Choosing Fish for Your Aquarium: A Complete Guide to Tropical Freshwater, Brackish and Marine Fishes

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Not a saltwater reference book

Choosing Fish for Your Aquarium: A Complete Guide to Tropical Freshwater, Brackish and Marine Fishes
Mary Bailey
Manufacturer: Southwater
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1842151762

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Excellent .......2004-11-15

Wonderful book filled with photos of over 400 individual species and good information on how to choose the right individual fish combinations for your tank.

This is the perfect sourcebook for everyone - from the beginner or the experienced enthusiast to the professional breeder and fishkeeper. The author gives practical help on successful breeding with the most popular species.

Not a saltwater reference book.......2001-06-01

Don't by this book for saltwater fish. The pictures on the cover are saltwater but only one chapter is dedicated to them. It may be a good book for tropical freshwater fish but I'm not interested in freshwater fish.

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Upgrades R Us

Great Study Aid

Time to Upgrade

It Helped me!

Simple: Read the book and pass the test

The Arrl Extra Class License Manual (Arrl Extra Class License Manual for the Radio Amateur)

Manufacturer: American Radio Relay League (ARRL)
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0872598659

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Upgrades R Us.......2007-03-15

This is a wonderful Manual for anyone ready to upgrade from General to Extra. After upgrading to my General I felt guilty because I had passed the test, but pretty much had memorized the questions in the pool and could not put any of it to use. With this manual I am able to understand the theory and principles behind the questions and I will be a much better operator because of it.

Great Study Aid.......2007-02-16

With the large amount of information to be covered this book gives the information you need to pass the test and information that will be helpful. I passed the test on the first try after studying for only 1 and a half weeks (I would recommend studying longer though.)

Time to Upgrade.......2007-01-26

I do most of my book purchasing and other things through Amazon. I've been a Ham Radio operator for ten years and had the urge to upgrade so I can operate on the HF bands. Amazon helped me out with an easy and quickly shipped Extra Class manual. I'm very thankful.

It Helped me!.......2006-10-01

I haven't taken a upgrade exam since 1984 so I was a bit intimidated with the prospect of another FCC Exam. I researched the Web for information about where to find the most complete study guides for the Extra exam. I actually found the Question Pool on the Web, but I didn't just want to "Memorize the Test" as some have done in the past. I wanted the reasons for the answers and to refresh my now Older mind. The ARRL Study Guide was Very Thorough and yet to the point. The sections were broken up nicely so you can study each section and take a break. The question pool is in the back of the book and the answers reference the page in the study guide where its reasoning comes from. Perfect for me! It was an Excellent Review of some material and a Great Teacher of the New material that I had to learn in order to upgrade to the highest class in amateur radio. I Passed, Thanks to the ARRL Extra Class Study Guide.
Kevin KA1KOJ

Simple: Read the book and pass the test.......2006-07-05

Now that there's no longer a 20 wpm code requirement for Extra, there's very little reason why almost any ham with some good basic math skills can't upgrade, given a book this good. All it takes is reading the book and flipping to the questions to check your understanding of the material as you finish each section. I found it took me about a week to do that and I passed with just one mistake (which kills me because if I'd taken more time, I should have gotten that one, too!)

I found the book quite logical, well-written and very methodical at explaining the material. I only spotted two minor errors: A garbled explanation of DeMorgan's Theorem as "logic polarity" on page 7-5, and the schematics of three oscillators on page 7-42, each with two connections to Vcc but none to ground.

The whole point of the book is to help you pass a multiple choice exam where all the questions are taken from a fixed pool and everyone knows what they are. But the book nicely avoids the trap of simply helping you memorize the answers and focuses instead on explaining the concepts so that when you read a test question, you're capable of doing whatever calculations are required and you know why one specific answer is the best. The only places where I felt the author might have offered a little more discussion were in presenting the formulas for second and third-order intercept points on page 4-22 (it took me several hours to figure out where these came from!) and in the section on phased vertical antennas (page 9-20), where you're given 15 charts to memorize but little explanation of how you might intuitively figure out what shape to expect as an alternative to the rote memorization.

I recommend this book. Go get your Extra!

