Joyful Play With Toddlers: Recipes for Fun With Odds and Ends (Tools for Everyday Parenting Series)

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Boxes, buckets, sponges and scarves may not look like toys to you, but they can be fascinating for children, especially with the toys and games suggested in this guide to making wonderful playthings out of what's around the house.

Even if you're all thumbs at crafts, this book's simple directions and clear illustrations explain how to make sock puppets and puzzles, "play dough" and a rubber-band banjo. An excellent way to show young children how to reuse packaging and other throwaways, too.

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In 1994 Rwandan government forces slaughtered between 800,000 to one million people, mostly Tutsis, and many thousands of moderate Hutus. Cambodia's Khmer Rouge killed approximately 1.7 million people - more than twenty percent of its own population - in just four years. Time and again, throughout the 20th Century, various groups of people-such as the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, the Jews in Nazi-occupied Europe, the Kurds in Northern Iraq, the Tutsis and moderate Hutus in Rwanda, and the Muslims in the former Yugoslavia-have been targeted for elimination for various reasons (extremist ideology, ethnic animosity, and a diabolical regard for human life).

Despite the scale of these killings, there are those who try to minimize the impact of genocide. Through scholarly analyses and historical data, and eyewitness accounts, the contributors to this volume delineate the antecedents to and the causes and results of genocide in the twentieth century. In doing so, they provide compelling evidence that rebuts the convoluted and fallacious notions often created by cynics, deniers and "interpreters" who try to shape historical events to fit their own purposes.

The second edition will contain new chapters on the genocide in the former Yugoslavia and the mass killing of the Kurds in Iraq, and the intervention and prevention of genocide, as well as updated information on the majority of the genocides examined in this book. Also includes 14 maps.

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Very useful.......2007-07-16

This is a great book for a student who is looking for an overview of genocides from around the world. It is a good first step in holocaust and genocide education.

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Termination's Legacy describes how the federal policy of termination irrevocably affected the lives of a group of mixed-blood Ute Indians who made their home on the Uintah-Ouray Reservation in Utah. Following World War II many Native American communities were strongly encouraged to terminate their status as wards of the federal government and develop greater economic and political power for themselves. During this era, the rights of many Native communities came under siege, and the tribal status of some was terminated. Most of the terminated communities eventually regained tribal status and federal recognition in subsequent decades. But not all did.

The mixed-blood Utes fell outside the formal categories of classification by the federal government, they did not meet the essentialist expectations of some officials of the Mormon Church, and their regaining of tribal status potentially would have threatened those Utes already classified as tribal members on the reservation. Skillfully weaving together interviews and extensive archival research, R. Warren Metcalf traces the steps that led to the termination of the mixed-blood Utes' tribal status and shows how and why this particular group of Native Americans was never formally recognized as "Indian" again. Their repeated failure to regain their tribal status throws into relief the volatile key issue of identity then and today for full- and mixed-blood Native Americans, the federal government, and the powerful Mormon Church in Utah.

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A Must Have for any Herpetologist!.......2000-08-19

This book came highly recommended by my PhD advisor and has turned out to be my bible. Although all photos are black and white, the field descriptions of breeding, tadpole descriptions, life history, etc., are invaluable. It also contains a detailed key and range map for each species. A must have for anyone studying or interested in frogs and toads!

Handbook Of Frogs and Toads Of The United States And Canada

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Handbook Of Frogs and Toads Of The United States And Canada
Albert Hazen and Anna Allen Wright Wright
Manufacturer: Comstock Publishing Associates
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000O02GEE

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Handbook of Frogs and Toads of the United States and Canada
Albert Hazen and Anna Allen Wright Wright
Manufacturer: Comstock Publishing Associates
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000P8X1YY

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HANDBOOK OF FROGS AND TOADS OF THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA.
A. & A. Wright
Manufacturer: Cornell University Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000WPXX3E

Handbook of frogs and toads;: The frogs and toads of the United States and Canada, (Handbooks of American natural history)

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Handbook of frogs and toads;: The frogs and toads of the United States and Canada, (Handbooks of American natural history)
Anna Allen Wright
Manufacturer: Comstock Pub. Co
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

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Handbook of Frogs and Toads of the United States and Canada
Albert Hazen & Anna Allen Wright
Manufacturer: Comstock Publishing Company
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000Q5VUBM

