Saint, Sinner, Sailor

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Saint, Sinner, Sailor gets inside the mind and thoughts of a U.S. Navy sailor through his 20-year career, including time in love and at war, with prostitutes, alcohol, and the consequences of loving females that should have had an \'off-limits\' sign on them.

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One of the world's greatest storytellers weaves together an unforgettable collection of animal tales, including how the camel got its hump, how the leopard got its spots, and how even a butterfly stamping his leg can change a man's life. Initially written for his own "best beloved," Just So Stories was published in 1902. It has been a favorite for the past century and is certain to be cherished by generations to come.

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Beware of reading this to young children..........2007-10-15

This book was precious to me as a young child. I enjoyed it immensely and looked forward to sharing it with my children. Not sure if my parents "edited" when reading, however, I was shocked to find the "N" word in several stories. I know that this is classic literature ~ just be warned.

Also, several stories contained a great deal of violence. Characters spanking and hitting one another... save it for your older children or when you are ready to have discussions with your children about these matters.

perennial favorite.......2007-05-18

Kipling's delightful stories continue to enthrall a new generation. Lyrical, funny, packed with fanciful explanations for everything from the camel's hump to the elephant's trunk, they just beg to be read aloud and appeal to children of all ages. My three-year-old granddaughter loved the book so much, especially the story about the elephant's child, that I bought her a copy of her own for a fourth birthday present.

Other books recently enjoyed by the now four-year-old granddaughter (and suitable for older children as well) include Three Tales of My Father's Dragon and Mountains of the Moon.

Way, Way Better Than I Ever Dreamed Of.......2007-03-02

When I first bought this book, I thought it would be quite dull. Boy, was I wrong. I loved it from start to finish. Kipling shines as a a master humorist and storyteller, and through my reading of "Just So Stories" I never once had to stretch myself wondering why he was so popular in his day and why he won the Nobel Prize. His work speaks for itself.

I really likes his commentaries on his own pictures.
-"I should like to paint him with paint-box colours, but I am not allowed."
-"Pau Amma is trying to make a Magic, but he is only a silly old King Crab, and so he can't do anything."
-"It is all a magic picture, and that is one of the reasons why I haven't drawn the Jaguar's whiskers."

Absolutely wonderful.

More pics, please.......2006-08-14

My children so loved the Rikki Tikki Tavi video--based on a Kipling video--that I wanted to find other Kipling stories on tape (besides the Jungle Book). I wasn't successful, but I found many different editions of Just So Stories. It was hard to choose!
I'm disappointed with the outcome. While it's a nice, full collection of the stories, there is only one illustration per story--not at all like the picture-rich edition I had as a child.
To shop online for kiddy books (my children are 5, 4 and 3), it's important for it to be vivid how picture rich the book is (or isn't).

Great Book.......2006-03-09

It's a nice budget edition of the famous book with sophisticated authors' illustrations.

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War between men and within men.
A touching and vivid story about independence and decadence

Light That Failed (Library Edition)
Rudyard Kipling
Manufacturer: Alcazar Audioworks
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Binding: Audio Cassette

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ASIN: 0786137975

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Well-known war correspondent and artist Dick Heldar returns to London and falls in love with his childhood sweetheart, Maisie. Then he learns he is going blind due to a war injury. As his vision fails, he must choose between the love of a woman and the love of the men who stood by him at the front.

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Torpenhow was sprawling in a long chair with a small fox-terrier asleep on his chest, while Dick was preparing a canvas. A dais, a background, and a lay-figure were the only fixed objects in the place. They rose from a wreck of oddments that began with felt-covered water-bottles, belts, and regimental badges, and ended with a small bale of second-hand uniforms and a stand of mixed arms.

