Palm Beach: Then and Now

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For decades, Palm Beach has been considered the ultimate winter resort, the philanthropic center of the country and among the most prestigious residential communities in the world. Epic wealth, fabled denizens and members of high society, legendary architecture, meticulous grooming and superb geographic coordinates endow Palm Beach with unparalled allure.

Palm Beach Then and Now provides a chronology in three sections of the island's development from an unchartered wilderness to a winter resort, to community and finally to the posh year-round residential destination it has become.

This sumptuous compilation of historic and contemporary photographs, along with personal memories shared by longtime residents merged with factual material, offers insight and an insider's view of what Palm Beach used to be like, how it has changed and what it is like today.

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Palm Beach Entertains: Then and Now
Junior League of Palm Beach
Manufacturer: Junior League of the Palm Beaches
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000K0CYS6

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PALM BEACH ENTERTAINS THEN AND NOW
Inc Junior League of the Palm Beaches
Manufacturer: Jr. League of Palm Beaches
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000GM40HQ

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Review for "How Artist See Families" by Colleen Carroll.......2000-04-17

Colleen Carrol has written an inquiry-based art appreciation book for children that my daughter and I throughly enjoyed. The book embraces a multi -cultureal approach by selecting 16 men and women artists who define in their art work what family is for them. The selection of art work represented in the book is from art history ( Matisse, Winslow Homer, Mary Cassatt Kikugawa Eizan etc.) as well as from contemporary art ( Marisol, Faith Ringgold, and Carmen Lomas Garza ) giving the book a broad range of examples. Details of the given art work are furnished to provide an opportunity to make indept observations. With emphisis on family being the comon denominator, the author raises challenging question for the reader to examine the work of art at hand. The text not only sparks the childs imagination by making inquires but occasionally uses cross referencing of art works in the book to compare and challenge the thought process. The book concludes with a rich note to parents and teachers, artists biographies and age related suggested reading. I highly recommend this book !

How Artists See Families: Mother Father Sister Brother

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How Artists See Families: Mother Father Sister Brother
Colleen Carroll
Manufacturer: Abbeville Kids
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000UZQ1F8

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hardcover

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Anne Geddes did it again!.......2002-07-08

With the birth of my preemie daughter, I wanted to fix up her room with some beautiful pictures. I purchased this book and LOVE it. The photos are captivating. I used a new razorblade to get the pictures out on the spine. I framed the ones that I liked the most for her room. Everyone that has seen them has asked where I found them... they are a real conversation piece. I was VERY happy with this book!

Loving Baby Images Like You've Never Seen Before.......2001-03-11

This brief portfolio of 20 photographs of babies and young children expands the metaphors for thinking about babies, building on the inherent contrasts of black-and-white. Although there are few images in the portfolio, their mind-expanding capability is far beyond that of more extensive collections. As a result, you will gain an expanded view of humanity that you did not have before. Each photograph has a brief description of the relationship of the models and background on how it was shot. There is no essay with the portfolio.

Seldom is black-and-white photography used primarily to accentuate the imagery of black and white together. This portfolio goes as far in that direction as any work I have seen. The stage is set with the first image which is the top of a baby's head supported by an isolated hand, amid the blackness of the void. This image eloquently shows the connection from one generation to another, and from one person to another. It is a beautiful and inspiring photograph. Three other photographs explore this imagery in other ways, each emphasizing the fragility of human life.

Other images challenge your assumptions. People with black and white skins are put in contact with one another in ways suggesting love, support, and intimacy. To me, these images echo the oneness of humanity. To test yourself on that, Ms. Geddes gives one mirror images for you to see if you react differently to the adult being black with a white angel baby, from a photograph of the adult being white and a black angel baby. The one that is perhaps the best from this perspective is a black and a white child kissing, in an image that could be two cupids celebrating love.

Two of the images also look at the connection between mother and child. One is a marvelous conceptual piece with the baby lying on a woman's abdomen upside down, simulating the in utero position.

Age as a context is wonderfully displayed in an image of two babies with hats on that make them look like little old men.

I won't explore all of the metaphors, but they are very uplifting humanistic ones.

