Nepenthes of Sumatra and Peninsular Malaysia

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Rick Geary received quite a bit of critical praise for his Jack the Ripper volume of A Treasury of Victorian Murder, and rightfully so. The Borden Tragedy (the third volume in the series), is no less impressive. Based on the famous 19th-century Lizzie Borden double murder, this comic-book version of the event is supposedly excerpted and adapted from the unpublished writings of an unknown woman from the Borden's hometown of Fall River. The narrator, a friend of Lizzie Borden, is intent on finding out all of the facts behind such a grizzly butchering. We are taken through meticulously researched evidence, all stunningly illustrated by Geary, but Geary leaves us without taking a strong stand one way or the other. As an extra treat, the back cover includes a list of comparisons between Lizzie Borden and O. J. Simpson.

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³Lizzie Borden took an axe, gave her mother forty whacks, when she saw what she had done, she gave her father forty-one!² In this third volume of Geary¹s Treasury, the famous Lizzie Borden double murder is explored with as much attention to well -researched detail as in his Jack the Ripper.

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good.. but not enough dialogue.......2007-08-20

best part is on the back cover where it compares oj simpson to the borden girl! very fun book to read although id have put more dialogue in it. but it does cover the murders nicely.

The Tragedy in a Nutshell.......2006-10-19

This is an illustrated novel to provide a quick tour of this famous unsolved crime. The `Bibliography' fails to list David Kent's "Forty Whacks", the one best book on this case. Geary's book necessarily skims over the details; there are no page numbers. If Abby was called to the front door to receive a note would the door still be triple-locked as at night? The position of Andrew on that sofa shows how he was found; he must have been sitting upright (try it and see). The drawing of the barn omits the stairs to the second floor. Geary sums up the arguments for Lizzie's innocence, and covers the other solutions from other authors.

The wounds on Andrew's skull suggest a right-handed killer who faced him; or a left-handed killer who struck while Andrew was reclining. Abby's killer would have to be right-handed to hit her right side of her head from the back; or left-handed if she faced the killer. This is one of the puzzles of this crime. The question about Andrew "apparently fallen over from a sitting position" can be explained by Andrew putting on his shoes to greet a secret visitor. Lizzie was guilty of withholding the identity of this visitor. But her actions were approved by the members of the Fall River ruling class. The back cover compares Lizzie Borden to O.J. Simpson on a number of similarities. The last item about "any other individual" points to an unknown subject given the lack of evidence against either (no bloody clothes or shoes, no murder weapon). Somebody else did it. It would be more accurate to compare Dr. Sam Sheppard to Lizzie. Both were at the crime scene, neither had blood spatter on their clothes or the murder weapon. Both were correctly found not guilty, but suffered from prejudice for the rest of their lives.

You can read about other True Crime cases. If no one in the household did the murder, it was an intruder (or unknown subject). The Borden murders was solved in Arnold Brown's book: it was a nephew of Andrew. Lizzie kept this secret to avoid a scandal. Members of the Fall River ruling class knew, and also kept this secret (except to acknowledge it was a secret). Arnold Brown spent two years researching his book. That was more time than the professional writers used. Brown admits he has no documentary proof for his conclusion, the nephew's birth certificate is kept secret by Massachusetts' laws. There can be no documentary proof of the Mellen House Gang conspiracy because a secret is never committed to paper (else it is not a secret). Brown believes the conflict was over Andrew's will. But a will does not require an heir's presence. Andrew did business from his home, he often made loans to people and foreclosed on their property when they couldn't pay. I believe the secret visitor was there to explain why he could not repay a loan that was due. There are many stories of murder for money in True Crime. Remember the loan from Dr. Parkman to Dr. Webster?

Very, very good.......2006-05-27

Rather than read a single book that "solves" the Borden killings (there's a new solution every few years), you should get a copy of this. This book beautifully outlines the ambiguity of the Borden scenario, leaving the reader with both the sense that noone but Lizzie could have done it, AND that there's simply no way she could have done it. This book clearly and beautifully lays it all out for you. With his expert eye Geary's illustration-diagrams clarify things in a way that even a movie can't. The wierd layout of the Andrew Borden house has never been more clear than in his cut-away illustration.

Noone understands like Geary, the usefulness to a reader of foregrounding the factual information, which leaves you in a position to think more critically about the events. I find his books to be the most useful authority for getting my head around the facts and movements of the suspects, moreso than in the non-fiction books covering the same topic. Geary's best books bring the crime scenes and milieus vividly back to life. His calm, methodical sequencing of the surrounding events lends an operatic and important scale to some tawdry murders. They are perfect for reading just before bedtime.

