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This full-color field guide invites readers to explore the Pacific Northwest s diverse array of mountain wildflowers, ferns, trees, and grasses.
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good, but only covers common species. no keys to genus/sp.......1997-03-24
Good photographs, but these alone are not adequate to allow identification of many of the species described. Since most distinguishing characteristics of related species are described in terms of "less than" or "more than" the species photographed, and since you often can't see those characters in the photograph, it is often difficult to use this field guide to distinguish between related species.
The key is only to the family level
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Marrying lively essays and color photography--the hallmark of the origingal, award--winning Insight Guides--with a portable format and more practical information, the new Insight City Guides are the next generation in travel guides. Magazine-style information includes money-savings tips, free attractions, activities for kids, and websites. Expert evaluations of must-see sites boast full-bleed photos. A street atlas, tabbed travel tips section, and bonus take-it-away with you mini restaurant guide and city map complete the most user-friendly travel guides on the market.
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Insight Guide: Paris (Insight City Guide Paris)
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- Where are the arondissements?
- excellent for avoiding the guided tour
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Where are the arondissements?.......2004-05-07
Paris is organized into neighborhoods called arondissements. Insight Guides appears to be unaware of this. Therefore their map are COMPLETELY useless because they do not correspond to ANY OTHER information about the city that is available in any other guidebook, map, book of restaurant reviews, etc. Why would anyone leave out something as crucial to this city as its arondissements? Because they're trying to frustrate the hapless traveler unfortunate enough to find herself trying to rely on an Insight product?
excellent for avoiding the guided tour.......1998-10-02
If you would like to view your own tour at your own pace, this book is great. To avoid being hearded like cattle with a guided tour use the helpful map enclosed, with all the site areas clearly marked.
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Paris Insight Guide (Insight City Guide)
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- If it helps teach an interest in Yiddishkeit , then why not?
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If it helps teach an interest in Yiddishkeit , then why not?.......2005-07-26
This book is an effort to interest young people in Judaism. It provides a variety of quizzes on aspects of Jewish life and identity. It has a rich concentration of information about Jewish religious life.
One might consider this a way of ' dumbing down ' Jewish education and thus look at it negatively. Or one might as I prefer to do look at it as another attempt to provide 'material' that will bring Jewish young people to learning more about their heritage,and themselves.
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Restart: New Systems in Graphic Design
Emily King , and
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The multilayered, fragmented, postmodern style of graphic design revolutionized by desk-top computing has run its course. Anything that could be tried has been tried.
Graphic design today has entered a new period, one of greater experimentation that often takes place outside the commercial realm and forces us to reconsider what we have taken as a given. What has emerged is a radical body of work that is rapidly redefining the very nature and scope of design.
As presented in this dynamic international showcase of the world's hottest thirty-seven studios, three sensibilities characterize this avant-garde: "Code," "Generic," and "Disjunction." "Code" looks at the innovative ways designers, tired of using the computer as a tool with applications that are analogues to conventional media, are becoming programmers, unleashing the computer's processing powers to discover new worlds of extreme beauty. Designers in "Generic" confront the ordinary to offer us an offbeat system of signs, symbols, and meanings that are still strangely familiar. Finally, "Disjunction" considers work that appropriates anything to advance its own, often self-interested aims, whether they be political, social, aesthetic, or even personal.
All of these approaches respond in their different ways to the problems facing the graphic designer, and while none endeavors to set out a single systematic solution for design, many suggest unexpected and entirely original ways to communicate images and words. In the ever-shifting realm of contemporary culture, Restart offers a new grid.
With over 600 illustrations in color and black and white.
Contributors: Joshua Berger/Plazm; Paul Farrington/Tonne; Henrik Kubel + Scott Williams; Andreas Lauhoff; John Maeda; Sara Maconkey; Norm; Ralph Steinbrüchel; Stefanie Barth; Tomato Interactive; Bump; Anthony Burrill; Paul Elliman; Miles Murray Sorrell (Fuel); Graphic Thought Facility; Müller + Hess; Paul Plowman; Jake Tilson; 2x4; Alexander Boxill; Peter Anderson; Irma Boom; Darren Hughes; Angus Hyland; Scott King; Mitsuo Katsui; M/M; Bruce Mau; Ellen Lupton and J. Abbott Miller; Mevis + van Deursen; One9ine; Paul Sahre; Peters Saville; Frank Philippin; Cornel Windlin; Ian Wright and Bob Wilkinson; Michael Worthington
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This is our ninth set of Happy, Healthy Pet titles. These latest books will bring our series up to sixty-seven titles and, like the others, they are books that pet owners can turn to for the essential information they need to raise a happy, healthy pet.
