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Bacterial Genetics in Natural Environments
Manufacturer: Springer
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Expected a book, received a folded pamphlet.......2005-06-01
This was a disappointment. I expected a small "paper bound" booklet that contained illustrations and descriptions. I received a 8.25 x 22.00 sheet that was folded multiple times to create a 4.00 x 8.25 pamphlet. The material is good quality and should stand up to some exposure to moisture since it has a plastic coating. The illustrations are color and fairly good for drawings, but they are small and require imagination to figure out the scale. Size of the plant is stated, but I didn't see any description of flower size. For me, the descriptions are inadequate and left a lot to be desired.
I will probably buy something else and maybe use this in the field as a reminder of plant names. I don't believe that it is going to be much help identifying plants for the first time.
It shows approximately 40 trees and and 93 plants if I counted correctly.
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The bold, fanciful designs featured here have been adapted from authentic Viking metalwork, textiles, stone carvings, and ceramics. Depicted are interwoven motifs reminiscent of Celtic art, real and mythological creatures, dragon-slaying heroes on horseback, and much more. Illustrators and craftworkers will find this collection ideal for a host of projects.187 black-and-white illustrations.
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A lot of fun and useful designs.......2007-07-04
The images are black-and-white. These particular designs tend to have a lot of interweaving patterns vaguely like Keltic knotwork but more irregular and "organic looking". There was plenty of detail to work with, and several formats are included. I used the TIFFs and converted to my own GIFs so that I could make the white parts transparent; this was quick and easy to do. I've had a hard time finding clip art suitable for my website so I am glad to have found several of the Dover clipart books.
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Frozen Trail to Merica
Myron Paine
Manufacturer: Frozen Trail
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ASIN: 0977946908 |
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Frozen Trail to Merica is a historical narration that focuses on three of history's mysteries: Where did the Norse in Greenland go during the Little Ice Age? Where det thirteen Indian tribes, who say they crossed over the salty sea in the east, come from? And is the Walam Olum a real history? The book is written in narration to give human scale to an incredible feat that appears beyond mans ability. Some of the historical events actually occurred as written. Conjectural prose adds the unknown details of several events. Most characters are fictional, but under the same circumstances the actions of people would have been similar. Maps are included to provide a scale of the panorama of places. The factual fiction end notes contain relevant information to the story. The flying footnotes take reader directly to the correct end note and return the reader back to the story, so the relevant information can be read with a minimum break in the narration.
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The Walam Olum Record.......2006-06-20
After reading this great story and all the other pro and con material regarding the Walam Olum I feel my questions have been answered. Anyone interested in the Algonquin speaking people and their history, this book should be a must. You can walk through the past and feel your living the story while reading this book.
It's a real treasure to add to your library.
Harold F.Sherman, Historian
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This comprehensive CD-ROM provides an incredible look at the controversial Cydonia region of Mars, believed by some to show a "face" in earlier Viking orbiter photographs. Some commentators have stated that features in the Cydonia region of Mars were constructed as monuments by ancient Martians. This idea originated in the observation in 1976 by the Viking orbiter camera of a face-like hill. Observers have claimed to see a feature similar to a "city" along with a "city square" feature. The Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft used its Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) to image these areas in great detail. Those images are reproduced here.
The main document on this CD-ROM is reproduced using Adobe Acrobat PDF software - allowing direct viewing on Windows and Macintosh systems, and Reader software is included. Advanced search and indexing features are built into Acrobat Reader, providing a complete full-text index. This enables the user to search for words or phrases using just one search command! The Acrobat cataloging technology adds enormous value and uncommon functionality. There is no other reference that is as fast, convenient, comprehensive, and portable!
Our CD-ROMs are privately-compiled collections of official public domain U.S. government files and documents - they are not produced by the federal government. They are designed to provide a convenient user-friendly reference work, utilizing the benefits of the Acrobat format to uniformly present thousands of pages that can be rapidly reviewed, searched, or printed without untold hours of tedious searching and downloading. Vast archives of important public domain government information that might otherwise remain inaccessible are available for instant review no matter where you are. This book-on-a-disc makes a great reference work and educational tool.
