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A definitive resource that looks at what seems to be unmanageable stress and teaches you to deal with it confidently. This proven approach for going beyond stress explains how to make stress a positive part of the growth process rather than a barrier to happiness. This book shows you how to: identify what causes stress; handle stressful situations; design a plan for reducing stress; handle aggressive or hostile people; eliminate "should haves" from your vocabulary. This book also offers many ways of relieving stress. By using the ideas in this book, you will be able to develop your own plan for managing the stress in your life.

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Since 1973, Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletins have offered practical, hands-on instructions designed to help readers master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. There are now more than 170 titles in this series, and their remarkable popularity reflects the common desire of country and city dwellers alike to cultivate personal independence in everyday life.

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Easy Composters You Can Build.......2007-03-09

it came in good time & package was good too.

Not worth the money.......2005-09-09

Since I was in a hurry and did not read the description of this purchase I paid $3.95 for what I thought to be a book. This is a pamplet.

It really does not "show" you how to build composters with verbal descriptions instead of detail diagrams.

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Filled with simple experiments, EARTH LAB: EXPLORING THE EARTH SCIENCES covers a variety of topics in physical geology, environmental geology, and earth science course. Hands-on activities help you develop your data-gathering and analysis skills, including rock and mineral identification, aerial photo analysis, and geological map interpretation.

Exploring Earth and Space (Science Insights)

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Exploring Earth and Space (Science Insights)
Dispezio
Manufacturer: Pearson Prentice Hall
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Exploring the Earth and the Cosmos
Isaac Asimov
Manufacturer: Crown
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Binding: Hardcover

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From the publisher's description.......2005-11-17

FROM THE JACKET FLAP:

Throughout history there has been no greater adventure than that represented by man's quest for knowledge of his world. Now in one wide-ranging volume, Isaac Asimov tells the exciting stoy of how people have learned and continue to learn about their world--from the great migrations of prehistory to the space probes of today to the barely dreamed-of journeys of tomorrow.
Asimov ranges across the entire panorama of science, covering in twenty-three mind-expanding chapters discoveries in astronomy, biology, geography, mathematics, geology, and physics. He tells us about the explorations, discoveries, and inventions that have transformed our view of the world and the scientific theory and scientific speculation that have expanded our vision yet further.
Within the four spheres of the physical universe--the horizons of space, time, matter, and energy--Asimov reveals how man's urge to expand the limits of knowledge has led him to leave the perimeters of the known world, to develop theories and devices that would allow him to plumb the secrets of the earth and the universe.

'Exploring the Earth and the Cosmos' tells hundreds of fascinating stories:
-how ten fingers and twelve number names evolved into today's varied, intricate, and often complicated number systems
-how smoke from a house fire inspired the first hot-air balloon and man's early journeys above the earth
-the growth of man's concept of time and the methods he devised to measure it
-the discovery of the strange, eventful world inside the atom
-the emergence of speculations about time travel

Here for the first time in one breathtaking, sweeping history are the facts, dates, names, and figures that are the story of man's movement out into the world and the universe beyond.

FROM THE TABLE OF CONTENTS

PART I: THE HORIZONS OF SPACE
03 . . . The Eastern Hemisphere
18 . . . The World as a Whole
32 . . . The Interiors and the Poles
51 . . . Surface Ups and Downs
61 . . . The Ocean
77 . . . Interlude: The Horizon of Numbers
85 . . . Below Earth's Surface
91 . . . Earth's Atmosphere
104 . . . Beyond the Balloon
118 . . . Out Into Space
135 . . . The Inner Solar System
150 . . . Mars and Beyond
164 . . . The Stars

PART II: THE HORIZONS OF TIME
183 . . . The Age of History
196 . . . The Age of the Earth
210 . . . All of Time
227 . . . Instants of Time
235 . . . Speed

PART III: THE HORIZONS OF MATTER
247 . . . Mass, Large and Small
265 . . . Atoms and Beyond
278 . . . Density and Pressure

PART IV: THE HORIZONS OF ENERGY
297 . . . High Temperatures
309 . . . Low Temperatures
321 . . . Luminosity

331 . . . Index

The Solar System: Exploring the Earth and Its Neighbors (The Universe)

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The Solar System: Exploring the Earth and Its Neighbors (The Universe)
Miquel Perez , and Miguel Perez
Manufacturer: Barrons Juveniles
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Activities for Exploring earth and space (The Laidlaw exploring science program)

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Activities for Exploring earth and space (The Laidlaw exploring science program)
Michael A Magnoli
Manufacturer: Laidlaw Bros. ;
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The Anti-Coloring Book of Exploring Space on Earth: Creative Activities for Ages 6 and Up

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Hooray for leaving the "Stay within the Line" mentality!