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Still Waiting for the Last Word from Bobby Himself

Massively inaccurate

Some errors, but entertaining

Lots of errors

Confusing and inaccurate

Miracle: Bobby Allison and the Saga of the Alabama Gang
Peter Golenbock
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Bobby Allison: A Racer's Racer

ASIN: 0312340028
Release Date: 2007-02-06

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The mere mention of Bobby Allison causes excitement. Hes not only one of NASCARs greatest drivershe is a true legend of the sport. But the Alabama Gang had their share of tragedy as well. In 1992, Bobbys son, Clifford, died in a crash at the age of twenty-seven, his other son Davey died a year later in a helicopter accident, and the Gang lost Neil Bonnet in a 1994 crash. Through it all, Bobby Allison persevered, leading a fascinating and dramatic life. Along with the Earnhardts, the Jarretts, and the Pettys, the Allisons are a racing dynasty. Miraclea family saga of determination, loyalty, and love, filled with some of the greatest racing stories of all timewill appeal to the tremendous number of NASCAR fans everywhere.

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Still Waiting for the Last Word from Bobby Himself.......2007-09-07

Golenbock can be credited for researching and releasing a book no one else has done; for that we should be thankful. Is the book anywhere close to the "last word" on Bobby Allison?..not by a long shot. I admire Bobby to no end; just a super, decent guy and one of the best American drivers ever, regardless of type of car. But..here's wishing that somehow Bobby and the Allison clan / Alabama gang will pen the perfect memoir. There are obviously holes in the information that might be shared due to Bobby's horendous accident that closed his career, but that must be expected. One thing's for certain, Bobby Allison was as fine as racer as you could find. I'd love to see him do a similar book to his brother Donnie's, one of the best memoirs from a driver I've ever read. Other reviews of Golenbock's book take issue with statements of fact. Hope authors learn from the critique; factual errors easily checked just can't happen, nor should they get by a good publisher / editor.

Massively inaccurate.......2007-08-13

The interviews are compelling, but you really have to wonder about how accurate even they are considering the glaring errors in this book:

Greg Sacks won the Firecracker 500. There has never been a Firecracker 500; it's the Firecracker 400.

Gary Bettenhausen injured in a "spring car" race. Should be Sprint Car.

Gil de Ferran winning 100 Indy Car wins for Penske and Rusty Wallace winning 55 stock car races for him. Poor sentence structure; A number of drivers got Penske to 100 Indy Car wins, and Rusty won 55 races in all, but not all of them with Penske.

The list goes on. Amateur mistakes.

Some errors, but entertaining.......2007-02-18

O.K., granted there are some errors in this book, the most glaring being when it was stated that Dale Earnhardt was killed in the 2002 Daytona 500...! Some of the descriptions of the racing action are also inaccurate, as I learned when I looked up Davey Allison's Pocono crash on Youtube. The contact with Waltrip that caused the wreck was nothing like the book describes.

However, I can look past those errors, because the last third of this book is simply engrossing. The Allisons, and the so-called "Alabama Gang," endured so much tragedy, and it has probably never been more fully chronicled in one book. Also, I found Bobby's crustiness, and his deep-seated enmity toward Waltrip, revealing.

This book is short on primary sources. It's a lot like other Golenbock books, which can at times read like long Q and A sessions where the source just talks on and on in unedited form. This book mainly relies on interviews with Bobby and his brothers, Donnie and Eddie. Eddie is extremely opinionated, and you take what he has to say with a grain of salt. Some of the best interviews come from folks outside the family circle - Humpy Wheeler and Larry McReynolds offer some amusing anecdotes.

Bobby Allison may not get the credit he feels he deserves as one of the best race car drivers in history. After reading this book, one gets a good idea why.

This one's worth a read - errors and all.

Lots of errors.......2006-06-06

While at it's core, this book does tell a compelling (and sometimes heartbreaking) story of the Allison clan, it is seriously handicapped by the author's failure to thoroughly research the subjects discussed in order to be accurate. Another shortcoming is the numerous mis-spellings, which should have been corrected during the editing process. An example is the author stating that Bobby Allison test drove the Buick Riata before it's release, when a simple Google search reveals the correct spelling is Reatta. In the end I found this book very frustrating and confusing to read. My advice is to pass it by.

