Forest Plants of Central Ontario

Book Description

Over 300 species of trees, shrubs, wildflowers, grasses, ferns, mosses and lichens found in Cottage Country, Algonquin Park, the Ottawa Valley, the Lake Huron region and Georgian Bay.

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From trees to liverworts in one book.......2003-09-22

This book covers a small area of Eastern North America, so it is easier to identify plants that you might find in say the Ottawa Valley, without ploughing through all the plants that only occur further south. It includes trees, shrubs, herbs, grasses, sedges & rushes, ferns & allies, mosses & liverworts and lichens, all in one book. For the non-botanist this is the best book for this area (including West Quebec). Unlike other wildflower books that concentrate on flowers, this shows and describes leaves and fruits, making identification easier at times when there are no flowers. Charts and keys at the start of each section help in identification.

Review of Forest Plants of Central Ontario.......2001-08-20

I used this plant guide in Killarney Provincial Park (Ontario) and found it useful for identifying major plant species of the area. This guide is interesting because it includes both a photograph and a line drawing of each plant featured in the guide. Plants are divided into lifeforms (e.g., shrub) and descriptions of each plant within a lifeform are contained in a separate section of the guide. The keys for plant identification are not detailed, but the objective of this book is to provide a simple, non-technical guide for plant identification. The authors meet this objective. For more detailed plant identification, a technical botanical guide (Michigan Flora by Ed Voss) probably should be used instead of Forest Plants of Central Ontario. I recommend Forest Plants of Central Ontario as an interesting, non-technical guide for identifying major plant species of the region. It is appropriate for more advanced botanists as a handy field guide and is also appropriate for investigators who have no formal botanical training but who want to quickly learn to identify plants.

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Write from experience!.......2007-06-06

While Magellen writes a good description of the book, I found it useless because Magellen has never been to Australia and therefore has never used the book. Moreover, I can skim it myself to see if it will work for me. It would be much more helpful if reviewers actually have used a guidebook!

Fine guide.......2005-07-20

This is my first national Geographic travel guide, from an interesting author. He once biked 10,000 miles around Australia, getting into remote areas where he was all alone, 100 miles from the nearest habitation just on his bicycle. As he went, his travel commentaries were published in the Australian papers, and the story was even picked up by the international newspapers at the time, making him something of an international celebrity as a travel writer. He now lives in Victoria and freelances for various Australian magazines and publications. It's more topically oriented the say, the DK guide, with perhaps fewer subjects covered but with more coverage per article. This is just my subjective impression but I offer it for what it's worth. The DK guide's look busier per page and this one is less.

I learned some interesting things from this book. To mention just a few, Australia is the oldest continent, which is why the interior is so flat, and why it contains so many marsupial species, which died out elsewhere when the couldn't compete with the more advanced placental mammals. Culturally, it is a land of contrasts, with more modern looking cities with newer buildings than most American cities, which contrasts with the primitive aboriginal lifestyle which still exists to some extent in North Australia. And the rugged, macho image of Australian settlers, outbackers, and bushrangers contrasts with the fact that Sydney has an even higher gay and lesbian population than San Francisco, and their Gay and Lesbian parade is an international event.

Before getting into the regional sections, there is a 72 page introduction that covers history, culture, the land, food, and drink, the arts, and flora and fauna. There's a lot of good info here and this is a longer introduction compared to most travel guides that I've seen.The remaining 299 pages cover the 8 major provinces or regions of Australia, including the island of Tasmania, which I was especially interested in. Each section includes the most popular sites and things to do, with beautiful photos and well written text.

I am especially interested in Tasmania, and I learned that it is easy to see the sights there, as there is a 600-mile road that goes around the entire perimeter of the island, and most of the interesting sites can be accessed from it. As I am planning a trip to Australia sometime soon, I was interested to learn this, since most of Australia is difficult to get to since the distances are so vast. Just Western Australia, still one of the most remote and sparsely settled regions, is three times the size of Texas.

