Cacti of the Trans-Pecos & Adjacent Areas

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A landmark guide, complete and definitive

Of the 132 species and varieties of cacti in Texas, about 104 of them occur in the fifteen counties of the Trans-Pecos region. This volume includes full descriptions of those many genera, species, and varieties of cacti, with sixty-four maps showing the distribution of each species in the region.

The descriptions follow the latest findings of cactus researchers worldwide and include scientific names; common names; identifying characters based on vegetative habit, flowers, fruit, and seeds; identification of flowerless specimens; and phenology and biosystematics.

The introduction—full of details about the biology and morphology of the family Cactaceae, the uses of cacti, and the horticulture and conservation of cacti—is an important reference for general readers. More than three hundred beautiful full-color photographs of the cacti in flower and in fruit, all cross-referenced to their description in the text, highlight the book.

A glossary of cactus terms, an exhaustive list of literature, and a thorough index complete the book.

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Cacti of the Trans Pecos by A.M. Powell.......2005-08-03

This book fills a gap in the literature. It is well executed and well illustrated. Every cactus lover should have it. The price is very reasonable.

New cactus guide for Texas desperately needed.......2005-03-12

Cactus lovers have been waiting hopefully for a new scientific work on Texas cacti. Weninger's excellent book is out of print and thus hard to obtain. A. Michael Powell has a solid reputation for readable and accurate botany. I'm buying his book at the recommendation of a fellow student of native plants. I'm willing to bet my reputation that this book is excellent and well worth the investment of buying it. Christina Mild, plant columnist for the Valley Morning Star in Harlingen, TX. "Rio Delta Wild"

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helpful guidebook.......2007-07-13

This book provided a good introduction to the city of Edinburgh, though the part I used the most and found most helpful was the map section in the back. The maps are very detailed and were extrememly useful to me as I navigated the streets of the city.

Great book and major overhaul.......2002-02-08

Not only is this book witty, it covers all the city sights and is very useful. This book is written by a different author from the first edition and the change is phenomenal. This book is definitely recommended - the colourful festivals section is totally cool.

Unfortunately, this books lacks the quality of other LP's........1999-10-13

This guide to Edinburgh unfortunately lacks the quality we're used from Lonely Planet. I couldn't taste any commitment of the author to the subject, it almost looks like that the author wrote the guide during an afternoon visit. Surprisingly, many very interesting features of Edinburgh are not included, like the Botanical Gardens. Many other features are decribed too briefly. When looking for a guide of the town, step into a local bookstore en look for the locally issued handbook of Edinburgh, published bij Mercat Press. It's good souvenir too.

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The Columbia, America's Great Highway Through the Cascade Mountains to the Sea
Samuel Christopher Lancaster
Manufacturer: S.C. Lancaster
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Binding: Hardcover
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The Columbia: America's Great Highway Through the Cascade Mountains to the Sea
Samuel Christopher Lancaster , and Walt (FWD) Curtis
Manufacturer: Schiffer Publishing
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The Columbia: America's Great Highway Through the Cascade Mountains to the Sea
Samuel Christopher Lancaster
Manufacturer: J.k. Gill Co.
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ASIN: B000OBEV6Y

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The Columbia: America's Great Highway, through the Cascade Mountains to the Sea
Samuel Christopher Lancaster
Manufacturer: J. K. Gill Company
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The Columbia America's Great Highway through the Cascade Mountains to the Sea
Samuel Christopher Lancaster
Manufacturer: The J. K. Gill Co.
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The Columbia, America's Great Highway Through the Cascade Mountains to the Sea
Samuel C. LANCASTER
Manufacturer: J.K. Gill Company
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The Columbia, America's great highway through the Cascade Mountains to the sea
Samuel Christopher Lancaster
Manufacturer: S. C. Lancaster
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Binding: Paperback
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The Columbia: America's Great Highway Through the Cascade Mountains to the Sea
Samuel Christopher Lancaster
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Very little information about what the different herbs are used for.

If you want to grow herbs commercially, read this

Everything you need to know...and more

The Bootstrap Guide to Medicinal Herbs in the Garden, Field & Marketplace (Bootstrap Guide)
Lee Sturdivant , and Tim Blakley
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Very little information about what the different herbs are used for........2005-07-13

It has all the information you need for starting your herb business, just dont expect to learn what people use the herbs for.

If you want to grow herbs commercially, read this.......2003-01-03

I counsel people on growing medicinal herbs commercially and this is the number one book I recommend to people considering starting a herb business. Lee Sturdivant provides inspirational stories from successful herb businesses around the nation. Tim Blakley provides an extensive listing of a wide variety of popular medicinal herbs and the most up-to-date information on how to grow them. Harvesting, packaging, and marketing information is also provided. Excellent book! I hope the authors will keep this one updated for us.

