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Corregidor: From Paradise to Hell!
Ben Waldron , and Emily Burneson Manufacturer: Trafford Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 141202109X Release Date: 2006-07-06 |
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Captured at Corregidor, Sergeant Waldron risked his life to keep a diary of Hell: a three-and-a-half year record of life as a Japanese POW during WWII.Customer Reviews:
Corregidor: From Paradise To Hell.......2007-09-23
Corregidor From paradise to hell.......2007-04-02
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War is Hell - WWII Pacific
Milton A. Rhea Manufacturer: Trafford Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1412017165 Release Date: 2006-07-06 |
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The life of a sailor experiencing the horrors and exciting times that accompany life aboard ship during WWII in the Pacific.Customer Reviews:
Written from the heart by a dear friend.......2005-08-15
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Six Community Psychologists Tell Their Stories: History, Contexts, and Narrative
James G., Ed. Kelly Manufacturer: Haworth Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0789025116 |
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Six Community Psychologists Tell Their Stories: History, Contexts, and Narrative presents the unique opportunity to examine how culture and social norms have combined with chance, coincidence, and serendipity to form the professional identities of men and women who were among the first generation trained to work in the field of community psychology. The book's contributorsdisciples of those who founded the sub-fieldprovide insights into the factors (social status, family history, education, social environment, cultural events, important ideas) that furthered their professional development in an emerging field. Their storiesstill works in progressgo far beyond facts, figures, dates and details to document what they've done with their livesand why.Six esteemed community psychologiststhree men who began their careers as the field was established in the mid-1960s and three women who took part in the increased opportunities available in the 1970srecall how important events and social movements affected them as they fulfilled their personal and professional goals. They discuss the effects of family values and styles, class, ethnic status, gender, racism, anti-Semitism, the power of social settings, supportive education and work settings, and the impact of post-World War II government programs on their education, including the G.I. Bill, and the establishment of United States Public Health Service fellowships. Their stories touch on many common themes, including social marginality and sex discrimination, making personal discoveries in response to educational experiences, the significance of fate, and the experience of gaining a new or renewed sense of self through meaningful events, occasions, and people.
These Six Community Psychologists Tell Their Stories:
Dr. Jean Ann Linney (University of South Carolina), whose experiences involve a combination of idealism, supportive contexts, and good fortune
Dr. Julian Rappaport (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), who views himself as an "insider/outsider," whose personal and professional identity crosses traditional boundaries
Dr. N. Dickon Reppucci (University of Virginia), who became a community psychologist by accident, an outgrowth of his involvement with social protest in the 1960s
Dr. Marybeth Shinn (New York University), whose story reflects her interest in the social contexts of neighborhoods and community settings
Dr. Edison J. Trickett (University of Illinois at Chicago), who writes of the life experiences that have influenced both his work and his longtime involvement in folk music
Dr. Rhona S. Weinstein (University of California at Berkeley), whose work in the dynamics of self-fulfilling prophecies in educational settings developed early in her career
Insightful commentary on their recollections is provided by two distinguished scholarsHenrika Kuklick, Science Historian at the University of Pennsylvania, and Dan McAdams, Professor of Psychology at Northwestern University.
Six Community Psychologists Tell Their Stories: History, Contexts, and Narrative is a unique resource for community psychologists, autobiographical researchers, and anyone interested in the history of psychology.
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Beyond Winning: The Timeless Wisdom of Great Philosopher Coaches
Gary M. Walton Manufacturer: Human Kinetics Publishers ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0880114533 |
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Vince Lombardi James "Doc" Counsilman Woody Hayes Brutus Hamilton John Wooden Percy CeruttyLike the philosopher kings of ancient times, these six coaches shared a common wisdom, vision, and commitment. They believed a valiantly fought defeat is better than a poorly played victory. In Beyond Winning: The Timeless Wisdom of Great Philosopher Coaches, Gary Walton reveals the thoughts and teachings that made these legendary coaches successfulin sport and life. You'll get an intimate look at how each coach followed a different path in his pursuit of excellence.
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Lombardi, Wooden, and a few you might not have known.......2001-02-26
Summarizes the philosophies of outstanding coaches.......1999-10-05
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Dandy Dutch Recipes
Voyageur Press Manufacturer: Penfield Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Spiral-bound Similar Items:
ASIN: 0941016846 |
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This spiral-bound index card size recipe book includes facts of interest to folks of Dutch backgrounds. A great gift for family and friends.Customer Reviews:
Great book, tasty recipes.......2005-11-14
Traditional and popular recipes.......2000-11-20
Dandy Dutch Recipes also contains an array of information on Dutch-American culture. language and sites. Notes on Dutch Sites and Events make this book a must for chefs and tourists alike.
The Dutch specialties included are wonderful! Dutch Lettuce Salad is a popular traditional recipe. This goes well with Pea Soup and Hutspot (vegetables with chuck or rib roast). Cheese Sticks and Dutch Twists are great finger foods for any party. The Herring Salad makes for a deliciously healthy meal. The Dutch Birthday Cake will fill the Birthday boy or girl with delight!
