National Audubon Society Pocket Guide to Familiar Cacti (The Audubon Society Pocket Guides) (The Audubon Society Pocket Guides)

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The cactus has long fascinated both garden lovers and naturalists alike for its ability to survive in harsh environments. This guide includes information on time of bloom, habitat, anatomy, and function for 80 of these magnificent desert plants.

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The Dingle Way runs 112 miles (179 km) around the beautiful Dingle Peninsula, through some of the finest scenery in Ireland's southwest. It follows country lanes, quiet roads and cliff-top paths, with some glorious beach walking. The book provides: *drop-down mapping of the route in detail *practical information about transportation and travel *background information about wildlife and pre-historic sites *65 color professional quality photographs *rucksack-friendly format, with waterproof paper throughout

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The Dingle Way.......2007-04-04

We are planning to do the Dingle Way this summer and this is just the sort of guide needed to stay on the path.

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The Dingle Way companion
Tony O'Callaghan
Manufacturer: Tony O'Callaghan
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Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: 0953292401

The chairman speaks: one of the most powerful men in Washington, House Ways & Means Chair Charles Rangel, shares his views on the economy, tax policy, ... An article from: Black Enterprise

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The chairman speaks: one of the most powerful men in Washington, House Ways & Means Chair Charles Rangel, shares his views on the economy, tax policy, ... An article from: Black Enterprise
Derek T. Dingle
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
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Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from Black Enterprise, published by Thomson Gale on April 1, 2007. The length of the article is 1577 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 chairman speaks: one of the most powerful men in Washington, House Ways & Means Chair Charles Rangel, shares his views on the economy, tax policy, and building wealth.(INVESTMENT STRATEGIES)(Interview)
Author: Derek T. Dingle
Publication: Black Enterprise (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 1, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 37 Issue: 9 Page: 89(3)

Article Type: Interview

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Travers Bell: breaking barriers on Wall Street: one of the first blacks to gain a seat on the New York stock exchange, this Maverick paved the way for ... Builders): An article from: Black Enterprise

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Travers Bell: breaking barriers on Wall Street: one of the first blacks to gain a seat on the New York stock exchange, this Maverick paved the way for ... Builders): An article from: Black Enterprise
Derek T. Dingle
Manufacturer: Earl G. Graves Publishing Co., Inc.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B000ALO8D4
Release Date: 2006-07-14

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This digital document is an article from Black Enterprise, published by Earl G. Graves Publishing Co., Inc. on April 1, 2005. The length of the article is 760 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: Travers Bell: breaking barriers on Wall Street: one of the first blacks to gain a seat on the New York stock exchange, this Maverick paved the way for blacks to compete in the world of high finance.(Ultimate Wealth Builders)
Author: Derek T. Dingle
Publication: Black Enterprise (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 1, 2005
Publisher: Earl G. Graves Publishing Co., Inc.
Volume: 35 Issue: 9 Page: 17(1)

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Breathing your way to youth: A treatise on correct breathing and eating : the natural and faultless method to achieve perfect health--material success--harmony ... mental and spiritual planes of life

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Breathing your way to youth: A treatise on correct breathing and eating : the natural and faultless method to achieve perfect health--material success--harmony ... mental and spiritual planes of life
Edwin John Dingle
Manufacturer: Mentalphysics School of Wisdom
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ASIN: B0008BMAQ8

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Breathing Your Way to Youth
Edwin J. Dingle
Manufacturer: Kessinger Publishing
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Binding: Paperback

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Tanita BC533 Glass Innerscan Body Composition Monitor

ASIN: 0766103218

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Breath-The Flywheel of Life; Analysis of Breath; Your Own Relation to the Law of Being; Grow Young Consciously; Our Emotional Life in Relation to Youth; How Age Comes and How to Avoid It; The Practice of Meditation; Scientific and Spiritual Breathing.

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Dingle Way - Map Guide

Manufacturer: Menasha Ridge Press
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ASIN: 1871890462

Life's elixier discovered;: Scientifically proven regime for radiant health--beauty--youth and personal charm; the only easy way

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Life's elixier discovered;: Scientifically proven regime for radiant health--beauty--youth and personal charm; the only easy way
Edwin John Dingle
Manufacturer: Mentalphysics
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Adventure North: The story of Fridtjof Nansen
Justin F Denzel
Manufacturer: Abelard-Schumann
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ASIN: 0200715402

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Adventures North: the Story of Fridtjof Nansen
Justin F. Denzil
Manufacturer: Abelard-Schumann
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OLASTS

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Der "Ex-Designer" und Künstler Martí Guixé lebt zwischen Berlin und Barcelona und anderswo. Seine Arbeiten zeichnen sich aus durch die Einfachheit der Formen und Materialien, durch eine unscheue Ironie für die Dinge, die ihn umgeben. Das "Kitchen-Buildings"-Projekt besteht aus mobilen Konstruktionen für die Zubereitung von Speisen: Kochen, eine simple Freizeitbeschäftigung. Dieses Buch zeigt viel unveröffentlichtes Material und zeichnet sich besonders durch die zahlreichen comichaften Anleitungen und Skizzen aus der Hand des Künstlers sowie durch die aufschlussreichen Texte zu den einzelnen Werken aus.

