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A BOOK FOR A LIFETIME .......2007-03-05
Here I am ordering another copy of this book. I keep "loaning" them. I received my first copy in the mid-1950s as a horse/cowboy-loving teenager in Indiana. My USFS Ranger uncle sent it to me because he knew....!!! Knew it would be another huge nudge in getting me out to the Great Pacific Northwest other than just for visits. I made it in 1968 and my husband and I have visited the area depicted in the book countless times. I will soon turn 70 and have enjoyed reading this book every few years throughout my life. It is most compelling. The reviews of others are definitely right on. What more can I say other than, read it?
Amazing.......2007-01-10
A personal look in living real life in a land that little is known
Grass Beyond the Mountains.......2006-01-31
Pan Phillips had the "Pan Phillips International Airport" at his fishing camp beyond Anahim Lake B.C. For several years, we flew into his little airport between 2 lakes. Pan told us some of the same stories that are in this book. Louis Soukup was one of the first pilots to the area. Louis would fly in, any equipment that Pan needed, on the pontoons of his airplane. This book gives the stories as though you were sitting at the feet of the men who were the first settlers in this area of British Colombia. It is really an adventure to read.
Read It!.......2001-12-18
We own the Legacy Ranch high in the mountains of Northeastern Utah. For years we have loved the beauty of the unspoiled wilderness. Nursing newborn elk calves, watching Canadian Lynx outside their lairs, and many other adventures have cast us in the mold of lovers of the wilderness. To read the adventures of true cowboys, who started with nothing else but their "grit" and ended up with lives spent plumbing the depths of fun and hard work was one of the top literary experiences of our lives. This book, far better than the sequels, will be part o four Christmas giving this year.
Nothing To It!.......1999-12-12
Nothing to reading it, that is. This is one of the first nonfictions books I've read that I have ever liked. I got interested in it when I saw the TV show 'Nothing Too Good For A Cowboy' and had to read the books. This book made me laugh and almost made me cry. The characters are too funny and very heart-warming.
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A fantastic book, very interesting to read.......1999-07-12
A fantastic book on the history and legal ideas in early and middle medieval Ireland, based on research into the Brehon laws, legends, and surviving records. A perfect guide for people looking to model historical groups after the original ways. Every concept and definition presented is thoroughly documented (or, it's explained why not)!
One of the things I enjoyed about this book is that it was "educational" and a "good read" at the same time. It had the same information as going to the original sources, but, livened up and explained clearly for non-scholarly readers!
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Ranchland: British Columbia's Cattle Country
Rick Blacklaws , and
Diana French
Manufacturer: Harbour Publishing
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ASIN: 1550172328
Release Date: 2001-10-15 |
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This exhilarating journey through British Columbia's historic cattle country takes the reader from the high Chilcotin meadows to the rich irrigated fields of the southern Okanagan, from cattle drives to modern marketing, from urban ranches to those tucked away in splendid isolation - all with spectacular full-colour photographs. Ranchland is a gorgeous, inspiring portrait of BC cattle raisers and cattle country.
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British Cattle (Shire Albums)
Val Porter
Manufacturer: Shire Publications
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British Pigs (Shire Album)
ASIN: 0747805148 |
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British dairying,
Frank Harold Garner
Manufacturer: Longmans, Green and Co
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ASIN: B0007J38WG |
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Don't just step past those animal signs on the trail. Those are scats and tracks and they have a story to tell. In Scats and Tracks of the Rocky Mountains, Dr. Jim Halfpenny, a nationally renowned tracker, teaches you how to decipher these messages. Was that footprint left by a fox, a mountain lion, or a wolf? Was that pile of droppings deposited by a moose, a mouse, or a marten? This book can help you determine which mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians have passed your way and might be nearby. The book includes written descriptions and illustrations of the scats, tracks, and gait patterns of 70 Rocky Mountain species, an identification key, and a glossary of tracking terms. For a deeper understanding of the woods and wilderness, Scats and Tracks will prove indispensable.
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Wonder no more about those tracks in the mud or that poop on the path. With this packable guide, identification in the field is easy. Featured are the tracks, scats, and signs of 70 different species including wolf, ferret, grizzly bear, as well as birds, frogs and salamanders. Scales for scat diameter and footprint size are included along the edge of each descriptive page. Plus, for accurate measurements, there's a ruler on the back cover.
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excellent resource for teachers and students.......2007-03-27
I purchased these books to use in an outdoor field workshop for science teachers in Colorado. The books are great and the teachers really appreciated them.
