A Field Guide to Berries and Berrylike Fruits

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A Field Guide to Berries and Berrylike Fruits
Madeline Angell
Manufacturer: MacMillan Publishing Company.
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ASIN: 0672526956

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You'll never feel intimidated and awkward about the customs and etiquette of another country again. With the insights provided in this CULTURE SHOCK! Guide, you'll learn to see beyond the stereotypes and misinformation that often precede a visit to a foreign land. Whether you plan to stay for a week or for a year, you'll benefit from such topics as understanding the rules of driving and monetary systems, religious practices and making friends. There are tips on political traditions, building business relationships, and the particular intricacies of setting up a home or office. Great for the business traveler, the foreign exchange student, or the tourist who makes a sincere attempt to cross the bridge into a new and exciting culture.

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Good, but misses three essential recommendations.......2005-06-18

This book is quite good for the American thinking about living in Canada. However, there are three essentials which the writers have left out:

1) Do NOT even imply that Canadians are so much like Americans that Canada might as well give up its independence and become part of your home country. There is very little that will lead the average Canadian to violence (well, outside of an NHL contract), but that might do it.

2) Canadian kids are taught from the time they learn to walk that it's dirty and boorish to wear shoes indoors. Consequently, if you visit Canadian friends, you must remove your shoes once you enter their home. This is the case even on a sunny fine day. Strangely, being barefoot is not considered anywhere near as crass or thoughtless as wearing shoes indoors, but most people do think to put on socks before visiting others, even if they don't usually wear socks.

3) A common mistake among Americans moving to Canada is to buy a house in the suburbs thinking they're safer and more child-friendly than the inner cities. However, in many Canadian cities the inner cities have better schools, higher quality housing, less crime, and more pleasant neighbourhoods than some of the suburbs. This is especially true of Calgary and Toronto.

common sense will tell you.......2003-11-10

I live in Maine and am somewhat familar with the Canadian culture...perhaps this is why I gave this book such a poor rating. But I found it to be so general in its information that I too wonder just what audience this book is written for? Most of the content seemed just common sense to me and if your from the northeast then a basic sense of climate and its effects can guide you. I had hoped it would have delved greater into the social/family culture and more on their views of American or contrasts of other cultures than the brief page it offered. I will however now subscribe to Macleans magazine, the Canadian equivalent of the Times or Newsweek here in the states, and also the national newspaper from Toronto, The Globe and Mail, to further my knowledge of this great neighbor to the north.

Very helpful.......2003-02-04

I was in the process of immigrating to Canada and this book was among the two most helpful ones. The other one was "Live and Work in USA and Canada". After reading them I had a pretty good idea what Canadian culture is like - things that you won't normally see on CNN. Both books are highly recommended.

Culture Shock!: Canada misleading & creates stereotypes!.......2001-05-17

I ordered this book because my husband & I are soon moving to Canada. He is Canadian & we have been married 2 years, the same amount of time he has been living here in the U.S. We are in the middle of my immigration to Canada process and I wanted a quick history of & info about what will be my new country. I have visited Canada & since I am married to a Canadian I know that the tone of this book is quite misleading. I'm not sure what countries it's aimed at, but I know it cannot be the U.S.! The authors make it sound like Canada is a backward country full of bingo players who stay home all winter long! It's become a humourous book to me, even the words they say are "Canadian", such as "tad".....my family has used this word since I can remember & so do many others around here (maybe Oregon is too close to Canada?). Read this book with a grain of salt, IF you must read it.....I don't recommend it as much of a correct vision of Canada and Canadians.

A must for complete background info.......2000-07-03

Culture Shock, Canada I found to be a very useful book which gave me an excellent background to Canada. The book explores the people, the history, the terrain and almost every other issue which makes Canada, Canada and Canadians, Canadians. An essential book to gain a complete understanding of Canada and it's people. I am immigrating to Canada and found the book to be very interesting background reading.

