Yeast Protocols: Methods in Cell and Molecular Biology (Methods in Molecular Biology)

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It's big (100 miles wide by 240 miles long), it's diverse (granite peaks, extinct volcanoes, sand dunes, and more than 2,000 species of plants and 500 animals), and it makes for a wonderful, inexpensive vacation. The California desert offers bird watching and backpacking, high alpine snow fields and dry salt plains, and when the rains are adequate, miles of wildflowers that take your breath away. Lynne Foster's guide makes it accessible, with desert safety tips, maps, information about public campgrounds, historical sites, and desert museums, as well as useful information such as where to get food, water, and gas. From the White-Inyo Mountains, through Death Valley, Palm Springs, and Joshua Tree National Park, down to the Mexican border, the desert awaits, sere and stark, but not at all barren.

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Stretching south from the White-Inyo Mountains to the Mexican border and 275 miles east to west at its greatest width, the California desert is nearly the size of the state of Virginia. Within these 25 million acres are three of North America's major desert subregions as well as the largest national park in the Lower 48 states. Since the passage of the California Desert Protection Act, interest in the California desert is at an all-time high, swelling the number of visitors to more than 9 million each year.
Newly revised and updated, Adventuring in the California Desert offers detailed guidelines for enjoying the desert to the fullest without harming its fragile ecology. Activities include backpacking and rock climbing, as well as fossil identification, bird watching, and exploring Native American and pioneer historical sites. Special features include:
Information on day hikes, backpacking trips, and peak climbs, all classified by degree of difficulty
Detailed descriptions of each region's natural, geologic, and human history, plus plant and animal identification
Tips on desert safety and survival, weather conditions, clothing and equipment, and special requirements for car travel
Area maps, suggested tours, lists of public campgrounds and conservation organizations, and details for locating facilities for food, water, and gas

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Good for armchair reader, useless for actual visit.......2005-01-15

I wonder if Lynne has ever actually been there. The author spends half a paragraph asking numerous questions you'd like to ask, give you a short answer you can find with park brochure, then refer you to the visitor center to get more information and get map (apparently the author has been to and is familiar with the visitor center). No detail info on any of the trails and tours. I've been to the desert once or twice and I know more about the subject than the author describes in the book.

I am also extremely disappointed with Sierra Club Travel Guide. Next time I won't buy their books blindly.

maps are terrible, information on hiking/wilderness is poor.......2002-11-19

Don't buy this if you just want a hiking/camping guide. Here's why:
* The author himself mentions that 50% of the book isn't really related to hiking ("adventuring" as in the book's title)
* The hikes are not described well. There are no total trail distances given.
* There are no maps of trails/trailheads/wilderness areas, and that's what REALLY bugs me. There are virtually no maps in this book. The maps that are there are VERY pitiful. Without maps, this book is virtually useless to me.

I would recommend that you look around at other books available if you're after a good hiking guide.

Since the average rating is currently at 4.5 I'm gonna give this a 1 to try to add some balance to things...

desert california in one volume.......2000-01-19

Updated since I bought my 1987 edition this book is a wonderful one-volume introduction to California's desert regions. My battered, coffee-stained, spine-broken copy is the best testimony to its usefulness I can give. The overlong introductory section cuts down on space for regional descriptions but the advice is worth reading, especially the section on safety. Very strong on regions ouside the well-known parks the author encourages visitors to explore and hike on their own. The book is a well-rounded blend of information on flora, fauna, geology, history, hiking and 4WD touring. If you are new to desert exploration this book will break you in easily and safely.

Very useful guide that's fun to read........1998-05-22

Lynne Foster has done a great job here, describing many trips and day visits into nearly every corner of California's beautiful deserts. Nearly every region I am familiar with, she has covered quite well. Most people don't know the lonely horizons and vast silences awaiting those who get off the superhighways; the land is incredibly beautiful and not a little dangerous. Heed her words of caution, then take the book and your camera and see for yourself. Makes great armchair reading, too!

