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In this greatly expanded and revised edition of his classic treatment, Donald Schnell examines in detail the 45 species and numerous hybrids of carnivorous plants that grow in the U.S. and Canada. Information on each species includes an identifying description, the preferred habitat, the range in which it can be found, and the season for flowering and trapping, making this book a useful field guide as well as a fascinating source of leisure reading. With a full array of maps, drawings, and 200 color photos, this volume promises to enrich every enthusiast's library with a wealth of information. Hobbyists will find much to their liking as well. Schnell gives detailed instructions for growing these plants.
Customer Reviews:
Excellent field guide to North American carnivorous plants.......2003-05-19
The book is a nice in-depth look at the carnivorous plants that are native to the United States and Canada. The coverage is expecially thorough for Sarracenia, although still adequate (and probably more extensive than any other book available) on Drosera and Pinguicula.
The pictures included are mostly excellent, showing the plants in habitat when possible, instead of just using cultivated plants. And although the distribution maps may be a bit dated, they are helpful to understand the general areas where the plants might be found. Also, included with each section is some basic cultivation advice that I've found very helpful.
This isn't a book for a novice grower of carnivorous plants, but rather for someone who's been growing them for a while and wants more information on their native habitats and environments, as well as more technical information on each plant. An excellent book.
Lends to easy use by lay gardeners as well as researchers.......2002-08-08
This expanded second edition of Carnivorous Plants Of The U.S. And Canada is a 'must' for any reference library which specializes in botany or nature: it provides photos and comments on the natural history of a variety of carnivorous plants, from common species to rarities. It's organization and language lends to easy use by lay gardeners as well as researchers, while photos and vivid descriptions of plant biology make Carnivorous Plants Of The U.S. And Canada an excellent library reference.
Excellent.......2002-07-23
This book will surely replace Dr. Schnell's first edition as the bible for North American carnivorous plants. Excellent photos, descriptions, and distribution maps. It is a book needed by all CP'ers.
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Completely revised and updated, Let's Go: Southeast Asia puts our forty-five years of travel savvy at your fingertips, with helpful commentary and plenty of listings to get you where you need to be. From cosmopolitan Singapore to the most remote villages of Laos, the new edition delivers expanded cultural information, and more study and volunteering opportunities-the tools that will help you hit the road like a seasoned traveler, not just a tourist. Whether you'd rather tempt Lady Luck at a five-star casino on the Thai-Cambodian border or watch fireflies flit off into the night in Malaysia, Let's Go's intrepid researchers ensure that you're in tune with this quickly changing region.
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Excellent introduction to SE Asia.......2007-07-09
I have not travelled to this region, but found the guide a fine overview of sites, culture, and history. Told in a relaxed style with some refreshing anecdotes boxed alongside the text. Sufficient maps.
great resource.......2005-07-01
while traveling through cambodia and vietnam I actually had a couple different guidebooks. overall I think Let's Go's guide is the better resource, and especialyl for a traveler who's covering a lot of ground in southeast asia. if you use it in conjunction with another guide, I think, you will really get a good feeling for what to do. i would not advise anyone to take just one guide, no matter what, or to use Lonely Planet alone, which was really god awful.
the information in my Lonely Planet was laughable, as many of the maps were lacking. and in general i think LP's maps and info aren't as clear. While Let's Go could stand to give more options for different establishments and price ranges, the quality of its places are generally higher--with a few exceptions-- whereas LP just lists every single place regardless of whether its a hell hole or not (you will learn this very quickly)
though I don't usually have an allegiance to a certain brand, I'm pretty sure I'll take let's go with me when I go to India this summer, too. it seems that for the developing world, its a rock solid resource.
Great book for the budget-minded traveler.......2005-06-23
I went to Thailand and Laos in May 2005 for 3 weeks and my brother and I took a copy of Lets Go and Rough Guide. I also browsed through a copy of Frommers and Fodors, but they were not what I was looking for. For the budget minded traveler, Lets Go is excellent at listing great travel options and has prices listed for everything.
Another bonus is the instructions for the border crossings and travel possibilities from city to city. Some other books were bad about giving few routes for travel. One negative is that Lets Go reviews very few guesthouses and restaurants. Also, I found it hard to believe that they didn't give thumbs up to any activities in Laos?! There were some many cool things that were listed but underemphasized.
Regardless, the information is very detailed and was a great resouce for getting around. I would definitely recommend.
Pros:
Good suggestions, especially for the younger traveler
Prices well listed
Travel options very specific
Cons:
Lacks maps for some of the smaller towns
Lists only a few guesthouses and restaurants for each city
Good luck with your trip!
