Mehrdad Yazdani

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Strongly recommended for its introduction to the gifted work of determined and progressively contemporary architect

A first gathering under one cover: 23 projects, large and small

Mehrdad Yazdani
Joseph Giovannini
Manufacturer: Princeton Architectural Press
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Architect Mehrdad Yazdani has won the respect of critics and clients alike for his imaginative approach to the design of public and institutional buildings. Mehrdad Yazdani, the first monograph of his work, presents a collection of 25 projects, large and small, built and unbuilt, illustrating Yazdani's responsiveness to issues of public engagement, program complexity, and site context. The author, architect and critic Joseph Giovannini, emphasizes the role that drawing and painting have played in guiding and inspiring this Iranian-born and Texas-educated architect.

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Strongly recommended for its introduction to the gifted work of determined and progressively contemporary architect.......2006-06-05

Mehrdad Yazdani is a superbly organized and presented visually descriptive documentation of the architectural designs of the master architect Mehrdad Yazdani. Providing readers with a wealth of full-color photographs of Yazdani's impressive architectural accomplishments showcased on page after page of his uniquely designed buildings from the 1980s to the present, Mehrdad Yazdani also features brief and succinct texts on Yazdani's grand designs. A core addition to professional and academic library Architectural Studies reference collections, Mehrdad Yazdani is very strongly recommended for its introduction to the gifted work of determined and progressively contemporary architect.

A first gathering under one cover: 23 projects, large and small.......2006-04-27

Artist Mehrdad Yazdani has practiced his work in one place for most of his life, earning the respect of fellow architects and critics for his imaginative designs of public buildings: this represents the first gathering of his work under one cover: some 23 projects both large and small, built and un-built. Blueprints and design patterns accompany full-page color photos of constructed buildings to capture the extent of Yazdani's vision in a wonderful, compelling presentation highly recommended for college-level art libraries specializing in architectural displays - especially modern architects.

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Few artists spanned the movements of early twentieth-century art as completely as did Hans Richter. Richter was a major force in the developments of expressionism, Dada, De Stijl, constructivism, and Surrealism, and the creator, with Viking Eggeling, of the abstract cinema. Along with Theo van Doesburg, László Moholy-Nagy, El Lissitzky, and a few others, he is one of the artists crucial to an understanding of the role of the arts in the reconstruction era following World War I.

Most American scholars have focused on Richter's film work and have favored a strictly formalist approach that separates art and politics. The contributors to this book rewrite Richter's history to include his pivotal role in the development of the early twentieth-century avant-garde and his political activism. When Richter's work, particularly that of his earlier, European career, is viewed in its historical and political context, he emerges as an artist committed to the power of art to change the fabric of social, political, and cultural affairs.

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Marvelous.......2000-05-15

Long over due. Stephen Foster is one of the great intellectual minds of our time...

Hans Richter: Activism, Modernism, and the Avant-Garde.

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Hans Richter: Activism, Modernism, and the Avant-Garde.
Hans]. Foster, Stephen C. ed. [RICHTER
Manufacturer: First edition.
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Hans Richter: Activism, Modernism, and the Avant-Garde
Hans] Foster, Stephen C. (editor) Richter
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Hans Richter: Activism, Modernism, and the Avant-Garde
Stephen C. Editor, Illustrated by Richter, Hans Foster
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Hans Richter: Activism, Modernism, and the Avant-Garde
Stephen C. Foster
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Tom is fun, friendly and one-of-a kind. . .the greatest friend you can have! Tom is a dinosaur who travels the world having amazing adventures while learning many things about his human companions. Look what Tom is doing: discovering the carnival! Spectacularly drawn [with] a Where's Waldo?-meets-Tintin look. --Publisher's Weekly

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Economía para todos.......2007-10-18

Uno de los economistas con una mayor proyección internacional, nos propone una obra de divulgación del ideario liberal hoy en día. La obra se divide en dos partes principales: una primera parte donde se explican los fundamentos del pensamiento liberal, y una segunda parte con un compelió de artículos publicados por el autor agrupados por temas.

