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Flashman and the Redskins (Flashman)
George MacDonald Fraser Manufacturer: Plume ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0452264871 |
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Flashman in the American West.......2007-05-26
More of Fraser's history and humor.......2005-06-27
The best of the bunch.......2003-12-11
Flashman in America.......2003-11-08
It's difficult to do serious reviews on Flashman.......2003-09-18
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Flashman and the Redskins
ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
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Flashman And The Redskins. From The Flashman Papers 1849-50 and 1875-76
GEORGE MACDONALD FRASER Manufacturer: Collins ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000KFT1LY |
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Flashman and The Redskins
Fraser George MacDonald Manufacturer: Alfred A. Knopf ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000UDCSJI |
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Flashman and the Redskins
George MacDonald Fraser Manufacturer: PAN ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000M66ZVK |
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Flashman and the Redskins
George MacDonald FRASER Manufacturer: Knopf ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000OPMOB4 |
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Flashman and the Redskins
George MacDonald Fraser Manufacturer: Pan ProductGroup: Book Binding: Mass Market Paperback ASIN: B000RT25XO |
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Flashman and the Redskins
George MacDonald Fraser Manufacturer: Collins ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000UFWQ20 |
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Alpine Hero (Emma Lord Mysteries)
Mary Daheim Manufacturer: Fawcett ProductGroup: Book Binding: Mass Market Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0345396421 Release Date: 1996-11-27 |
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THE ALPINE ADVOCATE SCOOPS A MURDERCustomer Reviews:
Murder With That Facial?.......2004-05-14
This happens in the first pages of the book.
Emma is even more stunned when shop assistant Laurie Marshall tells her the person on the table who was supposed to be getting her facial was Ms. Whitman.
Honoria Whitman, who was in a wheelchair after being thrown down the stairs by her abusive husband who was then shot dead by her brother, had been the Sheriff, Milo Dodge's on again / off again girlfriend for almost five years.
It was a relief when Emma found out it wasn't Honoria, but Kay Whitman, her sister-in-law who was visiting with her husband Trevor, who had just been released from prison for the killing of Honoria's husband and their mother.
But who would want to kill someone who is perfect stranger in Alpine. And was the fact that she had taken Honoria's appointment at the last minute mean that it was actually Honoria who was targeted?
Emma's finds a lot of suspects. Stella Magruder, owner of the shop seems more upset over what people will say than the fact that someone was murdered in her salon.
Becca Wolfe, who was doing the facial and who later mysteriously disappears.
Laurie Marshall, shop assistant who is a very dim bulb and her mother Jane are both acting suspicious as if they're trying to hide something.
And why is a billionaire, Toby Popp building a new multi-million dollar house near Alpine?
This is the best book in the series so far. It takes all the history you have already learned and the people you have come to care for and throws it all into the wind. Nothing is as it seems.
Highlights:
Emma and Milo having dinner at her house, bumping heads as they lean over to pick something up and end up rolling around on the floor for a few moments, before his cell phone rings and he becomes Super Sheriff again.
Ginny Burmeister, the office manager is on her honeymoon in Hawaii with Rick Erlandson's, so Emma is trying to do her job as well as her own.
Carla as usual cannot be trusted with the simplest task which is why the picture she took of the bereaved family has a caption naming Honoria brother Trevor as Walt Whitman.
Leo, the ad manager has turned into a good friend for Emma and Ed Bronsky wants her to ghost write his biography.
I can't write about the best thing that happens in this book. Except that I'm very happy with a turn of events that has been dogging this storyline.
This book had some very funny moments and the ending totally surprised me. I never saw any of it coming.
Can't wait to start the next book.
Quirky characters in a fun mystery!.......2000-08-09
Good characters;draggy plot.......2000-03-03
Fantastic!.......1996-12-28
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The Alpine Hero
Mary Daheim Manufacturer: Ballantine ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000GLO4Z0 |
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The Alpine Hero
Mary Daheim Manufacturer: Ballantine Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Mass Market Paperback ASIN: B000ND12ZQ |
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Alpine Hero (Emma Lord Mysteries)
Mary Daheim Manufacturer: Fawcett ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OVW60C |
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The Madness of a Seduced Woman
Susan Fromberg Schaeffer Manufacturer: Dutton Adult ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0525241655 |
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The Madness of a Seduced Woman
Susan Fromberg Schaeffer Manufacturer: E. P. Dutton, Inc. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000K61ATO |
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The Madness Of A Seduced Woman
Susan Fromberg Schaeffer Manufacturer: Pan Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000KL3KA6 |
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The Madness Of A Seduced Woman
Susan Fromberg Schaeffer Manufacturer: Pan Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000QRWCY4 |
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The Madness of a Seduced Woman
susan fromberg schaeffer Manufacturer: bantam ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000RFXBAO |
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Ste in turn of the century vermont here is a shocking timeless novel of obsessive love one womans fierce abandonment to her dreams and passions
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Bead Love: Simply Fabulous Jewelry with Big Beautiful Beads (Lark Jewelry Book)
Jane La Ferla Manufacturer: Lark Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 1579909620 |
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Not really what I was looking for but OK if that is what you like..........2007-07-16
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Making the Body Beautiful
Sander L. Gilman Manufacturer: Princeton University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0691070539 |
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Nose reconstructions have been common in India for centuries. South Korea, Brazil, and Israel have become international centers for procedures ranging from eyelid restructuring to buttock lifts and tummy tucks. Argentina has the highest rate of silicone implants in the world. Around the globe, aesthetic surgery has become a cultural and medical fixture. Sander Gilman seeks to explain why by presenting the first systematic world history and cultural theory of aesthetic surgery. Touching on subjects as diverse as getting a "nose job" as a sweet-sixteen birthday present and the removal of male breasts in seventh-century Alexandria, Gilman argues that aesthetic surgery has such universal appeal because it helps people to "pass," to be seen as a member of a group with which they want to or need to identify.
