Electrical Properties of Mammalian Tissues: An introduction

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This book describes the basic electrical properties of a variety of mammalian tissues in scientific terms that even a student who has had little formal training in the physics of electricity should find understandable.

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Check out Oaxaca City, Monte Albán, Puerto Escondido, Puerto ángel, and Bahías de Huatulco. Or venture off the beaten path to Huajuapan de León and San Pedro Ixcatlán. Read intriguing sidebars about Porfirio Diaz, sealife, Machismo, and, of course, food.
With firsthand experience and honest insight, award-winning author Bruce Whipperman provides you with all the tools you need to create your own unique experience. Bruce's fun and creative travel suggestions can help you plan your perfect trip including, 10-Day Best Of, Outdoor Adventure, Cultural, Archeological, and Historical Tour, Best Beaches, Art and Handicraft Tour
Moon Oaxaca provides you with the essential details needed to discover all the can't miss sights, attractions, and restaurants in this colorful region, while including the best lesser-known and local hotspots. With expert writers, first-rate strategic advice, and an essential dose of humor, Moon Handbooks ensure that travelers have an uncommon and entirely satisfying experience—and a few new stories to tell.

Customer Reviews:

Very good but with some problems.......2007-08-17

Overall this is a very good guide, but it does have its defects.

Here are my impressions after having spent nearly 7 weeks in Oaxaca City and State. First, the good points.

It is very extensive and detailed. The author seems to have left almost no stone unturned in the State of Oaxaca.

His local maps are quite good, and very thankfully he had gas stations symbols on his larger maps. On the one occasion that exact distance was important to us, he got it exactly right. He also states how long in time trips will take in the mountains, not just giving the kilometers, which latter are misleading if you don't realize how curvy and slow the roads are. "It's only 100 km from Oaxaca. No time at all."

The book, like other Moon handbooks, has the good menu of `What to do if you have X days' choices.

In addition, Mr. Whipperman provides many interesting sidebars on various topics.

It's easy to sum up the virtues, which are extensive in applying throughout the book. Now for some of the problems.

Many of the places in the book are described in glowing, even poetic terms. These did not always seem to bear a relation to reality--I'm talking really off--as in our visit to Puerto Angel. The main problem here is that with so many effusive descriptions, it's difficult to make judgments. On the other hand, on those much rarer occasions where a place is described as `downscale' or such, you'd better believe it.

There didn't seem to be directions for where to turn off for Ixtlan (what's the matter with 'turn right at the Pemex station'), and the directions on how to pick up the road for Pluma Hidalgo in Santa Maria de Hualtulco didn't seem correct.

In Oaxaca City, he doesn't mention the comida corridas: inexpensive, light 3-4 course meals offered in the late afternoon, nor does he say where you might find the best of them at the low prices, like 25 pesos. If you ate in our neighborhood at one, south of the zocalo, you'd be having a definitely non-tourist experience. But they are hardly haute cuisine.

However, the most significant fault in the book that I found was in its gross failure to provide sufficient guidance with respect to buying rugs at Teotitlan, a village near Oaxaca City. As a minor matter, he says if you take a bus you need to get off on the highway and then walk or hitchhike the several km into town. This isn't true. There's a bus that goes right to the village. Also, he doesn't mention that the colectivo taxi is only 15 pesos or so.

But the most significant problem is this: you can sign up with a tour company (a lot more expensive) and you will most likely be taken to a specific weaver with little time to see others. Of course, the tour operator's large commission is built into the price of the rugs. And then, to help your reasoning, you may be plied with mescal and/or cerveza.

It's a general phenomenon. The language school I attended arranged a trip just like this too to the same place. Which had both their own Suburban type van and an SUV in their driveway. Hey, they deserve to make good money from their rugs, but not by setting people up. But even this isn't the point. The guidebook should have warned of this common technique related to the rugs. Just as guidebooks to Thailand warn you of the various tout schemes. In a similar vein, Moon Oaxaca doesn't mention that some weavers now use chemical and not the more expensive natural dyes, while swearing otherwise.

The next two times I went to Teotitlan--I was into the rugs--I took the colectivo taxi at 15 pesos and the bus once (4 pesos), and compared rugs at my convenience from many weavers.

