Mother Was a Gunner's Mate: World War II in the Waves (Bluejacket Books)

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This is the engaging story of an all-American girl who leaves her patriotic kith and kin behind in Detroit to cope with the home front while she joins the navy as an enlisted Wave in World War II. Her book takes an I-was-there look at the real world of women in a man's navy during a time of national emergency. With skill and warmth, Josette Wingo recalls her basic training at Hunter College in the Bronx, gunnery school at the Great Lakes Naval Station, and her subsequent posting as a gunnery instructor at Treasure Island in California. Readers soon learn that the key to her success was the good-natured determination she used to counter entrenched attitudes about women teaching men about armaments. The Waves of World War II broke through stereotypes about women in that generation, getting the same pay and benefits that the men earned and demonstrating that women could shine in nontraditional jobs. Hailed for its great wit, style, and verve, this jaunty memoir will continue to enthrall generations to come.

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Rave for a Wave.......2000-10-31

In "Mother Was a Gunner's Mate," Josette Wingo opens the door on a fascinating chapter of World War II Navy life that few of us know much about -- even those of us who served with her in that little-known branch of the Navy, the Armed Guard. She deserves a resounding well-done!

Hey, Gunny!.......2000-07-18

In my long and checkered career in the Navy I came to think of Gunner's Mates as large, often hulking male persons, strong of arm and often weak of hearing. I had no idea there were women who had proudly worn the Gunny rating, and who had been responsible for training many of those sea-going lads during WWII. Josette Dermody Wingo was one of them, making waves throughout the San Francisco Bay Area as she taught sailors to man the big guns from Treasure Island.

A Good Irish Catholic Girl in the best traditions, Wingo nonetheless managed to have one helluva good time on liberty "on the beach", as we Old Salts say. Lively, pretty and ready for anything that offered the promise of fun, she ran riot through a world that was at once caught in the grip of war, yet far more innocent in the ways of men and women than it is now.

In addition to the interest the professional description of her training and job embues, and it is interesting, this book is funny and endearing. It is, in short, a great read that might just educate a little about military women and the range of capabilities they've displayed while it entertains.

Salty WAVE's wartime memoir.......2000-05-30

Full of gung-ho patriotic fervor and a spirit of adventure, Josette Dermody joined the Navy Women's Reserve (WAVES) during World War ll. She spent the War on Treasure Island, California, training sailors of the Naval Armed Guard to use the ring gunsights of Orlikons. This is a rolicking, fast-reading journal, written in a delightfully salty first-person. The description of her training and duties is interesting, but most entertaining are the accounts of her off-duty misadventures. She and her feisty girlfriends have fun! She befriends German POW's, drinks vodka with Russian seamen, and carrouses in "Frisco" with rowdy American sailors. "You dames is nuts!" says her main admirer, a rakish and handsome bosun's mate. Through it all, her dignity remains intact and her pride in her patriotic service evident. A grand book about the "lighter side" of the War, in the tradition of "Mister Roberts" -- I reccommend it!

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First Nuclear Era: The Life and Times of a Technological Fixer.
ALVIN M. WEINBERG
Manufacturer: See notes
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000RQQFGK

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FIRST NUCLEAR ERA: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF A TECHNOLOGICAL FIXER
ALVIN M. WEINBERG
Manufacturer: Springer
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000M4M9GC

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Having trouble getting your five to nine recommended daily servings of fruits and vegetables? Drink your vegetables, says Cherie Calbom, the Juice Lady, and she offers 75 juice recipes to help you do it. Juicing not only tastes good and gives you nutrition, but it can also benefit your health, says Calbom. She organizes The Juice Lady's Guide to Juicing for Health into 53 medical conditions--such as Alzheimer's, ADD, allergies, influenza, gout, herpes, fibrocystic breasts, diabetes, and depression. For each, she makes recommendations about lifestyle, diet, nutrients, herbs, and juice ingredients, and offers specific juice recipes. The juices are innovative and cleverly named, such as Popeye's Power (with apple, spinach, parsley, carrots, celery, and beet), Ginger Hopper (apple, carrots, gingerroot), Sweet Calcium Cocktail (pineapple, kale), Jack & the Bean (tomato, lettuce, string beans, Brussels sprouts, lemon), and Weight-Loss Buddy (Jerusalem artichoke, carrots, beet). Two caveats: (1) Realize that you also need the fiber in fruits and veggies, not just the vitamins and minerals from the juice, so don't juice exclusively. (2) Juices are part of healthy nutrition, but they don't cure disease. (She doesn't claim this, but it's easy to jump to that conclusion from the way the book is organized.) Enjoy the juices and use them to support your health, but don't expect that juicing will cause a change in a medical condition. --Joan Price

