Rites of Conquest: The History and Culture of Michigan's Native Americans

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A comprehensive and readable history of Native Americans in the Upper Great Lakes region

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Excellent Buy!.......2003-08-12

I am from Michigan and wanted to know about my state's history, so I picked this book up. This has everything you could possibly need to know about the Native Americans of Michigan, and the surrounding states. The only reason I didn't give it five stars was that it read like a text book. I felt like I was back in school. Out of all fairness, however, it is a history book, so I can't really hold that much against it. It gets redeemed by the small biographies scattered through the chapters.:)

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Oklahoma Travel Handbook.......2006-05-13

This book will tell you about the best lakes for fishing and water sports and the diverse accomodations at state parks and where to see Oklahoma's legendary cowboys and Indians. It will tell you the location of many historic battlefields and restorations and the fine museums housing everything from sod houses to delicate Chinese jades.

Traditionally associated with rolling plains and grasslands, Oklahoma is also a land of lakes, forested green hills, rich river-bottom farmlands, and barren volcanic mountains. Formed of a blending of varies cultures - Indian, Spanish, French, and Anglo - the state attracted emigrants from many countries during Land Openings. Today their descendants preserve their ethnic heritage in museums and celebrate it with songs and dancing and feasting at annual festivals where visitors are welcome. This book will tell you where and when to go to enjoy it all.
--- from book's back cover

Geographical handbook for students of Oklahoma history

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Geographical handbook for students of Oklahoma history
George Rainey
Manufacturer: Webb
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Oklahoma Travel Handbook
Kent Ruth
Manufacturer: University of Oklahoma Press
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000OMHWNC

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Oklahoma Travel Handbook
Kent Ruth
Manufacturer: Oklahoma, 1977
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000H21GM2

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Beyond the Arctic Circle
George Laycock
Manufacturer: Four Winds Press
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ASIN: 0590074814

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Beyond the Arctic Circle (Occasional Publication, No 1)
Norman Amor
Manufacturer: Univ of British Columbia Pr
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0888651961

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BEYOND THE ARCTIC CIRCLE. Materials on Arctic Explorations and Travels Since 1750 in the Special Collections and University Archives Division of the University of British Columbia Library

Manufacturer: The University of British Columbia Library
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Binding: Pamphlet

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ASIN: B000I6YDOA

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Boy Scouts Beyond the Arctic Circle or the Lost Expedition
G. Harvey Ralphson
Manufacturer: M. A. Donohue & Co.
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000I030U4

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Boy scouts beyond the Arctic circle;: Or, The lost expedition,
G. Harvey Ralphson
Manufacturer: M.A. Donahue & Co
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ASIN: B00086DOAO

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BOYS SCOUTS BEYOND THE ARCTIC CIRCLE, or the Lost Expedition
G. Harvey RALPHSON
Manufacturer: M.A. Donohue & Company
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000TS4N5G

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Highway to the Wilderness - A Sojourn Beyond the Arctic Circle

Manufacturer: The Vanguard Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000IEBZKW

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This book contains selected values of the thermochemical properties of well over 3000 mostly inorganic substances. Values are given for enthalpy of formation and entropy at 298 K. Using the compiled fixed Cp values or the Cp/T functions in the form of a polynomial, the enthalpy, entropy, and Gibbs free energy values at other temperatures can be calculated. In many cases special equilibrium constants, e. g., for evaporation or decomposition reactions, are also given. With almost 500 new compounds added to the second edition, the book contains a very comprehensive collection of thermochemical data.
It is relevant and useful to researchers as well as practitioners in physics, chemistry, metallurgy, ceramic science, and other fields of natural science and engineering.

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ALEJANDRO DUMAS
EL CONDE DE MONTECRISTO
LEÍDO POR: GUILLERMO PIEDRAHITA
La venganza era su única diosa

Entre las novelas de aventuras de Alejandro Dumas, siempre ha ocupado lugar preferencial la historia de Edmundo Dantés, quien condenado injustamente a morir en la prisión de If, logra escapar, encontrar un tesoro y bajo la personalidad ficticia de Conde de Montecristo, dedica el resto de su vida a vengarse implacablemente de quienes lo llevaron al encarcelamiento, pero también a beneficiar a todos aquellos que lo ayudaron y tuvieron un gesto de bondad en el momento de necesidad. Ese personaje lleno de contradicciones y que sabe premiar a los buenos y castigar a los malos es uno de los más legendarios en toda la literatura de aventuras y la genial creación de Dumas siempre ha sido una de las preferidas del público. Es obra que nunca ha dejado de ser editada y se ofrece con orgullo dentro de esta colección. REF: 70064 cassette 80064COD. ISBN CD: 958-9494-79-X COD. ISBN CT: 958-43-0065-2

