Fundamentals of Soil Ecology

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This fully revised and expanded edition of Fundamentals of Soil Ecology continues its holistic approach to soil biology and ecosystem function. Students and ecosystem researchers will gain a greater understanding of the central roles that soils play in ecosystem development and function. The authors emphasize the increasing importance of soils as the organizing center for all terrestrial ecosystems and provide an overview of theory and practice of soil ecology, both from an ecosystem and evolutionary biology point of view. This volume contains updated and greatly expanded coverage of all belowground biota (roots, microbes and fauna) and methods to identify and determine its distribution and abundance. New chapters are provided on soil biodiversity and its relationship to ecosystem processes, suggested laboratory and field methods to measure biota and their activities in ecosystems..

* Contains over 60% new material and 150 more pages
* Includes new chapters on soil biodiversity and its relationship to ecosystem function
* Outlines suggested laboratory and field methods
* Incorporates new pedagogical features
* Combines theoretical and practical approaches

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Great for an intermediate level reader.......2006-02-25

It's a perfect book for anyone who wants to know more about soil ecology. It gives introductory basics on some soil chemistry and pedogenesis, but then dives fully into the different ecological processes (and a large section on the critters) at work. I'm using this book in a class I am taking and I would definitely recommend it. Its language is simple enough to express some of the more difficult concepts, but it is complex enough to keep you from being bored. Plenty of graphs, pictures, and studies to accompany readings.

A great reference for ecologists and soil scientists. .......2005-05-11

I just received a copy, and haven't had time to look through it completely, but I would highly recommend this book for any ecologists (particularly graduate students like myself) who are working with organisms that have any biological connection to the soil. Just looking at the number of pages, it's been updated and expanded quite a bit since the first edition. Chapter 4, on soil organisms, is big and relatively descriptive (with useful pictures). Also covers in significant detail microbial communities (Ch. 3), nutrient cycling (Ch. 5), soil food webs (Ch. 6), the relationship between biodiversity and soil (Ch. 7) and includes quite a few sampling methodologies. This book covers, but does not stress the plant-soil relationship (Ch. 2, only a little over 20 pages), which is nice since that information has been of greater historical focus and is covered well elsewhere, while this book's strength is on things that are not as well covered in the standard literature. Other books that cover similar material as this one would be Dindal's (1990) "Soil Biology Guide" (a classic, animal taxonomy-centered tome in this field) and Wood's (1989) smaller, more ecology-centered text "Soil Biology" (too much like this one to justify purchasing it now?). Coleman et al.'s emphasis on ecology makes this book stand out as a great reference.

Man on the landscape;: The fundamentals of plant conservation

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Man on the landscape;: The fundamentals of plant conservation
Vernon Gill Carter
Manufacturer: National Wildlife Federation
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Transgenic Plants: Fundamentals and Applications (Books in Soils, Plants, and the Environment)

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Transgenic Plants: Fundamentals and Applications (Books in Soils, Plants, and the Environment)

Manufacturer: Marcel Dekker
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Fundamentals of Soil Ecology
D. A. Crossley, Paul F. Hendrix David C. Coleman
Manufacturer: Academic Press
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Fundamentals of Soil Ecology
Jr., D. A. Crossley David C. Coleman
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Fundamentals of Soil Ecology
David C.; Crossley, D. A. Jr. Coleman
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Pesticides in the Soil Environment (Fundamental aspects of pollution control and environmental science)

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Pesticides in the Soil Environment (Fundamental aspects of pollution control and environmental science)
Shahamat U. Khan
Manufacturer: Elsevier
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Now it was as if all the sorrow of those nineteen losses had deluged him at once. Virtually every member of every team had lined up to slap hands with him as he drove by. It was the most monumental salute in the history of American motor racing.

Earnhardt drove into the infield grass in front of the pit road, and across the enormous painted word "Daytona," he did the most artistic "doughnuts" ever by a victor-he spun and whirled his car until the tires gouged out of the grass a gigantic "3" in earthen colors. And then in Victory Lane all the heartbreak came in one last crashing wave...