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War between men and within men........1999-07-12

This is one of my personal favorites. I read it in high school just for personal pleasure. Kipling's knowledge of art is expressed nicely; he knows his stuff from his father. He expresses his time period honestly and touchingly. As a female of the twentieth century, I cannot understand everything that made Kipling write this novel. It is more than just the simple story of an artist going blind, of wars and art. It is, at heart, the story of two men living in their world of violence and social mores and beliefs, two men brothers in all but blood. I found moments in this novel very touching, all the more so because of the tenderness between Torp and Dickie. This is a novel about friendship mostly, and a very beautiful one at that.

A touching and vivid story about independence and decadence.......1998-10-30

Kipling proves his expertise as an author in this vivid description of a young, cocky sketch artist moving up the social ladder and the introspection he is forced to face when he can't have his childhood love. His professionalism in retelling the themes of independence vs dependence, decadence and self-doubt makes up for his sometimes annoying racist undertones and romantic depicting of the colonialistic era, which is just about the only reason for the missing fifth star.

Little Luxart Library, Red Leatherette Edition - Barrack Room Ballads

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Little Luxart Library, Red Leatherette Edition - Barrack Room Ballads
Rudyard Kipling
Manufacturer: Robert K. Haas
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Leather Bound
ASIN: B000VOHMGA

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Brilliant biography of great poet

Rudyard Kipling: Library Edition
Andrew Lycett
Manufacturer: Blackstone Audiobooks
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Audio Cassette

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ASIN: 0786118903

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Brilliant biography of great poet.......2001-07-31

Kipling’s words give the key to understanding his real, but sadly limited, achievements. He was capable of an extraordinarily sensitive empathy with people, especially with those who did the work of the Empire, the doctors, engineers and administrators. But his political sympathies constrained his emotional sympathies. His love for the Empire was twisted in with a most unintelligent hero-worship of the scoundrels who ran it, and with hatred for those who opposed it.

His works reflect this ambiguity. Many of his writings are excellent, for instance the Jungle Book, some of his stories and many of his poems. Lycett has presented an amazingly detailed portrait of Kipling’s adopted class and milieu. But he lacks a novelist’s imagination and ease with language; the biography often just lists Kipling’s possessions, travels, guests and friends. In reflection of Kipling, he smothers his finer understandings in a blanket of conventions. We still need Angus Wilson’s fine book, ‘The strange ride of Rudyard Kipling’, to see the full peculiarity of Kipling’s career.

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KIM - Library Edition
Rudyard Kipling
Manufacturer: Macmillan
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: B000V9YEE8

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Informative

An extremely useful book to keep patients up to date ...

Choices, Fourth Edition by Marion Morra

do not understand this one

The best source book around

Choices, Fourth Edition (Choices: The Most Complete Sourcebook for Cancer Information)
Marion Morra , and Eve Potts
Manufacturer: Collins
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0060521244
Release Date: 2003-10-14

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For more than twenty years, Choices has been the leading source-book for cancer patients and their families. Fully revised to cover the latest medical and technological breakthroughs, Choices, Fourth Edition, provides the most up-to-date and essential facts on cancer, from diagnosis to recovery -- medication and nutrition, symptoms and stages, and all available surgical and nonsurgical treatments -- in an accessible, easy-to-use Q&A format. The book also includes checklists of essential questions for your doctor; useful Internet resources; a state-by-state listing of cancer-related programs, organizations, and services; reviews of complementary and alternative therapies; updated listings of chemotherapy drugs and their side effects; the facts on common misconceptions regarding cancer treatments; and advice on practical living concerns for both survivors and caregivers.

Recommended by health-care professionals nationwide, Choices is a unique and invaluable reference. Marion Morra and Eve Potts's clear, compassionate advice is on every page, offering reassurance with the informed knowledge every cancer patient needs to make the right decisions throughout the treatment process.

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Informative.......2006-12-27

This book seems to cover just about everything. It was highly recommended by a friend - cancer survivor. Good book to have on hand as a reference guide.

