The Human Web is an excellent summary of human history. It is indeed a bird's eye view in that it looks at the broad overall sweep of human affairs and doesn't bog down in unnecessary detail. The major theme is the construction and expansion of human webs, or interconnections that tie cultures and civilizations together ever more tightly. If space voyagers ever arrived on Earth (and could read a human language) this book would be one of the first things I hope we hand them to help them understand us.

This book covers the entire gamet of quail hunting. Inclusive are species biological and ecological requirements, photographs and generalized locality maps. A must for the serious grand slam quail hunter.

Great Coffee Table Book especially for those who love the elusive Leopard Seal.

Shadowbirds is a story about Bill Burt's infectious passion for Rails - those secretive, "stealth" birds that inhabit some of the most challenging environs on earth - marshes. Through what can only really be called poetry he takes the reader with him as he tracks down and photographs some of the most difficult-to-find birds anywhere. His love of these birds and the way he allows us to see through his photographer's eyes made this a difficult book for me to put down. I just wanted more!

It is not the story, though, that distinguishes this book as much as it is his style, which like his photographs, is intensely personal and passionate.

If you love poetry, birds and a great detective story, give this one a read!

Not only a creative idea, but one that combines natures ultimate creativity, with the creativity of a literary Master. Fascinating, well written book, full of photographs and sketches.

Don't see the movie instead of reading the play, in fact, don't see the movie at all, because it is TERRIBLE. It changes the ending completely, and lacks the overall spirit of the play. With "Sweet Bird of Youth," Williams has created something touching and brilliant. If you like Williams' other plays, you will like this, but if not, you won't. A wonderful dramatic landmark. Amazing.

Teaching The Dead Bird To Sing: Living The Hermit Life Without And Within is the memoir of theologian and former social activist W. Paul Jones, who describes the phases of his life and meditations as he progressed toward an internal and external retreat from the evils of the world and the self. Teaching The Dead Birth To Sing is highly recommended reading as a deeply spiritual and inspiring autobiographical treatise about embracing a solitary life for greater understanding and clarity.

A more suitable compilation than this will not be found. These three plays are arguably the essential core of the Williams canon, and certainly a great starting place for novices.

Sweey Bird of Youth is blessed with perhaps the finest epitaph ever in a modern drama, when the play's main character emanates Williams's legendary compassion with the concluding line, "all I ask is for the recognition of me in you, and time, the enemy, in us all." Shakespeare would have salivated.

Both the Rose Tattoo and Night of the Iguana exhibit Ibsen's impression upon Williams, as Williams incorporates brilliant metaphor's that wrap around both plays like knotted ribbons, but Williams's poetic language in each surpasses that of Ibsen by eons. Much in the vein of Ibsen's The Wild Duck or Chekov's The Seagull, Williams gives us a lesson in fate, freedom and human desire with his Iguana, tied to a post by a rope and struggling to escape, waiting to be killed as food, and he walks us through a world of intense nostalgia and heartbreak with the Rose Tattoo marking the chests of Serafina's lovers.

Even O'Neil, lauded by most as our finest American playwright, never quite matched the powerful language of the heart that saturates these three works of gritty, raw desire and nostalgia. Both of which, as Williams insists, take up plenty of space in the hearts of all.

THIS BOOK HELPED ME AND MY PET OUT A WHOLE LOT. IT WAS EASY TO FOLLOW.

Tapply lets you in on a secret world of upland hunting in New England. You will take journeys through hidden covers and discover within yourself, reasons why the upland traditions need to be past on.

Loved it!