Squirrel Proofing Your Home & Garden

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This practical guide is filled with effective tips for keeping squirrels and their relatives from destroying gardens and birdfeeders, and invading attics, garages, and basements.

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Disappointing for Ideas in Protection.......2006-08-07

Ms. Poe clearly has a thorough understanding of squirrels. In fact, you can sense a great appreciation for the smart litter critters which comes across in the book. Unfortunately, if you are a gardener looking for new and inventive ways to protect your investment from being ravaged by squirrels, this book definitely falls short. If you want to learn all about squirrels and identify just which species is attacking your flowers, then this book is for you. (In fact over half the book is dedicated to just this subject.) And unless you want the same, tired, ineffective tips and advice freely available on the internet, this book is not worth the investment.

A misleading title for a not-very-useful book.......2004-04-17

I have a serious squirrel problem at home and thought this book would help. All it did was tell me how nice, brave, smart and resourceful squirrels are. In fact, the first 3/4 of the book is devoted to very complete descriptions of various breeds of squirrels. If you want to learn about squirrels, this is actually a good resource. The 'squirrel proofing' advice, when it does come, is restricted to a few pages at the end of the book -- and really doesnt tell you anything common sense or a 10 minute search of the web will. It didn't help my situation at all.

How to Stay Cool When You Have ... a Toad in Your Garden; a Squirrel in Your Attic; a Snake in Your Grass; a Bat in Your Belfry

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How to Stay Cool When You Have ... a Toad in Your Garden; a Squirrel in Your Attic; a Snake in Your Grass; a Bat in Your Belfry
Members of the Wildlife Task Force
Manufacturer: Animal Charity
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000KK0SOI

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Squirrels in Your Garden
Doreen King
Manufacturer: Kingdom Books,Havant
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Binding: Hardcover

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KiDnastics® makes your job easier:
• Simplifies instruction into three easy steps
• Frames content around just five movement categories
• Increases kids' movement vocabulary
• Goes beyond isolated skills to routines and sequences
• Provides for individual differences
• Requires little or no spotting

Forget about dragging around heavy gymnastics equipment; put an end to your worries about student safety. This book brings to life an instructional model that will change the way you teach gymnastics.

KiDnastics® is a simplification and a rethinking of traditional gymnastics. It's a one-of-a-kind program inspired by children and built around the joy of moving and the interplay of movement and the environment. Borrowing elements from traditional and educational gymnastics, KiDnastics places the conceptual focus on how both traditional and nontraditional equipment can be adapted, changed, or manipulated to produce different practice environments for more efficient student learning. No special equipment is required, and the concepts are adaptable to any physical education setting, regardless of resources or budget.

This highly visual book takes a unique, three-step approach to teaching gymnastics:

1. Practice single skills.
2. Sequence the skills together.
3. Perform them for an audience.

To simplify instruction, the KiDnastics model frames its content around just five movement categories: rolling, jumping, balancing, vaulting, and hanging and climbing. The book presents 70 skills divided into 16 themes within those movement categories. Once the students learn some basic movement skills, they combine them into sequences with partners, trios, or small groups. The kids choreograph their own routines (often coming up with very creative sequences) and have a blast in the process, all the while learning cooperation and teamwork. Finally, students demonstrate their routines in a variety of ways. The book gives you tons of ideas to help you coordinate a culminating event¾a KiDnastics show¾by providing organizational ideas, formats, checklists, and sample parental newsletters.

This step-by-step line of attack makes it easy for you to learn the KiDnastics approach and then teach it to your students. You play the role of facilitator, presenting tasks that students practice first in one environment and then in many different environments to expand their movement repertoires. The book includes illustrated task cards that you can photocopy and laminate so that class preparation is easy—just have students select task cards and then develop their own routines.

This child-centered approach applies COPEC's (Council on Physical Education for Children) developmentally appropriate physical education practices by helping students acquire a well-rounded movement base and challenging them to select their favorite moves and refine their skills through practice of their own partner sequences. KiDnastics is also effective in inclusive settings because the students work at their own ability levels in noncompetitive situations, and you can provide for individual differences by modifying or reconfiguring the practice environment.

