Moss Gardening: Including Lichens, Liverworts and Other Miniatures

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A delightful book that encourages gardeners to pay closer attention to the subtle beauty of miniature landscapes and introduces one of the glories of Japanese gardens into American designs. The author writes entertainingly of mosses on rocks and walls, in containers, and as a lush ground cover, and he presents a gallery of his favorite moss species. Awards for this book: American Horticultural Society Book Award Garden Writers Association of America Award of Excellence

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Gimme more............2007-09-04

Another nice book with some good photos but expected a little more terms of variety of mosses reviewed. Certainly could have included more photos....

a little green magic book.......2007-07-03

Images in this book take you instantly into an green fairy tale. Carefuly chosen details speek for them self, in addition to it, text was writen with humor, and very professionaly, at the same time.

OCD: Moss.......2007-01-16

This is an excellent text for the "beginner to mid" moss apprentice. The photos are brilliantly gorgeous and add much excitement to the text. Schenk is clearly an enormous fan of moss as his pen scrolls simple, yet technical, information about moss throughout the text. The only qualm I have with this book is that Schenk keeps to the 2 major genus of moss. However, the photos, which might give the moss-lover ideas for a moss garden, pull the book into a text that is a must for the moss-"er."

I have a bit of an obsessive-compulsive disorder with moss. I collect it, use it to build moss sculptures, grow many different genus of it. 2 years ago, I fell in love with moss and the obsession hasn't stopped.

The Joy of... or HYI?.......2006-08-31

The other reviews, both positive and negative, seem to be on the mark. I think the words, "The Joy of" should have preceded the title. I was personally looking for a little more of the "How to" in this book about gardening. '...not much about lichens. It was both funny and long winded at times. It was beautiful but not as informative as I would have liked. This makes a great, compact sized, coffee table book but not a very good HYI text book.

Would be a better book if the author could get over himself.......2006-01-18

I read this book from cover to cover and while it does have some great information the author is far too long winded and can't seem to stay on track. He seems to have an ego far larger than the minute moss he writes about and it really ruined the book for me.

More moss and less ego stroking please!

Mosses and Liverworts (Collins New Naturalist)

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Mosses and Liverworts (Collins New Naturalist)
Nick Hodgetts , and Ron Porley
Manufacturer: HarperCollins UK
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ASIN: 0002202123

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A long-awaited addition to the botany titles in the highly-regarded Collins New Naturalist series, this book covers mosses and liverworts, a group of about 24,000 fairly low-growing plants. This authoritative guide explains their ecological importance, how they can act as environmental indicators and their general biology. With full-colour illustrations throughout, it covers distribution patterns and dispersal mechanisms, their relation with climate, historical uses for mosses, and habitats. This is a branch of botany which has always relied heavily on amateur involvement, and the authors explain what amateurs can do today to increase our knowledge about these essential plants.

The Elfin World of Mosses and Liverworts of Michigan's Upper Peninsula and Isle Royale

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Field guide by habitat

The Elfin World of Mosses and Liverworts of Michigan's Upper Peninsula and Isle Royale
Janice Glime
Manufacturer: Isle Royale Natural History Assn
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ASIN: 0935289046

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Field Guide to 123 species of mosses and liverworts with over 100 color photographs and layman's descriptions of their ecology and morphology. Contains uses for many of the plants.

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Field guide by habitat.......1999-09-07

This is helpful for the lay person because it groups Bryophites by their habitat, such as on stumps, rocks, forest types, stream banks, etc.

Outstanding Mosses & Liverworts of Pennsylvania & Nearby States

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Outstanding Mosses & Liverworts of Pennsylvania & Nearby States
Susan Munch
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Binding: Spiral-bound
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Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses

ASIN: 0976092573
Release Date: 2006-04-15

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The first color field guide for mosses in the Mid-Atlantic region - its detailed color photographs allow easy identification of many of the commonest and most striking mosses and liverworts, without the use of a microscope.

Walk softly upon the earth: A pictorial field guide to Missouri mosses, liverworts, and lichens

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Walk softly upon the earth: A pictorial field guide to Missouri mosses, liverworts, and lichens
Lisa Potter Thomas
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Too much reliance on microscopic detail

How to Know the Mosses and Liverworts
Henry Shoemaker Conard , and Jr. Paul L. Redfearn
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Too much reliance on microscopic detail.......2006-09-13

I bought this book to identify mosses found in Maine when on vacation from Europe. I had a magnifying glass at my disposal (10x, 20x) but found that the keys started asking questions about microscopic details very early on. This made it (too) difficult to get at least to the right family. Liverworts worked better than mosses.

