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Written by a travel expert with family adventure and budgets in mind, this book is a one-stop guide to surf, sun, dining, lodging, and fun on beautiful Maui. Reorganized and redesigned for greater ease of use, this edition features new digital maps; chapters describing every beach on Maui including Lahaina, Kaanapali, Haleakala and Hana, plus the island of Lanai and the activities available at each; reviews of more than 300 restaurants including prices and sample menus; and recommendations on over 200 hotels, condos, cottages, and inns. Ideal for families with kids of any age -- toddlers to teenagers -- visiting Maui for the first time or returning for their annual island getaway, Paradise Family Guide Maui highlights kid-friendly attractions such as zoos, aquariums, museums, luaus, and hula-dancing classes, and provides information on baby-sitting and resort-run kids' camps. Author Christie Stilson, founder of the Paradise Family Guides, offers her personal favorites and "Best Bets" for a great trip on a moderate budget.

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Candy Adair Aluli
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Ideal for families traveling with kids of any age — toddlers to teenagers — Paradise Family Guides Maui presents a blend of travel information unlike any other guide to Maui. It offers vacation ideas and tropical adventures that are sure to satisfy both action-hungry youngsters and relaxation-seeking parents. Special traveler-friendly features include the author’s personal favorites and “Best Bets” for a great trip on a moderate budget; descriptions of popular island sights and kid-friendly attractions including zoos and aquariums; lei-making and hula-dancing classes plus luaus and children's museums; lodging recommendations including condos, cottages, and suite hotels featuring extra living space and cooking facilities; baby-sitting information with details on resort-run kids’ camps; restaurant reviews that fully list menu items so parents can be sure that their children’s favorite foods are available; and complete vacation planning information including maps, car rental locations, shopping, nightlife, and more. Paradise Family Guides Maui is packed with listings written for families, including over 180 places to stay, over 280 eateries to fit any budget, over 140 cool things to see, over 320 fun things to do, over 90 spots to shop, and over 55 beaches to lay down a towel.

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Travel back to those thrilling days of yesteryear with this celebration of the life and legend of that uniquely American hero, the cowboy. The author explores both the reality of the cowboy's harsh, dangerous, and lonely existence and the romanticized legend of adventure, romance, and derring-do. The result is an engrossing history.

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A must for any "Cowboy", or "Rodeo" enthusiast.......1999-07-07

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It's a book with only about 100 pages but it very informative and fun. It tells the story of the birth of the Cowboy to Cowboys today and the New Old West. It is packed full of interesting pictures. I have this book on my coffee table and have given this book as a gift to several of my friends who enjoy rodeo and the cowboy way of life. I highly recommend it.

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An album of the American cowboy
John Williams Malone
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Album of the American Cowboy
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Cookin' with the Cowboys: Family Photo Album & Favorite Recipes
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Cowboy: A Kid's Album
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Dallas Cowboys Wives Cookbook and Family Album

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A COMPILATION OF PHOTOS AND RECIPES AND OTHER INFORMATION ON THE DALLAS COWBOYS -- SUPERBOWL XXVII EDITION -- PROCEEDS TO BENEFIT THE HAPPY HILL FARM ACADEMY / HOME OF GRANBURY TEXAS --

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Hayride Jamboree: Barn Dance Album
Chart Music
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Cover with halftone photos of Bob Atcher, Rosalie Allen, Johnny Bond, Wiley Walker & Gene Sullivan, Eddie Dean. 27 songs including Old San Antonio, Cowgirl Pat, I Was Roundin' Up the Cattle, and The Love Sick Frog.

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The definitive book on Escher's repeating pattern work........1999-08-28

As a child, Maurits Cornelis Escher fitted together irregular pieces of cheese in his sandwiches so that they would completely fill the space between the slices of bread. From the very beginnings of his career as an artist, in 1921, he devised ways of interlocking images so as to leave no empty space, and then of making these images repeat infinitely in increasingly complex ways. Professor Schattschneider's magnificently illustrated volume analyses this critical aspect of Escher's work, focussing on a series of 137 symmetry drawings and watercolors created from 1926 to 1971, which the artist kept in five folders throughout his lifetime and which he used as references for his continuing work on the regular division of the plane. Included are analogies from each of these works (which now sell for tens and hundreds of thousands of dollars each) to his original prints and projects. As owner of and dealer in the main body of Escher's original prints, drawings and watercolors, which were previously on loan to the Hague Museum, I make extensive use of this book and commend it to all. Some of the text is written for the layman; other portions of the writing are technical and will be of interest to mathematicians and crystallographers. In addition, the quantity and quality of the full-page color illustrations, few of which are to be found in any other publication in print, contribute to making this book, which serves as a catalogue raisonné of the symmetry drawings and watercolors, eminently collectable.

