Buildings of the Cotswolds

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The Cotswolds has some of the loveliest countryside and architecture in Britain. Buildings of the Cotswolds covers over a 100 Cotswold villages and towns. Color and monochromatic photographs highlight the fine detail of the buildings, the stone and its variations, the style of construction, and local building specialities. Together with the vivid text they reveal features of manor houses, cottages, fine farm buildings, and churches, some dating from pre-Norman times.

The Cotswolds: Some stories of the villages and churches, (Brief guides)

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The Cotswolds: Some stories of the villages and churches, (Brief guides)
Eric R Delderfield
Manufacturer: E.R.D. Publications
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ASIN: 0900345020

Building Memories: The Neolithic Cotswold Long Barrow at Ascott-Under-Wychwood, Oxfordshire (Cardiff Studies in Archaeology)

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Building Memories: The Neolithic Cotswold Long Barrow at Ascott-Under-Wychwood, Oxfordshire (Cardiff Studies in Archaeology)

Manufacturer: Oxbow Books Limited
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THE BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND: GLOUCESTERSHIRE IN THE COTSWOLDS.

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THE BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND: GLOUCESTERSHIRE IN THE COTSWOLDS.

Manufacturer: Penguin
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ASIN: B000HKJO2I

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Cotswold churches
David Verey
Manufacturer: B.T. Batsford
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Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds (Buildings of England)

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Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds (Buildings of England)
David Verey , and Alan Brooks
Manufacturer: Penguin UK
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Old Cottages Farm Houses and Other Stone Buildings in The Cotswold District

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Old Cottages Farm Houses and Other Stone Buildings in The Cotswold District
W Galsworthy Davie
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Stratford upon Avon and the Cotswolds (Pevensey Heritage Guides)

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Stratford upon Avon and the Cotswolds (Pevensey Heritage Guides)
Michael Hall
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Gloucestershire 1 : The Cotswolds The Buildings of England

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Gloucestershire 1 : The Cotswolds The Buildings of England
David and Alan Brooks. Verey
Manufacturer: Penguin UK
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Old cottages, farm-houses, and other stone buildings in the Cotswold district [microform]: Examples of minor domestic architecture in Gloucestershire, ... district accompanied by notes and sketches

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Old cottages, farm-houses, and other stone buildings in the Cotswold district [microform]: Examples of minor domestic architecture in Gloucestershire, ... district accompanied by notes and sketches
E. Guy Dawber
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Who Cares.......2005-02-02

IF the author said that the marines did this, they did it as far as im concerned. I personally liked the book, even if there were a few inaccuracies, which were made to make the book and the marines more interesting. On the whole though, this is a good book on Marine Corps history, even if it is a little old.

Historical Inaccuracy.......2004-08-09

Much of what Mr. Lawliss says about the Marine Corps versus the Army in World War II simply is not true. There are three specific instances I cite.

He states that Marines fighting on Bataan resented General MacArthur for remaining on Coregidor during the fighting and that the 4th Marine Regiment fought on Bataan. Approximately 70,000 American and Philippino personel defended Bataan, approximately 0.15% of whom were Marines, fewer than 2 of every thousand. The 4th Marine Regiment never fought on Bataan. Like MacArthur, the 4th Marine Regiment remained on Corregidor.

