Chicken Soup for the Nature Lover's Soul: Inspiring Stories of Joy, Insight and Adventure in the Great Outdoors (Canfield, Jack)

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For anyone who enjoys spending time in the great outdoors: hikers, mountain climbers, snowboarders, kayakers, campers, beach-lovers, tree-huggers and more! Stories of adventure are complemented by tales of introspection and quiet moments that focus on the exhilaration of bonds created outdoors and the beauty of natural landscapes.

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best bamboo book out of print!???

Bamboo World: Clumping Bamboos & How to Use Them
Victor Cusack , and Deidre Stewart
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The Book of Bamboo: A Comprehensive Guide to This Remarkable Plant, Its Uses, and Its History

Bamboo for Gardens

ASIN: 0864179340

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best bamboo book out of print!???.......2001-11-17

Bamboo World is one of the very best , most comprehensive,most
detailed , best photographed, authoritative texts on bamboos
and clumping bamboos especially that there is (was!) available.
Why the heck it would now be out of print is a real mystery.
It is also a pity and a blow to those of us cultivating
clumping bamboos.
This book is IT for those who do.
Bring it back into print ASAP....
please ;^)

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Follow Romans, Moors and pilgrims on a spectacular journey along the length of Spain. Walking the Via de la Plata leads you along an ancient 1000km pilgrimage route from Sevilla in southern Spain to the country's northwest corner, where St James is entombed at Santiago de Compostela, and on to the wild west coast at Finisterre.

Begin your journey in Andalucía, home to flamenco, tapas and splendid Moorish architecture, and bask in a sunny climate ideal for cork oaks, cacti and cotton. Then head north on a Roman road, crossing glorious arched bridges, and passing hippodromes, amphitheatres and fabulous mosaics. You'll pass through places made famous by rampaging Christian knights and wander through grand houses built by the conquistadores who overran the Americas. Finally, you'll cross into northwest Spain, green as Ireland and damp as can be, where thick stone houses and splendid rural architecture dot isolated mountainsides.

While you walk, we'll point out wildlife found nowhere else in the world, such as the Iberian lynx, the most endangered wild cat in the world. We'll introduce you to bizarre festivals where cows clamber up town walls or masked men batter spectators with large sticks. We'll help you sort out your fino from your amontillado, discover unique local wines, and try (or avoid) regional dishes from deep-fried rooster comb to spicy snails. And we'll smooth your journey with practical information, from places to stay to useful phrases in Castellano (Spanish) and Galego (Galician).

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One star is one star too many.......2007-07-14

I carried this book on my walk from Seville to Santiago de Compostela. Both historical notes and route directions are inaccurate. Give it one star for pleasant writing style.

An excellent guide.......2007-06-30

The first reviewer seems somewhat confused; this is actually a very good guide to the Via de la Plata route of the Camino de Santiago. The book is quite thorough and has proven very useful to us as we plan our trip. Certainly worth purchasing.

As good as its Camino Frances companion.......2007-03-25

This "review" is posted mostly to correct the strange one-star rating of the first reviewer whose positive comments really don't justify it. My remarks about "Walking the Camino de Santiago" by the same authors fully apply to this publication as well. The Via de la Plata is longer and more strenuous, but also much less crowded, than the traditional Camino Frances.

Camino in Spain.......2006-11-04

When I walked on Camino Frances last year, I used Brierly's book, which was a great book. Next spring I plan to walk Via de la Plata, which is written by only few people and therefore little information is available. In fact this book is the only book having Via de la Plata in its title, that I can find on Amazon. (Surprizingly "Walking in Spain" by Lonely Planet ignores this route.) However, looking over the book, it is reasonably thorough and helpful. Particularly it has good maps and lodging information, which are most crucial for the pilgrimage.
I will give a try and hope I'll make it.

