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In Harmonious Home, bestselling author and interiors expert Judith Wilson takes you to the heart of fuss-free living. Imagine a home that is easy to move through and visually connected, one with light switches in just the right places, and seamless storage that works day in, day out. Living quarters with a color palette that functions as well in the kitchen as in the bedroom, with rooms that are configured to match your lifestyle. Imagine a home that works as a whole, from top to bottom, front to back, a space conceived with one strong and simple vision. Harmonious Home is a guide to creating that streamlined home. Whether you live in an apartment or a house, the book points the way to evaluating and maximizing its potential. Part 1, Thoughts and Plans, is devoted to initial ideas, from setting a budget to examining the architectural bones you already have. Part 2, Bare Essentials, helps sort the practicalities, from perfectly sited heating and lighting, to visually cohesive materials
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Making Your Space Special.......2006-04-07
The book's aim seems to be to make the most of an old English country house or a quirky city apartment. It doesn't look like it would apply as well to a freshly built house. Most of the discussion seems to be aimed at remodeling existing spaces.
Strengths: Lots of well-captioned and clear photos & thought provoking checklists sprinkled throughout
Drawbacks: some rooms used multiple times (different angles)in the photos
Good for a Browse.......2004-11-18
The book's aim seems to be to make the most of an old English country house or a quirky city apartment. It doesn't look like it would apply as well to a freshly built house. Most of the discussion seems to be aimed at remodeling existing spaces.
Strengths: Lots of well-captioned and clear photos & thought provoking checklists sprinkled throughout
Drawbacks: some rooms used multiple times (different angles)in the photos
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For the first time there is available a comprehensive, step-by-step instruction method through which an inspiring carver can progress under the guidance of one of America's great carving teachers, William Veasey. Eleven different waterfowl carvings-simple to complex: 3 flying miniatures, floating, standing, preening, antique swan. Most popular carving techniques; acrylic painting techniques; display decorative carvings; hunting decoys; how, when, where, why of competition; marketing carvings; tools and materials suppliers' lists; history of carving; 285 line drawings; full-sized carving patterns; 505 black and white photographs; 65 color plates.
, 65 color plates/505 b/w photos/285 drawings, 8 1/2" x 11", Index
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Above the Ceiling
Tom Henry
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Internet-Based Workplace Communications: Industry and Academic Applications
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Internet-Based Workplace Communications: Industry and Academic Applications examines the different ways in which online media are becoming a part of and affecting educational and professional writing practices. By overvieiwng how Internet-based technologies affect the communication process, this timely book provides educators with a synopsis of the tools and techniques that could be applied to a variety of educational and professional activities. Similarly, by covering the uses of online media in communication education, this book provides employers with insights related to the Internet-related discourse skills of prospective employees. This book serves as a bridge between educational developments and industry practices, and readers from a broad range of backgrounds learn of different concepts, technologies, and techniques that can affect the online communication process.
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- Don't shop for a new home without reading this first
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Finding Home: Buying the House That's Right for You
Martha Webb
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Dress Your House for Success: 5 Fast, Easy Steps to Selling Your House, Apartment, or Condo for the Highest Po ssible Price!
ASIN: 0609803530
Release Date: 1998-08-25 |
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Don't shop for a new home without reading this first.......1998-11-23
Finding Home is the first book I read that walks you through how to think about the living space you need -- whether a house, apartment or other -- when considering a new home. The book is replete with concrete examples -- heartwarming, human, touching -- that help the reader think through his or her family's own lifestyle and the ways in which a move to a new home will affect them. In addition to incorporating the emotional side of "finding home," the book also provides plenty of practical advice for making sure a move is a sound financial investment -- so that you have a chance to remain "clear headed" even as you lose your heart to "dream home." With all the examples and anecdotes, the book is an excellent read. I'm giving a copy to every friend in the househunting market -- and saving a copy to re-read myself the next time I get ready to move.
