Complete Illustrated Thorburn's Mammals

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142 + 24 pages 1393-1534 + "Trees and How to Know Them" pages 313-336. Illustrated with some color.

The World's Whales: The Complete Illustrated Guide

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A wonderful reference to the whales of the world...

The World's Whales: The Complete Illustrated Guide
Stanley M. Minasian , Kenneth C. Balcomb , and Larry Foster
Manufacturer: Smithsonian Inst Pr
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

General | Animal Care & Pets | Home & Garden | Subjects | Books

Reference | Outdoors & Nature | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 0895990148

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A wonderful reference to the whales of the world..........2001-03-09

I love this book. It's a large coffee table book, yet at the same time it's a handy reference (almost a field guide) to the whales of the world. It has over 200 pages of information and hundreds of color photographs of whales from all over the planet. The whales are broken down into types: Baleen versus Toothed, and then each type is covered by species. Included are: Baleen whales; Rorqual whales; the Gray whale; Right Whales; Sperm whales; Beaked and Bottlenose whales; Oceanic Dolphins; Beluga and Narwhal; Freshwater Dolphins; and Porpoises.

The introduction has lots of important information about whales, and a number of diagrams showing some of the differences between whales. I liked best the chart that shows the relative size of the various whales in relation to one another. This is followed by pages of information on each individual type of whale, showing a photo (if available), a diagram, and containing information about the whale.

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not that impressed

Not very helpful at all

Let's Go USA 23rd Edition (Let's Go USA)
Inc. Let's Go
Manufacturer: Let's Go Publications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0312348975
Release Date: 2005-11-29

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From the big cities to the small towns, and plenty of critical sights in between, including great barbecue outposts and the Krispy Kreme doughnut factory.

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not that impressed.......2007-05-01

buy the Lonely Planet books instead. I traveled cross country w/ this and the Lonely Planet book and in nearly every city the Lonely Planet was more useful for hotels and general information. Sometimes the Let's Go gave sketch hotels and I was never impressed with it's restaurants.

Not very helpful at all.......2006-11-10

I'm an international student staying in the U.S. for one year. Since I wanted to do some travelling all across the country, I was looking for some travel guides that covered all of the U.S. I got this one and the Lonely Planet. I expected this one to have a lot of information for cheap hostels and cool sight-seeing stuff that you could do for little money. Well, I was pretty dissappointed. I travelled Chicago, Florida and some of Indiana so far. Everytime I refered to both, Let'S Go USA and the Lonely Planet. The Lonely Planet was better in every aspect. It refered to better (still inexpensive) hostels, hotels and restaurants. It had the better maps and the better explanations of the sights. On top of it, the layout was a lot clearer. If you're looking for a good travel guide. Get the Lonely Planet and not this one. In other words: DON'T BUY LET'S GO USA.

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Hugely entertaining and wildly offbeat, here is a book that combines engaging, humorous text with illustrations that at once set the tone of the book.

Mabel is on a battlefield in the middle of blood and guts. It is 1536 in France and the Siege of Turin rages around her. But how did she get here? It all starts when Mabel is home sick. Nothing good is on TV and it's raining outside. She is bored, bored, bored, and grumpy.

Then a slimy envelope with "The Guts of Human Life" written on it plops through the letter slot. The package contains a mysterious red CD-ROM. When she inserts it into the computer, Mabel is suddenly drawn into the past and through all sorts of hilarious, amazing, disgusting and TRUE adventures in the history of medicine.

Join Mabel as she learns how medical discoveries are made...

Go back to the times before antibiotics or anesthetics, when bloodletting, leeches and spirits in the cosmos all played parts in healing.
Meet Andreas Vesalius, the Father of Anatomy.
Study digestion first-hand through a 6 inch gunshot hole in Alexis St Martin's stomach.
Take a peek at germs in 1683 through the first microscope.
Stumble upon the idea of vaccinations with Louis Pasteur as he tests his chickens for cholera.
Watch Florence Nightingale fight germs and sickness with a revolutionary new idea: cleanliness.
Drift gently into Alexander Fleming's germ plate with the mold spore that enables the discovery of penicillin.

