An illustrated fern flora of the West Himalaya

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An illustrated fern flora of the West Himalaya
S. P Khullar
Manufacturer: International Book Distributors
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

General | Plants | Biological Sciences | Science | Subjects | Books
General | Botany | Biological Sciences | Science | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 8170891361

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An Illustrated Fern Flora of the West Himalaya (Volume II)
S.P. Khullar
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 8170892708

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Up-to-date, detailed, highly readable relief map with major roads and point-to-point distances clearly indicated. Tourist information provided. Insets of Port-au-Prince, Santiago, Santo Domingo and Santo Domingo Colonial Quarter. Easy to fold. Features beaches, waterfalls, forts, missions, national parks, hotels, restaurants, places of worship. Scale 1:600,000.

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No modern British Prime Minister has been so thoroughly misunderstood or simply dismissed as Henry Addington. Fedorak demonstrates that, contrary to the views of his opponents and many historians, Addington was an astute and effective Prime Minister. His fall after three years in office was the result of a complex train of circumstances in which questions of personality, both within and outside the government, played a major part.

Addington, who had no ambition for higher office, agreed to become Prime Minister only because his predecessor, William Pitt the Younger, and King George III insisted. He immediately faced the serious and difficult challenge of leading a relatively inexperienced Cabinet to deal with a series of military, diplomatic, economic and social crises caused by war and famine. Fedorak demonstrates that Addington dealt with these crises as successfully as the circumstances would allow and left a lasting mark on British politics. He negotiated peace with Russia, Denmark, Sweden and France. He repaired the government finances, delivered the first modern budget speech, and ameliorated social unrest. After boldly declaring war on France in 1803, he doubled the productivity of the Income Tax, and raised more than 600,000 men at arms to fight the French.

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Henry Addington, Prime Minister, 1801-1804: Peace, War, and Parliamentary Politics
Charles John Fedorak
Manufacturer: Univ of Akron Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000P9TZC0

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On March 11, 1985, a van was pulled over in Warsaw for a routine traffic check that turned out to be anything but routine. Inside was Marek Kaminski, a Warsaw University student who also ran an underground press for Solidarity. The police discovered illegal books in the vehicle, and in a matter of hours five secret police escorted Kaminski to jail. A sociology and mathematics major one day, Kaminski was the next a political prisoner trying to adjust to a bizarre and dangerous new world. This remarkable book represents his attempts to understand that world.

As a coping strategy until he won his freedom half a year later by faking serious illness, Kaminski took clandestine notes on prison subculture. Much later, he discovered the key to unlocking that culture--game theory. Prison first appeared an irrational world of unpredictable violence and arbitrary codes of conduct. But as Kaminski shows in riveting detail, prisoners, to survive and prosper, have to master strategic decision-making. A clever move can shorten a sentence; a bad decision can lead to rape, beating, or social isolation. Much of the confusion in interpreting prison behavior, he argues, arises from a failure to understand that inmates are driven not by pathological emotion but by predictable and rational calculations.

Kaminski presents unsparing accounts of initiation rituals, secret codes, caste structures, prison sex, self-injuries, and of the humor that makes this brutal world more bearable. This is a work of unusual power, originality, and eloquence, with implications for understanding human behavior far beyond the walls of one Polish prison.

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Kaminski progresses the Beckerian model of criminal behavior........2006-10-02

Social scientist have tried investigating correctional institutions to better understand both the causes of crime and the criminal actor, but a series of obstacles like secrecy, hostility, cultural distance, psychological endurance, and physical danger have separated the social scientist from this insight. Kaminski's Games Prisoners Play, the Tragicomic Worlds of Polish Prisons, invites social scientists to take greater efforts in being constantly aware of the opportunity to exploit their own comparative advantages in accessing data sources, because data surrounds us everywhere. Arrested for anti-communist publishing in early 1980's Poland, Kaminski conveniently transcends the traditional obstacles, defining himself as an "observing participant...who enters a community through a similar social process as its other members and is subject to similar rules...and undertakes field research as if he or she was a researcher (p. 7)."