Clearly the best thing of its kind in print!.......1998-11-04
During my 49-plus years in real estate, I've read - or tried to wade through - a number of self-help books about the daunting, confusing, frightening, hazardous experience of moving a self and that self's family from a known here to a mystery-shrouded there. This book is, by a country (or city) mile, the best guide ever offered for people on the move. Martha Webb, although not a Realtor, earned an "E" for expertise by moving sixteen times before authoring these 192 pages, so she knows whereof she writes - and writes whereof she knows exceptionally well. Crammed with an awesome number of details and seasoned with a wealth of personal anecdotes, it meets the reader before any ad is clipped or call made to agent or seller; and the reader is not bidden farewell until long after the moving van has rolled away, the last box opened and the last tears of nostalgia shed. In short, the reader is spoon-fed and hand-led from the first thought of moving until well in and settled. What makes Webb's book outstanding is that it covers every conceivable (and easily overlooked) aspect of the moving experience, providing answers to every conceivable question one might ask before, during or after the relocation adventure. Perhaps more importantly, it includes questions - literally hundreds of them - that buyers should ask themselves and others, but too often fail to while hacking their way through the unfamiliar jungle of people, places and processes that pummel the mind into a state of helpless confusion. There is, too, a treasury of check lists, at least one for every critical point in the proceedings, again throwing light on obscure matters which, if not dealt with in the now will cost dearly in a not-so-sweet bye and bye. Adding to the user-friendliness of this volume is a mercifully detailed index for t hose wishing to cherry-pick particular events, possibilities and/or pitfalls. Unique features include the "Game of Nines," which involves the entire household in a pre-hunt planning session. This segues smoothly to preparation of "Home Print Worksheets" that profile the "dream home" toward which the search is to be directed. General househunting hints abound throughout, as well as financing formulas, contract cautions and negotiating strategies - all peppered with those prodding questions and engaging, believable personal experiences drawn from the author's peripatetic past. Webb offers sage counsel to those who choose to "go it alone" without professional help, while not precluding the possibility that it can be done. (e.g., on the subject of buying directly from the owner to get a bargain: "It is unlikely that the owner is selling for the fun of it and discounting the price.") Her advice on choosing agents is similarly direct and pointed, listing specific guidelines, questions to ask and discussion points. Among other nuggets of knowledge not seen in other guidebooks is an explanation of the emotional connection which is likely to kick in when "that house" is encountered. This phenomenon, while not always a reliable identifier of the ultimate purchase, is not, she says, to be ignored. (And she's right!) Equally valuable is her advice on dealing with "buyer's remorse," that scary attack of post-decision doubts that accompany every major decision, including the wisest ones as well as those more regrettable. Such forewarnings are of the essence of Finding Home, a book so comprehensive that no one is likely (or would even be able) to follow through on every single suggestion; but even those who only pick and choose their way through this manual will be infinitely better off than the intrepid souls who choose to fly by the seat of their disorganized plans. The road to happily ever after is strewn with their bleached bones, making the purchase of this book an investment sure to return dividends hundreds of times greater than its modest cost. Finding Home, which follows Webb's critically-acclaimed Dress Your House For Success, is chatty and personal, as opposed to the clinical and aloof style of other books on the same subject. Besides being a valuable guide, it's a pleasant read, loaded with smiles and soothing reassurances that househunting is both a survivable and potentially rewarding process. To paraphrase a currently popular TV commercial, "Don't find home without it!" ###
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What a great book!.......2001-08-15
It looks like this book may be hard to find, but it's worth the extra effort. It is very informative without becoming overly technical, and espouses common sense precaution without crossing the line into hysterical crusading (well...except for a tiny bit of "scare tactics" at the very beginning). Authors John and Delores Alber preface their book some basic recommendations for how to avoid problems, then acknowledge we're human and set out to arm us with information.
The first sections focus on basic groundrules. They range from 'use common sense' to "be prepared for emergencies," and the authors makes specific suggestions both for precautionary measures and for emergency response. This is followed by a brief section on how plants are properly named (critical to accurately identifying a plant), a list of common plant toxins & how they damage, and plant selection tables for picking out innocuous plants. Then the focus switches to identifying hazards.
