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The Kate Greenaway Baby Book: A Record of the First Five Years (The Kate Greenaway Collection)
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Book Description
REISSUED
When did your baby first smile? Or sit, or walk? Little achievements like these, if not recorded at the time, will soon be just vague memories. This book provides a perfect way to keep the fleeting details in one place, together with important information such as vaccinations and illnesses.
Illustrated with Kate Greenaway's beautiful vignettes of early childhood, it has space for photographs, mementoes, and personal notes, and will build up into a valuable record of your child's growth and development from birth right through to the first term and the first year of school.
Customer Reviews:
don't bother.......2005-08-13
This book was unimaginitive and boring. I prefered the "A Baby Book for You" much better. Both have great illustrations, classic and oldfashioned. The Kate Greenaway book offered limited subjects.
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Could Have Been Better.......2007-04-30
In this book Faust describes some of the ideas that formed the core of the Confederate nationalist experience. The notion of race (not only distinguishing blacks and whites, but also Southerners from "Yankees" based on racial notions of Normans vs. Anglo-Saxons), the public outcry against profiteering and capitalism, the concern for moral reform of the institution of slavery, and the evangelical religious experience are the central themes of this book. Faust does a good job a cataloging the language symbols used by Confederates in public discussion of these central tenants of the nationalist impulse.
There are a couple of things I don't like about this book. As other reviewers have noted, the writing is quite bland. To be sure, one might argue that when writing about a topic as academic as Confederate Nationalism it is exceedingly difficult to write in a manner that keeps the pages turning. Nevertheless, Faust seems to be a little to redundant in making her points. Also, her arguments are not always well-supported. Her chapter concerning profiteering and anti-capitalism sentiment is a good example of refuting one's own point. In attempting to establish the impulse against profiteering as a source of nationalist sentiment Faust weakened her argument by ending the chapter with a discussion of the fairly broad demographic that was more than comfortable with the advent of market forces.
The strongest chapter of this book, in my opinion, is that which covers the evangelical religious essence of Confederate society as a source of nationalism. The sources used aptly illuminate the nature of the Confederate religious experience. Here, however, I feel that Faust bit off a little more than she could chew. She briefly touched upon the place of St. Augustine in this public discussion, but she failed to convey the verdict Augustine undoubtedly would have had concerning Confederate notions of the relationship between reverses on the battlefield on public "sins". In City of God, Augustine describes a de-divinized worldview in which empires rise and fall irregardless of their Christian virtuousness. This is decidedly different from the widely held Confederate view that if Confederate society was more virtuous God would discontinue punishing the Confederate military effort. The divinized worldview is essentially what Faust is after in her chapter on evangelical religion, however she fails to nail it down as such. This leaves the reader with only a vague sense of what she's talking about.
This book was okay; I don't regret reading it, though I wouldn't recommend it. Even though it's relatively short (about 85 pages) I don't believe it is worth adding to a college-level Civil War course. There are better books out there for that, such as Emory Thomas' Confederate Nation: 1861-1865. Three stars for a mediocre book.
Creation of Confederate Nationalism.......2006-05-12
A slim volume discussing the elements and development of Confederate national identity.
I did not get as much from this book as I hoped to. It discusses the roles of religion, ideas of morality, and concepts of race in forming Confederate nationalism, while offering some analysis of the paradoxes inherent in Southern thought. Sources are primarily "public" texts such as newspaper articles and commercially published songs; the lack of diary or letter sources leaves the reader unsure as to how public discourse influenced individuals' thought. In particular, it would have been interesting to know how the nonslaveholding whites who made up the majority of Confederate soldiers responded to both the expressions of elite morality and the propagandistic pro-slavery songs and writings: were they convinced? Were they even involved in the cultural conversation?
The analysis overall has an abstract quality that fails to connect thought and theory with concrete fact and action.
The picture of the hair sculpture, though, is worth a thousand words: Victorian ghoulishness at its appalling pinnacle. The book is worth looking at for that alone.
Dull prose mars this effort.......2004-03-06
She's got some good points, but jargon-laden prose makes this one a sleeper.