He says that the Marines blamed MacArthur for Peleliu. The 1st Marine Division was tasked to take Peleliu to cover MacArthur's return to the Philippines. The 1st Marine Division fought a bloody battle to take Peleliu. It was then found that Peleliu was not important to MacArthur's invasion of the Philippines. He does not state that it was a Marine Corps decision that the 1st Marine Division go after Peleliu or that the battle was so bloody because of poor tactical decisions on the part of the division commander, MG William Rupertus. III Amphibious Corps, under Marine MG Roy Geiger, had the mission of capturing the southern Palaus which included Peleliu. III Amphibious Corps consisted of 1st Marine Division and the Army's 81st Infantry Division. 81st ID was not involved in the assault on Peleliu and was not committed to the fighting on Peleliu until several weeks after the invasion. Rupertus did not want the Army troops on Peleliu. Ruperetus had predicted that 1st Marine Division would capture the island in 3 to 4 days. The Japanes garrison withdrew to prepared positions in a rugged mountainous area of the island. Rupertus then attempted repeatedly to capture that position via the tactic of direct frontal assault. After three weeks, the Japanese still held their position, 1st Marine Division had taken thousands of casualties, 1st Marine Regiment had become combat ineffective and had to be withdrawn, and Rupertus was still objecting to having Army troops on Peleliu.

Finally, Lawliss describes the Banzai attack on Saipan as breaking through light Army defenses then being stopped by a Marine Artillery Regiment, the 10th Marines. What happened, is that a force of between 3000 and 5000 Japanese troops hit the 1st and 2nd Battalions of the Army's 105th Infantry and did overrun them. The two Battalions took over 400 dead, over 500 wounded resisting the Japanese. After the battle, more than 2200 freshly killed Japanese were found in their area. Three members of those Battalions were awarded posthumous Medals of Honor for heroism in defending against the attack. The attack hit one Battalion of the 10th Marines, 3rd Battalion 10th Marines. According to official Marine Corps histories, only one battery of that Battalion managed to fire their guns at the Japanese. 3rd Battalion 10th Marines was overrun, the Marine gunners had to abandon their guns, form a perimeter and fight back infantry style to save themselves. According to Army Historians they fought gallantly. They did not stop the attack. No other unit of 10th Marines ever engaged the attackers. The 105th Infantry stopped the attack. Another Army Regiment, the 106th Infantry, then drove back the Japanese and, in the process, relieved the survivors of 3rd Battalion 10th Marines and recovered their guns.

I apologize for the length of this review. Whether intentional or not, Mr. Lawliss' gross distortions of historical fact need to be noted.

A great book on the Corps. Lots of info.......1999-12-17

This is a great book on the Corps. It talks about history and operations, and has a great section on the officer corps of the Marine Corps. Describes OCS and TBS quite well and describes an officer's typical career pattern. This was one of my first Marine Corps books and I still enjoy reading it.

Marine Book: A Portrait of America's Military Elite

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Marine Book: A Portrait of America's Military Elite
Chuck Lawliss
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ASIN: B000OKG9G0

THE MARINE BOOK: A PORTRAIT OF AMERICA'S MILITARY ELITE.

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THE MARINE BOOK: A PORTRAIT OF AMERICA'S MILITARY ELITE.

Manufacturer: Guild
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ASIN: B000HHZMAE

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THE MARINE BOOK: A PORTRAIT OF AMERICA'S MILITARY ELITE
Lawliss Chuck
Manufacturer: Thames & Hudson
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ASIN: B000J503L2

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The insidious cult of the Loveking is spreading through Carson Napier`s kingdom on the ocean world of Venus. If Carson can`t break the Loveking`s spell, the balance of power on Venus will be shattered and the woman Carson loves will be lost to him forever. But a jungle howl from a faraway world signals the arrival of a powerful ally, Tarzan, whom Carson will desperately need to avert disaster on his adopted planet! Also included in this volume is Tarzan: A Tale of Mugambi, never before collected!

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Tarzan, Carson of Venus #2 of 4
darko macan
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Tarzan, Carson of Venus No. 1 of 4
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This book attempts to make welfare economics more complete by discussing the recent inframarginal analysis of division of labor and by pushing welfare economics from the level of preference to that of happiness, making a reformulation of the foundation of public policy necessary.

