Ride for Freedom: The Story of Sybil Ludington (Heroes to Remember)

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"Before the Nazis... Some children lived in towns like this, went to schools like this . . ."

Through moving photographs from the Yad Vashem Archives in Jerusalem, Israel, archivist Chana Byers Abells has created an unforgettable essay about the children who lived and died during the Holocaust. And while it is a story of death and loss, it is also a story of courage and endurance. It is a story that must be told to all of today's children.

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A powerful photographic essay.......2007-07-03

This powerful photographic essay of few words describes the lives and tragic deaths of Jewish children in the holocaust and those who survived.
It consists of photos from the archives at Yad Vashem: The Holocaust Martyrs and Rememrance Authority in Jerusalem, Israel.
It shows pictures of these children, many who were murdered, and some who survived during the holocaust, it is both stark and tender.
As Elie Wiesel said of this little book: "Look at these children. Look at their faces. They will break your heart'.
The book begins : "Before the Nazis . . . some children lived in towns like this," showing the children in happier times, going on to their suffering and starvation in the ghettos and in too many cases their evential murder.
Real pictures of real children who lived during those times.
The hope lies in their memories and of the stories of those who survived'
Few words and many pictures, it brings home the tragedy of these times to young readers, in a way that few books can.
I have been to Yad Vashem, and have also seen throughout Israel, many beautiful children, and remembered that children like these were once cruelly murdered in their hundreds of thousands by the Nazis.
Israel must protect her children!

Excellent for the classroom.......2001-12-12

I am a 6th grade teacher of a multicultural awareness course in NJ. I came across this book last year and it was excellent. The pictures give the whole story in a very simple and powerful manner.
I also found excellent discussion questions in "Memories of the Night: A study of the Holocaust by Anita Meyer Meinbach.
I think Chan Byers "The Children we remember" is a must in the classroom library.

The Children We Remember.......2000-05-18

This is a wonderfully touching book that introduces elementary age children to the holocost. The pictures are poignant and draw the children in. The text is simple and thought provoking. Children begin to realize that war affects everyone even the children.

2004 Complete Guide to the 9/11 Terrorist Attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, September 11th, 2001 ¿ including the 9/11 Commission Report and Complete Record with Staff Reports and Hearing Transcripts, plus America Remembers, Heroes, Response, Coverage from the FBI, FEMA, EPA, and the White House (Two CD-ROM Superset)

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2004 Complete Guide to the 9/11 Terrorist Attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, September 11th, 2001 ¿ including the 9/11 Commission Report and Complete Record with Staff Reports and Hearing Transcripts, plus America Remembers, Heroes, Response, Coverage from the FBI, FEMA, EPA, and the White House (Two CD-ROM Superset)
U.S. Government
Manufacturer: Progressive Management
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: CD-ROM
ASIN: 159248994X

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This electronic book on two CD-ROMs provides a unique and comprehensive collection of documents on the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on America, including the complete record of the 9/11 Commission issued in July 2004 with full reproductions of all 12 hearing transcripts, testimony by key witnesses, and 17 staff reports. In addition, there is comprehensive coverage of the attacks and the aftermath from a number of perspectives, including material from FEMA, the White House, EPA, and FBI, updated to include recent information on the environmental impact of the World Trade Center attack.

The seventeen 9/11 Commission staff reports covered the following topics in great detail: Entry of the 9/11 Hijackers into the United States; Three 9/11 Hijackers: Identification, Watchlisting, and Tracking; The Aviation Security System and the 9/11 Attacks; The Four Flights; Diplomacy; The Military; Intelligence Policy; National Policy Coordination; Law Enforcement, Counterterrorism, and Intelligence Collection in the United States Prior to 9/11; Threats and Responses in 2001; The Performance of the Intelligence Community; Reforming Law Enforcement, Counterterrorism, and Intelligence Collection in the United States; Emergency Preparedness and Response; Crisis Management; Overview of the Enemy; Outline of the 9/11 Plot; Improvising a Homeland Defense.

