Super Sand Castle Saturday (MathStart 2)

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One Saturday at the beach, Laura, Juan, and Sarah decide to have a sand castle contest. As the tide rises, the walls get longer, the towers get taller, and the moats get deeper. The friends measure their sand castles with spoons, shovels, and bare feet until Larry the lifeguard and his tape measure surprise them all.

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an excellent read
"The shape of sand like life, is whatever we wish it to be..."

The Shape of Sand
Marjorie Eccles
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Minotaur
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0312352328
Release Date: 2005-12-27

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Life at Charnley was blessed, or at least so it seemed to the Jardine children. But one night their dreams of a propitious future suddenly come crashing down when a family scandal catapults them into the headlines.

Nearly four decades pass and the Second World War is won, but still the exact events of that fateful night remain unknown. However, when builders working on Charnley uncover a shoebox stuffed full of old letters, photographs, and a diary, it finally seems as though some of the answers are within reach.

The clue to unraveling the affair lies in a voyage to Egypt undertaken by Beatrice eleven years before her disappearance. With the help of her old diary, Beatrice’s three daughters set about uncovering the truth. But when the mummified body of a brutally murdered woman is discovered in the ruins of their old home, they have a whole new set of questions.

Beautifully written, evoking the life of the Edwardian upper classes, bomb-scarred, post war England, and the sultry Egyptian landscape, The Shape of Sand proclaims the incomparable talent of this great author.

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Get this, read it.......2007-09-30

After seeing the Gil Mayo Mysteries on BBC America (please, please bring those back, BBC!) I picked up this book. There weren't many books by Eccles available and that's a real shame. I was floored by this book and have even been trying to get my husband to read it.

The characters and sense of time/place are so vivid in this book, you get a true sense of what England must have been like in that brief, golden flash of time before the World Wars brought such a civilized, extraordinarily luxuriant lifestyle to an end. You get such a wonderful glimpse of the Edwardian ladies with their corsets, long dresses, rolls of thick hair and large hats... And the characterizations are brilliant.

Since buying this book, I've gone out and bought every other Eccles book I could find. What a gifted author.

an excellent read.......2006-02-24

While I have enjoyed Marjorie Eccles' Gil Mayo mystery novels -- they're carefully and well executed police procedurals -- I was not expecting anything quite so enthralling and tantalising as "The Shape of Sand." A historical novel that moves between events that took place in 1910 and (currently) 1946, "The Shape of Sand" is the kind of book that I'd advise having a couple of hours at one's disposal to sit down and enjoy without interruptions. Believe me, you'll not want to put down this book until you've finished it!

The war's over and although the Jardines have not lived in their family estate, Charnley, since it was sold before WWI, Harriet Jardine finds herself walking down the ancestral corridors once more when she comes to collect a box full of old photographs and memobrilia found during some renovation work. The box awakens memories of what happened that fateful summer in 1910 when Harriet's beautiful mother, Beatrice, suddenly disappeared during a house party. Everyone had assumed that Beatrice had run off with the handsome Egyptian archaeologist, Valery Iskander, when it was discovered that he too had hurriedly left the estate on the same night. It is a mystery that has haunted the Jardine siblings, Harriet, Vita, Daisy and their older brother, Matthew, and it is one that Harriet is determined to solve. And she rather hopes that this box may hold some key to what happened all those years ago. But things take an unexpected and horrific turn when the workers at Charnley make a very grisly find...