All books contain information on:
- feeding
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As our series expands and focuses on different kinds of pets, the emphasis remains on making the pet a companion. Owners of more unusual pets will particularly appreciate the expert advice in these books because professional care for exotic animals can be hard to come by. As always, the instruction in the books is from experts (people who know their pets intimately but always remember what it was like to have one the first time).
Happy, Healthy Pet guides are rich with professional quality color photos and are designed to be enjoyable and easy to learn from.
The Lhasa Apso dog is a steadfast favorite AKC registered breed. More and more people are finding out that this hardy little dog makes a wonderful family pet. Carolyn Herbel, from Putnam, Oklahoma, shows and breeds Lhasa Apsos.
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If you have a Lhasa...get this book!.......2000-05-19
When I bought my Lhasa Apso, this book kept me from freaking out! It does an excellent job of explaining the breed and all the challenges (and joys!) of owning one of these wonderful dogs. I use this book as my Lhasa "Bible" and it has helped me raise a healthy and very happy little puppy!
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- Our Lhasa Apso named Duie
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These cheerful and intelligent little dogs make fine pets, but have long, flowing hair that demands regular grooming. All Complete Pet Owner's Manuals are heavily illustrated with color photos and line art, and are filled with reliable, easy-to-understand information on pet care. The many titles in this series show and tell pet owners how to care for dogs, cats, birds, fish, reptiles, gerbils, hamsters, and virtually every other animal that is kept as a pet. The books give advice on purchasing and otherwise acquiring a pet, maintaining health care, housing, proper feeding, and where applicable, grooming and training. Clear, straightforward text comes with high-quality, full-color photos and anatomically accurate line art, as well as helpful tables and charts. Paperback / 96 Pages / 6 1/2 x 7 7/8 / 2002
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Our Lhasa Apso named Duie.......2005-08-12
Enjoyed the book, as our dog is new to us and we wanted to learn a little more about his background. The book was interesting in explaining the history of the breed. We were disappointed as we didn't see but one picture that actually looked like our dog. I guess he has a 'puppy cut' so those pictures were more familiar to us.
"Lhasa Information".......2002-07-22
The Lsaha Apso is one of the lesser-know breeds which is increasing in popularity. This manual covers virtually every general topic on this breed that an owner (or veterinarian) would want to be knowledgeable of. It is, virtually, a brand new edition on the Lhasa Apso from Barrons, and has been entirely re-written from the earlier version.
This book provides a comprehensive picture of what this attractive breed is like (personality, durability, loyalty, compatibility) and if it is suitable for your lifestyle (their exotic, flowing haircoat does require some dedication to proper grooming).
Not a single page in this book has been wasted--each one is packed with relevant details on historical origin, breed selection,personality, purchasing, grooming, nutrition, training and medical care. The summary of useful groups of information into tables and side bars provides a excellent format that makes locating information easy and quick. The photos and drawings fit nicely with the well-written text and layout. A keeper for the dog-lover's library.
Phillip T. Robinson, DVM
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- Very Helpful For Lion Dog Lovers.
- My Lhasa is pregnant and the book is a great guide.
- A good referance to anyone considering the breed
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Very Helpful For Lion Dog Lovers........2006-04-29
For a book of 125 pages this was very thorough. Everything was covered in a clear concise manner. The breeds origins, personality, grooming, puppies, training, breeding, care of, healthcare, standards, dog shows, exercise, and even building a kennel. It also has fine drawings, good color and b/w pictures. I found the chapters on the breeds history and personality to be the most instructive during the obedience training time I had with my Lhasa. They deserve the "Lion Dog name." My Benji was fearless in the extreme. They are truly UNIQUE DOGS, that deserve all the love and loyalty they give.
My Lhasa is pregnant and the book is a great guide........2002-12-08
My Lhasa is pregnant and we wasted no time in looking for a book for a guide, and since we long had this book, we had everything going smoothly. By the way, my dog's labor of three puppies is near.. December 10, 2002. Great guide!
A good referance to anyone considering the breed.......1998-10-14
I'm considering getting a dog and all the long-haired breeds really appealed to me- especially the Lhas Apso. I got the book to find out more about them and I learned a lot. The book includes everythig you need to know about Lhasa Apsos, from housbreaking to Health care, from behavior to breeding. The pictures are adorable, and the text is informative. I loved this book and any other dog-lover will too.
