Architecture of the Islamic World: Its History and Social Meaning

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Good for people who start.......2004-05-07

A Person who just starts to learn something about Islamic culture should read it. For people who knows a lot the catalogue at the second part of the book would be helpful but it is also not complete.

A very comprehensive introduction to muslim architecture.......1997-11-21

I love this book. It gives you a very good insight to muslim architecture and is at the same time easy to read and entertaining. As an orientalist in a postgrad study program I got to read books on the subject that are much more confusing or that are written in a slightly boring style. This book is a thorough introduction that never just stays on the surface of the matter. It does not give you a chronological account of architecture history, but answers a lot of questions like "Why it was built like it was built?" In the back part of the book you find plans and short descriptions of the most important buildings, in the first part you find a lot of good photographs and even better articles on single subjects like materials or building techniques. But the most important thing: It's NEVER boring.

Architecture in the Islamic World Its history and Social Meaning

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Architecture in the Islamic World Its history and Social Meaning
George (Editor) et al Michell
Manufacturer: William Morrow & Company
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000PSEWP6

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Impressionism has captured the imagination of people the world over since its first exhibition in Paris in 1874. People have long sought to understand how and why the Impressionists created their paintings and how their techniques might be replicated. Susie Hodge reveals the answers to these questions by assessing the techniques and styles of the great masters of Impressionism and showing how artists today can use their methods.

An informative introduction explains how the Impressionist movement came about, explores its historical context, and defines the style and inspiration of the artists involved. The heart of the book, however, focuses on eight major Impressionist painters -- Monet, Pissarro, Renoir, Cassatt, Degas, Cezanne, Seurat and Van Gogh -- revealing how they worked and analyzing their well-known paintings. Each case includes step-by-step demonstrations that show the reader exactly how to re-create Impressionist painting details in appropriate style.

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Create your own impression.......2007-04-27

Since I believe all art is an impression - whether it is a photo, an oil painting, or a cold sausage lying on the bottom of a bath - I should always advise someone to develop their own 'style,' but a little help can go a long way.

This is a very helpful book - the best I've found on this subject so far.

Ok for copying but not enough to learn the techniques.......2005-03-05

I love impressionist paintings so I purchased this book to learn how to paint like the impressionists. The book's goal is quite ambitious. Teaching you how to paint like each of the impressionist masters in less than 150 pages just isn't possible. But the author does as good as a job as possible in this setting. The book is evenly devided amongst the artists, so you can get a feel for the differences of each artists. Instead of copying an entire painting, which would be much more challenging, she focuses on a small area of the painting. This actually makes sense to explain the techniques.

The shortcomings of this book in my opinion are that I felt the book was more about copying the impressionist paintings rather than learning their techniques. In many cases the copies were pretty good but close examination showed completely different textures and it's obvious the technique was in fact quite different. In other cases the copy wasn't very close to the original.

I've also read "Paint With the Impressionists" and the author took a different approach: He painted original scenes in the styles of the various impressionists. I think that one gives a little more insight to their technique.

I think a better title for this book would be "How to copy impressionist paintings". Overall if you want to learn about the impressionists and need some guideance in copying their paintings, this is not a bad book. However if you do some studying on your own, and have access to a museum to study some original paintings I think you can do equally well without this book.

How to Paint Like the Impressionists : A Practical Guide to Re-Creating Your Own Impressionist Paintings

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How to Paint Like the Impressionists : A Practical Guide to Re-Creating Your Own Impressionist Paintings
Susie Hodge
Manufacturer: Collins Design
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OEREYW

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Gritty color photographs of the cowboy West.......2003-08-06

Color has a way of prettifying the West, and there are plenty of photography books that use color for that, some of them aiming for calendar art. Allard manages to use it with much broader intentions. He portrays not only the breadth and vastness of the Western landscape but the dust, dirt, and sweat of working with cattle and the irony of freedom when it's often just another word for nothing left to lose. If any book of Western photography captured the spirit of "Bobby McGee," this one surely does.

