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Why Didn't She Keep Me?: Answers to the Question Every Adopted Child Asks...
Barbara Burlingham-Brown
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ASIN: 0912083662 |
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Answers the question that every adopted child asks.
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Great stories about birth mothers faced with the hard...........2003-02-28
Enlightening stories about birth mothers faced with the hard decision to give their child a better life than they can provide themselves. A must-read for anyone considering giving up a child for adoption, or anyone who was adopted and wants to understand what their mother might have been feeling. And especially anyone hoping to adopt. A great read!
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Royal Scots Greys (Men-at-Arms)
Charles Grant
Manufacturer: Osprey Publishing
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ASIN: 0850450594
Release Date: 1972-06-15 |
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For almost three centuries the Royal Scots Greys have had the proud distinction of being Scoland’s only regular cavalry regiment, famed for their distinguished service record from Marlborough’s wars to World War II. Indeed, the Greys at Waterloo form one of the most memorable features of military history. With their cry of ‘Scotland forever!’ they charged upon the French ranks seizing the imperial eagle of the French 45th Regimental. This book also looks at how this traditional cavalry unit struggled to come to terms with the realities of modern warfare during the Anglo-Boer war and World War I. Equipment and organisation used in all these combats is detailed in full and uniforms are shown in full colour artwork.
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Scotlands only Regular Regiment of Horse.......2005-07-02
A good detailed history of one tough Cavalry Regiment. It covers almost 300 years and is told very well. Its a pity thats its uniform illustrations are not up to grade. Someone should have Mr. McBride take a look at this as a good project for him when they re issue this book.
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Interesting biography of a WW2 "special forces" officer who was KIA.......2007-02-22
Quoting from the inside cover: "This is the story, told by his sister, of Lt-Col. Geoffrey Keyes, V.C., who lost his life in the raid on General Rommel's main headquarters in the North African campaign. The scope and daring of the conception - to be landed by submarine behind the German lines and endeavour to capture or kill Rommel; the heroism of Colonel Keyes, the leader, and his band of comrades, the intensity of the preparations and the drama of the raid - all these create a story to rank with anything yet written of those years of conflict.
But this is much more than a war book dealing with one feat of arms; it is a chronicle of the family in which Geoffrey Keyes life flowed from birth to death - a family headed by the late Admiral of the Fleet, Lord Keyes, whose leadership of the Zeebrugge Raid (in WWI) was the inspiration of Combined Operations in the 1939-45 war."
You've got the gist of the way the book's written from the above. Basically, a very interesting biography of a young man from the English upper class who went thru Sandhurst in 1935-36, joined the Scots Greys Regiment, served in Palestine, participated in the Narvik operation (Norway) and then joined the 11th Scottish Commando. The Commando operated as part of "Layforce" in the Med (an early special ops unit), saw action at the Litanu river when the Brits occuped Lebanon and Syria (those darn Frogs again...) and then planned, organised and led the "Rommel Raid" in late 1941. He was killed in the course of the unsuccessful operation and subsequently awarded the VC. A courageous man who served his King and his country.
Given that the book was written by his sister, a lot of the early biographical information must be very much the inside scoop. You certainly get a good picture of the man. For the rest of it, it's a good military history with a lot of interesting info on the early years in the Med, particularly "Layforce," a unit which receives mentions in a lot of other books but generally never in so much detail. This books long out of print, never been republished, but of you're interested in this type of account it's worth the read. By the by, there's a good sampling of b&w photo's in the book as well.
TOC for those interested: (and yes, the chapters are numbered using Roman numerals)
I. A Young "Centurion"
II. Nursery and Schoolroom
III. Malta
IV. School at Seaford
V. Portsmouth, 1929-31
VI. Eton and Tingewick 1931-33
VII. Eton, 1934-35
VIII. Sandhurst, 1935-36
IX. Diversions
X. Joining the Regiment
XI. The Scots Greys
XII. Palestsine
XIII. Tribulations
XIV. Narvik
XV. Evacuation
XVI. Joining the Commandos
XVII. The 11th Scottish Commando
XVIII. "Aquatic Sports"
XIX. "Layforce"
XX. The Litani River Action
XXI. The Disbanding of "Layforce"
XXII. The Rommel Raid
XXIII. The Green Mountain
XXIV. The Attack
XXV. The Beach
XXVI. The Victoria Cross
XXVII. The Dream Comes True
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Manifest Manners: Postindian Warriors of Survivance
Gerald Vizenor
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This digital document is an article from World Literature Today, published by University of Oklahoma on June 22, 1994. The length of the article is 513 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Manifest Manners: Postindian Warriors of Survivance.
