DUCKS: Art, Legend, History (The Bulfinch Library of Collecibles )

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Walk on a glacier near Juneau, kayak through a fjord, gorge yourself at an outdoor fish bake, cast your line for Alaska king salmon or find yourself in the company of whales—Fodor's Alaska Ports of Call 2006 offers all these experiences and more! Our local writers have traveled throughout the region to find the best hotels, restaurants, attractions and activities to prepare you for a journey of stunning variety. Before you leave for your trip be sure to pack your Fodor's guide to ensure you don't miss a thing.

The San Francisco Chronicle sums it up best —"Fodor's guides are saturated with information."

- We update our Alaska Ports of Call guide every year. You won't find a more accurate, current guidebook anywhere.
- Unlike other travel books, Fodor's guides rely heavily on local experts who know the territory best.
- We give you the planning tools you need to tailor your trip. We give options for all budgets. You make the choices.

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With Fodor’s you get much more than a guidebook–we make it easy for you to customize your dream vacation.

Visit www.fodors.com to find up-to-date travel bargains, mini-guides to worldwide destinations, information on local festivals, dazzling drives, maps, vacation planning tips and much more!

And, for more insider secrets, visit “Travel Talk” and “Rants and Raves” online at www.fodors.com/forums to get advice from other travelers like you.

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Compact and Concise Tool.......2006-03-12

Having already chosen our cruise, we looked for a compact guidebook that focuses on the ports we will visit this summer. Fodor's Alaska Ports of Call is an excellent choice for those who have already chosen their cruise. Descriptions of the cruise lines and ships are minimal in comparison to other Alaska cruise guides such as Frommer's. However, there is ample information on what to expect once aboard your ship and how to prepare for the cruise. For the individual ports of call, there are concise and helpful descriptions of the cities, sights, excursions available, and restaurants. With the limited time available in each port, this guide will assist traveler in understanding the highlights to prioritize their time. The book is small and lightweight making it an ideal guide to take along on the days off the ship.

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Read over & over-now getting hardback!.......2007-09-20

This book is fantastic! We have a paperback copy but it has been read over and over and has been taped & retaped so we need a hardback book to keep going!My two children ages 2 and just 6 have read this book for the past year or so and both love it! My older one loves to hear about the different states and name them by their shape. My 2 year old loves to find the state birds and other wildlife on the pages! I strongly recommend this book especially in hardback!!

Celebrate the 50 States.......1999-12-21

This book has some pretty interesting geography facts. I liked the fact that Amelia Earhart was born in Kansas. A browser's delight of United States geography facts in a captivating picture book format. It has excellent color illustrations, and would recommend this one to the 2nd grade through the 4th grade levels, as well as the teachers.

The Naval Postgraduate School celebrates 50 years in computing. : An article from: CHIPS

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The Naval Postgraduate School celebrates 50 years in computing. : An article from: CHIPS
Christine Cermak
Manufacturer: U.S. Navy
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This digital document is an article from CHIPS, published by U.S. Navy on January 1, 2005. The length of the article is 1619 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The Naval Postgraduate School celebrates 50 years in computing.
Author: Christine Cermak
Publication: CHIPS (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2005
Publisher: U.S. Navy
Volume: 23 Issue: 1 Page: 18(2)

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Celebrate the 50 States! (1999) First Edition

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Celebrate the 50 States! (1999) First Edition
Loreen Leedy
Manufacturer: Holiday House
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ASIN: B000M68QVM

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Over 200 royalty-free illustrations: mothers holding, feeding, bathing infants; babies in car seats, playpens, strollers, more. 69 motifs — each in 3 sizes.

