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Price: $30.00

ISBN: 0395945569

Summary: A religious shrine or a giant pinball machine? Museum or amusement park? Historical or hysterical? These are just some of the puzzlers posed by "Boston Globe" columnist Dan Shaugnessy in this lovely homage to the second oldest, single most complex ballpark in the majors. The answers are debatable. What remains absolute are the images Boston's Fenway Park has burned into the imaginations of the faithful and the faithless since the day it opened, a short week after the Titanic sank.
Shaugnessy and photographer Stan Grossfeld combine to offer an often-spectacular visual tribute that looks both back in time and into the heart of all the park's odd nooks, crannies, shadows, and hiding places. They go inside the hand-operated scoreboard on the fabled Green Monster. There's even a lovely picture of a pastoral Fenway covered in snow. Shaughnessy's text--"When they raze Fenway, it'll be like cutting down an old tree. Count the rings. There's one for each celebration and heartache suffered by Red Sox fans"--is affectionate and quite personal. He adds to it with a series of short, lyrical reminiscences from those who've mused about the field-- David Halberstam, Bob Costas, Stephen King, and Doris Kearns Goodwin--and those who've played on it: Don Zimmer, Bucky Dent, Dennis Eckersley, and Carl Yastrzemski. Fittingly, Ted Williams pens the foreward. The result of the amalgamation is an altogether splendid celebration of a landmark about to be pushed by progress into memory. --"Jeff Silverman"

Price: $12.95

Edition: Reprint

ISBN: 0140152628

Summary: Any Red Sox fan or baseball buff will tell you: The Sox haven't won a World Series since 1918. Certainly they've come close more times than they wish to remember. Did the unorthodox sale of the greatest baseball player who ever lived cause the Red Sox to be cursed forever?

With a wry sense of humor, Dan Shaughnessy traces the frustrating history of the Red Sox since Babe Ruth went to the Yankees. Here, he sheds light on some classic baseball conundrums--from Johnny Pesky's so-called hesitation throw in the 1946 World Series, to the horrifying dribbler that slithered between Bill Buckner's legs in the 1986 series against the Mets, and the expulsion of Roger Clemens in the final game of the 1990 League Championship Series against the Oakland A's. Lively and filled with anecdotes, this is baseball folklore at its best.

Price: $34.95

Edition: 81st

ISBN: 0872591964

Summary: I have been involved in the hobby for less than a year and am a non-technical person. This book is a real work of art for what I would call a "technical user" or "technician". The manual is a superb desk referance.
However, for the greenhorn, ARRL has other books that are written at a more simple level and there is also a "Dummies" title that is a pretty good book in spite of the heavy overlap with "Now You're Talking".
There is content on antenna installation and principals that even newbies can understand, but again, ARRL has some titles that are targeted toward this need.

Price: $14.95

Edition: Facs.

ISBN: 0804800065

Summary: Partial Contents: Kite Time; Novel Modes of Fishing; Home-Made Fishing Tackle; How to Stock, Make, and Keep a Freshwater Aquarium; How to keep Aquatic Plants in the House or Flower-Garden; How to Stock and Keep a Marine Aquarium; Knots, Bends, and Hitches; The Water-Telescope; Dredge, Tangle, and Trawl Fishing; Home-Made Boats; How to Rig and Sail Small Boats; Fourth of July Balloons, with New and Novel Attachments; How to Camp out without a Tent; Bird Singers, Etc.; Bird Nesting; How to Rear Wild Birds; Home-Made Hunting Apparatus; How to Make Blow-Guns, Elder Guns; Traps and Trapping; Dogs; Practical Taxidermy for Boys; Every Boy a Decorative Artist; Snowball Warfare; Snow-Houses and Statuary; Sleds, Chair-Sleighs, and Snow-Shoes; How to Make the Tom Thumb Ice-Boat and Larger Craft; The Winged Skaters, and How to Make the Wings; Winter Fishin.; In-Door Amusements; The Boy's Own Phunnygraph; How to Make Puppets and a Puppet-Show; Puss-in-Boots, Dramatized and Adapted For a Puppet-Show; How to Make a Magic Lantern - A Kaleidoscope - A Fortune Teller's Box; How to Make the Dancing Fairies, the Bathers, and the Orator; How to Make Various and Divers Whirlgigs; The Universe in a Card-Box; Life Instilled into Paper Puppets, and the Matches Made of Human Fingers; Home-Made Masquerade and Theatrical Costumes; Kites; Fishing; Home-Made Boats; Soap-Bubbles; Paper Fireworks; Home-Made Hunting Apparatus; Decoys; Taxidermy; 'Uncle Enos" Banjo; Snow-Shoes. Illustrated.

