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Ingram Xtra: To Accompany Accounting: Information for Decisions
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Faultless Facilitation: Instructor's Manual for Facilitation Training, Second Edition
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Teach team leaders and group facilitators the key skills for leading productive team meetings. This workshop contains everything you need to teach others how to facilitate; it comes complete with background material for the trainer and participants, and handouts for evaluation. The Instructors Manual offers in-class learning activities and optional training designs (1-, 2-, 3-, or 5-day) to go with the Resource Guide. The Instructors Manual explains how to plan, run, and evaluate skill-based training for inexperienced facilitators. The Resource Guide includes how tos on leading groups and problem solving for facilitators. Use it as a participant coursebook with the training program, as a self-study option, or for managers who need to know more about the role of facilitator.
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- How to Restore Your Farm Tractor
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How to Restore Your Farm Tractor (Motorbooks Workshop)
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Old Tractors and the Men Who Love Them: How to Keep Your Tractors Happy and Your Family Running
ASIN: 0879385936 |
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For fun, practicality or profit, farm tractor restoration has become extremely popular. Follow two tractors through professional restorations and examine carbs, diesel systems, hydraulics, engines and drives, electrical, PTOs, and more, from buying a tractor to final paint and decals. Do it right and that classic will last for generations to come. It increased my knowledge tenfold. I was impressed by the wealth of detail. Antique Collector.
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How to Restore Your Farm Tractor.......2004-02-04
An excellent and interesting orientation as to what it would take to restore an old farm tractor. I found a lot of good b&w photos and a desciptive,easy to understand text. There are appendexes listing clubs and parts vendors also. Buy this book along with a shop manual before you buy a tractor.
BUY THE BOOK BEFORE YOU BUY THE TRACTOR.......2002-12-30
I READ OTHER READERS REVIEWS BEFORE I BOUGHT MY PROJECT TRACTOR AND THANK GOD. THIS IS A VERY GOOD INSIGHTFUL ACCOUNTING OF WHAT IT TAKES TO REBUILD A TRACTOR . FOR THE BIGINNER, THIS IS A MUST!
Buy this book before you buy a restoration project.......2001-08-30
This book is a good overview of tractor restoration. It follows the restoration of a Ford 9N tractor to original parade ready condition and a Farmall to working condition. It has chapters on each section of restoration such as electrical systems, fuel system etc. While it describes the steps involved in some detail for the two tractors being documented, it notes the exceptions for others such as John Deere. This book will give you a good feel for what tractor restoration is about and it will even give you some detailed instructions for some of the work involved, but it will not be the sole resource needed. Fortunately the author is well aware of that fact and gives generous references as to where more information can be found, not just other publications, but also societies and parts dealers.
This book is well written and well organized. It has a lot of good photographs, even if many of them are in black and white. I recommend it as a good starting point, but certainly not the last word.
This book is a good reference for the beginner........1998-09-04
I found the book to be well written and illustrated. The advice and techniques presented are sound, though somewhat over-simplified. It would be excellent reading for those who are considering a tractor restoration project. Those who have completed one or more restorations should find it interesting, but not enlightening.
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Idaho Impressions
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Leland Howard understands what makes Idaho special: its vast national forests, spectacular Hell's Canyon, massive river systems, dramatic waterfalls, placid lakes, rare and elusive wildlife, and much more. Interspersed with the breathtaking landscape and nature photographs are images conveying some of Idaho's cultural history; recreation, such as whitewater rafting and skiing; and community activities such as festivals, fairs, and rodeos.
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Ballads of Owyhee mine days: Impressions of today and yesterday, 1863-1963, Ohyee mines' first centennial
Mac Parkins
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Lisk's exquisite photographs capture the totality of Idaho's magnificent landscape and reveal the diverse nature of its rugged and unspoiled splendor.
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A fresh view!.......2004-03-23
Somehow this book slipped my attention - but it's got it now! These photos give a fresh perspective to places I've been and places I wish I could go.
Here's Idaho at its best!.......1999-11-06
See Idaho as you've never seen it before through the eyes of photographer Mark Lisk. He has captured the essence of the State's diversity -- from the beautiful plains to the majestic mountains. This is an exceptional book and one that stays on my coffee table for guests to enjoy! I give this one five stars.
