Sedum of the trans-Mexican volcanic belt: An exposition of taxonomic methods

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Sedum of the trans-Mexican volcanic belt: An exposition of taxonomic methods
Robert Theodore Clausen
Manufacturer: Comstock Pub. Associates
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: B0007EFSBK

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best travel guide for Guatemala.......2004-12-19

We lived in Guatemala City for 2 years and found most of the other guidebooks for Guatemala spoke of really interesting things the average city dweller couldn't get to on long weekends out from Guatemala City (such as Alta Verapaz). Footprints is chock full of interesting things to do within a four hour drive of Guatemala City which made it perfect for us. We found Footrints far superior to Let's Go and Lonely Planet.

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A revealing account of the passions, betrayals, and intrigues of Australian politics by a man who has lived the highs and lows of public life. Peter Collins acknowledges the dark side of politics, the failures as well as the successes, the bad faith and chicanery as well as the trust. This story is about more than politics; it's about the personal struggles and exhilaration that come from pursuing a passion.

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J.A. Jance's Joanna Brady series whisks us off to a small town in the desert terrain of the Southwest. When Joanna's newly elected husband is killed while serving as sheriff of Cochise County, Arizona, Joanna steps into his position. We watch her grow into the job in Jance's series: she has to cope with the problems of juggling family and personal life while solving crimes. At the same time, we've learned about the benefits and shortcomings of daily life in a desert--how beautiful and dangerous the landscape can be in all seasons.

Jance's seventh book, Outlaw Mountain, begins with the death of an old woman who was injured when she fell on a poisonous cholla cactus. But it isn't the plant that finishes off Alice Rogers; the lively, free-spirited widow is murdered by someone who injects her as she lies writhing in pain. Now Joanna has to find out whether anyone in Alice's large family would have killed her for her land and money. Was it her son Cletus, "a restaurateur with the diplomacy of a mountain goat," who was recently elected mayor of the legendary Arizona town of Tombstone (where Wyatt Earp once reigned)? Or did the murder have something to do with a local political power struggle? As she has done so well before, Jance balances scenes full of action and excitement with more intimate moments. --Dick Adler

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Alice Rogers, an elderly widow, is dead, found murdered in the Arizona desert. It's easy enough to pin the killing on the teens caught driving her car across the Mexican border, but Sheriff Brady isn't about to let it go at that. Alice was something of a free spirit, with a penchant for Scotch, the glitter of Las Vegas, and a romance with a man twenty years her junior. Her hot–tempered daughter Susan suspects Mom's boyfriend –– her former handyman who moved in instead of moving on when he finished his handy work. Now Susan's furious at her brother Clete, the do–nothing mayor of Tombstone, blaming him for not protecting their inheritance by breaking up their mother's winter romance.

Yet all is not as it appears to be, and Joanna is forced to put her personal life on hold to dig deeper into Alice's death, the lives of her greedy offspring, and the identity of her mysterious gentleman friend. And as the investigation gets sidetracked by ugly local land disputes, it takes some troublesome twists and turns, until Sheriff Brady finds herself wading through a murky morass of graft and corruption that may have given someone reason to kill –– and kill again.

"Joanna Brady is a delightful character."

–– Chicago Tribune

"J.A. Jance is among the best––if not the best––mystery novelists writing today."

–– Chattanooga Times

"Jance is one of those authors who makes readers feel as ifthey lived all their lives in the setting of which she writes."

–– Cleveland Plain Dealer

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Could Not Put It Down.......2007-03-29

Filled with suspense and twists and turns. I also enjoy the way in which Jance brings in the personal day to day life of the Brady and her family. Just enough soap opera without going over the edge.

awful.......2006-07-21

J.A. Jance's novel, Outlaw Mountain, is one of the worst books i have read in years. Her characters and their dialogue, both inward and spoken, are completely unbelievable. The storyline is convoluted and riddled with useless drama which is completely unnecessary for the plot. The fact that I was able to finish this book was an act of pure discipline. I am a worse person just for having consumed this book. I would advise anyone who is considering purchasing or reading this book to save their time and money.

