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BULLDOGDOM BY A. G. STURGEON A VINTAGE DOG BOOKS CLASSIC REPRINT. Originally published in 1920, this extremely rare early work on the Bulldog is both very expensive and very hard to find in its first edition. VINTAGE DOG BOOKS have republished it, using the original text and photographs, as part of their CLASSIC BREED BOOKS series. The author was a highly respected breeder of the day. The book's 188 pages cover all aspects of the Bulldog. Beginning with the history of the breed, it moves on to discuss buying, breeding, feeding and showing amongst many other topics. The book is illustrated throughout with the lovely line drawings of R. WARD BINKS, and contains a double-page spread of an original pedigree document. There is a "Standard description of the correct appearance and the several points in detail of a perfect Bulldog" The final chapter features over 40 photographs of champion Bulldogs of the day, a full descriptive write-up of each dog and their pedigrees. Also included in the text are a number of period adverts for dog products featuring Bulldogs. This is a fascinating read for any Bulldog enthusiast or historian of the breed but also contains much information that is still useful and practical today. Many of the earliest dog breed books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. VINTAGE DOG BOOKS are reprinting these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork
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The tetradrachms of Roman Egypt
James W Curtis
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June 1972. 16 pages, 10 of which show black and white photos of the featured coins. The coins offered in this sale catalog feature portraits of emperors on the obverse side with Greek and Roman deities and Egyptian gods on the reverse. The coins are usually dated with the regnal year of the emperor.
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If you're not a tree lover now, this pocket-sized gem -- dedicated to the idea that every species of tree has a story and every individual tree has a history -- will make you one. Produced in consultation with the City's Parks and Recreation department and the New York Tree Trust, this book is a reference to the stories of New York City's trees, complete with photographs, tree silhouettes, leaf and fruit morphologies, and charming and informative explanatory texts. It is divided into four sections: "The Best Places to See Trees," full of insider's tips and helpful maps; "New York City's Great Trees," a directory of the oldest, strangest, most beautiful trees; "The Tree Guide," arranged for ease of identification by leaf shape and size; and, finally, "Sources and Resources" for future investigation.
With over 700 beautiful color photographs, drawings, and detailed maps, this is the ultimate field guide to the trees of the Big Apple and the metropolitan region.
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- Selby's Best Work
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- this is just as good as his other work
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The Willow Tree
Hubert Selby
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Hubert Selby is probably one of the six best novelists writing in the English language.?Financial Times
Bobby is young and black. He shares a cramped apartment in the south Bronx with his mother, his younger siblings and the ceaselessly scratching rats that infest the walls behind his bed. Barely a teenager, he is old beyond his years. The best thing in Bobby's life is Maria, his Hispanic girlfriend. They are in love, and they have big plans for the summer ahead.
Their lives are irrevocably shattered when a vicious Hispanic street gang attack the couple as they walk to school. With Bobby savagely beaten and Maria lying in hospital, terrified and engulfed by the pain of her badly burned face, The Willow Tree takes the reader on on a volcanically powerful trip through the lives of America's dispossessed inner-city dwellers.
Into this bleak and smouldering hinterland, however, Selby introduces a small but vital note of love and compassion. When Bobby's bruised and bloodied body is discovered by Moishe, an aged concentration camp survivor, an unlikely friendship begins. As Moishe slowly, painfully, reveals his own tragic story, Bobby struggles angrily with his desperate need for revenge.
"Selby's place is in the front rank of American novelists ... to understand his work is to understand the anguish of America."?The New York Times Book Review
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Hubert Selby Jr available from Marion Boyars: Last Exit to Brooklyn, The Room, The Demon, Requiem for a Dream and Song of the Silent Snow.
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Selby's Best Work.......2006-01-26
I have read all of Selby's books, save for "Requiem for a Dream" (though I have seen Aronofsky's superb cinema treatment of it).
All of Selby's works, up until this one, contain a savagery and hatred for the injustice and pain of this world. This world view , I think was most likely brought on by the events of his own life experiences (surgeries, amputations etc).
Selby's books are some of the most visceral, terrifying, disturbing and truthful that I have ever been fortunate to come across. Though his uncompromising lyrical savegery can sometimes be hard to take.
