Harvest of a quiet eye: The natural world of John Burroughs : photos. and text selections from the writings of John Burroughs

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Harvest of a quiet eye: The natural world of John Burroughs : photos. and text selections from the writings of John Burroughs
John Burroughs
Manufacturer: Tamarack Press
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ASIN: 0915024063

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Salinity and the structure of benthic algae (periphyton) communities in streams of the southern Fort Union region, Montana
Loren L Bahls
Manufacturer: Water Quality Bureau, Environmental Sciences Division, Montana Dept. of Health and Environmental Sciences
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: B0006EBYQE

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No matter what your budget or whether it's your first trip or fifteenth, Fodor's Gold Guides get you where you want to go. In this completely up-to-date guide our experts who live in Germany give you the inside track, showing you all the things to see and do -- from must-see sights to off-the-beaten-path adventures, from shopping to outdoor fun. Fodor's Germany shows you hundreds of hotel and restaurant choices in all price ranges -- from budget-friendly B&Bs to luxury hotels, from casual eateries to the hottest new restaurants, complete with thorough reviews showing what makes each place special. The Smart Travel Tips A to Z section helps you take care of the nitty gritty with essential local contacts and great advice -- from how to take your mountain bike with you to what to do in an emergency. Plus, web links and mix-and-match itineraries make planning a snap.

"The king of guidebooks." - Newsweek

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Real danger in the world of make believe.

Fifteen year olds Jake and Peter land dream jobs: roles as skateboarding stuntboys on a movie set.

But sabotage points to a jealous friend -- but who? As if the pressure of performing on a movie set for a demanding director isn't enough, the boys have an uneasy relationship with three local skateboarding "toughs."

Adding to their problems is a BMX bike gang determined to use ramps from which they've been banned. They'll do anything to use the ramps including befriending Jake's sister.

Jake and Peter are coached by the town's new skate park manager -- a former X-Games champ. But his flock of misfit helpers adds to the intrigue.

When police chase down their street skating and someone lands in the hospital, the boys know it's time to get to the bottom of who has it in for them, and why.

Skateboard Stuntboys is an action-packed story that never stops rolling.

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Interesting, but a minor work.......2004-06-30

The Heian period in Japan is known for its flowering of women's writing. Lady Daibu was part of that efflorescence. In fact, among all of the memoirs that have lasted the millenium since that era, Daibu's work is distinctive for two reasons. First, it gives us a larger dose of poetry than other memoirs do.

More importantly, Lady Daibu's active period covers the end of the Heian era, the downfall of the Taira. It is almost maddening that women, by custom, wrote only about their direct experiences and emotional responses. 'Tales of the Heike' report that defining period in military and political terms. Daibu, instead, reports the loss of her Taira lover and the upwelling of feeling on seeing the foundation of his burned house. Her view from the court could have been so much more, but comes across as shallow and self-involved.

This memoir really is just a report of her emotional responses, generally in the form of five-line poems. Many aspects of this form were difficult for me to take in fully. For one thing, the poems often allude to other poems, famous in Heian times but now obscure. For another, dense, poetic writing often relied on 'pivot' words. Because of the language's structure, Japanese has many groups of words that have similar or identical sounds - puns, but used as a literary device for carrying multiple meanings. Of course, these can not be rendered into English except through ponderous footnotes. The forms of the ideographs also allow visual puns between words of similar written form, another subtlety that fails in translation. Although the translator provides copious notes, I felt as if I were watching some movie and had to have every joke explained to me.

As noted, this memoir starts before and ends after the events defining the end of the Heian period. Those events also define eras in Daibu's life: the Taira fell, and her Taira lover fell with the rest of the clan. From that point forward, her mood became uniformly bleak, maybe even clinically depressed.

Although interesting for its historical context, I don't get a lot of insight into Heian times from this work. The translation is a fine piece of scholarship. The annotations are plentiful and helpful, if sometimes dry. I give this four stars for competent rendering into modern English, but almost gave less for the weak content put into it by the original author.

