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Wonderful textbook for botanists and flora enthusiasts........2000-06-11
"Shrubs of the Great Basin" is a wonderful, extensively informative textbook for individuals interested in identifying shrubs throughout the southwestern United States. Organized by family, this is a wonderful textbook for botanists and flora enthusiasts. Fleischmann incorporates historical and detailed information not typically unearthed in field guides. In addition to illustrations of each species, the author includes 24 pages of wonderful photographs of numerous shrubs detailed throughout the text. Overall, an excellent and informational book.
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An engaging, well-illustrated natural and cultural history of the oldest living organism—the bristlecone pine. Illustrations by Valerie Cohen.
Since Edmund Schulman discovered in 1958 that individual bristlecones live nearly 5,000 years, the trees have been investigated primarily for the elaborate record their rings contain.
The trees have been "read" closely, with major consequences for natural and human history. Historians have read local and global environmental change. Archaeologists have rewritten the history of civilization. Writers have transformed them into figures pertinent to the human dilemmas of time and eternity. A Garden of Bristlecones investigates professional and popular conceptions as a set of narratives drawn from the outside and from the inside of the trees. It reveals the premises of the investigators, the nature of their inquiry, and the extent of their knowledge, while also revealing the Great Basin bristlecone itself.
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- Travel guide, history lessons, and engaging storytelling!
- A Happy Surprise
- The definitive guide to the Brandywine Valley
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Brandywine Valley: The Informed Traveler's Guide : Chadds Ford, Kennett Square, West Chester, Wilmington
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The Brandywine Valley is an increasingly popular tourist destination offering a wide variety of attractions. This insider's guide covers the region's rich history, natural beauty, and cultural diversity. Information on things to do, places to stay, where to eat, and special events makes it an essential companion to anyone visiting the area.
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Travel guide, history lessons, and engaging storytelling!.......2004-03-28
Sharon Hernes Silverman's book is aptly titled -- after you read it you will certainly be an "informed traveler!" I live within an hour of the Brandywine Valley, and yet I had no idea of the richness of the area in terms of historical significance, wealth of museums, gardens, lodgings, and other attractive visitors' sites. Silverman's book is extremely well written -- engaging, well-organized, crisp, and extraordinarily thorough! There are also over 100 beautifully shot photos that add exclamation points to the book's already clearly portrayed "verbal images" of Chadds Ford, Kennett Square, West Chester, and Wilmington. If you're interested in exploring the Brandywine Valley, this book provides the answers to all your questions -- it's all you need. I thoroughly enjoyed this book simply on its literary merits, and I am looking forward to taking advantage of its guidance when I start taking day trips to the Brandywine Valley. Get this book! You will have fun, you will learn, and you will be expertly pointed in all the right directions.
A Happy Surprise.......2004-03-12
Having lived in the vicinity for 70 years, I thought I knew a lot about the attractions of The Brandywine Valley. This book, however, showed me that I had just scratched the surface.
The book in wonderfully interesting, providing rich history for each of the many subject locations, together with practical information for visitors . . . excellent directions, hotel information, etc. The author's style is engaging, and some of her "asides", such as a discourse on puzzling variations in the spelling of names, are delightful.
And, finally, this modest paperback is beautiful . . . loaded with splendid photographs. I dare say that if it were published with a hard cover, it could become a coffee table item!
The definitive guide to the Brandywine Valley.......2004-03-12
This book is a great guide to the popular Brandywine Valley area that straddles the Pennsylvania-Delaware border. Visitors to the region and local residents will both find it to be an interesting and valuable resource.
One useful feature of the book that is not mentioned in the editorial reviews is its companion website, www.BrandywineGuide.com, which provides updates to the information in the printed guidebook.
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- Ben Weider's
- Very Compelling, I just couldn't put it down.
- Ben Weider delivers ground-breaking evidence!
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Napoleon : The Man Who Shaped Europe
Ben Weider , and
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Napoleon: The Man Who Shaped Europe is a controversial and convincing biography about Napoleon Bonaparte, one of the most extraordinary political and military leaders the world has ever known. Although Weider has written other books about Napoleon's life, this one explores the mystery and controversy surrounding his illegitimate birth, the reasons for his bad reputation, his civic and military achievements, his philosophy and character, and the recent discovery of the actual circumstances surrounding his murder by poisoning. With new and ground-breaking evidence, Weider shows that there is still much to learn about Napoleon, including his relationship with Louis Charles Rene de Marbuef, Napoleon's true father and Governor of Corsica. The authors assert that Napoleon was not the cruel and emotionless dictator most believe him to have been. Rather, he was a reasonable, self-confident, and intelligent strategist, organizer, legislator, writer, thinker and founder of great institutions.
