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Whether it's a bird, a cat, a horse, barnyard animal or traditional dog...whether it's a kindergarten class, a prisoner, a paraplegic or an AIDS patient, there are ways in which all sorts of pets can help people. This book discusses all the elements of animal-assisted therapy so that readers can learn what it takes to get involved and make a difference. Learn about therapy organizations, requirements for your pet and what to expect from this work.
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Excellent reference for professionals & volunteers in AAA/T.......1996-06-21
As more people get involved in the field of animal-assisted
activities and animal-assisted therapy (AAA/T), it is
important that references written by experienced, credible
professionals are available to a wide audience. This will
ensure the safety and benefit of all those involved in AAA/T.
This book is just such a reference. It doesn't just apply
to volunteers--health and human service professionals will
also find this book to be an invaluable resource.
I initially picked up the book because I'm familiar with
Mary's work in the field of AAA/T. I found myself reading the
entire book in one evening. A week later, when I was preparing
myself to be a guest on a radio show about AAA/T, the book
became my primary reference and provided some examples.
Particularly helpful are the descriptions of the various
client populations and facilities that a volunteer may visit.
The suggestions for activities for each population and facility
will be useful for the volunteer and professional, alike. Case
studies are provided to illustrate how to apply the recommended
activities.
The safety and enjoyment of the animals that participate
in AAA/T is also addressed, ensuring that they will benefit
from the experience.
Applying the information contained in Mary's book will help
increase the acceptance of AAA/T as an effective tool in the
improvement of the health and lives of the clients who receive
and participate in this method of therapy.
I highly recommend this book.
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192 page oversize hardback, beautifully illustrated.
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Vintage Tractors.......2001-02-18
Good coffee table style book on antique farm tractors. Covers all major manufactures and a chapter on orphans. Shows a good range of tractors for each make, but not the full line or history. Great color pictures. Above average for this style of general book on antique tractors.
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International Harvester's Farmall tractor revolutionized farming around the world. Introduced in 1922, it was an inexpensive, lightweight, general-purpose, row-crop tractor that could literally farm all. Through the years, the Farmall became one of the world's most popular tractors.
This book showcases collectible International Harvester tractors from the 1910s to the 1960s, including the famous Farmall, as well as other International Harvester and McCormick-Deering models. Readers will be captivated by Ralph Sander's detailed history and outstanding color and black-and-white photographs, historical ads, and brochures of what was the world's bestselling tractor as well as a leader in innovation and engineering. Also recommended: Vintage Farm Tractors, Vintage Ford Tractors, Vintage Case Tractors, Vintage John Deere, Classic Tractors of the World, Toy Farm Tractors, This Old Tractor, The Field Guide to Vintage Farm Tractors.
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One of the best books for the history of the Farmall line!.......2001-10-03
Ralph Sanders does an excellent job of explaining the history of the Farmall from the invention of the reaper all the way to the Tenneco buyout of International Harvester. Excellent pictures, useful and historical text, and wonderful explainations of every tractor pictured. Pictured tractors have some of the best restorations that I have ever seen! A great book for anyone interested in the history of the Farmall line of tractors and International Harvester Company.
Excellent historic details and pictures of IHC tractors.......1998-05-13
This is the best book I've seen on the subject of International tractors. It has a good amount of detail of the history of the various companies and an excellent mix of old and new photos.
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Make the most of the versatile palm with a photo-packed introduction to varieties for every climate and landscape. An extensive directory covers more than 100 species of palm, yucca, agave, cordyline, phormium, and astelia; as well as mixed plantings; hard landscaping; and the use of tubs, planters, and other containers. Simple instructions for planting, maintenance, and propagation come with close-up drawings.
Customer Reviews:
Good general overview.......2004-01-28
Book has a good general overview of palms and some other desert plants. Good pictures and information on commercial availability of featured palms.
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What makes or breaks a picture? Composition, of course, and perhaps less obvious but equally fundamental--light. "Subtle or dramatic, the impact of light on an image completely alters how that image is perceived," asserts Jim Zuckerman, who discusses the qualities of light--direction, diffusion, harshness--and how to use them as creative tools. There are many impressive color photographs (including twilight panoramas of Rio de Janeiro and interiors of Spanish architectural wonders), but few illuminate Zuckerman's text like his multiple images of a bikini-clad model on a beach, taken during a rapidly-changing sunset. While he is generous with technical details and data, he does not cover black and white photography.