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El Conde de Monte Cristo.......2004-01-19

El Conde de Monte Cristo me trae muchos recuerdos maravillosos. Lo lei en 1973, durante un tiempo que estuve con muchos problemas y este libro fue mi escape. Me ayudo a seguir siendo valiente para seguir adelante. En 2003, le comente a mi nieto de 12 anos sobre este libro y tambien lo leyo, y le parecio estupendo.

The Count of Monte Cristo, 1944. Kniga 2 (IN RUSSIAN LANGUAGE) / Graf Monte-Kristo. V 2kn. Kn. 2 / Der Graf von Monte Christo / El conde de Montecristo /

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The Count of Monte Cristo, 1944. Kniga 2 (IN RUSSIAN LANGUAGE) / Graf Monte-Kristo. V 2kn. Kn. 2 / Der Graf von Monte Christo / El conde de Montecristo /
Alexandre dumas , Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie , and père Alexandre Dumas
Manufacturer: AST
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 5170078935

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Conde de Monte Cristo, O

Manufacturer: Scipione
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 8526238590

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Conde de Monte Cristo, O

Manufacturer: Rideel
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ASIN: 853390617X

Conde de Montecristo (Count of Monte Cristo)

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Conde de Montecristo (Count of Monte Cristo)
Alejandro Dumas
Manufacturer: Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media
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El Conde de Montecristo / The Count of Monte Cristo (Biblioteca Escolar/ School Library)

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El Conde de Montecristo / The Count of Monte Cristo (Biblioteca Escolar/ School Library)
Alexandre Dumas
Manufacturer: Grijalbo Mondadori Sa
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Virginia Woolf is one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century literature. She was original, passionate, vivid, dedicated to her art. Yet most writing about her still revolves around her social life and the Bloomsbury set.

In this fresh, absorbing book, Julia Briggs puts the writing back at the center of Woolf’s life, reads that life through her work, and mines the novels themselves to create a compelling new form of biography. Analyzing Woolf’s own commentary on the creative process through her letters, diaries, and essays, Julia Briggs has produced a book that is a convincing, moving portrait of an artist, as well as a profound meditation on the nature of creativity.

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Hard to pigeon-hole.......2007-08-24

this book as a biography or as a series of critical essays of Virginia Woolf's novels and other works. I lumped this book with the other three biographies of VW that I have read this past year (Quentin Bell's, Hermione Lee's, and James King's) but Julia Brigg's "biography" is actually quite different, and probably should stand alone, not be compared with the other three. Each of Briggs' fourteen chapters covers one specific work by VW. For example, chapter 4 is "Jacob's Room"; chapter 5 is "The Common Reader"; chapter 6 is "Mrs Dalloway"; and, chapter 13 is "Roger Fry." Briggs provides an exhaustive look and interpretation (sometimes, almost too exhaustive) of each of VW's works, and uses these works to explore VW's psyche. VW was intensely interested in psychoanalysis (as was Gertrude Stein) and one could argue that Briggs has used VW's works as a way to psychoanalyze her. Briggs is well qualified in this endeavor: for many years she was professor of Woolf studies at Hereford College, Oxford, and is currently the editor of the Penguin UK reprint series of Woolf's novels.

Don't Be Afraid of Virginia Woolf --Briggs bio is amazing..........2006-10-13

Julie Briggs is an amazing author and biographer. She is an ENglish prof at DeMontfant University in Leicester, England. She was the general editor for the Penguin UK reprint series of Woolf's novels so knows Virginia's work very well...I think this knowledge of the work and the structure of the work makes this rather indepth analysis of the famous author's motivation for writing the novels, personal circumstances surrounding the writing, her marriage, her friendships and her ever-declining health and mental problems is what makes this book so fascinating...It's no ordinary bio-- it concentrates on the work and the impetus for the work. Reading this book is like being allowed inside the writer's head and her 'office' while and after she creates her many volumes. Don't I wish I had read this book in college-- it really makes you understand not only writer motivations but the implosion the world around makes on the writer and his/her works. Great for any Woolf fan or for use in teaching Woolf or for any writer or would-be writer. Fabulous for use in women's studies programs...and fascinating for anyone struggling with their own creativity or stifled dreams/goals.

