Cascade-Olympic Natural History: A Trailside Reference

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Excellent Guide.......2005-12-05

This is a great guide for anyone tromping about in the Northwest. It combines several other guides into one that is easy to carry and easy to use. The book covers almost anything you'll venture across from plant to animal. It even includes a short section on regional geography and minerals. Must have for the backpack

Wow! Sets the standard for nature guidebooks........2000-12-06

Most of us who enjoy nature have relied upon "bird books" or other guides to the species at one time or another as we inquire about our surroundings. These dull but thorough reference books often make their topics LESS interesting, quelling the interests that they're supposed to serve. We look up our bird, animal or plant and then move on having learned little more than its Latin name. Ugh.

This book shines like a beacon to future nature writers as it uses every description as the basis for a prosaic mini-essay; rewarding curiosity with enlightenment, fascination and delight. Imagine a reference book so enticing to read that you can't stop reading with just one description. Instead, the object of your curiosity serves as a mere starting point in the book; the first page of what often becomes a genuine sit-down-and-read-it experience.

If every nature writer put this much love into their topics, the trails would be overrun with enthusiastic hikers. Here's hoping that the author visits your neck of the woods soon, and provides you with the same exuberant writing he's given us here in the Pacific Northwest.

Wow. Sets the standard for nature guidebooks........2000-12-01

Fun to Read!.......1999-12-16

I also have ordered this as a gift for several this year, including the revised edition for myself. Definitely not just a reference book but a great read also. I actually read the whole book,rather than just saving for information on specifics, when I got my first copy years ago.

A must have for every library!.......1999-12-14

A Second edition of a classic. Mathews created a field guide that is a must have for every PNW adventurer. As a park ranger I find myself reaching for it daily to answer questions. The writing is suberb and one finds oneself reading it by the fire on a cold winter day just because. I give this book as a gift more than any other item.

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What a great gift!!
Very user friendly
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Field Guide to the Cascades & Olympics
Stephen R. Whitney , and Rob Sandelin
Manufacturer: Mountaineers Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0898868084

Book Description

The "what's that?" guide to Northwest plants and animals--now expanded, updated, and in full color!

* More than 700 color illustrations for easy identification
* Expanded with new sections on mushrooms, insects, and rock identification
* Handy color tabs for easy access, and quick reference index on back cover

Don't just call it a mushroom when it's a golden chanterelle; know your screech owl from your saw-whet owl; distinguish a monarch butterfly from a painted lady--all with the help of this comprehensive guide to the common plants and animals of the Cascade and Olympic Mountains.

The species accounts have been updated with the latest taxonomic changes and, as before, include common name, scientific name, and description of important features, habitat, and geographic range.

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What a great gift!!.......2007-01-18

We happen to be active in Boy Scouts in our area so whenever a young man gets his Eagle Badge we make sure he gets a copy of this book from our family. It is a great book for young and old alike who travel or live in the Pacific Northwest

Very user friendly.......2006-08-25

I bought this for my 7 year old CubScout for camp. On our nature hike, the camp staff referred to it repeatedly to answer the groups questions. We ended up donating it to the camp at the end of the week and buying another copy for ourselves. The pictures are large and detailed, very easy to use.

The Authors Comments.......2004-06-11

This book is designed to cover the most commonly encountered species of plants and animals in the Cascade and Olympic Mountains, but it also will be very useful in the lowlands and coast ranges as well. The second edition has been considerably upgraded and the art is now all in color. If you are looking for ONE book to cover plants, mushrooms, butterflies, insects, amphibians and reptiles, mammals and birds and you want the most commonly seen ones selected out for you, then this book will serve you well.

I encourage readers to review the introductory material on communities to familiarize yourself with the habitats and concepts that will guide you to use this book to its fullest.

I welcome comments about this book, you can email me at floriferous@msn.com

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Jamaica-born supermodel Lois Samuels Ingledew has spent her career in front of the camera posing for magazines from Essence to Vogue and has taken part in advertising campaigns for Banana Republic and Calvin Klein. Her lifelong passion for photography has resulted in a move to the other side to capture through her own camera lens the soul and beauty of her native Jamaica.

Jamaica Through My Eyes provides a snapshot of ordinary people going about their daily activities-shopping, meeting in coffee shops, or waiting at bus stops-the very essence of everyday life in an ever-changing Jamaica.

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I loved it!.......2006-03-27

I just got this book, and I have to say that the photos are wonderful. The photographer did a great job!

Beautiful!.......2006-03-27

I just purchased this book and I love it! The images on each page are captivating and magical. Lois Ingledew has captured the essence of Jamaica with obvious love. I highly recommend this book.

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This volume advances understanding of ecological and evolutionary processes in a common frame of reference--that of space. Relevant processes operating at the scale of the population, metapopulation, and the geographical range are accordingly examined. Although this study's focus is largely on plants, questions addressed are equally applicable to animals.

