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This collection of the very best annuals, perennials, bulbs, vines, groundcovers, shrubs, and trees for the prairie region of Canada and the northern plains of the United States is a must-have for all prairie gardeners. Included are colour photographs and detailed descriptions of 101 plants, as well as essential information about where and how to grow the plants, tips on companion plantings, bloom and colour charts, and "collectors' choice" sections describing many related and exceptional plants to tempt even the more experienced gardener. 101 Best Plants for the Prairies offers sound advice on how to make the most of your time and money when creating a beautiful garden. Gardeners from the U.S. and Canada shared their expertise and inspiration with authors and avid gardeners Liesbeth Leatherbarrow and Lesley Reynolds. The result is a well-researched, lively gardening guide that will allow you to plant with confidence in a challenging climate.
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Take it from someone who's suffered through interminable airport lines, been told a hotel is booked when it's not, rented a car only to get desperately lost, racked up hundreds of dollars in hotel phone charges, and lugged way too much stuff up and down the terminal—flying is no walk in the park. Business-travel veteran William J. Mitchell shares countless lessons he's had to learn the hard way in HASSLE-FREE BUSINESS TRAVEL, a handy guide to streamlining your travel routine. This essential companion is jam-packed with useful (and sometimes sneaky) advice to help you plan and negotiate your next trip as efficiently, comfortably, and smoothly as possible. Inside you'll find tips for each stage of planning and negotiating a business trip—from landing a good fare and comfortable seat on the plane to making the most of dining alone. With HASSLE-FREE BUSINESS TRAVEL at your side, you can let autopilot take over next time you're summoned to yet another sales meeting, conference, or convention.
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The Supreme Court Justices: A Biographical Dictionary (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities)
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Sweet Are the Uses of Adversity
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A Sweet Use of Adversity
Darryl Dymock
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Sweet Uses of Adversity (English Association)
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How to overcome defeat. This is a book of spiritual inspiration. It is an autobiography of the author who is 80 years old, blind and recently completed her college education. This book is filled with stories of farm life in Connecticut and Maine and chronciles the years of 1897 to the present. A book to inspire contemplation and the persistance to consider a new way of life.
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Train & Name Your Pup
Linda Rinehart
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TRAIN & NAME YOUR PUP Is a fast, easy, way to teach your dog obedience. It will show you how to housebreak him, how to stop him from chewing everything in sight, and how to stop him from jumping all over people when they come over. Training of all sorts. Plus a glossary of names to help you name it. And a list of most popular beeeds to help you pick the right dog that's just right for you!!
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The absolute basics for successfully training any dog.......2004-04-03
Train & Name Your Pup by Linda Rinehart is an extremely brief and simple basic primer concerning the absolute basics for successfully training any dog ranging from how to housebreak a puppy, to stopping a puppy from chewing up prized positions, and keep a puppy from jumping on guests. A glossary of ideal names and various breed characteristics will help the reader choose a dog that is right for him or her, in this quick-start, easy-to-follow, enthusiastically recommended guide which is simply perfect for new and first-time dog owners.
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Beautiful, One-of-a-Kind Art Quilts.......2006-07-24
The quilt projects in this book are gorgeous, original, and will inspire any quilter in new directions. Each section is interspersed with helpful mini lessons, paper patterns, quilting designs, and the author's photographs of nature and radial images that enrich the reader's understanding of the design process.
Great purchase.......2006-03-17
This is an excellent book and it was in excellent condition when it arrived.
Exciting Book........2005-07-20
This is a wonderful book. I learned many new things. It got my creative juices really flowing. Awesome, creative stuff with the techniques to carry it out.
Totally Gorgeous!.......2005-01-26
A lovely book! The quilts are gorgeous, the instructions are well written, easy to follow and very well laid out. The variations are wonderful. I cant wait to get started!
Beautiful and Easy.......2004-06-29
Lovely photographs, interesting text, and easy to follow directions. An inspiring book that will get your creative juices flowing.
