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Fishes of Alabama
Awesome
Brilliant Book
Amazing illusrations, packed with information

FISHES OF ALABAMA
Herbert T., Boschung , Richard L. Mayden , and Joseph R. Tomelleri
Manufacturer: Smithsonian
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 158834004X

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A stunning look at the amazing fish diversity of Alabama, home to almost one-third of all fishes found in the US.

An enormous, superbly illustrated book revealing the astounding diversity of Alabama's fishes through brilliant color plates by Joseph Tomelleri and incredibly detailed information from the authors. Boschung and Mayden are two leading scientists of biodiversity. Boschung , co-editor of the National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Fishes, Whales, and Dolphins and Mayden, author of over 100 papers on fishes, and editor of the landmark publication Systematics, Historical Ecology, and North American Freshwater Fishes, have dedicated years to documenting the evolutionary histories, diversity, diets, growth rates, reproduction, sizes, distribution, and status of Alabama's fishes, and they present this wealth of information in a helpful, user-friendly format. The identification keys to the species are beautifully illustrated with extremely helpful drawings that provide fast, accurate identification, useful to experts and the general public alike. Whether an angler looking to determine the species of fish he just caught, a biology student interested in stream biodiversity, or a young naturalist exploring North America's hotspot for fish biodiversity, everyone with an interest in the diversity of our world will find Fishes of Alabama ideal. 709 color, 804 b/w illustrations.

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Fishes of Alabama.......2007-03-12

This is the most beautiful text book I have ever seen! With this book I am learning to "key out" fish for identification. A whole new world is opening before my eyes!

Awesome.......2006-08-19

This is a very informative book. I would have preferred more pictures and less artists renditions, but one can't be too picky.

Brilliant Book.......2006-03-21

This book is a great reference for any ichthyologists or anyone who loves fishes and art. It contains a lot of information and citations for each species.

Amazing illusrations, packed with information.......2004-08-21

This is an excellent reference book. Joe Tomelleri is a remarkable artist with a talent I have never seen before. His illustrations are so close to looking at the fish in a stream. He is a master at capturing life. The information in this book is very complete and concise. A great buy for the money and just a beautiful book to look at even if you are not extremely interested in fish.

Mighty Stories, Dangerous Rituals: Weaving Together the Human and the Divine

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excellent guide to connecting stories with ritual in worship and in pastoral care
Newly Analysis of Pastoral Ministry about Various Rituals
The Strength of Story
Connecting story and ritual
Mighty Good, Dangerously Accurate

Mighty Stories, Dangerous Rituals: Weaving Together the Human and the Divine
Herbert Anderson , and Edward Foley
Manufacturer: Jossey-Bass
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Liberating Rites:: Understanding the Transformative Power of Ritual

ASIN: 0787956481

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Bringing together two of our greatest sources of meaning and transformation

This book marries two partners that are made for each other. The result, as in all good unions, is mutual enrichment and deeper life. --Jack Shea, author of Stories of God

Now available in paperback, this moving and enlightening book presents us with a compelling vision of what can happen when we take the opportunity to connect stories and rituals--a vision of individuals and communities transformed through a deeper sense of connection to our loved ones, our communities, and God. Herbert Anderson and Edward Foley reveal how when stories and rituals work together, they have the potential to be both mighty and dangerous--mighty in their ability to lift us up and help us make these connections beyond ourselves and dangerous in challenging us to learn to live with complexity and contradiction.

They show how much more meaningful a baptism, wedding, or funeral can be when liturgy is made to include and recognize the personal stories of those involved. Suddenly, these familiar life-cycle rituals are infused with new life as their participants become connected in a narrative web linking past and present, human and divine. Newly created rituals can also help us connect our stories to the divine story, giving meaning to what we experience and bringing us closer to God.

Ministers, worship leaders, and pastoral caregivers can use this approach to storytelling and ritual to find ways to bring together worship and pastoral care, diminishing fragmentation and fostering coherence in their religious communities.

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excellent guide to connecting stories with ritual in worship and in pastoral care.......2007-04-19

Lutheran pastor Herbert Anderson and Roman Catholic priest Edward Foley thoughtfully examine the importance of connecting stories with ritual in worship and in pastoral care. They believe that our storytelling and ritual enactment can be both mighty and dangerous: "mighty" because human stories and ritual-making are "potential windows to the story of God"; "dangerous" because stories and rituals can also conceal reality and isolate us. This book explores how bringing storytelling and ritual enactment together can enrich baptisms, weddings, and funerals. It also explores the need for new rituals during such crises as miscarriage and divorce--as well as during such transitions as adoption and leaving home. Pastoral caregivers, worship leaders, and others will find the authors' points thought-provoking and their suggestions for joining story and ritual helpful.

