You and Your Puppy: Training and Health Care for Your Puppy's First Year (Howell Reference Books)

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First published in 1995, this authoritative book has helped nearly 40,000 families raise healthy, content pets. Packed with illustrations and photos, it explains how to keep puppies healthy, put them through basic training, correct behavior problems, and integrate them into family life.

Since the initial publication, coauthor Sarah Hodgson has become the media's favorite puppy expert—a dog trainer who writes for The New York Times, appears on the Rosie O'Donnell Show," the "Today Show," and other programs, and even helped Katie Couric choose a puppy."

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Very helpful information........2005-08-02

This book has very accurate information for training your puppy and very accurate medical information. I would recommend it.

It really works.......2004-08-02

Our new baby responds to the instructions in this book wonderfully. I was worried about getting a dog, but the results we are getting by following the instructions presented her have made me really glad that I finally got a dog. I could not be more greatful for such a good instuction manual.

Great for the beginner!.......2004-07-09

I've been training dogs for 10 years, and I have recommended this book to all of my puppy owners! It's a great way to get through the first year of puppyhood, and have a dog you'll be proud to call yours. All of my students have found the information easy to understand, the methods easy to use, and the results are wonderful!

Repetitive, dangerously confused, and irritating.......2003-09-09

It's easy to read, and has a few good tips, but overall I found this book very poor. The training section is broken down into stages for different-aged pups, which sounds like a good idea until you realise that training principles are the same at any age, and therefore each chapter is exasperatingly repetitive. Along with the wide spacing, big headings, short paragraphs and abundant meaningless pictures, that makes for a remarkably uninformative book. There is no discussion of major controversies such as positive versus force-based training or natural versus dry feeding; the author's preferred technique is presented as the only option and areas of huge disagreement among trainers are not even flagged. Evidently Hodgson's style appeals to some; I found it irritatingly condescending, bubbly and saccharine. Finally, the book is dangerously poorly edited: on p. 128 Hodgson says: "Don't give him free access to water yet, or he'll turn into a fountain"... then on p. 155 DeBitetto says: "Puppies need a lot of water, and restricting it can put your puppy at risk of dehydration. The only time water can be safely witheld is at night." The health section was better-written and much more informative, but you'd still be much better off buying one good training book and one good health book.

Fantastic Book!!!!.......2003-03-29

This book is great! It gives good insight to what the puppy is feeling and has broken down training and behavior patterns by the pups age. The book also provides good detail in health maintenance for your dog as well as a typical puppy schedule! I found the schedule to be very helpful in planning my day in order to give my pup the most attention.

You & Your Puppy - Training And Health Care For Puppy's First Year

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You & Your Puppy - Training And Health Care For Puppy's First Year
James; Hodgson, Sarah Debitetto
Manufacturer: Howell Book House
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000T03D3C

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Imagine Barbie as a nightclub singer, race-car driver, or presidential candidate. Picture her as a graceful ballet dancer on pointe, as a leather-clad biker babe on the back of a Harley, or as the great film icons-Audrey Hepburn as Eliza Doolittle, Judy Garland as Dorothy, Elizabeth Taylor as Cleopatra. In Barbie Live she is all of this and more.

Stepping into these delicious roles, Barbie acts out her fabulous dreams and aspirations, adopting a new persona on every page and having the time of her life. In spectacular designer clothing-by Bob Mackie, Vera Wang, Christian Dior, and others-she attends exciting Hollywood events and New York photo shoots. Around the world at such hot spots as St. Bart's, Paris, Malibu, and Martha's Vineyard, Barbie takes us on her quest for fame-as a rock star, as an artist, and ultimately as a movie star. But is fame and fortune all that Barbie dreamed it would be?

Nancy Ellison's gorgeous full-color photography taken expressly for this book is filled with vitality and emotion. Lisa Birnbach provides the voice of Barbie in her fun, playful text. Barbie Live is the ultimate Barbie collector's item for children and adults alike.

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A "Must Have" for the Barbie collector.

Barbie Doll Around the World 1964-2007: Identification & Values
J. Michael Augustyniak
Manufacturer: Collector Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1574325302

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A "Must Have" for the Barbie collector........2007-10-02

Once again, Michael Augustyniak gives us another wonderfully informative book, but this time on those very hard to find Barbie dolls from the foreign markets. Michael breaks the book down by country, and those include, Australia, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Europe, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, Peru, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan and Venezuela.