Customer Reviews:
Good library addition.......2002-11-05
Mr Zuckerman's detailed & deep discussion of aspects of all the photos in the book gives insight into the process behind each one.
Great reading or for just plain inspiration.......2001-07-26
The photos in this book is worth the price alone. The cover is probably one of the best safari photos I've seen to date and just makes me want to make a trip out to Africa! The great part is the techniques and technical data is shared so you can know exactly what was done. In any case the other great thing about this book is many of the photos are shown in different light. Similar books only show you the subject in the light the photographer thought was best. Highly recommended.
Fine book on the most basic of topics - using natural light.......2001-07-02
One of the hardest things to learn about existing light photography is how things will appear on film under various lighting conditions. This book explains most common situations clearly, and illustrates them beautifully with a selection of the author's fine images.
Look elsewhere.......2001-05-16
The book is divided into 'Sunrise', 'Early Morning/Late Afternoon', 'Midday', 'Sunset', 'Twilight', 'Overcast Conditions', 'Interios' and 'Special Conditions'. Each chapter has a series of photographs with describing text and technical details for each shot. Zuckerman is using medium format (and almost exclusively Velvia), although the book is by no means restricted to any particular format. If you have some other book describing exposure, there's not much new in here. The text feels very repetetive, saying the same over and over again only with different words.
This is the first book I've bought by Zuckerman and it will most likely be the last. I didn't even feel like finishing this one. I find his photographs mostly boring, soulless, stereotypical and unimaginative. Some are so clichés it's almost funny, yet also demotivating. But what can you expect from a photographer that studies "postcards in book stores or gift shops" as the "first things I [Zuckerman] do when I'm shooting the scenic highlights of any city, whether foreign or domestic" (p. 82).
I also have John Shaw's "Nature Photography Field Guide" and it's definitely better on the text side. Zuckerman's book adds little to what you can get from Shaw's book, and the latter is far more comprehensive. Shaw's photography is better than Zuckerman's too.
I give this book one star as it gives so little, both in terms of text (there are far better and more comprehensive books) and pictures (postcards).
Great Movitator, Good Technical Detail.......2001-02-13
Although there may not be a tremendous amount of new information here for serious photographers, the author offers a lot of reinforcement of basic techniques applied to specific lighting situations. It was very helpful that the book is organized by categories of lighting such as sunrise, mid-morning, etc. Many of the photographs are excellent and motivating.
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Daylighting: Natural Light in Architecture
Derek Phillips
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Daylighting offers a general theory and introduction to the use of natural light in architecture.
The fourth of Derek Phillip's lighting books draws on his experience to illustrate how best to bring natural light into building design. As sustainability becomes a core principal for designers, daylighting comes to the fore as an alternative to artificial, energy consuming, light. Here, Phillips makes a rational argument for considering daylight first, outlining the arguments in favour of a daylight approach, and goes on to show, through a series of
beautifully illustrated case studies, how architects have created buildings in which natural light has been shown to play a major strategic role in the development of the design of a building.
* Learn how to incorporate daylight into a wide range of building design types
* Be informed about the most 'sustainable' of lighting techniques
* International case studies including examples from the UK, Hong Kong and USA inspire the reader and illustrate best practice
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In general window and lighting systems in buildings are not operated as an integrated system. As a result, the daylighting features of buildings-any type of window or skylight that brings outdoor light to the building's interior-rarely reduces a building's energy use as much as it could. Daylighting, when done well, can reduce building energy use substantially by reducing its need for electric lighting, cooling and heating. Research suggests that in a daytime-occupied commercial building, proper daylighting could reduce the total electricity and peak demand between 20 and 40 percent. Daylighting offers a general theory and introduction to the use of natural light in architecture. The fourth of Derek Phillip's lighting books draws on his experience to illustrate how best to bring natural light into building design.
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Natural Home Heating is the first comprehensive guide to heating your home with renewable energy sources. Greg Pahl offers a well-organized, easy-to-understand tour of all available renewable home-heating options, including wood, pellet, corn and grain-fired stoves, fireplaces, furnaces and boilers as well as masonry heaters, active and passive solar systems, and heat pumps. Learn how to burn environmentally friendly biodiesel fuels, not just in your car, but in your furnace or boiler. Included is everything you need to know about the fuels, systems, technologies, costs, and advantages and disadvantages of each option. Pahl teaches homeowners how to retrofit existing heating systems and choose renewable replacements, or design an entirely new house that can be heated comfortably with minimal environmental and financial impact.
Consider:
95% of American homes are heated with fossil fuels or electricity (which is generated mainly by fossil fuels).