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Ben Weider's.......2002-06-26
What shocked me above all, reading this book was the complete lack of objectivity manifested by the author. It seems Napoleon can do no wrong and this is emphasized by the constant need for the author to justify the Emperor's actions, by way of asking rather childish questions and making easy assertions, bordering on sophism. The overall feeling we get is Mr. Weider's need for historical "revenge" and the need to clean Napoleon's name. The autor wants to make us see Napoleon as a martyr, a man who was not a conqueror and made war out of strict necessity. This book is neither intended for neophytes, as it glances too rapidly over key historical moments, nor is it intended for experts, because of its biaised approach to the main protagonist and simplistic approach to events. The writing style is dry, almost newspaper-like and fails to carry the reader. Finally, although Mr. Weider theory of assassination is interesting, recent discoveries have discarted his theory. Overall, a deception.
Very Compelling, I just couldn't put it down........2002-04-27
I find Napoleon fascinating and the book excellent. From what I read, I certainly now believe Napoleon was misunderstood and his death misdiagnosed. Ben Weider has changed history forever with his groundbreaking evidence that Napoleon was murdered and his research shows that there is still much to learn about Napoleon. I learned a great deal about not only Napoleon, one of the world's leading men, but of the happenings in Europe during his era. When I first saw this book available for sale, I could not wait to read it. I am really pleased that I bought it!!
Ben Weider delivers ground-breaking evidence!.......2002-04-27
Napoleon: The Man Who Shaped Europe by Ben Weider helped me understand Napoleon better than any other book. It is so clearly written and very compelling, I just couldn't put it down. Numerous biographies of Napoleon are available, but this work is the most straightforward, convincing biography I've ever read. Napoleon Bonaparte's character and achievements have always divided critics and commentators, but in this new book by Ben Weider, I felt I have "met" a Napoleon that is totally different from all the other books I've read. Weider has established his credentials as one of the most evocative of popular historians. It's a must read!!
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Dans le sillage de Bougainville et de Laperouse
Yves Cazaux
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Definitive edition of La Pérouse's journal.......2005-07-26
Fascinating reading for anyone interested in 18th-century exploration, or in the Enlightenment, or in the clash between supposedly enlightened values and real-life with encounters with non-Westerners. Jean-François de Galaup de la Pérouse was appointed to lead an expedition to "complete" the work of Captain Cook. The voyage began well enough but met with various disasters, and eventually ended tragically in the Solomon Islands. La Pérouse's account of the trip is entertaining, instructive, and also filled with poignancy, as the reader knows from the outset that it will all end in disaster. The translation is very readable, and the very thorough introduction and appendices fill in the gaps. Like so many British publications, alas, this suffers from poor copyediting; there are silly typos everywhere. But a fine thing for the libraries of fans of French explorers and naturalists.
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L'Enigme Lapérouse
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La genereuse et tragique expedition Laperouse
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Laperouse
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Le Voyage De Laperouse Sur Les Cotes De L'Alaska Et De LA California (Johns Hopkins University Press Reprints)
Jean F. & Chinard Gilbert Laperouse
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World Wildlife Patterns for the Scroll Saw: 60 Wild Portraits for Lions, Pandas, Koalas, Gorillas and More (Scroll Saw Project Books)
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Scrollers of all skill levels will delight in these scroll saw patterns that celebrate wildlife from around the world. Sixty patterns for 45 species of wildlife are provided, including antelope, elephant, gorilla, jaguar, kangaroo, koala, lion, monkey, panther, seal, tiger, whale, and zebra. Each of the patterns has been carefully drawn with crisp, black cutting lines, making the patterns easy to follow. A smaller, black-filled image details the cuts. The patterns are arranged alphabetically by species and a six-page gallery featuring finished animal scroll saw patterns is included.
