A Soldier's Story : The Double Life of a Confederate Spy (Civil War Chronicles)

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An Interesting Civil War Book.......2002-07-14

This is a well written book - part of the Civil War Chronicles
series. It is based on letters written by Major Isaac N Smith
of the 22nd Virginia Infantry, who was involved in fighting the
Union forces in Western Virginia. He makes very scathing comments on General John B Floyd and suggests that the efforts of Robert E Lee to get Floyd and General Wise to co-operate
caused his (Lee's) hair to go grey!
I found all this very interesting as actions in W Virginia seem
to receive liitle mention in general histories I have read.
The final chapter deals with his work in the Confederate Secret
Service after he resigned from the army.
The book has some good photos and paintings and also detailed
maps covering the battles mentioned.

Civil War Chronicles, A Soldier's Story, The Double Life of a Confederate Spy

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Civil War Chronicles, A Soldier's Story, The Double Life of a Confederate Spy
David Phillips
Manufacturer: Friedman/Fairfax Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000W4I73Q

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Maria Zambrano's Delirium and Destiny makes the work of this major Spanish philosopher available in English for the first time. An excellent introduction to Zambrano's life and thought, it traces the intellectual formation of a young woman who became one of Jose Ortega y Gasset's most distinguished pupils, and it chronicles Zambrano's redefinition of his philosophical positions. A truly interdisciplinary work, this translation is accompanied by an extensive critical essay, a translator's afterword, and a glossary of pertinent historical and philosophical terms.

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Mr. Diamond may be the victim of his own diet.......2007-09-10

I actually am a fan of the "Fit for Life" books -- several things the Diamonds claimed back in the early '80s have panned out, such as margarine being worse for you than butter, eating many servings of fruit and vegetables a day, etc.

But beware following Diamond's "ideal" vegan version of the diet. (He goes on at length in all his books about how bad animal products are for your health, and does advocate a strict vegan diet -- with no supplement pills -- as the ideal one.)

Mr. Diamond, as he details on his website, has for years suffered from Peripheral Neuropathy, a condition that causes damaged nerves in the limbs. He believes the disease was caused by Agent Orange exposure in Vietnam, and also claims to be "one of the longest known survivors of this devastating condition to still be walking around on his own without assistance." He credits this to his healthy plant-based diet. Could be.

But just Google "Peripheral Neuropathy." Go ahead, just Google it... and you'll see that ANOTHER cause of this disease is VITAMIN B12 DEFICIENCY.

That's right. Let me repeat that: Harvey Diamond suffers from a disease that CAN be caused by not eating any animal products.

I do think the "Fit for Life" principles can be used to structure a very healthy eating program... but think long and hard before cutting all animal products out of your diet.

I did not know..........2007-07-31

If you do not know about cancer and what toxins do to your body, read this book.

Fit For Life: A New Beginning.......2007-05-13

I have all the Fit For Life books and am very glad that someone pointed them out to me. I started with the original FFL, then fell off the wagon, no fault of the book, as with most diets it just happened. This latest book though is a real eye-opener to the way we treat our bodies and what we can do to change that. The mono-diet makes perfect sense to me and I have decided to give it a shot for the sake of my health and fitness.

Effective Quackery.......2005-12-30

I followed the Fit for Life regimen and successfully lost a great deal of weight with it. I also did feel more energetic while following it.

However, any research done into the pseudo-scientific claims that serve as this diet's underpinnings reveal the "science" to be largely bogus.

That being said, I think there is some validity to the idea that the way we combine our foods does have an impact on our energy levels. If you follow this diet for a week or so, you will notice that by combining foods as described, the lethargy that typically follows after eating a meal is non-existent.

I've found this diet an effective way of losing weight, but I don't think it's necessary to eat like this all the time.

This guy is a nut.......2005-04-06

Unreal!!! This man writes pure nonsense. Totally unhealthy.

