Product Description: An essential book for any naturalist, hunter, dog lover, angler, or thinker.

Product Description: Kimber shares his adventures, misadventures, and reflections as a part-time farmer and fetcher of firewood, his struggles with recalcitrant sheep and aging tractors, the joys of roaming the hills with his dog, plunking for pickerel in the lily pads, savoring the echoes of silence in a sleeping Maine village...read more

Product Description: Kimber shares his personal paddling philosophy, arranged in an alphabetical progression of essays. Part philosopher, part humorist, and an outstanding canoiest, Kimber reveals the heart and soul of the wilderness experience. Along the way he reveals a host of practical tips on how to camp and canoe in remote places...read more

Product Description: In a trio of wonderful long essays, three quite different writers--one a nature and outdoor writer, another a poet, and the third an essayist and novelist--let us sit in on their friendship and what draws them, inexorably, to the same small pond in Maine...read more

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Product Description: Universum-Film AG--best known by its signature logo, Ufa--was once the largest film company in Europe. Founded by the German High Command as a propaganda medium during World War I and always central to Germany's nationalistic big-business interests, Ufa was also home to the most innovative talents of the Weimar Republic...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A vibrant study of Athens documents the origins of democracy and Greek culture, profiles such figures as Socrates and Plato, and examines the major historical events that have shaped Athens and influenced philosophy, art, literature, and other areas of study. 15,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Why do we make mistakes? Are there certain errors common to failure, whether in a complex enterprise or daily life? In this truly indispensable book, Dietrich Dörner identifies what he calls the “logic of failure”—certain tendencies in our patterns of thought that, while appropriate to an older, simpler world, prove disastrous for the complex world we live in now...read more

An explanation of why and how, with our high intelligence and vast knowledge, humans continue to make catastrophic mistakes is accompanied by a concise handbook on how to 'go right.'

Shows the rich variety of plant and animal life in the ever-shrinking tropical rain forests of the world, and assesses the long-term impact of rain forest destruction

Describes and recommends rakes, ropes, buckets, wheel barrows, boots, brooms, saws, scythes, sickles, fences, seasonal clothing, and hammocks

Describes the characteristics of various breeds, tells how to select, house, feed, groom, and train a dog, and discusses common health care problems

Tells how to select a pet snake and terrarium equipment, describes snake behavior, and lists the care requirements of the most popular breeds

Tells how to select, house, feed, and care for an African gray parrot, explains examples of parrot behavior, and discusses common ailments

Tells how to select, feed, and care for a cat, describes their habits and behavior, and provides information on health care, travel, breeding, and cat shows