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Abscission

Memoirs of a Minimalist

By: Marcie Thompson

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Abscission

Memoirs of a Minimalist

By: Marcie Thompson

So many of us have asked the question: What is my purpose? Or my why. I grew up in Iowa, made a stop of fourteen years in Salt Lake City, Utah, and then transplanted to Dallas upon meeting my husband, Kevin Thompson. He lived in Texas and I in Utah, so after dating just over a year, we decided the over one thousand four hundred miles apart could only go on so long. Growing up in an average American family with functional dysfunction, graduated from Drake University, lived in three different states, experienced a divorce after fourteen years, and now remarried nine years, I've come face-to-face with ample discipline. And after moving eight times in the same nine years, you don't just clean your house, you clear your mind. This story of why and how the art of living a minimalistic lifestyle will do more than create harmony in your home. It's shifted us from investing in our flesh to an ongoing investment in the Spirit. We also wish to be understood like the millennials you may not agree with all our choices, home decor, or facets of life we've carved out like artwork, literally. I'd like to say it's been a quick, simple shift, but we've had to make some eye-opening and major decisions in our behaviors. Not because of lack but for the greater cause as our goals, dreams, and desires have shifted. In order to move forward, you must look for a moment to learn from life's challenges and be disciplined. Discipline brings about wisdom because we learn something through every challenge no matter its size. Not only did our goals shift, but the mind-set for why we were creating these goals has changed. So when asked what does being a minimalist mean, just remember one word: humble. I pray and hope through my testimonies I'll share from my journey, you'll humble your heart, create your own goals, and integrate those pieces of minimalism that speak to you throughout this book. Most importantly, remember to move not just the stuff from your life but make it a lifetime journey to be more with less. Abscission will tell our story of the paradigm shift we made toward living an intentionally simple life and finding where needing less left us wanting more: more time, more appreciation, more quality, more freedom, more meaning, more purpose, more creating, more hope, more health, more wisdom, more discipline, and more life to be lived fully. Like a tree has its seasons shedding old leaves and bearing new fruit, abscission is the full circle definition of how minimalism takes place in your life once you fully understand what it has to offer.

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1645841839

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The Edible South

The Power of Food and the Making of an American Region

By: Marcie Cohen Ferris

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The Edible South

The Power of Food and the Making of an American Region

By: Marcie Cohen Ferris

In The Edible South, Marcie Cohen Ferris presents food as a new way to chronicle the American South's larger history. Ferris tells a richly illustrated story of southern food and the struggles of whites, blacks, Native Americans, and other people of the region to control the nourishment of their bodies and minds, livelihoods, lands, and citizenship. The experience of food serves as an evocative lens onto colonial settlements and antebellum plantations, New South cities and civil rights-era lunch counters, chronic hunger and agricultural reform, counterculture communes and iconic restaurants as Ferris reveals how food--as cuisine and as commodity--has expressed and shaped southern identity to the present day. The region in which European settlers were greeted with unimaginable natural abundance was simultaneously the place where enslaved Africans vigilantly preserved cultural memory in cuisine and Native Americans held tight to kinship and food traditions despite mass expulsions. Southern food, Ferris argues, is intimately connected to the politics of power. The contradiction between the realities of fulsomeness and deprivation, privilege and poverty, in southern history resonates in the region's food traditions, both beloved and maligned.

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UNC Press Books

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1469617692

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Where They Last Saw Her

A Novel

By: Marcie R. Rendon

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Where They Last Saw Her

A Novel

By: Marcie R. Rendon

From the award-winning author of the Cash Blackbear series comes a compelling novel of a Native American woman who learns of the disappearance of one of her own and decides enough is enough. All they heard was her scream. Quill has lived on the Red Pine reservation in Minnesota her whole life. She knows what happens to women who look like her. Just a girl when Jimmy Sky jumped off the railway bridge and she ran for help, Quill realizes now that she’s never stopped running. As she trains for the Boston Marathon early one morning in the woods, she hears a scream. When she returns to search the area, all she finds are tire tracks and a single beaded earring. Things are different now for Quill than when she was a lonely girl. Her friends Punk and Gaylyn are two women who don’t know what it means to quit; her loving husband, Crow, and their two beautiful children challenge her to be better every day. So when she hears a second woman has been stolen, she is determined to do something about it—starting with investigating the group of men working the pipeline construction just north of their homes. As Quill closes in on the truth about the missing women, someone else disappears. In her quest to find justice for all of the women of the reservation, she is confronted with the hard truths of their home and the people who purport to serve them. When will she stop losing neighbors, friends, family? As Quill puts everything on the line to make a difference, the novel asks searing questions about bystander culture, the reverberations of even one act of crime, and the long-lasting trauma of being considered invisible.

