Drawing Mammals: An Artist's Reference Guide to North American Mammals

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Offering tips for drawing more than 20 mammals indigenous to North America, this revised reference exhibits each species in several photographs as well as in field sketches. Animals featured range from the gray wolf of the Yukon Territory to the tiny Key deer of Florida and include black bears, grizzly bears, polar bears, coyotes, mountain lions, pronghorns, and bison. Included is information on habitat and range, as well as advice on starting a wildlife sketchbook.

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Hunting North American Big Game
Durwood Hollis
Manufacturer: Krause Publications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0873493834

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North America offers a wealth of big game hunting opportunities and the popularity of these adventures is soaring as millions of hunters embark on "American safaris." This new information-packed guide provides an excellent overview of the most popular big game species, where to hunt for them, and the equipment, guns, and strategies necessary for success.

Part resource guide, part hunting adventure book, this volume explores hunting some of the continent's most-revered game species, including elk, pronghorn, moose, caribou, bighorn sheep, mountain goats, bison, musk ox, wild boar, javelinas, grizzly bear, brown bear, black bear, white-tailed deer, mule deer, blacktail deer, and Coues deer.

Additional information focuses on outfitters, guides, and hunting areas, plus field dressing animals, caring for meat, and preparing trophies for taxidermy.

• Overview of hunting the most popular North American big game species

• Includes four types of deer, three types of bear, and elk, pronghorn, moose, caribou, bighorn sheep, mountain goats, bison, musk ox, wild boar, and javelinas

• Covers guns, ammunition and other gear, plus field dressing animals, caring for meat, and preparing trophies for taxidermy

Measuring and Scoring North American Big Game Trophies, 2nd
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Measuring and Scoring North American Big Game Trophies, 2nd
Wm. H. Nesbitt , Philip L. Wright , William H. Nesbitt , Jack Reneau , C. Randall Byers , Larry Jensen , Pat Rummans , and DeWayne Williams
Manufacturer: Boone & Crockett Club
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Ring-bound

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ASIN: 0940864320

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Explains how to measure and score native North American big game trophies by using the Boone & Crockett Club system of trophy evaluation.

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North American Big-Game Animals
Byron W. Dalrymple , and Erwin Bauer
Manufacturer: Outdoor Life
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0943822564

Super Slam: Adventures With North American Big Game

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Great Book!! Must have for any hunter!
A Super Slam is an awesome accomplishment!
no excitement
A thrilling true-life narrative

Super Slam: Adventures With North American Big Game
Chuck Adams
Manufacturer: Ihunt! Communications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0972132112

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Great Book!! Must have for any hunter!.......2006-06-30

This book is a must have for bow and gun hunters alike. I would love to someday complete the North American 28 but right now don't have the time or money. This book gives me hope because Chuck did most of his hunts on his own. He's a great bowhunter and storyteller. His accomplishments afield are second to no one. This books tells about it all.

A Super Slam is an awesome accomplishment!.......2005-09-07

To be honest, I wasn't very thrilled reading this book. The adventures he writes about are awesome, but pretty much the same as in his autobiography "Life at Full Draw." I'm not sure why I was disappointed; it may be because much of what was written in "Life at Full Draw", was also included in Super Slam. I highly recommend "Life at Full Draw," because it tells a lot more about the life of Chuck from boyhood through his Super Slam!

no excitement.......2004-10-06

I was disappointed that the great adventure of hunting 27 "big game" of North America was reduced to a tedious chronicle where you can almost substitue the 27 different animals into the "story"....how the guide took the hunter to the hunted and an arrow was shot killing the animal.

I can imagine the experience and knowledge that Chuck Adams has to have to be able to hunt these various animals with a bow and arrow and was hoping to "feel" excitement of the pursuit, the description of the dangers involved, the details of the hunting experience with a bow but alas all I got was a monotonous style of writing describing how he arrived, saw and shot.

Tedious reading. If you really want to read a good book about bow and arrow hunting, read the Field Notes of Fred Bear, well written, detailed and it lets you feel the hunt, written by the hand of the master bow hunter.

A thrilling true-life narrative.......2004-06-07

Super Slam!: Adventures With North American Big Game is a narrative of expert bowhunter Chuck Adams' experiences with game animals ranging from Black Bears to Bighorn Sheep, Mountain Lions, Canada Moose and much more. A thrilling true-life narrative of braving weather, terrain, natural hazards, and more to test one's skill against the wiles of wildlife, Super Slam! an enjoyable, brisk-paced read for armchair travelers, dedicated hunters, and anyone wondering what it is truly like to stalk game without a gun.

