Newnes Control Engineering Pocket Book (Newnes Pocket Books) Review

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(More customer reviews)This is a great book for Control systems. Very small, good for the simplification of block and flow digrams!! This book will be good as a quick referance book. This is the only and best pocket book for control systems.Unfortunately this book has a very small section on translating mechanical systems into their equivalent transfer and statespace models. This book conentrates more on the frequeny and locus method of tuning a system. Best book for the price, a must buy!!

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Newnes Control Engineering Pocket Book is a concise reference text forstudents, technicians and engineers. Control engineering is the foundation on which modern industry is built, but is often viewed as one of the toughest subjects, as it includes abstract ideasand often tough mathematics. This pocket book provides a digest of the full range of topics needed to understand and use control systems theory and engineering.Bill Bolton is one of the most experienced teachers and authors in the engineering world. This book complements Newnes Instrumentation and Measurement Pocket Book by Bolton. Illustrated throughout and crammed with reference material, no other book covers the basics of control in such a convenient and affordable format. · Ideal for engineers and students alike.· Complete guide to control systems engineering and theory.· Author is a highly experienced teacher and author in the engineering field.

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Who Ran My Underwear Up The Flagpole (School Daze Series) Review

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(More customer reviews)I first read this book in my "tweens" years, and now well into my teenage years it still makes me roll on the floor with laughter. Definitely a good one for the parent who's still trying to make their kid read a book.

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It's football season at Plumstead Middle School, and everything is up in the air.Sunny has become a cheerleader--the first ever to wear a frown and beat up fans who refuse to cheer.Eddie has gone out for football to prove that he's grown up despite his superhero underwear--and to try to impress a certain cheerleader.Salem has become the football team's manager, and she's starting a new time-out tradition that the team will never forget.And Pickles is leading Plumstead's pathetic marching band...to a very unusual beat.

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Little Hands Paper Plate Crafts: Creative Art Fun for 3 to 7 Year Olds (Williamson Little Hands Series) Review

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(More customer reviews)Well organized with original ideas for children's paper plate projects. Clear illustrations with lists of tools and time required. Hats, Masks, Flowers, Bugs, Toys, Games and Dinos. Great little craft book that will spark your own ideas on new paper plate arts and crafts. Kids will love it!

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Laura Check, drawing from her 10 years of experience as a preschool teacher, brings this kid-tested art form to a whole new level of ingenuity! Quick, easy, and inexpensive as always, these crafts are so innovative and exciting that kids of all ages will be clamouring to join in the fun. Kids create incredible works of art using foil, feathers, seeds, sequins, buttons, coloured paper, tempera paint, markers, paper streamers - and, of course, paper plates! Clear illustrations with concise directions make the 'doing' accessible to even the smallest hands. Kids imagine coloured creatures as individual as they are: a hard-shelled 'button' tortoise; a glittering rainbow fish; an octopus with moving tentacles; a sparkling, wall-long caterpillar; and wild-looking dinos of their own design. Hats, hats, and more hats! Kids try out different careers in 'Hats for a Day', where kids make paper plate hats for varied jobs. Plus wonderfully silly and funky hats, too. Kids join the adventure of here-to-here with a paper plate compass, an out-of-this-world flying saucer, a movable vehicle, and a spinning helicopter.Plus, stories to read when the projects are complete tie reading and doing together in the minds of emergent readers. All of this in a paper plate craft book? Why, yes! It's Williamson way.

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How to Build & Detail Model Railroad Scenes (Model Railroader Books) Review

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(More customer reviews)How To Build & Detail Model Railroad Scenes is a hobby and crafting guide by model railroading expert Lou Sassi with a specific focus upon creating the most realistic and nostalgic scenes reasonably possible for a memorable model railroad set. Over 200 full-color photographs and step-by-step instructions walk the reader through how to add intricate detail to models depicting small family farms, suburban neighborhoods, mobile home parks, lawns and landscaping, roadways and sidewalks, and more. The text spares no detail for creating life-like miniature replicas, including recommended store-bought materials and suppliers who sell them. How To Build & Detail Model Railroad Scenes is a "must-have" resource book for the truly dedicated model railroad enthusiast.


