas-bound servicemen and diplomats.40 lessons on three compact disksBegin with simple words and phrases and progress to more complex expressions. Just listen and repeat after the native speakers.Only French is spoken on the recordings, so you learn naturally, the way you learned English. The accompanying French Coursebook includes the English translations.Italian CoursebookThe pocket-size book contains all the translated phrases from the recorded lessons, plus additional vocabulary, detailed explanations, and quizzes.The book also features verb charts with all tenses included and a comprehensive summary of French grammar.French-English/English-French DictionaryMore than 15,000 words are defined.Idiomatic expressions and common phrases show how words are used in everyday conversation. The dictionary doubles as a phrasebook.1,000 of the most frequently used words are highlighted for easy reference.The best-selling language course that really works--revised, updated, and expanded!For Beginners or Those Who Want a Thorough Review",books;education & reference;foreign languages;french;humanities;new;politics & social sciences;used & rental textbooks,8
0375814124,"Pure Dead Brilliant As they say in Glasgow, you'd have to be a right numpty not to rejoice at a third book in Debi Gliori's delicious Pure Dead comedy adventures. Things are in a turmoil, as usual, at StregaSchloss, the ancestral castle of the Strega-Borgias in Argyll: Titus and his sister Pandora are at odds because their grandfather, Don Chimera di Carne Borgia, known as il grande parmigiano, or ""the big cheese,"" is about to make Titus the sole heir of the family fortune; Signora Strega-Borgia has invited her flaky classmates at the Institute of Advanced Witchcraft to spend a week at the castle practicing their spells; Ffup, one of the house dragons, is sulking about her diaper-changing responsibilities as a teenage single mom; and grouchy Marie Bain, possibly the worst cook in the British Isles, has created an accidental specialty of kippers in raisin and rat pee sauce. Worst of all, word has gotten around in demonic circles that the long-lost Chronostone is secreted someplace in the castle, and the sinister Astoroth, Second Minister of the Hadean Executive, is hot on its trail, as is another demon, Flamma d'Infer, who is disguised as one of the apprentice witches. Events take a decidedly random turn when the family's wise and comfortable magical nanny, Mrs. McLachlan, discovers that the baby Damp is an infant magus. And that's only the beginning of this gothic romp that can only be described as, well, pure dead brilliant. (Ages 10 to 14) --Patty Campbell	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Grade 4-7-Young readers will be ""dying fain"" at the arrival of the third installment of the zany adventures of the Strega-Borgia clan. Young Titus is about to inherit a massive fortune from his mafioso grandfather, and his family won't leave him alone. Between their mother's witchy houseguests-one of whom might well be plotting evil-and a definitely evil uncle's nefarious plans to get the fortune for himself, the Strega-Borgias barely have time to breathe, and the Beasts in residence are once again in rare form. Gliori's excellent turn of phrase and sense of humor will instantly draw readers into the mystical world of Strega Schloss and its inhabitants. Readers will roar as each page turns and new, even more preposterous scenarios arise. The ""Gliossary"" in the back is also a helpful touch for the wee laddies and lassies new to Scottish slang. Filled with fun phrasing and plenty of scatological bits thrown in for good measure, the story is sure to be popular with fans of the first two outings.Elaine Baran Black, Gwinnett County Public Library, Lawrenceville, GACopyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Gr. 4-7. The author of Pure Dead Wicked (2002) offers another fast-paced, grossly hilarious adventure featuring the Scottish Strega-Borgia clan. In this tale, Titus eagerly awaits an inheritance, sorcery students from his mother's witchcraft classes come to stay at Castle StregaSchoss, and sister Pandora discovers a clock able to transport its possessor through time. The clock proves very useful in helping Titus to see the downside of having too much money, but it takes the skills of the children's nanny, Flora McLachlan, and assorted other household beasts to purge the castle of numerous dastardly villains. Gliori's writing is both witty and extremely complex; as a result, only more astute readers will catch all the humor. Most kids, however, can appreciate the eccentric charm of the cast, specially the secondary characters--among them, evil uncle Lucifer, who squeaks like a mouse; and Damp, Titus' two-year-old sister, who is already a better witch than her mother will ever be. Give this to fans of Roald Dahl, Charles Addams, and Lemony Snicket. Kay WeismanCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved	""Pure Dead Brilliant carries on the knockout mayhem of the series"" The School Librarian ""A rich comic vein - it will not disappoint fans"" TES ""A fantastic tale full of laughter and extraordinary events"" South Wales Argus ""A plot-twisting, hilarious and magical read from Gliori"" Teaching and Learning ""An exhilarating, entertaining read"" Scotsman	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	There?s trouble brewing at StregaSchloss!When Signora Strega-Borgia invites some would-be witches to stay, weird things begin to happen. Pandora can?t resist the temptation of time travel. Titus picks up a strange?and deadly?computer virus. And it looks like they may have to trade in the family riches for a family curse.Are they falling under the witches? spell? Or is the ghost of the Strega-Borgias? past coming back to haunt them all?	In addition to the novels Pure Dead Magic and Pure Dead Wicked, Debi Gliori has written and illustrated numerous picture books.	Kiss of DeathTitus decided that if there were a button to press that would cause his sister to reincarnate as a cockroach, he would push it without a moment's hesitation. He stood outside her bedroom door, seething, as he read the notice taped to the oak paneling: Pandora's Roomentry is absolutely forbidden to any of the following:brothersdweebspossessors of smelly pits  dog's breathone-celled amoebas with memory of goldfishsmug, rich jerksthe terminally plug-uglythe criminally insaneand especially the vertically challenged over 12 yrs.Titus, all of the above describe you, so bog off.Yours Cordially, Pandora Strega-BorgiaPandora's RoomStregaSchlossArgyllScotlandUnited KingdomEuropeWestern HemisphereEarthThe UniverseThe GalaxyJust because I'm about to inherit all Grandfather Borgia's money and you're broke doesn't mean you have to be so aggressive. Titus's voice bounced off the door and down the landing, but brought no answering response from within. He pressed his mouth up to the keyhole and tried again. Some people just can't handle other people's good fortune, can they, Pandora?Over his head, dangling from the cornice, Pandora's pet tarantula, Tarantella, gave out an exasperated Tchhhh. Titus looked up and shuddered. There was something about the scuttling nature of spiders that revolted him. This one in particular, with her swollen abdomen, gave him nightmares. Titus loathed the entire spider race with a deep and abiding passion. Their gross hairiness, their appetite for flies, their--The tarantula grinned widely, as if reading his thoughts. Like it? she inquired, puckering up her lipsticked mouth parts into a pout. It's a new one. Now, what's it called . . . ? Tarantella rummaged under her abdomen with one hairy leg and produced a minuscule lipstick. Let me see . . . 'Blood-Lust.' Mmm-hmm. Come on, Titus, I know you find me irresistible, give us a kiss. . . .With a barely stifled shriek, Titus fled downstairs. Trembling, he burst through the kitchen door and was immediately assailed by a stench that defied description. The beasts were already at breakfast and, judging by the state of the kitchen, had been eating for several hours. Sprawled across the kitchen table, Ffup, the teenage dragon, had her vast head buried in her talons.Don't say it, she warned, gazing down at Titus with her vast golden eyes. Just don't say it, right? I've been up all night with that wee horror, and now he sits there, wolfs down forty-eight Miserablios, three boxes of Ricey Krispettes, and then does a major dump, downloading the lot into his pants. I tell you, pal, I'm not cut out for this motherhood stuff. I hate changing diapers, and . . . The dragon paused, peered under her baby's high chair, and whimpered, Yup, just as I thought, it's a shovel job.Spare me the details, muttered Titus, edging past Ffup and patting her offending infant on his scaly little head. Phwoarr, Nestor, you stink, don't you?The baby gazed up at Titus and grinned gummily, clapping his tiny wings above his head and lashing his snake-like tail back and forth by way of greeting. This had the unfortunate consequence of launching most of the contents of his overloaded diaper into orbit.Stop. Stop. STOP! wailed Ffup. Oh, yeurrrch. I can't handle this. . . . Knot! knot? Come on, help me out here.Emerging from the pantry with a sheepish grin, Knot the yeti shuffled across the kitchen to stare hopefully at his fellow beasts. The yeti's perpetually unsanitary fur was clotted with fetid lumps of food that had somehow failed to make the journey to his mouth. He wrinkled up his fur in the general area of his nose, sniffed deeply in sincerest appreciation of the odors in the kitchen, and sighed in happy anticipation.Nestor has a wee something for you, muttered Ffup, burying her nostrils in a coffee cup. Freshly laid, still warm . . .Give me strength, gagged Titus, turning his back on this revolting inter-beast exchange.Mmm-yummy, observed Knot, dipping an experimental paw in the puddle under Nestor's high chair. Titus moaned softly and closed his eyes. Knot sniffed, unrolled his lengthy spotted tongue, and sampled a little morsel. Naww, he pronounced, at length. Bit overripe, that one. Nope. Don't fancy it much.Don't be so picky, said Ffup. Be a gent. Help me out. Just close your eyes and think of Gorgonzola. Pleeeeease?Knot wiped his paw on his tummy and scratched his armpit thoughtfully. If you don't mind, I'll pass, he mumbled, clearly uncomfortable at the prospect of letting Ffup down. I'm not really too hungry right this minute.Well, I'm starving, said Pandora, arriving in the kitchen by way of the door to the herb garden. Phwoarr. Urghhh. What's that stench?Here we go again, sighed Ffup, glaring at her baby son. See what you've done?'Morning, all. Pandora kicked off her rubber boots and came over to warm herself beside Titus at the range. Are we all pretending that there isn't a vast pile of dragon poo on the floor over there, or is someone going to clean it up?Ffup is, said Titus. Aren't you, Ffup?What? And ruin my manicured talons? squeaked the dragon. You can't be serious. These took me ages. Hoping for female sympathy, she extended one paw for Pandora's inspection. Each of her seven talons was painted a lurid sugar-pink. Pretty, aren't they? Ffup smirked, examining her paw with satisfaction, turning it this way and that, all the better to catch the light.Mrs. Flora McLachlan, nanny to Titus and Pandora, entered the kitchen with their baby sister, Damp, in her arms. Smelling something truly awful and assuming that it was about to be her breakfast, the little girl buried her face in the nanny's shoulder and gave a little moan.Good heavens, is that the time? Mrs. McLachlan peered at the mantelpiece clock in dismay. My bedside clock isn't keeping very good time, and the alarm didn't go off. Then, as she became aware of the odor in the kitchen, she added, Ffup, dear, I'm sure you're aware that Nestor needs a diaper change. D'you think you could stop admiring your manicure, stir your stumps, and do it before your mistress comes downstairs for breakfast?From the Trade Paperback edition.",action & adventure;books;children's books;fantasy & magic;humor;literature & fiction;science fiction & fantasy;spine-chilling horror,8
1571974288,"Sing and Hum Bumblebee Mari has worked with small children in the United States and Central America and is combining her experience in music/sound and early childhood education in creating self-empowering books for children of all ages.  Her training as a Cross Cultural Music and Sound for Health Practitioner inspired the creation of the story for ""Sing and Hum Bumblebee.""    Maya is a writer, visual artist and musician.  She works in the Healing Arts as a Certified BodyTalk Practitioner, facilitating the body's ability to heal itself through re-establishing communication within the body/mind complex.  Investigations into the healing of music frequencies founded her interest in co-writing, illustrating and creating the soundtrack for ""Sing and Hum Bumblebee.""",arts;books;children's books;crafts & music;emotions & feelings;music;self-esteem & self-respect;social situations,8
