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Whether we're beret-bearing beatniks or Lexus-driving cosmopolitans, road trips still beckon. Gas up the tank, load up the trunk--it's hard to resist. But who has time to waste on wrong turns, getting lost, and bad choices? When it comes to finding fun, time is of the essence, so Jamie Jensen's guide takes the pain out of the road trip, be it across the continent or a Sunday jaunt. With directions to pit stops, scenic routes, bizarre museums, and the best apple pie stands, all you have to do is drive.
Book Description
Now in its 10th anniversary edition, the best-selling Road Trip USA is better than ever. Inside you’ll find cross-country routes and road-tested advice for adventurers who want to see part of America that the interstates have left behind. Mile-by-mile highlights celebrate major cities, obscure towns, popular attractions, roadside curiosities (if you’re looking for the world’s largest jackalope, you’re in luck), local lore, and oddball trivia. Exit the interstates and create your own driving adventures on America's two-land scenic highways. Features include: a flexible network of route combinations, extensively cross-referenced to allow for hundreds of possible itineraries; essential tips for the road: call letters of lively radio stations, Survival Guides for two dozen cities, and details on where to eat and sleep; and more than 125 detailed maps.
Customer Reviews:
Sometimes it is best just to take it slow.......2007-07-11
Turnpikes and superhighways have improved much about our lives, making commutes to work and other vital travel easier and faster. Sometimes, though, it's great to just slow down and enjoy the scenery - and that's just what Road Trip USA: Cross-Country Adventures on America's Two-Lane Highways helps all of us to do.
In this book, you'll discover plenty about out-of-the-way places that can be reached by traveling on two-lane roads in the United States. Discover lesser known monuments, museums, restaurants and roads, and enjoy the offbeat sites that you'll see. It's likely that you'll even learn something new about your own state or hometown.
Road Trip USA recommends places to eat and stay and it provides survival guides to some of America's most intriguing cities. If you've fallen into a vacation rut, this book will break you of it, as at least one quirky destination - and probably many more - will grab your attention and cause you to go on your own road trip rendezvous.
Interesting but not a great reference.......2007-03-09
This book details five north-south and five east-west journeys across the US. The book is arranged into 10 sections, one for each path, each of which lists, in order, all the sites worth seeing on the particular route in that section.
While it is a good collection of sites, the book is laid out in a way that makes it useful only if you read the entire thing. There is no easy way to look up the attractions by state or as dots on a map or by type or anything like that. There isn't even a table of contents at the beginning of the book or of each section. The only reference you have to a particular site is the blurb itself.
So while some may find this to be a useful guide, I'd say it needs a bit more work before it's a good reference.
Fun for the Road.......2007-03-05
When you think of summer, and of freedom and adventure, you automatically think "road trip." Sometimes, you just want to jump into your car for a day trip and, other times, you'd love to trek around America for an entire summer. Some trips you know exactly where you're going and what you plan to see and, other times, you go where the spirit of travel leads you.
In Jamie Jensen's book, Road Trip USA: Cross Country Adventures on America's Two-Lane Highways, we're given quality information on fun places to visit, including places where celebrities stayed, restaurants with apple pie tasty enough for a visit (or two!) and scenic locations worth seeing just for their sheer beauty.
Trivia, myths and legends provided in the book makes trips even more entertaining. The tips of where to take photographs are terrific and provide a road trip traveler the chance to easily capture the most interesting sights for friends and family back home.
I like how Jensen covers 35,000 miles of road tripping in just one book and we appreciate his color-coded routes. Nobody likes getting lost and he pays attention to the smallest details that provide travelers comfort, including the call numbers of local radio stations.
Get off the major highways and use Jensen's book for eleven road trips that you'll never forget!
road trip usa cross country adventures on americas two lane highways.......2007-01-09
great book, I like that you can start at any part of each trip. After reading some sections that I have already traveled, I'm going to retrace some of them because I found that I missed alot of interesting places that were listed in the book. Great reading, can't wait till this summer to let the adventures begin.
Informative.......2006-11-10
This seems to be a very interesting and informative book that will be enjoyed a lot.
Book Description
It's been called the most misunderstood book in history.
Wars have been fought in its name, scandals have been precipitated by it, politics shaped and reshaped at its word. Theologians have both defended and reviled it. Skeptics have done the same. If you are a typical member of the human race, you have often been perplexed by all the fuss surrounding the Bible. The question remains, What does it really say?
Here is a book that explains the greatest of Bible themes clearly and logically. Rather than focusing on one part and missing the whole the author chronologically binds together the entire text into one great universal drama, looking at events from the perspective of those who experienced history in the making. The results are sometimes comical, sometimes frightening but always true to the intent of the text.
