Mushrooms and Truffles of the Southwest

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Mushrooms and Truffles of the Southwest
Jack S. States
Manufacturer: University of Arizona Press
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Cape Cod and the Islands are New England's playground by the sea. Visitors looking to escape the maddening crowds and pricey parking lots for the experience of its diverse landscape, unique history, and charming communities will find all the information they need in this new Moon Handbook. While most conventional guides include only the obvious highlights, this guide covers the entire region with an insider's perspective on must-see attractions and undiscovered gems worth seeking out. Author and Massachusetts resident Jeff Perk provides generous helpings of historical and cultural information along with details on sports and recreation, small towns, historical exhibits, and nature trails that provide alternatives to the beaches. This first edition guide also includes a special chapter on the Elizabeth Islands, a little-known archipelago along the edge of Buzzards Bay, as well as coverage of other offbeat attractions, from square dancing under the stars in Wellfleet to seal-watching cruises from Nantucket. Complete with selective listings of dining and accommodation options, detailed maps, photos and illustrations, and insightful sidebars, Moon Handbooks Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket is the ultimate resource for an enriching and extraordinary getaway.

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The third in a series of scholarly catalogs on the permanent collection of The Art Institute of Chicago, this volume focuses on the museum's important holdings of Italian drawings of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The catalog contains comprehensive entries on over seven hundred drawings, including preliminary studies for major compositions, cartoons, modelli, independent drawings, and copies after Renaissance and Mannerist masters. Featured are major works by some of the most significant artists of the time: Baccio Bandinelli, Federico Barocci, Fra Bartolommeo, Jacopo Bassano, Vittore Carpaccio, Correggio, Parmigianino, Pisanello, Pontormo, Primaticcio, Raphael, Tintoretto, Veronese, and Taddeo Zuccaro.

Each drawing in this handsomely produced catalog is accompanied by complete and up-to-date documentation, including a detailed description of the physical condition, a fully documented provenance, bibliography, and exhibition history, and a critical discussion of the attribution, date, subject, and function, as well as a summary of earlier scholarship. Many of these exquisite drawings are published here for the first time.

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WONDERFUL BOOK!!

Growing Herbs: For the Maritime Northwest Gardener (Cascadia Gardening Series)
Mary Preus
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Parley, sage, rosemary, and thyme--Mary Preus instructs on how to get your garden to resemble a Simon and Garfunkel classic. She provides the basics (how to grow and care for the plants, pests and diseases to watch for, harvest and preservation pointers, and culinary tips) for 24 common herbs, plus month-by-month herb care advice, designs for herb baskets and kitchen gardens, and a mail-order directory. Whether you want mint for your juleps or lemon grass for your tom ka gai, Preus's guide is a gem.

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This comprehensive guide is all you need to successfully cultivate, harvest, and preserve culinary herbs in the maritime Northwest. Plan your own herb garden or choose one of seven designs, from a coloful basket of edible flowers to a fragrant landscape of twenty-four kitchen herbs.

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WONDERFUL BOOK!!.......1997-06-25

I have been growing plants and herbs (and using them also) since before I can remember, but, still living in the Northwest there are a few problems when herbs and such are involved, and trying to grow them successfully. I also have a ton of books on growing cultivating etc. But in my opinion, and this is just personal mind you from being up in the foothills of the Cascade Moutains and experiencing the climatic buggaboos that you will get here, this book is the best I have found. If you live in the Northwest specificly on the western side of the Cascades you HAVE to get this book.

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Fascinating.

I Enjoyed This Book!

Good overview, but uneven.

Great book

Rich and beautifully written - must read for skeptics of all stripes

Doubt: A History: The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson
Jennifer Michael Hecht
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Fascinating........2007-10-19

*If you're a doubter, you belong to a very old tradition!
This book is excellent: it's exhaustive and interesting, the only imperfection being that some sections are overly detailed (and thus LONG).

*I found a really clumsy mistake towards the end of the book. On page 472, the author quotes two very different Zen masters, both with the same family name, Suzuki (first Daisetz Teitaro, then Shunryu), erroneously thinking they are one and the same person!

*Read this book if you want to know about your intellectual ancestry.

I Enjoyed This Book!.......2007-09-06

This is my first review for [...], but I feel like I need to share my thoughts on Jennifer Michael Hecht's survey of doubt because of my response to how she has done us a great favor in putting this before us.
This is not intended to be a complete, in-depth treatise on the entire history of doubt. What Hecht has done is to illustrate the surprising ways that doubt has informed our societies over the past 2600 years. Doubt has led to change, to revolution, to enlightenment and to freedom. None of these things could have been achieved by faith in revealed religion.
Hecht includes the philosphers we have never heard much of, people who lit candles in the darkness and said "Wait, this doesn't make sense!" It is a history of challenge, courage and seeking further answers than provided by our priests, gods and kings.
And it is a survey. It can't be all-inclusive, but what it has inspired in me is to seek out further readings of the men and women who came before us and dared to ask what the universe was made of if not the manifestations of gods. So, read it and keep it as a reference.
The author lets in glimpses of her own personal beliefs and so it is not a purely scholarly work; but I hope it does for you as it has done for me in opening up pathways of exploration that may never have occurred to you in the past. And finally, a brief excerpt from the final chaper:
"People should be able to speak to each other about doubt without having to establish all of the old arguments every time the conversation begins again. Doubters and believers alike should know that Epicurus and Lucretius, the books of Job and Ecclesiastes, and the teachings of the Buddha have been remarkably constant resources in the history of unbelief. So has the whole history of Skepticism and doubt in our ability to know the world from the Carvaka, Socrates, Pyrrho, Sextus Empiricus, Montaigne, Charron, Hume, Bayle, through to all of the modern skeptics."

