Annual Review of Neuroscience: 1993 (Annual Review of Neuroscience)

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Hiking and driving guide to over 70 waterfalls in New York State's Catskill Mountains, Shawangunk Mountains, and vicinity, with detailed directions, historical & anecdotal information, maps, and vintage postcard illustrations. Waterfall adventures for every level of ability from roadside views to wilderness treks and kayak paddles.

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Very Helpfull.......2005-10-23

A very good book that helped me discover some great places in the Catskills. Thanks to this book I was able to take some great photographs. The book is well written and gives directions, history, and advice to finding the waterfalls.

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For more than 50 years, professionals have relied on the Accident Prevention Manuals for unbiased, well-researched information on best practices in safety and health. The manuals outline industry standards for progressive safety programs and administrative practices reflecting current industry trends and regulations.

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Accident Prevention Manual.......2006-03-03

It arrived in great shape and the order was shipped quickly. I would once again order from this company

Accident Prevention Manual for Business and Industry: Administration & Programs, Engineering & Technology

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Accident Prevention Manual for Business and Industry: Administration & Programs, Engineering & Technology

Manufacturer: Natl Safety Council
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Accident Prevention Manual for Business & Industry: Administration & Programs and Engineering & Technology

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Accident Prevention Manual for Business and Industry: Administration and Programs
Philip Hagan
Manufacturer: National Safety Council
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Electronic Clip Art

Full-Color Holiday Vignettes CD-ROM and Book (Dover Full-Color Electronic Design)
Dover
Manufacturer: Dover Publications
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Binding: Paperback

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500 Full-Color Decorative Illustrations CD-ROM and Book (Full-Color Electronic Design Series)

ASIN: 0486995062

Book Description

Splendid collection of over 300 appealing holiday images — all top-quality graphics from rare sources — offers busy commercial artists, graphic designers, and craftworkers an inexhaustible supply of hearts, flowers, cupids, flags, eagles, pumpkins, black cats, witches, Easter eggs, Christmas trees and other festive motifs. Printed one side only with acid-free paper and ink.

Customer Reviews:

Electronic Clip Art.......2007-05-21

This is the second set of this classic clip art that I have bought in the dover series, and it is excellent, and wonderfully convenient to have available.

Product Description

160 pages, hardcover. By Marion Mondshine. This title provides information on the history and origin of the breed. Other topics include expert advice on selecting, proper care, training, grooming, and nutrition. Color illustrations.

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Low quality book.......2005-12-26

Everything about this book is done to a low standard: the pictures, the editing, the information, and the presentation.

First Time Chihuahua Owner Appreciates This Book.......2005-10-07

I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. It gives a well-rounded presentation of what every owner or potential owner of a chihuahua should know. It is easy to read and is peppered with many entertaining photos. I read it just prior to bringing home our first chihuahua and periodically check it as a reference tool.

If you want to become a chihuahua owner, I highly recommend this book.

From the author of "I'm Living Your Dream Life," and "The Things I Wish I'd Said," McKenna Publishing Group.

How did this book ever get published?!?!.......2005-06-01

This book should have never been published. There are grammatical errors through out this whole book, it is terrible. I am going to assume they had no copywriters proof it. The information is so broad also, if you want to learn about chihuahua's I would recommend surfing the internet or getting in touch with the AKC. Marion Mondshine should be appalled, that this book was done so badly. It is so thin and so basic. BLAH!!!!

DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK.......2005-05-01

This book contains very simplistic advice that is better acquired through discriminating web surfing. The writing is very poor and there are also tons of misspellings (often comical). The author is also overly obsessed with the 'best dog' in the litter and believes only in breeding. There is no advice for anyone who has adopted an older chihuahua, and even if you have a new puppy, i higly recommend, strongly advocate another book.

