A Mantis Carol

A Mantis Carol
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Wise, inspiring, meaningful...

An Intriguing Tale

A unique book. A true story that reads like science fiction.

A Mantis Carol
Laurens van der Post
Manufacturer: Island Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0933280211

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Wise, inspiring, meaningful..........1999-03-23

A beautiful account of a period in Van Der Post's life which tries to demonstrate the imponderable workings of love, of living myth and the weaving together of diverse lives into a single, greater synthesis. A profound, wordy and at times, utterly brilliant work.

An Intriguing Tale.......1998-05-21

A very intriguing story about the importance of myth in everyday life. At times, the writing is brilliant, poetic and powerful. At other times, it's more than a bit confusing. But it's a book that's definitely worth reading.

A unique book. A true story that reads like science fiction........1997-12-13

I loved this book. It is very short and can be read in a sitting, but it is really profound. The clash of African and American cultures is depicted with great tenderness, with no judgment about which is better. The courage of the bushman is great.

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Mantis Carol
Laurens Van Der Post
Manufacturer: Penguin Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000JZRHG6

Newcomb's Wildflower Guide: An Ingenious New Key System for Quick, Positive Field Identification of the Wildflowers, Flowering Shrubs and Vines of N
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RI Master Gardener Advanced Education

Best Wildflower Guide I Know

Very Useful

Great guide for beginners and advanced

A Staple for Every Fan of Plants

Newcomb's Wildflower Guide: An Ingenious New Key System for Quick, Positive Field Identification of the Wildflowers, Flowering Shrubs and Vines of N
Lawrence Newcomb
Manufacturer: Little Brown & Co (T)
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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A Field Guide to Trees and Shrubs: Northeastern and north-central United States and southeastern and south-centralCanada (Peterson Field Guides(R))

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ASIN: 0316604410

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RI Master Gardener Advanced Education.......2007-10-17

As the RI Master Gardener Advanced Education Coordinator, I have used this book for two years in workshops delivered to our membership. The "Locator Key" and identification system is easy to use (easier than using the weed identification systems) and the drawings and descriptions are clear. Would recommend to anyone interested in identifying wildflowers or "weeds."

Best Wildflower Guide I Know.......2007-08-14

Because the keys are based on number of petals, this is the easiest identification guide I have. I take it into the field along with the Peterson's guide, which has better illustrations, and cross-check my flowers.

Very Useful.......2007-06-11

In the past, I found field guides to wildflowers very frustrating. I have both A Field Guide to Wildflowers : Northeastern and North-Central North America (Peterson Field Guides)and a Golden Wildflower guide. Because the aforementioned are organized by color first, one has to painstakingly search though all of the illustrations until a probable match is found. This is time consuming, and for me, very difficult, leading to many misidentifications.

Newcomb's Wildflower guide takes a different approach. Created for the non botanist, it begins with flower shape, then leaf location, then leaf shape, until you have a 3 digit numeric key. Next by looking under this key for more detail, you are directed to the right page(s). For me this is wonderful, it takes a little practice, but once you get the hang of it, you find the correct illustration and description quickly without having to page though a multitude of pink or blue or white, etc. flowers.

Admittedly, this system is not for everyone. Many people may like starting with color, but for me this guide is truly useful in the field.

Great guide for beginners and advanced.......2007-05-23

Overall a great book if you are interested in wildflower identification. I wish there were more pictures. Once you learn the coding, it is easy to narrow what you are looking for. I tried identifying a a flower that I already new by using the coding and was able to go directly to it. Using it to identify others you don't know takes a little practice, but it cuts your search time way down.

A Staple for Every Fan of Plants.......2007-03-08

This book is the first to go into a field bag when headed outside. It is an invaluable resource. A great deal of drawings (mostly B/W) that aid in the identification of Northeastern wildflowers. Note: requires a moderate amount of practice and/or knowledge of plants and flowers to be truly effective.

Florida Keys Wildflowers: A Guide to the Common Wildflowers of the Florida Keys

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a wonderful reference
What a great guide!

Florida Keys Wildflowers: A Guide to the Common Wildflowers of the Florida Keys
Roger L. Hammer
Manufacturer: Falcon
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0762725699

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This guide to the common wildflowers found in the lush Florida Keys features 250 beautiful color photographs. Detailed plant descriptions and line art aid in plant identification for botanists and novice enthusiasts alike. Each species description is accompanied by a "Comments" section giving lore about the plant, its uses, or its name.

