Alaska's Wild Berries and Berry Like Fruit

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best field guide ever!.......2006-07-12

I grew up in Alaska and LOVE berries. I live in Boston now and make it back to Alaska every other year. A couple years ago, I came home with my girlfriend and we did a four day hike near Denali. The forest service had this book at the office near the start of the hike. Thank goodness! I recognized immediately that it was a good book because it fit in the pocket of my rain jacket. As we started hiking, I pulled out the guide. It was early October and the berries were in full form. Over the period of the four day hike, we delighted upon fourteen different kinds of berries. Every one we were able to positively identify within a couple of minutes, thanks to the guide. We found a few poisonous/inedible berries and we were able to quickly identify them as well.

I have searched high and low for comparable field guides for other areas in the world. I haven't found anything even close. Most books are too big, with too many unhelpful pictures. Verna's book has a razor-sharp focus: what berries can I safely eat on my hike.

Buy this book. Use it. And then frame the pictures you take of all the smiling, berry-covered faces.

A must for anyone who enjoys berry picking in Alaska!.......2005-08-02

This book is a must if you spend anytime outdoors in Alaska. It's sectioned off by berry color, shows the plant while bearing fruit as well as without so you can identify the plants even out of season. It shows which are edible and which aren't as well as shares some of the uses for each, such as some are good for jams and jellies, others aren't as flavorful but make a nice extender in recipes. I lost my first copy a few years ago and HAD to get another one. I highly recommend it!

Excellent choice.......2004-02-21

This tidy, pocket sized book is the perfect companion for hikes and camping adventures. The pictures are clear and in color with nice views of leaves and stalks so that identification may be obtained even while a plant is not bearing fruit. This is an excellent choice if you're serious about safely tasting the unknown.

Alaska's Wild Berries and Berry Like Fruit.......2000-08-04

Very informative book. Pictures are clear for identifying plants. Pocket size is a plus!

Book Description

ew places epitomize the meeting of old and new like Japan. Now Let's Go steers readers through this country of sleek metropolises, tea ceremonies, kabuki theater, and vibrantly animated film. With insider tips on how to travel affordably on Japan's ultra-modern rail system, readers can penetrate the peaceful mountain retreats and mesmerizing cities of this fascinating country.

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A great budget travel guide.......2007-01-13

First off, I'm slightly biased towards Let's Go having traveled with them throughout Europe, South and Central America and a bit of Asia.

The benefits of Let's Go are its wide variety of food and accomodation recommendations. It provides restraunts focusing on a wide variety of food at cheap prices. And if possible, it mentions any late night eats too. It also includes phone numbers that are useful to give to a taxi driver who doesn't know where your destination is.

One weakness is if you want to stay at nicer places and eat at nicer restraunts (although this book usually gives a couple options in the larger cities). If you want all your hotels to speak English, restraunts to have a true chef and the idea of comfort is significantly more important than price, this is probably not your book.

The quantity of maps in Let's Go is better than any other book I've used. They are usually quite complete and accurate (including almost all destinations written in Japanese). However, since Let's Go focuses on less established restraunts, some do go out of business. Usually, I can't find one restraunt every two weeks of travel (even though I do usually find the building).

The provided itinaries in Let's Go are usually lacking. They tend to be themed such as "The Beaches of Japan" or "The Zen Tour of Japan" rather than what the average traveler will use. To plan the trip, your best bet is just to read through the book. Let's Go does a great job of telling you what impression a city evokes, so it's easy for one to determine if you want to visit it.

One of my favorite things Let's Go does is to give detailed information (bus, train, other) of how to travel between cities. However, this type of information does change often, so occasionally Let's Go has the wrong times. But the frequency of the trains are usually more important than specific times.

For instance, if there are only two trains a day and both are in the morning. Even if the exact times are not correct, you can expect primarily morning trains to your destination.

To summarize:
The book is great for the budget traveler. It is also the most detailed in terms of maps and transportation of other (LP and Frommer's) Japan travel books. For the moderate traveler, if these weaknesses aren't a big deal, I'd recommend this book. If they are, Frommer's book is a good choice.

Konichiwa, traveler-san........2005-05-01

This was my 1st experience with the Let's Go series. I'd use them again if for no other reason than 99% of those on round the world trips have LP guides under their arms. My only complaint was that I relied on the SPECIFIC directions regarding Narita (the city, not the airport) and it had me on the other side of town wasting precious time trying to find the temple until my flight departed from NRT.

