Luiz Alves De Lima: Brazil's Iron Duke of Caxias

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This lively autobiography begins with the neighborhood lots of New York where the author began experimenting with organic synthesis, resulting in his first publication while he was still living with his parents. Streitwieser traces his remarkable career from his early research in "wet" chemistry at Berkeley through his work on ab initio theoretical calculations and his "invention" of an entirely new series of compounds, the uranocenes, analogs to the ferrocenes.

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Twelve-step programs that insist on abstinence are beneficial to many--but what about the millions of Americans who try to quit and fail, just want to cut down, or wish to work toward sobriety gradually? This groundbreaking book presents the Harm Reduction approach, a powerful alternative to traditional treatment that helps users set and meet their own goals for gaining control over drinking and drugs. The expert, empathic authors guide readers to figure out which aspects of their own habits may be harmful, what they would like to change, and how to put their intentions into action while also dealing with problems that stand in the way, such as depression, stress, and relationship conflicts. Based on solid science and 40+ years of combined clinical experience, the book is packed with self-discovery tools, fact sheets, and personal accounts. It puts the reader in the driver's seat with a new and empowering roadmap for change.

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Revolutionary New Approach to Drug Treatment.......2004-04-19

Anyone troubled by drug or alcohol use but not interested in cold turkey, all or nothing approaches to such problems, really ought to take a good look at Dr. Patt Denning's "Over the Influence: The Harm Reduction Guide for Managing Drugs and Alcohol." Denning and co-authors Jeannie Little and Adina Glickman address substance use in terms of the interplay between the individual and a variety of social, emotional and biochemical factors. The complexity of this framework does much to influence the kind of relationship that same individual might have with substances considered terminally toxic in other treatment circles.

At the heart of this mode of treatment is the notion that people use drugs for particular reasons that may well be obscured in recovery programs where complete cessation of drug use is a condition of treatment. Denning and other harm reduction therapists adhere to the principle that people who use are capable of doing so sensibly, modifying conduct in ways that reduce harm to themselves and others.

Drawing on forty years of clinical experience and addressed to the general public, "Over The Influence" offers a valuable discussion of drugs and other substances along with a review of various psychological and social considerations that enter into patterns of usage. This revolutionary book presents new options in thinking about drugs. It is a must-read for those involved in legal, educational, and personal questions of substance use or misuse.

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disappointed

Best Kept Secret

Dad's favorite cookbook

Pictures ?

Good Home Eatin'

The Ebony Cookbook: A Date with a Dish
Freda DeKnight
Manufacturer: Johnson Publishing Company, Inc.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0874850037

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disappointed.......2007-06-02

wish there were pictures of the recipes, might give it away as a gift.

Best Kept Secret.......2007-06-01

I bought this book twenty years ago and discovered that some of the recipes in the book were the very same as the ones the women in my family have used for decades.
I used it so much that I needed to replace it. For the woman who feels challenged when it comes to culinary skills, I highly recommend this book.
No one will ever know your secret, until you choose to share it!

Dad's favorite cookbook.......2001-09-01

My step dad is a retired chef who cooked for 20 years at the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas. He grew up in Kansas City and knew the Gates family and Mr. Bryant through school and his music career in a famous African-American singing group in the 1940's and 50's. Last night I was discussing my search for new BBQ sauces and mentioned a couple of cookbooks I had obtained. I was surprised when he admitted he hadn't always been a BBQ master chef. Because of the people he was raised around I figured he just always knew the secret of how to BBQ. Dad read me six cookbook titles that he had never shown me or told me about, even though over a ten year period he gave me the recipe for his "secret sauce" little by little. The cookbook he said to get first is The Ebony Cookbook, by Freda DeKnight. He read me the ingredients for BBQ sauces 1-4 and I knew right then why I had to get this book first.

My step dad knows BBQ like few others, and he can cook anything you name to perfection. If he said to get this book first well that's good enough for me. I don't need pretty pictures, I want to learn more about good Q and I'm confident this is the place to start.

By the way Dad sang with the Ink Spots and by mentioning his name and our family relationship, Winnie Gates, at the 12th and Brooklyn Gates' BBQ, treated my wife and I like visiting royalty when we passed through KC in 1974. We were served drinks in her office and she comped our ribs! So please feel confident in Dad's view that this book is the place to begin a serious study of BBQ. He said there are lots of other valuable recipes as well.

Pictures ?.......2000-07-18

I ordered this book from Barnes & Noble based on the mouth watering receipes, fetured in Ebony Magazine. I was very disappointed however to find no pictures, that is meat of a cookbook! I kept it anyways, I'm Just not enthused and almost sent it back.

