Review:It's an excellent source of information that's easy to use. We carry it with us whenever we're out in nature. I plan now to buy one for Wisconsin and New York as well to give to family members living in those states. Read more

Review:Pros: Bigger format, bigger pictures, arrows pointing to major identification characteristics, some subspecies and color variations.
Cons: Some pages too crawded, so it is not obvious which name/description goes to which picture (that might be a problem for a begginer), different order of groups (book starts with geese, most other guides start with loons), few pictures not very accurate (bill shape on some warblers). Read more

Review:I really enjoyed this book, It could use more examples, but all in all the problems in the chapter are more than enough! Definitely pick up a solution manual and you should be able to master diff eqs!!!!!!!!!!! Read more

Review:I am a qualified Nutritionist and Naturopath and I appreciate reading books that are rich in meaningful information. I bought this book because I had increasingly noted that the concerns we have about table salt are unfounded. So I decided to do some research. To get a good handle on salt, I needed to go back in time (hence this book) to understand the use of salt throughout history, and then relate that to more recent studies that were conducted.

There were as many studies claiming salt... Read more

Review:This came in great shape. I will be honest though, my reading load has been heavy and I haven't got to this book yet. I did however read their other book, and know they are great dog trainers. I suggest this book to anyone try to train their dog. Also look into other books about the monks of new skete's german shepards. Read more

Review:I just finished reading Jeffrey Pfeffer's POWER and tomorrow it will become required reading for all my MBA students. Pfeffer has spent his career researching and writing about power and this is his best work yet. You don't have to be an academic to understand, appreciate and use what Pfeffer has learned about power, but, if you are an academic, you will appreciate how he has backed up all his advice with good data. Anyone planning a career in management needs to understand power--how to get ... Read more

Review:Who could have predicted that a young Michael Pollan writing about gardening would become a leading advocate for responsible agriculture and one of the country's biggest-selling writers? Just about anyone who read him then, is my guess. Pollan shows in this gem of a book what a terrific and layered writer he is.

For all the fantastic writing, the book, however, is uneven. Many of the chapters were published as magazine articles before the book came out, and it shows. The organization of t... Read more

Review:Years ago I bought Wild Fermentation and I loved Sandor's accessible approach to fermentation. He really does take the fear out of fermentation. Even though I had been fermenting for well over two decades I was inspired to ferment a wider variety of foods. The Art of Fermentation has inspired me to continue experimenting in the kitchen. And as Sandor points out fermentation is closely tied to the grassroots food movement. I am certain that this book will inspire many others to not only ferment b... Read more

Review:I found this to be an extremely informative and eye opening book, one that I had a hard time putting down. I have read Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible and to be honest, wasn't all that impressed. Therefore, it was with some hesitation that I reached out to this book. This book is an excellent read for anyone who is interested in gardening, eating healthy, or just being more aware about where you food comes from. I disagree with other readers who thought that Kingsolver was pretentious in t... Read more

Review:Dan Barber brings practical economics to a future where agriculture more closely resembles the natural environment form which it sprang. He asks, "what conditions would need to be present to radically change how we produce what we eat?" It is the fundamental question of our future. Read more