Big Dams and Other Dreams: The Six Companies Story

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Lots of excellent industrial history.......2001-07-30

While the title of the book precludes a history of the Hoover dam. I found it to contain much more. The book does give a very good acounting of the building of the Hoover Dam.It also covers the beginnigs of some of the largest corporations in the world.

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Tall, skinny, short, round, squat, awkward, slouched, tanned, bashful, and sometimes unknowingly beautiful, the adolescents in Rineke Dijkstra's Beach Portraits stand alone, the ocean rolling behind them. Clad in little more than bathing suits, these young people are striking to behold. Remarkably clear and formally classical, each subject is frontally posed and shot straight on; the resulting photographs participate in a cold, quasi-scientific categorization reminiscent of the work of August Sander and Thomas Ruff. Yet Dijkstra's pictures are not just that--there is also something of the eccentric in them, something that comes closer to Diane Arbus's images. Seen together, the complete series of 20 Beach Portraits creates a kind of collective portrait of the existential insecurity and awkward beauty of youth.

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Beach Portraits
Rineke Dijkstra
Manufacturer: LaSalle Bank Photography Collection
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000GKR944

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amusing (but aren't cartoons supposed to be?).......2001-11-19

An amusing read. Something to kill a little time over a mocha latte on a rainy day and leave behind for a tip if the barista is cute.

Caffeinated Cartoons: Cartoons About Coffee and Tea.

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Caffeinated Cartoons: Cartoons About Coffee and Tea.
Stephanie. PIRO
Manufacturer: Laugh Lines Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OGMLBG

The New Yorker Caffeinated Calendar: Cartoons for 2004 Magnetic Kitchen Calendar 2004 (Workman Wall Calendars)

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The New Yorker Caffeinated Calendar: Cartoons for 2004 Magnetic Kitchen Calendar 2004 (Workman Wall Calendars)
Workman Publishing Company
Manufacturer: Workman Publishing Company
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Calendar

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Milk, two sugars, and 12 months of wit for the millions of people who depend on their daily cup (make that cups) of joe, The New Yorker Caffeinated Calendar is an homage-in-cartoons to the beverage that fuels America. A store window advertises second-hand books--and reheated coffee. The cafe Tea & Sympathy displays a new sign: "Coffee and a Kick in the Pants." With contributors including George Booth, Roz Chast, and other favorite New Yorker cartoonists, it's a year of caffeine-stoked whimsy. The calendar has a magnetic strip (perfect for hanging on the fridge), but also a plastic hook, so it can hang on a crowded wall calendar or bulletin board.

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artificial joint.......1999-06-25

company made or sale artificial bone or joint

Pharmaceutical company.......1999-06-25

artificial joint artificial bon

Hoover's Handbook of American Business 2000

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Invaluable Information!

Hoover's Handbook of American Business 2000
Hoover's Business Press
Manufacturer: Hoover's
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

Company Profiles | Biography & History | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books

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ASIN: 1573110558

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This comprehensive two volume set contains in-depth profiles of 750 America's largest and most influential companies. You'll find major corporate giants like Coca-Cola, Exxon, General Motors and Wal-Mart, plus a selection of more than 50 of the largest privately owned companies, including Cargill and Mars. Unlike any other business resource on the market, Hoover's examines the personalities, events and strategies that have made these enterprises leaders in their fields.

This valuable reference includes 60 pages of business lists, such as the Fortune 500 list of the largest U.S. corporations, Computer Retail Week's Top 50 Computer Retailers and the companies on the Standard & Poor's 500. It also includes indexes by headquarters location and industry, and by the people, companies and brand names mentioned in the profiles

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Invaluable Information!.......2001-03-24

There are very few days in the life of a fashion information professional and her clients that this two volume set dosen't come to the rescue. When you need infomation on the American BIG GUNS of apparel manufacturing and retailing "Hoover's" is your source. Of course the volumes provide information relevant to every industry but, nothing beats information on the apparel industry in my book. You get an overview of the company and its officers, their ages, salaries a concise company history and more. Need to know a companies'past five years sales figures withiout having to sit for hours trying to read the annual report online or calling for a prospectus? Go to "Hoover's". You also get the names of major competitors and other company holdings. This series is one that you receive more than you bargin for.

