John 'Cat'S-Eyes' Cunningham: The Aviation Legend (Airlife Classics)

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In an action-packed life, John Cunningham has attained a legendary status, which few have equaled. His wartime fame as an outstanding night-fighter ace was followed by a long career in test flying during the exciting postwar period, when the jet engine was developed to power both military and civil aircraft. As chief test pilot for the de Havilland Aircraft Company, he was at the leading edge of the quest for supersonic flight, and in the development of the Comet, the world's first jet airliner. Few knew of his major role in perfecting the operational use of radar interception. This biography is the first book to record his life and flying career.

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Thomas Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions has sold over a million copies in more than twenty languages and has remained one of the ten most cited academic works for the past half century. In contrast, Karl Popper's seminal book The Logic of Scientific Discovery has lapsed into relative obscurity. Although the two men debated the nature of science only once, the legacy of this encounter has dominated intellectual and public discussions on the topic ever since.

Almost universally recognized as the modern watershed in the philosophy of science, Kuhn's relativistic vision of shifting paradigms -- which asserted that science was just another human activity, like art or philosophy, only more specialized -- triumphed over Popper's more positivistic belief in science's revolutionary potential to falsify society's dogmas. But has this victory been beneficial for science? Steve Fuller argues that not only has Kuhn's dominance had an adverse impact on the field but both thinkers have been radically misinterpreted in the process. This debate raises a vital question: Can science remain an independent, progressive force in society, or is it destined to continue as the technical wing of the military-industrial complex? Drawing on original research -- including the Kuhn archives at MIT -- Fuller offers a clear account of "Kuhn vs. Popper" and what it will mean for the future of scientific inquiry.

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Interesting but Confused.......2007-09-10

Fuller's "Kuhn vs. Popper" tells of the authoritarian Kuhn and the libertarian Popper, and their separate ideals of science indicated below:

(1) Thomas Kuhn, in The Structure of Science, related science to the fallibility of scientists, and this made science into a progression of phase changes (Kuhn's paradigm transitions). Science could not be separated from either scientist or from history. The ruling paradigm was an opiate, a habitual application of the one induction that gave its support to an authoritarian class; breaking the paradigm required something special.

(2) Karl Popper's The Logic of Scientific Discovery departed significantly from Kuhn's view. Popper was a deductivist, and he wanted to bring scientific theories to the test of falsification, mere verification of the ever-go-lucky induction would not do. Popper's deduction was meant to eliminate induction by refutation, bringing science closer to an ideal that is independent of the fallibility of scientists. Popper wanted to liberate science from the dictates of the ruling paradigm.

Fuller (page 31) writes: "While neither Kuhn nor Popper would care to deny that a specific paradigm may dominate the understanding of a particular slice of reality at a particular time, they differ over whether it should be treated as a source of stability (Kuhn) or a problem to be overcome (Popper)."

Fuller's book in interesting (worth four stars) because of the contrast made between Kuhn and Popper found in the first half of the book. The confusion comes later, but Fuller (page viii) shows little affection for Kuhn from the get-go, and writes: "The more I have tired to make sense of Kuhn's words and deeds, the more I have come to regard him as an intellectual coward who benefitted from his elite institutional status in what remains the world's dominant society." Fuller tells us that Kuhn won the class struggle, and Fuller's own emotionality betrays his affection for Popper's libertarianism. From about chapter 13 on, Fuller stops comparing Kuhn and Popper directly, and Theodor Adorno and Martin Heidegger are noted. Fuller's views become more political as the reader approaches the end of the book.

Politics can only be confusing. Despite Heidegger's Nazi past, despite the cold war and the Vietnam war, Fuller fails to discredit Kuhn's privileged professional life. Fuller's criticism of Kuhn's silence on moral issues goes nowhere, in my view. My impressions aside, Fuller has made a stronger case for his criticism in "Thomas Kuhn: A Philosophical History for Our Times." Nevertheless, there is no Popperian deduction that I know of that will remove the confusion from Fuller's politics. What Fuller is doing is not deduction, rather it is an exploration of history and it is dialectical. Fuller's dialectical path to truth is closer to Kuhn's history-knows-best-approach than it is to Popper's call-for-empirical-refutation, at least in my opinion.

