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"Be forewarned, reading Once Upon a Threesome will leave you with a permanent afterglow." --Love Romance Passion (5 stars)Historical threesomes - who imagined how hot this subject could be?In this delightfully wicked anthology, you'll find threesomes of all types from a range of historical time periods and settings. Hot M/F/M cowboy menage? It's here. Wild M/M/M medieval threesome? Check. From hot vintage Hollywood to a triple lesbian story right out of "Mad Men," Once Upon a Threesome has a story for everyone. ... Read more

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Listen for the calls of nesting ravens and warblers, watch the growth of wild geranium and black cohosh, and savor the first autumn blush in the tupelo trees. Revel, as did Frank Lloyd Wright, Henry Benjamin Latrobe, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt--among generations of other amateur naturalists-- in the remarkable natural, historical, and geological treasures of Sugarloaf, the Maryland Piedmont’s only mountain.

A favored destination of nearly one-quarter million visitors each year, some 35 miles northwest of Washington, D.C., and 50 miles west of Baltimore, Sugarloaf is a National Natural Landmark and privately owned park that is open to the public year-round. In this natural history and guidebook, Melanie Choukas-Bradley presents a fascinating blend of local, natural, and historical detail that transports the reader simultaneously onto the slopes of today’s mountain and into the region’s past. Discover why prominent architects and real estate barons have found the land so compelling, why preservationists and botanists strive to protect the natural habitat of so many native species, and why families return again and again to hike, study flora and fauna, and picnic at Sugarloaf.

Choukas-Bradley lists practical information on how and when you might best enjoy a visit to the trails, wildflowers, and seasonal variations of the land. Her text is beautifully complemented by Tina Thieme Brown’s pen-and-ink illustrations. ... Read more

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A Great Little Book
I thoroughly enjoyed this book about Sugarloaf Mountain.As a hike leader with a local trail club, it was most helpful before leading a recent hike on the mountain.But more than that, I just loved reading it. The history, especially, was interesting to me, but the rest was very good as well. If you have ever been to (or wish to visit) this wonderful little slice of nature amidst all the suburban sprawl, you should read this book.

A truly beautiful book!
Choukas-Bradley and Brown's book is superbly written and provides a wealth of compelling information.Perhaps even more importantly, it reminds us of the value of our connection to sacred places in nature, something so threatened in our modern culture.This book has really increased my appreciation and enjoyment of Sugarlaf Mountain and all the natural beauty that surrounds it.

A Gem of a Book
As a regular visitor to Sugarloaf Mountain, I was pleased to learn so much more about it from reading this book. I normally shy away from nature and history books but the writing in "Sugarloaf: The Mountain's History, Geology and Natural Lore" is so good that it just drew me in. I literally couldn't put the book down!

I especially loved the chapter describing each season on Sugarloaf. With such obvious love for and knowledge of the mountain, the author vividly describes the different aspects of each season in exquisite detail.

I highly recommend this book! ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Michigan Academician, published by Michigan Academy of Science Arts & Letters on May 1, 2000. The length of the article is 1608 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Bedrock Geology of Mackinac County, Michigan.
Author: Lewis M. Brown
Publication: Michigan Academician (Refereed)
Date: May 1, 2000
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Volume: 32Issue: 2Page: 1

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The Little Poet, by Aryeh Lev Stollman; With Mirros, by Art Corriveau; A Misery of Love, by Paula Huston; Justice, by Danit Brown; My Other Life, by Melanie Sumner; Hammam, by Carol Anshaw; Local Boys, by David Williams; Every Little Hurricane, by Sherman Alexie; Get Well Soon, by Lewis Nordan; Nan Madol, by Evan S. Connell ... Read more

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Literary short stories by established and emerging writers.

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Melanie Rae Thon
Saviors
The ambulance took seventeen astonishing minutes. Willis and Louise sang the whole time, soft and low, sweet rock-a-bye love songs, as if the man were their first and last and most beloved only child.

