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Martes: Taxonomy, Ecology, Techniques, and Management is a scholarly amalgamation of essays garnered from the Second International Martes Symposium concerning the small North American mammals commonly known as martens or fishers. Individual essays include "Maternal den attendance patterns of female American martens", "Interactions among marten prey availability, vulnerability, and habitat structure", "Improved trapping standards for marten and fisher", "Socio-economic aspects of marten management", and much more. Extensive research, tables, diagrams, and statistics form the foundation of this professional-level species study, intended for fellow experts in the field. "We recommend the following procedures to ensure that disturbance at dens is minimized. Do not approach a den or set up a camera until the female leaves the area. Do not use artificial lighting systems to illuminate the scene. If possible, set up cameras in the opposite direction from which the female leaves the vicinity of the den site. Set cameras and sensors at least 20 m from the den structure. Minimize the number of people involved in establishing the camera station and, to the extent possible, avoid human activity in the immediate vicinity of the den."

I read this book 12 years ago. This book, I believe, took about 10 years in the planning. The extended research that was done for this book is outstanding, and only Anthony Van kampen could have done such historical work. From the back alleys of a village in England, to the first establishment by the English in Australia. Where as Mary Bryant was one of the first prisoners being sent to Sidney Cove. The escape by Mary Bryant from Australia showed her determination, courage, endurance she had to go through in order to return to England. When you begin to read the first page you will have a tough time putting it down untill you read the last and than still you would like to read more. Extremely well written with the accuracy as only Anthony van Kampen can document it.

If you want to know about media effects and media effects research, this is the book. The authors of the chapters are the experts on the topics.

A fantastic research for media effects.

The book is great. All types of mecha can be built by characters and roleplayed. The battle system is great and the customization of the world that is possible is excellent. Definately a good purchase for Anime lovers/role-players.

This is an extraordinary effort--one of the most thoughtful and innovative analyses of Melville's narrative guises ever published. Bryant is clearly one of the nation's best Melville scholars.

A cycle of three -- or, by some counts, four -- Arthurian romances attributed to the poet Robert de Boron (or Borron) is of exceptional importance. It seems to have provided the model for the later Vulgate Cycle, which includes "Lancelot" and "The Quest of the Holy Grail," and its successors, including Thomas Malory''s "Le Morte D'Arthur." Obviously, everyone seriously interested in Arthurian literature will have read it. Wrong. Very wrong.

To begin with, there is, unfortunately, direct manuscript evidence for only "Joseph of Arimathea" (the early history of the Grail) and the opening of "Merlin" in verse. What we have for the whole cycle, concluding with "Perceval" (the Grail Quest), and "The Death of Arthur" (as either the conclusion of "Perceval" or a short continuation of the cycle), is a prose redaction. The relationship of this to the work of the original poet in its later portions is uncertain -- assuming that there was a complete version in verse.

The prose retelling exists in a variety of manuscripts, only two of which (known as Modena and Didot, the latter famous but textually corrupt) contain the whole collection, and they otherwise differ among themselves. There have been a number of editions of the medieval French texts, based on different manuscripts and editorial principles, so even those with a good reading knowledge of Old French have not necessarily read the same book.

For those of us who read only English (at least with any fluency), there has been only the last section, as "The Romance of Perceval in Prose: A Translation of the E Manuscript of the Didot Perceval" by Dell Skeels, published by University of Washington Press in 1961. It was once available in paperback (1966 printing), but is long out of print. Fortunately Skeels resisted the turn-of-the-century models of Sebastian Evans and W.W. Comfort, and turned out workman-like modern English instead of pseudo-Malory. Unfortunately, he provided only half the story (the Quest and the Death of Arthur), and the information provided about the material was limited.

Now Nigel Bryant has come riding to the rescue of beleaguered amateur Arthurians and besieged students (sorry, I can't resist the image) with another of his modern language translations. (He has also made available in English the "Perceval" of Chretien de Troyes, and a selection of its numerous continuations, and also the rather odd "Perlesvaus," as "The High Book of the Grail"). Originally published in hardcover as Volume XLVIII of an ongoing Arthurian Studies series, "Merlin and the Grail" is readable, critically astute, and bibliographically up to date (although I have yet to find Skeels in the bibliography or notes.) It is exactly what I longed for a quarter-century ago when trying to make sense of passages in William Roach's 1941 edition of "The Didot Perceval, According to the Manuscripts of Modena and Paris." We have at last a really early version of the origin and wanderings of the Grail, the conceptions and births of Merlin and Arthur, and the King's early reign, and the insertion of the Grail Quest into the traditonal "history" of Arthur's reign.

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This is one of the best books on the market today for the recreational prospector. I have used this book as a text in Placer Mining for Gold classes for years and have found none better.

do not pass this book by. This book is crammed full of many different photos and things of interest; about Monster Trucks. I gave it as a gift to someone who is a Monster Truck fan, and he thought the book was excellent. Yes, I did look through the book myself and wanted to keep the book myself. lol You can't go wrong with this book..........

Albert Richardson's Monumental Classic Architecture In Great Britain And Ireland covers the achievements of Georgian architect Sir William Chambers and his contemporaries, revealing the buildings which have become masterpieces of British architecture. Dover here reproduces unabridged a production which first appeared in 1982, covering different phases of British classic architectural design and including black and white photos throughout.