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- More than just a gripping, eye-witness account of that daring and desperate encounter with German forces
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Cockleshell Commando (Reminiscence)
Bill Sparks
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More than just a gripping, eye-witness account of that daring and desperate encounter with German forces .......2005-11-10
There were only two survivors from Britain's famous World Two "Cockleshell Hero" raid. Bill Sparks was one of them. Cockleshell Commando is more than just a gripping, eye-witness account of that daring and desperate encounter with German forces noted in military annals as the Gironde Raid, it is also the story of Sparks' escape back to Britain, as well as how he personally fought with the Greek Sacred Squadron for the rest of the war. A superbly written front line (as well as a behind the frontlines and deep into enemy territory) battlefield memoir, and a totally engaging read from first page to last, Cockleshell Hero is the stuff of military legend and Hollywood filmmaking. Very Highly Recommended!
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COCKLESHELL COMMANDO: The Memoirs of Bill Sparks
Bill Sparks
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One of only two survivors of the famous Cockleshell Hero raid, Bill Sparks' war and postwar career has never before been told in full. In this gripping book, he describes not only his part in Operation FRANKTON, the daring Gironde raid, and his escape back to Britain, but how he fought with the Greek Sacred Squadron thereafter.
Operating in small groups they raided and liberated islands in the Aegean Sea. After the war, bored with life as a bus driver, he joined the Malayan Police and saw action aplenty during the Emergency.
Always something of a military maverick, Bill's memoir is truly action-packed. The book benefits from the inclusion of the official German investigation report into the Cockleshell Raid.
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Tacho's Story (Transforming Lives)
Pride Kitty
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ASIN: 1850784027 |
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James Fraser was only twentytwo when he abandoned a promising career and went to China. At first sight of the Lisu tribes people of Yunnan province he felt an immediate affection for them and for the rest of his life he labored to bring them to Christ and to Christian maturity. Eileen Crossman has brought him to life for todayrsquo;s readers in this superb biography which reveals the secret of his success.
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Since the now ubiquitous LIVE
STRONG™ wristbands became available in May 2004, the Lance Armstrong Foundation has raised more than $50 million for cancer survivorship programs, and the signature phrase has become a battle cry for those who fight the disease every day.
Now, the Lance Armstrong Foundation has compiled, from hours of videotaped interviews, poignant and dramatic personal accounts from cancer survivors. Covering a wide range of subjects, from grief to spousal relationships, employment discrimination to coping with medical bills, infertility to fear of recurrence, survivors share their experiences and speak candidly about how cancer has impacted their lives. For twenty-four-year-old Amy it’s how her illness changed her relationship with her parents. Mike, a male survivor of breast cancer, talks about gender stereotypes and genetic testing. And Eric, the father of a five-year-old survivor of a brain tumor, recalls how friends and strangers helped his family with financial issues and how the experience brought him and his wife closer together.
While heartbreaking at times, these powerfully honest stories are ultimately uplifting and extremely reassuring to patients and their families. They offer the wisdom and hope that only survivors can give. Live
Strong is a remarkable testament to the resilience of the human spirit.
From the introduction by Lance Armstrong:
My work with the LAF shows me daily that sharing our stories and learning from one another’s experiences helps us cancer survivors continue to survive. Some people think the cancer experience is only about the diagnosis and treatment of cancer, as if after the disease goes into remission, it no longer exists. But survivorship goes beyond remission. Survivorship is an evolution.
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Two Thumbs Up by the Author of North Pond Dawn.......2005-11-08
Live Strong: Inspirational Stories from Cancer Survivors - From Diagnosis to Treatment and Beyond by the Lance Armstrong Foundation is a powerful new book that is a must read for anyone - whether they have been impacted by cancer or not.
The book is a collection of stories told by twenty-six people on a terrifying roller coaster that is out of control ... they have been diagnosed with serious life-changing cancer. But they all have hope and they all develop the inner strength to continue their lives with the drastic changes that cancer forces upon them.
The people are unforgettable ...
- the college senior who found out in her last semester ... just when she was ready to start a wonderful and exciting life journey - now bravely struggling with feelings of isolation while working to raise money for other cancer survivors.
- the cancer doctor who got cancer himself, played with his kids, wound up with a divorce, and eventually returned to work with a new understanding of what his patients are experiencing.
