United Kingdom Taxation on the Profits from North Sea Oil

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An effective and well-managed appraisal system is one of the hallmarks of any successful organization, yet giving or receiving an appraisal is an experience managers often dread. As a result, this invaluable feedback tool is often ignored or undervalued. Roy Lecky-Thompson explains why conducting an efficient appraisal is vital to developing productive staff relationships and shows how to design and implement an effective system. Techniques for structuring and carrying out an appraisal, an analysis of the benefits of an appraisal system which functions properly, and advice on the common pitfalls are all included. CONSTRUCTIVE APPRAISALS gives you all the information you need to assess your technique and see how you, your team and your company are performing.

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Boring and Simplistic.......2000-09-04

I belive there are 100 more books worth the investment other than this one. First, I didn't like the layout of the book becuase it is written in column fashion versus text style.

No one section stands out in this book becuase I found it extremly light and simplistic. The chapter that I found the most interesting was the last chapter that focuses on the future and emerging issues. The book focuses on a lot of important issues, however, several times it leaves you wondering how to "solve" the problems and implement solutions.

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A Very Good Book About Africa, Slavery, and Dr. John Kirk.......1999-12-29

This is an excellent story of an unsung hero of East Africa and the struggle against slavery. The author has repeatedly travelled to Africa, is a physician, and has written an earlier book about West Africa. The book is well researched and is a very good read.

A gripping and richly detailed true adventure of Africa.......1999-10-20

This is a very readable depiction of East Africa, the slave trade and Dr. John Kirk, an almost unknown English hero of last century. He was instrumental in bringing an end to the vicious slave trade in East Africa and his life was interwoven with the famous Stanley and Livingstone pair. Dr. Kirk emerges as a better man than either of those two, by far. A bit choppy at times, but a first class and richly researched history that came alive for me. If you like history, social issues, Africa or just good adventure this this is a very satisfying read.

A gripping story of intrigue and adventure in East Africa.......1999-02-12

The physician and the slave trade takes you to East Africa where John Kirk, A Scottish physician joins David Livingstone on the Zambezi expedition. From 1858 to 1863, they steamed up rivers and roamed the jungles enduring blistering heat, rampant tropical diseases snakes and hostile Africans, Arabs, and rival Europeans. Through it all Kirk and Livingstone persevered, promoting commerce, christianity and civilization while working against a powerful slave trade that saw more than 100,000 slaves shipped abroad each year. Maneuvering his way against the endless intrigue of Arab slavers and European geopolitics, Kirk succeeded against incredible odds in convincing the Sultan of Zanzibar to ban the highly lucrative slave trade. This is a gripping true story of intrigue and adventure in East Africa and the end of the slave trade.

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In 1905, Albert Einstein published five scientific articles that fundamentally changed the world-view of physics: The Special Theory of Reativity revolutionized our concept of space and time, E=mc² became the best-known equation in physics.
On the occasion of the 100th aniversary of Einstein's "annus mirabilis" 1905, the UNESCO declared the year 2005 the "World Year of Physics", in order to draw attention to the impact of physics. The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science dedicates an exhibition to the easily most important scientist of the 20th century.
The exhibition is accompanied by a two-volume catalogue . The elaborate, four-colour first volume (Albert Einstein - Chief Engineer of the Universe: Einstein's Life and Work in Context) mirrors the structure of the exhibition, containing detailed, easy-to-understand information on the three large exhibition areas
- World-view and discovery
- Einstein - his life
- Einstein's world today.
On the basis of Einstein's innovative theoretical work, the text explains changing historical world-views as well as the conditions under which science develops, shedding light on the bumpy path of Einstein's life and the political and social revolutions which formed its background. This bridge between scientific and cultural history opens up a perspective on Einstein's biography which goes far beyond the traditional picture of this exceptional science genius.
The book concludes with a depiction of the effects of Einstein's work on today's science and culture. A DVD with animations and film sequences from the exhibition is enclosed.
The second volume is a bilingual collection of source material (Documents of a Life's Pathway/Dokumente eines Lebensweges). Letters and manuscripts by Einstein as well as photographs of people and objects are reproduced in high quality and invite the reader to study the exhibition's sources more intensively.