When you are done reading it, you may find yourself believing the Book like you never have before. Or you may decide not to. The author's objective approach leaves that decision up to you.
Customer Reviews:
10 Stars!!!.......2007-10-03
An excellent explanation of the bible! Ties old and new testaments together and explains God's plan of salvation in the easiest format I have ever found. For those who find the bible confusing, don't have time to read it, or aren't sure what to believe, this book makes it all clear and easy to understand. We loved it so much that we have since purchased dozens of this book and hand them out to friends and family who have questions about what to believe in this age of questioning everything and "anything goes". My husband became a Christian after reading this book and finally understanding how we can be sure whether we will be in heaven one day or not, strictly according to the bible.
A good first exposure to the Bible.......2007-05-14
So a short review here.
This was one of the first books suggested to me by a friend when I started getting into reading the Bible seriously. It was an immense help, being able to be walked through the whole thing from beginning to end. Seriously. For all the whining and complaining, or even genuine confusion about how the Bible seems to make no sense, etc. etc. this book helps to put so much into context. It also kicks all the misconceptions about Christianity out the window.
If you go through this book once, you'll already know more about Christianity and more correctly about Christianity than likely 80-95% of the population.
Worth every penny, and then some. And when you're done, give the book away, and buy a couple more to share (like what I did... :)
Gordon
Best overview - politics aside!!.......2006-12-29
I have read through this book twice now, and found it to be very clear and an easy read. It does a very good job of describing the background of the Bible and the message it carries, as well as providing an accurate perspective of how we as humans fit in to 'the big picture'. It also presents the main theme of the Bible without all the political "ispecial interest groups" emphasizing the parts that support thier cause. It is a must read.
Perfect For the New Christian.......2006-03-02
This book was originally loaned to me by one of my students. After reading the first chapter, I knew the right book had found me. I ordered my own copy and returned the original to its owner. This book makes sense of it all. It explains customs of B.C. and gives down to earth details in plain English. I felt like John Cross was sitting beside me...talking me through it. What an education I got!
Great book that everyone needs to read........2006-02-26
This book is an excellent book for a survey of the entire Bible. This book is not exhaustive, but it covers the key stories and themes. The book's strength is that it shows the reader that the Bible has one consitent message throughout.
This book is easy to read, but not simplistic. It is not an academic book, but academics can get something from this book as well.
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- Impossible to Put Down
- This ain't text-messaging
- 84 Charing Cross Road
- A charming collection of correspondence
- Pleasant Read!
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84, Charing Cross Road
Helene Hanff
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84, Charing Cross Road is a charming record of bibliophilia, cultural difference, and imaginative sympathy. For 20 years, an outspoken New York writer and a rather more restrained London bookseller carried on an increasingly touching correspondence. In her first letter to Marks & Co., Helene Hanff encloses a wish list, but warns, "The phrase 'antiquarian booksellers' scares me somewhat, as I equate 'antique' with expensive." Twenty days later, on October 25, 1949, a correspondent identified only as FPD let Hanff know that works by Hazlitt and Robert Louis Stevenson would be coming under separate cover. When they arrive, Hanff is ecstatic--but unsure she'll ever conquer "bilingual arithmetic." By early December 1949, Hanff is suddenly worried that the six-pound ham she's sent off to augment British rations will arrive in a kosher office. But only when FPD turns out to have an actual name, Frank Doel, does the real fun begin.
Two years later, Hanff is outraged that Marks & Co. has dared to send an abridged Pepys diary. "i enclose two limp singles, i will make do with this thing till you find me a real Pepys. THEN i will rip up this ersatz book, page by page, AND WRAP THINGS IN IT." Nonetheless, her postscript asks whether they want fresh or powdered eggs for Christmas. Soon they're sharing news of Frank's family and Hanff's career. No doubt their letters would have continued, but in 1969, the firm's secretary informed her that Frank Doel had died. In the collection's penultimate entry, Helene Hanff urges a tourist friend, "If you happen to pass by 84, Charing Cross Road, kiss it for me. I owe it so much."
Customer Reviews:
Impossible to Put Down.......2007-07-17
I just read this amazing collection of correspondence between the author and the employees of a small bookshop in London in one sitting. It was entertaining, culturally enlightening and it had a quaintness about it due to the letters being written in the years immediately following WWII.
The friendship that develops between Helene Hanff as a result of her generosity toward the staff of the bookshop is really endearing and the reader feels like he or she really knows these people after enjoying this short read.
A very unusual and highly enjoyable glimpse into the lives of others through their correspondence. Highly recommended for booklovers , anglophiles and others.
