Victoria, Where Dreams Come True: 88 Year Autobiography of the Life and Times of Morris Kersey

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Victoria: Where Dreams Come True is the fascinating and heartfelt memoir of Victoria-born entrepreneur Morris Kersey. Kersey, now in his late 80s, rose from near-poverty in a rural district outside of the city to becoming the owner of several successful businesses - from travel agencies to service stations to coffee shops to a peanut butter factory.

Along the way Morris Kersey has had the change to ride the Concorde, travel on the Orient Express and the QE2, and experience South Africa's Blue Train.

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The Ragged Mountain Press Woman's Guides have received universal praise for both design and content. Climbing: A Woman's Guide covers both indoor climbing gyms and outdoor rock faces, offering expert advice to women pursuing one of the fastest growing outdoor activities in the 1990s, and one especially suited to women, of whom an estimated 2.6 million participate. Climbing: A Woman's Guide presents a comprehensive beginner's guide to sport climbing, including information on the physical requirements, beginning- to intermediate-level techniques for rock and gym, equipment, resources, and safety. The advent of climbing gyms--where much of the risk of outdoor climbing is removed--has brought in large number of participants looking for nothing more than an exciting workout alternative that combines strength training and agility in a nontraditional form.

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Inspiring and informative.......2000-06-16

You can't really learn climbing, or any sport, from a book. You have to get out there and do it. But a book can inspire you and give you the basics so you won't embarrass yourself! This book was all that and more -- the encouragement for women, even those who aren't "athletic" and the guidelines for dealing with common fears were the best. I'd recommend it to anyone.

Climb easily through this one..........2000-06-06

As a climbing illiterate, this book covers everything I could want to know...and more. (how to pee with a harness on!) An easy read with tons of information. Not just for women (except the part mentioned above). As a professional coach in a different sport, I can tell you that some of the ideas are written well enough to be used in other sports. With a little motivation and this book by my side, I think I will climb. Nice job.

Climbing A Woman's Guide is in good form........2000-04-28

Climbing A Woman's Guide by Shelley Presson is a comprehensive guide for women who want to get started and progress in the sport of climbing, either in indoor climbing gyms or on outdoor rock faces. The book has an excellent layout and design. It features good pictures and illustrations, and comprehensive step by step guidance for the reader. A terrific feature is the mental tricks. Shelley has provided a well written book that provides clear guidance for the beginner and the more advanced climber. She has thought of everything the climber will need from gear, clothing, safety, training, signals and holds, techniques and exercises. It is informative and inspiring.

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Did not meet my expectations
An excellent "how to" book for women in mountaineering.

Mountaineering: A Woman's Guide
Andrea Gabbard
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Companies
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0071034021

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One of the most challenging and fascinating outdoor sports, mountaineering pits human ingenuity and endurance against the rugged terrain, unpredictable weather, and thin air of the world's highest places. Already a popular sport among women, with some 3.4 million U.S. female participants in the 1996 ORCA survey, mountaineering has been given a tremendous boost by books like Krakauer's Into Thin Air and this edition of Herzog's Annapurna. Veteran outdoorswoman and climber Andrea Gabbard has written the first how-to book about mountaineering written especially for women. Against the backdrop of her own recent ascent of Washington's Mt. Rainier, the books examines the lure of climbing, buying and using equipment, fitness requirements, training, the use of mountain guides, techniques for climbing in ice and snow, safety, decisionmaking, the importance of teamwork--the whole fabric of the alpinist's art and craft. Drawing upon the voices of other women climbers of all levels of experience, Gabbard's book is both a no-nonsense how-to guide and an inspiration to beginning mountaineers.

Customer Reviews:

Did not meet my expectations.......2003-12-28

There are many other, more complete books in the market, although not specific to women, that provide better information. There are many inacurracies and assumtions in this book about men and women that I found offensive, even as a female climber. This appears to be more a book about feminism than climbing itself. And the only topic (how to deal with menstruation) that I was really interested in knowing about, which is woman specific and that is not found in other books was not present in this book either. If a woman is really interested in learning about climbing techniques and does not want to read sexist comments and ideas, there are many other, better books in the market.

