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PetSpeak: Share Your Pet's Secret Language!
The Editors of Pets: Part of the Family Manufacturer: Rodale Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1579543375 |
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What is your pet trying to tell you? The best way to understand dogs and cats is to see the world through their eyes, and this book shows you how to do just that. Packed with expert advice, easy-to-follow training techniques, and real-life examples, it's the only book you'll ever need to make your pet a fully responsive (and responsible) part of the family. Between these covers, you'll find eye-opening answers to hundreds of puzzling questions, such as:* Why does my dog sneak a drink from the toilet bowl when his own water dish is filled to the brim?* Why does my cat insist on walking on counters?* Why does my dog like rolling in smelly things so much?* Why does my cat suddenly scratch me while I'm petting her?Discover how to put an end to these perplexing behaviors, and....* Learn how to give commands so your dog will obey-- the first time.* Uncover the secret meaning of incessant yawning, teeth chattering, and other signals.* Meet dozens of delightful, inspiring pets and people who have already mastered petspeak.Customer Reviews:
Different species, different language........2006-10-06
Underwhelmed.......2005-07-10
A Must-Read!.......2001-08-28
dogs and cats lover must.......2001-05-27
Manuel for communication in you dog or cat's language.......2000-12-22
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Petspeak. Share Your Pet's Secret Language!
Manufacturer: Rodale Press, Inc. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000I33Z6A |
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Petspeak. Share Your Pet's Secret Language!
Manufacturer: Rodale Press, Inc. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000I35PQS |
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Petspeak. Share Your Pet's Secret Language!
Manufacturer: Rodale Press, Inc. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000I35PP4 |
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French eighteenth-century furniture (Pleasures and treasures)
GenevieĢve Souchal Manufacturer: Putnam ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0007E3XF8 |
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Eighteenth Century English & French Furniture & Objects of Art, Tapestries, Oriental Rugs. Property of William Lee, Harrogate, England ... Mrs. A. J. Beveridge, Indianapolis ... [American Art Assoc.; Anderson Galleries, March 26, 1938, Sale #4384]
American Art Association , and Anderson Galleries Manufacturer: NY: Amer. Art Assoc, Anderson Galleries ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000V98C1E |
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214 lots, 50 pages, limited b/w illus. as found in catalogues of this era. A. J. Beveridge was Senator Albert Jeremiah Beveridge (1862 - 1927) (R) Indiana, also an author and Pulitzer Prize winner.
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EIGHTEENTH CENTURY FRENCH FURNITURE & WORKS OF ART
Property of the Estate of the Late Madame Lucienne Fribourg Manufacturer: Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000MPE9Q4 |
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Eighteenth Century French Furniture & Works of Art Property of the estate of the late Madame Lucienne Fribourg (Auction)
Parke Bernet French Furniture. Fribourg Coll. New York Manufacturer: Parke-Bernet Galleries Inc. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000K78JO2 |
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EIGHTEENTH CENTURY FRENCH FURNITURE AND WORKS OF ART: COLLECTION OF MADAME LUCIENNE FRIBOURG
(no author) Manufacturer: Parke-Bernet Galleries ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000Q469XW |
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English and French Eighteenth Century Furniture...; Feb 15-16, 1946
Charles N., Mrs. John S. Williams, & Hyatt Lyke Edge Manufacturer: Parke-Bernet Galleries ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000M1F9SA |
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English Eighteenth Century Furniture & Decorations, Paintings & Drawings, Oriental Rugs, French & Italian Faience, Silver, Textiles. Property of Mrs. Lillie Weir Simms, Vincent C. Oreste [Parke-Bernet, Dec. 7, 1939]
Manufacturer: NY: Parke-Bernet Galleries ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000F8LKCO |
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218 Lots; 44-pages; limited b/w photos.
