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Mountain and Moorland Ponies of the British Isles
Peggy Graveson
Manufacturer: Kingdom Books,Havant
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ASIN: 1852790636 |
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Full color and fact packed, yet portable and affordable -- only 15.95! Bonus! Pullout wallet-sized Mini Restaurant Guide and City Map
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Real Insight.......2005-08-17
I consider this one of the best around. After going thru 5 or 6 different guides, I find the structure is good with loads of information and makes easy reading.
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- Good-looking but hard to lug
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Insight Barcelona (Insight City Guide Barcelona)
Insight Guides
Manufacturer: Hungry Minds Inc,U.S.
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ASIN: 0134718143 |
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Good-looking but hard to lug.......1997-05-19
Insight's City Guides combine stunning photography with literate text and a smattering of basic travel information. The Insight Venice guide is worth adding to your bookshelf, but its practical advice is getting a bit long in the tooth and its heft makes it less than ideal as a take-along guide. - Durant Imboden, Venice for Visitors, http://govenice.miningco.co
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- excellant for all purposes
- Probably the best guide to this beautiful city.
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Insight Guide Barcelona (Insight City Guide Barcelona)
Manufacturer: Apa Productions
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ASIN: 0887296165 |
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Insight Pocket Guides deliver personal service in a sleek, portable format. Fun, colourful, informative, Insight Pocket Guides give you the inside scoop on you destination, making it ideal for long weekend getaways or for the traveler with limited time to spare. It's like having a tour guide in your pocket or purse. .Full-colour photos and pull-ou map .Tailor-made itineraries .Recommended excursions .Full listings on shopping, restaurants, nightlife and special events
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excellant for all purposes.......2000-07-31
This was a comprehensive guidebook that gave enough information on all subjects to get you where you were going, tell you how to do things, and alert you to diverse sites and events that were especially interesting. Most important was its way of presenting enough historical, cultural, and political information to make one aware and able to navigate Barcelona's unique environment while at the same time exponentially increasing curiousity. We were working up until the time of our flight and skimmed the book en route. We had never been to Spain, didn't speak Spanish and yet spent two weeks in Barcelona without any difficulties and used only this book as our guide. As a direct result of the ease of use and interest the guide book piqued we bought and read many books on Catalonian history, political history, social culture, Picasso, Gaudi, architecture, etc. while we were exploring the city, making our two weeks of travel instead of a tour of cities into one of the more in depth, interesting trips we've ever taken. In three months we've given a copy of the book to two other families going to Barcelona, tracked down the other Insight Guides and begun to plan next summer's trip around one of them.
Probably the best guide to this beautiful city........2000-05-02
The separate, removable map which is included makes this book worth the purchase. The map lists all sidestreets, which is necessary to navigate the city. The book itself gives just enough history to familiarize yourself with Barcelona and Catalonia, and then takes you on a neighborhood by neighborhood tour. Lots of good photos throughout. More detailed than the smaller compact version from the same company. Not quite as detailed as guides from other companies (e.g. doesn't include much for phone numbers or tourist tips), but is easier to read than they are.
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Barcelona Insight City Guide
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Manufacturer: APA INSIGHT GUIDES (
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ASIN: B000K7M3O4 |
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The debates in Volume II shed understanding on American history since the Civil War, as the United States expanded to its present dimensions and became an industrial and world power, yet faced many challenges to its claims of freedom and equality for all.
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This is a collection of PRIMARY documents.......2003-04-16
I am writing this review to make sure that people know that this is a collection of PRIMARY sources. Since there are no editorial reviews posted on Amazon, I assumed that this book was a collection of articles by contemporaries DEBATING history. In any case, although this book wasn't what I was looking for, it seems very substantive as far as primary sources go. It also seems like it is directed more at history teachers looking for teaching materials.
Contains articles (written by historical figures from John Winthrop to Thomas Jefferson to Frederick Douglass) about the original English colonization, the question of Native Americans, Puritans and religious tolerance, the Revolutionary War, the formation of the Constitution, the National Bank, Sedition Act, Jay Treaty, Louisiana Purchase, Federalism, immigration, expanding suffrage, annexation of Texas and war with Mexico, slavery, secession, and Reconstruction.
Ah.......2001-03-20
O yea, this book is great. It is an excellent primary source for my research papers. It is a little hard to understand because of the old speech, but other than that, it is excellent. It practically wrote my papers for me!
