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Whistle Towards the Graveyard
Robert Noyola
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A psychologically wise guide to helping multiracial children of all ages develop confidence and a healthy understanding of their uniqueness.
"Am I black or white or am I American?" "Why don't my eyes look like yours?" "Why do people always call attention to my 'different' hair?" Helping a child understand his mixed racial background can be daunting, especially when, whether out of honest appreciation or mean-spiritedness, peers and strangers alike perceive their features to be "other." Drawing on psychological research and input from over fifty multiracial families, Does Anybody Else Look Like Me? addresses the special questions and concerns facing these families, explaining how we can best prepare multiracial children of all ages to make their way confidently in our color-conscious world. From the books and toys to use in play with young children, to advice on guiding older children toward an unflappable sense of self, Does Anybody Else Look Like Me? is the first book to outline for parents how, exactly, to deflect the objectifying attention multiracial children receive. Full of powerful stories and counsel, it is sure to become the book adoptive and birth parents of different races alike will look to for understanding as they strive to raise their children in a changing world.
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Very interesting and well written resource!.......2007-03-14
I have been in an interracial relationship in the past but am currently single and sometimes dating. Sometimes I think about the possibility of marrying out of my race (I am a black-african woman) because of (and in spite of) my previous failed relationship (I guess I'm hard-headed). Over the years I have realized that multiracial situations are filled with unspoken conflicts and tensions and anxieties because this world is economically racist and exploitative... Where people live, how people live, what they do for a living all has to do with their race or ethnicity. It's really deep.
This book doesn't sugar-coat or minimize the experiences of mixed families and peoples. With these relationships the conflicts and tensions do come out in the form of hurtful, mean words, sentiments, and actions. It was so shocking to read about some of these experiences. Someone actually yelled "Eeeww!" out of a car at a mixed black (woman) white (man) family. Another child made negative comments about northern asian eyes that traumatized the author's more Japanese-looking son. There's a real lack of ACCEPTANCE with mixed peoples and couples. It's surreal!!! I think maybe people have a mental block about it or something. People are so focused on their own frame of reference.
The book is good because her writing is really honest and intelligent. She has wonderfully organized chapters including one on improving the education curriculum to be more accepting of multiracial families. I am getting my teacher certification in the next year so this book gave me info that will help me understand the backgrounds of some of my future students. There is a lot of good info on the little things I never knew about like how some very young mixed kids identify race with gender. The chapter on Adolescence delves into the STEPS TO IDENTITY-FORMATION, dating, and more. I recommend it!
Highly recommend.......2006-05-16
As the mother of 4 beautiful biracial children, I was delighted to find this intelligent, realistic book. My children are often asked "What are you?" and attempts are made to label them as Arabic, Latin, Greek,Black, Italian, etc, etc. This makes it difficult for them when they are at ages where all of us were trying to "find ourselves". My daughter has also had a difficult time, often meeting women who instantly dislike her based on her appearance alone. This book was refreshing and helped me to realize others go thru the same. I was amazed at the amount of research and fact finding this author included. The everyday anecdotes was also most truthful, speaking from personal experience. great find for anyone who knows, loves, interacts with those of more than 1 race!!
Well Written and Informative Guide.......2006-03-21
Being a member of a multi-ethnic family myself, I purchased this book to help teach some people in my life what it is like to grow up in such a family.
This book has been an excellent resource because it touches on the many topics involved including terminology, answering the "What are you? question, dating, etc...
The author of the book did alot of research including interviewing members of many different multi-racial and bi-racial families.
This book focuses on empowering members of multi-racial and bi-racial families to be proud of who they are and gives advice about how to handle in a positive light some of the negative situations they may encounter. The book particularly focuses on helping to raise multi-racial and bi-racial children who are happy, well adjusted, and have high self-esteem.
I highly recommend this book.
excellent book for parents.......2003-11-30
Thank goodness this isn't another academic tome dealing with racial tensions and ethnicity in the U.S. Finally, we have a book geared for parents that is intelligent, informed and useful. The scripts alone--Ms. Nakazawa's suggestions for what to say to children in response to (or in anticipation of) challenging situations--are worth the price of the book. I know of at least one school that is giving away free copies of this book to all the parents of multiracial and transracially adoptive children in their school. I hope, for the sake of our children, that more schools will get the word out about this book.
