How a one-legged Rebel lives: Reminiscences of the civil war. The story of the campaigns of Stonewall Jackson, as told by a high private in the "Foot cavalry". ... of both the great armies at Gettysburg

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In the early days of the war there were approximately 1,540 men in the 10 companies of the 13th Virginia Infantry Regiment. As the war progressed, attrition severely reduced the ranks, and only 63 survivors were present at the surrender at Appomattox. Company A, with an initial strenght of 166, had remaining only 22 at Appomattox, one of whom was Private George Q. Peyton.

How a one-legged Rebel lives: Reminiscences of the Civil War. The story of the campaigns of Stonewall Jackson, as told by a high private in the "Foot cavalry". ... Gettysburg and history of the Soldiers' Home

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How a one-legged Rebel lives: Reminiscences of the Civil War. The story of the campaigns of Stonewall Jackson, as told by a high private in the "Foot cavalry". ... Gettysburg and history of the Soldiers' Home
John S Robson
Manufacturer: Chronicle Steam Printing House
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A very moving experience for me

A moving and powerful read

OPENING THE HEART

Diary of a Country Therapist
Marcia Hill
Manufacturer: Haworth Press
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Binding: Hardcover

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Gain remarkable insight about practicing therapy in a rural community!

In Diary of a Country Therapist, Dr. Marcia Hill chronicles more than a decade of her thoughts and feelings about practicing therapy in rural Vermont. The author reveals her empathy for her clients, her frustration in money matters, and her anger at the maltreatment of women. This book focuses not on the specifics of her clients' cases, but on the trials, successes, and fulfillment of working in this emotionally challenging profession.

"What a strange line of work this is, where the ability to feel is such a primary tool. Who would think that one's heart could be harnessed and used intentionally as a resource? It's such a paradox. My feeling response is what it is; it cannot be commanded or faked. Yet it is not a matter of giving in to emotion, but one of using feeling purposefully, like a scalpel. It's an experience of simultaneous yielding and restraint. The job of the professional empath is like that of an artist or poet: to take raw experience, direct emotional response, and somehow make it a vehicle for change and enlightenment."

From liberating breakthroughs to personal anguish, Diary of a Country Therapist is witness to a decade of changes, both in Marcia Hill's practice and in her personal life. With the advent of managed health care, she struggles to give her clients the best care she can. She talks about many of the clients she met over the years—what therapies worked and which didn't, her discomfort when she interacted with her clients in and around her small country town, and the valuable lessons she learned about life from her sessions with them.

"If therapists are exposed to what is most tragic in life, we are also privy to what is most inspiring. We have the benefit of experiencing many lives. If my work has offered me the opportunity to learn wisdom and compassion, my wish is that through these essays I may pass some of that gift along to you."

Diary of a Country Therapist is the honest scrutiny of a psychotherapist's life from her own heart and soul. While this text will be enlightening for mental health professionals of all kinds, its accessible, jargon-free style makes it an excellent selection for nonprofessionals who want insight into the mind of a practicing therapist.

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A very moving experience for me.......2004-09-13

Reading this book was a moving experience for me as a therapist. I found Marcia Hill's observations to range from mildly amusing to profoundly wise. She modeled the kind of vulnerability within a framework of integrity which no doubt makes her a very special clinician. She has the ability to laugh at herself and the profession while it is obvious she is deeply committed to her clients and her vocation. I would recommend this book to anyone who wonders about what makes good therapy.

A moving and powerful read.......2004-09-12

Hill's understanding of and compassion for her clients touched me deeply. Her entries reminded me of Rachel Naomi Remen's My Grandfather's Blessings in that each entry stands alone as a single pearl of wisdom but the whole is a beautiful strand of intimate knowing. I felt bereft when I finished; I wanted to continue in the company of this wise and powerful woman.

OPENING THE HEART.......2004-09-02

In graceful prose Marcia Hill opens her heart about the job she loves--being a psychotherapist. As the seasons of her Vermont year turn, tiny details of the changes nature makes in the woods and sky reflect and enhance the human stories she tells. To open the heart of another, one must endure the heartbreak and revel in the joy of each moment, but above all, one must listen. From violent to nearly mute, the voices of Marcia's clients speak to her soul, transforming therapist and patients alike.
To relish this book, one needs no formal training in psychology, although therapists will appreciate the companionship of a walk with Marcia Hill. However, anyone who has worked with people and watched them grow, anyone who has ever paid attention to her own cycles of loss and fruition, and anyone who enjoys sensitive, authentic writing will delight in this book.

