Wild and Outside: How a Renegade Minor League Revived the Spirit of Baseball in America's Heartland

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Wild and Outside: How a Renegade Minor League Revived the Spirit of Baseball in America's Heartland
Stefan Fatsis
Manufacturer: Walker & Company
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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Entertaining Enough.......2003-02-24

This is the story of the 1994 season in the minor league independent Northern League. 94 of course was the infamous year of the strike and World Series cancellation. Thus it is hardly surprising that Fatsis' most prominent theme, shared by those involved at all levels -- but particularly ownership/management -- of the Northern League, is that MLB and its minors have become hidebound, soulless businesses. This is absolutely true naturally, but all that is required to confirm it is a couple of examples to hammer that point home, not the drumbeat reiteration that Fatsis provided throughout the book. When he concentrates on the personalities, fans, cities, and -- most particularly -- ballpark atmospherics of the Northern League, Wild and Outside gets much more entertaining. My personal favorite was Ted Cushmore, the put-upon owner of the hapless Duluth franchise. Fatsis had lots of access to many participants in the league and, not surprisingly, those who talked most freely to him tend to get the most sympathetic treatment, a bias which colors the history to an extent the reader can only guess at. As baseball reads go, however, this one ranks in the upper middle of the crowded pack.

Hits a Homer.......2000-08-13

Well written and packed with information. Excellent read.

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America's Northern Heartland
John R. Borchert
Manufacturer: Univ of Minnesota Pr
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0816614997

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A practical guide to field identification of common North American peat mosses. For amateurs and professionals alike, the book contains excellent color photos of 30 major species and field keys to nearly all species in the Northern Hemisphere.

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Definitely User friendly.......2001-10-24

I just spent all day with this book, using it in the field and in the lab with my plant ecology students (undergraduates). I know that Sphagnum identification is difficult but the students found the random access key to 27 species very easy to use . It is much easier to use the key in the lab with a dissecting microscope and some dissecting tools than in the field. However the photographs are useful and the species descriptions are very complete. The book starts off with excellent chapters on the natural history, anatomy and ecology of Sphagnum.

Definitely User friendly.......2001-10-24

Dreamways of the Iroquois: Honoring the Secret Wishes of the Soul

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Dreams
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Dreamways of the Iroquois: Honoring the Secret Wishes of the Soul
Robert Moss
Manufacturer: Destiny Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1594770344

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Explores the ancient Iroquois tradition of dreams, healing, and the recovery of the soul

â€¢ Explains Native American shamanic dream practices and their applications and purpose in modern life

â€¢ Shows how dreams call us to remember and honor our soulâ€™s true purpose

â€¢ Offers powerful Active Dreaming methods for regaining lost soul energy to restore our vitality and identity

The ancient teaching of the Iroquois people is that dreams are experiences of the soul in which we may travel outside the body, across time and space, and into other dimensions--or receive visitations from ancestors or spiritual guides. Dreams also reveal the wishes of the soul, calling us to move beyond our ego agendas and the web of other peopleâ€™s projections into a deeper, more spirited life. They call us to remember our sacred contracts and reclaim the knowledge that belonged to us, on the levels of soul and spirit, before we entered our present life experience. In dreams we also discover where our vital soul energy may have gone missing--through pain or trauma or heartbreak--and how to get it back.

Robert Moss was called to these ways when he started dreaming in a language he did not know, which proved to be an early form of the Mohawk Iroquois language. From his personal experiences, he developed a spirited approach to dreaming and living that he calls Active Dreaming.

Dreamways of the Iroquois is at once a spiritual odyssey, a tribute to the deep wisdom of the First Peoples, a guide to healing our lives through dreamwork, and an invitation to soul recovery.

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Dreams.......2007-05-13

A great book that explains the doorway to our dreams and how our dreams may help us face up to lifes challanges. A wonderful read and the author has clearly spent time in other realitys that are just as real as our own. There are many guides and messengers that can help us through our dreams if we are open to them and can remember how to communicate in this fascinating world.

Imperative for Dreamers.......2006-08-24

As life if filled with messages, both in dreamtime, and time awake Moss guides us to listen to the spirit of your destiny. Moss was called to his dream writing and workshops and this book continues his teachings in understanding your dreams and and nurturing your intuition. Recently picked up a book by Wanda Easter Burch called She Who Dreams. Come to learn Burch and Moss met in New York many years after Burch dreamt of a young boy drowning, which happened to be Moss. Do not believe in coincidence and if you are looking for a path to understand your truths in life, this book will help your realization.

