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Take Care!: Poisonous Australian Animals
Struan Sutherland , and
Susie Kennewell
Manufacturer: Hyland House Publishing
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Guide to the poisonous animals of Australia.
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Full of insider information, this is the book that official tour guides in Turkey rely on. The most visited areas along the Aegean and Mediterranean coastlines are covered in extensive detail. This highly acclaimed Blue Guide also provides more information on central and eastern Turkey than any other guide and unrivaled coverage of Turkey's wonderful artistic heritage. 35 illustrations, 75 maps and plans.
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Very Specialized.......2006-06-28
The "Blue Guide" is not a guidebook in the "Eat at Dogan's, sleep at Mustafa's" sense, although a bit of that (dated) information is featured. Rather, it is an exhaustive compilation of data regarding the historical sites of Turkey, usually with accompanying maps. On our last trip, we carried it and the Lonely Planet guide, and found that the LP guide was, as you'd expect, more useful for travel logistics, but was surprisingly also about as good for site information. This is because the Blue Guide's descriptions are often taken verbatim from official tourist information that's generally provided free at the sites. As a result of our experience, I'd go with just the LP another time.
If you're going to Istanbul, however, be aware that the Blue Guide to Istanbul is outstanding. It has excellent walking tours that make every step through the Old Town meaningful, and excellent maps as well.
The Blue Guide to Turkey makes a good read at home to plan before you go, and is a good reference when you return, but I wouldn't pack it along again if I had access to the Lonely Planet Guide.
A good guide book.......2004-07-28
After spending a month of traveling through Turkey visiting archaeological sites, ruins and museums, I found this book to be helpful since there was little I knew of the specifics of the history of the sites to which I was visiting. And yet, some of the more specialist historians and classicists with whom I was traveling found many, many errors in the book.
Basically, if you are looking for a wealth of information on the archaeological and historical aspects of Turkey this is the book for you. However, be careful as you read and do a little extra work if you are using it for research. It is a guide book after all and excels at that purpose.
Recommended for the typical visitor to Turkey.
Not for every traveler to Turkey....but.......2003-03-03
We returned in Feb 2003 after 3 months of independent travel in Turkey. We were there mostly to visit archeological sites and ruins, and we traveled with several other books. Nothing, however approached the exhaustive, invaluable and often overwhelming information that the Blue Guide provided us with.
There are many guidebooks that provide basic information on accomodations/restaurants/etc in TK for the casual tourist who will primarily be visiting Ephesus and the other major sites on the Aegean Coast of Turkey. There any book will do, and if you are traveling with a TK licensed guide this is one of the books that they will have had to master in the grueling University program that allows them to become licensed tour guides.
But if your interest in Asia Minor takes you even slightly off the well-trodden path, the Blue Guide is indispensible. I can't imagine understanding places like Boðazkale,Seleucia, Letoön, Xanthos,Iassos,Miletus, Stranoniceia without either this book or a licensed guide.
There is often little in the way of informational signage at the important yet lesser visited sites, and compared to other countries ,there is little published information available in book form at the sites other than glossy tourist-photo books.
I can not recommend the Blue Guide too highly to the specialist visitor to Turkeys rich archeological past.
Travel Guides Don't Get Any Better Than This.......2001-04-02
The first thing to understand about Blue Guides is: they're not for everyone. In particular, they aren't for people who only want to have to take along a single guidebook when they travel. Although in recent years the series has begun to include some fairly sketchy data about hotels and restaurants, information about where to stay, eat or shop has never been the raison d'etre of this series. Rather, the purpose of the Blue Guides has always been to provide accurate and astonishingly comprehensive information about the history, architecture, art history, and literary associations of the countries or regions each guide covers. For those purposes, the Blue Guide has no peer. (The series has also always been distinguished by the abundance and excellence of its maps, city plans, and museum floor plans.) If you want to travel, miss nothing of any interest or significance, and come back with your mind much enriched and primed for further reading and exploration, then you're one of the people Blue Guides are written for.
Traditionally, Blue Guides were known for being authoritative and reliable, but the writing was typically understated and restrained. That began to change a few years ago, and now -- just as with the New York Times -- Blue Guide authors no longer shy away from writing marked by local color, word pictures, and individuality. At the same time, the series retains its old virtues of exhaustive research, accuracy, and comprehensiveness.