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Random House

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0593974875

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9780593974872

Capitol Hill Pages

Young Witnesses to 200 Years of History

By: Marcie Sims

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Capitol Hill Pages

Young Witnesses to 200 Years of History

By: Marcie Sims

The Capitol Page Program allowed teenagers to serve as nonpartisan federal employees performing a number of duties within the House, Senate and Supreme Court. Though only Senate Pages remain after the controversial closing of the House Page Program in 2011, current and former pages' unique perspectives still, and perhaps not surprisingly, play an important role in United States government. The author, a former Senate Page, shares firsthand accounts along with interviews of past pages and some current notable political figures. In-depth research into the history of Capitol Pages' duties, schooling, experiences, downfalls and victories--including the admission of the first African American and female pages--illustrates the importance of the program in both the lives of the pages and in American politics.

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McFarland

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1476669724

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Love Letters

A Nation at War

By: Marcie Mcguire

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Love Letters

A Nation at War

By: Marcie Mcguire

I haven't been anywhere because I was sick. I have just felt lost. One thing has kept me company-and that is your lovely letters." -Elliott June 16, 1918 A memoir over 100 years in the making brings history to life-as two lovebirds exchange letters during wartime, a pandemic, and massive social changes. Marcie McGuire discovered more than 250 of her grandparent's letters stored neatly in a closet after surviving multiple moves over many decades. Drawing on her background in library science, Marcie chronicles the story of 21-year-old Elliot Cranfill and 19-year-old Elma Beatty using the letters they exchanged from 1917-1918. The book is organized chronologically-and Marcie includes introductions to each letter-providing readers with context to significant people and places mentioned. Love story enthusiasts and history buffs alike will enjoy this carefully preserved intimate record of World War I from the perspective of two bright young adults. She's in college; he's fighting for our country-and both are clinging to hope as the world witnesses unprecedented turmoil.

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Matthew Sleadd

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ISBN 13

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Interest Group Design

The Foundation and Evolution of Common Cause

By: Marcie L. Reynolds

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Interest Group Design

The Foundation and Evolution of Common Cause

By: Marcie L. Reynolds

In Interest Group Design, Marcie L. Reynolds examines the evolution of Common Cause, the first national government reform lobby. Founded in 1970 by John W. Gardner, the organization gained influence with Congress and established an organizational culture that lasted several decades. External and internal environmental changes led to mounting crises, and by 2000, Common Cause’s survival was in question. Yet fifteen years later, Common Cause is a renewed organization, with evidence of revival across the U.S. Empirical evidence suggests how Common Cause changed its interest group design but kept its identity in order to survive. Utilizing a mixed-methods approach to frame and analyze the history of Common Cause, Reynolds provides a lens for studying how key aspects of the U.S. political system—interest groups, collective action, lobbying, and representation—work as environments change. She extends work by previous scholars Andrew S. McFarland (1984) and Lawrence Rothenberg (1992), creating a sequence of analytical research about one interest group spanning almost fifty years, a unique contribution to political science. This thoroughly researched and comprehensive book will be of great interest to those who study political participation and organizational change.