Each page brings a new leap forward and a couple of stumbles backwards. Skip ahead to follow specific discoveries or go page by page. This is no dry regurgitation of historical fact, but a bold marriage of text and art, funny to the bone and providing a sizable dose of medical highlights from across the spectrum of time. An index is included so you can easily find your favorite ailment. Readers will return to the book time and again for the simple enjoyment it delivers.

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Packed with original logos, corporate symbols, and trademarks, this collection includes work by more than 400 designers from around the world. All logos are indexed and categorized according to industry for ease of reference.

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Top of the line.......2006-03-10

There are so many design books, but the Graphis series always asure you the best work quality.

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Letterhead 6 (Graphis Letterhead)
B. Martin Pederson
Manufacturer: Graphis Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1931241201
Release Date: 2004-11-23

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A striking collection of stationery designs that seamlessly combine art and function to visually represent a client's identity. This powerful tool of communication is explored through more than 300 original letterhead designs, conveniently arranged by business category and indexed for reference.

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It's true: your horse is what he eats. Nutrition can make the difference between a good horse and a great one, between a stressed out, skinny or fat animal, and a sleek, finely tuned partner for fun and adventure. And it's in your hands what that will be. But, let's face it, the topic of nutrition isn't exciting reading---until now. Feeding Your Horse for Life will help you make the right choices for your equine partner and do it in a dare we say it interesting way. Good nutrition is one of the most basic aspects of good horsekeeping and Feeding Your Horse for Life makes learning about this important topic enjoyable.

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Pretty good

good gifts from the home,

Great for Beginners

Good Clean Fun

Good ideas...but so-so recipes

Good Gifts from the Home: Oils, Lotions, and Other Luxuries--Make Beautiful Gifts to Give (or Keep)
Kelly Reno
Manufacturer: Prima Lifestyles
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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Good Gifts from the Home: Perfumes, Scented Gifts, and Other Fragrances--Make Beautiful Gifts to Give (or Keep)

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Natural Beauty at Home, : More Than 250 Easy to Use Recipes for Body,Bath, and Hair (Revised Edition)

The Bath Gourmet

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RESPeRATE Blood Pressure Lowering Device

Airborne Effervescent Health Formula, Original Orange, 10 Tablets (Pack of 3)

ASIN: 0761525440
Release Date: 2000-05-11

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The Best Gifts Come from the Home—and the Heart
Vanilla Body Lotion, Herbal Tea Bath, Floral Facial Cleanser, Mint Lip Gloss—these are just a few of the natural beauty, bath, and moisturizing luxuries you can make at home with the easy-to-follow recipes in this book.
Turn these pages and learn how to create natural, wonderfully fragrant, handmade oils and lotions to soothe dry skin and delight the senses. You will also discover the secrets to making airy dusting powders, silky oils, invigorating mud masks, and more, using nothing but safe, healthful ingredients.
A handmade gift is the ultimate expression of friendship and love—especially when that gift is something soothing and luxurious. This inspiring book offers easy recipes for silky lotions, extravagant oils, and fragrant skin care products you can make at home, including:
·peach and berry gardener's hand cream
·super light honeydew moisturizer
·five-oil massage blend
·herbs and fruit dusting powder
·rose bath beads
·tingling mint toner
·and many more sumptuous indulgences for the body and the senses!
Whatever the occasion, the recipes in Oils, Lotions & Other Luxuries solve the eternal question of what to give when you want your gifts to be exceptional. Focusing special attention on the art of presentation, author Kelly Reno also includes many simple yet elegant ideas for bottling, boxing, and wrapping these wonderfully unique and personal gifts. You can find most of the ingredients at local markets and pharmacies. For hard-to-find ingredients, mail-order sources are conveniently listed.
Oils, Lotions & Other Luxuries makes it possible—and easy—to pamper your friends, your family, and yourself with personal, handmade, aromatic, and sensuous body products anytime!

