Texas Wildscapes: Gardening for Wildlife

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Creating backyard habitat to attract wildlife is what this book is all about. We yearn to get back to nature and to experience the sights and sounds of species other than our own. Watching hummingbirds flitter from flower to flower, chickadees and titmice snatch seeds from a feeder, and dazzling butterflies tilt lazily through the air as they scout for food is indeed satisfying to the soul. To observe such wonders, however, we need to entice the presence of the creatures that call these marvels into existence. Expansive, well-manicured yards with only the occasional tall tree do not support a great diversity of wildlife. Multiple layers of vegetation and native grasses with varied spacing between patches provide the heterogeneity that different species of wildlife require, while bringing pleasure to the eye. This book tells you how and what to plant to provide food and shelter for native wildlife. Most important, it does so by furnishing lists of plants appropriate to the specific region of Texas you live in. (Texas is a big state, and its plant and animal life changes considerably as you go north and south, or east and west.) Beautiful color photographs of different kinds of gardens and the many kinds of birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, and invertebrates that can be attracted to them are generously displayed throughout the informative text. Finally, your backyard can also become a certified Official Texas Wildscape Site with its own weatherproof sign and a personalized certificate for you, sent by Texas Parks and Wildlife. The book contains instructions for applying.

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Great book; I made an index for it.......2007-09-17

As various people have said, this is a great book but is handicapped by the lack of an index. I made an index, and it's on my Website (http://richter.haus.org/Wildscapes) in either Excel or PDF format, if you'd like to download it.

There are 2 Excel spreadsheets: one is an index to plant families, and all the information fits on one printed page. The second is an index to individual plant species, and takes up about 8 printed pages. Each spreadsheet has 2 or 3 worksheets containing the same information sorted in different ways (for example, by common name on one worksheet, and by scientific name on another worksheet).

If you don't have Excel, or would rather not deal with it, there are also PDF files that you can print out. There is one PDF for each worksheet; that is, for each different sort order of the index.

Enjoy! This really is a fantastic book. - Susan

Searchable Index Available.......2006-04-18

From the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department:

"Those who have purchased the book can obtain a searchable index for the tables by sending an e-mail to nature@tpwd.state.tx.us. If you do not have access to e-mail send a note to:

Texas Parks & Wildlife Department
Wildlife Diversity Program
4200 Smith School Road
Austin, TX 78744

A good reference volume.......2004-07-04

This book starts out telling you how to create a "Wildscape" in Texas. It proceeds to divide the state into 10 "ecoregions" (with and extremely detailed map by county...necessary in Texas!) There is a chapter on Basics of Wildlife Habitat and one on Designing your Wildscape. Then it gets to the good stuff...

Part two is divided into categories of wildlife: birds; hummingbirds specifically; mammals, reptiles and amphibians; and insects and spiders. They cover common to Texas members of each group.

Part three is "troubleshooting". Unwanted pests, gardening troublespots and warnings about invasive exotics are included here.

Part four is more than half of the book and it's the appendix. There are detailed charts on all bird, hummingbird, mammal, reptile & amphibian, and native plants available in Texas, including description, habitat, region, etc.

The strength of this book is the huge amount of information provided. If you are looking to attract a certain type of bird, there's a chart to tell you dimensions for a nest box for it and it's habitat and mounting instructions. Hummingbirds? A chart for favored plants, detailing regions plant can be found in. Butterflies? A chart for common species and their larval and nectar source plants.

The weaknesses are indexing and photographs. There is no index, so be prepared to search through charts for specific information. There are few photographs, mainly concentrating on wildlife and plants to avoid. Nevertheless, with a good plant guide or knowledge of local plants, this book really hits the spot if you are trying to attract wildlife!

Impossible to Use........2003-02-12

This books lists Texas wildlife. If you don't know the order and family in which your plant or animal is taxonomically placed, you will not find your it in this book. There is no index at all so, except for an accomplished scientist who already knows all the scientific names, this book is absolutley no help.

The basics are here but navigating the tables is strenuous........2001-08-07

The chapters are well written,although most could have been a little more comprehensive. I was doing fine until I got to the Appendix. It's easy to get lost here. The tables themselves are comprehensive, but not easy to navigate if you don't know your family names, or if you don't know the name of the item (i.e.plant/bird etc.) you're looking for. No index at all. At least it does have a glossary but for the life of me, why do all the authors assume that everyone knows how to pronounce some of the not so ordinary.

