Principles of Angiosperm Taxonomy

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Principles of Angiosperm Taxonomy
P. H. And V. H. Heywood Davis
Manufacturer: D.Van Nostrand
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 0050008242

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Principles of angiosperm taxonomy
P. H Davis
Manufacturer: R. E. Krieger Pub. Co
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: 0882751298

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PRINCIPLES OF ANGIOSPERM TAXONOMY.
P.H. & Heywod, V.H. Davis
Manufacturer: Oliver & Boyd
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000LQBY76

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Open up a can of Chicagoland bike rides. Let 'em spill out on the table where you make your most crucial decisions. Get a map out. Okay, where's it gonna be? The first rails-to-trail conversion in the country? Mountain biking in Wisconsin? How about the Chicago Botanical Gardens? Maybe a city ride into the Historic Prairie District? Or down into the wonders of Hyde Park? Even better, how about a trek clear across the state for a ride along the Mississippi River? All it takes is a plan and a push. Sometimes it's hard to get away. It's difficult to leave all that's going on at work and home. That's why this book is important: it makes getting to the outdoors as easy and enjoyable as possible, getting you out the door with a plan. Each ride includes precise written directions, excellent route maps, level of difficulty, mileage, safety tips, availability of food and facilities, and vivid descriptions of points of interest. No matter what your experience level, you'll be sure to find the perfect ride in this book!

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Not 100% accurate but a nice compact guide to Chicago bike trails.......2006-08-28

It's a nice book, BUT sloppily edited. For example, we just went on the ride by the Skokie Lagoons. The books says to take I-94 north to Golf Road; guess what? there's no Golf Road exit. One has to go to Old Orchard, go west to Harms Road (which is shown on the map as Harris Rd.) and then turn south again and go down to Golf. Once there, the books says to park in the Chick Evans Golf Course parking lot. This necessitaes a 3/4 mile bike ride back to the trail-head, on a supremely busy 4-lane street, with no bike lane and hardly any shoulder.

Given that one passes parking areas along Harms Road, in the Forest Preserve, right by the trailhead, this made NO sense. These parking areas are closer and safer...so why aren't we directed to park there instead?

I am looking forward to more biking in and around Chicago this fall, but I'll doublecheck driving directions before I go.

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What happens when the mayor of Sault Ste. Marie decides one day to become the city administrator, then breaks the law half a dozen times while getting the job? He keeps it of course, with the full support of the majority of the community, because he is The Best Man for the Job.

This compelling book explores the why and the how of civic corruption in a Northern Ontario city. The story begins in the late 1980s, when the official languages policies of Pierre Trudeau, Brian Mulroney, and David Peterson collided with the Sault's deep-rooted resistance to bilingualism. The man at the centre of the uproar over the city's infamous English-only resolution was Mayor Joe Fratesi, whose unwavering support for the resolution made him a wildly popular local hero.

Unfortunately for him, it also killed any chance of his being appointed a judge, which sent him looking in other directions for career advancement. In 1995 he spotted another job he wanted, this one under the control of the city council he had dominated for years. He went for it, breaking the law repeatedly in the process, plunging the Sault into a bitter two-and-a-half year political and legal battle over ethics in public office.

Harvey Sims was one of the Sault residents who fought Fratesi's appointment through the court system. In The Best Man for the Job, he provides a sobering account of his home town's dysfunctional politics, greed, intimidation, lawbreaking, and contempt for basic standards in public office.

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Great book for info on the past and present Welsh Springer

Excellent text. Very helpful and highly enjoyable!

Welsh Springer Spaniel (World of Dogs)
Anne Walton
Manufacturer: TFH Publications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

Breeds | Dogs | Animal Care & Pets | Home & Garden | Subjects | Books
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Welsh Springer Spaniel 2007 Wall Calendar

ASIN: 1852791128

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Great book for info on the past and present Welsh Springer.......2004-12-31

This book is an exceedingly good book for information on the Welsh Springer Spaniel. There are large chapters on the past of the breed (the way the WSS originated). There is also a chapter on deciding whether or not a Welsh is a good dog for your family. If you are considering judging a WSS, this book has color photos of the author (an ex-judge) judging the breed. It also talks about how to groom a Welsh Springer, including before, during and after color photos of the breed being trimmed. I thoroughly recommend this book to Welshie fanciers, young and old.

