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Christmas with Grandma Elsie, Martha Finley (1828-1909), the daughter of a Presbyterian minister, was a school teacher and author of numerous articles, essays, and books, the most well-known being the 28 volumes of her "Elsie Dinsmore" series. Turning to writing stories for young people as a means of supporting herself after a serious injury, Finley sold more books than any other children's author of her day, with the exception of Louisa May Alcott. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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Live At The Blue Door` Arguably, Oklahoma has produced more influential country music singers, musicians, and songwriters than any other state in the union. And in the great tradition of Oklahoma-bred songwriters that extends from Woody Guthrie to Jimmy Webb to Kevin Welch, Brandon Jenkins is quickly becoming known as Oklahoma's next great songwriter and perhaps the state's next rising star. A disciple of the "red dirt" or "y'all-ternative" sound, Jenkins has had his music described in almost as many ways as the number of stories he has sung. King of Western Soul. King of Hootenany. Troubadour. Rebel. Outlaw. Honkytonk. Alternative Country. Americana. Red Dirt Poet. Whether performing with his band The Unknown Legends or playing acoustic solo, the man and his music are all of these and more. Band Members:Brandon Jenkins - acoustic guitar With the swagger of predeccessors such as Ray Wylie Hubbard and Waylon Jennings, Brandon opens these procedings with his own brand of church on "Giddeon's Bible" a fun country/rock celebration, before settling into fourteen more songs that show his versatile songwriting and performing style that is as real as it gets in music today....Brandon isn't "singing country" as much as he is "singing Okie" which is to say he is simply singing his life.
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Selected writings of Alexandra Kollontai Text: English, Russian (translation) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Alexandra Kollontai (1872-1952) was a leading member of the Bolshevik Party during the Russian Revolution and the foremost Marxist theoretician of women's oppression and sexuality. She was a founding member of the Women's Bureau of the Communist Party. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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Moonlight Classics: Romantic Piano & Orchestra (World's Most Beautiful Music From Reader's Digest) 1989 release from Reader's Digest Music with 21 romantic piano songs. Song listing: Theme From The Apartment w/Robert Docker, Piano; Clair De Lune w/Eileen Broster and Bronwen Jones, Pianos; Rhapsody On A Theme Of Paganini w/Earl Wild Piano; Romance w/Douglus Gamley, piano; Piano Concerto No. 21 In C w/Christian Steiner, piano; The Chestnut Tree w/Christian Steiner, piano; A Dream w/Christian Steiner, piano; Dream of Olwen w/Richard Alden, piano; Piano Concerto No. 2 In C Minor w/Michael Reeves, Piano; Fur Elise w/Michael Reeves, piano; Waltz In A Flat w/Christian Steiner, piano; Piano Concerto In A Minor w/Earl Wild, piano; Nocturne In E Flat w/Robert Docker, piano; Rustles Of Spring w/Robert Docker Piano; Spellbound Concerto w/Robert Docker, piano; Berceuse From Dolly w/Christian Steiner, piano; Sonata In C w/Michael Reeves, piano; Warsaw Concerto w/Robert Docker, piano; Theme From Prelude No. 2 w/Michael Reeves, piano; Spring Waters w/Christian Steiner, piano and Rhapsody In Blue w/Raymond Lewenthall, piano. . . .
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Under fire (Everyman's library) One of the most influential of all war novels, Henri Barbusses La Feu appeared in 1916 and sold 200,000 copies in French. (History Today) --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition. Henri Barbusse was born in 1873 and the novel UNDER FIRE is one of the most famous works of French literature of the 20th century. It expresses the disillusionment with war that led him to pacifism and then communism. His socialist novel CLARTE lentits name to a short-lived internationalist movement. He died in the Soviet Union in 1935. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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A Hanging Offense: The Strange Affair of the Warship Somers This coherent and absorbing study from Melton (The First Impeachment) is the first full-scale study of the "mutiny" aboard the U.S.S. Somers in nearly a generation. The brig Somers was on a training cruise in 1842, with more than 100 apprentice seamen aboard. The son of the secretary of war, 19-year-old Philip Spencer, began talking and writing wildly about leading a mutiny. When the captain, Alexander Slidell Mackenzie, had Spencer and his two confederates, Cromwell and Small, put in irons, several incidents occurred suggesting attempts to rescue the men. After consulting with his officers and petty officers, Mackenzie decided that in view of the "clear and present danger" of a bloody mutiny, he should hang the three suspects, and did. The Navy conducted a formal inquiry into Mackenzie's conduct, then brought him before a court-martial. Melton, professor of law at the University of North Carolina, does his best to render the ensuing legal thickets intelligible to the 21st-century lay reader, without complete success. Better are his accounts of where the Somers affair fits into maritime history and the manner in which the isolation of the sailing ship made the captain's power nearly absolute. His final verdict is similar to that of the 19th-century Navy: Mackenzie exceeded his authority, but not wantonly or frivolously, and Spencer was a clear-cut and dangerous sociopath. Equal traces of eloquence and purple prose in saying so may appeal to post-Patrick O'Brien-era maritime buffs.Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. In 1842, the U.S. Navy was a relatively small and primitive fighting force, especially compared to the British navy. Most crewmen were very young, poorly educated boys; officers were often poorly trained. Melton, a historian and professor of law at the University of North Carolina, offers a fascinating account of a simple training cruise that went terribly wrong, resulting in mutiny, executions, and a sensational court martial. At the center of this drama were two interesting but flawed men: Phillip Spencer, a 19-year-old midshipman who was bright and charismatic but mentally unstable, and Captain Alexander Mackenzie, a well-bred, vastly experienced seaman with a generally affable nature but a knack for getting into controversial situations. His efforts to cope with the blatant disobedience of Spencer and others who supported him led to tragedy and an eventual reassessment of naval training and shipboard procedures. This is a superbly written story that captures both the routine and the rising tension within the insular society of a warship. Jay FreemanCopyright American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. ". . . a superbly written story . . ." -- Booklist (Booklist ) --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition. Buckner F. Melton, Jr., is a historian and professor of law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. An occasional commentator for National Public Radio, PBS, and MSNBC, he has written columns for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and the Raleigh News Observer, as well as two previous books, The First Impeachment and Aaron Burr: Conspiracy to Treason. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Part One: Somers Even tied up at dock, she gave the impression of speed. Her sharp bow, her tall, swept-back masts, made her seem as if she were a sprinter poised to fly across the white wave tops. Low, flush-decked, smallish in size, she had a touch of yacht about her. Even a casual eye could tell with just a glance or two that when she slipped the leash that held her alongside the land, she would take to the ocean with the swiftness and grace of a greyhound. She was not, strictly speaking, a ship, although she was large enough: a hundred feet in length between her perpendiculars and a beam of twenty-five, an eleven-foot depth of hold, and more than two hundred fifty tons burthen. A good many acres of trees, everything from oak to pine, had given their lives to bring her forth. But she had only two masts, not a ship's requisite three, although both were square-rigged as a ship's masts were. By the standards of her day, her armament was on the light side. In the old British classification system, she would hardly have rated. The ships of the line, the battleships of the wooden world, were floating fortresses, the equal of almost any land-bound castle in firepower. They carried seventy-four, ninety, a hundred and ten artillery pieces, while she carried scarcely a dozen. A single broadside from even a third-rate line-of-battle ship would have blown her to flinders. But first the battleship would have to catch her, and that could never happen. With the press of sail that she could carry on those tall masts of hers, she was one of the fastest things afloat. She was first cousin to a Baltimore Clipper; the relationship showed in her sharp lines, her narrow, knifelike hull, and her rather broad beam. Forerunners of the true clipper ships, the Baltimore Clippers were quick and handy sailers. They carried small cargoes but carried them nimbly, in deep and shallow water alike. Slavers and buccaneers liked them; they were good at running and hiding, and at chasing down poorly armed prey. But Baltimore Clipper was only part of her heritage. Technically she was a brig, given her rig and her number of masts. The name stems from brigand, in honor of the North African raiders who first used vessels of her sort. She had piracy in her bloodlines. But it was a domesticated piracy. She was on the side of the angels. She was designed to take on the slave ships and the corsairs, and to beat them at their own game. She was weatherly; she could sail very close to the wind, and easily into the shallows, following her enemies wherever they went, and she could sail as fast as they. She was over-sparred, like a modern-day hot rod with too much engine for its own good. Of course, all those sails could make her very hard to control. If someone handled her carelessly, the wind that she used for power could turn on her and tear her to pieces. But in the right hands, more firm than gentle, she could respond as no other ship did. And if her master knew his business, he could use what she had to hunt down his prey and bring her to the culmination of battle. Given what she was hunting, her ten to twelve guns were enough. They were medium thirty-two-pounders, which was fairly heavy artillery. She was over-gunned, in fact, as well as over-sparred, the guns' thousands of pounds of weight adding to her handling problems. But in exchange for the loss in stability, those weapons gave her a serious punch. They were heavier than any field pieces, and of longer range, too. No army field artillery regiment of the day had anything close to her striking power, to say nothing of her mobility. A single broadside from her would send a hail of solid shot into an enemy hull, tearing it open to the sea and blowing its wood into shards that would shred human flesh to hamburger. If a round happened to hit a man it would take off his arm, or his leg, or his head, in less than an eyeblink. The guns could also be loaded with grapeshot, clusters of small iron balls, turning them from anti-ship weapons to purely anti-personnel pieces. A broadside of grape was like a blast from a bank of giant shotguns. It could sweep clean an enemy deck in seconds. The guns could even be loaded with chain and aimed at the enemy's rigging, robbing him of the ability to maneuver or even make headway. Then, after his likely surrender, her boarding parties could take him in hand. She was a potent device. Swift and sharp, graceful and powerful, she stood at the pinnacle of six thousand years of sailing ship development, resting there at the New York Navy Yard in the spring of 1842, a few months after her birth. Good American ships were the best in the world, even better than England's, perhaps, and her maker had built her well. She was the epitome of her kind. No one could know that for all her newness and eagerness, she had a terrible flaw: this brand-new warship, this United States Brig-of-War Somers, was nearly obsolete. *** The sea never changes. Its details may differ, to an amazing degree, from time to time and from place to place. Anyone who spends even a little while on or around the world's oceans knows that. The sea can be calm and as flat as a pond, and if the light is just right, the water can turn to milk, difficult to distinguish from skies the color of powder. In the north the sea can be hard, changing to liquid gunmetal with cold steel highlights or dead, leaden hues. The waters can sparkle like sapphire under a tropical sun, or green like a washed-out emerald closer to shore, or too black to make out on a dark, storm-tossed night. The sea can get angry, working up into a rage of white foam, spawning waves so high and troughs so deep that they can swallow a tanker, and winds that can drive raindrops so hard that they sting like a swarm of needles. But for all of these changes of aspect, the sea's essence remains the same. It always consists of water, which lies beneath air, which in turn lies beneath sun and stars. The tides are predictable, and the water is always as salty as teardrops. The sea, in short, is as constant as human nature. But human technology changes. And in the mid-nineteenth century, a half-dozen transformations of naval technology changed the nature of ships and of war at sea more than all the developments of the previous half-dozen millennia put together. Yet, for all of that, Somers still had things in common with her earliest ancestors. Ships are as old as human society. Perhaps they are even older. Technology is one of the signs of civilization, and technology is what ships are all about. A ship is a device that turns an impassable barrier -- a river, a lake, an ocean -- into a highway for travel and trade. Without ships, some of these barriers are absolute. But ships transmute them, like magic, into the world's greatest channels for exchanging every building block of society from food to ideas. When ships began, so, too, did civilization. The Mediterranean was the earliest ocean frontier, along with the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf, which together surrounded the Fertile Crescent. Calm and flat, with light and predictable winds, it was perfect for oar power. Egyptians were perhaps the first to reach out into its waters, although they began their lessons on the Nile. The currents of Egypt's river ran against the prevailing wind, so that air and water were always at battle, so maybe this was the place where humans first took to sail, using the breezes to fight the Nile's northward flow. This gave Egyptian sailors experience, so that when the time came for them to expand their horizons and set out into the open ocean and out of the sight of land, Egypt was up to the challenge. It had learned the ways of both oar and sail, the two sources of power that would rule, in tandem, for thousands of years. The earliest sailing rigs were simple. Ancient depictions of sailing ships show single square sails on a single short mast, driving long hulls with uplifted ends. Such a rig wouldn't have let a captain do anything flashy or fast, especially in the Eastern Mediterranean's light winds. But it let him do things on the cheap, and that was what merchantmen wanted. Human beings, whether free men or slaves, cost money. They (or their labor) are expensive to buy, and they are expensive to feed. A ship is expensive, too, but once built, if powered by sail, its costs of operation are low and its cargo capacity relatively high, at least without many men on board. Even today, ships carry most of our cargo, and carry it more cheaply, pound for pound, than any other system of transport. This was a lesson that merchants picked up on almost as soon as there were merchants. So sail began to flourish, and Egypt moved outward, as did others -- the Cretans, the Phoenicians, the Greeks. But ships, in addition to helping these peoples build maritime empires, threatened their commerce as well, for pirates could use ships, too. A lumbering merchant ship can be slow, especially if it uses sails in the Mediterranean. Pirates had to be faster, in order to catch their prey, so they usually relied on oar power. Oars are much more expensive to run than sails, for they need lots of men, and those men need food and fresh water. An oar-propelled ship tends to be longer and leaner than its sail-powered counterpart. All of this cuts down on cargo capacity, and thus on range. Oar-propelled ships were tied more closely to land, since they needed constant resupply. But as payback for all of these downsides, the oar-propelled ship got one huge advantage: a built-in power source that a captain could call on at whim. He could use it in motionless air; he could use it to move against an in-your-face wind. His ship did his will, his brain directing the rowers' muscles; all that his men supplied was animal power. And having harnessed that power, he could use it to overhaul and grab the fat merchant prizes. This was a dynamic that stayed the same until Somers's day. To a degree it is still true in our own. The only difference is that today the machinery is more complicated than oars. The oar never fully conquered the sail, at least in merchant shipping. But the tactical edge that it gave meant that the struggle for command of the sea more often than not took place between oar-powered ships. It was oar, not sail, that fought at Salamis in 480 b.c., where Athens stopped the Persian invasion of Europe, forever changing history. It was oar power that wrenched command of the sea from the Carthaginian Empire in the last of the Punic Wars, when Rome, already a magnificent land power, crushed Carthage's fleet on the water. When Carthage lost command of the sea, it lost its maritime buffer zone, and thus its national security. Not long after that, it lost everything else as well. It ceased to exist, the Romans eradicating it utterly. It was oar power that, not many years later, gave Octavian the victory and the emperor's crown in his seaborne clash with Mark Antony in the Battle of Actium. The Egyptian queen Cleopatra's fleet was with Antony's; but her ships were driven by sail. At the battle's crucial moment, having the weather gage, the benefit of being upwind, her ships charged Octavian's fleet, bearing down on it in a rush. Octavian quickly opened up a gap in his oar-powered line, and Cleopatra's ships sailed neatly through. Too neatly, in fact: she never engaged Octavian. An instant later she was downwind, with no easy way of coming about and making another attack. Her force, slave as it was to the winds, had wasted itself. So she kept sailing on, away from the battle and home to Egypt. Behind her Antony and his fleet came to ruin, Octavian's forces setting fire to her lover's ships. The ancient Mediterranean belonged to oars. With the death of Carthage and the end of the Punic Wars -- certainly with Antony's death -- Rome came to rule the sea unchallenged, and the naval peace called the Pax Romana commenced. The only real danger at sea was the threat of small-scale piracy, and Rome's fleet soon took care of that. Even the dangers that came from the sea itself -- squalls, shoals, and lee shores -- were slight in the calm and sunny Mediterranean. Oar may have won the