Sydney of course gets a special section by itself, and you could spend the rest of your life just seeing the sites there. I was most interested in Sydney, Tasmania, and also Cairns, the Great Barrier Reef, and the Kuranda Rainforest in the north as the three other main places to visit on my trip, and this guide was very helpful for researching that. Other helpful features of this guide include an Australia map on the inside front cover, a Sydney transit map, and many regional and town maps for you convenience. There is a quick table of contents on the inside front cover also. All in all a nice done and enjoyable guide to the fascinating land of Down Under.

National Geographic Traveler: Sydney (National Geographic Traveler)

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The best Sydney guidebook out there!

National Geographic Traveler: Sydney (National Geographic Traveler)
Evan Mchugh
Manufacturer: National Geographic
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0792274350
Release Date: 1999-11-01

Book Description

Take a tour of Sydney guided by National Geographic -- for generations synonymous with the thrill of discovery and exploration. Featured sites include both famous and lesser known places, selected to help you experience the city in a fresh and exciting way.

* In-depth site descriptions and background information
* Insightful features on history, culture, and contemporary life
* More than 190 vivid color photographs
* 22 detailed, full-color maps
* Mapped walking and driving tours
* Specially commissioned artwork and floor plans
* Clear, easy-to-use design
* Complete visitor information plus hotels, restaurants, shopping, and entertainment

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The best Sydney guidebook out there!.......2000-04-06

I've perused them all--Lonely Planet, DK Eyewitness, Citypack, Fodor's, whatever--and I found this guide to be the best of the bunch. It combines all the best of each of those: great pictures, detailed color maps, historical tidbits, walking tours, and easy, color-coded organization. I imagine it would be appropriate for those planning both long or short visits to Sydney. It's packed with lots to see and do but well organized so that you're not overwhelmed by it if you're just taking a short trip and want just highlights. My second choice would be the Time Out Sydney, which as usual, offers tons of shopping & cool tips & out of the way info. As a frequent traveller and consequently, owner of a plethora of guidebooks, I found this one refreshingly awesome. Just wish that they had a bigger range of destinations in their offering....

The National Geographic Traveler: Australia (National Geographic Traveler)

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Great preparation guide
Great preparation guide
For anyone who enjoys Eyewitness Travel Guides

The National Geographic Traveler: Australia (National Geographic Traveler)
National Geographic Society
Manufacturer: National Geographic
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ASIN: 0792274318
Release Date: 1999-10-05

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This wonderful book evokes all of Australia's many moods and dramatic vistas in engaging text by Roff Smith and stunning images by renowned photographer Sam Abell. Text and pictures explore the colorful history and distinctive cultures that make the land down under so irresistible and unforgettable.

At once a young and vibrant nation of immigrants and a place inhabited for 60,000 years by Aboriginal tribes whose haunting art and ancient traditions are among the oldest on Earth, Australia boasts the world's biggest cattle ranch, some of its richest mineral deposits, and a wild, wondrous landscape of lush rain forest and forbidding desert, snowy mountains and tropical oceans bejeweled with the colorful corals of the Great Barrier Reef. Australia is truly a world unto itself.

Join National Geographic for a once-in-a-lifetime visit to the exotic, extraordinary land its inhabitants affectionately call Oz.

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Great preparation guide.......2002-11-26

The nat'l geo series is a fantastic trip preparation guide. The photos, stories, insights into culture - this helped us choose which regions of OZ that we wanted to visit. For this I give 4 out of 5. The last star I reserve because some of the smaller places are not listed that are real gems! It is understandable though that no guide will have every dot on the map, this is why you travel and explore!! Note: for this sort of preparation and planning activity we have found no better guidebook series!

However, what we've found is that these guides are not good for hotels, restaurants, etc - there are a few (expensive!!) listed. Nor are they good for navigating/driving (we drove Melbourne to Cairns). I recommend using this guide to prepare and a Lonely Planet to find places to stay/for for more budget conscious traveler needs. Get a good road map.

Great preparation guide.......2002-11-26

However, what we've found is that these guides are not good for hotels, restaurants, etc - there are a few (expensive!!) listed. Nor are the driving (we drove Melbourne to Cairns) listed. I recommend using this guide to prepare and a Lonely Planet to find places to stay/for for more budget conscious traveler needs. Get a good road map.