Excellent text. Very helpful and highly enjoyable!.......2000-01-21

Really enjoyable book with great photographs and super histories of the welsh springer's introduction into several coutries, including the United States. Very readable and highly recommended.

Welsh Springer Spaniel (Comprehensive Owner's Guide)

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Welsh Springer Spaniel (Comprehensive Owner's Guide)
Haja Van Wessem
Manufacturer: Kennel Club Books
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Binding: Hardcover

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Dylan\'s Endeavour
John Roe
Manufacturer: Trafford Publishing
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Binding: Paperback

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A shy, young dog left with a dog-sitter in downtown Toronto while his owners are in South Africa, takes off and tries to find his way home. Resisting all attempts at capture, he undertakes an odyssey that lasts 5 1/2 weeks until his owner finds him miles away in a dramatic Disney-like ending.

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Welsh Springer Spaniel (Pet Love)
Haja Van Wessem
Manufacturer: Interpet Publishing
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Binding: Hardcover

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Welsh Springer Spaniel 2007 Wall Calendar

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Beautiful Welshies

Welsh Springer Spaniel 2007 Wall Calendar

Manufacturer: Pet Prints, INC.
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12" x 12" wall calendar

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Beautiful Welshies.......2007-01-06

I thoroughly enjoy looking at the photos of the Welshies in my 2007 Calendar. The pictures are taken in natural settings and show the beautiful red and white coats and vibrant personalities of the dogs.

The springer spaniel (Popular dogs' breed series)

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The springer spaniel (Popular dogs' breed series)
Dorothy Morland Hooper
Manufacturer: Popular Dogs Publishing Co
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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Springer Spaniels (Dogs Set VI)
Nancy Furstinger
Manufacturer: Checkerboard Books
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Binding: Hardcover

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really interesting breed history

The Welsh Springer Spaniel
William, III Pferd
Manufacturer: Oak Tree Pubns
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0498018466

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really interesting breed history.......2000-11-01

This is a really interesting and informative book about the history of the Welsh Spring Spaniel from its beginning as a separate breed around 1900 up to the time the book was published. Although it also gives training information, don't buy it for that reason - the training information is quite out of date and somewhat brutal by modern standards. But the breed history information is great! I also really love the pictures of Welshies from the last century. Unfortunately, this book out of print (I managed to get a copy from my British in-laws).

Welsh Springer Spaniel 2006 Petprints Calendar

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Welsh Springer Spaniel 2006 Petprints Calendar
Petprints
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Welsh Springer Spaniel 2008 Wall Calendars

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Welsh Springer Spaniel 2008 Wall Calendars
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ASIN: 1846623332
Release Date: 2007-06-10

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Each large format calendar features 16 months and 13 full color photographs with plenty of room to write special dates, birthdays and anniversaries on the calendar grid. Size: 12x12

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A bible for the southern gardener.......2006-02-22

I've lived all my life in the north, and so I know northern gardening well. However, I moved to southeastern N. Carolina 3 years ago, and discovered that it's a whole different world for gardening, given the intensity of heat and humidity. Plus, in New England I learned how to make plants grow in rocky soil. Here the trick is to get anything to grow in sand.

This was the first garden guide book I bought, and four more followed - and this is the only one I constantly use. I've landscaped my entire yard based on its advice. It gives all the common shrubs, shows what they look like in color pictures, offers information on the kind of soil they like (acidic, sandy, well drained, etc.), light requirements, which bugs they're vulnerable too... I lost the book when I left it at a garden center accidentally - and I immediately came to Amazon to get another copy.

For information on growing southern shrubs this is the place to go.

Southern Living Garden Guide Shrubs.......2000-06-20

This is a good resource guide for anyone who has questions about shrubs. The planting guides, soil requirements, watering tips, sunlight needs, etc. all play a big factor in the success of any plants, especially the ones that require a little extra care for outside growth.

Southern Living Garden Guide: Houseplants, Vegetables, Trees, Shrubs, and More

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Southern Living Garden Guide: Houseplants, Vegetables, Trees, Shrubs, and More
Southern Living Magazine
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Southern Living Garden Guide Trees (Southern Living Garden Guides)

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Glenn Morris
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Great concept

Unfortunate Title Masks a Book that Has So Much Heart

It Could Have Been Called "Editor Wars"

Sensationalized title but solid book

Sobering, Profound and Moving.