Welfare Economics: Towards a More Complete Analysis

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Welfare Economics: Towards a More Complete Analysis
Yew-Kwang (Author) Ng
Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan
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ASIN: B000OUZJFM

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This book presents a comprehensive conceptual framework for school evaluation, and evaluation methods that can be used within the framework of the school for the benefit of students, teachers, school administrators and parents. It is based on concepts and ideas originally developed in the area of program evaluation and combining internal and external evaluation, it provides a common ground for school evaluation, including student assessment, program evaluation, teacher appraisal and school review. It is a book for schools, and for educators, parents, policy makers, and professional evaluators who believe in schools, and consider schools to be the main component of the educational system.

The book consists of three major parts. In the first part the concept of school-based evaluation is being discussed in the way it is perceived throughout the book. The second part of the book deals with evaluation methods that could be useful to schools in evaluating students, programs, instructional materials, teachers and the school as a whole. The third part of the book focuses on the organizational context of school evaluation. It includes two chapters - one related to internal organizational problems, which need to be resolved in order to institutionalize an effective school evaluation system, while the other deals with the meaning of evaluation as a basis for a dialogue, and the need to develop such new discourse for evaluation in general, and even more so for school-based evaluation.

Liberation's Children: Parents and Kids in a Postmodern Age
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Children need protection

The Educational Importance of Cultural and Moral Traditions

A good scolding from a tough

Right on target

Cuts below the surface

Liberation's Children: Parents and Kids in a Postmodern Age
Kay S. Hymowitz
Manufacturer: Ivan R. Dee, Publisher
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Kay Hymowitz explores the predicament of a generation growing up in a world where adults lavish them with material possessions but don't know how to provide them with the ordinary truths that give life meaning. She takes the measure of a young generation afflicted with a loss of deep connection, civility, and moral clarity, as well as a depleted vision of the human predicament.

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Children need protection.......2005-02-01

Subtitled Parents and Kids in a Postmodern Age, this book features a number of incisive essays on the perils and pitfalls of parenting in today's world. American author Kay Hymowitz is painfully aware that raising children today is a difficult task at the best of times. Children today are exposed to all sorts of pressures and temptations that many of us never had to worry about.

Much of the current wisdom as to how children should develop and how moms and dads should parent is simply wrong advice, argues Hymowitz. Today's children may be richer, better educated and healthier than any other generation, but many are emotionally, morally and spiritually deprived. We have pampered our children, spoiled our children, and immersed them in all the toys, gadgets and fashion they can stand, but most are still ill-equipped to face adulthood.

The proper moral and intellectual training of our children is giving way to trendy socialisation and the impoverishing effects of popular culture. These chapters highlight some of these disturbing trends, and demonstrate how our children are suffering as a result.

The opening chapter takes head on the day care establishment, and the myths surrounding it. Hymowitz documents how the feminist script is harming our children. Get a career, moms are told, and let the day care centres look after the kids. It will be good for them. But the research points in the opposite direction. The younger kids are, and the more time they spend in day care, the worse they fare. But a feminist-dominated media and a child-unfriendly culture seeks to cover up these truths, and make women feel guilty, not for abandoning their children, but for letting their maternal instincts tell them otherwise.

No matter how high the quality of day care, nothing can replace mother love and father love. Yet we are letting a whole generation of our children be raised by strangers. By putting adult achievements and careers ahead of the interests of our children, we are short-changing the next generation and undermining our societies.

A chapter on tweens also makes for chilling reading. Children between eight and twelve are effectively being robbed of their childhood and preadolescence. They are being forced to become teenagers prematurely. Much of this is due to the tremendous pressure of popular culture, advertising, consumerism and mass marketting.

Kids today are heavily targeted by the corporate world, urged to get the "look" and all that goes with it. The worst thing for a tween today is not to be cool. And the ones who make a financial killing off our kids (and their parents) are determining what is cool.

Thus every ten-year-old wants the look, even though it may mean forcing young girls to look like prostitutes. Cosmetics companies, clothing manufacturers, the music industry and fast-food conglomerates all conspire against our children, promoting shameless hedonism and individualism. The hooker look is in, and common values and decency are out.

