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Sometimes we forget the goofy things that made us happy or the simplicity and possibility that was our past. Our lives are made up of fleeting moments—moments we wish we could’ve written down. Babes Remember is just that: a list of songs, people, ideas, toys, and trends sure to stir up memories of days gone by and bring back the feeling of those moments. Organized into fun categories like On the Screen, Over the Waves, and On the Page; Rockin’ and Reelin’; Fads in Fashion; and The Lingo, Man; this 300-plus list of people, places, things, and groups is sure to create laughs and tears alike. Spurred by an afternoon of reminiscing, this book is an amazing array of cultural memory and makes an ideal present for those on the verge of old-timer-itis. ... Read more

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It all began with the poem "Warning" by Jenny Joseph: "When I am an old woman I shall wear purple/with a red hat which doesn't go, and doesn't suit me." Those powerful lines inspired thousands of women over the age of 50 to ditch conventional ideas of "matching" (in fashion and in life) and don red hats with purple clothes.

Jill Larson Sundberg is one such woman. This is her second Red Hat book and it's a little book full of big ideas like "I'm going to make sure that those who are easily shocked will be shocked more often" and "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did" and peppered throughout with quotes from honorary Red Hatters like Lucille Ball, Katharine Hepburn, and Judy Tenuta. Each Hattitude is accompanied by a quirky Red Hat line drawing.

Hold on to your hats because Sundberg's My Red Hattitudes is sure to zap you fully into living the freedom that can only come with age. It's perfect for a party favor, hostess gift, stocking stuffer, or just because you want to recognize the women of a certain age in your life. ... Read more

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The Burma-Shave craze reached its zenith during the 1950s, withmore than 7,000 signs posted across the United States.

To market Burma-Shave, Allen Odell, an advertising wordsmith,devised the concept of sequential signs to sell his shaving cream.Typically, six signs were erected, with each of the first fivecontaining a line of verse, and the sixth trumpeting the brand name.

Burma-Shave signs appeared in every state except Arizona,Nevada and New Mexico. The creative people at Burma-Shave, aswell as customers who sent in jingles of their own, ultimatelycreated more than 600 of the rhymes.

In the world of advertising, Burma-Shave stood as unique, creatingsigns that became a part of the popular culture.

Although the Burma-Shave company is no more, these fun littlerhymes hold great nostalgic value for those of us who fondlyremember them from our Sunday drives.

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Life is Full of Coincidences
A little thrill of the drive

before the highway did arrive,

were the red and white signs,

that denoted the times,

Burma Shave.


Part of the magic of the 50's were the small, rectangular red signs with white letters that were spaced about fifty or a hundred feet apart. The signs rhymed and could be read sequentially as your car passed by. I didn't understand them until my father explained that it was a way for a company to get people to buy what they were selling. These weren't billboards, but humble sticks in the ground with rectangular signs attached on top.

Every time they popped up thereafter was a treat and a surprise to be able to read them faster than our car would go, and put the phrase together by the end. It held just as much excitement as spotting a horse in a distant meadow. The open road was America's last frontier, and the exploration was less boring because of the anticipation of the Burma Shave signs.

The book explains their origin which is something that most of us wonder about, but are never curious enough to pursue. It was the second brushless shaving cream ever to be manufactured and the first to ever become a success. Clinton Odell and his sons took over the failed British product and developed a quality shaving cream with the help of a chemist, Carl Noren. It was marketed from 1925 to 1966.

With an investment of $200 in scrap lumber, the signs began appearing in Southern Minnesota. They multiplied to over 7,000 in every state except Arizona, Nevada, and New Mexico. Customers contributed to the signs made up by the Burma Shave employees until there were more than 600 different rhymes. Philip Morris Inc. began removing the signs in 1963 after they bought out the company. An era came to an end.

