Vascular flora of the Little Thicket Nature Sanctuary, San Jacinto County, Texas: A sanctuary of the Outdoor Nature Club, Houston, Texas

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Vascular flora of the Little Thicket Nature Sanctuary, San Jacinto County, Texas: A sanctuary of the Outdoor Nature Club, Houston, Texas
Charles D Peterson
Manufacturer: The Club
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

General | Plants | Biological Sciences | Science | Subjects | Books
General | Botany | Biological Sciences | Science | Subjects | Books
ASIN: B0006EGOVO

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Vascular flora of the Little Thicket Nature Sanctuary, San Jacinto County, Texas: A sanctuary of the Outdoor Nature Club, Houston, Texas
Charles D Peterson
Manufacturer: The Club
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000HO1CIS

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One of over 400 titles in the Insight series,

Insight Guide Thailand. This 398-page book includes a section detailing Thailand's history, 8 features covering aspects of the country's life and culture, ranging from the dwindling numbers of hill tribes to the tasty and aesthetically pleasing cuisine, a region by region visitor's guide to the sights, and a comprehensive Travel Tips section packed with essential contact addresses and numbers. Plus many superb photographs and 18 maps.

Customer Reviews:

Would like to give 0 stars.......2007-08-19

Waste of money.

I THOUGHT I was buying the Insight Guide, not the Insight "pocket" guide. The Insight Guide is a worthwhile guide. Be careful when you buy and don't waste your money on this.

Outstanding Guide to Thailand!.......2007-07-12

I have visited Thailand nearly every year for the past six years. I find Insight Guide Thailand to be informative, accurate, easy to navigate around and a pleasure to use, with beautiful photography. It contains fairly in-depth reviews of Thai history, religion and culture. Cross-references to map locations of sights of interest are really handy. I feel the Insight Guides outclass Lonely Planet Guides and are much more user-friendly. I would not travel without my Insight Guides!

I also find Insight Guide Philippines to be outstanding.

Great for pictures.......2007-05-12

I bought this book in conjunction with a Frommer's guide to Thailand. I bought this book solely to supplement my Frommer's guide which lacks pictures and some other info that Insight Guide provides. Insight provides lots of information about the history and culture behind cities, places, and attractions. It also has a few detailed maps which is nice. However, it is very, very limited in other things that you might expect from a guide book. The book is silent on things such as city orientation, how to get from the airport to the city, costs of things such as taxis and entrance fees to attractions, ratings on attractions, etc. For those sort of things and many other travel tips and hints, you should look into other books, like Frommer's, Fodor's, Lonely Planet, etc. (I chose Frommer's for my trip and have found it very helpful - although I haven't gone on my trip yet).

FYI: Frommer's, Fodor's, and Lonely Planet all have website with the type of information that is in their books if you want to get a feel for them (it's free).

Happy travels!

Insight Guide Thailand (Insight Guides Thailand) .......2007-01-05

It gives you great tips for traveling to Thailand, specially to Bangkok (it capital).

qclee.......2001-03-21

This guide provided alot of history to Thailands landmarks. If you are into dwelving into the history of a country, then this guide is for you. There were many beautiful photos of the various palaces, cities, artifacts, etc. The most helpful part of the book were the practical tips on what to expect while traveling to this country (weather, currency, shopping, festivals, lodging, cuisine, attractions, sightseeing, beaches, emergency numbers). I found the travel tip portion of the book very indepth. There is also a map in the book where you can see the different roads.

Insight Pocket Guides Chiang Mai (Insight Pocket Guides)

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Insight Pocket Guides Chiang Mai (Insight Pocket Guides)
Steve Van Beek
Manufacturer: Apa Productions
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Asia | Travel | Subjects | Books

Southeast | Asia | Travel | Subjects | Books

Insight Pocket Guide | Guidebook Series | Travel | Subjects | Books

General | Travel | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 039569017X

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Phuket (Insight Pocket Guide)

Manufacturer: APA Publications Pte Ltd,Singapore
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Asia | Travel | Subjects | Books

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Phuket Insight Pocket Guide

Manufacturer: APA Publications Pte Ltd,Singapore
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Asia | Travel | Subjects | Books

Guidebooks | Reference & Tips | Travel | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 9812344918

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George Washington: A National Treasure celebrates our nationís permanent acquisition of Gilbert Stuartís magnificent "Landsdowne" portrait of George Washington. Commissioned for the Marquis of Lansdowne, a British supporter of American independence, the painting shows Washington in the last year of his presidency, 1796. Here is a George Washington for the ages, resolute in the face of the multiple crises of our nationís beginnings; grand in the tradition not of a king but of democracyís representative; civilian rather than military in his authority; and above all, the embodiment of a nation both stable and free. Today the painting provides a way to think about a time when Americaís success was by no means certain, about a man whose traits of character became bound up with his nationís fate, and about the expectation for our nationís highest office "the presidency" at the very moment of its creation. Filled with symbols of Washington himself and of the new republic, the painting speaks to Americans today as much as it did in the late eighteenth century.