For a generation Ed Hinton has been witness to what may be the most truly American sport of all. Once loved by those mostly living south of the Mason-Dixon line, NASCAR has captured the imagination of an entire nation. Television ratings are skyrocketing, and names like Jeff Gordon and the late Dale Earnhardt are part of the American fabric. Now, after years of covering heart-stopping races, gasoline alley power struggles, and family feuds, Hinton delivers the book on racing that America has been waiting for...

DAYTONA

Hinton takes us on a full-throttle history of Daytona from the days when well-healed daredevils and tycoons held speed contests on the beach to Daytona's eventual overthrow of the Indy 500 as America's premier racing event. Along the way he chronicles the personal side of the sport, including the rise and fall of "the King," Richard Petty, the tragic dynasty of the Allison family, the rags-to-riches story of Dale Earnhardt, and some of the sport's most vicious, on- and off-the-track rivalries-among racers, owners, crew chiefs, and carmakers themselves.

With finely etched prose, Hinton straps us into a state-of-the-art racing machine to experience unimaginable power held with a feathery touch, while waging the nerve-racking war for space, speed, and track. He takes us through the garage area on a Daytona 500 morning, where cars "like monstrous patients in intensive care" are given final tunings by specialists and the air shudders with the sound of unmufflered engines reaching RPMs that would explode your family car. And he takes us into those moments that stay in the mind forever: moments of split-second victory or defeat, moments of unbelievable skill and courage, and, tragically, moments of death.

Ultimately, DAYTONA is a story about people: fathers and sons; teammates and competitors; the visionary who invented the sport, Big Bill France; the boy genius Jeff Gordon, who overthrew the Intimidator, Dale Earnhardt; those speed demons like Willie K. Vanderbilt, Fireball Roberts, and Junior Johnson, who came along long before Daytona and NASCAR became household names. Big, brawling, colorful, and smart-every bit as exciting as the sport itself, DAYTONA does for racing what The Boys of Summer did for baseball-and will stand as a classic in its own right.

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Sir Malcomb don't need no stinkin' restrictor plates.......2005-03-19

My guess is that even the locals here would tell you that the relationship between the Daytona area and automobile engineering began with the primitive stock jalopies dueling on the beach in the late 1930's. They need to go back further. A full century ago the Daytona-Ormond region was noted for style. Not exactly Charleston, SC, perhaps, but a place where the rich and famous wintered thanks to excellent rail service. Among these winter guests were industrialists who could not sit still for four months waiting for the fish to bite. With the invention and development of the combustible engine, the Atlantic beach became for a time America's test track.

Author Ed Hinton is best known as a longtime beat reporter for modern day stock car racing, but his research into the early days of Daytona motorsports is surprisingly good. As early as 1903 an annual winter racing festival was established, fueled by both the daring of a new breed of test drivers and the research and development interests of major auto manufacturers. This was long before the empowerment of any official sanctioning body; templates and restrictor plates were unheard of. The conditions and the technology favored racing the clock, and by the time Wilbur and Orville had reached flight further up the coast, test drivers were pushing the 100mph envelope at the Daytona-Ormond city line.

Curiously, the greatest day of Daytona beach racing was in a sense its death knell. There would be a limit as to how much traction could be generated by sand and rubber, and in 1933 Sir Malcolm Campbell--in a hair-raising exhibition-discovered that dangerous point. He stretched his Bluebird to the unthinkable speed of 330 mph along the beach track, then turned around to complete the required stretch for an official world record. At 300mph he lost control of his car but--in what must have been one of the greatest maneuvering feats ever--recovered the car and finished the run. He was also finished with the unpredictability of Atlantic beach conditions, and he joined the exodus to the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah.

One of the heart-pounding spectators of this feat was one William France. A good mechanic and a part-time Saturday night racer in the Washington, DC suburbs, France was also something of a social philosopher on the subject of racing. He discovered among other things that many promoters were dishonest, that good engines were not generally available to the driver of average means like himself, and that in the unregulated world of local racing, there was no protection for individual competitors. And though he probably never tasted moonshine whiskey, he was not so puritanical as to ignore the skill and technology of "moonshine transporters."

