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Central America is a wonderful birding area, supporting a rich and diverse avifauna. Belize is one of its more accessible and tourist-friendly countries, beginning to rival Costa Rica as the most popular Central American birding destination of all. The colour distribution maps indicate the range of breeding and visiting species.This is the first guide ever published to the birds of Belize, and will be a vital aid to all those birdwatching in this spectacular country. ... Read more

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Birds of Belize
I ordered the book as above while still in Belize.

The order was waiting for me upon my return home and in exactly the excellent condition it was reported to be.

I would do business again with this seller.

For anyone interested in the book itself, I highly recommend it.I have seen several books on Birds of Belize and just othe tropical birds, but this is a much larger volume with large, colorful pictures and great descriptions as to the birds and they're habitats, behaviors and more.

Birds of Belize
This IS NOT a field guide!The book is large, heavy and poorly organized.The art work is basic with no fine details.Photographs, descriptions and maps are in three different locations.The maps are barely small ink line drawings that have no detail at all.The information in the descriptions contains a lot of words but not much useful information about habits, habitats or unique charicteristics that would differentiate between similar appearing species.While it may be the best you can get for Belize it is a far cry from many other field guides.I would recommend locating field guides specific to the areas you will be visiting, like Albert Greer's Birds of "Ambergris Caye", which unfortunately does not appear to be available on Amazon.com.

very good guide book
this is a very good guide book (and also really the only one for the subject).it would be nice if it had some behavioral facts for each bird.guidebooks get a little dry otherwise.i like this size of guidebook also.Audubon used to produce smaller guidebooks (not belize i don't think) thinking that they would be more convenient.i find the smaller guidebooks more difficult to page through especially when about a thousand insects are chewing on me in the jungle.

The essential Belize bird book
If you're birding in Belize with one book, this is the book you must have.
What I don't like is the layout. One section is for drawings with short, general habitat descriptions. Then you go to a second for much more complete descriptions. Then to the third section for a limited number of range maps. You have to go to the second section just to find the page number of the range map or if there even is one.

A field guide is for use in the field!
A good and thorough guide, but annoyingly large for field use.Even with the great number of species in Belize, there must be some way to make this book portable. ... Read more

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"A School for Others covers my time in Belize, Central America as a Peace Corps Volunteer.It is about my personal growth, some adventure, unintentional altruism, and finding true love, despite my best efforts not to.
I live in a Mayan village and one day I discover an abandon school in the jungle.It is the beginning of a vision to develop a school for students who are unable to continue their education in a system that is designed to weed out the “academically challenged.”They are the “other” kids who don’t have the privilege of attending secondary school.
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This digital document is an article from Worldmark Encyclopedia of Religious Practices, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 3347 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Worldmark Encyclopedia of Religious Practices provides information on current religious practices around the world with an emphasis on how religions impact the daily lives of their followers. Included are detailed entries on 13 major religions, such as Christianity and Islam, and entries on 28 religious subgroups, such as Shi'ites or Baptists.Provides Date of Origin, Dietary Practices, Number of Followers, Social Aspects, Controversial Issues, Major Theologians and Authors, Cultural Impact, Houses of Worship, Holy Places, What is Sacred, Rituals, Rites of Passage, Festivals and Holidays, Membership, Social Justice, Modes of Dress and Founder.Also includes significant religions in 193 countries that detail History, Political Impact, Other Religions, Religious Tolerance and more. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Countries and Their Cultures, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 1163 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Covers the broad range of popular religious culture of the United States at the close of the twentieth century. Beliefs, practices, symbols, traditions, movements, organizations, and leaders from the many traditions in the pluralistic American community are represented. Also includes cults and phenomena that drew followers, such as Heaven's Gale and UFOs. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Worldmark Encyclopedia of National Economies, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 4215 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Advances in technology continue to accelerate the pace at which people and companies are doing business with entities in foreign countries. As a result, the demand for comprehensive, up-to-date economic information about foreign companies has increased as well. The Worldmark Encyclopedia of National Economies satisfies this immediate need and provides a thorough understanding of the current and historical economic development of foreign nations. Clearly arranged by country within broad geographic regions, the Worldmark Encyclopedia of National Economies provides accurate, in-depth analysis of each country's economic environment, reliable statistics on the country's current economic conditions and trends and key demographics of the nation's citizens. ... Read more

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An authoritative, detailed, and up-to-date checklist of the 566 bird species reliably recorded in Belize. ... Read more

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Best checkist for Belize but overpriced on Amazon
This is the best checklist I've seen for Belize. However, at $46 it is way overpriced on Amazon. Go to American Birding Association web site and then to birding products. Their price is $12.50 for the same edition. (I'm guessing the price listed on Amazon is a mistake.)

Annotated Checklist of the Birds of Belize
One of the most complete, accurate, and easy to use bird checklist I have ever used! ... Read more

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The Social History of Belize is marked by conflict, between the British soldiers and the Maya, masters and slaves, capitalists and workers, the colonial administration and the Belizean people. Belize shares many features with other parts of the Caribbean and Central America, including a long history of colonialism and slavery, a dependant economy in which the ownership of land is highly concentrated, and a population which is largely poor. In this collection of essays, written over a period of several years, Professor Bolland focuses on some of the most important topics in the history of the people of Belize, during three centuries of colonialism. The sociological perspective of this highly qualified scholar illuminates the historical origins and colonial legacies of present day Belize, both for their distinctiveness and for what they share with other parts of the region. This revised collection of essays, in the words of Professor Verene Shepherd,will now take its place on the shelves of scholars of Caribbean history. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from World Education Encyclopedia, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 1019 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.This country-by-country survey of educational systems provides detailed essays on the histories, legal foundations, and primary and secondary educational systems of 233 countries. This edition provides up-to-date coverage of reorganized educational systems and technological advances. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Cities of the World, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 6048 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.A compilation of current information on cultural, geographic, and political conditions in 193 countries and their cities covering six continents, based on the Department of State's Post Reports. ... Read more

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Probably the best single source on the early conquest period
Grant Jones is consistently the best writer on the early colonial history of Belize and adjacent parts of Guatemala and Mexico. He knows the primary documents better than anyone else. He has a sophisticated, thoughtful and sympathetic approach. And best of all, he writes well. This is not bedtime reading, but for a serious scholar of the Spanish encounter with indigenous peoples, this is an invaluable and engrosing read. ... Read more

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History of Belize, Pre-Columbian Belize, Mayacivilization,Classic Maya collapse, Spanish conquest of Yucatán,Spanishconquest of the Aztec Empire, Spanish colonization of theAmericas, Maya art, Maya architecture, Maya script,Historyof Belize (1502-1862), British Honduras, Guatemalanclaim toBelizean territory, Christopher Columbus ... Read more