Bernard McDonagh, the author of the Blue Guide: Turkey, is the Michelangelo of the new model Blue Guides. He began by authoring a volume for the series on Turkey's Aegean and Mediterranean coasts, which was widely acclaimed, and then expanded it to cover (almost) the entire country a few years later. I say "almost" because this volume covers Istanbul only in summary fashion, since there is another Blue Guide volume (by the estimable John Freely) that covers that great metropolis in microscopic detail.
The Blue Guide: Turkey's comprehensiveness immediately distinguishes it from the competition. The coverage of the best-known sites like Troy, Ephesus, or Aphrodisias, of course, is superb: Ephesus merits 22 pages, along with one full-page and another two-page plan of the site and its environs, and Aphrodisias gets 10 pages. But lesser-known sites like Assos, Priene, and many others that might receive a paragraph in most guidebooks are also covered in detail, usually with an excellent plan. Indeed, the book includes no less than 45 site plans of archaeological sites, including such relatively obscure ones as Nysa, Labraynda, Limyra, Sillyum, Sura, and Uzuncaburc.
For years, the secret behind the Blue Guide's comprehensiveness was its authors' willingness to mine obscure archaeological excavation reports and 18th and 19th century traveler's accounts for nuggets of information that would have escaped the less diligent. McDonagh lifts the veil on this technique, often quoting at length from the impressions of visitors from centuries past. And these are anything but tedious: for example, we have Lord Byron's observation that "The Troad is a fine field for conjecture and snipe-shooting, and a good sportsman and an ingenious scholar may exercise their feet and their faculties upon the spot . . . .", or Pliny's report that the tombs in the necropolis at Assos were made from stone containing "a caustic substance which consumed the flesh of bodies placed in them within 40 days," or the 18th century antiquarian Richard Chandler's recollections of sharing quarters with a Greek family in a sepulcher located amidst the ruins of Iasus.
The great delight and ornament of this volume are McDonagh's reflections and word pictures, which grace the text the way similes grace the Iliad. A sampling follows.
"In summer the view from the temple [of Athena at Assos] is one of the most beautiful in W Turkey. Across the calm waters of the Bay of Edremit, Lesbos, homeland of the first settlers ion Assos, is clothed in purple haze. Far below lies the little harbour, from which St. Paul sailed on his missionary journeys, while on terraces cut into the steep slope of the hill the ruins of the ancient city protrude like sun-dried bones through the maquis."
"Miletus is not one of the most attractive sites in SW Turkey. During late autumn, winter, and early spring much of the area is an unpleasant morass. In summer this becomes a drab brown wilderness covered with thorny scrub. A sense of profound melancholy broods over the ancient city, a feeling of abandonment and decay that is accentuated by a monotonous landscape little relieved by the occasional tall clump of reeds or the jagged stump of a ruined building."
"The dervishes no longer dance in the semahane. The sema is now held in a high school gymnasium in another part of Konya. Presented as an exhibition of folklore, for some it is nothing more. However, others find it a moving religious experience. The dervishes who take part in the sema today live in the world. They are bus mechanics, teachers, schoolboys. They are no longer obliged to submit to the extended novitiate and strict discipline of the past. Yet, when they dance, the air becomes charged with a feeling of great spirituality and the spectators forget the bleak setting in which the sema is being held, are no longer conscious of the icy temperature and discomfort of the unheated arena." "The attraction of Ulucinar lies more in its delightful situation and relaxed atmosphere than its historical associations. To stand on the bridge over the small river and watch the fishermen land their catch, to swim from the clean beach of the Arsuz Hotel, to enjoy an excellent meal on the terrace within a few metres of the sea, these must be sufficient reward for even the most demanding traveller."
Whether you're a first-time visitor to Turkey or a veteran -- or even an armchair traveller -- you could hope for no better companion and guide than Bernard McDonagh.
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The Fieldston Guide to American History for Cynical Beginners: Impractical Lessons for Everyday Life
Jim Cullen
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Are You a Cynical Beginner?
