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- A story for young and old.
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Walter: The Story of a Rat
Barbara Wersba
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A Rare Find.......2007-09-08
So simple, yet not. This lovely story presents a one of a kind opportunity to share many important topics with a child in an way that he/she can be easily relate. There are so many themes and underlying nuances. What a wonderful way to explore the fragile nature of human insecurities and prejudices - this book should be on every 5th grade teacher's reading list. I can't wait to share it with my niece Allison.
A story for young and old........2007-06-12
A beautifully written story about a very special friendship between two lonely souls that will touch your heart. Barbara Wersba proves little words can express deep emotions.
Wonderful illustrations!
Rats now have a new level of interest for me.......2007-05-25
This book is lovely and deeper then one would think for such a small book. I find that I would like to know more about their relationship and wished that this sweet tale would continue...
friends.......2007-05-14
I read Walter as soon as it arrived and loved it. It is a beautifully written account of a growing friendship between two lonely individuals...great lesson here. I can't wait for my grandchildren to read it.
A story about making friends even if you're scared to do so........2007-03-29
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. The drawings were warmly detailed and delicate. I felt the story so heartwarming. It explains how Walter and Miss Pomeroy, who were both living lonely existences for different reasons, took the 'risk' of putting themselves in each other's lives in hopes of making that wonderful connection we call friendship.
The exchange of notes was sweet - and the first note back from Miss Pomeroy "i know" actually gave me goosebumps.
Towards the end of the book there is a drawing of Walter and Miss Pomeroy together. It was so poignant is made me cry. I highly recommend this sweet story. I would think it would be especially helpful to a child who is introverted and afraid to make new friends.
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This extensively revised, performance-based text covers the theory and techniques of basic medical laboratory procedures that are performed in physician office laboratories, small clinics, hospital laboratories, public health departments and point-of-care testing facilities. The procedures follow a user-friendly format that includes objectives, glossary, review questions, and a performance guide. This text includes 16 CLIA-waived tests, as well as some more complex tests, and incorporates up-to-date CLIA and OSHA safety regulations. This fourth-edition text is a comprehensive guide to all the essential laboratory techniques. (Allied Health, Medical Lab Technicians, CLIA, OSHA, laboratory techniques)
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Basic Medical Laboratory Techniques: Excellent & Sinmple.......2001-03-01
I found this book an excellent and easy to follow book. Very well illustrated and to the point. I benefitted from it in preparing my lectures for a Medical Laboratory course.
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Why do some civil wars end in successfully implemented peace settlements while others are fought to the finish? Numerous competing theories address this question. Yet not until now has a study combined the historical sweep, empirical richness, and conceptual rigor necessary to put them thoroughly to the test and draw lessons invaluable to students, scholars, and policymakers. Using data on every civil war fought between 1940 and 1992, Barbara Walter details the conditions that lead combatants to partake in what she defines as a three-step process--the decision on whether to initiate negotiations, to compromise, and, finally, to implement any resulting terms. Her key finding: rarely are such conflicts resolved without active third-party intervention.
Walter argues that for negotiations to succeed it is not enough for the opposing sides to resolve the underlying issues behind a civil war. Instead the combatants must clear the much higher hurdle of designing credible guarantees on the terms of agreement--something that is difficult without outside assistance. Examining conflicts from Greece to Laos, China to Columbia, Bosnia to Rwanda, Walter confirms just how crucial the prospect of third-party security guarantees and effective power-sharing pacts can be--and that adversaries do, in fact, consider such factors in deciding whether to negotiate or fight. While taking many other variables into account and acknowledging that third parties must also weigh the costs and benefits of involvement in civil war resolution, this study reveals not only how peace is possible, but probable.
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From Great Britain, Belgium, Finland and Italy to Russia, Kazakhstan and China, cities are shrinking--while urban-planning debates focus on the growth of the megalopolis, many of the world's existing population centers are watching their citizens walk away. Between globalization, deindustrialization, suburbanization, the transition to post-Socialism, high unemployment and, in some cases, wider national population losses, the phenomenon is growing. Shrinking Cities Volume 1: International Research, a publication of the Germany-based Shrinking Cities initiative, examines this phenomenon's causes and dynamics on an international level for the first time, exploring examples including Manchester and Liverpool, Detroit, Russia's Ivanovo, and Germany's Halle and Leipzig. Each site represents a specific issue: in Detroit, the consequences of suburbanization; in Manchester and Liverpool, deindustrialization; in Ivanovo, post-socialism; while in the Halle and Leipzig region several of these factors come together. Shrinking Cities: Volume I compares living conditions and cultural change in shrinking urban regions, and offers, along with information, a range of artistic intercessions commissioned to help sensitize the public to this global phenomenon which poses a completely new social challenge and creates the opportunity for cultural renewal.