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THIS SI THE VIDEO GAME VERSION. GREAT GAME. HARD TO FIND GAME.
Get ready for more nights of masochistic puzzle goodness, because the Lost Vikings need your help once again! The brothers (Erik the Swift, Baleog the Fierce and Olaf the Stout) are trying to get back home and you need to guide them through. Two brand new characters (Fang the Werewolf and Scorch the Dragon) also join the fray. Each character has their own special talents and they must be used in concert if you are to win.
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This is an exciting new series of interactive children's e-books which feature fun and interesting website links embedded throughout the story which take children on magical rides through time and space to visit different cultures and different lands - with the help of an enchanted broom!
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The Viking Opera Guide on CD-Rom
Anthony Holden ,
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Nicholas Kenyon , and
Stephen Walsh
Manufacturer: Penguin Electronic
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Vikings CD-ROM
ALIVE Learning Ltd
Manufacturer: Cambridge-Hitachi
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This CD-ROM explores the richness and variety of the Viking world through two remarkable projects: Sagas and Sums and The World of the Vikings. Sagas and Sums is a Viking adventure that takes your pupils on a journey back through time and transports them to the year 900 AD. Five sagas build up to a complete story about Erik's journey to his new home in England and his subsequent life here. What children learn through the sagas can then be compared with what they unearth in a fascinating, virtual archaeological dig. The World of the Vikings offers twelve, themed evidence boxes, a research database with over 3600 images and over 20 minutes of original video, making it an unparalleled and essential resource for KS2 history and project work. A full set of teacher's notes and worksheets are included with the CD-ROM.
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A CD-ROM for children ages 8-14 that simulates the travels of the Vikings to North America and the colonies in which they lived at Ainse aux Meadows. Interactive game, maps and simulations provide a stimulating and educational overview of North America's first colonists one thousand years ago.
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The Handfeeding Bible.......2006-04-07
If you handfeed birds or plan to this is a must have book. It's a great reference not only for general information on how to feed, but also the problems that can occur while doing so. It also details proper handling and sanitation procedures to keep disease from spreading within a flock. Small breeders may not be able to emulate all the procedures outlined in the book. Regardless, it is an excellent source of information on how an ideal facility should operate (something any size aviary should know).
For breeders who incubate their own eggs I suggest Parrot Incubation Procedures by Rick Jordan as well.
Great reference book for any experience level.......2006-02-20
This is a must have book for anyone new to breeding, and a great reference book for experienced breeders. Here are the chapter headings:
1: Managing the Nursery
2: Maintenance of Nestlings (Brooding)
3: Formulas
4: Feeding Instruments and Methods
5: Feeding
6: Weight Monitoring
7: Non-Dietary Factors That Control Weight Gain
8: Potential Health Problems in the Nursery
9: Non-Pathogenic Death
10: Medical Procedures for the Aviculturist
11: Weaning
Each chapter is packed with critical information and well documented with excellent photographs from experienced aviculturists Voren and Jordan.
good advise, well explained.......1999-01-22
This book is valuable to not only new breeders, but also to experienced breeders. Facts are explained. This book also encourages you to make changes to your existing set-up, supported by facts, rather than to let you question your own dicisions.
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Swordsmiths of Kaga Province in the Shinto Era
Kizu
Manufacturer: Hawley Pubns
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ASIN: 0910704112 |
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Book? You call this a book?.......2007-02-06
This "book" is actually a 10 page pamphlet, 2 of these pages are only images. It's a waste of money, and seems unfinished. If you have any interest at all in swordsmithing, don't waste your time with this.
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"Sullivan has found the transcendent in the horse."-Sports IllustratedWinner of a 2004 Whiting Writers' AwardOne evening late in his life, veteran sportswriter Mike Sullivan was asked by his son what he remembered best from his three decades in the press box. The answer came as a surprise. "I was at Secretariat's Derby, in '73. That was .... just beauty, you know?"John Jeremiah Sullivan didn't know, not really-but he spent two years finding out, journeying from prehistoric caves to the Kentucky Derby in pursuit of what Edwin Muir called "our long-lost archaic companionship" with the horse. The result-winner of a National Magazine Award and named a Book of the Year by The Economist magazine-is an unprecedented look at Equus caballus, incorporating elements of memoir, reportage, and the picture gallery. In the words of the New York Review of Books, Blood Horses "reads like Moby-Dick as edited by F. Scott Fitzgerald . . . Sullivan is an original and greatly gifted writer."
