The Life And Letters Of Admiral Dewey From Montpelier To Manila

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Embellished With Over Two Hundred And Fifty Illustrations. Authorized Edition.

The Life and Letters of Admiral Dewey From Montpelier To Manila

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The Life and Letters of Admiral Dewey From Montpelier To Manila
Adelbert M. DEWEY
Manufacturer: Woolfall Co.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000I1U9DY

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The Life and Letters of Admiral Dewey From Montpelier to Manila
Dewey Adelbert M.
Manufacturer: The Werner Company
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000UDX9DC

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The Life and Letters of Admiral Dewey from Montpelier to Manila
Adelbert M. Dewey
Manufacturer: Woodfall Company
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Binding: Leather Bound
ASIN: B000R39AXS

The life and letters of Admiral Dewey from Montpelier to Manila,: Containing reproductions in fac-simile of hitherto unpublished letters of George Dewey ... naval career and extracts from his log-book,

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The life and letters of Admiral Dewey from Montpelier to Manila,: Containing reproductions in fac-simile of hitherto unpublished letters of George Dewey ... naval career and extracts from his log-book,
Adelbert Milton Dewey
Manufacturer: Werner Co
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B00086B1U4

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Nikola Tesla: Incredible Scientist, and article from the American Mercury, June 59; Illustrations of patents; Tesla stamps; Articles and pictures from the book Lightning in His Hands; Bibliography of books and articles on Tesla; Prodigal Genius.

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A Man's Story, not just the Science........2001-06-02

Unlike the other review I read on this page I find this an Incredible Book. I first read it as a teen and was inspired by the story of an inventor who never has been truly admired by the mainstream. His rivalry with Edison, his failure in love and his unusual mental talents all combine to create an extraordinary story of a man who appears more like an Extraterrestrial than human. The book isn't full of pictures... because not many exist, but if you can aspire to your imagination and delve into O'Neill's description of this man you'll find it all amazing. I've come back to this book again and again... for the story and not necessarily the physics.

Avoid this book.......2000-04-17

Fans of any type of literature will find this book to be a grave disappointment. There lacks any main theme, aside from the man himself. It contains several articles regarding different aspects of his life and inventions, jumps haphazardly from one subject to the next, but its greatest failing is it's quality. It has the appearance of biography thrown together by an uninterested sixth-grader. There are many pictures, many of them poor quality photocopies, and there is even an article copied from an encyclopedia. It is rare to see sometihng of this poor quality, and it is always shameful.

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An excellent, technically detailed reference

Chinese Tui Na Massage: The Essential Guide to Treating Injuries, Improving Health & Balancing Qi
Xu Xiangcai
Manufacturer: YMAA Publication Center
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1886969043

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Provides both theory and practical technique and is ideal for professional therapists, martial artists or anyone with an active lifestyle.

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An excellent, technically detailed reference.......2002-10-08

Chinese Tui Na Massage: The Essential Guide To Treating Injuries, Improving Health & Balancing Qi is a straightforward teaching guide by Xiangcai Xu to the ancient art of Tui Na massage. An excellent, technically detailed reference, Chinese Tui Na Massa introduces an eastern physical therapy, which is a preventive health care regime utilizing acupoints, common Tui Na manipulations, and the practice of using Tui Na to treat a wide spectrum of diseases and conditions ranging from colds and headaches, to carpal tunnel syndrome and acute lumbar sprain. Chinese Tui Na Massage is a highly recommended addition to Eastern Medicine and Martial Arts reference collections and reading lists.

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Chinese Tui Na Massage: The Essential Guide to Treating Injuries, Improving Health & Balancing Qi
Xiangcai Xu
Manufacturer: Ymaa Pubns
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000WSDC1E

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Cook something special this weekend!

Classic Beef Stew. Bread Pudding. Lamb Shanks with Tomatoes and Olives. Chocolate Mousse. Weekends are when you can indulge yourself a little, and with How to Cook Everything™: Easy Weekend Cooking, you can enjoy making delicious comfort food favorites and exciting specialty dishes.

Mark Bittman, the award-winning author of the bestselling kitchen classic How to Cook Everything™, shares his favorite simple-and infinitely flexible-weekend recipes. You'll be able to prepare bountiful brunches, fun outdoor meals, family feasts, even dinner parties. To inspire you and 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 a Lunch Buffet, a Summer Weekend Cookout, a Weekend Dinner with Good Friends, and more
At-a-glance icons highlighting recipes also good for weekdays

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Does it get any better than this??.......2003-09-03

This new cookbook offers 90 weekend entertaining and make-ahead recipes. 90!!! How to Cook Everything: Easy Weekend Cooking shows the reader the easy way to shop for, prepare, and cook every recipe. I'm thrilled to own it.