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- A man who knows his gorillas
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Dixson: the Natural History of the Gorilla (Cloth)
A DIXSON
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A man who knows his gorillas.......2002-01-12
This is a very rewarding reading! Dixson sure has done some great work and he didn't forget any details, still chose well from the plentiful information and doesn't bore us in a single page. Although the book has been written some time ago and many questions it raises have in the meantime been answered by new technologies, the content stays actual. Most impressive how Dixson faces the task of presenting often rather boring results (comparison of physiology of different primates) in a manner that resembles a science fiction book. If you want to learn a lot about gorillas without having the feeling of actually doing 'study' work, you shouldn't miss that book!
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In quest of gorillas,
William K Gregory
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Explorations and Adventures in Equatorial Africa: With Accounts of the Manners and Customs of the People, and of the Chase of the Gorilla, the Crocodile, ... Elephant, Hippopotamus, and Other Animals
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This digital document is an article from E, published by Earth Action Network, Inc. on September 1, 1996. The length of the article is 1012 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.
From the supplier: Africa's few remaining mountain gorillas are in anger of extinction, in large part due to the civil war in Rwanda. Some 10 gorillas have already been killed since the start of the conflict. Refugees are also starting to invade the areas long considered as the animals' habitat.
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Title: Caught in the crossfire: the legendary mountain gorillas of Rwanda are in danger of being lost in the mists.(Currents)
Author: Amy Gulick
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Date: September 1, 1996
Publisher: Earth Action Network, Inc.
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Issue: n5
Page: p14(2)
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This digital document is an article from Children's Digest, published by Benjamin Franklin Literary & Medical Society, Inc. on January 1, 1995. The length of the article is 907 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: EarthWise: meet the mountain gorilla.
Author: Martha L. Blume
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great book.......2000-06-28
This is a great way for beginning coin collectors to learn the proper techniques, and also has great details about the Statehood quarter program and the design process. I love collecting these quarters, it really is interesting to learn about the early moments in state histories.
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SEX. Splashed across magazine covers, billboards, and computer screens--sex is casual, aggressive, and absolutely everywhere. And everybody's doing it, right? In Real Sex, heralded young author Lauren F. Winner speaks candidly to Christians about the difficulty--and the importance--of sexual chastity. With honesty and wit, she talks about her struggle to live a celibate life. Never dodging tough terms like ''confession'' and ''sin,'' Winner grounds her discussion of chastity first and foremost in Scripture. She confronts cultural lies about sex and challenges how we talk about sex in church. Her biblically grounded observations and suggestions will be especially valuable to unmarried Christians struggling with the sexual mania of today's culture. Real Sex is essential reading for Christians grappling with chastity and a valuable tool for pastors.
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Catchy title worth the read.......2007-09-20
Given the perspective of the author I found this book to be very realistic while still getting God's perspective about sex. The author comes from a non-Christian upbringing and adulthood has a valuable approach and authority from experience. While I don't completely agree with everything she wrote the vast majority of her points I do find much more attainable to the Christian culture than "I Kissed Dating Goodbye".
For the practice of the virtue of chastity.......2007-08-06
The quotation by C.S. Lewis found in the early pages of this book really captures the purpose of a book like this. Lewis remarks, "Chastity is the most unpopular of the Christian virtues." For this reason, and for the fact that it is also a very difficult virtue to practice, and for the fact that church sponsored abstinence programs have had disappointing success rates, AND for the fact that our culture is doing everything to discourage the practice of this virtue--we have this excellent book by Lauren Winner. As one who came to Christianity after having become accustomed to premarital sex as part of her dating life, Winner continued this practice in her early experience as a Christian. The church should be dismayed that, according to her report, it offered little in the way of accountability or support in the practice of the virtue of chastity. Her book aims to in some part fill this void.
Perhaps some of the most insightful portions of this book are the chapters on "Lies the Culture Tells Us About Sex," and "Lies the Church Tells Us About Sex." Here she dispels some of the untruths that the world uses to disconnect sexuality from marriage and procreation, and that we can indulge in apart from commitment and without consequences. She addresses the issue of dress and modesty in relation to the practice of chastity, and the positive allure of the hidden. And she unveils the damaging effects of the cultural lie that sex must always be earth-shattering and adventurous, and that meaningful and passionate sex cannot happen in the routine of marriage.