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Walter Gropius With Adolf Meyer: Haus Auerbach
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Barbara Happe
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Release Date: 2004-03-02 |
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Description: Haus Auerbach tells the story of an almost forgotten building: the private residence designed for Jewish scientist Felix Auerbach and his wife Anna. Built in 1924, the Auerbach House is one of only six private homes that Walter Gropius ever constructed. Here Gropius realized for the first time his famous "Baukastenprinzip," which combines the highest level standardization with the greatest possibilities for variation. The Auerbach House is thus one of the most important examples of early era "Neues Bauen." Furthermore, it is the only Gropius building with an original colored interior: all of the inside walls and windows were colored based on the ideas of Alfred Arndt, also a member of the Bauhaus. The house, which has always been well conserved, was recently restored to better match its original appearance.
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Since the end of the cold war, a series of costly civil wars, many of them ethnic conflicts, have dominated the international security agenda. The international community, often acting through the United Nations or regional organizations like NATO, has felt compelled to intervene with military forces in many of these conflicts -- four of which comprise the heart of this book: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Somalia, Cambodia, and Rwanda. Civil Wars, Insecurity, and Intervention is a detailed examination by a host of distinguished scholars of these recent interventions in order to draw lessons for today's policy debates.
The contributors view ethnic conflict and internal war through the prism of the concept of the security dilemma -- a situation in which parties with strong incentives to cooperate wind up nonetheless in bloody competition out of distrust of the opponent. Civil Wars, Insecurity, and Intervention assesses how international intervention can help solve the security dilemma in civil wars by designing political and military arrangements that make security commitments credible to the warring parties. The mixed record of partial successes, failures, and in some cases counterproductive interventions suggests an urgent need to extract lessons with a view toward developing a framework for making future policy choices.
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- Walter's Mission
- Above average and Overrated
- OVERRATED !!!
- Intensely good!
- Unsatisfactory and unresolved
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The Sculptress
Minette Walters
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Convicted of the brutal ax murders of her mother and sister, Olive Martin spends her days in prison carving tiny human figures out of wax. Rosalind Leigh is a best-selling author whose publisher jolts her out of writer's block by telling her to research a book about Olive and the murders, or else. Though repelled by the idea at first, Rosalind soon becomes intrigued by her subject and begins to believe she may be innocent. She soon uncovers plenty of reasons to doubt the official police version of the killings and with Olive's help, untangles a sinister cover-up.
The Sculptress won the 1994 Edgar Award for best mystery novel.
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The facts of the case were simple: Olive Martin had pleaded guilty to killing and dismembering her sister and mother, earning herself the chilling nickname 'The Sculptress'.This much journalist Rosalind Leigh knew before her first meeting with Olive, currently serving a life sentence. How could Roz have foreseen that the encounter was destined to change her life-forever?
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Walter's Mission.......2007-05-08
Minette Walters is recognized by many as the Queen of the British psychological mystery and for good reason. I would not hold them in the same class as Elizabeth George's fine novels but they are close and for sheer invention, they are superior. It is the hallmark of a great author that they can transform a rather overworked subject (woman chops up family) into an intense thriller and who should be the star but an obese woman who may or may not be telling the truth.
Ms Walters's writings remind me of the what the producer said about "The Thomas Crowne Affair" - it was a movie of, for and about adults. That could be said about Walter's writings that have intelligent, complex individuals far from their high school years. In this case, the heroine is a reporter who, through chance and pressure, decides to write a book about a famous crime for which the woman confessed. She is drawn (like the reader) into the real story of what happened and her convictions begin to form almost against her will. Is she being manipulated or is Olive Martin an innocent victim.
Along the way we are introduced to another character, a former cop now a restaurant owner and a a quirky romance develops (the best). Walters will most likely never have a hero or heroine walk into a bar, "eye a stranger" and bounce the bed springs two minutes later. Yes, that's the calibre of writing for most of today's movies and books, admittedly easier but such a copout. Instead, her characters develop, think, change and only slowly admit their deepest passions. A tremendously satisfying work - A+
Above average and Overrated.......2006-03-09
The premise of the story was interesting and the prose makes for smooth reading. But given the award and glowing reviews, I was expecting it to be much more than above average. The ending does not floor the reader as it should, given the nature of the ending. All in all, above average but overrated. Nevertheless, I'm still game to try another book from this author in the future.
