Lessons from the Wolverine

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Teaming up once again with Tom Pohrt, the illustrator of Crow and Weasel, noted environmental writer Barry Lopez offers a simply written but deeply learned fable set in the high Arctic. His story involves talking animals, wise and not so wise humans, long-nursed memories, and features of the northern landscape that are millions of years old. Like Crow and Weasel, Lessons from the Wolverine is suitable for younger readers, but older ones will cherish Lopez's nostalgia for a time when it was easier "to be near animals until they showed you something that you didn't imagine or you hadn't seen or heard."

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wolverine.......2006-09-18

A short story with a snapshot of the far north Inuvialuit / wolverine ..good for your soul

Lopez explores the companionship of human and animal souls.......1998-12-27

Of all the people I know of living on this earth, Barry Holstun Lopez is the one with whom I would most like to have a conversation. Knowledge, ethics, and artistry combine to make his one of the richest voices in contemporary literature. His writings reveal the fierce innocence of nature and animals which, at our best, we may share. Tom Pohrt's immersive images set the shadowy tale of the wolverine in a place that feels familiar as a dream.

Lessons From the Wolverine Inscribed 1ST Edition

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Lessons From the Wolverine Inscribed 1ST Edition
Barry Lopez
Manufacturer: UNIV OF GA PRESS+
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000UD9UZS

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LESSONS FROM THE WOLVERINE
Barry Lopez
Manufacturer: Key Porter Books
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000NRWOXQ

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Lessons from the Wolverine
Barry Lopez
Manufacturer: Georgia
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ASIN: B000O5ZFMY

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Lessons From the Wolverine Inscribed 1ST Edition
Barry Lopez
Manufacturer: UNIV OF GA PRESS+
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000PWE16W

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Comprehensive, definitive study of various Boletus, Boletinus, Strobilomyces mushrooms found in North Carolina, neighboring states. Most useful in other parts of country too. 66 plates, 6 in color.

Boleti from Western North Carolina (Contributions to the New York Botanical Gardens)

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Boleti from Western North Carolina (Contributions to the New York Botanical Gardens)
William A Murrill
Manufacturer: New York Botanical Garden
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ASIN: B00089T4TG

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Five hundred years before Columbus, a young Viking named Leif Eriksson crossed the Atlantic and became the first-known European to set foot in North America. The tale of the crossing has been passed down for 1000 years. Now Elizabeth Cody Kimmel retells it to a new audience, painting a vivid picture of what Eriksson might have experienced. Includes reproductions of maps, illustrations, and Viking artifacts.

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An exciting saga of the Lief Eriksson expedition.......2003-12-14

Before Columbus is an exciting saga of the Lief Eriksson expedition five hundred years before Columbus provides kids in grades 3-5 with an excellent saga which reads like fiction but includes all known facts about his incredible journey. New audiences will appreciate this vivid retelling of what Lief might have experienced on his Viking expedition.

Before 1492: Christopher Columbus's Formative Years (Essays on the Columbian Encounter Series)

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Before 1492: Christopher Columbus's Formative Years (Essays on the Columbian Encounter Series)
William D., Jr. Phillops
Manufacturer: American Historical Association
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Before Columbus: Who Discovered America?

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Before Columbus: Who Discovered America?
Harry Edward Neal
Manufacturer: Julian Messner
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Explorers of the Americas Before Columbus

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Explorers of the Americas Before Columbus
George Delucenay Leon
Manufacturer: Diane Pub Co
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ASIN: 0788168460

Who discovered America?: Settlers and explorers of the New World before the time of Columbus

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Who discovered America?: Settlers and explorers of the New World before the time of Columbus
Patricia Lauber
Manufacturer: Random House
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Binding: Unknown Binding

Portugal's Mrs. Chris Columbus/America B. C. (Before Columbus)

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Portugal's Mrs. Chris Columbus/America B. C. (Before Columbus)
Fred Burrous
Manufacturer: Regent Pr
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ASIN: 1587900076

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Fascinating, fact-filled reference guide provides the naturally curious as well as veteran botanists with detailed histories of trees, data about age, size and weight; suggestions for identifying trees and even a selection of poems about these majestic forms of plant life. Over 100 illus. and 21 photographs.

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Odd and informative.......2006-01-28

I got an old copy of this book that was appearently once in a library. It looked like it was going to be outdated and of questionable value. After reading the first 60 or so questions, however, I found the book to be timeless and a pleasant sort of quirky. The questions and answers are not what I expected - 106. What kind of wood was Noah's arc made from? And the breadth of the topics is astounding - 658. Is latex always milky?