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Something For the Medicine Man
Flora Mae Hood
Manufacturer: Melmont Publishers, Inc.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Library Binding
ASIN: B000I3C3UY

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Something for the Medicine Man
Hood Fm
Manufacturer: Children's Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: School & Library Binding
ASIN: 0516085670

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Something for the medicine man (Look, read, learn)
Flora Mae Hood
Manufacturer: Melmont Publishers
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: B0006AXLYQ

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Magnificent and superlative beyond any criticism.......2006-05-24

Truly the finest volume [at least in English] on the subject of watercolors/drawings in the German-speaking lands during the period 1760-1850, based on the Winterstein Collection in Munich. Breathtaking reproductions of the extraordinary delicacy and subtlety of this art, the drawings much resembling the fine silverpoints of the Renaissance, many on exquisitely tinted papers --- this refined and spiritual art is finally revealed to be almost the diametric opposite of the high 'romantic' English school. This is surprising because, after all, how can media of such limited range, in the hands of contemporaneous northern European artists, be so different in ethos? The answer: the cultural, religious and philosophical backgrounds of England and German reveal stunningly distinct roots --- though, of course,the aspiration to create art is equally manifest in both civilizations. It is sobering to think that within 60 years of the end of this period, the countries that nurtured this humanistic aesthetic collided in the catastrophe that defined the tragedy of our century. A treasurable gem and kudos to all parties involved, including Harvard and Prestel publishers.

Delicacy and precision.......2000-10-17

German artists are not so well know outside the US as are the French or English. But the German visual arts tradition is quite strong and worth knowing about. Menzel in particular was the titan in the 19th Century Berlin art world.

The German school of watercolor was more delicate (rather like the French) and less expressionist than the English (though Cotman and others did not follow Turner in his misty ways.) The precision and delicacy of these works is amazing--this is a fine collection of lesser known works especially in the US, where the German artists are less well known. A beautiful book.

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Nothing puts quite the same tingling fear in swimmers, surfers, and divers--especially in the quarter century since Peter Benchley's novel Jaws conquered the bestseller charts--as the thought that a shark might be plying its course somewhere in the murky deep below. Thomas Allen plays on that fear in the opening pages of Shadows in the Sea with a strangely entertaining compendium of shark attacks on humans over the centuries. (The humans get their licks in, however, in the pages that follow, in which Allen recounts the exploits of William Young, an Ahab who chased sharks around the world.) Allen goes on to describe the ways in which scientists have attempted to understand the ways of sharks and their selachian kin, the skates and rays; looks at the place of the shark in the world's folklore and cuisine; and examines the commercial shark-fishing industry. His useful book closes with a species-by-species account of the world's principal shark types, from the 6-inch dogfish to the 20-foot great blue shark. Allen does a fine job of giving his readers an idea of the many ways these frightening but fragile denizens of the sea live their lives--and he provides plenty of anecdotes to disturb a beachgoer's dreams. --Gregory McNamee

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Respect for Sharks and Man's History with them.......2004-09-29

First published in 1963, Shadows in the Sea has been a popular book about sharks and their relatives, the skates and rays. Thomas Allen tells what he learned from two major contributors to the book. One was Captain William Young, known as "Captain Shark Killer," the other was Mack McCormick, whose shark research is now housed in American Museum of Natural History (New York, USA). According to the author, both men had a deep abiding respect for sharks.

Thomas Allen gives an evenhanded treatment of sharks in Shadows in the Sea. The author divides his subject into four parts: sharks against humans, humans against sharks, sharks as gods or food, and sharks and their relatives as fish. He opens with the famous story of the shark attack in New Jersey in 1916, which formed the basis of the popular Jaws movies. He believes that hunting sharks does not prevent shark attacks. The wrong sharks are usually killed, and the shark population is further depleted. According to Thomas Allen, sharks have a purpose in the ocean ecosystem.

In presenting human-shark history, the author explains the painting by John Singleton Copley, "Brook Watson and the Shark" (1778). The Lord Mayor of London Watson had lost his leg to a shark. Besides including a shark on his family crest, Watson also commissioned Copley to commemorate the event. However, the beast that Copley painted was not a real shark. He imagined the shark as a huge whale possessing a large jaw of sharp teeth. Most European people at that time had little concept of what sharks actually were like.

Thomas Allen recounts how the over-killing of sharks since the 1970s spurred people to save the sharks. In 1991, the Pelagic Shark Research Foundation campaigned against annual shark fishing "derbies" in California.

(Since the "derbies" involved shooting sharks with guns and harpoons, the author refers to them as "massacres".) By 1995, the Foundation was successful in stopping the organized "derbies".

In the last half of the book, the author presents the sharks themselves, and their natural history. He writes, "Whence the Shadows? Aeons before people appeared on earth, the shark was the monarch of the primordial seas. As prehistorical era after era passed---as amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals came forth-the shark remained. The dinosaurs-Brontosaurus, Allosaurus, Triceratops, and a thousand more-stalked the earth in ponderous supremacy and vanished into extinction. But the shark lives on. Millions upon millions of years before the first precursor of man appeared, the shark began a dynasty that has remained unbroken."

