Leaf anatomy and classification of the Olacaceae, Octoknema, and Erythropalum (Allertonia)

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Leaf anatomy and classification of the Olacaceae, Octoknema, and Erythropalum (Allertonia)
P Baas
Manufacturer: Pacific Tropical Botanical Garden
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Olacaceae (Flora Neotropica Monograph No. 38)
Hermann Otto Sleumer
Manufacturer: The New York Botanical Garden Press
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Olacaceae (Flora of Pakistan)
Yasin J Nasir
Manufacturer: Available from] Dept. of Botany, University of Karachi
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Olacaceae (Flora of tropical East Africa)
G. Ll Lucas
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Olacales, Celastrales, Sapindales (Flora of Trinidad and Tobago)
R. O Williams
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All New Journeys From The New York Times Bestselling Author Of A Life On The Road

I keep thinking I will find something wonderful just around the bend.

Ever since October 1967, when he set off in a battered motor home to explore America and talk to its people, Charles Kuralt has been one of our premier chroniclers -- a man who has helped us see and celebrate our country in a way we never had before.

After retiring from CBS News in 1994, he set out to spend a perfect year in America -- traveling to his twelve favorite American places, in just the right month for a visit to each. With his well-known warmth, humor and insight, he shows them to us now in Charles Kuralt's America.

From Montana in September and Alaska in June to winter in Cajun country and the North Carolina mountains in spring, Kuralt's accounts are filled with people, stories and experiences. Suffused by a poet's love of language and rich in the spirit and flavor of this infinite and varied land, Charles Kuralt's America is, like its author, a national treasure.

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The Hobo Philosopher .......2007-09-12

I'm easy on this one. I like Charles Kuralt and I like travel books. I wrote my own travel Book "Hobo-ing America". When I compare my book to his it is easy to see the difference in personalities and "class". Charles Kuralt really writes middle class travel books. He is really not "Route 66", blue collar or working class material. But I understand. You really have to write books for those who can afford to buy them - though Jack Kerouac did pretty well. Charles made a commercial success of his love to travel and he always does it with style, good prose and I would even say poetry. I will always read Charles Kuralt. This book is in the latter part of his career when he was older and even wiser - if that is possible.

A good but not great book.......2005-10-14

I did enjoy this book, but there were parts where I lost interest. Kuralt gives a lot of detail about the people he meets, but sometimes I didn't get as many details as I would have liked about the actual place he visited. In all, it is a book worth reading-- especially if you like to hear stories about individual characters.

"He looked up at a towering tree,and dared to think small.".......2005-09-10

If you've enjoyed Charles Kuralt over the years ,you'll love this book.In 255 pages we are treated to 120 stories about interesting,famous,familiar,personal,human intrest stories and just about anything you might come across if you travelled America as Kuralt did and told us about for so many years.What you should really get from this book is that there is this type of thing all around us,no matter where you go or where you live.One doesn't have to spend their coin,or line up with crowds to see interesting things or meet interesting people.Everyone has a story to tell and every place has it's unusual or interesting points of interest.I have been a long time follower of Ripley's Believe It or Not! ;and that is what Ripley did as he travelled the world to find the unbelievable,unusual,strange or otherwise interesting.
The book will provide a great read for anyone interested in people or things,whether they are young,middle-aged or in their senior years.

Kuralt a Genius.......2004-12-11

Charles Osgood called Kuralt "The only genius that television news ever produced." I'll go with that. People were surprised when Kuralt retired abruptly. We later learned that he was in the process of succumbing to a fatal disease. So Kuralt was not just touring America, he was saying good bye to it. It is a brilliant work.

Third age vagabond.......2004-10-25

Charles Kuralt reads his own work on the audiobook. It seems like he had a lot of fun traveling around the country. People knew him, and then offered to show him around, for example, fly over a glacier in Alaska or have a special interview with a noted saddle maker in New Mexico.

It's nice that he had the money and means to do these things, a kind of third age "On the Road" adventure, but of course without the drugs and revels of Kerouac. And no Cody.

Maybe this was more like Steinbeck's "Travels with Charley."

In fact, Charles is so discreet, he even rebuffs a woman of possible ill repute in Key West. Oh ye of great faith!

But he hardly ever mentions his wife, maybe once or twice at the end. Was she happy just sitting at home? Or maybe she was traveling elsewhere? Anyway, I think it's too bad they could not have traveled together.