As a result, tweens are demonstrating many of the deviant behaviours usually associated with teenagers and adults. Drug and alcohol abuse, crime, eating disorders, and precocious sexual activity are all becoming much more common among our preadolescents.

Of course with more and more single-parent households and more and more two-income families, kids are left to their own devices, and the corporate world is happy to cash in on this, to become substitute parents with substitute values and agendas. Absent parents, powerful peer pressure, and a greedy and rapacious corporate culture makes for a bad mix. Kids as a result are growing up in a moral and spiritual wasteland.

Other perceptive chapters on topics such as schooling, Sesame Street, and discipline, add to the gloomy picture of being a child in a postmodern world. But in order to help our children we first need to understand the strife they are in. This book should help focus our minds on one of the most urgent needs any society can be engaged in: making sure the next generation has a proper foundation in which to enter into adulthood and become helpful and productive citizens.

Unless we do right by our kids, society will be left with shaky foundations indeed. And if we do not prepare our children for what lies ahead, we ensure that society will be in much worse shape in the future. For the sake of what lies ahead, we need to get this right. This book helps to alert us to the dangers we face, and the changes we need to make if we are to be confident about tomorrow.

The Educational Importance of Cultural and Moral Traditions.......2004-05-12

This book contains a collection of eleven essays written by Kay Hymowitz and which originally appeared in CITY JOURNAL between 1995 and 2002. The subtitle captures the essence of the common subject matter thread which provides the link between them, they are about the relationship of PARENTS AND KIDS IN A POSTMODERN AGE. The essays in the book are arranged to form a sequential analysis of her topic following the age of children from their early experiences in day-care through graduation from college (essay number nine is titled J. CREW U.) and subsequently into a career; they conclude with an examination of the frequent rejection of the goals of radical feminism by many young women today. However, the dates of original publication indicate a much less direct progression of the author's thought process and commentary, they appear to be a combination of responses to her own experiences and research, reactions to the topic du jour and pieces specifically complementing other commentary from the Manhattan Institute (the publishers of City Journal)

My experience is that pieces in collections of this nature are often uneven in quality, but these are uniformly very articulate and well reasoned commentaries by an extremely thoughtful author with a very definite point of view. That point of view can be summarized as a belief that our culture has largely lost its moral moorings, and that we have no intellectual and spiritual base of agreed upon beliefs with which to educate our children. She examines the basis of the elevation of moral relativism and our unwillingness to articulate a framework of absolute values, and concludes that it is due to the several factors but places much of the blame upon the destructive impact caused by the embrace of postmodernism by large segments of the intellectual elite and media opinion leaders (as exemplified by the adoption of deconstructionist philosophy and methodologies in the curriculums of many leading academic institutions). This has both combined with and reinforced the pursuit of goals predominantly measured in material terms, and has often led to extremely counterproductive results even with the best of intentions. (In this regard her criticisms of day care for the wealthy and Sesame Street are fascinating.)

There is a lot in these critiques that is about as far removed from political correctness as possible, and yet at the same time Hymowitz has probably managed to include some comment in the book which will probably distress even her most ardent supporters. I certainly agreed with the overwhelming majority of her points and enjoyed her style immensely, but on occasion felt her commentary slightly offpoint or her analysis somewhat overbroad (e.g. the chapter on ecstatic capitalism). Regardless of your beliefs regarding our cultural childrearing practices, there is clearly reason to be concerned about the education (in the broadest sense) of our youngsters today. While the Columbine tragedy clearly caught the attention of the nation, the problem is not violence per se but what the prevalence of such violence indicates about the frequent alienation exhibited by the youth of today. The debates about the almost certain overprescription of Ritalin, the abysmal performance of many segments of the population on standardized tests, and the elevation of the goals of diversity and multiculturalism have led to the perverse equation of the freedom which we cherish with the lack of necessity for any internal moral compass. Somehow we as a society have not accepted the fact that the greater the freedom in a society, the greater is the need for a firm personal internalization of the agreed upon moral precepts and shared cultural values which are necessary for the society to effectively function.