There are about 100 photographs in this collection, taken in cowboy country from Mexico to Montana during the years 1965-1980. A few are landscapes; most are of cowboys, some Native Americans, a few women and children. Allard has also included photographs of a rural Hutterite community in Montana. There are rodeo pictures and scenes of roundup and of night-life, men either gathered around a campfire or hanging out in bars. There are many fine portrait shots of men, their faces showing the fatigue and the effects of weather and years of tobacco and hard drinking. Scattered through the book are pages devoted to brief profiles of men Allard has befriended, young and old. A brief foreword is provided by Montana novelist Thomas McGuane.

My favorite images start with a shadowy landscape of Wyoming, dark and moody, while a setting or rising sun throws golden light over a ridge line in the middle distance. Second favorite is a swath of snow-covered Montana prairie with a fence line leading away to what looks like abandoned buildings on the horizon. There's a handsome portrait of a Nevada cowboy, bearded, looking into the camera under the brim of his hat with soulful dark brown eyes. There's a back-pocket view of a row of nine cowboys sitting on the top rail of a rodeo arena fence.

Many photos are just plain quirky. Three women rodeo performers in brightly colored cowboy hats rub Vaseline over their teeth. A man stands with his arm around the shoulders of a smiling woman wearing woolly chaps, while behind them another man lies passed out on the ground. A cowboy in black Stetson and long yellow rain slicker bends with a pool cue to line up a shot across a smoky pool table. Sitting alone at the end of a long row of bar stools, lighted by a long shaft of afternoon light, a cowboy sits slack-jawed and staring, a can of Olympia between his legs.

I loved this book and happily recommend it. If you can find a copy, it goes nicely on a shelf of Western literature. As companion volumes, I'd recommend Douglas Kent Hall's "Working Cowboys," Kendall Nelson's "Gathering Remnants" and a collection of vintage photographs, "The American Cowboy."

I can't believe someone would give this book only four stars.......1999-11-09

This book is magnificent. I found all kinds of new ways of looking at things, lighting. capturing the moment. I couldn't belive it. It effected something deep inside. not because of it "captured" cowboys, but because of the sheer artistry and Allard's vision and expertise.

The West of Today Captured on Film.......1999-03-16

A series of photo's that capture the modern day cowboys and the area countryside they call home.

The pictures shows sides of America many people don't know still exist. I have treasured this book for several years.

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Vanishing Breed Photographs of the Cowboy & The West
Foreword Thomas McGuanne, color Frontispiece, edited by Floyd Yearout photographs by William Albert Allard
Manufacturer: New York Graphic Society Book Little Brown
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000JD7KHE

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Vanishing Breed Photographs of the Cowboy and the West

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Vanishing Breed Photographs of the Cowboy and the West
McGuane Thomas
Manufacturer: New York Graphic Society
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000UF09WO

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Whose Little Boy Are You?

Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 0312877668

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Whose little boy are you?
Betty Van Witsen
Manufacturer: Jolly Books
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ASIN: B0007FKAJO

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Whose Little Boy Are You? : A Memoir of the Broun Family
Heywood Hale Broun
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OU2TD2

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Whose Little Boy Are You?: A Memoir of the Broun Family
Heywood Hale Broun
Manufacturer: St Martins Pr
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Whose little boy are you?: A novel
Hanokh Bartov
Manufacturer: Jewish Publication Society of America
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ASIN: 0827601123

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Land of Opportunity.......2004-07-20

John Dybvig writes as he talks - loud! He is, as he puts it, an "American billboard" and appears to accept most things American uncritically - the star-spangled patriot abroad - while casting an often humourous and sometimes rancorous and dyspeptic eye on most things New Zealand.