wars, but it had won them to make the sea safe for sail, as the merchantmen plied their trade. But not all seas are calm and flat. To the west, beyond the Pillars of Hercules, beyond Gibraltar and Mount Acha, lay a far vaster, more tempestuous ocean, the ocean that Somers would sail nearly two thousand years later. Now and then the ancient ships had sailed beyond this place that marked the end of the world, into the unknown sea; but this was merely prelude. And in the following centuries, mariners learned that neither their long, oared ships nor the simple Mediterranean sailing rigs were a match for Atlantic and North Sea gales, or the high walls of water that the deep ocean could thoughtlessly throw at ships. Something more was needed. As Rome crumbled and fell, and the barbarians of Northern and Western Europe began to build a new world, seafaring technology began to evolve. The Mediterranean is a very small sea, barely a million square miles in all. The North Atlantic alone is thirty times bigger than that, and the North Atlantic is just one of a half-dozen true oceans, most of which are still larger. Because of the size of those oceans, the possibilities that they offered for trade and expansion dwarfed those of the Mediterranean -- but only for ships that were up to the task. Gradually, very gradually, over a span of nearly a thousand years, Europe learned how to build such ships. And those ships were powered by sail. But the sailing ship of the North Atlantic was far different from those of the Mediterranean. It had to be able to sail into the wind, not just with it, and to keep the currents and waves from pushing it off its course. Over the centuries the mariners there devised the technology that would let them do these things. The centerline rudder; the bowsprit; displacement hulls that bit well down into the water -- all of these things made ships better able to live in high winds and tempestuous seas. Sail plans grew more complex; one sail per mast became two, then three, then more. More sails meant more complexity, and more crew, too, but they also meant more speed and more flexibility. These were the rigs that could carry ships on voyages of nearly impossible distance, voyages around the Cape of Good Hope and eastward from there to India, voyages westward from Spain to American coasts, even voyages, by 1520 or so, completely around the world. By the end of the high Middle Ages, the technology was finally in place. The deep-ocean ship had finally come to be. Europe, which had brought forth that ship, was now the mistress of the winds and the waters, which in turn gave her control of the planet. She used them to discover a new world to exploit. And, in time, a country of that new world would become one of the greatest maritime powers in history. *** In August 1834, a young man with troubled eyes set foot on another brig that was tied up in Boston Harbor. He was new to Pilgrim; he had just come from Harvard, where he'd overdosed on his books. He needed a taste of fresh air and work to restore him to health, and in the next few years he would get them. Being a landsman, Richard Henry Dana, Jr., managed to capture on paper for other landsmen and women something of what being a seaman meant, for the difference between the two was huge. His voyage was a long one, to California and back, and in his book Two Years Before the Mast, he painted quite a picture of the seagoing life. One of its highlights was his description of the sails of his vessel. One night in the South Atlantic he was far out on the bowsprit, and he turned and took in the sight of his ship. The night was calm, and nearly all of the sails were set. The sight took his breath away. There rose up from the water, supported by only the small black hull, a pyramid of canvas, spreading out far beyond the hull, and towering up almost, as it seemed in the indistinct night air, to the clouds. The sea was as still as an inland lake; the light trade-wind was gently and steadily breathing from astern; the dark blue sky was studded with the tropical stars; there was not a sound but the rippling of the water under the stem; and the sails were spread out, wide and high -- the two lower studding-sails stretching out on each side, twenty or thirty feet beyond the deck; the top-mast studding-sails, like wings to the top-sails; the top-gallant studding-sails spreading fearlessly out above them; still higher, the two royal studding-sails, looking like two kites flying from the same string; and, highest of all, the little sky-sail, the apex of the pyramid, seeming actually to touch the stars, and to be out of reach of human hand. So quiet, too, was the sea, and so steady the breeze, that if these sails had been sculptured marble, they could not have been more motionless. Not a ripple upon the surface of the canvas; not even a quivering of the extreme edges of the sail -- so perfectly were they distended by the breeze. I was so lost in the sight, that I forgot the presence of the man who came out with me, until he said (for he, too, rough old man-of-war's-man as he was, had been gazing at the show) half to himself, still looking at the marble sails -- "How quietly they do their work!" Dana's reverie reminds us of one of the most vitally important things about a sailing ship. It is a thing of great beauty. Rarely in human invention has pure functionalism had such an exquisite form. But the beauty is happenstance. A ship has a job to do. And a warship's job is the projection of force beyond its home country's shores. Until the Wright brothers flew, warships were the only means of projecting force across water barriers. And when force projection is the objective, beauty must take a back seat. Sail was always the choice of merchants, but by the 1500s it was the choice of most navies, too. Oared galleys survived until 1800 or so, but by the time they finally died out, sail had held center stage for centuries. The reason was simple: guns had appeared. Navies are different from armies, in almost every imaginable way, from strategy and tactics to matriel and logistics. In the Age of Sail, a warship was an excuse for its guns, the guns the reason for the rest of the ship. While armies traditionally arm the man, in the words of one strategist, navies man the arm. The officers, the crew, the sails, the rigging, the hull -- everything serves the weapons. The ship's raison d'tre is to bring those weapons to bear on the target that the national will has selected. The more firepower, the better. And with heavy, slow-firing artillery pieces, that meant putting a lot of guns along the sides of the ship, instead of just in the bow and the stern, where only a few could fit, and where they could only point forward and aft. Broadside arrangement of the guns, therefore, made a ship far more powerful. But the sides were where the oarsmen sat, so the oarsmen, and the oars, had to go. The transition began in the 1500s, as artillery first took to the sea in a serious way, and before long it was nearly complete. By 1600, oars, though still around, were pass. Thus did navies finally embrace the power of sail. Now that warships relied on the wind, both tactics and strategy changed. A warship, to attack, had to be upwind of the enemy, to be able to pursue and to catch it. In nautical terms, it had to have the weather gage. When enemy ships met each other at sea, chance usually decided which one of them held the weather gage, and so chance played a big role in combat. In the string of Anglo-French wars that raged from the Glorious Revolution in 1688 to Waterloo in 1815, England's Admiralty constantly feared that a momentary, contrary wind would sweep its fleet from the Channel, giving Louis XIV or Napoleon the window he needed to invade, and thus smash, England, just the way that Rome had smashed Carthage. All this was the price of sail. And navies adapted, but always they remembered the day when they carried their driving force aboard the ship itself. Then, in the nineteenth century, that day returned, when an American inventor first came up with the idea of putting a steam engine aboard a ship. And suddenly the game was never the same again. Steam engines had been around for years before Robert Fulton began working with them. They had even been on boats before, but never successfully. In 1807 Fulton made them work, linking them to paddle wheels and thus changing the relationship of ships to the elements, and to manpower, too. At first the arrangement was primitive, but each passing year saw greater efficiency, and brought more experience. Before long steam moved from rivers to oceans, first in the service of merchants, and then, slowly, into naval vessels. Steam power at sea worked a huge revolution. In a way it was closer to oars than to sails, but it was different even from them. It freed a ship from the slavery of the winds and the tides, but at the same time it tied the vessel to shore, limiting its range because of the need for coal. Shiphandling and tactics changed drastically. Even geography itself seemed to alter, since steam-powered ships could travel from place to place in more or less a straight line, instead of having to follow the paths of the winds. Room had to be made for engines and fuel, and engineers and their magical science became major forces aboard. With the arrival of steam power, in short, hundreds -- even thousands -- of years of nautical knowledge began to grow obsolete; and so did the sailors who knew and practiced the old ways. The changes came fast when compared to the centuries of slow technological evolution that had been the usual way of the ship, but they still weren't instant. For now -- for 1842 at least -- sail still had something to offer. Somers was not obsolete, not quite, not just yet. Her days were numbered from the moment her keel was laid down, for she was one of the last ships of the United States Navy -- of any navy, in fact -- to be designed and built as purely a vessel of sail. But she still had some things to offer that steam couldn't possibly match. She was handy, and she had long legs. Given a capable crew, she could sail completely around the world, the way Magellan and Drake had done, with few supplies and no help. She could show the Stars and Stripes on nearly any sea on the planet, off the shore of any continent. All by herself she could project more power beyond American shores than the whole of the U.S. Army, which could cross no sea on its own. Though the sun was about to set, her day, and that of her sail-driven sisters, was not over. Yet for all her advantages, there was one thing she had to have -- one thing, without which she would lie as dead in the water as a steamship empty of coal. She needed men to work her. She needed officers who knew the ways of the sea, who knew how to tack and wear ship and take bearings, able seamen who knew the ropes, hands who could climb the rigging like monkeys. She needed a crew with cast-iron stomachs who had the art of sail in their bones, an art much harder to learn than the labor of shoveling coal toward a boiler. And in mid-nineteenth-century United States, unbelievably, such a crew could be terribly hard to find. *** "Seeing how energetically the Anglo-Americans trade, their natural advantages, and their success, I cannot help believing that one day they will become the leading naval power on the globe," Alexis de Tocqueville wrote in 1835, at the height of the Golden Age of American Sail. "They are born to rule the seas, as the Romans were to conquer the world." He was right. The United States is a maritime nation, and it has been so from the beginning. Its eastern coast fronts on the sea that links it to Europe; its bays and fine harbors, its many deep rivers, invited exploration and settlement, welcoming the Old World's peoples. Its innumerable hardwood stands were perfect for hulls and for masts, while its forests of pine supplied pitch and tar. When the colonies gained independence, Yankee traders swept out all over the world, from Mahon to Mauritius, from Canton to Liverpool, hawking the wares that North America grew in abundance: corn, rice, wheat, cotton, and a hundred other products. In time the United States gained a foothold on the Pacific Rim, on the continent's western shores, looking across the world's largest ocean to the Orient's massive markets and limitless raw materials. Between San Francisco, New Orleans, and New York -- the three great ports through which so much wealth flowed -- the whole landmass was filled with resources of its own, resources that no other maritime power has ever commanded within its own borders. And with the end of the War of 1812, the country began to exploit these things as it never had before. Of all of the tonnage that America sent to sea in the years after 1812, only a small amount was naval. A navy is a means of power projection, and today America's navy is one of the bases of America's strategic power projection capability. But a navy is only a means, not an end. A major reason for its existence is to protect its country's vital trade, to safeguard its merchant marine. Commerce is the root of maritime greatness; naval power is merely its guardian. It can be an expensive guardian, too. Right after the War of 1812, Congress expanded the navy. It was a big investment for its day, a million dollars a year, guaranteed for six years, for upkeep and new construction, and after the burst of postwar national pride had worn off, the price tag sank in and Congress backed off. Trade may increase the country's wealth, but except for the merchants and shipowners, once a ship slipped below the horizon, out of sight was out of mind. "No more ships of war than are requisite to the protection of our commerce," declared President Andrew Jackson in 1829, with all the assurance of a frontiersman who had never once gone to sea. "Our best policy would be to discontinue building ships of the first and second class." Others agreed. America's early version of the military-industrial complex, they feared, would become an expensive engine that could wipe out the country's finances. Big ships were costly, and so Congress tended to skimp on them, authorizing only smaller vessels, when it authorized any at all. But as bad as this problem was, it wasn't the worst one. Even with the navy's small size, it faced a perpetual manpower shortage. Without well-trained sailors, the ships might as well lie alongside the wharves and rot. And well-trained sailors were rare in the mid-1800s, and they seemed to be getting still rarer. One of the first to notice the problem, or at least one of the first to say something about it, was Matthew C. Perry. Perry was a remarkable man. He was a member of America's most prominent naval family, and a highly capable officer in his own right. His appearance was nothing unusual: medium height, brown hair and eyes, rather strong features that most often wore a humorless, sober expression. By age twenty he was already a battle-hardened veteran of the War of 1812, which helps explain the gaze. Still, he wasn't a typical officer. He had many of the usual qualities: an ability to lead men, a devotion to duty and country, and a deep, bellowing voice that was so perfect for issuing orders in a howling gale that he won the nickname "Old Bruin" before he turned thirty. But he had other traits, too: an understanding of tactics and strategy much deeper than that of most of his fellow officers, a deeply religious perspective that stood in stark contrast to the torrent of blasphemies that could often be heard aboard ship, and a thoughtful, even temperament that was a sure recipe for success. He believed in the use of the navy in scientific expeditions. He helped found Liberia, the humanitarian experiment in colonizing Africa with freed American slaves. And he was always interested in improving the navy's efficiency, especially when it came to personnel and education. In 1851, Perry would command the squadron that called on Japan, opening relations between that country and his. By then he would have sailed nearly all of earth's oceans, doing everything from pushing the navy to make the move to steam power and high-tech explosive shells to commanding the naval forces off Vera Cruz during the Mexican War. But in the mid-1820s he was just another lieutenant commandant serving in the pirate-infested Caribbean, in command of the schooner Shark. He gave the pirates a very rough time, and they returned the favor. But the real enemy was different. His men dropped like flies from the fevers. Disease could mow down men by the hundred, and sometimes it did. This, no doubt, made him realize just how important it was for the navy to have a supply of good sailors, a supply that it just didn't have. Not long after the end of his tour, while he was serving at Brooklyn Navy Yard, he decided to try to do something about this dangerous shortage. He himself had once felt the pull of the American merchant service, with its better pay and better living conditions, but he hadn't given in. Still, he knew that many men did. Life in the Old Navy wasn't usually an adventure; it was a job, one that wasn't very high-profile or respectable, and the service lost out on a lot of nautical talent that went to the private sector. In Perry's eyes, that trend compromised national security. The problem bothered him enough to make him leapfrog the chain of command, complaining directly to Secretary of the Navy Samuel Southard in early 1824. "The sources from whence we have heretofore drawn our choicest seamen are partially dried up," he said, lamenting the lingering effects of the War of 1812. "Unless some plan is adopted to improve the number and condition of our seafaring population, we shall find too late, that although we may have ships in abundance, yet our government in case of emergency would have to contend with insuperable difficulties in procuring crews for them." Perry even tried to go over the secretary's head, and the president's, too. Officers of the Old Navy often did things that way. They were so good at making decisions, bawling out orders from their quarterdecks, and watching their crews leap to obey them, that they tended to behave the same way whenever they stepped ashore. Perry was no different, and now he appealed to the public. Four years after he first approached Southard, and with nothing having happened, he began writing letters to the newspapers. He was for a strong navy in general: "By maritime means only can we be approached," he said, using words that government reports would soon echo, "and by such means must we be principally defended." He offered many suggestions, one of them touching on the training of a corps of young seamen. "My proposition is to enter boys as apprentices to the Navy, until they shall be twenty-one years of age," he wrote in one issue of the National Gazette. He made a compelling case. "It is an object of national importance to increase the number of our seafaring population," he argued. "Doing so would not clash with any other interest in the community." And using boys would help not just the boys, by teaching them valuable skills, but the service as well. "The moral and intellectual condition of seamen generally," he wrote, "might be greatly improved by early attention to their education." Southard quickly picked up on the idea of using boys to make up for the lack of trained men, and he mentioned the idea to Congress in an 1825 report. But Congress was slow to decide. Four years later, all it had done was to ask Southard for further details. So Southard submitted another report on the shortage, spelling out all the reasons that enlistments stayed down. The terrible pay; the lack of a social security system for aging and