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Subtitle: Liberty in Danger, From the Publication of Its Principles; the Constitution a Shield for Slavery; and the Union Better Than Freedom and RighteousnessPublisher: Published by Isaac KnappPublication date: 1838Subjects: SlaverySlavery in the United StatesHistory / United States / GeneralHistory / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)Language Arts ... Read more

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Martial arts
This is a specialty text - treat it as such.It supposes prior knowledge of the subject and is of little use to the beginner.A fine example of taking a subject "deep".Good product - would greatly appreciate a companion DVD. ... Read more

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Hans de Beer's beguiling bear romps through the year in illustrations taken from the books that have so endeared him to children around the world. Loveable, lumbering Lars, the little polar bear, will delights adults and children alike. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the worlds literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the worlds literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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Many people are familiar with Gloomy Bear: the cute pink bear with the big bloody claws. For the uninitiated, Gloomy is owned by Boy Pity who, despite the abuse, loves him with all his heart. For the soft at heart and those with a penchant for lovable, but violent bears, we bring you an adorable stationery set and journal designed by Gloomy Bear creator, Chack. ... Read more

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Over a period of fifteen years, the authors of this beautiful volume have collected and translated 450 orally transmitted poems, songs, charms, prayers, and laments from Finno-Ugrian languages such as Finnish, Estonian, and Lapp. Presented in both English and the original languages, these works offer unique insights into the worldview and lives of pre-literate peoples in various stages of cultural and social development. The poems reveal the beliefs, perceptions, and artistic genius of fifteen peoples scattered across Northern Europe from Scandinavia, deep into Russia and beyond the Urals, and of the Hungarians in Central Europe. Magnificently produced, with more than forty-five illustrations, the book begins with contexualizing essays on the Finno-Ugrian peoples, oral poetry, and the beliefs and ritual practices reflected in the poems. The poems themselves are arranged thematically, according to such topics as cosmology, hunting, agriculture, animal husbandry, love, marriage, healing, and death. They are followed by a poem-by-poem commentary which contextualizes and explicates the text. ... Read more

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Songs, charms, prayers, and laments
There are 450 poems, songs, charms, prayers, and laments in "The Great Bear," organized in thematic sections such as "The Cosmos," "Hunting," and "Healing." All of the entries are presented in both the original language and English, with a scholarly introduction to each thematic section. This collection from the Oxford University Press represents the oral tradition of fifteen peoples scattered across Northern Europe from Scandinavia, deep into Russia and beyond the Urals, and of the Hungarians in Central Europe.

There are extensive footnotes that illuminate the tradition and meaning of the entries, some of which are fragments of larger, lost works. It is interesting to read a poem such as "To the Coffin-Makers," and then turn to the commentary that explains Karelian burial traditions:

"...The need to use timber from trees in which birds had not rested or sung (cf. II. 9-10) reflects a belief in soul-birds. It was essential to avoid upsetting the deceased---should he or she return in the form of a bird---by felling trees in which the soul might one day wish to rest."

One of the more recondite marriage traditions among the Finnish, Karelian, and Estonian peoples involved teasing the prospective bride and bride-groom: "The theme of seeking the best bride and finding the worst is a central feature....of the bride-teasing poems [that] were customarily sung by the groom's relatives at his home." Here are a few lines from "Teasing the Bride:"

"Listen, precious brother's son/ if you could but have taken an apple from higher boughs/ from the top of other trees!/...Attendants, you maid's brothers:/ take this away when you go/ the one you brought when you came!/ Don't take her along the road--/ take her over the big swamp!/ If you take her by the road/ even horses will stampede/ horseflies will take to their heels..."

The oral tradition of our ancestors was often somber. It often attempted to explain our symbiosis with the natural and spiritual world. However, it could also be joyous. It could make people laugh.

I think we've neglected the humorous, celebratory side of song-making and poetry in our modern world. "The Great Bear" reminds us that poems and songs were meant to reflect all facets of our humanity, not just grief, longing, and pain.

