Book Description
Of the many toy books on the market today, only one tackles this enormous and varied field head-onSchroeders Collectible Toys, Antique to Modern! This large format, 512-page book contains values for over 20,000 toys in every category imaginableaction figures, cast-iron and paper lithographed toys, wind-ups, Barbie dolls, model kits, diecast banks, games, playsets, character toys, and many other categories of childrens playthings dating from the nineteenth century to the twenty-first. Compiled by the editors of the countrys bestselling antiques price guide, Schroeders Collectible Toys has been highly acclaimed and enthusiastically accepted by toy collectors and dealers all over the country for ten years! Backing the editors is a fantastic team of researchers and advisors who carefully check every line for up-to-the-minute accuracy. The book also contains coded dealer listings devised to help the reader track down and purchase those hard-to-find items. This easy-to-use guide also lists reference books, clubs, and newsletters that cover specific fields of collector interest. Thats why Schroeders Collectible Toys is the #1 book the toy field has to offer.
Customer Reviews:
SCHROEDERS COLLECTIBLE TOYS: ANTIQUE TO MODERN PRICE GUIDE.......2001-11-29
THIS BOOK IS HIGHLY INFORMATIVE AND UP TO DATE WITH ITS DESCRIPTIONS AND PRICES. I USE THIS BOOK AS MY BIBLE FOR TOYS BECAUSE IT CONTAINS NOT ONLY THE EASY TO GET PRICES, BUT ALSO THE HARD TO FIND TOY PRICES. THE ONLY DRAW BACK THAT I CAN SEE IS I WOULD LIKE TO SEE MORE PICTURES. THIS IS A MUST FOR YOUR TOY COLLECTIBLE LIBRARY OF PRICE BOOKS.
A must have for toy collector's.......1998-01-14
Of all the books in our library ~ this one never gets 'recycled!' Wonderful souce book with excellent information. This book sells out fast in our area! Glad to know that we can now order it on line!
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Schroeder's Collectible Toys, Antique to Modern (Schroeder's Collectible Toys)
Manufacturer: Collector Books
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ASIN: 1574325728 |
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Challenging new collection of paper sculptures designed by renowned origami expert presents 25 intricately detailed paperfolding projects featuring strikingly life-like animals — angelfish, walrus, eagle, turtle, frog, antelope, lobster, tyrannosaurus, more. Fully illustrated step-by-step instructions and hundreds of diagrams guide origamists. Introduction. Instructions. Over 900 diagrams.
Customer Reviews:
Easily the best origami book out there........2003-09-12
This is easily my favorite book on origami. All the diagrams are clear, the models are very detailed, and more importantly, all of them are an awful lot of fun to make, and very rewarding. While it has models from the whole range of difficulty levels, it focuses primarily on the advanced folder.
A little bit of history- my parents bought me this book about 15 years ago, I couldn't have been more than 8 at the time. I had dabbled a little bit in origami before then, but this is the book that got me hooked. I still have that copy, ragged at the edges, pages falling out, but still as fulfulling as it always was. I just can't stop singing the praises of this book- it's that good.
The Ultimate!.......2001-09-30
I Remember When I Got The 3 Final Steps On The Lobster. I Got so Into Origami That I Started Making Lobsters, Crabs And Cranes During School! I Have Loved Origami ever Since I Was 9 Years Old. This Book Was A Little Easy For Me, But For People That Can Only Make Cranes, Tigers, Paper Cups and other Easy Things. This Book is A Little Over Your Head.
Animal Origami for the Enthusiast.......2001-04-07
This is a great book, not quite for beginners, though. In this book, you work your way up through the angel fish (easiest) to the lobster (hardest). The book has great step-by-step intructions which helps you create a model with great detail. This is one of the best origami books I've ever gotten and I definatly recommend it if you're really into origami.
One of the best Montroll books.......2000-12-27
If you want some wonderful challenging and detailed animal origami to fold, you won't be disappointed with this book! It has quite a few of my favorite models. All the ones pictured on the cover are great...I particularly like the wonderful detail on the frog, with eyes and toes. The lobster is another personal favorite of mine.
Great looking models.......1999-06-24
In 1985 I bought this at a book fair when I was 5 years old, and I still think that it is one of the best books on origami out there. The version that I have contains a few confusing instructions (which may have been corrected in later editions), but they can be worked around thanks to the well drawn pictures.
