Harvesting Urban Timber: A Guide to Making Better Use of Urban Trees (Woodworker's Library (Fresno, Calif.).)

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Three to four billion board feet of potential lumber is being fed either directly or indirectly into landfills throughout the United States each year. This book explains the importance of harvesting urban trees and how to do so. Case studies illustrate how some cities and counties have reduced waste through the use of urban timber for various projects. Explained in detail are felling, safety, converting trees to sawn lumber, how to hire a sawyer, how to season the wood, sawing for figure, and what types of trees are worth harvesting. Also described are the various uses for the timber, including use by the home craftsman or to build park benches or bumper strips. Each alternative use is illustrated through case studies of several municipalities and their respective programs of urban timber utilization.

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Not wonderful.......2007-02-14

Book has much useful information in it. However, from a "how to" perspective the book has enough faults that I would choose another. The tree felling portion seemed particularly bad: a couple of horror stories on tree felling are followed by some sub-par descriptions on tree felling methods - the part on "bore" cuts is especially badly described and illustrated - it should have been better handled or left out entirely. Quite frankly, the authors frequent citing of OSHA as an authority on cutting methods made me a bit nervous too. Somehow, I think I would prefer cutting advice from a professional lumberjack than a governmental bureaucracy....but thats a matter of taste I suppose.

A "must-have" resource for local policy makers.......2003-11-17

Harvesting Urban Timber: A Complete Guide by woodworking expert Sam Sherrill is a no-nonsense guide for local businesses, woodworkers, and city governments concerning the facts and how-to's of making the most of urban trees, rather then simply sending them directly to landfills when they must be removed. Color illustrations, anecdotes considering real situations where harvesting urban timber was absolutely necessary such as the outbreak of Dutch Elm disease in Minnesota, step-by-step instructions and much more make Harvesting Urban Timber a "must-have" resource for local policy makers responsible for this urban issue. It should be noted that Sherrill brings a particular expertise to this unique subject and is currently forming Harvesting Urban Timber organizations throughout the United States with the full support of the USDA Forest Service.

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Understanding Orchids.

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Understanding Orchids: An Uncomplicated Guide to Growing the World's Most Exotic Plants
William Cullina
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ASIN: 0618263268

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Orchids are the largest family of plants in the world. With 30,000 known species, you could acquire a different orchid every day for eighty years and still not grow them all. Back in the realm of reality, readers of this beautiful book can quickly and easily find the orchids that are right for them -- which ones will thrive on a windowsill, which prefer artificial lights, and which need a greenhouse; which are for beginners, which for experts. And you can pinpoint the species within a particular genus that are the best ones to start with. Once you select your orchid, William Cullina's authoritative guide explains what to do to keep it alive and healthy. Featuring more than two hundred color photographs, Understanding Orchids covers everything you need to know to grow orchids successfully, whatever your level of interest or experience. With improved tissue-culture techniques making orchids more affordable, and the Internet making them readily available to consumers, growing orchids is more popular than ever: membership in the American Orchid Society has more than doubled in the last fifteen years. This is the book orchid fans have been waiting for.

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Understanding Orchids........2007-10-14

This book has all the information that I need to successfully grow orchids.
It is the ideal book for all orchid enthusiasts, from the beginner to the experienced orchid grower.

very practical information.......2007-09-19

This book has alot of practical information and has much more detailed culture information about many different orchid families, also has information about small orchid families that I have not found in any other book about orchids.This book also gives step by step instructions on how to repot or divide several different types of orchids including paphiopediliums and Phrags.

Great book, lots of good ideas and beautiful pictures...........2007-02-10

I am an amateur orchid grower and have read a variety of books on the subject. So far, this is the best book I encountered and the most comprehensive. Not only that, it is a work of art, printed on high quality of paper. The pictures are outstanding and so is the carefully written text. This book is also just loaded with inexpensive ideas on various small projects that you can do to improve your results. If you are going to get one book on orchids, this should be it!

The best.......2007-02-06

I believe that this is the best book out there on orchids. Mr Cullina covers the important and often allusive culture issues confronted in growing orchids in real depth. He provides thoughtful, comon sense explanations for his reccomendations that go way beyond those found in other books I have read on the subject. The second half of the book details the cultural requirements and rates the difficulty level of 100 species of potential interest to growers with experience levels from beginner to expert. Much more than a coffee table book, Understanding Orchids is a valuable reference that belongs in every orchid enthuiast's library.