For anyone who enjoys Eyewitness Travel Guides.......2000-03-31

I have always been a big fan of the Eye Witness travel guides because of the abundance of pictures and the wealth of information they contain. After purchasing Australia: National Geographic Traveler, I may have found another favorite.

Not only does this travel guide contain beautiful, brilliantly colored photos of Australia's countryside, people and attractions on nearly every page, it is also filled with page after page of interesting and helpful information about each of the country's regions, and provides regional maps for each of the areas it describes, as well as walking and driving tour maps. Along with historical information, the book is brimming with practical advice for travelers; from such obvious warnings as wearing a high SPF sunblock due to the country's strong sunlight, to less obvious tidbits; for instance, that the monitor-type lizards that inhabit the area, when startled, will climb the tallest object around, which may happens to be you, so stay alert!

This guide offers insightful comments about, and a glimpse of, all the popular attractions, and includes contact information, etc., and the various means of transportation to get to those destinations. It also provides suggestions and information about interesting sights not on the beaten track. The only shortcoming of this guide is that it contains a limited listing of hotels and restaurants, and that list is located at the very back of the book. But because this is a travel guide for the entire country of Australia, I can forgive this shortcoming. However, it would be more convenient to place the hotel and restaurant information for specific cities in the section of the book that talks about the region to which that city belongs. I found this book entertaining, fun to look at, and easy to read (although the print is rather small). Overall, I would recommend this book to anyone wanting a complete guide to Australia.

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See those animal signs on the trail? Was that footprint left by a dog or a coyote? Was that pile of droppings deposited by a bobcat or an armadillo? Scats and Tracks of the Southeast will help you determine which mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians have passed your way and could still be nearby. Inside you'll find: clearly written descriptions and illustrations of scats, tracks, and gait patterns; easy-to-use scat and track measurements on each page; an identification key and glossary of tracking terms; detailed instructions for documenting your finds. (4 1/4 x 7, 192 pages, diagrams)

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Great!
This book is essential!

Animal Tracks of the Southeast States
Chris Stall
Manufacturer: Mountaineers Books
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A Field Guide to Animal Tracks (Peterson Field Guides(R))

ASIN: 089886223X

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Great!.......1999-12-05

Good size for a field book. Most of the tracks inside are shown at life size. Some information about each species and how to tell it from other species.

This book is essential!.......1999-04-18

Chris Stall has outdone himself. This small, handy book is a must for anyone who ventures out into the many wilderness areas across the southeastern United States. It has an excellent collection of common tracks that a hiker, backpacker might encounter. If you plan to do any kind of outdoor adventure and want to know what is going on around you -GET THIS BOOK!

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Dava Sobel's Longitude tells the story of how 18th-century scientist and clockmaker William Harrison solved one of the most perplexing problems of history--determining east-west location at sea. This lush, colorfully illustrated edition adds lots of pictures to the story, giving readers a more satisfying sense of the times, the players, and the puzzle. This was no obscure, curious difficulty--without longitude, ships often found themselves so far off course that sailors would starve or die of scurvy before they could reach port. When a nationally-sponsored contest offered a hefty cash prize to the person who could develop a method to accurately determine longitude, the race was on. In the end, the battle of accuracy--and wills--fought between Harrison and arch-rival Maskelyne was ruthless and dramatic, worthy of a Hollywood feature film. Longitude's story is surprising and fascinating, offering a window into the past, before Global Positioning Satellites made it look easy. --Therese Littleton

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A fully illustrated edition of the international best-seller Longitude.

The Illustrated Longitude recounts in words and images the epic quest to solve the greatest scientific problem of the eighteenth and three prior centuries: determining how a captain could pinpoint his ship's location at sea. All too often throughout the ages of exploration, voyages ended in disaster when crew and cargo were either lost at sea or destroyed upon the rocks of an unexpected landfall. Thousands of lives and the fortunes of nations hung on a resolution to the longitude problem.

