Wild Africa: Exploring the African Habitats

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From space, Africa is a shattered land, textured by burning sands, seas of grass, and steaming forests. It is scarred by mountains and bejeweled by great lakes and rivers. Raw and beautiful, this ancient continent is alive with the greatest collection of wildlife on Earth. Wild Africa takes the reader into the heart of this fabulous landscape, introducing every habitat and revealing how the resident wildlife has adapted to thrive in its unique natural environment. Chapter topics include: The ancient heart (jungle); Islands of creation (mountains); Endless place (savannah); Sweet waters, bitter cauldrons (rivers and lakes); Sands of time (coasts); and Beautiful furnaces (deserts). The book will show how a once-stable continent has been fragmented into these six spectacular realms, and how this process has catalyzed the evolution of some remarkable animals and plants in each one. In the savannah, carnivorous ants consume as much meat as lions, and a flock of quelea can devastate thousands of acres overnight. In the jungle, where light rarely penetrates the leaf canopy, there are diminutive forms of familiar animals -- pygmy chimpanzees, forest elephants, and dwarf hippos. Meanwhile, in the extreme conditions of the desert, plants exist that have lived for thousands of years. Through amazing images and lively, authoritative text, Wild Africa immerses the reader in the natural history of this spectacular continent.

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Beautiful book.......2007-02-07

My 6th grade son and I spent about an hour on the couch perusing this book. It is so full of wonderful nature photography that it is worth the price for that alone. But, the photography lured us into learning more about the many habitats in Africa.

The Wildlife Habitat Journal - Restoring and Exploring Wildlife Habitat in Your Own Backyard

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Great workbook for wildlife garden newbies

The Wildlife Habitat Journal - Restoring and Exploring Wildlife Habitat in Your Own Backyard
Betsy, S. Franz
Manufacturer: Lulu.com
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1847286585

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If you love the sight of birds and butterflies or want to help restore wildlife habitat, The Wildlife Habitat Journal is for you! Instruction manual, workbook, and journal, this delightful little book suggests steps to attract garden wildlife and pages to record your progress. Plant lists are provided for birds, butterflies and hummingbirds with suggestions for further research. If you have already discovered the joys of sharing your property with wildlife, this journal will help you become more proficient. By recording the events that occur in your yard, you will learn which plants are most favored. You will know when to expect butterflies if you record the dates that you first see a chrysalis. You will know when to re-hang feeders if you record when the hummingbirds first appear. We are all still in the learning stage when it comes to sharing our landscapes with wildlife. As we learn what works, this journal provides the opportunity to record what we learn and to share it with others.

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Great workbook for wildlife garden newbies.......2006-10-09

Somebody in our garden club found this journal and now we all have one! The journal format makes it perfect for us to learn about creating butterfly and wildlife gardens. It is so easy for us to get together and compare notes about what is working to bring the birds, butterflies and hummers to our gardens! We even plan to start using our journals to teach other people about the fun of gardening for wildlife!

The Search for Lost Habitats: 30 Years of Exploring for Rare And Endangered Plants

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The Search for Lost Habitats: 30 Years of Exploring for Rare And Endangered Plants
Perry K. Peskin
Manufacturer: Orange Frazer Press
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1933197161

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What started out as a visit to a bog near Erie, Pennsylvania, to search for the arethusa orchid, rare and in danger of extinction, ended up a quarter of a century later as thirty magazine articles (enough material for two books) concerned with the importance of saving our native plants by saving their habitats.

This conservation story, The Search for Lost Habitats, illustrated with over 450 colored slides taken by the author and friends, follows him as he explores the flora of the Lake Erie dunes, the fens and bogs of northeast Ohio, and the prairies and rocky outcrops near the Ohio River, among many other habitat types.

Soon he branches out to include the other states around the upper Great Lakes, as well as the province of Ontario in Canada, with chapters on the limestone barrens of Manitoulin Island, southeast Minnesota's "Driftless Area," river bottoms in northern Illinois, and many other locations.