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A comprehensive encyclopedia of the main cat breeds of the world today, this manual is a perfect introduction to learning about and selecting a breed to keep.

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Packed with more than 50 creative projects for children to make on their own, this fun-filled book has exciting costume ideas for Halloween parties, plays, or just dressing up with friends. From creating fabulous hats to regal robes to funny glasses and animal box masks, Dazzling Disguises and Clever Costumes offers great activities for children of all abilities. Become anything from a ghoul or movie star to a knight in armor or mad scientist. See exactly what to do in step-by-step full-color photographs. Get impressive results with easy-to-follow instructions.

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Great Disguises.......2007-05-13

I will be using disguises in a summer program at the library. The instuctions for the glasses and beards are very easy to understand and the pictures are fantastic.

Not inspiring.......2007-01-04

The book contains great illustrations and instructions to create several costumes, but we were uninspired to create anything from the book or based on the book. I was looking for more inspiration, tips and tricks to create other costumes. This book wasn't what I sought.

Not just for Halloween.......2006-10-20

This is a wonderful book for the creative spirit or crafty mom. Instead of spending your hard earned cash on flimsy costumes that may get only one wear, you can make your own. It includes a multitude of colorful photos and easy to follow, step-by-step instructions to make many exciting and unique costumes. Some of them include: a king, robot, knight in shining armour, magician, cowboy and hula girl. This would be a great book to use for Halloween costumes as well as for dress up and role play. Many of the costumes can be made by kids themselves. It will save you money and the kids will have a great time.

Clever Ideas using Recyclables.......2005-09-20

I enjoyed this book because most of the items for making the costumes you can find around the house.

yay.......2004-08-13

i love this book it is really cool my name is katie i am six years old with long brown hair and green eyes my friend sarah and i made a horse costume a month ago and we wear it everyday. i also made the insect and the bird costumes. i like putting bags and masks over my head cuz i think its funny LOL. i hope i can be a childrens entertainer one day and play catcherin softball. my mom says shell make the ghost costume for halloween. yay!

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katie

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“A memoir with the fierce narrative force of an eastern Montana blizzard, rich in story and character, filled with the bone-chilling details of Blunt’s childhood. She writes without bitterness, with an abiding love of the land and the work and her family and friends that she finally left behind, at great sacrifice, to begin to write. This is a magnificent achievement, a book for the ages. I’ve never read anything that compares with it.”
—James Crumley, author of The Last Good Kiss

Born into a third generation of Montana homesteaders, Judy Blunt learned early how to “rope and ride and jockey a John Deere,” but also to “bake bread and can vegetables and reserve my opinion when the men were talking.” The lessons carried her through thirty-six-hour blizzards, devastating prairie fires and a period of extreme isolation that once threatened the life of her infant daughter. But though she strengthened her survival skills in what was—and is—essentially a man’s world, Blunt’s story is ultimately that of a woman who must redefine herself in order to stay in the place she loves.

Breaking Clean is at once informed by the myths of the West and powerful enough to break them down. Against formidable odds, Blunt has found a voice original enough to be called classic.

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Breaking Clean.......2007-04-17

Amazingly raw biography of a life about which most US citizens have no understanding. Eloquent breathtaking descriptive writing.

Educational, insightful, entertaining.......2007-03-15

Judy Blunt's Breaking Clean is a clear, concise picture we get from her life in northeastern Montana, a small town called Malta. She provides great detail with vivid memories and she uses the memories of others to connect with readers. The book was awarded thePen/Jeraud Fund Award for work in progress and the 2001 Whiting Writers' Award.

She begins with her home, and engages the reader into a trip down memory lane. And if you have never read or experienced what a Montana blizzard is like, you will gain tremendous insight into one, the Blizzard of 1964, and its massive impact on the ranch and livestock. Blunt goes into enough detail and information that keeps the reader fully informed without asking more questions. A chapter on fighting fire was another of nature's forces she experienced.

We learn about the school in a small town, horses, pets, teenage lifestyle, to marriage and harvesting and divorce. The sequence of stories is told well.

This is an insightful memoir, descriptive, and emotional....MzRizz

Great Read.......2006-09-26

eloquent...evocative writing.With the mid-20th century as the setting Blunt brings her land, her emotions, her experiences alive with an honesty that is at once brutal and tender. This is an all absorbing story of self awareness and liberation; I read the book through twice without stopping.

What a great read........2006-05-20

WOW. What a woman. I was especially curious to read this book since Jeff and his family are from Montana, and lived in Missoula for quite some time. It is too bad life still isn't like that in a sense. Seems more things have gotten in the way and it is falling apart. Kids don't know the meaning of "going to play".

I applaud her for not sticking with the marriage. The in-laws were a bit much. Knowing the land would never be her's was a bit much.

Good read but not one to be taken lightly and def not a beach read.

