Taxonomy, phylogeny, and biogeography of Baccaurea, Distichirhops, and Nothobaccaurea (Euphorbiaceae) (Blumea)

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For this updated edition of the classic Parkway trail guide, Leonard Adkins has rehiked many of the trails, reworked the descriptions of their physical features, added new trails, and deleted trails that have closed. The book includes hikes for every skill and interest level, from five-minute "leg-stretchers" to overnight hikes. In addition to trail length and difficulty, Adkins notes points of interest and natural features to be found along each trail.

Customer Reviews:

Best hiking guide to the parkway.......2004-07-27

My wife and I have just come home from a 3 week trip along the entire parkway. We started the trip with Hiking the Blue Ridge Parkway, but ended up buying Walking the Blue Ridge at one of the visitor centers. While Hiking was ok, we found Walking the Blue Ridge to be the better of the two. It was very easy to use, easy to find information, and full of wonderful tidbits. The way the mileage data was set up in a vertical way made it very easy to use while we were hiking the trails, simple to always know where we were. In the Hiking book we had to wade through a lot paragraphs just to match up the descriptions with where we actually were on the trail. Also, it was obvious that the author of Walking the Blue Ridge had actually walked every one of the trails he was writing about. It was also nice knowing that it gave descriptions of every one of the trails along the parkway, even if it was just a short pathway; the other book neglected some that we found to be truly delightful. In addition, its smaller weight and size made it much easier to carry while on the hikes.
All in all, we were happy to have found Walking the Blue Ridge and will be using it often.

Get out of the car and walk the Blue Ridge Parkway.......2003-11-11

Designed as a "drive awhile - stop awhile" recreational road, the Blue Ridge Parkway is the most visited unit in the National Park Service. It has 17 million visitors a year as compared to 10 million a year for the Great Smoky Mountain National Park. But the Parkway is more than a beautiful drive; it is also a good base from which to hike. Adkins describes all the ways that we can get out of the car as we explore the Parkway. From a leg-stretcher to a view of Glassmine Falls Trail to the eighteen miles of the Shut-In Trail, Adkins gives a contextual introduction to the hike as well as step-by-step directions. He rates each hike from an easy leg-stretcher to strenuous.

My only objection to the rating is that the author considers too many hikes as strenuous. For example, Adkins labels the Snooks Nose Trail, eight miles round trip and described as "not well-maintained and hard to locate" as strenuous. The two-and-a-half mile round trip hike up to Mt. Pisgah, on a clear, well-marked trail, is also rated as "strenuous". Hikers will have to decide what strenuous means to them. Ratings aside, the book is necessary to anyone looking for a variety of hikes in the area. The appendices are also a wealth of information. He lists every feature on the Parkway along with its mileage, all the inns and campgrounds as well as a roadside bloom calendar

Don't visit the Blue Ridge Parkway without it!.......2002-09-22

The Blue Ridge Parkway, almost 450 miles long, connects Shennandoah National Park in Virginia with Great Smoky Mountains National Park astride the North Carolina - Tennessee border. In between it traverses some of the most beautiful mountain areas in North Carolina and Virginia. Although it provides splendid views from the road itself and from its many roadside overlooks, it is much more than a scenic drive. It is a ribbon of land administered by the National Park Service, at several places broadening into wider mini-parks. All of those parks as well as various other spots along the parkway's route have hiking trails that give visitors a closer look at the many natural wonders there. This book, as a comprehensive guide to those trails, is the one most indispensable guide to getting beyond your car and the overlooks in this remarkable National Park Service land. All of its official trails are rated in this book as to difficulty, from very easy to quite strenuous. Thus there are ample hikes for whatever level of wilderness adventure you're up for. Each hike is described in details, with points of interest described in the order you'll encounter them, with mileages to each from the trailhead. Some hikes described herein also get beyond the parkway's own lands, into National Forest lands that border the parkway in many places, as well as occasional adjacent commercial attractions such as Grandfather Mountain. Any visit to the Blue Ridge Parkway should be quite rewarding, and this book is one of the best resources for making it even more so, showing that you'll never be very far from places to park and take a walk for a more intimate view. And you definitely should sample at least some of the shorter and easier walks, if not the longer or more challenging ones, depending on what you're up to. This parkway is a natural treasure well-worth exploring, and this book may well be the quickest way to learn that there is so much more there than meets a casual eye.