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a wonderful reference.......2005-11-12

Like his book on the flowers of the Everglades, Roger Hammer has again produced a clear concise text on flowers, but this time from the Florida Keys. This is a wonderful reference for anybody that is interested in ecotouring the American tropics. The photographs are great, and the color printing is top notch. The layout, which is organized according the flower's color, rather than botanical family, makes it easy to use in the field.

What a great guide!.......2004-05-16

I am a naturalist in South Florida and I love to identify different plants. Roger makes the plants accessible to the beginner naturalist and entertaining with historical facts about the different plants he has included.

Alpine Flower Finder: The Key to Rocky Mountain Wildflowers Found Above Timberline

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Alpine Flower Finder: The Key to Rocky Mountain Wildflowers Found Above Timberline
Janet L. Wingate , and Loraine Yeatts
Manufacturer: Johnson Books
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1555662897

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The latest edition of a standard popular field guide to flowers of the British Isles

Wild Flower Key
Francis Rose
Manufacturer: WARNE FREDERICK (PEN
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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The latest edition of a standard popular field guide to flowers of the British Isles.......2006-09-28

The first edition of Rose's "Wild Flower Key" appeared 25 years ago, immediately becoming one of the handiest illustrated plant guides ever produced and about the best available for British flowering plants. It covered all native and long-naturalised flowering plants of the British Isles except for grasses, sedges and rushes in addition to the commoner plants of NW Europe. That added up to 1450 species covered.

The second edition is similar to the first in most respects and builds on the strengths of the previous edition. In fact, it is so similar that I think I could have got by with my old, well-thumbed first edition copy. As one would guess from the title, this guide has a strong emphasis on keys, and they are meant to be used in plant identification - together with the text and illustrations, of course. There is a 23 page general key to families at the beginning of the book and additional keys throughout that treat important families and genera. In this edition, some groups are provided with entirely new keys. However, the 51 pages of vegetative keys by habitat remain unchanged. I used the keys of the first edition a lot and found them to be very good indeed.

As for the plates, most of them are unchanged, although the quality of printing appears to have improved somewhat. The illustrations are simple, clear, detailed and ideally suited to plant identification. In some cases there are new line drawings comparing the key features of similar species. The succinct text is set opposite the illustrations, so that all information on a species is found on a single page spread. The text has been revised and there are new "ID tips" boxes to highlight differences between similar species. Over 1600 species are now treated and the coverage has changed slightly to focus exclusively on the British Isles. The species selected include all native flowering plants except for grasses, sedges and rushes, plus the commoner introduced species. The extremely difficult complexes such as Alchemilla, Rubus, Sorbus, Euphrasia, Taraxacum and Hieracium are partially treated. Scarcer introduced plants, widely planted conifers and non-flowering plants are not covered.

The only other similar guide to the British flora would be Blamey, Fitter & Fitter's "Wild Flowers of Britain & Ireland", published in 2003. At the end of the day, the choice comes down to personal preference, since both guides are authoritative. Rose perhaps has the technical edge and is often recommended for use on university field courses. The following points may be helpful in deciding between the two:-

*both cover the British Isles
*both include the plants you are likely to see - basically all native flowering plants plus the widely established exotics
*both sell for approximately the same price - about £15

Rose...

*excludes grasses, sedges & rushes (that's fine as these are well-treated in other works)
*excludes ferns, horsetails & clubmosses (fair enough, since they are not flowering plants)
*emphasises the use of keys as the principal means of identification
*includes textual range information

Blamey, Fitter & Fitter...

*includes all grasses, sedges & rushes
*includes ferns, horsetails & clubmosses
*employ few keys
*include maps

If you can afford it, but both these books - you won't be disappointed. If you are serious about identifying British plants, you should also get hold of Stace's "New Flora of the British Isles" or its compact edition, the "Field Flora of the British Isles".

