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A must for primary teachers!.......2000-08-12
This book has superb illustrations which will engage children's attention while imparting all the basics of the plant's lifecycle. As a teacher, this book will enhance the science curriculum and motivates students to learn about lifecycles.
A must for primary teachers!.......2000-08-12
This book has superb illustrations which will engage children's attention while imparting all the basics of the plant's lifecycle. As a teacher, this book will enhance the science curriculum and motivates students to learn about lifecycles.
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Discover how a seed grows into a sunflower. This title explains plant growth in a clear and organized manner. Readers will love watching the transformations take place.
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From Seed to Sunflower (How Things Grow)
Sally Morgan
Manufacturer: Chrysalis Education
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Great for student research.......2005-07-12
Well organized, from the definition of sunflower right through the life cycle, this book thoroughly covers the growth of the sunflower plant. Vocabulary words are boldly highlighted and explained in context, as well as in the accompanying glossary. Captions supplement each photograph. Plant part, pest, and pollination questions are asked and answered. This book would be a valuable resource to primary students conducting research on the life cycle of plants, particularly the sunflower.
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Sunflower Seeds & Seoul Food
Frederick C. Klein
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On the demand side, exporters and strategic planners approaching the world market face a number of questions. Which countries are supplying oil-cake and other solid residues (except dregs) resulting from the extraction of fats or oils from sunflower seeds? What is the dollar value of these imports? How much do the imports of oil-cake and other solid residues (except dregs) resulting from the extraction of fats or oils from sunflower seeds vary from one country to another? Do exporters serving the world market have similar market shares across the importing countries? Which countries supply the most exports of oil-cake and other solid residues (except dregs) resulting from the extraction of fats or oils from sunflower seeds? Which countries are buying their exports? What is the value of these exports and which countries are the largest buyers? In what follows, Chapter 2 begins by summarizing the regional markets for imported and exported oil-cake and other solid residues (except dregs) resulting from the extraction of fats or oils from sunflower seeds. The total level of imports and exports on a worldwide basis, and those for each region, is based on a model which aggregates across over 150 key country markets and projects these to the current year. From there, each country represents a percent of the world market. This market is served from a number of competitive countries of origin. Based on both demand- and supply-side dynamics, market shares by country of origin are then calculated across each country market destination. These shares lead to a volume of import and export values for each country and are aggregated to regional and world totals. In doing so, we are able to obtain maximum likelihood estimates of both the value of each market and the shares that countries are likely to receive this year. From these figures, rankings are calculated to allow managers to prioritize markets. In this way, all the figures provided in this report are forecasts that can be combined with internal information for strategic planning purposes.
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This digital document is a journal article from Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, published by Elsevier in . 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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Population density and seedling growth stage were measured over three years along transects passing through patches of feral Helianthus annuus in fields of maize. The effect of topographic position on seed re-dispersal via erosion was investigated, and density of H. annuus was significantly correlated (P
<0.01) to percent soil organic carbon (SOC) (positive) and relative elevation (negative), but not to soil pH. Mean seedling growth stage did not change with distance from the patch center. Seedling density was always highest at the patch center with no reduction in mean seedling size. Marked seed dispersed at various topographic positions were recovered two weeks after dispersal. A small percentage of H. annuus seeds was recovered, most of which were found at lower topographic positions - their movement being facilitated by water flow down slope. Seeds at the lowest topographic positions were not moved to other topographic positions. Prevailing wind moved seeds to a lesser degree. The association of weedy H. annuus with SOC and the dispersal to lower topographic positions appear to be useful factors in explaining its distribution and might be generalized to other weed species and systems. systems.
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GERMINATION REQUIREMENTS OF SEEDS OF HELIANTHUS PARADOXUS (ASTERACEAE).: An article from: The Texas Journal of Science
O. W. Van Auken
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Title: GERMINATION REQUIREMENTS OF SEEDS OF HELIANTHUS PARADOXUS (ASTERACEAE).
Author: O. W. Van Auken
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The Texas Journal of Science (Refereed)
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Title: A new flavor burst: Unusual combo gets mixed reaction. (Food Biz Kids).(kids review chocolate covered Sunburst Sunflower Kernels)(Brief Article)
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Food Processing (Magazine/Journal)
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This digital document is an article from Food Ingredient News, published by Business Communications Company, Inc. on June 1, 2005. The length of the article is 716 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: OILS/FATS: Sunflower Seed Butter Spreads Across U.S.
