The Art of Sensitive Parenting: The Ten Keys to Raising Confident Children

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The Art of Sensitive Parenting.......2001-11-29

It has helped us from the time our son was just little (2yrs. old) all the way up until now at the age of ten. It continues on into the teen years. Everytime we pick up the book it seems to refer to something we are currently experiencing with our son. It is a very good guidance tool!

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R.P. Hunnicutt sets the standard against which all other military equipment books are measured. Hunnicutt defines definitive. 1,368 b/w photos, 12 color plates.

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Best book on Sherman Tanks !.......2007-02-27

. 2006 hard bound in dust jacket, , r/p of the 1994 edition, . in a slip case, , 8 3/4 x 11 1/4 , glossy paper , 576 pp , 1368 illus & drgs. , 12 color plates, appendices , index.

.....This exclusive high-quality print run is limited to only 1,000 copies in a collector's slip case. Finally back in print, R.P. Hunnicutt's "bible" on the M4 Sherman Tank begins with the pre-war evolution of the U.S. medium tank resulting in the introduction of the M3 and its Canadian counterpart the "RAM." The confusion after Pearl Harbor and the pressure for ever increasing production provide the background for the appearance of the Sherman in Part II. The war situation in early 1942 required large numbers of tanks to equip both the U.S. armored units in training and the Allied Armies already fighting around the world. This resulted in the major models of the Sherman with designations ranging from M4 to M4A6.

Part II ends with the Sherman committed to action first at El Alamein and then in theaters of operation around the world. Battle experience soon indicated the need for further improvements. Part III details the development projects necessary to effect these changes and their incorporation into the production program. The important British modifications including the installation of the 17 pounder high velocity gun are also included. The ready availability of the Sherman chassis made it the ideal candidate to carry various self-propelled artillery weapons and antitank guns. These vehicles as well as other specialized armor are discussed in part IV.

..After WWII, the Sherman continued to serve not only the U.S. Army, but was used to rearm many friendly nations whose armed forces were destroyed during the war. With the outbreak of fighting in Korea, the Sherman again went into action as is covered in Part V. Part VI is composed of reference material presented in data sheets covering the major production models of the M3 and M4 series.

Best Sherman Book - But Don't Pay More than $130.......2006-10-31

This book is the Sherman Bible, but you should not spend more than $130 for this title. This book is in the process of being republished by RZM and it will have a list price of $130(US).

The Sherman Tank Bible........2003-07-24

The Sherman tank is without question, the most famous armored fighting vehicle in the history of modern warfare. The book "Sherman: A History of the American Medium Tank", by R.P Hunnicutt, is an masterful reference text second to none. Although, this book is long out of print, it is without question the bible, to sherman tank historians. No book ever published on this tank can match the endless array of photo's and text detailing every variation of this tank. You get to see the tank from it's early design as a platform to the M3 Grant/Lee during the early stages of WW-2. The Sherman was used for every job imaginable. Soldiers would adapt their tank as needed for whatever condition awaited them. You see Sherman tanks, used as mine sweepers, marine assault float tanks, flame throwers, bulldozers, open turreted M10 tank destroyers, a british heavy hitting firefly variation, just to name a few. The tank had unmatched longevity, serving in the Korean conflict and in the Israeli army as late as the early 1970's. If you are a military historian or a student of armored warfare, I cannot recommend a better book that chronicles an American tank in such A to Z detail. The Sherman tank was not the most feared tank in the theater of WW-2 operations, but it's overwhelming production numbers and mechanical reliability and adaptability, surely helped the allies win the war.

The standard reference on the M4 Sherman medium tank.......1998-04-24

Even though this work dates back to 1978, it can still be regarded as the ultimate book on the M4 Sherman. It describes the pre-war development of the American medium tanks, then covers the development and production of the M3 Lee/Grant including all marks and variants. The M4 development and production is covered in detail with all marks and variants, upgrades and modifications. British service and modification are also covered. Postwar employment and conversions are included, even though Israeli and other post war conversions are not covered in detail.
There are extremely detailed specifications of the M3 and M4, all marks and many of the variants like the M7 and M10. You will also find the specs on most weapons employed on the M3, M4 and variants.

