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glenn ford
System very efficient. Book arrived well within the time period indicated and well before I expected it.

Book in good codition etc and well packaged. However the content of the book was not what I expected, given Glenn Ford was a famous film star. I expected the content to be about his films. Instead it was about plants. It would have been helpful to have an indicator of the content of the book. ... Read more

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The "New Ford" was introduced in December of 1927. With a rare eye for design, the very appearance of the car suggested character. It implied integrity and promised performance. Incorporating a radically different sliding gear transmission. shock absorbers, twice the horsepower of the earlier Model T, and only a slightly increased price, loyal Ford owners without hesitation "laid it on the line" and acquired anew Ford.

Hours after driving the car for the first time, most were convinced that here at last was an automobile that not only "belonged", but which actually led the way into the future. No longer the butt ofcomics'humor, the new Ford had joined the country club set and in the words of a song written by Walter O'Keefe and shortly to become immensely popular......

"Henry Made a Lady Out of Lizzie". ... Read more

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Great book for Model A fans!
Got this book as a gift for my husband who has two Model A Fords.Book is hard to find so I would advise buying when available.Wonderful collection of photos and information for owners as well as those who just love the Model A's.
Beautiful cover.Makes a great gift.

Henry's Lady
An excellent book that gives information about the proper parts for each year and model of the Model A Ford.

Henry's Lady
I have had this book for a number of years now. Sorry that this is late.
If you want to know about the Model A Ford, Henry's Lady is the book for you. It tells all about how the Model A got it's start and on to it's popularity. It also tells all the models, when they were introduced and the characteristics of each. A very informative book to have in your library! You will NOT be disappointed!
R. Michael Richardson

Superb
Another fine offering from author Ray Miller. Love for the car is palpable. Primary source documents are present. The photographs are excellent. I've had the pleasure of running across a couple of Miller's books about Chevrolet, and they are also wonderful pieces of work.

excellent book
Probably the best book on the subject of the Model A Ford. In depth coverage of even the smallest detail of these cars. ... Read more

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Presents some cherished memories and offers the author's observations on one of Hollywood's most popular genres - the Western. ... Read more

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Well established as the premier sports anthology, The Best American Sports Writing embraces the world of sports in all its drama, humanity, and excitement. This year's illustrious contributors join the ranks of such celebrated writers as George Plimpton, David Remnick, and David Halberstam. Their exceptional talent and experience continue the series' tradition of excellence, which prompted the Boston Globe to hail it as a "venerable institution".Amazon.com Review
A couple of years ago, RichardFord himself was included in this annual anthology with apersonal--and funny--meditation on hunting with his wife. It's nosurprise, then, that Ford, one of America's finest novelists (The Sportswriter),would turn to DavidMamet, one of America's finest screenwriters and playwrights(Glengarry GlenRoss) to anchor his superlative collection of the year's bestwith a very personal and very funny meditation on a deer-hunting tripin Vermont to mark his 50th birthday. "As a hunter, of course, I am afraud," Mamet admits without much prodding; as an observer of themacho milieu, however, he hits the bull's-eye: "To hunt deer in thickwoods in a snowstorm is one of the most beautiful, happiest, thingsthat I know. I was enjoying it so much," he confesses, "that I missedthe deer," which were passing in front of him a mere 20 yards away.

If Mamet missed his deer, Ford misses nothing, bagging trophy pieceson Ali (by DavidRemnick), Michael Jordan's finale (by DavidHalberstam), a Deep Sea Fishing Rodeo (by JohnMcPhee), the end of Cal Ripkin's streak (by ThomasBoswell), bowling (by SteveFriedman), pool (by J.D. Dolan),and women's pick-up hoops (by Melissa King). Tradition--and sevendecades of good craftsmanship--brings ShirleyPovich's final Washington Post column into Ford's sights aswell.

"There's just something in the American sensibility thatvalues joining the often primal yet contrived acts of sport to theintensities and suave logics of well-made prose," writes Ford in hiskick-off to the volume. "It seems to free us.... Plus reading sportsmay be the only reading for pleasure most Americans ever do." TheBest American Sportswriting 1999 certainly adds to that. --JeffSilverman ... Read more

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Celebrating JESUS!:)
I bought this as a gift for my dad for Christmas so Im not sure if it's good or not... I didnt want to give it any stars because I have no idea about it but I had to give it atleast one star.So dont take my rating as a "true" rating.