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An enchanting "big dog" in a small-dog package, the Lhasa Apso ranks among the many mystical wonders of Tibet. Adored by his owners for his assertive, gay temperament and his luxurious floor-length coat, the Lhasa Apso thrives in many living situations, proving to be among the most adaptable of canine companions.
Written by Tibetan-breed scholar, Juliette Cunliffe, this remarkable little book provides an insightful account of the Lhasa's ancestry in Tibet and beyond, as well as discussions of breed characteristics and standard, puppy selection, feeding, coat care and grooming, training, preventative health care and showing. The new owner will welcome advice about puppy-proofing the home, preparing for the pup's arrival, housebreaking and preventing puppy problems. In addition to an authoritative, comprehensive text, this book presents over 135 photographs in full color, which prove to be as informative as they are attractive. Helpful hints and important information are highlighted to provide easy access to everything the reader needs to know about life with a Lhasa from puppyhood to the senior years.
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Lhasa Apso Champions, 1952-1980
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“The award-winning gardening author and perennials expert addresses plant selection, use and placement, color and foliage effects, and ground cover options.”—Library Journal. “Offering sound guidelines on siting and sample garden plans...features advice on how to use versatile plants in the garden. A chapter on color, providing time-tested combinations that work well in common zones, is also included.”—American Nurseryman.
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Designing With Perennials (The Joy of Gardening)
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The Role of the Physical Environment in Ancient Greek Seafaring (Mnemosyne, Bibliotheca Classica Batava Supplementum)
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Brushing up on your Shakespeare isn't enough. Shakespeare's plays require particular skills, but they are skills every actor can learn. Patrick Tucker - founder of London's Original Shakespeare Company, stage and TV director, and author of Secrets of Screen Acting - finds the keys in a revolutionary (really four-hundred-year-old) method that he has used with great success in workshops and performances around the world.
Secrets of Acting Shakespeare isn't a book that gently instructs. It's a passionate, yes-you-can designed to prove that anybody can act Shakespeare. Beyond that, it argues for care and attention to the First Folio text of Shakespeare's plays in which Patrick Tucker uncovers verbal clues that help actors, amateur and professional, to better understand what lines mean and how to say them.
By explaining how Elizabethan actors had only their own lines and not entire playscripts, Patrick Tucker shows how much these plays work by ear. Secrets of Acting Shakespeare isa book for actors trained and amateur, as well as for anyone curious about how the Elizabethan theater worked.
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Strong handbook on how Shakespeare was and aught to be done........2005-03-15
The most significant aspect of this book is Tucker's imperative respect for the First Folios. These earliest of Shakespearean texts, which feature spelling errors and a messier type set, offer and the book tries and proves over and over, the best acting/performance texts.
The distinction between acting/performance texts and scholastic/reading ones is essential, as Tucker again and again subverts the modern editions of Shakespeare, and the editors, who continually add and make scholastic/academic assumption as to the intent of the texts. These editors reduce the active nature of the texts and "regularize" over and over what the original actors had to work with.
Through the Original Shakespeare Company, which he co-founded, Tucker and his actors approach the texts as the actors who originated them did. This was by using no rehearsal time, and giving each actor only the texts they speak and the appropriate cue lines, allowing for a spontaneous and urgent playmaking which heightens the already heightened Shakespeare.
Through this approach, which originally was one of practicality, the actors tasks are enhanced. Listening becomes that much more important, as do the choices each actor must make based soley on the texts which are devoid of modern directions and edits; such as to who to speak to, whether or not a speech is an aside, particular capitalization and punctuation and stage business.
For anyone who performs Shakespeare this is a terrific book. As well for directors this may even be better. Tucker breaks down the "original approach" in the early part of the book. Then spends the largest chunk detailing the experiments he and his company made with this approach, beginning with scenes through full text performances. There is then a terrific section devoted to particular ways of finding the secrets in the text, and the associated choices one can make on stage.
While the section about the details of the company's performances is too long and sometimes repetative, the book is a revelation. Anyone willing to try this style would surely feel the difference, as an audience would too.By scrapping the modern trappings of what theatre is, to reduce it to it's leanest and most energetic, magnetic form in the use of the phenomenal texts of Shakespeare can realize the power of theatre and clarify it's immortal importance and necessity.
Makes reading Shakespeare like a John Grisham Novel.......2003-12-05
This book explains how to "read" Shakespeare easily. (Actually, it's about how to act his plays, but the ideas can equally well be used to simply read the plays with greater appreciation.) The method presented is quite easy and it makes the plays come to life. I wish I had this book 25 years ago when I studied Shakespeare in school.
