No Safe Place: The Legacy of Family Violence (Station Hill)

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Does it ever end?.......2007-08-16

Christina Crawfod can't seem to stop whining! Yes child abuse is a problem but from her own accounts all a lot of people see is over the top discipline by a frustrated stressed out parent. Was Joan Crawford 100% right in all her parenting methods? Perhaps not, but continuing to draw glassy eyed fans in with packs of uneducated books is absurd. I too had an upbringing by a harsh parent but I do not see it as a way to humiliate my father and write a tell-all. My father had problems with being actually abused as a child but he has yet to disgrace his parents by trashing his fathers reputation. There are two sides to every upbringing:the child's view and the parent's view. If Christina Crawford had a doctorate in Child Psychology or Criminal Justice her "books" may take on a different note... instead she parrots everyone else including people who actually suffered extremes from their parents.

Christina rips away the shades and exposes truth.......2004-09-11

Negative reviews of this book expose another: People who have never been abused just don't get it. They preach "just move on" and "how relevant is that really, when it happened years ago?" "don't live in the past" "determine to put it out of your mind and don't let it control your life" and probably the worst of all - "Just don't dwell on it." If it were that easy to heal, people wouldn't need therapists and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder wouldn't exist at all. Abuse leaves scars that never really heal, damages and sometimes even destroys a person's ability to trust or establish true relationships. PTSD and trauma make it difficult to hold jobs or just get a good night's sleep. Her "spokes" are entirely accurate. The majority of homeless people, alcoholics, drug abusers, etc are abuse survivors. Christina also explodes the sacred cow of adoption: that all adoptive parents are warm, wonderful people people who take in unwanted children unselfishly and solely out of the goodness of their hearts, and would never dream of abusing them. Thank you, Ms. Crawford, for a careful expose of the terrible and lingering effects of abuse.

No Safe Place.......2003-04-04

I am totally into this author. I have read the 20th Anniversary Edition of "Mommie Dearest" over and over. "No Safe Place" has some more brief stories of Mommie, which I could listen to all day. Christina has definitely done her homework for this book, with extensive research and her own firsthand experience. Anyone looking for recommendations for Self Help books should surely give this book a try.

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If the U.S. Marines gave birth to a legend in the halls of Montezuma in the nineteenth century, they added glorious luster to it with their heroism and victories against the Japanese in World War II as this vivid, foxhole view of the Marines' war clearly demonstrates. The author, a Marine veteran of the Pacific campaign himself, draws extensively on frontline eyewitness accounts of Marines and combat journalists and backs up their stories with official U.S. action reports and captured Japanese materials. First published in 1983, the book has earned praise as a popular, one-volume history of all the battles fought by the Marine Corps in the Pacific campaign.

Richard Wheeler describes in fascinating and exciting detail the heroic defense of Wake Island against an overwhelming enemy assault force. He traces the long bloody battle for Guadalcanal that brought the Marines their first victory and gave America and its allies control of the strategically important Solomon Islands. He follows the painful, island-by-island counterattack toward the Japanese homeland when the Marines created new legends at such places as Bougainville, Saipan, Tarawa, Guam, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa. Also included are the remarkable exploits of the Marines holding off Japanese assault waves at Heartbreak Ridge and struggling up the slopes of Mount Suribachi to raise the Stars and Stripes. Some sixty-five photographs enhance the text.