Home Run, Touchdown, Triumph
If you've liked previous editions, you'll enjoy this one, too. Same formula, and a seemingly inexhaustible supply of human-interest stories from the sports world. Choosing a favorite or two is tough, but I love the bittersweet ones, such as about one of baseball's great "bonus baby" players who never panned out, or about the insane distance bicycle racer.

I'm delighted to see an article from a blog breaking through the "print barrier" in the series. I'm a little disappointed that so many stories came from the NY Times, as well as a couple of plain things from the Washington Post.A little more edge and a little less conventionality has been nice in other editions.

Sporyswriting as Literature
The 1999 edition of "The Best American Sports Writing" has plenty of moments that will enthrall avid sports fans and even those less avid who merely like a good story.The series is a national treasure, which collects the best sports related writing every year and puts it into a single easy-to-read volume.The sports included run the gamut from the traditional team sports of baseball and football to more extreme examples like mountaineering.The main requirement for inclusion is great writing, and that's wht this series delivers consistently.

The best articles in the 1999 edition include Thomas Boswell's account of Cal Ripken's voluntary stoppage of his historic games played streak, Steve Friedman's biographical article on tormented 2nd generation professional bowler Pete Weber, Allen Abel's hilarous tribute to the long-folded World Hockey Association, and Adam Gopnik's insightful explantion of why World Cup Soccer fails to excite American fans.As always, the quality of the reporting means that even if you have only a margainal interest in the sport described, you'll still find it entertaining.

Overall, another fine entry in an outstanding series.

Could have been longer
Hard to believe Amazon.com can't keep their years straight when it comes to reviewing this series. Anyway, the latest collection of sports writingwas all right but nothing special by the usual high standards. It's asmaller collection than normal, and there are a few hunting and fishingpieces that I couldn't get into. That didn't leave a whole lot, althoughwhat was left was pretty darn good. I particularly enjoyed the articles onthe parents of a benched high school football player suing the school, andon the 1998 World Cup. ... Read more

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This digital document, covering the life and work of Glenn Ford, is an entry from Contemporary Authors, a reference volume published by Thompson Gale. The length of the entry is 1610 words. The page length listed above is based on a typical 300-word page. Although the exact content of each entry from this volume can vary, typical entries include the following information:

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The Ford Model V-8 was introduced in March of 1932. Seeming at first to be merely a new eight-cylinder vee-type engine packaged in a body so similar in appearance to the Model A, many overlooked the significance of the event. Regardless, America was then embarked on an exciting automotive image and the first "primitive" Ford V-8 engine became the first of a common line that except for the War would last until 1954! Twenty-two yearsfollowed in which the basic power plant of the Ford motor car would be relatively unchanged!

America in its desire for the new, or the different, or the "better"went on a buying spree. Purchasers eagerly sought the "next year'smodel" and people everywhere became conditioned by advertising and bytheir environment to dispose of the old and acquire the new. True,changes were made, many of them appearances changes only, butfundamentally the differences in the succeeding Ford V-8 models werelargely in appearance and these changes contributed little to theimprovement of the basic item, a reliable, rugged. sturdy, andcomfortable vehicle. Above all, "a car for the masses" ... Read more

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PENDULUM
My name is Steven Harvey author of the book IT STARTED WITH A STEAMBOAT which is about the first one hundred years of mechanical transportation revolution. In the process of writing that book I decovered many of the different aviation pioneers spoken of in the PENDULUM.
It is refreshing to find an author that has the guts to state that the Wright Brothers had help from other pioneers that came before them in producing a workable airplane. The fact that the modern airplane was the product of many different men that quite often fought each other just makes the store that much richer and the out come more breath taking!
This is a great book to add to your library that helps to fill in all of those blank spaces that other histories leave us with.

Pendulum . . . by Jack Carpenter
I have read a lot of books about early aviation and especially Glenn Curtiss, and Mr. Carpenter's book is among the best.It has been very helpful to me to put the entire chronology of the Wright brothers and Curtis and the development of flight in perspective because of the way he organizes his information.This book is most helpful when read AFTER a Curtiss biography, such as Roseberry's book on Curtiss.

A Different Perspective on Early Aviation
Pendulum is written for the serious student of early aviation history.Unlike most stories that focus on the Wright brothers' struggles before Dec. 17, 1903, this book delves into what happened AFTER Kitty Hawk.