Culture Shock! Canada: A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette (Culture Shock! Canada)

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Culture Shock! Canada: A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette (Culture Shock! Canada)
Geuk-cheng Pang , and Robert Barlas
Manufacturer: Marshall Cavendish Corporation
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Culture Shock! Vancouver: A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette (Culture Shock! at Your Door)

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Culture Shock! Vancouver: A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette (Culture Shock! at Your Door)
Cuek-Cheng Pang
Manufacturer: Marshall Cavendish Corporation
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Culture Shock! Canada (Culture Shock! Guides)

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Culture Shock! Canada (Culture Shock! Guides)
Pang Guek Cheng
Manufacturer: Graphic Arts Books
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ASIN: 1558689648

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Whether you're traveling for business, pleasure, or even relocating abroad, one mistake in etiquette can leave a bad taste in everyone's mouth. International travelers, now more than ever, are ambassadors and impression makers for the United States.

Newly updated, redesigned, and resized for maximum shelf appeal for travelers, Culture Shock! guides are the most complete reference series for customs and etiquette you can find. There are not just travel guides; they are guides for a way of life.

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art of the first fleet.......2000-06-21

This volume of drawings with brief commentary By Bernard Smith, the foremost historian of Australian art, is of interest to students of both Australian history and art. Whilst not to everyone's aesthetic taste the early work of the very first European colonists in Australia has an undeniable vigour. It's the directness of their work that makes these images captivating - the collision of two irreconcilable cultures is captured here with an almost hullicanatory strangeness. Unfortunately the text is sparing, this is primarily a visual source, but as an object of beauty this book should be owned by all interested in the history of colonial Australia.

The Art of the First Fleet & Other Early Australian Drawings.

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The Art of the First Fleet & Other Early Australian Drawings.
Smith. (Bernard). & Wheeler. (Alwyne).
Manufacturer: Paul Mellon Center BA
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ASIN: B000ORTC6W

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The answer to every gardener's hopes-a book that provides fast and effective solutions to virtually any garden problem.

Rodale's Landscape Problem Solver: A Plant-By-Plant Guide

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A Must for the Gardener's Bookshelf
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Rodale's Landscape Problem Solver: A Plant-By-Plant Guide
Jeff Ball
Manufacturer: Rodale Press
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0875966926

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A Must for the Gardener's Bookshelf.......2007-07-11

What an informative book! Now I know why the chipmunks were digging up my bulbs, but not eating them. I found out what was making the notches on my lily of the valley (weevils) and what to do about it. I learned I should prune back my ajuga and give winter protection for the azaleas and rhododendrons. I also found out what the strange growths were on the azaleas.
This book covers hundreds of plants with a description, planting tips, and most common diseases and treatment. Being Rodale, the treatment is the most environmentally friendly way to solve your landscape problem.

A book I am thankful to own.......2001-02-10

This book provides easy to find solutions to your disease and insect problems. It is organized by plant common names, and there is loads of information on pests and problems associated with each plant named. I only wish there were a larger variety of less common plants. But most common ornamentals are included.

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Ball Pest and Disease Manual
Charles C. Powell , and Richard K. Lindquist
Manufacturer: Ball Pub
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This volume deals with books II and III of the On the Doctrines of Hippocrates and Plato by the medical scientist and philosopher Galen of Pergamum (129-c. 210 CE ). In these books Galen offers an extensive critique of Stoic psychology, quoting a large number of passages from the otherwise lost treatise On the Soul by the great Stoic philosopher Chrysippus. This first full-scale study of Chrysippus' mode of argumentation considers the fragments both in their Galenic context and in relation to Stoicism in general. A separate discussion is devoted to Galen's aims and methods and the traditions he is indebted to. Though designed as a foil for the treatment of Chrysippus, it can also be read by those interested in Galen's methodology for its own sake.

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An Ambitious work

Build Me a Time Machine!

