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Top ten New York Times bestselling author J.A. Jance brings us another exhilarating thriller featuring Seattle homicide detective J.P. Beaumont.

It looks like a classic crime of passion to Detective J.P. Beaumont: two corpses found lovingly entwined in a broom closet of the Seattle School District building. The prime suspect, Pete Kelsey, admits his slain spouse was no novice at adultery, yet he swears he had nothing to do with the brutal deaths of the errant school official and her clergyman–turned–security guard companion. Beau believes him, but there's something the much sinned–upon widower's not telling–and that spells serious trouble still to come. Because the secret that Pete's protecting is even hotter than extra–marital sex.and it could prove more lethal than murder.

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It looks like a classic crime of passion to Detective J.P Beaumont: two corpses found lovingly entwined in a broom closet of the Seattle School District building. The prime suspect, Pete Kelsey, admits his slain spouse was no novice at adultery, yet he swears he had nothing to do with the brutal deaths of the errant school official and her clergyman-turned-security guard companion. Beau believes him, but there's something the much sinned-upon widower's not telling -- and that spells serious trouble still to come.

Because the secret Pete's protecting is even hotter than extra-marital sex. . . and it could prove more lethal than murder.

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Jance Does It Again.......2007-01-11

Any J.A. Jance book is a winner in my library. I love her writing style and this book does not disappoint.

Another excellent book in the Beaumont series.......2006-03-31

I really enjoyed this book. Like the others in the Beaumont series, this was a quick read. The plot was entertaining. Just when you thought you knew who the killer was there was another slight twist. I also enjoyed learning more about J.P. Beaumont as the story was peppered with a few more details about his character. I would definately recommend this book.

Solid entertainment.......2004-01-06

First I must say in response to an earlier review, no the villian is not revealed early on! I don't know how she knew, but I didn't know until the very end! This was a good book and a fast pace read. I'm not usually a big mystery reader, but I really like Jance's style and most of all I like J.P. Beaumont. He is a great main character.

Any JP book is a good ..................2003-08-04

Any JP book is a good ...book.
Are you kidding get this and all the others, I love JP Beaumount!

A solid read, familiar territory.......2001-02-10

This novel was an airplane read for me--a solid three hour flight plus a few moments at the hotel the next morning to finish it up. The plotting and characterization were solid, but not particularly novel. The "extras" added to the plot are in the main eccentric and interesting, as good mystery cameo players should be. Ms. Jance's protagonist was somewhat disappointing--a suitable sleuth, but some of the backstory just didn't work for me in this one. I'd pick up another Jance if I were in the airport and needed a good read, but I wouldn't go out of my way to locate the rest of this series. What do you get when you cross a dash of Christie, a dash of Hammett, a trace of Paretsky, and a lot of those modern "suburbanesque" detectives....something readable, certainly, but not quite a top flight mystery. If you need a good read, it's here, but it's a flawed work, and the villain is obvious from way too early in.

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The New Mortgage Tips & Payment Tables: Your Guide to Getting the Right Kind of Mortgage, the Best Rate, and Saving Money at Closing!
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J.A. Jance
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8 CDs. Approximately 9.5 hours. The bloody corpses stashed in the broom closet of the Seattle School District building were lovingly entwined. It looked like a classic crime of passion to Detective J.P. Beaumont -- especially when Pete Kelsey admitted that his slaughtered wife was an A student in the fine art of adultery. But Peter swore he had nothing to do with the two brutal deaths. Beaumont's gut instinct told him to believe the sinned-upon widower, but he never dreamed that Pete might be harboring a secret hotter than extra-marital sex . . . and more lethal than murder . . .

Insurers eye 'barter' deals. (payment in kind for insurance coverage): An article from: National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management

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Insurers eye 'barter' deals. (payment in kind for insurance coverage): An article from: National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management
David M. Katz
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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 December 8, 1997. The length of the article is 925 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.

