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To the fan, the rodeo cowboy is the distinctly American embodiment of the romantic Old West. But to the young men who live the profession, the realities are modest pay, continuous travel, and the constant threat of injury. While he was the Denver bureau chief of the New York Times, Dirk Johnson spent a year on the professional rodeo circuit with cowboys, watching them try to hang on to bucking horses and Brahma bulls—and to wives and livelihoods that seemed only one fall away from disappearing. Biting the Dust covers the circuit’s biggest events in Denver, the capital of the New West, to small towns on the Great Plains like McCook, Nebraska, where rodeo continues to thrive even as the population shrinks. Johnson takes the reader beyond sentimental visions of the rodeo cowboy and the American West and provides an unforgettable and authentic story of the rodeo today.
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True stories of rodeo life.......2001-06-13
I was blown away by this book for 2 reasons: 1. I have rodeoed before and knew exactly what these guys (and families) go through; and 2) Dirk Johnson did not sugar coat anything, he did not make them out to be something they're not, nor did he "sell out" their stories as real life stories are done so many times in the entertainment industry. It's great to see that people actually take an interest in their lifestyle, profession, job or whatever you choose to call it. I highly recommend this book for the person who doesn't know the 1st thing about rodeo or for a veteran of the sport/profession.
TRUE TO LIFE.......2000-01-23
A BOOK FOR THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN BEHIND THE CHUTES AND THOSE WHO LONG TO
if you want to know why..........1999-09-01
I became intrigued with rodeo, 10/93, while dating a PRCA steerwrestler. PRCA cowboys earn less than you or I, get injured beyond repair, with no health insurance to pay the bills...heck..they often die doing what they love. I wanted to know "why" they pursue this lifestyle. So...I searched for anything I could find to get a better understanding. I happened upon Dirk Johnson doing a local TV interview, prior to the Grand Nationals (10/95), and wrote down the name of his book. It's out of print, but, if you can get a copy it's worth it. I now know more about "why" they do what they do, and I've also had the opportunity to chat with the some of the cowboys Dirk followed for his book. They are wonderful and so is this book. I've read it several times, and if I could just get it back from my friend MB, I'll read it again!
Gripping realistic.......1999-03-05
This book to me tells of real life, real heartache and real people who struggle in a very competitive and low paying sport. There is no second best in my opion only that gold buckle
A great book for anyone interested in rodeo........1998-10-16
I really enjoyed this book. It gave an incredably detailed portayal of the modern cowboy and didn't glorify the job in the slightest. The author simply tells the truth of the log drives and injuries and costs of competing in professional rodeo. Anyone who's interested in professional rodeo will feel a little like a cowboy after reading this book. If you want the stark reality of rodeo life, nothing shows it better. I loved how the author focused on the lives of more than one cowboy and didn't leave any detail out. The reader feels like he knows every person involved by the end.
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- A very realistic and non-didactic look at housework
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Biting the Dust: The Joys of Housework
Margaret Horsfield
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In this witty look at our obsession with cleaning, Margaret Horsfield confronts her own dirt demons and scours the social, historical, literary and psychological nooks and crannies of the world of household chores. Through historical research, countless interviews with people and an analysis of characters from novels and advertising, Horsfield presents such memorable personalities as the woman who sends her small daughter to walk around other people's houses in white tights to check for dirt and the mother who, upon her son’s suicide, shed not a tear but stayed up all night frantically polishing her already gleaming hardwood floors. From demented television housewives to the redoubtable Mrs. Beeton, Biting the Dust runs the gamut of ideas and emotions. As we pause repeatedly to recognize our mothers, our friends, ourselves, we ask what we really do around the house and why. Biting the Dust throws light on a subject that is rich, strange and, oddly enough, highly entertaining.
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A very realistic and non-didactic look at housework.......2006-06-20
Margaret Horsfield looks at modern housework in the USA, Canada and Britain. Most readers can probably recognize themselves and others as she recounts different attitudes towards cleaning. Morsfield is sympathetic to the real pleasure that some people take in housework while arguing that different people have different styles, and that public health measures and environmental changes have greatly reduced the dangers of less than meticulous cleaning. Horsfield is not so much giving us a history of housework as using history to explore why we are as we are today. I really enjoyed the book - the despised nitty gritty is actually what makes up most of our lives.
