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Living with Wildlife in the Pacific Northwest is all about coexisting with the animals commonly found in gardens, ponds, attics, crawl spaces, and other places where humans and wildlife cross paths throughout Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia.
From bats to woodpeckers, sixty-eight species are described here, with details about feeding and mating habits, family structures, and life cycles. Living with Wildlife explains how to attract animals; how to spot their presence by identifying tracks, droppings, and other signs; and how and where to safely view them.
Focusing on the species that provoke the most calls to wildlife agencies and nonprofit groups, the book provides detailed information on how to prevent and solve conflicts with wildlife.
This book is a valuable reference for homeowners, property owners, and property managers; habitat restoration professionals; the wildlife control industry; and private and nonprofit wildlife groups. It can also be used in horticulture and urban wildlife management courses.
Living with Wildlife in the Pacific Northwest includes information on:
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The best book of its kind .......2004-08-27
Living with Wildlife in the Pacific Northwest fills a huge hole in creating understanding of the wildlife we share our beautiful region with. Each description is packed with useful information on how to identify an animal, its habits and preferred habitat and its legal status to name just a few categories. This is a "must have" for anyone who wants to learn more.
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This comprehensive guide leads travelers to the state's hot spots, from Taos's top ski areas and the Santa Fe Indian Market to the Kodak Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta.
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The American Southwest has something for everyone, from the glory of the Grand Canyon and Native American heritage sites, to fabulous resorts, world-class golf, and spectacular outdoor adventures. This essential resource includes:
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Useless.......2001-10-21
In my eyes the book is absolutely useless. It is more than superficial as far as sightseeing is concerned. You certainly need another guide to check out which attractions are worth a visit and what exactely is offered. The best information is on hotels and restaurants and you can get these (and better one) the web. Not worth the relatively high price
Excellent Beginners Guide.......2001-09-25
I found this book to be a great guide for our one week trip driving around Arizona. Some of the places we visited include Phoenix, Sedona, Flagstaff, Cameron, North Rim, Page/Lake Powell, Navajo Reservation, Chinle, and Winslow. All of the places that I was interested in visiting were covered in detail in the book with lots of good tips, besides just what to eat and where to stay. We followed a lot of the recommendations in the book and had a wonderful time.
Incomplete.......2001-05-17
Books ignores many places in Arizona. Nothing on Lake Havasu, Kingman, Oatman, Yuma, ShowLow, Pinetop, Payson, Mogollon Rim and nothing on cover of book, front or back, indicates it selectively covers state.
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The year is 1853 and eleven-year-old Levi Ives can't wait to cross the wide country to join his brother, Austin, out in the Oregon Territory and escape from boring old Sudbury, Pennsylvania. But life back home suddenly goes from dull to dangerous when Levi's best friend, Jupiter, discovers that his little sister, Darcy, has disappeared, recaptured by slave owners. Levi is white and Jupiter is black, and together they set out into dangerous territory in an attempt to save little Darcy's freedom--and her life. This moving sequel to Dear Levi, told in letters, is rich in history and adventure, a must-have for teachers, reluctant readers, and every Dear Levi fan.
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A Book with Everything.......2007-01-11
I have used this book in my classroom many times, from a read-aloud to the class to using it in small groups. There is some difficult vocabulary, but with help from a teacher or a parent, it is very much worthwhile. Children can relate to the mischievous, daredevil ways of the characters. It is both funny and heart-wrenching. The ending is always a struggle for me to read aloud to them. It always brings a tear to my eye. My classes have all loved it so much that they insist that I read the companion book Dear Levi, but I don't have it. I will be ordering it soon since my class keeps asking.
Ryan's Review.......2005-02-10
Dear Austin Letters from the Underground Railroad, written by Elvira Woodruff, is a fantastic book. It takes place in Pennsylvania in the 1800's when slavery was around. It is cold there because it is around the winter.
