Hunters: Encyclopedia of Nature's Predators in the Wild

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This book gives a remarkable insight into the survival of the fittest and the strongest in the wild.

Nature's Predators (The Illustrated Wildlife Encyclopedia, Snakes*Birds of Prey*Crocodilians*Sharks*Secrets and Skills of successful hunters in the wild)

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Nature's Predators (The Illustrated Wildlife Encyclopedia, Snakes*Birds of Prey*Crocodilians*Sharks*Secrets and Skills of successful hunters in the wild)
Michael Bright , Robin Kerrod , and Barbara Taylor
Manufacturer: Hermes House
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

Veterinary | Encyclopedias | Reference | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 1843096323

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Over 800 stunning wildlife photographs, plus inside-view artwork of bodies that are built to kill.

Nature's Predators: Snakes, Birds of Prey, Crocodilians, Sharks--Secrets and Skills of Successful Hunters in the Wild (Illustrated Science Encyclopedia)

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Nature's Predators: Snakes, Birds of Prey, Crocodilians, Sharks--Secrets and Skills of Successful Hunters in the Wild (Illustrated Science Encyclopedia)
Michael Bright
Manufacturer: Southwater
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Encyclopedias | Reference & Nonfiction | Children's Books | Subjects | Books

Zoology | Science, Nature & How It Works | Children's Books | Subjects | Books

General | Gardening & Horticulture | Home & Garden | Subjects | Books

Gardening | Encyclopedias | Reference | Subjects | Books

Veterinary | Encyclopedias | Reference | Subjects | Books

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ASIN: 1842155229

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Here in one volume, the reader can follow critical moments in a predator's life, including their specialist skills, hunting tactics, family lives, territories, and prey.

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Insight Pocket Guides are packed with loads of personal recommendations-- it's like having your own private tour guide. All the itineraries are tailor-made by seasoned travel writers and journalists living and working in the area. The free pullout map plots all the recommended tours so you can plan your day, take your map, and go!

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Useful Helsinki Guide.......2006-01-30

This travel guide has nice pictures of Helsinki and nice color maps. The pull out map is especially useful and colorful. The walking routes are nice and I also like the excursions section. After reading this book the full Finland Insight Guide is probably not worth the price unless you really are spending a long time in Finland.

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Finland from Portugal
Beautiful and clever guide to a beautiful country
An American in Helsinki says thumbs up!
Excellent Guide to a Fascinating Country

Insight Guide Finland (Insight Guides)
Zoe Ross
Manufacturer: Insight Guides
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Finland | Europe | Travel | Subjects | Books

General | Europe | Travel | Subjects | Books

Guidebooks | Reference & Tips | Travel | Subjects | Books

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ASIN: 9814120391

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Insight Guide Finland includes a section detailing Finlandâ€~s history, 10 features covering aspects of the type's life and culture, ranging from A Wilderness Experience to Music and film, a region by region visitor's guide to the sights, and a comprehensive Travel Tips section packed with essential contact addresses and numbers. Plus 14 mpas and many high quality photographs.

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Finland from Portugal.......2005-10-18

Good value, well written and with pictures os good quality.
And,...nice country.
JA

Beautiful and clever guide to a beautiful country.......2002-03-18

All too often, Finland has been unfairly treated by many snobbish travel writers - too clean, too expensive, too Northern. For many of those identifying Finland only with mobile phones, the history, the architecture and the landscapes of this brave, spectacularly handsome and exceedingly talented country is largely unknown. This guide tells the story and shows the pictures in a friendly, seemingly effortless and hugely informative way.

The book - in common with other Insight Guide publications - is as beautiful as the cover picture suggests. They do not cut corners on buying top quality photos or commissioning informed articles, and it shows. The writing does not have the cynicism and grumpy attitude of shoestring-travel guidebooks: instead, it offers warmth and genuine attempt to look into the country and its people (not only to list its cheapest accommodation).

Insight Guides is quite laconic about basic survival within the country, but the pages that are there fully fit the task suffice. Moreover, in Finland, where the knowledge of English is practically universal and the system of public information about transport and other facilities is second to none, you do not need too much hand-holding anyway.

This beautiful and informative book is worth every penny.

An American in Helsinki says thumbs up!.......2002-03-13

I lived in Helsinki for 4 months and traveled around a bit (to Kuopio, Karigasniemi and Ivalo, as well as eastward to St. Petersburg). This is the best guide to Finland I've seen in English. They give not only important tourist information (maps, restaurant and hotel recommendations, attractions, tips, etc.), but also great cultural and historical information that will help put all the tourist stuff in perspective for you.

