Portuguese Water Dog Champions, 1983-1986

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Interesting historical perspective.......2000-07-26

Although pictures are not too clear and quality not great, it is still interesting to anyone who studies PWD geneology.

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Essential to anyone interested in dyeing yarn

Packing in everything from dyeing recipes to disposal advice

The Dyer's Companion (Companion series, The)
Dagmar Klos
Manufacturer: Interweave Press
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Binding: Spiral-bound

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ASIN: 1931499519

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An essential reference for anyone who wants to dye fabric or yarns, this accessible guide offers indispensable information on equipment and supplies, types of dye, safety procedures, and record keeping. Step-by-step dye recipes that produce consistent and successful results are provided. Beginners will gain the confidence to add color to fiber while seasoned textile artisans will discover useful tips and hints. An eight-page color section with 100 skeins of yarn in a range of color gradations and an explanation of the fundamentals of color theory provide dyers with encouragement to explore their own dyeing variations.

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Essential to anyone interested in dyeing yarn.......2005-08-22

From indigo to synthetic vat dyes, the procedures, safety precautions and methods to create your own beautifully custom colored yarns is in this small but power-packed spiral manual. I myself had prepared an indigo bath once, and enjoyed watching the slightly yellow bath turn greenish yarn startlingly blue-jeans blue when shaken in air (Utterly fascinating. If you teach school chemistry or home school, this manual could be a semester of science work.)

Everything is included here, from equipment to recipes to weights and measures. In addition are suggestions on how to keep records (important if you want to reproduce anything again, and a full color section of yarn swatches.)

Dyeing is fun, whether you use Kool-Aid food dye or prepare natural materials like barks, roots or berries. But there are safety measures to heed, so I recommend this book as an essential if you want to undertake this art in your fiber work.

Packing in everything from dyeing recipes to disposal advice.......2005-03-11

Any crafter who works with fibers and fabric and is interested in custom dye work will consider this little spiral-bound book an essential reference packing in everything from dyeing recipes to disposal advice and a color section of color-graduated yarn samples. The Dyer's Companion is no mere 'how to tye dye' craft book, but a serious fabric artist's guide to working with color in diverse materials.

The Reader's Companion to the American Presidency (Reader's Companion)

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A Great Presidential Resource
A Great Presidential Resource
An objective view of POTUS.

The Reader's Companion to the American Presidency (Reader's Companion)

Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin
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Editors Alan Brinkley and Davis Dyer have compiled an excellent reference volume with The Reader's Companion to the American Presidency, a set of intelligent minibiographies on the commanders in chief. Everyone gets his due, from George Washington to Bill Clinton (whose entry is current enough to cover his impeachment in 1998 and Senate trial in 1999). Even William Henry Harrison, the man who served for only a month--he reportedly caught a fatal cold at his inauguration--receives seven pages of attention. "If Harrison's presidency was insignificant," writes Marc W. Kruman, "his pursuit of the office transformed the history of American presidential elections." Several of the contributors offer reduced versions of full-length biographies they have already written, such as William McFeely on Ulysses S. Grant and Robert Dallek on Lyndon B. Johnson. Some of the authors editorialize only casually, while others come down hard on their subjects, such as Roger Morris on Richard Nixon: "There was also something dark and ugly about his long and never peaceful public career, in which muck and money were inescapable, inseparable from politics or policy." By and large, however, the entries are respectful each is a good summary of its man, and all include a brief bibliographic note suggesting to readers where they can go to learn more. The Reader's Companion to the American Presidency is a welcome addition to any personal library on U.S. history. --John J. Miller

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What makes some presidents triumphant leaders and others disastrous failures? How has the presidency evolved from the institution established by the Founding Fathers? Which president was the first to be elected with no previous political experience? In this wonderfully engaging book, readers will discover the answers to such questions and gain a rich understanding of the personalities, policies, and tragic flaws of our nation's chief executives. With forty-one essays in all, by such eminent historians as Eric Foner, Joyce Appleby, James Henretta, Alan Taylor, Jean Baker, Robert Dallek, Drew McCoy, and Karen Orren, THE READER'S COMPANION showcases some of the most provocative interpretive history being written today. Was Madison, for example, an indecisive bungler who led his country to war or a principled politician whose leadership was appropriate to his time? Ranging from the tragedy of Hoover's administration to Johnson's Great Society, from Carter's human rights agenda to the current administration's challenges, these engagingly written pieces shed light on the hubris, and sometimes the brilliance, of our leaders. Fully illustrated with timelines, data boxes, and short essays on presidential families, this book is an indispensable resource for the serious historian and the curious reader alike.