To understand how our modern situation came to be, Horsfield looks back on inventions, health concerns, the rise of consumerism and social-political arguements. This is not as detailed for earlier periods as More Work for Mother: The Ironies of Household Technology from the Open Hearth to the Microwave by Ruth Schwartz Cowan.
I have a couple of personal reactions. For this purpose, pehaps it matters that I was born in 1953 and I have been a single career-woman for most of my adult life. Among the people I knew, it was assumed that girls grew up to be housewives, but that they needed to be educated to assume a career if something happened to their husband. As I got to the cusp of Junior High-High School, most of the girls that I knew swore that they would never work while they had pre-school children (and a bread-winner husband) but that they might consider working before or after the children. By the time I graduated from college, it was assumed that all young women would pursue a career, maybe taking off some time when they had small children. I imagine that younger women have had a very different experience.
Horsfield cites Betty Friedan without much consideration of the source. Horsfield comments that some attempted to indoctrinate women with the idea that any real woman wanted to stay home and would find housework fulfilling. It seems to me that we eventually got the same sorry line about pursuing a career - it would bring us identity, fulfillment and meaning. And money, of course, but for middle-class women, this was largely a token of esteem, not a needed resource. Apparently, we were to take as a model Charles Darwin, gentleman and scientist, devoted to his research, hard-working, respected in his field, but not vulgarly viewing it a source of funds. The financial needs of women in crises: widows, divorcees, poor women, have been used as arguments for opening jobs to women, but a surprising number of apparently intelligent people, knowing that I am single, have expressed surprise that I worked if I didn't enjoy it, and stared blankly when I mentioned food, clothing and shelter as my reasons. As I have tangled over the years with the fact that a job is not a beloved hobby and housework is by no means inconsequential, I have often felt an intense hatred for Friedan in particular, which turned into complete contempt when I learned that she had a full-time maid. If housework was a simple as she said, why did she need a maid? And for heavens sake, if she needed a FULL-time maid, her argument that the work wasn't time-consuming is self-refuted. I'd like to know what Simone de Beauvoir's domestic arrangments were before I take her too seriously. Horsfield is a little more critical of Beauvoir's claim that housework is insignificant if one has a career.
Outside of that, I have a better opinion of Don Aslett than Horsfield does. All advice has to be taken with a grain of salt and a grain of sense. I don't seem myself washing the walls as Aslett recommends any time soon, but I have to love an advisor who recommends a long-handled brush rather than getting down on one's hands and knees. But, taste cannot be argued.
Life Changing - gave me new meaning and focus - Earth Shattering!.......2006-01-18
This book changed my life - in fact I had to order a back up copy because I literally wore my first hardcover copy out with repeated (to this very day) reading of it. I cannot adequately express my gratitude to Ms. Horsfield for her most important contribution to the world with this book. I'll sum it up with, thank you and God bless - you changed my life and I'm so happy I discovered this book. It gave my life a clarity and a focus that was sorely lacking.
Surprisingly interesting.......2003-11-23
I thought this book was pretty good. Horsfield never gets preachy and remains amusing, which is probably what makes the book work. Whenever someone saw me reading this book, they kind of turned their nose up and asked, "What's there to say about cleaning your house?" Surprisingly a lot. Horsfield really approaches the issue from all different angles so it doesn't get boring. Admittedly, in some places the examples were a bit too exhaustive, but that was fine - I just skipped a few paragraphs and then carried on. I particularly liked her critique of others' books on housework, both historical and contemporary, mocking how "experts" have tried to declare from above how we should maintain our homes. Horsfield admits to being halfway between a lazy housekeeper and a crazed cleaner and her autobiographical anecdotes, as well as those from the outer edges of the spectrum were pretty amusing. Twice while reading I had to put the book down and go clean something - the first time to bleach my countertops, the second time to scrub my toilet. The rest of the time, however, I enjoyed reading this book while willfully ignoring my barely maintained apartment. Shows what kind of cleaner I am.
