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The Grand Canyon Handbook: An Insider's Guide to the Park: As Related by Ranger Jack
Susan Frank , Susan Frank , and Phil Manufacturer: Pomegranate Communications ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0764912763 |
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Awesome in its vastness and beauty, the Grand Canyon is unique in all the world. And all the world wants to visit there-which can lead to delay, discomfort, and disappointment for the uninformed who arrive at the same time as everyone else.Those armed with The Grand Canyon Handbook, however, will be wise to all the tricks for having the best possible time at the park. They'll know when to go, what to bring, what to see, and how to see it. They'll be properly equipped for a safe visit. They'll have a matchless grasp of all the facts, from how the canyon was formed down to the closest place to rent camping gear. There's even a table of sunrise/sunset times, so readers won't miss any meteorological light shows unless they want to.
This detailed and engaging guide, narrated by a seasoned cartoon ranger named Jack, includes illuminating notes on the park's flora, fauna, history, and future prospects. The question-and-answer format gives the facts without a lot of searching. A quick-reference section offers, among other things, a telephone directory, guide to area resources, backpacker's checklist, lists of outfitters and transportation companies, and an overview of regional conservation and educational programs.
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Excellent Resource.......2007-01-10
Paradise Found on a Grand canyon Tour.......2004-07-07
It's not just a big hole in the ground.......2002-11-18
It's a great format because it makes for easy reading beforehand, but it's also quick as a reference when you're there because they're arranged in an intelligent order. There's also a huge reference section at the end with lists, copies of permit forms, and so forth. So the thing to do is read the FAQ before you leave but bring the book and refer to it once you're there.
Before I went I really wasn't sure how long we'd want to stay or even if there was really anything to do other than look at the canyon. As it turns out there's a ton of things to do - ruins, great hiking, sunsets, stargazing, and we spent a lot more time there than I would have thought. Without this book either I wouldn't have realized this stuff existed (the park service doesn't exactly promote the nearby native ruins, but they're cool) or I would have scheduled way too little time.
It's not just a big hole in the ground.......2002-11-18
It's a great format because it makes for easy reading beforehand, but it's also quick as a reference when you're there because they're arranged in an intelligent order. There's also a huge reference section at the end with lists, copies of permit forms, and so forth. So the thing to do is read the FAQ before you leave but bring the book and refer to it once you're there.
Before I went I really wasn't sure how long we'd want to stay or even if there was really anything to do other than look at the canyon. As it turns out there's a ton of things to do - ruins, great hiking, sunsets, stargazing, and we spent a lot more time there than I would have thought. Without this book either I wouldn't have realized this stuff existed (the park service doesn't exactly promote the nearby native ruins, but they're cool) or I would have scheduled way too little time.
Interesting Overview.......2001-08-07
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The Blacksmith: Ironworker and Farrier
Aldren A. Watson Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 039332057X |
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Illustrated throughout, this history-plus-craft book describes the work, tools, and technique of the blacksmith--and how to set up a blacksmith shop yourself. Filled with absorbing information, The Blacksmith: Ironworker and Farrier pays fine tribute to the skill and ingenuity of this versatile nineteenth-century American craftsman. The roles of the blacksmith as hardware maker, farrier, and village handyman are vividly portrayed in the lively text and exceptional illustrations. Methods for fullering, upsetting, and welding wrought iron are clearly explained, as well as the construction of latches, ice tongs, chains, and a wealth of iron fittings. Aldren Watson's chapters include "Wrought Iron: Its Properties and Manufacture," "The Blacksmith Shop and Forge Fire," "Working at the Forge," "Hardware and Harness," "Shoeing a Horse," "Wagons, Buggies, and Sleds," and "The Blacksmith in His World." For those who would like a forge and bellows of their own, there are suggestions for laying out a blacksmith shop and constructing a leather bellows and forge. Watson's book is an important record and a valuable source for anyone interested in this part of American industry.Customer Reviews:
Excellent starter book.......2001-12-09
The Blacksmith: Ironworker & Farrier by Aldren A Watson.......2001-04-17
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Cap D'Antifer: Etretat
Elger Esser Manufacturer: Schirmer/Mosel Verlag GmbH ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items: ASIN: 382960047X |
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Angloman 2: Money, Ethnics, Superheroes
Mark Shainblum Manufacturer: Signature Editions ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0921833504 |
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He's Québec's best-known ethnic minority superhero. He spent 22 weeks on the Montreal Gazette bestseller list and received rave reviews from everybody from La Presse to The Toronto Star to Geist. He's Angloman, and he's back for another parody-rich romp through the surrealistic politics of La Belle Province and the country as a whole!Barrel-chested champion of bilingualism and tolerance, always well-meaning but thick as a brick, Angloman is joined by his partners in parody Poutinette and West Island Lad, and a crew of political adventurers like Power Chin, Canada!man and Le Capitaine Souche.