Good Home Eatin'.......1999-12-31

I had this book for over 10 years and used it so much I had to order another one to start cooking some more. This book has some really great recipes in it and after making them once or twice you can doctor them up and make each recipe your own. It possesses a lot of useful info for the new and experienced cook and you will really love some of the recipes included.

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The Ebony Cookbook: A Date with a Dish
Freda De knight
Manufacturer: Johnson Publishing Company, Inc.f
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000JBZ20S

The Ebony cookbook: A date with a dish; a cookbook of American Negro recipes

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The Ebony cookbook: A date with a dish; a cookbook of American Negro recipes
Freda De Knight
Manufacturer: Johnson Pub. Co
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: B0006AY5KA

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Great general book for the cat owner.......2002-04-30

I checked this out from the library and it's too bad it's not still in print. This book starts from the basics and covers everything. My cat is expecting kittens and I'm very nervous about this whole thing. The book told me just what I needed to know about how to care for her and the kittens. It has cat first aid, a symptom chart for when your cat is sick, and tips on choosing a cat. It has it all. A great book for the cat owner, and a great gift for a friend.

Best book for cat owners.......2000-03-06

I have owned many cats, and I reccommend this book. The book is easy to read and has a at-a-glance guide to signs and symptoms. It also gives you information about what to do in an emergancy, tips on posion control, first aid, and it also explains cat behaviors. This is definitely the best book for cat owners.

American Animal Hospital Association Encyclopedia Of Cat Health And Care

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American Animal Hospital Association Encyclopedia Of Cat Health And Care
Les Sussman
Manufacturer: William Morrow & Co, Inc.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Mariner's Compass Quilts

Quick Strip Paper Piecing

Fantastic book for beginners and experienced quilters alike

This is NOT just another Paper Piecing book!

Quick-Strip Paper Piecing: For Blocks, Borders and Quilts
Peggy Martin
Manufacturer: C&T Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Quilt Mavens: Perfect Paper Piecing

ASIN: 1571202161

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"Quick-strip" whiz Peggy Martin combines the accuracy of paper piecing, the speed of strip piecing, and an incredible eye for color to create quilts that seem to glow from within. These four quilt projects (Midnight Garden, Millennium Star, New York Beauty, and Rainbow Galaxy) include instructions for Martin's quick-strip technique, along with advice for fabric selection, pattern preparation, and finishing touches.

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Mariner's Compass Quilts.......2006-11-04

Great book, easy to understand. My compass came out great!
Barb M

Quick Strip Paper Piecing.......2005-09-24

I am new to quilting but I have been sewing for years. I have been drawn to Paper Piecing since the beginning. Peggy Martin makes it easy. I have several books about paper piecing, but this lady knows her stuff and cuts right through the confusion. I also hope she writes more books; she difinitly has a repeat customer in me.

Fantastic book for beginners and experienced quilters alike.......2005-07-18

I've been quilting for several years and had been discouraged when I tried paper foundation piecing because my brain just doesn't work that way. This book changed all that. The stars are astonishing and they're very easy to do. I've bought many quilting books and this is, without a doubt, the very best. I hope she writes another soon!

This is NOT just another Paper Piecing book!.......2004-06-16

Even if you've never tried paper piecing before, you'll want to have this book. It takes paper piecing to a whole new level, and simplifies the process. For experienced piecers, you'll be amazed at how much faster you can make stunning blocks with Peggy's revolutionary method.

The book is exceptionally well-illustrated. Step-by-step photos walk you through the technique and explain it so clearly that it's the next best thing to taking a workshop with Peggy herself.

You are sure to find more than one quilt you'll want to make from the project section, and the gallery of quilts will inspire you with plenty of ideas. Even though they look complex, the projects are still easy to make, even for beginners.

Definitely a book every quilter should have!

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The Herrenh user G rten in Hanover are among the most beautiful parks in Germany. Their baroque section, the Groer G rten, was begun in 1666 and constitutes one of the most important baroque grounds in Europe. The northwestern part of this floral treasure houses a grotto, built in 1676, comprised of three rooms, originally decorated with mussels, crystals, glass, and minerals, which served as a place of enchantment and as a cool retreat on hot days. Sadly, the grotto's decorations were removed as early as the 18th century, and the building became nothing but a storeroom. Restored for Expo 2000, the inside of the grotto was newly designed according to plans by Niki de Saint Phalle, a project that turned out to be the last completed by the artist, who died in the spring of 2002. The grotto's octagonal middle room and two other rooms were splendidly decorated with mosaics made from colored glass and mirrors, and with pebbles and numerous painted sculptures made of fiberglass. The spiral-shaped arrangement of ornaments around the column in the entrance hall is meant to symbolize spirituality, the mirrored western room signifies day and life, and the blue eastern room represents night and the cosmos.