infirm seamen; the exciting lure of life as a privateer or in a Latin American navy; Southard listed these things and more. He suggested recruiting in the nation's interior, and again he brought up the subject of boys. He hammered on this point, suggesting a scheme to enlist young teenagers who would serve until they turned twenty-one. By then, he observed, the apprentices would know much about sailing a ship. It would be a great education for them; it would produce hundreds of hands right away; and in the long run it would give the navy a new group of able seamen who had first served as apprentices before signing on again as grown men. Ten years after the Congress established an apprentice system for boys, Southard predicted, the nation's reliance on foreign-born sailors would end; the boys, now grown sailors, would supply "all our petty officers of every description," and they would "make the navy what it ought to be, in every thing -- American." With that last nationalistic flourish, Southard again left the matter with Congress. It was like towing a battleship with a rowboat. Ten years later, at the point when Southard had hoped to see an established corps of professional sailors, Congress was still dragging its feet. It refused to be hurried, especially when it came to spending the money. Southard and others claimed that the measure would be cost-effective, but either Congress didn't believe them or else it didn't care. But the chatter in the newspapers about it gradually increased the momentum. Eventually a viable bill emerged from committee. At last, more than a decade after Southard first proposed it, Congress enacted it into law. It came at the very end of the Twenty-fourth Congress, in March of 1837, as if the legislature feared a public backlash. It was close to what Southard had first suggested. It allowed the enlistment of boys between thirteen and eighteen years old, to serve, with their parents' permission, until they turned twenty-one. But it didn't expressly provide for their education, or how, exactly, the navy was to use them. These were things that the law left to the navy. At first the navy decided to segregate the boys, putting them all aboard school ships, and training and teaching them there. But sometimes this caused problems. These school ships rarely left port, and their ports were all good-sized cities, Boston, New York, and Norfolk. Big-city life lured more than one boy to desert. On top of that, the boys and their families often found the program a big disappointment. There was no naval academy at Annapolis in the 1830s, and many ped first proposed it, Congress enacted it into law. It came at the very end of the Twenty-fourth Congress, in March of 1837, as if the legislature feared a public backlash. It was close to what Southard had first suggested. It allowed the enlistment of boys between thirteen and eighteen years old, to serve, with their parents' permission, until they turned twenty-one. But it didn't expressly provide for their education, or how, exactly, the navy was to use them. These were things that the law left to the navy. At first the navy decided to segregate the boys, putting them all aboard school ships, and training and teaching them there. But sometimes this caused problems. These school ships rarely left port, and their ports were all good-sized cities, Boston, New York, and Norfolk. Big-city life lured more than one boy to desert. On top of that, the boys and their families often found the program a big disappointment. There was no naval academy at Annapolis in the 1830s, and many people had gotten the idea that this new law was designed to turn out young officers, the same way that West Point did. They were wrong. The way that Congress imagined it, and the way that the navy ran it, it was a system for making seamen, not officers. Once people figured this out, they grew disenchanted. So the program started to falter, almost as soon as it started. Southard had once predicted that twelve hundred boys would join up in the first year or so, but he was nowhere close. The total number of boys to have enlisted had barely reached that number even six or seven years after Congress first passed the law. But the program wasn't a total debacle. Some officers, among them Matthew C. Perry, thought that it was doing all right. He claimed that when a trained boy came off a school ship and helped crew a regular vessel, he usually proved a better young sailor than most of the rest of the seamen. Of course that, too, caused problems. A ship's crew was literally a pretty rum bunch, soused in spirits, in love with foul words and tobacco, and happy to pass on its ways to teenagers. Perry liked the apprentices, but even he could see the need to keep the men from corrupting them. By 1841 Perry was a commodore, in command of the New York Navy Yard and all of its ships, when he got an idea that seemed brilliant. Why not get the boys out of their school ships and send them on a training cruise, a whole crew of them, with just enough older hands, specially picked, to help the youngsters learn what they needed to learn? The prospect of a sailing adventure, perhaps in tropical waters, on a smart man-of-war, would interest boys and their parents and with luck help boost enlistments. It would show the truth of what Perry was claiming, that the apprentices were fine young sailors. And it would avoid the danger that impressionable boys would pick up older men's bad habits. Only a few trusty sailors would ship with them. For the most part, the boys would be associating only with other boys, all of them equally innocent. What harm could possibly come of that? Quite simply, the plan seemed perfect. Of course Perry had to make sure. This was to be a high-profile cruise, and he didn't want a single thing to go wrong. So he planned everything very carefully. Somers was fitting out in New York, brand-new and ready to go, freshly commissioned in April. The new steamships were coming along, but their bleeding-edge technology was inelegant and uncertain. Somers, on the other hand, was a smart, handy brig, one that would draw a lot of admiration, and small enough for a crew of boys to handle. Perry even gave her an official mission, just to add to the voyage's prestige. He bade her sail to the African coast and find the ship Vandalia, engaged on anti-slavery duty there, and deliver important dispatches. He carefully chose her officer complement, each officer with years of experience, but each of them young -- this was to be a ship of youth, from her keel to her captain -- and two of them related to Perry. These were men whom he knew and trusted. Finally, he even helped choose the Somers's four midshipmen, one of whom was also his son, and two others of whom had ties to him by marriage or family friendship. The problem was with the fourth. Because midshipmen, as junior officers, were important, Perry wanted to be careful in choosing them, just as careful as he was being in every other respect. But it was in choosing midshipmen that he made his mistake, the mistake that would help bring a nightmare to pass, although he could never have known it. And so it happened that his picture-perfect training cruise, on a spanking-new warship, this showcase of naval ability, this triumph in the making that was to show American sea power at its best, included a young man who should never have set foot on the deck of a ship. His name was Philip Spencer. Copyright 2003 by Buckner F. Melton, Jr. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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The story of my boyhood and youth 'A superbly told, moving and challenging story. For anybody remotely interested in the environment, Scottish culture, American history, the art of biography or the art of life, this book is essential' - Scotland on Sunday --This text refers to the Paperback edition. John Muir (1838-1914) was born and raised in Dunbar, East Lothian. When his family emigrated to Wisconsin in 1849, young John was bought up to hard labour on his father's homestead. A natural inventor, he first discovered the joys of walking, and writing, after an industrial accident nearly blinded him. His journals, articles and lectures helped to develop international awareness of the need to preserve and protect the environment, and led to the foundation of the General Grant, Sequoia and Yosemite national parks in the US, as well as important conservation areas in his native East Lothian. John Muir has been honoured ever since as the father of the modern environment movement. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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The presidency of James K. Polk (Library of the presidents) "The best available one-volume history of Polk." -- Register of the Kentucky Historical Society --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. Paul H. Bergeron is professor of history and editor and director of the Andrew Johnson Papers at the University of Tennessee. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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Caravan of dreams "... beguiling ... resonate at a deep subconscious level ... the reader will sense a containing framework even if its nature eludes him." -- Evening News, May 27, 1971"... indicating real possibilities and practical alternatives to our present ways of operation ... relevant, fruitful and urgent for our present society." -- New Society, June 20, 1968"Like the marvellous dream landscapes you entered with fairy tales as a child." -- Doris Lessing, The Listener"Stories adhere, return, expand beyond outer consciousness. Like great poems, they enrich, elevate, nourish ... more than rewarding ... impossible to forget." -- Tribune, August 16, 1968 --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. As the urgency of our global situation becomes apparent, more and more readers are turning to the books of Idries Shah (1924-1996) as a way to train new capacities and new ways of thinking. Shah has been described as "the most significant worker adapting classical spiritual thought to the modern world." Shah was educated in both the East and West, by private tutors and through wide-ranging travel and personal encounters - the series of journeys which characterize Sufi education and development. In keeping with Sufi tradition, his life was essentially one of service. His knowledge and interests appeared limitless, and his activities and accomplishments took place in many different countries and in numerous fields of endeavor. Shah was Director of Studies of the Institute for Cultural Research, an educational organization sponsoring interdisciplinary and crosscultural studies of human thought; a founding member of the Club of Rome; a Governor of the Royal Humane Society and the Royal Hospital and Home for Incurables; and the founder of publishing house Octagon Press. Shah's landmark book, "The Sufis", invited readers to approach Sufi ideas and test them out. The evident and common sense made it clear that here was a sane, authoritative voice in the wilderness of the gobbledegookish mysticism of the sixties. The lively, contemporary books on traditional psychologies, literature, philosophy and Sufi thought that followed established a broad historical and cultural context for Sufi thought and action. These have so far sold over 15 million copies in 12 languages worldwide and have been awarded many prizes. They have been reviewed by The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Times, The Tribune, The Telegraph, and numerous other international journals and newspapers. University and college courses throughout the world are employing Shah's books, or works based on them, in a wide variety of disciplines including sociology, psychology and literature. In 1969, Idries Shah was awarded the Dictionary of International Biography's Certificate of Merit for Distinguished Service to Human Thought. Other honors included a Two Thousand Men of Achievement award (1971), Six First Prizes awarded by the UNESCO International Book Year (1972), and the International Who's Who in Poetry's Gold Medal for Poetry (1975). According to his obituary in the London Daily Telegraph "it is impossible to assess his influence, and his legacy is incalculable". He was, it is said, the Sufi Teacher of the Age. "The most interesting books in the English language." Saturday Review "A major psychological and cultural event of our time." Psychology Today "One is immediately forced to use one's mind in a new way." New York Times The instrumental function of Shah's work is now well established among people from all walks of life. Stockbrokers, scientists, lawyers, managers, writers, physicians, and diplomats have found Shah's literature for human development "extraordinary". "It presents a blueprint of the human mental structure." Robert Ornstein, Ph.D. "Extremely useful in teaching students about management and computers." Thomas Malone, MIT "Idries Shah provides the unique perspective that allows us to assess real motivations and social biases in a more accurate light." E. Neilsen, Attorney at Law --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. PREFACE In one of the best tales of the "Arabian Nights", Maruf the Cobbler found himself daydreaming his own fabulous caravan of riches. Destitute and almost friendless in an alien land, Maruf at first mentally conceived - and then described - an unbelievably valuable cargo on its way to him. Instead of leading to exposure and disgrace, this idea was the foundation of his eventual success. The imagined caravan took shape, became real for a time - and arrived. May your caravan of dreams, too, find its way to you. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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Cherokee messenger ([The civilization of the American Indian]) Althea Bass taught at the University of Oklahoma and was the author of several books on Indian history, among them The Story of Tullahassee and The Arapaho Way. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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The Little Match Girl With their swirling snowflakes and meticulous period details, Isadora's paintings capture the essence of Andersen's story of a forlorn heroine. Ages 4-8. Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Grade 1-4An internationally renowned Czech artist brings her avant-garde perspective to Andersen's timeless fable. Pacovsk's playful art is challenging and experimental, featuring childish scrawls, bright smudges of color along with silver inlays, and whimsically amorphous figures. One illustration depicts the girl's eyes, nose, and cupped hands scribbled across what appears to be a financial balance sheet. One spread consists of squares of color smudges facing a shiny silver page on which readers find their own reflection. The two pages are linked by a multicolored paintbrush/matchstick form. The image of the matchstick recurs throughout in all colors and shapes, singly or in groups, some leaning at angles, some resembling picket fences. Though the art challenges, it is appropriately childlike and whimsical, and opens this classic tale to new interpretations. Thoughtful students of folktale will welcome Pacovsk's brilliantly innovative vision.Marilyn Taniguchi, Beverly Hills Public Library, CA 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. Gr. 2-4. This striking picture book, with its smooth, able translation, presents Andersen's story of the little girl who stands out in the bitter cold on New Year's Eve, hoping to sell matches. When no one buys them, she lights her matches and sees beautiful visions in their flames. The next morning, she is found dead. Many illustrators have presented idealized visions of the match girl, which tend to sentimentalize her story, but Pacovska takes a different approach. Winner of the Hans Christian Andersen Award for illustration in 1992, the artist doesn't depict the tale realistically or emphasize its pathos; instead, she offers expressive and sometimes expressionistic pictures. Even the placement of story and illustration is unusual. The entire text appears on five pages, interspersed among 12 full- and double-page illustrations. Featuring bold colors in mixed media, silver foil elements, and cut-paper collages, the striking artwork is naive in style but sophisticated in design. Often abstract and sometimes puzzling (a giant's body with a bird's head clutching a fork), Pacovska's highly original illustrations leave plenty of space for interpretation and imagination, especially for art students. Carolyn PhelanCopyright American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Pinkney's deeply moving treatment of Andersen's classic tale moves the events to an urban America of the 1920s. On a freezing New Year's Eve, a girl stumbles outside in her stocking feet to try and sell matches. The jovial holiday crowd hustles by her; she is afraid to go home, where her father will beat her. To keep herself warm she lights her matches, and each blazes in a dream of holiday happiness. Her last vision is that of her kind grandmother, whom the child joins in a place beyond the reach of cold and poverty. On the last page, two shooting stars are shown blazing across the dark New Year's sky. Pinkney's detailed watercolors bring to life this cold winter night, and profusion of food and gifts just out of the girl's reach. Flecks of snow tumble across the outdoor scenes, and warm yellow candlelight make indoor settings look especially cozy. Pinkney's sense of pacing is also just right; readers will be captivated by the intimacy and drama his illustrations create. The result is so affecting that some will believe they're encountering this story for the very first time. (Picture book/folklore. 5-9) -- Copyright 1999, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Retold and set in early 20th century America, this timeless tale is exquisitely rendered by Jerry Pinkney. His illustrations give the child who freezes to death on a city street an immediacy that is - and should be - stunning. A 1999 Parents' Choice Gold Award Winner. (Kemie Nix, Parents' Choice). -- From Parents' Choice --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Text: English, Danish (translation) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Kveta Pacovska lives in the Czech Republic. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Peaceful Freaky Feeling Jonny G, a Los Angeles-based film / TV composer and session keyboardist, has contributed music for programs on Discovery, The Learning Channel, Sundance Channel, Entertainment Tonight, the L.A. independent film festival 'Dances with Films', and numerous commercials. He has done session work for artists on A, Bomp, and XXX records, and on TV shows for the WB, Fox, and Showtime networks. Peaceful Freaky feeling is his first solo CD. Peaceful Freaky Feeling is a trippy, eclectic mix of moody electronica, prog rock, acid jazz, lounge, and cinematic soundscapes; a genre-bending soundtrack for the mind.
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Melissa's Fresh Lychees, (2 lb) Native to Southern China, Lychees grow on attractive evergreen trees which can reach heights of 35 feet. The lychee tree has pinate leaves with a shiny leather texture and fruit growing in clusters. The ripe fruit is one to one and a half inches long and has dark red-brown rough skin. The flesh is pearly white, sweet and firm. A good source of vitamin C and phosphorus, fresh Lychees are among the best tasting and most prized tropical fruit in the world.
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Aveda Sap Moss Shampoo 33.8oz/1 Liter This 33.8 OZ/1 liter size.
