Key to the families of flowering plants of the world

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Key to the families of flowering plants of the world
J Hutchinson
Manufacturer: Clarendon P
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General | Plants | Biological Sciences | Science | Subjects | Books
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ASIN: B0006BSS34

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KEY TO THE FAMILIES OF FLOWERING PLANTS OF THE WORLD REVISED AND ENLARGED FOR USE AS A SUPPLAMENT TO THE GENERA OF FLOWERING PLANTS

Manufacturer: Clarendon Press
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000IB855I

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KEY TO THE FAMILIES OF FLOWERING PLANTS OF THE WORLD, REVISED AND ENLARGED FOR USE AS A SUPPLEMENT TO THE GENERA OF FLOWERING PLANTS.
J. Hutchinson
Manufacturer: Clarendon
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000WH4CB4

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Explores a variety of fascinating, seldom seen predators of legend such as the wolverine, grizzly and black bears, lynx, wolf, jaguar, mountain lion, bobcat, mountain coyote, marten, ermine and fisher.

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Get ready for an adventure!

MEET Tennessee Toledo, a daring young explorer, searching for fame and fortune in the Egyptian desert!

UNCOVER the legendary Mia Pharaoh, a mummified Egyptian queen buried deep beneath the desert sands for thousands of years!

DISCOVER Mia Pharaoh's Gauntlet of Giant Tomes, a series of challenges standing between Tennessee and the greatest archaeological discovery of all time all -- giant, jewel-encrusted statues of the queen's husbands, Phrank the Large and Woodrow the Small!

LEARN how to use a dictionary, an atlas, an almanac, and a thesaurus while helping Tennessee solve Mia Pharaoh's Dangerous Puzzles of Pain!

This book is equipped with a special transmitter so that you can help Tennessee as he tackles each new brain-defying challenge from deep inside Mia Pharaoh's tomb. While transmitting answers to Tennessee, you will learn how to:

• Find information using a table of contents, index, and other research aids
• Interpret tables of statistics in an almanac
• Use latitude and longitude to identify locations on a map
• Trace a word's origins and explore word roots, prefixes, and suffixes
• Find synonyms using the index in a thesaurus

And everything else you need to know to get the most out of your reference books!

Dictionaries, almanacs, thesauri, and atlases often seem overwhelming, even to the best students. But after you discover the secret of the giant tomes, you'll have a world of knowledge at your fingertips -- and the thanks of a grateful treasure hunter.

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Great Teaching Tool!.......2004-04-18

This book presents the "how-to's" of reasearch into a fun, adventure-filled activity for kids age 9-14. How many times have you heard, "If I don't know how to spell it, how can I look it up in the dictionary?" Take your middle school kids on a library research adventure, following the adventures of Tennessee Toledo, using the world almanac, world atlas, dictionary, and thesaurus. Your students will be inspired and challenged, as they uncover the clues and unravel the mystery. They won't even know they're learning!

Churches And Religion In The Middle Ages (World Almanac Library of the Middle Ages)

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Churches And Religion In The Middle Ages (World Almanac Library of the Middle Ages)
Dale Anderson
Manufacturer: World Almanac Library
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Binding: Library Binding

Medieval | History & Historical Fiction | Children's Books | Subjects | Books

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Cities And Towns In The Middle Ages (World Almanac Library of the Middle Ages)

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Cities And Towns In The Middle Ages (World Almanac Library of the Middle Ages)
Mercedes Padrino
Manufacturer: World Almanac Library
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Library Binding

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ASIN: 083685893X

Feudalism And Villiage Life in the Middle Ages (World Almanac Library of the Middle Ages)

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Feudalism And Villiage Life in the Middle Ages (World Almanac Library of the Middle Ages)
Mercedes Padrino , and Mercedes Padrino Anderson
Manufacturer: World Almanac Library
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Binding: Library Binding

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ASIN: 0836858948

Knights, Castles, And Warfare In The Middle Ages (World Almanac Library of the Middle Ages)