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The Ultimate Cats' Catalog pokes fun at the concept of cats as consumers. Products offered in this mock catalog range from the silly to the grotesque, with hilarious full-color photographs and illustrations.From the comfort and convenience of her own home, kitty can order the Endless Curtain, a set of 500-foot-long drapes mounted on a roll that will enable her to have a continual supply of fresh curtain on which to sharpen her claws. Or she may choose the Temperature-Controlled Mouse Cellar, perfect for storing dead dry-iced mice under ideal conditions to keep them fresh for months on end, offered in a variety of sizes and configurations. Glamour-Cat© Whisker Extensions will appeal to any cat's vanity, as they are available in multiple colors and come in Alley Cat or Vamp lengths. And for the carrion connoisseur who's stuck in the city, the Urban Cat's Roadkill Press adds "real highway taste and texture" to the catch of the day. In a world where cat owners can actually buy such real products as Halloween costumes, greeting cards, and gourmet baked goods created just for felines, The Ultimate Cats' Catalog is a hilarious, tongue-in-cheek gift for people who indulge their cats.

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Someone Who Really Understands Cats.......2007-04-04

I loved this mock catalogue and everyone I've shown it to loves it also! For the cat lover this is a hoot, and each time I read it over I see something else funny that I missed! A great gift!

A MUST READ for Cat fanciers and devotees.......2004-06-27

A very funny book. I'm not even a Cat person and I think it's great. Ray Strobel has a great sense of humor and a deep understanding of the Cat "mind". I'm hoping a dog book will be next on his list. Makes a great gift for any Cat lovers on your shopping list.

The Ultimate Cat Catalog.......2004-06-20

Funny,funny book.Great gift idea for all your cat lover friends with a sense of humor.If they didn't have a sense of humor before they got the book they will have one after they recieve this book.

The Ultimate Cats' Catalog.......2004-06-02

After reading the book, I bought several copies and gave them as gifts to several of my cat loving friends. I could not believe how funny it is.

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Whether placed in a window, beside the bed, or illuminating the dining table as an elegant centerpiece, glass candle holders provoke a rich symbolism of home, comfort, and welcome. Today, these beautiful candle holders capture the eye of many a collector. With over 500 photographs of single, double, and triple candle holders, all listed alphabetically by manufacturer, this book proves the ideal guide to identification, dating, and valuation of your prized candle holders. The book blends style and origin, providing a comprehensive survey of candle holders by major manufacturers such as Beaumont, Cambridge, Fenton, Duncan & Miller, Jeannette Glass, Morgantown, New Martinsville, and Portieux of France with Art Nouveau, Art Deco, Depression era, and modern examples.

Glass Candle Holders: Art Nouveau, Art Deco, Depression Era, Modern

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Glass Candle Holders: Art Nouveau, Art Deco, Depression Era, Modern
Paula Pendergrass
Manufacturer: Schiffer Publishing, Ltd.
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000MHMWVQ

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Whether you prefer to admire your tulips in the garden or in the house, there are literally thousands of varieties to choose from. Delicate, naturally occurring species tulips, flamboyantly ruffled Parrot tulips, mysteriously colored Viridiflora tulips, and the large blooms of Triumph tulips are just a few of the dazzling possibilities. Whatever your taste, there will be a tulip just for you.

This beautiful and informative book, with more than seventy breathtaking photographs, captures the essence of this enchanting flower, tells its history, celebrates its popularity, and reveals why it has entranced and intrigued people for centuries.

Clay Perry’s stunning photography is accompanied by practical text with guidance on successful tulip growing, and a multitude of suggestions for making the most of tulips in the garden. For those who are new to the world of the tulip as well as people who are already converts, Tulip will delight, inform, and inspire.

Tulip - 70 Stunning Varieties Of the World's Favorite Flower

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Tulip - 70 Stunning Varieties Of the World's Favorite Flower
Dobbs Liz
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OTJZJY

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How to explain juvenile delinquent behaviour in the Japan of the nineties? Are its reasons really fundamentally different from those in other societies?

Juvenile Delinquency in Japan, written by leading Japanese and German scholars, for the first time looks comprehensively into the phenomenon. It does so from a variety of disciplines; law, sociology, education, and Japanese studies. Thus it explores the legal provisions, conditions of schooling, family life, and social change in society as a framework for understanding delinquent behaviour in Japanese high school students.