Finland can seem surprisingly foreign if you're expecting it to be just like Scandinavia or the rest of western Europe. But with a little help from the Insight guide you'll find it unique and exciting and beautiful rather than frighteningly different. Get ready for all the stereotypical pleasures (like the sauna and amazing architecture) and some less stereotypical ones like cutting edge, world class design, beautiful birch forests, spectacular lakes, and really weird yogurt-like stuff and juustoleipä!

Finland, here you come!

Excellent Guide to a Fascinating Country.......2000-12-26

With vivid descriptions of cultures and places, superb maps, expert historical discussions, and delightfully charming photographs from cover to cover, this guide offers the reader everything needed to visit this magnificent, magical country.

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Good-looking but hard to lug

Insight Guide Finland
Doreen Taylor-Wilkie , and Insight Guides
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Finland | Europe | Travel | Subjects | Books

Insight Guide | Guidebook Series | Travel | Subjects | Books

General | Travel | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 013474750X

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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

Insight Compact Guide Finland (Insight Compact Guides Finland)

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Lots of lovely memories
Easy on the pocket - delightful to read
Great book for getting guick background on Finland
Wonderful description of a country called Finland

Insight Compact Guide Finland (Insight Compact Guides Finland)
Reinhard Rode
Manufacturer: Langenscheidt Publishers
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Finland | Europe | Travel | Subjects | Books

General | Europe | Travel | Subjects | Books

Insight Pocket Guide | Guidebook Series | Travel | Subjects | Books

General | Travel | Subjects | Books

Look Inside Travel Books | Trip | Specialty Stores | Books

General | Travel | 4-for-3 Books Store | Stores | Books

All 4-for-3 Deals | 4-for-3 Books Store | Stores | Books
ASIN: 0887295185

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Lots of lovely memories.......2001-10-28

Insight Compact Guides are great. This one has 12 routes for you to follow as you travel through this stunningly beautiful country. All the major sights are featured with pictures and a rating. I like this feature since - as you will find - the authors are pretty good judges of what is worth seeing and what is not. It's also nice to see the Aland Islands included as one of the trips. My wife and I had a tremendous time cycling around them in the early autumn of 1999 - when the sea and sky were deep blue and the myriad forests a swathe of gold and red.

There are two big selling points for these guide books. One they are very small, light and easy to follow. Two, into a mere 100 odd pages, the authors have crammed a wealth of info/pictures on the country, its history, culture, customs - as well as 12 unforgettable journey's.

Five stars and lots of lovely memories.

Easy on the pocket - delightful to read.......2001-10-27

Five stars and lots of lovely memories.

Great book for getting guick background on Finland.......2000-05-24

The Insight Guide series is, in general, a really good introduction to any of the countries that they have chosen to focus on. This one on Finland, like all of them, is full of great photo's and good historical, economic, social, and political descriptions.

The tourist descriptions of what to see, places to stay and eat, etc. always seem to be pretty good and accurate.

Wonderful description of a country called Finland.......1998-11-27

This book is a great combination of a tourist guide and cultural description of Finland, a country between the east and the west.

There are plenty of great color pictures included which makes this book lovely reading before and especially after your trip to Finland. Even though you would never travel to Finland this book will reveal much more than a weekend trip would do.

The best part of this book apart from the great pictures is that is does not only describe the popular sights to visit but it goes deep into the Finnish society and culture without being too heavy reading.

I warmly recommend this book to everyone who is interested in Finland.

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Unit 1 (1300-1800) Beginnings of the Modern World Unit 2: (1500-1900) Absolutism to Revolution Unit 3: (1700-1914) Idustrialism and the Race for Empire Unit 4: (1900-1945) The World at War Unit 5: (1945-Present) Perspectives on the Present

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Street graphics have become the visual language of cities. Signs and symbols instruct, inform, portray concerns, and express aspirations. Culturally specific, they are also increasingly universal, always creative, and always fun.

Tokyo's vibrant street graphics combine ancient tradition, twentieth-century mass production, and a twenty-first-century urban vision that is uniquely Japanese. A colorful clash of imagery renders the familiar strange and the strange bizarre. Cartoon characters can signify the police or pornography. Fashion statements are derived from diverse sources—ancient Egypt or even a hospital operating room. Slot machines vend erotica; pets and cops are robots; tempting dishes of sushi turn out to be inedible plastic representations. Ridley Scott's futuristic film Blade Runner was inspired by Tokyo's neon nightscape, where a fashionable department store doubles as a giant digital TV screen featuring lifesize dinosaurs in Godzilla's hometown. 150 color photographs.