Death by Cholla? Painful!!.......2005-04-04

Outlaw Mountain continues the story of Joanna Brady, sheriff of Cochise County, Arizona. I have to admit that I've read all seven books in this series and it continues to be one of my favorites. The characters are well developed, plots are well thought out, and the books are just plain fun and exciting. Another plus, at least for me, is that the main character of Joanna Brady is not perfect - she's a struggling, working mother who goes through so much that is familiar territory for the rest of us, it makes her character very believable and identifiable.

As always in this series, we are once again taken to Bisbee, Arizona in Cochise County. For those that are unfamiliar with the Arizona region, Bisbee is an old mining town that's within driving distance to Tucson. The background and details given on this small town, from the surrounding landscape down to details about the Copper Queen Hotel has made it intriguing to the point that I want to vacation there - I have to see this area first hand! The fact that J.A. Jance can encourage this type of "want" is testimony to her fantastic ability as a writer.

Jance captures the reading audience from the very beginning with the murder of an elderly woman in a gruesome manner. Now don't get me wrong, most murders are gruesome, but the details that Jance uses make it so - the details aren't gory or bloody, but they do leave a lasting impression on the reader. This is a perfect example - before Alice Rogers is killed, she is chased into a grove of Cholla cactus and pushed into them. These cacti have long needles that are very painful when they come into contact with humans, this I know from personal experience - my hand felt like it was on fire for hours. This is the gruesome detail that I mentioned previously.

Joanna Brady now must not only find out who killed Alice, but also why this person wanted her to suffer so horribly. This investigation leads us through many interesting developments with new characters and old alike. The subplots are interwoven into the main story line with such precision that at times you don't realize it's not part of the big picture. We see the relationship between Butch and Joanna take on new meaning, we see more into the relationship between Joanna and her mother, we even see more into Dick Voland - a chief deputy working under Joanna.

The killer didn't come as a surprise to me (maybe I read far too many mysteries to be fooled anymore), even the illness reeking havoc with Marianne Mulcayea (Joanna's long time friend and local minister) was not an unknown idea to me. Even so, there was never a dull moment while reading Outlaw Mountain. In fact, I haven't found one book in this series that I haven't absolutely loved and I encourage everyone to read them! I do suggest that you begin with Desert Heat, the first in the set and continue in order. It's not mandatory to understand each new book, but it will help you to feel as if you're part of the story and somehow fit in with Joanna Brady and her group of friends and family.

Now for the negative - yes, I actually found a negative with this book! It's a first: J.A. Jance actually made a mistake in this one. She referred to Arizona Game and Fish as Arizona Fish and Wildlife. Ok, so it's not a huge mistake, and I am nitpicking, but it is an error. I haven't ever found a blunder in any of her books - either major or insignificant - until now. It was almost like getting two surprises in a box of Cracker Jacks - it didn't change the flavor, I just knew it wasn't right. If this is the only inaccuracy made by Jance in this series, you can see why this type of research combined with incredible plots, strong characters and great development are what makes these books hit the bestseller list every time!

Lots of intertwined plot, but few thrills.......2001-11-24

This is an unusual mystery. It starts off with an interesting murder, then drags on for a long time. Meanwhile, we slug along through seemingly unconnected events, until finally things begin to focus. I wanted it all to build to a great climax, but it best scene (Joanna vs. the killer) occurred too early, leaving Ms Jance a few more chapters to tie up the other loose ends, such as the missing husband and Junior. There was a lot of good story within this book. Perhaps if it was packaged better, it could be a solid 4 or 5 star mystery, but it has a bit too much soap opera within it. Like all Brady books, it was a pleasant and fast read, however. After reading several of them, though, I still can't figure out the source of antagonism between Joanna and Eleanor.

One of the worst novels I have finished this year.......2001-10-26

Maybe it is me but this novel was about as exciting as watching the grass grow. It is the first mystery novel that I have read by a female author and I hope that it is not representative of the gender. But, by the reviews here, all by women, I can see that Jance writes to that crowd. Her readers seem to like being taken down the aimless boring pass of relationship drible. If you want to spend 10 pages with the main character sitting and talking about nothing in her mothers house or on her friends porch talking about their health than this book is for you. It is amazing that Jance can start great with the murder scene and then 200 pages later start uncovering her first clue, the insulin bottle. Jance gives no indication that Oak Vista or the stranded stranger are even remotely related to the story. Do not start this book it is absolutely a total waste of time. If you want a good mystery read Coben, Crais, Patterson or Michael Connely.

