Animal Tracks of New Jersey (Animal Tracks Guides)

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Who but Rick Steves can tell travelers the best way to see St. Mark's Basilica, the Doge's Palace, the Rialto Bridge, and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection? With Rick Steves' Venice 2006, travelers can experience everything Venice has to offer—economically and hassle-free. Completely revised and updated, Rick Steves' Venice 2006 includes opinionated coverage of both famous and lesser-known sights; friendly places to eat and sleep; suggested day plans; walking tours and trip itineraries; clear instructions for smooth travel anywhere by car, train, or foot; and Rick's newest "back door" discoveries. America's #1 authority on travel to Europe, Rick's time-tested recommendations for safe and enjoyable travel in Europe have been used by millions of Americans in search of their own unique European travel experience.

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Just what you need.......2007-09-29

I used this book for my recent trip to Venice. You can skip all guided tours offered by agencies in Venice, if you have this book. It is very helpful with historical overviews, but when come for food advices - just browse local restaurants and look for "tourist menue" (around 15-18 euros for 3 dishes, but be sure it doesn't' come with "cover charge" which is extra 2 euros). It is the best deal to get variety of dishes for reasonable prices. Also, visit Realto market for fresh fruits and vegetables, and small stores for ham and cheeses.

I went on day trips to Padova , Vicenza, and Verona. The book was extremely helpful for giving the guidance for day trips. Don't miss to try Recioto wine in Verona.

Extremely helpful for a short trip.......2007-07-23

I use this book for a two day trip to Venice. As I had very little time it really helped me focus on the important sites. Most important were the little hints about when to see the sites. Although Venice was overrun with tourists, I did not find the restaurants or musems to be a problem if I followed the time recommendations. Skip the commercial tours and follow the book recomendations.

Thank you, Ladies on the Train!.......2007-06-25

My husband and I were fortunate enough to be seated across from some ladies who had this book on the train from Florence to Venice. After learning that we had no guidebook for the city, they very kindly gave it to us to use during our stay. We are soooooo grateful! We used it constantly. We loved the way Rick had all the walking tours laid out, and we did several of them. Since we only had two days in the city, we made use of the feature recommending which sites to see and which to skip. Also, I think that if we travel to Italy again, we will skip many of the agency "guided" tours--which mainly consist of being herded like cattle through the museums during peak hours and rushed past some of the most interesting pieces--and opt instead for the self-guided tour features in Rick's guidebook. We took the self-guided for I Frari and St. Mark's, and both were far more informative than our 40 Euro tour of the Doge's Palace. We ate at a number of the recommended restaurants (including the Juice Bar--delicious!) and didn't have any problem with crowds or waits, even during the peak hours of 8-9 pm. Since our hotels were pre-booked through a travel agency, I can't comment on the accomodations section. But I loved that Rick's recommendations were all budget-friendly. By the time we got to Venice, we'd been all across Italy and funds were low. It was nice that this guidebook had actual price ranges inside, so we could budget a little better--and know, unlike another unsuspecting couple we met, that coffee at Florian's could end up costing 50 + Euros. This book would be a great investment for any Venice-bound traveller...and thank you again, ladies! You (and Rick) helped make our trip absolutely fabulous!

Another quality book from Rick.......2007-05-15

Not only does Rick provide up to minute info, including correct phone numbers to musuems. (Just called to secure a reservation to Doge's Secret Tour) but also hints on how to avoid some of the lines. Would you like to know which vaporetta stop to use for Murano glass shopping? Get the book. It well done, with a couple of unexpected lines of humor that will definitely have lol wherever you are!!

Definitely a must-have for Venice visitors........2007-03-26

Rick's book - along with the Eyewitness Travel Guide for Venice and the Veneto - proved to be the most useful from the stack of nearly a half-dozen tour guides we brought with us on a recent trip to the city. His coverage of practical information such as how to best use and get around the city via vaporetto, walking, waterbus services, etc was the easiest to follow and made navigating what can be a confusing city much simpler.