Confusing and inaccurate.......2006-05-21

Not unlike past Golenbock books MIRACLE is confusing to read and full of inaccuracies and errors. Some portions had to be read a couple of times to try and figure out what exactly the author was trying to get across to the reader. One of the more glaring errors was when it was stated that when Donnie Allison ran the Indy 500 and World 600 in the same weekend he was the only driver to do that until Jeff Gordon did it in 1993. WHAT? Jeff Gordon has NEVER run the Indy 500 and certainly didn't do so his rookie year in Winston Cup racing. In another chapter there is a discussion of Bobby Allison testing at Ontario Speedway in California then the author goes on to describe Bobby's feelings as he pulled on the "historic Indianapolis track". Which was it? Indy or Ontario. The Author claims that Bobby gave his Indy crew chief the nickname "Lugs" (and he called Bobby "Stroker" )because of the movie "Stroker Ace". Cute story, but that movie didn't come out for another 10 years after Bobby's 1973 run at Indy. The book is filled with typos and grammatical errors. I'd save my money on this one.

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This volume examines the Russo-Japanese War in its military, diplomatic, social, political, economic, and cultural context. Through the use of research from newly opened Russian and little used Japanese sources the editors assert that the Russo-Japanese War was, in fact, World War Zero, the first global conflict in the 20th century. The contributors demonstrate that the Russo-Japanese War, largely forgotten in the aftermath of World War One, actually was a precursor to the catastrophe that engulfed the world less than a decade after the signing of the Treaty of Portsmouth. This study not only further reveals the weaknesses of Imperial Russia but also exhibits Japan as it entered its fateful 20th century.

Contributors: Oleg Rudolfovich Airapetov; Boris Vasilevich Ananich; Michael Auslin; Paul A. Bushkovitch; John Bushnell; Frederick R. Dickinson; Tatiana Aleksandrovna Filippova; David Goldfrank; Antti Kujala; Dominic Lieven; Igor Vladimirovich Lukoianov; Pertti Luntinen; Steven Marks; Yoshihisa Tak Matsusaka; David Maclaren Mcdonald; Bruce W. Menning; Edward S. Miller; Ian Nish ; Dmitrii Ivanovich Oleinikov; Nicholas Papastratigakis; Paul A. Rodell; Norman E. Saul; Charles Schencking; Barry Scherr; David Schimmelpenninck Van Der Oye; Evgenii Iurevich Sergeev; Naoko Shimazu; Yokote Shinji; John W. Steinberg; Richard Stites; James T. Ulak; David Wolff; Don Wright.

Readership: Anyone interested in early 20th century Japanese, Russian, European, and United States military, diplomatic, political, social, economic, or cultural history.

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Little Known but Important War.......2007-01-25

The collection of essays on this somewhat esoteric conflict are outstanding and cover a wide range of insights, from the diplomatic to the military as well as economic. This war was the first that saw a major European power defeated by an Asian nation, and as such hailed a new dawn in geopolitics. Russia's defeats inspired the first significant revolutionary stirrings, and the 1905 October Manifesto would inevitably lead to the 1917 Bolshevik Uprising under similar conditions of Czarist defeat in a foreign war.
In a similar fashion, Japan's willingness in 1904 to take on a vastly larger nation with infinite potential would necessarily embolden them to launch a similar venture in 1941, with historic consequences. I found it interesting to read of Japan's flirtations with Filipino revolutionaries prior to the war, but once Japan had punched its ticket to the Big Leagues, cooled in its ardor to espouse other Asian bids to be free of non-Asian rulers.
The essay authors also do a good job in balancing the perspectives that others had of the war, and highlight how Europeans, so eager to brand the Japanese as barbarians before the war, eagerly embraced them as fellow defenders of civilization once they had demonstrated their competence with military violence.
All in all, for any fan of this obscure war or early 20th century geopolitics, a must have. It is pricey, even for a scholarly book, but it is a good looking tome with something for everybody.

The Russo-Japanese War in Global Perspective: World War Zero.(Book review): An article from: Canadian Journal of History

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The Russo-Japanese War in Global Perspective: World War Zero.(Book review): An article from: Canadian Journal of History
Keith Neilson
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B000WTF8AG
Release Date: 2007-10-04

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This digital document is an article from Canadian Journal of History, published by Thomson Gale on March 22, 2007. The length of the article is 890 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The Russo-Japanese War in Global Perspective: World War Zero.(Book review)
Author: Keith Neilson
Publication: Canadian Journal of History (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 22, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 42 Issue: 1 Page: 176(2)

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Presenting a theory to explain how politics revolves around one axis of social cleavage instead of another, Daniel Posner examines Zambia, where people identify themselves either as members of one of the country's seventy-three tribes or as members of one of its four principal language groups. Drawing on a simple model of identity choice, Posner demonstrates that the answer depends on whether the country is operating under single-party or multi-party rule, thus revealing how formal institutional rules determine the social cleavages that matter.

