The Hatfield-McCoy feud reader: A series of stories and newspaper clippings dealing with the famous feud along the shores of the Tug River in Mingo County, ... no quarter was asked and none was given

The Hatfield-McCoy feud reader: A series of stories and newspaper clippings dealing with the famous feud along the shores of the Tug River in Mingo County, ... no quarter was asked and none was given
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The Hatfield-McCoy feud reader: A series of stories and newspaper clippings dealing with the famous feud along the shores of the Tug River in Mingo County, ... no quarter was asked and none was given
Clarence Shirley Donnelly
Manufacturer: Privately printed
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B00072DYLS

No Quarter Asked No Quarter Given
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No Quarter Asked No Quarter Given
G. S. Holcomb
Manufacturer: Writers Advantage
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0595245668

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This story takes place during WW2. It is the story of 1000's of nobodies called to defend their homeland as seen through the eyes of one such nobody Ted Brown of Colorado. As usual the nobodies are the shock troops.

The Macrobiotic Community Cookbook
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A Wonderful "Community" Cookbook!

tasty, many choices, includes tortillas from whole corn

tasty, many choices, includes tortillas from whole corn

The Macrobiotic Community Cookbook
Andrea Bliss Lerman
Manufacturer: Avery
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Binding: Paperback

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The Quick and Natural Macrobiotic Cookbook

ASIN: 1583331654
Release Date: 2003-11-20

Book Description

A classic collection of more than 150 innovative recipes, now updated and repackaged.

Andrea Bliss-Lerman, an expert chef and macrobiotic cooking teacher, has gathered together a collection of original and tasty recipes contributed by leading macrobiotic practitioners across the country. Featuring many of her own inventive recipes, this is a unique community cookbook that will attract a whole new generation of readers in an ever-growing market looking to foster greater health and well-being through nutrition.

Customer Reviews:

A Wonderful "Community" Cookbook!.......2002-09-20

I really love this cookbook. Andrea Bliss Lerman has compiled a nice variety of recipes, many of which are contributed from famous names in the Macrobiotic Family. I especially enjoyed the recipe for Chapati contributed by Cornellia Aihara from the George Ohsawa Macrobiotic Foundation. It is a flat bread made from finely ground whole wheat flour, water and sea salt that she discovered from India. There is also the Quick and Tasty Noodle Vegetable Delight from Meredith McCarty from the East West Center for Macrobiotics in Eureka, California.

If you are looking for variety in the macrobiotic diet like I was, I recommend The Macrobiotic Community Cookbook. It has wonderful recipes from breakfast through desert. I am sure you will find many that will wet your appetite.

tasty, many choices, includes tortillas from whole corn.......1998-12-05

Andrea Bliss Lerman has thoroughly researched these favorite recipes from many people in the macrobiotic community. The basics are all there and the desserts are delicious. I especially like the traditional tortilla recipe from whole corn. It tastes really great made with blue corn.

tasty, many choices, includes tortillas from whole corn.......1998-12-05

Casa de Luz Community Cookbook: Sauces, Dressings, Condiments and Spreads

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Casa de Luz Community Cookbook: Sauces, Dressings, Condiments and Spreads

Manufacturer: Casa de Luz
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Product Description

A macrobiotic cookbook from Casa de Luz, the restaurant and educational community center in Austin, TX, devoted to the awareness of balance as taught within the framework of macrobiotics.

Macrobiotic Community Cookbook, Great Cooking from the Well-Known Personalities of the Macrobiotic Community

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Macrobiotic Community Cookbook, Great Cooking from the Well-Known Personalities of the Macrobiotic Community
Andrea Bliss Lerman
Manufacturer: Avery Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000NDLQNO

Book Description

This book is filled with recipes to make your own gifts. Each mix fits into a quart jar. The book even includes tags complete with recipient directions with each recipe. Just cut it out, personalize and attach to the jar. Fun to make and affordable, gifts in a jar make great gifts for neighbors, teachers and friends!