I have just started this book, but already I want to read Shakespeare's plays again to see what I missed - and I missed plenty. You also begin to understand why Shakespeare was a great play-writer, why his works have stood the test of time while the other writers of his age have withered away.
Some of the interesting observerations: Thee vs. You has real significance (the former is intimitate while the latter is formal), why he writes in prose sometimes, the significance of the iambic pentameter (di-dum, etc.).
The author also dispels a myth that English spoken in Shakespeare's time was hard compared to today. Rather Shakespeare's words were always harder than the common speak of the day, yet his plays were able to be well understood because of the "clues" presented in the writing, which made the actors act the part correctly, thus making the language easier to understand. Don't worry if you did not fully this last paragraph. The book will explain all.
And, soon you'll be able to turn the pages of a Shakespeare play faster than that of a John Grisham novel.
Where was this book all my life!.......2003-04-24
I really wish my teachers had this book when I was in school. It would have made Shakespeare so much more fun to study. Going back to Shakespeare after reading Secrets of Acting Shakespeare, you can actualy see the stage directions with every word Shakespeare writes. When you know the stage directions Shakespeare wrote into his texts, Shakespeare's works become so much more fun to read. Patrick takes you through the way Shakespeare's plays were performed when Shakespeare was still alive, and leads you through the discoveries Patrick's actors made when he and his theater company started performing Shakespeare's plays the way Shakespeare wanted it done. Needless to say, this book is the best book on Shakespearian Acting I've ever read, and would recommend it to anyone who's even slightly interested in the Bard's works. I would also recommend Patrick Tucker's First Folio Monologue books for men and women. They're a crash course in the work Patrick covered in Secrets of Acting Shakespeare, and a great way to sink your teeth into Patrick's ideas.
-Christian, Improvactor.com
Shakespeare, how it was in the beginning.......2002-03-11
This is an exciting book about how Shakespeare's plays actually got on to the stage. The actors then were hardworking, often doing a different play each night, and there was no time for rehearsal as we know it today.
The actors learnt their parts from cue scripts, long scrolls showing the last few words of the previous speech and then their own. They had to be extra attentive or they might miss their entry. The Book-holder, or prompt, was the only person to have the entire text (a valuable document you didn't want anybody else to steal, no copyright in those days) was prominently on stage to see that things went right and, if a prompt was needed, it was given openly. The audience accepted this as part of the performance though anybody needing too many prompts would doubtless get some barracking.
The author, who clearly has a science background and knows how to present a logical case, shows that all the information needed is in the First Folio which is an actors' tool, not a dead piece of Eng Lit. 'you', 'thou' and 'thee' are not interchangeable but actually tell the actor where to stand in relation to others on the stage. Modern editions of Shakespeare have tidied the text up to be read by students; the First Folio had lines, half lines, capital letters in odd places, strange commas; but all actually telling the actor what to do.
The author has been working as a director for the last forty years or so and has refined his theories on the job. He has run The Original Shakespeare Company with many successful productions using his methods. He is wildly popular with his actors and the few productions he was allowed to do at The Globe, London, were sold out and enthusiastically received.
The academic world and theatre establishment are not so happy to see their entrenched theories challenged; and it must be extra annoying that he writes so well and is such a pleasure to read.
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Two Years In The Melting Pot.......2002-11-21
As of you always heard people saying America is the melting pot, or a salad bowl, well this book tells the story of a Chinese man learn what it is to be and how hard it is to adapted to another culture. As the heart broken story start with him leaving his home of his family and children are waiting for him when he get back from his educational journey. Nearing half of his life away, he have leave home many times some times even long and much more dangerous then this journey to America but everyone still strong, but the story, the author have his way of describing the sadness of leaving his home and his family.
Liu Zongren shown a lot of honesty in himself with other, and also the humor of how the author describe the ways that he adapted to the American ways with his many questions of the cultures he barely know and soon be leaving again. As the author dealing with cultures shock you will be drawn into the book and soon you will feel that you are dealing with the culture shock with the author also, the writing of Liu is very strong and it will attract you to the book as you read along.
two years in the melting pot.......2000-10-18
Are you interested to know how a Chinese person experienced cultural shock in the US ? Then this book is a MUST. No book that I have read about the Chinese (and I have read many indeed) has touched me as profoundly as this precious glimpse into the personal feelings (rarely shared with Westerners) experienced by a gentle Chinese man during his two year stay in the Chicago area during the early 1980s. His English is excellant and his literary style very expressive and easy to read. His honesty and humor can not fail to touch the soul of the reader. I am deeply grateful to Mr. Liu for sharing his thoughts and experiences with us.
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