Kaminski combines the insights of game theory with real accounts of inmate life, to describe prison life as a realm of strategic risk, uncertainty, cost, choice, status and reward. The characters take shape both personally and as entire classes. The reader can't help but feel empathy coupled with a sense of humor, as dark as it may be, that makes life "more bearable (p. 15)."

Becker's 1968 paper "Crime and Punishment an Economic Approach" is perhaps the first to bridge the fields of criminology and economics. In Becker's model the criminal continuously makes cost benefit calculations, weighs risk and uncertainty, maximize his benefits, and chooses between crime and production. Becker's theory was bold; it stood in contrast to common opinions of criminal behavior being explained by either nature or nurture hypotheses. Under nature or nurture theories, criminals are either deprived or depraved, and policy implications are limited as such. By characterizing the criminal as a rational actor, Becker's model has policy implications which go beyond the limited notions of "lock `em up" on the one hand or "subsidize education," on the other. It forces planners to recognize that the institutions, to which their policies give shape, have direct effects on the incentives of individuals that operate within them.

This interpretation can be taken in two ways. One could say that Becker's model gives greater legitimacy to the efforts of prohibitive policy in that they are trying to effectively provide negative incentives to crime. By imposing higher costs to criminal activity, policy makers expect to see fewer crimes take place. On the other hand, Becker's insight could be interpreted to show that prohibitive efforts are extremely costly and at times futile if they do not recognize all other counter-acting incentives, or more simply put; the elasticity of the demand curve for crime. Individually honed policies do not have direct control over all of the various institutional forces that promote a given behavior. Social behavior is more often than not, the result of a complicated network of interactive forces.

Kaminski's text supports the latter interpretation of Becker over the former, and furthermore the complicated network does not start nor stop at the prison gates. His main thesis is a straightforward one; game theory is a useful theoretic device at explaining the behavior of inmates (p. 4). He uses his memoirs as representative testimony to model prison phenomena into simplified games. These games help the reader trace the incentives of actors and preferable outcomes are sought and exploited by the inmate players. Kaminski notes that his analysis is confined to the Polish system in the 1980s. Consequently some of the conclusions one draws from his analysis must be limited and treated with caution.

The games Kaminski describes demonstrate the complexity and ingenuity of strategy used by inmates to cope with their uniquely resource-limited scenarios. The inmate's capacity to strategically interpret, foresee, and communicate amidst the harsh conditions of prison life is obvious. The reader is left to wonder why, if the prisoners are so strategic inside the gates, they were not sufficiently strategic in free society to avoid incarceration? The reader is told a classically liberal message (pp. 11, 22, 26, 27, 32, 63, 85, 119, 129) through the stories of political activists incarcerated by the hands of a communist regime, fitting the text within the thesis of Public Choice political economy. The reader sees imprisonment in society as less about promoting social order, but more about promoting particular political interests. Even strategic responses to social interaction can fall short against hierarchical positions of authority. This holds true both inside and outside the gates.

Despite the straightforwardness of the book's main thesis, the implications are bold and combative of existing criminal justice policy. Prisons are meant to be an instrument of protection and a promotion of peace, yet inside their walls violence runs rampant. Prison management techniques take the shape of prohibiting inmates' access to physical materials, drugs, goods, and services. Authority, control, and imposed structure are the only tools used by prison managers to diminish violence and maintain order within the institution's walls. But are these tools the only ones available, and are they being wielded correctly to their stated aims of promoting peace and social order?

Kaminski's game theory scenarios tell a story with a novel interpretation of how prisons are used by states. Kaminski demonstrates that it is the harsher conditions of scarcity which raise the stakes of enforcement in a prison, not the mentality or cruelty of prisoners. In prison a person may be beaten or degraded in social status for shaking hands with the wrong person or passing gas at the wrong time; obviously these are harsher conditions of enforcing social norms than in a free society, but harsh enforcement techniques are tools for preserving peace. The alternative of non-violently enforced social norms in prison would result in a constant war of every prisoner against every other prisoner. Comparing rates of violence between free and incarcerated people is no comparison at all because conditions of scarcity are completely different between the two samples. Institutions develop differently in different scenarios of scarcity. Through Kaminski's work we can see that harsh enforcement techniques are ingenious solutions to maintaining peace and order in the otherwise chaotic prison cell, and furthermore that they are emergent and diverse. Successful games and players remain while failures drop out or adjust their behavior. The allotment of games played were not singularly constructed and imposed by any single authority.

