The Illustrated Flora of Illinois: Smartweeds to Hazelnuts (Illustrated Flora of Illinois)

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For each plant known to occur in Illinois, Mohlenbrock and Thomson have included a complete description, illustrations (106 in all) showing diagnostic features, distribution maps (95), and ecological notes. The authors also present keys to aid in the identification of the plants.

This volume includes one family—the Polygonaceae—from the large order Chenopodiales, and two orders in their entirety—the Hamamelidales with two families and the Fagales with three families.

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This digital document is an article from Franchising World, published by International Franchise Association on July 1, 2002. The length of the article is 1544 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: Argentina: a close-up view of a country in decline; franchising in Argentina will not die. But it will take some time to recover, and is not likely to be as attractive to foreign franchisors for a bit longer than that. (International Development).(Statistical Data Included)
Author: Philip F. Zeidman
Publication: Franchising World (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 1, 2002
Publisher: International Franchise Association
Volume: 34 Issue: 5 Page: 44(2)

Article Type: Statistical Data Included

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Emerging markets in South America: Argentina and Chile are poised to become players in nutraceuticals market.(VIEWS FROM SOUTH AMERICA): An article from: Nutraceuticals World

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Emerging markets in South America: Argentina and Chile are poised to become players in nutraceuticals market.(VIEWS FROM SOUTH AMERICA): An article from: Nutraceuticals World
Paul Altaffer
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This digital document is an article from Nutraceuticals World, published by Thomson Gale on October 1, 2005. The length of the article is 1594 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: Emerging markets in South America: Argentina and Chile are poised to become players in nutraceuticals market.(VIEWS FROM SOUTH AMERICA)
Author: Paul Altaffer
Publication: Nutraceuticals World (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 1, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 8 Issue: 9 Page: 30(2)

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World in View Series: Argentina/Australia/Brazil/Canada/Central America/China/Cuba/Ecuador/Peru and Bolivia/Egypt/England/Frnace/Germany/Greece/Hong

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World in View Series: Argentina/Australia/Brazil/Canada/Central America/China/Cuba/Ecuador/Peru and Bolivia/Egypt/England/Frnace/Germany/Greece/Hong

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World in View Series: Argentina/Australia/Brazil/Canada/Central America/China/Cuba/Ecuador,Peru and Bolivia/Egypt/England/France/Germany/Greece/Hong

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World in View Series: Argentina/Australia/Brazil/Canada/Central America/China/Cuba/Ecuador,Peru and Bolivia/Egypt/England/France/Germany/Greece/Hong

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In Noah's Garden, published in 1994, gardener and writer Sara Stein addressed the business of making a messy backyard--of restoring a naturally chaotic and dynamic "floral-faunal-microbial system" in the place of neatly tended, carefully selected and weeded, and ultimately artificial gardens. Just as charmingly written as its predecessor, Planting Noah's Garden furthers Stein's campaign to make lawns animated, full of disorder, life, and wildness. Studded with ringing tributes to alumroot, trillium, goldenrod, bellworts, and mayflowers, this is a lovely gardener's manifesto. Packed with practical instructions for planning and maintaining a garden of one's own, it's also wonderful entertainment for anyone with a green thumb.

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Sarah Stein's brilliant book Noah's Garden placed the author at the forefront of the new field of ecological gardening. Now, in Planting Noah's Garden, she tells the even more fascinating story of the many ways people in all parts of the country are redesigning their surroundings to welcome back the birds, butterflies, fireflies, and other creatures driven away by the sterility of the typical suburban landscape. In the second half of the book she offers specific information readers will find nowhere else: how to learn the common flora of your region; how to handle group wholesale orders; how to kill invasive plants; how to collect and plant wild seeds; how to start a tree island; how to plan a patio habitat - and much, much more. Planting Noah's Garden is both a call to action and a blueprint for a new gardening aesthetic.

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Thought-provoking...worth every penny.......2001-08-10

I bought this book because I have two children and one of the other reviewers spoke about how the author views children as part of the "mega fauna" of a landscape and gives her suggestions on how to make an interesting outdoor "habitat" for them, so to speak. In addition, I've always tried to take an ecologically sound approach to landscaping in my yard by gardening organically.

