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The 14 Book Beany Malone Set includes: Meet the Malones; Beany Malone; Leave It to Beany; Beany and the Beckoning Road; Beany Has a Secret Life; Make a Wish for Me; Happy Birthday, Dear Beany; The More the Merrier; A Bright Star Falls; Welcome Stranger; Pick a New Dream; Tarry Awhile; Something Borrowed, Something Blue; Come Back, Wherever You Are. The Malones of Denver, Colorado are a warm open-hearted family with a welcoming home, open to friends and all others in need of physical and emotional nourishment. The series has the warmth and sense of solidarity intrinsic of wartimes and the post-war era. There is a general feeling of peace and simplicity. When the series opens, the Malone children are motherless, as Mary Malone has been dead for three years. The father, Martie Malone, is often absent due to his duties as editor of the Denver Call. Three of the four Malone children, Mary Fred, Johnny and Beany, live at home. The oldest Malone daughter, the beautiful, loving Elizabeth, has been married to Lieutenant Donald McCallin for one year. The Malones live on Barberry Street in a large, wide-bosomed gray stone home. Their surrounding neighbors are Mrs. Morrison Adams (known as Mrs. Socially-prominent Adams) in her red brick home with immaculate white trim and frilly curtains in the windows, and the imposing and stately home of the Judge Buell family.
Customer Reviews:
AMAZING SERIES!! IS A MUST READ!.......2006-06-24
I got the entire series this past Christmas. I had read the first 2 because although my library had more, they didn't have all of them, and they didn't have the 3rd and I don't like to read things out of order so I was really sad. So then I was soo happy to find out they were being republished by Image Cascading!!!
So yea I read them all and they all rock!!! It's nice seeing what teenagers did back in the 50's. And it was also nice how different people's relationships were with their family's, I wish it were more like that today. And they are also way more responsible and mature then we are now. Making their own money, not having to depend on their parents for everything. And their parents respect and trust them more too! And they definatly treat their parents with much respect which is ALOT more then I can say about kids of today.
The first book is about Beany's older sister, Mary Fred. It is in MF's junior year of highschool, when Beany is in 8th grade. The rest of the books are all about Beany, in highschool, college, and then when she gets married. And let me just say I LOVE who she ends up with. They are SOOO cute!!!
Everyone should read these books they are amazing and are definatly one of my favorite books ever!
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Very Informative book concerning the spiritual heart.......2006-07-05
Juaniita Bynum does an excellent job of linking the physical qualities of the human heart to the spiritual heart. She makes a convincing case that our hearts from the inside out matter. The book is heavy on spiritual matters of the heart, however I did find it difficult at times to understand but her analogies about the problems with the human heart is often most simular to the spiritual heart we battle everyday. If you want to know the root of the matter, get this book for every matter that concerns your heart.
this book is powerful to say the least.......2005-11-04
matters of the heart blessed my life tremendously.it was so powerful. God did a spiritual surgery in me.he gave me the new heart and dealt and destroyed alot of things in my life.if you read this book you will know your standing in God and u will never be the same.you will go past the level of sliping and backsliding to a higher level of power and stability in God.The spirit of God will give you a heart that is sensitive to the touch of your God.you will taken to a new level in God and new relationship with God.Woh! it was so powerful and life changing to me.
A word from the Throne Room of God.......2005-02-14
I highly suggest you read this but if and only if you're ready for a higher level in God. This book will open your eyes about the inner you. This book is meat. If you don't take your time and read it you will choke. I have so much respect for this woman of God and I praise God for her life. Along with her husband Bishop Weeks. I'm not one to be stuck on the individual but the word that God has given his man or woman of God. So I challenge you if you are looking for a higher level of God and you are willing to die to your flesh, than this is the book for you. Look pass the individual and grasp the word from the throne room.
