Mac's Field Guide to Mount Rainier National Park: Flowers and Trees (Mac's Guides)

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A laminated card features color illustrations on both sides, with information on size and habitat, plus scientific names. Rainier Mammals and Birds and Rainier Flowers and Trees are the latest in the series of Mac's Field Guides, which now includes more than thirty titles. Great for kids and educators.

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Trees of Mount Rainier National Park
C. Frank Brockman
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Establishment report for permanent sample plots in Sunrise Ridge noble fir stand, Abies amabilies/Tiarella unifoliata habitat type, Mount Rainier National Park

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Establishment report for permanent sample plots in Sunrise Ridge noble fir stand, Abies amabilies/Tiarella unifoliata habitat type, Mount Rainier National Park
Richard Carkin
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Forests of Mount Rainier National Park
G. F Allen
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The forests of Mt. Rainier National Park (Mount Rainier National Park nature notes)

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The forests of Mt. Rainier National Park (Mount Rainier National Park nature notes)
C. Frank Brockman
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Invasion of subalpine meadows by trees in Mount Rainier National Park

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Invasion of subalpine meadows by trees in Mount Rainier National Park
Jerry F Franklin
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Maine's dramatic coast and accessible southern mountains are some of the prime hiking destinations in the Northeast. John Gibson, the author of numerous books and articles on Maine's coast and mountains, describes the best hikes in the Western Mountains, the Oxford Hills, Evans Notch Range, the Mahoosuc Range, the Camden Hills, Monhegan Island, and Acadia National Park on Mount Desert Island. Outings range from short walks for families to all-day climbs for serious hikers. There is a rich selection of hikes in each of southern Maine's major recreation areas, and many hikes are within easy reach of Maine's major population centers. Each hike description includes a topographic map, information on difficulty, mileage, and rise, and a detailed description of the route. Both locals and travelers will find miles of satisfying hiking here. Features two new hikes on Ragged and Bald Mountains. 60 black & white photographs, 51 maps, index.

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An Oak Spring flora: Flower illustration from the fifteenth century to the present time : a selection of the rare books, manuscripts, and works of art ... ([The Rachel Lambert Mellon collection])
Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi
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Are your pup's behavioral problems putting him in the doghouse?You adore your dog-- but when he's biting strangers, sniffing houseguests in embarrassing places, or drinking from the toilet, he hardly seems like man's best friend. So how do you effectively discipline this sociable, structure-driven animal without humiliating him, harming his canine psyche, or having him fear you? Bad Dog!, from author and animal behaviorist Steve Duno, is your ultimate, A-Z guide to correcting and preventing troublesome dog behaviors, from aggression to separation anxiety and everything in between.It has:* A comprehensive listing of the fifty most common canine behavioral problems-- and specific modification techniques for fixing each one* Ideas about environmental conditions that may be causing your pet's unpleasant behavior* Insight into the canine psyche to understand why your dog is acting out* An essential overview of basic canine needs, desires, and instincts* The "Ten Commandments" of dog ownership every dog-lover needs to know* And many more ways to understand your dog, keep him happy and healthy, and keep your own sanity intact

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Richard Bebb, a professional actor for over fifty years, has built up a collection of one hundred and thirty-two theatrical figures, twenty-five pieces of sculpture and twenty-two paintings, watercolours, miniatures and wax reliefs which he has presented to the Garrick Club as a significant addition to its famous collection of paintings and theatre memorabilia. Though the Bebb figures consist predominantly of Staffordshire pottery - of which there are fifty-four examples - there is also ware from Derby, Royal Doulton and Worcester, Foreign factories are represented by royal Copenhagen, Sevres, Samson and Paris and Goebel. Exceptional is the group of seventeen figures of charactersin Nigel Playfair's famous production of the Beggar's Opera that opened at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith in 1920. The characters are presented in the costumes that were designed by Claude Lovat Fraser.
An index of Image Makers provides useful information about the various modellers, manufacturers and sculptors and there is also an Index of Plays and a Bibliography.

KALMAN A. BURNIM is Fletcher Professor of Drama Emeritus, Tufts University; ANDREW WILTON is Keeper of the British Collection at Tate Britain.

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How do homeschoolers make it in the "real world" once they've graduated? Find out first-hand from 16 young adults who have gone on to college, careers, and marriage. Great for teens and their parents who are considering home schooling or deciding whether to continue through high school. HotHouse Transplants will inspire and encourage teens to desire God's best in their lives.

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Ok ... but.......2002-12-24

a little dissapointed in the book. Thought perhaps it would contain a little more useful information.

It focused a little too much on the religious side of homeschooling without considering that not everyone homeschools for religious purposes.

It was, however, encouring to hear that all of these kids came through the homeschooling process not feeling left out.