Good for Writing.......2005-11-04

Dreaming is good for writing the next day. Dreams know a lot; what is dreamed must come to pass. If not, one's nature is not followed which, is the way of sickness instead of joy and good luck. I hope this book will help me along in this writing about the ancient goings-on. If you study Iroquois, you will dream vividly and feel special when looking at stars.

Real shaman of the West is Poet of Consciousness.......2005-09-25

Robert Moss's deep experience in the dreamscape is unlike any other shaman-writer in the West. As in all his books, this one shows the mark of a real shaman. In Dreamways of the Iroquois, Moss is more revealing about himself even than in his previous books. In spite of this personal tone, the book is scholarly at times. Interspersed with a retelling of the ancient myths of the Iroquois and Huron people, the children of Aataensic, is Moss'initiation by Island Woman, an Iroquois guide who leads him into the wisdom of her ancient people. One of the book's most potent message is that dreams reveal the real desires of the soul and should be honoured. There's little instruction here on how to work with dreams (one chapter does it) as the book is more of an exposé and a manifesto for the rebuilding of a dreaming society. I recommend all Moss's books to people interested in dreamwork as they are all very deep and rewarding.

Dreamways a hit.......2005-09-21

Unlike alot of books on the subject, Robert Moss has again written an interesting book on the subject of dreaming. His story teller method of writing keeps your interested. Recommend his work highly.

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A lyrical and powerful folktale!

Moon's Cloud Blanket
Rose Anne St. Romain
Manufacturer: Pelican Publishing Company
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1565549228

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A lyrical and powerful folktale!.......2004-01-25

As a scholar of folkltales, it was a pleasure to find this lovely book included in the 2004 list of Notable Social Studies Books for Young People. The author has sensitively documented a Louisiana Native American creation story with spare and well-chosen language. Her use of image-filled repetition creates the relentless power of the storm brilliantly. As in most folktales, she keeps the focus on how the characters solve the problem before them thus emphasizing the Native American's relationship with the natural world. I look forward to more books by Rose Anne St. Romain.

Flora of North America: North of Mexico Volume 27: Bryophytes: Mosses, Part 1 (Flora of North America: North of Mexico)

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Flora of North America: North of Mexico Volume 27: Bryophytes: Mosses, Part 1 (Flora of North America: North of Mexico)

Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0195318234

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Flora of North America Volume 27 is the first volume of three on the bryphytes (mosses, hornworts, and liverworts). Thirty-five authors treat the first half of the mosses, including 32 of the acrocarpous families, with introductory chapters on bryophyte morphology, the history of North America floristic bryology, and economic uses. The 84 species of sphagnum, of considerable economic importance, are fully treated. The number of taxa total 37 genera and 621 species. The taxa are fully described and keyed, illustrated with an estimated 136 panels of detailed line drawings of two or more species each, and geographic distributions are provided at the province and state level. This is the first installment of a full compilation of the mosses for North America since A. J. Grout's Moss Flora of North America of 60 years ago, and is sure to be an invaluable reference. The volume includes identification keys, descriptions, line drawings, and ecological characteristics for each of the species; distribution maps for the native and established species; and a list of the synonyms currently in use for the accepted names.

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Too much reliance on microscopic detail

How to Know the Mosses and Liverworts
Henry Shoemaker Conard , and Jr. Paul L. Redfearn
Manufacturer: Wm. C. Brown Company Publishers
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Spiral-bound

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Too much reliance on microscopic detail.......2006-09-13

I bought this book to identify mosses found in Maine when on vacation from Europe. I had a magnifying glass at my disposal (10x, 20x) but found that the keys started asking questions about microscopic details very early on. This made it (too) difficult to get at least to the right family. Liverworts worked better than mosses.

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Fire Along the Sky
Robert Moss
Manufacturer: St Martins Pr
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Binding: Hardcover

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The American West (Living History)
Miriam Moss
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Assessments of the North American Free Trade Agreement

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Assessments of the North American Free Trade Agreement

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Foreign Missions Conference of North America. 1932. Report of the Thirty-Ninth Annual Meeting of the Conference of Foreign Mission Boards in Canada and in the United States, Atlantic City, New Jersey, January 13-16, 1931

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Foreign Missions Conference of North America. 1932. Report of the Thirty-Ninth Annual Meeting of the Conference of Foreign Mission Boards in Canada and in the United States, Atlantic City, New Jersey, January 13-16, 1931
Laslie B. Moss and Mabel H. Brown
Manufacturer: Foreign Missions Conference of North America
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000ND3G78

Icones muscorum,: Or, Figures and descriptions of most of those mosses peculiar to eastern North America which have not been heretofore figured

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Icones muscorum,: Or, Figures and descriptions of most of those mosses peculiar to eastern North America which have not been heretofore figured
William Starling Sullivant
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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