A Guide to the Trees of Utah and the Intermountain West

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An essential, user-friendly guide for tree enthusiasts, home-owners, landscapers, recreationists, or travelers. It covers virtually every native and introduced tree species in the greater Rocky Mountain area.

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Very Informative.......2000-05-11

I found this book very useful when selecting trees for landscaping. The sketches were useful in identification.

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Located on the coast of Maine, Acadia National Park offers landscapes and seascapes beyond description; barren summits with panoramic vistas; peaceful niches and less-trodden paths; and 40,000 acres for fantastic all-round, year-round recreational experiences. This exciting new addition to the Moon Handbooks North American Parks series includes extensive coverage of Acadia's outdoor recreation options, including the best places to hike, bike, kayak, climb, and ski; a full range of accommodation options, from campgrounds in the park to charming Bed-and-Breakfasts in nearby towns; and practical information on getting to and through the park. Author and Maine resident Kathleen M. Brandes also features Acadia's outlying locales of Schoodic Point, Isle au Haut, and Baker Island, as well as the surrounding Mount Desert Island villages - Bar Harbor, Southwest Harbor, and Northeast Harbor - with current information for park visitors on lodgings, restaurants, museums, and shops. Complete with color maps, photos, insightful sidebars, and a thorough introduction to the region's history, Moon Handbooks Acadia National Park is the best guide for an enriching and extraordinary park experience.

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Lousy, inexperienced guide.......2007-01-15

You would be WAY better off just getting a book or pamplet from the National Park ranger station. There's very little information here, just stretched out over the length of a book. It's basically a Maine guide that they've repackaged as an Acadia guide.
Here's a couple examples of the lame reporting that went into this book: They tell you how in some little local restaurants you might find the menu on a chalkboard and you should order from that. Oh, really???? Wow, never would have figured that out on my own.
They try to throw a bone to the crowd that travels with dogs, but clearly they've never done so themselves. So they tell you that the local pet store carries a list of boarding facilities. So let's get this straight: I spend all kinds of extra time and money getting my dog to a national park, only to board my dog??? The same pet store passes out a list of dog friendly restaurants, something people might actually want to know. But you won't find that out in this lame book.

Moon Acadia National Park (Moon Handbooks)

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A must

Moon Acadia National Park (Moon Handbooks)
Hilary Nangle
Manufacturer: Avalon Travel Publishing
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Dayhiker's Guide Acadia National Park: Maine's Coastal Gem (Dayhiker's Guides)

ASIN: 1566919258

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Few places offer such diversity as Acadia National Park. You can discover the coast's countless islands, each one distinct from the other, watch the sun set from atop Blue Mountain, stroll through the charming village of Castine, stretch out on the beach at Lamoine State Park, or hang out on the fisherman's wharves in Stonington or Corea.

Expert travel writer Hilary Nangle helps you have a truly personal experience in this beautiful region. Suggested travel strategies and lists of must-see sights provide you with the real insights so you can decide where you should go, stay, and eat—without hassles or regrets. Hilary details where to hike, paddle, bike, climb, ski, snowshoe, and picnic. Complete with maps, photographs, illustrations, and special emphasis on leading destinations such as Mount Desert Island, Schoodic Peninsula, Isle au Haut, Donnell Pond Public Reserved Lands, the Maine Coastal Islands National Wildlife Refuge at Petit Manan, and outlying towns.

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A must.......2006-11-11

This book is extremely helpful as a planning guide to a great trip.

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Trial Balloons explores the international art scene and the latest artistic "currents" on the move. Like trial balloons that measure different components of the atmosphere, this book aims to take the pulse of complex artistic currents currently in circulation with an international selection of artists who have been working since the start of the new century. This group show brings together more than 50 artists and other creative talents, including designers, architects and performers, and features Funky Projects, Dr. Hofmann, Heba Farid, Fernando Renes and Tintin Wulia.

Mapas Y Globos Terraqueos/looking at Maps And Globes (Rookie Espanol)

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Mapas Y Globos Terraqueos/looking at Maps And Globes (Rookie Espanol)
Carmen Bredeson
Manufacturer: Children's Press (CT)
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Tipos De Mapas / Types of Maps (Rookie Espanol)

ASIN: 0516250434

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El Globo
Isol
Manufacturer: Fondo de Cultura Economica USA
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Binding: Hardcover

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Mapas Y Globos Terraqueos / Maps And Globes (Reading Rainbow Book)

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Mapas Y Globos Terraqueos / Maps And Globes (Reading Rainbow Book)
Jack Knowlton
Manufacturer: Harpercollins Childrens Books
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Como Hacer Objetos Con Globos / How to Make Objects with Balloons

