Simon & Schuster's Pocket Guide to Wilderness Medicine

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Procedures for the isolation and identification of mycobacteria (DHEW publication no)
Annie L Vestal
Manufacturer: Center for Disease Control, Bureau of Laboratories, Training and Consultation Division
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B0006WEZ80

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Selling Cruises, 2E gives students a thorough understanding of cruise travel, from freighters to luxury cruising. Knowledge of geography and cruise destinations is emphasized, with all world ports identified on maps and described with marketable appeal. The book also presents key information on applying effective sales skills, qualifying clients for selecting the right cruises and nautical terminology, and references on cruise lines and ferry services offer useful introductions to this unique industry in travel.

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Donna Jo Napoli's fiction for teens often puts a contemporary twist on old fairy tales, offering new depth and psychological insight. In previous young adult novels she has retold "Hansel and Gretel" from the point of view of the witch (The Magic Circle) and the story of "Rapunzel" from a multitude of perspectives (Zel), and has turned the tale of "Rumpelstiltskin" inside out (Spinners). Here she follows the traditional story of "Jack and the Beanstalk" pretty closely--the cow traded for magic beans, the vast beanstalk reaching up a cliff, and the cannibalistic giant chanting "Fee, fi, fo, fum" are all present. But Napoli enriches the tale with a romance between Jack and a neighbor girl and the mysterious disappearance of Jack's father, all told in vibrant poetic language and studded with authentic details of country life in the 1500s. On another level, she adds resonance to the narrative by creating an oedipal dimension--a disturbing buried suggestion that the devouring giant is a dangerous aspect of Jack's otherwise loving father. In the same manner, the giant's wife, who feeds Jack luscious food and hides him from the giant, recalls his own mother in the aspect of temptress. All this is very subliminal, but even younger readers will feel the mythological power as they devour this exciting story. (Ages 10 to 14) --Patty Campbell

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Once there was a boy named Jack who traded away a cow for a handful of beans. But Jack was no fool, he was haunted since the day his father climbed up into the clouds and vanished. When the beans provide a way for Jack to pursue his father, he enters the Giant’s world, where he discovers the terrifying ends of greed and desire. In Donna Jo Napoli’s transforming novel, Jack’s search for his father yields not gold, but sustenance, love, and the means to build a life.

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Awesome.......2005-10-19

This book by Donna Jo Napoli is a very good twist on the classic, Jack and the Beanstalk. It's really well written. I liked this book a lot.

jack of all treats.......2005-01-06

Crazy jack was good I thought it wasn't that bad. I would recommend this book for the fifth and sixth graded. I just keep reading it until I finish it. I thought the character was hard working and every happier. But one summer there was a drought and every farmer on the village was desperate for rain. The rain never came and jack family couldn't grow anything so his father made a trade with the other farmer for half of their farm. One day Jack was talking to his father and say that there is a plot of gold at the end of the rainbow. If they would get the gold they wouldn't have anything to worried about. So one raining night Jack father say to Jack that if Jack want to plot of gold his father will get it for him. So he left and Jack went after him trying go stop him from going to try to get the gold but he couldn't stop his father. His fathers walk of a cliff disappeared into the midst Jack follow him, but stop halfway the to cliff his father was gone. That was the last time he ever seem his father again. For the next seven years around autumn his would go to the same cliff. Jack tries to climb the cliff by slamming his body to the cliff and then people started to call him crazy Jack. During the celebrating of autumn his mother told him to go and trade their cow for some thing good. But he trades the cow for some bean. He grows the bean and climbs the tree to the top and fined this beautiful lady up there the lady gave him a chicken. The second time a plot of gold that not gold but stone the third time his found a harp.