Good book, if a little hard to follow at times........2002-11-02

I found it a little hard to follow, with the book alternating between blank-verse poetry and prose sections. Another thing that didn't help it was the seventy-seven-page introduction and the fifteen pages of syntax on the collection and collation of the works that make it up at the end. Overall, it was decent, and some of the poems were indeed touching, which bump it up that much more. Without that, I'd give it no more than three stars. But with it, it's a four-star book.

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Why and how people should be educated has, throughout history, preoccupied some of civilization's greatest minds. This unique work summarizes and analyzes the thinking on education of fifty individuals drawn from a time span covering 500 BC to the nineteenth century. Among those included are:
Confucius Plato St. Augustine Eamus John Wesley Immanuel Kant Mary Wollstonecaft Nietzche John Dewey Rudolf Steiner
Together with Fifty Contemporary Thinkers on Education, this book provides an intellectual history of educational thinking, through the ages. Each essay gives biographical information, an outline of the individual's principal achievements and activities, an assessment of his or her impact and influence, a list of their major writings and suggested further reading. Joy Palmer is Pro Vice-Chancellor of Durham University. She is a member of the IUCN Commission on Education and Communication, and is the author of numerous books on education and the environment. She is the editor of two other titles in Routledge's Key Guide series: Fifty Key Thinkers on the Environment and Fifty Contemporary Thinkers on Education.

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Deceptive title.......2007-05-05

I bought this book because I was doing research into Confucius and his influences on Japanese education. A title that states "From Confucius to Dewey" would lead one to believe that Confucius would receive a certain degree of attention.

There was too much biographical information on each of the "thinkers" covered. In some cases, the "thinker's" contributions to education were barely discussed. This was especially true in the case of Confucius, who only receives a couple of pages of attention, very little of which has to do with his massive contributions to educational theory. This was dissappointing, considering the headliner status he received in the title of the book.

Western "thinkers" are covered thoroughly enough for me to give a 3-star rating to this book.

Great resource........2003-03-30

This book is a great resource for those interested in education theory. The author provides the reader with a short overview of the thinking of each of the individuals covered. I particularly appreciate the international diversity represented in this book. I found the book provided my students with a more global perspective on education theory and motivated them to do more independent research on the topic. I recommend this book as a resource and a good introduction to education theory.

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Columbian Historical Novels Vol 13, Cuba Libre, a Story of the Hispano-American War, With Reading Courses Being a Complete History of the United States From the Time of Columbus to the Present Day
John R., Illustrated By Carter, Freeland A. Musick
Manufacturer: NY: R. H. Whitten, 1906
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000H0DASM

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CUBA IN WAR TIME
Richard Harding Davis Davis
Manufacturer: William Heinemann
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000G3LIUW

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Cuba in War Time
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Manufacturer: .R.H. Russell
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Cuba in War Time
Richard Harding Davis
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ASIN: B000NOX8RA

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CUBA IN WAR TIME
Richard Harding Davis
Manufacturer: R. H. Russell
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ASIN: B000MZ8ZNM

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Cuba in War Time
Harding Richard Davis
Manufacturer: IndyPublish
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 142804308X

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Cuba in war time
Richard Harding Davis
Manufacturer: R.H. Russell
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ASIN: B00087FGJU

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But since the revolution came to Cuba the beauty of the landscape is blotted with the grim and pitiable signs of war. The sugar cane has turned to a dirty brown where the fire has passed through it, the centrals are black ruins, and the adobe houses and the railroad stations are roofless, and their broken windows stare pathetically at you like blind eyes. War cannot alter the sunshine, but the smoke from the burning huts and the blazing corn fields seems all the more sad and terrible when it rises into such an atmosphere, and against so soft and beautiful a sky.

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When the revolution broke out in Cuba two years ago, the Spaniards at once began to build tiny forts, and continued to add to these and improve those already built, until now the whole island, which is eight hundred miles long and averages eighty miles in width, is studded as thickly with these little forts as is the sole of a brogan with iron nails. It is necessary to keep the fact of the existence of these forts in mind in order to understand the situation in Cuba at the present time, as they illustrate the Spanish plan of campaign, and explain why the war has dragged on for so long, and why it may continue indefinitely. The last revolution was organized by the aristocrats; the present one is a revolution of the puebleo, and, while the principal Cuban families are again among the leaders, with them now are the representatives of the "plain people," and the cause is now a common cause in working for the success of which all classes of Cubans are desperately in earnest.