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beauty
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HP Pavilion A1730N Desktop PC (AMD Athlon Processor 4600 Plus, 2 GB RAM, 320 GB Hard Drive, SuperMulti DVD Drive, Vista Premium) The HP Pavilion a1730n comes loaded with the all tools you need to easily create, manage, share, and enjoy your digital photos, home videos, movies, and music. You can easily burn your home video productions to DVD for friends and family with the dual-layer, multi-format DVD/CD burner, which enables you to store up to 8.5 GB of data on a DL disc and provides a super-fast 16x DVD+R/-R write speed. It also includes LightScribe technology for personalized silkscreen-quality, laser-etched CD/DVD labels created right in the drive. This desktop is powered by the 2.4 GHz AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+ dual-core processor, which increases the efficiency and speed of the PC while running multiple programs and the latest multi-threaded software. Store more music, videos, and data on the very roomy 320 GB Serial ATA hard drive, which offers fast transfer rates. It also comes loaded with 1 GB of RAM (which can be bumped up to 4 GB), an integrated Nvidia GeForce 6150 video/graphics card with 128 MB of dedicated video RAM, a wide variety of connection ports on both the front and rear of the box, a 9-in-1 memory card reader, and a built-in drive bay for an optional HP Pocket Media Drive. It comes preinstalled with Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium, which includes all of the Windows Media Center capabilities for turning your PC into an all-in-one home entertainment center. In addition to easily playing your DVD movies and managing your digital audio library, you'll be able to record and watch your favorite TV shows (even HDTV). Vista also integrates new search tools throughout the operating system, includes new parental control features, and offers new tools that can warn you of impending hardware failures. The Basics Processor: AMD's Athlon 64 X2 4600+ dual-core processor is built for tomorrow's 64-bit applications, which will require a processor with significant power. It outperforms the highest-performing AMD Athlon 64 4000+ single-core processor on multi-tasking benchmarks by up to 30 percent. Dual-core technology is like having two processors working together, each one taking care of different applications, so power-users actually experience greater performance when multiple applications are running. Digital media enthusiasts will appreciate the enhancements while simultaneously working in high-definition video and photo editing and audio mixing programs. It includes such AMD features as HyperTransport Technology (which increases the communication between integrated circuits) and Enhanced Virus Protection. This 2.4 GHz processor offers a system bus with speeds up to a blazing 2000 MHz and each core offers a 512 KB L2 cache--for a 1 MB total. (An L2, or secondary, cache temporarily stores data; and a larger L2 cache can help speed up your system's performance. The FSB carries data between the CPU and RAM, and a faster front-side bus will deliver better overall performance.) Hard Drive: The huge 320 GB Serial ATA (SATA) hard drive (7200 RPM) offers a wealth of storage space, perfect for storing a vast multimedia collection or for editing digital video. This SATA hard drive also quickens the pace with a higher speed transfer of data--akin to FireWire and USB 2.0. Memory: The 2 GB of installed RAM (PC4200, 2 x 1024 MB, 533 MHz) is a very good start, but you'll want to add more RAM to handle today's demanding multimedia and gaming software. This desktop has a 4 GB maximum RAM capacity (4 x 1 GB), perfect for high-def video and 3-D gaming. DVD/CD Drive: This multiformat DVD/CD drive is compatible with writing both DVD+ and DVD- disc formats as well as dual-layer (DL) DVD+/-R discs, which can store up to 8.5 GB of data. It features 4x DVD-R DL Write Once, 8x DVD+R DL Write Once, 16x DVD+R, 8x DVD+RW, 16x DVD-R, 6x DVD-RW, 5x DVD-RAM, 40x CD-R, 32x CD-RW write speeds and 40x CD-ROM, and 16x DVD-ROM read speeds. This LightScribe DVD+/-RW drive lets you laser-etch silkscreen quality text and images on to CDs and DVDs . Your software, PC and discs work together for a no-hassle way to burn just the labels you want. After you burn content, just flip the disc over, reinsert and burn your label--anything from a simple title to a full-disc work of art. Keyboard Mouse: It comes with an HP multimedia keyboard and scroller mouse (both with PS/2 connections). Video Audio This desktop features an integrated Nvidia GeForce 6150LE graphics/video card with 128 MB of dedicated graphics memory. Windows Vista can also allocate up to 319 MB of total graphics memory from the system memory. It features Nvidia's PureVideo technology--which provides great picture clarity, smooth video, accurate color, and precise image scaling for video content--and full support for Microsoft DirectX 9.0 for stunningly realistic cinematic effects for all DirectX-compatible applications. It also offers an integrated audio card that can produce high definition surround sound configurable to 8 speakers. Networking, Connectivity Expansion For expansion, this desktop has three PCI slots (two available), one PCI Express slot (available), two 5.25-inch external bays (one available), one external 3.5-inch bay (occupied), one internal 3.5-inch bay (occupied), and one HP Pocket Media Drive bay (available). It comes with a built-in floppy drive and the following external connectors: 6 USB 2.0 ports for connecting a wide range of peripherals--from digital cameras to MP3 players (2 in front, 4 in rear) 2 FireWire (also known as IEEE 1394 or i.Link) port for connecting digital video camcorders and other peripherals (1 in front, 1 in rear) 2 PS/2 ports for connecting keyboards and mice 1 VGA monitor port 2 headphone and 2 microphone (front and rear) 2 line-in (front and rear) Surround sound speaker outputs (rear/side/center (subwoofer) 9-in-1 media card reader on the front, compatible with CompactFlash (Type I and II), MicroDrive, SmartMedia, Memory Stick/Memory Stick Pro, MultiMedia Card, Secure Digital, and XD Picture Card It also has an integrated 56K modem (V.90) and an RJ-45 LAN network port (for a 10/100 Ethernet connection to networks and DSL/cable modems). Operating System Windows Vista Home Premium is the operating system for users with advanced computer needs, and it includes all of the Windows Media Center capabilities for turning your PC into an all-in-one home entertainment center for watching DVD movies and accessing your digital audio library. You can also use Windows Media Center to record and watch your favorite TV shows (even HDTV) and to access new kinds of online entertainment content. Computers that include Windows Vista Home Premium and an auxiliary Windows SideShow display will also allow you to access key data even when your computer is off. It is also easier than ever to share files between other PCs in your household and to manage your laptop computer settings to more securely connect to your favorite Wi-Fi hotspot. Every edition of Windows Vista provides the essential tools and technologies to help protect you whether you are browsing the Internet, connecting to a wireless network, or just reading e-mail. All editions of Windows Vista include new tools that can warn you of impending hardware failures long before you have lost any important personal data. And, all Windows Vista editions include parental control features that allow you to manage and monitor your family's use of games, the Internet, instant messaging, and other activities. Preloaded Software Includes Microsoft Works 8, Symantec Norton Internet Security 2007 (with 60 days of Live Update), Roxio Creator (with LightScribe technology), Muvee autoProducer (for creating professional-looking home videos and burning to DVD), and HP Total Care Advisor. Dimensions Weight This desktop PC measures 7 x 17 x 15.2 inches (WxDxH) and weighs approximately 24 pounds. Power This desktop is Energy Star rated, which means that it uses 15 watts or less of power when on low-power mode. An Energy Star qualified computer uses 70% less electricity than computers without enabled power management features. What's in the Box This package contains the HP Pavilion a1730n desktop PC, power cable, keyboard, and mouse. It is backed by a limited warranty for parts and labor for one year from date of purchase as well as technical telephone assistance for one year. Software is also covered for 90 days from date of purchase. HP A1730N Pavilion Desktop. Only HP PCs are built with the SuperMulti DVD Burner that includes LightScribe Technology. LightScribe lets you laser etch silkscreen quality text and image on to CDs and DVDs, creating lasting laser etched silkscreen quality images. It is easy to create personalized labels on your discs with your own text, photos or designs. Just burn, flip, burn. After you burn content on the disc, just flip the disc over, reinsert and burn your label anything from a simple title to a full disc work of art. HP personal computers deliver the features you need to get the most from Windows Vista. Together, HP and Windows Vista provide intuitive system control, powerful search and organization, and more security when you go online.
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Amazon.com: Tank Red Crushed Velvet with Super Star Jewels, 4 Toddler: Clothing Simple with a bit of sparkle. This tank leotard is red crushed velvet fabric. We then add gold and silver super star jewels. Get it for your super star.
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Sidi Bullet 2 Mesh Mountain Bike Shoes (Black) (40) A re-designed upper for better fit, plus our new Competition Sole for improved traction and mud expulsion are sure to make this popular, triple VELCRO model a continued favorite. Fit relievers on tongue. Molded Plastic Heel Cup. Toe Spike Compatible.
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The Best Christmas pageant ever Grade 26Barbara Robinson's classic (Joanna Cotler, 1972) just gets better with this new reading. Elaine Stritch's slightly raspy, mature voice lends a convincing, grandmotherly element to this holiday favorite. The Herdman'sRalph, Imogene, Leroy, Claude, Ollie, and Gladysare the town bullies who steal and smoke cigars. When they show up for the church Christmas pageant try-outs, no one is able to discourage them from participating. To the protests of children who think they can do better, the Herdmans land the starring roles in the Christmas play. Their unique interpretation of a story they've never heard before surprises even the most regular of church-goers. A humorous retelling of the birth of Christ, this title will be a welcome addition to general listening holiday collections.Kirsten Martindale, formerly Menomonie Public Library, WI Copyright Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to the Audio CD edition. "One of the best Christmas books ever." -- -- Publishers Weekly"[The book] had me laughing so hard I could hardly read. Don't miss this hilarious and touching book." -- -- The Boston Globe --This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback edition. Barbara Robinson has written several popular books for children, including My Brother Louis Measures Worms, The Best School Year Ever, The Best Halloween Ever, and the enormously popular bestselling novel The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, first published in 1972, which was made into a classic TV movie and on which this book was based. The play The Best Christmas Pageant Ever is produced annually in theaters, schools, and churches all over the world. Ms. Robinson has two daughters and three grandchildren.Elaine Stritch, a superlative dramatic actress, won a Tony Award for her one-woman show, Elaine Stritch, At Liberty. A four-time Tony nominee, she has starred in numerous plays and musicals including Bus Stop, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Company, and A Delicate Balance. She received a Grammy nomination for her recording of The Best Halloween Ever. --This text refers to the Audio CD edition. Barbara Robinson's 1972 story of the rotten Herdman family, who take over the annual church Christmas play, is still fresh, avoiding preachiness and achieving heartwarming hilarity. Elaine Stritch shares all of it like the best small-town gossip, and the voices of kids and grown-ups alike are real and, more importantly, funny. Events reel out at a breakneck pace, but Stritch's narration stays steady and in control. The whole family's guaranteed to laugh (but perhaps adults, who may find the antics achingly familiar, most of all), and there's every reason for listening to THE BEST CHRISTMAS PAGEANT EVER to become an annual holiday tradition. J.M.D. AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine-- Copyright AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.
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The Wreck of the Mary Deare 10 1-hour cassettes --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition. One March night, the MARY DEARE, an enormous leaking freighter, looms out of a rising gale to nearly capsize a salvage yacht in the English Channel. The skipper of the yacht boards the MARY DEARE to find that it has been set afire and abandoned by its crew. The only one left is a half-mad captain whose future lies with his battered boat. Narrator Bill Wallis perfectly captures the intensity of one of Hammond Innes's best mystery/adventure stories. It's all here in Wallis's nuanced delivery--the bone-deep exhaustion and edgy craziness of the DEARE's captain; the skipper's youthful high spirits and then his dawning awareness of danger and mystery; the storm itself, whipped into furious presence by Wallis's staccato delivery. This is wonderful stuff brilliantly told. A.C.S. AudioFile 2001, Portland, Maine-- Copyright AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Antonio Bribiesca " La Gran Coleccion" 2 Cd's Import 1. QUE TE A DADO ESA MUJER 2. ALBUR DE AMOR 3. LA BORRACHITA 4. ALL EN EL RANCHO GRANDE 5. LA NEGRA NOCHE 6. RAYANDO EL SOL 7. TU SOLO TU 8. LAS CHIAPANECAS 9. LA RONDALLA 10 POPURRI HERACLIO VERNAL LA CAMA DE PIEDRA HASTA LUEGO 11. LA PAJARERA 12. ADIOS MARIQUITA LINDA 13. POR UN AMOR 14. UN RAYITO DE SOL 15. COLOMBIANITA 16. MAL PAGADORA 17. NO ME VENGAS A LLORAR 18. NOCHE DE RONDA 19. JURAME 20 POPURRI ADIOS MI CHAPARRITA ADIOS DE CARRASCO ADIOS NICANOR ADOS DEL SOLDADO CD'S 2 1. DONDE ESTAS CORAZON? 2. CANSION MIXTECA 3. LA CASITA 4. LA BARCA DE ORO 5. EL ABANDONADO 6. POPURRI DE VALSES:" ALEJANDRA SOBRE LAS OLAS CUANDO ESCUCHES ESTE VALS RECUERDO 7. ENTRE COPA Y COPA 8. LA ZANDUNGA 9. DOS ARBOLITOS 10. JANITZIO 11. A LA ORILLA DE UN PALMAR 12. POPURRI ESTRELLITA LA PALOMA LA GOLONDRINA 13 ACE UNA ANO 14. NUNCA 15. ADEELA 16. LA MANCORNADA 17. PERJURA 18. PARA OLVIDARTE A TI 19. DEJAME LLORAR 20. LAS GOLONDRINAS
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Wag Bag Pet Bed in Assorted Prints - 27in. x 36in., Model# WP2736-578 27in. x 36in. Pet Bed is filled with polyester fiberfill for comfort and fragrant cedar shavings to deodorize. For dogs up to 60 lbs. Pattern received will vary and may be camo - sorry, no pattern choice. Water Resistant: No, Common Usage: Pet bedding, Weather Resistant: No, Adjustable Fit: No, Assembly Required: No, Dimensions L x W x H (in.): 27 x 36 x 9, Compatible With: Fiber fill, cedar shavings, Material Type: Fiber fill, cedar shavings, Includes: 9 in. zipper for refills, Weight Capacity (lbs.): Up to 60
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pet supplies
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0966326016
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Practically Speaking: An Illustrated Guide; the Game, Guns and Gear of the International Defensive Pistol Association Upon receiving his BS degree from Carnegie Tech and completing service as a Special Agent in U.S. Army Intelligence, Walt Rauch was a Special Agent with the U.S. Secret Service and an Investigator with the Warrant Unit, First Judicial District, PA, where he made over 2,000 felony arrests. He now operates his own consulting company, Rauch & Company, Ltd., for defense-weapon and tactical training. Rauch & Company services include expert witness testimony on firearms use and tactics. Rauch is a co-founder of several shooting sports, including the United States Practical Shooting Association (USPSA), the International Defensive Pistol Association (IDPA) and the National Tactical Invitational. In addition, he has served on the Board of Directors of USPSA, IDPA, the 1911 Society and the International Association of Law Enforcement Firearms Instructors (IALEFI). Rauch is also a writer and lecturer in the firearms field. He is published regularly in national and international publications including Combat Handguns, Guns & Weapons for Law Enforcement and other Harris Publications specialty magazines, Primedia's Handguns, Guns & Ammo specialty magazines, POLICE AND SECURITY NEWS, Cibles (France) and Visier (Germany). He is the author of a book on self-defense, titled REAL-WORLD SURVIVAL! What Has Worked For Me.
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Stars of British Stage & Screen This all-women collections features the biggest names in stage and screen. Artists include Beatrice Lillie, Elizabeth Welch, Evelyn Laye and Cicely Courtneidge among others; 23 Total Tracks. Track Listing: 1. Never Say Goodbye (Patricia Burke) 3:18 2. Me And My Dog (Frances Day) 3:13 3. My Heaven On Earth (Gertrude Niesen) 3:21 4. Why Has A Cow Got Four Legs? (Cicely Courtneidge) 3:04 5. Gold-Digging Digger (Eleanor Summerfield) 3:31 6. Medley: No, No, Nanette/I Want To Be Happy/Tea For Two (Binnie Hale) / 3:09 7. The Gutter Song (Beatrice Lillie) 2:46 8. Dream Shadows (Bebe Daniels) 2:55 9. Kiss Me Goodnight (Anna Neagle) 2:56 10. Love Laughs At Locksmiths (Renee Houston) 4:08 11. Medley: One Little Kiss/Let Me Give My Happiness To You/When You've Got A Little Springtime In Your Heart/Over My Shoulder (Jessie Matthews) 4:09 12. Hey, Good Looking (Evelyn Dall) 2:36 13. Something For The Boys (Evelyn Dall) 3:12 14. Medley: Sailor With The Navy-Blue Eyes/It's Spring Again/Potato Pete (Betty Driver) 2:50 15. Things Are Looking Up (Cicely Courtneidge) 2:55 16. You're Always In My Arms (Edith Day) 3:03 17. Deanna Durbin Medley: My Own/It's Raining Sunbeams/Someone To Care For Me (My Own) (Celia Lipton) 2:56 18. Harlem In My Heart (Elizabeth Welch) 3:02 19. Soon (Eve Becke) 3:09 20. You've Done Something To My Heart (Evelyn Laye) 3:19 21. Let The People Sing (Evelyn Laye) 2:27 22. We'll Gather Lilacs (Olive Gilbert) 3:22 23. 'The Glorious Days' Medley: Lovely Lady (orch.)/K-K-Katy/Swanee/Keep The Home Fires Burning (Anna Neagle) 3:38
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Adventures in understanding The Philosophical Research Society is a nonprofit organization founded in 1934 for the purpose of assisting thoughtful persons to live more graciously and constructively in a confused and troubled world. The Society is entirely free from educational, political, or ecclesiastical control. Dedicated to an idealistic approach to the solution of human problems, the Society's program stresses the need for the integration of religion, philosophy, and the science of psychology into one system of instruction. The goal of this instruction is to enable the individual to develop a mature philosophy of life, to recognize his proper responsibilities and opportunities, and to understand and appreciate his place in the unfolding universal pattern. --This text refers to the Paperback edition. Each individual lives to fulfill the destiny which he has earned for himself. If he takes the right attitude, he can never be disillusioned or discouraged. There are times when values are difficult to discern, but it is always possible to preserve the tranquility of the inner life by a gracious cooperation with the workings of Divine Providence. --This text refers to the Paperback edition. Manly P. Hall was the founder of the Philosophical Research Society. In over seventy-five years of dynamic public activity, he delivered more than 8,000 lectures in the United States and abroad, and authored countless books, essays, and articles. In his lectures and writings, Manly Hall always emphasized the practical aspects of philosophy and religion as they applied to daily living. He restated for modern man those spiritual and ethical doctrines which have given humanity its noblest ideals and most adequate codes of conduct. Believing that philosophy is a working tool to help the individual in building a solid foundation for his dreams and purposes, Manly Hall steadfastly sought recognition of the belief that world civilization can be perfected only when human beings meet on a common ground of intelligence, cooperation, and worthy purpose. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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What a Difference a Line Can Make Noted evangelist, pastor, Bible teacher and conference speaker, Larry L. Booker came to God in 1972 in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. Though a former slave to drugs and alcohol, he went on to become assistant pastor to Rev. Roy L. Moss. In 1977 he, his wife Brenda, and their infant son Joel left to travel and preach the gospel as a full-time evangelist. In 1976, he became pastor of the First United Pentecostal Church in Miami, Oklahoma, where he remained for four years. Returning to the evangelistic field in 1981, his family, with two more sons Phillip and Larry Andrew, spent the majority of the next 3 years in California. In 1984 he became pastor of Gospel Lighthouse Church of Arroyo Grande, California where he served for the next 12 years. During those years the congregation grew and new facilities were added, including a five-story lighthouse office structure, the only one of its kind in the United States. He is currently Pastor of Inland Lighthouse Church in Rialto, California. Since assuming the pastorate in 1976 the church has grown steadily from under fifty into the hundreds. Pastor Booker has now turned his capable hand to the written word, including the story of his life and deliverance from drugs.