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Designing a wildscape
Diana Foss
Manufacturer: Texas Parks & Wildlife, Nongame and Urban Program
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B0006QN52I

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In her luminous inquiry into the intricate connections among work, place, and people, Frieda Knobloch explores the lives of two Rocky Mountain botanists, Aven Nelson (1859-1952) and Ruth Ashton Nelson (1896-1987). Aven was a professor of botany at the University of Wyoming for many years; Ruth compiled field guides to Rocky Mountain plants and wrote articles on botany for magazines. The two met and married when Aven was in his seventies and Ruth was in her mid thirties, and they developed a symbiotic partnership that joined work and play, learning and companionship. Into this relatively straightforward reconstruction of two lives Knobloch blends the history of her own life as a scholar and an amateur naturalist, her own journal entries, and her letters written to Ruth to create a transformative environmental auto/biography.

Moving back and forth smoothly between different voices and forms, Knobloch makes a strong case for the ways in which the interests and pleasures—what she calls the matters of the heart—that motivate researchers shape the knowledge they produce. With a paradigm-breaking, cross-disciplinary combination of scholarly craft and literary nonfiction, she has written a prose poem dedicated to the nature of work and the work of nature.

Botanical Companions is a bold and lively reworking of academic genres that will intrigue readers interested in environmental history, ecocriticism, cultural studies, American studies, and the natural history of the Rocky Mountain West.

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roots that bind and limbs that touch.......2006-02-01

The trunk of this book is the unlikely marriage of two botanists, one in his 70s and the wife in her 30s. This raises the question of what binds people together. The answer is plants. Aven Nelson was one of the most distinguished botanists of the American West, doing major exploring at the end of the 19th century when the romantic Humboldtian natural history explorer tradition was still alive. But the relationship of Aven and Ruth is only the starting point for a book of ruminations on questions of larger bindings, most importantly what binds people to a place or to the Earth as a whole. The Nelsons were on the fringe of the academic world, but they had a much richer natural realm than the botanists headquartered in botanical capitals like Columbia University in New York City. Aven Nelson expressed his priorities as "the lives of men and women shall be fuller and richer because they have touched hands as it were wih a few of the lovable creations and creatures of the great uiverse." The author, Frieda Knobloch, a westerner herself, interweaves the Nelson's story with her own experiences and reflections on what binds her to the Nelsons and to the land. This book portrays science as very much an affair of the heart, of people obsessed with things they love, of imperfect people and institutions, but finally as something that has crucial things to teach the human race about living on Earth. The form of the book is very unusual, blending sections of letters, journals, biographical links, theory, and personal meditations. It's all great food for the imagination.

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Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana, and biologists like fruit flies. Evolutionary geneticist and science journalist Martin Brookes explores the not-quite-microscopic world of Drosophila in Fly: The Unsung Hero of 20th-Century Science. Instantly familiar to any student of high school biology, the fruit fly is one of the most thoroughly studied organisms in the world; far more is known about its genetics and behavior than about those of our own species. Brookes tackles his tiny subjects with an enthusiastic wit, sharing tales of his own and others' lab work dating back to the 19th century. As his story unfolds, the spirit of scientific investigation shines through, with all its reliance on blind chance and quirky obsessions.

Back in the late 1970's, extreme mutants were all the rage. Take a trip round a hip and happening fruit fly laboratory and you might have been forgiven for thinking that you had stumbled across a fruit fly house of horrors. In the search for new mutants, flies were being force-fed mutagenic chemicals and were leaving a trail of disfigured descendants in their wake.

The interested reader will get insight not just into the scientific process, but also into the life of the fly itself. Birth, death, mating, learning--just about every aspect of the creature's life has been documented meticulously, and that level of detail can't help but yield some juicy bits. Though we find their feeding habits distasteful and their courtship maddeningly complex, maybe flies aren't so different from us, after all. Brookes's enthusiasm is catching, and Fly will send readers running to their kitchens to catch a glimpse of these scientific superstars. --Rob Lightner