If you aren't looking to change, don't read this book.......2004-10-15
This message is definitely needed in this hour. So many people are being controlled by their own choice to go against God's ways and then give in their own fleshly desires and get caught up in strongholds. But what we really need to get up out of these is the new heart. This book had to be prayed over as it was being written, because I promise you it isn't an easy feed. Take your time to digest it, as you digest the scripture that God leads you to read and you are reading this book. I am going to go through the book a second time around now. This is an excellent step to your renewal and spiritual growth.
Compelling.......2004-10-09
MATTERS OF THE HEART by Juanita Bynum delivers a wonderful, right-on-time message concerning walking into the full light of God's love with a "new heart." It speaks to the battle of the mind, which is worldly based, versus the heart, which is soul based. The mind will resist the revolution that the soul is undergoing as the Christian grows in their relationship with Christ. The need for this renewal is paramount because the word of God cannot flourish in a hardened heart. It is imperative that the heart and mind be in line together.
Often times, God will allow us to endure a wilderness experience. During this time, it is a retrospective period where we learn more about our faith and ourselves. This desolate time will help us to begin to examine the contents of our heart and our mind. One key teaching in the book that really stood out to me is that the abundance of what is our hearts will pour out of not only out mouths, but in the manner in which we conduct ourselves.
MATTERS OF THE HEART is not a book which you can take lightly. The message from the pages pour into your consciousness and minister to your soul. It is very well written, easy to read and chock full of Bible scriptures which fortify the message Ms. Bynum is presenting. This is a necessary read for anyone seeking to encourage a change in their life. MATTERS OF THE HEART presented a very timely message for me by really causing me to examine the manner in which I approach situations and taking pause to examine the contents of my heart and responding in a kinder manner. This book does not touch on anything new - more so, it is the manner in which the information is conveyed that challenges the reader into a new operating plan. Personally, MATTERS OF THE HEART has helped me to give pause to reflect on the things that are pleasing to God versus esteeming those that are pleasing to man. With the abundance of scripture and food for thought provided in the book, God's words have been reaffirmed to me and I felt a sense of renewal after mediating upon the message this book conveys.
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J.R. McNeill, a professor of history at Georgetown University, visits the annals of the past century only to return to the present with bad news: in that 100-year span, he writes, the industrialized and developing nations of the world have wrought damage to nearly every part of the globe. That much seems obvious to even the most casual reader, but what emerges, and forcefully, from McNeill's pages is just how extensive that damage has been. For example, he writes, "soil degradation in one form or another now affects one-third of the world's land surface," larger by far than the world's cultivated areas. Things are worse in some places than in others; McNeill observes that Africa is "the only continent where food production per capita declined after 1960," due to the loss of productive soil. McNeill's litany continues: the air in most of the world's cities is perilously unhealthy; the drinking water across much of the planet is growing ever more polluted; the human species is increasingly locked "in a rigid and uneasy bond with modern agriculture," which trades the promise of abundant food for the use of carcinogenic pesticides and fossil fuels.
The environmental changes of the last century, McNeill closes by saying, are on an unprecedented scale, so much so that we can scarcely begin to fathom their implications. We can, however, start to think about them, and McNeill's book is a helpful primer. --Gregory McNamee
Customer Reviews:
One of a kind book on environmental history.......2007-06-04
I wrote my economics undergraduate thesis on development and environmental management back in 1976-77, and surely I would have enjoyed and valued to have Professor McNeill's book in my hands in those years.
His book is remarkable in many ways. It is a well written book, extraordinarly documented and well supported with eye opening statistical tables and illustrations. His material is useful for graduate and undergraduate students alike, and also for wider audiences interested on reviewing a different approach on history's complexities.
As the book front page indicates, the author centers his work on the 20th century's humankind events, termed by himself as the most influential on the process of ecology's evolution.
The book is very well organized so the reader keeps information organized in a properly way. At the end, Professor McNeill leaves many questions open that will be ample material enough to study in the years to come. Among those questions is the one concerned with society's will to deal seriously with environmental crises that have accumulated on the latest decades. We can have a readily answer to that subject if political leaders continue to privilege the narrow view of economic growth, instead of considering to seriously discuss the implementation of more integral strategies that would deliver environmental friendly sustainable economic development at the end.