Customer Reviews:

Pretty good.......2007-07-20

This book has some good recipes, but not as many along the lines of what I was looking for. I stick mainly to organic and natural recipes, and this book does not have as many along those lines. That is why I gave it 3 stars...but for those who don't mind as much with the ingredients they use, this is a pretty good book.

good gifts from the home, .......2006-10-14

This book is probably as helpful as her other book that I bought. None of the recipes work. Kelly would have you believe that adding 1/2 teaspoon of table salt to 1/4 cup of shampoo concentrate and 3/4 cup of distilled water will be transformed into a product that you would be delighted to use. You are also expected to be able to grate a bar of Ivory soap (highly improbable that you will succeed). The Ivory soap is to be mixed with other ingredients to end up with a product you will be happy to give or to use.
I have bought many books on soapmaking and other bath and body products.
There is nothing in this book that makes it worth the $12.00 that I spent. Save your money and look for books written by authors who really have excellent credentials regarding bath and body products one can make at home.
One author I particularly like is Susan Miller Cavitch.
Other authors I would highly recommend are Ann Bramson,Norma Coney, and Melinda Coss
I would not even give this book a 1 star rating; actually a minus 5 would be closer to how annoyed and disgusted I was by the book I bought.

Great for Beginners.......2000-10-20

Kelly Reno has done a great job of writing books that are helpful for those just starting out. It is amazing that you can make your own lotions and change the scents to match yourself or your friends. The lotions are heavy and greasy, but I think its because our idea of lotions are those that are so heavy with lotions (with alcohols) that we expect it to soak right in instead of using the healing properties of the oils.

The bath beads turned out great. My first batch was great, but all the rest (go figure) I had to add a little more dry product to it so it wasn't so sticky. Its like cooking, its all an experiment and you just have to "season" it the way you like it.

Highly reccommended!

Good Clean Fun.......2000-05-21

A great little book of recipes to pamper body and soul. Good recipes with readily available ingredients and easy to follow directions. The end results appear almost as if by magic.

Good ideas...but so-so recipes.......1999-01-08

I find the the lotion and cream recipes to be far too heavy and greasy. Also, the solid rose and milk bath tablets did not work well when actually used in the bath. I get the impression that the recipes need some adjustment.

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Don't buy this book if you're looking for sample ideas

Inspiring, Enjoyable Reading & Application!

A wonderful sense of the art of creating "peace" around us!

This is a unique, deeply spiritual, inspired work.

The Sanctuary Garden: Creating a Place of Refuge in Your Yard or Garden
Christopher For Mcdowell , and Tricia Clark-mcdowell
Manufacturer: Fireside
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0684846373

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For many gardeners, gardening is a moving meditation that brings peace and deep relaxation. At times, however, repetitive chores can feel more stressful than soothing. The authors of The Sanctuary Garden remind us that being in the garden (as opposed to active gardening) is a way to honor the intrinsic relatedness of people and plants. To help us get beyond our busyness, they identify seven key design elements that can turn a garden into a living retreat or sanctuary. A special entrance marks our departure from the mundane world. Water, the symbol of life, brings flow and reflection to the garden. The thoughtful use of color and the play of light can be contrived to deliberately evoke emotions--peace, comfort, awe, and respect. Natural features like sculptural rocks, wind song, and fragrance can become focal points for our attention. Artwork that supports the desired feelings can be integrated into our plantings. Finally, we can create attractive habitat for birds, pollinators, and animals. Sharing the garden with nature--not just plants--broadens our sense of connectedness to the natural world in a wholesome, healing way. The book creates a challenge: where is your sanctuary? Answering that may expand both your garden and your spirit. --Ann Lovejoy

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Use the power of nature to find peace in your own backyard and enrich your life.

A garden can be far more than a place to plant a row of zinnias or tomatoes -- it can be a place of sanctuary. With the help of The Sanctuary Garden you can make your own yard or garden a place of serenity, peacefulness, and beauty. No matter how large or small your garden is, it can provide a sense of safety and comfort. And through a deep relationship with nature based on intention, reflection, and contemplation, each of us can gather strength, and our spirits may be renewed.