En Forma De Por Vida/ Fit for Life: Un Nuevo Comienzo/ a New Beginning

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En Forma De Por Vida/ Fit for Life: Un Nuevo Comienzo/ a New Beginning
Harvey Diamon
Manufacturer: Editorial Diana Sa
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Binding: Paperback

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Fit for Life : A New Beginning: The Ultimate Diet and Health Plan

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Fit for Life : A New Beginning: The Ultimate Diet and Health Plan
Harvey Diamond
Manufacturer: Kensington Publishing Corporation
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
ASIN: B000K6GLRK

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Fit For Life; A New Beginning; The Ultimate Diet and Health Plan
Harvey Diamond
Manufacturer: Kensington Publishing Corp.
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Binding: Hardcover

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First Printing, May 2000, Hardcover

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The Good Cook : Pasta (Time-Life Books)
Time-Life Books
Manufacturer: Time Life Education
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0809428911

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Pasta (The Good cook, techniques and recipes)
Time-Life Books
Manufacturer: School and library distribution by Silver Burdett Co
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The Good Cook Pasta
Time Life Books Inc
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The Good Cook Techniques & Recopies PASTA
The Editors of Time-life Books
Manufacturer: Alexandria, VA: Time-life Book, 1980
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000LVOADG

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Grains, Pasta & Pulses (The Good Cook)
the editors of Time-Life Books , and of Time-Life Books
Manufacturer: Time Life UK
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0705405990

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Pasta!: Spaghetti, macaroni, ravioli, cannelloni, linguini, lasagne, and all kinds of noodles! how to buy, cook, and serve them, with 50 recipes for sauces, baked dishes and other good things
Evelyn Gendel
Manufacturer: Simon and Schuster
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: B0006BOHNY

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Pasta: Good Cook's Library
Rh Value Publishing
Manufacturer: Crescent
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0517662094
Release Date: 1988-11-11

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PERFECT PASTA: THE GOOD COOK'S COLLECTION
Unknown
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000S5HSOI

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Popular Pizzas and Pasta (Good Cook's Collection S.)

Manufacturer: Fairfax Craft Books
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Binding: Paperback

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Pasta: Good Fast Food for Today's Busy Cook (The Home from Work Series)
Anne Bailey
Manufacturer: Rutland Group
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1853915890

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A 'must' for quilters who would put together eye-catching borders with a minimum of effort.

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The Border Workbook: Easy Speed-Pieced & Foundation-Pieced Borders, 10th Anniversary Edition
Janet Kime
Manufacturer: That Patchwork Place
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Scraps Scraps

ASIN: 156477693X

Book Description

This quintessential book about quilt borders is now updated in full color, just in time for its 10th anniversary! Find the perfect border for any quilt in this must-have guide, along with tips for choosing designs, selecting fabrics, and figuring yardages.

• Includes 27 border designs—17 to strip piece and 10 to paper piece

• Each border is illustrated at the edge of the page for quick reference; a gallery of quilt photos provides inspiring options

• Most border patterns are rotary cut and speed pieced, so they come together quickly

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A 'must' for quilters who would put together eye-catching borders with a minimum of effort........2007-04-12

Janet Kime's THE BORDER WORKBOOK: EASY-SPEED PIECED AND FOUNDATION-PIECED BORDERS appears in its 10th anniversary edition to pack in nearly thirty border designs in different sizes, along with instructions for calculating sizes. From different designs to rotary cutting, this book's been substantially updated and is a 'must' for quilters who would put together eye-catching borders with a minimum of effort.

The Border Workbook review.......2007-01-09

This is an excellent book for border construction. There are lots of color photographs and the directions are easy to follow. The techniques simplify border construction even for the faint of heart. I would highly recommend this book.

The Border Workbook: Easy Speed-Pieced and Foundation-Pieced Borders

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borders on quilts
Lots and lots of patterns
Striped piecing used for pieced borders
Easy Speed Pieced and Foundation Borders
Looks hard but very easy to do!

The Border Workbook: Easy Speed-Pieced and Foundation-Pieced Borders
Janet Kime
Manufacturer: That Patchwork Place
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1564771849

Book Description

Find and sew the perfect borders for any quilt using this book as an expert guide! Here are tips for choosing the best border designs, selecting fabrics, and figuring border yardages. Most of these borders are rotary cut and speed pieced to go together quickly.

· Includes step-by-step directions for 27 border designs in several sizes, with instructions for calculating the size you need

· Each border is illustrated at the edge of the page for quick reference, while a full-color gallery of quilts provides loads of inspiration

· Foundation paper-pieced versions of many full-size borders are provided for small and miniature quilts

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borders on quilts.......2005-09-26

I never knew their were so many wonderful boarders on quilts. All the examples are explained in great detail and easy to understand and follow. A truely a must have book for all quilters.

