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Building Muscle Mass, Performance and Health With Hmb: The Food Supplement That Builds Muscles and Burns Body Fat, Lowers Cholesterol Levels and Strengthens the Immune System (Keats Good Health Guide Series)
Published in Paperback by McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Books (1997)
Authors: Richard A. Passwater and John Jr. Fuller
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Great if you work out intensely
Get huge, ripped, muscles twice as fast as you normally would. This stuff works awesome. HMB is the best supplement out there. I reccomend using this in conjuction with a Super Slow workout proposed by Ken Hutchins for maximum muscularity, dude. I am so muscular now thanks to this stuff. Look at my biceps, hehe


Building the Weekend Skiff
Published in Paperback by Tiller Publishing (01 June, 1997)
Authors: Richard Butz and John Montague
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Even you can build a boat
This book is designed for those who want a start in boat building or those looking for an inexpensive way to build a row boat or small sail boat. I have built the skiff in this book as part of a class at Buffalo State College with John Montague, the author. The directions are excellent and very easy to follow. My wife helped build the row boat and she has no prior woodworking skills. We enjoy the row boat very much and have had it now 2 years. The cost is around $250 for the row boat the sail boat is a little more due to the cost of a sail. I have built 2 more for a summer camp with high school age kids and they enjoyed it very much. A great book for the boating enthusiest looking to build thier own boat.


The Bulgarian Communist Party from Blagoev to Zhivkov (Publication 320: History of Ruling Communist Parties)
Published in Paperback by Hoover Inst Pr (1985)
Authors: John D. Bell and Richard F. Staar
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A must for students of Bulgaria
John D. Bell provides perhaps the best account of the history of the Bulgarian Communist Party available in English. Together with Richard Crampton's history of Bulgaria, it is also the best scholarly source of more general Bulgarian history in the 20th century. A must for anyone studying Bulgaria. The book uses interviews of dissidents who fled Bulgaria during the years of communist domination to supplement available archival sources. The result is a magnificently documented narrative that brings to light some controversial and unclear episodes in the history of Bulgarian communism. The book demonstrates, for example, that Zhivkov's power was not unchallenged and that internal dissent, even if it came from the Party or the armed forces, existed even here, in the country widely considered to have been the closest Soviet ally and follower. The book also demonstrates the reciprocity of alliance politics within the Soviet bloc. Challenging the existing convention, John Bell demonstrates that relations within the Warsaw pact were not unidirectional. The Soviet Union responded to various interests of the Bulgarian leadership and often helped their advancement. In addition, the book is thoroughly readable and, provides impartial insight into the almost century-old history of the Bulgarian labor movement and its political organizations.


Burton and Speke
Published in Hardcover by St. Martin's Press (1982)
Author: William Harrison
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Don't want to review. Looking for videotape of PBS program.
Can you help? PBS ran a series on this subject some years ago. I'd like to find a copy.


The Cambridge History of Africa 8 volume set
Published in Hardcover by Cambridge University Press (1986)
Authors: J. Desmond Clark, J. D. Fage, Roland Oliver, Richard Gray, John E. Flint, and G. N. Sanderson
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An incredibly valuable resource!
This is an eight-volume history of Africa that I can't recommend highly enough. Patiently working my way through it over the course of several months did more to reduce my ignorance of human history than anything else I have ever done. I found several discussions particularly helpful:

- the physical evidence for human origins in Africa south of the Sahara

- The colonization of Madagascar by voyagers from Malaysia, which introduced the banana and several other valuable food crops into Africa in classical times

- How the conquest of valley-dwelling, agricultural Hutu by hilltop-dwelling, cattle-herding Tutsi serendipitously benefited both cultures, since manure from Tutsi cattle enabled greater Hutu cultivation of the banana

- How the Iron Age came to Africa south of the Sahara (this was what led me to this work in the first place)

- The breadth and depth of Arab learning and philosophy at the height of the Muslim empires during Europe's Middle Ages

I did find the discussions of late-Christian Egypt and Arab civilization more difficult to follow than the rest, because these discussions make heavy use of italicized Egyptian and Arabic words without bothering to explain them to the non-expert reader. This forced me to keep going back and re-reading earlier passages as I figured out these terms' likely meanings from their context in later passages.

Overall, however, this is a work I would love to have on my own bookshelf, if it weren't so very costly to purchase. The copy I read belongs to the King County Library system. (Seattle and Redmond, Washington, are the best-known cities in King County.)


The Canadian Fishing Trip: A Guidebook
Published in Paperback by Barker & North Pub (1993)
Authors: John Harschutz and Richard Harschutz
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Excellent - One-of-a-kind! Information not found elsewhere.
I found this book to cover everything from planning to packing for a Canadian fishing trip. The author even has a chapter on quickly predicting the day's weather


Cardiac Surgery of the Neonate and Infant
Published in Hardcover by W B Saunders (15 January, 1994)
Authors: Aldo R. Castaneda, Richard A. Jonas, John E. Mayer, and John E. Mayer Jr
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Essential reference
The surgical correction of congenital heart disease, during the last 30 years has gone from infantile and largely experimental to a mature art. The change in mortality among children suffering from these conditions during this period of time is nothing short of awesome. Conditions that were universally fatal in the first year of life before 1970 are now routinely cured with followup data now entering well into adulthood. It is hard to imagine that it is now twenty years since the first successful surgical treatment of a child with hypoplastic leaft heart syndrome, and that this most dreaded anomaly is now successfully treated in over 80% of cases in some centers.

It is likewise hard to imagine any individual who had a greater impact on surgical repair of congenital heart disease than the senior author of this book. I say this with some bias, as I was fortunate enough to have him operate on my son who was born with transposition of the great vessels while I was a fellow in Pediatric Cardiology. He and his coauthors are universally recognized as leaders in the field, and their authorship of this book is nothing short of masterful.

This work is an essential reference for all who treat children with congenital heart disease. All current surtical techniques are discussed and well illustrated. Its publication in 1994 may miss some modern nuances, as endoscopic approaches to repair, but all of it is here. The text does not dwell on diagnostic techniques - for those, it would be better to look at Garson or Moss. This book is directed solely at the surgery, and that it does well. Illustrations are clear. Surgical considerations, including intraoperative and posoperative concerns are well discussed. The data describing surgical results is compehensive through its publication date. Anyone doing a fellowship in pediatric cardiology cardiology will spend some time with this book, and it does not need my recommendation to know that it will find its way onto the bookshelf of most pediatric cardiologists and cardiovascular surgeons.


The Ccd Camera Cookbook: How to Build Your Own Ccd Camera/Book and Disk
Published in Paperback by Willmann-Bell (1994)
Authors: Richard Berry, Veikko Kanto, and John Munger
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For anyone starting out with a CCD this is a must read.
The authors take you through step by step of how CCD's work. Then how to build your own. I loved it and built my own camera from the book. It is really easy if I can do anyone can.


Chilton's Repair Manual: Calais Grand Am Skylark Somerset 1985-92
Published in Paperback by Chilton/Haynes (1993)
Authors: Steve Horner, John Rutter, Chilton Book Company, Richard J. Rivele, and Kerry A. Freeman
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wow! E-Z for kids and adults alike
i was able to completely refurbish my 1989 grand am using just this manual and a butter knife.


The China Card
Published in Hardcover by Simon & Schuster (1986)
Author: John Ehrlichman
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Political Thriller
Delivers the basic goods; suspense, suprise, danger, good dialogue in high places, ingenious situations. Hard to put down.


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