In 1908 Glenn Curtiss won the Scientific American Magazine trophy for the first public flight in America.It was he, not the Wright brothers, who received instant fame and glory.He built and sold civilian airplanes while they focused on a single sale to the American, British or French Army.

The book explains how early chronicles touted Glenn Curtiss, not the Wrights, as the pioneer of aviation.Thousands of Curtiss JN-4 "Jennys" were used to train WW-I pilots.Today the pendulum has swung to the opposite extreme.Few people know of Curtiss, inventer of the flying boat and father of naval aviation, but everyone has seen the photo of Orville Wright's famous "First Flight" at Kitty Hawk.

In a sometimes dry account, Jack Carpenter meticulously compares step-by-step progress of the three men, with more rare photos than any other book.He tells how they were influenced by Alexander Graham Bell, inventer of the telephone, and Henry Ford, the father of mass produced automobiles.

Having studied the lives of all three men, I think Pendulum is the only book that gives an unbiased account of the bitter patent lawsuit that delayed the growth of American aviation for 10 years. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 203 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Signed essays ranging from 500 to 2,500 words, written by subject experts and edited to form a consistent, readable, and straightforward reference. Entries include subject-specific bibliographies and textual cross-references to related essays. ... Read more

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Songbook of old radio show perforners. Green covers, brief biographies of all three singers, several b/w photos and illustrations, 6 songs with tunes, lyrics, chords, ukulele chord symbols, and full piano in standard notation, plus parody lyrics to 12 more songs with tunes indicated. Also includes scripts for two comedy routines: 'Question Box' and 'Jake and Lena.' Songs are: Hello, what a wonderful word. Daddy's lullabye. Little dream cabin of mine. When you dunk a doughnut don't it make it nice. Lazy Mary. Prayer. ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Mack Sennett, Brian Mulroney, Paul Martin, Glenn Ford, Norma Shearer, Huntley Gordon, Oscar Peterson, Reginald Fessenden, John Joseph Caldwell Abbott, Mike Ward, Colleen Dewhurst, Cairine Wilson, James Mcgill, Oliver Jones, Jaclyn Linetsky. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Mack Sennett, de son vrai nom Michael Sinnott, (17 janvier 1880 à Danville, Québec - 5 novembre 1960 à Woodland Hills, Californie) est un cinéaste américain. Il fut l'un des réalisateurs les plus importants du cinéma muet américain. De son vivant, on l'appelait « le roi de la comédie ». Sennett était fils d'immigrants irlandais. Son père était forgeron dans un petit village des Cantons de l'Est au Québec. En 1912, il fonda à Hollywood le studio Keystone, qui a lancé les carrières de plusieurs légendes du cinéma burlesque, telles que Charlie Chaplin et Roscoe « Fatty » Arbuckle. ...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Chapters: Robertson Davies, David Thompson, Leslie Nielsen, Gary Doer, Steve Nash, Elizabeth May, Augustus Jones, Glenn Ford, Owen Hargreaves, Cyrus S. Ching, Martin Nash, Margaret Macmillan, Coco Rocha, Erik Nielsen, Arthur "Slim" Evans, Colleen Jones, Joseph Owens, Michael Savage, John Edmund Parry, Patricia Owens, Cameron Medwin, Alfred Gilpin Jones, Jordan Hughes, John Lewis, William Owens, Sitara Hewitt, Andrew Griffiths, Les Benjamin, David Paetkau, Morgan Williams, Tyler Hughes, Daryl Evans, Lonny Chin, Denise Bellamy, Michael Evans, Rupert Davies, Mark Evans. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 233. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Gary Albert Doer (born March 31, 1948 in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a Canadian diplomat and former politician. Since October 19, 2009, he has served as Canada's Ambassador to the United States. He had previously served as the 20th Premier of Manitoba from 1999 to 2009, leading a New Democratic Party government. Doer was born to a middle class family in Winnipeg. His background is German and Welsh. After graduating from St. Paul's High School he studied political science and sociology at the University of Manitoba for one year, but left to become a corrections officer at the Vaughan Street Detention Centre. He later rose to become deputy superintendent of the Manitoba Youth Centre. Doer's work environment was not always safe: he once had to deal with a hostage taking situation, and was attacked with a baseball bat on another occasion. Doer became president of the Manitoba Government Employees' Association in 1979, and served in this capacity until 1986. He also held prominent positions with the Manitoba Federation of Labour and the National Union of Provincial Government Employees, served as a director of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, and became a governor ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=270937 ... Read more

