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This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: G.P. Putnam's Sons in 1915 in 486 pages; Subjects: Alligators; Crocodiles; Juvenile Nonfiction / Animals / Reptiles & Amphibians; Juvenile Fiction / Animals / Alligators & Crocodiles; Nature / Reptiles & Amphibians; Pets / Reptiles, Amphibians & Terrariums; ... Read more

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Explains how to prepare a case for trial by identifying historical factual propositions that satisfy applicable legal elements; identifying evidence and inferences tending to prove or disprove the crucial factual propositions in a case; organizing evidence into persuasive arguments, whether the evidence is disputed or undisputed or suggests an implausibility in a witness' story; and understanding the influence of "silent arguments" and taking advantage of or countering such arguments. Illustrates interrelationship among evidence, argument, and technique. Sets forth and illustrates trial techniques so advocates can persuasively communicate their arguments to judges and jurors. ... Read more

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More than generally insightful: Provides the "how to" steps skipped by other books; anticipates difficulties
Some other trial advocacy books, including Mauet's, provide good general advice but at times neglect techniques that would help the reader follow their advice.Perhaps this shortcoming is in part because the authors' experience blinds them to some of the problems faced by inexperienced readers, and perhaps it is in part because it's a lot easier to tell someone what to do than to explain exactly how to do it, especially when there may be multiple approaches to acheiving the same result--more than one way to skin the cat.

This book doesn't just tell you what your arguments, examinations, etc., should incorporate and achieve--it recognizes the difficulties in developing them and provides advice on how to go about making them effective and complete.The authors strive to anticipate and prevent the difficulties inexperienced readers may have, and they do not shy away from explicitly addressing the why's, how's, and how-to's.

However, rather than giving you a step-by-step recipe to baking a cake, they extract and synthesize, identifying the stages that are important to baking every kind of cake--preparation, assembly, planning, execution, presentation, etc.-- and they explain to you the key considerations that are common to every good cake recipe at each of those stages.

It's a relatively small, thin book and an easy read.Yet it's the kind of book you can benefit from reading multiple times and consulting again and again.With every read, you'll strengthen your understanding and skill set, and when you read it with a particular case in mind, new ideas will spring forth in the form of aha! moments.

Yes, this book is better than sliced bread.It is not, however, perfect.I don't like the lack of negative space, and there's something about the organization that troubles me.(I can't quite put my finger on it.)It's also not exhaustive: Professor Moore, who I had the very good fortune to have as a professor at UCLA law, definitely supplemented, expounded, and illustrated considerably.So, don't throw out your other manuals.


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How do women experience the vast, arid, rugged land of the American Southwest? The Story Circle Network, a national organization dedicated to helping women write about their lives, posed this question, and nearly three hundred women responded with original pieces of writing that told true and meaningful stories of their personal experiences of the land. From this deep reservoir of writing--as well as from previously published work by writers including Joy Harjo, Denise Chávez, Diane Ackerman, Naomi Shihab Nye, Leslie Marmon Silko, Gloria Anzaldua, Terry Tempest Williams, and Barbara Kingsolver--the editors of this book have drawn nearly a hundred pieces that witness both to the ever-changing, ever-mysterious life of the natural world and to the vivid, creative, evolving lives of women interacting with it. Through prose, poetry, creative nonfiction, and memoir, the women in this anthology explore both the outer landscape of the Southwest and their own inner landscapes as women living on the land--the congruence of where they are and who they are. The editors have grouped the writings around eight evocative themes:• The way we live on the land• Our journeys through the land• Nature in cities• Nature at risk• Nature that sustains us• Our memories of the land• Our kinship with the animal world• What we leave on the land when we are goneFrom the Gulf Coast of Texas to the Pacific Coast of California, and from the southern borderlands to the Great Plains and the Rocky Mountains, these intimate portraits of women's lives on the land powerfully demonstrate that nature writing is no longer the exclusive domain of men, that women bring unique and transformative perspectives to this genre. (20070513) ... Read more

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The gift of place
What a treat! Not only are the stories and poems inside the cover delightful, passionate, insightful and/or all of the above, but handling the book itself is a delight. From the picture on the cover connecting past and present to the decaled edges and the weight of the pages, What Wildness is This is a pleasure to handle.

Inside, riches flow. Here you will find women who pour out their passion for, and their connection with places in the Southwest. The places vary from solitary canyons casting protective shadows from the blazing sun through open prairies with dancing grasses to city backyards shielding home-nests of families from urban chaos. The women who write these words write with deep feeling, fine writing and connections to Nature. These are not mere descriptions; in many cases, they are love songs.