American Corporate Finance Directory 1999 (America's Corporate Finance Directory)

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American Corporate Finance Directory 1999 (America's Corporate Finance Directory)
Reed Reference Publishing
Manufacturer: National Register Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0872179184

American Corporate Finance Directory, 1998 (Serial)

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American Corporate Finance Directory, 1998 (Serial)
National Register Publishing
Manufacturer: National Register Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0872179176

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The Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 might have signaled the end of slavery, but the beginning of freedom remained far out of sight for most of the four million enslaved African Americans living in the South. Even after the Civil War, when thousands of former slaves flocked to southern cities in search of work, they found the demands placed on them as wage-earners disturbingly similar to those they had faced as slaves: seven-day workweeks, endless labor, and poor treatment. In To 'Joy My Freedom, author Tera W. Hunter takes a close look at the lives of black women in the post-Civil War South and draws some interesting conclusions. Hunter's interest in the subject was initially sparked by her research of the washerwomen's strike of 1881. This labor protest by more than 3,000 Atlanta laundresses is symbolic, Hunter posits, of African American women's ability to build communities and practice effective, if rough-and-ready, political strategies outside the mainstream electoral system.

To 'Joy My Freedom is a fascinating look at the long-neglected story of black women in postwar southern culture. Hunter examines the strategies these women (98 percent of whom worked as domestic servants) used to cope with low wages and poor working conditions and their efforts to master the tools of advancement, including literacy. Hunter explores not only the political, but the cultural, too, offering an in-depth look at the distinctive music, dance, and theater that grew out of the black experience in the South.

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As the Civil War drew to a close, newly emancipated black women workers made their way to Atlanta--the economic hub of the newly emerging urban and industrial south--in order to build an independent and free life on the rubble of their enslaved past. In an original and dramatic work of scholarship, Tera Hunter traces their lives in the postbellum era and reveals the centrality of their labors to the African-American struggle for freedom and justice. Household laborers and washerwomen were constrained by their employers' domestic worlds but constructed their own world of work, play, negotiation, resistance, and community organization.

Hunter follows African-American working women from their newfound optimism and hope at the end of the Civil War to their struggles as free domestic laborers in the homes of their former masters. We witness their drive as they build neighborhoods and networks and their energy as they enjoy leisure hours in dance halls and clubs. We learn of their militance and the way they resisted efforts to keep them economically depressed and medically victimized. Finally, we understand the despair and defeat provoked by Jim Crow laws and segregation and how they spurred large numbers of black laboring women to migrate north.

Hunter weaves a rich and diverse tapestry of the culture and experience of black women workers in the post-Civil War south. Through anecdote and data, analysis and interpretation, she manages to penetrate African-American life and labor and to reveal the centrality of women at the inception--and at the heart--of the new south.

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A worthy read.......2000-11-27

Although it is not perfect, Hunter provides an engrossing look at southern black women's labor (especially in Atlanta) from the end of the Civil War to the Great Migration. With emancipation, these women searched for identity as free women, as paid workers, and as African Americans. White woutherners developed institutions and laws to restrict the newfound freedom black southerners sought to enjoy. Black women workers responded through community awareness and activism, showing intelligence and the desire to better their lives. Hunter's innovative use of sources shapes her work and helps the women's voices come alive. Because of limited African-Americal literacy in the early Reconstruction period, Hunter turned to newspapers and white southners' diaries fo flesh-out black women's experiences. Although problematic, the attention given in them to black women domestics demonstrated the division of both race and gender. Hunter also incorporates unique sources like dance steps so show the many ways newly freed women sought to define themselves. Her haunting use of illustrations reinforces the oppression and struggle for freedom black women laborers faced. As someone who knew very little about this aspect of history, Hunter's work has developed my interest in this time.