When it comes to the church, she unveils some myths that the church has propagated in its eagerness to defend chastity. While often well-intentioned, these myths have sometimes served to discredit the church in the minds of those who have transgressed sexually, and discovered that premarital sex doesn't always make you feel guilty (though it certainly can). Further, that women, not only men, are sexually driven beings, and finally, that bodies are not "gross, dirty, or unimportant." Winner does a fine job of exalting the good gift of sexuality and the embodiment of love through it, as a tremendous good that God has created for the use of His creation. However, most importantly, she exalts this gift of sexuality in the context which God created it to be used--marriage. Her entire book is undergirded by a positive and biblical view of sex and marriage, and this theology of sexuality is foundational to her book. One of the quotations that really stuck in my head, was the fortuitious statement of biblical truth that occurred in the movie Vanilla Sky (not worth seeing, btw), where a woman remarked: "Don't you know that when you sleep with someone, your body makes a promise whether you do or not?" This is a rather striking way of stating the truth that St. Paul writes in 1 Corinthians 6:15-20, that sexual intercourse inevitably creates a one-flesh union between man and woman.
Perhaps one of the most unexpected surprises of Winner's book was the way she talked about private confession and absolution. She talked about the consolation and release she discovered in privately confessing her sins to her pastor, and hearing the words of Christ's grace and forgiveness personally spoken to her. While this didn't suddenly transform her behavior in a miraculous way, it did help her with the unburdening of guilt. When she returns to the matter of confession later in the book, she aptly states that whether done before a pastor or another Christian, confession "puts us in the company of people who can speak truth in love to us, about our sin, about the need for amendment of life." This point about her book should be underscored again--that the sins and failures in practicing the virtue of chastity, that burden so many people, are burdens that can be and are lifted by the strong arms of Jesus Christ, who bore our sins on His shoulders to the cross. It is in the strength of His forgiveness that single Christians are emboldened to walk forward in new life, practicing chastity in the present, until the time should come when they can enjoy the God-given gift of sexuality in marriage. Much more could be said about this excellent book, including her practical advice on learning the walk of chastity, but I will leave it at that and urge you to read it for yourself.
False Premises.......2007-07-31
This book is a bizarre neo-Puritanism, all predicated on the distorting false distinction between "real" sex and other forms. Only someone deeply alienated from Nature and Nature's God could presume that the source of most sexual pathology--Christian dogma--could be its only source of legitimation. Everything she says about relationships between two can be better realized in relationships of three or four.
a well-written, currently framed apologetic for chastity.......2007-07-11
For some months now I've been paying attention to recent Christian works on sex, marriage and the family. After reading a couple of dozen volumes in succession, I have reached at least one firm conclusion: Lauren Winner's Real Sex is stand-out, brilliant. Although not as broad ranging as some and not as theologically cast as others, still, no other contemporary book comes close to addressing chastity as clearly, forthrightly and convincingly as does this one. Informed by Christian tradition, governed by scriptural teaching and aimed squarely into today's world, Winner's apologetic for chastity (including fidelity within marriage) is nothing less than a Godsend. To be quite clear, if you are a pastor, a campus minister, a youth worker, mentor or counselor, you need to be familiar with this book and have it available for others to digest. If you are a single Christian struggling with chastity or a married Christian committed to monogamy but grappling with the lure of past misadventures, you also can benefit by absorbing this helpful book.
Real Sex is composed of nine reasonably succinct and very well written chapters. The first, a candid introduction drawing from the author's own sexual history, serves immediately to orient the discussion toward helping people to actually practice chastity. Here is the true burden of the book: not to add to the barrage of voices calling younger Christians to simply "zip up" and to "wait;" but to positively help us all inhabit chastity. Winner writes: "I have tried to articulate both the biblical vision of sex and the honest difficulties of living in this vision; I have tried to sketch both the tragedy of living outside the biblical vision and the hope for living within its bounds."
