Sonoran Desert Wildflowers: A Field Guide to the Common Wildflowers of the Sonoran Desert, Including Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, Saguaro National Park, Organ Pipe National Monument, Ironwood Forest National Monument, and the Sonoran Portion of Joshua Tree National Park

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This guide features 300 of the common plants of the Sonoran Desert. Detailed descriptions, information about bloom season and range, and interesting facts about each plant accompany the full-color photographs. 300 color photos

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Sonoran Desert Wildflowers.......2007-01-30

A must-have book for your library of Desert Wildflower books. It is arranged by color of bloom, has beautiful photographs, and the text is very informative. Each plant description also has a comment of something unusual or interesting about it, which is a novelty for a flower book.

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From Cancún to Acapulco to Los Cabos, Mexico offers travelers some of the most beautiful and relaxing beach resorts in the world. Deciding which is right for you can be a chore. Luckily, this fun and friendly guide covers everything you need for an unforgettable vacation in the sun, including:

All the hotspots, how to get there, and what to do
Great ideas for eco-tourists
A detailed trip planner that keeps you on time—and on budget
A helpful glossary of Spanish words and phrases
Where to find the hottest nightlife
Helpful contact information—from pharmacies to babysitters

Like every For Dummies travel guide, Mexico’s Beach Resorts For Dummies includes:

Down-to-earth trip-planning advice
What you shouldn’t miss — and what you can skip
The best restaurants and hotels for every budget
Lots of detailed maps

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Mexico's Beach Resorts for Dummies

Manufacturer: HUNGRY MINDS (TWLD)
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000GXEMT6

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Paul Tuttle Designs surveys Tuttle's 50-year career, primarily as a furniture designer, showcasing more than 60 examples of seating and tables, and highlighting five homes he designed in Santa Barbara early in his career. Paul Tuttle's (1918-2002) impressive oeuvre is noted for its combination of gorgeous woods with materials such as steel, glass, cane, and upholstery. Regardless of how aesthetically beautiful or freshly inventive his creations are, they were always intended to be functional.

Tuttle stands out among mid-to-late twentieth-century designers in his avoidance of trends or styles and his commitment to solving design problems in an original way. Working within a modernist tradition, Tuttle's work is distinguished by an elegance of line, purity of materials, fascination with structure, and delight in small details. Although crafted with precision and taste, his furniture often exudes a distinctive quirky playfulness that reflects the designer's belief that a sense of fun should be part of a work's purpose.

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Paul Tuttle: 3 Evolutions +
Paul Tuttle , Nancy Doll , and Aaron Betsky
Manufacturer: The Forum
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Furniture | How-to & Home Improvements | Home & Garden | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 1880658097

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Paul Tuttle: Design+ the 80s, University Art Museum, Santa Barbara, March 4-April 18, 1987
Paul Tuttle
Manufacturer: The Museum]
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: 0942006135

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Tuttle: Paul Tuttle designs, October 10, 2001-January 13, 2002, University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara
Paul Tuttle
Manufacturer: Univerity Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

Furniture | How-to & Home Improvements | Home & Garden | Subjects | Books
ASIN: B0006RTQ5W

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Improve the performance of your horse by following these sound principles of care and management. With The Complete Performance Horse, readers will learn how to ensure that their horse can perform his best in competition by focusing on the four most important aspects of care: feeding, training, preventive medicine and treatment. Well repected equine veterinarian Colin Vogel explains complex scientific principles in an accessible, easy-to-understand way, making this an invaluable reference book for anyone involved in equestrian competition.

The Complete Performance Horse: Preventive Medicine, Fitness, Feeding, Lameness

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The Complete Performance Horse
Equine nutrition

The Complete Performance Horse: Preventive Medicine, Fitness, Feeding, Lameness
Colin Vogel
Manufacturer: David & Charles
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

Equine Medicine | Veterinary Medicine | Medicine | Subjects | Books

General | Veterinary Medicine | Medicine | Subjects | Books

Reference | Outdoors & Nature | Subjects | Books

Animal Husbandry | Agricultural Sciences | Science | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 0715303457

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The Complete Performance Horse.......2001-12-13

This an excellent book for anyone interested in the science of keeping a performance horse sound and bringing it to peak condition at the time of the events of the season. The details of new information on interpreting physiological signs in your horse will help the analytical, or the more intuitive owner of a polocrosse, event, polo or trail horse.

I normally don't buy books. But having read this one from the library, I found it so useful, I had to own my own copy.

Equine nutrition.......1999-07-24

Good nutrition is very important for the sportive horse

The Way They Run at Santa Anita Hollywood Park Del Mar (A Complete Performance Analysis of the Southern California Meetings)

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The Way They Run at Santa Anita Hollywood Park Del Mar (A Complete Performance Analysis of the Southern California Meetings)
R. C. Evenson , and C. C. Jones
Manufacturer: Techno-Graphic Publications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000K28M12

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"This volume is intended to provide a comprehensive analysis of previous racing performances at major Southern California tracks which will indicate to the player what the trends or "tools" for the meeting under consideration will logically be. This analysis is not intended to tell the player what to play or to indicate systems or methods of racing. Rather, its purpose is to allow the player to evaluate and thereby modify or adjust his method of play by applying these trends evidenced from previous meetings." Chapters include: The Southern California Tracks -- history and background and track descriptions of the three major tracks -- Santa Anita Park, Hollywood Park and Del Mar. The Public Choice Analysis -- the odds and the mutuels, the public choices, winning first public choices at Southern California Tracks, performance analysis presentation, interpretations and conclusions, and win percentages. Jockey and Trainer Analysis -- jockey and mutuel price, jockeys and the track, jockeys and the public, jockeys and the trainer and the horse, the trainer's strategies and tactics, the trainers performance, and conclusions about jockeys and trainers. Post position analysis -- relative effects of post position, evaluation of post position performance, post position analysis presentations, and conclusions from post position analysis. Daily double analysis -- playing the daily double, daily double playoffs, considerations for daily double play, method of play for daily doubles, interpretation of the daily double analysis, and conclusions.