To encourage a solution, governments established prizes for anyone whose method or device proved successful. The largest reward of £20,000-- truly a king's ransom-- was offered by Britain's Parliament in 1714. The scientific establishment-- from Galileo to Sir Isaac Newton-- had been certain that a celestial answer would be found and invested untold effort in this pursuit. By contrast, John Harrison imagined and built the unimaginable: a clock that told perfect time at sea, known today as the chronometer. Harrison's trials and tribulations during his forty-year quest to win the prize are the culmination of this remarkable story.

The Illustrated Longitude brings a new and important dimension to Dava Sobel's celebrated story. It contains the entire original narrative of Longitude, redesigned to accompany 183 images chosen by William Andrewes-- from portraints of every important figure in the story to maps and diagrams, scientifc instruments, and John Harrison's remarkable sea clocks themselves. Andrewes's elegant captions and sidebars on scientific and historical events tell their own story of longitude, paralleling and illuminating Sobel's memorable tale.

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Much better with Andrewes illustrations.......2007-09-24

I met William Andrewes at a talk about his longitude dial. Never read Dava Sobel before and found the text week or at least week without the illustrations. The history in these documents and images of paintings made this book a don't put it down event. I've even used some of the history noted in public talks on astronomy. Highly recommended. I've shared it with several colleagues.

John S.

Entertaining insight in longitude problemsolving.......2007-08-27

An easy to read and enjoyable (hi)story about the efforts that have been made in the past centuries to find an way of navigating at sea. Every aspect finding the longitude has been covered. The book contains a lot of pictures and graphics that deepens out some (technical) background issues. It provides just enough details so that the subject is well understood, but no too much, making is suitable for every interested reader.
So, if you are interested in navigating, reading this book gives you an good insight in the amount of work people have done in the past to make that possible.

One way to describe persistence: William Harrison.......2007-05-25

As an "electronic geographer" (geographic information systems... computerized mapping... operator and manager), I was immediately attracted to Sobel's story upon it's original publication in 1995. Technically, navigationally, and economically speaking this is, as others have stated, a truly epic and civilization-changing story that is well and readably told by Sobel. On the first read I was awestruck to learn that craftsmen of the 18th century could make timepieces of the accuracy that Harrison achieved. Then further amazed to learn they were made portable and durable enough to withstand the rigors of years of service at sea. As I read Sobel's original book my curosity about what these amazing pieces of incredible craftsmenship (art?) LOOKED LIKE was a continual distraction. The "Illustrated Longitude" delightfully sates the curosity that Sobel's text so pleasantly gives rise to.

A Novel Couldn't Read Better.......2007-02-22

Sobel's original volume came in an un-illustrated format. I had scarcely ever heard about the history behind the "longitude problem," as it was called during the period. When the book was recommended to me by a good friend, I was initially hesitant, thinking that it might be a dull read.

I read the original book in a day. It was one of the best-written page-turners I had ever come across -- almost akin to the readability of Walter Lord's "A Night to Remember," or "Day of Infamy." My only complaint was that the book had no pictures of any sort to speak of.

This new, illustrated volume fixes that only complaint. This book is a must-have.

A Book That Should Be Read .......2007-01-03

I am at present still reading the book. It is only now that I have had the time to do so. If you wish my review later, then I would be pleased to provde this.

Thank you.

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Chronometer Makers of the World
Tony Mercer
Manufacturer: N. A. G. Press
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Marine Chronometer hc: Its History and Developments

ASIN: 0719803403

Book Description

For many years, Tony Mercer, grandson of the most enduring English maker, has studied and collected a huge amount of information about marine chronometers, instruments which enabled explorers and the Royal Navy to map the world, the Navy to police it, and merchant venturers to sail in relative safety. The purpose of the chronometer is reviewed largely as a navigational aid for ocean-going vessels, but also for survey, medical, and other activities calling for precise time measurement. Representative examples of chronometers and deck watches by international makers—from the earliest known to contemporary instruments—are illustrated in both color and black and white. A comprehensive list of makers and craftsmen brings together details of men who worked in the industry, their places of work, and dates and serial numbers for their instruments.

