Plants of the Coast Redwood Region

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Excellent and accurate

Excellent survey

A very good regional plant guide for amateur flower lovers.

Plants of the Coast Redwood Region
Kathleen Lyons , and Mary Beth Cuneo-Lazaneo
Manufacturer: Looking Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Pacific Coast Tree Finder: A Pocket Manual for Identifying Pacific Coast Trees (Nature Study Guides)

ASIN: 0962696102

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This book is a field guide to plants commonly found in the coast redwood forests. Full color photographs of each plant are accompanied by descriptive and informative text. Wildflowers are grouped by color, which helps to simplify identification of the plants. Interesting information regarding edible plants, and the many uses Native Americans made of the plants is also included.

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Excellent and accurate.......2004-03-06

I moved ten years ago to the Santa Cruz Mountains, and have found this book invaluable in helping me to identify and appreciate plants and trees on our property, particularly how they were used as medicines or as raw material for baskets, structures etc by the native Ohlone people. Also, her discussion about exotic, invasive species has motivated us to eradicate the invasive french broom and star thistle that were taking over our land. Now many of the native species she describes are returning.

Excellent survey.......2002-10-24

This little book is an excellent survey of the most common plants in the redwood region. Definitely a wonderful introduction for beginning students of these plants. The book helps to identify these organisms at the same time as it adds some interesting information about each plant. Highly recommended. It appears as it now is out of print which is a pity. Please bring it back!

A very good regional plant guide for amateur flower lovers........1999-07-25

This book has nicely reproduced pictures, classification, and very readable and informative text on many of the trees and flowers of the northern coast of California. The text includes description, natural history, and special notes regarding native American uses of plants, edibility, or cautions regarding poisonous plants. Very nicely done!

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Plants of the Coast Redwood Region
Kathleen Lyons & Mary Beth Cuneo-Lazaneo
Manufacturer: The Looking Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000IP9TFY

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8.5" * 5.6". Black leatherette hardcover.

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From reviews of the first edition:

"A complete and professional treatment of the woody plants west of the Pecos River in Texas.... The manual is quite comprehensive and includes many slightly woody perennial herbs in addition to trees and shrubs....[It is] a valuable addition to the growing body of regional floras and will be a useful tool for all those interested in this beautiful and fascinating area."

—Madroño

"Dr. A. Michael Powell's 25 years of botanical experience are evident in this work for both professional and amateur botanists. It makes easy the identification of 453 species of woody plants."

—Wildflower

First published by the Big Bend Natural History Association in 1988 as Trees & Shrubs of Trans-Pecos Texas, this book is the only keyed guide to the more than 400 species of woody plants native to the Trans-Pecos region and adjacent areas in eastern New Mexico and northern Mexico. A. Michael Powell has significantly revised and expanded this edition, including nomenclature changes for 62 genera and new distribution information for 60 genera.

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Trees and Shrubs of Trans Pecos, Texas
A. Michael Powell
Manufacturer: Big Bend Natural History Assn
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Three key ideas replace the notion that a "primordial soup" of organic molecules was essential in this explanation of how life on Earth evolved.

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In this volume consideration was given to more advanced theoretical approaches and novel applications of reliability to ensure that topics having a futuristic impact were specifically included. Topics like finance, forensics, information, and orthopedics, as well as the more traditional reliability topics were purposefully undertaken to make this collection different from the existing books in reliability. The entries have been categorized into seven parts, each emphasizing a theme that seems poised for the future development of reliability as an academic discipline with relevance. The seven parts are networks and systems; recurrent events; information and design; failure rate function and burn-in; software reliability and random environments; reliability in composites and orthopedics, and reliability in finance and forensics. Embedded within the above are some of the other currently active topics such as causality, cascading, exchangeability, expert testimony, hierarchical modeling, optimization and survival analysis. These topics, when linked with utility theory, constitute the science base of risk analysis.

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Tom Jones - An Authoritative Text; Contemporary Reactions, Criticism
Henry; Edited by Baker, Sheridan Fielding
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Co
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000IX5NMY

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Tom Jones: An authoritative text, contemporary reactions, criticism
Henry Fielding
Manufacturer: Washington Square Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

Fielding, Henry | Classics | British | World Literature | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books
ASIN: B0007I0EI8

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Tom Jones, An Authoritative Text, Contemporary Reactions, Criticism

Manufacturer: W.W. Norton & Company
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000GM6ITY

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A 365 daily with inspirational and provocative selections from the journals of Thomas Merton combined with drawings and photographs by Merton.