About half of the almost 100 writers in Wildness were chosen from a call for entries by Story Circle Network, a national organization dedicated to helping women tell their stories. The others are previously published writers including Joy Harjo, Terry Tempest Williams and Barbara Kingsolver.

In the introduction, Kathleen Dean Moore writes, "the women write with a heady freedom from definition and expectation, exploring the folds and shadows of the whole geography of language and land, heart and mind." The writings are arranged into themes such as: how we live on the land, our journeys through the land, nature uncovered in urban life, our kinship with the animal world, what we hope to leave behind and other related topics.

Cindy Bellinger says it well in her "This Land on my Face", "It seeps under your skin, coursing through your veins like footsteps following old mountain trails. Before you know it, the land settles on your face. And you know you're home." There are so many delicious quotes that I can not include them all. The poetry, much of it written by First Americans, soars. As I read, I look into my own backyard, and nod my head in harmony with the writer. I remember the trails I've hiked in Bandolier National Monument in New Mexico. I am given the feeling of having been where I will never, in this reality, go. And, I, always a city gal, can taste the honeysuckle, experience the dust and feel the sweat provided by vivid memories of rural life in the Southwest,

What Wildness is This takes you not only deep into the Nature of the Southwest but also into the natures of many selves. Ry reading this anthology, you will find yourself visiting your own inner landscape as well.

by Judith Helburn
for Story Circle Network Book Reviews
www.storycirclebookreviews.org
reviewing books by, for, and about women

A fitting tribute to the rugged complexity of the Southwest from women's pens
As the title makes clear, the editors gathered the works of women writers who have ventured to put the spirit of the Southwest into words. The editors wisely divide the 100 or so essays and poems into eight categories such as "Geographies" and "The Nature of Urban Life." This allows the reader to navigate with greater ease through these vibrant, evocative and often moving pieces.

In Sandra Ramos O'Briant's wry essay "The Green Addiction," the writer recounts how her paternal grandmother "didn't like it that Daddy had married a Mexican." After her parents divorced and she left Texas with her mother for New Mexico, she was introduced to the exquisite pain of eating chile, something her non-Mexican relatives "didn't have the cojones to deal with."

And in Nancy Mairs' moving "Writing West," we get a taste of what it is to live and travel in the Southwest in a wheelchair. Her prose is spare, tough and unsentimental.

Pat Mora's "Voces del Jardín" is a homage to both the legacy and pleasures of her walled garden, which, she notes, is a "design indigenous to Mexico ... brought to the Americas by the Spanish ... a tradition Moorish and Mexican."

And, of course, there are descriptions of nature, wild and free, as in Sandra Lynn's "Poem in Which I Give You a Canyon": "Notice that this canyon is comprised of / two strata of volcanic origin: / a dark bitter chocolate and an airy vanilla."

It is a daunting task to describe fully the contours of this anthology, because so many fine writers are represented here -- including Joy Harjo, Denise Chávez and Barbara Kingsolver.

"What Wildness Is This" is a fitting tribute to the rugged complexity of the Southwest from the pens of a diverse group of women writers.

[The full review first appeared in the El Paso Times.]