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Fine Eighteenth Century French & Other Continental Furniture: Fine Renaissance Bronzes & Other Works of Art; Ormolu-Mounted Poreclain and Other Dec. Objects; Gothic & Later tapestries, Carpets & Rugs
Parke-Bernet Galleries Manufacturer: Parke-Bernet Galleries ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000K6VU3U |
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French and Viennese Eighteenth Century Furniture and Decorations...; Apr 5, 1947
Leny M. Glaser Manufacturer: Parke-Bernet Galleries ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000M1BRRC |
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French Eighteenth Century Furniture
Genevieve Souchal Manufacturer: G. P. Putnam's Sons ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000JVAUCI |
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How to Grow More Vegetables and Fruits: (And Fruits, Nuts, Berries, Grains, and Other Crops)
John Jeavons Manufacturer: Ten Speed Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1580087965 |
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A classic in the field of sustainable gardening, HOW TO GROW MORE VEGETABLES shows how to produce a beautiful organic garden with minimal watering and care, whether it's just a few tomatoes in a tiny backyard or enough food to feed a family of four on less than half an acre. Updated with the latest biointensive tips and techniques, this is an essential reference for gardeners of all skill levels seeking to grow some or all of their own food.Customer Reviews:
A good book with surplus pages.......2007-08-16
It's not easy, but it's brilliant and could save the world.......2007-05-22
Are you into numbers?.......2007-05-12
This is a great book.......2007-05-04
California Vegetarians .......2007-03-05
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How to Grow More Vegetables: Fruits, Nuts, Berries, Grains, and Other Crops
John Jeavons Manufacturer: Ten Speed Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0898157676 |
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Now in its fifth edition and printed in seven different languages, Jeavon's book is considered a classic in the field (literally) and has brought about a kind of green revolution in food production around the world. This book is based on Alan Chadwick's biointensive gardening techniques. It will show you how to raise enough fresh, healthy, organic vegetables for a family of four on a parcel of land as small as 800 square feet! Nothing could be more fundamental to the needs of an increasingly crowded world than food. Jeavons and the group he heads, Ecology Action, are making a quiet but earth-shaking revolution in how people raise nutritious food.If you have a small, flat rooftop, access to a bit of open space between your house and your neighbor's, or any small patch of land, here's the ultimate how-to manual for making the most of it to raise your own food, including ways to enhance soil fertility and productivity, non-chemical pest controls, where and when to plant what in your climate or location, the tools you'll need, and the problem-solving skills essential to success. This "ground-breaking" book is used by gardeners around the globe and is as hopeful, inspiring, and motivating a gardening book as has ever been written. --Mark Hetts
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*Than You Every Thought Possible On Less Land Than You Can ImagineNow published in 7 different languages and used in 108 countries - this is the book that has helped revolutionize food production around the globe. Based on Biointensive gardening techniques developed by horticulturalist Alan Chadwick, How to Grow More Vegetables details the farming method which can result in 800 square feet or less providing a family of four with fresh vegetables - produced organically while maintaining soil nutrients for future crops, with a minimum of water and daily care needed - for an entire year. This revision contains completely updated and expanded material throughout, as well as new chapters on soil sustainability and a perspective into the future of farming.
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No metric???.......2002-07-04
Double-digging, maybe. Double pages, no........2000-06-01
Biodynamic techniques were developed by Austrian genius Rudolf Steiner. French Intensive methods were developed in the 1890s by market gardeners outside Paris, a time when horses provided more-than-ample fertilizer and the city provided a ready market for vegetables. Chadwick studied under Steiner and French gardeners.
The method requires double-digging garden beds and adding compost or aged manure. Double-digging to two feet in depth provides loose soil that roots easily penetrate. Plants are seeded or transplanted very close together and form a living mulch, shading roots, causing greater water retention, denying sunlight to weeds. Other aspects of the method are planting and transplanting by the phases of the moon and daily sprinkling rather than periodical flooding.
This material has been recycled four times since the 1974 typewritten edition. I regret to report it is no longer up-to-date gardening knowledge, it will intimidate beginning gardeners, and it will bore experienced gardeners. There is only one new chapter, titled Sustainability, which is mostly promotion of Ecology Action. In addition, Jeavons seems confused. In the first four editions he wrote that he was teaching us the "biodynamic/French intensive method" of Steiner and French gardeners as learned and taught by Chadwick. Now in a chapter titled A Perspective for the Future, he writes that his work is based on the "Chinese Biointensive way of farming." Yet nowhere does he advocate or tell how to use humanure, which is the basis of Chinese food production, as first shown by F.H. King in his book, Farmers of Forty Centuries. Only in the bibliography do we find book listings under the heading: Human Waste. The huge bibliography (36 pages, was 22 pages in the last edition) apparently lists every book and catalog in the Ecology Action library but there is NO INDEX! I find the lack of an index in a nonfiction book to be unforgivable. For instance, looking for crop rotation or mulching methods means scanning the entire 201 pages--and coming up empty.
There are pages and pages of drawings and technical charts that most readers will never use. We find listings of plants and information both barely usable--seeds per ounce, pounds consumed per average person per year--and important--bed spacing, yields--although there is no recognition or advice concerning the many soil types and growing zones. One is dismayed to find--in a book titled How to Grow More Vegetables--more pages of charts about grain, protein source, vegetable oil crops; cover, organic matter, fodder crops; energy, fiber paper and other crops; tree and cane crops--20 pages in all, than about vegetable crops--8 pages.
Promotion of Ecology Action uses a fourteen-page chapter in addition to six more pages of self-promotion in the Sustainability chapter. If you want to support Jeavons' work, send a check to Ecology Action, or buy his book, The Sustainable Vegetable Garden, adapted from this book by co-author Carol Cox, which is smaller and less expensive and has all his best stuff without the wasted pages of charts, drawings and promotion, and it has an index! If you want current gardening information, read authors such as Eliot Coleman and Dick Raymond who are progressive and work with all garden designs, including the mulch method first popularized by Ruth Stout and now used by hundreds of my gardening friends across the country. Most of us have tried the double-dig method and have long since moved on. I recommend you not waste your time, except maybe once for new gardens, depending on soil conditions. Thereafter, use mulch, save your back and spend your time and energy on better pursuits.
