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Land, Sea and Foreign Shore: A Missileer's Story
Clair William, II Clark Manufacturer: Xlibris Corporation ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1401063810 |
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John Muir: A Naturalist in Southern California (Photographic Tour)
Elizabeth Pomeroy Manufacturer: Gem Guides Book Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0970048114 |
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This well-researched study traces the activities of the famed naturalist John Muir in Southern California. It reveals his friendships with such figures as Charles Lummis and A.C. Vroman, and traces his explorations of Southland mountains and deserts, as he stirred up support for wilderness and forest conservation. The story begins with Muir's first Southern California visit in 1877, and ends with his death in Los Angeles in 1914.Also included are letters between Muir and his Southland friends, and newspaper articles about his visits in the area, meeting Theodore Roosevelt and Andrew Carnegie, among others. A section of places to visit describes sites associated with Muir which are enjoyable today.
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John Muir: A Naturalist in Southern California & Kindred and Related Spirits: The Letters of John Muir and Jeanne C. Carr.(Book Review): An article from: California History
Dr. Roderick Nash Manufacturer: California Historical Society ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B0008DS7JK Release Date: 2005-07-31 |
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This digital document is an article from California History, published by California Historical Society on March 22, 2002. The length of the article is 660 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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More are at risk for diabetes than ever before. But diabetes is not inevitable. And for those who already have it, it may be reversible.Customer Reviews:
I have not seen the book!.......2007-03-12
book for my Dad.......2007-01-19
How to prevent and Treat Diabetes with Natural Medicine.......2006-11-10
Natural Medicines for Diabetes by Michael Murray.......2005-03-31
Based on solid principles.......2004-07-04
The overall result is a book that is well worth pursuing for what may be helpful to you as an individual as you make the life style changes necessary to live with the disease.
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Elizabeth Alston's Best Baking: 80 Recipes for Angel Food Cakes, Chiffon Cakes, Coffee Cakes, Pound Cakes, Tea Breads, and Their Accompaniments
Elizabeth Alston Manufacturer: William Morrow Cookbooks ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0060953292 |
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Indulge your sweet tooth with eighty of Elizabeth Alston's most beloved and delicious baking recipes. A compilation of her popular Tea Breads and Coffeecakes and Simply Cakes, Best Baking features such delectable delights as Brown Sugar--Brown Butter--Hazelnut Pound Cake, Tennessee Whiskey Cake, Plum-Walnut Kuchen, and Chocolate Orange Crumb Cake, as well as tempting toppings and sauces to accompany these treats. Alston's helpful tips will guide every baker, from the novice to the professional, and make home baking fun and easy. You'll be getting rave reviews in no time! So whether it's for breakfast, afternoon tea, dessert, or a midnight snack, you'll find the perfect recipe in Elizabeth Alston's Best Baking.Customer Reviews:
Let them eat cake!.......2001-06-06
Another thing I appreciate about this book, and her baking for that matter, is that you can bake more than one batch at a time. In fact, I think the cakes taste better when done that way. With the flavor combinations she has assembled, her suggestion to allow the cake to rest one day before serving or freezing is a good one. This allows all those wonderful flavors to mingle, or as my grandfather used to say, to let the flavors "meditate".
None of her recipes are hard, complicated or time-consuming. In fact, they are pleasingly quick to prepare for baking. When I am not baking a cake, muffins or scones from one of her cookbooks, I am reading them, scouring them for inspiration to be creative. She has taught me a lot about expanding my horizons in this area, for which I am thankful. My husband is thankful as is his coworkers. This morning he took a freshly baked creation to work to share with his department. Shortly after noon I received an abrupt e-mail saying that if I ever wanted to see my husband again I would have to send at least five of those cakes to the office!! The staff must have loved them to want cake ransom for my husband's return. Get the book and watch with pleasure as your loved ones and friends pig out on your creations in a wild food orgy. But be careful...you might find yourself chained to the kitchen with someone holding a gun to your head as you are trying to get YOURSELF out of ransom!