His museum and art highlights are interesting and provide a more lighthearted, easier-to-read approach than many more "highbrow" tour or art books one can find. Of course, there is much more to see in each museum or church or scuola than he points out, so for the art enthusiast it is worth taking your time and not simply skimming about to find his highlights. We found we needed at least twice as much time in each location as Rick indicates to fully appreciate what we were seeing. Similarly, we had to laugh upon setting foot on Burano and seeing he only gives it a "5-minute" walkabout, or similarly 30 minutes on Torcello. We spent about 5 hours combined on just those two fascinating lagoon islands.

That said, we would have missed a great deal without his useful hints and tips, and went to a couple of the restaurants he recommended and had good experiences there (as well as his other tips for good eating around the entire city.)

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Note from Cruise Lines Intil. Association's Exec. Director

Highly recommended!

5 stars

The cruise companies have started hiring again!

I will sail around the world from January!

Cruise Ship Job In 14 Days: The Laser Strategy For Next Generation Applying
Bogdan Mihaylov
Manufacturer: Authorhouse
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1420810456

Book Description

Successful applying for cruise ship jobs requires from you to stand out immediately! As Amazon.com and BarnesandNoble's category bestselling author of the only 5 stars awarded "exceptional book"- ForeWord Magazine, if you ask me how to start from SCRATCH, this is A-Z, Step-by-Step, Exactly how You should write your application in 48 hours and have a job offer by the next weekend!

3-5 seconds is the deadline to grab the attention and impress most of the hiring managers in the cruise lines. 90 seconds is usually everything they can spend on a good cover letter and resume. That's why stand out immediately, pay $2,000-$3,100 to an agent or forget about cruise ship employment. The core of Cruise Ship Job in 14 Days is The L.A.S.E.R Strategy with 6 resume, cover letter and interview related techniques and strategies. Combined together they form an exclusive, step-by-step system for Next Generation applying to the cruise lines. Develop with their help 2 crucial qualities your application needs to stand out- focus and impact. Learn how to make each of the following 5 important steps in such an outstanding way that you will secure greatest chances to get a cruise ship job even in 14 days or less!

First, use the book to locate the most appropriate cruise line and person in charge of the hiring for your desired position. Then follow all the professional, step-by-step instructions for writing an "Impact" Resume and Cover letter. Proceed with the advanced strategies from second chapter "How Exactly the Top 1% Applicants Gather Crucial Details and Immediately Stand Out". You will learn how to find out and fully anticipate the hiring manager's even unexpressed wishes and needs. When you finish, go through 2 exhaustive checklists and you will have what is known as Impact Cover Letter and Resume.

In the chapter "How to Ace the Interview" I present the advanced "Ultrasound Strategy". Use it to interview the interviewer and gather additional critical information which will help you to set yourself further apart from your competition. Also follow "The APA Directive" so each of your answers during the interview is the right one and add points to your candidature. If you want to stand out completely and have a cruise ship job even in 14 days from mailing your application package, claim your copy now and be sure that you have selected the fastest, easiest and best possible way.

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Note from Cruise Lines Intil. Association's Exec. Director.......2006-08-15

I was impressed from this author and his book, which established itself as the Gold Standard in applying for cruise ship employment.

The Cruise Lines International Association which I chair includes 24 of the major cruise lines. Our objective is to raise awareness about the cruise experience. If you are interested in getting a cruise ship job now, there are excellent opportunities because since 1970 and especially in the recent years the cruise industry achieved annual growth of 1,500%! We all at the International Association do our best to keep this growth. Furthermore, we make sure that the quality and standards of service also keep on getting higher.

All the best in getting an exciting, challenging, yet very rewarding cruise ship employment.

Robert Sharak
Executive Director and Vice President, Marketing and Business Development
Cruise Lines International Association

Highly recommended!.......2005-10-29

For a humble, shy girl like me has always been a dream to sail the seas and see many exotic places. Now thanks to this in-depth, professional-grade book I am holding in my hands a contract from Royal Caribbean with $3,000 net tax-free salary. I highly recommend this outstanding book to everyone who wants to make their dream about working on cruise ship reality!

5 stars.......2005-10-17

If you are serious about getting a cruise ship job you would be serious about buying this book

The cruise companies have started hiring again!.......2005-09-16

It seems that the cruise companies have started hiring again for the new season and I was lucky enough to secure a job with Celebrity cruises. The book guided me step-by-step. At the end all, I have to do is to pack my luggage after 4 weeks. Get it and succeed as well.