Approved use of Etorphine (M99®) in North American big game animals

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Approved use of Etorphine (M99®) in North American big game animals
Len H Carpenter
Manufacturer: Colorado Division of Wildlife
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B0006YJFEM

The new hall of North American big game animals at the American Museum

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The new hall of North American big game animals at the American Museum
James L Clark
Manufacturer: Camp Fire Club
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B0007I93TE

Playing with Trains: A Passion Beyond Scale
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An absolute delight!

A Good Read....

Indeed, a passion beyond scale...

A little history, a little autobiography, a narrow view

Model Trains

Playing with Trains: A Passion Beyond Scale
Sam Posey
Manufacturer: Random House Trade Paperbacks
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0812971264
Release Date: 2005-11-08

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Why do grown men play with trains? Is it a primal attachment to childhood, nostalgia for the lost age of rail travel, or the stuff of flat-out obsession? In this delightful and unprecedented book, Grand Prix legend Sam Posey tracks those who share his “passion beyond scale” and discovers a wonderfully strange and vital culture.

Posey’s first layout, wired by his mother in the years just after the Second World War, was, as he writes in his Introduction, “a miniature universe which I could operate on my own. Speed and control: I was fascinated by both, as well as by the way they were inextricably bound together.” Eventually, when Posey’s son was born, he was convinced that building him a basement layout would be the highest expression of fatherhood. Sixteen years and thousands of hours later, this project, “the outgrowth of chance meetings, unexpected friendships, mistakes, illness, latent ambitions, and sheer luck” was completed. But for Posey, the creation of his HO-scale masterpiece based on the historic Colorado Midland, was just the beginning.

In Playing with Trains, Sam Posey ventures well beyond the borders of his layout in northwestern Connecticut, to find out what makes the top modelers tick. He expects to find men “engaged in a genial hobby, happy to spend a few hours a week escaping the pressures of contemporary life.” Instead he uncovers a world of extremes–extreme commitment, extreme passion, and extreme differences of approach. For instance, Malcolm Furlow, holed up on his ranch in the wilderness of New Mexico, insists that model railroading is defined by scenery and artistic self-expression. On the other hand, Tony Koester, a New Jersey modeler, believes his “mission” is to replicate, with fanatical precision and authenticity, the way a real railroad operates. Going to extremes himself, Posey actually “test drives” a real steam engine in Strasburg, Pennsylvania, in an attempt to understand the great machines that inspired the models and connect us to a time when “the railroad was inventing America.” Timeless and original, Playing with Trains reveals a classic, questing American world.

From the Hardcover edition.

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An absolute delight!.......2007-08-22

I happened across a copy of Playing With Trains at a local bookstore, and from the first page I was hooked- the author's enthusiasm just jumped right off the page. I was immediately transported to my youth, and my long gone Lionel Southern Pacific set, screaming accross the ping-pong table top layout. Then I camed across the author's reference to racing cars for a living, and glanced at the cover- of course! Sam Posey was not only one of the friendliest and most likable men ever to set foot in a race car, he was, and is, a great story teller. Back in the 70s he'd written a book about his life in racing (The Mudge Pond Express) that may be the best book ever written about what it's like to be a race car driver. Posey's prose style is right up there with Tracy Kidder or any of the best contemporary non-fiction writers.

The tale begins with Posey's own childhood trains, and then jumps to the birth of his first son, and the construction of what begins as a simple oval but becomes a fifteen-year obsession. Along the way we're introduced to other model railroaders, and we learn a bit about the makers, the sellers, the hostory of railroad and model railroading, and of course Thomas the Tank Engine, who personifies railroading for so many children of the eighties and beyond. There's even a trip on a full-sized train, as well as Posey's experience driving a full-sized steam locomotive for the annual April Fool's road test in Road and Track magazine. At one point in his fifteen year oddyssee Posey is diagnosed with Parkinson's disease- something that chnages his perspective a little, but doesn't slow him down in his pursuit.

Serious model railroaders will find fault with this book- there are no layout diagrams, no closeups of engines, and none of the detais and minutia that make up the model railroader's hobby. That's okay, though, as this book wasn't written for them. It's really for anyone who has owned a model train- or perhaps wished they'd owned one- or anyone who has looked longingly at the elaborate layouts in hobbyshops and department stores of the past, and thought how nice it would be to play with trains again.