Occasionally the author studies a single plant family, such as orchids, gentians, and mallows, and describes his adventures in finding the rare habitats that these colorful species require.

Although written in a journalistic, easy-to-read, and often humorous style that avoids much of the technical botanical terminology of textbooks and scholarly articles, these first-person narratives are factual and accurate. They will appeal to home gardeners, professional botanists and naturalists, and anyone in between who enjoys a good yarn about adventures in the natural world.

Perry Peskin has enjoyed the natural world ever since elementary-school days, when he tramped through the woods covering the hills behind his native Cumberland, in western Maryland. Later he explored the trails through the park system of his second home, the metropolitan area of Cleveland, Ohio.

Choosing biology as a minor at Cleveland's Case Western Reserve University, Peskin went on many three-hour field trips in his botany classes through habitats he never knew existed--a practice continued throughout a lifetime.

As a high-school English teacher, in several schools in and around Cleveland, he encouraged his students to write descriptive essays by going on three-hour walks on their own and then writing about their experiences and feelings.

Even before retirement, he started writing about the natural world in first-person essays that reflected the viewpoint of an inquiring reporter rather than a scholar. Seventeen articles on Ohio and neighboring states, including Ontario, Canada, make up the contents of the present book, starting with a 1975 visit to a Pennsylvania bog and ending with a 2004 field trip to Kentucky's Natural Bridge State Park, sponsored by the Cleveland Metropolitan Park District.

Another 15 articles are ready to be combined into Book 2, which will cover various parts of North America from Alaska to Costa Rica.

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This book is not the first step to take

Now I Am A Pro

Excellent reading for any amateur hair stylist!

Has your haircutter stopped listening?

I hate beauty shops!

How to Simply Cut Hair (How to Simply)
Laurie C. Punches
Manufacturer: Punches Productions
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Binding: Paperback

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Cutting Your Family's Hair

Scissors and Comb Haircutting: A Cut-By-Cut Guide for Home Haircutters

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How to Simply Cut Hair Even Better: An Advanced Step by Step Guide to the Six Basic Haircuts That Can Be Combined or Altered to Create Just About an

ASIN: 0929883063

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A complete beginner's guide to the "six basic hair-cuts", and how they can be combined and /or altered to create just about any hairstyle imaginable.

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This book is not the first step to take.......2007-07-20

As I said in another review, learning a skill from a book alone is extremely difficult. But good ones will at least give you a taste and somewhat of a foundation to explore further. This book is not terrible, but I would not recommend it as the first one. The drawings all look the same and they are very dated hair styles. The text is clear, but somewhat different than the information in another book (Handel's "Cutting Your Family's Hair"), so it can get confusing. A better book would need photos of every step and more detailed info. If, after studying other how-tos and practicing for a bit, then this book might give you another angle to ponder, but I would say use it only as an additional reference, rather than a sole resource.

Now I Am A Pro.......2007-01-10

This little book showed me how to cut hair---my own. O.K. so I remember how my own hairdresser cut my hair, but the method in the book is fool-proof. People ask me where I had my hair cut, because it is so perfectly cut, and I tell them, "At my house, so come over and I will cut yours." I have no training to cut hair. This book showed me well, and now I cut my hair the way I want it, and not "Way too short" the way all dumb hairdressers cut it.

Excellent reading for any amateur hair stylist!.......2005-10-06

Even though the price of this book was a bit high for me at around $15, in retrospect, it was worth every cent. The many, many pictures that are included in this book make this book stand out from the other hair styling books. If I were to go to a hair styling academy to learn to cut hair, it would cost me at least $12,000 to receive my license. I don't really want a license as I just want to be able to cut my family's hair, and this book is really a bargain because it does just that. It is written by a woman who graduated with a bachelor's degree in fine arts and then went to a beautician's school to learn the trade so she is very well-rounded, educated, and professional without being condescending. By buying this book, you can save a lot of money cutting your family and friend's hair of both genders, i.e. men and women.

