Red, White, and Blue (All Aboard Reading , Level 2)

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The Flag of our nation.......2000-06-21

The story, Red, White and Blue: The Story of the American Flag, is a well written and interesting book. It reveiles facts one would never find out. A smart buy for anyone wishing to learn more about our counries past.

Great/Easy Read!.......2000-06-19

Easy, punchy, informative reading about our nations #1 symbol! Beginning readers will love it!

Spanish All Talk Basic Language Course (4 Hour/4 Cds): Learn to Understand and Speak Spanish with Linguaphone Language Programs (All Talk) (All Talk)

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Spanish All Talk Basic Language Course (4 Hour/4 Cds): Learn to Understand and Speak Spanish with Linguaphone Language Programs (All Talk) (All Talk)
Linguaphone
Manufacturer: Linguaphone
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Binding: Audio CD

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Spanish for Dummies

ASIN: 0747309515

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On-the-go Instrction Because your time is valuable... All Audio All on the go! Beginning level instruction is presented in an all-audio format on 4 digitally-recorded CDs. You have the opportunity to learn on the go, taking advantage of time normally wasted. Study in your car, while exercising, doing yard work anywhere you can safely listen to a CD player. No accompanying books are needed to help you complete the lesson activities. Why can t learning be fun? It can! Linguaphone has chosen to present the allTalk series in an entertaining, soap-opera format. No dry old teacher with a monotone voice putting you to sleep, you follow the adventures of a visitor to a Spanish-speaking country as she interacts with individuals in a variety of interesting situations, learning the language and beginning to understand the culture. Actually learn the language Tired of spending money on language courses that don t work? Did you ever think the problem could be with the course and not you? With Linguaphone s unique learning sequence: Listen, Understand, Speak, you will find yourself actually using the language in no time at all! You are presented with a unit of the language, it is then broken down and explained to you, then you put it back together with greater understanding than just repeating what you may not have understood in the first place. . . . and learn it well! The all Talk methodology not only teaches well, but will have you speaking and understanding basic spoken Spanish in no time at all. Other popular all-audio courses require four times the cds, four times the money and four times the time to do what Linguaphone s allTalk Basic does with 4-one hour CDs.

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An excellent reference

Flag Lore Of All Nations
Whitney Smith
Manufacturer: Millbrook Press
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Binding: Library Binding

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ASIN: 0761317538

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An excellent reference.......2002-02-04

Ages 8 and older will find Flag Lore For All Nations an excellent reference which covers the histories of flags in nations around the world. Each small color flag is accompanied by a paragraph of background on the date it first flew and the meaning behind its colors.

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Rosie and the Bear Flag
H. Knill
Manufacturer: Bellerophon Books
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ASIN: 0883880555

All Flags Flying; Reminiscences of Frances Parkinson Keyes

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All Flags Flying; Reminiscences of Frances Parkinson Keyes
Frances Parkinson Keyes
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill
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All Flags Flying: American Patriotic Quilts as Expressions of Liberty

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All Flags Flying: American Patriotic Quilts as Expressions of Liberty
Robert Bishop , and Carter Houck
Manufacturer: Plume
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ASIN: 0525482148

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A Flag for All (Rookie Choices)
Larry Dane Brimner
Manufacturer: Children's Press (CT)
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ASIN: 0516277928

The Commercial Code of Signals for the Use of All Nations

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The Commercial Code of Signals for the Use of All Nations

Manufacturer: Adamant Media Corporation
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ASIN: 140213410X
Release Date: 2001-04-24

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Edited by Walter F. Larkins. This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1866 edition by William Mitchell, London.

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All for the Flag - a must read
All for the Flag - a must read for military history buffs.
All For The Flag

All for the Flag
John Swenning
Manufacturer: Llumina Press
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1932303685

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All for the Flag - a must read.......2003-09-29

I have already written a review of All for the Flag, and it appears below. However, it indicates the reviewer as jjswenning, instead of me, Buck Martin. It also designates only one star which I guess was my mistake. It should be FOUR stars. Everything else in my review is accurate. It's a great book!

All for the Flag - a must read for military history buffs........2003-09-29

I am a friend of John Swenning, the author of All for the Flag, and even at the risk of being considered biased, I feel compelled to share my reactions to this wonderful story.

The story focuses on the author's heroic uncle, Gust Junior Swenning, who was killed in a World War II night time naval battle at Guadalcanal. He was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross and a World War II warship was named in his honor.

Any veteran or family member of a veteran will emotionally relate to this book. There are many stories out there about similar heroes who have not been the subject of a book. There are many families who have endured similar hardship and tragedy during war who have not been the subject of a book.