Good overview, but uneven........2007-09-01

This book has been called 'magisterial' (Publisher's Weekly) and the ever interesting-and-quirky Garrison Keillor calls it 'bold and brilliant'. This praise is deserved, I think, because Hecht addresses an important, neglected subject. And she's hot, in a nerdtastic way -- I love her photo on the back of the HarperSanFrancisco paperpack.

'Doubt' is an excellent ramble through history, and the bibliography gives you a good source for further reading. Hecht hits most of the high points ably, and she manages to pull off the difficult trick of being both passionate and objective.The index is well-done. She writes very well, if sometiimes *too* simply.

I have only a couple quibbles with the book. First, maps should have been included -- especially when she discussed the clockwise migration of doubt around the Mediteranean from the fall of Rome until the Renaissance. Here, here 'hands of the clock' metaphor is a bit strained, and without maps it's downright vapid. Second, she perhaps over-corrects, emphasizing women free-thinkers. Although I think this correction is needed, sometimes it drifts free of context, and the book seems to be about the role of women in free thinking, rather than free thought itself -- especially in the 17 and 18 hundreds. Finally (and significantly, I'd say), Hecht totally misses the boat on Darwin: a few scant sentences are granted him, and as his biographers have compellingly argued, he was a quintessential doubter. I would have been perfectly happy if she'd said something like 'Darwin, great doubter, see other sources', but she ddn't. She just breezed by. Fundamentally, I think she is much more comfortable in letters than in science, and it tells here. (Yes, her discussion of Einstein is better than that for Darwin -- but less essential, and therefore it compounds the omission).

Overall, a well-orgainzed, lucidly written overview. My copy won't be going to the library book sale.

Great book.......2007-08-11

I was excited to read this book after reading the review on it and I wasn't disappointed. This book is a must read for all atheists, free thinkers, brights, or humanist. It makes you feel proud to know that us skeptics or unbelievers, have a great history of people who have been skeptics about religious claims. You hardly ever hear about the history of atheism and its a shame because we really do have a a great history to be proud of, and this book tells you about it.

PS- It's not surprising that the people who gave this book a bad review are religious people. It's hard to read about the history of atheism and realize its more beautiful then the history of religion.

Rich and beautifully written - must read for skeptics of all stripes.......2007-04-24

This book is excellent.

The Freethought Society and Humanist Association in Philadelphia co-sponsor a Secular Book Club, and Doubt: A History was the first book we discussed. Surprisingly, the moderator said the book wasn't recommended to him, but rather, he found it by browsing in a book store. That's a shame because this book is such a wonderful survey of religious doubt in the Western World, that also touches on some aspects of doubt in the Eastern World as they influenced and related to the West.

Jennifer Hecht is a historian and award-winning poet. Her writing style is narrative, clear, and full of personality. At my book club meeting we spent several minutes just raving about how much we enjoyed the writing style.

The story begins with the ancient Greeks, then moves into ancient Judaism, Rome, and early Christianity. Jesus himself becomes an important figure in the history of doubt because by emphasizing faith in a way that Judaism never did, Christianity invented the doubt of the believer and the concept of doubt itself as a grave sin. (Jews, Greeks, and Romans were fine with you as long as you practiced religion. Genuine belief was secondary.) From there it moves into Buddhism and some lesser Eastern schools of thought, Islam, and relates them all to how Christianity and Judaism evolved over the middle ages and into the Enlightenment and modern times. Of course it discusses the role of religion in politics, especially in the era of the secular state, covering the French revolution and the foundation of the United States. The book touches on so many figures in the history of Doubt that even the seasoned freethinker is sure to encounter some new names and stories.

Because the book focuses exclusively on doubt, we get to read about all the arguments among doubters, such as Cicero's fictional story of three debating philosophers: an Epicurean, and Stoic, and a Skeptic. Later comes the long line of doubters who go about their doubting with quiet respect toward believers, in contrast to the doubters who view religion as a scourge that should be removed for the sake of bettering the human condition.

In her conclusion, Hecht states why she wrote this book: "The only thing such doubters really need, that believers have, is a sense that people like themselves have always been around, that they are part of a grand history. I hope it is clear now that doubt has such a history of its own, and that to be a doubter is a great old allegiance, deserving quiet respect and open pride." I confidently declare that she provides this. Doubt: A History is a wonderful resource for doubters of all stripes to have on their shelves.

Doubt: A History : The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson

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Doubt: A History : The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson
Jennifer Hecht
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Doubt: A History: The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson
Jennifer Michael Hecht
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Doubt: A History: The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson
Jennifer Hecht
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William Smith O’Brien was an improbable revolutionary, ill at ease as a leader of the 1848 rising at Ballingarry, Co. Tipperary, and then as a convict languishing in Van Diemen’s Land until 1854. His aristocratic background and demeanor, his late conversion to Repeal in 1843, and his refusal to engage in active politics during his final years in Ireland, have made him a perplexing figure for biographers as well as his contemporaries. His politics also perplexed and outraged his father’s family, the O’Brien’s of Dromoland in Co. Clare. Even so, as his extensive family correspondence reveals, O’Brien was never abandoned by the majority of his kinsfolk. The previously unpublished letters exchanged amongst the O’Brien family between 1819 and 1864 reveal an unexpectedly warm, if sententious personality, striving to preserve his family status and affections amidst controversy and disgrace. The publication of these letters is a fitting memorial to one of Ireland’s most elusive rebels.

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