Satisfying.......2006-01-11

Briggs biography of Virginia Woolf follows a form that makes perfect sense for a biography of a writer. That is, it is a "biography" of her books as much as it is a biography of Virginia Woolf herself.

Not a great deal of time is spent going into Woolf's pre-natal background and infant years. The text quickly gets to the task of looking at the formative influences of Woolf the writer, and the circumstances and stimuli that influenced the creation and formation of each of her books.

A chronological approach is followed. We begin with the first efforts of writing, the first novel, and proceed sequentially through each of her books. A full chapter is given to the period in which each book was written and published. Each chapter concludes with details on the actual book, including such items as the novel's original cover illustration (usually done by her artist sister Vanessa), the size of the print runs, the critics responses, and how the book fared over the years, even up into the 1990s. Honestly, I found information like this very interesting. For one, it was interesting to see how first print runs increased as Woolf gradually grew in popularity.

What I most like about Brigg's approach is that you come away with key insights that any appreciator of Woolf should cherish. One learns a great deal about the process that Woolf went through in creating her works as well as about the life of Woolf herself.

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Virginia Woolf : An Inner Life
Julia Briggs
Manufacturer: NY
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000MU2SXU

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Virginia Woolf: An Inner Life
Julia Briggs
Manufacturer: Harcourt
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OJ9684

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The volunteer army that fought the Mexican dictator Santa Anna from 1835 to 1836 was immortalized in the epic battle of the Alamo. Taking arms initially to fight for the restoration of the liberal Mexican constitution of 1824, the volunteers were eventually fighting for outright Texan independence. This book describes and illustrates the group of men who, despite the diversity of their origins, equipment, weaponry and dress, were united in a common cause that reached its culmination in the victory of San Jacinto. The turbulent decade (1836–46) of Texan independence is also covered, and the little-studied army and navy of the Republic of Texas examined.

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What "house?"....

Terrible

A Nice Book

A typical post colonial prejudice by a western journalist

You Are Welcome, Maier Cracks A Bit of Nigeria's Problems

This House Has Fallen: Nigeria in Crisis
Karl Maier
Manufacturer: Westview Press
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Binding: Paperback

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The Open Sore of a Continent: A Personal Narrative of the Nigerian Crisis (The W.E.B. Dubois Institute Series)

Where Vultures Feast: Shell, Human Rights and Oil

Nigeria: The Bradt Travel Guide (Bradt Guides)

Crippled Giant: Nigeria Since Independence

Federalism and Ethnic Conflict in Nigeria

ASIN: 0813340454

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A journey into contemporary Africa's most powerful and most corrupt nation.

To understand Africa, one must understand Nigeria, and few Americans understand Nigeria better than Karl Maier. This House Has Fallen is a bracing and disturbing report on the state of Africa's most populous, potentially richest, and most dangerously dysfunctional nation.

Each year, with depressing consistency, Nigeria is declared the most corrupt state in the entire world. Though Nigeria is a nation into which billions of dollars of oil money flow, its per capita income has fallen dramatically in the past two decades. Military coup follows military coup. A bellwether for Africa, it is a country of rising ethnic tensions and falling standards of living, very possibly on the verge of utter collapse -- a collapse that could dramatically overshadow even the massacres in Rwanda.

A brilliant piece of reportage and travel writing, This House Has Fallen looks into the Nigerian abyss and comes away with insight, profound conclusions, and even some hope. Updated with a new preface by the author.

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What "house?"...........2007-04-20

..and "fallen" from what position? It's tough to fall further downwards when you start out underground. Want the point of this "tale?" Visit the 419 eater website. That will tell you all you need to know about just what Nigerians are all about. The national industry is composed of nothing but filthy thieves, liars and internet con-men/women. People speak of the "ruler" of Nigeria stealing from its citizens. Well pot, meet kettle. Boo-hoo, the "ruler" stole from the thieves. Stop the presses and alert the military! What a joke. Kind of like the incident wherein the drug addict telephones the police to report that the drug dealer took his $20 and didn't give him the crack he paid for. Conmen beget conmen and they are now lying in the bed they have made for themselves. Want to cry foul now? Do it elsewhere.

Terrible.......2005-05-21

I hated this book for a variety of reasons. First of all, no one who has any real appreciation of Nigeria's rich and diverse culture, history, literature, music, etc., will be even mildly convinced that this man knows the first thing about the people and the country about which he decided to write this wretched book.