Oil and gas prices will continue to rise as supplies dwindle and sources become less reliable.
Home heating costs could double or even triple in the event of a fuel crisis.
The use of fossil fuels is the primary contributor to global warming.
There are viable, clean, healthy, and affordable home heating alternatives!
Learn how to burn environmentally friendly bio-diesel fuels, not just in your car, but in your furnace. Find out how a ground-source heat pump works and why it can achieve 400% heating efficiency. Discover what it takes to make burning wood truly sustainable. Natural Home Heating explains all these details and more, making it unique in the marketplace.
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Busy hippie chick's dream.......2004-01-31
Greg Pahl's book organizes everything you need to know about heating with alternative fuels in a very "non-techy, quick to find salient facts" manner.I used his book to help me make choices in buying and installing a new wood stove to heat my dome house in Maine.With all of the alternatives out there, this book helped me intelligently sort through a myriad of choices and get a stove just right for my needs.
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* Provides building professionals with knowledge, tools and information on the efficient use of natural ventilation in urban buildings
* Key design principles are explained, enabling readers to decide on the best solution for building ventilation, taking into account climate and building context
* Includes free CD-ROM with software for assessing the potential for natural ventilation of a given site by comparison with base sites. The methodologies and tools are tested, self-contained and user friendly
Natural ventilation reduces the energy consumption of a building by minimizing the use of air conditioning and mechanical ventilation. This book focuses on natural ventilation in an urban context.
The basic principle of natural ventilation in urban areas is as follows: for a building located in a given urban environment, find the pressure differences across the building envelope (or the natural ventilation potential) and then optimize the airflow function (or optimally design the openings) in order to obtain the airflow that ensures indoor air quality and comfort with minimum energy consumption.
The book covers assessment of the pressure and temperature distribution around buildings in an urban context and guides the reader toward appropriate solutions for different classes of urban environment and building typology. It is self-contained and will be an essential resource for professionals and students when adopting energy-efficient strategies in building design.
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Building Energy Management Systems: An Application to Heating, Natural Ventilation, Lighting and Occupant Satisfaction
Geoff Levermore
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Building Energy Management Systems are used to monitor building temperature inside and outside buildings and control the boilers and coolers. Energy efficiency is a major cost issue for commerce and industry. Fully revised and updated, this book considers new developments in the control of low energy and HVAC systems and contains new chapters: Commissioning, Sick Building Syndrome and Occupant Feedback and Natural Ventilation, as well as new material on Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Buildings.
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How to Photograph in Natural Light (How to Photograph Series)
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135 color photos 7 x 9 Expert information on outdoor photography Advice and inspiration for any photographer Understanding the effects of light on a subject is one of the most important elements of taking top-quality outdoor photographs. This richly illustrated guide discusses in detail the varying qualities of natural light-how it affects metering, aperture selection, film speed, mood, and composition-to help both beginning and experienced photographers improve their images. Practical techniques are offered for low-light situations, sunny skies, overcast days, clouds, reflections, shadows, haze, and fog. Includes a gallery of the author's own photos. George Schaub is the author of numerous books on photography, including How to Photograph the Outdoors in Black & White. He teaches photography and printing at the New School/Parsons School of Design in New York and lives on Long Island.
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The Hvac/R Professional's Field Guide to Medium & High Efficiency Gas Furnaces
Richard Jazwin
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Soft Corals: Selecting and Maintaining Soft Corals Feeding and Algal Symbiosis Lighting and Water Clarity (Creating the Reef Environment)
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Great soft coral primer........2000-12-08
I'm more of a technical reader that needs very definite explanations and whys. Great book. I read the whole book in 1 sitting. Too bad it had to end so soon. The laminated pictures are cool too.
Almost perfect.......2000-09-30
Very informative book about soft corals, but it could have been a lot better: it speaks too vague about corals, it talks about the families and class of soft corals. I've learned some things with this book ( why soft corals uses iodine, etc ) .. Its a shame that it doesnt go more deeper and more informative: it could select the most representative corals from each family and make a quick guide ( light, position, etc etc ). It does contain a LOT of pictures, all of them in excelent quality. Too bad the book its so small ( 64 pages ... :( ), but you cant ask much more for a 10$ book. I'd recommend it to the begginner / intermediate reefer, no information for a advanced one ( a part from listing all the classes and taxonomy of soft corals ).
Add this book to your order if you make a big order and would like to read something in the bus :)
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Award-Winning Passive Solar House Designs
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