The main body of the book is an identification guide to common houseplants and florist flowers focusing on toxicity potential. Plants are organized alphabetically by genus and species, and each entry lists common names as available. Entries include a general description of the plant, an sketch illustration, any noteworthy species or varieties, and an evaluation of its dangers with specific precautionary recommendations and reference listings for further investigation. The index is satisfactorily comprehensive, containing both scientific and widely popular common names.
What I really think makes this book stand out is the amount of background the authors provide on their findings. Rather than just say, "Safe," "Unsafe," or "Prosecutable," the Albers tell you who has made the evaluation (often Poison Control), whether it has been researched formally or is simply a compilation of observations, and any reservations they may have concerning the finding. They tell you straight up that they plan on erring on the side of caution, but they give you more than enough information to let YOU make the final call on whether the plant needs to be shunned.
A very comprehensive book.......1999-12-12
This book is very comprehensive, more so than the poison control center lists that I've seen. From the book I learned things about toxicity of orchids of which orchid-growing experts were unaware. The authors also address the toxicity of things other than houseplants and cut flowers themselves, such as pesticides that might have been sprayed on the leaves of houseplants and preservatives with which cut flowers may have been treated. This book would make an excellent present for parents of young children.
very helpful book for those interested in childproofing.......1999-04-07
This book is very thorough in it's descriptions of the houseplants and their toxicity. It includes sketches of the plants for identification. It makes recommendations about whether the plant is safe for homes w/ children, should be kept out of reach of children, or should not be in homes with children. I found it a very helpful tool in childproofing my home.
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The memoirs of the legendary Skorzeny appear here in its first unabridged English edition. Skorzeny's fame began with the successful raid to free Benito Mussolini from the Gran Sasso, Italy in 1943. His elite commandos surprised Italian guards in a daring daytime raid. Hitler presented Skorzeny with the Knight's Cross for this operation. Not only is this raid explained in minute detail, many of Skorzeny's previously unknown operations in all European and Russian theatres of World War II are given in detailed accounts. Operation Griffin - the innovative use of German Kommandos dressed as American soldiers working behind enemy lines - during the Ardennes Offensive in 1944 is given in-depth coverage, as is Skorzeny's rememberances on the Malmedy massacre. Skorzeny also offers his insights into the mysterious Rudolf Hess mission to England in May 1941, and offers a behind the scenes look at German and Russian secret military intelligence, and the workings of Canaris and Gehlen., 16 pages of photographs, 6" x 9"
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Just the facts; and Skorzeny's beliefs.......2007-01-26
Otto Skorzeny was a daring man with an open mind and a firm believer of Hitler. In his meteoric military carreer he was helped a lot by his appearance (he was a scar-faced giant), his audacity and a good dose of luck. In this book he speaks about everything and everyone, presenting in essence a consice history of World War II in Europe and his impressions of the many Nazi and foreign officials he met. He was a member of the Waffen SS and he takes pride in it, saying that he fought always with honor. He tries really hard to destroy the many myths built around his name and proves that his post-war years were really uneventful- at least as far as commmando raids are concerned. The famous kidnapping of Mussolini takes only a few chapters but there are also some very interesting war episodes for the reader. I personally found Adrian Foelkersam's operation in Maikop far more daring and dangerous (bordering on the unbelievable, for which Foelkersam received his Knight's Cross) than Skorzeny's raid at Gran Sasso. Skorzeny does not deny that he is an admirer of Hitler and expresses his belief that Germany lost the war because of high treason. It seems that for every defeat a traitor was responsible, passing top secret information to the Russians or the Western Allies. According to Skorzeny Hitler was misinformed and misguided by his Generals, who hind the truth from him in many cases. There is room in the book also for the defeats and the bad times of the commando operations. Overall this is a very interesting book from an officer who came to be known like "the most dangerous man in Europe". A few daredevils like Skorzeny and his commandos could give an awful time to every opponent, even under today's standards!