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Outlaw Mountain Ambush
Howard Pelham
Manufacturer: Avalon
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 0803487142

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Aunt Skilly and the Stranger
Kathleen Stevens
Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0395687128

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To a wily thief, old Aunt Skilly seems the perfect victim, but when the man tries to steal the quilts Aunt Skilly plans to sell, he discovers that he has underestimated her intelligence and self-sufficiency -- not to mention her pet goose.

Outlaw Mountain (Joanna Brady Mysteries (Audio))

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Outlaw Mountain (Joanna Brady Mysteries (Audio))
J A Jance , and Yancy Butler
Manufacturer: Phoenix Audio
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Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: 1597773743

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When an elderly woman is found dead in the Arizona desert, it's easy enough to pin the killing on teens caught driving her car across the Mexican border. But Sheriff Joanna Brady isn't buying it. She is forced to put her personal life on hold to dig deeper into the murder and the lives of the wealthy victim's greedy offspring.

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Outlaw Mountain
J.A. Jance
Manufacturer: Books In Motion
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: 1596071354

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Sheriff Joanna Brady Series, #7.

A tough cop, Joanna Brady gives no ground to lawbreakers, but the young widow gives her whole heart to her eleven-year-old daughter and to close friends who have seen her through the toughest of times. Now she's dealing with the multi-faceted mystery of a gruesome roadside killing, and it's complicated by some big time political maneuvering. As the investigation gets sidetracked by ugly local land disputes, it takes some troubling twists and turns until Sheriff Brady finds herself wading through a murky morass of graft and political corruption that reaches into high places, and may have given someone more than ample reason to kill...and kill again. Read by Stephanie Brush. 11 CD's 11.5 Hrs.

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Ghost Train (Cascade Mountain Railroad Mysteries)
Anne Capeci
Manufacturer: Peachtree Publishers
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1561453242

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The third book in a historical mystery series featuring a trio of young crime solvers and nonstop action set against the backdrop of early 20th century railroad expansion. IT IS 1926 IN THE REMOTE CAMP TOWN OF SCENIC, WASHINGTON, and Billy, Dannie and Finn have more on their minds than the upcoming Fourth of July pageant. When Billy finds a mysterious burlap sack containing a threatening note, he and his best friends have a brand new case to solve. Does the note have something to do with the mysterious, unscheduled trains that are moving through Scenic? The trail leads to a planned railroad heist of a special train that carries raw silk worth millions from the Seattle shipyards to the East Coast textile mills. But time is running out as the three friends frantically search for clues to the identity of the robber before the targeted "ghost train" passes through Scenic. Anne Capeci's latest book in this fast-paced historical series offers young readers a satisfying mystery, well-drawn characters, and an authentic portrait of the rough and tumble life of a western camp town in the 1920s.

Missing! (Cascade Mountain Railroad Mysteries)

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Missing! (Cascade Mountain Railroad Mysteries)
Anne Capeci
Manufacturer: Peachtree
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 156145334X

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IT IS 1926 in the remote camp town of Scenic, Washington, and ten-year-old Billy Cole is excited about the upcoming Fall Fish Fry fishing tournament and a visit from his cousin, Mim. But his enthusiasm is dampened by news that someone in the camp is a thief. Food, an overcoat, a pair of binoculars, and money have been stolen. Now Billy, Mim, and Billy's best friends Dannie and Finn decide it is up to them to catch the thief! Anne Capeci's latest book in this fast-paced historical series offers young readers a satisfying mystery, well-drawn characters, and an authentic portrait of the rough and tumble life of a western camp town in the 1920s.

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The Jinx of the Payrock Canyon
Troy Nesbit
Manufacturer: Whitman Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0911197338

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"Hey, lookit! Somebody just bailed out of that plane!" As they observed a parachute falling to the ground, Jason Himrod and his buddy Doc could no longer hear the plane's engine; maybe it had crashed. With this, Jason & Doc saddle up their horses and ride out in the high Colorado Rockies above the ghost town of Payrock to explore the mystery before them. THE JINX OF PAYROCK CANYON, another in a series of 1950's Whitman juvenile classic literature written by Troy Nesbit (aka Franklin Folsom), is a truly adventurous tale that involves the young reader's imagination in a western setting. Will Jason & Doc suddenly find themselves too deep in trouble when they unravel the mystery of the JINX OF PAYROCK CANYON?