Two smaller guide books to Oaxaca, locally written, are Oaxaca Tips ([...]) and Viva Oaxaca ([...]). These are for Oaxaca City and valley only. They are more idiosyncratic and opinionated than Moon Oaxaca, with some more local detail. Viva Oaxaca, for example, lists its favorite comida corridas. We generally carried these around in the city, in part because they are light. Amazon, why don't you carry these books???

Nevertheless, Moon Oaxaca is overall a good guide.

Oaxaca vacation.......2007-06-01

Book is very explicit of what to do depending on the days that you are planning to stay. It maps your journey very well and give you good information of what to expect and what to do.

Moon Handbooks Pacific Mexico: Including Mazatlan, Puerto Vallarta, Guadalajara, Acapulco, and Oaxaca (Moon Handbooks)

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No more Moon for me
Essential for a Mexican road trip
Useless!
Fantastic for the Independent Traveller
As complete as there is!

Moon Handbooks Pacific Mexico: Including Mazatlan, Puerto Vallarta, Guadalajara, Acapulco, and Oaxaca (Moon Handbooks)
Bruce Whipperman
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ASIN: 1566917174

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It is the age of specialization, which is a good thing if you're traveling to Pacific Mexico. Let's say you're heading off to Mazatlán or Guadalajara, Oaxaca or Acapulco, you no longer need to lug along every detail on every town, city, and hotel in Mexico. Just the pertinent particulars will do, and that's what Bruce Whipperman delivers in his Lowell Thomas Award-winning Pacific Mexico Handbook.

Stretching over 1,000 miles along the Pacific coast from Mazatlán in Sinaloa down to Bahias de Huatulco in Oaxaca, the choices of tropical, palm-lined lagoons and soft sandy beaches seem without end yet easily accessible, thanks to Mexico's Highway 200 on the Pacific coast and a plethora of airplane access. Yet not each beach resort town is the same in character and opportunities. One of the great services rendered by Whipperman's handbook, before you ever set foot on Mexican soil, is the concise yet evocative description of the distinguishing personalities of the many towns and cities along the water. Especially useful if you're venturing south for the first time, Whipperman's introductions help you plan your itinerary to suit your mood and style. Of course he backs his narrative up with all the facts one might need, the hotels and restaurants, means of transportation and nightlife, shopping, sports, sights, and beaches. But he fleshes these guidebook details out with his sensitive and scholarly attention to the people, history and culture, the land and sea, the vegetation and the animals to be seen and experienced. All the options are spelled out, from the hedonistic immersion in resort relaxation to a glossary of helpful Spanish if you choose to explore further afield. --Stephanie Gold

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From exploring Oaxaca's magnificent ruins and sportfishing near Mazatlán to lounging in a beach hideaway on the Nayarit Coast, Moon Handbooks Pacific Mexico is the guide to the best the region has to offer, both on and off the beaten path. Practical information includes suggested travel strategies and lists of must-see sights, plus essentials on dining, transportation, and accommodations for a range of budgets. Complete with details for surfing at Playa Zicatela and attending fiestas in Puerto Vallarta, Moon Handbooks Pacific Mexico gives travelers the tools they need to create a more personal and memorable experience.

Customer Reviews:

No more Moon for me.......2003-01-03

I just returned (Dec 2002) from a trip to Mexico using this publication. This was my third trip with a Moon Handbook. I was not to happy with the one to Baja, I found the one for Costa Rica filled with inaccurate information but this one was the worst.

I found the maps to be mostly useless, directions to places not very helpful, several recommendations absolutely pointless. Even though this book was published OCT 2001, MANY times I was left with the impression that the author NEVER was on-site or has not revisited since the first edition. This guidebook seemed unfocused, information arranged not practical, and descriptions are exaggerated and/or misleading. Case in point - the town of Playa Azul. The town is given almost 4 pages and a rather poetic description is used to make it sound like a pretty cool place. As it turns out the town itself is very run down, many houses are bad repair, most hotels are dirty hole-in-the-walls and the seafood palapa restaurants are in a shape that most travelers that are just a little worried about cleanliness s/would not eat there. Playa Azul is for Mexican budget travelers and offers nothing that could not be had any other place around there.
Barra Vieja would be another example of where the book is off the mark. After reading Mr. Whipperman's description, I was not prepared to drive along a 4 line highway most of the way, past a very nice golf facility and all the construction that was going on there.
.... and this are just two of my grippes about this book.

