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Exploring agriculture: An introduction to food and agriculture
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Exploring agriculture: An introduction to food and agriculture
Everett F Evans
Manufacturer: Prentice-Hall
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ASIN: 0132960044

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Exploring Agriculture: An Introduction to Food and Agriculture (Prentice-Hall Agriculture Series)
Roy Luther Donahue , and James E. Christiansen
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0132958996

Exploring agriculture: An introduction to food and agriculture
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Exploring agriculture: An introduction to food and agriculture
Everett F Evans
Manufacturer: Prentice-Hall
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OIN06E

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Important for Everyone.......2003-04-09

In addition to the other comments made by earlier reviewers, with which I agree, this book provides an essential and extremely thoughtful look at the varied roles played by language and communication media in culture. During the brief narrative Jiles engages with film, theater, radio, television, newspapers, and several modern (English, French) and native (Cree, Ojibway) languages. She also transitions between "native" and modern technologies and living styles. Her extremely canny and wry observations on these phenomena provide more than they seem on first glance. This book is a deep meditation on the very nature of modernity, media and the social nature of language.

Casting a Spell.......2002-06-15

Paulette Jiles cast a wonderful spell over me with North Spirit, and when I awoke, I wanted to return to the world of the Cree and Ojibway: a world of simplicity, honesty, humour, community, connectedness, blessed silence. A world that perhaps never was in the white person's world. North Spirit comes at a time when I am shedding as much material wealth as possible. A time when I seek spirit within. A time when I would like to return to elders telling stories of the past, a time of magic. A time I would like to dwell in the northern woods. Paulette Jiles is magic, and she lyrically, poignantly shares her wondrous sojourn amongst the Cree and Obijway with eloquence, humour, compassion, elegance, care. A beautiful read. A keeper. I will visit North Spirit and Paulette again and again. It connects me with what feels right, real, and true.

Love and respect for the native peoples of Canada.......2000-11-11

Paulette Jiles, the author, an American from Missouri, went to Toronto with a draft dodger in the 1970s. When the boyfriend dumped her, she stayed on in Canada and got a job in Northern Ontario running a community radio station for the Ojibway Indians. She lived in a log cabin, learned their language, and learned how to survive during the long cold northern winters. Later, she became a reporter on the Indian language newspaper, writing about forest fires, crimes of passion, and serious bush plane accidents.

Throughout, her love and respect for the Indian peoples shine through her writing as she brings legends and traditions to the printed page. Her quirky personality as well as the world around becomes very real, as does her own inner journey.

She is a reporter and describes what she sees. Perhaps that is why not every character she comes into contact with is fully developed. But there are some Indian elders whose stories she captured in just a few short pages.

And her descriptions of the danger and excitement of being dependent on tiny bush planes made me feel her anxieties.

I thank Ms. Jiles for bringing her experiences to the pages of this book and introducing me to these northern native peoples.

I was up until three in the morning.......2000-11-08

best read ever! an adveture story as well as profound reflections, there's not another book like it.

A Story You Won't Want To Put Down.......2000-09-25

In North Spirit, Paulette Jiles has this amazing non-patronizing voice, which at the same time is conscious that she is a white person writing about Indian people who are letting her-this often goofy white person-see herself as a white person watching Indian people and being watched by them. You get the picture. The book is never sentimental or dismissive; the book never stumbles. I love the fact that she can poke fun at herself learning to be a white Indian, as seen through the eyes of her Ojibway and Cree friends and co-workers who help her to help herself in the new environment. I recommend this highly.

North Spirit: Sojourns Among the Cree and Ojibway

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North Spirit: Sojourns Among the Cree and Ojibway
Paulette Jiles
Manufacturer: Hungry Mind
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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In 1974, when Paulette Jiles was first sent by the CBC to work as a journalist in Big Trout Lake, a village without radio or television in remote northern Ontario, she didn't know a bush plane from a backpack.

North Spirit is based on the seven years Jiles spent working with the northern Cree and Ojibway peoples, who call themselves Anishinabe. This lyrical, witty and reflective book evokes a time when new technology is beginning to clash with the traditioinal culture.

At its center is the author's search for the meaning of the remote and sometimes terrifying Oda-Ka-Daun, or Stern Paddler, who moves his cosmic vessel through the heavens. As she seeks to unravel this mystery, Jiles recounts her many adventures among the Anishinabe people and reveals the enduring legacy of their northern mythology.