Engrossing.......2002-07-23
The best non-fiction that I have read this year. Biting the dust is a tongue-in-cheek look at the social history of cleaning. It traces the path that lead to our obsession (whether we clean or not) with cleaning; explaining how marketers and self appointed moral police made a clean home to not just be something to strive for, but women's moral duty to achieve. Horsefield explains how marketers and proponents of home economics (itself a misogynistic and idiotic construct) used the idea of teeny-tiny germs to enslave a couple of generations of women.
All right, that last bit was a tad over dramatic, but you get this picture. The narrative is fascinating and informative. It was great fun to read, and I highly recommend it.
Engrossing.......2002-07-23
BITING THE DUST is the best non-fiction book I have read this year. It is a tongue-in-cheek look at the social history of cleaning. It traces the path that lead to our obsession (whether we clean or not) with cleaning; explaining how marketers and self appointed moral police made a clean home to not just be something to strive for, but women's moral duty to achieve. Horsefield explains how marketers and proponents of home economics (itself a misogynistic and idiotic construct) used the idea of teeny-tiny germs to enslave a couple of generations of women.
All right, that last bit was a tad over dramatic, but you get this picture. The narrative is fascinating and informative. It was great fun to read and I highly recommend it.
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Biting the Dust
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- Fantastic book! I give 4 and a half stars............
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- A high-flying bio
- Great research...fascinating story!
- A really great book (not a blue sky pitch, honest)
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Skylark: The Life, Lies, and Inventions of Harry Atwood
Howard Mansfield
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Harry Atwood was among the most flamboyant of the celebrated and often foolhardy pioneers of American aviation. Part daredevil, inventor, entrepreneur, and con artist, he became renowned for his flying feats, his plans for a bewildering variety of aircraft, an his ability to inspire otherwise sensible Yankees to invest enormous time and money in his invariably ill-fated projects.
As part of the early circle around Wilbur and Orville Wright, Atwood set many of the early US flying records and was constantly in the headlines for two decades after 1910. He built his own airplanes and developed imaginative but never-quite-realized plans for flying wings, Navy seaplanes that would carry immense cargoes, and cheap one-person planes that would be made from a single birch tree. His is a classic American story about riding the wave of enthusiasm in an era of technological progress while "selling blue-sky" to an eager and gullible public. Atwood's biography describes a larger than life individual, whose personal life was as complex and bizarre as his professional escapades, during the vibrant and innocent years when the sky no longer was the limit
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Fantastic book! I give 4 and a half stars...................2001-03-06
I would have given 5 stars if only..........the Author had given us even more details about Atwood's flying, inventions and more documentation (patent records, court records, stock market records, etc.) to support his research. It is anyway a great book considering also how difficult it must have been to find material about such an interesting and "slippery" character. Being an aircraft builder myself, I would have also liked to learn more about the process he used in the construction of his "composite" airplanes and if any artifact has survived the inventor. Buy the book, you won't regret it.
Skylark.......2000-08-08
Mansfield does a great job on this book and since Harry Atwood was my grandfather I have some knowledge of Harry's background. A well done, informative publication.
A high-flying bio.......2000-04-05
A tour de force of research and provocative writing. This how history should read and be taught. Among the supposed saints and heroes there is plenty room for the occasional showman and rogue. That's what Harry Atwood was. Thanks Mr. Mansfield for a real pleasure of a biography.
Great research...fascinating story!.......2000-03-10
The story of Harry Atwood is a fascinating one. Mansfield tells tales of Atwoods adventures during the early days of aviation in a way that really takes you back to a different time. The meticulous research Mansfield did to write this book really shows in his liberal use of reports from local newspapers, living relatives, etc. If you enjoy flying, inventors or learning about interesting and eccentric people, read this book...you won't be disappointed!
A really great book (not a blue sky pitch, honest).......1999-09-14
Harry Atwood is a character for the ages! If you want to see how to push new technology in a technologically naive age, with all of its outrageous successes and failures, this is the book to read. Harry is a consumate inventor along the lines and times of Edison and Ford, inventing some ingeneous laminate materials and an airplane for the rest of us. However he is also hardheaded, an expert in flim-flam, and an absolute failure in business. Yet despite his failures, he is ultimately a success! Good reading--save an afternoon to read it through.
