Book Description
When the first field study of the Florida panther took place in 1973, so little was known about the animal that many scientists believed it was already extinct. During more extensive research conducted from 1981 to 1986, panthers were proven to exist, but the handful of senile, anemic, and parasite-infested specimens that were captured indicated a grim future. During those early years a remarkably enduring image of the panther was born, and despite voluminous data gathered over the next decade that showed the panther to be healthy, long-lived, and reproducing, that earlier image has yet to be dispelled.
For nine years, biologist David S. Maehr served as project leader of the Florida Panther Study Project, helping to gather much of the later, surprisingly positive data. In The Florida Panther , he presents the first detailed portrait of the animal-its biology, natural history, and current status-and a realistic assessment of its prospects for survival.
Maehr also provides an intriguing look at the life and work of a field biologist: how captures are made, the intricacies of radio-telemetry tracking, the roles of various team members. He describes the devastating intrusion of politics into scientific work, as he discusses the widespread problems caused by the failure of remote and ill-informed managers to provide needed support and to communicate effectively to the public the goals and accomplishments of the scientists. He examines controversial efforts to establish a captive breeding program and to manipulate the Florida panther's genetic stock with the introduction of relatives from west Texas.
Protection of high-quality habitat, much of it in the hands of private landowners, is the key to the long-term survival of the Florida panther. Unless agency decision makers and the public are aware of the panther's true situation, little can be done to save it. This book will play a vital role in correcting widespread misconceptions about the panther's current condition and threats to its survival.
Customer Reviews:
excellant.......2005-05-26
Not really a scientific essay in my opinion, but a labor of love. A good read and something that will let you feel and fear for the future of this beautiful animal. Hats off to Mr. Maehr for taking the effort to relate his experiences... one of my favorite nature "books".... long live the panther
This book is a must for any amature wild life enthusiast.......1999-11-17
Dear readers,
Today morning before leaving for work i happen to watch National geographic channel wherein there was one hour programe on Florida panther. It's survival seems to be highly endangered due to the fact that their genetic poll being limited and in-breeding among the cats inevitable it gives a very tragic case of survival. I being an avid wildlife enthsiast from India hope that American people will defenitely do something for the survival of Florida panther.
Thanks
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- It was a educatinoal book for MANATEE loversof all ages.
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The Vanishing Manatee
Margaret Goff Clark
Manufacturer: Dutton Juvenile
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
 Zoology
| Science, Nature & How It Works
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| Ages 9-12
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ASIN: 0525650245 |
Customer Reviews:
It was a educatinoal book for MANATEE loversof all ages........1998-06-22
This book is a very good book indeed.I have learned a lot more about manatees then I've learned about anything else in school.I haved loved manatees sence I was about 4 years old. To me manatees should be noticed more.
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- A great contribution from a great artist
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Florida's Vanishing Wildlife
Manufacturer: HarperCollins Publishers
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
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ASIN: 0820011010 |
Book Description
This is a coloring book with an environmental message. All of the Florida critters pictured here are endangered, threatened, or "of special concern." The drawings are wonderful and the text tells kids things they can do themselves to help protect Florida's wildlife.
Customer Reviews:
A great contribution from a great artist.......2006-09-17
Peter Bramley left us with this inspired contribution to the preservation of vanishing Florida wildlife. I have used this book in elementary and middle school classrooms as a teaching tool. The students love it, and Pete, who was a personal friend of mine until his passing, had a body of original artwork dedicated to the beauty of Florida wildlife. In this coloring book he shares it with us and passes along his simple appreciation of a vanishing age. Pete, wherever you are, your spirit lives on. I would recommend this coloring book for children of any age.
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Guide to Florida Vanishing Wildlife
Robert Anderson
Manufacturer: Winner Enterprises.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
Conservation
| Environment
| Outdoors & Nature
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ASIN: 0932855229 |
Book Description
Practical information on how to travel Tibet. Colour road maps for the entire region. Where to stay, eat and retreat. Nomadic grasslands, sandstone gorges, sacred mountains and arid plateaux.