Comprehensive.......2000-12-16
This book has detailed instructions to accompany the recipes, making it easier for beginners to follow. Too often, smaller books such as this will sacrifice instructions for saving space, and this one doesn't.
My only disappointment is the quality of the book itself. There are no photographs, and the quality of the paper and binding don't bode well for heavy use. I plan to transcribe a few recipes out into the computer and the book won't be used again. The recipes are a good buy for the book's price, though. Just don't expect to hand this volume down to your children!
A must have.......2000-04-20
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Elizabeth Alstonandapos;s Best Baking: 80 Recipes for Angel Food Cakes, Chiffon Cakes, Coffee Cakes, Pound Cakes, Tea Breads, and Their Accompaniments
Elizabeth Alston Manufacturer: Morrow Cookbooks ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OEZ8F4 |
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E. D. Buckner's the Immortality of Animals (1903) (Mellen Animal Rights Library ; V.6)
E. D. Buckner Manufacturer: Edwin Mellen Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0773487263 |
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The Immortality Of Animals: And The Relation Of Man As Guardian, From A Biblical And Philosophical Hypothesis
E. D. Buckner Manufacturer: Kessinger Publishing, LLC ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0548120412 |
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Amazing book on animal afterlife written more than 100 years ago!.......2007-04-04
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Getting Started in Garden Railroading: Build the Railroad of Your Dreams... in Your Own Backyard
Allan W. Miller Manufacturer: kp books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0873492323 |
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Garden railroading is fun for the whole family! And, by industry accounts, it's the fastest-growing segment of the model railroading hobby. Packed with inspiring color photos, Getting Started in Garden Railroading provides an informative and entertaining introduction to the hobby. Simple, easy-to-follow steps lead to a durable, reliable, and attractive operating railway designed for year-round enjoyment, regardless of region or climate. Information is presented in a logical sequence, beginning with the most frequently asked questions posed by newcomers to the hobby, and continuing through planning, design, foundation preparation, trackwork, power and control systems, landscaping, scenic details, and operation. Special sections are devoted to motive power and rolling stock, contemporary power and control systems, live steam operations, and maintenance.- Provides step-by-step instructions for the construction of an operating garden railroad
- Includes tips and shortcuts provided by a worldwide network of experts
- Details miniature landscaping techniques
- Lists 300+ garden railroad Internet sites that show what others have accomplished
- Includes appendices for manufacturers, suppliers, major dealers, clubs, and references
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GOOD READ FOR BEGINNERS.......2005-09-13
A Model Railroader Looks at Garden Railroading.......2005-09-01
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The Perfect Indiana Lawn: Attaining and Maintaining the Lawn You Want (Perfect Lawn Series)
Melinda Myers Manufacturer: Cool Springs Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 1930604335 |
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Gardening is now the favorite leisure pastime in America. Homeowners are realizing the health benefits derived from gardening and the increase in their home's property value.
Book retailers are well aware that the trend in gardening books is to regional titles that provide credible information on the plants that perform well in specific regions.
The Perfect Indiana Lawn is written by the highly popular gardening expert Melinda Myers.
Lawns are the foundation of a great landscape. This series contains regional information on the best lawns for a midwestern landscape.
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The Best Parent Is Both Parents: A Guide to Shared Parenting in the 21st Century
Manufacturer: Hampton Roads Pub Co Inc ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1878901567 |
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Outstanding Book on Joint Custody.......1999-03-08
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The Life of Frank Coles Phillips (1902-1982) and the Structural Geology of the Moine Petrofabric Controversy (Memoir (Geological Society of London), No. 23.)