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Pecan culture,
Fred R Brison
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Orchard management and cost of pecan production (F.M)
R. S Washburn
Manufacturer: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Bureau of Agricultural economics and Bureau of plant industry cooperation
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Pecan Culture
Brison Fred R.
Manufacturer: Texas A&M University/author
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Pecan Culture
Fred R. Brison
Manufacturer: Texas A&M Press
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ASIN: B000K0EEMK |
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- Please buy another twin pregnancy book
- This Book is Biased, Unscientific, and Unhelpful
- This book is FANTASTIC!!!
- This is not the best book to prepare you for a mulitples pregnancy
- Scary
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Having Twins And More: A Parent's Guide to Multiple Pregnancy, Birth, and Early Childhood
Elizabeth Noble
Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin
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Book Description
Now in a third edition, the best-selling guide on multiple births, Having Twins - and More, covers everything from conception through childhood. With ongoing advances in assisted reproduction, increasing numbers of women are having twins, triplets, and more, and they're having them later in life. Having Twins -- and More is the original source parents consult for guidance through the multiple birth experience. For three decades Elizabeth Noble, a respected name in the field, has provided expectant parents with everything they need to make informed, safe choices and give birth to healthy babies. This comprehensive handbook emphasizes optimal health as well as physical and emotional adjustments to bearing and raising multiples, and it offers striking new insights into risks, complications, and treatments -- candid information that is gathered only in this book. Featuring tips on setting goals, assembling help, and reducing anxiety the latest nutritional information for mother and child details about the dangers of drugs and bed rest essential exercises for pregnancy and recovery information on the benefits of vaginal birth and breastfeeding facts about cesarean section and recovery tips for helping siblings adjust recommendations for parenting multiples with special needs more than 100 new photographs, charts, and tables exhaustive resources, expanded to include the Internet
Customer Reviews:
Please buy another twin pregnancy book.......2007-09-11
What I find most disturbing about the positive reviewers on here is when they say "women have been birthing babies for millions of years." Yes, they did. And many of them died: the babies and the mothers. ESPECIALLY multiples. Thank God for the medical interventions that have raised the survival rates of both women in childbirth and of infants. I had an emergency c-section at 34 weeks, and without it both my babies and I would have died. I had preeclampsia, which turned into full-blown toxemia. I was carefully monitored throughout my pregnancy by my wonderful pair of obstetricians (who were perfectly content to let me deliver vaginally if my preeclampsia cooperated), along with the perinatologist who kept monthly tabs on my boys' development in case the preeclampsia that had started at 10 weeks suddenly became an imminent danger to all of us. I'm just lucky I was able to carry them as long as I did. If I'd tried for a homebirth, without medical supervision of any kind during my pregnancy, it would have been disastrous. This book tells you that high blood pressure is nothing to worry about - it's normal with twin pregnancies, she says, and to be expected and nothing to seek a doctor's help over. If I'd listened to the advice of Ms. Noble, I would have died and so would my children. And THAT is why I give this book one star (and would give it zero if I could). Her advice on many things is her own opinion, to which she is entitled, but on others she is handing out dangerous advice that is medically unsound and could endanger the lives of both you and your babies.
This book is frightening, pedantic, abrasive, ill-informed, archaic, and dangerous. The small pieces of good information she does provide do not make up for the bad advice that may endanger you and your children, and the good is so badly packaged it's hard to see it. Consider buying one of the other books available for multiple pregnancy instead (I like Connie Agnew and Nancy Bowers). Yes, you don't HAVE to have a c-section when you have multiples. Yes, a multiple pregnancy doesn't necessarily mean a high-risk pregnancy. But it is a FACT that multiple pregnancies are more likely to be high-risk. Carrying multiple babies puts you at a higher risk of developing pregnancy complications, many of which are life-threatening to either you or your babies, or both. It's entirely possible you'll have a totally unremarkable pregnancy and deliver your twins and full-term, vaginally, like my best friend did with her girls. It's equally possible that you'll have complications: preeclampsia, preterm labor, a funneling cervix, gestational diabetes, IUGR, and the mo-mo specific twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome. You don't have to be afraid of a multiple pregnancy and medical interventions, but you should be prepared and informed. This book will not help you in that.