Without question I recommend this book.
Easy to read and full of history everyone should know.......2006-12-13
This book may be the best historical survey I've ever read. (And with an M.A. in history, I've read a few!) I got this book to complement my hard science slogging on global warming, and found so much more than I hoped for or ever imagined! McNeil's book provides the historical background and the human context for all the graphs and numbers in the science texts. If you're looking for one book to give you a focused overview of just how much human civilization has accomplished, good and bad, in the last 100 years, this is it.
The organization of the book is excellent. McNeil sources everything, ends each chapter with an excellent summary, and wraps it all up with his own thoughtful commentary on climate change. He uses an inspired mix of the small detail (birds dying mid-flight) and the enormous concept (the Aswan dam affected the entire Mediterranean ecosystem). He describes chains of cause and effect and makes connections other historians and scientists seem to miss. The chapters dealing with agriculture are, I think, particularly relevant to our everyday lives; but students in nearly every subject will find this book useful. My husband is a family physician, and has read the sections on public health; my neighbor is a biologist with the USGS, and is reading the chapter on dams and irrigation.
Thomas Midgley's epitaph.......2006-11-11
Sub-titled "An Environmental History of the 20th Century", this is a sober and objective survey of environmental changes over the past 100 years. I was concerned this would be an emotional appeal or judgmental polemic from the left - but not the case, it is academic and professional history from an environmental perspective (the environment, not "environmental movement"). It's encyclopedic in scope and style.
I would not call this an "entertaining" read (although some of the facts really fire the synapses), but it is deeply rewarding as a broad survey of a very large and complex problem. The chapters and sub-sections are arranged in a logical outline making it possible to read the chapters in any order.
The main idea of the title "something new under the sun" is that humans have so fundamentally changed the environment that things really are very different now than they have ever been historically. To regard our current conditions of energy availability, access to water, unending economic growth - as enduring and normal appears to be an interesting gamble given the facts.
Some interesting trivia: humans did not become the dominate primate until about 8,000 BC with the rise of agriculture (baboons outnumbered humans before then). About one-fifth of all humans that ever lived did so in the 20th century. In sheer energy terms, if all modern technology and energy sources were not available, the average American would need about 70 human slaves to maintain the current standard of living (each American "directs" 70 energy-slave equivalents). Each year, humans move more earth and soil than glaciers, wind erosion, mountain building (plate tectonic uplift), and volcanoes combined. Probably the single most damaging biological organism in earths history was the human primate Thomas Midgley Jr from Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania born in 1889. He invented Freon (which destroys the Ozone layer), and also leaded gasoline, which has polluted most of the worlds soil lasting thousands of years (all of us carry elevated lead levels because of it and will continue to do so for centuries to come, leading to birth defects, lowered IQs, etc..). Midgley contracted Polio at age 51 and invented a system or ropes and pulleys to move his crippled body off the bed - he became tangled and was strangled to death in 1944 by his own invention, before learning how damaging his inventions were.
complete.......2006-11-08
This work is very comprehensive and easy to read. Lots of relevant information.
More People, Bigger Cities.......2006-07-20
The issues of population growth are politically charged and center on social forces behind environmental changes. Indians and Africans argue that population growth matters little; Americans and Europeans argue that it matters greatly. McNeil argues that population growth matters vary dependent on effective environmental management of resources.
Two forces were a part of the population surge and reached a crescendo in the 1950s: improved food supply and disease prevention. The improvements caused a decline in mortality. "By 1996 the total annual increment of population had peaked at about 92 million to 95 million more births than deaths". The demographic started first in Europe then in East Asia after 1950 and in progress, in Africa after 1990. "After 1950 the locus of fast growth changed. In the ensuing half century, Asian numbers more than doubled, Latin America population tripled, and African population quadrupled. Meanwhile Europe and North America grew more slowly, having completed the demographic transition by 1950".