How the Universe Works/Pathways to Enlightenment

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The Secrets of Life--Powerful!
Definately a book for seekers on a spiritual path

How the Universe Works/Pathways to Enlightenment
Laeh Maggie Garfield
Manufacturer: Celestial Arts
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0890875340

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The Secrets of Life--Powerful!.......2003-07-20

Laeh Garfield reveals the esoteric secrets of life that you won't find in virtually any other book. These are secrets that we could all be aware of if we were enlightened. The book talks about shamanic ways of reaching enlightenment. There are 3 tiers of enlightenment. The first is the moon spiral. Once you unblock your Godly potential, you can manifest anything within reason. The next tier is the sun spiral, which journeys into higher mind, inner wisdom, and inspiration. The next is the star spiral, which is the wisdom known in all times and all places. Topics in the book include life purpose and goals, spiritual path, the realms of existence, the seven mansions of spiritual growth, oversouls, spirit guides, rootbeings, archangels, karma, past lives, possession, birth, aging, death, the other side, breath, infertility, sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), spiritual abortion, relationships, meditation, shakti, tantra, the elements (fire, wind, water, etc), controlling weather, sound and colors, extraterrestrials, time, dreams, vision quest, channeling, truth, and transmission. Wow! This is one of the best books I've read.

Definately a book for seekers on a spiritual path.......1999-03-27

This is not a book that I would recommend to just anyone. The information available in this book can benefit a true spiritual seeker. In the native american style of teaching through stories, the author shares deep knowledge about the spiritual "background" that all beings share. A true seeker can find that the same levels of enlightenment exist in other esoteric religions, just labelled with different names. This is a great reference book, revealing the spiritual aspects of many life-topics. Note: This book is also available in German.

Astronomy A115: Selected Chapters from Pathways to Astronomy: Birth and Death of a Universe

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Astronomy A115: Selected Chapters from Pathways to Astronomy: Birth and Death of a Universe
Stephen E. Schneider , and Thomas T. Arny
Manufacturer: McGraw Hill
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0073346349

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Selected chapters designed for introductory Astronomy class (A115), 2007, published by McGraw Hill.

Pathways in Science: Understanding God's Universe

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Pathways in Science: Understanding God's Universe
Kathleen and Mark Julicher
Manufacturer: Castle Heights Press, Inc.
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Binding: Ring-bound
ASIN: B000MCBVVS

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Home school packet for Christian Science education of young christian students

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Pathways to the Universe
Sir Francis Graham-Smith , and Sir Bernard Lovell
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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Pathways to the Universe is an illustrated introduction to astronomy that begins at the level of common experience and develops the subject to the frontiers of modern research. Using readily comprehensible, nontechnical language, Professors Graham-Smith and Lovell explain how to become an astronomer and how to find your way around the sky using simple binoculars, telescopes, or the naked eye. Each chapter covers the current level of research using modern optical, radio, X-ray, and infra-red astronomy in discussions of the planets, comets, meteors, the Sun, stars, and the galaxies. The book concludes with a stimulating account of cosmology and the origin of life. These two distinguished astronomers continually show their sense of wonder and excitement at the universe that is now revealed to us. Final year high school students will find this a good introduction to astronomy; one that will appeal equally to amateur astronomers, and to those who want a comprehensive, conventional, and authoritative account from prominent authors in the field. This book was previously announced under the title The Guide to Modern Astronomy.

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Pathways To The Universe.
Francis and Bernard Lovell. Graham-Smith
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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Pathways in Science: Understanding God's Universe Tests

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Pathways in Science: Understanding God's Universe Tests

Manufacturer: Castle Heights Press, Inc.
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ASIN: B000MGWYGU

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Chemicals in the Environment: Fate, Impacts, and Remediation is devoted to the broad review of metals and organic compounds in the environment. The volume focuses on three main aspects of chemicals in the environment: 1) fate and transport in soil, sediment, water and air; 2) resulting environmental impacts in the environment, wildlife, and humans, and 3) remediation methodologies and applications. An introductory chapter examines the history of metals and organic chemicals in the environment, exposure to these chemicals through food, air and water, identification of chemical hazards, process and scope of ecological impairment, fate and transport modeling, impacts and monitoring, and remediation methods.