Arrl Extra Class License Manual for the Radio Amateur

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Arrl Extra Class License Manual for the Radio Amateur

Manufacturer: Amer Radio Relay League
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0872593282

The ARRL Extra Class License Manual : 7th Ed. -

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The ARRL Extra Class License Manual : 7th Ed. -
Larry Wolfgang -
Manufacturer: ARRL Press -
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000O00WYU

Arrl Extra Class License Manual (ARRL Extra Class License Manual)

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Arrl Extra Class License Manual (ARRL Extra Class License Manual)

Manufacturer: American Radio Relay League
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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A lovely chat.......2006-09-21

Mrs. Whaley grew up in the same small village where I grew up. It was a thrill to read this book. If you aren't from the south it might be a southern thing, but talking about your roots and your people is a mainstay of southern lifestyle and conversation. I enjoyed the heck out of this little book and give it as gifts in baskets filled with other Charleston charms.

practical gardening tips.......2004-05-01

A small town girl makes it big in downtown Charleston, SC without becoming part of the sophisticated establishment. She is refreshing and free in her opinions and plantings. From simple potted plants to ancient camellias and restful blue hues, Emily gives anyone a sense of peace in her garden. She relates the destruction of three feet of saltwater from Hugo in her garden and how nature bounced back with tender care. Enjoyment in her 80's is contagious for all ages. As I walk the sidewalks in April and see the lavender blossoms from wysteria, I think of young at heart Mrs. Whaley.

southern delight.......2003-04-16

While reading this book, I felt as if I was sitting in a backyard garden on a lovely iron park bench with a glass of lemonade in hand, visiting with Emily Whaley herself. Opinionated, honest and full of Southern charm, Emily is a woman of character who has been blessed with the gift of gardening and a heritage of living right. When I first began reading, I expected gardening tips and descriptions of prolific gardens, which I was given. Yet delightfully surprising was having the lessons she had learned in her life unpretentiously and often humorously passed down to me by way of uncluttered recollections. She taught me to "find my own charms" in life and to "compete only with myself" to name so very few. This is one book I will certainly re-read the pages of often throughout my life.

Never cook chicken for 10-12 minutes!.......2001-07-05

Geez, I actually used one of the recipes in this book, put in towards the back. I believe its one of the authors favorites....however, I was surprised at how uncooked my chicken came out according to instructions, non-verbatem, "put chicken in 500 degree oven for about 10-12 minutes." I guess I'm nieve; either that or I figured a little old lady would know how long it took to cook chicken! Thank goodness it wasn't six breasts! Anyways, the rest of the book is pretty hard to get through. There are pockets of good storytelling, but the book wasn't as absorbing as I thought it would be. The book is a little bit about everything on the life and family of Ms Emily Whatley, a South Carolinian who gives us her families history back to Eve. I guess I was supposed to be transfixed. I kept thinking I could take this book in spurts of different "mood." Alas, it was not to be so. When you pick up a book with a grimace, donate it to the library or the goodwill instead! She does mention her garden----but she also mentions alot of other stuff. Its a rambling piece of a little old ladies history of her life; take it or leave it. Its not the most happening thing, but I guess you have to be from Charleston. I have to wonder why this book was published in the first place....I don't understand the appeal....it must be "A Southern Thing." Whatever.

A wonderful story of growing up in South Carolina gardening........1998-07-12

Mr. Whaley has a wonderful way of drawing you into her stories about learning from her family and friends how important gardens and gardening is to life in South Carolina. You feel as if you are sitting at her knee listening to her tell her stories, rather than reading a book.

Book Description

This engaging collection of letters follows the course of a year in the gardens of two passionate gardeners, Nancy Goodwin and Allen Lacy. They share a climate zone (7A), but their gardens differ enormously. Lacy gardens on a 100-by-155-foot plot of former farmland in southern New Jersey, on soil so sandy that he must water frequently if he is to garden at all. Goodwin gardens on rich clay loam at her historic piedmont North Carolina home--which comprises more than sixty acres of woodland, meadow, and established plantings--and she refuses to irrigate, because she believes in growing only those plants that are naturally adapted to the conditions of her land.