Interesting.......2003-10-04
This book was very well-intentioned. For the most part, I found it interesting and informative, but I wouldn't say that this book fully teased out the implications of what it means to have a multi-racial child. I didn't give this book five stars because I found it seemed to lack direction. This book was quite anecdotal, and lacked sophisticated nuance and understanding in ethnic identity. This book was obviously written from the point of a parent versus an academic who might interrogate and investigate race and ethnicity on a different level.
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Enjoy a meatless meal tonight!
Black Bean Soup. Eggplant Lasagne. Lentils and Rice with Carmelized Onions. Delicious, nutritious, satisfying dishes-that are all vegetarian. With How to Cook Everything™: Vegetarian Cooking, even meat-eaters will love anything you serve!
Mark Bittman, the award-winning author of the bestselling kitchen classic How to Cook Everything™, shares his favorite simple-and infinitely flexible-vegetarian recipes. You can prepare light and healthful lunches, hearty weeknight dinners, and even special-occasion feasts. In addition, to help you plan your meals, you'll find Bittman's straight talk on cooking and special features, including:
- Creative recipe variations and ideas
- Tips for shopping, preparing, and cooking the recipes
- Illustrations to demystify trickier techniques
- Menu suggestions for an Italian Vegetarian Weeknight Dinner, a Vegetarian Party Buffet, and more
- At-a-glance icons highlighting vegan recipes
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Lots of good Vege cookbooks around. Why buy leftovers?.......2004-04-17
Mark Bittman, a widely recognized and respected cookbook author and New York Times food columnist, has succumbed to greed. He and his publishers have split up his very well received book `How to Cook Everything' into several separate pieces and is charging for the pieces more than the price of the original book. This volume, `Vegetarian Cooking' is one of the pieces.
The author and the publisher are not trying to hide this fact, although I suspect they will not shed a tear if you buy the book with the impression that this is new material.
On the surface, I am sure they will rationalize that they are doing their readers a service by providing parts of this very good book at a lower list price than the whole book. This is pure hokum. The original book is a very good contribution to the genre of `If you own only one cookbook, this would be it' cookbook. So, why would I want to buy only part of that book? If I want a book on basics, I would do much better to buy Alton Brown's `I'm Only Here for the Food'. If I want a book on quick cooking, I suspect one of Rachael Ray's books will be better AND cheaper. If you want a good book on vegetarian cooking, get `Passionate Vegetarian' by Crescent Dragonwagon.
Speaking of Herr Doktor Brown, he and his Food Network colleague Ina Garten seem to have caught the same case of avarice in that they have had knockoff volumes published with artwork which is based on their best-selling volumes, but which contain cut rate material, or maybe even no material. They are selling pure hype.
I have a great amount of respect for all three of these authors. I have even met Alton Brown and find him a truly gracious gentleman who deserves all good fortune and celebrity he can garner. But I do not wish these authors to put out products that some people can easily buy under a false expectation fostered by the product's marketing.
Do not buy this book. Buy the complete `How to Cook Everything' and be done with it.
There aren't enough vegetarian cookbooks........2003-09-03
There aren't enough good vegetarian cookbooks.....this one is great!! It offers 90 easy-to-follow vegetarian recipes by the nationally known food authority Mark Bittman - which makes it a must-have.
Book Description
The ultimate one-stop vegetarian cookbook-from the author of the classic How to Cook Everything
Hailed as "a more hip Joy of Cooking" by the Washington Post, Mark Bittman's award-winning book How to Cook Everything has become the bible for a new generation of home cooks, and the series has more than 1 million copies in print. Now, with How to Cook Everything: Vegetarian, Bittman has written the definitive guide to meatless meals-a book that will appeal to everyone who wants to cook simple but delicious meatless dishes, from health-conscious omnivores to passionate vegetarians.
How to Cook Everything: Vegetarian includes more than 2,000 recipes and variations-far more than any other vegetarian cookbook. As always, Bittman's recipes are refreshingly straightforward, resolutely unfussy, and unfailingly delicious-producing dishes that home cooks can prepare with ease and serve with confidence. The book covers the whole spectrum of meatless cooking-including salads, soups, eggs and dairy, vegetables and fruit, pasta, grains, legumes, tofu and other meat substitutes, breads, condiments, desserts, and beverages. Special icons identify recipes that can be made in 30 minutes or less and in advance, as well as those that are vegan. Illustrated throughout with handsome line illustrations and brimming with Bittman's lucid, opinionated advice on everything from selecting vegetables to preparing pad Thai, How to Cook Everything: Vegetarian truly makes meatless cooking more accessible than ever.
