Ingerwersen's Manual of Alpine Plants
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    		Ingerwersen's Manual of Alpine Plants
    Will V.M. H. Ingwersen
    Manufacturer: Will Ingwersen and Dunnsprint
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    ASIN: B000ODKVUC
    Manual of Alpine Plants
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      		Manual of Alpine Plants
      Will Ingwersen
      Manufacturer: Timber Press, Incorporated
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      ASIN: 0881920266
      Alpine plants;: A practical manual for their culture,
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        		Alpine plants;: A practical manual for their culture,
        William Ambrose Clark
        Manufacturer: C. Scribner's Sons
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        ASIN: B00089VOZI
        [Colored illustrated manual of Japanese alpine plants]
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          		[Colored illustrated manual of Japanese alpine plants]
          Tamitaro Makino
          Manufacturer: Seibundo Shinkōsha
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          [Illustrated manual of Japanese alpine plants in natural colors.]
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            		[Illustrated manual of Japanese alpine plants in natural colors.]
            Moku Yamakawa
            Manufacturer: Kazama Shōbo
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            ASIN: B0007J8ZH4
            Ingwersen's Manual of Alpine Plants
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              		Ingwersen's Manual of Alpine Plants
              Will Ingwesen
              Manufacturer: Ingwersen & Dunnsprint
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              ASIN: B000GRKWSW
              INGWERSEN'S MANUAL OF ALPINE PLANTS [11]
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                		INGWERSEN'S MANUAL OF ALPINE PLANTS [11]
                W. Ingwersen
                Manufacturer: Timber Press
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                INGWERSEN'S MANUAL OF ALPINE PLANTS. (SIGNED).
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                  Manufacturer: Ingwersen & Dunnsprint
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                  A Manual of Alpine and Rock Garden Plants
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                    		A Manual of Alpine and Rock Garden Plants

                    Manufacturer: Timber Press, Incorporated
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                    Photographic atlas and key to windblown seeds of alpine plants from Niwot Ridge, Front Range, Colorado, U.S.A (Occasional paper / University of Colorado, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research)
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                      		Photographic atlas and key to windblown seeds of alpine plants from Niwot Ridge, Front Range, Colorado, U.S.A (Occasional paper / University of Colorado, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research)
                      Scott A Elias
                      Manufacturer: University of Colorado, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research
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                      A Paddler's Guide to the Rivers of Ontario and Quebec (Paddler's Guide)
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                        Kevin Callan
                        Manufacturer: Boston Mills Press
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                        ASIN: 155046387X

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                        Twenty top river trips through the wilds of Ontario and Quebec. Kevin Callan is one of the foremost authorities on canoeing Central Canada's lakes and rivers. But he's that rare ah-shucks expert who gives you the best information, spins a wild-but-true story, yet doesn't have to be the hero of his own tale. Includes detailed route descriptions and maps showing all access points, important river features and accurate portage lengths.

                        Some of the routes included are:

                        The American Journey Activity Workbook, Student Edition
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                          		The American Journey Activity Workbook, Student Edition
                          McGraw-Hill
                          Manufacturer: Glencoe/McGraw-Hill
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                          How Good People Make Tough Choices: Resolving the Dilemmas of Ethical Living
                          Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
                          • The few. The moral. The good people.
                          • How Good People Make Tough Choices: Resolving the Dilemmas of Ethical Living
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                          • Sound framework, good case studies
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                          		 How Good People Make Tough Choices: Resolving the Dilemmas of Ethical Living
                          Rushworth M. Kidder
                          Manufacturer: Harper Paperbacks
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                          ASIN: 0688175902
                          Release Date: 2003-12-16

                          Book Description

                          Should you take a much-needed vacation or save money for your children's education? Should you protect the endangered owl or maintain jobs for loggers?

                          How do you handle questions such as these? We frequently face ethical dilemmas in our daily lives, and few have trouble with the "right vs. wrong" choices. However, the "right vs. right" dilemmas, in which neither choice is clearly or widely accepted as wrong, many times present obstacles that call for value-based decisions, and that's where we often need help.