KiDnastics works equally well whether you prefer a child-centered, indirect, and problem-solving style or a more direct style. It's a great way to make your job easier and at the same time help students have more fun and achieve greater success.

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great for the basic basics.......2006-07-01

this is a good book for the basic basics of gymnastics.it really only centres on the floor,rings and horse but if you want your children to get fit and healthy at home it is a great start as none of the activities need expensive equipment and nearly no spotting from an adult.
a good beginners guide but not for everyone

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The second edition contains new units, more exercises, and a free Audio CD with recordings of example sentences so students can hear the grammar structures they are learning. The Basic Grammar in Use Workbook provides students with further opportunities to practice difficult grammar points. It also helps to consolidate their understanding of related grammar topics, such as the different ways of expressing the future. This Workbook offers a wide range of activity types that include opportunities to work with grammatical structures in meaningful contexts. It also includes review sections for each group of units in the Student's Book. These groups, such as the Present and Past, Modals, and Articles, are listed in the table of contents of each Student's Book. This workbook comes with an answer key (an edition without an answer key is also available).

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Great Book.......2007-06-27

I love working with the text book, and now that I got the workbook...ual it's been even better...Great exercises!!

Good for Adult Basic Literacy ABL and English as a Second Language ESL .......2007-02-13

This is a great book to use with adults needing more practice with grammar!

Grammar in Use Workbook with Answers (Grammar in Use)

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Grammar in Use Workbook with Answers (Grammar in Use)
William R. Smalzer , and Raymond Murphy
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0521797209

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Grammar in Use Intermediate is a highly successful grammar text known for its clear explanations and innovative format. The Workbook provide students with further opportunities to practice difficult grammar points, and to consolidate their understanding of related grammar topics. It offers a wide range of activity types that include opportunities to work with grammar structures in meaningful contexts. The Workbook also includes review sections for each group of units in the Student's Book. These groups, such as Present and Past, Modals, and Articles, are listed in the table of contents of each Student's Book. This edition includes an answer key. An edition without answers is also available.

English Grammar in Use Supplementary Exercises With answers (Grammar in Use)

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A Complemental Material.

English Grammar in Use Supplementary Exercises With answers (Grammar in Use)
Louise Hashemi , and Raymond Murphy
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0521755484

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This new edition is thoroughly updated and revised to acompany the third edition of English Grammar in Use. The book contains 200 varied exercises to provide students with extra practice of the grammar they have studied.

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A Complemental Material........2007-10-17

If you are studying english this is a good complemental material for your studies. This book only has exercises, it doesn't have any grammar explanation, so if you intend to study english by yourself you will certainly need another book to study along with it.

Language in Use Upper-intermediate Self-study workbook with answer key

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Language in Use Upper-intermediate Self-study workbook with answer key
Adrian Doff , and Christopher Jones
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0521555493

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A popular and highly acclaimed four-level course which both interests and stretches learners. Each of the four levels comprises about 80 hours of class work, with additional time for the self-study work. The Teacher�s Book contains all the pages from the Classroom Book, with interleaved teaching notes including optional activities to cater for different abilities. There is a video to accompany the Beginner, Pre-intermediate and Intermediate levels. Each video contains eight stimulating and entertaining short programmes, as well as a booklet of photocopiable activities. Free test material is available in booklet and web format for Beginner and Pre-intermediate levels. Visit www.cambridge.org/elt/liu or contact your local Cambridge University Press representative.

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A Shaker Sisterês vision on plants.......2000-12-28

Maybe the Shakerês visions of the "spiritual world" shaped Sister Sarleês perception of the "natural world" and therefore influenced her nice, simple, stylized drawings. On stressing the straight stalks and the symmetry of every plant she captures the essence of each species. I like the a little bit naive-looking illustrations very much because of their honesty and purity. The plants are well-arranged on every page, with a certain economy of layout, which fits into the Shaker-philosophy. I think in some way Sister Helenaês spirit lives on in these prettily-drawn illustrations that can please both- flower lovers and botanists.

