Diving and Asphyxia : A Comparative Study of Animals and Man

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The Unofficial Guide to California with Kids (Unofficial Guides)
Colleen Dunn Bates , and Susan LaTempa
Manufacturer: Frommers
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Fun Places to Go With Children in Northern California: 9th Edition over 350 Listings, Completely Revised and Updated

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ASIN: 0764569554

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From the publishers of The Unofficial Guide® to Walt Disney World®

"A Tourist's Best Friend!"
—Chicago Sun-Times

"Indispensable"
—The New York Times

The Top 10 Ways The Unofficial Guide to California with Kids Can Help You Have the Perfect Trip:

No-nonsense advice on how to plan a trip the whole family will enjoy, from parents to tots and teens
A complete sourcebook for first-time visitors or long-time residents, whether you're planning a day trip, a long weekend, or an entire vacation
Insider advice on what to look for in lodging, with area recommendations
Every attraction rated and ranked for each age group
Detailed information on family-friendly restaurants through-out California
The inside scoop on the best beaches for children
Complete coverage of California's natural attractions and the best outdoor adventures for families
Suggestions on where to bike, camp, hike, kayak, snorkel, water-ski, and whale-watch
Insider advice on how to have big-time fun without spending big-time money
Special tips for single parents, grandparents, and travelers with disabilities

Get the unbiased truth on hundreds of hotels, restaurants, attractions, and more in The Unofficial Guide to California with Kids—the resource that helps you save money, save time, and make your trip the best it can be.

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Planning a trip with twin, toddler boys just got easier!.......2007-05-15

With toddler twin boys that we love to take on many trips, this book has become a wonderful guide for us. We always wonder if a place we might like to go would be appropriate for our young sons, and with this book in our hands, we can find out. In addition, it has given us some ideas on places to take them, that we did not know about or had not considered. A must have for families that plan to spend a lot of time checking out all California has to offer.

Could Be Better. Disappointing!.......2003-03-05

I have the first edition of this book, and when I first moved to the LA area, it was great to have...but, I find it lacking a lot now that I know more about the area. It doesn't mention the Huntington Gardens, or the Rose Bowl, or Descanso Gardens (cool tiny train that runs on weekends)or other kid friendly venues. I found the restaurant listings useless...rest's are everywhere, and I tend not to make one a special destination when I'm on a daytrip!

I recommend getting an up-to-date California guidebook (Lonely Planet or some such) and decide where to go based on your child's and your inclinations, and ignore the ubiquitous malls that you can find anywhere in country.

Has Good and Bad Points.......2003-01-28

Good Points: Give good descriptions of attractions, including an estimate of how long you'll want to spend, and practical issues like availablity of food/strollers/etc.
Good descriptions of natural sights (beaches, parks) as well as man-made attractions.

Bad Points: Seems to take a very narrow view of what kids are going to enjoy. Why assume that no child is capable of enjoying an art museum? Or, as the authors states flatly, that kids hate scenery, and that your teen would much rather stay home with his friends than actually travel with his family? (Author suggests spending time at the local malls if you are travelling with teens!) Or that kids won't eat anything but hamburger-based kid's menus?
Given that the book is covering a large geographic area, and given the author's abovementioned narrow view of 'kid-friendliness', many important attractions aren't mentioned at all.
Only a few accomodations recommendations are given, and most are very expensive.

(This review, incidently, applies to all the books in this series; California, Florida, and Washington DC).

Be a tourist in your own backyard.......2003-01-21

I live in southern California, and this book has inspired countless Saturday family outings. I had no idea what was in my own backyard! It is fabulous to have someone's advice on what is worth spending the time, with kids, in traffic for. We have loved this book-and hope to find a similar one when we move to Philadelphia!

Very Helpful book.......2002-07-16

I am just planning a trip and this has been very easy reading to get the planning started.

Disneyland & Southern California with Kids: The Unofficial Guide (Fodor's Disneyland & Southern California with Kids)

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Kim Wright Wiley
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The Unofficial Guide to California with Kids (Unofficial Guides Ser.)

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The Unofficial Guide to California with Kids (Unofficial Guides Ser.)
Colleen Dunn; LaTempa, Susan Bates
Manufacturer: Macmillan Publishing Company
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ASIN: B000O95SWC

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This riveting eyewitness report—including dramatic photos—takes readers right to the scene of the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island.