If you're looking for helpful info - look elsewhere. If you're looking for encouragement only, you'll be satisfied with this book.

Encouraging.......2002-08-30

I would recommend this book to any homeschoolers seeking encouragement as they transfer from ordinary home life to college or employment. It is filled with assorted stories of how the training and nurturing of teaching children at home greatly helps them to expand their borders instead of confining them as so many folks assume. I myself am a recent homeschool graduate, and I can add my story of how wonderfully blessed I am to have been homeschooled. I directly link my success so far at college and work to the principles and love of God I learned at home. I have seen that homeschooling is a heritage to reverence, not one to regret, and this book offers the testimony of 16 other homeschoolers to support the same premise.

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This book is divided into two sections: the first gives you the best-kept "secrets" for window displays and interiors. The author takes you on a tour of only the best window displays. You'll see more than 200 photos and read what stores are doing to make this a successful selling season. The second section is an inside look at how retail stores and shopping centers prepare for the holidays. Learn how top retailers are enhancing their image and attracting customers, and getting them in the mood for holiday spending.

176 pages 9" x 12" 400 color images / softbound

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Christmas is covered.......2005-10-12

Well presented book that does most of it's work through the very good large format photographs that illustrate the various concepts included. Loose 1 star because the last inclusions appear to around the year 2000.

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Christmas Displays & Promotions

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Volumes I & II in paperback of this 1992 Pulitzer Prize-winning illustrated narrative of Holocaust survival.

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Excellent read.......2007-09-12

I read Maus I and II back in junior high and thought it was really cool that I was reading a book while also reading a comic. I purchased and re-read the boxed set recently when I stumbled upon it on Amazon. It's excellent. Truly a one-of-a-kind story, told in a way that gets the reader engaged in the details of what went on back in World War II. I love the cleverness of the Jews being portrayed as mice and the Nazi soldiers as cats. The only qualm I have with this series is that Maus II (the second and last book) ends rather abruptly, which is sort of understandable if you read the books. Honestly, I wanted more from the author and the storyline. Either way, it was a good read back when I was age 12 and still a good read at age 25.

DEMEAMING, INSENSITIVE, STEREOTYPING, TOO GRAPHIC - JUST NOT CORRECT.......2007-09-01

I just don't understand, how any type of stereotyping, as maus is loaded with it, can be acceptable. Stereotyping like bigotry, can "never" be justified! The graphic nature of this book is also "disturbing." With so many other books out there, I personally am unable to understand why anyone would use this book that offends "other" (3 million Catholic Poles for starters)holocaust victims. Many, many books out there get the job done, without such dark graphics and offending peoples, who were also victims. There are three books that I feel are truly objective, factual and just not as offensive, as Maus is: "Auschwitz," by Sybile Steinbacher, Richard Lukas' "The Forgotten Holocaust," which "objectively" talks about "everyone's" suffering in the holocaust; and finally, Michael R. Marrus' "The Holocaust in History." On Marrus' book: "An ideal introduction to the subject for any student of the Holocaust, and an authoritative summary for the expert." Yehuda Bauer, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem(back cover). With all the suffering and sensitivity on the Holocaust, "all" victims' feelings should be considered - maus does "not" accomplish this.

Sometimes truth is better than fiction........2007-08-21

I stumbled across this a few days ago in a book shop in Cambodia, of all places. I sat transfixed reading the book until 4 a.m., when my eyes could no longer focus. When I awoke the next day, I finished the book.

We are provided with a narrative by the father, a Holocaust survivor, and a more recent portrayal of the author (the son, who happens to be the artist, also). We see the trials and tribulations of his father and his mother as a young Jewish couple in World War 2 era Poland during the Nazi invasion and subsequent occupation.

We also get to share the experience of being the guilty son of Holocaust survivors. He worries about seeing his father as the stereotypical "miserly old Jew." Can he have judgment about people who have suffered through so much? Can he have a bit of animosity towards his parents, as most people tend to do? The author has to question how his mother could have survived the Nazi regime, but committed suicide when he was 20. He has to question the relationship with his father. Is he annoying or pitiful or admirable?

All these muddled emotions and the true story of a man who lived through the most brutal crime of the 20th century all come into play.

The drawings are great. The format is great. The idea to show different races as different animals is also great. Because, as silly as that sounds- isn't even sillier that people see our own races as different creatures?

Maus.......2007-08-10

As a Polish/american/alsacian I need to say this book is amazing. It captures all cultures together and produces the most authentic representation of WW2 I have ever read.