Gilman begins by addressing basic questions about the history of aesthetic surgery. What surgical procedures have been performed? Which are considered aesthetic and why? Who are the patients? What is the place of aesthetic surgery in modern culture? He then turns his attention to that focus of countless human anxieties: the nose. Gilman discusses how people have reshaped their noses to repair the ravages of war and disease (principally syphilis), to match prevailing ideas of beauty, and to avoid association with negative images of the "Jew," the "Irish," the "Oriental," or the "Black." He examines how we have used aesthetic surgery on almost every conceivable part of the body to try to pass as younger, stronger, thinner, and more erotic. Gilman also explores some of the extremes of surgery as personal transformation, discussing transgender surgery, adult circumcision and foreskin restoration, the enhancement of dueling scars, and even a performance artist who had herself altered to resemble the Mona Lisa.
The book draws on an extraordinary range of sources. Gilman is as comfortable discussing Nietzsche, Yeats, and Darwin as he is grisly medical details, Michael Jackson, and Barbra Streisand's decision to keep her own nose. The book contains dozens of arresting images of people before, during, and after surgery. This is a profound, provocative, and engaging study of how humans have sought to change their lives by transforming their bodies.
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Hardly Dead.......2004-05-20
Great idea but no cigar!.......2000-02-20
Two types of research are available for a writer: Live research and dead research. Live research consists mostly of interviews, discussions and question asking. Gilman will have none of it. His is dead research from cover to cover, finding his material mostly in the musty records of the 19th century. Even his photos and illustrations are from 100 years ago. To make matters worse, the publisher printed all the graphics ordinary book paper making them very blurry and almost impossible to decipher.
Most irritating of all is his habit of repeating his thesis on almost most every page as if he feels compelled to shove it down our throats. He tells us at least fifty times that people get plastic surgery in order to "pass" and feel happy. Come on Sander, enough is enough.
In sum: Sander Gilman, like Bill Clinton, starts with great promise but then proceeds to make a real mess of things.
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ASIMOV'S SCIENCE FICTION - Volume 10, number 6 - June 1986: The Beautiful and the Sublime; A Place to Stay for a Little While; The Prisoner of Chillon; The Making of Dragons; Galileo Complains; Prosthesis; Alien Graffiti; Body Man
Gardner (editor) (Jane Yolen; Bruce Sterling; Jim Aikin; James Patrick Kelly; Carter Scholz; Melanie Tem; Steve Rasnic Tem; Michael Bishop; Avram Davidson; Isaac Asimov) Dozois Manufacturer: Davis Publications ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000IDPVD0 |
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Creating Beauty to Cure the Soul: Race and Psychology in the Shaping of Aesthetic Surgery & Making the Body Beautiful: A Cultural History of Aesthetic ... An article from: The Antioch Review
Erika Bourguignon Manufacturer: Antioch Review, Inc. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B0008FAXHW Release Date: 2005-07-30 |
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This digital document is an article from The Antioch Review, published by Antioch Review, Inc. on March 22, 2002. The length of the article is 508 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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Making the Body Beautiful: A Cultural History of Aesthetic Surgery.(Review): An article from: Canadian Journal of History
Margaret Homberger Manufacturer: University of Saskatchewan ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B0008IBL5C Release Date: 2005-07-28 |
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This digital document is an article from Canadian Journal of History, published by University of Saskatchewan on August 1, 2001. The length of the article is 1095 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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Making the body beautiful: a cultural history of aesthetic surgery.: An article from: Parachute: Contemporary Art Magazine
Manufacturer: Parachute Contemporary Art ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B0008GTG6A Release Date: 2005-06-01 |
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This digital document is an article from Parachute: Contemporary Art Magazine, published by Parachute Contemporary Art on July 1, 2000. The length of the article is 311 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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Making the body beautiful: a cultural history of aesthetic surgery.: An article from: Parachute: Contemporary Art Magazine
Manufacturer: Parachute Contemporary Art ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B00098IYVU Release Date: 2005-06-01 |
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This digital document is an article from Parachute: Contemporary Art Magazine, published by Parachute Contemporary Art on July 1, 1999. The length of the article is 311 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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Short is beautiful: so why are we making kids grow tall?: An article from: The Futurist
Thomas T. Samaras Manufacturer: World Future Society ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B00093H5E2 Release Date: 2005-07-28 |
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This digital document is an article from The Futurist, published by World Future Society on January 1, 1995. The length of the article is 3295 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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"The ethics of making the body beautiful: Lessons from cosmetic surgery for a future of cosmetic genetics" (Papers / Western Michigan University. Center for the Study of Ethics in Society)
Sara Goering Manufacturer: Center for the study of ethics in society, Western Michigan University ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0006S1S4I |
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