With the emigrations to Utah and Indiana of big name drivers, the Depression-ravaged Daytona area was open to about any money making idea, though France's first beachfront stock car races in the late 1930's were not exactly bonanzas. As a promoter France discovered that drivers cheated as often as management, and his conviction deepened for the need of a powerful sanctioning body. After the war hiatus, France was enough of a force to create NASCAR in 1947 with himself, not surprisingly, as its not so benevolent dictator. He had a knack for getting ahead of parades that had started without him-Harold Brasington's daring 1.3 mile super-speedway at Darlington, SC in 1949, and the concept of the 500 mile race at a time when no one knew if a stock car could actually do that. When by 1955 he saw that both concepts were eminently successful, and developers were clamoring for Daytona beachfront sites, France set in motion the construction of today's 2.5-mile super-speedway, where the inaugural race was held in February 1959.

By this point in his history Hinton is now in the world of races he himself attended with drivers he knew intimately well. Daytona is only one of at least twenty sanctioned tracks in stock car's senior circuit, and the second half of this work is the story of the "annual visits," through which we see the development, the glory years, and the declines of the great ones of the modern era. In his introduction the author notes that his book was almost finished at the time of Earnhardt's death during the final lap of the 2001 Daytona 500. While he describes that race with particular emphasis upon the Earnhardt tragedy, it does not appear that he extensively reworked his text in light of the accident. Translate: the Intimidator wasn't "cleaned up" for posterity.

But because of his closeness to this generation of drivers, Hinton cannot quite contain himself to the Daytona scene. There are great stories to be told, rivalries probed, genuinely funny incidents that occurred many miles from Daytona that spice the second half of the work. I have to admit that many of these tales we've heard before-though here we get them in the uncensored quotes of sources like Darrell Waltrip. Because he writes well, and because he does justice to the recent Daytona races, Hinton can be forgiven his repetitions and diversions. Moreover, his coverage of issues involving driver safety in recent years is evidence that, in the tradition of old Bill France, he has given a lot of thought to this sport

Great book but there are a few errors...........2004-07-27

The title basically says it all. This fascinating book uses Daytona International Speedway and the old racing surface of Daytona Beach itself as its lens to focus on the world of NASCAR. Hinton has been a beat reporter covering NASCAR since the mid-1970s and knows all of the old stories and Hinton is able to package them so that the reader is reading one little vignette after another until the history of Daytona is told.

I was reading another book when I picked up this one (a Christmas gift that I hadn't really paid a lot of attention to) and began thumbing through it. I couldn't put it down! It is well-written and at times it is laugh out loud funny, especially if you are a NASCAR fan and are familiar with the older, retired drivers.

However, a couple of disturbing, trivial factual errors throw a negative light on the book as a whole. Two that I noted were Hinton's assertion that no rookie has won the Indy 500 since the 1926 race (in case you're wondering, Daytona Beach used to be used as a high-speed test site, much like Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah is used today and the 1926 winner died making such a high-speed run). I knew that his assertion was wrong since I witnessed rookies win the 2000 race (Juan Montoya) and the 2001 race (Helio Castroneves) - both were well-before publishing time for his book. Besides that, 2 minutes on Google told me there were two others - the 1927 and 1966 winners.

Secondly, he makes the assertion that California driver Willie T. Ribbs was encouraged by the example set by "The Dukes of Hazzard" to get drunk and play chasing games with the police in downtown Charlotte, NC in May of 1978. Since I spent a great deal of my own childhood watching the Dukes, I thought that that seemed a bit early. Sure enough, two more minutes on Google told me that the show premiered in January of 1979, so it really had no part in Ribbs' ill-conceived misadventures. Oddly enough, Ribbs' trip to the drunk tank gave Dale Earnhardt the chance to take his car - his first chance to drive a good car in the Winston Cup Series and this opportunity eventually led him to the career that made him a household name.