You may not have a Ph.D. in history, but you already know -- or can readily believe -- that Columbus didn't exactly "discover" America. Or that the man who wrote the Declaration of Independence was a slaveholder. Or that our leaders may not be entirely committed to the effort to make sure that in fact no child is left behind.
But the truth of individual lives can be more compelling than they initially appear: surprising, informative, and maybe even inspiring. This book explores a few such lives, and the lessons they offer in ways that might actually mean something outside a classroom.
These biographical case studies -- which include General George Washington, who was once invited to lead a military coup against the new American government; Ida Wells, who responded to lynchings by publicly mocking the manhood of those who murdered African Americans; and Eugene Debs, who chose to go to jail to protect free speech -- explore a series of questions. How does one keep true to one's principles in the face of social pressure? What strategies work best in addressing your opponents? Can public acts atone for private flaws?
In different ways, the profiles in courage here provide answers to these questions -- not definitive answers, but real ones. You can weigh them, accept them, reject them, or -- who knows? -- maybe even apply them. You may not end up any less cynical after leafing through this book. But you will be less of a beginner.
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Victorian Gift Labels: 22 Pressure-Sensitive Designs (Press-On Labels--Large-Format)
Manufacturer: Dover Publications
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Decorative motifs, selected from authentic Victorian artwork, display timeless beauty of delicate floral and foliate designs. Perfect for use on gift packages, as bookplates and for identifying assorted containers, the labels come in 6 different designs and in varied sizes, with ample space for a name and brief message. 4 plates.
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The perfect gift for anyone grieving the loss of a pet, Goodbye, My Friend expresses in touching images, comforting words, and heartfelt songs the sympathy shared during a time of grief. People love their pets and grieve their loss as much as they do human friends. This beautifully illustrated four-color book and CD with four original songs shares words of comfort and understanding.
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"Poignant keepsake for the grief stricken pet owner.".......2007-03-19
"Poignant keepsake for the grief stricken pet owner.The Author of My Angels Wear Fur has written another book that is impossible to put down."
Amazing. Incredibly helpful. A wonderful resource........2007-02-04
This was the only thing that helped me heal after the death of my sweet cat, Smudgie. I was in SUCH pain until I bought this book, just on a whim. I read it one night, and didn't really imagine it would be as helpful as it was. The next morning, it was the first morning I felt I could get out of bed. I've bought about 40 copies since to have on hand to give to people who are suffering from the loss of a precious pet. It's so painful and nobody seems to understand. I've had people react as though I'd gotten a flat tire, or something. The authors of this wonderful book clearly understand.
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BEAUTIFUL.......2002-08-08
For a book with only 31 pages to say volumes is an understatement. Written with compassion, Love, and Tenderness. It will help any animal lover through the grieving process of a loosing a friend.
Short, But Sweet.......2001-08-21
This little book is only 31 pages in length, but it packs a lot of support and understanding within it's pages. Beautiful pencil-drawn illustrations accompany each "chapter". The authors have included brief stories from others as a spring-board into understanding the different phases all grieving pet owners go through.
One bit of comfort addresses the feeling a pet owner may have about being a "bad owner" for not preventing their pet's death.(As in an accident.) I'm quoting...."Although your thoughts may be filled with regrets, in your heart you know that you would never have intentionally harmed your pet. Once you acknowledge that-once you really embrace that fact-you can begin to forgive yourself. When you are forgiving with yourself, your guilt will lessen and your grief will begin to heal."
If you are looking for solace in a nutshell, or want to give a gift of understanding to someone who is hurting, this is a wonderful choice.
This book is one that fills a real need for pet owners........1998-10-25
I am so thankful that this book is available. When my dog Shasha became terminally ill with cancer and had to be put to sleep, the vet suggested this book to me. It was through my tears that I read the book and it was through the pages of the book that I was able to come to grips with my loss. As all pet lovers know, our pets are as valuable and important to us as any other family member. The writers have performed a great public service by making this book available. I thank you Herb and Mary for helping me when I needed it. I shall save the book and pass it on to anyone who may find themselves in need of it.