Life is full of coincidences and this is no different. It was sent to me after I forwarded a very cute song about the 50's and Burma Shave signs. The recipient, a friend of mine, thought it would be a nice way to remember my birthday by sending this along. There are 105 pages, each of which have their own set of "signs." Two or three pages tell you the history of the Burma Shave signs. It is not something I recommend buying for oneself as there is so little content, but it is a treasured gift that I will keep for years. I recommend you consider the book in the same vein. It coincided perfectly with the email.

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It all began with a poem called "Warning," by Jenny Joseph that goes like this: "When I am an old woman I shall wear purple/With a red hat which doesn’t go, and doesn’t suit me." Hundreds of thousands of women of a certain age have taken up that poem as their anthem and that red hat as their badge—they (we) will do anything we please—society’s constraints beware!

There is the Red Hat Society and there are conventions and t-shirts and now there’s . . . My Red Hat, by Jill Larson Sundberg, who knows the value of being old enough to not have to follow the rules. She knows the even greater value of having something as sassy as a red hat as a comforting talisman in times of stress and loneliness. Or as a constant companion, cheering us up and never talking back. Or as a good luck symbol.

Check it out—on the Web, at a fancy restaurant near you, wherever women of a certain age gather—tens of thousands of them are talking about and wearing purple clothes and RED HATS.

This little book couldn't be simpler—47 inspirational thoughts, all beginning with "My Red Hat": ... Read more

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The exercise in this book titled, Seeing Six shows exactly why the book is such an effective teaching tool. In Seeing Six, students are guided through the step-by-step process of drawing a picture on the computer, in which the object being drawn (a house) is composed of six lines. It involves the child hands-on with the computer using the line, fill, color, and stamp tools, while at the same time applying basic counting and geometric concepts. This exercise is followed up with extension activities and literature connections. There are 25 computer projects in all, which introduce and familiarize students with many computer functions, while covering these mathematics skills: understanding numbers, counting, one-to-one correspondence, patterns, sorting, making comparisons, geometry, symmetry, money, calendar, and computation. There are 12 templates to scan to make the math projects even more student-friendly. The 15-page user manual covers such topics as computer etiquette, screen snapshots, creating templates, printing, saving student work, getting students started on the computer, and not letting the computer intimidate you or your students. You also get reproducible cards of practice terms and icons. Illustrated with simple, light-hearted line art, this 80-page resource is as friendly as it is effective. ... Read more

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On April 1, 1986, archaeologists digging at the site of the Tara Taco Bell in Clayton County, Georgia, made an amazing discovery--a large wooden trunk that belonged to none other than Scarlett O'Hara Butler. Some relevations revealed in Scarlett's diary include mammy's true identity as a white transvestite philospher, Melanie's struggles with PMS and depression, Scarlett and Melanie's brief careers as mud wrestlers, and more. Simultaneous hardcover release from Dove Books. ... Read more

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DONT BOTHER READING THIS!!
THIS WAS DISGUSTING AND DISGRACEFUL AND I CANT BELIVE I PAID AN ENTIRE QUARTER FOR IT!!!!!

The Southern Belle Primer Revisited
What a Hoot! I loved it! Now we know what was really in that pretty little head. I am a long time fan of GWTW (some 30 years worth)and a passionate historian of the antebellum South, but this is too neat a satire to pass up. (Far better than that wretched sequel to GWTW palmed off on us a few years ago!) Scarlett would have been in stitches - heck, she'd have been publishing her memoirs a long time ago! That lady did love the limelight.

If you take GWTW as serious history and don't want your feathers ruffled, no, don't listen to this book. But if you enjoy GWTW as the rousing Southern mythology and legacy it is, I think you will safely get a kick out of this. My only complaint was that the reader speaks so quickly at times that she is difficult to follow and thus doesn't come across as authentically Southern.

This Is A Disgrace!
This is terrible that some modern-age author thought it funny to make fun of one of literatures greatest works.Its a disgrace to all new-day authors that one dosen't have enough imagination to come up with a storyand plot of their own, but instead chooses to downgrade a beloved Americanclassic.

