Un Curso De Amor / A Course on Love

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This book combines Warrior 4: `US Cavalryman 1865-1890', Men-at-Arms 163: `The American Plains Indians' and Men-at-Arms 186: `The Apaches'. The apocalyptic clashes of culture between the land-hungry Whites and the American Indians, which reached their climax in the latter half of the 19th century, were among the most tragic of all wars ever fought. These conflicts pitted one civilisation against another, neither able to comprehend or accomodate the other. To the victor went domination of the continent, to the vanquished the destruction of their way of life. This volume describes those who took part in these wars, focusing on the Plains Indians such as the Sioux and the Cheyenne, the Apache peoples of the south-west, and their implacable foe, the US Cavalry.

A History of Shropshire: Volume III (Victoria County History)
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A History of Shropshire: Volume III (Victoria County History)

Manufacturer: Victoria County History
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0197227309

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The themes of Volume III are the govern-ment and parliamentary representation of Shropshire from their beginnings up to 1974. The long perspective allows the vicissi-tudes of successive institutions of county government to be examined thoroughly. For example, the rise of the justices of the peace is fully chronicled from their in-conspicuous origins under Edward I to the amplitude of their powers and duties in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. Shropshire's medieval government had a number of peculiarities, caused by the county's fron-tier position opposite the hostile Welsh. Accordingly its 'palatine' earldom, its serjeants of the peace, its loss of territory to marcher lordships, and its subjection to the Council in the Marches of Wales receive special attention. From Elizabeth I's reign, as the magistrates' concerns increased, the story comes to include much of the social history of the times. From 1889, when the county council was formed, that history has been one of unprecedented penetration by local government into formerly untouched areas of local and personal affairs. The institutions of Shropshire's govern-ment provided opportunities for influence and advancement; the volume thus em-bodies a history of the fortunes of Shrop-shire's leading men and families. Most prominent in the Middle Ages were the earls of Shrewsbury, Arundel, and March. Since then the families of Corbet, Newport, Herbert, Clive, and Bridgeman have been among the weightiest. Linked with their fortunes were those of smaller landowners and local officials. In the 18th century, with the appointments of its first permanent county treasurer and of its first county surveyor, Thomas Telford, Shropshire took a large step towards the formation of a modern county bureaucracy. Nowhere has the play of ambition and manouvre been more openly exercised than in elections to Parliament. The volume explores the intricacies of Shrop-shire electioneering from Edward I's reign to the general election of October 1974, and illustrates the manner in which conflicting electoral interests bit deep into the sub-stance of Shropshire society.

National Geographic Field Guide to Birds: The Carolinas (NG Field Guide to Birds)
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a nice, easy-to-use, guide.

National Geographic Field Guide to Birds: The Carolinas (NG Field Guide to Birds)
Jonathan Alderfer
Manufacturer: National Geographic
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Binding: Paperback

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North Carolina Bird Watching: A Year-Round Guide

North Carolina Birds

Birds of the Carolinas, 2nd Ed.

Birds of the Carolinas Field Guide, Second Edition: Companion to Birds of the Carolinas Audio CDs

A Guide to the Snakes of North Carolina

ASIN: 079224186X
Release Date: 2005-10-04

Book Description

National Geographic Field Guide to Birds provides affordable, portable, reliable region-specific information, perfect for the novice or experienced birder. In each guide, an introduction by an expert birder from the region offers guidance on where to look for key birds. An opening section gives pointers on how to look for key birds and what to focus on when you spot them. Each guide features approximately 150 birds, grouped by family. Two indexes: one alphabetical and one color-coded help readers identify a bird quickly.

Each entry has a vivid photograph showing the bird in its native habitat. On the facing page, there is a list of bulleted points of field identification clues as well as behavioral and habitat information, and the best local places to find the bird. Special field notes give additional i.d. or behavioral information and detailed maps show the range of each bird's habitat. With comprehensive coverage of the region and valuable advice from experts, these user-friendly guides will quickly become favorite companions on the journey to lifelong birding.