The fable of "The Willow Tree" is in my opinion, his best book. All of his others are black places of hopelessness, dark clammy holes with no light at all, nothing but the whispering maw of destruction and despair.
The Willow Tree brings us awareness, for the first time ever in Selby's books, of the existence of hope and forgiveness, which can be used as weapons to heal the great hurts that the world can sometimes heap upon us.
This is the book I feel truly represents the most important turning point in Selby's personal journey.
Be submerged in darkness, and through your own valor and humanity emerge cleansed.
A masterwork.
FatherCrow
Decent, but monotonous.......2005-05-07
Once again, after reading "Last Exit" and "Room," I expected great things from Selby, but "Willow Tree" is not on par with the others. It has a solid storyline filled with terrible events and tragedy portrayed skillfuly, but after Maria's terrible death, the book seems to drag on about irrelevant things. If you can handle the monotony, than go ahead and give "Willow Tree" a try.
how do we survive it.......2002-12-27
Selby's first proper novel was Last Exit to Brooklyn, a searing bludgeon of a book that showed that Naturalism was alive and well, and ornerier than ever. It became celebrated in certain circles, incited several obscenity trials, was banned in many places, and generally fought the good fight. His last proper novel was Requiem for a Dream, a lacerating, anguished masterpiece that is liable to haunt one long after one reads it. That was in 1978. A collection of stories entitled Song of the Silent Snow followed; then all was still. Suddenly, twenty years later, Selby reappeared - it turns out that he had been writing The Willow Tree for all that time, and finished it only around 1998. What can a reader expect from this man after twenty years of nothing? A stunning comeback? A return to realistic form? A complete flop? Last Exit to Brooklyn redux, or something new and unprecedented? The result is, actually, a bit of all of those.
Confusion abounds, and what this book actually meant to do is not entirely clear. The Kirkus reviewer's supercilious attitude is uncalled for (one great book is more than you'll ever write, dude), but I can understand his frustration. This is the story of a thirteen-year-old black kid from the ghetto, whose girlfriend is killed by a bunch of Hispanic thugs, and who swears undying revenge. He is then found by a little old man who lives underground in a luxurious apartment, and very slowly cured of his hatred. That sounds like a sentimental fantasy, and it is one, but only to a degree. It's actually quite difficult to apply A Christmas Carol analogies, as the Kirkus reviewer does, to a book that features about ten profanities per page. In fact, Selby never altogether forsakes his ultra-realism - the scenes of poverty and desperation are evoked as powerfully as ever, the scenes where Bobby sneaks about the streets are rivetingly suspenseful, and Moishe's recollection of concentration camps is genuinely frightening. Bobby's mother only appears in a few scenes, but her all-pervasive despair is chillingly real, and the bit where Bobby sends her a letter at Moishe's behest is not only the most effective scene in the book, but one of Selby's most effective scenes ever.
But on the other hand, this is certainly no exercise in realism. Consider Moishe's luxurious apartment, which contains a workshop, an exercise room, a Jacuzzi, several fine beds, a refrigerator with a seemingly endless supply of ice cream (with chocolate sauce - Selby is determined that you clearly understand that THERE IS CHOCOLATE SAUCE in this refrigerator, and to that end repeats this fact about a thousand times), and so on. But that, actually, is not as hard to accept as the fact that Moishe apparently can produce all of this out of thin air. The book doesn't show that he has a job, or that he ever had one, and it's never explained whence he procures all the money that he doubtless spends. In addition to this, Moishe's method of raising Bobby seems to be to pamper him in luxury and ask nothing of him; the contrast between this and Bobby's old life is appropriately striking, but only until the reader starts to ask questions about what happens later. Does Moishe send Bobby to school? Does he teach him a trade? Does he even ask him to do anything? No, nowhere in the book.
And what of Bobby's revenge itself? Yes, it's for the sake of contrast that Selby had Bobby sneak out under cover of night to pursue his enemies right after the most peaceful scenes with Moishe, but this contrast is so severe as to be unconvincing. Could the thirteen-year-old kid that stared slackjawed at Moishe's tales of wartime terror, genuinely affected by them, then go out to corner some fool and proceed to cut off his ear, then return in his new clothes underground and brag about his "righteous" victory to the old man? Given all the problems with the premise that I already mentioned, it only seems completely bizarre, and not in the way it was intended to.