I highly recommend this book for everyone interested in accumulating background intellectual ammunition in order to more effectively participate in the current debate about society's educational and childrearing practices. After all, there is nothing more important to maintaining the opportunity, freedom and prosperity which we currently enjoy.

Tucker Andersen

A good scolding from a tough.......2004-01-22

Hymowitz's collection of essays has not received the attention that it deserves. This is too bad, because it is a powerful scolding the the laissez-faire, "modern," "child-centered," "feminist you-can-have-it-all," day-care and sex-education society that has little moral wisdom to pass to its children. Her observations on how "experts" have caved into what she calls the "Americal Pastorale Child" motif are apt, and acidic. Her fundamental axiom is this: that all (good) child development depends on a transmitted morality based on self-denial and self-discipline. The only way to achieve these is not to depend on the "inherent" capacity of children to develop these, but, instead, on powerful, care-giving, available adult(s) who decline to take shortcuts, and who take moral stands in their lives.

I loved a number of sections of this book. Hymowitz dissects Sesame Street elegantly as a public TV enterprise that teaches kids to watch TV, not learn literacy. She points out that it is a paradox to teach children and adolescents to be free and also to have self-restraint. She takes exception to the "expert" view that children and adolescents "naturally" develop empathy: "And why are well-nurtured teenagers so lacking this natural feeling when it comes to the suffering that their flagrant rudeness causes their parents?" (p. 61).

Great book, a little hard to read casually, but her message is not a casual one. After you finish it, however, you may wonder, "Well, what do I do now?"

Right on target.......2003-09-28

Ms. Hymowitz cuts through today's cultural morass and pinpoints exactly where we are going wrong with today's achievement-oriented but emotionally vacuous and valueless children. From French lessons for six-month olders to starstruck Sesame Street, from desensitizing sex education for middle schoolers to college without distribution requirements, Ms. Hymowitz shows us how today's children are groping for values in a world that promotes work over family and self-expression over love. For anyone perturbed by today's degenerative culture, this profoundly disturbing and incisive book is a must-read.

Cuts below the surface.......2003-09-17

What has always bothered me at a low level is explained here with incisiveness and an uncommon sense. I told my husband who is a pediatrician that he needs to make this a required reading for every parent that walks in his door.

The book is a collection of essays, each covering a particular age, from daycare to preschool to tweens and so on. Each essay discusses the the pernicious effect of such venerable institutions as Sesame Street (sugar-coated fast pace pushing of empty movie and TV icons) on our children. In every essys, her analysis is so completely on the mark.

We are being manipulated and as parents we are not fighting. We buy tank tops for our tweens, high-cut bikini underwear and all sort of nonsense with out a whimper. We allow our baby girls to dress like Vegas show girls and are brainwahsed into thinking that it means nothing and has no effect on our girls' psyche. On all fronts, schools, media, clothing, everyone has dropped their standards.

No matter what age your child, I highly recommend this book. I am buying a bunch to give to my friends.

The System : Vol. 1, Figure Painting
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OK, but not technical enough

The System-What's the mix?

You will paint this way or else

The way to go!

The System : Vol. 1, Figure Painting

Manufacturer: Verlinden Productions Inc
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Binding: Paperback

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100+ full color photographs

This is a very useful how-to book dealing specifically with the painting of miniature figures, or figurines. The tips and techniques communicated in these pages reflect the combined experience of the authors in the field of scale modeling of almost 80 years. Each of the authors, Francois Verlinden and Bob Letterman, is universally recognized in the industry as a living legend due to his high level of realism in painting. For the first time, these two have combined there talent into one publication in order to instruct others on how to improve their painting skills. This book is packed with amazing color photographs of both finished pieces, as well as works in progress, in order to guide the reader through each step in the creation of these masterpieces. Opening a window into a world seldom seen by the uninitiated, this book belongs in the collection of every scale modeler and artist.