Lavishly illustrated in color with details of the Lansdowne portrait itself, with other portraits of Washington--contemporary and modern--and with portraits of Washingtonís colleagues, the book is a treasure in and of itself. Essays reflect on how this remarkable painting explains the nature of Washington and his importance in the national psyche, discuss how Washington came to sit for the Lansdowne painting and the workís ownership throuout the years, and consider Gilbert Stuartís portraits of George Washington, and their many copies. A chronology highlights Washingtonís life and times.

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George Washington: A national treasure
Susan Silverstein Scott
Manufacturer: Scholastic
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

Stuart, Gilbert | ( S-U ) | Artists, A-Z | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books
Gilbert & George | ( G-I ) | Artists, A-Z | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books
Presidents & Heads of State | Leaders & Notable People | Biographies & Memoirs | Subjects | Books
ASIN: B0006S5GGE

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Healthy 44-year-old Deborah Daw Heffernan--a nonsmoker with low cholesterol and low blood pressure, who ate her vegetables to boot--lay down one day on the floor of her yoga class and felt her heart explode. Her heart attack--followed by a failed angioplasty, a double bypass, and eight days of unconsciousness--nearly killed her. During her recovery, she found plenty of books about heart disease and women, but no first-person stories--even though cardiovascular disease is the number-one killer of both men and women. An Arrow Through the Heart is the intensely personal account of her experience of surviving a heart attack, and how it changed everything.

Graphic details bring to life for the reader what happened to Heffernan. Her sisters enter her hospital room and see "a thrashing torture victim staked to the bed." Her swollen throat makes her look like "an inflated giraffe." She describes her postoperative depression, her lessons about love, her acceptance of impermanence, all in a well-written narrative of her heart attack that is woven through with snippets about her family and past. --Joan Price

Book Description

What if, like most women, you were overwhelmed by the struggle to balance work and family? So you did everything to be healthy and stress-free -- ate right, kept fit, never smoked, practiced yoga. And what if, out of the blue, your body betrayed you?

Like most American women, Deborah Daw Heffernan worried about breast cancer, not heart disease, the nation's number-one killer of women. Yet on May 12, 1997, Deborah, a slim and health-conscious executive in her mid-forties, was stricken by a near-fatal heart attack in her weekly yoga class. There was no warning and no family history of heart disease. There was only the sudden explosion inside her chest. After emergency surgery and a harrowing string of complications, Deborah faced a long and uncertain recovery, overshadowed by the looming prospect of a heart transplant.

An Arrow Through the Heart is her unflinching, soulful, and surprisingly funny chronicle of that first year -- which might easily have been her last. Anchored by the rugged landscape of Maine, by the fierce love of her husband, and by their two estranged families, who dropped everything to rally around her, she learned to do simple things all over again, one breath at a time. Ultimately, it was a year of healing both body and soul, of "finding meaning everywhere, like Easter eggs."

This book is about how illness, oddly enough, can give life back to us. For the tens of thousands with cardiac disease, it will be a welcome companion on the road to recovery. For the rest of us, Deborah offers a powerful testament to the unexpected joy that can come from living in a state of impermanence.

Customer Reviews:

Inspirational.......2004-04-13

I just finished reading this wonderful book! I was motivated to read this because a dear girl friend is 45( also diabetic) and suffered a major heart attack. I wanted to know more about what happens medically and emotionally.
Very frightening. I want to know how the author is doing now?

Inspiring.......2003-04-02

This was a very inspirational book for those of us who have lived through a debilitating illness and a different perspective on life for those who have not. It made me look at my world differently and appreciate where I am currently. The book was well-written and engaging. I have recommended it to many people.

I really enjoyed this book.......2003-02-08

This is an intimate account of what one woman goes through after having a heart attack. I was surprised about how much I enjoyed it. It is has a great deal of clinical detail of the illness, but it is mostly about the recovery process, the slow, hard, and difficult recovery from the insult to the body. Reading about someone who can't do the basic acts we all take for granted makes it easier to count your own blessings.

Arrow Through the Heart.......2002-11-28

I read this book when it first was published and again recently. It really is one of the most absorbing and beautifully written books in my collection. I have sent copies to my friends and relatives and have been getting rave reviews. My cousin in England wrote: "I started Deborah's book at 8PM could barely put it down at 11, went to sleep and finished it the next morning!"