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A Great Presidential Resource.......2006-06-14

(originally posted May 5, 2000)
The Reader's Companion to the American Presidency serves as a nice overview of the Presidents without being a mere laundry list of facts and "did you know?" trivia. The essay contributions of dozens of well-respected historians give a concise, but remarkably comprehensive overview of each President's administration and background. A timeline at the bottom of the page and sidebars about U.S. population, immigration, commerce statistics, and information about the first family nicely complement each section. While the essays offer insights about the accomplishments and failures of each man, the book avoids being overly "heavy-handed" or judgmental.
A great feature is the "For Further Reading & Research" section which recommends biographies and reveals where one can find the President's papers for more in-depth reading of the President and his times. The book is not photo-heavy, but many of the black-and-white photos offered are refreshingly different from the ones we might be used to seeing (e.g. Gilbert Stuart's rendition of Washington is absent). This professional and well-organized hardcover would make a great gift and first-stop resource for anyone's library.

A Great Presidential Resource.......2000-05-05

The Reader's Companion to the American Presidency serves as a nice overview of the Presidents without being a mere laundry list of facts and "did you know?" trivia. The essay contributions of dozens of well-respected historians give a concise, but remarkably comprehensive overview of each President's administration and background. A timeline at the bottom of the page and sidebars about U.S. population, immigration, commerce statistics, and information about the first family nicely complement each section. While the essays offer insights about the accomplishments and failures of each man, the book avoids being overly "heavy-handed" or judgmental.

A great feature is the "For Further Reading & Research" section which recommends biographies and reveals where one can find the President's papers for more in-depth reading of the President and his times. The book is not photo-heavy, but many of the black-and-white photos offered are refreshingly different from the ones we might be used to seeing (e.g. Gilbert Stuart's rendition of Washington is absent). This professional and well-organized hardcover would make a great gift and first-stop resource for anyone's library.

An objective view of POTUS........2000-03-12

Washington was a great President, right? Lincoln's presidency was without blemish, correct? Bill Clinton was the only President to have an affair or two? Well what if these things happened before? How does each President stack up against the other? This book might just have the answers you're looking for.

Historians like Eric Foner, Joyce Appleby, Alan Taylor, Jean Baker, Karen Orren and others put together 41 essays on the man who has held the highest political office in the land and they give the insight into the up and downs of the administration.

You'll read about the triumphs, the failures, the wins, the losses and the scandals, all put into the proper perspective of the time in which they took place. Excellent companion to any history book, with information that you may not find anywhere else.

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Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate "reader friendly" type sizes have been chosen for each title-offering clear, accurate, and readable text. All editions are complete and unabridged, and feature Introductions and Afterwords.This edition of The Call of the Wild includes a Foreword, Biographical Note, and Afterword by Dwight Swain.Kidnapped form his safe California home. Thrown into a life-and-death struggle on the frozen Artic wilderness. Half St. Bernard, half shepard, Buck learns many hard lessons as a sled dog: the lesson of the leash, of the cold, of near-starvation and cruelty. And the greatest lesson he learns from his last owner, John Thornton: the power of love and loyalty.Yet always, even at the side of the human he loves, Buck feels the pull in his bones, an urge to answer his wolf ancestors as they howl to him.

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Well read, abridged version........2007-05-09

This is not a good version for a classroom setting. The cover doesn't reveal this.

Jack London - Part Prolific Novelist, Part Wolf.......2007-04-15

After reading "The Call of the Wild" or more precisely, after being transferred to another place and time, or even more to the point after being totally submerged into the being of this animal, I'm left completely awe-struck by London's work.

To see what Buck saw, to feel the forces and the instincts that he felt... that is the power of this book. Here's a passage from the third chaper to illustrate what I mean:

"At the mouth of the Tahkeena, one night after super, Dub (a member of the sled-dog team) turned up a snowshoe rabbit, blundered it, and missed. A hundred yards away was a camp of the Northwest Police, with fifty dogs, huskies all, who joined the chase. The rabbit sped down the river, turned off into a small creek, up the frozen bed of which it held steadily. It ran lightly on the surface of the snow, while the dogs plowed through by main strength. Buck led the pack, sixty strong, around bend after bend, but he could not gain. He lay down low to the race, whining eagerly, his splendid body flashing forward, leap by leap, in the wan white moonlight. And leap by leap, like some pale frost wraith, the snowshoe rabbit flashed on ahead.

