Phytophthora: Its Biology, Taxonomy, Ecology, and Pathology

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Each book in this bestselling series, edited by Hugh Johnson, the world's foremost wine writer, offers a comprehensive and inspirational guide to traveling in one of the world's top wine regions. Evocative descriptions of wine routes are accompanied by detailed maps showing the route and surrounding vineyards. Each title also includes the author's recommendations for hotels, restaurants, and producers.

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A Quick Overview.......2002-03-23

"The Life and The Times of Al Capone" was a very interesting autobiography. Though I am not a big fan of reading, I really enjoyed this book. It doesn't go into great detail about his life because of the fact of it only being 45 pages, but the facts that it does contain are interesting and are about main points throughout his life. Stockdale tells how things were back then and how hard and scary life had to be. The book would have been a lot better if it would have been longer and went into greater detail. If you are the type of person interested in the Prohibition years in American history, this is one book that tells the story about the times. I would recommend this book and I would give it a three star rating out of five, only because I wanted more information.

Big Al: A new musical based on the life and times of the infamous Chicago gangster Al Capone

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Big Al: A new musical based on the life and times of the infamous Chicago gangster Al Capone
Andrew Parr
Manufacturer: S. French
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

General | Music | Entertainment | Subjects | Books
ASIN: B0006E73SW

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We paws for this announcement: Dogs are fun! And this kit makes for one howling good time for Rover. The collection includes a booklet filled with doggy tricks and games. A "Good Dog" collar I.D. tag gives appropriate recognition, and a colorful canine bandanna provides a dapper doggy look as well as a prop for some of the outlined dog-and-owner games.

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A must Have Book

Good book to show router uses.

Edgar in Virginia

Jig Bible

Go with his update

Router magic
Bill Hylton
Manufacturer: Readers Digest
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Crafts & Hobbies | Home & Garden | Subjects | Books
General | Woodworking | Crafts & Hobbies | Home & Garden | Subjects | Books
Tools | Woodworking | Crafts & Hobbies | Home & Garden | Subjects | Books
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Woodworking with the Router: Revised & UpdatedProfessional Router Techniques and Jigs Any Woodworker Can Use

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The Complete Illustrated Guide to Joinery

ASIN: 0762101857

Book Description

With a handful of standard bits and extraordinary jigs, fixtures, and techniques, this book shows everything from planing boards to making fluted dowels, crafting flawless cope-and-stick joints, and creating amazing spiral-beaded columns and finials.

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A must Have Book.......2007-08-23

This book is very informative on the use of a router for a new woodworker. It is a quick reference guide for the expert woodworker, everything you need to know in one book. If you only buy one book for your shop this should be the one.

Good book to show router uses........2007-07-12

This book provides excellent examples of things you can use your router for. It is easy to understand and thorough.

Edgar in Virginia.......2007-05-26

After purchasing "Woodworking with the Router: Revised & UpdatedProfessional Router Techniques and Jigs Any Woodworker Can Use" (by the same author), I was a little dissapointed. It really needs to be revised and updated. Pretty good book, never-the-less.

Jig Bible.......2007-04-11

Need a jig for a specific cut? You can't do much better than this book. Bill Hylton's Router Magic will make you the Houdini of the furniture making world. There's stuff in here that you can make, that I an amateur wood worker can make. There's jigs that will be invaluable to you as you create and dazzle your friends. Some reviewer's claim this is for the more advanced wood worker. I disagree. If you've discovered the amazing uses of the router and need some constructive ideas for jigs and want to learn more about your router, this book is invaluable and the other book sold here at Amazon by Bill Hylton is also. You've got to buy them both. Trust me, you will thank me.

Go with his update.......2006-11-10

I bought this book and Hylton's updated book and wish I had only purchased the most recent. This book was out of date and redundant with his newer, more comprehensive book. His other book was Professional router jigs and techniques that any woodworker can use (or something like that).

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I was very pleased with this book. I was happy to see that styles of cooking OTHER than Asian were presented.

Beautiful Cookbook!

Wok Every Day
Barbara Grunes , and Virgina Van Vynckt
Manufacturer: Chronicle Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Baking | Cooking, Food & Wine | Subjects | Books
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Wok Cookery | Asian | Regional & International | Cooking, Food & Wine | Subjects | Books
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New Wok Cooking: Easy, Healthy, One-Pot Meals

ASIN: 0811831957

Book Description

The concept is simple: one wok, many meals, all of them perfectly done. Arguably the only pan you really need, the wok is the kitchen chameleon capable of turning out not just stir-fries, but everything from pub-style fish and chips to, yes, chocolate cake. The wok can do it all, and do it well - whether it's sizzling up crunchy polenta fries, steaming succulent Swordfish Margarita with Papaya Salsa, braising delicious Curried Beef with Basmati Pilaf, or smoking Chicken with Fig Confit. And imagine popping a warm homemade jelly doughnut into your mouth! With plenty of traditional stir-fry recipes, advice on choosing the right wok and accessories, and tips on proper wok upkeep, Wok Every Day makes it easy to wok like a gourmet.