This volume of daily inspiration from Thomas Merton draws from Merton's journals and papers to present, each day, a seasonally appropriate and thought–provoking insight or observation.

Each month will begin with one of Merton's delightful pen–and–ink drawings or one of his elegant black–and–white photographs.

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A Spiritual Disappointment.......2005-11-19

I am admirer of Thomas Merton and his writings. Being a fan of his work and finding inspiration in it, I was disappointed with this book. Rather than serving as a means of spiritual enlightenment, this book comes off as poetry and miscellaneous scribblings. There is very little here of spiritual substance. The writing itself is not particularly bad. However, most people do not buy a Thomas Merton book for random poetry without context. They buy Merton's for the religious context. Why would a book of daily meditations not acknowledge the religious holidays on the appropriate days? Because this is a collection of rare writings published more than thirty years after his death, the book borders on being exploitive.

There are many great works by Thomas Merton with great meaning that foster spiritual development. This is not one of them. This is merely a collection of journal reflections with less than the desirable amount of spiritual substance.

Like a Daily Journal.......2005-09-19

The excerpts read like passages from his daily journal. They are out of context. They can be quite mundane. It might be 3 paragraphs about his living situation, or where something has been moved. If you are looking for a daily devotional reader, this is not it. I would rather recommend Seeds of Contemplation which is an excellent collection of spiritual readings.

Yes, read Merton. But this is not the best collection of his work.

Daily Meditations from a Thoughtful Man.......2005-01-06

Thomas Merton is one of the great spiritual writers of the twentieth century. His works such as NO MAN IS AN ISLAND and THE SEVEN STOREY MOUNTAIN provide enduring reflections on a journey of faith and devotion.

This volume contains selections from his journals arranged to be read as meditations and contemplation. Each offer insight and grace for the reader seeking to develop a closer connection with the Creator.

The illustrations - Merton's own photographs and drawings - offer additional sources of reflection. This is a fine book and provides a course of guidance throughout the year.

A Year with Thomas Merton: Daily Meditations from His Journals.

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A Year with Thomas Merton: Daily Meditations from His Journals.
Ed. JONATHAN: MONTALDO
Manufacturer: HarperSanFrancisco
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000X068V2

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Year with Thomas Merton: Daily Meditations from His Journals
Thomas Merton
Manufacturer: HarperSanFrancisco
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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I appreciate any Revisionist works but there are many errors in here!.......2006-10-03

Plus the stupid phallics symobl that dopey
Germar Rudolf drew on the front cover is
annoying! Rudolf also is a poor artist.
Jurgen, a swiss gentleman has done pretty
good work here but this book is a typical
Thesis and Dissertations Press rush job.
There are so many typos and wrong dates
in here I would almost swear Rudolf, a pal-
igamist (two wives in two countries, he
currently resides in a german jail...)
sabatoged it on purpose. For example,
Graf/Rudolf claims that NBC t.v. put on
a movie in 1980 called 'holacau$t'. Act-
ually it was a MiniSeries, April 1978,
which was rebroadcast in Sept. 1979
called Holocaust, and it was garbage!
This book is good for 13-18 year olds
unaware of the 'holacau$t' lie, much
yet. But for adults, I recommend Rich
Salzer's New World Order expose, and
two books by Art Butz, including The
Hoax of the Twentieth Century.

Read the book first, think few days, speak after.......2005-09-23

I wish to every thinking person to read this book. Leave the emotion aside and dig into the facts we have and more available novadays. Think about what our fathers and grandfathers done and what they did wrong. Time came to be sober and find the true. Let's know all possible visions of the matter and make our own opinion.
Dear "Holocaust" defenders, read the book first, think about few days, speak after. The disscussion with cries "it can't be true because it can't be true" does not valueable. The tagmarking and insulting opponent is not the way to make an argument (Mr.(Ms.)"efoff").
In additional reading I recommend:
Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn - The Gulag Archipelago: 1918-1956. Read closely about years 1918-1935. That's the real Holocaust. Tens of millions best Russians where killed by communists.