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useless

Great Timepieces of the World
Caroline Childers , and Roberta Naas
Manufacturer: Rizzoli International Publications
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ASIN: 0847820939
Release Date: 1998-05-15

Book Description

Masterful timepieces, made by the hands of craftsmen in the mountains of Switzerland, are increasingly drawing the attention of collectors and connoisseurs around the world. The timepieces are fascinating not only because they keep precision time with engines built by man, but often because they offer more than time-telling features, such as mechanisms that record the times of athletes in competition, tell the lunar phase, signal the hour with a gong, or tell the time in several places over the world, all smoothly and intricately finished inside small cases that fit on the wrist.

Stunningly complex, tiny parts, some as thin as a hair, are assembled in designs so artful and beautiful that proud craftsmen leave their work open for display through sapphire glass in what are known as skeleton timepieces.

This book features full-color photographs of these treasures and traces man's obsession with time to today's present leaders in the watchmaking industry, including Breguet, Breitling, Blancpain, Franck Muller, Patek-Philippe, and Piaget.

Customer Reviews:

Very desirable book.......1998-10-14

This book has a brief history of watches and then proceeds to describe most of the great watchmakers history plus some of the most gorgeous illustrations you'll ever see of great watches.

useless.......1998-08-02

same as prestigious watches...What's the purpose of this book? who can believe that concord and roberge can decently stand next to Patek... this book is 200 pages of advertising.

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If you can't stop crafting cute things, and your house is already full, the logical next step is to start sprinkling your creations throughout the garden. Good step-by-step instructions demonstrate a variety of country-style projects using paint, stamps, stencils, terra-cotta pots, and occasionally an existing structure like a fence or cement patio floor or piece of wooden furniture. Except for a very few items requiring basic woodworking skills, and perhaps a few necessitating a bit of decorative painting practice, most projects are easily accomplished by the novice crafter. --Amy Handy

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“As backyards and gardens become living spaces, it’s only natural to want to decorate them...details 30 projects involving outdoor furniture; fence, sign and patio painting; flowerpot decorations; birdhouses; and mosaics. Detailed instructions.”—Atlanta Journal Constitution.

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awesome,clear ideas.fun projects.......1999-07-31

If you enjoy transforming ideas into reality,this is the ideal book for you.

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Scripture and Exegesis in Early Imami Shiism

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Scripture and Exegesis in Early Imami Shiism
Me'ir Mikha'el Bar-Asher
Manufacturer: Brill Academic Publishers, Incorporated
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000MV28T8

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Spoto Tells of the Lovely Elizabeth Taylor

Well-written! An honest and intersting look at a true STAR

A Passion for Life: The Biography of Elizabeth Taylor (G K Hall Large Print Book Series)
Donald Spoto
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ASIN: 0783813791

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Spoto Tells of the Lovely Elizabeth Taylor.......2002-03-27

I really enjoyed this book by Donald Spoto. He went extremely in-depth regarding the life of Elizabeth Taylor. He tells about her childhood to her many marriages and movies. If you would like to get a good look into the life of Elizabeth Taylor, this biography is a excellent choice.

Well-written! An honest and intersting look at a true STAR.......2000-03-26

Being very good at what he does, Donald Spoto, manages to provide readers with an accurate, in depth, and yet entertaining look at the life of Elizabeth Taylor, both on and off screen. Naturally, he starts with the early childhood, because at the age of nine Taylor was already bona fide child-actor. Then, as a heroine, i.e. Talyor, grows up, the discussion focuses mainly on men in her life, her first love (Monty Cliff) and her first marriage...and then, another marriage... and then another marriage, and another... It is hard to keep track at times! However, Spoto also shows Taylor's ability to stay true to her friends, inspite of many-many traumas and ugly gossips that have always surrounded her public persona. The only downside of this book is that narration stops somehere in a "Taylor/Jackson" period. Since Spoto already opened up a candid discussion of Taylor's health and other life problems, I think readers would like to know more about the on-going life battles, that their favorite female star presently has to fight. Also, it would be nice, if he mentioned Taylor's contribution to the fight with AIDS more extensively. In other words, Spoto should be planning on another revised edition of this otherwise lovely book.