This ain't text-messaging.......2007-07-06
I first entered Helene Hanff's world via this book more than three decades ago. Recently I picked it up again and was struck by the timelessness of the love of books and of people who love books.
This is a book that wears well, like a Stradivarius or a Monet. Helene is a feisty New Yorker, issuing bon mots like "I hope 'madam' doesn't mean over there what it does here." Watching the gradual development of a deep love between the irrepressible Helene and the terribly proper staff of Marks & Co is a rare privilege. In a world of instant contact, this saga of true communication by letter across the Atlantic is a beacon of hope.
I'd rate this ten stars if I had the chance.
84 Charing Cross Road.......2007-05-13
Definitely a must read book and a must see movie!!!!
I recommend first to read then to see.
Sabina Horak
A charming collection of correspondence.......2007-04-17
A friend of mine--who is always recomending books to me, told me to pick something up by Hanff--this was all the store had. But really did it need anything else?
This is a wonderful ode to books and friendship. What more could I ask for?
This is a series of letters between Helene Hanff and a bookseller in london, Frank Doelle (sp?). Their letters span many years and there are the occasional other letters from some of his coworkers. Hanff as a customer is very specific in her needs, she does not want books that have been trimmed by editors or poorly translated.
Beyond her wonderful reactions to the books she is reading and recieving we get an interesting perspective on what has happened in England since WW2, its something that I was taught about in my history classes (here states side) But something that I think should be. I didn't know they were on rations for meat and eggs. And here in this book we have a group of real people who had to deal with this--and Hanff in her generosity find great joy in helping out her beloved booksellers by sending them tins of meat and dried eggs (didn't know those existed!)
Its a great book, and there is alot in it for its small size. definately for a book lover.
Pleasant Read!.......2007-03-11
What a breath of fresh air this book was to read. It was an uplifting, humourous story of the long distance correspondence of a used bookstore and its workers in London and the buyer in America whom they worked with long distance, over 20 years, fulfilling her love and want of specific books. It left the reader very satisfied.
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- Boring
- Better than the cover suggests
- Highly entertaining
- Great for all ages
- Delicious when fried
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Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road?
Tedd Arnold, Harry Bliss, David Catrow, Marla Frazee, Jerry Pinkney, Chris Raschka, Judy Schachner, David Shannon, Mo Willems Jon Agee
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Book Description
We all know the joke. We've all told it. Kids love to tell it over and over and over again, with as many different punch lines as possible. And now we've found out that famous award-winning artists love to tell the joke too—and they have some wacky and downright hilarious ideas about why that chicken really did cross the road.
Mo Willems's chicken confesses his motives to a police officer; David Shannon's chicken can drive a car; Marla Frazee's chicken is looking for a more luxurious coop; and Harry Bliss's chicken encounters aliens. And this is just the beginning. One thing is for sure—you won't cross this book without a good laugh!
IN PECKING ORDER: Marla Frazee, Mo Willems , Judy Schachner, Tedd Arnold, Jon Agee, David Shannon, Vladimir Radunsky, Jerry Pinkney, Chris Sheban, Harry Bliss, Mary Grandpre, Lynn Munsinger, David Catrow, Chris Raschka
Customer Reviews:
Boring.......2007-05-11
If you want a collection of children's artists, this book would fit the bill. Otherwise, I didn't find this to be a "keeper"-check it out from the library rather than spend your money. Artists are not necessarily great writers-after a couple of readings, my kids were bored with it.
Better than the cover suggests.......2007-04-21
I am not sure how this delightful book got stuck into this cover, but it is very
uninviting. I also happen to work at a kid's bookstore on a "help-out" situation, and
it was my impression that this book didn't move at all during the critical Christmas
holiday. The cover has to be the reason.
Inside are the delightful and sometimes hilarious answers to the question in the title,
with a wonderful selection of top children's illustrators of the day. The book is a
real keepsake and a reminder to check out other books by these illustrators.
Highly entertaining.......2007-03-09
I'm not sure if my daughter enjoyed this as much as I did, but this book is hilarious and fun. This collection of illustrations is top-notch, to put it simply. This is a great book for stimulating interactive questions between the reader and the listener, too. This is one that YOU will want to read again and again. Oh yeah, and your child/students probably will, too.
Great for all ages.......2007-01-03
Imagine your kids favorite authors/illustrators each providing a page to this book wherein they answer the age old riddle of why did the chicken cross the road? The book is funny with fantastic pictures and should have wide appeal for primary schoolers and parents alike.