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Como Hacer Objetos Con Globos / How to Make Objects with Balloons
Elis Da Souza
Manufacturer: Grupo Imaginador
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La suelta de globos, Level 2 (Lightning Readers (Spanish))

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La suelta de globos, Level 2 (Lightning Readers (Spanish))
Helen Bird
Manufacturer: Gingham Dog Press
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La tortuga tonta (Lightning Readers (Spanish))

ASIN: 0769642403

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Platies, Keeping & Breeding Them in Captivity
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Great photos, but ...

amazing book for amateurs of aquarium

Platies, Keeping & Breeding Them in Captivity
Donald Mix
Manufacturer: TFH Publications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Complete Introduction to Breeding Aquarium Fishes (Complete Introduction)

ASIN: 0793803624

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Great photos, but ..........2002-09-15

This book has great pictures and is good for a beginning aquarist, but it really doesn't have a lot of information specific to platies. I wanted a bit more platy-related info. Again, very nice photos, though.

amazing book for amateurs of aquarium.......2000-10-03

This book has lots of fantastic photos in a astunning paper, has good ideas about platies, and more important with this book you will know many things about fishs in general and not only about platies... About platies you will found all it matter...

The New Guide to Cigars: An Illustrated Directory of the Finest Cigars from Around the Globe
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The New Guide to Cigars: An Illustrated Directory of the Finest Cigars from Around the Globe
Julian Holland
Manufacturer: Anness Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1840383852

Book Description

To accommodate a new generation of scholars, we are reissuing the complete set of Ludwig Koehler and Walter Baumgartner's famous Lexicon in a two-volume edition. This new two-volume set will include a new 100-page introduction and an additional listing of abbreviations. It will have more than 1,900 two-column pages.

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Recorded history is a finely-woven magic fabric of intricate lies about events predating the sixteenth century. There is not a single piece of evidence that can be reliably and independently traced back earlier than the eleventh century. This book details events that are substantiated by hard facts and logic, and validated by new astronomical research and statistical analysis of ancient sources.

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Calculations are only as good as your numbers.......2007-08-03

Yes, we can all agree that mainstream history is nearly 100% BS due to politics, economics, ego, problems with dating techniques, and various conspiracies. Agreed. But, I've been researching the distinct possibility that human history (in terms of civilizations) are much more ancient than we've been told, so coming across this book was very interesting to me. I wondered how Fomenko could be wrong (if at all) because he is very persuasive in his presentations. Then it dawned on me. If at previous times in prehistory, due to the various catastrophies that are well documented (comets, asteroids, planetary disruptions, plasma discharge, pole reversals, etc) the Earth was in a different position in relation to the sun, different tilt on its axis, different orbit, different rotation (in terms of velocity and DIRECTION), and the continents were in different positions, then would this not cause the ancients to see the sky (constellations) differently? In other words, is Fomenko making erronious assumptions about the physics of the Earth in pre-history, which then corrupt his data with regards to dating the relevant astrology? The last event to seriously disrupt our planet occured roughly 3500 years ago, according to other good researchers, so is it possible Fomenko has been confused by this? The vastly different physics of our planet in the not so distant past may explain this confusion, which is not to say the "mainstream" version of history is correct; on the contrary. I am not an expert in these fields, but wanted to see if this idea could spark discussion.

Pants on fire?.......2007-07-19

Will people ever read before spamming? Yes, Jesuits could not rewrite world history alone, they had help. Anyway, Dr Prof Acad A.Fomenko does not point to jesuits as the driving force of world wide history manipulation in published volumes 1,2,3;, actually he barely mentions the poor devils. Check it with 'Search inside' feature, please. China is rarely mentioned either, in fact, Dr Fomenko is completely eurocentric. Right, his theory contradicts all mainstream schools of history, because in their actual state they are all built on blatantly erroneus chronology. You don't need a mysterious cabal (conspiracy) to falsify history, the falsification is its modus operandi. It is inherent to history(ians) to falsify (distort) events, as it is inherent to humans to boast as it is inherent to power (authority) to legimize itself by referrring to glorious past made to its own order. Dr Prof Fomenko and team have identified scores of instances of such manipulation in Russian, European, etc.. history, and delivered valid statistical proof thereof. His own 'reconstruction' is completely another story. Forget c14 as a valid method of dating. W.Libby has initially discovered a brilliant method of INDEPENDENT dating. Too bad, c14 method has become a joke after a forced marrige with dendrochronology with consensual chronological scale inbuilt. Radiocarbon method can't stand blind tests, but is so very productive as a rubberstamp.