This book is about a 9 year old boy named Levi Ives. There is a girl named Darcy and she loves to sing, and I mean she loves to sing! Levi seems like a very nice boy. He will play with anyone. His hobby is to sleep outside with his friends. His friend's name is Jonathan. Jonathan's nickname is Possum because his older brother Tom always looked down and said "you look like a little possum". His other friend's nickname is Jupiter. Possum and Jupiter are about Levi's age.
The problem in the story is that Darcy runs away south. Jupiter goes with Levi to rescue Darcy. They travel different kinds of cool ways. My favorite part is when Jupiter saved his dog's life from jumping off Widow's Rock.
I would give this book 5 stars because at some parts I felt like I was there. My opinion of the author is fantastic. I really think she did a good job of detailing. I would definitely recommend this book because it is amazing!!
Very Slow Paced.......2002-03-02
A review by Lacy
This book was about a group of boys named Levi, Jupiter and Possum. This story takes place back when slavery was a big issue, when the North and South were battling against one another. They were living in the north with Miss Amelia because they didn't want to have any part of the slavery. Levi always writes to his brother Austin who he doesn't see that often.
In this book there isn't just one plot there is a series of things going on in a lot of the letter there is a different topic and new things going on. Like when they were scared the bully was going to throw his dog into the river from the cliff and then the author starting talking about Levi having to take dance classes. I think that the author could have explained some areas better and put more detail in to what he was explaining. Some of the conflicts are expressed pretty well but some others really need some work on. I couldn't really follow a lot of the book because it was a hard book to get into. The length of this book was pretty fair. It probably should have been longer and add some more detail in it. I was happy when I finished the book; I thought it would never end. It was just so boring. The vocabulary of this book was easy to understand. I didn't have any trouble reading words but some of the sentence was confusing.
I would highly recommend you not to read this book. It is really hard to get into. This book was a very slow pace book. If you like being confused then I recommend this book to you but for the people like me who don't like being confused don't read the book.
Dear Austin......,.......2000-10-17
Dear Austin, Right now Im out looking for Darcy, Juipters sister,Yesterday Black Rustlers stole her! Me and Jup have set out to find Darcy. Please don't worry while im out there. A body couldn't get nothin much don to him the wild. Don't worry Austin. I'll be saving y'all some letters as im out. Don't when i'll be sendin' 'em to ya'. Till then just stay come. Is how Levi talks to Austin thorough out the whole thing, in letters. AS they set out they meet the famous "Moses," a.k.a Hariet Truman. A black slave leader, the slave train, and suspence, history, and all around tightnes! I HIGHLY SUGGEST THIS TO READERS HOW LOVE TO READ! (of course.) And people how love to read about the stuf I like to read about, like this story. So go out and buy it!
Dear Austin......,.......2000-10-17
Dear Austin, Right now Im out looking for Darcy, Juipters sister,Yesterday Black Rustlers stole her! Me and Jup have set out to find Darcy. Please don't worry while im out there. A body couldn't get nothin much don to him the wild. Don't worry Austin. I'll be saving y'all some letters as im out. Don't when i'll be sendin' 'em to ya'. Till then just stay come. Is how Levi talks to Austin thorough out the whole thing, in letters. AS they set out they meet the famous "Moses," a.k.a Hariet Truman. A black slave leader, the slave train, and suspence, history, and all around tightnes! I HIGHLY SUGGEST THIS TO READERS HOW LOVE TO READ! (of course.) And people how love to read about the stuf I like to read about, like this story. So go out and buy it!
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The particular focus of the present book is the application of mass spectrometry to the investigation and characterization of noncovalent biomolecular complexes. Both electrospray ionization and matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization methods are discussed. Electrospray ionization mass spectrometry is particularly effective for studying noncovalent interactions because the sample is introduced from an homogeneous solution which can be maintained under near physiological conditions of pH, concentration and temperature. Mass spectra of large complexes (several hundred kDa) have been obtained using sector, quadrupole, time-of-flight and ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry. The use of other techniques for analyzing supramolecular complexes is also presented, particularly in combination with mass spectrometry. These include such emerging techniques as surface plasmon resonance as well as more established methods, such as X-ray crystallography and NMR.