Delicious when fried.......2006-09-23
There are some jokes out there that are so classic they've passed the point where they're funny anymore. Knock-knock jokes fall into this category. Light bulb jokes too. And then there's the best one of them all. Why-did-the-chicken-cross-the-road jokes. Boy oh boy you just can't make anyone laugh with one of those anymore, can you? Well that's the way my thinking would have gone had I not picked up a bizarre little picture book title by the same name. In this book fourteen different children's illustrators are each granted a two-page spread to offer their answer to this, the oldest of questions. No two answers are exactly alike and no two illustrators have styles even vaguely similar. It makes for a book that kids will adore, grown-ups will pore over, and insipient illustrators will want to keep very close at hand.
So why did the chicken cross the road? The answer may surprise you. Marla Frazee, illustrator of things like "Roller Coaster", and the recent smash hit, "Walk On: A Guide For Babies", shows a determined chicken crossing a road away from a rain-soaked grey-skied chicken coop towards a blue-skied brightly colored fun-factory of a building. Her single thought: "duh". Turn the page and Mo Willems has taken an entirely different tack. In the gloom of a police department some hard-boiled cops are giving a very nervous chicken (note the number of eggs under its chair) the third degree. The chicken itself is insisting that "I just did it to get to the other side! Honest!". To one side a detective is pouring the contents of a significant looking charcoal bag onto a grill. The entire book is like this. David Shannon taps into a vein not dissimilar from his beloved "Duck On a Bike" to show us chicken at the wheel of a fancy red convertible. Flip further through the book and you see pictures by everyone from the great Jerry Pinkney to the far-out Mary Grandpre and the more than slightly twisted machinations of David Catrow. Here you may find more answers than you ever could have thought up yourself.
The great joy of a book like this is that it also serves to introduce people to hitherto unknown illustrators. I remembered most of the people from this book before, but then there were people like Chris Sheban who'd entirely escaped my notice in the past. Mr. Sheban's picture is an evocative piece where one chicken has accidentally hit a baseball over another chicken's head and into a window. The two stand poised in a kind of frozen shock as late afternoon light seeps over the suburban scene. Or there was Judy Schachner who's tiny-brained chick, "wasn't just free range ... she was de-ranged!". I suppose my favorite pictures in here were from people who seemingly were working in unexpected ways. Take Jon Agee as your example. If you've seen his "Terrific" or "The Incredible Painting of Felix Clousseau" then you are aware of his clean lines and sparse palette. Now consider a picture that consists of cars, people, dogs, pigs, motorcyclists, buses, etc. fleeing from three hungry look dinosaurs. And perched on the side of the road, not immediately apparent to the eye, stands a lone chicken. Or consider Harry Bliss. I was used to his New Yorker-like picture books like, "Don't Forget To Come Back" that tend to have an innate sophistication to them. The last thing I would have expected was for him to come up with the answer, "Ask the mutated zombie chickens from Mars!". But you know what? It works.
Children's illustrators banding together to put together a book... it's not a new concept is it? I mean, you can always find books like, "Oz: The Hundredth Anniversary Celebration" or "The Art of Reading: Forty Illustrator's Celebrate RIF's 40th Anniversary". The problem with those titles, though, is that they're really not produced with kids in mind. Far rarer is the picture book filled with different illustrators that kids might recognize and love. I'm not saying it's never happened before. But name me three such books off the top of your head and I'll be mighty impressed, if not utterly blown away. No, sir, this is an original idea and a classy little work. Consider this book to be an essential addition to any picture book collection. Funny and fabulous.
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From the bestselling author of Rats, a personal and national history of one of
America
’s favorite pastimes: driving across the country.
The cross-country trip is the trip that often whizzes past us on our way to quaint back roads and scenic parks; it’s an America of long, looping highways, strip malls, fast-food depots, and road rage, but also one that is wide-open, awe-inspiring, and heartwarmingly lonely. Here, Sullivan, who has driven cross-country more than two dozen times, recounts his family’s annual summer migration from Oregon to New York. His story of moving his family back and forth from the East Coast to the West Coast (and various other migrations), is replete with all the minor disasters, humor, and wonderful coincidences that characterize life on the road, not to mention life.
As he drives, Sullivan ponders his nation-crossing predecessors, such as legendary duo Lewis and Clark, as well the more improbable heroes of America’s unending urge to cross itself: Carl Fisher, an Indianapolis bicycle maker who founded the Indy 500, dropped cars off of buildings and imagined the first cross-country road; Emily Post, who, before her life as an etiquette writer, was one of the first cross-country chroniclers; and the race car drivers who, appalled by the invention of seatbelts and speed limits, ran an underground cross-country car race in the 1970s known as the Cannonball Run. Sullivan meets Beat poets who are devotees of Jack Kerouac, cross-country icon, and plays golf on an abandoned coal mine. And, in his trademark celebration of the mundane, Sullivan investigates everything from the history of the gas pump to the origins of fast food and rest stops. Cross Country tells the tales that come from fifteen years of driving across the country (and all around it) with two kids and everything that two kids and two parents take when driving in a car from one coast to another, over and over, driving to see the way the road made America and America made the road.