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Another fantastic gifts in a jar idea book.............2007-02-17

I am always looking for quick and easy ideas for homemade and delicious recipes. Great little book to add to any collection !

Great Idea for Gift Giving.......2007-01-09

Our 4 year old had a blast making these for Christmas gifts. The book is great - easy instructions, great recipes!

Great Christmas Gifts.......2006-08-30

I've tried many of the recipes in this book and will be using them for Christmas gifts for co-workers and friends. I especially love the bonus of the pre-printed labels that can be put on the jars plus the primative decorating ideas. This is one book I'm glad I purchased. Worth every penny!

Gifts that are appreciated..........2005-09-28

I have used this and many other books in the series for a few years now. And I get repeat gift-receivers compliments everytime.

Mixes for cocoas, teas, and cappuccinos: Drink mixes layered in jars for gifts (Layers of love collection)

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Mixes for cocoas, teas, and cappuccinos: Drink mixes layered in jars for gifts (Layers of love collection)
Jackie Gannaway
Manufacturer: Cookbook Cupboard
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: 1885597282

Gifts in a Jar: Holiday Fun, Cocoas, Cappuccinos, Coffees & Teas

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Gifts in a Jar: Holiday Fun, Cocoas, Cappuccinos, Coffees & Teas

Manufacturer: CQ Products
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 1597950785

Product Description

Make your own gourmet gifts in a jar! This crafty 2-set offers dozens of recipes for making festive cookie, cake, and beverage mixes. Each recipe fits into a quaint quart jar and includes gift tags and decorating tips. With Gifts in a Jar Cocoas, Cappuccinos, Coffees, & Teas, and Gifts in a Jar Holiday Fun, youll learn to make: Holiday Hazelnut Cookies, Spice Cake, Mocha Coffee, Caribbean Tea, and much more! This fun and functional 2-set ensures youll give a gift worthy of the season.

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"We're looking at a biological holocaust of unprecedented magnitude."
- Paul Watson

Paul Watson has rammed fishing trawlers, sunk whaling ships, sailed boldly into Soviet waters (when the Cold War still brewed) and brazenly taunted the governments of several powerful countries. He has stood in the path of oncoming icebreakers to protect seal nurseries, and overturned the law that shielded hunters of baby seals from protest and active intervention to stop slaughter. He is the environmentalist who scathingly referred to Greenpeace, an organization he helped found, as "the Avon ladies of the environmental movement." Now he owns a submarine.

Why? Paul Watson's unswerving mission is to publicize -- and stop -- the atrocities committed against the creatures who inhabit the world's oceans.

His life story is one of a man with more than the courage of his convictions -- time and time again he has risked his life for his beliefs. He rammed the Sierra, a whaling vessel whose masters illegally slaughtered 25,000 whales; he sailed up to a whale processing plant in the former Soviet Union and calmly snapped photographs when confronted with armed guards; he drove a Cuban fishing boat off the Grand Banks to protect the depleted cod population and he founded the radical and confrontationalist Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, after he became disillusioned with Greenpeace tactics.

Ocean Warrior is the story of Paul Watson's conservation career -- an amazing chronicle of bravery, horrifying slaughter and international intrigue. A story of passion and principles, it will not easily be forgotten by anyone who cares about the fate of our oceans -- or our planet.

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amazing!.......2002-11-05

This book will make you laugh and cry all at once. Paul is a great writer and has packed more adventure into his life that all the Star Trek episodes put together. Time after time as you read you are sure he is done for this time, will be dead or in jail, but time after time he miraculously prevails in his Pirate Vikinq quest to save the whales.

READ THIS BOOK!.......2001-10-23

One of the best books I have ever read! Without any question. Watson will make you laugh, cry, and most of all, get up and take action. He is one of the few humans I admire. For the most part I am so disgusted with my species I am ashamed to belong to the human race. Capt'n Watson and his crew are amoung the few souls I have any respect for. He is a true Mahatma. READ THIS BOOK!
I was taught humans are neither demons nor angels but occupy the spectrum in between. Well far too many of us gravitate towards one end of the spectrum don't we? And that's why our homeworld has become the cesspool that it is. If we make it out of this mess, it will be because of people like Watson.

