Conspectus Bryophytorum Orientalum et Arabicorum: An annotated catalogue of the bryophytes of Southwest Asia (Bryophytorum bibliotheca)

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North Carolina is one of America's most temperate, scenic, and historic states. It is the home of exquisite colonial mansions, Civil War battlefields, and energetic midsized cities. It is one of the nation's most modern and distinct states, and many localities have been rated among the nation's top-ten places to live.
In North Carolina: A Photographic Tour, photographer Carol M. Highsmith and writer Ted Landphair take the reader on a guided tour of the state's incomparable sites and scenic vistas that highlight its remarkable diversity. You will visit Durham, the home of the venerable Duke University as well as one of the world's most modern research enclaves. In Raleigh, "the City of Oaks," with its oak trees, magnolias, and restored Victorian houses, the reader will discover the epitome of the classic city of the Old South. In Chapel Hill, the home of the University of North Carolina and legendary Sutton's Drug Store, one will encounter what has been called "the southern part of Heaven."
If you love to decorate, High Point—the "Furnishings Capital of the World"—full of furniture factories and outlet shops, will become a must to visit in person. A great surprise will greet the admirer of architecture in Asheville, which has more Art Deco structures than any other southeastern city—except Miami Beach—and is the home of the Biltmore Estate, a Victorian mansion that is the largest private residence in North America.
These and many other memorable cities and places are brought vividly to life in North Carolina: A Photographic Tour. With its striking photos and thoughtfully insightful text, it is an exceptional book that makes a superb memento or gift for anyone who has visited or is planning to visit this unique state.

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Going Home.......2005-10-10

A neighbor wants to "go home" to North Carolina. I bought the book for him for Christmas so he can "dream" before he gets there!! The book has beautiful pictures and good information about the state.

North Carolina Is Picture Perfect.......2001-02-07

North Carolina is so often overlooked as the subject for a beautiful coffee table book. Yet it's a "natural," with so much variety (seashore, steamy lowlands, Piedmont, rugged mountains). So I was dubious that an affordable book like this could do the job. But congratulations to Carol Highsmith and Ted Landphair for pulling it off. The photography is absolutely magnificent. There's a compact introduction with delightful old photos that sort of sets up the "tour" of the state. And then a very logical trip across North Carolina. I especially loved the unexpected and quaint shots, like the old general store exterior in Catawba, two guys playing checkers inside another general store in Valle Crucis, and some nostalgic shots of tobacco farms and wildflowers and a Civil War re-enactment. The photographer and writer even managed to include a great shot of the Dismal Swamp. Next to taking a month and touring the Tar Heel state on your own, this surprising book is the best way to see North Carolina.

Into the Sound Country: A Carolinian's Coastal Plain

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Stopping to smell the roses when you thought it was a swamp.

Into the Sound Country: A Carolinian's Coastal Plain
Bland Simpson , and Ann Cary Simpson
Manufacturer: The University of North Carolina Press
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ASIN: 0807846864
Release Date: 1997-10-15

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Into the Sound Country is a story of rediscovery—of two North Carolinians returning to seek their roots in the state's eastern provinces. It is an affectionate, impressionistic, and personal portrait of the coastal plain by two natives of the region, writer Bland Simpson and photographer Ann Cary Simpson.

Here Bland Simpson tours his old waterfront haunts in Elizabeth City, explores scuppernong vineyards from Hertford to Southport, tramps through Pasquotank swamps and Croatan pine savannas, and visits Roanoke River oyster bars and Core Banks fishing shanties. Ann Simpson's original photographs capture both the broad vistas of the sounds and rivers and the quieter corners of mossy creeks and country churchyards. Her selection of archival illustrations ranges from the informative to the humorous, from a turpentine scraper at work in the 1850s to a pair of little girls playing with a horseshoe crab on a Beaufort porch at the turn of the century.

A memorable journey into eastern Carolina's richly varied natural world, Into the Sound Country is for anyone who would spend a while in one of America's most intriguing and underexplored areas.