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If your child is overweight, he's not alone. According to the American Obesity Association, more than 30 percent of children ages 6 to 19 are now overweight. And half of those children are obese. You're worried about your child's health-and don't know what to do. Is your child's weight due to overeating? Lack of exercise? Genetics?

The Everything Parent's Guide to the Overweight Child provides you with valuable insight on what causes children to become overweight and how to help them to change their eating habits and become more physically active. Most important, you'll learn what you can do to break the cycle of obesity that can lead to severe medical problems in the future.

Author Paula Ford-Martin helps you:

Prevent emotional overeating

Increase family awareness and sensitivity

Beat fat and calories when dining out

Incorporate physical activity into everyday routines

Track progress with journal entry pages

The Everything Parent's Guide to the Overweight Child provides the professional advice you need to deal with this sensitive issue, motivating your child to eat well, get active, and stay healthy.

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Back to the Front

MAJOR AND MRS. HOLT'S CONCISE GUIDE WESTERN FRONT - NORTH: Mons, le Cateau, Notre Dame de Lorette, First Ypres, Neuve Chapelle, Aubers Ridge, Festubert, ... Fourth Ypres. (Holts Battlefield Guides)
Major Holt
Manufacturer: Pen and Sword
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Binding: Paperback

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MAJOR AND MRS HOLT'S CONCISE GUIDE WESTERN FRONT SOUTH (Major & Mrs Holt's Battlefield Guides)

MAJOR AND MRS. HOLT'S BATTLEFIELD GUIDE TO THE SOMME (Battleground Europe)

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MAJOR AND MRS HOLT'S BATTLEFIELD GUIDE OPERATION MARKET GARDEN: Leopoldsville to Arnhem (Major and Mrs Holt's Battlefield Guide)

ASIN: 0850529336

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Mons, le Cateau, Notre Dame de Lorette, First Ypres, Neuve Chapelle, Aubers Ridge, Festubert, Second Ypres, Loos, Fromelles, Vimy Ridge, Third Ypres, Cambrai, Fourth Ypres.

Interest in the battlefields of The Great War has increased exponentially in the last 10 years and credit for this must rest in large measure on the shoulders of Major and Mrs Holt. Not only did they pioneer the concept of 'Battlefield Tour' holidays but their books, of which this is the latest, have long been regarded as the Bible for tourists making the pilgrimage to the scenes of battles whether in Flanders, Normandy, Gallipoli or Arnhem.

The Holts, appreciating that today the areas visited has broadened considerably have researched a much wider book than their earlier Somme and Ypres Guides. This is the first part of the results of their labours and the second covering the Southern battlefields will follow later in the 2004.

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Back to the Front.......2007-06-29

Tourism, aided by easy Chunnel access, has made World War One's Western Front a significant British tourist destination. Veterans groups and family history researchers have joined history buffs and day trippers to make the battlefields, cemeteries, and memorials of the Great War a busy place. Predictably, sites associated with British and Commonwealth forces have been especially favored. While it always helps to know Flemish or French, neither are necessary to visit Ieper (French Ypres, British slang Wipers), Vimy, or the Somme where English is a second language.

If you're planning such a trip, you'll quickly encounter Tonie and Valmai Holt. Their numerous books and maps (twenty-three at last count, and growing) are the standard against which other battlefield guides are judged. Start with this volume (and its companion, The Western Front - South) and you'll be on your way. The Holts have driven all the fields, and provide detailed maps and directions to take you on the roads and tracks that cross them. {They assume you brought your car from Britain, and provide all their distances in miles rather than kilometers.} They miss very little. Tiny cemeteries, roadside shrines, wall plaques, and local amenities are all here (and keep in mind there are well over 100 cemeteries maintained just by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.). It sometimes gets a bit overpowering, and the casual traveler may want to consult a "best of" list or focus upon the sites that the Holts illustrate with attractive color photos that make this a fine souvenir of any trip. Be aware that their guides can send you to some moving experiences that are off the main paths: their advice at the Somme took us to the Devonshire Trench Cemetery and the 38th (Welsh) Division Memorial.