Nature and the hearts of women
Although I am a New Yorker by birth and now live in Pennsylvania, I am drawn to the Southwest by the stories in What Wildness Is This. Years before, I was attracted to that part of the country by the conferences and retreats held by Story Circle Network. When I opened the book, I turned first to the stories by women I've met through this organization. Then I searched the index for stories about places I've been: the Texas Hill Country, Austin, Phoenix, the Grand Canyon. Then I read about Utah where my husband lived for twelve years before we met and a place that remains a part of him.
Almost three hundred women sent personal stories or poems for this anthology and fifty pieces were chosen. The editors then added another fifty pieces of previously published work by writers such as Diane Ackerman, Barbara Kingsolver, Terry Tempest Williams and Naomi Shihab Nye. The result is a hundred pieces exploring the relationship of a woman's life experiences to a place, the American Southwest.
The works are arranged in eight sections: the way we live on the land (A Land Full of Stories;) our journeys through the land (Geographies: Journey Notes;) nature in cities (Home Address: The Nature of Urban Life;) nature at risk (Earth Is an Island: Nature at Risk;) nature that sustains us (The Sustaining Land;) our memories of the land (The Key Is In Remembering: Growing Up On the Land;) our kinship with the animal world (Eagle Inside Us;) and what we leave on the land when we are gone (What We Leave Behind.)
The poems, essays and memoirs I read drew pictures for me, taking me back where I've been and showing me new, yet unseen landscapes through the writers' eyes. These word artists showed me what the Southwest looks and feels like - big dangerous snakes; hot, humid summers; endless wind; parched desert; small deer and short trees; distant horizons. We only have one of those in Pennsylvania - the humid summers.
This is a rough, un-softened land unlike the Northeast where I've lived all my life. The writers' words made me want to see the river that flows through a canyon, to watch the blackbirds, to feel the "muscular wind" of Linda Joy Myers' Oklahoma ("Song of the Plains."). I want to eat tortillas in Santa Fe like Sandra Ramos O'Briant ("Chile Tales: The Green Addiction.")
My ethnic and immigrant roots pulled on me when I read about the hope of a young Jewish couple in Davi Walders' poem "Big Spring, Fifty Years After." A line from her poem "Jewish Oil Brat" could serve to summarize the whole book: "...courage rooted deep here, gushed high and fierce here..."
Reading, I pictured oil wells and gas wells and dogs in the yard. I felt what it was like to be the part-white child in an Indian school like Leslie Marmon Silko in "Not You, He Said." I laughed at the cunning of Patricia Nordyke Pando's grandmother in "Dumplings Come to Town."
So many other images remain with me: Ironwoods and cactus and dust and "the occasional elm." The lives in these stories and poems are lived outdoors, no matter the number of hours spent within four walls. The land colors everything, determines everything, and decides everything.
What makes this different from other anthologies of nature writing? Written entirely by women, the authors are an integral part of each story or poem. Kathleen Dean Moore says in the Foreword that they "break down the cultural constraints of ...European ideals of `man and nature'...and "Man as individual, ...distinguished by the presence of mind from all of nature, which is as lifeless as a millstone..."
Co-editor Susan Wittig Albert says that the editors were looking for writers who had experienced the natural world "not as Nature, objectively...'out there,' but in a deeply personal, intimate and self-revealing way `in here'."
This is a collection to celebrate not only because it adds so many beautiful female voices to the canon of nature writing but especially because our own Story Circle Network sponsored it. To paraphrase Barbara Kingsolver in "Not Long Ago," "I can't think of (a book I've read that gave me) such a clear fix on what it means to be human."
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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Michael Moore, Albert Jacquard, José Saramago, Hugo Chávez, José Bové, Manu Chao, Olivier Besancenot, Georges Menahem, Toni Negri, Étienne Chouard, Keny Arkana, Tapio Mattlar, Amir Khadir, Cécile Duflot, Stéphane Lhomme, François-Xavier Verschave, Immanuel Wallerstein, Riccardo Petrella, Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, Danielle Mitterrand, Vandana Shiva, Pat Roy Mooney, Maude Barlow, Raoul-Marc Jennar, Sous-Commandant Marcos, Chico Whitaker, Naomi Klein, Jean Ziegler, Gisèle Halimi, Ignacio Ramonet, Jean Gadrey, Jacques Nikonoff, Miguel Benasayag, Zoé Varier, Pierre Carles, Bernard Cassen, Thomas Coutrot, Françoise David, Serge Halimi, Francine Bavay, Geneviève Azam, Carlo Giuliani, Pierre Concialdi, Aminata Dramane Traoré, Pierre Galand, Jacques Testart, Bernard Maris, Susan George, Rajagopal P. V., Gilles Lemaire, François Houtart, Daniel Mermet, John Holloway, Walden Bello, Jean Sur, François Dufour, Éric Toussaint, Monika Hauser, James Robertson, Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Liêm Hoang-Ngoc, Jakob Von Uexkull, Bruno Rebelle, Yann Moulier-Boutang, Gérard Gourguechon, Mike Cooley, Jean-Marie Harribey, Dominique Plihon, Helena Norberg-Hodge, Christophe Aguiton, Yves Salesse, Annick Coupé, Gaétan Breton, Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher, Michel Husson, Gustave Massiah, Claire Villiers, Jean-Pierre Berlan, François Chesnais, Gilles Luneau, Bernard Langlois, David Korten, Lola Lafon, Sulak Sivaraksa, Christiane Marty, Damien Millet, Jean Carbonare, René Passet, Lee Kyung-Hae, Bernard Monnot, Francisco Whitaker, Carlo Petrini, Aurélie Trouvé, Han Deqiang, Serge Roy, Carole Poliquin, Henri Burin Des Roziers, Martin Khor, Santiago Sierra, Philippe Collin, Brigitte Allain, Évelyne Sire-Marin, Pino Tripodi, Gaby Dewalle, Jacque Servin. ...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Ich hab vernomen wie der siben weysen aus kriechenland ainer gelert hab das dymass in allen dingen sitlichen und naturlichen das pest sey.