Despite the book, I had a great time. I saw a very beautiful side of Mexico. I would recommend a trip to Pacific Mexico to anyone. I am going back there in March. I will look for a travel guide I feel more aligned with and whose recommendation I can trust.

Essential for a Mexican road trip.......2002-09-13

I used this book extensively this past summer for an epic driving trip into Mexico that took me almost to Manzanillo. I found the book extremely useful for discovering those off the beaten path sidetrips. I also used Fodor's but found this book a notch above in terms of helpful recomendations.Since the bulk of the 3+ weeks was spent in Puerto Vallarta(actually Mismaloya) the book proved to be a good guide for excursions into the surrounding states of Nayarit and Colima. For the most part the details given were accurate but with any travel book there are problems with current information as things are usually in flux in the tourist trade. I suppose that is why they can come out with new editions every year. Some of the information when missing can be a letdown, for example one day we went out for an adventure in the hopes of seeing the turtle rescue attempts in a not so nearby bay only to find out it was not exactly natures right time. There were other let downs such as the time we wet out to Mexicalitlan ," House of the Mexicans", where the ancient Aztecs/Mexica supposedly set out from Aztlan to establish Tenochitlan where the eagle would be found on top of a nopal devouring a snake. The description calls it a "scenic little island town." If you consider peering into the open doors of the living rooms of the locals I guess it was scenic! For my part I found it to be a waste of a drive. The museum was closed also which brings to a point one should consider whenever driving to a destination in Mexico. Do not arrive during the tradional siesta time or one will have to wait until 4 or 5 in the afternoon to enjoy the local musem etc! By contrast unexpected pleasant surprises can result by the books ommision of information as in the opportunity to see the hatching of baby crocodiles at the end of the jungle cruise on La Tovara near San Blas. All in all the guide is very, very useful to plan out a trip and see things and experience different parts of Mexican culture. The short histories, hotel recomendations, restaurant guides etc are pretty accurate and invaluable in planning a trip within a trip. There is diversity in recomendations for the earthy camper or the posh five star luxury hotel traveler. I would recommend this book for any traveler along the lovely Pacific Mexican trail.

Useless!.......2002-08-08

Want my book? It is useless. This book is full of information, none of it practical. You can't find ANYTHING you are looking for in it. NO hostels are listed. They don't even highlight any of the amazing festivals that are held here in Mexico. Believe me, I am living here in Mexcio, and I am going to go buy the Lonely Planet. I wanted something more specific to my region, but this is NOT it. This book is written like the author took one pathway through the region, and wrote along the way. So unless you are following the exact same route, the information is SO useless.

Fantastic for the Independent Traveller.......2001-01-23

My friend and I used this book, and a wrinkled photocopy of a map, as our only guides on a bicycle trip from Mazatlan to Salina Cruz, Oaxaca. This is the rare travel book with an authorial voice that enhances the information rather than distracts. Mr. Whipperman obviously has a deep love of the region (especially Oaxaca and Indigenous regions of Guerrero)and a love for the kind of travelling that makes travel worthwhile. Laudable detail on the places you end up, rather than seek out, and the tasty bits of history he includes make you glad you did.

As complete as there is!.......2000-02-18

We've been going to PV and points south for years. I've been amused looking in Mexico tourist guides for their laughable coverage (if there is any) of Playa Careyes, Tomatlan, El Tuito. Usually, there's nothing. This book covers it all! Granted, there are many restaurants and shops in PV that aren't included, but PV is easy to figure out. It's once you get on the highway that you need the book.