Sala utiliza un lenguaje muy accesible y se explaya lo suficiente y nunca más de lo necesario en explicar todos y cada uno de los conceptos económicos que van floreciendo en el texto.

Desde mi punto de vista es una lectura obligada para todos aquellos que estén intensados en el mundo que nos rodea (el nombre creo que lo dice todo, yo del subtítulo subrayaría el para no economistas).

En mi opinión, de los mejores son el que Sala nos habla (muy breve pero muy claramente) sobre Globalización, propiedad intelectual, Ricos y Pobres y el que trata sobre África y países ricos, países pobres.

Veredicto: Añadir carrito!

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Economia Para No Economistas
Agustin Edgardo Digier
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Elementos de economia para uso de no economistas (Coleccion Tropicos)
Omar Fernandez Russo
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With The Bombast Transcripts, Christopher Locke (a.k.a. RageBoy, that iconoclastic cybervoice of dissonance, disdain, and all things provocative) is leaping from your screen to your bookshelf. Look out. The scathing rants from the creator of Entropy Gradient Reversals--probably the most wittily outrageous, cryptically observant, and eagerly puzzled-over Web zine ever to pollute the airwaves--are explosive.

As a tag, screed is only partly accurate for the contents of this volatile collection; they're long harangues, all right, but by no means monotonous. Listen in as Locke lets his alter ego loose in friendly chat with IBM's Lou Gerstner (well, actually an exit interview with Lew Firstner, pompous and clueless chairman of the 666 Corporation). As he not-so-clearly illustrates what "getting it" means (by pondering T.S. Kuhn, voodoo ceremonies, and a sacred space you can't enter with your mind on, let alone your shoes). And as he gleefully admits that most of his readers "seem to enjoy abstruse and obfuscatory exegeses on themes that utterly elude them" but apparently "alleviates their anxiety about not knowing anything that wasn't covered by Geraldo." Don't be insulted; be alleviated. Locke may indeed be the Web's most acerbic gonzo journalist and techno-semiotic social critic, but he's also written for Forbes; worked for MCI, Ricoh, and the Japanese government's AI project; and been named one of the top 50 business thinkers in the world. If you missed out on this cyberpundit's irreverent rants the first time around, catch him now (if you can). As Locke himself reminds us, "Being totally insane is hard work. People don't realize that." They should now. --S. Ketchum

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From the hilarious to the sublime, the essays and observations of cultural commentator extraordinaire, Chris "RageBoy" Locke.

In more ways than one, Chris Locke has raised a godawful racket on the Net. Under his alter-egotistical nom de plume, RageBoy, and through his webzine, Entropy Gradient Reversals, he has entertained and enlightened thousands of readers from some of the world's largest companies, governments, and institutions-including those from which he's managed to escape.

Now for the first time in browser-free format, The Bombast Transcripts brings together the best of his worst. And his worst is very good indeed. Marvel as one of America's foremost social critics interviews pop-media superstars such as IBM's Lou Gerstner, Sayanarology's Moe Ron Hubbard, Godzilla, Mr. Ed, and, in a twisted hall-of-mirrors tour de force, RageBoy himself. Tremble in awe as mysteries of the universe unfold, from thermodynamics and cutting-edge neurophysiology to sex and drugs and rock 'n' roll. Thrill to obfuscation so arcane you'll need to be sedated. Laugh so hard you'll think you have been.

While Locke's semantic antics will have you in stitches, his real aim is for the jugular-via a triple bypass transplanting business, media, and social mores into a carnivalesque landscape of the imagination where conventional logic bellies up and flatlines. Part scathing send-up of commercial techno-fetishism, part hysterical stand-up on the theme of spiritual bankruptcy, part intimate memoir of a vibrant and uncompromising life, The Bombast Transcripts will rock you, shock you, and leave you pondering what The Economist once called "the wisdom of RageBoy."

