Military Musings

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The experiences of a Kenya-born English lad in the fight against the terrorism of the Mau-Mau Rebellion.

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Leonard J. Gill
Manufacturer: Trafford Publishing
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ASIN: 1412009405
Release Date: 2006-07-06

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Leonard Gill, a Kenya-born English lad, enthralls with stories of the fight against Kenya\'s Mau-Mau terrorists. His tales and those of his African troops will keep you chuckling.

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Rub up: Musings of a Navy Corpsman
Mitchell Julian Rycus
Manufacturer: iUniverse, Inc.
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ASIN: 0595433235

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Born into a middle-class Jewish family in Detroit, Mike Rabin continually hopes for a better future. Wanting to be a free spirit, Mike drops out of Cass Tech's art program in the eleventh grade. But in his neighborhood, he is more likely to end up as a street hustler instead of something more prestigious, a fact that makes him feel pessimistic on more than one occasion.

Strongly influenced by his family roots, Mike also feels burdened with wartime angst. During World War II, he wasn't old enough to join the service and avenge the Jewish people, not to mention participate in one of the biggest events of his generation. But when the Korean War breaks out, eighteen-year-old Mike eagerly enlists in the U.S. Navy and is sent to Hospital Corps School.

Even though he frequently volunteers to be a fleet marine corpsman, Mike spends the entire Korean War never seeing combat. But Mike's cultural roots and his relationships with the people he meets in the navy influence his attitude-an attitude that pushes him toward hope and away from the cynical pessimism of his youth.

Rub Up: Musings of a Navy Corpsman is one sailor's inspiring journey of self-discovery.

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Enjoyed Rub Up.......2007-10-18

Mitch Rycus, Ph.D., has written a warm-hearted and insightful book about the experiences of a young man during World War II. The reader understands and feels the confusion and insights of this young man as he meets new people and confronts unexpected challenges. This is a terrific book to read and discuss with those who have war-time experiences as well as with those who are too young to have experienced a war.

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WAR MEMORIES and CIVILIAN MUSINGS
Carl Frey Constein
Manufacturer: 1st Books Library
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ASIN: 141403234X

American military rifle cartridges: the US government arsenals created our most enduring rounds.(MONTANA MUSINGS): An article from: Guns Magazine

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American military rifle cartridges: the US government arsenals created our most enduring rounds.(MONTANA MUSINGS): An article from: Guns Magazine
Mike Venturino
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
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Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from Guns Magazine, published by Thomson Gale on February 1, 2006. The length of the article is 1174 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: American military rifle cartridges: the US government arsenals created our most enduring rounds.(MONTANA MUSINGS)
Author: Mike Venturino
Publication: Guns Magazine (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 52 Issue: 2 Page: 23(2)

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Musings on the Interstate Highway System.(EDITORIAL): An article from: Defense Transportation Journal

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Musings on the Interstate Highway System.(EDITORIAL): An article from: Defense Transportation Journal
Kent N. Gourdin
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
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This digital document is an article from Defense Transportation Journal, published by Thomson Gale on February 1, 2007. The length of the article is 691 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: Musings on the Interstate Highway System.(EDITORIAL)
Author: Kent N. Gourdin
Publication: Defense Transportation Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 1, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 63 Issue: 1 Page: 5(1)

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Opinions on the Indian Army: (originally published at Meerut in 1850, under the title of "Musings on military matters.")

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Opinions on the Indian Army: (originally published at Meerut in 1850, under the title of "Musings on military matters.")
John Studholme Hodgson
Manufacturer: W.H. Allen
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Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B0008C5YYM

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Life Skills is a practical resource that gives teachers 225 ready-to-use worksheets that cover a wide variety of key life skills. The book addresses topics such as drug and alcohol use, sex, relationships, stress, food-related issues, and self-esteem. Life Skills is an easy-to-use, time-saving book that is designed for grades 6-12 and helpful for both new and seasoned teachers. For quick access and easy use, the worksheets are organized into eight sections and are printed in a large 8 1/2” x 11” format that folds flat for photocopying. Here’s an overview of what you’ll find in each section:

Drugs, Alcohol, and Smoking: Trends in smoking, second-hand smoke, reasons why people smoke and ways to help people quit, facts about drug use, the classification of different drugs, alcoholism, fetal alcohol syndrome, as well as drinking and driving.