Not What I Expected..........2002-08-27

When I purchased the book, I thought it would act as a resounding inflection into the life and times of a woman struggling with the horrible aftermath of critical events similar to what I had gone through three years earlier. I did not find that at all. This book came across more as a wishy-washy love story than a tell-all "I'm writing to help others" book of caring and honesty. Her husband must be one great guy! I found nothing in this book that helped me fight my own demons or helped me deal with the personal strife that I've had to live with all these years. I respect Deborah for her willingness to put this all out there, but in the end, her book was an arrow through my wallet and a major disappointment.

An Arrow Through The Heart - One Woman's Story of Life, Love and Surviving A Near Fatal Heart Attack

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An Arrow Through The Heart - One Woman's Story of Life, Love and Surviving A Near Fatal Heart Attack
Deborah Daw Hefferman
Manufacturer: Doubleday & Co
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 1864710640

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Dogs Helping Kids with Feelings.......2001-06-03

Follows the routine of a therapist and her (boxer) therapy dog. Focuses more on qualifications and training of therapy dogs rather than helping kids with feelings. Provides good explantion of what a therapy dog does in a vocabulary geared toward children.

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Great Ideas

Great!

Your service.

Sweatshirts With Style (Starwear)
Mary Mulari
Manufacturer: Chilton Book Co
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Fashion | Crafts & Hobbies | Home & Garden | Subjects | Books
General | Crafts & Hobbies | Home & Garden | Subjects | Books
Textile Arts | Crafts & Hobbies | Home & Garden | Subjects | Books
General | Fashion | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books
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Denim and Chambray With Style: Sewing Easy Accents for "Comfort" Clothes

Mary Mulari's Garments With Style: Adding Flair to Tops, Jackets, Vests, Dresses, and More! (Star Wear)

Made for Travel: 50 Easy-Sew Gifts and Accessories for Everyday Trips and Special Journeys

ASIN: 0801983924

Customer Reviews:

Great Ideas.......2007-06-18

I've had this book for years and have used the principles in it to make many sweatshirts into comfortable cardigans. They are wonderful for slipping on and off easily when you have arthritis and aren't as heavy as a regular jacket. By coordinating fabric you can make a cardigan that matches your pants and skirts. Using the ideas in this book there are many ways to adapt and make nice looking cover-ups for disabled people who have special dressing needs such as larger neckholes, etc.

Great!.......2003-11-12

This book gave tips on how to revise sweatshirts in ways that I should have thought of years ago but never did. Well worth the price-in fact, it was a steal! I would recommend this book to anyone who can sew.

Your service........2001-11-01

you sold a used book that you had already sold and was not available and I have no way to tell you. I wish I did. so this
is a review of your service not the book.

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Awesome transformation of sweatshirts
Disappointed -- designs not stylish
A guide to adding extra touches to ready made sweatshirts

Fashion Sweatshirts
Lorine Mason
Manufacturer: Krause Publications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Decorating | Crafts & Hobbies | Home & Garden | Subjects | Books

Fashion | Crafts & Hobbies | Home & Garden | Subjects | Books

General | Crafts & Hobbies | Home & Garden | Subjects | Books

Sewing | Crafts & Hobbies | Home & Garden | Subjects | Books
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ASIN: 0873499123

Book Description

Remaking ready-made sweatshirts is popular once again. With Fashion Sweatshirts readers will learn how to use the latest techniques to turn a simple, inexpensive sweatshirt into a personal fashion statement with contemporary flair.

Featuring 29 sweatshirt projects focusing on women's designs as well as several designs for children, all using today's most popular fabrics and styles, this book offers sewers a unique, fun and inexpensive way to update their wardrobe. Readers will learn to sew, embroider, knit and crochet plain sweatshirts into fabulous wearables with embellishments such as buttons, fringes, lace, appliqué, iron-ons and beads.

-Step-by-step color photos and instructions ensure readers' success -Easy, fun and inexpensive way to create stunning fashions -29 projects for women and children, including 3 with matching purses

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Awesome transformation of sweatshirts.......2007-02-12

This is a great book with awesome designs and ideas to transform inexpensive sweat shirts into pretty jackets.

Disappointed -- designs not stylish.......2006-03-16

I was hoping this book would have cute sweatshirts like the ones I've see at craft shows selling for $40++. There isn't one pattern in this book that I would consider making or wearing.