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1565542991,"Mcguire's Irish Pub Cookbook McGuire's Irish Pub is a friendly place, where the patrons indulge in fun and games--like kissing a moosehead when they miss a note in a sing-along! The place overflows with Irish hospitality and charm, just like any Irish pub--although it happens to be a 20,000-square-foot restaurant in Florida. Does such a place make real Irish food, and can it be recreated at home?  Based on recipes for Soda Bread and smoky-tasting, bacon-studded Potato Soup, it is indeed possible. McGuire's also offers standard, non-Irish pub grub, like a Smoked Chicken Salad and Basil Shrimp on Fresh Noodles. There are also wilder fancies, including Chicken Timbales with Orange Tarragon Cream, which only ambitious home chefs are likely to tackle. McGuire's really excels at recipes that give a creative twist to traditional Irish fare. Witness the Bean Soup--thick with three kinds of melted cheese--and a dense black bean chili made with stout. (Alcohol appears often in this book's recipes, but what teetotaler hangs out at an Irish pub?)  Written partly as a serious cookbook and partly as a souvenir for its patrons, McGuire's Irish Pub Cookbook is a bright and cheery book, packed with photos and illustrations to help bring the taste of Ireland into your very own kitchen. --Dana Jacobi	Opened in Pensacola, Florida, in 1977, McGuire's Irish Pub was initially a small, neighborhood pub. Since moving to Pensacola's charming, original Old Firehouse in 1982, its reputation-and capacity-have grown. McGuire's quirky atmosphere is complete with moose heads, Irish music, and a wall-to-ceiling papering of more than 150,000 dollar bills, a tradition that started when co-owner Molly Martin earned her first dollar tip and hung it on the wall. The personal touch and excellent food make this a popular destination for tourists and locals. The drinks also attract their fair share of customers, and with a brew house making ales, porters, and stouts on the premises, it is easy to understand why.   Florida Trend magazine has repeatedly honored McGuire's with the Golden Spoon Award, which designates the pub as one of Florida's top ten restaurants. Named Steakhouse of the Year by the National Beef Council and deemed ""Famous for Great Steaks"" by Southern Living Magazine, McGuire's has earned an international reputation for first-class fare.   Within these pages is an introduction to the signature dishes enjoyed by millions. Easy instructions and everyday ingredients allow everyone to recreate their favorite McGuire's meal for friends and family. Enjoy Scalloped Oysters followed by an entre of Chardonnay Poached Salmon with Watercress Butter. Of course, no dinner is complete without dessert! Chocolate Hazelnut Cake with Glazed Pears and Frangelica hits the sweet spot, but it is truly divine with a mug of McGuire's Irish Coffee. Just be sure to bring your bain taitneamh as do bhile-a hearty appetite! Jessie Tirsch has spent a lifetime in search of good food. After a career as a New York advertising executive, Tirsch moved to New Orleans, inspired by a trip to Jazz Fest and the culinary life of the Crescent City. She has worked with internationally famous chefs Emeril Lagasse and Paul Prudhomme on several cookbooks. An expert in cuisines from the Far East to the Emerald Isle, Tirsch seeks to combine her creativity and love of food in every new project. McGuire and Molly Martin, owners of McGuire's Irish Pub, truly have the luck of the Irish. McGuire Martin was raised in a family of restaurateurs, and it was inevitable that he would open his own restaurant. The Martins' hard work and long hours in the early days of the pub have made McGuire's a stunning success. They are still actively involved in the daily running of the pub, and Molly's lovely singing voice can be heard on many a night as she sings such classics as ""When Irish Eyes Are Smiling."" The Martins called on more than twenty years of experience to select the perfect recipes for this cookbook. Jacket painting by Larry Strickland	""You might not have bagpipers, a moose head, and dollar bills tacked to your ceiling . . . but McGuire's Irish Pub Cookbook will help you recreate the restaurant's magic."" -Pensacola (FL) News Journal ""There are all sorts of surprises in these pages. . . . It's a delightful book, as attractive as it is mouthwatering."" -Naples (FL) Daily News ""This collection of robust recipes disproves the theory that Irish food is unimaginative."" -Philadelphia (PA) City Paper ""The book includes hundreds of recipes for those who are Irish, as well as for those who simply wish they were."" -Lake City (FL) Reporter ""Irish, southern, or pub fare, all of the recipes in McGuire's Irish Pub Cookbook will have mouthwatering effects on readers and diners alike."" -Mount Airy (MD) Gazette Jessie Tirsch possesses a love of food and international cuisines. Through traveling, cooking, and eating, Tirsch has amassed a diverse culinary perspective, and she brings that knowledge to classic Irish pub fare.  Through hard work, great food, and a little luck, owners McGuire and Molly Martin have turned McGuire's Irish Pub into a huge success. The Martins have won numerous awards for their pub's cuisine and microbrews.	A former New York advertising executive, author Jessie Tirsh moved to New Orleans after a visit to Jazz Fest in 1988. Tirsh has combined her love for food and her infatuation with the Crescent City into writing cookbooks. Having worked with renowned chefs Emeril Lagasse and Paul Prudhomme, Tirsch understands the culinary blend of technical proficiency and bold flavors that is characteristic of Southern cuisine.McGuire and Molly Martin, who opened McGuire's Irish Pub in 1977, invite readers to sample a wee bit of McGuire's famous fare from this, their first cookbook. Despite the massive success of McGuire's Irish Pub, the Martins still play a crucial role in the daily running of the restaurant. With more than thirty-five years of experience, the couple elevates Irish cuisine with ease.",books;cookbooks;english;european;food & wine;irish;regional & international;scottish & welsh,8
0738803359,Screenwright Screenwright is based on my electronic screenwriting  course of the same name.	Charles Deemer teaches graduate and undergraduate  screenwriting at Portland State University and also online.  He has  had six screenplays optioned and over three dozen plays produced.  His  play Famililly won the 1997 Crossing Borders international new play  competition.,books;education & reference;humor & entertainment;movies;play & scriptwriting;research & publishing guides;screenwriting;writing,8
B000MZHXF8,"What Ceos Expect from Corporate Training: Building Workplace Learning and Performance Initiatives That Advance Organizational Goals No individual holds a larger or more direct stake in company outcomes than the CEO. Based on extensive interviews with CEOs and other key stakeholders in a myriad of companies, this book reflects executive perception of training and development and their critical importance in the pursuit of corporate objectives.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	No individual holds a larger or more direct stake in company outcomes than the CEO. Based on extensive interviews with CEOs and other key stakeholders in a myriad of companies, this book reflects executive perception of training and development and their critical importance in the pursuit of corporate objectives.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;business & investing;entrepreneurship;human resources & personnel management;industries & professions;management & leadership;small business & entrepreneurship;training,8
B00006ANS1,"Plastair SpringWand WW-18-8-3M-AMZ 9-Pattern 18-Inch Spray Wand, Blue Plastair's 18-inch watering SpringWand features a 9-pattern turret. This added feature ensures flowers, hanging baskets, and other areas will get the right amount of water everytime	This perfectly balanced ergonomically inclined watering wand will make reaching all those tough places much easier. Its working length is 18-inches which allows you to water those hard to reach hanging flower baskets and window flower boxes. There are nine spray settings which covers every conceivable use, a comfort grip trigger lock system, and all-metal yet lightweight casing to make any job that much easier.  Plastair is an innovative Canadian developer and manufacturer of an extensive fleet of Lawn and Garden products and accessories. Plastair has set the standard for quality with its trademarked SpringHose and has emerged as a global leader in self-storing water hose. Focused on the gardeners needs, Plastair offers lawn and garden products that are efficient, effective, comfortable and easy to use.",garden center;gardening;lawn & garden;patio;power & hand tools;tools & home improvement;wands;watering equipment,8
B000NGS896,"Windows Vista All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech)) With Vista, Windows has had an extreme makeover. Many of the features that were old friends in Windows XP now look and act differently. And if youre thinking of upgrading to Vista but havent done it yet, wow  there are eight different versions! How do you know which one to choose?Thats easy  look in Book One of Windows Vista All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies. Windows expert Woody Leonhard starts off this everything-you-want-to-know-about -Vista guide by helping you choose the version that fits your needs. He follows that with minibooks Two through Nine, each devoted to one specific area  setting up, securing, and customizing Vista, going online, adding cool hardware, getting the most from multimedia, exploring Vista video, and setting up a network. Youll find out about:Ripping and burning discs of data, music, or moviesOrganizing desktop files and foldersCollecting and editing your digital photos in the Photo GalleryControlling users, making backups, and maintaining your systemLocking down your system to deflect spam, scams, spyware, phishers, and virusesExploring alternatives to Internet ExplorerAdding hard drives, printers, key drives, USB hubs, and other hardwareMaking movies, adding music to your iPod, and setting up Media CenterCovering almost anything you will ever need to know for a long and happy relationship with Vista, Windows Vista All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies is a guide youll refer to again and again.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	With Vista, Windows has had an extreme makeover. Many of the features that were old friends in Windows XP now look and act differently. And if youre thinking of upgrading to Vista but havent done it yet, wow  there are eight different versions! How do you know which one to choose?Thats easy  look in Book One of Windows Vista All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies. Windows expert Woody Leonhard starts off this everything-you-want-to-know-about -Vista guide by helping you choose the version that fits your needs. He follows that with minibooks Two through Nine, each devoted to one specific area  setting up, securing, and customizing Vista, going online, adding cool hardware, getting the most from multimedia, exploring Vista video, and setting up a network. Youll find out about:Ripping and burning discs of data, music, or moviesOrganizing desktop files and foldersCollecting and editing your digital photos in the Photo GalleryControlling users, making backups, and maintaining your systemLocking down your system to deflect spam, scams, spyware, phishers, and virusesExploring alternatives to Internet ExplorerAdding hard drives, printers, key drives, USB hubs, and other hardwareMaking movies, adding music to your iPod, and setting up Media CenterCovering almost anything you will ever need to know for a long and happy relationship with Vista, Windows Vista All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies is a guide youll refer to again and again.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",books;computers & technology;education & reference;home computing & how-to;microsoft;software;windows os;windows vista,8
0399532110,"Baby Girls: An Owner's Manual (Perigee Book) Theresa Foy DiGeronimo, M.Ed., is a parenting expert and the author  or co-author of 37 nonfiction books, including The Complete Idiot's Guide  to Pregnancy and Childbirth and Raising a Thinking Child. Her articles about parenting and childcare have appeared in Parents, Child, and Sesame Parents magazines, among others.",books;crafts;hobbies & home;home improvement & design;home repair;how-to & home improvements;parenting;parenting & relationships,8
1932815651,"Miracle in the Mist With its Brigadoon-like setting, all-wise father figure and earnest hero and heroine, Sinclair's peculiar romance barely dodges the charge of sappiness by giving its characters truly tragic events to come to terms with before they can heal their hearts. Dr. Steve Cameron, a pediatric oncologist, has suffered through the deaths of too many patients, and he accepts an offer of a weekend in a remote cabin to rejuvenate his spirit only to discover the place is a portal to a timeless village called Renaissance where the broken-souled are healed. His personal healer, Meghan, senses Steve will upend her world. Sure enough, true love strikes. But Steve must return to his child patients to heal completely, and Meghan knows that if she leaves Renaissance to follow, she'll lose her memories of the villageand Steveforever, despite the village leader's exhortation to believe in ""faith and trust."" Sinclair (A Question of Love) sketches out her characters thoroughly enough that their pain and love is tangible, but not so deeply that most readers will empathize. (Dec.) Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.	Elizabeth Sinclair is a writer and a teacher, traveling to conferences or teaching writing workshops around the country.",books;contemporary;fantasy & futuristic;literature & fiction;mystery;romance;thriller & suspense;thrillers,8