Yet if Popper's science was so wonderful in Fuller view why then did it fail? The highly irrate Stove, in "Anything Goes", tells us why: Popper fell for Hume's inductive skepticism. Popper, like Fuller, gives to deduction a perfection that cannot be given to any logic independent of the emotions of the logician. Induction cannot be reduces by deduction, the two must stand independent yet one logic cannot eliminate the other. Therefore, there must be something important that is dialectical, something missing from Fuller's account even as Fuller relies much on dialectical logic.

The confident induction and the doubting deduction as emotions are made obvious by a read of Stove, or Fuller. Popper's deduction works to break free of the overbearing induction, while Kuhn's induction works to return us to a blissful automatic polite. It can only be that deduction and induction are one in the same emotion, only coming at us from a different point of view. Schelling's transcendental idealism gives support to this view, as a sensation must come that is found breaking away from itself if only to return later to get a better look of itself. Error recognition is required for induction (as Popper demanded), but it is also needed for deduction (something Popper and Fuller forgot), and it is also needed on something that has to do with emotionality (what Charles S. Peirce calls abduction). The three levels of error recognition returns us to science again, but this cannot be a confused dialectical science that Marx would have us follow. This science would integrate both Kuhn and Popper, something that Fuller's bitterness missed.

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A Stinker.......2006-05-25

Steven Fuller's Kuhn versus Popper is a short work published by Icon Books. Fuller is a sociology professor at the University of Warwick in Great Britain.

Fuller uses the contrasting views of Karl Popper and Thomas Kuhn as an avenue to discuss broad social and political implications of modern approaches to science. Although I think that the differences between these two thinkers can be overstated (i.e. Kuhn can be seen as a realist and Popper an idealist), it could nonetheless be an interesting approach in the hands of a capable writer. Unfortunately Fuller is not such a writer.

I think Fuller may have some interesting, if unconventional, thoughts in regard to how scientists should interact with broader society, however, they are lost in this self-righteous rant. His comments are rambling, blustering and totally unreferenced. It is evident that Fuller has many axes to grind; he rails against Kuhn, philosophers in general, American academics, etc. His rant against philosophers as being failed scientists supporting failed ideas is particularly ironic coming from a sociologist.

Overall, it is a true stinker- angry and incoherent. If this is indicative of the quality of books published by Icon, I would advise readers to steer clear of them. This text came to me by way of the "bargain bin" and it has left me by way of another "bin".

Fun read, but flawed.......2006-03-23

Polemics are fun, and this one is no exception. Fuller is an excellent, energetic writer, and he seems to have read everything. If the result is more sizzle than steak, it's still a very interesting view of the divergence between two of the giants of 20th-century philosophy of science. Recommended.

Karl Popper is about my favorite modern philosopher. His view of what science should be like, and the kind of liberating cultural role it should play, is inspiring. Thomas Kuhn, on the other hand, provided a very different, and much less exhilarating, picture of how science does, in fact, operate. In my experience, Kuhn's description is largely accurate, something Popper himself did not deny. If that is so, then this "debate" is between a normative theorist of how science should function (Popper) and an observer/analyst of how science does function (Kuhn). In a debate like that, the queston of "Who's right?" is not destined to lead much of anywhere.

Fuller is critical of Kuhn for being a repesentative of, or even an apologist for, establishment "big science" that tends to operate beyond democratic political controls; Fuller's sympathies are all with Popper's refusal to countenance orthodoxies or establishments of any kind, with science properly serving as an integral part of and support for the rational and critical Open Society. As much as I would like Popperian ideals to guide scientific practice, Fuller's attack on Kuhn seems to me a case of killing the messenger for delivering an unwelcome message about how science actually goes about its business. Science is like it is for reasons that have nothing to do with Thomas Kuhn, and it would be this way even if Kuhn had never been born.