It was sad, though, when his father died, even though his father was pretty old (late 80s I think).

Of all the places he visited, I think I did like Key West best, because that was really the place that was furthest away from the American mainstream, except maybe Alaska, and I would prefer to travel outside of the country than in. From Key West, of course, you can get to the Caribbean countries pretty easily. What if he had done that? Diximus.

The Charles Kuralt Collection: Charles Kuralt's America a Life on the Road

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Almost Like the "On the Road" Series

The Charles Kuralt Collection: Charles Kuralt's America a Life on the Road
Charles Kuralt
Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Audio Cassette

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ASIN: 0671970194

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Almost Like the "On the Road" Series.......2000-05-08

I enjoyed listening to this audiocassette. I find that the journalist's job is one of the most intriguing. Kuralt explains one of his early first assignments in the beginning of the book, and works up to some of his favorite stories that he had covered during his stint with CBS.

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A very different and upbeat look at the United States........1997-10-23

Charles Hillinger, through his travels, can share a wonderful side of the U.S. that not many of us have ever experienced, let alone knew existed! It's not a book you have to read cover to cover. Skip around, what ever interests you at the time...Keep up the great work!

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Dateline America
Kuralt Charles
Manufacturer: Harcourt Brace
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000LBEX5Q

The North Carolina Atlas: Portrait for a New Century

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A definitive analysis of changes in North Carolina
More Than Just Maps

The North Carolina Atlas: Portrait for a New Century

Manufacturer: The University of North Carolina Press
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0807825077
Release Date: 2000-03-08

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As North Carolina enters a new century, perhaps no southern state faces a more intriguing combination of challenges and opportunities. Changes in the state's economy, shifts in its population, and a widening breach between urban and rural areas are just some of the forces that are reshaping North Carolina at this pivotal time in its history.

The North Carolina Atlas will be an invaluable aid in any effort to better comprehend the past, present, and future of our changing state. Using text and more than three hundred maps, charts, and photographs, the book offers an in-depth yet accessible look at the state's physical environment, history, population, and economy as well as such other aspects of life as government, politics, education, health, culture, and outdoor recreation. Tracing the shifts and patterns that have made North Carolina what it is today, the book also forecasts where these and other trends are taking us in this new century.

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A definitive analysis of changes in North Carolina.......2000-12-11

This is the most comprehensive and informative state atlas I have ever reviewed. Excellent maps, great charts and clearly written text makes "The North Carolina Atlas" a book that needs to be on the shelf of every public library and in the hands of all North Carolina devotes. Over the last century North Carolina has transformed itself from a struggling southern state to one of the fastest growing economies in the U.S. "The North Carolina Atlas" provides a definitive analysis of the changes that have created this wonderful state.

History, population, urbanization, and economy are transforming forces that molded North Carolina into what it is today. Each of these sections are clearly laid out so that the reader can make a critical analysis of the change and form an assessment of the coming changes that the future may bring.

Especially interesting are the sections that deal with quality of life in North Carolina. Crime, education, health care, water and air quality, cultural arts and outdoor recreation are profiled and supported by scores of maps, charts and diagrams. This is a book I would especially want in my possession if I was considering moving my family and business to this State. Highly Recommended.

More Than Just Maps.......2000-03-29

As Governor Jim Hunt says in the forward, "North Carolina is at a crossroads in its history." This "atlas" provides not only a wealth of information, but an intelligent perspective on the future of the state as it enters the 21st century.

Subjects matter includes the natural environment, history, population, urbanization, economy, agriculture, manufacturing, transportation, trade, politics, air quality, water resources, crime, health, education, arts, and recreation. I found these topics to be presented in an effective manner and certainly more enlightening than the statistical record one might imagine.

I also discovered, before I placed my order, that I was able to preview some of the book's illustrations at the UNC Charlotte Cartography Lab web site.

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Charles Kuralt collaborated with Loonis McGlohon, to produce this down-home, witty celebration of their native land.

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This book makes me sad that I was not born and raised in NC.......1999-07-15

Through prose, pictures and poems, this book gives one the "feel" of truely being a North Carolinian. Even if you have never visited the state, you can laugh, cry and dream as Charles Kuralt paints picture words of his home. A lovely relaxing read.

