Mammalian Auditory Pathway: NEUROANATOMY (Springer Handbook of Auditory Research)

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The Springer Handbook of Auditory Research presents a series of comprehensive and synthetic reviews of the fundamental topics in modern auditory research. It is aimed at all individuals with interests in hearing research including advanced graduate students, post-doctoral researchers, and clinical investigators. The volumes will introduce new investigators to important aspects of hearing science and help established investigators to better understand the fundamental theories and data in fields of hearing that they may not normally follow closely. Each volume is intended to present a particular topic comprehensively, and each chapter will serve as a synthetic overview and guide to the literature. As such, the chapters present neither exhaustive data reviews nor original research that has not appeared in peer-reviewed journals. The series focuses on topics that have developed a solid data and conceptual foundation rather than on those for which a literature is only beginning to develop. New research areas will be covered on a timely basis in the series as they begin to mature. Each volume in the series consists of five to eight substantial chapters on a particular topic. In some cases the topics will be ones of traditional interest for which there is a solid body of data and theory, such as auditory neuroanatomy (Vol. 1) and neurophysiology (Vol. 2).

Mammalian Auditory Pathway (Springer Handbook of Auditory Research)

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Mammalian Auditory Pathway (Springer Handbook of Auditory Research)

Manufacturer: Springer-Verlag
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Costa Rica is one of Central America''s most enticing destinations. The Rough Guide Map to Costa Rica and Panama combines clear modern mapping and bang-up-to-date research and is an essential companion to anyone travelling around the two countries by public or private transport. The Rough Guide Map provides invaluable infomation for those exploring the country, from remote Caribbean beaches to unspoilt cloudforests, with detail on everything from road numbers and petrol station locations to national parks and railway lines.

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There are better maps.......2006-04-14

I just returned from Panama last week. I had bought this map to use on a two week trip across most of the country. It is a very pretty map and I like the laminated paper, but it lacks sufficient detail to be useful. It does not have some major routes such as the most used road between Boquete and Al Mirante. It also lacks a blow up of Panama City. The other map (from a Canadian publisher ITMB) is FAR better despite the low reviews it seems to have gotten.

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Norman Rockwell and Andy Warhol, J. C. Leyendecker and Georgia O'Keeffe, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Pepsi-Cola, the avant garde and the Famous Artists Schools, Inc.: these are some of the unexpected pairings encountered in Artists, Advertising, and the Borders of Art. In the first interdisciplinary study of the imagery and practices of commercial artists, Michele H. Bogart explores, in unprecedented detail, the world of commercial art—its illustrators, publishers, art directors, photographers, and painters. She maps out the long, permeable border between art and commerce and expands our picture of artistic culture in the twentieth century.

From the turn of the century through the 1950s, the explosive growth of popular magazines and national advertising offered artists new sources of income and new opportunities for reaching huge audiences. Bogart shows how, at the same time, this change in the marketplace also forced a rethinking of the purpose of the artistic enterprise itself. She examines how illustrators such as Howard Pyle, Charles Dana Gibson, and Norman Rockwell claimed their identities as artists within a market-oriented framework. She looks at billboard production and the growing schism between "art" posters and billboard advertisements; at the new roles of the art director; at the emergence of photography as the dominant advertising medium; and at the success of painters in producing "fine art" for advertising during the 1930s and 1940s.

Artists, Advertising & The Borders Of Art

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Artists, Advertising & The Borders Of Art
Michele Bogart
Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OOST0U

Artists, Advertising, and the Borders of Art

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Artists, Advertising, and the Borders of Art
Michele H. Bogart
Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OOUONU

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Poodle: A Comprehensive Guide to Owning and Caring for Your Dog (Kennel Club Dog Breed Series)

Poodle: A Comprehensive Guide to Owning and Caring for Your Dog (Kennel Club Dog Breed Series)
S. Meyer Clark
Manufacturer: Kennel Club Books
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1593782438

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The Poodle shines as the superlative of the dog world: he is the most glamorous, the most intelligent, the most affectionate and the most popular dog in the world. From the breed's origin in Europe as an athletic hunter of waterfowl to its modern-day reign as the premier show dog, prized home companion and talented performance dog, the story of the Poodle illuminates a dog who excels in countless arenas and endeavors. This book provides the much-needed factual information about the three Poodle varieties—Standard, Miniature and Toy—and their ancestry, character and standard as well as puppy selection, feeding, housebreaking, training, preventative health care and behavior of the breed.

In addition to an authoritative, comprehensive text, this book presents over 135 photographs in full color, which prove to be as informative as they are attractive. Helpful hints and important information are highlighted to provide easy access to everything the reader needs to know about life with a Poodle from puppyhood to the senior years.