This Book is Biased, Unscientific, and Unhelpful.......2007-09-11
I am pregnant with twins and I've read six books so far on pregnancy and this is the only book I've read that reads like an opinion column and not one based on any medical facts or published studies. Worse yet, the author presents her strong biases only and her views are not ones that are supported by the majority of OB/GYN doctors, including mine. Beyond the misinformation, I just did not enjoy this book at all and thought it was a big waste of money. Among other things, I was really offended by the author's preachy tone and lack of any factual support for her opinions on the evils of all milk and dairy products, circumcision, and C-sections for babies in the breech position. I did not learn a single thing from this book. There are so many other twin books out there and ALL of them are more helpful than this one.
This book is FANTASTIC!!!.......2007-07-03
This is a short but true review: EXCELENT! FANTASTIC! A mind-broader. If you are a parent expecting twins or multiples, go for it, now.
This is not the best book to prepare you for a mulitples pregnancy.......2007-06-19
This is my third pregnancy and I"m pregnant with twins. Already having 2 healthy children has made me pretty confident with the whole pregnancy experience, however, I know nothing about a multiples pregnancy. So I wanted a book that explained the most common problems of a multiples pregnancy. I wanted to know what I should be focusing on and how I need to be taking care of myself. This was the wrong book to pick.
What I didn't need to read in my hormonal state was stories about rare complications like hemorrhaging (she tells the story of a mother who in 1904 suffered 2 severe postpartum hemorrhages). I also didn't need poor advice that contradicts my doctors' recommendations for lots of rest, "Carrying twins means making a double effort to stay in shape." (pg.214). Or my favorite story about a midwife telling a mother pregnant with triplets that she didn't need a lot of obstetric technology or a c-section. (pg. 265) I certainly didn't need judgmental chapters about how circumcision is mutilation or "You will remember your birth experience forever; so will your babies. You want them to enter the world spontaneously (versus having a c-section)." And although I agree that breast is best (because I BF my first 2 children), I know that it isn't always possible- especially with multiples who are in the NICU. Rather than encouraging a mother to make the best decision possible based on all the facts and possible options, the author spends 15 pages pushing why breast is best and 3 pages on the the dangers of bottle feeding. Unbelievable.
I didn't need the author's personal agenda. I really just wanted the facts so that I can make decisions about what is best for me and my family. I found what I was looking for in the book, "When You're Expecting Twins, Triplets, or Quads" by Dr. Barbara Luke. This book has been very informative and objective explaining the most common problems encountered by women with a multiples pregnancy. She makes it clear that the main focus during the pregnancy is to get a lot of rest and adequate nourishment in order to produce babies who are as developed as possible at delivery time. She gives helpful weight guidelines, nutrition and vitamin requirements, some excellent recipes, and some much needed reassurance in what can be a stressful time. She is very NON-judgemental discussing the stages of labor at length as well as what to expect in the operating room. She encourages mother who deliver both ways to "take pleasure and pride in your unique maternal experience." This book is comforting at a time when reassurance is much needed.
Scary.......2007-05-15
I read through all the reviews before posting my own here.
First I want to say that I am whole-heartedly all for trying to do a vaginal birth and standing up for myself in my OB's office and in the delivery room. I don't know the sex of my twins yet, but we will probably not go the circumcision route if they're boys (although I don't really have a good reason for that and we haven't really decided yet). I want what is healthy for my babies and I want to carry them to term and I don't want to go on bedrest, if I can help it. I try to drink 100 oz of water a day and I eat as healthfully as I can.
BUT...my babies are the result of IVF after four years of trying to get past my poor, endometriosis-ridden body. I cannot afford to shop at Whole Foods although I would LOVE to. I like to drink milk and plan to continue to do so. I happen to think that eating meat is probably the best way to get protein. I like cheese and have even discovered that in fact I CAN eat soft cheese (thank god because I'm a cheese nut) as long as the milk that it's made from is pasteurized. I work my butt off at my job and love every second of it and will find a way to continue to do so after these babies are born.
Most importantly, my husband and I already love these babies more than anything and we are constantly in search of the "right" thing to do to help them get into this world. Reading Elizabeth Noble's book kept me up with guilt the night I got to the part about nutrition. I worried that my choices might hurt the babies I've waited so long for. I skimmed through other parts of the book and just could not take anymore. I wish wish wish I'd read reviews before buying this book.
