I Like Stars (Step-Into-Reading, Step 1)

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I like stars. Blue stars. Far stars. Shooting stars. I like stars!

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The Best Early Readers.......2006-10-24

From the author of Goodnight Moon. Provides emerging readers with immediate success.

Very sweet and calming.......2006-06-27

My 4 year old son LOVES this book! It's great for bedtime. He laughs when we see the animals with their sunglasses on watching the stars. Definitely recommend this book!

Beautiful!.......1999-12-23

This is a wonderful book for children just learning how to read. The illustrations glow and pop off the page! A wonderful book for all!

Drawing Your Own Conclusions: Graphic Strategies for Reading, Writing, and Thinking

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The good, the bad and the not-so ugly

Drawing Your Own Conclusions: Graphic Strategies for Reading, Writing, and Thinking
Fran Claggett , and Joan Brown
Manufacturer: Boynton/Cook
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0867092939

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Hundreds of English teachers throughout the nation have used the strategies Fran Claggett and Joan Brown bring together in this new book. Its premise is that graphics are ways for students to make meaning as they read, write and think.

Graphics encourage students to read more closely. And when they draw in response to reading, students typically make visualized connections between the reading and their own lives, which is the essence of reader response theory.

Graphics also encourage students to respond holistically to what they readto record initial global responses, to perceive and create pictorial metaphors. Graphics are a rich way of learning, not only in response to literature but as a way to understand ourselves and how we come to know.

Drawing Your Own Conclusions offers abundant examples of student graphics and a wealth of strategies are drawn from secondary classrooms, the undergirding concepts of the work make it readily applicable to virtually any age or ability level, from Advanced Placement to Learning Disabled.

Drawing Your Own Conclusions speaks to teachers who understand that "whole language" includes the full spectrum of color, symbol, and word; that art and language are inextricably bound together; and that drawing a picture in response to a reading can mark a legitimate and exciting involvement with literature.

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The good, the bad and the not-so ugly.......2005-06-30

This is a surprisingly deep book considering how useless illustrating exercises can be. The mandala concept is incredible and has the potential to be a rich classroom experience; the authors work probably a dozen lessons out of it over the course of the book. But that's my major caveat with this text: it's essentially 1.5 ideas (the 1/2 being graphic mapping) repeated for 173 pages. It's a great idea, but it becomes overkill after a few chapters. Further, the focus on student contributions from AP kids is rather disenchanting--the work presented is actually too excellent; it doesn't represent what the product would really be were their assignments tested in the average high school English class. Unfortunately, the authors don't offer suggestions for what it would take for non-AP students to reach the level of thought the honors kids display; often times they don't even provide instructions for how they got those advanced placement kids to the level they're at.Worth looking at, but I'm not sure it's worth the $30+ people want for it.

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Beautiful work!
Enchanting book!
I really couldn't stop reading!
A journey to be shared
I want to go to Giverny!

Colors of France: A Painting Pilgrimage
Joan Brown
Manufacturer: First Light Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0971708207

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A watercolor artist's sketchbook and story, "Colors of France: A Painting Pilgrimage" sweeps readers along on Margaret Hall Hoybach's evocative journey along the back roads of France, from the Pyrenees to Brittany, and finally, to paint in Monet's fabled gardens at Giverny. What begins as a seemingly impossible dream becomes an interior odyssey and magic carpet ride, sometimes turbulent, but filled with beauty, humor and fulfillment.

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Beautiful work!.......2007-06-18

Anyone in love with and charmed by the beauty of France (as I am) will love this book. The illustrations are absolutely lovely.

Enchanting book!.......2002-10-11

I very much enjoyed this delightfully personal and emotional journey through the backroads of a France not previously known. The beautiful illustrations by one of my favorite artists gave the reader vivid images of this gorgeous landscape. For a non-artist, it was especially interesting to experience the journey through an artist's eye...an artist very worthy of the invitation to paint Monet's gardens. The book is a wonderful collaboration by a gifted painter and a talented writer.

