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Adirondack Trails: High Peaks Region
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First published by ADK in 1934, this new 13th edition remains the essential guide to trails of the Adirondack High Peaks region. Includes the latest trail routes, designated campsite and lean-to locations, DEC regulations, and updated trail mileages. The latest edition of the High Peaks topographic trail map is included. Edited by Tony Goodwin and Neal Burdick. 13th ed. 300 pages, 5" x 7". Softcover (includes folding map).
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Indispensable guide.......2006-08-18
If you ever travel to the Adirondacks for hiking in the High Peaks, this little guide book, complete with fold-out map, is an absolute must. It's the 2004, 13th edition of the guide first put out in the 1930s.
I wasn't around back then, but I imagine the trails have changed a bit. They're maintained very well, for the most part, but the occasional tree-fall and rock slide does alter the landscape over time, so keeping your guides up to date is a good idea.
The large, very detailed map, of course, is wonderful. But other indispensable aspects of this little book are the exact locations of the trail heads, as well as descriptions of each trail, with accurate assessments of their difficulty--easy, moderate, or difficult.
This guide will help you find the trails most suited to your abilities, and enhance your wilderness experience many times over.
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A must for exploring the 'Dacks.......2000-09-13
This comprehensive book is a must for anyone exploring the High Peaks region of the Adirondacks. I use it as my bible to plan every trip I take to the area. The topo map alone is almost worth the price (although it can be purchased separately).
The editor, Tony Goodwin, is born into a family of hikers, and is very involved with the DEC and ADK mountain club. He's a valuable source of information not only on the trail conditions, but on the future plans! I had a privilege of working on a trail construction project to build a new route that he spearheaded.
There are only two things I would like to see in future editions:
1) A more thorough listing of the locations of designated campsites (aside from those surrounding lean-tos)
2) Time/ distance/ elevation estimates for the unmarked/unmaintained trails of the 46 High Peaks.
For the unmaintained trails, Barbara McMartin's Discover the Adirondack High Peaks is more thorough.
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Americans now spend over $300 billion each year in legal gambling, and the gambling industry has become a major contributor to tax revenues. In the past 30 years, nearly all states have permitted some form of gambling, and 126 Native American tribes now operate reservation casinos. Yet, even as legalized gambling has grown by leaps and bounds, public opinion has turned against it, and political opposition has mobilized. Some critics of gambling want to return to the situation before World War I, when virtually all gambling was illegal in every state, while others want to regulate the industry to channel the popular appetite for gambling into its arguably less undesirable forms. Legalized Gambling: For and Against captures all the main arguments on both sides in this increasingly heated controversy, with 23 carefully-selected contributions by a balanced range of writers.
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A Fair and Comprehensive Approach to a Complicated Subject.......2000-11-27
From the perspective of a city planner representing a city considering the "opportunity" of legalized gambling, I had searched for a book that comprehensively tackled the subject from both sides of the difficult issue. This is the first such book that effectively meets that goal. Heretofore, much of what I had read had a particularly biased approach that failed to fairly represent the pros and cons of legalized gambling. This book is a good start, but should be complemented with additional readings and up to date statistics and anecdotes.
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Newcomer Rachel joins a group of neighborhood kids in their special club, the Defenders of the Universe, modeled after their comic book superheroes. The group soon faces real-life adventures and helps the local police catch some criminals.
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PCE review.......2006-04-01
This is a great book. The reasons I like this book are that it is an adventerous book and a mystery. Every day they meet in a club house they pretend they are superheros. Some of the superheros are: Captain Hero, U.N., Animal Princess, The Sketcher,and Cranium. My favorite character is Justin who is Cranium. He is funny, nice, and adventerous. If you like adventeres and mystery books you will like Defenders of the Universe!
For my children.......2003-07-03
I remember when this book first came out in the school media. I decided to check the book out for D.E.A.R. reading at home. This book was the very first book that I had ever read in two days. It captured my attention and took my imagination on a wild ride. Now 10 years later (18), I have decided to buy the book because when I have children of my own some day, I want them to join Rachel and the others in denfeding the universe. I think that most children would enjoy this book because it allows them to tap into thier imagination, which some children in this generation lack. I think it's a great book for children.