Through their letters, Lacy and Goodwin provide a charming and revealing chronicle of their lives and the lives of their gardens. They exchange stories of their horticultural successes and failures; trade information about a great many plants; discuss their hopes, fears, and inspirations; and muse on the connections between gardening and music, family, and friendship.

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Chatty exchange of letters...........2001-10-11

A YEAR IN OUR GARDENS by Nancy Goodwin and Allen Lacy is a chatty exchange of letters and faxes between two old friends, both of whom have many years of gardening experience to their credit. Ms Goodwin ran Montrose Nursery for many years and is very informed and informing about plants -- native, cultivated, imported, and home-grown.

Dr. Lacy has written many books about gardening and garden design -- centered on his garden in New Jersey and other gardens futher afield. My personal favorite of Lacy's books is THE GARDEN IN AUTUMN, although THE INVITING GARDEN is probably his best selling book. I wouldn't recommend A YEAR IN OUR GARDENS to the novice gardener since it has no colorful photographs and a plethora of Latin named flowers and plants. Even the intermediate gardener searching for tips might find THE INVITING GARDEN a better read.

If you've been gardening awhile and like to read about green adventures from the comfort of your easy chair or need a good book for bedtime reading, you'll probably enjoy A YEAR IN OUR GARDENS. To me it's something of a cross between the books by Elizabeth Lawrence and Beverly Nichols. In fact, if Lawrence and Nichols had written to each other their conversations might have been a bit like the conversations of Goodwin and Lacey.

Goodwin and Lacey both had an affilitation with Duke University as did Elizabeth Lawrence though neither Goodwin nor Lacey is a botonist like Lawrence. Lacey wrote garden columns for the Wall Street Journal and New York Times and until recently taught philosopy and horitculture at Richard Stockton College in New Jersey where he lives and gardens. Lawrence's father was Lacey's professor of English at Duke University, and Lawrence lives and gardens near Hillsborough NC.

Both Goodwin and Lacey have gardens in growing zone 7. As they relate their experiences over the course of the year, it becomes obvious this counts for little. Lacey lives near the Atlantic, has sandy soil he must amend with humus, and experiences milder summers and colder winters. Goodwin lives in the NC piedmont, gardens in clay, and has hot-hot summers. Both have green houses that allow them to cultivate a variety of plants more suited to tropical climates. Lacey tends to grow many plants in pots on a large extended deck, while Goodwin has a much larger property with room for numerous shubs and trees and a woodland garden. Lacey says he prefers summer months for gardening, and Goodwin says she prefers anything but summer.

In addition to the exchange about plants, garden design and the various wildlife sightings, both correspondents share the ups and downs of daily living. Over the course of a year, Lacey undergoes major surgery and Goodwin's husband has eye surgery and her father dies. Both Godwin and Lacey travel to various locations to give lectures and undergo interviews on television and radio. Martha Stewart drops by for a fifteen minute tour of Montrose, and Lacey goes to Disneyland.

All in all this book is mildly entertaining, and a peek into the lives of two relatively well educated gardeners.

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Carolina Home Gardener
Chris Florance
Manufacturer: Univ of North Carolina Pr
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0807812587

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Not so much a "Getting away from" as a "Going back to"

living with nature in Appalachian region

Native

Zoro's Field: My Life In The Appalachian Woods
Thomas Rain Crowe
Manufacturer: University of Georgia Press
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0820327344

Book Description

After a long absence from his native southern Appalachians, Thomas Rain Crowe returned to live alone deep in the North Carolina woods. This is Crowe's chronicle of that time when, for four years, he survived by his own hand without electricity, plumbing, modern-day transportation, or regular income. It is a Walden for today, paced to nature's rhythms and cycles and filled with a wisdom one gains only through the pursuit of a consciously simple, spiritual, environmentally responsible life.

Crowe made his home in a small cabin he had helped to build years before-at a restless age when he could not have imagined that the place would one day call him back. The cabin sat on what was once the farm of an old mountain man named Zoro Guice. As we absorb Crowe's sharp observations on southern Appalachian natural history, we also come to know Zoro and the other singular folk who showed Crowe the mountain ways that would see him through those four years.

Crowe writes of many things: digging a root cellar, being a good listener, gathering wood, living in the moment, tending a mountain garden. He explores profound questions on wilderness, self-sufficiency, urban growth, and ecological overload. Yet we are never burdened by their weight but rather enriched by his thoughtfulness and delighted by his storytelling.