A guide to adding extra touches to ready made sweatshirts.......2005-04-10

Experienced, passionate, and professional seamstress Lorine Mason presents Fashion Sweatshirts: 25+ Easy Projects To Alter And Embellish Ready-Mades, a guide to adding extra special touches to ready made sweatshirts from fur trim to buttons and beads, and much more. Each sample project is described in-depth with explicit, step-by-step instructions, which are adaptible to a broad range of colors and fancies. A collection of consumable sewing patterns packaged with the book round out this superb guide to affordible embellishing for fun and fashion.

Great Clothing from Sweatshirts, T-Shirts & Demim

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Great Clothing from Sweatshirts, T-Shirts & Demim
Susan Parker Beck
Manufacturer: Sterling Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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Sewing | Crafts & Hobbies | Home & Garden | Subjects | Books

Textile Arts | Crafts & Hobbies | Home & Garden | Subjects | Books

Household Hints | How-to & Home Improvements | Home & Garden | Subjects | Books

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ASIN: 0806907924

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Patrick Lose's Whimsical Sweatshirts
Patrick Lose
Manufacturer: Sterling
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Fashion | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books

General | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books

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ASIN: 0806931809

Book Description

"It's hard to resist Lose's whimsical creations....Sweatshirts can be emblazoned with one of 23 different designs. Motifs range from holidays (Halloween, Christmas, Easter, New Year's Eve, among others) to nature and seasonal ideas, including a grinning carrot-nosed snowman, a huggable teddy bear, and anthropomorphic sunflowers."--Booklist. "The quality and wit of the designs set them apart from those found in popular magazines....This book will rarely languish on the shelves in public libraries."--LJ. 144 pages (all in color), 8 1/2 x 11.

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Alicia's Collectables
Alicia Euffa
Manufacturer: Cat's Meow Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Fashion | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books
ASIN: B000MPN708

Product Description

Full-size, tracable patterns for decorating sweatshirts, blouson tops, etc. Use fabric dye to paint (instructions & color listing provided).

Decorative T-Shirts and Sweats Made Easy: Creative Ideas

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Decorative T-Shirts and Sweats Made Easy: Creative Ideas
Consumer Guide editors
Manufacturer: Consumer Guide
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Fashion | Crafts & Hobbies | Home & Garden | Subjects | Books

General | Crafts & Hobbies | Home & Garden | Subjects | Books

Needlework | Crafts & Hobbies | Home & Garden | Subjects | Books

Textile Arts | Crafts & Hobbies | Home & Garden | Subjects | Books

General | Fashion | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books

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ASIN: 0451822889

FASHION BOX Unisex T-Shirt Sweatshirt Sportswear (English & Italian text, Spring * Summer 2001)

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FASHION BOX Unisex T-Shirt Sweatshirt Sportswear (English & Italian text, Spring * Summer 2001)

Manufacturer: PM Studio Progettomoda
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Spiral-bound

General | Fashion | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books
ASIN: B000QUGA0I

Holiday fashion stitch: Easy to do cross stitch on 8.5 waste canvas

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Holiday fashion stitch: Easy to do cross stitch on 8.5 waste canvas
Barbara Finwall
Manufacturer: Banar Designs
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

Cross-Stitch | Crafts & Hobbies | Home & Garden | Subjects | Books

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More sweaters for cross stitchers: Cross stitch on sweaters and sweatshirts for a high fashion look

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More sweaters for cross stitchers: Cross stitch on sweaters and sweatshirts for a high fashion look
Anne Van Wagner Young
Manufacturer: Leisure Arts
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

Cross-Stitch | Crafts & Hobbies | Home & Garden | Subjects | Books

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ASIN: B00072PYXE

The sweater book for cross stitchers: Plain sweaters go high fashion with easy cross stitch techniques (Leisure Arts leaflet)

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The sweater book for cross stitchers: Plain sweaters go high fashion with easy cross stitch techniques (Leisure Arts leaflet)
Anne Van Wagner Young
Manufacturer: Leisure Arts
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: B00072RUDG

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Jackson & Perkins Selecting, Growing and Combining Outstanding Perennials: Mid-Atlantic and New England Edition
Teri Dunn , and Andre Viette
Manufacturer: Cool Springs Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Perennials | Flowers | Gardening & Horticulture | Home & Garden | Subjects | Books
General | Gardening & Horticulture | Home & Garden | Subjects | Books
Middle Atlantic | Regional | Gardening & Horticulture | Home & Garden | Subjects | Books
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ASIN: 159186089X

Book Description

Outstanding Perennials is the book for those who want the latest developments and trends in Perennials, from new varieties to design ideas.

Outstanding Perennials is available in six regional editions.

Authors are among the most highly respected gardening experts in their individual regions and share their advice on the Perennials that perform best in their area.

Gardeners will be attracted to Outstanding Perennials for the same level of trust associated with Jackson & Perkins Roses.