You, the potential reader, may not know this, but at least you have me to tell you before you make the mistake of purchasing this book in the fraudulent belief that you will learn something from it. Maier seems obsessed with simply presenting Nigeria as a basketcase, despite the fact that he does not have a profound understanding of its people. No one like that should write a book like this.

Wole Soyinka and Chinua Achebe, two of Nigeria's most talented authors, have both written books extremely critical of Nigeria, but they did so from a position of knowledge, and it showed. Which is not to say that you have to be from Nigeria to write a book about the country. Certainly not. But presenting the nation out of context in such an unsympathetic way, with so little nuance, is not only poor scholarship, it's dangerous.

Nigeria has tremendous problems, but it also has amazing success stories, none of which made it into this book. There are stories demonstrating the remarkable ingenuity, entrepreneurship and dilligence of Nigerian men and women under the hardest circumstances. It's a nation with great art, great literature, great music, a great sense of humor, not to mention thousands of years of history, and some of Africa's longest lasting and most interesting kingdoms and cultures.

But, you would definitely not know that reading this book, because all you are presented with is a bunch of miserable information. How would one expect readers to become interested in such a place? I'm not suggesting that Nigeria's very real problems be ignored, far from it. I'm only saying that a national portrait of political and moral collapse should at least show that the nation in question ALSO has remarkable talent, also has some of the funniest, warmest, and most resilient people you'll ever meet, also has a fascinating history, is diverse, and has complex historical reasons for so many of its problems. The book doesn't really explain how colonialism or modern financial interests and corporate interest might play into that. Or, why corrupt leaders come to power. What's the dynamic there? Why does this happen? The book doesn't deign to attempt answer such questions. Why? I have no idea. It just tells us that it's a corrupt country, and that we should care because it has oil, and a hundred million people.

I really think the world would be a better place if uninformed people stopped writing pessimistic drivel that further defames a continent which needs defenders, not detractors. I can't believe I bought this book, and own it.

A Nice Book.......2005-01-30

A nice book that touches on key aspects of Nigerian society. For a foreigner, Mr. Maier does a nice job in writing about the diverse ethnic groups that make up Nigeria. However, I have chosen to rate this book with three stars for the following reasons:

At some point in time, I got the feeling I was reading a newspaper. Being well versed and current with affairs in Nigeria, I found most of the stories recounted by Mr. Maier to be very familiar. What Mr. Maier failed to do was provide significant in-depth analysis into the problems besetting modern day Nigeria, or better still, present likely solutions to some of these problems from his point of view.

There are quite a few typographical errors in the book. I also disagree with a historical event stated. This has to do with the amalgamation of Nigeria in 1914. Mr. Maier says it was done because Northern Nigeria was running a deficit, while the South was economically sustainable. This is definitely not true. The Northern and Southern protectorates were merged to form Nigeria in 1914 to serve the interests of the British Empire. Mineral resources obtained in the North were shipped to ports in the South to be sent to Britain. It made economic sense to Britain and had nothing to do with deficits or the economic state of the Northern and Southern colonies.

Generally, it is a very good book and one that touches on several aspects of modern Nigerian society in its 300 or so pages. It is definitely worth the read if you are interested in understanding the complexity and diversity of Nigerian society as well as its history, economic state and recent return to a democratic system of government.