Customer Reviews:
The most comprehensive and updated of all Tibet guidebooks.......2005-02-07
This book provides a more profound insight into Tibet for those interested in Tibetan culture, trekking and adventure travel, than the others that are on the market. It is the most comprehensive guide- uniquely including the vast eastern regions of Kham, Amdo and Gyarong, as well as Ngari and Utsang. The book avoids the traditional steriotypes of Tibet and includes much information directly translated from original Tibetan sources as well as data derived from more than 50 fieldwork expeditions and trips in Tibet. The author, Dr Gyurme Dorje, is a Tibetologist, who has been involved in Tibetan studies for over 30 years, and has authored several books on diverse aspects of Tibetan culture. His handbook has the advantage of being continuously updated.
An indispensable guidebook with great scope for improvement.......1999-11-25
Tibet Handbook with Bhutan, by Gyurme Dorje (Footprint Handbooks, Bath, England, 2nd edition 1999, 952pp plus maps).
The greatest strength of this book is that it is the only guidebook to give a substantial account of all parts of the Tibetan plateau, both inside and outside the so-called Tibetan Autonomous Region. For that reason it is, despite its conspicuous faults, indispensable for the traveller to Tibet whose itinerary extends beyond the familiar lands of central Tibet. The book is not to be confused with "Tibet Handbook" by Victor Chan.
"Tibet Handbook with Bhutan" is a guide to all Tibetan regions governed by the People's Republic of China, with additional chapters on Bhutan and the Kathmandu valley of Nepal. It would have been useful to include the Tibetan borderlands in Nepal and north-west India Ä although it is no doubt expedient politically to imply that no part of Tibet lies outside the territory China governs.
At 650 grams, the new edition (paperback) is almost twice the weight of the first, hardback, edition - a curious development for a travel guidebook.
The book includes useful background information about Tibetan religion, iconography and history. The bulk of the book deals with the regions of the Tibetan plateau by devoting a section to each one of the 158 counties into which the People's Republic of China divides it. This approach turns out to be surprisingly intelligible.
There is extensive information about religious places, and buildings and their contents. There is much less information about other matters such as topography, agriculture, educational facilities, military establishments, and political structures. It is as though, in a way, those things belong to a different Tibet.
The book enjoys the benefit of the author's experience as a scholar and tour guide. It also suffers the limitations of that experience, and is often short on practical details for the independent traveller. It is written in a concise style that betrays no trace of personality.
The second edition has been expanded considerably, mainly with valuable information about counties where information in the first edition was inadequate. Unfortunately, the author has not taken the opportunity to check the much more extensive material carried over from the first edition. If he would make time to do that, he would find innumerable internal contradictions within the text and between the text and the often wildly inaccurate small county maps. Almost any numeral, particularly distances, should be treated with suspicion. The relationship between the county population figures and those in the 1996 edition show impossible fluctuations; they go unremarked, but indicate that at least one of the sets of figures is worthless, and perhaps both. The inherent confusion in the existence of both Tibetan and Chinese names for the same places demands a consistency of usage in a guidebook which this one does not quite manage to attain.
An indispensable book, with the scope to become much better.
Book Description
Known as the "Land of the Thunder Dragon," the Kingdom of Bhutan, nestled in the eastern Himalayas, is considered the most mysterious country in Southeast Asia. A leading expert on the Tibetan plateau, Gyurme Dorje presents extensive cultural background and essential information for accessing remote and restricted areas. Footprint Bhutan recommends the best places to eat, stay, and explore, with details on cultural sites such as Buddhist monasteries and sacred caves, plus a calendar of special events, religious festivals, and archery displays. Invaluable to adventure travelers, a comprehensive trekking guide covers the foothills to the highest mountain peaks. Footprint travel guides are packed with practical information and lively descriptions of all the must-see and lesser-known attractions. Each guide provides eye-opening, accurate, and reliable information, ensuring that every trip is memorable, enlightening, and informing.
