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Us Army Twenty Years/Plus
J. Chester Marsingill 1SG Ret.
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Retired Army First Sergeant tells all about twenty-plus years of service in the US, Korea, Japan, Germany, Argentina, Liberia, West Africa and Vietnam.
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Sigmund Freud: A Concise Biography (Pocket Biography Series)
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ASIN: 075310332X |
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Co-creative science is a revolutionary way to address the many serious problems that are mushrooming all around us.
This book is for everyone who wants to take charge of their life in a positive, efficient and incredibly effective way.
One of the exciting aspects of co-creative science is that everyone actively participates in it. This is a science that you must personally apply to your life in order to experience its benefits. And it has extraordinary benefits for your health and for your environment. This is a science that you can use personally and it will make a difference.
Co-Creative Science is also a book about nature. What makes this science unique is that it establishes a direct, active and personal partnership between you and nature for working together to successfully address the many problems that pummel our everyday lives. Once you have finished reading this book, you will be convinced that there is an intelligence in nature, that this intelligence can be accessed by anyone who wishes and that together with this intelligence we can forge a partnership that can make real changes.
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An excellent self-help book.......2005-01-07
This excellent book details ways in which we can invite nature spirits to work with us in creating a garden. The garden can be a plot of land with vegetables and flowers, or it can be a project for growing better relationships or for growing in our own inner wisdom.
Everyone's class will be individually designed by and for that person. The average class takes 4 years.
Nature can sort out its lessons in a more structured and orderly way when you let them know the parameters for your availability.
This is an excellent self-help book, enriched by the author's sharing of her own path in opening to intuitive and spiritual awarenesses and learning to be a co-creative gardener.
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- Meatless Burgers: Over 50 Quick & Easy Recipes for America's Favorite Food
- Varied and simple recipies
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Meatless Burgers: Over 50 Quick & Easy Recipes for America's Favorite Food
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The New Farm Vegetarian Cookbook
ASIN: 1570670870 |
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Learn how easy and economical it is to make America's favorite food at home. An assortment of beans, grains, and vegetables are transformed into tender, juicy, and satisfying burgers that are low in fat and high in fiber. Includes bean and grain burgers, soy based burgers, vegetable burgers, and ethnic-flavored burgers. Also includes recipes for tasty, wholesome buns, wonderful side dishes, creamy nondairy milkshakes, and zesty accompaniments. A complete nutritional analysis of each recipe proves that meatless burgers are as friendly to humans as they are to cows.
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Meatless Burgers: Over 50 Quick & Easy Recipes for America's Favorite Food.......2007-01-10
This book came highly recommended to me. I have a daughter and grand-daughter that are vegetarians so I purchased the book. But since they have not come to visit me, I have not had occasion to use any of the recipes. However, as I said the book came highly recommened to me.
Varied and simple recipies.......2005-12-11
If you like meatless burgers this book will show you how to make ones as good as the ones in the store, but that are significantly cheaper. The recipes are easy and quick. Nutrition information is included. The are a variety of recipes for using soy, wheat gluten, beans, grains, or vegetables to make burgers. If you have a problem with a particular ingredient you will find at least a few recipes that avoid using that ingredient. Included are recipes for side dishes. It is not high cuisine, but the recipes in this book are satisfying, tasty, easy and cheap.
Soy, soy, soy.......2002-09-19
Of the 49 burger recipes in this book, only 12 are soy-free. For those of us with soy allergy, and it tends to be a bad one, this is a poor ratio. It would have been helpful if the book description had included some information about this balance. It's about time the "health food" machine started giving us allergics a little consideration!
Recommended addition for vegetarian cookbook collections........2000-02-04
In Meatless Burgers, vegetarian cook Louise Hagler demonstrates how easy and economical it is to make one of America's most popular foods. An assortment of beans, grains, and vegetables are transformed into tender, juicy, delicious, and satisfying burgers that are low in fat and high in fiber. Burgers are not only a great way to add soyfoods to the vegetarian diet, but an easy means of getting fussy meat eaters to consume their vegetables instead. From Black Ben Burgers, Sunflower-Brown Rice Burgers, and Soy Protein-Tofu Burgers, to Deviled Tempeh Burgers, Beet Burgers, and Middle Eastern Sesame Burgers, Meatless Burgers offers over fifty quick and easy recipes that are as taste satisfying as they are nutritious.
