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On the soft ocean bottom, fish shaped like sea grass sway in the current, while crabs sprouting algae wigs scurry across the sandy floor.This book explores the daily lives of these incredible creatures, their habitat, and how humans have affected this environment. ... Read more

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Kelp forests is an underwater jungle experience where readers learn about the interactions between a variety of creatures including sea otters, wolf eels, and kelp crabs. ... Read more

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Here are step-by-step instructions for bringing wild birds from field to table.

To enjoy fresh wild turkey on the table, it is essential to care for it properly in the field. In this informative guide, Monte Burch explains the best methods for field dressing turkeys, upland birds, and waterfowl, and tells you how to handle your freshly dressed fowl once you get it to your kitchen.

With this guide's detailed instructions and illustrations, you can learn the fundamental butchering techniques necessary to process and preserve game birds. You'll find handy lists of the tools and equipment you'll need, plus descriptions of basic cooking methods. Burch shows you how to prepare a bird for freezing, curing, or smoking. The Field Dressing and Butchering series also contains delicious recipes that bring out the best in all types of game. Try Burch's simple recipe for an orange sauce that will complement the flavor of any fresh fowl. ... Read more

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Great how to book for the novice
The first thing this book has going for it, is the size, since this is a book that you can carry with you on hunting trips as a step by step guide, or how to.Not only are the instructions absolutely complete but they are easy to follow, and the equipment required is inexpensive and in some cases free.

Every legally hunted bird is covered from field dressing, preserving to cooking and recipes.

The step by step instructions include either exact illustrations and/or black and white clear photographs.It is a book that the novice should own. ... Read more

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Around the Pond explores the land- and water-based life of a freshwater pond, its surrounding marshes, and wet meadows. On the water's surface film, in weedy depths, in cattail marshes, and on secluded islands, animals find food and shelter and raise their families. Animals featured in the book include red-winged blackbird, skunk, bullfrog, dragonfly, grebe, turtle, diving beetle, heron, and muskrat. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Shellfish Research, published by National Shellfisheries Association, Inc. on April 1, 2010. The length of the article is 6536 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Field performance and QPX disease progress in cultured and wild-type strains of Mercenaria mercenaria in New York waters.(Report)
Author: Soren F. Dahl
Publication: Journal of Shellfish Research (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 1, 2010
Publisher: National Shellfisheries Association, Inc.
Volume: 29Issue: 1Page: 83(8)

Article Type: Report

Distributed by Gale, a part of Cengage Learning ... Read more

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This is our fourth title in our highly-praised Our Wild World: Ecosystems series. Once again, author/ photographer Wayne Lynch takes readers on a personal journey through a treasured North American ecosystem. Amazing photography, first-person anecdotes, and tons of factual information on the animals, plants, climate and landscape come together to give a complete picture of the ecosystem in action. Subjects cover the wide diversity of living things in this habitat from strangler fig trees and bromeliad plants to armadillos and dozens of water birds. And of course gators! These gorgeous books are a feast for both the eyes and mind. ... Read more

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Beautifully illustrated with full-color photography throughout
Beautifully illustrated with full-color photography throughout, The Everglades introduces young readers to the treasures of the Everglades ecosystem, from its alligators to its rare flowers, reptilian and amphibian inhabitants shaded green or brown, bears, raccoons, panthers, and much more. Fun facts abound in this picturebook: "Raccoons have a better sense of touch in their front paws than any other meat-eating animal. They use their sensitive paws to search for crabs, crayfish, clams, frogs, and snails in shallow water. When early settlers saw the animals splashing on the edge of marshes they wrongly thought they were washing their food." Highly recommended for children's collections in both school and public libraries. ... Read more

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90 Plates. This is not a mere reproduction. This is an exact facsimile of an original held in the Libraries of the British Museum (Natural History) in London and Tring.............It is not a reproduction, because no camera was used in transferring the images from the originals. The paper used is 130 gsm mat art paper. This facsimile carries faithfully every spot, mark or stain as the original. It also carries the original Museum Department of Zoology stamps, and librarian's annotations. The color printing is so accurate that, from behind glass, the naked eye would be unable to distinguish the original from the facsimile. This facsimile is exactly the same size as the original (Imperial Folio: 22" x 15"). It is cased-in and bound between 4 mm. The boards are covered in special Japanese Saifu cloth, gold stamped on the spine, and with the gold Crown Cipher of the British Museum (Natural History) on the front, and blind embossed on the inner margin of the front boards. The end-papers are of special wood-free heavy grade paper, printed in a generated repetitive pattern of the Museum's Library stamps. The publisher has not intruded into the authenticity of the book, leaving the publication data printed only on the very last page at the end of the book block. This book is individually numbered on the inside front board, hand wrapped in protective brown paper, and placed in its own crush-proof outer carton. The carton is then sealed, numbered and signed on the outside by the printer's quality control officer. ... Read more