Outstanding Perennials gives gardeners advice on how to select, plant, grow, and provide care for Perennials.

An added bonus, Outstanding Perennials offers valuable design ideas, based on great Perennial and Rose combinations.

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I threw up in my mouth a little bit.

Simply Wonderful!!!

Wonderful for all moms!... A Must Have!!

Terrific!

Dynamite!

Fun with Mommy and Me: More Than 300 Together-Time Activities for You and Your Child, Birth to Age Five
Cindy Bunin Nurik , and Jane Schonberger
Manufacturer: Dutton Adult
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

Family Activities | Parenting & Families | Subjects | Books
Motherhood | Family Relationships | Parenting & Families | Subjects | Books
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Braun IRT 4020 ThermoScan Ear Thermometer

ASIN: 0525946209
Release Date: 2001-08-23

Book Description

For the last 30 years, millions of moms have trusted the brand to help them educate and understand their babies. Now, for the first time in print, the Mommy and Me people show new mothers all the tips and techniques that made their renowned classes indispensable to new mothers everywhere.

With the importance of early childhood well-documented, many parents are filled with questions about what they can do to nurture their children's emotional, physical, social, and intellectual growth. In a lively, colorful format, Fun with Mommy and Me(tm) provides exactly the guidance they need.

Dr. Cindy Nurik notes the developmental milestones that mothers should watch for at various stages in their child's life, and explains how to introduce children to new concepts at the appropriate time and how to incorporate evolving skills into playtime. Including parenting tips, games, recipes, crafts, and much more, Fun with Mommy and Me is the ultimate parent-child activity book.

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I threw up in my mouth a little bit........2007-03-26

i dont like the way that kid looks on the cover, and whys that old lady touching him? something is very suspicious theyre.

Simply Wonderful!!!.......2004-10-29

Here's a gem of a book, with more than 300 Together-Time Activities for the mother and child. The books introduces visual and musical patterns, as well as poetry and rhymes, arts, and crafts, songs and dances, and lots of general fun and games. Mothers and their children are encouraged to follow along as they learn about each other as well as the fascinating world around them.

Whenever an activity is in place, you can be certain that the child is learning, as well as the parent, because we all learn from our children. A wonderful book, and some have said it is a "must have." Highly recommended!!

Wonderful for all moms!... A Must Have!!.......2002-04-21

I am a single working mom and this book has been a lifesaver! It is down to earth, easy to read and understand and gives so much information and little tips to the side of pages. I don't get enough time to read in depth so this is wonderful. I love the way the author wrote in the words to childrens songs...I always forget a line or so. This will become a very important part of our play time together. I liked it so much I bought 3 more for cousins that are expecting and have young children.

Terrific!.......2001-12-02

This is a terrific book and used for lots of things not just favorite activities. Put it on your shopping list for Christmas and it makes a great shower gift as well. I got it for a shower gift along with Mommy-CEO, revised edition, by Jodie Lynn, and have enjoyed them both so much! These are two must have books for all moms.

Dynamite!.......2001-11-23

The authors have written a book that one can read with one hand while changing a diaper with the other. This is not rocket science--you can make sense of it quickly and easily, and that's essential when you have a toddler in the house! Get it. Read it. And get on the Mommy & Me track. In a year where everything has gotten exceedingly more difficult, thanks for making my life easier. A grateful Aunt--who needs all the help she can get!

Book Description

Le Marque's intimate journal is an inspiring account of her life as an artist and a woman. She speaks with candor, insight, and humor of her path as one of the emerging icons on the landscape of American art and the Southwest. This is the unwavering voice of a true free spirit, and a role model for women and creative souls of all shapes and types.

Customer Reviews:

The One Book to Grab If Your Library's Burning!!!.......2001-11-07

If forced to choose, I would keep this one book out of the hundreds I own. It's one of the few I've re-read cover to cover time and time again. Each reading fosters new resolve to be my truest, strongest, most creative self. I've given it to lots of friends involved in the arts. As if that wasn't enough, it contains some wonderful nuggets regarding the business side of the creative life. Ms. LeMarque subsequently published "Coyote Woman," and I eagerly anticipate her next book!

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Statesman, political thinker, orator, and ardent campaigner, Edmund Burke was one of the most brilliant figures of the eighteenth century. This unorthodox biography focuses on Burke's thoughts, responses, and actions to the great events and debates surrounding Britain's tumultuous relationships with her three colonies—America, Ireland, and India—and archrival France.

