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Another natural follow-up to the titles we have on the inside of the house, as well as the next step in erecting the house for those who understand Sites, Footings, and Foundations. There are a lot of requirements in the Code for framing and the type of and application of roofs and roofing. Special emphasis will be placed on the type of construction required for those in tornado and hurricane areas. Putting in metal or steel framing - now becoming cheaper than wood will be covered. Discussions will include the use of drills and metal stud screws for those who are more familiar with wood “stick” construction. Provides essential information needed to plan, manage and complete the job. Tip boxes included throughout.
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Essential information taking the user beyond the three titles already available with IN THE HOUSE Information (Wiring the Home, Plumbing The Home, and Home Remodeling). For those who want to work ON THE HOUSE, starts from scratch like selecting the site or lot, choosing the footings, and the type of foundation to fit the type of house preferred or being plan. For people who want to build from the ground up, or at the same time, includes those who are still mentally planning to build. For those who want to figure how to repair certain things about the foundation, footing, and why the site is or is not suitable. From starting the job to completion, including real examples offered for nearly every application. Provides essential information needed to plan, manage and complete the job. Tip boxes included throughout.
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Introducing the Carpentry & Construction Series from McGraw-Hill
The experts show you how to tackle any wiring, remodeling, or plumbing project
Written by authors of McGraw-Hill's popular Carpentry & Construction, Fourth Edition, this new, dollar-saving series is great for do-it-yourselfers, weekend repairmen and home owners, as well as seasoned pros who want to stay on top of the latest methods, materials, equipment and code requirements. Organized according to the actual stages of construction, these titles detail everything needed to successfully plan, manage, and complete a job. All are heavily illustrated and contain valuable tip-boxes throughout.
* Covers converting existing space, adding space, and creating new structures
* In-depth coverage of minor repairs as well as complete remodeling projects
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The perfect studio or on-location companion for both novice and intermediate artists, this beautifully packaged, pocket-sized gift kit provides all the tools needed to discover the rewards of drawing in charcoal.
Stunning examples of landscape, still life, and portrait art show how versatile a medium charcoal can be. With this book's easy-to-follow stepped exercises, artists from twelve and up can explore many techniques using the kit's contents: willow charcoal, compressed charcoal in various shades, charcoal pencils, and a toning eraser. Good tips on proportion, perspective, and creating moods with charcoal make this instructional inspirational as well as educational. Kit includes:48-page instruction book, 1 stick willow charcoal, 6 compressed charcoal sticks in a range of shades, 1 kneaded eraser, and 16 perforated sheets of paper.
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Drawing Pocket Studio (Watson-Guptil Pocket Studios Drawing Kit)
Colin Robson ,
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Manufacturer: Watson-Guptill
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Conservatives aren't born--they evolve. And for Wall Street Journal ethics columnist Harry Stein--once vilified in The Village Voice as "a well-known asshole"--that evolution began with the birth of his daughter. But Stein's memoir on transforming from bleeding-heart liberal to someone who gets junk mail from Patrick Buchanan isn't a sappy tale of fatherhood; it's a witty, intelligent account of how one man began to think for himself. "I remember when I was called a fascist for the first time," Stein writes about a dinner conversation in which he sided with Dan Quayle over the Murphy Brown/single-motherhood controversy. While alienating his left-leaning friends, Stein takes to task The New York Times, AIDS hysteria, men-hating feminists, and Bill Clinton, just to mention a few bastions of liberalism that contributed to his social makeover. As if to prove he didn't start out this way, Stein spends a great deal of time trying to convince the reader of his liberal roots. His wife, a former story editor for a major motion picture company, once belonged to a group called Women Against Right-Wing Scum. His sexual escapades as a single man (including a trip to a New York "swap" club) make up a whole chapter. He also writes of his admiration for Tennessee Williams (whom he once interviewed) as if to say, "See, I am not a homophobe."
Contrary to another conservative stereotype, Stein manages to keep a sense of humor throughout the book, writing in a conversational, amused style. His quips and lists read more like naughty office e-mail than diatribes from an angry right-winger: No. 3 in the 12 Ways to Tell If You've Joined the Right-Wing Conspiracy: "You sit all the way through Dead Man Walking and at the end you STILL want the guy to be executed." Longtime conservatives and converts like Stein will find themselves nodding their heads in agreement. Others will simply get a good laugh. --Jodi Mailander Farrell
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As a journalist in an industry populated by liberals, Harry Stein carried the left-wing banner in his life and work. Then he became a father, and suddenly the Right sounded right. Even worse, the Left was starting to sound -- and look -- wrong.
