Guide to the Plants of the Wallowa Mountains of Eastern Oregon

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Plant guide published by the University of Oregon Museum of Natural History in 1975.

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The West Highland Way is the first and most famous of Scotland's long-distance walks. The Way begins on the outskirts of Glasgow, its largest city, then goes through Scotland's first National Park, along the shores of its largest loch. After 95 miles of superb scenery, the Way ends in Fort William, at the foot of Ben Nevis, Britain's highest mountain. It contains all you need to plan and enjoy your holiday: *full color fold-down map showing the whole route *the Way in sections, with summaries of distance, terrain and where to find food and drink *concise background on the history and wildlife *information about side-trips and mountain climbs including Ben Lomond and Ben Nevis *planning information for travel by car, train, bus or plane *60 color photographs

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Being first doesn't win the race.......2006-05-15

The book summarizes french colonization between Maine and Hudson Bay. The question I was interested in was, why were the French colonies, which supported exploration as far as the west coast centuries before Lewis and Clark, utterly unable to compete with the British economically or demographically by the time of the French-Indian War? The book offered insight:

1) Territory- Quebec was not nearly as self sustaining as the colonies south. The economy was very one way- Canadians produced furs and almost nothing else. The terrain and weather severely limited what could be done.

2) Indians- I may be wrong, but I don't think the English had the same problems with Iriquois that plagued Canada. The Iriquois were explicitly allied with the English during the 17th century. The indians would later switch allegiance, but by that time demographics made them irrelevant.

3) Character of the Immigrants- Seems like the Frenchmen that came over were on a basic level anti-social. Two icons:

The coreur, who went off alone into the woods to live like an indian and bring back furs once a year. The french have always had a land fetish, this was an extreme manifestation.

The swindler/trader, who came to get rich off the market between Europe and the coreur.

In short, these were not families that came over to start a new life, but rather individuals (men) who came to make a quick buck or hit the sticks.

Consider the women- the King of France had to send ships full of women to get the colony rolling, almost certainly not there by choice. I don't recall anything even remotely like that in English colonies.

So in summary, the lopsided environment attracted people not really interested in the long term future of the colonies (the first response of every governor who hit a problem was to request transfer back to France- New France was NOT a desirable place to be for it's decision makers), so naturally they made bad decisions. That, combined with a powerful and hostile indian neighbor (the Iriquois) prevented the colony from becoming truly self sustaining. The people there were tough enough to survive, but lacked the resources to grow, and that made all the difference compared to the English.

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very underwhelming

Good tips and insight, but not applicable to all

Lots of Great Ideas

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How to Start a Home-Based Mail Order Business, 2nd (Home-Based Business Series)
Georganne Fiumara
Manufacturer: Globe Pequot
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Start Your Own Mail Order Business (Entrepreneur Magazine's Start Up)

Money in Your Mailbox: How to Start and Operate a Successful Mail-Order Business (Small Business Series)

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How I Made $1,000,000 in Mail Order-and You Can Too!

101 Great Mail-Order Businesses, Revised 2nd Edition: The Very Best (and Most Profitable!) Mail-Order Businesses You Can Start with Little or No Money

ASIN: 0762705124

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Launch and grow your home-based mail order business with this step-by-step guide. Learn about equipment, pricing, online marketing, and much more while using worksheets and checklists to get organized and achieve your goals.

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very underwhelming.......2005-06-15

I bought this book since it had the perfect-sounding title. When I got it home and started thumbing through it, i realized it has some glaring omissions. For example, in the list of options for business structure, it omits LLC. Also it barely glosses over the arduous process for getting a merchant account to be able to accept credit cards. These are both very important issues that should be addressed!!

Good tips and insight, but not applicable to all.......2004-02-24

Read this book from the library as ongoing market research. The book hit on many good points for where to begin, following effectiveness, etc., but felt somewhat outdated in other parts - the author places a lot of emphasis on using the fax versus email/online. Also would have liked to see more about sending mail for different types of services & products.

We are implementing some of the author's ideas at Anchor Digital - we'll be using the same messages found at anchordigital.com and putting them into direct mail pieces. Hopefully they will have the same effectiveness as the ones on the website.

I recommend this book as part of research for mail-order businesses, but be sure to include other, more varied books as well.

Barry Rosenstock
Anchor Digital Inc.
anchordigital.com

Lots of Great Ideas.......2002-08-15

How to Start a Home-Based Mail-Order Business is, at its core, a how-to. But, it is not satisfied with providing the basic bones and goes on to provide excellent elaboration and detail that helps answer questions. Well-written and researched. It covers all the basics--marketing, sales, promotion, etc, without getting bogged down into details that could lead Fiumara away from her basic thrust of the book. Given how much today's world relies on the Internet, her chapter on Success in Cyberspace is especially helpful. While it has its own chapter, using the Internet to promote your business is so critical that I would recommend Guerilla PR: Wired, which covers that same subject far more in-depth.

Step-By-Step Insider Information.......2002-07-30

Most books on starting a mail order business are written by men who claim you can make $100,000 or more at home. This book is different.