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1995 India Handbook: With Sri Lanka, Bhutan and the Maldives (Footprint India Handbook)
Robert Bradnock
Manufacturer: Passport Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
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ASIN: 0844289825 |
Book Description
In the mid-nineteenth century, little was known of the west coast and waterways. The ships that sailed those waters did so at a considerable risk, sometimes depending on only a school atlas to navigate and all too often crashing into the rocks. So the U.S. Coast Survey, whose purpose was to map every mile of American shoreline, commissioned George Davidson to chart all of the major points on the coast and all of the waterways in between. In this beautifully illustrated book, Taylor Morrison chronicles the challenges and adventures Davidson and his team faced and the methods they used to accomplish this monumental, and essential, task.
Customer Reviews:
The Coast Mappers.......2007-02-11
The Coast Mappers provides a thoroughly enjoyable historical record of the early survey of the west coast of the United States. It is clearly written as a Youth book but the content and artwork make it an excellent addition to any library or coffee table.
Book Description
This digital document is a journal article from Government Information Quarterly, published by Elsevier in 2006. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Pathways to Print: The Business Side (Pathways to Print)
Robin McAllister
Manufacturer: Cengage Delmar Learning
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Spiral-bound
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ASIN: 0827379234 |
Book Description
This book examines the law as it applies to desk top publishing and business issues such as setting up a desk top publishing operation for profitability and determining what to charge. A must for any desktop publisher.
Book Description
Archer B. Gilfillan was an anomaly. An Ivy League scholar with a broad knowledge of classical literature and a talent for writing, he nonetheless chose to herd sheep from 1916 to 1934 in a lonely, isolated part of the West. Out of this strange juxtaposition of expertise and experience, Gilfillan produced the classic narrative of American sheep-herding.
Customer Reviews:
Totally Enjoyable.......2006-01-28
For relaxation and enjoyment by a person not directly involved in either sheep
growing or cattle ranching, I have learned much, found many new words to add
to my vocabulary and had numerous hearty laughs while working my way through
this true story. This book has my recommendation for total enjoyment.
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- A Fun Guide To Battery Toys (Batteries not included)
- A Vintage Battery-Operated Toy Bible
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Collector's Guide to Battery Toys: --Batteries Not Included : Identification & Values (Collector's Guide to Battery Toys)
Don Hultzman
Manufacturer: Collector Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
General
| Antiques & Collectibles
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Reference
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Toys
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ASIN: 1574320297 |
Customer Reviews:
A Fun Guide To Battery Toys (Batteries not included).......2000-06-02
This 110 page softbound book features more than 300 full color, sharp, large photos. A good introduction to the collectible is provided. Major topics include: Early Battery Toys, Later Battery Toys, How They Got Here, Who Made Them, Golden Age, Mortality Rate, Boxes and their value, Rarity Scale, Care and Repair, Trouble Shooting Guide. All items are listed alphabetically for easy reference. There are over 1,600 entries in this book. Values are shown. A great reference book.
A Vintage Battery-Operated Toy Bible.......2000-02-18
If you're looking for an identification & price guide for vintage battery-operated toys, look no further. This book contains a comprehensive listing of most of the early battery toys. It is efficiently laid out with many beautiful colorful pictures. For a quick and efficient reference, or a book that's just plain fun to look through, you can't go wrong for the price on this one.
Book Description
Helps the gardener avoid many common problems of pests and diseases with simple, effective, organic strategies.
Customer Reviews:
organic gardening bible.......2007-07-28
Although this author came highly recommended, I was not impressed with the content. The book should more accurately be titled a "dictionary", as it really didn't tell me how to fight insects or leaf curl -- It only defined what these problems were; not how to treat them..... organically.
