Inside and Outside Me/Yo, por dentro y por fuera (Scholastic Early Childhood Program, Theme 3)

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A true story of a middle-class suburban family who rescues and adopts a wild alpha male wolf and the unbelievable turn of events that take place between them.

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Amazing, Beautiful Spirits.......2007-07-31

I enjoyed this book very much! Being an owner of two of my own wolf-dogs, I could identify with this author and his wife. It is an amazing & unforgetable journey. Many trials, but it is all worth it! Animals are such wonderful teachers, as Lobo was. For you, Lobo, thank you.

Great Read!.......2005-05-04

I enjoyed this book because I felt like the author was telling a story from his heart. I am not knowledgeable about wolf dogs, but this book has certainly shown me the nature of wolf dogs I did not know. It will make you interested in reading more about wolves and wolf dogs. It is also a very spiritual story. A very beautiful story.

Great Wolf Book.......2005-04-27

I am an intense animal lover and found this book to make me want to reach out to all animals in need of homes. This is a very informative book giving more insight to the nature of wolf dogs. I wish for all animal lovers to read this book before thinking of adopting a wolf dog. It is a very touching and spiritual story of the bond between man and animal.

Living with a Wolfdog.......2005-03-03

I happen to be the breeder of Lobo. In reading this story I was amazed at how much Lobo is like his sister, Cherokee. Living with a wolfdog is a highly spiritual journey that most people treasure for a lifetime. I really couldn't put in words what I felt. I really did love the book. I've told everyone about it. I ordered 2 more to give as gifts.

Man and Wolf Dog bond.......2005-02-06

Excellent job! It was hard for me to put this book down as you were able to convey to your readers the compassion, love, patience and total dedication it took to develop a strong bond between a wolf dog with his master. You should be very proud of your accomplishment and your book.

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Elisenda, escriu-me (L'Odissea)
Ricard Lobo
Manufacturer: Editorial Empuries
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: 8475964966

Teacher's Planner. Pre-K Theme 1. All About Me, All About You.

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Teacher's Planner. Pre-K Theme 1. All About Me, All About You.
Rebeca Barrera , Bibi Lobo Somyak , Louise Parks , and Abelardo Villareal
Manufacturer: Scholastic
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Ring-bound

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ASIN: 0590498045

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The Scholastic Early Childhood Workshop. Written in both English and Spanish.

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New Edition of bestselling flyfishing guide. Includes detailed section on Yellowstone National Park.

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Great Book On Wyoming Fishing.......2006-03-07

The keys to any successful (self-guided) fishing trip are research and common sense. Ken's book has lots of information locations of lakes and streams...and some information on types of fish, sizes of fish, and overall rating of the fishery. This book is best used with the Wyoming DeLorme Atlas and Gazetteer, which shows specific streams, lakes, highways, roads (and campgrounds). Overall, I really enjoyed the book and can not wait until this summer to check out some of his recommended locations.

Other good books on Wyoming Fly Fishing include: Wyoming Blue-Ribbon Fly Fishing Guide, by Greg Thomas...The most complete guide to Wyoming fishing by John Baughman...and Kip Carey's (updated) Wyoming Fishing Guide. Each of these books compliments the other (and on occassion, contradicts the other). THe truth always comes with you actually going out there to fish the stream or lake in question, hoping that hatches, weather and waterflow cooperate.

Whenever planning a trip, DO RESEARCH FIRST. Research comes in several forms, the most effective being advice from a trusted friend (who's been there), conversation with fly shop owners and guides from the area you will be (they will usually only provide snippets), and lots of reading. Since becoming a "serious researcher" my trips to the Rockies have been VERY productive and more memorable.

Flyfisher's Guide to Wyoming.......2000-07-03

Wow. If you are looking for the tell all book for flyfishing Wyoming....you found it. To say that this book is comprehensive does not do it true justice. It covers every single stretch of water worth throwing a line into. In addition, it gives seasonal water informaiton including flows, hatches, and species. If you live in the west, or if you dream of fishing there, this book is a MUST OWN. I think to fish Wyoming without reading it would be a waste of your time.

Wyoming's best fishing guide.......1998-10-07

This is not only the best fly fishing guide to Wyoming. Retallic has written one of the best fly fishing guides ever. Of particular excellence is his description of Yellowstone.