The Military in African Politics (SAIS Studies on Africa)

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The Military in African Politics (SAIS Studies on Africa)

Manufacturer: Praeger Publishers
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Binding: Hardcover

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Here is the first book to look at African politics and the new problems facing the military leadership. The contributors to The Military in African Politics have divided the regimes into three categories or case studies. These studies focus on the characteristics of the officers who came to power--young or old, revolutionary or conservative, on each country's particular problems, and on the strategies used by the military leaders to stay in power.

Power Lines : Two Years in South Africa's Borders

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Path to New Hope
Ubuntu
Wena Wekunene Jason (You're Great Jason)
Jason Carter is a Natural
A fine, but prosaic Peace Corps story

Power Lines : Two Years in South Africa's Borders
Jason Carter , and Jimmy Carter
Manufacturer: National Geographic
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0792280121
Release Date: 2002-06-01

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The grandson of the great humanitarian and former president Jimmy Carter, Jason Carter writes of a South Africa few people ever see in this eye-opening work of cultural inquiry and investigation. As a Peace Corps volunteer, Carter spent two years with a rural family in a former black homeland near the Swaziland border. South Africa, in the aftermath of Nelson Mandela's regime-shattering election as president, is revealed in Power Lines to be a country still struggling to recover from deep racial divides. The whites live under conditions comparable to those in First-World Western countries. But black people, Carter discovered, live in another South Africa: a world of punishing poverty and unemployment, where alienation and powerlessness still prevail.

Power Lines is Carter's story of a community's quest to dissolve barriers. Armed with a knowledge of Zulu and Siswati he traveled the countryside, immersing himself in the lives of blacks and whites alike. In the process, he found many on both sides who are eager to reach out to each other and heal wounds. Shaping his unique experiences into a powerful and timely volume, Carter demonstrates that even in a society as fragmented as South Africa, peoples' desire to come together can still triumph.

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Path to New Hope.......2006-08-13

I loaned this book out from the library hoping to find something relating to travel, to the Peace Corps, and something relating to new ideas and places. I got this and a great story from a very successful teller. Carter's experiences are exactly what many dream of while working in the Peace Corps. But this book is full of history and even more personal experience. I enjoyed it immensly.

Ubuntu.......2003-04-09

Read this book to learn about Ubuntu which is a philosophy of life that Jason Carter found to be thriving in the Swazi. This approach to people and thus community is held out as a core strong hope for the South African native culture. This book is well worth reading. I have not stopped thinking whether Ubuntu is possible in our country or not. Let's hope it is not too late...we need it!

Wena Wekunene Jason (You're Great Jason).......2002-12-24

A great book that gives rare insight into Swazi culture and life in rural South Africa. Having lived in the area as a school teacher and a researcher, I enjoyed the innocence with which Jason re-created and shared his impressions and experiences.

Jason's immersion in the language and culture of poor rural South Africans is admirable. He clearly "goes native:" identifying with "the Blacks" and uncomfortably, judgmentally, dealing with Westerners and South African Whites. The brilliant twist in the story comes when Jason struggles to come to terms with South Africa's Black elite. He's the rugged, White bushboy reaching out to victims of apartheid who are now more like American yuppies than real "Africans."

I also appreciated his attempts to reveal the differences in experiences that Black (like me) and White Americans often have in South Africa. Interestingly, Jason's feelings about race in America affected how he perceived South Africa, and his South African experienced revised his sense of US race relations.

Definitely worth reading, along with James Hall's Sangoma!

Jason Carter is a Natural.......2002-11-23

Jason Carter's account of his two years in the Peace Corps was an easy, comfortable read. I was captivated. Thanks to Jason Carter and National Geographic for sharing this important experience about a nation in transition. Few have commented on the poignant introduction of Jason Carter's grandfather which concentrates on President Carter's own mother, Lillian Carter, and her own experience in an Indian village in the Peace Corp when she was in her 70's and at a very different time in the late 1960s.