A fourth new species of Nicotiana from Peru, (University of California publications in botany)
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A fourth new species of Nicotiana from Peru, (University of California publications in botany)
Thomas Harper Goodspeed
Manufacturer: University of California Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

Smoking | Recovery | Health, Mind & Body | Subjects | Books
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ASIN: B0007ETJLK

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Inaccurate, poorly organized.......1999-05-13

I live in Nashville. The first thing I noticed when I read this book is a MAJOR mistake. The Cumberland River runs through Nashville, not the Columbia River, which is in the Norwthwest. There are other mistakes as well.

Many of the most interesting attractions in Middle Tennessee have been completely omitted from the book. However, there are twelve pages dedicated to a walking tour of the Stones River Battlefield. This is exactly the number of pages devoted to all of the attractions in Nashville!

Bratz: Will Work for Fashion (Bratz)
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Mind-numbing junk

Bratz: Will Work for Frumpy, Ugly Dress (Bratz)

This is a great book

This is a really fun book

You are crazy!

Bratz: Will Work for Fashion (Bratz)
Nancy E. Krulik
Manufacturer: Grosset & Dunlap
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0448435500

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Mind-numbing junk.......2006-02-08

What the heck is wrong with you people? There is so much wonderful literature out there (had you ever heard of CS Lewis before the film came out?), yet this crappy merchandise is all you are interested in.

It's pointless, it's tacky, and I immediately gave it to my cousin after about three pages to sell in her yard sale. The writing is bland and offers no variety or excitement. The plot is that Cloe doesn't like her now unfashionable dress and, of course, because fashion should be our number-one priority in life, she knows that should she be seen in it, disaster would surely befall the world. Oh my gawd. What a heart-stopper.

I guess then you could boil down my arguments as to why you should burn this book into two:
1.) There is so much lovely fiction out there that will really inspire and delight your kids, so why are you buying this? It's just merchandise, and it screams it.
2.) The main character is so shallow it's painful. O God of Teenyboppers, show us mercy.

Bratz: Will Work for Frumpy, Ugly Dress (Bratz).......2005-11-09

In this book, Chloe sees a very ugly looking dress that's "in" and she throws away her "out of style" dress for that "in" dress, and refuses to wear the "outs" because someone might make fun of her! Stupid! This is a friggin kids book, and Bratz would make a HORRIBLE role model, making 3 year olds afraid of wearing dresses in public that aren't "stylish." NOTE TO PARENTS "DON'T MAKE NOSELESS FISHFACED FREAKS YOUR KIDS' ROLE MODELS!"

This is a great book.......2005-06-27

This book is not boring at all. And also, Cloe wants a new dress, whats so bad about that? And it does teach you that your friends are more important then money. They even put together a dress for Cloe to wear, and that was sweet. And I love this book and MGA should keep on writing more stories. This book is awsome. I have it and I loved it. Bratz rule!!!!

This is a really fun book.......2005-06-06

Don't listen to those people they're just jealous of the Bratz. This book rocks your socls off!

You are crazy!.......2005-05-20

What are you talking about? This book rocks! Buy it! Read it!

1,500 Great Gift Ideas
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1,500 Great Gift Ideas
Lorraine Bodger
Manufacturer: Andrews McMeel Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0740738208

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Through a rich interpretation of the remarkable photographs W. E. B. Du Bois compiled for the American Negro Exhibit at the 1900 Paris Exposition, Shawn Michelle Smith reveals the visual dimension of the color line that Du Bois famously called “the problem of the twentieth century.” Du Bois’s prize-winning exhibit consisted of three albums together containing 363 black-and-white photographs, mostly of middle-class African Americans from Atlanta and other parts of Georgia. Smith provides an extensive analysis of the images, the antiracist message Du Bois conveyed by collecting and displaying them, and their connection to his critical thought. She contends that Du Bois was an early visual theorist of race and racism and demonstrates how such an understanding makes the important concepts he developed—including double consciousness, the color line, the Veil, and second sight—available to visual culture and African American studies scholars in powerful new ways.

Smith reads Du Bois’s photographs in relation to other turn-of-the-century images such as scientific typologies, criminal mugshots, racist caricatures, and lynching photographs. By juxtaposing these images with reproductions from Du Bois’s exhibition archive, Smith shows how Du Bois deliberately challenged racist representations of African Americans. Emphasizing the importance of comparing multiple visual archives, Photography on the Color Line reinvigorates understandings of the stakes of representation and the fundamental connections between race and visual culture in the United States.

Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay
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A LIFE CHANGING READ

Attention to Detail

Beautiful Swimmers

Entertaining and Educational

It Takes You There....

Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay
William W. Warner , John Barth , and Author
Manufacturer: Back Bay Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Nature & Ecology | Science | Subjects | Books
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ASIN: 0316923354

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A LIFE CHANGING READ.......2007-05-29

Growing up in Northern Virginia I always had a vague sense of the crab's popularity, both for dining and as a sort of a local mascot for people who live near the Bay. However, I had only eaten them at my aunt's house in Benedict, MD. and thought them to be strange and hard to eat. They made me feel inferior some how not knowing the technique and how exactly my aunt was able to come up with these bushels during the warm summer months. I dedicated last summer to learning all about the Bay and the blue crab and the wonderful people who make a living off them. I was transformed with the knowledge from the book that explains so many details about the life of the crab, the watermen and their families. The author is so creative with the insights he reveals. After reading this book, I am equipped to speak intelligently about the geographical areas, crab industry and most importantly-how to get and eat these beautiful swimmers!

Attention to Detail.......2006-06-03

Whereas I found this book to be quite informative, the author's attention to detail about every aspect and apparatus of a waterman's life on the Cheasapeake Bay to be a bit much. I found it difficult to find interest in how many eel baits were used on a trotline and how close together they were spaced. Not being well versed on the parts of various fishing vessels, I found myself lost as to what the author was writing about not to mention the numerous detailed descriptions of every piece of fishing apparatus employed by watermen.

Beautiful Swimmers.......2005-08-18

Beautiful Swimmers was given to me by a relative mixed in with a number of Bay-related books(including Tom Horton's Island Out of Time and several others).
Often, environmental writers stand the risk of in a way reducing the Bay to merely some sort of ecological experiment. Some I have read do not take into account that every little change in the Bay, whether the fault of Mother Nature or ourselves, drastically affects the people whose entire livelihood is fished out of these waters. Fortunately, the author(s) of Beautiful Swimmers does not fall into that trap.
The Watermen have a unique love affair with the Blue Crab. As evidenced by my own home town's "Hard Crab Derby" celebration ever year. This book, I think, gives a very fair and honest portrayal of these seemingly simple people with seemingly simple lives. Its handling of carcinological matters is anything but boring, including an in-detail description of how the crabs make love.
I would highly suggest this work not only for its informative value but for its treatment of the inherant poetry and beauty of the Bay. Even at the time of its publishing, the downward trend in the Bay's health was growing more evident. Today the situation is even more precarious, and requires a very delicate balance between the health of the Bay that supports so many and the people themselves, whose lives have been spent gleaning from these once bountiful waters an income, and who keep alive the traditions of Watermen from over four centuries ago.
Let us protect the Bay, this precious resource of ours, but we must not forget about the people.

Once again, an exceptional book, and one that I recommend for anyone interested in the Conservation of the Chesapeake Bay and the people that depend upon it.

Entertaining and Educational.......2005-01-03

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I spent summers as a kid catching crabs and seeing commercial crabbers outside my grandparents' home but there was a lot about the industry and the bay that I didn't know. I felt like an eavesdropper on an unfamiliar yet familiar world as I read this book, and found my curiousity awakened. The writers clear appreciation for his subject shines through, and it is a delight to discover even many years after it was written.

It Takes You There...........2004-11-16

Beautiful Swimmers will make you feel like you are a part of growing up in the Chesapeake Bay region. If you already did so, it will bring you back home.

Beautiful Swimmers serves as excellent literature for a multitude of readers: naturalists, historians, travellers, and folks who enjoy reading a good novel. It also provides a good blend of natural and cultural resource history.

I moved to the Chesapeake Bay area (Deale, MD) several years ago and was referred to Beautiful Swimmers by several members of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation. Prior to reading Beautiful Swimmers, I grew extremely fond of living on the bay. Since reading the book, I have that much more appreciation for the culture of the bay.

Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay

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Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay
William W. Warner
Manufacturer: X/PENGUIN BOOKS
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000OLLI9C

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BEAUTIFUL SWIMMERS WATERMEN, CRABS AND THE CHESAPEAKE BAY

Manufacturer: Penguin Books
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000H2ON9U

Beautiful Swimmer - Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay

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Beautiful Swimmer - Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay
William W. Warner
Manufacturer: Penguin Books
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000MFHBIC

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BEAUTIFUL SWIMMERS WATERMEN, CRABS AND THE CHESAPEAKE BAY
William W. Warner
Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OJ79LK

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BEAUTIFUL SWIMMERS WATERMEN, CRABS AND THE CHESAPEAKE BAY
William W. Warner
Manufacturer: Penguin Books
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Beautiful Swimmers. Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay.

Manufacturer: Penguin.
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Beautiful Swimmers - Watermen, Crabs And The Chesapeake Bay
William W.; Drawings by Hanks, Consuelo Warner
Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company
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Binding: Hardcover
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Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay
William W. Warner
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Beautiful Swimmers - Watermen, Crabs And The Chesapeake Bay
Consuelo Warner William W.; Drawings by Hanks
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