As I have already noted, "The Shape of Sand" is the kind of elegant and haunting novel that requires uninterrupted reading so that one can truly savour all the many quiet nuances that the novel offers as well as appreciate Marjorie Eccles' brilliant character portrayals. Each character, whether primary or secondary, is carefully realised as such becomes truly memorable -- like the three very different and unique Jardine sisters, and the lady at the heart of this mystery, Beatrice Jardine. Beautiful and seemingly in control of her life and emotions, we get to see another Beatrice as the book progresses, and Marjorie Eccles does a fantastic job of gradually allowing for the real Beatrice to emerge, the different impressions that everyone had of her, and the revelations of certain facts. Also nicely done was how the author managed to capture the mood and feel of both the different time periods that this novel is set in: the opulent and elegant post-Edwardian age of 1910, when everyone who was of the upper classes were still gay and carefree; and the austere and more modern post WWII year of 1946 with its food and housing shortages. Vivid and evocative and written in a beautiful and lyrical prose style, "The Shape of Sand" was a very absorbing and haunting read. Certain plot devices, it was true, were fairly apparent, but the author still managed to maintain an aura of mild suspense and to keep things humming. I was ensnared from beginning to end and was glued to my seat reading on till the book ended and the last secret was revealed. All in all, an excellent read!

"The shape of sand like life, is whatever we wish it to be...".......2006-02-18

It is the year 1910, King Edward has just died, and George has just been proclaimed the new King of England. Whilst the nation steadily adjusts to a changing monarch, Beatrice Jardine, the exquisitely beautiful mistress of the stately Charnley Manor is about to celebrate her forty-fourth birthday. Put on by Amory, her wealthy, loyal, and conspicuously devoted husband, the party includes a guest list that is an absolute smorgasbord of rich aristocracy. No expense is to be spared in providing a celebration for his beloved wife, and it is hoped Beatrice and her friends will remember the evening for many a year to come.

Unfortunately the party will have disastrous consequences for all, for next morning it is discovered that Beatrice has mysteriously gone missing. Her dearly loved four children Marcus, Harriet, Vita, and Daisy are fraught with worry, fearful not just for their darling mother's well-being, but also for the survival of their insular and carefully constructed world of privilege and opportunity, now in serious danger of crashing down around them.

A search of the house and grounds ensures; there are frantic calls to friends and relatives; and contact is made with several guests from the party the night before, but Beatrice remains undiscovered, her disappearance enigmatic and strangely disturbing. Soon the scandalous whiff of betrayal begins hover; she was seen flirting with the simmering and impatient Kit, a much younger man who was obviously enamored of her, and the next morning, Valery Iskander, Beatrice's archaeologist friend from Egypt, hurriedly left the Estate, neglecting to give a formal goodbye.

Also missing is Beatrice's leather valise, a silver hairbrush, a walking costume, and some delicately embroidered silk underclothing. Almost at once, the conclusion is reached - the propensity for shame rocking the very foundations of the Jardine family - that Beatrice has been having a surreptitious affair with Valery Iskander and they have, together, eloped to Egypt. Everyone assumes Beatrice had been harboring some "very unladylike desires," the long held perceptions of an untroubled and happy life at Charnley totally wrong, her life falling apart for some time.

It isn't until forty-four years later, that Harriet; Beatrice's eldest daughter is given the clues to complete the puzzle of her mother's disappearance. The Second World War is over and an insurance firm has now acquired Charnley as its head office. Alterations and renovations had turned to house into a different place, the spirit of the old Charnley gone forever, the memories pushed away over the years, though the shocking events have always left an indelible stain in the air that have saddened and depressed Harriet.

When a few old photos, some scraps of old papers, and Beatrice's diary, recounting a summer trip to Egypt come into her possession, Harriet, for the first time, has a realistic hope of finding out the truth of what happened in that summer of 1910. Her hope of solving the mystery, however, is thrown into chaos when a body is found, hidden within the walls of Charnley - the body is that of a woman.

Harriet has always maintained that her mother, the lady of the house acted too precipitately in contravention of her normal rules and that she would never have consciously flouted convention and willingly chose ostracism; she treasured propriety too much, and always lived surrounded by people whose high opinion was paramount to her. But Beatrice's diaries gradually divulge an inexplicable longing that seemed to assail her in her decorous life at Charnley; an urge to break free from the strictures of her world; beneath her marble cool exterior "there beat a longing for something wild and free, something dangerous trying to escape."

