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Pure Sea Glass: Discovering Nature's Vanishing Gems

37 reviews
Richard LaMotte, Sally Lamotte Crane

Chesapeake Seaglass Pub., 2004

Pure Sea Glass
This is an absolutely beautiful book. For the coffee table or for the serious sea glass hunter. It is informative yet it is not just a book for adults..............it was a gift for my daughter's 11th birthday as she has showed a great interest in this "hobby". The book was delivered in no time!

Mirage: Florida and the Vanishing Water of the Eastern U.S.

8 reviews
Cynthia Barnett

University of Michigan Press/Regional, 2007

Mirage: Groundbreaking study of U.S. water issues
Perhaps you're like me. You live in a water rich region of the U.S., on top of one of the nation's most productive aquifers and a stone's throw from the Great Lakes -- one of the world's great reservoirs of fresh water. Water scarcity is not your problem, right? Let all those fools moving to Florida, Texas, California and Nevada worry whether FEMA will have to roll into towns during the next ...

The Body and the Blood: The Middle East's Vanishing Christians and the Possibility for Peace

8 reviews
Charles M. Sennott

PublicAffairs, 2002

Excellent and important book on the modern Middle East
_The Body and the Blood_ by Charles M. Sennott is an excellent, important, and timely book, one of the best I have ever read on the modern Middle East. In this work he sought to do three things; one, tour the lands that Jesus visited as chronicled in the New Testament, describing what these locales are like today, two, report the problems of the indigenous Christians of the Middle East, and ...

The Backbone of the World: A Portrait of a Vanishing Way of Life Along the Continental Divide

15 reviews
Frank Clifford

Broadway, 2002

The dark side: insightful and honest
Anyone interested in reading about the glamorized West - artist retreats in Santa Fe, Denver socialites, ski resorts in million-dollar-home settings - will probably be disappointed in this book. Frank Clifford instead takes the reader to isolated outposts where people are just barely surviving: a sheep rancher north of Vail who lives in a ramshackle trailer; one of the last residents of Jeffrey ...

Push Not the River

64 reviews
James Conroyd Martin

St. Martin's Griffin, 2004

An Historical Fiction Treasure!
I found this historical fiction text to be absolutely enthralling! It has not only provided me with hours of enjoyable, page-turning reading, but has also given me great insight into my Polish ancestry and heritage. The strength, spirit, and heart of the Polish people--MY people--is wonderfully portrayed within the pages of this book. I'm so looking forward to receiving Mr. Martin's sequel, ...

Looking for the Lost: Journeys Through a Vanishing Japan

12 reviews
Alan Booth

Kodansha America, 1995

Entertaining, informative, poignant.
Alan Booth followed in the steps (pun intended) of numerous previous travel writers, and was better than most. He had a ready wit and an excellent sense of humor, and bore the hardships of his chosen method of travel well. He also liked to drink, an asset when traveling on foot in Japan. He describes three different walks, each with a distinctive theme. The first follows the trail of ...

Vanishing Act

13 reviews
Art Wolfe

Bulfinch, 2005

Awesome Book
Bought this for a Christmas and everyone wanted to look through it before I gave it away. It is great fun for all ages!!!

Vanishing Seattle (Images of America)

8 reviews
Clark Humphrey

Arcadia Publishing, 2006

Seattle & some famous landmarks that are no more
I own several of these IMAGES OF AMERICA books and I'm never disappointed. This particular (picture) book is about Seattle in the past, and shows photos of some past landmarks that helped to create Seattle. As the book's title stated, this book is about the "Vanishing Seattle", because all the landmarks are no more. If you grew-up in Seattle, as I did, you will love to look through ...

Light at the Edge of the World: A Journey Through the Realm of Vanishing Cultures

9 reviews
Wade Davis

Douglas & McIntyre, 2007

Plants and people
Wade Davis' long career among isolated peoples and cultures has given him an enviable insight. He manages to connect with people at many levels. They are free and open with him, an obvious outsider. Their stories, legends, life modes all come to light under his gentle persuasive powers. In this outstanding account of his travels and his studies, we share much of what he and his mentors have ...

America's Vanishing Landscapes: The Western States

18 reviews
Wayne Williams

Companion Press, 2002

Mind Blowing Photos
It's impossible to capture the grandeur and magnitude of beauty of nature in a photo but Williams comes as close as you can get in this amazing book. The greatest and worst terrorism is the terrorism against the environment. It dwarfs all the other forms. This book may give people the vision that is an antidote.