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In her new book, the Juice Lady explains why the juice of fresh fruits and vegetables is the richest available food source of vitamins, minerals, and enzymes. She discusses what enzymes are and why they aren't available in cooked foods, and provides information about the way juice nutrients are absorbed by the body. The first section of The Juice Lady's Guide to Juicing for Health gives in-depth information about juice, while the second section provides recipes and dietary tips geared to specific conditions that need attention. The author explores juicing remedies, backed by scientific data and extensive research, and shows how to get the maximum healing potential by incorporating freshly made juices into a daily plan for health, healing, and recovery.

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informative yet redundant.......2002-03-12

Last year at x-mas my wife and decided that since we just had a baby and funds were low,that we would buy each other one gift that we picked out around $20.00.
I picked a beard trimmer and my wife picked out the Juice Ladys book.So I thought I would be nice and buy her two Juice Ladys books.
Well the books came and I looked through them,and found to my surprise that the same recipes were printed throughout both books.
A lot of the recipes can be used for the same things.So instead of printing the recipe then putting what it can be used for the recipes are reprinted over and over.
So in retrospect I suggest buying one book instead of two or three with different titles,because they have the same recipes.
I hope this has been of some help for those looking to buy this or other Juice Lady books.

An Excellent Beginners Guide.......2000-08-21

This book is an excellent start for those who are looking to improve their health by juicing. I would recommend this book to anyone who is looking to find information about the basics about juicing. I find myself using this book as a reference guide at all times.

MMMM! Health, wellness, energy and great taste!.......2000-06-12

What more could we want? This perky lady has stuffed another of her popular books with all the great nutritional ideas, easy-to-make recipes and interesting uses for juice anyone could want! This is the ultimate reference book - I prefer it to all her other books, although I have them all. She's the spokeslady on QVC - you know, the chirpy one who seems so smart. Well, read the book and you know she's not only smart, but she knows how to make healthy stuff taste GREAT! Good Work, Ms. Calbom! Thanks SO much for your work!

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Mouthwatering User Friendly Recipes

Tasty, easy to follow recipes. Readily available ingredients

Low-Fat Mexican Cook Book
Sunset Books
Manufacturer: Sunset Publishing Corporation
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Cooking, Food & Wine | Subjects | Books
Mexican | Regional & International | Cooking, Food & Wine | Subjects | Books
Low Fat | Special Diet | Cooking, Food & Wine | Subjects | Books
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Betty Crocker's Low-Fat, Low-Cholesterol Cooking Today

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Tanita BC533 Glass Innerscan Body Composition Monitor

ASIN: 037602478X

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Mouthwatering User Friendly Recipes.......2000-07-10

This is a perfect cookbook! Not only are the recipes mouthwateringly delicious, they are simple and easy to prepare. The ingredient lists are fairly short and readily available at the neighborhood market. Many of the dishes take under 20 minutes to prepare.

Beyond the recipes themselves, the book contains some great reference information. There's a terrific illustrated guide to peppers, a glossary of mexican spices, and helpful hints for general cooking are scattered throughout the book.

This is an amazing value! If you're interested in low fat / high flavor cooking snap this one up!

Tasty, easy to follow recipes. Readily available ingredients.......1999-10-18

I have several low-fat mexican cookbooks and find myself using this one the most. Their recipes for corn bread, beans and soup are great.

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Getting Started With Iguanas.......2005-03-21

This is a special book - Every copy sold helps save our planet.
All the profits from the sale of this series of books go towards the purchase of land in the Virgin Rainforests of Brazil to preserve them from exploitation.
An excellent and very detailed resource with everything you need to get started with your pet iguana. Contents includes: A long way from home, Cage maintenance, General maintenance and care, The Tale of Popeye, Constructing a cage, Captive breeding and includes tons of helpful colorful pictures and charts.

AWSOME BOOK.......1998-02-15

What a great book, very good for the begining hobbist, You'll read it over and over.

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Slightly disappointed

Hours of Entertainment!

