Oil Painting: A Direct Approach

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Courageous and Heart-Breaking

OUTSTANDING - A MAJOR CONTRIBUTION!

A MUST READ

STIRRING

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Tibetans a Struggle to Survive

Manufacturer: Stoddart+publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 1852278854

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Over a 10-year period, Steve Lehman traveled beyond the mountain vistas and timeless temples to uncover a different Tibet-a land of lumberyards and uranium mines, of brothels and discos, of demolished temples and burned-out police stations in this ravaged country.

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Courageous and Heart-Breaking.......1999-03-02

I have just returned from seeing Steve Lehman's exhibition of photographs from Tibet at the Newseum/NY- PLEASE GO SEE THIS SHOW IF YOU CAN!!! I stood before some of the most touching and moving color, black and white photographs and collages with tears running down my face at the inhumanity and humanity of the disgusting situation in Tibet. How can the United States and other so-called free nations stand back and allow this foul occupation continue to take place? Not only is the culture, religion, architecture, forests, etc. of Tibet being decimated but MOST IMPORTANTLY her people are being mass murdered, tortured and ignored by the "powers that be." (The setting of the show was wonderful also with thankgas, prayer wheels and other Tibetan objects. It was also incredible to be surrounded by all the photographs in one fell swoop.) I was particularly struck by the personal, hand-written descriptions on the photographs which made them even more immediate. One could really feel for the peaceful protestors who were subsequently imprisoned and tortured. I searched their faces and was mesmerized and thought about what each person's life was like now. Even if you cannot stand before the pictures, be surrounded by the injustice of it all, do obtain the book and see for yourself. This is photo-journalism at its finest and most poignant.Mr. Lehman's photographs give ample illustration that more needs to be done to help the Tibetans and now!

OUTSTANDING - A MAJOR CONTRIBUTION!.......1998-12-26

When deadly riots broke out in Tibet, Steve Lehman captured that terror in his outstanding photographs. Lehman continues to chronicle the Tibetans' courageous struggle for human rights, and his work is a major contribution to understanding the Tibetan story. -Congressman Tom Lantos Co-Chairman, Congressional Human Rights Caucus

A MUST READ.......1998-12-26

THE TIBETANS is a beautiful portrayal of a courageous, earthy, and spiritual people struggling for survival under the tremendous burden of late twentieth-century colonialism. It is a must read for those who want to understand their planet. -Robert A.F. Thurman President, Tibet House

STIRRING.......1998-12-26

A stirring photographic essay which gives texture and grit to the reality of life in Tibet. A timely reminder of the ongoing ecogenocide and obliteration of Tibetan culture in its painful recent history under the Chinese. -Peter Matthiessen, Author

excellent.......1998-12-26

i just wanted to say how incredible i thought this book is. the layout and design really highlights the power of the photos. perhaps most important, the book allows the reader/viewer to gain some insight into the complexities of the tibetan situation. the author's passion for the people and culture there is profoundly moving.

sue simon

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In an age of magic and sorcerers, the world is divided between those who have supernatural powers and those that don't. Fighting for justice and against black magic and evildoers are the Sorcerer Hunters. Blasting into the past as Carrot and Marron Glase's parents, Onion and Apricot learn what it means to be Sorcerer Hunters when journeying to a point in time where dark magic is welling and threatens to destroy everything.

Sorcerer Hunters -- 100% Authentic Format Volume 10

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Sorcerer Hunters -- 100% Authentic Format Volume 10
Ray Omishi , and Satoru Akahori
Manufacturer: TokyoPop
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1595325034

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Bankers and financial services professionals are in a uphill battle to understand the new CRA regulations and their impact on financial institutions. While the new CRA regulations focus more on "performance" rather than "process," for many institutions the new regulations also impose substantial new data collection, disclosure and reporting burdens. The New CRA provides the necessary background for understanding these most recent revisions to the Community Reinvestment Act. The New CRA assesses the impact of the new CRA regulations, including: Measurements for lending, services, and investments; Requiring institutions to collect additional data for small business, small farm and certain consumer loans; Establishing a new approach to assessment based on the financial institution's own strategic plan with input from the local community.

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A neurologist's opinion of Coping with Parkinson's Disease.......2000-12-04

I am a neurologist who cares for people with Parkinson's disease. Eric Morgan has written a thought-provoking book that educated me and that I would recommend to many of my patients. His observation that coping with the disease requires both optimal medical treatment and optimal self-care is particularly valuable. He realizes that with both of these he can not completely control his illness but can greatly improve the quality of his daily life. My only hesitation in recommending this book to those with Parkinson's disease is that his illness has been a particularly trying one, and many patients with Parkinson's do not experience the complications and tribulations that he describes. I would not want patients with mild Parkinson's to be discouraged by his experiences.

