Trees of the Eastern and Central United States and Canada

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Best one-volume guide to 140 native trees and important escapes. Full descriptions, woodlore, range, other information. Over 600 illustrations. Handy pocket size. "One of the best books we have ever seen about trees." — Woodmen of the World Magazine.

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Excellent Reference Material!.......2002-02-08

The information is sound and proven. It is a very easy to reference guide and is easily organized. It's also a relatively pocket-sized book which makes it excellent for carrying in the field (where it can be best put to use anyway).

The only downsides are that the book's content is about 60 years old so all of the pictures are in black and white. That and the pages are done in regular paper instead of something glossy. Consequently, if you take it in the field with you a lot, the pages will get dirty fast. If they'd simply do a full-color revision on some glossy paper stock it'd get the full five stars.

it is a great easy to use, precise way to identify trees........1999-09-14

I used it in my Biology class and i decided to get a copy for myself, it is a great easy to use tree identifier. It is much nicer than the Audobon series.

Simply the best there is!!!!!.......1998-10-06

I have used this book for over 25 years and still come back to it every time, that someone has a question about trees. It gives clear concise descriptions of not only the leaves, but bark and twigs. It has many trees in it that other books omit, and I find that is many times a fairly common tree that is overlooked.

My daughter used the book for High School Biology, now my 14 yo son is using it and younger son is using it in his life science course.

Simply the best tree guide available for starters or experts.......1998-03-01

This guide uses a simple key to identify most common (and a few uncommon)trees in the Eastern US and Canada. At the end of the search are some of the most interesting facts and details I've found. At this price, this book should be in everybody's hip pocket every time you enter the woods!

A Field Guide to Trees and Shrubs: Field Marks of All Trees, Shrubs, and Woody Vines That Grow Wild in the Northeaster and North-central United States and in South-eastern and South-central Canada (Peterson Field Guide Series)

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A Field Guide to Trees and Shrubs: Field Marks of All Trees, Shrubs, and Woody Vines That Grow Wild in the Northeaster and North-central United States and in South-eastern and South-central Canada (Peterson Field Guide Series)

Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Company
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000AUYQ9Q

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This volume in the famous Peterson Field Guide Series is a new and very practical approach to the identification of the trees, shrubs, and vines of northeastern and central North America. All woody plants founds in this area, from lofty pines to the lowly partridgeberry, are described and most of them illustrated for quick and accurate identification. It follows the Peterson system of identification, which emphasizes the visual differences and similarities rather than taxonomic relationships. The entire book, from the organization of its contents to the pattern of its pages, has been planned for maximum usefullness in the field.

A FIELD GUIDE TO TREES AND SHRUBS. FIELD MARKS OF ALL TREES, SHRUBS, AND WOODY VINES THAT GROW WILD IN THE NORTHEASTERN AND NORTH-CENTRAL UNITED STATES AND IN SOUTH-EASTERN AND SOUTH-CENTRAL CANADA.

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A FIELD GUIDE TO TREES AND SHRUBS. FIELD MARKS OF ALL TREES, SHRUBS, AND WOODY VINES THAT GROW WILD IN THE NORTHEASTERN AND NORTH-CENTRAL UNITED STATES AND IN SOUTH-EASTERN AND SOUTH-CENTRAL CANADA.
G. Petrides
Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Company
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000WPZG6G

Trees of the Central Hardwood Forests of North America: An Identification and Cultivation Guide

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For the Serious horticulturist or the Home Gardener
This is not the book to get students interested in trees.

Trees of the Central Hardwood Forests of North America: An Identification and Cultivation Guide
Donald J. Leopold , William C. McComb , and Robert N. Muller
Manufacturer: Timber Press, Incorporated
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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Encompassing part or all of 28 eastern U.S. states and two Canadian provinces, the central hardwood forests cover a variety of habitats and include trees adapted to a broad range of conditions. This book describes 188 native or naturalized tree species found in these forests, plus 84 trees that are commonly planted in the region.

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For the Serious horticulturist or the Home Gardener.......2004-07-19

This scholarly manual explains the different forest communities found locally and describes the 188 native species that make up this diverse ecology, with the goal of encouraging the conservation of this ecosystem and the use of native trees in the landscape.