Mommy Wars: Stay-at-Home and Career Moms Face Off on Their Choices, Their Lives, Their Families
Leslie Morgan Steiner
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The Motherhood Manifesto: What America's Moms Want - and What To Do About It

ASIN: 0812974484
Release Date: 2007-02-27

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With motherhood comes one of the toughest decisions of a woman’s life: Stay at home or pursue a career? The dilemma not only divides mothers into hostile, defensive camps but pits individual mothers against themselves. Leslie Morgan Steiner has been there. As an executive at The Washington Post, a writer, and mother of three, she has lived and breathed every side of the “mommy wars.” Rather than just watch the battles rage, Steiner decided to do something about it. She commissioned twenty-six outspoken mothers to write about their lives, their families, and the choices that have worked for them. The result is a frank, surprising, and utterly refreshing look at American motherhood.

Ranging in age from twenty-five to seventy-two and scattered across the country from New Hampshire to California, these mothers reflect the full spectrum of lifestyle choices. Women who have been home with the kids from day one, moms who shuttle from full-time office jobs to part-time at-home work, hard-driving executives who put in seventy-hour-plus weeks: they all get a turn. The one thing these women have in common, aside from having kids, is that they’re all terrific writers.

Pulitzer Prize winner Jane Smiley vividly recounts how her generation stormed the American workplace–only to take refuge at home when the workplace drove them out. Lizzie McGuire creator Terri Minsky describes what it felt like to hear her kids scream “I hope you never come back!” when she flew to L.A. to launch the show that made her career. Susan Cheever, novelist, biographer, and New York Newsday columnist, reports on the furious battles between the stroller pushers and the briefcase bearers on the streets of Manhattan. Lois R. Shea traded the journalistic fast track for a house in the country where she could raise her daughter in peace. Ann Misiaszek Sarnoff, chief operating officer of the Women’s National Basketball Association, argues fiercely that you can combine ambition and motherhood–and have a blast in the process.

Candid, engaging, by turns unflinchingly honest and painfully funny, the essays collected here offer an astonishingly intimate portrait of the state of motherhood today. Mommy Wars is a book by and for and about the real experts on motherhood and hard work: the women at home, in the office, on the job every day of their lives.

From the Hardcover edition.

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Great concept .......2007-07-16

But it got a bit repetitive after awhile as all of the excerpts were from writers, many who attended ivy league and lived on the east coast. What happened to the single mom from Deluth who had to work her way though business school or the mom of twins from Seattle who gave up her career as an nurse to be at home for her kids? I think the concept for this book is a good one but I think it needed more of a variety of women, both economically, geographically and education wise.

Unfortunate Title Masks a Book that Has So Much Heart.......2007-05-08

Mommy Wars: Stay-at-Home and Career Moms Face Off on Their Choices, Their Lives, Their Families is a gut-wrenching collection of 26 essays that go far beyond the usual tirades of working versus stay-at-home moms. The authors in this collection shine a spotlight on the essence of motherhood in chapters that will have you nodding your head, rolling your eyes, even shedding tears.

The writers, including Pulitzer Prize winner Jane Smiley and Lizzie McGuire creator Terri Minksy, run the gamut in their approach to motherhood. One mother wanted to work, but her husband made her feel so guilty that she walked away from a lucrative assignment. Another woman put away her briefcase upon learning her son's diagnosis of autism.

Other women could not imagine not working, including the book's editor, who had an abusive first husband and needed to know she could always provide for herself and her kids.

The stories in this book are fascinating. One black woman, married to a white man, calls herself "bicultural". She writes that historically, black women have worked to augment their husband's salaries. Her black friends never ask her about being a working mother; her white friends constantly discuss it. Another writer says that affluence contributes to the "mommy wars", because the working class, well, work, without so much handwringing.

The essays carry many common themes. Was your own mother happy, or not? Was your childhood happy, or not? Would you want you as your own mother? Are your choices working for you? Because if so, then it doesn't matter if another's choices are different.

This is a book that drives home how hard women are on one another, when they should be compassionate. It also stresses the fleeting years we have with young children, and how we need to be prepared for our lives post-kids.

Iris Krasnow, who is credited for kicking off the stay-at-home trend in 1997, writes about having older kids, kids heading off to college, and how time has mellowed her views.

