Book Description
Goats are economically valuable animals, but owners need basic information about their care, housing, breeding, and upkeep. Here is expert advice in non-technical language. Barron’s popular line of Pet Handbooks resembles Barron’s Pet Owner’s Manuals series, but are larger, having more pages, more photos and line illustrations, and more detailed advice and information. Pet owners and soon-to-be owners will find reliable information from breeders, veterinarians, and pet care experts presented in easy-to-follow, handsomely designed volumes.
Customer Reviews:
Excellent goat reference.......2007-07-23
This is one of two books I purchased for my dad who is a new goat owner. He has read this book completely and uses it as a reference on a regular basis.
He is very happy with the book.
The basics at a glance.......2007-06-08
This book gives me the basic information on raising my Nigerian Dwarf wether and doeling. Having raised horses, dogs, and more in my life time, these little kids are a unique species and need special information. This book is a great start.
Great Photos and Detailed Information.......2007-01-16
The book was just what I was looking for ... I needed information on breeds and photos of the breeds, as well as caring for and raising goats. It had all of the information I needed.
An owner's care book and will appeal to any goat owner who needs a basic reference at hand.......2006-05-26
Any who would own a goat must have THE GOAT HANDBOOK as a home reference: written by two DVMs, THE GOAT HANDBOOK covers everything from the initial purchase and housing to health and behavior, including care of pastures and meadows so goats stay healthy. Color photos peppered throughout add interest, but THE GOAT HANDBOOK is primarily an owner's care book and will appeal to any goat owner who needs a basic reference at hand.
Diane C. Donovan, Editor
California Bookwatch
how are goats kept in Germany, but not in the US.......2006-04-30
This book is great if you want to know how to raise goats in Europe, please don't get me wrong, I am from Germany and I have nothing against how things are done there, but the way the book discribes the keeping of goats is not the way it is done in the U.S. There is a big different in how goats are raised for meat versus how people raise them for show/milk or even just a for pets with or without horns. No real serious breeder of a Dairy goat in the U.S. would keep horns on a goat or even let the kids nurse. On the other hand most Meat goat breeder will not dehorn their goat and are upset if they have a goat they have to bottlefeed. There are many different ways to keep goats in the U.S. and they are not adequately discribed in this book.
Even thought there is a part where they discribe the "Goats of the world" the breeds discribed in the "Buying Goats" do not represent the popular goat breeds available in the U.S. For example for the choice of milking goat, they only give a choice of white Saanen and colored Saanen and no other breed is recomended. Yes, one really popular goat breed for milk in the U.S. is the white Saanen goat and in the U.S., the white ones are just called Saanen and the colored Saanen are called Sable, and Sable goats are not that easy to come by in the U.S. The most popular goat breed known for its really good tasting milk, the Anglo Nubian goat (usually just called Nubian goat), is not mentioned in this part of the book. Also in the U.S. the climate can be from tropical to very cold and some goats are better suited for colder or warmer climate and this is also not covered in the "Buying Goats" chapter, since the climate in Germany where this book is written doesn't differ in termperature like it does in the U.S.
In Germany not many different types of medication are available over the counter and there you have to go to the vet to get most medications, and here in the U.S. you can get a lot of things you would need to treat the most common illnesses right in your local feed store.
The same with dehorning and castratin goats, the animal protection laws are a lot stricter in Europe and dehorning and castrating of goats is usually not done by the farmer in Germany, but taken to a veterinarian. Here in the U.S., of course you can take your goat to the vet for this, but most breeders will do it themselves.
There is a lot of good information in this book, that is the same in all countries like how goats will rather eat weeds/trees instead of grass or how they digest their food. But many other things, are just not the same in the U.S.
I could go on and on how things normally done in the U.S. are not discribed, but I would have to write my own book to cover all of it. The bottom line is, I do not think that this is the right book to get for a novice that doesn't know what is available in the feed stores or wants to know about what goat to get if they live in the U.S. But I do think it is a good book to get if you already have goats and would like to know how other countries take care of goats or like to read some information that you look at with a open mind and pick what might work for you.
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The Goatkeeper's Veterinary Book
Peter Dunn
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Customer Reviews:
Very informative.......2007-04-23
I agree with the previous review. It is written in England so the terminology and measurements are a bit different, but very comprehensive for a small book.