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Uncommon Valor Was A Common Virtue, Semper Fidelis!.......2006-09-09

One of the most thorough books on the U.S. Marine Corps' campaigns in the Pacific theatre of World War 2, I must say that this book covers more material than most on the subject. As a Marine Corps veteran, I am impressed. The Marine Corps already had a reputation of ferocity in battle prior to World War 2. Their part in the second World War amplified that standing by prevailing in the most brutal battles of that conflict. The U.S.M.C. has traditionally accomplished more with less, improvised creatively when resources were scarce, and pioneered numerous innovations in tactics, technology, and training. Most importantly, the Marines win battles in the face of the most savage enemy resistance, and the least favorable of battlefield conditions. They take the fight to the enemy, they win by being more aggressive. Yet, they are often the least recognized branch of the armed forces in the public eye.
It is sad to say, that in our present frivolous time, too many people recognize the overly-hyped personas of popular entertainment, as if they are in any way more important than the average citizen. Yet many have forgotten the names of REAL AMERICANS who went into harm's way to ensure our national survival. This book is about some of those REAL AMERICANS.

A must read.......2006-02-08

For a long time I've felt that this book should be required reading for every American high school student. The book details the campaigns of the U.S. Marines in the Pacific war. It neither villifies the Japanese nor glorifies the Marines. The author merely presents the events in a relatively objective manner but in such a compelling way that if it doesn't grip your heart and bring tears to your eyes at times, then you're just not human.

Wheeler presents the events of the campaigns. He shows both the mistakes and the heroism. He presents the facts as they affected the man in the trenches, not as they appeared to the generals and the admirals.

This book is very inspiring. The men he talks about were real people: rich men, working men, poor men. They were all men who had nothing to gain and everything to lose. Some came back home, and some didn't. It challenged me personally but I can't quite explain it without sounding trite. You just have to read the book.

Every American should read this book.

Gung Ho!.......2001-04-04

This book reports the Pacific campaigns of the United States Marine Corps during World War II. The narrative kept my attention throughout and I found it hard to put this book down. It is one of the best accounts I have read about the USMC in WWII. I highly recommend this book to anyone who is interested in an overview which portrays the Marines' sacrifices during their brutal island hopping strategy which was instrumental in America's ultimate victory over Japan ending WWII.

A Special Valor The U.S. Marines and the Pacific War

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A Special Valor The U.S. Marines and the Pacific War
Richard Wheeler
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A Special Valor - The U.S. Marines And The Pacific War -
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A special valor : the U.S. Marines and the Pacific war
Richard Wheeler
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A Special Valor The U.S. Marines and the Pacific War
Richard Wheeler
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A Special Valor: The U. S. Marines and the Pacific War
Richard Wheeler
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An interesting and challenging read. .......2006-03-17

Grounded in solid historical fact, the author is not hesitant to offer his opinions on various aspects of history. While this may cause readers to stop and reflect it also causes one to
consider the accuracy of the history learned during ones formal
education. The preponderance of factual information will at least cause one to stretch their mind around a new take on established lore. Who We Are: A Chronicle of the Ideas that Shape Our World is well worth the journey though its chapters.

Only for those with an interest in Who We Are and Why (!).......2005-12-28

I can only imagine that Dr. Heriot's desire to become a pathologist was fueled by the same drive to know not only WHAT we (humans) are, but WHY we are the way we are.

Far from a superficial accounting of historical events, Heriot give us the detailed and fascinating dramas which gave birth to the ideas (great and erroneous) which have shaped each and every one of us. For each person clearly on the right path (Pasteur) there seems to have been at least one person doggedly on the wrong path (Columbus), but their degree of impact is not in relation to the truth of their initial assumptions. That is a critical lesson we learn from Who We Are.

Seeing in history the development of our ideas is as important as understanding how 9 months of gestation leads to the development of our physical beings. It is staggering to see how much of both are the product of serendipity.

There are no pre-requisites for reading this book. No knowledge of history or science is required. Bring your inquisitiveness into your own life and the state of humanity as a whole and you will be primed to receive a lifetime of insight into how the past has shaped our now, which is in turn the foundation for our future.

A Book Truly Everyone Should Read.......2002-03-12

This book is incredibly informative yet incredibly accessible. As it states, the author assumes no prior knowledge, and this book is written in a clear, understandable way. As you read it, you'll likely come across pieces and say, "Hey, I knew that!" and what's great is this book puts those pieces together and fills in your understanding of our collective history in a new and commendable way. It would be the ultimate high school text book, college graduation gift, or book to read for yourself.