Customer Reviews:
Wonderful!.......2007-08-01
When I began the book, I didn't like it. I didn't care about Lewis and Clark and their expedition. Then I thought, give it a chance. I believe everyone and everything deserves a second chance. Boy, am I glad that I did! I absolutely loved it! I hated that it ended. I did learn a thing or two about our interstate system, and this spectacular country of ours. I wish it never ended. I may read it again some day.
I had to quit reading it.......2007-06-19
I very rarely quit a book without finishing, but this one I did. Not only is it edited very poorly, with many irritating misspellings and words out of place, but the author mixes up names of towns and cities. This leads me to believe he didn't ever really know where he was or what he was doing. For instance, he seems to have difficulty determining which Dakota he is in at any given time. He also drives alot from Indiana into Missouri, mysteriously tele-transporting himself over Illinois somehow. I'm sure there were many other mistakes I could have caught if I had actually finished the book. But the worst is the author seems to be the type of person you would never want to go on a road trip with, too boring, not a fun family, not a good book.
Decent Book About One Man's Travels.......2007-02-06
This book has a most eye-catching cover, but the writing does not live up to the promises made on the book flaps. Robert Sullivan has driven across the country dozens of times and writes of his experiences
The best part of the book is the crude drawings and accompanying notations. This serves to make up for the uninspired writing that relates much about Lewis and Clark and service station coffee while not telling us the kind of interesting stories that the book flaps promised us. The writing is just so much hot air and endless details of his travels.
Bottom line: Wait and see if this book makes your public library and if it does, give it a look.
words words words..........2007-01-29
This book isn't about one man's love of the open road, it's a paean to his love for his own voice as we are interminably subjected to his rambling, circular, paisley stylings. Somewhere near the beginning of the book, he mentioned that we, unlike his family, had the advantage of being able to put the book aside as a break, which not only made me put the book down many, many times but made me want to stage an intervention for his obviously long-suffering family.
Too many words.......2007-01-10
More thn I cared to know about the author's thoughts about himself. Needs to be cut by half.
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Improve your racing performance through multispeed training! Whether your distance is 5K, marathon, or anything in-between, this book tells you how to train smarter and run faster. Pete Pfitzinger—a world-class marathoner, distance running coach, and exercise physiologist—teams up with former Running Times editor Scott Douglas to teach you how to
• design a week-by-week training program,
• determine the right pace to run during speed workouts,
• get the most out of long runs,
• taper training before an important race,
• detect and avoid staleness and injury,
• determine the best strategy for each race, and
• achieve the optimal mental state to train and race.
Included with each of five training schedules are racing tactics, mental tips, and lessons from world-class runners. Whatever distance you plan to race, Road Racing for Serious Runners will guide you to peak performance!
Customer Reviews:
The Efficient Reader's Running Training and Racing Guide .......2007-10-02
What I like most about Pfitzinger's and Scott's book is that it is a very friendly efficient book that gets right into the subject matter and it breaks down what others describe in more complex fashion, like VO2 Max, into much simplier terms making the comprehension easy and in far fewer pages. Although written in the very late 90s, this book is still an excellent guide for HS and runners virtually up to local elite status. "Daniels Running Formula" is probably mote satisfying, and more detailed for top guns but Pfitziner and Scott give you a lot of the same information with a variety of workouts based on goal times at various distances. The authors even quote Daniel's research and others so it still is in the game. If you want a quick grasp training book that is top knotch, pleasant to read with examples and pictures, then this is your book.
A Nice Appendix to "Daniel's Running Formula".......2004-09-29
If Jack Daniel's book is the bible of running, this book is a close second. Clear, concise, and with good training tables, this book is a nice tweak on Daniel's book.
Using the methods espoused in these two books has improved my race times dramatically. Instead of random training, every training run now has a purpose; be it a slow easy run or speed workouts at the track.
Train smarter, train easier.......2002-06-21
Pfitzinger's book finally delivers on what I always want from a book on a complex subject, simple explanations and simple solutions. Why write 800 pages when 188 will suffice. If you are only looking to train for 5K's then you can skip the section on 10K and marathon training and get even more concise explanations. This book gives short, simple explanations to the key elements of a training program. We now know everything we need to know about VO2 max and lactate threshold training, their relative importance, how to improve them and how to incorporate them into your training program. Pete indirectly points out how most of us are doing no lactate threshold training (by running most of our daily runs to slow) and doing all of our interval work to fast. I recommend this book to anyone looking to improve his or her racing times.