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Sealyham Terrier Champions, 1988-2002
Jan Linzy
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“Not only are the stories a great read, but the photos are so full of color and texture they’ll make your fingers itch to start your own scarf or afghan.”—
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“With a passion for textiles and a love of travel, Melanie Falick is the perfect writer for [America Knits].”—
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Acclaimed knitting author Melanie Falick traveled thousands of miles and interviewed dozens of knitters, spinners, dyers, and sheep breeders to create this inspiring and revealing collection of portraits and patterns. With profiles of 38 artisans and farmers,175 beautiful color photographs, and 30 original patterns whose difficulty ranges from basic to advanced, from traditional to contemporary,
America Knits is the most complete survey yet published on this highly popular and vital art form in America.
First published in hardcover as Knitting in America (Artisan, 1996)
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34 wonderful issues, including the Premiere issue! Continuous print run from Vol. 1 No. 1 through Vol. 6 No. 4
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This digital document is an article from Watercraft World, published by Ehlert Publishing Group on July 1, 2004. The length of the article is 2133 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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Companions to Clematis: Growing Clematis with Other Plants
Marigold Badcock
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The lovely clematis, growing in profusion and brightly flowered, can turn your garden into a picture of color, enhancing the beauty of other plants. An expert shares her passion for clematis, along with her own stunning color photos and time-tested secrets on its pruning, feeding, and care. Start your gardening with detailed up-to-date lists of the species and cultivars, arranged according to season of interest; advice on what to look for when buying; and ideas on planting for best results. Raise new plants from seeds or cuttings, and by layering, and provide support with trellises, pergolas, and other structures. Best of all, find new ways to partner clematis, which so loves company, with other plants in dazzling, surprising combinations.
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- A Wonderful Guide to Clematis
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Gardener's Guide to Growing Clematis (Gardeners Guide to Growing)
Raymond J. Evison
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Raymond Evison, world authority on clematis, here provides a fresh look at the genus by focusing on not just the popular large-flowered cultivars but also on the less well known species. A comprehensive plant encyclopedia divided into the distinct clematis groups provides detailed and authoritative descriptions of nearly 375 species and varieties.
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A Wonderful Guide to Clematis.......2004-12-07
The first thing that stands out when you read this book is the great photography and excellent illustrations. Raymond J. Evison guides you through the wonderful world of Clematis by teaching you all there is to know about this beautiful plant. You will learn the history, classification, the different species, and much more.
As Evison states, this book isn't a monograph of the species, but a guide for the gardener. So, it has just enough background information so that the gardener has a good foundation. Even I got a bit lost in the groups section, but it becomes clearer as you get more into the book. I would have liked to see some shots about propagation, planting, training, and pruning, especially in a growing guide, but overall the descriptions and the book as a whole is great.
This is not a book for the complete novice, but for the intermediate to advanced gardener.
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Growing Clematis
Bridget Gubbins
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Color guide to growing Clematis.
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Growing Clematis
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Growing Clematis
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Guide to Growing Clematis
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Practical Clematis Growing (Practical Series)
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Growing Clematis
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- Lulu keeps busy; we are entertained
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In this charming sequel to Hello, Lulu, young readers are invited to join Lulu for a busy day of activity. Focusing on the comfortably familiar routines that toddlers and preschoolers will recognize and relate to, Caroline Uff uses vibrant, color-saturated illustrations and a refreshingly simple text to connect with the youngest readers and draw them into Lulu's world.
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Lulu keeps busy; we are entertained.......2007-10-14
Contrary to one of the more unusual reviews featured for this book, "Lulu's Busy Day" is not a preachy, didactic etiquette manual for toddlers. Rather, it is simply a charming book showing a young girl conducting her normal daily activities, such as reading, eating, playing, bathing, and sleeping, all activities that a young child can relate to. The illustrations are feature large heads on a colorful background, and are appealing to young children. A good companion book is "Hello, Lulu."
Lulu's Busy Day.......2007-07-12
My daughter (18 months) requests I read this book to her at least 5 times a day. We originally got it at the library and kept renewing it, so I finally ordered our own. I know my daughter would be devistated if we returned it to the library! We also love Hello Lulu and Happy Birthday Lulu!
Cute and colorful story.......2004-06-17
My almost 3 year old son wants me to read this over and over again. I think the simple nature of this story is very appealing to young children.
We Love Lulu.......2003-01-16
We have been reading 'Lulu's Busy Day' since my daughter, Ruby was18 month old & she has requested that we read it over & over again. She loves the pictures & the simple story which relates to her world. Whenever we come to the page where Lulu is swinging in the park, she puts her foot up & tries step into the picture so that she too can swing with Lulu. She does the same with the picture of Lulu taking a bath in 'Hello, Lulu'. Caroline Uff's amazing illustrations are so vibrant that my little girl thinks she can step into the pictures & be in Lulu's world. Ruby is 2 now & 'Lulu' is still a firm favorite & whenever we go to the park she tells me she wants to "swing up high like Lulu"!
