Eagle's 100 shrubs & climbers of New Zealand: Companion volume to Eagle's 100 trees of New Zealand : botanical paintings & notes

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Eagle's 100 shrubs & climbers of New Zealand: Companion volume to Eagle's 100 trees of New Zealand : botanical paintings & notes
Audrey Lily Eagle
Manufacturer: Collins
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ASIN: 0002169320

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Eagle's 100 trees of New Zealand: Companion volume to Eagle's 100 shrubs & climbers of New Zealand : botanical paintings & notes
Audrey Lily Eagle
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ASIN: 0002169339

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Eagle's 100 Shrubs & Climbers of New Zealand (Companion Volume to Eagle's 100 Trees of New Zealand), Botanical Paintings & Notes
Audrey Eagle
Manufacturer: Collins
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000O8OH6G

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Eagle's 100 Trees of New Zealand: Companion Volume to Eagle's 100 Shrubs & Climbers of New Zealand Botanical Paintings & Notes
Audrey Lily Eagle
Manufacturer: Collins
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ASIN: B000O8IN34

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Yunnan Province, in southwest China, is one of the country's most geographically and ethnically diverse regions. It has opened up considerably to travelers and become a focus for ecotourism since the last edition of this book was published. Coverage of Yunnan's many attractions includes the provincial capital of Kunming, the legendary Yangtze and Mekong Rivers, Buddhist stupas, and Tibetan border monasteries. Essential practical information is backed up by a detailed insight into Yunnanese history and culture, giving an all-around picture of this intriguing province.

Features include:

*Excellent coverage of ethnic minorities

*Highlights, events, and festivals throughout the year

*Information for naturalists, hikers, and cultural travelers

*Air, rail, and road links with the rest of China, southeast Asia, and the United States

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A Great Find for Traveling to Yunnan.......2007-07-17

We adopted our so in 2006 from Yunnan and there was only a small section in the Eyewitness China guide that had information about Kunming and Yunnan. I was thrilled to find this book in a Canadian bookstore on a day trip to Victoria. It has great information about the sites we took in on our last trip as well as things we want to put on the list for the next trip later this year. Since there are generally very few books about Yunnan I considered this a good find. The only thing missing for me were a few more photos. Part of the reason I like the Eyewitness guides are the maps, grapics and photos they include but until Eyewitness decides to make for Yunnan this one will do just fine!

China: Yunnan Province: The Bradt Travel Guide (Bradt Travel Guide China: Yunnan Province)

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Nearly worthless

China: Yunnan Province: The Bradt Travel Guide (Bradt Travel Guide China: Yunnan Province)
Stephen Mansfield
Manufacturer: Bradt Travel Guides
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Asia | Travel | Subjects | Books

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ASIN: 1841620025

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The southwest Chinese province of Yunnan and its capital, Kunming, are thoroughly explored in this new Bradt guide. The natural history of the region, ethnic cultures, monasteries and festivals are backed up by practical travel information.

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Nearly worthless.......2005-07-20

This book desperately needs to be updated and rewritten! I brought it along on a bicycle trip the length of Yunnan in the spring of 2005, but found the information extremely outdated and nearly worthless. None of the hotel and restaurant listings were useable, and the sights were poorly described. The writing also failed to capture a sense of the place. I found Lonely Planet's South-West China (2002) far superior; unfortunately this book is getting old and Lonely Planet does not plan a new edition. Lonely Planet's China (2005) skips over some of the best places--such as the southeast--of Yunnan. Yunnan is a marvellous place to visit, but needs a comprehensive, up-to-date, well-written guidebook. The 2001 Bradt guide isn't it.