Plants without leaves;: Lichens, fungi, mosses, liverworts, slime-molds, algae, horsetails

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Plants without leaves;: Lichens, fungi, mosses, liverworts, slime-molds, algae, horsetails
Ross E Hutchins
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Mosses and Liverworts Green World Series (Green World)

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Wendy Madgwick , and Theresa Greenaway
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British Mosses and Liverworts
E. V. Watson
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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Dr Watsonâ€™s lucid introduction to British Mosses and Liverworts, first published in 1955, has since become a standard work. The author gives full descriptions and ecological details of over 200 of the commoner or more notable species, illustrating each to show its diagnostic microscopic and macroscopic features, and also provides brief notes on many other species. The introduction on the general characteristics of bryophytes, and the simple terminology (technical terms are kept to a minimum and defined in a glossary) enable a beginner to use the book without difficulty; the keys and habitat lists will be invaluable to beginners and specialists alike. This third edition incorporates a further 26 species and has brought the taxonomy and nomenclature into line with contemporary practice.

Bryophytes of Colorado: Mosses, Liverworts, and Hornworts

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Bryophytes of Colorado: Mosses, Liverworts, and Hornworts
William, A. Weber , and Ronald, C. Wittmann
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This off-the-wall travel guide presents an Ohio odder than imagined. It wastes no time describing Cedar Point or suggesting scenic bike rides through the Hocking Hills; instead, this entertaining travel companion directs out-of-state adventurers and Buckeye state residents to the home of the world's largest cockroach, an Amish SUV, Egg Shell Land, a two-headed calf, and the Accounting Hall of Fame. Ohio is depicted as the birthplace of bar codes, Airstream trailers, televangelism, Paul Lynde, Alcoholics Anonymous, and the banana split. Odd stories abound, and tales of Ohio as the only state where Jerry Springer has been elected the mayor of a major city, where a brick outhouse is on the National Register of Historic Places, and where Buster the Dog voted for president accompany the site-seeing suggestions. Plenty of photos and maps ensure that this guide is as practical as it is wacky when seeking out wonders such as the Great Pumpkin Watertower, Goodyear’s World of Rubber, and Bogart and Bacall's wedding site, then relaxing with a brew at the World’s Longest Bar.

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I excavatid all day wile my Mom red this book to me........1997-12-21

I loved this book beekos it shows you how to rite your name in hiroglifiks.The best part was digging owt the treshurs from the claye. Plees make moer kits. I did not like that the udjat and part of the scareb was missing. Mom red the book to me so I can be a Egyptologiste. by Melanie Merenda age 5

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Hot singers to watch in 2005.(Cover Story): An article from: Jet

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Photojournalism: exhibit gets visceral.(art watch): An article from: Business Mexico

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Photojournalism: exhibit gets visceral.(art watch): An article from: Business Mexico
Emily Hinch
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This digital document is an article from Business Mexico, published by American Chamber of Commerce of Mexico A.C. on August 1, 2003. The length of the article is 528 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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Your cat's sense of smell: it plays an important role in communication, social behavior, sexual activity and food appreciation.(Physiology): An article from: Cat Watch

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Your cat's sense of smell: it plays an important role in communication, social behavior, sexual activity and food appreciation.(Physiology): An article from: Cat Watch
Karen Commings
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This digital document is an article from Cat Watch, published by Thomson Gale on November 1, 2006. The length of the article is 1092 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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Whether it is their actions caught on camera or their subtle reactions to humans, felines have special charms. People who have kittens or cats as members of their families see a bit of their pets within the pages of Cat Chat. Even though cats' personalities and needs are the opposite from one another in many ways, Mikie, Eric and Dobbie ("the boys") have become friends, brothers and playmates. They engage in feline caring for one another, chasing each other and occasionally giving each other a feline swat. Not unlike human siblings, the boys snatch each other's favorite toys.

Through candid photographs, Sherry Splaver Rotman has elaborated on the boys' investigation of their physical environment that includes their human parents and feline siblings. Their mischievousness, which creates much household tumult, brings their photos alive and allows for a phrase or sentence to describe how she thinks they perceive their lives. In short vignettes Sherry writes the astute advice she thinks each sibling gives to the others.