Armand ML Inezian
See Me
These old memories--the tastes of candies of his youth, pictures of rooms on other continents, the smell of long-defunct hair tonics, conversations with relatives who'd died decades ago--who needed them?

Alvin Handelman
Hurricane Man
When my brother Jeremy died, in 1996, at the age of fifty-eight, I felt as if an enormous hole had been dug out of my chest. I was not lightened by it.

Eileen FitzGerald
Enough Dead Squirrel
They'd found salvation finally in a psychologist, an elfish man who called it a phobia, taught slow breathing, and loved to talk about Mary Poppins--the books, not the movie. "He's a very smart boy," said the doctor. "It's not easy to be a smart boy. Smart means sensitive, and sensitive can make you sad."

Hugh Sheehy
After the Flood
The Mississippi swells up and covers the town and the surrounding forest, devastating all visible creation. Hundreds of egrets fly north; there is no counting the dead.

Ann Beattie
Something, Something
A line of re-gifting impossible to keep track of, a mobius strip of swirling presents, flashing like a conga line of drunks in Tortola at sunset, tenuously connecting a PR person in Paris to a woman in the Florida Keys, then expanding into the universe, eventually to disappear into the Black Hole of gifts.

Evan Lavender-Smith
Bad Numbers
"I thought I was done for, Bob, I thought I was going to die in that old refrigerator. So I took the time to really go over every inch of me, really say a good goodbye to myself. I touched between my toes and along the creases of my eyelids."

Yiyun Li
Interview by Linda B. Swanson-Davies
In Chinese, you have to memorize everything--there's no spelling. You have to memorize probably thousands of characters to be literate. That's a major difficulty for me trying to teach my children Chinese. I can't make them memorize thousands of characters. There are some rules, some logic, like if you put the characters for sun and moon together, you have another character that means bright or light, but you can't read if you don't know how to pronounce a character. It's not like English.

Ingrid Hill
The Light on the Windows at Marienburg
I was eleven, and I'd thought I would graduate from eighth grade at the same school where I'd gone all my life--well, six years--but my mother was taking me to godforsaken postwar Germany, to an army base, so she could marry a lieutenant colonel and we could be fixed for life.

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? The Men Who Grew in America's Forests? Skiing Arizona?? Cactus, Canyons, and Culture? The Legacy of the Soil Soldiers? From Hopi Pueblo to Spanish Presidio - A Wish List for More State Parks ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Household & Personal Products Industry, published by Rodman Publications, Inc. on July 1, 2004. The length of the article is 5923 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Gimme some sugar: the Mizani Beyond hair color system now includes the rich Brown Sugar range and a celebrity spokesperson.
Author: Melanie Henson
Publication: Household & Personal Products Industry (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 1, 2004
Publisher: Rodman Publications, Inc.
Volume: 41Issue: 7Page: 65(1)

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This digital document is an article from Emerging Infectious Diseases, published by Thomson Gale on May 1, 2006. The length of the article is 7154 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Mycobacterium tuberculosis and rifampin resistance, United Kingdom.
Author: I-Ching Sam
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Date: May 1, 2006
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Whether your windows are large or small, and the surroundings formal or informal, 'Curtains & Blinds' has all the advice and inspiration you need to choose and make exactly the right window treatment for your home. Melanie Paine uses her years of experience as an interior designer to provide a comprehensive guide to all the basic techniques and a stunning range of exciting yet timeless design ideas - from the simplest type of blind to elaborately dressed formal curtains. In the first section there is clear advice on how to analyse the size, shape and position of your windows and how to create a range of looks with different colours and fabrics. The technqiues section gives you all the practical information you need, along with tried and tested tricks of the trade. Easy-to-follow instructions and full-colour, step-by-step photographs show you how to measure up your window as well as do all the basic and specialist stitches and seams. Finally, a range of beautiful, step-by-step projects will inspire you with practical ideas for your home. The projects cover a wide variety of types and styles, from sheer, unlined curtains to a self-pelmeted curtain with goblet pleats.For each, the author shows how you can adapt each project simply to create the look that's right for you. ... Read more

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Intersubjective Processes and the Unconscious looks at how the minds of the therapist and the patient interact with each other in a profound and unconscious way: a concept first described by Freud.