Immensely sad. Full of pathos. An immense work.......2007-06-13

More than a graphic novel. Rather a powerful moving tale of a son's recovery of a father's experience of the years of the holocaust and how this trickled down into contemporary family life. Reflective and immense in scope. I would recommend this book genuinely to anyone interested in what makes life worth living. The vignettes of Spiegelman's father are harrowing and inspiring, accentuated by a matter of fact story telling style. Spiegelman's insertion of his own family into the narrative serves to contrast the relatively normal travails of a modern family with those of families on the edge of survival and extinction.

Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History

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Maus: Explores the ineffable with creativity and ease
A Compelling Graphic Novel
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DEMEANIG, INSENSITIVE, CRUDE STEREOTYPING, HURTFUL TO "OTHER" HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS

Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History
Art Spiegelman
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Release Date: 1986-08-12

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Some historical events simply beggar any attempt at description--the Holocaust is one of these. Therefore, as it recedes and the people able to bear witness die, it becomes more and more essential that novel, vigorous methods are used to describe the indescribable. Examined in these terms, Art Spiegelman's Maus is a tremendous achievement, from a historical perspective as well as an artistic one.

Spiegelman, a stalwart of the underground comics scene of the 1960s and '70s, interviewed his father, Vladek, a Holocaust survivor living outside New York City, about his experiences. The artist then deftly translated that story into a graphic novel. By portraying a true story of the Holocaust in comic form--the Jews are mice, the Germans cats, the Poles pigs, the French frogs, and the Americans dogs--Spiegelman compels the reader to imagine the action, to fill in the blanks that are so often shied away from. Reading Maus, you are forced to examine the Holocaust anew.

This is neither easy nor pleasant. However, Vladek Spiegelman and his wife Anna are resourceful heroes, and enough acts of kindness and decency appear in the tale to spur the reader onward (we also know that the protagonists survive, else reading would be too painful). This first volume introduces Vladek as a happy young man on the make in pre-war Poland. With outside events growing ever more ominous, we watch his marriage to Anna, his enlistment in the Polish army after the outbreak of hostilities, his and Anna's life in the ghetto, and then their flight into hiding as the Final Solution is put into effect. The ending is stark and terrible, but the worst is yet to come--in the second volume of this Pulitzer Prize-winning set. --Michael Gerber

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A story of a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe and his son, a cartoonist who tries to come to terms with his father's story and history itself.

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Maus: Explores the ineffable with creativity and ease.......2007-09-18

The book is adumbrated in the form of a graphic novel, giving a seemingly new perspective on the holocaust. The issue itself is nothing spectactularly new, although it approaches the holocaust in such a way that the most acerbic of events are bearable.
Most simply stated, the visual aid that accompanies the text allows for the reader to fully understand the author's stance, or viewpoint on the touchy issues of the holocaust. One does not need to have any sort of historical acumen, to grasp the concepts and ideas of the story.
The facade, of animals, instead of humans, used by the author also makes the events seem a little less human. However, throughout the novel, the thought doesn't escape your mind, that this was actually happening, to real people.
The reader is also easily captivated by the father-son presentation of the story, as Art (the author), interviews his father. With nothing but acrimony polluting the stories told by his father, a bond is formed between the reader, Art, and his father, as you must approbate anyone who braves these hardships, more specifically, the characters.
Overall, this story makes something new, that has been done so many times. It entertains, as well as informs. However, it isn't something I'd recommend for casual reading, as time must be set aside to truly appreciate the events in this book.

A Compelling Graphic Novel.......2007-09-18

When hearing the words "Graphic Novel" most people do not think of a moving and inspirational story, yet Maus by Art Spiegelman is just that. Firstly I would recommend this novel for its crafty and meaningful graphics. Various groups, such as the Jewish and German, are depicted as numerous animals. In doing so, the author expresses underlying themes, as one judges another's character by how they look, or their origin. Each picture also conveys the deep feeling in each moment. Frighten and sometimes acerbic faces, give the reader acumen on how the characters feel and are reacting. Also, several depictions of maps and drawings, heightening one's understanding of each setting. The second reason I would recommend the novel is because of the compelling story lines it contains. The first is Vladek's poignant account on how he and his wife survived as the Nazis abrogated their rights. From witnessing friends being hanged, to hiding in attics, the reader gains and insight on personal experiences of the Holocaust. The second is of a strained father and son relationship. As the father ages, the interest and reminiscence of a troubled past becomes their last connection. These assiduous characters are connectable for the reader, and acquire my last approbation. Anyone with a stained relationship or even an experience with isolation, can relate to the feelings and manners of the characters. With evocative graphics, gripping story lines, and relatable characters, Maus is a compelling novel which I highly propose.