Everything you need to know...and more.......2000-01-10

This is an amazing book. When my husband and I began to consider the cultivation of medicinal herbs as a retirement project, The Bootstrap Guide was recommended to us by Heather McNeill of Frontier Herbs, a major medicinal herb marketer.

The Bootstrap Guide to Medicinal Herbs exceeded my expectations. In addition to an overview of the medicinal herb industry, there are profiles of growers and herbal product manufacturers, growing requirements, and detailed instructions for propagation, cultivation, harvesting, and marketing, including questionaires filled out by herb marketing companies such as Frontier and Celestial Seasonings. These questionaires alone are worth the price of the book, giving such information as minimum purchase quantities, preference for fresh or dried, organic or non-organic, and market projections.

In addition, there is a thorough discussion of the ethics of wildcrafting and the need to develop domesticated sources for the many herbs whose popularity has made them endangered species. All this in a friendly, concise, well-written 318 pages.

If herb-growing or market gardening forms a part of your life, or your plans, read this book.

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Rhetoric and Redaction in Trito-Isaiah attempts to integrate the insights of rhetorical criticism into a diachronic study of Isaiah 56-66. Whereas previous, redaction-critical approaches to these chapters have tended to be strongly fissive in their treatment of this material, insights from rhetorical and stylistic criticism are used here to emphasize the elements of unity and coherence in longer sections of text, and to provide additional criteria by which to delimit and structure sections of this poetry. On this basis, a number of new proposals will be presented concerning the structure and extent of the poems in Isaiah 56-59 and 65-66. The two concluding chapters, building upon the insights from the preceding section, develop a whole series of new suggestions concerning the old problems of the authorship and historical background of Isaiah 56-66.

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No American playwright has written more compellingly about the subtle ways in which people inflict pain on each other than Neil LaBute. His films In the Company of Men and Your Friends and Neighbors both gained critical renown for their biting satire and caustic wit. Now, with The Distance from Here, he has written his most riveting play yet, an intense look at the dark side of American suburbia.

With little to occupy their time other than finding a decent place to hang out--the zoo, the mall, the school parking lot--Darrell and Tim are two American teenagers who lack any direction or purpose in their lives. When Darrell's suspicion about the faithlessness of his girlfriend is confirmed and Tim comes to her defense, there is nothing to brake their momentum as all three speed toward disaster.

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TV's on and no one's home.......2006-12-14

This is a work that John Lahr (theater reviewer for The New Yorker) suggested be placed on the short list of important contemporary plays. I have to agree. It is the type of play that can and should be read again and again, each reading revealing some new aspect of story, some deeper layer of meaning, and some subtle nuance of character.

The prime movers of the story are Darrell and Tim, two teenagers on the precipice of, well, falling off of it and into a void of mindless jobs, empty relationships, and violence and alcohol infused escapism. It's almost as if they see the world passing them by, but lack the desire or energy to try to keep up. But what kind of a world is it anyway? One of manufactured sensation, numbing repetition, and greeting card emotional relationships. The plot revolves around Darrell's growing belief that his girlfriend Jenn has betrayed and lied to him. His eventual response to the perceived betrayal is misguided and shocking, and will stay with you long after you've finished reading.

What LaBute has managed so brilliantly is tell an intricate story with characters who are essentially inarticulate. Between the um's and whatever's he creates an America we fear is out there, perhaps even glimpse from time to time, but quickly put out of our minds. "The Distance From Here" shows us it may not be as far away as we think.

An incredible play--another notch in Labute's belt.......2005-04-23

This is an incredible play. In this play Labute writes about the type of situations that you'd see on Jerry Springer, so this is a kind of "Labute does Jerry Springer." I may be an oddity, but I like Springer. I also like Labute, so this is a great play for the likes of me.

This play isn't for everyone, but if you've ever read Labute, then you know that nothing he writes is for everyone. It probably borders on being his darkest play, with frequent use of the f, c, and n words, and has a bunch of other racial slurs in it.

I've kind of been wondering about what kind of a person Labute is. Is he a kind of Stephen King-type person who writes well, but is really a weirdo, or what? In the book, Labute writes a two-page introduction that contains such humanity, care for people, and emotion, that it answered this question for me--he's is very human, but is extremely observational about the dark side of life.

This is one of my top two Labute plays. Excellent job.

This is why we read........2004-11-05

I have not seen this play performed, only read it, and what I read was excellent. Fans of Neil Labute's work will be pleased to see that he has branched out to a new demographic, straying from the upper-middle class business-man type that so commonly (although not regrettably) populate his plays and stories.

