I-Spy Nature (Michelin I-Spy)

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Great quilt book all around!

I Can Quilt!

A great Book for Quilters!

A great find!!!

A Book For All Quilters

Thimbleberries Beginner's Luck: Over 20 Tried and True Quilts (Thimbleberries)
Lynette Jensen
Manufacturer: Publishing Solutions
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0972558012

Book Description

20 step-by-step quilt projects for beginners, with 225 color photogaphs and illustrations.

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Great quilt book all around!.......2007-09-22

This quilt book is awesome for the beginner ot the experienced quilter. You can have so many finished looks with the Little Boy Blue quilt. The quilts are very easy and the instructions are very easy to understand. Also,Lynette has some great tips for quilting throughout the book no matter what skill level you are. A must have for all quilters!

I Can Quilt!.......2003-09-24

After many years of wanting to quilt, I finally decided to give it a try. I chose Thimbleberries Beginner's Luck because of the quality of the projects and the ease of use. My results....a beautiful quilt that is sure to become a family heirloom. The projects are beautifully laid out with step-by-step directions and many helpful hints for success. I can't wait to start my next quilt!

A great Book for Quilters!.......2003-09-24

I really enjoyed ths book - easy to read but informative. Very attractively laid out, and enjoyable.

A great find!!!.......2003-09-23

This book is the one stop shop for quilters - makes sense of everything that all quilters need to know - both beginners and advanced. A wonderful goldmine!!!

A Book For All Quilters.......2003-09-22

This is a wonderful book for quilters and nonquilters alike. The content is especially helpful for someone who is just learning to quilt and needs a resource to refer to. The pictures are beautiful and the book is very easy to follow. This would be a great Christmas gift idea for any quilter.

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This guide by a vanda expert includes information on the species origins of Vanda hybrids and all the intergeneric hybrids, particularly those that form the manmade orchid genus Ascocenda. Fully one-third of the book is devoted to detailed suggestions for providing optimum growing conditions for vandas.

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A Must for Gardeners who Plant Breed
Required reading for amateur plant breeders

Breeding Ornamental Plants
Dorothy J. Callaway , and M. Brett Callaway
Manufacturer: Timber Press, Incorporated
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0881924822

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Breeding plants to encourage specific traits is usual in agriculture but less common in ornamental horticulture. Daffodils, daylilies, hostas, lilacs, magnolias, and rhododendrons are among the 15 subjects covered by experts in the field.

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A Must for Gardeners who Plant Breed.......2001-07-17

This book is an excellent reference source in understanding the processes on breeding the top favorite ornamental plants. The book is well written to support the serious amateur plant breeder to even the professional. The introductory chapters provide a quick education on genetics and its applications to plant protection and trademarks. The book is well illustrated and provides and excellent source of collections, suppliers, plant societies and references for each ornamental plant. Well worth the purchase!

Required reading for amateur plant breeders.......2000-11-01

This book has been sorely needed: a book about breeding ornamental (as opposed to crop) plants, and geared toward the serious amateur plant breeder. However, even professional plant breeders should find much of interest in this book.

There are introductory chapters on general breeding and basic genetics, clearly written and none of it heavily technical. This will be especially useful to the beginning breeder. The rest of the chapters are written by different plant breeders, discussing different genera or groups of plants. Although this makes the quality somewhat uneven and some of the information redundant, it's both fascinating and instructive to see how the goals, objectives, and techniques are similar, as well as different, between the different plant groups and different breeders. By and large, these breeders are not professionals, they are just regular people who like to grow plants and have gotten bitten by the hybridizing bug. All have valuable information to pass on based on their own experience, so even if you buy this book for information about breeding Saintpaulia, or Hemerocallis, or another particular group, be sure to read ALL the chapters as much of the information is applicable to plant breeding in general.