A wonderful source for information.......2003-12-24

I have just finished reading this book and found it very educational as well as informative in regards to the care of Chihuahua's. As new chihuahua owners we are always looking for information that will help us be better pet owners. This book offers everything from general care to breed standard and training issues. I would highly recommend it as it was written for regular people to understand. It was a quick read but very indepth.

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New Owners Guide To Chihuahuas
Marion Mondshine
Manufacturer: T F H PUBLICATIONS +
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000SIBB2A

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Why this one stands out from the rest..........2003-03-15

What makes this one worth having on the shelf of any vintage clothing collector/lover:
1. The depth and detail of the information makes this book a classic work of reference. THe author not only gives readers the information needed to help identify period fashions by time period but also has sections on the basics of collecting as well as the history of the great designers, couture fashion and vintage clothing. Added information, such as the winners of the Coty Fashion Awards through the years, give readers interesting details to supplement their knowledge and make informed decisions when purchasing these (often pricey) fashions...and to choose the ones that may be worth even more in years to come.
2. Pictures throughout, including a nice center pictorial section, with many of the pictures in full-color.
3. A supplementary section containing books and other resources for those who want even more information (although this book may be all they need).
4. Although it contains a wealth of information, the book is still compact enough to carry if you go to antique shows, estate sales or other sources for vintage clothes - a real plus if you need information quickly.
5. Arranged so that it is useful to both beginners and those who already know something about the area of collecting antique fashions.
6. Written from the perspective of someone who is both a collector and lover of vintage fashion... making the book thoroughly enjoyable to read.

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Major waterfalls

GREAT PURCHASE AND VERY HELPFUL

Most complete and detailed book for creating Ponds and Streams

All About Building Waterfalls, Ponds, and Streams (Ortho's All About Gardening)
Ortho
Manufacturer: Ortho
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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The Complete Guide to Water Gardens, Ponds & Fountains (Complete Guide)

ASIN: 0897215141
Release Date: 2006-01-10

Book Description

A practical, easy-to-understand guide to adding both still (ponds) and moving (waterfalls and streams) water features to any garden.

Includes complete, easy-to-follow instructions on designing, establishing, and caring for a variety of eye-pleasing water projects.

More than 220 vivid photographs and illustrations, plus detailed instructions, make this guide a must-have for garden enthusiasts looking to plan and build a water feature.

Expert advice on selecting the right fish and plants for embellishing any backyard aquatic paradise.

Solution-based format inspires homeowners to confidently create water havens in their own yards.

This all-new second edition provides the very best instructions for building ponds, waterfalls, and streams.

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Needs more specifics.......2007-07-13

I liked the idea pictures in this book, but ultimately the "how-to's" left me wanting for more. I didn't feel it went into enough detail of things such as, how to make the rocks look natural and how to place them on the rubber liner so they don't wash away immediately. A good idea book, though.

Major waterfalls.......2007-06-26

This was a good book if you are going big time waterfalls. I was looking for something a little bit simpler.

GREAT PURCHASE AND VERY HELPFUL.......2007-01-10

THIS IS THE BOOK YOU NEED IF YOU ARE GOING TO CONSTRUCT A WATERFALL ETC. PACKED FULL OF USEFUL INFORMATION. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

Most complete and detailed book for creating Ponds and Streams.......2006-06-12

Good book. Pictures are good and the descriptions and details from the creation of Ponds, Streams and Waterfalls is the most complete of all the books that I have purchased or read. It could do a little better job of describing how to integrate a Bog Garden with a Pond. I still have questions about that.

Overall the best of the breed.

Ortho's All About Building Waterfalls, Ponds, and Streams

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Great Ideas
Fairly detailed
Ortho's Building Ponds
Great Teaching Tool
GREAT STARTER

Ortho's All About Building Waterfalls, Ponds, and Streams
Ortho
Manufacturer: Ortho
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Garden Design | Gardening & Horticulture | Home & Garden | Subjects | Books

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ASIN: 0897214730
Release Date: 2002-01-01

Book Description

A practical, easy-to-understand guide to adding both still (ponds) and moving (waterfalls and streams) water features to any garden.

