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Daniel B. Botkin. Strange Encounters: Adventures of a Renegade Naturalist. Tarcher, 2004
1585423734 From Publishers Weekly A skilled essayist as well as an ecologist, Botkin (Discordant Harmonies: A New Ecology for the Twenty-First Century) combines science, wit and a gift for characterization to craft these consistently engaging essays. Many deal with contradictions and uncertainties that may never be resolved by research alone. In "Winds of a Condor's Wings," he describes a 1980 project that he was engaged in as a member of a committee to advise the State of California how to save the condor, whose population had declined to only 22. Three sets of so-called experts were unable to agree on what factor was chiefly responsible for the condor's decline or whether captive breeding or reintroduction to the wild should be pursued to sustain the species. "The Ecology of Cancer" is a touching account of his late wife's illness and how the questions she raised about chemotherapy motivated Botkin to establish an experimental workshop, as a memorial to her, composed of both biologists and cancer researchers who are learning from one another. In another piece, "How Many Bowhead Whales Ever Lived on the Earth," Botkin recounts his collaboration with John Bockstoce, an anthropologist studying Yankee whaling, whose complex personality springs to life on the page. There are many humorous inclusions, like "Is It Okay to Let Your Dog Drink from the Toilet?" a witty reflection on a study about the good-guy bacteria in toilet bowls. In all, this is a refreshing, open-minded collection about nature, ecology and science. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Book Description The warm, witty anecdotal adventures of a world-renowned scientist, spanning thirty years and dozens of countries. Most people only dream of having the life Daniel B. Botkin has led. He has studied whales and elephants, tramped over high mountain passes and through rain forests, worked with NASA, and spent substantial time walking in the footsteps of Lewis and Clark, and Henry David Thoreau. In Strange Encounters, Botkin does for the natural world what Richard Feynman did for physics and Oliver Sacks for human behavior. Whether rebuilding an old mill in New Hampshire while ruminating on notions of "progress," researching the most weight-efficient high-protein food for space travel, or working in a radioactive forest on an early Cold War research project, Botkin experiences the kind of adventures that illuminate the complex and ever-changing relationship between human beings and their environment. How many hours does a whale sleep? How many leaves are on a tree? Is it okay to let your dog drink from the toilet? In the delightful new book Strange Encounters: Adventures of a Renegade Naturalist (a Tarcher/Penguin hardcover; September 15, 2003), these seemingly simple, almost childlike questions lead to a series of rich meditations on science, nature, and human nature. Renowned environmental scientist Daniel B. Botkin sits us down (imagine a pub, a roaring fire, and a couple of pints) and tells us all his best globe-trotting, rain-forest-exploring, bullet-dodging anecdotes ? about whales, trees, elephants, radiation, old New England mills, space food, Thoreau, and other seemingly disparate, but ultimately connected, aspects of our natural world. The result is a fascinating look at how he (and we) think about nature and ourselves. Spanning thirty years and dozens of locales from the Serengeti Plains to the Douglas fir forests of the Pacific Northwest, in a style at once gentle and probing, Botkin?s stories are hilarious, heart-wrenching, enlightening, and mind-boggling. A sample of the stories in Strange Encounters CHAPTER 14 TRIMMING ELM TREES Daniel B. Botkin Copyright ? Daniel B. Botkin 2007 all rights reserved. Bob Nickel and Harry Chains were short of money. They were students at the Yale School of Forestry, and their courses had convinced them that they knew enough about this subject to act as professionals. They went into the business of tree-trimming. They were vigorous, outdoor young men, hardworking, earnest, and with good senses of humor. Bob was about six feet tall, with black hair and a thick black beard and pleasing manner. Harry was a wiry Australian, about 5? 10?, with a narrow face and a determined manner. Bob and Harry had worked for me on research projects in the forests of New Hampshire. By this time I had figured out, I thought, a way to combine the two worlds I had been living in, the nineteenth century self-contained world of Alstead, New Hampshire and the growing hi-tech world of modern science and its technology. The computer model that grew trees had to be compared with real data. I spent one summer getting some of that information and hired Bob and Harry to do the main field work. We worked in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, where Tom Siccama had followed the cigarette-smoking woman botanist to the summit of Mount Washington. I got U S geological survey maps of the mountains, making use of skills I had learned from Heman Chase about map reading as well as map making. And on these maps I selected points at random, so there could be no bias in what we chose. Bob, Harry and I then went to those plots and made measurements that I hoped we could use to test the forecasts of the computer program. We found our way with a map and compass, doing what later became known as ?orienteering,? an enjoyable outdoor challenge. With this work I was able to hike through the forests and study them, follow the ideas that had developed when I had helped Heman Chase survey the old farms in southern New Hampshire. During that summer, I came to know Bob and Harry well. Bob brought along his pet dog, a large retriever whom he named ?Henri? and pronounced it in French, as a joke. Once we climbed Mount Moosilocki, and overnight trip, as we made measurements on the way up and the way down. Henri was impatient and always eager to go ahead of us, returning after a while as fast as he could run and dashing past us, then turning around, visiting with us for a short while as if to say, ?what?s taking you so long? and then headed up the mountain again. By the end of the day when we reached the summit and cooked our dinner over a camping stove, Bob realized he had forgotten any food for his dog, who stood and watched us eat. Bob fed him some of the beef-stroganoff that came in a dried form and we had mixed with water, and he gave the dog water to drink. Most of the time Bob was completely competent and well-organized, but once he a while, as in this situation, he was like most of us, and would forget to bring something. We petted ?Henri? and tried to make him as happy as possible on his limited food, and he did not seem to mind too much. Bob and Harry had plenty of vigor and could out-hike me anytime. They were enthusiastic, full of good humor and fun to work with. I thought they could succeed at almost anything they wanted to do. But then their reach exceeded their abilities. Their first job as tree-trimmers back in New Haven in the fall was to trim a big elm tree near the curb on a busy New Haven Street. The tree belonged to the owners of a gracious white-clapboarded home, a classic New England house, except that the front of the house was dominated by an ostentatious porch with Greek-style columns holding up the overhanging roof. Bob and Harry arrived with a few saw and axes and some long ropes. The American elm was distinctively graceful and was once the dominant street tree in many towns and cities. Because of the Dutch Elm disease, an introduced fungal disease probably of Asian origin, few American elms remain today and their graceful shape is now unfamiliar. Typically, a elm?s main trunk split 20 or 30 feet above the ground into two to four arching limbs that spread out in what people referred to as a vase-like shape. The result was a beautiful tree whose leaves, hanging down from the high arched limbs,...

