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The Pine Tree Book Based on the Arthur Ross Pinetum in Central Park
Manufacturer: Central Park Conservancy ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0960454012 |
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From the Preface written by Arthur Ross: "It gives me great pleasure to witness the second edition of this definitive volume on the pine tree, originally published in 1980. The book is based on the Pinetum that I established in Central Park in 1971. Today there are more than 400 pines representing some 15 species in the Pinetum."
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The pine tree book: Based on the Arthur Ross Pinetum in Central Park
Russell Francis Peterson Manufacturer: Brandywine Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: 089616005X |
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Easy-to-read, beautiful illustrations!.......1998-10-11
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THE PINE TREE BOOK: BASED ON THE ARTHUR ROSS PINETUM IN CENTRAL PARK. Illustrated by Patricia Wynne. With a foreword by Henry Hope Reed.
Russell. Peterson Manufacturer: Brandywine Press, ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000N7JRKO |
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100 Best Cruise Vacations, 4th (100 Best Series)
Theodore W. Scull Manufacturer: Globe Pequot ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0762738626 |
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Book to decide your next destination.......2007-01-13
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The Orator: Guy Vander Jagt on the Hustings
Paul E. Ried Manufacturer: Jameson Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0898031494 |
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On Belay!: The Life of Legendary Mountaineer Paul Petzoldt
Raye Carleson Ringholz Manufacturer: Mountaineers Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items: ASIN: 0898865581 |
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Every mountaineer in the western U.S. has heard of Paul Petzoldt and his pioneering climbs and guide trips in Wyoming's Tetons. Most know of his founding of the highly regarded National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS) programs. But even those who know this "mountain original" well will find new information in this wide-ranging biography by one of Petzoldt's former NOLS students.Ringholz recounts the stories of both Petzoldt's mountaineering exploits (the Grand Teton, the Matterhorn, K2) and his innovations in outdoor education (Colorado Outward Bound, NOLS, Wilderness Education Association). Furthermore, the book provides a wealth of fascinating personal details; you'll marvel at the twists and turns in Petzoldt's adventurous life that resulted from an often-serendipitous combination of economic privation, world events, wanderlust, curiosity, coincidence, and just plain luck.
The book bills Petzoldt as a controversial figure, apparently in two connections--some bizarre events involving a murder charge in India and Byzantine struggles for control over NOLS properties and leadership--and sets out to "correct the record." Because it's an authorized biography, the book may be a bit light on objective analysis of its subject and other conflicting opinions, but nonetheless it's competently done. --Donna DeShazo
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Petzoldt's name is synonymous with the Grand Tetons and NOLS, the highly respected outdoor school that he founded. Blazing the trail for an international code of wilderness ethics and safe climbing techniques, Petzoldt devised the voice signaling system that begins with "On belay!"This intimate biography details Petzoldt's climbing career, including many first ascents in the Tetons, the first American expedition to K2, and the extraordinary leadership accomplishments that made him legendary.
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On Belay - Drops Climber.......2000-02-03
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Friends for Life: Loving and Losing Your Animal Companion.
Carolyn Butler , Suzanne Hetts , and Laurel Lagoni Manufacturer: Sounds True ProductGroup: Book Binding: Audio Cassette Accessories: ASIN: 1564554066 |
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2002 Standard Guide to Cars & Prices: Prices for Collector Vehicles 1901-1994
Manufacturer: Krause Publications ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0873493060 |
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The most comprehensive annual on the collector vehicle market catalogs more than 250,000 accurate prices for collector vehicles. The new edition includes more than 40,000 listings of vehicles manufactured from 1901 to 1994, with six grades of condition.All new photos help collectors, dealers, hobbyists, insurers, investors, lenders and anyone buying or selling identify the collector car or light truck.
This best seller also provides expert advice on buying and selling collector vehicles.