Did She Or Didn't She?.......2005-10-04

I enjoyed reading the history of Lizzie Borden following a 10 km walk in Fall River, MA. I walked by her original home and also saw her home on French Street where she lived after she was acquitted at her trial. This home is now a bed and breakfast and the Innkeeper also filled me in on the details of the home and the crime.

You'll learn a lot about history in this time period as well as Fall River and Lizzie's family.

popular and delightful.......2005-08-05

This is a short but entertaining comic book rendition of the Borden saga. The story is told in really well-done black-and-white drawings which will be especially appreciated by those who like their story told in pictures.

David Rehak
author of "Did Lizzie Borden Axe For It?"

The New Epicurean & The Adventures of a School-Boy: Two Tales from the Victorian Underground

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The New Epicurean & The Adventures of a School-Boy: Two Tales from the Victorian Underground
Anonymous
Manufacturer: Grove Press
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The art of painting in the Queen's reign;: Being a glance at some of the painters and paintings of the British school during the last sixty years

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The art of painting in the Queen's reign;: Being a glance at some of the painters and paintings of the British school during the last sixty years
A. G Temple
Manufacturer: Chapman and Hall
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Athleticism in the Victorian and Edwardian Public School (Sport in the Global Society, 13)

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Athleticism in the Victorian and Edwardian Public School (Sport in the Global Society, 13)
J. A. Mangan
Manufacturer: Frank Cass
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Games obsessed the Victorian and Edwardian public schoools. The obsession has become known as athleticism. This is a study of the games ethos which dominate the lives of many Victorian and Edwardian public schoolboys.

Crochet Victorian Doll Costumes for 15" dolls (American School of Needlework #1099)

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Crochet Victorian Doll Costumes for 15" dolls (American School of Needlework #1099)
Jan Hatfield
Manufacturer: American School of Needlework
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Binding: Pamphlet
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The families and genera of Victorian plants

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The families and genera of Victorian plants
University of Melbourne. Botany School
Manufacturer: University of Melbourne Botany School
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ASIN: B000LYL3J2

Geison: Michael Foster & the Cambridge School of Physiology: the Scientific Enterprise in Late Victorian Society

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Geison: Michael Foster & the Cambridge School of Physiology: the Scientific Enterprise in Late Victorian Society
G L GEISON
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Grammar School Course in Cookery
Philadelphia Public Schools
Manufacturer: Philadelphia Public Schools
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Home and School (Life in Victorian Times)

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Home and School (Life in Victorian Times)
Neil Morris
Manufacturer: Belitha Press Ltd
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A Guide to Ecstacity
Nigel Coates , Marcus Field , Brian Hatton , and Theodore Zeldin
Manufacturer: Princeton Architectural Press
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S M L XL: Second Edition

Transmaterial: A Catalog of Materials that Redefine our Physical Environment

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Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century

ASIN: 1568984243

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Monograph, manifesto, travelog, history, autobiography, novel--A Guide to Ecstacity is a bit of all of these things. The brainchild of British architectural visionary Nigel Coates, it asks us to reimagine the city as a dynamic hybrid of inventive design and cross-cultural political empowerment. Produced in the spirit of Rem Koolhaas's S,M,L,XL, it is a palimpsest of the real and the hypothetical, with fragments of seven cities from around the world--Cairo, London, Mumbai, New York, Rio, Rome, and Tokyo--woven together into one multifaceted urban fabric.
In addition to extensive documentation of architecture and product design by Coates's own groundbreaking firm--Branson Coates Architecture--A Guide to Ecstacity features projects by Norman Foster, Future Systems, Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas, Daniel Libeskind, Philippe Starck, and Bernard Tschumi. Presented in a remarkable package created by the design firm Why Not Associates in close collaboration with Coates, these varied works form a fascinating kaleidoscope of metropolitan culture and suggest how the city of tomorrow might be transformed by a proactive architectural community that embraces the challenge of designing for a multicultural world.