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Stopping to smell the roses when you thought it was a swamp........1998-07-18

I received Bland Simpson's "Into the Sound Country" as a gift. I've had it by the bed for my night reading. It's an unlikely book for me to read -- no plot, no tight narrative, no famous folks or... well, it's different.

You walk into it rather slowly. I kept thinking of John Parker quoting White's description of Roanoke Island (site of the "Lost Colony") as "the goodliest land under the cope of heaven."

"I got no respect for a man with judgment like that," Parker said.

Simpson takes on this swamp filled, brackish, mosquito plagued, twisted tree, run-down and Godforsaken part of the world (except for the beaches) that he and his ancestors grew up in, and Suffering Cats! You can't put the book down. You want to go there. Hell, you want to LIVE there. Remarkable.

I read until I couldn't keep awake last night and then for some reason -- perhaps my wife being away baby sitting in Charlottesville -- I woke up this morning a bit! before five and finished the book. Hated for it to end. That kind of book.

Simpson teaches Creative Writing at Chapel Hill. His long ago past was at one time my present, the forties and fifties on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. It's a funny book to recommend. Who the hell has time for a book that is so... leisurely. And such good company. I read passages to Jutta. Long passages. That kind of book.

Very quietly in a sort of sneaky way, you get a picture of this guy and his family. Not a bad life. Not bad at all. You'll be glad you got to know him and them. His wife takes pictures. Good ones. You'll like her too.

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North Carolina: A Photographic Tour

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ASIN: 0760756872

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From the Publisher North Carolina is one of America's most temperate, scenic, and historical states. It is the home of exquisite colonial mansions, Civil War battlefields, and energetic midsized cities. It is one of the nation's most modern and distinctive states, with many regions that have been rated among the nation's top places to live. In North Carolina: A Photographic Tour, photographer Carol M. Highsmith and writer Ted Landphair take the reader on a guided tour of the state's incomparable sites and scenic vistas, highlighting its remarkable diversity. Points of interest along the way include Durham, home of venerable Duke University as well as one of the world's most modern research enclaves; Raleigh, the "City of Oaks" - with its oak trees, magnolias, and restored Victorian houses - that is the epitome of the Southern city; High Point, known as the "Furnishings Capital of the World," is full of furniture factories and outlet shops that are destination sites all on their own; Asheville, an architecture lovers paradise and home to the Biltmore Estate; and Chapel Hill, home of the University of North Carolina as well as the legendary Sutton's Drug Store, that has been called "the southern part of Heaven." With its striking photos and thoughtfully insightful text, North Carolina: A Photographic Tour brings these and many other memorable cities and places to life.

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This accessible, 8-vol. reference focuses students attention on 160 notable individuals who have shaped American history, from the exploration of the continent to the present. Each chronologically arranged volume ties key people to significant events during a particular era. Balanced not only in gender and ethnic background, but also in viewpoint, the biographies in Profiles in American History offer a unique slant on event-based teaching. Stand-alone volumes include chapter-specific timelines; maps, illustrations and photographs; sidebars highlighting key facts; a bibliography; and a cumulative subject index.

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This gorgeous collection of flora and fauna illustrations by Germany's famous woman artist Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) has been mostly hidden from the public eye—until now.

During a trip to Amsterdam in 1719, Peter the Great encountered a collection of watercolors by a little-known female artist. The tsar was entranced by the opulent color, exquisite detail and refined lines of the collection—pictures of flowers, plants, sea creatures and insects, each depicted with remarkable scientific accuracy. Peter brought the watercolors back to St. Petersburg and with them opened Russia's first museum. After Peter's death, the paintings were given to the Academy of Sciences, where they have resided ever since.

These remarkable images, known as the St. Petersburg Watercolors, are now available to the public in this beautiful book. This volume features fifty full-page images presented in double-page spreads, with descriptions of the flora and fauna shown. The collection's remaining one hundred and forty-four illustrations are also presented in full color, accompanied by brief commentary. An introductory essay describes the life and work of Maria Sibylla Merian, as well as the origins and history of the St. Petersburg Watercolors. Students of art history, bibliophiles and nature lovers alike will delight in these beautifully precise images, which are every bit as fascinating as the history behind them.

