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Great beaches and tax-free shopping, world-class museums and historic battlefields, rolling countryside and lively cities, Maryland, Delaware, and D.C. offer a vast array of destinations, attractions and activities to be enjoyed and discovered. The most in-depth guide to Maryland and Delaware, this newly updated and revised Moon Handbook provides insights to both states that will appeal to visitors and locals alike. Author Joanne Miller covers top attractions in Baltimore, Annapolis, Washington D.C., Delaware's Brandywine Valley and beaches, and the Eastern Shore including Ocean City and St. Michaels. Find destination points worth seeking out, like Deep Creek Lake in the fabulous all-season vacation area of Western Maryland, and explore a visit to Amish country. Moon Handbooks Maryland and Delaware also offers fresh coverage of accommodation and dining options, entertainment and events, and outdoor recreation, including details on dozens of walking, bicycling, and driving tours. Complete with color maps, photos, and insightful sidebars on regional history and culture, the second edition of Moon Handbooks Maryland and Delaware is your guide to an enriching and successful travel experience.

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Covers a lot of territory!.......2007-07-03

This book is the best for the money--I compared it to the Frommer's guide in the bookstore, and this one has twice as much information, and covers both states from top to bottom, including some pretty unusual attractions. Great for day trips from Baltimore, too.

Moon Handbooks: Maryland-Delaware: Including Washington, D.C.

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Throrough and Fun!

Moon Handbooks: Maryland-Delaware: Including Washington, D.C.
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Throrough and Fun!.......2002-05-23

I also own the Pennsylvania Handbook by the same author, and I'm continually amazed by her ability to search out the odd little museums and restaurants that really make a destination unique. In Maryland, you can polka the night away after visiting an out-of-the-way military code museum. And, I enjoy the sly humor that kind of sneaks up on you: "In the film Star Wars, Luke was misdirected when he was told to beware The Dockside. This friendly, casual restaurant...is a good place for inexpensive meals from breakfast ($5) through dinner ($6-9). Lots of Crisfield watermen eat here." (from the Eastern Shore section). Like all Moon Handbooks, this one makes the ordinary come alive, covers the whole area extremely well, and is fun to read.

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A new study of the statecraft and life of John Quincy Adams.......2001-05-17

John Quincy Adams blends history and biography in presenting a new study of the statecraft and life of John Quincy Adams, policy-maker in the early American republic. It's recommended reading for high school and college undergraduate students, as well as any non-specialist general radeing studying early American history and politics.

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Research has shown that very young children can learn sign language before they learn to speak. Teach Your Tot to Sign: The Parents’ Guide to American Sign Language provides parents and teachers the opportunity to teach more than 500 basic American Sign Language (ASL) signs to their infants, toddlers, and young children. Hearing children, deaf children, and children with special needs can benefit from learning the elementary signs chosen for this handy pocket-size book. Young children who can communicate using simple signs become less frustrated and also bond in a special way with their parents. In teaching ASL to parents of toddlers and preschool teachers, author Stacy A. Thompson recognized the need for a book that could be used at home and in the classroom. Her book features fundamental signs of great appeal to young children and concise instructions on how to sign, including the critical importance of facial expression.

Teach Your Tot to Sign anticipates all of the common desires and interests of young children — food, pets, planes, trains, cars, and boats, games, holidays, vegetables, family — in short, nearly everything. Reflecting children’s endless curiosity, the vocabulary chosen ranges from signs for “baby,” “broken,” “clown,” “dinosaur,” “firefighter,” “gentle,” “hot,” “hurt,” “ketchup,” “pacifier,” “rooster,” “sad,” “spaghetti,” “wagon,” “water,” “wet,” to “you’re welcome,” and even “McDonalds.” This lively assortment of signs will help every child convey earlier in their development their thoughts, feelings, and desires to their parents and teachers.

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Great except for food.......2007-08-10

This book is so helpful I carry it in our "Diaper" bag. (We actually use elimination communication so our baby hasn't used diapers since 11 weeks, but we still call it our diaper bag. See Potty Whispering: The Gentle Art of Infant Potty Training) I frequently pull this book out when my son needs a word. He is 19 months and knows about 70 signs. He even signs in his sleep (I wonder what he was dreaming the night he was signing "paper.") This is the most comprehensive signing book I have found. Lots of good kid words--like yogurt and cracker--that I couldn't find anywhere else. My biggest complaint about this book (and why only 4 stars) is the food words. It mainly has sweet based foods (and even signs for McDonald's.) There are limited fruits, veggies, and other healthy foods. So I also carry Fruits & Vegetables (Beginning Sign Language Series)Also, despite the great number of words in here, it is not totally comprehensive. It doesn't have the word "key." Every toddler loves keys so I'm not sure why that's missing. I'd love it if there was a website where I could recommend words for future editions.