Newly Analysis of Pastoral Ministry about Various Rituals.......2005-03-22

Anderson and Foley are using of a wide range of scholarly research about meaning of storytelling and rituals in the book Mighty Stories, Dangerous Rituals. Vivid real storytelling of common persons in their life and newly analysis of pastoral ministry about various rituals which we cannot easily be aware in our life from birth to death! These are characteristics of this book. While reading this book, we find ourselves we give ourselves up to Anderson and Foley's analysis and nod the head their thoughts.

I recommend this book for pastors and Christian persons. Through this book, I hope the relationship between individual and community, pastoral care and worship, and human and divine is developed. Finally I will quote an interesting passage to those who have some problem for their marriage. "...by reminding parents that their children are not their children because they belong to God. When parents take seriously this understanding of baptism, children are free to leave with a blessing, find their place in the world, and marry, if they choose (p81)."

The Strength of Story.......2005-03-20

As a gospel storyteller I have highest regard for the power of the story. This book does a wonderful job of not only explaining the importance for stories in our daily lives, but how our stories connect us with each other and with God. Stories of our lives are not just for each of us individually, but they are also for us as part of the community and they are part of all of our relationships. This book shows the blend between stories and the rituals of our lives as well as how we can revitalize rituals with our stories or how we can create rituals that go with our stories. The way the book is written it draws you in with all of its stories. The authors themselves are wonderful storytellers it seems, and because of this they have been able to show the strength of story for one's life.

Connecting story and ritual.......2005-03-19

"Mighty Stories, Dangerous Rituals" outlines for us what can happen when we connect our personal stories with rituals, and can create deeper connections between individuals, communities and God. Throughout the book, the authors cite a variety of different stories, including their own gift of storytelling.

One of the benefits that you can walk away with from having read this book is perhaps creating more meaningful rituals, such as baptism and weddings. The rituals are designed to include and recognize the personal stories of the people involved.

For anyone who is a minister, worship leader or pastoral caregiver, this might be a useful book to find new ways to bring together both worship and pastoral care.

Mighty Good, Dangerously Accurate.......2005-03-14

Anderson and Foley do a wonderful job of collecting stories and demonstrating how important these stories become in the lives of those who have shared and or experienced them. The beauty of this book is that they allow the reader to see themselves in the stories, these are not only the stories of the people mentioned in them, but they are the stories of all of us in one way or another, to one degree or another. Finally, they relate to the reader how the stories of us help to define ourselves. This is a wonderful book, a joy to read, and provides insight to how our stories become ritualized in our lives.

Iron Coffins, a Personal Account of the German U-boat Battles of World War II

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One of the best military books ever

Iron Coffins, a Personal Account of the German U-boat Battles of World War II
Herbert A.-former U-boat Commander; Beach, Capt. Edward L.-U.S. Navy(Ret.)-foreword by Werner
Manufacturer: Holt Rinehart Winston
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000H55P7G

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One of the best military books ever.......2007-05-31

This is a fascinating, exciting, story of one of the few U-Boat captains who fought and survived WWII. I don't know how anyone could write a better book on what it was like to attack and be attacked, month after month, and year after year. I read aviation, armor, and naval WWII books from both the U.S./British and Axis sides and I think it this is the best one of all.

Lincoln the writer,: The development of his literary style, (University of Maine studies, 2d ser)

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Lincoln the writer,: The development of his literary style, (University of Maine studies, 2d ser)
Herbert Joseph Edwards
Manufacturer: University of Maine
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: B0007E9V8G

Visions of Utopia (New York Public Library Lectures in Humanities)

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Visions of Utopia (New York Public Library Lectures in Humanities)
Edward Rothstein , Herbert Muschamp , and Martin E. Marty
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0195171616

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From the sex-free paradise of the Shakers to the worker's paradise of Marx, utopian ideas seem to have two things in common--they all are wonderfully plausible at the start and they all end up as disasters. In Visions of Utopia, three leading cultural critics--Edward Rothstein, Martin Marty, and Herbert Muschamp--look at the history of utopian thinking, exploring why they fail and why they are still worth pursuing. Edward Rothstein, New York Times cultural critic, contends that every utopia is really a dystopia--a disaster in the making--one that overlooks the nature of humanity and the impossibilities of paradise. He traces the ideal in politics and technology and suggests that only in art--and especially in music--does the desire for utopia find satisfaction. Martin Marty examines several models of utopia--from Thomas More's to a 1960s experimental city that he helped to plan--to show that, even though utopias can never be realized, we should not be too quick to condemn them. They can express dimensions of the human spirit that might otherwise be stifled and can plant ideas that may germinate in more realistic and practical soil. And Herbert Muschamp, the New York Times architectural critic, looks at Utopianism as exemplified in two different ways: the Buddhist tradition and the work of visionary Viennese architect Adolph Loos. Utopian thinking embodies humanity's noblest impulses, yet it can lead to horrors such as Nazi Germany and the Soviet Regime. In Visions of Utopia, these leading thinkers offer an intriguing look at the paradoxes of paradise.