Scott
Do not use this book - I threw it away mid-trip.......2005-06-06
I've globetrotted a fair amount in my day, and this is hands-down the worst travel book that I have ever used. I found a pirated Lonely Planet at some point, and gladly threw this thing in a trashbin at a guesthouse in Cambodia. I actually chose LG because it was the most recent book, but at one point actually was using a 1997 Lonely Planet - and found it's nearly-decade old information much more useful.
On more than one occasion I got lost due to mistakes in their maps (imagine wandering around a strange Thai town under a 95 degree midday sun with a full backpack because the bridge on the map didn't exist). They gave the thumbs up to a hostel in KL that was infested with bed bugs, and was infamous in backpacker gossip as such (and this book was recently updated!). And they tell you how to get from an island in Malaysia to a Thai port town, but don't explain how to get from this dock-in-the-middle-of-nowhere to anywhere else in Thailand. Take a cue from the other travelers in SE Asia and pick up Lonely Planet - and spend the extra cash to get the book for each country. (I suggest just buying the book of your first destination and pick up the rest as you go.)
This book is a disaster.
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Reveals the existence of a Templar colony in the New World and how the explorer Verrazano, also a member of a secret society, attempted to reestablish contact with it
• Explores Columbus’s connection to Henry Sinclair’s maps of the New World
• Examines the secret alliance of Catholic Sulpicians and French Huguenots to preserve the Templar legacy
• Reveals the hidden knowledge preserved in the Templar baptisteries found throughout Europe and in Newport, Rhode Island
In 1524 the Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazano was sent by the French king Francis I on an expedition ostensibly to find a shorter route to China. However, his true mission, Steven Sora suggests, was to contact a Templar colony that might have been established in Newport, Rhode Island, by Henry Sinclair at the end of the 14th century. In his expedition log Verrazano recorded that his only stay on this journey was at Newport Harbor, the site of a tower built to the exact measurements of a Templar baptistery, a sacred sanctuary representing baptism and eternal life.
This tower is a remnant of Sinclair’s voyage to America nearly a century before that of Columbus (who had access to Sinclair’s maps thanks to his wife, who was Sinclair’s great-granddaughter). While Verrazano’s mission succeeded in finding the tower, the colony itself eluded him. His backers then decided to resurrect the dream of Acadia--a place where they could aspire to higher knowledge without fear of Church or state--by creating a new Secret Society that included Huguenots and Catholic Sulpicians. This Company of the Holy Sacrament would lay the foundations for Montreal in an attempt to realize the ambitions of Sinclair and his Templar companions, as well as to stave off efforts by the Jesuits to transform Quebec into a fiefdom of the orthodox Church. Quebec’s motto, “Je me souviens†(I remember), is a reference to this secret history.
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Lost Colony of the Templars is a great find.......2007-01-01
The lost Colony of the Templars uses a wealth of historical evidence to support its controversial theories regarding the Newport Tower and other evidence of the Knights Templar in North America, and I highly recommend it. Also highly recommended are two other fine Grail books, one non-fiction and the other fiction, and both are by Michael Bradley, a renowned Grail expert who served as a researcher for the Da Vinci Code movie. Bradley's Swords at Sunset is a non-fiction work that also contends the Knights Templar spirited the Grail to North America, primarly Niagara Ontario and Vermont state; while his fictional novel, The Magdalene Mandala is a wonderfully written thriller with a twisting plot that moves at break-neck speed. It also has well drawn characters and in the view of many is superior to the Da Vince Code. For anyone like me with a growing interest in the Grail, do yourself a favour and check out Lost Colony; Swords at Sunset and The Magdalene Mandala, which sent my heart pounding. These are three very good books and they're all highly recommended.
Newport Tower excavation proves this book wrong.......2006-12-12
In November, 2006, archaeologists hired by Chronognostics completed still another excavation of the Newport Tower. They came to the same conclusion as the excavation in 1951 by William Godfrey; i.e. it was built in 1650-1670, probably by Benedict Arnold's grandfather who owned it and claimed it in his will. So much of the book focuses on this that it is suspect in my mind. Additionally, the factual evidence on Sinclair having been in Rhode Island is meager, indeed. Dr. Diane Holloway
Secret Knowledge Revealed!.......2005-04-10
This fascinating work reveals the fact that Templar baptisteries started with the discovery of Jerusalem's secrets. They spread to Ireland, Portugal, Scotland and France and finally to America. Before Columbus. This book proves that the so-called Viking Tower could not have been built by anyone but an initiate who understood the advanced astronomy known to the Templar knights. This is groundbreaking and will forever change the debate over the Tower's origins.
Customer Reviews:
First Rate.......2004-01-14
A well-written book that doesn't talk down to its readers. Ms. Hallinan's prose flows well; she knows her subject, too, and that's a very big plus.
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Edited by John Russell Bartlett. This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1857 edition published in Providence.
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Edited by John Russell Bartlett. This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1856 edition by A. Crawford Greene and Brother, Providence.