As in his other books, Michael gives a picture of the doll and a close up on the face. Barbie, Ken, Skipper and Kelly, among others, are featured. The years range from 1964 to 2007 with over 350 pages and a break down of Barbie's foreign family tree and celebrity friends. With this overwhelming task of finding these obscure dolls, some lines are not complete, but this book is well worth the price for any Barbie collector.

This is a useful and fun book about Barbie dolls around the world.

Barbie and Her Mod, Mod, Mod, Mod, World of Fashion

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A Must-Have for any Mod-Era Barbie Fan!!!
Barbie Doll and Her Mod, Mod, Mod, Mod World Of Fashion
A collectors Dream
A Must Have
It is great.

Barbie and Her Mod, Mod, Mod, Mod, World of Fashion
Joe Blitman
Manufacturer: Hobby House Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0875884628

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The first full color encyclopedic Barbie doll identification and value guide to exclusively feature her fashions from 1967-1972. All vintage fashions are chronicled in full color and labeled as to name, year, Mattel's style number, store exclusivity, contents, and then valued. Barbie Doll & Her Mod, Mod, Mod, Mod World of Fashion is a must for every doll collector. 575 color photos. 224 pages.

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A Must-Have for any Mod-Era Barbie Fan!!!.......2003-01-25

This book is as close to being perfect as any can get in the Barbie world. Not only is it informative and well-written, it's fun too!

Each outfit is explained in detail, with each part listed, along with what parts may be more difficult to find, any variations in the outfit, etc. All of these items, where possible, are photographed flat and clearly so you can see each item separately and know what each thing is. Then, another photograph is taken on the doll, in a fun setting that usually goes with the name of the outfit somehow, so you can actually see how the outfit looks on a doll, something which I think is really important.

The photographs are great pretty much right across the board. The book is well-written, with a great sense of humour. All in all, you can't go wrong if you're into Mod-era Barbie and buy this book!

Barbie Doll and Her Mod, Mod, Mod, Mod World Of Fashion.......2001-12-02

This is a fabulous book! Wonderful and informative descriptions. The photographs are some of the cutest and most creative I have ever seen. Lovely. I highly reccomend this book!

A collectors Dream.......2001-08-07

Everything you could want to know about this period of Barbie and the photographs are beautiful.

A Must Have.......2000-01-05

This is the best and most comprehensive book on barbie fashions of the mod era. It shows you what the fashions look like nrfb as well as loose. It is a must have for any barbie collector.

It is great........1998-07-15

It tells you so very much about the mod world of Barbie. It gives you so much to sink your teeth into that I couldn't put it down for about an hour or longer.

The Collectible Barbie Doll: An Illustrated Guide to Her Dreamy World

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Tops!!!!!
The Collectable Barbie Doll: An Illustrated Guide
"An Illustrated Guide to Her Dreamy World"

The Collectible Barbie Doll: An Illustrated Guide to Her Dreamy World
Janine Fennick
Manufacturer: Running Press Book Publishers
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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Tops!!!!!.......2001-08-07

I have looked through this book and also bought another in the series.It is fantastic,and anyone who is still interested in Barbie at all should not hesitate-buy it today!!!! It reveals hundreds of Barbies from the beginning of her existence,and is so fascinating and you might even see one that you once owned.

The Collectable Barbie Doll: An Illustrated Guide.......2000-07-13

And illustrated it certainly is! This is the first Barbie doll book I had read and now I am hooked on her world. It tells her story from the beginning and brings it to the present day, all the while illustrating it with dolls from all eras. Although the 2nd edition (which is the one I read) is expanded, I would like to have seen a little more of the late 1980's-present. Overall, if you don't know much about Barbie and would like to find a place to start this book is it!

"An Illustrated Guide to Her Dreamy World".......1998-03-26

"The Collectible Barbie Doll" is a fascinating read about the world's most-loved doll. From her early beginnings in 1959, through the sixties, right up to now, Barbie has been everything from Ken's girlfriend right through to an astronaut, covers every race from Caucasian to Japanese, and the hair to match. Fennick's book captures all of this, whether the reader wants an unabridged history of the world's most famous doll or just wants to see the wardrobe! This is THE book for the Barbie fan, and it is definitely one for the collector.

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The World Of Barbie
Cynthia Lawrence
Manufacturer: Random House
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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The World of Barbie Dolls
Susan Manos
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Binding: Paperback

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Barbie: Career Girl (Barbie)

Manufacturer: Dorling Kindersley Publishers Ltd
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

Book Description

Find your dream job, with Barbie!

Book Description

Containing more than 60 easy-peel, reusable stickers, children can create their own winter fun by reading each caption and choosing the Barbie sticker that goes with it. Use the stickers to fill the book, or decorate notebooks, lockers, or any place else that could use a creative, playful Barbie touch.

