Advances in Ecological Research, Vol. 34: Classic Papers (Advances in Ecological Research)

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Advances in Ecological Research was first published in 1962 and has become one of Academic Press' most prestigious and successful series. In 1999 the Institute for Scientific Information released figures indicating this serial has an impact factor of 9.6 and a half-life of 10.0 years, ranking it first in the highly competitive category of Ecology. This volume continues to publish topical and important reviews, and interprets ecology to include all material that contributes to our understanding of the field. Advances in Ecological Research presents a wide range of papers on all aspects of ecology. Topics include the physiology, populations, and communities of plants and animals, as well as landscape and ecosystem ecology

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Anne Kursinski not only can ride but write too!

An Intermediate Rider's Bible

Excellent resource

A must for anyone who rides english!

Anne Kursinski's Riding and Jumping Clinic
Anne Kursinski
Manufacturer: Doubleday
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ASIN: 0385474059
Release Date: 1995-08-01

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Anne Kursinski has been an outstanding international competitor for almost two decades, winning such coveted awards as the American Gold Cup, the Grands Prix of Aachen and Rome, the Pan American Games Individual Gold Medal, and an Olympic silver medal at Seoul, to name only a few. Today, Anne Kursinski is one of the most admired -- and most successful -- riders in the world.

In recent years, while continuing to compete at the highest levels, she has also become one of the most sought-after instructors and clinicians in America. Now at last, this breakthrough book lays out in words and pictures the key elements of her riding techniques so that they can be studied and applied by any determined rider. Of special interest are Anne's secrets of analyzing jumper courses, and her strategies for riding them. Whether they aspire to ride hunters or jumpers or to compete in horsemanship over fences, Anne Kursinski's Riding And Jumping Clinic will improve readers' chances of success as it takes them, step-by-step, all the way from basic flatwork and dressage through jumping at every level.

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I Prefer George Morris.......2006-02-25

I bought this book at the same time as "Hunter Seat Equitation" by George Morris. I much prefered Morris' style of presenting information and have been able to incorporate pieces of it much faster. Kursinski's approach to this book, essentially telling the reader to tell his or her instructor what to do, did not work well with me. Try telling a "lead mare" what to do in her own barn! From personal experience telling your trainer that a book determined your training program is not a bright thing to do. Maybe a self-taught rider would have more luck with this book than a person in riding lessons.

Anne Kursinski not only can ride but write too!.......2004-12-04

Anne Kursinski has been my hero since her 1988 Silver Medal win on "Starman" during the Olympics. She has a beautiful style and presence to her riding. I purchased this book on Amazon and have thoroughly enjoyed reading it. It's very easy to understand for the beginner rider on up! I recommend this book to all of my riding students. A must have for sure! I'll even read it again!

An Intermediate Rider's Bible.......2003-01-27

This book exceeded my expectations. As an intermediate rider, the combination of multiple illustrations and accompaning technical commentary is instrumental. This book covers basic flat work and jumping and makes the "upward transition" to advanced work. Anne Kursinski's written style uses common sense and visual imagery. After reading each chapter, I couldn't wait to try out her techniques on my horse.

If you want to become more connected with your horse through feel and athletic ability, this book will work for you.

Anne teaches you to communicate with your horse physically and emotionally. A combination that is essential but understated.

Excellent resource.......2002-01-02

This book is a great resource for any serious rider who wants to improve their skills. I was able to not only use Anne's theories in my own riding but also apply them to my students. She explains everything in a very straight forward manner with lots of illustrations for the many exercises she gives. Since I live in an area where the closest jumper trainer is almost 2 hours away, this was a great way to get new ideas to tackle problems and master the basics. Highly recommend this book for anyone who wants to better themselves as a rider.

A must for anyone who rides english!.......2000-12-01

This book was excellent! It's perfect for anyone riding english weather you haven't even taken a lesson or you've been riding for 10 years! It's very in depth and will help you perfect your riding. It teachs the basics to advanced dressage and jumping. It includes great pictures and explains everything very well, and anyone can understand it. I HIGHLY reccomend it!

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accidental assualts on the english language

A Big Laugh

If you make fun of others' English, yours had better be perfect...

Great for Beginners Learning English.

This book had me laughing from the very first page!