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Goodbye, My Friends
Miriam L. Elias
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Goodbye My Friend
Lauri A. Hall
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Marissa Jones and Keith Reynolds have been the best of friends since preschool. This best friend duo are crazy about each other, even more than they may admit. Anyone and everyone in their small hometown can see that those two belong together. Before graduation Keith expresses his feelings for Marissa. Marissa is delighted that her best friend is now her boyfriend.However, advancing this friendship to love is not an easy task. A friendship that once had been so easy now seems impossibleespecially with the instant success of Keith who has moved to LA to try his hand in acting. Keith has always depended on Marissa's support. However, he is sorely disappointed when Marissa's support has seemed to disappear. Marissa and Keith will face obstacles that seem bigger than life with Keith's instant success. The boy that Marissa once knew like the back of her hand now seems to be different as he is lost to the success of riches and fame.
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Goodbye My Good Friend: Memories of Lost Animal Companions & Loved Ones
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Compiled by a Veterinarian. Youth especially have a difficult time with the loss of a beloved animal companion. Because often times it is their first exposure to death, or the animal is their very first best friend. Grief over the loss of a beloved animal companion can be devastating and isolating. Many times society doesn't recognize or accept the depth of grief that children experience. Goodbye my good friend. Goodbye til we meet again. Goodbye is so hard to say. After the uncontrollable tears of sadness, we begin to heal, sometimes very slowly. Gradually, as we begin to heal, we remember our lost loved one with mixed emotions of grief and joy. And often times, without the slightest warning, we feel a delicate tear on our cheek. A fragile tear created mostly by love. May these stories and poems provide comfort and guidance to youth that have lost a beloved animal companion. Stories and poems by adults and children, 27 drawings of their pets.
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This digital document is an article from Epoca, published by Difusora de Informacion Periodica, S.A. (DINPESA) on June 28, 1999. The length of the article is 1044 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: Adiós, amigos.(Miguel Hernandez, escritor)(TT: Goodbye, my friends.)(TA: Miguel Hernández, writer)
Author: Jaime Campmany
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This digital document is an article from Girls' Life, published by Monarch Avalon, Inc. on October 1, 2004. The length of the article is 700 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: The goodbye guys: now that I have a BF, none of my guy friends wants to hang out with me anymore. Please help me figure out what is going on, and how to fix it.(Guys: Q&A)
Author: Bill
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This digital document is an article from Michigan Law Review, published by Michigan Law Review Association on August 1, 2004. The length of the article is 1984 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: Saying goodbye to a legend: a tribute to Yale Kamisar - my mentor, teacher, and friend.(Testimonial)
Author: Eve L. Brensike
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. . . a detailed guide through the world of postcards........1998-01-30
I have enjoyed reading this wonderful book from cover to cover and refer to it often! This well organized book takes the reader through the history of postcards; provides valuable suggestions for beginning collectors; instructions for preservation, restoration, & framing; includes background information on artists A to Z; artfully displays 1100+ common to rare postcards; and includes a price guide, a glossary, and an extensive bibliography.
Susan Brown Nicholson's, "The Encyclopedia Of Antique Postcards" is a ~must have~ reference tool for all postcard collectors!
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“Well-illustrated.”—Atlanta Journal Constitution. “All clearly and simply explained and well photographed.”—Library Journal. “Makes it possible for nearly everyone to grow aquatic plants...instructions are clear and easy to follow...readers ready to create their first water feature will appreciate the...down-to-earth approach to potentially challenging topic.”—Country Living Gardener.
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Many pretty pictures and neat ideas, but not enough info.......2001-05-06
This book is well illustrated and is a great "idea book" for people who want to see the many types of container water garden possibilities. There are also several useful tips that make the book worthwhile. Contents are: 1. Basics, 2. Tub gardens, 3. Dish and indoor gardens, 4. Hanging baskets, 5. Planters & window boxes, 6. Creative containers, 7. Patio ponds, 8. Fountains, statuary & wall containers, 9. Paludariums (semi-aquatic glass tank gardens that can house plants & pets), 10. Lotus, 11. Carnivorous plants. Who knew there were so many types of water container gardens? Several chapters have step-by-step pictures for setting up the containers and placing fixtures and plants.