If you are interrested in the technical development and production of the M3 and M4 tanks, this book is a must. Well written with 100s of b/w illustrations it is, despite the price, great value.

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Sherman : A History of the American Medium Tank
R. P. Hunnicutt
Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000OLUD8O

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Sherman a History of the American Medium Tank
R. P. Hunnicutt
Manufacturer: Presidio Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000NBF5LA

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"Turley presents a thoroughly-researched literay and cultural history of the transgressive pirate figure in the early eighteenth-century."
—Journal of Folklore Research

Despite, or perhaps because of, our lack of actual knowledge about pirates, an immense architecture of cultural mythology has arisen around them. Three hundred years of novels, plays, painting, and movies have etched into the popular imagination contradictory images of the pirate as both arch-criminal and anti-hero par excellence. How did the pirate-a real threat to mercantilism and trade in early-modern Britain-become the hypermasculine anti-hero familiar to us through a variety of pop culture outlets? How did the pirate's world, marked as it was by sexual and economic transgression, come to capture our collective imagination?

In Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash, Hans Turley delves deep into the archives to examine the homoerotic and other culturally transgressive aspects of the pirate's world and our prurient fascination with it. Turley fastens his eye on historical documents, trial records, and the confessions of pirates, as well as literary works such as Robinson Crusoe, to track the birth and development of the pirate image and to show its implications for changing notions of self, masculinity, and sexuality in the modern era.

Turley's wide-ranging analysis provides a new kind of history of both piracy and desire, articulating the meaning of the pirate's contradictory image to literary, cultural, and historical studies.

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Rum, Sodomy and the Lash.......2006-11-04

Book was okay but more of a text book than light reading. Review was a little misleading

Not for everyone.......2003-07-24

This is a very dry, dense, academic book that attempts to analyze what the author refers to as "sodomitical activity" in the golden age of piracy based on source documents original to the period. It is slow reading, and if you're looking for lurid gay sex and rampant queerness among pirates, just stick to Pirates of the Caribbean slashfic because it's not in here.

The author admits that due to social taboos of sodomy and homosexuality, the overt references in period works are basically non-existant. Instead however, he offers contextual readings of various documents, historical events, and literature of the period that makes a case for subtextual evidence of homosexual predilection among some pirates of the time (for example, the section of the Pirate's Articles that specifies no woman or boy be brought aboard ship, which he interprets as an implication that some crewmen might have regarded boys/boy prostitutes as desirable).

He does raise some interesting questions about the contrast between pirates being depicted at the time as "hypermasculine", and how that can be reconciled with the fact that pirate society was by nature "homosocial," and how its homosociality would allow for various types of relationships among the men. He also offers some very interesting criticism and ideas about the significance and homosexual implications of the Daniel Defoe novel Captain Singleton, in which the piratical hero develops a very close, committed, lifelong relationship with his shipmate, Quaker William.

Overall, though, the book is overly conscious of its own academic tone (in that sort of "in the following chapter I will endeavor to show (blah blah blah)" fashion, or, in the introduction a sort of itemization of "chapter one will explore such and such, and chapter two will investigate thus and that," etc) and the chapters do not hang together well in a linear fashion. The book is very choppy to read as a whole work, and seems like it might be a compendium of various essays on the topic that the author wrote over a span of several years, for various reasons, which by virtue of a common theme of homosexual investigation, he then cobbled together into a single book. The last chapter is such an exaustive explication of the Robinson Crusoe trilogy, largely avoiding the subject of homosexuality altogether, that I had to struggle to finish it.

So. Useful information in places, interesting ideas, not terribly readably executed. I would only recommend this book to those dedicated to a in-depth study of the history of piracy and/or gay history. It did make me interested in reading Captain Singleton at some point...