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Dateline America
Charles Kuralt
Manufacturer: Harcourt
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0156239620

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America
Charles Kuralt
Manufacturer: Anchor
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000O61HGG

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America.
Charles. Kuralt
Manufacturer: G. P. Putnam's Sons
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000KZTW3Q

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Charles Kuralt's America
Charles Kuralt
Manufacturer: Putnam Adult
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000OP3DTQ

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It is a fabulous account of the old traditions of her culture and the inspiring strength with which she faced her own personal struggles and the loss of the world she knew as a child.

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Tibetan life in the 20th century revealed.......2001-08-16

Tibetan life in the 20th century is revealed by a woman who recreates life in Tibet before the Chinese invasion, revealing personal and public activities and lives and recounting the author's journey around the world. Taklha lived in the old Tibet, saw it change under the hands of the Chinese, and experienced its restoration in her life. Born In Lhasa, her compelling autobiography is moving.

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New cow owner

Keeping A Family Cow

Keeping a family cow

Convinced me to leave the city and buy a cow!

Worth reading just to savor the first couple of chapters.

Keeping A Family Cow
Joann S. Grohman
Manufacturer: Coburn Pr
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0963181440

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New cow owner.......2007-03-09

Even though my cows are beef and not dairy I found this to be one of the most valuable books I have read. Easy to follow information that applies to anyone thinking of raising cattle on a small scale. Highly recommend !!

Keeping A Family Cow.......2007-01-19

Great Book. Very helpful with first time cow owners. Go to Joanne's website also. Alot of great info. there.

Keeping a family cow.......2006-11-10

This book is an absulute must for those getting a milk cow... very helpful.

Convinced me to leave the city and buy a cow!.......2004-03-24

At the time when I ordered this book, I was living in a trailer park, and researching nutrition carefully. I am a mother of five children, and our family keeps growing, so I want to be sure that our family gets the best nutrition we can. I feel that good nutrition is something every mother should strive to give her children, no matter how rich or poor.

So, after learning that untreated milk (unpasteurized, unhomogenized) is better for your health, I went looking for a legal way to obtain raw milk for my family. I started out at www.westonaprice.org (the Weston A. Price organization is aimed at getting nutrient-dense foods onto America's dinner tables) and could not find any suppliers in my area.

I started looking at the possibility of getting my own cow to milk, and ordered this book. In the first few chapters, Joann explains the value of the cow, and untreated dairy products. Then, she goes on to explain all the how-to's of having a cow. This book alone convinced me that I wanted to leave the city and the trailer park and have some land with a cow!

Since owning the book, I have referred to it often. When my cow got bloat, I quickly referred to the book to find out what to do. I saved my cow's life because Joann's words were right there, even though she lives far away from me. I'm so glad that she wrote this book, and even more glad that I own it. Joann also has an online diary (which I LOVE to read) and an online discussion forum that has been very helpful.

Oh, and one more thing, there is nothing comparable to the taste of food that you've raised yourself, not to mention the superior nutrition and absence of hormones, antibiotics, pesticides, and herbicides. It is a wonderful life, and this book helped me to have the confidence to jump in with both feet and do it!

Worth reading just to savor the first couple of chapters........2003-06-07

Why is modern America so dissatisfied with life? We're rolling in wealth to the extent that we can afford vacations to Europe, boats, swimming pools and $100 concert tickets. We don't have to bother raising or even cooking our own food, because multinational corporations continue to discover ways to produce technologically advanced, highly processed food products at lower and lower cost. We don't have to repair our own cars, clean our own houses, or mow our own grass. We own multiple automobiles, televisions, computers and even places to live. We take advantage of a standard of living that exceeds most other countries on the planet. To quote a popular song, "The Future's so Bright, We Gotta Wear Shades." Why then are so many of us taking Prozac, seeing therapists, and finding less and less joy in our daily lives? It's difficult to contemplate, but many of us somehow feel disconnected from our daily existence. Despite being surrounded by incredible riches, we somehow long for a lifestyle that no longer seems attainable. Something important seems to be missing. No only can't we identify what's missing, we don't have a clue on how to restore it to our lives. Joann Grohman's book, Keeping a Family Cow, provides a great deal of insight into this very issue.