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Routledge

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1000011623

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9781000011623

Applied Public Relations

Cases in Stakeholder Management

By: Kathy Brittain McKee,Kathy Richardson,Marcie Hinton,Larry F. Lamb

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Applied Public Relations

Cases in Stakeholder Management

By: Kathy Brittain McKee,Kathy Richardson,Marcie Hinton,Larry F. Lamb

Applied Public Relations provides readers with the opportunity to observe and analyze how contemporary businesses and organizations interact with key groups and influences. Through the presentation of cases covering a wide variety of industries, locations, and settings, authors Kathy Brittain McKee and Larry F. Lamb examine how real organizations develop and maintain their relationships, offering valuable insights into contemporary business and organizational management practices. McKee and Lamb place special emphasis on public relations as a strategic management function that must coordinate its planning and activities with key organizational units - human resources, marketing, legal counsel, finance, and operations, among others. A commitment to the ethical practice of public relations underlies the book, and students are challenged not only to assess the effectiveness of the practices outlined, but also to understand the ethical implications of those choices. This second edition includes the following key features: New and updated cases Additional Professional Insight commentaries Expanded use of charts and photos An appendix with the PRSA Member Code of Ethics and the IABC Code of Ethics for Professional Communicators A companion website with resources for the student and the instructor. With its practical orientation and scope, Applied Public Relations is a useful text for courses on public relations management, public relations cases and campaigns, and integrated communication management.

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Routledge

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1135231508

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Growing Up with Domestic Violence

By: Peter G. Jaffe,David A Wolfe,Marcie Campbell

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Growing Up with Domestic Violence

By: Peter G. Jaffe,David A Wolfe,Marcie Campbell

This compact and easy-to-read text by leading experts shows practitioners and students how to recognize the impact of intimate partner violence (IPV) on children and youth and to provide effective clinical interventions and school-based prevention programs. Exposure to IPV is defined using examples from different ages and developmental stages. The book describes the effects of exposure to IPV and reviews epidemiology and etiology. Its main focus is on proven assessment, intervention, and prevention strategies. Relevant and current theories regarding the impact of exposure on children and youth are reviewed, and illustrative real-life case studies from the clinical experiences of the authors are described.

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Hogrefe Publishing GmbH

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1616763361

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Applied Public Relations

Cases in Stakeholder Management

By: Kathy Brittain Richardson,Marcie Hinton

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Applied Public Relations

Cases in Stakeholder Management

By: Kathy Brittain Richardson,Marcie Hinton

With its practical orientation and scope, Applied Public Relations is the ideal text for any public relations case studies or public relations management course that places an emphasis on stakeholder groups. Through the presentation of current cases covering a wide variety of industries, locations, and settings, Kathy Richardson and Marcie Hinton examine how real organizations develop and maintain their relationships, offering valuable insights into business and organizational management practices. The book’s organization of case studies allows instructors to use the text in several ways: instructors can focus on specific stakeholders by using the chapters presented; they can focus on particular issues, such as labor relations or crisis management by selecting cases from within several chapters; or they can select cases that contrast campaigns with ongoing programs or managerial behaviors. A focus on ethics and social responsibility underlies the book, and students are challenged to assess the effectiveness of the practices outlined and understand the ethical implications of those choices. This Third Edition features: 25 new and current domestic and international case studies specifically chosen for their relevancy and relatability to students New "Professional Insights" commentaries where practitioners respond to a set of questions relating to their work Increased emphasis on ethics and social responsibility Fully enhanced companion website that is connected with the text, including a test bank and PowerPoint presentations for instructors, and chapter-specific discussion questions and additional readings for students

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Routledge

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113675380X

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The Novel Stage

Narrative Form from the Restoration to Jane Austen

By: Marcie Frank

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The Novel Stage

Narrative Form from the Restoration to Jane Austen

By: Marcie Frank

The Novel Stage: Narrative Form from the Restoration to Jane Austen traces the novel's relation to the theater over the course of the long eighteenth century, arguing that the familiar account of the novel as 'new' and distinct from other literary genres risks distorting a true reckoning of the form by failing to engage with the borrowings and departures from other more familiar genres, particularly drama. The Novel Stage traces the migration of tragicomedy, the comedy of manners, and melodrama from the stage to the novel. These genres were shared across print and performance, media that were not construed as opposites in a world in which individual silent reading took place beside playgoing, play-reading, amateur theatricals, and sociable reading aloud. The book thus expands an overly narrow conception of the novel as the genre of realism or domesticity whose highest achievement is its representation of characters' mental lives by describing the influence of the stage and its genres. Beginning in the later 1600s with Aphra Behn, The Novel Stage concludes with a chapter on some novelists of the Romantic period and a coda about Victorian novels. The Novel Stage's account of the novel provides an enriched, because more specific, sense of its formal accomplishments that drew on this ensemble of cultural forms and turns that lens back onto drama"--Provided by publisher.