While this is truly trivia, it is enjoyable, well-organized trivia about one of my favorite subjects. If you have a deep interest in forests, biology, trees or trivia, this book should keep you busy for a good 6 - 10 hours.

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1001 Questions Answered About Trees
Rutherford Platt
Manufacturer: DODD MEAD/PENGUIN PUTNAM
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000UDV7AO

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1001 Questions Answered About Trees
Rutherford Platt
Manufacturer: Dodd, Mead & Company
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ASIN: B000O2LRHO

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1001 Questions Answered About Trees
Rutherford Platt
Manufacturer: DODD MEAD/PENGUIN PUTNAM
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000SI8XBC

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This book contains a systematic study of ecological communities of two or three interacting populations. Starting from the Lotka-Volterra system, various regulating factors are considered, such as rates of birth and death, predation and competition. The different factors can have a stabilizing or a destabilizing effect on the community, and their interplay leads to increasingly complicated behavior. Studying and understanding this path to greater dynamical complexity of ecological systems constitutes the backbone of this book. On the mathematical side, the tool of choice is the qualitative theory of dynamical systems - most importantly bifurcation theory, which describes the dependence of a system on the parameters. This approach allows one to find general patterns of behavior that are expected to be observed in ecological models. Of special interest is the reaction of a given model to disturbances of its present state, as well as to changes in the external conditions. This leads to the general idea of "dangerous boundaries" in the state and parameter space of an ecological system. The study of these boundaries allows one to analyze and predict qualitative and often sudden changes of the dynamics - a much-needed tool, given the increasing antropogenic load on the biosphere.

As a spin-off from this approach, the book can be used as a guided tour of bifurcation theory from the viewpoint of application. The interested reader will find a wealth of intriguing examples of how known bifurcations occur in applications. The book can in fact be seen as bridging the gap between mathematical biology and bifurcation theory.

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Now reissued – William March's 1954 classic thriller that's as chilling, intelligent and timely as ever before. This paperback reissue includes a new P.S. section with author interviews, insights, features, suggested reading and more.

What happens to ordinary families into whose midst a child serial killer is born? This is the question at the center of William march's classic thriller. After its initial publication in 1954, the book went on to become a million–copy bestseller, a wildly successful Broadway show, and a Warner Brothers film. The spine–tingling tale of little Rhoda Penmark had a tremendous impact on the thriller genre and generated a whole perdurable crop of creepy kids. Today, The Bad Seed remains a masterpiece of suspense that's as chilling, intelligent, and timely as ever before.

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rhoda is FABULOUS - - period........2007-08-21

i got this book at noon the other day and finished it by eight that evening - - a page turner, gripping, gothic, yet campy and with a sense of irony about that campiness that endeared the book to me.
eloquently written, his language is engaging yet elegant, revealing and graphic, yet dark and mysterious, like sinister housewife gossip and whispered rumours.
if you root for the anti-hero (and believe me this book has one HELL of a little anti-hero to offer), this is definitely the book for you. i found myself time and again reading it, eyes wide, mouth open... "oh my god. she's the devil... she's FABULOUS!!" Rhoda is an utterly timeless character, and you can tell the author cares about her a lot; she's a little machine, a robot with no soul, she plays back what you want to hear like a broken record and kills without a second thought, but somehow you admire her, even begin to be taken in by her.
this book captures the feeling of the time it takes place, i see some incredibly caucasian small southern/east-coast town, a nightmare of whitewash, green grass, sunshine and trees and bushes bursting with flowers.

i would like to say how mortified that i am that Eli Roth is helming the (surprise!) REMAKE of this story... hollywood. rotters. yech.

so before the whole franchise becomes tainted with modern horror dreck of the ilk of hostel and saw, READ THIS BOOK and fall in love with it.

The murderous preteen has unfortunately become a banal headline.......2007-01-21

As with many authors and artists William March's work was rejected and he died a broken man. Publishers told him that The Bad Seed lacked verisimilitude. The truth is there have always been sociopathic children among us, but today the headline is all too common. I was inspired to read this classic after reading Dr. Robert D. Hares Without Conscience: The disturbing world of the psychopaths among us. Even though The Bad Seed is a work of fiction March had some really good insights that Dr. Hare quoted.

The only thing I found slightly corny about the book was that March tried to incorporate a fictional encounter with the real psychoanalyst, Sigmund Freud. Also the book is much better than the original movie version. [...]