Ah.......2001-03-20
O yea, this book is great. It is an excellent primary source for my research papers. It is a little hard to understand because of the old speech, but other than that, it is excellent. It practically wrote my papers for me!
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Reconstruction (hardcover edition) (Opposing Viewpoints in World History)
Manufacturer: Greenhaven Press
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ASIN: 0737717033 |
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After the Civil War, the federal and state governments focused on reintegrating the South into the Union and giving the freed slaves economic and political opportunities. The contributors to this anthology, including politicians from the era, debate the effects of Reconstruction.
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Reconstruction (Opposing Viewpoints (Sagebrush))
Lisa Spaeth
Manufacturer: Tandem Library
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ASIN: 0613573773 |
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This digital document is an article from Modern Age, published by Thomson Gale on January 1, 2007. The length of the article is 4780 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 United States in the world arena: two opposing views.(Viewpoint essay)
Author: Ellis Sandoz
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Modern Age (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2007
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Volume: 49
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Custer's Last Stand: Opposing Viewpoints (Great Mysteries)
Deborah Bachrach
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Emile-Jacques Ruhlmann, one of Europe's most influential Art Deco designers, is being celebrated in North America with a major traveling exhibition.
Ruhlmann began designing at a young age and exhibited his first pieces in Paris in 1910. By 1919, he had founded his own interior design company, producing everything for the ideal home, from armoires and rugs to wallpaper and light fixtures. His early work is particularly notable for its Art Nouveau influences, and his signature pieces epitomize the best of Art Deco design.
Ruhlmann, inspired by the rigorous craftsmanship of the great eighteenth-century furniture makers, had a true passion for work well done. In fact, he was so protective of his reputation that he left orders in his will for his company to be liquidated after his death, to ensure that the quality workmanship associated with the Ruhlmann name would never decline. It has not.
This exquisite twovolume boxed set with ribbon closures is produced in the Ruhlmann spirit, and the lavish illustrations include exquisite facsimile reproductions of his designs. Emile-Jacques Ruhlmann will be a treasured addition to the library of anyone interested in this golden age of European design.
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Buy it for the photos, not for the content........2001-09-20
All of Kelsey-Woods' books have terrific photos, but poorly organized and often inaccurate information. Sections on hedgehog diet recommend foods that are high in fat, low in protein -- exactly the opposite of what a hedgehog needs. He also recommends the use of gloves while handling hedgehogs -- a true no-no if you ever expect your pet to bond with you. The habitats shown in the book are not large enough for an active hedgehog.
This book is widely distributed, and I am sad every time I see it displayed in a bookstore. Hedgehogs all over the country are receiving sub-standard care because of this book.
Informative with lots of beautiful photographs.......2000-03-02
My daughter just bought her first hedgehog as a pet. Although she researched hedgehogs before deciding to buy one, she was able to learn some important facts of which she was unaware. This book contains exquisite photographs and stresses the importance of selecting a hedgehog of good health and temperament. It is a good source of information for those who are new to hedgehogs, yet find them totally irresistable. We have all fallen in love with this new prickly family member
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64 pages, 6 3/4" x 10". Complete and well written guide covering all aspects of life with a guinea pig including selection, health care, accommodations, breeding, and feeding. Complemented by full color photographs.
Customer Reviews:
"EMI" .......2006-02-22
This book is not a good book it gives wrong info and needs to be updated.
Dangerous info.......2004-02-19
It is hard to sum up everything wrong in this book. I would give it zero stars if I could have.
Most of the advice is not only wrong but dangerous to the health and well being of cavies.
Here are a few of the many points that are wrong, misleading or dangerous:
1. The nutritional advice will produce a very sick pig. Please don't feed your pigs eggs, cheese, cakes, cookies and seeds. They can choke on seeds, nuts are too fattening and refined sweets will make them ill. The book somewhat puts down pellets (and suggests a couple of aforementioned odd homemade concoctions) and yet good quality Guinea pig pellets, along with fresh veggies, are the best way to insure you pig has a balanced diet with Vitamin C, essential for GP's. Hay is also essential and yet there is almost nothing mentioned and no discussion of the various types.
2. Shows a pig in a wire bottom cage. Piggies get thier legs caught and broken in wire bottom cages PLUS the cages shown are way too small. Go to www.Cavycages.com and make you own cheaper and better than you can buy premade!
3. States pigs should be housed separately. This is not true. Pigs are very social animals and need to be with thier own kind. While two adult boars MAY fight, most sows and many boars get along just fine. Of course, house the boars and sows separately unless you want LOTS of little piggies!