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As widespread debate swirls around topics like genetic engineering and the environment, a thorough understanding of biology is becoming more and more important. The HarperCollins Dictionary of Biology is a valuable reference tools for students and professionals alike. More than 5,600 entries go far beyond basic definitions to provide in-depth explanations and examples. Nearly three hundred diagrams ilustrate such concepts as genetic organization, plant structure, and human physiology. The dictionary covers all the major subjects -- anatomy, biochemistry, ecology, evolutionary theories, and much more. Biographies of important biologists that detail their contributions to the field are also included.

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HarperCollins Dictionary of Biology
W.G.; Margham, J. P. Hale
Manufacturer: Collins
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OETBES

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The second edition of this well-established reference work is thoroughly revised and extensively expanded. Easy to use and up-to-date, this five-volume set covers some 50,000 trivial names of more than 40,000 substances - almost twice as many as the first edition.

The handbook thus forms the key to a wealth of useful information on 40,000 organic compounds, including:

* non-systematic names and structures of simple organic compounds
* names and structures of natural products with known constitutions
* common acronyms of important compounds
* selected trade names of dyes, drugs and other industrial chemical products
* many more valuable information

Each entry provides the trivial name, in English and German, of the compound, its structural formula with full stereochemistry, the molecular formula, CAS Registry Number, and a selected citation for further information on synthesis, structure and activity.

The final volume contains two comprehensive indexes, which ensure users move quickly from common name to structure.

Dictionary of Common Names: Trivialnamen-Handbuch

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Dictionary of Common Names: Trivialnamen-Handbuch

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Dictionary of common names =: Trivialnamen-Handbuch

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This volume includes the five lecture courses given at the CIME-EMS School on "Stochastic Methods in Finance" held in Bressanone/Brixen, Italy 2003. It deals with innovative methods, mainly from stochastic analysis, that play a fundamental role in the mathematical modelling of finance and insurance: the theory of stochastic processes, optimal and stochastic control, stochastic differential equations, convex analysis and duality theory. Five topics are treated in detail: Utility maximization in incomplete markets; the theory of nonlinear expectations and its relationship with the theory of risk measures in a dynamic setting; credit risk modelling; the interplay between finance and insurance; incomplete information in the context of economic equilibrium and insider trading.

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In this novel set in antebellum America, the Garies--a white southerner, his mulatto slave-turned-wife, and their two children--have moved to Philadelphia from Georgia.

"`And how do you like your house?' asked Mrs. Stevens; `it is on the same plan as ours, and we find ours very convenient. They both formerly belonged to Walters... Do you intend to buy?' `It is very probable that we shall, if we continue to like Philadelphia,' answered Mr. Garie. `I'm delighted to hear that,' rejoined she--`... ever since Mr. Stevens purchased our house we have been tormented with the suspicion that Walters would put a family of niggers in his.' Mr. Garie here interrupted her by making some remark quite foreign to the subject, with the intention, no doubt, of drawing her off this topic. The attempt was, however, an utter failure, for she continued--`I think all those that are not slaves ought to be sent out of the country back to Africa, where they belong: they are, without exception, the most ignorant, idle, miserable set I ever saw.' `I think,' said Mr. Garie, `I can show you at least one exception...'"--from The Garies and Their Friends

Originally published in London in 1857, The Garies and Their Friends was the second novel published by an African American and the first to chronicle the experience of free blacks in the pre-Civil War northeast. The novel anticipates themes that were to become important in later African American fiction, including miscegenation and "passing," and tells the story of the Garies and their friends, the Ellises, a "highly respectable and industrious coloured family."

"It is remarkable that, even as the study of African American literature and culture has become central to any number of projects within American intellectual life, so little attention has been given a work as significant as Frank J. Webb's The Garies and Their Friends."--from the 1997 introduction by Robert Reid-Pharr

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Mrs. Garie had determined not to be sea-sick upon any account whatever, being fully persuaded she could brave the ocean with impunity, and was, accordingly, very brisk and blithe-looking, as she walked up and down upon the deck of the vessel. In the course of a few hours they sailed out of the harbour, and were soon in the open sea. She began to find out how mistaken she had been, as unmistakable symptoms convinced her of the vanity of all human calculations. "Why, you are not going to be ill, Em, after all your valiant declarations!" exclaimed Mr. Garie, supporting her unsteady steps, as they paced to and fro.

