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I probably looked at 8 books on the Loire chateuaxs, and this was the best. Great photographs, laid out well, great information on each of the castles/chateauxs, lots of photos of the inside decoration and furniture. This book gave me a better understanding of the landscaping around the castles as well. If you are planning to visit the Loire valley, and you are trying to decide which castles to visit, this book is a must. It is also and excellent armchair-traveller/coffee-table book.

Catastrophe Cat is a young adult novel about a girl who survives Cyclone Tracy, but loses her beloved cat Tia, swept away by the fierce winds. Evacuated with her family to Melbourne, she struggles with grief welling up in her heart. But amid the rubble of her devastated home city, miracles are still possible, and Tia is a hardier survivor than one might expect of a small Siamese! Catastrophe Cat is an emotionally well crafted tale of perseverance.

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I suspect the current generation has no appreciation for what it was like to live during the Cold War, when there was a shared assumption that sooner or later things were going to go nuclear and that was the way the world was going to end. Now all that remains of such fears are references to World War III in "Star Trek" and post-apocalyptic movies like "Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome" and the like. "The Causes of the Cold War" examines the roots of the Cold War struggle, focusing on the contrasting ideologies of the Soviet Union and the Western liberal democracies (the addition of those two adjectives alone makes it clear that this was more than a struggle between communism and democracy). Stewart Ross also looks at the history of Russian communism and the descent into mutual suspicion between the East and the West after World War II. Each chapter is divided into several discrete sections, with sidebars on every two-page spread that focuses on a particular person, event, or issue. The chapter devoted to the Roots of the Cold War does a nice job of looking at both the influences of Karl Marx and the Russian Revolution along with the rise of liberal democracy, including a concise distinction between capitalism and communism.

After that point Ross basically lays out the history of how the Cold War started, looking at the decision to divide Europe after the end of World War II, the communist advances in Eastern Europe, and the development of the American position on containment. Later chapters look at the "Hot War" in Korea and where U.S.-Soviet relationships stood with the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953. The strength of this volume is in the breadth of what is covered more than the depth, which is appropriate for this type of juvenile history series. Ross touches on most of the major points on this topic (the only omission I would point to would be the desire of the Soviet Union to control the Polish corridor since that was the route taken by invading armies from the Teutonic knights to Napoleon and Hitler). The book is illustrated with lots of historic photographs and art, including a nice selection of editorial cartoons and propaganda posters, which usually bring history alive more than the standard photographs. The back of the volume has a Glossary, a list of useful books, videos and webs sites, and an index. Other volumes in The Cold War series examine pivotal Cold War conflicts including the Berlin blockage, the Korean War, the Cuban missile crisis, and the Vietnam War. There is also a volume that looks at "The End of the Cold War" and explains how the inevitable nuclear war never happened.

This is an excellent book for anyone wishing to know more about the second world war - it is clear, interesting, well illustrated and informative. An ideal book for pupils studying at school, but also for those more mature readers who need a good introduction to the subject.

If i had to describe this book in just one word, I would, of course, say it's simply amazing. Cecil Beaton was a truly genius British photograher.

This book is great! It has information about the NHL and hockey dating back into the 1800s, such as who won the Stanley Cup each year from when it was first introduced to the 2000 season, as well as photos, season highlights, articles, and facts for each season.

By reading this book you'll learn information about the different professional leagues that led to the formation of the NHL, and well as the first ever official hockey game, where the first pro hockey league was located, and which teams and star players were involved. It also includes a table of teams containing all of the teams, which city they've played in, they're old and new names, and the years as each franchise.

Bobby Orr's foreword is also interesting, as it gives his view on hockey and his career.

I would strongly recommend this book to any hockey fan!

Forty-eight images and essays, 8½ by 11 inches, 52 pages, acid-free paper. Beginning in 1832, this book traces the fascinating diversity of visual images that constitute the idea of the American West. Each page features a short biographical sketch and the artwork of one of forty-eight artists including, Laura Gilpin, Harry Learned, Charles M. Russell, John Mix Stanley, and Carleton Watkins.

Written by Rick Stewart.

Loin de tous les livres qui vous annoncent tout ce qui peut mal aller dans une grossesse au plan physique, ce livre-là vous parle de ce que vous vivrez, ou de ce que vous pourrez vivre, au niveau psychologique.

La grossesse n'est pas qu'un changement hormonal et physique, mais aussi un événement fascinant dans le psyché des femmes. Ce livre approche ce grand événement en analysant les comportements des femmes, en relation avec leur entourage et avec leur ventre, tout au long de leur grossesse.

George Gadberry, an out-of-work actor whose chief claim to fame was a leading role in "The Rubbish Dump" is down to his last intact florin, and has to vacate his current lodgings unseen as he cannot pay his landlady the previous week's rent. Not only is he broke, but the Tax Inspector is beating at the door. Then his agent calls with a mysterious commission, and George meets a man who, once he removes his false beard, could be his identical twin.

As you may have already guessed from this book's title, George lets himself be persuaded into a major impersonation. Nicholas Comberford wants to return to the Riveria and fall back into the arms of his mistress, while George travels up to Bruton Abbey on the chilly Yorkshire dales and pretends to be him. Nicholas cheerfully admits to being a rogue and a sensualist, but he wants to secure a place in the will of his fabulously wealthy Great-Aunt Prudence. Unfortunately, his great-aunt is a strict teetotaler. Fortunately, she has a weak heart and isn't expected to last out the year.

George travels up to Bruton Abbey under the guise of the reformed prodigal coming home to comfort Great-Aunt Prudence in her precipitous decline toward the family burial vault. Nicholas has loaned him the memoirs of Great-Uncle Magnus to bone up on family history, and at first no one seems to suspect the changeling in their midst.

But George realizes that Nicholas has misled him on two minor items: Great-Aunt Prudence has no objection to alcohol; and the old woman is in ruddy good healthy and is expected to live for decades.

Then Miss Bostock, Great-Aunt Prudence's companion begins to blackmail George as the imposter that he is. Can anything else go wrong?

Well, yes. Great-Aunt Prudence attempts to fix her false heir's interest in one of the neighboring landowner's hearty twin daughters. Her butler attempts to play Miss Bostock's blackmailing game with George. Bats and owls flit nightly through the vast halls of the abbey, and a gigantic man-eating carp lurks beneath the ice of the ornamental pond. The local rector, who seemed to be settling into a malignant version of senile dementia, is revealed as a practitioner of the Black Arts. And then, to cap off all of his misfortunes, George falls in love.

Michael Innes has produced another amusing, but sharply-edged comedy-of-manners that had me laughing out loud when I wasn't commiserating with poor George. He seemed like a very decent sort of penurious actor whose brush with the Tax Inspector and then the rogue, Nicholas led him disastrously, almost fatally astray. I had to keep reading to find out if Innes's likeable, although somewhat weak-willed hero would wriggle out of Great-Aunt Prudence's matrimonial schemes, the blackmailing clutches of her staff, the lurking jaws of the carp, and last but not least, the dilemma of his false inheritance.