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Mention the word "foraging" and many people think of tramping through soggy swamps or trackless wilderness, battling mosquitoes and briars to reap a tiny harvest of nuts or berries. Yet foraging for wild edibles doesn't have to be difficult, or require expeditionary gear. Even most of what we now call suburbia was only recently considered to be "the country," and many houses built in the past thirty years are found on land that used to be fertile farmsteads. Like a contemporary Euell Gibbons, Robert Henderson reveals an extraordinary bounty that we pass every day. From vacant lots in cities and tree-lined developments in the 'burbs to wooded glens, any neighbourhood will have its share of plants whose roots, shoots, leaves and fruits have been used for centuries by indigenous peoples and European settlers, and that are just as wonderful today. Organized into chapters based on plant type (evergreens, broadleaf trees, common flowers, peripherals and plants with edible greens and roots), The Neighborhood Forager introduces the aspiring wild-gatherer to more than 60 genera of plants, comprising hundreds of wide-spread species. Replete with history and folklore, the book offers a wide range of practical and entertaining information. Imagine making "lemonade" from sumac berries (try it and you'll never go back to instant), spreading homemade rowanberry preserves on scones or roasted meats, or drinking willow bark tea as a pain reliever (it has the same effect as aspirin). The seasonal pleasure of eating fresh spring greens or making knotweed pie (call it "Japanese rhubarb" and your friends will be beguiled) adds zest and excitement to otherwise jaded palates.
Customer Reviews:
nice format with lots of misinformation.......2007-01-23
I have owned this book for several years and read it cover to cover, most parts more than once. It is a good read and I like the way it is set up, and the author's enthusiasm is appreciated. There is much good information inside, but unfortunately, there is misinformation to a degree that I think is inexcusable. For example, the drawings of "evening primrose" actually show primrose, which is a totally different plant in an entirely different family. But the text clearly describes eating the root of evening primrose. So it seems like he didn't even know what evening primrose was, had never tried it, but copied his information on how to use it, even the description of its flavor, from another book. The text sure makes it sound like he's had experience from the plant. I think its disingenuous and a disservice to the reader. This is the most glaring example of many errors. Otherwise, it is a good book.
A must have book!.......2002-12-31
This book is wonderful. I paid full price for it and would gladly do so again in order to give it as a gift to others. I highly recomend it.
Fresh and Fun.......2000-12-17
I haven't met many people who can point out at least ten different plants in the average yard and can tell you how to cook them. Mr. Henderson does an outstanding job of identifying wild, and not-so-wild, edibles common to almost every neighborhood. His recipes are easy to follow and delicious.
Even if you are not planning to run right out to the nearest shrub and harvest its leaves for dinner, I recommend this book. Mr. Henderson's prose is worth reading, whatever the content. His witty, humorous style enlivens a book full of excellent information.
Don't Know What to Do With That Weed? Eat It!.......2000-10-11
The Neighborhood Forager is a very informative and enjoyable book. It not only tells about the plants in our backyards and by-ways but gives historical information, recipes, warnings and dyer's tips.
Mr. Henderson writes with humor and personal anecdotes which makes the book a good read even if you're not into foraging.
Amazing!.......2000-10-11
I was amazed at all the information this book gave me. I have learned so many things, to see all the bounty we can have in our own backyard! Practical and easy to read. I recommend this book to all nature and food lovers.
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If road riding is the arrogant godfather of the cycling world, mountain biking is the fun-loving, black-sheep stepson. The Mountain Bike magazine editors reflect this spirit, tuning their highly accessible guide to both those with dreams of widowmaker descents as well as others just looking for a pleasant Sunday spin on scenic dirt roads. Breaking the sport down into lively yet informative chapters--complete with cartoons and amusing anecdotes--they cover the basics and then some. All technical skills are addressed, including bunny hopping, high-speed cornering, and the terribly elegant nose wheelie. The guide also includes a comprehensive section on cycling fitness and customizing a training program for would-be racers. No one is alienated here, but if you fancy yourself an expert rider, you might want to look elsewhere. This guide is geared more toward the novice whose journey has only just begun. --Ben Tiffany
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Expert tips on conquering curves, corners, dips, descents, hills, water hazards and other all-terrain challenges.
Hit the dirt!
From breaking to bunny hopping, speed jumping to switchbacks-- here are the skills you need to catch big air and experience the best of off-road riding.
* Selecting the right rig for you and your budget.
* Step-by-step drills for clearing obstacles, popping wheelies and more.
* How to hammer it and ride faster than you ever thought possible.
* Seven ways to stay alive by avoiding face plants, biffs and other crash landings.
