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One of the world’s foremost wildlife photographers explores six continents and ten ecosystems to celebrate Earth’s diversity of life with stunning, panoramic photography. In The Natural World, celebrated nature photographer Thomas Mangelsen has selected his most important panoramic images—from a wildebeest migration on the plains of the Serengeti to the penguins of Antarctica, and from the grizzlies of Alaska to the frozen landscape of the polar bears on Hudson Bay. Featuring excerpts from his journals detailing his experience in the field, this book offers an intimate look into the natural world. With a foreword written by renowned primatologist and U.N. Messenger for Peace Dr. Jane Goodall, this book is a celebration of wildness and its intrinsic value. The Natural World is a record of Earth’s last great locales, one that will inspire present and future generations with the message that what we have can, and must, be saved. ... Read more

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Simply beautiful
The images in this book are great and truly inspiring. The panoramic format really adds to the impression. Mangelsen has shot the images around the globe from Alaska to the desert in Africa.

love it!
What a beautiful display of God's wonderful creation! The books great, but there are two pages that are smudged. However, I can live with the smudging for the price I paid.

If you want to buy just ONE book of nature photography
...this is the one. Tom Mangelsen was named by American Photo as one of the "100 Most Important People in Photography" and this book shows why. His work is not what one would usually expect in nature photography. He breaks through a genre that has become something of a cliche and surprises the viewer/reader with a broad, holisitic look at nature that astonishes and moves. This is my favorite book on nature, ever.

Gorgeous photography coffee table book
This book makes a great gift.It's big and beautiful and unusual, and the photography is spectacular. The book is bound at the top for optimal viewing of the panoramic scenery. Mangelsen is a genius with a sophisticated eye for composition, color, depth... The text is wonderful, explaining the story behind the photographs.This is the consummate coffee table book. It lives on our coffee table and everyone who sits on the couch instantly becomes mesmerized with the beauty of each page.

Simply magnificent
I was a fan of Mangelsen's photos before I bought the book, but wow! Page after page of excellent photos. it's the coffee table book that is rarely ever on the coffee table because people are oohing and ahhing over the wonderful content ... Read more

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"The memory of Christmas in her grandmother's village in Mexico sustains a child through harsh times as she travels across the U.S. with her family of migrant workers. . . . Dooling's expressive paintings show the individual family members against the shadowy, changing landscape."--Booklist. A Booklist Editor's Choice 1994. Full color. ... Read more

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thomas cook of rhode island

Great work! Invaluable tool for Cook research. Mrs.Fiske has done
an outstanding job!

Careful primary research clarifies some previous 'knowledge'
Mrs. Fiske has carefully sorted through early documents and developed a thorough and friendly history of the Thomas Cook line.She presents new thoughts, supports them with evidence, and makes this book a very valuable resource for those working anywhere along this line.Two fat! volumes may be obtained (be sure to tell Amazon which, or both, that you want) and you'll learn more than you ever dreamed possible about the Cooks.There are a few errors as can be expected in a work of this size (Grandpa's middle name was Orlando, not Oleander) but they appear minor in relationship to the vast number of entries. ... Read more

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Jane Austen significantly shaped the development of the English novel, and her works continue to be read widely today. In addition, her writings have attracted considerable critical and scholarly attention. This reference is a guide to her works and the response to them. Each of her major works is the subject of a reader-response oriented essay and a separate bibliographical survey. In addition, separate chapters overview her letters, poems, and prayers. Thus, the companion offers a convenient summary of scholarship on Austen and fresh readings of her works. ... Read more

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"This is not . . . the nomination of a justice of the peace to some small county in some small state. This involves the very integrity and fabric of our country."--Senator Orrin G. Hatch

The transcripts of the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on Clarence Thomas are extraordinarily rich and suggestive. Much has been written about the hearings, but until now, no one has paid close attention to the actual language of the participants. Revisiting the words of Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill, Jane Flax asks what we would learn about American politics if these hearings were, literally, our only text. Orrin Hatch's assertion was, indeed, perhaps more insightful than he realized. How does our legal and judicial system operate in the face of sexual issues? Can it ever transcend race and gender? Who was the real victim in these hearings--Hill, Thomas, the Senate, or the viewing public? Who in America has the power to make political meaning?