An extremely useful book to keep patients up to date ..........2006-07-10

The most useful tool in fighting cancer is this: knowledge. Knowledge of what exactly you have; knowledge of the latest techniques, clinical trials, meds, etc; and the risk factors. This book gives you that. Cancer is arguably the fastest moving area of medecine there is; analyses and coclusions are regularly formed, reformed, reformed again, over and over and over. Staying on top of the treatment protocols is critical, and for the moment at least, this book helps patients do that. I highly recommend this book to anyone diagnosed with cancer; it gives you an invaluable framework for asking the right questions and could save your life. Do not assume that all doctors are created equal. They are not. For a patient, it is your job to ask the right questions. This book can only help do that!

Choices, Fourth Edition by Marion Morra.......2006-03-15

When I was diagnosed with Breast Cancer in 1989, I discovered this book and have been recommending it to cancer patients ever since. Recently, I decided it was time to get a more up to date edition and I am glad that I did. It not only has a lot of additional information, it is still as easy to use as the earlier edition.
'Choices' is the one book that provides newly diagnosed cancer patients with answers to questions that many of us did not even we should ask. Yours in good health, Nora Deane

do not understand this one.......2006-01-30

The book has never been received by me. Your site shows it was shipped. The charge has already appeared on my credit card statement but I have never gotten the book. can you help me?

The best source book around.......2002-03-06

Having worked in the oncology area and had relatives stricken with cancer, I can not think of a more useful tool for someone who needs to fight cancer. This is a very dynamic area of medicine where treatment protocols are made then remade. How do you know if your doctor is up to speed? This book tells you where the leading instutions are and how to access the latest treatments. If nothing else, this book allows you to feel like you are part of the fight.

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Eater's Choice: A Food Lover's Guide to Lower Cholesterol
Great Book!
Excellent Book
Same Old Same Old
The best recipes and advise.

Eater's Choice: Fourth Edition
Nancy Goor , and Ronald S. Goor
Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0395708133

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Eater's Choice has earned its impressive reputation among doctors, dietitians, hospitals, and general readers as the clearest explanation on the market for those who choose to lower their blood cholesterol by diet. It uses a simple, proven method to reduce the risk of heart disease by up to 60 percent and offers delicious recipes for the whole family. Also included is important and timely information on children and cholesterol.

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Eater's Choice: A Food Lover's Guide to Lower Cholesterol.......2005-08-14

I found this book both very informative and easy to use. I can finally say, "I'm on my way to lowering my Cholesterol for good." I highly recommend this book to any one with health issues. JDavis (Oldsmar, FL)(USA)

Great Book!.......2002-08-28

This book is a really good guide to lower cholestoorel w/ great recipes!

Excellent Book.......2002-03-22

I don't agree with the first person who reviewed this book. I found the information on cholesterol to be very helpful and most of recipes are very good. The book was recommended to me by a friend who said she makes some of the dishes when she has company and always receives compliments.

I bought a used copy of this book a couple years ago but noticed an updated version at the library. The new version has twice the recipes of the book I have so I just ordered a new one. Another plus -- my cholesterol dropped 16 points within a short period of time and I attribute it to the Goors' recipes.

Same Old Same Old.......2002-02-22

This book gives the same facts and tips about lowering cholesterol that most other books have. Recipes are o.k. but mundane (which I guess would be good for people just starting to change their diets.)

The best recipes and advise........2001-07-08

I own a number of books on the topic and this is by far the best. It's a gift I give to all my friends who are serious about reducing their cholesterol. You'll find the recipes delicious and easy.

Coursebook to Accompany Economics, Private and Public Choice, Fourth Edition

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Coursebook to Accompany Economics, Private and Public Choice, Fourth Edition
James D., Stroup, Richard L, Studenmund, A.H. Gwartney
Manufacturer: Harcourt
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0155188836

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Paperback. Fourt Edition.