Includes complete, easy-to-follow instructions on designing, establishing, and caring for a variety of eye-pleasing water projects.

More than 220 vivid photographs and illustrations, plus detailed instructions, make this guide a must-have for garden enthusiasts looking to plan and build a water feature.

Expert advice on selecting the right fish and plants for embellishing any backyard aquatic paradise.

Solution-based format inspires homeowners to confidently create water havens in their own yards.

With an additional 32 pages of information, this second edition provides the very best instructions for building ponds, waterfalls, and streams.

Customer Reviews:

Great Ideas.......2006-11-03

The book was great for visualizing what we wanted and to convey that to our landscape architect. It also provided good information regarding care of a pondless waterfall.

Fairly detailed.......2006-03-07

This book isnt overly long and filled with over the top water gardening items most people cant afford. The applications discussed a common and to the point. The

contenet isnt bad for a beginning pond builder but you can gather most information from the book from websites online like pondmegastore or lilypons.

Beginners & Novices go ahead.

Ortho's Building Ponds.......2005-09-07

Gives how to, how much, where and why. Probably the best pond construction book I bought.

Great Teaching Tool.......2005-05-21

Great book to learn about building water gardens. Excellent resource and I would highly recommend it.

GREAT STARTER.......2005-03-16

This book is excellent for the price and with a handyman mentallity you might be able to figure our the blind spots yourself and commence your pond.

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Senseless and Sensitivity is the graphic and emotional story of a talented actor-poet, who adopted a gay lifestyle and died at age 29 from self-destructive habits.

His poetry and journals reveal his life struggle to balance his noble ambitions and qualities against his demons.

His father provides a biographical framework, and describes coping with his son's last illness, and finding a path through grief and guilt to healing.

What is the best general relationship between parents and their adult children?

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Senseless and Sensitivity is the graphic and emotional story of a talented actor-poet, who adopted a gay lifestyle and died at age 29 from self-destructive habits.

His poetry and journals reveal his life struggle to balance his noble ambitions and qualities against his demons.

His father provides a biographical framework, and describes coping with his son

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Great for the novice.......2000-05-10

This is a great book for the novice botanist. As a person who just recently started trying to identify wildflowers in the Monterey area, I found this book a great guide. I already have a couple of other books, including the ones from the Audubon Society and from the California Native Plant Society, but this one is so simple and covers most of the flowers you commonly see. It's easy to flip through, the pictures are clear and in color, and it certainly doesn't overwhelm you with technical jargon. I was only sorry it doesn't include some of the smaller/tinier flowers I see around. Maybe in the next edition. A great gift!

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Excellent.......2007-07-12

Used this book in my first trip to Madrid. The day trip itinerary is excellent. It takes you through the streets of Madrid that people actually live in them and not a mere tourist attractions. The book is very useful in figuring out when to visit and what to look for.

I found it very useful and I will use similar book for my future visit to other cities.

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From Apollo to Xerox, Abby to Toss, Baggins to Zulu and Haka to Puluto, What's Its Name is surely the most extensive list of dog names ever published - and certainly the most tongue-in-cheek. But among John Gordon's typically absurd similes, excruciatingly bad puns and gentle leg pulling there is a deep underlying affection for dogs of all shapes, sizes and breeds, and the various traits, physical and mental, that they can exhibit.

Above all, the 1600 plus names are a useful guide to people seeking inspiration in finding the right moniker for their mutt. In all but a few cases, there's an explanation of the meaning, relevance and history of the name. For all those who love dogs, and those who just keep books about them (much quieter and don't need feeding), this delightful book is a must.

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Cyberspace History Told in Pictures.......2007-05-26

A good book to understand the historical lexicon of cyberspace. This book is well written, but I would say that it covers a subject that changes so fast that it would have to be updated every three to five years to be worthwhile. I would borrow it, but I would not buy it.

