Floral Treasures of Japan: Satsuki Azaleas

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Wade through the endless turquoise water, greet the dawn from clifftop stone temples above the ocean, eat fire by devouring hot chiles, watch the sun set over beachside margaritas —Fodor's Cancún, Cozumel, Yucatán Peninsula 2005 offers all these experiences and more! Our local writers have traveled throughout the Yucatán peninsula, to find the best hotels, restaurants, attractions and activities to prepare you for a journey of stunning variety. Before you leave be sure to pack your Fodor's guide to ensure you don't miss a thing.

The San Francisco Chronicle sums it up best —"Fodor's guides are saturated with information."

-New compact trim size make these guides even more portable
-Two-color interior design makes it easier to find the information you need
-Fodor's Choice Ratings flag must-see sights and hidden treasures
-Hotel and restaurant reviews cover all budgets
-Plus multi-day itineraries to help you build the right trip for you and/or your family

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A fantastic resource.......2006-05-23

My husband and I took this with us on our honeymoon to Cozemel. What an EXCELLENT resource it proved to be! The reviews and suggestions were right on the money. We appriciated the personal input and specifics for sites, activities, resturants, etc - it was as though a good friend was giving you traveling advice.

The book is well layed out and easy to navigate.

We carried this with us during our site-seeing adventures both on and off the island and it proved to be invalueable. There is no question that our trip would not have been as outstanding had we not had it.

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One of the very few eyewitness accounts of what became known as the Black Hawk War. The author served in the War of 1812 and later, as a surgeon and scout in the militia and published this memoir in 1834, recording material on the background and personality of Black Hawk, relations between the Indians and the settlers, the American military figures involved, and the military events that took place. Reprint edition. 2006: 224 pages, illustrated. Softcover. (Scholar's Bookshelf)

Jim Thorpe: Sac and Fox Athlete (North American Indians of Achievement)

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Jim Thorpe: Sac and Fox Athlete (North American Indians of Achievement)
Bob Bernotas
Manufacturer: Chelsea House Publications
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0791016951

Letter ... transmitting ... a report relative to the membership of the Sac and Fox Indians.

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Letter ... transmitting ... a report relative to the membership of the Sac and Fox Indians.
Sac and Fox Indians.
Manufacturer: Washington:
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000IUTPBC

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Robert Stewart was one of the foremost British designers of the second half of the twentieth century. His work revolutionized design in postwar Britain. Trained at the Glasgow School of Art in the 1940s, he took charge of the printed textiles department there in 1949. He was passionately interested in surface design and became one of the most significant influences in the field. He designed for Liberty, Donald Brothers, and the Edinburgh Tapestry Company in Great Britain and North America before forming his own company to produce printed ceramic kitchenware. During the 1970s and 1980s he designed and manufactured large-scale ceramic murals for public buildings.

During his thirty-five years at the Glasgow School of Art, Stewart proved to be an inspiring and influential teacher. His legacy is to be found in his many successful former students now working in a variety of fields, including textiles and theater design. At a time of renewed public and critical interest in design from the 1950s and 1960s, this colorfully illustrated volume demonstrates Stewart's lively, playful, fresh work, much of which has never been published.

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In this follow-up to the successful titles, Understanding Your Horse, and From Birth to Backing, Richard Maxwell develops a simple structured approach to dealing with horse problems which comprises three steps and can take as little as twenty minutes a day, encompassing handling and training from the ground, and in the saddle. This is further helped by eight case studies, which illustrate useful, practical exercises.

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A must for horse owners.......2006-03-20

I have read this book from cover to cover and started to implement the exercises, it was easier to follow that I thought and I have started to see good changes in my young horse.

Although it is similar to parelli it isn't as strict and I have found that my horses personlaity is still very much there, but it is working with me now and not against me.

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More inspirational than practical

Good reading and inspirational

Useful information buried in a compost heap of poor writing.

a bonanza of practical information

Hilarious, insightful, and brilliant

The Contrary Farmer's Invitation to Gardening
Gene Logsdon
Manufacturer: Chelsea Green Publishing Company
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0930031962

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Gene Logsdon has done it again! One of his earlier books, The Contrary Farmer, is one of the most moving, sensible, readable books about sustainable farming on the market. Now Logsdon successfully applies that wry wit, wisdom, and storytelling faculty to gardening. The result is a perceptive and inspirational volume: it is nearly impossible to resist dreaming about getting out there and raising your own food after reading this intelligent, enjoyable book.

Logsdon's voice is utterly personal and sensible: he uses his experiences as well as tales of people he knows to point out absurdities of modern agricultural horticultural silliness. This same humor and clear-headedness are employed in considering the futility of industrialized farming, pesticide use, and the highly destructive methods of corporate and commercial farming and gardening.

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More inspirational than practical.......2003-05-09

This is the second book of Logsdon's that I have read, and I intend to read the rest of them. In many ways, he reminds me of the old farmers who would sit around the barber shop when I was kid. Mr. Logsdon has opinions on just about everything, and isn't afraid to express them. One gets the distinct impression that he really won't be too bothered by whether his readers are persuaded by his opinions or not.