Last Mountain Dancer: Hard-Earned Lessons in Love, Loss, and Honky-Tonk Outlaw Life

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Last Mountain Dancer: Hard-Earned Lessons in Love, Loss, and Honky-Tonk Outlaw Life
Chuck Kinder
Manufacturer: Carroll & Graf
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0786716533

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On sabbatical from his professorship at the University of Pittsburgh, native West Virginian Chuck Kinder (portrayed as Grady Tripp in Michael Chabon’s Wonder Boys and played by Michael Douglas in the film) makes a midlife pilgrimage to his homeland to re-imagine and reconnect with that fabled, fantastic country. Confronting the regrets and heartaches of his past, present, and future, Kinder seeks solace in the funny and raunchy family stories, lies, legends, and history that reside in West Virginia’s haunted hills and the hollows of his memory. But more than anything, Kinder wants to live it up hillbilly style. Immersing himself among the lives of mountaineer characters, both the quick and the dead, the bad-boy author bears holy witness to the triumphs and misdeeds of the loafers and misfits, winos and oddball characters of his homeland. Readers will be astonished by tales of bloody mine wars, outlaws on the run, roadhouse romance, barroom brawlers, beer-joint ballerinas, and a man who calls himself the last mountain dancer. With mothmen, moonshiners, and family feudists, it’s Planet West Virginia. Chuck Kinder's wild-ride rediscovery of his West Virginian roots is sure to quicken all of our hillbilly hearts.

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Best Mountain Writer.......2005-04-22

Chuck Kinder's redneck roots have served him well. Last Mountain Dancer, his "meta-memoir," is taken up with his childhood home of West Virginia. Readers are treated to everything from his adolescent years as a bona fide outlaw, pulling armed robberies with a sociopathic father figure named Morris Hacket; to buying all his dear old mother's crocheted comforters from an "artsy-fartsy artiste type" proprietor of a craft store so that his mother, with months of no sales, wouldn't feel "lower than whale bowels on the bottom of the ocean;" to packing a half-dozen brazed possum sandwiches and long necked Budweisers and driving the West Virginia hills with his sister and brother-in-law; to his fascination with a paranoid West Virginia Elvis impersonator named Jessico White, the last mountain dancer of the title; to an impassioned defense of Sid Hatfield, the fabled coal miner's advocate murdered by West Virginian authorities in 1921. The book is stunning both for its honesty and for the force of his prose. Often, Kinder's most beautifully written prose accompanies descriptions of horrible events or the most painful self-discoveries. For example:

"There was absolutely no private mythology left behind what passed for my personality. Not unlike other foolish, floundering middle-aged men, I didn't believe in a thing that seemed to matter. My life had broken down like an old heap on the highway" (Dancer, p. 139).

And then, some two hundred pages later,
"I had begun to fancy myself as one of those uniquely American types who define themselves primarily in the loss and betrayal of themselves and what they love. For Proust (a somewhat similar European type), the only true paradise was a lost paradise, and love was not fully itself until it was lost, until it became memory, became the stuff of story. At its heart, every story is about a lost world... ." (p. 349).

After much soul searching and confronting of his foibles and doomed hopes, he decides to embark on a journey of self-discovery, aware of creating a new fable for himself and of his inconsistency:

"I was deep into my fable of embarkment. I was sipping ice-cold vodka straight like a seasoned hardboiled ironist and vaguely wondering if my upcoming self-proclaimed voyage of self-discovery would be in truth simply another frivolous fiction of self-invention. Steadfastly true at least to my inconstancy, I sat there in the monastery of myself thinking that the only thing I ever knew for sure was what I made up" (p. 381).

There is much to admire and enjoy in this book, written by the purported Grady Trip of "Wonderboy's" fame. Kinder has written three novels that also provide great literary experiences: "Silver Ghost," "Snakehunter," and "Honeymooners" (about his raucus life with Raymond Carver).