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Chef's Choice Gourmet Waffle Cone Mix The perfect waffle cone has a crispy texture and rich, golden color, and now Chef's Choice makes it easy to produce them at home. This gourmet mix--designed for use with the Chef's Choice waffle cone maker--delivers delicious homemade cones perfect for scoops of ice cream or for dipping in chocolate and toppings. Simply add water to the mix and you're ready to go. This bundle of three 1-pound packages of mix makes approximately 40 cones. 087877501113 Features: -For delicious homemade sugar cones.-Perfect for dipping in chocolate and toppings.-Pack of 3. Color/Finish: -Crispy, light texture and rich golden color. Dimensions: -Net Weight: 3 lbs..
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Thy son liveth: Messages from a soldier to his mother Grace Duffie Boylan was born in 1861 in Kalamazoo, Michigan, one of eleven children born to Phelix and Juliette (Smith) Duffie. Her father, who emigrated from Ireland, owned and operated the Dollar House Hotel in Kalamazoo and served as a Captain during the American Civil War. She attended Radcliffe College (now part of Harvard University) in Cambridge, Mass. and the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. She began her career in Chicago as a journalist and reviewer, working as an art critic for the Chicago Daily Inter-Ocean and writing a syndicated column called "High Roads for Happiness and Success" for The Chicago Journal. In addition to Thy Son Liveth, Boylan published children's books as well as several novels for adults, including the favorably reviewed "Kiss of Glory" and "The Supplanter." She also was well known as a writer of dialect poetry and patriotic verse with works like, "If Tam O'Shanter'd Had a Wheel, and Other Poems and Sketches" and "When the Band Played and other readings and recitations." In 1925 Boylan was featured in the publication, Prominent personages of the nations capital: a work for newspaper and library reference, where she was described as a woman of brilliant and magnetic personality, which is reflected both in her writings and in her public speaking. She was married to George Roe; to Robert Boylan, a well known newspaper reporter and horse racing expert; to St. George Kempson, editor of the New York Insurance Journal; and to Louis Napoleon Geldert, owner of the respected publication, The Insurance Herald of Louisville, Kentucky. Grace Duffie Boylan died in 1935 in Memphis, Tennessee. She was survived by her husband, Louis Geldert, her daughter, Clover Roscoe and her son, Malcolm Stuart Boylan. She had been a member of the Arts Club of Washington (DC), Authors League of America, Poetry Society of America and past president of the National League of Pen Women. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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HP Pavilion ze5250 Laptop (2.0-GHz Pentium 4, 512 MB RAM, 40 GB Hard Drive) Just because you have a limited expense account doesn't mean you shouldn't have a reliable mobile computer crafted of respected components. Based upon Intel Pentium 4 architecture but without some of the bells and whistles of a high-end, high-cost unit, the HP Pavilion ze5250 notebook PC is a sensibly designed machine perfectly suited to most common computing applications. Measuring 12.96 by 10.72 by 1.79 inches and weighing a comfortable 7.5 pounds, the Pavilion ze5250 is not particularly difficult to transport. Inside HP has installed a capable processing system comprising a high-performance 2 GHz Intel Pentium 4 processor, 512 MB of DDR SDRAM memory (expandable to 1,024 MB), and a 64 MB ATI Mobility Radeon graphics chip. In simple terms, there isn't much the Pavilion ze5250 can't do. The unit features an adequate 40 GB hard disk on which to store your programs and files, and a convenient DVD/CD-RW combo drive through which you can burn and play audio CDs, archive data, and watch the latest movies. Its integrated 15-inch XGA TFT display is just slightly larger than average and supports crisp, clean images at 1,024 x 768 resolution. HP has even added a 16-bit Sound Blaster Pro-compatible audio chipset and integrated Altec Lansing speakers. Controlling the Pavilion ze5250 is a snap. The unit features a full-size 88-key keyboard with embedded numeric keypad, a touchpad with on/off button, and a dedicated vertical scroll-up/-down pad. Other amenities include two USB 1.1 ports for plug-and-play peripherals, one IEEE 1394 port for high-speed interaction with demanding external peripherals such as digital camcorders, VGA and TV outs, an RJ-45 Ethernet jack for fast network and Internet interaction, and a built-in 56K modem for low-speed e-communication. Pre-installed software includes Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition, Corel WordPerfect 10, Intuit Quicken New Users Edition 2002, and an assortment of multimedia utilities.
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computers
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Venetian masque,: A romance, Rafael Sabatini was born to an English mother and Italian father, both well-known opera singers. At seventeen Sabatini moved to England, where, after a brief stint in the business world, he started to write. His major breakthrough came with Scaramouche, which became an international bestseller and was followed by the equally successful Captain Blood. All his earlier books were then rushed into reprint. Many of his novels were subsequently adapted into classic films which appealed to both a male and female market with their drama, romance and action, set against a variety of historical settings. 'One wonders if there is another storyteller so adroit at filling his pages with intrigue and counter-intrigue, with danger threaded with romance, with a background of lavish colour, of silks and velvets, of swords and jewels' - Daily Telegraph --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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Afternoon in the jungle;: The selected short stories of Albert Maltz Albert Maltz is one of the most gifted short story writers around. If his stories are concerned with social conditions, he is never the prisoner of the didactic. . . . He is for a moment the conscience of the world . . . a writer who wants to believe that in the spirit of man, there is an impulse to pity and compassion. . . . These stories do touch that deep impluse. (Robert Kirsch - Los Angeles Times ) --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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Amazon.com: Champion Women's Double Dry Cotton Blend Sports Bra, Porcelain Blue, Small: Clothing Champion Women's Double Dry Cotton Blend Sports Bra. Tag free comfort: For more comfort without the irritating tag. Classic compression: uses the elasticity of fabric for maximum support and comfort. Wicking: wicks moisture away from the body and helps control moisture buildup through styles with treated fabrics or made with wicking fabric. Medium MCR: For less intense activity that still requires moderate support, comfort, and bounce control. Bras with a "Medium MCR" rating are ideal for walking, hiking, spinning/cycling. Style. Fit. Comfort. The Champion Cotton Blend Sports Top has it all. Stretches whenever you do for free-moving ease during workouts. Racerback holds straps in place and gives added support. Pullover styling makes dressing a breeze. No hardware to chafe or dig. Cool 55% cotton/35% polyester/10% Lycra spandex fabric. Imported. ****This product can be shipped to US addresses ONLY.****
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Kenmore 18 Qt. Roaster Over and 3 Pan Buffet Dual Purpose KRT18BUF Just in time for the Holidays! This dual-purpose appliance is not only a huge 18 quart roaster, big enough to cook a 20 lb turkey. It is Versatile for Roasting, Baking, steaming and cooking. It includes removable buffet pans and enamel coated liner for easy cooking, serving, and cleaning. The Kenmore 18 Qt. Roaster Oven with Buffet Server will Bake, Steam, Cook, Roast and keep a complete meal Warm. It easily converts to a 3 pan buffet server. The 3 individual removable buffet pans keep up to 3 different foods separated and warm for serving. A sturdy heavy gauge steel rack lifts out easily. The enamel-coated liner lift out easily for serving and prep work. These are fully submersible for easy cleaning Convenient side handles. The Non-slip rubber feet are a safety feature. When roasting, the extra large viewing window lets you check on progress without losing heat or moisture by having to lift up the lid. A steam vent lets you regulate moisture with a simple twist. Temperature controls vary from Low/Keep warm to 400 degrees, plus steam. High dome lid with handle accommodates standing roasts, turkeys and hams. LED indicator lets you know when power is on. Features: ? 18 Quart Roaster ? 3 Pan Buffet Server ? 3 Individual Buffet Pans ? Heavy Gauge Wire Rack ? Enamel Coated Removable Liner ? Non-slip Rubber Feet ? Convenient Side Handles ? Steam Vent ? High Dome Lid ? LED Indicator
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Amazon.com: Reebok Tennis Team Tennis Skirt (COLOR: Navy, SIZE:Large): Clothing Reebok Team Tennis Skirt Play Dry technology provides moisture management and wicking properties. The 88% polyester/12% Spandex construction offers additional comfort and breathability. Elasticized waist.
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Amazon.com: Calvin Klein Pro Stretch Thong Underwear (XL White): Clothing Minimal coverage men's thong. Constructed of stretch cotton. No fly front. Logo tag at front center. Calvin Klein Style U7065
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Historische Grammatik des Griechischen: Laut- u. Formenlehre (German Edition) Text: German
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Comatose [Single-CD] 3 Versions Including Eat Static Mix + New Track (title Tbc)
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Amazon.com: Men's Tyrannosaurus Rex Silk Tie by Wild Ties in Burgundy: Clothing You're going to love this tyrannosaurus rex necktie designed Baby Wild Ties. From a distance it appears to be a silk, patterned, business tie, but the pattern is comprised of T-Rex and their claws!
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Dr. Brandt Anti-Oxidant Water Booster Original Flavour 2oz Dr. Brandt's Anti-Oxidant Water Booster, Original Flavour, is a healthy and convenient way to increase skin's health and vitality with 3 potent Anti-Oxidants Green Tea, White Tea and Grapeseed Extract. It helps fight free radicals and maintains younger looking skin.One dropper full is equivalent to 15 cups of decaffeinated Green Tea. It is highly absorbable and easily digestible. Caffeine free, Calorie and Sugar free.Dr. Brandt Tips:? Dr Brandt believes that true beauty begins from within? Anti-Oxidant Water Booster approaches skincare from the inside out? It promotes optimal internal health utilising the power of Blueberries, Green Apple, Pure Green and White Tea, Grape Seed and Pomegranate Extract which will help our body look and feel betterKey Ingredients:? White TeaAnti-oxidant that protects skin against free radical damage? Green TeaAnti-oxidant that protects cells from free radical damage and helps reduce inflammation caused by UV exposure? Grapeseed Extract Anti-oxidant that protects cells from free radical damage and helps skin look younger by reducing the appearance of fine lines and wrinklesDr. Brandt skincare is much more than just a "doctor brand". As a practicing celebrity dermatologist, Dr. Fredric Brandt has made it his eternal quest to attain state-of-the-art ingredients and technologically advanced delivery systems that mimic his in-office procedures. Expect flawless, ageless looking skin in minimal time, when you take the doctor home with you.Ideal for: All Skin Types
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El Arte del ¡NO! Como me dijo alguien y ahora lo afirma este libro: "Valen ms cinco minutos de mortificacin, que toda una vida de arrepentimiento por haber aceptado !" -- Ellas RevistaConozco a varios vampiros emocionales que se la pasan pidiendo lo que no queremos aceptar ! -- Cartelera MentalDice un dicho sabio: "Mas vale un momento de pena que mucho tiempo de arrepentimiento por no haber dicho"NO" -- Cosmos. Revista En el momento, te hubiera causado un instante de mortificacin... -- Alethia. Boletin Psicologa Es VITAL aprender a negarnos a aceptar lo que no deseamos:Este libro nos lo ensea! -- COLUMNA CULTURALMas vale un minuto de mortificacin ( diciendo "NO") que toda una vida de arrepentimiento ! -- El Tecolote Literato GacetaMihos disgustos nos ahorraramos si supiramos decir abiertamente: "No" ! -- PaideiaParecer mentira, pero el acto de pronunciar un "No " rotundo, es un arte que casi nadie es capaz... -- La Familia. RevistaUn libro PRCTICO y utilsimo. Se los recomiendo ampliamente ! -- El Literato Columna literaria Por muy adultos que seamos y por muy maduros que nos sintamos...Decir NO a alguien, nos cuesta un enorme esfuerzo...Y lo trgico es que, con demasiada frecuencia, decimos "SI" cuando con el alma quisiramos decir "NO! NO! Y es asi como nos encontramos en una situacin que podr ser muy buena, pero que a nosotros NOS DESAGRADA; El caso ms comn, es la invitacin a una fiesta, a una cena, a una exhibicin de arte...Exactamente en el da en que sobamos con quedarnos a descansar en casa! Y ahi vamos, rumbo al famoso evento, casi aventando chispas por la nariz... Otra situacin super comn, es la peticin de un "prestamito " Sabemos que la persona que lo pide, dificilmente pagar...y que hasta vamos a acabar de pleito por aquel dinero que no queramos prestar...! Decir que "No " slo se les facilita a los nenes muy pequeos...despus, se nos atraganta. Sentimos que la otra persona se va a molestar, que pareceremos muy antipticos, que vamos a adquirir una imagen negativa... Pero NEGARSE a algo que no nos agrada/conviene, es parte de NUESTRA LIBERTAD Y NUESTRO DERECHO... Este libro es untesoro, porque usted lo va a redituar EL RESTO DE SU VIDA... Es un manual excelente para aprender a decir "NO!" y, adems, DISFRUTARLO como debemos disfrutar de cada ocasin en que hacemos valer nuestro derecho a decir si o no! Le ahorrar muchos tragos amargos y muchos autoreproches! Y viera qu sencillo es? Ya comenzaba a despreciarme a mi mismo...Me haba convertido en el eterno"prestamista " de los compaeros de trabajo, en el "To POstizo " que cuidaba a los nios mientras mis cuates se iban a bailar o a cenar. Bueno, me tocaba hasta que me dejaran al perro si se iban de vacaciones ! "NO poda decir que no a nadie...Mi padre, ya hart de aconsejarme, acab por decir: "Que bueno que no eres mujer, John...Tendras un embarazo cada nueve meses !" Comenc a darme cuenta de que en mi crculo me criticaban con burla, y hasta alcanc a escuchar que un compaero le deca a otro: "Pdele a John! Yo no presto dinero, manito!" Me di cuenta de que estaba enojado conmigo mismo, de que me haba perdido el respeto! De ah brotaron dos cosas: UNA VIDA FELIZ EN LA QUE EJERZO EL DERECHO DE NEGARME... Y ESTE LIBRO QUE ESCRIB PARA USTEDES PARA IMPULSARLOS A NO SER ALGUIEN QUE SIEMPRE DICE "SI" AUNQUE NO QUIERA ! Provecho ! Es difcil creer que nos suceda a casi todos...: Que con demasiada frecuenciam, decimos "si" cuando querramos decir "NO".Y esto pasa en invitaciones comrpometedoras, asuntos de trabajo, negocios, vida familiar y amigos... Es como si tuvisemos miedo al disgusto de la persona a la que no nos atrevemos a negar algo QUE VA CONTRA NUESTROS PROPIOS INTERESES. Es comn decir "Su" por amor a la otra persona, Y QU PASA CON EL AMOR A NOSOTROS MISMOS?, que tan pronto como aceptamos, nos sentimos muy molestos... Y si decir "NO", se nos ator en la gargante, MENOS NOS ATREVEREMOS A DECIR:"Sabes qu? Ya lo pensp bien y no puedo aceptar" El Arte de decir NO, puede aprenderse, y ms an si tenemos en cuenta que una vez que dominamos este arte, nos es ms satisfactorio que decir si, aceptando lo que sea... John Lowenberg vive cerca de Nueva York con su esposa y dos hijos.Tiene una oficina de Consultora Financiera en Manhattan y es un hombre muy prspero y muy respetado entre los inversionistas de Wall Street. Relata que su carrera habra sido un fracaso si no hubiera aprendido a tiempo EL ARTE DEL NO! La palabra es el elemento esencial de la relacin humana. La inflexin utilizada y la situacin en que se expresa, pueden darle significados diferentes a la misma palabra. Pero entre todo el cmulo de vocablos que conforman un idioma, hay dos palabras cuyo significado es nico y no puede confundirse: Si y No. El "Si " que anhelan los enamorados, los nenes de papi, los vendedores agresivos, los jefes exigentes, los padres y los cnyuges dominantes, es recibido con agrado..aunque en mltiples ocasiones decimos "si" por agotamiento o con tal de que nos dejen de molestar. En cambio, el "No" por la negacin de privilegios y el retiro de concesiones, es abominable para las personas que intentan sacarnos algo... Quien escucha el "no", siente frustrados sus deseos; y el que pronuncia la negativa, en icasiones hasta se siente culpable...Sin serlo ! Este libro es un portento que nos impulsa a negar lo que es violatorio de nuestros derechos o de nuestra libertad y a no sentirnos culpables....POR EL SIMPLE HECHO DE QUE NO LO SOMOS !