Richard J. Howarth , and Bernard E. Leake Manufacturer: Geological Society of London ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1862391025 |
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Frank Coles Phillips was a petrographer, mineralogist and structural petrologist working in the middle of the 20th century. He was very influential, both in the UK and abroad and was responsible for encouraging the development of structural geology as a discipline in Australia and for the adoption of the stereogram as a fundamental interpretational tool in a structural geology in the UK. He was a superb teacher, perhaps best known amongst mineralogists and geologists of today for his classic textbooks, An Introduction to Crystallography and The Use of Stereographic Projection in Structural Geology. Phillips was the first to apply the methods of structural petrology (the study of the microscopic fabric of deformed rock) in a attempt to unravel the complex structural history of the Moine rocks of northwestern Scotland. His findings were at odds with those of his contemporaries and resulted in the Moine petrofabrics becoming embroiled on a long-running controversy, only completely resolved since the mid-1980s.This geological biography of an importance 20th century mineralogist and petrologist takes a critical look at Phillips' research in the context of contemporaneous developments in structural and Moine geology. It reviews his work in relation to both past problems and present solutions. It will be of interest to all geologists, especially structural and microstructural geologists, historians of sciences and the general reader with an interest in science.
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Schindler's Legacy: True Stories of the List Survivors
Elinor J. Brecher Manufacturer: Plume ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0452273536 |
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The Real Survivors.......2002-04-13
Like many others in the audience, I wondered what had happened to those men and women
after the war and the experiences that had not made the movie. Now I know. In Schindlerýs
Legacy, Elinor Brecher has shared the fascinatingýand horribleýstories of over 40 of those
who eventually came to live in America.
They tell, for example, of the almost random nature of their survival. Several tell of times
when the German guards lined up their work detail and shot every fifth person. Many were
away from home on some kind of errand when the Gestapo came and took away the rest of
their family. We read of Celena Karp who was selected by the notorious Josef Menegle for the
line heading to the gas chambers. For some reason, he decided to remove some from the
doomed line. When Celena reached him the second time, she begged him, ýLet me go,ý and
for some inexplicable reason, he did!
In these accounts, we learn again of the horror of the concentration camps. Remember the boy
who survived several searches by hiding in the filth of the latrine? This was no product of the
writerýs imagination; Roman Ferber tells his own story in his own words. Others relate the
beatings they survived, the rides in unheated and unventilated cattle cars, of the friends they
carried to the ovens. That they survived is nothing less than a miracle.
These arenýt just the stories of the camps, however. We learn more about the people and the
lives they lived before the warýthe young couple who married only days before their arrest,
the woman who had to give her new-born son to a Catholic family in order to survive herself,
and the men and women who watched in horror as their parents and their brothers and sister
were dragged away or shot before their eyes.
After these experiences, what kinds of people did they turn out to be? Some have never
forgiven the German people for what happened, while others have miraculously put the past
behind them. And some are so traumatized that they have never been able to watch the film
based on their experiences.
This is a book that needs to be read!
Oskar Schindler - Rake and Saviour.......2000-08-12
Oskar Schindler was one of only a handful who surfaced from the chaos, and generations will remember him for what he did ...
When asked, Schindler told that his metamorphosis during the war was sparked by the shocking immensity of the Final Solution. In his own words: "I hated the brutality, the sadism, and the insanity of Nazism. I just couldn't stand by and see people destroyed. I did what I could, what I had to do, what my conscience told me I must do. That's all there is to it. Really, nothing more."
Oskar Schindler died in Frankfurt on the 9th of October, 1974, at an age of 66. From 1939 to the day he died he was such in love with his Jewish people, that he wanted to be buried in Jerusalem. His friend, a Schindler-Jew, Poldek Pfefferberg asked him shortly before he died, why he wanted to be buried here. He answered :"My children are here ....."
Holocaust Survivors Remembered.......2000-05-03
1st review.......2000-02-04
good.......1999-02-09
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SCHINDLER'S LEGACY- TRUE STORIES OF THE LIST SURVIVORS
Manufacturer: Plume Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000H3TY6Q |
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SCHINDLER'S LEGACY: TRUE STORIES OF THE LIST SURVIVORS.
Manufacturer: BCA ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000HLSL26 |
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