Woody Plants of the Western Gulf Region

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Woody Plants of the Western Gulf Region
Ray R., Jr. Hicks
Manufacturer: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company
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Binding: Paperback

General | Plants | Biological Sciences | Science | Subjects | Books
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ASIN: 0840318804

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Distribution and control of several woody plants in the Western Gulf Region
Berten Wendell Allred
Manufacturer: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Soil Conservation Service, Western Gulf Region
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Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B0007EXYLQ

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In his travels through Croatia, Tony Fabijancic saw a world of peasants, shepherds and fishermen irrevocably giving way to the new reality of a modern European state. With a deft and sure touch, he records moments that capture the lingering spirit of the old world even as the former fabric of this place is unravelling forever. The authorÂ's profound familiarity with the "extraordinary regionality" of Croatia leads to memorable images of the country, and to sketches and unhurried ruminations on its people, its landscapes, kitchens, cities, and coastlines.

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An interesting read for someone who has travelled Croatia.......2007-05-26

I recently returned from three weeks in Croatia and came across this book. I would say Tony's writing is fair to good, and I enjoyed his insights into how the country felt and looked in 1996 post war. Because most of my time was spent along the Dalmatian Coastline his stories have inspired me to spend time on my upcoming return to Croatia in the rurual areas. Speaking Hrvatska is going to help and for anyone contemplating travel to Croatia he does a good job of articulating the lifestyle of 10 years ago. It is changing drmatically now that it is poised to join the EU. His stories are off the beaten tourist path and defininitely reflect the flavor of a very diverse country that remains in denial about its history and its future.

On balance, more than a travelogue.......2007-04-02

This is an account of its author's travels in what for him was "undiscovered country" but for the reader, save for this book, would be forever undiscoverable. Mr. Fabiancic, a Canadian born in Croatia, fluent in the language and connected with the culture, combines a native's access with a foreigner's perspective; he thus engages deeply on our behalf with places and people that otherwise, if we encountered them at all, would be no more than two-dimensional snapshots, real or remembered.

Indeed, much of what Mr. Fabiancic saw and experienced just ten or so years ago may well already have been swept away by the riptide of progress that has swept over the newly independent nation since the disintegration of the Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia in 1991. His observations are keen and his descriptions immediate.

Mr. Fabiancic also shares his inner travels with his audience. That aspect of the book is not especially to the taste of this reader, for whom Mr. Fabiancic's reports of personal epiphanies and developmental milestones ("My youth is over") get in the way of his descriptions of the often striking landscape and its often colorful and, it seems, always engaging inhabitants. At times, too, his striving for literary effect can be a bit labored: in places the similes are so thickly spread as to obscure the nouns they are meant to illuminate, and more than one perfectly effective account is blunted by a last-minute effort to give it Meaning.

Should such distractions tempt you to put the book down, don't. If you find a chapter heavy going, try another; they vary in style, as in subject matter, and little is lost by reading them out of order. Later, returning to a passage that had seemed a little overblown, you may experience it more sympathetically. Especially if you have in mind to visit Croatia, the author's vivid insight into what the country and its people are and have been will make coping with the book's less successful qualities more than worth your while.

A land steeped in centuries of tradition and lore.......2003-07-25

Croatia: Travels In Undiscovered Country by Tony Fabijancic is a superbly written, personal memoir and eye-witness travelogue of what it was like to experience the land and people of Croatia as both an ancestral home and an undiscovered country. Transporting the reader on one man's journey into a rich and varied landscape, Croatia: Travels In Undiscovered Country is a vividly written, deftly informative, and memorably presented experience of a land steeped in centuries of tradition and lore. Croatia: Travels In Undiscovered Country is especially recommended reading for armchair travelogue adventure enthusiasts and anyone thinking of a trip to Croatia for themselves.

Review of Croatia: Travels in Undiscovered Country.......2003-05-05

A terrific book. I have found no other book on Croatia that offers such insight into the country's current way of life and historical emblems, without becoming trite or resorting solely to political fact listing. Reveals the fragile beauty of a an undiscovered country in the midst of economic and cultural change. A wonderful travel book. Accessible and imaginative writing. Very well done.