The Art of Botanical Illustration: An Illustrated History

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The Art of Botanical Illustration: An Illustrated History
Wilfrid Blunt
Manufacturer: Dover Publications
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ASIN: 0486272656

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This beautiful book surveys the evolution of botanical illustration from the crude scratchings of paleolithic man down to the highly scientific work of the 20th-century. 186 magnificent examples, over 30 in full color.

Flora: An Illustrated History of the Garden Flower

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SMALL size
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The Most Fabulous Book of Flowers!
Perfection
A simply gorgeous floral art presentation.

Flora: An Illustrated History of the Garden Flower
W. B. Elliott
Manufacturer: Firefly Books
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ASIN: 1552096041

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With stunning illustrations from the Royal Horticultural Society's Lindley Library collection and concise text by Royal Horticultural Society archivist Dr. Brent Elliott, Flora tell the fascinating story of the worldwide botanical exploration undertaken over the past 500 years.

Founded in 1804, the RHS led the way in sending collectors around the world in search of new floral species, fostering the domestic cultivation of the garden flowers we know and love today. In the process the RHS has built an unrivaled collection of stunning artworks and rare books covering five centuries of plant history. The Society's Lindley Library is one of the world's finest horticulture archives, containing more than 250,000 paintings, illustrations and rare books.

The illustrations in Flora, many by the great names in botanical art, are notable not only for their historical value in charting the development of garden flowers, but also for their indisputable beauty and artistic merit. Flora is divided into six geographical sections: Europe; Middle East; Southern & Tropical Africa; Australasia & The Pacific; The Americas; and Asia. Biographies of the botanists and artists are also included.

The history of botanical illustration is long and broad. Today, the art is undergoing a renaissance: botanical illustrations are found on everything from greeting cards to wallpaper to expensive original artworks. This spectacular collection of Royal Horticultural Society illustrations will capture the attention of gardeners and art lovers alike.

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SMALL size.......2006-05-04

I ordered this book and returned it due to the extremely ridiculous small size. It is about the size of a CD. I had read this book in the library at the full size and the small size ("Compact edition") doesn't even compare. If you really want this book, get the full size. Otherwise it isn't worth it.

book SIZE.......2005-03-18

My order just came and was I disappointed. The book is beautiful yet the size is absurd. Measures 5 3/8 by 6 1/4 inches. This is not stated anywhere in the book desription. I just assumed it would be the standard 8 1/2 by 11 inches. I KNEW it wasn't the coffee table size but this size is just not suitable for this type of book. I will be returning it.

The Most Fabulous Book of Flowers!.......2002-07-16

This is one of the best flower books I have ever seen! Richly illustrated, with many details, and glorious color! I am a painter, so these are very important for an illustrated book. A must have for all flower lovers!

Perfection.......2002-04-26

This book is beauty and knowledge. An absolut treasure!

A simply gorgeous floral art presentation........2002-03-23

Flora straddles the line between being an art book filled with flora pictures and a gardening title packed with details about garden flowers. Both audiences will welcome this lavish presentation but it's the artist who will have a rare opportunity to appreciate the detail and color of floral designs. Full-color, oversized pages of floral art are gorgeous presentations.

Picturing Plants: An Analytical History of Botanical Illustrations

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Pretty pictures with idiotic PC commentary

Picturing Plants: An Analytical History of Botanical Illustrations
Gill Saunders
Manufacturer: University of California Press
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Binding: Hardcover