A wonderful book by my "Fairy Godmother".......2000-09-12
My mother originally read this book to me because my "Fairy Godmother" wrote it. I loved the characters, with their colorful and imaginative costumes. As a young child, I would picture myself as Minh ("Animal Princess"), and my best friend as Carlotta, or "Packy." I love the kids' "powers", even now, at age 13. You might think that I only like this book because my "aunt" wrote it; but that is not true. The book is creative, funny, and unusual. I like the illustrations as well, for they help you to picture the characters. I like how the kids help each other when they are in need. It is a "magical" book that you should read, at whatever age.
Super Book.......2000-09-12
This book is a fun look at how kids that are "different" can still fit in. It has imaginative characters and an interesting story line. It is a mystery/adventure story for readers/listeners age 6 to 11, although my thirteen year old still enjoys reading it. I liked the various characters and cared what happened to them. I first read this story to my daughter when she was about 5 or 6 and I still enjoy reading it. We wished there were additional books available of the "super kids" further adventures.
Ok, I guess.......1999-03-27
This is an ok book. A bunch of kids form a little group of "super heros". So, don't expect real super heros. It's kind of a fun story, you might like it!This is acculy more of a story for younger kids.
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Hardback,no dust jacket issued,Saturn pub,192 page bk w/many picures,descriptive text,collectible bk,crisp,clean nice copy
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Conservative Resurgence from the John Birch Society to the Promise Keepers Foreword by Wilma Mankiller
"A personal, historical, and well-researched tour through the parallel universe of right-wing America."*
In this provocative book, Jean Hardisty details the formation of right-wing movements in opposition to the struggle for expansion of rights for women, people of color, and lesbians and gays. Her own experiences spanning three decades as both an activist and observer undergird her analysis in riveting ways. We see her in a stadium filled with Promise Keepers, watching thousands of men pledge in unison to take control of their families, with a mixture of awe, fear, and a lucid understanding of what draws people to such charismatic events.
"If you have time for only one book about the ultra-conservative resurgence, this is it."—*Gloria Steinem
"A thoughtful and provocative look at the right wing in the United States, replacing simple condemnation with sober analysis. It raises the troubling question: what can we learn from people we fear."—Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States
"Mobilizing Resentment provides a wealth of information for anyone interested in how to refocus the energy and idealism of the progressive movement on the building of institutions that are relevant to the lives of most Americans."—Wilma Mankiller, from the Foreword
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Left-liberal paranoia.......2001-07-21
Do any of these groups and/or personalities sound like radical right-wingers to you?
* The Promise Keepers is a group that spends most of its time talking about reconciliation between whites and blacks and urging men to spend time with their children.
* Charles Colson works with the ACLU to secure rights for prisoners and advocates letting drug offenders out of prison for treatment rather than incarceration.
* The Southern Baptist Convention has categorized racism as a sin to the its denominational credo and devotes much of its energy to reaching out to impovershed African-Americans, fighting world hunger, assisting slaves and victims of human trafficking, etc.
In my own evangelical church, most of our "political" talk in recent months has centered on topics like religious freedom for Afganistan and other nations; standing in unity with other believers from other countries; letting drug users out of prison, and helping the families of prison inmates.
Do you honestly think that a religious tradition with close ties to the Quakers and the Anabaptists is out to take over the country and rob you of your civil rights? Jean Hardisty does - apparently, she thinks that religious groups insisting that they have the right to call certain sexual activities "sin" for their members is a threat to the entire American way of life. Does this sound like "liberalism" to you? I thought liberalism was supposed to tolerate diverse perspectives - not insist that everyone agree with Hollywood producers OR ELSE.
Another very stupid book. The New Class is a bunch of tired hippies who should just fade into the sunset and leave the thinking to real people.
Serious scholarship about the radical right.......2001-03-06
This important book explains clearly and well, and how and why the radical right is such a threat to the civil rights of women, gays and lesbians, and people of color. Hardisty is a political scientist whose work helps to flesh out the scholarly literature on the religious right by the likes of sociologists Sara Diamond and Dallas Blanchard, and journalists Frederick Clarkson and Robert Boston...