Pleasure and pain on the sea.......2000-08-27

A very pleasant description of sexual life, fun and murder offshore which we may all identify with. Warmly recommended as easter cosy reading or a fairy tale for older kids. The agony of adolescence well catered for.

Deconstructionist Rubbish.......1999-06-26

Some people may enjoy rewriting history to suit modern prejudices; I find it revolting, and this book is a perfect example of the phenomenon. It is at best a poorly organized and incomplete review of the era of piracy; at worst, it is a pathetic attempt to impose the author's misconceived ideas on reality. Avoid it at all costs, for it is garbage.

Fascinating, Timeless.......1999-02-02

I must disagree with the narcissitic assessment of other readers and point out that Professor Turley gives us the pirate tradition in a refreshingly vivid and informed historical frame. He does not, as some recent pop philosophers have, merely appropriate this complicated and obscure realm of masculinity to posit as some kind of ahistorical arcadia. Instead, peppering his account with the thrilling vocabulary of original pirate narratives, Turley brilliantly offers the pirate example as a prism through which our current agonizing over narrative and gender can be usefully refracted. Scholarhship this lively, impassioned, and deeply informed is all too rare. Bravo, Professor Turley!

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This introduction to modern concepts of applied stochastic processes is written for a broad range of applications in diverse areas of engineering and the physical sciences (unlike other books, which are written primarily for communications or electrical engineering). Emphasis is on clarifying the basic principles supporting current prediction techniques. The first eight chapters present the probability theory relevant to analysis of stochastic processes. The following nine chapters discuss principles, advanced techniques (including the procedures of spectral analysis and the development of the probability density function) and applications. Also features material found in the recent literature such as higher-order spectral analysis, the joint probability distribution of amplitudes and periods and non-Gaussian random processes. Includes numerous illustrative examples.

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A powerful celebration of his life evolves.

You will laugh out loud!

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From a Jack to A KING.

The first to cover Roger Miller's life!

Ain't Got No Cigarettes: Memories of Music Legend Roger Miller
Lyle E Style
Manufacturer: Great Plains Publications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1894283600

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AinÂ't Got No Cigarettes is Roger MillerÂ's extraordinary life as told in taped interviews by those that knew him best: more than sixty well-known musicians and entertainers including Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson. A man who influenced some of the entertainment industryÂ's biggest stars, Roger Miller was respected and loved by his peers. However, with the genius came a dark side. In the 1960s and 1970s he was known for walking off stage halfway through a show, getting into fights and going days without sleep. He struggled with depression and had a serious addiction to drugs which cost him two marriages. Miller died at the age of 56 in 1992.

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A powerful celebration of his life evolves........2007-01-07

It's surprising to note that despite his fame, AIN'T GOT NO CIGARETTES: MEMORIES OF MUSIC LEGEND ROGER MILLER is the first book to cover his life. Miller's rise to fame was sudden and sensational - unprecedented by any songwriter in Nashville in the 1960s - and his hits reached far beyond country audiences to involve mainstream listeners. AIN'T GOT NO CIGARETTES uses interviews from celebrities and everyday listeners alike to provide stories about the legend from his peers, friends, and fans. A powerful celebration of his life evolves.

Diane C. Donovan
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You will laugh out loud!.......2006-07-05

This is a great book full of many people's memories of Roger Miller. I think the author was right to comment very little on each person's recollection; one's memories shouldn't be open for comment from someone who wasn't there. Mr. Style interviewed a WIDE range of people who had, at one time or another, a connection to Roger. The author really did his homework and it shows. This book is a must have not just for fans of Roger Miller, but for anyone who enjoys reading about the goings on in the music and entertainment industry.

NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW.......2006-06-21

"When you've got a name like Lyle E. Style, your only career options are playing point guard for the Kentucky Colonels circa 1973 or chronicling country music, and readers should be grateful that Style has chosen the latter path. In this collection of Q. and A.'s with dozens of illustrious country artists and fixtures of the Nashville scene, he ostensibly recounts the life of the musician and raconteur Roger Miller, of "King of the Road" and "Dang Me" fame, who died of cancer in 1992. But through a quirk of deliberate or accidental genius, what Style has actually assembled is a living document of country music in its hootin', hollerin' outlaw heyday, when the D.J. Captain Midnight ruled the airwaves, Tootsie's Orchid Lounge was the ultimate hangout and everyone, it seems, was on cocaine -- even the mimes. Along the way, Style learns some unprescribed uses for diet pills, discovers that Miller's King of the Road Hotel may have been owned by the mob and reignites an old feud between Tompall Glaser and Waylon Jennings. As Mel Tillis says, "they're all characters or they wouldn't be in the business."
- Dave Itzkoff, New York Times Book Review, June 4 2006

From a Jack to A KING........2006-04-09

When you think of Roger Miller, you automatically think of Genuis. whether his Awesome song writing skills/ideas, stage performance, look at life or sense of humor.

No wonder you don't see people following his style. He is truly a hard act to follow.

It is a shame that there is not enough information about Roger in the market. in terms of websites, DVDs (only 1), books.

I did buy the book hoping that I would get to know more about the Genuis of Rog. I did laugh out loud several times.
I truly did enjoy the book.
I was hoping though I would have more interviews from His widow Mrs. Mary Miller, his son Dean, George Jones.

I only hope that Mrs. Miller would write a book about Roger, better yet hope she come out with audio CDs about his days with her and the stories of him.

Anyway, The book is highly recommended for the Roger Miller fans, or any country music fan who appreciates classical Country.

Afterall, there are very limited of sources of knowing Roger.

Finally, Do yourself a favor and purchase Roger Miller's:
1. King of the Road: The Genuis of Roger Miller (CD Box Set).
2. Roger Miller: King of the Road (DVD).

Thanks,
Nawaf

The first to cover Roger Miller's life!.......2006-03-18

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The Profits of Extermination uncovers the costs of foreign investment, privatization and neo-liberalism in Colombia. US corporations have manipulated the law and worked hand in hand with right-wing death squads and the US government to ensure profits at the cost of the rights and lives of workers, peasants and miners.

Colombia is the third-largest recipient of US military aid. According to this study by Chomsky and the Colombian mineworkers union, both US military aid and human rights violations are disproportionately concentrated in Colombia's lucrative mining and energy zones, where large foreign corporations use military and paramilitary forces to secure their investments.

Aviva Chomsky is a professor of history at Salem State College. Francisco Ramirez Cuellar is president of the Colombian mining union Sintraminercol.

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Securing profits by preserving social inequality .......2005-05-31

"The Profits of Extermination" by Francisco Ramirez Cuellar discusses struggles for justice in Colombia. The book focuses on the strategic importance of Colombia's mining and energy sectors to explain how powerful interests have conspired to wreak havoc on the lives of workers and the environment.

In the Introduction, Aviva Chomsky contends that intervention by the U.S. into Colombia's affairs is driven by the need to secure corporate profits by preserving social inequality. We learn how Colombia's corrupt ruling class has partnered with major transnational corporations to exploit its labor and resources largely for the benefit of the few.

The Prologue by Javier Giraldo is a passionate indictment of the violence inflicted upon Colombian human rights and labor activists by the Colombian military and private paramilitaries. Mr. Giraldo paints a damning portrait of an entire nation that appears to have lost its moral compass through its wholesale servitude to the interests of capital.

Mr. Cuellar's description of how native peoples have been dispossessed of their lands is reminiscent of the movie "The Rundown". Multinational corporations have been granted privileges by the Colombian state within specially-designated economic zones where civil liberties have been suspended and rule is enforced by paramilitary force. Through such arrangements, international investors and corporations such as Conquistador Mines, Exxon-Mobil and Harken Energy have been allowed to extract Colombia's wealth at criminally low tax rates.