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There's a buzz in the air, the sound of a billion wings vibrating to the tune of scientific success. In biology labs across the world, fruit flies are turning up answers to some of the basic questions of life. It's business as usual for the fly, which for generations has been defining biology's major landmarks. From genetics to development, behavior to aging, and evolution to the origin of species, the fruit fly has been a key player in some of the twentieth century's greatest biological discoveries.Techniques to pinpoint genes that play a role in human disease depend on genetic mapmaking principles first established with the fly. It was experiments on fruit flies that opened our eyes to the dangers of radiation to human health. In fact, everything from gene therapy to cloning to the Human Genome Project is built on the foundation of fruit fly research. Despite its many achievements, the fruit fly remains an unsung hero in the history of science. At last, here is a book that gives the fly its long overdue credit.In a highly original, witty, and irreverent style, Martin Brookes takes us through successive stages in the life cycle of the fly, each illustrating an important concept in biology. Some, such as the fundamentals of heredity, are well established; others, such as sexual warfare, learning, and memory, are still in their infancy. But whether flies are getting high on crack cocaine, enjoying the pleasures and pains of a boozy night out, being trained by punishment and reward, or struggling with insomnia, this book provides a glimpse of how one short life has informed almost every aspect of human existence. The result is a broad introduction to biology with insights into the practical realities of science.Often dismissed as irrelevant outside academic circles, the fruit fly, through this distinctive biography, will come to be recognized for what it really is: an icon of twentieth-century science and a window on our own biological world.

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Fly .......2007-01-07

An interesting book, a bit light on the details. Light hearted view of fly genetics, an easy read, certainly worth a look. Not being a carbon based lifeform, I find it a bit difficult to relate to, but interesting non the less. ;-) RR

Great Historical Overview of 20th Century Biology.......2005-10-16

I very much enjoyed this book. It was a fascinating overview of 20th century biology and genetics and had many vivid illustrations of the principals of evolution. The book was stuffed full of amusing anecdotes that helped the non-scientist understand scientific concepts. The anecdotes also help make a book that could have dry fascinating.

Brookes is a surprisingly good writer with a wry sense of humor. He has a unique ability to put complicated concepts into a context the layman can understand.

The book uses the history of the fruit fly research to illustrate the major theme in genetics, evolution, and biology. ALong the way Brookes corrects a number of popular misconception, such as the definition of a species as a population with "intrinsic barriers which prevented them from interbreeding with other species." I had no idea that this definition was in dispute. The section on the Hawaiian Islands as a natural evolutionary laboratory on par with the Galapagos was also quite interesting.

I greatly enjoyed this book and learned a great deal. I heartily recommend it and am anxious to find other works by this author.

I highly recommend this book. .......2005-08-18

This is the best science writing I've read in a long time. Martin Brookes does an amazing job of weaving together the history and science behind the fruit fly and making it incredibly interesting.

The fruit fly has been a key player in the advancement of evolutionary biology, genetics, and developmental biology during the past century. Brookes manages to follow the story of the fruit fly from lab to lab, telling jokes and interesting anecdotes along the way.

By the end of the book, the reader is convinced that the seemingly uninportant and pesky fruit fly is not only irreplacable in science, but can somehow tell us something about our own lives.

I highly recommend this book not only to scientists and science students, but to the layperson who wants to learn some basic biology and some scientific history.

Interesting, fun, yet informative.........2003-09-12

I'm doing research with fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster) myself. And this book was very interesting - telling me the hidden stories of genetics I didn't know, which I couldn't get from scientific journals. I think it's a great book for both laymen and scientists.

A Lightweight Intro to Modern Exprimental Genetics.......2003-07-28

This is the very interesting history of the research of genetics, evolution, and biology using the very versatile tool Drosophilia melanogaster. However, it is written for a non-scientific audience. There are numerous puns and jokes about the humble fruit fly and the explanation of genes and alleles is reduced to an analogy of shoes on people's feet. This may help people who have absolutly no science background understand the subject, but I found the poor analogies to be distracting.

On the other hand, the history was absorbing. How were maps of genes created before fancy sequencing machines? The answer lies in the close study of thousands of generations of fruit flys and studying their mutations. Many discoveries of basic genes that are present in all life forms are first found in the fruit fly. Many more discoveries are yet to be made.

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FLY: THE UNSUNG HERO OF TWENTIETH-CENTURY SCIENCE
Martin Brookes
Manufacturer: Harpercollins
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000J3UFK8

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Photoconductivity in polymers: An interdisciplinary approach

Manufacturer: Technomic Pub. Co
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Photoconductivity in Polymers: An Interdisciplinary Approach.
A.V. Patsis
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000M43SIK

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The study of wavelets has grown tremendously over the past decade and found myriad applications in areas such as image processing, signal processing, data compression, and numerical methods. This volume contains articles by eminent mathematicians on aspects of wavelet theory. These chapters include a systematic study of the approximation properties of neural networks and a look at several applications where classical approaches were found to be inadequate, such as the numerical solution of sparse matrix equations and the construction of wavelets using spline functions, but supported only on a compact interval and