Accepted History & Chronology Must Be Changed. .......2007-04-09

There is no doubt that history as most know it is a sham, & institution's version of History both University & Church is fradulent & inaccurate. Everything was established with an agenda, The real "Dark Ages" are now when we have access to incredible amounts of information past authorities & more important 'common folk' didn't have but our institutions & educators are slow to evolve because of what has ignorantly & arrogantly been taught for too long. This is on many subjects not just Chronology.

For anyone to question "Why would a Mathematician have anything credible to say of History?" The answer is from Dr. Fomenko's preface in the book: "It would be worthwhile to remind the reader that in the XVI-XVII century Chronology was considered to be a subdivision of Mathematics." These volumes could possibly be some of the most important works to date & should be read by everyone with an interest in History, especially professors & educators who have a duty to the public. I have read both books & must say that 'Chronology 1' has some very eye opening & revolutionary information. Even if these volumes are part true the implications are profound & opens the doors to further investigations & questions which must be done. I speak several different lanquages & must say the logic Dr. Fomenko uses with "inflection" of words & words being read from left to right in one region & right to left in another then written backwards, the removal of vowels & get down to basics of words, or different cities & locations having the same name etc. is correct. Vowel usage has always been optional & varied, actually complicating linquistics & study. The first thing one has to understand is that words never had a fixed spelling in history like we do now, the spelling of words was mutable & regional, as well as names & titles of people were vast, varied & changed, NOTHING WAS FIXED or understood linear. Matters of Life & Death as well as financial profiteering yesterday & today were & are made with ignorant, illogical & conspiratorial views of history & reality, it's time people get closer to the Truth & society collectively grow up.

Very Interesting.......2007-03-07

It is a good proposal and I believe it will mature into something even better in the future. I think it deserves to be read.

History as Science Fiction.......2007-01-10

Anatoly Fomenko has written a very intriguing book, full of pictures, charts, and computer 'proof' of his thesis: backwards of AD900 we don't really know what happened or when. Between AD900 and AD1600 there is more certainty, but there is still a lot of fuzzy ground, and things don't get reliable until we get past the 1600's where the printing press made it very difficult for the perpetrators of this timeline manipulation to change anything that had been committed to print. The Dark Ages did not happen. Books were burned for a reason. One organization has doubled the actual length of its existence by expanding the real chronology. Read why.

I had always wondered why Christ died about AD33 and yet men waited until the 11th century to form the Knights Templar, the Cathars, etc and go after the Holy Land by force. Why the 1000 year gap? Turns out there wasn't more than a 10-12 year gap and he proves it using astronomy. This also implies that the planet is not as old as we have been told, and current Christian and other creationist scientists are already championing that idea without being aware of Fomenko's book. The two groups, creationist scientists and the Russian mathematical analysts corroborate each other. Fascinating.

Of course, all this flies in the face of what we have been told traditionally is the 'proper' chronology of western civilization, and most readers will experience 'cognitive dissonance' in reading this book. It means that our history going backwards from AD1600 becomes progressively more incorrect and unreliable until it cannot be trusted at all... in the space of 700-800 years.

Naturally, the curious, open-minded reader will want to know WHO did this, WHY, and did any of the events we think of as really ancient ever happen?
Dr. Fomenko is a respected scientist/mathematician at Moscow State University who has already answered these questions to the satisfaction of his initially skeptical colleagues. Most of them are now believers, a few still refuse to believe (the usual diehards), and of course the western press has ignored Fomenko's work -- for obvious reasons when you read the book. The ones who perpetrated this chronology ruse have a lot to answer for. They are still with us. That's why this book is a well-kept secret.

I gave the book a 4-star rating because I was unable to check out some of his claims; those I checked were as he said. But if even 1/3 of his claims are true, this punches a big hole in what we think is our history, the meaning of western civilization, our educational process (for repeating the ruse as gospel), and the trustworthiness of the organization that perpetrated this ruse, well-intentioned or not.

This book relates to current research into a Young Earth paradigm, to John Keel's discoveries about our planet, and Fr Malachi Martin's insights (in his now out-of-print books). We are indeed sheep who are manipulated and kept ignorant -- for a reason. While knowing what these men have to say may be the "booby prize" (as in: 'what can you do with this knowledge?'), it will provide interesting reading. Didn't someone say: "...and the Truth will set you free."?? For you to judge if this book contains the truth.

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The Chinese Lady's Secret
Frank Ross
Manufacturer: 1st Books Library
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