This is not the book to get students interested in trees........1998-08-27

This is primarily an ID guide to 188 native and naturalized trees, and another 84 that are commonly planted in what is termed the Central Hardwood Forests, defined as those portions of eastern North America dominated by deciduous trees. This is an octopus-like area that includes all or parts of 30 states and provinces to varying degrees. The only states wholly within the "shading" are IL,IN,RI, and KY; nearly so are CT, OH, TN, and MO. Small to large chunks of MN, WI, MI, PA, WV, IA,NE, KS, OK, TX, AK, AL, GA, NC, VA, MD, NJ, NY, MA, NH, Quebec and Ontario fall within the boundary; but ME and VT are inexplicably outside it, as are vast areas of deciduous forest in New York state. Few if any of the trees in this book are restricted to the Central Hardwood Forests -- most range widely beyond the boundary of this arbitrarily defined region, and many barely enter it at all. The reader would be better served if the book simply covered trees of the northeastern United States, without contriving an ecological framework for choosing species to write about. Most of the book consists of tree descriptions alphabetized from Abies to Zanthoxylum, with over 900 photos of varying quality, and maps for most species. Data headings are Habit, Bark, Twigs, Buds, Leaves, Fruit, Wood, Habitat and Range, Propagation, Wildlife Value, Landscape Value, and Best Recognizable Features. Discussions are very brief. A section of 116 color photos adds a welcome break to the cramped and confusing composition of the text. Summer and winter keys to genera are confusing due to the inclusion of numerals referring to previous couplets, and left unexplained; and because there is no identation, or spacing between couplets. The book is sturdily made and contains valid information, but is uninteresting in its style and mostly visually unappealing. It is not likely to inspire students.

Trees and Shrubs : Field Marks of All Trees, Shrubs, and Woody Vines That Grow Wild in the Northern and North-Central United States and in South-Eastern and South-Central Canada

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Trees and Shrubs : Field Marks of All Trees, Shrubs, and Woody Vines That Grow Wild in the Northern and North-Central United States and in South-Eastern and South-Central Canada

Manufacturer: Easton Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Leather Bound
ASIN: B000HW3JHM

Trees of Eastern & Central United States & Canada

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Trees of Eastern & Central United States & Canada
William M. Harlow
Manufacturer: Peter Smith Publisher Inc
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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Diurnal variation in methane emissions in relation to plants and environmental variables in the Inner Mongolia marshes [An article from: Atmospheric Environment]

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Diurnal variation in methane emissions in relation to plants and environmental variables in the Inner Mongolia marshes [An article from: Atmospheric Environment]
Z.-P. Wang , and X.-G. Han
Manufacturer: Elsevier
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

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ASIN: B000RR7WNO

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This digital document is a journal article from Atmospheric Environment, published by Elsevier in . The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Plants and environmental variables are of importance for methane (CH"4) emission from soils to the atmosphere. To understand the key factors controlling CH"4 emission in temperate wetlands, we performed field measurements in the Inner Mongolia marshes to compare the diurnal CH"4 fluxes between summer and winter, between a sandy site and an organic site, and between the wet meadow and the waterlogged habitat of each site. (i) In the summer, we found apparent diurnal patterns in CH"4 emission with unique peaks. For the sandy site, temperatures and water table were mediated to some degree by solar radiation, and thus their overall effect was noted in a diurnal cycle of CH"4 flux. Plant photosynthesis greatly affected the mechanisms of CH"4 production, oxidation and transport, resulting in a diurnal variation of CH"4 emission with a peak in the late afternoon and the lowest value immediately prior to sunrise of the next day. In the organic site, plant-mediated CH"4 transport, together with the absence of a significant relationship between CH"4 flux and environmental variables, indicated that diurnal CH"4 flux was determined by vascular plants. (ii) In the winter, we found slight double peaks in CH"4 emissions in the sandy site but no diurnal variation rhythm in the organic site. The slight double peaks coincided with the maximal temperatures.