A Good Read...........2007-02-16

My uncle built Mr. Posey's house and is mentioned in this book. I had to laugh, especially when he related how a support post in his basement had to be removed and it took three experienced carpenters to put in a new post and remove the old one. I know the blue foam boards very well having installed them while working as a youth during winter and summer breaks while in college but had no idea they were the perfect material for building mountains on a train set. Sam gives great background on the history of the Hobby and John Allen's Gorre and Dephatid layout, which is considered the seminal HO layout of the Post-War era. He's also correct in his observation that men tend to regress to where they were as boys and as a father with a son in elementary school, my interest in slot cars and trains has suddenly become rejuvenated. Now, it's off to the train shop....

Indeed, a passion beyond scale..........2006-08-11

This is a wonderful book. Sam Posey, known to most people only as a highly successful race car driver and/or Emmy-winning broadcaster, uses a description of the construction of his basement HO-scale train layout-- 6,000 hours of work over 16 years-- to anchor a broader examination of model railroading. He describes some issues in the design and construction of layouts, and he interviews some of the stars of the hobby.

That would be a good enough book, but Posey goes beyond that to examine the phenomenon of men and boys playing with trains, and, further, the nature of obsession. The message is that while the people who build elaborate model railroad layouts may indeed be obsessive, obsessions that are passions for excellence are not necessarily problematical.

At one point, Posey considers a simple question about his own layout: When is enough enough? The answer for him is "never," and that's probably the answer anyone passionate about anything would give.

Posey is an intelligent, articulate observer of the most challenging subject of all: himself. The result of his study is this outstanding book. I bought it because I'm a fan of Posey's racing and broadcasting, and I'm mildly interested in trains. I was rewarded far, far beyond my expectations.

A little history, a little autobiography, a narrow view.......2006-03-17

This book is interesting in ways, but perhaps a bit narrow. There are some lovely reminiscences from the golden age of Lionel, some lovely insights into Posey's childhood exposure to model trains, and a dash of the history of grandiose, fill-the-basement, HO-scale, railroad modelling. However, as a view of model railroading at the end of the 20th century it is very much limited to the "grand obsession" view, the view you get from basements in the mid-west of America. Posey concludes that you can divide model railroaders into those obsessed with meticulous scenery and those who seek to simulate real railroad operation, modelling the control of traffic in a system. Yet there is much appeal in the hobby that the book never mentions, or mentions only indirectly. Microlayouts are never mentioned. Z-scale and G-scale barely rate a sentence each. What is railroading like in Japan, or Great Britain, or Germany? You will not be told here. You will not meet people who prefer to watch train layouts here. Towards the end, the book gets a bit boring, when he has run out of interesting things to say and is documenting trips to see layouts. Wives of grand obsessives may have had entertaining stories or comments of interest (like why they put up with it or what they do while hubby is playing), but spouses barely get a look-in. The book is worth a read as a yardstick of obsession, to reassure yourself that things could be a lot worse, and it is certainly on a subject that appears scarcely in books.

Model Trains.......2005-10-13

I thought this was a treat. Brought back the enthusiasms of the 60s, when sitting up late with a magnifying visor, waxed paper and pins, x-acto and steel rule was satsifying -- long before cable, i-pod, dvd, gameboy, and all that.

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This colorful Victorian book evokes an age gone by, before the days of email and overnight shipping, when communication between people was a very special occasion, made more difficult by time and space. To Victorian letter-writers of the West a new, exotic and secret language came from the East-communicating through flowers. The language of flowers became so refined in the nineteenth century that this dictionary was necessary. Using this source, one could send a message of reproach, passion, friendship, quarrel or a myriad of other sentiments singly and combined via a simple bouquet without ever penning a single word.

Flora's interpreter: Or, The American book of flowers and sentiments

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Flora's interpreter: Or, The American book of flowers and sentiments
Sarah Josepha Buell Hale
Manufacturer: Marsh, Capen, Lyon and Webb
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B000856ZOC

Flora's lexicon: An interpretation of the language and sentiment of flowers ; with an outline of botany, and a poetical introduction

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Flora's lexicon: An interpretation of the language and sentiment of flowers ; with an outline of botany, and a poetical introduction
Catharine H Waterman
Manufacturer: Crosby and Nichols
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B000867J46

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Flora's Lexicon: An Interpretation Of The Language And Sentiment Of Flowers; With An Outline Of Botany
Catharine H. Waterman
Manufacturer: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 143265330X

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This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's literature.

The floral kingdom, its history, sentiment and poetry: A dictionary of plants, with the genera and families to which they belong, and the language of each, ... on the cultivation and analysis of plants

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The floral kingdom, its history, sentiment and poetry: A dictionary of plants, with the genera and families to which they belong, and the language of each, ... on the cultivation and analysis of plants
Cordelia Harris Turner
Manufacturer: J.Q. Adams & Co.; [etc.]
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Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B00087HZAS

Flowers Their Language Poetry and Sentiment

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Flowers Their Language Poetry and Sentiment

Manufacturer: Porter & Coates
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000CP6W1Y

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Ode to flowers in the 19th Century

Flowers, Their Language, Poetry, and Sentiment, with Choicest Extracts from Poets, A Dictionary of the Sentiment of every Flower Botanical Descriptions, etc.