Keeping in character with the book's premise, the author provides a detailed guidebook for nurturing and managing a dairy cow while successfully integrating such a creature into a modern lifestyle. Presented in an easy-to-understand, straightforward manner, the book offers up a plethora of information designed to turn the most inexperienced neophyte into a competent dairyman. The book provides details on animal acquisition, feeding, disease prevention, breeding and food hygiene, and is written in such a way to offer enlightened reading to a diverse audience. Joann also maintains a free web site,..., that provides a discussion forum for cow-related issues. If you've ever contemplated adding a bovine member to the family, this book will go a long way toward helping to make this project a success.

Even though these technical topics make the book worth the price of admission, I strongly believe that there is more to this book than initially meets the eye. During my undergraduate years, I stumbled upon a book called The Continuum Concept (authored by Jean Liedloff) that contrasts Western child rearing techniques with those of more primitive cultures. Even though I was not yet married, and had no interest in starting a family, I realized that there was something about her ideas that resonated with my innate sense of right and wrong. I couldn't identify why I could so easily relate to her views on nurturing infants, but it just seemed as if Liedloff had illuminated obvious truths about human nature that no one had previously discussed.

Joann's writings resonate in the same fashion. The first couple of chapters in the book seem to emanate from someone who shares Liedloff's understanding of human nature. Keeping a Family Cow demonstrates a remarkable insight into the cultural, technological and market forces that have produced the frenzied pace that we all take for granted, and demonstrates how the acquisition of a family cow can restore some of the "rightness" that seems to be missing from our daily existence. There's something incredibly satisfying about Joann's arguments to support the family cow concept, and her writings offer a glimmer of hope that we can somehow find our way back to a lifestyle that is more in tune with our expectations, our evolutionary experience as human organisms, and our hopes and dreams for the future. I can't recommend this book enough.

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Cow Keeping in India ; A Simple and Practical Book on their Care and Treatment, their Various Breeds, and the Means of Rendering them Profitable
S.N. Sinha
Manufacturer: Biotech Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 8176220981

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The Dexter Cow and Cattle Keeping on a Small Scale
William Rayner Thrower
Manufacturer: Spaulding Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000V96EJQ

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Keeping a Cow
Val Spreckley
Manufacturer: David & Charles PLC
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0715376551

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Good little book

Keeping a Cow
Jim Wilson , and Jim Oilson
Manufacturer: Kangaroo Press
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 086417604X

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Good little book.......2000-02-09

This book we read in the local library

It has a good balance of technical and daily information

Has a mating timing chart which is handy.

I think it also had some cattle showing tips in the last chapters.

Detailed a couple of ways of throwing a cow. Very good to know

Have read a couple of House cow books. This is the best so far.

Has as much information that you would expect from its size. Every page is worth reading. But if it were bigger it could cover additional material. Calf mainteneance in particular is a little light.

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Keeping cattle without losing money.(The cow barn): An article from: Countryside & Small Stock Journal
Ken Scharabock
Manufacturer: Countryside Publications Ltd.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B00082C71A
Release Date: 2005-07-31

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This digital document is an article from Countryside & Small Stock Journal, published by Countryside Publications Ltd. on May 1, 2004. The length of the article is 1545 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: Keeping cattle without losing money.(The cow barn)
Author: Ken Scharabock
Publication: Countryside & Small Stock Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 1, 2004
Publisher: Countryside Publications Ltd.
Volume: 88 Issue: 3 Page: 75(2)

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Keeping score: easy-to-use system helps you track udder hygiene.: An article from: Dairy Today

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Keeping score: easy-to-use system helps you track udder hygiene.: An article from: Dairy Today
Rick Mooney
Manufacturer: Farm Journal Media
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from Dairy Today, published by Farm Journal Media on April 1, 2003. The length of the article is 1055 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: Keeping score: easy-to-use system helps you track udder hygiene.
Author: Rick Mooney
Publication: Dairy Today (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 1, 2003
Publisher: Farm Journal Media
Volume: 19 Issue: 4 Page: 20

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Mad cow? Or just annoyed? For now, retailers and consumers around the country seem to be keeping December's ominous discovery in perspective.(Refrigerated ... Story): An article from: Frozen Food Age