Nigel Coates: Designs on the City (Cutting Edge)

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Colorful, but overdone graphically and chaotic; no tech. drawings

Nigel Coates: Designs on the City (Cutting Edge)
Jonathan Glancey
Manufacturer: Watson-Guptill Publications
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0823012115

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Colorful, but overdone graphically and chaotic; no tech. drawings.......2005-09-03

CONTENTS:
Introduction 8
PROJECTS
The city 14
Living Bridges 22
Bargo 26
The Power of Erotic Desgn 30
Geffrye Museum extension 34
The Oyster House 38
powerhouse::uk 44
National Centre for Popular Music 48
Body Zone 52
Chronology 60
Index 62
Acknowledgments 64

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Amy Vedder leads a wild life. How many people can say they were once a member of a mountain gorilla family? Amy is a wildlife biologist, a scientist who studies animals and their behavior. She uses her knowledge to save animals whose lives and habitats are threatened.

Amy once lived in a remote part of central Africa, where she helped rescue Rwanda's mountain gorillas from extinction. She did groundbreaking science in a beautiful rain forest environment, but it wasn't always easy. She had to face tough conditions in a country affected by conflict and war. In the process, she met unforgettable people—and unforgettable gorillas. Today Amy travels the world, from her home base at New York's Bronx Zoo to the far reaches of Mongolia in Asia. Everywhere she goes, she teaches people how to appreciate and protect the precious wildlife that surrounds them.

Gorilla Mountain is the thrilling story of a scientist and her science. To tell this true tale of adventure, author Rene Ebersole drew on firsthand accounts from Amy and her friends, family, and colleagues. How did a young nature lover become a powerful champion of great apes? The life story of Amy Vedder will intrigue and inspire readers of all ages.

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Making a difference.......2005-10-09

a telling story of one woman's mission to protect the gorilla community of Rwanda from extinction. Her compassion & relentless determination for the safety of these animals is beyond admirable, as she sets out to educate the people of Rwanda on the value of the gorillas' lives. Through various obstacles, Amy Vedder manages to successfully make a difference in the population & preservation of these fine animals. Her story is truly inspiring & topical. Highly recommended for ages 12 & up.

Endangered Mountain Gorillas (Earth's Endangered Animals)

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Endangered Mountain Gorillas (Earth's Endangered Animals)
Bobbie Kalman , and Kristina Lundblad
Manufacturer: Crabtree Publishing Company
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ASIN: 0778719014

Dian Fossey and the Mountain Gorillas (On My Own Biography)

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Does Not Inspire Interest in Fossey's Life or Work

Dian Fossey and the Mountain Gorillas (On My Own Biography)
Jane A. Schott
Manufacturer: Carolrhoda Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 157505082X

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Does Not Inspire Interest in Fossey's Life or Work.......2007-10-11

This is our first encounter with the On My Own Biography series and I have to say, I am not impressed with this one. My initial impression of this book, after reading it is that it might work for beginner readers (1st grade), but it doesn't really work much beyond that. The book makes it sound like Fossey was a spoiled child who was jealous of a friend who got to go to Africa and decided she'd go on her own when she saved the money. The overall timeline and context of the biography is choppy at best and it's really hard to judge the passage of time, that is, to distinguish whether the events took place over days, weeks, months or years. The illustrations are good, if a little flat. There is a brief section at the end, separate from the "story" which tells readers about Fossey's death and a bit of other basic info, presumable which a teacher or parent who reads this book aloud to children could include or not include based on the child's age and ability to deal with that information. Also included is an extremely brief timeline of Fossey's life (10 "significant events/dates listed). We'll probably try at least one other in this series, but if there isn't a major difference we won't continue to read in this series. I give this a straight C. It was adequate for what it is trying to do, but it's a bit choppy and overall, it falls flat at inspiring interest in Fossey's life or work.

Mountain Gorillas: Three Decades of Research at Karisoke (Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology)

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Mountain Gorillas: Three Decades of Research at Karisoke (Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology)

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ASIN: 0521019869

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Over thirty years ago, Dian Fossey established the Karisoke Research Center in Rwanda to study the behavior and ecology of mountain gorillas. Some of the offspring of the gorillas first studied by Fossey are still being observed today and the long-term observations on known individuals, from birth to death, and data on social behavior within and among the groups have led to an understanding of many aspects of gorilla social structure. Written by scientists who have worked at Karisoke over the years, this book highlights and summarizes what we have learned about the behavior, ecology, and conservation of the genus Gorilla and two other recognized subspecies and provides some comparisons with other gorilla populations elsewhere in Africa.

Woman in the Mists: the Story of Dian Fossey and the Mountain Gorillas of Africa

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Manufacturer: Warner Books
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000H1ZXSG

The Mountain Gorilla: Help Save This Endangered Species! (Saving Endangered Species)

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The Mountain Gorilla: Help Save This Endangered Species! (Saving Endangered Species)
Alison Imbriaco
Manufacturer: Myreportlinks.com
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Binding: Library Binding

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"A woman who gave herself completely to those she loved."
A sympathetic portrait of a complicated woman
A wonderful written book
I fell in love with this book!
Wonderful!!