North and South Carolina, a favorite among bird watchers, are homes to a wide variety of birds that live in the western mountainous terrain or the eastern shorelines.

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a nice, easy-to-use, guide........2006-12-17

This is a nice, simply guide to Carolina birds. A nice feature is the index by bird color (which also has little headshots of the birds) -- this makes it very easy to identify your backyard friends.

National Geographic Field Guide to Birds: Texas (NG Field Guide to Birds)

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Excellent resource
national geographic field guide to birds: texas
Well below the "Geo Guide" standard

National Geographic Field Guide to Birds: Texas (NG Field Guide to Birds)
Jonathan Alderfer
Manufacturer: National Geographic
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Smithsonian Handbooks: Birds of Texas (Smithsonian Handbooks)
The Birds of Texas
A Field Guide to the Birds of Texas: and Adjacent States (Peterson Field Guides(R))
Birds of Texas Field Guide
Exploring the Great Texas Coastal Birding Trail: Highlights of a Birding Mecca

ASIN: 0792241878
Release Date: 2005-10-04

Book Description

National Geographic Field Guide to Birds provides affordable, portable, reliable region-specific information, perfect for the novice or experienced birder. In each guide, an introduction by an expert birder from the region offers guidance on where to look for key birds. An opening section gives pointers on how to look for key birds and what to focus on when you spot them. Each guide features approximately 150 birds, grouped by family. Two indexes: one alphabetical and one color-coded help readers identify a bird quickly.

Each entry has a vivid photograph showing the bird in its native habitat. On the facing page, there is a list of bulleted points of field identification clues as well as behavioral and habitat information, and the best local places to find the bird. Special field notes give additional i.d. or behavioral information and detailed maps show the range of each bird's habitat. With comprehensive coverage of the region and valuable advice from experts, these user-friendly guides will quickly become favorite companions on the journey to lifelong birding.

In Texas, birders will find the richest possible range of species in this ultimate migration ground that draws birds from around the world.

Customer Reviews:

Excellent resource.......2007-05-14

This book was just what I was looking for. It has great pictures, description of the female and territory map. It has been no end of value and has helped me identify all the birds that have come into my yard so far.

national geographic field guide to birds: texas.......2007-01-19

Left a lot of state birds out, and had those that were there in a strange order.

Well below the "Geo Guide" standard.......2006-04-20

This book is published by the organization which also produces the NA Bird field guide considered "best" by most avid birders, the National Geographic Field Guide (Geo guide for short). However it is absolutely NOTHING like said field guide! It is very small (6 inches by 4 inches) and consists entirely of full page color photographs on the left page, and brief descriptive text with a Texas-only range map on the right page. At the bottom of the text page are even more brief notes, usually about another similar bird, and often accompanied by a tiny painting of that bird (which appears to be taken directly from the Geo Guide).

The photographs are quite good, and really are the only saving grace of the entire book. They appear to be chosen for their artistic value more so than to illustrate field marks, however. The selection of species is extremely superficial - for example, the only species of oriole shown is Bullock's Oriole, despite the fact that in west Texas Scott's Oriole is routinely found, and for birders in the lower Rio Grande valley the target species is likely to be Altamira Oriole (not pictured), or, if coverage was as exceptional as I had hoped an NGS bird publication would be, even Audubon's or Black-vented Oriole - and one also wonders why Orchard Oriole, found throughout the state, is left out!

The book description here on Amazon is "generous" in its pronouncements. The "guidance on where to look for key birds" consists of a one-page, incredibly simplistic commentary on birding in Texas ("The Texas coast is well-known as a place for migrant birds to rest and feed on their way northward." "Other regions of the state include the High Plains where Lesser Prairie-Chickens still strut . . .") Turn the page and the most specific location data provided is a map of the entire state with numerous parks and refuges depicted. But it is left entirely up to you to figure out how to navigate to Anahuac NWR to look for those migrants (where's High Island?), and, since Lesser Prairie-Chicken isn't even included in the main text, how are you supposed to know that Muleshoe NWR might be a place to try to see them?