If the problem is the gap between Kuhnian reality and Popperian ideal, then the important question is how to get from the one to the other. Fuller's suggestions about that are pathetically weak. For example, he notes that "Paul Feyerabend advocated the devolution of science funding from nation-states to local communities as the surest way to increase science's capacity for good and lower its capacity for evil." When Fuller refers to the voicing of this fantasy as a "public intervention by a philosopher of science," you don't know whether to laugh or cry. Even if you accept Fuller's ideological commitments, he fails to describe any credible scenario by which modern science, with its vast funding requirements, its national security role, and its industrial entanglements, could conceivably be transformed into the kind of enterprise that he, and Popper, would approve of.

Very New Look at Old Debate.......2006-03-03

People already interested in this book because of its topic may well be under the misapprehension that Kuhn marked a progressive moment in the history of our understanding of science. This is completely wrong, says Fuller. If anything, Kuhn legitimized the idea that science should be subject to one dominant paradigm, excluding all alternatives. From that standpoint, it's easy to see why he testified for the intelligent design people since Darwinism is a closed shop in biology -- and isn't even treated as falsifiable (which is Popper's point). Make no mistake: This book isn't a simple Dummy's Guide to Kuhn and Popper like some of the other books mentioned by the commentators here. No, it's a thinly disguised polemic against the state of science today -- and it succeeds very well in that conscious-raising exercise.

Barking up the wrong tree.......2006-03-02

The majority of practising scientists have no interest in the philosophy of science. Most of those who do take an interest think that with the exception of Karl Popper no modern philosopher has anything useful to say about how science is done. If they have heard of Thomas Kuhn at all, or of "paradigm shifts", it is from reading articles in the popular press that give Kuhn and his ideas far more prominence than they get in the scientific literature. It was something of a surprise, therefore, to read in the introduction to this book that "no one doubts that Kuhn has won the debate", and to see the great majority of working scientists who believe in subjecting hypotheses to stringent tests dismissed as "those who still want to uphold 'falsifiability' as science's gold standard".

One of the chapters is entitled "Why Philosophers Get No Respect from Scientists", and Steve Fuller appears to realize that most scientists don't in general care in the slightest what philosophers think, but he fails to answer his own question; on the contrary he reinforces the disrespect by telling us that "even the very greatest scientists, such as Galileo, Newton, Maxwell and Einstein, tend to be treated as no more than passable philosophers", going on to say that Darwin is relegated to polite philosophical silence. Maybe so, but this surely tells us more about the inadequacy of philosophy as a discipline than it does about science.

The greatest shortcoming of this book is that it contains no evidence that the author has ever met any real scientists and discussed their work with them, or even read any of their work. Only two living scientists get mentioned at all, Richard Lewontin and Alan Sokal. The book has nothing of significance to say about Lewontin, and it manages to get hold of the wrong end of the stick about the Sokal Hoax. Describing Sokal absurdly as "a disgruntled US physicist", Fuller seems to imply that he was disgruntled with the state of physics, whereas he was (and is) disgusted with the way physics is perverted by ignorant and pretentious publications by social scientists. Elsewhere he seems to think that intelligent design theory is scientific. His brief mention of "socio-biologists" (Fuller's quotation marks and hyphen) likewise travesties what real sociobiologists think.

Despite all its faults Fuller's book does have some points of interest, certainly for anyone who wants to know about the little closed world where philosophers discuss the nature of science without any actual knowledge of it, or who wants to understand something of the appeal that Kuhn has had for journalists and policy makers. Readers who want to know how science is done, however, will need to look elsewhere.

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THE WHO'S WHO AT YOUR COMMUNITY HOSPITAL

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Only Knowledge Will Save You

Learn about the battle going on

Confessions of a Medical Heretic
Robert Mendelsohn
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill
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ASIN: 0809241315

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Covers issues from unnecessary surgeries and prescribed drugs to preventive medicine and home births.

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THE WHO'S WHO AT YOUR COMMUNITY HOSPITAL.......2007-09-27

This is by far and wide the best book available which reveals the dirty dealings of the medical industry. Robert Mendelsohn exposes all the mis-truths your doctor tells you. Do yourself a favor try to get a copy of this book. This is one of three books I believe are being suppressed. The other two books being suppressed are THE CANCER CURE THAT WORKED and THE AMAZING LIVER CLEANSE. Oh yea and THE CURE FOR ALL DISEASES.

