About this product: I tell of a time, a place, and a way of life long gone. For many years I have had the urge to describe that treasure trove, lest it vanish forever. So, partly in response to the basic human instinct to share feelings and experiences, and partly for the sheer joy and excitement of it all, I report on my early life. It was quite a romp.
So begins Mildred Kalish’s story of growing up on her grandparents’ Iowa farm during the depths of the Great Depression. With her father banished from the household for mysterious transgressions, five-year-old Mildred and her family could easily have been overwhelmed by the challenge of simply trying to survive. This, however, is not a tale of suffering.
Kalish counts herself among the lucky of that era. She had caring grandparents who possessed—and valiantly tried to impose—all the pioneer virtues of their forebears, teachers who inspired and befriended her, and a barnyard full of animals ready to be tamed and loved. She and her siblings and their cousins from the farm across the way played as hard as they worked, running barefoot through the fields, as free and wild as they dared.
Filled with recipes and how-tos for everything from catching and skinning a rabbit to preparing homemade skin and hair beautifiers, apple cream pie, and the world’s best head cheese (start by scrubbing the head of the pig until it is pink and clean), Little Heathens portrays a world of hardship and hard work tempered by simple rewards. There was the unsurpassed flavor of tender new dandelion greens harvested as soon as the snow melted; the taste of crystal clear marble-sized balls of honey robbed from a bumblebee nest; the sweet smell from the body of a lamb sleeping on sun-warmed grass; and the magical quality of oat shocking under the light of a full harvest moon.
Little Heathens offers a loving but realistic portrait of a “hearty-handshake Methodist” family that gave its members a remarkable legacy of kinship, kindness, and remembered pleasures. Recounted in a luminous narrative filled with tenderness and humor, Kalish’s memoir of her childhood shows how the right stuff can make even the bleakest of times seem like “quite a romp.”
About this product: If I had spent three minutes doing a little R and D I would have never bought this book but I was lazy and I got what I deserved.
If you want a book with a lot of right wing Republican drivel and Mormon survival philosophy pushed at you and exposure to an author who spends most of the book's time letting you know how prescient he is then go ahead and buy it. But if you are serious about getting personal financial information then look further and pass on this one.
I agree he might need the six months of food supply hidden away as if everyone populates the earth with scores of kids and grandkids as he has then the food supply will surely become strained.
About this product: This book is an overly pessimistic view of America's declining moral values, and the consequences that we will all have to suffer. While I agree that moral values have declined (increased drug use and the # of teen-aged single mothers, etc.), I don't agree that the consequences will be so severe so soon. (In fact, most of what is predicted in this book should have happened by now.) In fact, Robert Ringer himself must not think much of this book now. If you look at the list of books he's authored in his other books printed since then, he does not include HOW TO FIND HAPPINESS... in that list. I think this is partly because he sees he was a bit too alarmist in the book, but also because he cannibalized large sections of HOW TO FIND... for his subsequent book MILLION DOLLAR HABITS. Many of the points and stories in that book are in this one (The Battle of Little Big Pie for one). I mainly like this book because many of the points and stories I like in MILLION DOLLAR HABITS are flushed out more fully in this one. So this book is a mixed bag that only the most loyal students of Ringer's need read.
Between 1775 and 1783, some 200,000 Americans took up arms against the British Crown. Just over 6,800 of those men died in battle. About 25,000 became prisoners of war, most of them confined in New York City under conditions so atrocious that they perished by the thousands. Evidence suggests that at least 17,500 Americans may have died in these prisons—more than twice the number to die on the battlefield. It was in New York, not Boston or Philadelphia, where most Americans gave their lives for the cause of independence.
New York City became the jailhouse of the American Revolution because it was the principal base of the Crown’s military operations. Beginning with the bumper crop of American captives taken during the 1776 invasion of New York, captured Americans were stuffed into a hastily assembled collection of public buildings, sugar houses, and prison ships. The prisoners were shockingly overcrowded and chronically underfed—those who escaped alive told of comrades so hungry they ate their own clothes and shoes.
Despite the extraordinary number of lives lost, Forgotten Patriots is the first-ever account of what took place in these hell-holes. The result is a unique perspective on the Revolutionary War as well as a sobering commentary on how Americans have remembered our struggle for independence—and how much we have forgotten.