From the supplier: Insurers and brokers are increasingly exploring 'barter' arrangements that involve the exchange of undervalued assets, electrical power, for example, for insurance coverage. American International Group (AIG) routinely engages in such deals, according to AIG Risk Finance senior VP David Fields. He explained that the company's deals are not actually barter arrangements, because power is 'traded' in a form resembling a put on a stock.

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Publication: National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 8, 1997
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Paying for bodies but not for organs: the results of the cadaver market imply that prohibiting any kind of payment for transplant organs is killing a lot ... & MEDICINE): An article from: Regulation

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Paying for bodies but not for organs: the results of the cadaver market imply that prohibiting any kind of payment for transplant organs is killing a lot ... & MEDICINE): An article from: Regulation
David E. Harrington , and Edward A. Sayre
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This digital document is an article from Regulation, published by Thomson Gale on December 22, 2006. The length of the article is 3918 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: Paying for bodies but not for organs: the results of the cadaver market imply that prohibiting any kind of payment for transplant organs is killing a lot of people.(HEALTH & MEDICINE)
Author: David E. Harrington
Publication: Regulation (Magazine/Journal)
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J. A. Jance
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J. A. Jance
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Full-color photos. A close-up look at the first people, from the Stone Age to the Iron Age.

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Get your kids hooked on anthropology.......2001-01-29

DK eyewitness books are some of the greatest non-fiction books around. The distinctive white background and high-quality photography gives this book an edge over any other nonfiction picture book. And -- these pictures are real! They're beautiful museum-quality photos of all things related to early humans, accompanied by informative captions and text.

Learn about early humans, their weapons, clothes, and food. SEE the objects common to everyday life in the ancient world. Get your kids hooked on history!

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Full-color photos. Explore the origins of life on earth, from the first algae to the first humans; why life began in the sea, not on land; why dinosaurs ruled the earth for millions of years and then disappeared; and how mammals--and then humans--took over.

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Overview of the history of life.......2004-06-12

This book is a good overview of the history of life on earth. There are a lot of great pictures in the book.

Some parents may want to be aware the book presents earth's material from an evolutionary perspective. Although I personally do not think that the scientific case for biological evolution has been definitive proven, I use this book as a supplement to our homeschool curriculum to expose my kids to the basic ideas of evolution. I want them to respect this perspective and not lampoon it. And this book is a great way to introduce kids to the foundational ideas. Parents who do hold an evolutionary perspective will probably appreciate the book for the same reason.

My only slight criticism of this book is that the book gives minimal discussion to the multiple extinction and replacement events that have happened throughout the history of the earth. This is an intriguing issue of earth's history which very few textbooks give any discussion to.

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What was the world like for people thousands of years ago? How can we know? Through fiction? This is a work of literary criticism, and more. It begins with a discussion of the problem of authenticity and then considers twelve pieces of fiction that depict human prehistory:

H.G. Wells' The Island of Doctor Moreau, Pierre Boulle's The Planet of the Apes, Jules Verne's The Village in the Treetops, Edgar Rice Burroughs' The Land That Time Forgot, the struggle for legitimacy in Wells' "The Grisly Folk," the Tasmanian analogue in Lester Del Rey's "The Day Is Done," William Golding's The Inheritors, "the promise of humanity" in Arthur C. Clarke's 2001: A Space Odyssey, the theme of "a god among the heathen" in Wells' "The Lord of the Dynamos" and other works, Jean Auel's The Clan of the Cave Bear, J.H. Rosny-Aîné's Quest for Fire, and Wells' The Time Machine: An Invention.

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Fascinating Facts from 200 million years ago.......2000-05-11

Although recommended for 8-12 year olds, I found this book interesting and informative as an adult. Visually, this book is attractive with photographs of actual artifacts and drawings. Examples in today's hunter-gatherer civilizations are provided in addition to the historical and archeological information related to the Stone Age. The timelines included are easily read and informative, as are the maps. Most appealing for parents and schools is the inclusion of 15 step-by-step projects which demonstrate the creation of products used daily from this period in prehistory. An index and glossary are included, and chapter headings deal with a single aspect of life at that time, eg. "Shelter," "The Arts," "Warfare and Weapons," etc.