Author Marjorie Eccles, in this stylish and sophisticated whodunit, gives a distinctive voice to each character and plants many questions in the mind of the reader as to what became of Beatrice. Covering two world wars and the rise of the suffragette movement, the author intensely brings to life two very different time periods: The post-war austerity rule of run-down Britain, a country that is gradually picking itself up, life still bound by restriction and shortages of nearly everything; and the golden era before the First World War, a world of rich elegance, where "willowy ladies wore long dresses with sweeping trains and enormous, elaborately-trimmed hats perched on their equally complicated coiffures," - all set against a background of "smooth lawns and terraces and country houses." The world of Charnley had once been a "civilized home," where well bought up people were kind to each other, and good humored; and where real anger rarely surfaced.

Eccles manages to capture the opulent nature of the Edwardian era in all its self-congratulatory grandeur; people were always at their ease, simply talking, chatting, or passing time in a life devoted to the undiluted pursuit of pleasure. The diary entries of Beatrice grow more grow more agitated as the plot thickens, her trip to Egypt - the hot sand, burning skies, pyramids, temples and ruins - almost overwhelming her, the weight and memory of old ghosts oppressing her.

Time has mostly stood still for Beatrice amongst the grey stone of Charnley and the flawed splendor of its painted rooms; this spoilt, tragic, and misunderstood woman has unfortunately spent most her life caught and trapped in an engulfing sense of despair not of her own making. Mike Leonard February 06.

Experimental rollability and natural shape sorting of sand,

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Experimental rollability and natural shape sorting of sand,
Antonius M Winkelmolen
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Great Sand Dunes National Monument: The Shape of the Wind

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Great Sand Dunes National Monument: The Shape of the Wind
Stephen Trimble
Manufacturer: Western Natl Parks Assoc
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1877856754

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The complex interaction of wind and water has created huge, remarkably stable dunes in the San Luis Valley of south-central Colorado. Photos by the author.

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Great Sand Dunes: The Shape of the Wind
Stephen A. Trimble
Manufacturer: Western Natl Parks Assoc
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0911408347

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Shape of Sand

Manufacturer: ALLISON & BUSBY
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ASIN: B000GSMRPW

Seed mass and shape, germination and plant abundance in a desertified grassland in northeastern Inner Mongolia, China [An article from: Journal of Arid Environments]

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Seed mass and shape, germination and plant abundance in a desertified grassland in northeastern Inner Mongolia, China [An article from: Journal of Arid Environments]
Z. Liu , Q. Yan , X. Li , J. Ma , and X. Ling
Manufacturer: Elsevier
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B000PDSBSK

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This digital document is a journal article from Journal of Arid Environments, published by Elsevier in 2007. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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There is a little information on how seed mass or/and seed shape is associated with germination, meadow-utilizing forms and sand dune types. We collected seeds of 83 plant species (herbs and shrubs) in the desertified grassland of northeastern Inner Mongolia, China, to examine the linkage of seed mass (weight) and shape (variance of three dimensions) to germination. We also selected two types of meadows (for collecting hay and for free grazing) and three sand dune types (i.e. the mobile, the semi-stabilized and the stabilized) to examine whether relevance of seed mass and shape to plant abundance (frequency and density) changes with meadow use and sand dune types. Our results indicate that seed mass or/and shape did not differ significantly between the meadow and the sand dune, between the two types of meadow use, and between the three sand dune types. Germination percentage under standard laboratory conditions was negatively but not significantly related to seed mass, but was positively and significantly related to seed shape (p=0.001). The relationships between seed shape and plant frequency and density were positive for each meadow use type, but were negative for each sand dune type. The relationship between seed mass and plant frequency was positive for the semi-stabilized and the mobile dunes, but was negative for each of the other meadow-utilizing forms and sand dune types. The relationship between seed mass and plant density was positive for the mobile sand dune, but was negative for each of the other meadow-utilizing forms and sand dune types. Our results suggest that (1) the relationship between seed shape and germination is closer than that between seed mass and germination in the arid temperate desertified grassland, (2) desertification or habitat shift is more likely to result in changes in the seed mass or/and seed shape-plant abundance pattern (for instance, the relationships between seed mass or/and seed shape-plant abundance were positive for meadows, but were negative for sand dunes), rather than changes in the pattern of seed mass or/and seed shape (i.e. seed mass or/and shape did not differ significantly between different meadow and sand dune types); and (3) the seed mass or/and seed shape-plant abundance pattern is related to the degradation intensity of grassland.

