The Majesty of Savannah (Majesty Architecture)

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Worth the wait.......2001-07-17

I can remember when the book was first published over ten years ago, and I had a chance to go the the exhibit in Los Angeles. I balked at going and I regretted that chance. Now, eleven years later as a treat to myself, I bought the book without hesitation. "Bear Pond" has to be one of the most sought after if not the most referenced collection of male nudes. Bruce Weber is the master of photographing young men in the most natural and unaffected ways. Here, he manages to capture the innocence and provocativity of each of his subjects without seeming exploitative or lecherous. Although the book cost me much more than its original $50, I am so happy that I finally had a chance to add it to my collection of treasures.

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The Bobsey Twins at Big Bear Pond
Laura Lee Hope
Manufacturer: Grosset
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000JWKXQA

Bear on Sliding Pond: Super Fun Coloring and Activity Book

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Bear on Sliding Pond: Super Fun Coloring and Activity Book
Rh Value Publishing
Manufacturer: Random House Value Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0517624435
Release Date: 1987-05-24

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Bear Pond
Bruce WEBER
Manufacturer: see notes for publisher info
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000RJHYWG

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Bear Pond
Bruce Weber
Manufacturer: Little, Brown
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000KVHOQ2

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BEAR POND. Gold Day by Reynolds Price
Bruce. Weber
Manufacturer: Bulfinch Press,
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000N7A34I

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Bears in the Beaver's Pond
Earl J. Roberts
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000MY5XTM

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Bernie the Bear (Frog Pond Friends)
Alain Gree , and Luis Camps
Manufacturer: Children's Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: School & Library Binding

Bobbsey Twins 00: At Big Bear Pond (Bobbsey Twins)

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Bobbsey Twins 00: At Big Bear Pond (Bobbsey Twins)
Laura Lee Hope
Manufacturer: Grosset & Dunlap
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Bobbsey Twins 00: At Big Bear Pond GB (Bobbsey Twins)

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Bobbsey Twins 00: At Big Bear Pond GB (Bobbsey Twins)
Laura Lee Hope
Manufacturer: Grosset & Dunlap
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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This informative collection of current newspaper, magazine, and journal articles examines key topics in microeconomics. The articles are selected from such sources as The New York Times, The Brookings Review, The Wall Street Journal and others.

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Annual Editions: Microeconomics 00/01
Don Cole
Manufacturer: Dushkin/McGraw-Hill
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OFTBJW

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Hopefully useful review even though I haven't read the book!

Solid, big-picture advice

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Grassroots Grants: An Activist's Guide to Proposal Writing (Kim Klein's Chardon Press)
Andy Robinson
Manufacturer: Jossey-Bass
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Grassroots Grants: An Activist's Guide to Grantseeking (Kim Klein's Chardon Press)

ASIN: 0787961779

Book Description

If you're new to proposal writing, this book will give you the skills you need to raise money from grants. Even experienced grantwriters will learn useful, hands-on ideas to improve their odds for success. Author and activist Andy Robinson describes in plain English just what it takes to win grants for social justice.
You'll Learn About:
The pros and cons of chasing grants
How grants fit into a complete fundraising program
Using your grant proposal as a community organizing plan
Designing fundable projects
Grants research: how to find the money
Developing relationships with foundation staff
Building your proposal, piece by piece
Grants administration and reporting
The long haul: stamina, persistence, resilience
Grassroots Grants includes four complete proposals, plus suggestions from forty foundation staff members who fund groups working for social justice, human rights, and environmental conservation.

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Hopefully useful review even though I haven't read the book!.......2005-04-12

This book received such a glowing in-depth review (from reviewer "Center for Nonprofit Management"), I was disappointed to see that it was out-of-print.

Then I saw the good news - there's a second edition of this book (which strangely was published only 7 days before the in-depth review was written)!

So fret not, you activist, grant-writing wannabes (or is that grant-writing, activist wannabes?), just head on over to ISBN 0787965782 and begin your journey of making a difference!

Solid, big-picture advice.......2004-04-09

If you come in to our nonprofit management support organization and ask for a book on grant proposal writing, there are two we'll pull out right away: Grassroots Grants and Winning Grants Step by Step. We're often asked which to choose. Of all the books we see, these are the two we most often recommend, but they do have different approaches.