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Inside the Minds: The Return of Bullish Investing is the most authoritative book ever written on the basics of market trends and the fundamentals of prudent investing. This titles features some of the nation's leading financial analysts and advisors, who have each contributed chapters akin to objective, experience-related, white papers or essays on the core issues surrounding investing. In an overarching as well as in-depth presentation of the fundamentals, authors articulate the unspoken rules and the important issues looking to the future. From applicable investment strategies, to the key concepts that help to govern the ways in which markets operate today and will going forward, this book pulls readers through all facets of investment strategy from beginning to end. The different niches represented and the varied perspectives presented, enable readers to really get inside the great minds of financial research and analysis and pull practical advice, as the experts go back to basics in a must-read for every individual investor.

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Excellent big picture view from established pro's..........2005-02-17

Some of the finest advisors share their portfolio philosophies. Excellent for a big picture view, while acknowledging current structural changes that may require more exposure to alternative asset classes, hard assets, and hedging-like strategies. Highly, highly recommended.

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A complete source of pet market research information. Very useful for marketers and business owners.

2005-2006 Appma National Pet Owners Survey
Appma
Manufacturer: American Pet Products Manufacturer Association
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Binding: Hardcover

General | Animal Care & Pets | Home & Garden | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 0963255258

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A complete source of pet market research information. Very useful for marketers and business owners........2007-09-10

The American Pet Products Manufacturers Association publishes this excellent research document. This book is a "must have" for marketers and pet business owners, its has very complete scientifically collected information about pet owners demographics and purchasing habits. This jewel contains information about the pet market in general and also includes details of each one of the dogs, cats, small animals, fish, and horse markets. Extremely useful information. This study is released every two years at a price over $900. This 2005-2006 version is still very up-to-date with information and trends.

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This chainsaw carving primer illustrates the demanding control and precision needed for this unlikely art form. Three projects include instructions for carving a cub in a stump, a caricature bear, and a bear on all fours. Techniques such as cutting straight, creating textures, shaping, sanding, burning for detail, and painting are covered, and special attention is given to how to safely operate a chainsaw, what clothing to wear while working, and how to set up a safe workshop.

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Good Book on Chainsaw Carving.......2007-01-18

Was easy to follow, had great step by step pictures following the project, would have like more projects and more info on finishing process but enjoyed book

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Good selection guide for finding roses

A fine book indeed!

Taylor's Guide to Roses: How to Select abd Grow 380 Roses, Including the New Hardy Ever-Blooming Varieties - Flexible Binding (Taylor's Gardening Guides)
Nancy J. Ondra
Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin
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Binding: Paperback

Roses | Flowers | Gardening & Horticulture | Home & Garden | Subjects | Books
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No variety of plants can contribute as much beauty to a garden - and as much satisfaction to the gardener who knows how to grow them - as roses. In this guide you'll find - photographs of almost 400 roses, with a quick reference to fragrance, winter hardiness, and disease resistance - every important class of rose - Species Roses, Old Garden Roses, Shrubs, Hybrid Teas, Floribundas, Grandifloras, Miniatures, and Climbers - suggestions for carefree border and ground-cover roses - an encyclopedia entry for each plant, noting its uses and limitations - a pest and disease chart that describes the damage, its cause, and ecologically safe controls. Whether you want to buy a single carefree bush or maintain a whole garden of perfect roses, this Taylor's Guide has everything you need to know to succeed the first time.

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Good selection guide for finding roses.......2003-10-04

Taylor's Guides are popular tools for plant selection and this revised edition is no exception. The size of the new edition is a little larger than the old one but it is still a comfortable size for reading in bed or taking with you to the nursery. 380 roses are covered here, from all rose classes. 200+ pages are glossy and contain a color photograph of each rose. The gallery is followed by an "encyclopedia of roses" which gives basic information about growing the rose and how best to use it in the garden. A brief introduction covers the basics of buying roses, growing and caring for them. A chart is also included which explains pest and diseases and offers ecologically safe controls.

This is a good guide but if you are seeking a book that is more comprehensive and includes a larger selection of roses, you might want to check out "Botanica's Roses" by William Grant. This book includes over 2000 roses and is priced similarly. Also, the just released "American Rose Society Encyclopedia of Roses" is also outstanding but much higher in price.