Ship shape: freight costs carve new route to China.(transportation): An article from: Top Producer

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Ship shape: freight costs carve new route to China.(transportation): An article from: Top Producer
Laura Sands
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B00081S9XQ
Release Date: 2005-08-08

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This digital document is an article from Top Producer, published by Thomson Gale on March 22, 2004. The length of the article is 661 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: Ship shape: freight costs carve new route to China.(transportation)
Author: Laura Sands
Publication: Top Producer (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 22, 2004
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Page: 18

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Topographic information of sand dunes as extracted from shading effects using Landsat images [An article from: Remote Sensing of Environment]

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Topographic information of sand dunes as extracted from shading effects using Landsat images [An article from: Remote Sensing of Environment]
N. Levin , E. Ben-Dor , and A. Karnieli
Manufacturer: Elsevier
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B000RQZOFI

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This digital document is a journal article from Remote Sensing of Environment, published by Elsevier in 2004. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Topographic variations affect the reflectance properties of the Earth's surface and are often removed in remote sensing studies, especially when significant terrain variations exist. In this study, however, we show that shading effects assessed by Landsat can be treated as a signal that stores important topographic information, especially when the spectral characteristics of a surface are homogenous. The coastal transverse dunes of the Ashdod area, and the desert linear dunes of Nizzana (both located in Israel), were selected to investigate the abovementioned idea. The dune heights in these areas are 10 m on average (relative to their surroundings) and have maximum slopes of 33^o. An innovative method for extracting slope, aspect, and height data for sand dunes using Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) and Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) images was developed, based on the regularity and periodicity of dunes' landscapes. Using two Landsat images representing different sun zenith and azimuth angles, reflectance values of each image were converted to cos(i) values (i=incident angle between the surface normal and the solar beam radiation), applying histogram matching methods. The slope and aspect of each pixel were determined as those that give the best prediction of the observed value of cos(i). Height profiles were then extracted, using simple trigonometric relationships. The accuracies of heights and slopes along selected profile lines were to the order of 1 m and 3^o, respectively (at a spatial resolution of 15 m). Best results were obtained when the images included one from the summer and the other from the winter, corresponding to maximum difference in solar zenith and azimuth angles. Errors in heights were attributed to surface heterogeneity (e.g., presence of biogenic soil crusts in the rainy season), geometric correction errors, cast shadows, and Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function (BRDF) effects. Comparison to Advanced Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) 3D information showed that the proposed method is better in representing the topographic variation of the area than the digital elevation model (DEM) produced by ASTER.

Automated measurement of aggregate indices of shape

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Automated measurement of aggregate indices of shape
J. D Wilson
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Lousy romance.......2007-07-15

I picked this book out because I tend to like fantasy/science fiction with a good romance. I was quickly disappointed. The storyline, disguised as fantasy, quickly devolved into obviously sexist and remarkably uninteresting quasi-romantic blather. The "strong" female character was irritating and the male characters (father and male lead) always knew best. The heroine was eventually bent to the will of the men and decided that she liked it. The occasional sex scenes were uninspiring. Ugh.

Opening volume in an unusual fantasy quintet .......2006-12-10

This is one of the two opening volumes in a group of five books. Sharon Green initially started with the intention of writing two individual novels, of which this was one, but the tale grew in the writing into an unusual double trilogy.