                          Kidder -- the founder of the Institute for Global Ethics -- teaches us how to think for ourselves in order to resolve any ethical dilemma, from the personal to the philosophical. Unique in its approach and full of illustrative anecdotes, How Good People Make Tough Choices is an indispensable resource for arriving at sound conclusions when facing tough choices.

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                          Should you take a much-needed vacation or save money for your children's education? Should you protect the endangered owl or maintain jobs for loggers?

                          How do you handle questions such as these? We frequently face ethical dilemmas in our daily lives, and few have trouble with the ""right vs. wrong"" choices. However, the ""right vs. right"" dilemmas, in which neither choice is clearly or widely accepted as wrong, many times present obstacles that call for value-based decisions, and that's where we often need help.

                          Kidder -- the founder of the Institute for Global Ethics -- teaches us how to think for ourselves in order to resolve any ethical dilemma, from the personal to the philosophical. Unique in its approach and full of illustrative anecdotes, How Good People Make Tough Choices is an indispensable resource for arriving at sound conclusions when facing tough choices.

                          "

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                          5 out of 5 stars The few. The moral. The good people........2007-05-23

                          There are no books on the market that address morality that way that this book does. Not the Bible. Not my university textbook on ethics. None. It's one thing to talk about moral issues and take sides with them, but it is another thing entirely to talk about solid moral principles that can guide you in making moral decisions based on reason instead of blind faith. This is a book that does the talking.

                          If you want to find out what a religion or a moral philosophy is really made of, nothing will put it to a test more than a moral dilemma will, and this book is chock full of examples of real life moral dilemmas. Some of those moral dilemmas are things most people wouldn't even think of as moral dilemmas -- justice vs mercy for example. One dilemma I like (to paraphrase) was the one about the highway patrol officer who comes upon a truck wreck where the driver is irremovably pinned down in the cab and a fuel-fed fire is starting to blaze out-of-control. The driver asks the officer to kill him before he is fried alive. What would you do and how would it be a moral decision?

                          It is not a perfect book, for example, there was the issue of what is truth. Truth and fact are not the same thing. Truth is whatever people *believe* to be fact, whether or not what they believe in really is a fact or not. Truth is not a reliable yardstick by which to gauge morality by. That might seem like nitpicking with words, but the most common cause of distress of clients in counseling is confusing facts with truth. Knowing the difference between the two is important to making proper moral decisions, otherwise you might be basing your decision on an illusion.

                          It also didn't cover the issue of punishment. The topic of punishment often comes up in moral discussions as a deterrent from being immoral. If a person needs to be deterred by force from being immoral, does that deterred person become a moral person then, or are they a person only putting on an act of being moral, only to resort to immorality in private when nobody is looking and they can be the "real me"? So is there no other purpose of punishment, besides being a poor deterrent? Most philosophies of punishment I've heard have very immoral reasoning at their cores and therefore should be discussed in every discussion on moral or ethics. Therefore any religion or moral philosophy based on deterrent is an immoral religion or philosophy.

                          4 out of 5 stars How Good People Make Tough Choices: Resolving the Dilemmas of Ethical Living.......2007-03-09

                          The book is a little confusing and doesn't offer a lot of insights on the decisions of real life ethical probelms with real life people.

                          3 out of 5 stars Good Information.......2007-02-07

                          Good information but not something I would read again. Very dry chapters and some lack any formal directions on the proposed information.

                          4 out of 5 stars Sound framework, good case studies.......2006-08-16

                          This book provides a strong framework in which to understand ethical decision making, which Kidder distinguishes as "right vs. right" situations as opposed to the "right vs. wrong" of moral decisions; ethics isn't about whether you do the right thing despite the temptation to do wrong, but how you choose the course of action when either solution could be defended as morally correct. Kidder explains the rational considerations you can use to better make such choices.

