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Kicking Up Trouble: Upland Bird Hunting in the West
Published in Hardcover by Wilderness Adventures Press (1900)
Authors: John Holt and Christopher S. Smith
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Very Well Done
Mr. Holt has done a wonderful job in describing some of the more esoteric, and personal, aspects of bird hunting. He also has done a good job of giving the reader an understanding of the land and people of Montana. I read this book a few years ago, and will be sending it to more bird-hunting friends this Christmas Whether you are a bird hunter, an admirer of Montana, or a Gonzo outdoorsman, you will enjoy this book.

Excellent taste of western upland bird hunting.
I bought this book 4 years ago when I found out I was moving from VA to Colorado. The author has a wonderful flair for description that rings true to me as a lifelong bird hunter. Unfortunately, the wonderful hunting he describes doesn't happen in Colorado, so it is one of those great books about dream hunts outside my local stomping grounds.


Lloyd on Lloyd
Published in Paperback by Paperjacks (1987)
Authors: Chris Lloyd, John Lloyd, Christopher Lloyd, and Carol Thatcher
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This is Chris Evert at her Greatest
Through all her trials and tribulation chris has always emerged as winner. One quote which sums up chris evert career Wimbledon quote "IF YOU CAN FACE TRIUMP AND DISASTER AND TREAT THOSE TWO IMPOSTERS JUST THE SAME THEN YOU ARE A CHAMPION" chris evert face should be engraved in these words.... Thanks, Chris for the Memories

Tim

Tennis greatest tennis player of all time reveals her life.
This book give you a small look at chris evert at her best. She reveals the pain and glory of her career. What makes this book so great was that through all her ups and downs of her career she has maintain her feminity with grace and charm.


The Nebuly Coat (World's Classics)
Published in Paperback by Oxford University Press (1996)
Authors: John Meade Falkner and Christopher Hawtree
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The Nubuly Coat
I read this book during my college years although it wasn't a class assignment. This wonderful book has human redemption as its major theme. I think this book should be standard reading for all English majors. Beautifully written,it shows men at their weakest and greatest.

An Overlooked Classic
J. Meade Faulkner is best known for Moonfleet, which is often considered a children's classic (though it can be read with enjoyment by adults, too.) However, The Nebuly Coat is a classic of its own, truly meriting that overused epithet, sui generis.

If The Nebuly Coat fits into any category it is in that small class of perfect books. Faulkner was a beautiful, understated stylist with a gift for apt, humorous, and poignant characterization. He combined these gifts with a rare skill in plotting. In short, he was good at everything.

You might say this is a murder mystery, because it involves murder, and the book is certainly mysterious. In fact, you will never know just who did it, or if anyone did it. In one sense then the book is teasing. However, in another sense the book also concludes definitively; the reader feels that story has run its course even though the mystery remains.

I urge you to read this book. Look for a used copy or search for it at your library. It really is a special book.


Shakespeare as Political Thinker
Published in Hardcover by Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI) (01 June, 2000)
Authors: John Alvis, Thomas G. West, John E. Alvis, Laurence Berns, Allan Bloom, Paul A. Cantor, Louise Cowan, Christopher Flannery, Robert B. Heilman, and Harry V. Jaffa
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Fantastic book on Shakespeare
This winter break I went on a Shakespeare buying spree, and this book is one of the fine gems I found. A large, but fascinating book, this work of great scholarship and excitement takes the reader on a whirlwind tour of Shakespeare, even into rather obscure corners of his works (Trollius and Cressida, Timon of Athens). This book is a must read for any would be deep thinker about Shakespeare.

The New Shakespeareans
Shakespeare as Political Thinker is a must for everyone interested in the political thought of William Shakespeare. This reprint will finally allow new comers to become familair with a commonsensical approach to Shakespeare's plays. The introductory chapter by John Alvis is worth the price. Perhaps the best Shakespearean critic alive, Alvis has an uncanny ability to show Shakespeare's moral seriousness without making the bard an unquestioning adherent to any political school or theological creed. Many of the essays that follow are also well done: Jaffa's chapter on Shakespeare's entire corpus, Laurence Berns' meditation on Lear etc.

