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While a Tree Was Growing
Jane Bosveld , and
Daniel O'Leary
Manufacturer: Workman Publishing Company
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The Great Kapok Tree: A Tale of the Amazon Rain Forest
ASIN: 0761105409 |
Book Description
Here is the story of the oldest living sequoia -- possibly the oldest living thing on earth -- whose wondrous life spans the Trojan war (it was 150 years old and 75 feet high when the Greeks delivered their gift horse), the coming of the Buddha, Christ, and Mohammed (by then, two thousand years old, over 270 feet high), the settling of America, and the 1996 Presidential election. Yes, it's still growing, high up in California's Sierra Nevada mountains. Like a unique biological time-line, While a Tree Was Growing juxtaposes the life of a single tree with a chronology of world events to narrate 3,500 years of history, natural science, anthropology, and more. Large, generously illustrated two-page spreads are flanked by columns, with historic milestones on the left and a growth chart recording the treeís progress on the right. Stitched into the middle of the book is a fold-out 11O x 33O poster. Illustrated by Daniel O'Leary.
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While A Tree Was Growing.......2000-05-22
A great book that teaches both the history of the world and at the same time the importance of preserving our forests. The book is about one giant sequoia and the great historical events that have occurred during its lifetime. The tree is still standing. The book covers all that the tree has had to endur (insects, fires)and while it was growing Jesus was born, Cleopatra was born, the Wright Brothers flew, man walked on the moon and we were born. Beautiful illustrations and a wonderful tear out time line.
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While You Were Chasing a Hat (Harper Growing Tree)
Lilian Moore
Manufacturer: HarperFestival
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ASIN: 0694013420 |
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While You Were Chasing a Hat
Your 3-year-old is being to understand the connections between events.
Tips for reading and sharing:Ask your child to describe the story by looking at the picturesLet your child trace the hat's journey with a finger from page to pageTry on different kinds of hats with your child
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Rani of Jhansi
Bhawan Singh Rana
Manufacturer: Diamond Pocket Books
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ASIN: 8128808753 |
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Rani of Jhansi (The glorious heritage of India)
Manufacturer: India Book House
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ASIN: 8175080493 |
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The Rani of Jhansi: A Study in Female Heroism in India
Joyce Lebra-Chapman
Manufacturer: Univ of Hawaii Pr
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ASIN: 082480984X |
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Notes: Changing Energy into Form
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Design Transformation Group
Manufacturer: Ellipsis Arts
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ASIN: 1841660361 |
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The Design Transformation Group is an international community for people interested in the new business of design as a central and essential contributor to social learning and cultural vitality. Their bi-annual DesignQuest events have inspired those brave enough to participate and challenged established forms of collaboration and exploration. DesignQuest2: Changing Energy into Form took place in 1998, and looked at how design can actively and responsibly affect the increasingly complex flow of meaning between people and designed things. This book is one outcome of DesignQuest2, echoing the course of the event with contributions from the participants sharing passion, challenging method, and creativity. Notes: Changing Energy Into Form is a manual for those wishing to inspire their own creative development. Rigorous essays on creative action and the design principles of self-organizing conceptual consciousness are complemented by first-person and experimental texts. Reading the book involves entering an intensely energetic and challenging dialogue on design-based creativity.
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This book was written for the enjoyment of breeders and pet owners of Oriental Shorthair cats. The history, personality, safety, and health care are important chapters in this breeds existance. Written by a founding breeder of Orienal Shorthairs in the United States.
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WELL-WRITTEN BOOK INCREASES JOY OF BEING OWNED BY A CAT!.......2007-01-06
SINCE BEING ADOPTED BY AN 11-YEAR-OLD SIAMESE, WE HAVE TRIED TO READ THE BREADTH OF KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THAT END OF THE CAT SPECTRUM.
THIS WAS A WELL PHOTOGRAPHED BOOK, EASY TO READ, AND INSTRUCTIVE.
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Yeaaa slinky cats!.......2000-11-13
Being an Oriental breeder since 1984, it is so fantastic to finally see an accurate, concise and informative book written on the popular Oriental cat! Lynn Miller has done an excellent job of describing the history, personality, show standard, exhibition and care of this active, intelligent and playful breed.Carol Fogarty/Chromatics Cattery is the Home of National and Regional Winning Oriental, Siamese and Colorpoint Shorthair.... Look for our cat, GC, NW Chromatics Amethyst, on the cover of - "The Guide to Owning an Oriental Shorthair Cat" by Lynn Miller.
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A MUST FOR POCKET KNIFE COLLECTORS.......1998-01-17
JIM SERGEANT'S EXPERTISE IS UNEQUALLED IN THE AREA OF CASE,REM.ETC. A TRUE GENTLEMAN IN MY DEALINGS WITH HIM.
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A MUST FOR POCKET KNIFE COLLECTORS.......1998-01-17
JIM SERGEANT'S EXPERTISE IS UNEQUALED,PLUS ALWAYS HAS TIME TO TALK TO YOU AT THE SHOWS; AN HONEST MAN!
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-Covers steps such as mowing, watering, aerating and dethatching.
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Fitting Out the Workplace
John Worthington , and
Allan Konya
Manufacturer: Butterworth-Heinemann
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Binding: Hardcover
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ASIN: 0851399959 |
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Wonderful Regional Literature.......2007-06-08
It is quite moving to read and love a book about a place you actually hated while living there(years ago). Such a strong sense of California and its inland landscape in this book. I recommend it for collectors of regional works and for people who once lived in or near the Inland Empire.