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New to Random House Webster's successful American Sign Language reference line: the important medical terms a patient or doctor needs to communicate in ASL, clearly described and illustrated.

Whether in a medical emergency or a routine doctor's visit, it is crucial for medical professionals to communicate effectively with deaf patients. Here at last is an affordable and thorough dictionary of medical terms in American Sign Language, which is needed by the deaf and the medical community alike. Over 1,000 important signs for medical terms, including signs for illnesses, treatments, drugs, and anatomy, are defined in English (to avoid dangerous mix-ups), described with step-by-step instructions for making the sign, and fully illustrated with full-torso drawings in this easy-to-use reference book, the first in a series dedicated to special-interest American Sign Language.
The only affordable medical reference in American Sign Language
Every entry includes full-torso illustrations and clear descriptions of how to make the sign
Includes important medical terms, from anatomy to treatments

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important tool.......2007-05-30

This book is invaluable for anyone in the medical field who wants to communicate in sign. The medical term is defined and then how to sign the word is described in words as well as illustrated in diagrams. The diagrams are fairly easy to follow even if you aren't very good at translating things into three dimensions from 2 dimensions. I am very glad I bought this book.

Random House Webster's American Sign Language Medical Dictionary.......2007-01-19

It came as promised and in a timely manner.

Terminology you need to know!.......2001-05-31

I have been impressed with Elaine Costello's previous dictionary, so when I heard this book was out I was ready for something great! She did not disappoint. This book uses medical terminology to provide signed translations. I have found these to be very helpful. (In fact it helped me to understand the medical terminology better through the use of signs!) I think this is a must have for any interpreter, and beneficial for many deaf people.

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Hopi Cookery.......2006-09-12

This book is a real gem for those interested in a better diet and/or the culture of the Hopi. The book walks you through things such as, drying and storing corn, making hominy from dried corn, chilis, beans, frybread, piki making, and the virtues of blue corn.

The book also contains many interesting facts about Hopi cultural traditions and what the recipes are often accompanied with.

Excellent!

Just like Grandmother used to make..........2001-01-08

This is a GREAT recipe book. Not only are the instructions clear enough that anybody can follow, but the recipes are actually like the traditional food you find in the homes on the reservation.

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Hopi Cookery
Juanita Tiger Karena
Manufacturer: The University of Arizona Press
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000NLQFUA

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Mike Ashley is a great modeler; this is a helpful guide

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Basics of Ship Modeling: The Illustrated Guide
Mike Ashey
Manufacturer: Kalmbach Publishing Company
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Kalmbach Basics of Ship Modeling: The Illustrated Guide - 12220

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Expert skills are now accessible to all ship modelers in this book by Mike Ashey. You'll find hundreds of step by step photos to guide you from basic assembly techniques to painting and weathering, detailing, masking and display. The book features a color gallery of finished models for reference and inspiration.

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Mike Ashley is a great modeler; this is a helpful guide.......2007-08-08

Mike Ashley is a very good ship modeler. He is a writer for Fine Scale Modeler magazine. Also, Mike blogs at steelnavy.com; he's a nice guy and will answer modeling questions if you put them to him directly. I'm one of his bigger fans and buy nearly every issue of FSM that he writes in.

Now, is this book worth it? Yes, it's a four star book. Mike give several models types to review. They range from resin ships to some classic ships, such as the Glenco's USS Oregon or very tried and true USS Arizona of the Revell line. Pretty much all the "classic ships" have to be updated. Some, such as the Revell Buckley class destroyers in (about) 1/250th scale, will need serious updates to their guns, debth charges, and torpedo tubes. Mike gives clear instructions on how to improve the old kits. Just for the scratch building instructions this book is worth about twenty dollars. Mike builds a resin 1/350th scale USS Tennessee. He does a good job but the kit's a little weird. The 1/350th scale Kingfisher scout plane looks like a cross between a Kingfisher and an F6F Hellcat. Yuck. Conversely, Mike makes an excellent cagemast for the Tennessee out of the Gold Medal photo etch parts that come with the kit. What is the lesson, fix a bad mistake because it will detract from an other wise excellent model.

Mike makes it clear that the basics work in making a model. If you're going to build the Oregon then the modeler should install railing on the ship. Mike shows that "jigs" are the only possible way this can be done on a consistant basis. You have to paint a ship to add realism. Ships must have flags to "bring them to life".