Interesting but too anecdotal.......2002-04-24
This little book is interesting, yet it seems to be hampered by its short format. As a result, the author does not seem wholly successful in describing a Confederate national consciousness . Basically, she argues that notions of evangelicalism, republicanism, and slavery merged into a national ideology; more significantly, she makes a good case that the contradictions within these ideological components effectively tore apart any widespread consensus by the war's end. Certainly, evangelicalism played an important role as Southern ministers became forceful speakers on the justification for war and, later, on the reasons for Southern defeat. Republicanism was a growing source of friction in Dixie in the years leading up to the war, often pitting planters against yeoman whites as elements of the market economy crept into Southern life. Faust's points on republicanism do little to explain a consensus among all whites in favor of Confederate support, though. Many planters attempted to tighten their control of political power in this era, and Faust seems to say they essentially tried to dupe or otherwise talk yeomen whites out of proactive political participation. There is not enough evidence presented here to accurately portray the relationship between different classes of whites. This point also relates to her proposition that a pro-slavery ideology pervaded the entire South and effectively brought about the War for Southern Independence. Faust does not explain why yeoman whites forgot the friction (particular in terms of economics) they increasingly felt during the late antebellum years for slaves and jumped immediately on a proslavery bandwagon. Basically, this book suffers from a common fault prevalent in studies of Southern history--it ignores or passes over the significant political differences between rich and poor whites throughout the South in an effort to brand slavery as the principal cause of the conflict.
Much of Faust's material is anecdotal, and while she does reference her sources extensively in the index (sadly stuck by itself at the back of the book), the constant quotes from "a planter," "a soldier's wife," or "a Methodist minister in North Carolina" are not placed in sufficient context and thus give the impression that the South was a hegemonic, monolithic entity wherein all white men thought alike. The source of this book is a series of lectures, and I feel that hampers the author's arguments--it never allows her to dig below the surface or argue her points to any great depth. Certainly, though, the subject of Confederate nationalism is a subject begging for more study. The topic is so intricate, though, that only a thick monograph filled with detailed argument can adequately address it.
Book Description
Identifying shorebirds can be a challenge--and having a field guide specifically devoted to the species gives any birder an edge. Yet until now, no guide has illustrated or described the complete range of North and Central American shorebirds.
Dennis Paulson's book more than corrects that deficiency. This beautifully illustrated volume represents the first complete guide to North and Central American shorebirds ever published.
Unlike other guide books, which have traditionally relied on paintings to represent shorebirds, this one contains an extensive series of striking photographs--most never published before. More than 530 photos illustrate all shorebird species in their varied plumage, and are accompanied by text that points out the variation within common species.
The book also includes identification tips and ways for distinguishing shorebirds from all similar species, at rest and in flight. Brief descriptions of voice, behavior, habitat, and range are given for each species.
- First complete guide to North American and Central American shorebirds
- More than 530 striking photos
- Identification tips
- Descriptions of voice, behavior, habitat, and range
Customer Reviews:
Fantastic Shorebird Guide.......2006-11-10
The best field guide for shorebirds that I have seen. Great photos, well organized. I refer to it often!
Shorebirds of North America by Dennis Paulson.......2006-03-17
Shorebirds of North America is a keeper! Absolutely stunning pictures showing virtually every bird in flight as well as on the ground in a multitude of plumages. The interesting, informative, well written descriptions make this a better arm-chair book, than field book.
That said, however, it's certainly small enough to be carried afield; it's smaller than Sibley's Guide and ruggedly constructed. The bird pictures are exceptional and elaborate showing many molt stages and picularities. As a visual person, I find this not simply helpful for me, but absolutely necessary for shorebirds. The descriptions Paulson uses for identification are practical, comparative, clear and easy to understand. There is much discussion of plumages, voice and distinctive characteristics both in flight and on the ground.
I loved the table of estimated populations of these birds. It answered my question about the Snowy Plover in Washington state and why eveyone seemed so concerned. Paulson estimates their population at 15, 700.
He has a well illustrated section on anatomy that provides a guide for terms used in the book such as mantle line, upper and lower scapular line, primary projection and more. There's sound information on individual variation from feather wear and fade, unusual plumages, hybridization, and molts.
The only disappointment for me was the quick list of species on the inside cover. It's done numerically and I would have liked the listing alphabetical for speedy look-up. I think it's faster to go to the table of contents where the species are broken down by type - plovers, sandpipers, curlews, etc.