An enduring classic of suspense.......2007-01-07

To all outward appearances, little Rhoda Penmark is every parent's dream. Quiet, neat, studious, and polite, the eight year old easily charms most adults. But lurking under Rhoda's pleasant facade is a ruthless, calculating sociopath who is willing to kill to get what she wants. Her first victim is an ex-landlady who promised her a pretty bauble in her will. Her second victim is a classmate who wins an award Rhoda covets. The third, a janitor who makes the mistake of threatening to expose her.

This thin volume is so chilling because March portrays Rhoda so realistically. Like most eight year olds, Rhoda can be willful and selfish, but where most children would probably throw a tantrum, Rhoda takes deadly action. The horror is increased by her mother's complicity in her daughter's crimes--Christine Penmark's failure to accept the truth, and her failure to take action against Rhoda once the seeds of doubt have been planted in her mind, frustrate and frighten the reader. Eventually, Christine does react, but is it too late? Can a force of nature like Rhoda be stopped? You'll have to read the utterly absorbing The Bad Seed to discover the surprising and disturbing answer.

Devilish kids are freaky.......2006-05-26

A very disturbing tale, not only regarding the child but the generational "curse" the story depicts. Good for a weekend scare!

Creepy. Disturbing. Unsettling........2006-04-21

The Bad Seed, a 1954 best-selling novel by William March, is a psychological thriller that leaves you with mental goose bumps at the end. Taking place in a small, socially rigid town in the seemingly blah era of post-WWII , the story tells the tale of eight-year-old serial killer Rhoda Penmark and the fatal effects of her evil on family and friends.

As the novel progresses, Rhoda blooms into an experienced and successful murderess while Rhoda's mother, Christine, struggles passionately between her love for her daughter and the horror of what her daughter really is - all while uncovering her own terrifying past.

If you are looking for a quick, suspenseful read, the Bad Seed is for you. While the book does have a slightly dated feel, and sections of Christine Penmark's dialogue screams with cliches, The Bad Seed remains a good choice for reading during a weekend at the beach or on a rainy Saturday. The ending is satisfying, and you'll discover after you finish that somehow during the novel, William March successfully planted a seed in your mind - the seed that it is possible for pure evil to appear in the form of a child.

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Good relaunch of Earth's Elemental

Swamp Thing (Vol. 1): Bad Seed
Andy Diggle , and Enrique Breccia
Manufacturer: Vertigo
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 140120421X

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The first story arc of the acclaimed return of SWAMP THING is collected in BAD SEED, reprinting issues #1-6 of the new ongoing series written by Andy Diggle and illustrated by Enrique Breccia. BAD SEED finds the Swamp Thing joined to the Earth itself, surpassing even his old power as the champion of the Green, and no longer inhibited by the human conscience of his original template, Alec Holland. Without this constraint, the Swamp Thing threatens to re-balance the natural world at the cost of countless human casualties #151; including his own daughter Tef+ and his love, Abby #151; unless the man who originally showed him his true nature, John Constantine, can find a way to stop him...

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Good relaunch of Earth's Elemental.......2005-10-14

Andy Diggle, while his run was very short on the series, adequately re-acquainted readers with the big leafy superhero with some of the worst luck ever. It has been years since Alec Holland/Swamp Thing became Earth's elemental, with control over all aspects of nature. Having shed his human soul, he isn't so warm to mankind anymore. Enter his ex-wife, his teenage daughter, and a certain mage in a trenchcoat, and some real trouble is brewing.
Diggle and Breccia make for a good team. Diggle obviously relishes in the past storylines of ST, while Breccia goes hog wild creating slimy, hideous creatures. New readers, however, will be a bit puzzled. I've read every volume of Swamp Thing available and I actually became lost at times. In the gap between Regenesis and Bad Seed, a LOT happened to the Holland family. I read up some online to get a good idea... but between Rick Veitch's run, a series of bad decisions following that, a concluding run on the original Vertigo title by Mark Millar, and a relaunch title primarily featuring Tefe (Alec and Abby's daughter), many people missed a lot. And Diggle does not do much to bring us up to speed. Aside from this, however, it is a treat for fans to see the title revamped, and Diggle's obvious enthusiasm is contagious.
My advice: read the other volumes first, get up to speed online, then delve into the new series. It's really worth the effort.

Bad Seed A Play in two acts Patty McCormack on cover dramatization of Novel

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Bad Seed A Play in two acts Patty McCormack on cover dramatization of Novel
based on novel by William Marsh, fotos by Fred Fehl, inner flap DJ tape residue, blank endpapers former owner name cover tape residue Maxwell Anderson
Manufacturer: Dodd, Mead NY
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000JD9MDO

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The Huntress No. 8 Nov (A Bad Seed)
Joey Cavalieri
Manufacturer: DC
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Comic
ASIN: B000VRBITY

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