An excellent "how to" book for women in mountaineering........1999-01-13

This book is well written, concise, and informative. It deals with most aspects of mountaineering that could be of interest to both men and women. However, Ms. Gabbard also addresses the special issues and problems with equipment, clothing etc. that confront women in this sport. The book has alot of good advice and tips. The photos and drawings are superb. Being a woman in hiking and mountaineering, I learned alot from this book. I especially enjoyed the tale of the two women who were attempting to climb Mt. Rainier. It is exciting to see if they make it or not. I would recommend it to all women, novice or expert, who are interested in the sport of moutaineering. We need more books like this to help and inspire women to attempt to do things they may not think they can do!

Walking in the Mountains: A Woman's Guide

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A compendium of practical for women and those who hike
Indispensible
Love of Mountains

Walking in the Mountains: A Woman's Guide
Edith Frankel
Manufacturer: The Derrydale Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1586671014

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Though this book was written with women in mind, men will enjoy the ins and outs of proper equipment usage, difficulty level of various mountains, the kinds of terrain a child may or may not be able to handle, and the health and spiritual benefits of walking in the mountains.

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A compendium of practical for women and those who hike.......2004-01-14

Walking In The Mountains: A Woman's Guide by Edith Rogovin Frankel is a very practical hiking guide written especially for women seeking to camp or travel about in a mountain wilderness area. Addressing particular topics such as getting in shape for the mountains; hiking while pregnant; what to carry in a backpack; terrain types suitable for children, and more, Walking In The Mountains is very highly recommended for female hikers as a compendium of practical for women and those who hike along with them regardless of age or gender.

Indispensible.......2003-12-13

The perfect read before you set out and also a great size to tuck into your backpack for refreshers. Very clear and readable prose with enticing illustrations.

Love of Mountains.......2003-10-28

From Library Journal, September 15, 2003:
"With the exception of a small section on hiking when pregnant, men will also find much helpful information in this book. Frankel teaches the reader how to get in shape for hiking, what to wear, and how to use maps and compasses. She also supplies lists of what to take on various types of hikes. The emphasis is on family hiking, and the author, now a grandmother, gives many helpful hints on hiking with infants, toddlers, children and adolescents. In Part 2, she recommends itineraries for hiking in the United States, the Himalayas, the Alps, and the English Lake District . . . The author's love for the mountains is infectious, providing an enjoyable reading experience."

Mountaineering : A Woman's Guide (Ragged Mountain Press Woman's Guides)

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Mountaineering : A Woman's Guide (Ragged Mountain Press Woman's Guides)
Andrea Gabbard
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Companies
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: B000OFQBWM

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The years immediately following the Second World War witnessed a dramatic transformation of America's working-class suburbs, driven by an unprecedented post-war prosperity and a burgeoning consumer culture. Chrome and neon were the new currency in this newly vital consumer culture, and no post-war consumer products trafficked more heavily in this currency than diners, bowling alleys, and trailer parks. Through these three distinctively American institutions, Andrew Hurley examines the struggle of Americans with modest means to attain the good life after two long decades of depression and war. He tells this story of the humble origins, explosive growth, and gradual, sad decline of the diner, bowling alley, and trailer park in expert fashion. This is cultural and social history that knows how to entertain.

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working class dreams in the consumer paradise.......2003-05-17

Hurley offers an insightful, thought-provoking, and at times disturbing picture of three emblematic popular institutions of post-war America. While all came out of working class roots and emerged as popular features in the wider popular culture of the 1950s, each industry found different ways to negotiate its relationship with its working class roots and its aspiration for access to a wider mass market. Hurley shows how working class Americans, emerging from the economic trauma of poverty and the Great Depression, sought through consumer culture to redefine themselves as middle class, even as middle class Americans often created new kinds of fashion snobbery as a way of redefining the new aspiring working class/middle class as crass or vulgar.

Hurley explores the emergence of the new mass market that emergence with relative working class affluence after the Second World War, while properly noting the limitations of that affluence. He also explores how this new mass consumer market, shaped by advertising constructs of domesticity and family togetherness, both limited, and even excluded women and minorities (especially African-Americans, who continued to be the target of the most vigorous economic discrimination and exclusion) through the 1960s and 1970s, even as the mass market ideal was crumbling under new challenges generated during the 1960s that sprang from many of the impulses unleased by American consumerism itself.