The "grypsmen," prisoner upper classes, take the role of game designers and have access to information unknown to other players. In a world with next to no physical resources to convert into productive capital, these inmates capitalize on the one asset they seem to hold in abundance; knowledge. Veteran inmates know the repetitive nature of prison society and have exploited profitable avenues in it. There is a single unstable condition: the constant risk and uncertainty associated with new inmates. A new inmate might either accept the social ranks of his cell mates and abide by the rules upon hearing them, or he could rebel against it and threaten to disrupt all of the peace and order which the veteran inmates have worked hard to instill. The harshness of enforcement is a direct result of the combined limitations of physical resource scarcity with the extreme risk imposed by uncertainty of new inmate violence.

Kaminski's text simultaneously draws into question the entire apparatus of prison management and constructed social enforcement. If management's true intention by prohibition, discipline, and control is to diminish violence and maintain order within cell walls (or within society for that matter), than it must look more closely at the spontaneity of enforcement mechanisms implemented by inmates themselves to cope with their conditions of extreme resource scarcity and uncertainty. Since knowledge is the commodity most valuable to the upper classes of inmates, prohibition is an ineffective tool at managing the interactions of inmates, perhaps equally true in free society.

One of the better books I've read on game theory........2006-06-21

I took several classes in game theory with the author. We used a number of other books on the topic, only later to abandon them to use his own book. To say the least, Games Prisoners Play did a much better job of arousing the interest of the reader and keeping game theory on an understandable level. This book is good for someone who is new to game theory; it's also great if you want a deeper practical understanding of the subject.

Game Theory is Everywhere.......2005-04-01

Without being aware, everyone plays GAMES everyday. This is strictly from the definition of GAMES (players, strategy, payoff). I attended Lectures where this book was used and have loved it. I recommended it to many of my collegues, friends, co-workers, and bosses at work. Learn about what Game Theory is all about.

Games Prisoners Play : The Tragicomic Worlds of Polish Priso.......2004-07-21

I know very little about game theory but this hasn't prevented me from swallowing ?Games Prisoners Play? in one gulp. Having been taken by the attractive title and the author?s biography I didn?t experience a single moment of disappointment at any stage of the reading. Accustomed to story-telling and fiction I was astonished how interesting a structured, well-organized scientific analysis of prison life can be versus subjective visions depicted in all kinds of personal accounts (either in books or movies) I?ve read or seen so far.
Following the author's (former prisoner himself) path through fascinating subculture of Polish prison you don't see freaks and outlaws but reasonable people. Even if inmates' behaviors may often seem freaky and completely incomprehensible the author introduces you to the rationale behind their (his) actions in a perfectly convincing mode, to the extent that you start imagining yourself making a seemingly freakish decision in similar circumstances (what comes to one's mind is that all of us are potential prisoners).
What adds the flavor to the reading is an account of, among others, the prison argot (words and expressions explained in the book are later combined in an attached glossary) or everyday life including such ?trivial? areas as handling physiology in a small cell shared by a few people or sexual life.
Having read the book I also feel greatly encouraged to learn more about game theory. Thus, I may assume that not only is the book a perfect introduction to prison life but also to game theory.

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Not really a guide.......2007-05-17

I have to say that I was very disappointed with this book. I was hoping for more information to be contained within the book but this is more like a book that you would give an elementary school child. The book gives only superficial information about the breed. I think that people can find more information on most online sites,i.e. Wikidpedia, etc.

I Bought It. I Read It. I Recommend It........2007-04-13

I thought I'd say that as the owner of a sixteen-month-old female black lab I learned a lot of useful information from this book. It doesn't waste time, and always comes straight to the point: something I tried to do with this review.

Great Summary Treatment On Owning A Labrador!.......2006-03-21

As a person who has had the distinct pleasure of sharing my house and my life with as many as six Labrador retrievers at a time over the last 20 years (I now have five), I am acutely aware of the wonder and awe associated with getting such a wonderful companion can be. yet, sadly, I am also aware of the profound ignorance many would-be labrador-people are regarding how to select, introduce, and socialize this new member of the family. In that sense, this book , along with a number of others such as Richard Wolper's "Family Dog", can provide the wary would-be initate with all of the essentails on how to successfully transform that cute little puppy into a happy, obedient, and well-integrated member of the household.