This book expands Freud’s ideas further and examines how these have been greatly elaborated by contributions from the Kleinian School as well as from the work of Bion. It explores how, together, patient and therapist co-create a narrative through these unconscious intersubjective processes. Topics of discussion include:

• the unconscious dimensions of intersubjective processes
• an historical overview of Freudian, Kleinian and Bionian contributions
• an integrated theory of the nature of unconscious intersubjective processes
• the central importance of dreaming in intersubjective processes
• the clinical implications of this intersubjective model

The author offers in-depth clinical examples and case vignettes to illustrate the application of these principles when working with trauma, countertransference dreams and supervision. As such, this book will be invaluable to all psychoanalysts and psychotherapists interested in the topic of intersubjectivity as well as those who want to learn more about the interactional dimensions of Freud, Klein and Bion.

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This digital document is an article from Artforum International, published by Artforum International Magazine, Inc. on December 1, 2007. The length of the article is 4640 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Books: best of 2007.(Book review)
Author: Brigid Doherty
Publication: Artforum International (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 1, 2007
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An analysis of British education which claims that the relationship between teacher and pupil has been undermined and that systematic instruction has given way to approximations and guesswork - resulting in an increase in illiteracy. Offers a blueprint to restore authority and meaning to society. ... Read more

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Nothing original under the sun
Melanie Phillips is right about a lot of things: the culture of egalitarian equal outcomes of state education in Britain has blighted the lives of a generation, afflicting pupils of all abilities (undoubtedly - ever since Anthony Crossland declared he wanted to 'destroy ever f**king grammar school in England'). Family breakdown causes emotional disturbance in children and adults (er, with you there Mel). Pupils need to learn proper grammar usage in order to read and write and speak properly (of course). Trendy lefty educationalists, often the people who have either never been in a classroom, or couldn't cope with teaching. are ruining the schooling system (definitely).

However you can glean all this by reading the chapter headings. I read the book and was remarkably uninspired by the tedious, biscuit dry, hectoring prose. Come on Melanie - if you are so intelligent and highly calibrated yourself - show off some fireworks and write a masterpiece along the lines of the great educationalist Allan Bloom's 'Closing of the American Mind' which really investigates the mediocrity of the modern soul. Not this single dimensional, hyperbolic diatribe, which will provide succour to the wide lawns and narrow minds class of Middle England, but not much else.

Very one-sided but scores a lot of direct hits

This trenchant 1996 polemic against the modern style of education in Britain is one of the most one-sided books I have ever read. But that does not mean it can be ignored.

Obviously the detailed examples relate to Britain and not to other countries such as the USA. However, fashions in ideas, and teaching methods, can and do cross the Atlantic in both directions and the arguments debated in the book are likely to be relevant in many parts of the world.

I have to start this review with a major qualification: neither the school where I am about to conclude 20 years as a governor, nor the school which my own children currently attend, bear much resemblance to the picture painted in this book.

However, I did see hints of this picture in the school where I was previously a governor. More to the point, I have met far too many parents, teachers, and employers who do recognise the stories in this book as a description of what has been inflicted on their children, pupils, or new employees, to lightly dismiss the arguments presented by Melanie Phillips as a description of what went wrong in the late 20th century in too many British schools.

From the newpaper articles by the author and her close intellectual ally, former head of the schools inspectorate Phillip Woodhead, I am sure she would argue that these problems have not been solved - and sadly she probably has a point.

The author would now be considered on matters of education to be a conservative with a small c - this means someone of traditional views, who does not necessarily also support the Conservative party, with a large C. A conservative is sometimes described as "A liberal who has been mugged by reality". Melanie Phillips started out as a "liberal" (e.g. left wing) journalist on the Guardian, which is the main left-liberal newspaper in Britain, and back then she supported all the ideas which were fashionable for "progressives" at the time. On one or two issues she still does, witness the sideswipes at Mrs Thatcher which occasionally occur in the book.