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Knights, Castles, And Warfare In The Middle Ages (World Almanac Library of the Middle Ages)
Fiona MacDonald
Manufacturer: World Almanac Library
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ASIN: 0836858956

Monarchs In The Middle Ages (World Almanac Library of the Middle Ages)

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Monarchs In The Middle Ages (World Almanac Library of the Middle Ages)
Fiona MacDonald
Manufacturer: World Almanac Library
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Binding: Library Binding

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ASIN: 0836858964

Monks And Monasteries In The Middle Ages (World Almanac Library of the Middle Ages)

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Monks And Monasteries In The Middle Ages (World Almanac Library of the Middle Ages)
Dale Anderson
Manufacturer: World Almanac Library
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ASIN: 0836858972

Peoples And Cultures of the Middle East (World Almanac Library of the Middle East)

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Peoples And Cultures of the Middle East (World Almanac Library of the Middle East)
Nicola Barber
Manufacturer: World Almanac Library
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ASIN: 0836873378

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John Lennon had two opportunities to be a father. His first son, Julian, was born in 1963 at the dawning of Beatlemania. The impact of the Beatles' success on John and Julian's relationship? Suffice to say Paul McCartney wrote "Hey Jude" as a gesture of sympathy to a forlorn young Julian. Fatherhood fit John Lennon far better the next time around when the indulgent daddy, then in his late 30s, put his musical career on hold to indulge his second son, Sean. Evidence of Lennon the doting dad can be found in this 48-page collection of sun-drenched illustrations sketched out to entertain a toddling offspring. The once-caustic ex-Beatle betrays not a hint of his scathing side in these vivid drawings. Rather, the witty punster who was dubbed the "smart Beatle" after he published the prose collection In His Own Write in 1964 is in full flower here. An illustration christened "Collieflower" shows a budding plant with the face of a canine; "A Frog Pondering" displays a reflective amphibian overlooking a puddle. Real Love is the kind of book that will capture the attention of Beatles collectors, but it should also spark the imaginations of its intended audience--little Lennonists in the making. --Steven Stolder

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John Lennon was many things to many people: singer, songwriter, poet, political activist, and, not the least, the most outspoken member of what is, inarguably, the greatest rock-and-roll band of all time. But to Sean Lennon, he was Daddy, a role he took on with as much humor, intensity, and enthusiasm as any he had tackled.

John made the drawings in this book with and for Sean. Drawing pictures and making up funny captions was one of the ways they played together. It was how John taught Sean about the simple joys of creativity. It was one of the many ways John was able to express his real love for -- and great joy in -- his son.

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Beautiful Boy - With Love From John to Sean.......2007-07-29

This book makes me think of the Frank Sinatra classic, "You Make Me Feel So Young." The lyrics to that 1951 classic are startlingly a propos in re this book.

This is an ideal book for all ages. Many people have been inspired to do a "John Lennon's Musical Parade" for a nursery theme have done their children a service by exposing them to high culture early. This book is the loving collaboration of a father and son. John's love for playing with words and stacking them in odd configurations much as young children enjoy stacking blocks is evident in this book as was the case in his 1964 book, "In His Own Write" and his 1965 follow up with "A Spaniard in the Works."

The drawings that accompany the writing are gentle and direct; people of all ages will certainly appreciate the collaborative creativity that went into this book. Yoko Ono said that their son Sean came up with many of the titles and John would then work around those titles to create the imagery. This is truly a delightful book that all will love, regardless of whether or not they are Beatle fans. (Although no doubt Beatle fans will derive an especial amount of pleasure from this one).

