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Catesby's Birds of Colonial America (Fred W Morrison Series in Southern Studies)
Alan Feduccia , and Russell W. Peterson
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- Mark Catesby's Natural History of America: The Watercolors from the Royal Library Windsor Castle
- Empire's Nature: Mark Catesby's New World Vision (Published for the Omohudro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia)
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ASIN: 0807848166
Release Date: 1999-02-10 |
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With this lovely and informative volume, Alan Feduccia preserves the pathbreaking work of Mark Catesby, the English naturalist and illustrator who founded natural history and bird art in America. First published by UNC Press in 1985, the book features all 109 bird illustrations, 20 color plates, and the entire text from Catesby's pioneering Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahamas. Annotating Catesby's writings from a modern perspective, Feduccia discusses the perception of each species during the Colonial period, comments on its habits, and compares Catesby's observations with those of such other early naturalists as John White, John Lawson, Alexander Wilson, and John James Audubon.
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- Atlas Games does it again.
- too few rules
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Ancient Magic (Ars Magica)
Erik Dahl; Timothy Ferguson; Jeff Kyer; Richard Love; John Post; Paul Tevis; Alexander White
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ASIN: 1589780949
Release Date: 2007-01-02 |
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Legends tell of the mighty wizards of the past, sorcerers with powers that dwarf those of the magi of the Order of Hermes. Hyperboreans whose spells lasted a generation, necromancers of Canaan who could summon any of the dead, rune magic that brushed aside Magic Resistance like cobwebs; all these stories circulate in the Covenants of the Order. Other forms of magic are so ancient that even the legends have become rare. The Seekers are those magi of the Order who search for these secrets, aiming for the glory of being the one to bring the power to modern magi. This book contains descriptions of nine forms of ancient magic, and rules for integrating their secrets into Hermetic theory. From the frozen north to the westernmost edge of the world, from humankind's earliest homes to grand temples of the classical world, the quest can lead your characters anywhere in Mythic Europe, and even beyond. How far will they go for knowledge?
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Atlas Games does it again........2007-04-10
I've always loved Ars Magica and this recent supplement is just great.
It has lots of material that could be brought into many campaigns. Each type of Ancient magic has it's own section with history and rules on researching. In fact the books primary purpose appears to be to provide research opportunities and goals for your magi. A character could have his life goal to pursue norse rune magic and incorporating it into standard Hermetic theory.
too few rules.......2007-04-02
This one was alright in my opinion, but a little lacking in the rules dept. I feel they could have developed some of the specifics of the various forms of magic much more. I found the book to be more like a collection of adventure ideas. Not bad mind you, but not up to par with the rest of the excellent Ars Magica line.
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- Kerry "Lincolnesque"?
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- Wow, what a pile of rubbish
- A Concise Review of the 2004 Primary
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The Candidate: Behind John Kerry's Remarkable Run for the White House
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An all-access pass to the inner workings of the Kerry campaign, the grooming of the candidate, and how decisions get made and who will be making them in the run up to the November election.
Two years ago, veteran journalist and biographer Paul Alexander wrote a piece for Rolling Stone magazine that now seems prophetic: He named John Kerry as the candidate who would emerge as the Democratic front-runner in 2004, and identified the reasons, more than a year before Kerry announced his candidacy. Since then, Alexander has been following the campaign-often from a privileged position on the inside. This book will report what he saw, heard, and witnessed about Senator Kerry and his campaign along the way.
The Candidate will reveal what accounted for Kerry's strong, decisive showing in every political contest since the Iowa primaries, and why none of those factors were evident in the pre-Iowa polls. It will explain how the Kerry campaign staged this surprise turnaround, what voters need to know about what goes on behind the scenes in the Kerry war room, and how the campaign is preparing for the run from July to November. Granted unprecedented access to Kerry's family, his campaign team, his advisers, and members of his inner circle, Alexander sheds new light on the man who would be president.
"Writing a book from the campaign trail presents a unique opportunity to tell an important national story with great immediacy," Alexander explains. "The John Kerry story is dramatic, as is the story of how his campaign came together. This is a very different organization than the one I reported on in 2002. How decisions are being made now is a key indicator of how decisions will be made after the Democratic Convention and in the White House, should he defeat President Bush in November."
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Kerry "Lincolnesque"?.......2005-08-24
Forgive me while I start laughing. To me, Kerry always looked like a run-down, gaunt twin of the Eagles' much healthier looking Glenn Frey (makes you also wonder who really had the alledged coke habit)
Mr. Alexander's account is nothing but a slavish, fawning account why he liked a guy who besmirched his fellow servicemen, voted against almost every weapon development or intelligence-gathering operation designed to protect us before 9/11. A guy who went down to Nicaragua to endorse the Sandinistas, only to have those Marxist thugs make a fool of him by curtailing the liberties of the trampled Nicaraguan people. A rich patrician married to another rich patrician, both willing to increase our taxes, not only the rich like them, but the poor and middle class like the rest of us. Someone willing to outsource jobs even when Kerry was railing about "Benedict Arnold Corporations". Don't want to believe me? Just ask Teresa - or check those Heinz Ketchup bottles coming straight out of that well-known part of the Union called Canada.