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"Wandering barefoot on the Lower East Side of New York, over a thousand dollars cash in my pocket, looking to score, bring back for the holy freaks the one good thing. Odysseus adrift. Also in my pocket, the Tarot, the Waite deck I'd just bought that day. I went into The Eatery on Second Avenue and my waitress saw the cards. 'I was raised by Gypsies,' she said. 'I will tell you about the trumps if you like.' I had just dropped another tab and had little time left I knew, but she sat with me and pointed to each of the major arcana, the Lovers, the Fool, the Tower, Death. Then stopped. 'You have two Magicians,' she said...."

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Beyond description.......2003-09-23

This is the crash course in understanding the fundamentals of the necessity of change as seen through the eyes of the author, Christopher Locke. Everything you previously thought was lore is turned on its head in riotous fashion in The Bombast Transcripts. Each chapter takes apart some standard you thought was a given, an immutable and constant attribute of practically every aspect of life in the western world.

The best part is that Chris does it in so many different ways in one book. There's flat out ranting and there's cutting ridicule including interviews with himself, Rupert Murdoch and the famous one with Mr Ed. (Yes, the horse.)

Using those cliched critic's terms of rollercoaster ride or rollicking good yarn don't do this volume any justice whatsoever. In fact, this book defies any label you might care to ascribe.

In fact, I defy anyone to come up with a label for this book.

Genius at work. Chew on carpet while you wait........2002-07-16

I only have one thing to say about this: "The Solution is Poetry". Excellent reading. Warning, you may not get it if you consider yourself too smart and significant.

Delicious Poetic Nonsense.......2002-04-22

There are people who will swear by this book, there are people who will hate the book. There is no middle ground, i have checked and tried it out. Either you love it or you hate it. Poetic Nonsense in finesse and the finest form.

This will cure your longing of the cluetrain manifisto stuffs. Beautifully written and meaningless at some point, but you goona love it i guess, you gonna crave for more, and then subscribe the newsletter.

GO buy the book, and immerse yourself. I have read some part of the book more than 3 times. Amen.

Not what you think....nor expect..........2002-04-07

I just finished Bombastic Transcripts, so if you have bothered to read this at all you're probably wondering so what did this monkeyboy think? Good question, honestly I am still pondering it mulling it over in my head and probably will for a bit. It is a quick read, it's an interesting read, but fundamentally it's not a light read. It takes a little time for digestion and pondering... I suspect I will read it again in the next month or two and reconsider, hell maybe throw this whole review out.

So here's my advice go buy the book, RageBoy needs the cash. If you like Tom Robbins, Hunter S Thompson, and the Gonzo style read away, you'll enjoy it. Perhaps you will find some stuff to digest, even without ingesting any substances on the Schedule I drug list.

If you didn't like Cluetrain Manifesto, Gonzo Marketing, or any Gonzo writing buy the book anyways, for the reasons stated above. Then hide the book in your bookshelf and wait until a really dark night, one in which your soul is screaming for mercy while the night rages in a Category 5 Hurricane and your only fresh reading material is a copy of Reader's Digest you have flipped through already 15 times. Your mind goes hungry, for something unanswered and unknown, and you will recall this book hiding in some dark corner of the bookshelf covered in dust and a three month old edition of Fast Company magazine. You will pull it off the shelf and find yourself drawn to the words expressed inside and the walls of illusion come crashing down inside your mind. Either that or you'll take a gun and pull a Hemmingway. Doesn't much matter to me, if you survive reading it you might even find yourself signing up for Entropy Gradient Reversals, but let me warn you the shotgun is alot quicker and painless, but it's not nearly as much fun.

"You have GOT to READ this guy!!".......2002-01-28

That was my introduction just over a year ago to Entropy Gradient Reversals and the evil genius mind(s) behind it, Christopher Locke/RageBoy. From that first mind-blowing, breathless reading of his newsletter, I was alternately charmed, alarmed and disarmed by the decidedly unpretentious Chris Locke. His new book, the Bombast Transcripts, a collection of essays previously published to the Entropy Gradient Reversals mailing list, contains that first newsletter that caught my imagination, and so many more.