Woman in the Mists: The Story of Dian Fossey and the Mountain Gorillas of Africa
Farley Mowat
Manufacturer: Warner Books
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0446513601

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Deep in the volcano country of central Africa live some of the rarest, most intriguing animals on earth -- the mountain gorillas. Here, in the mist-shrouded forests, Dian Fossey courageously dedicated her life to studying them. Here she patiently waited until the luminous-eyed gorillas accepted her presence, hugged her, and loved her...while she fought for their survival against poachers, callous researchers, zoo collectors, and local bureaucrats. And here, surrounded by these enemies, she died, mysteriously and brutally murdered.Now, one of the world's most respected naturalist writers draws for the first time ever on Dian Fossey's personal writings to reveal the true story of a magnificent obsession...one woman's enormous empathy for a highly intelligent, desperately endangered animal -- and how it ruled her life, her work, and her heart.

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"A woman who gave herself completely to those she loved.".......2005-01-24

When it came to dealing with people, Dian Fossey was sometimes her own worst enemy, but her dedication to saving the African mountain gorilla and its habitat in Rwanda is indisputable. Describing himself as an "editorial collaborator," rather than as a biographer, Farley Mowat assembles Fossey's story from her never-before-printed journals and private papers, inserting them directly into the book in boldface so she can tell her own story. From her founding of the Karisoke Research Center in Rwanda in 1967, until her murder there in December, 1985, Fossey battled to save "those she loved" from poaching, abduction, and dismemberment.

Throughout her eighteen years at Karisoke, Fossey studied organized groups of gorillas to whom she became so familiar that they would even touch her. As fierce and protective of her own "turf" as a silverback, however, she refused to bend to the exigencies of the political climate and funding requirements and made innumerable enemies. When local herdsmen exerted their age-old rights to graze cattle on "her" mountain, Fossey shot the cattle. When poachers hurt her gorillas, she pursued them, even kidnapping the four-year-old son of one of them to force his surrender. When students at her own Center disagreed with her, she could be brutal.

Fossey also fought local officials, park guards, and conservators who took bribes and staged events in order to protect their payoffs. She battled conservation organizations which wanted to get her funds, rival researchers who wanted to take over her project, and governmental officials who saw tourism in the park as a source of wealth and graft. Always fighting with ferocity, she made no effort to see another point of view or compromise. Her unsolved murder in 1985, by someone who knew the layout of her cabin, could have been by someone from any of these alienated groups.

Mowat presents Fossey as a lonely warrior who never found personal peace, a woman who was instrumental in drawing pubic attention to the plight of the mountain gorilla but who was less sucessful than she had hoped. As he points out in his Epilogue, her cause has been continued by some of the researchers who studied with her. Two of those, Amy Vedder and Bill Weber, continue the story of the gorillas from the death of Fossey through 1993's disastrous Rwandan Civil War. Their book, In the Kingdom of Gorillas: Fragile Species in a Dangerous Land, reflects a more conciliatory viewpoint than that of Fossey. Mary Whipple

A sympathetic portrait of a complicated woman.......2000-10-13

Another engrossing and fascinating Mowat title, another Mowat "must read", "Woman in the Mists" is the sympathetic biography of a woman whose work gave us a window into the world of the mountain gorilla, a species to whose protection and conservation she was devoted. By alternating excerpts from her diary entries and personal letters with his own descriptive text, Mowat brings Dian Fossey, a powerfully willed and often abrasive woman, to life. Her youthful years, young adulthood, her fateful meeting with Louis Leakey, her romantic involvements and disappointments, her first contacts with the gorillas and the years of her work and struggle are portrayed with humanity and affection. The tale is enormously enriched by her own words. She struggled indomitably against self-serving African bureaucrats, indigenous herdsmen and hunter-gatherers, antagonistic forces that gained strength against her in the fields of primatology and philanthropy, and her own gradually deteriorating health largely the result of a powerful smoking addiction.

But her work and her happiness were plagued by male academics and agents of philanthropic organizations who got caught up in a web of calumny and distrust motivated by primatologists who were seriously bent out of shape by her abrasiveness and who felt they could avenge themselves by vilifying her, possibly abetted by society's undercurrent of misogyny. Had there been no vilification, she may never have been killed, as her fatal enemy, probably an African, no doubt took strength from knowing how much she was hated by, for example, the American and European agents of the Mountain Gorilla Project. Mowat provides the reader a chilling view of Fossey's victimization, but never identifies the sexist element which seems apparent to this male reviewer.