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This book studies one of the most important figures in modern Chinese intellectual history, China's greatest modern writer, Lu Xun (1881-1936). His trenchant criticisms of the China of his day still speak directly to what can be called, without hyperbole, the current crisis in philosophical and political thought in the People's Republic. It is also a study of a non-Western intellectual's struggle--in a time of crisis--to make practical sense of the "Darwinian Revolution," a revolution not limited to the West.

Although Lu Xun died more than sixty years ago, his work is still alive in China (more so than any American writer of the 1920s and 1930s is in the United States). He is viewed paradoxically as both an official icon and as a patron saint of dissent. This book is, therefore, about Lu Xun both in his lifetime and in his second lifetime--and it looks to his third. But it is not just about Lu Xun. It is about Lu Xun and evolution. As a philosophical critique of Lu Xun's thought, it looks to Lu Xun's struggle to make practical sense of evolution, a contradiction that forces "either/or" questions on the Chinese, and on us all.

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n celebration of the 40th anniversary of its original publication, here is the only paperback edition now available of the classic story of the life and loves of a poet/physician during the turmoil of the Russian Revolution.

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A rare novel.......2007-09-30

After reading famous books you often feel that whilst it was good, you can't quite understand why it has become so renowned. Perhaps it is because the idea is powerful but badly executed or perhaps has an incredible mood but the concept and importance are somewhat lacking. None of these feelings occur when reading Dr Zhivago, its artistry is superb, the dialogues and turns of phrase are often breathtaking in their subtle importance, beauty or both. This is a book that fully warrants its reputation, it is stripped of the idealism and runs almost like a political philosophy discourse at times in the development of ideas of equality, the human spirit and the paths to progress in society.

It is for this reason that I don't think the book deserves its reputation as a 'love story': it is certainly a human story with love becoming more important as a theme as the book continues, but the power of the context is such that one could say that it is a political book first and a romance second. However, such hierarchies are not applicable in a work such as Dr Zhivago, such is Pasternak's skill as a writer that the themes of the novel perfectly complement each other, he balances the issues of the history of the era, Yury's development as a person and the underlying current of the women in his life with almost orchestral skill. If Pasternak's aim was to create an illustration of the power, subtlety and synphonic nature of life, uncontrollable by 'men of action' then this is reflected in the structure and style of his prose.

The book had a great effect on me, its integrity was great and the whole book wonderfully honest. Each comment was razor blade sharp so I was often completely surprised that he was brave enough to write such things in Soviet Russia. He seems to have paid for his integrity with his life, echoing the life of his main character in this way and in many others. I would be unsurprised if Pasternak only wrote one novel on this scale; he seems to have put everything of himself into it.

The prose is not always pleasurable to read, it's even dull in places such as the chapter-long train journey. I also would have preferred a greater mix with descriptions and dialogues, there were few sections when the two were sufficiently mixed so that the reader has to often read very lengthy dialogues and intermitable (though often startlingly beautiful) descriptions. I experienced East of Eden by Steinbeck in a similar way: it was often not pleasurable so much as enlightening and a book that one should try to read at least one time in your life.

A couple comments.......2007-06-20

Rather than re-writing what many have already stated, I need to contest some reviews. Someone mentioned the conclusion was pointless and could have been done without. Some of the most beautiful lines of the book are contained in the last three chapters (14, 15, 16).

Just a light sampling of their beauty (all from the conclusion):

"You must never, never despair, whatever the circumstances. To hope and to act are our duties in misfortune. To do nothing and to despair is to neglect our duty."

"Never, never, not even in their moments of richest and wildest happiness, had they lost the sense of what is highest and most ravishing - joy in the whole universe, its form, its beauty, the feeling of their own belonging to it, being part of it."