It becomes clear that reasons for delinquency are the same in Japan as in other societies. Fundamentally different, however, are the high sensitivity to delinquent behaviour and the tremendous efforts to prevent nonconformist behaviour.

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Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail" is arguably the most important written document of the civil rights protest era and a widely read modern literary classic. Personally addressed to eight white Birmingham clergymen who sought to avoid violence by publicly discouraging King's civil rights demonstrations in Birmingham, the nationally published "Letter" captured the essence of the struggle for racial equality and provided a blistering critique of the gradualist approach to racial justice. It soon became part of American folklore, and the image of King penning his epistle from a prison cell remains among the most moving of the era. Yet as S. Jonathan Bass explains in the first comprehensive history of King's "Letter," this image and the piece's literary appeal conceal a much more complex tale.

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One MLK Jr. Holiday, I See More Need for Peacemakers!.......2005-01-18

All who lived during those momentous years of Southern turmoil of 1960's were greatly impacted by the laws of desegregation of the white churches and schools. As one renews his/her commitment to religious and social justice, it brings into focus our recent tragedies of Ruwanda, Iraq, Thailand, and Indonesia! Upon my own return to Professor Bass's BLESSED ARE THE PEACEMAKERS, I easily conjure up my perennial pictures of his accounts of eight white Ministers, their churches and families being turned inside/out or upside/down by Southern racial injustice.

In Bass's easy reading, documented, and dramatically illustrated account of eight white ministers' appeal for law, order, common sense, before and after the reception of MLK Jr's, "Letter From Birmingham Jail," I was transported back to 1963; Into mid-1965 when Earl Stallings became both my Pastor and my Good Friend! In spite of persistent segregationist pressure, not once did Earl consider turning black vsitors away from First Baptist Church of Birmingham. "If the people came to worship," Stallings wrote days after the incident "we had no Christian justification for closing our doors...if they came to provoke an incident, we were determined to have no part in this action."

Since 1954 the FBC maintained an open-door policy for any black visitors. From an early distinguished Pastor J T Ford, followed by Guy Sloan and Grady Cothen and Earl Stallings they reaffirmed that policy! Yet on the morning after they welcomed the first black visitors, newspapers all over the country printed large photographs of a cheerful Earl Stallings shaking hands with the black visitors. They included both the NEW YORK TIMES and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution!

From my perspective or from Prof. Jonathan Bass's perpspective, it appears that he gave a deeper account of the introspective thoughts or words of Earl Stallings, than from the other white ministers! Since MLK's Letter referred to outstanding persons' writing: Ralph McGill, Harry Golden, James McBride Dobbs, Ann Braden, Lillian Smith, and Sarah Patten Boyle, it seems that the author added deserving comments beside the eight pictures of those Ministers. Next to Earl Stallings picture he quoted his recent sermon: "We hear the call of truth, of righteousness, of justice, but we are not men enough to heed its challenge!"

From 1965 thru 1975 in his next pastorate, I often needed Earl's commitment to equality and social justice, as when I chose music of Fred Waring's "Easter Story of Black Spirituals" over Church dissent: "It's getting much too close for those Black threats of violence in our streets of Marietta on Good Friday, April 8th of 1968!" That same evening for the Good Friday Worship we had a full house with a few black families present! Retired Chaplain Fred W Hood

