An Album of Alaskan Wildflowers

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An Album of Alaskan Wildflowers
Jeanne Laurence
Manufacturer: Superior Publishing Company
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ASIN: B0006CERV0

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An Album of Alaskan Wildflowers
Jeanne Lawrence
Manufacturer: Salisbury Press Book
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000PXOQ84

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An album of Alaskan wildflowers
Jeanne Laurence
Manufacturer: Superior Pub. Co.
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ASIN: B000O2V49U

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The brand-new Let's Go: New Zealand Adventure Guide is your must-have companion to the dizzying heights and underwater sights of New Zealand and Fiji. Let's Go's forty-five years of travel savvy illuminate the islands' best places, and a new focus on adventure feeds you all the hikes, bikes, climbs, kayaks, and zorbs you need to keep the adrenaline flowing. For those who just can't get enough, expanded information on alternatives to tourism, from study abroad to cultural exchange, help you prolong your stay. So, whether you'd rather kayak through the mist of Fiordland's Doubtful Sound or spelunk through a galaxy of glowworms in subterranean Waitomo, Let's Go has already blazed the trail.

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A deliberate, power hungry G.W........2002-02-22

Paul Longmore has written an excellent book for the serious George Washington scholar. George Washington is a difficult man to understand. After reading five books on the man, along with several published books and articles on the Revolutionary War, Federalist Period, and biographies of other people who were active in Washington's days, I still have a hard time grasping why such a diverse group of people universally looked up to and respected Washington. Edmund Morgan's book, "The Genius of George Washington" helped me to understand how Washington wielded power once it was attained, and this book helps to fill in the gaps as it describes how George Washington worked his way toward greatness.

Longmore's argument in the book is that George Washington was FAR from a minor player in his rise to fame. It wasn't through a series of coincidences or through fate that Washington became the very embodiment of the American Revolution and Federalist Era. Longmore argues that Washington had, in his youth, an insatiable lust for power...but would only seek to achieve it through socially respectable means (highly developed interpersonal skills didn't hurt, either). It is through an examination of what constitutes "socially respectable," Washington's writings, and examining the change in his tone as he matures that Longmore bases his premise. In my opinion, he does a very good job of it. His arguments are strong and backed up in an extensive end-notes section. The only problem I have with his research is that I would have liked to see Longmore's view on two major incidences that happened in Washington's early life and how they affected his rise to fame: the death of his older brother/patron Lawrence; and his marriage to the filthy rich widow, Martha Custis. In all, Longmore has written an excellent book that I would recommend to anyone who would like to begin a serious study of the early life of the "First in War, First in Peace, First in the Hearts of his Countrymen."

By the way, this is not a cradle-to-grave biography of Washington, but follows his life from birth until about the time he takes command of the Continental Army.

Washington, a Complex Character.......2000-11-28

Paul Longmore's biography of George Washington is a superb book. It portrays Washington as a complex Virginian. Neither a stone-like figure nor an unread hero, Washington becomes an interesting and even vulnerable leader. Well written, Longmore's book is a must for people interested in Washington and in colonial history.

An excellent book on the origins of the Washington image.......2000-04-21

Paul Longmore's book, "The Invention of George Washington" is a wonderful book about the Washington that people have come to know over the years. Longmore looks at Washington's life chronologically and compares it with the image of Washington as the Father of Our Country. Longmore shows that one of the most important people in shaping this image was George Washington himself. Washington was constantly concerned with what others thought of him. He always lived his life as if he were on a stage with the whole world was watching. At many of these points, they were watching. Washington was setting the model for future leaders of the United States as Commander-in-Chief, and ultimately as President. Behind this image of a man doing the best for his country, however, is a man of ambition. Especially as a young man during his days commanding Virginia troops in the French and Indian war, Washington strived for recognition among his fellow colonists and from the British regulars that he was forced to serve under. As Washington matured, he was more successful at curbing this ambition. It was during these years that Washington built his reputation and became known as the Father of Our Country.

George Washington Carver (Scholastic News Nonfiction Readers)

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George Washington Carver (Scholastic News Nonfiction Readers)
Jo S. Kittinger
Manufacturer: Children's Press (CT)
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Binding: Library Binding

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George Washington Carver: The Peanut Scientist (Great African Americans Series)

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George Washington Carver: The Peanut Scientist (Great African Americans Series)
Patricia McKissack , and Fredrick McKissack
Manufacturer: Enslow Publishers
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Binding: Library Binding

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ASIN: 089490308X

The Groundbreaking, Chance-Taking Life of George Washington Carver and Science and Invention in America (Cheryl Harness Histories)

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The Groundbreaking, Chance-Taking Life of George Washington Carver and Science and Invention in America (Cheryl Harness Histories)
Cheryl Harness
Manufacturer: National Geographic Children's Books
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Binding: Hardcover