I suspect that Selby, after writing so many books filled with sheer hopelessness, decided to write one where the underdog finally wins one for a change. No wonder it took him so long - he clearly was unused to such a strange notion. The sick despair that filled Requiem for a Dream has been blunted to a sort of quiet sadness now, and it's actually somewhat moving to see the compassion that Selby always had for people in full light. But it's undeniable that The Willow Tree is not on the level of some of its predecessors - twenty years' gestation time notwithstanding, the book still seems muddled and unrealized. I'd welcome a kinder and gentler Selby, in theory, hoping that he'd straighten things out to himself by his next book, but from what I've read about Waiting Period, I fear that he might be losing it completely. Read The Willow Tree if you like being confused.
GREAT BOOK.......2002-06-25
The plot of this book is awesome. I love the understanding and compassion of the main characters. Some of the story is a little overly dramatic and hard to swallow, but all in all this is an enjoyable read.
this is just as good as his other work.......2002-03-26
hubert selby jnr. is far, far from a one book author, as the room, requiem for a dream and this prove. this is a deeply emotional story of a black boy severely beaten by a group of hispanics and his girlfriend left scarred when they throw lye in her face. the boy finds himself in the care of an elderly german who tends to his wounds and tries to comfort him in his grief when the boy discovers that his girlfriend has been driven to suicide because of the attack. the boy then seeks revenge on the gang, taking it in turns to track them down. the elderly german, realising that the boy is being consumed by hate tries to make him realise that love is more important by showing him the good things in life. the one downfall in this story is the repetetive use of the words crying and laughing to describe the boys relationship with the old man
but as with all hubert's work, this stays with you long after you have read it and plays on your mind a lot.
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One September, Ralph Fletcher entered the world of the New York City public school as a staff developer for the Teachers College Writing Project. Walking Trees is the dramatic story of how he survived the wrenching highs and lows of that school year.
Beautifully written, alternately funny and poignant, sad and angry, the book offers an authentic portrait of life in the city's schools. The stories and unforgettable characters in this book - the principals, teachers, and children Fletcher worked with - give Walking Trees a novelistic quality in which the enormous difficulties of staff development in an urban setting are woven together with events in the greater world.
Walking Trees re-creates a world in which all of us who have ever spent time in a school will instantly be able to recognize.
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A Book for Teachers to Read!.......2000-07-17
Ralph is a dynamic speaker and writer. This book helps teachersof all ages and subjects to tackle the complicated issues ofwriting. He is able to engage the reader with humor and wit, something technical books ever do. I read this book in a day! Another wonderful piece by him is: What A Writer Needs.
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Cesar's Amazing Journey
Stephen Philip Policoff
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Can Cesar the tree frog find a warm home in the big city?
When Cesar the tree frog is forcibly removed from his home in the tropical wetlands, and relocated to the streets of New York City, he's in for the adventure of a lifetime. With B. Cider, a friendly spider, Cesar takes in the sights and sounds of the city, enjoying each glitzy moment as only a tree frog can--but soon our hero discovers that he's cold and that he misses his leaf. What's a poor tree frog to do?
With zany illustrations by David Catrow, Cesar's Amazing Journey will tickle the funny bone and have readers cheering for the little tree frog who finally finds the home he's been missing.
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fantastic, original book.......2000-07-20
My daugther, 5, loves listening to this story, and we love reading it to her. It's the story of a Cuban tree frog happily living in the Everglades, who suddenly finds himself exploring the sites of New York City yet missing his home terribly. The story is beautifully told, the text lively and well written, the kind of prose that works for kids AND adults. The illustrations are great, too.