As I said of another book recently reviewed, this one should have a higher rating than shown, like 43/4 stars, but that choice is not available.
I bought it as a companion book to Stokes Beginner's Guide to Shorebirds and I am not disappointed with the pair, they compliment (and supplement) each other. In short, this book with the information it contains is 'worth the money'.
Great Reference for Birders.......2006-01-31
The book covers 94 species of shorebirds for North America including familiar species and rarities.
The wide selection of photos show birds in flight as well as average plumage differences between breeding adults, non-breeding adults and juveniles. For each species, you get information on size, plumage, identification, behavior, voice, habitat and range.
This is a great addition to any birders' library or useful for anyone living near the shore.
No Herons, ducks or anything other than Sandpiper-like birds..........2005-12-09
I was thinking this book would cover everything that you would typically find near salt water and marshes, like Herons, Ducks, Widgeons, Loons, Geese, Gulls, etc. It only covers a very narrow range of sandpiper, plover and stints.
However, if that is what you want, this appears to be a very nice book with a heavy-duty cover.
Wonderful guide.......2005-08-01
This is a beautiful book on shorebird identification. I've found this guide to be an essential addition to my bookshelf, primarily due to the quality and variety of photographs. For many of the included species, the wide selection of photographs show birds in flight as well as average plumage differences between breeding adults, non-breeding adults, and juveniles, allowing for the careful study of differences within species as well as between species. I also found the identification tips to be very valuable, as the discussion includes useful comparisons between similar species for birds both on the ground and in flight. The discussions of habitat and behavior are not extensive but provide sufficient detail, and the voice descriptions are very helpful.
The lack of range maps is well-balanced by a short discussion on range for each species, and may even be a blessing. A single glance at range maps can be misleading, as there can be wide variations in the timing of when individual shorebirds of some species may depart from or arrive on their wintering grounds. For example, the range maps in both the Sibley's guides and the National Audubon Society field guides show that Ruddy Turnstones should only be found in the Carolinas during the "winter" season - I've watched Ruddy Turnstones in full breeding plumage foraging on South Carolina beaches in early August, presumably early migrants who have already completed their nesting season and haven't yet begun molting into their non-breeding plumage. Another perfect example is the normal range of Northern Lapwing, an occasional Eurasian visitor to North America, whose rare visits have included Maine, New York, Maryland, and Florida.
This photographic guide to shorebirds is a lovely reference to accompany basic field guides, provides an excellent overview of what you might see in the field, and is a valuable resource for those who are passionate about shorebirds.
Book Description
The Stokes Beginner's Guides, intended for beginning nature lovers of all ages, offer a wealth of identification and behavior information in a portable pocket-sized format. Illustrated throughout with full-color photographs and range maps, each Beginner's Guide is organized according to the Stokes' easy-to-use and popular color-tab system.
Customer Reviews:
Shorebirds are NOT all alike1.......2007-05-23
Prior to reading this book, I gave up on shorebird identification. This book makes it very easy for a beginner like me to ID shorebirds. I love the easy way you identify birds by size and then picture. I'm finding it is now fun to try to ID the shorbs!
Outstanding field guide but not just for beginners.......2007-03-19
This is an outstanding field guide for shorebirds and it is not just for beginners. I have been birding for more than 20 years but I have had limited experiences with shorebirds and I found this small book comprehensive and organized in such a way that it has now become the only book I carry when I'm watching shorebirds.
Very Helpful.......2007-02-06
This book is very helpful for a quide in identifiying shorebirds but still can't figure out what the shorebird with a dark head, light underneath, and a straight bill is.
A good guide for both beginners and more advanced birders........2006-11-10
This is an excellent shorebird guide -- and not just for beginners. I bought this guide for a specific purpose: I lead tours in a wetland refuge and wanted an easy-to-carry guide I could use to show pictures of birds to people on the tour. This book fits my needs perfectly, but many others should find it useful. It is small and easy to carry. The book uses photo illustrations: I believe photos are better than paintings for depicting shorebirds since silhouettes are so important for shorebird identification and it is hard to get the proportions exactly right in a painting. The photos in this book are excellent. Shorebirds can vary greatly in appearance because of plumage variations. This book has multiple photos of most species and does a good job of depicting the plumage variation. This book is less comprehensive than some larger guides, but since it is designed as a beginner's guide, it wouldn't make sense for it to be too long and complicated. An excellent little book.