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Pleasing.......2004-04-14

I wasnt expecting underground design in this book. I was looking for what I exactly found in the book: Simple graphics found in the streets, in food packaging, flyers, pamphlets... Its everything you might "see" in Tokyo but that you usually wouldnt pay attention to until u see it in the book.
All the pictures in this book are color, in a glossy, nice paper. The overall quality of the book is really GOOD. I bought street graphics of New York too in the same order, and believe me, for the price, its a really, really good book for you all graphic-hungry-designers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Disappointing.......2004-02-27

I had expectations of edgey underground-sub-culture images as specified with the above "Blade Runner" connotations. Instead this book is less than inspiring with imagery you can probably find on the internet.

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Brief, concise, and filled with helpful photos, this introductory guide provides essential information about the care and repair of saddlery.

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Not that great for Matchbox

O'Brien's Collecting Toy Cars & Trucks

Great guide that's well worth the money!

Collecting Toy Cars & Trucks (A Collector's Identification & Value Guide, No 1)
Richard O'Brien
Manufacturer: Books Americana
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Antiques & Collectibles | Home & Garden | Subjects | Books
Toys | Antiques & Collectibles | Home & Garden | Subjects | Books
Models | Crafts & Hobbies | Home & Garden | Subjects | Books
Classic Cars | Automotive | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books
English (British) | Dictionaries & Thesauruses | Reference | Subjects | Books
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O'Brien's Collecting Toys: Identification and Value Guide, 11th Edition

How to Restore Classic Toy Cars, Trucks, Tractors, and Airplanes (How to Restore)

Price Guide to Tonka Trucks, 1947-1963

Toy Car Collector's Guide: Identification and Values for Diecast, White Metal, Other Automotive Toys & Models (Toy Car Collectors Guide)

Schroeder's Collectible Toys Antique to Modern Price Guide 2006: Identification & Values Of Over 20,000 Collectible Toys (Schroeder's Collectible Toys)

ASIN: 0896891038

Book Description

Built tough enough to withstand the demands of any collector, this indispensable identification and price guide, now in it's 4th edition, has been completely updated. The trusted name in collecting toy cars and trucks provides readers with over 300 manufacturers organized alphabetically, and more than 15,000 listings - some not listed anywhere else - priced in up to three grades of condition.

Contains pressed steel, die-cast, slush-molded, promotional models, rubber toys, Japanese tin, and tin litho. With nearly 45,000 current market prices for Buddy L., Dinky, Corgi, Keystone, Johnny Lightning, Marx, Auburn Rubber, Tonka, Structo, Nylint, Matchbox, Hot Wheels, Tootsie Toy, Wyandotte, and Ertl, enthusiasts are sure to find a value for every toy in their collection.

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Not that great for Matchbox.......2006-11-08

For Matchboxes, very difficult to find and reasearch based on a proprietary numbering system. Numbering system not clearly articulated in overview. I had to purchase a new "Matchbox specific" guide from another publisher.

O'Brien's Collecting Toy Cars & Trucks.......2002-07-11

Information seems to be well organized and spelled out, but was disappointed that there were so few color pictures.

Great guide that's well worth the money!.......1999-05-07

I've found most everything I was looking for all in one source! If you like collecting cars and trucks, you must have this book!

Toy Cars & Trucks: Identification and Value Guide (2nd ed)

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Toy Cars & Trucks: Identification and Value Guide (2nd ed)
Richard O'Brien
Manufacturer: Books Americana
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Transportation | Antiques & Collectibles | Home & Garden | Subjects | Books

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O'Brien's Collecting Toy Cars & Trucks 4th Edition (Paperback) (Collecting Toy Cars & Trucks)

ASIN: 0896891283

Collecting O'Brien's Toy Cars & Trucks: Identification And Value Guide 3rd Edition

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Collecting O'Brien's Toy Cars & Trucks: Identification And Value Guide 3rd Edition
Elizabeth A. Stephan
Manufacturer: Books Americana
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000J4XF9U

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With fruit colored orange, yellow, black, and white in addition to the familiar red, sometimes lasting six months or more, hollies are ideal ornamentals. Hollies represents years of research by one of the giants of American horticulture, covering all the hollies in cultivation with descriptions of many of the 30 deciduous and 780 evergreen species, including upright trees of 60 feet to creeping prostrate forms.

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Hollies : The Genus llex.......2000-06-19

A must read for the Genux llex lover! This work covers, in a beautifully detailed manner, all aspects of working with and growing Hollies. A wonderful reference that will be read again and again.