This is a fascinating and indeed entertaining work. Yoy can learn a lot about the social and cultural history of diners, bowling alleys, and trailer parks, but beyond that, you can get a valuable insight into some of the larger forces that have shaped who we are as Americans, both for better and for worse.

Social history along the highway.......2002-04-10

This is essentially a book of social history, although it brings together the disciplines of economic history, gender studies, architecture, and popular culture. Hurley discusses how diners, bowling alleys, and trailer parks reflected the social values of the 1950s and 1960s. The chapters on the three building types go into excruciating detail; for example, every nuance of diner design and operation is discussed and scrutinized for meaning. The book would have been improved if the author had covered more building types in the same number of pages.

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An entertaining and revealing history of diners, bowling alleys, and trailer parks that charts the hopes, dreams, fears, and hidden divisions of America's postwar middle class The years immediately following World War II witnessed a dramatic transformation of America's working-class suburbs, driven by postwar prosperity and a burgeoning consumer culture. Chrome and neon were the new currency in this revitalized consumer culture, and no postwar consumer products trafficked more heavily in this currency than diners, bowling alleys, and trailer parks. Through these three quintessentially American institutions, Andrew Hurley examines the struggle of blue-collar Americans to attain the good life after two long decades of depression and war. Diners, bowling alleys, and trailer parks shed their hardscrabble origins and unsavory reputation in the postwar years, becoming places where blue-collar families announced and celebrated their arrival into the middle class. Touted as a force for egalitarianism and inclusion, they nonetheless became, more often than not, battlegrounds where deep racial, ethnic, class, gender, and generational divides were revealed. Andrew Hurley tells this story of the humble origins, explosive growth, and gradual decline of the diner, bowling alley, and trailer park in expert fashion. This is substantial cultural and social history that also knows how to entertain as it opens a revealing window onto the larger history of postwar America.

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Cultural icons and what they say about society.......2005-10-27

The title of this book essentially describes the entire focus of this book; how three uniquely American icons: diners, bowling alleys, and trailer parks, and the history behind them, reflect the socio-economic and demographic history of the USA after WWII.

Divided into five chapters, an intro, a conclusion, and one chapter for each cultural icon, the book goes to show how the birth and evolution of each of these three icons mirrors much larger changes within American society. For example, trailer parks came about to house the huge concentrations of labor formed by the rapid industrialization during and after WWII. As America suburbanized, trailer parks became stigmatized as backwards and overly affiliated with blue collar labor. They and their residents became targets of hostile legislation, negative stereotypes, and other slights.

A similar trajectory is described for diners. Again their presence came about to serve the concentrations of industrial labor formed in the first half of the 20th century. But as America suburbanized, fast-food chains took over in the suburbs and leaving diners with essentially the scraps of the older cities.

A different path is described for bowling alleys. Here, the technological advance of automatic pin setters allowed bowling alleys to change with the times and upgrade themselves to new, wealthier suburban tastes. Therefore, of the three cultural icons, only one, the bowling alley, is still a vibrant and solid fixture in the American landscape.

All in all a good book. The final chapter wraps up with a synthesis of American 20th century economic and cultural history, and how this is intertwined with the history of diners, bowling alleys, and trailer parks. I recommend this book.

Diners, Bowling Alleys and Trailer Parks.......2001-10-12

This is a well researched book that kept me involved and thinking. As one from the midwest and born post-boom (1966), I accept the challenge Dr. Hurley offers about society. Are diners, bowling alleys and trailer parks just kitch or are they still valid measurements of social class?

As a person born in Cleveland, Ohio, raised in Rockford, Illinois and attended college in St. Louis, Misouri,I do not know if I should be flattered or insulted by the references to these cities. I find this a quandary because I know the information presented it is true.

This book makes me reflect on my own Ellis Island imigrant heritage. How did I not grow up at the diner, bowling alley or trailer park? I feel a bit sorry I did not.

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Minor pieces

Getting to the Next Level

Starting Out: Minor Piece Endgames (Starting Out - Everyman Chess)
John Emms
Manufacturer: Everyman Chess
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1857443594

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In this easy-to-read guide, Grandmaster and renowned endgames expert John Emms concentrates on the absolute fundamentals of minor piece endings and slowly but surely arms readers with the essential knowledge and confidence to move onto slightly trickier positions. As is normal with the Starting Out series, there are an abundance of notes, tips, and warnings throughout the book to help improving players.