Lulu's Busy Day.......2002-11-11
I personally know how hard it is to hold a 2 year old's attention. This book is something that can capture it. I originally discovered this book, as well as "Happy Birthday, Lulu" and "Hello, Lulu", in a group called Welcome Baby. This is a group that is part of our local hospital that gives out books to new parents, encouraging them to read to the youngest of children. They also have support groups that encourages reading to young children. This book keeps the kids entralled. My daughter was 6 months old when she first heard this book and crawled over to the book and just stared at the bright colorful pictures. The words are huge, as well as the pictures. The writing is simple. Caroline Uff really figured out how to capture the imaginations of the young. This book will not disappoint you or your children.
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America's foremost musical-theater composer also proves to be a fascinatingly complex and conflicted human being in this meticulous biography by the always-capable Meryle Secrest (Being Bernard Berenson, etc.). Stephen Sondheim himself was interviewed for the book, as were many of his closest friends, and the author makes perceptive use of this material. Born in 1930, Sondheim was a successful Broadway lyricist (West Side Story and Gypsy) before he was 30. But the scars from a miserable childhood remained: he was inclined to be distant, hypercritical of those less intelligent than he, and terrified of serious emotional commitment. Critics sometimes found those qualities in the series of groundbreaking musicals he created with director Hal Prince--Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, and Sweeney Todd, to name four--but they agreed that he brought new intellectual ambition and artistic adventurousness to the musical theater. Secrest does a fine job of delineating Sondheim's career in terms of what it tells us about the state of American theater, as when he shifted to a partnership with writer-director James Lapine and worked in the nonprofit sector for such musicals as Sunday in the Park with George and Assassins. She also does well in selecting revealing quotes to depict the composer's struggle to accept his homosexuality and a rage at his overbearing mother so deep that he didn't even attend her funeral. Sondheim the man and Sondheim the visionary artist get nearly equal time in an intriguing portrait.
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In the first full-scale life of the most
important composer-lyricist at work in musical theatre today, Meryle Secrest, the biographer of Frank Lloyd Wright and Leonard Bernstein, draws on her extended conversations with Stephen Sondheim as well as on her interviews with his friends, family, collaborators, and lovers to bring us not only the artist--as a master of
modernist compositional style--but also the private man.
Beginning with his early childhood on New York's prosperous Upper West Side, Secrest describes how Sondheim was taught to play the piano by his father, a successful dress manufacturer and amateur musician. She writes about Sondheim's early ambition to become a concert pianist, about the effect on him of his parents' divorce when he was ten, about his years in military and private schools. She writes about his feelings of loneliness and abandonment, about the refuge he found in the home of Oscar and Dorothy Hammerstein, and his determination to become just like Oscar.
Secrest describes the years when Sondheim was struggling to gain a foothold in the theatre, his attempts at scriptwriting (in his early twenties in Rome on the
set of Beat the Devil with Bogart and Huston, and later in Hollywood as a co-writer with George Oppenheimer for the TV series Topper), living the Hollywood life.
Here is Sondheim's ascent to the peaks of the Broadway musical, from his chance meeting with play-
wright Arthur Laurents, which led to his first success--
as co-lyricist with Leonard Bernstein on West Side Story--to his collaboration with Laurents on Gypsy, to his first full Broadway score, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. And Secrest writes about his first big success as composer, lyricist, writer in the 1960s with Company, an innovative and sophisticated musical that examined marriage à la mode. It was the start of an almost-twenty-year collaboration with producer and director Hal Prince that resulted in such shows as Follies, Pacific Overtures, Sweeney Todd, and
A Little Night Music.
We see Sondheim at work with composers, producers, directors, co-writers, actors, the greats of his time and ours, among them Leonard Bernstein, Ethel Merman, Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein, Jerome Robbins, Zero Mostel, Bernadette Peters, and Lee Remick (with whom it was said he was in love, and she with him), as Secrest vividly re-creates the energy, the passion, the despair, the excitement, the genius, that went into the making of show after Sondheim show.
A biography that is sure to become the standard work on Sondheim's life and art.
From the Hardcover edition.
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A mess, but for now it's the only mess we have.......2004-01-20
If you want to learn about Sondheim's life in detail, this is the most thorough account. Although there are books that are mostly about his work in which you can also find biographical information, this is the first and (thus far) only biography. That's the only reason why I'm giving three stars to this generally shoddy book.
What's wrong? First, there is an astounding number of factual errors.
In addition to the outright errors, Secrest also makes many misleading, imprecise, or incomplete statements. Loose ends and chronological confusions abound.