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Boston Industrial Brass Hammer - 16 Ounce Solid brass headed hammer with a fiber glass handle and a rubber grip
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5.5" Heel Knee High "Liberty" Boots W/Zipper. by Ellie(LEO,5) 5.5" Heel Knee High "Liberty" Boots W/Zipper.
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Wusthof 22-Slot Bamboo Knife Storage Block Wusthf knives represent a significant investment and deserve the best storage possible. This heavy, stable storage block is made of laminated bamboo, richly finished to bring out the natural variations in tone of this natural material. The block generously features 22 slots, 14 of which are positioned horizontally, which keeps pressure off the blade edges. The remaining 8 slots are vertical and are intended for steak knives. A variety of slot widths and shapes accommodates a sharpening steel, shears, and thick-bladed knives, as long as the blades are 8 inches or under in length. To clean, simply wipe with a damp sponge. Wusthf covers the bamboo block with a lifetime warranty. A member of the grass family, bamboo looks and feels remarkably like wood. Yet it grows so quickly that it has become popular as a renewable replacement for slower-growing trees. Harder even than maple, bamboo makes excellent cutting boards, kitchen utensils, flooring and counter tops. Tough, non-porous, and attractive, bamboo products will be appearing more and more often in this fast changing world. --Ann Bieri The Wusthof 22-slot knife block is made of bamboo that is a richly grained wood that is known for its durability. The knife block safely stores each knife in a convient storage location.
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Dali on modern art;: The cuckolds of antiquated modern art Text: English (translation) Original Language: French --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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RCA F27443 27" TV Striking an appealing balance between quality, features, and simplicity, RCA's F27443 television is pretty much everything you'd want in an affordable 27-inch television. Inputs? Choose between front and rear, high-quality component-video inputs or standard composite-video. You get stereo speakers, auto channel setup, auto color balance, multiple picture settings for different program types--even an audio leveler to keep commercials from blasting you after a quiet program. The F27443's three-line comb filter further enhances picture quality by removing blurred edges between colors and reducing dot crawl (tiny, moving dots of color along a sharp color separation). Auto color balance resets the individual picture tube guns (red, green, blue) to maintain consistent overall quality for the life of the tube, while auto color control maintains natural tones and color fidelity. Dynamic BlackStretch circuitry enhances contrast and detail by extending black levels in bright scenes. The set's G-LINK Gemstar Interactive connector allows the GUIDE Plus+ GOLD System to work with your VCR (enabling one-touch record) and/or your cable box (giving you the ability to tune directly to a station while the program guide is on your TV screen). Connections include two sets of stereo audio/video inputs with one S-video and one component-video input (YPrPb) and a set of front-panel inputs for hooking up a gaming console, camcorder, or other device. What's in the Box TV, remote control (model CRK76TE1), remote batteries, user's manual (English/French), and warranty information.
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The way of all flesh Autobiographical novel by Samuel Butler, published posthumously in 1903 though written almost two decades earlier. Beginning with the life of John Pontifex, a carpenter, the novel traces four generations of the Pontifex family, each of which perpetuates the frustration and unhappiness of its predecessor largely as a result of parental repression. Only Ernest Pontifex, the great-grandson of John, is able to break the cycle. After being ordained a minister, serving a prison term because of a naive misunderstanding, and unwittingly entering into a bigamous marriage with the family's sluttish servant girl, Ernest providentially inherits enough money from a favorite aunt to change his life and become a writer. -- The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature --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. The Way of All Flesh is one of the time-bombs of literature," said V. S. Pritchett. "One thinks of it lying in Samuel Butler's desk for thirty years, waiting to blow up the Victorian family and with it the whole great pillared and balustraded edifice of the Victorian novel." Written between 1873 and 1884 but not published until 1903, a year after Butler's death, his marvelously uninhibited satire savages Victorian bourgeois values as personified by multiple generations of the Pontifex family. A thinly veiled account of his own upbringing in the bosom of a God-fearing Christian family, Butler's scathingly funny depiction of the self-righteous hypocrisy underlying nineteenth-century domestic life was hailed by George Bernard Shaw as "one of the summits of human achievement." "If the house caught on fire, the Victorian novel I would rescue from the flames would be The Way of All Flesh," wrote William Maxwell in The New Yorker. "It is read, I believe, mostly by the young, bent on making out a case against their elders, but Butler was fifty when he stopped working on it, and no reader much under that age is likely to appreciate the full beauty of its horrors. . . . Every contemporary novelist with a developed sense of irony is probably in some measure, directly or indirectly, indebted to Butler, who had the misfortune to be a twentieth-century man born in the year 1835." --This text refers to the Paperback edition. Reared on piety, repression and emotional blackmail, Ernest Pontifex follows the course prescribed for him towards Holy Orders. Yet rebellion at Cambridge, unwise theology, unwiser financial dealings, and finally prison free him from his parents' tyranny. Left with his health and career ruined, Ernest faces still more trials before fortune and his godfather rescue him from the brink. This savagely funny, iconoclastic odyssey from joyless duty to unbridled liberalism exposes the hypocrisy of nineteenth century family life. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Samuel Butler (18351902) was an iconoclastic Victorian author whose most famous pieces are the Utopian satire Erewhon and the posthumous novel The Way of All Flesh. Antony Ferguson, a native of London, England, is a classically trained actor and has appeared in numerous productions in London, Off Broadway, and Regional theater. As a voice actor, he has over fifty audiobooks to his credit. --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.
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The theory of groups Text: English (translation) Original Language: German --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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Health Valley Soup Cup, Garden Split Pea, 2.29-Ounce Cups (Pack of 12) Natural goodness. 35% More soup than other leading brands. Health Valley's Benefits: Fat-free & all natural. Good source of fiber. For over a quarter of a century, Health Valley has been committed to bringing you the best-tasting, most nutritious, natural foods. Enjoy! Exchanges: 1 Starch, 1/2 Protein.
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The always prayer shawl Oberman's ( Lion in the Lake ) simply told and moving story invokes the power of tradition. Adam is a Jewish boy growing up in czarist Russia, where his grandfather, also named Adam, teaches him the importance of Jewish beliefs and customs, stressing that "some things change and some things don't." Without distancing the reader, comparisons crystallize the differences between Adam's time and the present: "When Adam went for eggs, he did not get them from a store. He got them from a chicken. When Adam felt cold, he did not turn a dial for heat. He chopped wood for a fire." When Adam and his parents emigrate, Adam's grandfather gives his prayer shawl to the boy, who responds with a promise: "I am always Adam and this is my always prayer shawl. That won't change." In America, Adam learns to live, dress and speak differently. The prayer shawl changes, too--first the fringe is replaced, then the collar and finally the cloth. But, as Adam is to explain to his own grandson, "It is still my Always Prayer Shawl." As a tender conclusion brings Adam's spiritual life full circle, Lewin underscores the cyclical theme by picturing the grandson as very like the young Adam. His realistic watercolors dynamically depict the Old World in black and white, changing to color as Adam grows up, and his affecting portraits match the quiet passion of Oberman's prose. Ages 7-up. Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Kindergarten-Grade 3-When Adam, a young boy growing up in Czarist Russia, emigrates to the United States with his family, his grandfather gives him the prayer shawl that his grandfather had given him. Throughout his life, Adam continues to wear and repair the shawl, hanging on to his grandfather's statement that "'Everything about it has changed. But it is still my Always Prayer Shawl. It is just like me. I have changed and changed and changed. But I am still Adam.'" He explains to his own grandson the story behind the shawl, and the young boy pledges to carry on the tradition of naming a son Adam and passing the heirloom on to him. The book effectively illustrates how different life was for a child growing up in Russia than it is for modern children. The major theme that some things change while others never do is worth exploring, but the story leaves little to the imagination and hammers the message home. Non-Jewish children may wonder what makes the prayer shawl so special; Oberman never explains its use in worship. Lewin's paintings feature gracefully drawn figures that look especially good at a distance. But at times, the pictures fail to convey the full range of emotion described in the narrative, such as in the scene in which Adam says good-bye to his grandfather. Additionally, it seems almost arbitrary that the black-and-white illustrations change to lushly colored watercolors when Adam becomes an adult. When books about family traditions, especially those of Jewish people, are needed, this one will suffice, with the help of an adult who can answer the anticipated questions. Ellen Fader, Oregon State Library, SalemCopyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Ages 6-9. In a quiet story with just the right touch of sentimentality, Oberman beautifully evokes a sense of continuity across generations. Enhancing his third-person narrative with a smattering of dialogue, he tells of the Jewish boy Adam, growing up in a shtetl, whose life drastically changes when famine and chaos in old Russia force his parents to immigrate to America. At parting, Adam's beloved grandfather gives the boy a gift, a prayer shawl ("my always prayer shawl"), which was presented to the grandfather by his grandfather, for whom Adam was named. Lewin's first paintings, in black and white, show the white-bearded grandfather in the shtetl, the soldiers with their guns, the tall buildings in America dramatically dwarfing Adam and his parents. Then, in one double-page spread that telescopes Adam's growing into manhood, the artwork leaps into glorious color. While Oberman's controlled text capsulizes the passage of time in words, the color paintings show Adam the man proudly wearing his Russian grandfather's shawl, then Adam the grandfather, passing the shawl and what it represents on to his own young grandson. As good as any of Lewin's best work, the watercolors are abundantly detailed and wonderfully expressive (the grandfathers and grandsons are at once different and the same). The pictures enrich the tranquil telling, which harks back to the biblical Adam, as it movingly depicts how memory and tradition add texture and richness to our lives--even as other things around us change. Stephanie Zvirin --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. ``Now I can teach you something that my grandfather taught me,'' says Adam to his grandson at the end of this generational story, ``...some things change and some things don't.'' As a boy in rural Russia, the man who's now a suburban American got eggs direct from chickens and chopped wood to keep warm, but--as Adam is doing now, in their synagogue--his grandfather told him about the Jewish people and his own family: Adam was named for his grandfather's grandfather. When Adam and his parents set out for America, his grandfather gave him the earlier Adam's prayer shawl. While Adam grows up and has a family of his own, the shawl wears thin and he replaces the fringes, then the collar, at last even the cloth. But as he explains as an old man, ``It is just like me. I have changed...But I am still Adam.'' The idea is simple yet resonant, and well supported in Lewin's watercolors, rendered in the black and white of old photos until Adam's middle age in what might be the 50's; as always, his subtle, warm characterizations steal the show, though the composition and detail in the b section are also especially fine. An engaging book, sure to find many uses. (Picture book. 5-10) -- Copyright 1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. * In a quiet story with just the right touch of sentimentality, Oberman beautifully evokes a sense of continuity across generations... --Booklist, Starred Review... An engaging book, sure to find many uses. --Kirkus Reviews... As a tender conclusion brings Adam's spiritual life full circle, Lewin underscores the cyclical theme by picturing the grandson as very like the young Adam. His realistic watercolors dynamically depict the Old World in black and white, changing to color as Adam grows up, and his affecting portraits match the quiet passion of Oberman's prose. --Publishers Weekly --This text refers to the Paperback edition. Sheldon Oberman wrote two Sydney Taylor Honor Award-winning books - The Wisdom Bird and The Always Prayer Shawl, which also won a National Jewish Book Award. He taught at Joseph Wolinsky Collegiate, Winnipeg, Manitoba, where the Sheldon Oberman Writing Award has been established in his honor.Ted has illustrated more than one hundred books for children and also wrote an autobiography entitled I Was a Teenage Professional Wrestler. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife, Betsy, who also illustrates children's books. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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I Never Forget A Face Memory Game A wonderful way to develop an appreciation of multi-culturalism as well as enhancing memory skills. Includes 24 pairs of faces for matching.
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Lefty,: Being the tale of cross-eyed Lefty of Tula and the steel flea Text: English Original Language: Russian --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Poems Text: French, English --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Hegel's Science of logic, (Library of philosophy) Text: English, German (translation) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Translator A. V. Miller is a scholar internationally recognized for his extensive and excellent translations of Hegel. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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The Rabbi had two wives: A translation from an anonymous Ladino novel = [Un Marido entre dos muz'eres] Text: English (translation)
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With Bold Knife & Fork Praise for M.F.K. Fisher"[Fisher] writes as one intelligent adult to anotherpractically, often profoundly, and always beautifully. If eating means more to you than steak drowned in bottled sauces, then she's what you've been looking for." The San Francisco Examiner"If I were still teaching high school English, I'd use Fisher's books to show how to write simply, how to enjoy food and drink, but, most of all, how to enjoy life. Her books are one feast after another." Frank McCourt, author of Angela's Ashes --This text refers to the Paperback edition. In a career that extended over seven decades until her death in 1992, Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher wrote twenty-six books with a prose style at once vivid, elegant, and a little bit wicked. Her books include The Gastronomical Me, How to Cook a Wolf, Consider the Oyster, and Serve It Forth. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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9166 CORNER CLAMP Corner clamps ease the assembly, and glue-up, of almost any project with parts joining at 90 degrees if those parts are each under 3" wide. The clamp is also useful for correcting slight off-angle miters, as theres space for a saw blade to take a bit off each side of the assembled, but unglued, joint. Used with an accurate square, the Pony corner clamp can give the tightest miter joints possible.