Mark Bittman is one of the country's best-known and most widely respected food writers. With How to Cook Everything, he has rekindled enthusiasm for cooking in a new generation of Americans, and his weekly New York Times column, "The Minimalist," has had similar impact. Bittman is also the author of How to Cook Everything: Bittman Takes on America's Chefs (0-7645-7014-5) and The Best Recipes in the World (0-7679-0672-1), both of which have companion public television series starring the author.
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Camel Lot: The True Story of a Zoo-Illogical Farm
Moselle Schaffer
Manufacturer: Thorndike Pr
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Actually, more of an update.......2002-07-02
Author Moselle Schaffer died in August, 2000. She was an elegant, witty, strong woman with a sharp sense of humor and tons of Southern charm. She was eccentric in spades and lived life precisely on her terms. If you can track down this quirky, funny book, by all means, buy it. Moselle also did a lot of freelance writing and she gloried in animal stories. She wrote several for The Indianapolis News at a time when I was chief of The News' Metro North Bureau, covering the two north suburban counties that included Camel Lot. I also discovered along the way that she had been a close friend and confidant of the late Frances Farmer, the ill-starred actress whose tragic life included a final chapter as an afternoon movie hostess on the former WFBM-TV in Indianapolis. Before she died of cancer in 1970, Frances gave Moselle a charm bracelet she had received when she was featured on the old Ralph Edwards "This is Your Life" TV show. All of the female subjects of the show, which was a kind of precursor to today's "Biography" but featured surprise reunions with people from the subject's past, received a charm bracelet with miniature representations of important places or events in the woman's life. She confided to Moselle that she never liked the bracelet. Miss Farmer is entombed in a Fishers, IN cemetery mausoleum.
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From roughing out an initial concept to creating an accurate cutting list of materials, this book guides readers through the process of designing a piece of furniture, start-to-finish. They'll learn how to:
Create a one-of-a-kind, wholly original project; Design a piece of furniture that meets a very specific or unique need; Replicate a project working from a single photo; Scale a piece of furniture so that it fits exactly where desired
Jim Stack includes all the instructions, photos and detailed drawings woodworkers need to master design techniques with style, ease and confidence!
Customer Reviews:
disappointed.......2005-02-19
I expected information about design, but this is just a self serving "I am good at what I do" book. I am sure he is good but there is little or no information about how to actually desigh furniture. No proportions, no instruction except make your mistakes on paper by sketching first. A waste of good money.
I was mega-disappointed........2004-12-26
After reading the two reviews, I thought this would be a great introduction to furniture design. I was expecting information such as generally accepted proportions of furniture elements, possibly a discussion of the application of the golden rectangle, and other non-obvious thoughts. The information is very high-level and broad. This book is so light on real information that I consider it useless.
Beautiful and inspiring book........2003-08-28
This is a beautiful book, nicely laid out, with inspiring photography. The book has 12 chapters, the first 6 cover general design and construction topics, and the remaining 6 each look at a particular type of furniture.
The main reason I bought the book was to gain some insight into the design process. Chapter 2 is titled "creating a drawing", and covers this by looking at how the author drew/designed and eventually built a table. The chapter is helpful, but a bit short. I would have liked another example. Design seems to be an iterative process, where you draw something and see what works and doesn't, fix and draw again. I would have liked some examples of drawings that show this iterative process, and what criteria are used to determine what works and what doesn't. But maybe that's where the skill of the designer comes in and this can't really be taught in a book.
The last 6 chapters showcase some nice pieces, and have some comments on them. Again, it would have been nice to have examples of the iterative design process used to get to the final result. And to correct another reviewer, some of the pieces are pieces by the editors of Popular Woodworking.
My guess is that the book would have been much more expensive if each type of furniture had an exmple of the design process. Study the second chapter carefully, and apply it.
I highly recommend this book to people that are interested in going beyond building after plans. I have begun work on a custom bookcase for specific books, and have found the experience very rewarding.