Between 1890 and 1990, world population increased by a factor of 3.5 while CO2 climbed 17 fold, 31% associated with population growth; global emissions of sulfur increased 13 fold, ¼ associated with population. "One may safely suppose that population growth had a minimal role in releasing chlorofluorocarbons into the stratosphere". Pollution and combustion were loosely linked to population. In rich societies, such as the US and Germany, additional people raised pollution levels between 1900 to 1970 because they drove cars, heated with oil or coal, and in general increased combustion. In poor societies they had less of a contributing impact for combustion emission. Population growth without significant industry had must less impact on pollution levels except for human waste and domestic smoke.
Population growth both caused and prevented soil erosion. In places where population growth drove food production to steep hillsides, it quickened soil erosion. Elsewhere, population labor built and maintained soil conservation schemes. Soil Salinization caused from salt deposits moved more agricultural land into non-agricultural status. Food demand drove most of the centuries doubling of cropland.
Population growth accounts for much of the world increase use of water. Between 1900 and 1990 water use increased ninefold.
Deforestation is a murky conundrum of environmental issues and population growth. Deforestation occurred in Ethiopia even when population growth rates were lower. Deforestation can occur in conditions of population growth, population stagnation, and population decline. Population growth rarely acts alone causing deforestation.
"In sum, population growth accounted for a modest share of air pollution-related environmental changes and a large share of those pertaining to water and biota, especially those involved in food production."
Mass migrations from humid to dry lands repeatedly provoked desertification or the progress loss of vegetation. Migration into forest zones brought deforestation. Between 1830 to 1920, Europe alone sent 55 to 70 million emigrants to America, Australia, and Siberia. Large groups of Italians migrated to Brazil too work the coffee fields.
Large cities struggle against the costs of managing waste, garbage, and food supply chains. Consider the tempo of change. "A millennium ago China and the Islamic Middle East had the world's most urbanized populations, but even in these lands 90 to 95 percent of the people lived outside cities." In 1700, only five cities had populations exceeding half a million people. By 1900 there were 43 cities with over a half a million and by 1990 about 800 cities and 270 had populations over a million and 14 topped 10 million. England was the first country to have over half its population living in cities, US reached this level in 1920, Japan 1935, USSR and Mexico 1960, S Korea and S Africa 1985. In 1998, the whole world reached this level. The total number of urban dweller rose from 225 million in 1900 to 2.8 billion in 1998, a 13 fold increase.
Cities absorb large quantities of water; in exchange they pump out goods and services, as well as pollutants, garbage, and solid wastes. In the 19th cities with the exception of Japan reeked of garbage. In Surat, a city of 2.2 million in India, one fifth of the garbage went uncollected leading to the bubonic plague of 1994 causing 56 deaths. By 1997, Surat is the second cleanest city in India. "By in large cities did not address pollution that threatened only diffuse, disorganized, or powerless communities." Poor cities rapid acquired the pollution problems from industry and from fleets of cars, buses, and trucks. Only a few societies accumulated enough capital to invest in pollution abatement. Cities remained concentrated nodes of pollution. Growing cities also needed timber, cement, brick, food, and fuel. "Chicago by 1900 exerted a gravitational pull on timber, livestock, grain and other fruits of the land from a huge region in the heart of North America".
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Billed as a training manual for entering Earth's future, Something in This Book Is True is about harnessing the personal power inside each of us. It's a companion to Frissell's earlier effort, Nothing in This Book Is True, but It's Exactly How Things Are, about which Jay Kinney of Wired said, "despite the sheer unbelievability of half the book, the author's goodwill and spiritual intentions are so infectious that the book ends up being a heartwarming experience." In the first book, Frissell took New Age sentiments and blended them with conspiracy theories in an attempt at a unified theory, including alien grays, cattle mutilations, crop circles, the Great Pyramid, Sacred Geometry, and secret colonies on Mars. In Something in This Book Is True, he takes time to retrace that particular history and leads readers into the realm of the millennial future. Of note to those interested in comics artists are the six full-page illustrations by underground artist Spain.
