Birds of Britain and Europe

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Full of stunning photographs and descriptive text, this book will help anyone identify birds in Britain and the rest of Europe. Vivid closeups, as well as profiles of birds in flight, make identifying birds easy no matter what angle you catch them from.

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Killybegs: Then and Now
Donald Martin
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Kingfisher Field Guide to the Wildlife of Britain and Europe

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Kingfisher Field Guide to the Wildlife of Britain and Europe

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Complete Guide to the Wildlife of Britain and Europe (Complete Guides)

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Complete Guide to the Wildlife of Britain and Europe (Complete Guides)

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Kingfisher Handbook of the Wildlife of Britain and Europe (Kingfisher Facts & Records)

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Kingfisher Handbook of the Wildlife of Britain and Europe (Kingfisher Facts & Records)
Jeanette Harris
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The Aran Islands: Another World
Bill Doyle
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Complete Irish Wildlife (Collins Complete Photo Guides)

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Complete Irish Wildlife (Collins Complete Photo Guides)

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Complete Irish Wildlife describes almost all the mammals, birds, fish and butterflies of Ireland likely to be encountered by the keen amateur naturalist, as well as all the common and widespread flowers, trees and shrubs. With over 1,000 colour photographs, this comprehensive guide illustrates every species described. The introduction by Ireland's best known wildlife expert, Derek Mooney, sets out where you can find the best of Irish wildlife. Reptiles and amphibians, insects and spiders, molluscs and other invertebrates are also featured, and species are organized taxonomically. Each section is coded with a symbol for quick reference and species are grouped according to natural relationships and similarities. With its handy format and PVC wallet, Complete Irish Wildlife is a book no nature lover should travel without.

Wildlife of Africa: Photographs In Celebrartion Of The Continent's Extraordinary Biodiversity, Fauna and Flora (Gerald & Marc Hoberman Collection)

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Stunning Photography

Wildlife of Africa: Photographs In Celebrartion Of The Continent's Extraordinary Biodiversity, Fauna and Flora (Gerald & Marc Hoberman Collection)
Gerald Hoberman
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Stunning Photography.......2006-04-07

If you are bored by tiresome text about African animals and like some of the best African animal photos ever taken, this book is for you. This book is all photos, taken over many years in many places. Some of the photos have titles identifying the subjects; many of the photos are completely untitled.

On the downside, if you need some descriptions and background to accompany the photos, you won't get it here.

Finding Order in Nature: The Naturalist Tradition from Linnaeus to E. O. Wilson (Johns Hopkins Introductory Studies in the History of Science)

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Finding Order in Nature: The Naturalist Tradition from Linnaeus to E. O. Wilson (Johns Hopkins Introductory Studies in the History of Science)
Paul Lawrence Farber
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Before the 18th century, scholarly interest in the natural world was largely the province of medical doctors, artists, and alchemists. During that century, however, and for many reasons, the study of nature spread to all sectors of society. As Paul Farber points out in this history, most private libraries contained Buffon's 36-volume encyclopedia of animals, and practical-minded politicians such as Thomas Jefferson urged that the natural world be catalogued with an eye to economic potential and utility, the gods of the Enlightenment. The resulting attention to classification and systematics influenced natural history for generations. This work of sorting remains at the heart of basic science, Farber continues, and if some scholars scorn it as old-fashioned, the need to catalog the world continues to be pressing as the biodiversity crisis mounts. Examining the contributions of thinkers as various as Nicholas Baudin, Julian Huxley, Charles Lucien Bonaparte, Stephen Jay Gould, and Edward O. Wilson, Farber shows that the "naturalist tradition," which seeks to identify the underlying order of nature, is not only of central importance to the life sciences, but also an ideal vehicle for communicating advanced research to the educated public. --Gregory McNamee

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Since emerging as a discipline in the middle of the eighteenth century, natural history has been at the heart of the life sciences. It gave rise to the major organizing theory of life--evolution--and continues to be a vital science with impressive practical value. Central to advanced work in ecology, agriculture, medicine, and environmental science, natural history also attracts enormous popular interest.