1581805489,"Painted Illusions Melanie Royals, director and principal instructor at the San Diego School of Decorative Painting, is an experienced professional home decorator specializing in stencils and paint effects. Her work has appeared in several American publications.",arts & photography;books;crafts;decorating;hobbies & home;home decorating & design;home improvement & design;interior design,8
0431104581,"Groundbreakers: Alexander Graham Bell Grade 4-6-Both titles provide brief, interesting texts and many black-and-white and full-color photographs, reproductions, and diagrams. Following the inventors of the telephone and the television from childhood to death, the author reveals aspects of each man's personality in discussing his triumphs, challenges, and setbacks. The basic science behind each invention is also described. Bell's lifelong involvement and work with the deaf as well as his many innovations beyond the telephone are focal points as well. Tom L. Matthews's Always Inventing: A Photobiography of Alexander Graham Bell (National Geographic, 1999) is a first-rate selection. Baird's constant struggle with poor health and continual setbacks and competition comprises much of his story. The book primarily focuses on television development in Britain and fails to mention American inventor Philo Farnsworth. These series titles are solid additions for libraries needing short biographies about these creative pioneers.Jean Gaffney, Dayton and Montgomery County Public Library, Miamisburg, OH Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Reid Struan is a Heinemann Raintree author.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",19th century;20th century;books;education & reference;history;modern (16th-21st centuries);science & technology;teens,8
0130191043,"MOUS Essentials: Excel 2000 with CD Prentice Hall's MOUS Essentials were created specifically to meet the required guidelines established by Microsoft for the Microsoft Office User Specialist Exam.  The authors follow the proven approach of Prentice Hall's Essentials series with an emphasis on step-by-step tutorials with large screen shots, outstanding student pedagogy and plenty of exercises.  This text also includes a number of elements designed to help students study for the MOUS exams.  As an additional test preparation tool, the series also includes live computer-based training and assessment with the MOUS Kelly PinPoint CD-ROM.  Key Features   ALL MOUS Essentials books are certified to the Expert Level by Microsoft as approved test preparation guides for the MOUS exam.  A unique appendix entitled Preparing for MOUS Certification provides information on how to register, what is covered in the tests, how the tests work and levels of certification.  Each Project opens with Required Activities for both levels of the exam objectives.  These activities are indicated throughout the Projects by icons distinguishing core vs. expert objectives.  Exam Notes and Inside Stuff sidebars provide students with extra tips and tricks on preparing for and taking the MOUS exams.  MOUS PinPoint software provides computer-based training and assessment tools for students to complete the projects and practice for the MOUS exams.  MOUS PinPoint includes Project Review Tests along with ""Show Me"" training for each Microsoft MOUS Exam Skill Set covered within the Project.  In addition, each MOUS PinPoint has a capstone final exam that mirrors the actual MOUS exams.	MARIANNE FOX is an Indiana CPA with BS and MBA degrees in Accounting from Indiana University.  For more than20 years, she has enjoyed teaching full-timeinitially in Indiana University's School of Business; since 1988 in the College of Business Administration at Butler University.  As the co-owner of an Indian-based consulting firm, Marianne has extensive experience consulting and training in the corporate and continuing education environments.  Since 1984, she has co-authored more than 35 computer-related books and made presentations on accounting, computer applications, and instructional development topics at a variety of seminars and conferences.    LAWRENCE C. METZELAAR earned a BS in Business Administration and Computer Science from the University of Maryland and an Ed.M and CAGS in Human Problem Solving from Boston University.  Larry has more than 35 years experience with military and corporate mainframe and microcomputer systems.  He has taught computer science and information systems at the University of Hawaii, Control Data Institute, Indiana University, Purdue University, and is currently on the faculty at Butler University.  As the co-owner of an Indiana-based consulting firm, he has extensive experience consulting and training in the corporate environment.  Since 1984, he has co-authored more than 35 computer-related books and made presentations on computer applications and instructional development topics at a variety of seminars and conferences.	PREFACE  Introduction   Essentials courseware from Prentice Hall is anchored in the practical and professional needs of all types of students. Each title in the series reflects a ""learning-by-doing"" approach that encourages you to grasp application-related concepts as you expand your skills through hands-on tutorials.    The MOUS Essentials series has an added focuspreparing you for certification as a Microsoft Office User Specialist. The Specialist designation distinguishes you from your peers as knowledgeable in using Office products, which can also make you more competitive in the job market.    The Specialist program is available for many Office 2000 applications at both Core and Expert User levels. You can learn more about the Specialist program in Appendix B, ""Preparing for MOUS Certification,"" and at the www.mous.net Web site.   How To Use this Book   You have selected a book providing a comprehensive approach to learning Excel, with emphasis on skill sets designated by Microsoft as Care or Expert for purposes of certification as a Microsoft Office User Specialist. Please take a few moments to familiarize yourself with the icons used in this book and its conventions. If you have questions or comments, visit the related Prentice Hall MOUS Essentials Web site: www.prenhall.com/mousessentials.    Each MOUS Essentials text consists of modular lessons that are built around a series of numbered step-by-step procedures that are clear, concise, and easy to review. Brief explanations are provided at the start of each lesson and, as needed, between steps. Many lessons contain additional notes and tips.    A MOUS Essentials book includes 15 to 21 projects, two appendixes and a glossary. Each project covers one area (or a few closely related areas) of application functionality, and is divided into lessons related to that topic. For example, a project on improving the appearance of a worksheet includes lessons on formatting numbers, aligning cell contents, changing font and font size, applying bold and italic, adding color, adding borders, using Format Painter and removing formatting. Each lesson presents a specific task or closely related set of tasks in a manageable chunk that's easy to assimilate and retain.    Each element in a MOUS Essentials title is designed to maximize your learning experience. Here's a list of the MOUS Essentials project elements and a description of how each element can help you:    Required MOUS Objectives Table. These tables are organized into three columns: Objective, Required Activity for MOUS, and Exam Level. The objective column lists the general objectives of the project. The associated MOUS requirements for each objective are listed in the Required Activity for MOUS column. The particular exam levels of those activities7#151;Core or Expertare listed in the Exam Level column. Look over the objectives and MOUS requirements on the opening page of each project before you begin, and review them after completing the project to identify the main goals for each project. Key Terms. This book includes useful vocabulary words and definitions specific to the application. Key terms introduced in each project are listed in alphabetical order on the opening page of the project. These key terms then appear in bold italic within the text and are defined during their first occurrence in the project. Why Would I Do This? You are studying Excel to accomplish useful tasks in the real world. This brief section at the beginning of each project tells you why these tasks or procedures are important. What can you do with the knowledge? How can these application features be applied to everyday tasks? MOUS Core Objective Icon. This icon indicates that a lesson relates to a specific MOUS Core-level skill. MOUS skills may be covered by a whole lesson or perhaps just a single step within a lesson. MOUS Expert Objective Icon. This icon indicates that a lesson relates to a MOUS Expert-level skill. There may be a mix of Core and Expert objectives within a project. Some objectives are both Core and Expert, as well. Lessons. Each lesson contains one or more tasks that correspond to an objective or MOUS requirement, which are listed on the opening page of the project. A lesson consists of step-by-step tutorials, associated screen captures, and the sidebar notes of the types described later. Though each lesson often builds on the previous one, the lessons have been made as modular as possible. For example, you can skip tasks that you've already mastered and begin a later lesson, if you choose. Step-by-Step Tutorial. The lessons consist of numbered, bolded step-by-step instructions that show you how to perform the procedures in a clear, concise, and direct manner. These hands-on tutorials, which are the ""essentials"" of each project, let you ""learn by doing."" A short paragraph may appear after a step to clarify the results of the step. Screen captures are provided after key steps so that you can compare the results on your monitor. To review the lesson, you can easily scan the bold, numbered steps. Exam Note. These sidebars provide information and insights on topics covered on MOUS exams. You can easily recognize them by their distinctive icon. It's well worth the effort to review these crucial notes again after completing a project. Inside Stuff. Inside Stuff comments provide extra tips, shortcuts, alternative ways to complete a process, as well as special hints. You may safely ignore these for the moment to focus on the main task at hand, or you may pause to learn and appreciate these tidbits. If You Have Problems... These short troubleshooting notes help you anticipate or solve common problems quickly and effectively. Even if you don't encounter the problem at this time, do make a mental note of it so that you know where to look when you find yourself having difficulties. Summary. This section provides a brief recap of the activities learned in the project. The summary often includes suggestions for expanding your knowledge. Checking Concepts and Terms. This section offers optional true/false and multiple choice questions designed to check your comprehension and assess retention. If you need to refresh your memory, the relevant lesson number is provided after each question. For example, L5 directs you to review Lesson 5 for the answer. Skill Drill. This section enables you to check your comprehension, evaluate your progress, and practice what you've learned. The exercises in this section build on and reinforce what you have teamed in each project. Generally, the Skill Drill exercises include step-by-step instructions. A Core or Expert icon indicates whether a MOUS required activity is introduced in a Skill Drill exercise. Challenge. This section provides exercises that expand on or relate to the skills practiced in the project. Each exercise provides a brief narrative introduction followed by instructions. Although the instructions are written in a step-by-step format, the steps are not as detailed as those in the Skill Drill section. Providing fewer specific steps helps you learn to think on your own. Discovery Zone. These exercises require advanced knowledge of project topics or application of skills from multiple lessons. Additionally, these exercises might require you to research topics in Help or on the Web to complete them. This self-directed method of learning new skills emulates real-world experience. A Core or Expert icon indicates if a MOUS required activity is introduced in a Discovery Zone exercise. Pin Point Assessment. Each project ends with a reminder to use MOUS Pinpoint training and testing software to supplement the projects in the book. The software aids you in your preparation for taking and passing the MOUS exams. A thorough explanation of how to use the Pinpoint software is provided in Appendix A, ""Using the MOUS Pinpoint Training and Testing Software.""   Typeface Conventions Used in this Book   We have used the following conventions throughout this book so that certain items stand out from the rest of the text:    Key terms appear in bold italic the first time they are defined. Monospace type appears frequently. It is used to indicate I ) text that you are instructed to key in, 2) text that appears onscreen as warnings, confirmations, or general information, 3) the name of a file to be used in a lesson or exercise, and 4) text from a dialog box that is referenced within a sentence, when that sentence might appear awkward if the dialog box text were not set off. Hotkeys are indicated by underline. Hotkeys are the underlined letters in menus, toolbars, and dialog boxes that activate commands and options, and are a quick way to choose frequently used commands and options. Hot keys look like this: File, Save.   How To Use Student Data Files on the CD-ROM   The CD-ROM accompanying this book contains Pinpoint as well as all the data files for you to use as you work through the step-by-step tutorials within projects and the Skill Drill, Challenge, and Discovery Zone exercises provided at the end of each project. The CD contains separate parallel folders for each project.    The names of the student data files correspond to the filenames called for in the textbook. Each filename includes six charactersan initial letter indicating the application, a dash, two digits indicating the project number, and two digits indicating the file number within the project. For example, the first file used in Excel Project 2 is named e-0201. The third file in Excel Project 14 is named e-1403. The Word document named e-stufiles.doc on the companion Web site (www.prenhall.com/mousessentials) provides a complete listing of data files by project, including the ...",books;business;certification;computers & technology;excel;home computing & how-to;microsoft;software,8