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Mad cow? Or just annoyed? For now, retailers and consumers around the country seem to be keeping December's ominous discovery in perspective.(Refrigerated ... Story): An article from: Frozen Food Age
Bob Ingram
Manufacturer: Cygnus Business Media
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from Frozen Food Age, published by Cygnus Business Media on February 1, 2004. The length of the article is 3615 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: Mad cow? Or just annoyed? For now, retailers and consumers around the country seem to be keeping December's ominous discovery in perspective.(Refrigerated Food Age)(Cover Story)
Author: Bob Ingram
Publication: Frozen Food Age (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 1, 2004
Publisher: Cygnus Business Media
Volume: 52 Issue: 7 Page: 53(3)

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Bulletin / Maine Agricultural Experiment Station

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Bulletin / Maine Agricultural Experiment Station
George F Dow
Manufacturer: Maine Agricultural Experiment Station
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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Bulletin
John McKissick
Manufacturer: Cooperative Extension Service, The University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
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Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B0006QYSYW

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Finally... a book for beginning antiquers!.......2000-06-21

Frank Loomis does a fine job introducing newcomers to the mysterious world of antiques. The photographs are very helpful and his writing is clear. I recommend this book for anyone who loves to poke around flea markets and antique stores. Be sure to take it with you.

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Unconditional parenting very challenging

Different take on parenting

Changed my life

A Must Read For Parents, Educators and Health Professionals

Must Read for Parents and Educators

Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason
Alfie Kohn
Manufacturer: Atria
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Binding: Paperback

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Most parenting guides begin with the question "How can we get kids to do what they're told?" and then proceed to offer various techniques for controlling them. In this truly groundbreaking book, nationally respected educator Alfie Kohn begins instead by asking, "What do kids need -- and how can we meet those needs?" What follows from that question are ideas for working with children rather than doing things to them.

One basic need all children have, Kohn argues, is to be loved unconditionally, to know that they will be accepted even if they screw up or fall short. Yet conventional approaches to parenting such as punishments (including "time-outs"), rewards (including positive reinforcement), and other forms of control teach children that they are loved only when they please us or impress us. Kohn cites a body of powerful, and largely unknown, research detailing the damage caused by leading children to believe they must earn our approval. That's precisely the message children derive from common discipline techniques, even though it's not the message most parents intend to send.

More than just another book about discipline, though, Unconditional Parenting addresses the ways parents think about, feel about, and act with their children. It invites them to question their most basic assumptions about raising kids while offering a wealth of practical strategies for shifting from "doing to" to "working with" parenting -- including how to replace praise with the unconditional support that children need to grow into healthy, caring, responsible people. This is an eye-opening, paradigm-shattering book that will reconnect readers to their own best instincts and inspire them to become better parents.

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"Most parenting guides begin with the question ""How can we get kids to do what they're told?""--and then proceed to offer various techniques for controlling them. In this truly groundbreaking book, nationally respected educator Alfie Kohn begins instead by asking ""What do kids need--and how can we meet those needs?"" What follows from that question are ideas for working with children rather than doing things to them. One basic need all children have, Kohn argues, is to be loved unconditionally, to know that they will be accepted even if they screw up or fall short. Yet conventional approaches to parenting such as punishments (including ""time-outs""), rewards (including positive reinforcement), and other forms of control teach children that they are loved only when they please us or impress us. Kohn cites a body of powerful, and largely unknown, research detailing the damage caused by leading children to believe they must earn our approval. That's precisely the message children derive from common discipline techniques, even though it's not the message most parents intend to send. More than just another book about discipline, though, Unconditional Parenting addresses the ways parents think about, feel about, and act with their children. It invites them to question their most basic assumptions about raising kids while offering a wealth of practical strategies for shifting from ""doing to"" to ""working with"" parenting--including how to replace praise with the unconditional support that children need to grow into healthy, caring, responsible people. This is an eye-opening, paradigm-shattering book that will reconnect readers to their own best instincts and inspire them to become better parents. "

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Unconditional parenting very challenging.......2007-09-27

Unconditional Parenting is probably the best and most provocative parenting book I've ever read. Be prepared to be challenged if you read this book. The author does not believe in time-outs, punishments in general, or in giving rewards to children. He basically believes we should be unconditional parents and treat our children like guests in our homes. Yet, he isn't hands-off or loosy-goosey. He doesn't believe in authoritative, traditional parenting or using control unnecessarily. I read this book when my boys were 11 and 13 years old. I wish I had read it when they were babies! I would have done a lot of things differently with them had I read it earlier. My husband agreed to watch the DVD (of the same name) with me and also agreed with a lot of what Kohn says.