Author: Dan Hofland
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- The Best (The Only) Book On An Overlooked Bicycling Paradise
- The Best (The Only) Book On An Overlooked Bicycling Paradise
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Cycling Along the Waterways of France (Bicycle Books)
Tony Roberts
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The Best (The Only) Book On An Overlooked Bicycling Paradise.......2000-08-26
3 stars for the book; 6 (six) stars for the region described!
Though tourists now know-and-go "everywhere," the world is wide enough that individual travellers might miss (sadly overlook) mini-regions which would be fulfillingly perfect for them (even if not for other travellers). Roberts' book helped prevent such a misfortune for me. Do you like to bicycle? Perhaps in a foreign country? BUT hold back because hills make older knees ache....because road-traffic is dangerous and dour....because scenery can vary from the sublime to the prosaic, even trashy?
Well, imagine hundreds of miles of bike paths which is (for some not all) a pocket of paradise. No hills at all....no motorized traffic at all (and only one other cyclist every half-hour)....Usually, good riding-surface....Idyllic scenery--calm waterway on one hand, greenery on the other, and often an umbrella of shade trees overhead!....Moderate adventure: you have to navigate your way some, but could never get "lost".....Plus, villages for sleeping-and-eating every so often, which you enter by the waterside "back door," always at a pleasant "middle distance".....This astonishing arena is the network of tow-paths alongside the canals of France!
Formerly used for commercial traffic, France's hundreds of miles of canals now re-bloom with slow-moving luxury tourist-barges for costly vacations. But the still-unknown secret for the bicyclist who wants a trip, tour, promenade--but with few hassles plus the advantages noted above--is the tow-paths alongside many (not all) of the canals. They're a private Royal Road, for an hour, a day, a month.
Sure, most visitors to France probably want to see the sights, from museums to night-life. That's natural. But this seasoned traveller (me) found the canal-paths THE answer for recreational relaxing, as noted above.
And Tony Roberts' book is the ONLY one which gives mile-by-mile--oops, kilometer--guidance. His GOOD POINTS: generic preparation-advice, plus maps-and-text to navigate three canals. (1) BOURGOGNE, S.E. of Paris. (2) BRETAGNE, in Brittany to the west. And (3) MIDI, in the south (from Narbonne to Agen).
His BAD POINTS? The text is not easily-correlated to the maps. And the maps are inconsistent (sometimes incomplete in features) and also sometimes irritatingly transposed onto wrong pages out of sequence (baaaaaad editing!). Also, what about the other canals than these three, why these three only? Roberts never tells us.
PERSONAL DISCLOSURE. In September 1999, I bicycled four unforgettable days on the Canal du MIDI, the 110 miles from Narbonne to Toulouse. My bike was a torture-machine rental; bring your own! And in June 2000 I car-surveyed six canals in Burgundy.
I do RECOMMEND Roberts' book, indispensable as a starting-point. (If you go, however, do acquire the "Navicarte" chart-book used by barge captains; one for every canal.) I recommend the CANALS of the MIDI, Narbonne to Agen. Also in Burgundy, the backwater removed NIVERNAIS, and the straight-shot but tranquil ROANNE A DIGOIN. (Caution--the BOURGOGNE is good but variable; often too open and near the autoroute. The LATERAL LOIRE and the CENTRE are too near highways also and at times the tow-paths vanish into deep grass, making the derailleur eat a salad.....)
THE NEAR FUTURE. France is currently constructing "Voies Vertes" or "greenways" all over. Fine; but they're swaths of ashphalt populated with cyclists, rollers, strollers, BMX kids. Stick to the back-door canals. Let the opulent barge-tourists wait at the locks. Roll along on your private path. I did, and shall again. You too? Acquire Roberts' book and see if it primes your pump....
The Best (The Only) Book On An Overlooked Bicycling Paradise.......2000-08-26
3 stars for the book; 6 (six) stars for the region described!