2. Shows a rabbit and guinea pig together and says they "get along". It is doubtful they would fight, that is true, but rabbits have powerful back legs and one jump could kill or injure a piggie. They should not be housed together at the very least.
3. Calling a photo of a Guinea Pig a "hamster" just proves that no proof reading by a knowledgable person was done. That is just sloppy and unprofessional.
4. The breeding section never mentions that a sow must be bred before she is 10 months old (IF she is ever going to be bred)because her pelvic bones will fuse at about 12 months, resulting in dead mother and babies in a first pregnancy after that time. This book implies that pigs are not fully mature until 12 months and not at full weight until 18 months, leaving a novice to think it best to wait until then. Very dangerous. Hopefully, no decent person would attempt to breed any animal solely on the information in one chapter in one small book anyway, but this advice will kill your pigs.
There is more but I simply do not have room to correct all the misleading and dangerous info. Suffice to say, with this much hazardous advice, this book should not even be on the market. SHAME on the ASPCA for giving it a seal of approval.
Read "The Proper Care Of Guinea Pigs" by Peter Gurney and/or "Guinea Pig Handbook " by Dr. Sharon Vanderlip or check Internet sites for safe, appropriate care of cavies.
Waist of Time & Money.......2001-09-04
I bought this book thinking that I'd learn something new, but was very disapointed. The author gives you some info about the topics he's interested in, but fails to give you info about other things. For example, he goes on and on about building your own cages ect., but tells you very little about guinea pig breeding in the chapter he titled "Practical Breeding". Like someone else mentioned, he did right "hamster" instead of guinea pig at one part, which realy bothered me! He also has a lot of unrelated pictures and sometimes put the same picture twice! There are very nice pictures but most of them were of the same breeds (or same guinea pigs), which isn't helpful for those who want to learn about the many different guinea pig breeds. I think this is a very incomplete book. I'm new to guinea pigs, but this book told me very little I hadn't or couldn't have found out about online. I recommend basic reaserch or buying a different book if you want to find out about all aspects of cavies [guinea pigs]. If you still want to buy this book, you can buy mine because I'm going to sell it.
Disappointing.......2001-08-29
For a book with an ASPCA seal of approval, I was very disappointed. The pictures showed guinea pigs on wire bottom cages (very back for their little feet), recommended cedar shavings (another no no) and on pg38 captioned a picture of a guinea pig "The more unique the color variety of your hamster..." It advised housing mutliple cavies in separate cages (this is a herd animal...please) Returned the book in 24 hours. Baron's is a better choice any day.
GREAT! Use it to buy your Guinea Pig........1999-10-11
This book is great I found most of my information with it.It tells you every thing you need to know about raiseing a Guinea Pig.I recommend it to anyone who wants to own a Guinea Pig.
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Die Farbe Henna / The Color of Henna
Annette Korolnik-Andersch , and
Marcel Korolnik
Manufacturer: Arnoldsche Verlagsanstalt GmbH
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Includes research based on three years of field studies.
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Best ever Gardening and beyond book.......2007-09-21
I purchased this book 20 years ago and it has been a mainstay on my shelf. I have purchased many many other gardening books. Some have been gotten rid of to clear shelf space but this one holds it's place on my shelf and shall for years to come. Everything is there from how to begin to how to maintaing and how to expand when your ready. If they took them all and only left me one book on gardening, this would be the one. I wouldn't need the rest.
You will not be sorry you purchased it and I can't understand why they don't republish. It begins with the questions of, 'Why Garden and grow your own food?', to how to turn you backyard into a food production system, and then beyond the simple. One example we incorporated was purchasing our own fertilizer producer, the pet bunny. She eats the scrapes and gives us back fertilizer in pellet form. I couldn't ask for a faster compost bin. The idea of tax free income doesn't hurt and with todays growing concern about organic and local eating the need is all the more real.
Perhaps THE Best Gardening Book of All.......2006-01-05
There are countless books on gardening, garden planning and home food production - some better and some far worse than others. Of all the books I have read over some 20 plus years I would list only about a dozen or so that have actually proven their value, both as references and practical, easy to read, 'how to' books that can, if followed, make you a far more effective gardener.