"In bringing Burke to our attention, Mr. O'Brien has brought back a lost treasure. The Great Melody is a brilliant work of narrative sweep and analytical depth. Conor Cruise O'Brien on Edmund Burke is a literary gift to political thought."—John Patrick Diggins, New York Times Book Review

"Serious readers of history are in for a treat: a book by the greatest living Irishman on the greatest Irishman who ever lived. . . . O'Brien's study is not merely a reconstruction of a fascinating man and period. It is also a tract for the times. . . . I cannot remember another time when I finished a book of more than 600 pages wishing it were longer."—Paul Johnson, The Independent

"The Great Melody combines superb biography and fascinating history with a profound understanding of political philosophy."—Former President Richard Nixon

Customer Reviews:

A Scholarly and Tightly Woven Study.......2001-07-24

"The Great Melody" by Conor Cruise O'Brien is not your traditional biography; there is little here concerning Burke's personal and family life. Instead, the work concentrates on Burke's political career and thought and, specifically, how they relate to his Irish heritage. The result is a fascinating look into the mind and personality of a man who suffered from a conflict of emotions over his Irish heritage that included his father's conversion to Protestantism while his mother and wife remained Catholic. Burke himself was torn in different directions his entire life; loyalty to Britain and also his Irish ancestors and friends suffering under the Penal Laws, loyalty to the British constitution, but also a deep feeling for the need of justice for the oppressed people at home and abroad.

O'Bien's book takes an in-depth look at Burke's career in parliament and as a member of the Whig party through an extensive analysis of his letters, speeches, political relationships, and writings, specifically, as they relate to his struggle on behalf of the American colonists, the struggle of the Irish Catholics, the people of India suffering at the hands of the rapacious East India Co., and the French Revolution.

The work can be a little dry at times and tends to quote in an overly lengthy manner, but the immense erudition and scholarship and the insightful picture of Burke that emerges more than compensate for this. I do wish, however, that O'Brien had spent more time on "Reflections On The Revolution in France," but he feels that since it is so readily available to the reader there is no need. Finally we see an Edmund Burke as he really was and not the "old reactionary" that is so often depicted. We come to understand that Burke always believed that "the people are the true legislator," that Burke did not want to see Americans in Parliament who were slave holders, that he was a life-long opponent of increased powers for the Crown and the corruption such power entailed, that he was one of the few who consistently fought against injustice toward the American colonials, that he found all authoritaianism abhorrent, and that he opposed commercial monopolies and the abuse of power in all its forms. But, because he opposed the overturning of society and its reengineering on the basis of "metaphysical abstractions," he was often portrayed as a reactionary by later pundits. Lewis Namier and his followers are particularly taken to task by O'Brien for this tendency. In the end we see a Burke who always supported basic human rights, but remained constantly aware that real life circumstances must make social and political change possible if such change is not to lead to chaos and violence. Burke's fear of radicalism based upon abstract theory was real and the destructiveness of the French Revolution, the Russian Revolution, and the Nazi bio-racial religion more than sufficiently proves his point. A reading of O'Brien's fine book can only lead the intelligent reader to a renewed respect for a great man, a decent and liberal minded man, and a man of immense vision.

Burke the Cold War Liberal.......2000-12-26

There is much in O'Brien's book that is interesting, original and insightful. But it suffers from two fatal flaws, one stylistic/structural, one substantive: (1) It is a mess. It is part personal biography, part intellectual biography, part annotated anthology, all mixed together in a confusing and unsatisfactory hodge-podge that may have been deliberate, given Burke's (and therefore O'Brien's) aversion to systems and abstraction. It is as if the author set out with a firm intention to portray Burke a certain way, collected up all the relevant facts, but just couldn't pull it all together in the end. It reads like a work-in-progress, several drafts short of completion and in dire need of a good editor; (2) It seriously overstates its case, and is therefore simply not reliable as an account of Burke's thought. O'Brien's Burke is a pluralist liberal, one of the "good guys" not to be classed among the "reactionaries", as Isaiah Berlin has done. But as Berlin points out--with far too much courtly politeness--in his exchange with O'Brien (reproduced in the appendix), the author has simply turned a blind eye to those aspects of his subject that make him appear illiberal. Most liberals at the time supported the French Revolution, at least in its early phase, and with good reason: it destroyed a confused mass of privilege, injustice and corruption that served the interests of a largely hereditary elite, which Burke vigorously defended. Most liberals since have supported it too. Few (if any) liberals today would hesitate to condemn someone who defended tradition, hereditary privilege and deference to authority as Burke did. To say that Burke was a liberal just doesn't wash. Granted he had SOME liberal tendencies, but he had many other tendencies that liberals have always found repugnant. It is a crude and one-sided portrait. O'Brien subscribes to the old-fashioned Cold War liberalism of Jacob Talmon, who interpreted the struggle between liberal democracy and "totalitarianism" in the 20th Century as a replay of the struggle between liberalism constitutionalism and the Terror. O'Brien's agenda in this book is to accept this dubious and anachronistic framework and to place Burke firmly on the "correct" side in it, with a demonic Rousseau on the other. THE GREAT MELODY was probably out-of-date before O'Brien wrote a word of it, just as much of Burke was when it appeared in the eighteenth century.

