Birds Off the Perch: Therapy and Training for Your Pet Bird

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You love your pet bird, even when he misbehaves, but how can you train him with compassion? Birds off the Perch proves that rewarding good behavior is kinder and more effective than traditional discipline through punishment. This revolutionary approach combines the expertise of an animal behaviorist, a companion parrot consultant and a veterinarian who use "family therapy techniques" -- such as learning to respect the bird's boundaries and viewing sibling rivalry in a broad, environmental context -- to help you change the mischievous behavior of domesticated birds, including:

• Biting or aggression • Screaming • Sibling/bird rivalry
• Jealousy toward its human flock members, and • Feather plucking

With additional chapters on choosing the right species for your family, breeding behavior and the appropriate medical care for your bird, Birds off the Perch is the only guide you'll need to keep your pet birds healthy and happy.

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Wish I had this earlier!.......2003-05-22

I got this a year after having my bird, and I wish that I had it from day one. The book offers great advice on how to live well with a compainion bird.

It is written in a straight forward manner, and even gives examples of birds that they have worked with. There is also a list of birds and what personality traits they have. This is a good book to get when making a choice to get a bird, it will help you be prepared to bring your bird home, and it will help you get the kind of bird best suited to your situation and lifestyle.

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Mickey Mantle Book

A MUST HAVE FOR MANTLE FANS!

Mickeys

Must Have for a Yankee Fan

Beautiful Tribute to The Mick

Mickey Mantle: Stories and Memorabilia from a Lifetime with The Mick
Mickey Herskowitz , Danny Mantle , and David Mantle
Manufacturer: "Stewart, Tabori and Chang"
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1584795476

Book Description

Some say he was the greatest ever—a rare combination of power and speed who made acrobatic catches and never failed to get a hit when his team needed it most. The son of an Oklahoma miner, he was the anchor in center field for a Yankees team that won seven world championships. He was three times the league MVP, he won the Triple Crown in 1956, and in 1961 he dueled teammate Roger Maris in a thrilling race for the single-season home run record. He was so famous that to identify him people didn't even bother to say his last name or even all of his first. He was known, simply, as The Mick.

Mickey Mantle is the first-ever illustrated biography published with the support of the Mantle family. Covering his entire life from his impoverished youth to his glorious career to his poignant sunset years, it features rare photos and never-before-seen memorabilia, with 10 pull-out, removable facsimiles. It also includes intimate stories collected over the years by his sons and his friend, writer Mickey Herskowitz— stories that will be new even to the most avid Mantle enthusiasts. This book is an absolute must for Mantle fans of every stripe, Yankees fans, and baseball fans in general.

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Mickey Mantle Book.......2007-09-14

Book was nicely put together and contains some great pictures as well as reproductions of his first contract, a letter from Richard Nixon, a love letter to his wife, etc. I'm sure there are better books out there in terms of the amount of information about Mantle. Buy the book only if you want to own reproductions of Mantle memorabilia but skip it otherwise.

A MUST HAVE FOR MANTLE FANS!.......2007-06-06

I got this wonderful book for my father for Christmas and he loves it! It's his favorite book on Mickey Mantle. As a Yankee fan myself I also love the book-it's very touching how Danny and David Mantle talk about their Father.The photos are beautiful and all the little extras are really neat to look at. I recommend this book to Mantle and Yankee fans everywhere.

Mickeys.......2007-03-28

My favorite player (my nickname is 'Mickey'). Well done different presentation. I really enjoyed

Must Have for a Yankee Fan.......2007-03-18

The book was given to my husband as a gift and he enjoyed it so much that we bought one for a friend. Our friend was equally impressed with the book from the different memorabilia to the overall presentation. It's a book you want to look over again and again.

Beautiful Tribute to The Mick.......2007-03-01

This book contains many seldom to never seen photographs from the Mantle family archives that make the book priceless. The inserted reproductions of Mantle memorabilia are a perfect supplement that give the reader an insight to Mickey that you can't get anywhere else. Top that off with great stories from Mickey Herskowitz, David Mantle and Danny Mantle and you have a real winner.

Mantle was a one-of-a-kind ballplayer that the sport has not seen since his retirement. Almost 40 years later, Mickey still holds many baseball records including the fastest time from home plate to first base (3.1 seconds), the longest measured home run (565' even though he hit a few in excess of 600' that could not be measured) and most World Series home runs (18).

