Bark: The Formation, Characteristics and Uses of Bark Around the World

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The "skin" that covers trees is no less taken for granted than the sound of dogs. This volume, the first of its kind, details the formation, uses and characteristics of this remarkably varied element of nature. Publisher-turned-photographer Kjell Sandved is a naturalist at heart, but he approaches his subject with the eye of an artist. He has a feel for color that Gauguin would appreciate; his fascination with the shape and design of bark is evident throughout. Sandved discusses his use of natural light in an essay and asserts that the principles employed when shooting portraits are the same when photographing bark.

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You'll never fall into the tourist traps when you travel with Frommer's. It's like having a friend show you around, taking you to the places locals like best. Our expert authors have already gone everywhere you might go--they've done the legwork for you, and they're not afraid to tell it like it is, saving you time and money. No other series offers candid reviews of so many hotels and restaurants in all price ranges. Every Frommer's Travel Guide is up-to-date, with exact prices for everything, dozens of color maps, and exciting coverage of sports, shopping, and nightlife. You'd be lost without us!

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Good guide for obvious places and spots you never thought of.......2003-01-28

This Frommer's Guide got me where I wanted to go -- and pointed out a few places that I never would have thought of. Sure, it's a great guide for Baltimore, Annapolis, the Eastern Shore. The information on area restaurants, hotels and tourist attractions are great. Plus there were some interesting tidbits about out-of-the-way places worth a visit. I never thought about a trip to Wilmington for instance. Yet after reading this book I found some great places to visit: good restaurants, a beautiful inn, and an intriguing contemporary museum, for instance.
The reviews were accurate and didn't steer me wrong once. It's a solid guide for both states.

Frommer's Maryland & Delaware (Frommer's Maryland & Delaware, 4th ed)

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Everything You Need to Know to Plan Your Trip

Frommer's Maryland & Delaware (Frommer's Maryland & Delaware, 4th ed)
Denise Hawkins Coursey , Arthur Frommer , and Matthew Coursey
Manufacturer: Frommer's
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 002863702X

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Everything You Need to Know to Plan Your Trip.......2000-12-04

If you want to know what attractions, special events, motels, and restaurants are in an area before you plan your trip, this is the guide book for you. It includes maps, short narratives about the area, pricing, and complete information so you can call or e-mail ahead. Also, there are sections for travelers with special interests or needs. It is the best -- comprehensive, well-organized, and helpful!

Frommer's America on Wheels Mid-Atlantic 1997: Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia (Frommer's America on Wheels Mid Atlantic)

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Frommer's America on Wheels Mid-Atlantic 1997: Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia (Frommer's America on Wheels Mid Atlantic)
William Goodwin
Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0028611101

Frommer's Comprehensive Travel Guide Delaware & Maryland

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Frommer's Comprehensive Travel Guide Delaware & Maryland
Preston
Manufacturer: Holiday House
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ASIN: 0671519395

Frommer's Comprehensive Travel Guide: Delaware and Maryland '94-'95 (Frommer's Maryland and Delaware)

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Frommer's Comprehensive Travel Guide: Delaware and Maryland '94-'95 (Frommer's Maryland and Delaware)
Patricia Tunison Preston , and John J. Preston
Manufacturer: Frommer
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ASIN: 067187117X

Frommer's Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania and the New Jersey Shore '92-'93 (Frommer's Maryland and Delaware)

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Frommer's Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania and the New Jersey Shore '92-'93 (Frommer's Maryland and Delaware)
Patricia Tunison Preston , and John J. Preston
Manufacturer: Frommer
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ASIN: 0133346080

Frommer's Mid-Atlantic States: Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, and Washington, D.C., 1990-1991

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Frommer's Mid-Atlantic States: Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, and Washington, D.C., 1990-1991
Patricia Tunison Preston , and John J. Preston
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
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Frommer's(r) Maryland & Delaware
Mary K. Tilghman
Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Binding: Paperback

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New Page 1

Its unparalleled author team, including National Geographic, ensures accuracy in every detail of the narrative, maps, and charts.

• Foldables—student-made three-dimensional graphic organizers—are a unique strategy that helps students read effectively and also can be used as assessment or study tools.
• A Guide to Reading, Reading Checks, and a Summary in every chapter keep students on track as they learn to read for information and process what they’ve read.

