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If you need to watch your blood sugar level, or if you love someone who does, this book is for you. A diet rich in breads, grains, pastas, and fresh produce helps you to control glucose. Low in fat and cholesterol, it?s good for the whole family. And it?s delicious, as these samples from
Meatless Diabetic Cookbook show:
Baked Crisp Rosemary Potato Skins with Tzatziki • Minestrone Soup • Fall Vegetable Frittata • Raspberry Blintzes • Easy Pan-Fried Cheese Ravioli • Sun-Dried Tomato Souffle • Roasted Ratatouille over Herbed Polenta • Quinoa Pancakes • Lentil-Sunflower Seed Burgers • Cincinnati-Style Tofu Chili • Roasted Garlic and Tomato Pizza • Buttermilk Rolls • Chocolate French Toast with Chocolate Drizzle • Apple-Raisin Multigrain Bread Pudding • Key Lime Chiffon Pie • and much, much more!
You?ll find old favorites and tasty new dishes that everyone will enjoy. Put this book on your menu today and prepare a wonderful, healthful meal tonight!
Bonus: Extensive Nutrition Information for Each Recipe Helps You Count Calories from Sugar and Other Sources!
About the Author
Barbara Grunes wrote this book after her husband developed diabetes. She is the author of more than 30 cookbooks and the co-author of The Great Big Cookie Book (Prima).
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Meatless Diabetic Cookbook: Over 100 Easy Recipes Combining.......2001-10-16
I am really enjoying this cookbook. I think you need to use it in conjunction with a book that has more information about diabetes and food components, (even if they contain meat recipes) however, the recipes in this book are wonderful. I tried vegetarian cookbooks and experienced difficulty with my diabetes. With this book and more study, I can live without meat. I have not found any other vegetarian books on the market and am grateful to have found this one.
This book has a recipe for vegetable stock that is worth its price alone. It will save a lot of money to make this myself.
A Great Help in the Kitchen.......2000-05-04
My husband is has type two diabetes. He lost 28 pounds eating the creative recipes from this book. Without complaints!
Great recipes but needs carbohydrate content listed.......1999-05-10
This is a good book for anyone wishing to improve his/her eating lifestyle. For diabetics and others who need to count carbohydrates it is a disappointment as it does not even mention carbs. I hope this major oversight will be corrected in a new edition.
Great recipe for vegetable stock!.......1998-12-29
This book supplied me with some much-needed advice on preparing meatless meals for a diabetic. However, ADA guidelines (as explained to me by a dietician) now use the number of carbohydrates as a guideline for most meals and this book failed to list the carbohydrate content of any of the dishes, which was a disappointment to me. Otherwise, I feel the book is a good start for someone who finds they are at a loss on how to prepare dishes which are both meatless and suitable for diabetics.
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What is it like to be in battle? John Keegan, a senior instructor at Sandhurst, the British Military Academy, speaks for soldiers who were present in the fray.
For examples, Keegan selects Agincourt in 1415, Waterloo in 1815, and the Somme in 1916. What is common about them, what is different? Agincourt was hand-to-hand combat, thrust and cut--a fearful and personal encounter. At Waterloo, 400 years later, the battle was still largely personal. As it swayed back and forth, men on opposite sides came to recognize the same individuals they had fought off in previous charges.
Keegan closes his book with the Somme. For him it stands as the distillation of wars in the industrial age: long-distance killing of faceless men by others who merely activate the instruments of destruction.
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Reads like a PhD Thesis.......2007-09-21
I have read many recent historical works of John Keegan including has book on WWI and the Price of Admiralty. I enjoyed them both. So, I was very disappointed when I tried to get into the Face of Battle. The language was so stilted, the use of commas and long run-on sentences going in differnet directions was so painful that I almost stopped reading it. The book has an excellent premise: how to describe three important battles in three very differnt centuries from the perspective of the soldiers actually doing the fighting rather than the 10,000 foot view employed by contemporary military historians who were not participants in the battle. Unfortunately, Keegen spends the first third of the book explaining what a good military historian (like himself) can or should do, focusing on the unique quality of British military historians (they are less biased because the wars were mainly fought on someone else's soil. The book improves as he gets into the battles of Agincourt, Waterloo and the Somme, but a good editor could have made this a much better read. I realize this book was written in 1978, so perhaps it was, at the time it was written, in line with Keegan's academic proclivities. Not a book I would recommend to anyone other than an academic.