The legend of #7 will live forever.

Mickey Mantle Memorabilia (Sports Collectors Digest)

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Mickey Mantle Memorabilia (Sports Collectors Digest)
Rick Hines , Mark K. Larson , and Dave Platta
Manufacturer: Krause Pubns Inc
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ASIN: 0873412613

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For the gardener working in a front garden, parking area, narrow strip, tiny backyard, or condo balcony, this book offers plenty of possibilities. The author, whose weekly gardening column appears in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, shows how to make the smallest garden gorgeous, from extending planting areas with containers and installing compact water features to increasing a garden’s flower power by losing that lawn. 80 color photos are included in this colorful guide.

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Useful.......2004-01-26

This book delivers what the title promises. The writer, a Master Gardener based in Seattle, sets out to help her readers to "find space where you think there is none and help you decide what to do with it".

The book has seven chapters. The first is a general introduction to the topic, looking at issues such as soil, watering, air quality and gardening on a slope (this was really useful for me). The other six each look at one area of the garden, such as the side garden, the front garden, and balconies. At the back of the book there are lists of trees, shrubs, perennials etc that should do well in most small Northwest gardens. The book is nicely illustrated with photographs by Jacqueline Koch.

I had the feeling that the writer has truly experienced the pleasures and problems of a small garden in the Pacific Northwest. She is knowledgeable, articulate and enthusiastic about the topic, giving fairly comprehensive information in a limited space. She doesn't shy away from awkward topics such as what to do about gaps in hedges.

This is a good, honest, value-for-money book for the Northwest gardener.

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A Primer on Ugaritic is an introduction to the language of the ancient city of Ugarit, a city that flourished in the second millennium BCE on the Lebanese coast, placed in the context of the culture, literature, and religion of this ancient Semitic culture. The Ugaritic language and literature was a precursor to Canaanite and serves as one of our most important resources for understanding the Old Testament and the Hebrew language. Special emphasis is placed on contextualization of the Ugartic language and comparison to ancient Hebrew as well as Akkadian.

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Wait for the revised/corrected edition.......2007-10-09

The praise for this book from other reviewers may very well be applicable, but I for one cannot recommend it. For a book produced by Cambridge Univ Press (a publisher of scholarly works) and Schniedewind and Hunt (respectable scholars), this book has an astonishing number of typographical errors, clumsy wording of English sentences, and poor graphics.

I will not attempt a list of typographical errors here, but suffice it to say, this work looks like unedited classroom notes in this respect. As for writing clarity, try this out: "Ugaritic school texts (see § 2.4.2; Figure 2.1), which were discovered after Ugaritic scholars had established the above order, which follows the Hebrew alphabet apart from the additional letters, used a slightly different order" (p. 149). Most English readers will not tolerate having the subject and verb of a sentence separated by over 20 word in two subordinate clauses. This is a good example of the impenetrable wording often found in this book. As for graphics, the map on p. 6 is simply inexcusable--it is illegible and out of focus, and the pixel clean-up work for the map on p. 7 is sloppy and incomplete.

This book has the potential to be a useful introductory work for Ugaritic students, but it needs to go through a proper editing process first. My recommendation is to wait for the second corrected edition.

More than a grammar.......2007-09-24

The discovery that this work is available was exciting, as a group here in Sydney Australia has been working on aspects of Ugaritic. This book is ideal from several points of view. First is the use of the Ugaritic font, so that texts can be read in the original script. A second involves the range of texts included. A third element derives from the use of photos and drawings in the text, and a fourth the presentation of grammatical aspects including more recent findings about the structure of Ugaritic.
This is certainly a valuable addition to the wide range of works on Ugarit and associated studies, since it is well planned for students in both degree and graduate programs.

Ugaritic for the masses.......2007-09-15

Introductory books on obscure subjects are usually themselves abstruse and enigmatic. However, "A Primer on Ugaritic Language, Culture, and Literature" is at the same time both erudite and accessible. This book should serve as a model for all introductory texts on ancient languages.

