Colorado Books

Excellent conference proceeding: top contributors, varied important current topics and new ideas. Professional level, or interested and somewhat knowledgable amateur.

Having recently moved to Colorado Springs from Dallas TX I was looking for a hiking guide for the local area. A co-worker is an avid hiker/camper and let me borrow Zoltan's book...I LOVED IT!!! There is great information on hiking trails including difficulty level, trail distance, what you can expect to see on your hike and much more.

What would it be like to be a single woman traveling in male dominated cultures? Any American man who has been to Asia or the Middle East has probably asked himself this question, but has had little, if any, opportunity to get an answer.
Kathleen Lee provides some answers and brings a perspective shaped by extensive experience and a keen perception of culture ( both hers and others). This is not the flowery diary of a weekend tourist. This is an honest look at the loneliness, sexual tension, self-doubt and unparalled exhilaration that an independent American woman experiences while living, traveling and , at times, wandering aimlessly through China, Pakistan and Eastern Russia.
Written as fiction and told through the eyes of several main characters, the voice is certainly that of Lee and is witty, honest and brutally frank in its assessment of countries, cultures, people and herself.
I was reminded of the quote ," Writing is easy, you just open a vein and bleed all over the paper."

I was thinking of travel trends in the us and canada. I typed it in and found this book. I purchased 18 copies, on for me and each of my eleven siblings, my boss, my friends at work, my friend at the airport, my sons teachers, and my sons friends parents.

Received it in excellent condition!

I like on the left pages are close up pics of the leaves/needles, for a quick flip thru when in the field.

Highly recommend it to any botanist/biologist.

The recent proliferation of books on tropical ecology is a goodthing, but it might make it difficult to decide which books toread. I've read almost all the books on tropical ecology and taughtseveral tropical ecology courses, and this is the best work I've seenyet. It is definitely not a text book and should not be used as such,but it covers all the major issues in tropical ecology while focusingon one of the best studied neotropical ecosystems: Barro ColoradoIsland. I recommend this book to anyone interested in tropicalecology.

If you are going to be fly fishing in Colorado or Wyoming you absolutely must track down a copy of this out-of-print book. It crams an incredible amount of useful information into 149 pages of easy to read prose, charts and illustrations -- nearly all of which is as valid today as when first printed in 1987. Wish I could find more copies to use as gifts for friends!

2006 marks the 100th anniversary of Mesa Verde National Park, and this book may turn out to be one of the most enduring tributes to this birthday. Respected archaeological historian Florence Lister has written an engaging, story-packed history of archaeology in the Mesa Verde region. It serves both as a history of southwestern archaeology and as an overview of ancient Puebloan life, history, and mysteries. You'll meet a colorful cast of characters who became enthralled by Puebloan cliff ruins, from cowboy pothunters to Teddy Roosevelt to today's archaeologists. You'll tour Mesa Verde National Park more intimately than tourists ever do, learning the stories behind familiar park landmarks, and the stories about sites/sights tourists never see. You'll get an up-to-date idea of what we know about the Puebloans. Lister offers judicious discussions of difficult and controversial topics such as why Puebloan society collapsed, Puebloan violence and warfare, grave repatriation, pothunting, Park Service and tribal and academic politics, and the difficulties of doing professional archaeology. But mostly, the fascination of archaeology.

This book is exquisitly written,and Mary Joy Martin has that rare artistic gift that few writers truly have: An ability to turn ordinary prose into pure poetry. The mark of a really good writer is to take the stories they tell and to breath life into them, in effect, setting them to music, with tempo and rhythm, tone and beat. That's what this book has. Comparing this book to another forgettable one I read on American Hauntings is like comparing an artistic painting to a stick figure drawing. The one I read on American Hauntings had no flair, and was just straight facts about hauntings across America that chose and then presented their ghostly stories poorly, without the passion and color that Martin brings to her spooky tales of Colorado's restless spirits from the other side.
Of course, I'm a skeptic either way, but it was Martin's way of telling her stories that made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up, and her vivid descriptions superbly painted the canvas of these etheral encounters that the other author on American Hauntings rendered as rudementary black and white sketches. Authors like Mary Joy Martin, on the other hand, leave me wanting to explore more of their work.

A wonderful look into the lives of my husbands grandparents(Angus)and his mother during the twenties and thirties. A guide into a little known part of their western heritage. I am proud to have been, somewhat by proxie, a part of the story. Especially wonderful are the pictures that show what the country and what our family was like during that time.