This book is a story about and a tribute to them as well.All for the Flag is written in a way that will make World War II and other veterans and their families cry, laugh, and, most importantly, feel great pride. For that reason alone, it is worth a read.

All for the Flag should become the subject of a movie, not just for Gust Junior Swenning, but for all the men who so heroically and loyally served our great country during World War II.

All For The Flag.......2003-09-28

Mr. Swenning has captured the deep family connections and the perils of war in his ALL FOR THE FLAG. The research into Junior Swenning's boyhood and the family relationships is a touching revelation. One follows the hardships and joys of Junior as a boy and the character traits instilled within him through strong family ties. These traits sustain him and surfaces in a heroic manner when faced with the commitment to duty and service.

I have read numerous historical accounts of the personal and tragic stories of WW2, but I think Mr. Swenning has captured the heroic actions and the emotional trauma in the life of Junior Swenning in a way that will always be in the reader's heart. It has been said that heroes are made, not born. I don't know if I agree with that analysis or not. I just know that Junior Swenning's life prepared him for that moment in time when he was capable of doing what needed to be done. A hero indeed.

The hero of this historical accounting left this life at an early age, we like to think. But if there were words of remembrance that could be expressed I think none better could be chosen than to say, "He finished well".

Lloyd Wiggs

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All American Paint & Patch Wearables (2217)

Manufacturer: Design Originals Can Do Crafts
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 1574218468

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Basic Tips and Instructions for painting and applique.

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Dio Chrysostom (c. AD 45-115) is one of the most important writers, thinkers, and politicians from the flourishing world of the Greeks under Rome. His many surviving essays and speeches offer historians, philosophers, and students of literature an impressive range of high-quality writing, original reflection on ethics and social affairs, and intelligent, complex appraisal of the Roman Empire at the height of its power This volume contains eleven new assessments of the key areas of Dio's life and works by an international team of experts. For the first time studies of Dio's thoughts on civic and imperial life are placed alongside studies both of the sophisticated techniques which he used to expound his political and social message and of the sources that gave him the moral authority to do so. A common theme throughout is the interrelation of writing and power against the background of Dio's firm commitment to Hellenism in the changed circumstances of Roman rule.

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Planning, Implementing, and Evaluating Health Promotion Programs: A Primer (4th Edition)
James F. McKenzie , Brad L. Neiger , and Jan L. Smeltzer
Manufacturer: Benjamin Cummings
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Planning, Implementing, & Evaluating Health Promotion Programs: A Primer - Test Bank

Manufacturer: Pearson Benjamin Cummins
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Planning, Implementing, And Evaluating Health Promotion Programs: A Primer
McKenzie, Jan Smeltzer, McKenzie
Manufacturer: Allyn & Bacon
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Allrecipes Family Favorites

Manufacturer: Leisure Arts
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Binding: Hardcover

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Thanksgiving & Christmas: Top 200 Recipes (Allrecipes Tried & True)

ASIN: 0848730100

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Who could have predicted that the Internet would prove to be so handy in the kitchen? But you dont have to be a cyber chef to enjoy this all-new collection from Allrecipes.com, where savvy cooks worldwide rate and trade their all-time favorite recipes. Make mealtime a breeze with family-pleasing dishes just like mom used to makebut with brand ingredients and convenience tips that suit todays on-the-go lifestyle.

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ALLRECIPES FAMILY FAVORITES
Oxmoor House
Manufacturer: NY
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000N6KB82

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Inspired by his reading of the Bible and his faith in God, Angel Michael Master was motivated to pen She Is a Gift from Jah: Essays of a Pet Owner to show how, from the very first book and chapter of the Holy Bible, mankind was given the duty to care for all living creatures on earth. Created in God's image, man was to reflect the divine attributes of love, wisdom, justice, and power when, in Eden, he was commissioned to care for "the fish of the sea, domestic animals, all the earth, and every moving animal upon the earth," as written in Genesis 1:26.

Using essays, poems, and photographs, Angel Michael Master provides a moving tribute of one man's humble attempt to fulfill this mission through his daily interactions with his cats.

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The Haircoloring Manual contains the most comprehensive, practical information that will help you create the best haircolor for your client. This book is essential for every student, teacher and beauty salon's library, an effective haircoloring reference. The book provides how to analyze the hair, how to determine the right haircolor for your client or yourself, how to correct and customize a formula, how to apply temporary, semi-permanent and permanent colors, how to retouch, give highlights and decolorize the hair.

Plus more than 20 reference charts, and a full color wheel indication color depth, levels, tones, complementary color to correct hair discoloration and much, much more.