Green herself described it in the afterword to the final book as an "odd series" organised into "two crossed trilogies in the form of an X."

One trilogy tells the story of the sorceress Chalaine and the sorcerer-prince Bariden. That trilogy starts with "The Hidden Realms", shares the middle book "Dark Mirror, Dark Dreams" with the second trilogy, and is concluded in the final book of the quintet, the appropriately named "Game's End.

However, "Silver Princess, Golden Knight," kicks off another trilogy within the same broader canvass, telling the story of Princess Alexia and the mercenary captain Tiran d'Iste, both of whom are shapeshifters. Their adventure, which includes both a romance and a quest for a kingdom, starts here, and continues as the two stories come together in "Dark Mirror, Dark Dreams", which is the middle book of both trilogies. The story of Alexia and Tiran is sort-of concluded in the fourth book in the quintet, "Wind Whispers, Shadow Shouts". The double titles denote this second trilogy.

The linkages between the two stories are clearest in the middle book, where all four characters work together, and at the conclusion of "Dark Mirror, Dark Dreams" each of the two couples become the rightful King and Queen of their own Kingdom. In the final two books, each couple has to defend their newly-gained realm and its' people against attack by powerful evil from beyond the worlds.

If you are going to read this series, it helps to read each trilogy in order and to read "Game's End" last. Hence the sequence is

1) and 2) "The Hidden Realms" & "Silver Princess, Golden Knight"
(Either can be read first)

3) "Dark Mirror, Dark Dreams"

4) "Wind Whispers, Shadow Shouts"

5) "Game's End"

This quintet of fantasy novels, written between 1993 and 1996, is rather more mainstream than some of the author's earlier works. Sharon Green has put a lot of effort into creating the personalities and magic powers of the heroes and heroines, and some of the other major characters. The plots - in both senses of the word - are also quite intricate.

Rather less effort appears to have been put into creating the worlds where the stories take place, the minor characters or most of the villains, who tend to be fairly two-dimensional and thinly sketched out - to such an extent that many of the places in the stories and many of the characters do not even have names. In places there is good use of humour but there could be rather more.

Overall as fantasy novels go this is average, by which I do not mean to damn the book with faint praise. It's not the best fantasy story you will ever come accross, but it's not the worst either.

The main thing going for this series is that it is such an unusual way to build a story as to make it interesting to see how Sharon Green put it together.

A great fantasy escape for the imaginative!.......2002-04-05

I always remember this book everytime I yearn for a good read! The male character, Tristan d'Iste, is the perfect, fantastic conjuring of beauty and power that would satisfy the sappy female reader. The character Alexis is the Xena for those females that love to daydream, and the perfect woman for the man who isn't afraid to handle a strong woman. The story is rich with imagination and enough action to keep the reader interested. The fire and dialogue between the two characters is hot enough to make us stop and wish we ( females, at least) could climb into the book. All in all, this book is for the ones who want to escape from the humdrum reality of hard labor and lackluster love lives. We're all free to dream, aren't we?

Excellent Story.......2000-03-27

This series was not the first I'd read of Sharon Green's work but showed her abilites well. The blend of a good storyline, the two couples with special abilities and their internal and external battles was very well done. The magic and shape shifting was well done. A little too much internal consternation and self-doubts for the females, but it fits the story nicely. In my opinion, this series is only exceeded by her "Blending" series. A good read!

This is a creative and well-written story........1999-11-21

I fell in love with Princess Alexia, the main character, from the start, and was delighted by her spirit and determination. I also appreciated the romance in the book, with its emphasis on partnership. This book has just the right blend of magic, adventure, humor, and love.