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Invention of George Washington, The
Paul K. Longmore
Manufacturer: Univ of California Pr
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000KYW6GM

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Invention of George Washington
Paul K. LONGMORE
Manufacturer: (WASHINGTON, GEORGE). LONGMORE, Paul K. The Invention of George Washington. Berkeley: University of California Press, [1988]. x, 337pp. Fine in d/j.
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000S8W1TW

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This Father and Mother are a Church Bishop and Bishop's Wife.......2001-07-17

Through "Dancing in a Wheelchair" United Methodist Bishop and Etta Mae Mutti pour out their own hearts as parents who lived the experience of HIV/AIDS with two of their three sons and saw them die. This family's story cannot deal with AIDS without homosexuality. Every emotion impacts their pensive dialogue: When the two sons individually come out, the father and mother go behind their own doors to express shock and anger, and to weep; yet, affirm love for their sons. Etta Mae Mutti storms with disbelief, and finally a commitment to action, because her church does not treat gays with equality. Where will a Bishop turn for support in his personal pain that's a controversial issue in the church? In dialogue format these parents reveal many experiences and truths any family might encounter when HIV/AIDS invades, but with profound impact coming from a Bishop and Bishop's wife. The book is powerfully enlightening regarding the physical and mental stages and the stresses of the disease, AIDS. Despair rips parents' hearts when this illness worsens. The dialogue graphically paints the ugly portrait of AIDS. Questions loom: How to let adult children make their own decisions when they're dying? Should we make him come home? Families who have persons who are gay or those who suffer from AIDS will find Fritz and Etta Mae are companions. Religious folks will be changed if this story is read with open minds and eyes. The result could be effective risks, love expressed to all, and lifes lived in equality.

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The latest strains of tomato may look perfect, but they often have thick skins and tasteless flesh. Dwarf peas may be the easiest to grow commercially, but many gardeners still grow attractive six-foot types that taste "like peas used to taste." Whatever the benefits of modern hybrids, old varieties still have much to offer, and they are becoming hard to find.
Seed saving is a surprisingly simple and hugely satisfying way to propogate your favorite varieties. In this book you will find easy-to-follow, crop by crop guidelines to help you save your own seed.
Relevant to the beginner as well as the expert, Back Garden Seed Saving tells how and why we should join in the battle to save our irreplaceable vegetable heritage, and the reward--a kitchen full of tasty vegetables.
The benefits of saving your own seed
Select plants best suited to your own growing conditions
Help preserve our shrinking vegetable heritage
Break our dependence on multinational seed companies
Save money
Share seed with friends, neighbors, and fellow gardener

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Elbows Off the Table, Napkin in the Lap, No Video Games During Dinner: The Modern Guide to Teaching Children Good Manners
Carol McD. Wallace
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Health o Meter HDC100-01 "Grow with Me" Teddy Bear Scale for Babies and Toddlers

ASIN: 031214122X

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Once upon a time girls stopped wearing dresses to school and put on jeans and tie-dyed T-shirts. It was the Age of Aquarius, when old rules of behavior no longer seemed to apply. But now that the flower children have children of their own, they're starting to wonder what the new rules ought to be.Manners expert Carol McD. Wallace, who has two sons of her own, comes to the rescue with a clear, contemporary guide to what today's parents should teach their children, when to teach it, and how to do so with turning their homes into boot camp. Here, in the kind of knowing detail only a parent could offer, are step-by-step guides to: -Basic Training: The dawn of civilized behavior, or how to teach 3- to 5-year-olds to behave at meals, say "please" and "thank you", share, and apologize.-The Age of Reason: Refining the manners of 6- to 9- year-olds at home and abroad.-The Young Sophisticate: How to bring the manners of 10- to 12- year olds to high polish and, --Manners for Parents: Everything from when it's okay to bring your child into work to privacy--your own and your children's.

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Egon Schiele: Eros and Passion

Klaus Albrecht Schröder

In this brilliant analysis, the erotic work of the Expressionist artist is examined within the perspective of history's shifting views concerning beauty, aesthetics, and decency.

Egon Schiele's controversial nudes and self-portraits were fiercely reviled when they first appeared in the early decades of the twentieth century and, nearly one hundred years later, they still have the power to shock. Examining why Schiele's work elicits this response, the author explores the social constrictions of Schiele's generation and the role of the artist as a breaker of taboos. Incorporating superb reproductions of Schiele's works, those of his contemporaries, and historical photographs, the author offers a penetrating study of an artist whose idea of beauty transcended the morality of his time.

Klaus Albrecht Schröder is Director of the Albertina Museum in Vienna, Austria.