Integrating Ecology and Evolution in a Spatial Context: 14th Special Symposium of the British Ecological Society (Symposia of the British Ecological Society)

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Integrating Ecology and Evolution in a Spatial Context: 14th Special Symposium of the British Ecological Society (Symposia of the British Ecological Society)

Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0632058242

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Wave propagation in poroelastic and viscoelastic solids treated by the Boundary Element method in time domain is the topic of this research book. A novel boundary element formulation has been presented based on the Convolution Quadrature Method. Because in this time-stepping formulation only Laplace domain fundamental solutions are needed this method can be effectively applied to a plenty of problems, e.g., anisotropic or transversely isotropic continua. So, this method combines the advantage of the Laplace domain with the advantage of a time domain calculation. Here, wave propagation phenomenon in viscoelastic as well as poroelastic half spaces are considered. The Rayleigh wave as well as the slow compressional wave in the poroelastic solid is discussed.

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Lectures on Viscoelasticity Theory

Manufacturer: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 3540963456

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One of the main achievements of algebraic geometry over the past twenty years is the work of Mori and others extending minimal models and the Enriques-Kodaira classification to 3-folds. This integrated suite of papers centers around applications of Mori theory to birational geometry. Four of the papers (those by Pukhlikov, Fletcher, Corti, and the long joint paper by Corti, Pukhlikov and Reid) work out in detail the theory of birational rigidity of Fano 3-folds. These contributions work for the first time with a representative class of Fano varieties, 3-fold hypersurfaces in weighted projective space, and they include an attractive introductory treatment with a wealth of detailed computation of special cases.

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The first of Chekhov's works to be published in a serious literary journal, `The Steppe', with its masterly account of a spectacular thunderstorm, signifies his maturation as a writer of short stories. While the majority of his tales focus on the privileged classes, this selection shows that Chekhov never forgot his origins as the son of a failed provincial grocer, and characters as varied as the brutal soldier in `Gusev', the downtrodden old constable in `On Official Business', and the bemused peasants in `New Villa' testify to the power and flexibility of his art.

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The beginnings of a master writer . . ........2002-04-15

I didn't know Chekov was considered a master of the short story until I read Janet Malcolm's pieces about him in The New Yorker. So I started with this book, which contains some of his earliest stories. Each story is amazing and in them you can see him progressing into his own unique style. This is a great book to start with if you're reading Chekov for the first time.

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A Lear of the Steppes and Other Stories
Ivan Turgenev
Manufacturer: Wildside Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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The tragedy of King Lear is transformed and taken to a different level in the title work of this collection of three shorter works by the great Russian classical writer Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818-1883). Harlov, the "Lear," and in particular his daughters are vivid and lifelike; indeed, Turgenev has a penchant for portraying sympathetic profoundly spiritual women. A LEAR OF THE STEPPES AND OTHER STORIES also contains "Acia" and "Faust."

Plowing the steppes and other Gulag stories

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Plowing the steppes and other Gulag stories
Meyer Galler
Manufacturer: Judah L. Magnes Museum
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: 0943376653

The Steppe and the Other Stories (Large Print)

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The Steppe and the Other Stories (Large Print)
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Manufacturer: ReadHowYouWant.com
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1425055249
Release Date: 2006-12-01

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“The Steppe and other Stories”, a collection is among the first of Chekhov\'s works to be published in a serious literary journal.

The Steppe and the Other Stories [EasyRead Comfort Edition]

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The Steppe and the Other Stories [EasyRead Comfort Edition]
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Manufacturer: ReadHowYouWant.com
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1425056121
Release Date: 2006-12-01

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“The Steppe and other Stories”, a collection is among the first of Chekhov\'s works to be published in a serious literary journal.

The Steppe and the Other Stories [EasyRead Edition]

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The Steppe and the Other Stories [EasyRead Edition]
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Manufacturer: ReadHowYouWant.com
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1425055680
Release Date: 2006-12-01

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“The Steppe and other Stories”, a collection is among the first of Chekhov\'s works to be published in a serious literary journal.

The Steppe and the Other Stories [EasyRead Large Edition]

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The Steppe and the Other Stories [EasyRead Large Edition]
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Manufacturer: ReadHowYouWant.com
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Poetry & Short Stories | Large Print | Formats | Books
ASIN: 1425056563
Release Date: 2006-12-01

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“The Steppe and other Stories”, a collection is among the first of Chekhov\'s works to be published in a serious literary journal.

The Works of Ivan Turgenieff: Rudin: A Romance; A King Lear of the Steppes, Phantoms and other Stories.

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The Works of Ivan Turgenieff: Rudin: A Romance; A King Lear of the Steppes, Phantoms and other Stories.
Ivan Turgenieff
Manufacturer: New York: Willey Book Company 1905.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000L4ZUFK

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Plowing the Steppes : And Other Gulag Stories
A. Meyer Galler
Manufacturer: Judah L. Magnes Museum
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000PS07EQ

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