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Golden Guide to Educating One's Child.......2003-02-11
A terrific guide to those awkward moments. An incredible help to us in rearing our little ones. The book is written with tremendous insight and care. A good, informative guide to helping a parent educate their child on many a difficult subject.
This book has been my lifesafer.......2002-07-29
I first read the book 3 years ago and have used the advise nonstop. I have searched for another copy because mine is so dog eared from use. I found it easy to read and so user friendly. The author knows her stuff and shares it with wisdom and a good sense of humor. It is not intimidating like other sex books related to kids. It helps you get a handle on what to say and do as you try your best to raise sexually healthy kids.
A must read for fathers and mothers.......1999-08-01
This book was extremely helpful for me in educating my children. The writer successfully covers delicate and provacative topics and as a parent armed me with the right advice.
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- Insightful into the common soldiers of this conflict
- An amazing account of the men who fought the Civil War.
- An amazing account of the men who fought the Civil War.
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Rebels and Yankees: The Fighting Men of the Civil War
William C. Davis
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Insightful into the common soldiers of this conflict.......2006-06-16
A well written and well illustrated look into the common soldiers of North and South of this conflict.
Nicely written and well illustrated. A good book to have for those interested in this subject.
An amazing account of the men who fought the Civil War........1998-09-28
This book is a fantastic source of information about the lives of the men fighting the Civil War. It is not focused on causes of the war or the governmental issues that fueled it except where these related the personal lives of the men who fought. It was about common men: Yankee and Rebel. It gives us a snapshot of their passion, the conditions they endured, their joys and sorrows.
The book shows us how common men of all walks of life, and nationalities became soldiers (or not). There are many excerpts and quotes from the people who were there. It gives insight into how they fought, the equipment they used, the pride they felt and what it was like when it was over.
The pictoral history in this book is wonderful. There are pictures from the actual conflict as well as pictures of artifacts photographed later.
Davis' writing style creates such a vivid picture of the world these men lived in. This book is a long way from the dry accounts many history books provide.
I highly recommend this book!
An amazing account of the men who fought the Civil War........1998-09-28
This book is a fantastic source of information about the lives of the men fighting the Civil War. It is not focused on causes of the war or the governmental issues that fueled it except where these related the personal lives of the men who fought. It was about common men: Yankee and Rebel. It gives us a snapshot of their passion, the conditions they endured, their joys and sorrows.
The book shows us how common men of all walks of life, and nationalities became soldiers (or not). There are many excerpts and quotes from the people who were there. It gives insight into how they fought, the equipment they used, the pride they felt and what it was like when it was over.
The pictoral history in this book is wonderful. There are pictures from the actual conflict as well as pictures of artifacts photographed later.
Davis' writing style creates such a vivid picture of the world these men lived in. This book is a long way from the dry accounts many history books provide.
I highly recommend this book!
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- Soldiers brave and true
- essential reading for military history enthusiasts everywher
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Fighting Men of the Civil War (Rebels & Yankees)
William C. Davis , and
Russ A. Pritchard
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A must for any Civil War library. The sweeping histories of the War Between the States often overlook the men in whose blood that history was written. This account goes a long way toward redressing the balance in favor of the men in the ranks. The reader follows the soldiers from enlistment and training to campaigning. Attention is also given to oft-forgotten groups such as the sailors and black troops. No effort has been spared to include rare war era photographs and color photos of rare artifacts. Engagingly written by William C. Davis, the author of more than thirty books on the American Civil War. Writes professor James M. McPherson, "The most readable, authoritative, and beautifully designed illustrated history of the American Civil War." Also in the series: Battlefields and Commanders.
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Soldiers brave and true.......2005-08-15
An oversized, handsomely illustrated look at the Civil War, with emphasis on the soldiers themselves - camp life, uniforms, weapons, etc. Perhaps the most interesting and rewarding chapter, because it is so rarely dealt with in most other books about the war, is the one entitled "Willing Spirits & Weak Flesh," all about the sordidness of army life: drunkenness, prostitution, theft, and insubordination, among many other miseries. An excellent book that focuses on the human side of war, not the politics, the generalship, the maneuvering. An excellent addition to anyone's Civil War library.
essential reading for military history enthusiasts everywher.......2000-10-07
An unrivalled source of information on the uniforms, insignia and appearance of the civil war fighting men. the Fighting Men of the Civil War covers subjects as diverse as the drill movements, the life at sea,Zouaves,Black troops,weaponry and many more. Each page is fully illustrated,includes more that 100 photographs and diagrams, as well as alot of pages of full colour artwork that provide the precise level of detail demanded by the enthusiast or any historians. Hundreds of photos of real items use in the civil war make this book one of the most enduring and popular military publications ever produced. Willian C Davis, has produce accessible reference resource for military history enthusiasts of all
This book should be One of the handiest one-volume sources of information ever assembled: serious, and surprisingly hard to find, information on the nation and its people is interspersed with the many colorful characters and incidents so often associated with this dramatic conflict.