A tribute to an ancient oral tradition
There are 450 poems, songs, charms, prayers, and laments in "The Great Bear," organized in thematic sections such as "The Cosmos," "Hunting," and "Healing."All of the entries are presented in both the original language and English, with a scholarly introduction to each thematic section.This collection from the Oxford University Press represents the oral tradition of fifteen peoples scattered across Northern Europe from Scandinavia, deep into Russia and beyond the Urals, and of the Hungarians in Central Europe.

There are extensive footnotes that illuminate the tradition and meaning of the entries, some of which are fragments of larger, lost works. It is interesting to read a poem such as "To the Coffin-Makers," and then turn to the commentary that explains Karelian burial traditions:

"...The need to use timber from trees in which birds had not rested or sung (cf. II. 9-10) reflects a belief in soul-birds.It was essential to avoid upsetting the deceased---should he or she return in the form of a bird---by felling trees in which the soul might one day wish to rest."

One of the more recondite marriage traditions among the Finnish, Karelian, and Estonian peoples involved teasing the prospective bride and bride-groom:"The theme of seeking the best bride and finding the worst is a central feature....of the bride-teasing poems [that] were customarily sung by the groom's relatives at his home."Here are a few lines from "Teasing the Bride:"

"Listen, precious brother's son/ if you could but have taken an apple from higher boughs/ from the top of other trees!/...Attendants, you maid's brothers:/ take this away when you go/ the one you brought when you came!/ Don't take her along the road--/ take her over the big swamp!/If you take her by the road/ even horses will stampede/horseflies will take to their heels..."

The oral tradition of our ancestors was often somber.It often attempted to explain our symbiosis with the natural and spiritual world.However, it could also be joyous.It could make people laugh.

I think we've neglected the humorous, celebratory side of song-making and poetry in our modern world."The Great Bear" reminds us that poems and songs were meant to reflect all facets of our humanity, not just grief, longing, and pain. ... Read more

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Cute illustrations of Teddy Bears and quotes that delight
Cute little quotes and short essays about Teddy Bears by people who love them. It kind of warms your heart to know that these ubiquitous bears have comforted and cheered so many people. ... Read more

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A bright, beginning-reader's volume helps children master the letters of the alphabet while introducing them to 150 familiar words that are repeated at the end of the book for review purposes. ... Read more

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Scooter and Jake are excited about their very first camping trip--but having their pesky cousin Teddy along ruins everything. Teddy brags he isn't scared--but his actions say otherwise. Can Jake and Scooter help him learn how to be brave?. ... Read more

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Every Haynes manual illustrates and explains the complete teardown and rebuilding procedure step-by-step Covers all aspects of maintenance and repair from a complete engine rebuild to changing an oil filter Photo`s are for reference only. Please read item title carefully. ... Read more

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Yamaha Yfm350 Atv Hayne's Automotive Repair Manual
Yamaha Yfm350 Atv Hayne's Automotive Repair Manual was in fair condition. a few pages was loose, but readable, and stuffed in the book loosely. took some time to arrive. was worth the price. ... Read more

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This charming rhyming story coupled with classic-style illustrations gently introduces young readers to the concept of opposites. ... Read more

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great for basics
I borrowed this book from the library last week and my 18 month old has been requesting to read it at least 3 times a day!It's a quick, cute story with great rhyme scheme.Bear and kite, Black and white, Play and Fight, Loose and Tight, Wrong and Right, Day and Night.Sweet illustrations and easy concepts for young readers.Plus, a great summary page at the end with all the words, concepts and thumbnail pictures.

A beautiful opposites book
I bought this book for the illustration and because I needed a board book for my little one. I cherish it because, not only is it beautiful but it is one of the best opposites books going. The pictures are big enough and detailed enough for the kids to really "get" the opposite relationship being shown. ... Read more