How To Start a Home-Based Mail Order Business is written by a woman who gives you all the information you need to succeed in a mail order business -- but without all the bull. Georganne Fiumara takes you by the hand in the very first chapter and leads you to success, step-by-step. Thanks to the author, my home business dream has come true.

I especially appreciated the chapter called Success In Cyberspace because most successful mail order businesses now include web promotion. The author's web site, HomeWorkingMom.com, shows that she knows what she is talking about.

I took her advice and put my business online at MoneyandShopping.com and have not looked back since.

If you are looking for a straight-forward, insider's guide to mail order, this is the book to buy.

Angela Smith

Very Basic Information.......2002-05-17

I recommend this book to anybody who knows nothing about starting business in General. It gives you very basic information on Marketing, Inventory Control and Accounting, thats all. Oh yes, it also gives you some of the advantages of a home based business.

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Great ^_^ You should by this.......2002-01-16

The other reviewers were right < this is a remarkable book. Your not gonna find a more interestin and enjoyable book on the market. Wow. This is a find bit of literature . All of my friends loved it. God Bless these magnificent writers.

Wonderful, big fan of Lisa MacDonald.......2001-12-11

This book tells amazing stories of brave animals, a must have for action and adventure story lovers.

YOU MUST BUY THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A classic.

A Great Kid's Book.......1999-06-01

I have read this book to my son and several of his classmates have bought it (and loved it) on our recommendation. A wonderful book for young children as it is easy to read and contains many heartwarming stories.

More than just friends, they're heroes!.......1997-10-06

This collection of true stories is both heart-warming and amazing. I'm already a dog-lover, but now I look at my two canine companions in a different light. Dogs house such potential to impact our lives out of sheer love and devotion.

A BOOK FOR DOG LOVERS.......1997-09-08

Oprah would love this book!!PMillions of people already have a strong bond with their canine friends but this book gives prestige and acceptance to our love and devotion.PThe greatest thing this book points out is that LASSIE exists in all breeds and not just collies.PWe've always know they would give "THEIR LIFE" for us but this book verifies it.PThe love of such heros is felt in this book and we can identify their bravery with our own beloved pets

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The Age of Haskalah is a seminal study of the beginnings of the Haskalah (Hebrew Enlightenment) in Germany in the last quarter of the 18th century. With detailed textual and historical evidence, author Moshe Pelli examines the backdrop of the Hebrew Enlightenment and the impact of the European Deism on the pundits of Haskalah.

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Biography of Ms Streisand as an actress and singer.

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More of the same old stuff..........2001-12-18

After so many books about Streisand, it takes an entirely new perspective on her life and career to make a new one interesting to a fan of hers. This book is simply a rehashing of the same old stories and anecdotes, and frankly not very well written compared to many of the other available titles on Barbra.

This is a joke, right?.......2000-09-08

Reverse chronology...barely readable text. So many other books have covered her life better. This is a woman whose life demands context and interpretation...not just repeating every single news story ever printed in the Los Angeles Times.

wow this is good!.......2000-04-14

this is great. i love the way it focuses on her life in acting as well as singing. it's very fascinating about the struggle she had to go through to be in funny girl on screen and the parts about walter matteau is great too! a must for those who love barbra.

Barbra, an Actress Who Sings, an unauthorized biography

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Barbra, an Actress Who Sings, an unauthorized biography
James Kimbrell
Manufacturer: Branden Publishing Co. c1989
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000ONQLUG

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The attack on the World Trade Center, the anthrax scare, war in Iraq: children realize terrible things are happening in the world today. How can parents explain these frightening events to their youngsters? The experts at Child Magazine show how to meet this almost overwhelming challenge with a series of very reassuring and practical articles.
* Finding the Right Words: Find out how to talk about war and terrorism, answer a child's questions about religion and faith ("Can God stop war?"), and comfort children with family and friends in the military. Prepare a child for a possible crisis, address concerns about bioterrorism; and foster tolerance.
* Learn from others: Take an inside look at what teachers, the illustrious members of Child's Advisory Board (including Marian Wright Edelman), and child professionals in strife-torn countries such as Israel and Northern Ireland know.
* The lessons of September 11th: Discussing that deadly day.
* If the worst happens--Easing kids' concerns and recognizing signs that a child is suffering.
In this day and age, no parent can afford to be without this.

Hastings Voices: Local People Talking About Their Lives in Hastings and St. Leonards Before the Second World War (CCE Occasional Paper)

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Hastings Voices: Local People Talking About Their Lives in Hastings and St. Leonards Before the Second World War (CCE Occasional Paper)

Manufacturer: University of Sussex Centre for Continuing Education
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 090424217X

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Talking About O'Dwyer
C.K. Stead
Manufacturer: Penguin Books (NZ)
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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What really happened to a soldier in the infamous Maori battalion, killed in the battle for Crete during World War II? And why did the soldier’s family place a curse on O’Dwyer, the officer who was his commander at the time he died? Half a century later two Oxford dons, Newall and Winterstoke, attend the funeral of their colleague O’Dwyer, an expatriate New Zealander. After the ceremony, Newall reveals to Winterstoke the story of the curse placed on O’Dwyer during the war and, in the days that follow, he continues the tales of O’Dwyer and his ‘cursed’ life. Slowly the stories of Newall, another New Zealander in self-enforced exile, and of Winterstoke are also revealed in Stead’s complex and subtle narrative which shifts across time and space from New Zealand to Oxford to Croatia and to Crete at the time of the allied defeat there.