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This book reviews the current status of, and threats to, shark populations globally with special reference to the basking shark and the great white shark.

This book outlines why sharks are a valuable resource, identifies threats to sharks and where they occur and reviews what we need to know about sharks in order to protect them. Fisheries management procedures are investigated to target areas requiring future research and implementation. Conservation initiatives, legislation, and international agreements are reviewed and future measures suggested. Case histories on the basking shark and the great white shark detail threats specific to these species and identify research and management requirements.

Sharks are a valuable resource both directly through shark watching trips, medical research and commercial and recreational fisheries, and indirectly through the selection pressure they exert on our teleost fisheries, the part they play in maintaining the ecology of the ocean and their intrinsic scientific value. Identifiable threats to sharks are recreational and commercial overfishing and environmental degradation rendered by man such as development of nursery and mating zones and disturbance of the marine environment through netting and trawling. Particular threats to sharks worldwide are the exploitative fin and cartilage trades. Information required for the sustainable management of sharks include life history episodes such as reproductive rates, vulnerable life stages, population dynamics and spatial and temporal distribution. An indepth analysis of white sharks and basking sharks reveal similarities in their reproductive strategies such that both species will follow similar management practices.

In reviewing fishery management practises it was found that sustainable management plans must be based upon reproductive rates requiring knowledge of life histories. Life history information is often required for legislative protection such that extremely rare species cannot be considered. Protective legislation should be targeted towards individual species and vulnerable life stages, particularly nursery and mating zones. Further legislation should be enacted to improve current knowledge through data collection.

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Practical advice on growing and caring for bulbs,including over wintering, propagation and general tasks such as deadheading, watering and feeding.

GARDENER'S GUIDE TO BULBS : OVER 50 VARIETIES OF BULB AND A GUIDE TO GROWING THEM IN EVERY SEASON, WITH OVER 800 PHOTOGRAPHS

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GARDENER'S GUIDE TO BULBS : OVER 50 VARIETIES OF BULB AND A GUIDE TO GROWING THEM IN EVERY SEASON, WITH OVER 800 PHOTOGRAPHS
KATHY BROWN
Manufacturer: LORENZ BOOKS
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000KV5XPG

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Celebrated designer Janne Faulkner offers inspiration and ideas on how to design a home with elegance and simplicity. For all who want to live, eat, play and entertain well in a place that reflects their personality, Inside offers clear advice and large color photos with smart design ideas mixing the old with the new and using natural materials. Faulkner guides the reader through an inner city townhouse, a lake house, a beach house, a city apartment, a country house and a period house with skill and flair. She details the scope and potential of color and explains inventive ways to conjure up dramatic effects. Practical do-it-yourself hints help overcome uncertainties about difficult design decisions.

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Learn how to master the newest technology in photography to create stunning visual images

With The Compact and Digital Camera Handbook, you will learn in clear and easy-to-understand instructions how to:
pick the right camera for you
set up shots
work with both natural and artificial lighting
use professional "tricks" with different lenses
understand the differences among available software packages
manipulate and retouch images using a variety of amazing effects
and much more!

Filled with loads of helpful tips and suggestions, this is the perfect handbook for the serious amateur who wants to learn as much as possible about the basics of compact and digital cameras as well as for the graphic and computer artist who must understand and use this revolutionary technology in order to stay competitive.

With this indispensable book by the computer or in the darkroom, you will experience just how easy and gratifying it is to work in the breakthrough field of digital photography.

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Misleading title, but some good content.......2000-08-15

I agree with "Disappointed" below, in that the title of this book is misleading. There are only a few pages devoted to digital cameras, with the real focus being the bare-essentials of cameras in general: primarily, the differences between 35mm, APS, and digital.

I must say though that there are some great pictures in the book, all full-color, and some of the techniques suggested are worth a look. I'd recommend this book for someone who was an absolute newbie (like I was a year ago!), and then recommend they pass it on to someone else when they're done.

Disapointed.......2000-04-03

I bought this book for two reasons. First, because I thought it would help me make some choices about my upcoming digital camera purchase. Second, because it was cheap. This book, as it turned out, would be perfect for someone who who has never used a camera at all. I assumed it would be geared more towards what functions to look for in a digital camera, and how to use it once I brought it home. It did neither. This book has a great chapter on how to take pictures. Unfortunately, that was not what I was looking for. I returned this book after I thumbed through it and found nothing useful.

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Great read!.......2002-07-30

Excellent book about a side of baseball that is not often analyse, I really recomend this one...