Fossey survived all the victimization because of her extraordinary strength and a powerfully motivating love for the gorillas and the entire eden-like natural world in which she lived. She had serious blind spots: her obliviousness to her abrasiveness, her hatred for the National Park's Tutsi herders and pygmy hunter-gatherers, even before the latter began killing her beloved gorillas (whole gorilla family groups, in order to capture a single infant for the zoo trade and skulls for the tourist souvenir trade), and her (and Mowat's) use of the racist epithet "wog" with impunity toward Africans who she hated, though she shared genuine bonds of love with the Africans who worked with her as trackers and poaching patrollers, and evidenced no other racist feeling. Mowat's record of Fossey's life is a powerful, shocking, revealing and loving account.

A wonderful written book.......2000-09-01

Farley Mowat performed an excellent service when he wrote this book. Dian Fossey was a woman of great character, confidence, courage, determination, and conviction. Her life was lived for what she found to be a greater cause and the world is that much worse off without her. This book did an excellent job of showing the reader who Dian Fossey really was and what she really went through. I recommend it to anyone. It is well worth reading.

I fell in love with this book!.......2000-04-18

Read this book, and you will feel like you know the real Dian Fossey. Personal letters, journal entries all give insight to her life as a living, breathing human being who had many friends (human and non-human). Her passion for life is inspirational! This is a must read, and also an excellent book to read for school projects!

Wonderful!!.......1999-03-22

This Book contains the interisting life of Dian Fossey from her bith to her dearh

National Geographic Magazine (October 1995) (Vol. 188, No.4)

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National Geographic Magazine (October 1995) (Vol. 188, No.4)
National Geographic Society
Manufacturer: National Geographic Society
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000KT8TTK

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Featured articles: Mountain Gorillas of Africa Threatened by War; Information Revolution; Saving Britain's Shore; Mexico's Desert Aquarium; Geisha; The Two Worlds of Fiji.

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excellent choice

Mountain gorillas in danger
Rita Ritchie
Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

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excellent choice.......2004-03-01

Mountain Gorillas in Danger serves as an excellent support for struggling readers in the 4th-5th grade. I am a 5th grade special education teacher and I read this book with my students. They loved it!! They then wrote letters to various organizations expressing their concern for mountain gorillas. The illustrations are colorful, appealing, and correlate well with the text. The content of the book is written in a simplistic manner, but is loaded with facts and statistics about mountain gorillas. It is clear from the text that the author cares deeply about the subject.

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Florida Home Grown 2: The Edible Landscape
Tom MacCubbin
Manufacturer: Tribune Pub
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ASIN: 0941263037

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Taking into account the backgrounds of Graeco-Roman and Jewish `triumphal entries', this volume deals with the Lukan version of Jesus' entry to Jerusalem and his subsequent `cleaning' of its Temple. It is argued that Luke's account has been shaped by identifiable political and theological considerations, including the phenomenon of parousia and the place of Israel in the plan of God. Early chapters explore Luke's political milieu together with various entry phenomena from the ancient world, including the advent of governors, emperors and Jewish kings; a close examination of the Lukan text and context follow. This study breaks new ground in contributing to our understanding of how specific contemporary political issues and theological concerns led to the shaping of Luke 19:28-48 and context.

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The rich and revealing story of a tumultuous journey from Left to Right and from poverty to prominence-by one of the most influential female conservatives in the country

When President George W. Bush nominated Linda Chavez to be Secretary of Labor in 2001, few people realized that this hard-nosed conservative began her career among socialists and labor union officials, teaching in college affirmative action programs and writing political propaganda for the Democratic National Committee.

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The rich and revealing story of a tumultuous journey from poverty to prominence--and from left to right--by one of the most influential female conservatives in the country.

When President George W. Bush nominated Linda Chavez to be Secretary of Labor in January 2001, most political observers saw it as a nod to the right. Chavez had made her reputation taking on the civil rights establishment, the feminist movement, and the multiculturalists. What few people knew was that this hard-nosed conservative began her career among socialists and labor-union officials, teaching in college affirmative-action programs and writing political propaganda for the Democratic National Committee.