Some of the people Secrest quotes also make statements that are factually incorrect, and neither she nor her editors (who must take a good share of the blame) caught these mistakes. All of this suggests that she knows little about musical theatre in general or Sondheim's work in particular. She actually gets major plot details of Sondheim's shows wrong. Unbelievable.
There are also numerous places where she makes statements that contradict what she writes elsewhere.
All these problems seriously call into question how much of the material here that isn't public knowledge can be trusted. You end up wondering how someone who is so clearly unqualified persuaded the people at Knopf to give her this assignment, much less how she got Sondheim to cooperate. She must talk well, but she certainly doesn't write well.
Which brings us to the final problem: She isn't a very good writer.
Still, if you want a Sondheim bio, this is it. Since Secrest had access to Sondheim and to many of his friends and associates, I'm sure that some of what she writes is accurate. But if you read this, you should just realize that a good deal of what is here is unquestionably wrong.
Okay, but the definitive book on SS has yet to be written.......2001-08-28
Secrest has written a book on Sondheim that skims the surface and gives a broad overview. It rarely has insights, however, except a few "anaylses" of the musicals themselves that often border on the ludicrous (such as how many references to S&M there are in his works). There are misspellings of people's names, wrong dates, and some confused plot descriptions as well. But most of all, she seems too polite and distanced from her subject, offering facts but not insight or exploration. I'm not asking for National Enquirer-style dirt, but there is more on the inner-workings and intrigue of such works as "Merrily" in Craig Zadan's "Sondheim & Company," which unfortuantely is out of print, I believe. Furthermore, Secrest is often a confusing writer. She switches pronouns without always making it clear who is now doing the talking, or includes an out-of-context quote without explaining its meaning or context. She also repeats herself in several spots, making me think she revised one segment while forgetting what she had written just a page later or earlier. In short, this book needed an editor, as well as a more probing and insightful author. Most biographies suffer from excessive speculation. This one has just the opposite flaw.
derivative, banal, plodding, unauthoritative.......2001-03-31
The prospective purchaser of "Stephen Sondheim: A Life" is likely to be misled by this remark: "people seem to be missing the point--this isn't a critical biography, but a personal one". In fact, until she undertook to write it, the author of this book had no personal or professional relationship with its subject whatsoever. It is a thing anyone sufficiently motivated could throw together, and I can't in good conscience recommend it. I can and do recommend Craig Zadan's "Sondheim & Company", and for those interested in musical theatre in general, Richard Rodgers's "Musical Stages" and Alan Jay Lerner's "The Street Where I Live".
Stephen Sondheim: A Life.......2000-12-28
Meryle Secrest presents a balanced, authoritative, comprehensive view of Sondheim. Secrest does "get" Sondheim: the man, the composer, the lyricist. She also "gets" his musicals, both as chronicler and as listener. Virtually all Sondheim screenplays, plays, musicals, and individual songs are intelligently discussed. Extensive and intimate interviews with Sondheim provide the basis, but alternative outlooks from his principle collaborators, associates, friends, and enemies also appear. (Insights of his peers are not present since Sondheim has no peers.) The book carries an inside, but not reverent feel. Sondheim's troubled relationship with his mother leading to extensive therapy, his difficulty in coming to grips with his homosexuality, and his periods of self doubt and perceived failure are sensitively covered. Secrest does not hesitate to call attention to perceived shortcomings, but her undisguised love and admiration for her subject continually shine through. The book is geared toward an audience with a serious interest in Broadway musicals with emphasis on beauty and meaning in lyrics. Secrest does footnote her interviews and references meticulously, but I would also have enjoyed a discography and a listing of his songs by musical as elements of an appendix. I especially enjoyed the insight on Leonard Bernstein.
Terrific biography of a supremely gifted artist........2000-07-24
Meryle Secrest's book is one of a kind (so far): a story of Stephen Sondheim, the man, rather than simply Stephen Sondheim, the artist. No other book has attempted to do this, and Secrest does a fine job. This book is an absolute feast for Sondheim fans, because the Great Man himself reveals several illuminating insights into his own life, conflicted personality and peerless work. I read the other reviews here at Amazon, and people seem to be missing the point--this isn't a critical biography, but a personal one. And it is one of the very best books written about this enigmatic, thoroughly fascinating man.
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Release Date: 2005-07-28 |
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This digital document is an article from Notes, published by Music Library Association, Inc. on June 1, 1999. The length of the article is 844 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: Stephen Sondheim: A Life.(Review)
Author: Linda Barnhart
Publication:
Notes (Refereed)
Date: June 1, 1999
Publisher: Music Library Association, Inc.
Volume: 55
Issue: 4
Page: 946(2)
Article Type: Book Review
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These I Do Remember: Fragments from the Holocaust
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