Small Animals of North America Coloring Book (Colouring Books)

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Colorable illustrations of 46 mammals: armadillo, badger, bobcat, kit fox, kangaroo rat, raccoon, pika, peccary, yellowbelly marmot, marten, ferret, weasel, mink, many more. Identifying captions.

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Small Animals of North America Coloring Book.......2000-04-21

I enjoyed this coloring book. It contains more than 40 detailed drawings of animals, with some surrounding habitat approprite to the animal. Information about each animal is given at the bottom of the page and colored versions of each drawing are included inside the cover for reference. I wouldn't recommend it for small children as the pictures are detailed. It would be perfect for the 8-12 age group. It would also need more information for each animal to be a used solely as an educational tool. For pure pleasure coloring, or as an artists reference it is quite good.

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A true Horticulturists guide.......2000-02-08

This is a 5 volume masterpiece which is definitely the quintessential guide for the very keen gardener and the horticultural professional and would also be an extremely good companion for the student in this industry. W. J. Bean takes us through many genera from A to Z and also includes some principals in the very first volume. A real gem. The books are fairly pricey which is not surprising due to the immense amount of work which went in to producing all the volumes. A true classic.

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Guide to Trees of Britain and Europe
C.J. Humphries , J.R. Press , and D.A. Sutton
Manufacturer: Hamlyn
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0600600211

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Tree lovers the world over will treasure this year-round handbook of facts to help in the identification and propagation of over 400 tree species. Close-up and full-growth drawings show common and rare species arranged according to their family systems, showing both their permanent and seasonal features, including details of their leaves and bark, flowers and seeds, fruits and nuts. Special feature: a 20-page chart summarizing over 350 at-a-glance checklists for easy identification of each species.

Field Guide to the Trees and Shrubs of Britain (Nature Lover's Library)

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Field Guide to the Trees and Shrubs of Britain (Nature Lover's Library)
Reader's Digest
Manufacturer: Reader's Digest
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Flowering Shrubs (RHS Practical Guides)
Royal Horticultural Society
Manufacturer: Dorling Kindersley Publishers Ltd
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0751306878

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The Glorious Trees of Great Britain
Piers Browne
Manufacturer: John Murray
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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Herb Garden (RHS Practical Guides)
Royal Horticultural Society
Manufacturer: Dorling Kindersley Publishers Ltd
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0751306886

The identification of trees & shrubs;: How to name any wild or garden tree or shrub likely to be met with in the British Isles;

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The identification of trees & shrubs;: How to name any wild or garden tree or shrub likely to be met with in the British Isles;
F. K Makins
Manufacturer: J.M. Dent
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

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The identification of trees & shrubs;: How to name any wild or garden tree or shrub likely to be met with in the British Isles; with 2,500 diagrs. made by the author

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The identification of trees & shrubs;: How to name any wild or garden tree or shrub likely to be met with in the British Isles; with 2,500 diagrs. made by the author
F. K Makins
Manufacturer: J.M. Dent
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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Mosaik's Photographic Key to the Trees and Shrubs of Great Britain and Northern Europe: A New System for Identifying Trees by Their Leaves and Needle

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Mosaik's Photographic Key to the Trees and Shrubs of Great Britain and Northern Europe: A New System for Identifying Trees by Their Leaves and Needle
Jean-Denis Godet , Clive King , and Helen M. Stevenson
Manufacturer: Geocenter International
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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Native Trees and Shrubs for Your Garden
Jill, Duchess of Hamilton
Manufacturer: Frances Lincoln Publishers
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0711222150

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The best guide to Scotland, updated every year
Walking tours of Edinburgh and Glasgow, plus driving tours to ancient abbeys, brooding castles, and other sights
Great golf courses--tee up in the land where "gowf" began
The finest spots for hiking, biking, and fishing
Top buys--tartans, tweeds, knits, and malt whiskies

Where to stay and eat, no matter what your budget
Stylish city hotels, seaside B&Bs, historic castles, country estates, charming guest houses, and farmhouse holidays
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Fresh, thorough, practical--off and on the beaten path
Costs, hours, descriptions, and tips by the thousands
All reviews based on visits by savvy writer-residents

36 pages of maps, 33 vacation itineraries, and more
Important contacts
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Fodor's Choice
What's Where
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New & Noteworthy
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Scotland on film
Complete index

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All Around Travel Guide- Thorough.......1998-06-01

History, driving tours, average maps, good coverage of everything you could possibly want to do- sports, cultural, eat, stay, shop, etc. Rough Guide more comprehensive.