I will sail around the world from January!.......2005-09-16

I just received a notification that from the beginning of the next year I will work with Royal Caribbean. I am very, very happy. This has been a dream for so many years and now it will become reality thanks to Cruise Ship Job in 14 Days. It is a great book and it showed me exactly how to research this company and win the hiring manager.

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More than 260 high-impact, permission-free designs that exploit to their fullest the dramatic potential of squares, circles, triangles, rectangles, and other elements. Invaluable for wallpaper and textile design, packaging and computer art, these eye-catching forms provide artists and craftspeople with angular forms and pleasant symmetries. More than 260 black-and-white designs.

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Each of these city-specific dog-resource directories takes all of the guesswork out of finding new dog shops, services and places, including dog day cares, boarding facilities, pet sitters, dog parks, dog trainers, pet boutiques, alternative therapies, and neighborhood pet-supply stores. Each listing includes not only the address, phone number, hours of operation, and payment information, but also an original review that offers readers the inside scoop on each business. Also included is an emergency directory that's essential for middle-of-the-night ailments, a dog rescue directory, puppy starter kit, and lost dog help. The listings are arranged in an easy thumb-through layout and the book is perfectly sized to fit in a pocketbook or glove box.

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Identification and values of collectible Aladdin brand of kerosenbe mantle lamps.

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Non-woody plants, not srubs or trees......

Good introduction to native gardening

A reader from Michigan

100 Easy-to-Grow Native Plants: For American Gardens in Temperate Zones
Lorraine Johnson
Manufacturer: Firefly Books
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1552093271

Book Description

A quick reference to choosing and cultivating native plants.

Native plants are the hardy results of natural selection. Evolving over thousands of years, they thrive and flourish in their regional habitats. Whatever your conditions -- shady, sunny, or in between -- and whatever your style -- formal, informal or a mix -- there are wonderful native plants to help you achieve your gardening goals.

With her characteristic wit and down-to-earth perspective, Lorraine Johnson has written a fail-safe guide to 100 beautiful and low maintenance native plants in the northern regions of the United States. 100 Easy-to-Grow Native Plants offers:

handy profiles of each native plant
creative suggestions for pairing plants
propagation and cultivation tips
full color plant charts by region, habitat and conditions

Get growing with 100 Easy-to-Grow Native Plants -- it couldn't be simpler.

Customer Reviews:

Non-woody plants, not srubs or trees.............2005-04-03

When I was a little girl, my fourth grade teacher Mrs. Bryant took our class on a walking field trip. We hiked from the school to a nearby creek that actually ran through a woods behind my home. There on a bank (or several banks for that matter), we found the plants we had been studying, NC flora-trilliums, mandrakes, jack-in-the-pulpit and others. I haven't seen these plants in the wild in a long time. The reason of course is that my old haunts have become unrecognizable as developers plowed under miles and miles land between High Point and Thomasville, and Winston Salem and Salisbury--farms when I was a kid. With the destruction of these farms, went creeks, bogs, hedgerows and other wonderful places native plants thrived. `Like the dew on the mountain, like the bubble on the fountain...lost and gone forever....'

100 EASY TO GROW NATIVE PLANTS by Lorraine Johnson is about these native American plants systematically destroyed by the forces of change, including the invasion of foreign plants such as English Ivy (Hedera helix) and Asian and European privet. There are alternatives. Instead of English Ivy you can plant Virginia creeper (Parthenocissus quinquefolia). At the headquarters of Museum of Garden History at Lambeth Place in London, Virginia Creeper grows on the old church that serves as the museum and tumbles across the small cemetery that houses the Tradescants and Captain Bligh of Bounty fame (also a great plantsman). Unlike the evergreen English ivy, Virginia creeper loses its leaves in winter and thus moisture does not collect under the leaves and destroy masonry. (I ripped it off my house because I thought it would lift the shingles). In addition, the creeper leaves turn a bright red in the fall...so, when you see those lovely fall photos of old houses in England and notice the red leaves on the facades, remind yourself "That is a Native American plant."