Their books are obviously works for the tourist. The Holts offer only brief historical summaries, so you will want to read a good general history of the 1914-1918 war before heading out. {We recommend John Keegan's Pictorial History of World War One, but there are many others.} You also need to remember that the Belgians and French, while welcoming visitors, want to live modern lives in the areas liberated from the Kaiser's forces. Surprisingly few sites retain the "feel" of the trenches (the Holts will steer you to them), and cemeteries and memorials far outnumber museums. The Holts admire valor and sacrifice, and they will tell you why those sites deserve respect. Some of their harshest criticisms are directed at those who poorly maintain a site. Two weeks and nearly a thousand kilometers of driving this summer from Ieper to St. Mihiel with the Holts convinced us they are the guides of choice. Take them with you when you go back to the Front.

Mons 1914: The BEF's Tactical Triumph (Campaign)

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the unravelling of the Von Schlieffen plan
For modelers and historians

Mons 1914: The BEF's Tactical Triumph (Campaign)
David Lomas
Manufacturer: Osprey Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1855325519
Release Date: 1997-09-15

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When the First World War broke out in August 1914 the Imperial German Army mistakenly assumed that the BEF – 'that contemptible little army' – would be easily defeated. They were stopped in their tracks by the numerically inferior British force, whose excellent marksmanship cost the closed packed German ranks dear. Eventually forced to fall back by overwhelming German numbers, the British carried out a masterful fighting retreat across Belgium and northern France. At Mons, nine and a half British battalions held four German divisions at bay for an entire day. This book examines not just the battle of Mons itself but also the ensuing British retreat including the actions at Le Cateau and Villers-Cotterêts.

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the unravelling of the Von Schlieffen plan.......2007-10-01

Lots of pictures in this book that I'd never seen before and excellent maps throughout as well as the usual great Osprey artwork. Von Schlieffen said to "keep the right wing strong" but needs of the German army in other areas necessitated a reduction on the Belgian front.The British who were responsible for carrying the defense of Belgium were able to pick apart the German schlieffen plan at Mons and surrounding areas.The Germans absorbed high casualties using frontal assaults little removed from the Franco-Prussian war while the British retreated giving the Germans a "Pyrric victory".Lots of human interest stories of Victoria Crosses.At Mons field manuevers and infantry and cavalry assaults were used and marked a ray of hope for the German army that it could still remain quick and mobile. Things rapidly changed as the British use of artillery and machine guns indicated that the face of warfare was rapidly changing.I'm sure the Germans must have lost alot of confidence with anywhere from 12,000 to as high as 30,000 casaulties estimated.(German record keeping was not real good),and the British approximately had 8,000.The German army grossly outnumbered the BEF at Mons but due to imperfections of scouting and reconaissance information,they were unaware of it.A skeleton crew of British made splinters of Schlieffen's slamming door at Mons.Already at Mons you can see a division between France and Britain over placement of troops.The northern front(Belgium) is seen as Britains'responsibility while the French take the southern front(France itself).The area between these 2 fronts were squabbled over with each country saying the other was responsible for its defense.

For modelers and historians.......2000-05-26

This book provides, in the usual Osprey Battles format, a nice overview of the first great battle fought by the BEF in WWI. There are plenty of black and white photos, as well as color drawings featuring uniforms, armament, and so on.

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Here is an outstanding personal memoir penned by a German infantry officer recalling his experiences during the initial days and weeks of the war in the West, July-September 1914.

