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Bonsai Masterclass
Bonsai Masterclass
Author: Peter Chan
Book Type: Hardcover
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Review Date: 10/30/2008
Helpful Score: 1


A step-by-step instruction of suiseki (stone viewing), forest planting, and planting on rocks, also the care of cascading needle jumpers, dwarfed gray-bark elms, lavishly flowered rhododendron bonsai, and more. 160 page book .


An Illustrated Manual of Pacific Coast Trees
Review Date: 10/29/2008


With lists of trees recommended for various uses on the Pacific Coast by H.W. Shepherd. Detailed botanical descriptions, a few photos, some line drawings of leaves . Includes: Illustrations, Plates. Includes Maps on lining-papers. "Glossary of botanical terms":


Komodo, the Living Dragon: The Living Dragon
Review Date: 10/28/2008


A detailed explanation of the world's largest lizard, inluding information about its first US breeding.


The Seaside Naturalist : A Guide to Study at the Seashore
The Seaside Naturalist : A Guide to Study at the Seashore
Author: Deborah A. Coulombe
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 4/5 Stars.
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Review Date: 10/28/2008


Easy-to-use, fun-to-follow book that serves as guide to beachcombers, animal loves, amateur naturalists and everyone with a sense of curiosity. An illustrated guide to marine plants and animals includes the characteristics of protozoa, arthropods, sponges, mollusks, reptiles, birds, fish, and mammals.


Tropical Rainforests: Latin American Nature and Society in Transition (Jaguar Books on Latin America (Paper), No 2)
Review Date: 10/21/2008
Helpful Score: 1


The decimation of Latin America's tropical forests has been the source of much recent political and popular discussion. In the Amazon basin alone, twenty thousand square kilometers are cleared each year. If we are to salvage this vast ecosystem, we must first recognize the complex interplay of political and economic interests that has brought us to this point. Toward that end, Professor Susan E. Place has collected some of the most influential scholarship on tropical deforestation for Tropical Rainforests. The thirty articles - written by individuals as diverse as economists, naturalists, historians, sociologists, anthropologists, geologists, and novelists - reflect the complexity of the topic itself.


Turtles Today (Complete Authoritative Guide)
Review Date: 10/28/2008


Discusses selecting a turtle, describes popular species, and shares advice on their feeding, breeding, and health care. Color Foto-glaze pictures w/ great details.


The Year of the Turtle: A Natural History
Review Date: 10/28/2008


David M. Carroll became hooked on turtles when he was eight years old and has never looked back. Now a much-published nature writer and artist, he looks in this memoir at his life, which no matter what else it has contained--poverty, loneliness, disappointment--has been satisfyingly full of turtles. In careful drawings, color paintings, and a fascinating text, Carroll describes the life of the freshwater turtles he has studied for 40 years.


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