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Mr. Carter the Founding Father Ahead of his Time

History for Some... Legacy for others

Books like this are why I love history

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The First Emancipator: The Forgotten Story of Robert Carter, the Founding Father Who Freed His Slaves
Andrew Levy
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ASIN: 0375508651
Release Date: 2005-04-26

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Robert Carter III, the grandson of Tidewater legend Robert “King” Carter, was born into the highest circles of Virginia’s Colonial aristocracy. He was neighbor and kin to the Washingtons and Lees and a friend and peer to Thomas Jefferson and George Mason. But on September 5, 1791, Carter severed his ties with this glamorous elite at the stroke of a pen. In a document he called his Deed of Gift, Carter declared his intent to set free nearly five hundred slaves in the largest single act of liberation in the history of American slavery before the Emancipation Proclamation.

How did Carter succeed in the very action that George Washington and Thomas Jefferson claimed they fervently desired but were powerless to effect? And why has his name all but vanished from the annals of American history? In this haunting, brilliantly original work, Andrew Levy traces the confluence of circumstance, conviction, war, and passion that led to Carter’s extraordinary act.

At the dawn of the Revolutionary War, Carter was one of the wealthiest men in America, the owner of tens of thousands of acres of land, factories, ironworks–and hundreds of slaves. But incrementally, almost unconsciously, Carter grew to feel that what he possessed was not truly his. In an era of empty Anglican piety, Carter experienced a feverish religious visionthat impelled him to help build a church where blacks and whites were equals.

In an age of publicly sanctioned sadism against blacks, he defied convention and extended new protections and privileges to his slaves. As the war ended and his fortunes declined, Carter dedicated himself even more fiercely to liberty, clashing repeatedly with his neighbors, his friends, government officials, and, most poignantly, his own family.

But Carter was not the only humane master, nor the sole partisan of freedom, in that freedom-loving age. Why did this troubled, spiritually torn man dare to do what far more visionary slave owners only dreamed of? In answering this question, Andrew Levy teases out the very texture of Carter’s life and soul–the unspoken passions that divided him from others of his class, and the religious conversion that enabled him to see his black slaves in a new light.

Drawing on years of painstaking research, written with grace and fire, The First Emancipator is a portrait of an unsung hero who has finally won his place in American history. It is an astonishing, challenging, and ultimately inspiring book.

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Great story... but..........2007-07-04

This is a wonderful story about a little known historical figure. The writing is a bit dry, however... reminds me of some of the doctoral theses I've read.

Mr. Carter the Founding Father Ahead of his Time.......2007-05-14

It is a great irony that Mr. Carter, who freed his slaves when Washington and Jefferson did not, is not well known. He paid the price from "Telling the Truth but Had to Run!" George Washington put down his competition in the whiskey business with the US Army while Jefferson's secret family is now well known. Perhaps Mr. Carter and his dad will receive belated kudos when it is possible, once again, to state the truth in DC! It all makes one think of the great American WW1 reporter and his book: "Tell the Truth and Run!"
Alas, how not much has changed in DC politics since 1776! The greatest irony is that Lincoln, a devout racist and separatist, is credited falsely with ending slavery in the USA; the truth is that Lincoln "freed" them only as a last resort hoping for a military advantage when he was very close to losing the War for Southern Independence; (thanks Ted Turner)!

History for Some... Legacy for others.......2006-07-04

As a descendant of two families that were a part Carter's manumission, I found this work to be as enlightening and moving as the first time I saw a microfilm copy of the "Deed of Gift ". I pray that this work will become a standard in the library of every person that enjoys the study of American History. It is a testimate to the legacy of my family and the other descendants of the 500 manumitted by Robert Carter the III.

Books like this are why I love history.......2006-07-04

I waited awhile to write this review. I needed some time to think over the impact this was having on me. It's a powerful and well written story. And I admit one of the things I enjoyed most was that Robert Carter was complex. He was not one dimensional. I'm not sure I would have enjoyed spending time with him, but I'm sure I would have found him interesting. Tomorrow I'll be watching '1776'. I first saw the play when I was a child and it became a family tradition that we always watched it together on the 4th of July. The scenes where including the topic of slavery in the Declaration are going to appear different for me this time. Tom Jefferson's "intent" to free his slaves will sound more shallow than usual. Robert Carter is a hero for me. He did what was right. And I'll be thinking of him on the 4th.