I really couldn't stop reading!.......2002-09-20

Already in love with Margaret Hall Hoybach's painting style, I should have known that once I opened her book, both the words and the brush strokes would carry me, faster and faster, through to the very last page. Margaret enables the reader to see, hear, smell, taste, and experience her weeks traveling and painting across France.

A journey to be shared.......2002-08-26

Feasting and fasting, reflection and spontaneity, fellowship and solitude - all the elements of a pilgrimage are contained in this intimate account of Margaret Hall Hoybach's journey to paint Monet's gardens. Her sketches and paintings convey the wonder of her journey. Joan Brown captures the creative spark that propels an artist forward and the moments of conversion that await those willing to embrace their dreams. Colors of France is filled with rich, inviting textures arrayed for any traveler, regardless of destination. Hoybach's willingness to share her experience leads me to examine my own path. A good book to share with a friend.

I want to go to Giverny!.......2002-08-11

It's 10:30 P.M. and I just finished Colors of France: A Painting Pilgrimage. I couldn't put it down---the book is a phenomenal experience. The reader journeys with Margaret while Joan's text flows from Margaret's perceptions. Both women are exceptionally talented. This is a wonderful book.

The Art of Joan Brown (Ahmanson-Murphy Fine Arts Book)

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The Art of Joan Brown (Ahmanson-Murphy Fine Arts Book)
Karen Tsujimoto , and Jacquelynn Baas
Manufacturer: University of California Press
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0520214692

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The prolific talents of painter Joan Brown (1938-1990) inform every page of this shining testament to a singular artist. For Brown, art was a means of self-revelation and self-investigation, a fact made abundantly clear by the autobiographical nature of her work. In the first book to fully explore Joan Brown's artistic career, Karen Tsujimoto provides an overview of Brown's life from her San Francisco childhood to her years as a mature artist and teacher. Jacquelynn Baas focuses on Brown's use of universal and personal symbolism by analyzing one of her most celebrated paintings, The Bride. Both authors make extensive use of interviews that let Joan Brown speak for herself about art and the creative process.
Brown greatly admired her teacher, Elmer Bischoff, and his style of Bay Area figuration. But she also was attracted to the freedom found in abstraction as expressed by de Kooning, Picasso, and Matisse. Finding her own way, she used images of family, animals, water, romantic relationships, and self-portraits to explore the complexities of human nature, often hiding her rigorous self-reflection beneath a facade of painterly spontaneity. She had a lifelong interest in philosophy and religion, and much of her later work reflected universal themes and symbols.
Serious, full of energy and passion, Brown approached both her personal and her professional life with characteristic intensity. Married four times, she was a devoted mother, a competitive swimmer, and an outspoken opponent of the art world's growing commercialism. Many issues she dealt with early in her career anticipated similar concerns raised by the women's movement in the 1970s.
In 1990, while installing an obelisk she had created for the Eternal Heritage Museum in Puttaparthi, India, Joan Brown was instantly killed when a concrete turret fell on her. What lives on in her work is her fascination with the human condition and a determination to record its essence as reflected in her own life.

Bad,bad Leroy Brown,jim Croce's Greatest Character Songs

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Bad,bad Leroy Brown,jim Croce's Greatest Character Songs
Joan levine
Manufacturer: Blendingwell Music Inc.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: B000O8CLHI

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The reason these songs will live on mainly stems from the fact that they come from jim Croce's personal experiences.He worked at these jobs.He laughed end cried with these people.He watched them,he understood them and he was them.

Francis Wormald Collected Writings, II: Studies in English and Continental Art of the Later Middle Ages (Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art History, 5:02)

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Francis Wormald Collected Writings, II: Studies in English and Continental Art of the Later Middle Ages (Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art History, 5:02)
Francis Wormald
Manufacturer: A Harvey Miller Publication
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0905203585

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This series is designed to make accessible the insights, discoveries, and considered judgements in the field of medieval art of Francis Wormald (1904-72)--one of the great paleographers of our time. This second volume collects thirteen important and hard-to-find papers on such subjects as "Continental Influence on English Medieval Illumination," "The Fitzwarin Psalter," and "The Wilton Diptych."