A great companion.......2002-09-17

for a day trip, a weekend trip, or a long vacation. We have hiked and camped in several of the places mentioned. I have lived in NC all of my life and did not realize there was such enriching trails and escapades off the parkway. I wish I had known about this book while attending WCU! Take it with you, it is very worthwhile.

Don't Visit the Blue Ridge Parkway without it!.......2002-08-31

Customer Reviews:

reads more like historical fiction.......2007-06-20

the author's evident admiration for the subject destroys any faith in the objectivity
of his writing...if read as fiction by someone with a limited background, it could be
enjoyable.

A Tremendous Contribution.......2007-02-27

Taibo's book on Ché is monumental. It distresses many North Americans to discover a Ché Guevara who does not conform to the popular (and erroneous)belief systems so prevalent in the States. Taibo pays little attention to the myths and a lot of attention to facts, and weaves the information into a cohesive -- and verifiable -- story about this extraordinary person. You do not, however, want to drop this book on your foot: it's a monster...probably weighs a kilo, anyway. But the content is as solid as is the book itself; and more to the point, it is a much more human, much more aware history of Ché than any of the other Ché bios that I have encountered, in either Spanish or English. Even if you don't read the thing, but just carry it around to build up your arm muscles, having the book on the table at a restaurant or a coffee-shop can be fun: people react to it in interesting ways, as one might expect...you soon understand why there are so many Ché t-shirts and so few Henry Kissinger t-shirts, that's for sure. This thing is a tour de force, worth every penny. It may take some time to finish it, but it is worth the work to do so. You may become more haunted by Ché's vision and his results, but you will also become more understanding of him and his time...and better able to understand the tremendous changes that he brought (and continues to bring)to Latin America and the West in general. Not to be missed; and if you're lucky, you can find a copy of "Sueños Rebelde" to go along with it. Good luck, and good reading!

The most enjoyable of all Che's bios.......2002-10-25

In the US, Paco Taibo II is better known within the mystery readers' crowd for his accomplished police stories with a touch of irony and a shrewd writing style. For this reason with certain apprehension I started reading this biography. In fact it was the first complete and serious Che's bio I have ever read. Later I grabbed Jon Lee Anderson's one... Of all Che's bios Paco's is the most enchanting one. It may lack the huge documention of Anderson's book, but it compensates it with an amazing style. Paco cannot divorce his own admiration of Che from his subject, but, hey, that is exactly why this book becomes so much enjoyable. I still recall grabbing the book (700 hundred pages!) one morning and going that same night to bed with the book in my hands! I couldn't stop reading it! Che's story is reflected under the light of an amazing storyteller. The episodes of Che's story are exquisitely threaded together in a masterful way. His life becomes flesh and blood in Paco's hands. The icon, the symbol of rebellion and struggle for social justice turns a man, an incredible, passionate and admirable human being throughout the book. The end cannot be better: it is ghostly but hopeful with a lot of energy and sadness and beauty: a song to Latin American history of struggle.

Ernesto Guevara, también conocido como el Che

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The Most Enjoyable of Che's Biographies
Alive
viva el capitalismo
No lo lei
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Ernesto Guevara, también conocido como el Che
Paco Ignacio II Taibo
Manufacturer: Editorial Planeta, S.A. (Barcelona)
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Binding: Paperback

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The Most Enjoyable of Che's Biographies.......2003-05-10

Alive.......2002-06-16

Che Guevara was here before he was born. Che Guevara is still here after his assasination. He represents the highest feelings andconcepts on justice, rebellion and freedom against any kind of tirany. That's why his photo is world-spread by palestinians, puertoricans, cubans, mexicans, germans, koreans. That's why his life of sacrifice and example can't never be erased.