5 Titles in the Joanna Brady Series: (1) Desert Heat; (2) Devil's Claw; (3) Partner in Crime; (4) Skeleton Canyon; (5) Outlaw Mountain (Set of 5)

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5 Titles in the Joanna Brady Series: (1) Desert Heat; (2) Devil's Claw; (3) Partner in Crime; (4) Skeleton Canyon; (5) Outlaw Mountain (Set of 5)
J. A. Jance
Manufacturer: Avon
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000WWO7BO

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Journal of Love opens up a whole new way of communicating with animals.

"Animal whisperer," Janice Kolb, shares her heart-lifting journey of discovery as she learns to communicate with her beloved feline companion - Rochester - first by using her intuition, and then by writing a journal of their "conversations."

In her journal, Jan Kolb records Rochester's thoughts, feelings, and reflections, which often contain many useful and healing "lessons."

To begin "listening" to animals, the author recommends starting with one's family pet. The love, trust and respect one has for a pet, she comments, will often translate into a more compassionate and sensitive human being.

Rochester himself comments, "When a question is presented to an animal, trust what you hear and write it down. Just pick up a pen and begin to write, and you will know in your heart that the animal has spoken."

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Me too.......2000-12-13

For a long time I have been able to communicate mentally with my friend, companion and helper. He is my seeing eye dog, and is with me constantly. Over the years we have developed the ability to talk together in a way I just can't explain. It is as if some profound and complex electronic device is connecting our thought processes. I never had the courage to discuss this with anyone because in addition to my obvious handicap, I didn't want people to think I was mentally unbalanced as well. But when a friend read Janice Kolb's book to me, I got the courage to tell people what I am experiencing. I can't do the journaling technique she recommends, but I'm sure this would enhance my experience. As it did for me, this book can open new worlds for those who truly love their pets.

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Basketball Card Price Guide and Alphabetical Checklist (Basketball Card Price Guide & Alphabetical Checklist)
James Beckett
Manufacturer: Dens Collectors Den
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0937424765

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The Sport Americana Basketball Card Price Guide and Alphabetical Checklist/Number 3/Illustrated and Unabridged (Sport Americana Basketball Card Price Guide & Alphabetical C)
James Beckett
Manufacturer: Edgewater Book Co
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0937424706

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American Horticultural Society Practical Guides: Grasses and Bamboos (AHS Practical Guides)
DK Publishing
Manufacturer: DK ADULT
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0789483777

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Here are two new competitively priced, compact, full-color guides that focus on a specific gardening topic, solve an array of gardening problems, and present every important plant group. Combining the authority of the American Horticultural Society with the visual magic of DK design, these practical handbooks are the ultimate quick-reference guides for gardeners. The AHS Practical Guides address particular needs and solve specific problems. With this wide range of small, affordable titles gardeners can build a customized mini-reference library that enables them to solve problems, acquire skills, and further develop their passion for the soil.

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THE book. Covers it all!

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Before Your Pregnancy: A 90 Day Guide for Couples on How to Prepare for a Healthy Conception
Amy Ogle , and Lisa Mazzullo
Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 034544096X
Release Date: 2002-09-03

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Before Your Pregnancy is a breakthrough book for prospective parents—a completely detailed resource that prepares mothers and fathers-to-be to conceive the healthiest baby possible, to make pregnancy and delivery easier, and to foster the mental and physical well-being of their infant child. Created by two experienced health-care professionals, this unique handbook not only discusses virtually every aspect of preconception that affects a healthy baby, it tells you how to handle each one. The authors spell out what each parent needs to do, starting at least ninety days before conception (the minimum time needed for sperm to mature). The hundreds of topics covered—many for the first time in any book—include

• Men’s Health: Building healthy sperm before conception (nutrition, fitness, and medical influences)
• Women’s Health: Gynecologic well-being, preexisting medical conditions, genetic legacy, boosting fertility, becoming a mother at an older age
• Becoming an Informed Patient: Choosing a doctor, what a complete preconception exam includes, important questions and how to ask them, insurance coverage
• Nutrition: Improving the health of future generations, preconception meal makeovers, ethnic Food Guide Pyramids, avoiding food-borne illnesses, vitamin and mineral facts, pre-pregnancy body weight
• Fitness: Preconception fitness evaluation and exercise prescription, safety tips and motivational anecdotes, preconception strength and flexibility workout
• Medications/Herbs: Baby-friendly ones and ones to avoid
• Personal Readiness: Emotional, financial, and environmental issues
• Romancing the Egg: Tips for success when ready to “start trying”
Plus: Separate questionnaires for the prospective parents to fill out in preparation for their preconception medical visit.