Wonderfully comprehensive.......2001-07-12
This book is a must for any goatkeeper. It is an invaluable commodity on the farm. I have turned to its pages countless times, both as a refresher and during emergenices. The information covers everyday concerns as well as more extensive descriptions of disease and preventative medicine. I had previously found it difficult to find a really good reference book on goats, but once I found this book, I need not look any more!
Product Description
This handbook is a reference for goat keepers. Valuable to beginners and veteran keepers, it offers helpful information for enjoying the benefits of healthy, productive goats while minimizing costs and problems. The book contains information on the biology, origin and behavior of goats; their many uses; the breed characteristics and physical conformation (of dairy and meat types); buying and transporting tips; housing, fencing and other aspects of management; feed; estrus cycles and breeding; newborn care, udders and milk; horn removal, castration, hooves and foot care; diseases and health care; culling the herd; registering, showing and selling goats; and many other topics. Fully indexed, the work contains numerous photographs, charts and tables.
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Raising Small Livestock.......1998-08-14
The ideal handbook for those looking for information in a simple format that is complete in detail and content. It is apparent the author has written from first-hand experience on everything from birds to turkeys. A great reference book to have on the shelf when your daughter wants a cage or hutch for her new pet rabbit or you want to know how to tan that hide from your most recent hunting expedition. Want to try your hand at a small farm? This book is a must first.
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Customer Reviews:
Watch out for sharks!.......2006-02-16
Great book! Goat's milk and even raw cow's milk can be well tolerated. Almost anyone should be able to tolerate at least fermented dairy products such as Kefir, which can be made from goat's milk, because the protein is predigested. Also suggested is the Untold Story of Milk, by Schmid. Beware, however, used booksellers, like the above, who want to charge $80.00 or more for a book that can be found new, from other sources for $14 or $15. I wish amazon would stock it new so these people would not rip-off other people!
AWESOME.....*.......2001-03-25
JUST FINISHED THE BOOK, IT IS A WONDERFUL BOOK, A BELIEVER IN THE HEALING POWERS OF GOATS MILK ANYWAY. Very informative and wonderful true stories. I have given this book to several friends and they love it as well.......
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Book Description
Learn linebacking from the coach of three Butkus Award winners! Lou Tepper coached Alfred Williams, Dana Howard, and Kevin Hardy to college football's annual award for best linebacker and 20 linebackers who have gone on to play professional football.
In Complete Linebacking, Coach Tepper presents the most in-depth book ever written on the subject. Players and coaches receive a clinic on fundamentals, pre-snap keys, and techniques used by inside and outside linebackers in 9 specific defenses. The book also includes 4 key linebacker diagnostic tests, 33 drills to improve linebacking skills, and special practice and game grading systems to help evaluate and maximize performance at the most important defensive position.
Customer Reviews:
Bullcrap.......2007-08-14
I had this book on the sidelines with me in 2006. During the Indiana game I did not know what to do so I referred to an old Illini legend for guidance. What did he say? Go for 2....twice and lose the game by 2.
Then there was his chapter on the most important and exciting part of the game. The punt. The rugby punt I employed because we had a bum punter really back fired.
Thanks for nothing Coach Tepper!
Lovely Stuff.......2007-03-08
this is a top class book on linebacking, it gives detailed information on common defensive scenarios from a linebackers perspective. One of the best things about the book is the great photo illustrations which make a description on paper much clearer in your head.
It gives all the common linebacking techniques like sheding blockers, tackling etc, helps newcomers read QB/offensive formations making them better read-&-reactors!
plenty of coaches drills given too. top quality book. highly recommened, especially for all non-native football players
A MUST BUY FOR ALL LINEBACKERS.......2007-02-21
THIS BOOK IS GREAT IT BREAKS DOWN EVERY DETAIL ABOUT PLAYING LINEBACKER AND IT IS A MUST BUY FOR ANY LINEBACKER OR COACH THIS BOOK SHOULD BE CALL THE LINEBACKER BIBLE IF I COULD HAVE GAVE IT 10 STARS I WOULD HAVE.