For those of you uncertain about using sign as much as we do, it has really made having a toddler much simpler. He can tell stories about the time the dog had the bird in its mouth and we got the bird from the dog and took the bird outside. When he dropped his toy into a hole in the floorboards, his signing conveyed to me what had happened (since I didn't witness it.) When he got cactus thorns in his hands and was, naturally, screaming as I took them out, he signed "water." I got him a drink of water and he calmed down. Without the ability to make that request, he would have kept screaming (I never would have thought to give him water.) Some people have questioned if sign language at our level will delay speech. I asked a developmental pediatrician about that. She considers children who sign bi-lingual. Bi-lingual children often do have slight delays in their speech. However, the brain development that occurs is so beneficial that it is better for the children. At 19 months our son has his 70 signed words and about 20 spoken words. He spends much of each day repeating a verbal word he is just now learning (dishes is one of his favorites.)

Easy to understand and follow.......2007-05-07

I bought this book to help me with simple signs to teach children under 2 years old who are not hearing impaired. I found the alphabetical listing made it easy to find words I wanted to use and the simple illustration made sure I was making the sign correctly. I think this book would work very well for someone wanting to learn basic signs for young children whether hearing impaired or not.

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Excellent.......2007-03-09

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Great reference guide.......2007-02-14

This is a great reference guide to everyday signs. Exactly what I was looking for to look up, learn and refresh daily used signs. It's alphabetical with letters and words, perfect for quickly looking up the sign you want to use. The signs are in picture form as well as an explanation of the proper action of the hand for signing. Quick,easy,fast and straightforward.

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Welles.......2002-10-30

One thing's for sure: Higham's 1985 ORSON WELLES: THE RISE AND FALL OF AN AMERICAN GENIUS is an entertaining read.

Published just months before Welles' death, RISE determines to cut through Welles' mythmaking and debunk the legend. It is quite effective in doing so.

But Higham short-changes the last thirty years of Welles' life, and is so determined to emphasize the bad things that the overall portrait emerges as grotesque. This might not be bad if Welles was not so famously charming.

The Rise of Welles Continues, his spirit lives on........1998-07-14

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Before he made Citizen Kane (recently named the Greatest American Movie ever), and before his success at the Gate Theatre in Dublin, and the Apollo Theatre in New York, Orson Welles was the top Radio star of his day. Barely 21 years old, Welles was the producer and director of "The Mercury Theatre on the Air," as well as the main attraction of "The American Cavalcade," and as Lamont Cranston, the dapper man about town, in "The Shadow."

Yes it's true, Welles had "THE VOICE," but he was also a pure genius (not a term to be thrown around lightly). He had a vision for what he wanted to accomplish, and many of his Radio productions are considered (60 years later) the greatest programs the industry ever produced.

Welles believed that ones creative days are limited. So he literally conducted his life burning both end! ! s of the candle to accomplish everything he wanted to do. His typical day would have him start out at 8 a.m. with the Mutual Radio Network, and then he would rush across town to hit NBC by nine. He, and that marvelous voice would be needed at CBS to do the Shadow at 10 a.m. Then back to Mutual and continue the process throughout the day. Not only was that process physically draining on Welles, it was also nerve racking trying to make his job appointments on time. One day a co-worker (Agnes Moorhead of the Mercury Theatre) suggested to him that he rent out an ambulance and with siren blaring weave in and out of traffic to get him to the networks on time. Welles found out that it was not against the law to travel in this fashion, and adopted this mode of transportation for the next 2 years.

At night Welles would produce his own stage productions, using money he earned from all of his radio jobs during the day. Quite often his Mercury Theatre Radio team would join him in his e! ! vening pursuits. Welles and his Mercury crew produced Shake! speare's "Julius Caesar" in New York. The play was such a hit it put him on the cover of TIME. Not bad for a chubby kid from Kenosha, Wisconsin. Welles then produced Macbeth with an all black cast at the Apollo theatre in Harlem. The Apollo was not only sold out, but on opening night traffic was at a standstill for over a mile radius of the Theatre. The play was an unqualified success. Welles received rave reviews from critics everywhere.

Still on his breakneck pace, the now 22 year old sensation was about to embark on the project that would make him a household name in America. On October 30, 1938 Welles and his Mercury Theatre presented "The War of the Worlds" by H.G. Wells.

The story is about a Martian invasion of earth. Under Welles' direction, the play was written and performed so it would sound like a news broadcast about an invasion from Mars. As the play unfolded, dance music was interrupted a number of times by fake news bulletins reportin! ! g that a "huge flaming object" had dropped on a farm near Grovers Mill, New Jersey. Welles direction was so stupendous that people either forgot that they were listening to a program, or turned on the radio and thought the news bulletins were real. It caused a huge panic. People packed the roads, hid in cellars, loaded guns, even wrapped their heads in wet towels as protection from Martian poison gas.

Welles and his team of Mercury Theater players made one of the most fascinating and important demonstrations of all time. They proved that a few effective voices, accompanied by sound effects, can convince people of most anything, even an invasion from Mars, and create a nationwide panic.

But that is the power of radio. Thought provoking, exciting, thrilling, and entertaining.

As one who grew up with radio drama, I can't think of a better way to be entertained than to sit back, relax, and enjoy one of those great programs of years gone by. Especially if it's Or! ! son Welles.

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