In An Unlikely Conservative, Chavez recounts her political journey from the Young People's Socialist League to the Reagan wing of the Republican Party--and the sometimes shocking personal experiences that shaped her views. From excrement-smeared car seats to threats of attacks with bombs and switchblades, she learned quickly that opposing racial quotas and ethnic studies carried a high personal cost. But at its core, hers is the story of a working-class Hispanic girl who overcomes a difficult and painful childhood to become one of America's most prominent political conservatives.

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Interesting life.......2006-08-23

Linda Chavez has led an interesting life and has a great story to tell. Unfortunately, I found the writing style of this book to be completely flat. There seemed to be no highs or lows, everything was weighted equally. Rather a chronological bullet-pointed life rather than a real storytelling. I kept with it because of interest in her rather than being gripped by any powerful writing.

Sour Grapes!.......2006-05-16

This lady cannot resist savaging people she feels did her wrong. And like many people on the far right, there is a very dysfunctional home life. I swear to you, the Rush Limbaughs, the Newt Gingriches, the Tom DeLays all have had super unhappy childhoods. Maybe this is why their politics are so sour and anti-people.

I don't like this lady - she took advantage of affirmative action whenever she could in her youth, now she has some problems with it and would like to throw the whole program out the door SO NO ONE ELSE CAN BENEFIT FROM IT. She makes me ill.

The best book on California education.......2005-01-22

This is an awesome book that covers many issues, but as an author of a book on California politics, I would not have been able to write about English language issues in K-12 without this incredible resource.

Linda Chavez has written "the" book for all parents and all voters who want to understand, first-hand, how the Left tricks the rules in the battle over English-only instruction in schools, and those who use race-over-reason to defend bilingual classroom instruction.

The state of California had gone from award-winning public education status 30 years ago, to a dreadful 48th out of 50 in scholastic aptitude today. Much of this condition can be attributed to leftist Democrats, and teacher's unions, who savor power over what is best for children.

California in 1998 overwhelmingly passed Proposition 227 (English-only) into law. Funny how this works. A millionaire businessman, Ron Unz, saw a need and responded to the FACT that poor working-class Latino parents were appalled by the lack of opportunity for their children who speak only Spanish in the world's richest English-speaking country.

Linda brilliantly lays out how the Left worked to demonize Unz, and anyone else who opposed bilingual education. Linda also demonstrates in this book, how California Democrats, instead of looking out for parents, millions of immigrant children who want to learn English (the "keys to the kingdom), and frustrated educators - ignored the will of the people.

The book is timeless as the battle over English literacy in schools continues.

I highly recommend this book as well as the articulate and well-researched content brought forth by a dedicated soldier who, for all the false criticism, continues to place her passion for fact over fiction in her writing.

The truth doesn't make the loudmouths on the Left happy. Nothing new there.

Nice job Linda! Keep up the good work.

Patrick Mallon
Political columnist and author

The American Dream.......2003-12-05

My wife read the book and told me I should do so. It was impressive to see this woman use the experiences of her past..good and bad..to grow into someone who is successful, respected, and most of all Brave and Courageous.

I admire the way she learned to think for herself, use her talents and ideas and find a path that often eludes many. I doubt I would be so clear thinking as she and I doubt I would be brave enough to write about the adventures along the way.

She represents all that is truly good about our Great Country and all that is available to those who really want to achieve a better life. She took her experiences, both happy and sad, and built upon them. Despite serious disadvantages in her early life, she worked hard to advance and used her intelligence to think cleary and create her own set of beliefs and ideals.

She has certainly shown us that by working hard, overcoming barriers, and by facing challenges one can still grow and bravely face those who are lining up against you. When in the end you have the respect of your friends and the public..and you can look around at those who were not brave enough to strike out and think on their own and do for themselves, the very ones who attack her daily..those who are still stuck in their own quagmires, it makes one truly think. This amazing Lady is an example of What ONE COULD BE if one has only the Courage to ignore those who say your time has not come. More people need to read this inspiring book ...maybe those very people who are still in the same old place despite years of phony promises..perhaps it is time for them to strike out and stop thinking they cannot achieve what this Brave and Courageous Lady has!

A Very Pleasant Journey.......2003-05-01

Ms. Chavez is a wonderful writer. She's been through alot and describes her journey in very realistic terms. For those of you who would like to form your own opinion, please read the book. It's great!

An Unlikely Conservative the Transformation of an Ex-Liberal (Or, How I Became the Most Hated Hispanic in America)

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An Unlikely Conservative the Transformation of an Ex-Liberal (Or, How I Became the Most Hated Hispanic in America)
Linda Chavez
Manufacturer: Basic Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000SAJIAU

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