Absolutely adorable.......2004-05-07

After purchasing some of the John Lennon line of clothing for my baby, I had to buy the book. It truly reminds you of what a great mind we lost. The drawings are adorable and colorful. The captions are cute and funny. My daughter loves looking at each page. Its really worth buying.

simple and pure.......2003-07-19

I already owned this book, but I recently purchased it for a friend of mine who is about to have a baby. She chose "John Lennon's Musical Parade" for her nursery theme, a line of baby products based on this loving collaboration between John Lennon and his young son Sean; she had never seen the actual drawings and I wanted her to know where those images of animals and musical notes came from. The book is endearing and simple, revealing Lennon's creativity with words ("A turtle winning by a hare" under a drawing of a turtle and a rabbit; "A bird bath" under a picture of a bird in in the rain). In the short introduction, Yoko explains that Sean came up with some of the titles himself. All in all, a wonderful book for children, fans of John Lennon, and adults who are young at heart.

Simply Cute.......2000-02-28

I bought this book, while researching for a play "John Lennon and Me". This book is really cute, colorful, and VERY enjoyable. Not only did I enjoy it, but the cast of the play also enjoyed it as well, young and old, we all liked it. John Lennon's play on words is great. The captions are simple, but perfect. I would recomend this for any John Lennon fan, or just any one looking for a sweet/cute children's book.

a cool use for the book.......1999-11-28

I love this book and even though some may not agree with what I'm doing with it, it turned out to be a great idea. The drawings are perfect for a baby's room so what I've done is taken the drawings in the book and framed them to make a border for our baby's bedroom. The captions at the bottom of each page are perfect and simple and relay a wonderful message. I was never a fan of the Beatles or John Lennon for that matter, but this book really caught my eye and I couldn't resist it.

The Alpine Sketchbooks of John Singer Sargent: A Young Artist's Perspective

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Young Sargent, Nature and / or Nurture

The Alpine Sketchbooks of John Singer Sargent: A Young Artist's Perspective
Stephen D. Rubin
Manufacturer: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Painting | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books

General | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 0870996347

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Young Sargent, Nature and / or Nurture.......2007-10-11

This is a short (45 page) oversize (9 inch by 11 inch) black and white paperback published in 1991 by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. It's an exhibit catalog based on two 1870 sketchbooks restored at the Metropolitan. Sargent filled these as a 14-year-old on a three-week summer tramp through the Alps with his father. The works depicted appear to be in a variety of media: watercolor, graphite pencil and charcoal? Unfortunately for fully appreciating the watercolors, the reproductions are in black and white. There are several pages of informative text as well. As an aside, the author, researching the project, is said to have retraced the Sargents' intinerary through the mountains, proving that art scholarship is not always petty bickering over arcane marginalia of less and less relevance. Great work if you can get it!

Although these are not Sargent's earliest extant sketch books, they are efforts from a fourteen-year-old prior to any real formal and professional training in art. This claim is tenable, despite the stories of tutorial by Sargent's ever-at-her-easel mother, due the author's assessment of her own actual work. "The crude drawing style, incorrect perspective, and inept use of watercolor technique..." Well, perhaps she instilled a love of art, if not the concrete means to it. So these few works of little John Sargent offer interesting data on the timeline of his artistic development. And the book is worth it for this reason alone.

