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MAB-706 Nile Crocodile sunning on sandbank South Luangwa Photo Mugs MAB-706 Nile Crocodile sunning on sandbank South Luangwa National Park Zambia Africa Crocodylus niloticus Mark Boulton Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in anyway. contact details prints ardea tel and 44 (0) 20 8672 2067 …. |
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Mt Rungwe Bush Viper Photo Mugs MM-61 Mt Rungwe Bush Viper Sumbawanga – Tanzania – Africa Atheris rungweensis Michele Menegon Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in any way. contact details prints ardea tel and 44 (0) 20 8672 2067 …. |
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Scale worm, an unusual worm species found in southern Australian waters Photo Mugs AUS-1504 Scale worm, an unusual worm species found in southern Australian waters. Edithburgh, Yorke Peninsula, South Australia Lepidonotus sp. John Lewis / Auscape / ardea Auscape Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in anyway. contact details prints ardea tel and 44 (0) 20 8672 2067 …. |
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The Jimmy/Timmy Power Hour 3 (Jimmy Neutron / Fairly OddParents) $3.64 Jimmy Neutron and Timmy Turner team up once again in the thrilling animated tale “The Jerkinators.” This time, the duo builds their very own super villain to do battle with, only to wind up enslaved by their own creation. 80 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital stereo; DVD-ROM content; bonus episodes…. |
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A Friendly Game Framed Print – Monica Ratliff – Mat Color: White Floater Frame/White Mat, Frame Color: Antique Gold $419 NEP2428: -Overall dimensions: 30 x 34 -Artist: Monica Ratliff -Framed print -Your choice of 5 different frames with acrylic glazing Special Features: -Decorative wall art -Primary color: green -Secondary color: brown -Still life -Colorful print of a wild poker game -Great for bar rooms, bedrooms and more About the Artist: Monica Ratliff was born in Los Angeles in 1958. She moved to San Francisco in 1975 to attend the California College of Arts and Crafts. After completing her studies and a teaching position, she returned to Los Angeles to open a large studio, which has allowed the creation of ever larger canvases and a stronger color palette, for which Monica has become renowned. The romantic classicism of the painting of Monica Ratliff evokes an atmosphere of quiet reflection. This is enhanced by the scale of the paintings, in which musical instruments are lovingly rendered life size in a timeless, dazzling technique. Her paintings feel as though you could step into them. Monica’s paintings are predominantly commissioned for corporate and private collections. Today she resides in Southern California with her husband, Plein Air Painter, D.C. Niehaus. |
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A House Dividing: Economic Development in Pennsylvania and Virginia Before the Civil War $88 Professor Majewski compares Virginia and Pennsylvania to explain how slavery undermined the development of the southern economy. In the beginning of the nineteenth century, residents in each state financed transportation improvements to raise land values and spur commercial growth. However, by the 1830s, Philadelphia capitalists began financing Pennsylvania’s railroad network, building integrated systems that reached the Midwest. Virginia’s railroads remained a collection of lines without western connections. The lack of a major city that could provide capital and traffic for large-scale railroads was the weakness of Virginia’s slave economy. |
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A Prospering Society $79.95 Based on a case study of a particular countryside and town in southern England–namely, the county of Wiltshire and the city of Salisbury–this record seeks to explore the changing nature of English society during the period from 1380 to 1520. It examines the influence of landscape and population on the agriculture of Wiltshire, the regional patterns of arable and pastoral farming, and the growing contrast between the large-scale mixed farming of the chalklands and the family farms of the claylands. Discussing how economic growth generated problems of its own, this study is the first to fully investigate Wiltshire”s agriculture history during the late Middle Ages, a period recognized as one of considerable change. |