Friendly and useful.......2006-11-20

As a relatively new orchid grower, I found this to be one of the most useful books for a beginner. In addition, it is written is a very accessible, friendly style, with many examples of the author's struggles to succeed with orchids. I highly recommend it!

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An excellent orchid culture book.......2001-04-22

In the beginning this book does what any good orchid book does, it gives a general history of the cultivation of orchids and the orchidmania that started it all. However, what makes this book so valuable is that it does not just give the coffee table version of orchid culture. This book is full of solid orchid culture facts and tips. Wether growing under lights , in a greenhouse, or in the tropics (as I do), this book provides comprehensive information on orchid culture. While the number of species covered are a little disappointing, the crisp, vibrant pictures of those shown and their crosses, all in colour, do make up for any shortfalls. I gave this book for out of five stars for only one reason, that only species shown in the book are those widely under cultivation today. While a few of the lesser known species are mentioned and some are recommended for cultivation, the book ignores most of them.

Orchids; a Practical Guide to the World's Most Facinating Plants

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Itýs a great guidebook.......1998-03-25

It'a a great guidebook full of cozy news about Florence and Toscana.

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The greatness of Chekhov .......2005-05-22

The outstanding review of Fr.Kurt Messick on this site is a very good introduction to the life of Chekhov, and to this particular collection of his writings.
In this review I would like to think a bit about why Chekhov is as I believe a great writer , and just what makes his writing , for me especially in the stories, so powerful.
First, I believe he has a tremendous feeling for human character. Each of his characters is both described in physical and moral terms. But Chekhov in describing his characters gives us a strong sense that he is in touch with real life, with its difficulties, sufferings , complications and impossibilities. He also gives such a strong sense of the special quality of Russian life and society , of its values of its saints and its sinners.
Some of the stories in this selection are heartbreaking, arouse in us a sense of wonder and compassion . The story ' Heartbreak' the story of a poor coach driver who has lost his son and wants to tell the story of this to someone. And who in the course of his work meets only selfishness, cruelty, indifference. And in the end finally pours out this story to his horse, because the horse at least stands still long enough to as it were listen.
My cliche summary cannot do justice to the power of the story. In another of the stories a seemingly minor character begins to speak about the lunch the court officials he is working with might have. In the course of it he presents the whole world of Russian food , and does this with such humor and such colorfulness as to give a real feeling of joy to the reader. In what is arguably Chekhov's most famous story ,'The Lady with the Pet Dog' he not simply tells a story of romantic love he does so in a way in which we most deeply are made to feel the irony and beauty and pain of life.
Chekhov is a writer deeply in touch with human beings, their real quirks and nature, their passions. I do not agree with the cliche that his stories are not stories, that they do not really have plot or narrative. It seems to me that very often the story is told in a description, or in a monologue almost as an aside. And that the reader does get a sense of some kind of real happening.
I said that Chekhov looks into the Russian soul. What is surprising that the ' secular writer' does understand so much about Russian religiosity. And that he presents something more complex than a simple one- sided condemnation of church corruption. Chekhov's work is too filled with dreamers , and in the story 'Daydreaming' one outcast tramp tells his dream of making a new life to the two wardens taking him to a far different fate.
There is a richness of character and soul in this work. And such wonderful humor.
Great literature is one of the great joys and consolations of life.

Vast..........2004-07-20

Like so many Russian writers, Anton Chekov was very prolific, with a literary output seemingly designed to match the vastness of the country of his origin. Chekov was indeed born the son of a serf, whose grandfather managed to the redeem the family into freedom; Chekov himself was largely a self-made man, valuing education if not the particular educators he was exposed to a child, and learned the aspects of the different levels of Russian society, as well as a good deal about foreign societies, most particularly the Greeks. Chekov's family moved to Moscow (so his father could avoid debtor's prison in his hometown), where Chekov became a medical student; once, to buy food for the family, he wrote a small piece for a local weekly paper. The rest, as one might say, is history. He did in fact finish medical school, but his life was set on a different path.