Rather than attempting to establish fact or truth, The American Dream in Black and White looks at the political narrative by which our nation makes sense of itself. The senators' own anxieties about their publicly televised role were evident throughout these hearings. Given our conviction that we are a nation built on freedom and equality, says Flax, the Senate committee had no choice but to confirm Thomas, thereby validating the cherished belief that with virtue and hard work, even a barefoot boy from Pin Point, Georgia, can transform himself into a Supreme Court Justice. To have turned him down would have called into question the very legitimacy of our politics and law.

To have sympathized with Anita Hill, seen as having brought "filthy" material into public view, was impossible. Demonstrating the powerful, public role of narrative, The American Dream in Black and White reveals the hearings as a dramatic challenge to the American political system--a system supposed to rise not only above gender and race, but also above any issue of sex, guilt, history, or personal identity.

Anita Hill's and Clarence Thomas's conflicting accounts, Flax argues, are a measure of the stories we tell about ourselves. Drawing on feminist, political, and psychoanalytic theory, she shows how these transcripts reveal deep and serious fissures in the psychic fabric of contemporary Americans, black and white, male and female. Identity politics and abstract individualism reflect rather than repair these fissures, and the lingering discomfort with the hearings reflects the necessity of new political theories and practices.Amazon.com Review
"Part of the fascination of the [Clarence] Thomas hearings iswatching what happens when issues that have historically been excludedor denied erupt into the center," says psychotherapist and HowardUniversity political scientist Jane Flax. "What," she asks, "could welearn about contemporary American politics ... if the transcripts ofthese hearings were the only available evidence?"

Using tools gathered from contemporary thinking on sexuality,feminism, and race, as well as from psychoanalytics and politicalphilosophy, Flax takes apart the language with which the SenateJudiciary Committee and Clarence Thomas himself established hisfitness for a Supreme Court seat during his 1991 confirmationhearings. She then considers how, after Anita Hill's allegations wereintroduced, the Senate and Thomas protected their original assessmentagainst conflicting evidence. From Thomas's pandering ("I think it isimportant that when one becomes a member of the judiciary that oneceases to accumulate strong viewpoints") to Alan Simpson'sShakespearean phrasings (referring, for example, to Hill's charges asa "foul, foul stack of stench,"), Flax hears in these transcriptsevidence of a judicial system seriously ill-equipped to deal fairlywith issues raised regarding race, gender, and sexuality. This is aprovocative new reading of one of the most important hearings to takeplace in this century, one in which Senator Orrin Hatch himselfdeclared, "This is not ... the nomination of a justice of the peace tosome small county.... This involves the very integrity and fabric ofour country." --Maria Dolan ... Read more

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Publisher: Nashville : Publishing House Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Barbee and Smith, agentsPublication date: 1897Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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written by STEVE NILES & THOMAS JANEart by LEWIS LAROSA & TIM BRADSTREETcover by MARK SHULTZThe Phaedon Warrior makes his way to Earth, and Veronica Falcon thinks he may hold the key to stopping the Alien Beasts. But will the escaped alien convict want to lend a hand? Or is he here to revel in the destruction?PRODUCT UPDATE (080107): Issue #3 now includes a pair of 3-D glasses with every copy. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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Based on an American Society for Training and Development-sponsored survey of career development practices in over one thousand large companies in the United States, Europe, Australia, and Singapore, Organizational Career Development summarizes the state-of-the-practice in the field.The authors and their fellow contributors go beyond a general look at career development systems to offer nuts-and-bolts advice for designing and implementing programs.

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Having adopted a shaking and scared dog named Mac from the animal shelter, Erin goes about trying to show him he has nothing more to fear and showers him with love, affection, and patience.

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Five-year-old Elliott learns that winning isn't everything when he begins to race with the Big Wheel bike he got for his birthday. ... Read more

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Originally published in 1860.This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies.All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume. ... Read more