I was a graduate student of Dr. Schniedewind's late predecessor at UCLA, Dr. Stanislav Segert, and I have read at lease a half a dozen Ugaritic textbooks cover to cover over the years. This is by far the best from a student perspective. Scholars can debate whether 'adrt really is derived from *
Yes, $80 is a great deal of money for a book, but keep in mind that during my graduate studies at UCLA I remember spending about $1,500 one quarter for textbooks for one language class. This book is extremely well designed with the student and the pedagogical process in mind. Professors can assign the book with assurance that this single volume is all that is necessary for the instructor and the students for the duration of the introductory class.

No modern English as a second language class would start students with Ginsburg, Keats, Shakespeare, or Chaucer to learn beginning English. No beginning French class would start with La Disparition (Georges Perec's famous French novel that doesn't contain a single letter "E" in any of its 300 pages!). Why should students of ancient languages like Ugaritic start learning with the Aqhat or Keret epics? Schniedewind and Hunt's choice to start students with school texts followed by letters, administrative, legal, and only then literary texts is an extremely logical and pedagogically sound approach.

For students of the bible, semitic languages, ancient near eastern history, or literature, this primer is especially useful because of its diversity of subject matter. At some point in their academic career, students of semitic languages will have to learn that words that had the "th" sound in ancient times (so called "proto-semitic") use the letter or sign "sh" in Hebrew, Phoenician, and Akkadian; but "th" in Ugaritic, Arabic, and Aramaic. Therefore, "shad" in Hebrew could very well be the same as the word "thad" in Ugaritic, but "thad" in Hebrew would never be "shad" in Ugaritic etc. There are very consistent "rules" that every serious student of semitics must know. These and other linguistic rules are covered in a solid introductory way in this primer (e.g. pp. 150ff).

For students of the Hebrew bible, Ugaritic is the most important language after Hebrew itself. A century ago, serious students of Hebrew and the semitic languages studied Arabic as a second language because Arabic has a fairly conservatively evolved grammar and supposedly reflected a much older stage of the semitic languages. However, our primary corpus of "ancient" Arabic, the Koran, is from approximately 1,500 years after the literary origins of the Bible and it is about 3,000 years after Hebrew was evolving into the form that developed into "Biblical" Hebrew. However, Ugaritic is a language for which we have actual, physical texts from the very time that the stories in the Bible were evolving. Furthermore, these texts were written just a few miles from the lands of the Hebrew bible by a people with a similar culture and language to the writers of the Bible itself.

For students of ancient religious history, this book will help them to understand the ancient northwest semitic pantheon in early and pre-biblical times. For students of literature, the book will serve as a excellent introduction to ancient genres likely to be encountered in later studies. For an introductory text both the diversity and depth are impressive.

The publishers are to be commended for letting the authors show alphabetic texts in their original scripts rather than transliteration. Seeing Hebrew texts in Hebrew characters (E.g. pg. 113 and the glossary) and Ugaritic texts in Ugaritic characters makes learning easier over time because one doesn't have to jump through the mental hoops of transliterating before translating each word. The addition of photographs of actual texts (e.g. Zuckerman's photos of the MRZHU text on pages 109-110) help the student learn to recognize texts in context. This is an important skill. (It is shocking to see senior Hebrew scholars who read hebrew fluently but couldn't make sense of a real manuscript because they have never read anything but modern printed editions of texts!) On the other hand, the choice to transliterate Akkadian is also logical and pedagogically sound because, unlike Ugaritic and Hebrew, Akkadian has no alphabet and the writing system takes far longer to master than the language itself! It is unlikely that students would be able to recognize Akkadian signs and give then accurate interpretation independently of context so transliteration is an appropriate choice here.

For serious students of the Bible, I would recommend the study of Hebrew and Greek first. For students of the Hebrew bible, Ugaritic is the most important language after Hebrew itself. For students who choose (or are required) to learn Ugaritic, Schniedewind and Hunt's primer is currently the best available choice for a solid start in learning the language, texts, and culture. For $80, that's a bargin in my opinion....

About Time!.......2007-08-23

Finally! An actual introductory textbook on Ugaritic that is accessible and user-friendly. There isabsolutely nothing else like it available to introductory students. Now is we could only have a paperback INEXPENSIVE collection of Ugaritic texts we would be in business! I particularly like the fact that some of the readings are in the cuneiform script and provides great practice for reading this. It is very much worth the money!