Here are my favorites: Joshua

Full Term

Linda & Ben

Alexandra & Myls

Boys & Dover

Zac & Georgina

While I liked this work very much, I felt that it needed more examples to fully stretch the viewer. I graded it down one star for being a bit too brief. But it's better to have too few, but almost all wonderful images, than to have many images, but few good ones.

After you review the portfolio and think about its metaphors, I suggest you imagine the other feelings you have about babies. Which such feelings are important to you that are not represented here? What metaphors about those feelings would be the most challenging for you? In this way, you can extend the experience to expand your thinking even more.

Let looking at babies bring us back to the elemental truths of existence!

Beautiful babies.......2000-03-31

Black and White and Babies, is there a better combination.

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The Tax Law of Colleges and Universities, Second Edition is the primary tax guide for higher educations institutions. It provides comprehensive coverage of the most important issues facing colleges and universities including employment taxes, fringe benefits (including 403(b) retirement plans and deferred compensation), lobbying and other political activities, subsidiaries and spin-offs (graduate schools, research institutes, and fundraising foundations), plus strategies for handling an IRS audit.

Also contains the most current information on new intermediate sanctions regulations, tax treatment of immigration-related expenses paid by a college or university on behalf of its employees and other individuals, and Capital gains exclusion to unrelated business income.

This title is supplemented annually to keep you fully abreast of all of the latest tax law changes that affect colleges and universities.

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This well-documented study discusses the social and economic changes in Shandong province before the influence of the West was felt at the end of the nineteenth century. The authors show that by the sixteenth century, commercial and handicraft towns linked to national and local markets had already begun to emerge. Urban growth was made possible by increased agricultural production, which in turn stimulated specialization and increased commercialization in the agricultural sector. Another important change in rural society at this time was the emergence of a new stratum of wealthy landlords who managed their estates with wage labor. Case studies of managerial landlords, who form the main focus of this study, are included as well as generalizations drawn from questionnaire materials.

Luo Lun and Jing Su wrote this book while they were young researchers at Shandong University in the late 1950s, using data they had gathered in the culturally relaxed period of the Hundred Flowers. In his introduction, Endymion Wilkinson analyzes the authors' thesis and concludes that their Leninist model is inapplicable to premodern Chinese history. The value of this study lies not so much in its conclusion that even without the impact of Western imperialism China would of itself have developed a capitalist society, but rather in the wealth of data the authors present, in this first in-depth study of a relatively advanced region in north China.

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Internationally recognized supermodel and UNICEF spokesperson Vendela shares her postpartum recovery plan with new mothers

How does a supermodel and new mother deal with getting back in shape, sleepless nights, and eating right with her children? In Model Mommy, worldwide sensation Vendela helps you get your groove back by revealing her own difficulties and experiences with emotional highs and lows, her relationship with her husband, exercising, and caring for her daughters.

Providing you with necessary emotional support, Model Mommy features a realistic eating plan that stresses the need to avoid feeling deprived, accessible exercises that can be done from home, and dozens of delicious, healthy recipes with tips on how to adapt them for finicky toddlers. Plus, Model Mommy includes full-color photographs from Vendela's personal photo album as well as step-by-step shots of her working out with her trainer. Interweaving her personal experiences and family anecdotes with practical advice, Model Mommy will help you feel like yourself again.

Topics include:
Adjusting to motherhood
Keeping your marriage alive
Starting to feel sexy again
Getting back to a healthy weight
Exercises you can do at home with baby
Eating sensibly without feeling deprived
Fun, healthy recipes for the whole family

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Very Wholesome.......2004-05-13

This book is surprisingly not at all model-y. She presents motherhood in a very wholesome and natural way. Clearly promotes breastfeeding without being pushy. I found the eating and exercising tips realistic, do-able and very effective. The recipes are great if you are a relaxed cook (no exact measurements). The emotional parts are real and sincere, everyone can relate to them. Written in a relaxed girlfriend-to-girlfriend style, this book is a breath of fresh air. Frankly, it's more useful than some of the "What to Expect"-theme books.