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Not so much a "Getting away from" as a "Going back to".......2005-10-03

Written accounts of solitary wilderness living show up every once in a while, and seem to have become especially popular after the Baby Boomers "discovered" Thoreau in the 1960s. His words still inspire a few folks to chuck their lives of quiet desperation and head for the hills to get away from it all. Some are successful, some are not. Many stay there only a year or two before the most pressing need -- the financial one -- forces them to return to civilization.

That's not the case with Thomas Rain Crowe, who spent four years (1978-1982) living alone in a cabin in the Smoky Mountains of western North Carolina. Crowe went back to his home state after living in a variety of places, doing a variety of work, communing with a variety of people. When given the opportunity to be the cabin tenant, he made the most of it. He worked hard to be self-sufficient, growing his own food and tending to his home and his tools. Others might have been bored in such a setting, but not him. He was always busy: gardening, fishing, taking care of his beehives, making homebrew, digging his root cellar, taking notes on the experience. And he regained the use of one his most valuable resources, the Southern Mountain speech of his childhood. He was downright satisfied with the situation.

His mentors in this effort were several local men who offered advice from time to time: Zoro Guice appeared in Yoda-like fashion whenever Crowe needed to learn how to perform a certain task. Walt Johnson was the scamp of the neighborhood, but was also an accomplished dowser who could find water every time. From these and other natives Crowe learned how to live close to the land, to live in the time of the seasons. The reader senses that Crowe would be living there still, if civilization hadn't encroached upon the property and changed it forever. That's when he knew he had to leave.

Not just a doer, Crowe is also a viewer -- a writer, a poet, a spiritual man who feels a strong connection to the natural world. His poetry uses simple words and turns of phrase to evoke powerful images. On the other hand, his prose, the narrative of his story, is the work of a learned and literate man. Complex constructs entice the reader to keep on going, to chew on the concepts and experiences offered. It takes time to digest these lines, and it's time well spent. Having witnessed Thomas Rain Crowe read some of this book aloud in person, I have the benefit of having heard the hint of the Smokies in his voice, the love for the place evident in every well-spoken syllable. No matter; it comes through in the typewritten text as well.

So was Thomas Wolfe right or wrong? Can you or can't you go home again? The reader decides. In the meantime, "Zoro's Field" should be placed on a shelf with the works of the old and new naturalists (Thoreau, Burroughs, Leopold, Carson, Eiseley, Bass) to one side, and the "Foxfire" books to the other. A thought-provoking addition to the environmental canon.

living with nature in Appalachian region.......2005-05-30

The local legend and mountain sage of the Appalachians of western North Carolina Zoro Guice told the author, "If a man goes out in the woods and just sits down in one place for long enough, all of nature and everything he needs to know will eventually pass before him like a parade." And so Crowe--poet, publisher, and recording artist--took up residence in the Appalachians for four years, and writes about the "parade." As in Thoreau's "Walden," Crowe writes about how he subsisted in the wild and what he learned from this. But moving somewhat beyond "Walden" in content and form, Crowe writes more about what goes on beyond himself; and some passages are in the form of verse. Not so meticulous or contained as "Walden," "Zoro's Field" reflects on modernity's effects on the tie with nature, environmental concerns, and changes which have come to the area. Though different in ways from Thoreau's classic which it cannot help but be compared with, Crowe's work in this same genre holds its own as an engaging, thought-inducing memoir.

Native.......2005-05-25

More than a modern Walden, this is a book about intentional living. Crowe returns to home land in the southern mountains of North Carolina after living in Europe and northern California. Guided by principles of the Beat poets and philosophers, he embraces the traditions of sustenance, growing his own food, tending bees (honey for trade), making wine and beer. From his cabin beside the Green River gorge, he explores both terrain and history in celebration of a way of life that has been largely lost. The book is elegant and poetic. Crowe writes with an easy style, but critical intellect.