This book does offer one the expert advice one needs regarding the care and nurture of what has now become the single most popular breed in the United States, with information ranging from an impromptu history of Labrador Retrievers to such topics such as adoption options. The book also features a wealth of facts and details regarding Labrador Retrievers. It provides essential and vital information regarding nutrition, socialization, and exercise, and offers some sage advice about how to find and select a reputable breeder. In addition, it also touches on aspects of ownerships such as common illnesses and chronic problems associated with the breed. This is a book I can heartily recommend!

The Guide to Owning a Labrador Retriever.......2000-06-25

This book provides the basics on Labrador Retrievers. If you are new to the breed this is a very helpful book. It does provide enough information to get you started with a new puppy and a new breed. If you are looking for very detailed instructions on training and retrieving this book really doesn't go into enough detail.

Guide to Owning a Labrador Retriever.......2000-02-23

This book was informative on the basics, but did not go into a lot of depth on any one topic. I bought it because I was researching the breed, but I feel I need to buy additional material in order to answer my questions, since I plan on being a new parent to a pup.

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Retrievers and retrieving
W. G Eley
Manufacturer: The Field & Queen (Horace Cox) Ltd
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B0008A7LEU

Retrievers And Retrieving - with Notes On Field Trials (A Vintage Dog Books Breed Classic - Labrador / Flat-Coated Retriever)

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Retrievers And Retrieving - with Notes On Field Trials (A Vintage Dog Books Breed Classic - Labrador / Flat-Coated Retriever)
Major W.G. Eley
Manufacturer: Vintage Dog Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Animal Care & Pets | Home & Garden | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 1846640024

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RETRIEVERS AND RETRIEVING With Notes on Field Trials By Major W.G. Eley A VINTAGE DOG BOOKS CLASSIC REPRINT. Originally published in London 1905, and then revised and updated in 1913, this rare early work was one of the first books to deal with retrievers, their training, and use in Field Trials. It is both expensive and hard to find in any early edition. VINTAGE DOG BOOKS have now republished it using the original text, as part of their CLASSIC BREED BOOKS series. The author was a well known and respected breeder and trainer of retrieving breeds and also an experienced game shot. He contributed many articles on both subjects to the sporting press of that era. Major Eley states that for all practical purposes Retrievers can be summed up as one breed. Flat Coated Retrievers and Labradors were the favourite breeds of his day, and numerically the strongest, but his advice also covers any retrieving breed of dog. "Retrievers and Retrieving" consists of one hundred and fifty five pages divided into five comprehensive chapters:- Early Training. - Work in the Field. - Observations. - Retriever Trials. - Kennel Management. This is a fascinating read for any gundog enthusiast or historian of those breeds, but also contains much information that is still practical and useful today. Many of the earliest dog books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. VINTAGE DOG BOOKS are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

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Fabulous!

Versatile technique.

Different and Innovate

fun

Fantastic Fabric Folding: Innovative Quilting Projects

Fantastic Fabric Folding: Innovative Quilting Projects
Rebecca Wat
Manufacturer: C&T Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Crafts & Hobbies | Home & Garden | Subjects | Books
Quilts & Quilting | Crafts & Hobbies | Home & Garden | Subjects | Books
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Flower Origami: Fabric Flowers from Simple Shapes

ASIN: 1571200851

Book Description

This fanciful application of clever origami techniques to traditional quilt patterns can add spice to every needleworker's repertoire. Twenty-two projects for quilts, vests, pillows, and other items include templates and folding instructions for easy star, diamond, pinwheel, and other designs.

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Fabulous!.......2007-09-01

This book kept me up all night, making beautiful little flowers. Lots of inspiration! While the directions were "pretty good" a showing of the right and wrong side of the fabric would have been helpful, but a small amount of imagination and manipulation worked wonders.