Having said that, once I got to the shrine and realized that my luggage had been STOLEN, the vocab in the back assisted me greatly in this very non-English friendly country.

Buy the Japan Rail Pass if you go, it's so very valuable.

Sayonara.

Save money; Travel Cheaply!.......2004-10-11

Let's Go Japan fills the same niche for traveling as Rough Guide Japan (RG), Lonely Planet Japan (LP), and the older Moon Guide Japan. However, it's the smallest and lightest and leaves out most of the higher priced hotels and ryokan as well as out-of-the-way places away from the core areas.

It doesn't have as many places as either RG or LP, but it has more than anyone is going to get to in one trip. It also has a few that neither of the others have such as Fukushima City and Nagatoro in Saitama. The maps are on a par with either RG or LP for detail, but these are bilingual; both Japanese and Romaji are on the maps without having to turn to a separate list on a different page. The pages are also divided like LP's with black edges with the name of the region, making finding a section easier.

The back page lists all the maps in the book for easy access. The front pages are 2 maps of Tokyo trains/subways and 1 map of the eastern slopes of Kyoto around Kiyomizu Temple to Ginkakuji. Access couldn't be much easier.

Information about each place is given but is minimal. This guide is to get you to a place and into a hotel. If you want stories, pictures, and history, buy a Fodors or Frommers. If you're an individual traveler who can pick up this information from the ticket counter or information booth as he/she goes, why carry it with you?

However, there are interesting boxes scattered throughout with different factoids about the area that you normally wouldn't come across in any guide or book, such as the "Masters of the Onsen Universe" challenge in Beppu, or the "Sakuda Gold & Silver Leaf Company" in Kanazawa.

Of the 3 (Moon apparently gave up) individual travel guides, this is the smallest and most succinct. However, it doesn't lose much, and for anyone briefly heading out to the more distant locations from Narita, and who isn't going on the Tokyo-Hakone-Kyoto 6-day 7-night tour, but is traveling around on a rail pass or an "18-ken," this is a good choice. It's got enough information to get you started until you feel comfortable enough going w/o a guide, which is the goal of any traveler.

Hotels and Restaurants listed are the cheapest these folks could find. There are cheaper or other hotels just as cheap that they missed, but there are listings here that are not in either of the other two. In some areas the restaurants are listed by type, with "noodles" being just one category. If you want something else, it's listed, also. If you want expensive restaurants, these are easy to find. Sometimes the cheap ramen shops are not as obvious.

I think RG & LP have a great new competitor.

Let's NOT Go to Japan with this guide.......2004-06-15

When I buy a travel book I expect accurate, useful information. I recently used this book on a trip to Kobe. Not only did the book not mention clearly how restricted are bank hours and how difficult it is to find a bank that handles foreign exchange, but the one bank in the Sannomiya area that was mentioned doesn't exist at the location indicated. The restaurant recommendations are typical for this sort of budget guide that assumes that you want to eat mostly Western food. It did have one good recommendation for a Kobe beef restaurant but didn't give its exact location, only the neighborhood. I had to ask some Japanese colleagues for help because it was only listed on a Japanese language web site. Finally, one of the best places to go in Kobe is a famous hot spring town called Arima. The guidebook makes no mention of Arima though every Japanese seems to know about it and recommend it. The book seems to generally ignore hot springs (or onsen in Japanese) which is strange because they are some of the most scenic and beautiful parts of the country. I didn't use the guide for other cities, but based on my experience in Kobe it fell far short of my expectations. The index also is not comprehensive. No guidebook is perfect, but there have to be better ones than this.

No better than Lonely Planet's book.......2004-06-02

I recently travelled to Kyoto, Hiroshima and Tokyo after buying both this book and "Lonely Planet Japan" in Spring of 2004. While I found the energy of this book to be superior to the LP and better able to answer the "what's there to eat in Kyoto?" - type questions, the writing style of "Let's Go" is simply atrocious. Most of the eating options that were featured were simply noodle fill-up joints. What happens when you had ramen yesterday? The fawning over their favorite ryokan in Tokyo (the ONLY unfriendly place in my trip) is unjustified. I found LP much more useful in getting around the cities I visited, although neither book offered much help in the How to Get Cash at Night in Japan category. LP was also better for pre-trip planning. My advice is to grab the Fodor's / Frommer's guide when it comes out next.

