The Oxford Anthology of Indian Wildlife: Volume II: Watching and Conserving

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The last century has witnessed a remarkable change in attitudes towards wildlife, with the focus shifting from conquest or slaughter to conservation, and this volume celebrates that voyage of discovery. Many of the accounts included here are written by former hunters who point out a different
relationship between man and animal as they record observations of wildlife for the joy of it. Contemporary accounts of the wild include those of the new class of naturalists such as M. Krishnan who give equal attention to smaller animals and trees. There are stories of the buck, the wild dog, the
turtle, the cobra, the comings and goings at a water hole in the summer, and the family life of both the tiger and the elephant.
This volume encapsulates the confrontation between hunting and conservation in the 1950s and traces the complete shift in focus to the present day, providing narratives that detail the wealth of birds and beasts that make India so exceptional in terms of natural heritage. It also presents the
dilemmas of conservation, making this volume perfect for all those interested in preserving Indias amazing host of wildlife.

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Finest How To Baseball book for Beginners ever written

Step by Step

great for new coaches; maybe even better for experienced coaches

Chock-full of useful, easy-to-follow information

If you want to improve your players and Win -You need this book!

How to Coach Youth Baseball: A Step-by-Step Approach
Beverly Carroll , Kevin O'Brien , and Fran O'Brien
Manufacturer: The Lyons Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1599210517

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How to Coach Youth Baseball is the perfect guide for parents and coaches of youth baseball teams. Whether you are new to the coaching game or looking for ways to improve your techniques, Beverly Breton Carroll and the father-son combination of Fran and Kevin O'Brien offer everything you'll need to keep growing - and keep your players enthusiastic and excited.

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Finest How To Baseball book for Beginners ever written.......2007-04-26

From Basic Fundamentals to building useable skills, this book outlines in a simple constructive fashion "how to make youngsters better ballplayers". The drill sections provide practice methods to teach budding little leaguers the foundations for future success.

There have been many books that have attempted to simplify teaching this wonderful game, but this book is the first one that actually accomplishes the task, and puts it in a repeatable, useable format.

Thank you for making my job as a coach and instructor easier!

Step by Step.......2007-04-07

This is a great book for a complete step by step approach to coaching baseball! Very useful for coaches and parents!!

great for new coaches; maybe even better for experienced coaches.......2007-03-29

There certainly is a need for GOOD how-to youth coaching books, and this is one of them. The book is well written and organized with an easy-to-follow format and lots of photos and diagrams. A new coach can't go wrong in following the user-friendly book to cover all the basics of baseball.

But perhaps more important is the emphasis on YOUTH and dealing with kids, a skill that does not come automatically to everyone involved with youth sports. In other words, the book helps to shape a coach's attitude as much as how to improve skills in young players. Ideally, the coach learns and grows throughout the season as well as the kids.

It seems to me that this book is equally valuable to experienced coaches, in helping them to get the most out of all their players, not just the most talented. Many coaches come to youth sports as successful athletes themselves, and sometimes do not recognize what it takes to bring along kids who may be having difficulties. If the point is to keep more players playing, improving, and having a good time, here's a way to strengthen a team as well as individual players.

A great investment toward a good season.

Chock-full of useful, easy-to-follow information.......2007-03-29

This book is very detailed and organized yet easy to follow. You could have never coached baseball before and be prepared by the time you finish this book.

If you want to improve your players and Win -You need this book!.......2007-03-28

Finally, an easy to read book for baseball coaches. This book is jammed packed with great ideas to use with my all my team members.

I'm new to coaching Little League and many of the excellent insider tips helped improve my confidence and coach my players in an easy fun way... And baseball should be fun.

If you want to win the league championship or you're hunting for new ideas to improve your players, you need this terrific book!

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How To Coach Little League Baseball
Jake Patterson
Manufacturer: Booklocker.com
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Binding: Paperback

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How to Coach, Manage, and Play Little League Baseball; A Commonsense Instructional Manual.