In clear language, the author explains shark naming (taxonomy) and shark anatomy. After reading this book, the reader will have a greater appreciation of sharks. Thomas Allen emphasizes that sharks are to be admired and cherished for what they do. Sharks deserve a chance to be saved from extinction.

Fun, Rare information covered,.......2001-06-20

I read this book after years of interest in the Ocean and all things therein. I had thought I read most of the published accounts of the more well-known incidents, especially here in teh U.S. This book taught me so much more was available. This is the best coverage of the New Jersey shark attacks (with photos) just now being covered in greater detail in 2 newly published books. It covers the story of an old shark fisherman, an evolution of our study of sharks and of attacks and biological data. One of the best.

shadows in the sea.......2001-03-02

this is one of the most informative and fascinating books i have ever read. i have used it for giving speeches and for teaching. the illustrations are very interesting along with the other art works included. i must own close to a thousand books , but this is one of the very few which i read over and over.

The most accurate shark book on the market.......2000-01-20

Well, what can i say? i LOVE this book. From the first pages, an account of the "rogue shark" off New Jersey in 1916, this book is informative, exciting, and sometimes even endearing...stories of shark fisherman, attacks, and a comprehensive guide to sharks commonly found in North American oceans, i have never read a shark book that is so full of information...READ THIS BOOK!

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Shadows in the Sea Sharks Skates & Ray
Harold W Mccormick
Manufacturer: STEIN & DAY PUBLISHERS
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000SHY65A

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Shadows in the Sea Sharks Skates & Rays
Harold W Mccormick
Manufacturer: WEATHERVANE
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000U09T8Y

SHADOWS IN THE SEA THE SHARKS, SKATES AND RAYS

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SHADOWS IN THE SEA THE SHARKS, SKATES AND RAYS
McCORMICK HAROLD W. & TOM ALLEN & CAPTAIN WILLIAM YOUNG
Manufacturer: Chilton Book Company
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000NBZ0PQ

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SHADOWS IN THE SEA--THE SHARKS, SKATES AND RAYS

Manufacturer: Weathervane Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000I3129W

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SHADOWS IN THE SEA: THE SHARKS, SKATES AND RAYS
Harold W., Tom Allen and William Young McCormick
Manufacturer: Chilton Book Co
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: 0801909007

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Shadows in the Sea: The Sharks, Skates and Rays
Harold W., et al McCormick
Manufacturer: Weathervane
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000NQJU6G

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Heirloom household linens embody decades of culture and tradition to bring elegance and comfort into the home. From common domestic doilies to European tablecloths exquisitely adorned with hand embroidery and lace, Vintage White Linens helps explain why collectors passionately seek out these intimate linen treasures. To aid in identification, the book is organized alphabetically, so beginners, collectors, and discerning decorators can identify variations from handmade knit lace to machine-made eyelet embroidery, from fine linen sheets to factory made bureau scarves. Tips for finding linen treasures, caring for them, and using them around the house are included. Vintage White Linens is a visual treat and an essential price guide for anyone interested in household linens.

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Great pictures - Not enough.......2002-09-25

This book has great pictures and examples of various linens, but there is not enough explanation on what the characteristics are that differentiate one lace from another. Great for general examples, but anyone interested in becoming a serious collector will need more.

A Linen and Lace Collector's Insight.......2000-03-29

This is a very good "value guide", and speaks to the common person on a "Budget"! Many of the reference guides seem to be addressed toward people who can only afford the crem de la crem, if you will, in the world of this "Gentle Art". I have now been able to put a name to many of the pieces in my vast collection of over 7,000.

The one thing I feel this Reference and Value Guide lacks is a more detailed description of the work in the pieces and more History. For those of us who want to know the three "W's", the Why's, When's and the What's, and also the How's of the Linen and Lace World, more information is needed. Or when we know more about an individual piece, the fourth "W", kicks in and we we wonder Where the information is. Or once again, Why it is missing " Inquisitive minds like mine are always wanting to know as much as possible, and Learn, Learn, Learn!

I don't agree with everything in this book, but I feel that is as it should be! Differing opinions keep us all on our toes.