Despite these errors the book was a hoot to read and I'm sure I'll be lending it to every NASCAR fan I know.

A Strong History of Daytona Racing - and Some of NASCAR, too.......2002-05-13

Having read a good many books about NASCAR of yesterday and today, I was fairly prepared to read the same stories about the same drivers concerning the same incidents: a rehashing of books from the past. I am happy to say that I was very wrong about Ed Hinton's book. There is the history of Daytona speed that goes back a century, which the author covers quite well; the history of the beginnings of NASCAR, which the author not only brings to life (and light, specifically in its moonshining roots) but adds new information - I had read the bare facts of the death of Lloyd Seay before, but the author gives us more to go on concerning his demise. Then there is the body of the book, a look at each year's Daytona 500 and its winner. Hinton does an excellent job of blending in the race with the driver's personality; one can empathize with Donnie Allison and how one moment in time led to a downward spiral in his career, a moment not completely of his own making. One can feel for Darrell Waltrip and the changes brought to his career - and how his changes brought him his only Daytona 500 win. Then there is the last part of the book, centering on Dale Earnhardt. The author and Earnhardt were once close friends but at this time cooler towards each other; the author explores this last race down to the last lap and the multitude of circumstances that occurred to cause the death of Earnhardt. The author researched head-and-neck injuries with three of the top people in this field in an effort to write knowledgably about this subject, and he accomplished that mission. Ed Hinton has written an absorbing story of the quest for speed, the track and the personalities - and the organization behind these three ingredients - and his book is one not to be missed by NASCAR fans.

By far the best written Nascar history yet published........2002-04-27

I've read "From Moonshine to Madison Avenue," "The Wildest Ride," and "The Nascar Way." Those three books are each excellent histories of Nascar and each has its own focus, but apart from the last one listed, their authors don't write exceptionally well. This book by Hinton is in a whole different league, however. The man knows how to write REALLY well - and how to tell and report a story. The stories in this book are much more than good ol' boy anecdotes, although anecdotes are sprinkled into his reporting when they elucidate the point. Personal interviews of a very large number of people who have been prominent in Nascar form a good deal of this book's spine. While its focus is Daytona, it is about quite a bit more than just what has happened at that track.

The book is fairly critical of Nascar - and refreshingly so. ... Well, he maligns a lot of things - as a good reporter should when the subject deserves it. But he also reports the poingant, the tragic, and the triumphant, too, and the book as a whole is remarkably well balanced. If you're looking for a simple public relations fluff piece that blows sunshine [at you] about your favorite driver or Nascar in general, don't buy this book. You will be disappointed and maybe even angry because this book was not written for you. On the other hand, if you are a casual fan, or a dyed-in-the-wool one with an open mind, this book will give you a lot of wonderfully detailed history about Daytona, Nascar, the cars and races, and most important - the people and personalities big and small that have been a part of the show. You will definitely get a good deal of insight about how the facinating circus that is Nascar today has come to be. Buy this book and enjoy!

Great start, weak finish........2002-04-10

I had been looking forward to this book since I'd read an excerpt on espn.com some time ago. It did not disappoint me, until the last 5 or so chapters.

In the first half of the book, I read about drivers and legends I'd never heard of. From Barney Oldfield, the first real blue collar racer, to Lloyd Seay, who may have been the best ever. NASCAR in its formative years, and the iron will of big Bill France, told me more than facts and figures, it told me the story of a men's lives. If only the book had stayed true to the winning format established in these first few chapters, I'd give it six stars.

The middle chapters covered Daytona and NASCAR through the 50's into the early 80's. It started off great with stories of Junior Johnson, the Pettys, and David Pearson. Not just on the racetrack, but how they ended up in a stock car. I still remember Junior's quote: "The president's(JFK) daddy was a bootlegger, and he got sent to the white house. My daddy was a bootlegger and I got sent to prison." AJ Foyt's run in the 24 hours of Daytona was a great testament about a son's love for his father. I hadn't put the book down yet. The format of "setup, setup hyphen hyphen TA DA!" got to be a bit tiring. A surprisingly quick read to this point however.

