Native Trees Shrubs, and Vines for Urban and Rural America: A Planting Design Manual for Environmental Designers

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A basic planting design reference, this book provides the amateur, student, and professional with information that assists in simplifying plant-use decisions where native plants are desired. The characteristics, cultural requirements, and most suitable environmental settings are identified for each plant.

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Great for East of the Rockies.......2003-01-18

This is a very useful book for those living in the appropriate area. The book contains information on native trees and shrubs in Eastern and Central United States. Native trees and shrubs found west of the Rockies are NOT included in this book.

Excellent reference book (within its range).......2001-01-31

Overall, the information contained in the book is excellent. It is well-presented, well-organized, and very thorough. However, I was disappointed to find it is best suited for use by those who live in USDA Hardiness zone 5 or farther north. I live and work in zone 6, which is really the fringe of the area addressed in this book. Species native to the southeast are included only if they are hardy over a wide range. (For example, Southern magnolia is omitted in this book, as are loblolly and slash pines and yaupon holly.)

I have a degree in landscape architecture and prefer to use native plants in planting design. This book has been helpful, but will never replace my dog-eared copy of Know It and Grow It--a reference far more suited to my region.

Most Used Reference Book.......2000-01-25

This book has excellent info on each plant within its text. I am a native plant landscape designer and soil requirements, natural habitats, associate plants (communities), urban tolerance, flower & fruit development are a few of the plant categories I use on a daily basis. The line drawings are also superb for knowing the form the plant will take in the landscape and how the flowers & fruit will appear. This book is used so much, my pages are starting to fall out. I hope they create a new version soon! This book is a 'must' for all landscape designers & architects --- it's a great tool.

Excellent ink-line illustration;form, leaf, flower and fruit.......1997-11-24

This comprehensive volume puts all the information needed to choose native plantings in one handy reference source. The book is divided into two parts, Trees, Shrubs, and Vines, with each part further divided into two sections. The first describes different factors normally considered in selecting plantings, classifying over 250 woody plants by these characteristics. Classifications include: Visual characteristics: form, branching, foliage, flower and fruit. ÐEcologicla relationships: most suitable habitats, including flood and shade tolerance. ÐCultural requirements: soil, hardiness, silvical characteristics, urban conditions, similar and associate species.

The second section is an encyclopedia of native woody plants. Each MASTER PLATE includes the plants scientific and common name, plus all of the plants characteristics as described in the first section. Also included are a map showing the plants native region; a drawing of its twigs, leaves, flowers, and fruit; a photo of its bark, and a photo or line drawing of its crown without leaves.

Thus, you can find the information you need in one of two ways: you can choose the plant characteristics you want and look them up in the first section to find the plantings that fit your needs. Or you can look up the specific plants in the second section to learn if their characteristics are appropriate for your landscape

No other book on native plantings provides as much information, as usefully organized, as this one does. Landscape architects, ecologists, park personnel, botanists Ðanyone interested in natural landscapingÐwill find this to be an invaluable reference that greatly assists in choosing and nurturing native trees, shrubs, and vines.

harlen d. Groe

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Revolution in Print: The Press in France, 1775-1800
Robert Darnton , and Daniel Roche
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Revolution in Print; the press in France 1775-1800.
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This digital document is an article from NZ Business, published by Profile Publishing Ltd. on August 1, 2004. The length of the article is 477 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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Consumer Demand: A New Approach
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Innovation and consumer-demand: A new approach to the history of consumption : application of a formal analytical model

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Innovation and consumer-demand: A new approach to the history of consumption : application of a formal analytical model
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Direct Mail for the Rest of Us

Easy-to-Read Practical Advice and Knowledge

Open Immediately: Straight Talk on Direct Mail Fundraising : What Works, What Doesn'T, and Why
Stephen Hitchcock
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If you want straight talk about direct mail fundraising, do what the title says: open this book immediately.

In it you'll find 81 brief chapters examining virtually every topic of importance to those who raise money by mail.

Unlike other books that over-complicate the subject, Open Immediately!, by Stephen Hitchcock, does just the opposite. It offers an elegantly simple and inviting approach to direct mail by focusing on one element at a time. (This approach has the added benefit of making it easy to find the exact help you need.)