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Minor pieces.......2005-02-07

Anyone who plays chess in tournaments generally has acquired some knowledge of endgames. But how much?

Well, in my experience, one learns the most about rook endgames. That means that most tournament players know all about getting one's rook to the seventh, keeping one's rook active, getting it behind a passed pawn, and winning won endgames with rook and pawn against rook.

But what about the endgames in this book? What if you have only a minor piece versus pawns, or a piece and pawn against a pawn? Or if you have one or two extra pawns where each side has a knight, or bishops of the same color, or bishops of opposite colors?

Well, there is one lucky case: everyone knows what to do with a bishop against a bishop of the opposite color and one pawn. The rest of it is what one has to learn, not just so that one will be able to play these endgames but so that one will know whether to try to aim for one of them during a game. I think many tournament players are surprisingly weak at just these endgames.

I think Emms does a good job. This book is quite readable for any chess player. And there are also 32 good exercises, with detailed solutions at the end of the book. It should go a long way towards bringing readers up to speed on these positions.

Did Emms omit anything I would have included? Yes. Emms never gives either side more than one piece. So we don't see two bishops against a knight or two knights against a bishop, with or without pawns. We don't see the basic mates with bishop and knight against a king, two bishops against a king, three knights against a king, or the instructive two knights versus king and pawn. Still, I think these are minor omissions.

I highly recommend this book.

Getting to the Next Level.......2004-12-09

Having been stuck at 1765 uscf for quite some time, I wondered what it would take to crash through to the A class level. More opening knowledge? (couldn't hurt) Better tactics? (no doubt!) However, it finally dawned on me that I had a very poor understanding of how to utilize Knights and Bishops. I guess I just never realized how much there was to know about these two little guys. Luckily, I came across this new book by GM Emms, and have found it both enlightening and enjoyable to read. I simply set up each position on Chessbase 8, and then holding the book, click through his lines. I find that after going through 3 or 4 examples, I gain a new insight into just exactly what I'm suppose to be doing in these types of positions, where before I was simply clueless. As you can tell, I highly recommend this book to the struggling class player who wants to break through to the next level.

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Animal Crossing

Recommended for dedicated Animal Crossing players

cool crossings animals

...Hmm

Better than Nintendo

Animal Crossing (Prima's Official Strategy Guide)
David Hodgson , Stephen Stratton , and Tri Pham
Manufacturer: Prima Games
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0761541179
Release Date: 2002-09-24

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Animal Crossing.......2006-12-21

Since this item is no longer in stock it would be nice if you would delete it from the listing. I have been looking for this title for a long time and was very disappointed to find that it is sold out.

Recommended for dedicated Animal Crossing players.......2005-08-24

This guide is a great tool for Animal Crossing fans to find out what pieces they are missing from their sets, and when activities happen (in general) and items can be found. Beware, however, if you are looking for a guide that will tell you every detail of your game. Due to the nature of Animal Crossing, no guide can give you a complete list of what to expect. The guide includes a calendar of the events for 2003, so if you're playing the game at the current date and time these events will not be accurate. This guide can tell you what to expect, but can't tell you exactly when and where it will happen in your Animal Crossing town. The only way to do that is to play your game every day ;) The layout of the guide makes it easy to catalog what you have collected and see what you are still missing, but looking up items takes a bit of page turning. There are nearly complete item lists, and approximate timetables for catching fish and insects. Overall, this guide is a great resource for collecting, but it can't replace the months/years of gameplay necessary to 'complete' the game and do all there is to do in your town.

cool crossings animals.......2005-06-18

Animal Crossing is a real world type game.It has great graphics and is not violent.It has a lot of stuff you would do when you move out of your parents house like bills house ware and of course geting letters from your mom! By:Andrew Fink

...Hmm.......2005-05-01

I dont know if this is the animal crossing guide i have or not. But the one i have is full of useful information on this game, that's fun to just look at.. even if you have the game if you ask me.

Better than Nintendo.......2005-02-10

Funny - we have both guides for Animal Crossings. Lent them out and the only one we want back is the Prima version.

It may have some errors, but contains information that Nintendo doesn't put in theirs.

For a whole picture of the game, buy them both!

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