One Tiny Turtle: Read and Wonder

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One Tiny Turtle: Read and Wonder
Nicola Davies
Manufacturer: Candlewick
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ASIN: 0763623113
Release Date: 2005-06-14

The definitive history of the Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow and Bentley T-Series, and Camargue and Corniche variants. Includes details of coachbuilt cars, production figures, home & export sales, specifications, chassis numbers, concise chronology and clubs & specialists. Combined with three other volumes, this title completes the definitive history of both Rolls-Royce and Bentley in the postwar period of British ownership.

Rolls-Royces and Bentleys are among the most prestigious cars in the world and, as such, attract a highly discerning clientele. The Silver Shadow, along with its rarer sibling the Bentley T, were the first Rolls-Royce designed models to feature modern construction methods, albeit the cars were built to the highest of standards by craftsmen in accordance with the firms’ long standing traditions. It is no wonder these cars are revered internationally by marque enthusiasts for their initial build quality, comfort and effortless performance. The Essential Buyer’s Guide to the Silver Shadow and Bentley T is, in effect, having expert advice pocket size! Intended for marque owners and novice enthusiasts alike, Malcolm Bobbitt’s practical and easy to follow book will allow the potential purchaser of one of these prestige cars to confidently and quickly assess a vehicle as to its true condition. The guide equips the buyer to take a professional approach when viewing a car, and to decide within fifteen minutes whether it is worth taking a longer and more detailed examination. This guide provides all the information and advice necessary to embark upon an hour-long appraisal of the car, and to judge whether it is the right vehicle at the right price. Featured in this guide are specially selected illustrations to help properly evaluate a potential purchase. Information on the Rolls-Royce and Bentley community, such as marque specialists and clubs, is given, along with all the cars’ vital statistics. This book covers all models in the Silver Shadow and Bentley T range to include the highly sought after coachbuilt types. Not only will it guide buyers in making the right choice of car, the information imparted will ensure enjoyable motoring and satisfying Rolls-Royce and Bentley ownership. The book identifies all the common problem areas with 100 clear color photographs and jargon free text.

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A must have for cactus collectors
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Excellent reference for those avid in the hobby of cacti
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The Cactus Family
Edward F. Anderson
Manufacturer: Timber Press, Incorporated
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0881924989

The unique attributes of cacti are discussed in five chapters. Cacti occur naturally and are native to what is called "The New World." Only one species of native cacti is found in tropical Africa. In all other countries of the world where cacti are present, their existence is owed to the early explorers who carried cacti back to Europe on their ships and to birds that dispersed cactus seeds throughout the world.

Cacti as food, both for humans and animals, is addressed along with the medicinal uses of cacti. Cacti have long been used for ceremonial and religious purposes by indigenous peoples of the New World and as a source of dyes, especially the beautiful red cochineal dye. A chapter on cacti cultivation has been contributed by Roger Brown. For those interested in growing cacti in their homes and gardens, Brown's advice on containers, potting and repotting, air circulation and ventilation, pests, pesticides, and propagation is a valuable bonus to this specialized encyclopedia.

Pages 105 through 681 contain over 1,000 stunning color photographs (many photographed by Anderson), which are overwhelming in their portrayal of both the beauty and the idiosyncratic nature of cacti. Examples of the photographic artistry found within these glossy pages range from close-up snapshots of cactus flowers and large photographs of intriguing oddities. It will be difficult for cacti enthusiasts to wean themselves from this prodigious book, which weighs almost ten pounds.

The appendices, glossary and indexes are superb. The eight-page double-column international bibliography is comprehensive, spanning over two centuries of research on cacti (the earliest citation is dated 1760 and the latest references are from 2001). This is truly a state-of-the-art source. This splendid work stands alone and at the top of its genre.