Beyond Babel: A Handbook for Biblical Hebrew and Related Languages (Resources for Biblical Study)

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Great book - wish there was more of it!

Beyond Babel: A Handbook for Biblical Hebrew and Related Languages (Resources for Biblical Study)

Manufacturer: Society of Biblical Literature
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ASIN: 1589830350

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This book provides an introduction to the languages that are important for the study of the Hebrew Bible and ancient Israel. It contains articles on Akkadian, Arabic, Aramaic, Egyptian, Biblical and Epigraphic Hebrew, Post-biblical Hebrew, Hittite, Phoenician, the Northwest Semitic dialects (Ammonite, Edomite, and Moabite), and Ugaritic. The contributors are Peggy L. Day, Frederick E. Greenspahn, Jo Ann Hackett, Harry A. Hoffner, Jr., John Kaltner, Charles R. Krahmalkov, Baruch A. Levine, David Marcus, Simon B. Parker, and Donald B. Redford. A general introduction by John Huehnergard discusses the importance of the study of Near Eastern languages for biblical scholarship, helping to make the volume an ideal resource for persons beginning an in-depth study of the Hebrew Bible.

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Great book - wish there was more of it!.......2003-02-13

This book is not so much a handbook as it is a basic introduction to near eastern languages and literature. It is geared toward beginning/intermediate students of biblical hebrew who want to supplement their studies with comparative methods. This book will give you a small taste of the field without excess detail or jargon. Each chapter focuses on a particular language, providing a brief grammatical survey, an overview of the literature and suggestions for further study. Additional background material would have made the book much more useful-- things like historical timelines, comparison of grammatical paradigm's, more samples of literature, glossary of terms etc. In sum, beginners will find a user-friendly starting point, advanced students are advised to look elsewhere for more practical help.

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What an interesting life!

In the World of Sumer: An Autobiography
Samuel Noah Kramer
Manufacturer: Wayne State University Press
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What an interesting life!.......2003-10-18

This is the autobiography of Samuel Noah Kramer, who for many years was a leading authority on the reading and interpretation of Sumerian literature. This literature, consisting of myths, epics, proverbs, lamentations, love poetry, and more, was written in cuneiform on clay tablets roughly 4000 years ago. Thousands of tablets, often broken, often at least partly illegible, were uncovered at various archeological sites in Iraq in the late 1800's and early 1900's.

How does one come to be an expert in cuneiform and Sumerian literature? Kramer was born in 1897 in Ukraine. Fearing anti-Jewish persecution, his family moved to Philadelphia when he was eight, where his father established a Hebrew school. After graduating from high school and obtaining a bachelor's degree, Kramer taught in his father's school, tried and failed to become a writer, tried and failed in business, and was approaching 30 without a career. "Finally it came to me that I might well go back to my beginnings and try to utilize the Hebrew learning on which I had spent so much of my youth, and relate it in some way to an academic future." Thus, he enrolled in the Dropsie College of Philadelphia for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, where he became passionately interested in Egyptology. He then enrolled in the Oriental Studies Department of the University of Pennsylvania. There he decided to work with "the brilliant young Ephraim Avigdor Speiser, who was to become one of the world's leading figures in Near Eastern Studies." Since Speiser was at that time interested in cuneiform tablets dating from about 1300 BC, Kramer began his life-long studies in cuneiform.

The book details his remarkable career, from his Ph.D. in 1929, through his retirement in 1968, to his very active post-retirement years and the writing of this autobiography in 1986. He writes in a straightforward non-technical manner, but with obvious enthusiasm. We learn not only about him, but also about the Sumerian literature which clearly enthralled him and which he wrote about for specialist and non-specialist alike. He sums up his accomplishments as follows: "First, and most important, is the role I played in the recovery, restoration, and resurrection of Sumerian literature, or at least of a representative cross section...Through my efforts several thousand Sumerian literary tablets and fragments have been made available to cuneiformists, a basic reservoir of unadulterated data that will endure for many decades to come. Second, I endeavored...to make available reasonably reliable translations of many of these documents to the academic community, and especially to the anthropologist, historian, and humanist. Third, I have helped to spread the name of Sumer to the world at large, and to make people aware of the crucial role the Sumerians played in the ascent of civilized man."

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