The other key books on Escher are M.C. ESCHER: HIS LIFE AND COMPLETE GRAPHIC WORK; THE MAGIC MIRROR OF M.C. ESCHER; THE GRAPHIC WORK OF M.C. ESCHER; and ESCHER ON ESCHER. Persons technically inclined may also be interested in ART AND SCIENCE, which constitutes the proceedings of the 1985 Escher conference in Rome.

A must for Escher fans interested in the maths of his work.......1999-07-02

This book answered a lot of questions I had about Escher's regular division of the plane. It has highly enlarged my understanding of his work, and thus made me enjoy it even more. My initial interest was deepening my mathematical knowledge on tessallations, and I can tell I did.

An excellent example of the method to the genius.......1999-03-17

This book has beautiful full color reproductions of Escher's notebooks, along with erxplainations and diagrams showing how Escher accomplished such a volume of work. It also includes anecdotes told by his friends, and reproductions of all three of the metamorphosis. Truly Brilliant! You can't go wrong with this book, be you mathemetitian, or artist

A good look at Escher's tessellation research........1999-02-16

Doris Schattschneider's book takes a look at Escher's research on the regular division of the plane.

1/8 on an iceberg is visible while 7/8 is hidden. Escher's prints are like this. The visible image is only a small part of the thought and preparation that lies beneath the surface. Schattschneider takes us beneath the surface and shines a light on this hidden behemoth.

This volume is more demanding and difficult than other Escher books. But it is rewarding to delve into.

Meticulous, tenacious, thorough, playful. My adjectives for Escher are driven home even more forcefully by this book.

Ms Schattschneider did a fine job putting this book together.

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Visions of Symmetry notebooks, Periodic Drawings, and related Works of M. C. Escher
Doris Schattschneider
Manufacturer: W. H. Freeman
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000O51PFU

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M. C. Escher Visions of Symmetry : Notebooks, Periodic Drawings and Related Work
M. C, & Schattschneider, Doris S. (Editor) Escher
Manufacturer: W. H. Freeman & Company
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000PS2BH2

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Visions of Symmetry: Notebooks, Periodic Drawings and related work of M. C. Escher
Doris Schattschneider
Manufacturer: W. H. Freeman
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Keep one in your car and backpack! Step-by-step instructions for dealing wit all types of dog emergencies, especially those common to active or working dogs. Learn to: determine the seriousness of an injury or illness, administer emergency CPR, care for a dog with eye, chest or internal wounds, transport a dog to safety, splint a broken bone.

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Life-saving basics for helping four-footed canine friends.......2004-01-17

First Aid For The Active Dog by Sid Gustafson (a practicing Doctor of Veterinarian Medicine), is a very handy guide which is filled from cover to cover with life-saving basics for helping four-footed canine friends, ranging from dealing with a broken leg; to tooth problems; to ticks and fleas; to heat or cold exposure, and more. Of special note is "Part I" addressing the prerequisites to first aid. Spiral-bound for easy reference and specifically written for non-specialist general readers with canine companions, First Aid For The Active Dog is an excellent emergency resource, and a perfect "take along" for when one is hiking, hunting, or on the go with an active dog. Not intended to replace proper veterinary care, First Aid For The Active Dog is a welcome and recommended addition for any personal or family dog care reference shelf.

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The Able Gardener: Overcoming Barriers of Age & Physical Limitations
Kathleen Yeomans
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Never give up!.......2004-09-10

An excellent guide to the basics, Yeomans' "The Able Gardener" caters to gardeners with physical limitations. Yeomans offers tips for garden accessibility, easy care gardens, a review of tools (commercial and homemade), safe gardening techniques and strengthening exercises. Yeomans draws on her 15 years experience as a nurse and includes anecdotal advice from gardening patients.