- the twenty-four year old woman whose basketball career ended when she was diagnosed in eighth grade.
- the teenage boy who struggled through a cancer-filled `coming of age' period unlike any other but who has now found some peace and even has a girlfriend.
- the Asian woman who became distraught because she knew something was wrong inside - and who eventually had to force her doctors to figure out that she had cancer.
- the father of four who became a cancer survivor when his five year old son was diagnosed then became blind and now is learning Braille.
- the forty-five year old woman who calmly, almost light-heartedly wonders if she will expire before her credit card does.
The stories are remarkable, told simply in the words of real people, not professional authors. The book is certainly a monument to hope and optimism and living strong.
But there is something deeper about this book, both more disturbing and more profound, that I can not quite put my finger on. Perhaps it is because I am reading Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking, an extraordinary journey with her during her year-long reaction to her husband's sudden death. It is becoming clearer to me that the survivors in Live Strong are really describing the heart-wrenching emotional grieving process that they struggled through. Someone has died and it is them - the other life, without cancer, that they will never have. And there is such difficulty in letting go.
Read this book. It is much deeper than inspiration. By David Roddy, Cancer Survivor and Author of North Pond Dawn.
Straight from those who know how it feels........2005-10-21
I was drawn to the book when I saw the familiar yellow LIVE STRONG wristband. Upon reading, I was relieved to realize that this book is one full of hope, not despair, sadness and pain. These are the stories of real people who have had or do have real cancer. The book is invaluable because it comes from those people who know what having cancer feels like. These aren't the words of doctors or nurses or other health care professionals. These are the words from people who know.
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Madhur Jaffrey's Step-by-Step Cooking fearlessly brings the intense flavors of Hong Kong, Korea, Japan, Thailand, the Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, and India to American home kitchens. Madhur Jaffrey's World Vegetarian made Jaffrey a household name, and her Indian cookbooks have garnered her wide recognition as a doyenne of Indian cooking. Here she extends that authority to take readers on a culinary tour of the Far East, and offers more than 150 easy-to-follow recipes that bring the extensive palate of Asian culinary treasures home.
The tantalizing recipes represent the broad spectrum of flavors and cooking techniques found throughout Asia. Hot, sweet, salty, and sour burst in popular dishes like Thai Hot and Sour Prawn Soup, and the intense flavors of fresh herbs shine in dishes like Vietnamese Aromatic and Spicy Beef Stew. Chicken may be poached, shredded, and tossed with a spicy sesame sauce for Bon Bon Chicken in Hong Kong; sautéed with bamboo shoots, mushrooms, and black beans in Malaysia; or smothered with a heady spice paste of chilies, shallots, and turmeric, and roasted whole wrapped in banana leaves in Indonesia.
An informative introduction includes helpful guidance on equipment and the various cooking techniques used. Invaluable tips, charming personal anecdotes, helpful menu suggestions, and gorgeous color photographs sprinkled throughout convey Jaffrey's deep passion for the foods and traditions of this stunning and vibrant corner of the world. --Robin Donovan
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You might have sampled Thai, Japanese, or Vietnamese dishes in your local restaurants but were reluctant to try cooking them at home. Now Madhur Jaffrey's Step-by-Step Cooking brings the freshness and intensity of Asian cuisine into your own kitchen. With carefully selected recipes from Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, and India, Madhur Jaffrey, in an easy-to-follow, inviting format, offers a broad range of these distinctive individual cuisines united by many common ingredients and cooking techniques.One ingredient -- shrimp -- may be stir-fried with asparagus in Hong Kong, dipped in batter and fried in Tokyo, or stirred into a coconut sauce in Malaysia. A combination of cooking techniques (grilling, steaming, stir-frying, and marinating) and seasonings (chilies, garlic, ginger, and lemongrass) will enable you to produce highly nutritious and delicious food with ease and exciting variety. A basic dish of blanched vegetables becomes unforgettable when tossed with a delectable, instant dressing of grated coconut, red chilies, lime juice, sugar, and chili powder. The bursting, contrasting flavors of hot and sweet, sour and salty can be captured in Thailand's popular Tom Yam Kung (Hot and Sour Prawn Soup); herbs verdant as a summer garden combine with extraordinary results in Thit Bo Kho (Aromatic and Spicy Beef Stew) of Vietnam; and the delectable lightness of India's Kulfi (Ice Cream with Cardamom and Pistachios) is the perfect dessert for any meal.Tantalizing recipes for more than 150 dishes fill these pages -- soups and first courses; fish and seafood; poultry and eggs; meat; vegetables and salads; rice, pancakes, and noodles; dips, sauces, and garnishes; desserts and drinks -- and represent the extensive palate of Asian culinary treasures. Madhur Jaffrey also outlines key ingredients and equipment you'll need and demonstrates essential techniques with easy-to-follow step-by-step photographs. Peppered with invaluable tips, personal anecdotes, and suggestions for complete meals, each page of this cookbook conveys Madhur's lifelong passion for the different regions of Asia and their food.