Approbation for Maus.......2007-09-18

Maus should be greatly encouraged with approbation. The book displays the crude reality of the Holocaust and World War II in a creative, artistic way that makes the book classic and unique. Having Jews displayed as mice and Nazis as cats, Spiegelman uses much acumen in how the book is laid out and the story told. Even without reading, the graphic art adumbrates the story enough to understand.
Artie is a comic book writer who decides to write meaningful stories instead of useless funny ones, and wishes to interview his father about his experiences during the Holocaust. Vladek willingly tells his story to Artie, who seems unchanged by the troubling information his father is offering him. Throughout the story, Vladek becomes almost an anathema to Artie, and Artie finally finds the hate for his father that was always brewing. Although Artie dislikes his father, his father dislikes himself as well. After the war, life was never the same for Vladek. Having never gotten over his wife's death, and feeling antipathy for his new wife, he seemed to abjure all opportunities to enhance his life and adopted a new, somewhat acerbic personality.
Overall, the story told in Maus is an unforgettable one. It brings about several ineffable issues such as the harshness of World War II and how the Nazis arrogated lives with no right to do so. In addition, how these times were difficult even for the high class. The graphic art in the book ties all of the information together and allows a visual interpretation what the book is saying. Although the story is based on World War II and the Holocaust, it is as much about family issues and hidden hate as it is about history. Throughout the whole experience, Artie and Vladek discover where they truly stand with each other and decide that this deleterious relationship is not worth the trouble any longer.

Excellent seller!!.......2007-09-15

Good seller! Highly recommended for all buyers. My item was timely sent and the condition of the item was as described.

DEMEANIG, INSENSITIVE, CRUDE STEREOTYPING, HURTFUL TO "OTHER" HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS.......2007-09-14

This is as bad, as the 1st Maus: Horribly GRAPHIC, EXREMELY CRUDE and INSENSITIVE to the "OTHER" victims of the holocaust. Spiegleman shows absolutely "no" sympathy or sensitivity to the 3 million Polish-Catholics that were killed by the Germans. Adding insult to injury, he portrays the Poles in a very negative and hurtful manner, when in fact the Poles themselves lost everything. Poles, as well as Jews, lost their homes. Poles, as well as Jews, came home to homes that were piles of rubble. There are so many better vechicles out there to teach about this. This is the last one to use, as it seriously offends many innocent students whose parents and grandparents also suffered, died and lost everything in the Forgotten Holocaust. Better books are: Sybille Steinbacher's "Auschwitz. Steinbachers book gets the job done without all the grusome graphics and vulgar demeaning that is in Maus. Richard Lukas' "The Forgoten Holocaust; Poles Under Nazi-Occupation," and "Did The Children Cry: The suffering of Polish & Jewish children in the holocaust." After reading the latter one by Lukas, you'll never go anywhere near a Maus book again! "Did The Children Cry," will be a wake-up call - unless you are inhumane. Lukas, in both book, talks, OBJECTIVLY about "all" who suffered, without the sick graphics and personal attacks that maus has. Michael Marrus' "The Holocaust in History." Marrus, like Steinbacher and Lukas is controlled, scholarly and informative - Spiegleman is not. These 3 books will explain and teach you something, unlike Maus, that only teaches hateful generalizations through stereotyping and is grusomly graphic. Don't be fooled by the hype. Maus gets an F- for humanity. TEACHERS, PLEASE, BE TEACHERS!

Maus: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Volume 1)

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Maus, A Survivor's Tale: Volume 1 - My Father Bleeds History, Volume 2 - And Here My Troubles Began

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Maus, A Survivor's Tale: Volume 1 - My Father Bleeds History, Volume 2 - And Here My Troubles Began
Art Spiegelman
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Maus: A Survivor's Tale, My Father Bleeds History (Maus)

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Art Spiegelman
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Maus, a survivor's tale I: My father bleeds history : teacher's guide

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Maus, a survivor's tale I: My father bleeds history : teacher's guide
Peter Trachtenberg
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MAUS: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Vol. I); And Here My Troubles Began (Vol. II) [SIGNED SET]

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MAUS: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Vol. I); And Here My Troubles Began (Vol. II) [SIGNED SET]
Art Spiegelman
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Maus; a Survivor's Tale Volume 1: My Father Bleeds History

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Maus; a Survivor's Tale Volume 1: My Father Bleeds History
Art Spiegelman
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Buy it if you like flowers, not for Diana info or pictures.......2000-11-26

Paul Burrell wrote the forward, mostly about how she liked Kip's flowers. Mr. Dodds writes brief sections about his own background or something about how he met the Princess and the floral work he did for her. You will also find short(helpful only to those who already know what they're doing) bits about doing arrangements for yourself, the beautifully done pictures tend to reflect this as you will find only one of Diana on the last page.

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Kip's Flowers For Diana
Kip Dodds
Manufacturer: Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd
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