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A must have for the YNP fly fisherman
The "Go to Book" on Fishing in the Park
Review of Yellowstone Fly Fishing Guide by Craig Matthews and Clayton Lolinero
I call the book the bible for yellowstone.
3 years and still going

The Yellowstone Fly-Fishing Guide
Craig Mathews , and Clayton Molinero
Manufacturer: The Lyons Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 155821545X

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A must have for the YNP fly fisherman.......2007-08-03

Craig Matthews gives you great information and helps the reader pick and choose where to fish in YNP. With Matthews knowledge of the Park and insect activity it's hard to go wrong with this book. Great information on hatches,locations and whether the hike is worthwhile to take make this a great book. If you are planning on fishing YNP you need this book. I would also purchase his dvd on fishing Yellowstone National Park and on fishing the Madison.

The "Go to Book" on Fishing in the Park.......2007-07-25

The "Go to Book" for fishing in the Park. Has all the information one needs to find "backcountry waters" as well as the "hotspots". I've fished Montanna for the last 7 years, but have never fished in the Park until last year. This book cut the learning curve by a considerable margin. Not only does he unleash his considerable knowledge of the "spots". He is very complete in informing the angler of the certain flies and times of the year to use them. I read this book practically every time I sit down to the flybench. Just to jog my memory on what to prepare for the coming trip. I wsih I had bought this years ago and fished the park alot earlier in my years. Could have cut alot of corners! Thanks Craig---great job!

Review of Yellowstone Fly Fishing Guide by Craig Matthews and Clayton Lolinero.......2007-04-04

This guide provides very detailed information on the rivers, streams and lakes in Yellowstone National Park, the fly hatches and terrestrials found on each (by month of year) and the best patterns to fish with. It also shows which fishing areas can be accessed by car and which require a long hike. I found it invaluable for planning a fly fishing trip to Yellowstone.

I call the book the bible for yellowstone........2003-11-18

This book is easy to use and extreamly useful. It splits the park up into four regions, tells you where (or not to) fish, and where to start looking in your flybox. I have used it the last 3 or 4 years and will use it as long as I vacation in Yellowstone. I have looked at several books on fishing in Yellowstone and this is by far the best that I have found.

3 years and still going.......2003-06-02

i have taken this book to me 3 years in a row that i've gone to yellowstone, and it has shown me where the fish are. This is the best fly-fishing guide i have ever seen. If you plan on fly-fishing Yellowstone seriously i highly reccomend this book.

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Fly Fishing the Yellowstone in the Park
Bob Jacklin , and Gary LaFontaine
Manufacturer: The Lyons Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1592280765

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The Yellowstone River in Yellowstone National Park is widely know for two things: the spectacular Yellowstone Falls, and a few miles of world-class dry-fly fishing for native cutthroat trout. But for all its reputation for easy pickings for big fish, the river can be devilishly difficult, depending on the season and the fishing conditions. Those big, burly cutthroats have seen it all and, at times, they can seem downright jaded--unless you know how to fish for them. West Yellowstone guide and fly shop owner Bob Jacklin and world-renowned angler Gary LaFontaine both know how.

Calling on thirty-two years of experience, BOB JACKLIN knows the Yellowstone's fish and the fly patterns needed to fool them, its insects, and its moods, and he sets it all down in this concise, readable guide. LAFONTAINE adds what he learned in his twenty-plus years fishing the Yellowstone and shares the fly patterns he finds the most effective. Together they lead you through the river's seasons, its hatches, and its special reaches and runs.

This book is the next best thing to having Bob and Gary at your side when you fish the Yellowstone in the park.

Included are a hatch chart, a list of popular flies, and more than twenty tying recipes for the most effective patterns to catch fish in the Yellowstone River.

Yellowstone Park (River Journal, V. 4, No. 1, 1996)

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Yellowstone Park (River Journal, V. 4, No. 1, 1996)
Bruce Staples
Manufacturer: Frank Amato Publications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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River Journal: Madison (River Journal)

ASIN: 1571880445

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With perhaps the most renowned waters on the planet in which to cast a fly, Yellowstone National Park is brimming with wild trout. Learn more about the mecca for fly-fishers around the world, including where to wet a line and what flies to use, from this edition of the River Journal series. The book's large, color format, sumptuous photography, and lively, descriptive text bring the river and its angling possibilities to life. Like other volumes in this series from Frank Amato Publications, the river's history, wildlife, hydraulics, and fishing conditions are described in detail for the angler's benefit.