In Finding Order in Nature Paul Farber traces the development of the naturalist tradition since the Enlightenment and considers its relationship to other research areas in the life sciences. Written for the general reader and student alike, the volume explores the adventures of early naturalists, the ideas that lay behind classification systems, the development of museums and zoos, and the range of motives that led collectors to collect. Farber also explores the importance of sociocultural contexts, institutional settings, and government funding in the story of this durable discipline.

"The quest for insight into the order of nature leads naturalists beyond classification to the creation of general theories that explain the living world. Those naturalists who focus on the order of nature inquire about the ecological relationships among organisms and also among organisms and their surrounding environments. They ask fundamental questions of evolution, about how change actually occurs over short and long periods of time. Many naturalists are drawn, consequently, to deeper philosophical and ethical issues: What is the extent of our ability to understand nature? And, understanding nature, will we be able to preserve it? Naturalists question the meaning of the order they discover and ponder our moral responsibility for it." -- from the Introduction

The Concise Guide to Mushrooms (Concise Guides to the Wildlife & Plants of Britain & Europe)

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The Concise Guide to Mushrooms (Concise Guides to the Wildlife & Plants of Britain & Europe)
Gordon Dickson
Manufacturer: New Holland Publishers Ltd
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Binding: Hardcover

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If there's a point here I couldn't find it

Save your money, contents have little to do with the title

So, what does make them winners?

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Winners: How Good Baseball Teams Become Great Ones (And It's Not the Way You Think)
Dayn Perry
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"We’re all winners, as Dayn Perry serves as our trusted guide on this idiosyncratic but profoundly informative walking tour of the great teams and players of the last few decades."
—Rob Neyer, ESPN.com

"Dayn Perry's really got something here. Part history, part handbook, Winners is an essential read for anyone trying to understand how great teams get that way."
—Joe Sheehan, BaseballProspetus.com

"We look at baseball from so many angles today that we too often forget the point is not to look at the game from an interesting view for its own sake, but to learn how it works, in the service of learning why teams win. Any fan who wants to know will find their answers in this book."
—Tim Marchman, baseball columnist, The New York Sun

"Dayn Perry crafts a lively narrative that blends astute analysis with clever storytelling. He gets to the bottom of what makes a great team tick."
—Kevin Towers, General Manager and Executive Vice President, San Diego Padres

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A lively, unconventional romp through the myths and realities around what your team needs to do to win it all How do baseball teams win? What do they tend to excel at? What do they ignore? In the entertaining and controversial Winners, stat-head-hero Dayn Perry puts forth answers by analyzing all the ingredients people say a team needs to win but instead of just crunching numbers, he turns them into fun narratives, spinning out stories of teams and players that exemplify the myths and realities of winning. What he's found will have fans clogging the lines of sports radio shows, debating and arguing his insights. Move over, Moneyball and Men at Work Winners is destined to be the next classic of the genre. Dayn Perry (Chicago, IL) is a regular contributor to FoxSports.com, SportingNews.com, and Baseballprospectus.com. He also helped write the last two editions of Baseball Prospectus (0-761-13995-8), the bestselling book of its kind.

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If there's a point here I couldn't find it.......2007-06-28

From the title, the tagline and the blurb, I expected the author to be putting forward a new, more revealing, way to assess performance and/or a unique insight into what factors on a team produces winners. You know, something that took a rational shot at tired old ways and proposed a new approach, a la "Money Ball". Something that might have applicability beyond baseball...

Instead it's paragraph after paragraph of rambling anecdotes that I suppose are intended to support some point. But the points are never stated. However the does manage to garnish his aimless prose liberally with gratuitous little non sequiturs and self-important cleverisms that draw attention to the author. But I guess that's because he has nothing really to say.

Don't waste your money.

Save your money, contents have little to do with the title.......2006-08-27

Other reviewers have said it, but it bears repeating. The book really doesn't answer How Good Teams Become Great Ones. Rather it's a list of TRENDS that good teams have in common and a series of essays about those teams, some of their players, and a number of recent statistical principles.