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Chapters: John Kinzie, Myriam Bédard, Stéphane Dion, Paul Stastny, Patrick Roy, Glenn Ford, Norm Macdonald, George Comer, Pauline Marois, Rick Martel, Lawrence Cannon, Jean-Baptiste Kelly, Jerome Remick, Joe Malone, Camille Henry, Patrick J. Whelan, Charles-Eusèbe Dionne, Steve Bernier, Marie-Hélène Prémont, Robert Lepage, Michel Vigneault, Martin Biron, Patrice Bergeron, Pierre Pettigrew, Marc Chouinard, Jacques Richard, André Arthur, Kevin Dineen, Gordon Drummond, Marie Chouinard, Richard Ernest William Turner, Marc Garneau, André-Philippe Gagnon, Alain Vigneault, Zacharie Cloutier, Jean Pouliot, Hélène Dorion, Louis-Alexandre Taschereau, James Douglas, Mitsou, Jean Guyon, Réjean Génois, Guy Laliberté, Jean Hébert, Henry de Bury, Yves Fortier, Andrée Watters, Marc Pouliot, Wilfrid Lacroix, Pierre François de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnal, Guy Chouinard, F. R. Scott, Yan Stastny, Roy Halpin, Esther Delisle, Robert Giffard de Moncel, Pierre Sévigny, Charles Gavan Power, Sylvain Côté, Charles Fitzpatrick, Steve Barakatt, Claude Castonguay, Micheline Montreuil, Claude Lajeunesse, Caroline Brunet, William Pirrie, 1st Viscount Pirrie, John Neilson, Robert Bédard, Nathalie Rochefort, Frédéric Dorion, Lucile Watson, Benoît Pelletier, Louise Beaudoin, François Pérusse, Gary Ouellet, Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau, Éric Caire, Denis Bernard, Robert Taschereau, Henry Edward Burstall, Fred Everything, Alfred Bailey, Jack Patrick Mcdonald, Louis-Philippe Jean, Michel Bastarache, Alys Robi, Réjean Lemelin, Jean Paul Lemieux, List of People From Quebec City, Jonathan Ferland, Malachy Bowes Daly, Alexander Wolff, Mathieu Biron, Gaétan Boucher, Marc Dos Santos, Bryce Mackasey, Claire L'heureux-Dubé, Jean de Lauson, Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé, Roland Michel Tremblay, Jules Tessier, Michel-Louis Juchereau Duchesnay, Derek Smith, Jean Dussault, Michel Rivard, Guy Bertrand, Olivier Brett, Vincent Marquis, Michel Després, William P...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=692732 ... Read more

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Chapters: Bette Davis, Tom Cruise, Susan Sarandon, Ray Milland, Bob Hope, Myrna Loy, Harold Lloyd, Glenn Ford, John Houseman, Tommy Lee Jones, Carson Grant, Lewis Arquette, Dean Cain, Cliff Arquette, Bo Derek, Joe E. Brown, Danny Huston, Justin Pierce. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 177. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis (April 5, 1908 October 6, 1989) was an American actress of film, television and theatre. Noted for her willingness to play unsympathetic characters, she was highly regarded for her performances in a range of film genres; from contemporary crime melodramas to historical and period films and occasional comedies, though her greatest successes were her roles in romantic dramas. After appearing in Broadway plays, Davis moved to Hollywood in 1930, but her early films for Universal Studios were unsuccessful. She joined Warner Bros. in 1932 and established her career with several critically acclaimed performances. In 1937, she attempted to free herself from her contract and although she lost a well-publicized legal case, it marked the beginning of the most successful period of her career. Until the late 1940s, she was one of American cinema's most celebrated leading ladies, known for her forceful and intense style. Davis gained a reputation as a perfectionist who could be highly combative, and her confrontations with studio executives, film directors and costars were often reported. Her forthright manner, clipped vocal style and ubiquitous cigarette contributed to a public persona which has often been imitated and satirized. Davis was the co-founder of the Hollywood Canteen, and was the first female president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress twice, was the first person to accrue 10 A...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=63517 ... Read more