VOS SOS EL CAMINO, NOSOTROS LOS CAMINANTES.

viva el capitalismo.......2000-05-11

el que es explotado lo es porque quiere...el que es pobre lo es porque quiere....no quieren salir adelante...a menos que vivan en Cuba.FIDEL...NO SEAS MAMON,,,

No lo lei.......2000-05-11

Pero...El COMUNISMO NO DEJA DE SER COMUNISMO...Que tiene que ver fidel , el che y el sub comediante marcos en eso ? CIRCO ! ELLOS ESTAN EN CONTRA DE LA OPRESION...pero tienen a la gente reprimida..por favor que las universidades se deje de tomar como heroe a alguien...que inicio la guerrilla...paramilitares y otras mas...LA FAR..EZLN...ELN...ETA...Y OTAS..!

synopsis and review.......1999-09-07

Paco Ignacio Taibo II: Ernesto Guevara, tambien conocido como el Che

Taibo, con acceso a documentos previamente inéditos y a través de intravistas personales con "qienes mejor le conocieron" esperaba pintar una imagen de un Che genuino, "más alla del mito." Es un libro detallado que cuenta la historia de una persona real; una persona errante, con timidezes, con miedos, idialista, soñador, y fiel a sus sueños y ideales. La fuente más importante con que cuenta el libro es el mismo Che, pues esta lleno de citaciones actúales de los diários y artículos y cartas personales de él. Taibo, con el toque de novelista, narra una historia del joven Guevara, de su facinación con los burros, de sus debilitantes ataques de asma, y viajes por bicicleta recorriendo todo el Argentina. Un joven atrevido, determinado, y lector. Trata de un hijo de padres aristócratas quien a través de la experiencia lectoral y vivida se daba cuenta de la injusticia del mundo. Veía a sus amigos de la sierra, hijos de mineros y obreros, veía luego a los indigenas de Bolívia, Perú, Colombia, Guatemala y como la gente se abusaba de ellos. Llego a creer que la causa de la justica era el capitalismo, y más importante, el imperialismo de Norte America. Veia la presencia de los Estado Unidos en todos los países latinos. Quisá el ejemplo más obvio de eso fue en Guatemala donde Ernesto estaba viviendo durante el golpe de estado cuando los E.E.U.U sacaron al presedente Arbens, amigo del Che, y apuntaron a Pinoché. El Che, al mudarse a México, conocio a unos cubanos quienes le hablaban de un Fidel Castro y a quien, poco tiempo despues, conocio también. Allí se tomaban clases de estratégia y se juntaban armas. El Che y Fidel se hicieron buenos amigos. Despues de estar encarcelado y haber perdio todas las armas varias veces, la pequeña revolucion, que habia acceptado al Che como médico de la excursion, embarcó a Cuba en un pequeño yate: el Granma. Taibo narra la hitoria de la revolucion desde la perspectiva del Che y de los que le rodeaban. Duante esta etapa del libro se conoce un Che fuerte, el primero en materle a alguien en la revolucion, un triador que habia informado al ejercito cubano de la posicion rebelde varios veces. Y el Che conocido por los campesinos como alguien que "viene a quitarnos de encima las desgracias, el hambre, el churre y la miseria" y un comandante que jamás esperaria algo de uno de sus soldados que "no estararia despuesto de hacer el mismo." Luego Taibo se vuelve hisotriador con una documentación de la constructión de un sistema economico complejo y justo, lleno de detalles y figuras actuales de como andaba el cambio a un país socialista bajo la supervisión de un médico-comandante-ministro de industria: Che. Con un manuscrito del proprio Che, Taibo fue el primero en saber exactamente como se sentia el Che durante su "año de silencio" en el Congo. El logró reportar como el Che soportó el fracaso en África. La vida, y más que nada, la muerte del Che esta nublada en el misterio. Gracias a los poderes narrativas y los esfuersos del autor de mostrar a un Che geuino, y el acceso que él tenia a documentos del mismo Guevara, Taibo ha podido sacar a luz muchos de esos misterios. Aunque algunos quizá nunca se resolverán, una cosa se queda claro: El Che era una persona real quien no temia seguir sueños e idiales, quien nunca dejo de pelear por la verdad en la cual creia. Gracias a este libro el Che vive.

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Ernesto Guevara Tambien Conocido Como El Che/ernesto Guevara Also Know As El Che
Paco Ignacio, II Taibo
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Ernesto Guevara, Tambien Conocido Como El Che
Paco Ignacio, II Taibo
Manufacturer: Editorial Planeta
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Ernesto Guevara: Tambien Conocido Como El Che
Paco Ignacio II Taibo
Manufacturer: Planeta, Editorial J. Mortiz
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000RBYBY8

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great storytelling.......2004-11-13