Winning Grants Step by Step takes a pragmatic tone. It accepts the rules of the game and offers to show you how to win within them. "Most funders prefer to give grants for new and expanding programs or in support of special projects and new ideas rather than for the general operating expenses of an organization or the ongoing costs of established programs," it explains. "Because funders have these preferences, this workbook uses the idea of creating a new program as the basis for developing a proposal." (The book does also give examples of core operating support proposals, and does start with a planning guide to help you see which programs fit your priorities).
In the introduction to Grassroots Grants, on the other hand, the publisher shares her qualms about publishing a book about grants at all, preferring that the reader focus first on developing more renewable and less restricted gifts from individual donors. "This book is about two things: money and power," says Grassroots Grants, and calmly analyzes the dynamics of both in the grant proposal process. This big-picture view is in the end more pragmatic - it encourages you to take control of the grantseeking process by searching out those funders and pitching those programs that really best fit with what you are trying to do.

Both books have excellent project planning guidelines. As Winning Grants Step by Step observes, "Generally, organizations will spend approximately 80 percent of their time planning a project and only 20 percent of their time writing and packaging a proposal," so this section is obviously very important. Both books ask questions such as "What is unique about your organization's project?" "Is anyone else working on a similar project?" "What members of your community support each project?"

Both also contain useful information about finding appropriate funders, which is key to the process - much more important than your writing skills is finding the right funder who cares about projects like yours. Although Winning Grants Step by Step puts this information at the end in an appendix, you should really read it first, particularly the excellent section on corporate giving programs. Grassroots Grants contains very helpful guidelines about what to consider when deciding whether a funder is really a good fit for your organization, and detailed information about ways to develop good relationships with potential funders.

The books have different approaches to how they help you with your own writing. Winning Grants Step by Step has a workbook format, with questionnaires you fill out as you go, so that by the time you have completed them you will have addressed most of the subjects covered in a typical proposal, and it will be easy to cut and paste the appropriate bits into the funder's preferred format. It comes with all the worksheets on a CD-ROM so you can fill them out electronically and reuse them. If you like project planning, but get nervous about the writing process, this format may help walk you through. Grassroots Grants has questionnaires throughout the text, and it has more examples of proposals, query letters, and other documents with notes on how they were developed. If you like to write by reading examples to inspire you to your own purposes, this book will suit you.

Ultimately, these books complement one another. Even if you prefer the workbook format of Winning Grants Step by Step, the "big picture" you get from reading Grassroots Grants will help you answer all those questions. Likewise, if you prefer the style of Grassroots Grants, you can still benefit from the excellent sections on overhead costs and planning for sustainability in Winning Grants Step by Step.

Buy This Book!.......2001-12-27

Andy Robinson tells it straight and tells it true - this is a very clear and lucid text on the art of getting grants, written from a grassroots perspective. I especially appreciated the wealth of samples and examples. Robinson holds your hand through the whole process from beginning research all the way through to dealing with acceptance and rejection letters.

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Lawrence Attwell was one of the lucky ones, surviving over four years of trench warfare on the Western Front. During that time he had two short periods of leave.

In his extraordinary series of letters to his family he graphically recounts what life was like for the ordinary infantry soldier on active duty. We learn of the conditions, the discipline, the courage, the fear and the reactions of the writer and his fellows. Attwell was in the Prince of Wales Own, Civil Service Rifles.

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The San Diego County Bird Atlas addresses all the county's birds--wintering birds, migrants, and exotics as well as breeding birds. Each species account covers breeding distribution, nesting habits and schedule, migration, winter distribution, conservation outlook, and taxonomy, if relevant. The accounts include a chart showing the seasonal distribution of the nesting activity of each nesting species; they have at least one map for every regular breeding and wintering species. 645 pages with 468 color photographs, illustrating 89% of the 527 species covered.

Baby Flamingo (San Diego Zoo Animal Library, 8)

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Baby Flamingo (San Diego Zoo Animal Library, 8)
Patricia A. Pingry
Manufacturer: Candy Cane Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Board book

General | Ages 4-8 | Children's Books | Subjects | Books

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ASIN: 0824965574

Birds of San Diego (U.S. City Bird Guides)

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Birds of San Diego (at least some of them).
Bids of San Diego
This book isn't for the birds. You'll love it.
Highly recommended

Birds of San Diego (U.S. City Bird Guides)
Chris C. Fisher , and Herbert Clarke
Manufacturer: Lone Pine Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Birds | Field Guides | Outdoors & Nature | Subjects | Books

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ASIN: 1551051028

Book Description

This attractive guide identifies the birds most likely to be seen in San Diego's backyards, streets and parks. The books introduce the fascinating and popular pastime of birdwatching and include advice on building feeders and birdhouses. Color illustrations help you identify birds quickly while the text provides interesting information about each bird. These books are easy-to-use references for the urban birdwatcher.