Watson is a criminal.......2001-10-18

Watson wasn't enforcing international law, there was no international LAW against the "crimes" he claims whalers committed. He has stated elsewhere that he has authority to "enforce" this law from a [non binding] UN resolution that was issued many months AFTER he started sinking ships.
This is a self aggrandizing piece of droll from a common criminal. He gives a bad name to a good cause.
I'm very glad I had someone else's copy and I didn't spend my money on it.

We need many more like him........2001-03-20

I worked and sailed with Captain Watson for more than three years. You may not like the what he does or how he writes, but that doesn't matter one bit to him! His only concern is for those animals and ecosystems that he is fighting so hard to protect. He is an gifted leader and speaker, one of the world's most successful activists (if you count results rather than media attention), and has been an inspiration to and mentor of many others that fight for environmental justice.

Read this book, try to soak up some of his message and his passion - then do something with it.

Eco-terrorists of the world unite!!!!!.......1999-05-23

Paul Watson is one of the few hominids on this planet who actually knows what he's doing with his life. Over the last two hundred years humanity's impact upon Gaia has become exponential. Only people with his courage, compassion and vision offer us any hope. "Whether 'tis better in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them" -Shakespeare

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A shaking litany of slaughter by humans
Slaughter for Profit

Sea of Slaughter: Farley Mowat Library
Farley Mowat
Manufacturer: Stackpole Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0811731693

Book Description

The northeastern seaboard of the United States and Canada, from Cape Cod to Labrador, was the first region in North America to suffer from human exploitation. In this timeless narrative, Farley Mowat describes in harrowing detail the devastation inflicted upon the birds, whales, fish, and mammals of this icy coast--from polar bears and otters to cod, seals, and ducks. Since its first publication some 20 years ago, this powerful work has served as both a warning to humanity and an inspiration for change.

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A shaking litany of slaughter by humans.......2005-09-30

This book should be read by everyone who cares about animals. It is a sad litany of what humans can do in search of greed. Mowatt has assembled facts and figures that bring to life the slaughter of species that is still going on. One wonders what could have been done and what still can be done to stop more animal slaughter.
SOS is at once depressing and then an awakening to us all.

Slaughter for Profit.......2005-08-06

Passionate, well-written account of what has become of animal life in North America since the arrival of the Europeans in the early 1500's. Amazing. I will never look at the world in the same way. Farley Mowat, focusing on the North-east of North America, paints a vivid picture of what animal life was like from 1500 to the present, frequently quoting those who saw it in its near natural state hundreds of years ago -- the great awk, the white bear, the buffalo, the whales, the dolphins, the seals. The European intruders saw this great abundance of life as an opportunity for profit, saw the millions of whales as so many tons of train oil. From one chapter to the next, the animal "nations" were slaughtered with no thought of the future, until there was no more profit to be made. "Sea of Slaughter", as sad and painful as it is, is a must-read book. A sampling of Farley Mowat's words (I am sure he won't mind):

"So ends the story of how the Sea of Whales became a Sea of Slaughter as, one by one, from the greatest to the least, each in turn according to its monetary worth, the several cetacean nations perished in a roaring holocaust fuelled by human avarice.
Now that there are no longer enough of them remaining to be of any significant commercial value, the fires that consumed their kinds are burning down. But it is unlikely -- our instincts being what they are -- that even the far flung scattering of survivors will ever be secure from our rapacity unless, and until, they receive worldwide protection.
Surely this is the least we can do to make atonement for the evil we have done to them. And it WAS evil -- of that, make no mistake."