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VINTAGE 1951 CHILDRENS BOOK NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS, Linen-Like, with #1107-15 on Front with Santa Head & Shoulders with Red Hat & Coat in FELT Flocked Fuzzy Like & Full White Beard WITH His Finger PoInted Toward Nose,IllustratedBy Florence Sarah Winship
Color Illustrated By Florence Sarah Winship Poem By Clement Moore
Manufacturer: Whitman WiSC.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000JD9Z8Q

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Vintage White Linens A to Z
Marsha Manchester
Manufacturer: see notes for publisher info
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000ON2JOS

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A half-century ago, the world was trying to heal the wounds of global war. People were rushing to make up for lost time, grasping for material wealth. This was the era of "total electric living," a phrase beamed into living rooms by General Electric spokesman Ronald Reagan. Environmental awareness was barely a gleam in the eye of even Rachel Carson.
And yet, Helen and Scott Nearing were on a totally different path, having left the city for the country, eschewing materialistic society in a quest for the self-sufficiency they deemed "the Good Life." Chelsea Green is pleased to honor their example by publishing a new edition of The Maple Sugar Book, complete with a new section of never-before-published photos of the Nearings working on the sugaring operation, and an essay by Greg Joly relating the story behind the book and placing the Nearings' work in the context of their neighborhood and today's maple industry.
Maple sugaring was an important source of cash for the Nearings, as it continues to be for many New England farmers today. This book is filled with a history of sugaring from Native American to modern times, with practical tips on how to sap trees, process sap, and market syrup. In an age of microchips and software that are obsolete before you can install them, maple sugaring is a process that's stood the test of time. Fifty years after its original publication in 1950, The Maple Sugar Book is as relevant as ever to the homestead or small-scale commercial practitioner.

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Neat book.......2004-01-21

This book is a description of way the Nearings earned hard cash to sustain their homesteading project. When they first built their homestead in Vermont in the early 1930s, they thought they might make the cash income for purchasing things they couldn't grow on the farm by selling wood. However, they soon found themselves owners of a sugar maple bush, and the family who had been tapping the sap up until then showed them the ropes of the maple sugaring business. It wasn't long before they discovered that they could earn their annual cash needs during the six week sugaring season, leaving the rest of the year free to grow food, construct farm buildings, and write.

The book starts with a history of sugar making. Then it includes some how-to information (current as of the 1940s). This section includes chapters on maintenance of the sugar bush, equipment for sugaring, sap and weather, making sugar, making syrup, and marketing. The book closes with a section that describes some of the philosophy of the Nearing's homesteading project, especially those aspects related to maple sugaring. And in the end, there are a few recipes for using maple syrup.

Because of Scott Nearing's academic training and experience, the book has an academic flavor, and the chapters on the history of sugaring are quite well documented. The details in the book about sugaring aren't quite sufficient for rank newbies to take off and try to start their own sugaring operation- -if you want to know exact details about constructing a sugar shack or using an evaporator, it would be better to look for a more technical book with a recent publication date. The book's main value is for those who wish to learn more about how the Nearings put their thoughts about cash income and bread labor into action. With that in mind, the book is truly a classic, and well worth reading many times through.

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Maple Sugar

The Maple Sugar Book; Together with Remarks on Pioneering as a way of Living in the Twentieth Century
Helen and Scott Nearing
Manufacturer: Galahad Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000MYEP50

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Maple Sugar.......2007-02-08

This may be the best resouce for tapping and make maple sugar ready for your kitchen table. Very easy book to read.

THE MAPLE SUGAR BOOK. TOGETHER WITH REMARKS ON PIONEERING AS A WAY OF LIVING IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.

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THE MAPLE SUGAR BOOK. TOGETHER WITH REMARKS ON PIONEERING AS A WAY OF LIVING IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.
H. And S. Nearing
Manufacturer: Schocken Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000WQ9G8O

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For the first time in print, this extraordinary and beautiful story tells the tale of Annette Kellerman—the woman who became one of the highest paid and most adored Hollywood and vaudeville stars of her day. Kellerman won audiences the world over with her trademark performances, gained fame for her dangerous swims in the English Channel, participated in a vaudeville act in which she dove into a giant glass tank, and performed underwater ballet. After starring in Hollywood's first-ever million-dollar film, she soon became a household name who drew long lines to see her on the screen in her famous, provocative costumes. This biography beautifully captures how Kellerman stole the hearts of a generation and challenged standards regarding how women should look, act, and think.