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Child psychologists Robert Brooks and Sam Goldstein are too humble to promise a "sure bet" method for fostering resilience in all children, but their book Raising Resilient Children certainly does an impressive job of upping the ante. The authors open their comprehensive study with two bold questions: Why do many parents insist on pointing out their child's weaknesses and try--in vain--to mend these, when harnessing the child's strengths bolsters self-esteem? And how can parents change their erring ways to help these kids become thoughtful, confident adults? Their answer is a wisely crafted set of 10 essential parenting behaviors ("guideposts")--a prescription of sorts, for nurturing resilience in kids. Ironically, it's the parents who may reap the greatest rewards from putting these guideposts to work.

Drawing heavily from 50 years of combined clinical practice, Brooks and Goldstein conclude that a child's resilience grows its deepest roots in the home, nurtured by parents who incorporate healthy doses of empathy, practical optimism, respect, unconditional love, keen listening skills, and the patience to administer these values every day. Sounds logical, but the gap between knowledge and action is deceptively wide. The authors knowingly share a caseload of tales from their own clients' histories--familiar scenarios of well-meaning parents who say and do counterproductive things. But they also present a treasury of suggestions for righting the wrongs, including detailed steps for rewriting negative parenting scripts, teaching and modeling empathy, and creating opportunities for kids to act responsibly and compassionately. This timely, insightful book will prove an effective tool for parents who are willing to scrutinize--and improve upon--their own resilience. --Liane Thomas

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TOP CHILD PSYCHOLOGISTS OFFER EXPERT INSIGHT AND PRACTICAL ADVICE FOR RAISING STRONG KIDS IN TODAY'S COMPLICATED WORLD

"Thoughtful and sound in its approach, practical and clear in its suggestions, direct and supportive in its tone, Raising Resilient Children is the perfect book for parents searching for a caring method to help their children grow into healthy, happy, loving, and mature adults."William Pollack, Ph.D., author of Real Boys

". . . the down-to-earth strategies ensure this title will be used as well as read . . . truly valuable material." Publishers Weekly

" . . . a remarkable book that pulls together the research on resilience and makes it readable, understandable, and practical."Work and Family Life

"A very important work. This not-to-be-missed book debunks the paradigm ('Good enough for me: I turned out OK') and replaces it with a new model fostering resilience capable of meeting obstacles head-on."Library Journal (starred review)

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In the tradition of such important books as Raising Ophelia and Emotional Intelligence, Raising Resilient Children is an engaging and wise work that will revolutionize parenting.

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The Most Helpful Book I Ever Read.......2007-04-12

I would recommend this book to any mother but especially mother's of young children who feel their kids or their lives with their kids aren't what they imagined they would be. This book helps you love the child you've got without any "but if you'd onlys." This book shows you the possibility of unconditional love and appreciation for your child that can be mixed with guidance and strengthening support.

A mother of two school aged children LOVES THIS BOOK.......2006-11-21

I must say I'm tempted to give away every single other parenting book I own. This book is the first book to ever "speak" to me. I've spent some time trying to figure out why this book touched me so much. It hit me - resilience is the BIG picture - I CAN operate and understand the big picture and then apply it to my life as a parent. I've spent most of my life as a parent searching for solutions to the little picture problems which change daily and spontaneously. I was never ready.

Reading Dr. Brooks' philosophy made me want more than ever to adequately prepare my children for the joys and upsets of life and in two short weeks I'm beginning to feel prepared to do so. In the moments of chaos I feel more connected to the long term and my parenting has changed. Funny how my heart seems to have grown for our two adorable kids as well.

Case Study after Case Study.......2006-05-11

Oy! If I have to read one more 'great save' case by these authors/psychologists, I will pull out my hair. This book was one case study after another outlining in great detail what their patients said and did and how wonderfully the authors managed to break through in each case, solving all problems for the troubled family, leaving them all happy and saved as the doctors ride gloriously into the sunset. Ugh! I wanted more substance, more "this is what you need to do". There was plenty of good advice in this book, but usually it came in the first sentence or at the end of a case study. By the end of the book, I was skipping all the case studies and just searching around for the moral of the story and looking for their not bad advice. I think if the authors had simply printed out their observations and suggestions in outline form, the book would be much more helpful and most importantly, shorter.