0525675779,"A Doctor's Life: A Visual History of Doctors and Nurses Through the Ages Grade 4-8-This attractive, easy-to-read book uses profiles of real doctors and nurses to describe the development of medicine from the ancient Romans to the present. Each two-page spread introduces a practitioner, tells about his or her practice, and discusses the prevailing beliefs and treatments of the time. Famous people such as Joseph Lister and Florence Nightingale are mentioned, but the book belongs to the ordinary doctors and nurses such as John Mason, a barber-surgeon in England (c. 1450) and Martha Sharpe, an untrained midwife and mother of nine (c. 1860). Most of the medical professionals are English with a few exceptions, such as Four Elks, a Plains Indian medicine man (c. 1860). Full-color photographs of models wearing period clothing and engaged in an appropriate activity appear on each spread, along with the pictures of tools of the trade like surgeons' knives, herbs, and leeches. A time line highlights important medical facts and a list of American museums to visit is included. A good pictorial supplement to Irene M. Franck and David M. Brownstone's Healers (Facts on File, 1989).Martha Gordon, formerly at South Salem Library, NYCopyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.	Gr. 3^-6. First published in Great Britain, this large-format book introduces 22 representative figures in the history of medicine, from Roman times to the present. Each figure is given a fictional persona, such as William Iron, a naval surgeon in Tudor England; Jeremiah Clinker, an eighteenth-century grave robber; and Margery Gilbert, a Birmingham district nurse, who worked about 1930. Generally, a double-page spread is devoted to each person. Although dominated by a large color photo of someone acting the part of the character, the spreads also include smaller photos of equipment and materials typical of the period. The pictures of costumed people often have a static, staged quality; however, the book offers an unusual window to the past. And despite the British focus, the text and captions include plenty of eye-opening details of medical practice through the ages. A good choice for visual learners. Extensive time line and glossary appended.  Carolyn Phelan",books;children's books;history;medical books;nature & how it works;science;science & math;technology,8
1568950322,"The Red Horseman (Jake Grafton, Book 5) Coonts's latest Jake Grafton ( Under Siege ) espionage thriller takes on the most critical issues in global politics and turns them into first-rate adventure fiction. Now a rear admiral and deputy director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), Grafton learns from a Mossad hitwoman that Jewish media kingpin Nigel Keren was the victim of a complicated poisoning engineered by the CIA. Grafton and ""Toad"" Tarkington, his trusted sidekick, are threatened with similar poisoning and, just as they are dispatched to Moscow to oversee the dismantling of the Russian nuclear arsenal, they discover bugs in the DIA offices. Thus begins a dizzyingly complex adventure of apocalyptic importance, staged on three continents, filled with convincingly fictionalized portraiture (there are characters based on Robert Maxwell and Colin Powell; Saddam Hussein himself plays a pivotal role). The issues Coonts confronts--the frighteningly unprotected and undermaintained nuclear devices in the former Soviet Union; factionalism in the U.S. intelligence community; unrest in the Middle East--make this one of the most compelling post- glasnost thrillers to date. BOMC selection; major ad/promo; author tour. Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Rear Admiral Jake Grafton, aviator-hero of Coonts's Under Siege (1990), etc., now saves the world from potential Armageddon- -and gets to meet Boris Yeltsin and Saddam Hussein in the bargain. The nearly nonstop action begins when an Israeli spy gives Jake's assistant Toad Tarkington a photo that leads Jake and Toad to suspect a CIA cabal at work in numerous evil deeds, including the murder of publishing magnate Nigel Keren (read: Robert Maxwell) by way of ``binary'' poison--poison that, because of the duo's sleuthing, may next be used on them. But despite the threat, Jake and Toad soldier on with their next assignment: to monitor the dismantling of Soviet nuclear missiles. The pair's sojourn in Russia allows Coonts to indulge in his usual soapboxing (``In case you haven't noticed,'' says Jake, ``Russia is a third-world shithole'') even as Jake and Toad meet with beetle-browed generals and try to avoid being poisoned by the CIA cabal. Meanwhile, an anti-Yeltsin KGB faction blows up a Russian nuclear-weapons site, causing a meltdown that may kill a million (```Another million,' Jake Grafton roared savagely. `God in heaven, when will it ever stop?'''). As Russia erupts in panic, Jake learns that the meltdown covered up the theft from the site of several warheads that were then sold to Saddam Hussein. After Jake confers with Yeltsin, the admiral and Toad's pilot-wife take to the skies to bomb the reactor's remaining missiles, shooting down renegade KGB jets in the process. Jake then exposes the CIA cabal and retrieves the stolen warheads through a raid on Iraq--where both the outlaw KGB leader and Saddam himself make a big mistake by getting in Jake's way. Coonts's plots are getting as overcomplicated as Tom Clancy's, but his flying-and-fighting scenes are as exciting as ever. Chalk up another red, white, and blue ace for the author and his jet- jockeys. -- Copyright 1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Stephen Coonts (b. 1946) was born in Buckhannon, West Virginia. He is the New York Times bestselling author of twenty-eight thriller and nonfiction titles, including The Intruders, The Minotaur, Under Siege, The Red Horseman, and The Cannibal Queen. A combat pilot in the Vietnam War, Coontss technical knowledge of aviation and warfare has contributed to the enormous popularity of his novels. The author currently divides his time between his home in Colorado and a farm in West Virginia, where he does much of his writing.	      --This text refers to the 							MP3 CD	 edition.",books;family saga;genre fiction;literature & fiction;mystery;spy stories & tales of intrigue;thriller & suspense;thrillers,8
0823023346,Horse: From Noble Steeds to Beasts of Burden Lorraine Harrison has a degree in art history from the University of Sussex in England. This book has allowed her to combine her love of art and animals.,arts & photography;books;catalogs & exhibitions;collections;history;history & criticism;plants & animals;themes,8
0201157942,"Linear and Nonlinear Programming From the reviews of the third edition:The aim of this book is to present the central concepts of optimization techniques.  the material in this new edition is organized into three separate parts.  this very well-written book is a classic textbook in Optimization. It should be present in the bookcase of each student, researcher, and specialist from the host of disciplines from which practical optimization applications are drawn. (Jean-Jacques Strodiot, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1207, 2011)	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	2nd edition	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	""Linear and Nonlinear Programming"" is considered a classic textbook in Optimization. While it is a classic, it also reflects modern theoretical insights. These insights provide structure to what might otherwise be simply a collection of techniques and results, and this is valuable both as a means for learning existing material and for developing new results. One major insight of this type is the connection between the purely analytical character of an optimization problem, expressed perhaps by properties of the necessary conditions, and the behavior of algorithms used to solve a problem. This was a major theme of the firstand second editions. Nowthe third edition has been completely updated with recent Optimization Methods. Yinyu Ye has written chapters and chapter material on a number of these areas including Interior Point Methods.  This bookis designed for either self-study by professionals or classroom work at the undergraduate or graduate level for technical students. Like the field of optimization itself, which involves many classical disciplines, the book should be useful to system analysts, operations researchers, numerical analysts, management scientists, and other specialists. 	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.	David G. Luenberger has directed much of his career toward teaching ""portable concepts"" - organizing theory around concepts and actually ""porting"" the concepts to applications where, in the process, the general concepts are often discovered. The search for fundamentals has explicitly directed his research in the fields of control, optimization, planning, economics, and investments, and in turn, it is the discovery of these fundamentals that have motivated his textbook writing projects.	      --This text refers to the 							Paperback	 edition.",books;business & finance;business & investing;mathematics;new;science & math;science & mathematics;used & rental textbooks,8
067972558X,"Satisfaction Guaranteed This well-researched and documented history of goods-and-customer interaction since the days of bartering is also a delightful overview of American shopping customs from 19th-century Main Street to today's malls. Early in the 20th century, Strasser shows, advertising of national brandsquotes unnec.?/unnec.gs launched products creating their own demand--safety razors, cameras, fountain pens (with attendant consumption of blades, film, etc.)--thus gradually displacing networks of generic manufacturers whose sales ""drummers"" fanned across America by rail and buggy. The development of department stores such as Macy's, mail-order giants like Sears Roebuck and Montgomery Ward, grocery chains foreshadowing supermarkets, ""aids"" like premiums, displays and trading stamps and the skyrocket successes of Coca-Cola and Wrigley's gum are only a fraction of the sweeping story, as the author of Never Done brings into focus major social and economic forces linked to our daily lives. Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Strasser, who also has written a history of housework ( Never Done , LJ 5/1/81), explains how advertising techniques developed in the early years of this century, especially the brand-name concept, have shaped the modern American appetite for particular mass-produced goods. Beginning with Crisco in 1912, she describes various campaigns to sell new products, emphasizing how the goal from the outset has been ""to make people want things,"" which puts profits ahead of consumer needs. The legacy has been pernicious: ""a consumer culture that itself breeds constant discontent, depending always on individuals wanting more."" Free enterprise advocates will take exception, but this thoughtful look at how Americans consume is worth anyone's time.- Kenneth F. Kister, Poynter Inst. for Media Studies, St. Petersburg, Fla.Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	A meticulous, probing, and often colorful study of the origins and workings of the American mass market in its formative years.Los Angeles Times Book ReviewSatisfaction Guaranteed brings the subject of mass-market society out of the clouds of theory and down to earth.Village Voice Literary SupplementStrasser shows how we have evolved into a consumer culture in which the creation of demand is central.Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.	Susan Strasser teaches history at the University of Delaware. Her books include Waste and Want: A Social History of Trash. She lives in Washington, DC.	      --This text refers to an alternate 							Paperback	 edition.",accounting;accounting & finance;advertising;books;business & investing;finance;marketing & sales;professional & technical,8