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Flowers, Their Language, Poetry, and Sentiment, with Choicest Extracts from Poets, A Dictionary of the Sentiment of every Flower Botanical Descriptions, etc.
Anonymous
Manufacturer: Porter and Coates
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000R5NFAU

Flowers, Their Use and Beauty in Language and Sentiment

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Flowers, Their Use and Beauty in Language and Sentiment

Manufacturer: Darton and Co., Ltd.
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000G6Z7BA

Forget-Me-Not: A Floral Treasury Sentiments and Plant Lore from the Language of Flowers

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Forget-Me-Not: A Floral Treasury Sentiments and Plant Lore from the Language of Flowers
Pamela Todd
Manufacturer: Bulfinch Pr
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Binding: Hardcover

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Girls' names and name-day and birthday book: What girls' names mean, their flower emblem, sentiment, famous people that bore the name, the name in religion, ... names, and abbreviations in all languages

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Girls' names and name-day and birthday book: What girls' names mean, their flower emblem, sentiment, famous people that bore the name, the name in religion, ... names, and abbreviations in all languages
Henry W Fischer
Manufacturer: Fischer's Foreign Letters Pub
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Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B00086CUA4

Dr. Spock On Parenting: Sensible, Reassuring Advice for Today's Parent
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GREAT BOOK!!

I found parents thougts

Old-fashioned but still good advice

Nurturing guidance all parents need!

I DONT NEED ANYONE TO OUTLINE HOW TO RAISE MY CHILD BUT GOD

Dr. Spock On Parenting: Sensible, Reassuring Advice for Today's Parent
Benjamin, M.D. Spock
Manufacturer: Pocket
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0743426835

Book Description

An essential guide for today's parents -- from the world-renowned pediatrician and author of Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care.

In this classic text, Dr. Benjamin Spock addresses the changing of traditional family structure and the challenges contemporary parents face. From two-job families to single parenthood, this timely reference offers sound, reliable advice on today's difficult parenting issues, including:

understanding the role of the modern father
developing healthy eating habits
adapting career demands to a baby's needs
evaluating child care outside the home
handling your child in public places
dealing with sleeping problems
teaching your child about strangers
nurturing your child's potential
talking to children about sex, disease, death,
religion and God
handling divorce and custody questions

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GREAT BOOK!!.......2006-10-31

I have a 5 year old and a 2 year old and i tell you this book has really guided me. They are wonderful girls and I love how Dr. Spock talks about respecting your child.. in turn it is amazing how you gain their respect. It is a book i have highly recommended to several very good friends who have had issues with their children and tell me how much it has helped them. :)

HIGHLY HIGHLY recommended.

I found parents thougts.......2006-07-19

I read the book for my oldest daugther - 28 years before and really liked it. I have an edition in Russin and consult with it when neccessary.
Now I choose the book for my husband, as he is a step father.
I by myself read a lot from this edition and it gave me some ideas and support in my undestanding.
I like that there is refences for other books which relate to the subject if you would like to know more.

Old-fashioned but still good advice.......2003-09-05

Perhaps it's not stylish nowadays to admit that Dr. Spock is OK, but he really is. I love this book. It's packed with sensible advice.

To me, the most helpful section is the called _Teaching Sexual Equality_. It contains good commentary about raising children of each gender, making sure everybody (even Dad) does an equal share around the house, helping children develop healthy gender attitudes, and more.

I recommend this book for parents. It's enjoyable reading, not too academic or judgmental, and offers personal observations about child-raising, which the author shares with remarkable personal insight.

Nurturing guidance all parents need!.......2001-12-10

I wish I had read Dr. Spock on Parenting when I had my first child. His advice is very practical, and he helps you understand your child's needs and motivations. His advice is easy to understand and always shows respect to both the child and the parent. I was reluctant to read Dr. Spock at first because I thought he was outdated. I was very wrong; his advice is timeless and his concern for parents raising children is very sincere. A must read for all parents!

I DONT NEED ANYONE TO OUTLINE HOW TO RAISE MY CHILD BUT GOD.......2001-02-22

DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME OR MONEY LIKE I DID. JUST ORDER "BABY & CHILD CARE", BECAUSE THAT BOOK IS A REAL HELP!

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