Stein cuts through the distortions on both sides and fearlessly tackles such provocative topics as feminism, affirmative action, PC education, gay rights, and sexual McCarthyism, and shows how liberating it is to no longer have to pass as a correct thinker. Daring, brilliantly argued, and savagely funny, How I Accidentally Joined the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy will resonate with many who have witnessed the social revolution of the past thirty years and questioned its outcome -- even if only secretly.
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Good for Me, Bad for You.......2007-06-27
There are thoughtful, rueful memoirs of sincere political change. This isn't one of them. Stein opens with a typically 70's, upper-class-journalist/boyo recitation of his personal (pre-conversion) sluttishness, including key club swinging, screwing prostitutes, and even, shamefully, exploiting them in the workplace. Funny. Then he puff against others speaking of their past errors, accusing them of a lack of dignity and recommending mature silence. How'd he do that? By hewing to a singular theme: he's different. Special. Not like us. Most of his ire, of course, is reserved for Bill Clinton and feminists. He chides the former for behaving exactly as he did (pre-conversion) and the latter for advocating for stuff like child care, which he opposes, arguing that since he's lucky enough to have a cool job, hip apartment and (rich former entertainment executive) wife who happily abandoned her career to raise their kids, we should all do the same. Larded, of course, with fond memories of his "radical" days, Stein comes across as a braggard, name dropper and opportunist who fails entirely to see the irony in scolding actresses for having children out of wedlock while simultaneously opposing abortion and forgetting to mention, let alone also disapprove of, the rich, producer pals of his who knocked them up in the first place. Nice work, if you can get it.
Another liberal who evolves into an adult.......2006-10-23
Stein is a very good writer and does himself proud in this book. He was a darling of the Left, until he matured into a responsible adult, and then became their enemy. Like many former leftist elitists, he goes through the trials and tribulations of having life handed to him on a silver platter, looks down on the rubes who are too stupid to understand what he is talking about from his snobbish point of view, but comes to realize that the great divide between the red and blue states is a function of living life instead of reading about it in the New York Times.
While others have made similar transformations, such as Horowitz or Krystol, Stein goes further in exposing the idiocy of the Upper East Side liberals who rail against supposed violations of "free speech" except at the dinner tables they use to suppress it. His observations on the consequences of their liberalism which made NY the murder capital of the world until Giuliani somehow miraculously appeared from the sky as mayor even though they all voted for Dinkins as he presided over the carnage is particularly interesting.
I didn't know whether to laugh or cry at many chapters of this book, but I guess both emotions were appropriate since I have suffered through many of the hypocrisies that makes up the vast majority of the elite liberals today. His observations about "sexgate" as he calls Clinton's great role modeling of corruption for the country's youth of wagging your finger and lying as he performed his magic act with Monica and the disappearing cigars is a good example, but there are many more, such as the disappearing act of "Murphy Brown's" baby when the ratings decided this little Hollywood stunt should be aborted once it was no longer of use in attacking those who viewed intact families as something of value. Of course Brown's role modeling for the millions of unwed women who have babies but have to raise them makes for great observation on Stein's part.
This book was written in 2000, so it is a bit dated, but still relevant to the culture wars of today.
An Accessible Convert to Conservatism.......2006-08-16
The dust-cover copy caries a list of self-help style questions to determine if you might enjoy this book. While they are meant to be light hearted and fanciful, one of them jumps out as a great point of departure in looking at this book. To wit: You sit all the way through "Dead Man Walking" and at the end still want the guy to be executed.
I remember seeing the film when it first came out. At the end, I was sure Susan Sarandon's character had realized that the job of a nun is saving souls, not protesting political issues. It was no great shock to find over the following days that the rest of the planet viewed the film as a masterful argument against capital punishment. I am used to finding myself on the outskirts of fashionable sentiment and have no plans to move to the center. Works like Stein's reassure me that I am in good company. Intelligent, well informed people can disagree about political issues, spittle-flecked protestations of the left notwithstanding.
It really is okay to be a social conservative. Advocating reasonable limits on abortion for instance does not mean you hate women; it means you think children are a blessing and that they deserve at least as much protection as we demand for the cockroaches used in filming popular movies (see p. 204.) People like Stein, people who started out as beaded and sandaled hippies and metamorphosed into conservatives are open to accusations of being "wishy-washy," of having sold-out. But Stein makes the excellent point that holding lofty principles while one has no experience and few real responsibilities in life is the truly indefensible position. The things that seemed like such a good idea when you were waving a sign on campus suddenly look different when it is time to pay for them and see how they affect your own children. Most people will become more conservative as they grow older and take on more responsibilities. The question is whether those people will have the courage to lead in the face of the idealistic mob, yammering for ever more government.
neither Right nor Left.......2006-07-17
Many people will misunderstand this title, since wit and irony are no longer learned in schools and colleges. They will interpret the title literally and buy this book, eager to hear their favorite prejudices trumpeted once again. They'll be disappointed. Stein is not a right-winger. True, he says of the Democratic Party: "Morally corrupt to the core, preaches hope and decency; practices cynicism and racial and gender extortionism." (p. 76) But he also says of the Republican Party: "Composed largely of [...]/Neanderthals/lackeys, yet also a few of real character." (p. 76) The literal title for the book would be "How Leftist stupidity drove me out of Leftism."