Editor's Choice "Intersections" Reader to accompany Henslin's "Essentials of Sociology: A Down to Earth Approach, Fourth Edition"

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Editor's Choice "Intersections" Reader to accompany Henslin's "Essentials of Sociology: A Down to Earth Approach, Fourth Edition"
Ron Matson
Manufacturer: Allyn & Bacon
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THE LITTLE ENGLISH HANDBOOK: CHOICES AND CONVENTIONS FOURTH EDITION

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THE LITTLE ENGLISH HANDBOOK: CHOICES AND CONVENTIONS FOURTH EDITION

Manufacturer: Scott, Foresman & Co.
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000GQ0XWI

The PFE Choice With Multiple-Choice Study Questions (A self-study guide for AFPAM 36-2241, Volume 1 (July 1, 2003), Fourth Edition)

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The PFE Choice With Multiple-Choice Study Questions (A self-study guide for AFPAM 36-2241, Volume 1 (July 1, 2003), Fourth Edition)

Manufacturer: McMillan Study Guides Inc
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000BHEC2Y

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"You've Got A Choice! Earn Your Next Stripe With Our Self-Study Guides! For those of you who prefer to study with a format like the one you're used to seeing on the test, we provide multiple-choice quiz questions. We also include these questions in our best-selling PFE GOLD software. [not included with this book] These quiz questions cover every chapter using clear, easty-to-understand language in the multiple-choice format. We also include the major chapter subheadings to help organize the information. And of course, each question is referenced to the PFE. Once you've mastered these quiz questions, measure your test readiness with two multiple-choice Final exams that simulate a Promotion Fitness Exam. We've even included fill-in-the-bubble score sheets."

Choices in Relationships : An Introduction to Marriage and the Family Fourth/4th Edition

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Choices in Relationships : An Introduction to Marriage and the Family Fourth/4th Edition
David; Schacht, Caroline; Marshall (editor) Knox
Manufacturer: West Publishing Company
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OTP0AC

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Eater's Choice - A Food Lover's Guide To Lower Cholesterol, Fourth Edition

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Eater's Choice - A Food Lover's Guide To Lower Cholesterol, Fourth Edition
Ron, Dr., and Goor, Nancy; Illustrations by Goor, Nancy Goor
Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Company
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ASIN: B000JZYCU0

Instructor's Manual to accompany Rhetorical Grammar: Grammatical Choices, Rhetorical Effects Fourth Edition

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Instructor's Manual to accompany Rhetorical Grammar: Grammatical Choices, Rhetorical Effects Fourth Edition
Martha Kolln
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Highly recommended for martini connoisseurs

Pleasing to the Eye and the Palate

Tini Bigs Big Martinis
Keith Robbins , and Patrick Haight
Manufacturer: Documentary Media LLC
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0971908486
Release Date: 2005-10-04

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The martini has an enduring allure, especially the unabashedly large martinis served at Tini Bigs, Seattles classic corner lounge. Tini Bigs is now sharing the recipes for its fifty most requested martini cocktails, beautifully photographed by Angie Norwood Browne. Not only will you be able to re-create your favorite Tini Bigs big martini at home, but you will also get a taste of the social scene that makes Tini Bigs famous, with spirited art photography by award-winning still photographer Jaimie Trueblood and a foreword by acclaimed Seattle mystery writer G.M. Ford.

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Highly recommended for martini connoisseurs.......2006-09-13

Tini Bigs Big Martinis is a compilation of martini recipes as concocted within the Tini Bigs Lounge of Seattle, open since 1996. Full-color photographs illustrate these easy-to-use recipes for a wide array of palate-pleasing drinks. All of the recipes are designed for the Tini Bigs' famous 10-ounce martini glass and meant to be shared. From the Playboy Martini with Starbucks Coffee Liqueur as its prime ingredient, to the Feng Shui Martini of Grey Goose vodka and Beefeater gin, to the Sex in the City Martini of Finlandia vodka, Grand Marnier, and cranberry juice, these drinks blend just the right ingredients for flavorful and intoxicating results. Highly recommended for martini connoisseurs.

Pleasing to the Eye and the Palate.......2005-11-22

I have always enjoyed a good martini now and again, and Tini Bigs is my favorite place to go. Their cookbook lets me do it at home, though nothing beats their ambience. I was really impressed by the photography.

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