Different take on parenting.......2007-09-16

Compared to other books on parenting this one is refreshing and original, I'm sure every parent would agree that the ultimate goal is understanding and love between child and them, not an authoritarian relationship

Changed my life.......2007-07-10

As a father of three, this book changed my life forever, and I owe him - and my kids owe him - an enormous debt. Please read as Kohn dissects the conventional wisdom regarding "time outs", and "positive reenforcement". The book is easy to read, its arguments masterfully structured, the prose smart and funny enough to keep you engaged.

A Must Read For Parents, Educators and Health Professionals.......2007-07-05

Many times I hear professionals giving parents advice that is not researched or well thought out. Time outs, stickers, manipulation, threats - all of these tactics that only make children resentful. Kohn's book is poignant, intentional and filled with research that matters. If you like Kohn's writings, you should read his other work on "how children learn" on his web site, (www.alfiekohn.com), he is intellectual and is a genuine advocate for American children....Kohn will be known in history as one of the true pioneers that stood for children.
Visit www.TheGoToMom.TV to see videos on positive parenting that have the same philosophy as Alfie Kohn's work....

Must Read for Parents and Educators.......2007-04-20

I opened the Wall Street Journal today to find an article entitled "The Most-Praised Generation Goes to Work." The article describes how some employers have to "dish out kudos to workers for little more than showing up." One company has a staff "celebrations assistant" whose job is to throw confetti at employees and pass out helium ballons; another estimates that employees receive praise every 20 seconds. The examples go on and on. Perhaps parents and educators need to look at "rewards and praise" in a new light. This book does just that and I wish I would have read it sooner! I cannot recommend this book enough. Instead of giving you a "blow-by-blow" of what to do in a specific situation, Kohn gives you strategies that can apply and be expanded to numerous situations. Many new parents and teachers want to know what to do if the child does "this." Well, as we all experience by dealing with various people in our lives, we need to treat each person as an individual and may deal with the situation differently depending on the people involved. One important point Kohn makes that I found extremely insightful was to think (and listen) to how we speak to our (and others') children. If we would not want to be spoken to like that then perhaps we need to reflect on how we can handle the situation differently. Good luck to all new parents and educators who are willing to take a deep look at their choices and make the necessary changes to help our children!

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How to Grow Old Disgracefully (Transaction Large Print Books)
Hermione Gingold
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HOW TO GROW OLD DISGRACEFULLY
Norman Anthony
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Norman Anthony
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How To Grow Old Disgracefully or Anthony's Adversities

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How to Grow Old Disgracefully or Anthony's Adversities : A Hilarious Autobioraphy
Norman Anthony
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Samuel Beckett, a talent so exceptional that he created masterpieces in both French and English, shied away from the limelight for much of his life. However James Knowlson, in this amazing biography, shows Beckett wasn't entirely hesitant to talk about himself; the book relies heavily on interviews with Beckett to reconstruct the writer's dizzying career. Knowlson fills the pages with exhaustive detail--some major, some minor. In addition, he analyzes the influences on and evolution of Beckett's work. Through it all a larger picture emerges, one of the artist at work and in life. Damned to Fame is a necessary addition to any study of Beckett.

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Damned to Fame is the brilliant and insightful portrait of Nobel Prize-winning author Samuel Beckett, mysterious and reclusive master of twentieth-century literature. Professor James Knowlson, Beckett's chosen biographer and a leading authority on Beckett, vividly re-creates Beckett's life from his birth in a rural suburb of Dublin in 1906 to his death in Paris in 1989, revealing the real man behind the literary giant. Scrupulously researched and filled with previously unknown information garnered from interviews with the author and his friends, family, and contemporaries, Knowlson's unparalleled work is the definitive Beckett biography of our time.

