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Wanted Dead Or Alive: The True Story Of Harriet Tubman
Ann Mcgovern Manufacturer: Scholastic Paperbacks ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0590442120 |
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Born a slave on a Maryland plantation, Harriet Tubman dreamed of following the North Star to freedom. When she did escape, she risked her life many times to lead 300 slaves to freedom on the Underground Railroad. This is the dramatic biography of a woman whose faith, courage, and intelligence have carved her a place in history.Customer Reviews:
One of the best children's biographies I've found!.......2007-10-08
"Wanted Dead or Alive".......2006-04-24
Follow the North Star to freedom!.......2004-02-23
One of the Best Children's Books of All Time.......2003-02-18
The author has a way of making the reader feel like he or she is in the story - if not as Harriet Tubman, then as someone close to her.
With all the junk being fed to kids nowadays, putting a book of this quality in front of them could pique their interest in reading.
Wanted dead or alive.......2002-05-10
The message is that you you should help other people that need your help. You should never give up on what you want. Like the slaves wanting to be free.
My opinion, it was cool because the slaves were given called diffrent names. When they were older they were given another name. My opinion is that it is not good to have slaves. It was a good book.
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"Wanted Dead or Alive" The True Story of Harriet Tubman
Ann McGovern Manufacturer: Scholastic ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000WGD3KG |
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Infantry Weapons of WW II
Jan Suermondt Manufacturer: kp books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0873497856 |
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This fantastic all-color reference provides engaging insights into the main infantry weapons of the five largest protagonists of World War II - Germany, Japan, Russia, the United States, and Great Britain, with particular attention paid to the actual roles these weapons played in battlefield combat encounters. Comparing axis to allies - who had the upper hand, the fair (or unfair) advantage - author jan Suermondt examines the physical details (and provides current collector values) of over 150 small arms, including revolvers, pistols, rifles, submachine guns, machine guns, mortars, grenades, and mines.You'll be introduced to the types of weapons used during the war; how five years of war saw the needs and types of weaons change; as well as the technological advances during the period (paying particular atention to antitank weapons). More than 500 photographs, including actual war images, present a masterful visual iconography of some of the most important weapons carried into combat - the U.S. Army's BAR, the British Ben, the German Schmeisser, and the Russian Degtaryev DP/DPM.
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Not his best work.......2006-04-21
Infantry Weapons of WWII.......2006-02-23
DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK.......2004-10-08
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The Islamic Challenge: Politics and Religion in Western Europe
Jytte Klausen Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0199289921 |
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The voices in this book belong to legislators, local officials, doctors and engineers, educators and intellectuals, lawyers and social workers, owners of small businesses, translators, and community activists. They are also all Muslims, who have decided to become engaged in political and civic organizations. And for that reason, they constantly have to explain themselves, mostly in order to say who they are not. They are not fundamentalists, not terrorists, and most do not support the introduction of Islamic religious law in Europe - especially not its application to Christians. This book is about who these people are, and what they want. This book is based on three hundred interviews with European Muslim leaders from six European countries: Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, Great Britain, France, and Germany. The question of Islam in Europe is not a matter of global war and peace but raises difficult questions about the positions of Christianity and Islam in public life, and about European identities. There is not one Muslim position on how Islam should develop in Europe but many views, and most Muslims are rather looking for ways to build institutions that will allow European Muslims to practice their religion in a way that is compatible with social integration.Customer Reviews:
Important "translation" .......2006-01-09
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Faith is not destiny: three inquiries into Jihadism and its sources.(The Islamic Challenge: Politics and Religion in Western Europe)(The Far Enemy: Why ... An article from: World Policy Journal
Aziz Huq Manufacturer: Thomson Gale ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B000M2DG7K Release Date: 2006-12-18 |
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This digital document is an article from World Policy Journal, published by Thomson Gale on September 22, 2006. The length of the article is 4366 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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The Islamic Challenge: Politics And Religion In Western Europe
Jytte Klausen Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OLIG60 |
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Stokes Field Guide to Bird Songs: Western Region (Stokes Field Guide to Bird Songs)
Donald Stokes , and Lillian Stokes Manufacturer: Hachette Audio ProductGroup: Book Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
Accessories: ASIN: 1570425884 |
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This is the one to buy.......2007-08-25
Excellent guide to bird sounds.......2007-08-06
Birdjam Use.......2007-03-21
Most thorough........2007-01-11
Stokes Field Guide to Bird Songs: Western Region.......2006-07-17
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A Field Guide to Western Bird Songs: Western North America (Peterson Field Guide Audio Series)
Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin ProductGroup: Book Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: 0395975190 Release Date: 1992-01-01 |
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Here is the western edition of A Field Guide to Bird Songs, the best-selling bird song collection ever recorded. This edition includes the songs and calls of 522 species -- all the most common and vocal birds found in western North America. Organized as a companion to Roger Tory Peterson's Field Guide to Western Birds, this is the "birder's bible" of bird song.Customer Reviews:
A major disapointment!.......2001-03-21
It's is very limited in the number of birds it covers. And the recordings for each bird are minimal at best.
Not portable-CD-player friendly.......1999-05-27
If you wish to use the Peterson CDs "in the field" with a portable CD player, or if you use it frequently at home, there is something you should know:
Peterson organizes the songs into two CDs, each with about 50 tracks. Each track contains from 2 to 8 birds. If you want to hear a specific bird without hearing others, you can go directly to that bird if your CD player has the INDEX function. An index is like a subtrack.
Herein lies the problem; most portable CD players no longer have the INDEX feature. It was phased out years ago. Thus, you have to listen to all the birds of a track to hear the one you want, and as you get better at birding this becomes tedious.