The Anti-Coloring Book of Exploring Space on Earth: Creative Activities for Ages 6 and Up
Susan Striker
Manufacturer: Owl Books
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ASIN: 0805014462

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Hooray for leaving the "Stay within the Line" mentality!.......2002-03-22

I would buy every young person I know this book if it were available. Creating and exploring in a young person is stiffled around age 6. I hear people say "I can't draw a straight line," or "I can't draw," or "I can't paint," and too bad their brain accepted teachers/parents lack of encouragement to color anything, draw anything, go beyond the lines. The Anti-Coloring Book of Exploring Space on Earth by Susan Striker should be given to every school child. The pictures are started, and the child/person is encouraged to complete from with descriptions like, "Would you like to live on a houseboat?", "Build a Treehouse where you can go and be alone," "Decorate this Dollhouse," "The people who live in this apartment have commissioned you to paint a modern masterpiece." "You are a scientist who has established a model community for life under the sea."

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Great Boook!.......1999-05-06

This science book was great! i learned alot from it. i am a 8th grade student and i would LOVE to tell the world that Mr. Trudelle (Paul) is the best science teacher ever! he has tought me so much and he has tought me with inspiration and good helth. i love him because he is a great teacher. that you alot and i think that you schould read this execelt book and learn alot just like it did. thank you!

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Exploring Earth and Space

Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 0070316538

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Symplectic geometry is very useful for formulating clearly and concisely problems in classical physics and also for understanding the link between classical problems and their quantum counterparts. It is thus a subject of interest to both mathematicians and physicists, though they have approached the subject from different viewpoints. This is the first book that attempts to reconcile these approaches. The authors use the uncluttered, coordinate-free approach to symplectic geometry and classical mechanics that has been developed by mathematicians over the course of the past thirty years, but at the same time apply the apparatus to a great number of concrete problems. Some of the themes emphasized in the book include the pivotal role of completely integrable systems, the importance of symmetries, analogies between classical dynamics and optics, the importance of symplectic tools in classical variational theory, symplectic features of classical field theories, and the principle of general covariance.

Symplectic Matrices: First Order Systems and Special Relativity

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Symplectic Matrices: First Order Systems and Special Relativity
Mark Kauderer
Manufacturer: World Scientific Pub Co Inc
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"One of the great personal memoirs of the Second World War" (John Keegan) by the creator of the Flashman books.

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Made Me Feel at Home.......2007-04-26

This is not your so called war stories. It is about a man and the men he served with without any liberal gibberish (see his references to more modern times)and the fact that wars happen and will happen, just or unjust depending on one's views. But, they won't go away like some Utopian dreamers think just because other "Utopians" weren't up to it. There were so many pages that hit me in the gut because one could so readily identify with things on the page. I never expected such a great book from a journalist / media person which proves that there is good in every crowd. I salute Fraser and I wish I could tell him so in person.

A pure delight.......2006-08-10

I read this entire book with a smile on my face, punctuated by frequent outbursts of laughter. George MacDonald Fraser's memories of his WWII service with the British Commonwealth Army in the Burma campaign was the first of his non-Flashman works I've read. Although it's impossible to really compare two completely different literary genres, I'll just say that "Quartered Safe Out Here" was-in its own unique way- as hilarious, if not more so, than the best of the Flashman novels. The difference is that in the Flashman novels, Fraser's obvious respect for the sacrifices and achievements of the British soldier had to be viewed as a backdrop to the foreground humor while the opposite is true in this work, where the humor plays a supporting role to his tribute, which is explicit.

Unlike his Flashman creation, Fraser was an honest-to-goodness war hero- courageous, honorable, and immensely proud of his country, regiment and platoon section. Like old Flashie though, Fraser cuts through the B.S. and shows no tolerance for armchair generals, civilian second guessing, and the nattering classes' politically correct sympathizing for Britain's enemies, so long as they were black, brown or yellow. It was amusing how Fraser's account of his argument with a bleeding-heart over the atomic bombing of Japan exactly echoes Flashman's dustup with a supercilious academic at the beginning of "Flashman and the Redskins". The alert reader will notice other such episodes in this memoir that seem to have found life in that series, but as Fraser noted, sometimes real life in Burma was so bizarre that he would have been laughed out of town if he had tried to slip some of those stories or dialogue into his fictional novels or screenplays. That's why I'm glad he finally got around to writing this book. It would have been a real shame if this story had not been told.