Francis Wormald: Collected Writings, I: Studies in Medieval Art from the Sixth to the Twelfth Centuries (Wormald, Francis//Collected Writings)

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Francis Wormald: Collected Writings, I: Studies in Medieval Art from the Sixth to the Twelfth Centuries (Wormald, Francis//Collected Writings)
Francis Wormald
Manufacturer: A Harvey Miller Publication
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ASIN: 019921042X

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This volume collects from many different sources an important group of writings by Francis Wormald (1904-1972), a scholar and teacher whose great contribution to medieval studies owes its originality and distinction to the unrivalled understanding of manuscripts, or all kinds and of all periods. The eleven works in the present collection relate to Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages and include Wormald's important of the Gospels of St Augustine and the Utrecht Psalter. The remainder deal with Anglo-Saxon art, especially in manuscripts, of the tenth and eleventh centuries and its influence on later English art. Thye include most of the writings which established Wormald's reputation as a leading authority on the period, with the original English text of an essay previously published only in French. A preface and bibliographical notes by J.J.G. Alexander introduce the collection and acquaint the reader with significant later publications.

History on birchbark: The art of Tomah Joseph, Passamaquoddy : an exhibition at the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, Brown University, Bristol, Rhode Island, March 7 through August 31, 1993

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History on birchbark: The art of Tomah Joseph, Passamaquoddy : an exhibition at the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, Brown University, Bristol, Rhode Island, March 7 through August 31, 1993
Joan A Lester
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Binding: Unknown Binding
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Joan Brown: The Golden Age, April 12 through May 15, 1986, University Art Gallery, San Diego State University

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Joan Brown: The Golden Age, April 12 through May 15, 1986, University Art Gallery, San Diego State University
Mark Levy
Manufacturer: University Art Gallery, San Diego State University
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin: Fall 2005, Volume LXIII, Number 2: Recent Acquisitions, A Selection: 2004-2005

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin: Fall 2005, Volume LXIII, Number 2: Recent Acquisitions, A Selection: 2004-2005

Manufacturer: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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ASIN: B000QV2DJ4

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Illustrated with color and black-and-white photographs and reproductions.

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Over the latter half of the twentieth century, the Guatemalan state slaughtered more than two hundred thousand of its citizens. In the wake of this violence, a vibrant pan-Mayan movement has emerged, one that is challenging Ladino (non-indigenous) notions of citizenship and national identity. In The Blood of Guatemala Greg Grandin locates the origins of this ethnic resurgence within the social processes of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century state formation rather than in the ruins of the national project of recent decades.
Focusing on Mayan elites in the community of Quetzaltenango, Grandin shows how their efforts to maintain authority over the indigenous population and secure political power in relation to non-Indians played a crucial role in the formation of the Guatemalan nation. To explore the close connection between nationalism, state power, ethnic identity, and political violence, Grandin draws on sources as diverse as photographs, public rituals, oral testimony, literature, and a collection of previously untapped documents written during the nineteenth century. He explains how the cultural anxiety brought about by Guatemala’s transition to coffee capitalism during this period led Mayan patriarchs to develop understandings of race and nation that were contrary to Ladino notions of assimilation and progress. This alternative national vision, however, could not take hold in a country plagued by class and ethnic divisions. In the years prior to the 1954 coup, class conflict became impossible to contain as the elites violently opposied land claims made by indigenous peasants.
This “history of power” reconsiders the way scholars understand the history of Guatemala and will be relevant to those studying nation building and indigenous communities across Latin America.

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PhDs only need apply.......2007-06-24

I appreciated this book for the insights it was able to give me on a city that I will soon visit, but I found the writing style dry and overburdened with unnecessary details. Several times, I fell asleep trying to make it through the reading. Other times, I would lower the book in exasperation and say to myself, "Is this Grandin's dissertation?" The book is very informative, but it is not an accessible read for the layperson.