Following the introduction, the main body falls into two parts. Chapters' two to five provide the reader with a biblical frame of reference for thinking about human bodies and sexuality. Writing with freshness and verve, Winner stays away from proof-texts and stale condemnations. She doesn't preach to us but helpfully leads us to the place of seeing that sexual autonomy is not all that it is hyped up to be and not what God desires for us. Unlike many who take up the genre of Christian moral instruction, Winner offers us the compliment of embedding the moral truth she has to deliver in the larger narrative of creation and fall. The gospel too, is an equally important part of what grounds her exposition of the body, of sex and marriage. Sparing us any talk of sex being `dirty' or debased, Winner rejoices in the truth: sex is good, sex is a gift, and sex has a context. No doubt Winner's ability to balance telling the truth with a compassionate and empathetic tone will gain her a great many hearers. Certainly I cannot imagine anyone leaving off reading this book thinking that they personally are being judged or attacked.
Chapters six through nine follows through on the promise of the introduction. Here there is a much more practical focus. Pornography, masturbation and premarital sex are discussed in a frank but even-handed way. Moral formation, chastity and pre-marital abstinence are likewise treated. At no point does Winner chide her readers who may have succumbed to these sexual disorders; but at no point does she fudge the standards of our Maker or hide the difficulty of conducting ourselves sexually to the glory of God. That said, she certainly does offer help. Winner's emphasis on the church as a community working towards chastity, speaking well of sex, and actualizing the love of God, is a very powerful incentive toward practicing chastity. Further, Winner's open acknowledgment that Christian men and women do want guidance concerning physical boundaries is to be commended. That she is then able to offer some very concrete advice on "where to draw the line" (without falling into prudish preferences or straight out legalism) is to be applauded. Personally, I feel her chapter six on line-drawing and formation is pretty much worth the price of the book. It contains very helpful material.
Although she is deeply aware that chastity is at odds with the dictates of our culture and the orientations of our own desires, yet Winner knows what she believes about sexuality and why. In offering this gentle and insightful volume, Lauren has graced us with something of substantial valuable: a well-written, currently framed apologetic for chastity that is rooted in the practical call of Jesus to follow Him and to sin no more. Do yourself a favor, read this book, begin the daily discipline of appropriating its wisdom, and then pass it along for another to read.
An Honest and Straightforward Book.......2007-01-10
Lauren Winner has a great way of presenting arguments for chastity in a no nonsense manner, addressing many concerns and misconceptions that many have about sex whether they are misconceptions that come from our society or misconceptions that originate from within our churches. A truly great book among many average to bad books that address this topic.
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Title: Sexuality in contemporary Christianity.(Book Review)
Author: Wayne A. Holst
Publication:
National Catholic Reporter (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 20, 2005
Publisher: National Catholic Reporter
Volume: 41
Issue: 29
Page: 11a(1)
Article Type: Book Review
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Joe Frisco: Comic, Jazz Dancer, and Railbird
Manufacturer: Southern Illinois University
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
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Crosby, Bing
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ASIN: 0809322412 |
Book Description
This biography of vaudeville comedian Joe Frisco captures the world of show business in its transition from the heyday of vaudeville through film and radio to the early years of television.
As Paul M. Levitt tells us, Joe Frisco in his day was so famous for his jazz dance that F. Scott Fitzgerald mentions him when describing one of Gatsby’s parties: "Suddenly one of these gypsies in trembling opal seizes a cocktail out of the air, dumps it down for courage and moving her hands like Frisco dances out alone on the canvas platform."
Seeking to reintroduce this spontaneous and original wit to us, Levitt transforms the manuscript left by Frisco’s fellow entertainers Ed Lowry and Charlie Foy into a book as entertaining as the great comic himself. It follows Frisco’s career from his beginnings in Chicago on the midwestern circuit, through his New York heyday in vaudeville theatres and nightclubs, to his final years in Los Angeles when first film and then television came to dominate show business. Lowry and Foy, both vaudeville insiders, describe Frisco’s world, with its hotels, theatres, restaurants, clubs, racetracks, and, not least, its famous people—Flo Ziegfeld, W. C. Fields, Walter Winchell, George Jessel, Bing Crosby (who contributed the foreword to this book), even William Randolph Hearst.
Ed Lowry bought a mail-order course at fourteen, taught himself to dance, and launched a half-century career in theatre. Charlie Foy, the second child in the family troupe known as "Eddie Foy and the Seven Little Foys," shared an apartment and the stage with Joe Frisco for several years.
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A Royal Conflict: Sir John Conroy and the Young Victoria
Katherine Hudson
Manufacturer: Hodder & Stoughton
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
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ASIN: 0340607491 |
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