I would also suggest buying "Daniels Running Formula". I bought it last summer and my 5K's times went down from 19:40 to 18:50. I bought "Road Racing for Serious Runners" to basically get a second opinion on Daniel's theories. Actually these are not opinions or theories. These are time-tested methods back by sound science. I'm 43 years old and I'm living proof that random training will yield random results. Both Pfitzinger and Jack Daniels book will eliminate the "lets try this" approach to training. Both books cover the same topics and both authors come up with the basically the same training program. Daniels book breaks his schedule into 4 six-week phases while Pfitzinger has a 10-week and an 11 phase. When you look at both plans it becomes obvious and almost laughable on how easy it is to improve on your racing times (and in my case actually cut back on the training intensity).
I would buy both books so you can really feel good about your new training methods. Pete's book is simpler and has separate schedules for some of us low 20-40 mile per week folks. Daniels book has slightly more science and covers more topics. Daniels also has been around longer and has trained more athletes. There are only a few contradictions in Pete's book. He states on page 21 that your volume of Vo2 max workouts (your hard intervals) should be 1 workout per week with a total distance covered of 4 to 8K with the possibility of adding a second lower volume session each week. This corresponds with Daniels book where he has 2 Vo2 max sessions each week (or 1 Vo2 Max and a race). But when you get to the detailed 5K schedules for the 20-40 miles per week you only see 6 Vo2 max workouts scheduled in 21 weeks, despite them being listed as the number one priority. Also only 5 threshold workouts are scheduled in the last 11 weeks for the 20-40 mile schedule. I guess Pete is no dummy. He knows that Bill Rodgers may not use his book and that it will be geared towards people like me. He knows that I'm going to sneak in a combination of ten 5K and 8K races this fall before I attempt to peak in early December. The Daniels book just encourages it and has those realities clearly shown on the schedules. Just buy both books, start training smarter and in some cases a little easier. I've bought bad unhealthy lunches for [PRICE]. If you run this will be the best [PRICE} you will ever spend.
Compact but practical racing book.......2002-01-01
Very good book for learning to race everything from 5k to marathon distances. There is no fluff, just the facts on how to prepare for a specific race distance. The only reason I don't give it 5 stars is the authors schedules are a little too general for those of us who must have a detailed schedule. This book is not a beginner's book. To get the most from it you need to have some experience running races, even if you are a slow runner.
Couldn't be better........2001-07-23
I can't imagine a better, more concise book on running training for distances over 1500m. A great introduction to the physiology of endurance racing, and how to apply this knowledge directly to your own workouts.
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- Masterful Scholarship of a Taboo and Detrimental Practice
- Travelers, listen up
- A personal study of sexual experimental behavior by western women while traveling
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Romance on the Road
Jeannette Belliveau
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Heading South
ASIN: 096523441X |
Book Description
This book is the complete reference for anyone who wants to learn about a hidden phenomenon that affects hundreds of thousands of traveling women and foreign men: Instant vacation love affairs that banish loneliness, provide cultural insights, offer one-on-one, hand-to-hand foreign aid to the world's poor, create international children and sometimes even change the course of history. Romance on the Road is bound to become a landmark title revealing how the rules that once bound women to choose only "socially appropriate" mates have begun to crumble, as female executives and heiresses gallivant with penniless but charming beach boys around the world, from Kenya to Jamaica to Thailand. Author Jeannette Belliveau examines all facets of romance on the road, with chapters on every world region known to attract female sex travelers (from Southern Europe to the Caribbean, Africa, India, Southeast Asia, Latin America,the Middle East and Oceania), an extensive look at the reasons for love journeys, stunning new material on women who traveled for love in centuries past, and roundups on typical experiences, portrayals in film and literature, ethics, etiquette and health, and predictions for the future.
Customer Reviews:
Masterful Scholarship of a Taboo and Detrimental Practice.......2006-10-05
Creating what she calls a geography of sex and love, a newspaperwoman from blue collar Maryland - a self proclaimed sex pilgrim -- examines a social phenomenon that may have involved more than 600,000 Western women in the past 25 years: travelers who engage in flings or long term affairs with foreign men, vaulting over cultural boundaries. While intercultural love and marriages are a subtheme, the book's focus is hedonistic sex with virile strangers.
Does the mix of scholarship and memoir provide a compass for the heartbroken (or hot-and-bothered) globetrotter looking for a distant cure? Prurient interest will soon be dampened by the charts, graphs, survey results, and MLA-style citations of more than 800 bibliographic sources from Henry James' Daisy Miller to a British newspaper feature entitled "My Toyboy Tours". There's a global chronology of the trend, a summary of related books and movies, and basic ethics and etiquette ("remember the man is real, not an actor in your fantasy"; and "do not use him as a sperm donor"). It's probably of more use to social scientists than the general reader.
