Bates Books

This book is clear and concise. It gives a lot of information about Barry Goldwater, his life and his career. My daughter had chosen biography as a book genre for this quarter's book report. This was a fun, easy book to do a report on.

These books have some good stuff. The quotes are the best part. Sure, sometimes they tell you stuff you could've guessed on your own (e.g., Maine is boring), but they also have info you couldn't find anywhere else like how good the dorms and dining halls are. Really helpful.

Arrived in excellant condition and is a great assessment book for teaching nurse practitioner students.

This is a remarkably well-written account of a story that was far more complex than the lawsuit headlines. The author sensitively recounts the positions of all sides in the controversy without making judgments so that readers find themselves empathizing with points of view they may otherwise have rejected out of hand. I read this as part of a law school course, and I'm glad I did. I've recommended it to many friends since my first reading.

This book is the best! I think that this is the best book for 10 year old girls. It makes other girls want to be Mighty Adventures too! This book is funny and inspiring. I can't wait to read the next book!

I dunno why...I'm a pretty gruff Scotsman with cauliflower ears and no teeth. His writing is all about England...the English countryside and English girls...AAAH! Now I see it! English girls...his books have this rural sexyness to them, always bubbling away just bellow the surface...His books don't enlighten or really educate, they just seem quite poinyant (sp?) and make me feel warm and happy.

"Fair stood the wind for france" is one of my fave's...semi-autobiographical...he had quite a life, you should google H E Bates.

verygood assortment of stories by best authors. in large print which was unusual/ hard to get a good book in large print under30.00

"A passport to the natural world" is how veteran wildlife photographer Bates Littlehales describes bird watching. In Bird Watch, his first book on a subject he has pursued for 15 years, Littlehales shares his enlightening perspective on the birds of North America.

Littlehales began taking the photographs in Bird Watch after a National Geographic magazine assignment on John James Audubon revived his boyhood interest in birds. In the spirit of the great naturalist, Littlehales is equally fascinated by the most familiar backyard visitors and the most rare wilderness species.

Whether he is focusing on endangered wood storks or common cardinals, Littlehales makes images which tell the story of how birds interact with each other and the world around them. Striving to feed its young, an Atlantic puffin alights on a rock in Maine with five capelins dangling from its beak. Courting boldly, a greater prairie-chicken on a "booming ground" in Texas advances toward a female with his tawny air sacs inflated. Poised to catch an insect on the wing, a vermilion fly catcher awaits his prey in a southeast Arizona canyon.

Introducing these subtle and intriguing photographs, biologist Jerome A. Jackson recalls great scientific discoveries which had their origins in bird watching and discusses the power of this pastime to draw people into a lifelong interest in the environment.

Captions by Littlehales accompany the photographs, providing details about the season, the location, and each species' habits. A foreword by Jay D. Hair, president of the National Wildlife Federation, pays tribute to the vital role of bird watching in the conservation movement.

With images of rare simplicity and power, Bird Watch will delight bird watchers-and anyone else who takes pleasure in closely observing nature.



BATES LITTLEHALES was a staff photographer for the National Geographic Society from 1952 to 1989, contributing to National Geographic magazine and many other Society publications. His work has also appeared in Natural History, Birder's World, and National Wildlife Federation publications. Now a freelance photographer specializing in nature images, Littlehales lives in northern Virginia.

JEROME A. JACKSON, an authority on endangered birds, has taught biological sciences at Mississippi State University since 1970. Jackson has edited many ornithological journals, including Wilson Bulletin and Journal of Field Ornithology Currently he edits Bird Conservation, contributes to Birder's World, and cohosts a weekly television series, "Mississippi Outdoors." He lives in Starkville, Mississippi, with his wife Bette, also an ornithologist.

JAY D. HAIR has been president of the National Wildlife Federation since 1981. The recipient of numerous awards for his contributions to environmental preservation, Hair serves on the boards of Earth Day 1990, the Global Tomorrow Coalition, and other conservation organizations.

Sponsoreded by the National Wildlife Federation, a large format picture book, with beautiful illustrations by Jacob Bates Abbot. One of the first books I owned as a child, read aloud to anyone who would listen, including my own children and all their friends. They then read it to me! Recommended if you like to have on your lap a small child and a big book.

"Brackman: His Art and Teaching" delivers just what the title says.

The book has 17 four-color full page reproductions and over 50 in black and white of his master works.

An artist can learn a lot just by looking at the pictures. Moreover, the author, Kenneth Bates, writes well about how Brackman worked, including specific techniques Brackman came up with to achieve the originality that will earn Brackman the title in Art History as one of the great American Masters.

A beautiful book for both the art lover and the student of art.