                          All of the major points are illustrated with thought-provoking case studies, many of which are true dilemmas. This makes the book continually interesting.

                          5 out of 5 stars Good material for ethics class.......2005-08-20

                          This books allows students of all ages to start the difficult job of ethical decision making. Starting with its "Right vs. Right" concept, it teaches various ways to think about ethical decision making. This would be a wonderful book for a middle school or high school ethics class as well as an adult discussion group. Could easily be adapted to a church setting.
                          How Good People Make Tough Choices: L Resolving the Dilemmas of Ethical Living/Cassette
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                            		How Good People Make Tough Choices: L Resolving the Dilemmas of Ethical Living/Cassette
                            Rushworth M. Kidder
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                            How to Train Your Dalmatian (Tr-108)
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                              Liz Palika
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                              The Huguenot Legacy: English Silver 1680-1760
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                                Christopher Hartop
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                                A Huguenot on the Hackensack: David Demarest and His Legacy
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                                  John S. Major , and David C. Major
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                                  The Huguenots Their History and Legacy, Biographies of Ancestors of Members of the Huguenot Soceity of Maryland, Chronology of Significant Dates
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                                    Richard Loewer; Cockey, Nan Barton Bushey; Keigler, Margaret Patterson Smith; Goodbar, Rosemary Ann Goodbar
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                                    The Huguenot Legacy: English Silver 1680-1760 From the Alan and Simone Hartman Collectin
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                                      Huguenots and the legacy: A commentary on the history and evolution of a spiritual heritage traced through Reform music
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                                        		Huguenots and the legacy: A commentary on the history and evolution of a spiritual heritage traced through Reform music
                                        Tonnie Page Rushing
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                                        Legacy: The Huguenots : their nobility, our heritage : contains the family and memoirs of Lewis Arnold Moss
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                                          		Legacy: The Huguenots : their nobility, our heritage : contains the family and memoirs of Lewis Arnold Moss
                                          Lewis Arnold Moss
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                                          Pay Dirt, Revised and Updated 2nd Edition: How to Raise and Sell Herbs and Produce for Serious Cash
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                                            		Pay Dirt, Revised and Updated 2nd Edition: How to Raise and Sell Herbs and Produce for Serious Cash
                                            Mimi Luebbermann
                                            Manufacturer: Prima Lifestyles
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                                            ASIN: 0761508449
                                            Release Date: 1997-03-12

                                            Book Description

                                            There is a certain feeling of comfort and tranquillity associated with life on the farm: waking to the sounds of a rooster crowing and the birds chirping; the aroma of freshly made coffee and sizzling bacon. But, life on the farm is not always laid-back and easy-going. There are crops to harvest, animals to care for, land to plow and, most of all, products to sell. First-time farmers often rely on the advice of their neighboring community to help them through the trials and tribulations of agricultural living.
                                            In Pay Dirt, author Mimi Luebbermann offers her expertise on how you can use your love for the land to turn a profit. Included in this revised, second edition is information about community sustained agriculture which is fast becoming the way to guarantee an income from your farm as well as secure outlets for your products.Even city dwellers interested in gardening can benefit from this book as Luebbermann suggests how to overcome such limitations as space and market opportunities. Ideas include using an open porch or renting the backyards of neighbors who are uninterested in gardening. And, even though an urban gardener may not be able to market with the volume of the larger farms, there is a positive side. Luebbermann writes: " . . . You can offer unusual items unavailable to stores and restaurants through the regular distribution channels." Pay Dirt?s other new information includes:

                                            Growing Specialty Vegetables and Herbs
                                            Selling a Value-Added Product
                                            Obtaining Helpful Sources through the Internet
                                            Luebbermann?s "Compendium of Wild and Useful Ideas" provides a list of possible markets for a variety of products as well as sources to contact about seeds, bulbs, and materials for small scale farming.
                                            If you have a love for the land and a desire to start your own business, Pay Dirt will provide all the necessary information you need to succeed.
                                            About the Author
                                            Mimi Luebbermann                                             raises specialty produce and sheep at her Windrush Farms homestead. She is the author of several gardening books and Bread Baking with Herbs (also from Prima).