"Who will I be when they're gone?" she writes. "What am I supposed to do with 126 Beanie Babies, including the Princess Diana bear we paid fifty bucks for and waited in line three hours to buy? My later book...explores the importance of developing ourselves beyond our families. Children do leave. Parents die. Jobs change. We can count only on ourselves."

This is a book all parents, fathers and mothers, should take to heart.

It Could Have Been Called "Editor Wars".......2007-04-14

This book is really pretty good, both informative and entertaining, but I don't think every essay needed to be written by a high profile professional writer or editor, most of whom wrote for The Washington Post or TV shows at some point in her career. That got old. I mean, how many people would rave about a similar book with mommy essays written by a bunch of lawyers, for example? I wish the author had mixed it up some.

Sensationalized title but solid book.......2007-04-03

Let's face it: the title of this book was chosen to exploit the whole media hype surrounding women at odds with each other-- in this case, a stay-at-home mommy vs. working mommy version of "Mean Girls." Open up the book though and you'll find a completely different message. The essays presented here are unflinchingly honest, no holds barred accounts of how stay-at-home moms and working moms really feel about their choices. There is no cat fight to be found here, which is a refreshing relief.

Some of the criticisms of this book have been that all the women are writers. That's not actually entirely true; while most of the women work or have worked in some form of media/publishing/writing, there are still others represented. The problem is that when looking for women to write essays that are going to be well-written, enlightening and enjoyable, it would be hard to randomly assign essays to women in all different fields-- you just wouldn't know what you would get. When you assign an essay to an established writer, you know you have a much better shot at getting something good. That said, I still felt that although the women represented here were largely writers, their feelings on motherhood and working (full-time and part-time) were completely universal. True, most of the moms represented here were also middle to upper middle class and therefore their decisions to work or not were largely internal and matters of self-esteem rather than financial necessity, but their guilt and/or ennui were just as powerful as anyone's. And several of the stay-at-home mothers did report that the decision to stay home did impact their finances negatively (although not direly) and tough financial decisions had to be made.

As for the essays themselves, most of them were excellent, but the themes did tend to get a bit repetitive at times. The book could have easily been 50-100 pages shorter and not suffered at all. There were several "perpective" essays that I imagine the editor included for variety, but which didn't necessaily belong in the group and only served to make the collection feel too long. For instance, there were two essays by women who don't yet have children which the author set up by asserting that though these two don't have children yet, they have a lot to say. The fact of the matter is that anyone who has kids knows that no matter how you thought you'd feel before having kids, it has little or no bearing on how you feel after having them. You just cannot intellectually prepare yourself for motherhood and how you will feel once you're holding that little baby in your arms. There were also a couple of irritating essays, like one by a working mother who feels so not guilty and is so tickled pink by her mothering skills, that it just doesn't feel honest at the end of the day. Not as compared to the other essays by women who bared their hearts and souls. There was also a "feminist viewpoint" essay by a woman who is now a grandmother which really shed no light on anything. But those essays were the clunkers in a series of wonderful, illuminating essays, where every page turn is another "a-ha! I feel exactly the same way!" moment.

This book does an excellent job of presenting both sides of the equation in a way that both sides can understand and empathize with. The stay-at-home moms can discover that the busy, self-important looking working mom is really torn as she drops her kid off at preschool and can't stay to schmooze with the other moms, and the working mom can discover that the smug seeming, "I'm better than you" stay-at-home mom is often bored out of her skull having to spend all day entertaining a toddler. The book is also enhanced tremendously by the editor's two essays which bookend the rest, wherein she admits to her own insecurities about her choices.

The women in this book stand by their choices, but pass no real judgement on others' choices, preferring to turn the light inwards and explore how being a working or stay-at-home mom makes them really feel. Though most are content with their decisions, they have no problem listing the pitfalls along with the highlights of the consequences of their choices. The Mommy Wars are not with each other, as it turns out, but within each of us.

Sobering, Profound and Moving........2007-03-29

It's a decision all mothers face, at least in theory. For many, of course, staying home is not an option. But even when it is, life doesn't become perfect overnight - especially when one is "working from home," the third reality for mothers.

Steiner's title would have us believe we're going to watch an argument. Instead, we're treated to thoughtful, thought-provoking essays by a wide variety of mothers and journalists. Sobering, profound and very moving.

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Ewan McGregors Well Gorgeous.......2001-08-17

This book is well good, i read it in like a day, its hard to put down, The pictures of ewan inside are well nice, hes sooooo good looking!!!!

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