A fine book indeed!.......2003-03-08

This book has lovely photographs, good descriptions of the plant, and suggestions on how to use particular rose varieties in your landscape. It is written with enthusiasm and is a pleasure to read.

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If your a good parent you know this, if your a bad parent you aren't reading this review

Every parent who thinks you're helping your child by introducing them to "reality" at 3 yoa NEEDS to read this

Innocence?

A book every American parent ought to read

Promoting security and a sense of wonder!

Saving Childhood: Protecting Our Children from the National Assault on Innocence
Michael Medved , and Diane Medved
Manufacturer: Harper Paperbacks
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Binding: Paperback

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Saving Childhood offers parents and grandparents practical strategies to cope with a society that seems perversely determined to frighten and corrupt its young. Cultural critic and popular radio host Michael Medved and his wife, psychologist Diane Medved, argue that in a mistaken effort to curb problems plaguing its youth, our culture has changed from protecting childhood as a precious time of growth to hammering even the smallest youngsters with a grim, harsh, and menacing view of the world. The Medveds systematically present unassailable scientific evidence, moving anecdotes, and personal experiences of raising their three young children to explain the attack from four primary directions--media, schools, peers, and even well-intentioned parents themselves.

In a unique analysis the Medveds define innocence not as ignorance but as the result of three components--security, a sense of wonder and optimism. They empower parents and all who care about childhood with concrete, easily accomplished means to fend off the assault, as well as advice for handling hurdles such as the Internet, television, peer pressure, and the plague of pessimism. Saving Childhood enables us to restore and maintain for our children imagination, confidence, and hope for the future.

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If your a good parent you know this, if your a bad parent you aren't reading this review.......2007-06-17

This book was at best okay. I agree that it is important to allow children to grow up slowly and preserve their sense of wonder and awe. Most parents will do the best that they can. This book goes over the top with trying to scare you into implimenting its suggestions. I think any engage parent understands most of what this book has to offer(Unfortunately we live in a time where there are a lot of parents that don't engage their children) and deals with it as best they can. It's another call for no more television, blah, blah, blah. Again, I feel that good parents are doing the good things that this book has to offer and the bad parents probably aren't going to even pick up this book. Life goes on

Every parent who thinks you're helping your child by introducing them to "reality" at 3 yoa NEEDS to read this.......2006-11-08

It's refreshing to hear someone finally espouse an idea that's been clear to me for a long time and that seems to have been completely lost in today's society:

Children need to be introduced APPROPRIATELY to "reality".

Does it make for easier parenting? Not by any stretch. It takes diligence and effort to make intelligent decisions about what to expose your child to.

The idiotic idea that it's somehow better for a 5 year old to "see how things really are" is borne of lazy parents, both intellectually and physically.

If you want easy, don't have kids.

Thank you to the Medveds for writing this book- I hope some of the people I see writing reviews here have the sense, for their children's sake, to heed some of the advice.

Innocence?.......2003-05-20

The idea of childhood as an idealized, golden time of sweet innocence is actually relatively new, culturally speaking, and it was invented by adults. Anyone who actually remembers their school days without glazing them over in sentimental nostalgia knows that children are not little angels untroubled by the sins and cynicism of their elders. Kids are basically little animals that, hopefully with the careful guidance of loving parents, may someday develop into responsible, moral human beings. If you don't believe this, go observe the kids playing at your local elementary school when they don't think the teachers are watching. Listen to the things they call each other, watch them push and shove and show off. There's your "innocence".

Not that kids are little adults, either. They haven't yet formed some of the necessary cognitive, moral, and emotional constructs to understand the complicated issues that adults must. But they're human beings, and are fully capable of all the worst of human nature. The catch is, it's only by facing that side of ourselves that we learn not to be ruled by it. Otherwise why did God bother to burden us with the ability to choose wrongly?--because without knowing what you reject, choice is meaningless. What the Medveds are preaching is not the preservation of innocence--a comforting illusion dreamed up by adults--but a doctrine of willful ignorance.

