Parents' Guide to Raising Responsible Kids: Preschool Through Teen Years

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Parents' Guide to Raising Responsible Kids: Preschool Through Teen Years
Karyn, with preface By Bill Cosby, Ed. D. Feiden
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Parents' Guide to Raising Responsible Kids: Preschool Through Teen Years (Children's Television Workshop Family Living Series)
Karyn Feiden
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Stuart J. Wright tells the gripping story of a World War II American aircrew flying missions from England in a B-24 Liberator bomber they nicknamed Corky. This is a true account based on years of research and correspondence with crewmembers and their families. Wright adds a dimension rarely explored in other World War II memoirs and narratives, beginning the chronicle during peacetime when the men of the aircrew are introduced as civilians-kids during the 1920s. As they mature through the years of the Great Depression to face a world at war, questions are raised about "just" and "unjust" wars, imperialism, and patriotism. Jingoistic sentimentality is resisted in favor of objectivity, as the feelings and motivations of the crewmembers are explored: the Chinese American air gunner had hoped to serve in the U.S. Army Air Force to fight against the Japanese invaders of his homeland; the Jewish navigator felt compelled to join the battle against Nazi Germany.
In recounting the harrowing conditions and horrors of bombing missions over Europe, An Emotional Gauntlet emphasizes the interpersonal relationships within the crew and the spirit these men shared. Corky's crew served under Operations Officer Major James Stewart (the Hollywood movie star.) They often returned from arduous bombing missions to sleep in half-empty huts—their friends in other planes had not been so lucky. Pilot Jack Nortridge regularly assured his crew, "If you fly with me, I'm going to bring you home." This book is a testament to their strength and determination.

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Great research and a model of how to use original sources........2006-11-26

As an aspiring WW2 B-24 and 392nd BG researcher, I regard Wright as a real teacher in his use of archival and original sources. A review of the bibliography, notes and appendix is a quick education in how to use available research tools. Going thru the boxes of unit histories, Missing Air Crew Reports and German KU files on downed allied aircraft at the National Archives in Washington, DC, is something I also would like to do. His efforts in tracking people down by any means, including letters to very old addresses, is a new option for me. In addition Wright is a fine story teller and interesting to read.The Corky crew flew during the first half of 1944, some of the toughest, highest attrition missions as the 8th AF broke the Luftwaffe prior to D-Day. The detail of each crewman's life during the war and after is such a huge task, requiring years and years, very hard to put this down. Our father was a Lead Pilot in the 392nd BG, a few miles from Old Buckenham, and flew on these same missions, so this is indeed a special book for us.

Excellent Read.......2005-07-08

This is a must read for anyone interested in the daily life of a real B-24 combat crew. Stuart has done an excellent job of presenting the difficulties and challenges of an American air crew in England, as he takes you from the early days of crew training to each of the (very)tough missions flown. One feels as if you are actually part of this team. I came away with a sense of awe and admiration for these men "just doing their job" amid the daily horrors of combat over Germany, and the very real risk that they would not be coming back every time they flew.

READ IT AND ENJOY!.......2005-03-18

One of the problems for those interested in books about air warfare in World War Two is that you've read it all before. At least it seems that way. There are books so imitative of other books that the reader may question whether he read it all before.
You won't get that feeling when you read "An Emotional Gauntlet". No, Sir. This is as fresh as the smell of 100 octane on a crisp morning. Author Stuart J. Wright brings freshness to his topic that we thought had been burned away in the 50's and 60's.

You are not confined to barracks when you read "Gauntlet." The author takes you to British hamlets and cities where the Luftwaffe can be expected when least expected. B17s and 24s machine guns hammer.

This is good stuff! You are not going to fall asleep reading it. Stuart was too young for WW2 but he researched his book for more than ten years! He interviewed a great many survivors of Europe's air war some of whom you may recognize if you flew out of Blighty when the going was rough or at any other time.

This is not pulp fiction. Veterans of the Eighth may well recognize planes and people from their own wartime experiences Former bombardier Alan Eagleson, a character in the book has turned up at air shows in the Greater Boston area and your Reviewer, a 10th AF vet, has enjoyed talking to him.

"An Emotional Gauntlet" is filled with photographs. What fun on a snowy evening to scan the photos with the aid of a magnifying glass and perhaps identifying a long lost pal in a long ago scene. READ IT AND ENJOY!
John Brennan

One Crew, One Plane At War Against Germany.......2004-11-24

A long look at one airplane, one crew involved in the air war against Germany during World War II. The airplane is the Corky, a B-24 Liberator. The story starts with the people the made up the crew before they entered the military service. Finally on Tuesday 7 September 1943 the crew met together as Crew 25, 734th Squadron, 453 Bomb Group. Five months later on the 5th of February the first of a couple of milk runs over France, within a week they were over Germany. By the 25th of June the crew, not without loss, had completed their combat tours. Their war was over.