Truth to tell, I never really thought about whether or not it's ecologically sound to plant mostly exotic plants in my yard versus native ones. I congratulated myself that I let a meadow emerge in my back yard when I moved in. I never gave much thought to exactly what was growing in it. I've always believed that it is just plain wrong to collect plants from the wild...but are there times when it is not only justified but perhaps actually beneficial? If so, when?

In any case, the book definitely stretched my perceptions and gave me a whole lot to think about in terms of my own typical, "newly developed" suburban lot. I felt like the chapter about the author's niece, also about such a suburban lot, could have been about my own.

I recommend this book to anyone interested in gardening or ecology...and even those not currently interested could probably benefit! Worth every penny I paid...not just an enjoyable read, but a very informative one.

Part 1 is more of a great thing, Part 2 is Especially Useful.......2001-08-05

Stein's way with words allows her to provide a huge amount of information in entertaining narrative form to the degree that one just can't put the book down. This is the appeal and value of her "Noah's Garden" and continues in Part 1 of "Planting Noah's Garden." Part 2 is something extra: direct instructions, charts, and everything a reader wants to know about how to follow in Stein's footsteps (or spade holes). She provides a wealth of information on everything from how to get started with the complex process of eco-gardening to precise information on specific plants and projects. This is really Stein's answer to the hundreds of letters and questions she has gotten since "Noah's Garden" and what an answer it is!

Highly Reccomended!.......2001-04-01

I cannot encourage anyone who is even slightly interested in wildlife or butterfly gardening strongly enough - READ THIS BOOK! Along with Noah's Garden, Stein's first "eco-gardening" book, this is a great read for anyone who finds endless lawns boring, or has driven past a wooded lot daily, only to wake up one day and find it has been flattened to make a strip mall. I have read both books several times and used the advice in both to build an beautiful butterfly and bird garden (on a patio outside an apartment, no less) and I can't wait to apply it to a full-sized yard. This book doesn't just encourage you to make a difference - even if it's just a dent - it actually shows you how. I loved it, and I plan to give it as gifts in the future.

Essential reading for back yard, native plant oriented souls.......1998-07-21

This book is totally enchanting. When I first read "David Copperfield" I told myself that I would read it again in a few years and it would read differently. And it has."Planting Noah's Garden" has exactly the same feel. I have spent the last six months recommending this book to my naturalist friends. I have often though of passing my copy on, but have decided not to. I buy another copy instead. I have the feeling that this is a book that I will want to read again.and again.Sara states that "Children are part of the mega-fauna of every landscape." She writes about the basic need of children to look under rocks and logs, to climb trees..to discover the natural wonders that await them there. And, or course, she tells us how to make this happen.

If you enjoy planting things, if you enjoy your yard, your children and your grandchildren, buy this book. It is a masterpiece.

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A Thing Of Beauty

Beautiful Pictures and an Interesting Concept

From Beauty to Beast - The Journey of a Man.

great concept, poor execution

Brian: A Nine-Year Photographic Diary

Manufacturer: Fotofactory Press
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ASIN: 1883923492

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In a unique photographic diary that spans nine years and several cities, photographer Reed Massengill has chronicled the coming of age of his model and friend Brian Hess, a very handsome and charismatic young man. Massengill began photographing Brian in 1992 in Knoxville, Tennessee, shortly after Brian's high school graduation. During the intervening years, as the photographer and model became friends, Massengill's portraits of Brian documented his radical physical transformation. His hair was bleached, shaved and re-grown several times. Tattoos, piercings and scarifications further adorned his body and dramatically altered his appearance from year to year. Massengill's portraits have ranged from pensive and introspective to playful and wildly erotic.