Though tourists now know-and-go "everywhere," the world is wide enough that individual travellers might miss (sadly overlook) mini-regions which would be fulfillingly perfect for them (even if not for other travellers). Roberts' book helped prevent such a misfortune for me. Do you like to bicycle? Perhaps in a foreign country? BUT hold back because hills make older knees ache....because road-traffic is dangerous and dour....because scenery can vary from the sublime to the prosaic, even trashy?
Well, imagine hundreds of miles of bike paths which is (for some not all) a pocket of paradise. No hills at all....no motorized traffic at all (and only one other cyclist every half-hour)....Usually, good riding-surface....Idyllic scenery--calm waterway on one hand, greenery on the other, and often an umbrella of shade trees overhead!....Moderate adventure: you have to navigate your way some, but could never get "lost".....Plus, villages for sleeping-and-eating every so often, which you enter by the waterside "back door," always at a pleasant "middle distance".....This astonishing arena is the network of tow-paths alongside the canals of France!
Formerly used for commercial traffic, France's hundreds of miles of canals now re-bloom with slow-moving luxury tourist-barges for costly vacations. But the still-unknown secret for the bicyclist who wants a trip, tour, promenade--but with few hassles plus the advantages noted above--is the tow-paths alongside many (not all) of the canals. They're a private Royal Road, for an hour, a day, a month.
Sure, most visitors to France probably want to see the sights, from museums to night-life. That's natural. But this seasoned traveller (me) found the canal-paths THE answer for recreational relaxing, as noted above.
And Tony Roberts' book is the ONLY one which gives mile-by-mile--oops, kilometer--guidance. His GOOD POINTS: generic preparation-advice, plus maps-and-text to navigate three canals. (1) BOURGOGNE, S.E. of Paris. (2) BRETAGNE, in Brittany to the west. And (3) MIDI, in the south (from Narbonne to Agen).
His BAD POINTS? The text is not easily-correlated to the maps. And the maps are inconsistent (sometimes incomplete in features) and also sometimes irritatingly transposed onto wrong pages out of sequence (baaaaaad editing!). Also, what about the other canals than these three, why these three only? Roberts never tells us.
PERSONAL DISCLOSURE. In September 1999, I bicycled four unforgettable days on the Canal du MIDI, the 110 miles from Narbonne to Toulouse. My bike was a torture-machine rental; bring your own! And in June 2000 I car-surveyed six canals in Burgundy.
I do RECOMMEND Roberts' book, indispensable as a starting-point. (If you go, however, do acquire the "Navicarte" chart-book used by barge captains; one for every canal.) I recommend the CANALS of the MIDI, Narbonne to Agen. Also in Burgundy, the backwater removed NIVERNAIS, and the straight-shot but tranquil ROANNE A DIGOIN. (Caution--the BOURGOGNE is good but variable; often too open and near the autoroute. The LATERAL LOIRE and the CENTRE are too near highways also and at times the tow-paths vanish into deep grass, making the derailleur eat a salad.....)
THE NEAR FUTURE. France is currently constructing "Voies Vertes" or "greenways" all over. Fine; but they're swaths of ashphalt populated with cyclists, rollers, strollers, BMX kids. Stick to the back-door canals. Let the opulent barge-tourists wait at the locks. Roll along on your private path. I did, and shall again. You too? Acquire Roberts' book and see if it primes your pump....
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In Presidential Wives, Paul Boller brings his gift for telling detail to bear on the women our Presidents married, and the result is a biographical feat--at once funny and poignant, dramatic and illuminating, covering every First Lady from Martha Washington to Hillary Rodham Clinton. Boller devotes a full chapter to each of his subjects, featuring an incisive biographical essay followed by a selection of revealing anecdotes. Through his portrayal of such a diverse group of women, Boller sheds new light on how much the institution of the presidency tells us about ourselves and our life as a nation. First published in 1988, this second edition has been revised to include updated information on people such as Nancy Reagan and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, a new preface, and new chapters devoted to Barbara Bush and Hillary Rodham Clinton.
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fun to read.......2007-07-08
This book was a pleasure to read. It is a great way to get some basic insights into the wives of our President's, while creating the desire to learn more about these amazing women.
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- A self-indulged word-fest
- A good fight ... a lost cause
- Inspiring Personal Journey
- Inspiring Personal Journey
- Stay away!