As I've read through this book, I have found myself again reacting to it in the visceral way that I had to become accustomed to as one of his faithful Valued Readers at EGR. While some may call him pompous and crass, I find him to be merely open and honest. Then again, I've always had a soft spot for intelligent, over-indulgent, semi-vulgar Don Quixotes. His chosen windmills are big business that don't have a clue (IBM et all, no small potatoes here) and, while a book about business practices would normally make my eyes glaze over while putting me in a semi-catatonic state, I find this book to be human and engaging at every turn. Each essay stands on it's own as either a rant or a screed, yet each could also be expanded into its own little book. Irreverent, engaging, transforming, contemplative, hilarious....and each page is more of the same.

While I read Locke's words, I get the feeling that I am a part of something much bigger and more important than anyone can guess, especially those that think the internet is nothing more than a collection of chatrooms and porn sites. No, I get the feeling I'm getting a glimpse of a creation, a rapturous inferno of truth and emotion, two key elements that, when exposed to each other under the heat of RageBoy's passion, cause a brilliant flash of evolution that could change the world as we know it. What a wonderful world that would be.

Idealistic? Maybe. Bombastic? Hardly. Evil Genius?? Indeed.

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Fleeing a generally bleak existence in Nicaragua, Yamileth shepherds her sister's children and her son Miguel over a treacherous route to California. She reaches Los Angeles in 1989 as the local economy sours and outcry against illegal immigrants like themselves swells. A Sandinista supporter who fought for a new life in Nicaragua, she is nonplussed by everyday violence in the U.S. Worries about the children, difficulty finding work, and the threat of deportation darken her dreams of a safe haven. Dianne Walta Hart, her unofficial American sponsor, weaves together Yamileth's words with commentary pointing up inevitable culture clashes. This is a rough-edged, authentic look at the marginal lives led by many illegal immigrants who live among us.

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Yamileth's own words. From start to finish, Undocumented in L.A.: An Immigrant's Story is testimonial literature at its best. This eye-opening work will show the reader the opposition and difficulties undocumented immigrants face in a nation that at first beckons them with freedom, then rejects them with unwelcoming borders and restrictive laws. Undocumented in L.A.: An Immigrant's Story is an excellent resource for courses in immigration, political science, and social and cultural studies.

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Unprofessional; Inaccessible.......2002-11-11

I was required to read this book for a course I'm currently taking in college. I have seldom seen such a sloppy, unprofessional, inaccessible work such as I did upon reading this particular work.

The content of the narrative itself is unremarkable; Hart recounts the tale of Yamileth and her family members, virtually all of whom are undocumented (a euphemism for 'illegal') immigrants in the United States.

I saw no compelling reasons whatsoever for the existence of this book. One of the hallmarks of documentary nonfiction is ostensibly objectivity, a professional detachment from the subject. There is none of that here. Hart is herself involved intimately with Yamileth's life, and liberally narrates her own actions throughout the course of the text. Hart's continued non-intervention (and in fact, implicit encouragement) of the numerous acts of illegal immigration throughout the text is unsettling, if not outright disturbing.

Hart maintains a unnecessarily loyal relationship with the oral history she performs; the salient narrative is presented entirely in extremely unnecessary quotation marks, apparently in an effort to bring about a sense of intimacy. This effort, unfortunately, fails miserably. I found the text immensely inaccessible, and the slavish devotion to verbatim dictation extremely off-putting. I saw no reason whatsoever for Hart's act of essentially presenting an annotated transcription of her interview. My only hypothesis would be laziness, but again, Hart's gratuitous editorial commentary appears to contradict that particular possibility.

Given the paucity of compelling subject matter (Yamileth's story is neither unique nor extraordinary), Hart deserves some measure of acknowledgement for not only writing this book, but also for getting it published.

Had Hart chosen a more objective, narrative format (The Autobiography of Malcolm X, another text I read in the same course, is a superb example), her message would have been vastly more credible, as well as entertaining to read. Hart's narrative seems forced; Hart's numerous editorial comments lend an air of artificiality, and give a sense of desperation, or 'padding the text,' if you will.