My greatest hope for this book was that it would give additional insight into the Texas specialities of ABA area birding, but even here it is basically incomplete. Plain Chachalaca, Least Grebe, White-tailed Hawk, Crested Caracara, Common Paraque, Buff-bellied Hummingbird, Ringed Kingfisher, Great Kiskadee, Black-capped Vireo, Green Jay, Colima and Golden-cheeked Warbler, and Olive Sparrow are all here, but missing are a few regular species which make Texas birding so unique, such as Groove-billed Ani and White-collared Seedeater. Since only in south Texas can a Muscovy Duck be counted (as opposed to being labelled an escapee from you local park's pond), why not show a wild Muscovy instead of another photo of a wild Mallard? And what about every birder's favorite dump denizen, the Tamaulipas Crow?

Overall this book is not recommended, at any level of birding, for any use other than its collection of photographs. For a beginner in the field (or even in the backyard) it doesn't provide the necessary comparison images to differentiate even the most obvious field marks so as to allow identification. For the intermediate birder trying to locate target species in Texas, the guidance (or essential lack thereof) to places where the birds can be found is woeful. And for advanced birders - well, they really don't need something this small in size or detail.

Be aware that there are several other titles in this series, for other states, and I suspect that this review's basic criticisms hold for all of them. As for me, I'll hold on until November when the Fifth Edition of the REAL Geo Guide comes out!

National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds: New Jersey (NG Field Guide to Birds)

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National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds: New Jersey (NG Field Guide to Birds)
Mel Baughman
Manufacturer: National Geographic
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Birds of New Jersey Field Guide (Field Guides)
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ASIN: 0792238753
Release Date: 2005-07-01

Birds of New Jersey Field Guide (Field Guides)

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Great, lots of info
Best little bird book
Must have For Bird Lovers
Great layout for searching

Birds of New Jersey Field Guide (Field Guides)
Stan Tekiela
Manufacturer: Adventure Publications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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New Jersey Birds
A Guide to Bird Finding in New Jersey
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Birds of New York Field Guide, Second Edition

ASIN: 1885061897

Product Description

Learn about and identify birds using Stan Tekiela's state-by-state field guides. The full-page, color photos are incomparable and include insets of winter plumage, color morphs and more. Plus, with the easy-to-use format, you don't need to know a bird's name or classification in order to easily find it in the book. Using this field guide is a real pleasure. It's a great way for anyone to learn about the birds in your state.

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Great, lots of info.......2007-08-23

Its a great little book, many of the birds featured in it i've seen in my yard. There's good info about each species.

Best little bird book.......2007-07-16

This book single handedly got me started bird watching, first learning about the birds at my feeders. Then at the beach, the park, even local shopping center parking lots. Great for everyone from beginners to experts. Plus I think Mr. Tekiela has put a book out on each state, I also bought his Birds of Wisconsin book because I have family there and frequently visit.

Must have For Bird Lovers.......2006-06-16

This book is great! I bought it for my children and I'm glad I did. I don't even have to find the birds for them. They can watch the feeders and flip to the color coded pages that matches the birds color. You can't get any easier than that!

Great layout for searching.......2003-01-06

I love how this book is laid out. My 3 year old can even flip through the color edges and search for a bird we have spotted outside. The females are represented if they differ from the males, as are the juveniles with their own pages and descriptions. The feeding, nesting and migrating habits are listed and detailed to how they fit in New Jersey. A great field guide for any birdlover - whether novice or expert!

