books about: environment     books:       Illustrator CS3 for Windows and Macintosh (Visual QuickStart Guide)4 reviews Elaine Weinmann, Peter Lourekas Peachpit Press, 2007 Perfect step-by-step guide for learning Illustrator CS3 This manual provides someone just getting started using Illustrator with clear explanations for each menu option, tool, and function, along with step-by-step instructions on how to use them. All the other manuals inevitably assume that the reader is familiar with earlier versions of Illustrator and take too much for granted. The tool-by-tool organization and step-by-step instructions of this ...             Silent Spring134 reviews Rachel Carson Mariner Books, 2002 Excellent! The book was delivered in good condition and in a timely fashion. I am very pleased with your services.             The Appeal431 reviews John Grisham Doubleday, 2008 The Appeal Very good read. True to Grishom his material is timely, well researched and imaginative in his depiction of how big business can organize to fuel and fund its political and economic agendas. It concludes with both a twist and a moral statement on the power and corruption that continnues to dominate politics in our society.             Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America24 reviews Thomas L. Friedman Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008 Energy Technology is the Muscle of the 21st Century This is a book that American's should read and think seriously about. This is what I took away after reading this book. 1. Energy is the Muscle of the 21st Century. 2. The nation that independently harbors and uses energy more efficiently will have the "greatest army" to protect itself. 3. Forget the Global Warming debate for a minute and look at ENERGY itself. The demand for ...             Cocoa(R) Programming for Mac(R) OS X (3rd Edition)125 reviews Aaron Hillegass Addison-Wesley Professional, 2008 A must have. This book is excellent. The explanations are short and very clear. The author makes cocoa really easy to learn, step by step. There are good and instructive exercices he calls challenges. You can really get to work right after reading this book and completing the so called challenges. And it will certainly be a handy reference book. A must have.             Photoshop CS3 for Windows and Macintosh (Visual QuickStart Guide)10 reviews Elaine Weinmann, Peter Lourekas Peachpit Press, 2007 Great resource! I am learning photoshop for the first time and this book has help me tremendously in my class. It is worth the purchase.             The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl181 reviews Timothy Egan Mariner Books, 2006 The American dust bowl and the grit and gumption of those who will never forget Subtitled "The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl", this 2006 non-fiction account of this American tragedy is historical writing at its best. The author is a Pulitizer Prize winning reporter for the New York Times. I loved his simple but powerful writing style which had a touch of literary description that kept me fascinated throughout its 312 pages. Once upon ...             Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder80 reviews Richard Louv Algonquin Books, 2008 Parents NEED this, take it from a forest kid I'm young enough that I still get called "kid" by my friends' parents, and when I saw the cover of this book in the store, with the kid holding a frog, I instantly felt like this book was about someone just like me. When I started reading, I felt so even more. I've lived in forests and next to creeks all my life, but today, I look around at my friends and I see that most of my generation ...             Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit864 reviews Daniel Quinn Bantam, 1995 Ishmael: An Adventure Of The Mind And Spirit Ishmael by Daniel Quinn ***** Ishmael is a stunning narrative on the way things came to be. A story of awareness and philosophy; the way things are and the way things could be. A wonderfully heart-warming, and heart-wrenching tale of acceptance and tolerance. Ishmael is a Gorilla, who can communicate with humans. Those who want to communicate with him anyway. Sounds a but Peter Pan I know ...             Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things146 reviews William McDonough, Michael Braungart North Point Press, 2002 PERFECT! This book was in perfect condition when I received it and the really cool thing about it is that its WATERPROOF which means you can read it pretty much anywhere-in the shower, underwater, at the beach or even in a fish tank! The book gives you scary insight on how we are destroying our earth and killing ourselves slowly and simultaneously!!!             