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Wife loved it!.......2001-10-30
Wife loves it and is buying it for every new mother we know
This book is a family favorite!.......2001-02-12
I have three sons, ages 6, 4, and 2. We have all enjoyed the ideas and games in this book so well that I've started giving this book as a gift to new mothers. We've used all the recipes in here countless times, especially those for the various forms of play doh, bubble soap, and paint. I still turn to this book for inspiration on rainy, and sunny, days. I do think an improvement would be a spiral binding, as one reviewer suggested, so that the book would lay flat while in use, and I also agree with several of the reviewers who suggested that many of the song lyrics aren't very helpful without music. Having said that, the reason why I love this book best is that it helps me to foster the kind of homelife I envision for our family. My personal philosophy is that, as a society, we place too much emphasis on doing rather than being. Our young children are often signed up for multiple activities, from baby gymnastics to music class and swimming lessons, from the time they're 12 months old or even younger. Sometimes, for me, the tendency to "sign 'em up" comes from a feeling that they'll be "behind" all the other kids if they don't start T-ball by age 4; it also comes from a sense that I'll have fewer endless hours to fill for them, if they've got scheduled activities to attend. But I've come to realize that children need those endless hours of "down time" more than the activities. They need moments of spontaneous play, songs, giggles, rhymes, and cuddles. They need messy art projects, play dough and cookie cutters. And I've found that I enjoy our family life more when I spend the time playing with them at home, rather than arguing with each of them about getting into the car so we won't be late. Sometimes I skim through this book just to remind myself how quickly childhood passes, and to find one or two new inspirations (or even old, familiar inspirations)to try out during the day. Yes, there are ways in which it could be improved. But even as it is, it's an old friend our family wouldn't do without.
Excellent choice for first-time parents.......2000-08-02
I received this book as a gift when my first child was born and still refer to it occassionally for those "what can we do today?" times. Chapters are arranged according to appropriate activities ranging from birth to age 3 years. Most important to us were the ideas of what to do with your newborn. Topics in each chapter include MOVEMENT, MUSIC, WORD PLAY, OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES, QUIET TIMES AND INDOOR GAMES. There are also chapters on various entertainment media, toys and parties. This book is full of FUN things you can do with your baby. The only minus is that if you don't know the tunes to some of the songs, you'll have a hard time singing to your little bumpkin.
Not very inspiring.......2000-05-21
I must say I have very rarely referred to this book, or felt the need for it, BUT - on one or two occasions when the weather has been wet for several days on end, I have got it off the shelf looking for some "inspiration" in order to inspire the pre-schooler.
It is a bit mundane though, and you wonder whether anyone really needs a book to pint out that "zoos are marvellous for the whole family". If they do, perhaps they won't be reading the book. There are some titles of good books for young children, and they suggest asking the children's librarian at the local library for other suggestions.
I suppose there are parents out there who need taking by the hand and shown pretty obvious things, but somehow I don't think they will have wandered into the bookshop and chosen this title! It might be useful in parenting classes and high school child development classes. As a parent, I have NOT found myself poring over it looking for inspiration!
Not the best in its class.......2000-04-05
I didn't care for this book and returned it. My child is only 3 months old, and I didn't find much for her here at all. Lots of the text is devoted to nursery rhymes and songs. The rhymes you can get from other sources. A lot of the songs are obscure, and there's no music. Not too useful! In addition, I found that the manner in which the text was arranged didn't make the book user friendly. Games Babies Play is a better choice.
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Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal (Fine Art Series)
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Noa Noa: The Tahiti Journal of Paul Gauguin
ASIN: 0486248593 |
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Impressions from two years in Tahiti. Compelling autobiographical fragment. 24 black-and-white illustrations.
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Excellent translation........2005-09-09
Very readable translation. This is not the best edition if you want good reproductions of drawings. But in terms of getting a good text for a good price it's great.
I'm not really going to review the book itself as I assume most people who are here know that this was Gauguin's attempt to put together a what he hoped would be a best selling travelogue that would promote his art. He was hoping to cash in on the success of Pierre Loti's best seller the Marriage of Loti which was set in exotic Tahiti. It never made any money, but this is mostly because of it's idiosyncratic style. But for anyone interested in Gauguin's Tahitian experience it's great. Also check out his intimate journals which came out posthumously and cover also his life before Tahiti.