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A Good Fight
Sarah Brady , and
Merrill McLoughlin
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"After a disaster," writes Sarah Brady, "you shouldn't try to go back and live exactly the way you did before." Brady has weathered the crippling of her husband by attempted Reagan assassin John Hinckley, the gun-control battle against the National Rifle Association, scorn heaped on her by pro-gun conservative pundits, raising a son with learning disabilities, and recurrent cancer. These hardships have taught her abundant lessons in how to conduct a political campaign and reckon with shortcomings and doubts, lessons she imparts throughout this highly readable memoir.
Those hardships have only steeled Brady's resolve both to win her battles and enjoy her time in the sun--a good fight indeed. --Gregory McNamee
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A bracingly honest memoir by the wife of former Reagan press secretary James Brady on the bullet that changed their lives-and how personal tragedy inspired great public accomplishment.
On March 30, 1981, Sarah Brady's husband James was critically injured during an assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan. Some years later, she presided over passage of a handgun control law known as the Brady Bill. Now, in A Good Fight, Brady tells the compelling human story behind these news events in a voice laced with honesty, humor, and a complete absence of self-pity.
It is the story of her involvement in Republican politics; of her courtship and marriage; of the Brady's brief idyll as "country mice" among the Reagan glitterati, and of the tragic day that changed their lives forever. Sarah talks candidly about the many obstacles and difficulties her family encountered learning to live together after the shooting, and about her challenges as a mother. She describes how she became a gun control activist-which didn't happen until years after her husband's shooting. She recalls her decade of work with Handgun Control Inc. which culminated in the passage of the Brady Bill and led to her organization's merger with the Million Mom March. The book also tells the story of Sarah's recent battle with lung cancer, and demonstrates how she's fighting back against this latest adversity with the same spirit she brought to all her other challenges.
Much more than a polemic about the importance of gun control, A Good Fight is a wonderfully readable personal story about an ordinary woman coping with extraordinary events and becoming extraordinary in the process.
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A self-indulged word-fest.......2006-02-14
Not suprisingly, and as many would expect from the likes of Mrs. Brady, comes an objective book on a topic that is instead weighed down by egotistical banter and false intents.
This book has been summed up (to some degree) by others here already, so I'll save the room for their reviews. The only thing I wanted to add was that for such a "noble" cause (if you consider it that), Mrs. Brady herself along with additional affiliated anti-gun organizations have been caught red-handed using illegal tactics to forward their campaign. One example of this consists of forging official documents from the Department of Justice regarding gun statistics to superimpose high crime numbers that in actuality didn't exist. Since they are so high profile, all they get are slaps on the wrists and fines, and very little air time for being shamed, since the media is of like mentality.
Another thing that Mrs. Brady fails to comprehend is that no matter how restrictive her "people" make gun purchasing, no criminal will ever abide by them. I have never heard of a felon walking into a gun store to give fingerprints and begin 4473 paperwork. Illegal weapons come from harbor freights and other unregulated/hidden means. The additional laws Sarah proposes will only restrict our ability to protect ourselves, but won't take that Glock out of Mr. Break-in-your-house-at-3am's hands. So grab your last legal self-defense weapon (hopefully she won't go after baseball bats) and 'try' to protect your family.
All hail societal downfall and insecurity...all hail Sarah Brady.
A good fight ... a lost cause.......2006-01-14
One simply has to accept the book for what it is. From its opening words, "As I write this I am fighting for my life" the book is a pity piece, interspersed with personal trials and tribulations calculated to draw the sympathies of the unsuspecting reader to Mrs Brady and thereafter her personal vendetta against the Second Amendment and the right of the law abiding citizen to exercise their individual right to keep and bear arms.
While I extend my sympathies to the Brady family, the fact is simply that Mr. Brady had the misfortune to be in the way of a random bullet, fired in the assassination attempt against President Reagan. This was something that the Reagans themselves handled with remarkable understanding and compassion, compared to Mrs Brady, who turned the incident into not just an understandable distaste for Mr. Reagans attacker, who so severely injured her husband, but in her own words a "rage" against the National Rifle Association, which is comprised of some 4.2 million law abiding firearms owners.