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In this book we bring together the most up-to-date information on developments, both basic and applied, that already have or are expected to impact the field of ornamental breeding. These include classical and molecular techniques, traditional and high-throughput approaches and future trends. Since not only professional scientists, but also thousands of future scientists/students as well as amateur breeders around the world contribute heavily to the field of ornamental breeding, an introductory section dealing with the basics of molecular and classical genetics and the evolution of floral diversity is included. This should enable the reader to bridge the gap between traditional and molecular genetics. Classical approaches to the creation/selection of genetic variability, including mutation and tissue culture-aided breeding, are presented. Processes affecting ornamental and agronomic traits at the molecular level are delineated, along with an in-depth analysis of developments in the protection of intellectual property rights. The thoughts and strategies of molecular and classical geneticists, which are not always complementary or even compatible, are presented side by side in this book, and will serve to spark the imaginations of breeders as well as students entering the exciting world of state-of-the-art ornamentals.

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Creating Oncidiinae Intergenerics
W. W. Goodman
Manufacturer: Univ of Hawaii Pr
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0824807847

Genetics and Breeding of Ornamental Species (Current Plant Science and Biotechnology in Agriculture Series)

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Genetics and Breeding of Ornamental Species (Current Plant Science and Biotechnology in Agriculture Series)

Manufacturer: Springer
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Orantamental Plants
S.K. Datta
Manufacturer: Daya Publishing House,India
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Plant Biotechnology in Ornamental Horticulture

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Plant Biotechnology in Ornamental Horticulture

Manufacturer: Food Products Press
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Find out how biotechnology can produce more nutritious fruits and vegetables, more colorful flowers, and grass that needs less water--and mowing!

Plant Biotechnology in Ornamental Horticulture presents an in-depth overview of the key scientific and technical advances, issues, and challenges in one of the fastest growing segments of the agriculture industry. This comprehensive book covers 19 different topics related to the use of transgenic plant technology to improve ornamental plants, ranging from metabolic engineering of flower color and scent to improving cold, drought, and disease tolerance in horticultural and ornamental crops to the economics of horticultural biotechnology.

Horticulture provides color and flavor to the foods we eat and variety to the products we use, and helps us sustain a healthy environment. Plant Biotechnology in Ornamental Horticulture examines the importance of biotechnology in cultivating garden crops-including fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamentals such as plants used for landscaping-by reducing pesticide use, reducing soil erosion, and developing plants with improved nutrition. Leading educators and horticultural professionals address important current and future topics, including micropropagation and regeneration, the use of molecular techniques for genetic improvement, molecular-assisted breeding, abiotic stress, the development of disease resistance, protection from insects, herbicide tolerance, controlled flowering, modifying color and fragrance, plant architecture, and senescence.

Plant Biotechnology in Ornamental Horticulture examines:

ornamental plant transformation
molecular phylogeny
drought response and drought tolerance engineering
transgenic approaches to viral, bacterial, and fungal disease resistance
vegetable propagation by cuttings
the promotion of flowering
molecular aspects of leaf morphogenesis
transgenic manipulation
controlling invasive plants
plant hormones, including ethylene, gibberellins (GAs), auxin, cytokinin, and abscisic acid (ABA)
and much more

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A state-of-the-art overview on important topics relating to the breeding of agriculturally and horticulturally important plants. It continually monitors developments in plant breeding research and covers major field crops, horticultural crops and specialties.

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Bought the book too soon.

Classroom success!

How to KNOW if your child is making social progress!!

A great pleasure to read for practical advice

Incorporating Social Goals In The Classroom: A Guide for Teachers and Parents of Children w/ High-Functioning Autism/ Asperger Syndrome
Rebecca A. Moyes
Manufacturer: JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS
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ASIN: 185302967X

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This book provides practical, hands-on strategies to teach social skills to children with high-functioning autism and Asperger Syndrome. It includes a detailed description of the social deficits of these children as they appear in the classroom - difficulties with such things as understanding idioms, taking turns in conversation, understanding and using tone of voice and body language - and ways to address them. Instruction is included in the book to enhance the development of appropriate, measureable, and meaningful individualized education plans (IEPs) to incorporate social goals. Lesson plans are included to facilitate the ability to 'teach' these social goals. Parents will find this text an excellent training tool to help develop social education curriculums for their children, and teachers will find it particularly helpful as an easy-to-read manual containing many 'nuts and bolts' strategies to utilize in the classroom.

