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Conservation Medicine: Ecological Health in Practice
Carol House, Mary C. Pearl

Oxford University Press, USA, 2002

Conservation medicine is an emerging discipline, focussing on the intersection of ecosystem health, animal health, and human health. Work in the biomedical and veterinary sciences is now being folded into conservation biology; to explore the connections between animal and human health; trace the environmental sources of pathogens and pollutants; develop an understanding of the ecological causes of changes in human and animal health; and ...

House Beautiful Kitchens

1 review
Carol Sama Sheehan, Editors of House Beautiful

Hearst, 2001

Kitchens for dummies
I was decieved with this book. First with the text. It describes the obvious. Second, with the pictures. Too much style in questionable taste. The book is not beautiful enough to become a coffee table book and is not practical enough to serve as a reference book. The photos look antiseptic, lifeless and are not very attractive. Altough the intention to make "the house livable" is mentioned in ...

Elmo's ABC Book (Pictureback(R))

6 reviews
Random House

Random House Books for Young Readers, 2001

so fun
I love the simple read of this book, and my nephew loves the pictures and the song Elmo sings. We read this two or three times!

The Baker Bible Handbook for Kids

2 reviews
Terry Jean Day, Carol J. Smith, ...

Baker Book House, 1998

THE BAKER BIBLE HANDBOOK FOR KIDS
A WONDERFUL BOOK, I COULD NOT PUT IT DOWN AND I AM FAR FROM THE AGE OF A KID. THIS BOOK WOULD BE PERFECT HELPING OUR YOUNG ONE UNDERSTAND THE BIBLE. IT GOES THROUGH EACH BOOK, TELLS WHAT TO WATCH FOR, WHAT THE PURPOSE OF EACH BOOK OF THE BIBLE WAS WRITTEN' FOR, POINTS OUT THE IMPORTANCE OF EACH PERSON. IT IS JUST THE BEST BOOK YOU COULD GET FOR OUR YOUNG ONES.I WISH I HAD THIS WHEN I TAUGHT ...

Divided Affections The Extraordinary Life of Maria Cosway: Celebrity Artist and Thomas Jefferson's Impossible ...
Carol Burnell

Column House, 2008

Maria Hadfield Cosway was a beautiful and talented English artist, who accompanied her husband, the miniature portrait painter, Richard Cosway, to Paris, in 1786, where she was introduced to Thomas Jefferson, then American Envoy to the Court of Versailles. The future President of the United States fell in love with the young Mrs. Cosway the day they met. Their impossible love was immortalized in Jefferson's 4500 word letter, a Dialogue between ...

Eyes of the Calusa

2 reviews
Holly Moulder

White Pelican Press, 2007

Though fictional, Eyes of the Calusa is firmly grounded in history, and highly recommended.
Set at the beginning of the eighteenth century, Eyes of the Calusa is a chapter book for young adults about Mara, a young girl of Florida's native Calusa Indians, who is kidnapped by pirates and sold into slavery amid the lowlands of South Carolina. Her gift of ancient power from her Calusa ancestors enable her to calm a potentially deadly ocean storm, and she learns secrets about the infamous ...

Bahrain (Modern World Nations)
Carol Ann Gillespie

Chelsea House Publications, 2002

- Information-packed volumes provide comprehensive overviews of each nation's people, geography, history, government, economy, and culture- Abundant full-color illustrations guide the reader on a voyage of discovery- Maps reflect current political boundaries