Belliveau has done an admirable job of combining veteran intelligence on each locality with a profile of an adventurous Western woman and a timeline of foreign female exploits in the region but it's unfortunate that her concentration on ecstasy abroad overwhelms her scholarship on ethical and economic questions as well as cultural and social ramifications in sex-host cultures. One forgettable fling has the power to affect systems far larger than the person, family, village or region which witnessed and absorbed the behavior.
Without apology Belliveau admits a detrimental byproduct of her Shirley Valentine amusement (or was it healing?): "At first I was appalled at the smothering level of harassment I encountered in Athens. Then I succumbed to these temptations, with the likelihood that my sex partners became further convinced about the ease of seducing any lone Western female tourists to later cross their paths."
The resulting heightened environment of sexual predation should come as a nasty shock to thousands of traveling women hoping to explore the world unmolested.
Travelers, listen up.......2006-08-16
Author Jeannette Belliveau is right on the button in her finely researched -- and steamy -- exploration of why women travel to find sexual satisfaction in the arms of strangers from cultures other than their own.
While Belliveau's scholarship is rigorous and quite sufficient alone to compile this first-of-its kind treatise on the topic, she nevertheless includes her own personal experiences as a veteran "sex pilgrim" on three different continents to provide her readers with first-hand revelations of intimate, anonymous sex.
Women traveling specifically in search of casual sex is by no means a new phenomenon. Belliveau points out that female adventurers began enjoying foreign love affairs in 1840s Rome and that today an estimated 24,000 women annually hit the road and seek men for carnal pleasures.
Interestingly, for a topic -- sex -- that commands attention so easily, most folks remain ignorant of the lifestyle encountered in Belliveau's book. It's publication is nicely timed, however, with the release of the movie, "Heading South," director Laurent Cantet's surprise summer indie hit featuring Charlotte Rampling, which details the lives of three lonely women cavorting with foreign men and engaging in uninhibited sex.
The spector of AIDS and other sexually transmitted illnesses, always hovering in these scenarios, and the need for stringent measures to protect against such infections, is acknowledged by Belliveau, but the subject is not touched upon in the movie, set in 1970s Haiti, where AIDS would surface by the end of the decade.
Romance on the Road explores a little-understood phenomenon -- love journeys by lonely, bored or adventurous women -- providing a wealth of new material on the history and social catalysts for these affairs. The book's tone reflects sympathy for women scarred by dating wars and mating stalemates in their home countries who are brave enough to seek affection and companionship on distant shores.
--Joan Peterson, Ginkgo Press, publisher of the EAT SMART series of culinary travel guidebooks
A personal study of sexual experimental behavior by western women while traveling.......2006-08-12
"Romance on the Road: Traveling Women Who Love Foreign Men" is a personal study of sexual experimental behavior by western women while traveling. A sort of a sexual odyssey with charts, maps, footnotes, and handy geographical timelines that encapsulate women's sexual behavior historically. It is a combination feminist sociology report and love diary. Actual sexual adventures and adventuresses are interviewed extensively. Many theories about women's and men's sexual behavior and preferences are presented and explored, sometimes catalogued by region or area. Author, journalist and world traveler Jeannette Belliveau recounts: "Wild, shocking, yet tender and hopeful love journeys by women tell a story of a worldwide Attention Defection Disorder, a revolution in mating behavior, and a poignant search for traditional romance (from Travel)." Areas and countries in which sexual encounters are analyzed include Italy, Spain, Greece, the Bahamas, the Caribbean, Brazil, Africa, India, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Oceania, and the Far East. In addition to accounts of sexual encounters, the author includes history, reasons, sexual ethics, etiquette, and thoughts for the future. "Romance on the Road" is far from a clinical, cold book, despite its objectivity. Indeed, Jeannette Belliveau met and fell in love with her husband, Lamont Harvey, on her own sexual odyssey. In a way, "Romance on the Road" is the author's personal tribute to brave sexual adventuresses and to the traveler's possibility for romance and fulfillment.
Book Description
Matching folio to their greatest hits compilation with 14 classics, including: Bad Medicine * Keep the Faith * Livin' on a Prayer * You Give Love a Bad Name * and more. Includes photos.
Book Description
Why should an armadillo NEVER cross a road? Because he may never get to the other side! In this delightful book, a teacher armadillo tells his class about their prehistoric ancestor—a glyptodont weighing nearly two tons. He describes where armadillos live, how they spend their time, and what they like to eat for lunch. And he cautions them about the dangers of crossing the road. But one student in a red baseball cap isn't listening—or is he?