A typical post colonial prejudice by a western journalist.......2004-10-08

It took me some time to get a copy of this book from a friend to read. But after reading it, I was glad not to have a copy myself. It is not that the contents of the book do not correspond with the nigerian situation, but the total lack of objectivity in the book. Maier clearly shows that he is among those we hear are paid to promote and justify the exercise of colonialism in Africa: that africans can not rule themselves. If Nigeria as a house has fallen, then it is due to the wrong foundation upon which the house was built which was the British mess and exploitation. Where Maier tried to remember that there was no nation like Nigeria before colonialism, he avoided telling the truth of the emergence of Nigeria as a consequence of British selfishness. For example, he mentioned that Nigeria had a great agricultural potentials in products such a palm oil and so many things, but quickly added these were exported to England and "inturn Nigeria got millions of tones of cosmetics and gins". Or where he slightly mentioned the activities of oil firms like the royal dutsch/shell in Nigeria, the environmental harzards are not taken note of. For God's sake why could he not tell us the truth that the aim of colonialsm was primarily for the need of his sponsors. Or when he metioned the amalgmation of north and south of Nigeria and termed it "for the purpose reducing deficit of the north", was the aim not to enhance more agricultural opportunities for the great Britian. It was on this bad foundation that ethnic kingdoms like the Igala, Yoruba, Benin and many others who had a very effective leadership and administrative autonomy were forced and forged into the nationhood of Nigeria which even became a problem before the exit of the foolish masters-maier's ancestors. Thank God, people like Alan Burns, a one time Birtish governor in Nigeria still live to write the truth: "Those Europeans who were interested in one protectorate knew little of the other, and wasted no sympathy on their neighbours, while among the inhabitants of the country the lack of uniform system of government had already accentuated the already existing difference of race, religion and culture" (Alan Burns: History of Nigeria,London, 1969. Pg. 11). I would wish that Maeir make out time to reason why he needs to blame his motherland for the many attrocities committed in Nigeria and africa as a whole of which the present situations are hangovers. I could have better not read this monographs of journalistic nonsense called a book on Nigeria, and would never recommend it to any objective mind.

You Are Welcome, Maier Cracks A Bit of Nigeria's Problems.......2004-06-16

Living in Nigeria leaves one drained, confused and fascinated. Nigeria is like watching a car crash every day; you cannot help but to watch despite the blood and carnage. Mr. Maier's lively account of daily scences in Nigeria is a accessible read for anyone, even those who never set foot in Nigeria or could care less about Africa's problems. A case in point is Maier's visit to former military President Babangida. The President sat in his chalet a few hours drive from Nigeria's capital Abuja, charming, sly, friendly and happy with the billions of dollars he stold from the Nigerian people. In fact, Babangida is set to make another run for President in 2007. Maier allows the former President to talk and expose the underbelly of most Nigerian leaders, avarice, self-righteousness and the ability to buy people off with the money taken from government coffers. In fact, be it Obasanjo, Abacha, Buhari or any other military leader or newly minted democratic leaders, they are all the same people, in the same big seats, stealing the same people and country blind. Sad, but Nigeria. Maier allows the reader in to see Nigeria from Abuja to Minna to Lagos; it is a great read and essential for anyone coming to Nigeria.

You are Welcome!! Nigeria, what a country and what a mess.

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In parts of Korea and China, moon bears, black but for the crescent-shaped patch of white on their chests, are captured in the wild and brought to "bear farms" where they are imprisoned in squeeze cages, and a steel catheter is inserted into their gall bladders. The dripping bile is collected as a cure for ailments ranging from an upset stomach to skin burns. The bear may live as long as fifteen years in this state. Rhinos are being illegally poached for their horns, as are tigers for their bones, thought to improve virility. Booming economies and growing wealth in parts of Asia are increasing demand for these precious medicinals. Already endangered species are being sacrificed for temporary treatments for nausea and erectile dysfunction.

Richard Ellis, one of the world's foremost experts in wildlife extinction, brings his alarm to the pages of Tiger Bone & Rhino Horn, in the hope that through an exposure of this drug trade, something can be done to save the animals most direly threatened. Trade in animal parts for traditional Chinese medicine is a leading cause of species endangerment in Asia, and poaching is increasing at an alarming rate. Most of traditional Chinese medicine relies on herbs and other plants, and is not a cause for concern. Ellis illuminates those aspects of traditional medicine, but as wildlife habitats are shrinking for the hunted large species, the situation is becoming ever more critical.

Tigers, bears, and rhinos are not the only animals pursued for the sake of alleviating human ills--the list includes musk deer, sharks, saiga antelope, seahorses, porcupines, monkeys, beavers, and sea lions--but the dwindling numbers of those rare species call us to attention. Ellis tells us what has been done successfully, and contemplates what can and must be done to save these animals or, sadly, our children will witness the extinction of tigers, rhinos, and moon bears in their lifetime.

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Discusses the dilemma and explores how the animals may be protected.......2005-12-05

Richard Ellis has written sixteen books on ecology and extinction and is a research associate at the American Museum of Natural history: his Tiger Bone & Rhino Horn: The Destruction Of Wildlife For Traditional Chinese Medicine presents a damning expose of the tortures and horrors animals experience in the trade for animal parts in traditional Chinese medicine. There's a large list of endangered animals which are deemed essential ingredients in Chinese potions: Richard Ellis discusses the dilemma and explores how the animals may be protected.

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