Book Description
A training manual for navigating a future full of danger and hope, this book considers earth changes, pole shifts, Hopi prophecies, the secret government, and much more. Written in Bob Frissell's warm, personal style with updated commentary, this book coverstopics such as polarity consciousness, emotional body clearing, and higher selves while showing the reader that humanity is composed of spiritual beings having a human experience, not vice versa. This new edition includes photos and illustrations throughout.
Customer Reviews:
Funny and Touching........2005-09-18
This is easily my favorite of Bob's books. His facts are way off but the Something true in this book is well worth it. The personal story about EST and getting it is hilarious, as well as the line about him managing to not lock himself out of his car. His encounter with Babaji seems genuine and hearwarming. Skip the "facts" in this one and just listen to Bob's journey. He's a cool guy.
Le Sigh..........2004-08-11
Sadly, I was disappointed. Like an earlier reviewer stated, the first half of the book is very interesting and informative, but the second half is bland to say the least.
During the first half, Frissell touches on topics such as the greys, sirians, atlantis, kennedy assassination, etc. but the second half is nothing but a boring and incomprehensible synopsis of rebirthing sessions.
However, on a side note, the topics he touched on did remind me to buy books more focused on topics I was interested in.
His first book, _Nothing_in_This_Book_is_True,_But_it's_Exactly_How_Things_Are_ is a more interesting and informative read.
A superb companion to Frissell's first book........2004-01-24
I actually enjoyed this book more than Frissell's first ("Nothing in this Book is True..."). His writing is sharp, even a bit funny, and the information is very concise--a rarity with books this ambitious. The second half of the book is particularly compelling, where Frissell discusses his own experiences with EST, rebirthing, Babaji and various other metaphysical/spiritual thought systems. I read it like a primer on these different subjects, and it has saved me from having to research them to death myself. My only issue is that I now have to buy the book again to read the expanded, revised version.
I have not read it yet.......2001-09-14
Do you have it in spanish ?
THREE and a HALF STARS.......1999-06-29
Liked the first book "NOTHING..." better.. the secound just copied alot of the same chapters in the first word for word.. BUT BOTH ahd ALOT of info.. now im just looking for a way to contact bob my email.. have questions on if dreaming is really your soul visiting the 4th dimension and about Spontaneuos Combustion.. anybody have an email address to B.Frissell email me at cheemama@latinmail.com
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This cookbook from Chef John Folse combines the best of both worlds. It features 200 traditional Louisiana Cajun and Creole recipes along with a healthier, modified version beside them. In this day and age of diets and health food, this book offers great alternatives to some of Louisiana's best recipes. Featuring more than 200 pages of color photos and family stories associated with the original recipes, this cookbook is a must-have for all food enthusiasts.
Customer Reviews:
Nothing You Wouldn't Have Thought Of On Your Own.......2003-12-10
You'd be better off buying a "classic" Louisiana cookbook and using your own judgement to lighten recipes. The book is set up with a regular recipe on the left hand page and a "healthier" version on the right hand page. In most cases the difference consists of obvious substitutions - such as lean ham in place of bacon - and simple reductions in the amount of oil or butter used. I would have given it a 1 if it weren't for the pictures and stories.
Comments from a new Louisianan.......1999-11-30
I'm not from Louisiana originally. I've had the opportunity to browse through Cajun cookbooks while living here. This particular book, "Something Old, Something New", is quite interesting. It has a combination of great recipes-ones for those who like to use the "good old stuff" and ones for those who like to use lighter low-fat replacements. It has great stories and photgraphs of people and food. It definitely is not your typical cookbook. I hope you will enjoy it as much as I have this year. Bon appetite.