"The riddle of life, the riddle of death, the beauty of genius, the beauty of loving - that, yes, that we understood. As for such petty trifles as re-shaping the world - these things, no thank you, they are not for us."

The character development may not be sewn up neatly, but the philosophical and theological ideas Pasternak expresses come to a climax in these final chapters. The fact that some similes, metaphors, etc. were not really working, as one reviewer stated, could easily be due to the translation. In the translator's note they recognize this is not the translation of a poet. The beauty of language is often lost in translation, and thus this is not really a fair criticism of the work.

I will agree that there are too many minor characters that are overly developed, and overly detailed descriptions at times. Part of me took that as influence from Tolstoy, and part of me expected it a bit given this is Russian literature and that tends to come with the territory. However, I agree that these were weak points of the novel.

Overall, however, the novel was well worth the read. While reading a novel written by a poet can be difficult at times, you can generally count on some truly beautiful descriptions and insights. Pasternak does not dissappoint in my opinion. The repeated juxtaposition of nature and the destruction of Russia sent chills down my spine.

The flaws are much of what makes it so great........2007-01-05

I read Zhivago for the first time in high school. I loved it, but didn't pick it up again for 20 years. I was surprised to find it rough going at the beginning. When I had first read the book, it had been precisely the first 100 or so pages that had enchanted me and pulled me into the novel. This time around, it was the complex and often frustrating last half of the book that really moved me. I guess this is a measure of how the book grows with the reader.

Doctor Zhivago is a complicated book that seems to me largely about how people get involved with circumstances (politics, love affairs) that do not interest them, simply because life leaves them vulnerable. That makes for a strange reading experience, because it is not a message that wraps itself up neatly. The texture of the novel is in part about ends-- loose ends, dead ends, character cul-de-sacs. A more experienced author wouldn't have tried to work this theme out in prose using the same methods that Pasternak employed. The book rolls from melodrama to nearly documentary realism. He uses diary form, letters, even poetry to complete the work. I guess it was his lack of experience that allowed him to (very nearly) achieve the impossible. The feeling of the book is an awful lot like life.

There are certainly more polished and perfect novels and novelists out there. Doctor Zhivago would not have profited from their example. As the title of this review says, Zhivago is great precisely because it isn't perfect. It is a great sprawling messy wonderful world of a book.

Recommended for readers of all ages.

Art is always meditating upon death and thereby creating life.......2006-12-18

Dr. Zhivago's ideal life `escape into freedom out of all sorrows' contrasts sharply with the horrors of war and revolution around him: `the ruthless logic of mutual extermination.' As a doctor he is daily confronted with `survivors whom the technique of modern fighting had turned into lumps of mutilated flesh.' Red and White atrocities rivaled each other in savagery.
After the Reds won the civil war, `the old oppression of the tsarist state was replaced by a much harsher yoke of the revolutionary superstate led by the professionals, the Bolsheviks, and their false sympathizers, informers, intrigues and hatred.'
Their Marxist policies are severely criticized: `Marxism is not sufficiently master of itself. Ordinary people are anxious to test their theories in practice, to learn from experience, but those who wield power are so anxious to establish the myth of their own infallibility that they turn their back on truth.'

Dr. Zhivago with his independent mind and love for humanity highly understands that nothing can be gained from violence: childhood friends fight each other in the name of their truth, `man is a wolf to man'; `stranger meeting stranger killed for fear of being killed.'
Under the totalitarian system, he feels bitterly `the loss of faith in the value of personal opinion. Instead of being natural and spontaneous, something artificial, forced, crept into our conversation; falsehood had crept into our lives.'

Boris Pasternak's book is a profound meditation on life and death, love and hate, personal commitment and mass ideology, freedom and slavery, war and peace.
The fate of the main characters and the crossings of their lives within the upheavals provoked by war, revolution and totalitarianism are masterfully painted and heart-rending.
This magically written and brilliantly built novel is an eternal masterpiece. It stands in sharp contrast with the extreme vulgarity of the anti-Pasternak campaign in the USSR after Pasternak was awarded the Nobel prize (see I. Kadaré's `Le Crépuscule des Dieux de la Steppe').
A must read.