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Whether you're looking for tips on shopping for genuine Mexican crafts, such as handmade masks, carvings, palm weavings, serapes, metalwork, embroidery, and pottery, or viewing coatimundis, peccaries, ocelots, and other wildlife, Moon Handbooks Oaxaca is your tool for experiencing the best of this intriguing destination. From snorkeling in the Bays of Huatalco to visiting pre-Columbian ruins, the best of Oaxaca, both popular and obscure, is in this guidebook. This comprehensive guide provides maps, photographs, illustrations, and practical choices for a range of accommodations, including colonial-style inns, bed-and-breakfasts, and homestays, as well as details on local cuisine like ceviche, chapulines (grasshoppers), and pan dulce. Everything needed for a uniquely personal trip is in Moon Handbooks Oaxaca.

Customer Reviews:

Good guidance.......2006-03-31

This is an excellent,dependable resource for this area. The guide is easy to read, practical, informative and inclusive. I was pleased with the recommendations that I pursued.

Find everything about Oaxaca.......2006-03-13

B. Whipperman really knows Oaxaca. The book is with me at all times when in Oaxaca, and helps me to investigate more places to explore in the towns around the city of Oaxaca. This book was written by a person who loves that area.

Recommended.......2005-12-25

(Planeta.com Journal) The book is perfect for those planning to spend at least a week in Oaxaca. Coverage is first rate and includes many tips for visiting archaeological sites, out-of-the way resorts and mountain communities.

Best guide book to Oaxaca--or anywhere!.......2005-03-22

I travel more than most people and buy several guidebooks each year. This has been the most helpful book that I have ever bought. Of course, you could have a great trip to Oaxaca with no guidebook at all, just staying in Oaxaca city and hanging out around the zocolo. However, we wanted to see Oaxaca state beyond the city and made a side trips to both Puerto Escondido and the Sierra Madre mountains. This book was helpful in planninng our excursions. Since I know little about Mexican history, I also found the book helpful in giving me background on what I was actually seeing. The next time I travel I will definitely check out a Moon handbook.

Great guide book with a few limitations.......2005-01-02

This is the ONLY full-sized guide book devoted solely to Oaxaca so, if you're going there for any length of time over a couple days, you need it; so buy it, already. Great info on history, archeological sites, remote regions, all that.

For notes on sanitation, eating safely, crime problems with backcountry travel, and a few other refined topics, look for additional information elsewhere. This book, which has excellent details on many things, is a bit incomplete in some areas.

I'm writing this from an internet cafe in Oaxaca de Benito Juarez, the capital city, to report a deficit in the book: some of the restaurant recommendations are off the mark and misinformed. The author recommends some of the worst eateries in the central city (the Centro Historico) and doesn't even mention many of the best ones, even when they've been here for years garnering good reputations. I used the last edition of this book for a long visit here last year, and bought the new (November 2004) edition for this trip and, if anything, some of the bad restaurant recommendations of the last edition have become worse ones in this new edition. When you get here, just ask a few other visitors who got here before you and get your own list of recommendations; you'll do much better that way.

A Mexico-wide warning, also not mentioned in this book: several Norte Americanos I know who are smokers tell me they like to come to Mexico because they can smoke virtually anywhere, without restrictions. If you are among the majority who do not smoke, that could be a problem for you. There are a few really excellent restaurants and cafes here in the city where smoking is forbidden, but none of them are mentioned in the Moon guide to Oaxaca.

An update, a month later, still in Oaxaca: this book gives great details on how to get about in any town in Oaxaca, but doesn't tell you whether it's worth your time to go there. When you get to any region of the state, how do you choose which town to stop in? If you have only a week and want to hit just one or two high spots outside the capital city, how do you choose? No quidance on this from Bruce Whipperman, the author. He just tells you what you'll be seeing once you get there.

Moon Pacific Mexico: Including Mazatlan, Puerto Vallarta, Guadalajara, Acapulco, and Oaxaca (Moon Handbooks)

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Moon Pacific Mexico: Including Mazatlan, Puerto Vallarta, Guadalajara, Acapulco, and Oaxaca (Moon Handbooks)
Bruce Whipperman
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ASIN: 1566918480

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Mexico enthusiast and veteran travel writer Bruce Whipperman knows the best way to experience Pacific Mexico, from exploring the Nayarit and Jalisco coasts to discovering both the city of Oaxaca and its surrounding valley. Whipperman includes unique trip ideas like One Day in Mazatlan, Puerto Vallarta, and Acapulco (walking tours ideal for cruise travelers) and 28-Day Best of Pacific Mexico. Packed with information on dining, transportation, and accommodations, Moon Pacific Mexico has lots of options for a range of travel budgets. Every Moon guidebook includes recommendations for must-see sights and many regional, area, and city-centered maps. Complete with details on the best beaches and the most interesting day trips, Moon Pacific Mexico gives travelers the tools they need to create a more personal and memorable experience. With expert writers, first-rate strategic advice, and an essential dose of humor, Moon guidebooks are the cure for the common trip.

