Seeing God Everywhere: Essays on Nature and the Sacred (Perennial Philosophy)

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This anthology, combining articles by Buddhist, Christian, Islamic, Jewish, and Native American scholar, looks at the environmental crisis through a spiritual lens.

Traveler's Guide to Camping Mexico's Baja
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Traveler's Guide to Camping Mexico's Baja
Mike Church , and Terri Church
Manufacturer: Rolling Homes Press
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The Rough Guide to Baja California (Rough Guide Travel Guides)

ASIN: 0965296857

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The sun, sand, and clear blue water are the focus of this travel guide to Baja California for RV adventurers. Following more than 1,000 miles along the transpeninsular Highway 1, RV travelers will find important information about destinations from Ensenada to Cabo San Lucas. Crucial details about campgrounds, crossing the border, and recreational opportunities such as kayaking, fishing, backcountry exploration, and hiking are included, as are maps for every campground listed.

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wonderful.......2007-06-12

I bough thtis with the MOON bok, and am using both of them , this one is helpful with trip ideas, and the best of the large campgrounds, a very usefull book.

Great product for Baja Travelers.......2007-06-09

We recommend this to anyone who camps in the Baja!

very practical and thorough.......2007-03-09

this was recommended to me by a very experienced RV camper as one of the best authors for camping guides. I was not disappointed.

It is exactly what I sought.......2007-02-14

This book explains very well the risk of the voyage. It gives very good tricks. One suggests there a way to take and there is the list of all the camp-site. Very nice purchase for me.

Probably The Best on The Baja.......2005-03-20

It is the best book on Camping in Mexico's Baja that I've seen.
I especially liked the section on "Puerto Penasco" which is very
seldom included in any RV book. If you only buy one book on RV'ing in the BAJA, make sure this is the one.

The Drama of American History: Group 2
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The Drama of American History: Group 2

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Binding: Library Binding

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ASIN: 0761407758

Investigating Biology: An Annotated Lab Manual
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Investigating Biology: An Annotated Lab Manual
Judith Giles Morgan
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Investigating Biology Lab Manual, 5th Edition - Annotated Instructor's Edition
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Carter Morgan
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Binding: Spiral-bound
ASIN: 080537180X

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This book describes the current status and results of photoelectron spectroscopic techniques, both theoretical and experimental, that have been applied to the study of the cuprate ("high-temperature") superconductors. The techniques described include angle-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy of valence electrons, core level spectra (XPS), and some special variations, such as resonance photoemission. Attention is paid to the difficulties in interpreting such spectra and to the problems obtaining good sample surfaces and high resolution, comparing results from other experimental techniques as well. The authors also outline expected future developments in the techniques. This book will be of great interest to graduate students and researchers in physics, chemistry and materials science with an interest in high temperature superconductors.

Polycrystalline Ceramic Fiber Reinforcemnt for High-Temperature Structural Composites (Surface Chemistry Studies and Continuous Fiber processing Parameters)(Air Force Materials Laboratory)

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Polycrystalline Ceramic Fiber Reinforcemnt for High-Temperature Structural Composites (Surface Chemistry Studies and Continuous Fiber processing Parameters)(Air Force Materials Laboratory)
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High temperature kinetic study of the reactions H + Ob2s = OH + O and O + Hb2s = OH + H in Hb2s/Ob2s system by shock tube - laser absorption spectroscopy (SuDoc NAS 1.26:195473)

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High temperature kinetic study of the reactions H + Ob2s = OH + O and O + Hb2s = OH + H in Hb2s/Ob2s system by shock tube - laser absorption spectroscopy (SuDoc NAS 1.26:195473)
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Lattice resonance of alkali halides;: Far infra-red measurements at high temperatures (Studies in chemistry. [Polymer science])

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Lattice resonance of alkali halides;: Far infra-red measurements at high temperatures (Studies in chemistry. [Polymer science])
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A mechanistic study of high-temperature oxidation of organic carbon in carbon analyzers