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Intimate Journals Text: English, French (translation) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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The struggle for equality;: Abolitionists and the Negro in the Civil War and Reconstruction, These volumes, published in 1975 and 1964, respectively, chronicle the abolitionist movement from before the Civil War to the part it played in the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s. LJ's reviewer found The Abolitionist Legacy an "ably researched, well-written book" (LJ 12/15/75).Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Paperback edition. Must surely be assigned an important place in the literature of the history of ideas and of race relations in the United States. (The Times Literary Supplement )The Abolitionist Legacy shows many of the same graces as its predecessor: wide-ranging and careful research, a strong sense of story line, an eye for good quotations, unyielding sympathy for those who devoted their lives to uplifting the freedmen. (Reviews in American History )In addition to discussing the complex blend of egalitarianism and paternalism in the thought of white proponents of black advancement, McPherson offers suggestions of the intricate mixture of racial consciousness, individual ambition, and racial romanticism that continues to fuel modern black separatism. (Political Science Quarterly ) --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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Everything up to now... "...contrast of bright music and twisted subject matter, wrapped up in tight, hook-filled packages..." -- Daily Southtown, November 5, 1993"...this is one (band) that you should make it a point to find because The Wombats are definitely going somewhere." -- Subculture, November 1994"Unlike altogether too many young bands, they actually know how to write songs." Dave Luhrrsen, Shepherd Express -- Shepherd Express, December 14, 1994 Kevin Giragosian, singer/songwriter/guitarist for The Wombats, has been a part of the Chicago music scene since 1988 live and on the radio. The full-time commitment to music began in the fall of 1996 when he and his brother and drummer, Kegham, closed their southwest suburban record store Red Tower Records to concentrate solely on their music career. Together, with various bass players, they have thrilled audiences at every major club-venue in Chicago. Over the years, their recordings have been local-favorite picks of djs at Chicago's most respected modern-rock radio stations. Live Performances: Opening act for: Bob Geldolf, The Watch men, Iain Matthews, Adrien Belew's Psychodots, Spanic Boys, The Insiders,Bad Examples, Big Hat, Big Hello, Phantom Helmsmen, Big Guitars from Memphis, Charming Beggars, etal at the following Chicago clubs: Double Door, Avalon, Schubas, Beat Kitchen, Elbo Room, Lounge Ax, Gunther Murphy's, Abby Pub, China Club. Management: Bill Hahn / KD & B Management P.O. Box Two, Park Ridge, IL 60068, Phone:(847) 823-2621 e.mail: [email protected] The aptly titled debut album from The Wombats, "Everything up to now...," is a compilation of material recorded over the course of the past five years. The songs bristle with catchy melodies, upbeat tempos, killer three-part harmonies and clever, insightful lyrics. Each song reads like a short story about life, love, loss, expectations and disappointment; written with just the right amount of sarcasm and tonguein-cheekness to keep you smiling. There is a consistency to the songwriting, yet each track possesses its' own distinct Wombat flavor. This is a true rock & roll album with an emphasis on "the song"- with universal appeal for a large segment of music buyers. After one listen, you'll realize that the music stems from the classic-60's school of rock funneled through one man's vision as a present day songwriter. THIS IS NO RETRO-REHASH ALBUM this is modern rock & roll with great pop sensibilities!
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Couldn't Stand The Weather (Stevie Ray Vaughan) TRACKS: SCUTTLE BUTTIN', COULDN'T STAND THE WEATHER, THE THINGS THAT I USED TO DO, VOODOO CHILE (SLIGHT RETURN), COLD SHOT, TIN PAN ALLEY, HONEY BEE, STANG'S SWANG
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Just for Momma number 789324155527
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Out of It : A Cultural History of Intoxication Trying to separate pleasure from pain and law from leisure, British journalist Walton doesn't quite succeed in systematizing a subject that lends itself more readily to laughter and forgetting. He does not lack a solid argument: "Intoxication is a universal human theme. There are no recorded instances of fully formed societies anywhere in history that have lived without the use of psychoactive substances." The missteps begin in early Christianity, when Walton deviates from his ostensible subject, the history of intoxication, and gets onto the more pedestrian issue of policing the use of intoxicants. In the next few chapters, there are hints of how the 18th-century craze for coffee lent itself to revolutionary thinking, why the nip before work went the way of the dodo, or when cigarette smoking became demonized. But though Walton is clearly aware of all of these possible avenues of exploration, the book drones on about units of alcohol and schedules of chemicals and other ways that the governments of the U.S. and Britain have spoiled the fun. Content to simply set up and knock down straw men, Walton fails to ask the more provocative questions of why we have this drive to blottodom and what its social effects actually are. The final chapters on moderation and excess and the association between art and intoxication are a bit livelier, but this fascinating and heady topic awaits definitive treatment.Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition. Intoxication is a constant of the human condition that Walton explores in a wide-ranging, well-referenced history. Presented in lay terms, his study yet includes some fairly involved analysis, which makes indulging in intoxicants while reading it probably self-defeating. Not that it is boring, just that it demands full attention. Neither a lighthearted chronicle of crazy drug experiences nor a tossed-off polemic about the influence of those of the pro-psychoactive persuasion, it considers, in a reasonable manner, why people want to get high and how that desire affects society. In conclusion, Walton says that "to be intoxicated is not the be-all and end-all of life," but "there is no idealised state of non-involvement with which all intoxicated states may be unfavourably compared." Desire for and capacity to use intoxicants "arise early and, other than by major exercise of will, do not die." Heady stuff that belongs in collections serving communities wrestling with the "drug problem"; the book may bring fire, however, for not damning chemical adventuring out of hand. Mike TribbyCopyright American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition. Walton is particularly, and convincingly, engrossing, an elegant and forceful stylist, and were this a longer review I would quote copiously to prove the point. For the moment, you will have to take this on trust.The GuardianFrom the Hardcover edition. --This text refers to the Paperback edition. ?Like any good cocktail, this book brings together tasty ingredients in a delicious mix.? ?Boston Herald?Walton is hilariously well-versed in wine terminology, and his wit is deliciously dry.? ?Seattle WeeklyOut of It is a thoroughly addictive examination of intoxicants, from the everyday substances of alcohol, caffeine, and tobacco to the illicit realm of opiates, amphetamines, and hallucinogens. More than a mere (if heady) catalog of intoxicants, however, Stuart Walton?s book is a smart, wry look at why intoxication has always been a part of the human experience?from our earliest Stone Age rituals to the practices of the ancient Greeks and Romans, right on up through the Victorian era and ending with a flourish in modern times?and more significantly, why the use of intoxicants is, and will continue to be, an essential part of being human. ?An insightful overview of humanity?s historical and cultural attachment to various intoxicants. . . . It deserves a prominent place in the emerging discussion reshaping understanding and policies regarding intoxication and the use of drugs and alcohol.??Kirkus Reviews (starred)?Walton is particularly, and convincingly, engrossing, an elegant and forceful stylist.??The Guardian --This text refers to the Paperback edition. Walton is particularly, and convincingly, engrossing, an elegant and forceful stylist, and were this a longer review I would quote copiously to prove the point. For the moment, you will have to take this on trust.The Guardian --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition. STUART WALTON is a cultural historian, journalist, and the author of numerous books on the subject of wine and liquors.From the Hardcover edition. --This text refers to the Paperback edition. Coming UpHere is a modern recreational tale. Three young men get together on a Saturday night. Their backgrounds are culturally diverse, but all reasonably comfortable. None of them has a criminal record, or comes from what sociologists used to call a broken home. They are of mixed ages (24-35), nationalities and sexualities; one is a mutual friend of the two others, who have not previously met. Two of them have come through a succession of relatively smart office jobs, but are now trying their hands at being self-employed. The third has held a responsible position in the catering industry, but is currently unemployed.Two of them begin the evening in the apartment that one of them rents. They drink a bottle of sparkling wine and a bottle of white wine. While drinking, they also get through two grams of cocaine, snorting it in lines two at a time about every twenty minutes. They meet the third in a bar later on, and drink several rounds--perhaps half a dozen--of spirits with mixers. At around 2 A.M., they go on to another late bar, where one of them knows that drugs can be bought quite easily. Within minutes, they are offered ecstasy by a complete stranger. Following some gentle haggling over the price, they buy two tablets.Outside the bar, a group of elderly bikers is selling amphetamine. They buy two grams of that as well. Back at the flat, they divide the tablets into six fragments and take two each. There is a further half gram of cocaine to finish, and the two grams of amphetamine. Whilst ingesting the drugs, they drink a further six bottles of sparkling wine between them over the course of the night. At 10 A.M., without having slept, they venture out into town again and, after lolling on public benches for a while, go to a bar and embark on a round of bottled beers.This is not exactly a typical weekend. It counts in the running narrative of their leisure time as something of a blinder. None of them suffers much in the way of aftereffects. There is, to be sure, the sense of vacuumed-out listlessness that follows prolonged amphetamine intake. Two of them have acutely constricted sinuses, a compensation reaction to cocaine-snorting. None has an alcohol hangover. They are all fit and fully functioning again by Monday.In a paneled room in the nether regions of one of Oxford University's more ancient colleges, a group of graduates and undergraduates that forms its illustrious debating society gathers. The room is lit solely by candlelight, lending the proceedings a vague air of masonic clandestinity, but only intended in the interest of a period feel, to evoke the time of the seventeenth-century poet-playwright after whom the society is named.An oak cabinet, stained with age, and referred to as the Ark, is solemnly placed on the table around which the group is assembled. From it is drawn, with ecclesiastical reverence, a large two-handled pewter sconce. All eyes are trained on the president of the society as she fills this vessel to the brim with strong beer. Raising it above her head as if it were the Communion cup, she intones a Latin invocation of greeting to the foregathered company that ends with the solemn announcement, Nunc est bibendum (Now is the time for drinking).The sconce is then passed slowly around the table, each celebrant gripping it by both handles and uttering a Latin formula in honor of the household gods of the society's patron presence, before drinking a respectfully deep draught of the beer and handing it on.Following this, a short talk on some agreeably nebulous moral theme is delivered--Honor, perhaps, or Forgiveness--and then the entire table sets to with a will, arguing over the points raised in convivial disarray, untrammeled by presidential intervention, and lubricated by copious quantities of wine and vintage port. At whatever time the room must be vacated, the members will totter away across the quadrangle, still disputing with each other in amiable inebriation, perhaps straggling into the nearest pub to continue their exchanges, assertions and refutations thickening the already smoke-dense air.At such august institutions did many of Britain's parliamentarians once cut their debating teeth, thumping the drunken table to make their point about Pride or Altruism, quite as if it mattered. (In the mid-1980s, the group's president was herself the daughter of a Scottish member of the European Parliament.) But what particularly fascinated the parvenu guest, with his alternative haircut and redbrick degree, was the way in which drinking was not merely an incidental adjunct to make a lively evening the more commodious, but had been ceremonially incorporated into the ritual so integrally that teetotalers need not have applied. The Platonic dialogue flowed precisely from the sacred rite of intoxication, so that the meeting became a dialectical drinking-session, a far more dignified proceeding than colleagues getting slaughtered in the nearby Bull and Pennant were engaged in. Without alcohol, the society's disputations would have been aridly futile.There are around two dozen subsidized bars in the British Houses of Parliament.A pair of dining companions scrutinizes the menus in a smart, trendsetting restaurant in a European capital city. One has opted to begin with the tempura-battered strips of calf's liver with pomegranate cream dressing, and go on to herb-crusted rack of lamb with Provencale vegetables. For the other, it will be quail terrine with red-currant relish and rocket, and to follow, poached perch with a sauce of lemon and capers. Now for the tricky business.That dressing on the liver might present problems for a light white wine, and without knowing precisely how sharp it will be, the choice is something of a matter of stumbling in the dark. A crisp New Zealand Sauvignon might stand up to it, and cut any residual oiliness in the batter, but then, what of the quail terrine? Surely that needs a meatier white, even a light red? The merits of a sturdy white Burgundy are discussed, but the proposal is soon relinquished. An excess of oak would suit neither dish. Eventually, a compromise bottle is found. The weight and extract in a grand cru Gewurztraminer from Alsace will cope with the battered liver, and is a gastronomically unimpeachable match with any kind of terrine. The first bottle can safely be ordered.How, though, to find a vinous chameleon to blend with both red meat and white fish? That way, gustatory madness lies. Pinot Noir might suit a densely textured fish like tuna, but could crush the delicacy of a river fish, while lacking the tannic heft required to stand up to lamb. The rich buttery sauce with the perch will happily negotiate the fleshiness of a Barossa Valley Chardonnay, but even that wine, with its layers of oak and alcohol, is just too white for rare red meat. An apposite half bottle each would be the obvious answer, were the list not so lamentably deficient in them. After much fretful chewing of bread, and flipping of pages back and forth, the issue is imperfectly resolved in favor of a bottle of cru classe Pauillac, the gameplan being that the fish-eater will be left the lion's share of the Gewurztraminer to go with the perch (which means drinking the same wine with two courses, alas), but will nonetheless be able to help finish the claret with some cheese. Now the logistics of it must be explained to the sommelier, so that he doesn't overserve the Gewurztraminer to the lamb-eater during the hors d'oeuvre.In certain wine circles, food and wine matching has reached the status of an investigative science. A wine periodical convokes a bunch of journalists and wine-makers to pick wines to go with a succession of dishes, the linking theme of which is strawberries. There is goat cheese with strawberries, swordfish with strawberries, duck livers with strawberries in balsamic vinegar, and a strawberry and white chocolate gateau. A forest of opened bottles clutters the table as the panel searches earnestly on behalf of the magazine's subscribers for the precise wine to marry with each dish. At the Fetzer winery in Mendocino County, California, there is a dedicated school devoted to this pursuit, where interested parties may enroll to spend studious days tasting and conferring. Is Sauvignon a better match than Chenin for the acid bite of sorrel, or is its up-front fruitiness more obviously suited to watercress? Then again, it depends on the dressing...What all these scenarios are about is the alteration of consciousness. The use of illegal drugs, being a minority pursuit within society at large, is not subject to quite the same complex elaborations that drinking is; the various plant substances have been disconnected from their deep ritual histories by transplantation into Western economies and their quarantining by legal restrictions, while synthesized laboratory chemicals such as amphetamine have never had them. Alcohol, by contrast, has accrued over the millennia a rich and almost infinitely diverse set of symbolic contexts in which it may be taken, whether the aim be celebratory, consolatory, medicinal, scholastic, sacramental or gastronomic. What motivates our involvement with all intoxicants, however, is what they do to us. That may range across a spectrum from gentle tipsiness to stupefied collapse, from mild mood-heightening to gasping elation, from slight drowsiness to barely conscious narcosis, from faint dissociation to full-on hallucinogenic psychedelia. Sometimes the spectrums may be superimposed one on top of the other as substances are combined. The point is, nearly all of us will be somewhere along one of these spectrums for a significant part of our lives. And we always have been, depending on what was available, right back to Paleolithic times.It is only in the last few years, however, that the subject of intoxication has come to be addressed in any systematic way. Part of the reason for this is that nobody is officially supposed to have any experience of the substances listed in the American Controlled Substances Act, the Brit... --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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Little tragedies Pushkin's four dramatic scenes in verse, known as The Little Tragedies, are skillfully translated by Anderson, an independent scholar. Written in 1830, these pieces include "The Miserly Knight," "Mozart and Salieri," "The Stone Guest," and "A Feast During the Plague." The theme of inner conflict dominates them all. Compared with Vladimir Nabokov's 1944 translation of three of the tragedies, Anderson's are more fluid, with flexible meters that will please contemporary English readers. The use of short scenes makes these translations suitable for acting. The translated text consists of only 66 pages; in addition, Anderson provides a scholarly introduction, four critical essays on each of the tragedies with line-by-line interpretations, and brief commentaries and notes for each tragedy. The book provides refreshing reading and scholarly research in one. Recommended for all academic and large public libraries.DMing-ming Shen Kuo, Ball State Univ. Lib., Muncie IN Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Paperback edition. "Anderson's project, with its conscientious approach to both poetic translation and scholarly annotation as forms of art, is very exciting. It should become the standard edition of Pushkin's Little Tragedies in English." Caryl Emerson, Princeton University --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Nancy K. Anderson is an independent scholar in New Haven, Connecticut. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Three lives for Mississippi The only complete on-the-scene account of the heinous Freedom Summer murders in Mississippi --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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Prisoner of grace,: A novel In the words of his biographer, Alan Bishop, Joyce Cary (1888-1957) was 'a prolific, independent, wide-ranging writer with a place in three literatures (English, Irish, Nigerian) difficult to categorize because his writing integrates the traditional and experimental.' He was difficult to categorize which probably explains why his reputation is not more secure. However he was undoubtedly a major novelist of the twentieth century, and in acknowledgement of that Faber Finds is reissuing twelve of his works - Mister Johnson, Herself Surprised, To Be a Pilgrim, The Horse's Mouth, A Prisoner of Grace, Except the Lord, Not Honour More, Castle Corner, Charley is My Darling, A House of Children, The Moonlight and A Fearful Joy. The Horse's Mouth remains Joyce Cary's most famous novel but this extensive reissue programme will demonstrate to readers this is only one of many equally successful, challenging but entertaining works in his canon. Although never fashionable, Joyce Cary has always had his admirers: 'This novelist has exemplified the rule that when a writer dies, he or she may suffer a lapse in attention. You say to someone "Joyce Cary" and they say "Who?". Amazing! He was a marvellous writer, fresh, funny and popping with life.' Doris Lessing 'A splendid writer' John Updike 'Whenever I am idle I choose a Cary novel in the way that I might seek a friend's company, and it is not long before I am encouraged, inspired to write.' Paul Theroux 'To find a novelist who saw more deeply and conveyed more truly you have to go back to Dostoievsky and Tolstoy, Balzac and Goethe, Mann and Hesse ... What makes him a life enhancer is the overwhelming sense the reader gets from him that the universe, for all its horrors and inexplicabilities, makes sense - obvious and glorious sense.' Bernard Levin --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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Miles From Dublin 1 The Black Rougue / Brian O'Lynn / The Woods of Old Limerick 2 Over The Moore to Maggie 3 The Thing That Fell Off The Kettle 4 The Stranger / The Crooked Road To Dublin / The Wasp Reel 5 Sean Reid's / Untitled Reel / The Belles of Tipperary 6 The Snowy Path / The Foxhunter's Jig (Nead Na Lachan) 7 Come Thou Font of Every Blessing 8 Arkansas Traveler / Fisher's Hornpipe / Woodchopper's Reel 9 Killanan's Fancy / Pour The Coffee 10 The New Land 11 Ships are Sailing / The Mouth of the Tobique 12 My Darling Asleep / The Humors of Trim 13 Be Thou My Vision / Saint Margaret's Reel (St. Mary's) 14 Paddy Fahey's Reel (No. 15) 15 The Butterfly / To Limerick We Will Go 16 Planxty George Brabazon 17 Out On the Ocean / Paidin O'Rafferty
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Color Mixing Workbook for Watercolors Many artists use this color reference book when working, knowing that they have produced each of the wide range of hues themselves, using their chosen paints. Confidence in mixing increases rapidly as the exercises are completed.The fact that any color, however subtle, can be reproduced without hesitation will help overcome any problems onced faced. I designed this workbook for the use of artists' already using my book 'Blue and Yellow Don't Make Green'. The printed color mixing exercises from that book can be created in this workbook. Once completed you will have a reference of the colors produced using your own chosen paints, rather than relying on the limitations of color printing. When working either in the studio or out of doors you can look up any of the hundreds of colours that you have pre-mixed and immediatly discover how to produce the required hue. Michael Wilcox has experienced a widely varied background, including periods as a professional artist, a conservator of art works and an engineer. During his research towards a Post Graduate Diploma in Art and Design he spent equal time within the Art and Science Departments, studying light physics in relation to the needs of the artist. His original research led to the book "Blue and Yellow Don't Make Green", which has changed the way countless artists now mix and use their colors. This publication was followed by "The Wilcox Guide to The Best Watercolor Paints", the book which led to the many recent changes in the pigments used in artists paints. The 2000 update of this book will be available in September 2000. Further books, such as, "The Artists Guide to Selecting Colors", specialist mixing palettes, paints, workbooks and courses were then developed and the School of Color was formed on an international basis, with centers in the USA, UK and Australia.The School will continue to develop, based on a firm belief that art and science must once again come together. The first time that they assisted each other led to the Renaissance, the second to the Impressionists. What will the third merger bring? We develop with the help of concerned artists and art teachers world wide. The needs of the artist always coming first.