BOOK LOVER'S MUST.......2002-01-11

I have discovered a book-one book-which will tell you everything you ever wanted to know about anything you'd like to know about, all in some 500 pages. It is encyclopedic in scope and written in a scholarly, but easy to read style. Look in the index, pick your subject, from the prehistoric to the computer to DNA and cell theory. It's a book lover's must.

Who We Are- Review.......2001-02-18

This is a great book! I never thought I would say that I could not stop reading a book on world history and civilization, but now I can. Dr. Heriot has a unique ability to not only paint a broad landscape with bold brush strokes to cover the history of civilization but also to focus, and keep, our attention on the finer details of human invention leading to human accomplishment. He also offers his own 12 'real lessons' of history "not in the flow of political and military events, but in how we think". While I recommend this book for the general public, it would also be ideal for college course work as an introduction to world history and civilization.

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A biochemical approach to nutrition (Outline studies in biology)
Richard A Freedland
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Improving intercellular communication in managing chronic illness: A functional medicine approach to regulating biochemical mediators (Seminar series)
Jeffrey Bland
Manufacturer: HealthComm International
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Investigation into new methods for assessing nutrient status (deficiencies and excesses) in citrus trees and other plants (biochemical approach): Final ... grants authorized by U.S. Public Law 480
A Bar-Akiva
Manufacturer: National and University Institute of Agriculture, Volcani Institute of Agricultural Research
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ASIN: B0007JW2MI

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Even among the mighty mountain men, Jim Bridger was a towering figure. He was one of the greatest explorers and pathfinders in American history. He couldn't write his name, but at eighteen he had braved the fury of the Missouri, ascending it in a keelboat flotilla commanded by that stalwart Mike Fink. By 1824, when he was only twenty, he had discovered the Great Salt Lake. Later he was to open the Overland Route, which was the path of the Overland Stage, the Pony Express, and the Union Pacific. One of the foremost trappers in the Rocky Mountain Fur Company, he was a legend in his own time as well as ours. He remains one of the most important scouts and guides in the history of the West.

The Christian Science Monitor has called this biography "probably the fairest portrait of Jim Bridger in existence." The New York Times has praise for a "painstaking job of research among the usual Bridger sources and among some others which have been neglected. . . . [The author] has adequately set the scene for his hero's adventures and has honestly appraised the great guide's historical stature."Other Bison Books by Stanley Vestal: Dodge City: Queen of Cowtowns, Joe Meek: The Merry MOuntain Man; The Missouri, The Old Santa Fe Trail, and Warpath: The True Story of the Fighting Sioux Told in a Biography of Chief White Bull

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Excellent Biography.......2006-05-01

I just finish reading this book. I thought it was very excellent and intriguing about Jim Bridger. A man, who took no pleasure in killing, following the number one rule, "Survival of the Fittest and Kill or be Killed. I would've like to have gotten more information on his wife and children. It's sad about what happened to his daughter and that he was widowed twice. But it's good to know that his last years were spent with his children and grandchildren. I was brought almost to tears upon reading the final chapter of this book. I'm very fascinated with the Mountain Men and the Indian women they married.

Jim Bridger.......2005-08-05

So far so good. The book tells the life story of Bridger, which is what I wanted to see.

Good History.......2004-09-12

I'd like to give the book another star, but just don't think I can. I found it an interesting and well researched description of Bridger's life. It has both an excellent index and references. The author gave a fair and balanced assessment of Bridger. It appears that some previous books on him might have been unfair or too praiseworthy about his life. Somehow the descriptions lacked a little spark, although there are a number of vivid passages. Perhaps this has to do with the fact the book was written 100 years after Bridger's death. In fact, this book is now 30 years old, and I believe the author wrote his first book on similar topics back in the 30s. Nevertheless, it's a good and complete description of Bridger's life.