A Special Delivery Letter.......2001-06-26

It was just a letter written by a man in jail, on behalf of his race, attempting to address the social injustice of the time-right? Wrong! Martin Luther King's Letter From the Birmingham Jail is much more compelling, and the circumstances surrounding its final composition more complex than the average person knows. Ostensibly written to the eight white clergymen of the embittered and embattled steel city, it was intended for a much wider audience-namely the media and the American public. Blessed Are the Peacemakers provides the reader with individual profiles of the eight and their struggles of conscience as they saw an old social order collapse. What has been taken as the almost spur-of-the-moment reflections of Martin Luther King, in jail for civil disobedience, turns out to be a document much longer in the making and more calculated in its delivery. This disclosure in no way detracts from its rightful place in American folklore or its power in fueling Civil Rights Movement. Rather, it helps us understand the care with which the deep conviction of racial rights was presented. The book is not an apology for the eight clergy, some of whom were more progressive than others, but it does provide much needed insight for the serious student of history into the complex struggles, powerful emotions, and vitrolic attacks perpetrated on even the most moderate voices of the white clergy. What it does not do, of course, is speak of the many white clergy of lesser rank who paid a much higher price for their fight for justice for their black brothers and sisters. Still, to read about these eight leaders, (Roman Catholic, Episcopalian, Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, and Jewish) and their struggles is instructive. As an Alabama-born, white clergy expatriate from that period, marginally involved in the Civil Rights Movement, I hung on every word. These are reflections that should help black and white readers alike better understand this turbulent period. Statements from the eight white clergy as well as King's Letter are included in the appendix.

Black Churches and Local Politics: Clergy Influence, Organizational Partnerships, and Civic Empowerment

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Black Churches and Local Politics: Clergy Influence, Organizational Partnerships, and Civic Empowerment
R. Drew Smith , and Fredrick C. Harris
Manufacturer: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
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ASIN: 0742545229

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This edited collection on black churches and urban politics uses case studies of ten cities to examine the strategies and tactics of activists, black clergy, and congregations. These case studies illustrate how black activist clergy and congregations negotiate the political terrains of their respective cities. The cases show that the political culture of a city--whether that culture is shaped by machine politics, a legacy of political protest, racial and ethnic factionalism, or a city whose power resides in the mayor's office rather than the city council chamber--can influence the tactics of activist clergy and congregations.

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Writers Notes 2004 Book Award Winner

New Leadership into the 21st Century
Yahya Ibn Shabazz
Manufacturer: Xlibris Corporation
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Binding: Paperback

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Writers Notes 2004 Book Award Winner.......2005-04-28

Modern recorded history was penned by the last great conquerors and carried into the new millennium by the English-speaking world. With facts and compelling arguments, Mr. Shabazz makes the case that black history needs to be rewritten and, in many cases, written into the common lexicon for the first time.

Prophesying Daughters: Black Women Preachers and the Word, 1823-1913

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Revealing look at four strong churchwomen

Prophesying Daughters: Black Women Preachers and the Word, 1823-1913
Chanta M. Haywood
Manufacturer: University of Missouri Press
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0826214673

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In nineteenth-century America, many black women left their homes, their husbands, and their children to spread the Word of God. Descendants of slaves or former "slave girls" themselves, they traveled all over the country, even abroad, preaching to audiences composed of various races, denominations, sexes, and classes, offering their own interpretations of the Bible. Chanta M. Haywood examines these autobiographies of Jarena Lee, Julia Foote, Maria Stewart, and Frances Gaudet, four women preachers who endured many hardships because of their religious convictions, to provide new insight into the nature of prophesying.

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Revealing look at four strong churchwomen.......2003-10-05

The years leading up to the Civil War and the ones that preceded it were a time of great change in America. In those pre-days, some recently freed slaves, as well as those in bondage, were covertly and overtly expressing their religious beliefs and their political views on their condiditon of servitude.

These four remarkable women were vocal in their opposition to the male hierarchy of the church, the "expected" role of women in the body of believers, and the confines of slavery as imposed on African-Americans. Such opposition to the "norm" made the women less than popular in many circles; however, they stood steadfast and eventually, through their nationwide travels, brought many to their respective church folds.

Dr. Hayward showcases each woman, offering her analyses of their respective writings/sermons. There are also glimpses of the women's personal lives and the burdens their travels placed on their families.

