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Widely recognized as the best treatment of the technical issues concerning forest health and forest protection available, the original edition of this comprehensive text was the first to treat fire, wind, insects, and diseases as well as their interactions holistically. The latest edition extends the thrust of the successful first edition, bringing updated, detailed, and reliable coverage by the same team of authors with decades of experience and expertise in the fields of forest pathology, fire ecology, and forest entomology. Their effective, integrative approach continues to focus on the fundamental issues related to forest protection, including ecology, forest health, and ecosystem management. Useful examples from the United States, Canada, and other countries illustrate principles and problems essential to understanding these issues.

Now with expanded material on climate change effects and forest health monitoring, no other single resource better prepares students and natural resource professionals for the protection and management of sustained forest health.

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Great Reading!!
This book is very useful if you need to know how a forest works, and how to keep it sustainable through human and non-human activity. Easily understandable, this book makes for light reading in spare time. A+ book!

A nice primer
This is a softcover reissue of a hardcover text put out previously by McGraw Hill. The content is unchanged, but students will be happy that it's about half the price of the original. It appears tightly bound, durable. The paper is thicker and coarser and so the photos have lost some detail, mostly more contrast and darker. Otherwise I'm very pleased with it. I've been using the previous edition for the past four years as the text for my Forest Protection class at Humboldt State University and I find it's a great overview of wildland fire, forest entomology, and forest pathology. The section on animal damage is deficient, extremely small, and requires supplemental material. Otherwise it's a great desktop reference, good coverage of the material by knowledgable authors, and you cannot beat the value.

Excellent book
Forest Health and Protection is an excellent book which include an actualvision the three aspectsvery important in forest ecosystems. It is a contribution in the forest protection. ... Read more

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the magic and complexity of childhood
I stumbled across this book several years ago and its images have affected my art work (painting) ever since. This remarkable photographer captured the lives of families living in New York during the 1940's, as they transfered their lives out onto the streets.These streets and sidewalksbecame their living rooms and realms of intimate interaction. Children arefrozen in games reflecting their magic and carefree spirit, at timesforshadowing more conflictive and painful realities.This book is atreasure which reflects back to us the profound beauty of human existence. ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Sylvia Plath, Frederick Buechner, James Agee, James Merrill, Donald Hall, Kenneth Koch, Katha Pollitt, Gjertrud Schnackenberg, Virginia Hamilton Adair, Glascock Prize, Winfield Townley Scott. Excerpt:Donald Hall Donald Hall (born 20 September 1928) is an American poet . He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (commonly known as the Poet Laureate of the United States) in 2006. Biography Early years Hall was born in Hamden, Connecticut , the only child of Donald Andrew Hall, a businessman, and Lucy Wells. He was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy , then earned a bachelor's degree from Harvard in 1951 and a B.Litt, from Oxford in 1953. Hall received an honorary PhD, Lit. from Bates College in 1991. Hall began writing even before reaching his teens, beginning with poems and short stories, and then moving on to novels and dramatic verse. Hall continued to write throughout his prep school years at Exeter, and, while still only sixteen years old, attended the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference , where he made his first acquaintance with the poet Robert Frost . That same year, he published his first work. While an undergraduate at Harvard, Hall served on the editorial board of The Harvard Advocate , and got to know a number of people who, like him, were poised with significant ambitions in the literary world, amongst them John Ashbery , Robert Bly , Kenneth Koch , Frank O'Hara , and Adrienne Rich , whom he dated briefly.During his senior year, he won the Glascock Prize that Koch had won 3 years earlier. After leaving Harvard, Hall went to Oxford for two years, to study for the B.Litt. He was editor of the magazine Oxford Poetry , as literary editor of Isis, as editor of New Poems, and as poetry editor of The Paris Review . At the end of his first Ox... ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Quentin Tarantino, Randy Orton, Brad Renfro, Johnny Knoxville, Kenny Chesney, James Agee, Chris Woodruff, Ben Testerman, Brownie Mcghee, Mary Costa. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Quentin Tarantino est un réalisateur, scénariste, producteur et acteur américain, né le 27 mars 1963 à Knoxville, dans le Tennessee. Il s'est fait connaître dans les années 1990 en tant que réalisateur de films indépendants. On le reconnaît pour sa narration postmoderne et non linéaire ainsi que pour ses scènes hautement esthétiques mais d'une violence extrême inspirées de films obscurs. Ayant reçu une formation d'acteur, il interprète fréquemment de petits rôles dans ses propres films. Par exemple, il joue le rôle de Mr. Brown dans Reservoir Dogs, Jimmie dans Pulp Fiction, ou encore celui de Warren, un tenancier de bar, dans Boulevard de la Mort. Il a créé la société de production A Band Apart pour Pulp Fiction. Le nom de cette compagnie est un hommage au film Bande à part de Jean-Luc Godard. Le logo reprend quant à lui les personnages en costumes noirs de Reservoir Dogs. Quentin Tarantino nait le 27 mars 1963 à Knoxville, Tennessee de Connie McHugh, une infirmière, et Tony Tarantino, acteur et musicien amateur né dans le Queens, New York. Ce dernier est d'origine italienne et irlandaise par son père ; sa mère est une descendante du peuple Cherokee. Il a deux sœurs et un demi-frère. Dès son plus jeune age, Tarantino regarde à volonté des films au cinéma. Les premiers films qu'il voit sont Délivrance et La Horde Sauvage. Il passe les années suivantes a regarder des films, principalement ceux de la blacksploitation ou de kung fu. Il abandonne ses études en Californie à l'âge de 15 ans afin de rejoindre la James Best Th...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more