DUeRER, British Museum MS., vol. iv., 82a.

I have heard how one of the Seven Sages of Greece taught that measure is in all things, physical and moral, best.

La souveraine habilete consiste a bien connaitre le prix des choses. LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, III. 252.

Sovereign skill consists in thoroughly understanding the value of things.

The attempt that the last quarter century has witnessed, to introduce the methods of science into the criticism of works of art, has tended, it seems to me, to put the question of their value into the background. The easily scandalous inquiries, "Who?" "When?" "Where?" have assumed an impertinent predominance. When I hear people very decidedly asserting that such a picture was painted by such an one, not generally supposed to be the author, at such a time, &c. &c., I often feel uneasy in the same way as one does on being addressed in a loud voice in a church or a picture gallery, where other persons are absorbed in an acknowledged and respected contemplation or study. I feel inclined to blush and whisper, for fear of being supposed to know the speaker too well. It is an awkward moment with me, for I am in fact very good friends with many such persons. "Sovereign skill consists in thoroughly understanding the value of things"--not their commercial value only, though that is sovereign skill on the Exchange, but their value for those whose chief riches are within them. The value of works of art is an intimate experience, and cannot be estimated by the methods of exact science as the weight of a planet can. There are and have been forgeries that are more beautiful, therefore more valuable, than genuine specimens of the class of work which they figure as. I feel that the specialist, with his special measure and point of view, often endangers the fair name and good repute of the real estimate; and that nothing but the dominion and diffusion of general ideas can defend us against the specialist and keep the specialist from being carried away by bad habits resulting from his devotion to a single inquiry.

There was one general idea, of the greatest importance in determining the true value of things, which preoccupied Duerer's mind and haunted his imagination: the idea of proportion. I propose therefore to attempt to make clear to myself and my readers what the idea of proportion really implies, and of what service a sense for proportion really is; secondly, to determine the special use of the term in relation to the appreciation of works of art; thirdly, in relation to their internal structure;--before proceeding to the special studies of Duerer as a man and an artist.

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Somewhere in the world each day, people just like you are acting in kind, peaceful, loving ways. Perhaps they are visiting someone who is old, teaching a little sister to ride a bike, or sharing an experience with a friend from a different culture. ... Read more

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Somewhere today ..... what did you and your child do today?
To make World Peace Day - September 21 easier to understand for our young ones and our future is to make it easy for them to understand what peace, friendship and kindness are and how they can do their part. Even one person can make a change by what they do. Can you be nice instead of fighting? Can you write a letter, help your sibling do something, plant a tree and recycle toys & clothes. When you learn about peaceful ways, how to be peaceful it helps and if we can raise the future to be more understanding and have compassion maybe they'll live in a Peaceful world..... we can only hope.

I like the photos as well and I think this would be a good book to use in the classroom for World Peace Day and I think this would be good for younger children.

A wonderful book for children and their parents to read!
It is time that we got back to teaching our children the basics of life -- love and kindness! This is a great book for parents to read WITH their children.What a better way to teach your children about life, than toread and learn with them.

You should read her first book -- "Puttingthe World to Sleep"

This is a wonderful author!

Makes the concept of nonviolence accessible to young kids.
This is an excellent and accessible book for youngreaders which makes the concept of nonviolence a personal thing.Given the recent frightening episodes of violence in our schools and communities, this book contains a valuable lesson for us all, and has a thought-provoking ending which gives the text a real immediacy.The photographs are beautifully done and fully complement and extend the text.What a good job the author and photographer have done in bringing us this gentle and useful book! ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the worlds literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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didn't get the order, and it's June 11th
The book never arrived, and it's a family treasure, the original having been written by my husband's great grandfather, A. A. Moore.Enough said. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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Title: Wheat, a Practical Discussion of the Raising, Marketing, Handling and Use of the Wheat Crop, Relating Largely to the Great Plains Region of the United States and CanadaPublisher: Lincoln, Campbell Soil Culture Pub. Co.Publication date: 1914Subjects: WheatWheat tradeNotes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more