Johnson does not really cover the list of invasive plants you might wish to displace with native substitutes but you need to know their names. You can obtain more information about invasive plants and native substitutes on the US Fish and Wildlife Service site www.nfwf.org (202-857-0166). At the NFWF site look for a publication entitled `Plant Invaders of the Mid-Atlantic Natural Areas' (the NFWF has similar documents for other areas, but this monograph will work for most of the Eastern Seaboard). Another source is the Plant Conservation Alliance www.nps.gov /plants (202-452-0392).

We will deal with invasive plants one person at a time. Next week I am having Euonymous, Buddleia, Privet, and Bayberry removed from my yard. I will substitute Fothergilla, Clethra, and Aronia arbutifolia (Chokeberry), considered as of this writing as okay for my neck of the woods.

Good introduction to native gardening.......2002-12-29

This isn't by any means exhaustive, either in coverage or growing information, but as an intro to native plants it is a fine addition to your library. Generally excellent photographs and an accessible page layout, with a description, requirements (soil type, sun), propagation tips, and good companions for each plant. Very pleasant to read.

There is one goofy thing about this book that is worth mentioning: The plants are presented in alphabetical order by common name. This leads to confusion when you find nothing under Trillium, only to find it under "Western Trillium," or you find Coneflower under "Purple Coneflower." The index lists only Latin names. To get around the problem of multiple common names, the book should be sorted by Latin name, and the common names should be available along with the latin names in the index.

A reader from Michigan.......2000-07-17

Great pictures and a worthy book. This book describes the benefits of growing native plants and has beautiful photos. I am always in a quest to find and identify native plants to Michigan and this book is a terrific asset. It differs from wildflower books as it strictly focuses on the native plant and not the non-native yet wild. I would like to see the author write a larger more comprehensive guide. I have shared this books with friends and they have all found it very beneficial in appreciating the native flowering plants.

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This is the last volume dealing with the aphids of Fennoscandia and Denmark. It treats the remaining species of Aphididae and the family Lachnidae and contains a host plant index and an index to all Latin names of the species treated in all six volumes. Like the first five volumes it contains keys and illustrations.

The Aphidoidea: Family Aphididae - Tribe Macrosiphini of Subfamily Aphidinae (Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica)

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The Aphidoidea: Family Aphididae - Tribe Macrosiphini of Subfamily Aphidinae (Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica)
O. E. Heie
Manufacturer: Brill Academic Publishers
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 9004098992

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Keys and descriptions of some of the aphids belonging to the Macrosiphini occurring in Scandinavia are given with drawings and colour plates. Among the genera are Myzus, Nasonovia, Acyrthosiphon and Macrosiphum. The other genera and species of Macrosiphini are treated in vol. IV and the coming vol. VI, which is the last one of The Aphidoidea of Fennoscandia and Denmark. Descriptions include morphology, distribution and biology.

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This beautifully illustrated book helps correct the mistaken idea that there was no African-American presence on the frontier. Blacks settled in North America before the arrival of the Mayflower. Estevan came with Spanish explorers in 1527 and explored the southwest; Jean Baptiste Point Du Sable founded Chicago; Mary Fields was a legend in Montana; Jim Beckworth discovered a pass through the Rocky Mountains; Biddy Mason took her master to court in California to gain her freedom. Curriculum Guide Available.

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Great for Kids and Adults.......2000-01-18

This is one of my favorites for kids and adults! Ruth Pelz writes a collection of easy-to read, interest grabbing, brief biographies of important African Americans, some of whom you may not have heard about. You've gotta read it and pass it on! Written for all ages, it will help African Americans better appreciate their heritage while helping others become aware of the rich contributions African Americans have made to American culture. Many kids can devour it in a single sitting.

Black Heroes of the Wild West Curriculum Guide

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Black Heroes of the Wild West Curriculum Guide
Ruth Pelz
Manufacturer: Open Hand Pub Llc
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unbound

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ASIN: 0940880555

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Black Heroes of the Wild West is written at a 4th grade reading level. The purpose of the Curriculum Guide is to provide questions for each chapter that students can talk and write about. The Guide can be used by students on their own, with a tutor, or in class.

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