Interesting, microscopic, but skewed.......2005-05-27

Grandin's research on the Quiche Mayans of Quetzaltennago is exhaustive and well presented. In particular, his central thesis that the Quiches were a social body already divided by the time of the 1954 US-backed coup helps break schismatic thinking regarding the history of the 36 year civil war there that defines the Indians as merely the victims of a violent and complex historical legacy. That said, however, I often found myself asking if the ladinos in the city were similarly divided. Grandin does make some suggestive remarks in this area, but his focus on the Indians of Xela reveals, perhaps, a bias he holds in their favor. Moreover, the book attempts to use the city of Quetzaltenango as a microcosm of the national situation, which for the most part does not follow since the Indians of other highland townships are very different from those of Xela (and even from one another). Finally, I have to mention that Grandin subscribes to currently fashionable theoretical terms (which comes into relief when he talks about the Mayan "body" in his chapter on the cholera epidemic) that may or may not do justice to the social and cultural dynamic he encounters. Overall I would say this is a book worthy of reading despite lacunae in his otherwise critical approach.

brilliant and imaginative.......2000-05-03

"Anyone interested in Latin American history will enjoy this myth-and-stereotype-shattering study of Mayan cultural and national identity. Thick with novelistic detail and anecdote, brilliantly and imaginatively researched, totally engrossing in its melding of convincing analysis and strong narrative sweep, Grandin takes us to a 'high place' and guides us back over the tangled, treacherous paths that led there"

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The most detailed English-language chronology.......2003-01-06

This 656 p. compendium is the most comprehensive English-language chronology I have found in an intensive search over the past several years. Focused on science and technology, it has more than twice as many scientific events than the Grun "Timetables of History" compilation (which deals with many more fields). It divides its subject by General, anthropology/archaeology, astronomy, biology, chemistry, math, medicien, physics, and technology, each presented in separate columns, using the same style as the Grun chronology. Unfortunately, the last publication was around 1991, and we badly need an update. Though the expansion of science may complicate things, the tremendous advance in electronic communications means that editors could upgrade this volume in a fraction of the time required for the existing editors - at least from an operational point of view. So come on, publishers, take up this attractive challenge. One should mention that there is another formidable challenger in the field - the massive German Chronik der Technik. But it too is out of print.

Good stuff.......2000-11-05

I would really recommend this for classroom use, or perhaps to add to your school library. It begins with a few pages, organized in a separate row for each division of (first) a few hundreds of thousands of years, in the Stone Age; then every few hundred years, during the age of Sumer and Egypt; every few years, as you leaf through the days of Greece, Rome, the Dark Ages, the Renaissance, and eventually it works up to having multiple entries in each category for every single year that goes by. I should note that this not nearly as eurocentric as my last few sentences might suggest -- there's plenty of material about developments in China, the empires of Songhay, Mali, etc. in Africa, the Islamic world, the Incas and Aztecs, and so on.

The headings include Anthropology/Archaeology, Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry, Earth Science, Mathematics, Medicine, Physics, and Technology. The book is subdivided into several sections --

1.) Science before there were scientists: 2,400,000-599 B.C.

2.) Greek and Hellenistic science: 600 B.C. -- 529 A.D.

3.) Science in many lands and medieval science: 530 -- 1452

4.) The Renaissance and the Scientific Revolution: 1453 -- 1659

5.) The Newtonian Epoch: 1660 -- 1734

6.) The Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution: 1735 -- 1819

7.) Nineteenth century science: 1820 -- 1984

8.) Science in the twentieth century through World War II: 1895 -- 1945

9.) Science after World War II: 1946 -- 1988

10.) The coming era: 1989 -- 2000 (Yes, 1988 is the last year that this book covers. I don't know why they haven't updated it. This is a flaw, of course, but I stand by my five star ranking, because anything that recent can be looked up on the internet, etc.)

Each section is prefaced by a helpful essay, to place matters in context. Also, there are many small "boxes" interspersed throughout the text, to give more complete information on particular figures.

I don't think this book has quite as much material as Bernard Grun's "Timetables of History", but it's layout is better, and more helpful. I think this book is worth having.