In Angloman 2 there's a whole new cast of post-referendum personalities, including the all-powerful, all-knowing Ethnoman, who will, of course, stop at nothing to destroy the French fact in Québec! Can Capitaine Souche stop this mad genius and his super-powerful ethnic ballot box of doom, or will he finally face the one foe he simply cannot defeat? Can Matzohgirl, teenage super-powered defender of Côte Saint Luc, escape the insatiable clutches of La régie? Even tougher, can West Island Lad get her to go out with him? What will become of Blocman now that he's no longer bloced? Will Partition Man divide Québec?
And where have all the anglos gone? Are they really leaving Québec of their own free will, or is something else afoot? Will Angloman, Poutinette and West Island Lad survive their encounter with the malevolent Torontorg, andmore importantwill Toronto survive its encounter with them?
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A Survival Guide for Working With Bad Bosses: Dealing With Bullies, Idiots, Back-stabbers, And Other Managers from Hell
Gini Graham Scott Manufacturer: AMACOM/American Management Association ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0814472982 |
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Being saddled with a terrible supervisor can turn even the best job into a nightmare. Unfortunately, not every boss is the great symbol of managerial perfection one would hope for. In fact, more people than not consider themselves stuck with a "bad boss." But short of remaining miserable or quitting a job, what can be done about it? "A Survival Guide for Working with Bad Bosses" provides readers with savvy, practical advice for coping with managers and supervisors who are mean, incompetent, unethical, and worse. The book includes powerful strategies for not only working with -- but thriving under -- such bad boss types as: * The Great Betrayers -- how to defend yourself against a corporate backstabber * The Know-Nothing Bosses -- what to do when a boss is clueless * The Bad Communicators -- how to respond when a boss is consistently unclear Whether a boss is high-strung, incompetent, or a power-mad tyrant, this book has the solution.Customer Reviews:
A Survival Guide for Working With Bad Bosses: Dealing With Bullies, Idiots, Back-stabbers, And Other Managers from Hell.......2007-07-15
Survival at the office.......2007-04-02
Don't buy bad workplace advice!.......2007-02-05
Unhelpful.......2006-09-17
Keep looking this one falls short.......2006-03-26
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Dealing with the Idiots in Your Life
Jim Benton Manufacturer: Fireside ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 0671791583 |
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This is THE funniest book i have ever seen.......2001-11-02
NOT MUCH WORTH IT.......2000-03-26
Dealing With the Idiots in Your Life.......2000-03-08
Pure Genius.......2000-02-02
The funniest book I have EVER read!.......1999-09-06
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The New Best of the Eagles for Guitar (Easy Tab Deluxe)
Manufacturer: Alfred Publishing Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0897247051 |
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Arranged for Easy Guitar Tablature & Standard Notation with Lyrics.