Fair enough, this book is written principally for Americans en route to NZ, to help them understand the locals and appreciate, as John now does, that when we speak, we don't mean the same things, even when we use the same words. This John has learnt at some cost - and his adventures in coming to terms with this ornery, cussed, un-american little outpost, are narrated here. This book is at its best when it's being a funny guide to a quirky land of mono-syllabics. There are chapters, like the one on John's brief career as a tv commentator for the pro wrestling circus which are gut-hurtingly funny and beautifully descriptive.
It's less successful when it tries to be a straight memoir. John seems to get caught between trying to give an honest account of something which might have been serious and painful, and keeping it light and funny. Let's see the memoir next! I'm sure there's more to be said, having watched various Americans struggle to come to terms with a country which seems to them at first glance to be simple and straightforward.

For the breadth and variety of John's adventures in NZ, from basketball coach to tv host, from serious dramatic actor to after-dinner commedian to accent coach, from bachelor on the tiles to happily married loving father of two little kiwis, provide one of the greatest ironies - that for this Yank, it was NZ, not the US of A, which turned out to be the Land of Opportunity.

However, if Gullible's Travels does nothing more thna prove to in-bound Americans that NZ is not a smaller, cuter, stranger, quieter version of the US, it will have done both them and NZ a service.

Dybvig cracks me up.......2004-07-13

How different a single entity is depending on one's perspective. I'm a born and bred Kiwi and John Dybvig is a household name in these dark and rainy little islands of New Zealand and his story is especially enlightening and pertinent to the New Zealand reader. Where US readers have will get some idea of the situations and gallery of characters in Gullibles Travels, New Zealanders will know exactly what's going on and who these people are, and that makes it an even more cracking read for us than anybody else. I'm appalled it doesn't have a national distributor here. It's a top read and I laughed out loud at least 5 times and ran about to find somebody... ANYbody, to read hilarious passages out aloud to, plenty. The cat loved my recitals. John Dybvig is a bold and brash risk-taking big man who takes large bites out of life. Bless him. If you're not from New Zealand you'll crack up and love this book anyway, BUT, if you're a New Zealander there's a very special treat here. An acid test to see if you can laugh at yourself. Top work that man.

Gullible's Travels.......2004-07-13

Gullible's Travels is a thoroughly enjoyable perusal of life lived to its fullest. John T. Dybvig writes with a refreshingly open and irreverent style, always maintaining that crucial conversational tone with his reader. He is at his best describing the vast differences between life in California and New Zealand. Far from being arrogant, his observations remain both poignant and humorous. He moves from topic to topic with a
plethora of anecdotal descriptions, all laced with a full-steam-ahead attitude. Dybvig is unashamed, unembarrassed, and totally honest.
The book is not constructed for heavy analysis or critique. It's a joyous romp through a vast array of experiences ranging from high school basketball to professional drama and everything in between. All this laced with Dybvig's often salty, yet frequently hilarious brand of unabashed written monologue.
Enjoy the read. John Dybvig entertains.

Gullible's Travels - A Memoir and Letter Home.......2004-07-05

Buckle up, break out the flag, fireworks and all your red, white and blue and take a patriotic romp thru New Zealand and see cultures clash and meld in one seamless entertaining journey thru the eyes and values of a true American swashbuckler. The journey is both hysterically entertaining and adds a subtle message on how we all can achieve what our minds can envision. the book taught me cheers is not just a greeting or a television show, it's an attitude.

Gullible's Travels - a memoir and letter home.......2004-06-21

I loved this book. It's the funniest book I've ever read about my country - New Zealand. In a sentence Gullible's Travels is a riotous travelogue that captures the soul of an American pursuing his dreams in a land far far away.
It reads like any number of Bill Bryson's travel books (Down Under - his book on Australia) but Gulliblle's Travels is street funny and full of lively anecdotal stories about life on a tiny island nation stuck way out in the Pacific Ocean. For example the author in twenty five years has never gotten use to turning light switches down to turn them on...apparently they flip them up in the Northern Hemisphere, to a New Zealander that's very funny in a reverse sort of way.
The author writes with energy and always goes to the heart of the matter as he details the trials,tribulations and the funny side of being a foreigner with a loud mouth writing his own newspaper column, hosting his own radio and television shows and teaching Kiwi actors to speak like Americans for American moives filmed here. I definitely recommend this book, it'll give you a lift.