Hart lacks the academic credentials for conducting oral history projects, and this fact is readily evident throughout the text. The narrative is in fact extremely boring, as a great deal of text is wasted on the trivial details of Yamileth's daily life. Yamileth herself comes across as a strange character; many of the actions she takes throughout the text would very kindly be described as 'misguided' if not outright stupid. The greatest example of this is her decision to leave Oregon (where she had a satisfying job, and her son was truly happy), and return to live with her manipulative sister in Los Angeles. In Los Angeles, she is jobless and unhappy, and her son even more so. Perhaps even more confusing is her ultimate decision to return to Nicaragua, which in some senses proves to be even worse than Los Angeles. Yamileth comes across as consistently indecisive, as well as impractical. Her dithering would be acceptable were she only by herself, but her continued decisions to deny her son happiness and stability in life reek of irresponsibility, as well as juvenility.

In short, Yamileth doesn't know what she wants with life, and in her continued half-fulfilled plans she manages to drag her children down with her. Similarly, Hart doesn't know what she wants to do with this book. I in fact fail to see why anybody would read this out of their own volition. To anyone else taking the same class as I am now (I wish to remain anonymous, but suffice to say I attend a prestigious school in Northern California) - don't worry...it gets better from here on.

Yamileth: A Sojourner.......1999-12-21

I highly recommend this book. It is a joy to read the story of a Nicaraguan lady who makes a journey with members of her family. The destination is the U.S.; the length of stay is short term. As Yamileth will tell you, plans don't always come out the way they were intended. The heroine of the book is a woman, mother, and activist, who has strong family values supported by age old ideals, and who has the courage to live them. The best feature of "Undocumented in L.A." is that it is apolitical. The ideals to which Yamileth is commited and her ways of expressing them are delightful. Through her clear reasoning I was able to have a clearer understanding of the immigrant experience without all the media hype or the outragious editorialization. In the retelling of Yamileth's saga, we are also given an insider's view of foreign relations, inter-racial conflicts, and the divisions of labor in a household where all the occupants are "Undocumented in L. A." "For me the future is thinking about tomorrow and preparing yourself for it. The only heritage a parent can leave is the intellectual preparation of a child... An education allows them to fight for survival, wherever they go. No one can take away that inheritance."--one of Yamileth's values.

Better understanding of plight of illegal immigrants in U.S........1997-10-19

With government looking for ways to limit rights of immigrants in California, Dianne Walta Hart's newest book is very timely. Ms. Hart has culled her interviews with a Nicaraguan woman to tell the immigrant's side of the situation.

Ms. Hart's first book, Thanks to God and the Revolution: The Oral History of a Nicaraguan Family (1990) introduced 4 members of the Lopez family, who described their difficult life in Nicaragua during the revolution. Each family member presented his view of their attempts to survive in a society where employment is difficult to find and the life style is meager. The closeness of the Nicaraguans within their families and neighborhoods is a contrast to the American individualism.

Ten years later, Yamileth and her son Miguel are living as undocumented immigrants in L.A. Through the interviews, their difficulty of survival in a new land is apparent. Again, the close family ties and cultural values weigh heavily on the decisions to be made in their lives.

In T. Coraghessan Boyle's The Tortilla Curtain, the reader meets Mexical illegal immigrants who go to great lengths to find work and take care of themselves in a foreign land. One might discount these characters as fictional and idealized, but the true story Ms. Hart presents shows the actual extreme efforts made by hard working illegal aliens who wish to survive and to find a better life. The stories present people who will not eat a meal if they have not contributed or earned it; people who are honorable and will not always choose the easiest way. Decisions which seem plain to an American do not always fit with the cultural responsibility felt by a person from another country. This book helps one better understand the plight of illegal immigrants in the United States.