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On the beginnings of the id in art.......2000-02-27

As we continue to toil through terrors remembered from the last century, up pops this little tome that quite successfully takes us back to the early years of the last century when psychology and the study of the dark side of our minds exerted its now immutable influence on all of history. In this scholarly but immensely entertaining dissection of the seeds within Egon Schiele's mind that produced a prodigious, fascinating body of figurative painting in a short life time, author Schroder investigates sexuality, mores, mental hospitals and those who captured the inmates on film, photography, and the crumbling of empires. Lavishly illustrated with not only many relatively unknown Schiele works but also with works by Gertsl, Klimt, Degas, Courbet and scientific photographs of the twisted minds and bodies caged in sanitariums, this book reads well and allows us to absorb just how significant Schiele was in opening 20th century art to new levels of exploration. This is a fine addition to libraries of artists, students, collectors, physicians, psychologists...and anyone who enjoys visiting the fin de sicle - asurring us that what seems crude today was seen, perhaps more naievly, a whole century ago!

A painfully transparent Schiele.......2000-01-06

If in-your-face nudity is your cup of tea, then Egon Schiele is the one for you. He is the avatar of not only physical transparency; but also of emotional transparency. The uncoventional nude poses makes you a co-conspirator on a voyeuristic voyage, a voyage which you may embarrasingly enjoy or find distastefully provocative. The Prestel Verlag publication is translated from German. While it is priced for the budget conscious, its text is not so easily accessible. The text relies heavily on psycho-analytic jargon and analysis. For the uninitiated, it can prove to be quite a quagmire to wade through. So be forewarned. But if you are interested in Schiele's psyche then you will gobble this up.

Schiele's works represented in this book is adequately comprehensive and a fitting catalogue of his repertoire. If you are a fan of Kent William's works (mostly comics related)then you would see some influences borrowed from Schiele, esp in his limited colour palette.

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Egon Schiele. Eros und Passion.
Klaus Albrecht Schröder
Manufacturer: Prestel
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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Van Gogh and Expressionsim

ASIN: 3791313932

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This opulently illustrated volume, featuring brilliant reproductions and illuminating commentary, spans Schiele's earliest adolescent studies, through his time at the Vienna Academy, to his early death in 1918. The works are presented in large color plates which allow readers to study closely the extraordinary quality of the artist's portraits, nudes and landscapes. This beautiful volume ffers revelatory insights into the nature of Schiele's genius, while clarifying his vision and artistic impulses.

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an amazing book.......2007-01-12

Highly recommended for anyone who appreciates Egon Schiele, especially his drawings. The absolute gem in this volume is an essay "My journey with Egon Schiele" by his friend the collector Heinrich Benesch, which offers many wonderful insights into Schiele's personality.

Egon Schiele : Eros and Passion (Pegasus Library )

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Egon Schiele : Eros and Passion (Pegasus Library )
Klaus A. Schroder
Manufacturer: Prestel Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000MYMU5W

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The Irish, Kansas City's largest ethnic immigrant group ever, hauled stones to build foundations and buckets of water to put out fires. They cut the throats of a million cattle, laid miles of bricks and rails, drove the streetcars, kept and distrubed the peace, organized the working poor and kicked down barriers at City Hall and the courthouse for themselves and many generations and nationalities to come. Lavishly illustrated with photos from family collections and historic and newspaper archives, From the Bottom Up features a soft cover with a photo montage, for a handsome addition to the library of anyone who is proud of that wee touch of Irish blood - or simply interested in a fascinating perspective on how Kansas City came to be.

Missouri Irish, the original history of the Irish in Missouri, Irish Settlers on the American Frontier (Irish West of the Mississippi)

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Missouri Irish, the original history of the Irish in Missouri, Irish Settlers on the American Frontier (Irish West of the Mississippi)
Michael C. O'Laughlin
Manufacturer: Irish Genealogical Foundation
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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The story of the Irish in Missouri, including St. Louis, Kansas City, The Irish Wilderness and Trails West, from the earliest times to current day. Over 50 illustrations.

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First of its kind.......2007-07-21

This was the first book ever published on the Irish in Missouri (1984). It covers the entire state, but the main focus is on Kansas City, St. Louis, and the Irish Wilderness. This book is great for historians and for genealogists. There is a new edition in soft cover with added and updated pages (264 pages), The original title was "Irish Settlers on the American Frontier". The title of the new edition is Missouri Irish and is just now being released.