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Couldn't Figure it out.......2007-03-09

I was looking for a manual that would tell me how to color my hair at home. Recently, I went to a beauty supply store and they told me what color I should use and how to mix it so I wanted more information. Whenever I get my hair done at a salon, it is either the wrong color or they don't cover all the gray. So I was hoping I could just do the base color at home and then go somewhere to have it highlighted, but I guess I am just going to let it grow the way it does and leave it alone. This book was a waste of money and time.

I'd like to see better illustrations.......2004-05-01

The info is good. Im a cosmetology student, so I can actually understand the content. The pictures are not very good. I would like to see color pictures, w/maybe a Manikin demonstration, something other than the simple drawings provided.

A good guide to coloring hair at home.......2002-06-28

I would have liked to have seen more color illustrations, but this is a very good book to have if you're interested in hair coloring. Although it seems to be written for cosmetology students, the material is written in a very simple, straightforward way that laypeople can understand.

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Mother's Milk examines why nursing a baby is an ideologically charged experience in contemporary culture. Drawing upon medical studies, feminist scholarship, anthropological literature, and an intimate knowledge of breastfeeding itself, Bernice Hausman demonstrates what is at stake in mothers' infant feeding choices--economically, socially, and in terms of women's rights. Breastfeeding controversies, she argues, reveal social tensions around the meaning of women's bodies, the authority of science, and the value of maternity in American culture. A provocative and multi-faceted work, Mother's Milk will be of interest to anyone concerned with the politics of women's embodiment.

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A little thick with the analysis, but worth digging through.......2006-10-05

Textual analysis (not necessarily applied to what we immediately think of as texts) can be tough going at times, but Hausman is worth doing a little extra work to get through. Early on, she mentions how common in her experience it had been to meet women who identified as feminists, who had had children and breastfed them, and who had vigourously ambivalent feelings about La Leche League. Since what I read about LLL caused me to steer completely clear of them (and, to be fair, I have equal disgust for second wave feminism's attitude to breastfeeding in particular, and parenting in general), this book was a fascinating window into a world I had not had the courage to explore directly.

I have benefitted greatly from the work of LLL. I have a lot of friends who breastfed, in part, because of their activism, and those friends were my support. And I've benefitted hugely from second wave feminism. Nice to see someone doing the hard work of reconciling these two, and showing some possibilities for a path forward to a better world for the children who are yet to be born.

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Writer, artist, Manhattan gallery owner, and co-editor of the Little Review, Jane Heap was one of the most dynamic figures of the international avant garde, creating a life that defined the "modernist experience" as a syncretic one. Deliberately seeking a low profile throughout her life, Heap has frustrated many scholars interested in her personal life and the extraordinarily vital period in which she lived. Through her correspondence, Heap here reveals her intimate self as well as her more public, creative relationships with some of the legends of modern art, literature, and spirituality. Focusing primarily on the voluminous letters written by Heap to Florence Reynolds, the correspondence included in this volume spans the years from 1908-1949, incorporating additional illuminating letters to Reynolds from other significant figures in Heap's life.

Heap's letters reveal the radical transformation of a dreamy, young Midwestern woman into a forceful, sophisticated arbiter of international modernism and provide rare insight into the struggle for lesbian identity and community during the inter-war period. They detail her eventual abandonment of art in the search for the transcendent in the seductive and esoteric mysticism of George Gurdjieff. Holly Baggett's accompanying essay further highlights the boldness of Jane Heap's aesthetics and life.

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Lovely Book for a Specific Audience.......2001-07-04

This book is a collection of letters centering about an amazing, actual woman who moved to Chicago one hundred years ago to attend the School of The Art Institute and to become a painter. Much to her chagrin, artist/writer, Jane Heap, is made to return to her small town in Kansas to support her family only AFTER she has fallen in love with another writer/artist, of greater wealth and urbanity, whom she has met in Chicago. The earlier part of the book is comprised of unabashed, remarkable, sensitive lesbian love letters, full of magic and art and passion. Later, Heap lives back in Chicago and also in New York and in Paris, and publishes the famous "Little Review" (first to publish Joyce's Ulysses) with some of the more interesting political activists, feminists and lesbians of the century, to wit, Emma Goldman, Jack Reed, Djuna Barnes, Gertrude Stein, Janet Flanner, Hemingway, Tristan Tzara, and countless other artists. It's a great read not only because Jane Heap writes well, but because she is recording a history of the last century's greats from the view of an artist and lesbian. Specific audience, extremely inspiring.