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Explaining and critically reviewing management procedures such as performance indicators and strategic planning, this book shows how techniques from mainstream management can be used to facilitate a holistic and professional approach to the business of conservation and collection preservation. It offers practical guidance on strategy, quantitative planning and condition surveying, and presents many solutions to the challenges faced by museum staff and conservation specialists.
This new edition takes into account changes such as the arrival of the Heritage Lottery Fund, policies for access and the growing convergence of museums, libraries and archives. It also highlights the advent of digital collections and the use of information and communications technology.

* Learn about professional management information techniques and how to apply them to the preservation of collections
* Covers the latest issues in conservation management, including information on digital collections, to give readers a full understanding of the subject
* An ideal reference which demystifies the issue of 'management'

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Good beginners guide

Taylor's Weekend Gardening Guide to Indoor Gardens: A Complete How-To-Guide to Selecting, Planting, and Caring for the Best Plants for Every Indoor Landscape (Taylor's Weekend Gardening Guides)
Tovah Martin
Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Gardening & Horticulture | Home & Garden | Subjects | Books
House Plants | Gardening & Horticulture | Home & Garden | Subjects | Books
Reference | Gardening & Horticulture | Home & Garden | Subjects | Books
General | Techniques | Gardening & Horticulture | Home & Garden | Subjects | Books
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Indoor plants

Glorious Indoor Gardens

ASIN: 0395829445

Book Description

Indoor gardening, after years of neglect, is now the subject of renewed interest. For the first time White Flower Farm is selling house plants, and Martha Stewart is featuring them on her television show. This book goes far beyond the collection of pots on a windowsill to show the many plants you can choose and the many ways you can use them to create an indoor garden. From basic how-to growing information to theme gardens, from ornamental containers to designs for topiaries, this is the one indoor plant book every reader will want to have.

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Good beginners guide.......2005-10-19

I like this book because it gives lists of which plants like which exposure (south, north, etc.) A reference section of good indoor plants to have is included. Also includes tips on what to look for when buying plants, suggested window arrangements and room locations for plants. May be too basic for the advanced indoor gardener, but it's great for beginners.

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Producing Music with Digital Performer is a comprehensive guide to the features and strategies behind one of the most powerful pieces of music production software. There are in-depth descriptions of Digital Performer's windows and features, and detailed discussions of audio and MIDI recording and editing techniques. Beginning users will learn basic skills and a practical approach to digital music making, and more seasoned users will learn efficient strategies and shortcuts to help them get the most out of this powerful tool.

Customer Reviews:

DP's short manual.......2007-09-16

A good book for a start. Useful and handy, but still waiting for a tips and tricks book, since this is no more fun than a regular user manual. The book covers the main tools for music production, which are very well explained, though they go no further than anything we could do with any other audio app. DP has loads of hidden features and possibilities, that made it the best Audio/ MIDI app around. Therefore a deeper more creative guide for DP would be very welcome. Anyway, this book is a must.

I feel like I know DP and I haven't even used it yet!.......2005-07-29

I've never used Digital Performer or Mac OS X before although I've been recording with PC gear and software for many years. I purchased "Producing Music with Digital Performer" because I was interested in working at a studio that uses DP.

The book made very few assumptions about what I already knew (installing the program is about all) and began by explaining the basics about connecting MIDI and audio gear. Author Ben Newhouse does a fine job of introducing the newbie to all the basics of DP4 including project folders, templates, sequences, and all the various navigation tools and control panel drawers. I'm grateful this information was included although more experienced users would likely skip over this.

The approach taken is always practical and musically relevant as most of the instruction takes the form of "rebuilding" an instrumental track from the included audio CD. Step by step the reader is guided through how to set up the necessary tracks, record, and edit, first using MIDI tracks then audio tracks. A valuable chapter on Mixing demonstrates how to 'put it all together' while considering different types of studio set ups. A chapter on Musical Considerations goes beyond using DP and contains a number of midi sequencing tips and tricks that could be valuable regardless of software program used.

The final chapter provides what many books lack and that's a way to test your knowledge of the subject you've been studying. Twelve DP project 'exercises' drill you on everything covered in the book, from setting up a project and naming tracks to audio editing and automation. Each step in the exercise includes a reference to the section of the book that covers a particular feature so that you can quickly look it up if you forget how to do something.

Overall I really like this book, I think it's given me a great heads up on using Digital Performer. Now all I need is to buy a Mac and the latest version of DP.

The Perfect Guide.......2005-02-02

"Producing Music wih Digital Performer" is one of the best books I've ever purchased. The format of the book is simple and easy to understand. The techniques I've learned by reading this book have immensely improved the sound quality of my music. I have learned how to use Digital Performer to its greatest potential and have found it to be an even greater tool than I had previously realized. As an added bonus, the included CD is a wonderful tool for practicing the techniques presented in the book. I highly recommend "Producing Music with Digital Performer" to anyone who has used this program and wants to imporve the quality of their MIDI productions.

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