It Came from the Far Side

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The Far Side® and the Larson® signature are registered trademarks of FarWorks, Inc.

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I THINK THAT UT RULES!!!!!!.......1999-04-20

Gary Larson should'nt of ahve retired from cartoons. He is so good

Classic Larson cartoons. Hilarious........1999-03-07

These are some of the funniest Far Side cartoons. This is probably the funniest Far Side collection, in my opinion. A must have for any real Far Side fan.

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It Came from the Far Side
Gary Larson
Manufacturer: Andrews, McMeel & Parker
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: B000INDAA6

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This digital document is an article from Renaissance Quarterly, published by Thomson Gale on September 22, 2006. The length of the article is 752 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Early Netherlandish Paintings: Rediscovery, Reception, and Research.(Book review)
Author: Diane Wolfthal
Publication: Renaissance Quarterly (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 22, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 59 Issue: 3 Page: 923(2)

Article Type: Book review

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Author/photographer Kennan Ward uses spectacular images to guide readers on an intimate journey that lovingly reveals this very special place and shares some of his many personal experiences. For this book, Ward was given unprecedented access to areas of the park that is home to Mt. McKinely, North America's highest peak.

Seasons in the Desert: A Naturalist's Notebook

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Susan Tweit reveals the abundance of life in deserts.

Seasons in the Desert: A Naturalist's Notebook
Susan Tweit
Manufacturer: Chronicle Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0811816850

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Bargain Books are non-returnable.

Seasons in the Desert is a rare and wonderful combination of lyrical writing, natural history, and fine art. Esteemed nature writer Susan J. Tweit reveals the hidden life thriving in the deserts of the American Southwest, from the tiny fairy shrimp to the regal saguaro cactus. Her witty, factual, and heartfelt reflections combine with Kirk Caldwell's beautiful illustrations to illuminate the ways and mythologies of forty eccentric plants and animals. Sharing the qualities of the works of Terry Tempest Williams, Sue Hubbell, and Gretel Ehrlich, Seasons in the Desert is a wondrous and thoughtful foray into the living world of vast desert spaces.

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Susan Tweit reveals the abundance of life in deserts........1998-07-07

The American Heritage Dictionary defines a desert as "a region rendered barren or partially barren by environmental extremes." Susan Tweit obviously does not agree with the writers at American Heritage.

With her book in hand, readers will come to the same conclusion. Consider a desert pothole, one of those shallow, soil-filled pits in sandstone. At first glance they seem lifeless, but after a desert rain supplies the water, eggs and larvae that have lay dormant in the soil for months or years burst into life. Within hours animals as exotic as tadpole shrimp, which resemble miniature horseshoe crabs, and their crustacean cousins, fairy shrimp, begin to ply the pool. Other pothole denizens may include microscopic mites, that only occur in South Africa and the desert southwest, or spadefoot toads, which have been buried two feet deep in soil near the pothole waiting for the revivifying moisture.

During the ephemeral life of the pothole the animals spend most of their time feeding and breeding. As the water evaporates the frenzy continues with cannibalism a common occurrence. Before the soil dries out again, though, eggs and larvae will settle down into the mud to wait for the next rain storm. And the next miracle of the pothole.

In her new collection of essays, Susan Tweit circumvents the sterile dictionary definition by exploring 40 desert lives as diverse as rattlesnakes, fairy shrimp, Christmas cholla, and screwbean mesquite. The 900-word-stories are told with a naturalist's sensibility and care for the natural world. "I think of these desert characters as my relatives, in the sense that all life is kin." She does not, however, preach or anthropomorphize. Nor does she slip into new-age polemics.

The book is organized by season, starting with spring. Each essay focuses on one animal or plant but also interweaves a kaleidoscope of pollinators, predators, scientists and explorers. The stories paint a full picture not just of the star of the story, but of the lives that rev! olve around it. Tweit also adds voices of researchers and writers who offer another level of insight into these desert lives.

Tweit's language conveys her intimate knowledge and deep care for the flora and fauna she describes. She concludes her essay on Couch's spadefoot toad with: "To hear the swelling nighttime chorus of spadefoot toads is to know joy. When I hear sapitos [the Spanish term], I am overcome with the urge to dance barefoot in puddles, ... to celebrate the return of water to this parched land."

In the early 1900s the great naturalist John Burroughs wrote "Indeed, nature-study, as it appeals to us in books, fails of its chief end if it does not send us to nature itself." Susan Tweit's new book admirably meets Burrough's standard-seducing its readers to go out and make their own discoveries in the desert.

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Outdoor Photography Specially for Hunters, Fishermen, Naturalists, Wildlife Enthusiasts

Manufacturer: Outdoor Life; Harper & Row
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000I763HY

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Outdoor Photography: Specially for Hunters, Fishermen, Naturalists, Wildlife Entusiasts (Outdoor Life Skill Book)
Erwin A. Bauer
Manufacturer: Dutton Adult
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0876901615

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Don't expect to learn very much...