Eye-opener.......2007-06-07

Good book. A little outdated, but an excellent resource if you are beginning your research on alternative medicines. I recommend this book especially to those who are wondering if there really is another way besides the modern medical movement.

Dr. Mendelsohn is a champion of homebirth. I have had a homebirth and plan to have the rest of my children at home. He gives an excellent argument for the pros of this seemingly pioneer practice.

Great New Info.......2007-04-12

I definitely disagree with all of those bad reviews. I agree 100% that the body has the ability to heal itself and that virtually nothing a doctor "sells" you can help your body heal itself. Let's face it, the medical and pharmaceutical industry is a business. They live off of people getting sick. Now that we know the truth, we can stop this monopoly once and for all.

Only Knowledge Will Save You.......2006-01-28

This book is a must for everyone interested in promoting and preserving good health. Sadly, instead of educating the public in proper nutrition, focusing on disease prevention measures, and researching, studying and promoting the use of effective natural cures, the far removed from nature western medical establishment is indoctrinated into subscribing and relying entirely on pharmaceutical drugs, many of which are ineffective and produce debilitating, dangerous and sometimes lethal side effects.

The cruel reality is that the self serving pharmaceutical drug companies with the assistance of the FDA suppress information and access to healing herb remedies and natural cures in order to keep the public ignorant and completely dependent on their profitable patented drugs. Have cancer? They will make sure you have no other choice but to buy their highly expensive, minimally effective poisonous drugs combined with maiming medical surgical procedures.

The pharmaceutical industry will do everything possible to protect their profits and make us stay away from any natural cures such as the Alpha Omega Lab's "Cansema" herb combination treatment which effectively cured cancer in thousands of people including my mother.

Pharmaceutical companies and their well paid partner, the FDA, will promptly accuse those natural healers and God sent angels of quackery and will see to it that anyone who offers effective natural cures will face swift persecution and unjust prosecution. If interested, you can read the full story of the original Cansema and the unwarranted FDA raid of Alpha Omega Labs posted by Chris Gupta on the web.

There is no doubt there are quacks to watch out for in this world, but make no mistake, there is no quack larger than the pharmaceutical conglomerate. The suppressed and hidden truth is that the effective (and inexpensive) cures for ALL deceases are available out there in nature, right now. With a little ingenuity and persistence, open minded regular folks can do their own research and educate themselves with printed material available in libraries, bookstores and the internet.

Thank to the loving work of angels walking the earth - people of good will among us, anyone can find out about effective and inexpensive natural cures for cancers, degenerative diseases and chronic ailments. But be warned, don't expect your personal physician to support you on this life saving task. Most physicians although well intended are brainwashed. Many are so vested on pharmaceuticals they are completely unaware of and against natural healing substances and will understandably dismiss their effectiveness as quackery. A selected few are wise enough to break the binds of a hostile and intimidating system, but only the "holy and holistic" ones like Robert Mendelsohn are courageous enough to blow the whistle so that you and I can save ourselves and the people we love who will listen.

Learn about the battle going on.......2005-10-28

"A hospital is like a war" Here you have it from a doctor who has been there and done that. As he describes the things that go on in a hospital it is amazing that anyone comes out alive. It does not surprise we when they are several people I personally know who have gotten very ill in a hospital from something COMPLETELY unrelated to why they entered. This book needs to be read by all.

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Confessions of a Medical Heretic
Robert S. Mendelsohn
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Robert S Mendelsohn
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Confessions of a Medical Heretic

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Confessions of a Medical Heretic Signed and inscribed by the author
Mendelsohn, Robert S., M.D.
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Even experienced vegetarians might find something new here.

A Valuable Resource For Every Home Library

You really can't judge a book by its cover

Best book I have EVER read on vegetarianism!

Reasons to Be Herbivorous

101 Reasons Why I'm A Vegetarian
Pamela Rice
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ASIN: 1590560752

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For many years, Pamela Rice, president of the Vivavegie Society in New York City, has produced the pamphlet 101 Reasons Why I'm a Vegetarian, known to all who have read it as "The Mighty Convincer." The pamphlet offers in bite-sized pieces the many human health, animal welfare/rights, and environmental reasons why people are choosing a meatless diet.