Much of the analysis is pretty poor and contradictory. Perry writes that ERA isn't a good measure of pitcher performance then repeatedly talks about pitchers' ERAs and their ERAs relative to league average. Why bother once you show that ERA is flawed?

I really like the statistical analysis of baseball and have read and enjoyed a number of books in this vein. If you want something along those lines, read the Baseball Prospectus or Hardball Times Annual. If you want good reading on interesting baseball questions backed up by numerical analysis, read Baseball Between the Numbers. And if you want to find out how to go from Good to Great, read Jim Collins book; it's about business not baseball but it has better scientific analysis and actually covers how "teams" IMPROVE over time.

So, what does make them winners?.......2006-06-19

Not sure that the title or subtitle of this book has anything to do with whats written inside. Instead, it each chapter begins with a listing of playoff teams who were good or bad in a particular obscure statistical area, and then goes on ad nauseaum about certain players on those teams, with no real synthesis or conclusion about what makes teams win. As a Tiger fan, I enjoyed reading about Chet Lemon, Darrell Evans, and Willie Hernandez. However, if I was an aspiring GM, looking for advice on how to build my team into a winner, this book would not help much (which is what it purports to try to do).

Faux Sports.......2006-05-04

What it actually takes to win is on the field and not just stats. The game gets played on the field and not paper. Dayn Perry is just like all the ESPN writers and needs to take his fandom out of the equation.

Somewhat insulting.......2006-04-30

Let me start by saying that for almost any baseball fan, this book comes off as an interesting read. But the Pinocchio Gepetto reviewer said it best--trivia, not analysis.

I'd like to add that at no point does Perry actually either (a) define what is a "great" team (not to mention a "good" team) and (b) uses some needless or unsubstantiated invective in taking pot shots at certain players' ability or even character (if you're not going to say why you think Nolan Ryan is highly overrated then don't mention it - twice!).

What I was expecting from the front cover and from flipping through the chapters (each chapter is titled after a putative role on a 'winning' team--The Slugger, The Glove Man, The Speedster, etc.) was a sober analysis of winning elements of teams that have risen above their milieu. I even expected some controversial claims (as the cover says, "It's not what you think"). Instead, as Gepetto indicates, the book is just a collection of lists of characteristics of all 124 that have made the playoffs from 1980-2003. So what? They have about as much in common as the next best 124 teams that didn't make the playoffs, which is to say, not a whole lot. He would treat the 1984 Tigers and the 2005 Padres, for example, as equally 'great.'

Finally, as a sour Yankee fan, I ask, how can a book purport to answer the question of how winning teams win when and feature an entire chapter deriding the stolen base without even MENTIONING Dave Roberts' game- and series-turning steal against the Yanks and Mariano Rivera in the 2004 ALCS? I don't care if the stolen base only adds 3.6 runs to a team's total during the season...selectively applied, has it been or could it be a strategically useful device for a winning team? Perry never even approaches that kind of analysis.

Good read, but not worthy of the sabermetrics pantheon.

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The date is 1966 of the Galactic Era, almost three thousand years from now, and the Republic, created by the human race but not yet dominated by it, finds itself in an all-out war against the Teroni Federation, an alliance of races that resent Man's growing military and economic power. The main battles are taking place in the Spiral Arm and toward the Core, but far out on the Rim, the Theodore Roosevelt is one of three ships charged with protecting the Phoenix Cluster, a group of seventy-three inhabited worlds. Old, battered, some of its weapon systems outmoded, the Teddy R. is a ship that would have been decommissioned years ago if a war wasn't raging. Its crew is composed of retreads, discipline cases, and a few raw recruits. But a new officer has been transferred to the Teddy R. His name is Wilson Cole, and he comes with a reputation for heroics and disobedience. Twice he has ignored or exceeded his orders—both times he has presented the Republic with unexpected triumphs, and both times he has had his ship and crew shot out from under him. Now, he's been banished to the Teddy R., where he will be a mere second officer, behind Captain Makeo Fujiama and Executive Officer Podok, a fierce Polonoi female.