All the stirring of old instincts which at stated periods drives men out from the sounding cities to forest and plain to kill things by chemically propelled leaden pellets, the blood lust, the joy to kill--all this was Buck's, only it was infinitely more intimate. He was ranging at the head of the pack, running the wild thing down, the living meat, to kill with his own teeth and wash his muzzle to the eyes in warm blood.

There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive. This ecstasy, this forgetfulness of living, comes to the artist, caught up and out of himself in a sheet of flame; it comes to the soldier, war-mad on a stricken field and refusing quarter; it came to Buck, leading the pack, sounding the old wolf-cry, straining after the food that was alive and that fled swiftly before him through the moonlight. He was sounding the deeps of his nature, and of the parts of his nature that were deeper than he, going back into the womb of Time. He as mastered by the sheer surging of life, the tidal wave of being, the perfect joy of each separate muscle, joint, and sinew in that it was everything that was not death, that it was aglow and rampant, expressing itself in movement, flying exultantly under the stars and over the face of dead matter that did not move."

The call of the wild .......2007-01-18

The call of the wild, by Jack London is a great book for all ages. Buck (the main character) is a tame dog in Santa Clara California living with Judge Miller, a man that everyone new and enjoyed. This changed when a rush for gold in Yukon made men need strong dogs to pull their sleds. Buck was a very strong dog and as a result, was kidnapped. He was then taken to Yukon where there was harsh snow and was very cold. He was treated poorly until he met John Thorton. John Thorton was very kind to Buck but then one day he died. Buck was left in the wild and became friends with a wild animal. I personally like it because it is always telling you what is happining in great detail. Jack London also got right to the point making it easy to understand.

the call of the wild .......2007-01-18

The call of the wild by Jack London is a great book for all ages. Buck (the main character) is a tame dog in Santa Clara California living with Judge Miller a man that evryone new and enjoyed. All this changed when a rush for gold in Yukon. These men needed strong dogs and because of the fact Buck was strong he was kidnapped. He was then tuck to Yukon where there was harsh snow and was very cold. he was treated poorly intill he met John Thorton. John Thorton was very kind to Buck but then one day he died. Buck was left in the wild and became friends with a wild animal and learned to live in the wild.

Call of the Wild.......2006-11-13

The book The Call of the Wild is an excellent book. It is about a dog named Buck, who had to struggle while turning from a tame dog to a wild dog. He ran into cruel people, but a man named John Thorton saved his life. Buck and Thorton were devoted to each other until Thorton was killed. Buck then had to live by himself in the wild. I enjoyed this book because of the interesting plot and descriptive phrases. I would recommend this book to other fourth and fifth graders because it is marvelous.

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AutoCAD 2008 Companion
James A Leach , and James Dyer
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 007340246X

AutoCAD 2008 Companion with AutoDESK 2008 Inventor DVD

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AutoCAD 2008 Companion with AutoDESK 2008 Inventor DVD
James A Leach , and James Dyer
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0077228693

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AutoCAD 2008 Companion is designed to teach AutoCAD 2008 in a one-semester course through its coverage of solid modeling and 2-D design and drafting essentials. AutoCAD 2008 Companion can be used on its own or as a companion to other graphics books, such as Fundamentals of Graphics Communication or Technical Graphics Communication by Bertoline and Wiebe. Its engineering, architecture, design, construction, and manufacturing examples makes this textbook suitable for a wide range of students. AutoCAD 2008 Companion is the market leader for all CAD software and is used by nearly two million students and professionals in architecture, engineering, construction, and design. This is a Complete Autocad tool, based on industry and educational needs. This text offers Autocad Inventor Software FREE with the text!

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The Dyer's Companion
Dagmar Klos
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Binding: Spiral-bound
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The Dyer's Companion
Elijah Bemis
Manufacturer: Dover
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The Dyers Companion
Elijah Bemiss
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The Nature Companions Practical Skywatching

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The Nature Companions Practical Skywatching
Robert Burnham , Alan Dyer , Robert A. Garfinkle , Martin George , Jeff Kanipe , and David H. Levy
Manufacturer: Fog City Press
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ASIN: 1740893786

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How to Read Star Charts and the Night Sky. Equipment for Skywatchers. Exploring the Universe

The American practical dyer's companion;: Comprising a description of the principal dye-stuffs and chemicals used in dyeing ... embracing in all over eight ... dyed samples of raw materials and fabrics

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The American practical dyer's companion;: Comprising a description of the principal dye-stuffs and chemicals used in dyeing ... embracing in all over eight ... dyed samples of raw materials and fabrics
Frederick J Bird
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Specialty Nurseries is a comprehensive guide to growers who offer unusual, well-grown plants that are not found in garden centers. More than 300 specialty mail-order nurseries are indexed by location and category of plant. Each includes information ordering.