A neurophysiologist can tell you that the human eye is still developing, even physically at an age approaching six. That is, your four-year-old does not, cannot view the world as you do. The "hardware and software", the eye itself and the brain's use of the signals, is still not fully mature. And that is true whether your nature is such as to be ultimately 20-20 or sadly myopic. Similarly, if I remember Piaget correctly, the mean age for a human to properly understand the role of x-the-unknown in an algebra expression is twelve. Teaching college physics years ago, I could only politely remain silent when 20-year-old students would fault me with, "I can understand it when you have the sense to use real numbers like 12, instead of that x-the-unknown stuff!" A human reaching maturity is not simply a fully-formed vessel filling over the years with facts. Even the physical vessel is still finishing. Is this true in art as well?
For the sake of argument, assume that an artist develops in an analogous manner.
If so, in my opinion, the watercolors of the 14-year-old Sargent are already quite remarkable, mature, at least in black and white. Particularly "The Matterhorn from Zmutt Glacier, Zermatt". In fact, it is quite astonishing. The watercolors seem further advanced than do the linear media, pencil or charcoal, particularly the figures. That relative difficulty is particularly interesting, due even an infant's experimentally determined "expertise" at recognizing faces. At fourteen has the mind already firmly ensconced symbols for the objective reality, the usual problem in accurate rendition. And, does this thus require the 14-year-old extra effort to unlearn, to de-automate the seeing of people as opposed to scenes or objects? This opinion of course is only as regards a pleasing realism. As to the other elements of what constitutes art, how does all this this jibe with the view popularized in Betty Edward's books, that an adult attempting art is a ruined child? The adult obsessed with photo accuracy and devoid of fantasy? The free-flowing creativity of a child is silenced by the adult's drive to conformity, conformity as realism.
For those more interested in pursuing these topics, "American Drawings and Watercolors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art JOHN SINGER SARGENT", published by that institution in 2000, offers a very complete set of Sargent drawings and watercolors, including those from this period of his life. Therein one can see not just much more but also watercolors reproduced in color.

All in all, studying the book well repaid me, offered much food for thought about the development of a great artist and any artistic effort at all.

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John Young, The Sketchbooks

Manufacturer: John Young Foundation
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000E9B55Q

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Young Forever

John Young: The Sketchbooks
Susan Yim
Manufacturer: University of Hawaii Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

General | Instructional & How-To | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books

Drawing | Instructional & How-To | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books

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ASIN: 0824822900

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Young Forever.......2000-09-08

Susan Yim captures the essence of an artist whose life spanned the 20th century and left his mark on the world with big, broad and bold strokes. Spontaneous and vivacious, Young was the life of the party for some 80 years. His art showed how simple it was to present a story in just a few strokes of his pen. Yim presents us with some of the sketches that Young created while traveling the world. This is a great book to peruse when it seems life is too complicated. See things as Young saw them and get a sense of the purity of form. It has a cleansing effect.

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John Young: The Sketchbooks
Susan Yim
Manufacturer: NY
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000MUCCJU

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Alternative Pets: from Budgies and Yabbies to Rabbits and Rats: from Budgies and Yabbies to Rabbits and Rats
Robin Stewart
Manufacturer: Hyland House Publishing Pty Ltd
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Binding: Paperback

General | Animal Care & Pets | Home & Garden | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 1864470526

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Ancient Stepmothers is the first full-length study of the stepmother in Graeco-Roman antiquity. Several perspectives are covered: literary, historical and sociological, the last-mentioned making use of comparative material from modern studies of stepfamilies. The portrayal of the stepmother in myth and literature is thoroughly explored. The historical background in Athens and Rome is examined with a view to determining the relationship between fiction and real life. The book makes an important contribution to the study of both literary history and family relationships: in particular, it sheds light on attitudes to women, the portrayal of the stepmother being an outstanding illustration of misogynistic prejudice. It will also interest sociologists wishing to place studies of the contemporary stepfamily in a wider historical context: for this reason, all Greek and Latin is translated into English.

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This eighteen-month diary, from January 1995 to June 1996, from one of the most distinguished--and beloved--actors of stage and screen, reveals the octogenarian spryness of a civilized mind and a beguiling mixture of the meditative and the hedonistic. Sir Alec Guinness's interests and preoccupations recur: theater and film, of course, but also books and paintings; the church, sometimes held up for amused observation; food and drink, from fish'n'chips gatherings with fellow actors in Cambridge to solitary repasts at the Connaught; and the delights of being at home with his wife in the English countryside. Although the entries are written with a keen eye on contemporary events and culture, they also open to a past replete with fascinating memories and anecdotes from his long career. Inevitably, there is a strand of poignancy as friends die and memorial services are attended, but the pleasures and fun to be had with close friends such as Alan Bennett, Irene Worth, and Lauren Bacall form a strong backbone to this marvelously entertaining diary, which offers a glimpse of the private side of Guinness's often very public life.