Other material includes: Report Of The Joint Inquiry Into The Terrorist Attacks Of September 11, 2001 by the House Permanent Select Committee On Intelligence And The Senate Select Committee On Intelligence, along with thousands of pages of intelligence and counterterrorism documents:

"We have come together with a unity of purpose because our nation demands it. September 11, 2001, was a day of unprecedented shock and suffering in the history of the United States. The nation was unprepared. At 8:46 on the morning of September 11,2001,the United States became a nation transformed. An airliner traveling at hundreds of miles per hour and carrying some 10,000 gallons of jet fuel plowed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan. At 9:03,a second airliner hit the South Tower. Fire and smoke billowed upward. Steel, glass, ash, and bodies fell below. The Twin Towers, where up to 50,000 people worked each day, both collapsed less than 90 minutes later. At 9:37 that same morning, a third airliner slammed into the western face of the Pentagon. At 10:03, a fourth airliner crashed in a field in southern Pennsylvania. It had been aimed at the United States Capitol or the White House, and was forced down by heroic passengers armed with the knowledge that America was under attack. More than 2,600 people died at the World Trade Center; 125 died at the Pentagon; 256 died on the four planes. The death toll surpassed that at Pearl Harbor in December 1941. This immeasurable pain was inflicted by 19 young Arabs acting at the behest of Islamist extremists headquartered in distant Afghanistan."

This CD-ROM set has over 58,000 pages reproduced using Adobe Acrobat PDF software - allowing direct viewing on Windows and Macintosh systems, and Reader software is included. Advanced search and indexing features are built into our reproduction, providing a complete full-text index. This enables the user to search all the files on a disk at one time for words or phrases using just one search command. The Acrobat cataloging technology adds enormous value and uncommon functionality to this impressive collection of government documents and material. There is no other reference that is as fast, convenient, comprehensive, and portable.

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4 Famous Adventures: The White Company; Gods, Heroes and Men of Greece; Treasure Island: I Remember Mama
et al, editors Frank G. Jennings
Manufacturer: California State Department of Education
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000LC6IV2

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Best Cowboy in the West: The Story of Nat Love (Heroes to Remember)
Judy Hominick , and Jeanne Spreier
Manufacturer: Silver Moon Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1893110257

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Cricketers of My Time: Heroes to Remember
E.W. Swanton
Manufacturer: Carlton/Andre Deutsch
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0233997466

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With such a wealth of material spanning the best years of British and international cricket, this book will be a tribute to not only those many fine cricketers celebrated in the text, but also to one of Britain's finest sports journalists.

Heroes and angels: Diary: a medic remembers World War 1, France and Belgium: 1917-1919

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Heroes and angels: Diary: a medic remembers World War 1, France and Belgium: 1917-1919
George R Baker
Manufacturer: Gateway Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: B0006FDD2G

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Heroes to Remember
Brandon Sanders
Manufacturer: Writers Club Press
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0595142060

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"Heroes to Remember" is a tribute to the men who fought the battles of World War II. The book takes interviews from today, first person accounts, diaries, and letters sent home during the war years to paint a cross section of men and their lives who we will continue to honor as long as there are "Heroes to Remember".

Hometown Heroes: Dubuque Remembers WWII / A Time to Listen: World War II as Told by the Men of an Iowa Town

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Hometown Heroes: Dubuque Remembers WWII / A Time to Listen: World War II as Told by the Men of an Iowa Town
Ian M. Koontz
Manufacturer: Telegraph Herald
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000J0F3Q2

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8.5x11", 288 pp., b&w photographs.