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Detailed record of the life- journey of 'The Master of 'Less ' is 'More'.......2006-04-20

James Knowlson is both a preeminent Beckett scholar, and cherisher of Beckett's friendship and memory. There is thus in his biography a degree of caring, and perhaps too a degree of personal protection. Nonetheless it provides any student of Beckett with a wealth of new information to enhance our knowledge of a great writer, but not solve completely the mystery and meaning of his greatness.
Joyce , Beckett's boss, and great inspiration , taught him the meaning of total dedication to the craft. But Joyce also gave him the key negative example. The feary father was greedy, and always added on and made more words than any other maker could possibly contend with . So Beckett chose a contradictory technique and became the great minimizer, the great substractor, the master of 'Less is More'.
One reviewer on the Amazon site(Tepi)excoriates Knowlson for playing down the emotional and psychological drama and difficulty of Beckett's life, of underestimating the role the cold mother played on her creator son. The criticism too of the biography is that it does not come to life in providing real portraits of the real people in Beckett's life, including the companion of twenty - years Susan.
Nonetheless I believe in general we search for the good in the book, value what it gives us. And this book does give us much new detail about a master in the art of making meaning out of what is smaller.
My own reading of Beckett goes back a long way in misunderstanding and appreciation. I in reading years ago the trilogy of novels felt that Beckett comprehended a basic aspect of human experience, in old age and dying, in a way no one else had. He made into 'Literature' kinds of experience which had not been made into Literature before.
His fierce inner poetry the Irish lyric spirit was strong in him as Joyce.
A biography can provide us details and insights into the life, and even the creative process of a master, but it cannot solve the mystery of great creation which always has within it something of a ' divine gift' a ' surprise' that even the creator himself cannot fully understand.

A Thorough, Passionate, and Scholarly Work.......2006-03-05

If the scale permitted, I would give Knowlson's biography of Samuel Beckett 4 1/2 stars. It is an impressively thorough, passionate, and scholarly work by an ardent admirer. Knowlson's ardor for Beckett, the man no less than the work, is everywhere evident as a predominant strength and an odd occasional weakness. I could not help feeling, every now and then, that it pained Knowlson greatly to have to write anything negative about Beckett. As a biography, it is less emotionally detached than I usually like, but only slightly. It was a compelling read, all 618 pages, which is saying alot.

Tepi Distorts Knowlson--This Bio Is the One You Need.......2006-02-01

The review below by Tepi distorts Knowlson's accomplishment and misguides readers to Bair's biography, which relies heavily on supposition and is flat out wrong on the details of Beckett's life in almost countless cases. Tepi expects Knowlson to track Beckett's mother's effect on him throughout the entire piece, but this isn't a psycho-biography; it's a biography that considers the man as a whole, not the man as formed by his mother.

This is the standard biography of Beckett because Knowlson has access to more first-hand information than any other. Doesn't hurt to have Beckett's authorization and good graces, either. It is true that the amount of information here is overwhelming, but this makes it the piece that a student of Beckett needs to have, something that one can consult for the rest of one's life. If one wants idle and sensationalistic speculation on Beckett's complexes, then you should waste your money on Bair. The choice shouldn't be hard.

Access to the inaccessible.......2003-03-18

It is too easy, I think, to criticize an authorized biography as being hagiography. I did not find that Damned to Fame suffered from particular whitewashing, but then I was not reading it with a particular need to see SB picked apart in a personally critical way.

Knowlson was a close personal friend of Beckett's-- a fact which he does not try to hide in his treatment. And as such he has access to letters and papers of which other would-be Beckett biographers could only dream. And as a friend, I found that he left the focus in the place that Beckett would have wanted it-- on the work itself, on the vision, on the *writing*.

Which is not to say that he neglects Beckett as a person. But Beckett was a deeply private person and I found that Knowlson did an excellent job of balancing the privacy so dear to the subject with discussing what the reader needs to know to understand the artist.

For a casual reader, Damned to Fame might even be *too* exhaustive. I appreciated it, however. Particularly appreciated all the references to what Beckett was reading at various points in his life and I as well appreciated the copious notes and bibliography provided at the end of the book.

tepi............2002-02-01

for Pete's sake.... Boo Hiss. If you know so much about him that you can make the assertions that you make... why didn't you do the job? I haven't finished the book yet, but I am enjoying it. Knowlson, obviously isn;t a professional biographer per say, but he at least brings many years of critical insight into the subject. And needless to say, if you want a "psychological" study, then we'll have to turn to someone else about his mother problems. Sometimes professional biographers aren't the best to unravel all the complexities of a man like Beckett.

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Damned to Fame
James Knowlson
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Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett.

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Damned to Fame

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Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett.
Samuel]. Knowlson, James. [BECKETT
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