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The Cyberspace Lexicon
Bob Cotton & oliver
Manufacturer: Phaidon Press
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000VK35WE

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Cathletics - Ways To Amuse And Exercise Your Cat
Jo and Paul Loeb
Manufacturer: Castle
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000JZDH4C

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Cathletics Ways to Amuse and Exercise Your Cat
Jo and Loeb, Paul Loeb
Manufacturer: Castle
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000GRAG3S

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Cathletics: Ways to Amuse and Exercise Your Cat
Jo; Loeb, Paul Loeb
Manufacturer: Castle
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Binding: Hardcover
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Cathletics: Ways to amuse and exercise your cat
Josephine Banks
Manufacturer: Prentice-Hall
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0131210041

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Jo Loeb , and Paul Loeb
Manufacturer: Book Sales
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This is the improved, enlarged Second Edition of the breakthrough classic work on reblooming old roses, known internationally in its First Edition for its fresh research and accuracy. It provides the most complete listing of all of the existing or otherwise important or interesting varieties of those opulent reblooming old roses, with chapters on Bourbons, Hybrid Perpetuals, Damask Perpetuals, Chinas, and Teas. The author has obtained the most complete and varied collection of descriptions ever, often providing the original descriptions by the actual breeder! This Second Edition has been augmented with many more listings and many more descriptions, and has been re-formatted to increase the ease of use by the reader. This improved edition of a modern classic will be a welcome addition to the reference collection of any lover of roses, horticulture, or horticultural history!

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Covering five major areas of domestic design, International Design Yearbook 16 devotes separate chapters to furniture, lighting, tableware, textiles, and products created over the past 18 months by both well-known designers and new names from around the world. This year's selection has been made by internationally acclaimed architect and lighting designer Michele De Lucchi.

As fresh as the millennium itself, the annual presents futuristic technological ideas, such as Ron Arad's computer-animated vases, as well as reinventions of time-honored objects, like Sir Norman Foster's light design for Artemide. This who's who of domestic design includes the vibrant, modern talent of Emmanuel Babled, Jonathan Ives, and Ettore Sottsass, and design teams from Philips, Sharp, and Siemens. The objects are lavishly illustrated, and full technical data is given for each. A comprehensive reference section provides biographies of the designers, a list of suppliers and their addresses, and an updated list of design acquisitions at major international museums.

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Published in 1936, The Real Billy the Kid: With New Light on the Lincoln County War, is a landmark biography of the infamous Western outlaw William H. Booney, Jr.--his childhood, encounters with the Apache, entanglement in the murderous Lincoln County War, and his friendship with Sheriff Pat Garnett.

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Remembrances from his Friends.......2006-03-26

The Real Billy the Kid, by Miguel Antonio Otero

There have been over 800 literary and cinematic representations of "Billy the Kid" that present varying view from murdering desperado to Robin Hood of the Southwest (Walter Noble Burns). Otero's book is the first from an Hispanic viewpoint (he was Territorial Governor 1892-1906). Otero personally met William Henry Bonney Jr. Most of the fictional representations used Billy as a means to their ends of telling a story. [Most Westerns were written by Easterners to provide entertainment that is more modern than the Song of Roland.] Otero's book contrasts from the Pat Garrett narrative, and is little known. The 'Introduction' displays Rivera's erudition, but "romance" or "tragedy" is best left to the reader.

The Lincoln County War was caused by the commercial rivalry between the Dolan-Murphy faction (allied to the Sante Fe Ring) and the McSween-Tunstall faction. Otero had his reasons for this book, originally published in 1936 (p.xxxv). So to did Garrett and Upson (p.xxxvii). The 'Foreword' uses an unnamed source to claim that "Billy the Kid had no gun". That is unbelievable! Billy was an escaped convict condemned to hang; he would never be without a gun handy, night or day, since his life depended on a gun. Pat Garrett presented Otero with an autographed copy of his book (p.5).