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Belts can be an important fashion accessory, but store-bought versions often cost quite a bit and may not coordinate perfectly with your wardrobe. Belt Bazaar has the remedy for this: make your own, at a fraction of the cost, and have a great deal of fun doing it. Well-known TV sewing show host Shirley Adams presents four basic approaches--soft belts, stiff belts, fleece-core belts, and corded belts--along with dozens and dozens of variations on these methods. By adding pleats, tucks, slashes, applique, cording, assorted trims, decorative stitching, and many other embellishments, and by varying shapes and closure styles, Adams creates a multitude of striking belts, ranging in style from casual simplicity to glittery elegance. Helpful line art accompanies the step-by-step instructions, all supplemented by 30 pages of good color photos. And if belts aren't necessarily your thing, these techniques can easily be adapted to other accessories, such as bags or fabric neckpieces. --Amy Handy

Belt bazaar: The beautiful benefits of buckling up

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Belt bazaar: The beautiful benefits of buckling up
Shirley Adams
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Shirley Adams Belt Bazaar
Shirley Adams
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Shirley Adam's Belt Bazaar
Adams Shirley
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Excellent Summary of TR's Great White Fleet

Teddy Roosevelt's Great White Fleet
James R. Reckner
Manufacturer: Bluejacket Books
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1557509727

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Drawing on previously untapped sources, naval historian James Reckner provides a complete picture of the fleet that thrust the United States into the ranks of great world naval powers. His fresh interpretations of the fleet's historic 1907-09 world cruise, which won him the 1989 Roosevelt Naval History Prize, allow today's readers to fully appreciate the significance of the famous fleet that set sail during Teddy Roosevelt's second term as president. Reckner recreates the colorful pageantry of the event--sixteen U.S. battleships on a fourteen-month voyage around the world--that drew thousands of sightseers at every port of call, but his main emphasis is on the cruise's long-range impact on the Navy. He shows how the cruise revealed the fleet's shortcomings and forced the naval establishment to acknowledge the faults and make concessions that eventually led to permanent benefits.

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Excellent Summary of TR's Great White Fleet.......2001-03-31

James Reckner, a professor of history at Texas Tech University and a former officer in the United States Navy, examines the around-the-world cruise of the U.S. Navy's Atlantic Battleship Fleet in. Using government documents, newspapers, unpublished manuscripts, and a wide variety of secondary sources, Reckner argues that the logistical and diplomatic accomplishments of the Great White Fleet's cruise, which sailed the world from December 1907 to February 1909, remained a decisive factor in testing the capabilities of the U.S. Navy. The author suggests that historians have mistakenly emphasized the fleet's effect on diplomacy without considering the technical aspect of the fleet's voyage. Reckner asserts that the need to test the fleet proved the overriding consideration behind the Navy Department's decision to conduct the cruise. He highlights the significance of the cruise by repeatedly pointing out the number of obstacles facing early twentieth-century vessels, specifically that battleships of the period were far less reliable than modern warships. Reckner argues the Great White Fleet proved an influential cause behind the U.S. Navy's re-examination of its organization and battleship design during the world's unprecedented naval expansion prior to World War I. Reckner examines the state of naval affairs at the turn of the century and how it influenced a change in American naval policy during the Roosevelt administration. He traces the fleet's voyage of sixteen battleships and over 14,000 men as they departed from Hampton Roads, Virginia and sailed down the coast of South America, up the West Coast, only to pause for several weeks in San Francisco Harbor. While at California, naval officials reorganized the fleet and the ships got underway to cross the Pacific. After sailing to Hawaii, the fleet headed south to New Zealand and then Australia, Manila, Yokohama, Ceylon, Suez, various ports in the Mediterranean, before finally returning home to Virginia. Reckner reveals that the fleet's voyage of over 45,000 nautical miles produced a great deal of publicity for the United States Navy, ultimately boosting the prestige of American naval power abroad. However, he underscores the fact that the fleet had other national and international purposes as well. First, the U.S. Navy had to train the crews and determine the fleet's coal and provisions requirements. Reckner argues that the voyage confirmed various aspects of the Naval War College's new "War Plan Orange," the recently developed war plan against Japan. Second, the cruise launched a critical reexamination of the navy's administrative structure and the design for new ships. It ultimately led the U.S. Navy toward modernization, greater efficiency, and professionalism. Despite the effects of Roosevelt's Great White Fleet on naval matters, Reckner argues, the ultimate result of the fleet's voyage was its effect on foreign policy. The author points out that the traditional interpretation of the Great White Fleet as an example of Roosevelt's active foreign policy is erroneous. "This is a misconception," Reckner writes, "albeit one encouraged by Roosevelt himself" (p. 157). The author demonstrates that the voyage served as a good measure of the abilities of his battleship fleet in preparation for war. Accordingly, Reckner's study reinforces the connection between a strong military and an effective foreign policy. The author suggests that Roosevelt's "Big Stick" diplomacy, which served as a pillar to his corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, depended on the effectiveness of a strong naval presence so that the president's declaration that the impotence or chronic instability of neighboring countries might force the U.S. to intervene in its neighbors' affairs to forestall foreign intervention would be taken seriously. The strength of Reckner's study, however, lies with his treatment of the fleet's voyage. Reckner points out how the fleet was received in South America, the Pacific, and Europe. At every port of call, the author maintains, the ships, officers, and men of the Great White Fleet received friendly receptions in a carnival-like atmosphere which everyone used as an excuse for public holidays and festivities. Teddy Roosevelt's Great White Fleet is intended for the student of history with a significant knowledge of naval affairs and the political and diplomatic situation in the U.S. at the turn of the century. Reckner's work serves as a good supplementary source for the origins and the various trials surrounding the U.S. Navy's move toward establishing a modern naval force.