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This practical, photo-driven guide covers the principles and techniques of designing and constructing detailed, realistic model railroad scenes. The various projects include structure, scenery, and detailing techniques for both urban and rural settings. It's the essential information modelers need to make a good layout look great!

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101 Dressage Exercises for Horse & Rider Review

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(More customer reviews)The idea behind this spiral bound book and the set up of it are both great. Lessons are on top and bottom of the pages, i.e. in vertical format rather than in horizontal. Within each lesson, the set up on the page is wonderful. A large portion of the upper page is taken up by the arena diagram which shows very clearly what the exercise will do (walk, trot, canter, halt, sidepassing, etc.).
Many lessons also have a brief "Benefits" blurb to the left of the diagram, indicating in plain language why the execise should be done. When appropriate, beneath the Benefits part, a key describes what different notations in the diagram stand for, e.g. a cone, a leg yield, ground poles, W/T/C, etc. I was very impressed with the details on that top portion.
The second half, i.e. the lower page, is where I have downgraded the 5.0 to a 4.0 (which really should be probably a 4.25 stars). This page is also split vertically in two halves. "How do I ride this?" and "Keep in mind." The former is a Step-by-Step / cookbook description of the exercise, the latter a short few-liner note on what should be kept in the back of one's mind. The "Keep in Mind" portion is rather nice and often will refer back to other exercises in the book or will be amended by notes on a particular subject such as "Riding on a loose rein."
The main qualm I have about the lower page stems from the extreme brevity of descriptions. I would like to see a bit more discussion on how to deal with problems that arise. In some cases there are two pages interjected that deal with particular issues such as "Straightness" or "Lateral Work," but none really mention in detail where issues can arise and how to counteract problems. That is the main reason for giving this book a 4.0 rather than a 5.0
Overall, I liked the book. It is good to work with, especially for those of us who are always looking for new patterns, new things to do and sometimes just need a fresh approach to engrained arena work. Very refreshing, easy to use, although not for the advanced (Level 3 and up) dressage rider, but definitely from Novice through the intermediate or intermediate-advanced rider (Training to Lower Level 3).

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Dressage, the equestrian practice in which a horse makes highly precise movements in response to barely perceptible signals from the rider, has taken hold of America’s equestrians. Participation rates have risen by 200 percent over the past twenty years, as baby-boomer riders have discovered dressage to be less strenuous and dangerous than jumping, yet offering the satisfaction of mastering techniques and the opportunity to compete and advance to higher levels of achievement. 101 Dressage Exercises for Horse & Rider, presented in Storey’s highly visual "Read & Ride” format, features a full arena diagram and stepby- step instructions for each exercise. The exercises address all levels of riders, starting with the basics and moving up to maneuvers developed by members of the U.S. Olympic team. Training tips and masterly guidance make this an indispensable reference for all dressage riders. Even Western riders interested in enhancing their performance will find these foundational exercises useful. Dressage riders are information-hungry readers, often referred to as "the thinking horsemen.” This book’s sturdy format, combbound and drilled so it can be hung on a ringside post, will appeal to these reading riders, whether in or out of the saddle.

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The Peasant Prince: Thaddeus Kosciuszko and the Age of Revolution Review

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(More customer reviews)As the author, Alex Storozynski, points out in his tour speeches - this book is not about "Kosciuszko Bridge", "Kosciuszko Mustard", "Kosciuszko County", or any other of several dozens of "Kosciuszko" names, scattered throughout America. It's about the real guy, who lived in one of the most dynamic periods in the modern history - and (before the age of jet travel, mind you!) shuttled back and forth between Europe and America, managing to substantially contribute to the success of the American Revolution, organize his own (ultimately - failed) uprising in Poland, spend some time in jail in Russia, emigrate to America, then go back to Europe to continue his lifelong struggle for Poland's independence. Far ahead of his time in his efforts to free slaves in America, and end the serfdom in Europe, this champion of "liberty for all" died in Switzerland in 1817. While his body was buried in the Wawel's castle in Krakow a few months after his death, his heart was returned to Poland in 1919, only after the country regained its independence in 1918. At mere 280 pages, with 50+ pages of extensive references and bibliography, this extremely well-written book is a fast paced read, which brings to life and to well deserved spot-light one of the greatest, yet so little known, freedom fighters of all ages! See also YouTube video ([...]) of Mr. Storozynski, discussing this book at the Polish Embassy in May, 2009.