Yellowstone: Portraits of a Fly-Fishing Landscape

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A superb giftbook for fly-fishers who treasure memories

Yellowstone: Portraits of a Fly-Fishing Landscape
John Juracek
Manufacturer: Pruett Publishing Company
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Binding: Paperback

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The Yellowstone Fly-Fishing Guide
Fishing Yellowstone National Park, 2nd: An angler's complete guide to more than 100 streams, rivers, and lakes

ASIN: 0871089165

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Fly fishing is a tranquil and seductive sport, and John Juracek has captured moments that most evoke the subtle beauty of an angler in pursuit of trout and solitude.

Juracek immerses us in the wilds of the lakes and rivers of the Yellowstone Park-the country's most famous fishing area where anglers come to connect with their passion for the mystery and aliveness of trout and the outdoors.

The fly-fishers' fascination with trout is timeless. For some it's the challenge of following instincts and hunches, exercising patience, and honing techniques. For others the love of angling is the carefree and harmonious convening with Mother Nature.

Yellowstone's striking photography is a visual experience where anglers encounter big azure skies in mountain settings and dramatic pink sunrises on crisp autumn mornings-places where passion for a sport and beauty of the outdoors are an art form.

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A superb giftbook for fly-fishers who treasure memories.......2002-08-08

Yellowstone: Photographs Of A Fly-Fishing Landscape by John Juracek is a simply awe-inspiring selection of beautiful, full-color photographs of a fisherman enjoying great and memorable fly-fishing locales in the Yellowstone National Park during day, sunset, night, and throughout all the seasons of the year. Yellowstone is entirely devoted to the photographs; the only text sections are a brief introduction, and simple captions naming the locale of each photograph - from Firehole River to Henry's Fork, Idaho. A superb giftbook for fly-fishers who treasure memories of wilderness beauty, Yellowstone is a thoroughly impressive volume of the photographer's art and could well serve as an example for similar projects by other aspiring nature photographers to emulate.

Greater Yellowstone: Fly fisher's stream guide

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Greater Yellowstone: Fly fisher's stream guide
Ken Retallic
Manufacturer: GBH ink
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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Fly fishing in wonderland,
Orange Perry Barnes
Manufacturer: O.P. Barnes
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Binding: Unknown Binding

Loose Cannons, Red Herrings, and Other Lost Metaphors
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A reference for the hidden poetry of our language

More lite! Less Filling!

"Oh, so that's where it came from!"

Loose Cannons, Red Herrings, and Other Lost Metaphors
Robert Claiborne
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 039332186X

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A colorful compendium of everyday words and phrases and where they originated. The English language is a treasury of splendid mysteries, among them the many words and phrases whose origins we no longer know. Often the original meaning was literal, pertaining to forgotten objects or activities—such as "aftermath," which once meant the grass that sprang up after a farmer had mowed a field. With the informal scholarship and good-humored wit that are his trademarks, Robert Claiborne reveals the wonders buried in our speech, vivid images of people and customs of the past. As the reader soon discovers, they are "a sort of hidden poetry that can heighten the colors and sharpen the meanings of words and phrases that we read or write daily."

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A reference for the hidden poetry of our language.......2006-06-13

A metaphor is "A word or phrase used figuratively." That's fine for expressions such as "dyed in the wool" or "on the blink" but what about some single words - "disaster", "absurd", "salary" -how does Robert Claiborne figure those as metaphors? Loose Cannons, Red Herrings, and Other Lost Metaphors explains it all.

Surprisingly, a large portion of the words in our everyday usage are metaphors, whether we think of them that way or not. Sometimes these metaphors have origins in other languages; witness "fiasco", Italian for flask or bottle, connoting a mess in English due to its obscure theatrical slang. My favorite is the word "astonish", from the Latin *extonare*, meaning to strike with a thunderbolt. You can see how people would infer being, ahem, shocked from a word that literally meant "thunderstruck". By such associative methods do we owe much of our English vocabulary.

Of course, Loose Cannons also has a large helping of full phrased metaphors, as the title implies. It's not the most complete listing of its type that I've ever found, but they are all lost in the sense that a sizeable minority of people don't know, or probably couldn't guess, their origins. The stories behind them are colorful as well, the author admittedly preferring the more colorful etymologies where there was a choice.

I can respect that Mr. Claiborne concedes openly that many explanations are often merely educated guesses, and that his preferred versions may be incorrect. He invites readers to challenge his conclusions, provided they can do so from facts and not heresay or personal opinion. But he does cite very credible sources, primarily the Oxford English Dictionary and the Dictionary of American English on Historical Principles.