Walter Bloem was a Captain in the German 12th Grenadier Regiment (Royal Prussian Grenadier Regiment Prinz Carl von Preuen, 2nd Brandenburg, Nr 12 - to give his unit its full title). His narrative gives a superb insight into the outbreak of war and his regiment's mobilisation, followed by the advance through Belgium and France, including the author's participation at the battles of Mons, Le Cateau, the Marne and the Aisne. His account of what it was like to face Britain's 'Old Contemptibles' at Mons is particularly valuable.

Before the war, the author was a novelist, and The Advance from Mons clearly shows this - it is written with a great eye for detail, careful yet vivid descriptions abound and importantly, from a historical perspective, the book was penned whilst Herr Bloem convalesced from a wound he received at the battle of the Aisne. Such was the quality of his writing, that J.E. Edmonds, the British official historian of the Great War commented: "Some of the scenes ... are so truly and vividly depicted that I gave translations of them in the Official History, feeling that they could not be bettered."

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Excellent first-hand account.......2005-02-01

Walter Bloem was an aspiring novelist and officer in the reserves in the year 1914. He had reached a point in his life when he felt he could devote himself more to his passion of writing and the future looked promising--but in August 1914, that all changed with the outbreak of war. In a matter of days he went from being a genlteman and novelist to Captain and company commander in the 12th Brandenburg Grenadiers, which was part of III Corps in Kluck's Army. As an accomplished writer, what we have in The Advance from Mons is an astute and very readable account of the early weeks of the war from the perspective of a frontline officer. An excellent first-hand account--a must read for those with an interest in the Great War.

Military Operations France and Belgium 1914: Mons, the Retreat to the Seine, the Marne and the Aisne, August-October 1914 (History of the Great War Based on Official Documents)

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Military Operations France and Belgium 1914: Mons, the Retreat to the Seine, the Marne and the Aisne, August-October 1914 (History of the Great War Based on Official Documents)
Brigadier-General Sir James E. Edmonds , and G.M. Bayliss
Manufacturer: Imperial War Museum
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1870423569

The Angel of Mons: Phantom Soldiers and Ghostly Guardians

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A Thorough Examination of the Legend
The Angel of Mons
Academic Examination of the Myth/Mystery

The Angel of Mons: Phantom Soldiers and Ghostly Guardians
David Clarke
Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0470862785

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The Angel of Mons recounts the tale of the advancement of German troops through Mons in 1914, to meet the ill-prepared British Expeditionary Force. The British troops were forced to retreat, with little hope of saving the lives of those at the front. It is in these extreme circumstances that many of the wounded and dying soldiers brought back from the Western Front, reported having been rescued by strange angelic forms in the sky that protected them from massacre - The Angel of Mons.

David Clarke follows this and other myths and rumours in an effort to trace the reality behind the Angel of Mons and discover what it was the soldiers saw.

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A Thorough Examination of the Legend.......2007-09-09

The legend is that during a massive German attack at Mons, just as the retreating Tommies were in danger of annihilation, a spectral army (St. George and angels in one version, and a force of bow-men in another) appear and break the German attack. But did this really happen?

Clarke's book digs into all the details behind what really happened that day at Mons in August 1914, going beyond all the second- and third-hand sources to trace what can really be known from eyewitnesses. He reconstructs the history in which a valiant British rearguard action succeeds in slowing the German advance, because the Germans are unfamiliar with the rapid-fire weaponry of the British and incorrectly assume that the British have reinforcements entering the battle. Afterwards, some battle-fatigued British troops talk of a "light" or "glowing cloud" which they saw in the sky during the battle.

Meanwhile, a British journalist named Arthur Machen has written an obscure piece of fiction titled "The Bowmen" which is published in a British newspaper. In times desperate for hope during a dark period of the war, the story is seized upon and retold and embellished as truth, combining with "friend of a friend" accounts and some deliberate embellishment to grow into the legend of the Angels of Mons. The author examines the possibility that the legend was a product of British propaganda efforts to build morale among the people. Meanwhile, the hapless Machen watches his creation take on a life of its own as, despite his continuous protestations that his story was complete fiction, others assure him that it must indeed be true.