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This volume presents the proceedings of the workshop "Harmonic Functions on Graphs" held at the Graduate Center of CUNY in the fall of 1995. The main papers present material from four minicourses given by leading experts: D. Cartwright, A. Figà-Talamanca, S. Sawyer and T. Steger. These minicourses are introductions which gradually progress to deeper and less known branches of the subject. One of the topics treated is buildings, which are discrete analogues of symmetric spaces of arbitrary rank; buildings of rank are trees. Harmonic analysis on buildings is a fairly new and important field of research. One of the minicourses discusses buildings from the combinatorial perspective and another examines them from the $p$-adic perspective. The third minicourse deals with the connections of trees with $p$-adic analysis. And the fourth deals with random walks, i.e., with the probabilistic side of harmonic functions on trees.
The book also contains the extended abstracts of 19 of the 20 lectures given by the participants on their recent results. These abstracts, well detailed and clearly understandable, give a good cross-section of the present state of research in the field.
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New York Mosaic: Three Novels : Do I Wake or Sleep ; The Christman Tree ; Many Mansions (New York Mosaic)
Isabel Bolton
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Literary reputations come and go, often with little reason or justice, so it is always a joy when a great "lost" author is rediscovered. Isabel Bolton (the pen name of Mary Britton Miller) wrote and published three critically acclaimed novels in the late 1940s: Do I Wake or Sleep, The Christmas Tree, and Many Mansions. Diana Trilling called her "the most important new novelist to appear in years," and Edmund Wilson compared her to Virginia Woolf. Today she is almost unknown. New York Mosaic collects all three novels and brings Bolton's beautiful and incisive prose to a whole new audience. The Christmas Tree is of particular interest because of the honest and empathetic way that it deals with a gay man who, with his lover, appears at a family Christmas dinner that has tragic results.
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A writer from the past who will capture many hearts.
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The idea behind the re-issue of I. Bolton's works........1998-05-08
Isabel Bolton was a well considered writer, but forgotten by the 1990's. Leonard Goldstein the late NYC businessman greatly admired Bolton's work amd was instrumental in getting Bolton back in print.
Goldtein was a writer for the now defunct New York Native weekly. He was also active in both the NYC literary and political worlds. In 1995 Goldstein approached Michael Moore of Steerforth Press with the idea to re-publish these three Bolton works (There are several other novels, but Golsdstein considered these three the superior). Goldstein sent these to Moore. Moore replied that he did not know the works, but after reviewing them, thought they were "too old fashioned". Goldstein did not give up. Even though he was dying of lung cancer, he contacted and met with Bolton's heirs to ask their permission to have these books re-issued. Shortly after this Goldstein died.
I was shocked and pleased to see the "New York Mosaic - Three Novels By Isabel Bolton" in bookstores in Jan. of this year. Doris Grumbach, a fine writer and a commentator for NPR, did the intro. (Goldstein had suggested that Diana Trilling do the intro. Trilling had accepted, but died shortly afer Goldstein.) Grumbach writes that she had sent Moore ONE of the vary same novels and he had rejected it as "too old fashioned". Moore must have not only changed his mind, but decided to re-publish Grumbach's suggestion along with the other two novels Goldstein had proposed.
It is good that these fine writings are now back in print. I am sure that Goldstein would be pleased they are. What is just plain wrong is that Moore did not give any note or mention in the book jacket or elsewere that the idea and spark for the re-issue of these novels came to him from Leonard Goldstein of New York.
Mr. Moore: Now the truth is out. What you have is unethical. Goldstein deserves credit for beinging this idea to your attention. All that said, thanks for re-publishing these works. They are a memorial to not only B! olton's work, but to the fine idea and efforts of Leonard Goldstein.
Mr. Moore: It is just plain good manners to give credit where credit is due...
Kevin Foley Darien, CT
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From the Preface written by Arthur Ross: "It gives me great pleasure to witness the second edition of this definitive volume on the pine tree, originally published in 1980. The book is based on the Pinetum that I established in Central Park in 1971. Today there are more than 400 pines representing some 15 species in the Pinetum."
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This digital document is an article from American Forests, published by American Forests on June 22, 2000. The length of the article is 1766 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Cities under seige: as scientists work to eliminate Asian longhorned beetle in New York and Chicago, trees are coming down--and the rest of the country is getting worried.(Communities)
Author: Mary M. Woodsen
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American Forests (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 22, 2000
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Encyclopedie de L'Islam, Tome X, Livraison 163-164
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