This book tops the list and is,to me at least, THE one first book I would recommend to anyone who is seriously considering home food production. Jeff Ball introduces a highly readable, easily followed five-step (read five-year) plan to transform a suburban back yard into an attractive, highly productive, and fully sustainable 'suburban homestead.' It starts out with a couple of raised beds and progresses to a full size garden, utilizing progressive intensive planting, cold frames and a small greenhouse to produce food year-round. For the serious suburban homesteader it even includes information on food storage, canning and even how to incorporate chickens, rabbits, bees, and fish into the completed system -all while maintaining the neat appearance many suburban communities require.
Some of the information in this book is a little 'dated',yet the basic principles it teaches are actually far more important now than they were at the time the book was written.
With energy and food prices skyrocketing in this country due to hurricane damage in the Gulf, declining (or soon to be declining) fossil fuel supplies world wide, climate change, environmental pollution and degredation, and the deteriorating American economy as countless middle-class jobs are lost each year to outsourcing, it is very likely that the average American family will need to produce a significant portion of their own food over the next few decades.
The good news is that this is not only possible, but that it can be done sustainably in almost any suburban yard while enriching the soil, reducing household waste, and saving a substantial amount of money. Seems hard to believe that Rodale has shown no interest in republishing this book (or allowing anyone else to do so), but used copies are still available. Get one.
Really, really useful information - I keep coming back!.......2000-09-08
I have owned this book for probably fifteen years now. Unlike those books that sit on my shelves in favor of newer, more pertinant ones, this book is full of useful charts and graphs that make every years gardening planning easy and fun. I highly recommend it. I am sorry it is out of print and will start to take better care of mine. I don't want to lose it!
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A wide variety of writing is included in this anthology, from the practical criticism of Arlene Croce and David Denby to the more scholarly work of Rudoloph Arnheim, Suzanne Langer, and Havelock Ellis. The collection is divided into seven sections: What is Dance?; the Dance Medium; Dance and the Other Arts; Genre and Style; Language, Notation, and Identity; Dance Criticism; and Dance and Society.
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"Cardiac resuscitation was often applied to a patient who was fast asleep. The hapless victim woke from a peaceful slumber to find somebody, often an infidel, jumping up and down on his chest."
Lydia Laube worked as a nurse in Saudi Arabia in a society that does not allow women to drive, vote, or speak to a man alone. Wearing head-to-toe coverings in stifling heat, and battling administrative apathy, Lydia Laube kept her sanity and got her passport back. "Behind the Veil" is the hilarious account of an Australian woman's battle against the odds. It will keep you entertained for hours.
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Interesting expat perspective.......2006-01-16
All I'll say is that the author had the patience (or stubborn-ness!) of a saint! After reading about her experiences with the religious police, what tourist would WANT to go there if they could?
Behind the Veil: An Australian nurse in Saudi Arabia.......2000-05-23
Lydia Laube in her adventures "Behind the Veil: An Australian nurse in Saudi Arabia" has captured the essence of her experience. She begins by taking the reader on her journey, as she enters Saudi Arabia as a travel nurse on a one year contract assignment. Her love of adventure shines through as she relates to the reader the unique culture shock and customs of this closed country. Her story, for many travelers will be all that they may experience of this oil rich nation that does not admit tourists. Laube successfully pulls the reader into the very essence of the culture, language and customs of the Muslim daily life. She candidly shares the challenges of health care in a nation, plagued by ineffieciency, where women have no rights, censorship is the norm and capital punishment is strickly enforced. Laube remains strong with determination to improve her surroundings, and the level of care at this hospital, a challenge especially as a woman in a culture that does not respect women. She shares the triumphs and sorrows of daily life. Laube relates the misfortunes of expatriates from the Philippines, Sudan, India, Korea and European countries and of recruiting agencies misguided promises. Laube's candid book is a must read for every nurse or health care professional considering a term in Saudi Arabia. Also an excellent resource for expatriates planning a term of service.
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- Nonmammalian Genomic Analysis: A Practical Guide
- Of Bears, Wolves and Men-In Homage to the Wild: The North Fork of the Flathead, Montana
- Of Mice, Models, and Men
- Okapi Passion
- Onychophora, Chilopoda, And Lesser Protostomata (MICROSCOPIC ANATOMY OF INVERTEBRATES)
- Oxford Reviews of Reproductive Biology: Volume 3
- Parasite Rex : Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures
- Platyhelminthes and Nemertinea, Volume 3, Microscopic Anatomy of Invertebrates
- Postimplantation Development in the Mouse - No. 165 (CIBA Foundation Symposia Series)
- Pregnant Bears and Crawdad Eyes: Excursions and Encounters in Animal Worlds
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