Letters To A Peacekeeper: Friends Remember Col. William Richard Higgins

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Letters To A Peacekeeper: Friends Remember Col. William Richard Higgins

Manufacturer: Miami University
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000NY25M4

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Julian Steward (1902-72) is best remembered in American anthropology as the creator of cultural ecology, a theoretical approach that has influenced generations of archaeologists and cultural anthropologists. This generous biography by Virginia Kerns considers the intellectual and emotional influences of Steward's remarkable career and provides insights into the development of anthropology during his lifetime. Scenes from the High Desert locates the concept of cultural ecology as a social theory in the context of Steward's lived experience and personal construction of meaning. Kerns explores the scholar's early life in the American West, his continued attachments to western landscapes and inhabitants, his research with Native Americans, and the writing of his classic work, Theory of Culture Change. Extracting the personal and professional experiences that shaped his ideas on labor, technology, and the natural world, Kerns focuses particularly on the ideas and experiences that gave rise to Steward's theory of cultural ecology and most influenced American anthropology. Through her exploration of Steward's career and his particular interest in men's labor, Kerns illustrates how Steward's concept of the patrilineal band was central to his intellectual work and grounded in his own social experiences and autobiographical memory, especially memories of place. With fluid prose and rich detail, the book captures the essence and breadth of Steward's career while carefully measuring the ways he reinforced the male-centered structure of mid-twentieth-century American anthropology.

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Detailed Anthropological Biography.......2003-12-03

Julian Steward was a highly influential anthropologist who is often credited with founding the field of cultural ecology. Aside from his theoretical contributions, Steward also helped reorganize the AAA in the 1940s and influenced a number of his students who would go on to play important roles in post World War II anthropology. Despite the fact Steward's work is often sited, Kern's detailed and meticulous biography reveals a myriad of facts about his life I was unaware of. In short, her book is a model of anthropological biography.
Kern's work demonstrates that all too often the history of anthropology is not written by anthropologists but by historians such as George Stocking. Thus her work underscores the fact an adequate anthropological history of anthropology has yet to be written. I hope her biography will inspire other theoreticians and anthropologists to undertake similar studies for biography is woefully under represented in the discipline (this is the case despite the fact a number of biographies are being published by the University of Nebraska Press--see Sally Coles work on Ruth Landes, William Peace on Leslie White and Jerry Gershenhorn on Melville Herskovits).

Scenes from the High Desert: JULIAN STEWARD'S LIFE AND THEORY

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Scenes from the High Desert: JULIAN STEWARD'S LIFE AND THEORY
Virginia Kerns
Manufacturer: University of Illinois Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OQ8O62

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Prevent, Control, and Manage Heart Disease with This Personalized Mind/Body Program.

Based on the innovative Cardiac Wellness Program at the world-renowned Mind/Body Medical Institute, founded by pioneering physician and researcher Herbert Benson, M.D., Mind Your Heart offers a balanced and holistic approach to heart health that combines lifestyle changes with cutting-edge medical procedures. With this program, you can lower your blood pressure and cholesterol, lose weight, increase physical fitness, and help prevent and manage heart disease.

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Heart Health.......2005-06-27

This is a good book for all people!! You learn a lot and gain more facts about health. I would give it 5 STARS!! Get this book! You will love it and read it over and over again. Order This Book TODAY. I garantee you will love it.....

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The Hobo Philosopher

Master recipes and some food for your inner nerd

Sloppy Writing, Sloppy Science, Part 2

How You Too Can Apply Science to Food. Excellent Read

Curious Indeed

The Curious Cook: More Kitchen Science and Lore
Harold McGee
Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Baking | Cooking, Food & Wine | Subjects | Books
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On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen

Cookwise: The Secrets of Cooking Revealed

The New Kitchen Science: A Guide to Know the Hows and Whys for Fun and Success in the Kitchen

The Science of Cooking

McGee on Food and Cooking

ASIN: 0020098014

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When Harold McGee's On Food and Cooking was published in 1984, it proved to be one of the sleepers of the year, eventually going through eight hardcover printings. It was hailed as a minor masterpiece" and reviewers around the world prasied McGee for writing the first book for the home cook that translated into plain English what scientist had discovered about our foods. Like why chefs beat eggs whites in copper bowls and why onions make us cry."

