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Es un libro que no debe faltar en la biblioteca de ningún ornitólogo. Describe casi la totalidad de especies de aves del país con más especies de aves en el mundo. Excelente.

This work is all a bird watcher could wish for. The splendid paintings by Tudor add to the very helpful in-depth descriptions. Completed by nearly 1500 distribution maps there's nothing left to wish, except go out there and see them. I used it when birding in Peru and I could still determine nearly all the birds I saw.
It's an example for every bird field guide.

Since no definitive bird guide is available for the Amazon region and Brazil in general, I was forced to choose between this guide and the Birds of Venezuela. I ended up with Hilty and Brown's book by sheer coincidence, and I was not at all disappointed. The text and information is superb throughout, and I was able to identify several species on habitat description alone. For example, the authors clearly describe the preference of many taxa for varzea (seasonally flooded) or terra firme forests, which made a fleeting glimpse more of a certainty, and the range descriptions were invaluable. If I have only one very minor criticism, it is that I have never found plates in black and white particularly helpful, and since several artists were employed, there were differences in visual interpretation in several groups (e.g. the Picidae). However, these are minor detractions from an outstanding volume.

I carry this book with me whenever I go into the U.P. I like to photograph the waterfalls of Michigan and this guide is constant travel companion. The book gives clear directions on how to get to each of the falls. The falls are broken down into the corresponding counties. Not only is this a unique guide it is a comprehensive guide to Michigan falls. The only minor enhancement that could be made to the book to make it even better is more photographs of the falls. However, the bit of mystery of what the falls will look also is a good motivation for exploring more and more. There are more to Michigan falls than Tahquamenon. I highly recommend Bond Falls. This book is the bible to exploring the falls.

I highly recommend this to anyone who's interested in waterfalls. The photography is very nice and the directions are clear and concise. My family and I visited twenty-four waterfalls so far this summer/fall in the Marquette area using this book.

We recently took a vacation to the upper peninsula. On our way up there we stopped by a friends home who gave us the guide. We met the folks we were staying with in Munising,they said they loved to explore waterfalls, but were unable to find many just going on the directions from the locals. With this guide we were able to easily locate many falls, the directions are right on, down to the tenth of a mile. I would heartily recommend this guide to anyone wanting to explore Michigan's Waterfalls. We are buying this guide for our friends so that they can explore and know exactly where to find the falls.

I've been building my library of wildlife gardening books and this one is definitely an integral part of it. One thing I especially like is the tables - for example there's one on common backyard insects and spiders - it tells what they are (e.g. crickets) then what their needs are (e.g. sunny locationwith loose cover) and then what's so neat about them (e.g. chorus on warm summer evenings). The book is broken out into sections such as Gardens for butterflies and bugs, gardens for small mammals, reptiles and amphibians; and then there are specific seasonal gardens for birds. There's even a chapter on wildlife for apartment dwellers. There are plans for building bird houses, setting up ponds etc. Very complete and lots of good clear writing.

This handy little book provides information on creating habitat and attracting creatures of many types. Everything from birds to grasshoppers is covered in this book. Info is provided on creating ponds for frogs, dragonflies and damselfies, the construction of boxes for cavity-nesting songbirds, as well as neat little tidbits of info that are hard to find-like how to attract sphinx (hawk) moths, flying squirrels, and garter snakes.

This book "Backyard Wildlife-A Guide For Nature Lovers" is an excellent resource book on bringing,and conservating for wildlife. From birds to frogs,and even plants.

This is a great book if you love nature,and want to give wildlife a place eat and live. This is a really great book.

We used this book as our itinerary planner for a recent 8 day trip to South Florida. We found the detailed directions to be so helpful to us in finding our target birds!

Excellent guide to the birding sites of Florida, especially to those birders chasing local "specialties".

This is the perfect journal for those who do not know what to write in a blank journal. The journal is full of questions like "What are your deepest dreams?" and "If there was no tomorrow, what would you do today?". The journal helps get to know yourself better. There is a hidden, special message in the journal for you to find. I'm still trying to find that special message. This journal is very creative and eye-catching with Tom Bloom's unique illustrastions. Not only can you write your thoughts in the journal, but you can sketch them as well. I recommend this book! BUY IT! It's very inspiring and very creative/unique!

This book is simply fabulous. There are dozens of books out there that try to help you examine your life, but Bill Zimmerman's is different in that asks a number of thought-provoking questions without forcing you to make grand sweeping conclusions about yourself and your life. It's entertaining and Tom Bloom's illustrations are great. You'll enjoy this book more than you could imagine.

Detailed descriptions of how various parts of cedar trees were used to create watertight boats, boxes, baskets, hats, clothing, shelter, mats, buildings, art, etc., etc. What really sends this book over the top are the detailed drawings and diagrams of how cedar was hand-processed and used to construct various objects. With this book as a guide one would have a fair shot at recreating these objects of functional art.

The Northwest Coastal people held the cedar & its spirit in high regard for all the gifts of life it offered them. For millennia they developed tools & skills to fell the giant trees to make canoes, post-&-beam homes, waterproof boxes & carved poles. Dedicated to those who know & respect the spirit of the Cedar, Hilary Stewart's book is a labor of love, respect & infinite knowledge. It intrigued her that people lived so well & for so long using almost exclusively the materials of their environment & her curiosity has wrought a fine book of early illustrations. A must for anyone interested in how the First People lived.