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The dazzling cloths presented in this book are the visual record of one of the great untold stories of Asian cultural history: the trade in Indian textiles to Southeast Asia, China, and Japan. Outstanding among them are the tie-dyed silk patola made for Indonesia and the patterned cottons--the famous chintz--that were unmatched anywhere in fineness of design and permanence of color. The chintzes made for export to Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are now well known, but for over a thousand years these trade cloths were exchanged by merchants of all nations for the spices and valuables of the East. They were a key element in the formation of colonial maritime empires and, in the countries that sought to possess them, they clothed kings, served as prestigious diplomatic gifts, and even preserved wearers from death. John Guy explains the weaving techniques involved and describes the history of the trade in the Malay world, Indonesia, Thailand, Japan, China, and Vietnam. He draws on a vivid range of contemporary sources, including the records of visitors, merchants, and trading companies; on paintings and engravings; on modern ethnographical studies; on his own firsthand research; and above all on the textiles themselves.

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Anna Pavord has no patience for dwarf plants ("a perverse trend"), pastels ("Stop overdosing on pastels. We've had more than enough of them"), or winter gardens ("Who needs them? The pleasures of the winter garden are only for masochists"), not to mention all-white beds ("somnambulist gardening"). She has a sharp eye and a predilection for cheeky Briticisms, and she's not afraid to use either. Plant Partners is organized into seasons--the real growing seasons: signs of spring, spring turns to summer, high summer, and into autumn. Within these seasons Pavord presents 60 "star" plants that should be highlighted in the perennial bed. For each of her favorite plants she provides a supporting cast of two varieties--annuals, bulbs, or perennials--that partner particularly well with the stars, and under the same soil and light conditions. The groupings might be designed so that all of the flowers will be in bloom at once (pasqueflower with grape hyacinth and deep-purple primroses, for example), or so that when one flower's blooms are just starting to fade another's are waiting in the wings (lily-of-the-valley with a hellebore and barrenwort). A listing of "alternative" partners extends the range of choices to include more unusual plants and ones that might be more challenging to grow. Foliage is given as much consideration as blooms:

"Darling! Salmon! How brave!" exclaim the white-garden brigade as they sharpen their pruning knives for a horticultural mercy killing. You might as well fall on your garden fork there and then as try to explain that the point of the rodgersia they are looking at is not the buff-pink flower but the whirls of bronze underneath it.

But her exhortation to use foliage--as well as grasses and nonflowering perennials as "star" plants--to best advantage cannot be ignored in Plant Partners. Pavord's advice throughout is practical and opinionated. --Liana Fredley

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Magical planting suggestions from today's most compelling garden writer. Herbaceous perennials are the star performers in the garden. But to create maximum impact they need the right partners, and knowing which plant to put with which is an art that often eludes even the most knowledgeable of gardeners. Here, Anna Pavord helps to solve this tantalizing problem by suggesting 60 plants that she feels deserve a place in every garden -- her star plants -- and to accompany them, two ideal partners. She shows, season by season, how to create irresistible planting associations that juxtapose texture, shape, color, and scent. In these small-scale recipes she uses perennials, annuals, and bulbs that either perform simultaneously or dovetail to provide interest for most of the year. To extend the options, she also gives scores of alternatives for each combination. Stunning photographs and Anna's unique ability to awaken us to the delights and idiosyncrasies of these, her favorite plants, work together to provide a marvelous source of planting ideas. These can be visited time and time again, whether we want merely to fill one small gap, transform an awkward corner, or start a whole new border from scratch.

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Great for the Armchair gardiner........2007-02-09

`plant partners' by leading horticultural journalist, Anna Pavord, loudly proclaimed on the cover as the author of the best-selling `The Tulip' is comparable to culinary journalist Michael Ruhlman's writing a mass market paperback (probably from Workman or Chronicle Books) on foods which go together. In both cases, the authors' success with `high journalism' is no guarantee that their more pedestrian books will be worthy. Fortunately, like Ruhlman's `Charcuterie', Anna Pavord's more popular efforts like this volume are a cut above the average oversized book crafted to do well on the bargain table.

In fact, Ms. Pavord's book is so well accomplished, the average gardener may actually find it a bit dense. The first thing that stands out is the fact that not only does our scholarly Ms. Pavord use the formal Latin scientific names for all flowers (which I heartily endorse), she also uses these scientific names as the section headings. One has to go to the individual sections and look at the pictures of the flowers to be sure you know of what species she is talking.