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Something New Under the Sun: Ancient Wisdom for Contemporary Living
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What can we learn from looking at the world around us?According to King Solomon, quite a lot. Solomon was a man of faith who took his readers on a voyage through some of the backwater regions of life that we all think about but rarely discuss in public. He wasn't afraid to ask the hard questions or to admit when there were no easy answers.In Something New Under the Sun, Pastor Ray Pritchard walks readers through Ecclesiastes, a book written by King Solomon from an earthly perspective. Solomon examines those things available to us in this life and invites us on a search for ultimate truth. Pastor Pritchard adds poignant and revealing stories to the words of this great king of old to bring this book crashing into our reality as we approach the 21st century.In short, bite-sized devotionals, Ray Pritchard brings us face to face with such topics as:the meaning of lifethe reality of deaththe instability of powerthe futility of richesFor a generation desperately searching for reality - and not knowing where to find it - God wrote a book that sets our feet in the right direction. Join Ray Pritchard as he follows Solomon on his journey to truth through the book of Ecclesiastes.
Customer Reviews:
dowsing.......2007-05-13
I really enjoy this authors attitude and approach toward energy work. This book skims the surface and makes me want to know more. I intend to own more of his work.
The Future is Yours: Do Something About It.......2007-03-18
As a dowser with many years experience, I found this book interesting for anyone wanting information on the subject. For the newbies, it gives a good over all view of dowsing. For those who have dowsed for years, it gives information to send you in new directions working with energy. As well as being informative, it is an extremely entertaining read. Raymon knows how to tell a good story.
Pendulum work at the "next level.".......2005-06-19
If you are interested in pendulum work or dowsing, this book is a must-read. It is not really a "how-to" book, although you can learn much and read between the lines to extract some techniques. Very interesting stories of advanced uses for the pendulum!
---Rev. Jeff
www.revjeff.com
Inspirational Healer.......2005-03-18
I bought this book by Raymon Grace, read and highlighted with a highlighter at the same time--then went back and re-read the highlighted parts!! He is such an awesome author--down on anyone's level of understanding!! I then did a search on him on the internet and found his website--where I then promptly bought his second book, "Techniques That Work For Me" and his "Medicine Place" cassette tape!! In "Techniques" he just goes one step further and gives LOTS more detail and "how-to's"----You definitely need to read "The Future Is Yours" first!!
I've been spiritually blessed by him and his work--He is truly a very down to earth, regular country boy with a "take me as I am or leave me" attitude that I love!! He says it straight and helps you believe that "you CAN change anything if you just ask"!!
I had the honor of meeting him over the phone and can't wait to go to some of his seminars--he teaches all over the US and CANADA!!
I found out by "just asking" that I could change the frequency of the water in our horse tanks, I could keep the water from freezing when the temps were below zero!! What about that?? I highly recommned ANY of his items that he has. Be it written, taped, video/DVD---ANY and ALL of it!! He definitley talks on "my level"!! What a man of values!! He teaches that it is all about giving thanks and giving respect--without those, you won't get far!! He DOES know what he is talking about!!
Di Kaiser--Rock Port, Mo
This is a handbook to change your life for the better!.......2004-08-26
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Raymon is an absolute God-send.
My new favorite motivational snippet comes directly from Raymon. I now tell my students that thoughts are the basis of all that come to them and use Raymon's analogies. Raymon gives an absolutely great analogy of the creation of blue-jeans to the importance of thoughts. Raymon, I am quoting you left and right!
For you, I could quote from the book but I won't. I believe that everyone can benefit from this book and I hope that you buy this immediately.
I am continually dismayed when I read fellow new-agers giving tips on how to create a parking space and the like. The selfish reality creation of directing your immense power on the creation of a parking spot is just so un-spiritual in my opinion. That is just me. But, if parking spot creation is what raises your soul to the Source, then go for it!
I feel that creating one's own reality should have spiritual and uplifting self-improvement and reality creation. Raymon held a job in which he so empowered public-assistance recipients that the government agency employing him had to release him. He was making their bureaucracy unneeded through his classes. That is what I call effective!