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Books in the popular Easy Way series present basic subject matter in clear language. Material is presented in a way that makes these books ideal as self-teaching guides, but Easy Way titles are also preferred by many teachers as supplements to classroom textbooks. General readers seeking out information often turn to Easy Way titles for general background and orientation when starting out in new career-related fields. All Easy Way books contain both short quizzes and longer tests with answers to help readers gauge their learning progress. Subject heads and key phrases are set in a second color for quick and easy reference. Here's a good supplementary text for pre-med and other science students. Topics covered include cells, bones and joints, the skeletal system, the nervous system, muscle physiology, the cardiovascular system, and much more. Explanatory chapters are supplemented with hundreds of practice-and-review questions and answers.
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5 stars as a SUPPLEMENT to your regular textbook.......2007-07-06
I do NOT recommend what some others have here -- using this book as your sole source of information for a class without reading your textbook is not going to cut it. Your teacher goes out of the textbook assigned to your class, so the information covered on your test will be from that specific textbook.
This book, however is a fantastic supplement if you are having a hard time understanding what your textbook is saying on the difficult microbiological concepts. It raised my test scores by an entire letter grade on the very first test I took after purchasing it! Highly recommended, as well as Anatomy and Physiology The Easy Way.
anatomy and physiology the easy way.......2007-05-07
this book has been a blessing to my colleagues and my-self. It has help us to understand the topics that falls under Anatomy and physiology and now for my end of term exams i will be studying strictly from this book.
easy to use.......2007-01-10
i used this book for my high school student and it was a simple format with understandable words.
GREAT Introductory book.......2004-05-13
Forget what A reader from ROY, WA USA said.
That person obviously has no idea what they're talking about. They complain about the 'the excessive cost of the book!'
The book is ONLY $14.95 ! For 535 pages! How excessive is that?!
This is a great book. Extremely easy to read. It doesn't have everything, but it gives a great overview of all the hormones and what they do, a very detaild explanation of what causes blood to clot (intrinsic and extrinsic pathways) and the best pictures of details of synovial joints anywhere.
Each chapter is about 16 pages long followed by about 9 pages of questions.
A lot of large print with a lot of white space.
This book,
together with
Anatomy and Physiology (Lippincott Professional Guides), ISBN: 1582551804 , (That is a good small, detailed, well illustrated book)
or
Anatomy and Physiology (Cliffs Quick Review), ISBN: 0764563734 (An equally small and detailed book, but no illustrations)
is all you need.
Worthless!.......2003-10-20
I feel ILL when I think of how much I spent on this and how UN-helpful it was. I am a massage student that was kind of panicked about being back in college and intimidated by the amount of information I was being deluged with. I bought this book thinking to review and drill myself on all the possible questions that could come up in tests...et cetera. This book has smatterings of questions you could be asked...samples more than anything. This would be fine it it were not for the excessive cost of the book! What HAS helped me with studying is the Review for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork Certification (ISBN 0-7817-3454-1) by Joseph Ashton & Duke Cassel. For instance, we just finished learning about the Endocrine System which was extermely confusing to me...both the lecture and the material in the text book. When studying for the test, I didn't know WHERE to begin! But I reviewed and memorized the three page secion in the Ashton/Cassel book and I got an almost PERFECT score! Only one question wrong out of 50!
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What is American cooking? Fried chicken and apple pie are part of it--but what about sweet and sour pork or gnocchi with basil? Saveur Cooks Authentic American, created by the editors of the like-named food magazine, includes just such recipes, true examples of our all-embracing, melting-pot cuisine. Readers interested in exploring traditional and contemporary American food--from neighborhood Italian to Hawaiian fusion, from Louisiana Arcadian to California wine country, and more--will want the book.