                                            German Encounters With Modernity: Novels of Imperial Berlin
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                                              Katherine Roper
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                                              Keaton's Silent Shorts: Beyond the Laughter
                                              Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
                                              • Overdone and Dry.
                                              • Film analysis at its best.
                                              		 Keaton's Silent Shorts: Beyond the Laughter
                                              Gabriella Oldham
                                              Manufacturer: Southern Illinois University
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                                              ASIN: 0809319527

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                                              Hardly a neglected artist, Buster Keaton attracts biographers and film scholars capable of incisive comment on his work. He continues to draw the serious attention of both popular writers and scholars because as a comic genius and major comedy filmmaker during the silent age he rivals Charlie Chaplin. Yet writers have focused on the full-length films from 1923 to 1928, when Keaton joined MGM, lost his creative freedom, and began a glide toward oblivion that lasted until his rediscovery in the late 1950s. Filling a major gap in the critical canon, Gabriella Oldham’s study of Keaton’s nineteen silent short films shot between 1920 and 1923 chronicles the rapid growth in the filmmaker’s understanding of what makes both comedy and film successful.



                                              Keaton developed his major themes in these nineteen short films: his persona "Buster" vs. Rival, Nature, Machine, Self, and Fate; his resilient pursuit of love and the efforts he makes to overcome any curves thrown by Fate; and his trademark "stone face" blocking any display of the passionate emotion he feels about everything he does. These short films clearly indicate Keaton’s love of the camera and his concern for composition, symmetry, and images that delight the eye and startle the mind.



                                              Oldham reconstructs each of these rarely seen films in such a way as to enable the reader to "watch" Keaton’s performance, devoting a separate chapter to each. She analyzes each film’s strengths, weaknesses, and prevalent themes and threads. She also enables readers to plumb the depths of what seems to be surface comedy through philosophical, biographical, historical, and critical commentary, thus linking the shorts together into a cohesive study of Buster Keaton’s growth through his three-year independent venture as a filmmaker. Beyond the laughter and beyond the great stone face, Oldham presents a treasure of cinema comedy and a unique philosophy of life as captured by the mature eye of a great filmmaker.

                                              Customer Reviews:

                                              2 out of 5 stars Overdone and Dry........2000-01-06

                                              A long, over-written unfunny book about some very funny films. See Keaton's movies instead.

                                              5 out of 5 stars Film analysis at its best........1997-11-17

                                              Between 1920 and 1923 Buster Keaton wrote, directed, and starred in nineteen independent short films which are some of the funniest ever made.
                                              In this scholarly yet readable analysis, Oldham, an unabashed fan of the "great stone face", devotes a chapter to each of these classic shorts, closely describing each scene with attention to visual composition, symmetry, repetition, and other cinematic techniques, as well as the critical element of the extraordinary funnyman himself.
                                              We can be thankful that Oldham not only avoids killing the subject in the process of dissection, an all-too- common fault in film criticism, but actually adds a richness of understanding to the Keaton legacy. In her words, "Beyond the comedy is film, lovingly and dexterously crafted in its comic visions. Within these visions are starkly familiar themes and paradoxes. We begin to realize that Buster - exaggerated or simple, funny or serious - resembles each one of us..."

                                              (The "score" rating is an unfortunately ineradicable feature of this page. This reviewer does not "score" books.)

                                              Jonathan's Travels: Swift and Ireland
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                                                Joseph McMinn
                                                Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan
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                                                Los Viajes De Gulliver/ Gulliver's Travels (Coleccion Juventud / Juvenile Collection)
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                                                  Jonathan Swift
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                                                  The Unthinkable Swift: The Spontaneous Philosophy of a Church of England Man
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                                                    York Notes on Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels" (Longman Literature Guides)
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