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A treasure of practical and delicious recipies!.......2005-01-05
This is my 2nd favorite in my extensive cookbook collection, because the recipies are both delicious and practical. The recipies are not overly complicated, ingredients are not difficult to find, there are fantastic menu ideas, and many, many, excellent recipies from a variety of Asian cultures. The book is also beautiful to browse through. No gourmand should be without this masterpiece.
Unlocking Great Asian Secrets.......2002-09-21
I'm a huge Madhur Jaffrey fan and I must admit this is one her better ones (even though it may be quite similar to Far Eastern Cookery). With tempting pictures and easy to follow recipes you can easily recreate some of Asia's best dishes. I've rarely suffered mishaps with her recipes. I think you will find many of her recipes to be guaranteed successes.
I live in Korea and I've tried most of her Korean dishes in restaurants and homes. Her recipes are authentic and, dare I say, better than most of the ones I've tried here. My Korean friends would also agree. However, never substitute Korean gochujang - there's no alternative as she suggests. Try the recipe for bulgogi. It's one of the best I've ever had!
madhur jaffrey's step-by-step cooking: over 150 dishes from.......2002-04-26
Glenn Kessler is exactly right. the book is almost identical to madhur jaffrey's far eastern cookery which i purchased in 1990. changes are a joke. e.g. one quarter pound in 1990 --four ounces in 2001. .... fortunately i have a cooking friend who does not have this one and has a birthday coming up so my [money] is not wasted. thanks for giving your clients this opportunity for expression, good or bad.
Can't get enough of Madhur Jaffrey.......2002-03-21
I have used Madhur Jaffrey's other cookbooks with great success. I found that without exception her recipes are foolproof and absolutely delicious. I love the layout of the step-by-step cookbook. Typical of Madhur Jaffrey, she uses no-frills ingredients to great effect and the suggested menus in the back actually look doable. This cookbook is inspiring thanks to the huge color photographs covering almost every other page. I review all new cookbooks from my local library -- religiously -- and this is the only one that I simply had to own.
Great Food from the East.......2002-01-03
I recently received this book from Santa for Christmas and have already made three dishes. The Red Chicken Curry was the best version I've ever tasted (I've been enjoying Thai food for 15 years). I love the format of this book as the recipes are well layed out and there are lots of beautiful photographs. Madhur has provided a great selection of dishes from this region. Perhaps if you have other cookbooks from the author this might replicate the recipes, but for someone looking for a consolidation of the best dishes of the East, I would highly recommend this book.
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- Not worth it. Get "Running With Man's Best Friend" instead.
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Running With Your Dog
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Not worth it. Get "Running With Man's Best Friend" instead........1997-10-31
This book, written by a minister who runs, is mostly a paeon to dogs. Its running advise is dated and general, and it offers little specifics about running with dogs.
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Transfer starts by acquainting crafters with the tools of the trade, such common household items as an iron and a color printer, and then suggests all sorts of surfaces for decoration -- linens, canvas, ceramics, wooden mats, glass, and cork. Design and application concepts in hand, crafters can choose from the wide variety of heat transfer projects -- personalizing cloth napkins, a canvas bag, sofa cushions, curtains and drapes; customizing dishes, ceramic tiles, wooden placemats, biscuit tins, glass jugs, and vases.
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Great instructions for Lazertran papers.......2007-04-15
I like the book and the projects give you a nice jumping off point. The instructions are clear and seem pretty easy to do. However, I was looking for something with more transfer techniques then just the use of lazertran papers. Of the 16 projects in the book only 2 were methods other then lazertran transfers.