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Teddy Roosevelt's Great White Fleet.
JAMES R. RECKNER
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Teddy Roosevelt's Great White Fleet: The world cruise of the American battle fleet, 1907-1909

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Teddy Roosevelt's Great White Fleet: The world cruise of the American battle fleet, 1907-1909
James R Reckner
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A hundred miles northwest of Los Angeles, Sespe Creek flows through some of the wildest territory in California. A mostly roadless expanse of chaparral and mixed forest, in many places nearly inaccessible even on foot, the Sespe is the untamed heart of Southern California, a wilderness on the edge of one of the world's major metropolitan developments. To nature writer and outdoorsman John Bradley Monsma, the Sespe is both his place of escape and the place "that teaches me to be fully alive."

In The Sespe Wild, Monsma shares his exploration of this unique and fantastic region. His attention ranges from the physical Sespe, examined on foot or by kayak, to the subsurface geology that shaped it, the Chumash people who first occupied it, and the impact of Spanish and then American settlers. He also considers the Sespe through the eyes of some of its nonhuman populations--the nearly extinct condors, the vanished grizzlies, the mountain sheep, the steelhead trout, the red-legged frogs. Through the metaphor of the river, he ponders the tensions between preservation and overmanagement of wildlife and wilderness areas, the ecology of fire, the intricate connections between species, and the almost miraculous ways that the Sespe has escaped the fate of other Southern California streams, dammed or carved up into canals by development.

"To consider this place," Monsma says, "is to call up issues crucial wherever wilderness and cities meet: recreational impacts on wildlife habitat, the dynamics of accessibility and protection, the physical and psychological need for healthy ecosystems, threats of development and resource extraction." Monsma's engaging text addresses the Sespe's losses and its ongoing pattern of creation and renewal, leading us through rich layers of natural and cultural history in a narrative as colorful and exciting as a day on a Sespe trail. The Sespe, existing at the intersection of ecological processes and human ideals of wilderness, reminds us that nature and culture have always intermingled, and that the past and present, animal and human, "natural" and "unnatural" are ultimately and irrevocably inseparable.