Step by step.......2006-07-01
As a significant resource for my 2006 playbook, this book helped my staff clearly outline position responsibilites and develop a training scheme for specific skill sets. It's more than Xs and Os, this book is about fundamentals and then some.
Complete Linebacking!.......2005-10-25
This book teaches coaches and players how to play the Linebacker position. Coach Tepper has done a great job of producing fantastic linebackers. Within the book he shares the tools to be the best. Several of the reviews below are about the LSU team and don't have anything to do with playing the linebacker position. One reviewer even talks about Edinboro University where Coach Tepper is the head coach now being a losing team. They have made two straight trip to the D2 playoffs and 2 PSAC West Championships. But none of that has anything to do with him being a great Linebacker coach.
Book Description
Beneath the notorious inconsistencies in the way the Japanese language has come to pronounce the characters it received from China in the fifth century, there lies a solid and rather ample base of coherent patterns. Discovering these patterns can reduce to a minimum the time spent in brute
memorization of sounds unrelated to written forms. Volume II of REMEMBERING THE KANJI takes you step by step through the varieties of phonetic pattern and offers helpful hints for learning kanji that resist systematization.
Customer Reviews:
Most certainly NOT all you need........2005-12-16
I'm a big fan of Heisig's first volume but this second volume takes his principle of "divide and conquer" just too far in my opinion.
Working through this volume means learning just a single reading for each of the 2000-odd kanji introduced in volume 1. What does that mean? It means that after studying and absorbing all the information in this book you will still have virtually no practical ability to read Japanese. This is because most kanji have more than one reading. Becoming literate in Japanese depends crucially on knowing multiple readings of kanji and on being familiar with a reasonable body of vocabulary associated with those readings.
One of the other reviewers states "I am reading compounds like never before". Great, but my question is- what are the chances that you are reading them correctly when you know only a single reading for each kanji? The only Japanese you can read with confidence after using this book are the one word per kanji that happen to be presented. It's a little like learning one word for each letter of the alphabet and expecting to be able to read English.
For my money the method employed in Kanji in Context (Japan Times) is much more efficient and what's more actually DOES take you a good way towards literacy. Kanji in Context concentrates on teaching kanji meanings and readings in the context of the vocabulary associated with those kanji. A consequence of this method is that you begin to acquire a native-like appreciation for how a kanji is likely to be read - even in previously unseen compounds. You are able to make practical use of the knowledge (i.e you are able to read Japanese) long before you reach the end of the book. Another good little book for starting to acquire that level of familiarity is "Decoding the Kanji" by Habein (Kadansha International)
The main value of this book is in pointing out those few kanji elements that act a reliable (more or less) guide to at least one "on" reading. But that is a small part of the whole and that information can be found on the web for free. Heisig's first volume is excellent for developing a familiarity with the kanji but volume 2 achieves too little gain to be worth it, particularly when better alterantives are available.
Good, but be prepared to put more of yourself.......2005-10-18
First off, you can download the intro to this book from Nanzan Institute's website. And if you know some Spanish, you can download the intro and a part of the second chapter of the Spanish edition, called "Kanji para recordar II", both from Nanzan's website and from the translator's website, Nipoweb.
So far, I've covered 55% of the on-yomi presented in the first 10 chapters. The chore ideas behind this book are:
-Focus on one thing at a time: You've already learned the writing, now you continue with on-yomi and later will finish with kun-yomi.
-Avoid (as much as possible) illustrating new on-yomi with compunds containing other on-yomi not learnt yet. This leads to duplication and even triplication of sample words, and even to the use of rare compunds to illustrate common on-yomi. However, for the most part, it works.
-Try to take the most advantage of the fact that most kanji are phonetic, rather than "ideographic", compunds. So you though all the kanji were sound-independent ideograms? Fortunately, you're wrong! Most of them have forever engraved their pronunciation in their writing. However, it seems that their importing to Japan via Korea, the fact that some kanji were re-introduced in later times from a different region of China, the phonetic adaptation (or deformation?) to Japanese pronunciation, the natural change of pronunciation over time, and the fact that some traditional on-yomi were suppressed from the Joyo-Kanji list (for the most part, this book abides by the official list of on-yomi) have rendered this learning tool an almost complete waste of time in some cases, and an uphill battle in others. However, Heisig made his best to give some order to this mess.