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I was very pleased with this book. I was happy to see that styles of cooking OTHER than Asian were presented........2005-12-29

There are many different styles of cuisine that can be cooked in a wok, or so I disovered from this book. One can even bake a cake in a wok, who knew!! This is true to it's title.

Throw out those other pots and pans!! Don't need 'em no more!! .... and enjoy the simplicity of the ancient wok.

Beautiful Cookbook!.......2004-01-06

This book is so beautiful to look at and cook from. The recipes are all easily done in either a wok or even a regular sauté pan. The recipes mostly come with beautiful photos, and the colors of the book are so vibrant. I bought one for myself and one for a gift for my mom.

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Great for Parents

Magic Trees of the Mind : How to Nurture Your Child's Intelligence, Creativity, and Healthy Emotions from Birth Through Adolesce

For an understanding of the relationship between life experiences and brain development

Nurture nature!

Absolutely a must have!!!!

Magic Trees of the Mind : How to Nurture Your Child's Intelligence, Creativity, and Healthy Emotions from Birth Through Adolescence
Marian Diamond , and Janet Hopson
Manufacturer: Plume
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Child Development | Babies & Toddlers | Parenting | Parenting & Families | Subjects | Books
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Braun IRT 4020 ThermoScan Ear Thermometer

ASIN: 0452278309

Book Description

Cutting edge scientific research has shown that exposure to the right kind of environment during the first years of life actually affects the physical structure of a child's brain, vastly increasing the number of neuron branches--the "magic trees of the mind"--that help us to learn, think, and remember. At each stage of development, the brain's ability to gain new skills and process information is refined. As a leading researcher at the University of California at Berkeley, Marion Diamond has been a pioneer in this field of research. Now, Diamond and award-winning science writer Janet Hopson present a comprehensive enrichment program designed to help parents prepare their children for a lifetime of learning.

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Great for Parents.......2007-01-08

I was assigned to read this book for a class on Child Development. It went along with many of the main ideas in the text book about the brain development and growth of a child's brain from infancy through adulthood. I work at a daycare and would pay for the parents to read this material. It really help you appreciate how fragile children are, and scientific explinations for the wonders that they achieve every day. The writer does talk a lot about herself and her personal journey making about 1/4 of the book an autobiography, and she seems to brag a bit which is a little annoying to be honest. But if you can get past that then I think it is worth reading for the information that she provides.

Magic Trees of the Mind : How to Nurture Your Child's Intelligence, Creativity, and Healthy Emotions from Birth Through Adolesce.......2006-12-11

This book is scientifically grounded and well presented to make it a fascinating read and easy to apply at any age.

My daughter was about 13 months old when we were vacationing in San Diego when a guest who had been observing us interacting by the poolside approached us and informed me I should considered this book. It turned out that the guest was a child pychologist and 'saw' tremendous potential in my child and went on to explained the power of nurturing and stimulating the young mind; particularly keying in on the 'window of opportunities' or knowing when the right timing for introducing particular stimulants at specific ages to enhance development of the mind. It has been 6 years ago since I purchased this book and I still make references to it!! It has been a tremendous "awareness" gift given to us from a complete stranger and this is why I felt compelled to write a review (even years later) and to share my enthusiasm! It is rewarding seeing my daughter thrive and so full of life and eager to learn. I am grateful I got my hands on this book early enough to make a difference in our lives.

Parts of the book provide medical explanations and supporting examples on how the brain's neuron, branching dendrites and synapses function and develop. Along with this, the author provides parent-recommeded enrichment tools to introduce at each particular age which has been an invaluable reference; keying in on when and what types of activities to undertake or books and games to support a childs learning.

I highly recommend this book as a vauable guide for those parents who sensibly want to nurture their child's growing mind.

For an understanding of the relationship between life experiences and brain development.......2006-06-30

As a child psychiatrist, I've recommended this book to area developmental specialists, teachers in early childhood education, and parents who have questions about understanding the relationship between brain development, behavioral and emotional development, and early life experiences.

It helps parents feel assured that negative experiences will not be destined to cause permanent adversity. It helps parents feel less guilty about "failing" to expose their child to Beethoven in utero. And it helps parents understand a bit about why early intervention for emotional, behavioral, and anxiety issues may be very protective.

Readers will come away from reading this book with a vivid picture of how the brain's neurologic connections are always dynamic--for example, if you sit in a room and practice piano for hours and hours, the areas of your brain responsible will become very dense and enriched. If you then stop practicing, that area will "prune" and become less enriched. Of course, early childhood is a time when the brain is more ready to learn many skills (language, for example) and the book explains this, too. But ultimately its message is that we can all explore and experience new things at any time--a very positive message!