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- Colonial Rhode Island's Legal Autonomy within the Empire
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Book Description
Departing from traditional approaches to colonial legal history, Mary Sarah Bilder argues that American law and legal culture developed within the framework of an evolving, unwritten transatlantic constitution that lawyers, legislators, and litigants on both sides of the Atlantic understood. The central tenet of this constitution--that colonial laws and customs could not be repugnant to the laws of England but could diverge for local circumstances--shaped the legal development of the colonial world.
Focusing on practices rather than doctrines, Bilder describes how the pragmatic and flexible conversation about this constitution shaped colonial law: the development of the legal profession; the place of English law in the colonies; the existence of equity courts and legislative equitable relief; property rights for women and inheritance laws; commercial law and currency reform; and laws governing religious establishment. Using as a case study the corporate colony of Rhode Island, which had the largest number of appeals of any mainland colony to the English Privy Council, she reconstructs a largely unknown world of pre-Constitutional legal culture.
Customer Reviews:
Welcome Back to the British World, "America".......2006-08-11
Mary Sarah Bilder has written a marvellous account of the workings of colonial constitutionalism in Rhode Island from the colonies founding to the American war of independence. The book is well researched and well documented. Though somewhat "heavy going" for a general readership, it is an excellent account of the constitutional principles that bound the English world in the colonial period. The last chapter illustrates the fidelity to English law that was manifest by rebel colonials as they formed their own state. A splendid book and well worth the effort.
Colonial Rhode Island's Legal Autonomy within the Empire.......2005-09-09
This is a book of serious legal historical scholarship. Ms. Bilder is a Law Professor at Boston College Law School, and holds a Ph.D. in American history from Harvard. As such, portions of it may be heavy-going for the general reader, but enough of the general analysis comes through to make this a valuable resource for anyone interested in the judicary and colonial legal history. At issue is how tiny Rhode Island managed to maintain a very substantial degree of legal autonomy within the British Empire. To answer this query, Bilder focuses upon the central principle of the Empire that while "a colony's laws could not be repugnant to the laws of England [they] could differ according to the people and place" (p. 1). This principle was implemented as to all the American colonies, and gave each colony much maneuvering room to maintain a healthy degree of local autonomy.
While we have an exceptional general overview of London v. colony in Joseph H. Smith's, "Appeals to the Privy Council from the American Plantations," he obviously cannot probe in great detail any individual colony's experience with this system. That Bilder does do in taking up such topics as "Women, Family, Property," "Personnel and Practices" (a very interesting chapter), "Religious Establishment and Orthodoxy," and other issues. Her discussion of the Privy Council and the development of the appeal is particularly effective. Basically, over time, the "repugnance" and "divergence" principle was ambiguous enough to fuel an effective sharing of responsibilities within the Empire (sort of a variant of "salutary neglect"), though over time with the tightening of control from London this flexibility was constricted, prompting the American Revolution.
Bilder's final chapter is probably the most valuable for the general reader and scholars alike. What effect did this experience with the "repugnancy principle" have on the development of judicial review within the new states, the institution of federal judicial review of state and Congressional legislation, and the evolution of federalism? In sum, a very fine contribution indeed by Bilder based upon impeccable research (the notes run over 80 pages) and an impressive command of the topic.
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For Children.......2000-10-16
This book is intended for very young children. It is 24 pages in length and uses very large print.
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For over a decade since the publication of 'Graphic Design: New York' in 1992, the international design community was waiting with anticipation for a new rival profiling New York's most interesting design studios of today. This newly published volume is a compilation of New York's best creators actively working today. The book itself is a part of a larger media project, incorporating print, Web, TV and events. Most of the interviews in the book represent only a part of the content which continues on infiltratenyc.com where readers are encouraged to contribute their opinion and initiate a discussion via web logs.
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insightful and entertaining.......2005-04-05
this book is my best design purchase in years. it's really insightful and entertaining. design journalism has become stale and most publications are just reprinting press releases they receive from the featured companies. gelman manages to reveal personalities of his subjects. Being an insider he can't be fooled and doesn't take s**t from anyone. it also has a highest concentration of very smart cerebral work, very fresh and energetic.
Infiltrate.......2005-04-01
I love this book's refreshingly unpretentious method of approaching graphic designers in NYC. Not only are superstar names included in the book but a whole gamut of talented and emerging designers. The interviews are compelling because Gelman, the interviewer and a major graphic designer himself, creates an environment for each designer that allows for spontaneous, truthful discussions. Not to mention the fact that the book itself is beautiful, celebrating the unmistakable energy of downtown Manhattan.
"Infiltrate" reaches out to the reader in ways that many books do not--most of the interviews are continued on the book's website where you can leave comments, ask questions and engage interactively with the "Infiltrate" community. (http://infiltratenyc.com/)
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