* All-weather strategies for plowing through mud, rain and snow.
* Pro advice on entering your first off-road race.
* Riding responsibly to save the trails.
* Planning the perfect tour and enjoying a fat-tire vacation.
* Tons more practical info for aspiring and die-hard dirtheads.
You also get skill-building techniques and strategies from world-class mountain bikers, including
* Ned Overend, six-time NORBA national champion
* John Tomac, 1994 NORBA downhill champion
* Juli Furtado, 1995 World Cup champion
* Missy Giove, 1994 world downhill champion
* Tinker Juarez, 1994 NORBA national champion
* Mike King, 1993 world downhill champion
Customer Reviews:
Good for a quick read........2007-01-13
The book is a bit outdated by today's standards but still presents a few good tips aimed squarely at the beginner. An updated version with a greater emphasis on current trends (the plethora of clipless pedals and the proliferation of full-suspension rigs, as well as the concept of cyclocross) would probably help to advance the level of content just enough to entice beginners and those in the first year or two of their riding development.
Boring and dry.......2006-03-24
I wish there was a more helpful review from this website before I purchased the book, the only reason i am looking at the book on amazon right now is to check how much money i wasted. 10 dollars which is alright iwth me. i'll still read it, thru the course of the yeaer maybe.
honestly, this book cant be applied to me. It is written by a road biker gone mountain biking and maybe it will be more suitable for the same type of ppl. He starts off really dry and comparing everything to the feel and how its done in the flip side of road biking.
the book contains this ridiculous 3 month day by day guideline of how you should approach the mountain biking and the sectoin about choosing ur mountain bike and etc is just plain ambiguous and unhelpful.
i dont mean to bag on this book but after reading other books (like lee/lopez's mtb skills) i was blown away at literary style along with EXCELlent application to beginners and pros. and its downright fun to read. makes me not wanna go back to this purple book but i will after i finsih lee's.
i know this wasnt a helpful review either but please consider reading INSIDE the book before purchasing. i learned my lesson.
flat.......2006-01-08
uninspiring, superficial, low level. Better to get Zinn or Nealy.
Book is okay!.......2005-01-01
The book is okay. However, the illustrations could have been a bit better. In addition, the book kinda drags towards the end when the pros give their own tips.
Great Learner Book and Intermediate SKill Honer.......2004-03-11
I initially bought this book for my fiance who says I sound condescending when I try to teach her something and ended up enjoying it myself. I would describe myself as an intermediate(Only because my conditioning sucks) to expert rider. I found the book to be entertaining and it helped point out some things I was doing wrong, such as ride preparation, and some things I want to do better such as long climbs and how to pace them and keeping motivation. I find the book is pointed towards experienced trail riders who might be just a beginner to slightly more extreme conditions such as climbs, descents, drops, corners, logs, etc. or want to learn proper form for traversing said conditions to become more of a finesse rider(Of which I am not).
I find the caption on the cover is a little misleading. It might make one thing the book is specifically aimed at experts, which it is not. Insted of saying "Expert Tips...", I think it should say "Tips From Experts...".
In my opinion this is a book most riders right from beginner to expert should be able to learn something from. They try to keep the tone light and even comedical times. This makes it enjoyable to read. It's broken up as such to keep it interesting and allow you to skip the sections you're not interested in without missing anything that might be important. I can't wait to give it to my fiance to see what she thinks. Highly recommended!!!
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Get the words you need to communicate and get around, plus a musical introduction to your destination! The classic audio of 300 essential travel words & phrases. An enhanced audio CD with the U-Print PDF quick-reference audio guide NEW! A music CD offering a variety of selections reflecting national culture NEW! The latest edition of the comprehensive Lonely Planet Phrasebook with two-way dictionary and cultural insights. The unique audio includes both what you hear and what you say to interact with locals at hotels, restaurants, shops - anywhere your travels take you! The enhanced CD with PDF audio guide means that you can reprint it any time you need - perfect for groups! Meanwhile, what better way to immerse yourself in the culture than listening to its rhythms!
Customer Reviews:
Old and Bad Material!.......2007-05-12
As a Chinese language teacher, this book is the worst of the many Chinese language books that I have. Like any music, some are good and some are bad. The music CD inluded in the book is so bad, all the way through! The whole thing seems to be repackaged and converted to a CD from an old cassette. Do not waste your money.