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The Fairacre Festival (The Fairacre Series #7) Miss Read (1913-2012) was the pseudonym of Mrs. Dora Saint, a former schoolteacher beloved for her novels of English rural life, especially those set in the fictional villages of Thrush Green and Fairacre. The first of these, Village School, was published in 1955, and Miss Read continued to write until her retirement in 1996. In the 1998, she was awarded an MBE, or Member of the Order of the British Empire, for her services to literature. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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Operation Chaos (Doubleday science fiction) "One of science fiction's most revered writers." --USA Today"Operation Chaos was one of the truly fine fantasies of the 1970s, a fantasy whose magic was so splendidly engineered that you felt it was as logical--and as likely--as our real technology." --Harry Turtledove, author of Between the Rivers"Anderson has produced more milestones in contemporary science fiction than any one man is entitled to." --Stephen R. Donaldson"One of science fiction's masters." --Starlog --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. "Operation Chaos was one of the truly fine fantasies of the 1970s, a fantasy whose magic was so splendidly engineered that you felt it was as logical--and as likely--as our real technology."--Harry Turtledove, author of Between the Rivers --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Poul Anderson was one of the most prolific and popular writers in science fiction. He won the Hugo Award seven times and the Nebula Award three times, as well as many other awards, notably including the Grand Master Award of the Science Fiction Writers of America for a lifetime of distinguished achievement. With a degree in physics, and a wide knowledge of other fields of science, he was noted for building stories on a solid foundation of real science, as well as for being one of the most skilled creators of fast-paced adventure stories. He was author of over a hundred novels and story collections, and several hundred short stories, as well as several mysteries and nonfiction books. He died in 2001. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Operation ChaosIIt was Sheer bad luck, or maybe their Intelligence was better than we knew, but the last raid, breaking past our air defenses, had spattered the Weather Corps tent from here to hell. Supply problems being what they were, we couldn't get replacements for weeks, and meanwhile the enemy had control of the weather. Our only surviving Corpsman, Major Jackson, had to save what was left of his elementals to protect us against thunderbolts; so otherwise we took whatever they chose to throw at us. At the moment, it was rain.There's nothing so discouraging as a steady week of cold rain. The ground turns liquid and runs up into your boots, which get so heavy you can barely lift them. Your uniform is a drenched rag around your shivering skin, the rations are soggy, the rifles have to have extra care, and always the rain drums down on your helmet till you hear it in dreams. You'll never forget that endless gray washing and beating; ten years later a rainstorm will make you feel depressed.The one consolation, I thought, was that they couldn't very well attack us from the air while it went on. Doubtless they'd yank the cloud cover away when they were ready to strafe us, but our broomsticks could scramble as fast as their carpets could arrive. Meanwhile, we slogged ahead, a whole division of us with auxiliaries--the 45th, the Lightning Busters, pride of the United States Army, turned into a wet misery of men and dragons hunting through the Oregon hills for the invader.I made a slow way through the camp. Water ran off tents and gurgled in slit trenches. Our sentries were, of course, wearing Tarnkappen, but I could see their footprints form in the mud and hear the boots squelch and the tired monotonous cursing.I passed by the Air Force strip; they were bivouacked with us, to give support as needed. A couple of men stood on guard outside the knockdown hangar, not bothering with invisibility. Their blue uniforms were as mucked and bedraggled as my OD's, but they had shaved and their insignia--the winged broomstick and the anti-Evil Eye beads--were polished. They saluted me, and I returned the gesture idly. Esprit de corps, wild blue yonder, nuts.Beyond was the armor. The boys had erected portable shelters for their beasts, so I only saw steam rising out of the cracks and caught the rank reptile smell. Dragons hate rain, and their drivers were having a hell of a time controlling them.Nearby lay Petrological Warfare, with a pen full of hooded basilisks writhing and hissing and striking out with their crowned heads at the men feeding them. Personally, I doubted the practicality of that whole corps. You have to get a basilisk quite close to a man, and looking straight at him, for petrifaction; and the aluminum-foil suit and helmet you must wear to deflect the influence of your pets is an invitation to snipers. Then, too, when human carbon is turned to silicon, you have a radioactive isotope, and maybe get such a dose of radiation yourself that the medics have to give you St. John's Wort plucked from a graveyard in the dark of the moon.So, in case you didn't know, cremation hasn't simply died out as a custom; it's become illegal under the National Defense Act. We have to have plenty of old-fashioned cemeteries. Thus does the age of science pare down our liberties.I went on past the engineers, who were directing a gang of zombies carving another drainage ditch, and on to General Vanbrugh's big tent. When the guard saw my Tetragrammaton insigne, for the Intelligence Corps, and the bars on my shoulders, he saluted and let me in. I came to a halt before the desk and brought my own hand up."Captain Matuchek reporting, sir," I said.Vanbrugh looked at me from beneath shaggy gray brows. Hewas a large man with a face like weathered rock, 103 percent Regular Army, but we liked him as well as you can like a buck general. "At ease," he said. "Sit down. This'll take a while."I found a folding chair and lowered myself into it. Two others were already seated whom I didn't know. One was a plump man with a round red face and a fluffy white beard, a major bearing the crystal-ball emblem of the Signal Corps. The other was a young woman. In spite of my weariness, I blinked and looked twice at her. She was worth it--a tall green-eyed redhead with straight high-cheeked features and a figure too good for the WAC clothes or any other. Captain's bars, Cavalry spider ... or Sleipnir, if you want to be official about it."Major Harrigan," grumfed the general. "Captain Graylock. Captain Matuchek. Let's get down to business."He spread a map out before us. I leaned over and looked at it. Positions were indicated, ours and the enemy's. They still held the Pacific seaboard from Alaska halfway down through Oregon, though that was considerable improvement from a year ago, when the Battle of the Mississippi had turned the tide."Now then," said Vanbrugh, "I'll tell you the overall situation. This is a dangerous mission, you don't have to volunteer, but I want you to know how important it is."What I knew, just then, was that I'd been told to volunteer or else. That was the Army, at least in a major war like this, and in principle I couldn't object. I'd been a reasonably contented Hollywood actor when the Saracen Caliphate attacked us. I wanted to go back to more of the same, but that meant finishing the war."You can see we're driving them back," said the general, "and the occupied countries are primed and cocked to revolt as soon as they get a fighting chance. The British have been organizing the underground and arming them while readying for a cross-Channel jump. The Russians are set to advance from the north. But we have to give the enemy a decisive blow, break this whole front and roll 'em up. That'll be the signal. If we succeed, the war will be over this year. Otherwise, it might drag on for another three."I knew it. The whole Army knew it. Official word hadn't been passed yet, but somehow you feel when a big push is impending.His stumpy finger traced along the map. "The 9th ArmoredDivision is here, the 12th Broomborne here, the 14th Cavalry here, the Salamanders here where we know they've concentrated their fire-breathers. The Marines are ready to establish a beachhead and retake Seattle, now that the Navy's bred enough Krakens. One good goose, and we'll have 'em running."Major Harrigan snuffled into his beard and stared gloomily at a crystal ball. It was clouded and vague; the enemy had been jamming our crystals till they were no use whatsoever, though naturally we'd retaliated. Captain Graylock tapped impatiently on the desk with a perfectly manicured nail. She was so clean and crisp and efficient, I decided I didn't like her looks after all. Not while I had three days' beard bristling from my chin."But apparently something's gone wrong, sir," I ventured."Correct, damn it," said Vanbrugh. "In Trollburg."I nodded. The Saracens held that town: a key position, sitting as it did on U.S. Highway 20 and guarding the approach to Salem and Portland."I take it we're supposed to seize Trollburg, sir," I murmured.Vanbrugh scowled. "That's the job for the 45th," he grunted. "If we muff it, the enemy can sally out against the 9th, cut them off, and throw the whole operation akilter. But now Major Harrigan and Captain Graylock come from the 14th to tell me the Trollburg garrison has an afreet."I whistled, and a chill crawled along my spine. The Caliphate had exploited the Powers recklessly--that was one reason why the rest of the Moslem world regarded them as heretics and hated them as much as we did--but I never thought they'd go as far as breaking Solomon's seal. An afreet getting out of hand could destroy more than anybody cared to estimate."I hope they haven't but one," I whispered."No, they don't," said the Graylock woman. Her voice was low and could have been pleasant if it weren't so brisk. "They've been dredging the Red Sea in hopes of finding another Solly bottle, but this seems to be the last one left.""Bad enough," I said. The effort to keep my tone steady helped calm me down. "How'd you find out?""We're with the 14th," said Graylock unnecessarily. Her Cavalry badge had surprised me, however. Normally, the only recruitsthe Army can dig up to ride unicorns are pickle-faced schoolteachers and the like."I'm simply a liaison officer," said Major Harrigan in haste. "I go by broomstick myself." I grinned at that. No American male, unless he's in holy orders, likes to admit he's qualified to control a unicorn. He saw me and flushed angrily.Graylock went on, as if dictating. She kept her tone flat, though little else. "We had the luck to capture a bimbashi in a commando attack. I questioned him.""They're pretty close-mouthed, those noble sons of ... um ... the desert," I said. I'd bent the Geneva Convention myself, occasionally, but didn't relish the idea of breaking it completely--even if the enemy had no such scruples."Oh, we practiced no brutality," said Graylock. "We housed him and fed him very well. But the moment a bite of food was in his throat, I'd turn it into pork. He broke pretty fast, and spilled everything he knew."I had to laugh aloud, and Vanbrugh himself chuckled; but she sat perfectly deadpan. Organic-organic transformation, which merely shuffles molecules around without changing atoms, has no radiation hazards but naturally requires a good knowledge of chemistry. That's the real reason the average dogface hates the technical corps: pure envy of a man who can turn K rations into steak and French fries. The quartermasters have enough trouble conjuring up the rations themselves, without branching into fancy dishes."Okay, you learned they have an afreet in Trollburg," said the general. "What about their strength otherwise?""A small division, sir. Yo... --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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The Bad This is one of the hottest rock and roll albums to come out of Chicago, proving that blues rock is still alive and well. The Bad was formed around mid 1998 by three friends from the western suburbs of Chicago and a short time later began producing their first album - self titled "The Bad". The Bad is the self titled premier of those rockers from Chicago, heavy blues, rock, and reggae influences permeate their unique sound. If you like Jimmy Buffet, Genesis, Asia, or Tom Petty, you'll probably love The Bad.
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Sidi Dominator 5 Lorica® Mountain Bike Shoes (Black) (39.5) The Dominator 5 Lorica is tougher than leather. Durable, water-repellent, and highly abrasion resistant. It's no surprise that it's Sidi's most popular mountain shoe. Competition Sole. Soft Arch Compression Strap. Ultra SL Buckel. High Security VELCRO. Padded tongue w/ fit relievers. Molded Plastic Heel Cup. Toe Spike Compatible.
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B0006QS01E
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Murder on the Iditarod Trail In this enthralling debut mystery, someone is killing the dogsled racers competing in Alaska's internationally famous Iditarod race. Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an alternate Mass Market Paperback edition. YA-- Contending with the elements in running the grueling Iditarod from Anchorage to Nome is difficult enough, but when three sledders are killed, the two-week race truly becomes a survival test. The cruel beauty of snow, ice, and mountains is breathtakingly captured and adds to the adventure and excitement of Henry's story. A little romance between a Canadian Mountie and one of the mushers produces an irresistible tale. Consider booktalking this with Gary Paulsen's Dogsong (Bradbury, 1985).- Pam Spencer, Thomas Jefferson Sci-Tech, Fairfax County, VACopyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. After three "accidental" deaths early in the running of the torturous Iditarod Trail (from Anchorage to Nome) dog sled race, Alaskan police and race officials step up efforts to prevent further mayhem. State trooper Alex Jensen, single, brooding, handsome, and adept with physical evidence, falls upon the puzzling events with relish, comparing lists, visiting checkpoints, searching sled cargoes, etc. Consulting with race participant Jessie Arnold, he learns some of the inside facts, experiences delaying blizzards, and becomes emotionally attached. Incredible descriptions of scenery, in-depth knowledge of the sport, glimpses of life in the Alaskan hinterland, and incipient romance all contribute to an absorbing read.Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. 7 cds --This text refers to the Audio CD edition. Sue Henry, whose award-winning Alaska mysteries have received the highest praise from readers and critics alike, has lived in Alaska for almost thirty years, and brings history, Alaskan lore, and the majestic beauty of the vast landscape to her mysteries. Based in Anchorage, she is currently at work on the next book in this series. --This text refers to an alternate Mass Market Paperback edition.
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B000J0B2FI
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National Brand Columnar Sheets, Debit/Credit/Balance Columns, Green Paper, 9.25 x 11.875 Inches, 100 Sheets (18453) Columnar sheets with debit, credit and balance columns. 30 lines. 100 sheets. Side-punched. Glued binding allows for easy separation of sheets. Eye-Ease green paper with brown and green ruling. Numbered lines and columns. Recycled with a minimum of 30% post-consumer content. Acid-free paper and vegetable oil based inks.
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B0002ATAIQ
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Four Paws, Pet Dental Finger Brush Recommended by veterinarians as an effective means of removing food particles and plaque from pet s teeth and gums. The thimble style brush makes the hard to reach teeth more accessible.
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