Wild Prairie: A Photographer's Personal Journey

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In this large-format book, noted photographer James R. Page explores one of nature’s most beautiful and varied environments. Page traveled from his home in Saskatchewan through the Prairie provinces and south through the United States Prairie to Texas to photograph the splendor of the grasslands through the seasons. Here are summer’s sunlit world of grass stalks and sky; autumn’s early snow swirls; winter’s coyotes sleeping in frosty grass; and spring’s rattling winds and new green growth. The images in Wild Prairie find the essential in these timeless landscapes.

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Illuminated prairies.......2005-10-11

There is no doubt that James Page is one of Canada's top landscape and wildlife photographers. For this book he set out on a year-long journey across Canada and the United States, photographing prairies through the four seasons. The result is a magnificent document, illustrated with exceptional photographs, some of which will take your breath away. This is a threatened landscape, treated with love and passion. Page's written commentary provides a highly readable accompaniment to the photographs.
As Candace Savage writes in the Forward: "There is a fierceness in his work that I admire, and a fearlessness. He has to be some kind of fool, perhaps a holy one, to be out there with his camera in the half-light of dawn, in the glare of lightning, in the bloodless glow of winter. The wild prairie matters in these images."
As a photographer myself, albeit an enthusiastic amateur, there are few photography books that I have been this impressed by, and I recommend it very highly.

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· A critically acclaimed budget travel guide with attitude, mixing an irreverent look at culture and politics with brutally honest dining, lodging, and sightseeing reviews; original, socially aware.
· Covers London from traditional sights like the National Portrait Gallery to Brixton's The Fridge.
· Researched, written, and edited by University of California at Berkeley students.
· Packed with sidebars full of trivia and fascinating facts on everything from Regency architecture to the Campaign for Real Ale.
· More than 70 recommended cheap sleeps, from inexpensive campgrounds to luxurious B&Bs and options for long-term stays.
· Hundreds of places to eat for less, from wine bars in Soho to Indian restaurants in the East End.
· What's low-cost or free.
· Loaded with outdoor activities--everything from joining an American softball game to understanding the intricacies of cricket.
· Short trips from London, including Bath, Oxford, Cambridge, Winchester, Canterbury, and Stratford-upon-Avon.
· Travel information for gays, women, people with disabilities.
· 26 pages of maps.
· Complete destination/topic indexes.

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In 1909 no one had yet reached the North Pole, but Robert Peary and Matthew Henson made history when they dared to face the brutal wasteland together. Even though Henson and Peary reached the North Pole as partners, back home Henson was only known as Peary's "faithful colored servant."

Encourage your young readers to develop an appreciation for cooperation and teamwork with the innovative Partners Iseries. These double biographies not only present the early life and important influences on each subject, they also highlight the cooperation and compromises that are so important for any successful partnership. By looking closely at the special things each member of each team contributed to reach their goals, young readers will understand what it took to make these partnerships work.

Grades 2-5; 7 1/2 x 9 1/4; 48 pages; Sturdy library binding; Glossary; Further Reading; Index

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Race to the North Pole (Reaching Goals, Book 3)
Sharon Franklin
Manufacturer: SRA/McGraw-Hill
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0076015998

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Once there were places on earth where no one had stood. The North Pole was one of those places. Explorers raced to be the first to the North Pole. Only one team could be first to stand at the top of the world.

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This main goals of this text are to provide undergraduates with a working vocabulary and knowledge of the biology of vision and to acquaint them with the major themes in biological vision research. Part I treats the eye as an image-forming organ and provides an overview of the projections from the retina to key visual structures of the brain. The second part builds on this material, examining the functions of the retina and its central projections in greater detail. Part III addresses certain advanced topics in vision. This book is intended for use in a course for undergraduates in biology, neuroscience, or psychology who have had an introductory course on the nervous system. It is also useful as an ancillary graduate-level text.

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Great text book.......2007-02-15

This book totally covered the material in my neurology of vision class. Well written and thorough.