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New History is Called Gift to South Dakota

New South Dakota History

Manufacturer: Center for Western Studies
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

History Of South Dakota
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ASIN: 0931170834

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This is a new story of South Dakota's past--a fresh telling of South Dakota's always interesting, often colorful, and yet sometimes painful history. The first full-scale interpretation of the state's history in more than forty years. A New South Dakota History emphasizes the geographic and cultural diversity of the nation's fortieth state. Acknowledging rather than igonoring the problems of the past, this history offers new and varied perspectives on the state and, in so doing, provides a foundation for a better understanding of the issues facing South Dakota now and in the near future. This history also celebrates the achievements of the state in such areas as agriculture, urbanization, communications, tourism, and the arts. Featuring essays by nationally recognized authors as well as full-length chapters by noted scholars, this 650-page history is intended for general readers, college students, and teachers of South Dakota history. The text is illustrated with over 100 photographs and includes chapter chronologies, notes, a selective readings list, and an index. Beginning with an essay on Sioux understanding of the land, this history moves to chapters on geography, early Native peoples, the fur trade and exploration, Missouri River culture, Native Americans in Dakota Territory, Yankee and European immigration, cities and towns, territorial and statehood politics, farming and ranching, the Black Hills religious institutions, the literary, visual, and performing arts, health care, communication technologies, transportation and tourism, modern tribes, and the challenges and opportunities facing South Dakota in the twenty-first century. Along the way are essays on the African American experience, small towns, women writers, and the traditional Sioux family today. This is the story of a new South Dakota.

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New History is Called Gift to South Dakota.......2005-11-19

"A New South Dakota History is a gift to South Dakota from the Center for Western Studies and it will remain so even when it becomes an old history. Only the title will lose relevance."
--Reviewed in South Dakota Magazine (Nov/Dec 2005)

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Arabian Horse Breeding
Herbert H. Reese
Manufacturer: Borden Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000GQN0LE

Anchorites, Wombs, and Tombs: Intersections of Gender and Enclosure in the Middle Ages (University of Wales Press - Religion and Culture in the Middle Ages)

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Authors in this edited collection

Anchorites, Wombs, and Tombs: Intersections of Gender and Enclosure in the Middle Ages (University of Wales Press - Religion and Culture in the Middle Ages)

Manufacturer: University of Wales Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0708318630

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The phenomenon of anchoritic enclosure in the Middle Ages, both as a material practice and as a malleable discourse, is discussed in this essay collection. Dealing not only within the context of individual withdrawal into the anchorhold itself, these essays also examine the wider effect enclosure had upon other established communities and the laity. Theories and practices of enclosure and the physical and metaphorical implications enclosure presented for its adherents and their contemporaries are addressed. The role played by gender in the various and shifting manifestations of enclosure, which lasted throughout the Middle Ages, is also examined.

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Authors in this edited collection.......2006-06-26

Scholars with essays in this book, besides the editors: Alexandra Barratt, Santha Bhattacharji, Rebecca Hayward, Elizabeth Freeman, Johan Bergstom-Allen, Kristen McQuinn, Susannah Mary Chewning, Ulrike Wiethaus, Mari Hughes-Edwards, Robert Hasenfratz, Cate Gunn, Catherine Innes-Parker.

This is one of the first edited collections focused solely on literature of the anchorhold. Based on a conference of the Internatioal Anchoritic Society, these essay represent a helpful range of texts and approches, at the head of the field. In a few years the next volume will come out, based on the second conference. Watch out for it!

Art now;: An introduction to the theory of modern painting and sculpture

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Art now;: An introduction to the theory of modern painting and sculpture
Herbert Edward Read
Manufacturer: faber and faber
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: B0007JE2NK

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Language and Linguistics on CD
Edward Sapir; Henry Wheatley; Herbert Spencer; Walter Skeat
Manufacturer: B&R Samizdat Express
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: CD-ROM
ASIN: 0917466543

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Language and Linguisitcs includes 39 books, covering English, Latin, Greek, Esperanto, and other languages from around the world. Intended for use with Windows PCs and recent Macs (OS X), these books are in plain-text format, organized for easy access.

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