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Ackerberg House and Addition: Richard Meier and Partners $8.44 Richard Meier is one of the most important architects of the postwar generation. He opened his New York office in 1963 and, in 1984, became the youngest recipient ever of the Pritzker Prize for Architecture. Meier has built a series of masterful modern houses and a great number of educational, commercial, and cultural facilities, including the Getty Center in Los Angeles, one of the most important commissions of the late twentieth century. The Ackerberg House, begun at the same time as the Getty Center, explores various responses to California’s unique climate and character. Situated between the mountains and the ocean, the house has remarkable views of both. Courtyards refer to the Spanish-colonial court typology of Southern California. While a ceramic-tile-clad facade separates the house from the Pacific Coast Highway, the ocean front is a more dimensional assemblage of posts and sunscreens that blurs the distinction between interior and exterior and invites casual passage to the out-of-doors. In 1992, six years after the house was completed, the Ackerbergs asked the architect to return. Despite his initial misgivings, Meier added a third story to the guest quarters, keeping the scale and proportions of the original composition but adding a new spatial progression and sense of expansion. He discovered, he writes, that he was able to change a house for the better and to infuse it with new life . |
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An Accidental Utopia? $51.56 This is the first systematic analysis of the urban social structure in New Zealand. By focusing on the three major forms of mobility marital, worklife, and intergenerational this work identifies the distinctive forms taken by the capitalist class structure in urban New Zealand during the formative historical period of 1890-1940. By placing the analysis deep within the context of a particular community Dunedin”s southern suburbs this book also identifies in rich detail the complex occupational pathways, their meanings, and the way in which shifts in the mobility pattern both reflect and explain changes in political behavior. This unique discovery provides the book with one of its most stimulating themes. The authors also develop a comparative theme, showing that New Zealand was more fluid than England, if not always as open as the United States. This analysis also underlines the importance of size and scale not only to this topic, but to sociology and history in general whil |
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Anthropological Perspectives on Local Development: Knowledges and Sentiments in Conflict $48.98 There is a wealth of published material which analyzes large-scale international development plans and policies. This collection shifts the focus away from this to examine the conflicts and realities of development at a local, empirical level. It provides a series of case studies which illuminates the attitudes and actions of those involved in local development. The material is drawn from Southern and Eastern Europe, Asia and Africa. All the contributors use rigorous anthropological methods of analysis to shed light on the place of personal sentiment and identity in reactions to planned development schemes. In a world where direct action and public protest are routine responses to local development plans, they show how protesters, developers and politicians often hold very different fundamental views about the environment, society, government and development which go beyond partisan economic and political interests. |
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Appalachian Trail Guide to Tennessee-North Carolina with Map $131.09 Eleventh Edition, 1995. Covers 291 miles from Damascus, Virginia, near the Tennessee line to the southern end of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park at Fontana Dam, North Carolina, including parts of the Cherokee and Pisgah national forests and the park. Includes three four-color topographic maps on two sheets, with elevation profiles (scale, 1:100,000), plus the five-color topographic map of the park (1:62,500) published by Trails Illustrated. 275 pages. |
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Art In The Streets $39.95 The first large-scale American museum exhibition to survey the colorful history of graffiti and street art movements internationally. Highlighting the connection between graffiti and street art and other vibrant subcultures, such as those that developed around Hip Hop in the Bronx and skateboarding in Southern California, Art in the Streets explores parallel movements in dance and music. The exhibition is curated by MoCA Director Jeffrey Deitch, working with a curatorial advisory committee that includes Roger Gastman and Aaron Rose. |