And simply put, a big loser.
"Lincolnesque"? - no, to compare John Kerry to Honest Abe is a terrible insult to a brave, kind, decent man who was our greatest President. Mr. Alexander clearly needs to have his head examined.
A True Patriot:.......2005-01-26
This book truly shows the remarkable man John Kerry really is. It gets away from the portrayl the right-wing media/Fox News gives to this stoic man. I would recommend this book to anyone who is in search for the truth and tired of reading about the lies of those "Swift boat captains" who've shamed the political landscape for years to come.
This book deserves an excellent review.
Wow, what a pile of rubbish.......2004-08-28
Folks, I've read some whoppers in my day, but whoa! I really don't know where to begin. All I know is that John Kerry and this Paul Alexander character must be in love. Which really is no small feat because it is obviously difficult for Kerry to love anyone as much as himself. Folks, if you are a mental defective, you may buy this "John Kerry is George Washington, Paul Bunyon, and John Holmes all wrapped up into one" nonsense; but as for the rest of us, we know a steaming pile when we smell one. I have never heard of a boat taxi getting into so much harrowing life and death action in just 90 days, I mean this thing reads like a Swarzenegger flick! I expected the last few pages to reveal that Kerry saved the President's life, rescued his sweetheart from an international drug cartel, and made life on Mars inhabitable for the human race all in one day! I suppose the sad thing is that the only person who truely believes this drivel is actually the only person who should know it's a fraud. This is one narcassistic, power hungry, self deluding, compulsive liar; and one sick puppy. I hope he does become President, the ensuing terrorist attacks on this country will thin out the population and inevitably remove most idiots who believe this book from the gene pool. Happy reading (just don't forget the rubber gloves and golashes, because it gets thick real quick)!
A Concise Review of the 2004 Primary.......2004-07-29
Alexander pens a concise review of the 2004 primary with what he calls an "insiders perspective." Unfortunately what results is not news but rather a simple historical review of what happened. This book is poor on analysis and perhaps even poorer on its account and its claims of access to the candidate and the campaign.
However, for those looking for a short read on the simple events of the 2004 Democratic primary, "The Candidate" will suffice. Unfortunately, if one is searching for the magical key to Kerry's historical turnaround or how the Dean machine fell apart, bitter disappointment is the only result.
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John White Alexander and the Construction of National Identity: Cosmopolitan American Art, 1880-1915
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Fool's white
John Alexander Abucewicz
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The Politics of Foreign Aid
John Alexander White
Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan
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This CD brings together rare and fascinating works dealing with the Arab world, Asia, and Africa, as witnessed by Victorian-age Europeans. It contains the full text of 31 books, including the 16 volumes of Richard Burton's monumental translation of The Arabian Nights, with all his candid, racy footnotes, with their wealth of anthropological and cultural information.
Other works on this CD include:
Richard Burton Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage of Al-Madinah and Meccah (volume 1 of 2)
Samuel White Baker
The Albert N'Yanza,
Great Basin of the Nile And Explorations of the Nile Sources
Cyprus as I Saw It in 1879
Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon
In the Heart of Africa
Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia and the Sword Hunters of the Hamran Arabs
The Rifle and the Hound in Ceylon
Alexander Bulatovich translated from the Russian by Richard Seltzer
Translator's Introduction to Ethiopia Through Russian Eyes
From Entotto to the River Baro
With the Armies of Menelik II
Charles Darwin Voyage of the Beagle,
Charles Hose and William McDougall Pagan Tribes of Borneo,
Albert Ernest Jenks The Bontoc Igorot [in the Philippines]
David Livingstone
Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa
A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambezi and its Tributaries and the Discovery of Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa 1858-1864
John Hanning Speke The Discovery of the Source of the Nile
H. Wilfrid Walker Wanderings Among South Sea Savages And in Borneo and the Philippines
Alfred Wallace The Malay Archipelago (2 volumes)
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Disappointing.......2003-11-09
Take a good look at the map that Amazon displays with this item, because you won't find it on the CD. Although this CD does contain a large number of works by Richard Francis Burton, including his entire, unexpurgated translation of Sheherazade's famous tales, all of it is available FREE OF CHARGE from the Project Gutenberg site. The seller has simply copied a lot of downloaded texts--warts and all (and some of the warts are doozies) to a CDR, slapped on a very plain label, and sat back to collect the profits. You can do the same and save yourself 25 bucks.
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The Gracious Art of Dining
Mrs. John Alexander King
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