Post Graduate Military History .......2007-05-06
THis work lives up to the highest academic standards that I have come to expect of Keegan.He provides new insights in three epic battles ,He wets your appetite for history ,he makes it real and interesting
A classic.......2006-11-23
Keegan puts you on the scene at Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme. One of the earliest departures from the bird's eye, general's view, The Face of Battle captures the battles from a physical, sensory, even biological perspective. Keegan creates a model for historians to assess the ebb and flux of the battle by providing an almost socratic approach to combat inquiry.
My personal favorite is the narration of Agincourt. In this battle, the author looks at the reality of whether bodies could pile up as high as they are reputed to have done along the line of contact. He examines the effectiveness of arrows and notes that at the range given the primary effect would have been to enrage the adversary's horses and not, as is often thought, to inflict casualties. Especially fascinating was the brutal crush of fellow soldiers pressing the forward ranks into the "funnel" created by the forest, which made anything other than forward movement nearly impossible. Similarly, he captures the mayhem created in the ranks by returning cavalry, after a failed charge. And let us not forget, it isn't very easy to relieve oneself in a full suit of plate, especially with dysentary!
Engrossing.......2006-11-12
A fine worm's eye view of battle. The author has painstakingly recreated what it was like for a soldier on the field of Agincourt, Waterloo and the battle of the Somme. It's a grand tutorial in basic tactics.
Mr. Keegan's Opus.......2006-10-06
This is the first work that I and most others discovered Mr. Keegan's great mind for military history. It is an overview of the evolution of warfare from the middle ages to the present but more than that it seeks to answer the question of what motivates the common soldier to fight instead of following his instinct to run. Mr. Keegan's admiration and adoption of the common soldier's lot is moving and commendable in itself. He brings out the hero in the common man and for that all us common men can thank him.
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The Face of Battle is military history from the battlefield: a look at the direct experience of individuals at ‘the point of maximum danger’. It examines the physical conditions of fighting, the particular emotions and behaviour generated by battle, as well as the motives that impel soldiers to stand and fight rather than run away. And in his scrupulous reassessment of three battles, John Keegan vividly conveys their reality for the participants, whether facing the arrow cloud of Agincourt, the levelled muskets of Waterloo or the steel rain of the Somme.
Customer Reviews:
Deep Investigation of the Battlefield........2007-07-06
"The Face of Battle" is an early book from Mr. Keegan (1976) which shows all his virtues combined: he is a professor (at Sandhurst Military Academy), so the book is didactic; he is an investigator so his researches on how to describe a battle are shown; he is a talented literate writer, so his prose is engaging and fluent.
As with other books of the author this is a very commendable reading for different audiences: those interested in specific military topics, those interested in history (as myself), those who want to know how a battle looks like and more.
Mr. Keegan open his work with an introduction in which he wonders how battles has been described and perform a critical reading on some famous excerpts, pointing out why they fail to tell us what really happened in those critical moments of history. At the same time he draw a model on how a battle should be told.
He applies this model to three outstanding battles: Agincourt, Waterloo and the Somme. He analyzes and describes each piece of battle, taking pain to break them into small components and present them to the reader with a forceful language.
Agincourt is a fearful hand to hand and man to man conflict, Mr. Keegan reviews the weapons, the battlefield, the climate, the mood of the warriors, the leadership, the moral conflict of killing prisoners among other things. Even if this battle piece is described with scientific method you have the poignant feeling of being there.
Waterloo is different scenario, weaponry has evolved changing the kind and quality of armed encounters. Documentation on the battle overflows and menace to drown the historian. Artists imagination is aroused and lots of paintings full of color and inaccuracy find their way to galleries and museums. From all this massed data and imagery, however Mr. Keegan, produce another coherent and accurate description of the events on 18th June.
The Somme is XXth century and an industrialized mass war, the size of the battle field enlarges to an inhuman scale, increasing logistic and communication problems. General staff miscalculations translates into human useless suffering. Pre-battle, battle and post-battle issues are analyzed and shown in this section. Military lessons may be extracted from it by military professionals. A very realistic picture of the pains, disorientation, vision, behavior, of the front officers and soldiers, among many other "observables" may be grasped by the rest of the readers.