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The Flag of our nation.......2000-06-21

The story, Red, White and Blue: The Story of the American Flag, is a well written and interesting book. It reveiles facts one would never find out. A smart buy for anyone wishing to learn more about our counries past.

Great/Easy Read!.......2000-06-19

Easy, punchy, informative reading about our nations #1 symbol! Beginning readers will love it!

The American Flag: The Red, White, and Blue (American History American Symbols)

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The American Flag: The Red, White, and Blue (American History American Symbols)
Jon Wilson
Manufacturer: Child's World
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Library Binding

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ASIN: 156766542X

My Red, White & Blue (Musical Board Book)

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My Red, White & Blue (Musical Board Book)

Manufacturer: WJ Fantasy, Inc.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Board book
ASIN: 1560213884

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My Red,White & Blue introduces the history, love and the reverence we share for our American flag. Through cheerful verse, we learn how our flag was created and why it has changed over time. Press the musical button to hear our national anthem, The Star-Spangled Banner, by Francis Scott Key.

Red, White, and Blue (Social Studies Emergent Readers)

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Red, White, and Blue (Social Studies Emergent Readers)
Susan Canizares , and Betsey Chessen
Manufacturer: Scholastic
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0439045649

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The Chase's publication.......2000-08-11

This is an up-to-date and useful bibliographic material for those people who work in the phytopatholgy area, due to it allows knowing pathogens such as bacteries, viruses and fungi that attack some ornamental plants; at once, it shows and describes the simptoms in affected plants. This compendium provides appropiate treatments for each affection, what is important not only for researches, but for all people who cultivate ornamental plants.

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This work describes all basic equaitons and inequalities that form the necessary and sufficient optimality conditions of variational calculus and the theory of optimal control. Subjects addressed include developments in the investigation of optimality conditions, new classes of solutions, analytical and computation methods, and applications.

Global Methods in Optimal Control Theory.

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Global Methods in Optimal Control Theory.

ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000IBDOIG

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During the 1790s, with Ireland in political crisis, Maria Edgeworth made a surprisingly rebellious choice: in Castle Rackrent, her first novel, she adopted an Irish Catholic voice to narrate the decline of a family from her own Anglo-Irish class. Castle Rackrent's narrator, Thady Quirk, gives us four generations of Rackrent heirs - Sir Patrick, the dissipated spendthrift; Sir Murtagh, the litigating fiend; Sir Kit, the brutal husband and gambling absentee; and Sir Condy, the lovable and improvident dupe of Thady's own son, Jason. With this satire on Anglo-Irish landlords Edgeworth pioneered the regional novel and inspired Sir Walter Scott's Waverly (1814). She also changed the focus of conflict in Ireland from religion to class and boldly predicted the rise of the Irish Catholic Bourgeoisie.

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The author of the following Memoirs has upon these grounds fair claims to the public favour and attention; he was an illiterate old steward, whose partiality to the family, in which he was bred and born, must be obvious to the reader. He tells the history of the Rackrent family in his vernacular idiom, and in the full confidence that Sir Patrick, Sir Murtagh, Sir Kit, and Sir Condy Rackrent's affairs will be as interesting to all the world as they were to himself. Those who were acquainted with the manners of a certain class of the gentry of Ireland some years ago, will want no evidence of the truth of honest Thady's narrative: to those who are totally unacquainted with Ireland, the following Memoirs will perhaps be scarcely intelligible, or probably they may appear perfectly incredible. For the information of the ignorant English reader, a few notes have been subjoined by the editor, and he had it once in contemplation to translate the language of Thady into plain English; but Thady's idiom is incapable of translation, and, besides, the authenticity of his story would have been more exposed to doubt if it were not told in his own characteristic manner.

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Unsettling Anglo-Irish Social Satire.......2000-10-13

Maria Edgeworth's "Castle Rackrent," published in 1800, the year of Irish union with Great Britain, and just two years after the 1798 Irish Rebellion, is supposedly a comic satire intended to show after years of unrest, that the Irish were civil enough to be assimilated into the British Empire. That is a deceptively simple description of a book in conflict with its author and itself.

Told to an "editor" by Thady Quirk, the 80+ year old steward of the Rackrent estate relates (very quickly) the story of the Rackrent family, Sir Patrick, Sir Murtagh, Sir Kit, and the absolutely dissolute Sir Condy. The O'Shaughlin family is forced by the Penal Laws to become Protestant and to change their name to Rackrent to regain their estate. The variously weak Rackrent men and their extremely strong and independent wives spend themselves into outrageous debt and tax their tenant farmers to the point of insanity over the course of the novel.