Sex and Sex-Related Issues: Male and female sex organs, why people have sex, facts and myths, birth control, options after getting pregnant, sexually transmitted diseases, homosexuality, infertility options, sexual harassment, and date rape.

Love, Relationships, Marriage, and Family: The role of friends in our lives, negative aspects of cliques, dating and love, love and infatuation, qualities in an ideal mate, problems in marriage, why marriages end, family life cycles, and nontraditional families.

Life Skills: High and low self-esteem, long and short range goals, learning assertive behavior, dealing with difficult people, conflict resolution, what makes a good leader, effective communication and time management skills, and problems with violence.

Stress: What makes you stressed?, reactions to stress, coping with stress, suicide, death, and dying.

Food and Food Related Issues: Improving eating habits, the food pyramid, information about calories, water, vitamins, protein, carbohydrates, fiber, fat, additives, and eating disorders.

Know Your Body and Body Image: Body image and type, the functions of differnet organs, body parts, body systems and terminology, viruses and bacteria, basic first aid, diagnosing and solving emergency problems, fitness habits, and four components of fitness.

Self Esteem and Knowing Yourself: Favorite things, handwriting, personality type, birth order, highs and lows, and five senses.

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Excellent Worksheets!.......2005-09-22

This book is a must have for all secondary health teachers. I have used it already quite extensively this year, and I am 1 month in!! If I am looking for a worksheet to cover the topic I am working on, I go to the book and so far all worksheet have been there plus some! It covers an extensive array topics of ready to use worksheets that are wonderfully put together. Kudos to the author!

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Rich Hollandaise Sauce, tangy Cranberry-Lime Relish, classic Vinaigrette. With this book, you will learn to prepare these recipes and many other popular, but sometimes intimidating, sauces, salsas, and relishes, the finishing touches that elevate home-cooked dishes from the everyday to the extraordinary.

Williams-Sonoma Mastering Sauces offers a complete cooking course in a single volume. The opening describes the many types of sauces you can make, including pan sauces, reductions, butter sauces, emulsions, salsas, and relishes, and the ingredients you will need to make them. Basic recipes and key techniques illustrate dozens of indispensable building blocks, such as how to make stocks or how to thicken sauces with a roux. Troubleshooting tips show you what can go wrong and how to fix it without having to start all over again.

The recipes lead you step-by-step, with friendly text and instructive photographs, through every stage of preparation. The variations in each chapter help you to continue practicing your newfound skills, building your repertory and your confidence at the same time. Finally, a guide to equipment and a glossary of ingredients will help you stock what you need to make a great sauce every time.

In these pages, you will discover more than fifty classic recipes that tell you, in both pictures and words, how every sauce you make should look and taste from beginning to end. Whether you are new to cooking or an old hand at the stove, this book will teach you the secrets of how to create a memorable sauce for nearly every dish you make.

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Mastering Sauces, Salsas & Relishes - Williams-sonoma Mastering Series
Rick Rodgers
Manufacturer: Free Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000P6H4XU

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Williams-sonoma Mastering: Sauces, Salsas & Relishes (Williams-sonoma Mastering)
Rick Rodgers
Manufacturer: Free Press
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000N6B0M8

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The newest book from renowned doll-clothing designer Rosemarie Ionker presents designing, sewing and clothing ideas for dolls from 7 to 18 inches. The easy-to-follow instructions are accompanied by patterns from which seamstresses can design a multitude of garments, and color photos.