Amidst his (admittedly spot on) diatribes about industrial farming, government meddling, and modern day prohibitionists he does manage to paint a lovely picture of the garden as the embodiment of the urge to simplicity and living close to the land. Further, he makes it clear that the reader can start whereever they already are, even if it means growing a few plants in a window box.

There is plenty of practical advice, but it is delivered anecdotally. There aren't any pictures or diagrams, but he describes his compost heated seed starting bed so well that one doesn't need a diagram. Likewise for what he calls mulch-bed gardening (basically lasagna gardening). The topics covered include the reason for gardening, vegetable gardening, small scale livestock husbandry (read: pet chickens, at least until they quit laying and end up in the stew pot), and aquatic gardening (ponds and such).

The key thing to keep in mind is that this book is an invitation to gardening, and not a primer or a manual. If you are looking for a how-to guide, this isn't your best book. If you are wondering whether you might enjoy gardening, or if you are already a gardener and you need something to do between the first frost and the last frost, this is an excellent read.

Good reading and inspirational.......2002-04-19

While this book is has plenty of good information in it, I think its real value is to provide a peek into life in the country. His practical view of life can be applied to all walks of life

Useful information buried in a compost heap of poor writing........1999-05-27

I had previously read and enjoyed (I think) two of Logsdon's earlier books, At Nature's Pace and The Contrary Farmer, but I was barely able to get through this more recent contribution. Logsdon is clearly knowledgeable about a wide range of small farming and gardening practices. There is much useful information in this book, particularly on mulching garden beds, growing small grains, and using chickens in movable cages for fertilization and insect control. However, acquiring this information, which is also available elsewhere, is a painful experience. On almost every page the defects in Logsdon's writing and thinking stand out. He makes absurd generalizations and broad pronouncements, on all sorts of topics, based on what is clearly cursory, limited understanding of the subjects. A fine example of the latter is to be found in the last two pages of the book, where he discusses the evolution of monarch and viceroy butterflies, and the mimicry of the former by the latter. His reasoning in the course of making arguments is often nearly incomprehensible, and time after time made me shake my head in disbelief. One example (p. 126): "I do not believe in letting nature take its course all the time. In a world where one ethnic group of Rwandans hacked a million of another ethnic group to death with machetes recently, I don't have the time nor the luxury to debate whether I should kill a feral cat that is endangering a rare species of songbird. To make the point clearly [!], if I were a judge, I could sentence a vicious human criminal to death under the law--with fewer qualms than I feel when killing a poor dumb pest animal, which is merely the victim of a situation that is as much my fault, as a human, as the animal's fault. But in either case I would act, not lie down passively and let someone else make the decision. If this sounds unconscionably brutal to you, try arguing the passive-resistance viewpoint with a brood of termites under or house or a panther eying up your child." I just can't follow this. Other, shorter instances abound, as Logsdon draws from his misunderstanding and fractional knowledge of history, ecology, evolutionary biology, and other areas to offer up his opinions on government, economics, sociology, religion, and so on. His writing is also marred by pointless and foolish parenthetical asides, and corniness, as when in the space of three pages in the last chapter he refers six times to his wife as "my lovely" (e.g., "My lovely found what appeared..."). Other readers seem to enjoy Logsdon's self-proclaimed stance as "the contrary farmer," and I am certainly on the same side as he in the struggle against destructive agribusiness and the global hegemony of ruthless corporations, but (obviously) I cannot recommend this book, which is poorly written and seems not to have had the attention of an editor.

a bonanza of practical information.......1999-03-28

An exciting book, full of unusual ideas, practical information, and intriguing possibilities. Real treasure.

Hilarious, insightful, and brilliant.......1998-01-05

Gene Logsdon's thoughts on gardening are jewels of wisdom and humor, as usual. He's one of those rare writers who can take the reader deep into unimagined worlds under the surface of a topic, exploring whimsical and practical concepts of farming/gardening. Buy this book! You'll read it BR to tatters and beg for more. I'm giving copies to every gardener I know.

The Contrary Farmer's Invitation to Gardening.(Review): An article from: Countryside & Small Stock Journal

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The Contrary Farmer's Invitation to Gardening.(Review): An article from: Countryside & Small Stock Journal
Al Doyle
Manufacturer: Countryside Publications Ltd.
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Binding: Digital

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ASIN: B00098NFF0
Release Date: 2005-06-01

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This digital document is an article from Countryside & Small Stock Journal, published by Countryside Publications Ltd. on March 1, 1999. The length of the article is 375 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: The Contrary Farmer's Invitation to Gardening.(Review)
Author: Al Doyle
Publication: Countryside & Small Stock Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 1, 1999
Publisher: Countryside Publications Ltd.
Volume: 83 Issue: 2 Page: 120(1)

Article Type: Book Review

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The Mahâhabhârata, a vital Indic epic and a flourishing influence on Indian culture past and present, has surprisingly enough hardly got much attention from scholars in the West. This latest volume in Brill's Indological Library convincingly fills this hiatus.

At that, at the hand of the hero Karna, Kevin McGrath develops a view on the nature and function of the hero in epic Indic poetry. Making use of models taken from Indo-European and preliterate studies, a model emerges for `heroic religion', having to a large extent shaped not only the Indic epics, but also cognate Indo-European epics, such as Homer's Iliad.

As a result this work goes beyond Indology, but is of importance to classicists and comparative religionists as well.

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