One of the sadder aspects of the story is near the ending when the author reveals that during the last 10-15 years of Bridger's life no writer took the opportunity to interview Bridger. He was in his sixties and seventies, I believe, but was a rather ignored individual, except by his family. He had an exceptionally good memory. Someone missed the opportunity to get more of his rather amazing life straight from the source. The 2-3 page description of his last years, and his desire to keep moving summarize his deep need for adventure and discovery.

He was apparently quite a wit and teller of tall tales. Only four of five of his short tales are found in the book. Interestingly, he told many of his stories in sign languages to the indians.

The book contains on chapter of the famous Hugh Glass incident. It's worth reading if you have not heard it. The story was incorporated into a movie, A Man Called Horse , starring Richard Harris, in a slightly different form. I also found the long passage on "medicine wolves" quite intriguing.

I think this book might disspell a notion that the indian's scalping and body mutiliations of their enemies was derived from copying Europeans might be false. I read such an explanation in another book written at about the same time as this one. However, here we find repeated references to such carnage. In fact, it seems this savagery also been deeply engrained into the mountain men and other early frontiersmen. I suspect such carnages placed on one's enemies has deep roots in all of human history.

An endearing llook at an historic character.......2000-09-21

Bridger is a larger than life character. The author portrays Bridger as a character who was unimpressed with developed society. His treasure was the mountains and the mystery of an undeveoped land and people. His humility and lack of concern for unbelievers of the wonder of the mountains aligns him with someone who has a tremendous fishing hole but doesnt want anyone to fish it dry.

It's the best book ever.......1999-01-27

This book is awesome !!!!!!!

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JIm Bridger is an okay book
JIm Bridger is an okay book

Bridger: The Story of a Mountain Man
David Kherdian
Manufacturer: Greenwillow
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Binding: School & Library Binding

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JIm Bridger is an okay book.......2006-12-19

I think that this book is an okay book because there are some parts of it that were good and then other parts that were boring. I like how they are in the wilderness just trying to survive through winter without freezing or starving to death. I dont like the beginning of the book because it just talks about his life and he is only one week away from leaving on his trip with general ashley to become a mountain man. So overall i think this book is alright

JIm Bridger is an okay book.......2006-12-19

Jim Bridger, the Mountain Man (Gallery of Great Americans: Frontiersmen of America)

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Jim Bridger, the Mountain Man (Gallery of Great Americans: Frontiersmen of America)
Matthew G. Grant
Manufacturer: Creative Education; distributed by Childrens Press, Chicago
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Jim Bridger, Mountain Man
Stanley Vestal
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Jim Bridger - Mountain Man
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JIM BRIDGER MAN OF THE MOUNTAINS A DISCOVERY BOOKZU

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JIM BRIDGER MAN OF THE MOUNTAINS A DISCOVERY BOOKZU
Willard and Celia Luce
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JIM BRIDGER MAN OF THE MOUNTAINS A DISCOVERY BOOKZU
Willard and Celia Luce
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Jim Bridger Mountain Man
Stanley Vestal
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JIM BRIDGER MOUNTAIN MAN, A Biography

Manufacturer: University Of Nebraska Press. Lincoln
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Jim Bridger, Mountain Man
Laura Parker
Manufacturer: Dell Pub Co
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Probably the hardest fought of all the battles of the Franco-Prussian War, Gravelotte-St-Privat shatters the myth of French inferiority to the Prussian army. Marshal Bazaine's French Army of the Rhine was attempting to retreat on Verdun when it was attacked by superior Prussian forces from both the First and Second armies. Occupying a ridge line running from St.Privat in the north to Gravelotte in the south, Bazaine's army inflicted heavy casualties on the advancing Prussian troops and beat off a determined attack by the Prussian Guard. Finally forced to retreat when the northern flank of his outnumbered forces was turned by Prussia's Saxon allies, Bazaine retreated into the fortress city of Metz. Bottled up in the city, unable to break out through the ring of Prussian forces and with no hope of relief Bazaine's army held on grimly to the end of the war. This battle had a decisive influence on the outcome of the war; had Bazaine met the Prussian forces on anything like equal terms, a victory could have turned the tide of the fighting. Instead, the French failure at Gravelotte-St-Privat led directly to their final defeat at Sedan, the collapse of Napoleon III's regime, and the proclamation of the German Empire. This book examines the events of this fateful action.