Apply Katie Trumpener's argument regarding the importance of the bog to Irish cultural nationalism in her book "Bardic Nationalism," and you begin to see that, all that seems to preserve the legacy of the O'Shaughlin family is their mucky bog, Allyballycarricko'shaughlin, and Thady Quirk, if he is to be trusted, himself seemingly stuck in a feudal past.

One of the major questions posed by Edgeworth's novel is "What is it to be Irish?" The Anglo-Irish Rackrent landlords claim an Irish Catholic heritage, but forfeit that personal history for the ephemeral run of the estate. The disenfranchised tenant farmers are forced to yield their produce to support the Rackrents's absurd behaviours. In the middle of this dynamic stand the novel's two most developed and challenging characters, Sir Condy Rackrent and Jason McQuirk, Thady's son. Raised in identical circumstances, these two seem to mark the novel's ultimate judgment on the future of Ireland. Is Condy the last of the feudal Irish aristocracy? Does Jason represent the model for the "British" assimilated Irishman?

Can outsiders even fathom Irishness? An almost comically unwieldy editorial apparatus, including a glossary and internal footnotes try to neutralize the foreignness and threat of the Irish for Edgeworth's intended British audience. "Castle Rackrent" is indeed an ambivalent testament to the future of the Irish nation as it is swallowed up into the British Empire at the turn of the 19th century, and an intriguing read.

Boring, boring!.......1998-05-09

This book is simply boring. There are fun things to it, especially if you know your Irish history, but these out-of-date parodies are still not good enough to make it worth reading. Under the narrative of Thady Quirk, which is -- at least to me -- fairly hard to get through, we are taken through the history of a protestant landlord family. If you truly dissect the book, there are interesting sides of it, but just as a plain reading, I found it simply boring. It is short and doesn't go into any detailed description of the many events that are told to the reader/listener, it's value were supposedly the mocking of the protestant ruling class of Ireland. Since that value is lost to most contemporary readers, there isn't all that much left.

Castle Rackrent and Ennui (Penguin Classics)

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Not bedtime reading.

Castle Rackrent and Ennui (Penguin Classics)
Maria Edgeworth , and Marilyn Butler
Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0140433201

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Not bedtime reading........2000-08-18

Edgeworth wrote about the protestant upper class in Ireland around the turn of the 18th/19th century. At the time, especially in Rackrent, her most famous work, she wrote of the machinations of bad landlords and how their families died out. It is interesting that she was writing about the demise of these bad landlords, suggesting that things had improved in this more enlightened age, at a time when the Irish Peasant was worse off than ever. Edgeworth wrote of a society that was on the brink of extinction, but she was not aware of this, since she was part of that society. This book is noteworthy for what it is not. It is not Irish literature. It is poor british literature and would have no merit at all if it did not serve to contrast with the high quality scribblings of the uneducated and unwashed downtrodden masses. Like the protestant ruling class it is sparse, stilted and haughty. Not a fun read.

2 Irish National Tales: Castle Rackrent/The Wild Irish Girl (New Riverside Editions)

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2 Irish National Tales: Castle Rackrent/The Wild Irish Girl (New Riverside Editions)
Maria Edgeworth , Sydney Owenson , and James Smith
Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Company
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0618084878

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Castle Rackrent
Maria Edgeworth
Manufacturer: Century Co.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000RKU7JW

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Castle Rackrent
maria edgeworth
Manufacturer: Oxford U. P
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Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B0000CMBKE

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Castle Rackrent
Maria Edgeworth
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OKLBZ4

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CASTLE RACKRENT

Manufacturer: New York: E.p. Dutton and Company, 1928
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000HG5N22

CASTLE RACKRENT [EasyRead Comfort Edition]

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CASTLE RACKRENT [EasyRead Comfort Edition]
Maria Edgeworth
Manufacturer: ReadHowYouWant.com
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ASIN: 142503568X
Release Date: 2006-11-01

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Published in 1800, "Castle Rackrent" is regarded as the first family saga and first regional novel in English. It chronicles the lives of four generations of 18th-century Irish landlords, and how their negligent behaviour towards life and money takes them to the edge of bankruptcy and ruin. A stimulating satire!

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CASTLE RACKRENT [EasyRead Edition]
Maria Edgeworth
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ASIN: 1425035264
Release Date: 2006-11-01

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CASTLE RACKRENT [EasyRead Large Edition]

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CASTLE RACKRENT [EasyRead Large Edition]
Maria Edgeworth
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ASIN: 1425036023
Release Date: 2006-11-01

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