Now many Latin names have become familiar enough to a dedicated gardener that this may not be a big thing to a true amateur gardener. Even I recognize with no prompting the fact that `Allium' is the name of the lilly genus and that `Hemerocallus' is the genus name for daylillies. Even easier are the genus names `Hosta', `Iris', and `Phlox'. This still leaves a fairly large number of pretty arcane names for the average occasional gardener.

My other major complaint about this book is that while the primary subject is the matter of pairing plants which go together well, there are very few pictures of the highlighted pairs, as they actually appear in the garden. There are wonderful pictures of many plants, but mostly they are `head shots' which are about as artificial as a photographic portrait taken in a studio.

Even with these two hurdles, this is a really worthy book, worth the effort needed to work with these stylistic choices. The very best aspect of the book is that the pairings are organized by season, and within season, offering pairs of plants that come together into their best presentation garb, whether that be flowers or foliage.

My second favorite thing about the book is that it does not limit itself to either annuals or perennials. It does not even limit itself to our most familiar plant phyla, as it includes several ferns, which are probably ignored by the average gardener.

My third favorite aspect of the book is that in spite of the far ranging variety of plants, it still manages to hit upon a few of my favorites, some of which are actually in my garden at this very moment. It is no surprise that my favorite here is the Tulip cultivar, `Princess Irene', of which I have planted hundreds.

Unlike cooking, which one can (and must) do throughout the year, gardening has those lovely / dreadful lulls in the winter (especially in my Zone 5 and in the author's England), where all one has to fuel the gardening gene is the seed catalogues and books such as the one we have here.

This is the kind of book you want to read through from cover to cover over the Christmas holidays with a notepad and pencil (or laptop) in hand, to record ideas for the coming spring. It will not yield much for the quick lookup. You will need to ponder this material and use it to fuel your imagination and keep that green thumb fertilized during the cold months. The book's value for this use is multiplied thrice over by the fact that Ms. Pavord knows how to write! She keeps you engaged while giving you a tour of facinating possibilities for the coming growing season.

A Must-Have Gardening Book........2005-04-26

This book is very informative and a pleasure to read. The author is both knowledgable and opinionated and even if one doesn't always agree with her, her humor is very funny; dry, understated, and British. Most of the plants she mentions are pictured somewhere in the book, and where the picture isn't on the same page as the description, the page number to locate the picture is in the margin right next to the written description. A great job and an excellent book!

Happy Gardener.......2004-03-23

I can't believe no one has yet to review this book. I find myself going through the book to look up a particular plant combination and then spending at least an hour paging through the book all over again. Anna Pavord's humo(u)rful writing makes for an easy read.

This book is a definite MUST HAVE for anyone, beginner, amateur or professional (even if they wouldn't admit to having it on their shelf) who is interested in combining plants. I started using it about a year ago, and the results are fantastic - these combinations work. I especially like the attention to normally overlooked plants such as euphorbias,violets, and columbines and I am dying to try some of the more exotic combinations.

The featured plant trios each contain a "star" plant and two companions. Each of the stars are also listed in the back with alternative partners. The book is organized with gradations from spring-summer-fall and includes bulbs as well as perennials and a few annuals. Missing are shrubs, roses, and climbers, but we can't have everything in one book, can we?

The main critique I have (if possible I would have deducted 1/2 a star) is that the cultural information is decidedly limited - beginners will need to supplement this book with a good all-around perennial book. The pictures are drop-dead gorgeous and alternative colors and specific named varieties are also given.

My advice - buy this book now and you can still get these plants in before spring really gets rolling.