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A BOOK THAT WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE … AND YOUR CHILDREN'S LIVES

Throughout his long and varied career as an educator, Steve Schmitz has been told one story, and asked one question, more than any other: "I know my child is in grade trouble at school, Dr. Schmitz, and it's making my life hellish at home. I've tried everything, and nothing works. What do I do now?"

From three decades as a counselor, Schmitz knows that most parents deeply want to help their children at school. But he knows all too well how powerless most parents feel in turning their lackluster learners around.

And he knows, from long experience, how often, and how bitterly, parents clash with their children during "you've got to do better" periods.

To keep household conflict from escalating, and to show concerned parents how to be part of the solution, Schmitz put down in book form all the successful advice he's been dispensing for thirty years. In Gradebusters: How Parents Can End the Bad Grades Mess, he shares his practical methods with parents disturbed about their kids' low levels of academic achievement.

Schmitz knows from hundreds of real-life cases that his methods work. "There is a way out of the bad grades mess," he says, "if you're really fed up with excuses, blaming, moping, guilt, and anxiety. And, once you finally admit to yourself that you're sick and tired of rotten grades and ready for a change, substantial progress may be easier than you think. If you're also willing to take certain steps, you can take charge of your child's education, and save your own sanity in the process."

Schmitz offers parents a structure and a formula that allow them to take charge without bullying. He offers parents practical solutions for their children's academic success, even in less than wonderful schools. Step-by-step, he guides parents through the process of forging productive alliances with teachers, recapturing lost opportunities for academic growth, and motivating their children to learn. It is a highly readable prescription for ensuring school success.

Among other things, Gradebusters:

• Shows how parents inadvertently perpetuate their kids' bad grades cycle, and provides a step-by-step guide to breaking it

• Demonstrates why many underachieving children don't know why they're getting bad grades

• Explains how parents should go about discussing grades with their children

• Debunks the myth that grades are purely a reflection of a child's intelligence

• Makes clear that certain skills, like organization, may be the most important, and walks parents through the process of helping their children develop the academic skills that will prove useful for a lifetime after school

• Discusses rules and consequences, and how parents can successfully handle this area in the context of improving grades.

Each child, Schmitz believes, has the potential for academic achievement. Parents, he emphasizes, are the key to unlocking their children's school achievement. Because it patiently, and in plain language, explains how and where to begin, continue, and finish, Gradebusters fundamentally empowers parents.

So, if you're a frustrated parent whose children are working below their potential at school, read and apply Gradebusters. It will forever change your attitudes about parenting, your beliefs about your role in schooling, and your children's future.

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Too little - too late.......2007-06-02

I wish I would have read this book when my first was in kindergarten. It is too difficult to change 10 years of bad habits. Some good suggestions though.

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Great for Dylan Fans, Not Necessary if You Are Not a Fan

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simple twist of fate:bob dylan and the makeing of blood on thr tracks

A Most Rare Book from Masterful Musicians All 'Round

A Simple Twist Of Fate: Bob Dylan and the Making of Blood On the Tracks
Andy Gill , and Kevin Odegard
Manufacturer: Da Capo Press
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ASIN: 0306814137
Release Date: 2005-03-01

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An in-depth look at the creation of one of Bob Dylan's most celebrated albums, Blood on the Tracks.

In 1974 Bob Dylan wrote, recorded, reconsidered, and then re-recorded the best-selling studio album of his career. Blood on the Tracks was composed as Dylan's twelve-year marriage began to unravel, and songs like "Tangled Up in Blue" and "Shelter from the Storm" have become templates for multidimensional, adult songs of love and loss.

Yet the story behind the creation of this album has never been fully told; even the credits on the present-day album sleeve are inaccurate. Dylan recorded the album twice-once in New York City and again in Minneapolis, with a rag-tag gang of local musicians, quickly rewriting many of the songs in the process.

For A Simple Twist of Fate, the authors have interviewed the musicians and producers, industry insiders, and others, creating an engaging chronicle of how one musician channeled his pain and confusion into great art.