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A fine actor admires the twilight.......2004-07-02

Where BLESSINGS IN DISGUISE and A POSITIVELY FINAL APPEARANCE are more organized as memoirs, this is simply a sequence of diary entries prepared for publication. They show a great actor, the dean of Ealing comedies and (to his chagrin) the great Jedi Master, admiring the twilight in his retirement. This is a gentlemanly, sensitive, yet vibrantly witty writer who once described heaven as sitting with one or two friends, sharing a drink and savoring the silence. There are no peekaboo stories about celebrities or iconoclastic commentaries on the state of the world; just an appreciation for an interesting life well-lived, deliciously and intimately inscribed for us in these daily entries.

For a more organized and literary memoir, the two titles mentioned above come highly recommended.

This Will Only Interest the Most Dedicated Fans........2004-02-10

"My Name Escapes Me" is a book of actor Sir Alec Guinness' personal diary entries from January 1995 to June 1996, which he wrote with publication in mind. I have to give Sir Alec credit: His diary is not as tedious as most people's would be. His writing has a nice pace, and the book is mercifully short. But there simply isn't anything interesting about it. Sir Alec was 82 years old and retired when he wrote this diary. He spent most of his time relaxing at his country home. If he were working, he might have had more interesting anecdotes to relate or perhaps some insight into the process of putting on a play or making a movie to share. But it takes a more talented writer to make something interesting out of the mundane. Sir Alec mentions music that he likes, plays that he sees, books that he reads, art in various forms, but he never expounds on these subjects, so we don't learn anything about the subjects or about him. He doesn't seem to be an opinionated person. Opinions, however trying, might make for better reading. All in all, "My Name Escapes Me" gives the impression of a man of moderate writing talent and moderate intelligence. It's really too bad that no publisher asked Alec Guinness to write a diary for publication earlier in his life. His style is both literate and easy-going. If it had been applied to the life of a working actor, an insightful and highly readable book might have resulted. But as it is, I think only obsessively curious fans of Alec Guinness will find anything of interest in "My Name Escapes Me".

wonderful and charming.......2000-09-18

sir alec must have been a kind and gentle man. i found in this book that he was charming and witty and deliberately effacing. it takes us on a journey to his many memories of movies,tv,politics, and a great cast of characters that he's met over the years. it's a quiet and calm book. a very relaxing and entertaining read. and what a since of humor!

I thoroughly enjoyed this book.......2000-02-19

I haven't hear the audio version of Sir Alec's diary: don't need to since I can hear his voice in my head as I read. Gracious to a fault about his fellow actors, prickly about fans who invade his privacy (whether spying him at a museum or appearing in the back garden), exasperated at the Star Wars fame, he is a truly eccentric Englishman and proud of it. I love it when he admits he probably went on and on while telling a story; a common fault of the loquacious and the aging. Pokes fun at himself and endears himself all the more. Delightful.

Superbly entertaining and thought-provoking.......1999-10-09

In this, the first of his two volumes (so far, I hope) based on his journal, the great actor Sir Alec Guinness makes writing and reading seem as effortless as his acting. His graceful, lucid prose is remarkable, as are his observations and ruminations on his life, on the craft of acting (he never lets one forget that acting is a craft with exacting standards of professionalism), on his reading, on his religious life, on the world around him, and on his family and friends. He is one of the sharpest yet kindest observers of the human comedy, and reading him is not only an unalloyed pleasure but nourishing to the mind and the heart. Readers of this book should scour used-bookstores for BLESSINGS IN DISGUISE and should also hunt down his new book A POSITIVELY FINAL APPEARANCE.

My Name Escapes Me : The Diary of a Retiring Actor

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My Name Escapes Me : The Diary of a Retiring Actor
Alec Guinness
Manufacturer: Hamish Hamilton Ltd
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OPVKFA

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MY NAME ESCAPES ME The Diary of a Retiring Actor
Alec Guinness
Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OJ684Y

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