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Fodor's Road Guide USA: Great American Drives of the East, 1st Edition: 37 Tours, 26 States, and More Than 1,800 Listings (Special-Interest Titles)
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ASIN: 0676905048
Release Date: 2002-06-11 |
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Great American Drives of the East
Hit the road with America's #1 Travel Authority
In this guide you'll find the tools you'll need to plan 37 perfect road trips in the 26 states east of the Mississippi. Fodor's local correspondents have created easy-to-follow, point-by-point driving tours for each state with town-by-town listings to describe attractions along the way and steer you to nearby sights. Corresponding maps keep you on track. Reviews tell what's distinctive about area restaurants and hotels. Cruise the Gold and Treasure coasts (Florida); Bed down in a former grain silo (Ohio); Skirt the Great Smoky Mountains (Tennessee); Stand at the easternmost point in the USA (Maine) Trace an impressionist art trail (Connecticut); Visit the nation's oldest jail (Massachusetts); Follow the Finger Lakes (New York) Study the world's largest college campus (Georgia); Hike through Daniel Boone country (Kentucky); Drive the Natchez Trace (Mississippi).
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A great roadtrip planner!.......2003-08-28
I was searching for the perfect gift for a friend who was about to embark on a two-week roadtrip -- and this was definately the perfect gift. This book covers all the states east of the Mississippi and maps out the best drives in each state, complete with the main attractions of the cities and towns along the way plus hotel and restaurant options at the various stops. It even highlights the driving laws of each state. Definately a great tool for someone who wants to be spontaneous while still picking the best drives along the way.
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"He was a man who often was incapable of conducting himself properly in the most elementary social interactions. His only continuing contacts with women were limited to his mother, nieces, and housekeepers. He was a man who knew the power of money and desired it, but refused to work for it, preferring to live off the sweat of his family and long-suffering friends, whom he often insulted even as they paid his bills."--from the book
This, then, was Oliver Heaviside, a pioneer of modern electrical theory. Born into a low social class of Victorian England and dying in poverty as a recluse, Heaviside (in between) made advances in mathematics, by introducing the operational calculus; in physics, where he formulated the modern-day expressions of Maxwell's Laws of electromagnetism; and in electrical engineering, through his duplex equations. This acclaimed biography is the only one devoted to Oliver Heaviside. Now available in paperback with a new preface by the author, it will appeal to historians of technology and science, as well as to scientists and engineers who wish to learn more about this remarkable man.
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Worth reading.......2007-05-14
This book has a nice mix of scientific history and mathematical information. It's not just pages of equations, but they are there to help explain the concepts. Also the tech notes are great for those of us who like to see how it all works out. I would recommend this book to engineers, scientists, mathematicians, or just people who enjoy a little history of science and technology. Heaviside is quite an interesting person.
A very good book for students and "real" scientist/engineers.......2004-06-27
Students who are really interested in physics, electrical engineering or related subjects would find this book informative and inspiring.
Real electrical engineer would have the deepest feeling when reading through the lines.
Written for a genius (hero) by a great educator of the field.
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Dazzling collection of 388 royalty-free illustrations reproduced from rare Victorian-era sources. Dozens of species portrayed in authentic detail, brilliant colors, and a variety of shapes and sizes. Graphic artists, collagists, and nature lovers will delight in this invaluable resource. Ideal for art and craft projects.
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Such a good book an value.......2006-02-28
This book is just perfect for the butterfly uses..with flowers in scapbooking,decoupage,lots of good quality pictures.B.W.
Butterflies at your fingertips!.......2004-12-31
This is the kind of book that you'd like to cut up and decorate every wall of you house with. The images are sharp and clear. The size of the butterflies vary for almost every corner or difficult spot on your projects that you need to fill in. Butterlies are included in almost every conceivable size and color.The quality of the paper is also excellent, making the images easy to cut and glue.
Great source of butterfly pictures.......2003-02-09
There are 388 pictures to draw from. Some are not very clear (a little blurry) but I'd say 80% are really good. Great colors, lots of variety both in terms of types of butterflies and in sizes. Most are stand alone butterflies but some are accompanied by flowers/fruit too.