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B-29 Superfortress Doc 1/72 Scale Model Aircraft $132.5 The Boeing B-29 Superfortress is a four-engine heavy bomber propeller aircraft. It was flown by the United States Military in World War II and Korea. Other nations also flew the B-29 Superfortress. The B-29 Superfortress is the predecessor of the well-known B-17 Flying Fortress. During Operation Matterhorn, the initial plan, as implemented by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, was to use the B-29 to attack Japan from four forward bases in Southern China and other regions in China and India as needed. The first combat mission of the B-29 was on June 5, 1944, with almost 77 out of 98 B-29s launched from India bombing the railroad shops in Bangkok and there were five B-29s lost due to non-combat causes. On June 15, 1944, 47 B-29s bombed the Imperial Iron and Steel Works at Yawata, Japan. The first B-29 combat loss occurred during the raid. The most famous B-29 is the Enola Gay, dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 and three days later, the B-29 dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki which in turn, resulted to the official end of World War II. The B29 was also used during the Korean War. After the war ended, the B-29 remained in service for some time. The B-29 soon became obsolete by the development of the jet engine. There were 3,970 B-29s built before it was retired in 1960. The B-29 had four remote controlled turrets. The nose and the cockpit were pressurized. The B-29 was relatively mild-mannered according to most pilots, though its unboosted controls were extremely heavy and required great physical strength to operate. Dimensions: 17 L x 20 W x 7 H |
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Biostratigraphy and Vertebrate Paleontology of the San Timoteo Badlands, Southern California $32.2 The author describes forty-two fossil taxa recovered during a study of the San Timoteo Badlands that used magnetobiostratigraphy to develop a temporal framework for addressing the tectonic evolution of southern California over the last 6 million years. For the Pliocene, small mammals are an effective means of correlating a magnetostratigraphy to the Geomagnetic Polarity Time Scale when radioisotopic dates are unobtainable. |
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Border Wars $3.97 The human and drug trafficking across the border between the United States and Mexico border has been called the illegal immigration invasion. Dangers and concerns are escalating on both sides of this issue, and Border War documents the lives of five individuals affected by the massive rise in illegal immigration – primarily via the porous US southern border with Mexico. Viewers are exposed to this massive problem through the eyes of those involved firsthand and will be compelled to think about this problem on a different scale. |
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Bulleid 4-6-2 Merchant Navy Class $75.43 The first in an important new series looking in depth at different locomotive types and designs. The Southern Railway Merchant Navy class is the subject and includes, for the first time, comprehensive drawings in 4mm scale for each of the three series as well as the rebuilt locomotives, together with the main external alterations applied throughout their lives. The text, supported by many detailed photographs, takes a fresh look at the development history of the class and explains the main changes, including livery details. With fold out drawings, this is a valuable reference source for modellers as well as historians and all steam locomotive enthusiasts. |
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Celebrations With Carmela’s Cucina $19.95 Carmela Hobbins has taught cooking classes and led tours to Italy for many years. Here she expands upon her best-selling cookbook, Carmela”s Cucina, with recipes and coordinated celebratory menus from southern Italy for family gatherings and large-scale social events. Husband Bob provides insight into wine pairings. |
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Confederate Torpedoes $42.96 Hoping to deter the Union navy from aggressive action on southern waterways during the Civil War, the Confederacy led the way in developing torpedos, a term that in the nineteenth century referred to contact mines floating on or just below the water”s service. With this book, two little-known but important manuscripts related to these valuable weapons become available for the first time. General Gabriel J. Rains, director of the Confederate Torpedo Bureau, penned his Torpedo Book as a manual for the fabrication and use of land mines and offensive and defensive water mines. With 21 scale drawings, Notes Explaining Rebel Torpedoes and Ordnance by Captain Peter S. Michie documents from the Federal perspective the construction and use of these infernal machines. A detailed accounting of the vessels sunk or damaged by Confederate torpedoes and numerous photographs of existing specimens from museums and private collections complete this significant compilation. |