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Vegetation Dynamics of Mongolia
Clanton C. Black
Manufacturer: DASCHER TRANS UK LTD RETURNS
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000N5BEWA

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Spilling over with spectacular vistas and practical information, Sonoma is the ultimate guide to one of California's premier wine regions. This new edition is fully updated, including five new winery profiles as well as a fresh new cover and interior design. Renowned wine and food writer Heidi H. Cusick-Dickerson reveals which wineries have the best gardens, the most informative tours, and the most magnificent views. She also highlights the best season to visit each site and offers insightful information on winemaking and local history. Sidebars outline directions, visiting hours, and winery highlights, and a detailed map is printed on the inside covers of the book, making for easy navigation. Illustrated with Richard Gillette's stunning, full-color photography, Sonoma: The Ultimate Winery Guide is both a practical guide to the region and a beautiful keepsake.

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Excellent Representation of Sonoma County .......2006-07-18

I used this book for a wine class I conducted focusing on exclusively Sonoma County wines. The book contains some very good general information about Sonoma County as well as information about a number of wineries. Gorgeous photos really capture the feeling of the County. As a former resident of Sonoma County, it made me homesick!

SONOMA THE ULTIMATE WINERY GUIDE.......2000-06-23

As a winery employee, I would recommend this book to both serious and novice winery visitors. This book is loaded with beautiful glossy photographs and detailed information on each winery, organized by region. It focuses on wineries only, with brief referals to nearby food and farms of interest. Each winery has it's own page, with a helpful quick reference in the left margin of the necessary details on hours, fees, directions, wines etc. This is a plus when you have limited time, and don't want to spend half your day searching through a guidebook. There is also a section that classifies the wineries by specific features that may help narrow down your selection when touring. The winemaking calendar and grape glossary would be especially useful to first timers. The size makes it slightly awkward to carry around, but the photos will make a wonderful momento when you return home!

SONOMA THE ULTIMATE WINERY GUIDE.......2000-06-23

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Global optimization aims at solving the most general problem of deterministic mathematical programming: to find the global optimum of a nonlinear, nonconvex, multivariate function of continuous and/or integer variables subject to constraints which may be themselves nonlinear and nonconvex. In addition, once the solution is found, proof of its optimality is also expected from this methodology. ESSAYS AND SURVEYS IN GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION is the most recent examination of its mathematical capability, power, and wide ranging solution to many fields in the applied sciences.

In a series of topical chapters, the first section of the book appraises the mathematical properties and algorithms for general global optimization problems. These include chapters on "Unilateral Analysis and Duality"; "Monotonic Optimization: Branch and Cut Methods"; "Duality Bound Methods in Global Optimization"; "General Quadratic Programming"; "On Solving Polynomial, Factorable, and Black-Box Optimization Problems using the RLT Methodology"; and "Bilevel Programming." The book’s second section offers a variety of current application chapters where global optimization has been applied to assorted problems in diverse fields. These include chapters on "Application of Global Optimization to Portfolio Analysis"; "Optimization Techniques in Medicine"; "Global Optimization in Geometry—Circle Packing into the Square"; and "A Deterministic Global Optimization Algorithm for Design Problems."

The topics presented in this volume, ESSAYS AND SURVEYS IN GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION, attest to the successes of researchers in the field, the power of its methods, the diversity of its applications and the variety of the ideas and research poles it explores.

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Dude... I cried at certain parts of this book...

Grand Entertaining Sweep of History

Outstanding, with lessons for today

Lost in the Translation

Breathtaking!

The Deluge: An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia, Vol. 1
Jeremiah Curtin , and Henryk Sienkiewicz
Manufacturer: Fredonia Books
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Binding: Paperback

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With Fire and Sword, Vol. 1

With Fire and Sword, Vol. 2: A Tale of the Past

Pan Michael

The Trilogy Companion: A Reader's Guide to the Trilogy of Henryk Sienkiewicz

On the Field of Glory

ASIN: 1589630211
Release Date: 2004-07-08

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This is volume one of a two-volume work, the sequel to "With Fire and Sword," a massive book called one of the greatest in European literature. "The Deluge" continues the sweeping saga of war and rebellion that threatened the kingdom of Poland and changed the face of Eastern Europe in the 17th Century. This historical novel of Poland, Sweden and Russia, is a masterful blend of history and imagination, filled with nonstop action and adventure. Sienkiewicz's work is the sweeping saga of a nation caught in the throes of a civil war, of a people struggling for survival, and of events that forever changed the face of Eastern Europe. Number two in his trilogy on the history of Poland, it tells the love story of a man and a woman tragically separated by foolishness, pride, confusion and the Swedish invation of Poland in the 1500s which divided a nation against itself and drew the best and worst out of its citizens

This authorized, unabridged edition was translated from the Polish by Jeremiah Curtin.