Like listening to Tschaikovsky.......2006-01-02

On the front cover of my paperback copy of this book, the Chicago Tribune is quoted: "Breathtaking ... Blunt's writing is visceral, yet never without humor and a raw, fierce honesty." I could not have said it better.

I always enjoy books written by people who have "forsaken the throng," gone their own way, and disregarded or at least endured the fact that they have chosen to operate against the tides and currents of society. Ms. Blunt was like that all her life, as I have been. I also enjoy books that describe things in a spare, yet severe and direct way, without getting blatantly gross or spewing out a lot of harsh words just to get the reader's attention. This book did get my attention, but not in a way I found offensive or shallow. That, and it conveys some of the mystique of a land so many people rush across in order to get somewhere else, while missing the raw beauty that earth and sky and wind and sun can deliver all by themselves.

I am especially fascinated by the two photos of Ms. Blunt in this book, one as a little child and the other as a full-grown woman. It is so easy to see that nature, as well as nurture (or lack of it), makes us who we are! I gather that Ms. Blunt became what she was meant to be, or at least did as good a job of it as anyone can. And the way she describes it in the book is a joy to read.

The ending is especially beautiful. I recommend this book even if only for the last few pages. On the downside, the narrative tends to ramble, and I found myself skipping over some of the longer descriptive passages. But that is mainly because, for example, I am interested more in cosmology than in calving, more in philosophy than in planting. (In other words, I took what I could use and left the rest, letting my prejudices flow, because when one reads a book alone, no one cares which pages you skip.)

Now about my comparison to Tschaikovsky: Listen to the first movement of his 5th symphony, for example. More seriously, this book is a good read if only because the writing itself is serene, stormy, bright, and dark by turns -- just like Tschaikovsky's music, which I used to listen to as a child, lying on the floor next to the old 78-rpm "record player" with its vacuum tubes and single small speaker.

I write for work. I read for pleasure. Buy this book.

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Breaking Clean
Judy Blunt
Manufacturer: Knopf
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000NUUA8O

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Breaking Clean
Judy Blunt
Manufacturer: Alfred A. Knopf
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000JHWS9U

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Breaking Clean
Judy Blunt
Manufacturer: Vintage
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OXM4EI

Green, but clean: breaking the lawn-care pesticide cycle.(House & Home): An article from: E

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Green, but clean: breaking the lawn-care pesticide cycle.(House & Home): An article from: E
Jane M. Bradley
Manufacturer: Earth Action Network, Inc.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B00082IUJ8
Release Date: 2005-07-31

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This digital document is an article from E, published by Earth Action Network, Inc. on May 1, 2004. The length of the article is 781 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: Green, but clean: breaking the lawn-care pesticide cycle.(House & Home)
Author: Jane M. Bradley
Publication: E (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 1, 2004
Publisher: Earth Action Network, Inc.
Volume: 15 Issue: 3 Page: 44(1)

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Insurers look to 'clean up' Calif. WC reform law. (Late Breaking News).(California workers' compensation insurance reform law)(Brief Article): An article ... & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management

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Insurers look to 'clean up' Calif. WC reform law. (Late Breaking News).(California workers' compensation insurance reform law)(Brief Article): An article ... & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management
Caroline McDonald
Manufacturer: The National Underwriter Company
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Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management, published by The National Underwriter Company on February 25, 2002. The length of the article is 418 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: Insurers look to 'clean up' Calif. WC reform law. (Late Breaking News).(California workers' compensation insurance reform law)(Brief Article)
Author: Caroline McDonald
Publication: National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 25, 2002
Publisher: The National Underwriter Company
Volume: 106 Issue: 8 Page: 6(1)

Article Type: Brief Article

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An Abomination!.......2002-07-31

I have seen some wretched books on the market in my day, but nothing, absolutely nothing, is as offensive and as crass as this. First of all, psychoanalysis is not a science, which makes these authors' approach to Anne Frank and Etty Hillesum's respective ordeals cheap enough, but even with that, it's an abomination to put two women who were victims of the Holocaust under such horrific, over-analyzed scrutiny. As Richard Nixon once said, "I don't mind when people put me under a microscope, but when they use a proctoscope, that's going too far." Indeed! This book is so bad it's unbelievable.

A landmark!.......2002-03-20

Denise de Costa has written a valuable and extraordinarily
intelligent interpretation of Anne Frank the individual behind the writer, as she presented herself in her original diaries and then in the revised manuscript she prepared in hiding. Reading between these texts de Costa's insights are dazzling, critical and thought provoking: she examines Anne's motivation to write, her growing dependency on the diary, her unfolding maturity and her troubled relationship with her mother. This is a compelling book and a major contribution to our understanding of Anne Frank.

maganifcent book!.......1999-09-05

the book about anne frank is truely marvalous! A wondfull biography for a teenager or young adult! Defently mworth reading!

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