The Most Dangerous Man in Europe.......2006-07-29
"My Commando Operations" is the memoirs of Otto Skorzeny, the legendary officer of the Waffen-SS. Skorzeny is most well-known for his daring rescue of Benito Mussolini in 1943. This earned him the honor of being one of Hitler's favorite and most trusted officers. This highly detailed account takes the reader from Skorzeny's youth in Vienna, through World War II and it's aftermath. Skorzeny offers some fascinating insight into the inner-workings of the Third Reich and attempts to refute many commonly held beliefs about the war. For instance, Skorzeny attempts to dispel the view of Hitler as a poor military strategist. Instead, Skorzeny insists that Hitler was poorly informed by his Generals, and thus prevented from making accurate decisions. He speaks of Hitler as a brilliant strategist who was hindered by hesitant Generals and Soviet espionage, without which, Germany could have won the war. He also maintains an unwavering defense of the German cause in WWII, which he claims was the fight against bolshevism. Described in detail is the operation that freed Mussolini, along with several more secret operations that he undertook. He also defends the choice not to take Moscow in the fall of '41 and why Hitler decided not to invade England. Conspicuously absent is any mention of Jews or the Holocaust. He attempts to portray the SS as honorable soldiers who primarily fought a "clean war." While it is probable that he and his particular unit were not involved in "The Final Solution," I found it disturbing that he did not even acknowledge the SS's involvement in the Holocaust. Overall, I found this book to be very informative although at times I found myself questioning the sincerity of the author. If taken at face value, Skorzeny definitely comes across as a brave and honorable soldier, but I can't help but think that beneath the surface, there is much more than he is telling.
Blows away the rumours........2006-03-25
Loved the book its very straight forward and easy to read, starting with Otto Skorzeny life before his military service to his time after the war. Includes how he become to be a member of the NAZI party, his opinion on why Rudolph Hess's flight to Scotland, the mistakes in germanies offensive both in the east and west, not to mention a surprising revelation of how much a traitor the intelligence chief CANARIS actually was!!!
A really good read.......2005-09-14
Really enjoyed reading this book. I don't know why it's not more well-known.
Reality is stranger than fiction........1999-09-01
Skorzeny lays down the way proffesional soldiers felt after the defeat of their country in WW II. This book follows his rise from artillery officer to top leader of the Commando service, and tells many of the secrets to their success. He talks about the intelligence war and the failures of German strategic intelligence, as well as many of the successes of the allied effort. While the translation is less than perfect, it gives the feel of sitting down and talking with Skorzeny as he reviews the dark years of the war and the atrocities commited by both sides. A story of undaunted courage and limitless valor, a must read for any serious student of WW II or military intelligence.
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"Race relations" are a controversial topic in today's Germany. Have Germans learned from the past? How far back must one go to understand the tensions, prejudices, and strategies that have marked race relations in the recently unified nation? The Imperialist Imagination explores the German preoccupation with racial and ethnic differences throughout the past two centuries, in a colonial and "postcolonial" context.
Germany's belated national unification in 1870, its short colonial period (1884-1918), and the loss of its colonies as a consequence of World War I, rather than through wars of liberation, generated very different colonial and postcolonial conditions from those in Britain and France. This volume's sixteen essays investigate how, as a consequence of these conditions, Germans imagined their relationship to racial and ethnic others: how they supported and contested colonization during the colonial period, how their colonial fantasies fed into the Nazis' racial and expansionary policies after the loss of German colonies, and how they represent their relationship to German minorities and "foreigners" within and outside Germany today.
The contributors include scholars in literature, history, art history, political science, philosophy, ethnography, film, popular culture, photography, and theater. The anthology will appeal not only to Germanists but to all those interested in postcolonial and cultural studies.
Sara Friedrichsmeyer is Professor of German, University of Cincinnati. Sara Lennox is Professor of German, University of Massachusetts. Susanne Zantop is Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Dartmouth College.