I'm not unhappy with the book, but I think if I had looked at it in the bookstore I would have passed it up.
Great Intro To Transfer.......2005-08-26
Makes transferring unintimidating. I don't understand why one reviewer thought this was not a "how-to" book, as directions make it very easy to follow and succeed. Tells you what you need to start, how to set up and how to do it on various surfaces. Book is laid out with list of materials needed, set up and how-to for each surface. Neat ideas to spur your imagination. Very helpful book for those wanting to transfer on fabric, less helpful for those wanting to transfer on ceramic, however, it still has value for teaching the process and leading you down new roads.
Gets to the point with good photos!.......2002-06-28
While I would agree with the other review that called this book a fun ideas book, I appreciate a book that gets down to it right away. I primarily like this book because it's features many projects with Lazertran transfer paper, as well as 6 or so other methods. A great book if you're looking for an introduction to tranfer techniques.
Major Disappointment!.......2002-05-19
This book is not the "how-to" I expected so much as a very pretty but generalized "fun ideas" book. Good tag sale item (for selling),
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Essential for all gardeners, horticulturists, teachers, students and naturalists, this is a practical, highly-illustrated guide to dealing with the pests, diseases and disorders that commonly affect fruit, vegetables, trees and ornamental garden plants. A revision of the highly acclaimed guide published in1981, the book now features completely updated text, the addition of several new pests and diseases that have become important in the last decade, and an impressive full colour plate section with over 600 photographs.
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Alot of good info........2007-07-03
The pictures are great of the various garden pests and diseases, but I have still found it hard to try and identify what I am finding! There are many different species written about, which is good but only some of them have a sketch and/or maybe a photo. For most things there is quite a bit of info. ie. reproduction,what causes the problem, etc. I think for recommended treatments I would find it more useful if they included more organic controls. I believe chemicals are good, but try green first. The authors obviously are very knowledgeable and have done extensive work in this area.
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In this probing inquiry into America’s preoccupation with raising children, Ann Hulbert blends biography and critical analysis to probe the personal dramas, the scientific claims, and the social visions of a succession of experts who during the twentieth century aimed to make a science of child rearing. She describes how these pediatricians and psychologists came to be popular advisers, and explores the origins and outcome of their ambitious quest to predict and perfect children’s futures, and to solve the dilemmas of modern mothers and of families in flux.
The story unfolds like a curious—and often contentious—family saga, featuring an odd couple of presiding experts in each generation: one a stern father figure espousing a nurture-counts-most, “parent-centered” emphasis on discipline; the other a “child-centered” proponent of gentler bonding as a child’s nature develops. They include turn-of-the-century pioneers L. Emmett Holt, whose precise infant-care regimens promised calm, healthy mothers as well as babies, and his counterpart, G. Stanley Hall, who “invented” adolescence as a special time of freedom and experimentation. Between the wars, the harsh behaviorist John Broadus Watson and the maturationist Arnold Gesell faced off with grander theories about children’s personalities and maternal responsibilities. In the postwar era, Benjamin Spock, a genial Freudian intent on finessing debates between bonders and disciplinarians, soared to prominence—only to be confronted on the antiwar barricades by a fiercer Freudian, Bruno Bettelheim, and then attacked by feminists in the early 1970s.
As the millennium approached, a new host of advisers contended for primacy—from cognitive experts anxious to fine-tune children’s intellectual growth to parenting-specialists-turned-public-advocates from the right and the left issuing manuals and social manifestos to combat what they saw as the erosion of morality and harmony in a family-unfriendly America.
Raising America is a provocative account of how a hundred years of expert advice clearly failed to ease modern child-raising anxieties. It makes clear that the advisers, with their shifting formulas and dogmas, in fact proved to be unnerving. Yet as their stories reveal, they have also been enlightening, holding up an intimate mirror to the rising social and psychological expectations and tensions of an unsettled century.
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Relationship is more then me or my child.......2004-03-02
Child development or "raising" is not something that is done either by child (The Nature) *alone*, or by parent (The Nurture/er) *alone*, we are just parts.