The book is divided into six major parts:

• Essentials of Direct Mail Fundraising • Acquiring and Renewing Donors • Targeting Your Mailings • Writing Effective Letters • Key Components of Your Appeal, and • How to Ask

Within each part, Hitchcock offers specific suggestions with just enough detail to allow you to implement his advice. Take the section, `How to Ask.' Among the topics discussed are: ways of asking for the gift, why it's important to ask for the gift at least twice, when not to ask for a specific gift, how to increase the first gift (the key one as it dictates the size of future gifts), how to raise $1,000 gifts by mail, and how to ask for monthly gifts and charitable bequests. And that's just a sampling.

Or take the section, `Key Components of Your Appeal.' The 16 topics Hitchcock explores in these pages include a discussion of obsolete (and offensive) techniques, the cardinal rules of envelope copy, the misunderstood role of inserts, the use of multiple signatures, how to contain your costs, even a look at URGENT telegrams and whether they work.

With its clear-eyed realistic focus, there's no other book on direct mail fundraising quite like Open Immediately!.

Hitchcock knows that your time is limited. He realizes too that you're not going to overturn your current program. But what you can do, he understands, is tweak your efforts to be more profitable. And, Open Immediately! offers dozens and dozens of ways to do just this.

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Direct Mail for the Rest of Us.......2007-01-23

Major charities can hire Stephen Hitchcock's firm (he's president of Mal Warwick and Associates, one of the best in the world) and benefit from his expertise. For the rest of us struggling to succeed with fundraising direct mail, there's Mr. Hitchcock's straight talking book, a soup-to-nuts immersion in everything from writing, to list selection, to loyalty building. He sheds light on perennial concerns such as "soliciting too often," "guidelines for effective tests," and "raising money on the Internet." There are ah-ha moments on almost every page, too. Did you know, for instance, that "very, very few donors upgrade their giving. The first gift you receive from an individual is likely to be the amount written on subsequent checks." This book taught me dozens of useful things I'd never have guessed, the gold standard for a good how-to book. It deserves a spot on every fundraiser's reference shelf.

Easy-to-Read Practical Advice and Knowledge.......2004-12-09

This is a good book. It's easy to read, speaks directly to the reader, and makes excellent points about how -- and how not to -- do direct mail fund raising. I'm not an expert on direct mail, but I've done it before. Hitchcock's advice is right on target and easy to explain to non-development staff, board members, and volunteers.

Hitchcock is President of Mal Warwick and Associates. This firm does a lot of fund raising consulting, and Mal Warwick is well-known for his many books on nonprofit fundraising. In fact, "Ten Steps to Fundraising Success" was co-written by Messrs. Warwick and Hitchcock.

The book is organized around six key themes (see list below), and the 83 "chapters" are very short (often 3-4 pages each) ideas relating to the theme. These ideas often include concrete advice, checklists, and lists of numbered tips that make the advice easy to follow.

Much of the advice and knowledge is deceptively simple -- we feel we should know this, but often we don't act as through we do. For example, the book instructs on how to keep an appeal simple, direct, informal, and free of verbal or physical clutter. Did you know that including your nonprofit's brochure in a fundraising mailing actually decreases donor response? Did you know that cramming a lot of words, no matter how well-written, on a single page to save a little printing and postage money actually costs your organization far more in lost donations?

Reading this book has helped me in my consultation work with clients, in my work as a volunteer trustee of a national foundation, and as a consumer and citizen evaluating the direct mail appeals I receive all the time. Stephen Hitchcock is generous in writing a book that allows the rest of us to feel we're as savvy about direct mail fundraising as he has become through years of experience.