Tensions rise on the Teddy R., discipline is lax, and Wilson Cole is not a man to sit idly by as a war rages elsewhere. But the Phoenix Cluster is the last place in the galaxy that the enemy would think of attacking. Or is it? With Starship: Mutiny, five-time Hugo winner Mike Resnick brings his prodigious imagination to bear on his very first military SF. Will the galaxy ever be the same?

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Enjoyable, but just too naive.......2007-08-27

Maybe I had the ill fortune to read this book just after the wonderful "the lost fleet: Dauntless". This is absolutely an enjoyable reading, but it lacks depth. The story is fast and it keeps you reading, but if you like a semblance of truth in space travelling and in space warfare, this isn't the right book. It is a good novel, but I found it lacking when it comes to integrate the plot with problems like travelling in space, communications and so on.

Its not awful but its not good either........2007-07-19

The basic plot of the book and the characters have potential but in this 1st book of the series there isn't alot worth looking at or reading. Those people giving 4 or 5 stars probably haven't read any good SciFi (ie. Asher, Vinge, Cherryh, etc.).

Lots of action .......2007-06-20

This is Book One of this series by enduring Sci-fi author Mike Resnick. This is the story of Wilson Cole, an officer in the Navy of the Republic. It appears the Republic has been fighting a war for a very long time with the Teronis. Its never quite clear when some races of the Outer Rim change alliances and jump from one side to the other for whatever reasons.

Wilson is known for breaking the rules of the established Military. He gets the job done, but in his own way and his own time. So he is banished to the Theodore Roosevelt, an aging ship patrolling space where it can do no harm to anyone, including the enemy. On board are misfits from the military. Each one, human or otherwise has a history and a story as to why they are being kept in the military, but out of the loop of the main war.

Even the Captain has a history.

As Wilson does what Wilson does best, ignore rules, get into trouble and save the day, he begins to have a following of fellow crewmembers as well as the media.

This book sets us up for Book 2 Starship: Pirate. I believe it will continue where this one leaves off.

So we can look for further adventures of the misfits who "get-her-done" despite bureaucracy and protocol.

scifi.......2007-05-29

A very good book. Just sitting here waiting for the rest of the seris to come out which I will buy. It sure held my attention and was hard to put down.

Fast moving SciFi .......2007-02-27

This here's a very entertaining and fast moving SciFi adventure story. Nice clean prose with snappy dialoge left me wanting more. This is the first book I've read by Mike Resnick and I'm sure to read more by him. Nice edition by Pyr Books and even enjoyed the appendixes. Highly Recommended.

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Fred Halpern was the first boy to the moon...

Moon of Mutiny
L. Del Rey
Manufacturer: Holt Rinehart & Winston
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Fred Halpern was the first boy to the moon..........2004-05-11

but the fact is, while he might be able to figure vectors and orbits in his head, he just can't seem to follow orders or stay out of trouble. Also accidents seem to happen around him no matter how much or how hard he tries to do his best.
So when a spaceship crashed on the moon, Fred found himself in a trap. The people at the base had been given the ship's general location via the space station. He KNEW the info was wrong and he also knew where the ship was, but the Moon base only had so many tractors or men to search with and they couldn't mess this up the first time. They didn't have the time!
Now Fred had two ways to handle this. He could obey orders and let two men die. Or he could go out on his own and maybe save the two men by disobeying a direct order.

Mutiny (Space: Above and Beyond - Harper Trophy Series, Book 3)

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Mutiny (Space: Above and Beyond - Harper Trophy Series, Book 3)
Easton Royce
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Mutiny in Space
Avram Davidson
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Release Date: 2005-03-28

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MUTINY IN SPACE began as a novella entitled "Valentine's Planet," which appeared in the August 1964 issue of Worlds of Tomorrow.

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Avram Davidson
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Avram Davidson
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Avram Davidson
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