The Vanishing Word: The Veneration of Visual Imagery in the Postmodern World (Focal Point Series)

7 reviews
Arthur W. Hunt III

Crossway Books, 2003

Stemming the Tide of the Image Culture
Arthur Hunt's "The Vanishing Word" is a helpful and insightful salvo in the battle to preserve the written word in an age enamored with images. Hunt is currently a professor of speech and communications at Geneva College in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania. Although he teaches speech and communications, his real expertise is in the fledgling discipline of Media Ecology. Media Ecology was a field ...

The Case of the Vanishing Fishhook (Hank the Cowdog 31)

6 reviews
John R. Erickson

Puffin, 1999

Unquestionably the best Hank book yet!
I admit it...I am definitely "hooked" on Hank's latest adventure. Here's why: 1) John Erickson gets better with each Hank volume. In each new book in this series, he fine tunes the characters, until they become more and more life-like. Although I enjoy Hank, Pete, Slim, Loper and all the other characters, Drover is my favorite...and in this adventure his true "Droverness" comes shining ...

Mariah of the Spirits: And Other Southern Ghost Stories

5 reviews
Sherry Austin

Overmountain Press, 2002

Great tales of wonder, mystery, and imagination
The reviewer who compared these stories to Rod Serling's Twilight Zone was right on the mark, although I would add that they resemble the BEST of that series. They also bring to mind the classic show "One Step Beyond." Most of the tales are ghost stories, but others are about subjects as varied as tree spirits and angels. Some of the stories have unpredictable, often puzzling, O. Henry endings. ...

Priceless : The Vanishing Beauty of A Fragile Planet

7 reviews
Bradley Trevor Greive, Mitsuaki Iwago

Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2003

A Priceless Reminder
This is a beautifully photographed book and the language that accompanies these images is heartfelt. This is a must have book in every home and classroom.

Vanishing Veil

7 reviews
Marge Cuddeback

Empowering Light, 2001

Vanishing Veil
Vanishing Veil is for anyone with questions about life after death, past lives, karmic connections, spirit guides, and the power of forgiveness. This book leads you through a series of fascinating case studies that will empower you to find your own wisdom in the words.

Vanishing Point: Perspective for Comics from the Ground Up

7 reviews
Jason Cheeseman-Meyer

Impact, 2007

Excellent book on Perspective
I'm an artist by hobby and have read 8 books on perspective but this one is exceptional. It's not just a book for comic artists but a great book for learning perspective. I was surprised when I received it. It covers topics that I have not seen covered in any other perspective book I've read. Such as, curvilinear perspective. It covers 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 point perspective. I never saw any ...

Leavenworth Train: A Fugitive's Search for Justice in the Vanishing West

5 reviews
Joe Jackson

Basic Books, 2002

An Exciting and Thoughtful Tale of Justice Delayed
In 1906, the twenty year old Frank Grigware announced to his family that he was going to see the world. They had been living in eastern Washington for years, and he wanted to see more of the West than Spokane. His mother understood completely; it is not an uncommon occurrence for a young man to want to roam before settling down to respectable ways. He hooked up with his best friend Frank ...

Vanishing Africa: A Photographer's Journey

6 reviews
Gianni Giansanti, Paolo Novaresio

White Star, 2004

Vanishing
The photographs are everything, showing African villagers much as they have lived for the past century. This is not modern Africa, but its last remaining tribal cultures completely tied to the rhythms and livelihood of stoop farming, animal husbandry, and tribal warfare. The people are often beautiful, their adornments alternately colorful and extreme (those lip disks make me wince). At ...

The Vanishing Conscience

7 reviews
John F. MacArthur

W Pub Group, 1994

A Very Great Danger
I believe one of the authors concerns in writing this book was to asess how the Church and individual Christians both view and deal with sin,and then to look at how the maintenance of a good conscience can help the Church of Christ have a greater influence in the world. The author sees one of the Church's weaknesses (not being a lack of effort and involvement in our society)but that the Church ...

Yak Pizza To Go! Travels in an Age of Vanishing Cultures and Extinction

6 reviews
Phil Karber

Athena Pr Pub Co, 2001

Yak Pizza Inspires Haikus
I've just finished Yak Pizza--and how much I was transported from Fort Smith, AR to places I've only dreamed or heard of. Each day I looked forward to that time after dinner when I could grab Yak Pizza, get off by myself, and take trip after trip. Phil Karber did a remarkable job here, finding the right distance from his subject matter--at times letting places and experiences speak for ...

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