The Growing Blur Between Church & State.......2001-02-17
An amazing book indeed. Jean Hardisty thoroughly researches and critiques the many sectors of the political right. This is a book worth reading whether you know nothing at all about the right-wing or you make a point to know. It is especially important in view of present day politics. She not only takes the right seriously in their ability to organize and mobilize but she reveals what their true message is. As a fellow progressive I appreciate her not glossing over the Progressive Movements own weaknesses. Once we truly understand the political right as well as bravely admit to our own faults we will grow into a greater movement.
A Clear, Substantive Challenge to the Right's Agenda.......2000-10-25
In an election year (and, I expect, in its aftermath), Mobilizing Resentment provides invaluable information about the right-wing forces that inform today's electoral and policy debates--as they have since the start of the Reagan administration. In an atmosphere in which people often demonize those with significantly different politics, I find it refreshing to read an analysis that strives to understand WHY both leaders and followers place themselves in the right's camp. Because the mainstream media so often refers to the right as monolithic, it is particularly valuable to read an author who distinguishes among the ideas and strategies of the right's various parts, including the Christian Right, neo-conservatives, "equality feminists," and libertarians (who are, in less nuanced discussions, not perceived as part of the right).
The author's opening description of attending a Promise Keepers rally is powerful in itself, while setting the stage for a book in which she clearly and frequently locates herself in relation to her subject. In describing the right's successful grassroots organizing, she offers a thorough and tremendously informative exploration of mass fundraising, recruitment, think tanks, publications, and interconnected organizations, as well as committed and generous funders who bankroll these essential building blocks of a social movement.
Although the author mentions in passing such right-wing targets as immigrants, public education, reproductive rights, welfare recipients, and religious pluralism, she focuses on the right's attacks on gay rights and affirmative action and on the anti-feminist women's movement. She details the extensive New Right anti-gay campaign committed to convincing people, for example, that basic civil rights for lesbians and gays related to housing and jobs are somehow "special rights" to be fought vigorously. She shows how all sectors of the right view racism (despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary) as a "thing of the past"--an argument that justifies opposition to affirmative action.
I find particularly fascinating the author's description of the three main strains of the anti-feminist women's movement: the Eagle Forum of Phyllis Schlafly, who was so instrumental in defeating the ERA; the less well-known, but currently far more influential, Concerned Women of America, an arm of the Christian Right; and the Independent Women's Forum, Women's Freedom Network, and assorted "equality feminists" who have been remarkably succesful in bringing their own anti-feminist message to the airwaves and OpEd pages. The book's last chapter looks to the future by focusing on activism and analysis to counter the right and to advance social and economic justice.
The author's personal voice and concrete and non-academic style make this book especially accessible to all readers, including those who might be just starting to learn about the right. Its clear, substantive analysis has much to teach everyone who shares the author's commitment to challenging the right's agenda.
Jean Hardisty Mobilizes Her Own Resentment In Bogus Argument.......2000-09-01
The American Spectator annually gives out the J. Gordon Coogler Award for a book that insults the intelligence of the reader. Past winners have included Anita Hill's pseudo-defense or herself, Jeffrey Toobin's nauseating "account" of the Clinton scandals, so so forth.
How Jean Hardisty's tome Mobilizing Resentment got overlooked is surprising. Hardisty promotes an "analysis" of the rise of conservatism in the latter 20th century and simultaneously attacks it, yet she regularly misses the mark and in the process demonstrates that her motive toward writing the book is the very motive she claims to abhor in "the right."
She begins with the claim that "Anger and intolerance drive protest movements." She makes it out to be that it is "right wing" anger and resentment that is the problem, citing the destruction of the Murrah building in Oklahoma City in 1995. That leftist terrorism and intolerance is far more pervasive is an inconvenient fact she ignores - through it has been there for all to see in such circumstance as the 1992 Rodney King riots, the Tawana Brawley hoax, and the hustles of Jesse Jackson.