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Dude... I cried at certain parts of this book..........2006-06-17

and that never happened before. I will confess I picked up this book because of the cover. I was waiting for a study group at the main library at Boston College. It was a new release and had on the cover a beatiful painting of charging polish hussars. I said to myself this looks real cool. I read the first chapter standing at the lobby because my stupid study group was late. I was instantly addicted. I borrowed and finished it in less than a week and then borrowed that second volume.

It was such a moving experience. Pan Andy, Fat Zagloba, and Mikey just leapt from the pages and off I went on a high adventure with these guys. This is better than Tolkien or any fantasy adventure ever written. I really felt like I was with these guys trying to free their country from oblivion.

Grand Entertaining Sweep of History.......2006-03-09

I own a ninety year old translation of With Fire and Sword. The translation is a bit stilted (as was our English back then),but the cover is falling off from my avid reading. When I found the Kuniczak translation of The Deluge, I couldn't wait to read more, and this does not disappoint. The fresh idiomatic English is mostly smooth, (although a few expressions stand out as more modern slang). Once again, Pan Zagloba roars across the pages and the "little colonel" Wolodyovski does his best defending the Motherland, and at the same time, to catch the eye of pretty girls. The drama and characters of 17th century Poland and Lithuania cannot help to inspire an interest in this area. I was amazed when I read the true story of the politics and shifting alliances of the region, and to imagine a powerful SWEDISH army (oxymoron these days). A true classic that never gets old.

Outstanding, with lessons for today.......2004-04-07

The stormy romance between Andei Kmicic and Olenka Billevich seems like an allegory of the relationship between the Polish szlachta and Poland itself. The petty squabbling, quarreling, and self-serving behavior of the szlachta alienates them from their country as Kmicic's headstrong and reckless behavior alienates him from the woman he loves. "It seemed to Kmita then that Poland and Olenka were one and the same, and that he had doomed them both and handed them voluntarily to the Swedes" (Kuniczak translation, p. 753). Sienkiewicz obviously wishes to leave a clear lesson here for the free people of any nation.

The story foreshadows two issues that emerged during the Second World War: the Germans who were "only following orders" and the Vichy French who collaborated with the Germans. What is one supposed to do when his superior orders him to do something that is obviously wrong? At what point does acquiescence to a victorious invader for the purpose of avoiding further harm to one's country become collaboration with an enemy? Can someone collaborate with the enemy for the purpose, as Janusz Radziwill claimed, of turning on him and overthrowing him at a more opportune moment? (The few colonels who went along with Radziwill were in a semi-feudal system in which a retainer obeyed his lord and the lord was supposed to obey the King. Radziwill's foreign mercenaries had no such dilemma because they owed their loyalty only to their paymaster.)

During the 1970s, the United States began to lose the manufacturing capability that led to victory in the Second World War. Our Congress has its own Opalinskis and Radziwills, people whose first priority is their own political success as opposed to service to the country. They are unwilling or unable to understand that wealth must be created through agriculture, mining, and manufacturing, and that it cannot be legislated into existence. The Senatorial filibuster is now used to block judicial appointments, as the Liberum Veto was once used to break up the Sejm. The jester Ostrozka showed how the handwriting was on the wall for the Commonwealth. The Commonwealth's ideological successor and heir, the United States, needs to take the same warning very seriously lest it suffer the same fate.

Lost in the Translation.......2002-06-09

By all means, buy this edition if it is your only way to enter the marvelous world that Sienkiewicz has given to Poland and to posterity. Discover why the Trilogy has been a best-seller in its native land for more than a century. Epic adventure, star-crossed love, villains, heroes, treachery, heartbreak and humor. Sienkiewicz wrote to lift up the hearts of his people, and if he doesn't lift yours, see a cardiologist immediately.