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Imperialism and Its Legacy
Kline Benjamin
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This collection of articles deals with the effects of imperialism in the modern world. Its approach is to take imperial events and contrast them with relevent contemporary events. Contents: Africa; South Africa; Ireland; Imperial Intervention; and Modern Legacy. Contributors: Harry A. Gailey, Clarke K. Speed, Mira Zussman, Benjamin Kline, Ged Martin, Brian Girvin, Ted C. Hinckley, Stephen M. Payne, Doreen Gama Farr, Charles B. Burdick, Robert Kumamoto, Michael Boll.
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More than three decades have now elapsed since the Fischer controversy dramatically opened Imperial Germany (1871-1918) for serious historical research. The emerging "new orthodoxy" of the mid-1970s held that German history was stamped by a calamitous misdevelopment in contrast to the healthier trajectories of societies further to the west. But since that time, constructive critiques of this perspective have suggested that the sources of Germany's domestic and international crises from the 1890s to 1914 need to be reassessed. In particular they have to be disengaged from normative assumptions about other states' development; from the deterministic grip of Hitler's seizure of power in 1933; and from the longer history of the Kaiserreich itself, in which a distinctive Bismarckian configuration of politics allegedly prevailed up to 1918. Featuring cutting-edge research by scholars in Britain, Germany, Canada, and the United States, this volume pushes forward this reassessment by focusing on the era of Kaiser Wilhelm II's rule and its immediate aftermath.
The individual essays offer a number of perspectives on the concept of Wilhelminism, with which Hartmut Pogge von Strandmann—an Oxford historian and mentor to all contributors—identified a key motif of German society and politics in these years. Based on evidence of an explicit and self-confidently bourgeois formation in German public culture and of its reformist potential, these essays explore the contrast between the imagery of Germany's dynamic modern economy and historians' continuing reliance on models of a political system characterized as sclerotic and unchanging.
Given the surprising persistence of this disconnect between actual social-economic modernity and continued analytical emphasis on political backwardness, the purpose of this volume is to explore a variety of ways in which elements of "the modern" emerged in the social and cultural realms but also in politics and international relations. In so doing the contributors push forward the process of opening up the political history of Wilhelmine Germany for alternative readings. By illustrating how new scientific, industrial, and international developments combined to impress contemporaries with the growing possibilities for meaningful, comprehensive, rational reform, this volume proposes a more complex and differentiated understanding of Wilhelmine Germany.
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This digital document is an article from Canadian Journal of History, published by Thomson Gale on December 1, 2005. The length of the article is 1241 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Wilhelminism and Its Legacies: German Modernities, Imperialism, and the Meanings of Reform, 1890-1930: Essays for Hartmut Pogge von Strandmann.(Book review)
Author: David Thomas Murphy
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Canadian Journal of History (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 1, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 40
Issue: 3
Page: 519(3)
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Each version of Sky Atlas 2000.0 contains 26 charts covering the whole sky and showing 81,312 single, multiple, and variable stars of magnitude 8.5 and brighter and 2,700 deep-sky objects. Stars are black, while deep-sky objects are color-coded by type for easy identification. Fold out charts in a 12 by 16 inch book (charts unfold to 21 by 16 inches), spiralbound.
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Don't leave home without it.!.......2007-05-01
This book has instantly become one of the two most important documents I take to the field. Once I have determined my position and orientation using a plenisphere there is nothing I can't know about any part of the sky. It's heavy, and bulky to hold (I take a collapsible table when observing) but there is nothing like having the complete data at your fingertips. Spiral bound lays flat. I thought that was a cute idea when I bought it. Now I know how important it is. Lamination is also critical to have as the first night out with the "free" charts I printed from my computer they were ruined.
This is the master reference to take to the observing site. I reiterate, "Don't leave home without it."
laminated deluxe version.......2007-02-27
the unlaminated deluxe is great, easy to mark btw. but the laminated deluxe is simply fabulous. the size(21 by 16 inches, maps are not folded), the top-binding make the atlas much less clumsy to handle and the spiral-binding really makes sense. also the chart key is in the front. make sure you take a look of both before making your purchase.