She talks about a "kitchen table backlash" without bothering to realize that it is a backlash against genuine leftist discrimination. She also attacks "the right's attack on gay rights," except as homosexual writer Justin Raimondo has pointed out, gay rights are basically an imposition of gay values on society, and the "right wing" backlash has nothing to do with any desire to exterminate or even persecute gays and lesbians.
Again and again Hardisty tries to attack conservative arguments - in "Affirming Racial Inequality" she attacks Walter Williams and Thomas Sowell among others and strives mightily to impose a racist background to suchb writers as Nathan Glazer. There is also the tautology against The Bell Curve even as the passage of time has steadily vindicated its central arguments.
She cites a Holly Sklar tome "Chaos Or Community" to cite a "growing income inequality udner government deregulation, globalization" etc. even though none of what the tome claims is true. This typifies the "progressive" methodology, the very methodology they claim to abhor in "the right."
For all her scholariship, Hardisty is quite ignorant of history's obvious truths. That the left somehow "lives in the shadow of the right's resurgance" is flatly nonsensical - the left still dominates academia, media - her claim about how the idiot-leftist group Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting "exposes" the exclusion of liberal and progressive voices from the media is perhaps the ultimate insult to the reader's intelligence - and culture. That more and more leftists are steadily, if tacitly, coming around to admit the right had it correct all along is a fact Hardisty refuses to acknowledge - she doesn't even mention that such prominent neoconservatives as Thomas Sowell, Norman Podhoretz, and David Horowitz are themselves ex-leftists, who turned because of the very intolerance and intellecutal fraud that is the left's raison d'etre.
The bankrupcy of "progressive" thought is the reason for the rise of the free market and the steady disbandment of confiscatory government around the world. It is the basic failure of leftist thought that is the real reason for the rise of the "right." If Jean Hardisty wants to take an accurate look at the rise of the right, she needs to reexamine the bankrupcy of "progressive" thought.
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The V Club
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When Victoria A. Treemont, the most revered and reclusive woman in Ardsmore, Pennsylvania, passes away, she leaves behind a $160,000 scholarship fund that rocks the worlds of the students at Ardsmore High School. The successful candidate must "exemplify purity of soul, spirit, and body." Everyone agrees that this caveat can mean only one thing: The recipient of the scholarship must still be holding on to the big V.
Welcome to the V Club -- where members embrace abstinence, get off on civic duties, and heat up their chances to clinch the Treemont scholarship. What better way to prove purity than to pledge allegiance to the virginity flag? Besides, chastity belts are sooo 1300s.
Kai, Mandy, Debbie, and Eva have put their futures on the line. But will their deepest insecurities and darkest secrets ruin their chances at the scholarship, or worse, their relationships? Or will they discover the true meaning behind Mrs. Treemont's famous last words?
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English teacher gives this book a B.......2007-09-02
Wow! I'm really surprised by the number of negative reviews of this book by my fellow Readers. Yes, it's not great literature, but it's definitely a page-turner. Brian writes with an engaging and charming style that mirrors the interactions of modern-day teens. I enjoyed it (though it seems more of a "chick" book) and would recommend it.
However, it seems many of my fellow Readers downgraded the book for two reasons: 1) realism and 2) sex.
First off, the book never purports to be a documentary. How "realistic" is Anderson's "Speak"? Rowling's "Harry Potter" series? Hinton's "Outsiders"? Yet, all are popular w/teen readers. The four main characters are representative of groups/cliques many students encounter at their school every day. I never once assumed they were "real" people, nor did the fact that they weren't "real" detract from my enjoyment of the book.
As to the sex: Be warned! THERE IS A SEX SCENE IN THE BOOK. One of the chracters in a moment of vulnerability gives in to her boyfriend's pressure to have sex. There isn't anything graphic. In fact, it kind of reminded me of those Doris Day/Rock Hudson movies where they are laying on the bed and then there is a flash-forward to the next morning. I know some people can get squeemish talking about teens and sex; however, the book does a great job in presenting the REALITY that there is peer pressure to have sex, that some teens actually want to save themselves for marriage, that abstinence should be respected (even applauded). In a day and age where the sexualization of teens is taken for granted (eg, Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan, Hillary Duff), I find it refreshing that someone wrote a book advocating that teens should enjoy their childhood (and not leap so quickly into "adulthood").
