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Learn all you need to know about identifying and attracting finches with this comprehensive, gloriously colorful field guide from America’s foremost authorities on birds and nature.   Following the extraordinary finch superflight of 2020-2021, birders across the country became obsessed with finches. With The Stokes Guide to Finches of the United States and Canada, you can gain expert knowledge on these beautiful birds and bring them into your ...

Sound the alarm! Blow the shofar! Herald the return of the soon coming King! The Christian walk is filled with valleys and mountaintops, twists and turns along the pathway, times of great victories and times of failure and defeat. Riches and Prosperity is a story about the struggles of a group of Christian believers, some with a history of commitment, some with little fruit to bear, some new to the faith. Riches and Prosperity picks up a numb...

High in the western mountains of New Mexico, sits the town of Mountain Fire. At one time the area was home to mountaineers, hunters, gold seekers, and bandits. By the early nineteen hundreds it was a railroad and mining town. And this is where, for a variety of reasons, the men had come. 'Exiled, ' as Benjamin liked to tell his congregation, 'banished to, ' as Compton would say... or, in a serious moment, 'Why did the Lord lead me to this plac...

The first book to compile data on communal structures from different times across the Mogollon region.

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Fifty-five and just fired from a position she expected to cement her career, Karima Powers goes back to the drawing board. Searching for a meaningful second act, she resurrects a business idea that takes her back to the Motherland. Her bold and personal quest for purpose not only changes her life, but also lays the groundwork for the ultimate reconciliation for the "children of the diaspora". Karima's Journey Back to Africa encapsulates the wo...

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Excerpt from College Tramps: A Narrative of the Adventures of a Party of Yale Students During a Summer Vacation in Europe, With Knapsack and Alpenstock, and the Incidents of a Voyage to Rotterdam and Return, Taken in the SteerageAs the month of June approached, the numbers of our party become very much reduced, and final, arrange ments are made for but eight, all that is left of our fif teen would-be tramps. To occupy the week between Commence...

Excerpt from Dramatic Works of Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, Bart, Vol. 1 of 2: Richelieu MoneyThe cabals formed against this great statesman were not carried on by the patriotism of public virtue, or the emulation of equal talent: they were but court struggles, in which the most worthless agents had re course to the most desperate means. In each, as I have before observed, we see combined the twofold at tempt to murder the minister and to betray ...

In an era where climate change, natural catastrophes and land degradation are major issues, the conservation of soil and vegetation in mountainous or sloping regions has become an international priority. How to avoid substrate mass movement through landslides and erosion using sustainable and ecologically sound techniques is rapidly becoming a scientific domain where knowledge from many different fields is required. These proceedings bring tog...

Excerpt from Weil's Disease (Spirochaetosis Ictero-Haemorrhagica) In the British Army in FlandersOur attention was first called to the disease by a fatal case of jaundice under the care of Captain Flood, whose permission we have for mentioning the case.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forg...

Excerpt from Weil's Disease (Spirochaetosis Ictero-Haemorrhagica) In the British Army in FlandersOur attention was first called to the disease by a fatal case of jaundice under the care of Captain Flood, whose permission we have for mentioning the case.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forg...

The Plains Cooperative Oil Mill in Lubbock was organized in 1937 to process and market cottonseed oil on a cooperative basis. With annual sales in 1999 averaging 150 million dollars, the Plains mill is now a trendsetter in the cottonseed industry, processing on average 600, 000 tons of cottonseed a year-approximately 15 percent of the cottonseed processed in the United States. Since its inception the Plains mill has returned millions of dollar...

CONTENTSForewordIntroductionFoundations of Strategic ModernizationChina's Quest for Information DominanceDawn of a New Age: China's Long-Range Precision Strike CapabilitiesIn Defense of its Own: China's Aerospace DefenseConclusionAppendix I. China Aerospace Corporation OrganizationAppendix II. The Legend of Qian XuesenAppendix III. Space Support for Strategic ModernizationAppendix IV. China's Directed Energy WeaponsAppendix V. Commission of Sc...

Tree-ring dating, or dendrochronology, is the study of the chronological sequence of annual growth rings in trees. This book--a seminal study in its field--provides a simple yet eloquent introduction to the discipline, explaining what a dendrochronologist does both in the field and in the laboratory. Authors Stokes and Smiley first explain the basic principles of tree-ring dating, then describe details of the process, step by step, from the ti...

This publication comprises the proceedings of the first International Conference devoted to the structural roots of trees and woody plants. 'The Supporting Roots - Structure and Function, ' 20-24 July 1998, Bordeaux, France. The meeting was held under the auspices ofIUFRO WPS 2. 01. 13 'Root Physiology and Symbiosis, ' and its aim was to bring together scientific researchers, foresters and arboriculturalists, to discuss current problems in str...

In an era where climate change, natural catastrophes and land degradation are major issues, the conservation of soil and vegetation in mountainous or sloping regions has become an international priority. How to avoid substrate mass movement through landslides and erosion using sustainable and ecologically sound techniques is rapidly becoming a scientific domain where knowledge from many different fields is required. These proceedings bring tog...

John Stokes has waited more than 50 years to give his eyewitness account of "The Manhattan Project." This was the name he and a group of fellow students gave their strike at R.R. Moton High School that helped to end separate schooling for blacks and whites, not only in his home state of Virginia, but throughout America. Told in Stokes' own words, the story vividly conveys how his passion for learning helped set in motion one of the most powerf...