This warm, intelligent, and completely informed reference gives aspiring parents exactly the knowledge and support they need to insure the best of everything for their child-to-be.

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Excellent Information.......2007-03-31

I read this book well in advance of "trying" to get pregnant. It's a very good overall book for nutrition, exercise and the reproductive system. It tells you what to do and what to avoid at least 90 days before trying to conceive. Highly recommended

Very disappointing.......2007-01-09

I think this book was written in a very conservative and clinical manner. Realisticly, life is not that serious. It would have been helful to read a more humorous, yet realistic approach to preparing for pregnancy.

THE book. Covers it all!.......2006-12-29

I have read many books in regard to preconception and this one seems to cover it all...in details. It is written by knowledgeble doctors and I really trust their advice like my own doctor's. It answered ALL my questions and even mentioned things I didn't even think of asking. If I had to recommend only one pre-pregnancy book, that would be this one and yet, I believe I have read them all (about a dozen). It is consistent with the other books but it goes in much deeper. Very precise and that's how it should be. Thanks for your help Dr. Ogle!

Very Disappointing.......2006-11-06

I found this book to be a good read at first. As I read more, I came upon the food pyramid and was referred to a later chapter. Disappointingly, I found separate food pyramids for Asian-Americans, Mexican-Americans, and African-Americans. I was shocked to read some of the content of the food pyramids and found it to be extremely offensive and prejudice. Lumping an entire race into a different "food consumption" category is unbelievable and very untruthful. For this reason alone, I stopped reading the book halfway through. The book has a copyright date of 2002, which makes the food separate food pyramids even more appalling.

I have found more helpful information for soon to be pregnant women on Internet searches, especially in terms of nutrition and fitness. I expected much more from this book in relation to preparing emotionally and actually evaluating if you are really ready to embark on the new journey we call "motherhood."

Use it for what it is.......2006-07-15

This book isn't for people who are trying to conceive. For those who are preparing to do it in the future it offers good information on diet and environmental hazards. Use it for what it is and it is useful. If you are trying to conceive this book isn't for you.

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Dan Eldon, who was only 22 when he was chased down and killed by an angry mob in Somalia, was one of the youngest photographic stringers in Africa. But his journalistic work, which had appeared in Time and Newsweek, showed only a small part of his talent. Eldon excelled as an artist in his collages, which combined his photographs of Africa with paint, pastiche, pop culture images, advertising, and official documents. The Journey Is the Destination collects pages from the 17 scrapbooks that held his art. Chronicling his work from age 14 through his death at 22, this volume is startling not only in the intensity and thoughtfulness of the pages, but also in the fact that someone so young could have this kind of artistic depth and insight.

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By the time he was twenty-two, Dan Eldon had led a relief mission across Africa; worked as a graphic designer in New York; studied (intermittently) at four colleges; traveled through Europe, Africa, Japan, and the US; founded a charity for Mozambiquan refugees; directed a film; written a book; started up his own photography business; and become a photojournalist for Reuters news agency, covering the famine and civil war in Somalia. There, in 1993, he was killed in an eruption of mob violence while on assignment. In a world of rules and regularity, Eldon was a renegade, a risk-taker, and an adventurer. But, despite all his travels, he knew that the interior landscape is the only one truly worth exploring, and this is the journey he dedicated himself to recording. His is no ordinary journal; it is an astonishing seventeen-volume collage of photos, drawings, words, maps, clippings, paint, scraps, shards, and trash that reveals his strange and vivid life. The Journey is the Destination offers a selection of pages from these extraordinary journals, at once the vision of an artist in his prime and the unrestrained outpourings of a young man just beginning to live.