plot of gold.......2004-12-10

Crazy jack was good I thought it wasn't bad. I couldn't put the book down I just keep reading it until I finish it. I thought the character was hard working and every happier. But one summer there was a drought and every farmer on the village was desperate for rain. The rain never came and jack family couldn't grow anything so his father made a trade with the other farmer for half of their farm. Jack mother was kind of angry but their nothing she can do. One day Jack was talking to his father and say that there is a plot of gold at the end of the rainbow. If they would get the gold they wouldn't have anything to worried about. So one raining night Jack father say to Jack that if Jack want to plot of gold his father will get it for him. So he left and Jack went after him trying go stop him from going to try to get the gold but he couldn't stop his father. His fathers walk of a cliff and climb the cliff until he disappeared Jack follow him, but stop half way the cliff father that he never seem his father again. In the morning he found him self-back at his house with his mom and flora. For the next seven years around autumn his would go to the same cliff and try to climb the cliff by slamming his body to the cliff and people started to call him crazy Jack. During the celebrating of autumn his mother told him to go and trade their cow for some thing good. But he trades the cow for some bean. He grows the bean and climbs the tree to the top and fined this beautiful lady up there the lady gave him a chicken. The second time a plot of gold they're more but u have to read.
I think this book is a good book to read

Classic fairytale- I think not!.......2004-11-15

Napoli is a master at her work, so that every time I pick up one of her books, I am astounded by its beauty and characterization, its personality and reverence for the human soul.
The Brothers Grimm will tell you what happened to Jack when he climbed up the beanstalk, but Donna Jo Napoli will actually take you there. I marvel at her well-placed words, her ingenious ideas, her deeper meanings. For example, in Crazy Jack, there is a continual allusion to rainbows, and when Jack plants the famous beanstalk, the beans he got from the fairy are violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, and red. After the drought in the beginning, rainbows come and dance across the sky. When Jack climbs up the beanstalk for the second time, he sees a rainbow that no one else there can see because of a former curse on the giant by a fairy whose gold he tried to plunder. The giant's domain from then on was to be only seen in varying shade of grayish-gold, to remind him of his foolish greed. But Jack can see the rainbow, indicating indirectly to us that gold is not all Jack cares about. Invariably, that rainbow above the clouds on Jack's second visit leads to a pot of gold, which Jack then steals from the giant and hurries with back down the beanstalk. We come upon a very strong symbol in every instance. Rainbows are crazy hopes and crazy dreams and a crazy wish that will never be: to find that eluding pot of gold!

Jack's father also plays a pretty big role in the story. He had worked hard, and taken wagers (gambling) when odd jobs weren't enough, but still it was not sufficient to stave off the hardships of a farmer's family during drought. When 9-year old Jack see his father climb the cliff singing and never return, he was near to driven mad by greif. Years later, he still fights against his confusion and despair, and seeks a way to, somehow, follow his father to the clouds.

The reason I so admire Ms. Napoli is for the ingenuity and passion with which she writes. Her words have such conviction, that when you are through, you are sure the whole tale must really have occurred in that far off little place in England because by that point, you are too drawn in for common sense. Once you enter into Jack's world, you won't want to put down the book for fear of missing what he might do next. You'll be rooting for him all the way up the beanstalk!

Great book!.......2004-09-09

I love all of Napoli's fairy tale re-tellings, but i like this one the best (of the ones I've read so far). It's written in first person present, which is extremely cool and defines/ captures the book's ambiance really well. If you are looking for a relatively short book that will make you think a little and feel a lot, this is the book for you.

The Master's Plan: How the Church Can Keep You Sane in a Crazy World

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The Master's Plan: How the Church Can Keep You Sane in a Crazy World
Jack Leipert
Manufacturer: Our Sunday Visitor
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 087973549X

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Andro, This Is Crazy
Jack Lawson
Manufacturer: Avon Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 038076234X

ASIMOV'S SCIENCE FICTION - Volume 7, number 13 - Mid-December 1983: Reasonable Doubt; The Power of the Press; Street Meat; The Castrati of Womensa; Speech Sounds; Her Furry Face; My Crazy Father Who Scares All the Women Away; Cruising

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ASIMOV'S SCIENCE FICTION - Volume 7, number 13 - Mid-December 1983: Reasonable Doubt; The Power of the Press; Street Meat; The Castrati of Womensa; Speech Sounds; Her Furry Face; My Crazy Father Who Scares All the Women Away; Cruising
Shawna (editor) (Fred Singer; Richard Kearns; Norman Spinrad; Martin Gardner; Octavia Butler; Leigh Kennedy; Jack C. Haldeman II; Ian Watson; Isaac Asimov) McCarthy
Manufacturer: Davis Publications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000KBZUQS