Stuart Wright is from the small village in England where the 453rd was stationed. He grew up on stories about the Yanks in and around the village. A chance meeting when he was fourteen began a friendship and collaboration with Bill Eagleson, the pilot of Crew 25. Years of research later, this book is the result. As Mr. Wright says: "This is not so much a book about airplanes or war; but a book about people." One crew of people that made a difference.

A B-17 pilot looks at how "the other guys lived (and died)".......2004-09-29

Stuart Wright owes m several hours of sleep that I missed because I had a very hard time putting the book down. The style is fascinating and compelling. Even though I was a B-17 driver, even though I went to the Eighth on a replacement crew (not original cadre), even though I never had the pain of losing a crewmember, teh book riveted my attention because of the resonance it established between me and the characters of the book's crews. This book is a towering addition to the literature of the Eighth Air Force. Thank you.
Craig Harris B-17 pilot 457th BG, Station 130 Glatton.
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An Emotional Gauntlet: From Life in Peacetime America to the War in European Skies

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An Emotional Gauntlet: From Life in Peacetime America to the War in European Skies
Stuart J. Wright
Manufacturer: University of Wisconsin Press
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ASIN: B000OS2TSE

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THE FUTURE WILL SOON BE A THING OF THE PAST

Unfortunately a bad title, but a great read!

Earth Has Shifted

OK!, It's just about time for another Doomsday bestseller.

Funniest book I have ever read

5/5/2000 Ice: The Ultimate Disa
Crown
Manufacturer: Harmony
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0517564084
Release Date: 1986-06-11

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A startling new scientific theory in the best-selling tradition of Chariots of the Gods. Time is running out! 200 charts, maps, drawings, and photographs.

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THE FUTURE WILL SOON BE A THING OF THE PAST.......2005-05-11

Out of the many books in my personal library and endless number I have read from other sources, this is the book I keep returning to and I hold it in high esteem.
It seems not only well researched and ultimately informative, but it flows linguistically. Every sentence can stand on its own merit.

The prediction made, referencing the specific date for pole shift, although unrealized, was reasonably based on combination of realistic factors. The planetary allignment occuring on that date being one of them. Considering that the original version of the book was apparently written in 1976, and reprinted in 1986, I would grant that it deserves visionary credit.

Just because the predicted disaster date did not meterialize, the probability of the pole shift forthcoming in the near future stil realisticallly exists.

I wish that Mr. Noone could write another book for everyone's enjoyment.

Walter

Unfortunately a bad title, but a great read!.......2005-02-11

Don't let the title throw you off. This is a great book about Pole Shifts. Personally, I agree with the current Geological Thought on this matter - which is that pole shifts do occur and that they have occurred in the past. Where I disagree with the current historical philosphy is that the pole shifts do not alter regional climate and thus impact civilizations. That is where this book comes in. It makes a long standing and firm argument for periodic catastrophic events. The book documents the points and theories in an enjoyable manner and is a quick and easy read. This is a MUST READ book for anyone interested in the mysteries of ancient civilizations and geologic processes. I rate this book most highly.

Earth Has Shifted.......2005-01-15

Not all prophecy occurs at the time they are predicted. The earth shift has occurred but not due to the planet alignments as Noone states. The ice is melting at a faster rate now then before the earth shifted. There is useful information in the book.

OK!, It's just about time for another Doomsday bestseller........2005-01-12

This was about as good as one of these books gets.Loaded with all kinds of information and opinion;in fact ample data to make the biggest prediction possible.The turning of the world upside down in 25 years .That allows plenty of time to promote the event,sell lots of books,have an endless run of TV specials,interviews,acedemic debates,plans for 'informed'believers and of course;survivors to start the whole thing over again.YK2000,was pretty good;got a lot of publicity,every good sized organization put up lots of money to ward off disaster .I guess it worked;all the world's systems just kept purring along like nothing happened.
This book is worth keeping for all the "information" and sources of such.It would be very helpful to a writer who conducts a market analysis and determines it's just about time to get cracking on the next 'end it all'.
I have been reading these "prediction" books for years and find them entertaining.And entertaining is what they are.Never has any prediction come to pass;but then would you be naive enough to expect it to? In all fairness we don't really understand much about the past;how could we hope to predict the future?
Can't say as I remember anyone predicting the recent Tsunami.
Don't forget the old adage "If you take the generally accepted wisdom at the time ;and take the totally opposite,you'll probably get closer to the truth".
Agood example was the Population bomb and Zero Growth stuff of the 50's and 60's.We were all going to be starving to death here in North America.What happened,now we have a major overweight problem.And guess what;nobody predicted all these fast food joints.And what about the idea that computers were going to hugely reduce the amount of paper.Oh well,we can't get it right all the time.Once in a while,though might be fun!