Mr. Cuellar urgently requests support from the international community to help end the violence in his country. The author notes that U.S. military aid has been mainly directed to the mining and energy economic zones, suggesting that the so-called Drug War is in actuality a front for the repression of human rights. As the President of Sintraminercol, a union representing workers in Colombia's mining industry, Mr. Cuellar provides many pages of footnotes, documentation and statistics to help support his claims and lends credibility to the story.

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The term "natural disaster" is often used to refer to natural events such as earthquakes, hurricanes, or floods. However, the phrase suggests an uncritical acceptance of a deeply engrained ideological and cultural myth. At Risk questions this myth and argues that extreme natural events are not disasters until a vulnerable group of people is exposed.
This new edition of At Risk confronts a further ten years of ever more expensive and deadly disasters since it was first published, and discusses disaster not as an aberration, but as a signal failure of mainstream development. Two analytical models are provided as tools for understanding vulnerability. One links remote and distant root causes to unsafe conditions in a progression of vulnerability. The other uses the concepts of access and livelihood to understand why some households are more vulnerable than others. The book then concludes with strategies to create a safer world.

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A short review of "At risk : natural hazards".......2004-08-08

The four authors of "At Risk, natural hazards, people's vulnerability, and disasters" (three from the UK, one from USA, active in the field of social and development studies) claim that natural disasters are not only caused by the natural environment, but also (or maybe even more) by the social, political and economic environment. It is shown throughout the book when they concentrate on the various hazard types: floods, coastal storms, earthquakes, landslides, vulcanoes, biological hazards and famine. They consistently use a flow diagram describing the framework of the root causes, dynamic pressures, unsafe conditions (on the one side), the hazard (on the other side), and the disaster (in the middle).

The book describes 12 principles towards a safer environment. It cannot be made by technical measures alone. It should address the root causes by challeging any ideology, political or economic system which causes or increases vulnerability. It should reduce pressures by developing by macro forces such as urbanisation, re-afforestation, a.o. It should achieve safe conditions by protected environment, resilient local economy and public actions, such as disaster preparedness. Together with technical measures to reduce certain hazards (such as flood defences, shelter breaks, etc), it should all lead to a substantial reduction in disaster risk.

The book illustrates natural hazards from a social studies point of view, with striking observations, such as the bureaucratic blindness and biased relief assistance in South Carolina following hurricane Hugo in 1989 to the needs of many African Americans who lacked insurance and other support systems. The huge North Vietnam floods in 1971 only resulted in a few hundred deaths, largely because of a highly efficient wartime village-level organisation that allowed rapid evacuation and provision of first aid, whereas the similar 1970 Bangladesh floods killed a record 300,000 people.

At Risk: Natural Hazards, People's Vulnerability and Disasters.(Book review): An article from: The Geographical Journal

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At Risk: Natural Hazards, People's Vulnerability and Disasters.(Book review): An article from: The Geographical Journal
Norman Kin-Wai Cheung
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B000WQ0PNE
Release Date: 2007-10-02

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This digital document is an article from The Geographical Journal, published by Thomson Gale on June 1, 2007. The length of the article is 578 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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Title: At Risk: Natural Hazards, People's Vulnerability and Disasters.(Book review)
Author: Norman Kin-Wai Cheung
Publication: The Geographical Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 1, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 173 Issue: 2 Page: 189(2)

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At Risk: Natural Hazards, People's Vulnerability, and Disasters.: An article from: Hemisphere
Betty Hearn Morrow
Manufacturer: Latin American and Caribbean Center
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B00097PCF2
Release Date: 2005-07-28

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This digital document is an article from Hemisphere, published by Latin American and Caribbean Center on September 22, 1997. The length of the article is 1539 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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Title: At Risk: Natural Hazards, People's Vulnerability, and Disasters.
Author: Betty Hearn Morrow
Publication: Hemisphere (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 22, 1997
Publisher: Latin American and Caribbean Center
Volume: v8 Issue: n1 Page: p62(3)

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