Also, Mike writes all the items that a modeler will need. A punch tool is most necessary. Why? There are all sorts of things that can be made with punched disks, from portholes to aircraft tires. With the new Trumpeteer USS Hornet, Lexington, and Essex 1/350th scale model kits it's necessary to put a lot of work in your aircraft. It's insanity to make a beautiful ship and not put the effort into improving the aircraft. Anyway, Mike give the list of "stuff" you'll need to build a model. You would be wise to follow it.

Mike also covers "Photo Etch". Let's be honest. If you make a ship that's 1/700th scale or larger then it needs railings. That means a modeler will need photo etch. Mike has clear instructions on how to cut, fold, bend, and mount photo etch on a ship.

Now, a bad thing about this book is it has not been updated. So, you need to know at least two web links. First, a good modeler should go to Steelnavy.com. You'll see some of the best ship models that are made in the world. Second, you'll get links to some fantastic sites that sell ship models or supplies. The second best place on the web for ship modelers is [...].

So, fellow ship modeler, this book is worth its money. It's well written and shows a person how to 1. correct parts; 2. put the model together; 3. work with resin; 4. work with photo etch; 5. paint; 6. add-the-small-stuff; 7. make a proper display base.

Yes, I took a star for it's not being upto date. There isn't a review of one modern 1/350th scale kits. Hasegawa will be coming out with the 1/350th scale Akagi in late 2007. Mike, update your book!!! :)

Helpful Hints.......2007-04-12

Great book for anyone interested in building ships with loads of handy pics and hints

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Plants for pots;: Projects for indoor gardeners
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Excellent Traditional Tailoring Techniques.......2002-05-29

I found this book and the men's wear companion to be extremely informative and one of the best guides around for learning how to create a tailored garment using the traditional techniques as opposed to the "speed" tailoring that is so popular. I was disappointed that the women's book did include pants. Everyone is not going to buy both books. A basic pair of women's trousers could have been included. I was also surprised that neither book included topcoats or raincoats with zip/button-out linings. They are not just long jackets; there are differences in construction techniques. I also think that there should have been a little more clarification of some things. For instance, it took me a while to realize that silk-finished thread was actually Mettler's silk-finish cotton thread and not a type of silk thread. Minor gripes in comparison to the knowledge to be gained therein by those who want to make couture-quality garments.

Carbon copy of men's edition, but without the great pants.......2002-03-01

I bought Classic Tailoring Techniques: A Construction Guide for Men's Wear first. It's great. The text teaches you how to make beautifully tailored garments. I wanted to see those techniques specifically for women's jackets, trousers, and skirts so I bought this edition. Except for the section on pants and skirts, the text is identical in both books. The sections on women's pants and skirts is like anything you'd find in a commercial pattern instruction sheet - nothing special at all. Couture techniques for making beautifully tailored pants for women are not described or even hinted at in this book. Actually, it's not the fault of the author -- tailoring techniques are actually designed for men's clothing. Couture techniques are essentially for women's clothing. If you want to learn to make tailored jackets (men's or women's), either book gives the same instructions. For tailored trousers, use the men's book. For women's skirts, see Couture Sewing Techniques by Claire B. Shaeffer. (Actually, Claire Shaeffer's Vogue patterns for jackets and trousers are probably a better purchase than this book.)

A superb tailoring book for begining and intermediate tailor.......1997-07-29

An excellent book with clear, well explained diagrams and photographs. The book takes you through the full procedure for tailoring women's jackets, skirts and pants

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Gospel music's most successful composer shares the amazing story of his life revealing triumphs and tragedies that everyone can learn from. Growing up in the rural town of Alexandria, Indiana, Bill Gaither dreamed of becoming a gospel singer. He set out to do just that during his college years, but after much frustration, ended up teaching high school English and forgetting about his dream....or did he?From what looked like defeat, Bill Gaither went on to write more than 600 songs, record 40 albums, and win three Grammys. Now, in this fascinating story, Bill Gaither traces the remarkable journey of his life. From the Gaither Trio to the Gaither Vocal Band, from performing in small churches to playing Carnegie Hall, Gaither reveals the triumphs and tragedies along the way. Readers will witness how God has blessed him as a songwriter, performer, entrepreneur, and ultimately gospel music's elder statesman. His story will inspire and uplift as many people as his songs have touched lives.