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Kansas Irish
Charles B Driscoll
Manufacturer: Art and educational publishers
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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Kansas Irish
Charles B Driscoll
Manufacturer: Macmillan and Co.
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000L2PMSC

Missouri Irish, The Original History of the Irish in Missouri, including St. Louis, Kansas City and Trails West

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Missouri Irish, The Original History of the Irish in Missouri, including St. Louis, Kansas City and Trails West
Michael C. O'Laughlin
Manufacturer: Irish Genealogical Foundation
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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The first book ever published on the Irish in Missouri (1984) now updated to the 21st century. 75 illustrations, maps, photographs, extracts and sketches, sewn binding, 264 pages, and full color cover.
The Murphy Wagon, Genealogy, Politics, The Kerry Patch and more. The story of the Irish in Missouri from the 1700s to the great famine of the 1840s to the 21st century. It is the story of the Irish in America as never told before !
Full chapters on the following topics are included: Kansas City; St. Louis; St. Joseph & Buchanaan County; The Famine Irish; The St. Patricks Day Parades; The Irish Wilderness and Iron Mountain Railroad; and Irish Immigration and distribution, with statistics. A premier work on the Irish in America, by the most published author in the field. Table of Contents Part One 1770 - 1884. Irish Settlers in the Spanish Regime... Indian Mounds and Tara Hills. Immigration...Religious Ties and Conflicts... West vs. East ... The First Irish-American Settlement in the Bois Brule Bottom. Part Two 1804 - 1900. The First Irish Americans Pioneer Journalists ... Mexican War ... Steamboat Irish ... Indian War ...The Famine Irish ... Murphy s Wagon replaced by the Railroad ... Slavery ... Civil War Irish. Part Three Irish Immigration and Distribution Irish Settlements in Missouri ... City vs. Farm .. Population by County ... Irish Settlements ...O Fallon Missouri ... Donnybrook ... Moving on from Missouri Part Four The Irish in the Cities. Saint Louis... Brady & McKnight ... O Connor... Mullanphy .. The Kerry Patch ... Kansas City.... First Newspaper ...Father Bernard Donnelly ... The first Irish in Kansas City ...The History of the St. Patricks Day Parade ... The Shamrock Society ... A.O.H. St. Joseph and Buchanan County... On the overland trail Part Five The Irish Wilderness Settlement Rev. J.J. Hogan ... Lifestyle ... Chillicothe ... Brookfield ... Ripley and Oregon Counties ... Iron Mountain Railroad. Part Six My Irish American Heritage. The Sullivans, Donahues, Buckleys, Irish American Development. List of Illustrations Alexander Doniphan Alexander McNair Alexander O'Reilly, commander Archbishop Kenrick Barney Carney married Arrah Wanna 'Bess' Donahue Brownes Irish Market Clanna Eireann Clanna Eireann Dancers Cole Camp Parade Dance & Pipe Champions Dennis Sullivan Donnybrook Dred Scott First Brick House First Cultural Center First Government House Founding Patrons of Irish Center Fr. Bernard Donnelly, Kansas City Friends of Irish Freedom Certificate God in the Hills Hogan (Catholic) Hogan (Methodist) IACC Grand Opening Irish Music in 1915 Irish Newspapers (The Shamrock, Irish Focus, Irish Life) Irish Patch, Kansas City Irish Roots Cafe Iron Mountain Workers J. Murphy & Sons Wagon reciept James McDonough John B. Sullivan John Mullanphy, first Millionaire John O'Fallon John T. Buckley Joseph Charless Joseph Charless, Jr The Murphy Wagon Kansas Public Ledger Kate 'Smith' on Trial Kerry Patch (recent) Kerry Patch Map Kerry Patch Resident Mary Ellen Sullivan Michael Sullivan, Railroad worker Missouri Gazette 1818 Missouri Preachers Missouri Republican Building St. Patricks Day Parade Festivities Patrick Griffen of the Irish Wilderness Phelim O'Toole, St. Louis Hero Prominent Celtic Americans Railroad Line on the map Sacred Indian Mound Scartaglen, the band St. Louis & San Fran RR

The Power of Knowledge: George Eliot and Education (Kansas University// Humanistic Studies)

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The Power of Knowledge: George Eliot and Education (Kansas University// Humanistic Studies)
Linda K. Robertson
Manufacturer: Peter Lang Pub Inc
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Binding: Hardcover

Geologic map of the Irish Flats NE quadrangle, Meade County, Kansas (SuDoc I 19.91:I-2498)

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Geologic map of the Irish Flats NE quadrangle, Meade County, Kansas (SuDoc I 19.91:I-2498)
U.S. Geological Survey
Manufacturer: The Survey For sale by Information Services
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Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B00010O9G0

A history of Saint Michael's Catholic Church and Community, Diocese of Salina: An 1870's Northeast Kansas Irish settlement : Kimeo, Washington County, Kansas

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A history of Saint Michael's Catholic Church and Community, Diocese of Salina: An 1870's Northeast Kansas Irish settlement : Kimeo, Washington County, Kansas
Jim Hoover
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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Irish potatoes (Horticultural facts)
Charles William Marr
Manufacturer: Cooperative Extension Service, Kansas State University
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: B00072N4WW

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Kansas Irish
Driscoll Charles B.
Manufacturer: Macmillan
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000UD76BI

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