It's a solid pick of literary reflections and images promising to reach a wide audience of the region.......2007-02-09
INLANDIA represents the first Inland Empire literary anthology - the region described as the area east of Los Angeles - and packs in stories and insights by both native and non-Inland Empire natives. Many have been inspired to write about the area; but typically these writings have been spread out over mediums and areas, so it's especially notable to see them altogether under one cover. It's a solid pick of literary reflections and images promising to reach a wide audience of the region; from college-level collections to general-interest lending libraries with special interests in the Inland Empire.
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Anthology honors much-maligned region of California.......2007-01-22
Long the Rodney Dangerfield of Southern California, the Inland Empire sits about an hour east of Los Angeles and encompasses the fast-growing counties of Riverside and San Bernardino.
Far from the beaches of Malibu, it is a tough land, some say, the home of biker gangs and urban sprawl, a land buffeted by the unrelenting Santa Ana (or "Devil") winds that can flip cars and jangle nerves. Tell an Angeleno that you make your home in the Inland Empire and be prepared for the condescending half-smile followed by a wisecrack: "Oh, the methamphetamine capital of the world."
But this era of insult might have come to an end, if Heyday Books and Santa Clara University have any say in it. Inlandia: A Literary Journey through California's Inland Empire, meticulously edited by Gayle Wattawa ($18.95 paperback), is an ambitious collection that finally gives the area its due as a culturally and historically vital component of Southern California.
In the anthology's introduction, Riverside native and National Book Award finalist Susan Straight tells us that she has striven to infuse her writing with "the fierceness we retain in these small places where people loved their own with the vehemence, the stubborn and suspicious and inventive qualities required to survive this part of Southern California."
Straight is not alone in attempting to depict all the complexities and beauty of the Inland Empire and its people. More than 70 authors are represented in fiction, poetry, native legends, journal entries and other writings from the 1700s to the present.
Some of the writers enjoy worldwide fame and have been translated into many languages. We're treated to an excerpt from a 1930 tough-guy novelette, "Blood-Red Gold," by Erle Stanley Gardner, the creator of Perry Mason. And there's the exquisitely creepy essay, "Some Dreamers of the Golden Dream" by Joan Didion, concerning a woman accused of murder in the 1960s. Other "big names" abound, including Norman Mailer, John Steinbeck, Joan Baez and Raymond Chandler.
Wattawa includes newer voices, writers who have lived or are living in the region and who feel compelled to chronicle the history and culture of their home through fiction. Kathleen Alcalá, who grew up in San Bernardino, offers the short story "Gypsy Lover," a haunting tale of one girl's attempt to come to terms with her older sister's mysterious disappearance. And in "Georgie and Wanda," Michael Jaime-Becerra skillfully fictionalizes the racial bigotry faced by a young couple in Riverside circa 1956.
Many of the nonfiction pieces are simply heartbreaking. Diary excerpts from George Fujimoto Jr. starkly recount the federal government's rounding up of his family members, who were housed in Arizona internment camps for the duration of World War II. Similarly, Malcolm Margolin's "The Cupueño Expulsion of 1903" details the removal of a native people for their valuable land.
Smaller-scale tragedies are perfectly rendered here, too, as in Alex Espinoza's powerful short story, "Santo Niño," that brings us into the lives of two young women as they battle economic hardship, infertility and strained relationships. And in "hap & hazard highland" by Keenan Norris, a young ex-con tries to reconnect with his old neighborhood as well as with his youthful dreams.
At the turn of each page, there are surprising little shocks as we enter themes radically different from the one before. For example, after the essay "909," Percival Everett's wry and provocative contemplation of Riverside County, out of the blue follows Sholeh Wolpé's poem, "Morning After the U.S. Invasion of Iraq," in which the community of Redlands seems unfazed by the beginning of the war: "The chatter is as always, quiet, / The smiles as always, broad."
No review can fully capture the breadth and spirit of this remarkable anthology. Suffice it to say that each author surprises, informs and entertains. Inlandia paints a complex and compelling portrait of a region that is simultaneously beautiful and harsh, multicultural and alienating, vibrant and destructive. Without question, it is a portrait that commands our respect. [This review first appeared in the El Paso Times.]
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Story of a young girl and her recovery.
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Riverside Journey
Ashley Bryant
Manufacturer: Lutterworth Press
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ASIN: 071883013X |
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This beautiful collection of watercolours and other paintings and sketches charts the 66-mile journey of the Derwent from its source to its confluence with the Trent.
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Walking Through Eden: A Riverside Journey
Neil Hanson , and
Antonio Carluccio
Manufacturer: Trafalgar Square
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Binding: Hardcover
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ASIN: 1851453938 |
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pleasant stroll.......2003-03-08
Eden is the trough that divides the Lake District from the north Pennines, and is named for its river. Hanson took a year to cover the less than 100 miles of his route, which must be a record for slowness. With weeks or maybe months elapsing between each leg, the continuity suffers, but, having run a pub in the high north Pennines, he has plenty of inside knowledge to share, of local history, characters, farming and nature. Not too many laughs, and the lyrical passages are wordy and sometimes purple, but overall an enjoyable stroll through a little known corner of the country.
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Walt Whitman's poetry; a psychological journey (Riverside studies in literature, 52)
Edwin Haviland Miller
Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin
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Binding: Unknown Binding
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ASIN: B0006BTNBU |
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One in a series of sermons from a subscription to the annual sermon series. July 8, 1979
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Shan di men zhi nu (in traditional Chinese, NOT in English)
Wenyu Jiang
Manufacturer: Lian He Wen Xue
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Binding: Paperback
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ASIN: 957522325X |
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