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71 Plates. This is not a mere reproduction. This is an exact facsimile of an original held in the Libraries of the British Museum (Natural History) in London and Tring.............It is not a reproduction, because no camera was used in transferring the images from the originals. The paper used is 130 gsm mat art paper. This facsimile carries faithfully every spot, mark or stain as the original. It also carries the original Museum Department of Zoology stamps, and librarian's annotations. The color printing is so accurate that, from behind glass, the naked eye would be unable to distinguish the original from the facsimile. This facsimile is exactly the same size as the original (Imperial Folio: 22" x 15"). It is cased-in and bound between 4 mm. The boards are covered in special Japanese Saifu cloth, gold stamped on the spine, and with the gold Crown Cipher of the British Museum (Natural History) on the front, and blind embossed on the inner margin of the front boards. The end-papers are of special wood-free heavy grade paper, printed in a generated repetitive pattern of the Museum's Library stamps. The publisher has not intruded into the authenticity of the book, leaving the publication data printed only on the very last page at the end of the book block. This book is individually numbered on the inside front board, hand wrapped in protective brown paper, and placed in its own crush-proof outer carton. The carton is then sealed, numbered and signed on the outside by the printer's quality control officer. ... Read more

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This compact guide introduces 80 of the most common species of birds encountered on the coasts and in the coastal waters of North America. They include birds that spend most of their lives at sea, such as albatrosses, shearwaters, and fulmars; a variety of gulls and terns; shorebirds like oystercatchers and sandpipers; herons and egrets; and waterfowl. In addition, you’ll find tips on birding technique (including the use of binoculars and spotting scopes) and identification skills, as well as notes on conservation and more. ... Read more

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Great photos and info in a small space!
Put out by the National Audubon Society, you know it has to be good. This is a great, compact book that easily fits into your backpack or pocket or purse.

It has a full page picture of each bird, with the other side holding all information about that bird - map, identification, what it sounds like, where it likes to hang out, and more.

The perfect book for hiking and walking, plus keep one in your glove compartment! ... Read more

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Practice 25 illustrated knots with 5 ft. of nylon cord knotted to the cover.21 cardstock pages, wire-o-bound. ... Read more

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Knot recommended...
This book fails on two different levels.The first level is the selection of knots.The book claims that its selection of 24 knots represents the most important "basic, work-a-day, normal-life, 9-to-5 utility" knots a person should know.Oh really?Then how does it justify inclusion of the Prusik Knot which the book describes as: "This is a climber's knot, and you'll probably never need it.But on the other hand, if you're ever faced with a vertical rope that you have to climb, the prusik could be a potential lifesaver."Hardly seems like a normal, everyday, 9-to-5 knot to me.And frankly, if I'm going to be climbing ropes, I should probably be reading a dedicated climbing book to learn about all the other knots I'll need while I'm on that rope.The same could be said about the selection of the last knot, "The Magic Knot".Clearly aimed at amusing children at birthday parties it is hard to see why it merits ranking in the top 24 of thousands of useful knots to know.There are many other loops, bends, and stopper knots that could (should) have been included instead.

The second level this book fails at is that it incorrectly illustrates how to tie two of the most useful knots in the book.The fisherman's knot (really a bend) is one of the best ways to join two ropes together and it is impossible to come up with the correctly illustrated final depiction by following the steps as shown (both ends must cross either over or under each other, not one over and the other under as shown in step two).Also the Taut Line Hitch (also called the Rolling Hitch) that is illustrated is a much less secure version than the one other sources recommend.The one in the book shows the second turn below the first, the more secure recommended version is to place the second turn *above* the first turn.Sounds like no big deal, huh?Try tying them both ways and seeing how easy it is for the Klutz's hitch to slip.

I strongly recommend doing an internet search for 'animated knots'.There are some fantastic websites that show careful, step by step animations or videos that allow you to go at your own pace with very clear pictures of actual ropes, not drawings.You can even buy a CD of them or download them as an iPhone app.

Good book
This is a good book for learning basic knots. It will not teach you hundreds of knots but only the basic ones you need for 99% of the times. This is why I bought it so my son could learn the essential knots.

Most wonderful book on knots that there is
This book is great.I've purchased a few books on knots and haven't really been that successful in learning much from them.

This one is different.In addition to this book coming with ropes, the pages are all cardboard and are cut in the shapes of what you would use the knot on.So, you don't have to go find a long metal bar to tie a clove hitch, you can just tie the hitch onto the cardboard page.

One of my ropes that came with the book kind of disintegrated, but I bought this book used, and the book was about ten years old, so I was more impressed by the other rope that did hold up, than I was saddened by the one that disintegrated.But if you use this book too much, you might want to buy some more rope like 5mmx50' Rope.

The best knots and the easiest book ever
There are books with more knot but no better knots. If you only need to know the best and most useful knots, hitches and bends, this is the book to own. Clear to see what the knot is doing, big color graphics of how to tie them, and even comes with 2 different color strings to practice with.

I needed to know knots for work and this book gave me the ones I needed and a few other cool ones I use to this day. Like the shoe lace knot that doesn't come undone or the constrictor knot.

Great Book.

Be a hero!
This is one book that can actually help transform the most clumsy, physically useless, alienated neurotic into a helpful person to have around.
If you have never gone to sea, but can learn to tie a square knot and a taut-line hitch, you're suddenly a useful guest on a day sail. Learn the amazing truckers' hitch and you will be the hero of a dozen parking lots and a few amateur moves. Throw in a working knowledge of a bowline and a clove hitch and you're now somebody who can pull her weight.

This little book is packaged with some cord woven through the covers. The cord is guaranteed to get lost-no matter. Keep this book around and people will want to have you around. If you find that you've become addicted, you may want to move up to Ashley Book of Knots or the wonderfully arcane The Arts of the Sailor: Knotting, Splicing and Ropework

Lynn Hoffman, author of the heroic bang BANG: A Novel ... Read more