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Great for Dylan Fans, Not Necessary if You Are Not a Fan.......2007-05-12

A Simple Twist Of Fate is a fascinating look behind the scenes of the making of one of the greatest of Dylan albums, who is one of the greatest singer-songwriters ever. However, the book includes many technical details of the recording sessions which border on the arcane to boring - I mean, how many people really care about the make and model number of the microphone used?

An interesting exclusion in a book about the making of an album is that the book does not include the complete lyrics of the songs (maybe they thought anybody buying book already knows all the lyrics)?

If you are a true fan of Dylan, you will want to read the book. If you aren't, you can avoid this and still lead a productive life (although you may not read this far unless you were already a fan).

Behind the Scenes.......2007-01-02

Throughout his songwriting career Bob Dylan's creativity knows no bounds. Dylan effortlessly swings back and forth from folk to rock-a-billy to gospel to blues. In 1974, Dylan was looking for a new sound, but at the same time to get back to his roots. The album "Blood on the Tracks" was the successful culmination of this effort, and the album continues to be Dylan's most popular. "A Simple Twist of Fate" gives the everyman's version of the making of this album. Most Dylan fans know that "Blood" was recorded once in New York City and once in Minneapolis. It is clear that the authors favor the Minneapolis sessions not only because one of the authors played on the tracks, but because the sound that was produced seemed crisper. One of the leading gripes of the New York session musicians is that they did not have time to practice or warm up before Dylan went right in to the music. Besides that Dylan kept changing around the chords without any warning to the musicians. Eventually, those same musicians realized that Phil Ramone (the New York producer) "was only interested in getting Dylan on tape. It didn't matter what any of us played. That could be dealt with later.' Because of the various problems with the New York sessions, Dylan went back to the mid-west where his brother set up another session. This session, according to the authors, was a much more successful endeavor. As a result, the album itself is a mix between the relative confusion of the New York session and the more temperate Minneapolis session. Throughout the book, the authors attempt to offer contextual analysis of the album but almost wholly concentrating on the vagaries of Dylan's break-up with his wife. The last third of the book drags itself down with various gripes of the Minneapolis session musicians who did not receive credit for their input. This is the principal weakness of the book and takes away from the strength of the very interesting behind the scenes narrative that the book offers.

Slight.......2006-03-30

A pretty entertaining, minor work in the Dylan-analysis cannon. The making of this album is pretty fascinating, and it gives you a view into Dylan's psychology that it's often difficult to get, but as music journalism it doesn't really hold up. Long periods are direct quote from session men, and the analysis is just weak. I'd go for Invisible Republic (aka The Old, Weird America) or Positively 4th Street if you haven't read those yet.

simple twist of fate:bob dylan and the makeing of blood on thr tracks.......2006-03-26

hi! a nice read of the makeing of a classic album. the songs being either improved or ruined,as other have commented on is a matter of individual taste. the book however is a afternoon well spent.

A Most Rare Book from Masterful Musicians All 'Round.......2006-01-27

First, I must apologize for not quite "getting it" (this book) at the outset. It is a most rare book not only because it is about Bob Dylan's creation of arguably his best album ever; but the authors have written from the masterful point of view of "the musicians" who worked with Dylan all 'round. One not only learns about how "records" back then were engineered and produced but the most fascinating material like why Bob Dylan never used a capo on guitar; why Graham Nash and Steven Stills thought these miraculous songs in the raw were not up to their expectations; why the musicians had difficulty keeping up with Dylan and ultimately gained a deeply profound respect for not only his songwriting ability but extremely complicated musical gifts on a variety of instruments. You will be thrilled to read this especially if you have ever attempted to seriously play solo, or as part of a band and "the gig" let alone - anyone aspiring to do so...now. A great book.

A Simple Twist Of Fate: Bob Dylan and the Making of Blood On the Tracks

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A Simple Twist Of Fate: Bob Dylan and the Making of Blood On the Tracks
Andy Gill Kevin Odegard
Manufacturer: Da Capo Press
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OT2A3C

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