Burke is more than a few famous quotes.......2000-07-16

Everyone knows Edmund Burke's most famous quote: "for evil to triumph, it is only necessary for good men to do nothing". As a former lecturer in political science, I was mainly familiar with Burke as the founder of Anglo-conservatism (infinitely more nuanced and modern than his equivalent in Franco-conservatism, the Count Joseph de Maistre). I had also read an early work, namely "An Enquiry into the nature of the Beautiful and the Sublime", which I thought a brilliant little jewel. But there's much more about Burke than that.

O'Brien, the great man of Irish diplomacy, shows in this extraordinary book that Burke, whom recently history has shown as a fawning servant to the political leaders of his time (Rockingham and Pitt), was at the heart of the great fight between George III's royal absolutism and the emerging English democracy. Burke was on the right side of virtually all the fights he picked. He advocated equality before the law for the Irish subjects of the king, first tolerance and then freedom for the American colonies, the end of the colonialist abuses of the East India company, and a quarantine on the infectious ideas of the French Revolution. The later one is still a contentious affair. Zhou En Lai famously opined that it was still too early (in the 1970s) to judge the French Revolution. Burke would have had none of that. As early as 1790, in the "benign" initial phase of the revolution, he foresaw the Terror, the execution of the Royal Family, the Consulate and the Empire, and the French banner covering all of the Europe, in the name of "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity".

O'Brien shows the extraordinary situation of an Irish Protestant (always accused of crypto-Catholicism) having great informal influence on the politics of Great Britain, while holding menial offices or representing various "rotten boroughs" in Parliament (this is no aspersion on Burke's memory- that's how politics was done at the time, and anything that gave Burke a pulpit couldn't have been all bad). The "Great Melody" of the title provides the underlying themes around which O'Brien organizes the public part of Burke's life. Far from tiresome, this is a useful device that provides unity and coherence to Burke's thoughts and actions. O'Brien's attacks on mid-century historiography are perfectly adequate, given that much of what was written as that period was designed to regress Burke into irrelevancy, as a sycophant and a lackey. He never was that. He was a good and a great man, and O'Brien does him justice in his book. Perhaps the only fault that I could find in it is a tendency to assume the reader's prior knowledge of the arcanes of Irish history. But these are quibbles. If you can stomach a history of ideas, full of events and studded with memorable characters, this is the book for you.

An excellent biography, highly readable, and bold in thesis........1999-10-21

An excellent biography, highly readable, a bold and ultimately persuasive thesis - that Burke was not only a major political thinker but that he shaped much of the late 18th century. From a fascinating introduction showing how modern scholars had successfully destroyed and obscured Burke's true legacy to its brilliant organizing principle (a line from Yeats), this is a great book. This book should be required reading for every senator, congressman, and presidential candidate - if only to improve the level of discourse by reading Burke's great speeches. Yeats' lines on Burke: "American colonies, Ireland, France, and India/ Harried, and Burke's great melody against it." O'Brien shows how much one great man can do against tyranny, and how little. The book falls short on two counts: one, inadequate bios of Rockingham, Fox, Portland, Pitt the Younger, and his relation to Sam Johnson and Joshua Reynolds. Two, Burke the man does not walk these pages as Johnson does Boswell's book. True, O'Brien has organized the book around Yeats' lines, but the domestic Burke, the friend of Johnson and Reynolds could have been amplified. These are minor faults. This biography is excellent in so many ways that it compares very favorably with Boswell's Johnson and indeed excels it on many fronts.

Masterful Weaving of Political History and Theory.......1998-03-04

O'Brien does a masterful job of bringing to life a neglected and misunderstood politician and political theorist. Those whose knowledge of Burke is limited to "Reflections" are in for an awakening. By book's end the reader will feel much like I. Berlin (whose correspondence with CCOB is in the appendix) and recant previously held stereotypes of Burke as a reactionary. A thorough detailing of Burke's writings and speeches makes clear that he was far from the two dimensional figure derided in political theory seminars.