Now Pamela has written an expanded and fully resourced book-length version of 101 Reasons Why I'm a Vegetarian, filling out the details of her argument and providing up-to-date information, but maintaining her engaging and informed style. She covers everything from the conditions for animals on factory farms to disappearing fish stocks, lagoons of animal waste, high incidences of colon cancer and other diseases, and other information from industry periodicals, newspapers, magazines, Web sites, and other less readily available sources.

A work of prodigious scholarship and dedication, written with wit and skill, 101 Reasons Why I'm a Vegetarian is sure to become the handy reference work for vegetarians who want to give their meat-eating friends one book that explains why they do what they do, and for meat-eaters who want to understand all the arguments for a meatless diet.

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Even experienced vegetarians might find something new here........2006-03-07

There are all sorts of reasons to become a vegetarian, and this little book contains 101 great ones. From the effect of animal production on the environment to the destruction of genetic diversity and the spread of disease from animals to humans to the horrific treatment of farmed animals, many of these reasons will sound familiar to a lot of people.

Still, these reasons are articulated in intricate and often disturbing detail. The links between dairy production and the life (if it can be called that) of veal cattle, the extreme overproduction required of laying hens and mother cows, the huge amounts of waste produced by factory farms and the dangers of biotechnology, genetic engineering and cloning are outlined in stunning detail.

Of course there are also reasons involving the positive health benefits (and benefits for the planet) brought about by eating a vegetarian diet, from reducing your risk of several kinds of cancer to increasing beneficial phytochemicals in your diet and reducing the world's oil and energy drains.

There are probably reasons here that most readers have not considered, and facts you might not know about; for instance, that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggest pregnant women heat cold cuts to 170 degrees to reduce their risk of getting listeria. Or that even though its forbidden for cows to eat other cows because of the risk of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, or mad cow disease), the Food and Drug Administration says as many as 350,000 cows that humans consume were fed bovine by-products.

So many moments in this book will make readers gasp in surprise and horror at the state of the average American diet and what it is doing to the animals, the workers who are paid to kill those animals, the planet that must deal with the waste and corpses of those animals and the people who consume such a diet.

If nothing else, this book will affirm everything you believe about why the vegetarian diet is right for you and the planet. Perhaps you could also use it to convince family and friends to stop their meat-eating ways, or at least to show them why you are a vegetarian.-Sarah White

A Valuable Resource For Every Home Library.......2005-12-05

Be prepared, this is no ordinary book on vegetarianism. It is undoubtedly THE BEST I've read on the subject in over 24 years of maintaining a vegetarian/vegan lifestyle.

101 Reasons is a gift to society. A clear, comprehensive log of the myriad reasons a vegetarian diet just makes sense. The tone is perfect-unapologetic and direct while still light and conversational. Reading this will strengthen your convictions if you are already vegetarian, and will make you stop and reassess if you are not. This is a "just the facts" approach. Thankfully, not once are animals referred to as "cute" anywhere in the book. Covering everything from individual health benefits to environmental and global impact, and everything in between, this book should be a treasured resource in any home library to be referred to again and again.

You really can't judge a book by its cover.......2005-11-11

There are two bizarre things about this book that, unfortunately, pertain to the actual cover of the book: 1. I have no idea what the author looks like in real life, but the picture (namely her expression) on the cover would suggest a bitter, disgruntled animal rights activist on a mission to save the world, one tofu pup at a time (if you are going to put your picture on the cover of your book, shouldn't you at least smile???) ---and--- 2. the pithy "reasons" on the cover of the book don't make any sense, first of all, and they're misleading, too; I thought the book---judging by the proverbial cover---would just be another shallow, superficial look into vegetarianism. Inside the book, however, is a wealth of well-researched information. I am being serious here: it's a shame that the cover stinks because I think this book is actually fantastic: informative, scholarly, well-balanced and not preachy at all. Rice presents "reasons" from all sorts of points of view, and doesn't paint any unrealistic picture of vegetarianism. I find this fact alone a welcome change from the numerous books which tout veg*ism as the antidote to death and sickness. I really appreciate the realistic-ness of this book because there's usually a whole lot of propaganda to sort through. The AR/vegan/vegetarian movement(s) is too important, pressing, immediate to disqualify with our overzealous attempts to misrepresent the health benefits, especially. It's not very hard to to argue that the state of animal agriculture is abyssmal if not downright cruel; but to persuade someone that a vegan diet is the panacea to all disease is absolutely ridiculous, and will not serve the larger purpose.