...when you are looking at the cover of this book by this veteran comix artist you may wonder whether he has gone out of his famous and remarkable style and beacme more mainstream. Well, rest assured, he did not. This fine volume of Jackson historical revisionism is every bit as good as his prior famous works, e.g. "Comanche Moon" and others. This time again it is Texas, but Texas of Reconstruction era, one period of our history that has not been fully explained and is usually taught very one-sided at the universities at al. Here, Mr. Jackson attempts and is successful in giving us a point of view that the conquered Confederate Texas might have held. Since these were times of sudden change and brutality, thus there is violence, more violence, rivalry, racial prejudice, social strife, medeival-like vendetta cycles, poverty - all told with astonishing and refreshing detail and precision of this veteran underground comix artist. Necessarily, this one is a very controversial angle of the Reconstruction era, the subject and theme being loaded with racial and social prejudices and hatred that Hardin and his kind might have had and it seems that they in fact had. This is not for the politically correct folks, but rather for those who seek to find out some reasonable explanation and to gain deeper foundation in order to gain the feel of what might have been like during those hard times in Texas. Finally, Mr. Jackson tells his story while maintaing the most amazing attention to every possible historical detail( as every personality, their guns, clothes and other period material culture items and pieces are acurately portrayed albeit drawn in his unique graphic style). One may ask what more is to ask about this work that is both the finest graphic storytelling and a fine example of reasonable yet passionate historical scholarship.

The Good (cover), The Bad (text), & The Ugly (artwork).......2000-05-14

Intriguing, romantic cover that captures the Westerner's imagination. Too bad the cover artist didn't write & illustrate this book (really a comic book as "graphic novel" would be a complimentary exaggeration). Text is apologist history, weak on facts, thick on excuses for Hardin's murderous tendencies. Hardin doesn't get to his infamous gunfighting career until page 86, so "Lost Cause" doesn't even work as a traditional Western romp. Artwork inside is crude featuring stiff, exaggerated characters that make "Pokemon" look like Rembrandt. "Lost Cause" doesn't work as history or entertainment. If you are interested in Hardin, check out Leon Metz's or Richard Marohn's bios or even Hardin's autobiography. As for "Lost Cause," save your money--the cover is the best part & you've already seen that.

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15 Historical Romance Titles By Virginia Henley: A Woman of Passion; Bold Conquest; Desired; Dream Lover; Enslaved; Enticed; Hawk & the Dove; Insatiable; Pirate & the Pagan; Raven & the Rose; Ravished; Seduced; Undone; Unmasked; Wild Hearts (Set of 15)
Virginia Henley
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000WNNV06

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7 Titles By Johansen - Touch the Horizon - Tempest At Sea - One Touch of Topaz - No Red Roses - Wicked Jake Darcy - Bronzed Hawk - The Blue Velvet
Iris Johansen
Manufacturer: various
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
ASIN: B000T9SNGA

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Multiple books shipped as one item for your convenience. Save on Shipping/Handling charges.

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Hawk's flight
Helen Rose Hull
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ASIN: B00005XFCS

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Hawks and Roses
Jim Ure
Manufacturer: Gibbs Smith
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Spirit of the Hawk (Saga of the Lost Lands-Vol. 3)

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Spirit of the Hawk (Saga of the Lost Lands-Vol. 3)
Rose Estes
Manufacturer: Spectra
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BLOOD OF THE TIGER (Saga of the Lost Lands, Vol 1)

ASIN: 0553274082
Release Date: 1988-08-01

15 Romance Titles By Virginia Henley:1 A Woman of Passion 2 Bold Conquest 3 Desired 4 Dream Lover 5 Enslaved 6 Enticed 7 Hawk & the Dove 8 Insatiable 9 Pirate & the Pagan 10 Raven & the Rose 11 Ravished 12 Seduced 13 Undone 14 Unmasked 15 Wild Hearts (Set of 15)

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15 Romance Titles By Virginia Henley:1 A Woman of Passion 2 Bold Conquest 3 Desired 4 Dream Lover 5 Enslaved 6 Enticed 7 Hawk & the Dove 8 Insatiable 9 Pirate & the Pagan 10 Raven & the Rose 11 Ravished 12 Seduced 13 Undone 14 Unmasked 15 Wild Hearts (Set of 15)
Virginia Henley
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Binding: Paperback
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A History of the Pioneer Families of Missouri, with Numerous Sketches, Anecdotes, Adventures, Etc., relating to Early days in Missouri. Also the Lives of Daniel Boone and the Celebrated Indian Chief Black Hawk, with Numerous Biographies and Histories ....