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Croatia: Travels in Undiscovered Country
Tony Fabijancic
Manufacturer: The University of Alberta Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Bosnia, Croatia & Herzegovina | Europe | Travel | Subjects | Books
ASIN: B000QYIQCE

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Now in a substantially revised and updated fifth edition, this bestselling work is the definitive text on globalization. Peter Dicken provides a comprehensive, balanced yet critical account of globalization processes and their sweeping, highly uneven effects on people's lives. Each timely chapter has been extensively rewritten to reflect current globalization and antiglobalization debates, the latest empirical developments, and new ideas about the shaping and reshaping of production, distribution, and consumption in the world economy.

New in the Fifth Edition
*An entirely new case study on the agro-foods industries
*A substantially expanded discussion of problems of global governance (involving such institutions as the WTO, the World Bank, and the IMF) and the increasing role of global civil society organizations
*All statistical materials have been updated and are presented in nearly 250 specially designed figures and tables

For optimal utility in teaching, all of the figures and tables are available online as PowerPoint slides.

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Excellent.......2007-07-13

This is the ultimate summarization of globalization. It is thorough, objective, and is able to avoid all the inaccurate hype attached to the topic. It is heavy reading, very information based, but I enjoyed it immensely and suggest it for anyone seeking to understand globalization.

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Mapping a Changing World
Yvette Lapierre
Manufacturer: Charlesbridge Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0965030849

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This engaging book, using over forty magnificent color reproductions of antique and new maps, and written in clear, lively prose, shows how maps have evolved over centuries, beginning with a Babylonian etching on a clay tablet and ending with a radar image taken from the space shuttle Endeavor. Young geographers - and readers of all ages - will be riveted by the adventures of real-life explorers, scientists, and mapmakers, including Ptolemy, Cheng Ho, Columbus, and the many modern cartographers.

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A diverse meditation on the ways, and whys, of women's deep attraction to one animal above all others: the horse. In a phenomenon too prevalent to be mere chance, little girls all over the Western world wake one day to find themselves completely taken over by the love of all things equine. They collect model Breyer horses; read books on horse anatomy, evolution, and history; and barely breathe between riding lessons. For some of them, the obsession fades after a few years but returns with a vengeance in middle age. Then there is no stopping them. In fact, the majority of horse owners in countries like the United States and Britain are female, and the explanation turns out to be as full of surprises as the state of affairs it describes. Melissa Holbrook Pierson delves beneath the shallow hypotheses explaining women's connections to horses to look at how this communication with another animal opens us to a new apprehension of the larger "natural" world. Melding memoir, sociology, history, anecdote, and a bit of prose poetry, Dark Horses and Black Beauties is a unique approach to its subject that also seeks to transcend it, to venture into the dark territory of humankind's relationship with animals--and thus with itself.

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A Voice for Horses.......2004-05-19

I have read this book several times, when it was first published and again recently. This book is more than a feel good read about the relationship between women and horses. And it's also more than just an animal rights platform. From this book, I've re-established many of my earlier convictions about horses and developed new ones. As a former competitive rider who has been involved in Western performance events and recently taken up dressage, I've taken a hard look at myself and just exactly what I want to accomplish with a life blessed with horses. This book will help anyone figure out the same for themselves. A person who doesn't want to make any changes in the way their horses fit into their life will likely resent the author. But it can be a great inspiring journey for those who choose to take it. For the benefit of the horse and all other creatures, I hope this book reaches as many people as possible. As a last note, the controversial marketing of this book didn't bother this conservative republican non-vegetarian reader one bit.

Take the good with the bad.......2003-09-08

While perusing the horse section at my local Borders, it was refreshing to come across a "different" kind of horse book. Here was not a book that would teach me how to ride or care for my horse, but rather enlighten me to the aspects of just why I am the horsey girl I am (although a grown woman these days).

I was sucked in with the first few pages, so I took this book home. Through most of the first third to half of the book, I couldn't believe that someone out there had hit the nail on the head so many times -- the author almostly perfectly described (in my opinion) the forlorn love of the little horse-crazed girl, particularly the kind that can't have one. Like one of the other reviewers, I too was hoping for a trip down nostalgia lane.

However, in comparison to the author, I am a woman that was fortunate to achieve my dream. I have had three horses in my lifetime so far, and I actively compete and live the dream I always had. I believe that the many years this author spent not realizing her dream helped fuel a resentment within her. Not to mention her animal activist views she proceeds to share with the reader in a writing style that suggests that the longer and more poetic the sounding sentence, the more spiritual it will be.