However, the book is terribly deficient in detail - each chapter has about a brochure's worth of text. Although many pond books suggest that novices will find a container garden to be an easy first water project, there are some unique challenges - in particular: temperature control, selecting pumps & filters suitable for small containers, controlling quality of a small water volume, and choosing plants that are best for containers. I have several pond/general water gardening books, and I bought this book hoping for more info specific to container gardens.
The book is particularly deficient in information about the various plants. Unlike most water garden books, there is no section devoted to plant specifications and requirements (other than lotuses and carnivorous plants). In many of the photographs, the plants are not identified at all, and in some they are incorrectly identified. This severely limits the value of the book as a brainstorming tool. The book also does a very poor job of explaining the water quality and temperature problems that will arise if one attempts to add fish or other animals to the container. Finally, there is no climate zone related information, and there is no discussion whatsoever of what to do with these gardens in the winter.
Part of my disappointment with this book is that I bought the hardcover edition and paid too much for it (doh!). I think this book is worth it as an idea book, just realize that to create a container water garden of your own, this is by no means the only book you will need.
Nice but no detail........2000-06-15
This book illustrates nice ideas but falls short in details. Very basic.
Another plus for container gardening.......2000-03-22
I have a smaller suburban yard and every corner is utilized. Though envious of a friend with an in-ground pond and waterfall, I did not want to dig up exsisting shrubs and perennials to satisfy my yen for water. Since I already grow vegetables, herbs, ornamental grasses and perennials in containers, I thought why not a water garden. This book showed me what I could do with one of my empty oak barrels. I had a lovely mini pond with running water. I added 3 fish, water plants, and bought some toad tadpoles from a nearby garden centre. I liked it so much I'm going to do some smaller containers as well as a couple of glazed pots with water lilys. The only thing is to overwinter water plants you need a small indoor aquarium with grow lights, or a helpful friend with a pond. Enjoy and experiment! P.S. Although the toads might not be able to breed in my yard, for the rest of the summer the little toadlets were happily hopping around in my yard eating bugs.
Excellent water gardening ideas and examples!.......1999-05-05
I love this book! I have always been enamoured with ponds and water gardens, but thought I would have to own a home to have one. This book shows how to create the perfect container water garden for any size yard, patio, or even room. Great how-to's step by step. Gorgeous pictures. Great ideas. Thank you for such a beautiful, practical and affordable book!
I really enjoyed this book. I also enjoyed the color photos.......1999-04-21
I found this be book to be truly helpful as I'm a first time water gardener and I really enjoyed the fact that it had colored pictures.
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Die Alte Chinesische Religion Und Das Staatskultwesen (Asian Studies)
W. Eichhorn
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She and her dancers were gods as well as acrobats.......2006-01-20
Martha Graham did not want to call her dances representative of a particular technique. There should be "no school of movements" she said. But her dances have a signature, a collection of characteristics that distinguishes them from those of other choreographers. And her signature is the finest of the cursive writing of movement. Graham never scribbled: the swirls that her dances executed are Heraclitean kinetic proof of her exemplary penmanship. And for Graham, gravity is not to be defied but to be exploited: falls to the floor are not prohibited, but encouraged.
The ensemble of opinion, the "witnesses to the technique" by those who knew her, danced under her direction, or worked with her is expressed superbly in this book. There is a wide variation in these opinions, but universal agreement on the unique and superb quality of the dances of Martha Graham. Whether one calls it contraction and release, starkness of movement, twists in the torso, movement packed into the instant of action, great body swings, or spiraling around the spine, it is clear that the Graham technique requires discipline as well as the creation of things new. The dancer must depart from the patterns of the past as well as master them. The dancer must indulge herself in what is old and be refreshed in the excitement of originality.
It is remarkable but not at all surprising that Martha Graham lived as long as she did. Dancing extends life. All human cultures have some sort of dance. There are no exceptions. The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche could not believe in a god who did not dance. If he had seen the dances of Martha Graham, he no doubt would have imputed deity status to her and her dancers.
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Martha Graham: The Evolution of Her Dance Theory and Training, 1926-1991
Marian Horosko
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Ring Out Freedom!: The Voice of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement
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