Price: $18.00

Edition: Reprint

ISBN: 002031275X

Summary:
The first encyclopedic illustrated guide to the world of Middle Earth and the Undying Lands, this book brings together every important aspect of Tolkien's vast cosmology. More than five hundred alphabetical entries cover five major subject areas: history, geography, sociology, natural history and biography.
The maps, genealogies and time-charts, together with the illustrations of characters, places adn events, reveal to the reader the full dramatic sweep and splendor of Tolkien's world.

Price: $50.00

ISBN: 0201012391

Summary: While I took Electromagnetic Fields I & II courses using the first and last half of this text, I also purchased other solutions manuals and texts to survive. This was, to me, by far the most clearly written and well-presented text.
16 years after having taken the course, I'm doing a cover-to-cover review of this book and given my industry experience I appreciate the excellence of this book even more. The downside to using it is that I've found a real difficulty in locating the Solutions Manual, leaving me to use others where there's always changes in variables, ordering, and approaches which build in inefficiencies/overhead.

Price: $19.95

ISBN: 0395524393

Summary: With so much interest in the raising of the "Titanic", young readers will certainly be fascinated with David Macaulay's ambitious "Ship". Like the recent movie "Titanic", Macaulay uses the present day as a portal to the past--first recounting a diving expedition that leads to the discovery of "Magdalena", a fictitious 15th-century wooden ship embedded in a treacherous reef near the Bahamas. Overcoming obstacles from pirate treasure hunters to government bureaucracy, the excavation team manages to piece together the intriguing but ultimately tragic story behind the 400-year-old caravel. Finally, the team hits pay dirt when the ship owner's 1504 diary is miraculously discovered in an archive library in Spain's Seville. At this point the narrative switches into the past, allowing the reader to witness the building of the ship through the voice of the ship's owner--and experience the heart-wrenching escalation of the owner's hopes and dreams. This is what Macaulay does best--highlighting and interweaving the human story that fuels the creation of an object, while masterfully visualizing the event with detailed, historically accurate illustrations. Macaulay fans will appreciate the diverse artistic styles displayed throughout the book, from murky underwater images to highly detailed architectural drawings, sepia-toned journal entries to impressionistic watercolors. Simultaneously, the author eloquently portrays the many voices of this human drama, especially that of the ill-fated ship owner. (Ages 10 and older) "--Gail Hudson"

Price: $29.95

ISBN: 0395428572

Summary: David Macaulay has made it his business to demystify science and technology for children (and certainly one or two surreptitious adults) with his worldwide bestseller, "The New Way Things Work". Packed with information on the inner workings of everything from the World Wide Web to windmills, the remarkable and humorous book guides readers through the fundamental principles of machines. And now Macaulay and his trusty mammoth sidekick are back, ready to make science even more fun and comprehensible. "The Way Things Work Kit" is a hands-on, fully interactive kit, equipped with everything needed to perform over 50 activities, including the construction of 12 working models. A handy cardboard carrying case opens to reveal a guidebook, a CD-ROM with instructions on how to build your own pinball games, activity cards, and more than 100 basic components that fit together to make models from a balloon-powered car to a robot arm to a fairground ride. Children will be absorbed for hours as they learn about levers and hydraulics, winches and friction, inertia and pneumatics. Future engineers--not to mention just regular humans--couldn't have a better introduction to the way things work. (Ages 8 and older) "--Emilie Coulter"