A Small Jewel.......2002-12-30
This small field guide supposedly covers from Colorado/Utah north to the Canadian border, but many of the animals illustrated also range into the Pacific Northwest, western Canada and California, so this book is useful for most of western North America. There are two pages for each of the 70 mammals, birds and reptile/amphibians. Every animal has a small-scale range map, overall sketch, sketch of its droppings, large sketch of forward and rear footprints and a sketch of the pattern left by several footprints. I found the latter especially useful since many times the individual tracks are not too clear, especially in sand or dry snow, but the track pattern provides a positive identification. This lightweight, pocket-sized format makes it convenient to carry. Highly recommended for hikers, campers and nature buffs.
Great , easy-to-carry field guide.......2002-12-30
This small field guide supposedly covers from Colorado/Utah north to the Canadian border, but many of the animals illustrated also range into the Pacific Northwest, western Canada and California, so this book is useful for most of western North America. There are two pages for each of the 70 mammals, birds and reptile/amphibians. Every animal has a small-scale range map, overall sketch, sketch of its droppings, large sketch of forward and rear footprints and a sketch of the pattern left by several footprints. I found the latter especially useful since many times the individual tracks are not too clear, especially in sand or dry snow, but the track pattern provides a positive identification. This lightweight, pocket-sized format makes it convenient to carry. Highly recommended for hikers, campers and nature buffs.
Scats & Tracks of the Rocky Mountains.......2000-10-05
Winner of a 1999 National Outdoor Book Award, this small guide contains a wealth of information.
As an environmental educator who has been teaching tracking classes for over 15 years, this is the book I now use for all of my classes. Page for page, "Scats and Tracks" is the most useful and useable resource for track identification in the field that I have found.
Packed with information that is useful to both the novice and the more experienced tracker, "Scats and Tracks" is the easiest of the various guides for beginners to use, yet contains enough information to remain relevant as one's skills improve.
The quality of its contents make the book an invaluable resource; its size, format, and organization make it easy to understand and use effectively. If you're going to buy just one of the many books now available on track identification, "Scats and Tracks" should be the one!
excellent fo beginners.......2000-02-26
This pocket sized guide helps the reader identify the scats and tracks of 70 of the more commonly encountered animals of the rockies. It gives good informative descriptions for the first time tracker.
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How Proudly They Wave.......2004-01-22
this book was on a very intresting subject and i learned alot from but i have to say it is a little dull reading state after state consecutively(sp?). well any way it ws cool to find out how my state flag looked and how it got to be. it was also intresting because i rarely see state flags. it was also cool to pick out my favorite flag in the book. it was a great history book and a nice helpful tool for students studing state history. well overall it was a really good history book.
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A good introduction to the century when type design exploded.......2001-01-19
Carter's book is heavily waited towards the period 1900-1960, which was in a way a golden age for type design. As ATF, Monotype and Linotype reached their ascendancy, new types were commissioned at an unprecedented rate and many of the best designs were created (or re-created) for the current generation of typesetting equipment. The advent of phototype in the 60s brought this first twentieth century golden age to an end, while PostScript opened a new period. Latter day type designers are cursorily treated courtesy of a second edition (which you're looking at here), so for that end of the spectrum you'll have to look elsewhere (the book has not yet been written), but it does at least provide a good overview of the major figures of the end of the metal type era.
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The Art of the Book in the Twentieth Century
Jerry Kelly
Manufacturer: Mark Batty Publisher
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ASIN: 0971568758 |
Book Description
The design of books today we enjoy today was fundamentally influenced by a handful of preeminent designers who were active during the 20th century. This book provides an entertaining and informative overview of eleven key designers - D.B. Updike, Jan Tschichold, Bruce Rogers, Stanley Morrson, Hermann Zapf, Jan Van Krimpen, Francis Meynell, Gotthard de Beauclair, Max Caflish, Joseph Blumenthal, and Giovanni Mardersteig - and explores their influence on one another. The lively text provides biographical overviews and information about the designer's work, as well as an assessment of the elements that they created that have gone into producing what we now see as a "well-designed book." There are over 110 pages of visually stunning examples of their work featured in this book. A must have book for any book designer and book lovers alike!
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Things you want to know about breeding.............2005-01-02
The PROPER CARE OF BUDGIES is a thick (250+pp), hardcover book that covers all the basics of pet care and a good deal about breeding parakeets or Budgerigars. In a section on cages and aviaries, Author Dennis Kelsey Wood has included many designs for outdoor aviaries and nest boxes, as well as commercial cages. He covers breeding considerations and genetics in another section. This is not the best book to give your child for reading about his new pet Budgie, although it does include numerous photographs of featherless baby chicks that may be of interest to the curious child.