It should be mentioned that most CD players do have a "search" function which allows you to "fast forward" through a track. But this is awkward to use.
Some makers of bird song collections on CD (e.g. Stokes, new out in May 99) have learned of this problem and have corrected it by recording one bird per track. Stokes also seems to have clearer and longer recordings. However, this format means that the full collection requires 4 CDs. Thus, using Stokes in the field has its own problems.
If you can find a portable CD player with the INDEX function, the Peterson CD works well, especially the Eastern Birds, which is one-volume. I can just plop my portable CD player into the pocket of my field vest, and any time I want to confirm a warbler species I can cue up that bird in an instant. I can quickly INDEX through the birds calls and compare. Peterson gives the bird label and the bird song separate indexes, so you don't have to listen to the announcer naming all the birds. But unless CD player makers change their minds, this convenience may die when my '89 Sony portable does.
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Sung Birds: Music, Poetry, and Nature in the Later Middle Ages
Elizabeth Eva Leach Manufacturer: Cornell University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0801444918 |
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Is birdsong music? The most frequent answer to this question in the Middle Ages was resoundingly "no." In Sung Birds, Elizabeth Eva Leach traces postmedieval uses of birdsong within Western musical culture. She first explains why such melodious sound was not music for medieval thinkers and then goes on to consider the ontology of music, the significance of comparisons between singers and birds, and the relationship between art and nature as enacted by the musical performance of late-medieval poetry. If birdsong was not music, how should we interpret the musical depiction of birdsong in human music-making? What does it tell us about the singers, their listeners, and the moral status of secular polyphony? Why was it the fourteenth century that saw the beginnings of this practice, continued to this day in the music of Messiaen and others?Leach explores medieval arguments about song, language, and rationality whose basic terms survive undiminished into the present. She considers not only lyrics that have their singers voice the songs or speech of birds but also those that represent other natural, nonmusical, sounds such as human cries or the barks of dogs. The dangerous sweetness of birdsong was invoked in discussions of musical ethics, which, because of the potential slippage between irrational beast and less rational woman in comparisons with rational human masculinity, depict women's singing as less than fully human. Leach's argument comes full circle with the advent of sound recording. This technological revolution-like its medieval equivalent, the invention of the music book-once again made the relationship between music and nature an acute preoccupation of Western culture.
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Birding by Ear: Western: A Guide to Bird-Song Identification
Richard K. Walton Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0590697609 |
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Ever wonder what that trill in the backyard is? Or how to distinguish between all those similar warbler songs? If so, try Birding by Ear. This great resource for birders all over eastern/central North America conveniently packages three cassettes and an accompanying booklet into a single videocassette-like box. Each tape groups bird species according to acoustic similarity in order to help you learn the basics of bird-song identification. Soon you'll know just by listening whether the bird skulking underneath the bushes is an orange-crowned warbler, a chipping sparrow, or a dark-eyed junco.Book Description
Birding by Ear: Western is a unique and important new tool for birders. Now they can master one of the most useful and difficult field skills - the ability to recognize birds by their songs and calls. Birding By Ear: Western points out exactly what to listen for to tell one bird from another. As the Peterson Field Guide groups birds by visual similarity, Birding by Ear: Western groups them by acoustic similarity. Dick Walton and Bob Lawson have arranged ninety-one common species into nineteen intelligible learning groups - "sing-songers," "trillers," "name-sayers," "warbling songsters," and many others. The entertaining and educational narrative does the same job as the arrows in the Peterson Field Guide to Eastern Birds, pinpointing the precise differences between similar species. The songs themselves are recorded to the highest acoustic standards and are a delight to listen to. Birding by Ear: Western can enable anyone to become a better birder. Use it in conjunction with the Peterson Field Guide to Western Bird Songs, which provides a thorough catalog of the songs and calls of the familiar birds of western North America. Birding by Ear: Western may well become as essential to you as your Field Guide and binoculars.Customer Reviews:
Excellent intro to bird songs.......2006-08-17
A great choice for the first step in learning birdsong.......2002-05-17
This audio set is a very well thought out and produced tutorial for introducing beginning "ear" birders to the world of birding by ear. The audio quality is excellent with several renditions of each song and call. The pace is well suited to the target audience - only after repeated listening will you want to skip ahead through sections. The groupings of similar songs seem well designed, and reflect situations in the field that pose problems. Each song is described verbally, with an onomatopoetic description. I wish the CD were coded so that sub-tracks could be accessed directly without the introductory descriptions, but the design of this set isn't as encyclopedia of song, rather as short course in learning how to identify song.
Buy this and the "More birding by ear", listen to them for 10 - 30 minutes a day (great drive time listening), and master the art of birding by ear!
Birding by Ear, Eastern/Central, Peterson Field Guides.......2001-12-07
Great Tool!!!!.......2001-08-07
Richard K. Walton, author.......2001-06-12
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Field Guide to Western Bird Songs
Roger Tory Peterson Institute Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin (T) ProductGroup: Book Binding: Audio Cassette ASIN: 039519430X |
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Field Guide to Western Bird Songs/3 Records and Book
Roger Tory Peterson Institute , Arthur Allen , and Peter Paul Kellogg Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin (T) ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0395080894 |
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Peterson Field Guide Western Bird Songs
Roger T. Peterson Manufacturer: HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000OLL6SK |
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Songs of Western Birds
Donald J. Borror Manufacturer: Dover Publications ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0486999130 |
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Western Birding by Ear, A Guide to Bird-Song Identification (Audiobook) (Peterson Field Guides)
Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin ProductGroup: Book Binding: Audio Cassette ASIN: B000EOBEDY |
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3 audio cassettes and 64 page guide booklet in clamshell case.
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A Field guide to western bird songs
Roger Tory Peterson Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000LYFBN6 |
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