Excellent book.......2006-11-10
This Atlas is fantastic ... very large but the scale s so large it gives you and excellent idea of what one can see.
Very good but not quite perfect.......2006-08-12
For years the Sky Atlas 2000.0 has been the most popular atlas step up from a 6th magnitude atlas. The 8th magnitude limit is deep enough to enable users to find Neptune and the brighter asteroids. The large charts, while they can be a bit awkward to handle, are great to view, as they show wide swaths of sky.
The Second Edition brought some significant improvements: a useful step up to magnitude 8.5, galaxy shapes which show size and orientation, better representation of star magnitude, detailed charts of the Orion region and Virgo Galaxy Cluster. If you are debating between a used First Edition and a new Second Edition, get the Second; it's worth the extra money.
A few shortcomings remain. The charts are arranged in ascending order of right ascension. This presents problems with editions which are bound on the left side. When users reach the right edge of the chart, they have to stifle the instinct to continue right to the next page, force themselves to reverse direction, and turn--of all places--to the previous page instead. The same with the left edge. Charts should be ordered in descending RA like Uranometria or Millennium. Ordering by ascending RA is a pointless tradition.
Some of the versions are bound at the top, which solves the problem of the chart sequence--and makes the book less floppy to handle--but makes it harder to search for charts. Since the chart number is at the top right, the user cannot see what page they have their fingers on until the book is completely open.
The pages of the laminated versions are very sturdy for field use but hard to grasp and separate, especially when moist with dew. This and the previous problem could be solved by adding numbered, graspable tabs to the bottom of each chart.
A badly-needed improvement to the atlas came in a subsequent printing of the second edition: around the edges of each chart are noted the numbers of the charts which adjoin it. This greatly simplifies navigation through the atlas. It would be good to take this measure a step further and, on each chart, mark adjacent chart borders as well to save guesswork as to where each one ends and the next begins.
The many virtues of this atlas have been amply documented by other reviewers. The space I have spent on the shortcomings is simply an attempt to round out the picture. The many improvements already made to this work speak well of the publisher's commitment to an excellent atlas. The Sky 2000.0 is now only a couple steps short.
So which atlas to choose for your observations? I would completely ignore the 6th magnitude atlases on the market. For a beginning to intermediate observer, the magnitude 7.6 Pocket Sky Atlas is very well designed and affordable. For intermediate observing, the Sky Atlas 2000.0 is an excellent choice. For advanced observers who frequently go deep, I would suggest skipping the Sky Atlas and bringing both the Pocket and the Millennium along on outings.
Excellent charts - but for home or field?.......2006-03-18
These are definitely the best charts I've used to date. I have the unlaminated deluxe copy spiralbound, and to have the objects color coded really helps a ton - makes it quick and easy to find stuff and even helps me orient the map faster. However, I would caution using this in the field. If you have problems with dew, definitely get either the laminated version, or buy it unlaminated and pay to have it laminated. (You may have to compare at stores where you live to figure out if it would save you much to buy unlaminated and then take it somewhere - some have said the price isn't that different, others have said they saved a lot by doing the lamination theirselves.) Another solution is to make copies of the area or constellation you want to observe, then if they get ruined or if you want to mark it to death, you can always make more copies.
You really need a good way to lay out the map in the field, like a table or something to make it easier to flip thru - definitely not for the grass and too big to just lay in a chair. Marking the constellation patterns (i.e. connect the dots) also helps, and it's convienent to do on laminated copies as you can use a dry erase or grease marker, and if you make a mistake you can fix it or even mark places for observing sessions, as they easily wipe off.
Overall.. I would most certainly recommend the deluxe spiral version (the one w/ color identification). A Great Buy!!!
Pros: color, nice big charts that show a good expanse of sky, not too detailed but more so than average charts in a book, not exceptionally heavy and easy to pack
Cons: susceptible to dew, can be awkward to flip thru w/o a table or similar prop, unlaminated
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