March 28, 1979: It was 4 a.m. at the nuclear power plant on an island in
the middle of the Susquehanna River. Suddenly, an alarm shrieked. Something was wrong inside the plant. Within minutes, human error and technical failure triggered the worst nuclear power accident in the United States, and, within hours, the eyes of the world would be on Three Mile Island. Thirty-four years after the bombing of Hiroshima, the crisis at Three Mile Island re-awoke the world to the dangers of nuclear power, and now, in MELTDOWN, Wilborn Hampton tells the hour-by-hour story of covering the accident as a U.P.I. reporter. His riveting eyewitness account will compel readers to consider one of the most serious questions facing humankind: where can we find affordable, sustainable energy, and at what risk?

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About Being A Reporter, Not About TMI........2006-05-05

This book was written by a man who, as he himself admits, knew virtually nothing about nuclear power. He provided almost no technical details of what happened or why. He honestly didn't even manage to convey the suspense surrounding the accident.

I would say that this is not a good book about TMI. However, it is a good book about being a reporter covering a major breaking news story. It copied a number of the newspapr stories the author wrote at the time, so it is a good study of how reporters spin events and condense a day's experience into a few column inches.

Bent on emotion, not facts.......2005-07-07

Anytime a book about TMI or even Chernobyl begins with a discussion about the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I'd advise readers to run away. That's like telling the reader up front that oranges and hand grenades belong in the same fruit basket.

Mr. Hampton makes it clear up front that he was not qualified to investigate nor write about TMI and its technical details (he was a foreign news reporter who "flunked physics in college"), but does so anyway in a sensational and biased way. He spends less than a chapter actually writing about the accident, then gets many of the details wrong or discusses them at a level that would make one believe the keystone cops were at work that March 1979 morning. The rest of the book is primarily spent discussing the debates and feelings of a misinformed public and politicians who in many cases were more interested in headlining than information.

For a reader who really wants to understand what happened at TMI on March 28, 1979, I'd strongly suggest reading "The Warning" by Mike Gray and Ira Rosen. That book accurately guides the reader through the facts leading up to the TMI event, the state of a fledgling industry that did not know how to communicate to regulators, engineers, and stakeholders, the actual details of the accident and how it could have easily been avoided, and a level-headed view of the aftermath.

Buy two copies of "Meltdown" and throw them both away. You'll be doing someone a favor.

A very personal story about reporting.......2004-07-05

There is very little information in this book to aid a scientific evaluation of the Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant accident. In the case of Three Mile Island, what happened might be described as an accident more truly than in the case of Chernobyl, where stupidity became a more obvious factor in the series of events leading up to the accident. It should not be unusual, now, for Americans to have some opinions about mistakes that were made in the design and testing of Chernobyl Unit No. 4, particularly after seeing how much of the building surrounding it was destroyed on April 26, 1986, as shown in the picture on page 80 of this book, at the start of Chapter 11. Blowing the top off the reactor was the first clue the operators had that they needed to call some fire departments to help battle the blaze. Wilborn Hampton does not give a definite temperature for what happened at Chernobyl, or at Alamogordo, New Mexico on July 16, 1945 (p. 3), or at Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945, or at Nagasaki three days later (p. 4), but "It was estimated that the temperature at the point the bomb exploded exceeded 10,000 degrees. Heat engulfed the city." (pp. 4-5).

The efficiencies of producing electrical power from heat and steam seem to improve as temperatures rise above what a plant burning coal would produce, but the danger that human beings will misunderstand what is happening in such situations is one of the most frightening aspects of dangerous situations that people do not know how to control. The first of the problems reported at Three Mile Island were some unusual radiation leaks. Page 18 shows a March 30 story by Richard D. Lyons (Special to the New York Times) that described "large amounts of water containing small amounts of radioactivity" released by "the almost new generating plant." The element of human error involved in the situation might be due to that:

"Because of the radioactive water and gas within the containment building, no one was able to go back inside Unit No. 2 to make an assessment of the damage. All they had to go on was information transmitted from instruments that might have been damaged by the accident. When Miller ordered readings taken on the amount of heat and the level of radiation that were building up inside the reactor, the results were so high--one showed that the temperature in the top of the reactor was over 4,000 degrees--that he thought the equipment was simply malfunctioning and so he discounted them." (p. 25)

It was hot, and a large hydrogen gas bubble at the top of the reactor's core suddenly became the major technical fact that most of the drama from page 30 on makes people start to worry about a meltdown. Conflicting stories in the press about the possibility of a hydrogen explosion kept Harold Denton, Joseph M. Hendrie, Roger Mattson, and Victor Stello arguing until there was a press conference after midnight that announced President Jimmy Carter would visit Three Mile Island the next day. (p. 61). Even Rosalynn was on the old yellow bus that took them to the island. The major scientific revelation is the description of the argument that was going on at the same time:

"The radiolysis was not producing new oxygen that might trigger the hydrogen bubble. Some of the water in the reactor was indeed separating into hydrogen and oxygen molecules, but because there was so much extra hydrogen, the oxygen was constantly combining with it to form back into water. The bubble was, in effect, a built-in self-defense against an explosion." (p. 66).