Ask most gardeners what gardening is and they are likely to tell you that it is primarily about plants -- which ones to select, grow, propagate, and nurture. But as you will discover in this book, the seven design elements of a sanctuary garden speak less about vegetation than they do about other often overlooked considerations such as:

Creating a special entrance that invites the visitor into a sense of sanctuary
Effectively using water for its psychological, spiritual, and physical effects
Creatively using color and lighting to elicit emotion, comfort, and awe in the visitor
Creating sitting areas that enfold the visitor into the sanctuary experience by providing a place of rest for body and soul
Highlighting natural features as anchor points, including the use of rocks, wood, natural fences, screens, trellises, wind, and sound to evoke emotion
Integrating art that enhances the overall mood
Providing habitat and features to attract a diversity of wildlife to share your sanctuary

Illustrated with eight radiant full-page watercolors and hand-drawn illustrations, The Sanctuary Garden: Creating a Place of Refuge in Your Yard or Garden offers a unique guide to living your life and designing your garden with purpose, contemplation, and, above all, harmony.

Customer Reviews:

Don't buy this book if you're looking for sample ideas.......2002-09-01

I bought this book from a different web retailer because of the online description; I did not see it in the store first. If I had, I wouldn't have bought it, because it is a philosophy book about gardening. I tend to buy gardening books that have lots of photos or diagrams of examples. This book has no photos and only a few drawings. It is all text. If you are a "show me" kind of person like I am, then don't buy this book.

Inspiring, Enjoyable Reading & Application!.......2000-04-25

I LOVE this book. It's about so MUCH more than just digging in the dirt! I especially love the watercolor illustrations. We have always called our own backyard a sanctuary. Now, we are incorporating some of the bountiful ideas found in this cornucopia of garden delights.

A wonderful sense of the art of creating "peace" around us!.......1999-07-20

This is a wonderful book! It is very inspiring, and the ideas are easy to follow, understand, and adapt to your own space and needs. I loved the descriptions of their garden/sanctuary at their home, and am inspired to try to create some sacred space in my own life. Thank you for a truly fantastic book!

This is a unique, deeply spiritual, inspired work........1999-06-04

Almost a "garden as metaphor," book, you won't find concrete advide about how to plant, or what to do about pests, etc. You will find an inspired pathway to spirit via the garden. The authors write with a clear, poetic voice about earth, wind, water and sunlight as manifestations of the soul. As an avid gardener, this is one of my all time favorites! It would make a terrific gift for anyone interested in the natural/spiritual worlds.

Sanctuary Garden - Creating A Place Of Refuge In Your Yard Or Garden

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Sanctuary Garden - Creating A Place Of Refuge In Your Yard Or Garden
Christopher Forrest; Clark-mcdowell, Tricia Mcdowell
Manufacturer: Fireside / Simon & Schuster
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000QHJAYY

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In the High Middle Ages and Renaissance letter-writing flourished as a major form of discourse and branch of rhetoric. Hundreds of treatises and manuals on epistolary composition, formularies, and model letter collections were written. This census is the first systematic survey of the extant manuscripts containing these works found in part of Western Europe, Japan, and the U.S.A. The few manuscripts with model speeches are also included. They are of a related genre, secular oratory, which developed in the High Middle Ages. Over 1,200 Latin manuscript references have been compiled from visits to over 250 libraries and archives. The survey is alphabetically arranged by country, city, library or archive and collection and gives standard details -- folios, incipits, explicits, and colophons of the texts. Editions, studies, and catalogue references are provided as are lists of libraries and archives without relevant manuscripts. Four indexes of manuscripts, incipits, Medieval and Renaissance authors, and select anonymous works are included. The work is a research tool for those interested in Medieval and Renaissance rhetoric, oratory, diplomatics, learning, and the Classical tradition.

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In Du Bois and His Rivals, Raymond Wolters provides a distinctive biography of W. E. B. Du Bois, a great pioneer of the American civil rights movement. Readers are able to follow the outline of Du Bois's life, but the book's main emphasis is on discrete scenes in his life, especially the controversies that pitted Du Bois against his principal black rivals.

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Du Bois and the Nature of American Pluralism.......2002-11-26

W.E.B Du Bois (1868-1963) was one of the leading and most controversial African-American leaders of the 20th Century. He received a PhD from Harvard and wrote in 1903 a short book, "The Souls of Black Folk", which remains an American classic. He wrote several scholarly works on African-American history which are still valuable. He helped found the NAACP and for many years edited its magazine, The Crisis, which worked agressively and tirelessly for civil and political rights for African-Americans. Near the end of his long life, Du Bois became embittered with the United States. He became a communist,, renounced his American citizenship, and died in Ghana in 1963 at the age of 95.