You'll Laugh Your Corsett Right Off!
Can you imagine reading the actual private thoughts of Mrs. Katy Scarlett O'Hara Hamilton Kennedy Butler herself?What did she really think of "Meli", Ashley, Rhett, and the others?It's all here!And,you'll find yourself reading it from start to finish in one sitting!BestMoment:Scarlett's version of "Look Away Dixie Land".Anmust-have for any GWTW fan! ... Read more

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A story about the effects of Alzheimer's on three generations of a family focuses on Grace Dorian, a sixty-year-old advice columnist, and her daughter and granddaughter, who struggle with their changing roles. ... Read more

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Not about Alzheimers, but about romance.Ugh.
Outdated and not for anyone wanting to learn more about dementia.It's just an old fashioned romance novel and not a good one at that.

Barbara Delinsky Touches My Soul
Shades of Grace it an interwoven tale of what has occurred in my life. She touches my soul.

Barabara at her best!
Shades of Grace is a well written book about living with a parent with Alzheimer's.If you have someone close going through caring for a loved one with Alzheimer's this book would be one to share with that person.Gives a very real look at caring for your loved one.Well worth reading!

This will touch your heart
There are some detailed reviews of this book, so I will be brief. This is only the 2nd Delinsky book I have read and I have become a fan of her intelligent portrayals of some very controversial subjects. This book is written primarily from Francine's perspective and follows her journey from the meek assistant in the shadow of her famous mother to becoming the strength of the family. She struggles to accept her mother's deteriorating health and desperately wants to find out the secrets of Grace's early years.

I am not certain if the description and details of Alzheimer's disease are accurate, but they are emotionally touching and surely seemed realistic! This story is not totally about Grace's failing mind. The issues brought to light in this book establish a great sense of love and strong family unity. There is a wonderful and sizzling romantic interest for Francine. I would not hesitate to recommend this novel to others or to read it again.

Does The Silver Spoon Feed The Soul?
SHADES OF GRACE is the most powerful, engrossing, and cathartic of the 25 novels I've read in Delinsky's collection.

What a courageous way for an author to begin this story, from the viewpoint of a mind in early stages of Alzheimer's.With courage to carry a torch into the darkest corners of trauma, Delinsky treats soulful issues with such grace and compassion that the reader is entertained simultaneous to receiving a handbook for survival through catastrophe.Her logo should be a cornucopia spilling from a sunrise.

Holding wounding memories of loved ones who suffered from Alzheimer's, I was hesitant to pick up this book.But, knowing that this author treats gut wrenching issues with gentle grace, yet without the slightest denial of the rigors of reality, I decided to take a dive.

While I admired the technique of opening the story from the mental processes of Grace in her early struggles with Alzheimer's, as I began reading, I wondered if it might be ineffectively arrogant for an author to attempt to describe, from the deteriorating character's thoughts, a mental process of such complex nuance, which the author hadn't directly experienced herself.I was concerned that something so raw as a mind losing itself in a particular pattern would come across as a poor "best guess" riddled with wrong assumptions of cause and effect.

I was not disappointed in any way in this real and poignant, special work of fiction.It was an emotionally satisfying, enlightening journey.The irony of Grace being an "Ann Landers" type of syndicated columnist was dealt with flawlessly, exposing elegantly how knowledge and practice of a precisely prescribed book of "Manners" can become a wasteland of emptiness when one is forcibly exposed to a more raw and honest guide to genuine courtesy and compassion.

Who cares which fork is appropriate when the hand has forgotten where the mouth is.As SHADES OF GRACE evolves, a gentle blossoming occurs in a true family's caring about that vulnerable hand. ... Read more