Has your haircutter stopped listening?.......2004-09-15

This book is good if you can't get your haircutter to make the minor alterations you would like...or if she has a preconceived notion of how your hair ought to look. You will be able to go a lot longer between trips to the salon for a major overhaul...or if you are feeling a little reckless, this book will help you do the major overhaul yourself!

I hate beauty shops!.......2002-10-17

How I hate beauty shops! I cannot afford high end prices and do not care for hands-on care at all.[unlike a friend who goes every week].This book is perfect with easy to understand directions and diagrams, who cares if the pictures are just rough sketches.With a good pair of sheers and a comb to measure with I can finally do something with this curly head, and a little help to tidy a stray neckline from a friend. Thank you, thank you!

How to Simply Cut Hair Even Better: An Advanced Step by Step Guide to the Six Basic Haircuts That Can Be Combined or Altered to Create Just About an

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Down to the Nitty Gritty
Hair Cutting Book

How to Simply Cut Hair Even Better: An Advanced Step by Step Guide to the Six Basic Haircuts That Can Be Combined or Altered to Create Just About an
Laurie Punches
Manufacturer: Punches Productions
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 092988308X

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"How to Simply Cut Hair Even Better" is an advanced, step by step guide, teaching "the six basic cuts" and how they can be combined and or altered to create just about any hairstyle imaginable.

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helpful for the non-experienced.......2007-03-10

I had no idea what to do with my kids' hair and had never cut hair before. I was afraid to give it a try. This book gave me basic enough information that I could understand it and follow it. What do you know, the hair cuts turned out ok. I know some other reviewers have said this is not for professionals, but I would have been overwhelmed by a professional book. This was simple, to the point, and basic enough for me to follow. Just what I was looking for.

Reprint.......2005-01-09

I have read "How to Simply Cut Hair", and from the Table of Contents and Excerpt viewable on Amazon.com, "How to Simply Cut Hair Even Better" looks like an exact reprint of the first book. If you have one you don't need the other.

Don't Waste Your Money.......2004-03-25

This book is not "advanced", and the techniques are not those that professionals use! A disappointment!

Down to the Nitty Gritty.......2002-11-25

Ms. Punches has distilled haircutting to its essentials. Intelligently and logically organized information, quick and easy to digest. The book is aimed at the home haircutter, but can also be a good guide for the barber (like me) who wants to get into women's haircutting, or even the hairdresser who went to a lousy beauty school.
Dwight M. Stark

Hair Cutting Book.......2002-06-28

This is a fairly good book, with some very good instruction, but I felt that the person who provided the illustrations could have done a way better job, or could have at least found someone to do better drawings than this. Other than that, a good text.

How to Simply Cut Children's Hair: Step by Step Guide to Cutting, Perming and Highlighting Children's Hair (How to Simply...Series)

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How to Simply Cut Children's Hair: Step by Step Guide to Cutting, Perming and Highlighting Children's Hair (How to Simply...Series)
Laurie Punches
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ASIN: 0929883101

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How to Simply Cut Children's hair is a beginner's guide to the teaching haircutting, perming and highlighting on children.

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Even if you garden on a small, suburban quarter acre, you'll love this book! Who can resist the photograph of a big, fat pink-and-gray pig (Henrietta) nosing her way through a charming white arbor planted in yellow lilies? While the pig wouldn't transplant well to suburbia, many of the design ideas are applicable to gardens of any size, including concepts such as adding verticality, art, and focal points to the garden.

These beautifully photographed gardens are relaxed, lush, and filled with color. Each photo looks as if the gardener had just stepped out of the scene a second before the shot was taken, a sure sign of a well-cared-for garden. All the possibilities of unlimited space--hammocks hanging from big trees, rustic summer houses, winding pathways, rows and rows of gleaming pumpkins--will evoke envy in the hearts of city gardeners. Gardeners of any skill level would likely welcome this approach to dealing with a large property: take it a step at a time, and revel in the space.