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Rutgers University Press

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1684481678

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9781684481675

The Clinical Orthopedic Assessment Guide

By: Janice Kaye Loudon,Marcie Swift,Stephania Bell

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The Clinical Orthopedic Assessment Guide

By: Janice Kaye Loudon,Marcie Swift,Stephania Bell

Designed to provide orthopaedic clinicians with a handy reference guide for patient assessments, the content of this book is divided into an introduction, regional presentation of clinical assessments, including functional tests, and dealing with gait and posture.

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Human Kinetics

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0736067094

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9780736067096

Matzoh Ball Gumbo

Culinary Tales of the Jewish South

By: Marcie Cohen Ferris

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Matzoh Ball Gumbo

Culinary Tales of the Jewish South

By: Marcie Cohen Ferris

From the colonial era to the present, Marcie Cohen Ferris examines the expressive power of food throughout southern Jewish history. She demonstrates with delight and detail how southern Jews reinvented culinary traditions as they adapted to the customs, landscape, and racial codes of the American South. Richly illustrated, this culinary tour of the historic Jewish South is an evocative mixture of history and foodways, including more than thirty recipes to try at home.

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UNC Press Books

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0807882313

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Great Expectations

Your All-In-One Resource for Pregnancy & Childbirth

By: Sandy Jones,Marcie Jones Brennan

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Great Expectations

Your All-In-One Resource for Pregnancy & Childbirth

By: Sandy Jones,Marcie Jones Brennan

Highly praised by expectant parents and childbirth educators alike, this comprehensive pregnancy reference (704 pages) is specifically designed for today’s hurried moms (and dads) for getting them through pregnancy and early baby care. Numerous navigation aides in the volume help parents to rapidly access critical information. The beautifully-illustrated, Your Pregnancy Week-by-Week section details every body change for both Mom and Baby for nine months with hundreds of timely coping tips. The Managing Your Pregnancy section includes: strategies for planning maternity leave; exercise guidelines; what to eat and what to avoid; safe and unsafe medications; and how to locate the best childcare and pediatricians. The illustrated Baby Gear Guide warns about unsafe products and offers solid, research-based facts for choosing the safest car seats, cribs, soft carriers, baby diapers and clothing. Your Guide to Giving Birth is the most up-to-date labor and birth resource available to parents today. Based on brand-new medical evidence, it helps families to realistically plan for labor and delivery, including detailed "you are there" descriptions for every major intervention and medication they’re likely to encounter -- such as epidurals, inductions and cesarean sections. You and Your Baby presents a complete guide for the first six months of life after birth. Theres mom-friendly advice for post-birth recovery, and baby-sensitive care strategies for feeding, bathing, diapering, soothing and helping a baby to sleep. The book’s Resource Guide lists over 100 of the best Internet sites for parents. The comprehensive Pregnancy Dictionary translates 200-plus pregnancy and medical terms into easy-to-understand lay language. "I have this book as well as What to Expect When Expecting, and I find this book to be so much better as it gives a week to week breakdown of what is happening to both mom and baby. I pick up this book each week as my pregnancy progresses and even though not every issue listed in each weeks summary necessarily happens to me, its good to know what I could expect. I would highly recommend this book to any expecting mom!" -- Cynthia, an expectant mother "If you are searching for one book for your pregnancy or for that one book to refer all of your expectant clients to, this book is by far the greatest achievement in childbirth education reading material! Sandy Jones and her daughter Marcie Jones have included absolutely everything an expectant woman and her family needs to know. This book should be on everyones recommended reading list"--Connie Livingston, BS, RN, FACCE (Dona), CCE, CLD, birthsource.com "Great Expectations is the perfect resource for moms-to-be. Sandy and Marcie Jones speak to the expectant mother of today in a friendly, approachable tone, and present their thorough information in a way thats great for both quick look-ups, and in-depth reading."--Stacia Ragolia, VP, Community & Parenting, iVillage.com "Accurate, comprehensive, empowering, and current. I see this as being the new Dr. Spock for pregnancy...This is definitely a book I will recommend to my clients who are planning a pregnancy or currently pregnant."--Cherie C. Binns, RN, BS, MSCN

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Union Square & Co.