I am not surprised that their daughter was so upset by troubling news reports. Their attempt to shield her has apparently made her sense of security and optimism that much more fragile, easily broken by the merest intrusion of the rest of the world. As those children grow, they will either have to continue to shut out anything that disagrees with their tunnel-vision view of the world, or completely restructure their thinking. I would rather teach my children to face this world's trials, eyes wide open, in compassion and love, then teach them to hide from it in fear masquerading as "innocence".

A book every American parent ought to read.......2001-10-24

What a novel concept! Michael and Diane Medved have decided that parenting is not only important, but actually worth the time and effort required to rear happy, well-mannered progeny. While this book is rife with suggestions about issues such as schooling, vacationing, and the evening meal, perhaps no social convention is confronted so adamantly as the television. Supplying solid statistics and reasonable examples, the authors make a convincing argument in the idea of eliminating one's TV altogether.

But this book is not an attack on America's social system. It's a call to regain control of one's family by exercising wisdom, temperance, discipline, common sense, and optimism in an age when examples of such qualities seem to be difficult to find.

Promoting security and a sense of wonder!.......2000-09-28

Controversy is deliciously entertaining, violence is shocking and sensual content is titillating.....for most adults. But what is this doing to our children? The Media has so permeated our lives that it seems there is no way to protect "childhood innocence."

"Saving Childhood" offers parents hope and practical tips on how to encourage security, a sense of wonder and optimism in the life of a child. This book will empower parents and give them hope for the future.

The first part of the book has been written to make parents aware of the realities of the situation and explains the "Assault" on innocence. The second part is the "Defense." Michael and Diane explain that the Assault is coming from Media, Schools, Peers and Parents. They show how statistics have proved that the problems in our society are getting worse at a rapid pace and back this up with scientific evidence. They also explain many points with examples from the raising of their own three children.

The Medveds explain how we live in a land where sex education has failed to reduce teenage pregnancy, children feel guilty for existing, parents push their children to grow up too fast, children have a lack of moral values, and parents have taken a passive role.

So who is educating our children? It seems an inadequate school system and the TV!

Television is well known for programs which contain high levels of violence. I have long been a believer that TV violence causes aggression. Michael and Diane prove this point and I found it interesting to read about how the crime rates increased soon after the introduction of TV into various towns.

I grew up in South Africa for most of my childhood and remember very few people having TV's in the early years. TV was apparently banned until 1975. In fact, my father never purchased a TV and so I grew up basically TV-free! Perhaps that is why I can still enjoy a movie like "Runaway Bride." Most of my friends are so jaded, they can't appreciate movies which I find to be very enjoyable. In fact, most movies are new to me.

The Medveds also show how TV promotes impatience, self-pity, superficiality and gives us all a harsh view of the world. With all this negativity, how are we balancing our lives and promoting a positive view of the world?

There are now three books I consider "essential reading" for every American: "America's Real War," "The American Paradox," and "Saving Childhood." These three books are brilliantly conceived works which explain America's present predicament and give excellent solutions. After reading all three books, I am now convinced of our nations need for:

1. Responsibility to a Higher Power. (90 percent of Americans believe in God) 2. Renewed respect for life and authority. 3. The teaching of personal responsibility, patriotism and honesty. 4. Parents that stay together and live what they teach. 5. The teaching of moral values. 6. The reading of inspiring books instead of a diet of negative TV reinforcement. 7. A revamp of our Education System. 8. Holding our Media responsible for programming. 9. Teaching a sense of gratitude for life. 10. An all-out effort to protect the remaining innocence of our children.

In order to promote the efforts of parents, Michael and Diane devote chapter seven, eight and nine to explain how parents can promote "security," "a sense of wonder," and "optimism" in the lives of their children.

