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Bonnie's Household Budget Book, Revised Edition: The Essential Guide for Getting Control of Your Money
Bonnie Runyan McCullough Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin ProductGroup: Book Binding: Plastic Comb Similar Items:
ASIN: 0312280319 |
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Make your budget work for you! The book that has helped hundreds of thousands is now completely revised and updated!Bonnie's Household Budget Book is an indispensable, day-to-day workbook for anyone-- parents, singles, freelancers, commissioned salespeople, salaried employees, or chief executive officers-- who want to get control of their home budget and personal finances. It explains how to:* Set up a budget* Estimate-- and balance-- your income and expenses* Reduce debt* Set specific goals and priorities* Adjust your budget to fit changing needsIt contains invaluable fill-in forms for keeping track of everything from daily expenditures and savings accounts to medical expenses, interest and mortgage payments, investments, insurance payments, auto maintenance, utilities usage, and home improvements. It also has a place to make a complete household inventory; a special chapter on how to get your whole family involved in a spending plan; pep talks on how to prevent impulse buying and overuse of credit; and more than 400 hints on how to save money on food, transportation, entertainment, and home energy.Whether you're trying to save money for a new laptop (or house or car) or just struggling to pay last month's bills, you'll find immediate help and direction in Bonnie's clear, practical, enthusiastic advice.Customer Reviews:
Helpful.......2006-11-10
Bonnie's Household Budget Book.......2006-02-01
Helpful Budgeting Basics.......2000-06-08
Great way to budget your household expenses.......1998-11-19
Wow! I now know where all my money goes........1998-08-24
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BONNIES'S HOUSEHOLD BUDGET BOOK
BONNIE RUNYAN MCCULLOUGH Manufacturer: ST MARTENS PRESS ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000SHZIG6 |
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THE ESSENTIAL WORKBOOK FOR GETTING CONTROL OF YOUR MONEY --
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Bonnie's Household Budget Book : The Essential Guide for Getting Control of Your Money
Bonnie Runyan McCullough Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OTEH5G |
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Bonnie's Household Budget Book: The Essential Guide for Getting Control of Your Money
Bonnie Runyan McCullough Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OTJF8A |
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Bonnie's Household Budget Book: The Essential Workbook for Getting Control of Your Money
Bonnie Runyan McCullough Manufacturer: St Martins Pr ProductGroup: Book Binding: Spiral-bound ASIN: B000JC67FG |
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They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers in the Civil War
De Anne Blanton , and Lauren M. Cook Manufacturer: Vintage ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1400033152 Release Date: 2003-09-09 |
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“Albert Cashier” served three years in the Union Army and passed successfully as a man until 1911 when the aging veteran was revealed to be a woman named Jennie Hodgers. Frances Clayton kept fighting even after her husband was gunned down in front of her at the Battle of Murfreesboro. And more than one soldier astonished “his” comrades-in-arms by giving birth in camp.Customer Reviews:
They Fought.......2007-02-12
Grateful for the enlightenment.......2006-07-16
Essential for reenactors portraying a woman in the ranks.......2004-08-13
slightly biased.......2004-05-25
How Women Fought in the Civil War.......2003-11-13
The authors of "They Fought Like Demons" DeAnne Blanton, a military archivist, and Lauren Cook, of Fayetville State University spent more than a decade in researching primary sources to recreate the role of women as Civil War combatants. Their book tells us something about roughly 250 women soldiers, who fought either for the Union or the Confederacy.
The book spends a great deal of space on the motivations that caused women to disguise their sex and enlist. It finds that patriotism and devotion to their respective cause was the chief motive, as it was with men; but also finds that in many cases women enlisted to be with a male loved one, whether husband, lover, father, or brother. This latter motivation seemed important in the accounts and it seems to me different from the motivation of most male combatants.