Stokes Beginner's Guide to Shorebirds.......2006-03-16
I'd actually rate this 41/2 stars, but that choice wasn't available. It's organization is based on a neat color tabbed guide that breaks the birds down by body size and further refines this by bill size. This rapidly narrows choices and speeds comparitive evaluations. The migration maps, both spring and fall, though general in their timing, further help narrow selection. I love this little book! It's lightweight, thin design makes it easy to carry into the field, yet it is wonderfully illustrated with summer, winter and juvenile characterists depicted for nearly every bird. It's only shortcoming - and this would perhaps alter it's small, light, handy character - would be insufficient pictures of the birds in flight.
I purchased this book as a companion to Shorebirds of North America by Dennis Paulson and use the Paulson book as a reference when Stokes leaves me still wondering. The Paulson book, however, stays in the car, both because the Stokes book is that good and because I don't want the more extansive pictures and more elaborate descriptions in the Paulson book getting wet, dirty or ruined.
Book Description
A wonderfully illustrated introduction to identifying North American shorebirds: sandpipers, plovers, oystercatchers, turnstones, and dowitchers. Shorebirds offer unique challenges to both beginning and experienced birdwatchers. They're large, forage in the open, and are easy to spot, but their infinitely variable plumage makes them difficult to identify. With beautifully detailed images taken by one of the country's premier bird photographers, this book offers invaluable assistance to those who want to distinguish a yellowlegs from a willet, or a snipe from a dowitcher. It also offers sound advice on how best to observe these fascinating creatures, details on their natural history, and information on how mankind's actions have affected their populations.
Customer Reviews:
Beautiful Pictures and Wonderful Words.......2006-06-18
I truly enjoyed reading this book. The pictures of the shorebirds are fantastic. It is very well written. Morris describes the shorebirds, their behavior and plumage changes very competently. The photographs are of the highest quality and very detailed. It even includes pictures of some shorebird chicks. I didn't expect this quality from an paperback. At $11 it was a bargain.
A fine book by a fine birder,fine photographer and a fine fellow........2006-05-24
This would be a great addition to any bird book library.While it has only 159 pages, it contains wealth of information on all aspects of Shorebirds. The author is an expert birder and a photographer par excellent. He covers identification,plumages & ageing,behavior,feeding & diet,mating & breeding,eggs & young,migration,species accounts,shorebirdinf,more information and a good itemized list of suggested reading.
Then there are the photographs!!!
There are 94 absolutely stunning photographs that are as good as any photographs that you will find anywhere. One can only imagine the years of experience that the author has at his command and the endless patience that went into producing the photographs in this book.
Arthur Morris was a frequent visitor at Pointe Pelee National Park for several years taking photos.He was very friendly to all who approached him .Although I haven't seen him for awhile,I can only assume he is still plying his skills with the birds.
I bought this book from him at Pelee on May 16,1997 and he graciously autographed it and posed with me for a photo.
Hope to see you again ,Arthur.
Good Book with Nice Pictures!.......2005-06-09
Good book that is easy to read with some good descriptions of shorebirds. Very easy to follow and understand...Gives some indepth info but not too much. Pictures are very good, showing some various views of different species. Only thing that would have made this book better would have been range maps that are not included, still a good book and worth the purchase price.
Book Description
Shorebirds of North America, Europe, and Asia is a quick-reference field guide to the sandpipers, plovers, stints, and other shorebirds found on these continents. The exhaustive and superbly detailed color plates show the birds at rest and in flight, and in every plumage variant likely to be encountered. Species are treated plumage by plumage alongside images of similar species they are otherwise likely to be confused with. Succinct text on pages facing the plates summarizes the key identification features of appearance, voice, and behavior. There is a color distribution map for each of the described species. This guide provides fast, easy, and reliable field identification of this challenging group of birds.