B000024AZU,"Ashes And Diamonds From 1977, June's second album is a wonderful collection of traditional and modern songs with June's magnificent vocals often underpinned by Nic Jones's guitar, and has Steeleye Span's rhythm section on one track.",country;folk;jazz;music;new age;pop;rock;world music,8
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0873497600,"Standard Catalog of Buick 1903-2004 John Gunnell, a life-long automotive historian, is the automotive books editor for Krause Publications. He has authored numerous automotive books including 75 Years of Pontiac: The Official History, Standard Catalog of[registered] Corvette 1953-2001, and American Muscle Cars, along with more than 30 others.",automotive;books;classic cars;history;new;professional & technical;transportation;used & rental textbooks,8
B000EIXT7Y,"Toshiba 120W Global AC Adapter This Global AC Adapter is a 120 Watt external AC Adapter designed to work with Series Portable Computers, and Series AVPCs.",accessories & supplies;audio & video accessories;computer accessories;computer cable adapters;computer components;computers & accessories;connectors & adapters;electronics,8
B000F2KTV8,"Char Broil 463261106 Designer Series Stainless Steel Grill with 13,000 BTU Sideburner The Char Broil Designer Series Stainless Steel Grills represent the top of the line for the grilling enthusiast.  This model represents a fully stainless steel working grill that doesn't sacrifice any measure of capability for looks.  The unique lid design is double walled stainless steel with a full length stainless steel handle and commercial temperature gauge.  Featuring four stainless steel tube burners and a 50,000 BTU output that is jumpstarted by electronic ignition, this step up in the Designer Series provides a sharp aesthetic and proven function.  The actual cooking surface is 500 sq. in. divided into two porcelain coated cast iron grates.  A flush mounted 13,000 BTU sideburner with stainless steel cover compliments the main chamber.  To add to its capabilities, the Designer Series is convertible from LP to natural gas with an easy to use conversion kit sold separately.  The stainless steel front panel doors hide a propane tank and an interior storage shelf.  Heavy duty casters, shrouded by the frame, provide an unseen and easy way to move the grill.",all grills;char-broil;freestanding grills;gas grills;grills;grills & outdoor cooking;lawn & garden;patio,8
0595177638,"An Archer's Inner Life: A Collection of Essays on the Wood Bow The author learned archery at the age of five, hunting shortly thereafter, and a conscience ever since. He has hunted in Montana, Wyoming, Wisconsin, and Oklahoma. He has a calicoed vocational history that includes formal training and experience in wildlife, education, and medicine. He also writes poetry. He currently lives in southern Oklahoma where he continues to exercise the tenets of his archers philosophy.",archery;books;essays;hunting;hunting & fishing;individual sports;miscellaneous;sports & outdoors,8
159058077X,"Second Helping of Murder, A: More Diabolically Delicious Recipes from Contemporary Mystery Writers Poisoned Pen Press in Scottsdale, Arizona, recently published two cookbooks made up of recipes donated by mystery authors: A Taste of Murder and A Second Helping of Murder. Dubbed Diabolically Delicious Recipes from Contemporary Mystery Writers. Each book offers 150 recipes with brief stories about how they relate to the writers' books...Broken into sections like A Criminal Past-a and Meating Out Justice, the recipes in the books manage to be both usable and entertaining...Chock full of quirky and delicious recipes and cooking lessons (like Anthony Bourdains How to Cook Pasta without Getting Whacked) these books are a feast for gourmands and mystery lovers alike. So belly up to the bar, name your poison, have a snack of red herrings and enjoy some murderously good food. -- Mark Terry, The Oakland Press (MI)Note: A portion of the profits from both books is being donated to Wholesaler to the Hungry,""A second helping of easy to follow clues (recipes) is provided to those armchair sleuths who appreciated A Taste of Murder. A new bunch of suspects provide either their favorite recipe or that of their hero so that the readers obtain well over a hundred helpings from a wide gamut of writers including Poe. As this reviewer did with the first book ""The Set Up"" was simple, and I used my personal Watson as a food taster so he would have ""No Bone to Pick"" (for now) about time on book reviews vs. cooking. However, even providing him with ""Tough Cookies"" and his ""Just Desserts"", Watson found the clues that led to trying the entrees from sections such as ""Murder Most Fowl"" and ""Mealing Out Justice"".Watson enjoyed the meals and desserts while this reviewer appreciated the tidbits about some of the genre's favorite writers and their character. The tome is fun as it deftly combines genre information within a diabolically delicious cookbook (the meals not the book). Only one ""Red Herring"" surfaced, Watson expects more cooked meals leaving me ""In the Soup"" over the ""Crumby Situations."" Harriet Klausner	Robert Weibezahl is a California-based writer and publicist. He writes a monthly review column for BookPage, and has also contributed to Bikini and Irish America magazines, and Mystery Readers Journal. His first mystery story, ""Judge and Jury,"" will appear in fall 2003 issue of Futures Mysterious Anthology Magazine. Jo Grossman and Robert Weibezahl are donating a portion of their royalties from both A Taste of Murder and A Second Helping of Murder to From the Wholesaler to the Hungry, a national organization that helps cities across the country develop systematic programs to distribute nutritious fresh produce to low-income adults and children.Jo Grossman is the former proprietor of The Mystery Caf, a mystery bookstore/caf in Sheffield, Massachusetts, that combined her love of good food and good crime novels.  She worked in film and television for many years, including a three-year stint on In the Heat of the Night.  She lives in Massachusetts and still wants to be Nancy Drew when she grows up.",books;contemporary;cookbooks;food & wine;literature & fiction;mystery;reference;thriller & suspense,8
B00006HNH7,Labtec SS-11 PORTABLE MINI SPEAKERS Portable Mini Speakers - New,computer accessories;computer components;computer speakers;computers & accessories;electronics;home audio;speakers;stereo components,8
0811820963,"The Mediterranean Cat Hans Silvester's cats have clawed themselves an assured niche in the cute-cat book world. The reissue of The Mediterranean Cat, as well as Cats in the Sun and Asleep in the Sun, makes for three beautiful photography books, exquisitely portraying the cats of the Greek Islands as they patrol this sun-drenched landscape. The felines of The Mediterranean Cat are an eclectic bunch. Some are a little rough and tumble, the end result of a territorial battle over the best spot in the sun. Others are regal, as they sit nose in air on an honored whitewashed doorstep, or slink up a step with a prized (and no doubt stolen) fish in tow. Here are tabbies and Russian blues, cats with pristine white fur, others with matted orange. Some are wild and feisty, others are well fed and tended to by a caring Greek household. Yet all retain their independence and self-assured aloofness. The Greek fishing boats and sunny promenades, the cobblestone streets and high rooftops all belong to the cats. --Naomi Gesinger	Silvester's striking album lives up to the lush, sensitive standards set by its widely applauded predecessor, Cats in the Sun (1994), the author's first book of photographs of the undomesticated cats of the Greek islands. Venue and subject matter continue in this sequel, and the photographer's talent in capturing traditional feline habits in a distinctively beautiful locale remains undiminished. As in the previous book, a truth is told in these photographs: Whether securing a meal or a tryst with a willing partner, whether busy at play or simply in regal repose, cats are at their best in the sun! An appealing book for travelers as well as cat and photography aficionados.  Brad Hooper	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Text: English (translation) Original Language: French	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Hans Silvester is a renowned photographer who has traveled the Greek islands over a period of three years in search of the endearing images contained in these pages.",arts & photography;books;cats;crafts;hobbies & home;pets & animal care;photo essays;photography,8
B00002N8JO,"Gilmour Premium Traditional Sprayer 3- Gallon Capacity Teal 3000P Innovative design offers 6 inch extra wide mouth for easy filling and cleaning. Convenient side handle for easy pouring and carrying.	GILMOUR Premium Tank Sprayer features a convenient carry strap that helps you maneuver heavy sprayers.18"" brass wand with adjustable brass nozzle. Ultraviolet-resistant translucent polyethylene tank. Design includes: pressure relief valve that releases at 45 PSI, 31/2"" dia. tank opening, 52"" premium PVC hose, 10"" non-corroding polymer pump. Chemical-resistant discharge valve and Viton seals. Easy-to-clean discharge filter.",garden center;gardening;lawn & garden;patio;plant germination equipment;power & hand tools;sprayers;tools & home improvement,8
1572438207,"Glad You Asked: Intriguing Names, Facts, and Ideas for the Curious-Minded Michael Feldman is the host of Whad Ya Know? which airs weekly on more than 300 public radio stations across the country. Every Saturday, more nearly 1.5 million listeners (not to mention those listening on satellite radio) tune into to learn some of the most interesting and entertaining facts about the widest variety of subjects imaginable.",books;education & reference;history;humor & entertainment;puzzles & games;trivia;trivia & fun facts;world,8
0810850540,"From Shaman to Scientist: Essays on Humanity's Search for Spirits In Chapter 1, Annekatrin Puhle and Adrian Parker explore 'edges' between the scientific and shamanic worldviews. A brief history of parapsychology emphasizes that the 'experimenter effect,' far from being mere artifact, is 'part of the beast we are investigating.' They point out that the most successful Ganzfeld experiments are those that give prominence to ritualistic and spiritual context. This supports their conclusion that 'our experimental techniques may be the modern day equivalent of rituals for bringing forth the phenomena.' In Chapter 2, a detailed exploration of psi-shamanic associations, James McClenon suggests that many of the core phenomena manifest cross-culturally. Michael Winkelman in the next chapter surmises that 'Spirits are part of thestructure of human consciousness [and]...can be understood as representing psychological complexes, organized personality dynamics that are dissociated from awareness, normal personality and identity.' Christa Tuczay in Chapter 4 explores ghosts in medieval sources, and this is followed by Peter Mulacz in what, for me, was the most fascinating chapter in the book, reviewing the history of poltergeist research and leading theories of the phenomenon. Sylvia Grider's chapter on American children's ghost sto (The Christian Parapsychologist )Ghosts have haunted us from time immemorial. Rationalistic criticism casts them as the poster children of superstitious credulity,  yet we still refuse to outgrow them. This persistence under fire has even begun to win a new and more respectful look at these old friends, these shadows in the dark and things that go bump in the night. If few scholars are convinced that ghosts mean the soul survives death, many now regard belief in ghosts as a significant and intriguing subject with cultural and psychological causes worthy of serious study. Any effort to reckon with belief in ghosts must also reckon with prior efforts. They are numerous and reflect hopes and prejudices, fashions and agendas more often than dispassionate scholarship, leaving behind a clutterof confusion for subsequent scholars to overstep. A new book raises a welcome light among the midnight corners of ghostly belief and leads readers through a grand tour of this perennial subject.     From Shaman to Scientist collects articles exploring the mystery of ghosts in both breadth and depth. The book illuminates the cultural history of ghosts and the effort of the living to understand them, how they function as the subject of narratives and how old ideas meld with new technology to create a popul (Thomas E. Bullard, Ph.D. )The writing within this volume commendably reflects a diversity of beliefs, and approaches to understanding the fundamentally human experience of spirits and hauntings. This topic benefits considerably from this type of approach. (Christine Simmonds-Moore Journal Of Scientific Exploration )Anthropologists, psychiatrists, and others who have researched parapsychology phenomena provide a number of case studies in which people have looked for what are popularly called ghosts in various contexts. Among their topics are shamanism in terms of human evolution, dissociation, and anomalous experience; interactions with apparitions, ghosts, and revenants in ancient and medieval sources; American children's ghost stories; and ghost hunting in the 21st century. (Reference & Research Book News )...provocative and well constructed....Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty. (Choice )Highly recommended reading for academic researchers, students of the subject, and those working in the media. (John Maltby, Ph.D. Department Of Psychology, University Of Leicester, Uk )In Chapter 1, Annekatrin Puhle and Adrian Parker explore 'edges' between the scientific and shamanic worldviews. A brief history of parapsychology emphasizes that the 'experimenter effect,' far from being mere artifact, is 'part of the beast we are investigating.' They point out that the most successful Ganzfeld experiments are those that give prominence to ritualistic and spiritual context. This supports their conclusion that 'our experimental techniques may be the modern day equivalent of rituals for bringing forth the phenomena.' In Chapter 2, a detailed exploration of psi-shamanic associations, James McClenon suggests that many of the core phenomena manifest cross-culturally. Michael Winkelman in the next chapter surmises that 'Spirits are part of the structure of human consciousness [and]...can be understood as representing psychological complexes, organized personality dynamics that are dissociated from awareness, normal personality and identity.' Christa Tuczay in Chapter 4 explores ghosts in medieval sources, and this is followed by Peter Mulacz in what, for me, was the most fascinating chapter in the book, reviewing the history of poltergeist research and leading theories of the phenomenon. Sylvia Grider's chapter on American children's ghost stories will be of interest to the folklorist, and finally, in Chapter 7, John Potts continues the ethnographic drift by reviewing twenty-first century ghost hunting, including 'ghosts on the web.' Loyd Auerbach's Afterword pulls the diverse streams together, remarking: 'I might never have made the connection between 'ghost hunter' and 'shaman' were it not for the preceding pages.' The ghost hunter or paranormal researcher, he suggests, is in many respects a shamanic figure in our modern world. (The Christian Parapsychologist )Ghosts have haunted us from time immemorial. Rationalistic criticism casts them as the poster children of superstitious credulity,  yet we still refuse to outgrow them. This persistence under fire has even begun to win a new and more respectful look at these old friends, these shadows in the dark and things that go bump in the night. If few scholars are convinced that ghosts mean the soul survives death, many now regard belief in ghosts as a significant and intriguing subject with cultural and psychological causes worthy of serious study. Any effort to reckon with belief in ghosts must also reckon with prior efforts. They are numerous and reflect hopes and prejudices, fashions and agendas more often than dispassionate scholarship, leaving behind a clutter of confusion for subsequent scholars to overstep. A new book raises a welcome light among the midnight corners of ghostly belief and leads readers through a grand tour of this perennial subject.     From Shaman to Scientist collects articles exploring the mystery of ghosts in both breadth and depth. The book illuminates the cultural history of ghosts and the effort of the living to understand them, how they function as the subject of narratives and how old ideas meld with new technology to create a popular current form of ""techno-mysticism."" Questions of where belief in ghosts originates find an intriguing answer in shamanism, an archaic relationship between mortals and the spirit world that seems to provide a template throughout history. Asking why these beliefs persist in stubborn defiance of rational skepticism leads to the prospect that innate cognitive structures sustain ghostly experiences as phenomenal realities, whatever their ontological nature may be.    The contributors to this book respect the complexity of ghost belief in history and culture even as they advance our understanding  along sound scholarly lines. And if the writers are willing to allow now and then that there is still something mysterious about a fine  ghostly encounter, well, let us b (Thomas E. Bullard, Ph.D. )	James Houran Houran serves as a peer-reviewer for many psychological and parapsychological journals, and is an associate editor for the Australian Journal of Parapsychology and a consulting editor for the European Journal of Parapsychology. He is a former Instructor of Clinical Psychiatry at the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine. His research has produced more than 80 professional publications in psychology and parapsychology journals, and his work has been frequently profiled in print and electronic media worldwide, such as A, History Channel, BBC, ABC News, and several commercial documentaries.",books;humanities;new;occult;philosophy;politics & social sciences;religion & spirituality;used & rental textbooks,8
0936085479,"Achieving Financial Independence as a Freelance Writer Ray Dreyfack studied journalism at Columbia University and became an expert at business writing through hands-on experience in a variety of jobs over the years, most notably as a systems executive at Faberg Perfumes Inc. in Ridgefield, New Jersey.  He taught  at New York Universitys Management Institute, and served several Fortune 500 companies in a public relations capacity. Dreyfack has authored more than twenty published books, and his long-running ""The Human Side of Engineering"" is repeatedly voted the ""most popular and best-rated column"" in Plant Engineering Magazines readership polls.  He has completed innumerable articles, speeches, booklets, newsletters, and other assignments in his long career as a freelance. His desire to share his knowledge and experience motivated him to write Achieving Financial Independence as a Freelance Writer.  Raised in the Bronx, he now lives with his wife in Coconut Creek, Florida, and is as prolific as everwhen hes not playing his saxophone or clarinet. He is a member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors, as well as a contributing editor at Plant Engineering Magazine, Supervision Magazine, and Selling Power.",authorship;books;business & investing;education & reference;publishing & books;research & publishing guides;writing;writing skills,8
B000TM048M,"UFO: Showtime [HD DVD] (2005) 1. Intro2. Mother Mary3. When Daylight Goes To Town4. Let It Roll5. Out On The Streets6. This Kidds7. The Wild One8. Fighting Man9. Only You Can Rock Me10. Baby Blue11. Mr. Freeze12. Love To Love13. Too Hot Too Handle14. Lights Out15. Rock Bottom16. Doctor Doctor17. Shoot Shoot18. Pack It Up And Go (studio)19. Try Me (studio)20. Love To Love (studio)21. Slipping Away (studio)22. Cherry (studio)23. Profession Of Violence (studio)24. Making Of DVD25. Slideshow26. Discography27. Making Of Studio Songs28. Rockboat (Doku)29. USA 2004 (Doku)30. History (Interviews)31. Bonus Statements (Interviews)32. Credits --Steamhammer/SPV	The historic UFO revival continues to thrive! Captured in all their glory along their 2005 European tour, UFO proves that they are as vital and important as ever to the global rock scene. The 'Showtime' HD-DVD is a stunning document of UFO in the new millennium. Experience the sights and sounds of a classic band at their absolute best!",classic rock;hard rock & metal;movies & tv;music;pop;rock;tv;world music,8
B000JRPYGE,"MXL V67G Large Capsule Condenser Microphone The MXL V67G brings an old school mellow tone to  vocals. This solid-state microphone gives every note a rich and velvety sound.  Youll get outstanding vocals that stand out over the rest of the tracks, with  no EQ needed. The  V67G comes through with killer vocals even in front of a busy mix and has great  stage appeal with a gold-plated round grill and distinctive, vintage body. The MXL V67G Large Capsule  Condenser Microphone includes a MXL MT-001 Hard Mount Mic Stand Adapter. Specifications               Type        Pressure gradient condenser mic                  Diaphragm        6 micron gold-sputtered                  Capsule Size        32mm/1.26in.                  Frequency Response        30Hz - 20kHz                  Polar Pattern        Cardioid                  Sensitivity        15 mV/Pa                  Impedance        200 ohms                  Output        Transformer-balanced                  Equivalent Noise        20 dB (A-weighted IEC 268-4)                  S/N Ratio        74 dB (Ref. 1 PA A-weighted)                   Max SPL for .5% THD:        130 dB                  Power Requirements        Phantom Power 48V (+/- 4V)                  Size        47 mm x 184 mm/1.85 in. x 7.24 in.                  Weight        1.3 lbs/589.67g                  Metal Finish        Green with gold grill	""Old school tube mellow"" is often used to describe the sound of the MXL V67G Large Capsule Condenser Microphone. Designed mainly for vocals, the V67G combines Class A FET circuitry and a transformer-coupled output for an open and pure sound. The V67G comes through with killer vocals even in front of a busy mix and has great stage appeal with a gold-plated round grill and distinctive, vintage body. You'll be amazed by the sound this cleverly-designed microphone provides and pleasantly pleased with the price.",computer components;computers & accessories;condenser microphones;electronics;microphones & accessories;multipurpose;musical instruments;studio recording equipment,8
B0000C1XZK,SPALDING TF18 GOLD LEATHER OUTDOOR VOLLEYBALL The Spalding TF-18 Gold Outdoor Volleyball has a top grain leather cover. Spalding's TF-18 Gold outdoor volleyball is a tournament play quality volleyball with hand-stitched raised seam construction and a rotationally molded urethane bladder. TF-18 Gold outdoor volleyballs are ideal for top-level competitive sand court play.,outdoor volleyballs;sports;sports & outdoor play;sports & outdoors;team sports;toys & games;volleyball;volleyballs,8
B00008K2T5,"ASP Red Elite Series Aluminum Panel Wearable Light The ASP Elite Aspen offers a technological breakthrough in personal lighting. The high efficiency White Elite Crystal provides soft illumination which is visible over one mile. Programmable functions include Constant-on, Flashing alert, and International SOS signaling. Replaceable lithium Power Pak's. Available in 10 bright dipped anodized colores. Tri-Ring clop secures the Elite to your key ring, jacket or Purse. Includes lifetime guarantee. Color - Red.	ASP Wearable Lights introduce a new technology to personal lighting products. They are bright, reliable and conveniently clipped. Shockproof Wearable Lights will become your constant companion. A Lifetime of Light . . . where and when you need them. The Lifetime Crystal produces a high efficiency, non-deteriorating solid state beam. It provides soft illumination with a 180 viewing radius.",flashlights;hand tools;hunting;hunting & fishing;key chain flashlights;power & hand tools;sports & outdoors;tools & home improvement,8
015506987X,"The Least You Should Know about English, Form B ""I loved this text from the minute I adopted it somewhere in the 80s. The strength of THE LEAST YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT ENGLISH is the clarity of the grammar explanations.""""The text is easy to read--i.e., its layout is compelling--and the text covers areas that need to be covered in developmental English.""""I have continued to use THE LEAST YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT ENGLISH because it does a very good job in presenting clear descriptions of common problems, and because it has lots of practice sets with answers.""	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	With an amazing gift for explaining the basics of grammar, punctuation, and writing, Paige Wilson, Associate Professor at Pasadena City College, focuses on the vital structures of English, reinforcing fundamental concepts with an abundance of easy-to-follow exercises.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;education & reference;language & grammar;new;rhetoric;study & teaching;used & rental textbooks;words,8
0749522658,"Baedeker's Florence Baedeker FlorenceBaedeker -- the guides to travel with.Now in fully revised editions, Baedeker guides offer today's visitor a tremendous depth and reliability of informationCompletely updated and revisedCompact guide and foldout map in a clear plastic walletHundreds of full-color photos throughoutDetailed maps and floorplansA-to-Z listings of sights or towns with in-depth reviews and detailed descriptions.Baedeker's original star-rating system.Solid background coverage highlighting history, culture, the economy, the people, and moreUseful practical information, facts and figures, hotel and restaurant listings, and language glossaries.",books;education & reference;europe;florence;general;italy;reference;travel,8
B000QTCXK0,"Palace Lounge Presents Cafe D'Afrique 3 Vol. 3 is the greatest of the critically acclaimed chill  series from South Africa with breakout performances by Corinne Bailey Rae,  Robyn, Samantha James and more. Vol. 3 ups the ante from the first two  volumes and presents the greatest chill experience yet!",dance & electronic;folk;jazz;music;new age;pop;r&b;world music,8