THE difinitive book about sustainable gardening.......1999-04-28
This will become your bible for planting and growing without chemical fertilizers, insecticides, or weed control.
The sustainable methods of producing the food we eat in a small space makes more sense than the wastful techniques perfected and promoted in the last two generations.
If you can buy only one book on gardening -- this should be the one.
Other resources to consider: "The Backyard Homestead" (Jeavons, et al); "Square Foot Gardening" (Bartholomew) - similar ideas; "Five Acres And Independence" (Kains).
Survival is simpler if it has been your way of life.
A Real Disappointment.......1999-03-15
Although this thin book has gone through five reprints, the passing years seem to have added little in the way of real information. Sure, knowing how to turn soil with hand tools and make a compost pile is useful, but most modern books handle that in a couple of pages. The book's policy of zero tolerance for chemical fertilizer and pesticides is an admirable ideal but a tad too stringent for me. I found the "charts" little more than unfinished notes that were largely indecipherable. The book offers dubious, sometimes contradictory, advice, including instructions on planting by the phases of the Moon. Sources for supplies are referenced with old-fashioned snail-mail addresses rather than 1-800 numbers or URLs. The book has no index!
Frankly, much of the text seems to be self-promotion for the Cause, worthy as it may be, rather than offering solid gardening tips. If you really want to grow more vegetables, get Dick Raymond's Joy of Gardening. He's plenty "green" and offers practical approaches to getting food out of the ground.
A book that unlocks knowledge long needed in today's society.......1998-07-14
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HOW TO GROW MORE VEGETABLES : AND FRUITS, NUTS, BERRIES, GRAINS, AND OTHER CROPS THAN YOU EVER THOUGHT POSSIBLE ON LESS LAND THAN YOU CAN IMAGINE
JOHN JEAVONS Manufacturer: TEN SPEED PRESS@ ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000KVHNFO |
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How to Grow More Vegetables: And Fruits, Nuts, Berries, Grains and Other Crops
John Jeavons Manufacturer: Ten Speed Press,U.S. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000KWSGG8 |
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Timbuktu and the Songhay Empire: Al-Sa'Di's Ta'Rikh Al-Sudan Down to 1613 and Other Contemporary Documents
Manufacturer: Brill Academic Publishers ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 9004128220 |
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A must for West African historians who can't read Arabic.......2006-05-20
Missing Link to West African History.......2003-10-28
The result is an interesting narrative with a cast of characters that include some familiar names to African history fans such as Mansa Musa, Sunni Ali (referred to in this book as "the tyrant"), Askia Muhammad, and the scholar Ahmed Baba, as well as many more obscure historical figues and events. (Surprisingly, Sundiata the original Lion King is only mentioned in passing in a footnote).
However, the casual reader with a beginning knowledge of Ancient Africna history should be warned that this is not for beginners or lay historians. Dr. Hunwick, in a noble effort to make this understandable, fills the text with footnotes and phonetic pronunciation of the Islamic names and concepts. Plus, the original language of the text is quite labored for the casual reader and while Dr. Hunwick tries with this, it's still a pretty rough read for the beginner.
For the avid African historian, this is great stuff which is filled new and important information. The layman may want to start with such things as the recent translation of Ibn Battuta's accounts of his travels in precolonial Africa or D.T. Niane's account of the Sundiata epic (as well as reading the Quaran) to get a feel for this kind of material before moving on to this. Also, it is important to know that the Islamic writers of that era (Middle Ages) were very ethnocentic and scornful of pre-Islamic African cultures, so be prepared for that kind of bias.
But with all that said, go for it. It's an extremely valuable piece of history.
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Timbuktu and the Songhay Empire: Al-Sa`Di's Ta'Rikh Al-Sudan Down to 1613 and Other Contemporary Documents (Islamic History and Civilization)
John O. Hunwick Manufacturer: Brill Academic Publishers ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 9004112073 |
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Excellent Work - Well Worth the Price........2004-04-23
Brilliant Black African History!!!!.......2004-01-18
The Dynasties, Scholars of the area, African ethnic groups, etc., are well covered. I think the "Tarikh Al-Fettah", should also be translated into English.
For those people in the world who still refuse to aknowledge Black African Civilizations, initiatives, and accomplishments, this is a good read.
Currently in Mali today there are 15 families that have preserved over 50,000 volumes of African History in that area. There is a current project underway to save these priceless materials. Contact info@Timbuktufoundation.org
$147!.......2003-10-15
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Timbuktu and the Songhay Empire: Al-Sa'di's Ta'rikh al-sudan down to 1613 and Other Contemporary Documents.(Brief Reviews)(Book Review): An article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society
Randall L. Pouwels Manufacturer: American Oriental Society ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B00082C45E Release Date: 2005-07-31 |
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This digital document is an article from The Journal of the American Oriental Society, published by American Oriental Society on April 1, 2003. The length of the article is 485 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.Books:
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