-The most comprehensive annual on the collector vehicle market
-Includes more than 40,000 listings from 1901 to 1994, with six condition grades
-200 new photos aid in identification
-Expert advice on buying and selling collector vehicles
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The Healthy Lawn Handbook
Lane L. Winward Manufacturer: The Lyons Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1585742430 |
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It helped me, it will help you!.......2002-04-26
Best lawn book in ages.......2002-03-24
Everything I ever wanted to know!.......2002-02-07
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Solutions to a Healthy Lawn and Garden (A Handbook for All-Natural Gardening)
ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: B000BUNFTM |
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Healthy lawn, healthy environment : caring for your lawn in an environmentally friendly way (SuDoc EP 1.2:H 34/14)
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Manufacturer: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B00010ATD2 |
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The healthy newborn: A reference manual for program managers
Joy Lawn Manufacturer: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0006SB5Y6 |
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Possessing the Land: Aragon's Expansion in Islam's Ebro Frontier Under Alfonso the Battler 1104-1134 (Medieval Mediterranean, Peoples, Economics and Cultures, 400-1453, Vol 7)
Clay Stalls Manufacturer: Brill Academic Publishers ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 9004103678 |
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Possessing the Land is the first comprehensive treatment of Christian Aragon's expansion under Alfonso I (1104-1134) into a major arena of medieval Christian/Islamic contact: the Islamic Ebro River march of Aragon. Based on an extensive examination of primary and secondary sources, the book's insights into the social and political processes of Christian settlement and the fate of post-conquest Islam are of particular importance. Its conclusions that the freeholding of land characterized the Ebro's Christian settlement, and not heavy seignorialization, and that Christian settlement relied on the Muslim infrastructure, challenge significantly the neo-Marxist thesis of the "feudalization" of twelfth-century Christian Iberian society and the corresponding Christian break with Iberia's Islamic Past. This book constitutes a fundamental work in Iberian frontier studies.
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British Film Actors' Credits 1895-1987
Scott Palmer Manufacturer: McFarland & Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Library Binding ASIN: 0899503160 |
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There are nearly 5,000 performers listed here, along with a quarter of a million film titles. The book is divided into two parts; the sound era, which has most of the entries, and the silent era, with about 700 names. Actors listed in this second section made no appearances after 1928. Actors whose careers spanned both talking films (which began in Britain in 1929) and silents are listed in the larger first section. Scottish, Irish, Welsh, Australian, Canadian, South African, and other British Commonwealth performers are included; British-born actors whose films were made outside the United Kingdom (as in Hollywood) and those born in foreign countries who filmed in Britain are also included. Birth and death dates are given when they could be traced. A brief character description is followed by the list of films, in chronological order. Original film titles and the year they were completed are also included.
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British Film Actors' Credits, 1895-1987.
Manufacturer: McFarland ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000I82TT4 |
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The Life of W. B. Yeats (Blackwell Critical Biographies)
Terence Brown Manufacturer: Blackwell Publishing Limited ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0631182985 |
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At this point in literary history, any biographer of W.B. Yeats is up against some stiff competition. Most of the late Richard Ellmann's work on the poet is, alas, out of print. But to judge from its first installment, R.F. Foster's double-decker life looks to be a monumental accomplishment, while in the recent Yeats' Ghosts, Brenda Maddox casts a cold (and discerning) eye over her subject's erotic life and supernatural predilections. Now comes The Life of W.B. Yeats by the Irish scholar Terence Brown. His book is very much a critical biography, attending more to the perfection of art than the perfection of life (while gracefully conceding that neither in fact exists). So there's relatively little frolicking around in the poet's boudoir à la Maddox. Still, Brown has a gift for conveying the texture of Yeats's life, selecting just the right details from what is now a copious historical record. Here he delivers a fine snapshot of the poet paying court to chain smoker Iseult Gonne after having been spurned by her notorious mommy:In August 1917 Yeats had visited Maud and Iseult Gonne in Normandy where he renewed his suit for Iseult's hand. She was moody, sickly from over-indulgence in cigarettes, flirtatiously affectionate but no more inclined to marry Yeats than she had been the previous summer. Her mother he found surrounded by the usual menagerie which included a laughing parrot whose forte was peals of hysterical laughter.Still, Brown is strongest on the