Versatile technique. .......2007-06-12

I have had this book since it was published and made flowers to add a little textural interest to my quilts. I follow the basic directions but vary the size of the square to make all different sizes. It is the perfect take-a-long project in the car or plane. I made a garden of variegated batik roses to applique on the border of a too-flat-looking spring quilt. It really made an 8 hour car ride pass quickly. I have also made the roses in super size- 8" square final size- and put them on tote bags as decorative pockets.

Different and Innovate.......2007-05-15

Just the special technique I was looking for. Book is well illustrated, directions easy to follow. Nice projects!

fun.......2007-05-12

fun, project. Instructions are great. though I have yet to figure how to make the sunflower look right.

Fantastic Fabric Folding: Innovative Quilting Projects.......2007-03-23

While this book has some fabulous and innovative ideas that add to quilt design, I found the instructions and illustrations very difficult to follow. It seemed to leave you hanging between one-step to the other. I took the book to work and several people could not figure it out. However, one individual came along, took one look, and completely understood. So, if you want a challenge, or if you are good at reading between the lines, go ahead and get the book. I have not made a quilt but I did master the flowers on the front cover of this book. I will probably focus on making some of the pillows. However, for now, the book is on my shelf until I want another challenging project to work on.

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garden book

Essential for Japanese Garden beginners

Japanese Gardens in a Weekend: Projects for 1, 2 or 3 Weekends
Robert Ketchell
Manufacturer: Hamlyn
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

General | Gardening & Horticulture | Home & Garden | Subjects | Books
Japanese Gardens | Gardening & Horticulture | Home & Garden | Subjects | Books
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ASIN: 0806977310

Book Description

“Ketchell has compiled a realistic guide to constructing more than 20 outstanding Oriental garden features. Detailed directions combine with impeccable illustrations, and Ketchell’s informed explanations of construction techniques, material requirements, tools, and equipment make even the most intricate design attainable.”—Booklist.

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garden book.......2007-03-19

I love japanese gardens but this is not so easy. Great pictures and great ideas but I'm not very handy. I wish it was made a bit easier to follow. Some supplies are not easy to find in my area. But great ideas anyway.

Essential for Japanese Garden beginners.......2003-04-22

A great run down on the essentials in a Japanese garden. From plants to design and bamboo. A great book for how-to water features and more. A great book.

Garden Projects in a Weekend: Projects for 1, 2 or 3 Weekends

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Overall, a great addition to my library

Garden Projects in a Weekend: Projects for 1, 2 or 3 Weekends
Ali Ward
Manufacturer: Hamlyn
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

Landscape | Architecture | Professional & Technical | Subjects | Books

Garden Design | Gardening & Horticulture | Home & Garden | Subjects | Books

General | Gardening & Horticulture | Home & Garden | Subjects | Books

Landscape | Gardening & Horticulture | Home & Garden | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 0806990996

Book Description

Take just one weekend to turn a hard-to-mow area into a wildflower meadow, create a new seating arrangement, or build a low-maintenance courtyard. In two, make a sun canopy, obelisk, children’s fort, or wind screen. Three, and you could set up a handsome pergola of wood and rope.

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Overall, a great addition to my library.......2003-01-13

I have read several garden project books and none of them have satisfied me as much as this book does. Here are practical projects and ideas for small and small-ish gardens that go beyond decking and basic benches. I felt the book could have been a little more innovative, but overall, that it was creative and realistic.

The book begins with basic information about the value of adding height, a terraced area, seating, paths, shelter, water, light, and a children's area to your garden, then offers tips on planning a garden out, working with what you already have. There's also a section on buying and using "hard landscaping" (like stone and gravel). Tips on choosing plants and using containers are given, too, along with info on laying a lawn down.

Then we get on to the really good stuff: The projects. Here you'll find a "chamomile seat" (something mostly unknown in the U.S., but basically a seat with herbs growing in it that will release a wonderful fragrance when you sit down), a very formal lawn, a rather boring and basic oak bench, a rather mundane wildflower border, a simple water feature that doesn't require the pumps and such of a full out pond, a pretty decorative screening made with wire and ivy, a children's "wigwam" made of willows and plants, a basic color-themed border, a "low maintenance courtyard" with an Asian flair, very basic lighting with mason jars and tea lights, obelisks, a formal knot garden, steps with herbs growing from them (again, they release a great scent when stepped upon), a very basic sun canopy, something called a "children's play fort" that looks more like a fenced in area surrounding a tree, a Japanese-inspired screen, an Asia-inspired mosaic made from pebbles, some turf sculpture (grassy mounds and the like), a cute kitchen garden, an easy-to-contruct pergola made from ropes and a few pieces of timber, some pathways, a more formal fountain and pebble stream, and a paving maze.