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VERY INTERESTING.......2007-01-24

A GREAT suty beturn the work of the model and the photographer ... this is very well done

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A Thing Of Beauty.......2004-08-18

Reed Massengill here has photographed a model named Brian for a nine-year period, from 1992 to 2000. A recent high school graduate, he must have been around 18 when the first photographs were shot. Over this time frame Brian changes, both in his body and facial features. Though by no means a gym bunny, he apparently worked out, developing more muscle, and also got heavy into body piercing and tattoos as well. He tried out a lot of different hair styles, growing longer hair, then getting bleached and buzzed. Some of the pictures are quite wonderful, many of them are very erotic, some are funny and a couple of them approach being silly. But the model always comes across as being alive and seems to be having a great time. This is obviously a collaboration. He gives as much to these photo sessions as the photographer does.

Mr. Massengill manages to shoot dozens of photos of this young man with practically no repetition, no small accomplishment. The artist says in the introduction to this book that he would like to photograph Brian for many years to come. It would be interesting to see what look he finally settles on and how both his body and face change with age. We can only hope that life with all its unknowns doesn't take the great zest for living that Brian has that is so obvious in these photos.

Beautiful Pictures and an Interesting Concept.......2002-10-01

I noticed this book the last few times I browsed through several book stores in my area. Each time it stood out as if trying to catch my attention. I finally gave in and went through the book, first looking through the pictures then reading the introduction explaining the concept of the book's meaning. I was amazed to discover that the photographs in the book were of the same person. Due to the extreme differences the model Brian had in appearance, I had assumed that the photographer Reed Massengill had simply decided on making a picture book on various young men all named Brian. This really impressed me as the book started out with a young, relatively clean-cut man who gradually alters his appearance with varying degrees of hair styles and a progression of tattoos and piercings. I think this book is a nice window into the life of a 20 something year old man going through many identity choices in the last decade of the 2000 millennium. Not a traditional coffee table book by any means, I think Brian: A Nine Year Photographic Diary is a nice concept book that should be appreciated for it's lensing of a person living through a specific point in history.

From Beauty to Beast - The Journey of a Man........2002-05-04

An interesting look at a person through the years - 9 years to be exact, in which the model morphs from a beautiful young man to an entirely different person - at least visually.

Although one of the thinner photo-essays, it should be in any shelf of serious collectors interested in the male physique.

great concept, poor execution.......2001-09-08

I purchased the book because I was intrigued by its underlying concept to photograph a young man over a period of several years. However, the photographs were amateurish and were more like black and white "snapshots" than photographs. Since Brian was clearly posing, I had difficulty classifying the collection as more than a handful of pictures of an attractive model over a 9 year time span. Since these years were from the late teen to the late 20s, either Brian's physical maturation was too subtle or the photographic skill was inadequate to demonstrate transformation. The marking of time became superficial aspects: hairstyle and color, tattoos, and body piercing. Actually, the photographic style changed more than the model. In summary, the best part of the book was the creative idea of a photographic essay of a man over a period of time. Nine years may have been an inadequate time period, but I would predict that without the photogenic quality of youth, the pictures would quickly become even less interesting given the skill of the photographer.

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Since the publication of The Woman Warrior more than a quarter century ago, author Maxine Hong Kingston has enjoyed a phenomenal rise in popularity and literary importance, earning a place in the American canon as the living author most frequently taught at U.S. universities. The numerous studies of this touchstone work, however, fail to take into account the stories in China Men, which were largely written together with those in The Woman Warrior but later published separately. Although Hong Kingston's decision to separate the male and female narratives enabled readers to see the strength of the resulting feminist point of view in The Woman Warrior, this division also made it easier to overlook the literary and cultural significance of the material that was taken out and moved to China Men. Indeed in the face of the growing and disproportionate attention to the mother-daughter relationship in The Woman Warrior, Hong Kingston steadily maintained that to understand the book fully it was necessary to read its male companion text.

Maureen Sabine's ambitious study of The Woman Warrior and China Men aims to bring these divided texts back together with a close reading that looks for the textual traces of the father in The Woman Warrior and shows how the daughter narrator tracks down his history in China Men. She considers theories of intertextuality that open up the possibility of a dynamic interplay between the two books and suggests that the Hong family women and men may be struggling for dialogue with each other even when they appear textually silent or apart.

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