poetry itself, which he methodically mines for fresh insights. And he's refreshingly open to scolding his subject when he falls short of his own gargantuan talents (even Responsibilities, which most Yeatsians consider a breakthrough into the poet's major, post-Celtic Twilight phase, gets some flack from Brown: "The several poems in which Yeats celebrates Irish beggary as a metaphor of the spiritual freedom the Irish materially minded moneyed class so signally lacks, are without purchase on much beyond the literary salon's version of mendicancy"). There are times, to be sure, when the author's prose bogs down a bit, and he's hardly aided by the publisher's eyeball-punishing type size. Yet Brown's Life of W.B. Yeats remains an enlightening account of how one Irish poet in particular did learn his trade--to a degree that most of his fellows are still struggling to match. --Ingrid Broun
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W.B. Yeats, widely regarded as the greatest English-language poet of the twentieth century, believed that the life of a lyric poet was an experiment in living that should be told. This new critical biography seeks to tell that story as it unfolded in the various contexts in which Yeats worked as an artist and as a public figure. It considers a career that began in the late Victorian world of 1880s and 1890s London, which involved a deep commitment to the life of an emergent Ireland in the twentieth century, disillusionment and the alienation from the modern world that made Yeats, who began as a symbolist poet, one of the major figures of the Modernist movement in the second decade of the century. A central focus of this study is Yeats's perennial pursuit of sacral power which he saw as being vested in traditional institutions. It examines how at various stages of his life he sought to acquire such power for himself in such institutions as a magical order, a nation, a theatre, the community of the dead, and, climactically, an occult marriage. The concluding stages of the book assess Yeats's final years as a crisis of that faith in institutions, which had hitherto sustained him in all he attempted. At the last only the institution of the verse itself retained its efficacy. This allows us to gain a much deeper appreciation of the poet's engagement with occult knowledge and power and with spiritualist illumination. It explores this problematic aspect of the poet's career as bearing on key elements in the experience of modernity: the roles of science and religion, the emancipation of women and the artistic representation of the body. In this book all Yeats's major works as poet and dramatist are considered in the contexts in which they came to be written and published.
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The Life of W. B. Yeats: A Critical Biography
Terence Brown Manufacturer: Blackwell Publishers ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000IMYIDU |
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The Reception of W. B. Yeats in Europe (The Athlone Critical Traditions)
Manufacturer: Continuum International Publishing Group ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0826459633 |
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Guide to International Subscription Agencies and Book Distributors
Manufacturer: WorldVu ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0971694915 |
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The Guide to International Subscription Agencies and Book Distributors is the single source for information about international subscription agencies and book distributors doing business around the world, in more than 100 countries and territories.The Guide includes information on the changes in the business environment that affect the international publishing industry - the Internet and the growth of Amazon.com and other on-line bookstores, the European Union and other trading alliances; the continuing mergers and acquisitions - what's happened to Swets Blackwell, RoweCom, Faxon, EBSCO, Lange & Springer and others; the new companies that have formed including the multinational divine Information Services; more on how to work with agents and distributors to get the most out of the relationships; and the basics on what international publishers need to know about International Distribution.
The Guide to International Subscription Agencies and Book Distributors can be a powerful tool for expanding the awareness of publications in foreign markets.
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Wall Street Money Machine, Volume 5: Free Stocks: How to Get the Market to Pay for Your Stocks--FREE!
Wade B. Cook Manufacturer: Lighthouse ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 189200867X |
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FREE! The word and concept have been the advertising foundation for billion dollar corporations, the heartbeat of huge marketing campaigns, and the nexus between companies and customers for eons. Now, New York Times best-selling author Wade Cook introduces the LOCC(tm) (Large Option Covered Calls) system -- a system that can generate 80% to 100% returns for traders who master it."...you read the title to this book: Free Stocks: How To Get The Market To Pay For Your Stocks--FREE!, and what do you think? Is there a catch? I'll be right up front and say there is, but it's not what you think. ... There is a way to get FREE STOCKS, which if you get to the bottom line meaning of FREE, is simply that you do not pay for your stocks yourself. I'm talking about quality stocks...you get to choose! You can be as diversified as you want. ... you can pretty much start with any amount of money....