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This book is available through www.chinaberry.com.......2003-09-05
For those of you looking for this book, you can find it at Chinaberry. Item number 5955 at www.chinaberry.com
Mrs. Sharp's Traditions.......2000-03-29
I have read every book that Susan Ban Breathnach has written and have loved them all. However, Mrs. Sharp's Traditions is a jewel in today's world. It truly focuses on family traditions and celebrations and helps those of us who juggle career, family and home. It is a shame that this book is no longer in print. It took me 3 months to get it at our local library. I highly encourage the publisher to re-print.
If you don't reprint this book my family will suffer!.......2000-03-26
For year's my family has gone without traditions and celebrations of any kind. Everytime we gather as a family it is a disaster! This book has brought me hope that there can be a time in my life where we can gather together as a happy family and enjoy ourselves. If I don't have a copy of this book for my very own library, my family and I will suffer for all eternity. Please reprint this beautiful book!
REPRINT PLEASE!.......2000-03-08
I too have tried every avenue to find this book to no avail. Please ask publisher to reprint!
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE.......2000-01-01
I have tried every avenue I know of to get a copy of this book - PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE reprint!
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Excellent account life in 1800 England........1998-03-17
I very much enjoyed this book. It tells of not only the people who made the English culture tick but also the transportation of the era as well. Lots of great pictures and very interesting text.
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More Fluff than Detail.......2003-02-11
Though the pictures and layout are indeed beautiful it is unlikely that anyone but the most skilled and well-equipped person would be able to reproduce the parties shown in the photographs. Most people won't have the supplies necessary for the tablesettings or even the activities, and will not want to spend the money necessary to acquire them. Recipes are not practical or tasty. Suggestions are not detailed enough to truly employ in any kind of meaningful manner. Text is filled with fluff and flowery sweetness and leaves the reader wishing the authors had spent more time with truly detailed instructions for the preparation of a tea party.
A wonderful and creative help!.......2000-01-08
My daughter and I had many fun hours planning and hosting several parties for some other small homeschooled friends. We mixed a few recipes and substituted some games to suit a diverse age group. Our guests were very complimentary and we received many hugs in thanks.
Taking Tea With Alice: Looking-Glass Tea Parties and Fancif.......2000-01-08
My daughter and I had many fun hours planning and hostingseveral parties for some other small homeschooled friends. We mixed afew recipes and substituted some games to suit a diverse age group. Our guests were very complimentary and we received many hugs in thanks.
One of the best tea party books available!.......1999-08-19
No tea library should be without "Taking Tea with Alice". It is well-conceived and a source of many creative ideas. The photos are wonderful. I particularly liked the children's photos and have found them useful in prompting ideas for other children's tea parties. The table layouts are accurate and beautiful. The ideas presented are within the means of any tea party organizer. This book is a good value and not filled with fluff. An informative, fun book for all ages!
isn't it just precious!.......1999-07-15
According to the inside back flap, one of the authors works for an advertising agency. That makes sense, because this book looks and reads like an ad. It keeps telling you how sweet and darling everything is, until you (or I, anyway) want to be sick. Lots of annoying photos of children. Not enough photos to show you which foods go with which recipes; you have to guess from the larger photos which still don't indicate which of the microscopic things on the table are the foods in which recipes. The quality of the recipes is inconsistent; they seem to use different words for the same ingredients from one recipe to the next, and some ingredients and procedures are given "Victorian" names and never explained. Other recipes consist of "ask your local baker to make this for you, or look in some other cookbook." Not satisfactory. This is definitely a guide for *children's* parties, with suggestions for menus and activities for children. I suppose you could translate the ideas to parties for adults, if you can get past the breathless sentimentality of the prose, which is all about making things oh-so-special for the little ones. Why do I sound so annoyed by all this? I don't have anything against children or their parties. What bothers me is the emptiness of the prose and the cutesiness of the design, combined with the lack of really useful photos, captioning, recipe treatments, and historical background that would have given this book some substance.