Pasternak's Purpose.......2006-11-12

Boris Pasternak's, Doctor Zhivago, is not supposed to be a political or philosophical novel though it has both those components in it. It is not just a romance or a historical look at the Russian Revolution- though it has those things as well. Above all else, Doctor Zhivago is a statement on life. It outlines the journeys of intertwining lives through an amazing time period. In an entry from Zhivago's diary he explains that this telling of a human story is the essence of all art. Pasternak hints to readers that this is, in fact the inspiration of his work, "You can call it an idea, a statement about life, so all-embracing that it cant be split up into separate worlds; and if there is so much as a particle of it in any work that includes other things as well, it outweighs all the other ingredients in significance and turns out to be the essence, the heart and soul of the work." (282). Pasternak shows readers through characters, themes, plot, and setting the intimate details of people's lives. He follows them from early life to death and from maturing philosophical ideals to basic getting by. This is the spirit of his work, his masterpiece, a beautifully written account of the fictional Yuri Zhivago's time on earth.

Work Cited
Pasternak, Boris. Doctor Zhivago. New York: Pantheon Books Inc, 1958.

Doctor Zhivago (The Greatest Historical Novels series)

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Doctor Zhivago (The Greatest Historical Novels series)

Manufacturer: Bantam
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Binding: Leather Bound
ASIN: 0553064118

Doctor Zhivago International Collector Library

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Doctor Zhivago International Collector Library

Manufacturer: International Collectors Library
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000F3HP7I

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This volume comes to you in the Victorian Replica Binding

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Doctor Zhivago A Novel

Manufacturer: Pantheon Books, Inc.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000BV0P1M

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Zhivago the physician and poet

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Doctor Zhivago
Boris Pasternak
Manufacturer: Pantheon
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Doctor Zhivago (Two-Disc Special Edition)

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"War and Peace" for the 20th Century

Doctor Zhivago

Manufacturer: Signet
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Binding: Paperback
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"War and Peace" for the 20th Century.......2007-07-24

When Boris Pasternak wrote "Doctor Zhivago" at a writer's community in Russia, where he could be among literary people, he kept it under cover, knowing that the Soviet Union would never let it be published in Russia.
After a friend smuggled the manuscript out, it was first published in Italy and became a world-wide sensation by 1956.
Eleven years later, I was a young lad in my first year of high school, tired of comic books and ready to spread my wings into the world of literature. Daunted by the sheer size of "War and Peace", I saw the movie "Doctor Zhivago" and decided to check out the original book.

What a feast!

Yuri Zhivago is the son of a wealthy businessman who died of alcohol. His mother dies when Yuri is only a boy. Raised by his aunt and uncle, Yuri becomes a doctor and poet, marries his cousin, Tonia Gromeko and settles in Moscow to practice medicine and write poetry. But, his world is turned upside down by World War I and the Russian Revolution. While in the army, Yuri meets and later falls in love with Lara Antipov, whose husband is a White Revolutionary and is presumed killed in action.

Yuri is captured by counter-revolutionaries and escapes, walking for miles, half-frozen and seeking Lara. Lara has been abused as a young woman by Victor Komarovsky, a corrupt lawyer who is "in touch" with Yuri's half-brother, a Red officer who had helped Yuri's family flee Moscow during the Stalinist purges.

And so it goes on, with enough sub-plots and back-stories to make a very sprawling read. "Zhivago" enjoyed a revival during the Sizties, after David Lean's film was released, and I do remember finding a strange "analysis" book at my local library, written by two Russians living here, who insisted that Pasternak's characters were "symbols" - Lara represented Russia in its purity before the Revolution, Yuri as the middle class, Komarovsky as the corrupt citizens who wanted to keep the status quo, and so on. And so Pasternak set these "symbols" and metaphors into a very realistically written novel.

Forget David Lean's film: the "soap opera" element that Robert Bolt wrote into it just doesn't do justice to this rich and magnificent story, comparable in sweep to "Gone With The Wind" and "War and Peace".