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A life serving God.......2005-02-26

Have you ever sung, "He Touched Me" or "Because He Lives" or "Let's Just Praise the Lord" in church? If you read Bill Gaither's book, you'll find out the stories behind these classic songs which he and his wife Gloria wrote. You'll also find out how Gaither first met and helped launch the careers of Sandi Patty, Michael English, Mark Lowry and many others. The first chapter of "It's More Than the Music" tells how the very popular homecoming videos and concert tours got started.
This is a book any fan of Christian music should definitely read.

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Leavitt has written a disturbingly candid diary of 18 months of the Intifada in Israel, recording the appalling events that were happening around her. She has had to raise a family of witnesses to gunnings, suicide bombers, failed peace processes, and the escalation of Arab terrorism. The real power of the narrative is in its honesty. --Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles. A moving and beautifully written family portrait of the complexity, the humanity, the danger of everyday settler life on the West Bank. --The New York Times

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compelling snapshot.......2003-02-10

Reviewed by Samuel G. Freedman in Moment Magazine

The settlement of Israelis on the West Bank, with all of its idealism and bloodshed, all of its messianism and domination, is in many ways the story of Hebron. It was there that an Arab pogrom in 1929 ended centuries of Jewish presence. It was there, in the aftermath of the Six Day War, that the celebrants of a Passover seder declared their return. It was there, and in neighboring Kiryat Arba, that the most controversial figures made their homesýRabbi Moshe Levinger, one of the founders of Gush Emunim; Meir Kahane, exponent of Arab expulsion; Baruch Goldstein, the beloved doctor turned mass murderer at the Machpelah.

Against such a backdrop, one reads June Leavittýs Storm of Terror not simply as a first-person account of death, fear, and resilience amid the Al-Aqsa Intifada, but more broadly as an intimate portrait of daily life among the believers. Although she is a professional journalist, Leavitt consciously identifies herself in the bookýs subtitle as a mother. Indeed, this book achieves its most intense and revealing moments because she resolutely stays with the daily details. At the same time, however, this slender volume comes with the shortcomings endemic to publishing a diary.

In much of Israel, to say nothing of an often-hateful outside world, the settlers of Hebron and Kiryat Arba stand as pariahs, fanatics who obstructed peace when it seemed imminent and who stretch the army dangerously thin to defend them in wartime. The greatest accomplishment of Storm of Terror, then, comes in Leavittýs ability to defy or at least muddy the harsh clarity of such stereotyping. She herself is as much a creation of ý60s counterculture as of Greater Israel ideology, a woman who reads tarot cards, does yoga, met her future husband on a hiking trail in Vermont, and, yes, considers Judea and Samaria to be Jewish property by divine covenant.

Fascinating fault lines run through her household, as well. Two of Leavittýs sons help build an illegal settlement to mark the spot where a friend was ambushed and slain by Palestinians. One of her daughters, Miriam, is ýultraorthodox and fanatically right wing,ý while another, Estie, is a land-for-peace liberal with a pierced navel. At several searing moments in the book, the two daughters find themselves on opposite sides of violent confrontationsýEstie with her army unit, Miriam with protesting settlers. Leavittýs husband has veered over the years from deep involvement with the Moledet Party, which favored ousting Arabs from the West Bank, to meeting with Palestinian Authority leaders to plan for Hebron and Kiryat Arba to remain Jewish communities within an independent Palestine. How unexpectedly poignant is that moment of long-lost possibility.

In ways Leavitt probably never intended, though, her book displays the settler psyche. By her telling, for instance, the Oslo accords ruined the companionable relations between the Hebron areaýs Arabs and Jews, as if Palestinian nationalism had not been a roiling force for decades by then. She approvingly quotes an Arab telling a Jewish settler, ýWe would have been your serfs ý but what did you do? You said this land was ours ý Why couldnýt you understand the Arab mentality? We admire fierceness and strength! We see goodwill as weakness.ý

By its very nature, a diary freezes each such encounter in its moment. This immediacy brings Storm of Terror the documentary impact of a snapshot; the book recounts events as recent as the suicide bombing in Netanya last Passover. But a published diaryýanyoneýsýby definition deprives the author and the reader of a more considered, more self-consciously crafted, version of reality. And, precisely because Storm of Terror affords such an unanticipated window into the settler experience by such an idiosyncratic narrator, one hopes that next time June Leavitt will use her diary as the raw material, not the finished product.

Samuel G. Freedman, associate dean of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, is the author most recently of Jew vs. JewýThe Struggle for the Soul of American Jewry.

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