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Birds of San Diego (at least some of them)........2007-03-26

I am most likely to reach for a guidebook like this in spring (or, to a lesser extent, fall), when suddenly looking at a bird I am not used to seeing. I am fortunate, not only to be living in San Diego, but to be living on nearly half an acre of mixed native and introduced trees, shrubs, and flowers that attract a wonderful assortment of avian visitors, from raptors to runaway parrots. This book is quite incomplete but useful nonetheless. The illustrations are beautiful and 'steal the show' as far as I'm concerned, the "abundance charts" and habitat icons are helpful, there is the obligatory glossary and a species checklist for those who would want it.

Like I say, the book is beautiful, functional, but not comprehensive, so you will need another guidebook as well. It helped me to quickly identify a Wilson's warbler but didn't help with a Cassin's kingbird (the book includes the western k-bird but not the Cassin's). Of the local orioles, this book features only the Bullock's, which I see rather rarely, and makes no mention of the Scott's or hooded orioles which I see frequently (the flashy hooded oriole is constantly present in my yard throughout every summer). This book doesn't include the osprey and it is interesting that the more comprehensive Audubon guide doesn't appear to list this bird as occurring in San Diego either (giving Audubon the benefit of the doubt, maybe their little range map is just to difficult to read in this case?). At any rate, ospreys are here whether any guidebook includes them or not. Exceptions acknowledged, most of what should be here, is, including my favorite little aerobatic acrobat, the black phoebe who is 'dancing in air' outside my window as I write this.

Happy hunting.

Bids of San Diego.......2007-03-08

It is different compared to field guides. It did provide a basis for a list of birds to study. Well written and illustrated with a lot of information

This book isn't for the birds. You'll love it. .......2007-01-10

I highly recommend this beautifully illustrated publication. When I see a bird in my yard, I grab my binoculars and the guide, and within minutes identify the species -- and I'm a novice. The book provides quick identification tips as well as information on habitats, similar species, feeding habits, and songs. I've identified 15 species already, and have set up hummingbird feeders, finch socks, and seed feeders to attract more visitors. I guess I'm hooked.

Highly recommended.......1999-06-11

This is one of the best books I've seen for identifying birds in the San Diego area. The seasonal frequency charts are useful, and the colored drawings of the birds are professionally rendered in a way that makes the birds really recognizable in the field. The text also contains good practical pointers for field identification.

San Diego Birds: An Introduction to Familiar Species

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San Diego Birds: An Introduction to Familiar Species
James Kavanagh
Manufacturer: Waterford Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1583551646

Book Description

The Pocket Naturalist Guides introduces novices to common plants and animals and natural phenomena. Each pocket-sized, folding guide highlights up to 150 species and most feature a map highlighting prominent sanctuaries and outstanding natural attractions.

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The Birds of San Diego County

Manufacturer: San Diego Society Nat Hist
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000F0Q3O2

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Birds of San Diego County
Philip Unitt
Manufacturer: San Diego Society of
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 0918969018

Birds of San Diego County, California: An annotated checklist, (San Diego Society of Natural History. Occasional papers)

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Birds of San Diego County, California: An annotated checklist, (San Diego Society of Natural History. Occasional papers)
James R Sams
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: B0007EX7DQ

Let's Talk Birds : A Guide to Raising Birds in Southern California

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Let's Talk Birds : A Guide to Raising Birds in Southern California
Finch Society of San Diego County
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Spiral-bound
ASIN: B000LXV0DW

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Local Birds of San Diego County

Manufacturer: Local Birds, Inc.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Map
ASIN: 1886403074

Book Description

Our conveniently full-color "Quick-Guide" instantly identifies and describes commonly seen local backyard-trail and shore-water birds in a lightweight, laminated pocket-sized design.

Anxious ranchers wary of spreading Newcastle disease: more than 450,000 birds have died in S.D. County.: An article from: San Diego Business Journal

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Anxious ranchers wary of spreading Newcastle disease: more than 450,000 birds have died in S.D. County.: An article from: San Diego Business Journal
Lee Zion
Manufacturer: CBJ, L.P.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

General | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books

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Book Description

This digital document is an article from San Diego Business Journal, published by CBJ, L.P. on March 24, 2003. The length of the article is 1190 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: Anxious ranchers wary of spreading Newcastle disease: more than 450,000 birds have died in S.D. County.
Author: Lee Zion
Publication: San Diego Business Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 24, 2003
Publisher: CBJ, L.P.
Volume: 24 Issue: 12 Page: 6(2)

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