Fraser details his time as a 19 year old soldier in Burma during the last months of the war. His writing is brilliant, as usual, his stories engrossing, his attention to detail is fascinating, and the characters we meet, from the lovably obscene Cumbrians to the unbelievable Captain Grief, are unforgettable, the more so for being real. Apart from the entertainment value, which is considerable, Fraser's insights into the nature of war and the warrior are poignant and valuable as a historical record of, and paean to, a lost Britain. He bemoans the fact that that Britain (not to mention America) has been replaced by a therapeutic society of hypersensitive p.c. twits who have been severed from the warrior tradition and stoic ethos which made their existence possible in the first place. As with most of Fraser's books, it's not for someone who thinks that the world has improved much in the last 50 years. What else is there to say? This is simply a great book. Read it and love it.

George Fraser's Excellent Recounting Of A Burma Grunt. .......2006-07-23

This book had been brought to my attention by the author John McKinna ("The Sen-Toku Raid" and others) when it was learned we both had been combat infantry. And a great recommendation it was. The name of the book was taken from a Rudyard Kipling phrase in "Gunga Din", and outlines the infantryman's life during the final days of WWII as the Black Cat Division pushed down the Burma road towards Rangoon.

His book is unique in that it recounts the perspective of the war-fighter on the ground, who's entire knowledge of a world conflict is about 300 yards. At one point, he described every piece of equipment on his person, a bit of historical information I found of great interest.

Interspersed with this narrative however, was Fraser's meticulous research of after action reports of the units involved to weave a mosaic for the reader that helped round out the full picture of the campaign itself.

Overall, a great read.

Extraordinary Memoir of "The Forgotten Army".......2006-06-27

George MacDonald Fraser, best known for his Flashman novels, and, in my opinion, one of our best writers, gives us here his nearly fifty-year-old memories of his service in Burma in 1945.

There is so much to like about this book that it's difficult to know where to begin. There is Fraser's absolute honesty about his fears, his mistakes, his attitude toward the Japanese, and the virtues and vices of his comrades. There is his ability to place his unit's activities within the context of larger campaigns and yet give a vivid impression of what fighting with his unit must have been like. There is his brief but compelling portrait of General William Slim, for whom he has an unabashed admiration. There are moments of low humor, of heroism, and of tragic loss of life, and there is an unapologetic pride in what he, his comrades, and the rest of the British and Allied forces accomplished.

This is one of the best books that I have ever read, and I recommend that you make it one of yours.

A Great Book about a forgotten war & now vanished great Army.......2005-06-20

GMF has outdone himself with this book about his part in the Horrific war in Burma during War II. He tells of his time as a junior enlist then junior NCO with the Border Regiment. He spins his tale extremely well about the story of the last great War fought by the Old Anglo-Indian Army of the Raj. So if you want to get a feel for a bygone Army, its various & exotic troops, weapons and some great characters like the Iron Duke and the Impressive FM Slim then this is the place for you.

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Great stuff
One of the best written books about the "Forgotten" Army
Classic military memoir
The Greatest Burma War Memoir
GMF is one of a kind...bless him!

Quartered Safe Out Here
George MacDonald Fraser
Manufacturer: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0007105932

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Great stuff.......2005-12-25

A great memoir, a different view of WWII, to all those who think Steven Speiberg told the story of the war, Read this

One of the best written books about the "Forgotten" Army.......2005-07-30

I had frist read the Authors novels about that cad Flashman & was immediately hooked on his great writing skills and historical research. (I just wish that I could write 1/10 as well as he.)
Then I have discovered this gem of a book about his time in the 14th Army fighting the Japanese in Burma during War Two as a young enlisted man. It is just marvelous in that it gives one the feeling of the grit, heat, dirt and loss of war without drowning one in self pity while being in the Border Regiment.
This book is one of the best war story of a British Tommy that I have ever read. The book is well worth the time and coin!