Detailed plant lists, complete with color plant portraits, finish up the book. These plants, including trees, shrubs, perennials, annuals, ground covers, and edibles, have been selected because they are hardy and easy to grow. --Valerie Easton

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Country Gardening-from the team that created Abrams' popular Seaside Gardening-provides the ideas and information needed to create a beautiful garden for relaxation and entertainment, full of surprising points of visual interest and alive with birds, butterflies, and even fish. Among its valuable features are:

Handsomely illustrated sections devoted to creating a country ambiance; essentials of garden architecture, such as fences, gates, walls, containers, and outbuildings; whimsy in the garden; water gardens; and vegetable gardens. Wise practical advice for the inexperienced gardener, ranging from design principles to simple hints on growing perennials, annuals, and vegetables. Extensive annotated plant lists, carefully chosen to feature a broad range of easy-to-grow varieties. Full of inspiration and ideas, Country Gardening offers a relaxed approach to planning and creating easy-to-maintain gardens for the casual enjoyment of nature.

186 photographs in full color, 184 pages, 9 x 9"

THEODORE JAMES, JR., and HARRY HARALAMBOU have collaborated on more than 10 garden books and hundreds of articles for national magazines, including Architectural Digest, Town and Country, Vogue, Country Living, Family Circle, and Woman's Day. Both of them live, and garden, on the east end of Long Island.

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interesting sequences

Fabulous but frustrating

Creative and inspiring

Creative and inspiring

Yogaflows: A Dynamic and Fluid System to Transform Your Yoga Practice
Mohini Chatlani
Manufacturer: Amazon Remainders Account
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: B000FA4TXE

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In this unique and refreshing approach to yoga, breath, awareness, and movement are combined to radically transform the practice. Individual poses are seamlessly linked within specially-created sequences that generate relaxation, inner calm, and mental focus.

Classic hatha yoga poses were carefully chosen to connect in sequences of 13 to 20 poses to create a dynamic and fluid practice. Based on years of studio teaching and advanced training, the flows - ranging in difficulty from basic through to intensive - are shown here in separate gatefold spread units that can be easily followed by the reader. Yogaflows features:

12 continual sequences progressing from beginning to advanced, are illustrated on easy-to-use gatefolds
Detailed instructions for breathing techniques
Specific warm-ups to prepare for practice at all levels
Challenging transitions between poses are explained in a separate Focus on Flows section
Fully illustrated 123-pose glossary
The author herself demonstrates all poses in the book

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interesting sequences.......2007-10-10

This book has potential but the layout made it a tad hard to follow easily. If they changed that then it would get a 4.5 star

Fabulous but frustrating.......2006-12-29

This book is innovative, creative, beautifully illustrated and crafted. There are sequences for beginners and for more advanced practitioners, sets of warm-ups and various "flows" with clever and appropriate names, complete with recommendations for breathing practices.
Flowing yoga sequences are printed on fold-out pages which is interesting, but you still need to weight the book open if you're going to refer to it while you practice. Paging through the book is a bit tricky because of the double thickness. The frustration of this book is a side-effect of its uniqueness, the sequences are placed on the page in a "figure eight" layout and this is difficult to follow. The well worded, descriptive instructions are sometimes hard to find as a result of the fold-out pages, (they are not given with the corresponding poses) and some transitions which one needs to go from pose to pose are in the back of the book (flipping back and forth required). If you're willing to take the time to study the book and learn the sequences, you'll get plenty from this book. I'm considering clipping the pages from mine and reorganizing them so I can follow the poses without standing on my head...

Creative and inspiring.......2003-02-18

As a teacher I'm always looking for creative and new ideas to bring into my class and YogaFlows gives me just that. My YOGAmazing classes are built on the same theory as Mohini's by blending hatha and vinyasa with proper breathing through a sequencing and fluid yoga routine you'll create a truly unique class for your stiudents. It's great to see that we're on the same page. Check it out, it's worth the cost and there's nohing else like it on the market!

Creative and inspiring.......2003-02-18

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