Sensible Guidance towards Positive Change.......2005-04-05

I just had the pleasure of hearing author, Robert Brooks speak at our school about nurturing sef-esteem and resilience in our children. I found his parent friendly book to have the same warm tone that he conveys in person. His lessons and opinions are documented with true case studies and anecdotes from his professional career and peppered with a welcome sense of humor. I am learning to be a more authoritative parent with the specific, practical guidance offered in this book and I see a definite positive change in the way we as parents are communicating with our children. This book has been the key tool in helping us empower our grade school children (10 and 12) with a better attitude towards adversity. If you have toddlers or preschoolers (2's, 3's, 4's, & 5's), we also highly recommend "The Pocket Parent" as a very compatible guide to "Raising Resilient Children". Both books view "Discipline" and "Punishment" as very different procedures and both offer many positive strategies to communicate and discipline (teach children right from wrong) WITHOUT yelling, bribing, nagging, threatening, criticising and punishing. The authors of both books feel we often spend too much time remediating the weaknesses of our children and not enough time identifiying their strengths and seeing that they have ample opportunities to succeed in what they are passionate about and good at. Both authors believe that it is not only important what you need to say to your children, but HOW you choose to say it that can make the difference. We recommend both "RAISING RESILIENT CHILDREN" and "THE POCKET PARENT" for home and school libraries for parents.

For parents' workshops, perhaps for teacher in-service ed..........2003-06-25

This curriculum workbook springs from Goldstein's and Brooks' book, Raising Resilient Children, which (for some reason I do not know) is no longer available through Amazon.com (you would have to buy it used). (Perhaps the authors are planning a second edition?)

This is a 9-week course covering: (1) Teaching and conveying empathy; (2) re-writing negative scripts; (3) Discplining in ways that promote self-discipline and growth; (4) Making decisions, solving problems; (5) loving children in ways that help them feel special and appreciated; (6) learning from mistakes; (7) Expecting success, "islands of competence"; (8) hope and courage.

It is accompanied by a video tape (not available from Amazon.com) but which would be good for persons planning parent groups or in-service for teachers.

The age-group that the authors write about is children, but with some modifications (especially with discipline) it could be applied to adolescents.

This book is an easy beginning to the practical aspects of resilience education. It is graphically good looking and substantively good.

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Good, yes. Perfect, not quite

So Many Recipes! So Few Fermenters

Decent book, unfairly reviewed

Give the brewer a break

Worth Buying

North American Clone Brews: Homebrew Recipes for Your Favorite American and Canadian Beers
Scott R. Russell
Manufacturer: Storey Publishing, LLC
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Clone Brews: Homebrew Recipes for 150 Commercial Beers

Beer Captured

Homebrew Favorites: A Coast-to-Coast Collection of More Than 240 Beer and Ale Recipes

Designing Great Beers: The Ultimate Guide to Brewing Classic Beer Styles

More Homebrew Favorites: More Than 260 New Brews!

ASIN: 1580172466

Book Description

Well over 100 extract, mini-mash, and all-grain recipes that will allow homebrewers to duplicate their favorite award-winning American and Canadian microbrewery beers.

Customer Reviews:

Good, yes. Perfect, not quite.......2007-01-05

There are a few problems with this book, as already stated elsewhere. However, this is a very good book to get you very close to your favorites brews. I've done 5 recipes from this book, and have been pleased with all of them except the Fat Tire clone (try #2 is in the secondary). It saves a lot of research time trying to formulate your own clone recipe. It also is educational.

So Many Recipes! So Few Fermenters.......2006-02-24

I love this book. It is informative, original and full of some very good recipes. There are great instructions for the both beginner and seasoned brewer. There is a good variety of easy recipes and just enough variety in the complex brews to keep you busy for months. Each recipe has a complete header of beer specifics. Great for the beginner who wants to move beyond the basics.