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Giuliano, Georffrey: Beatles Album: 30 Years of Music and Memorabilia, Toronto Stewart House Pub 1991
ISBN: 1895246105 Near Fine

- White cloth with guilt on spine, headband, 256 pages, dust jacket is in Near Fine condition. "Over 800 colour and black and white images showcasing the world's largest privately held Beatle collection. Celebrated author/music historian Geoffrey Giuliano eloquently tells the story behind each, truly taking you backstage wtih the "act you've known for all these year." A galaxy of 45 RPM picture covers from around the globe. Beautifully designed picture discs, maxi-singles and coloured vinyl. Rare unused oringal album cover art. Impossible-to-find Beatle-related acetates and test pressings. A comprehensive look at the phenomenon of Beatle bootlegs. Obscure promotional posters and press kits." Contents include: Intro: Peace of Mind / Shakin' in the Sixties: Beatles LPs / Shirley's Wild Accordion: Solo LPs / Indian Rope Trick: Bootlegs / Thinking of Linking: Singles, Eps and Picture Covers / Four Nights in Moscow: Acetates, Flexi-Discs, Tapes and Compact Discs / Watching Rainbows: Picture Discs, Coloured Vinyl and Maxi-Singles / Looking Glass: Apple Records Ltd / I Should Like to Live Up a Tree: Beatle-Related Recordings / Jubilee: Memorabilia / index. Packaged weight of this book is over 2 Kilos, so depending on destination extra shipping may be asked. Any image directly beside this liting is the actual book and not a stock photo First Canadian Edition NF Hard Cover Folio - over 12" - 15" tall