Excellent introduction to vision.......2005-01-03

This is a short and sweet introduction to the invertebrate and vertebrate visual systems. Given the small size of this book, its breadth of coverage and clarity of presentation are remarkable. The author should be commended for covering the physics of vision alongside with its anatomy and physiology. I own a copy of this book and highly recommend it as the best introductory text for anyone who enters the field.

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An Introduction to the Visual System
Martin J. Tovée
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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ASIN: 0521483395

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In recent years, there have been many advances in the understanding of how we see. This text provides a current, well-balanced account of the workings of the visual system by integrating new scientific developments within a framework of established theories and concepts. The book addresses topics such as image formation, visual development, and object recognition within a context both traditional and cutting-edge. The author, accounting for the challenge of digesting such a wealth of information, reinforces the reader's understanding by including a "key points" section at the end of every chapter. This comprehensive text is an ideal source of information on the visual system for undergraduates as well as graduate students.

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This text gives a self-contained and detailed treatment of presently known results, and new theorems on hyperbolicity, shadowing, complicated motion, and robustness. The book is intended to provide a dependable reference for researchers wishing to apply such results. This book will be of particular interest to researchers and students interested in dynamical systems, particularly in noninvertible maps and infinite dimensional semi-flows or maps and global analysis.

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Colette herself considered The Pure and the Impure her best book, "the nearest I shall ever come to writing an autobiography." This guided tour of the erotic netherworld with which Colette was so intimately acquainted begins in the darkness and languor of a fashionable opium den. It continues as a series of unforgettable encounters with men and, especially, women whose lives have been improbably and yet permanently transfigured by the strange power of desire. Lucid and lyrical, The Pure and the Impure stands out as one of modern literature's subtlest reckonings not only with the varieties of sexual experience, but with the always unlikely nature of love.

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Autobiographical insights.......2002-01-02

The Pure and the Impure by Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette with introduction by Judith Thurman (Literature/Gay Studies). Recommended.

Colette believed The Pure and the Impure was her best work. I can't judge, not having read anything of hers but a few short stories, but this collection of her observations about human attitudes toward relationships and sexuality is insightful and timeless. It is also difficult and obscure at times, perhaps because of the translation and because there is no real structure to such a collection.

Thanks to her milieu, her position in it, and her willingness to seek the story, Colette could draw upon the most interesting people of her time-the givers and the takers. From the older woman who publicly fakes an orgasm while self-pleasuring in an opium house to gladden the heart of her young, sickly lover to the roué who exclaims of women, "They allow us to be their master in the sex act, but never their equal. That is what I cannot forgive them" to the circle of prominent women who learn the ways of sex from servants, dress as men, and love horses (she calls the most notable of these women "La Chevalière) to the "happy," alcoholic, lesbian poet Renée Vivien to the gay men with whom she seems most comfortable, Colette covers a spectrum of sexuality and combinations-including those men and women who play their heterosexual and homosexual relations against one another.

"I'm devoted to that boy, with all my heart," the older woman tells Colette, a stranger to her. "But what is the heart, madame? It's worth less than people think. It's quite accommodating. It accepts anything. You give it whatever you have, it's not very particular. But the body . . . Ha! That's something else, again." Thurman believes this sums up Colette's view precisely, the heart as a slave to the body.

Although Colette apparently wanted to remain an impartial observer, she cannot mask her own feelings and biases. One senses that she could not quite see a woman-woman partnership as "whole," as passionate, as capable of being the source of tragedy in the same way as other types of relationships. (Anaïs Nin will also hint at something similar in her diaries, at the "incompleteness" of female/female love.) "What woman would not blush to seek out her amie only for sensual pleasure? In no way is it passion that fosters the devotion of two women, but rather a feeling of kinship." She is fascinated by the story of Lady Eleanor Butler and Miss Sarah Ponsonby, the "Ladies of Llangollen," who elope and spend several decades living together. During this time, Butler will keep an extensive journal about her life with "My Beloved," while, to Colette's consternation and fascination, Ponsonby remains a silent partner. Colette so romanticizes the Ladies that she says they run off together as "young girls," when in fact Butler was 39 and Ponsonby in her 20s. While there is all kind of detail about their living arrangements, from gardening, sewing, hosting an array of distinguished visitors, and sharing a bedroom and bed, there is nothing known of their emotional or sexual intimacies other than their obvious devotion to one another. They remain a happy, content enigma to Colette and to the present day.