A fine, but prosaic Peace Corps story.......2002-09-21

After my 2 trips to South Africa, a rugby tour and an volunteer project with the Capetown Health system, and reading My Traitor's Heart and Alex La Guma, I was eager to explore Power Lines. Power Lines was an easy page turner with some good observations. However, I feel that Jason Carter's birthright-driven opportunity to tell the Peace Corps story was squandered by a fairly ordinary tale. For all of his experience as a Carter and involvement in Africa, I feel that he fell short. His knowledge and fixation of the local languages, while impressive and important, became his downfall as he did not significantly build off those skills. I feel that he made the same mistake that I made as a Peace Corps Volunteer myself. Knowledge of local languages is merely a start and not the culmination of a cross-cultural experience. The absence of the ludicrious, the risks, and the great plunges that are a Peace Corps experience were absent and took away from the story. His criticism of the "lame" sport of rugby showed a lack of understanding of a crucial part of South African culture. Malan (?) author of Traitor's Heart with whom Jason Carter compares, makes up for his lack of knowledge of language by passion and deep heart-felt involvement. Jason Carter's story seems too detached and ordinary in comparison to the average Peace Corps experience.
With great power, comes great responsibilty. For a story of Peace Corps, it pales in comparison to Living Poor. For a story of South Africa, it pales in comparison to Alex La Guma or My Traitor's Heart. Given the richness of the material with which Carter had to write, it is disappointing.

Responding to Crises in the African Great Lakes (Adelphi Papers)

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Responding to Crises in the African Great Lakes (Adelphi Papers)
Glynne Evans
Manufacturer: Routledge
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Binding: Paperback

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Dr Evans examines the international responses to the ethnic conflicts in Burundi and Rwanda from 199397 and their overspill into Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo). A senior UK diplomat, she concludes that the international response was impotent and incoherent: soundbite diplomacy led decision-makers to act before adequately assessing the situation and in the end it was the power of local rather than international intervention that set the agenda and provided the solution. The author urges a number of changes in response by the international community: the UN should create a Conflict Analysis Centre at its headquarters in New York governments need to promote lateral understanding and co-operation between different players, including the media and the non-governmental organization community enlightened outside support can be most valuable when an inexperenced government has just taken over, and greater understanding is needed on the part of Western states that traditional Western patterns of diplomacy are often inappropriate in other regions. Instead, non-party democracy and a strong element of sub-regional co-operation may be the models for the future.

War and Ethnicity: Global Connections and Local Violence (Studies on the Nature of War)

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War and Ethnicity: Global Connections and Local Violence (Studies on the Nature of War)

Manufacturer: Boydell Press
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The great majority of today's wars take place within rather than between states and are often explained and justified by participants as the result of deep and ineradicable differences between 'them' and 'us'. The contributors to this book, whose disciplinary backgrounds include history, political science, international relations and anthropology, explore the growing importance of such 'ethnic' differences in a world that is also becoming more unified, politically, economically and culturally. They discuss the causes of internal war, the techniques used by nationalist politicians and intellectuals to turn ethnicity into a powerful political resource, the response of the UN and of non-governmental agencies to such 'complex' political emergencies as those in former Yugoslavia and Somalia and the constitutional strategies that can be used to acknowledge and accommodate ethnic diversity. Taken together, the papers demonstrate that the relationship between ethnicity and war is not a simple matter of cause and effect. Ethnic differences are not given in nature, ethnicity does not arise suddenly andspontaneously but only in specific historical circumstances and it is unlikely to become a lethal force in human affairs except through the deliberate calculation of political elites.DAVID TURTON is Director of the Refugee Studies Programme, University of Oxford. CONTRIBUTORS: TOM GALLAGHER, STEFAN TROEBST, THOMAS ZITELMANN, KLAUS JüRGEN GANTZEL, JAKOB RöSEL, HARRY GOULBOURNE, IOAN LEWIS, MARK DUFFIELD.

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The Pocket Naturalist card is a pocket-sized, folding card which provides simplified, easy-to-use reference to what everyone should know about familiar plants, animals, and natural history. Maps are included to highlight prominent sanctuaries and outstanding natural attractions. Every card is laminated so that it is waterproof and practical for use in the field. This card highlights over 100 of Texas' most common breeding birds and familiar migrants.

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