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A Fascinating Read About a Pioneer Performer........2007-03-20

I'm completely amazed at the accomplishments of Ms Kellerman. Those who have watched and enjoyed the film 'Million Dollar Mermaid' only know a small part of the tale. What an inspiring story of a unique and fascinating woman, a pioneer athlete & performer who no doubt continues to inspire many of those in the aquatic performance field.

An excellent biography.......2007-01-29

Well worth reading. Annette Kellerman was an exceptional athlete, able to do virtually anything she set her mind to. She 'invented' underwater ballet and the modern women's swim suit. She was a star attraction in vaudeville, Broadway shows, and was an early film star. The book is well written and has two sections of photographs.

The Million Dollar Mermaid: An Autobiography

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A psychological mystery
Million dollar Mermaid debut as movie star

The Million Dollar Mermaid: An Autobiography
Esther Williams
Manufacturer: Harvest Books
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0156011352

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Her big movies are hard to find these days, and her name doesn't evoke the fan recognition awarded fellow MGM grads Lana Turner and Ava Gardner, yet for more than a decade during Hollywood's age d'or Esther Williams was one of the studio's most bankable leading ladies. An American beauty and swimming champ, she was hired at MGM in 1941 at age 18, and from then on starred in two or three thinly plotted "swimming musicals" a year--movies with titles like Neptune's Daughter, Million Dollar Mermaid, Easy to Love, and Take Me Out to the Ball Game. Her inevitable role was the pinup you could pin up at home, and it seems to have reflected her offstage personality too. Her long (400 pages) memoir is not always a miracle of narrative, but it includes a wealth of juicy gossip: Louis B. Mayer's rolling-on-the-floor tantrums; Gene Kelly's verbal cruelty on the set of Take Me Out to the Ball Game; her three failed marriages, including a long, draining one to Fernando Lamas; Lana Turner's name for Mayer ("Daddy"); Johnny Weismuller's backstage pursuit of her (naked); her own heat for Victor Mature ("unleashed"); and the LSD she tried in 1959 on Cary Grant's recommendation. Like so many other as-told-to books, the memories often feel self-serving, and there are plywood sentences even Lana Turner would choke on delivering. Disappointingly, Williams rarely shares what went on behind her lowered eyes and those buoyant cheekbones. --Lyall Bush

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During Hollywood's heyday, big studios battled over the next box-office attraction. While Gene Kelly danced and Judy Garland sang, Esther Williams swam into the heart of America with her dazzling smile, stunning aquabatics, and whole-some appeal. Hand-picked for stardom by movie mogul Louis B. Mayer, Esther shed her wide-eyed innocence at what she affectionately calls University MGM, a unique educational institution where sex appeal and glamour were taught, a school where idols were born. Once a national swimming champion and struggling salesgirl, overnight she became one of the most bankable stars in Hollywood. And though fame came quickly, Esther's personal life was often less than joyous. Through troubled marriages, cross-dressing lovers, financial bankruptcy, she shares the ups and downs of her extraordinary career in The Million Dollar Mermaid, a wildly entertaining behind-the-scenes account of one of Tinseltown's classic dream factories.

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A Fun Read........2007-03-20

I was looking for something to read while traveling, and remembered hearing some positive comments about this book. It was a really great to read about Hollywood back in it's golden age, with it's "larger than life" productions and actors.

A Good Read.......2006-09-09

I found this book fascinating from cover to cover. The glimpse into the world of MGM at its grandest is wonderful, and Esther herself is never dull. A page turner for movie fans. I agree with other reviews that Esther can come off badly in her "Do you know who I am?" attitude--it reads like she got really full of herself somewhere down the road. Plus, what kind of person stays married to a man who won't allow you to have a relationship with your own children? Sorry--there's no excuse. But this is a review of the book itself, not of the person, and it's a good read.

Ultimately a Dissapointment.......2006-06-12

I started out in admiration of how tough Esther Williams was. But I kept waiting for her to start having a decent personal life. At first, I thought how sad it was that people were unfeeling and cruel with her. (How is it that every single man she meets, btw, with a few barely mentioned exceptions, are cold, heartless and entirely self-absorbed? An LA thing?) But by the time she started having affairs of her own and marrying the domineering Lamas (she knew what she was getting herself into) I lost all respect or sympathy for her. Even so, I can't help liking her somehow and wishing things had been different. She seems like a friend that lets you down and yet you still want to like her.
In a way, it seems like something is missing...almost like you never completely can know or understand her.
I did find it very interesting to hear stories about life within MGM.