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Poodle: A Comprehensive Guide to Owning and Caring for Your Dog (Kennel Club Dog Breed Series).......2007-03-18

I am not familiar with poodles and care involved, but this book gives lots of practical and useful information about all the things you would need to know about this breed of dog.

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The book not to buy about training & grooming your poodle

The Guide to Owning a Poodle (Re Dog)
Pierre Dib
Manufacturer: TFH Publications
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 079381863X

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Good, but not comphrensive poodle bood.......2005-10-18

The book is a good beginning for someone completely unfamiliar with poodles but not for the serious poodle raiser.

The book not to buy about training & grooming your poodle.......1999-10-19

Mr Dib likes to take picture so if you want to look at pictures of poodles - get this book. If you would like to know how to train your poodle - get another book. Mr. Dib's recomendation to you on training is to take your dog to a professional trainer or to sign up for obedience school with your poodle. The pictures are nice tho.

Manual practico del caniche/ Guide to Owning a Poodle

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Manual practico del caniche/ Guide to Owning a Poodle
Pierre Dib
Manufacturer: Hispanoeuropea
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Guide to Owning a Poodle

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Guide to Owning a Poodle

Manufacturer: Tandem Library
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Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: 1417657359

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This book discusses the decoration types of Sephardic illuminated Bibles. Unlike illuminated Passover manuscripts from the same period with their rich figurative and narrative picture cycles, Bibles are almost exclusively aniconic. Whereas the former borrow heavily from Christian art, the Bibles are entirely indebted to Islamic culture. The volume elaborates in particular on the cultural history of the decorative motifs and types of ornamentation in an era of cultural transition in Iberia and culture struggle within Spanish Jewry. The first two chapters describe the cultural, social and artistic background in which the Bibles were produced, whereas the other chapters describe the works of the different schools and discuss them within different cultural, historical and social contexts.

The text is accompanied by 10 color plates and 141 black-and-white figures.

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Professional entomologist and amateur gardener Eric Grissell suggests that it might be time to declare a truce with the insects in our lives. With a sound basis in science and a practical grounding in gardening experience, Grissell introduces the reader to the role of insects in garden ecology. His insightful account of insect biology is supported by gorgeous photographs, which reveal a captivating beauty and illustrate the vital interdependence between insects and plants. Now available in paperback, this book will be loved by anyone seeking a greater appreciation and understanding of these often-maligned garden visitors.

In this intriguing book, professional entomologist and amateur gardener Grissell suggests that it might be time to declare a truce with the insects in our lives. With a sound basis in science and a practical grounding in gardening experience, Grissell seeks to introduce the reader to insect biology and the role of insects in garden ecology. He describes the various orders of insects the gardener is likely to encounter, and writes knowledgeably about how insects grow, feed, and reproduce. Unlike other insect-related books for gardeners, this is not a handbook on how to recognize and eliminate "pests." Instead, Insects and Gardens casts a more appreciative eye on the doings of the class Insecta and seeks to find a middle ground in which both human-kind and insectkind can share the garden to mutual benefit. Carll Goodpasture's remarkable color photographs reveal the captivating beauty and vital energy that insects bring to the garden. Even the most "bug-hating" gardener cannot fail to be moved by a gulf-fritillary sipping nectar on a passion flower or a colorful scorpionfly camouflaged on a leaf.

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Insects and Gardens: In Pursuit of a Garden Ecology.......2007-01-04

I recommend this book often on my online gardening group. It is a valuable resource for all gardeners not just for the information, crash course, if you will, on entymology, but also for the author's own personal advice on gardening near the end of the book. The book goes through each group of insects one by one explaining all about them very well. He explains why spraying for insects is a bad idea whether you are spraying chemical, or organic spray formulas. That goes against most current teaching, but in applying it in my own gardens I found to be incredible for its truthfulness. He explains why spraying once creates a cycle of forever spraying the garden because it kills off the predator insects that would otherwise kill the bad insects, and drives away other creatures that would do the job for you....that it is better to create a balance to do the job and how to do that. It is a book you may well refer to often in your gardening experience no matter whether you follow his advice on spraying, or not.

A must read for every gardener.......2005-11-04

Even if you are a casual gardener and not building a wildlife habitat you should read this book. The first half is a basic Entymology 101 for the gardener with the second half covering practical application. Every gardener should have an understanding of what is happening out there. It should be on every gardeners 'essentials' list. And on top of all of the great information in this book it also is interesting enough to hold your attention.

Must read for the serious gardener.......2003-10-06

Experienced gardeners are used to the idea that it's impossible (and not the least bit desirable) to have an insect-free garden. The main message of Eric Grissell's book is that a good garden teams with insect life, and that's how it should be.