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Idaho Wildlife Impressions (Impressions (Farcountry Press))
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Idaho Wildlife Impressions is a collection of photographer Bill Mullins' unique and evocative shots. The lush album includes images of bear cubs playing in a dewy meadow; sharp-tailed grouse strutting their stuff on the lek; Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep grazing in the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness; cedar waxwings devouring mountain ash berries in winter, and much more. Species both rare and familiar are captured amid Idaho scenery.
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Experiences and impressions of a woman in Montana 1862-1863
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- Fly Fishing for Dummies not all that great
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Fly Fishing for Dummies
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ASIN: 076455073X |
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For the unschooled, fly-fishing can appear impossibly difficult and otherworldly, the province of tweedy sportsmen with enough time and money to look credible on the water. But as Peter Kaminsky explains in the opening chapter, this graceful method of catching fish doesn't require "the touch of a surgeon, the body mechanics of Tiger Woods, and the spirit of a Zen master." What it does require is a little dedication and good instruction--and Fly Fishing for Dummies delivers on the latter. This crash-course tutorial removes the mystery with chapters on gear, flies, casting, and fishing strategies. There's even a chapter on some of the great North American trout rivers. And the tone is far from tweedy, with plenty of good humor and trivia mixed into the excellent info. --Langdon Cook, Sports & Outdoors editor
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If you believe what you read, fly fishing requires the touch of a surgeon and the spirit of a Zen master. Forget about what you’ve heard about f ly fishing in the past, if you really want to learn how to fly fish all you need are the right tools, proper technique, and a positive attitude. With these essential elements you can begin to enjoy the sport of fly fishing in no time.
For those of you who have never held a fly rod, you will find enough information here to get you started. You won’t be forced to discover everything all at once. If you’re already a fly rodder, you’ll find plenty of tips and techniques that you can turn to right away without going through the basics all over again. And if you’re a master angler, you will find this book a handy reference for all kinds of questions.
Fly Fishing For Dummies explores the fun and fundamentals of fly fishing—from tying flies to reeling in your catch. Whether you’re a novice or a veteran angler, here you? 8217;ll find all the tips and tricks for choosing the right kind of gear; how and where to catch freshwater and saltwater fish; visual examples of the art of casting; and how to read the water, wade, cast, and (finally) land yourself a whopper. You’ll also find out how to:
- Identify the best fish to fly fish for—from rainbow trout to black marlin
- Improve your catch and release techniques
- Continue your education through recommended references and online resources
- Choose the right rod, reel, and gear to land the fish you are after
- Master all the casting styles you’ll ever need
- Tie your own flies or choose pre-made ones proven to get results
With over 150 illustrations and proven advice, Fly Fishing For Dummies is a great primer on fly fishing’s essential elements.
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Fly Fishing for Dummies not all that great.......2006-09-20
This book is an OK overview of the sport but there are much better books out there. Fly Fishing (A Trailside Guide) by John Merwin is one. Merwin's book has extrememly colorful pictures that get you excited about fishing and the illustrations make it very easy to learn somewhat complicated knots. Fly Fishing for Dummies doesn't do a horrible job of explaining things but different books I've read do a much better job making it easier to learn and much more enjoyable.
Falls short for beginners.......2006-05-27
I'm a big fan of the Dummies series but found this one very disappointing. The author goes into excruciating detail about some peripheral parts of fly fishing, while completely glancing over some of the essentials.
Much of the content is anecdotal at best, to the point that it feels like the author is just trying to fill up pages. For instance, he devotes two entire pages to what kind of vest he thinks you should have, and the section on sunglasses is almost laughable. The chapter on "Great Rivers for Trout" across the US belongs in a niche guide and feels hopelessly out of place in a beginner book.
In the mean time, Kaminsky completely skims over the essentials. While there are plenty of lectures about why you should get a case for your rod, the section on casting feels like an afterthought. I find it difficult to believe that the author has ever tried to teach a beginner to cast, nor could any beginner (like myself) learn to cast from his brief explanation. Other areas that left we with a lot of questions include fly selection, how fly fishing is affected by the seasons, and actual fishing strategies and techniques.