Chekov is perhaps best known for his short stories and his plays. He wrote literally hundreds of short stories. He was admired in St. Petersburg, the intellectual centre of the country, and won critical prizes and made a nice living from his writing. Chekov spent time in various pursuits that might seem rather strange -- traveling to the Siberian plains and to Sakhalin, to see the prison conditions; he headed a hospital, but found this interfered with his writing. He revered Tolstoy, but could not become an ardent disciple. Always in ill health, he traveled abroad to France, returning to Russia to live in the south, near Yalta, which he always considered no better than a warm Siberia. In all, Chekov lived a varied life, and was convinced that, within a year or so of his death, no one would be reading him any more. He died in 1904, at the age of 44. His writing career spanned some twenty-five years. While his reputation was eclipsed briefly during the Russian Revolutionary period, his reputation remains stronger than ever.

Chekov's short story career was always strong, which is somewhat surprising to modern Western readers. His stories tend to lack strong narrative plots and strong characters. Almost universally they are set in Russia, dealing with the various peoples he encountered in his life, incorporating the feelings and spirit of the place. Many of the stories seem somewhat desperate and desolate, with a quiet resignation as big as the country. Chekov's career as a playwright got off to a relatively slow start, but by the end of his life, his plays were greatly admired and regularly performed in Russia and beyond. Indeed, his 44th birthday was an occasion of the opening of his last play, 'The Cherry Orchard', included in this anthology.

Editor and translator Avrahm Yarmolinsky has an introductory essay, in which he describes Chekov as the 'knell of old Russia' rather than a leader into the new Russia. When reading his stories and plays, one gets a sense for the pre-Revolutionary Russia, the old guard. Never one to go in for novels, which he considered required far more development than he thought he had, Chekov is the scene crafter for late imperial Russia. Interesting, stimulating -- it is hard to anthologise Chekov, and I take a star off here because some of my favourite stories and my favourite play ('The Seagull') are not here, but I can understand the difficulty in deciding.

This anthology includes 40 pages of correspondence; Chekov's correspondence was vast (he wrote his wife nearly every day in the last several years of his life, for example), so again, any representative sample must needs be selective.

This is a good, one-volume introduction to a great Russian writer, one whose influence continues to grow.

Chekhov - Chekhov - Chekhov.......2003-12-11

If you like Chekhov you will love this book. Chekhov's ability to speak from the point of view of such diverse characters is remarkable. This book features a detailed introduction including a biography of Chekhov's life filled with some of his memorable quotes. The last section of the book offers a collection of Chekhov's personal letters. I enjoyed these aspects of the book almost as much as the stories, or perhaps I enjoyed them because I so enjoyed the stories. Some may feel that the entire of Chekhov's work cannot be adequately edited due to enormity of the task. In the introduction, the editor has this to say about the task, "He was an uneven writer, and many pieces were omitted from the present volume without regret." I couldn't agree more, the stories in this book total 594 pages the letters add nearly 40 more. I was not in the least disappointed.

Checkhov good - Translation, Not so good.......2000-03-20

Three stars for Anton Checkhov? What could I be thinking. First of all, having read my fair share of Russian literature in translation, I've discovered what a difference a good translator can make. The question of "true to the material" is one I can not answer since I do not speak Russian. However, as far as good writing in English goes... this I can judge. Exceptional stories like "Daydreams", "The Kiss", and "Gusev" stand out with stellar content: "Daydreams" finds a man whose hopes for the future are constantly bashed by the two police he is with. "The Kiss" deals with a soldier who creates an entire fantasy affair with a woman based on a single accidental kiss. And "Gusev" follows the title character's slow descent from sickness into death on board a battleship. "The Kiss", the finest of the bunch, was translated by Constance Garnett, while Yarmolinsky translated almost all the others. Stories like "The Peasants" are bogged down in Yarmolinsky's stilted style. It is difficult to follow or care about characters doing every day things when the reading of these things is so difficult.

This edition also has certain letters collected toward the end. Any relationship between the letters and the rest of the volume is lost to me. There is no mention of any stories we've just read, or any theme amongst the letters themselves. Perhaps more letters to a specific person, or revolving around the writing of a story would have been more appropriate. As is, the tiny letters section is very cutable, offering such a small glimpse as to prove useless. Granted, Yarmolinsky had an almost impossible task. There can be no "portable" Checkhov. The man wrote hundreds upon hundreds of stories, and even more letters. His collected work could, and does, fill volumes. Selecting six hundred pages, translating them, and hoping that they can somehow represent a man is fallacy. Yet, until a better collection comes along, we are forced to read what we can.

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THE PORTABLE CHEKHOV
Anton Chekhov
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The Portable Chekhov
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The DN Portable Chekhov
Anton Chekhov
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The Portable Chekhov
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Checkhov
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