A psychological mystery.......2005-11-27

This would be a good book for student psychiatrists to study and write papers on. Neither Williams nor her ghostwriter Digby Diehl put the pieces of her psyche together. They take the easy road, that everything Williams became was driven by her need to replace her dead brother as the financial savior of her family, and yet not much of the book after the beginning mentions her family. No doubt, her brother's death was an element, but so was an early and shocking two years of sexual abuse at the hands of a teenage boarder. And more shocking, her family was so fond of the boy, they weren't appalled at what he had done. He wasn't reported to the authorities. Esther says she was disappointed with her family's reaction, got the boy to move out herself, and yet continued to support her family and doesn't mention the event again in the book.

Although she is able to control her career and resist being sexually used by studio bosses and co-stars who don't appeal to her, she turns around and tolerates the most horrible of husbands for years and years. One, who routinely embarrasses her, spends all her money and leaves her in debt, another, the famous Fernando Lamas, makes her literally a slave for 22 years. Yet she was loyal to a decision she made to make up to him for the early loss of his mother. What's going on here?

The combination of early sexual abuse and having to be the family breadwinner made Esther demand perfection of herself in everything she did, from swimming to movies to being a wife. And sometimes the requirement of perfection becomes irrational, and yet she doesn't perceive it. It is most obvious when she talks about neglecting her children because Fernando doesn't want children -- hers or his -- around. Some of the reviewers here blast her for this, but they forget that all during their lives, they were essentially raised by a nanny. Esther's idea of motherhood was dropping in from time to time, or controlling things from a distance, and she continued to do this, farming the kids out with relatives, when she was with Fernando.

At no point during this book does Esther turn on herself and see any flaws or faults, which is consistent with the denial one goes into after a horrific childhood. She strove for perfection, achieved it in many areas, and is quite content. At this point, she might as well -- if she is still alive at this writing -- continue on with the illusion. No point in undergoing any psychiatric treatment when you've managed this far. I know of people in my own life who are trying to be "perfect" to compensate for some messed up stuff when they were younger and who are in extraordinary denial about reality, so it was interesting to see another example of it here.

As many reviewers have commented, the book does seem very arrogant and then wildly perplexing when you get to the whole Fernando bondage years, but it's a textbook psycho case.

After seeing her do a long interview on Turner Classic Movies and hinting at some of the wilder sexual escapades in this book -- and she does dish the dirt on how wild men can be about their packages -- I was intrigued and able to buy it for a penny on Amazon.com, so it was well worth it.

Million dollar Mermaid debut as movie star.......2005-10-19

I loved this movie even as a child.Red Skelton's sketch at the ballet class is not only a riot but a classic act. The story itself is simplistic.Red is left pactically at the altar by a
furious Esther Williams. Red follows his wife only to be confronted by the fact that she is teaching at an all girls school.And so the fun begins. Loved Xavier Cugat's numbers and
although not a fan of Harry James still enjoyed the movie.If
you are after an old fashioned 90 minutes of entertainement then I suggest you get Bathing beauty. Oh, it is also Esther
first staring role(I am enjoying her autobiography at the moment).Recomend it.
PS review refers to Bathing beauty movie and her book.

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The Million Dollar Mermaid - An Autobiography
Esther; with Diehl, Digby Willians
Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000PK3D0E

Million Dollar Mermaid, an Autobiography, Fresh & funny Expose of Hollywood's Golden Era

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Million Dollar Mermaid, an Autobiography, Fresh & funny Expose of Hollywood's Golden Era
Esther with Digby Diehl Williams
Manufacturer: Harcourt
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000NDMGAQ

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The Million Dollar Mermaid: An Autobiography
Esther; DIEHL, Digby WILLIAMS
Manufacturer: Harvest/HBJ Book
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OJFHUA

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Samuel Waters followed his father and grandfather into the Irish Constabulary, rising from district inspector in 1866 to assistant inspector general. His colorful and unembittered recollections encompass the Fenian Rising, The Land War and the 1916 Insurrection, after which he retired to Skerries in Co. Dublin.

These memoirs illuminate the intelligence work of the R.I.C., as well as the social and sporting compensations of a policeman’s life in all four provinces. Waters records unexpectedly friendly interactions between police and army in which he had to restrain a group of Fenian fans from beating up his military opponents.

The editor’s introduction highlights the problems of policing Ireland during a century and a half of turmoil, and explains why a policeman’s job could be a relatively happy one!

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