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This is the story of a man and a Navy--Vice Admiral Matome Ugaki and the Imperial Japanese Navy. By 1945 the Imperial Navy was physically destroyed and Admiral Ugaki was given the task of defending the Japanese homeland against attack, and he sent hundreds of kamikazes against the American naval forces operating around Okinawa. After Emperor Hirohito announced Japan's surrender on August 15, Ugaki stripped off his insignia of rank, climbed into a torpedo bomber, and flew to Okinawa, where he intended to crash into an American ship. But like so many of the other kamikazes, his mission was fruitless, his plane was shot down by American nightfighters. But Admiral Ugaki died, as he has promised to do, in the fashion of the thousands of young men he had sent to their deaths. Vice Admiral Matome Ugaki was the only high official of the Imperial Japanese Navy to have left a significant record, in the form of a diary started during the preparations for the China Incident, and kept throughout the war--from the planning phase of 1940, through the Pearl Harbor attack, and up until Japan's surrender. Hoyt draws on the diary and numerous other accounts by admirals and historians to create a picture of a Japanese Navy that began in a position of strength but was eventually destroyed by powerful Allied forces, shattering Japan's drive for conquest.

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Condensed version of Admiral Ugaki's diary from WWII.......2004-10-01

"Last Kamikaze" is like a Reader's Digest abridged version of the book "Fading Victory: The Diary of Admiral Matome Ugaki, 1941-1945". It is easy to read and has some additional historical background and commentary thrown in by the author to help understand some of Ugaki's thought processes.

After reading this book, I went and found "Fading Victory" in the library. I am still trying to slug through that book - it's pretty dense going by comparison and makes me appreciate Hoyt's version much more.

The only problem with condensed versions, of course, is that some of the details get lost, glossed over, or are over-generalized. This is a generic problem with Hoyt's writings, I have found.

Nevertheless, this book is a good read. It really gives you a good sense of the thinking behind the intensely macho military culture run amok in Japan during WWII.

The most important concept that I got out of this book was that this military culture was basically just like "Beavis and Butthead" in terms of their pathetic determination to engage in high testosterone acts of male stupidity and aggression, safe in a complete ignorance of how well the intended victims might be able to fight back. The parallels to this sort of teenage impulsiveness and short-sightedness continue with the (well-documented in this book) inability of the Japanese military to plan for the future or to anticipate potential pitfalls, after their inital success had faded. The only result of all this was a lot of death and suffering for the ordinary soldiers and civilians of Japan.

A good example was the Guadalcanal campaign - the book describes in some detail how the Japanese Army first completely underestimated the capabilities of the American forces on Guadalcanal and repeatedly landed, piecemeal, undersized contingents of soldiers to drive off the Americans. Then, when these soldiers failed in their initial assaults, it turned out that the Japanese Army had made almost no plans for supplying these soldiers long term so that they could re-group and continue to fight. Large numbers of the Japanese soldiers starved to death or died of disease as a result. An initially small and tenuous American foothold on Guadalcanal grew ever stronger until Japan had to admit defeat and withdraw from Guadalcanal, giving the US its first major vitory over Japan in a land conflict.

Ugaki was among the contingent of hotheads who had sought to start the war with the US. After working with Admiral Yamamoto, (who was the only Japanese officer of any rank who had actually once lived in the US and so knew something about the country), he came to undertand how foolish that decision was. The level of American resources and economy was just far superior to Japan.

Nevertheless, neither he nor the other militarists could bring themselves to admit that they had made a terrible mistake and give up the fight. Lots of foolish pride!!!

At the moment of Japan's surrender, Ugaki's final act of desperation, which was to get into the back seat of a bomber and try to crash it into an American ship or installation on Okinawa, also failed miserably. His flight of last kamikazes was unceremoniously shot down by American night fighters on routine patrol.

About all I can say is, good riddance. A lot of people died in this world because of militarists like Ugaki. Japan, and the whole world have benefited greatly from getting rid of them. Ugaki's own words reveal him and the entire military culture of WWII Japan to be nothing but a bunch of aggressively ignorant fools.

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The Last Kamikaze
M. E. Morris
Manufacturer: Random House
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0394576349
Release Date: 1990-11-21

GOLD KEY"Ripley's Believe it or not!" (True War Stories-The Last Kamikaze,/ The Golem, No.5,June,--No.7,November 1967)

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GOLD KEY"Ripley's Believe it or not!" (True War Stories-The Last Kamikaze,/ The Golem, No.5,June,--No.7,November 1967)
K.K.Publications Inc
Manufacturer: K.K.Publications Inc
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: B000MRL7I0

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GOLD KEY"Ripley's Believe it or not!" [1]True War Stories-The Last Kamikaze,/ [2]The Golem

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Japan's last hope
Irving Wallace
Manufacturer: Liberty magazine
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B0007HSLL6

The Last Kamikaze ~ The Story of Admiral Matome Ugaki

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The Last Kamikaze ~ The Story of Admiral Matome Ugaki
Edwin P. Hoyt
Manufacturer: Praeger Publishers
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000ORH52A

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