But beg or borrow if you can, and steal if you must, the translation by W.S. Kuniczak that was published in the early 1990s. Discover what happens when a novelist translates. Kuniczak is true not just to the sentences, but to the spirit of the work. He blows the dust out of the century-old writing and lets it shine. And for readers not on intimate terms with the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 17th Century (admit it), he effortlessly drops in helpful hints.

Here's how Curtin starts:

There was in Jmud a powerful family, the Billeviches, descended from Mendog, connected with many, and respected, beyond all, in the district of Rossyeni. ... Their native nest, existing to this day, was called Billeviche; ... In later times they branched out into a number of houses, the members of which lost sight of one another. They all assembled only when there was a census at Rossyeni of the general militia of Jmud on the plain of the invited Estates.

And Kuniczak:

In the part of the old Grand Duchy of Lithuania that was known as Zmudya, and which antedated the times of recorded history, there lived an ancient family named Billevitch, widely connected with many other houses of Lithuanian gentry, and respected more than any other in the Rosyen region. ... Their family seat, known as Billevitche ... so that in time they split into several branches that seldom saw each other. Some of them got together now and then when the Zmudyan gentry gathered for the annual military census near Rosyen on a plain called Stany...

Honestly, which version would you rather spend 1700 pages with? The native nest or the family seat?

(And just by the by, when will a smart publisher sell the Sienkiewicz Trilogy alongside Tolkien? Why do they squirrel it away with the Serious Literature in Translation that mostly gathers dust? There's millions and millions of dollars in these books, lying around, waiting for someone to market them properly.)

Breathtaking!.......2001-04-12

This book, the second in the famous Sienkiewicz Trilogy, is not a two-volume set for show. The book is 1700+ pages long! As usual with Sienkiewicz, however, the pages are required to tell the story. This novel brings back the main characters from "With Fire And Sword" though they play a somewhat smaller role, especially Pan Yan and Helen. Two new main characters take center stage.

Andrei is a wild knight whose thoughtless, self-absorption mirrors the attitudes of the ruling class in Poland at the time. His attitude leads him down a terrible road and then forces him to make the hard, arduous climb back from nothing once he realizes his error. The skill with which Sienkiewicz intertwines Andrei's descent and redemption with the greater struggle of Poland against Sweden is brilliant! On the other hand, there's Olenka who is loved by Andrei. She seems to represent Poland itself and the ethics which are required to preserve something worth fighting for. She is the moral center of the novel even when she's not in the foreground of the action.

Their love story plays out in the midst of a tale of war that involves the invasion of Poland from three countries at the same time (the 'deluge' of the title). We meet the Kings of two countries, the nobles under them with their own agendas, and the soldiers fighting on as power shifts from one side to the other in an international game where the winners get crowns and the losers lose everything.

Just a sample of a few threads in the story: the siege of a holy shrine, a knight leading a small band of raiders against an army, a woman taken captive by a warlord and makes him regret iit, a country defeated not by the army of its enemies but by something more deadly from within, the plots of a noble family to rip apart an entire nation solely to rule a part of it themselves, the attempt to return an exiled King to his country through wild mountains full of enemy soldiers. This is just a sample! The scope of this novel is absolutely unsurpassed and, best of all, Sienkiewicz has the imagination, characters and events to keep it interesting for over 1,700 pages! You really do feel as though you've lived the two years that are encompassed by this novel. So much happens.

In less capable hands, "The Deluge" could have been just a boring history lesson. Sienkiewicz weaves all the history and political figures of the time with his own characters to crystallize a crucial point in a nation's history. In addition, he crafts a story that is unbelievably complex and yet thouroughly entertaining from first page to last.

And hats off to the translator! How many people would have the talent and stamina to translate something this long and do such a consistent and beautiful job? Not many, I imagine.

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THE DELUGE - IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. 1 & 2 A HISTORICAL NOVEL OF POLAND, SWEDEN, AND RUSSIA
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Manufacturer: Little Brown
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000VPC4NU

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