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The Hobo Philosopher.......2007-09-26

I loved his first book On Food and Cooking and I enjoyed this one. I made my living in the restaurant business, as a manager,then as a chef and finally an owner. I've always enjoyed cooking and eating. I'm retired but I still grind my own hamburg, fix my own sausage, make my own sauces and my wife cultivates a small herb garden. This book is fun. The point of view is fun, the writing is fun and the science is always interesting.
Once again this is not your typical recipe book. This is in another category. It's entertainment for the culinary inclined. It's history and science. The author now has his own blog or web page. It is called ... the curious cook ... of all things. I enjoy reading this fellow more than any other cooking expert that I have ever read.

Master recipes and some food for your inner nerd.......2006-08-30

If the author's mother ever told him to stop playing with his food, we can be glad he ignored her. Most of The Curious Cook is the happy result of what sounds like great playful time in the kitchen. There are essentially three focuses set out for this book:

*The first and most useful is a set of master recipes based on the author's experiments with food. The chapter on fruit ices alone is reason enough to buy the book and anyone thinking about buying an ice cream maker will have a lot more fun if they buy this book too.
The section on beurre blanc is both a how-to and a paean to this simple, quick and beautiful sauce.(chapter 6) Anyone who ever makes their own mayonnaise will be grateful for chapter 8.

*There is a bit of lab science:Chapter 11-the pleasures of merely measuring-is a recounting and tribute to the truly nerdy curiousity that some of us cooks develop. McGee's writing is fluid and friendly and it makes the laboratory-manual topics seem positively inviting.

*The third section is some food and health stuff that recalls things you've probably read in consumer food-oriented magazines a dozen times. You could skip chapters 12-14 without missing much.

The Curious Cook is definitely a bed table cook's book (rather than a kitchen cookbook), and a delightful one. It's hard to imagine a food-lover not enjoying it.

Lynn Hoffman, author of The New Short Course in Wine
and the forthcoming bang-BANG from Kunati Press

Sloppy Writing, Sloppy Science, Part 2.......2005-06-25

This book, a sequel to On Food and Cooking, is a look at the culinary world through the eyes of pop science. Despite a drastically different approach by the author this time around (real kitchen experiments as opposed to just spinning endless yarns loosely based on a myriad, unfootnoted sources), the results are similar: closer to Danielle Steel than Scientific American. If you liked this book's predecessor, then you will certainly like this one; if you thought it was worthy of a garage sale, you are unlikely to have a different view of this sequel.

This book has 2 distinct parts. The first one (190 pages) has eleven chapters, each focused on a specific subject and a series of related kitchen experiments that are fully documented. The nicely systematic approach of the author reminds one of a similar technique used by Cooks Illustrated magazine for their recipe development. The subjects are: cooking meat, oil splatter, simmering meats, green color of vegetables, de-gassing sun chokes, buerre blanc, hollandaise and bearnaise sauces, mayonnaise, artificial ripening of persimmons at home, fruit ices, and miscellaneous. Some of this material is of substantial practical value: the chapters on sun chokes and fruit ices have good recipes you can actually use. Those who are mystified by buerre blanc, hollandaise, or mayonnaise, or who have trouble making them, will find the appropriate chapters quite enlightening.

The second part, consisting of 6 chapters (120 pages) is mostly drivel. 3 chapters are devoted to the kind of stuff you can find in health magazines at the supermarket checkstand: dietary fat and heart disease, food and cancer, Alzheimer's and aluminum cookware. 3 chapters are devoted to a bit of culinary history: Brillat-Savarin, Maillard.

In the end, reading this book is fun, but I would not take the information it presents too seriously.

How You Too Can Apply Science to Food. Excellent Read.......2004-04-10

Harold McGee is probably the most widely cited writer in American culinary writing today. Alton Brown literally genuflects at the mention of his name and complains that he is hard pressed to find a subject on which Herr McGee has not already explored at some length. His major work, `On Food and Cooking' appears to be on the short list of Culinary Institute of America references for their students, next to Escoffier and their own references.