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Leopards in the Temple: Studies in American Popular Culture
Steven Carter Manufacturer: Intl Scholars Pubns ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1573091693 |
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Leopards in the Temple explores the ways in which exposure to electronic environments influences cultural interpretations of self and otherness in contemporary American life. Philosophers of technology such as Jacques Ellul, Martin Heidegger, Herbert Marcuse, Hans Jonas, and Hubert Dreyfus have taken various approaches to interpreting the consequences of technological revolutions. With the exception of Jonas and Heidegger, critiques of technology's influence at the ontological level are relatively rare. Addressing this issue, Steven Carter investigates the ways in which technology, media entertainment, and advertising are in the process of recycling metaphysical values in postmodern society. In this revised edition, he focuses specifically on marginality as a world wide literary phenomenon. Thought provoking and original, "Leopards in the Temple" represents a timely contribution to the study of technology, popular culture, and postmodern studies.Customer Reviews:
Review by Professor Arthur J. Spring.......1999-09-27
A brilliant insight on postmodern culture and literature.......1998-02-17
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Cataloging: The Professional Development Cycle (New Directions in Information Management)
Manufacturer: Greenwood Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0313272549 |
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This book offers solutions to the problems of recruitment, education, and training of cataloging librarians. Sheila S. Intner and Janet Swan Hill have compiled a series of informative essays that provide creative solutions on a wide array of issues in the library cataloging field. These include recruitment methods of practitioners for future librarians, training strategies to produce skillful and effective librarians, professional expectations and satisfaction of librarians, impact of library computer systems, and the response to the changing organization methods that create good library service. Cataloging brings to light and proposes solutions to the complex problems inherent to the library profession. Offering encouragement to cataloging and library administrators who are faced with difficult problems in their institutions, this book will have a direct applicability to the modern librarian's needs. It will aid library educators in both the design and improvement of library and information science programs. Cataloging will be an excellent resource for students of library cataloging and library personnel management who require a better understanding of critical issues in contemporary librarianship.
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Cataloging: The Professional Development Cycle, Vol. 26
Sheila S. Intner Manufacturer: Greenwood Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OTO06M |
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What Kids Need: Today's Best Ideas for Nurturing, Teaching, and Protecting Young Children
Rima Shore Manufacturer: Beacon Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0807041289 |
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A Carnegie Corporation Initiative: Summarizing a Decade of Progress in Early Education
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Slim: The Standardbearer : A Biography of Field-Marshal the Viscount Slim (Wordsworth Military Library)
Ronald Lewin Manufacturer: Combined Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 184022214X |
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"Slim" biography of a brilliant soldier.......2003-01-21
Slim was born the son of an unsuccessful businessman from Birmingham. His father sold wholesale hardware, and went bankrupt when Slim was in his teens, prompting the young man to look for a job that would afford him a paycheck for little outlay. He joined an army officer training course at Birmingham University (somehow without being a student of that institution, and neat trick) and when World War I started, he was mustered into the army as a lieutenant, and sent off to war.
He served first in Gallipoli, then Mesapotamia (later known as Iraq) and when the war ended, joined the Indian army, serving mostly with Gurkha regiments. By the mid-thirties, he'd seen enough service that when the war started he soon bounced up to corps command, and was instrumental in the retreat of the British army from Burma. The first offensive back into the country (the Arakan offensive) almost got Slim sacked, but someone perceptively relieved his senior instead, and he got the man's job. He fought, and won, the battles of Kohima-Imphal, and later Meiktila, and reconquered Burma. Afterwards, he was again almost sacked, instead promoted Field Marshal, and made Chief of the Imperial General Staff over the objections of his predecessor, Montgomery. From there, with some diversions, he became the Governor General of Australia, which he did almost until his death.
Lewin is a competent writer, but no master of prose or anything, and he concentrates on Slim and his career. There's little information on Slim's family, such as when his parents died, and almost nothing on his silblings. The author does spend a little bit of time on Mrs. Slim, and the children, but not much. There are some amusing anecdotes (especially concerning his time as Governor General of Australia) and a few myths get put to rest. The most prevalent one is the story that Slim enlisted in the army as a private and was eventually promoted all the way to Field Marshal. This is shown to be just not true, unfortunately: he joined the army through an officer's training course, much like the American ROTC.
The middle part of the book covers the war in Burma, and does a good job of it. The principle issue in a book dealing with Burma is whether you come down on the side of Orde Wingate and the Chindits, or against them. Wingate was a strange, fanatical, brilliant, annoying soldier who formed the Chindits, a unit of light infantry that fought in the jungle behind Japanese lines, supplied by air. Slim, and many soldiers in the conventional army, thought Wingate heedless of difficulties, and unscrupulous, to say the least, while his defenders think he won the war in Burma, and despise those who tried to "hold Wingate back." Lewin comes down gently on the side of Slim, as you might expect, but carefully lets you know how deceitful and devious Wingate could be when he wanted something.