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Great cutaways, covers many obscure British aircraft

History on two fronts

Classic World War II Aircraft Cutaways
Bill Gunston
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Bill Gunston is a Londoner. At the end of World War 2 he was a flying instructor in the RAF, and as such flew many of the aircraft featured in this volume, including several of the Axis types. In 1951, via what is today's London City University, he joined the editorial staff of Flight International, and in April 1955 was appointed Technical Editor. Here, he worked closely with the artistic genius of Max Millar, Arthur Bowbeer and Frank Munger, and gained a privileged view of just how the great technical `heart' of the magazine ticked. Bill was later promoted to other duties in what had become International Publishing Corporation (IPC), but decided to leave on the last day of 1970 in order to pursue a career as a freelance writer. The rest is history!

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Great cutaways, covers many obscure British aircraft.......2006-02-23

This book contains a collection of aircraft cutaways which were published in several British aviation journals during World War II. The book offers a unique perspective because unlike most modern reproductions, the cutaways were drawn from real aircraft by artists visiting the factories. Some details on the cutaways have been omitted for contemporary security reasons.

Each aircraft takes up two pages -- a page of text where the author comments on history and personal experience with the aircraft in question as well as on the accuracy of the cutaways and the omitted details, and a full-page cutaway. The cutaways for some of the larger aircraft span two pages (mercifully, done as a fold-out so none of the detail is lost in the binding crease).

The text is well-written although I could stand less lamenting (justified as it may be) about the decline of British aviation industry. The cutaways themselves are hand-drawn and while they don't have hundreds of items labeled in the key, they do represent the pinnacle of this lost artform.

The book covers predominantly British aircraft, including some rather obscure contraptions. Covered are: Whitley III (twice, by two different artists), Lysander I, Oxford I, Blenheim I and IV, Spitfire I (plus a Spitfire V labeled as Spitfire I), Gladiator I, Anson I, Sunderland I, Hurricane I, Henley, Hampden I, Bombay I, Skua I, Ju 86, Bf 109E and F, He 111, Stirling I, Halifax I and III, Hs 126, Do 17, Bf 110, Ju 87, Do 217, Fw 190, Catalina I, Lancaster I, Me 210, Ju 88, Beaufighter IF, Airacobra I, Mosquito II, Auster IV, Firefly I, Mustang I, Miles Messenger, B-17G Flying Fortress, Tomahawk I, Battle I/III, Wellington II, Miles Master I, Albemarle I, York I, Typhoon IB, Barracuda II, P-38 Lightning, Hamilcar, and Tempest V.

The book also covers several aircraft engines: Bristol Hercules XVI (including a great illustration of the complex sleeve-valve mechanism), Bristol Pegasus X, Napier Dagger, Napier Sabre II, Rolls-Royce Merlin I and XX, Rolls-Royce Griffon, Bristol Centaurus, BMW 801, and Daimler-Benz DB 601.

Highly recommended.

History on two fronts.......2004-04-23

This is a history of both classic aircraftof WW2, and the development of the cutaway artform early years. Text includes both original extracts from the magazines "Flight" (for whom he later worked) and "The Aeroplane" from the war years, as well as commentary by Bill Gunston from a position of hindsight. Information on the artists as well. Like all Gunston's books, a sardonic strain of humour is evident, as well as some personal memories. It leaves me wishing for a similar effort covering early post war aircraft. Highly recommended.

Classic Aircraft Cutaways of World War II

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Classic Aircraft Cutaways of World War II
Bill Gunston
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This digital document is an article from Wilson Bulletin, published by Wilson Ornithological Society on March 1, 1996. The length of the article is 1918 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.

From the supplier: The American Goldfinch has made use of purple loosestrife as a nest substrate in different habitats. The non-indigenous plant is found in parks and yards with ornamental vegetation and in moist fields and similar areas. Nests were situated either above water or intermittently saturated soil and were not located on wholly artificial substrates or on the ground, although they had substantial variations.

