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46 full-size patterns for beautiful lampshade designs that range from traditional and Art Nouveau to contemporary styles. Many different sizes suitable to a wide variety of lamps.

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Floral stained glass lampshades - more difficult than most.......2001-03-13

I gave this book a 4 because when I went to my stained glass dealer, she told me she no longer carried this book, because the designs were so difficult to make. Many users wound up frustrated trying to create the intricate glass pieces featured in this book. A grinder is a must.

However, on that note, I am in the process of making a lamp from this book and I am a rank beginner. There are absolutely beautiful designs in here. So much for listening to good advice.

For the beginner, without another reference, this book will not be enough. There is very sparse instructions obviously assuming a non-beginner level. You get only the patterns (full size). This is great, as you don't have to mess with enlarging. The designs are well centered, so easy to copy and have nothing on the back.

Another thing to note, is that the designs don't specify how many sides the shade will have so there is no finished dimensions or hardware notation. This is really up to you.

With all those negative notes, I can't stress enough how interesting some of these patterns are. Besides Irises, Rose and Gardenias, there are many geometric designs as well as bird designs in this book. If you have the skill go for it.

Beautiful lampshades from professional accurate patterns.......2000-08-09

I came across this book among many others on the same topic, and found the photographed lamps to be exceptionally beautiful. The patterns are very well centred on the pages, making photocopying accurate and easy. The paper is of good quality, and, unlike some, only one side of the paper is used. Although a smaller book than some, I am sure you will find, as I did, that it is a very welcome addition to your pattern library. I would highly recommend this book to anyone making lamps. both beginners and those with more experience.

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Good Basic Guideline.......2001-09-15

For those just beginning in the world of shooting movies, this book outlines some of the very basic concepts. It would prove equally useful to professional and home movie enthusiasts. All the fancy equipment in the world cannot make a person a good photographer and/or editor, but the concepts discussed in this book, if followed, will accomplish that. Although the prose is at times boring and a little difficult to wade through, I plan to use this book in my classroom to teach students the basics of cinematography.

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J.J. finally leaves Mike when she runs into old flame Zeke Brenner. Tempted by a life of "diners and jukeboxes and desert sunsets and drinking champagne from a paper cup," she hits the road--only to find out that sharing a pickup with an unreconstructed cowboy is no bed of roses. Meanwhile, Mike falls into his summer fantasy, moving to Seattle to work for college roommate Bernie's new software company. When he tries to install Windows 95, however, he realizes that his new life is no fantasy, and he begins to settle in among the digerati.

Elsewhere, Boopsie is still living the life of an O.J. juror, with occasional breaks for shopping, while Newt Gingrich is on the rampage, and on a short fuse. Duke jumps on the Republican bandwagon and opens "Nothin' but Orphans," only to discover that he has a son who is very much a chip off the old block. In Washington, D.C., Mark Slackmeyer explores his shiny new sexual orientation by coming out of the closet with an imaginary friend. --Simon Leake

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The Back Pain Book: A Self-help Guide For The Daily Relief Of Back And Neck Pain
Mike Hage , and Jo Fasen
Manufacturer: Peachtree Publishers
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ASIN: 1561453420

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EIGHTY-FIVE PERCENT OF AMERICANS suffer from some type of back pain and our sedentary lifestyles only exacerbate the problem. Drugs and surgery are costly solutions for easing the symptoms. This book, written by physical therapy experts at The Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago--the top ranking rehab hospital in the nation--empowers you to take control of your pain by managing it, so that its impact on your life is minimized. Emphasis is placed on using posture, positioning, and movement to ease, relieve, and prevent the reoccurrence of pain. Presented in a clear style, the book describes a better way of thinking about daily movements and activities and how they can influence the production of pain; it addresses immediate pain relief, good moves/bad moves for everyday activities, and provides strategic exercises for long-term relief. In this new edition, more functional exercises have been added along with positioning recommendations for workouts on gym equipment. The Back Pain Book includes thorough guidance on how to: achieve quick pain relief heal and prevent pain during all of your daily activities perform all types of exercise, from gentle stretching to vigorous movement The Back Pain Book offers user-friendly features such as: hundreds of helpful line drawings clear, easy-to-follow instructions complete cross references to help you locate all treatment procedures for your particular problem THE REHABILITATION INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO has been ranked the best rehabilitation hospital in America by U.S. News and World Report for fourteen consecutive years. It was founded in 1954 and is the nation's first freestanding rehabilitation hospital.

The Back Pain Book: A Self-Help Guide for Daily Relief of Neck & Back Pain

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Miracle working pain relieving positions...
Back Pain Book
This is a really good, easy to understand book.