This is decidedly not a book about how to deal with insect pests. In fact, the author urges us to stop thinking of insects only as enemies to be battled. "Plants and insects have interacted for hundreds of millions of years. Why should we gardeners feel compelled to change this situation in an hour or an afternoon?" he asks.

Grissell's aim is to show gardeners another way. Create a garden filled with variety, he urges. As you might guess, the ordinary yard with its swath of lawn, sprinkling of annuals, evergreen foundation shrubs and tree or two doesn't cut it when it comes to diversity. Instead, he suggests planting as many different plants as you can, and creating a variety of habitats; for example, adding water to the garden creates a new habitat that almost instantly attracts all sorts of life from frogs, toads to dragonflies and birds. If we gardeners achieve diversity, Grissell concludes, "We will have so many plants to think about that no plant will become sacred. And then we will be free of the garden and free to garden."

Stewardship of our gardens.......2002-06-16

I found the ideas in this book to be very exciting and the author to have a great sense of humor. I have a Backyard Wildlife Habitat, but I hadn't given enough thought to the role of insects in my garden. After reading this book, I am looking at my garden with new eyes. The author has provided some very good reasons for gardening the way I tend to do anyway - pack it with as many different plants as possible, leave it a little messy, and don't use pesticides. It's very nice to have this approach validated and especially to know why it seems to work! Now I just have to get an insect identification book ...

Award winning book.......2002-05-14

Insects and Gardens is a double award winning book. It received two of the "Top 10" 2002 Garden Globe Awards presented by the Garden Writers Association of America -- one for Best Book and one for Best Writer, and comes highly recommend by the people who write about gardening. Author Eric Grissell, who is a research entomologist with the USDA, received Best Writing for his clear and concise look at the life of insects and how they "work" to our benefit in our gardens. Publisher Timber Press received the Best Book for an outstanding gardening book overall. Only five individuals and five companies were selected out of a field of more than 300 entries to receive a 2002 Garden Globe Award. The book was selected by a panel of garden communication experts - some Pulitzer Prize winners themselves -- who look for the best books, magazines, writers and photographers in the country. The book was evaluated on accuracy of information, ability to communicate, content, organization, style and originality. If you are interested in the relationships of insects to gardens, to each other and to humans, and how they benefit your garden, this is a must have in your library...

Insects and Gardens: In Pursuit of a Garden Ecology

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Insects and Gardens: In Pursuit of a Garden Ecology
Eric Grissell
Manufacturer: Timber Press, Incorporated
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This digital document is an article from Renaissance Quarterly, published by Thomson Gale on March 22, 2004. The length of the article is 900 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: Aristotle's Ethics in the Italian Renaissance (ca. 1300-1650): The Universities and the Problem of Moral Education.(Reviews)(Book Review)
Author: Paul F. Grendler
Publication: Renaissance Quarterly (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 22, 2004
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 57 Issue: 1 Page: 165(2)

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Der Aristoteles des Herzogs von Atri: Die nikomachische Ethik in einer Prachthandschrift der Renaissance : Codex phil. gr. 4 aus dem Besitz der Osterreichischen Nationalbibliothek in Wien

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Der Aristoteles des Herzogs von Atri: Die nikomachische Ethik in einer Prachthandschrift der Renaissance : Codex phil. gr. 4 aus dem Besitz der Osterreichischen Nationalbibliothek in Wien
Otto Mazal
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Covering today's most important modern, ballet, contemporary and post-modern choreographers in Europe and North America, this unique guide is a valuable quick reference for students and critics, dancers and general readers in love with dance.

Each entry includes a biographical section, a chronological list of works, a detailed bibliography and a critical essay. In entries on choreographers such as Richard Alston, Pina Bausch, Laurie Booth, Christopher Bruce, Jonathan Burrows, Michael Clarke, Merce Cunningham, Anna Theresa De Keersmaeker, Eiko and Koma, William Forsythe,Jiri Kylain, Mark Morris, Twyla Tharp and other leading figures, readers can easily locate each choreographer's style and influence within the development of contemporary theatre dance, and swiftly discern the essential facts in his or her career.

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Archeological survey of the Lower Salt and Plum Creek Valley, Leavenworth County, Kansas (Kansas State Historical Society. Anthropological series)

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Archeological survey of the Lower Salt and Plum Creek Valley, Leavenworth County, Kansas (Kansas State Historical Society. Anthropological series)
Thomas A Witty
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Wagner's [sic] of Rural Valley: Plum Creek & Cowanshannock, Townships, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania

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Wagner's [sic] of Rural Valley: Plum Creek & Cowanshannock, Townships, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania
Margaret G. Wagner Rettig
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