Customer Reviews:

Essential book for CPTs and English teachers.......2007-01-28

I had the opportunity to meet John Fox, and I bought his two books then. I have since given them away and had to buy new copies. I found Poetic Medicine particularly useful when I taught high school English. The exercises helped my students deal with grief (that chapter is the best) and depression, and when I've used it, I have felt much better afterwards.

I think this should be a required book in every English teacher's personal library.

Poetic Medicine.......2004-07-10

There are many exercises in the book to inspire your poetry and many inspirational quotes. I've read it twice and intend to read again, as each time I read it different exercises and examples appeal to me. There is an exercise where you write down all the words that appeal to you in poems, to remind you to use them in your own works.

Helpful, good book.......2001-09-21

I"m still working my way through this one, but I'm finding it overall to be helpful... It's a good read, as well, engagingly written and leads me to want to try...

Review of Poetic Medicine-- an English teacher's view.......2001-04-11

As a literature student, I stayed as far away from poetry as I could. It wasn't just that I preferred fiction Poetry made me feel "less than". I didn't get it, and all the terms were confusing.

Now, as an English teacher in a community college, I get a similar response from my own students, most of whom haven't read much poetry, find it difficult or overwhelming, and don't really see the point.

Even sadder, neither of us have believed we can write poetry. Instead, we have believed that poetry is something only a chosen few can do, something that requires mastering a certain form or stanzaic structure or tapping into the Muse at some deeper level of creativity than most of us are capable of.

It's too bad that only recently have we had John Fox's book Poetic Medicine to show us what poetry really is or can be, a means not only of discovery or creative expression, but also of deep emotional and spiritual healing.

As Rachel Naomi Remen points out in the Preface, "Poetry is simply speaking the truth...and one of the best kept secrets in this technologically oriented culture is that simply speaking the truth heals."

Fox helps us get at our truth and thus heal, via a range of exercises that explore such territory as personal relationships, loss, illness, our connection to the earth, love and pain between parent and child, and the use of traditional poetic tools to merge the spiritual and creative.

These exercises are hugged on either side by text which combines Fox's personal insights and experience, both as a poet and poetry therapist, with concrete examples from his own life and those of former workshop participants. Poems from friends and students, as well as pertinent quotes from other writers, complement and enrich Fox's words.

But these words are not just for those of us who already fancy ourselves poets or writers. One of the great characteristics of this and Fox's other book, Finding What You Didn't Lose, is that Fox, like Natalie Goldberg in Writing Down the Bones and Susan Woolridge in Poemcrazy, give us permission to use writing to discover our own selves.

As in his workshops, Fox's kindness, spiritual depth, and true belief that poetry can help us express the inexpressible come through loud and clear in his tone. He is someone who listens deeply, pays attention to his inner world, and by example, helps us do the same.

Poetic Medicine is Good Medicine.......2001-02-21

John Fox's POETIC MEDICINE: The Healing Art of Poem-Making is a user friendly book. You will find yourself circling phrases, underlining sentences, writing in the margins, completing the expertly crafted exercises and drifting in thought and reflection over poetry that touches your soul. The format also includes a wonderful collection of side bars with poetry and quotes by a wide variety of poets, writers and philosophers.

John's choice of chapter titles are in themselves poetic: "The Fragile Bond" -- expressing poems of pain and love between parent and child, "Landscapes of Relationships -- reflecting on intimacy, marriage and longing, "When God Sighs" -- making poems about loss, illness and death.

As an instructor of a poetry course for seniors, I used many of the exercises in POETIC MEDICINE. Participants who often came hesitantly to the class, were delighted when they discovered they were able to express themselves in poetic form. We also worked with some of the tools and basic elements of poetry which are nicely presented in the book.