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An amazing visual record of a brief, spectacular life.......2007-09-02

This is a dense, rich book of images and words left by Dan Eldon, one of those brilliant, outsized people who burn through life like a flare and are gone. He surrounded himself with beauty and horror and tried to both record and to make some sense of his experiences and the constant, jarring disparity between the extremes of life.
If you love photography and art or are just drawn to precocious brilliance and the intense energy of people who are present in every moment of their lives, you should own this book.

It's impossible not to be profoundly moved by this book..........2006-12-05

This is an emotional book. It's simply not possible to look at this book and not be profoundly moved. I still remember picking it up several years ago and being transfixed by its beauty, it's visually stunning. And then when you read his story its hard not to feel deeply sad that he is still not in this world and at the same yet extremely grateful for this work and to know that there people who have such a passion and zest for life, that truly follow their heart and make their work a life of art and manage to fit so much in to so little time. So much richness, so much texture, such an inspiration to us all.

After purchasing it I showed this book to two friends and they immediately puchased copies for themselves. Everyone else I know that's picked up my copy has been moved by its contents.

The book is extracted from his journals, includes extensive photography, pictures, commentary, artwork, cut outs and is presented in the form of a collage. Eldon didnt prepare his journals for publication in this form so I think the criticism that it's similar to the work of others is unfair. It stands on its own as simply a stunning piece of work, an expression of his uniqueness and style and is a gift to us all, one which I am very grateful to have.

Truly Profound .......2005-02-25

I bought this book upon it's release in 1997. I can remember allowing the contents of this memoir to captivate me for hours on end. I lent my copy to a friend shortly thereafter and subsequently forgot about it. I recently ordered a replacement and I must say, this book is even more compelling than I ever remembered. Dan Eldon was a profound visionary, an articulate statesman and a devoted caretaker. As a Reuters photo-journalist, he traveled the world and served as a dipomatic embassador to many, yet his life was taken prematurely in a stoning riot in Somalia. He experienced more in his brief 21 years than most of us will over an entire lifetime. A MUST HAVE.

Awesome read, beautiful art.......2004-03-24

Eldon's story of the war-torn Somolia is as much an artwork as it is an engaging story. This "book" is a reproduction of photojournalist Dan Eldon's journal from his travels in the most impoverished regions of Africa. Part insightful reading, part artistic work, this book should be on anyone's reading list who wants to know more about the world we don't see everyday, and it truly makes one think about all we have, and all Eldon lost...5 out of 5 starts easily!

giving inspiration.......2003-12-03

After seeing this book in a Borders store, I decided to buy it. I couldn't put it down, page after page offers so much of the author, yet offered so much to the reader. It makes your own imagination soar again, and as a fellow photographer, it gave me a kick in the butt I needed to start shooting again. The vision of Dan Eldon was not only through a lens, but through his heart as well. He accomplished a great deal in a short life, and definitely contributed to the bettering of our world. His photographs of Africa, combined with the scrapbook like additions of text and objects could be considered a new form of documentary photography. I strongly urge anyone who is interested in travel or photojournalism to get this book and have it transform your outlook on life.

Journey Is the Destination the Journal S

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Journey Is the Destination the Journal S
Dan Eldon
Manufacturer: CHRONICLE BOOKS @
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000SNP3OC

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Journey Is the Destination the Journal S
Dan Eldon
Manufacturer: CHRONICLE BOOKS @
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000N7FFLE

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This book seeks to recover something of the original excitement, challenge, and significance of Defoe’s four novels of criminal life by reading them within and against the conventions of early eighteenth-century criminal biography. Crime raised deeply troubling questions in Defoe’s time, not least as a powerful sign of the breakdown of traditional social authority and order. Arguing that Defoe’s novels, like criminal biography, provided ways of facing and working through, as well as avoiding, certain of the moral and intellectual difficulties that crime raised for him and his readers, Faller shows how the ‘literary’, even ‘aesthetic’ qualities of his fiction contributed to these ends. Analysing the ways in which Defoe’s novels exploited, deformed and departed from the genre they imitated, this book attempts to define the specific social and political (which is to say moral and ideological) value of a given set of ‘literary’ texts against those of a more ‘ordinary’ form of narrative.

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