Joyce

Lots and lots of patterns.......2005-09-01

When making a quilt, I'm usually so anxious to get the quilt done that I don't spend time to make a nice border. But this book changed my mind about that. It's full of border possibilities with clear instructions.

Striped piecing used for pieced borders.......2003-05-24

I have never used striped piecing in quilting. I am an old fashion scrap quilter. I know there are those that buy their fabrics so they always have enough. There is a lot of waste with the authors method. I intend to use this on baby quilts I am a firm believer in piecing the border. My way is tedious and I am looking forward to speeding up the process. A few colored pictures mostly black and white drawings. You still have to determine your pattern size.

Easy Speed Pieced and Foundation Borders.......2000-04-23

The illustrations and directions in this book have taken the mystery out of the puzzle of pieced borders. The same way Simply Quilts broke down the mystery and showed us the magician's secrets, we can now get past solid 4" strips of fabric for our borders.

Looks hard but very easy to do!.......1999-07-15

Want to make your quilt look really special - piece the border. This book has quick piecing techniques to make complicated borders that are actually very quick and easy to rotary cut and stitch. Great for the beginner, intermediate or advanced quilter.

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Kids' Outdoor Parties

Kids Outdoor Parties (Children's Party Planning Books)
Penny Warner
Manufacturer: Meadowbrook
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0689825757

Customer Reviews:

Kids' Outdoor Parties.......2001-06-24

The book has lots of great ideas for 35 themed parties. Each party includes ideas for invitations, costumes, decorations, food, games and other activities, favors and a theme-related cake. The games, and activities (mostly crafts) have easy to follow directions and are fun and creative. Costume ideas range from a suggestion they come in casual clothes to an actual costume wear to the party or one you provide.

For most parties there are a range of options that fit a variety of price ranges. You could splurge on a high cost favor idea and save on a less expensive invitation idea. Each party suggests an age range for which it is appropriate and most are for the upper end, say 7-12.

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The story tells of the gambler and townsite promoter who founded Cozad, Nebraska, and of his family, particularly his younger son, [who] became a world-famous artist and teacher known as 'Robert Henri.' This tale is essentially Robert's story, the story of a sensitive talented boy growing up in the midst of frontier violence. But it is also the story of the ambitious promoter and of frontier people fighting hunger, cold, blizzards, drouths, grasshoppers, prairie fires, and ruthless cattlemen. . . .

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A fascinating look at the hidden life of a great painter........1998-08-05

Many people know about Robert Henri the leader of the Ashcan School of American painters. Few people know about Robert Henry Cozad the son of a professional gambler and wheeler dealer. This is a fascinating and touching true story of a family and their struggle to stay together.

Son of the Gamblin Man: Youth of an Artist

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Son of the Gamblin Man: Youth of an Artist
Mari Sandoz
Manufacturer: Univ of Nebraska Pr
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000U1TO6U

SON OF THE GAMBLIN' MAN, the Youth of an Artist

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SON OF THE GAMBLIN' MAN, the Youth of an Artist
Mari Sandoz
Manufacturer: Clarkson Potter,
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000HGVWMM

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The time is 1945, not long after Jack Elkins has returned from a prison camp in Japan to his hometown of Oakesdale, Washington. An autumn evening finds him before a gathering of townspeople clamoring to hear about his experiences. Jack is in turmoil. What they really want, he senses, is nice, neat stories of heroes who beat the odds. They want "blood without spatters" and death with dignity. What can he tell them? Burned forever in his mind are images of Japanese blood staining blue Manila Bay; of maggots assaulting the corpse of a buddy; of prisoner after prisoner relegated to small wooden boxes holding their cremated remains. Jack is unable to talk about what happened during his three years in Japanese prison camps. "There is no middle ground," in his estimation. "You either tell them all or tell them nothing." Standing up to the microphone, he whispers barely ten words to the audience, then sits down--and tries for the next half-century to forget.

Author Bob Wodnik has masterfully compiled the stories of several World War II prisoners-of-war into a non-fiction historical work with the feel of a novel. Readers glimpse the unrelenting physical agony and mental anguish of these young heroes as they struggle for survival, and then, following years of captivity, make the difficult and awkward return to civilization.