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The First Polish Americans: Silesian Settlements in Texas Review

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(More customer reviews)This is a beautifully presented story of the first Polish settlements in the United States. The first settlers came from Upper Silesia, a part of Poland that was at that time part of the Prussian Empire. This excellent story flows here from the author's personal research from historical sources and personal interviews on site in the Hill Country of Texas.
This is a fascinating story and he details the story of US and world events form the Silesian Polish perspective from the 1830s and 1840s. Great boatloads of Silesians shipped to Texas to escape the famine and poverty imposed by the feudalism still prevailing in 19th century Prussia and eastern Europe. This was exacerbated by the huge loss of the potato crop in a drought.
These Silesians migrated to Texas to establish anew life. This story covers their story in every fascinating detail introducing us to the key people, places and events in Texas history. This story fills in a lot of common gaps in the connections related to the US Civil War and European events of distress.
This story tells how the Polish language and culture were planted in Texas, and later the upper Midwest in areas like Wisconsin and Illinois. In the Texas Hill Country towns Americans and Germans learned Polish as they lived among the majority Poles in certain towns. Tidbits of the likewise intriguing story of German Catholic settlers is intertwined here.
Ethnic Germans from various parts of the Prussian Empire had settled in Texas the early 1800s, and continued to immigrate through the 19th century. There were connection and similarities between the Poles and Prussians who found themselves together in Texas counties as a result of their separate migrations. Germans had been well established in the eastern colonies before the American Revolution, especially in Pennsylvania.
Many of the Poles arriving as a whole community from 1854-56 had lived in a German political and legal situation for a long time, and their leaders spoke German to various degrees, and felt an affinity for the German speakers they met upon arrival in Galveston and along their trek to counties west.
This study from a key Texas scholar in history will be an entertaining and informative read to most action and adventure fans. But this is a true story and many will find a personal connection in their own family history in this story of migration, resettlement, the rich mix of cultures along with the picture of a tenacious social and cultural life and ethnic identity moving in partnership with Americanization of a prominent ethnic community.

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Handcrafting Bamboo Fly Rods Review

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(More customer reviews)This is a good reference book, but should not be your sole source of information. Too much is left out that is critical to building a first rod. For example, a lot of details are missing with regards to what you need to do with the blank once it comes out of the glue binder. WHat about scraping, filing, sanding and keeping those sharp edges? The book could also do with better organization.

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The bamboo fly rod represents the pinnacle of the fly-fishing art: its apparent simplicity and delicacy belie the craftsmanship and strength that are the hallmarks of all great rods. Wayne Cattanach begins in the Kwangsi and Kwantung provinces of China, where Tonkin bamboo takes about eight years to develop the qualities that distinguish it from all other materials: a tensile strength akin to steel, light in weight, with the flexibility that gives all bamboo rods their relaxed action.He describes the process that will take anyone from lengths of hard, raw bamboo to a beautiful finished rod with clear, step-by-step instructions, including how to: find the best supplies; select tools and materials; make and use heat treaters and binders; select rod taper, weight, and action; cut culms; straighten bamboo strips; primary and secondary planing; stagger bamboo strips; give proper heat treating; bind strips; apply finish; mount the reel seat, ferrules, and tip top; and much more.Scores of illustrations and line drawings demonstrate crucial techniques that before this book could only be guessed at, and Wayne's years of experience with pupils and bamboo are brought to bear at every step as his invaluable tips not only instruct, but also explain how to avoid common beginners' mistakes. This is surely the most thorough book available for those who want to have the pleasure of making, and fishing, their own bamboo fly rods.--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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Bo: Karate Weapon of Self-Defense Review