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This volume deals with philosophical trends in Japan from the beginning of the Meiji era (1868) to the present, in connection with European philosophy, arranged in two chapters, a full chronological table of publications and an index of names. The first chapter follows philosophical trends up to 1945; the first question treated is: How did the Japanese receive that European philosophy known as liberation and enlightenment? They soon began to develop their own philosophy, in particular under the influence of German idealism; for instance in the work of Nishida, Tanabe, Miki, Kuki and Watsuji. The trend makes a 180-degree turn in 1945. The experiences of a defeated Japan lead to the confrontation with the self and all existing selves; it is once more a liberation, and there occurs then a new tendency, from `reason' to `body'; as, for instance, in Nakamura Hajime, Izutsu Toshihiko and Yuasa Yasuo. FR Der Band wendet sich den philosophischen Stromungen Japans vom Anfang der Meijizeit (1868) bis heute im Zusammenhang mit der europaischen Philosophie, gegliedert in zwei Kapitel, ausfuhrliche Zeittafel der Veroffentlichungen und Namenregister. Das erste Kapitel verfolgt die philosophische Stromung bis 1945; zuerst kommt das Problem, wie Japaner europaische Philosophie aufnahmen; das bedeutet Befreiung und Aufklarung. Dann kam eigene philosophische Entwicklung vor allem unter dem Einfluss des deutschen Idealismus; z.B. die Werke von Nishida, Tanabe, Miki, Kuki und Watsuji. Die Stromung dreht sich 1945 um 180 Grad. Die Erfahrung des Verlusts Japans fuhrt zur Auseinandersetzung mit sich selbst und mit allen Bestehenden; es ist wieder eine Befreiung, und dann kommt eine neue Tendenz von der Vernunft zur verleiblichung; z.B. bei Nakamura Hajime, Izutsu Toshihiko und Yuasa Yasuo. NIEUWE TEXT Die Entwicklung der Philosophie in Japan seit dem Anfang der Modernisierung steht im Zeichen der Konfrontation mit dem Westen. Nach einer Periode der Rezeption fangt die eigentliche Entwicklung der modernen japanischen Philosophie an, vor allem unter Einfluss des deutschen Idealismus, mit Namen wie Nishida, Tanabe, Miki, Kuki und Watsuji. Die Ereignisse des Jahres 1945 fuhren zur Auseinandersetzung mit sich selbst und mit allen Bestehenden und zu einer Umwalzung in der japanischen Philosophie.

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GCSE study.......2003-10-02

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A Priceless Allegory.......2001-12-29

J.B. Priestley's classic drama "An Inspector Calls" has a sturdy allegorical ring that reminds me of another great British author's work, "A Pilgrim's Progress" by John Bunyan. The Birling family, prominent society figures of Brunley, a North Midlands town, are celebrating the engagement of their daughter Sheila to the son of a prominent local family when a man calling himself Inspector Goole arrives unannounced.

Whatever triumphal joy they earlier felt is soon washed away as the Inspector informs them that a young woman by the name of Eva Smith has just died in the local infirmary, a painful suicide victim prompted by taking disinfectant. Gradually he draws everyone in the household into the picture. All are implicated in the tragic downfall leading to Eva's suicide. Mr. Birling fired her after she was a leader in a strike at his factory, resulting from her asking for a fair weekly wage. His daugher Sheila caused a dismissal from Eva's next job at a department store in a jealous rage over the young woman's good looks. Sheila's husband to be Gerald found a room for her temporarily, had an affair with her, then let her go. Eric Birling, Sheila's brother, impregnated her, after which she sought help from the charity committee headed by Mrs. Birling, who coldly spurned her.

The only two members of the Birling household who feel appropriately contrite are Eric and Sheila. When it appears that the incident might be a hoax the others are relieved, ignoring their abominable behavior toward the girl.

Just when it appears that they might all be in the clear, and it is learned that the mysterious Inspector Goole was no more than an apparition or hoax of some kind, a call is received that a girl has indeed died in the infirmary from ingesting disinfectant and that an Inspector is on his way to question the Birling family! And at a time when Mr. Birling expects to be offered a knighthood, no less!

The dialogue is crisp and the mysterious Inspector Goole forces the family to look for once beyond their own selfish interests and contemplate the tragic consequences of conduct stemming from their ruthless mindset. "An Inspector Calls" reads brilliantly and plays mesmerizingly until the final curtain. It has been playing for better than a decade at London's West End, where I have seen it 3 times and intend to see it more times in the future. Its timeless message remains as vital now as when it premiered starring Alec Guinness and Ralph Richardson in 1946.

Inspector calls.......2001-07-04

I am currently studying this book at school and am thourly enjoying it it is a great book and as i am doing an essay on it i thought im would come and get some review on it this has helped me a lot and thanx to Amazon[.com]

Not a typical murder story........2001-05-27

I really liked this book.

If you didn't study this play for G.C.S.E'S you missed out.......2001-02-07

An Inspector Calls is a play for the thinkers in our world.Who love to ponder on the actions and consquences of every person. This book is clever, mysterious and thought provoking. Anyone who reads it will be captured by the Inspector and his inquiry into the death of the character Eva Smith! This makes you think (if only for the few hours after reading it) of your own actions and there possible consquences in life and perhaps of the better world we could live in IF we only went through life constantly thinking of others!

York Notes on J.B.Priestley's "Inspector Calls" (York Notes)

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GCSE "An Inspector Calls" (Letts Explore)

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