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love poems, w/John Button's drawings of nudes ... Read more

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This book represents a complete revision of the authors' previous authoritative work. It incorporates all the significant changes to bird taxonomy that have occurred over the past six years and remains the only single-volume work to list subspecies. Ornithologists are constantly reviewing and revising the scientific and common names of the world's birds--combining and dividing established species and genera. Despite the fact that opinions will continue to vary on the details of avian classification, lists such as this provide a baseline reference to scientific and English names, taxonomy, and distribution for both the professional and amateur ornithologist and taxonomist. In the next decade, new studies using advanced groupings may establish new systematic groupings. The current list, by adding to and amending the classic listing of Peters and his successors, may well be the last and most finely developed list in the traditional mold and, therefore, a prime reference for years to come.

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* The most up to date list of the world's birds
* Covers their distribution using traditional taxonomy
* The only single-volume reference to include subspecies
* Lists approximately 9,200 species and their subspecies
* Thoroughly revised and updated ... Read more

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Howard & Moore's Checklist of the Birds of the World
This is the first checklist since James L. Peters checklist was completed by ornithologists after his death that includes the names of avian subspecies known at the time of printing.Though the name alone is entered, with no credits or source listed, this is still the only volume that brings the lists of avian species and subspecies current through the mid-1990's. Howard & Moore's checklist is a valuable reference tool for any student with the need for a reasonably current listing of avian species and subspecies. The index is excellent and complete for all genera and species, but it does not index the subspecies.This is the only reason for the book's 4-star rating, rather than the 5-star rating it would otherwise deserve. ... Read more

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Twelve Things We Can Do Every Day for World Peace and Justice1. Use less fossil fuel 2. Reduce, reuse, and recycle. 3. Support one or more people who cannot (or cannot fully) support themselves. 4. Think of work not as a job but as opportunities for service. 5. Process inner anger by following a spiritual path or getting some form of therapy. 6. Learn and practice techniques of nonviolent communication and constructive conflict resolution.7. Cultivate an organic garden. 8. Treat property and possessions as held in trust for the benefit of others. 9. Find the good points, not the bad points, in other people's religions, and in their non-religious ethical philosophies. 10. Participate in extended families, family-like communities (e.g. a church), and in multi-generational recreational activities. 11. Buy union-made and environment-friendly goods from cooperative, farmers market,nonprofit, public sector, socially responsible, and locally owned enterprises. 12. Meditate and study about world peace and justice, and then add to, or subtract from, this list. ... Read more

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Writing both narrative and lyric, love poem and elegy, the poems in Marc Woodworth's debut collection, ARCADE, are alternately severe and feverish, contemplative and intimate, novelistic and hauntingly stark. ARCADE opens with a sequence entitled "The City" set in an unnamed and compellingly imagined continental metropolis between the world wars. Early poems in the sequence were featured in The Paris Review's new writers issue and take their place here in what Frank Bidart calls a "fantasia on and hymn to the city," one that evokes the private desires and public scale of urban life where walkers disappear "in a spell of edges" and "two hearts [beat] in every chest,/ one fleshy and inert with familiarity, the other/ a shadow heart unmarred by grieving." This city-with its Weimar decadence, it's Parisian grace-is inhabited by a poet-protagonist equipped with "the accoutrements of the Romantic," who is both guide to the beauty and brutality of this lost world and the center of the poem's haunted, lyrical evocation of it. In other poems, Woodworth enters the grieving mind of Sophia Tolstoy as she mourns at her husband's grave, exposes a self-mortifying erotic episode in the life of Adrian Leverkühn from Thomas Mann's novel Doktor Faustus, and depicts the mythical German film-maker Herr Soma's strangely generative breakdown before the making of his best film. In ARCADE, Marc Woodworth creates a rare and intimate world that is as intoxicating as it is intellectually rewarding. ... Read more

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What poetry should be... sublime, thoughtful and interesting
This is a near perfect book of poems. Dive in and find yourself in a world of words that fills your mind with thought provoking images. It is strong. It is simple yet challenges the creative side of your brain to see things differently. This is what fine poetry is all about. I only wish the book were longer...
Quite simply, beautiful. ... Read more

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Hampered by a corrupt administration, the sherriff of Sundown really had a problem on his hands. The armt forces at Fort Laramie had been whittled down, and it soon became clear that little could be done to keep law and order among the frontier outposts. ... Read more

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Extremely Amazing
This poet is incrediable.A refreshing addition to the traditional classics....But a slap in the face modern day reality check!!!

An excellent combination of the past and future.

Hopefully childern will be reading this when she is dead.Sad isn't it, most poets, artist and writters aren't recongized to then.

Ben

Absolutely inspiring!
I found a copy on a desk in my office and was bored and began reading it.I couldn't put it down, beautiful and raw. This author is truly an excellent poet.I can't wait to read her next book. ... Read more

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This revision includes more information on the management of clinical problems and the surgery of AIDS. Multi-contributed, this edition is a patient-oriented, practical approach to the full spectrum of surgical infectious disease. ... Read more

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Established in 1940 in response to the Great Depression, the original goal of Canada’s system of unemployment insurance was to ensure the protection of income to the unemployed. Joblessness was viewed as a social problem and the jobless as its unfortunate victims. If governments could not create the right conditions for full employment, they were obligated to compensate people who could not find work. While unemployment insurance expanded over several decades to the benefit of the rights of the unemployed, the mid-1970s saw the first stirrings of a counterattack as the federal government’s Keynesian strategy came under siege. Neo-liberalists denounced unemployment insurance and other aspects of the welfare state as inflationary and unproductive. Employment was increasingly thought to be a personal responsibility and the handling of the unemployed was to reflect a free-market approach. This regressive movement culminated in the 1990s counter-reforms, heralding a major policy shift. The number of unemployed with access to benefits was halved during that time.

From UI to EI examines the history of Canada’s unemployment insurance system and the rights it grants to the unemployed. The development of the system, its legislation, and related jurisprudence are viewed through a historical perspective that accounts for the social, political, and economic context. Campeau critically examines the system with emphasis upon its more recent transformations. This book will interest professors and students of law, political science, and social work, and anyone concerned about the right of the unemployed to adequate protection. ... Read more