The proverbial "whole" is our "relationship", our connection. Most experts are in fact as miss Hulbert suggests "part-centered" (either "soft", i.e. child-centered or "hard", i.e. parent-centered). But there are "whole-centered", "relationship-centered", or as Lawrence Cohen would say "connection-centered" experts, too, one of them being himself.
If you are interested in transcending all parts, check his Playful Parenting book where he transcends *both* permissiveness (Child or Nature viewed as privileged part) and authoritarianism (Parent or Nurture viewed as privileged part) by viewing our Relationship as a "Whole_Without_Privileged_Parts" through 'Playful Parenting' instead.
Your relationship with your child/ren will never be the same.
Centered on the experts, not the advise or children.......2004-02-01
Perhaps my very mixed feelings about this book came from unmet expectations. I thought it would be a book about the history of the actual advise given American parents---how advise about such issues as toilet training, sleep and eating have changed over the years, and how this affected parents. However, the book was actually much more about the experts themselves---THEIR childhoods, education, marital problems, academic careers, etc. This might be interesting to some, but it wasn't to me for the most part. The book had a feel of an insider sort of expose---written for those in the academic world. Children were mentioned very little, except if they happened to be the children of the experts themselves. There was much delving into the psychological history of each expert, but I found that at times I had a very vague idea what the experts actually advised! For example, Hall, an early expert, had his life opened for scrutiny, but I would be hard pressed to explain what his child care views were. The writing was scholary and confident, but in no way personal---the author's children or her own views are not mentioned. So I guess I would just advice that you know what you want to read about before buying this book---It might be just what you are looking for, but it might be far from what you are looking for.
Only a beginning.......2003-11-15
Our parent education book group agrees that advice-giving to parents has been complex and inconsistent. However, identifying an "odd couple" (experts who give contradictory advice) for each period of the century is arbitrary, contrived, misleading and inappropriate. Hulbert mentions that she selected advice givers who had spoken at national conferences. Otherwise, she give us little information about her biases or about the criteria she used to select individuals highlighted. Why did she choose L. Emmett Holt (not a well-known individual) and G. Stanley Hall (who focused primarily on adolescents)? The protaganist format meant that in the recent years, advice-giving "giants" such asThomas Gordon, Hiam Ginott, Jean Piaget, B.F. Skinner, Erik Erikson, and Rudolph Dreikurs barely receive mention. A history book on parent advice IS needed, not only for scholars, but also for parents to understand their own upbringing. This book barely begins to fill the need.
ambitous and flawed.......2003-10-28
Well, first of all, if I were reading a book about kids, wanting to know about the society of children, I would want to know the author has done the work of raising kids, instead of studying documents of others who studied kids on a makeshift and very temporary basis. There's a great deal of difference between this "pop" psychology writer Hulbert and people who study children, like children, and look for what is good and workable. As I read this book, I kept thinking, how simple it is to write a book about what is wrong, and this is something Hulbert specializes in- according to her, lots of bad ideas exist in the world. This becomes tiresome throughout this book. In a world of cheap pundits everywhere, claiming that everything about everything is wrong, it is refreshing to read instead people like Derrida "the Work of Mourning" which speaks clearly about relationships and how they are made in individual psyches. I think overall, there is so much to be said about kids and relationships between them and with adults that is useful, that this book is unfortunately just is a rehash of each decades "look how bad and stupid people are after all" genre.
Can Parenting Experts Offer Us More Than Confusion?.......2003-06-14
After about 3 minutes of hearing Hulbert talk about the history of parenting advice this century on NPR, I knew I needed this book. I am in a peculiar position as a Parent Coach/Instructor and as a skeptic. Among other things I teach a very specific approach to parenting based on Love and Logic (See my review of Love and Logic Magic for Early Childhood). Yet while I teach a specific approach to helping parents make their lives a bit easier, I am also a skeptic at heart and therefore strive to examine all approaches to parenting with a critical eye, allowing the evidence to point where it may.
With painstaking detail and with considerable wit, Hulbert takes us through the century and helps us to see that parents have been anxious about how their kids would turn out for decades. She also shows that they frequently turn to the experts for guidance; experts who have an annoying habit of contradicting one another. Throughout the centry there has always been a "hard" approach to parenting advocated as well as a "soft" approach advocated usually by two separate experts. Many experts have, and continue to make exaggerated claims about the results of taking their advice. James Watson the famous behaviorist was the paragon of this sort of wild claim, deciding based on a few experiments with white furry things and a scared infant that he knew the secrets to take any sort of child and raise them for a career of his selection and with the character of his choice.