But as I said at the beginning of the review, Mr. Keegan is not only an historian, he is an educator, and so to complete his work, as an epilogue, he discusses the future of battle and the art of War.
Reviewed by Max Yofre.
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Pastor and former Green Beret captain Stu Weber reveals the crucial spiritual battles that all Christians face constantly, whether or not they are aware of them. "Somehow we have come to mistakenly associate spiritual warfare with charismatic personalities strutting across brightly lit platforms ... whuppin' up on evil spirits," says Weber. "But spiritual warfare is so much more than a show." With warm and winning counsel, the bestselling author/speaker warns of the very real perils readers face, giving them what they need to survive and thrive.
Customer Reviews:
Call to battle!.......2002-01-22
Stu Weber, a pastor and former Green Beret captain, has written "Spirit Warriors" from the perspective that the Christian life is the war to end all wars. If you are a Christian - male or female - you are a spirit warrior in a "flat-out, knock-down, drag-out war". It is imperative that Christians grasp this reality. Weber states that a wartime theme pervades Scripture. Christians are called to 'fight the good fight of faith' and everywhere there are scriptures mentioning attacks, blood sacrifices, swords, shields, battles, defeats, and victories. Our adversary the devil is real, intense, and extremely devious, but thankfully he is not all-powerful or all-knowing. Neither will he be ultimately successful. God has given us angels, spiritual armour, and His Word to equip us for victory. With these, we can take captive every thought and tear down every stronghold that is raised up against the truth that is in Christ Jesus.
I found this book inspiring and uplifting. It charges the heart with spiritual vitality and strengthened faith in Jesus. The author addresses many issues that the Church would do well to pay attention to, especially in this day of spiritual confusion and post-modern philosophy. A book well worth reading for its balanced perspective and encouraging message.
Suit Up!.......2002-01-11
Get your spiritual armour ready. This is probably the best non-fiction Christian book I have read in a year. The author was in Special Ops, so he has an idea what warfare is about. This book was recommended to me by a church member who also was in Special Ops. He says that the author is dead-on. The advice is usable by all Christians and reminds us to stand firm in our faith and be prepared for the weapons of the Evil One. Recommended for men and women, late teens through adult.
Good Book on Spiritual Warfare.......2001-11-10
I've read several books on spiritual warfare lately, and found that from a practical point of view, who better to tell us about warfare than a modern-day warrior? Although I prefer Kay Arthur's book on warfare because it made me dig more deeply in the Scriptures and make conclusions for myself, I still think Mr. Weber's book gave better insight from the point of view of someone who had actually been in a war. I would recommend reading both books to give a balanced view on this subject, spiritual and practical.
Book Description
In January 1758 Count Wilhelm Fermor marched into East Prussia at the head of 45,000 Russians. Frederick the Great was dismissive of the Russian army and failed to take the threat seriously. With the Russians laying siege to the fortress of Cüstrin, Frederick crossed the River Oder and cut their supply lines. On 25 August the two armies met at Zorndorf. This book details the bitter day-long battle in which the Russian infantry refused to buckle. Casualties were horrific, the Russians losing almost half their army. Frederick had managed to stave off the Russian threat but his opinion of their army had changed dramatically.
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Frederick the Great's Bad Day.......2003-08-05
British Army officer Simon Millar's Zorndorf 1758, which is #125 in Osprey's Campaign series, follows hard on the heals of his earlier volumes on Kolin and Rossbach/Leuthen. Zorndorf is probably Millar's best volume to date on the campaigns of Frederick the Great and his narrative style has improved. Overall, Zorndorf 1758 is a clear and succinct account of Frederick the Great's most difficult battles.
Zorndorf 1758 has the usual sections on introduction, chronology, opposing leaders and opposing armies, but omits the section on opposing plans (which is incorporated elsewhere in the text). A rather lengthy 17-page prelude covers Frederick's abortive siege of Olmutz and his march to the Oder River. The Battle of Zorndorf is covered in a 40-page narrative, followed by a 5-page aftermath section. Millar provides a detailed order of battle, but unit strengths are not mentioned. The campaign narrative is supported by six 2-D maps (Eastern Europe 1758, Russian & Prussian movements in August 1758, the Siege of Custrin, Frederick's march to Zorndorf, initial positions at Zorndorf, and the final Prussian attacks) and three 3-D Birds Eye View tactical maps of the battle. The three battle scenes by Adam Hook are: Russian Cossacks burning Zorndorf; Russian cavalry charging the Prussian advance guard; and Prussian infantry attacking the Russian Observation Corps.