The history and conquest of the Philippines and our other island possessions;: Embracing our war with the Filipinos in 1899, together with a complete history ... from their discovery to the present time

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The history and conquest of the Philippines and our other island possessions;: Embracing our war with the Filipinos in 1899, together with a complete history ... from their discovery to the present time
Alden March
Manufacturer: John C. Winston
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ASIN: B00085KX7W

The Life and Times of Fidel Castro (Life & Times of)

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The Life and Times of Fidel Castro (Life & Times of)
Esther Selsdon
Manufacturer: Chelsea House Publications
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ASIN: 0791046362

The Mystery of the Maine.(history of the Spanish-American War, 1898)(Brief Article): An article from: New York Times Upfront

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The Mystery of the Maine.(history of the Spanish-American War, 1898)(Brief Article): An article from: New York Times Upfront
Jack Beaudoin
Manufacturer: Scholastic, Inc.
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This digital document is an article from New York Times Upfront, published by Scholastic, Inc. on November 1, 1999. The length of the article is 946 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The Mystery of the Maine.(history of the Spanish-American War, 1898)(Brief Article)
Author: Jack Beaudoin
Publication: New York Times Upfront (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 1, 1999
Publisher: Scholastic, Inc.
Volume: 132 Issue: 5 Page: 26

Article Type: Brief Article

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This new edition of the Carnegie Endowment bestseller--selected by Choice as "an outstanding academic book of 1995"--now also discusses the interventions in Haiti and Bosnia, the 1998 crisis (and earlier skirmishes) with Iraq, and the decision to not intervene to halt apparent genocide in Central Africa.

In the core original study, which draws upon twelve cases including Somalia, Lebanon, Panama, Grenada, and the Gulf War Richard Haass suggests political and military guidelines for potential U.S. military interventions ranging from peacekeeping and humanitarian operations to preventive strikes and all-out warfare.

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Indepth and informative.......2000-02-05

Haass using timely examples to reinforce his arguments. Most recent major U.S. interventions are included in his book. He does a very good job of detailing why the U.S. should intervene and how the U.S. should. He has many appendices, which contain some very hard to find documents. It's easy to read, not like some other PoliSci texts I've read, and he keeps you interested throughout the book.

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Explore the conservation implications of recent armed conflicts in the tropical forest regions of Asia, Africa, and Latin America!

From the lowland rainforests of the Colombian Amazon to the rugged habitat of Rwanda's mountain gorillas, civil, ethnic, and international wars have had severe impacts on tropical forests and the communities they sustain. The reemergence of war and the persistence of its impacts have led many conservationists to reassess their efforts and adapt their strategies to a new set of responsibilities and urgent challenges. War and Tropical Forests: Conservation in Areas of Armed Conflict explores these challenges and the lessons learned by conservationists working in conflict zones around the world. It combines case studies and comparative analyses by leading experts in ecological research, environmental policy, and conservation field programs to provide insight into the environmental dimensions of recent social, political, and humanitarian crises.

War and Tropical Forests reviews lessons learned from conflict zones around the world and explores:
the potential of conservation to reduce the frequency, duration, and impact of war
preparation of conservation programs and local communities for crises
strategies for maintaining conservation capacity during times of conflict
the underlying political and economic factors that fuel war
legal mechanisms for addressing wartime damage to tropical forests
building partnerships amidst civil strife and political upheaval
This essential book also examines:
the Indonesian military's role in illegal logging and deforestation
violent conflict and gorilla poaching in the Democratic Republic of Congo
armed movements and forest conservation in Nicaragua's largest protected area
and much more!

War and Tropical Forests also addresses the role of militaries in the inequitable control and illicit use of forest resources, the environmental impact of refugees, the growing social and environmental costs of efforts to eradicate drug crops, and the impact of conflict on protected area management in the habitat of Africa's endangered great apes.

War and Tropical Forests is an essential resource for conservation practitioners and policymakers, as well as anyone involved with human rights, conflict resolution, rural development, international law, or foreign relations.

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