OVERRATED !!!.......2005-07-08
I don't understand what so special about this book. The first half of the book is quite exciting. But in the later half - especially towards the ending - it becomes complicated, boring, almost incomprehensible.
The restaurant part of the story is so unnecessary and has nothing (or just a little bit) to do with the main storyline. The 'Olive doing her carvings and sticking pins on wax figures' constantly repeated and has nothing to do with the storyline. The conclusion is very confusing. We can never be so sure why the killer killed.
Sorry......this book is not good enough.
take Ruth Rendell/Barbara Vine anyday.......
Intensely good!.......2005-03-31
The story is intense, sometimes disturbing and completely gripping. The characters are unique, complex and have both character flaws and assets, which makes them believable. A touch of romance adds some humour and lightheartedness contrast well with the rest of the dark story.
Unsatisfactory and unresolved.......2005-03-14
I must admit that I was bowled over by this book until the end. Meaning, that the end destroyed the high rating I might have given it. We spend the whole book trying to understand why the murders were committed, and also by whom, but what emerges in the end is only a possible theory. Walters still doesn't explain clearly why the mother was killed, and why both of them were so brutally slaughtered. And the last sentence invites us to rethink the whole 'solution'.
So why did I bother to read this book? When it leaves me wondering at the end who did it and why, and whether this woman is really innocent. That's the feeling we have while reading the entire novel. A good mystery should solve everything, explain all the little and big points, and this book fails big time at this.
I even re-read the parts where the final theories emerge, but they still left me hanging.
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This is the perfect introductory kit for anyone who wants to learn the fascinating art of drawing and painting with watercolor pencil. Inside is everything needed to get started, including a full-color, step-by-step project book filled iwth inspiration and ideas.
The project book begins with information on art tools and materials and then covers the basics, such as watercolor pencil painting techniques and color theory. It also includes seven complete watercolor pencil painting lessons to follow and learn. Each project is accompanied by clear instructions, helpful tips, and step-by-step illustrations, all of which ensure successful results. Beginning artists will discover how easy it is to apply a variety of fundamental techniques, resulting in impressive works of art!
This kit makes an ideal gift because the tools are safe and easy to use and the book teaches skills that can be applied for a lifetime. Most important, it allows everyone to discover the artist within themselves.
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Beautiful illustrations, nice pencils not much instruction.......2006-11-10
I am using the pencils and learning the medium via trial and error. The artists are wonderful painters but not that great teachers. Their instructions assumed I knew more than I do about painting. I needed something geared more toward the beginner.
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Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds explores the critically neglected intersection of Native and African American cultures. This interdisciplinary collection combines historical studies of the complex relations between blacks and Indians in Native communities with considerations and examples of various forms of cultural expression that have emerged from their intertwined histories. The contributors include scholars of African American and Native American studies, English, history, anthropology, law, and performance studies, as well as fiction writers, poets, and a visual artist.
Essays range from a close reading of the 1838 memoirs of a black and Native freewoman to an analysis of how Afro-Native intermarriage has impacted the identities and federal government classifications of certain New England Indian tribes. One contributor explores the aftermath of black slavery in the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations, highlighting issues of culture and citizenship. Another scrutinizes the controversy that followed the 1998 selection of a Miss Navajo Nation who had an African American father. A historian examines the status of Afro-Indians in colonial Mexico, and an ethnographer reflects on oral histories gathered from Afro-Choctaws. Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds includes evocative readings of several of Toni Morrison’s novels, interpretations of plays by African American and First Nations playwrights, an original short story by Roberta J. Hill, and an interview with the Creek poet and musician Joy Harjo. The Native American scholar Robert Warrior develops a theoretical model for comparative work through an analysis of black and Native intellectual production. In his afterword, he reflects on the importance of the critical project advanced by this volume.
Contributors. Jennifer D. Brody, Tamara Buffalo, David A. Y. O. Chang, Robert Keith Collins, Roberta J. Hill, Sharon P. Holland, ku'ualoha ho’omnawanui, Deborah E. Kanter, Virginia Kennedy, Barbara Krauthamer, Tiffany M. McKinney, Melinda Micco, Tiya Miles, Celia E. Naylor, Eugene B. Redmond, Wendy S. Walters, Robert Warrior
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