The 1960s were a mixture of two points of view: Leftism (which was much the same as it is today: antirational, dogmatic, group-oriented, etc.) and Liberalism (which was for individual freedom, do your own thing, etc.) Most people absorbed some of both. But the two are fundamentally incompatible. For a Lefty, you do the RIGHT thing. Your own thing should BE the right thing. Only then may you do your own thing. (People are taught in school these days that THIS is Liberalism!!!)
So, a strain develops within the individual person between the two conflicting ideologies. Some people abandon Liberalism (by accepting the new definition). Others abandon Leftism. Harry Stein was one of the latter. It took years of little personal experiences, but gradually he began to ask questions (and that is always the beginning of the end for both Leftism and Rightism). "Indeed, many of us were soon startled to find ourselves tagged conservatives (and often worse) for holding firm to the values of old-fashioned LIBERALISM: a bedrock commitment to fairness and individual liberty." (p. 2)
People who are beginning to have doubts about the pervasive "wisdom" they learned in school/college and on the TV/radio/rock lyrics will find this book eye-opening. Those who want to get up to speed fast should read the new book While America Sleeps: How Islam, Immigration and Indoctrination Are Destroying America From Within. In it you'll find the New Ideology (which is NOT liberalism nor leftism) spelled out in detail along with how it enforces itself, how it spreads and how pervasive it has already become.
Growing Up.......2005-09-07
At first, I was reluctant to give this book five stars. I found the writing style very engrossing and stimulating. However, I was put off by the lack of organization in the book, which made it difficult to locate subjects that I wished to review again.
The high rating I finally decided upon applies to the honesty of the writer and to his accurate protrayal of past and recent events. A friend of mine went through a similar experience as this author. She was very liberal in all of her beliefs and actions, very pacific, very pro-abortion, very pro-feminist, and very nonconformist. She was all of this, until the day she had her first child. Was there an immediate change? No, but a gradual one as she learned that her previous beliefs did not fit with her new world.
She still will not pick up a gun to save her own life, but she would to save the lives of her children. She continues to fight for a woman's right-to-choose, but she advises her daughters to never have an abortion. She still fights for equal rights for women in the workplace but states that she feels more fulfilled as a mother than as a businesswoman. Finally, she now feels that what is right for a single individual may not be what's best for society as a whole.
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On Wings of Peace CD (Prayer and Inspiration)
Danny Bouchard ,
Daughters of St Paul , and
VI Hastings VI Hastings Hastings Paul
Manufacturer: Pauline Books & Media
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Great Source of Enlightenment.......2005-01-03
Great book for Great Source of Enlightenment!
You wish you have read this book 20 years ago!
Lucid.......2003-11-23
Sri Chinmoy is a living fountain of inspiration for the world. He writes from the heart in an elegant and lucid manner. His poetry communicates to our own hearts to stimulate the peace, harmony and love which are so simply already there. His rich Indian background and life accomplishments dramatically impower his messages.
Staggering work on the spiritual life........2003-07-31
It took me a long time to arrive at the place where I inevitably had to find this book. I find it to be the most succinct, beautiful, practical, and accurate work on the spiritual life that I have ever read. Long and bumpy is the path to arrive at this book, Wings of Joy. First I went through Catholicism; its rigid literalistic theology, though, leaves something missing for the thinking person. Then, Buddhism, with its deep meditation and striving for enlightenment. But there is something big missing there too: its rejection of the world is too non-intuitive, and does not make sense in trying to live a harmonious unified life. Then other independent religious thinkers, like Osho, whose books are wonderful and inspiring, but who demands that we tear down everything we have learnt from any institution (parents, church, state, etc.), in order to achieve the freedom that is our birthright. This may be the right way, but its radicalness can leave one feeling rudderless (in a bad way). It all leads to Sri Chinmoy, who, seemingly with direct access to God and the soul, has written a work that transcends them all. He does not reject religion, but says that they all contain truth: "each religion is right, absolutely right, in its own way, but when we cry for the highest truth, love of God becomes our only religion." Have you ever seen a more perfect statement. He does not reject the body or the world. He says the body needs the soul to illuminate it, and the soul needs the body to manifest the soul. So logical, so true, so inspired. Love is the answer, as it should be; not some detached enlightenment. There is not only one path, as too many religions demand. In short, this is the man, and this is the book. May you love it and each other
Without depth or substance.......2003-07-06
Chinmoy uses new age jargon to mask the fact that he is uninformed about the subtleties of the subject matter. He is neither a philosopher nor is he spiritually adept. He uses his PR skill to lure unsuspecting youth to his cult. Don't buy his books.