Too bad what had been a great book became the bash Dale Earnhardt press for the last third. It's no secret of Ed Hinton's dislike of Earnhardt. Everything bad that happened since 1980 in NASCAR, to hear Ed tell it, was Earnhardt's fault. The build up of how Bill Elliot got his start saved me from not finishing the book. The story of Jeff Gordon from the time he was 5 years old, until he broke into Winston Cup was a very interesting read. Then it turned into the biggest suck up chapters I have read anywhere. Maybe he is angling for the chance to write Gordon's biography? By this point the book had gone from people and their stories, to purely wins, losses, money, and other facts and figures.

I wish I'd read this book backward. If I could have made it through the last few sorry chapters I would have put the book down after reading the front cover and said, "wow, great book." Instead, what started out as an awesome read about different personalities and history turned into an anti Dale Earnhardt, pro Jeff Gordon infommercial.

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Daytona: From the Birth of Speed to the Death of the Man in Black

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Twenty times Dale Earnhardt had tried. Nineteen times he'd failed, often astoundingly, sometimes magnificently. And so it was an old man in Earnhardt's car in Victory Lane, fifty years to the day after the first NASCAR race on the sands of Daytona Beach. The cobalt eyes were weary. The hard face was ashen, suddenly lined with wrinkles beyond his forty-six years. Now it was as if all the sorrow of those nineteen losses had deluged him at once. Virtually every member of every team had lined up to slap hands with him as he drove by. It was the most monumental salute in the history of American motor racing. Earnhardt drove into the infield grass in front of the pit road, and across the enormous painted word "Daytona," he did the most artistic "doughnuts" ever by a victor -- he spun and whirled his car until the tires gouged out of the grass a gigantic "3" in earthen colors. And then in Victory Lane all the heartbreak came in one last crashing wave... For a generation Ed Hinton has been witness to what may be the most truly American sport of all. Once loved by those mostly living south of the Mason-Dixon line, NASCAR has captured the imagination of an entire nation. Television ratings are skyrocketing, and names like Jeff Gordon and the late Dale Earnhardt are part of the American fabric. Now, after years of covering heart-stopping races, gasoline alley power struggles, and family feuds, Hinton delivers the book on racing that America has been waiting for... DAYTONA Hinton takes us on a full-throttle history of Daytona from the days when well-healed daredevils and tycoons held speed contests on the beach to Daytona's eventual overthrow of the Indy 500 as America's premier racing event.

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The ideal guide to choosing the right word. Entries go beyond the word lists of a thesaurus, explaining important differences between synonyms. Provides over 17,000 usage examples. Lists antonyms and related words.

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Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Synonyms.......2007-05-06

This is the compainion to the Merriam-Webster's Thesaurus that I recently purchased. I believe this reference book is a must have in any private library that gives any writing needs you have that edge that stands you apart from all of the other writers in this world. Again, I thought for sure this was going to be a book that collected dust on the shelf but this is not the case at all !!! I use this book along with my new Dictionary and Thesaurus on a regular basis knowing these reference books give me the confidence to go forward and write anything I want. Knowing I can actually express my thoughts completely with words that can give a clear picture of my thoughts and feelings !!! Without sounding like an idiot who failed third grade spelling three years in a row. Only kidding mom. LOL I am very pleased to have this reference book in my library and I look forward to using this book over and over again in the future !!!

Indispensable.......2007-03-13

Indispensable for ESLs. Buy it and you will never regret. See the other reviews for why. In other thesauruses you can not choose a word without knowing the shades of meaning and usage discriminating one from the other. This can be easy for native speakers, it is but terribly difficult for an ESL. I know, because I am one. From the moment I opened its package, I have never used any other thesaurus.