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MORE THAN ONE DOG? THIS BOOK WON'T HELP YOU.

Multiple Dog Households (Advice for Pet Owners)
Miriam Fields-Babineau
Manufacturer: TFH Publications
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ASIN: 0793830885

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Two or more dogs can be twice the fun - as well as twice the work. Multiple Dog Households addresses the special needs and lifestyle issues that go hand in hand with having two or more dogs in the home. From introducing a new dog or puppy into the household to the unique care and living situations required, this book will offer the reader advice on how to make the most of sharing your life with more than one dog. Also included are valuable training tips that will make daily life easier, up-to-date information on nutrition and health care, and activities that your whole pack can enjoy and participate in together.

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MORE THAN ONE DOG? THIS BOOK WON'T HELP YOU........2002-05-04

This book is essentially a manual for new dog owners who adopt a second dog. It doesn't deal with the problems that arise from a true multiple dog household, such as deciding which dog is having housebreaking problems, avoiding and breaking up dogfights, establishing pack order, and feeding issues. I had hoped for advice on dealing with injured or sick dogs and how to protect them from the other dogs in the house. I have 5 dogs and I was disappointed in this book.

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A bewitching story of obsession, love, and treachery set on the coast of Scotland.

"There are hints of Hitchcock in [his] disturbing tales."

-Daily Mail

Sent away from home for the first time, Neil Pritchard spends the long summer of 1962 with his Aunt Nessie in claustrophobic Auchendrennan on the Solway Firth, a seascape of fast tides and sinking sands. Eager for a pastime to fill the long dull days, Neil sings for Euan Bone, a young Scottish composer whose star is rising fast. Becoming Bone's muse, Neil spends afternoons at the composer's home, hours that become the focus of his adolescent dreams. Inevitably, though, he finds himself expelled from the Eden, a betrayal which will have devastating consequences.

Asked thirty-five years later to write Bone's biography, Neil is tempted to reveal the whereabouts of the composer's lost last work, The Lantern Bearers, but this revelation would have to expose the truth of his own involvement in the violence of love's blind vengeance.

The Lantern Bearers, winner of Scotland's prestigious Saltire Award for Scottish Book of the Year 2000, is Ronald Frame's twelfth book of fiction.

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THE LANTERN BEARERS is simply brilliant!.......2002-05-22

Closing the final pages of Ronald Frames' novel THE LANTERN BEARERS calls forth a spectrum of emotion: sadness that this wondrous novel is finished, awe for the genius quality of writing, profound respect for a writer who can so intuitively understand the processes of music making/collaboration/relationship dissections, and despair for the simple mistakes we all have made that can result in ruin and even death of others.

At the inception of this book Frame places the narrator of this tale of adolescent social, hormonal, emotional, discovery of love, foraging self, writhing into the threats of adulthood, and ultimately the meaning of taking responsibility for actions, in the body of a cancer stricken adult who seeks atonement for a misled life by writing the penultimate biography of one Euan Bone, a composer of importance who died surrounded by mystery.

With this intriguing introduction Frame takes us back to a summer when the narrator served as apprentice and collaborator with a composer while on a summer hiatus from a strained family home in Glasgow. In this short time Neil (our 14 year old narrator) discovers the magic of music, learns the intricacies of composition, of gay relationsips, of his own awakening of sexuality, only to have that tenuous bridge to adulthood betray his new world as his voice changes from child to man. His value to the composer at an end, Neil begins to stalk his hero and ultimately is driven to create a vicious lie of child molestation which he watches burgeon into the ultimate death of his beloved hero.