Instead what we have is the story of a group of lower-class friends and family - although I hate the term, "white-trash" does come to mind. However Mr. labute does not treat them as such. Rather he presents them as down-on-their-luck folk that have simply been delt a rotten hand in life and who know in spite of their hopes that their is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Hell, there's not even a rainbow.

The story revolves around a kid named Darrel, his friends Tim and Jenn, and his family which consists of an apathetic mother, a tough-guy of a step father and a naive older-step sister. Labute focuses on the influence of family and friends and the hierarchy of the lower class - with the person who is the least affected by inevitable physical and emotional abuse ruling over them all.

I myself did not grow up in a house with these people, these kinds of people, but I did know them well through school and friends. Neil Labute has captured a small, and almost completely unrecorded demographic of the american subculture and should be praised for his accuracy, honesty and unblinking earnestness in the telling of their story. Don't expect to enjoy this as you would a regular play. Chances are that most people will probably set this book down with the sense that they have just witnessed something gross and disturbing. And indeed they have. But you will be a better person because of it. This, folks, is why we read.

Oh Neil, Was this your first?.......2004-10-17

Alright. Here we go. Let me first start by saying, I LOVE Neil LaBute and his writing. He's hard, gritty, and exposes all that deep, personal stuff that our bottled up society tries so desperatly to hide. I, myself, have become inspired many times to write my own works after reading his shows. I would consider him, as well do many of my colleges, to be one of the greatest examples of a contemporary theatre playwright.

But he kinda missed the boat with this one.

Sure, it was a good idea. But just because it was a good idea doesn't mean it goes anywhere. Much like this play. It goes nowhere. In fact, it never starts. It's just kinda like that dumb horse that forgets to run after the gun is fired. We just see some characters enter, talk about pointless stuff, and they leave. It really doesn't pick up until the last few chapters, but even then it isn't satisfying enough to make up for the whole other eighty something pages you had to dredge through just to get to that point.

And maybe that's what he wanted. Nothing characters with no depth and a serious lack of direction, making their distance from there, quite a long and arduous task, especially for characters of their caliber, or lack of it. The mere thought of any sort of positive advancement in their lives would cause any one of them to either give up a go drink a 40 or send them into a depression so deep that suicide is the only comfort. So those characters sit there, twiddling their thumbs, waiting in their static lives for something to come along a give them a Second of Pleasure (read that one, it's great!). Shoot, I bet if someone were to burp it would give them the most action they'd ever seen.

So, once again, I'm sorry Neil LaBute, but this one just wasn't your best work. I, being a young playwright myself, have turned a lot of bad work. And some good stuff too. Much like a lot of his other works.

I would highly recommend The Shape of Things (my personal favorite), The Mercy Seat, Seconds of Pleasure, and Bash. All are amazing testaments to the shining and shocking brilliance that is Neil LaBute.

From here-- to there on the Florida Trail: A companion guide for long distance hikers

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From here-- to there on the Florida Trail: A companion guide for long distance hikers
Susan Roquemore
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Telepathy of the celestial world,: Psychic phenomena here but foreshadowings of our transcendent faculties hereafter. Evidences from psychology and Scripture ... across distance indefinitely great

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Telepathy of the celestial world,: Psychic phenomena here but foreshadowings of our transcendent faculties hereafter. Evidences from psychology and Scripture ... across distance indefinitely great
Horace Coffin Stanton
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From a distance: implementing a teleworking program boosts employee morale and reduces HR costs. Here's how to do it right.(MAKING NEWS) : An article from: Pool & Spa News

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From a distance: implementing a teleworking program boosts employee morale and reduces HR costs. Here's how to do it right.(MAKING NEWS) : An article from: Pool & Spa News

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Until space tourism gets here, it's hard to spend big on travel. (Focus on Local and Long-Distance Tourism).: An article from: Westchester County Business Journal

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Until space tourism gets here, it's hard to spend big on travel. (Focus on Local and Long-Distance Tourism).: An article from: Westchester County Business Journal
Ed Klein
Manufacturer: Westfair Communications, Inc.
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Binding: Digital
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Release Date: 2005-07-28

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This digital document is an article from Westchester County Business Journal, published by Westfair Communications, Inc. on May 21, 2001. The length of the article is 953 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: Until space tourism gets here, it's hard to spend big on travel. (Focus on Local and Long-Distance Tourism).
Author: Ed Klein
Publication: Westchester County Business Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 21, 2001
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Volume: 40 Issue: 21 Page: 15(2)

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Finding the shortest distance on the Earth's surface from here to Timbuktu (Modules and monographs in undergraduate mathematics and its applications)

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Finding the shortest distance on the Earth's surface from here to Timbuktu (Modules and monographs in undergraduate mathematics and its applications)
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