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The best relationship book

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Heartbrokers
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Heartbrokers takes a rational approach to romantic love and intimate relationships. This book is both controversial and practical. Many individuals have attested to the dramatic effects the application of Heartbroker's principles have had in their marriages. Heartbrokers covers practically all aspects of personal relationships. Specifically, Heartbrokers includes chapters on love addiction, sex, cheating, breaking up, closure, compromise, selfishness, and much more. Heartbrokers also explores how technology is destroying our intimate relationships. Heartbrokers investigates non-conventional, yet rational, ways of responding when your lover is unfaithful, logical ways to approach sex, and how to gain closure to a previous breakup. Additionally, this book shows us how compromise eventually erodes an otherwise happy union. The readers of Heartbrokers will learn to, not only feel love, but to think love also. Those who apply the principles contained in Heartbrokers will have the necessary tools to help them avoid most relationship pitfalls and possibly prolong their relationships. Heartbrokers is more than a self-help book. Heartbrokers is a book that will prompt self-revelation and self-actualization.

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The best relationship book.......2006-05-24

This book is a great and informative book about marriage and relationship. My mother has read this book and it has changed her life forever. She always did everything for my dad and nothing for herself. Now she does everything that she wants to do,and she does the things that make her happy. She is a more happy person now she only does things that please her and lets my dad do whatever he wants to do and she shows that she does not mind what he does. I am so grateful that my mom read this book it has completely changed her outlook on life.

Heartbrokers cured my heartbreak.......2005-11-18

One of the best relationships books I have ever read...It is easy to read and is applicable to all of my intimate associations...buy it...

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This book is a compilation of the diaries of a young frontline Turkish officer, Lt. Mehemed Fasih, during the trench warfare that followed the Allied landings at Gallipoli in 1915. This day-to-day account offers genuine insights into the military, social, and psychological world of the Turkish forces of the era.

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A real gem of a book

Writing to share the wonder of observing nature in the city.

City Birding: True Tales of Birds and Birdwatching in Unexpected Places

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The waterways of New York-New Jersey, the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the French Quarter of New Orleans--all unlikely spots for birdwatching. For the careful observer, however, these urban locations and others like them can be settings for memorable birding experiences. In this unique book, some of the country's best-known birders observe birds in places where thriving bird life comes as a surprise. Funny, informative, and thought-provoking, the true stories collected here demonstrate the amazing adaptability of birds, which sometimes seem to thrive in almost any setting humans create: city parks, busy marinas, cemeteries, sewage lagoons. They also illustrate the vulnerability of the natural world in an increasingly man-made environment, and show how the excitement of birdwatching can exist in the most unexpected places.

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A real gem of a book.......2007-07-23

This book is an absolute treat. I felt compelled to write a review because I couldn't believe it had only been written about by one other Amazon user.

Each "chapter" in City Birding is an essay about birdwatching in unexpected places, where man's environment (the city, a sewage treatment plant, a dump) has preserved (or remade) habitat for winged creatures.

The book features a variety of writing styles from a range of bird- and nature-lovers, including humor, interesting knowledge about birds, and a sense of wonder at the beauty and resilience of the birds featured. They are accessible and enjoyable, even for someone who (like myself) is not a serious birder. A few of the essays fit less well than others (the piece on Audubon in New Orleans felt like it belonged elsewhere) but overall it was a fine read.

I would especially recommend this book as a thoughtful gift to people who love birds or nature writing.

Writing to share the wonder of observing nature in the city........2006-09-18

This is a series of first person accounts of birding (aka birdwatching) in urban areas in the United States. The writers are a number of prominent birders and nature writers, and with the inclusion of nature writers that are not necessarily birders, show a wide range of experience, skill, and approaches to birding. But the main theme is that it is in urban areas, where the mass of concrete, steel and glass make its residents not as attuned to the natural world in its midst. And, truth be told, an environment where a lot of people who consider themselves nature lovers would not think of as rich environments for observing nature.

The urban environments are a wide range. From the dingiest examples of urban blight known as New York-New Jersey harbor to backyards to urban parks. Some of the writers, are city mice themselves who delight in showing off their world. Some of them are country mice who are lost in the city, but discover some surprising corners (like Julie Zickefoose in Lincoln Park (Montrose), Chicago). Some are world reknown experts in bird identification. Some have no idea how to use binoculars. But all have the sense of wonder in the world around them, and write to communicate that wonder and joy.

I live in the middle of the city, and I have the privilege of walking to work amist tree lined streets and living close to two large (150 acres) urban parks, and many of the stories here hit close to home.

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