The Revenge of Anguished English: More Accidental Assaults Upon Our Language
Richard Lederer
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press
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ASIN: 0312334931
Release Date: 2005-03-10

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Richard Lederer has been called Attila the Pun, Conan the Grammarian, and the Viceroy of Verbivores. In The Revenge of Anguished English, this "Abbot of Absurdity" (as People magazine has dubbed him) leaves us limp with laughter at how the innocent, the negligent, and the pompous mangle the English language. True to the code of this super-duper blooper snooper, all the fluffs and flubs, goofs and gaffes, and blunders, botches, boo-boos, and bloopers are genuine, authentic, certified, and unretouched. Nothing has been made up!* Student blooper: The four gospels are written by John, Paul, George, and that other guy.* Science blooper: Elephants eat roots, leaves, grasses, and sometimes bark. * In a church bulletin: Attend and you will hear an excellent speaker and heave a healthy lunch.* A headline howler: DENVER CHAPTER WILL HAVE SENATOR FOR BREAKFAST * On a frozen food package: Defrost your frozen food before eating.* Misplaced modifier: Children should not drive golf carts under the age of sixteen.* Spelling error: The driver of the car was cited for wreckless driving.

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accidental assualts on the english language.......2007-02-12

This is a gut wrenching (in the sense that my stomach ached from laughter after reading it) collection of grammatical errors, linguistic bloopers, slip ups, faux pas, mixed metaphors, mis-translations, Freudian slips, malapropisms and other gaffes and misunderstandings from the schoolroom, the courts, political speeches, the doctor's office, warning labels and instructions, advertisements, church bulletins, headlines, and worst of all, the media, who as the author points out, are professionals and should know better.

Here are some samples:
The Court: The charge here is the theft of frozen chickens. Are you the defendant?
Defendant: No sir, I'm the guy who stole the chickens.
From students' test papers: All Gaul is quartered unto three halves.
Christopher Columbus discovered America while cursing about the Atlantic on the Nina, the Pintacolada and the Santa Fe.
Someone who runs for an office he already holds is called an incompetent.
The four gospels were written by John, Paul, George and that other guy.
Parent's note to teacher: Please excuse Tom for being absent yesterday. He had diarrhea, and his boots leak.
From a church bulletin: We are sorry to announce that Mr Albert Brown has been quite unwell, owing to his recent death and is taking a short holiday to recover.

My personal favourite is the correction of an error of high tide times published in an Australian coastal town newspaper, but you'll have to read the book to get the joke.

If you have not yet encountered the humorous works of Richard Lederer, you don't know what you've been missing. If you have read his earlier books, then this is more of the same insane hilarity. In either case, waste no time getting your hands on this book and prepare for an assault on your funny-bone.

A Big Laugh.......2005-08-29

Richard Lederer has broken all records with his latest book.

It is a big laugh from beginning to end and I recommend it highly to anyone who needs the cobwebs of melancholy and depression driven away in one fell swoop.

If you make fun of others' English, yours had better be perfect..........2005-07-25

This book is a collection of gaffes, puns (mostly unintentional), unfortunate typos, syntactical snafus, kids' use of language, and translational traps. Some of the examples are riotously funny; others are just so-so. Sometimes the number of examples overwhelms the brain's ability to appreciate them. The introductions by Lederer before each chapter are cleverly written, but sometimes too much so. (Example: "Here's a sampling of English terrors and tinglish errors, the blood and thunder and thud and blunder...") Ugh.

Finally, if you're going to make fun of English gaffes you find elsewhere, you'd better have a cadre of editors to make sure none of your prose contains errors. This sentence, written by Lederer, poked me right in the eye: "It is sometimes said that if something is perfectly true, then it's exact opposite must also be perfectly true." Apostrophe abuse!

Still, it was a very funny book, especially for a word nerd such as myself. I definitely intend to look for Lederer's earlier works. I love this stuff!

Great for Beginners Learning English........2005-07-20

The AMERICAN HERITAGE Dictionary describes 'revenge' as "to inflict punishment for injury or insult." MERRIAM-WEBSTER Dictionary calls it "an opportunity for getting satisfaction. 'Anguish" in A.H. is "torment;" in MW, it is "full of torment."

I didn't appreciate the puns and some of the language: Edgar Allen Poe's single-effect theory is that everything in the story contributes to one main idea and the story should be short enough to be "read in one (word banned)." To me, this is not funny. Poe is one of my favorite writers and should not be demeaned in such a fashion.

Richard Lederer is the author of fifteen other books about English and has a column, "Looking at Language" in newspapers and magazines nationwide. Today's column by our local grammar guru suggests everyone use redundancies: "refer back," 'Past history,' and "absolute necessity."