Censorship is wrong-so says the left.......2005-08-24

I was curious as to why jews go crazy over holocaust "deniers", I was always told that everyone has a right to voice their opinion. It seems that to the jews and left only certain people are allowed to voice theirs. I was curious to see what all the anger was about these books so I bought this one and the book "Dissecting the holocaust". Both read as a study of a crime but from the defense side. The argument that the German witnesses were tortured to get them to admit to gassings and murder struck a cord as my grandfather was with the army unit that interogated many German soldiers and I remember him telling stories about the way they beat "confessions" from them in Scwabishe Hall. How they told them to sign papers or be shot (they actually would do mock executions). So it comes together as a great hoax that only the devil could dream up. On the outside the holocaust story looks like a solid brick wall that can never be torn down, but when you see the wall up close and examine it it's paper thin and full of holes. It's too bad those that oppose this message resort to name calling and out right hatred. It made one person want to search further.

An amazing book.......2005-08-19

Raul Hilberg's reputation as the leading scholar of the Holocaust will not likley suffer as a result of this book because it is censored out of the mainstream distribution networks and libraries but it should be read by anyone with a serious interest in the subject. I sets forth disturbing arguments about Hilberg's failures to do acceptable research to back up his claims about the destruction of the European Jews by the Nazis. The subject is untouchable in our culture (see some of the comments in other reviews) but revisionists like Graf deserve to be heard on the merits of the arguments, not dismissed with quips and ad hominem slurs.

Absurdly Unconvincing.......2005-03-05

Historical skepticism is appropriate for all subjects, even for the Holocaust. That said, there is literally no question that the Nazis used Zyclon-B and carbon monoxide gas in the extermination of Jews. They also used bullets, bayonets, rubber clubs, and iron bars. The lack of written documentation is no argument against the gassing of Jews. The Nazis were notoriously careful either to avoid writing down orders or to burn documentation as enemy lines approached the camps. They also dynamited the gas chambers. Those facts notwithstanding, the stories of survivors, the confessions of perpetrators, the tons of hair, shoes, clothing, suitcases, bodies, and bones all bear witness to the awful tragedy that was the Holocaust--including the gassing.
If Graf is to be taken seriously, let him analyze the thousands of witness accounts compiled by the Shoah Foundation. Let him analyze every historian's work on the Holocaust. The weight of testimony cannot be contained in any single volume. This skeptic's work is far from conclusive.

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This foray into the often violent subcultures of Japan dramatically debunks the Western perception of a seemingly controlled and orderly society.

Customer Reviews:

Entertaining, with a few problems........2006-09-16

I picked this up used, and read it very quickly - it reminded me of one of those so/so CDs from a usually great band: all the great stuff stacked at the beginning, with an increasingly less interesting wind-down.

Greenfield isn't the greatest writer, or journalist, or sociologist out there, which is the main issue - each of these pieces has great potential, but several of them fail to achieve liftoff.

I also questioned some of the intent here - I'm guessing that one of Greenfield's goals was to upend some stereotypes Westerners (primarily) have about Japan, and perhaps he achieves this - but this is no ground-breaker either: for all of the non-Japanese writers on Japan who have turned the place into an imagined museum of Zen and lotus-blossoms, there are equal numbers of people (from filmmakers Nagisa Oshima and Shohei Imamura to novelist Kobo Abe) who have done the same sort of stereotype-busting that Greenfield is attempting. And some of these folks have done it much, much better.

Not awful by any means, but it really didn't live up to any of its' pretenses.

-David Alston

antisocial studies.......2006-09-15

Fascinating look at different groups of Japanese youth culture in the early to mid 90s. We peer into the lives of 12 people, including: a mid-level Yakuza debt collector; a porn star and director looking for a big score; students cramming for entry to the University of Tokyo; a hot young 20something caught between club culture and the traditional arranged-marriage culture of her parents; an obsessive computer nerd; and more. Each chapter is presented as a narrative and is also supplemented by sociological and historical information, which makes for a quick, engaging read. It's all fairly nihilistic, though - Japan of the 90s is a fragmented, contradictory culture, and it's not surprising to see why some of these people have carved out such peculiar, stilted lifestyles.