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How to Coach, Manage, and Play Little League Baseball; A Commonsense Instructional Manual.
Charles Einstein
Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 067120291X

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How to Coach, Manage, and Play Little League Baseball; a Commonsense Instructional Manual
Charles Einstein
Manufacturer: Simon and Schuster
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000O1BELE

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With clarity, verve, and the sure instincts of a good teacher, Madison Smartt Bell offers a roll-up-your-sleeves approach to writing in this much-needed book. Focusing on the big picture as well as the crucial details, Bell examines twelve stories by both established writers (including Peter Taylor, Mary Gaitskill, and Carolyn Chute) and his own former students. A story's use of time, plot, character, and other elements of fiction are analyzed, and readers are challenged to see each story's flaws and strengths. Careful endnotes bring attention to the ways in which various writers use language. Bell urges writers to develop the habit of thinking about form and finding the form that best suits their subject matter and style. His direct and practical advice allows writers to find their own voice and imagination.

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Astrological expert Joyce Jillson shows readers how to uncover their cat's sun signs and understand their cosmic characteristics.

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Very good book.......2007-05-09

When we got a new kitten me and my fiance enjoyed reading about her sign together. It is very witty and interesting, if astrology signs are your thing!

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Mary Mulari's garments with style

Mary Mulari's Garments With Style: Adding Flair to Tops, Jackets, Vests, Dresses, and More! (Star Wear)
Mary Mulari
Manufacturer: Chilton Book Co
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Binding: Paperback

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Made for Travel: 50 Easy-Sew Gifts and Accessories for Everyday Trips and Special Journeys

ASIN: 0801986400

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Mary Mulari's garments with style.......2004-07-26

I thought she did a good job with the how-to's. This book is packed with good ideas for dressing up your plain clothes. She even tells you how to add own 'label' after you have finished embellishing your garments.

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Excellent Book on Farming

Organic farming

Jack London meets Henry Thoreau

Enoyable and informative read

A serious book, but still an earthy and enjoyable read.

It's a Long Road to a Tomato: Tales of an Organic Farmer Who Quit the Big City for the (Not So) Simple Life
Keith Stewart
Manufacturer: Marlowe & Company
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ASIN: 1569243301

Book Description

Twenty years ago, just beyond his 40th birthday, Keith Stewart exchanged life in New York’s corporate grind for a farm in Orange County, NY, where he and a small crew of seasonal workers grow about 100 organic vegetables and herbs. What started as a yearning—“to live on a piece of land, closer to nature; to work outside with my body as well as my brain; to leave behind the world of briefcases, computers, corporate clients, and non-opening windows”—has become a life “more full, more varied” and often “more demanding and exhausting, but always more real.” Stewart sells everything he grows directly to consumers and restaurateurs, and in doing so has developed loyal and growing ranks devoted to his Rocambole garlic, herbs, heirloom tomatoes, and other organic produce. Now, in It's a Long Road to a Tomato, Stewart presents interlocking, complementary essays, addressing his mid-life development as a farmer; some of the nuts and bolts and how-to’s of organic vegetable growing and selling in an urban market; humorous and philosophical stories about domestic and wild farm animals and the natural world; and some of the political, social, and environmental issues surrounding agriculture today and why it matters to all of us.

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Excellent Book on Farming.......2007-08-20

If you want to get the feel of what it takes to leave the city and start farming this book really opens your eyes. There is a great respect for the land and animals that we share the earth with. There are many topics discussed that help the reader appreciate the hard work that makes a farm successful. This is a must read!

Organic farming.......2007-08-04

This is an absolutley great book. Well written, thoughtful, revealing essays. It gives an insight into the rigors of taking on the personal passion of organic farming. It provides inside information for us city dwellers about the rigorous challenges involved. It also allows an emotional connection with the author that allow for an empathic feeling of connection.