No surprises but solid content. Recommended for classrooms.......2000-02-09

What you see is what you get with this book,and that's plenty. It's a great aid to teaching science,because it helps students more easily and quickly visualize when and where and to a small degree, how various scientific discoveries were made.What I like most about it is that the book doesn't make the assumption that science existed only in the West. Discoveries in the East,Middle East and even the Americas are mapped in "Timetables". To be honest I wouldn't have bought this one for private use but it's invaluable in a classroom setting.

The Timetables of Technology: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in the History of Technology

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The Timetables of Technology: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in the History of Technology
Bryan H. Bunch
Manufacturer: Touchstone Books
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Binding: Paperback

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The Timetable of Computers: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in the History of Computers

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A Good Writer's Reference
Interesting stuff, if you can filter out the less important.

The Timetable of Computers: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in the History of Computers
Donald D. Spencer
Manufacturer: Camelot Pub. Co.
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0892183020

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A Good Writer's Reference.......2000-10-28

The book has 368 pages, almost entirely dates and three or four-line descriptions of key computer development events, plus frequent photos and illustrations.

I bought this for my reference library since I write occasional articles on the history of technology in my consulting practice. It serves as a very useful reference, but very few would choose to read through the book.

Interesting stuff, if you can filter out the less important........1998-08-24

I learned a lot by going through all the "milestones" in this book. Unfortunately, there are a few errors. I was surprised to read that Dr. Spencer teaches computer science, as his explanations of some technical notions were a bit off the mark; perhaps this is just his attempt at making the material accessible to the "uninitiated". The book was not carefully checked for typos, duplicate information, and even events that appear in more than one year!

However, I still enjoyed reading the book. It did help me put some things in perspective. This might be a good on-line project, so that the reader could filter the time line to only include new machine introductions, or salaries, or computer company revenues, or processor speeds, or whatever.

The Timetables of Science, a chronology of the most important people and events in the history of science
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The Timetables of Science, a chronology of the most important people and events in the history of science
Alexander and Bryan Bunch Hellemans
Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000MY02SE

The Timetables of Science: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in the History of Science
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The Timetables of Science: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in the History of Science
Alexander and BUNCH, Bryan HELLEMANS
Manufacturer: Pan Macmillan
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000ORAM8Y

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If there is a middle ground between wilderness and civilization, a place where nature and humankind can be reconciled, historian Gayle Samuels suggests, it is to be found in an orchard. "Orchards," she writes, "combine the seeming opposites of ... forest and town, spontaneity and calculation" to offer the best of both worlds.

In her elegant meditation on the trees of North America, Samuels looks closely at the role of managed nature in our history. She turns to such exhibits as the "wild apples" Henry David Thoreau celebrated (which were simply escapees from New England orchards); the Charter Oak of Connecticut, honored for its role in revolutionary history, some 10,000 pieces of which were distributed around the country when the tree died in 1856; and the work of John Chapman, "Johnny Appleseed," who planted countless thousands of European trees throughout Ohio and Indiana. Samuels deepens our knowledge of commonplace events, writing, for instance, of the double-blossom cherry trees that grace the Tidal Basin of Washington, D.C., a gift of the Japanese government in the early 20th century--but, Samuels adds, a gift meant to persuade the United States to keep its doors open to Japanese immigration.

Ardent arboriculturalists and students of cultural history alike will welcome Samuels's graceful book. --Gregory McNamee

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Enduring Roots - an engaging exploration.......2000-02-28

As one who feels trees and words have amazing power and mystique, I believe Gayle Samuels pays high tribute to them both in Enduring Roots: Encounters with Trees, History, and the American Landscape. With intense passion and deft pen, Samuels lyrically brings the reader along on her journey to explore trees - from their physical structure to their integral place in our personal, natural, and national histories. Her vibrant writing evokes the emotional, the logical, and the visceral. The pages are rich with self-discovery, hands-on exploration, extensive research, and hard science. Her descriptions are clear and solid; so much so that reading, for example, about the majesty of the aged bristlecone pines and ancient oaks raises goosebumps.

Enduring Roots is not too sappy, not too woody; it's Just Right for everyone!

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