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The Basque Diaspora.......2005-08-25

Gloria Totoricagüena's Identity, Culture, and Politics in the Basque Diaspora is a great introduction to the understanding of Basque diaspora from a multi-disciplinary approach -a somehow overlooked area of Basque studies by the international academia and surprisingly by the homeland scholars-. It analyzes the formation of the diaspora as an historical phenomenon for the over five hundred years, reveals the multi-directional interconnectedness and networks (from a familiar to an institutional level) among diaspora Basque communities and between those and the homeland, and describes the changing nature of the meaning of being Basque from transnational and deterritorialized perspectives. The book focuses, from a historical perspective, on the physical, emotional and psychological interconnectedness among diaspora Basques and the Basque region, while emphasizing the current Basque Government-diaspora institutional relations, promoted increasingly since the return of democracy to Spain and the early 1980s-. It also pays special attention to the influence of the Basque homeland nationalist ideology on the reformulation of Basque identity on the diaspora communities, specifically in the period of the Basque-Government-in-exile between the 1940s and the late-1970s. In sum, Identity, Culture, and Politics in the Basque Diaspora is a comprehensive ground-breaking work which lays the foundation for more theoretical and empirical comparative research in Basque studies in the international terrain as well as in the Basque Country and which will attract not only an expert reader, but also a wide audience eager to learn aspects of Basque history, culture, and politics that until now have been to some extent ignored.

A Soulful read.......2004-09-09

"The Sespe Wild" is an anthology of reflections on life and life issues in the Sespe river. Each chapter focuses on an animal that lives or used to live around the Sespe. There are also chapters talking about attempted dams, oil drilling, and rock art left by the Chumash Indians. The book can be read in installments, or, if you have the time, in one sitting.

Monsma is a gifted storyteller, and traces the individual histories of each aspect in a way that makes you want to root for the cause of conservation. At the the same time, he presents both sides of each issue fairly, and never comes down clearly either way. This can be a challenge for the reader, particularly if you're looking for a more black and white discussion of environmental issues. Personally, I loved that aspect, as it left me asking questions of myself. Perhaps that is the biggest lesson in this book: You ask important questions, and as you go through life, part of the answer is revealed, but only enough to prompt more questions.

On a side note, readers with a Christian background may chuckle at some of verbal puns that hint at time spent in Sunday School, but for the rest, it's a soulful account of how a place so small and almost insignificant can be filled with life that continues to thrive in the midst of contant challenge. Monsma is obviously passionate about nature, and here he shares it with us.

A Compelling Description of the Sespe Wilderness.......2004-09-05

Drawing on his personal experiences of backpaking in the Sespe Wilderness over many years, Monsma revels in the beauty of the landscape, and its bird and animal life. His descriptions of early mornings in the wilderness are compelling; they make me want to reach for my backpack and hiking boots and head out to the backcountry.

Drawing on extensive scholarship, he tells the chequered history of the Sespe and the story of its preservation only 50 miles from the Los Angeles metropolis. Describing the threats from oil drilling, dam building and suburban development, he not only points out the short-sightedness of current energy and development policies, but also shows the remarkable ability of the wilderness to regenerate itself and obliterate the traces of earlier intruders.

He uses rhetorical figures such as the native american shamans, tricksters and bear-men to introduce different ways of seeing nature and connecting it to everyday urban life. The traces of zen buddhism and Carlos Castaneda appear hokey at the beginning, but become an integral part of the book's structure.

By the end this is the kind of book that makes you not only want to visit the wilderness, but also makes you see under the surface of urban life. Every freeway drainage ditch, patch of scrub, and visiting hummingbird comes alive with layers of meaning.

Identity, Culture, and Politics in the Basque Diaspora

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Identity, Culture, and Politics in the Basque Diaspora
Totoricaguena Gloria P.
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ASIN: B000UF21JS

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The latest research results on the roles of amino acid chelates in animal nutrition are covered in this book, with careful attention to scientific detail and accuracy. The book presents the work of 42 international contributors; and will interest nutritionists, veterinarians, and all those concerned with animal feeds and feeding programsÂ—particularly those supplying mineral supplements to the diet in a form which can be absorbed readily and digested properly.

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