Entertaining Superficial Romp.......1999-12-21

Regalado provides a readable survey of the subject but his book is marred by failure to update his much-earlier academic dissertation on the topic, as well has his tendency at times to play rather loosely with the historical facts. It was Juan and not Luis Gonzalez who won a home run title, US sailors did not introduced baseball to Cuba on the Palmar de Junco field (see Roberto Gonzalez for the facts), pro baseball started in Cuba in 1878 and not 1868, Bobby Avila played for Almendares in the Cuban (not Mexican) league, Alejandro Oms did not play in the majors and Fidel Castro did not pitch for the University of Havana, Calvin Griffith was not Clark Griffith's son, Camilo Pascual and Pedro Ramos did not play for the Havana Sugar Kings in the AAA International League, Jose Santiago was Puerto Rico and not Cuban, and the 1891 Pittsburgh Pirates did not feature Ralph Kiner. This is a small sample of the bobbles which often marr an otherwise valuable casual fan's survey of Latino baseball.

Could Have Been Better.......1999-12-16

This is a passable overview of Latin baseball history but one also filled with numerous smaller and larger errors (San Pedro de Macoris is not by any measure "a small Dominican town" and US sailors did not introduce baseball in Cuba at the Palmar de Junco field in 1866) plus careless treatment of ballplayers names (Luis Gonzalez for Juan Gonzalez, Pinella for Piniella, Roman Mejis for Mejias, etc. etc.). Also the author made little effort to update his work from its earlier incarnation as a doctoral disseration several years earlier. The effort could have been better.

A MUST READ FOR ANY BASEBALL HISTORY FAN.......1999-10-02

Dr. Regalado did an amazing job with this book. It is a must read for any person that enjoys the history of baseball. Regalado wrote about a topic that doesn't get much attention and did so wonderfully.

"Viva Baseball" works on a multitude of levels........1999-03-20

"Viva Baseball! Latin Major Leaguers and Their Special Hunger" is a nearly effortless and highly entertaining read. Sam Regalado has managed to accomplished something very special: He has written a book for just about the full spectrum of the sports minded. Even if you're tangentially interested in baseball, you are likely to be griped by this heart warming story, which encompasses the hardships faced by Latin American baseball players, along with their "special hunger" to succeed, and finally their eventual triumph that gained them acceptance into North American professional baseball. For those students of history, Dr. Regalado, who teaches history at California State University,Stanislaus, manages to deftly weave in the important social /political and international events that shaped both the United States and the entire Western Hemisphere in the twentieth century. His treatment of the Cuban Missile Crisis, immigration trends and policies in the United States, and the tumult of Latin American politics, not to mention the farm workers movement led by Cesar Chavez and the racial politics of the 1960's in America, is clear, concise, and provides the reader with yet another lens from which to view these seminal events. Lest we forget this is a serious scholarly work, yet one that even neophyte students of history will find friendly.

"Viva Baseball" brings a big smile to the faces of baseball fans as well, especially those who either lived the glory years of the 60's or have since become aficionados. He paints the legends of the San Francisco Giants, such as Juan Marichal (Dominican Republic), Orlando Cepeda (Puerto Rico) and Jose Pagan (Cuba) with such realism by relating fascinating anecdotes that reveal their struggles as dark skin immigrants to a largely hostile racial and nativistic society, and their amazing accomplishments both on and off the field. We witness a side of the great Robert Clemente hitherto hardly offered for popular consumption. He was portrayed by the press in Pittsburgh as aloof, temperamental and even hypochondriac. Clemente's sullenness was in reality a normal reaction to the racism he and other players faced and the unwarranted jabs thrown at him by sports writers. The true measure of the man was both in his classy prowess on the field and in his efforts to help those less fortunate, such as the event that claimed his life in 1973. The plane crash and sorrowful aftermath of Robert Clemente's death are portrayed with great emotion.

My favorite story is of Luis Tiant Jr. Cold War politics isolated the Cuban member of the Boston Red Sox from his parents for fifteen years, until 1975 when Senator George McGovern apparently convinced Fidel Castro to allow Tiants to visit their son in Boston. The city of Boston, not known for its racial tolerance, rolled out the red carpet. Luis senior, who once objected to his son playing baseball in the U.S. because of prejudice, and Mrs. Tiant, watched their son win two games in the 1975 World Series. They both died the following year.

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This digital document is an article from The Oral History Review, published by Oral History Association on January 1, 2001. The length of the article is 1213 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: VIVA BASEBALL! LATIN MAJOR LEAGUERS AND THEIR SPECIAL HUNGER.(Review)
Author: Paul Joseph Cohen
Publication: The Oral History Review (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 2001
Publisher: Oral History Association
Volume: 28 Issue: 1 Page: 157

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Viva Baseball: Latin Major Leaguers and Their Special Hunger

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Viva Baseball: Latin Major Leaguers and Their Special Hunger
Samuel O. Regalado
Manufacturer: University of Illinois Press
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OPU5LA

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