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Some of the most ravishing images in the history of illustration have been those of plants. But who drew plants, and why? How have these images reflected our changing relationship with the natural world? This beautifully illustrated book explores the purpose and function of the whole range of botanical art, from early woodcut herbals and painted florilegia, botanical treatises and records of new discoveries, to gardening manuals, seed catalogs, and field guides for the amateur enthusiast. Gill Saunders complements the sumptuous illustrations with detailed captions and an informative text, making this a book for both specialist and lay reader.
Drawing on a rich archive of material in the Victoria and Albert Museum, much of it unpublished until now, Saunders presents works ranging from the fifteenth-century printed book to the art of contemporary illustrators. She includes acknowledged masters such as Ehret and Redouté as well as lesser-known examples from China, Japan, and India.
In addition to their intrinsic beauty, plant illustrations have mirrored the curious and fascinating relationship between art and science. The artist's challenge has been to reconcile the often conflicting demands of those disciplines within a single image. Picturing Plants captures both this complex cultural history and the distinctive loveliness of botanical illustration, bringing a fresh approach to a perennially fascinating subject.

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Pretty pictures with idiotic PC commentary.......2006-12-09

At the simplest level, 'Picturing Plants' can be enjoyed simply as a pretty book, with 100 illustrations (many in excellent color) from the Victoria and Albert Museum, where Saunders is a curator.
Saunders covers 500 years of botanical illustration, and her incisive comments would help sharpen any connoisseur's eye.
Probing a level deeper, there is the evolution of intent, as well as of method. Early book illustrations were woodcuts, unsuited to capturing the delicate organs of plants.
But at first there was no need to depict them. The herbals of the 16th century tended to ignore blossoms in favor of roots, because plants were valued for their medicinal properties. Today, of course, flowers are everything.
The brief text of 'Picturing Plants' is full of substance, including at least a few references to Asian modes of illustrating plants, for comparison to western European practices. But Saunders' text still hangs in midair, without support at either end.
It is true that she is a curator of drawn illustrations, but in an analytical survey, however brief, one would have expected at least a mention of attempts to depict plants in other media. Before the printed book there were stone illustrations -- the leaves of Southwell Abbey, for example -- and just before the perfection of color photography there were the glass flowers that are the most popular attraction at Harvard's Agassiz Hall.
Saunders' theme is that depictions of plants, even by color photography, always are based on compromises. The compromises, in turn, are influenced by cultural conventions. 'The objective reality is always enveloped by local and national differences in perception, and in the graphic conventions and techniques available.'
It's indisputable, but Saunders' relentless pursuit of political correctness twists that thought into some odd shapes. Anyone not inclined to worship at the altar of anticolonialism will find this book constantly irritating.
Thus, in commenting on Chinese and Japanese plant illustrations done for Europeans, she charges that 'by imposing Western pictorial conventions such as perspective, the West colonized native perceptions of the flora, and effectively devalued "other" ways of seeing and representing what was seen.'
This can be demonstrated to be wrong in every respect. For one thing, there are the actual plants to look at. For another, I can walk into Shirokiya (or could until it went broke) and buy any amount of Japanese goods illustrated with plant motifs that owe nothing to western ideas.
And it's possible that mathematical perspective had an intrinsic appeal to craftsmen who had not thought of it themselves, and was adopted not merely by compulsion.
But if you assume that western imperialism was irresistible even in such a minor corner as picturing plants, the logic of your ideology results in even stranger results.
A sad example refers to my backyard, where Saunders assumes that the great collector Joseph Banks acquired his specimens (of cultural and botanical things) as 'booty.'
This contradicts the facts of how they were acquired, and also devalues the shrewdness of the 'others,' who bargained and, I would assert even if Saunders can't, made satisfactory trades. If they thought a wife was worth a nail, it is only triumphalist Eurocentrism to say they were wrong to do so.
It is also hilarious to see Saunders refer to Mughal painting as 'native' to India.
Still, as long as Saunders sticks to the subject at hand, 'Picturing Plants' well repays time spent. Like a seed, this book encompasses a lot of information in a little space.

Botanical Art. (Topical Reviews: Biology).: An article from: American Scientist

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Botanical Art. (Topical Reviews: Biology).: An article from: American Scientist
James J. White
Manufacturer: Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society
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Binding: Digital

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The Art of Botanical Illustration: An Illustrated History
Wilfrid Blunt
Manufacturer: Dover
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000K9ZVIW

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