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Title: American goldfinch nests in purple loosestrife.(Short Communications)
Author: Erik Kiviat
Publication: Wilson Bulletin (Refereed)
Date: March 1, 1996
Publisher: Wilson Ornithological Society
Volume: v108 Issue: n1 Page: p182(5)

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An experimental test of the concealment hypothesis using American Goldfinch nests.: An article from: Wilson Bulletin

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An experimental test of the concealment hypothesis using American Goldfinch nests.: An article from: Wilson Bulletin
Rebecca G. Peak
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This digital document is an article from Wilson Bulletin, published by Wilson Ornithological Society on December 1, 2003. The length of the article is 4194 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.

From the author: I conducted a vegetation removal experiment using American Goldfinch (Carduelis tristis) nests to test the hypothesis that predation rates vary with concealment in old field habitats in eastcentral Illinois. Daily predation rates were 0.05 for manipulated nests and 0.04 for control nests. Although manipulated nests were much less concealed than control nests, the probability of predation did not differ significantly between treatments or years. Logistic regression models indicated that nests initiated earlier in the breeding season had a greater probability of predation than nests initiated later in the breeding season. These results indicate that time of breeding season may be more important than concealment in explaining probability of predation of American Goldfinch nests in this old field system. Received 20 February 2003, accepted 4 June 2003.

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Title: An experimental test of the concealment hypothesis using American Goldfinch nests.
Author: Rebecca G. Peak
Publication: Wilson Bulletin (Refereed)
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American goldfinch

American Goldfinch (Wild Bird Guides)
Alex L. A. Middleton
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& 170 color photos & 7 x 9 . Complete description of life cycle and activities in the wild. Brilliant, hard-to-capture images from leading nature photographers& Straightforward, concise text by an expert Praise for Black-capped Chickadee and Northern Cardinal "This series will find a welcome place in bird-watching's storehouse of literature." --Pete Dunne "Read these books and you will be prepared to observe much more than the casual observer ever notices afield." --Howard Robinson, American Bird Watcher "Even those intimately familiar with the birds will find a great deal of information here, and those who have only a passing acquaintance will find these books a valuable resource and a pleasure to read. The photographs . . . are uniformly excellent, and many of them are stunning." --Eirik A. T. Blom, Bird Watcher's Digest With its bright yellow plumage, appealing song, and late-season nesting habits, the American Goldfinch is a welcome backyard visitor in North America. This fourth book in Stackpole's Wild Bird Guides series provides a detailed, insightful examination of the goldfinch's behavior and natural history, including mate selection, brooding and nesting habits, methods of communication, interaction with other species, and dramatic seasonal plumage changes. Alex Middleton, professor of zoology at the University of Guelph, has written extensively on the American Goldfinch and other species. He is the coeditor of The Encyclopedia of Birds and a contributor to The Birds of North America series. He lives in Ontario. Also in the Wild Bird Guides series: & Black-capped Chickadee by Susan M. Smith & Northern Cardinal by Gary Ritchison & Tufted Titmouse by Thomas C. Grubb, Jr. & Downy Woodpecker (available Spring 1999) & Ruby-throated Hummingbird (available Fall 1999) & Red-tailed Hawk (available Spring 2000)

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American goldfinch.......2005-03-02

The American goldfinch is a bird that I am not all that familiar with and I was pleased to see that the species has been profiled in the Wild Bird Series. Similar to the domesticated canary, the male American goldfinch is readily recognized because of its striking yellow and black plumage. The goldfinch is a bird that can be easily attracted to the backyard by stocking a feeder with thistle-like seeds. (It is largely due to feeders that the American goldfinch is so recognizeable to most, as it has made the species much more common.) As with the other books in the series, the photographs are excellent, but unlike some of the other titles, the text is somewhat more substantial. Overall, and excellent book, truly a joy to read.

American goldfinch: Carduelis tristis (Birds of North America)

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American goldfinch: Carduelis tristis (Birds of North America)
Alex L. A Middleton
Manufacturer: Academy of Natural Sciences
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B0006P5S2Y

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Carving an American goldfinch
Erwin Flewelling
Manufacturer: Nestlewood Birds
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B0006S8T4U

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