THE BEST FROM FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION (10th) (10) Tenth Series: Double Double Toil and Trouble; Interbalcne; A Divvil with the Women; Man Overboard; Nikita Eisenhower Jones; Mine Own Ways; The Rainbow Gold; Crazy Maro; Something; Dreams of Ivy

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THE BEST FROM FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION (10th) (10) Tenth Series: Double Double Toil and Trouble; Interbalcne; A Divvil with the Women; Man Overboard; Nikita Eisenhower Jones; Mine Own Ways; The Rainbow Gold; Crazy Maro; Something; Dreams of Ivy
Robert P. (editor) (Holley Cantine; Katherine MacLean; Niall Wilde; John Collier; Robert F. Young; Richard McKenna; Jane Rice; Daniel Keyes; Allen Drury; Vance Aandahl; Charles Henneberg; Poul Anderson; Avram Davidson; Will Worthington) Mills
Manufacturer: Ace Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000GVYR1Q

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Crazy #2 (Not Brand Echh)
Stan Lee
Manufacturer: Marvel Comics
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Comic

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ASIN: B000MSGZVI

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Comic book published by Marvel Comics in 1972. Classic parodies of Marvel superheroes by Stan "The Man" Lee and Jack "King" Kirby. a Bronze Age reprint of the Silver Age title "Not Brand Echh".

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Crazy Jack

Manufacturer: Recorded Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Audio Cassette

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Unabridged. 3 cassettes. 3.75 hours long.

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Crazy Jack [Unabridged] [Audiobook]

Manufacturer: Recorded Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Audio Cassette
ASIN: 8426230164

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Trials and Tribulations In Early Twentieth Century B.C.

Crazy Man's Creek
Jack Boudreau
Manufacturer: Caitlin Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0920576710

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In Crazy Man's Creek, author Jack Boudreau tells of the characters who have "caught the fever" in the rugged McGregor Mountain Range east of Prince George. Long recognized as some of the toughest bush in British Columbia, it was home to many who chose to lose themselves.

Once there, life included confrontations with grizzly bears and raids by wolves. But if men were to snap, it was the long cold winters and the deafening silence that did them in.

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Trials and Tribulations In Early Twentieth Century B.C........2000-05-12

Jack Boudreau grew up in the central BC lumber town of Penny, which is located along the Canadian National Railway line that runs through the Fraser valley in central B.C. He was regaled as a youth with stories of the guides, trappers, settlers, prospectors and others who tried to make this inhospitable wilderness their home during the beginning of the twentieth century. He decided that these stories were too valuable to let disappear with the passing of the original taletellers and began to record their stories. After several decades of collecting data from/about these individuals, Jack has done an excellent job of consolidating the best of their stories in this pleasurably readable collection. I highly recommend this book for anyone who is interested in outdoor adventures. The wondrous thing is that the stories are true and these robust individuals actually went through trials that the contemporary reader might find incredible.

I may be a biased reviewer in that, J. Boudreau is my mother's brother and I also grew up listening to a few of the tales depicted in this book. I can guarantee that once you pick it up, you won't want to put it down until it's finished. In my case, I read it several times. This book is worth every penny and will bring you much pleasure.

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The Crazy Passenger Train
William Jack Moelker
Manufacturer: Authorhouse
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1418461628

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Voted Britain’s best-loved poem by viewers of BBC TV’s Bookworm, this perennial favorite with its declaration of defiance against convention appeals to all those with a secret desire to throw off the strictures of propriety and set out deliberately to shock and be outrageous. It sums up this wish perfectly with its pronouncement: "When I am an old woman I shall wear purple/With a red hat that doesn’t go, and doesn’t suit me/I shall sit down on the pavement when I’m tired/And gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells.” Reprinted here as a gift book with line drawings by Pythia Ashton-Jewell, this edition of the classic is ideal both for those who know and love the poem and for those who have yet to relish its gleeful anticipation.