Decent book, unfairly reviewed.......2003-03-24

While there are mistakes in this book (as there are in Clone Brews and Beer Captured), overall this is a worthwhile book-all the recipes I have made from this book have turned out well.

Much of the criticism of this book seems overdone. Beerman11, for instance, says that the extract version of the Immortales recipe asks you to continue the recipe with mini-mash recipe, and that this would require boiling 7.5 gallons. In my copy, the extract recipe asks you to use the mini-mash recipe after the boil--which would result in a boil of 3 gallons.

Admittedly, some of the criticism is fair. The book does not suggest lowering the amount of hops for the all-grain recipes, which is odd. I could not find the barleywine error mentioned elsewhere (although I'm not a big barleywine fan); it is possible mistakes in the first edition were corrected. On the other hand, Russell did actually include lagering in his recipes, which the Szamatulski's did not in Clone Brews (and included only in the Helpful Hints section in Beer Captured, their latest book).

Frankly, I suspect many of the problems with this book are a result of the publishing format, which applies to both of the Szamatulski's books as well. The short, one-page recipe format doesn't leave enough room to discuss technique and other issues involved with making the beer, and I think a lot of useful information is left out. However, I can get this information elsewhere.

Overall, I liked this book better than the original Clone Brews and almost as much as Beer Captured.

Give the brewer a break.......2000-12-02

I bought this book and I am having a hard time with it. I have been an extract brewer for 15 years. I'm responding to "sioux181" when he says "Give a guy a break!", give the brewer a break. I bought the ingredients for two of the recipes in this book and when I started making them, I realized that the conversions he made from mini-mash to extract were incorrect and I had to guess at what to do. How can I give the author a break? I will admit that mistakes happen, but you sound like you must be the author because any homebrewer would be very upset with incorrect information on brewing a beer. Both the errors that were pointed out previously are pretty obvious. However, I don't think the author spent the time to correctly convert to extract. For the Immortale recipe I start with 3 gallons of water for the specialty grains, he tells us to omit some ingredients, then follow the mini-mash recipe. It wasn't until I started that I looked at the mini-mash recipe and it said to sparge with 4 1/2 gallons of water. I have never brewed an extract beer using a 7 1/2 gallon boil (for a 5 gallon batch). The other recipe I made was Whale Tale Brown Ale, with his recipe I would end up with a 5 gallon boil. If I wanted to do a 5 gallon boil, I would switch to all-grain. It is obvious that the conversions are incorrect. Every recipe is like this. I have to guess at how much water to use for the specialty grains and sparging. Also, among various other small but important pieces that are essential to brewing, he has completely forgotten about adding Irish Moss.

Worth Buying.......2000-11-30

I'm glad I read my copy of North American Clone Brews before reading the reviews in this column. Give a guy a break! The book is fine. It does what it purports in a concise and readable manner. So, yes, "White Plains", Mr Russell's book contains a typo. Obviously he did not mean to mash (by my calculations) 16.75 lbs grain in 2.5 gallons of water. Mistakes happen. As to reduce the bittering in a full boil: to many variables affect hop utilization (at best 30%) to worry about this. Keep it simple. Relax, don't worry...."White Plains" and his admirer from Texas clearly have some axe to grind. Odd that with all the "many errors" in the book both 'reviewers' point out the same two-and both got the weight wrong. The variety and scope of this book alone justify its purchase. Having examined the quality of the recipes, I plan to do my brewing this season exclusively from North American Clone Brews.

North American Clone Brews (Clonebrews): Homebrew Recipes for Your Favorite American & Canadian Beers

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North American Clone Brews (Clonebrews): Homebrew Recipes for Your Favorite American & Canadian Beers
Scott R. Russell
Manufacturer: Storey Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000L4BC7K

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