Jack London meets Henry Thoreau.......2007-04-08

This marvelous book should delight anyone with an interest in man's place in the natural world. Anyone that is, who is not a Fundamentalist! Who would imagine that starting an organic farm would entail facing up to life's existential issues on an almost daily basis. Stewart brings a sly humor to bear on what might otherwise be a rather humdrum topic, and does so with uncommon warmth and passion.

Enoyable and informative read.......2007-04-05

I find this book very interesting and enjoyable to read - it is light but also insightful for those interested in 'leaving the busy city and leading a fulfilling, peaceful life in the country'. The collection of essays is an anecdotal account of the life of the author - it is witty and charming.

A serious book, but still an earthy and enjoyable read........2007-04-03

Just looking at the cover of this book makes me wish it was summer, and I could find a homegrown, red, ripe, juicy tomato.

I'm a cold-weather gal, so wishing for summer is not something I do often. But there is something very earthy and very appealing about Stewart's memoir of his organic farming life. (The fact that it is illustrated with woodcuts done by Stewart's wife, Flavia Bacarella, doesn't hurt-I love woodcuts. And how about that name? Seems like I could be earthy and appealing, too, if my name were "Flavia.")

It's an interesting book, with each chapter/essay offering a short perspective on the challenges facing small farmers of all types, as well as different aspects of rural life and farm marketing in New York City's Union Square Greenmarket. On my mental "gardening/rural life books" continuum, I liked it better than William Alexander's horrible The $64 Tomato, in which the author told about trying to kill an opossum in the most bungling and painful way possible; but did not like it as much as Michael Ableman's On Good Land, which seemed to be a bit more personable, or humorous, or something. But in the end I still enjoyed this one very much. I particularly liked its opening:

"Twenty years ago, a little past the age of forty, I was living in a small apartment in New York City, working as a project manager for a consulting firm, wearing a jacket and tie to the office every day. It didn't feel good. I had never aspired to be a member of the corporate world, but somehow that's where I had ended up. I had little affection for the work I was doing and seldom experienced any feelings of pride or fulfillment. Rather, I felt like an impostor, obliged to feign interest and enthusiasm much of the time...Today I am a farmer, a grower of organic vegetables and herbs, and can honestly say that I am a happier man." (pps. 1-2.)

Kind of gives one hope, doesn't it?

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Early Indian Terracottas considers Northern Indian terracottas from the third century B.C. to the first century A.D. It is in these four centuries that -- in the most literal sense of the word -- the earth was prepared to form the necessary basis for the Buddhist, Brahmanic and Jain iconography for centuries to come. This survey introduces mainly hitherto unpublished and complete figurines and plaques rather than fragments as is the case with most other publications on the same or similar subject. The mostly complete and well preserved moulded plaques and figurines will provide a fresh and clearer insight into the very refined art of the earlier Indian terracottas, which until recently were considered more as pieces of ethnographic interest or folk art rather than art objects in their own right.

Indian Terracotta Sculpture: The Early Period

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Indian Terracotta Sculpture: The Early Period
Pratapaditya Pal
Manufacturer: Marg Publications
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Binding: Hardcover

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The history of fired earthen sculpture, commonly known as terracotta, dates back to the dawn of civilization. The book provides new material and insights into early Indian terracotta art in a chronological framework, from pre-Harappan times to the Gupta period, spanning India from Gandhara and the northwest, to Bengal in the east and the

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The shortest route to successful design projects! Beyond before-and-after, more than mere do's and don'ts, this completely revised and updated edition is a visual guide to getting more out of your materials. Learn from a gallery of examples how to revive "dead" materials, turn limited resources into unlimited possibilities and apply simple strategies for success.

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the Makeover book.......2005-06-06

Contains concise, funny, effective examples. Excellent for a new designer. Provides advice for typical print projects and a few web examples. Even has a section on type and printing processes. I liked its casual tone. The Makeover book is a very approachable resource that is well worth the money.

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