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A mechanistic study of high-temperature oxidation of organic carbon in carbon analyzers
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Selected Topics in High Temperature Chemistry: Defect Chemistry of Solids (Studies in Inorganic Chemistry, 9)

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Oivind Johannesen
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Shock tube and modeling study of the H + Ob2s = OH + O reaction over a wide range of composition, pressure, and temperature (SuDoc NAS 1.26:202490)

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Shock tube and modeling study of the H + Ob2s = OH + O reaction over a wide range of composition, pressure, and temperature (SuDoc NAS 1.26:202490)
Si-Ok Ryu
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Studies in the physical chemistry of selected high temperature systems: Final report

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Studies in the physical chemistry of selected high temperature systems: Final report
John L Margrave
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One of the main concerns in building advanced machinery is the design of machine components. The only way to ensure that criteria for life expectancy and stress limits are met is to base the design on precise analysis. Advanced Design of Machine Elements presents selected complex design problems, such as fatigue problems caused by varying loads and problems with nonlinear materials and geometric properties including contact. This book provides detailed solutions to these problems along with theoretical explanations of the applied techniques. Various chapters examine elasticity, fatigue, plasticity, and vibration fundamentals, and a special chapter introduces the Finite Element method.

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Nonlinear Problems in Machine Design
Eliahu Zahavi , and David Barlam
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Modern machine design challenges engineers with a myriad of nonlinear problems, among them fatigue, friction, plasticity, and excessive deformation. Today's advanced numerical computer programs bring optimal solutions to these complex problems within reach, but not without a trained and experienced overseer. Nonlinear Problems in Machine Design provides that training and experience. It acquaints readers with the modern analytical methods of machine design and enables them to use those methods in daily applications. The authors first build the theoretical foundation, then focus on the application of the finite element method to machine design problems. They offer practical examples with solutions generated using both the ANSYS and MSC.NASTRAN finite element programs, demonstrating the reliability of the results, offering readers experience with the two most widely used programs in industry. Developed through the authors' extensive knowledge of engineering theory and their experience in verifying the accuracy and applicability of computer generated solutions, this book helps ensure foolproof results when designing machine parts. Nonlinear Problems in Machine Design is unique in its focus, will prove equally valuable to students and practitioners, and appears destined to become a standard in its field.

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"No effort has been spared to make these little volumes as attractive as possible to readers: the paper is of high quality, the typesetting immaculate. The founders of the series are John and Jennifer Clay, and Sanskritists can only thank them for an initiative intended to make the classics of an ancient Indian language accessible to a modern international audience."
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Each of the ten princes has several adventures on his quest to be reunited with the crown-prince. Variegated violence and sorcery figure in their exploits, but love affairs are even more prominent. Commentators have lambasted Dandin's heroes for their antiheroic, apparently random, escapades, while in fact the architecture of his plot reveals an elegant, instructive construction.

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Tsar: The Lost World of Nicholas and Alexandra
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Spectacular!

An Intimate Family Portrait

A Glimps into a Lost World

Lost world of the last Tzar

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Tsar: The Lost World of Nicholas and Alexandra
Peter Kurth , and Edvard Radzinsky
Manufacturer: Back Bay Books
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ASIN: 0316557889

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It's easy now to indulge in nostalgia about the era of the Romanovs, and the sheer lushness of this gorgeous book is enough to encourage the indulgence. Even the text, highly readable and informative, is a little rose-tinted in places, but perhaps the authors can hardly be blamed when the gentlemanly cruelties of the old regime look so innocent next to the quintessentially totalitarian 20th-century hell that replaced them. (Nowhere was the true nature of the new "people's" dispensation revealed more vividly than in the lurid, incompetent savagery with which Nicholas II and his family were dispatched, a story reconstructed in considerable detail here.) In any case, despite a touch of sentimentality, this is a fine short history of how the Romanov dynasty ended, artfully disguised as a coffee-table book. If you merely flip through the pictures (Ekaterinburg, Tsarkoe Selo, the Cathedral of Peter and Paul at St. Petersburg, shining like a gold dagger in the snow), you will ache to travel to Russia. If you read the text, you will learn a surprising amount about the world of an almost comically ineffectual man with whom the Fates amused themselves by placing him at a key turning point in modern history. Heartless autocrat that he was, you may even end up feeling sorry for him: the cure was so much worse than the disease. --Richard Farr