Book Description
The aim of organic gardening is simply to achieve the right balance between ecologically sound and environmentally friendly practice. If we create a healthy soil in which a wide variety of plants can flourish, we also establish a food chain in which predators and prey maintain a natural balance-and do much of the pest control for us. Plants want to grow-the organic gardener's task is to remove obstacles from their path. This means choosing the right plant for the right place; providing the right type of soil, the right temperature, and the right amount of moisture; and protecting those plants that need it in early life or in adverse conditions. In this comprehensive, easy-to-use guide-abundantly illustrated with color photos of his own garden-Bob Flowerdew shows you how to work with nature to make a garden that's both beautiful and bountiful. Among the author's previous books are The Companion Garden and The Complete Fruit Book.
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Provincial Taxation in the Ur III State (Cuneiform Monographs, 26)
Tonia M. Sharlach
Manufacturer: Brill Academic Publishers
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
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Assyria, Babylonia & Sumer
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ASIN: 9004135812 |
Book Description
This volume investigates the relationship between the central government and the provinces during the Ur III period (2112-2004 B.C.). Specifically, the book focuses on one system of taxation known as "bala," or "rotation," so called as provinces' payments rotated month by month throughout the year. This work is the first to take an interarchival approach, discussing Sumerian tablets from Umma, Lagash and Puzriš-Dagan, and is the first major synthesis of what has long been recognized as a fundamental institution. The book contains six chapters and detailed appendices (including charts, the edition of approximately 150 previously unpublished tablets and bibliographical material).
Book Description
Rudolf Laban was one of the great theorists and practitioners of movement. In Laban for All, expert teachers of Laban's techniques offer simplified version of his system that can be used by anyone, from beginners to pros.
Extensively illustrated with John Dalby's line drawings and diagrams, Laban for All lays out the basic vocabulary of the Laban system and goes on to offer specific exercises.
The result is a thorough - and thoroughly practical - grounding in the most important movement system in use today.
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- Spiked Snow
- It was awsome
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X Games Xtreme Mysteries: Spiked Snow - Book #7: #7 A Winter X Games Special (X Games Xtreme Mysteries)
Laban Hill
Manufacturer: Hyperion
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
Action & Adventure
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Mysteries, Espionage, & Detectives
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ASIN: 0786812990 |
Customer Reviews:
Spiked Snow.......2003-03-07
Extreme Mysteries:Spiked Snow by Laban Hill is a story about a group of teens who are in college, who want to go to the Winter
X-Games. The main characters in the book are Kevin, Jami, and Natalie. They try to get into the Winter X-Games; Snow boarding, Speed Skating and Shooting. Strange things started happening like an avalanche, which almost buried Kevin. My favarite character was Jamil because he is funny and he made me laugh at some of his jokes.
I can relate to Kevin because when I first started to mountain bike I did not know what to do. I have not felt or done anything like the characters in the story. I like this book because it is about my favorite sport; mountian biking.
My favorite part of the book is when they get stuck in a man-made avalanche inside a small house. I did not have any least favorite parts in the book. If I could change anything in the book it would be for Kevin to not almost get buried in the avalanche.
I would recommed this book to a person who likes mountain biking. The age range should be 10-13.
It was awsome.......1999-10-18
I really liked this book, I`ve read 3 books in the series and this is by far the best one yet. I think it is one of those books that you really get into and never want to put it down. I just got the last 4 in the series so I hope they`re just as good.
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Laban for All.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000ICNGKQ |
Product Description
TYPEWRITTEN RECORDS PREPARED BY THE FEDERAL WRITERSÂ’ PROJECT, 1936-1938
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- The Glencannon Menagerie
- The Amphibian Ear
- The Hot-blooded Insects: Mechanisms and Evolution of Thermoregulation
- The Minds And Manners of Wild Animals
- The Restless Kingdom: An Exploration of Animal Movement
- The Squirrel's Goblet: 56 Tales of Nature's Wonders & Antics
- The Story of Elsa: Born Free / Living Free / Forever Free
- The Wanderings of an Elephant Hunter
- The Woolcraft Book: Spinning, Dyeing, & Weaving
- Today I Bailed Some Hay to Feed the Sheep the Coyotes Eat
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