Like many other reviewers, I found the book to be misleading in its intentions, and I don't believe the author quite understands the kind of love that those of us who ride our horses have. I have met her kind before, the type that believe we are disrespecting and abusing horses by riding them for our own pleasure. I know there are all types of horse owners out there, and that all types of abuses are out there, but I'm not one of those types of owners and therefore the darkness of this book's true underlying message saddens me when it's not insulting me.

I'm curious to speculate what this author's views would have been had she gone on to become a loving, doting horse owner earlier in life.

Overall, I'm glad I bought this book. I'm glad I read this book, and for a lot of reasons enjoyed the experience of reading it regardless of the overall feeling it left me with. I would recommend others to just expect to take the good with the bad on this one.

Painful.......2002-06-14

A horse owner and lover, I was given this book as a gift. Had it not been a gift I would have happily thrown it in the trash, but I kept reading in order to give the soon-to-be-asked-for book review. This book is dark, very dark. There are a few nice "moments." I kept waiting for the "payoff" for all the darkness and it never came. Overall I found it disturbing and wanted only to expunge it from my memory. There are other books that will be much more enlightening and enjoyable. Buy those.

I was irritated by this book, misled by its cover.......2002-04-23

I thought I was getting a nostalgic look at a brief period in my childhood, as a privileged fourth grader taking riding lessons in tony, horsey Wilton CT. My horsey passion was cut short by an abrupt move to NYC, but I never forgot the elite culture I left behind. This small book started off OK with an accurate look at girl's formulaic horse stories, for which I award it a single star; I did get a few laughs. But it soon falls apart. I had not bargained for an animal rights book. I have a lot of bones to pick with Ms Pierson, but we'll settle for one here. I was annoyed by her self righteous dismissal of foxhunting, and thought she was unfair to the English hunt club that rescinded her invitation to ride with them after reading some of her more strident columns in the animal rights vein. Animal extremists in England are threatening the very existence of foxhunting, out of class envy and misplaced sentimentality; the foxhunters have every reason to be wary of unsympathetic journalists. Who is Ms Pierson to judge someone an impostor, in this case the hunt club official who turned her away, because they don't love horses according to her skewed definition of "love"? This annoyed me, especially because foxhunting was an important facet of our little coterie of girlish horse-lovers in the sixties. Fox hunters were widely accepted and venerated by us horse-loving girls who dreamed of riding to hounds on beautiful hunters. Ms. Pierson should have stuck to her theme, even if it made her uncomfortable. Besides, Marguerite Henry, a children's horsey book writer much admired by Ms Pierson, wrote "Cinnabar the One o'clock Fox" in which foxhunters were not typecast as cruel and stupid, but given their due as an important part of horse culture. I was too vexed to finish the final third of "Dark Horses", and was particularly annoyed because it started off so great!

What I said to friends on the Chronicle of the Horse forums.......2002-04-03

It is a little book, one that describes the love from childhood of all things horse related and how a person grows but doesn't lose that feeling of awe and delight in the presence of horses. The author quotes brief remembrances of others who have had these incredible animals touch their lives.

While it focuses on little girls, women and gender, it is of definate interest to everyone here who loves horses. The author tries to explain why so few males continue to ride and lauds those who do.

I got halfway through the book and had to call ..... By that time, I had already cried twice and been astonished to find chapters dealing with COTH BB topics just in the past few days. ... topic on the Rich/Poor gap, Dressage vs Hunt Seat, "Natural Horsemanship vs Plain Common Sense, the desire for custom boots, doeskin britches, jeweled stock pins.

I was reminded of our dear ... and her bright and down to earth "Stupid Question of the Week" several times as the author describes her return to the horse dreams of childhood by taking up lessons after a 25 year hiatus.

After I got off the telephone with ..., the book turned even more towards the topics we are all obviously interested in. Slaughter, abuse, unwanted horses. She revisited her childhood anger over the plight of mustangs and the terrible treatment of livestock shipped for profit as opposed to our treasured pets and companions, first discovered through Marguerite Henry's book "Mustang, Wild Spirit of the West".

I was dumbfounded to read of Dr. Temple Grandin, a short few hours from the first time I had ever come across her work (in researching ... COTH Slaughter article topic). Totally surprised to not only find this information on the internet, then to have ... mention it later in the day, yet again in a book I had randomly selected!