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Costa Del Mar South Point Sunglasses in GoldCopper sz:One Size $197.8 Take the aviators to a new scale. The South Point sunglasses by Costa Del Mar. Get to the southern point. Comfortable and sleek. Great protection against harmful UV rays. |
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Daron Worldwide Trading HE513401 Herpa China Southern A380-800 1/500 $42 Features: Herpa China Southern A380-800 model Diecast metal airplane in 1:500 scale Printed (not decaled), in meticulous detail Made for the real enthusiast! |
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F-16C Falcon 1/32 Scale Model Aircraft $147.37 The F-16 Fighting Falcon is a compact, single-engined jet fighter aircraft manufactured for the United States Air Force (USAF). Though designed as a lightweight fighter, it has evolved into a successful multirole aircraft. It is highly maneuverable and has proven its worth in air-to-air combat and air-to-surface attack. The Falcon is the largest Western fighter program with over 4,000 aircraft built since its production in 1976. Though no longer produced for the Air Force, it is still being made for export. Its relatively low cost and high performance has made it popular worldwide, serving a total of 24 countries. From the very beginning, the Falcon was intended to be a cost-effective workhorse that could perform various missions. Advanced aerospace science and proven reliable systems from other planes were integrated into the F16. These simplified the aircraft and reduced its size, weight, purchase price and maintenance costs. The F-16 has excellent acceleration, being one of the few jets with a thrust-to-weight ratio greater than one. It can also be armed with a wide variety of air-to-air and air-to-ground missiles, rockets or bombs. An all-weather capability allows it to accurately deliver ordnance during non-visual bombing conditions. The F-16C is the upgraded version of the F-16A, with the latest cockpit control and display technology. The Falcon has participated in numerous conflicts, mostly in the Middle East. Since the end of Operation Desert Storm, it patrolled the Iraqi no-fly zones. Two air-to-air victories were scored in Operation Southern Watch, the first one by an F-16D and the second by an F16C. On January 17, 1993, an F-16C destroyed an Iraqi MiG-23 with an AIM-120 Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile (AMRAAM). The F-16 was also employed by NATO during Operation Allied Force over Yugoslavia, conducting air-to-ground sorties and achieving one or two aerial victories, one by a Royal Netherlands Air Force F-16A and another possibly by a USAF F-16C. |
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F-4G Phantom USAF Wild Weasel 1/48 Scale Model Aircraft $126.45 The Wild Weasel was derived from the Project Wild Weasel. The Wild Weasel is an aircraft designed to identify, locate and physically suppress or destroy ground-based enemy air defense systems. By 1975, the F-4G Phantom became the Wild Weasel. There are about 116 F-4Es rebuilt as F-4Gs. The F-4G Wild Weasels were stationed at George AFB, Victorville, CA. and were deployed to four active wings; one wing was assigned to USAFE (US Air Forces Europe) at Spangdahlem AB, Germany and the other was assigned to PACAF (Pacific Air Forces) at Clark AFB, Philippines. The F-4G saw combat during the Gulf War and was reported to have only lost a single aircraft. After the Gulf War, the George AFB aircraft were assigned to the Air National Guard at Boise, ID. In 1991, the F-4G Phantom Wild Weasel was deployed in Operation Desert Storm in Iraq and its EW System had been upgraded to an AN/APR-47 configuration. The F-4G fired more than 1,000 air-to-ground missiles and destroyed more than 200 targets. On January 2, 1996, the F-4G Wild Weasel flew its last combat mission to Southern Iraq and shortly, it retired from active service. The F-4G was also the last operational variant of the Phantom II in the US Forces. Dimensions: 16.5 L x 18 W x 6 H |
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F/A-18E Super Hornet 1/48 Scale Model Aircraft $121.88 The Boeing F/A-18E Super Hornet is a carrier-based multi-mission strike fighter that entered service with the United States Navy (USN) in 1999. It is a larger and more advanced version of the night strike F/A-18C/D Hornet. The Super Hornet provides the battle group commander with a platform that has range, endurance, and ordnance carriage capabilities comparable to those of the retired A-6 Intruder. Ordered from McDonnell Douglas by the USN in 1992, the Super Hornet first flew in November 1995. It is informally referred to as the Rhino, to distinguish it from earlier model legacy Hornets. Initial production began in 1995. Flight testing started in 1996 and ended in 1999. Testing involved 3,100 test flights covering 4,600 flight hours. The aircraft passed the Navys operational tests and evaluations in February 2000, and has