A necessary addition.......2007-03-03

A wonderful resource, if only for the pellucid 30 page introduction that schools the reader in the history of synonymy. Unlike thesauruses- which often corral words that may share inessential, non-fundamental aspects of their meaning, the MWDS is a discriminator among synonyms (strictly defined as words that have the same or very nearly the same essential meaning) that differ in their implication, connotation and/or application.

Teacher & Engineering.......2005-04-17

Although I have given 5 stars, I would like to see the computer version. If you have not had any dictionary regarding synomyms, I would recommend you to have it.

The best book for vocabulary.......2005-03-16

Throw away your thesaurus! Indeed, toss your worthless plain-penny dictionary, and obtain this work! Purchase it hardbacked and thumb-indexed (my forty year old copy is now falling to shambles). For years I have judged and esteemed _Webster's New Dictionary of Synonyms_ as the very best book on precise, pellucid, and exact usage of words. This book is its worthy successor. A thesaurus only lists words; this work discusses, compares, and contrasts words in exhaustive detail, with shades and nuances of meaning, with example sentences from published writers, with antonyms, and with analogous and contrasted words. No writer can do without it. As a teacher, I have recommended it to all my students. As a student myself, all those years ago, I perused nightly ten pages. It belongs with Fowler's as one of the great works in and on the English language.

Webster's New Dictionary of Synonyms: A Dictionary of Discriminated Synonyms With Antonyms and Analogous and Contrasted Words

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Webster's New Dictionary of Synonyms: A Dictionary of Discriminated Synonyms With Antonyms and Analogous and Contrasted Words

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If you write for school or business and need precision in the language.......2006-05-25

I was introduced to this book, while in college in 1984. It was invaluable then, and still is now after multiple career directions.

Unlike a thesaurus that simply lists synonyms, Webster's New Dictionary of Synonyms provides definitions and gradations of use, explaining when each synonym is appropriately used. As a result, I have been viewed as the "go-to Word-Smith" in business and academia.

I have one copy for the office, one for home. Great gift for college-bound high school grads, so they don't take off with your copy!

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"I went to Yale. There, a bulldog was the mascot, but somehow, the jowled bulldog's status got diminished over the years, while Reveille lives on, sparking the Aggies on to greatness. Go Reveille!"--George H. W. Bush, former President of the United States

Reveille needs no introduction to Aggies; she is the First Lady of Texas A&M--surrounded by traditions, honored and privileged anywhere on campus. She is a goodwill ambassador as well as a mascot, a symbol of Aggieland as well as the highest ranking officer in A&M's Corps of Cadets. Her lifestyle, accessibility, and popularity combine to make her, above all, among the most widely beloved dogs in the country.

This richly illustrated book traces the history of Reveille, from the first mutt of uncertain origins to Reveille VII, an American collie of purebred lineage and scientific breeding. It tells the collective story of the lives of Reveille at Texas A&M: Reveille's life in the dorm and her privileges in classrooms; the dog-napping by in-state rivals that made national news in the 1990s; and her effect on the lives of those who have shared the campus with her, cared for her, and loved her.

A visible part of university life throughout the year, for many students Reveille is the pet they left at home. Rusty and Vannessa Burson have gathered anecdotes, statistics, and pictures that tell the little-known story of a well-known dog: her origins, tales and traditions, antics and adventures, and evolving role. It is the story of special dogs, caring people, and a legacy shaped through the decades.

The text is accompanied by formal portraits of the successive Revs and candid snaps of her at work and at play. Further spice is added through interspersed facts and figures and quotes from the many people whose lives she has touched.

Like Lassie, Old Yeller, and Rin Tin Tin, Reveille appeals to any dog lover--but she has a special place in the hearts of her fellow Aggies.

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What beautiful dogs!.......2006-02-28

What? You're an Aggie or a fan, and you need to know if you would like this book? Okay, then. It's a warm, informative, and enthusiastic look at one of A&M's most endearing traditions. This book is an easy read and is well-illustrated with beautiful color photos of the First Ladies. You'll probably finish reading it in a session or two. Read it, enjoy it, and then go get your picture made with Reveille!

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