B000LGTQY4,"Oregon 53 Drive Link Chamfer Chisel Xtra Guard 3/8-Inch Pitch, .050-Inch Gauge, Low Kickback Saw Chain 91VG053G Oregon cutting chain is used as original equipment by 90 percent of the world's chainsaw manufacturers and by most of the world's professional loggers, farmers, and homeowners. Why? Because they want their saws to deliver unparalleled cutting performance and the highest possible level of product satisfaction. Here's what Oregon provides users: Advanced manufacturing materials, innovative product features, and extraordinary quality that maximizes the high value built into chainsaws, Cutting chain that is trouble- free---that cuts every type of timber, stands up in any kind of weather, and stays together in all cutting conditions, Cutting chain that stays sharper longer than most saw users ever expect, but is easy to resharpen when the time comes, Cutting chain that's made in many types and sizes to match the power of most saws, and the kinds of use for which each saw is designed, Cutting chain that has lubrication, sharpening, low-vibration, and low-kickback safety features built right in, and Cutting chain that's available for replacement anywhere in the world to ensure the highest possible level of customer service and support.  Since the development of the first chipper chain more than half a century ago Oregon has been, and remains, at the forefront of chainsaw cutting-systems technology and continues to produce the most advanced line of cutting chain available today.  91VG chain is specially designed to incorporate all the advantages of our professional series chain in a consumer style, low=kickback saw chain.  It is ideal for occasional users, but is also extremely well suited for commercial cutters such as arborists and orchardists.  Advanced grind geometry, significantly improves out-of-box sharpness.	Genuine OEM Oregon Equipment Part 91VG053G Xtraguard Semi Chisel Chain 3",chain saw accessories;chain saw chains;lawn & garden;mowers & outdoor power tools;outdoor power tool accessories;patio;power & hand tools;tools & home improvement,8
1572233877,"The Labrador Retriever : A Comprehensive Guide to Buying, Owning, and Training (Breed Basics, 1) Author Steve Smith is an award-winning dog writer and the editor of Retriever Journal and Pointing Dog Journal. His expertise in dog training is easy to see in this book.",books;breeds;care & health;crafts;dogs;hobbies & home;pets & animal care;training,8
B000L534P2,"Blue EMT Medical Field Kit Blue EMT Medical Field Kit - Made of HeavyWeight Denier Cordura Nylon. Lined With Nylon. With White Star Of Life Emblem. 3 Zippered Compartments. Quick Release Buckle. Dimensions: 7"" x 9"" x 4"". Blue EMS/EMTPublic Safety Field Bag.",camping & hiking;emergency response equipment;first aid kits;industrial & scientific;occupational health & safety products;outdoor recreation;safety & survival;sports & outdoors,8
141430076X,"A Place to Belong (The Sister Circle Series #4) Enjoy all four Sister Circle novels! #1: The Sister Circle, #2: Round the Corner, #3: An Undivided Heart, #4: A Place to Belong.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Be sure to read the first 3 books in the popular Sister Circle series!  The final chapter for the women of Peerbaugh Place . . . and a whole new beginning.  Evelyn Peerbaugh is worried. Once again she has taken in new boarders, but this time she has opened the doors of Peerbaugh Place to women who cant pay a cent for her services. As she reaches out to these sisters in need, she discovers that God has a whole new plan for the Sister Circle.   The bonds of sisterhood are as strong as ever. But no one could have predicted the shock in store for Evelyn and Piper. . . .	Vonette Bright  Since cofounding Campus Crusade for Christ with her husband, Bill Bright, in 1951, Vonette has maintained a rigorous schedule as hostess, speaker, discipler, and author. Founder of Women Today International, she is widely recognized as a spokesperson for Christian women.Nancy Moser. Since dedicating her writing to themes of faith and how ordinary people can discover their unique purpose, Nancy has had eleven books published-three books of inspirational humor and nine novels. She is the author of six books with Multnomah Publishers. Nancy is married and has three grown children",books;children's books;christianity;contemporary;fiction;literature & fiction;religion & spirituality;religions,8
1558747923,"Wyland Ocean Wisdom Renowned for his world-famous Whaling Wall murals, marine life artist Wyland has been a leading advocate in the effort to protect the worlds ocean resources for more than twenty-five years. He has been recognized for his environmental education efforts by the National Educators Association, the United Nations, and public and private environmental organizations around the world. The creator of the Wyland Ocean Challenge, a free nationwide marine art and science educational curriculum in the nation in partnership with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (UCSD), it is estimated that his work is seen by one billion people every year.",alternative medicine;books;fitness & dieting;health;inspirational;meditation;religion & spirituality;spirituality,8
0915230445,"Who Killed the Curate? Lady Lupin Lorimer Hastings, the vicar's loopy young wife, can't quite keep the details of her husband's job straight, but when his curate is murdered by poison, she turns her scatterbrained sights towards sleuthing in Joan Coggin's Who Killed the Curate?, a vintage reprint set in 1937 and published in 1944. Lady Lupin's comedic capers include promising to help the killer escape if he confesses, and it's anybody's guess whether her winding deductive path will end up at the killer. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.",books;british detectives;literature & fiction;mystery;suspense;thriller & suspense;thrillers;women sleuths,8
0500238073,The Art of the Picts: Sculpture and Metalwork in Early Medieval Scotland George Henderson is Emeritus Professor of Medieval Art at the University of Cambridge.Isabel Henderson is widely acknowledged as one of the worlds leading authorities on the Picts and their culture.,archaeology;arts & photography;books;criticism;history;history & criticism;medieval;politics & social sciences,8
0550100679,"Chambers Thesaurus 'A gorgeous book, full of linguistic delights'    -- The Herald	This internationally renowned reference publisher continues its celebrated tradition of excellence into the present day with such informative and authoritative works as the Chambers Crossword Dictionary, Chambers Encyclopedia, Chambers Biographical Dictionary and the all-new Chambers Dictionary of Quotations.Chambers is based in Edinburgh, as it always has been, and employs editors with a wide range of skills on dictionaries and other titles for a variety of users, including students and teachers of English as a foreign or second language. As well as the core business of publishing dictionaries and thesauruses, Chambers also publishes a range of titles on grammar and usage, single-volume reference titles on science, history, biography and quotations, as well as titles for Scrabble and crosswords.",books;dictionaries & thesauruses;education & reference;foreign language study & reference;reference;synonyms & antonyms;teens;thesauruses,8
0679458530,"Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary and CD-ROM With fifty years of experience in dictionary publishing behind it, Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary is the most definitive single-volume reference of the English language available--and the only dictionary of its kind available on CD-ROM.This modern dictionary offers an exhaustive, traditional study of the language, while covering the latest, most important developments--ahead of any other dictionary.Using cutting-edge technology, Random House is able to bring you Newer Words Faster.The Random House Living Dictionary Database, from which the Random House Unabridged Dictionary was developed, is an immense revolutionary computerized database for direct, immediate on-line editing.Dictionary entries can be updated on-screen as required, and most importantly, vital new vocabulary, from science to slang, can be added instantly, the moment it emerges in our language.And now this authoritative reference is available both in print and electronically in this all inclusive book/disk package.The CD-ROM includes not only the full text of the printed dictionary, complete with all the new words integrated into the A to Z listing, but also illustrations and spot maps that can be sized on-screen and printed.The multilingual interface is designed to work with Windows 95 as well as Windows 3.1, and the improved search engine offers flexibility and ease of use.In addition, professionally recorded pronunciations bring the sounds of American English to life.Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary is designed to meet the wide-ranging needs of today's students and scholars, who study ancient documents one day and surf the Internet the next; of professional writers, who craft poems or write articles for technical journals; of businesspeople, who need to communicate clearly, whether face-to-face or fax-to-fax; and--above all--the needs of word lovers.In addition to standard and specialized vocabulary, this extensive volume contains a wide variety of features, encompassing up-to-date, authoritative factual and encyclopedic information.It is truly a unique general reference volume for the office, the school, and the entire family.Important Features Include:* A brand-new eight-page New-Words Section in the front of the book, with over 1,000important new words and meanings added at press time, not found in the A-Zsection--words like intranet, body piercing, soccer mom, and sport-utility vehicle.* Over 315,000 entries* 1,500 updated definitions and entries* 2,400 spot maps and illustrations* Scholarly, up-to-date etymologies, including dates to show when terms entered the language, and showing clearly labeled Americanisms* Entries for important and famous people; for places; historical events; major works of literature, music and art; names and abbreviations of academic, governmental, social, and fraternal organizations; popular given names; common abbreviations; and foreign terms.* Entries and definitions for current place names, reflecting recent political and  geographical changes worldwide* Coverage of major British, Canadian, and Australian terms* Over 75,000 example phrases and sentences to show how words are used in context* Metric equivalents for weight, volume, height, distance, etc., included in definitions and captions* Endangered species identified* Comprehensive supplementary notes at many entries, discussing: usage problemspronunciation questions, distinctions among synonyms, regional variations anddialects* Additional supplementary lists of synonyms, antonyms, words formed from common prefixes* Valuable supplements to the dictionary included, in front and back matter* Sound-spelling correspondences in English* A Basic Manual of Style* Guidelines for avoiding insensitive and offensive language in both writing and speaking* List of Words Commonly ConfusedMORE COMPREHENSIVE DICTIONARYWith over 315,000 entries, the complete vocabulary of the renowned Second Edition of the Random House Unabridged Dictionary is contained in this one volume.The language of literature, the terms in your textbooks, and the nuances in your newspapers are all here.NEW-WORDS SECTION ADDED AT PRESS TIMEIf it's an important new word, you'll find it here first.A brand-new eight-page New-Words Section has been included in the print edition at press time, featuring the latest important words and meanings not in the A-Z section--terms like Megan's Law, feng shui, home page, and mesclun.Over 1,500 other entries and definitions have been updated as well.Also included are: * New and updated biographical entries* Revised geographical entries reflecting the recent changes worldwide* 2,400 spot maps and illustrationsAN IMPROVED CD-ROMWith an improved search engine, the CD-ROM is a flexible tool with advanced features designed to meet the needs of scholars, students, businesspeople, and anyone else who needs an extensive, versatile resource for words. * Find the word you need--when you need it.* Do specialized computer searches* Print the results.* Link the dictionary to your word processor.* Choose the language of your interface--English, French, or Spanish.* Play word games.CLICK! FOR FAST ELECTRONIC SEARCHESChoose among four ways to search the dictionary.Whichever Search Type you choose, just a click of the mouse brings up the word you want with the full text of the dictionary entry--definitions, written pronunciations, parts of speech, etymologies, synonyms and antonyms, usage notes, and more.LOOK! FOR THE CAMERA ICONThis dictionary on disk is not just words--more than 2,400 spot maps and illustrations await you.Just click on the camera icon wherever it appears.LISTEN! TO THE RECORDED PRONUNCIATIONSHear the written language come to life.Over 120,000 professionally recorded pronunciations--more than in ant other electronic dictionary--capture the authentic sounds of American English.Just click on the loudspeaker icon.System Requirements for the CD-ROM* IBM PC or compatible (80486 or higher)* 8Mb of RAM or more* 3Mb of free disk space on a hard drive (or, for custom installation of data files on  hard drive, 30 Mb)* Microsoft Windows 3.1 or higher* Windows-compatible mouse* CD-ROM drive (double speed or faster recommended) to access recorded  pronunciations* Windows-compatible sound card",books;dictionaries;dictionaries & thesauruses;education & reference;foreign language study & reference;new;reference;used & rental textbooks,8