Birding the Delaware Valley Region: A Comprehensive Guide to Birdwatching in Southeastern Pennsylvania, Central and Southern New Jersey and Northcen

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Birding the Delaware Valley Region: A Comprehensive Guide to Birdwatching in Southeastern Pennsylvania, Central and Southern New Jersey and Northcen
John J. Harding , and J. Justin
Manufacturer: Temple University Press
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Binding: Paperback

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A Guide to Bird Finding in New Jersey

ASIN: 0877221820

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For the thousands of local birdwatchers and the many hundreds of visitors, this glove compartment-sized book places all the excitement and opportunity of the Delaware Valley's 335 species of birds within convenient reach. Huge in coverage yet compact in size, Birding the Delaware Valley Region is the first comprehensive bird-finding guide available for the region.

With detailed directions like "behind the airport," "follow the shabby road off to the left," and "lock the car and walk the railroad tracks," this exuberant handbook tells the birder exactly how to get to the best locations and what to do when he's there. In addition to providing maps showing topographical outlines, it surveys key areas (all within a two-hour drive of Philadelphia) where most of the region's birds can be found: Hawk Mountain, Cape May Point State Park, Ridley Creek State Park, Tinicum Marsh, Brigantine National Wildlife refuge, and Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge.

Mini-chapters discuss additional birding "hot spots" famous for great numbers of migrants, and short references to another thirty "spots" round out the regions' bird refuges to more than seventy. Simple cross-checking can be done with the annotated list, the list of accidental or casual species, the bibliography, and the index located at the end of the guide. Every question the visitor might ask and the native might wonder about is answered concisely and fully.

The Birds of New Jersey: Their Habits and Habitats
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Great Reference from a NJ State Ornithologist

The Birds of New Jersey: Their Habits and Habitats
Charles Leck
Manufacturer: Rutgers Univ Pr
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 081350838X

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Great Reference from a NJ State Ornithologist.......2000-12-29

This book tells what birds are likely to be found in any of NJ's various natural habitats, whether ocean beach, dunes or thickets, salt- or fresh-water marshes, cedar swamps or ponds, pine deciduous or hardwood forests, mountain ridges, field, bogs, or city parks. It descripbes the birds' mating, nesting, feeding and other habits.

A Naturalist's Guide to the Southern Palisades

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Amazingly thorough and well organized, great book!

A Naturalist's Guide to the Southern Palisades
Nancy Slowik
Manufacturer: NMS
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0976942801

Product Description

The rugged cliffs along the Hudson River have attracted visitors to the Pallisades Interstate Park for more than a century. An informative guide to the Southern Palisades, featuring colored maps of the five hikes, a fold-out map for the entire area, and photographs of local plants.

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Amazingly thorough and well organized, great book!.......2007-05-17

This field guide to the Palisades shows exactly what you would expect out of a field guide. Maps, identifications of species (trees, birds, animals, etc.) trails, of course points of interest, and much more. If you are planning to spend some time in the Palisades, this book is a must have.

The Status and Distribution of New Jersey's Birds

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The Status and Distribution of New Jersey's Birds
Charles F. Leck
Manufacturer: Rutgers Univ Pr
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0813510333

Birds of New York City: Including Western Long Island & Northeastern New Jersey

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Birds of New York City: Including Western Long Island & Northeastern New Jersey
Chris Fisher , and Andy Bezener
Manufacturer: Lone Pine Publishing
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 155105177X

New Jersey Birds: An Introduction to Familiar Species (Pocket Naturalist)

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New Jersey Birds: An Introduction to Familiar Species (Pocket Naturalist)
Waterford Press
Manufacturer: Waterford Press
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Birds of New Jersey Field Guide (Field Guides)
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ASIN: 1889903825

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The Pocket Naturalist card is a pocket-sized, folding card which provides simplified, easy-to-use reference to what everyone should know about familiar plants, animals, and natural history. Maps are included to highlight prominent sanctuaries and outstanding natural attractions. Every card is laminated so that it is waterproof and practical for use in the field. This card highlights over 100 of New Jersey's most common breeding birds and familiar migrants.

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