O'Brien makes old political controversies regarding Ireland, India, America and revolutionary France fresh and engaging. An initial puzzle of this book is O'Brien's passionate refutations of the Namierite view of Burke. Yet, Burke continues to be a bogeyman to the academic left for good reason. Burke hated tyranny in any form and virtually alone among his contemporaries recognized that recasting society in the name of an idea promised the worst form of tyranny. Devotees of the French Revolution detest Burke whose credentials as a champion of the oppressed in Ireland, India and America were beyond reproof.

O'Brien himself, however, was curiously un-Burkean during his political career as it related to the Cold War. Burke correctly recognized that the French Revolution was a proto-totalitarian movement. He saved his most withering scorn for his former allies who viewed the revolution as a net benefit for the French and the world. In contrast, O'Brien in his UN days urged that Ireland follow the "decent" countries such as Sweden and stay above the US-Soviet fray. One wishes that O'Brien, now in his eighties, would have come to grips with his past as a neutral in the struggle between freedom and the successors of the French Revolution.

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The Same Age as the State (History of Ireland & the Irish Diaspora)
Maire Cruise O'Brien
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Máire Cruise O'Brien explores the republican and revolutionary connections of her family as she was growing up, the fallout of the Irish Civil War, and life in the Irish-speaking districts of Ireland almost a century ago.
Máire spent two years studying in postwar Paris, where she met Samuel Beckett and Sylvia Beach, among others. She became the first ever Irish woman diplomat, a role which took her to Spain in the time of Franco, the General Assembly of the U.N., and the Council of Europe in Strasbourg. After her marriage to Conor Cruise O'Brien, she accompanied him to various countries, including wartime Congo, when Conor was U.N. representative; Ghana, where he was chancellor of the new university; and the U.S., when he lectured in New York University.
This is the autobiography of a unique woman, spanning most of the twentieth century. It is filled with famous people, including revolutionaries, writers, statesmen, and many more. A compelling insight into a time of great upheaval in Ireland, Europe, and Africa.

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Edmund Burke
Conor Cruise O'Brien
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Statesman, political thinker, orator and ardent campaigner, Edmund Burke was one of the greatest minds of the eighteenth century. His ideas and principles were expressed in the great debates over liberty, the rights of man and the American and French revolutions, and are among the most important in modern history. Conor Cruise O’Brien’s magisterial book is a rich and fascinating biography of an extraordinary man.

Conor: A Biography of Conor Cruise O'Brien

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Conor: A Biography of Conor Cruise O'Brien
Donald Harman Akenson
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For the first biography of this man of letters, diplomat, and scholar, Donald Harman Akenson had unrestricted access to O'Brien's personal papers. The intimate drama of people and events that emerges is not only a portrait of one man but also the story of modern history unfolding. "Conor Cruise O'Brien . . . has certainly found a splendid biographer in historian Akenson. . . . [This] is a very fine biography, full of wit, verve, candor, and a critical appreciation of its subject."--Kirkus Reviews

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Long Affair Thomas Jefferson and the Frenc

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Long Affair Thomas Jefferson and the Frenc
Conor Cruise O'Brien
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Magnificently crafted memoir of a great Irishman

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Conor Cruise O'Brien
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Known as a diplomat, government minister, historian, biographer, anti-war activist, playwright, editor, political theorist and university president, Conor Cruise O'Brien has brought his unique perspective to such thorny issues as Irish nationalism, Zionism, post-colonial Africa and India and terrorism.

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Magnificently crafted memoir of a great Irishman.......2001-07-23

O'Brien is the living embodiment of what it is to be a polymath and a man of letters. The range of his work as statesman, academic and author is rivalled in recent history only by Malraux. This is a magnificent memoir of an exemplary life.

The most striking characteristic of O'Brien the statesman is his extraordinary courage - physical courage, not merely the willingness to express a controversial view - in expounding the essential moral difference between democracy and terrorism, and the need for a democratic polity to defend itself against those who would undermine it by violence. One need not agree with all of O'Brien's policy conclusions - an unyielding rejection of the deeply flawed Good Friday agreement, and a curious addendum in this volume that nonetheless Ulster Protestants might have to reconcile themselves one day to a united Ireland - to be thankful for, and to benefit from, his lesson that the advocates of revolutionary violence stand in defiance of the values of a civilised and liberal order.

The recurrent theme of the book, reflecting O'Brien's lifelong fascination with the subject, is the interaction of nationalism and religion. He is deeply critical of the cult of revolutionary nationalism in his native Ireland, and analyses with great insight the sources of nationalist mythology. He is similarly knowledgeable of the connections between Jewish nationalism and religion, and takes the - by now, unfortunately rare - position of a Gentile with a principled and liberal sympathy for the cause of Israel.

It is, in short, a consistently thought-provoking book by a man of courage, literary skill and outstanding intellect. Highly recommended.

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