Although a Russian invasion of East Prussia in 1757 had come to naught, a renewed invasion in the spring of 1758 was more successful. Russian forces under General Fermor launched a surprise winter campaign (typical!) that caught the Prussians by surprise and quickly overran virtually most of East Prussia, while Frederick was busy facing the Austrian armies in Moravia. When the Russians approached the Oder River, a scant 80 kilometers from the capital in Berlin, Frederick was forced to race north to blunt the invasion. Millar's description of Russian conduct in East Prussia is interesting; the Russian troops did not molest the people or ravage the land, and they even read an official apology from the Tsarina for damages done in the 1757 campaign! Readers will surely be apt to contrast this self-restrained invasion in 1758 with the savage Soviet invasion of East Prussia in 1945.
Millar's description of the Russian army in 1758 is also interesting. The Russian army of this period was not the "steamroller" of later years but rather, a relatively limited, long-service force that could send fewer than 70,000 troops to fight in the West. Although Millar notes that the Russians had "the best trained and equipped" artillery in Europe, they were burdened with a sloppy command and control system (exercised from the court in St Petersburg) and a cumbersome logistic system. On the other hand, the Russian Army was blessed with tough, steady troops who could absorb a huge amount of punishment without routing. Since most of Frederick's tactics were designed to precipitate flight in unsteady opponents, the Prussian tactics were ill suited for dealing with the Russian threat.
Millar notes that Frederick was probably not in top form at Zorndorf, noting that he committed his smaller army to battle with conducting proper reconnaissance and failed to take advantage of the initially disorganized Russian forces. As usual, Frederick tried to turn his enemy's flank but when this did not work out, he decided to conduct a "frontal oblique order attack" (i.e. a frontal attack on one of the enemy's wings). Frederick's improvised battle plan was not particularly good and his subordinates botched it, resulting in 2/3rds of the Prussian infantry being rendered temporarily hors de combat. Indeed, Frederick's attempts to personally rally his routed troops failed. Millar is probably too generous with Frederick, preferring to blame his subordinates, but it is obvious that the Prussian tactical plan at Zorndorf was uninspired and possibly foolhardy. What saved Frederick from total defeat was the absence of the Russian commander from the field and the consequent lack of higher leadership. Nevertheless, the Russian cavalry commander was independent enough to overrun some of the Prussian artillery and disorganize much of the rest of Frederick's infantry.
However, Millar notes that the Prussian cavalry under Seydlitz got in some serious blows that did real damage to the Russian infantry. Frederick kept attacking futilely for ten hours until both armies were fought out. Both sides still held the field and Millar rightly calls Zorndorf a draw. It was also a very bloody battle indeed, with 35% losses for the Prussians and 45% for the Russians. While the Russian threat to Berlin was stopped for the moment, Frederick had badly damaged his ever-shrinking army in a poorly thought-out action. Zorndorf was certainly not one of Frederick's greater moments and his handling of the campaign was marked more by arrogant assumptions than tactical genius.
My only concerns for this volume are the author's wandering attention and apparent lack of research into Russian sources. Millar spends too much time on pre-campaign events in Moravia and then too much on post-campaign events in Bohemia. Meanwhile, the early phases of the Russian invasion get too little attention. Apparently, Millar is more interested in the Austrian Front than the Russian Front. This wandering focus is particularly noticeable in the 5-page Battlefield Today section, where Millar starts discussing a modern visit to Zorndorf then starts talking about toy shops in Berlin, the Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp, Potsdam, and the nightlife in East Berlin. If I want to read a tour guide about Berlin I will buy one. Focus on the subject, please! It is also obvious throughout the text that Millar is a great admirer of Frederick and this probably colors his evaluation of mis-managed battles like Zorndorf.