Author: Robert L. Berner
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World Literature Today (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 1994
Publisher: University of Oklahoma
Volume: v68
Issue: n3
Page: p616(1)
Article Type: Book Review
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Birds of Ecuador comprehensively treats the nearly 1600 species of birds that can be found in mainland Ecuador. The authors describe Ecuador this way:
"One of the wonders of the natural world. Nowhere else is such incredible avian diversity crammed into such a small country. . . . Birds are, happily, numerous in many parts of Ecuador: even the downtown parks of the big cities such as Quito and Guayaquil host their complement."
Volume I, Status, Distribution, and Taxonomy, contains detailed information on the ecology, status, and distribution of all species. Introductory chapters deal with geography, climate, and vegetation; bird migration in Ecuador; Ecuadorian ornithology; endemic bird areas in Ecuador; and conservation. Individual species accounts treat habitat, distribution, and taxonomy.
Volume II, Field Guide, contains 96 full-color plates and facing pages of descriptive text, a color map of Ecuador, 2 line drawings of bird anatomy, 115 silhouette outlines, and nearly 1600 distribution maps. All species are illustrated in full color, including migrants and vagrants and visually distinctive subspecies. The text focuses on the field identification aspects of each species, including their behavior, vocalizations, and nest appearance.
The two volumes are available separately or may be purchased as a slipcased set.
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The field guide that is not a field guide.......2007-08-08
This is an exhaustive book with brilliant drawings - but not a field guide. Forget what the publishers say about two volumes and this one being the field guide. It's hideously impractical. It's over 700 pages, thicker than your fist, and a HEAVY load to be lugging around and getting it into an out of your backpack, especially when hiking or navigating slippery jungle trails in the sweltering heat. That said, I don't know of any other field guide and let's face it, we birders need a field guide. As many others I have had the plates with the drawings taken out and bound into a 'new' book, and brought only that with me. It's suboptimal, but hey, what can you do.
Beggers can't be choosers..........2007-04-27
This is really the only option if you're traveling to Ecuador to bird and it's a great book as those before me have said. It's very hefty, both in information and in physical size. It's overwhelming sure, but so is birding in the tropics. The plates are pretty good, though some are laughably awkward, the raptors for instance. I didn't choose to bind the plates separately in my copy when I went, I carried the whole text in my backpack. It was heavy and sort of obnoxious to keep pulling it out to refer, but what are you gonna do?
Those are really the only complaints, and by and large it's well worth the money and there's nothing else you would choose to take to Ecuador. I'm certainly glad I have it.
Excellent and Informative Book.......2007-03-09
A great book if you are planning a birding trip to Ecuador. Very thorough and informative. Although a little bulky to carry around, I suggest taking out the plate pages with all the bird pictures and reading up on them at the end of the day. It's a shame to rip apart a wonderful book like this but it really was a space and weigh saver
Here they are.......2007-02-17
This book is described as a field guide, but it is rather large and heavy for that. A friend who has traveled often to pursue the sight of the birds of the world gave me this advice: Take the book to Kinkos, or some such place, and have the center removed and bound. This book is suitable for that. All the color plates are in the center; a page of descriptions is opposite each plate. Of course when you return from your trip you can keep the two together with no more inconvenience than one has anyway with a bird book which has all the plates in the middle.
The rest of the book consists of more extensive descriptions of each bird and has a map for each, giving its range. This book is intended to be only half of a two volume set, the other volume being -- I don't know what, since I don't have it -- but of interest only to the most serious ornithologist who might be spending a long time in Ecuador.
Essential, but overwhelming..........2006-10-31
The Birds of Ecuador Field Guide is a spectacular but overwhelming book, essential for any birding trip to Ecuador, and very useful in surrounding countries, too. Covering nearly 1500 species, it weighs in at over 3 1/2 lbs. The bulk of the book is not the fault of the authors but of the fabulous diversity of bird life in Ecuador. The book follows the plan of most older guidebooks with the color plates in one section and the black and white text and maps in another. This was required by the economics of printing in the past, but is really not necessary now (see Sibley, etc). The birding guides we met in Ecuador all carry the plates of the book, dissected out and carefully rebound to create a smaller portable volume -- the publisher should offer the same convenience and sell this book in two parts. Bird descriptions are detailed and careful, similar species and how to differentiate them are described. The guide book follows a tradition that I have always found unhelpful -- that of trying to describe a birds voice in words e.g. "pt-weet", "ti-lee-lee" etc. The Ecuadorian birding experts we met all were able to point out some innaccuracies in the book, mostly in the range maps, and occasionally in coloration, but overall the book is a great achievement.
(The copy we received from Amazon, and took with us, had 4 pages missing right in the middle of the almost-impossible flycatchers, but they replaced the faulty copy on our return without any quibble, and we now have a pristine copy ready for our next trip.)