• TIME Notebooks allow students to step into the past, learning about everyday life in various periods and the “hot topics” of different eras.
• National Geographic's Geography and History features show students how geography and events intertwine to create the history of a location or nation.

• The program emphasizes skill development—from reading maps to analyzing primary and secondary sources to exploring the connections between history and geography, economics, government, citizenship, and current events.

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Nice book for beginner.......2000-04-10

If you want to buy your first chameleon,must buy this book.This book includes a lot of informations about thier natural environment and some tips to care your chameleon. Try this book,you wo'nt be disappoint.

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Toy Train Layout Tour by Richard Christianson.......2002-02-04

I am interested in purchasing this book but I don't know it's value? I want to offer a fair price. What did it cost new and what are they currently selling for?

Don't give this to a friend, to read. It's gone!.......2001-01-29

This book is hardly ever in at our 4 county library system. SoI bought the last one ... had. I made the mistake of giving it "to read and return" to a train buddy. Bad mistake. The variety, workmanship and excellent graphics made this a treasure. Guess I'll just have to ask my master modeler friend and fellow singer about its whereabouts. Shucks, there goes a perfectly good friendship. In estate planning there is the old, old saying: "Once you give it away, it's gone!"

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With these 85 plants—plus a little imagination, planning, and this essential guide—any garden can look beautiful all year round. Each shrub, climber, tree, perennial, and other border plant receives one full page or more of coverage, and is superbly photographed and shown thriving throughout at least two seasons. An enlightening introduction explains basic planting principles, and sections dealing with foliage, flowers, berries, bark, and more reveal the variety of different possible effects gardeners can achieve any time of year. The bulk of the book is devoted to inspirational and highly informative plant features, with details on their height and spread, country of origin, flowering season, hardiness, and cultivation.
Recommended by the Sunday Telegraph Magazine as one of the best gardening books of the year.

Plants for All Seasons: Beautiful and Versatile Plants That Change Through the Year

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Plants for All Seasons: Beautiful and Versatile Plants That Change Through the Year
Ursula Buchan
Manufacturer: Miller/Mitchell Beazley
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1840000511

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Each of the 85 plants pictured in these gorgeous photos has at least two seasons of interest, and many are exceptional year-round. These plants are the antithesis of "low-maintenance gardening" (which is, of course, an oxymoron anyway). They are the opposite of boring, unchanging municipal plantings like juniper and pyramidalis. Seasonal change is celebrated in the turning of leaves, the fluff of seed heads, blooms and berries, and in a wide variety of garden-worthy plantings.

Such plants lure us out into the garden in every season, making all the work of gardening worthwhile. Vines, trees, shrubs, and perennials, carefully chosen with guidance on combinations and cultural conditions, can be put together to make a garden with year-round appeal. Gardeners are always short on space and so will appreciate that each plant comes with a justification for including it in the garden. Oak-leaved hydrangea (H. quercifolia) deserves inclusion for the unusual shape of its lobed leaves, reliable red autumn color, and creamy summer flower heads; Achillea 'Moonshine' for its silvery green fluffy foliage and long-lasting yellow flowers, ideal for drying. --Valerie Easton

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Creating a garden landscape that has color, beauty, and architectural interest in all four seasons is far easier than most gardeners might imagine. The secret is to choose versatile plants, while appreciating that brilliant autumn and winter foliage can be just as striking as spring and summer flowers. In Plants for All Seasons, Ursula Buchan shows how, with a little imagination and planning, your garden can be a place of beauty throughout the year. She opens with an introduction to the principles of planting for more than one season of interest. She also shows how to assess your existing planting schemes to adapt them to a four-season plan. The main part of the book is devoted to more than85 plant profiles--shrubs, climbers, trees, and perennials--each shown in at least two seasons of interest. Buchan reveals the special characteristics of each plant at different times of year, including height and spread, habit, country of origin, flowering season, hardiness, and cultivation. Brimming with gorgeous color photos, this is a book that every gardener will want to own.

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This book is a survey of the life writings by and about Canadian missionaries at home and abroad, over the last one hundred and thirty years. A general missionary history of Canada appears first, to introduce separate chapters on the forms and themes of this body of literature. The critical problems presented by writing that has resisted modern and post-modern developments are discussed. Partial and fictional life writing, as well as marginal forms, are also explored. The book concludes with general statements about the whole of this literature and its effects. The first attempt at a comprehensive bibliography of Canadian missionary life writing is appended.