He is not an expert on English in spite of what that total may presume; puns is his specialty. He divides this book into five sections.

This book had me laughing from the very first page!.......2005-06-24

Unfortunately, none of the local papers carry a column, "Looking at Language," by Richard Lederer . . . it is something that I'd definitely want to read--especially after enjoying his
very funny book, THE REVENGE OF ANGUISHED ENGLISH.

In it, he takes actual misuses of the English language and presents them in a series of short chapters that had me laughing from the very first page . . . I never realized that there were so many fluffs and flubs, goofs and gaffes, blunders, botches, boo-boos, and bloopers that are actually run as the gospel, seemingly on a daily basis.

They have been issued by students, run in church bulletins, appeared on frozen food packages, and run in newspapers as headlines.

The tough part in writing this review was to choose just a few examples that I could share, in that there were so many . . . among them:

* On the JOEY BISHOP SHOW, Joey asked Sen. Barry Goldwater if he would like to be on the show twice a week. The senator answered, "I'd much rather watch you in bed with my wife."

* Attending a wedding for the first time, a little girl whispered to her mother, "Why is the bride dressed in white?"

"Because white is the color of happiness, and today is the happiest day of her life."

The child thought about this for a moment, then said, "So why is the groom wearing black?"

* [from the Excuses Hall of Fame]
My son is under the doctor's care. Please execute him.
Please excuse Mary for being absent. She was sick, and I had her shot.
Please excuse Jimmy for being. If was his father's fault.
Please excuse Tom for being absent yesterday. He had diarrhea,
and his boots leak.
Maryann was absent December 11-16 because she had a fever,
sore throat, headache, and upset stomach. Her sister was also sick--fever and sore throat--and her brother had a low-grade fever and ached all over. I wasn't the best either--sore throat and fever. There must be the flu going around school. Her father even got hot last night.

[court Q-and-A]
Q: Where do you live?
A: 2442 Oseawotamire Street
Q: How do you spell that street?
A: S-T-R-E-E-T

* In one edition of today's food section, an inaccurate number of jalapeno peppers was given for Jeanette Crowley's southwestern chicken salad recipe. The Recipe should call for 2, not 21, jalapeno peppers.

* Lost dog-mixed breed, shaggy, left front leg amputated, missing top of right ear, partially blind, tail was broken and healed crooked, some teeth gone, scars on head and back, has been castrated. Answers to name of Lucky

* Spoken by a Los Angeles radio DJ shortly after the 1990 earthquake:
The telephone company is urging people to please not use the telephone unless it is absolutely necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this break to give away a pair of Phil Collins concert tickets to caller number 95.

I'm still laughing at these so much that I'm now going to get hold of Lederer's first book on the same topic, ANGUISHED ENGLISH.

The Revenge of Anguished English (More Accidental Assaults Upon Our Language)

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The Revenge of Anguished English (More Accidental Assaults Upon Our Language)
Richard Lederer
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press New York
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 073946096X

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Kipling's own drawings, with their long, funny captions, illustrate his hilarious explanations of How the Camel Got His Hump, How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin, How the Armadillo Happened, and other animal How's. He began inventing these stories in his American wife's hometown of Brattleboro, Vermont, to amuse his eldest daughter--and they have served ever since as a source of laughter for children everywhere.

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Beware of reading this to young children..........2007-10-15

This book was precious to me as a young child. I enjoyed it immensely and looked forward to sharing it with my children. Not sure if my parents "edited" when reading, however, I was shocked to find the "N" word in several stories. I know that this is classic literature ~ just be warned.

Also, several stories contained a great deal of violence. Characters spanking and hitting one another... save it for your older children or when you are ready to have discussions with your children about these matters.

perennial favorite.......2007-05-18

Kipling's delightful stories continue to enthrall a new generation. Lyrical, funny, packed with fanciful explanations for everything from the camel's hump to the elephant's trunk, they just beg to be read aloud and appeal to children of all ages. My three-year-old granddaughter loved the book so much, especially the story about the elephant's child, that I bought her a copy of her own for a fourth birthday present.

Other books recently enjoyed by the now four-year-old granddaughter (and suitable for older children as well) include Three Tales of My Father's Dragon and Mountains of the Moon.

Way, Way Better Than I Ever Dreamed Of.......2007-03-02

When I first bought this book, I thought it would be quite dull. Boy, was I wrong. I loved it from start to finish. Kipling shines as a a master humorist and storyteller, and through my reading of "Just So Stories" I never once had to stretch myself wondering why he was so popular in his day and why he won the Nobel Prize. His work speaks for itself.