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It's easy now to indulge in nostalgia about the era of the Romanovs, and the sheer lushness of this gorgeous book is enough to encourage the indulgence. Even the text, highly readable and informative, is a little rose-tinted in places, but perhaps the authors can hardly be blamed when the gentlemanly cruelties of the old regime look so innocent next to the quintessentially totalitarian 20th-century hell that replaced them. (Nowhere was the true nature of the new "people's" dispensation revealed more vividly than in the lurid, incompetent savagery with which Nicholas II and his family were dispatched, a story reconstructed in considerable detail here.)In any case, despite a touch of sentimentality, this is a fine short history of how the Romanov dynasty ended, artfully disguised as a coffee-table book. If you merely flip through the pictures (Ekaterinburg, Tsarkoe Selo, the Cathedral of Peter and Paul at St. Petersburg, shining like a gold dagger in the snow), you will ache to travel to Russia. If you read the text, you will learn a surprising amount about the world of an almost comically ineffectual man with whom the Fates amused themselves by placing him at a key turning point in modern history. Heartless autocrat that he was, you may even end up feeling sorry for him: the cure was so much worse than the disease. --Richard Farr

Customer Reviews:

Spectacular!.......2007-05-26

This book contains absolutely beautiful photographs of Tsar Nicholas and his family. Although it is not in hardcover, it makes a wonderful coffee table book. It is the best book I have found containing photographs of that era in Russian history. It makes a great gift.

An Intimate Family Portrait.......2007-05-12

Tsar: The Lost World of Nicholas and Alexandra is probably the only coffee table book that I have ever read cover to cover. It is so full of portraits depicting the the royal family in their most intimate moments, including a rare photo of the Tsars royal posterior while skinny dipping off of the royal yacht, that one can't help feeling that this is a look into one family's private scrapbook. Rich in detail, the text takes you from Nicholas and Alexandra's first meeting through their marriage, the raising of their five children, the influence of Rasputin and the spell he held over the Tsarina, the revolution, and ultimately thier horrid demise. This book is a richly detailed chronical of one family's way of life and sadly, their end.

A Glimps into a Lost World.......2006-11-10

Having just returned from St. Petersburg Russia I was looking for a book just like this one. This is a book which provides a lovely history of the family which ruled Russia for over 300 years and whose fall was as dramatic as that of the Bourbons in France. This book is well documented with many beautiful photos which will transport the reader to an age that is no more. You get a good idea for what life was once like for the Russian aristocrats, and their Czar. From Balls, to dinners, to Czar Nicholi's families' death you see the photographic evidence and a well written account within the pages of this book. Not only is it a well written book, but also a nice addition to your coffee table. I find myself thumbing through it constantly just to admire the photographs. I highly recommend it.

Lost world of the last Tzar.......2006-11-05

Sumptuously illustrated with absorbing and informative text. Highly recommended in all respects.

Beautiful and Haunting veiw of a lost family and their world.......2006-08-27

The story of the Nicholas and Alexandra and their family is told through photographs and text. Many of the photographs are from the personal photo albums that each of the family members kept themselves. These photo's, along with diary entries and letter excerpts, allows us a peek into what was apparently a very close and loving family. This book does a wonderful job of allowing us to see, not only this close, loving family, but the complex world they lived in. It clearly show us a ruling family who while worshiped, is kept isolated from the people they ruled, and how this, along with many other things, brought about their tragic end.
I highly recommend this book to anyone who loves history, especially personal histories.