Dandy Dutch Recipes is excellent for personal collections and as a memento for those interested in Dutch-American traditions!
Fun Book.......2000-06-25
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It's A Dog's Life: Canine Ventures
Belita Keaton Manufacturer: PublishAmerica ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 158851756X |
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Live a while in the dog?s prospective. Enjoy the chase and stalk an intruder, bury treasure and save a life. Live adventures unavailable to humans. Discover with these canine the crazy things people are doing everyday. Search for amusement and escape dangers, protect and endure life?s hazards. Entertaining adventures in these sometimes comic stories, all presented in the dog?s point of view. Playing keeps us young! Delightfully written, this book highlights the classic human issue of mocking ourselves just enough to put our own behavior in perspective. We can learn a great bit by watching ourselves, especially if done through the eyes of animals that we pretend to teach how to behave, no less!Customer Reviews:
It's A Dog's Life.......2004-01-23
Exciting Dog Adventures.......2001-08-17
Exciting Dog Adventures.......2001-08-17
Great for children.......2001-08-17
It's A Dog's Life : Canine Ventures.......2001-08-17
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Home Workshop Explosives, Second Edition
Uncle Fester Manufacturer: Festering Publications ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0970148542 |
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This book earns the title! Over the course of 172 pages, I have taken all of the great material in the first edition and added to it a series of recipes and procedures which produce military grade explosives from commonplace items and materials. In doing so, I conclusively prove that the restrictions which have been placed upon the access to the commercially produced explosives which were so freely available in my youth are all futile. The real enemies in "the war on terror" are not inanimate objects such as explosives. The real enemies are the politicians who have flung open our borders to infiltration by Moslem guerrillas. These guerrillas are already well versed in the techniques of improvised weaponry manufacture.This treasure trove of explosive information features The Hardware Store Nitro Recipe, Fuel/Air Explosives, military equivalent ammonium nitrate formulations, nitromethane mixtures, and a vastly improved detonator section.
The expose`of the folly of our present policies doesn't stop there either! Read all about the construction of remote control cruise missiles and RC torpedoes. Claymore mines and air cannons add spice to the stew. Then top it all off with my commentary on the easiest ways to obtain all the materials mentioned in the book.
I've read all the books on the topic of explosives from tiny paperbacks to 600 page texts written by PhDs. I have no hesitation saying this book tops them all! It's my hope that when you finish reading this book, politicians will no longer be able to fool or distract you by blaming an inanimate object such as explosives for the direct results of their disastrous policies.
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This book is incredible.......2007-06-28
Great Book.......2006-03-04
fascinating read.......2006-02-25
practical and usefull.......2004-10-17
Best book on Improvised Explosives ever!.......2004-09-30
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Sweet Herbs and Sundry Flowers: Medieval Gardens and the Gardens of the Cloisters
Tania Bayard Manufacturer: Metropolitan Museum of Art New York / Godine ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0879235934 |
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Cloister herbs.......2007-08-19
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Sweet Herbs and Sundry Flowers: Medieval Gardens and the Gardens of the Cloisters
Manufacturer: The Metroploitan Museum of Art ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0870997750 |
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Solving School Problems: A Guide for Parents & Educators: Kindergarten Through Middle School
Elaine K. McEwan Manufacturer: Shaw ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Accessories:
ASIN: 0877886407 Release Date: 2000-03-07 |
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Gustav Mahler: Volume 3: Vienna: Triumph and Disillusion (1904-1907) (Gustav Mahler)
Henry-Louis De La Grange Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 019315160X |
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Gustav Mahler was one of the supremely gifted musicians of his generation. His contemporaries came to know him as a composer of startling originality whose greatest successes with the public never failed to provoke controversy among the critics. As a conductor, his relentless pursuit of perfection was sometimes viewed as tyrannical by the singers and musicians who came under his baton. Professor Henry-Louis de La Grange has devoted over thirty years of painstaking research to this study of Mahlers life and works. His biography, ultimately to be completed in four volumes, is drawn from a vast archive of documents, autographs, and pictures, assembled by La Grange at the Bibliotheque Musicale Gustav Mahler, Paris. This third volume covers the years 1904-1907 and shows Mahler in his final years at the Hofoper coping with the rival demands on his energy and creative powers of the Opera on the one hand and his continuing struggle for recognition as a composer in his own right on the other. The first signs of marital difficulties with Alma emerge. Mahlers trials culminate in 1907 with the death of Putzi, his eldest daughter, a terminal crisis at the Opera which makes him decide to leave Vienna, and the alarming diagnosis by the doctors of a cardiac deficiency. True to life portraits are drawn of Mahler the human being, the family man, and the composer, as well as the administrator, producer, and conductor at the Vienna Opera. Innumerable testimonies and anecdotes throw new light on the many aspects of Mahler's complex personality.Customer Reviews:
A Mixed Blessing.......2007-08-07
Engrossing.......2001-06-07
I have not been disappointed. The extensive detail, expansive footnoting, and thorough research that went into this work is evident from the very first paragraph.