This 'for Dummies' book misses the mark for dummies.......2006-03-01
I liked the book but found it to be a 'miss' on illustrations and specifics. For a Dummies book I expected there to be the maximum amount of examples on how to set up a new rod, real and leaders and tippets.
I am brand new to fly fishing. I have a full set up that needs to be rigged and I just did find the book to have a step-by-step area in the book to show you how and where you should tie you flies on your leaders/tippet. I think a section saying "So you bought a new rod, real, lines and flies and now you need to set it up to fish" would be a perfect chapter to add. Then the author can start breaking it down piece by piece and the myriad of options for tying and set up.
Overall it gives you the basic idea but I think the author may have lost the "you know nothing" perspective when writing this book. I do know more after reading it.
Definitely NOT for beginners.......2005-07-29
I have been fly fishing for just over a year and decided to pick up this book to get another opinion on choosing flies, on-stream techniques, equipment to make everything a bit easier. Unfortunately, this book did nothing to help. Even the section on tying knots was more hindering than helpful (and I already knew how to tie most of them!). I'm still on the search for a decent book, but let me tell you, it's definitely not this one.
Not Adequate.......2005-07-14
This book does not tell you what you need to know to get started in fly fishing. Armed only with this book your initial enthusiasm will degrade into frustration. Fly fishing is a very knowledge and technique intensive sport and this book is very spotty here, although an enjoyable read. Try the L.L.Bean Fly-Fishing Handbook or some other book which gives you details on casting, strategies, and techniques and from there you will need to find a knowledgeable friend or guide to progress.
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Sears Fly Fishing for Dummies One-Pocket Counter P Repack
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- Memoir + travelogue + learning Irish: 3 books in one
- Superb!
- Intresting exploration into Gaelic Ireland
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Lonely Planet Home With Alice: A Journey in Gaelic Ireland (Lonely Planet Journeys (Travel Literature))
Steve Fallon
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Steve Fallon's Boston upbringing was as Irish as the come: portraits of the President, the Pope and the Sacred Heart hanging on the wall, a patina of song and booze, and even being taught by his Aunt Alice to bless himself in Gaelic. When, as an adult, he finds his life is generating more questions than answers, he embarks on a journey to the land of his ancestors determined to conquer Gaelic - and to find some personal peace. What starts out as a private odyssey beings to resemble a family road trip when, much to his surprise, Steve is joined by the spirit of his long-departed Aunt Alice. Together they journey to the heart of Irish-speaking Ireland - the Gaeltacht - through pubs and language classes, brushes with the 'little people' and run-ins with other classmates, through Galway, Kerry, Donegal and beyond.
Despite all he learns along the way, Steve's quest raises two fundamental questions. Can Gaelic continue to survive? And just how long is Alice planning to hang around?
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Memoir + travelogue + learning Irish: 3 books in one.......2005-12-24
I read this carefully, as a student of Irish who has travelled many of Fallon's same roads and walked on his exact shores. The book's a mixture of genres, which may please those less cognizant or patient with the core of the tale concerning his Irish-language learning at an adult-level summer course in An Cheathru Rua (Carroroe) on the west coast of Co. Galway's Gaeltacht, in one of the island's designated Irish-speaking heartlands. It may help to have more than a passing acquaintance at least with rudimentary Irish to appreciate the set-up and the goals that Fallon, amidst a mid-life crisis that remains muted, takes on. No worry, however, the snippets in Irish are all translated; by the end you'll pick up useful and idiomatic Irish sentences! (See Darerca Ni Chartuir's "The Irish Language: An Overview and Guide" for a quick introduction to all facets of Irish-language learning, including brief essays from students of various centers, including the one Fallon attended.)
The direct prose reflects Fallon's profession, the writing and editing of many travel guides (thanks, Steve, for the Lonely Planet Hungary, which I found typically concise and cogent), and does not have a lot of dazzle. This may detract from some of the book where I thought that more descriptive scene-setting would have aided those who had never seen what I and Fallon may have, but it does make for a brisk narrative. He does obscure exactly what's at the bottom of his quest in terms of his own psyche, but (as Maureen Dezell's "Irish America" book--also reviewed by me on Amazon--shows), this is a typical and ineradicable foible of all Irish. The conclusion, with his triumphant speech in Irish to a gaggle of dumbfounded Bretons, makes for a wonderful summation of the success of his mission to gain Irish fluency.