This book, as I told ..., is really the inner core of many of us. I thought to call her back later to let her know that it is far more complex than I had led her to believe and not all happy memories.

Definately an intriguing book, perhaps not for everyone as it tells a grim tale of the treatment of horses in our society without rose colored glasses.

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Mel Bay 100 Tunes For Piano Accordion
David Digiuseppe
Manufacturer: Mel Bay Publications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Mel Bay Presents 100 Irish Tunes for Piano Accordion

ASIN: 0786648007

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An Extensive collection of reels, jigs, hornpipes and polkas from the French Canadian, Cape Breton, Scottish, Shetland, New England, and Southern Old Time Traditions arranged for the piano accordion. Written with the beginner as well as the advanced player in mind, the arrangements are complete with ornamentation, fingering, left hand notation and chord symbols. Appropriate for any G clef instrument.

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Great notation, great selections..........2002-11-22

If you're at the beginner/intermediate level, this is a good book to pick up on after you finish your Mel Bay Deluxe Accordion Method book. ;)

I've only mastered (well, learned, anyway) a couple of the songs, but 100 songs for this price ain't bad.

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Palmer-Hughes Accordion Course, Book 3 (Palmer-Hughes Accordion Course)
Palmer Hughes
Manufacturer: Alfred Publishing
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0739012215

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Mel Bay Presents 100 Irish Tunes for Piano Accordion
David Di Giuseppe
Manufacturer: Mel Bay Publications, Inc.
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ASIN: 0786636041

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From Apples in Winter to The Wise Maid, this collection of Irish jigs, reels, and polkas provides beginning to advanced players with a wealth of traditional Irish music for solo keyboard accordion. This collection includes a number of tunes transcribed from recordings of not only the keyboard accordion, but also the Irish button box and concertina. Herein too are many of the author's own arrangements. Some of the stellar players whose work appears here are: Jimmy Keane, Phil Cunningham, Alan Kelly, Joe Burke, Jackie Daly, Tom Doherty, Chris Sherburn, Sharon Shannon, and Tony MacMahon. With a basic guide to fingering and rhythm chord symbols included, this book will allow even the novice accordionist to join in a traditional Irish session. The enclosed CD features the author's performance of medleys including 21 of the book's 100 selections.

Palmer-Hughes Accordion Course, Book 4 (Palmer-Hughes Accordion Course)

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Mel Bay Songs of Latin America for Accordion

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Herman Troppe
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Sixteen solo for keyboard accordion on folk songs from Venezuela, Haiti, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Honduras, Panama, Paraguay, and Peru.

Palmer-Hughes Accordion Course, Book 2 (Palmer-Hughes Accordion Course)

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Alfred's Teach Yourself to Play Accordion

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Palmer-Hughes Prep Accordion Course, Book 1A (Palmer-Hughes Accordion Course)

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Palmer-Hughes Accordion Course - Melodic Adventures in Bassland (Palmer-Hughes Accordion Course)

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ASIN: 0739021729

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Your garden is so much more than a random assemblage of plants. Make yours a vibrant work of art with The Garden Decorator. This useful and creative manual guides you through all the color choices and other aspects you have to choose from in order to create just the right setting. Applying interior decorating ideas to outside spaces, with a dash of horticulture thrown in, the inspiration and practical techniques in this book will be indispensable to anyone who wants to transform their outside area into a stylishly decorated outdoor room. There is inspiration for transforming all types and sizes of areas, from using painted pots on tiny urban balconies to transforming a more extensive garden into a suitable place for entertaining.

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Requires no special gardening or do-it-yourself skills.......2001-02-16

In Garden Decorator: Making The Most Of Outdoor Space, Gilly Love draws upon her extensive experience as a dedicated gardening who designed a roof terrace in London and restored an abandoned garden in Suffolk in applying interior decorating ideas to outside spaces with a horticultural motif. This beginner's guide to decorating a garden requires no special gardening or do-it-yourself skills as Gilly shows how to use outdoor spaces for entertaining, simple techniques with impressive results for any size space, as well as offering fifteen step-by-step, profusely illustrated projects ranging from gilded pots and a container pond, to a bubbling fountain and floral chandeliers. Garden Decorator is a very highly recommended addition to any personal or community library garden design and enhancement reference collection.

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Artwork by John Baldessari. Contributions by Andrea Hales. Text by Hugh Davies, Anne Rorimer.

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