The book gives good detail on women soldiers and, in the process, of Civil War military life. It describes how many women managed to avoid detection (of course, many were unsuccessful in so doing, particularly if they were wounded), the strength with which they fought, how they were regarded by their peers, both when they were assumed to be men and following the discovery that they were women, how women were treated as prisoners of war, in hospitals, and the extent of female casualties in the war. The book discusses the lives of some of the women after their career as soldiers -- one of the most interesting aspects of the book -- and it recounts some of the literature that was published about women soldiers during the Civil War era. There was more of this than I had supposed.
At the most basic level, Blanton and Cook make a convincing case that women fought in the war and contributed as soldiers on both sides. Women soldiers fought and sustained casualties at every major Civil War battle. I am a student of the Battle of Gettysburg and learned that a Confederate woman soldier died in Pickett's charge and that there were five women soldiers who were known to have fought at Gettysburg. There were also women prisoners at the notorious facility at Andersonville.
The organization of the book makes it difficult to follow the activities of most of the women in detail. This difficulty is also the result of the nature of the historical records. But two or three of the female combatants left memoirs or other records which perhaps could have been highlighted more effectively in this account.
It is worth remembering that there were about 2,750,000 combatants in the Civil War, 2 million for the Union, 750,000 for the Confederacy. Blanton and Cook document about 250 women soldiers and accept the general estimate of about 400 women soldiers serving in the War. This is statistically a very small amount. (One percent of 2.75 million is 27,500)It is also, of course, a tiny fractional percentage of the available pool of women. Thus, one should be hesitant about drawing broad global conclusions from this evidence. Blanton and Cook generally use their data wisely and circumspectly.
The Civil War remains the pivotal experience in our Nation's history. In many respects, it remains a shared American experience. Thus, it is good to have inclusive histories and to remember the role played by women in combat. Blanton and Cook show that during Civil War times, it was known that there were small numbers of determined women in the ranks. This book does a service by recreating this part of of our national experience.
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They Fought Like Demons - Women Soldiers in the American Civil War
DeAnne ; Cook, Lauren M. Blanton Manufacturer: Sutton Publishing Ltd ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000TYXLAI |
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They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers in the American Civil War
Manufacturer: Louisiana State University Press, 2002 ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000I8Y9NI |
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They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers in the American Civil War.(Book Review): An article from: Journal of Southern History
Virginia J. Laas Manufacturer: Southern Historical Association ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B00082J5UQ Release Date: 2005-07-31 |
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This digital document is an article from Journal of Southern History, published by Southern Historical Association on May 1, 2004. The length of the article is 679 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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They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers in the American Civil War
DeAnne and Lauren M. Cook Blanton Manufacturer: LSU Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000PMH73G |
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Sex, Botany, and Empire: The Story of Carl Linnaeus and Joseph Banks (Revolutions in Science)
Patricia Fara Manufacturer: Columbia University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0231134266 |
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Enlightenment botany was replete with sexual symbolism -- to the extent that many botanical textbooks were widely considered pornographic. Carl Linnaeus's controversial new system for classifying plants based on their sexual characteristics, as well as his use of language resonating with erotic allusions, provoked intense public debate over the morality of botanical study. And the renowned Tahitian exploits of Joseph Banks -- whose trousers were reportedly stolen while he was inside the tent of Queen Oberea of Tahiti -- reinforced scandalous associations with the field. Yet Linnaeus and Banks became powerful political and scientific figures who were able to promote botanical exploration alongside the exploitation of territories, peoples, and natural resources. Sex, Botany, and Empire explores the entwined destinies of these two men and how their influence served both science and imperialism.