After the bubble shrank from 1,000 cubic feet to about fifty cubic feet, a radiation level of 30,000 rems an hour inside the containment building was announced, lethal enough to make shutting it down an expensive problem. The UPI article by Wilborn Hampton shown on page 72 reports the comments of George Boyer, the 76-year-old owner of a general store "just across the street from the bridge that leads to Three Mile Island and its crippled nuclear plant. . . . During the years of building the nuclear plant, Boyer's store was a hangout for the hundreds of construction workers. . . . `I remember everything went real smooth on No. 1 -- no problems at all,' he said. `But No. 2 (the reactor that malfunctioned), there were always problems.' "

Sometimes things work, and sometimes there ought to be a way to go back to the beginning and do it right, but that never happens. There are a few reports of human error in this book and problems with valves that didn't seem quite as important as that general sense that when things weren't going right, at least someone was willing to describe the system as stable.

Richie's Picks: MELTDOWN.......2002-10-08

God bless my public library. I'm curled up in front of my computer at 6:30 A.M., marshaling my thoughts about nuclear power--a topic which monopolized my life for several years during the late 1970s--and I'm wondering how I can locate a copy of Amory Lovins' seminal essay on energy in the October 1976 issue of Foreign Affairs. Turns out it takes just five little key-steps from my library's homepage ..., and I am able to view a pdf file of the 32 page article! I utilized that article, "Energy Strategy: The Road Not Taken," back then as the foundation to my own argument--that the electricity from the twin nuclear power plants, then proposed for eastern Long Island, was unnecessary.

If our years of protests and legal intervention hadn't already killed plans for constructing those twin nuclear plants, they were officially pronounced dead after the nation spent a scary few days awaiting the outcome of events in Middletown, Pennsylvania.

MELTDOWN: A RACE AGAINST NUCLEAR DISASTER AT THREE MILE ISLAND, by Wilborn Hampton, is a great introduction for young adults about what it's like to be a journalist. More importantly, it's a chronicle by a journalist on the scene of the events at Three Mile Island in the spring of 1979, where we got lucky--a catastrophe that would far outweigh that of 9-11 was narrowly averted. A full understanding of the extent of that potential disaster can only be grasped when viewed in relation to the 1986 nuclear catastrophe at Chernobyl, which is the subject of MELTDOWN's final chapter:

"There is no official death toll for Chernobyl. At the time, the Soviet government reported that 31 people died in the accident. But since the breakup of the Soviet Union, more honest assessments of the extent of the tragedy have come out. The Ukraine, which is now an independent nation, has aid that more than 4,300 people died there. Nearly all the firemen who battled the blaze that first night are now dead, most from cancer or other radiation-related illnesses...Deaths among the soldiers and workers who built the concrete shell around the [damaged and contaminated] reactor are estimated to number at least 6,000...

"The land around the Chernobyl plant is a wasteland. Ukrainian officials say that 160,000 square kilometers [approximately 62,000 square miles] were contaminated with radioactive fallout at a level forty times greater than the level of radiation that Hiroshima or Nagasaki received from the first atomic bombs...Pripyat is now a ghost town...Bulldozers have buried most of the houses, and the old apartment blocks are deserted, the possessions of the former inhabitants too radioactive to reclaim...

"In Gomel, a town about sixty miles north of Chernobyl that received perhaps the heaviest concentration of radioactive fallout, the local orphanage is full of infants and young children as a result of what has become an epidemic of birth defects now being born to women who received large doses of radiation."

A young adult reading such awful facts and considering the root causes of why such potentially catastrophic technology is "necessary" may well be a young adult who, at the very least, decides to turn off their light the next time they leave the room.

Furthermore, MELTDOWN provides a comprehensible introduction to nuclear power for the young adults who are growing up facing the world's aging inventory of nuclear power plants--and the ever-increasing quantities of highly radioactive nuclear waste from those power plants (which has been a hot topic just this past week).