Funniest book I have ever read.......2004-03-23

I purchased this book for a buck when I was in graduate school. I am sad that I have lost it because it was the funniest book I have ever read! The figures seem to be haphazzardly placed with little connection to the text (the picture of George Washington in his Masonic get-up has no relevance that I could find). The book was bold in naming a date which, unfortunately for book sales at this point, has come and gone. This is appropriate light reading that always leaves you chuckling.

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The first biography of Lillian Hellman-the notorious literary star of Broadway and Hollywood-written with the full cooperation of her executors and her most intimate circle

Few literary celebrities have lived with more abandon and under a brighter spotlight than Lillian Hellman. Yet even fewer have been doubted as absolutely as Hellman, famously denounced by rival Mary McCarthy as a writer for whom "every word was a lie, including 'and' and 'the.'" The details of Hellman's life have been hotly contested for decades. She was the author of such Broadway hits as The Children's Hour and The Little Foxes; a Hollywood screenplay writer until she was blacklisted; a writer of best-selling memoirs such as An Unfinished Woman and Pentimento; and the volatile companion of writer Dashiell Hammett, foreign service officer John Melby, and a myriad of other high-profile men. Hellman refused to cooperate with biographers-most notably William Wright-and, up until her death, ordered those close to her to do the same.

Now, in this compelling biography Deborah Martinson moves beyond the myths that drift around Hellman and finds the sassy, outrageous woman committed to writing, to politics, and to having her say. Martinson's exhaustive research-through interviews, archives, and recently declassified CIA files-and her unprecedented access to Hellman's confidantes paints the most complete and surprisingly admiring portrait of Hellman that we've ever had.

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The Good Girl.......2006-06-11

After wading through the seas of calumny that have swamped all previous biographies of Lillian Hellman, it is refreshing to dig through Debroah Martinson's ably researched 2005 book and find that, in her opinion, Lillian Hellman never did anything wrong, but on the other hand eventually one tires a bit of 359 pages worth of cheerleading.

I wondered how Dr. Martinson was planning to deal with the "Julia" controversy, as from multiple sources Hellman was assailed by accusers who basically said she was a liar and that either there was no Julia or that Hellman never met her if she existed at all. Martinson has a disarming defense. How do we know that there wasn't really a Julia? After all, Lillian Hellman knew plenty of people back in the 1930s. I have to agree partially with this one, although it is strange that she never gave any more details about the elusive "Julia" even after people began pooh-poohing her honesty. She was certainly backed into a corner at the end, wasn't she, like a rat in the trap of her own integrity.

The best part of the book details Hellman's earliest Hollywood years with Sam Goldwyn and William Wyler. Sam Jaffe said, "Goldwyn had class with a capital K." It's interesting to note that Hellman was unable to collaborate with Hemingway on the narration to Joris Ivens' THE SPANISH EARTH because she was laid up due to complications from an abortion. Other commentators have been sure that Hellman wrote parts of it, but Dr. Martinson's research proves them 100 percent wrong. It would be great to have published versions of all the Hammett novels he began and which Martinson mentions here, even if each of them amounted only to a chapter or so, and it would be also great to read the screenplay Hellman wrote for Arthur Penn's THE CHASE (1966) before Horton Foote revised it to make it more linear.

New insights into the controversies surrounding Hellman's life.......2006-04-20

LILLIAN HELLMAN: A LIFE WITH FOXES AND SCOUNDRELS provides new insights into the many controversies which have surrounded her life, but it's even more special because it's the first to write about Hellman with full cooperation of Hellman's literary executors and others who tell the truth about the robust woman's life. Hellman's sharp wit and comments often made for a radical approach to the stage: her affairs with high profile men and her volatile professional and personal relationships generated many myths and inconsistent images about her life. Fans of Hellman will relish a biography which brings reality back into the picture --from the mouths and memories of those who knew her best.

A Life with Foxes and Scoundrels, indeed!.......2006-01-20

Dr. Martinson renders an eloquent and fascinating portrait of the always intriguing, if not nearly as infamous, Lillian Hellman. Writer, dramatist, activist, lover, Hellman emerges as a prolific and unabashed spokeswoman of her time - dedicating her life to the arts and advocating American as well as global civil liberties during McCarthy's reign of House Committee hearings. Martinson curates a tremendous collection of research into a sophisticated and thoughtful read that is as playful as it is thorough and scintillating. In Martinson's resonant style, we see the ash at the tip of Hellman's cigarette as she directs a play with one hand, ruefully raising a toast with the other. Regardless of circumstance or mood, Hellman's biting quips are never far behind. Martinson is masterful in offering her craft to the subject and scope of this massive project, revealing Hellman's tenderness and passions in ways that simultaneously inform and endear the reader - not only to Hellman and her sometimes brash eccentricities, but to Martinson's literary gifts as well - and they are many. I raise a toast to A Life of Foxes and Scoundrels. Cheers