In his informative and clearly-written history, Professor Wolters discusses the nature of Du Bois's accomplishment by discussing his relationships, his agreements and disagreements, with other African-American leaders of his day. The book is an important study of the history of black America (indeed of all America) and it sets out the many and varied approaches African-American leaders have used to bring justice to their people. Not surprisingly, it shows areas of agreement but also areas of strong disagreement and in-fighting.

Professor Wolters contrasts Du Bois, with his emphasis on academic education and on agressive support of civil rights, with that of Du Bois's predecessor and rival, Booker T. Washington. He also stresses the large areas of agreement between the two men. Similarly, Wolters discusses Du Bois's reactions to Marcus Garvey, a black leader in the 1920's with broad mass appeal who tried to get American blacks to unite and establish a homeland in Africa. He points out that late in his career Du Bois came close to Garvey's position in many ways, involving African-American self-help from the bottom-up rather than from the top-down. Wolters then describes Du Bois's break with the NAACP and its leader Walter White. The break was occasioned by the NAACP's commitment to integration. Du Bois had moved away from this approach arguing instead that black Americans ought to work among themselves and within their community to achieve economic, political and social justice. Wolters gives a relatively brief treatment to Du Bois's final years.

Wolters finds that a philosophy of pluralism governed Du Bois's efforts throughout his long career. Under his concept of pluralism, black Americans had two identities: an American identity and a black identity. He urged that blacks live in both worlds -- in other words, he urged African-Americans to share in the values of the American experience while creating their own uniquely black contribution to America and to civilization. Early in his career, Du Bois expressed his pluralistic vision as follows (Wolters, p.38):

"One ever feels his two-ness,-an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn assunder. The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife."

In his commitment to pluralism, Du Bois opposed the earlier 19th Century African-American leader, Frederick Douglass, who was assimilationist in his thinking (there should be no differences between Americans of different colors) as well as, to a degree, later-day integrationists, such as the NAACP and Dr. King. He came closer to the views of Garvey and to the views of Garvey's more modern successors. Du Bois became more militant in his beliefs as he aged.

There is a long disagreement between assimilationist and pluralist visions of America in many areas besides African-American history. The tension between the two visions is still with us today as we try to understand and shape our country. The assimilationist vision is that of a melting pot. Pluralists speak in terms of instruments in a symphony orchestra, each with its own voice yet contributing to a whole.

Wolters book does not describe in great detail the broader issues between assimilationism and pluralism. He gives an excellent carefully-crafted account of how this question affected African-Americans in their quest for justice. In expressing his own opinions in the book, Wolters is careful to point out areas of alternative interpretations among scholars. The reader thus may form his or her own opinions.

This book is a fine study of the life and ideas of a man who, as Wolters observes, is one of the leading figures of the 20th Century.

Du Bois and His Rivals.(Book Review): An article from: Journal of Southern History

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Du Bois and His Rivals.(Book Review): An article from: Journal of Southern History
Gerald Horne
Manufacturer: Southern Historical Association
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B0008GA7JA
Release Date: 2005-07-31

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Southern History, published by Southern Historical Association on November 1, 2003. The length of the article is 590 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Du Bois and His Rivals.(Book Review)
Author: Gerald Horne
Publication: Journal of Southern History (Refereed)
Date: November 1, 2003
Publisher: Southern Historical Association
Volume: 69 Issue: 4 Page: 954(2)

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Raymond Wolters. Du Bois and His Rivals.(Book review): An article from: African American Review

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Raymond Wolters. Du Bois and His Rivals.(Book review): An article from: African American Review
Verner D. Mitchell
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
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Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from African American Review, published by Thomson Gale on June 22, 2006. The length of the article is 2582 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Raymond Wolters. Du Bois and His Rivals.(Book review)
Author: Verner D. Mitchell
Publication: African American Review (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 22, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 40 Issue: 2 Page: 392(4)

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