Common sense dictates that many of these plants will need to be abandoned in the not-so-distant future. Face it: it's one thing for me to keep my 1980 Datsun station wagon on the road, but I can afford to have something break down on it. (Actually that thought makes me a bit nervous.) We expect someone to be watching out for us when it comes to such things as geriatric commercial airliners. But who is going to going to make the decisions regarding the antiquated nuclear plants that currently produce such a significant portion of our nation's electric supply? MELTDOWN gives young adults a head start on considering this dilemma.

Its readability and the significance of the subject matter, combined with a fine glossary and a list of recommended resources, make MELTDOWN: A RACE AGAINST NUCLEAR DISASTER AT THREE MILE ISLAND a must-have. It provides today's young adults an opportunity for examining a pivotal episode from our energy past and an incentive for contemplating their energy future...

A Good Sense of What Was Going On At The Time.......2002-06-18

Wilborn Hampton was assigned by UPI to cover the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island nuclear plant near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Mr. Hampton has done a fine job at portraying the confusion of the experts, the contradicting conclusions drawn from the same material in Washington DC and at the plant as well as the high anxiety level that all this created in nearby towns and counties.

I lived near the plant at the time of the accident and was one of the children evacuated because of the impending doom. I remember well the confusion surrounding what was going on. No one seemed to know for sure what was going to happen and some experts came right out and admitted so. Mr. Hampton has portrayed these feelings well and while reading the book you can see why. With behind the scene knowledge and of course hindsight the writer has produced an excellent book on the public events that this area went through. This book is not too technical but touches on how close we actually were to a meltdown, something still at debate in many circles.

This book is good for young teens on up. It should be read by anyone who is interested in history, nuclear power or even how big corporations treat teh surrounding communities and the local and state governments. There is much more that can be read on the subject but this is a very interesting book and good place to start.

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La serie Pro-Graphcs, dirigida a diseñadores y estudiantes, expone una serie de ejemplos de diseño contemporáneo procedentes de todo el mundo, con información detallada sobre los informes de los clientes y la realización de los proyectos.

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A well-rounded, complete starting point for antiques.

Know Your Antiques: How to Recognize and Evaluate any Antique, Large or Small, Like An Expert, Revised Edition
Ralph Kovel , and Terry Kovel
Manufacturer: Random House Reference
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Release Date: 1980-12-10

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A well-rounded, complete starting point for antiques........1997-04-29

This is an excellent summary of the wide world of antiques -- from needlework to American Art Pottery, nails and screws to Carnival glass. This is not a price guide; rather, this volume summarizes the whats, whens, wheres, and hows of the material culture of our past. Especially noteworthy is that the information included deals both with American and Canadian objects.The book is organized by material: silver, pewter, needlework, toys, etc. Throughout, quick "expert tips" are printed in all capital letters, making them stand out. Extensive information on changes in style over time, as well as makers' marks, are included.Drawbacks: The book is somewhat dated, in that it covers primarily items popular to collectors in 1973 (the date of the volume reviewed). Missing is information on items such as razors, thimbles, needle cases, etc. Also missing is any information on ivory, bone, and tortoiseshell objects, to name a few. Regardless of these minor shortcomings, this volume will be a valuable addition to the library of antique collectors, historical archaeologists, and any others interested in material culture.

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On the third day, according to the Bible, God created plants. It wasn't until creation was nearly done that He created Man. Thus, the importance of the plants, trees, herbs, and seeds in the divine shame of things was established early on; and, indeed, the fruitfulness of their yielding led to the expulsion from the Garden of Eden and to the necessity of man's cultivating the earth to bring forth flowers, and food to sustain himself and succeeding generations. Combining history with practical gardening information, this informative volume investigates more than forty plants mentioned in the bible. Mr. Swenson quotes the Biblical passage in which each plant appears and then gives easy-to-follow advice on how to grow it in your own house or garden. Fill with practical gardening know-how while reminding the reader of the spiritual side of the miracle of plants: "As you sow your seeds and plant your trees, you too are a part of the continuing creation of life and beauty. We are all, in fact, gardening with God.

Plants of the Bible and How to Grow Them

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This digital document is an article from Renaissance Quarterly, published by Renaissance Society of America on December 22, 2001. The length of the article is 820 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: Practising Reform in Montaigne's "Essais" & "D'une fantastique bigarrure": le texte composite a la Renaissance. (Reviews).
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The merengue is internationally recognized as the Dominican Republic's national dance. It is an integral and unifying element of Dominican identity both within that nation and among emigrants abroad. Although Dominicans often make the claim that merengue has always been in their blood, the dance is relatively young, and its popularity among Dominicans of all social classes and ages is an even more recent occurrence.