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Doctor Zhivago

Manufacturer: Easton Press
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Binding: Leather Bound
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The Poems of Doctor Zhivago
Boris Pasternak
Manufacturer: Roger Schlesinger
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 0850930162

Academy Award Winning Music from "Doctor Zhivago"

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Academy Award Winning Music from "Doctor Zhivago"

Manufacturer: Alfred Publishing Company
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Ten titles from this classic include: Lara's Theme * At the Student Cafe * Komarovsky and Lara's Rendezvous * Doctor Zhivago March * Tonya Arrives at Varykino * Tonya * Somewhere, My Love.

Academy Award Winning Music From "Doctor Zhivago" (1967)

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Academy Award Winning Music From "Doctor Zhivago" (1967)

Manufacturer: Robbins Music Corporation, NY
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Music and words from the film.

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On a moonlit winter night, a team of dogs pulls a sled, taking the narrator and readers on a wondrous ride through the snow, into and out of the woods. It is a ride you'll wish would never end.

Through this exquisite prose poem, Gary Paulsen shares the joy, the beauty, and the grandeur of the outdoors. With his joyous text and Ruth Wright Paulsen's exuberant and expressive illustrations, Dogteam is a celebration of nature, a dance that invites everyone to join in.

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A book for all ages.......2004-12-15

Gary Paulson's Dogteam is a beautifully written prose poem that describes a dogteam's running on a cold winter's night. As the author takes the reader across the moonlit trail, the sensory, descriptive words make you feel you are truly on the trail with the team. The watercolor illustrations by Ruth Wright Paulson capture the eagerness the dogs feel for running at night. I use this book with third grade students to model the use of descriptive language in writing. The children love the book and read it over and over.

Stunning.......2003-02-24

Beautiful illustrations and vivid, descriptive sentences! I purchased this book to teach my first graders about descriptive writing. They were in awe of the book! Living in the south, most of them have never even seen snow or even heard of dog sledding. After having been dog sledding myself I knew I had to find a way to share the experience and this book was it! It is truly one of my favorites!

An excellent picture book.......2000-09-26

DOGTEAM is a beautifully illustrated, as well as beautifully, simply, dramatically written book. It is not exactly a children's picture book, but more for lovers of dogs of all ages. Gary Paulsen is the author and retired dogsledder, who is most remembered for his young adult books such as HATCHET and DOGSONG. Ruth Wright Paulsen is his wife and the spectacular watercolor illustrator of the book. The picture book seems to be based on Paulsen's midnight adventures with his beloved dogteam, and readers will feel as if they are running alongside the dogteam, the sled whispering behind them. A great book.

MARY JOYCE: TAKU TO FAIRBANKS, 1,000 MILES BY DOGTEAM

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MARY JOYCE: TAKU TO FAIRBANKS, 1,000 MILES BY DOGTEAM
Mary Anne Greiner
Manufacturer: AuthorHouse
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ASIN: 1425988245

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The brave and exciting exploits of "Mary Joyce - Taku to Fairbanks, 1,000 Miles by Dogsled" are described in this book... mostly in her own words. She wrote a manuscript about her trip with her dogteam in 1936. It was never published until now. She was the first white person over a portion of the trail which later became part of the Alcan Highway. Her narrative and descriptions of Alaska's people, dogteams, vast landscapes and dangers encountered on the trail are wrapped in her wry humor and perspectives of the 30's. Mary was a nurse who moved to Alaska to the Taku Lodge in 1930 aboard a yacht, which also carried lavender bathroom fixtures and a cow. She was a pilot, a stewardess, a musher, a homesteader, a movie actress, a territorial government candidate, and more...and so loved her adopted Alaska. The author, a relative, has included the adventures and photos of her life from the family farm in Baraboo, Wisconsin where she was born until her death in 1976 in Juneau. Mostly all of Mary's clippings, photos and writings have been donated to the "Mary Joyce Collection" in the State of Alaska Library Historical Collections and the Juneau Douglas Museum.

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