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SWORD OF ROLAND.......2000-06-25

This is an amazing piece of historical fiction. A beatuiful piece, combining accurate historic detail with high energy story-telling.

It begins on a Crusade in the Holy Land, and Sir Hugh and his companions are betrayed to the Saracans, by their Greek "allies," and slaughtered to the last man. Only one man survives, Sir Hugh--and with the aid of a mysterious helper he gains the long lost, legendary sword of Roland--Durandal. And he swears to avenge the death of his comrads.

This book was originally written as 3 short stories in Adventure Magazine in the 1920's and 30's, and originally combined into a novel in the 1930's. Now re-released here, it has stood the test of time very well. Worth mentioning--this book is a beatuiful new release, wonderfully illustrated. The author is Harold Lamb, who was not only a respected historian, but was also familiar with the places he used as the settings for his story. He spoke the native languages and had visited the sites he portrayed in this book.

One of the finest features of the book is the sense of fate, and determination that fills not just Sir Huge, but all the characters in this novel. As he is fleeing from his Greek enemies--with the aid of Moslem Arabs--he encounters the outriders of the invading Mongol horde--the soldiers of Genghis Khan, lead by the amazing Subadai. And because of his own quarrels, Sir Hugh joins the Horde--A Crusader in the Horde--and rises in rank because of his own abilities.

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Harold Lamb
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Jean-Philippe Viriot Durandal
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Harold; Barr, George & Alicia Austin (illustrators) Lamb
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Durandal A Crusader in the Horde
Harold Lamb
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Sugar, pork, beer, corn, cider, scrapple, and hoppin' John all became staples in the diet of colonial America. The ways Americans cultivated and prepared food and the values they attributed to it played an important role in shaping the identity of the newborn nation. In A Revolution in Eating, James E. McWilliams presents a colorful and spirited tour of culinary attitudes, tastes, and techniques throughout colonial America.

Confronted by strange new animals, plants, and landscapes, settlers in the colonies and West Indies found new ways to produce food. Integrating their British and European tastes with the demands and bounty of the rugged American environment, early Americans developed a range of regional cuisines. From the kitchen tables of typical Puritan families to Iroquois longhouses in the backcountry and slave kitchens on southern plantations, McWilliams portrays the grand variety and inventiveness that characterized colonial cuisine. As colonial America grew, so did its palate, as interactions among European settlers, Native Americans, and African slaves created new dishes and attitudes about food. McWilliams considers how Indian corn, once thought by the colonists as "fit for swine," became a fixture in the colonial diet. He also examines the ways in which African slaves influenced West Indian and American southern cuisine.

While a mania for all things British was a unifying feature of eighteenth-century cuisine, the colonies discovered a national beverage in domestically brewed beer, which came to symbolize solidarity and loyalty to the patriotic cause in the Revolutionary era. The beer and alcohol industry also instigated unprecedented trade among the colonies and further integrated colonial habits and tastes. Victory in the American Revolution initiated a "culinary declaration of independence," prompting the antimonarchical habits of simplicity, frugality, and frontier ruggedness to define American cuisine. McWilliams demonstrates that this was a shift not so much in new ingredients or cooking methods, as in the way Americans imbued food and cuisine with values that continue to shape American attitudes to this day.

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A Revolution In Eating.......2007-07-16

The colonization of the United States did not happen in one particular way by any particular set of individuals. In other words, the country we now call the United States is not the result of a single group of people coming to the Americas that thrived and grew to eventually become the individual states that we see today. Instead, this country was formed by several groups of individuals who came to America for different purposes. Some groups came to America as British colonists. Some came to found a strong strict religious colony. Others came to grow sugar cane. Others turned to making money growing tobacco. Still others came as slave labour abducted from Africa or pulled from the Native population.