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1402776683

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9781402776687

"God First, You Second, Me Third": An Exploration of "Quiet Jewishness" at Camp Wah-Kon-Dah

An article from Southern Cultures 18:1, Spring 2012

By: Marcie Cohen Ferris

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"God First, You Second, Me Third": An Exploration of "Quiet Jewishness" at Camp Wah-Kon-Dah

An article from Southern Cultures 18:1, Spring 2012

By: Marcie Cohen Ferris

This was an anxious time for American Jews, stung by the anti-Semitic quotas and discrimination of the interwar years and the growing horror regarding the fate of European Jewry as the Holocaust came to light in the 1940s." This article appears in the Spring 2012 issue of Southern Cultures. The full issue is also available as an ebook. Southern Cultures is published quarterly (spring, summer, fall, winter) by the University of North Carolina Press. The journal is sponsored by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Center for the Study of the American South.

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0807837695

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Fixed Stars

By: Marcie Gallacher

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Fixed Stars

By: Marcie Gallacher

As she tries to deal with her terminally ill grandfather's impending death and her more-than-friendly feelings for a non-Mormon neighbor, Tracy must also cope with her questions about the relationship between knowledge and faith.

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1570086575

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From Word to Image

Storyboarding and the Filmmaking Process

By: Marcie Begleiter

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From Word to Image

Storyboarding and the Filmmaking Process

By: Marcie Begleiter

An overview of the storyboarding and filmmaking process that explains how storyboards are used to help directors visualize their stories and experiment with composition elements before production.

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0941188280

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9780941188289

Chicken Soup

75 World-class Recipes to Warm Your Heart and Soul

By: Marcie Ver Ploeg,Barbara Chernetz

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Chicken Soup

75 World-class Recipes to Warm Your Heart and Soul

By: Marcie Ver Ploeg,Barbara Chernetz

Chicken soup is one dish that warms everybody's heart--and almost everyone has his or her own special recipe. Chicken Soup includes the best recipes for traditional chicken soup with other recipes from around the world. Features over 75 mouthwatering and easy to prepare recipes.

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Main Street Books

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0385477708

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9780385477703

The Unofficial Guide?to Hawaii

By: Rick Carroll,Marcie Carroll

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The Unofficial Guide?to Hawaii

By: Rick Carroll,Marcie Carroll

From the publishers of The Unofficial Guide to Walt Disney World "A Tourist's Best Friend!" --Chicago Sun-Times "Indispensable" --The New York Times Five Great Features and Benefits offered ONLY by The Unofficial Guide: * Major hotels and resorts rated and ranked for value and quality of rooms--plus, proven strategies for getting the best rates * More than 80 restaurants reviewed in detail and rated, with tips on Hawaii Regional Cuisine * The inside story on the top attractions: Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, Polynesian Cultural Center, the U.S.S. Arizona Memorial, Haleakala National Park, and more * A complete guide to exploring the islands, including the best beaches, scenic drives, and rain forest walks * The best places to golf, hike, dive, snorkel, and surf Sample Rating Hawaii Volcanoes National Park Appeal by Age Preschool Grade school Teens Young Adults Over 30 Seniors About 30 miles from Hilo, traveling down Highway 11; # 808-985-6000; www.hawaii.volcanoes.national-park.com or www.nps.gov/havo Admission $10/vehicle. Admission is good for 7 days. Hours The park is open 24 hours a day year-round; the Visitor Center is open daily, 7:45 a.m.-5 p.m. When to go Anytime; the best time of day to view eruption activity is after sunset. How much time to allow At least half a day. Author's rating .....; Hawaii's premier attraction. Don't expect up-close views of fountaining lava, however.

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Wiley

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0471763934

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9780471763932

Abscission

Memoirs of a Minimalist

By: Marcie Thompson

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Memoirs of a Minimalist

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