Tsar: The Lost World of Nicholas and Alexandra

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Tsar: The Lost World of Nicholas and Alexandra

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ASIN: 1863738991

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Tsar: The Lost World of Nicholas and Alexandra
Peter Kurth
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Tsar: The Lost World of Nicholas and Alexandra
Peter; Photographs by Peter Christopher Kurth
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One of our H-bombs is missing
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One of our H-bombs is missing
Flora Lewis
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill
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One of our H bombs is missing
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One of our H bombs is missing
Frederick Hazlitt Brennan
Manufacturer: Fawcett Publications
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One of Our H-Bombs is Missing
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One of Our H-Bombs is Missing

Manufacturer: NY: Bantam, 1987
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000HFN7XK

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Nations at War provides a scientifically-derived explanation of war. It develops this explanation by reviewing data-based studies of international conflict, analyzing war from the fifteenth to the twentieth centuries, and identifying factors such as geography, regimes, military capabilities, alliances, and trade associated with both the onset and destructiveness of these conflicts. Two wars (the Iran/Iraq war of 1980, and World War I) are examined in detail in an effort to show how wars begin and sometimes expand to include other states. This unique book collates and synthesizes the findings of over five hundred scientific studies of war.

Unesco Yearbook on Peace and Conflict Studies 1983 (Unesco Yearbook on Peace and Conflict Studies)

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Unesco Yearbook on Peace and Conflict Studies 1983 (Unesco Yearbook on Peace and Conflict Studies)
Scientific, and Cultur United Nations Educational
Manufacturer: Greenwood Press
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Binding: Hardcover

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The 1983 Unesco Yearbook takes a more theoretical approach to the subject of peace and conflict research than previous editions. The first section, "Trends and Approaches to Peace and Conflict Studies," is itself divided into three parts, beginning with two socio-psychological views of perceptions of threat and attitude formation in societies and among individuals. This is followed by the results of a study which used content analysis to relate perceptions of threat to the arms race and examined the use of mass media to shape those perceptions. The second part continues the debate begun in the 1982 yearbook over the notion of security itself, relating it to international legal and economic problems in general and perceived threats and corresponding conceptions of security in Africa, the Middle East, and Europe. "Theoretical and Bibliographical Surveys" provides sources and material on peace and conflict research. The report of the Unesco meeting on "Different Perceptions of Threat and Conceptions of Security" opens the final section. The yearbook ends with a brief discussion of the newly formed Peruvian Peace Research Association.

NATIONS AT WAR: A Scientific Study of International Conflict.(Review): An article from: The Australian Journal of Politics and History

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NATIONS AT WAR: A Scientific Study of International Conflict.(Review): An article from: The Australian Journal of Politics and History
Leo Launitz-schurer
Manufacturer: University of Queensland Press
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Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from The Australian Journal of Politics and History, published by University of Queensland Press on March 1, 1999. The length of the article is 797 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: NATIONS AT WAR: A Scientific Study of International Conflict.(Review)
Author: Leo Launitz-schurer
Publication: The Australian Journal of Politics and History (Refereed)
Date: March 1, 1999
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
Volume: 45 Issue: 1 Page: 153(1)

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Unesco Yearbook on Peace and Conflict Studies 1981 (Unesco Yearbook on Peace and Conflict Studies)

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Scientific, and Cultur United Nations Educational
Manufacturer: Greenwood Press
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Binding: Hardcover

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The Unesco Yearbook on Peace and Conflict Studies 1981 is the second annual Unesco yearbook and contains the latest information on peace and conflict studies. Part I, "Trends and Approaches in Peace and Conflict Studies," includes essays which discuss the scope and priorities in peace research, the methodology of peace research in the USSR, the role of women in peace research, and the reorientation of the empirical study of international conflict. Part II is a bibliographical essay, the subject of which is non-violent action and civilian defense. Part III, "Unesco Meetings Concerning Peace and Conflict," lists and reports on Unesco's activities. The focus in 1981 is on the World Congress on Disarmament Education. Part IV surveys institutional developments in peace research, reporting on international organizations, regional groups, and national institutions in numerous countries. The annual publication of Peace and Conflict Studies will aid the study of international relations from a historical-developmental perspective.