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Chicks Battle the Dudes: A Face-off to See Who Is the Smarter Sex! (Spinner Books)
Bob Moog
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Women may be from Venus and men from Mars, but they come together in this fun and provocative board game. Chicks Battle the Dudes shows that no matter how gender-neutral they try to be, male and female brains click in on different subjects. The board is set up as a tug-of-war contest, with a rope pulled with each right answer. The first team to pull its opponents to the center of the board wins. But watch out — the challenge cards give both sexes a chance to come out on top!
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British Artists and War: The Face of Battle in Paintings and Prints, 1700-1914
Peter Harrington
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British Military War Art.......2001-09-19
This excellent encyclopedic work examines how artists at home & in the field dealt with the subject or war for more than 200 years, and how these images were perceived by the public in Britain. He traces the medium of the paintings and descibes how they were produced, covers the artists and the campaigns they covered and explains why some wars were illustrated more than others. He describes and lists the works of hundreds of war artists. a valuable reference work for any collector of prints. London 1992, Greenhill, First UK ed w/dj, 12 x 8 1/2, 352 pp, 16 pages of color reproductions, and 220 B&W images of battle paintings. Appendice lists over 800 surviving oil battle paintings with details.
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Sassy the Face of Courage: The Story of Victoria Lynn Bowen's Battle With Ewing's Sarcoma Cancer
Thomas A. Bowen
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She was fifteen and full of dreams. Suddenly the breadth and depth of cancer shattered her dreams. But this girl purposed in her heart to face the unknown. Little did she know who all would come to help her become a woman of courage.
It didn’t seem possible that this girl could be a champion while machines gave her life. Nurses, doctors, parents, and friends took turns keeping Sassy alive. Then a special gospel singer by the name of Karen Wheaton put a vision into Sassy. The two became best of friends. Chemotherapy and radiation were additional challenges. Trips to Wal- Mart built up her strength.
Sassy started to become aware that she was no longer a little girl. The Prom and Graduation arrived with greater celebration than the end-of-chemo party. She finished the treatments, but the cancer would not give up so easy. Ten days at cancer camp placed Sassy in the presence of counselors who were so inspiring that she adopted two of them. It was now time for cancer to have the final say. But, her adopted sisters and a real angel changed all that. Sassy was granted the desires of her heart.
Customer Reviews:
A boring style.......2003-06-05
First of all,this account had to be corrected by the publisher.It's quite understanding the author is not a writer,but how can a publisher allow the repetition of "Vicky" in each phrase,instead of "she"?
Also I don't feel moved by this account,facing the obedience of parents to the desires of a spoiled child to go a few times a DAY to a retaurant only to spoil food or to go shopping when the financial state of the family is requesting the help of friends and co-workers....Page 177,I read:"Friends at church set up two bank accounts at home,and announced the family need on the radio.Vicky spent the evening shopping at Wal Mart".
Sorry but at seventeen a child has to understand family problems...
A friend of mine knew victoria, I felt like I knew her.......2001-03-20
This book chronicals victoria's battle with cancer, but focuses more on the technical aspects of what happened as opposed to her emotions and feelings about her struggle. It is mostly a list of food she ate, drugs she was administered, places she went, and so on. However, her father, Thomas, expressed his feelings as best he could and made tribute to his daughter publicly-to be commended for one who has lost a daughter. The book is highly detailed and realistic, lacking in romantic flowerly prose one has come to expect from tributary works. The end of the book left me in tears, almost wishing I could read mopre into the life of victoria. While much of who she was is shown in the book, one can't help but feel a good part of her personality was left unsaid. the novewl sheds a realistic light on the hurrendous effects of cancer without playing up on romanticism.
Customer Reviews:
Uneven in quality.......2004-04-24
First of all, the author was born in New Zealand, so why he is called an Australian I do not know. The book pays very little attention to the Dominions--it is written strictly from a British viewpoint and examines exhaustively events in Britain druing the war, as well as all aspects of the war which relate to England. There are more than 150 pages of text which follow the account of the Armistice, talking about the effects of the War on society, economics, etc. The book has footnotes (where they belong, at the "foot" of the page) but lacks any bibliography. I have read scores of books on the Great War, and consider it one of my favorite reading topics, but I found this one a chore to read at times. A better book written from a similar perspective is Blighty: British Society in the Era of the Great War, by Gerard J. DeGroot. Also more interesting in general I thought was The Deluge: British Society and the First World War, by Arthur Marwick.
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