A century later, much is the same though there are some important differences. We continue to have an array of voices with a good deal of overlap as well as with a number of contradictions. The difference now perhaps is that there are approaches all along the continuum from soft to hard, rather than one or two at either end. Hulbert implies that all the contradicitons make it unlikely that anyone has a corner on the "correct" approach. Her NPR interview got at the practical and important point for parents at the how to bookshelf. Parents are wise to pick from among techniques offered by approaches that resonate with their core values. My take on the situation, since I am a therapist by trade, is that parenting experts are much like psychotherapy approaches. The research is clear that no one approach is heads and shoulders above others concerning measurable outcomes for therapy. However, it is clear that for people suffering from anxiety and depression, for example, therapy is certainly better than no treatment. My guess is that the results are the same with parenting. I suspect that most people taking a well organized parenting class do better than people with the same intitial skill level taking no class. I further would recommend that people pick a style that teaches mutual respect. Another key is an approach that is practical enough to teach parents how to set, healthy, reasonable limits in a way that is loving. Most people soon tire of being in the company of a child who runs the house and who is very tuned in to their own feelings and needs, but who lack the balance of knowing how to be respectful of others.
Hulbert makes superb work of bringing big parenting experts of the past century to life and letting us in on some of the details that they might have preferred not be shared openly. I found it particularly helpful to read up on Spock, as we frequently hear his name as a common cultural reference, but I like most people wasn't familiar with the fascinating and sweeping trajectory that his advice and his career took. Hulbert knows her stuff. It would be wonderful to have a conversation with her about this history of parenting experts and how they measure up to the research, including the significant blows that Judith Harris dealt developmental psycholgy by being the first to make a widely publicized stink about the lack of controls for the role genetics, and the and the failure to account for kids having effects on adults' parenting in The Nurture Assumption (another must read for those serious about understanding what we know about parenting styles). I suspect I won't get a chance at the conversation with Hulbert, but this book was a superb second best.
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Souvenirs of Kiki's Memoirs.......2000-09-04
Being a veritable Kiki virgin before I read this book, I found Kiki's Memoirs more than helpful in showing the atmosphere of 1920's Paris. I did, however, agree with Ernest Hemingway's sentiments from his introdution-it is impossible to translate Kiki's words very well. It seems like Samuel Putnam was unable to get more than four sentences out without putting in an exclamation mark. This breaks the narrative up considerably. I would have given this book three stars, but I loved the Man Ray photos in it. The real strength of this book lies in the artwork.
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This is Kiki in Kiki's own voice, no one could say it better.This is a wonderful book for those who love Bohemian Paris, and even those who don't.
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Manufacturer: Belmont Books
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Binding: Unknown Binding
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ASIN: B0007G11SM |
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Greatest Irish Americans of the 20th Century
Manufacturer: Oak Tree Press (Ireland)
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
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ASIN: 1860762069 |
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A great gift idea.......2001-04-29
Greatest Irish Americans Of The 20th Century is a fascinating, 196-page compendium of short biographical sketches of notable, famous, and sometimes infamous Irish Americans. These Irish Americans are drawn from all walks of American life from entertainment, science, and politics, to literature, art, and religion. Profusely illustrated, the list of characters ranges from Nellie Bly, James Cagney, and Maureen Dowd, to John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Audie Murphy, and Sandra Day O'Connor. A delight to browse, Greatest Irish Americans Of The 20th Century is a great gift idea and a highly recommended addition to school and community library collections.
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Greatest Revue Sketches
Manufacturer: Avon Books (Mm)
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
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Grey Gardens: The Complete Book and Lyrics of the Broadway Musical
ASIN: 0380791943 |
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A rather fine collection........2000-04-01
I have read this collection of sketches over and over again and I have used several of them in speech competions. These long forgotten shows of the early twentieth century are incredible humorous, varying from the witty to the absurd. It is a great scene book for drama students. There are a few monologues but most scenes involve 2-5 actors and some for even larger casts.
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