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New view of how the industrial age was started

Creators of the Industrial Revolution

The Lunar Men: Five Friends Whose Curiosity Changed the World
Jenny Uglow
Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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In the late 1700s, five gifted inventors and amateur scholars in Birmingham, England, came together for what one of them, Erasmus Darwin, called "a little philosophical laughing." They also helped kick-start the industrial revolution, as Jenny Uglow relates in the lively The Lunar Men: Five Friends Whose Curiosity Changed the World. Their "Lunar Society" included Joseph Priestley, the chemist who isolated oxygen; James Watt, the Scottish inventor of the steam engine; and Josiah Wedgwood, whose manufacture of pottery created the industrial model for the next century. Joined by other "toymakers" and scholarly tinkerers, they concocted schemes for building great canals and harnessing the power of electricity, coined words such as "hydrogen" and "iridescent," shared theories and bank accounts, fended off embezzlers and industrial spies, and forged a fine "democracy of knowledge." And they had a fine time doing so, proving that scholars need not be dullards or eccentrics asocial.

Uglow's spirited look at this group of remarkable "lunaticks" captures a critical, short-lived moment of early modern history. Readers who share their conviction that knowledge brings power will find this book a rewarding adventure. --Gregory McNamee

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In the 1760s a group of amateur experimenters met and made friends in the English Midlands. Most came from humble families, all lived far from the center of things, but they were young and their optimism was boundless: together they would change the world. Among them were the ambitious toymaker Matthew Boulton and his partner James Watt, of steam-engine fame; the potter Josiah Wedgwood; the larger-than-life Erasmus Darwin, physician, poet, inventor, and theorist of evolution (a forerunner of his grandson Charles). Later came Joseph Priestley, discoverer of oxygen and fighting radical.

With a small band of allies they formed the Lunar Society of Birmingham (so called because it met at each full moon) and kick-started the Industrial Revolution. Blending science, art, and commerce, the Lunar Men built canals; launched balloons; named plants, gases, and minerals; changed the face of England and the china in its drawing rooms; and plotted to revolutionize its soul.

Uglow's vivid, exhilarating account uncovers the friendships, political passions, love affairs, and love of knowledge (and power) that drove these extraordinary men. It echoes to the thud of pistons and the wheeze and snort of engines and brings to life the tradesmen, artisans, and tycoons who shaped and fired the modern age.

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An Ambitious work.......2007-01-06

Jenny Uglow took on a very ambtious project in writing, "The Lunar Men: Five Friends Whose Curiousity Changed the World." She showcases the ambition, innovative spirit, and willingness to take risks that drove the Industrial Revolution by examining the Lunar Society, focusing specifically on some of the more personable members. Although this book was interesting, it was also quite lengthy, and for someone who does not feel the same passion for the topic it may be a bit much. This work is a valuable source of information and I would recommend it as a fresh approach to a subject that is worth examining for someone who would like to read about the more human aspect of the Industiral Revolution.

Build Me a Time Machine!.......2006-10-21

I'd never regarded 18th Century England as my likeliest destination for time travel until reading The Lunar Men. This is a gloriously detailed book about an amazing moment in scientific and cultural history. I'd give anything to walk across the moors by moonlight to sup splendidly with Erasmus Darwin, Joseph Priestly, Josiah Wedgewood, and the others at the cusp of transition from artisanry to technology, from agrarian tranquillity to urban energy. Those guys had the best of both, and you can have the pleasure of sharing their excitement in the pages of Ms. Uglow's vivid history.

Outstanding Insights.......2006-10-06

This is an outstanding book. Yes, it can be difficult to keep track of all the characters, and yes, it takes some patience to work your way through the events of so many lives. But there are three big rewards here, each of which alone will fully justify the time and effort of your reading. First, these were wonderful men, full of curiosity and imagination, ambition, and very human failings as well, and a wonderful inspiration for our own lives. Second, the historical view of this part of the early industrial revolution is history at its best, both personal and contextual, and much richer than anything I encountered in school. The third reward is somewhat less developed, but equally profound and relevant for our own future: the description of the reaction and intolerance in England that set in in the 1790's, and which societies seem to go through periodically. Much to think about!