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Sea of slaughter
Farley Mowat
Manufacturer: Atlantic Monthly Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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Will change your worldview forever
Perhaps youýre not the slaughtering kindý
shocking and utterly mind-blowing

Sea of Slaughter
Farley Mowat
Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1576300196

Book Description

With the dedicated reasearch and highly readable prose that are his hallmarks, Farley Mowat painstakingly recounts the grim fate of the wildlife of the North Atlantic seaboard after the arrival of European man. This "howl of outrage" (Kirkus) chronicles how whales, once one of the most complex and stable life forms on Earth, became virtually eradicated; how great auks, numbering the hundreds of millions, were driven extinct; how creatures as diverse as walruses and seals, cod and cormorants, nearly suffered the same fate.

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Will change your worldview forever.......2003-11-12

This book goes about the most heart-wrenching task - noting all the animals we've killed in North America - with none of the usual environmentalist emotional sentimentality. Mowat logically and systematically provides evidence of our wholesale slaughter by categories (land, sea, air) and species. Incredibly well written , and some of the first person historical accounts he unearths are shocking and shameful. This book will move you, anger you, and stay with you. Look in the sky - how many birds do you see? This book provides the sad answer why.

Perhaps youýre not the slaughtering kindý.......2000-04-07

Since reading Mowat's "Sea of Slaughter," I can't get a certain picture out of my mind. It is of a sandy ocean beach, miles and miles long, where tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of morse came to socialize every summer until the middle of last century. The morse, or northern walrus, was a stupendous animal, of impressive bearing: a veritable lion of the sea. Yet it comes no more to those grounds, once the largest colony of its kind, out on Canada's Magdalene Islands, off the coast of Québec.

To think that the morse were just a side-show to it all. To think that eventually, with the same energy and relentless mechanical force, we would come to decimate the northern fishery more or less entirely, leaving thousands of perplexed fisher folk stranded in coastal villages, wondering perhaps, just where that many fish could possibly have gone.

On land, as in the water, nature's bounty was scarcely less prolific, the European's first reaction, scarcely less horrendous. Could this be the true, unknown history of North America, lying behind and directly concerning those early pilots and navigators like Cabot and Columbus. 400 or more years of unbelievably short-sighted culling of mighty herds, whether they were whales or bison or a hundred other species of birds and mammals known to have been hunted to the last. This is Mowat's sad chronicle. This is his portrait of what one day perhaps, will generally be known and accepted as history. And the only thing that may stop us is that we find we really don't want to ever learn this sort of truth.

Besides being a remarkable contribution to the literature of ecology and environment, this is also one of Mowat's finest personal efforts. You can see by the very nature of the material that it took a being of remarkable strength just to tackle a project like this, let alone bring it to a conclusion. It's probably true that one can prepare all one's life for just one event. In Mowat's case, without negating any other part of his remarkable uvre, this may just be it.

shocking and utterly mind-blowing.......1999-07-27

Mowat wanted to write about life, humanity, and extinction. Obviously the topic was too broad, so he narrowed himself down to just discussing the North Atlantic and parts of the New World. I finished this book and was stunned by how much life there USED to be around here. Polar bears in Massachusetts? 12-foot sturgeon in the Chesapeake? Birds flocking in the millions that I had never even heard of? WE NEED MORE BOOKS LIKE THIS AND WE ALL NEED TO READ THEM!

History of the Second World War, tunisia, the Noose Tightens, Guadalcanal Slaughter at Sea

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History of the Second World War, tunisia, the Noose Tightens, Guadalcanal Slaughter at Sea
Sir Basil Liddell Hart
Manufacturer: Purnell
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000MY3CJ0

Ocean Warrior: My Battle to End the Illegal Slaughter on the High Seas

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Ocean Warrior: My Battle to End the Illegal Slaughter on the High Seas
Paul Watson
Manufacturer: see notes for publisher info
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000M3PPZA

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Ocean Warrior: My Battle to End the Illegal Slaughter on the High Seas

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ASIN: B000ICU1S6

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Sea of Slaughter
Farley Mowat
Manufacturer: BANTAM DOUBLEDAY @ DELL
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000SF5LQK

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Sea of Slaughter

Manufacturer: McClelland and Stewart Limited
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000AMTYKA