This book presents three convincing arguments about the merengue's longevity as a unifying symbol of Dominican identity: Dominican identity and the merengue have necessarily been extremely fluid in order to encompass the different cultural and ethnic groups present; historically, the merengue has become a stronger identity symbol when the nation is or is perceived to be threatened from outside; and the white, Catholic, Hispanic Dominican has long been held as the "true" Dominican identity, causing the dance to become progressively "whitened" in terms of performers and style to reflect this notion and gain wider appeal at home and abroad. A map of the Dominican Republic, related photographs of key figures of Dominican history and merengue artists across the decades, and a complete bibliography are included.

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Blanche White, Barbara Neely's smart, queen-sized, middle-aged African American sleuth, is a no-nonsense dame who's carrying some old baggage when she takes the summer off from cleaning houses for rich Boston matrons and returns to her North Carolina hometown. Almost a decade ago, Blanche was raped by David Palmer, scion of the town's leading family. Although she never brought charges against him, Blanche hasn't forgiven or forgotten. Now Palmer's sister is engaged to a sweet, mildly retarded young man for whom Blanche has a deep affection. When asked by his guardian to investigate the girl by using her connections with the domestics who know everything about the private lives of the town's most prominent families, Blanche sees an opportunity to bring the man who raped her to justice. The fact that he's been implicated in the murder of another woman makes revenge an even sweeter prospect.

What's most interesting about this lively series is the point of view of its heroine, a woman with a strong and clearly depicted perspective on the uneasy truce between blacks and whites in American society. Neely has created a true original in Blanche. With every new outing in this snappy series(Blanche Cleans Up, Blanche Among the Talented Tenth, Blanche on the Lam), she peels back more layers to reveal her heroine's emotional depths, her hard-earned wisdom, and her difficult but ultimately rewarding connection with the people she loves. Add love, hate, race, and homicide to Neely's expert characterizations, and you get a great read from a terrific, award-winning writer. --Jane Adams

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In Blanche Passes Go, Barbara Neely once again displays the talent Essence calls "a force to be reckoned with." Blanche White, her maid-cum-snoop extraordinaire, has had enough of Boston and housecleaning for an uppity Brahmin clientele. Time to check things out back home in Farleigh, North Carolina. But Farleigh holds old demons for Blanche, including the man who once raped her, now implicated in the murder of a young girl. A second corpse, a zigzag trail of clues, a brace of good old boys, and Blanche's mother, Miz Cora--who taught her everything she knows about attitude--soon have Blanche busy unraveling all the mysteries of love, hate, and homicide.

"You have never met a mystery protagonist like Blanche White. Middle-aged, queen-sized, and feisty, she redefines the black sleuth . . . Strong, principled, and resolute. . . ."-- Cleveland Plain Dealer

"One is tempted to describe Blanche White as a combination of Miss Marple and Easy Rawlins . . . but it would be a crime to suggest that she is anything less than a truly original creation."-- Los Angeles Times

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Blanche Come BACK.......2007-02-18

Blanche come back!!!! I love the Blanche series. Barbara Neely has a way of pulling you into the book. Excellent story and mystery. PLEASE, PLEASE Ms. Neely, do another Blanche mystery.

Collect [money amount].......2003-08-14

I am no mystery lover. I think I overdosed on Nancy Drew when I was growing up and seeing as how I am not now nor ever was a blue-eyed titian haired rich girl, I wish Blanche had been around even then. I adore the respect of The Ancestors the author injects into each of the Blanche tales and the ease that she allows the story to unfold. It's as if the story writes itself. This was anything but predictable and formulaic. What held me is that throughout the book I often forgot there was something sinister going on. The author used the south as a backdrop and the attitudes and notions that are still very much alive today served as a captivating and thoughtful undercurrent. I think Blanche is here to stay.

refreshingly different.......2001-08-03

Barbara Neely has created a refreshingly different, unconventional detective in Blanche White. Blanche is a large, very dark woman who refuses to be limited by the conventions of culture, whether black or white. She strives to be her own person, to know her own mind and heart, and to find ethical solutions to the dilemmas in her life, even if those solutions are outside standard operating procedures.

I recently discovered Neely's Blanche, and I've devoured all the books in the series. These are entertaining tales, filled with life-wisdom, laughter, and mouth-watering descriptions of good meals prepared and eaten. Blanche is a brand-new character in mystery fiction. Invest some time in getting to know her!