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The stirring, bloody, and tragic saga that inspired such artists as Wagner, Borges, and Tolkien
Written in Iceland a century after the close of the Viking Age, The Prose Edda is the source of most of what we know of Norse mythology. Its tales are peopled by giants, dwarves, and elves, superhuman heroes and indomitable warrior queens. Its gods live with the tragic knowledge of their own impending destruction in the cataclysmic battle of Ragnarok. Its time scale spans the eons from the world's creation to its violent end. This robust new translation captures the magisterial sweep and startling psychological complexity of the Old Icelandic original.
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Be forewarned.......2007-02-08
This edition is excellant, well-formatted, and enjoyable. My only reservation is that the Notes are not extensive enough, since they offer
no critical commentary, and the etymology of some important character
names, is not explored. Because All Mythology is 95% Propaganda, and
5% Truth, it is necessary to probe beneath the text, to the subtext.
For example, the Edda is told from the biased Point of View of the Aesir
royalty: High, Just as High, and Third. Though the Edda admits that much
of their claims are "conjured illusions", the reader forgets that the story was "prepared" for King Gylfi. Thus, Odin, who is the Evil Mastermind of Aesir Propaganda, is called All-Father, Lord, and Wise One;
whereas his True Color is gray Grimr, the "Masked One". Likewise, the Vanir, the Giants, the Sons of Muspell, and the Ash Tree People are all
misrepresented. And Gullveig, the True Goddess, is not even mentioned by
name, only referenced as the "Eagle" of Yggdrasil. Note that the Aesir
call the Tree of Life, the "Terrible One's Horse"; so be forewarned.
A good translation.......2007-01-10
This edition includes a good translation and a lot of useful context information. The family tress are especially helpful.
Well..........2006-12-27
I've read less accurate but somewhat more spirited translations concerning the adventures of the Esir gods. Even so, I highly reccomend this one for those who collect classical, semi-historical or mythological stories from out of distant history as a hobby.
A needed standard.......2006-11-12
This is a standard read for anyone interested in the Nordic Path. This translation is easier to understand than some. I highly recc it!
the prose edda.......2006-11-07
composed in medieval iceland by snorri sturluson, the 'prose edda' contains norse creation myths and legends of the gods. it tells of the migrations of the aesir, the adventures of thor and loki, and the ending of the world at ragnarok. this edition also contains mythic tales from the 'skaldskaparmal' and appendices covering yggdrasil and old icelandic poetic language.
this is an excellent volume. jesse byock's translation is fresh and quite accessible to the modern reader. the notes provided for each story are just as intriguing as the tales themselves. the introduction is thorough without being exhausting. an excellent illustration of yggdrasil (the world tree) is used, which makes it easy to imagine the norse worldview. the translation also excels at expressing the cruder episodes amongst the myths, which easily win themselves the modern reader. reading this edition of the 'prose edda' is amazingly enjoyable, and allows the reader to feel some link to the medieval icelanders. outstanding!
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The wellspring for modern knowledge of Norse mythology, these legends of gods and heroes were created to preserve the Vikings' narrative style from European influence. Edda means "poetic art," and this guidebook for Icelandic poets has been a timeless inspiration for generations of writers, including Wagner, Borges, and Tolkien.
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If You're Purchasing this as an Odinist........2007-05-10
There are some things you must know. This is mostly incomplete huge portions are missing. Secondly this is a translation by a Christian historian and as such many of the stories are warped. Snorri did a great deal of wrongs to this. I fond it a useful source of Mythology despite evident errors. There is good in this text, just not what you should buy if you're Studying Asatru. it's a good example of myth and lore. As a basic text I give it 3 stars because of the price.