With each of these groups came a different set of intensions and a different set of ideals. Some groups very strictly adhered to living and eating practices of their cultural heritage. Other groups adopted some or all of the foods, crops, and general eating practices of the Natives in the area.

A Revolution in Eating: How the Quest for Food Shaped America is a very interesting book. Not only does this book illustrate how food preferences of these groups of people varied dramatically according to their colonization purpose but it also gives the reader a deeper understanding of the American regional differences that continue through to modern day. Moreover, this book also looks at the different ways food was acquired and meals were prepared as well as the social practices of food sharing in these various regions.

The link between food and freedom. .......2006-06-28

McWilliams' book is fascinating and completely unexpected. I'd never given a thought to what explorers, settlers, slaves, and/or Native Americans ate beyond the traditional stuff of Thanksgiving. A Revolution in Eating starts with survival basics and takes you through New World regional "foodways" and drinking habits to a new undestanding of all sorts of familiar American traditions and beliefs about people, places, and things that turn out to be fundamental to our social, economic, and political independence as a nation. I couldn't put it down.

The New World according to food........2006-01-16

McWilliams' book is an exposition of how and why "traditional American" food as we know it today evolved in various places, and how and why these culinary evolutions in turn influenced historical movements.

We tend to take the task of gathering, planting, processing, and preserving food for granted in our 21st century lives; in truth, these are the most important tasks for our survival! McWilliams adeptly compared how culinary traditions evolved and developed distinct characters in New England, the Caribbeans, and everything in-between, depending on local resources and the people who lived in those areas. The latter part is determined by relations between the white settlers and the native Americans, and the West African slaves forcefully translated to the New World.

One fascinating aspect of the book is how closely the nature of work (or in many cases here, forced labor) and food are interconnected. Areas that grow sugar as a cash crop develop culinary traditions distinct from those that grow tobacco, and not only because of the obvious geographical difference. Social reality also had a strong interconnection to how food is cultivated or gathered.

McWilliams interspersed interesting re-examinations of the menu items that we take for granted today: How did smoked meats enter the American tradition? Why is Hoopin' John historically significant? What about the New England vegetable gardens come about?

Unfortunately, McWilliams tend to rely too much on including quotations of diary entries of people of the different eras. Rarely a page goes without any exultation of some random dairy farmer, or plantation operator, or inspector, or European visitor, on the "bountiful harvest of dis [sic] soiles [sic] .... " and "... are very resorrsful [sic] in gathering ... " After a while these quotations lose their charm and become bothersome and unnecessarily slows the pace of the main story.

Overall, this is an excellent and educational read. The subjects are well-researched and gives a fresh perspective of the "traditional" American cuisine as we know it today.

A Revolution in Eating: How the Quest for Food Shaped America (Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History)

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A Revolution in Eating: How the Quest for Food Shaped America (Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History)
James E. McWilliams
Manufacturer: Columbia University Press
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A Revolution in Eating: How the Quest for Food Shaped America.(Book review): An article from: Journal of Southern History

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A Revolution in Eating: How the Quest for Food Shaped America.(Book review): An article from: Journal of Southern History
Michael A. LaCombe
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
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Release Date: 2006-11-27

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Publication: Journal of Southern History (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 1, 2006
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Volume: 72 Issue: 4 Page: 919(2)

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Table manners: how food choices helped shape culture and politics in nascent America.(A Revolution in Eating: How the Quest for Food Shaped America)(Book Review): An article from: Washington Monthly

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Table manners: how food choices helped shape culture and politics in nascent America.(A Revolution in Eating: How the Quest for Food Shaped America)(Book Review): An article from: Washington Monthly
Alan Bjerga
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This digital document is an article from Washington Monthly, published by Thomson Gale on June 1, 2005. The length of the article is 1162 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: Table manners: how food choices helped shape culture and politics in nascent America.(A Revolution in Eating: How the Quest for Food Shaped America)(Book Review)
Author: Alan Bjerga
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A Revolution In Eating: How the Quest for Food Shaped America (Arts and Traditions of the Table)

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