I believe this is one of best books there is: better than Peter Singer (because it's entirely philosophical and not wholly accessible), John Robbins (whom I believe makes some outrageous claims regarding personal health), and even the newer VeganFreaks by Bob and Jenna Torres (their tone is so smug). If you're seeking to educate yourself, this book is it, and while it won't tell you everything you need to know everything is footnoted and cited, giving you plenty of other resources at your disposal.

Best book I have EVER read on vegetarianism!.......2005-11-07

"101 Reasons" is full of facts I didn't know, and full of stats for those I did. I particularly learned a great deal about the impact of factory farming on the environment, and fish in particular. Although the book is barely off the press, it already predicted things that happened after its printing: additional cases of mad cow; enormous numbers of deaths for animals during the Katrina hurricane; and outbreak of avian flu.

"101 Reasons" is unlike most books and lectures on vegetarianism, which preach to the already converted and don't teach me (already converted) anything I didn't already know. "101 Reasons" will surprise people whether they have, or lack, previous knowledge of the rationale for vegetarianism.

The book is beautifully written. To the point, and humorous puns makes a hard-to-take message more palatable.

I want everyone I know to pick this one up!

-- Jean Thaler Brooklyn NY
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Reasons to Be Herbivorous.......2005-09-26

After years in the trenches of front-line vegetarian advocacy, Pam Rice has taken her pamphlet "101 Reasons Why I'm A Vegetarian" and created a full length book that is the go-to reference for why you should be a vegetarian. While lacking the narrative structure of one of John Robbins' books, the exhaustively sourced "just the facts, meathead" approach (conveniently broken down by category) will help refute the ignorance of your friends, family and co-workers (most likely all the above!) Just don't try reading it straight through-you'll get a headache to go with your heartache at the damage meat centered diets are wreaking on our bodies, our planet, our environment, our economy and our fellow species.

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As the New Age moves upon us, we will increasingly recognize animals as spiritual beings worthy of our respect. "Communication is the golden key that unlocks the door to understanding." Animal communication is mostly concerned with emotions, feelings, events and happenings in the here and now. We tend to think that animal communication involves them understanding what we want, but in truth, it is a two-way process. A lifetime of living with and loving animals has led Ann Walker to conclude that much communication with animals is on a mind to mind level, and she tells of many personal psychic experiences with animals. Old superstitions and magical beliefs about animals are examined, also the attitude of different religions. Ann shares her own experiences and those of others with dead pets returning or sending messages and expresses a firm belief in the continued spiritual existence of animals after death.

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Mystic River / Mystic River
Dennis Lehane
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In 1975 three young boys encounter a pair of roving child molesters who pass themselves off as policemen. Two of them escape, but ten-year-old Dave Boyle is not so fortunate and finds himself trapped in a four-day ordeal that changes his life forever. Mystic River is both a murder mystery and a novel of character. Like the very best fiction, it is, in the end, about many things: grief, sin, karma, hope and the lack of hope, and the countless ways in which past events continue to influence the present.

Description in Spanish: Cuano eran niños, Sean Devine, Jimmy Marcus y Dave Boyle eran amigos. Un día, un extraño coche se detuvo en su calle. Uno de los chicos subió al coche, pero los otros dos no lo hicieron. Y sucedió algo terrible, algo que acabó con su amistad y que les cambió a los tres para siempre.Veinticinco años más tarde, Devine trabaja de detective para el Departamento de Homicidios, Marcus es un ex convicto que tiene una tienda de barrio, y Boyle intenta salvar su matrimonio y mantener sus demonios a raya: demonios que le incitan a hacer cosas terribles.Mystic River ha sido llevada al cine por Clint Eastwood, protagonizada por Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Kevin Bacon y Laurance Fishburne.