It's actually an experimental novel.......2002-09-15
Typically considered a journal or memoir, Gauguin's book is in fact an early type of experimental multimedia novel. Thematically, Gauguin burlesques Pierre Loti's "Marriage of Loti", while structurally he interleaves narrative with his own highly-inventive Post-impressionist woodcarvings. It's a fine book: Gauguin could have been a great novelist, if he weren't already busy.
A Unique Opportunity.......2002-01-26
Though you may quarrel with Guaguin tactics or motivations, his art stands alone--brilliant, moving, subtle. It is always intriquing to hear the voice of a master painter and "Noa, Noa," affords that opportunity.
Noa Noa.......1996-07-18
Contemplations visual, intellectual and spiritual. In 1891, French painter Paul Gauguin fled to the island of Tahiti - "a sixty-three days' voyage, sixty-three days of feverish expactancy;" begun as an unofficial visit regarding the imminent death of the island's king Pomare -- and resulting in a profoundly moving sea-change (spirit, observation, happiness). The Tahitian theology, natural history, and especially the progress of his relationships - a gift.
This is a good book to read BEFORE embarking on your "desert island" voyage, but beware! Hard to top once you're there on some other island. An exceptional journal, with a graceful translation (it seems) by O. F. Theis from the French. Rated 9 (needs more color plates of paintings! but a lovely, portable paper edition)
Other recommended travel/discovery books:
Off the Map: Bicycling Across Siberia, by Mark Jenkins. 1993 HarperPerennial pb.
Letters from Iceland, by W. H. Auden & Louis MacNeice. 1990 Paragon House pb.
Why Come To Slaka? by Malcolm Bradbury. 1991 Penguin Books pb.
Travels With Lizbeth (writing/homelessness), by Lars Eighner.
The Starship & the Canoe (Freeman Dyson & son George)
Bird of Jove (falconry), by David Bruce. 1994 Texas A&M pb.
The Earthsea Trilogy, by Ursula K. Le Guin
Ishi (anthropology/Native American history), by Theodora Kroeber
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Noa Noa: The Tahiti Journal of Paul Gauguin
Paul Gauguin
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In 1894, Paul Gauguin left what he considered to be a culturally bereft Europe to live an unfettered life in a tropical paradise Tahiti. It was there that he produced some of his most beautiful and best-known paintings, as well as another masterpiece: this enchanting journal. Complete with sensuous woodblock prints and sketches, this exquisitely designed edition first published by Chronicle in 1994 and now reissued with a beautiful new jacket is still the only translation to contain all of Gauguin's richly colored illustrations of the Tahiti diary. Including Tahitian myths and legends, affectionate tales of Gauguin's encounters with the captivating Tahitian people, and fascinating glimpses of the inspiration behind his most famous paintings, Noa Noa assumes its rightful place among the masterworks of an extraordinary artist.
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Paul Gauguin history.......2007-09-21
This was very interesting reading just before going to the South Seas. Wonderful to see the islands as he saw them and described them in this journal. Well worth reading!
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Paul Gauguin
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In 1894, Paul Gauguin left Europe to spend two years in Tahiti, where he produced some of his most beautiful and best-known paintings. But he also created another masterpiece that has languished in obscurity for nearly 100 years: a detailed, entertaining journal and the sensuous woodblock prints and sketches made to accompany it. In this exquisitely designed edition, Chronicle Books is proud to publish together for the first time the evocative text and richly colored illustrations of Gauguin's Tahiti diary. Including Tahitian myths and legends, affectionate tales of Gauguin's encounters with the beautiful Tahitian people, and fascinating glimpses of the inspiration behind his most famous paintings, Noa Noa now assumes its rightful place among the masterworks of an extraordinary artist.
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Understanding Gauguin.......2002-10-25
This is a lovely book... and, brief though it is, helped me to understand more about Gauguin's reasons behind his actions. I read it at a perfect time - when the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NY was holding one of their most important exhibits on Gauguin and featured his wood cuts. It's a colourful, passionate and painful journey.
A Great Little Book.......2000-12-07
This is a great book detailing a few pages from his journal. It has great wood-cut reprints and is a quick read. It puts you into the spirit of Tahiti.
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