While some authors would need at least 500 pages to sort out all the implications and embellishments such a bizarre tale might require, Frame's glorious mastery of words leads us steadily and compulsively through this story in a mere 224 pages, each page polished with thorough knowledge of music, of English and Scottish society, of literature, of regional terms and words that make this book so unique in flavor. There are moments when the nature of a fruitful relationship between two artists suggests Benjamin Britten/Peter Pears, Christopher Isherwood/Don Bachardy, et cetera. But that is only one aspect of this stunning masterwork. Yes, there are lessons richly deserving to be learned, insights into Scotland's beauties, hints of the creative forces in the minds of the blessed creators of the arts. But mentioning these only grazes the surface of what to me is one of the finest books written in the last decade. This book deserves a very wide audience. By all means READ THIS!

A Scottish Summer of '62.......2002-04-11

There was nothing to mar your days, if you were a boy summering in that part, but the embarrassment of pleasure. You might golf if you wanted; but I seemed to have been better employed.' [Robert Louis Stevenson, 'The Lantern-bearers,' in 'Across the Plains.' London: Chattus & Windus, 1892.] In the summer of 1962, these words could have conveyed the sentiments of Neil Pritchard, a 14-year-old Glasgow youth who was vacationing with his Aunt Nessie at her home in Auchendrennan, a seaside village in the southwestern corner of Scotland that was also home to composer Euan Bone and his partner, cellist Douglas Maitland. Mr. Bone had been setting the words of this Stevenson essay to music, and he had engaged Neil to assist him in the task. Neil lent more to the composition than his soprano voice, however, as he soon became muse to Bone.

The story actually started thirty-five years hence, when Neil met with a publisher in an upscale Kensington restaurant to discuss his proposal that Neil write a biography of a composer who had died in 1963. It was to be 'an honest account. Provocative, if need be.' Neil had other business to attend to in London before he flew back to his home in Rome; he consulted an intestinal specialist who imparted the sad news that Neil was dying from inoperable cancer. The irrefutable evidence of his x-rays prompted Neil to accept the publisher's offer because 'I had to set the record straight. I had to unblock my memory, I had to make my atonement. Two ghosts from long ago had to be laid to rest.'

'The Lantern Bearers' by Ronald Frame is a dark tale of obsessive love and betrayal. It's a moody coming-of-age story of a gay adolescent in a class society; it's set in Scotland, but it could be anywhere. The narrative is spare, but it's sprinkled with colorful Scotticisms - not a word is wasted, and no more words are needed.

Neil was at the liminal age of being part boy and part man, and his experiences that summer were to haunt him for the remainder of his life. His sexuality was awakening, and he described his ambivalent feelings by saying, ' 'Masturbation'. 'Homosexual'. There was an association in my mind.' But his recollection of a movie theatre flasher belied the insights that he had gained from observing the lives of his new acquaintances: 'I knew what Maitland and Bone were, even though I didn't understand all that the condition entailed. What I chiefly realised was that the pair were different, they didn't live by the precepts of ordinary people, but didn't go out of their way to offend them either. They had fashioned their own world, observing their own values, which they protected as something apart but to which they had a perfect right.' As Neil's voice had cracked and changed, so did the world around him. In an attempt to prevent his home life from unraveling, he told his father a lie that would have dire consequences.

About halfway through this page-turner, I decided to look up Robert Stevenson's 'The Lantern-bearers' on the Internet, because the novel's narrative is spliced together with words from this short essay, along with Neil's reflections on them. It was quite easy to find the full text; it was part of a larger work entitled 'Across the Plains.' I enjoyed rereading it as I finished the book. For, as Neil said, '[t]here was no proper narrative. In the essay, Stevenson had offered poetic prose descriptions. Bone was locating his drama in the continual shifts and contrasts of tone, the counterpointing of moods, veering and tacking over and over again.' The essay told a story of boys who had attached 'toasted tinware' candle lanterns to cricket belts worn on their waists and concealed beneath buttoned-up overcoats. 'By their lanterns the boys will know one another; they are bonded in a brotherhood by the shared secret of what they carry under their coats hidden from view.' I found this image hard to visualize until I happened to come across a reproduction of 'The Lantern Bearers,' a 1908 oil painting by Maxfield Parrish that portrayed a more fanciful rendering of a similar scene. Of course, the image is metaphorical, too, but Stevenson's descriptive prose makes one want to picture such a phenomenon.