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Sea of Slaughter 1ST Edition
Farley Mowat
Manufacturer: ATLANTIC MONTHLY @ PRESS
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000SIDTRA

Small, Smart & Practical Track Plans (Model Railroading)
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Iain Rice is a Master Layout Designer

Good but could be better

Deceptive Title

Good intro to UK compact layout methods in USA RR settings

Good but also disappointing

Small, Smart & Practical Track Plans (Model Railroading)
Iain Rice
Manufacturer: Kalmbach Publishing Company
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0890244162

Book Description

Clever solutions give modelers new options for small, flexible layouts. Shows how interchangeable modules, linked dioramas, and even shelving and stacking layout concepts can build a prototype-oriented model railroad into just about any situation. Perfect for modelers wanting a second project layout or a portable railroad that travels well.

--Features prototype railroad operations

--Includes original, custom-designed HO and N scale layout designs for spaces no larger than 10x12 feet

--Each layout design features full-color plans and layout perspectives

Customer Reviews:

Iain Rice is a Master Layout Designer.......2005-10-08

Please examine Mr. Rice's Layout designs, as EVERY Detail is fully thought out as depicted in his renderings. Magical!

Good but could be better.......2004-06-01

Iain Rice is a wonderful designer and there are some great ideas in this book, but it lacks small railroads and blue prints. Even so I think it would be a good purchase.

Deceptive Title.......2004-03-23

Nice track plans and concepts, but there only a couple of SMALL track plans in this book. If you really want SMALL track plans, check out the other track plan books such as the Atlas #6 and #7 books if you want N scale or the HO versions. Much less expensive and small, although nowhere near the nice concepts in this book.
101 Track Plans is also good.

Good intro to UK compact layout methods in USA RR settings.......2003-09-02

"Small, Smart & Practical Track Plans" was my first introduction to Iain Rice's excellent illustrations and his explanations of compact layout techniques.

I recognized seeing many of the ideas -- such as sector plates, fiddle yards, and train cassettes -- in some UK model railway magazines. Soon enough, I found some of Mr. Rice's books published in the UK. (Some of which can be readily found on the Amazon.com's British site at www.amazon.co.uk if they can't be found ion the Amazon.com site.)

This book does a decent job of translating those British small layout ideas into USA railroad settings. For many model railroaders, this is be an eye-opener, making us think of creative ways to work in small spaces. For anybody who wanted to build a model railroad layout but has been discouraged by lack of space, this book may be the catalyst to pursue the dream.

One caution, not to deteract from the book's value, the illustrations are wonderfully captivating but they are suggestions for the scenic possibilities. They are not scale blueprints. So for some of the plans, not everything shown in the drawings will easily fit into the space, especially if one doesn't custom hand-lay the track. Not a major flaw; there are ways to adjust the plans or make compromises.

Even if one can and will build a larger space railroad layout, the book is a wonderful inspiration. Some of the train handling concepts, such as train cassettes, can be used in any size layout.

Good but also disappointing.......2002-01-10

This is a nice book. I like the illustrations made by Rice and his style of writing. It offers layout plans that are different then found in most similar books or railroad magazines. However, I feel that the book does not reach its full potential. In the past, the author has written an excellent and refreshing book on layout design, "An Approach to Model Railway Layout Design" (Wild Swan). That book offers a wealth of concepts and ideas that are not found in most (popular) layout books. None, or only few, of these ideas or concept can be found in "Small, smart and practical track plans". I feel it is a missed opportunity and in this regard the book is a disappointment. Still, it offers more than most other layout books and is a good start in developing your own plans.

The Bond Between a Mother and Son Lasts Forever: A Blue Mountain Arts Collection on the Love, Hopes, and Dreams That Mothers and Sons Share (Forever Series)
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tugs at your heart

The Bond Between a Mother and Son Lasts Forever: A Blue Mountain Arts Collection on the Love, Hopes, and Dreams That Mothers and Sons Share (Forever Series)

Manufacturer: Blue Mountain Arts
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0883967359

Book Description

"It's a boy!"