POETIC MEDICINE is a book one could choose to use individually too. Expressing personal sorrow and love, poem-making to heal societal wounds, or celebrating earth and nature are all avenues one can explore within its pages.

Rachel Naomi Remen, MD says in the Preface, "Poetry is simply speaking truth", and John's unique book helps us to find truth and to create poems from the heart. It is good medicine for, as Dr. Remen says, "simply speaking truth heals."

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A treasury of 276 beautiful royalty-free designs, crisply, clearly drawn in a variety of sizes, featuring roses, sunflowers, carnations and many other flowers in single and clustered blossoms, plus lavish bouquets, wreaths, sprays and more, some including fruits and herbs.

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Celebrating the animal that has been a stalwart servant to humankind for countless generations, Bonnie Hendricks's International Encyclopedia of Horse Breeds is the most thorough compilation of horse breeds ever attempted. The nearly four hundred entries, arranged alphabetically, include foundation breeds now extinct as well as extant breeds from across the globe. Each entry details the breed's origin and background, size, appearance, chief use, and status (rare versus common). A list of breed associations and government departments that supplied data and photographs for the encyclopedia has been fully updated for this edition.

With its breadth and depth of coverage, as well as 530 black-and-white and 32 color illustrations, the encyclopedia continues to be a standard international reference.

Customer Reviews:

Faithful Reporting.......2007-04-11

Being the author of this book I am naturally biased toward it. What I can say is that I contacted the best authorities in the world for information and pictures and did not borrow from any other book.

One thing I would like to say about the reviews on this book. The book is exactly as described by Amazon and the University of Oklahoma Press and I want to debunk the few odd reviews stating that this book consists of ten yellowed pages. I have no idea why anyone would state such a thing but can assure you that it is untrue and completely ridiculous.

Thanks,
Bonnie Hendricks

I love it........2002-04-09

This book is wonderful. Lots of information, but a little pricy. Overall, it's a good deal for you if you love horses like me. One problem I had was I didn't know how many pages were in the book. All I know is it has more than 17 pages because there are 17 sample pages. I enjoyed looking at the sample pages. Thank you.

Excellent Information - Outdated format.......2001-09-12

This book is truly a complete guide to horse breeds. Unfortunately the quality of the book material was a disappointment. It was filled with photos; but only a few were color photos. The pages were not much better than the quality of a comic book, thin and yellow. I expected much more for the price. 4 stars solely on the detail and depth of it's information.

The best, most complete horse breeds book I have ever seen!.......2000-08-28

Bonnie Hendricks has gone far beyond what any other horse breed researcher has done...she has contacted every breed association she possibly could. She has written with far more detail, greater accuracy, and on many more breeds than any other horse book I have seen. Her intelligent ideas inserted into some breed descriptions are well worth noting. This is a MUST-HAVE for the serious equine enthusiast! It has definitely spoiled my appetite for any other horse book that attempts to describe the breeds. Thanks Bonnie, we needed this book!

A must read for any horse breeder.......1999-01-24

Intresting and somewhat overwhelming a great insite into the world of horses.

The International Encyclopedia of Horses and Ponies (The Howell Equestrian Library)

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The International Encyclopedia of Horses and Ponies (The Howell Equestrian Library)

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This remarkable volume first explains how the horse came to evolve over the course of millions of years from a creature not much bigger than a fox into the magnificent animal we know today.

An Illustrated International Encyclopedia of Horse Breeds & Breeding

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An Illustrated International Encyclopedia of Horse Breeds & Breeding
Jane Kidd
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International Encyclopedia of Horse Breeds
Jane Kidd
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Bedroom and Bathroom Glassware of the Depression Years
Margaret Whitmyer , and Kenn Whitmyer
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Bedroom, Bathroom, Glassware of the Depression Years
Kenn and Margaret Whitmyer
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Beautiful and inspiring home design book for nature lovers.

Highly recommended

Gorgeous photography

It's A Keeper !