"...this is not a get-rich quick-plan. This is also not some ambiguous, nebulous method that only a few people can master and use. It is also not a theory. It is an in-the-trenches, workable, cash flow stock market money machine. This plan takes a simple yet overlooked aspect of the stocks and options markets and puts it to full use. The results are dynamic and far-reaching." (Excerpt from the book.)
If you like the buy-and-hold strategy of investing, how do you get the money to pay for your stock? Wade Cook demonstrates how to get the market to pay for your stock with five to seven months using his NEW LOCC(tm) system.
In Free Stocks, you will find out about:
* Option Cycles And Market Makers
* How Implied Volatility Affects Option Pricing
* Buybacks And Rollouts
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* How To Put Volatility On Your Side -- Be A Seller, Not A Buyer
* When You Get Your Money
* Exploration Of Ways To Increase Gains And Reduce Taxes
* What To Do If The Stock Dips -- Make More Money!
And you simply must see Chapter 2 where the Stock Market Institute of Learning, Inc.(tm) will award $10,000 to the charity of your choice if you find one person who has attended our Wall Street Workshop(tm), used our strategies exactly as they are taught, and then lost money.
Purchase Wall Street Money Machine, Volume 5: Free Stocks: How to Get the Market to Pay for Your Stocks--FREE today! Learn how to start building the portfolio of your dreams -- for FREE! Each book includes the Audio CD 'Completely Retire in 10 to 12 Months' and two complimentary tickets to a three-hour Financial Clinic.
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Just picked up my copy today - great book on how to make BIG $$$.......2005-10-17
Impressed me!.......2005-10-16
ALL HYPE!! THIS BOOK IS LIKE ONE BIG INFOMERICAL .......2005-10-05
Powerful advice!.......2005-10-02
Fraud.......2005-04-28
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Workplace Bullying: A Costly Business Secret
Andrea Needham Manufacturer: Penguin Global ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0143018817 |
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Business Woman Takes On The Bullies.......2006-07-24
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The Rise of Cost-based Interconnect and the Collapse of International Accounting Rates
Stephen Young , and Parantha Narendran Manufacturer: Ovum Ltd ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: 189897229X |
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Development, Ngo's and Civil Society: Selected Essays from Development in Practice (Development in Practice Readers Series)
Manufacturer: Oxfam ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0855984422 |
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California Real Estate Principles: Year 2002
Sherry Shindler Price Manufacturer: Ashley Crown Systems Inc Pub ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0934772169 |
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Only if your class/course demand it.......2003-04-26
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How I Survived the Nashville Music Scene
Dave Kyle Manufacturer: Authorhouse ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0759665397 |
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A seldom seen peek through backstage doors of the Nashville music scene - warts and all. From the studios of Music Row to the stage of the Grand Ole Opry and the intimacy of tour busses on the road.Customer Reviews:
Confessions of a Bitter Curmudgeon.......2002-05-31
The remainder, (about enough material for a long-ish magazine article), gives us "shocking" insights into the Nashville music scene such as:
- some big name stars consider their band musicians as "hired hands" (aren't they??) and don't treat them very well
- most music producers, etc are more concerned about money than music
- fellow musicians are competitive about getting work
Oh no Dave! Say it ain't so!!. One of the most sensational stories here involves a female C&W star who had the unmitigated audacity to invite her band over for a barbecue, but then wouldn't let anyone in to go traipsing through her newly decorated house. That's about as shocking as it gets! If you are looking for the dirt on Nashville this book hasn't got enough to stick under your fingernail.
Also, throughout the book the author comes off as churlish and inflexible... I'm sure the business is as nasty and competitive in Nashville as he makes it out to be... but does he ever pause to reflect that he might have gotten more work if he was more of a "teamplayer"?
An interesting read if you are a guitarist specifically interested in this topic... but general readers should consult "Nashville Babylon" for juicier fare that doesn't hesitate to name names.
"How I Survived the Nashville Music Scene" entertaining read.......2001-12-24
The TRUTH about the music business........2001-12-24
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Blue Star over Red Square
Carmela Raiz Manufacturer: Feldheim Pub ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0873066162 |
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