Chapters - sowing seeds, mulching, composting, transplanting and container gardening - offer useful advice for every gardener, including highlighted summary tips. A final section details 20 special gardens, including a sit-down garden, a hummingbird garden, and a touch garden.

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The Able Gardener - Overcoming Barriers Of Age & Physical Limitations
Kathleen, R.N. Yeomans
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Able Gardener Overcoming Barriers of Age and Physical Limitations

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Able Gardener Overcoming Barriers of Age and Physical Limitations
Yeomans Kathleen RN
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Since 1996, Richard Brookhiser has devoted himself to recovering the Founding for modern Americans. The creators of our democracy had both the temptations and the shortcomings of all men, combined with the talents and idealism of the truly great. Among them, no Founding Father demonstrates the combination of temptations and talents quite so vividly as the least known of the greats, Gouverneur Morris.

His story is one that should be known by every American -- after all, he drafted the Constitution, and his hand lies behind many of its most important phrases. Yet he has been lost in the shadows of the Founders who became presidents and faces on our currency. As Brookhiser shows in this sparkling narrative, Morris's story is not only crucial to the Founding, it is also one of the most entertaining and instructive of all. Gouverneur Morris, more than Washington, Jefferson, or even Franklin, is the Founding Father whose story can most readily touch our hearts, and whose character is most sorely needed today.

He was a witty, peg-legged ladies' man. He was an eyewitness to two revolutions (American and French) who joked with George Washington, shared a mistress with Talleyrand, and lost friends to the guillotine. In his spare time he gave New York City its street grid and New York State the Erie Canal. His keen mind and his light, sure touch helped make our Constitution the most enduring fundamental set of laws in the world. In his private life, he suited himself; pleased the ladies until, at age fifty-seven, he settled down with one lady (and pleased her); and lived the life of a gentleman, for whom grace and humanity were as important as birth. He kept his good humor through war, mobs, arson, death, and two accidents that burned the flesh from one of his arms and cut off one of his legs below the knee.

Above all, he had the gift of a sunny disposition that allowed him to keep his head in any troubles. We have much to learn from him, and much pleasure to take in his company.

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The man who coined 'We the people,' thereby "defining every American as part of a single whole.".......2007-07-04

"Upon what principle is it that the slaves shall be computed in the representation? Are they men? Then make them citizens and let them vote. Are they property? Why then is no other property included?" "The admission of slaves into the representation when fairly explained comes to this: that the inhabitant of Georgia and South Carolina who goes to the coast of Africa and, in defiance of the most sacred laws of humanity, tears away his fellow creatures from their dearest connections and damns them to the most cruel bondages, shall have more votes in a government instituted for the protection of the rights of mankind than the citizen of Pennsylvania or New Jersey who views with a laudable horror so nefarious a practice." This voice during the American Constitutional Convention belonged to Gouverneur (his mother's maiden name) Morris. "Morris spoke 173 times at the Convention, more often than any other member, despite the fact that he missed all of June (while Madison, who attended every session spoke 161 times).

So it wasn't very surprising when, on 8 September 1786, the convention selected a five man committee which in turn gave Morris, of of its members, the task of putting together a draft based on all the previous proceedings that summer. Four days later Morris produced a clear, simple document avoiding legislative repetitions as far as possible; in one instance drafting down 23 articles from the Committee of Detail into a much more concise 7. And he also wrote this which ought sound familiar: "We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." Thank Morris for the coinage of "We the People." Convention drafts previously referred to "We the People of the states." A most important distinction. Brookhiser: "When Gouverneur Morris changed 'We the people of the states' into 'We the people,' he created a phrase that would ring throughout American history, defining every American as part of a single whole. Those three words may be his greatest legacy."