- 80 color plates show full range of plumage types of all species covered
- Concise facing text treats appearance, voice, and behavior
- Clear color distribution map for each species
- Definitive pictorial guide to the shorebirds of these continents
Customer Reviews:
Slightly disappointing compared to available guides.......2007-09-25
Being a shorebird enthusiast, I have had this title in my sights for a while and planned to purchase it as soon as I could find a copy to look through. I have owned the old Helm guide since it came out but, for portability, in the field I tend to use Sibley or the Collins Bird Guide as a shorebird identification supplement to whatever national guide I am using (that is here in the Western Hemisphere). I felt it was about time I got my library up-to-date with this new volume which promised to supersede all my guides. However, when I finally managed to look over a copy I have to say I found it a little disappointing. For me at least, the illustrations do not match those of Killian Mullarney, Peter Hayman or David Sibley and the text does not seem to add much to the older Helm guide - indeed, I prefer that pioneering guide. It just shows how much care went into the preparation of those older guides - Shorebirds is 21 years old now and still hard to beat! This may be a personal view - and admittedly based on a short perusal - but I could not justify adding the book to my library.
Chris Sharpe, 25 September 2007. ISBN: 0691126720
Shorebirds are intercontinental.......2007-07-29
Many shorebird species can occasionally be seen in other continents than where they normally occur, more so than any other bird group. Thus, for birders who like to see rarities (which is nearly all of them), these birds are very special. But they can also be difficult to identify to the species level. Hence, it's a good idea to bring out this field guide specifically for shorebirds for the whole northern hemisphere.
The drawings are very good, and larger than in most other field guides, thus showing more details of the plumage. Also, there are several plumages per species.
Cleverly, the species are grouped according to resemblance in plumage rather than in a strict systematical order. Very handy also is that all flight drawings are grouped separately. The distribution maps are large, thus showing exact occurrences (inasfar known).
This is a book to have at hand when visiting coastal areas in the migration season, or when making birding trips to one of the other continents.
Shorebirds--they all look alike..........2007-03-30
The book proved to be very useful, the drawings are very clear, the text are informative and detailed with special emphasis on the differences between similar bird species. Also it is small enough to use it in the field---very important!
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Shorebirds of North America (American Nature Guides)
Alan Richards
Manufacturer: Smithmark Publishers
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Observable birds with many mysteries.......2005-03-30
Shorebirds are one of the most observable of birds, but also one where identification is a challenge and many mysteries remain. Peter Matthiessen engrossingly tells the life history of many of the North American species, including segmentation of habitat during the seasons, and wonders of migration. Along the way he introduces ecological principles as Bergman's Rule and evolutionary ideas of speciation (how did Western and Semipalmated sandpipers separate?).
Since the initial publishing of this book and the forward (in 1994), the optimism of recovery of species may be diminished, as many are declining. The illustrations are all well done, and Matthiessen introduces each chapter with literary quotes, such as Shakespeare's "sometimes I'll get the young scamels (bar-tailed godwit) from the rock". Readers of this would probably enjoy " The Flight of the Red Knot" by Brian Harrington and Charles Flowers.
compendium of amazing facts.......2003-07-26
What makes this book difficult is that the author assumes a certain foreknowledge of the 20 or more species of shorebirds discussed. This makes is a bit like reading a text on anatomy without having any background. But even without, it is relatively easy reading once you get into it and just a cursory exsmination reveals some amazing facts and a great wealth of knowledge on the author's part: he will tell you why, for example, mammals are larger in the north and why chicken breast meat is white. There is also a wealth of data on the taxonomy, evolution, migration patterns--which are quite amazing--and other habits of numerous shorebirds, as well as the hunting to near extinction of some of them in the early 20th century and before. The author brings to his work a lifetime of world travel, also.
Beauty, truth, and feathers........2000-02-16
Now here is a beautifully written and true book about the tribes of shorebirds (plovers, sandpipers, and their kin). In a series of essays on the different aspects of bird structure and behavior (e.g., migration, flight, feeding, courtship), the author draws a complete picture of these wondrous birds. If you've ever stood on a beach and watched flocks of Sanderlings wheeling in unison, flashing alternately white and gray, and wondered about how they live their lives, then this is the book for you. Matthiessen is almost the only writer I know who can combine accurate science with a consistently interesting and limpid style.
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