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Taylor's Guide to Specialty Nurseries

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This is a scarce guide to specialty florists throughout the country covering everything from herbs to cacti to bearded iris. 245 pages INDEXED.

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Bartholomew and the Oobleck easily qualifies as a Seuss classic, first told way back in 1949. And its message--the importance of owning up to your mistakes and saying that you're sorry--is as timeless now as it was then.

Bartholomew Cubbins serves thanklessly as pageboy to King Derwin of Didd, a headstrong man who's decided he isn't satisfied with mere sun, fog, rain, and snow. ("Humph! The things that come down from my sky!") He wants something else, something uniquely his own, so he calls in his royal magicians ("Shuffle, duffle, muzzle, muff. Fista, wista, mista-cuff. We are men of groans and howls, mystic men who eat boiled owls"). Happy to oblige, the magicians tell the king they can make "oobleck" fall from the sky, only nobody--not even the magicians--knows just what oobleck is. But after a night of arcane incantations, everyone in the kingdom gets a taste of the stuff (in the case of the Captain of the Guard, literally!), as the green, gluey goo gums up everything in sight.

Of course, Bartholomew tries to help, but it's up to the king to save the day, as he learns to utter not magic words but simple words with magic in them: "I'm sorry." (Ages 4 to 8) --Paul Hughes

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Illus. in color by the author. An ooey-gooey, green oobleck was not exactly what the king had in mind when he ordered something extra-special from his royal magicians.

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OOBLECK.......2007-09-02

An excellent item and although the cost to get it here quickly was expensive, it was worth it. Thank you

Always loved the book........2007-05-10

I had loved the book as a child myself. So I bought it for my neice. We read it together and she loves it as well. I haven't met a child (or adult) that doesn't like Dr. Seuss!

A classic for any age.......2007-01-12

This was a gift for my niece. The adults in the room enjoyed it as much as she did.

Seuss is classic.......2007-01-05

I bought this book because it brought back such good memories of my child's childhood and my own as well. I look forward to sharing it with my grandchildren someday. This is a great book to read!

everyone should have oobleck!.......2006-12-13

if you love doctor Seuss then this one is a classic for the collection. a bit weird but then that's the doctor...

Oobleck: What Do Scientists Do (Great Explorations in Math & Science (Gems) Series)

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Excelent Teacher Resource

Oobleck: What Do Scientists Do (Great Explorations in Math & Science (Gems) Series)

Manufacturer: University of California, Berkeley, Lawrence
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ASIN: 0912511648

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Excelent Teacher Resource.......2000-07-16

This book takes a teacher through four wonderful lessons that provide students with a clear understanding of the methods that scientists use while doing science. Students learn while having fun. Provides hands-on as well as minds-on science. A must for all teachers. Watch out--you might even have fun.

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Bartholomew and the Oobleck
Dr. Seuss
Manufacturer: Random House
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0679858113

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Bartholomew and the Oobleck
Dr. Suess
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BARTHOLOMEW AND THE OOBLECK

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Bartholomew And The Oobleck
Dr. Seuss Theodor Seuss Geisel
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Bartholomew and the Oobleck
Dr. Seuss
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Bartholomew and the Oobleck

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Hatful of Seuss, A: Five Favorite Dr. Seuss Stories Horton Hears Awho!, If I Ran the Zoo, Sneetches, Dr. Seuss's Sleep Book, Bartholomew and the Oobleck

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Hatful of Seuss, A: Five Favorite Dr. Seuss Stories Horton Hears Awho!, If I Ran the Zoo, Sneetches, Dr. Seuss's Sleep Book, Bartholomew and the Oobleck
Dr. Seuss
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The national reading curriculum's Oobleck: The current state of federally mandated reading instruction bears an uncanny resemblance to a certain Dr. Seuss ... teachers.: An article from: Phi Delta Kappan

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The national reading curriculum's Oobleck: The current state of federally mandated reading instruction bears an uncanny resemblance to a certain Dr. Seuss ... teachers.: An article from: Phi Delta Kappan
James W. Venable
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This digital document is an article from Phi Delta Kappan, published by Thomson Gale on May 1, 2006. The length of the article is 2059 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: The national reading curriculum's Oobleck: The current state of federally mandated reading instruction bears an uncanny resemblance to a certain Dr. Seuss story--much to the dismay of Mr. Venable and his fellow reading teachers.
Author: James W. Venable
Publication: Phi Delta Kappan (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 87 Issue: 9 Page: 693

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