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Quilting Techniques

An average book

Jeanine Twigg's Embroidery Machine Essenials: Quilting Techniques (Companion Project Series, Book 3)
Linda Turner Griepentrog
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Quilting Techniques.......2006-11-15

Purchased as a gift for the quilter in the family. She loves it. Said it gave her a little insight into the preplanning of machine quilting.

An average book.......2004-11-24

This book came free with my embroidery machine. The companion cd has some cute shapes that I plan to use, but the projects are pretty lame. I would not have bought the book given a choice. But since it is the only one of its kind that I have, I'm using it and am about to finish a quilt with a shape from the cd.

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Wonderful!, Overview of 50 plants, great tips & ideas

Shade Gardening With Derek Fell: Practical Advice and Personal Favorites from the Best-Selling Author and Television Show Host (For Your Garden Series)
Derek Fell
Manufacturer: Friedman/Fairfax Pub
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1567995551

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Wonderful!, Overview of 50 plants, great tips & ideas.......2000-01-03

This is a marvelous book of information and ideas for exciting garden projects suited to shady areas. From formal to city and container gardens, there are possibilities here to fit any application.

Site evaluation and selection of suitable plants are covered first. Then there are some great tips on soil preparation, planting and care of the plants. You learn how to use a lath house or tunnel house to shelter young plants.

The design section presents a number of specialized thematic ideas including wildlife, woodland and water gardens. Photographs of many beautiful examples bring these ideas to life.

There is a selection of 50 distinctive plants that thrive in shade profiled in detail and beautifully photographed. Characteristics and uses of each plant are described. Overall there is a wealth of useful information here.

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Using easy-to-follow instructions, parents can make natural lotions, bath oils, creams, powders, and shampoos that will ensure glowing health and enhance the bond between parent and child. Includes information on self-care during pregnancy, infant massage, and gift ideas.

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Awesome!.......2006-11-10

This book is full of great tips, I really enjoyed reading it. If you are pregnant, don't wait to have your baby, before buying this book, there are a bunch of tips about pregnancy in it.

Natural Baby Care : Pure and Soothing Recipes and Techniques for Mothers and Babies (Natural Health and Beauty Series) .......2005-08-10

I ordered this book to send to my sister (& 1 for myself) because it seemed so interesting. I love it... the condition is excellent (both books) and they came FAST! Very pleased w/this supplier. Would recommend based on this experience.

Great book for first time parents........1999-07-01

This is the perfect book for someone who is interested in caring for they their child in the most natural ways possible. It contains clear and easy to understand explanations on herbs, essential oils, and aromatherapy. It also is full of great recipes and advice to help you get started. This book is full of great resources, too. It's a must for people interested in this subject but unsure as to where to begin.

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In Japan, the diary has acquired the status of a literary genre comparable in importance to the novel and the literary essay. Donald Keene, hailed in the New York Times Book Review as "the century's leading expert on Japanese literature," presents a collection of pre-modern Japanese diaries that is both a literary history of this seminal genre and a source of insight into Japanese life of the last thousand years.

Ranging from objective to confessional, selections such as "The Poetic Memoirs of Lady Daibu" and "Diaries of Seventeenth-Century Courtiers" are much more than mere narratives of events, and offer unparalleled glimpses into the lives of diverse writers from the Kamakura dynastic period to the Tokugawa period.

Travelers of a Hundred Ages illuminates the hidden and largely unknown worlds of imperial courts, Buddhist monasteries, country inns, and merchants' houses. It is at once an intimate account of the diarists' lives and a testimony to the greater struggles and advances of Japanese culture.

Travelers of a Hundred Ages: The Japanese as Revealed Through 1,000 Years of Diaries

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Travelers of a Hundred Ages: The Japanese as Revealed Through 1,000 Years of Diaries
Donald Keene
Manufacturer: Columbia University Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OQ49HU

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