Ian Myles Slater on: A Readable "Standard Version".......2006-03-10
Jean I. Young's translation of selections from "The Prose Edda of Snorri Sturluson: Tales from Norse Mythology," with an Introduction by the distinguished Icelandic scholar Sigurdhur Nordal, was originally issued in 1954 by Bowes & Bowes Publishers Ltd., Cambridge, with an American edition from the University of California Press; I have a 1964 hardcover printing of the latter version.
UC Press has been reprinting it as a trade paperback for decades. It currently has a new cover (an apparently Victorian vision of Thor in his thunder-chariot, wielding his hammer against the Giants), but Amazon's "Look Inside" function has the old green cover showing a giant eagle carrying off Loki, from an older edition. Not a very good representation of the scene as described inside -- besides Loki's clichéd horned helmet, the hapless trickster should be dragging on the ground, not soaring over the mountains -- but it is a dramatic composition. (The digital version looks much nicer than the cover of my faded and crumbling 1971 printing of the paperback!)
The "Prose Edda" is the main source for a great deal of what we know (or think we know) about the myths and legends of pre-Christian Scandinavia; and often has guided, not always for the better, the interpretation of other, less entertaining or more opaque sources. Leaving aside challenges to Snorri's veracity about his sources, Wagner's "Twilight of the Gods," for example, follows what seems to be a mis-reading or mis-hearing of a word on Snorri's part. (I would follow those who accept Snorri as mainly very reliable, but sometimes in error about what was already in the twelfth century a fading pagan past.)
Young's translation of substantial excerpts was by far the most readily available English version of the material for several decades; and, even with two new competitors, has some merits. Except in a few places, for reasons I can understand in a 1950s context, it seems quite accurate. Some may prefer its prose style (others won't), and it has been used by half a century of secondary sources, including quotations in quite scholarly works.
From the whole Icelandic original, it includes the best-known material; the historicizing "Prologue," the main exposition of Norse mythology, as "The Deluding of Gylfi," and the narrative sections of the "Poetic Diction" (Skaldskaparmal), omitting the long lists of vocabulary and metaphors. As is the case with every English translation but one, the "Hattatal," a poem by Snorri in a hundred-plus meters with his own commentary on each stanza, itself both a virtuoso performance and pedagogical tour-de-force, is omitted.
The Young version had no real competition in the market until the Everyman translation by Anthony Faulkes (1987), as "Edda" the first English rendering to contain the whole body of material, both prose and verse, as found in the original (with the verses in Hattatal given in Icelandic as well as translation, without which the commentary is unintelligible). This is a solid work of scholarship, but it is probably more accessible, as well as more valuable, to serious inquirers than it is to beginners.
Young's version had supplanted for most readers -- and apparently in the minds of publishers -- the excellent 1916 American-Scandinavian Society version by Arthur G. Brodeur, which is long out of print (although available on-line at several sites). Brodeur's translation now seems a bit stilted, is not quite complete (minus "Hattatal," as usual) and in some places is just antiquated, but it is still worth consulting. Young's version really wasn't designed to compete with it as a resource for scholarship, but seems to have done so in practice. In terms of approach and ambitions, Brodeur's version is really the immediate predecessor of the Faulkes even more extensive translation. (Faulkes also edited the Icelandic text.)
Although Young or his publishers felt obliged the soften the relatively blunt language about some body parts and functions, and otherwise render it acceptable to nervous parents, schools, and librarians, I have always found it an enjoyable translation to read. Nordal's introduction, reflecting a consensus half-a-century old, which he had himself championed, is a bit more problematic, but what it has to say is worth considering, too.
A close match in contents to Young's selection is a new Penguin Classics volume from Jesse Byock, "The Prose Edda: Norse Mythology" (2005) to which Young's translation was briefly linked by Amazon. It omits the same large blocks of material (with a few samples offered), and is somewhat closer in style to Young's simple modern English; but the scholarship is considerably more up to date, and my first impression is that it is a much more attractive version. However, those worried about offending the prudish may still prefer Young's slightly bowdlerized rendering, which is by no means a bad translation. (The really interested will want all three; and have a web version of Brodeur bookmarked, too.)