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America's leading historian on Korea offers a nuanced analysis that demolishes familiar generalizations.

Depicted as an insular and forbidding police state with an "insane" dictator at its helm, North Korea —charter member of Bush's "Axis of Evil" —is a country the U.S. loves to hate. Now the CIA says it possesses nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons, as well as long-range missiles capable of delivering them to America's West Coast.

But, as Bruce Cumings demonstrates in this provocative, lively read, the story of the U.S.-Korea conflict is more complex than our leaders or our news media would have us believe. Drawing on his extensive knowledge of Korea, and on declassified government reports, Cumings traces that story, from the brutal Korean War to the present crisis. Harboring no illusions regarding the totalitarian Kim Jong Il regime, Cumings nonetheless insists on a more nuanced approach. The result is both a counter-narrative to the official U.S. and North Korean versions and a fascinating portrayal of North Korea, a country that suffers through foreign invasions, natural disasters, and its own internal contradictions, yet somehow continues to survive.

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Wonderful book and a fresh unbiased look into Korea.......2007-05-28

Don't be fooled by all of the negative reviews from walking-talking Ugly American stereotypes who advocate a war lead by madmen who seriously entertained the idea of rendering large swaths of the Korean peninsula uninhabitable with nuclear fallout, this book is a wonderful look into a remote, impoverished weak country whose affairs Americans seem to think they're entitled to meddle in for some reason. Mr. Cumings carefully makes his points (There were so many footnotes and citations that they almost became an irritant while reading the book) to demonstrate how consistently wrong western governments have been with their policies from their knee-jerk assumptions that Kim Il-Sung and his regime were Soviet puppets (Thoroughly disproven to even the most warped warmonger now) straight on down to their half-baked theories about them having a desire to sign their own death warrant by selling nuclear arms to terrorists. Even though many reviews here claim Mr. Cumings is an apologist for North Korea that just makes it clear that most of them didn't even bother to read the book since he states several times how reprehensible he finds the current government to be.

Another polemic from Bruce Cumings.......2007-05-27

Bruce Cumings is, sadly, one of the foremost scholars of Korea in the US. In some sense, he is the American apologist for the Kim regime. He states in another work that it would be good had the Kim regime gained control of the whole peninsula. Then, perhaps, they would have moderated in the sense that China and Vietnam had moderated.

It is an outlandish suggestion, as China and Vietnam are still controlled by Communist parties who are effective at quashing all dissent. It is hardly a moderate stance.

He gushes about North Korea's health care, housing, and all the rest. He glosses over the appalling human rights abuses of the Kim regime. One could very easily imagine him playfully holding up cards in the stadium at the latest North Korean mass games. He really should not be taken seriously as a scholar of Korea. He is to Korean scholarship what Ward Churchill is to ethnic studies.

Can't get facts straight.......2007-01-09

First Bruce Cumings states (paraphrasing) that Bush was appointed president by the Supreme Court. Keep in mind that the S.C. simply forced Florida to abide by its own election laws and to quit changing the game to give Gore more votes.

Next, Cumings says that the war in Iraq is illegal. Never mind that the US Congress authorized force and the United Nations voted in favor of "serious consequences" for Iraq's unwillingness to work with UN inspectors.

So... if Cumings can't even get these two basic facts straight on RECENT American history, how can we trust him to cover 50 years of Korean history without laughing at his wild assertions?