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Lonely Planet Traveltalk Chinese Mandarin (Traveltalk)
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Lillian Ellison, known in the ring as the Fabulous Moolah, is one of wrestling's pioneering veterans and heroines, both in and out of the squared circle. When wrestling first caught the attention of the public, Moolah had a ringside seat. Appearing on the scene in 1949 as a "valet" for some male wrestlers, she was introduced to the crowd as a "slave girl" dressed in revealing leopardskin. But the woman who got into the business for the "moolah" wouldn't remain a valet for long, and soon Moolah turned her humble beginnings into a successful and long-lived career.
Growing up in Tookiedoo, South Carolina, Moolah was the youngest of thirteen children -- and the only girl. Surrounded by twelve rambunctious brothers, she had to be tough from the get-go. After the death of their mother when she was just ten years old, Moolah and her father spent Tuesday nights at local professional wrestling matches. At first she was just excited to do something special with her father. But everything changed when Mildred Burke (one of the most popular "lady rasslers" of the day) came to town. After years of being surrounded by boys, Moolah had finally found a woman she could look up to.
From that night on, Moolah was hooked. She stayed in the ring throughout the 1950s and 1960s, even though technically women were banned from wrestling "for their own good." When the Women's Division of the National Wrestling Alliance was failing, Moolah started training girls at her home base in South Carolina, and by the late sixties the girls she had trained at Girl Wrestling Enterprises represented the single largest group of female wrestlers in the country. Soon the National Wrestling Alliance recognized her as the undisputed Women's Champ, a title she would hold for the next twenty years.
Here, for the first time, the Fabulous Moolah tells all, from her friendship with the infamous Jerry Lee Lewis to a marriage proposal from country-music legend Hank Williams Sr. Moolah dishes plenty of wrestling dirt as well and relates hilarious moments from her decades long friendship with her in-ring cohort Mae Young.
After more than half a century of wrestling, Moolah still trains girls for the ring and even manages to get into the ring herself now and again. She is a role model for strong women everywhere, and she will go down in history as one of wrestling's all-time greats.
Customer Reviews:
She's a Moolah girl, in a Moolah world!.......2006-07-10
The Fabulous Moolah will go down as the greatest Woman's wrestling champion of all time. However, that doesn't necessarily mean it is TRUE. Moolah is an example of someone coming along at the right place and the right time and meeting the right people. The place, New York; the time, early 80s; the people, the McMahons. The McMahon family used a few loopholes and slightly rewrote history and claimed Moolah was Woman's champion for "several decades". Moolah was THE GIRL when the WWF was expanding in the early 80s, and became the postergirl from Woman's wrestling when it was taken national, even though her best years were behind her.
This book..... okay, I admit it, I was pleasantly surprised. It was a great story. But as with many WWE-produced books, I'm not sure where truth begins and lies begin. It's flat out Moolah's perspective, and she dances around some of the issues that might diminish her status if people actually knew. I continually got the impression that Lillian couldn't see much further outside of "Moolah's World" and had a poor sense of the reality around her.
It seemed like every single page of this book resulted in me changing my opion of Lillian Ellison -- from good to bad, to good, back to bad, and so on. In all fairness she HAS done a lot for woman's wrestling, but she also did a lot of horrible things like screwing her roster of girl wrestlers out of unfair booking fees. I think this is a scar on what could have been a legendary career.
Rating: I give it a generous 5 out of 10. I enjoyed this book, but I wouldn't recommend that anybody MUST READ it. If you want a better look at the early days of Woman's professional wrestling then I recommend picking up Penny Banner's book..
OLD SCHOOL OF WRESTLING.......2006-05-07
THIS BOOK IS ABOUT THE LIFE AND WRESTLING CAREER OF LILLIAN ELLISON AKA(FABULOUS MOOLAH). IT IS INTERESTING AND ENTERTAINING IN MOST PARTS. SHE SPENDS ALOT OF TIME TELLING US HOW GREAT THE MCMAHON FAMILY IS (WHY NOT, THEY ARE HER EMPLOYER)BUT NOT ENOUGH TIME ABOUT BEHIND THE SCENES. SHE ALSO MAKES US BELIEVE THAT SHE GAVE EVERYONE WHO WRESTLED HER THE BEATING OF THEIR LIFE. I THINK ALOT OF THIS BOOK HAS BEEN EXAGGERATED BY MOOLAH. BUT YET I LIKED IT. NOTHING GREAT BUT STILL AN OK READ.
not a champion, but a contender.......2006-01-30
The Fabulous Moolah tells her life story, but fails to tell the whole story. Perhaps it is her great respect for the history of wrestling or perhaps because it is a book written under the supervision of the WWE, she fails to really delve into the stories of her life.