The book concludes on a more personal note-about jealousy, "the only suffering that we endure without ever becoming used to it." She maintains that "a man never belongs to us" and hints at the unique and not unfriendly relationship two female rivals may have-even rivals who wish to kill one another. When one rival tells Colette all the things that had prevented her from killing Colette in Rambouillet (missed train, stalled car, etc.), Colette says, "I was not in Rambouillet." The relationship between her and her rival becomes more interesting, more revealing, more important, and more affectionate than with the man over whom they duel.

Colette suffered what many turn-of-the-century female intellectuals must have-a society's fear of "masculine" women who are too intelligent, too outspoken, too knowing. When she offers to travel with the roué (apparently as a friend), he says in seriousness, "I only like to travel with women," which, a moment later, is softened by, "You, a woman? Why, try as you will . . ." Even today, there are women who have experienced this.

"This is a sad book," Colette said. "It doesn't warm itself at the fire of love, because the flesh doesn't cheer up its ardent servants." Thurman adds, "This great ode to emptiness was written by a woman who felt full."

The Pure and the Impure is a must read for anyone who enjoys Colette's other writings; it is the most autobiographical of her works. Recommended.

Diane L. Schirf, 1 January 2002.

Anthropologist of the Sensual.......2001-06-17

Colette, perhaps best known to Americans as the author of "Gigi" (1945) was a prolific French novelist, critic, playwright, and performer. She also wrote the four "Claudine" novels (1900-1903), and became celebrated for "Cheri" (1920; followed by "The Last of Cheri" in 1926).

She regarded "The Pure and the Impure" as her best work; a mostly autobiographical treatise on Eros and love, particularly Sapphic love. She mixes a reporter's objectivity with deeply felt analysis psychological and philosophical observations. Sometimes she takes a dispassionate, almost distant look at passion; other times her emotional attachments to her subjects--primarily lesbian aristocrats and artistes--are candidly exposed.

She is an exquisite writer without being precious. Colette bends words and phrases perfectly, and one is struck by her vivid yet subtle prose, as evocative as Woolf but perhaps even more sensual. "The Pure and the Impure" contains memorable passages of keen observation and wit, and one feels drawn to her observations:

"...I delighted in the...empty gaiety of the chatter and the diverting and challenging exchange of glances, the cryptic reference to certain treasons, comprehended at once, and the sudden outbursts of ferocity. I reveled...in their half-spoken language, the exchange of threats, of promises, as if, once the slow-thinking male had been banished, every message from woman to woman became clear and overwhelming, restricted to a small but infallible number of signs..."

This is not to deny, however, that reading the book is sometimes difficult. Whether due to the translation, the era, or Colette's particular style, her writing can be challenging, particularly her last chapter, a very subjective, personal description of jealousy.

This is a beautifully written book about the erotic, about men and women, and about the natural history of love. I urge you to introduce yourself to her writings. Highly recommended.

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A practial plan for sexual purity

Producing Godly mature children

Raising Pure Kids in an Impure World
Richard and Renée Durfield
Manufacturer: Bethany House
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ASIN: 0764229028
Release Date: 2004-06-01

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Seventy percent of American teens have had sex by age eighteen. Richard and Reneé Dur¹eld—the parents of four grown children—encourage parents to help their teens resist sexual temptation using the practical "key talk" concept and a covenant with God to remain chaste. Includes how to have a "key talk," questions a child may ask, guidelines and goals for dating, praying for a child’s future spouse, and more. Originally titled Raising Them Chaste, this edition includes new information gained from the Durfield's ministry to families.