Featuring an armadillo fact section, and a "Words to Learn" glossary, Don't Ever Cross That Road! is packed with information. Conrad J. Storad's musical verse and Nathaniel P. Jensen's charming pictures make this book a special treat for every young reader.
Customer Reviews:
cute Texas book.......2007-07-15
I saw this book at a San Antonio airport and knew I had to get it for my daughter. We're relocating to Texas, and what better way to help her adjust than a good book. I ordered it through Amazon, and when it arrived, loved the colorful artwork and story line.
Great story and great lessons.......2007-01-11
I bought this book for my twin two year old nephews (along with a stuffed armadillo). I bought it for the lessons (don't cross/careful crossing the road) and the sweet story. They love it and the art work is adorable. They're a little young for the lesson but since they're so engaged with the story now I think they'll keep it around long enough for the lessons, too.
Absolutely delightful.......2003-11-19
This is a sweet story you won't mind sharing with your child again and again. The illustrations are first rate, each page has its own color palate as the story progresses from evening to dawn (armadillos are nocturnal, after all!). My three year old has a new best friend!
The publishers also did a great job on the printing. The images are crisp, the paper is of good quality so that the colors jump out at you.
Good for kids or adults who are collectors of picture books.
great illustrations great story.......2003-10-04
Not only is this delightful book instructional but it is also great fun for both children and adults. Kids really respond to the illustrations which animate the story. Definitely a keeper -- one you will want to read and look at over and over.
Delightful Rhyming, Illustrations AND a GREAT Science Lesson.......2003-09-19
This book by the author of "Don't Call Me Pig! A Javelina Story" and "Lizards for Lunch. A Roadrunner's Tale" is a wonderful blend of whimsical rhyme and natural history lesson. Young readers (or listeners) will love following the antics of a red-capped armadillo student as his teacher armadillo lectures the a restless armadillo class all about their history, biology, habitat, and most importantly the dangers of crossing the road! Bringing the words to life are Nathaniel Jensen's delightful illustrations--the expressions on the little armadillos faces are priceless.
Book Description
Prescriptive books on faith abound, but this generation longs for an authentic narrative that reveals a stepping-stone journey to faith, a raw experience with which they can identify. Mike Howerton captures this with a riveting, yet heartwarming account of his own spiritual and physical journey across half the globe. This book follows him as a college student through Europe by train, America by motorcycle, Britain by hitchhiking, and Central America by any means possible. Spiritually, the journey begins with a question mark but ends with an exclamation point.
Customer Reviews:
Soul Stirring.......2006-05-10
Awesome, soul stirring book that chronicles the journey of a young man from a boy into a purposeful and passionate man.
Barely wetted the appetite..............2005-01-25
Book was a disappointment. Each chapter was more like a snippet, a little nibble, a brief overview of the writer's experiences. I'm assuming this, because, surely traveling would provide for a wide and broad spectrum of experiences to share.
...but not here, too bad.
For anyone on a journey............2004-11-20
This book cuts through the often simple face we put on Christianity, that is it a journey that we are on. It faces the insecurities we all have, not ignoring that they are there. In this book I saw an individual seeking life, and ultimately found his place in the arms of God. This book was one that made me laugh, and cry (esp the last chapter), and left me desiring to know my place on this earth and in light of the Creator I call friend. I would recommend to Christian and non-Christian alike, because it puts a real face on the choice that we all must make. Read and enjoy!
Wonderful.......2004-10-28
What an awesome story of life and living! Mike Howerton's depth and insight into living are beautiful, it gives you an itch to hit the road! Mike's journeys teach you through his own experiences, that life is to be lived wherever you are, that there are lessons to be learnt from everyone and every situation. If you enjoy being "with" you author in their travels then buy this book!
This book makes you want to pack your bags. .......2004-08-17
Witness Europe from the window of a train, explore America gripping the handlebars of a motorcycle, hitch hike your way through the British Isles and discover Central America in the back of a jungle bus. Are your bags packed? If you're anything like me, reading a book about traveling or hearing from a friend recently back from a trip sends you checking out travel deals on the Internet. Mike Howerton's book, Miles to Cross will do just that. As a 21 year old college student, traveling with money made serving coffee, Howerton, lets us into his innermost thoughts through his personal journal entries. When I travel my reflections include what I ate, what cool souvenir I bought and maybe a mention or two on the beauty of the place. Mike writes as if he is experiencing life for the first time - as if he's never seen a sunset, walked down a wooded path or put his toes in the ocean. By the end you'll feel as thought you were his travel partner right there with him.
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