[SW: - White cloth with guilt on spine, headband, 256 pages, dust jacket is in Near Fine condition. "Over 800 colour and black and white images showcasing the world's largest privately held Beatle collection. Celebrated author/music historian Geoffrey Giuliano eloquently tells the story behind each, truly taking you backstage wtih the "act you've known for all these year." A galaxy of 45 RPM picture covers from around the globe. Beautifully designed picture discs, maxi-singles and coloured vinyl. Rare unused oringal album cover art. Impossible-to-find Beatle-related acetates and test pressings. A comprehensive look at the phenomenon of Beatle bootlegs. Obscure promotional posters and press kits." Contents include: Intro: Peace of Mind / Shakin' in the Sixties: Beatles LPs / Shirley's Wild Accordion: Solo LPs / Indian Rope Trick: Bootlegs / Thinking of Linking: Singles, Eps and Picture Covers / Four Nights in Moscow: Acetates, Flexi-Discs, Tapes and Compact Discs / Watching Rainbows: Picture Discs, Coloured Vinyl and Maxi-Singles / Looking Glass: Apple Records Ltd / I Should Like to Live Up a Tree: Beatle-Related Recordings / Jubilee: Memorabilia / index. Reference Music]

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THE STAFF OF THE WORLD BOOK ENCYCLOPEDIA. The World Book Of Test Taking, Volume 2. World Book Encyclopedia Inc., Chicago: 1982. ISBN: 0716631512

362 pages. Hardcover, no dustjacket. Good condition.

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Gowin, Emmet; Reynolds, Jock: Emmet Gowin: Changing the Earth (Hardcover) U.S.A. Yale University Art Gallery 2002
ISBN: 0300093616 New

New. Emmet Gowin: Changing the Earth (Hardcover) By Gowin, Emmet; Reynolds, Jock Product Details Synopsis: Emmet Gowin has been taking aerial photographs of the landscape in the United States, Mexico, Czechoslovakia, Asia, and the Middle East for over twenty years. In his most compelling photographs, one witnesses how man's footprint has visually scarred and continually altered the earth's surface. This extraordinary book, published in conjunction with the first major touring exhibition of Gowin's photographs in over ten years, focuses on images created after 1986. That was the year Gowin began to extend his aerial photography explorations in America by recording images of military test sites, missile silos, ammunition storage and disposal facilities, coal mining, pivot irrigation, offroad motor traffic, and more. The book also surveys his more recent works, which focus on other regions of the world, including the battlefields of Kuwait, new golf courses in Japan, and the chemo-petrol industries of the Czech Republic. Gowin's richly toned black-and-white images have been characterized as "immorally gorgeous, " since at a distance even his most disturbing images can appear to be beautiful. In this exquisitely produced volume, Jock Reynolds provides an overview of Gowin's aerial photography and places it in the context of his earlier work and that of such photographers as Carleton Watkins, Alfred Stieglitz, Ansel Adams, and Frederick Sommer. Philip Brookman illuminates Gowin's recent work in the Czech Republic, while Terry Tempest Williams discusses Gowin's images from the American West, especially his Nevada Test Site series. Synopsis: An exploration of the work of aerial landscape photographer, Emmet Gowin, mainly focusing on images he created after 1986. It provides an overview of Gowin's aerial photography and places it in the context of his earlier work and that of such photographers as Ansel Adams. Hardcover: 164 pages Publisher: YU Art Gallery (June 1, 2002) Language: English ISBN-10: 0300093616 ISBN-13: 978-0300093612 Product Dimensions: 12.9 x 10.9 x 0.4 inches New Hard Cover

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