The Back Pain Book: A Self-Help Guide for Daily Relief of Neck & Back Pain
Mike Hage
Manufacturer: Peachtree Publications
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A physical therapist tells how to relieve back and neck pain, of which 70 million Americans suffer. Your movement and posture may be the source - or the cure - for neck and low back pain. Mike Hage shows you how to analyze your patterns of standing, bending, breathing - even thinking. Learn to adjust these patterns in every move you make, from getting out of bed and choosing the right shoes to talking on the phone and getting to work. Take control of your pain and participate in your own rehabilitation by reprogramming your body to move correctly.

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Miracle working pain relieving positions..........2002-11-08

This book has suggestions for both neck and back pain. If your pain is so severe you have trouble with everyday tasks or functioning as I did when I first got this I highly recommend this for you. It has continued to help me with moderate to slight back pains as well as helping me not to throw my back out again. I would also suggest that you get an electric massager with a long enough handle to massage the muscle spasms away and also try floating in a swimming pool (get a cheap membership at the YMCA!) because it will really help to relieve the pressure causing the pain. Other items I found helpful in my recovery are "AM Yoga" with Rodney Yee and "Stress Relief Yoga" with Suzanne Deason.

Back Pain Book.......2001-03-31

This guy really knows his stuff!! It's as if he's there talking you through your back pain problem. Thanks for the help!!

This is a really good, easy to understand book........1998-07-24

Wow. I can't believe how easy this book was to read and follow. The illustrations make it simple to be sure you're doing the exercises the right way, which is so important when you're dealing with back and/or neck pain. The text covers immediate pain relief, good moves/bad moves for everyday activities, and strategic exercises for long term improvement. The really great thing about this book is that is was written by a Physical Therapist with real hands on experience in working with people with back problems, so you know the recommendations and exercise program are sound. My only regret is that it doesn't have a companion video, which would be neat; and my only complaint is that the book does not lay flat when you want to keep it open to a particular page while you do the exercises. Otherwise, I highly recommend it!

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By the spring of 1862 most Americans had realised that the Civil War would not be brought to a conclusion without a major effort and a substantial financial and human cost. However, General George B. McClellan, the new commander of the Union Army of the Potomac, aimed to avoid a long war by capturing Richmond, the Confederate capital, in a single campaign. What followed was an operation which caught the Confederates off-guard and poised to capture the Confederate capital in a matter of weeks. This did not take account of General McClellan's excessive caution, however. Having executed the first part of his masterstroke and successfully transported the Army of the Potomac to the Virginia Peninsula, McClellan threw away his advantage - it took him almost two months to advance within sight of Richmond. The result was the bloody one-day battle of Fair Oaks, fought on 31 May 1862. The result was tactically indecisive, but the vicious Confederate attacks again unnerved McClellan and he called off any further advance on Richmond, despite the protests of Generals Hooker and Kearny who insisted the city was still vulnerable. The Union Army of the Potomac, and in particular its commander, lost confidence in their abilities as the campaign progressed. An unstoppable military force simply ran out of steam, surrendering the initiative to the enemy and squandering the chance to end the war.

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McClellan Swings into Action (sort of).......2004-01-19

Angus Konstam, probably one of the most prolific Osprey authors, turns his attention toward the early days of the American Civil War and in Campaign #124 he hopes, "to reestablish Fair Oaks...as one of the key actions of the war." Certainly Union Major General McClellan's controversial Peninsula campaign of 1862 is one of the more interesting - if futile - operations of the war. Konstam is also correct in his assessment that Fair Oaks, the first major action in a series of battles that doomed the Union offensive, has not received anything like the attention of other battles like Gettysburg, Antietam or Shiloh. According to Konstam, the Confederate counterattack at Fair Oaks on 31 May 1862 - although unsuccessful - introduced doubt into McClellan's mind about his own offensive's chances for success and thus represented a psychological watershed, somewhat akin to the 1968 Tet Offensive in Vietnam. However much the author presents this argument, it is not clear that he proves his hypothesis about the battle's historical significance.

Fair Oaks 1862 begins with a rather lengthy 8-page introduction on the origins of the campaign, followed by a campaign chronology. The 6-page section on opposing plans has two sections: campaign plans for each side and tactical battle plans for the Confederate counterattack. The 6-page section on opposing commanders covers the major army and corps level leaders on each side, with photographs of all individuals cited. The 7-page section on opposing armies is built around a detailed regimental-level order of battle, but it actually says little about the strengths and weaknesses of each force. It is also disappointing that the author does not provide details on how much cavalry or artillery each side had. The campaign narrative itself devotes 25 pages to the siege of Yorktown and the battle of Williamsburg, and 23 pages to the battle of Fair Oaks. The author provides five 2-D maps (the eastern theater in spring 1862; the Union landings in April 1862; Yorktown to Williamsburg; McClellan's advance to the Chickahominy; the Confederate advance), three 3-D maps (the battle of Williamsburg; the Confederate assault on 31 May 1862; the Union counterattack on 1 June 1862) and three excellent full color battle scenes (the Confederate withdrawal from Yorktown; the storming of Casey's redoubt; Confederate cavalry looting Tunstall's station). Readers should note the slight pro-Confederate bias in that all the battle scenes are primarily from the Confederate viewpoint. Also, the author's writing style in this volume is onerous, with many paragraphs over one page long and some over two pages in length.