The second printing of Shakespeare as Political Thinker gives hope to those interested in relearning ancient wisdom and pays tribute to its inspiration, Shakespeare's Politics (Allan Bloom).


Songs of the nightingale : poetry of the heart
Published in Unknown Binding by Nightingale Publishing ()
Author: John Christopher Drake
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Finding strength through faith and love
John Christopher Drake ponders the heart of life and finds strength in faith and love. His meditations, shaped into verse, cut through darkness and make way for light. Put simply, he favors us with the gift of perspective.

Compelling, experiential poetry
John Christopher Drake's human pilgrimage shines through this work. But his poetry's most compelling quality is its capacity to pull the reader into a shared experience of spiritual and lifestyle evolution.


Antonio Canova and the Politics of Patronage in Revolutionary and Napoleonic Europe
Published in Hardcover by University of California Press (1998)
Author: Christopher M. S. Johns
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an excellent and courageous review of Canova's art
This book is by far the most outstanding book written on the subject of Antonio Canova. Clear, concise, and masterly.


The Best of Everything: The Insider's Guide to Collecting--For Every Taste and Every Budget
Published in Hardcover by Simon & Schuster (1989)
Authors: John Marion, Christopher Anderson, and Christopher P. Andersen
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Buying antiques at auctions revealed in everyday language
John Marion has written a very readable account of how to buy affordable antiques at Sotheby's Auction House in new York. He takes you through the process of registering and bidding in a common sense way that takes the mystery out of the process. In addition, he makes a compelling argument that many of the objects you buy at a department store might better be purchased at a reputable auction house as investments which you can enjoy for years to come. The Best of Everything is a tresure in itself.


The Breath of Parted Lips: Voices from the Robert Frost Place
Published in Paperback by CavanKerry Press (01 September, 2000)
Authors: Mark Cox, Donald Hall, Sharon Bryan, Robert Cording, John Engels, David Graham, Mark Halliday, Dennis Johnson, William Matthews, and Gary Miranda
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A remarkable anthology of twenty-four poets
The Franconia, New Hampshire, farm of the American poet Robert Frost was turned into a museum and center for poetry and the arts in 1976. From that time, "The Frost Place" has been annual event wherein an emerging poet has been invited to spend the summer living in the house where Frost once lived and wrote some of his greatest poetry. The Breath Of Parted Lips: Voices From The Robert Frost Place, Volume One is a remarkable anthology of twenty-four poets, each of whom won that honor of a summer's residency and document the success of the original concept as a means of generating outstanding poetry while nurturing the poet's muse in the rooms and views that were once the inspiration of the great Robert Frost. Poem At 40: Windwashed--as if standing next to the highway,/a truck long as the century sweeping by,/all things at last bent in the same direction./An opening, as if all/the clothes my ancestors ever wore/dry on lines in my body:/wind-whipped, parallel with the ground,/some sleeves sharing a single clothespin/so that they seem to clasp hands,/seem to hold on.//And now that I can see/up the old women's dresses,/there's nothing but a filtered light./And now that their men's smoky breath/has traversed the earth,/it has nothing to do with them./And now that awkward, fat tears of rain/slap the window screen,/now that I'm naked too,/cupping my genitals, tracing with a pencil/the blue vein between my collar bone and breast,/I'll go to sleep when I'm told.


Building Scientific Apparatus
Published in Hardcover by Westview Press (2002)
Authors: John H. Moore, Christopher C. Davis, Michael A. Coplan, Sandra C. Greer, Christopher Davis, and Sandra Greer
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Building Scientific Apparatus is great for a science fair!
My son chose to enter this year's science fair with an advance project that required vacume chamber construction, optics, and the original charged particle detection systems. This book is a perfect guide towards building most any mid-level research instrument.


A Wrinkle in the Skin
Published in Paperback by Wildside Press (2000)
Author: John Christopher
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