As an author of eleven previous books, Mr. Frame shows a mastery here of the art of writing fiction about music, composers, and composition. I'm not a musician and not able to attest to the authenticity of this aspect to the story, but composer Ned Rorem has given it high praise. Mr. Frame allows the reader to climb inside his characters' skulls, thereby becoming part of the artistic and creative process of musical composition, to experience the joys and frustrations that accompany such an endeavor. 'The Lantern Bearers' is a worthy successor to the works of Daphne du Maurier and Alfred Hitchcock, and it won the Saltire Award for Scottish Book of the Year in 2000.

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Mini Memories: For Image Bearers
Joanne Wallace
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The bearer of the Star Spangled Banner: In memory of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Aija Vilnis
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John Gordon of Pitlurg and Parkhill of Memories of a Standard-Bearer
Mrs Gordon
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The king's cup-bearer;: A sermon in memory of the Rev. E. Winchester Donald, D.D., preached in Trinity Church on the Sunday next before Advent, November 20, 1904
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In this easily-accessible textbook, the authors integrate the ill-posed problem theory and its underlying mathematical apparatus. This comprehensive work includes descriptions of recent results and a presentation of actual applications of the ill-posed problem theory. The first part of the book describes the differentiation of normed space mappings, the integration of the functions of abstract variables, and the theory of linear operators. The second section deals with the mathematical physics connected to integral equations of the first type, and with the bases of operator equation theory.

Ill-Posed Internal Boundary Value Problems for the Biharmonic Equation (Inverse and Ill-Posed Problems Series)

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Ill-Posed Internal Boundary Value Problems for the Biharmonic Equation (Inverse and Ill-Posed Problems Series)
M. A. Atakhodzhaev
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Iterative methods for ill-posed boundary value problems (Linkping studies in science and technology)

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Iterative methods for ill-posed boundary value problems (Linkping studies in science and technology)
George Bastay
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Stabilization and regularization for solutions of an ill posed problem for the wave equation (Pubblicazioni dell'Istituto di analisi globale e applicazioni. Serie "Problemi non ben posti ed inversi")

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Stabilization and regularization for solutions of an ill posed problem for the wave equation (Pubblicazioni dell'Istituto di analisi globale e applicazioni. Serie "Problemi non ben posti ed inversi")
H. A Levine
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This is a set of stories about Ecuadorians of African decent from 16th century to the present. Written with meticulous investigation, they have just the right language and writing style to captivate all types of readers, specially the young ones who will vibrate when entering in these stories full of emotion and enthusiasm.

Description in Spanish: Conjunto de relatos sobre el pueblo negro ecuatoriano, desde el siglo XVI hasta nuestros días. Escritos tras una pacienciosa investigación, tienen el lenguaje apropiado para cautivar a todo tipo de lectores, especialmente los jóvenes que vibrarán al adentrarse en estas historias plenas de emoción y dramatismo.

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Afro Ecuadorians Emerge from the Shadows.......2004-03-31

"Y Su corazon escapo para convertirse en pajaro¨" is a moving, wonderfully written, important book about the history of the Afro Ecuadorians who live on the northwest coast and in the highland Chota Valley of Ecuador, an Andean country that lies between Colombia and Peru. Edna Itturalde has two purposes in writing. The first is to enchant children with exciting stories and persuade them that reading is a wonderful way to spend your time. The other is to give pride in their heritage to children (and adults) from Ecuador's downtrodden ethnic and cultural groups. This book is equal to Itturalde's other books: Verde fue mi Selva, JR Machete, and Caminantes del Sol. With reason the four books have become Ecuador's most popular children's books, selling more copies than Harry Potter and being used in many schools as required reading. These books are outstanding contributions to South American children's literature.

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