Organized by courses or food types, the book offers more than 150 accessible recipes, lavishly illustrated by over 400 color photos. Readers will find exemplary versions of favorite dishes, such as Carter Rochelle's Real Texas Chili, Aunt Gillie's Matzo Ball Soup, and a particularly tempting Lemon Meringue Pie from Alaska, but will also discover Warm Chanterelle and Pancetta Salad from the Napa Valley, Lamb's Neck Stew with Polenta, and chef Michael Robert's Corn Risotto. A chapter on breads offers such diverse specialties as New Mexican Corn Tortillas and Swedish Coffee Bread, a cardamom-flavored wonder. With notes on food traditions and techniques, and a final chapter devoted to that most American drink, the cocktail (recipes for drink-accompanying hors d'oeuvres are also provided), the book is a trove of good cooking American style, as well as a tribute to its enduring newness. --Arthur Boehm
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Authentic recipes, excellent stories, and fantastic photographs have made Saveur magazine a sensation. In just three award-winning years, it has established itself among those with discriminating tastes, enjoying a circulation of over 330,000. Chronicle Books is proud to present Saveur's first cookbook, a glorious look at food traditions and innovations throughout America. In 175 recipes and more than 400 color photographs, we visit kitchens across the country in search of great food: Old World Italian cooking in San Francisco's North Beach, original fusion cuisine in Hawaii, fiery specialties from Louisiana's Acadians, succulent spit-roasted lamb at a Greek Orthodox Easter in New York. In-depth and wonderfully varied, this is American cuisine in all its diverse flavors. Featuring outstanding food writing and recipes as well as luscious on-site photography and food and technique shots, Saveur Cooks Authentic American is a fascinating gastronomic journey. This colorful celebration of eating well is a sumptuous addition to any cook's library.
Customer Reviews:
Best Macaroni and Cheese.......2006-10-24
I've recommended this cookbook repeatedly and bought it for others as gifts. It has THE best recipe for Macaroni and Cheese. Friends request this dish out of the blue and we end up having mac and cheese dinner nights. This has been the most asked for recipe. The ribs in this book are amazing- flavorful and spicey. The fried chicken is also to die for. You won't be sorry. Everyone will be raving over the dishes you prepare.
It's just okay........2002-06-29
I wasn't as crazy about this one as I was about Saveur's Authentic French book. The Authentic American book is more a melting pot of recipes. I was expecting well known, classic regional dishes. It was strange to see so many ethnic dishes. Yes, everyone in America is from somewhere, but there are dishes that are old and indigenous to the U.S. I would like to have seen more of those.
Great American Cooking.......2001-12-18
This book has a wonderful diversity of recipes, all fairly easy to prepare with ingredients that are easy to get. It's certainly attractive enough for a coffee table book, and the pictures are enough to get anyone's appetite going. Because of the recipes, though, it lives in my kitchen, and more than one page has got stains on it from use. I recommend the macaroni and cheese!
Best Fried Chicken.......2001-10-24
This is the best fried chicken recipe I have ever found. And I am from South Carolina, so I should know good fried chicken! I read this cookbook for fun, as the anecdotes along the side are so interesting and the pictures so mouthwatering. I highly recommend this cookbook to moderately advance cooks.
As good to eat as it is to look at!.......2001-10-02
Hearing an interview with the authors, I bought this for a friends who love to cook and peeking at it before wrapping it up, I went back to Amazon and got another for myself and my wife.
We have made about half the dishes and every one has been spectacular. Our friends said it is their favorite cookbook as well. (We sent the Saveur Cooks French the next year).
This is a coffee table quality book. Oversized with photos that make you drool! Nothing is overly complicated either nor is it too spicy. Among our favorites - the Macroni and Cheese.
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Now available in paperback, Saveur Cooks Authentic American is filled with heart-warming stories about real people, delicious food, and authentic recipes. Culled from the pages of Saveur magazine, these 175 recipes and more than 300 color photographs take readers across America in search of good food. From Old World Italian cooking in San Francisco's North Beach to succulent spit-roasted lamb at a Greek Orthodox Easter in New York, this is American cuisine in all its diverse flavors. Featuring the outstanding food writing, step-by-step recipes, how-to sidebars, and luscious on-site photography that have made the magazine an award-winning success, Saveur Cooks Authentic American is a fascinating gastronomic journey.
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