I do not recommend this book.......2007-03-12
This is a dirty book. I only got to page 8 before it went bad. I would not give it any stars but 0 stars is not an option. The world is in bad enough shape morally the way it is with out this book. I am ashamed people would write stuff like this.
This Book Is Awsome!!!!!!!!!!!.......2006-03-22
I think that this book was great. It focused on much of how similar life is today with all the compitition and problems you go through with friends and guys. The good thing about it is the fact that one scholarship brought everybody to thinking. I think that all teens sould read this book for the fact that not only does it bring curiosity to you, but the supense it gives off of whats gonna happen next. While reading this book i found it hard to put down, thats just how good it is then again i am a reader. Anyway CHECK IT OUT AND SEE FOR YOURSELF HOW GOOD IT IS.
An OK Read.......2006-02-20
I thought that this book was OK. I liked Eva the best, only because she appeared to be the only normal one out of her friends. Eva is trying to get a date, everyone thinks Debbie's a loose and trampy teenager, Mandy's dad is being investigated for tax fraud and Kai's being stalked by some Latin guy. Wow. The plots all tie together. Mandy was very bratty and snobbish in my oppinion-towards the end of the book, her father has to go to prison and she screams, "I hate you-I'm glad you're going to prison! You deserve to go!" If my dad was going to prison, that would not be a very supportive thing to say to him. Debbie was a bit trashy. She's found with the guy Eva likes-sitting on his lap making out with him. She wants to got to Fashion School, but her dad wants to her to study Math at Penn Sate. Kai's father brings home a friend's son who wants to look at the soccer program at Penn State. He stalks her and she gets mad. And then, at the end, Eva gets engaged to her 'dream guy'. PLEASE! They're freshmen in college. They've known eachother for a year! It was too perfect an ending for me.
The one thing I liked about the book was that it took place in Pennsylvania (I was born in Philadelphia) and Penn State was mentioned a lot (My dad went there and I'm wearing my PSU shirt now!)It was a quick and easy read though, and I could relate to Eva.
The V-Club.......2005-10-21
The V-Club(virginity club) starts when Mrs. Treemont suddenly passes away and leaves behind a mysterious scholarship. The Treemont Scholarship requires that you "exemplify purity of soul and body" in order to recieve it. Becaus of this scholarship, four friends, Eva, Debbie, Mandy, and Kai, must learn how to deal with the problems in their lives. They all want, and need, the scholarship for there own secret perosnal reasons. In her book " The V-Club", Kate Brian tells a intriguing story about the crazy lives of four best friends who compete with each other for a scholarship that requires them to expain why they think that they are pure enough to recieve it. This is a very funny, but serious book, relatable to "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants", that helps you to understand what most all teenage girls in high school go through every day. It lets you understand just how hard it is for teenage girls to juggle boys, family, and school, while still trying to take care of themselves. Brian tells a profound story that's up-to-date, and unpredictable, which any girl can relate to.
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For the second edition of this successful book the contents have been fully updated to take into account recent changes in legislation affecting recreational activities. It also considers the implications for all those concerned with the operation and management of recreational facilities.
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Striving to express the lived experience of women's music at The Club, Stacy Holman Jones has created a text that is itself performative, and the reader cannot resist playing a starring role. Her evocative narrative slips in and out of prose, dialogue, and poetry. Fieldnotes and song lyrics are staged as inseparable parts of the events of social meaning occurring between ethnographer and field site, between reader and text. Jones is haunted by the specters of reliability and validity, motivated by the goals of multivocality and multiple truths, and driven by the music. She is also driven by the mystery and complexity of women's music; a category which is impossible to capture, tame, or pin down. Created and recreated from many points of view in each performance and evocation, it resists a stable definition. This innovative ethnography is an important move toward turning the postmodern critique into a lyrical and complex expression of social experience.
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