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OK, but not technical enough.......2003-03-12

I have been model building for over 20 years, but only last year did I start painting figures. Most of my models had no figures or were done uninspired with acrylics. I finally decided to use oils and this book helped a lot with techniques for shading and highlighting. It's shortcoming was that they just said mix a base fleshtone, and add this color or that. I would really have liked ratios such as 4 parts raw umber, 1 part yellow ochre, etc. If it wasn't for my years of experience, I might have been been upset about this. Model building is a lot of trial and error and I had the patience to persevere, but a lot of paint was lost in these experiments. I can't say this is for someone with little experience but for model builders who can see a color and know what mix they need, it shouldn't be too much of a challenge.

The System-What's the mix?.......2002-12-15

The book overall was good. The only flaw is when it tells the oils to use but it doesn't tell the mix for the first step. It shows the oils layed out and has them labeld but in the text it doesn't tell what all of them are. Some you can go by the color but for the first step it just says mixture A, but it doesn't say what mixture A is. It could have used a few more step by step photos in the beginning also.

You will paint this way or else.......2002-08-20

The authors describe their techniques for painting miniatures with oils. I found the "do it this way or else" tone somewhat condescending. The examples are not very useful as the most difficult step, bending, is not shown. He goes from unblended to blended without an intermediate steps.

Davidson's book "Painting Ancient and Medieval Warriors" is a better introductory text.

The way to go!.......2000-03-27

This is a quite excellent book on figure painting. The emphasis is on 120mm scale figures (Verlinden, of course) but you can (I did!) apply the principles to other scales, such as 1/35 or 54mm.

Though you always must experiment on your own (or else you won't learn anything), the book is a great help for getting started, and I always have it nearby whenever I'm painting figures.

I guess that with this book and Sheperd Paine's (on the same topic) you won't need anything else.

Why Ducks Do That: 40 Distinctive Duck Behaviors Explained & Photographed
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Why Ducks Do That: 40 Distinctive Duck Behaviors Explained & Photographed
Chuck Petrie
Manufacturer: Willow Creek Press
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Why Birds Do That: 40 Distinctive Bird Behaviors Explained & Photographed
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Great Gift for a Birder

Very interesting book on bird habits

Enhanced with more than one hundred color photographs

Why Birds Do That: 40 Distinctive Bird Behaviors Explained & Photographed
Michael Furtman
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Great Gift for a Birder.......2007-09-29

My wife has been an avid Birder for about 4-5 years and has gotten quite good. She is always trying to increase her basic knowledge of birds. I surprised her with this book and she loved it. She commented numerous times while reading it: "So that's why they do that."

Very interesting book on bird habits.......2005-02-10

With 40 different bird behaviors explained and photographed this is a very interesting book. Some questions are common ones like "Why do birds bathe?" or "Why do birds migrate?". Other questions have more complex answers like "Why do some chicks hatch naked, and others hatch covered with down?". With photographs that illustrate each question or part of the answer and well written answers this is an excellent book to understand birds better. Written on a level where it can be understood by about 13 years old or older it is an excellent book. Why Birds Do That is highly recommended and informative.

Enhanced with more than one hundred color photographs.......2004-12-05

Birds provide endless fascination with their evocative songs, their complex and occasionally comical behavior, their variety, and their seasonal comings and goings. Why Birds Do That: A Collection Of Curious Avian Exploits by nature writer and photographer Michael Furtman explains forty distinctive bird behaviors. Enhanced with more than one hundred color photographs and very highly recommended for ornithology students and non-specialist general readers with an interest in bird behavior, Why Birds Do That explains why birds sing; why the singing principally takes place in the morning; why males of many species sport bright colors; why some birds hatch naked, while others come with thick and fluffy coats of down; and other common (and not-so-common) questions concerning the birds we see in our backyards, our farms and fields, our meadows, glens and forests.

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