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When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple.......2007-06-27

Unfortunately, although I have seen this book before and had high expectations..it was cut totally crooked all the way thru so looked very cheap and I could not use for the gift intended.

I have been wearing purple since I was a teen...I should have started this movement..........2006-02-20

Of course I had to have this poem...and all the little things about it, like the red hats I've suddenly acquired, my own Red Hat Chapter...I really have been wearing purple all these years, so that poem must have been stolen from my head...lol...neat little book...

Now That I Am An Older Woman.......2005-08-07

The poem itself has been around for many years. Bought 3 copies of the book for 2 sisters and a friend - it has really good illustrations to go with the text. Everyone approaching 50 needs this!

Hit Home and Made Me Smile..........2002-03-24

I read the book several years back. I loaned it to a friend, and took a Job Transfer shortly thereafter.
Well, needless to say, I think the friend liked the book also.
So, today I am ordering it for my 2 daughters. They are approaching their 40's, and I know they will love it as much as I did.
The Author does an excellent job in depicting that which makes us smile at ourselves, as we grow older. She lets you know that growing old can be a lot of fun.
",,,I shall wear purple", is a very appropriate title. And, when a Woman nears that special time , OLD AGE, wearing purple is almost an unwritten rule.
The Author tells that in Old Age, you can get more respect. If for no other reason, than just being your Old Self.
I highly recommend reading at least twice. You'll never feel the same about yourself.
The picture on the cover and the poem that goes along with it,are alone worth the price of the Book.

When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple

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Enjoyable for women of " that certain age"
When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple
Not your sweet Grandma
When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple
Hey honey!

When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple

Manufacturer: Papier-Mache Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1576010791

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Enjoyable for women of " that certain age".......2005-09-23

Have looked for this book for ages but out of print in Australia where I live so was delighted to find it at Amazon. My friends cannot wait to borrow it

When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple.......2005-07-05

The large print was great. I miss the illustrations that are in stardard print books. The poems were good. Some were a little more depressing about getting old then I would have preferred. After reading it, I won't be sending as a gift to an older friend. But it will stay with me.

Not your sweet Grandma.......2003-09-25

"Humor and beauty"? "Rebellious," "cynical," and "depressing" seem to me to describe these selections more accurately. Oh, I suppose a few of them are all right. But this is definitely not like the light stuff my grandma found so appealing in Erma Bombeck. After reading about half a dozen of these pieces, I'd had quite enough, thank you.

When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple.......2003-04-24

If you are expecting the be uplifted by this book you will be disappointed.

I was expecting more humor but left this book feeling depressed.

Hey honey!.......2002-08-29

We're all getting old and fat! This book just makes you feel less alone about the ordeal!

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When I Am An Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple
Sandra Martz
Manufacturer: Papier-Mache Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000JZMIHY

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When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple
Unkown
Manufacturer: Papier Mache Pr
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000MWDR7E

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When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple
Sandra (editor) Martx
Manufacturer: Papier Mache Pr
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000VJHWP6

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When I am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple
Sandra (editor) Martz
Manufacturer: Papier-Mache Press
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000KP3EY4

When I Am An Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple - An Anthology Of Short Stories And Poetry

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When I Am An Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple - An Anthology Of Short Stories And Poetry
Sandra - Editor Martz
Manufacturer: Papier-mache
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000LX49LM

When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple, If I Had My Life to Live over I Would Pick More Daisies, Grow Old Along With Me the Best Is Yet to Be (Papier-Mache Press Anthologies)

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Sensitive and yet fun (that is if you like purple)

When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple, If I Had My Life to Live over I Would Pick More Daisies, Grow Old Along With Me the Best Is Yet to Be (Papier-Mache Press Anthologies)

Manufacturer: Audio Literature
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Audio Cassette

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ASIN: 1574532294

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Sensitive and yet fun (that is if you like purple).......2000-10-26

This is a beautifully crafted book of verses

I purchased this book for my elderly mother as it typified her approach to life. She would be forever quoting sections from the book as her behaviour reflected a phrase or section from it. (and yes - she did wear purple!)

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