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(More customer reviews)Demura Sensei presents a well-organized primer in the use of the rokushaku bo (six-foot Okinawan quarter-staff). The book is organized into Introduction & History, Basic, Intermediate, and Advanced techniques, and a final section devoted to a bo kata. All basic stances, blocks and counters used with the bo are covered in the first sections. Many of these are similar or identical to standard open-hand karate techniques. Descriptions of subtle differences are well-explained. Combinations and working with a partner are covered in the latter sections of the book. Overall, the photo sequences of this acknowledged bo master demonstrating his art are very good, with the exception of the final bo kata pictures, which are very dark. This is an excellent reference.

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Demura, who studied under Taira Shinken, covers stances, striking, blocking, combinations, sparring, and an entire kata. Demura is considered among the finest bo experts of the modern age. Fully illustrated.

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When God Looked the Other Way: An Odyssey of War, Exile, and Redemption Review

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(More customer reviews)The teaching of history is often distorted by selective presentation of past events. Virtually everyone has heard of the 5-6 million Jews killed by the Germans. Few outside Polish circles have a clue about the fact that 2-3 million gentile Poles were also murdered by the Germans, and a few hundred thousand by the Soviets--first as Poland's sworn enemy and then as an "ally". While Churchill and Roosevelt were dilly-dallying with "Uncle Joe" Stalin, he was still murdering Poles and executing his plans to deprive "liberated" Poland from her rightful independence, freedom, and sovereignity. The western powers shamelessly disregarded the Atlantic Charter and betrayed the Poles--who all along had been fighting on their side on just about every front, and who had played a significant, if not decisive, role in preventing the Luftwaffe from achieving air supremacy over the English skies as a prelude to the planned German invasion (Operation Sea Lion).
This work provides an absorbing personal account of the deportation of hundreds of thousands of Poles by the Soviet Union following the German-Soviet conquest of Poland in 1939. Wes Adamczyk, then a boy of 7, was to lose his father in the infamous Katyn Massacre, and his entire family was uprooted and sent to a living death in Kazakhstan. He was one of the lucky few to be released and to eventually find his way to a new life in the United States. Decades later, he fulfilled his wish to visit the site of his father's murder near Smolensk, Russia.
The reader is exposed to the brutality of the Soviet police as they ransack the Adamczyk home, destroy objects related to Polish patriotism, and herd the family ("enemies of the people") into overcrowded trains for the fateful trip east. Every day becomes a battle for survival. They are near starvation. However, individual Kazakhs and Russians show friendship towards the Poles. The young Adamczyk befriends Mr. Petrovitch on a fishing boat. The moving account tells how the elderly Russian teaches the boy the truth about Communism. It is lies on top of lies on top of lies. In fact, the continued spying by the Soviet police on the captive Poles does not stem from the fact that they suspect that the Poles may escape or revolt. The spying comes from the fear that the locals may learn the truth about the outside world from the Poles--that the non-
Communist world is not rotten, and that the Soviet Union is no workers' paradise.
Nazi Germany turns against its erstwhile Soviet ally, creating a chance for the Poles, consigned to eventual death from starvation, overwork, and disease, to escape the Gulag. Negotiations "succeed" in securing the release of captive Poles. But the Soviets drag their feet, and only a fraction of still-living captive Poles end up being released. The Adamczyk family has to stage a near-escape adventure to reach Iran. The squalor of the just-freed Poles is indescribable. Thousands die right there, including Wes Adamczyk's mother--ironically just a short time after having finally left the clutches of the Soviet hell.
Tens of thousands of previously-captured Polish officers are found to be conspicuously and unexpectedly missing, and the Soviets say, "They all escaped to Manchuria". As time drags on, the Adamczyks realize the fate of their father and the remainder of the POWs. The Soviets don't admit responsibility for the Katyn Massacre until 1990. The long cover-up by western governments is little better than the decades-long Soviet one. The west needed a second coverup to cover its first coverup of the conspiracy of silence about this heinous Soviet crime.
The Adamczyks, like all surviving Poles, get a cruel blow when they learn that Roosevelt and Churchill have betrayed their faithful ally Poland by giving away eastern Poland to the Russians, and allowed a Communist puppet state to be forced on the rest of "liberated" Poland. In a sense, all of the Polish sufferings and sacrifices turn out to have been in vain. The Adamczyks, and millions of other Poles, have no home to return to. The only "happy ending" is a new life in America.