What works clumsily is the sub-plot involving the ghost of his aunt, the titular Alice, who accompanies him on his travels. I am not doubting that her spirit might transmogrify, this being an Irish tale, but this conceit was not very entertaining or enlightening to me as a reader. I felt as if I was a parent intruding on a child's conversations with an "invisible friend."
Confusingly, after a lull in the morale of he and his learners mid-way through the course, he suddenly absconds temporarily in a rapid jaunt around much of the remaining Irish-speaking Gaeltachtai. How did he leave, drive around Ireland, and return for the course? Such logistics, as with the exact time and schedule of his summer program, are left vague.
This exploration of Gaeltachtai is an excellent idea for a book, but needed to either be made more seriously and extensively, or made into another book entirely. It's shoehorned into this personal tale, and does not quite fit neatly enough. Places that Fallon should have investigated like Muscraigh, Tory Island, Rath Cairn, Belmullet, and especially the West Belfast Irish-speaking community: these important centers where Irish is either ebbing or cresting are all bypassed or rushed past, one senses for lack of time.
This detracts from the otherwise thoughtful interviews with experts and encounters with native speakers with whom he tries to "leave behind" as well as "take away" Irish as an active language. He finds his efforts often belittled, reflecting too the disdain many Irish have, English and Irish-speakers, for those trying to pick up the "native" language as outsiders. His honest attempts reminded me of Pamela Petro's "Travels in an Old Tongue: Touring the World Speaking Welsh" (see my review) as another American learner of the baby boomer generation eager and scared to converse through a Celtic language with its natives. The collusion of the native speakers against the incomers reveals a crucial difficulty discouraging many well-intentioned learners as well as making native speakers feel the brunt of endlessly rudimentary verbal exchanges with strangers.
Unlike Welsh, however, Irish because of and not despite its state-sponsorship remains threatened. Fallon seeks to learn its Connemara dialect, but who can he talk to? And will they respond in Irish, in a place where all speak English anyway? The problem seems only growing worse in the Gaeltachtai, even as adults learn it. Most who claim to speak Irish daily are, of course, students between 10-14, as Fallon reminds us in an intelligent if dispiriting analysis of census figures. He quotes the Donegal activist Liam O Cuinneagain, who wonders if Irish will survive as a community-based or only as a network-connected language. Certainly a vexed question for many concerned with the present and future of Irish as more than, say Klingon, Elvish, or Esperanto. Will Irish come to be used only in a course by teens or a hobby for adult learners? I further pondered its unstable prognosis after reading Fallon's encounters with those Irish men and women charged with diagnosing and boosting Irish today.
Fallon offers much that transcends the easy sentiment of emigres or the inherited disdain of many who have been force-fed Irish over the past century, and I only wish this had been made more prominently the focus rather than its few pages here.
Also, Fallon's reminiscences of growing up in Irish America in a Boston suburb in the 50s and 60s, while informative in showing Fallon's initial attraction to the remnants he heard of what he and his family believed already a "dead" language, do not show much that is distinctive. This effort, I realize, is to delineate how Fallon later felt such a need, as if from "racial memory," to return to study Irish and recover a severed link with his past and present identity. But much of the book is taken up with this and the addition of a potted history of the Celts and how Irish came about and went away, that is all known to anyone already literate in Irish or Irish American culture, and is only needed for the complete newcomer to such subjects, and I doubt that such a reader would start with this book. But, you never know, and if this does inspire such a quest, more power to the author and you the reader.
This book does deserve a wider audience among Irish wherever they live and all curious about the "first official language"; I only stumbled across it via an Amazon subject search, and I wish it gains more attention. I might add that some of the proposals for greater state recognition and services for Irish-speakers beyond lip service have been implemented two years after the 2001 date of Fallon's book. Whether these will help remains to be seen.