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La Grotte. Deutsche Ausgabe.
Niki de Saint Phalle , Ulrich Krempel , and Ronald Clark
Manufacturer: Hatje Cantz Verlag
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ASIN: 3775713085

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This new comprehensive text recognizes the role of the midwife or clinician practicing using a midwifery model of care as a primary provider for healthy pregnant women. The woman is the central figure in the assessment of her own health needs and the determination of the care processes that will best meet those needs. Stresses throughout, the role of the midwife is to advocate for the woman while creating a climate of care the recognizes and values the healthy aspects of pregnancy. When deviation from the normal occur, the reader is led through a process that emphasizes consultation, collaboration, and referral to the professionals who are most appropriately prepared to meet the women's needs. Current research is incorporated throughout to preapre the reader for maintaining standards of care by evidence-based practice.

Women's Health During the Childbearing Years: A Community-Based Approach

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Women's Health During the Childbearing Years: A Community-Based Approach
Peggy S. Matteson
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ASIN: 0323009158

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This exciting new, full-color text prepares students to provide realistic, holistic care while supporting the woman's efforts at self-care and empowering her to be a partner in her own healthcare. The text focuses on the interaction with the individual, their family, and their community, discusses complementary and medical therapies, and covers interactions with women during outpatient and in-patient care. Nutrition, culture, and patient teaching are carefully integrated throughout this unique text.

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This is a splendid oral history of a time between World War I and World War II when Jewish athletes were the dominant ethnic group in professional boxing in the United States. The author draws on his own personal experience in New York City's fight arenas, and incorporates interviews with more than thirty former boxers, trainers, managers, promoters, and boxing judges to report on this overlooked aspect of sports history. Bodner explores the stories of the Jewish boxers both inside and outside the ring, and also examines their lives as they left the ring to pursue their careers which ranged from fire chiefs to boxing judges to hospital presidents. Boxing was a means many second generation urban immigrants--including Jews--used to get ahead in the early 20th century. The Jewish boxers interviewed reported that they took up fighting to earn money, not to defend their "race" or negate stereotypes that Jews were weak. These boxers were proud of their heritage and displayed Stars of David on their robes and trunks until religious symbols were banned in the 1940s. During the 1920s nearly one-third of all professional boxers were Jewish, and by 1928, they were the dominant ethnic group in the sport earning 30 World Championship titles between 1910-1940. Bodner's interest in the subject was kindled by his father who was an amateur boxer and professional manager during this period.

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Anecdotal ramblings of an enthusiastic insider.......2006-10-17

No one can question Bodner's sincerity or zeal. Through his father's friends he has gained entry to some great insider opinions and legends.

Bodner's story has some very engaging moments. But his access is largely confined to a small sub-set of the larger Jewish boxing world. As a result there are shocking omissions. For example, Abe Simon knocked Joe Louis down in the first round of their 1941 fight. Simon, despite a broken hand, went 12 rounds, lasting as long as Louis' last three opponents combined. The judges scored it 7 rounds to 5, before Louis took the giant out. Simon fought him a second time for the title as well. A Jewish museum dedicated a large part of last summer's boxing display to him. Yet Simon gets only one short mention in Bodner!

Bodner's most underdeveloped or slanted opinions are presented as Gospel. Long quotes from interviewed old-timers blur with Bodner's writing, as the editor made no effort to set these apart with italics, indents or different font. You have to carefully follow the quotation marks and hope the editor proof-read the text!

The index too is unreliable at points. (The sole Simon reference is left out, for example). And the pitance of photos are grainy photocopies!

I'd rate this two stars were it not for my great interest in the subject, and the anecdotal gems.