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101 Jumping Exercises for Horse & Rider Review

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(More customer reviews)I haven't even finished reading this book yet, but I just have to say how fabulous it is. I have just started my youngster over fences and have found this guide invaluable already, with 25 exercises involving just ground poles, it is already well used. The exercises build up in difficulty so you are always making progress and at the same time having fun and educational schooling sessions with your horse. I think there is something for everyone, beginner to advanced.
As a budget conscious rider training predominantly on my own, I have found these types of guides priceless (see my other reviews) and they have really helped me to formulate a schooling plan each week and our progress has been very rewarding. I noticed that other riders at the barn were using the poles I left out in the arena and so I started posting the excercises on the bulleting board each week - inspiring everyone and creating great feedback and support. I know this is a book I will get a lot of use out of!

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Outdoor Lighting Pattern Book Review

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(More customer reviews)Read the editorial review thoroughly. This book is about large-scale public lighting such as streets, parks and parking lots. The title misled me but my wife, an architect, commandeered the book for her own reference library. I, of course, was looking for something more like Jan Moyer's "The Landscape Lighting Book".

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Featuring ready-to-use lighting patterns from the international authority, this time- and cost-saving resource provides architects, landscape architects, lighting designers, facilities managers, and building professionals with all the practical information and expert guidance needed to design quality, energy-efficient outdoor lighting for all types of residential and commercial spaces. Filled with hundreds of color photographs, artist's sketches, and site plans, the book offers proven solutions for the typical design, upgrade, and redesign of sites ranging from shopping centers to office parks, from high-rise to garden apartments, and from parking lots to alleys. Each easily adpated pattern contains basic site information: details on the location, types, and light distribution of the location, types, and and light distribution of the fixtures used; and a full performance summary, including annual operating cost and security and appearance ratings assigned by a panel of experts. Complete descriptions of common lamps and luminaries are also provided, as well as useful application tips.

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Basic Masonry (Sunset New Basic) Review

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(More customer reviews)This is a good book for the homeowner who wants to know how to build a garden wall, pave an area, or lay cast concrete. Covers tool selection and uses, building techniques with brick, stone, blocks, adobe, and concrete. Excellent step-by-step instructions and illustrations show you how. Learn tricks of the trade, even how to make you own paving blocks. Also covers maintaining and reparing masonry.

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Build Your Own Low-Cost Timber and Beam House Review

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(More customer reviews)I am in the process of building my own post and beam home with lumber we are pioneering from our own property.
I've gathered far more than the information contained in this book using great on-line resources and discussion forums on wood milling and my partner and I are both skilled enough to complete significantly better designs and plans than this author.
The book appears to be a self-published. It would have maybe been worth a 99 cent download of an e-book, but hardly worth the nearly $17 when I would have rather spent it on some more prefessional books here on Amazon.
Great if you know nothing about construction and cannot figure out how to use the A9 or Google searches to get the same information. Save your money. Buy a post and beam construction book that has real information and photos in it.