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This book features a computer lesson for each letter of the alphabet. Students follow the directions and use computer drawing tools to create an object beginning with a particular letter, for example: Just Jellyfish, Purple Pockets, Under an Umbrella, or Zebra in a Zigzag Zoo. Each exercise is followed up with extension activities and literature connections. Step-by-step instructions are provided to help ensure success. For example, instructions for the letter Q, Quack, Quack, Quiet, are as follows: 1) Start with a clean screen, 2) Choose a drawing tool, a color, and a medium line, 3) Draw a duck, 4) Choose the fill tool, 5) Color your drawing, 6) Draw a speech bubble, 7) Keyboard "Quack!" or "Quiet!" into the bubble, 8) Read the screen. There are five additional lessons that reinforce letter-sound recognition using the entire alphabet. Students will use the line, drawing, text, and color tools, as well as learn to print and familiarlize themselves with the keyboard. The 15-page user manual covers such topics as computer etiquette, screen snapshots, creating templates, printing, saving student work, getting students started on the computer, and not letting the computer intimidate you or your students. You also get reproducible cards of practice terms and icons. Illustrated with simple, light-hearted line art, this 80-page resource is as friendly as it is effective. ... Read more

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Alphabet Activities for Kindergarten
Our kindergarten team has used this book for ideas for our computer lab for 2-3 years with kid pix and mac OS10.We copy the directions; model them for the class.It is easy for the children to plan on the back of the sheet before going to the lab.It is something they can do with minimal help.

Boring
The activities in this book were of very low interest even for kindergartners. They required more than beginning computer skills and the end results were not much. There was very little variety in the different activities. Basically, a huge waste of money. ... Read more

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A feeling of warmth, of security and of nostalgia—that’s what Jill Larson Sundberg and MichaelLarson provide us in their newest book, Cozy Cozy.

Their memories detailed on these pages apply topeople of all ages. All of us can remember withfondness our most precious “Cozy Cozy” times.

In this work, the authors recall and catalog avariety of “Cozy Cozy” moments as children—as well as the “Cozy Cozy”moments they have continued to enjoy in their adult years. Theirrecollections certainly will help you, whatever your age, remember “CozyCozy” moments of your own.

In Cozy Cozy, you will find wit and wisdom, hope and aspiration, andthoughts that will help lift you during the difficult times we all confrontin our lives. Remembering and relishing our “Cozy Cozy” moments canhelp all of us live our lives to the fullest.

The reminiscences here about the things that made us feel sowonderful and that enriched our lives will leave you feeling nostalgia fora time when being “Cozy Cozy” provided the best possible reward.

We wish all of you a “Cozy Cozy” life.

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Give students a comprehensive survey of the history and heritage of the United States with a Christian perspective on events and people. Text icons in the full-color Teacher's Edition (which includes ... Read more

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2 BOOKS.. only got Book 2
Like the others I only got book 2 of teacher's book. Why do they try to deceive us when it clearly says in the product information "2 BOOK SET" and then then only send 1 book? Come on! What good does ONLY the second volume do without BOOK ONE?

I STILL Need BOOK One! (SIGH)

I'd hate to think its not just another way to rip off homeschoolers!If they are only going to sell 1 book then why not just clearly state: BOOK 2 ONLY?

The American Republic for Christian schools
I really liked this book - I found it to be a great history book for its intended age range.My kids didn't find it too "dry and boring", like a lot of text books.And they really enjoyed all the pictures and little excerpts.I don't know what the other reviews below me are talking about.I believe there is only one volume.

Rating of Amazon, not this book
Just as the other buyer experienced, I only recieved volume 2 of this set.I am very concerned that this is an on-going problem with Amazon, so I could not recommend that you purchase these books here.

**Added note:I saw this old review and wanted to clarify it.It seems that many private sellers of this book (not Amazon itself) are only sending one book, when it is actually described as a set of two books.You will need both of the books for this course.Be very cautious about this!

American Republic for Christian Schools
I understood this to be a two volume set.However, I only received the second book.I tried to contact the seller and still have had no response as to why I didn't get the first volume. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from American Scholar, published by Thomson Gale on September 22, 2007. The length of the article is 1092 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.

Citation Details
Title: The early end of consensus: bitter partisanship began soon after George Washington left the scene.(Book review)
Author: Jill Ogline
Publication: American Scholar (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 22, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 76Issue: 4Page: 129(3)

Article Type: Book review

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