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A History of the Pioneer Families of Missouri, with Numerous Sketches, Anecdotes, Adventures, Etc., relating to Early days in Missouri. Also the Lives of Daniel Boone and the Celebrated Indian Chief Black Hawk, with Numerous Biographies and Histories ....
Wm. S., & Rose, Robert Bryan
Manufacturer: St. Louis, MO: Bryan, Brand & Co., 1876 [Published By Lucas Brothers, Columbia, MO, 1935]
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000TND17M

SAGA OF THE LOST LANDS: Book (1) One: Blood of the Tiger; Book (2) Two: Brother to the Lion; Book (3) Three: Spirit of the Hawk

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SAGA OF THE LOST LANDS: Book (1) One: Blood of the Tiger; Book (2) Two: Brother to the Lion; Book (3) Three: Spirit of the Hawk
Rose Estes
Manufacturer: Bantam Spectra
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000NRVECS

Storage of Natural History Collections: A Preventive Conservation Approach

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Storage of Natural History Collections: A Preventive Conservation Approach

Manufacturer: Society for the Preservation
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Kaffe Fassett's Quilt Road

Wonderful!

Kaffe's new book is a winner!

Exquisite and exciting designs in Quilt Road

Kaffe Fassett's Quilt Road
Kaffe Fassett
Manufacturer: C&T Publishing
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Passionate Patchwork: Over 20 Original Quilt Designs

Glorious Patchwork

ASIN: 1904485405

Book Description

•Twenty magnificent quilts from the master of color

Kaffe Fassett shares his remarkable sense of color with readers as he shows them how to combine fabrics to create stunning quilts. Quilters at every level will find a favorite among the twenty spectacular projects, created with designers Janet Bolton, Keiko Goke, Hilda Krohg, and Roberta Horton. Join Kaffe Fassett as he travels this enchanting quilt road!

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Kaffe Fassett's Quilt Road.......2007-07-20

I was very happy with this book. A prompt delivery and it arrived in good condition. This is a truly beautiful book full of lots of colour and inspiration.

Wonderful!.......2007-01-18

I loved this book. The quilts are so colorful, and very easy patterns. Nothing terribly complicated, and yet with magnificent colors that give you many new ideas to do in the future. In general I like Fassett's books because they are fearless in the use of colors.

Kaffe's new book is a winner!.......2006-07-10

I love the overly-patterned new quilts in this book by Kaffe Fassett and Liza Prior Lucy. I can't wait to get started on them!

Exquisite and exciting designs in Quilt Road.......2006-02-25

A truly stunning quilting book. In Quilt Road, Kaffe has achieved even more exciting designs. His use of colour and blending of fabulous fabric is amazing. His work is a breath of fresh air into the quilting world. Nothing boring here! It has the potential to appeal to all ages including the modern younger person. Beautiful photographs illustrate these wonderful designs. Also recommend his Museum Quilts (inspired by the V and A museum) book.

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The City and Town Gardener: A Handbook for Planting Small Spaces and Containers
Linda Yang
Manufacturer: Random House
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Binding: Paperback

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The City Gardener's Handbook: The Definitive Guide to Small Space Gardening

ASIN: 0679760261
Release Date: 1995-03-21

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Here is the definitive guide for gardening in small spaces and containers, covering planting, design and maintenance. As delightful as it is comprehensive, this book is written with the warmth, enthusiasm, and clarity that since 1979 has distinguished Linda Yang's columns in the Home Section of the New York Times. It will inspire gardeners coping with the limited confines of a small backyard or front garden, patio, balcony, doorstep, terrace, rooftop, or deck. Handsomely designed and eminently readable, with many color photos.

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Critics' Choice: Voted One of the Year's Best Books by Publishers Weekly

With 64 pages of color photographs, black-and-white drawings throughout, and an updated list of 100 sources of plants and supplies

Here is the definitive guide for gardening in small spaces and containers, covering planting, design, and maintenance. As delightful as it is comprehensive, this book is written with the warmth, enthusiasm, and clarity that since 1979 has distinguished Linda Yang's columns in the Home Section of The New York Times. It will inspire gardeners coping with the limited confines of a small backyard or front garden, patio, balcony, doorstep, terrace, rooftop, or deck.