Altogether, while this isn't a masterful biography, it is a good book and a worthy tribute to a wonderful soldier.
None Finer.......2002-02-19
I am a great admirer of Field Marshal the Viscount Slim, who in my opinion was the finest general officer of the war anywhere in any army. He molded the magnificent British 14th Army and led it in a victorious campaign against an implacable, often fanatical enemy, performing the impossible against insurmountable odds.
It is interesting to speculate on how differently Slim would have handled matters had he been in command of the British-Canadian forces on D-Day instead of Montgomery. Slim, who was accustomed to having to get along on a shoestring, but who also moved boldly and decisively whenever opportunity presented itself, would almost certainly have taken Caen on D-Day given all the men, munitions and air power which Monty possessed. That achievement alone would have shortened the war.
On the other hand, I don't believe Monty would have fared well in Burma. He was far too cautious and always refused battle until he had amassed overwhelming superiority in manpower and munitions. I doubt he'd have ever gotten round to attacking the Japanese given the threadbare logistical situation in India and Burma.
An outstanding account of the life of William Slim........1999-10-10
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Slim, the standardbearer: A biography of Field-Marshal the Viscount Slim, KG, GCB, GCMG, GCVO, GBE, DSO, MC
Ronald Lewin Manufacturer: Archon Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: 0208016376 |
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Winning the Cost War: Applying Battlefield Management Doctrine to the Management of Government
Dale Geiger Manufacturer: Writer's Showcase Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 0595003125 |
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ÂDr. GeigerÂ's research proposes innovative and practical responses to the Â`cost warÂ' fought by government organizations struggling with lower budget levels. His sustained research contributions into the measurement and management of cost in government organizations promise to improve governmentÂ's mission effectiveness by improving its mission efficiency.ÂÂAssociation of Government AccountantsAs the United States moves from Cold War to Cost War, the management of cost has greatly increased in importance. In fact, the greatest threat today to the strength of the nation may be poor management of the limited remaining resources.
Winning the Cost War documents a new doctrine of cost management developed from battlefield management, one of managementÂ's oldest applications. Dale Geiger defines and illustrates new ideas for everything from managerial cost accounting to analysis and accountability.
 Winning the Cost War has moved managerial costing from being a secondary chore to a framework for success in todayÂ's environment. A must-read for agency and corporate leaders who need to adopt battlefield instincts of strategy and tactics and apply them in the new fiscal war.ÂÂWard Melhuish, partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
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Bird life glimpses
Edmund Selous Manufacturer: G. Allen ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B00087P3LG |
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THE BIRDS OF SUFFOLK
William H. Payn Manufacturer: Ancient House Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0214155315 |
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The Birds of Suffolk
Steve Piotrowski Manufacturer: Christopher Helm Publishers Ltd ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0713663545 |
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THE BIRDS OF SUFFOLK.
William H. Payn Manufacturer: Barrie & Rockliff ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000O8GSUO |
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Hidden Places of East Anglia (Norfolk and Suffolk)
Manufacturer: M & M Publishing Ltd ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1871815118 |
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The Hidden Places of Suffolk (The Hidden Places Travel Guides)
Peter Long , and Sarah Bird Manufacturer: Travel Publishing Ltd ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1902007255 |
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History of the Birds of Suffolk
Claud B. Ticehurst Manufacturer: Gruney and Jackson ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000O7U6ZS |
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The 1978 breeding-bird census
Gilbert S Raynor Manufacturer: Available from National Technical Information Service ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B00070X8FC |
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Birds of Suffolk
Steve Piotrowski Manufacturer: HELM CHRISTOPHER (BL ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000K1ZMRU |
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Catalogue of the birds of Suffolk,: With an introduction and remarks on their distribution
Churchill Babington Manufacturer: J. van Voorst ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0008895K0 |
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