The Canopy: A Novel
intriguing: Angela Hunt has once again written a thought-provoking, stimulating story with an unusual story line. You feel as though you are actually in the jungle along with the characters. An unpredictable and refreshingly unusual plotline. You have [... more]
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Autumn Dreams
Reflective and Introspective: This is a collection of quiet, soothing music that brings a smile to the heart and warms the soul. A number of piano albums often seem empty without accompaniment, yet Mr. Wright illustrates why solo piano can be the most [... more]
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Legends of the Fall (Deluxe Edition)
From Amazon.com: A box-office hit when released in 1994, this sprawling, frequently overwrought familial melodrama may get sillier as its plot progresses, but it's the kind of lusty, character-based epic that Hollywood should attempt more often. It's [... more]
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In Praise of Plants
Technical but wondrously informative: It's always a good sign to see that someone has bothered to translate a science book from another language into English. Publishers can usually get some English-language scientist to write a tome on the latest [... more]
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The Tapir's Morning Bath: Mysteries of the Tropical Rain ...
journey of discovery: On the trail of the scientists who make the trails A journalist follows researchers into the South American rain forest to study the mystery of their devotion By Diana Muir Deep in the tropical rain forest, a small fruit-eating bat [... more]
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The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring
Cavorting in the canopy: They're almost impossible to see properly. If you're near the base in a neck-cricking stance, the tops are lost in a maze of foliage. At at distance, its cousins and offspring surround the one you want to consider. One redwood in [... more]
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Grace Notes A Novel
From Amazon.com: Composer Catherine McKenna has more of a gift for music than happiness, but she has long been driven beyond harmonies (musical and personal) that her Belfast family can understand. Bernard MacLaverty renders both sides of the equation: [... more]
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Making Salmon
Understates negative impact of logging: Mr. Taylor accurately identifies most of the causes of the salmon population crisis facing Washington state, Oregon, Alaska, and British Columbia. And he is dead on in his assessment of the impact of farm fisheries [... more]
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City of the Beasts
Magical!: I read this novel as my friend and I toured Central America. The setting and the landscapes were very comparable and definately added to the novel. The supernatural and magical nature that Allende portrays is unique and really brings out the [... more]
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Tropical Forest Canopies: Ecology and Management
Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 577.34 EAN: 9780792370499 Edition: Reprinted from PLANT ECOLOGY, 153 ISBN: 079237049X Number Of Pages: 380 Publication Date: 2001-09-30 [... more]
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Forest Canopies
Exhaustive, Intriguing, and Well researched: I recently used this book for an indepedent study on Canopy Ecology and found it abosutley indispensible. Lowman and Nadkarni used the work of such big name scientists as Nigel Stork and Terry Erwin to [... more]
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The Sacred Canopy: Elements of a Sociological Theory of ...
Readable?: Berger is anything but readable. To start with, any given sentence in the book contains anywhere from one to five neologisms the author himself has spawned (most likely in a laughable attempt at clarity). Sentences like "the nominizing [... more]
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