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Subtle Elegy.......2006-12-02
This magnificent book is a subtle tribute to the author's father. Apparently, subtlety is lost on some of the philistines who posted reviews below - so let me help. If you want a book all about horsies - this is not it. If you want a series of reflections written in the "new journalism" style of Tom Wolfe and arranged around a journalist's coverage of the Kentucky Derby, "Blood Horses" will draw you in and astonish you time and time again. Sullivan is a genius, his elegiac and moving work will last, and we will hear more from him.
Tossed this book in the garbage.......2005-06-30
I read voraciously, and bought this one expecting a story about thorobred horse racing. Instead, I got a lot of whining from an obviously very insecure author. Except for 6-7 pages about Secretariat that were good, the rest of the book is a waste. My reaction to this author was: grow up and get a life. Tossed it into the garbage when I was done it was so bad I wouldn't even bother to pass it on to friends.
Tracing bloodline personally and through equines.......2004-10-15
I first came across the article gleaned from the pages of this book (or in preperation of...) in a 2003 Harper's Magazine, October, I think. Mr.Sullivan's walk through the bizarre intricacies of the horse racing world from all sides, including his most personal, were raw genius. He nonchalantly drew connections between more humble pedigrees (his own, for example - nothing remarkable except that it, too, is now published) and those of these rarified creatures (thoroughbreds) in a way I didn't even notice until half way through. What a respctful tribute to his father. It seemed to me a sort of a come from behind type of writing style that crystalized into a fine read somewhere in the middle, and then just got better. All the way to the very last sentance.
Sublime.......2004-07-28
Sullivan's work is lyrically written - at times laugh-out-loud funny and at others profoundly poignant. His description of Secretariat's win in the Derby is one of the most sublime passages I have read in any book. In his musings that run from horses to fathers, he gives us a glimpse of the nature of beauty. A moving work. Sullivan is one to watch.
People who don't get it..........2004-07-02
...shouldn't blame the author. This is a phenomenal book. Blood Horses is partly an experiment in narrative technique. Like most literary experiments, it has its less-than successful moments. There are places where the author's allusions to and quotations from other texts get overwhelming. But the book also contains some of the most amazing pages of flat-out writing I've come across in a long time--about horses, about pain, and about beauty. Given its ambitious scope the structure holds together surprisingly well, and pieces of it are wickedly funny. If you come to it looking for Seabiscuit II, you might find it frustrating and a little disjointed. I came to it looking for a new writer who was trying something different, and I was blown away. This book is destined to become a classic and Sullivan an author to follow. I say discover him before everyone else does.
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A Dublin Girl: Growing Up in the 1930's
Elaine Crowley
Manufacturer: Soho Press
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ASIN: 1569471126 |
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Growing up in a one-room tenement with her parents and two siblings, Elaine Crowley became a shrewd observer: of the neighborhood within the Liberties, of street life, of poverty, of her father's infidelity, and of her mother's effort to end his affair. Her memories create a moving portrait of a 1930s Irish family contending with the pain of adversity and loss, and how love can overcome both.
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Great Night Table Reading..........1999-05-03
Elaine Crowley weaved a wonderful story that did combine humor and pathos in a way that left the reader hopeful...to the very end. I imagine Ms. Crowley as being an extremely grounded and delightful person, in spite of the "hard times" she endured during her childhood years. And isn't that always the "best" gift we can give to ourselves/offer to others? Rather than staying stuck in her own bitterness, anger, resentment and/or rage---it's nice to see an author "get into it" (when "it" isn't very pleasant at all!), but come through it victoriously. She's someone I would have liked to know personally; her family is no doubt extremely fortunate to have her. Mary in Northville, MI
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