0838443745,"Downtown 1: English for Work and Life Ed McBride is an experienced teacher in adult education, with over 15 years' experience. He has played an active role in curriculum development for the Los Angeles Unified School District.",books;education & reference;english as a second language;foreign language study & reference;foreign languages;humanities;new;used & rental textbooks,8
0449906167,"Erotica ""This collection shows that women have seen themselves as aggressive and receptive lovers, as well as philosophically sexual and loving partners, since the beginning of recorded history.""SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLEHere is the first collection of female erotic writing through the ages, and the first to reveal the form's amazing scope--as multifaceted as the sexuality of women themselves. EROTICA reveals the history of women's erotic writing and reexamines the literary expression of female sexuality. Included in this unique anthology are: Kathy Acker, Jane Austen, Anne Boleyn, Kate Copin, H.D., Radclyffe Hall, Edna O'Brien, Vita Sackville-West, Stevie Smith, Marina Tsvetayeva, Virginia Woolf, and many others.From the Trade Paperback edition.",books;contemporary;criticism & theory;erotica;gay & lesbian;history & criticism;literary criticism;literature & fiction,8
0595152066,"Vietnam 1968-1969: A Battalion Surgeon's Journal Byron Holley spent the longest year of his young life in Vietnam as surgeon of the 4th Battalion of the 39th Regiment, 9th Infantry Division. He lived like a swamp rat in the boonies of the Mekong Delta, and his actions were sometimes all that made the difference between life and death.But Holley never got used to death. In a land torn by generations of bloodshed, filled with leeches, snakes, malaria-infested mosquitoes, and, of course, the Viet Cong, Holley witnessed firsthand the heartbreaking courage of the men who fought and died in a terrible war.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Byron Edward Holley was born in Tampa, Florida and is a graduate of the University of Miami School of Medicine. He is in private practice of ophthalmology in Tampa. He is married to Sondra Dobbs Holley and is the father of two sons, Chuck Holley, DVM and John Byron Holley and one daughter, Allison Miriam Holley.",biographies & memoirs;books;history;leaders & notable people;medical;military;professionals & academics;vietnam war,8
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0973144343,"Total Tennis, Revised: The Ultimate Tennis Encyclopedia This third edition of Collins' unique perspective on the tennis world includes a wealth of information about a sport that has come in and out of the limelight over the last 20 years. Collins has loved tennis all his life, and tennis has been his life in his job as a sports journalist.  He once again brings his significant credentials to this encyclopedic treatment of the professional and significant amateur players of tennis over the last century.The first half of the volume is a year-by-year chronology noting the highlights for each year, starting in 1919 and stopping in 2002. Statistics for championship singles, doubles, and mixed-doubles winners in the major events are included. For a handful of players, Collins provides articles reprinted from magazines of the time.Comprehensive statistics and a brief history for the major tournaments--the French Open, Wimbledon, the U.S. Open, and the Australian Open--are contained in the middle section of the encyclopedia along with a selection of color photographs. Similar information is provided on the Davis Cup, the Olympics, and other tournaments. A biographical section has entries for elite players and others who made a significant contribution to the game. Finally, there is statistical information for nearly 400 of the best players in tennis as chosen by Collins using a variety of criteria.Whether a reader is interested in the articles on the players or the statistics, this is an excellent reference source on tennis. Recommended for most sports collections. RBBCopyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved",biographies;books;education & reference;encyclopedias;racket sports;sports;sports & outdoors;tennis,8
0300093098,"The Ukrainians: Unexpected Nation, Second edition Since the 1990s, journalists, academics, politicians and the public have groped for some sense of the history, culture and politics of emerging, post-communist independent statesACroatia, Macedonia, Slovakia, Belarus, Slovenia and the like. In 1991 Ukraine joined the ranks of these new states and emerged as a pivotal player in the new alignment of Eurasian politics. Wilson, a lecturer in Ukrainian studies at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies of University College in London, provides a comprehensive overview (more scholarly than popular) of Ukraine's history, focusing on questions of national identity and describing Ukraine as a recent invention as a nation. For Ukraine, he suggests, national identity revolves around the complex and fluctuating relation between Ukraine and Russia, from the contested views of medieval Kievan Rus and its national origins (Ukrainian or Russian or both?), to the troubles faced by a modern Ukraine with a significant Russian and Russian-speaking population. Wilson presents Ukraine as a cultural construct, a creation of both Ukrainian and Russian imagination and politics; as a result, the book will displease those who dismiss poststructuralist views of national identity. Still, thorough, rigorous and informative, Wilson's survey promises to sharpen Westerners' perceptions of the surviving East-West divide along the European and Russian border. Because it is ""a vital 'swing' state"" in Eastern Europe, Ukraine's past and future, Wilson convincingly argues, should very much concern us. Illus. not seen by PW. (Sept.) Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	This marvelous work examines Ukrainian history and politics in light of the literature of the country's nationalism. Legends of a heroic past buttress feelings of kinship within national groups, and nationalists, consequently, look to antiquity to rally popular support. Accordingly, Wilson (Ukrainian studies, University Coll., London) surveys the myth of national origin conveyed by Ukraine's supposed biblical origins and the lays (ballads) of ancient Russia. Memories of past grievances, such as subjugation to foreign powers, typically bolster national sentiments. Though Russia dominated the country until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Ukrainians take pride in their ancient culture, and the widespread use of the Russian language is a daily reminder to the Ukrainians of their traumatic past. Wilson rounds out the study by assessing the country's economic prospects and sketching a future course for Ukrainian geopolitics. As always, the past informs the politics of today. A perfect introduction to a fascinating culture; strongly recommended for all libraries.DJames R. Holmes, Ph.D. candidate, Fletcher Sch. of Law & Diplomacy, Tufts Univ., Medford, MA Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	""In this excellent guide, Wilson charts the history of Ukrainian nationalism over the centuries, and examines the ways in which Ukrainians have understood their culture, myths, history, and politics as specifically Ukrainian. Wilson has succeeded admirably in providing a detailed and judicious study of the current ideas that make up Ukrainian national identity."" Virginia Quarterly Review ""A lively, detailed, and eminently sensible exploration of who the Ukrainians are and why they are important... required reading for anyone with a serious interest in Eastern Europe."" Anna Reid, Literary Review ""A sweeping introductory examination of Ukrainian identity and history... An exceptional history, the kind that supplies not pat answers but food for thought within a lush context of documented and mythological past."" Kirkus Reviews ""A fresh, objective look at Ukrainian identity, which explores the many past and present possibilities that continue to confront this 'unexpected nation'."" Choice	As in many postcommunist states, politics in Ukraine revolves around the   issue of national identity. Ukrainian nationalists see themselves as one of the world's   oldest and most civilized peoples, as ""older brothers"" to the younger Russian culture. Yet   Ukraine became independent only in 1991, and Ukrainians often feel like a minority in   their own country, where Russian is still the main language heard on the streets of the   capital, Kiev. This book is a comprehensive guide to modern Ukraine and to the versions   of its past propagated by both Russians and Ukrainians. Andrew Wilson provides the   most acute, informed, and up-to-date account available of the Ukrainians and their   country.Concentrating on the complex relation between Ukraine and Russia, the book   begins with the myth of common origin in the early medieval era, then looks closely at   the Ukrainian experience under the tsars and Soviets, the experience of minorities in the   country, and the path to independence in 1991. Wilson also considers the history of   Ukraine since 1991 and the continuing disputes over identity, culture, and religion. He   examines the economic collapse under the first president, Leonid Kravchuk, and the   attempts at recovery under his successor, Leonid Kuchma. Wilson explores the conflicts   in Ukrainian society between the country's Eurasian roots and its Western aspirations, as   well as the significance of the presidential election of November 1999.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	""In this excellent guide, Wilson charts the history of Ukrainian nationalism over the centuries and examines  the ways in which Ukrainians have understood their culture, myths, history, and politics as specifically  Ukrainian. Wilson has succeeded admirably in providing a detailed and judicious study of the current ideas  that make up Ukrainian national identity.""Virginia Quarterly Review  ""A lively, detailed, and eminently sensible exploration of who the Ukrainians are and why they are  important . . . required reading for anyone with a serious interest in Eastern Europe.""Anna Reid, Literary  Review ""[A] sweeping introductory examination of Ukrainian identity and history. . . . An exceptional history, the  kind that supplies not pat answers but food for thought within a lush context of documented and  mythological past.""Kirkus Reviews (starred review)  ""A fresh, objective look at Ukrainian identity, which explores the many past and present possibilities that  continue to confront this 'unexpected nation'.""Choice	Andrew Wilson is Senior Lecturer in Ukrainian studies at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College, London.",books;eastern;england;europe;history;military;russia;ukraine,8
1860118070,"Rome Venice Florence, 3rd ""Hurrah and wassail! Let there be singing in the streets and joy unconfined...for another Cadogan guide is out. Cadogan guide books are the finest in the world.""  --Belfast Newsletter (N.Ireland)    ""Understated, humorous writing.""  --New York Daily News (US)    ""The Cadogan series of guidebooks is superb--comprehensive, intelligent, practical, and well-written.""  --Washington Times (US) -- Review'a balance of infectious enthusiasm and solid practicality' - Michael Palin""Hurrah and wassail! Let there be singing in the streets and joy unconfined...for another Cadogan guide is out. Cadogan guide books are the finest in the world.""--Belfast Newsletter (N.Ireland)""Understated, humorous writing.""--New York Daily News (US)""The Cadogan series of guidebooks is superb--comprehensive, intelligent, practical, and well-written.""--Washington Times (US)	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Three remarkable cities, with three remarkable stories to tell. Rome went out and conquered the world, and in its retirement came back to remake itself an ornate capital for an empire of souls. Venice built itself up from a Dark Age swamp to become a fairy city of canals. Florence built its empire on finance and wool, and lavished the profits on art and science. Pomp and glory, greed and beauty, mercantilism and brains - between the three, you'll discover a good deal of what Italy means. Cadogan's essential guide uncovers the divine, the great and the quirky in each city, where the stuff of civilization merges delightfully into the pleasures of everyday life. (5 1/2 X 8 3/8, 320 pages, color photos, maps)	Dana Facaros and Michael Pauls have written over forty books for Cadogan Guides. They have lived all over Europe and are currently ensconced in an old farmhouse in southwestern France.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.	Italy dangles from the center of western Europe like a Christmas stocking, stuffed to the brim with marvels, some as grand as Brunelleschi's dome over Florence cathedral, some as weird and unexpected as the pagan tombs buried underneath St Peter's in Rome, or Galileo's erect middle finger, carefully, significantly preserved in a reliquary in Florence's science museum.	      --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.",books;europe;florence;general;italy;rome;travel;venice,8