Good...outdated.......2005-03-23

There seems to be alot of debate on if this book is fact or fiction. FICTION.
It is set in 90's Japan and tries to give a sence of different aspects of the country, but if you are looking for a view of modern Japan I wouldn't look here. Japan has changed alot since the book was written.
The stories are for the most part very entertaining, and the book is great light reading.
Book consists of short stories about different kinds of folk in Japan you don't see on the news.

Insightful.......2004-06-04

Well, the Library of Congress classified this book as Subculture - Japan - Case Studies, and having read it, I am relatively sure that it is a work of nonfiction. One reviewer claimed that parents would *never* tout the merits of their child at an omiai, yet in "Pink Samurai: Love, Marriage and Sex in Contemporary Japan" Nicholas Bornhoff writes extensively on just this topic. According to Bornhoff, virtually all that happens at an omiai is that parents go on and on about their children's accomplishments ad nauseum. The "date" (which is meant to culminate in arranged marriage) is more like a particularly boring, traditional job interview in which the resume is the main topic under discussion. No wonder "Keiko Nakagami" (perhaps a pseudonym, but nevertheless most likely a living person whom Greenfeld *interviewed*) kept thinking about the Australian she met at a club the other night! Anyway, for those who still have doubts about the book's authenticity, reread the chapter "Dai: The Motorcycle Thief" which is full of interview quotations regarding his "observation period" at a juvenile rehabilitation facility. If this is fiction, this is the most realistic fiction I've ever read ...

what amuses me..........2003-04-12

is the ex-pats who have reviewed this and think it's fiction. Especially the "he's never been to Japan!" commentaries.

Ex-pats: Go look for a band at the local record shop named Zi:Kill. Yeah, they exist. Yeah, that really -did- happen to them.

It is in some parts hard to believe he isn't cumulating data on several people to fit one type of story (a hybrid of several Yakuza for one portrayal), and sure, he's stopping stories at convenient points for heightened drama and to make the lives of these characters seem all the more tragic or beautiful.

I think it's a good primer for a discussion on the Tokyo Pop we know and the Tokyo Pop we think we know. I reccomend it to anyone who needs a bit of culture shock on some of the anime and j-vid stereotypes they've been hit with. I just wish at this point it weren't so dated.

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Speed Tribes: Days and Nights With Japan's Next Generation
Karl Taro Greenfield
Manufacturer: HarperCollins
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OEJ8Q4

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Speed Tribes: Days and Night's with Japan's Next Generation
Karl Taro Greenfeld
Manufacturer: Harper Perennial
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OEYK6C

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Visionary quests to return to the Garden of Eden have shaped Western culture from Columbus' voyages to today's tropical island retreats. Few narratives are so powerful - and, as Carolyn Merchant shows, so misguided and destructive - as the dream of recapturing a lost paradise.
A sweeping account of these quixotic endeavors by one of America's leading environmentalists, Reinventing Eden traces the idea of rebuilding the primeval garden from its origins to its latest incarnations in shopping malls, theme parks and gated communities. With eloquence and insight, Merchant shows how the drive to conquer nature and to explore and settle the globe, springs from this utopian pastoral impulse throughout Western history. Time and again, human manipulation of the environment is our downfall: Eden is achieved by fencing off pristine beauty in national parks and wildlife preserves, while leaving the majority of the earth in ruins.

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The search of Eden has led to an erosion of nature.......2003-06-12

The "Garden Of Eden" was a paradise lost, and mankind has spent centuries searching for it. Reinventing Eden reveals how the image and myth of Eden has actually led to further degradation of the planet, revealing its origins, its influence on political and social thought, and related issues concerning man and nature. Human manipulation of the environment in search of Eden has led to an erosion of nature: Reinventing Eden documents exactly how.

Reinventing Eden: The Fate of Nature in Western Culture [A book review from: Journal of Rural Studies]

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Reinventing Eden: The Fate of Nature in Western Culture [A book review from: Journal of Rural Studies]
D. Maye
Manufacturer: Elsevier
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B000PDU6R4

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This digital document is a journal article from Journal of Rural Studies, published by Elsevier in 2007. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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