Many of us in life have experienced exactly the same misfortunes as Mrs. Brady, concerning the trials and tribulations experienced by both our loved ones and ourselves. However, few of us have used those experiences as an attention grabber to draw the empathy of others to ourselves and then shift their focus to a personally vengeful cause. In reading the other reviews I find the readers of this book fall into two distinct camps (1) the poor brave Bradys and (2) those who realize what this book is really all about, which is no more than an opportunity for Mrs Brady to vent, while using this same opportunity to draw a few more well intentioned, but totally uninformed individuals closer to the cause that she personally chairs.
The book should be read from two standpoints. (1) If you like personal stories, I have nothing against the personal story of the Brady family who has indeed fought a good fight (2) However if it is to be read as a decision making tool concerning "the right to keep and bear arms" I suggest the reader arm themselves with a highlighter, several hours of research time and seek the truth of the matter for themselves from independent, unbiased sources of information, whereupon in the end, will prove for themselves, with out any further prompting from anyone, that all of the energy, time, effort and money ever poured into the issue of "gun control" has been a totally irrational lost cause.
Inspiring Personal Journey.......2004-06-12
Sarah Brady describes herself as a college goof-off, never quite the prettiest girl, and a happy housewife. She was delighted in 1981 when Ronald Reagan selected her husband, Jim Brady, as his Press Secretary. But she admits she was in over her head, wearing the wrong clothes and star-gazing at Washington's elite. Within three months, the dream was over. Jim Brady was gravely injured during the March 1981 assassination attempt on Reagan. Sarah Brady's life changed and she became a passionate advocate for sensible gun laws. Her hard work and name were instrumental in passing two laws over the objections of the NRA: the Brady Law that mandated a waiting period for handgun purchases, and the Assault Rifle Ban.
For those interested in the give-and-take of the firearms battles in Washington, the book may drift a bit too often into asides about Jim's medical difficulties or the doings of a family maid or longtime friend, while not revealing all you might wish to know about the legislative tussles. Fair enough, you can flip ahead. In the end, the personal material reveals Mrs. Brady as a compassionate, strong woman who struggles with family, trauma, and self-doubt, and earns her every victory. She's not quite a hero, in some ways she's more interesting than that. An every-Jane who outworks her opponents.
Brady was a dedicated Republican who felt the firearms issue need not be partisan, but rather one of common sense. While she has become something of a bogeywoman for the right-wing gun fans (just read some of the other reviews on this page), she states her position clearly, "I believe that law-abiding citizens should be able to buy and keep firearms. And I believe there are sensible standards that we can and should insist upon when it comes to gun ownership." (p.104). Her long years of work in Washington as a director of Handgun Control Inc., give her insights into the corridors of power. Thus her unflattering portraits of Charlton Heston ("phony") and Dick Cheney, who unconscionably was on the losing side of a 413-4 House vote in 1988 to ban plastic handguns that terrorists could use to sneak through metal detectors. One wonders if 9-11 has made Cheney revisit his position.
Brady's greatest legacy may not be the two key bills that she shepherded into law. It may be that she showed the country that the majority of Americans who favor sensible gun regulations can be heard, and that their wishes can overcome extremist views. She showed us that one hard-working housewife can make a difference. This is a story of American democracy, how one brave citizen can change the law.
Inspiring Personal Journey.......2004-06-11
Sarah Brady describes herself as a college goof-off, never quite the prettiest girl, and a happy housewife. She was delighted in 1981 when Ronald Reagan selected her husband, Jim Brady, as his Press Secretary. But she admits she was in over her head, wearing the wrong clothes and star-gazing at Washington's elite. Within three months, the dream was over. Jim Brady was gravely injured during the March 1981 assassination attempt on Reagan. Sarah Brady's life changed and she became a passionate advocate for sensible gun laws. Her hard work and common sense were instrumental in passing two laws over the objections of the NRA: the Brady Law that mandated a waiting period for handgun purchases, and the Assault Rifle Ban.
For those interested in the give-and-take of the firearms battles in Washington, the book may drift a bit too often into asides about Jim's medical difficulties or the doings of a family maid or longtime friend, while not revealing all you might wish to know about the legislative battles. Fair enough, you can flip ahead. In the end, the personal material reveals Mrs. Brady as a compassionate, strong woman who struggles with family, trauma, and self-doubt, and earns her every victory. She's not quite a hero, in some ways she's more interesting than that. An every-Jane who outworks her opponents.