Unesco Yearbook on Peace and Conflict Studies 1982 (Unesco Yearbook on Peace and Conflict Studies)

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Scientific, and Cultur United Nations Educational
Manufacturer: Greenwood Press
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Binding: Hardcover

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A monument of a nature photography collection.......2006-11-13

I went on an adventure-road trip from Grand Portage to Sault Ste. Marie along Superior. I saw this book in a bookstore in Houghton. Once I opened it I couldn't put it down even in the store. Craig Blacklock is a stupendous photographer. His subject is landscapes and still-lifes in nature. There aren't images of cute animals or nice text on the side. What there are, are images of nature and landscapes.

There are images here that will blow you away. They jump off the page -as to color, subject matter, and the interplay of colors and textures through running water, ice, light, fog and rain. With many of the images, it's these motifs all at the same time. I have about 5 dozen "coffee-table" travel photography books of various places, in English, German, and Finnish. This is one of the best I have if not the best. Other really good ones are any book by Sepp Schnuerer (try amazon.de) or Russ Heinl (try amazon.ca) or a series called "Kaunis Suomi" (Finland) if you can find it. Anyway, Craig is simply one of the absolute best of the genre of nature-landscape photographers, period.

If there were a "5 star +" rating in a genre, this gets it.

Just saw his show in Duluth.......2002-08-24

Greetings. Just returned from Duluth and saw an exhibit of his photos: very large and some are pretty incredible. The book is worth it. While a few of the images are sugar-sweet,"awe-inspiring" typical pretty but omni-present sunset orangy-pinky shots, others are really pretty exceptional. Pictures of just the water surface; picture of sky-water, vertical, darker greened-bronze colors - a real collectors item, fab. shot. If you can buy any of his original work, do it now. Get to Duluth.

Superior Images of Lake Superior.......2002-06-20

How many superlatives can I heap on this "coffee table" size compilation of Craig Blacklock's stunning photographs? Let me count the plates: there are 154 - taken at various times of the year, while journeying by kayak around Lake Superior. Each "chapter" is a segment in the journey and each plate is attributed to a point on the map. My favorites: plate 77, "Small island east of Rossport, December, 1985; and plate 94, "Devil's Chair (center island) Lake Superior Provincial Park,(Canada,) July 1991.

There's a message in these beautiful photos and essays. We must preserve natural balance. As Linda Benedict-Jones says in the Introduction: "...One of the specific wishes of Blacklock... is that the remaining undeveloped lake shoreline be kept for open access. When he silently glides for months on end around the periphery of the lake, he does it with the hope that his pictures will convince others to appreciate the lake as he does. Lake Superior is simply too profound as a spiritual resource to be guarded by a privileged few. Should these last open stretches be developed, they will forever be out of reach by the general public. We have learned precious little from the examples set for us by the Navajo (Dineh), the Dakota and the Anishinabe. We all know that Native Americans lived in harmony with the earth and believed that land could be neither bought nor sold since it belonged to all. Perhaps it is not too late to apply their wisdom to relatively small, yet hugely important, areas of land bordering the Great Lakes. Perhaps these Blacklock photographs will help preserve public access to Lake Superior's shores, as certain photographic efforts of his 19th Century predecessors helped to convince (the U.S.) Congress to establish national parklands of the Yosemite, Yellowstone, the Grand Tetons and others." Pass it on!