An exquisite tour de force that all Hellman fans will enjoy!.......2006-01-01

In a project where five million puzzle pieces, each differing in significance and subjectivity, can be assembled in an infinite amount of ways, Martinson has done so with a rhythm and candor that, I believe, reflects Hellman's colorful and fluid life. Each section of Martinson's book - in some cases, each paragraph - carefully constructs a masonry of Hellman's life, only to crumble upon itself and build anew, illustrating Hellman's own complexity and unwillingness (inability?) to be understood and encapsulated completely. Martinson's skillful rhythmic pacing of Lillian's life accurately conjures the Ouroboros, in which Lillian, in an attempt to discover who she is, must first absorb and understand her past in order to create an authentic future (although Lillian herself might scoff at such a notion!).

Fascinating reading about a fascinating if flawed icon.......2005-12-22

This riveting new biography of Lillian Hellman benefits greatly from the author's access to previously unavailable documents and the candid recollections any number of Ms. Hellman's closest acquaintances. Professor Martinson ably captures Hellman's difficult, larger-than-life personality, and her equally large theatrical, literary, and political legacies to present a rounded portrait of an amazing life and career - one marked by achievement and controversy, and by innumerable affairs, including Hellman's legendary, multi-decade pairing with the writer, Dashiel Hammett of Thin Man fame.
In all, Ms. Martinson has delivered a first-rate biography and cultural history - no small achievement.

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The 1863 Vicksburg campaign was to prove decisive to the outcome of the American Civil War. Known as the 'Gibraltar of the West', Vicksburg was the last Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi River. In a masterly campaign Grant used riverboats and steamers to land his army south of the city. He then defeated the armies of Generals 'Joe' Johnston and John C. Pemberton. Pemberton allowed his force to become bottled up in Vicksburg and after an epic 47-day siege he was forced to surrender the remnants of his force to Grant on 4 July 1863, one day after Lee's defeat at Gettysburg.

Vicksburg 1863 - Grant Clears the Mississippi

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Vicksburg 1863 - Grant Clears the Mississippi
David G. Chandler
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American Civil War : Vicksburg 1863 Grant Clears The Mississippi

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American Civil War : Vicksburg 1863 Grant Clears The Mississippi
Alan Hankinson
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ASIN: B000ORFC20

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Vicksburg 1863 - Grant Clears the Mississippi

Manufacturer: Reed International
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ASIN: B000HOEYFG

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Americans work longer, with less vacation time, than the citizens of any other industrialized nation. And they consume more: recent scientific estimates indicate that at least four additional planets would be needed to support the earth's population if each of the planet's 6 billion inhabitants consumed at the level of the average American. It's a lifestyle that's hard on both people and the environment. In Sustainable Planet, some of the best known writers on sustainable living--Juliet Schor, Bill McKibben, Mary Pipher, Herman Daly, Vicki Robin, and William McDonough--write about how we might change the way we live. Looking at issues as diverse as consumerism, overwork, lack of spirituality, loss of community, alienation from nature, and unsustainable development, the authors dissect the problems plaguing our society and offer practical advice about how to change the way we live. This anthology comes out of the work of the Center for a New American Dream, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping Americans change the way they consume to improve quality of life, protect the environment, and promote social justice.

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Practical considerations.......2007-08-23

The book is very helpful to read for those of us who wonder how to consider living out some of our concerns regarding the environment. I particularly appreciated Juliet Schor and Bill McKibbon is always worth reading.
A couple of the chapters on economics were beyond me - but glad someone is thinking about it!!

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The Manx Shearwater
Michael Brooke
Manufacturer: A & C Black Publishers Ltd
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Shearwaters
R. M Lockley
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ASIN: B0007DURJ4

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Hawaiian dark-rumped petrel and Newell's manx shearwater recovery plan
Thomas C Telfer
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: B0006YBIG0

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History of endemic Hawaiian birds: Sea birds : Newell shearwater ('A'o) (CPSU/UH Avian history report)
Winston E Banko
Manufacturer: Western Region, National Park Service
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The Manx shearwater, Puffinus puffinus, as a species of world-wide distribution (American Museum novitates)
Robert Cushman Murphy
Manufacturer: American Museum of Natural History
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Manx shearwater: Puffinus puffinus (The birds of North America)
David S Lee
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ASIN: B0006QLFT8

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Notes on the Isles of Scilly and the Manx shearwater (Puffinus anglorum)
J. H Gurney
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ASIN: B00089HSEE

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