The only good fighter is a hungry fighter .......2005-06-27

This book is the story of a particular time in American and boxing history. During the twenties and thirties poor Jewish boys who had no other way up the economic ladder went into the ring. Bodner says that during that time over thirty- percent of the professional fighters were Jews. And so were many of the trainers and managers. And so it was not anti- Semitism or ' showing that we are just as tough as the Goyim' that put these people in the ring.
A good share of the fighters got out in time, before they were ' punch - drunk' and went on to make respectable lives for themselves. They married had families of their own, and did not send their children into the ring. In this they were much like Jewish mobsters, a one- generation phenomenom.
An exception to this rule was a Jewish fighter who lived down by the Hudson River in old shack in Troy, New York, the late Joe Bedell. He had once been a leading contender, and my father used to visit him when he had no one else in the world. His story was a different one, of a man who had known two minutes of glory in the ring, and had for whatever reason just dropped out of life.
I in my childhood knew this world of the Jewish fighter quite well. One of the pictures my father had in the Junk shop, and which my brother, Jake Freedman, who was also a Jewish fighter at one time, loved was of a bloody- faced Abe Attell fighting for the featherweight title, I believe against Joe Gans.
As opposed to what Bodner says in this fine book there was I think a large element for many Jewish youngsters of proving how tough they were, and disproving the old taunt that Jews ' can't fight'
In regard to reenforcement of this theme a previous fine book which chronicles the story of Jewish sports figures including Jewish boxers is Harold Ribalow's 'The Jew in American Sports'.
This outstanding book gives a nostalgic picture of another world and another time.
Its main theme is summarized in a saying of the late great Reuben Kelly Freedman who was a bit of an amateur Jewish fighter himself
," The only good fighter is a hungry fighter'

Nostalgia Ain't What It used To Be .......2005-02-22

It's nice to have a book based on authentic research and to have the exact things people said reproduced exactly on the page. When someone says their Mother paid a dime to the iceman to carry up a cube of ice and put it in the icebox, you know that guy was there. When he talks about having to change the drip pan in the mornings else the floor gets wet, there is no doubt about the truth when that same guy talks about fights getting bought (bought=old speak for fixed) or someone taking a dive. That guy was there. Much of the material covers the old New York that I knew and loved as a kid, particularly the Golden Gloves sponsored by the New York Daily News and the great gyms and trainers. But of course I knew the scene from the "other side", that is, the Irish point of view. Jewish kids wandered into the gyms and got into the fight game for the fun and money. The the Irish kids like myself were sent to the gyms for fisticuff lessons. "Stay out of trouble, Mickey and be a gentleman, but if some bully picks on you, just knock his block off." Yep, insulting the Irish was a sure way of getting hurt. With the Jews, it was different. They didn't care about the insults. They just wanted to get the watch or the prize money and get out of the game before they got punch drunk. The chapter on the Main Event is slow and tedious, somewhat repetitious, and needs to be shortened or something. And its hard to believe that 75% of the prostitutes in New York City were Jewish, that 35% of the criminals were Jewish, or that 60% of the lawyers were Jewish. The Jews had their share of prostitutes and criminals and shysters, but not that many. Otherwise, this is a wonderful book for nostalgia, especially the chapters that deal with the Jewish fighters relationship to his Mom and Pop. A trememdous oral history of a now by-gone era - Bravo!

Labor of Love.......2002-12-10

Allen Bodner has tracked down and interviewed just about all of the surviving boxers from the Golden Age of Jewish participation in professional boxing, the 20's, 30's, and 40's. Jews then were near the bottom of the socio-economic ladder, entree to many of the professions denied them by "Jewish quotas" and other forms of officially sanctioned forms of discrimination. The tough, talented men sought out by Mr. Bodner grabbed their share of the American Dream with their fists. As times changed many later went on to successful careers outside the ring but if there is one common denominator to these men-other than their religion-it is that all still defined themselves by the warrior's heart that impelled them into the ring in the first place. Mr. Bodner has proven to be a skillful interviewer and chronicler. He hasn't limited himself to these oral histories, important though they are, but has gone through old newspaper accounts of fights held decades ago and also consulted numerous other source materials (the book contains an excellent bibliography) to profile other, deceased, Jewish fighters. "When Boxing Was A Jewish Sport" is so good that my only complaint is that two personal favorites didn't make Mr. Bodner's cut for inclusion-Benny Bass and Harry Blitman, both Philadelphians. Benny "Little Fish" Bass was dubbed by no less an authority than Jack Dempsey as one of the contenders for the mythical title of best pound for pound fighter of his era; he lost his share of the lightweight title to the legendary Tony Canzoneri. Harry Blitman only lost four times in his career, once to Bass. He beat Canzoneri in a non-title bout.

A fascinating history lacking vibrancy.......2000-04-12

Allen Bodner's sincerity and feeling for his subject is undeniable. "When Boxing was a Jewish Sport" contains historical information and vignettes about an era when, as the title implies, Jews were a major force in boxing. For that reason alone, the book is worth reading by any boxing history fan. The problem is with the writing. Despite ample oral histories and interviews, the book reads like a sociological text, dense and often tedious. Nonetheless, as a reference, for those who know that Benny Leonard, a Jew, was one of the five greatest pound for pound fighters ever, or for those boxing fans who don't know, the book is a wealth of boxing history not to be found elsewhere.

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