For more on these matters, see these newer titles, appearing after Fallon's book. These are all reviewed as well by me on Amazon: dense and scholarly: "The Irish Language in Ireland," Diarmuit MacGiollaChroist; short bilingual monograph: James McCloskey "Voices Silenced?"; essays by its speakers: Ciaran MacMurchaidh "Who Needs Irish?"; one man's depressing journey across the Celtic fringe: Marcus Tanner "The Last of the Celts." Another bilingual monograph, not listed on Amazon but available from the Dublin publisher Cois Life: Michael Cronin, "Irish in the New Century."
Superb!.......2002-04-07
Steve Fallon's Home with Alice, A Journey in Gaelic Ireland is first-rate travel literature. The author achieves just the right balance of telling us about his personal journey to explore his roots in Ireland and telling us about the people and places of Ireland itself. Having not yet traveled to Ireland myself, by the end of the book I almost felt like I had already been there. The writing is crystal-clear, and even the passages in which the author conjures up the ghost of his Aunt Alice seem refreshingly honest. There is a lot in this book about the history of Ireland and about the linguistic structure of the Irish Gaelic language, but even the most arcane bits of information are presented in an entertaining and engaging style. For anyone with a passing interest in the Emerald Isle - and that's probably you if you're reading this review - I can't recommend this book highly enough. If you're like me, you'll pick it up, you won't be able to put it down, and you'll be sorry when it's over. In short, an all-around terrific book and a pleasure to read.
Intresting exploration into Gaelic Ireland.......2002-03-29
Fallon's exploration of his Irish Gaelic roots makes for an interesting read. An Irish-American from Boston, he decides to learn Irish (Gaelic), and basically describes his efforts to learn and research the state of the language in modern Ireland, while at the same time pointing out some of the misconceptions between being "Irish" (i.e. American) and "Irish" (i.e. REAL Irish). He visits most of the areas of the Gaeltacht (Irish speaking regions), and what he finds doesn't seem to suggest (to me anyway), that the language is flourishing, despite major government efforts.
My main criticism is relatively minor. I would have liked to have a short chapter or appendix on the Irish language itself. Although he peppers his account with his attempts at Gaelic, there is no guide to pronounciation or general structure of the language. I'm not looking for a "Learn Irish in 20 lessons", but just a brief description to understand why it's so hard, etc.
The other criticism has to do with the periodic imaginary conversations with his aunt (Alice). They pop up now and then, and seem rather pointless. I don't think that's a bad idea, but he could have used it more strongly to explain differences between Irish-America, old and modern Ireland. Again, a minor quibble.
Overall, the subject matter is quite interesting, and Fallon writes well. If you're interested in Ireland and not just green beer and "erin go bragh" , it's highly recommended.
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She found comfort in her work and her family.......2000-10-12
Years ago, Ellie Maitland was shattered by what she perceived was a rejection by her best friend Sloan Cassidy. Since then, her sole comfort has been her family and her ambition which has driven her. As an administrator for her mother's maternity clinic, Ellie strives hard to prove her worth to the clinic's clients as well as to her family. Though she knows she will never be a beauty like her twin sister, Ellie knows business and she struggles to achieve a footing in a world where she is perceived as being too young and inexperienced to fill her mother's shoes. To add to the trouble at the clinic, Sloan Cassidy comes back into her life with his twin daughters in tow. The two girls are too much for him to handle and he wants Ellie to help him while they renew their friendship.
Tara Taylor Quinn has written a mediocre installment of the Maitland Maternity series. Because much of the conflict between Sloan and Ellie resides in the past with their friendship, Quinn seems to have a hard time illustrating a development between the two romantically. Their single bond is Cassidy's daughters who truly are too much for a single father to handle. Ellie is a contradictory character whose strength of purpose is always underminded by the vulnerability she has felt since she was a teenager. Because of this, it was hard for me to take her seriously as it was for the business people she dealt with. Though she finds confidence in her work, her lack of faith in her mother's approval of her for the position doesn't ring true. The author's prose is good and the story is not bad at points. I just got the sense that Quinn had tried to tackle too many issues of the characters and their relationship at the same time which did not allow for a fluid storyline already marred by the overarching plot concerning the abandoned baby.
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