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The American Southwest boasts a greater variety of bird species than can be found anywhere else in North America. This makes the region a mecca for serious and casual bird lovers alike. In Birds of the American Southwest, noted authority and author Lynn Hassler Kaufman describes and depicts, in full color photographs, more than eighty-five key bird species, including several which are threatened or endangered. This indispensable field guide describes in detail the habitat, field marks, and characteristic behaviors for each species. Birds of the American Southwest also provides birders with useful tips on where to find and observe them in the Sonoran and Chihuahuan deserts and "sky island" mountain ranges of southern Arizona and New Mexico.
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Yazzie Johnson (Navajo) and Gail Bird (Santo Domingo / Laguna) have been creative collaborators in jewelry-making since 1972 and are considered in the first rank of Native American artists. Shared Images is a retrospective of their career, spanning the early 1970s to the present.
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Pueblo Designs: The "Rain Bird"
H. P. Mera
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ASIN: 0486220737 |
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Decorative art that ranks among the most beautiful created by primitive peoples. Endlessly adaptable motifs revolving around the "Rain Bird" motif depicted in 48 plates, 26 in 2 colors. Stunning, immensely useful designs incorporating the "thunderbird" — first seen on 18th-century Zuni pottery. Tribal variations. 176 illustrations.
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- For anyone with a keen interest in American Southwest birds
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Early Southwest Ornithologists 1528-1900 (Southwest Center Series)
Dan L. Fischer
Manufacturer: University of Arizona Press
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Identifies more than 100 early ornithologists and explorers who contributed to our understanding of the region's avian life. Fischer tells why they came to the region, what they saw, who described and named the new discoveries, and who were the first to sketch or paint new birds. Featuring a comprehensive bibliography and maps that portray the march of exploration, this is a major sourcebook for ornithology and an essential volume for anyone interested in birds and birding.
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For anyone with a keen interest in American Southwest birds.......2002-04-13
Early Southwest Ornithologists 1528-1900 by Dan L. Fischer is a fascinating history of the study of birds and the ecology of the American southwest, influenced as the science was by more practical matters such as the Mexican-American War. An expansive bibliography and selection of maps help chart the course of compiled ornithology over the centuries. Overall, Early Southwest Ornithologists 1528-1900 is a fact-filled sourcebook, and very highly recommended reading for anyone with a keen interest in American Southwest birds and those who have studied them.
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- A thought-provoking story of the Mexican wolves.
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The New Wolves: The Return of the Mexican Wolf to the American Southwest
Rick Bass
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Braggart of a writer is a bore..........1999-03-07
Rick Bass, You have hardly the talent you say you have in the interview in writers market 99, your writing is dull and its ridiculously lame you won the james jones fellowship given your publishing credits...Uh, well at least your last novel or whatever you call it got trashed by the critics, and they seem to agree with me. Quit plagiarizing yourself and try to interest the reader, you arrogant tree-hugger. I do, however, think you might write a great one one day, but it is highly doubtful due to your poor attitude etc...
A thought-provoking story of the Mexican wolves........1999-01-18
I have long been an admirer and fan of Rick Bass' works. He is a nature writer that understands the importance of landscape and wild places and creatures to the human spirit and the necessity to have all the appropriate elements of a particular landscape to make it complete. The Mexican wolf has been gone from the American Southwest for 70 years and Bass argues that the reintroduction of these wolves into this area is one of rightness and inevitability, as the landscape wants and cries for the wolves to be here. The book is sprinkled with a varied cast of characters, from Ted Turner and an assortment of wildlife biologists, (the heros of this story,) ranchers, students, amd many others. All points of view are thoughtfully considered and also the land and the wolves are described in the haunting manner that only Rick Bass can fashion. A great book for anyone interested in wolves, ecology, biology, or just landscape and nature and our human connection to it. I would highly recommend this book.
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Pueblo Birds and Myths
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- What a family!
- A Fascinating Family
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Rare Birds: An American Family
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What does a writer do when he's got a family that includes a blacklisted member of the Hollywood Ten, the brains behind Tony the Tiger and the Marlboro Man, a trio of gay puppeteers, the world's leading birdwatcher, sixties hippies, a Dutch stowaway who served in an all-black regiment during the American Civil War, a mother of unusual compassion and understanding, and a convicted murderer? He tells their stories and secrets, illuminating 150 years of American life along the way.
Dan Bessie begins the journey through his family history with his great-grandfather in the cargo hold of a ship bound for New York on the storm-tossed Atlantic. What follows are stories of his grandfather's various entrepreneurial schemes (including a folding butter box business), a grandmother who was voted “New York's Prettiest Shop Girl” (and who resisted the recruitment efforts of various city madams), and his uncle Harry's Turnabout Theater in Los Angeles (a renowned puppet theater drawing patrons as diverse as Shirley Temple, Ray Bradbury, and Albert Einstein).
Through inherited journals and literary effects, Bessie comes to a new understanding of his father, Alvah. An actor and writer, he fought in the Lincoln Brigade during the Spanish Civil War. When he returned to the States, he headed to the Warner backlots to begin a screenwriting career. But as congress began investigating radicals in the film industry, Alvah was blacklisted for his Communist sympathies and was soon sent to jail as one of the Hollywood Ten.