Reviewers From Coast to Coast Praised the Original Hardcover Edition

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This essential reference book, with over 400 warning signs of more than 250 life-threatening diseases, puts an E.R. doctor in your home!

Heed the signs. Find out when your body is crying out for help.

When is a headache just an annoyance...and when is it a symptom of a life-threatening condition?  When is it crucial to get to a doctor within the next few days, hours, or even minutes? This potentially lifesaving guide pinpoints more than 400 symptoms and gives you the information you need to spot a serious medical problem before it's too late.

Utilizing the expertise of three physicians, it highlights your body's red light warning signals: Injuries, fever, pain, and rashes may all require immediate medical attention. Even a nosebleed can become deadly. What are the signs of trouble? You can get the answers fast with a book that is the next best thing to having a doctor in the house.

Find out:
When an allergy is life threatening
Why "night sweats" could be the sign of a serious infection
What potentially fatal illness causes the fingertips to swell
What symptom nearly always warns of meningitis
The one problem during pregnancy that ALWAYS needs a doctor's immediate attention

Plus  essential pregnancy and pediatric tips... Special information for the elderly and chronically ill... And much more!

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Saved my Life!!! A must read for EVERYONE!.......2006-08-11

This book literally saved my life. I experienced an excruciating, pulsating headache, worse than any migraine I've ever had. I was turned away from the emergency room, told it was just stress or anxiety. I knew something more was wrong so I decided to research my symptoms. According to this book, the headache was a sign of bleeding in the brain. Terrified, I went back to the emergency room and demanded a CT Scan. After 6 hours of arguing with doctors & nurses, including threats of callinga social worker for me, they finally gave me one. (I think to shut me up!) They discovered a 2 cm growth in my left temporal lobe that was bleeding internally. I was operated on a few days later, and I'm now at home recovering. As a mother of two small children, I cannot imagine the consequences if I had not read that tip!

True Life Saver!!!!!!.......2006-03-02

Its amazing to read this book and then after years of dealing with doctors, to finaly fix whats wrong. This is a truely awsome book, I recomend it to anyone who has a bad doctor!!!!

The Eyes Don't Have It........2003-07-27

This book is not comprehensive. I looked under the eyes section for the symptoms of seeing spots and lightning flashes (a sign of a detached retina), and there was nothing about it. This is a serious warning sign by your body that could lead to blindness unless you get laser treatment immediately, but this book says nothing about it.

Every home should have this book........2000-08-27

Very informative, well researched, and easy to understand. This book could save your life!

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Marc Chagall (1887-1985) epitomized the "painter as poet" with work that was steeped in mythology and mysticism, portraying colorful dreams and folktales deeply rooted in his Russian Jewish origins. No 20th-century artist approached him in popularity, and the full range of his work is on display in this richly illustrated Spanish-language entry in the Basic Art series celebrating major artists.

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The happy painter of images!.......2006-05-09

His muse was Bella. He celebrated every anniversary of his wedding with a picture in which he and her appeared.

"The inner world is perhaps, more real than the visible world.", affirmed once.

Almost all his work have consisted in love pictures, sinuous fantasies that seemed to disorient the spectator, where birds, quadrupeds and fishes join to a Ode to Joy. His chosen colors acquire vivid tunes of the rainbow; with them variegates details such tress curdled with exotic flowers, a horse that plays a violin, hen' s eggs inside a gold' s nestle, or a cow that jumps on the ceiling of a house.

You will also see, the his famous etched plates to illustrate the Bible as well as his famous pictorial motive on the roof of Paris Opera.

This detailed and splendid biography has everything you request. "The three candles" has always been one of my favorites works of this notable artist.

It' s pleasantly illustrated with abundant information and wonderful reproductions. Go for it without dilation.

The painting made poetry!.......2005-04-17

The first little detail that called me powerfully my attention was the his birth date: July 7, just twenty seven years after Mahler's birthday. He was a poet, an individualist, and a lonely artist. Absolutely divorced from this almost genetic standpoint to follow the road about the traditional slave art's autarchy, however, he will always maintain the essential roots of his Jewish ancestors. The vanishing perspectives of the most of his works would seem a dreamy pattern, challenging and daring all kind of conventionalism.