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Small bear is lost and does not know what to do. He thinks and thinks and he looks at his sailor suit and he decides to be a sailor and sail on the sea. He makes a boat from some pieces of wood and he finds a sea small enough for a small bear and he sails off by the light of the moon. But the sea grows too rough and Bear's boat rocks and rolls and shatters and sinks. Small Bear is shipwrecked on the shore and lies shivering and cold, until next morning when a small girl finds him. She hugs him and takes him home and sets him by the fire to dry. Now Small Bear knows what to do. He'll stay where he is with his new friend and never go to sea again. Martin Waddell has also written "Can't You Sleep, Little Bear?" (winner of the 1988 Smarties Book Prize and Kate Greenaway Medal), "The Park in the Dark" (1989 Emil/Kurt Maschler Award), "Rosie's Babies" (1990 Best Books for Babies Award), "Farmer Duck" (1991 Smarties book Prize), "Let's go Home, Little Bear", "The Tough Princess", "The Hidden House", "Once There Were Giants", "The Happy Hedgehog", "Squeak-A-Lot" and "The Pig in the Pond".Virginia Miller has also illustrated "Squeak-A-Lot" (runner-up for the Mother Goose award), "On Your Potty!", "Eat Your Dinner!" and "Get Into Bed!". ... Read more

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a lovely story with charming illustrations
This is a delightful story for reading aloud or for a beginning reader.My daughter has read it countless times, and loves the fact that it is such a small book that she can put it in her pocket and take it wherever she goes.She delights in examining the pictures for every little detail.We love Martin Waddell and enjoy all his books.

Truly a remarkable book that my children cherish.
This book is a true masterpiece,delightful in every respect as are all of Virginia Austins childrens books.Not only are the illustrations exceptional but the story is complete and the lessons are easily understood anddigested byyoung minds. ... Read more

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A 1996 diary containing photographs and information about the history of teddy bears, starting a collection and repairing bears, together with a reference section. ... Read more

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An adorable bag for young children to carry their Bible and other items that features Brother Bear from the beloved Berenstain Bears. Featuring a cotton canvas with a soft plush image of Brother Bear, durable handles for easy hand holding, and a large interior pocket perfect for a Bible, books, and other items. ... Read more

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The explosive biography of the greatest college football coach in history.

When Paul William "Bear" Bryant died on January 26, 1983, it was the lead story on the all three networks' evening news. New York City newspapers reported his death on their front pages. ("Crimson Tears," read the headline in the New York Post, "Nation weeps over death of legendary Bear Bryant, 69.") Three days later, America watched in awe as an estimated quarter of a million mourners lined the fifty-five mile stretch from Tuscaloosa to a Birmingham cemetery to pay their respects as his three-mile long funeral cortege drove by.

President Reagan and the three former American presidents sent flowers, as did people as diverse as Bob Hope, ABC's Roone Arledge, advice columnist Ann Landers and the Reverend Billy Graham. Scores of Bryant's former players, including Joe Namath, Lee Roy Jordan, Ken Stabler and Ozzie Newsome, were in attendance. So were Bryant's most distinguished colleagues, the greatest living football coaches, including Southern Cal's John McKay, who said, "It was like a presidential funeral procession. No coach in America could have gotten that. No coach but him. But then, he wasn't just a coach. He was the coach."

Bryant's passing was noted with the kind of reverence our country reserved for statesmen or military leaders, though Paul "Bear" Bryant had insisted for much of his life that he was "just a football coach." For millions he was much more, he was the greatest coach the game ever saw, the heir to the tradition established by Knute Rockne. He took his Alabama Crimson Tide teams to an unmatched six national championships. But to the players, journalists and fans whose lives he touched in his more than half a century as a player and coach, he was the last symbol of values that transcended football—courage, discipline, loyalty, and hard work.

To his critics, Bryant represented the dark side of big-time college football—brutality, fanaticism and blind adherence to authority. The real Bear Bryant was far more complex than either his admirers or detractors knew. While maintaining a public friendship with Alabama governor George Wallace, he continually sought ways to undermine the governor's segregationist policies, finally forcing a legendary football game in Birmingham with the University of Southern California that opened the floodgates to the integration of football at the University of Alabama, including its coaching staff. Old fashioned in his politics, he was nonetheless an admirer of Robert Kennedy, whom he planning to vote for in 1968.