New view of how the industrial age was started.......2005-08-23

Being American, I never really got a feel for how the industrial revolution came about. Unfortunately American schools tend to start with the beginning of time (a.k.a. Plymouth Rock) and muddle through history up to about the beginning of the Civil War, by which time the school year is over. The next year we just start over with Columbus. So I was never exposed to any of the facts of how we moved from an agricultural society to an industrialized one.

Also being American, I always assumed that we invented the industrial processes that made it all possible. In my mind, sometime between the Boston Tea Party and WWI, Henry Ford just up and invented factories.

Because of my lack of good history training I am very apt to read historical books such as this one. I am constantly surprised to find that what I always assumed as fact turns out to be completely false. This book opened my eyes not only to the scope of what these men brought about, but that industrialization was not an American invention. For this reason alone, I enjoyed the book and consider it time well invested.

As far as the writing, I think the author did a good job overall. I am sure there was an overwhelming amount of material to go through and it has got to be difficult to weave a tale of so many people's intertwined lives and still get the facts right. Sure, Dickens can do it with ease, but he can make up things to make it work out. So given the task, I think Ms. Uglow did a very good job.

That said, it is a fairly long book and it does sometimes become difficult to keep the lives of the different people straight. I found myself well into a chapter several times thinking I was reading about one person only to discover that it was someone else. Maybe a timeline with each person's roles would have been helpful at the beginning so that the reader could refer back to it periodically.

So my rating is 5 stars. I considered 4 stars, but decided that may be unfair just because I was personally unable to keep the facts straight...after all, she did an excellent job of doing that. But a little more guidance on the "who's who" would have helped.

I highly recommend this book to anyone who is interested in history and in industry.

Creators of the Industrial Revolution.......2005-01-03

The best history books are those that place the subject squarely in the time period; those that reproduce the thought patterns and day-to-day details which make the subject come alive. With The Lunar Men, Jenny Uglow has achieved a masterpiece of historical writing. She manages -- by following the lives of five exceptional individuals who lived and worked during the second half of the Eighteenth Century -- to weave together strands of the incipent Industrial Revolution as disparate as the advances in medical sciences (Dr. Darwin); progress in pottery and porcelain manufacture (Wedgwood); improvements to the steam engine (Boultin and Watt); evolving philosophy and social science (Day); chemistry; the discovery of oxygen and other chemical components (Dr. Priestley); advances in electricity; canal building in the Midlands; patent law. These individuals live and breathe, literally step out of the page. Her sources are very extensive and for the most part original (letters, etc.). The style is elegant and very readable, and (as one would expect from a professional editor) every sentence is a gem.

This book shows what historical writing can be, and it places Ms. Uglow in the Pantheon of modern historical writers such as the late Barbara Tuchman, Paul Johnson, Norman Davies, John Julius Norwich. I hope it is the beginning of a long series of books on historical subjects by the same author.

It's the book any reader of history would have liked to write.

The Lunar Men: Five Friends Whose Curiosity Changed the World

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The Lunar Men: Five Friends Whose Curiosity Changed the World

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Industrial revolutionaries.(Book Review): An article from: American Scientist

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Industrial revolutionaries.(Book Review): An article from: American Scientist

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The Lunar Men: Five Friends Whose Curiosity Changed the World.(Book Review) : An article from: The Historian

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The Lunar Men: Five Friends Whose Curiosity Changed the World.(Book Review) : An article from: The Historian
Robert Kubicek
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
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Release Date: 2005-09-03

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This digital document is an article from The Historian, published by Thomson Gale on January 1, 2004. The length of the article is 519 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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Lunar Men: Five Friends Whose Curiosity Changed the World

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Lunar Men: Five Friends Whose Curiosity Changed the World
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