replaced the A-6 Intruder, S-3 Viking and KA-6D. The Super Hornet is capable of performing a broad spectrum of roles, including day/night strikes with precision-guided weapons, anti-air warfare, fighter escort, reconnaissance, forward air control, close air support, suppression of enemy air defense (SEAD), maritime strike and air-to-air refueling. The Navys Strike Fighter Squadron 115 was the first unit to bring their Super Hornets to combat. On November 6, 2002, in support of Operation Southern Watch, two F/A-18Es conducted a Response Option strike on two surface-to-air missile launchers at Al Kut and an air defense command and control bunker at Tallil Air Base. It was the first time 2,000-pound JDAM bombs were dropped from the F/A-18E in wartime. During Operation Iraqi Freedom, the Super Hornet flew close air support, strike, escort SEAD and aerial refueling roles. Dimensions: 15 L x 16 W x 7 H |
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Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the Civil War with a New Introductory Essay $19 Since its publication twenty-five years ago, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men has been recognized as a classic, an indispensable contribution to our understanding of the causes of the American Civil War. A key work in establishing political ideology as a major concern of modern Americanhistorians, it remains the only full-scale evaluation of the ideas of the early Republican party. Now with a new introduction, Eric Foner puts his argument into the context of contemporary scholarship, reassessing the concept of free labor in the light of the last twenty-five years of writing onsuch issues as work, gender, economic change, and political thought. A significant reevaluation of the causes of the Civil War, Foner’s study looks beyond the North’s opposition to slavery and its emphasis upon preserving the Union to determine the broader grounds of its willingness to undertake a war against the South in 1861. Its search is for those socialconcepts the North accepted as vital to its way of life, finding these concepts most clearly expressed in the ideology of the growing Republican party in the decade before the war’s start. Through a careful analysis of the attitudes of leading factions in the party’s formation (northern Whigs, former Democrats, and political abolitionists) Foner is able to show what each contributed to Republican ideology. He also shows how northern ideas of human rights–in particular a man’s right to work where and how he wanted, and to accumulate property in his own name–and the goals of Americansociety were implicit in that ideology. This was the ideology that permeated the North in the period directly before the Civil War, led to the election ofAbraham Lincoln, and led, almost immediately, to the Civil War itself. At the heart of the controversy over the extension of slavery, he argues, is the issue of whether the northern or southern form of society would take root in the West, whose development would determine the nation’s |
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G Scale Hopper Southern $43.01 G Scale Hopper SouthernG SCALE TRAIN CAR |
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Garmin Bluechart Xca010R Micro Sd Hecate Strait South $150.75 XCA010R Covers: – Includes coverage of the southern portion of the Queen Charlotte Islands, Hecate Strait, Queen Charlotte Sound, and Queen Charlotte Strait. Includes detailed coverage of many areas including Port Hardy, BC, Burke Channel and Dean Channel. – MapSource BlueChart serves up the best offshore cartography around and works in seamless integration with a wide range of Garmin products. – Features Include: – Chart-specific information, including chart name and number, scale, revision date, latest Notice to Mariners date – Object-oriented cartography – Faithful representation of published official paper charts – Shaded depth contours – Intertidal zones – Spot soundings – Navaids with view range and coverage – Port plans – Tides, wrecks, restricted areas and anchorages – Trip and waypoint management functions – Micro SD Compatible Units: – eTrex Legend Cx – - eTrex Vista Cx – - eTrex Venture Cx – - GPSMAP 60Cx – - GPSMAP 60CSx – - GPSMAP 76Cx – - GPSMAP 76CSx - |