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Hollies: The Genus Ilex
Fred C. Galle
Manufacturer: Timber Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000OCBBM0

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Hollies: The Genus Ilex
Fred C. Galle
Manufacturer: Timber Pr.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000K4ZOW0

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"One of the best dance books of the decade. In focusing on H'Doubler, a complicated woman who combined both vision and short-sightedness, Ross offers a fascinating look at how a generation of academic women exerted influence in universities during a moment when women were in the minority among faculty and administrators."- Mindy Aloff, dance critic for New Republic

Moving Lessons is an insightful and sophisticated look at the origins and influence of dance in American universities, focusing on Margaret H'Doubler, who established the first university courses and the first degree program in dance (at the University of Wisconsin). Dance educator and historian Janice Ross shows that H'Doubler (1889-1982) was both emblematic of her time and an innovator who made deep imprints in American culture. An authentic "New Woman," H'Doubler emerged from a sheltered female Victorian world to take action in the public sphere. She changed the way Americans thought, not just about female physicality but also about higher education for women.

Ross brings together many discourses-from dance history, pedagogical theory, women's history, feminist theory, American history, and the history of the body-in intelligent, exciting, and illuminating ways and adds a new chapter to each of them. She shows how H'Doubler, like Isadora Duncan and other modern dancers, helped to raise dance in the eyes of the middle class from its despised status as lower-class entertainment and "dangerous" social interaction to a serious enterprise. Taking a nuanced critical approach to the history of women's bodies and their representations, Moving Lessons fills a very large gap in the history of dance education.

"An impeccable work of archival scholarship and interpretive history, Ross's explorations of H'Doubler's biography, the details of her classes, and the more abstract unpacking of philosophical theories of learning are both inspiring and intelligent."-Sally Banes, author of Dancing Women: Female Bodies on Stage

"Intimate histories of dance in the American University are extremely rare. Janice Ross has written one that is not only a pleasure to read, it is a major contribution to understanding the development of dance in American higher education."-Elliot W. Eisner, professor of art and the Lee Jacks Professor of Education, Stanford University

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Great Book on Origins of Dance in American Universities.......2001-05-06

This is an excellent book that provides an illuminating history into the origins of dance in education, specifically in American Universities during the early 20th century. Special attention is paid to the influence of Margaret H'Doubler (1889-1982) who in addition to being a dance education pioneer, was a trained biologist who introduced her dance students to anatomical observation using a model skeleton prior to commencing their dance studies.

This is just one of many examples of the historical detail found throughout the text, which beyond being a scholarly work, offers many insightful views of the convergence of dance history, feminism, and the role of women in higher education.

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The controversial novelist Xavier Herbert (1901-84) led a colourful and itinerant life. Best known for his vast North Australian epics "Capricornia" and "Poor Fellow My Country" (totalling over a million words), he was also a pharmacist, union organiser, railway fettler, miner, woodcutter and World War II "bush commando". Herbert travelled widely throughout Australia from the 1920s to the 1980s, and his fictional depictions of the far north are bursting with chaotic energy and violence.Herbert's letters reveal not just a troubled ego, but also considerable charm, a rhapsodic response to the remote wildernesses of the north and a delight in humour - droll, rollicking and earthy - driven always by his seething imagination.

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Xavier Herbert: A Biography
Frances De Groen
Manufacturer: University of Queensland Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0702230219

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This ground-breaking first biography explores the contradictions at the core of Xavier Herbert's turbulent life and career (1901-1984). Charting his lifelong quest to discover the reality of his existence and to forge a larger-than-life identity, it highlights Herbert's compulsion to write and illuminates his abiding themes. Labelled at various times "ratbag" and "mug genius" as well as "master writer", Xavier Herbert led a life characterised by controversy and contradiction. His signature books, Capricornia (1938) and Poor Fellow My country (1975), were to change the face of Australian novel writing.

Biography - Herbert, Xavier (1901-1984): An article from: Contemporary Authors Online

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Biography - Herbert, Xavier (1901-1984): An article from: Contemporary Authors Online
Gale Reference Team
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B0007SCGJI
Release Date: 2007-06-13

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Word count: 1729.

Xavier Herbert: A Biography.(Review) (book review): An article from: Australian Literary Studies

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Xavier Herbert: A Biography.(Review) (book review): An article from: Australian Literary Studies
Patrick Buckridge
Manufacturer: University of Queensland Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

Australian | Ethnic & National | Biographies & Memoirs | Subjects | Books

Book Description

This digital document is an article from Australian Literary Studies, published by University of Queensland Press on October 1, 1999. The length of the article is 1517 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.

Citation Details
Title: Xavier Herbert: A Biography.(Review) (book review)
Author: Patrick Buckridge
Publication: Australian Literary Studies (Refereed)
Date: October 1, 1999
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
Volume: 19 Issue: 2 Page: 236

Article Type: Book Review

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