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Excellent!
Diamonds and divas
Luminous Liz!
Elizabeth Taylor Revealed

Elizabeth: The Life of Elizabeth Taylor
Alexander Walker
Manufacturer: Grove Press
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ASIN: 0802137695

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Elizabeth Taylor is one of our last great movie stars. An Oscar-winning actress, she has lived her entire life in front of the spotlights, and her glamour and smouldering, sensual charisma are the stuff of legend. In Elizabeth, Alexander Walker presents the story of a life that was lived, on and off camera, with a passion rarely matched by even today's outspoken celebrities. From her privileged childhood, the influence of her strong-willed mother, and her rise to stardom in films like National Velvet, A Place in the Sun, and Cleopatra, to her husbands, her obsession with jewelry, and her amazing resilience in the face of public scandal and personal tragedy, Walker shows us the real Elizabeth--as an actress and as a person determined to live on her own terms.

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Excellent!.......2007-01-12

I think this is the classiest bio written about Elizabeth Taylor I really enjoy Alexander Walker as an author and biographer He presents Elizabeth's life as true to life as possible without resorting to foul language or any degrading comments about her life. His writing style will not offend anyone.

Diamonds and divas.......2007-01-11

Elizabeth Taylor is a hard person to biograph -- she's been awash on controversy since her teens, and became infamous for her luxe lifestyle and many husbands. So it's an especial credit to Alexander Walker's "Elizabeth," which manages to be fair without fawning.

Taylor was the daughter of American Anglophiles, who moved to Hollywood during WWII. Her mother Sarah (an ex-actress) managed to get her into films, and the rest is cinema history. She seamlessly made the transition from cute child star to teen idol -- right before marrying abusive hotel heir Nicky Hilton.

He was the first of several husbands -- crooner Eddie Fisher, her late soulmate Mike Todd, Brit actor Michael Wilding, a congressman, and most famously Welsh actor Richard Burton. And her tumultuous life was full of gems, health problems, love affairs, and high drama in all she did.

Alexander Walker seems to have a liking for beautiful, legendary actresses with personal problems, so it's inevitable that he would have written about Taylor. The difficult part is balancing her positive and negatives, without either fawning or dragging her through the mud.

And Walker does an excellent job -- Taylor is not a vixen or a harpy, nor is she an angel. Instead, he studies her personality, with its tendency to replace one love with another, as well as seeking a controlling personality to make her feel secure. Whether it's adultery or financial problems, he doesn't judge so much as lay out the facts so readers can judge for themselves.

Best of all, Walker puts a wealth of detail in here. There's plenty of information about her movies, including lesser-known ones like "Cynthia," and Walker describes scenes that mirror or reflect Taylor's talent in detail. He also frames her story with info about the audiences of the times. He even includes unedited, outraged letters sent in after Taylor got involved with Fisher.

"Elizabeth: The Life of Elizabeth Taylor" is perhaps the best, fairest and most thorough biography of this living legend. Walker definitely hit the mark with this one.

Luminous Liz!.......2003-04-16

I was mesmerised by this book. Of course, one often takes biographies with a grain of salt, but I was most impressed with the way that Taylor handled her career like a man -- how she was able to go on despite the pressures of her situation. The love story between Burton and Taylor shines through, and I think I understand a little more about love, even though theirs was a tumultuous one. She is a role model for people in the performing arts who turn their attention toward great and needy causes, and I respect her immensely. Also, the photographs in this book illustrate the fact that Liz was -- and still is -- the most luminous raven-haired beauty in Hollywood. Long may she rule as the last star of Hollywood.