Chapter I tells of Billy's early years. He was often a nice boy, but had a terrible temper and was dangerous when angry. The stories of Billy's early life show his willingness to kill. Billy was also a "first-class gambler" (p.13). Billy gained from other's winnings (p.14). Chapter II tells of his fights with the Apaches. It was the Lincoln County War of 1878 that made Billy's reputation (Chapter III). The Murphy-Dolan company sold cattle to the government, some of it alleged to have come from John Chisum's big ranch (pp.28-29). Otero was a business ally of the Tunstall-McSween Company. One fraudulent scheme involved cattle (pp.31-32). Success went to the faction that was close to the politicians (p.45). Chapters V and VI tell of Billy's criminal activities.

Chapter VII tells of Pat Garrett's ambush of Billy and his gang at Fort Sumner in December 1880. Billy escaped with most of his gang. Chapter VIII has the statements from those who knew Billy and like him. Mrs. Susan Barber, the widow of Alexander McSween, told what happened to her attorney (p.93). Chapter IX has stories from Lincoln, like Hijinio Salazar who survived the attack on the McSween home. Garrett shot people when they were disadvantaged (p.98). George Coe told of his memories, and Frank Coe too (Chapter X). Testimony about Billy's death is in Chapter XI. Martin Chavez tells his memories of Billy and the Lincoln County War (Chapter XII). Billy was one of the kindest ... he was not blood-thirsty (p.126). Billy "never killed a native citizen of New Mexico" (p.129). Otero tells when he met The Kid (Chapter XIII). Garrett and his deputies captured The Kid and his gang, and brought them to the railroad station at Las Vegas. Otero was on the train to Santa Fe and found Billy likable (p.133). Chapter XIV concludes this history by quoting Pat Garrett's story. Chapter XV provides a postscript about the principals of the Lincoln County War. As Governor Otero banned John A. Riley form Santa Fe. [This book provides another view into a minor event that was greatly magnified by writers to provide entertainment and a distraction to the reading public.]

This may be the best book on Billy the Kid.......2005-10-01

Many books have been written about Billy the Kid and his exploits in New Mexico's Lincoln County War. Virtually all of these books, however, have relied on the same basic source of information, that being Pat Garrett's "The Authentic Life of Billy the Kid." Garrett, of course, was the man who killed Billy, and his book was written in part to justify the manner in which he had dispatched the Kid. Sadly, although based partly on the facts as Garrett understood them, his book reads more like a "penny dreadful," than a true biography, casting serious doubts on his book and those which followed.

Fortunately for today's readers, Miguel Otero's book, "The Real Billy the Kid," doesn't trace its roots back to the Garrett book. Even better, it addresses Billy the Kid and the Lincoln County War from an entirely new and unique perspective. Consider the following: 1) Otero actually knew Billy the Kid, although only slightly; 2) Unlike Pat Garrett, Miguel Otero had no axe to grind in writing his biography and, therefore, didn't need to embellish the story; 3) Since most of the people living in New Mexico at the time of the Lincoln County War were Mexicans, as is Otero, this book looks at the events of that war from an entirely unbiased point of view and a particularly unique perspective; and 4) In writing this book, the author interviewed those people, still living, who actually knew or were friends with Billy the Kid and who were living in and around Lincoln County at the time of the "war."

This all led to what would appear to be a factual account with a minimum of fluff; Otero simply tells it like it happened. And here are a few other things which struck me about this book and the way it is written: 1) It puts the characters involved in the "war" in proper perspective and in the setting of their times; 2) It provides personal information about some of the participants in the war which I have never seen before; 3) It went on to explain what became of some of those who survived the war. The only disappointment to me about the book was in the way it ended. The author was discussing his interviews with those who knew the Kid, the questions he asked them and their answers. I kept thinking: "Ask this. Ask that." What valuable sources. I would have liked to have known even more. Bottom line - It's a good book and makes interesting reading.

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