Buerflies Nloom on the Pages of Ruth Heller's Coloring Book

Designs for Coloring: Butterflies (Designs for Coloring)
Ruth Heller
Manufacturer: Grosset & Dunlap
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Designs for Coloring: Flowers (Designs for Coloring)

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Ruth Heller's Designs for Coloring: More Geometrics

ASIN: 0448031493

Customer Reviews:

Slightly disappointed.......2007-07-07

I loved the drawings but the book has only 4 or 5 different butterflies that were repeated with different number of butterflies on the page. Instead of putting more varity of butterflies or the same butterflies even but in different scenery, they just kept using the same few butterflies and increased the number of butterflies on the pages throughout the book. One butterfly on one page, the same one duplicated on another, then quadrupled on another etc. throughout the book for the IDENTICAL 4 or 5 butterflies which seems to be a little lazy. This seems to be the same for all these books at least the book of flowers was the same.

Hours of Entertainment!.......2007-04-04

I bought this for a friend's niece for her ninth birthday. She loves to draw and color, so I bought this book and a pad of tracing paper for her to replicate and color the patterns over and over. It was a hit! We spent the next few hours drawing and coloring to our hearts' content! The patterns are beautifully drawn and each page offers a little something different to focus on.

Buerflies Nloom on the Pages of Ruth Heller's Coloring Book.......2000-04-18

Ruth Heller's Butterfly designs are simply beautiful, true to her other coloring books. The way that she takes each of the large images, shrinks them down and tiles them , createing an M.C. Escher-like pattern. The paper in the book is very thick and takes marker well. You don't have to worry about color bleeding through the paper because the butterflies are only printed on the front sides of the pages. This makes it easier to cut the images out for decoupage as well.

Butterfly Alphabet Coloring Book (Dover Coloring Book)

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Butterfly Alphabet Coloring Book (Dover Coloring Book)
Carol Schmidt
Manufacturer: Dover Publications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0486458431

Book Description

This soaring collection presents a butterfly for every letter of the alphabet, plus one for each season. Finely detailed drawings include the Buckeye, Emperor, Indra, Nokomis, Red Rim, Two-tailed Tiger, and 24 other exquisite breeds. Each appears with its corresponding letter, amid flowers with the same initial.

Exotic Butterflies and Moths (Dover Pictorial Archive Series)

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Exotic Butterflies and Moths (Dover Pictorial Archive Series)
Ruth Soffer
Manufacturer: Dover Publications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Ages 4-8 | Children's Books | Subjects | Books

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ASIN: 0486423816

Book Description

This collection of finely detailed, accurately rendered illustrations depicts 29 species of lepidoptera, among them the sheep moth, the painted lady, blue morpho butterflies, the malachite butterfly, the rare birdwing butterfly — found only in southeast Asia — and the western tiger swallowtail. Captions provide information on areas inhabited by these winged beauties.

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a very colorful book

Beautiful Butterflies (Color Plus)
Julia Hillyard
Manufacturer: Golden books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Ages 4-8 | Children's Books | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 0307276090
Release Date: 2000-04-21

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a very colorful book.......2000-04-05

this book shows lots of beautiful butterflies. it was a very intersting and educational book. a recommend this book very much.

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Butterflies & Moths (Stained Glass Art)

Manufacturer: Tangerine Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 0439116813

Book Description

Sixteen beautiful pictures of butterflies and moths in their natural habitats come to life in this special series that adds a new dimension to traditional coloring. Special vellum perforated paper makes this book a must have.

Butterflies (Peterson Field Guide Coloring Books)

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If your children love nature, you have to buy this!

Butterflies (Peterson Field Guide Coloring Books)
Roger Tory Peterson Institute , and Robert Michael Pyle
Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Company
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Zoology | Science, Nature & How It Works | Children's Books | Subjects | Books

ASIN: 0395346754

Book Description

Learning about nature has never been so much fun -- or so easy. Anyone, young or old, who can hold a pencil, brush, or crayon can quickly learn to identify nature with these coloring books based on the famous Peterson Field Guides. Once you have actually identified and colored an image, its filed marks will be engraved in your memory.

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If your children love nature, you have to buy this!.......2002-01-17

Beautiful color pictures on the front cover and a chance to read about and color the butterflies on the inside. You should buy a set of colored penciles for this color book. Your child can identify the butterflies by the picture on the cover and learn more about them in the book. A real nature guide, not your run of the mill coloring book. Buy the series and you can sneak in an education on nature while your child is having fun.

Designs for Coloring: 10 Butterflies and Moths

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Designs for Coloring: 10 Butterflies and Moths
Ruth Heller
Manufacturer: Grosset & Dunlap
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Customer Reviews:

good book.......2004-01-07

I love this book. It straightforwardly describes how to divide your backyard into enticing secluded corners using fences, lattices and hedges. Its filled with all kinds of clearly illustrated layouts and full color photos. All of the designs are classic English. Even though the book is dated 1987, the designs would not look out of place in todays gardens. It also has a lot of practical information on how to build paths, walls, fences, and varieties for hedges.

