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A companion book to The History Channel® special series of ten one-hour documentaries

10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America pinpoints pivotal days that transformed our nation. For the series and the book, The History Channel challenged a panel of leading historians, including author Steven M. Gillon, to come up with some less well-known but historically significant events that triggered change in America. Together, the days they chose tell a story about the great democratic ideals upon which our country was built.

You won’t find July 4, 1776, for instance, or the attack on Fort Sumter that ignited the Civil War, or the day Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon. But January 25, 1787, is here. On that day, the ragtag men of Shays’ Rebellion attacked the federal arsenal in Springfield, Massachusetts, and set the new nation on the path to a strong central government. January 24, 1848, is also on the list. That’s when a carpenter named John Marshall spotted a few glittering flakes of gold in a California riverbed. The discovery profoundly altered the American dream. Here, too, is the day that noted pacifist Albert Einstein unwittingly advocated the creation of the Manhattan Project, thus setting in motion a terrible chain of events.

Re-creating each event with vivid immediacy, accessibility, and historical accuracy, 10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America comes together as a history of our country, from the first colonists’ contact with Native Americans to the 1960s. It is a snapshot of our country as we were, are, and will be..
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"This book is a huge hug for God ... about moments in our lives when God steps into our lives and gives us a great big hug." Some might label the heart-rending stories in this book as acts of synchronicity or coincidence, but author Neale Donald Walsch calls them moments of grace--"those times when God intervenes in our lives in very real, very direct, and very visible ways." Walsch is renowned for his enormously popular Conversations with God series, which encourage a friendship-like intimacy with God. He builds upon that intimacy in this collection of real-life stories, which he gathered from everyday folks. The settings and situations range from hitchhiking a lonely highway to discovering a teenage daughter who's cut her wrists to finding a gay support group. Every story features a turning point or a seemingly chance encounter that seems to be divinely orchestrated. After recounting the stories, Walsch offers a brief commentary that emphasizes the intimacy and availability of God. This is an unabashed feel-good, feel-God kind of book--highly inspirational and a tad schmaltzy. Some will find the tone a bit smothering, but fans of the CWG series will probably find it touching. --Gail Hudson.
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The friend can be the girl next door . . . or a faithful dog . . . or a teacher . . . or just plain invisible But in every life, there's at least one friend who changes your life. In this collection, writers including Virginia Euwer Wolff, Ann M. Martin, Pam Munoz Ryan, Tanuja Desai Hidier, Walter Dean Myers, Rachel Cohn, Meg Cabot, Jennifer L. Holm, Patty McCormick, David Levithan, and Patrick Jennings present stories about friendship and all of its reverberations. All proceeds go to The Lisa Libraries, which provides small libraries for children in need..
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Barcelona Smith has never been one to take risks. He keeps himself at a safe distance from life's dangers—flowers and cuddly pets included But one humid day—BOING!—his hair goes bonkers! Strands uncoil, curls unkink, and follicles foop. But that's not all. His wild hair skates down sidewalks, climbs trees, and stomps in mud puddles—all the fun Barcelona's never thought to have. And by the time his wacky new 'do is done romping through the day, Barcelona decides that when fun is at stake, risks are sometimes, well . . . worth the risk.

The undeniable wit and whimsy of Keith Graves (Too Many Frogs!) are in full force with this kooky new book that children are going to love..
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Love at the lake

Nurse and former foster child Sunny Merrill was stunned when she inherited a fishing resort from the grandfather she'd never known. And there was a condition: she must live there for one year. Which wouldn't be a hardship for Sunny, especially not after she met handsome neighbor Grant Prentiss. The rancher and riding stable owner was always around to lend a helping hand, and their relationship blossomed. Sunny even began dreaming about a future in which they could combine their properties--and lives--and build a getaway for foster children. But would their unexpected love be destroyed when Sunny discovered the secret Grant was keeping from her?.
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This digital document is an article from Journal of Studies on Alcohol, published by Alcohol Research Documentation, Inc. on March 1, 2005. The length of the article is 6416 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. 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.

From the author: Objective: We examined the use of alcohol during early pregnancy in urban Swedish women, the ability of Swedish antenatal care to identify alcohol-related risk pregnancies and the utility of some potential tools for improving its performance. Method: Women attend-lug regular antenatal care were randomized to regular assessment only (control, n = 156) or intensified screening (intervention, n = 147). In the intervention group, alcohol use was determined using the Timeline Followback (TLFB) interview, alcohol use habits with the Alcohol Use Disorder Inventory Test (AUDIT), and biomarkers for alcohol use were analyzed. Data were typically obtained in pregnancy week 12. Results: In the intervention group as a whole, average absolute alcohol consumption during the first 6 weeks of pregnancy was low but highly variable (mean [SD] 24.9 [50.5] g/week; 4.8 [6.0] episodes for the entire 6 week period): 22 women (15%) drank at levels exceeding 70 g/week during any 2 or more weeks and/or in a heavy episodic drinking pattern, 60 g/episode, on 2 or more episodes. The AUDIT had a moderate sensitivity (54%) to identify these subjects. Biomarkers identified subjects with somatic illness rather than high alcohol consumption, in the control group, only 4 (3%) were identified as using alcohol, indicating a probable underestimation of alcohol use by regular antenatal screening procedures (p = .0001). Conclusions: An unexpected proportion of pregnant women in urban Sweden consume alcohol at levels likely to produce adverse effects. Regular antenatal care did not identify most of these risk pregnancies The TLFB identified pregnant women with risk use of alcohol during pregnancy who were only partly identified by analyzing prepregnancy alcohol use patterns with the AUDIT. Elevated laboratory markers likely indicated somatic illness rather than harmful drinking.

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Title: Unexpectedly high prevalence of alcohol use among pregnant Swedish women: failed detection by antenatal care and simple tools that improve detection *.
Author: Asa Magnusson
Publication:Journal of Studies on Alcohol (Refereed)
Date: March 1, 2005
Publisher: Alcohol Research Documentation, Inc.
Volume: 66 Issue: 2 Page: 157(8)

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This digital document is an article from The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), published by The Register Guard on March 2, 2005. The length of the article is 604 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. 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.

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Title: And then there was one.(Editorials)(Arlie unexpectedly withdraws EWEB site offer)(Editorial)
Publication:The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) (Newspaper)
Date: March 2, 2005
Publisher: The Register Guard
Page: A10

Article Type: Editorial

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