Patricia Fara reveals how Enlightenment botany, under the veil of rationality, manifested a drive to conquer, subdue, and deflower -- all in the name of British empire. Linnaeus trained his traveling disciples in a double mission -- to bring back specimens for the benefit of the Swedish economy and to spread the gospel of Linnaean taxonomy. Based in London at the hub of an international exchange and correspondence network, Banks ensured that Linnaeus's ideas became established throughout the world. As the president of the Royal Society for more than forty years, Banks revolutionized British science, and his innovations placed science at the heart of trade and politics. He made it a policy to collect and control resources not only for the sake of knowledge but also for the advancement of the empire. Although Linnaeus is often celebrated as modern botany's true founder, Banks has had a greater long-term impact. It was Banks who ensured that science and imperialism flourished together, and it was he who first forged the interdependent relationship between scientific inquiry and the state that endures to this day.
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Linnaeus' tercentenary.......2007-03-27
Read this for a science project.......2006-04-17
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Cardinals (Animal Kingdom)
Julie Murray Manufacturer: Buddy Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Library Binding ASIN: 1577657047 |
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Cardinals (Birds)
James E. Gerholdt Manufacturer: Abdo & Daughters Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Library Binding ASIN: 1562395858 |
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Northern Cardinal (Wild Bird Guides)
Gary Ritchison Manufacturer: Stackpole Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0811731006 |
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Interesting information.......2006-09-05
Northern Cardinal.......2005-03-14
An impressive, informative guide.......2004-01-23
Fine handbook........1998-07-31
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The Cardinal (Corrie Herring Hooks Series)
June Osborne Manufacturer: Univ of Texas Pr ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0292711476 |
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In this inviting guide, June Osborne and Barbara Garland follow a year in the life of the Northern Cardinal with a fact-filled text and glowing color photographs. They describe how cardinals stake out territory and choose mates, find a nesting site and incubate their eggs, feed the young and prepare them for full-fledged independence. The Cardinal also explores the special relationship that humans have with their favorite redbirds. Osborne traces the symbolic use of cardinals as state birds (Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, North Carolina, Ohio, Virginia, and West Virginia) and athletic mascots and shows how they appear on everything from postage stamps to Christmas cards, as well as in fine art, literature, and Native American folklore.Customer Reviews:
well crested.......2007-07-18
For the love of cardinals.......2003-10-03
A tribute to the Cardinal.......2001-08-05
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The cardinal sings again: A memoir of upstate New York and northern Pennsylvania
John T Bassett Manufacturer: Windswept Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: 1557871434 |
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Cardinals and Other Songbirds (World Book's Animals of the World)
Meish Goldish Manufacturer: World Book ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 071661216X |
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Carving & Painting a Northern Cardinal With Bob Guge (Carving & Painting , No 4)
Curtis J. Badger , and Bob Guge Manufacturer: Stackpole Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 081172753X |
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& 220 color photos & 7 x 9. Step-by-step instructions illustrated with color photos.& Full-scale pattern World champion Bob Guge applies his artistry to a perennial favorite, the northern cardinal, in the latest in Stackpole's Carving & Painting series. Guge is one of an elite few who revolutionized the craft in the late 1970s, and he remains a strong influence today. He is best known for his miniatures and songbirds: A carving of northern cardinals won him his fourth world championship in 1991. Here is a detailed guide to every step in the process, from sketching the pattern onto a block of tupelo gum to painting and finishing the completed bird. Every skill and step is documented with multiple photos and explicit captions. These books work! Even beginning carvers rave about their clarity and thoroughness. Also includes background information and photos of the live bird. Curtis Badger is author of Stackpole's Bird Carving Basics and Fish Carving Basics series, as well as the three previous books in the Carving & Painting series.Customer Reviews:
Helpful for carving any songbird........2007-05-07
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How to Carve a Cardinal: A Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners
Anthony Hillman Manufacturer: Dover Publications ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 048628087X |
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The Price of Peace
Cahal Brandan Cardinal Daly Manufacturer: Blackstaff Pr ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0856404713 |
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Are urban forests ecological traps for understory birds? An examination using Northern cardinals
L.F.V. Leston , and A.D. Rodewald Manufacturer: Elsevier Science and Technology - Edoc Account ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B000H1QX0S |
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