"As Jefferson immortalized the Continental Congress's view of first principles, so Morris had applied his finish to the Constitutional Convention's view of fundamental law. And he defended it later. Consider when Republicans "proposed a bill to disband the new federal courts" in 1801, notwithstanding that the Constitution provided for federal judges and expressly stated that such judges were not to be removed during good behavior. Argued an incredulous and sarcastic Morris at the time: "[Y]ou shall not take the man from the office, but you may take the office from the man; you shall not throw him overboard, but you may sink his boat under him; you shall not put him to death, but you may take away his life."

The man who witnessed the French Revolution up close and personal (being a minister to France between 1792 & 1794, and resident in Europe until December 1798---see Melanie Randolph Miller's Envoy to the Terror: Gouverneur Morris and the French Revolution) knew a thing or two about the importance of power remaining balanced, or at least subject to some checks. Though Morris did have some sympathy for the predicament the Jeffersonians, in Morris's view, faced: "Time...seems about to disclose the awful secret that commerce and domestic slavery are mortal foes; and, bound together, one must destroy the other. I cannot blame Southern gentlemen for striving to put down commerce, because commerce, if it survives, will, I think, put them down...."

"Morris did not leave his country on paper," however. Besides his work on the American Constitution and his historically important published diary impressions from those tumultuous years he spent in France, "Morris performed two special services as a public man." In addition to the above Morris also "worked to plan a canal that should make it bloom. A handful of other men might have buffed the Constitution almost as smoothly, but he was the one who did it; a handful of New Yorkers pushed for the Erie Canal---he was one of the most eloquent and energetic. For the rest, he gave many hours of intelligent and industrious labor as a New Yorker, a financier, and a diplomat;" as well as having been a member of the Continental Congress, and one who was instrumental in reviving the Continental Army's supplies after visiting GW at Valley Forge and recognizing the urgent need for such. (The details of many such efforts, I ought point out, are not especially delved into by Mr. Brookhiser in this somewhat short book---inclining this reader to regret not having at least considered some of the more substantive examinations of Gouverneur Morris' life before choosing this one).

With an injured arm and one leg, Morris evinced those who believed (as he did, in these words) "that the happiest mortals are those who have been taught, through some sad experience, the value of this world's goods." Like Hamilton, who came from nothing Morris was one who refused, in Mr. Brookhiser's words, "to be satisfied with airy ideals or soothing phrases" thanks, in part, "on the hard things each had seen in his life." (Interestingly, Morris delivered the eulogy at Hamilton's actual funeral in NY; and before that, gave the eulogy, also in NY, upon Washington's death.)

Postscript: Should you find yourself in Morrisania, or on Morris Avenue, or anywhere in the Morris Park section of the Bronx Borough of New York, perhaps even stopping at the Morris Park Bakery, pause a moment to reflect on the more important legacies of this founding father. In addition, a few blocks north and east of 138th Street and Brook Avenue (roughly the middle of where in the Bronx that Morris's estate Morrisania once could be found) stands St. Ann's Church where this founding father now rests. (07Jun) Cheers

Fun... but too short.......2005-11-28

After reading "Gentleman revolutionary", I found I wanted more on the life of Gouverneur Morris. Brookeiser's book just seemed to go by so darn quickly. But, I did, indeed, enjoy it.

I find that we Americans have spent so much time venerating our top five Founders (Washington, Jefferson, Hamilton, Franklin and Madison/Adams tied for fifth) that we forget that it took hundreds of "founders" in that same era to midwife the country.

What about Pinckney, John Jay, Winthrop, Richard Heny Lee, and, yes, Gouverneur Morris? There are so many more that it would be impossible to mention them all in this short review.

At least, Brookhiser gave us a taste of a seldom-discussed Founder with this short bio. Even though Brookhieser obviously loves his subject, which in some reviewers leads to problematic reporting, it is chock full of interesting if not salacious tidbits. ( He married a woman accused of murder, was quite the ladies man, and even some sources claim Morris to be a deist though he was officially an Episcopalian)

Anyway, I hope to see Brookhiser do more on the Founders who are not household names.

Marginal........2005-06-17

This is the most misleading of books. The title would have you believe Gouverneur Morris wrote the Constitution. A few more founding Fathers naturally participated. However, Morris was Chairman of the Committee on Style which means Morris was primarily responsible for making printed sense out of the legal mumbo jumbo. He did this and did it well to include the Preamble, no mean feat. But he certainly did not write the Constitution as Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence. Nor did Morris himself ever claim to. If Morris did write the Constitution, as Richard Brookheiser claims in the title, why did Brookheiser spend less that 10% of the book reporting on what this work is purportedly all about, the Constitution and Morris' participation therein?