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How To Build Your Own Low- Cost Timber and Beam House provides step-by-step directions from finding logs to finishing the house. I built a 1200 square foot house for $22,000, during 1992-5. Chapter 1 tells how I located my land, chose tools, and located the logs. I purchased a small sawmill, which I tell how to use, even how to cut the siding used on the house; also how to lay a foundation and get utilities. Chapter 2: How to construct the sill and floor beams. Chapter 3: How to design the house you want, using my own as illustration, then how to construct the first- story walls using simple equipment, including the hardware I used and methods of raising the wall frames with door and window frames as part of the structure.Chapter 4: How to frame the second story. I present several design options, then describe my experience with the barn style I choose. Here you'll learn how to design and raise the ridgepole, construct the barn style rafters, and set them in place. Chapter 5: How to apply the roof decking and roof. Chapter 6: How to dry in the structure and how I proceeded by laying flooring and installing siding alternately. I describe types of wall sheathing (e.g. blackboard or aluminized) and how to finish the framing for doors and windows. Chapter 7: Details about how to make and apply exterior siding from the log supply using a small sawmill, after a brief description of types of siding options, including how to install the siding for both the first and second stories. Chapter 8: How to finish the interior, including constructing a stairway,installing plumbing and fixtures, installing electrical wiring and fixtures, wall treatments, kitchen cabinets, and floor finishing such as tile. The bookcontains 21 color photos and 30 diagrams. Pb, 132 pp.

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Raising the Queen of Heaven Review

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(More customer reviews)"Written with the pen of Spirit, in Ethereal Flames across the pages of time. Well thought, well written, well done."
In the subjective mind of every sincere and serious student lies a storehouse of knowledge that their brain has been unable to assimilate or order. The author transmute that treasure through the eye of the Spirit into perfect objective focus so that all can share equally in the pent up Wisdom of the Ages. He peels back the outer appearance an encrustation to reveal the thought form and meaning hidden behind the form. Then he goes further by tracing the underlying thought form to its originating idea.
Having read the Magic of Consciousness and Raising the Queen of Heaven I give both Five Stars.
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Discover how to: •Integrate the masculine and feminine—in the world and in your life. •Help balance the Divine Mother-Father.•Discover the Divine Daughter-Son within yourself.•Join the quest to reunite the Divine Mother-Daughter-Father-Son.Reveals the spiritual journey of the ages, via myth and meditation, and provides an experiential understanding of humanity's place and function in the One Life.

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Boy Scouts of America's Be Prepared Hiking and Backpacking Review

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(More customer reviews)This is a wonderful new resource book on camping, written by one of our best camping authors today. It should be a must for every, Scoutmaster, Boy Scout and every troop. Meeting Boy Scouts or Pathfinders on the trail is an experience. If they are good, they are very good, but if they are bad they are the very worst you want to camp near! This book should be a wonderful help for leaders who try and for Boy Scouts or Pathfinders alike.

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Be Prepared while always associated with the Boy Scouts, this motto and way of life is now the focus of a major product release from the BSA. Headlining this launch is the Be Prepared book series from DK, beginning with Complete Wilderness Training, released April 2007. Though applicable to any outdoor enthusiast, these two new titles are a perfect match to the core Boy Scout values of outdoor activity, safety, and of course, preparation for life s journeys. This concise and informative visual guide offers practical advice on all aspects of backpacking and hiking, from choosing the appropriate gear, to pacing yourself and accommodating for difficult terrain, to making a campsite, to overcoming unexpected difficulties, such as injuries, severe weather or getting lost.

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Magnetic Current Review

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(More customer reviews)Mr. Leedskalnin's book is difficult to read, but one must consider that English was not his native tongue. According to those who knew him, he was very friendly and extremely intelligent, but also entirely secretive about certain things. For example, he claimed to know how the pyramids were built, and he also stated that he knew the secrets of anti-gravity. Of the latter, at least, he proved it by creating Coral Castle near Homestead, Florida -- in the process he managed to lift numerous up-to-30-ton blocks of coral WITHOUT MODERN MACHINERY. (Now that is a wonder.) Perhaps my fascination with this man colors my opinion of him, but I can overlook his misspelled words, et cetera, when I consider his intelligence. (In my own personal life, I happen to have a younger brother who is dyslexic and blind in one eye -- he can barely spell/write -- but he's also one of the most brilliant people I've ever known.)In any case, anyone thinking of reading or purchasing this book needs to prepare for its difficult style of wording. There will be a great deal of reading and re-reading, plus deciphering to be done.

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A writing based on the author's two years of experimentation with magnets at Rock Gate, which is seventeen miles southwest from Miami, Florida.

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