"Childhood is perhaps the only phase of life when innocence can flourish. But to allow this, parents and others responsible for children's minds need to construct a protective shelter against the painful and frightening facets of life. They need to stand guard at its door, to let the harsher truths of reality gradually unfold for the child, in a way and at a pace that allows the child to maintain a positive outlook. Honoring innocence is incompatible with assuming that the earlier children grasp all the worst aspects of the world, the better prepared they'll be to handle them." -- "Saving Childhood" page 195

To this I add one of my favorite poems for children:

May tree and plant and shrub be soundless through the night and stars and moon be dimmed to shut out all the light. So when you sleep in peace, no bird will move in flight, and angles guard your sleep. Goodnight, my love goodnight.

- James Neill Northe

~TheRebeccaReview.com

Saving Childhood : Protecting Our Children from the National Assault on Innocence

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Saving Childhood : Protecting Our Children from the National Assault on Innocence
Michael; Medved, Diane Medved
Manufacturer: HarperTrade
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Saving Childhood: Protecting Our Children from the National Assault on Innocence
Michael Medved; Diane Medved
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Though few Americans can identify Andrew Jackson Downing, who died in 1852 at just 36, his influence as an architect, horticulturist, writer, and town planner has been far-reaching. Through his writings and his designs, Downing helped lay the groundwork for the urban parks of Frederick Law Olmsted, the national park system, and even, in some ways, the conservation movement. Downing was very well-known in his time, especially for his best-selling pattern books illustrating Gothic Revival houses and picturesque grounds. David Schuyler, a professor of American Studies at Franklin and Marshall College, has produced a fascinating biography of Downing that also serves well as an introduction to design principles and architecture of the 19th century.

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"By interpreting Downing as above all an apostle of taste, Schuyler is able to weigh the relative importance of his architecture, garden designs, publishing, organizational and civic activity, even his nursery business, within a governing rubric balancing theory and practice and, most elusive of all, his public and his private self." -- Robert Twombly, Reviews in American History

Apostle of Taste is the first full-length biography of Andrew Jackson Downing, the horticulturist, landscape gardener, and prolific writer on architecture who, more than any other individual, shaped middle-class taste in the United States in the two decades prior to the Civil War. Through his books and the pages of the Horticulturist, Downing preached a gospel of taste that promoted the modern or natural style of landscape design over the formal and geometric arrangements that were the hallmark of eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century gardens.

In this compelling biography, illustrated with more than 100 drawings, plans, and photographs, David Schuyler explores the origins of Downing's ideas in English aesthetic theory and his efforts to "adapt" English designs to the different climate and republican social institutions of the United States. Schuyler traces the impulse toward an American architectural style in Downing's work, demonstrates the influence of Downing's ideas on the appropriate design of homes and gardens, and analyzes the complications of class implicit in Downing's prescriptions for American society.

Apostle of Taste: Andrew Jackson Downing, 1815-1852

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Apostle of Taste: Andrew Jackson Downing, 1815-1852
Andrew Jackson] Schuyler, David [Downing
Manufacturer: Johns Hopkins Univ Press
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000KVS36C

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Charlie brown - vive moi !
Schulz/Charles Monro
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Ofaolain
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Sean O'Faolain
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Sean O'Faolain
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Vive Moi!
Sean O'Faolain
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ASIN: B000CASQAO

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The autobiography of the celebrated Irish writer.

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Vive Moi!
Sean O'Faolain
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Vive moi!
Sen O'Faolìn
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Vive moi! An autobiography
Sean O'Faolain
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Vive Moi. An Autobiography
SEAN O'FAOLAIN
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The struggle for form: Sean O'Faolain's autobiographies.: An article from: Yearbook of English Studies

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The struggle for form: Sean O'Faolain's autobiographies.: An article from: Yearbook of English Studies
Frank Shovlin
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
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Binding: Digital
ASIN: B000E3BFUM
Release Date: 2006-01-02

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This digital document is an article from Yearbook of English Studies, published by Thomson Gale on January 1, 2005. The length of the article is 5549 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: The struggle for form: Sean O'Faolain's autobiographies.
Author: Frank Shovlin
Publication: Yearbook of English Studies (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 35 Page: 161(11)

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