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Photo study from the earliest types of the 1400s to the massive rail mounted guns of World War II., over 100 b/w photos, 8 1/2"x11"

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very good.......2005-09-30

this is the right balance with original pictures and drawings that i was looking for to please my dad.. the descriptions are also clear and concize

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The only constants in nature are change and death. Terry Tempest Williams, a naturalist and writer from northern Utah, has seen her share of both. The pages of Refuge resound with the deaths of her mother and grandmother and other women from cancer, the result of the American government's ongoing nuclear-weapons tests in the nearby Nevada desert. You won't find the episode in the standard history textbooks; the Feds wouldn't admit to conducting the tests until women and men in Utah, Nevada, and northwestern Arizona took the matter to court in the mid-1980s, and by then thousands of Americans had fallen victim to official technology. Parallel to her account of this devastation, Williams describes changes in bird life at the sanctuaries dotting the shores of the Great Salt Lake as water levels rose during the unusually wet early 1980s and threatened the nesting grounds of dozens of species. In this world of shattered eggs and drowned shorebirds, Williams reckons with the meaning of life, alternating despair and joy.

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In the spring of 1983 Terry Tempest Williams learned that her mother was dying of cancer. That same season, The Great Salt Lake began to rise to record heights, threatening the herons, owls, and snowy egrets that Williams, a poet and naturalist, had come to gauge her life by. One event was nature at its most random, the other a by-product of rogue technology: Terry's mother, and Terry herself, had been exposed to the fallout of atomic bomb tests in the 1950s. As it interweaves these narratives of dying and accommodation, Refuge transforms tragedy into a document of renewal and spiritual grace, resulting in a work that has become a classic.

From the Trade Paperback edition.

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Nothing Unnatural About It; It's Sacred.......2006-10-28

The first time I went to Utah, I read Edward Abbey's "Desert Solitaire" and loved it. This time, at a bookstore in Moab, I picked up Williams' "Red" for a contemporary view of the ecological issues around this gorgeous desert landscape, which is unlike any place I have been. Although I liked "Red," people told me "Refuge" was even better.

This is a very special book. I'm no birdwatcher, but it made me want to be. I'm no scientist, but I wished I were. I'm no Mormon, but it gave me respect for a religion I have never been able to fathom. Terry Tempest Williams has profound insights into the natural world. Her observations of the Great Salt Lake and the many migratory birds that visit it are as moving as her account of the death by cancer of her mother and grandmothers. Not surprisingly, they taught Williams awe of birds and sunsets and their own bodies. All of them are brave and spiritual women, and we would be wise to learn from them.

I think what I most admire about Williams as a writer is her emotional courage. Time and time again, she strikes out where more conventional writers would hesitate. She finds redeeming passages from the Book of Mormon. She follows her mother through her long and circuitous spiritual journey with cancer. She follows her grandmother as she moves into Eastern thought and modern physics. She dips respectfully into ancient Indian and Mexican culture. She walks in the desert at some peril to her well-being. She speaks of the intimacy of her marriage and about her decision not to bear children.

Yet his is not a book "about" the desert or cancer or birds or Mormonism, but about life and how it can be richly observed, experienced. shared and redeemed. It's one brave woman's answer to "Desert Solitaire."

This verse unlocks the heart........2006-10-16

Terry Tempest Williams is a national treasure. Her unvarnished verse carries one deep into the mystery of the Earth and sends us helplessly into the depths of our own hearts. The landscape of wildness breaths a spectacular wisdom under the watchful eyes of this keen observer of wind, rock, desert, sky, sage, along with the birds who soar and dance and play in a benediction to non-sentient life.

When I need to recapture my own mortality along with my own humility, I always return to the verse of this elder of silence and truth. Williams stands alone in the power to convey both outer and inner wildness. Her verse is poetic and healing. One does not read these words but are instead initiated into the heart beat of wild nature. Savor its beauty as you might a calming sunset or a wind swept sea shore calling you ever deeper into your own soul.

Read everything she writes and find peace deep within.

If you have been affected by cancer it is worth reading!!!.......2006-06-26

I loved and hated this book. It is beatifully written. I found the author frustrating at times. Some parts got a little long winded about the birds. It takes you on a emotional rollercoaster but the pay off of finishing this book is worth it. Any one who has been affected by cancer will find this book very inciteful to the process of going through treatment and also the death process. Terry Tempest gives the most authentic and honest account of what life is like living through cancer I have every read. She put into words thought and feelings I could never express fully.
The research of the history of the Great Salt Lake was very fun to read about. I have lived in Utah all my life, but I have never been to the Lake I now am very curious to see it and the bird refuge. I think I will find the trip much more interesting now than if I had gone before reading this book.