Aside from being misleading, this book just also happens to be very poorly written. It is cluttered and confusing. It is a shame the author does not give the reader a better opportunity to know Morris. Morris lived and participated in some of the Nation's most formative times. If the author had given his subject more attention, if he had said more about who Morris was and how he interacted with the events of his time, then this could have been a slam bang winner, a blockbuster of a fine work. Instead, the best thing that can be said is that it is a very cursory survey of the times in which Morris lived.

Mercifully, it is short.

A minor character in his own biography.......2005-05-05

I was really looking forward to reading this book. I am a nut for anything to do with the American Revolution. I'd read Brookhiser's short, concise bio on George Washington and enjoyed it very much.
I was so disappointed with this book. Just looking at the cover and reading the blurbs made me expect too much I guess.
Morris was known for 3 things: losing his leg, writing the Constitution, and scoring with the ladies. How could his life be turned into a snoozefest?
Maybe it's the writing...I just finished reading Ron Chernow's Alexander Hamilton bigoraphy, which is 3 times longer than this Morris bio. It was absolutely riveting. I was sorry when I finished it; I just did not want it to end. I could not finish the Morris book fast enough; I ended up skipping pages here and there to get to Morris; he seems to be missing in his own biography. Brookhiser gave me no sense as to the kind of man Gouverneur Morris really was.
Very disappointing!

Potentially a fascinating topic, poorly conceived.......2005-01-16

My biggest problem with the book is that I felt it was poorly written and conceived. Morris definitely is an interesting character, and I give credit to Brookheiser for reviving his legacy, but the book has a tendency to simply relate the facts without going into background material or much analysis or synthesis.

I felt the book was rushed and not adequately researched. Many areas need to be fleshed out better. Morris definitely belonged to the Founding Fathers clique and had an interesting personal life. If Brookheiser had simply delved into several periods or aspects of Morris' life, as Ellis did with American Sphinx, the book would have been better reading.

Having said that, the only people who are likely to read this book are those who have already done some reading on the birth of the USA and are motivated and able to deal the way the book was written to learn about this interesting character who pops up in biographies on Hamilton, Washington, and Jefferson, etc.

Gentleman Revolutionary: Gouverneur Morris, The Rake Who Wrote the Constitution.(Book Review) : An article from: The Historian

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Gentleman Revolutionary: Gouverneur Morris, The Rake Who Wrote the Constitution.(Book Review) : An article from: The Historian
Richard, Jr. Buel
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Mark Miller
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Gentleman Revolutionary: Gouverneur Morris: The Rake Who Wrote the Constitution.(Book review): An article from: The Historian
Richard, Jr. Buel
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In 1938, at an age when most men are long retired, Douglas Hyde (1860-1949) was elected first president of modern Ireland. The unanimous choice of delegates from all political factions, he was no stranger to public life or to fame. Until now, however, there has been no full-scale biography of this important historical and literary figure.
Known as a tireless nationalist, Hyde attracted attention on both sides of the Atlantic from a very early age. He was hailed by Yeats as a source of the Irish Literary Renaissance; earned international recognition for his contributions to the theory and methodology of folklore; joined Lady Gregory, W. B. Yeats, George Moore, and Edward Martyn in shaping an Irish theater; and as president of the Gaelic League worked for twenty-two years on behalf of Irish Ireland.
Yet in spite of these and other accomplishments Hyde remained an enigmatic figure throughout his life. Why did he become an Irish nationalist? Why were his two terms as Irish Free State senator so curiously passive? Why, when he had threatened it earlier, did he oppose the use of physical force in 1916? How did he nevertheless retain the support of his countrymen and the trust and friendship of such a man as Eamon de Valera? Douglas Hyde: A Maker of Modern Ireland dispels for the first time the myths and misinformation that have obscured the private life of this extraordinary scholar and statesman.

DOUGLAS HYDE:A maker of Modern Ireland, and its first President in 1938.

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