Book Description
This complete guide to multiple pregnancy is now fully revised and brought up to date with a decade's advances in research, in understanding the psychology of parents and twins, and in the author's experise in guiding expectant and new parents through all aspects of having twins. More women than ever are having twins, and this book is ever more needed. And because every multiple pregnancy is by definition a special-needs pregnancy, the parents should have all the knowledge available to promote a successful outcome. Of particular interest in the revised edition are new chapters on prenatal psychology, prevention and treatment of premature delivery, twin bonding, and the experience of loss. The best and latest in prenatal care is stressed, with special attention to the importance of nutrition and physical preparation.
Customer Reviews:
Most Americans Still Don't Like the Truth.......2007-02-10
As a childbirth educator I have reviewed numerous books on birth and can only strongly recommend this book for my students/clients carrying multiples. While every other developed country in the world knows the benefits of hormone-free meats and animal products and evidence-based maternity care, we Americans still suffer under our unrestrained capitalistic model of care. Yes, the author, Eliz. Noble, recommends organic and natural foods and yes, vegetarianism. Food corporations began giving them to animals in the 70's--not for our benefit--but for their's. Faster growth and more production. The American Cancer Society recognizes that vegetarianism is the most effective way to avoid most cancers. But Noble says if vegetarianism isn't for you--go organic. It is also the TRUTH that our bodies have not changed in the last 35 years, but how OBs treat women certainly have. What mainstream Americans consider "in their best interest" advice from their OBs is often actually "liability-risk care" and not "evidence-based care". Noble cites studies and evidence-based care and this is simply too difficult for most mainstream Americans to hear. That's why, out of the 26 placings of developed countries, we rank #25 in maternal mortality and #21 in infant mortality. That's bad, very, very, very bad. For the truth that other developed countries know, read this book.
This author has it on the ball.......2005-04-23
I really appreciated the author's views on protecting children. I found her to be progressive and well-informed when it came to such issues as circumcision. There is a great deal of medical research which shows that circumcision is harmful and traumatizing to the child, and this author tells it like it is.
Very bizarre one-sided perspective.......2004-08-30
I've read most of this book and the more I've read the more bizarre it is. Noble claims that hypertension, anemia, and gestational diabetes are natural aspects of pregnancy that can be harmful if treated. She says bedrest is actually harmful, that ultrasounds increase fetal mortality and left-handedness (???) and a host of other claims. She implies that those carrying multiples many years ago gave birth to healthy 7-lb each infants with none of the problems that some of us having multiples face today. She is an advocate for veganism, water births, home births, doulas and midwives and avoiding pain meds. Though my twins are big and healthy I certainly didn't take the advice in this book.
This is not medically sound advice nor is it objective or open-minded. It is a book of extreme views.
Outdated.......2003-08-08
This was the first book that I bought when I found out that I was expecting twins and I found it to be outdated and full of a lot of biased information. The author has her own thoughts about what type of diet you should eat and advocates natural childbirth but doesn't provide a very comprehensive point of view to assist those that may not want to experience childbirth the way that she has. If you share her views then this book will be very helpful to you.
I also tried contacting a lot of resources at the back of the book and found most of the numbers to be disconnected.
biased and dated.......2002-11-16
I bought this book because it seemed to be highly regarded by other parents of multiples. However, I have been disappointed in the overall content. While Elizabeth Noble does a fine job of pointing out that carrying and delivering multiples is often risky (which I knew -- that's why I wanted a book!), she inserts a lot of personal bias and commentary into passages that are presumably meant to be factual/informational. Those of us who are not strongly interested in an organic, vegetarian/vegan diet, and those of us who are NOT REMOTELY interested in childbirth without pain meds, might find the tone of the book off-putting.
The many cross-references could be valuable resources for the reader, but the references and information do tend to be older. The first edition of the book was published in the early 1980s; subsequent editing has not addressed Ms. Noble's reliance on studies from the 1970s. Without more recent information on twin mortality and complications, it is difficult for the reader to determine what is REALLY worrisome or advisable.
My biggest concern about this book is its focus on all the things that could go wrong. It's true that expectant mothers need to be informed, but we also need to be supported and reminded that the vast majority of twin pregnancies result in two perfectly healthy babies. FWIW, *most* resources that I've seen focus on the scary side -- but the fact that they all do it doesn't make it ideal.
I plan to buy another, more recent book to get me (and my babies!) through my twin pregnancy.
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