Crusoe's Island: A Story of a Writer and a Place (Carolina Women Series)

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Huck Finn's Sister
Huck Finn's Sister

Crusoe's Island: A Story of a Writer and a Place (Carolina Women Series)
Heather Ross Miller
Manufacturer: Coastal Carolina Press
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Binding: Hardcover

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For thirteen years, Heather Ross Miller, her husband Clyde and their children lived in North Carolinas Singletary Park, a remote wilderness fifty miles from the nearest town. This memoir, written in quiet narrative, explores her life in the park, recounting the hardships and the joys that taught her to respect both nature and the people sharing her hinterland.

From Crusoes Island:
We had grown up close to each other, but, separated by a generation, still didnt know each other. But when I got to the park, I heard rumors about Clyde: hed been in the navy, hed been to Chapel Hill, to Mars Hill, to Bowling Green University, graduating finally from Pfeiffer College, the Methodist school just seventeen miles up the road. If you left your pocketbook in his way, the last summers secretary warned me, Clyde Miller would paint right over it. He didnt care. He thrived on eccentricity. He lived in the kitchen of the ranger barracks, made it his pad, even had a hi-fi system built right into the kitchen cabinets. The other seasonal help, lifeguards and park attendants, boys between college semesters, were awed by the man, thirty years old, who filled the barracks with barbells and other weight-lifting equipment, papered the walls with Playboy centerfolds, and left cold bourbon in the fridge where even his own mother could see it.
They told me Clyde had slept with a hundred women.
And I, at nineteen, was tantalized.

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Huck Finn's Sister.......2000-08-11

I didn't know Huck Finn had a married sister until I read Crusoe's Island. I found the lady and her autobiography warmly engaging and wonderful. She says 'pine straw' and we say 'pine shats', but the smell of each, like her book, is lasting.

Huck Finn's Sister.......2000-08-11

Biological control: Questions and answers for the home gardener (AG)

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Biological control: Questions and answers for the home gardener (AG)
Stephen Bambara
Manufacturer: N.C. Cooperative Extension Service
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Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B0006RR09Q

Small fruit culture for home gardeners (Extension circular)

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Small fruit culture for home gardeners (Extension circular)
Melvin H Kolbe
Manufacturer: N.C. Agricultural Extension Service
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: B0007GZBEM

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Incredibly sweet book.......2007-07-27

I absolutely LOVE this book. It shows so many different animals nursing their little ones in such sweet pictures with such a sweet ending pic of a human baby nursing with mama. I will most definitely read this one to my little one over and over again, and hope that he learns to love it as one of his favorite books.

Nice book about nursing.......2006-11-07

It's hard to find books about nursing, rather than bottle feeding and this one was recommended in "Mothering" Magazine, so I decided to buy it. It shows all kinds of animals nursing, with a short explanation and on the last page it shows a human baby nursing. My daughter really likes it and brings it to me often to read it to her. The illustrations are rather simple and each page just has one or two sentences, but she still enjoys it (she's 22 mo. old now)!

Review for "We Like To Nurse".......2006-07-29

A very sweet book, however I expected a bit more "book" for the price. It is a small, thin, paperback book. While I am always excited to see books that show/normalize breastfeeding, I would not recommend this book to others. Again, it's sweet but lacking sparkle and shine.

A Good Kids Breastfeeding Book.......2006-07-23

This is a nice simple book for younger children which shows animals nursing. It gives real situations and actual facts while still being an entertaining book. Great for older nursing children.

Sweet Book .......2006-05-30

This book is very sweet. There are some wonderful pictures of various living creatures feeding and nourishing their young. It is so important to teach children that nursing is the most natural and normal gift you can give to a child. This book does just that.

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We Like to Nurse
Chia Martin
Manufacturer: Hohm Press
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Binding: Paperback

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We Like to Nurse: Spanish Version
Chia Martin
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We like to nurse: hard-to-find children's books that lovingly portray breastfeeding.: An article from: Mothering

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We like to nurse: hard-to-find children's books that lovingly portray breastfeeding.: An article from: Mothering
Bev Benda-Moe
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B000OHZWPW
Release Date: 2007-04-06

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This digital document is an article from Mothering, published by Thomson Gale on July 1, 2006. The length of the article is 1344 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: We like to nurse: hard-to-find children's books that lovingly portray breastfeeding.
Author: Bev Benda-Moe
Publication: Mothering (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Issue: 137 Page: 58(2)

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