-You must learn kun-yomi on a need-basis. You're only given a mnemonic tool to learn them and a list of all officialy recognized kun-yomi, but no particular order to their study. Thus, at this point, after having learnt the writing and on-yomi of all Joyo Kanji, you might guess that now it's a good time to pay due respect to the "proficiency levels" of the official test (JLPT), or to your own textbooks. Anyway, now you'll have a really huge headstart.
Now, about the method:
While the first book gave you all the intelectual "tools" to perform the task, this one gives you just clues: You are told that if you associate a certain "signal primitive" with its on-yomi, you can remember the on-yomi of all characters sharing the same phonetic component (well, that's 100% true for chapter 2, at least), but you are not given any method on how to associate that shape with that sound. However, since you're supposed to have finished RTK 1, and probably "Remembering the Kana", you already know what to do: Create mnemonics! Regarding the chapters that rely only on sample compunds, you'll found it a lot harder, and if you don't already know the compunds, you'll probably end up creating mnemonics for every single on-yomi you find difficult to remember. Thus, the main merit of this book is the orderly fashion of presenting on-yomi, not any particular memorization method.
buy this series, but not here.......2005-06-30
Remembering the Kanji is everything it's cracked up to be, if you have a decent visual imagination. I'm an artist, not a linguist, and I've enjoyed my way through a quarter of the first volume in a month. I can't wait to get to the next lesson every day. At my fairly leisurely pace, I'll be high-school literate by the end of the year. The ease and pleasure of Heisig's method put a fire beneath a long-cherished fantasy to learn to read Chinese - and opened the door to Japanese (which is what most people are looking for here) and Korean in the process.
But beware! I ordered vols. II and III, from different vendors listed here, without shopping around first. I paid a whopping 98.00 for v. III (Instant Gratification tax, and I'd read it was o.o.p. / rare), and two days later, my order for v. II, which was to cost under 30.00, was cancelled, AND EVERY OTHER VENDOR ON AMAZON JACKED UP THEIR PRICES!!! Going rate today is 117.00. Puhleeeze.
Go to Kinokuniya online, an extremely reputable Japanese bookseller with whom I've done business before. Including shipping from New York (I.G. tax again),I paid 46.00 for v. II. They have stores on the west coast, as well as in Asia.
All you need for Japanese literacy.......2005-02-15
If you're reading this review, you either (a) have not tried Heisig's method at all, and are curious about the results of the later volume(s), or (b) you're in the middle of studying the first volume, and are curious as to the benefits of the second volume (For the first volume lacks the immediate benefits of modern application). If you've already completed the first volume, you will unquestionably move on to the second volume simply because it's a natural progression of studies. Whoever finishes the first book will be move onto this book regardless of what this review says. But the likelihood of one actually finishing the first book (Not to sound pessimistic) is not very high in the first place. In fact, everybody that I've talked to (In real life, NOT through the internet or through e-mail) that started the first volume of Remembering the Kanji have not completed it. They may have gotten halfway, but it became too hard, and they fizzled out. This seems to be a common thing. So provided you can get through the very tough first volume, this is where the benefits start become pronounced. But without the first book, this book has very little meaning; so you can't skip the first book. Period.
I'd also like you to note that (At the time of writing this review) there are a total of three other reviews here. Compare this to the 30+ reviews of the first book. Why? It is because most that have purchased the first volume of RtK did not complete it. In fact, I feel that many that reviewed the first volume of RtK on this website have not truly tried to use the method, they merely comment about the underlying concept and immediate benefits (or lack thereof). I've already reviewed the first volume of RtK on this web site, so I don't need to explain how I feel about it.
This is "Volume 2" in the series; it therefore assumes that you have mastered volume 1 to a reasonable degree. Volume 1 made you connect an English keyword to some 2,000 kanji; although you could not read a single kanji, they were more fermiliar to you (And completing this course in it's entirety was a very, VERY hard task). You become somewhat similar to a Chinese person that is fermiliar with the meaning of kanji characters in their native language, and all they have to learn is a different way to pronounce them. So volume 1 sort of "levels the playing field" between you and the kanji. But it is only in volume 2 that you truly begin to "play" with the skills you've learned, and hit kanji completely out of the ballpark.