Highly recommended for any serious Mahler enthuasist.
A full life of Mahler?.......2000-06-02
detailed physical description of Mahler by Alfred Roller, a Hofoper associate; and much other information that will be new and interesting even to long-standing Mahlerites who thought they knew it all.
However, de la Grange's almost exclusive focus on the externals of Mahler's life works to the detriment of the inner life, and this is the major shortcoming of his biography. There is little probing of the wellsprings of the mighty Mahlerian will that powered a colossal productivity, nor of the fierce vitality coexisting with neuroses. Nor, surprisingly, is much explanation offered as to why a tyrannical ascetic like Mahler would suddenly decide to marry someone half his age, a decision that took even his closest friends completely by surprise. Why didn't he stay single, or marry someone his own age, such as the devoted and musical Natalie Bauer-Lechner?
This question is important because it bears on the crucial one: Would Mahler have succeeded in solving the central problem of his last years -- keeping reality at bay in order to maintain the inhuman intensity needed to complete his unique artistic mission -- without the tension generated by this inappropriate (but for him richly symbolic) and largely sexless marriage, for which he, and to some extent also Alma's parents, were guilty? Did he feel this guilt and at a certain level feed on it? de la Grange draws a blank on these questions. Here Alma's book "Gustav Mahler, Memoirs and Letters" is a better source, though one has to read between the lines.
de la Grange clearly dislikes Alma and would minimize her role. He also worships Mahler and will not permit him the slightest fault. Two examples: He cannot conceive that the hero may have had a congenital heart defect, it must have been acquired from throat infections. He omits to mention that Mahler's idolized mother Marie was born lame and with a defective heart. According to Alma, who'd have no reason to make this up, all the children were handicapped by the mother's heart disease; there is also anecdotal evidence provided by Bruno Walter and others. Another example: de la Grange will not admit that the finale to the Seventh may be a miscalculation, however interesting. Thus he advances a tortured argument to turn black into white, and puts himself in the position of an "apologist nervous to the point of obduracy" (Adorno's words). In the process, he
completely ignores evidence that Mahler himself was uncomfortably aware of the problem (see the foreword by Redlich to the Eulenberg pocket score of the Seventh).
Mahler is a Freudian figure if ever there was one, and one can argue that the ideal of the eternal feminine, as symbolized by the composite Alma/Marie, became crucial to Mahler's sense of purpose, a major engine of his drive to create. Toward the end, he was psychologically completely dependent on her, even to the point of spouting nonsense regarding her abilities as a composer -- this, from the stern, inflexible director of the Hofoper! (The sad spectacle of Berlioz and his second wife Marie Recio comes to mind as another example of great-composer weakness.) That he had a mother fixation is attested by many, including Alma and Freud, and this would account for his lack of sexual interest; according to Alma, sex played only a very small part in his life. In any case, artistically the union was a brilliant success, even the marital crisis at the end serving to spur him on to new heights -- witness the Tenth Symphony with its impassioned marginalia addressed to Alma. With perfect timing, death then supervened to carry him off at the peak of his powers.
Although the music has lost none of its power and can speak for itself, there is still an unsatisfied need for a different kind of Mahler biography, one that is better balanced and probes the psychology of the man. For hagiography aside, Mahler's maladjustment was staggering even for his time, the hothouse atmosphere of fin-de-siecle Vienna just barely making his unique kind of greatness tenable. A great tortured artist on the scale of a Gustav Mahler is inconceivable today, our time doesn't allow it; we've been there, done that. He would be cured or killed at once, and in either case silenced. And for you computer game programmers out there, take heart -- in addition to a "Freudian" biography, there may be material here for an oeuvre of another sort perhaps more congenial to our age -- a soft-core computer game called "Let's cuckold Mahler". In any case, the music remains.
Towers over them all........2000-05-23
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Gustav Mahler - Volume 3 Vienna: Triumph and Disillusion (1904-1907)
Henry-Louis De La Grange Manufacturer: Oxford University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000JJTIH8 |
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Gustav Mahler Vienna: Triumph and Disillusion 1904-1907, Volume 3
de la Grange Manufacturer: Oxford ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000JJP22S |
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Gustav Mahler Vienna: Triumph and Disillusion 1904-1907, Volume 3
de la Grange Manufacturer: Oxford ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000JJXG58 |
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Stranger in the Midst: A Memoir of Spiritual Discovery
Nan Fink Manufacturer: Basic Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0465082009 |
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Stranger in the Midst : A Memoir of Spiritual Discovery
Nan Fink Gefen Manufacturer: HarperCollins Canada, Limited ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000KPAGZE |
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