However, Melanie Phillips changed her position from arch-liberal to arch conservative when she observed at first hand how liberal and progressive teaching methods were failing children. The book is full of examples.

I cannot accept that this book is a full and fair picture of every school in Britain at the time it was written or subsequently. It does not describe the schools I know best. But the book does score a very large number of direct hits on things which have gone wrong with some schools and makes convincing arguments about how complete nonsense from some parts of the British educational establishment have made matters worse.

And part of the reason the good schools of which I have personal experience have been successful and are not like the schools described in "All must have prizes" is that they have had excellent, confident, hands-on headmasters and headmistresses who know when to ignore rubbish from the national education ministry (DFES) or the local schools department at county hall.

If you want to have an understanding of the issues around education in Britain, you may or may not agree with this book but you ought to read it.

Melanie Phillips Upsets Bigots
Shouldn't one actually say why, one thinks someone's book is "rubbish", rather than just "expressing one's sentiments. I have yet to read Melanie Phillips book but I did hear her interviewed on radio and she was rational, reasoned and fairminded in her criticisms of the abandonment of standards in contemporary schooling.I'd give Phillips and open minded read.

What IS this woman talking about?
More nonsense from Ms Phillips, who seems to like pontificating in ignorance. Perhaps it's because people buy her rubbish. Or at least people abroad do. In Britain, of course, we KNOW it bears no relation to reality.

As for the other reviewers, well, Whitepride's very name says it all.

Deserves Greater Attention in the U.S.A.
Melanie Phillips is an eloquent writer, one of the best essayists in Anglosphere journalism.In the U.K. she is truly the voice of one crying in the wilderness.She documents the bizarre dissolution of the British education system, to the point of utter collapse.

Ms. Phillips explains that the teaching of English language skills has been virtually derailed in the U.K.Firstly, the idea that students should be required to actually learn the internal rules of a language has been absurdly politicized.The teaching of grammatical rules has been judged to be some kind of oppressive act against the child. Secondly, the educational establishment has rejected the genius of Western phonics.English words are composed of letters which stand for sounds.If you know the sounds that each letter stands for you can pronounce and use the word. Granted there are many exceptions to the general rules connecting sounds to letters, but, in the main, this principle controls. This is obvious but there are language systems that do not use this approach.Chinese, for instance, uses pictograms.Chinese children have to learn by sheer force of memory thousands of pictograms. Chinese typewriters are a sight to behold.

Ms. Phillips documents the amazing fact that much of the English educational establishment has rejected teaching children the "code" whereby letters are associated with articulated sounds, in favor, of treating each word as an entity which is recognized and learned as a whole.This approach, of course, has the effect of treating English as if it was composed of pictograms; words are just groups of symbols which must be memorized by sight, instead of figured out using the rules regarding only 26 symbols.This, of course, wastes the advantage of a phonics based language system.

In the end, Ms. Phillips documents that education, and the transmission of knowledge from one generation to another, was placed in the hands of people who incredibly believed that: a) the very act of actively teaching a child was an oppressive political act which harmed the child and b) there was no need to preserve and transmit an accumulated cultural heritage from one generation to another and c) that the historical English culture was not truly worthy of passing on to another generation, including the great thinkers, poets, writers and philosophers of English history.In short, education was placed in the hand of people who considered the act of teaching to be oppressive and the transmission of English culture to be undesirable. Not too surprisingly, education in public schools has descended into farce.

Americans will recognize the same forces at work in many areas of education today.I can only hope that this book finds a wider audience in America, as its lessons are truly important for the health of society.

I encourage everyone to read Ms. Phillips for themselves and I think they will agree that her voice needs to be heard and that she has marshalled a powerful argument against the insanity that reigns in so many public schools in the U.K. and, of course, here in the U.S. also. ... Read more

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