Great Book that Tells The Truth !.......2003-12-19

I am the mother of a 10 month old. I wish that I had this book months ago. My experience was similar to Venedela's. It's an honest book that does not sugar coat the challenges of motherhood. Being a mother is the best job in the world. It is not always easy. I appreciate Vendela's honesty!

Intelligent guide on how to raise a family.......2002-07-28

Earlier this month, I had seen Vendela interviewed on television promoting her new book. It has been nearly a decade since as a young girl I had seen her in the advertisements for Elizabeth Arden that my aunt had said I resembled, perhaps of the Scandinavian background. That I have kept the colour couture bag my grandmother had given me as a gift, and she asked the salelady if she could have an extra bag as she adored the pink and purple colors designed on it, and the saleslady obliged. My grandmother had passed away, and I kept both bags together, and recently I used my bag as a gift bag for my younger cousin.
As I am not a frequent television watcher, and was fortunate when I did I saw her new book at just the perfect moment for a gift, as an older cousin of mine is having a baby at any moment now. Vendela writes with uncanny candor and warmth. Proves that one can't always live up to other people expectations of what they think you should look like. You'd drive yourself crazy. You have to feel good abut yourself. And, prove that you can be thin and fit after you have a baby.
The desk top style book offers clear advice, and recipes for everyday. It is perfect to give as a gift. And, in accompaniment with another book on your shelf entitled: "A Model For Better Future," written by another successful model, Kim Alexis on how to live a wonderful life in an certain world. Each of these books has wings!

Easy tips and quick results.......2002-05-21

The book is first of all very nicely done. The tips and exercises are simple and quick to get started with. I appreciate the fact that she allows us to see some real pictures of her being not so beautiful. I wish there were more meals on the go in the nutrition area. As long as women realize that she has a natural beauty that many of us do not have, then you will appreciate where she is coming from a little more. It's almost impossible to do all of the things we need to do for and with our bodies and especially with little kids underfoot. This is the perfect book to combine with the new revision of Mommy-CEO, 2001, by family expert, Jodie Lynn. The two only adds to the whole family routine of taking care of mommy. Mommy-CEO shows us how to get the kids motivated and Model Mommy shows us how and what to do to take care of ourselves. Both authors stress mommy time and creating space for moms.

Model Mommy: Vendela's Plan for Emotional Support, Exercise, and Eating Right After Having a Baby

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Model Mommy: Vendela's Plan for Emotional Support, Exercise, and Eating Right After Having a Baby
Vendela
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OGGU0E

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Battles in the monsoon;: Campaigning in the the Central Highlands, Vietnam, summer 1966,
S. L. A Marshall
Manufacturer: W. Morrow
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

Vietnam War | Military | History | Subjects | Books
Southeast Asia | Asia | History | Subjects | Books
ASIN: B0007DMLCK

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Battles in the Monsoon
S L A Marshall
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000U24R2U

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Battles in the Monsoon
S. L. A. Marshall
Manufacturer: Warner Books
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Binding: Paperback

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Vietnam: Three Battles (Da Capo Paperback)

ASIN: 0446355143

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Battles in the Monsoon. Campaigning in the Central Highlands, South Vietnam, Summer 1966
S.L.A. Marshall
Manufacturer: William Morrow & Company, Inc.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000I3HGMO

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Battles in the Monsoon: Camping in the Central Highlands, Vietnam, Summer 1966 (Vietnam War, No 5)
S. L. A. Marshall
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0898390753

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battles in the Monsoon.......2007-04-27

those of us who were there know what it like to be in combat in the central highlands. If you weren't there Marshall's realistic writting will put you there. His words are as close as you want to be. Life and death small unit engagements in the jungle and on the artillery firebases. The gripping sacrifices of soldiers facing death is all to personal. Marshall puts names on faces and their faces stare out at you from the numerous photographs. A must read book concentrating on the actual small units under fire in 1966 Viet-Nam

Battles in the monsoon;: Campaigning in the Central Highlands, Vietnam, summer 1966, (Apollo editions)

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Battles in the monsoon;: Campaigning in the Central Highlands, Vietnam, summer 1966, (Apollo editions)
S. L. A Marshall
Manufacturer: W. Morrow
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Binding: Unknown Binding

Vietnam War | Military | History | Subjects | Books
ASIN: B0007DNEK8

Battles of the Monsoon: Campaigning in the Central Highlands Vietnam, Summer 1966

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Battles of the Monsoon: Campaigning in the Central Highlands Vietnam, Summer 1966
Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall
Manufacturer: The Battery Press, Inc.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000GJ02RQ

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The first study in depth of the United States Army in combat with the Viet COng and the North Vietnamese.