Garden Style: Decorating Ideas for Indoors & Out (Better Homes & Gardens)
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Release Date: 2002-04-15

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Garden Style is a rich book of ideas for those who have sun porches, glassed-in plant rooms, areas in the home that seem to be neither outside nor inside but somewhere in between. There's advice on how to accent plant life with bright patterned rugs, glass topped tables, or wicker chairs. Also included are ideas for kitchens and living rooms "inspired" by garden style: a few gaffes here, including curtain rods made from twigs, which look, well, weird. Much more successful are pages devoted to a "miniature conservatory," like the terrariums kids buy in kits, but these are built carefully and delicately--an ecosystem small enough to fit on a kitchen shelf. For those whose potting sheds have become dark caverns full of lost tools, there's a section devoted to this often neglected but highly important room, one that, if bright and well-organized, can inspire even the most weary gardener: all the tools lined up, all the seeds and bulbs labeled and in order, full of promise. For the city dweller there's advice on roof gardens designed around the skyline, and these have a wonderful feeling of oasis and secrecy. --Emily White

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Shows how gardeners, designers, and other individuals use indoor and outdoor spaces, plants, furnishings, art, and accessories to express garden style year-round in any region.

First book to distinctly identify and define garden style as more than a trend—rather a design approach with staying power.

Builds on gardening as the country's number one pastime and, now, as a leading design inspiration.

Five before-and-after makeover projects inspire readers into action.

Helps readers create garden rooms in every room of the house and bring the outside inside year-round.

Four sections: "Creating Fresh-Air Spaces" (decorating porches, patios, decks, potting sheds, and outdoor rooms), "Bringing the Outdoors In" (decorating every room in the house, even foyers, powder rooms, and nurseries), "Living the Garden Life" (profiles of garden style from Connecticut to California in urban, suburban, and rural settings), and "Sources and Inspirations" (top resources in every region for decorative furnishings, accessories, and plants).

Special attention to porches, patios, and decks.

Ideas range from clever and casual to elegantly formal.

A list of 300 national resources helps readers easily find products across the country.

Shows the array of furnishings, plants, and accessories from home and garden centers and catalogs.

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You will drool over this one..........2001-04-29

This has quickly become one of my favorites. Every vignette has ideas popping off the page. I'm a designer in a small design firm and we have used it with clients. The other designers got excited about it as I did. Clinets are asking us to bring the outdoors in and indoors out. This book is loaded with ideas that are practical and don't break the pocketbook.

Beautiful and inspiring home design book for nature lovers........2000-07-20

This inspiring book is a wonderful guide for incorporating the pleasure of nature and garden accessories into a welcoming home decor. The author provides a wide range of possibilities to blend with the wishes and desires of any home decorator. Within the pages of this beautiful resource, the reader will uncover whimsical, country, cottage, mountain, old world, British Colonial, and a bounty of other styles that are adapted to the nature lovers vision of tranquility or fun. The interiors of the vistas that have been photographed are each the product of real people who have opened their homes to the author. The author also includes a visual display of home gardening boutiques and shops from around the country which present their lovely wares to assist this enchanting approach to home decorating.

Highly recommended.......2000-05-19

This book has inspired me to redo many of our rooms usingsimple and easy to find garden-style accessories. ............... the fabulous sequel to this book, Garden Style Projects. I may need a new house now so I can keep using all these ideas.

Gorgeous photography.......2000-04-19

I love decorating books and have a slew of them, but this is one of the best. It contains page after page of fabulous photos, and is an inspiration for anyone who wants to brighten up a home with ideas from the garden. For browsing on a gloomy, rainy evening, this book can't be beat. It is also a superb coffee-table book that your guests will enjoy as much as you do. Highly recommended!

It's A Keeper !.......2000-01-30

I wasn't sure that this was what I was looking for on my first pass through. It didn't take long on my second time around to become thoroughly absorbed in each room. The photography is great. I've already been inspired and thats just from looking at the pictures!