From the Trade Paperback edition.

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Talking About the War
Anne Valery
Manufacturer: Michael Joseph Ltd
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0718133919

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the part that actually talked about therapy was excellent

Talking About Therapy
Donna D. Comarow , and Martha W. Chescheir
Manufacturer: Bergin & Garvey Trade
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0897895371

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Filled with enlightening first-person accounts, Talking About Therapy tells us why patients sought therapy, what they think of the therapists to whom they entrusted their well-being, and whether the treatment was worth the struggle, the emotional pain, and the money. Through stories that are touching, sometimes shocking, and always candid, readers will learn how patients responded to a wide range of treatment, including: Freudian and neo-Freudian psychoanalysis, Jungian analytic psychology, group psychotherapy, Reichian therapy, and newer "alternative" approaches. Whether portraying their therapeutic experience as "a scam" or "a liberation," or something in-between, the feelings shared by these forthright individuals will be fascinating to patients, potential patients, their families, and mental health professionals. Talking About Therapy will also help therapists and their clients see beyond the individual context of treatment. The authors have organized their work by the decade in which each interview subject entered treatment (1940s to the present day), and this narrative framework reveals much about the evolution of the mental helth field in the last half century. From the heyday of Freudian psychoanalysis, through the tumult of the Vietnam War, feminism and gay activism, to our current era of street drugs, and the prevalence of anti-depressants, the impact of therapy on the lives of the individuals in this amazing book is conveyed directly and dramatically, with unflinching honesty.

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the part that actually talked about therapy was excellent.......2001-09-01

This book of vignettes about people's experiences in and opinions about their own therapies was excellent...truly informative. As a therapist myself, I found it appealing and worth the read, especially with the people who were in therapy in the forties and fifties, because I don't hear enough of that perspective. I also liked the range of people and therapy types the book covered...though granted, it only covered a certain portion of those in therapy (i.e. entirely lacking any racially minority voices, said nothing about purely supportive therapy, didn't touch all the patients whose Medicaid pays for their therapy...).

The book's main drawback, however, was that its authors tried to make it into something it really wasn't... They tried to make it into a textbook or reference book of sorts, something more than just a collection of vignettes. They (ironically, like so many therapists) had to get in their own two cents constantly, and did it by fleshing everything out with theory, explanations, long-winded chapter and vignette introductions, summaries, recaps, expansions on themes, tepid historical insights...PURE DULLNESS, but moreso, unnecessary. Once I realized where the real power of the book lay, I just skipped over everything the authors had to say (or almost everything...at times they said an interesting thing or two about a famous therapist) and read the words of the people themselves, and worth it they were!

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Another volume in the Talking About series using understanding of popular culture to bring out Christian principles for life and living. As in Sex and the Cynics this includes a biblical perspective on the issue being dealt with here talking about tolerance articles on key aspects of the central theme study guides on relevant films books or TV programs and an introduction to a key thinker whose work still influences today's culture.

Boots designed to get folks talking about war.(General News): An article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)

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Boots designed to get folks talking about war.(General News): An article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)

Manufacturer: The Register Guard
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B0009H3PQA
Release Date: 2006-07-14

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This digital document is an article from The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), published by The Register Guard on April 3, 2005. The length of the article is 829 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Boots designed to get folks talking about war.(General News)
Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) (Newspaper)
Date: April 3, 2005
Publisher: The Register Guard
Page: L1

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¿De qué querra hablamos?(guerra contra el terrorismo, 2001)(TT: What war are we talking about?)(TA: war on terrorism, 2001)(Artículo Breve): An article from: Epoca

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¿De qué querra hablamos?(guerra contra el terrorismo, 2001)(TT: What war are we talking about?)(TA: war on terrorism, 2001)(Artículo Breve): An article from: Epoca
José García Caneiro
Manufacturer: Difusora de Informacion Periodica, S.A. (DINPESA)
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B0008IPIJ2
Release Date: 2005-07-28

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This digital document is an article from Epoca, published by Difusora de Informacion Periodica, S.A. (DINPESA) on September 21, 2001. The length of the article is 610 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: ¿De qué querra hablamos?(guerra contra el terrorismo, 2001)(TT: What war are we talking about?)(TA: war on terrorism, 2001)(Artículo Breve)
Author: José García Caneiro
Publication: Epoca (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 21, 2001
Publisher: Difusora de Informacion Periodica, S.A. (DINPESA)
Page: 11(1)

Article Type: Artículo Breve

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