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Simon Bolivar: South American Liberator (People of Distinction Biographies)
Carol Greene
Manufacturer: Childrens Pr
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: School & Library Binding

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ASIN: 0516032674

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one of the best books i've read.......1999-09-09

I read this book in 7th grade. If you like biographies you will love this one.This man was a brave man who led many revolutions.He was born in 1783 in Caracas,Venezuela on July 24.He declared independence for Venezuela in 1811.He died near Santa Marta in 1830.

Simon Bolivar: South American Liberator (Hispanic Biographies)

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Simon Bolivar: South American Liberator (Hispanic Biographies)
David Goodnough
Manufacturer: Enslow Publishers
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Binding: Library Binding

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El Libertador: Writings of Simon Bolivar

ASIN: 0766010449

Bolivar, Liberator of a Continent: A Dramatized Biography

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Very Entertaining Novel
Simplistic biography
Boyd's Bolivar Narrative
Boyd's Bolivar Narrative
Dramatized and Infantile

Bolivar, Liberator of a Continent: A Dramatized Biography
Bill Boyd
Manufacturer: S.P.I. Books
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1561719943

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In this first English language biography of South America's greatest hero, Simn Bolivar's life unfolds like a Greek tragedy. From defeat, he rises to triumph, liberates Venezuela, Columbia, Panam, Peru, Ecuador, and Bolivia, falls into disfavor and exile, only to be worshipped, idolized, and deified after his death.

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Very Entertaining Novel.......2002-11-29

Bill Boyd spins a good tale. "Bolivar: Liberator of a Continent," is a great book to read on a long flight or next to a warm fireplace on a cold winter evening.

The author is a graduate of Yale and a scholar of Latin American history. He uses his vast knowledge of South American history to weave fact & fiction into a fasination account of a true "American" hero.

In the author's note at the beginning of the book Boyd explains he uses historial documents and official archives for his personalities and actions. To that end, the dialogue in this book is excellent. It brings Simon Bolivar to life and makes this book a great read.

Simplistic biography.......2002-02-03

When reading a biography, one hopes to learn about the subject and its times. This book provides neither; it describes certain events but fails miserably to describe Bolivar's possible motives for engaging in his quest. It also fails to describe the political realities of the times. The only attempt is made when the author describes his teacher Simon Rodriguez's influence on young Simon. But even then, the author analysis is simplistic and totally off the mark, it attempts to convey the notion that the revolution was the result of a class struggle a la Bolshevik, when in fact all revolutions in the Americas were rebellions against exploitation and taxes from Europe.

Boyd's Bolivar Narrative.......2001-11-18

Bill Boyd's Boviar: Liberator of a Continent contains fictional dialogue that sometimes reads like it was written for a Broadway musical; however, this thoroughly researched biography reads quickly and gives a genuine sense of the major players involved. Just as the pivotal revolutionary battle of Ayacucho, between Bolivar's army and the Spanish, remains a decisive moment in history, it and the events surrounding it serve as the narrative's pinnacle. The author gives generous treatment to Bolivar's governance after his successful campaigns to liberate the continent, but this should not enhance anyone's cynicism as to the greatness of this man, which Mr. Boyd deftly describes in the epilogue. The book also contains a informative postscripts which thoroughly secures Bolivar's legacy as every officer under his command went on to serve as a major political figure on the continent, a good portion of which were respectively elected president.

Boyd's Bolivar Narrative.......2001-11-18

Dramatized and Infantile.......2001-10-03

Readers should be warned that this book is written like it was meant to be read for the 8 to 12 year old age group. It is not only dramatized, it is also simplified and childish at times. The back cover says it all.

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Bolivar: The Liberator
Ronald Syme
Manufacturer: William Morrow & Co Library
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ASIN: 068831113X

The life and times of Simon Bolivar: This is the story of Simon Bolivar, liberator of Venezuela, the man who first of all had the vision of a united states for the whole of the American continent,

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The life and times of Simon Bolivar: This is the story of Simon Bolivar, liberator of Venezuela, the man who first of all had the vision of a united states for the whole of the American continent,
Hendrik Willem Van Loon
Manufacturer: Dodd, Mead & Company
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Simon Bolivar: South American Liberator.

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Simon Bolivar: South American Liberator.
HILDEGARDE ANGELL
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000RQ4LNY

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Bolivar the Liberator
Lauran Paine
Manufacturer: William Morrow
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ASIN: 0688211135

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