This should be on your summer reading list........2001-06-25

Blanche is truly a self confident woman. She doesn't take any mess yet still shows the everyday human frailties we all possess. Barbara Neely's characters are well written from Blanche, the main character, to the culprit. Each is just complex enough to be believeable.

In this second in the Blance series, Ms. Neely continues her easy and inviting pace that keeps the reader wondering and wanting more. A definite page turner!

Blanche is at it again She indeed Passes Go.......2000-12-09

Barbara Neeley in Blanche Passes Go has yet written another supurb black feminist text. What makes this so well written is you don't realize the issues are so deep and multi leveled as you are in the process of reading the book. She is able to give many classic examples of class race and sex in terms of abuse of the black american women. She also has the ability to bring you in to the mystery even if mystery is not your favorate spear. She has dead folks all around with, Carolina catering recipes abounding in the book my mouth was watering. She solves a mystery but more importanly, why do men abuse women? Rape, physical as well as mental abuse are also examined. The silence these women must suffer are explored. Read it is great.

100 Hikes in Washington's South Cascades and Olympics: Chinook Pass, White Pass, Goat Rocks, Mount St. Helens, Mount Adams (100 Hikes In...)

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Hike with the Best
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100 Hikes in Washington's South Cascades and Olympics: Chinook Pass, White Pass, Goat Rocks, Mount St. Helens, Mount Adams (100 Hikes In...)
Ira Spring , and Harvey Manning
Manufacturer: Mountaineers Books
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In this completely revised edition, hikers of every skill level will find 100 daytrips and overnight backpacks from the high altitude of the South Cascades to the stunning peaks and valleys of the Olympics, to the shores of the Pacific Coast.

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Hike with the Best.......2001-12-09

No one, and I mean no one, knows the trails of the Pacific Northwest like Ira Spring and Harvey Manning. Whether you are looking for advice on a brutal five day hike-a-thon over the toughest terain, or a family-friendly afternoon hike to introduce your outdoors passion to family or friends, they have been there and done that, with and without the kids or the crampons. The directions are always clear, concise, and accurate. The photos belong in a glossy coffee table book, not a guide book. Maybe there are individual books that are better at an individual trail, but for a sure thing every time, go with Spring and Manning!

Fine starter book..........1998-09-07

It is a little rough around the edges. Many of the directions in the book are unclear, and make finding the trail difficult. Also the series needs to improve on emphasing the difficulty of some hikes. I have met many people on the trail that thought the 6 mile hike at 3800 ft increase in elevation was not going to be too bad. The author should note on these hike the experience the hiker should have.

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Publisher: Saddle Pal Creations Inc., Cantwell, Alsaka, USA A journey into the Alaskan wilderness and back in time to the exciting Gold Rush days of 100 years ago.

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Doing the White Pass
Howard Clifford
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Binding: Paperback

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Gateway to Gold: Skagway, The White Pass, & The Chilkoot Trail, Past and Present

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Gateway to Gold: Skagway, The White Pass, & The Chilkoot Trail, Past and Present
Marina McCready
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This book has beautiful historic photos of Skagway, the White Pass, & the Chilkoot Trail.

A geologic road log over Chinook, White Pass, and Ellensburg to Yakima highways (Information circular - State of Washington, Division of Geology and Earth Resources ; 54)

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A geologic road log over Chinook, White Pass, and Ellensburg to Yakima highways (Information circular - State of Washington, Division of Geology and Earth Resources ; 54)
Newell P Campbell
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Gold Rush Narrow Gauge: The Story of the White Pass and Yukon Route

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Gold Rush Narrow Gauge: The Story of the White Pass and Yukon Route
Cy Martin
Manufacturer: CA Trans-Anglo Books.
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000OBEPWY

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Gold Rush Narrow Gauge

Gold rush narrow gauge: The story of the White Pass and Yukon Route
Cy Martin
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Binding: Unknown Binding

White Pass: Gateway to the Klondike

ASIN: 0870460269

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Gold Rush Narrow Gauge.......2000-04-10

This is the best book I have found covering a general history of the White Pass & Yukon Route. Included is the history of the gold rush, the building of the WP&Y, and railroad operations up to the book's publication date in the early 1960's. Numerous black & white photos are included covering the gold rush, steam and diesel engines, freight cars, railroad buildings and yard layouts. The back material contains a roster of steam and diesel engines,with a page of notes explaining a brief history of the engines; a biblography and an index.

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