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Hitler's Mountain Troops
This book gives a very detailed account of the German Army's Mountain Troops during the 2nd World War. Although well researched and very detailed the books lacks a certain amount of excitement that one would normallyassociate with a title such as this.

In addition topics such as selectioncriteria and training are not well covered which for a book on specialforces is a bit disappointing. ... Read more

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Sassy the Amazing Fire Fighting Rescue Dog - Episode 3 ... Read more

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In this episode the entire city's firefighting stations are put on a massive alert when the call comes in that there is a dangerously out of control forest fire and it's headed towards the town where she is from.

Working in teams, each station sends out several units to help battle what is causing the huge smoke clouds as far as a bystander in the township could see. It goes from bad to worse when flames have a shift in the wind and surround Station 248's crews as they tried to fight the blaze.

The chief of the fire fighting was personally looking after Sassy while he watched in terrible sadness as 248's team was quickly was running out of hope. There was so little he could do as he had all helicopters busy pulling out trapped teams already.

And seeing the dilemma, Sassy goes to work to figure out a plan to get them out. Will she rescue her own team in time is the adventurous question? It seems like it's going to be up to her again!

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Sassy the Amazing Fire Fighting Rescue Dog - Episode 3: River Rescue ... Read more

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Flip the pages and watch your Pokémon evolve!

Collect all 8 EVOLVERS:

• Grass
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• Psychic
• Rock
• Ghost
• Fire
• Fighting
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Macho Pokémon^_^
I just love this book!!
Fighting Pokemon are so cuuuuuuuuute!!!!!!! ... Read more

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The bombardier beetle blasts boiling hot toxic chemicals out its backside, and the polar bear can take out prey three times its size with one swipe of its paw! But neither the beetle nor the polar bear comes in at number one in this countdown. Find out who does, and how human pugilists compare to the planet's most extreme aggressors. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), published by Thomson Gale on November 29, 2006. The length of the article is 642 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. 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.

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Title: E-board grants: Fighting crime or serving pork?(Legislature)(Funding under consideration would go to districts served by board members)
Author: Gale Reference Team
Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) (Newspaper)
Date: November 29, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
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Mixed feelings
The book did not offer any information in the way of betta care, which makes it a poor resource for the general fish owner.However, it is a valuable resource for people wishing to breed Bettas as it contains extensive information on this topic.Personally, I enjoyed reading the historical background surrounding Betta breeding and evolution. This is truly a remarkable species of fish, and the author brought this out nicely. In addition, the photographs were better than any I have seen and the text was well composed.

However, like some other readers, I had a big problem with the information presented on Betta fighting.I know that the text is dated, written for a different era of betta owners (in the 1980s maybe?).Regardless, it was disturbing that such a practice would be discussed with such overt enthusiasm.

Basic information about bettas with nice pictures
This book offers basic information to starting hobbyists about the physiology, care, maintenance and breeding of the Betta splendens species, as well as the rearing of fry.The chapter on show standards and betta competitions has very nice pictures, including the albino strain that was successfully bred in Japan by Tanaka in 1994.

Not Very Informative
For anyone looking to find a detailed resource on the care of betta splendens, this book is not for you. A great deal of space in this book is devoted to the history of the fish, how they fight with other males (there are even explicit pictures of this process, which I was certainly not interested in seeing), and how to breed them. The sections covering their care are woefully lacking - the page on diseases merely lists the ailments and then offers a recommendation for another book in which to find more information. The tone of this book also stunned me - it is apparent that the author thinks of these fish as a source of income rather than as pets. Mention is made of fish that are not "exciting or saleable," and how sub-standard hatchlings should be culled or disposed of. I was quite offended by this - even the most dully-colored betta could find a happy home somewhere! The only reason I'm giving this book one star at all is because there are a lot of beautiful photos inside. It looks more like a picture book than anything else, actually. Very disappointing.

Pretty Good
I thought this book was pretty good. It showed you a lot of good pictures of the betta fish and it was very helpful in the history of betta fish, but some of the stuff that i was looking for in it, wasn't there, it just had a lot of pictures, and the history of bettas, it took up like 7 pages on the history where as they only did 3 sentences on how to take care of them!! if you are just looking for cool and good pictures of betta fish then you should buy this book, but if you are looking for information on betta fish then maybe you should look for a differnt boook, it was a great book, just not what i was looking for. I love betta fish and i think they are the cooles fish ever!

Leaves something to be desired.
After I rescued 2 beta fish from very poor conditions, I needed some really good information on their care. I did not find it in this book. It has a couple paragraphs about diseases, absolutely no charts or diagrams for biology or anything, and while the pictures were really beautiful, they had nothing to do with the topic on the same pages. There is a lot about how to have beta fights, and speaks of it in a very condoning tone! This is quite cruel and inhumane. There is I grant you some decent very basic info that you could glean off the internet yourself in an hour or two. ... Read more

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Weekly Reader Seal of Approval
Springboards into science series.Teaches 4-8 yr olds a Bettas' cycle of development and growth.Photos are vibrant, full-color and close-up.Text is straight-forward and easy-to-read. Male bettas fight to the death to protect their territory and build bubble nests to protect their young.They are beautiful and an excellent low maintenance family pet. ... Read more