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Very useful and positive.......2007-06-23

Although I haven't purchased a copy of this book, a read a copy that I borrowed from a library, and I find it very useful and positive.

As a middle-aged adult with Asperger's Syndrome, I know how useful and helpful a book like this would have been if one had existed when I was in elementary school, as well as if the social training programs that this book's author recommends had existed back then. I was in special ed classes from the ages of 6 to 14, and although they were very helpful in giving me every chance to achieve academically, they did not give me the social skills training that I needed. On a positive note, the peers I had in the special ed classes I was in were also quite advanced intellectually (or at least average intellectually), and this, as well as the work my teachers had me doing, helped me to mature intellectually more than I would have if I had been put in with kids who were much more limited intellectually. I was put in with those who had behaviour problems, and also those who probably had A.D.D. and A.D.H.D., as well as with others with A.S., and all of them were fairly advanced (or at least average) intellectually. One problem, however, was that they did not give me the social skills training that I needed, and, unfortuantely, I still didn't have the social skills that I needed even after graduating from a regular high school. I might add that my elementary school years were from 1965 to 1973.

Bought the book too soon........2007-03-25

This book is geared towards children who are already speaking and who have mediocre social skills. I was excited to get this book so I could help my kindergarten age son, whos teachers are having a hard time setting the goals I'M most concerned about (not through lack of trying, we all just seem at a loss as of WHAT and HOW to break down the goals into an IEP format that is recognizable and measurable.) Unfortunatley my son rarely speaks and seems unable to bridge the gap between himself and other children (although he is aware of and obviously WANTS to interact on most occasions.) So, although this book seems as though it will be a WONDERFUL help in years to come, until then it's not really something we can put to use.

Classroom success!.......2004-12-16

My son's teacher has been using this wonderful book to help my child improve his social skills. We are already seeing him take turns in converstion instead of interrupting everyone.He is also showing a better understanding of personal space.I am lucky to have a teacher that is so in tune and concerned with offering these types of lessons in the classroom. She recently incorporated stress and anxiety management(which is also an issue) with the help of a new curriculum called the "Children's Awareness Curriculum".

I recommend both of these guides for teachers with or without special needs children.

How to KNOW if your child is making social progress!!.......2003-04-25

I bought this book as a result of getting my son's IEP back with vague social goals and no way to tell if he was progressing. Most schools do not know how to write social goals, let alone make them measurable. It is our job as parents to find the answers the school can't or won't find. I rejected the social goals on his IEP and went in search for an answer. This book was it!
I read it in a few hours and had complete understanding of the concepts and loved how the goals were actually measurable. I had a meeting with the school psychologist and presented ideas from the book to her (at her request I also lent her the book). The ideas are practical, do not cost the school money and not that much extra work. Because of this book I will now know how my son is actually progressing in the areas of social skills and the team will be able to know if their interventions are working or if we need to change them.
**My son has NLD which is debatable as to whether it is in the autism spectrum. I found some assessment questions & goals were not applicable to my son. If my child had HFA or AS I would have given the book 5 stars.

A great pleasure to read for practical advice.......2003-02-04

While not as weighty as some other social skill oriented books, Moyes' book is probably more accessible to the average parent and teacher. It is a relatively short book and easily read. The references are good and there is no scent of snake oil from the overall product.

While notionally the book is about framing individualised education plans (IEPs), the bulk of the book is taken up with explanations of Asperger syndrome, its manifestations, assessment and various interventions. Practically speaking, the sections on assessment will probably be of more interest to teachers than parents.

There is a long chapter covering interventions and it is reasonably comprehensive. The author has clearly tried to position the book between the professional literature on interventions and the barely above anecdotal. And it works surprising well. Each of the inteventions is reviewed sparingly but fairly. At all times the emphasis is on listing advantages and disadvantages. The chapter on IEPs covers all the relevant requirements but isn't slow to point out the problems to be encountered. Given the intensive requirements of interventions, reading Succeeding with Interventions for Asperger Syndrome Adolescents will flesh out the issues for professionals and parents.

All in all I found this a very remarkable book, and worth at least twice its weight in gold.

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