Unmatched natural splendor portrayed by peerless technique.......2001-09-27

In a roughly 8 year period, the author made several kayak trips along various parts of the Superior shoreline, hauling photographic equipment along and immersing himself in those wild, unspoiled scenes so spectacularly portrayed in the 154 plates that appear in this book. The results are well worth every penny of the 40-odd bucks this book costs, and then some. As a fellow photographer of nature, I can attest to the way one can use ground glass and film to convey his deep appreciation -- yes, even a spiritual bond -- with the outdoors as God made it. Blacklock's collection of 4x5 format images (with one 35 mm slide thrown in) of the Big Lake is not only visually vivid, but spiritually moving in a way few other published photo collections can perform.

Nowhere have I seen water, rock, ice, forest, fog and sun so splendidly blended and starkly contrasted at the same time, across an entire plate set. [Plate 33 is the most stunning portrayal of ice and sky together which I have ever seen -- National Geographic's Arctic photos included -- and easily in my top 5 favorite photographs of all time.] Most admirably, nowhere in any of the photos appears a man-made object that I could see. The author takes his efforts a step further by fully revealing his techniques -- right down to the camera, film and tripod brands, and his CMYK post-processing in Photoshop (not to alter, but instead to clean up, the imagery).

Having been all around Lake Superior, its rugged vastness revealed to my eyes but only feebly captured on film by comparison, I am in awe of the job Blacklock has done. The sky, rocks and waves there have such a rich story to tell; and this book masterfully allows that story to begin. It makes me determined to return someday, camera again in hand and Blacklock's methods in mind, to get far removed from the tracks of people, and to experience Superior at its raw, unrestrained best.

Some of the finest landscape images ever captured.......1998-12-22

From a photographer's view, this book contains many beautiful images found in Northern Michigan and Canada. The colors are impressive, the composition is both thoughtful and precise. I wish I had just a small portion of the authors talent and technique.

Lakescapes (Lake Superior Images) (Lake Superior Images)

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Lakescapes (Lake Superior Images) (Lake Superior Images)
Adventure Publications
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Lake Superior Country: 19th Century Travel and Tourism (MI) (Images of America)

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Lake Superior Country: 19th Century Travel and Tourism (MI) (Images of America)
Troy Henderson
Manufacturer: Arcadia Publishing
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Binding: Paperback

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What attracted 19th century travelers to the rugged landscape of Michiganís Upper Peninsula? Most travelers had to brave the frigid, gigantic, and the often-perilous Lake Superior to gain entrance to the Upper Peninsula. But although the lake and rugged terrain often made it difficult for travelers to traverse the Upper Peninsula, it also often made travel an adventurous and enjoyable occasion. ÝÝLake Superior Country: 19th Century Travel and Tourism to Michiganís Upper Peninsula will follow these 19th century travelers, from the explorers in search of land titles and valuable mineral deposits in the early part of the century, to ìliterary travelersî seeking to witness the romantic region made famous by Henry W. Longfellowís poem ìThe Song of Hiawatha,î to the sportsmen and sportswomen who found a bounty of wildlife and fishing grounds. It will also illustrate the various methods of travel undertaken by these people, from birch bark canoes, to steamers, to the railroads, and how these different methods of travel defined the overall tourist experience. ÝÝ

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North Shore (Lake Superior Images)
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0963499149

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Patterns (Lake Superior Images)
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Manufacturer: Blacklock Nature Photography
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0963499122

Apostle Islands: Collection (Lake Superior Images)

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Apostle Islands: Collection (Lake Superior Images)
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Binding: Card Book

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Images of the cutover: A historical geography of resource utilization in the Lake Superior region, 1845-1930 (RF monograph ; 76-15)

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Images of the cutover: A historical geography of resource utilization in the Lake Superior region, 1845-1930 (RF monograph ; 76-15)
Charles G Mahaffey
Manufacturer: Lake Superior Project, Center for Geographic Analysis, Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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