There is some significant bias evident in these pages, and it is clear that the author's sympathies are with the Confederates. Prior to the Peninsula campaign, Konstam describes the Union defeat at Ball's Bluff on 21 October 1861, in which he states that the Union brigade commanded by Colonel Edward Baker was "destroyed" and that "Baker was killed...along with most of his men." Konstam uses this action to suggest the greater tactical prowess of Confederate troops but virtually ignores the fact that the Union unit was conducting a difficult river crossing. Furthermore, although the Union brigade suffered about 54% losses, only 49 troops out of 1,700 engaged were killed and Confederate casualties were nearly as large. Konstam is also somewhat disingenuous about the Battle of Williamsburg in stating that McClellan "allowed Johnston [the Confederate commander] to slip away." Readers should note that the author does not mention casualties at Williamsburg - which were over 1,900 killed and wounded for the Union and over 1,200 for the Confederates - losses comparable to the battle of First Bull Run. Williamsburg was in fact, a successful delaying operation for the Confederates, but the heavy casualties indicate that the Union army did not let them slip away unscathed.

Virtually the author's entire hypothesis about the campaign revolves around the psychology of McClellan and Konstam concludes that, "the battle marked a turning point, as from that moment on, McClellan lost his nerve." Although Konstam criticizes McClellan's over-caution throughout the text, he is also quick to blame President Lincoln's retention of McDowell's command near Washington as undermining McClellan's determination to push on to Richmond. However, there is little to suggest that McClellan was ever really serious about smashing his way into Richmond, given his perennial search for reasons to waste time and the non-availability of McDowell's corps might have been a convenient excuse for grinding to a virtual halt within sight of Richmond. Konstam never raises the possibility that McClellan may never have been serious about storming Richmond and that his offensive may have been designed merely to give the Union a strong hand at the bargaining table; Konstam should have mentioned that two years later, McClellan ran for the presidency on a platform that called for a negotiated settlement to end the war. Whether or not McClellan was thinking along these lines in 1862, it is clear that he was not thinking along Lincoln's lines and in a republic where military commanders are subordinate to politicians, this is taboo. Given "Stonewall" Jackson's rampage in the Shenandoah Valley, Lincoln's decision to retain strong forces near the capital was prudent.

If McClellan was truly committed to an offensive strategy, it is hard to see how a botched Confederate counterattack at Fair Oaks - which cost the rebels heavier losses - could have shaken him for his plan of action. Between 1 June and the start of the Seven Days fighting on 26 June, McClellan had almost four weeks in which he neither attacked or retreated - this was far more than indecision, since if he had truly lost his nerve as Konstam suggests, he should have ordered a retreat to defensible lines before Lee struck. Konstam's account also suggests that the Union army was tactically inferior to the Confederates, but the fact is that of the ten actions fought between April-July 1862 in the Peninsula the Confederates only achieved one tactical success (Gaine's Mill).

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Fifty years' observations of men and events, civil and military
Erasmus D Keyes
Manufacturer: C. Scribner's sons
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The 23d Pennsylvania Volunteers in action
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The battle of Seven Pines
Gustavus Woodson Smith
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Clear the way!: The Irish Brigade from Fair Oaks to the Bloody Lane
Stephan D O'Neill
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FAIR OAKS 1862
Angus Konstam
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Fair Oaks 1862 : McClellan's Peninsula Campaign (Praeger Illustrated Military History)
Angus Konstam
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Fifty years' observation of men and events, civil and military
Erasmus D Keyes
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Official reports of General Kearny and General Birney, of the Battle of Seven Pines, May 31, 1862
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A remarkable collection of essays written by an international team of contributors explores different aspects of religion in Japan. Subjects discussed include new religions in postwar Japan, beliefs about fox-possession in the Heian period, and the religious life of the first shogunate in the late twelfth century. The essays offer fresh insights into the rich religious traditions of Japan, many of which have been previously neglected in the English-language writing on Japan.

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This book examines the role of antioxidants and of the immune system in the pathogenesis of pre-eclampsia and recurrent miscarriage. Whilst many papers have discussed the role of antioxidants in pre-eclampsia and, that of the immune system, hitherto publication has not considered the two simultaneously. The role of the immune system in recurrent miscarriage has been the subject of many papers but whether antioxidants play a part in miscarriage has been less well studied. In many ways the problems encountered in the two disorders are similar, and this book brings them together.

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