Price: $32.00

ISBN: 0743226712

Summary: Esteemed historian David McCullough covers the military side of the momentous year of 1776 with characteristic insight and a gripping narrative, adding new scholarship and a fresh perspective to the beginning of the American Revolution. It was a turbulent and confusing time. As British and American politicians struggled to reach a compromise, events on the ground escalated until war was inevitable. McCullough writes vividly about the dismal conditions that troops on both sides had to endure, including an unusually harsh winter, and the role that luck and the whims of the weather played in helping the colonial forces hold off the world's greatest army. He also effectively explores the importance of motivation and troop morale--a tie was as good as a win to the Americans, while anything short of overwhelming victory was disheartening to the British, who expected a swift end to the war. The redcoat retreat from Boston, for example, was particularly humiliating for the British, while the minor American victory at Trenton was magnified despite its limited strategic importance.
Some of the strongest passages in "1776" are the revealing and well-rounded portraits of the Georges on both sides of the Atlantic. King George III, so often portrayed as a bumbling, arrogant fool, is given a more thoughtful treatment by McCullough, who shows that the king considered the colonists to be petulant subjects without legitimate grievances--an attitude that led him to underestimate the will and capabilities of the Americans. At times he seems shocked that war was even necessary. The great Washington lives up to his considerable reputation in these pages, and McCullough relies on private correspondence to balance the man and the myth, revealing how deeply concerned Washington was about the Americans' chances for victory, despite his public optimism. Perhaps more than any other man, he realized how fortunate they were to merely survive the year, and he willingly lays the responsibility for their good fortune in the hands of God rather than his own. Enthralling and superbly written, "1776" is the work of a master historian. --"Shawn Carkonen"
The Other 1776
With his riveting, enlightening accounts of subjects from Johnstown Flood to John Adams, David McCullough has become the historian that Americans look to most to tell us our own story. In his Amazon.com interview, McCullough explains why he turned in his new book from the political battles of the Revolution to the battles on the ground, and he marvels at some of his favorite young citizen soldiers who fought alongside the remarkable General Washington.
The Essential David McCullough
"John Adams"
"Truman"
"Mornings on Horseback"
"The Path Between the Seas"
"The Great Bridge"
"The Johnstown Flood"
More Reading on the Revolution
"The Great Improvisation" by Stacy Schiff
"Washington's Crossing" by David Hackett Fischer
"His Excellency: George Washington" by Joseph J. Ellis
"Washington's General" by Terry Golway
"Iron Tears" by Stanley Weintraub
"Victory at Yorktown" by Richard M. Ketchum

Price: $29.95

Edition: 1

ISBN: 0596100337

Summary: The latest versions of iMovie HD and iDVD 5 are, by far, the most robust moviemaking applications available to consumers today. But whether you're a professional or an amateur moviemaker eager to take advantage of the full capabilities of these applications, don't count on Apple documentation to make the cut. You need "iMovie HD & iDVD 5: The Missing Manual", the objective authority on iMovie HD and iDVD 5. Even if you own a previous version of iMovie, the new feature-rich iMovie HD may well be impossible to resist. This video editing program now enables users to capture and edit widescreen High Definition Video (HDV) from the new generation of HDV camcorders, along with standard DV and the MPEG-4 video format. iMovie HD also includes "Magic iMovie" for making finished movies automatically. The feature does everything in one step--imports video into separate clips and adds titles, transitions, and music. The finished video is then ready for iDVD 5, which now includes 15 new themes with animated drop zones that can display video clips across DVD menus, just like the latest Hollywood DVDs. This witty and entertaining guide from celebrated author David Pogue not only details every step of iMovie HD video production--from choosing and using a digital camcorder to burning the finished work onto DVDs--but provides a firm grounding in basic film technique so that the quality of a video won't rely entirely on magic. "iMovie HD & iDVD 5: The Missing Manual" includes expert techniques and tricks for: Capturing quality footage (including tips on composition, lighting, and even special-event filming) Building your movie track, incorporating transitions and special effects, and adding narration, music, and sound Working with picture files and QuickTime movies Reaching your intended audience by exporting to tape, transferring iMovie to QuickTime, burning QuickTime-Movie CDs, and putting movies on the Web (and even on your cell phone!) Using iDVD 5 to stylize and burn your DVD creation "iMovie HD & iDVD 5: The Missing Manual"--it's your moviemaking-made-easy guide.

Price: $18.95

Edition: 1st American ed

ISBN: 1879431203

Summary: This visual dictionary looks at the inner workings of boats, ships, sails and rigging, navigation instruments, signals, ropes, knots, and more.

Price: $14.95

Edition: 1

ISBN: 0830628681

Summary: A Modeler's reference for planking wooden ships, both kit and scratch models.

Price: $44.99

Edition: Spiral

ISBN: 0201134489

Summary: This guide to computer typesetting using TeX is written by Donald Knuth, the system's creator. TeX offers both writers and publishers the ability to produce plain or technical text, especially text containing a great deal of mathematics, comparable to the work of the finest printers. Novice and expert alike will find The TeXbook useful; it is accessible to the beginner, and also contains the details required by experienced users.