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Battles in the Monsoon
Gen. S. L. A., Illustrated by Jac Purdon Marshall
Manufacturer: New York: William Morrow and Co. 1967
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000OM982U

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Battles in the Monsoon
S.L.A. Marshall
Manufacturer: Willam Morrow and Company
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ASIN: B000NW8PXE

Battles In The Monsoon Campaigning in the Central Highlands Vietnam, Summer 1966

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Battles In The Monsoon Campaigning in the Central Highlands Vietnam, Summer 1966
S. L. A. Marshall
Manufacturer: William Morrow & Co., Inc.
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000NZZWW8

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Orders of Knighthood are the most exclusive and prestigious institutions in the world. Originally the preserve of royalty and aristocracy, they now include amongst their membership tycoons such as Rupert Murdoch, entertainers (Sir Mick Jagger, for example) and world leaders (Nelson Mandela). Burke's Peerage and Gentry have now produced a major new study of the extant orders of knighthood and merit of every state, the result of the collaboration of many of the world's leading specialists. The first section commences with detailed histories of the surviving confraternal orders, beginning with the famous Order of Malta. The second section includes histories of all the great European single class Collar Orders, by date of foundation, beginning with the Order of the Garter (England) and including the Orders from Austria, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Poland, Scotland, Spain and Sweden. The third includes histories of the most prestigious Orders of Chivalry and the remaining sections include one devoted to royal dynastic Orders, another to ladies' Orders and the largest section: State Merit Orders. The main portion ends with a section on institutions of chivalric character. Each Order's purpose, structure, investiture details, officers and membership requirements will be listed along with details of the insignia. These lavishly illustrated, full colour volumes also include illustrations of the uniforms, robes and insignia as well as photographs and paintings of related places and people, diplomas, armorial bearings and ceremonies of investiture. This unique volume will be of great interest to academics, historians, collectors and members of any of the numerous international orders.

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World Orders of Knighthood and Merit
Guy Stair; Heydel-Mankoo, Rafal Sainty
Manufacturer: Boydell & Brewer
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000N577TY

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Wildstream is a definitive treatment of the ecology of streams and rivers. It covers river dynamics, life processes underwater, the crucial linkage between streams and the land, and life histories of stream organisms from bacteria to aquatic insects and many species of fish. Although Wildstream covers the fundamentals of river science, it is written in an informal style for students, anglers, paddlers, related professionals, and all who love rivers.

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Get it from the source.......2005-04-08

This is a great book. If you go to the Riparian Press at the Rivers Council of Minnesota you can get it for only $22 and you can support the cause for which it was written. There are other good resources there too.

The beauty and mystery of the river..........2001-04-09

"Wildstream", an up to date, thorough volume of the natural history of streams and rivers, is colorfully and articulately written by Dr. Thomas F. Waters, professor emeritus of the University of Minnesota.

Clearly a lifetime of work exhibits here his passion for understanding the history of the free flowing river and his passion for preserving natural resources. He has gone beyond his calling as a scientist, biologist, naturalist, writer, teacher ... and has proven his expertise by now sharing this wealth of knowledge with others.

This book is for all who appreciate the beauty of the river and desire to quench their thirst for understanding those "lovely living silver strands we call rivers"

Wildstream, A Natural History .............2001-03-28

I reviewed this book before and the rating is wrong. It should be 5 Stars.

Informative and Inspirational.......2000-10-07

This book will delight both the angler and scientist. He talks about the ecology of streams, the setting, types of fish and the challenges facing rivers today. He also, in a series of Sketches, explores river lore. This book fosters an understanding and appreciation for rivers and is useful for high school biology students to postgraduates. An excellent book for those who love rivers.

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