This is a fun book, written with an eye toward storytelling as much as historical trivia. A nice reference to have handy.
-Andrea, aka merribelle

More lite! Less Filling!.......2004-08-07

For all of its snide tone and shortish explanations, "Loose Cannons, Red Herrings and Other Lost Metaphors" is enjoyable enough. The book relates the history of familiar phrases whose origins, due to changes in habits and technology, are lost to modern English speakers. Expressions like "it's raining cats and dogs," "taken aback," "minding one's Ps and Qs" (not to mention the expression about the brass monkey) are all included, along with short entries about their origins and sometimes original meanings. Who knew that a "rake" was short for "rakehell" -- a person so depraved that one would have to "rake through the coals of hell" to find his like?

Entertaining as it is, the book has drawbacks. First, some of its entries are not terribly convincing. Claiborne sometimes spends more time taking potshots at explanations he disagrees with than in advancing his own. Also, Claiborne's tongue is sometimes planted so firmly in his cheek, and his style is so snide and acerbic, that his point is obscured. Claiborne's politics and religious preferences (or lack thereof) also come out from time to time, with no benefit to the reader.

As an entertaining (if not always elucidatatory) work, "Loose Cannons" probably beats a dry, scholarly work on the origin of phrases, but reading it leaves me hungry for meatier fare.

"Oh, so that's where it came from!".......2003-03-16

When I was a boy, I was told things like "don't hem and haw," "get off your high horse," "this is straight from the horse's mouth," "he's a bigwig" "take it with a grain of salt" and, often a favorite of elders, to "mind my P's and Q's." I learned to use such phrases and knew what I thought was the proper usage, but never fully understood what they meant...if you know what I mean. So, here is an amusing little book filled with all sorts of phrases and words we have heard for years but may have wondered about. The author explains in the Introduction that the most plausible etymology is not always easy to come up with, and in some cases, he simply picks the most colorful one. The book is far from complete, but Claiborne does include many common single words like "career," "cynic," "dunce," "keister," "shyster" and "tulip." Many of the origins are humorous, but some might raise an eyebrow. I don't think that I'm satisfied with his explanations of "paint the town red" and "once in a blue moon." "The real McCoy" is a real disappointment, but "pie in the sky" is particularly amusing.

A book of similar scope and price, COMMON PHRASES AND WHERE THEY COME FROM by Myron Korach, invites direct comparison. While the Claiborne is alphabetical, like a dictionary, with no index, the Korach is arranged in general groupings and includes an index. Much in these two books overlaps, but the Korach book includes many expressions, like "in the pink," "dark horse," "eat humble pie," "deadhead" and "make no bones of it," that the Claiborne does not, and vise versa. Four more books in this price range could be considered: A HOG ON ICE, HEAVENS TO BETSY!, HORSEFEATHERS and THEREBY HANGS A TALE, all by Charles Earle Funk. There is enough individual perspective in each of these six books to justify owning them all--if you are, or become, an addict.

Further comparisons to other, higher-priced books of this nature will surely open a Pandora's box (sorry), so I will just make tracks (sorry, again), and recommend this enjoyable book for what it is: informative and entertaining, but not exhaustive.

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Step-by-step instructions for elegant roundhand style — American version of copperplate. Strokes, hairlines, shading, etc. Pens, inks, papers, more.

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Another Source for Letter Forms.......2007-01-13

If you're trying to learn Copperplate calligraphy, I don't recommend this as your first book. Instead, Eleanor Winters' Mastering Copperplate Calligraphy is a much better tool for self-study. However, once you master the material in Winters' book, you might find the Technique of Copperplate Calligraphy to be a good source for additional examples of letter forms, especially capitals.

Elegant, good value, full of helpful advice and examples.......2005-01-07

I love using this book for several reasons. The entire text is gracefully handwritten in Copperplate by this Master Penman. He has a very beautiful, elegant style and technically impressive nib control.

The book was published in 1987 and the author born in 1915, at the tail end of the `old-world', when Spencerian and Copperplate scripts were more widely practiced and enjoyed. I like the fact that he must have been about 70 years old when he prepared this work, making his steady hand, smooth and fluid hairlines all the more notable.

An aspect I particularly value and enjoy is that, unlike some Copperplate books where every stroke is absolutely perfect, this work is presented unretouched. As such it is far more 'human' and shows me what I can realistically aspire to.

Elegant, very useful, great value for money, highly recommended!

Good, basic instructions. Examples could be better........1999-03-22

This book is good for the price. The examples could be better. I've seen great examples from other teachers. It is worth the money invested and a good, starter for people who want to learn copperplate or engrosser's script.

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