Brady was a dedicated Republican who felt the firearms issue need not be partisan, but rather one of common sense. While she has become something of a bogeywoman for the right-wing gun nuts (just read some of the other reviews on this page), she states her position clearly, "I believe that law-abiding citizens should be able to buy and keep firearms. And I believe there are sensible standards that we can and should insist upon when it comes to gun ownership." (p.104). Her long years of work in Washington, as a director of Handgun Control Inc., give her access and insights into the corridors of power. Thus her unflattering portraits of Charlton Heston ("phony") and Dick Cheney, who unconscionably was on the losing side of a 413-4 House vote in 1988 to ban plastic handguns that terrorists could use to sneak through metal detectors. One wonders if 9-11 has made Cheney revisit his position.
Brady's greatest legacy may not be the two key bills that she shepherded into law. It may be that she showed the country that the majority of Americans who favor sensible gun regulations can be heard, and that their wishes need not be trampled by the extremists who have hijacked the NRA. She showed us that one hard-working housewife can make a difference. This is a story of American democracy, how one brave citizen can change the law.
Stay away!.......2004-02-14
Brady ignores the statistics and the US Constitution (except her own first amendment rights)in her lockstep quest to rid the world of guns. She apparently believes that the opposing side is not allowed their first amendment rights (let alone their second amendment rights) while she should be able to fully exercise hers.
Avoid this book at all costs.
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Jackie Kennedy: Trailblazer (Presidential Wives)
Mohammed Badrul Alam
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Lucy Webb Hayes: A First Lady by Example (Presidential Wives Series.)
Russell L. Mahan
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Americas First Ladies (Private Lives of the Presidential Wives)
Healy
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A "Bully" First Lady: Edith Kermit Roosevelt (Presidential Wives Series)
Tom Lansford
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Caroline Lavinia Scott Harrison (Presidential Wives Series)
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Dolley Madison (Presidential Wives Sereis)
Paul M. Zall
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One of the most beloved first ladies of all time, Dolley Madison was also, arguably the most well known and influential woman of her era. Presiding over the social affairs of both her husband's two terms in the "President's House" and Jefferson's presidency, Dolley asserted her influence over the nation's social affairs like no presidential spouse before or after her. From her heroic rescue of priceless items from the White House just minutes before the British set the building aflame in the War of 1812, to her redesign of the building for both political and social functionality, to her trend-setting but risqué taste in fashion, Dolley Madison remains one of the nation's most fascinating public figures from history.
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In Defense of the Editor..........2003-02-25
I happen to be aquainted with the author and in defense of this much respected author, I must let the readers know that this was not a finished work when published. The project was poorly handled by the publisher, and was printed from a rough draft. Modern writers, beware with whom you enter into pacts...
Error-ridden.......2002-12-09
This short, poorly edited text contributes little to understanding Dolley Madison's life or times. Not only is the text riddled with typos, but it presents an overly-simplistic and at times distorting view of Dolley. Zall continually refers to Dolley as a "mother" to those around her, attributing her actions to her gender rather than to her individual choices in unique circumstances. This book clearly aims at elementary school students, but it should be used with caution, as its focus on Dolley mothering both to her son Payne and to those around her distracts from her other activities.
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Breath: Life in the Rhythm of an Iron Lung
Martha Mason
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Walking Fingers: The Story of Polio and Those Who Lived With It
ASIN: 1878086952 |
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"I live with a stable of nightmares," Martha Mason writes, "but hope keeps them in harness."
Some might wonder how Martha could have clung to hope at all. In 1948, on the day of the funeral of her adored older brother Gaston, a quick victim of the great polio epidemic, Martha was struck with the same dreaded disease.
After a year in polio hospitals, she was sent back to her home in the village of Lattimore in the cotton-growing hills of western North Carolina. She was completely paralyzed, with only her head protruding from an 800-pound yellow metal cylinder that breathed for her. Doctors told her parents that she likely wouldn't live for more than a year.
But the doctors hadn't counted on Martha's will, or the hope that drives her still.