An iconoclastic look at the mysterious Hermitic Kingdom.......2006-11-03

After North Korea's first (and confirmed) nuclear test on October 9 2006 the interest on this country has soared and this book is a good start for anyone asking questions about the North Korean regime. Although I expected more "inside information" about the conditions of everyday living in North Korea, Mr Cumings does a fine job presenting this country not simply as a member of the famous "axis of evil" but as another choice of communal life which has deep roots in the Korean history and ethics. I was shocked to learn that North Korean youths are obliged to serve eight years in the military (and take their first leave after the sixth year!) but equally amazing were the statistics which prove that North Korea was at a better economic position than the South, until the beginning of the 1980s. The author does not hide the fact that Kim Jong Il (and Kim Il Sung before him) behaves and lives like a king in a very poor country, sending his children to Swiss schools and purchasing very expensive Italian and German sport cars but he denies that the regime faces the danger of imminent collapse or that we must ecpext it to "explode or implode" in the next years. Altogether this book will change many of your established (and rather distorted) views on North Korea and is a very useful tool to understand the current situation and perhaps the future of the Korean Peninsula.

Cummings, please tell me your not this gullible.......2006-08-20

One common thread that I've noticed in studying communism and communist countries is the masterful use of propoganda. And in this book Cummings seems to have fallen for it; hook, line, and sinker. He saw the dazzling city of Pyong-yang (where only privaleged North Koreans are allowed to live, and the majority are not even allowed to enter - maybe that's why he saw "no one ill-clad, hungry, no beggars, no drug addicts...") Did it ever occur to him that maybe he was just seeing what his guides wanted him to see? If Kim Jong Il wants his country to be thought of as a "paradise," and if there were starving people, gulags, torture chambers, etc., would he show them to foreign visitors?
A previous reviewer mentioned "The Aquariums of Pyong-yang," which is listed in the Recommended Reading section. I'd also recommend "The Eyes of the Tailless Animals" by Soon Ok Lee. Both books were written by North Koreans who each experienced both the privaledges and the horrors their country has to offer.

Black hats all around.(North Korea: Another Country)(Book Review): An article from: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

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Black hats all around.(North Korea: Another Country)(Book Review): An article from: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Mike Moore
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Title: Black hats all around.(North Korea: Another Country)(Book Review)
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North Korea: Another Country.(Book Review) : An article from: Pacific Affairs

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North Korea: Another Country.(Book Review) : An article from: Pacific Affairs
J.J. Suh
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
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This digital document is an article from Pacific Affairs, published by Thomson Gale on September 22, 2005. The length of the article is 641 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Date: September 22, 2005
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The regular pumping sound and motion of a center pivot irrigation system is the heartbeat of many successful farming operations—yet this technology remains a mystery to millions. Flying over agricultural regions, many airline passengers look down with curiosity on the circles of green with no understanding that what they are seeing is their food supply in production.

Rainmakers: A Photographic Story of Center Pivots takes us on a journey that explains how center pivot irrigation contributes to the food on which we depend. This important story is presented through instructive and beautiful photographs that make the book a visual delight for even the casual reader. The goal of Rainmakers is to convey the history and complexity of center pivots and how such technology has become an integral part of nourishing out world.

Rainmakers includes a foreword by Nebraska Congressman Tom Osborne, an essay by David Howe, an epilogue by Susan Seacrest, and captivating images taken by both professional and amateur photographers.

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Excellent Review of Center Pivots.......2005-12-17

An excellent book about center pivots by the Groundwater Foundation. I have a copy sitting on my coffee table and it is the first book everyone picks up. I get a lot of farmers visiting me and they are fascinated by the book because it shows a lot of pictures of their life. For anyone that ever wanted to know what made all of those circles as you fly over America, this gives you the ground up view. Recommended reading for farmers and everyone else.

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