I'm glad to have this addition to my library, and am sure it will inspire me to spend more than a few weekend adding personality and pizzazz to my garden.

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Oh Boy! Or Girl!

Just had a baby? Relax, lie down and breathe a sigh of relief. The Mother of All Baby Books has arrived! From the author of The Mother of All Pregnancy Books, comes the guide that all new parents have been waiting for, whether they know it or not. The Mother of All Baby Books is the instruction manual that Mother Nature forgot to include with your new bundle of joy. Packed with important advice and insider tips to coping with the joys and challenges of caring for your new baby, this comprehensive, refreshing guide is an excellent resource for first time or even experienced moms and dads.

Warm and delightful, The Mother of All Baby Books offers a wide range of topics including basic childcare, nutrition, health, and physical, emotional, and social development. Inside you'll find the facts about sleeping patterns, breastfeeding, circumcision, and immunization issues, as well as charts and tables to bring you up to date on the latest information, a handy glossary of baby-related terms, and insider secrets on shopping for baby. Get the inside scoop on how to handle colic, diaper rash and all those pressing questions that have you pacing the floor at 3 a.m.! With an extra-added dose of reassurance, discover what it's really like to become a parent in this bible to babyhood and beyond!

"The Mother of All Baby Books provides excellent advice for topics that are easily overlooked during the pregnancy/baby adventure."
-Sandra Gookin, co-author of Parenting For Dummies and Parenting For Dummies, 2nd ed.

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One sentence in the book bothers me.......2007-09-10

So, I was happily reading this book and kept telling my husband about how much I like this book & that it ranks # 2 as far as baby books go (Baby 411 is the absolute BEST one) & I have read ALOT of baby books. Anyway I get to this sentence that really makes me mad - it is better to smoke & breastfeed than to not breastfeed at all - I tried to breastfeed my son for 3 months and we just could not do it. He was born with low blood sugar thanks to my diabetes & was given a bottle as soon as he was born. On top of that he had severe jaundice that required us to supplement and he preferred the bottle over having to work for milk. I never felt a let down of milk, I pumped every 30 mins. for 2 weeks straight & all I produced all day long was 2 oz! After going to 3 different lactaction consultants (not to mention the several nurses while in the hospital) none of which could help my baby latch on properly I finally gave up when he was 3 months old. I now have a BOTTLEFEED baby who is 7 months old & is already learning to walk, according to his Dr. he is way ahead of his peers developemently. I babysit a exclusivly BREASTFEED baby who just last week has learned to turn over (my son was turning over both ways at 3 1/2 months old) & has gotten sick double the amount of times that my son has. I feel bad enough about bottlefeeding without hearing sentences like that, I smoked for 11 years and quit a year before getting pregnant because I didn't want to expose my child to that let alone breastfeed a baby while smoking. I don't think that statement makes bottlefeeding mothers feel very good about their decision, we already get enough grief from everybody else and don't need books to make us feel more guilty. And besides second hand smoke can contribute to lung cancer, bottlefeeding can't. If you ignore that one sentence in the book then it's a wonderful book.

Good resource.......2007-03-12

You can never have too much information since a newborn doesn't come with an instruction manual.

Comforting and Funny!!!.......2006-04-05

Bored with all those "stage" in life books for your baby to be? Perhaps you are (as I am) soon to be expecting and realize that you won't have a lot of time to read up about what your baby may/may not be up to and if it is normal after your baby arrives. Well then this book is for you!
I eagerly started the book on Friday and finished it (yes all 500 pages) on Saturday. What a delight. The author uses plenty of references from real life Moms and Dads which add wonderful insite and humor. Be warned though, if you are looking for the "What to expect book" format this is not for you. This is a realistic, warm, and funny look at life that tackles hard to discuss topics in a safe and humorous way.
If you are tired of the same old at this age your child will _____ books then definately pick this up. Its like talking to an old friend that you haven't met yet who has been there and knows the struggles and confusion that comes with having a baby.