An avid reader, she dreamed of being a writer, and after finishing high school in her iron lung, she went on to nearby Gardner-Webb College, then to Wake Forest University, where she was graduated first in her class and elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
After college, Martha attempted to begin a career as a writer, dictating to her mother, who had devoted her own life to Martha's care. But her father suffered a massive heart attack, leaving him, too, an invalid. Her mother, caring for both, had little time for Martha's dictation.
Technology revived Martha's dream. A voice-activated computer allowed her to write without assistance. She got it early in 1994 in a time of great despair. A devastating stroke had altered her mother's personality, causing her to turn on Martha, and eventually to revert to childhood. Martha had to become her mother's keeper, and to run a household from her iron lung.
To help her deal with the crisis, Martha began writing about her mother's selfless love. As she wrote, she found herself telling her own story, without self-pity or sentimentality, and with her usual courage, grace, and humor.
Breath will make readers laugh and cry, sometimes at the same time. It is a breath-taking memoir, a powerful testament to the human spirit, and it proves Martha Mason to be a writer whose voice is likely to be long remembered.
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Inspiring book, but not at all soupy.......2006-07-17
I recently saw a documentary on Martha Mason's life and wanted to know more about her, so bought the book. She tells the story of her life, before polio and after. It is an inspiring story (you think you have problems? how'd you like to live in an iron lung for over 50 years!) -- but it is so matter of fact and straightforward. One might wish for a few more medical details, but that is not the story she wants to tell us. The people who care for her come alive that you get to know them too. A keeper.
A book you Can't put down!.......2003-06-24
This is a wonderful book. I absolutely loved it. I grew up in Shelby and today I live not far from Lattimore and I am just in awe that she has lived her life in this iron lung and kept her sanity!
This book brought out a gamut of feelings, laughing one minute, to sadness,to tears. As I read I think what a terribly sad life, but she makes it like it is perfectly normal, no big deal, she just has a tiny obstacle to get around.
It is impossible to put this book down when you start reading it , so be ready for no sleep till you finish the book. She is an excellent writer and even though I have never met her in person, she is a beautiful lady! My 15 yr old son has the book now and this will be a book we will keep forever and cherish it.
I bought a copy and sent to my Sister-In-Law and she read it in one day and called saying how much she loved it.
I highly recommend it. I think a TV movie of Martha's Life would make a wonderful Hallmark movie and hope some producers out there will get hold of the book and think about that.
She's My Hero.......2003-03-22
Buy this book. Read it. When you are finished with it, give it to a friend. Then you will have behaved like Martha Mason. She has taken her life, read it over, and acted on it by sharing herself with others. This is the quintessential Martha. She has given so much to her long list of friends that they regard her as extraordinary.
I am one of the lucky ones, as I have known Martha all my life. That makes this review, then, unabashedly biased. No matter, because everything Martha writes will generously enrich your life. And she writes well. I was able to wrestle the book away from my father, to whom Martha had given an early release copy. We all were taken away by her writing style, not to mention the stories of early Lattimore, her brother Gaston, her helpers in the home, and many others.
Not unlike Martha, her favorite doctor has been an inspiration to me for many years. And not unlike him, Martha has been my hero for at least as long. (At least she listens to my stories and jokes!)
Buy this book. You won't regret it.
A Profile in Courage.......2003-03-13
In Breath, one learns of Mason's survival of 54 years confined to an iron lung as a result of contracting polio at the age of eleven. This courageous woman survived beyond all odds and has excelled beyond belief. She graduated first in her class (at all levels), mastered a voice- activated computer, cared for an invalid mother, and has written this unforgettable memoir. Perhaps her highest achievement though is chronicled in the chapter on "My Fair Helper". Ginger, her longtime caregiver, arrived at Martha's door illiterate and a "diamond in the rough". Martha taught Ginger to read and write and polished her into the gem she is today.
Her account of her brother's death from polio in 1948 and her illness which followed is heart-wrenching. The care and support provided by her parents inspires awe.
She takes the reader back to the 1940's and her pre-polio days growing up in a small village in rural North Carolina. The childhood adventures of this "spunky" little girl and her friends remind one of "Tom and Huck".
This book is destined to become a best seller, and one can only hope that there will be another close on the heels from this author.
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