Classic military memoir.......2003-07-18

If you wish to understand the common British soldier in World War II, his virtues and his vices, this book is essential. In spare prose the author, a celebrated novelist, recalls his service in Burma as an enlisted man in the British Army. As he conjures up his long ago comrades, their marches, the food they ate, their fights with the enemy and each other, the reader gains much needed insight into a world that is rapidly slipping from living memory. A fitting tribute to the tough British "Tommies" who did more than their share in rescuing the world from the evil of the Axis in World War II. Funny, exciting, moving, this is a book that I predict will join the ranks of other classic military memoirs such as Graves' Good-bye To All That. For an added treat read this book in tandem with Field Marshal Slim's memoir Defeat Into Victory.

The Greatest Burma War Memoir.......2003-03-10

George MacDonald Fraser, creator of the Flashman series takes on not 19th Century history, but rather himself this time out. Here, in just over 200 pages, he paints a highly evocative picture of the British Tommy slugging his way through Burma and to victory in 1945. His memory he admits, has its gaps. He recalls meeting General Slim, the famed commander of the 14th Army, but cannot recall the day. He can't remember what he was doing on V-J day. But he recalls details, but not the dates of them; a 15 inch centipede in his tent, when his canoe floundered on the Sittang, when Nine section captured its first Japanese POW, he definitely remembers a section member taking the man's watch.
These are probably fallible memories, but it's their honesty that makes Fraser human, and it's what makes this memoir worth reading.

Fraser has captured the enlisted man's war in Burma for all time. It would be nice to see an 8th Army veteran recall the Desert War.

Fraser also like Audie Murphy's "To Hell and Back" uses a great deal of dialogue in catching the eccentrities of the Cumbrian borderers of his section. He changes their names (Murphy did too) something common in war memoirs. However, American readers might stumble over what the men are saying, but while GMF admits that it's not an exact reconstruction of what was spoken, "most of it {the dialogue) obviously is not...it is entirely faithful in gist, subject and style." This is of course, true, but one feels that GMF caught the higher truth of what life was like and as it was lived in the British Army in Burma. The eminent historian John Keegan rates "Quartered Safe Out Here" better than Manchester's "Goodbye Darkness" and E.B. Sledge's "With the Old Breed," an opinion I do not necessarily share, but I do admire this book tremendously.

This is a great introduction to the war in Burma and a wonderful glimpse into life in the British Army in World War II.

GMF is one of a kind...bless him!.......2003-01-05

It's been years since I first read "Quartered Safe Out Here" by the creator of Harry Paget Flashman, VC. (And I won't rehash everything the previous reviewers have written.) Having read and reread all of the Flashman novels before picking it up, and being a card carrying Flashmaniac myself, I was very anxious to know more about GMF. This book certainly didn't disappoint me. After I had finished it, though, I wanted to find out more. I didn't realize I'd have to wait until December 2002 to finally read the next chapter in the life of GMF in "The Light's On At Signpost" (which I found at amazon.com.uk for 20.13GBP). The two books are quite different, except for Fraser's Anti-PC rants, the one tells the story of a young GMF serving in WWII and the other an older, but still funny, GMF telling tales of his years writing movie scripts in Hollywood and the famous and not-so-famous people he worked with during those years. At the end of "The Light's On At Signpost," he briefly writes more about his family, his schooling in Scotland, and how he became a writer. GMF is almost 78 now (He was born on April 2, 1925.) and I only hope he will live long and write more wonderfully funny books.

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Quartered Safe Out Here
George MacDona Fraser
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ASIN: B000O8W2QS

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Quartered Safe Out Here

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Quartered Safe Out Here: a Recollection of the War in Burma

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Quartered Safe Out Here: a Recollection of the War in Burma
George MacDonald Fraser
Manufacturer: Harper Collins
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Quartered Safe Out of Here: A Recollection of the War in Burma

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Quartered Safe Out of Here: A Recollection of the War in Burma
George Macdonald-Fraser
Manufacturer: Akadine Press
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000MBOWE2

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Reprint of the privately printed 1866 edition which was limited to 100 copies. Horace Binney [1780-1875] began his practice in 1800 and was the undisputed leader of the Pennsylvania bar during the mid-nineteenth century. He was also an accomplished poet and scholar. This book explores the period between the onset of the American Revolution and the early 1800s through profiles of its leading figures, William Lewis [1752-1819], an early abolitionist, legislator and member of the state constitutional convention, Edward Tilghman [1750-1815], a formidable courtroom lawyer, and Jared Ingersoll [1749-1822], a judge and member of the 1787 Constitutional Convention. Interesting in themselves, these studies are special because they reflect Binney's proximity to his subjects and their era. It is evident throughout that Binney drew on information shared by older members of the bar and individuals who knew Lewis, Tilghman and Ingersoll.

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