This book is a very interesting look at the development of what may be one of the first "urban legends" of the modern industrial age. The author briefly relates it to later legends surrounding WWII, UFO's and 9/11.

The Angel of Mons.......2006-07-17

Very enjoyable read. Mr. Clarke has provided a thorough and interesting book on a topic not discussed in much detail in other collections on The Great War.

Academic Examination of the Myth/Mystery.......2005-01-11

An excellent book examining the 'Angel of Mons'. The account is well researched and fully referenced. The evidence is fully traced and examined within the context and themes of the time. While books with similar titles may have an agenda, the author is only interested in a fair and thorough examination of the evidence.

The retreat from Mons, by one who shared in it

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The retreat from Mons, by one who shared in it
Arthur Corbett-Smith
Manufacturer: G. Newnes
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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Mons Star
David Ascoli
Manufacturer: Birlinn
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1841581275

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The battle of Mons in August 1914 endures as one of the British Army's greatest moments, despite the much larger actions fought in the next four years. The German timetable of conquest was briefly but fatally disrupted, and the experiences of that August battle had a decisive influence on Bernard Montgomery and other survivors who were to lead British forces through World War II and beyond.

The advance from Mons, 1914, (Soldiers' tales)

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The advance from Mons, 1914, (Soldiers' tales)
Walter Bloem
Manufacturer: P. Davies
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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The Advance from Mons: 1914
Captain Walter Bloem
Manufacturer: Award Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
ASIN: B000GRMBOU

The angels of Mons: The bowman and other legends of the war,

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The angels of Mons: The bowman and other legends of the war,
Arthur Machen
Manufacturer: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

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Bob Oakleaf (excerpt form the Foreward)
Non-game Bird Biologist, Wyoming Game and Fish Department

What we have here is a book that I can't categorize. But then that is to be expected. I defy anyone to categorize the author, Bert Raynes. It is a book for the browser as well as useful to the bird fanatic. More importantly, it will be most useful for the majority of us who just want to enjoy birds by learning more about new species or familiar species in different situations without the threat of cerebral overload.

This book features sixty species that have obviously been carefully chosen. The featured species will give the reader a good cross section of common species, the "high profile" birds; the unique species for which one has as good or better chance of observing in the Jackson Hole area as anywhere else in the United States; and some of Uncle Bert's favorites. This cross section gives serious birders, novices, or the experienced hobbyist, a decisive head start on enjoying and learning more about the avifauna of this unique area.

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Useful for beginners viewing from a car.......2004-10-27

This is not an exhaustive list of Grand Teton birds. Though I am far from expert, I regularly spotted birds that do not have a listing in the text. (The checklist in the back seems pretty exhaustive, though.)

However, the book is very useful if your interests lie in spotting birds in GTNP. Raynes knows the area well and discusses the habitats of the park, the birds to be found in each habitat, and provides a map showing you how to find what you want. The book provides a surer guide to finding things than a guide covering a wider area such as the Audubon guides. On the other hand, the Audubon guides provide much more coverage and are more dependable for identifying things that you see.

Another limitation of the book is that many of the habitats that Raynes discusses lie off-road. The book doesn't provide any guidance for finding trails that will get you to the habitat and birds you're looking for. Unless you want to stay in your car, you'll need a guide to trails.

If you do stay in your car, you should know that the road map is incomplete. For example, it does not show the dirt road out to Two Ocean Lake or the dirt road along the right bank of the Snake. (Both of these are really only for four-wheel drive vehicles but are useful access points to good habitat.)

The book would be most useful for beginning birders or park visitors who aren't really birders but would like to identify the birds that come their way. It is lightweight and will fit in many pants or jacket pockets.

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