Most of the photographs are interesting and most of the text reflects good common sense. For example, how many folks need to be told to "make sure your cage is large enough to accommodate your Budgies favorite toys"? On the other hand, most of us will never "show" our Budgies at an exhibition either. Two short chapters in the back of the book "The Pet Budgerigar" and "Maintaining Health" cover what most of us want to know. If your keeping Budgies as pets, you will do better to buy The Owner's Guide to THE BUDGIE, by Julie Rach.
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Everyone in the stamp world has come to rely on The Official Blackbook Price Guide to U.S. Postage Stamps. It lists U.S. stamp issues from 1847 to the present, and features the highly efficient Scott numbering system--the most widely accepted stamp cataloging system in use today. It includes more than 20,000 current prices for mint sheets, first-day covers, airmail, rarities, topical, and error stamps, plus a beautiful 96-page color insert detailing hundreds of stamps.
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Blackbook in Black & White.......2003-02-01
The Offical Blackbbok Price Guide to United States Postage Stamps is official - in title only. Referencing the Scott Catalogues or checking with a stamp apprasier is the best way to get an idea of the value of a postage stamp. (Many of the Scott Catalogues are available in paperback and on CD-ROM.) Also the Blackbook has a limited number of colored pages - the front and back cover only. All other pages are in black & white. If you can afford it - go with the Scott Catalogues. For a wonderful, relatively inexpensive color guide to United States Postage Stamps, I highly recommend The Postal Service Guide to U.S. Stamps or the Scott U.S. Pocket Stamp Catalogue. Forget the Blackbook - it's over marketed.
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Just What the Title Says.......2000-04-19
This 112-page papercover book is ideal for farmers, extension educators, soil conservationists, and crop advisors. Areas covered include the contribution of earthworms to good soil tilth, practical identification of common genera and species, biology of earthworms, earthworm habitat under various cultural practices, how to increase earthworm populations on the farm, effects of 193 agricultural chemicals on earthworms and a question and answer section. The author presents research findings from scientists as well as anecdotal data from farmers and others 'in the know'. An easy read, this book is a great place to start learning about earthworms under agricultural conditions. Many, many authorities and other contacts are listed in the back of the book. If you want to decrease run-off, lower your fertilizer bill, reduce erosion and make more money on your farm or for your grower clients, this book is the place to start.
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Encyclopaedia of Islam: Glossary and Index of Terms to Volumes I-IX and to the Supplement, Fascicules 1-6 (Encyclopaedia of Islam New Edition Glossary and Index)
Manufacturer: Brill Academic Publishers
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Binding: Paperback
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ASIN: 9004116354 |
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Jawole Willa Jo Zollar and Chandralekha are major choreographers of the 20th century whose work will leave the dance field with a legacy as important and strong as that of Martha Graham and Doris Humphrey. Zollar is Artistic Director of the world-renowned company, The Urban Bush Women (based in New York City), and Chandralekha is an Indian choreographer (based in Madras) who has performed internationally and is known for her radical mixing of postmodern and traditional dance forms. In this nuanced and in-depth study, dance scholar Ananya Chatterjea shows how each of these choreographers has positioned herself through performance in terms of gender, race, and nationality. Reading each dancer's major works in order to assess their unique contributions to the development of global culture, Butting Out does important theoretical work to identify common threads in the history of cultural production and the aesthetic philosophies of the artists. Chatterjea draws on theory from an array of complementary fields, including women's studies, African-American studies, and postcolonial studies. The book is beautifully enhanced by 42 black and white photographs.
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The first major study of two significant female dancers.......2005-02-09
Dance professor Ananya Chatterjea presents Butting Out: Reading Resistive Choreographies Through Works by Jawole Willa Jo Zollar and Chandralekha, the first major study of two significant contemporary female dancers and choreographers of the 20th century. Jawole Willa Jo Zollar is the Artistic Director for the world-renowned company The Urban Bush Women, based in New York City, and Chandralekha an East Indian choreographer based in Madras and is especially known for blending postmodern and traditional forms of dance. Both women's contributions to global culture are closely scrutinized with regard to choreographic, aesthetic, and women's studies perspectives. Sparse black-and-white photographs illustrate this scholarly and welcome addition to dance studies shelves.
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Joe Louis: American Folk Hero
William H., Jr. Wiggins
Manufacturer: Phi Delta Kappa Intl Inc
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ASIN: 0873674510 |
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Throughout his phenomenal boxing career, Joe Louis exemplified the values of hard work, honesty, and patriotism. For middle grades and up, this small book captures the qualities that made Joe Louis a folk hero one to whom all students can look as a role model.
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