The Cactaceae: Descriptions and Illustrations of Plants of the Cactus Family (Volume 3 and 4 Bound in One Volume)

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Hobbyists beware!
A technical book with a wealth of information

The Cactaceae: Descriptions and Illustrations of Plants of the Cactus Family (Volume 3 and 4 Bound in One Volume)
Nathaniel L. Britton , and Joseph N. Rose
Manufacturer: Dover Publications
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Hippolytus and the Roman Church in the Third Century: Communities in Tension Before the Emergence of a Monarch-Bishop (Supplements to Vigiliae Chris)

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The Hippolytus question

Hippolytus and the Roman Church in the Third Century: Communities in Tension Before the Emergence of a Monarch-Bishop (Supplements to Vigiliae Chris)
Allen Brent
Manufacturer: Brill Academic Publishers
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Neither is the nineteenth century view of the corpus accepted without significant deletions. Here the name of Pierre Nautin looms large. Brent takes seriously, as he should, the textual studies of the late forties and fifties, in which Nautin sought to establish the division of the corpus between two writers, one a Hippolytus Orientalis, the bishop of an unknown see, the other the ever-shadowy figure of Josephus of Rome. For Brent the corpus is to be divided, but between two Roman authors, indeed, between two members of the same "house-school." The first, in acrimony as well as in time, remains anonymous, but the second is the tender and repentant Hippolytus, who sought throughout his writings (contra Noetum, in Danielem, de antichristo) to re-align the thought of his disaffected community with that of the wider Roman outlook. His editorial hand, according to Brent, can even be discerned in the works of his rambunctious predecessor, some of which were preserved incorrectly under Hippolytus' name. These works include a chronographical composition, parts of which found their way onto the side of the now-famous Roman statue which even today resides in the Vatican Library, an eschatological treatise de Universo, and the problem-child of the corpus, the text now known as the refutatio omnium haeresium, never transmitted under Hippolytus' name.

But Brent's deeper interests lie in his attempt to link particular sociological realities with the texts and to show how text and social analysis might combine to reorient our understanding of the early Roman communities. Remaining true to the Döllinger hypothesis in its broadest outlines, especially in its view that the principal extant documents were composed in Rome, he sets about to delineate Hippolytus' role in a "fractionalized" Church (P. Lampe's term). As a means of social reconstruction, he suggests several new and brilliant solutions to age-old Hippolytan problems, the most interesting of which is his proposal that the statue's title list, usually taken as the catalogue of a Hippolytus Romanus, represents the literary works of not one, but of several ancient authors (115-203). Not necessarily related to this project, but necessary to interpreting the statue as the symbol of a Church community, is his attempt to refute Margherita Guarducci's suggestion that the original venue of the statue was the library of the emperor Alexander Severus (222-235 C.E.) and her skepticism regarding the reliability of the records left by Pirro Ligorio, its sixteenth century discoverer. This he undertakes in detail and at length (3-115).

Brent's findings can be summarized as follows: (1) Rome's "fractionalized" Church is best explained by the existence of "house-schools," each with its own "president" who bore episcopal authority. (2) Callistus, one such "president," and the author of the refutatio, another "president," clashed when Callistus admitted the excommunicated members of other house-schools to membership in his own school. Callistus was attempting to create a monarchical episcopate by his actions, demonstrating that monarchical episcopacy had not yet emerged in Rome (contra Lampe). (3) Hippolytus inherited the leadership of the community which had resisted Callistus' claims (368-457). He modified its theological concepts in the direction of Monarchianism, amended its paschal teachings, and generally attempted to adapt his own thinking to the new organizational realities of the Roman Church. The important traditio apostolica is part of a later pseudonymous stream of literature with unclear tributaries (184-97, 301-7, 458-540).

Brent's study is required reading for Hippolytan scholars, for those working in ante-Nicean studies, and for students of early ecclesiology. Unfortunately typographical errors abound and in some sections syntax is not a strength. But as the first grand-scale work in English in this century on the Hippolytus question, the significance of this complex and erudite book cannot be over-rated.