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A practial plan for sexual purity.......2005-05-15

Is the hope of raising children to be sexually pure, - to abstain from sex until marriage - an unrealistic goal held by Christians? Are we blinded to the reality of the world we live in?

Studies that report that at least 85% of all American teens have had sex by the age of 19, seem to support this view. When you add to that the high percentage of babies born to unmarried mothers and the increasing incidence of HIV infections and STD (sexually transmitted disease) among young people under the age of 25, it becomes a frightening outlook for parents wanting to raise healthy, happy children.
Simply raising children and hoping for the best is not an option. The goal of sexual purity requires a practical plan and tools for action.

Richard and Renee Durfield, in their book Raising Pure Kids in an Impure World, give you the plan. They also list practical steps and the tools to accomplish it, beginning with the "key talk" - a very special time and talk between parent and child where questions about dating, relationships and sex are brought out into the open and discussed. The time closes with a covenant and prayer of commitment that he or she will honor God with heart, mind and body. This commitment is made with the confidence that God honors His covenants and provides the grace and strength to see them through.

Even if your child is already dating, this book provides effective tools for discussing guidelines and boundaries. It also offers help for parents of children already dealing with the consequences of sexual sin.

From counseling their own children as well as others, the Durfields offer a section of some of the most commonly asked tough questions and suggested answers. After reading these, I realized my own ignorance and need for research. There is a list of recommended resources in the back of the book.

I've read books that give a list of "Thou shalt nots" and those that discuss the importance of establishing an inner standard of conduct - which is the basis for staying in God's will - but this book goes on to give parents the steps to teaching their child the whys of sexual purity and the ways to stand up to a life of peer pressure.

I highly recommend "Raising Pure Kinds In An Impure World" for parents of young children or of teenagers and also for aunts, uncles and grandparents - anyone who has an emotional investment in the life of a child. I found it well organized, easy to read, and a book with so much useful information that many will want to read it more than once.

Producing Godly mature children.......2004-06-23

In today's world, children are being introduced to sexual immorality at much earlier ages than in the past. Television, music and the news are filled with sex and have our kids thinking about and preparing to incorporate sex into their lives before many are even mature enough to handle it. RAISING PURE KIDS IN AN IMPURE WORLD takes a look at a strategy used by Richard and Renee Durfield to guide their children in resisting sexual temptation. The Durfields use a concept called "key talk" with their children and others that have come seeking help from the risks of sexual promiscuity. In the key talk process, parents identify a time in the child's life when it is appropriate to have a one-on-one conversation about sex and the role it was intended to play in our lives. This discussion should be honest and open to cover all aspects of sex and the consequences in pre-marital relationships. After the talk, a covenant is entered into between the child and God. As a seal of the covenant the child is given a ring or necklace to wear at all times to symbolize the agreement between themselves and God.

The Durfields introduce an interesting approach for parents to consider using as they help their children stave off sexual promiscuity and handle peers that are pressuring them into it. Key talk is backed by scriptures from the Bible that show God's purpose for matrimony and the pitfalls of sex outside the marriage. The Durfields' guide is chock full of statistics, scriptures and questions with answers to cover just about any situation that parents may face when using this system. It is adaptable for use by nearly anyone facing issues of sexual purity at any stage in their lives.

I was especially impressed with the testimonials by not only the Durfields' kids, but all the other individuals who have used the key talk strategy and how they were able to keep their covenant with God despite the road blocks some faced. As this conversation with my child is fast approaching, I am now more confident in what I need to do and say as a result of reading this guide. The Durfields should be commended for putting together such a comprehensive and truthful guide.

Reviewed by Brenda M. Lisbon
of The RAWSISTAZ Reviewers

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The anatomy of the pure and of the impure love
Richard Denninger
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Pure & Impure
Duc Ngoc Nguyen
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Colette
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Janet). COLETTE (FLANNER
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THE PURE AND THE IMPURE
COLETTE
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The Pure and the Impure
Colette
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The Pure and the Impure
Colette
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The pure and the impure,: A case-book of love,
Colette
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