(I can't honestly recommend any of the nineteenth-century versions, such Rasmus B. Anderson's 1869 version, also available on-line, or George Webbe Dasent's rather mannered 1842 translation, which doesn't seem to be available in digital form. Some may find these older translations readable, but at any point they may be seriously antiquated in textual or linguistic scholarship.)
I have discussed at some length the author (named as such in medieval sources), the name of the work, and the confusing existence of a "Poetic" or "Elder" Edda, and other complications, in a review of the Byock translation; to which I would direct the curious; and anyone pondering which version to buy.
I would point out, for those who don't bother with it, that the "About the Author" description for the Young translation, based on that used by the UC Press itself, flatly adopts as true Nordal's tentative suggestion that Snorri was the author of "Egil's Saga." This is a modern idea with no period support, and which has not met with overwhelming approval. ("Egil's Saga" is one of the greatest of the Sagas of the Icelanders, and I wish I could accept the attribution.)
The description also confuses both "Egil's Saga" and "Saint Olaf's Saga" with "Heimskringla," Snorri's compilation of biographies of the Kings of Norway (mostly his own work), in which his distinctive adaptations of the Sagas of Olaf Trygvasson and Olaf the Holy are incorporated. This is worth noting, since two in-print modern translations of "Heimskringla" silently include the two Olaf Sagas, while an Everyman's Library edition in two volumes treated the saga of "King Olaf Trygvesson" and "King Olaf the Saint" separately, and out of chronological order. There should be no need to look for both titles, unless you want that revision of the somewhat creaky nineteenth-century Samuel Laing translation.
Not the best translation available.......2005-05-08
Although a decent translation of Snorri's Prose Edda; it lacks the depth of the Faulkes' translation. Young only translated two of the three books of the Prose Edda; the Gylfagining and the Skaldscarpismal. Of all the translations of the Prose Edda only Faulks translates all three books and all three have important lore required by the earnest seeker of the lore of the Northern European peoples.
An oldie, but goodie.......2004-06-12
I was required to read this text for a college class that I was taking. I found the text to be very informative, but confusing to understand at time. I still reference this text for the mythology classes I teach, and occasionally I will read parts of it to my students. Newer translations of this work are easier to understand and a much better read, but this is still one of the orginal texts for Norse mythology.
Excerpts from the Prose Edda.......2001-03-20
While Young's translations are quite good, it should be noted that these are *selections* from the Prose Edda, and are not complete. Notably missing are large sections of Skaldskarpamal, or "Poetic Diction". This is a good edition if you just want the mythological stories, but having the complete Prose Edda is even better -- there are a lot of kennings and other details of the poetry that shed further light on the mythology.
Fortunately, there is a good, complete, and inexpensive translation available, and Amazon also carries it -- the Anthony Faulkes translation.
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The Norse gods are portrayed clearly and sympathetically........1999-11-09
This collection of stories, originally published in 1901, is a graceful retelling of stories from the Eddas. The Norse gods come alive for us as we watch Odin, Thor, Loki (here called Loke) perform their familiar roles for us in the length of time between The Making of the World and The Twilight of the Gods.
The individual stories, enclosed on each page by marvelous intertwined bird and animal cartouches, recount everything from Odin's trip to Mimir for knowledge to the making of Thor's hammer, to the loss of the apples of Idun, to the binding of the Fenris Wolf with a supple, strong, silken twine that was "made out of such things as the sound of a cat's footsteps, the roots of the mountains, the breath of a fish, and the sinews of a bear. Nothing could break it." Just as you think of a story you wish Hamilton Wright Mabie would tell, there it is spread before you. This collection surely will appeal to young people; it is a masterful retelling of the great Norse stories.
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Landscaping for Wildlife in the Pacific Northwest
Gardening With Native Plants of the Pacific Northwest
Propagation of Pacific Northwest Native Plants
The Northwest Gardeners' Resource Directory (9th Edition)
Cass Turnbull's Guide to Pruning: What, When, and Where and How to Prune for a More Beautiful Garden