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The second novel published by an African American--a neglected treasure and a complete surprise.......2006-12-21

"The Garies and Their Friends" is a delightful discovery, especially taking into account its inauspicious title and the cloyingly sentimentalist prose of its opening chapters (think Louisa May Alcott's novels "for girls"). I'm not sure what I expected from this, the second novel published by an African American (in 1857), but its thriller-paced plot and distinctive characters took me by surprise--as did the author's brave and brazen willingness to confront a variety of then-controversial social and racial issues.

The Garies are a slave-owning Southerner, his beloved slave-turned-wife, and their two mixed-race children. To escape the racism of the South and the strict laws of Georgia prohibiting freedom for the children, the family moves to Philadelphia. Living in a white neighborhood, they both meet their remarkable collection of "friends," including the respectably middle-class and black Ellis family, and discover that the racism in the North is of a different, and equally dangerous, nature. Of particular concern is the couple next door, a wife appalled by their new mixed-race neighbors and a husband who hatches a plot to rob the Garies of their wealth.

The twists of the plot subject the Garies and their friends to everyday travails and once-in-a-lifetime opportunities, to riots, murders, and fraud, to well-meaning benefactors and corrupt politicians. Two siblings are separated--one to a black family, the other raised by a white academy--and their different journeys are a novel unto themselves (and this subplot results in one of the most heart-rending and fascinating portions of the book).

Although the obvious moral of Webb's work is posed as a tirade against the evil taint of the twin institutions of slavery and of racism, its underlying theme is even more basic: Why can't we all just get along? At times, Webb seems to imply that the simple acquisition of money will help erase many of the distinctions between black and white, but, fortunately, Webb's novel is a long way from being an assimilationist tract.

Rather than suggesting that equality results when blacks behave more like whites, he advocates precisely the opposite: Emily, the young woman raised in the black community, writes to her brother, who is "passing" and hopes to marry a white woman: "[Y]ou ask me to sever, once and for ever, my connection with a people who, you say, can only degrade me. Yet how much happier am I, sharing their degradation, than you appear to be! . . . You walk on the side of the oppressor--I, thank God, am with the oppressed." Webb's opinion of blacks who "become white" is clear from the tale's tragic outcome.

The style is typical of much of the sentimental novels of the nineteenth century, and it's initially difficult to get past the effusive exclamations and the too-cute decorum that fills the dialogue and even the narrative itself ("Oh, isn't that a pretty calico, mother, that with the green ground?" "He had just that hop-and-go kind of gait, and he was the funniest man that ever lived."). But give it time--after the first 50 pages, I read the book in one sweep, astonished that Webb was able to incorporate so many inflammatory issues of the contemporary scene into a relentlessly gripping, often comic, devastatingly tragic, always heartwarming, and ultimately triumphant story. The book's decorous tone and its presentation of horrific injustice result in a jarring dissonance that conspires to make the novel even more powerful. I cannot recommend this book highly enough.

Adventures in the wilderness (Gary and Larry Gopher and their friends)

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Adventures in the wilderness (Gary and Larry Gopher and their friends)
Eric L Salander
Manufacturer: Delgren
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: B0006YA27G

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The Garies and Their Friends
J. Frank Webb
Manufacturer: IndyPublish
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The Garies and Their Friends

Manufacturer: Arno Press and The New York Times
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000HF1QF6

Gary and Larry Gopher and their friends: Book one (Gary and Larry Gopher and their friends)

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Gary and Larry Gopher and their friends: Book one (Gary and Larry Gopher and their friends)
Eric L Salander
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THE GARIES AND THEIR FRIENDS. Preface by Harriet Beecher Stowe. New Preface by Arthur P. Davis.

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THE GARIES AND THEIR FRIENDS. Preface by Harriet Beecher Stowe. New Preface by Arthur P. Davis.
Frank J. Webb
Manufacturer: Arno/ New York Times,
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ASIN: B000R90N92

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