Great book for new mother.......2005-07-28

I purchased this book for a young friend of mine who was about to have a baby and had lots of questions about not only the baby, but about what her body was going through. She loves it and refers to it constantly.

A top-notch guide to baby (and mom's) first year.......2004-10-15

This book provides an exceptionally thorough look at baby's first year from both the mother and baby's perspective. First-time mothers often express frustration about how ill-prepared they felt for the early weeks and months of motherhood. This book does an excellent job of giving mothers-to-be a realistic idea of what life after baby will really be like, for better and for worse. It's a truly one-of-a-kind and top-notch reference.

Book Description

This book, a collection of reminiscences with fifty-five fine art dealers, works to correct misconceptions and shed light on the dealer's intricate, fascinating, and difficult profession.

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The Art Dealers: The Powers Behind the Scene Tell How the Ar.......2002-11-28

This book sheds real light into how New York based art dealers from the 1940s to the 1980s lived, worked and thought about art. There are many interesting anecdotes, opinions and brief biographies inside this book filled with short essays about some 25 dealers who hepled shape the world of art as it is still known today.

Formulaic Padding.......2002-10-31

This is a mere formulaic padding of the prior edition of this book. There are a few new chapters. In some cases, these chapters address dealers who have come into prominence since the 1985 edition. Other dealers given equal attention were added for reasons that shall remain mysterious, as they address players never known or soon to be forgotten. The original chapters related to figures such as Sydney Janis and Leo Castelli have some historical interest. The new chapters tend to be shorter and tend to suffer from a narrow focus on the personal background of the dealer and the editors' apparent effort to prompt the dealers to speak to art world issues that may have been new or compelling in 1985 (e.g., the "new" role of auction houses) but which are certainly capillary today. The upshot is that I learned quite literally nothing about the contemporary art market.

The Art Dealers The Powers Behind the Scene Tell How the Art World Really Works

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The Art Dealers The Powers Behind the Scene Tell How the Art World Really Works
Alan Jones de Coppet Laura
Manufacturer: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000UDTSNW

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Scholarly, informative, and highly recommended.......2001-01-11

William O'Brien believed in the British Parliament's capacity to give good government in 19th Century Ireland. His attempts to secure liberal reform were largely unsuccessfully, and he entered the 1840s with a growing conviction that the Irish Members were wasting their time at Westminister. In 1843, his political campaign for "justice" in Ireland prefigured the tactics of Parnell, but the effort ended in disappointment and O'Brien joining the Repeal Association in October of 1843. For the next five years he was a major political figure, and finally, a leader in the 1848 Irish rebellion. In William Smith O'brien And The Young Ireland Rebellion Of 1848, Robert Sloan provides the reader with a remarkable and informative political biography, as well as a "window in time" to the events that led up to Ireland's doomed rebellion against an unresponsive and exploitative British rule. Scholarly, informative, and highly recommended.

Not really a review.......2000-11-22

OK, slight admission - I've never read the book. Frankly, failed Irish rebellions (of which there seem many) are not really my interest. However, the author is my history teacher at school, and a really good bloke. He deserves to do well out of this book, so even if you don't like the subject, buy it and give him a nice supplement to his teacher's salary!

William Smith O'Brien and the Young Ireland Rebellion of 1848.(Book Review): An article from: The Australian Journal of Politics and History

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William Smith O'Brien and the Young Ireland Rebellion of 1848.(Book Review): An article from: The Australian Journal of Politics and History
Jennifer Harrison
Manufacturer: University of Queensland Press
ProductGroup: Book
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This digital document is an article from The Australian Journal of Politics and History, published by University of Queensland Press on March 1, 2004. The length of the article is 839 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: William Smith O'Brien and the Young Ireland Rebellion of 1848.(Book Review)
Author: Jennifer Harrison
Publication: The Australian Journal of Politics and History (Refereed)
Date: March 1, 2004
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
Volume: 50 Issue: 1 Page: 138(2)

Article Type: Book Review

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