Suprising turn of events.......2006-03-02

Terry Tempest Williams is a naturalist living in Utah who has the history of cancer in her family. Cancer in this novel is paralleled with the flooding of the neighboring Great Salt Lake. Overall this book goes to show that cancer goes deeper than the person who it is diagnosed to. I would suggest this book on limited circumstances: One-if you can get past the strong feminine presence and domination of this novel. Two-do not read the last 60 or so pages. I approved of this book up until that point. If the book ended at that point, leaving out the harassment of the government it would be ten times better. To anyone who is in the process of reading Refuge, you won't want to read past around page 230. Enough said.
My rating(first 230 or so pages): 7.5/10
My rating(after page 230 or so) 2.5/10

Disappointed.......2006-02-03

Although I found the passages about Ms. Williams relationships with her mother and grandmother and their struggles with cancer to be well-written and moving, I am surprised that she and many other reviewers imply that the cancers were the consequences of nuclear testing. I think of myself as an environmentalist, and I believe that such testing is likely to have been harmful to human health; however, the striking family history of breast and ovarian cancer in this case strongly suggests that there is a genetic disorder (mutation in the BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene) that was responsible for the cancer in these women. I was living in Salt Lake City during the spring of 1983, and the flooding was indeed dramatic, but I was bored by the rather repetitious descriptions of the refuge and the birds.

Birds of Utah Field Guide (Our Nature Field Guides)

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Birds of Utah Field Guide (Our Nature Field Guides)
Stan Tekiela
Manufacturer: Adventure Publications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1591930197

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Learn about and identify birds using Stan Tekiela's state-by-state field guides. The full-page, color photos are incomparable and include insets of winter plumage, color morphs and more. Plus, with the easy-to-use format, you don't need to know a bird's name or classification in order to easily find it in the book. Using this field guide is a real pleasure. It's a great way for anyone to learn about the birds in your state.

Animal Tracks of the Rocky Mountains: Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico

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Animal Tracks of the Rocky Mountains: Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico
Chris Stall
Manufacturer: Mountaineers Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0898861853

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Great resource for birders and outdoor enthusiasts.

Birding Utah
D.E. McIvor
Manufacturer: Falcon
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1560446153

Book Description

Where-to site guide to 100 of the best birding areas in Utah including detailed descriptions.

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Great resource for birders and outdoor enthusiasts........1998-07-09

Birding Utah provides a comprehensive resource for finding birds in Utah. The extensive information provided should prove extremely useful for novice to expert birders, as well as any outdoor enthusiast.

The book includes 5 chapters and an extensive appendix of birding and travel information sources. It is scientifically accurate and well written in a casual style. Chapter One details the basics of planning a successful birding trip, which should be most useful to novice birders. The second chapter describes Utah's biological environment from a broad-scale description of topography and climate to a finer resolution of habitats. Reading this chapter should give you an intimate feeling of the biological organization and spatial qualities of the state. The majority of the book is devoted to chapter 3, a description of 112 potential birding sites grouped according to region. The sites range from potential day trips to longer overnight excursions. The amount of detail that is provided for each site makes this book much more than a birding guide, but a travel guide for nature around the state. Included for each site are a list of habitats, birds, best times to bird, suggestions on where birds may be seen, directions to the site, general area information, a map, potential hazards, nearest facilities, and camping locations. It is obvious that each site has been researched by the author. The fourth chapter is a listing of birds that occur within the state; and associated habitat type, the regional distribution, and seasonal occurrence within the state. In chapter 5, the author has selected 50 "sought after" birds and details where and when the birds are likely to be found, and the chances for viewing one of these species. This chapter is unique to this birding guide because it also includes fine-scaled distribution maps based on current habitat types.

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Utah Birds, An Introduction to Familiar Species, is a must-have, reference guide for beginners and experts alike. Whether you're on a nature hike or in your own backyard, you'll want to take along a copy of this indispensable guide. The Pocket Naturalist(tm) series is an introduction 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. Each is laminated for durability.

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Time Of Little Black Bird
Helen Papanikolas
Manufacturer: Swallow Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 080401017X

Small Bird, Tell Me: Stories of Greek Immigrants in Utah

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Enlightening!

Small Bird, Tell Me: Stories of Greek Immigrants in Utah
Helen Papanikolas
Manufacturer: Swallow Pr
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0804009740

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Enlightening!.......1998-02-19

Ms. Papanikolas writes in such a way that I learn the facts and comprehend the facts while letting the creative story please me or displease me, as the case may be. As Greek Town and history and happenings occurred all around her while growing up in Utah, Ms. Papanikolas soaked in that history. She makes the facts come to life in her fictional characters and stories regarding the immigration of Greeks to America and to Utah. Ms. Papanikolas has written several fictional stories based on fact and some of those stories are found in `Small Bird, Tell Me.' A reader who has no understanding of the Greek immigration history will surely not enjoy the fictional stories as much as a reader who has tried to learn some background regarding the Greek immigration. My advice would be to read some of Ms. Papanikolas's history and then read 'Small Bird, Tell Me'. The short stories will become more thrilling and enlightening to the reader who has done this.

The bird life of Great Salt Lake;: The life history, ecology and population trends of the California gulls, white pelicans, double-crested cormorants and ... of the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge

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The bird life of Great Salt Lake;: The life history, ecology and population trends of the California gulls, white pelicans, double-crested cormorants and ... of the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge
William Harroun Behle
Manufacturer: University of Utah Press
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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Birds of Northeastern Utah (Occasional publication / Utah Museum of Natural History)

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Birds of Northeastern Utah (Occasional publication / Utah Museum of Natural History)
William H. Behle
Manufacturer: Univ of Utah Pr (T)
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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