Elizabeth Taylor Revealed.......2003-03-04

In the book The Life of Elizabeth Taylor, Alexander Walker captures the extraordinary beauty's life in every way. Fans will absolutely love this book. It is a thorough in depth biography filled with more than 30 amazing photos of Elizabeth throughout the years.
It starts from the beginning of her life in London where her mother's strong willed attitude pushes Elizabeth forward. Alexander focuses on her success in many movies such as National Velvet, A Place in the Sun, and Cleopatra. The Oscar winning performance she gave in Butterfield 8 and the two academy awards that made her a legend are depicted.
Along with all the positive aspects of her life also came the long downfalls that have intrigued us over the years. Elizabeth's eight marriages are uncovered along with her conniving personality that broke apart other people's marriages. Her obsessions of jewelry, clothing, and sex are exposed. The truth behind her ongoing drug and alcohol abuse is revealed. Elizabeth's suicide attempt at age 29 along with the 73 total hospitalizations throughout her life is publicized. This book shows us the real Elizabeth outside of the glamour. The dramatic experiences with facing the public with the on going scandals and personal tragedies is drawn out for the readers.
This book gives a true insight in Elizabeth Taylor's life. From the high points to downfalls, her life is captured by Alexander Walker to its fullest. Elizabeth's life has been an often-tragic fairytale that people have followed throughout the past 50 years.

Straight Up!: A Teenager's Guide to Taking Charge of Your Life

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A GUIDE TO MAINTAINING YOUR TRUE FOCUS

Straight Up!: A Teenager's Guide to Taking Charge of Your Life
Elizabeth Taylor-Gerdes
Manufacturer: Lindsey Publishing, Inc.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 188524200X

Book Description

This book was selected by the American Library Association as a 1996 Quick Pick for Young Adult Readers. A teenager's guide about truth combining practical approaches and spiritual principals. Shows teenagers how to meet demands take charge of their lives and overcome obstacles.

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A GUIDE TO MAINTAINING YOUR TRUE FOCUS.......2000-06-15

THIS BOOK AS THE TITLE STATES "STRAIGHT UP!" IS AN EXCELLENT GUIDE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE. THE MESSAGE IS EASY TO UNDERSTAND AND THE BOOK READS AS IF DR. TAYLOR-GERDES IS PERSONALLY TALKING TO YOU. EACH CHAPTER FOCUSES ON THE TOUGH ISSUES THAT TEENAGERS ARE FACED WITH TODAY. THIS BOOK HELPS TEENAGERS REALIZE THAT THEY CAN BE HIP, SMART AND HAVE THEIR LIFE TOGETHER WITHOUT FALLING INTO THE TRAP OF NEGATIVE PEER PRESSURE.

Elizabeth ; The Life and Career of Elizabeth Taylor

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Elizabeth ; The Life and Career of Elizabeth Taylor

Manufacturer: Warner
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0446797588

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What Do I Say?
Elizabeth Johnston Taylor
Manufacturer: Templeton Foundation Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1599471205

Aunt Bet, the story of a long life;: A memoir of Elizabeth S. W. Taylor,

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Aunt Bet, the story of a long life;: A memoir of Elizabeth S. W. Taylor,
Harriot Milton Hammond
Manufacturer: The Handley Library
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

Coleridge and His Poetry (Poetry and life series)

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Coleridge and His Poetry (Poetry and life series)
Kathleen Elizabeth Royds
Manufacturer: Ams Pr Inc
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0404525326

Elizabeth Taylor (American Film Insitute Life Achievement Award, 21st Annual)

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Elizabeth Taylor (American Film Insitute Life Achievement Award, 21st Annual)

Manufacturer: American Film Institute
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000G1IL3G

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March 11, 1993 American Film Institute Life Achievement Award oversize softcover

Elizabeth Taylor (Her Life, Her Loves, Her Future)

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Elizabeth Taylor (Her Life, Her Loves, Her Future)

Manufacturer: Appleton-Century
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000EJZY7G

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An informative book about Elizabeth Taylor from chilhood til Burton.

Elizabeth Taylor American Film Institute Life Achievement Award (21)

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Elizabeth Taylor American Film Institute Life Achievement Award (21)

Manufacturer: American Film Institute
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000PHMIB2

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A Salute issued by the American Film Institute for Life Achievment presented to Elizabeth Taylor on March 11, 1993. The presentment feature is 96 pages in length and features many tributes from studios and other actors. Many photographs and outtakes are shown of Elizabeth's remarkable film career. Elizabeth was the 21st person so honored by them and this is the commementary program guide issued in her honor.

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