Her childhood and formative years are covered with enough info to paint the picture, but without too much detail. She covers her personal life pretty well (at least the high and low points), usually with quite a bit of humor and openness.
Her wrestling career is covered from a wrestling storyline perspective. Historically speaking, it is fascinating to read the names and places. Unfortunately, it would have been more entertaining to reveal some of the behind the scenes stuff, or even any of it! The book is written as if the battles are really fought, the titles really won and the action totally unscripted. With just a little dose of reality, this book could have been a big winner from one of the greatest in the sport!
Amazing.......2005-12-13
This is a amazing read. She is the reason womens wrelsting Is what it is today. I think this is a great read for anyone
Don't mess with Moolah! (but she's still fun).......2004-07-30
I got a big kick out of this book and I am NOT a wrestling fan. In fact, I had never heard of Moolah when I saw the book in the bookstore and looked at the pictures and thought it might be fun. I was not disappointed. Oh sure, I wish that the book had been about twice as long and I wish that there were more photographs, but I did enjoy Moolah's stories and her outrageous attitude. ("If I didn't fight dirty, I wouldn't win!") Moolah is larger-than-life and one-of-a-kind. I think a lot of what she says is pure fantasy (like wresting itself), especially the big whopper she tells that country music legend Hank Williams asked her to marry him. (It's not like he's around to refute her!) But that was part of the fun for me. It's a rather schizoid book in that she flat out says that wrestling is fake (that's why it's called "wrestling ENTERTAINMENT") and then she goes on and on describing various matches as if they were unrehearsed. It seems to me that "wrestling entertainment" is similar to the "super hero" comic books. There are heroes, villains and clowns. When wrestlers are young and attractive, they play the heroes. When they get older and heavier, they become the villains. If they are still at it when they are REALLY old, they play the clowns. Moolah's buddy Mae has played all three roles and Moolah's descriptions of her antics are hilarious. Also very interesting was Moolah's relationship to Katie, her dwarf protege, whom Moolah always refers to as "my damn midget." (Moolah also appears in a delightful documentary film about women wrestlers that I saw at the Tribeca Film Festival last spring called "Lipstick and Dynamite." I recommend this book and the film.) I loaned this book to a friend who was in the hospital recently. He liked the book and passed it around. The book became very popular with everyone on his floor of the hospital (including some of the night staff). I also lent it to a friend who has a PhD and she found it delightful too. I wouldn't want to tangle with Moolah, but I really enjoyed reading her book. It's a quick read and very amusing.
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For many years, famed mathematics historian and master teacher Howard Eves collected stories and anecdotes about mathematics and mathematicians, gathering them together in six Mathematical Circles books. Thousands of teachers of mathematics have read these stories and anecdotes for their own enjoyment and used them in the classroom - to add entertainment, to introduce a human element, to inspire the student, and to forge some links of cultural history. All six of the Mathematical Circles books have been reissued as a three-volume edition. This three-volume set is a must for all who enjoy the mathematical enterprise, especially those who appreciate the human and cultural aspects of mathematics.
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The Smythe Sewn Squared Circles Unlined is a uniquely designed journal that is playful, fun, fashionable, and modern. Its eye-catching, bold geometrical compositions use intersecting and overlapping lines and arcs, reflected and rotated in numerous directions to achieve striking new effects. The color palette is tasteful yet lively, adding an extra dimension to these “shape scapes” and complementing contemporary fashion, design, and architecture. Squaring the Circle challenges the idea of what a book should look like.
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2008 Squared Circles Midi Dayplanner Horizontal
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With its striking design, this 2008 Squared Circles Dayplanner journal comes in a week-at-a-time midi horizontal format. Its features include dual ribbon markers, acid-free forest sustainable paper (which will last for centuries), momento pouch, European-made binder board made completely from recycled stock, hi-opaque paper to lessen ink show-through, and a smooth writing surface that takes ink superbly.
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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's preservation reformatting program.
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Looking through a squared off circle (Blue Cloud quarterly)
Silvester J Brito
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- The Octopus and the Orangutan: More True Tales of Animal Intrigue, Intelligence, and Ingenuity
- The Overloaded Ark
- The Perfection of the Morning : An Apprenticeship in Nature
- The Resurgence of the Real
- The rocks in God's highway: The Sobek middle Zambezi expedition and its antecendents (Occasional study / Zambia Geograhical Association)
- The Shadow of Kilimanjaro
- The Trouble With Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next
- The Wholeness of Nature : Goethe's Way Toward a Science of Conscious Participation in Nature
- The Works of Charles Darwin: The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, Volume 22 Part 2
- These American Lands: Parks, Wilderness, and the Public Lands
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