Intertwined throughout these gripping descriptions are letters hoarded by a quiet night clerk at the seedy Strand Hotel in Everett, Washington, that supply a counterpoint of hometown life back in the states. The patriotism, the rationing, the blackouts, and the missing loved ones all indelibly altered those left stateside, and provide insight into a generation of Americans.

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Must Read!!.......2003-08-24

For anyone who is interested in the accounts of these brave men, this author has the ability to translate their memories into a fasinating and heartfelt read.

He put's you as much as is possible "at Corregidor, Bataan, and the infamous Zero Ward at Cabanatuan with Henry Chamberlain. Jack, Galen, Hanson, Johannsen,,, hero's all. It is to men like these we truly owe our right to walk in Freedom.

The book also gives you an account of what is happening at home which is an important part of the telling of the whole story. The auhor's command of the descriptive phrase makes people like Gracie, and Ed come alive. "the window in the room must have looked out onto a sky hanging so low in winter it seemed to scrape bricks from the faces of Seattle's tallest buildings".

Captured Honor .. thank you for capturing the memories for us before they were lost and faded...

An Important History Of The War in The Pacific.......2003-07-25

In Soldier's Home, Hemingway's fictional account of a soldier returning from the Great War, the protagonist struggles to communicate his experience to the residents of his small town:

"At first Krebs, who had been at Belleau Wood, Soissons, the Champagne, St. Mihiel and in the Argonne did not want to talk about the war at all. Later he felt the need to talk but no one wanted to hear about it. His town had heard too many atrocity stories to be thrilled by actualities."

Captured Honor, a work of non-fiction, begins in similarly painful territory, with a moving description of Jack Elkins' homecoming after service in the War in the Pacific. Elkins had an extremely bad war as a prisoner of the Japanese in the Philippines and Japan, the details of which are frankly told in author Wodnik's compelling account. At war's end, Elkins finds himself pushed to the microphone on the stage of his small town church before an audience that includes his grammar school principal, old girlfriends, the hardware store clerk and his parents, among others. Their eyes search him for clues as to whether he remains the high school quarterback they remember, or has instead been transformed into "some sanitarium freak returned home to mom and dad."

Like Krebs, Elkins finds words inadequate to describe the enormity of his wartime experience. "You either tell all, or tell nothing" he thinks, and elects to keep the awful details to himself for more than 50 years.

Fortunately for us author Wodnik, a good listener and a fine writer, is able to engage Elkins and others who suffered as prisoners of the Japanese in their painful memories. Elkins, who fought bravely at Corregidor, survived the brutal Cabanatuan POW camp, and ended the war as a slave laborer working in the Mitsubishi shipyard in Yokohama, is a compelling subject, an ordinary man enduring extraordinary brutality in wartime. The book includes stirring memories of others including Fran Agnes, an apple picker turned Army aircraft mechanic who witnessed the Japanese destruction of Clark Field and survived the Bataan Death March and Henry Chamberlin, a medic, who is dispatched by his captors to Japan on a Hellship in conditions of unspeakable squalor.

Wodnik's important history is interspersed with scenes from the home front in Everett Washington, such as Veronica Lake flying in to sell war bonds to the star-struck citizenry. The correspondence of Ed Fox, an Everett hotel clerk and book fiend whose deepest influence seems to have been Dashiell Hammett, shows us the underside of a town emerging from the Depression, and fully engaged in wartime production of Boeing aircraft.

Splendid reporting, 60 years after.......2003-04-27

Captured Honor is a beautifully written book that presents with unsentimental empathy the stories of nine Americans who fought on Bataan and Corregidor. It juxtaposes these stories with an account of what was happening on the home scene -- specifically, in Everett, Washington, a town busy with war work -- as recorded in the diaries of a bookish hotel clerk. The juxtaposition works; it offers relief, and with these stories, I needed it.

Recently I learned much about the POW experience on the Bataan death march, on the "hell ships" and in the camps in the Philippines and Japan when I found a privately published 1959 novel written by a survivor. To me the other book was fantastical, so hard to believe that I started reading other veterans' narratives in an effort to make sense of it. Now Wodnik's nonfiction account has confirmed just about everything in it.

I think Captured Honor is an essential contribution to the history of the Pacific war -- and that Wodnik must be a gifted interviewer; these are often horrific, unglamorous memories that might have remained unrecorded. Time is running out for gathering these kinds of oral histories. But as hard as it is to read them, I am grateful for this book.

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