I wish, however, that the book had included more of the women's words, in contrast to the author's interpretation and explanation of them.

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When assessing the legacy of black intellectuals in the 20th century there has been a general tendency to overlook the impact of black religious leaders. In Black Religious Intellectuals and the Fight for Equality from the Age of Jim Crow to the Dawn of the 21st Century, Professor Clarence Taylor sheds some much-needed light on the rich intellectual and political tradition that lies in the black religious community. From the Pentecostalism of Bishop Smallwood Williams and the flamboyant leadership of the Reverend Al Sharpton, to the radical Presbyterianism of Milton Arthur Galamison and the controversial and mass-mobilization by Minister Louis Farrakhan, black religious leaders have figured prominently in the struggle for social equality in America.

Taylor shows how black leaders were able to carve out a space for religion as part of a progressive political agenda. Examining leaders from diverse religious and political backgrounds, he reveals the complex and innovative ways that black religious notions were continually reworked and reconstructed to accommodate the communities they served.

In the tradition of Cornel West, Hazel Carby, and Harold Cruse, Taylor gives us a valuable, though-provoking work that credits black church leadership for its important role in not only the fight for equality but also in shaping intellectual thought in this country.

Leader's Guide: Letters To Young Black Men

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Leader's Guide: Letters To Young Black Men
Daniel Whyte III , Jamie McCallum , and Charles Garrett
Manufacturer: Torch Legacy Publications
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ASIN: 0978533372

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Since the original release of Letters to Young Black Men, many have suggested that the book should have a companion study guide so that church leaders, counselors, and small group leaders could have a resource that would help guide young men through this timely book. The companion guide for Letters to Young Black Men is made up of twenty sessions and is designed for individuals as well as small groups. Each chapter does the following: Expounds on the principles laid out in Letters to Young Black Men Provides questions for discussion Gives a summary of each chapter This study guide for Letters to Young Black Men serves as a valuable resource. In it you'll follow the original book, chapter by chapter, and begin to genuinely progress on the success journey. This study guide features over 100 questions adapted from Letters to Young Black Men in a format that lets you write your answers directly onto its pages. An answer section allows you to check your work.

Martin Luther King, Jr: Civil Rights Leader (Black Americans of Achievement)

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Martin Luther King, Jr: Civil Rights Leader (Black Americans of Achievement)
Robert E. Jakoubek , and Heather Lehr Wagner
Manufacturer: Chelsea House Publications
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Black Religious Leaders
Paris
Manufacturer: Westminster John Knox Press
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A. Philip Randolph: The Religious Journey of an African American Labor Leader

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A. Philip Randolph: The Religious Journey of an African American Labor Leader
Cynthia Taylor
Manufacturer: New York University Press
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0814782876
Release Date: 2005-12-01

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"Finally we have a book that seriously examines the religious views of one of the most important figures in modern American history as well as the black freedom struggle."
—Clarence Taylor, author of Black Religious Intellectuals: The Fight for Equality from Jim Crow to the Twenty-first Century

A. Philip Randolph, founder of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, was one of the most effective black trade unionists in America. Once known as "the most dangerous black man in America," he was a radical journalist, a labor leader, and a pioneer of civil rights strategies. His protegé Bayard Rustin noted that, "With the exception of W.E.B. Du Bois, he was probably the greatest civil rights leader of the twentieth century until Martin Luther King."

Scholarship has traditionally portrayed Randolph as an atheist and anti-religious, his connections to African American religion either ignored or misrepresented. Taylor places Randolph within the context of American religious history and uncovers his complex relationship to African American religion. She demonstrates that Randolph's religiosity covered a wide spectrum of liberal Protestant beliefs, from a religious humanism on the left, to orthodox theological positions on the right, never straying far from his African Methodist roots.

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Study Guide: Letters To Young Black Men
Daniel Whyte III , Jamie McCallum , and Charles Garrett
Manufacturer: Torch Legacy Publications
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