I use some of the concepts presented in this book to educate parents about development, parenting, nurturance, and enrichment. I use some of the concepts to help others understand the impact of child abuse, and traumatic early experiences.

I haven't utilized the appendices that recommend specific books and toys for enrichment--I really believe in following a child in this regard, and so I make more personal recommendations to parents than a book can really do.

Nurture nature!.......2005-10-14

Half technical manual and half advice column, this book serves as an explaination as to how the brain develops, and how to best nuture that development. The book divides the human brain into "trees", each one branching out into different areas such as emotions, intelligence and creativity.

Included in the book are interviews with leading scientists as well as brain-enhancing activities from parents. The premise is that by learning how the brain develops you can best stimuate it's growth. This is an excellent book for all who care for children from infancy through middle school.

Absolutely a must have!!!!.......2005-05-03

I have been using this book since I was 3 months pregnant till today (my son is 10 months old). I find the information in this book very helpful to help me educate my son and help me learn about the different stages of development. This book is a great buy and useful reference book. Highly recommended.

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A beautiful heart.......2004-10-14

Kaethe Kollwitz created some of the most moving drawings and lithos I have ever seen. Many are dark and sorrowful. Even so, many have an indestructible kernel of hope in them kept alive through sheer personal will.

Now that I've read these extracts from her diaries and correspondence, I can understand better the woman who made that art. Above all, she was a woman founded on her emotions. I don't means twittering sentimentality. I mean the kind of love that kept her one marriage strong for 49 years, until she was widowed. I mean the kind of devotion that kept her at work for fifteen years on the memorial to her son, fallen in the first World War. I mean the kind of dedication that led her to teach master classes, even though she grew up when women were almost forbidden to attend advanced schooling.

Despite her losses in the two World Wars, her life had much in it to bolster her strength. Her family supported her childhood interest in art, and her father was willing to get her what training he could. She married young, and somewhat against her parents' wishes. Her husband, however, supported her art, and she remained close to her parents. She fully accepted motherhood; her sons and later her grandchildren were bulwarks of her adult life. She engendered lifelong affection in her friends and her family. Her surviving son compiled this tribute to her life, and her grand-daughter added a few pages about Kaethe's last days.

There are a few dozen samples of her drawings, sculpture, lithos and woodcut at the end of this book. (Given her tendency towards transfer lithos, the distinction between litho and drawing isn't always clear.) The reproductions aren't great, just enough to indicate the structure and feeling of each piece. The set is nicely bracketed, however, by an early self-portait and her last one. The face is the same handsome woman in both, but the later Kaethe is wizened and wisened by her years.

This is a wonderful book. I am truly glad to know more about this woman. If you want just reproductions of her art, this is likely to disappoint. If you want her herself, you've found it.

//wiredweird

For fellow Kollwitz worshippers..........2000-01-25

For anyone out there who also worships Kaethe Kollwitz and her extraordinary work, this book is a must-read. Edited by the son that lived--Hans--"The Diary and Letters of Kaethe Kollwitz" provides an intimate portrait of the woman who lived behind the drawings in her own words. This book breathed life and personality into somebody who has been one of my greatest artistic influences. I found it exceptionally moving to be able to share her emotions, thoughts and tragedies in this way.

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Diaries & Letters of Kaethe Kollwitz
Hans Kollwitz
Manufacturer: NORTHWESTERN UNIV+PRESS
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Diaries and letters of Kaethe Kollwitz
Hans, editor Kollwitz
Manufacturer: Henry Regnery
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

Diaries and Letters of Kaethe Kollwitz. Trans. by Richard and Clara Winston`

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Diaries and Letters of Kaethe Kollwitz. Trans. by Richard and Clara Winston`

Manufacturer: Chicago Henry Regnery Co. 1955.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

The Diary and Letters of Kaethe Kollwitz.

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The Diary and Letters of Kaethe Kollwitz.
Editor. Hans Kollwitz
Manufacturer: Henry Regnery Co.
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Binding: Hardcover

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Diaries & Letters of Kaethe Kollwitz
Kaethe Kollwitz
Manufacturer: HENRY REGNERY COMPANY
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000W4DOLQ

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The Diary and Letters of Kaethe Kollwitz
Kaethe; Winston, Richard (translator); Winston, Clara (translator) Kollwitz
Manufacturer: Northwestern University Press
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Binding: Hardcover

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The diary and letters of Kaethe Kollwitz
Kaethe; Kollwits, Hans (ed.) Kollwitz
Manufacturer: Henry Regnery Co.
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Diary and Letters of Kaethe Kollwitz, The

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Diary and Letters of Kaethe Kollwitz, The
Hans Kollwitz
Manufacturer: Northwestern Univ Pr
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Binding: Paperback

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Diary and Letters of Kaethe Kollwitz.

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