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Over 300 superbly engraved images of nature's lovely offerings: dainty sprays of roses, poppies, daisies, forget-me-nots, and other blooms; as well as branches heavily laden with apples, peaches, plums, grapes, pears and more fruit. An affordable collection of royalty-free illustrations for immediate use in art and craft projects.
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Decoupage patterns.......2007-02-14
These are pretty and colorful patterns. They are "dated" in the sense that they are patterns that were popular probably a century ago. Some of this I find odd (like children's heads popping out of flowers and fruits) but there aren't too many of those and maybe some people like children "emerging" from fruits and flowers! All around a good selection, I would think most people would find much to their liking in these designs.
Fabulous colour.......2005-05-22
I am a huge fan of Carol Belanger Grafton, and this book of images is part of the reason why. The images are beautifully rendered, very clear, and have magnificent colour. I am using these, and others of hers, for both decoupage and scrapbooking. They are so lovely that just paging through the book is inspiring.
A beautiful resource!.......2004-12-31
Ms Grafton's book is an excellent and colorful resource that all lovers of decoupage must own. The size of the graphics vary and the images are usually quite clear and colorful. There is no shortage of colors, sizes, shapes, and varieties of fruits and flowers. The quality of the paper is glossy and easy to cut and paste. I highly recommend this book.
packed with images.......2003-02-09
This book has 305 images to choose from. Lots of strong vibrant colors, pretty good quality in terms of being clear (not blurry), some have people faces in them (e.g. flowers with people faces in the center), they range in size from 1" to 1/4 page in size. Some really pretty pansy images. I'm finding it to be a really good resource.
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Dickens's England: Life in Victorian Times
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Victorian London: The Tale of a City 1840--1870
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Victorian England was, in Tennyson's phrase, "an awful moment of transition." A society based largely on agriculture, traditional values, and social hierarchies was transformed into one both stimulated and unsettled by unprecedented growth in science, technology, industry, urbanization and population, and profound questioning of politics, morality, and religion. Its writers energetically revealed their responses to the times and the effect that such a rapidly changing world had upon them. This collection of some of the best, wittiest, and most unusual Victorian writing uses careful observations and acute comments to bring to life the variety, the energy, and the often harsh reality of the society that produced and inspired one of England's most famous authors. In addition to Dickens, Pritchard uses selections that cover all aspects of Victorian life, including Henry Mayhew (on the London poor), Elizabeth Gaskell and Engels (on the industrial classes and conditions), William Cobbett and Francis Kilvert (on rural life), Trollope (on Church life), Huxley and Darwin (on science and evolution), and Carlyle, Ruskin, and Matthew Arnold (on art and culture). He also provides excerpts from visiting commentators such as the Americans Ralph Waldo Emerson and Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville. Together with 50 illustrations, these selections combine to express the spirit of what Elizabeth Barrett Browning called "this live, throbbing age, that brawls, cheats, maddens, calculates, [and] aspires."
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An African Victorian Feminist: The Life and Times of Adelaide Smith Casely Hayford, 1868-1960
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i would like to buy this book how the hellcan i 701 8422746.......1999-06-25
i want to get this book will you call me and let me know as to ordering. phone 701 842 2746
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Food and Cooking in Victorian England: A History (Victorian Life and Times)
Andrea Broomfield
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ASIN: 0275987086 |
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Nine recipes serve as entry points for detailing the history of food production, cooking, and diet throughout Queen Victoria's reign in England. More than that, however, Broomfield offers an introduction to the world of everyday dining, food preparation, and nutrition during one of the most interesting periods of English history. Food procurement, kitchen duties, and dining conventions were almost always dictated by one's socioeconomic status and one's gender, but questions still remain. Who was most likely to dine out? Who was most likely to be in charge of the family flatware and fine china? Who washed the dishes? Who could afford a fine piece of meat once a week, once a month, or never? How much did one's profession dictate which meal times were observed and when? All these questions and more are answered in this illuminating history of food and cooking in Victorian England.
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