This book is a great introduction to playing the tin whistle. It's helpful if you already know how to read music, but the CD will help you if you don't. The CD also provides a "teacher/student" setting if you like to learn from listening to someone. This set provides the basics for playing (individual notes, scales, and simple tunes) as well as more advanced music and celtic playing styles (e.g. rolls and crans).

If you want to learn to play the tin whistle, or if you've begun to play and need some direction, this set is by far the best available tin whistle tutorial on the market. Bill Ochs is a brilliant player and teacher. Buy this set, work through it, and then go to New York and take a lesson with Bill. You'll find all the information you need at his web site (look for the web address in the book).

I started three British Procedural series about the same time. Although they are all good, I like Ms. Harrod-Eagles series the best. She is a wonderful writer. Her plots and characterization are tight, and the story usually has many surprises. Bill Slider is a wonderful character. He's sensitive, a bit tentative (especially in his personal life), and a darn good detective. This was an interesting book because the mystery looked quite simple at the beginning, but the further that Bill dug into it, the more sinister it became. It took him all the way up to the top with his suspicions. With the help of his partner, he manages to discover the truth. I highly recommend this series.

I can never put this author's books down until I've read the whole book (usually in one sitting). She always maintains a nice balance between humor and adversity and tops it all off with a wicked and logical plot. Harrod-Eagle is a wonderful mystery writer and I always look forward to reading her latest book. All of them (so far) have been excellent.

I bought it to have handy for rainy days. My children were small and I needed something to keep them entertained. After many years of using it and planty of fun, I moved and I lost it. I am buying again, because I treasure it. And when my children come back with their children, this is the book they want to see. Sincerely, Hilder Garrison

I got this for Christmas one year when I was in elementary school and was instantly fascinated by it. I still pull it off the shelf every now and then (I just graduated college) when I want to make a dollar-bill elephant. This book is a LOT of fun for kids and parents alike. It's something parents can give to their kids to provide them with a fun activity that's creative and useful--you'd be surprised how much a waiter appreciates a crummy tip when it's folded up into the shape of a frog that leaps. A co-worker of mine just got it for her kids who are 10, 11 and 12 years old, and they love it too. Definitely fun for all ages. Very well-written (funny and witty) with clear directions. I highly recommend it!!

Wonderful spiral bound book with very thoughtful and painstaking
detail to dialog along with good graphics.

The author didn't make it easy for herself by giving the reader a glossary of terms on the folds and expecting the reader to commit them to memory before proceeding on.

You are literally walked through each project in such a way that you will get professional results the 1st time, in minutes.

The best I've read so far.

p.s. I like the crisp uncirculated dollar that came with it.

As soon as you see that the title of this Little Bill Book for Beginning Readers by Bill Cosby is "The Meanest Thing to Say," I am sure you start to think of what would be the meanest thing you could say to somebody. Young readers will probably do the same thing, but I think older readers might have an advantage on coming up with really mean things to say. However, the important thing is that I serious doubt that any of us, regardless of our age and/or experience with saying mean things, will come up with the same thing that Cosby does in this story.

The situation is that there is a new boy in Little Bill's class named Michael Reilly. During recess when Little Bill and his friends start to play basketball Michael comes over and announces that he knows a better came. It is called Playing the Dozens and the idea is that you get twelve chances to say something mean to a person and whoever says the meanest thing wins. Jose and Andrew start playing the game, coming up with mean things to say about each other, and then Michael turns to little bill and says, "You shoot like a girl." But then the bell rings and Little Bill has until the next day to thing up the meanest possible thing to say back to Michael.

As Dr. Alvin F. Poussaint the Harvard Clinical Professor of Psychiatry explains in his letter to parents at the start of this book, sooner or later most children are going to meet other children who are deliberately mean. In that situation kids can either fight back to try to retreat. But in this book Cosby offers an alternative course of action that keeps the situation from escalating to something bad. Poussaint points out that this tactic might not always be practical, but the key thing here is that Cosby shows young readers that there are creative way to resolve conflicts with other children that do not involve losing face or resorting to violence. In these books, which he always dedicates to his son Ennis, Cosby has found a perfect way of combining his storytelling skills and his interest in educating.

There are a couple of other things I really liked about this book, which is illustrated by Varnette P. Honeywood. The first is that it is essentially about trash talking, which has become an epidemic in sports and something that I can live without. Being witty is one thing, but meaning mean is another (shooting off your mouth in a basketball game does not get you any points). The other is that in this particular book Big Bill is the one that comes up with the solution. Usually it is Alice the Great or some other member of the family that seems to be coming up with the necessary wisdom in these stories, so it was nice to know that Big Bill can do more than say the wrong thing and have his wife give him a funny look.

Bill Cosby's series of "Little Bill" books (before it became a regular T.V. series on Nick Jr.)are a big hit with kids and parents alike. Oprah even recommended "Meanest Thing to Say", which looks at bullying in school. Little Bill's parents are involved and caring, presenting the choices he has in order to deal with this. Bullying and tormenting are a staple in every school, and in every generation. This wonderful book helps parents to show their children that thay are not alone, and more importantly, how they really can cope in the face of a classmate's taunting.

Little Bill is faced with a dilemma. Michael, a new kid at school, has invented a new game called "Playing the Dozens". The winner of the game is the person who can say the meanest things about others. Little Bill does not like the game and finds a unique way to play without hurting others.

Young children can relate to the message of this story and its colorful illustrations. The book instills morals, values, and teaches the lesson that saying mean things and name-calling can hurt others. The story also presents an excellent way kids can cope with being called names in addition to showing how to amicably deal with a bully.