Absolutely the most inspiring book I've read!.......1999-07-27
This book ought to be available in every library, and made available to any and every one! It is a total jewel of a book. I would really be interested to meet the author.
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Quilt Patterns the Angel of Blessing wall quilt is a quick and easy project. Sizes given with placement diagram are finished sied. Hang this charming quilt at your front door to bless friends who enter in. Patterns also for ornaments, pillows, and bed quilt, 23 pages staple bound, 8" x 11" booklet
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To commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, fifty-eight writers and illustrators have donated prose, poetry, and artwork that deal with the proposition of peace - from the day-to-day issues of personal and community violence to international conflict. Some of the contributors are Leo and Diane Dillon, Walter Dean Myers, Kioko Mori, Katherine Paterson, Jerry Pinkney, Milton Meltzer, Paul Morin, and Wendell Minor. Children of today face the greatest challenge humanity has ever known: creating a world in which every man, woman, and child has the opportunity to live in peace. Throughout history, war has been the method of choice to resolve arguments over borders, injustices, ideologies, religions, and numerous other passionately held beliefs. The heroes of history have been the brave men and women who have risked their lives to fight their countries' battles. Events of the twentieth century have brought changes that now make going to war, for any reason, obsolete. The heroes of the twenty-first century will be men and women who find alternatives to war. These people are children today.
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Teaching and Learning about Peace and WWII.......2000-05-25
Writers and illustrators speak out for peace in this colorful, inspiring book. The introduction is a comprehensive and succinct account of WWII that can be easily understood by children.
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Peace on His Wings
Danae Bush ,
Boyd Bush , and
Donald Lacy
Manufacturer: Northwest Publishing
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Great Appeal for both Men and Women.......2002-10-30
Danae' Bush captures the genuine essence of love and pain of WWII. This is a must read for not only war buffs but has a unique appeal to women as well. Danae' skillfully wraps a passionate love story around the pain of the POW experience. The story is a true to life page-turner that you will not be able to put down.
Great Appeal for both Men and Women.......2002-10-30
Danae Bush captures the genuine essence of love and pain in a WWII setting. This is a must read for not only war buffs but has a unique appeal to women as well. Danae skillfully wraps a passionate love story around the pain of the POW experience. The story is a true to life page-turner that you will not be able to put down.
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The Tao of the Huainan Masters: A Cornerstone of Chinese Thought (Cornerstone of . . . Series)
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Extracts are presented here from The Masters of Huainan, a Taoist work that deals with the natural, social, and spiritual sciences, written more than 2,000 years ago during an era of reconstruction and relative peace. It connects issues of individual development, the natural environment, and social and political aspects into one humanistic whole. The prevailing theme of this ancient text is that of harmony and peace between the individual and the universe, presenting a program for self-enhancement that enables people to attain repose and peace of mind in society and in nature.
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Teaching Through Trauma
Leanne Franson
Manufacturer: Slab-O-Concrete Publications
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Bi-Dyke Liliane.......2000-10-18
Leanne Franson has gathered in this comic book, several stories she had made in different periods of time. The book starts with little Lilliane and her unfortunate hamsters, and then moves on to a first date story, lost and new love(s) e.t.c. I think that as the title suggests, this is what can be found in several of this books stories. Lessons of life, through experiencing losses, searching for love, discovering her sexuality, asking herself...In the meantime, the reader is enjoying marvellous stories,with sketches who are simply made by a complicated and skilled cartoonist. Although as Franson states in the book, she never meant for these stories to be published, (and this fact only comes to show they are personal and frank), i am very happy friends convinced her otherwise. It is one of the books i am more than happy to have run across, and Franson, a cartoonist i look forward to see her work.
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- Mirrors of Infinity: The French Formal Garden and 17th-Century Metaphysics
- Mudworks: Creative Clay, Dough, and Modeling Experiences (Kohl, Mary Ann F. Bright Ideas for Learning Centers.)
- MVRDV: Reads
- New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain Workbook: Guided Practice in the Five Basic Skills of Drawing
- New Profits from Old Buildings: Private Enterprise Approaches to Making Preservation Pay
- Newspaper Designer's Handbook with CD-ROM
- Oscar Niemeyer: Houses
- Painting Better Landscapes
- Pueblo Architecture and Modern Adobes: The Residential Designs of William Lumpkins
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