Alpine Flower Finder: The Key to Wildflowers Found Above Treeline in the Rocky Mountains

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Alpine Flower Finder: The Key to Wildflowers Found Above Treeline in the Rocky Mountains
Loraine Yeatts , and Janet L. Wingate
Manufacturer: Roberts Rinehart Pub
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British Wild Flowers (An Introduction to)

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British Wild Flowers (An Introduction to)
Liz Gogerly
Manufacturer: Hodder Wayland
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Binding: Hardcover

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Field Key to Wild Orchids in Scotland
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How to Know the Fall Flowers: Pictured-Keys for Determining the More Common Fall-Flowering Herbaceous Plants With Suggestions and AIDS for Their study

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How to Know the Fall Flowers: Pictured-Keys for Determining the More Common Fall-Flowering Herbaceous Plants With Suggestions and AIDS for Their study
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How to Know the Spring Flowers (Pictured Key Nature Series)

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How to Know the Spring Flowers (Pictured Key Nature Series)
Mabel J Cuthbert , Susan Verhoek , John Bamrick , Edward T Cawley , and Wm. G Jaques
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math
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AN ILLUSTRATED KEY TO THE NATURAL ORDERS OF BRITISH WILD FLOWERS.

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AN ILLUSTRATED KEY TO THE NATURAL ORDERS OF BRITISH WILD FLOWERS.
John E. (edit). Sowerby
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Binding: Hardcover
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Hero Tales from American History (Large Print Edition)
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Hero Tales from American History (Large Print Edition)
Henry Cabot Lodge and Theodore Roosevelt
Manufacturer: BiblioBazaar
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Large print edition! "No people can be really great unless they possess also the heroic virtues which are as needful in time of peace as in time of war, and as important in civil as in military life," write the authors in their dedication.

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Hero Tales from American History
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No people can be really great unless they possess also the heroic virtues which are as needful in time of peace as in time of war, and as important in civil as in military life, write the authors in their dedication.

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Hero Tales From American History
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HERO TALES FROM AMERICAN HISTORY
Theodore & Lodge, Henry Cabot Roosevelt
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Hero Tales From American History
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Hero Tales from American History
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Twenty-six stories of great Americans told by Theodore Roosevelt and Henry Cabot Lodge

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Children Need Heroes

Hero tales from American history
Henry Cabot Lodge
Manufacturer: Century Co
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Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B0008ACS34

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Daniel Boone will always occupy a unique place in our history as the archetype of the hunter and wilderness wanderer. He was a true pioneer, and stood at the head of that class of Indian-fighters, game-hunters, forest-fellers, and backwoods farmers who, generation after generation, pushed westward the border of civilization from the Alleghanies to the Pacific. As he himself said, he was "an instrument ordained of God to settle the wilderness.

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Children Need Heroes.......2001-09-05

Some quotations from Adam Starchild's wonderful afterword to this book are appropriate:

"Children today are starved for the image of real heroes. Celebrities are not the same thing as heroes. Heroes existed way before celebrities ever did, even though celebrities now outshine heroes in children's consciousness."

"Worshiping celebrities leaves children with a distinctly empty feeling -- it doesn't teach that they'll have to make sacrifices if they want to achieve anything worthwhile. No- talents become celebrities all the time. The result is that people don't seem to care about achievement or talent -- fame is the only objective."

"... Despite immense differences in cultures, heroes around the world generally share a number of traits that instruct and inspire people. A hero does something worth talking about, but a hero goes beyond mere fame or celebrity. The hero lives a life worthy of imitation. If they serve only their own fame, they may be celebrities but not heroes. Heroes are catalysts for change. They create new possibilities. They have a vision, and the skill and charm to implement their vision."

"Heroes may also be fictional. Children may identify with a character because of the values projected. People tend to grow to be like the people that they admire, but if a child never has any heroes what images will he copy? Adults need heroes too, but the need is even more urgent for children because they don't know how to think abstractly. But they can imagine what their hero would do in the circumstances, and it gives them a useful reference point to build abstract thinking skills."

Hero tales from American history: By Henry Cabot Lodge and Theodore Roosevelt
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Henry Cabot Lodge
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Hero tales from American history: Or, The story of some Americans who showed that they knew how to live and how to die (The works of Theodore Roosevelt)
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Hero tales from American history: Or, The story of some Americans who showed that they knew how to live and how to die (The works of Theodore Roosevelt)
Theodore Roosevelt
Manufacturer: Charles Scribner's Sons
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