Garden Style - Decorating Ideas For Indoors & Out

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Garden Style - Decorating Ideas For Indoors & Out
Linda - Editor; Better Homes And Gardens Books Hallman
Manufacturer: Better Homes And Gardens
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000TG579E

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Great Guide to FS.......2000-04-23

Going through the Fundamental Series, it offers an outlook on the feng shui enthusiast which one is able to take this knowledge and apply to one's elemental genre.. Studying the funadamentals of feng shui the books have provided for me a building block to apply towards a thesis that integrates feng shui as an oriental theology to western ideology.. a symbiosis which thank you to Lillian Too I must priase.. Thank you

Sweet and simple.......2000-04-22

Finally, a flat and condense book that sums up the important points of feng shui. I like it. I wish Amazon.com would ship it to India for cheaper.

I love them.......2000-04-22

SOmeone gave me this for Christmas and I came back in here to Amazon to buy the entire series on Love, Career, Networkng and more. What a cute book! i've also awarded my best office employees with these as gifts - very nice. I love them.

Too General !.......2000-04-14

I read Lilian Too's Eight Easy Lessons (The 'Feng ShuiFundamentals' Series)and it's not a good Feng Shui book especially forstarters who interested in Feng Shui. It talks about Feng Shui in a very general term and not worth the price pay for the book.

Feng Shui Fundamentals: Eight Easy Lessons

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Feng Shui Fundamentals: Eight Easy Lessons

Manufacturer: Barnes and Noble Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

Let's Make Mary Being a Gentleman's Guide to Scientific Seduction in Eight Easy Lessons

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Let's Make Mary Being a Gentleman's Guide to Scientific Seduction in Eight Easy Lessons
Jack Hanley
Manufacturer: Hillman
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000K1ZBWQ

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Let's Make Mary Being a Gentleman's Guide to Scientific Seduction in Eight Easy Lessons
Jack Hanley
Manufacturer: Phoenix Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000LD4UQ6

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Let's Make Mary: Being a Gentleman's Guide to Scientific Seduction in Eight Easy Lessons
Jack Hanley
Manufacturer: A Hillman Publication
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Sex | Health, Mind & Body | Subjects | Books
ASIN: B000OZBGZO

Let's make Mary: Being a gentlemen's guide to scientific seduction in eight easy lessons

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Let's make Mary: Being a gentlemen's guide to scientific seduction in eight easy lessons
Jack Hanley
Manufacturer: Hillman-Curl
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B0008CK1SQ

Speak Spanish in Eight Easy Lessons) (Latin American

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Speak Spanish in Eight Easy Lessons) (Latin American
Pimsleur Language Programs
Manufacturer: Pimsleur Language Programs
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Audio Cassette

General | Education | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books

Product Description

Five audio Cassettes. The short course. Speak Spanish top learn Spanish.

Studies on slavery, in easy lessons. Comp. into eight studies, and subdivided into short lessons for the convenience of reader. By John Fletcher.

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Studies on slavery, in easy lessons. Comp. into eight studies, and subdivided into short lessons for the convenience of reader. By John Fletcher.
Fletcher, John.
Manufacturer: Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Product Description

This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Librarys preservation reformatting program.

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Great book!.......2005-05-11

This book is actually written by my aunt. This book is very good and I'm not just saying that because my aunt wrote it. If you want to know how life was in the south, you should read this book, its very factual and fun to read!!

a look back.......2002-07-10

if you like a book about the bygone years you will love this book. especially about the family. i enjoyed the book so well i hated to see it end.

Heartwarming and Evocative.......2001-02-22

When I returned home from work Monday, I had a wonderful surprise. My pre-order of "Dancing with Granny" had arrived. I sat down and read it from cover to cover in about 3 hours. It made be cry, laugh, and get mad. The remembrances of the author's "granny" brought back wonderful memories of my Irish and German grandmothers. The picture painted of the author's Granny was very vivid. I,too, am from a large, very close bonded family. I come from the Midwest and so have not ever encountered any prejudice like that encountered by the author and her family in Mississippi, and even up North when the author went to college. It made me angry to believe that people would treat other people that way. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and anxiously await Frankye's next one.

Passage of Times.......2001-02-21

I am from from MS - yet did not experience some of the details listed in Dancing With Granny. I never worked in or visited any cotton fields but, heard about tough times from some family members. I can relate to most of the language and upbringing that was a way of life for most blacks then. I am thankful to God that times have improved. It is a reminder of what our parents endured and for us to remember where God brough us from.

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