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This is a much-needed, hands-on manual for the gardener who wishes to work in conscious partnership with the overlighting nature intelligences. Based on the author's many years of experience, The Perelandra Garden Workbook is filled with practical techniques, fresh perspectives on traditional organic gardening methods, and an infectious sense of joy and humor.

Interspersed throughout this book are many direct communications from the different levels of nature intelligence. Each reveal universal natural law and a cosmic wisdom applicable not only to gardens dug in soil, but to every garden planted in the larger soil of life experience. Truly, a book for everyone seeking to connect into the larger picture of life.

Customer Reviews:

Grounds-up teaching and learning.......2007-08-27

Terrific explanations and a palpable enthusiasm for nature as well as gardening. I learned so much and am feeling much more confident about gardening than I ever would have believed possible. I think the concept of "co-creative" work with nature is positively the way we need to go.

Reality Check........2006-04-22

If, like most people, you're a weekend gardner and don't have a lot of time, then this book is not for you. And if you do have a lot of time to spend on your garden, then you don't need this book.

Amazing and Enlightening.......2006-04-21

This is an absolutely amazing book that allows anyone involved with gardening to create a perfectly balanced garden that is in perfect harmony with nature.

The author describes useing kinesiology which is a type of muscle testing (virtually the same as using a dowsing rod or a handheld pendulum which i prefer) to contact and communicate with various earth intelligences such as Devas and nature spirits.

The gardener essentially puts 100% of his faith into the hands of these nature spirits and allows them to make virtually every single decision involving the design, planning, implementation, maintenance of the entire garden project! Although it sounds insane, it apparently provides a highly balanced and successful garden compared to the typical human dictatorship over nature typically utilized by 21st century gardeners and farmers.

While reading this book i couldn't help but realize early on that this book has very far reaching implications into many various aspects of humanity such as healing for example. It can be used in so many different ways that could be applied to any subject matter with slight modification of the basic techniques.

I plan on using the processes in this book on a new garden project and find out for myself just how effective it really is. Apparently the author has been doing it and perfecting the techniques for the last 30 years successfully!

I especially would recommend this book to anyone interested in contacting any nature intelligences such as devas, nature spirits, faeries, elementals, etc.. It appears to me that this book (possibly unknowingly) bridges a huge gap between the science behind co-creative gardening and the mystical and magical worlds of the faeries.

The other part of life........2006-02-23

Unless we open up, we will never begin to understand life in all its forms.

A great book for learning and practice with Nature........2003-12-02

This book is higly beneficial to
get practical goals with Nature.
Plants and flowers can really grow
higher and more beautifull than normal.
These are excellent books to read and
practice -Garden Work Books I and II.

The Perelandra Garden Workbook : A Complete Guide to Gardening with Nature Intelligences

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The Perelandra Garden Workbook : A Complete Guide to Gardening with Nature Intelligences
Michaelle Small Wright
Manufacturer: Perelandra
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
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Perelandra Garden Workbook: A Complete Guide to Gardening with Nature Intelligences (ISBN: 0927978121)

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Perelandra Garden Workbook: A Complete Guide to Gardening with Nature Intelligences (ISBN: 0927978121)
Machaelle Small Wright
Manufacturer: Perelandra
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000PDJXNW

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"Dopotolomeo," far from being an astronomical dissertation, instead refers to the "aftermath" of a lamp, and more precisely to what has happened in the professional life of Michele De Lucchi from the birth of the famous Tolomeo lamp, conceived in 1986, until today.

"Dopotolomeo" is a diary that is as sincere and messy as the succession of events of life; it is a collage of images and thoughts, as chaotic as anything that comes to life in people's heads. The thread of this diary is drawn from the notebooks that De Lucchi has kept ever since his time at university: from the first one on squared paper for his accounts, to the larger ones with paper for water-colours, to the "small notebooks" ("quadernini"), packed with words, which now represent Michele De Lucchi's professional history.

The flow of the images of "Dopotolomeo" is reminiscent of a karstic river, in which the messages sometimes appear very clear, immediate-- the analogies to the anthropomorphous forms of many of his projects-- and others are more subtended, hidden, underground. Yet the river keeps on flowing and a little further on it resurfaces, carrying along its history, a continuous flow, even if made of discontinuity, because "it is an essential part of making projects to produce and sustain reasons of discontinuity."

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Michele de Lucchi: Dopotolomeo.
Silvia Suardi
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 888491339X

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