The long-awaited field guide to the diverse reptile populations of East Africa. This book was everything I expected it to be and more. Comprehensive listings, excellent photography and detailed information on habitat/distribution, natural history, conservation status etc. I can't say enough good things about this book, the list of authors should speak for themselves! ;-)

No serious herper's library is complete without this book...

I was hoping to be able to buy this book before my trip to Kenya in August 01. Unfortunately, it wasn't yet published at that time. I thought I could pick up a decent field guide in Nairobi, but I was wrong. The best I could find there was a short paperback with fuzzy photos, anecdotes, and very incomplete list of species. Nonetheless, I had a great trip and identified some nice herps.
In December I saw that this Field Guide was out, so I bought it and found it to be outstanding. A nice fat book jam packed with beautiful and useful photos, great descriptions, habitat and range info, and natural history. There is so much precise and credible information in this book it is amazing. So much work must have gone into producing this thing! The species coverage is vast. For example, there is complete info on over thirty species of chameleon. The identification keys are also practical and simple. The writing is straightfoward -- minimal superscientist jargon -- but also precise and complete and consistent. Good sections on how to find herps, how to use the book, dealing with snakebite, etc.
I am very glad I bought this book. The authors have my admiration for this achievement.

I've listened to this set of tapes dozens of times, and get something new out of it every time. If you want "7 easy steps to being a man", these tapes are not for you. But if you've come to understand that the "male mode" occupies an indispensible mythic and practical place in our world, you've found compatriots and mentors in Bly, Hillman and Meade. Recorded live, and lovingly edited, these tapes are packed with content. I'm ordering another set because I'm wearing my current copy out!

I have had these tapes for 3 years now and have lent them to many men and women. When seeing that there was no review, I had to respond.

These 4 tapes (four hours) are a golden tapestry woven by three men who use combinations of ancient stories, poetry and psychology (stripped bare) to unmask the problems men face in todays relationships, work place and most of all, the talk of "what is desire". Poet Robert Blye (Iron John & Sibling Society), psychologist-author James Hillman and mythologist and story teller Michael Meade lead this 4 hour session interacting with 750 men.

The problems we face as men are great. With more than 50% of the homes in divorce, there is a hunger for the father and for mentors. Women don't want to be mothers to their men, they want men who can be responsible. Kids are killing each other and pressure is building on what is left of the family. Men have become soft, passive. Many have never been initiated, taken a mentor or have never gotten close to their elders. When the marriage comes under pressure, men and women run to their families and Lawyers, the men move out and and responsibility and outcome is decided by the court. The excerpt from Iron John that Blye recites about the work that the boy does "in the Walled Garden, where the lovers meet" meant so much more to me in this setting, combined with all the other material.

I loved James Hillman's translations of older cultures and language as well as his poking at the modern Therapy gurus. Blye, whose book Iron John lead me to these tapes, paints a very graphic view that our trouble, as men, has been evolving/growing long before the industrial revolution. Woodstock, Vietnam and now Clinton (who did not inhale) are just recent road signs on this journey. Michael Meade address and moves the throng with "Sooner murder an infant in it's cradle than nurse unattended desire" as well as his telling of "The Firebird" story. All three also recite many poems that are also included in "Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart" which is a compilation of all their favorite poems.

I have listened to these tapes many times and grown as a man as a result. As Michael Meade warns that "if you are seeking to understand desire you are courting trouble". The alternative is to go through life "just window shopping! You gotta buy something. Become part of the give and take". So try these tapes, men (and women) and find out that there is more.

wonderfu

One word "CLASSIC"

This book is a must read for any person who is seriously interested in the history of crime in our country. This book covers not only the most notorious criminals, but also hits on many other less-well-known criminals who really do prove that crime does not pay. Very well written and researched !!

This wasn't the best that i've ever read. It was okay and kept my attention, but got confusing when the whole scam took off

Notes are essential for this great russian novel. It will take anybody at least a few hundred pages to reslize who evybody is, with those wierd russian names, but the notes eliminate that. Also since this book is very long you might forget something from the begining or you just might stop reading it for a while, which makes these notes very helpful

It is a veru usefull book to help the Mother Nature in the processing of the waste in our home and land. I recomend it a lot!!!

Mourning becomes electra is well known as a modernization of the Greek myth of the Oresteria. Perhaps the difference between Aeschylus and O'neill is to some degree a measure of the extent to which the weakening of the sanctions has weakend the emotions with they supported.

Great book. A wealth of information!

Authors James Hanock and James Kushlan, along with illustrators Robert Gillmor and Peter Hayman have put together a simply gorgeous guide to all the world's species of herons, egrets, and bitterns. A guide to herons on every continent except Antarctica, all 60 species as recognized by the book, it is a thorough treatment of each one. Each species has a breathtaking color illustration, many times an additional black and white illustration, the common name, genus and species name, alternate common names, when and who first described it as species, maps illustrating range (including directions of migration and areas of casual occurrences), several paragraphs describing in detail their physical appearance, notes on their distribution and population, migration, habitat, behavior flying, feeding, and breeding, descriptions of nests, eggs, and young, and a note or two on taxonomy. Subspecies are noted as well; for instance a two page color range map depicts the 30 subspecies of the green-backed heron, found throught the Americas, Africa, Asia, Australia, and several Pacific and Indian Ocean island groups.

In addition to being a thorough field guide and collection of natural history notes on the world's herons, egrets, and bitterns the first section of the book contains useful articles on heron classification, courtship, feeding, and tips on identifying herons and egrets, including several color plates that aid in identifying the many white herons and egrets that live around the world. An extensive bibliography closes out this work.

Whether you want to read more about the great blue heron or the black-crowned night heron that lives around the local river or swamp, or something more exotic, like the black heron of Africa or the zigzag heron of South America, then this is the book for you. The book will also be of interest to conservationists, as several species such as the slaty egret have very restricted ranges (in this case known to breed only in the Okavango swamp in northwest Botswana) or very small populations such as Malagasy heron.