"It must no paint pictures with symbols. When an artwork is really authentic, exist by themselves symbolism in it". That sharp reflection is so narrowed linked with a Robert Bresson 's statement: "Let the facts lead to the feelings and not vice versa"

Consider his most famous painting: The three candles, where the lovers couple defy not only the gravity 's acceleration, but are by themselves a real breakthrough with the oppressed human beings. The sad harlequin and the tragic red, the couple is just so far from being happy, they weep the invisible presence of the implacable menace. There' s an incisive line in Fassbinder' s Maria Braun in which she says in imperceptibly to her sister: "All the happy persons seem to be some vulgar, when one is unhappy".

Particularly interesting are the mythic cycle between 1975 and 1977 with those admirable motives. Icaro and Orpheus' myth.
Admirably investigative work and abundant in excellent reproductions of the most selective work of this singular painter.

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Chagall, Spanish Edition
Jacob Baal-Teshuva
Manufacturer: Numen
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Binding: Hardcover

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Henry Miller once described Marc Chagall as a "poet with the wings of a painter." The pages of Chagall are filled with images that prove the writer's words true. Though Chagall is remembered primarily as a painter, his artistic vision expressed itself in many other forms, including sculpture, mosaics, and the stained glass windows that grace the Art Institute of Chicago as well as synagogues and churches in both Europe and the United States. The volume affords readers glimpses of his profligate work as well as the opportunity to follow Chagall as he moved from his early years in Russia to Paris, the United States, and back to France. During that time, his painting flirted with the various art movements around him--surrealism and fauvism most notably--but his dominant themes remained constant throughout the seven decades that he made art. Chagall's mysticism, his deep religious sentiment, and his playfulness are revealed in the hundreds of full-color images lushly reproduced in this volume. The commentary provided by Chagall scholar and friend Jacob Baal-Teshuva expertly guides readers through the artist's various moods and media and underscores the passion of belief and feeling that informed all of his artwork.

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This complete record of Marc Chagall's art spans his early work in Russia and the monumental pieces of his old age. Page after page of rich reproductions capture his use of intense, glowing colors and the unique world he created full of magic, enchantment, and fantasy.

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Short, but still very sweet.......2005-04-01

This book collects some of Chagall's works, mostly paintings, but also mosaics, stained glass windows, and the ceiling of the Paris opera (stunning), into sections describing different parts of his life and career.

The text was intersting and illuminating in very few words, which was good, because that left more room for full-color plates of Chagall's brilliant works! I could just stare at each one for many minutes and get more out of it with each minute! The man was a genius. And the plates are pretty high-quality, so it's easy to really enjoy them.

The only reason I did not give this book five stars was I thought it was a little short, considering the scope of Chagall's work. It would be difficult, indeed, to produce a book that would be completely comprehensive, and maybe the author had a page limitation because of the series he was writing for, but I sure would have liked to see more works presented.

I have some other books on Chagall in the queue: one on watercolors and gouaches, and two books of lithographs. I'll report back on those once I've read and gazed at them.

It's a sticker book.......2000-12-08

I'm not sure what this other reviewer is talking about, it has to be for another book and it ended up here. This isn't really a "book" it's just a bunch of stickers. They're nice stickers though - little reproductions of some of Chagall's artwork. Pretty high-quality as far as stickers go.

The most wonderful book about Chagall.......2000-04-26

This is the most wonderful book about Chagall I've ever seen. The colorful and beautiful illustrations made me so exciting. The colors are fantastic compared with other books about Chagall. I recommend this book for any Chagall fan confidently. Though it has something to be desired because of being written in Spanish instead of English, this is only for you!

Fabulous book!.......1999-12-10

This is an extraordinary book for every Chagall fan. The quality of illustrations is just wonderful, and if you had only one book to buy on Chagall, this is the one! Don't worry, its not heavy at all; in fact, I would have added more and more pages of never-been-seen work of this incredible artist. The illustrations are colorful, vivid and beautiful, and the biography is very well written and complete. Strongly recommended!

Beautiful!.......1999-10-04

a little heavy. but a should-have for any chagall fan

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Autobiographies I - I Knock At The Door; Pictures In The Hallway; Drums Under The Windows
Sean O'casey
Manufacturer: Carroll & Graf Publishers
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Autobiographies I: I Knock at the Door, Pictures in the Hallway, Drums Under the Windows
Sean O'Casey
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Autobiographies 1: I Knock at the Door, Pictures in the Hallway, and Drums Under the Windows
Sean O'Casey
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