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A useful but bulky field guide.......2002-01-05
What a set of books, no doubt about that! For the first time, there is a full set of very useful color plates for one of the core South American countries. It is certainly a great accomplishment to have all the species pictured in color and on a more or less consistent standard. However, I do not agree with other reviewers who rave about the plates. Too many of the bird pictures have an overall flat appearance, with the color rendition being too simplistic or too bold. And while a good number of the birds are depicted in good or even unnessessarily large size, others would have benefitted from a larger sized rendition. Just because a species is small does not mean it has to be depicted in a diminutive size, unless there are larger species of the same group on the plate. Thus, while the plates are most useful, it is nevertheless disappointing to see that the overall standard (except for the plates being all in color) is rather lower than what was already published decades ago e.g. in "Birds of Colombia".
The field guide volume has excellent range maps and very helpful comprehensive texts. A somewhat more compact layout would have allowed for a smaller overall size of the book, however. The way to do it is being demonstrated in the book itself. The texts facing the plates use the suggested compact layout most convincingly. Spanish bird names are given in the main text, but, unfortunately, there is no index for them. To conclude, this is by far the more useful field guide for the general area than the also new "Birds of Peru" with its almost non-existing texts, lack of range maps and much less satisfactory plates. (P.S. This is a revised review as I think my first version did not do the book justice.)
Bird Bible for Ecuador arrives. Strengthen your doormats........2001-08-13
There are probably only two ways of approaching this book. Firstly on your knees, bowing low and, secondly, after several weeks of serious weight-training. I have recently come back from a short bird-watching holiday to Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands. I knew these books were coming out, but they weren't out in time for me. So, like thousands of birdwatchers in the past, I had to make do with Hilty & Brown's "Birds of Colombia" (Princeton University Press) as the next best thing. Hilty & Brown is an EXCELLENT book, but Ecuador has some 500 more bird species than Colombia and is arguably the richest birding country on the planet. A comparison is instructive. Hilty & Brown's paperback covers its remit in 820 pages and weighs 1.3kg. Ridgely & Greenfield consists of two paperback volumes totalling nearly 1600 pages which,in their thick cardboard slipcase, weigh 3.1 kg ! Hence the need for weight-training - even so, these may be more than you can comfortably carry and even the authors suggest you leave one volume at home ! Both Paperbacks are called "The Birds of Ecuador" but one is sub-titled "Vol. I. Status, Abundance & Taxonomy", whilst the other is "Vol. II. Field Guide". They are VERY different. Volume II is the more immediately traditional. It is 740 pages long, has nearly 100 colour plates illustrating the birds of Ecuador and is supported by a text giving details of each bird, habits, voice etc. and a distribution map. Volume I is 850 pages long and only has one illustration. It has an 80-page section on various topics such as ecosystems, migration, conservation, a history of Ecuadorian birdwatching, a gazeteer. The rest is a detailed account for each species of abundance and distribution in different districts and important birding sites in Ecuador. Are there any limitations ? Yes, chiefly geographical ones. The authors have deliberately left out the Galapagos (which belong to Ecuador) and have restricted seabirds to those that can be seen for a few kilometres out to sea. They also omit the large "Disputed Territory" which either belongs to Ecuador or Peru depending on whose map you look at - on balance this is probably a wise precaution. Some of the illustrations look as if they have come from Ridgely's masterwork on the Birds of South America but since this is only appearing at the rate of about one volume every decade this is hardly a criticism. Do you need both volumes - given that you can buy them separately if you want ? The answer is probably YES. I think if you had only bought volume I you would definitely NEED volume II - the Field Guide. If you had only bought Volume II you would WANT Volume I as well. Ecuador should be on the wish list of every travelling birdwatcher and these books should therefore be on the shopping list. Without serious competition, they are the immediate "Bible" for the birds of Ecuador and should be treated with reverence as a labour of love, a work of high scholarship and a delight to birdwatchers everywhere.
A bird lovers dream........2001-07-31
This book is filled with many beautyful pictures and lots of information on the birds of Ecuador. I've been to Ecuador many times for both bussiness and pleasure and let me tell you from experience the birds on that island are extremly rare, exotic, and most importantly beautyful. Full of colors and energy. I may self am a big bird lover. And being used to the dull everyday birds of New England, these birds are quite exciting. So if you are a bird lover or may be thinking about it this a good book to get started with, however long time bird watchers may want to look elsewere.
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Illustrated guide to bird species in Southern Ecuador
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Proceedings of the XVIth AETFAT Congress
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Common Birds Of Amazonian Ecuador: A Guide for the Wide-Eyed Ecotourist
Chris Canaday
Manufacturer: Ediciones Libri Mundi E. Grosse-Luemern
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