This work, `The Curious Cook', is a bit different that the other work, in spite of the subtitle `More Kitchen Science and Lore'. The larger book is largely theoretical. This book is largely experimental and its subtitle should be the title of the first and longest section `Playing With Food'. The lesson taught here is probably the single most important lesson you can learn in any endeavor. That is, when in doubt, try a little experiment. When I was studying philosophy, this largely took the form of thought experiments, not unlike the development of a Science Fiction plot. `What would happen if there were artificial people who were indistinguishable from biological humans. The result is the story `Blade Runner'. When I worked with chemistry, this step was obvious. Oddly, I had to relearn the lesson when I became a professional programmer. It took a few years and more than a few books to learn the value of prototyping code, even for some of the most simple algorithms. All this means is that when you cook, YOU ARE ALLOWED TO TRY THINGS OUT WITH THE OBJECTIVE OF SEEING IF SOMETHING WORKS. My favorite example is in making and using a simple bechamel sauce to make macaroni and cheese or creamed chipped beef without having the sauce break.

I am constantly amazed at the blissful ignorance behind some common misstatements by very good professional chefs who have established themselves as celebrity educators on various TV cooking shows. I suspect the most common is the statement that laying meat into a hot saute pan sears the flesh to seal in the moisture. This misstatement is the subject of McGee's first chapter, where with a simple kitchen scale, he demonstrates what should be common sense to anyone with some knowledge of physics. Application of high heat reduces the moisture in the meat. This essay was published before the Food Network was a gleam in network entrepreneurs' eyes, yet Emeril and Tyler and Rachael and even Wolfgang repeat this misstatement on a regular basis. The lucky thing about this statement is that searing meat or any other food for that matter, has a very important benefit, in that it develops flavor through caramelization and the Maillard reactions. By design or by chance, the explanation of the Maillard reactions come in the very last chapter of the book, providing the reason we have been searing food for millennia.

There are other books that deal with food and science. Some of the most recent and most famous are `Cookwise' by Shirley Corriher, `I'm Only Here for the Food' by Alton Brown, and `What Einstein Told His Cook' by Robert Wolke. All of these works are exceptionally good books. But, none of these works give the kind on encouragement and the kind of clues you need to find culinary answers on your own.

One warning may be in order. Science, i.e., the method of experimentation and observation is the most powerful method developed to answer questions and acquire knowledge, but it is certainly not enough to make you a superior cook. For example, I really like Alton Brown's `Good Eats' shows and I often use his recipes, but whenever I see Mario Batali do something in a different way than Alton, I invariably use Mario's recipe or method rather than Brown's suggestion. The heart of the reason behind this is that Mario Batali is a very, very good professional chef and Alton Brown is not. Preparing food is a fine mix between knowledge and artistic expression. Professional chefs know the best ways to do things to achieve the most desirable culinary result, even if they do not know the scientific explanation for why they do things in a certain way.

I will warn you that some of the essays in Parts II and III are a bit long on reflection and a bit short on practical application. I may even go so far as to say some of these sections are just a bit dull. In spite of this, the first section on `Playing with Food' plus the essays on aluminum and the Maillard reactions are all pure gold for the dedicated foodie.

Very highly recommended for anyone interested in food.

Curious Indeed.......2004-01-25

This is an odd sort of a book. If you were expecting to be enriched by lots of kitchen lore and simple explanations (which was my original aim) you would be disappointed. This book tells you much more about tidbits of history, physics, chemistry and physiology than tips and tricks for cooking and is, in truth, quite long-winded.

Now if you are also interested in the acquisition of knowledge of various sorts, common as well as obscure, and don't mind being the "most knowledgeable amateur" among your friends, this is an excellent source of information. The author spares no ink in serving up history, scientific theory and experiments (The famous oil drop experiment by physicist Millikan, a Caltech cohort of the author, was featured! Plus many of his own), findings in medicine, etc. in covering a subject, even "simple" ones like browning of vegetables by salad dressings.

If you managed through the first couple of chapters, you will probably go on, and you will quickly find that the author is a no-nonsense scientist (Ah! the Caltech imprint) and his stuff is well baked, so to speak. By the time you finish the book, you will learn much more than a few useful tips to augment your cooking skills, and find your reading time quite well spent.

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The Curious Cook: More Kitchen Science and Lore
Harold McGee
Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000O8TTGO

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