To hear these words is the dream of every mother. From her son, a woman learns what it feels like to grow up in a male body. As his trusted adviser, teacher, and friend, she helps to shape his view of himself, of others, and of the world. She instills values and ideals that will stay with him throughout his life, and she has so many hopes and dreams for the man he will become. Because of her son, a mother's life will be more meaningful, her joys will be greater, and her heart will experience the greatest love imaginable.

"Boys will be boys!"

There are moments in a son's life when he tests his mother's resolve, as well as her patience, but the bond between them is unbreakable. She is his mirror for how he looks at the world and for how the world looks at him. As a child, he will turn to her for guidance, understanding, and support; as he grows older, he will do everything he can to protect and care for her. Though he may have difficulty putting his feelings into words, there is never any doubt of a son's respect, devotion, and incredible love for his mother.

"Like mother, like son."

For all their obvious differences, there could never be two people more alike. Their time together is filled with unforgettable memories and immeasurable rewards. The tenderness and pride they feel toward each other can only be surpassed by the happiness they share. Theirs is a close and enduring relationship that only a mother and son can ever know… and a very special feeling of love that lives forever in their hearts.

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tugs at your heart.......2006-06-30

This really hits home. As of mom of 3 boys and could find something that made me think of each of my 3 sons. A few even brought me to those "good" tears.

Book Description

This is an intimate biography of an artist who became a legend after his death, but who in his private life stands revealed as a troubled man who was, in many ways, his own victim. Joan Murray's new biography is part detective work, too: she investigates his beliefs, and the origins of his great masterpieces, and provides a convincing description of the possible circumstances of his death. The art of Tom Thomson represents one of the high points of Canadian modernism, which flourished in the first two decades of this century. During his brief career, lasting just five years, Thomson evolved a highly intense, naturalistic style, introducing formal innovations and challenging the idiom of the tonal landscape of painters popular in his day. Thomson's idiosyncratic expressionist landscape art reflected the intellectual and psychological climate of pre-World War I Canada. It developed against the complex cultural background that produced the poets Bliss Carmen and Duncan Campbell Scott and, later, the painters of the Group of Seven. Despite his short creative life, and only half a decade of mature artistic activity, Thomson, a superb designer, produced an extensive body of work - more than thirty canvases and three hundred oil sketches - in a remarkably personal style, characterized by unusual colour combinations and strong patterns. Through it he conveyed the existential dimension of nature, making Algonquin Park - its trees, waters, and winds - the principal subject of his work.

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A graphic and disturbing account of the Death March.......2000-05-02

I teach in a district in suburban Chicago (Maywood) that saw many of its young men go off to the Philippines in the early days of WWII when a local National Guard Unit was sent there (Co. B, 192nd Tnk Bn). Needless to say, after the combat, death march, hell ships, etc. most did not return. Our community was devestated, and they remember Bataan still. I am currently doing a research project with some of my students at Proviso East High School and have done alot of reading on the subject. Mr. Czerwein's books is one of the very best in the whole genre. Its a quick, yet graphic and disturbing read. Another good book is My Hitch in Hell by Lester Tenney, who was a member of the Maywood unit. I met Mr. Czerwien, and Mr. Tenney, a few weeks ago at a Bataan event here at the high school. He is still going strong and told me he is now writing his 3rd book. God Bless Him.

An Excellent Piece of American History.......1999-02-19

In a very straightforward fashion, my uncle tells his story of Bataan and of being a POW. It is a very moving piece of history which should never be forgotten. I strongly urge anybody who has even a passing interest of the Second World War to read this work.

This is an excellent book about a survivor of the March.......1999-01-16

I have found this book to be very interesting and to the point about a mostly unknown tragedy of world war II. Mr. Czerwien gives an indepth look at mans inhumanity to man. Not only about the death march but about the ship that took him to Japan, that in my opinion was worse than the march itself. To survive this ordeal is in itself a miracle. I highly recommend this book to anyone that seeks the truth, from a man who was there.

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