Allen Barra's The Last Coach traces Paul Bryant's rise from a family of truck farmers to recognition as the most successful and influential coach in the game's history. The eleventh of thirteen children, Bryant was born in tiny Moro Bottom, Arkansas in 1913 and grew up in nearby Fordyce—where his legend was born when he wrestled a live bear on the stage of a local theater. Paul was raised by his mother, who barely managed to keep him out of trouble and on the Fordyce High School Redbugs long enough to get a football scholarship at Alabama, where he would meet and marry the love of his life, campus beauty queen Mary Harmon Black.

At the height of the Depression, football took Bryant to the Rose Bowl with Alabama's 1934 national champions and on to a career as an assistant and, finally, a head football coach, where he matched wit and grit with the greatest coaches of two generations, men like Tennessee's General Robert Neyland, Oklahoma's Bud Wilkinson, Notre Dame's Ara Parseghian, Ohio State's Woody Hayes, and Penn State's Joe Paterno. Along the way, he stirred controversy with his infamous "Junction Boys" training camp in 1954, during which almost two-thirds of the Texas A&M football team quit; his legal battle with The Saturday Evening Post over the accusation that he had conspired to fix a college football game, a trial which rocked the sports world; and his pursuit of Amos Alonzo Stagg's all-time record for college coaching victories.

Through it all, Bryant's influence has not only endured but prevailed as his former players and assistants continue to define the best in not only college but professional football. 32 pages of photographs. ... Read more

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Great book
Great book.Allowed me to learn about a football coach whose team I was watching as a boy on TV.One minor discomfort about the book, Allen Berra made one or two mistakes in some statements, like placing former Alabama player Mike Clements, on the 1973 and 1978 team (6 years apart, and a few editorials mistakes that have more to do with the editors than the writer.

This book was put on the market in 2005 and one line from stood out out to me on as I read it and it was on page 499 and it's attributed to Paul Finebaum about the post-Bear era at Alabama and it goes like this ""I think it's a biblical thing," says Finebaum."Twenty-five years of glory followed by twenty-five years of plagues."If the plague era began with Bryant's death, then a new goldent age should be dawning for the Crimson Tide around 2007".

As faith would have it, 2007 was Nick Saban's first year at Alabama.Time will tell if Finebaum was right.

Good Biography of One of the Winningest College Football Coaches
"The Last Coach" is a newer and perhaps more comprehensive biography of the man simply known as "Bear".The book covers several aspects of Coach Bryant's life:

1.Early life in Moro Bottom and Fordyce, Arkansas.
2.Early interest in football as a way for him to escape the dirt-poor life he was raised in.
3.College years at the Univesity of Alabama.
4.Coaching jobs at Maryland, Kentucky, Alabama, and other places.
5.Relationship with several players (Joe Namath, Ozzie Newsome, Pat Trammel, and others).
6.Relationship with politicians, college presidents, Hollywood figures, and others.
7.Later family life.
8.Details of the long funeral procession and thousands of people who turned out to pay respect for Bryant.
9.Different versions of how Bryant got the nickname "Bear".

While Bryant's personal life did have some questions (drinking, supposed womanizing, etc.) there is no doubt that he was also one of college football's greatest coaches.

Whatever you think of Bryant or the University of Alabama football, "The Last Coach" is an informative read.Recommended.

The BEST Bryant Book
I've read many of the Bryant books and simply put, this is the best.

If you are a fan of college football then you'd do well to read this book from a historical standpoint.For those who think they know college football, this book is illuminating with regards to the "national" game in the early days vs. now (2007) and how championships were determined largely by geographics and not by talent or strength of schedule.

Excellent.

The Last Coach
I have read quite a few books on Paul "Bear" Bryant (including his audobiography) so I wasn't sure if the information in this book would be facts I already knew or information I was not aware of.To say I was surprised would be an understatement.Yes, there was all the well-known facts about his life, but to my surprise there was quite a bit of information that I was reading for the first time.

The author has done an outstanding job of detailed research and brings a clear steady style to the book.It is without question the most comprehensive book on Coach Bryant's life that I have ever read.

If you're an Alabama football fan, this is a must read.

Never be one like him
The Bear was the last coach. Now it is a business. Anyone that loves college football, especially SEC football, should read this book. Barra has done a good job capturing the times of Paul "Bear" Bryant. ... Read more