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God’s Chinese Son $3.94 It is 1837 when Hong ascends to Heaven. While there, he is charged by God, his Heavenly Father – attired in black dragon robe and high-brimmed hat, his mouth almost hidden by his luxuriant golden beard – to slay the demon devils who are leading the people on earth astray. Their leader is Yan Luo, king of hell, the Dragon Demon of the Eastern Sea. Hong does battle in Heaven, armed by his father with sword and seal, aided by his elder brother, Jesus. Returned to his home village in south China, he resolves to carry on the struggle against the evil polluting humanity. He knows himself to be the younger brother of Jesus Christ, God’s Chinese son. The Taiping uprising, led by Hong Xiuquan, was a massive millennial movement that, in its violent rise and fall between 1845 and 1864, cost at least twenty million Chinese their lives. In the course of this struggle the Taiping succeeded in overturning the authority of the ruling Qing dynasty throughout a massive territory in southern China. This the Taiping ruled as their Heavenly Kingdom from their seat in Nanjing for eleven years, until they were overcome in an apocalypse wrought by Qing and Western forces, the Book of Revelation become history. In this master work of the historian’s art, Jonathan Spence creates a history of intimate detail and grand scale. We enter the fevered dream world of Hong Xiuquan as he meets his Heavenly family; we see the torments awaiting earthly sinners in King Yan Luo’s hell; we feel the anxieties of Westerners living circumscribed lives on the edges of a China they do not understand. This is a China of vast instability, ruled by a dynasty in decline, beset by pirates and bandits in areas beyond the government’sreach, pressed by Western traders to embrace opium, Western missionaries the word of God, and arms dealers the new weapons of the industrial revolution. Hong’s movement ignites this volatile situation, and Spence captures the result on a breathtaking canvas of clashing armies, daring stra |
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Green Travel Guide to Southern Wisconsin $19.95 Green Travel Guide to Southern Wisconsin surveys the best green restaurants, lodgings, shops, and activities southern Wisconsin has to offer. Dine at independent, locally owned eateries that serve up delicious fare grown and raised by farmers right down the road. Overnight at peaceful inns that sponsor workshops on topics ranging from cheesemaking to sustainability. Scour markets that sell locally foraged mushrooms, berries, and syrups as well as arts and crafts created by local artisans. Bicycle through southern Wisconsin, stopping at small-scale farms where travelers are not only welcome but encouraged to visit. |
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HO Scale Santa Special Train Set $95.24 TNM1069: Features: -Santa Special – Ready to run HO scale (1:87) electric train set.-North pole and southern bobber caboose.-47” X 38” oval of snap fit E-Z track.-Power pack and speed controller.-Recommended for ages 14 and up. Includes: -Set includes USRA 0-6-0 Steam locomotive and tender with operating headlight, gondola car with presents, reindeer transport stock car, hot chocolate tank car. Warranty: -Limited lifetime warranty on Locomotive. |
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Heirloom Seeds And Their Keepers $41.29 Farmers and gardeners have long appreciated a wide variety of plants and have nurtured them for meals, healing, and exchange. But diversity too often has been surrendered to monocultures of fields and spirits, predisposing much of modern agriculture to uniformity and, consequently, vulnerability. Today it is primarily at the individual level–such as growing and saving a strange old bean variety or a curious-looking gourd-that any lasting conservation actually takes place. As scientists grapple with the erosion of genetic diversity of crops and their wild relatives, old-timey farmers and gardeners continue to save, propagate, and pass on folk varieties and heirloom seeds. Virginia Nazarea focuses on the role of these seedsavers in the perpetuation of diversity. She thoughtfully examines the framework of scientific conversation and argues for the merits of everyday conservation–one that is beyond programmatic design. Whether considering small-scale rice and sweet potato farmers in the Philippines or participants in the Southern Seed Legacy and Introduced Germplasm from Vietnam in the American South, she explores roads not necessarily less traveled but certainly less recognized in the conservation of biodiversity. Through characters and stories that offer a wealth of insights about human nature and society, Heirloom Seeds and Their Keepers helps readers more fully understand why biodiversity persists when there are so many pressures for it not to. The key, Nazarea explains, is in the sovereign spaces seedsavers inhabit and create, where memories counter a culture of forgetting and abandonment engendered by modernity. A book about people as much as practice, it profiles these individualswho march to their own beat in a world where diversity is increasingly devalued as the predictability of mass production becomes the norm. Heirloom Seeds and Their Keepers offers a much-needed, scientifically researched perspective on the contribution of seedsaving that illustrates its |