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A fitting successor to its trendsetting and always controversial predecessors, this edition promises even more suprises, more shocks.

Selected from tens of thousands of entries, works published represent the cream of British advertising, editorial, graphic design, radio, television, cinema and multimedia campaigns.

Never afraid to ruffle a few feathers in the creative jungle the British are renowned for their daring, progressive ideas - they have a powerful reputation all over the world for breaking ground with new advertising trends and exciting new marketing directions.

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Today, approximately 27% of households in the United States own at least one cat. This comprises a total of almost 60 million total pet cats. An 8 billion dollar pet food industry and the more than 7 billion dollars that pet owners spend on veterinary care each year provide tangible evidence of the increasing importance that companion animals have in our society. Additionally, the bond that owners have with their cats and the many health benefits that are afforded by this bond have been the topic of numerous research studies in the past 25 years. The cat as a cherished companion is here to stay, and many owners, students and pet professionals are eager to learn more about man 's OTHER best friend, Felis catus.The Cat: Its Behavior, Nutrition and Health, the textbook of the cat, is written as a companion book to The Dog: Its Behavior, Nutrition and Health. This book provides pet owners, undergraduate students and pet professionals with a complete guide to four topical areas that are of interest. These are: The history of the human-cat relationship; behavior of the domestic cat; feline nutrition; and feline health and disease.The Cat will fill the need for an academic textbook for undergraduate animal science courses, veterinary technician programs, and cat care or breeding classes. It will also serve as an important resource for pet professionals such as breeders, exhibitors, groomers, and veterinary practitioners.

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excellent veggie garden book

High-Yield Gardening: How to Get More from Your Garden Space and More from Your Gardening Season
Marjorie B. Hunt , and Brenda Bortz
Manufacturer: Rodale Pr
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0878575995

Customer Reviews:

excellent veggie garden book.......2003-07-23

This is an excellent book on vegetable gardening. I like it enough to be buying a second copy for my daughter. No one book covers everything but this is one I consult fairly regularly, especially when laying out a new bed or design. I also recommend Square Foot Gardening by Mel Bartholomew and Postage Stamp Gardening, can't remember author.

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This volume is the first complete critical edition of the Greek medical work of the 1st century A.D. on acute and chronic diseases, by an anonymous writer commonly known as Anonymus Parisinus Darembergii sive Fuchsii. The work includes an introduction, a critical text with apparatus and an English translation accompanied by a commentary on textual, linguistic and factual problems. There is an index of Greek words and an index of drugs and foods. This edition is important both because it is the first complete edition (the former, by Fuchs, being confined to the first half of the work), and because it is based on all four manuscripts that preserve the work (Fuchs employed two of them).

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A gorgeous collection from one of the world's legendary photographers- capturing human hands in all their vitality.

At the end of a session, photographer Eve Arnold always took a parting shot of the hands -and sometimes the feet- of her sitters, for luck and for her personal records. Handbook with Footnotes brings together two hundred of these superb pictures.

A photojournalist who traveled around the world, Eve Arnold also worked on the sets of more than 40 Hollywood movies. These photographs, therefore, which span her career, include such luminaries as Isabella Rossellini, Orson Welles, Marilyn Monroe, and Jimmy Stewart, captured in unguarded moments and with an unexpected focus away from their famous faces. And yet the celebrity portraits are just some of the highlights in a far-ranging and deeply moving portrait of humanity. Here are old hands, young hands, hands gripping guns and holding flowers, performing surgery and playing cards, painting, saluting, and blessing.

With this beautifully produced book, Eve Arnold establishes herself once again as a major photographer of our time.

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Handbook (with Footnotes)

Manufacturer: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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The teacher's handbook to the circle of knowledge;: Containing the lessons with footnotes, and explanations and questions

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The teacher's handbook to the circle of knowledge;: Containing the lessons with footnotes, and explanations and questions
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Manufacturer: Varty and Owen
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: B000888WAE

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Handbook (with Footnotes)

Manufacturer: BLOOMSBURY
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000GXAMTK

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Handbook with footnotes
Steve Smart
Manufacturer: Moon Studios
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