I really likes his commentaries on his own pictures.
-"I should like to paint him with paint-box colours, but I am not allowed."
-"Pau Amma is trying to make a Magic, but he is only a silly old King Crab, and so he can't do anything."
-"It is all a magic picture, and that is one of the reasons why I haven't drawn the Jaguar's whiskers."

Absolutely wonderful.

More pics, please.......2006-08-14

My children so loved the Rikki Tikki Tavi video--based on a Kipling video--that I wanted to find other Kipling stories on tape (besides the Jungle Book). I wasn't successful, but I found many different editions of Just So Stories. It was hard to choose!
I'm disappointed with the outcome. While it's a nice, full collection of the stories, there is only one illustration per story--not at all like the picture-rich edition I had as a child.
To shop online for kiddy books (my children are 5, 4 and 3), it's important for it to be vivid how picture rich the book is (or isn't).

Great Book.......2006-03-09

It's a nice budget edition of the famous book with sophisticated authors' illustrations.

A Collection of Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories

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My son loved this book
Not what I expected
kipling's just so stories
Family Readaloud Material
Old School doesn't die

A Collection of Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories
Rudyard Kipling
Manufacturer: Candlewick
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Release Date: 2004-10-07

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In this gorgeous collection featuring eight of Kipling's JUST SO STORIES, each tale is illustrated by a different leading contemporary artist.

How did the rude Rhinoceros get his baggy skin? How did a 'satiably curious Elephant change the lives of his kin evermore? First told aloud to his young daughter ("O my Best Beloved"), Rudyard Kipling's inspired answers to these and other burning questions draw from the fables he heard as a child in India and the folktales he gathered from around the world. Now, in this sumptuous volume, Kipling's playful, inventive tales are brought to life by eight of today's celebrated illustrators, from Peter Sís's elegantly graphic cetacean in "How the Whale Got His Throat" to Satoshi Kitamura's amusingly expressive characters in "The Cat That Walked by Himself." From one of the world's greatest storytellers come eight classic tales just begging to be heard by a new generation — and a visual feast that offers a reward with every retelling.

Featuring illustrations by:
Christopher Corr
Cathie Felstead
Jeff Fisher
Satoshi Kitamura
Claire Melinsky
Jane Ray
Peter Sís
Louise Voce

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My son loved this book.......2007-09-11

I don't understand the other comment about not being appropriate for children because my son loved it! A friend gave me this book when my son was 3 years old. I went through it first, to see what the stories were like, before reading any to him. He was used to all the Disney stories up until then, but really liked the stories in this book. This was back in 1989 and 1990. His favorite was "How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin." Unfortunately, I sold the book when I moved so now have to buy a new copy that I will give to a friend having a baby. My son still remembers this book and how much fun it was to listen to the stories.

Not what I expected.......2007-07-29

I had the impression the stories would be good to read to a child, they weren't.

kipling's just so stories.......2007-02-26

As these stories were written in another era they may not seem PC by today's standards. However, some of them are amusing and can be retold with subtle editing if necessary.

Family Readaloud Material.......2007-02-11

When I married, Mother gave me our family copy of Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories which had scribbles in it from more than one of my five siblings. I don't remember reading it as a child, to be honest, but it was there. When our first two children were old enough to sit still for a story, my husband sat them in his lap and read them "The Elephant's Child" from this volume. After they squirmed a bit, he assigned acting parts to one or the other of them at various times, and by the time the third son came along they were fighting over acting parts. With voice inflection and movement to accompany the reading, they understood this story more and more, and they began to beg for more story time. He added first one and then another of the stories in this classic. Now our second son and his wife have had their first child, and for his first Christmas as a parent we were delighted to give him him own copy, and the two new parents are continuing the tradition. Bravo, Rudyard Kipling, and bravo, Daddy

Old School doesn't die.......2007-02-10

Still excellent as a reading time project. Both my son and daughter love the stories as much as I did as a child.

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Just So Stories
Rudyard Kipling
Manufacturer: Tantor Media
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Binding: Audio CD

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Drawing from the oral storytelling of India and Africa, Kiplings's vigorous, amusing tales offer imaginative answers to questions about animals and provide little pearls of wisdom.

The Just So Stories (Collector's Library)

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The Just So Stories (Collector's Library)
Rudyard Kipling
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