Prepare to be amazed, appalled, disgusted, and hugely entertained by this compendium of indelicate oddities. Nothing is too inane, too insane, too bizarre, or too distasteful for this incredible, seemingly impossible, but absolutely true collection of facts from across the ages and around the world.
Did you know…
…that Pope Benedict XII was such a hardened boozer that he inspired the expression “drunk as a pope”? (From “10 Historic Drunks”)
…that as a special honeymoon treat, Prince Charles read Princess Diana passages from the works of Carl Jung and Laurens van der Post? (From “History’s 10 Least Romantic Honeymoons”)
…that the best-dressed gentlemen in medieval England exposed their genitals below a short-fitting tunic? (From “History’s 10 Greatest Fashion Mistakes”)
…that Alfred Hitchcock suffered from ovophobia—fear of eggs? (From “10 Phobias of the Famous”)
…that King Louis XIV only took three baths in his lifetime, each of them under protest? (From “10 Great Unwashed”)
…that in 1930, Sears customers became enraged when the catalog was first printed on glossy, non-absorbent paper? (From “12 Magical Moments in Toilet Paper History”)
About this product: This last-written adventure of Horatio Hornblower finds him still a captain; the Napoleonic Wars rage on. Though the tale was incomplete at Forester's death, it offers a full measure of action at sea.
About this product: The latest edition is the resource for any practicing OB/GYN, family physician, midwife, or pharmacist who prescribes medicinal products to or evaluates environmental or occupational exposures in women who are or may become pregnant. Based on the highly successful seven German editions of this reference, the up-to-date drug listings have been revised into a handy pocket guide color tabbed for quick access to important information. Easy to reference each drug is listed discussing the side effects, general impact on organ systems, potential toxicity, and risks before offering dosage recommendations. It is the only book of its kind to provide conclusive information on treatments for diseases during pregnancy and lactation and actions to be taken after (inadvertant) exposure to drugs suspected to be developmentaly toxic. Unlike other dosage guides, this edition is an affordable, compact compendium of knowledge on the very latest drugs and their effects on pregnant/lactating women.
* Provides conclusive information on the prevention of birth defects through the safe use of drugs before pregnancy, as well as during pregnancy and lactation
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* Includes a conveniently removable 'quick reference' card of most frequently used drugs and their safety
No strict diets, no scary guidelines--just the essential nutrition expectant moms need to start their babies on the road to lifelong health
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All parents know that kids need nutritious foods as they grow. But new research confirms that what you eats during pregnancy can also profoundly affect the health of your baby when that baby becomes an adult--for better or for worse. Endorsed by the Harvard Medical School and written by one of the world's leading experts in nutrition for pregnant women and babies, this guide offers more solid information and medically sound advice on prenatal nutrition than any other book on the market.
The revolutionary method women can use to reach orgasm anytime, anyhow and anywhere
The Orgasm Loop is a revolutionary mind/body technique for reaching orgasm anytime, anyhow, and anywhere. Based on techniques developed from cognitive feedback studies at Tulane University, The Orgasm Loop shows women how to remove mental roadblocks that dampen arousal and short-circuit orgasm. Women learn how to tap their unique arousal patterns and achieve orgasm easily and consistently, as they follow simple, step-by-step instructions for working the O Loop into their sexual routine.
In addition, women who have difficulty achieving orgasm learn to teach their partner techniques, such as rhythmic breathing and different positions, for bringing them to orgasm-and they'll be able to adjust their unique orgasm pattern to coordinate with their partner. Other chapters will detail how to incorporate Orgasm Loop techniques into any sexual position and scenario including quickies, intercourse, and oral sex. Women learn how to beat fluctuating sexual response patterns brought on by physical and emotional shifts, sustain the Orgasm Loop, and achieve multiple orgasms-even if they've never had one before.
About this product: Provides a 14-point strategy for building and leading effective teams in the wake of convulsive organizational change. In an environment where relentless upheavals tend to come one after another, work groups can become locked in a never ending "transition period" where productivity suffers. This handbook provides specific instructions on making quick repairs and mobilizing employees to shorten transitions and protect operating efficiency.
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