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Immigrants At The Margins $121.56 Spain and Italy have recently become countries of large-scale immigration. This provocative book explores immigration law and the immigrant experience in these southern European nations, and exposes the tension between the temporary and contingent legal status of most immigrants, and the government emphasis on integration. This book reveals that while law and the rhetoric of policymakers stress the urgency of integration, not only are they failing in that effort, but law itself plays a role in that failure. In addressing this paradox, the author combines theoretical insights and extensive data from myriad sources collected over more than a decade to demonstrate the connections among immigrants’ role as cheap labor – carefully inscribed in law – and their social exclusion, criminalization, and racialization. Extrapolating from this economics of alterite, this book engages more general questions of citizenship, belonging, race and community in this global era. |
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Jackie Robinson $16.95 The extraordinary life of Jackie Robinson is illuminated as never before in this full-scale biography by Arnold Rampersad, who was chosen by Jack’s widow, Rachel, to tell her husband’s story, and was given unprecedented access to his private papers. We are brought closer than we have ever been to the great ballplayer, a man of courage and quality who became a pivotal figure in the areas of race and civil rights. Born in the rural South, the son of a sharecropper, Robinson was reared in southern California. We see him blossom there as a student-athlete as he struggled against poverty and racism to uphold the beliefs instilled in him by his mother–faith in family, education, America, and God. We follow Robinson through World War II, when, in the first wave of racial integration in the armed forces, he was commissioned as an officer, then court-martialed after refusing to move to the back of a bus. After he plays in the Negro National League, we watch the opening of an all-American drama as, late in 1945, Branch Rickey of the Brooklyn Dodgers recognized Jack as the right player to break baseball’s color barrier–and the game was forever changed. Jack’s never-before-published letters open up his relationship with his family, especially his wife, Rachel, whom he married just as his perilous venture of integrating baseball began. Her memories are a major resource of the narrative as we learn about the severe harassment Robinson endured from teammates and opponents alike; about death threats and exclusion; about joy and remarkable success. We watch his courageous response to abuse, first as a stoic endurer, then as a fighter who epitomized courage and defiance. We see hisgrowing friendship with white players like Pee Wee Reese and the black teammates who followed in his footsteps, and his embrace by Brooklyn’s fans. We follow his blazing career: 1947, Rookie of the Year; 1949, Most Valuable Player; six pennants in ten seasons, and 1962, induction into the |
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Krill $260 Krill are relatively small, shrimp-like filter-feeding crustaceans important in the diets of many whales, seals, sea birds, fish and squid. In recent years, large-scale krill fishing has been undertaken in the Southern Oceans, in Japanese waters and on a smaller scale in Canadian waters. The harvested krill are converted to a variety of products and marketed as fishmeal, feed for aquaculture and for direct human consumption. Krill, being in the middle of several food chains, present intriguing problems for resource management and have highlighted the need for a thorough ecosystem approach.This important book covers the biology, ecology and commercial exploitation of krill, chapters have been written by international experts providing a vital reference source for all those with an interest in the area. |
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Landforms of Southern Utah: A Photographic Exploration $15 Landforms of Southern Utah: A Photographic Exploration invites readers to see landforms through a geologists eyes: a cliff marking the line of a fault, a mesa capped with well-cemented sandstone, and a fin paralleling a set of fractures. Brief essays about the geologic history of more than twenty places in southern Utah accompany vibrant color photographs of landforms, from volcanic cinder cones to collapsed valleys and from modern sand dunes to ancient dunes preserved in cliffs of 200-million-year-old sandstone. Authors Orndorff and Futey do justice to the colorful arches, hoodoos, and canyons that Utah is famous for but also include geologic stories and photographs of lesser-known features such as lava flows and clastic dikes. Shaded-relief maps highlight the regions topography, bringing fractures, faults, and folds to life on a grand scale. |