I almost under rated this book, what a mistake that would be.......2003-01-24
When I first opened this book, I honestly misjudged it. Lots and lots of pictures of furniture is not what I was looking for. Then I realized they are pictures of pieces he had built. This book is a must have. Read on to see why. On second impression I was also disappointed when I saw that it was only 128 pages. It is a large book in every other dimension. High quality color photographs run throughout. The topics covered in the sections, which only run about 4 pages at times, seemed like we were covering basics. Beginning chapters are: Design elements, Creating a drawing, creating a materials list, sizing from a photograph, and small shop considerations.
When I read the name of the book, I jumped at purchasing it. I wanted to learn how to design furniture, and build it on a step by step basis. You know the specifics of joinery and the like. I was thinking about it and the intracacies of doing so. This book does not cover that. If you need to decide whether to use dowels, biscuits, or mortise and tenon joinery to join the apron to the legs on your table, this book will not help with that. It will show you how to imagine the flow of the pieces when you make up your drawings. The aesthetics are really what the very best pieces are all about, and that is what this book gives you a feel for. How to create the most beautiful pieces. That is what I feel about the pieces the author has created. Many of them are far more attractive than the furniture that we see today. The blend of the proper woods, in proportion to size, and function.
He makes you spend a lot of time with pencil and paper, thinking out your piece. How will each and every aspect of it go together, and in what shape, angle and size. Isn't this what we all need. Instead of being fixed in the plans delivered from those who are building standard appearance works.
The later chapters cover: Putting it all together, Beds, dressers, sideboards, and hutches, bookcases, tables, chairs, wall and base cabinets, desks, and entertainment centers.
It is important to say that as an enthusiast, I have been recording the New Yankee Workshop for some time now, thinking I would be able to pull out a tape, and review it when I build a similar piece. What I have learned from all of that is that their is really a limited amount of joints and procedures that we need to learn, to tackle most any project. Notice I said, Most any, carving and highly ornate work, as well as some sophisticated veneers and or inlays are a few exceptions. Nevertheless, armed with this understanding, this book "Design your own furniture" fills a niche that I have not seen anywhere else. How to conceive your own project. Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, and this book will take you by the hand, and lead you into the creation of pieces of furniture that will be uniquely yours, both in style and function. When you see the pieces that were made in the book, you will realize that the author has transended the standards.
I really hate to boast about a book, knowing that with such high expectations, anything that arrives, will seem like a disappointment. BUT when you take the third impression, and really start to read it as I have, you will realize, that this, more than others, is the key to your real attainment as a woodworking artist. Not an extremist, but rather a sense of freedom from the standard, while still maintaining the standard format and function of the designs that we have all come to know. I know this book will be helpful, and I hope this review is also.
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Thoughts From a Garden Seat
Graham Stuart Thomas
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- This book is a must have for moms everywhere!!
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Humor for a Mom's Heart: Stories, Quips, and Quotes to Lift the Heart (Humor for the Heart)
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Welcome to the Funny Farm: The All-True Misadventures of a Woman on the Edge
ASIN: 1416533575 |
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Being a mom is a roller-coaster ride of exhilarating joys and pull-out-your-hair frustrations. Sometimes a sweet infusion of humor is just what you need to lift your heart to new heights, to heal the hurts of a bad day, or to instill your soul with inspiration.
Samplings from some of your favorite authors -- including Patsy Clairmont, Martha Bolton, Dave Meurer, Nancy Kennedy, and many more -- will energize any worn-out mom and remind you of the joys of motherhood.
Take a deep breath, inhale the joy, soak up the merriment, and you'll surely find that your heart is lighter, your day brighter, and your soul hilariously refreshed.
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This book is a must have for moms everywhere!!.......2003-12-15
when I purchased this book, I was in a very down mood just hoping for a little pick me up. It was way more than that! I laughed out loud as I related to the stories of other mothers and their children. I read it in about 2 days and have since bought more as gifts for my mom and friends. Everyone I've known that has read it has loved it.
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Henry Winstanley and the Eddystone Lighthouse
Adam Hart-Davis , and
Emily Troscianko
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The Origin of Ethnography in Japan: Yanagita Kunio and His Times (Japanese Studies)
Minoru Kawada
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ASIN: 0710304501 |
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This digital document is an article from Oceania, published by University of Sydney on December 1, 1996. The length of the article is 1286 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: The Origin of Ethnography in Japan: Yanagita Kunio and His Times. (book reviews)
Author: Gaynor MacDonald
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Oceania (Refereed)
Date: December 1, 1996
Publisher: University of Sydney
Volume: v67
Issue: n2
Page: p165(2)
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