This second volume is a "Guide" rather than the first book, which was a "Course." This is because it mustn't be followed to the "t," unlike the first volume. Here, kanji are broken down into groups, many of which have a similar set of strokes that signal a certain reading (They are called "signal primates"). Although not every kanji is like this, there are quite a few, therefore making it possible to systematically learn quite a few readings. When the system of "signal primitives" cannot apply, common word compounds are used to help remember characters.
The biggest bulk of the book is devoted to learning about the ON reading (or Chinese reading of the kanji). Each frame consists of one kanji, one reading, and one compound to reinforce that one reading. Because many kanji have more than one ON reading, sometimes the same kanji will be seen on multiple frames. The KUN (Or Japanese reading) is not consistent with any rules, so there isn't much of a way to systemize the learning of it. At the end of the book Heisig presents a concept of tagging each phonetic element with an image, similar to what was done with volume 1. Combine the phonetic elements, combine the images, and come up with a memorable story or image to connect the two. Eventually you will forget the story or image you used to connect the two, and you'll just remember that such-and-such word has such-and-such meaning. I have yet to try this, but it seems to fall into place with his other kanji-learning methods.
This book builds upon the flashcards you were supposed to have made when you studied and reviewed the kanji from the first volume. There is a flashcard program called "King Kanji" (Google it) for your computer or PDA. When you download the program, flashcard files of every single Heisig kanji are included. Using their "lesson creator" feature, I am creating flashcards of the compounds introduced in this second volume. I prefer this way of creating flashcards rather than by hand. They're much easier to keep track of. (A program called "Stackz" is also good for creating and reviewing vocabulary introduced here).
What am I getting out of this book? I'm reading compounds I've never seen before, I'm seeing kanji in my head when I hear or speak a word, I'm remembering vocabulary at a very quick rate. This book (As well as the first volume) have played a vital role in my understanding of not only kanji, but the Japanese language as a whole. I no longer have to gaze and wonder about this elaborate system of writing; the ability to truly understand it is now within my grasp. Just the self-confidence and sense of accomplishment this has brought me is enough to merit me buying this book. Although I'm still working my way though this book, I've gained a degree of knowledge and ability that I would have never dreamt of. Assuming I continue to make progress like I am now, literacy is no longer a passing thought, it will be an achievement.
Learning kanji can be one of the single most difficult tasks for the Western learner of Japanese. With this book (Along with the first volume), this doesn't have to be the case. If you wish to be literate in Japanese, all you need is right here. No, this is not some magical tool that will make you literate in a week; your progress will depend entirely on how much work you put into it (See my review for book 1).
Quite simply, Heisig found the door to Japanese literacy. All you have to do is be determined enough to open it.
So easy!.......2002-07-23
I have been living in Japan for almost three years now, and for two and a half of those years I tried to learn Kanji the usual way- that is, the same way Japanese do; write the character on a word card and the on and the kun readings, as well as the english meaning, on the other side. Impossible. So a friend of mine recommended the first book of Heisig's and I'm flying through them. I can't wait to finish it so I can buy this book. Living in Japan makes it easier, I'm sure, because I'm surrounded by the things. I just can't forget them!
Customer Reviews:
TOULOUSE WHOSE MOTHER WAS A CONTESS.......2000-10-26
Even those who are not interested in art know TOULOUSE-LAUTREC, he has become universal.Yes he is the guy who used to hang around bordellos and the MOULIN-ROUGE will always be associated to him.ARISTIDE BRUANT and YVETTE GUILBERT two popular FRENCH singers were immortalize by him.TOULOUSE-LAUTREC was never interested in doing landscapes, he was mostly a portraitist who had fun as a caricaturist of his society LA BELLE EPOQUE.The book summarize his life the way it should be and has some useful documents that makes it interesting.
Really interesting (even if you don't like his art).......1999-12-26
I prefer the smaller size of this book (compared to "coffee table" editions). Even though it is a practical size, the reprinted art is vivid and does not suffer from the smaller pages. Also this book is really informative (not alot of meaningless art jargon and expert opinions) like so many of those coffee table books suffer from.
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