His grandmother's cousin, Sidney Lenz, wrote Lenz on Bridge, a classic guide to the game of contract bridge. Bessie describes what was billed as the Bridge Battle of the Century, a 1931 match between Lenz and an upstart opponent that was covered by journalists from all over the world. Bessie's brother-in-law Wes Wilson designed rock and roll posters for the Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco during the 1960s, living a counterculture existence vastly different from the bridge-mad Depression Era.
Cousin Michael was heir to the compulsive storytelling characterizing many of the Bessies. He found his niche in publishing, co-founding the Atheneum Press and shaping books by people such as Anwar Sadat, Edward Albee, and Aldous Huxley. With an equally impressive career, Uncle Leo built the country's fifth largest advertising agency. Working 364 days a year, he lived for the passion of putting words and images together. A passion of a different sort led cousin Phoebe Snetsinger to travel from Webster Groves, Missouri, to the far corners of Africa and Asia. The world's leading birder, she sighted 8,400 different birds—nearly 85 percent of the species known to exist.
An extraordinary strain of creativity runs through the Bessie and Burnett clans, and Rare Birds celebrates the colorful diversity of a remarkable and accomplished family. While their choices and professions run the gamut of the American experience in the twentieth century, the history of the nation can be traced in these people's lives. Bessie's passionate birds of a feather gather to sing their unique song across decades and generations.
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What a family!.......2001-02-14
After reading "Rare Birds" by Dan Bessie I thought, "What a family!". Every family has a few characters or maybe a semi-famous person. But, in "Rare Birds" I was totally fascinated by the wide range of interesting and famous family members. I especially liked the chapters on his Uncle Harry Burnett and the Turnabout Theatre. The book is written in a relaxed style that makes you feel like you're having a conversation with the author. It made me want to search out my own family tree, shake it and see who falls out. Fascinating and enjoyable book!
A Fascinating Family.......2001-02-05
This is a truly heartfelt look into a talented, creative and outspoken family. From the wild west days to the Spanish Civil War, Mr. Bessie examines and tells the tales of his family with warmth and wit. These are people who lived life, not coasted through it. The exhaustive research is evident yet the author honestly points out when the trail goes cold and he is left with only oral history or speculation. Above all, he treats each life with respect and love even when he doesn't wholly approve. Not just a truly entertaining read, it prompts all of us to really get to know our own family members, rare or otherwise, in a meaningful way before we find it's too late.
Rare Birds.......2001-01-26
Great book. Not only well written but written with the insight of a mature, intelligent sensitive human being. Great insight into the human condition. The author comes from a unusally talented and creative family and as this book demonstrates is as creative as any of them. Telling us the story of his family gives us alot information about the political climate in the USA and its effect on individual citizens. Extremly interesting and varied Family members from the world's must prolific bird watcher to a Leftist screen writer who fought with the Abraham Lincoln`Brigade in the Spanish Civil War.
Birds of an extraordinary feather ..........2001-01-08
Dan Bessie implies that we ALL have such people in our families. Frankly - I doubt that. Certainly, if we all had his talent, we could make much of our own oddballs and eccentrics, but in the final analysis we would still only be colouring the grey. His family is and was extraordinary.
"Rare Birds" is an affectionate sketch of an abnormally talented and unusual family. Mr Bessie - being a modest man (judging by how little he refers to himself in the narrative) - would doubtless take issue with that summation, but it is nonetheless true.
In another century, the father of a famous family of writers (Patrick Bronte) acknowledged his own rather eccentric attributes, but at the same time pointed out to his daughter's biographer that if he had been one of the world's "concentric" men he would not, in all probability, have produced such children as his were.
Mr Bessie can, in a way, lay claim to the same process. Talent only occasionally emerges from nowhere, with no previous indication of its existence. Even with the most fascinating material, more illustrious writers have failed to grip the imagination of the reader. Mr Bessie's almost tangible affection and respect for his subjects shines through the narrative.
"Rare Birds" can be as strongly recommended to scholars of the McCarthy witch-hunt period as to those who simply enjoy good writing. Mr Bessie grew up in one of the most unnerving and nervous periods of US history and his personal reflections are both telling and educational.
noble and eccentric family stories.......2001-01-06
On a background of flawlessly researched history and detail, Dan Bessie paints his family stories of eccentricity, sadness, and triumph-over-adversity. He weaves his own mythic connection to the joys and sufferings of his highly creative lineage, as well as to a few seedy characters who don't share his blood but whom are in his blood nevertheless. Dan says that in microcosm, all families share the same threads. This may be so, but it is rare to find an author who doesn't slide off into judgement and criticism, using relations as targets for unfinished emotional business. Dan Bessie does not make the mistake of cluttering up these vivid and heroic characters with his own gunk, which leaves plenty of space for the color and magic of his family to shine through. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in writing their family story, a quintessential starting point for any writer. My hope is that I too will discover as many redeeming qualities in my own batch of goofy relatives.
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