Food for Thought.......2005-11-19

This writer has brought together a lot of material, but, for me, this was not a smooth read. Maybe it was details (like his wife wanted him to give her "a park and stock it"... a murder in his church is mentioned and dropped... is he rich or totally in hock?) that made this hard for me to follow from paragraph to paragraph but not on the whole. I agree with another reviewer that pictures, maps (where were these plantations in relations to each other) a family tree, etc. would have helped.

I was not aware how difficult it was to emancipate slaves in Revolutionary and Post-Rev. Virginia. All the handwringing of our glorified VA patriots could have been spent stemming manumission laws.. or at least tempering them.

It would seem there would be nothing more to say about Lincoln, and pre-emancipation studies are certainly fertile territory. Perhaps Levy's book will inspire more research in this area.

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The First Emancipator: the Forgotten Story of Robert Carter, the Founding Father Who Freed His Slaves.(Book review): An article from: Journal of Southern History
Kirt Von Daacke
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AUGUST STORM: THE SOVIET 1945 STRATEGIC OFFENSIVE IN MANCHURIA. Leavenworth Papers, No. 7.
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What can straight people do to support gay rights? How much work or sacrifice must allies take on to do their share? Ian Ayres and Jennifer Brown--law professors, activists, husband and wife--propose practical strategies for helping straight men and women advocate for and with the gay community.

Straightforward advances a thesis that is at once simple and groundbreaking: to make real progress at the central flashpoints of controversy--marriage rights, employment discrimination, gays in the military, exclusion from the Boy Scouts, and religious controversies over homosexuality--straight as well as gay people need to speak up and act for equality. Ayres and Brown take aim at both the hearts and minds of the general public, focusing on strategies that can change the incentives and therefore the behavior of the recalcitrant.

The book is peppered with stories about real people and the decisions they have faced at home, in church, at work, in school, and in politics. It is also filled with creative legal and economic strategies for influencing public and corporate decision-making. For example, Ayres and Brown propose the development of a "fair employment mark" to help companies advertise inclusive employment policies. They also show how a simple pledge to vacation in states that legalize gay marriage can create powerful incentives for legislatures to amend their marriage laws.

Engagingly written and sure to spark debate, Straightforward promises to change the way America thinks about--and participates in--the gay rights movement.

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Mostly Sensible.......2007-06-22

This book provides mostly sensible advice about how to promote gay rights without unnecessarily provoking opponents, and sometimes (but not consistently) without requiring unusual effort on the part of gay rights supporters. Many of the ideas in the book can be applied to other causes that mainly require changing public opinion.

They occasionally go overboard and suggest fighting privileges that don't exist. For instance, they mention favorably advice that heterosexuals boycott marriage until it's available for all. It might make sense to ask heterosexuals to not have their marriages legally recognized (although I doubt the effectiveness of such a strategy). But the suggestion that wedding ceremonies be boycotted as long as gays are excluded from them is silly - wedding ceremonies are very much available to gays today.

Their Fair Employment Mark, under which employers would volunteer to enable employees sue them if they discriminate, would be a great idea under a sufficiently fair legal system. But it's unclear why an employer would consider the U.S. legal system sufficiently fair to agree to this.

WOW.......2005-09-29

I am a student government senator at a small community college and we have been given the task of rewriting our discrimination policy. This will be a fight but I am glad to know that our library thought enough of students input to order this great book. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in not only this cause but others. The ideas can be put to use on so many other issues.

Privalage gone amok!.......2005-09-27

I haven't even finished every word but am sartled, amazed even more involved (if possible)! I am now in the"privalaged" world and cannot live without working to insure that ALL families get an "even playing field". The extent of marriage discrimination is appalling! What can be realized by the privalaged (hetro marrieds and singles)and what can be acted upon to alter the inequality is here in this book/manual and I recommed that everyone read it!

Many ideas, many ways to help.......2005-08-21

I'm giving this book to all my straight friends and relatives, and I'm going to give it as a wedding present to straight people getting married. There are just so many ideas in this book, from radical to relaxed.

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Christians play a crucial role in maintaining the environment as stewards of God's creation. Calvin B. DeWitt, a nationally recognized authority on environmental issues, describes in detail the wonders of God's creation, how fallen humanity and modern society have abused it, and how Christians can respond. Discussion questions are included for use in group settings.

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New Perspectives on Christian Environmentalism.......2006-11-06

DeWitt offers a compact but practical handbook for discussing Christian environmental stewardship in the church. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in broadening their views of what it means to be pro-environment in the body of Christ.

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