Secret Gardens - Creating Romantic Retreats

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Secret Gardens - Creating Romantic Retreats
Alan Toogood
Manufacturer: Trafalgar Square Inc.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000OPA3N0

Book Description

Through a meticulous labor of love, Dr. Hershoff has produced a virtual musculoskeletal textbook for chiropractors and physicians who are pursuing a course of natural health care for their patients. The heart of his book, the first of its kind, addresses the homeopathic solutions for musculoskeletal complaints commonly seen in our offices and commonly experienced by many people in the course of their lives. As he focuses our attention on the musculoskeletal keynotes and affinities of the homeopathic materia medica, easy to read illustrations and charts help us reach the homeopathic cure, (or similimum) for many acute and chronic conditions. This book has the potential to relieve much human suffering.

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A Wonderful Resource.......2006-07-25

Here is a user-friendly guide to treating a wide range of health problems homeopathically. Besides arthritis, it is a book to go to for spine, knee, hip, foot or ankle problems, as well as headaches. Also presents alternatives for conditions such as carpal tunnel syndrome. Extremely clear and well-organized, it offers the reader the benefit of a great deal of experience.

an invaluable resource.......2006-04-05

I concur with the previous reviewer. I'm a chiropractor with some formal training in homeopathy and before purchasing this book I was pretty much at a loss as to how to integrate acute homeopathy into my practice. This book changed everything. I now have a pharmacy of over 100 remedies that I use on a regular basis. I now have a foundation onto which I can add knowledge gained from practical experience. But be forwarned: This book will help out a great deal with acute prescribing, but don't think that you will be able to tackle constitutional levels of healing without additional training and practice.

One of a kind homeopathic healing guide........1997-10-03

Through a meticulous labor of love, Asa has produced a virtual musculoskeletal, textbook for chiropractors and physicians who are pursuing a course of natural health care for their patients. The heart of his book, the first of its kind, addresses the homeopathic solutions for musculoskeletal complaints commonly seen in our offices and commonly experienced by many people in the course of their lives. As Asa focuses our attention on the musculoskeletal keynotes and affinities of the homeopathic materia medica, easy to read illustrations and charts help us reach the homeopathic cure, (or similimum) for many acute and chronic conditions. Asa1s book has the potential to relieve much human suffering.

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A biographical and artistic coverage.......2005-05-10

Artist Vic Cicansky has been creating garden sculptures which are whimsical and fun, for over forty years: The Garden Of Art: Vic Cicansky, Sculptor celebrates his style with a biographical and artistic coverage: the first book-length treatment of his work. Undoubtedly there will be many who will not have heard of Cicansky: don't let that stop you: pages come packed with black and white and color examples of the man and his many works, while text fills in biographical and artistic insights.

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Ryogen and Mount Hiei focuses on the transformation of the Tendai School from a small and impoverished group of monks in the early ninth century to its emergence as the most powerful and influential school of Japanese Buddhism in the last half of the tenth century--a position it would maintain throughout the medieval period. This is the first study in a Western language of the institutional factors that lay behind the school's success. At its core is a biography of a major figure behind this transformation, Ryogen (912-985). The discussion, however, extends well beyond a simple biography as Ryogen's activities are placed in their historical and institutional context.

Unlike the recluses and eccentrics that have so often attracted Western readers of Buddhism, Ryogen was a consummate politician and builder. Because he lost his major monastic sponsor at an early age, he was forced to find ways to advance his career with little support. His activities reveal much about the path to success for monks during the tenth century. Skill in debate, the performance of Esoteric Buddhist ritual, and strategic alliances with powerful lay and monastic figures were important to his advance. In 966 Ryogen was appointed head of the Tendai School and served until his death nineteen years later. He has been vilified at times for his loyalty to his own faction within Tendai at the expense of other groups. Careful analysis of the political and social factors behind his attitudes, however, places his activities in their appropriate context.

The study concludes with a discussion of the ordinations and roles of nuns during the early Heian period. An examination of Ryogen's close relation with his mother helps define the ambiguities of a school that prohibited women from the precincts of its temple yet performed rituals to insure safe childbirth and frequently attracted their patronage. A number of primary sources are translated in the appendices.

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Ryogen and Mount Hiei: Japanese Tendai in the Tenth Century (Studies in East Asian Buddhism)
Paul Groner
Manufacturer: NY
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000MUBKSY

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