Photography for the Naturalist
Mark Lucock
Manufacturer: Guild of Master Craftsman
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1861082908

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What's out there for you to capture in pictures? Perhaps a beautiful pink rose butterfly, lush waterfall, tiny tree frog, or flowering barrel cactus. If you have a passion for nature and photography, get ready to take it to another level. Breathtaking, colorful images reveal must what's possible when you're shooting the wild world--and all the instructional basics will help you create fabulous picutures of your own. Designed especially for the amateur, this is one guide that doesn't require elaborate lenses or exotic safaris. It tells you how to photograph for pleasure and profit; master scale, exposure, meter and flash; choose film and camera supports; and move in close. Insects, arachnids, reptiles and amphibians, birds and mammals, plants and funghi, or a landscape; each one receives full and wonderfully illustrated attention!

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Don't expect to learn very much..........2003-01-16

While Lucock's beautifully illustrated book clearly marks him as a good naturalist and an excellent photographer the book falls far short of offering any real instruction (save flash photography) on the matter of nature photography technique. The book reads more as Lucock's personal log on trips to Turkey, Grand Canyon, etc. The book serves more as a cursory study on the natural history of his subjects rather than as a serious photographic instructional book. Too bad because his photos are spectacular and if only he had shared his "thinking" behind the shots the book would have been much more enjoyable.

Lucock clearly is a master at close up photogaphy, making the photos themselves, worthy of buying the book. Do not expect to learn a lot though.

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Photography for the sportsman naturalist, (The American sportsman's library, ed. by C. Whitney)
Leverett White Brownell
Manufacturer: MacMillan & Co
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: B000857J5Q

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Secrets from the Rocks
Albert Marrin
Manufacturer: Dutton Juvenile
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0525467432

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"I was born to be an explorer. I couldn't do anything else and be happy." Starting in 1922, Roy Chapman Andrews, working for the American Museum of Natural History, conceived a whole new "team" way of searching for fossils and led five car-and-camel expeditions to the Gobi Desert in Mongolia. His team's discoveries-of dinosaur eggs, new dinosaur species, and the earliest mammals-changed the way we think about the great Age of Dinosaurs. In deft, vivid strokes, master storyteller and historian Albert Marrin captures the excitement and the science of the expedition's encounters not only with fossils but with suffocating sandstorms, snakes, bandits, a strange culture, political turmoil, and more.

Wild country;: A Highland naturalist's notes and pictures,

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Wild country;: A Highland naturalist's notes and pictures,
F. Fraser Darling
Manufacturer: The University Press
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Junior-Photo-Naturalist: My trip to the zoo!

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It makes sense
Love Junior Photo Naturalist

Junior-Photo-Naturalist: My trip to the zoo!
Joe Sartori
Manufacturer: Build-a-Book
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Binding: Hardcover

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It makes sense.......2000-12-30

As a former teacher (1st to 12th grades) I have had the opportunity to evaluate a variety of teaching methods, tools and techniques meant to educate and inspire children. I have always felt that children should use a hands on approach to learning and sometimes their feet too. Sometimes you've got to turn the computer or television off and let them enjoy the real world. This book uses a practical, do-it and learn-it approach. Kids can have fun learning about animals and picture taking, while enjoying a good old fashioned walk through the zoo. When they're done they have a precious keepsake of their own to hold onto.

Love Junior Photo Naturalist.......2000-11-23

The Junior Photo Naturalist "My Trip to the Zoo" is a whole new genre of interactive kid's product. Part nature book, and part scrapbook, it encourages kids to become involved in what they are looking at. The author uses the tried and true "questioning technique" to get kids to consider things such as how birds of prey beaks differ from those of other birds they see at the zoo. There are pages for children to insert their own zoo photos and little photographer's tips written at a kid's level. I hope we will soon see other books in this series. Buy your budding naturalist / nature photographer this book and a cheap camera and you may well have the next Ansel Adams on your hands in a few years.

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The naturalist on the prowl,
Frances Pitt
Manufacturer: The Macmillan Company
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

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Garfield is Garfield.......2006-03-15

What can you can say? How can we improve upon perfection, right? It's Garfield, so it's great!

Good, clean, daily humor.......2006-02-24

I use the Garfield daily calendar in my 3rd grade classroom every day. It exposes the students to the elements of humor, and they enjoy it immensely. I really appreciate that I can count on Jim Davis to keep the jokes clean and appropriate for 8- and 9-year olds. Occasionally I have to explain the joke, but that is all part of the teaching process.

Always a must.......2006-02-02

Jim Davis' comics from 2002 are some of the best I have seen from him, I don't know where he gets all his ideas from, and I rarely see a duplicate from years past. I have been buying the Garfield 365 day calendars for the longest time now and they are always something to enjoy in the morning.

Daily Fun.......2006-02-01

I am really enjoying reading the daily Garfield comic strip.
Makes my day.

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Garfield: 2006 Mini Day to Day Calendar
Jim Davis
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