I am one of Raymon's newest and most grateful fans!
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Maine is a rural backwater? Meet Hiram Abrams, born in Portland in 1878 the son of a Russian immigrant real estate broker, attended public schools, left school at age sixteen, sold newspapers, bought a cow and started a dairy—and eventually became the founder and president of United Artists. Or Aurelia Gay Mace, born in 1835 in Strong, a Shaker from an early age, credited with the invention of the wire coat hanger. Aurelia achieved national fame in 1890 when she mistook Charles Lewis Tiffany for a tramp, gave him lemonade, brushed his clothes, insisted that he sit down for the noon meal, and sent him off with a box lunch. Tiffany responded by sending her a set of engraved silver. Meet Milton Bradley was born in Vienna (Maine) in 1836, educated at Harvard, worked as a mechanical engineer and patent solicitor, became interested in lithography, developed a board game, "The Checkered Game of Life," and founded the Milton Bradley Company. Or Louise Bogan, who was born in Livermore Falls in 1897, moved to Greenwich Village as a young woman, took up the bohemian life and occasionally drove the get-away car for a fur thief, and ended up as the poetry critic for The New Yorker magazine. Hiram Maxim was born in Sangerville in 1840, demonstrated remarkable ability at whittling at a very early age, and went on to invent the machine gun, cordite, a steam-powered airplane, a twin-rotor helicopter, and much more. And then there's Princess Salm-Salm, born Agnes Elisabeth Winona Leclerque Joy in 1840 in Madawaska, who first achieved notoriety as a circus performer on a galloping horse (while playing an accordion), but then served as a nurse during the Civil War, married a Prussian cavalry officer, journeyed to Mexico to plead for her husband's life after he was captured during the Battle of Querretare, and was later awarded the Prussian Iron Cross for her nursing work after the Franco-Prussian War. Maine—boring? Never!
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Please Write a Sequel.......2007-09-23
Lucky you are, you people of Maine, because you can enjoy in person the stories told by Doug Stover. But now, the publication of this book, Eminent Mainers, allows all of us to savor Doug's stories at our leisure. And what a delight they are. Who can forget Hiram Maxim and his machine gun or the man who knew he would be reincarnated as a sheep or the man who wore a handkerchief over his face? Please don't spend all your money buying copies of this book to give to your friends - we need to take up a collection so Doug could return where he grew up and compile another book, Fabulous Floridians.
Great resource for teachers!!!!.......2007-02-10
This book is a great resource for teachers, especially those who teach history, government, literature, and biography. Teachers live by the stories they tell, stories that link to people, places, and events. Eminent Mainers
is about Americans: native born, immigrants, and descendents. It it illuminating, hysterically funny, and most of all, useful! Buy it for every teacher you know and they will love you forever!
Wow!.......2007-02-10
What an incredible amount of work has gone into this unique book. It's about much more than Maine. Through succinct details of hundreds of lives it provides a snapshot of the creative energy that has made the USA what it is today.
It's Not Just About Maine!.......2007-02-03
This is really about a web of people, times, events and places that extends far beyond Maine. The power of Mr Stover's big set of little, though dense and concise, stories of people who just happen to be Mainers is really national and beyond in scope. I live in Atlanta, Georgia yet found several references to people with considerable and lasting impact on Atlanta's development and growth. It would be interesting to build an online community that follows all the threads that Stover begins to unravel for us.
Fascinating Compendium.......2007-01-30
This is the ideal reference tool for those doing research on Maine people and accomplishments, as well as a great source for browsing. Alphabetical arrangement is highlighted with topical indexes in the front; of particular note is the listing by birthplace. Subjects' schooling, business and professional credentials, connection to Maine and family-related tidbits bring these folks to life. In many instances even their burial places are given-handy for those who want to pay their respects! "Eminent Mainers" has over 500 pages of intriguing facts about thousands of people. What a delight!
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