Enhancing Professional Practice: A Framework for Teaching8 reviews Charlotte Danielson Association for Supervision & Curriculum Deve, 2007 Solid all-around guidance and structure tool. Now in a revised and updated second edition, Enhancing Professional Practice: A Framework for Teaching presents a framework for K-12 educators that is based on Praxis III: Classroom Performance Assessment criteria as developed by Educational Testing Service, compatible with INTASC standards. Chapters cover the four domains of teaching responsibility (planning & preparation, the classroom ...             Understanding Human Behavior and the Social Environment1 review Charles Zastrow, Karen K. Kirst-Ashman Brooks Cole, 2006 Promoting a Political Agenda This text exposes a political agenda citing "facts" without supporting evidence. Too many examples exist to enumerate but as an example p 206 states that the Justice system in America is an oxymoron since African Americans represent 12% of the population and comprise 50% of the incarcerated population. If this is due to a racist justice system the text certainly does not expose the underlying ...             Windows Vista For Dummies32 reviews Andy Rathbone For Dummies, 2006 Vistafordummy It was a very good purchase. I order it for my mother in law who knows nothing about a computer.It's helped her out alot.             Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization, Third Edition22 reviews Lester R. Brown W. W. Norton, 2008 Deeply Insightful but Very Readable This is one of the finest books to summarize in layman's terms both the problems and solutions to our unsustainable, industrialized economy. What distinguishes Lester Brown form other authors on the topic of sustainability is the ease of readability of his books. That definitely cannot be said about other, overly laborious works that mostly appeal to policy makers or academia. Version 3.0 ...             Flash CS3 Professional for Windows and Macintosh (Visual QuickStart Guide)6 reviews Katherine Ulrich Peachpit Press, 2007 Great guide on Adobe Flash This is a great guide that will give you step by step instructions on how to use Adobe Flash CS3 professional. You'll learn how to make Flash animations to add great multimedia to your websites or just games for local use.             Green for Life117 reviews Victoria Boutenko Raw Family Publishing, 2005 A Great Way to Transition For years, I have had the "knowledge" in regards to eating more raw healthy foods, but cravings have gotten in the way of the type of success I've dreamed of. Victoria changed my perspective by showing we can focus our concentration on good health by drinking delicious green smoothies. The cravings are fading faster than I could have imagined. IN addition, I turned my neighbor on to this book. ...             The Lorax (Classic Seuss)127 reviews Dr. Seuss, Theodor Seuss Geisel Random House Books for Young Readers, 1971 Young kids will enjoy the story, older kids will enjoy the message If you're suspicious of the book's theme, trust that neither of my sons, now ages 5 and 4, rise up out of the beds and declare war against American industry after a bedtime reading. They like the Barbaloots. They like the mossy voice I give the Lorax. The message I share with them is not to waste natural resources. There's nothing wrong with cutting down a tree (it makes great books!) but ...             InDesign CS3 for Macintosh and Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)6 reviews Sandee Cohen Peachpit Press, 2007 Recommended Noob Book With zero experience with layout programs, this book did a very credible job of walking me through and making me not only knowledgable, but competent. A couple of spots in the book I thought could have been better arranged...different order of teaching, but that is really a minor detail. A number of software books just take you through the keyboard strokes without detailed explanations of the ...             Gorgeously Green: 8 Simple Steps to an Earth-Friendly Life54 reviews Sophie Uliano Collins Living, 2008 most very helpfull book I loooove this book it has so many info web sites I just can't get tired of it keep going back to it             Colleges That Change Lives: 40 Schools That Will Change the Way You Think About Colleges33 reviews Loren Pope Penguin (Non-Classics), 2006 An Eye-Opening Book I will always be grateful that someone recommended Loren Pope's book to me when my daughter was a high school sophomore. The book made such an impact on me that I remember where I was when I was reading it. (A soccer tournament in Lancaster, CA.) The book opened up an entirely new world for me because I had previously assumed that universities were superior to any pint-sized alternatives. It had ...              search for books adventure, american, behavior, children, civilization, classic, colleges, disorder, dummies, earth-friendly, enhancing, environment, framework, friendly, gorgeously, illustrator, indesign, macintosh, mobilizing, nature-deficit, photoshop, practice, professional, programming, quickstart, remaking, revolution, survived, teaching, understanding books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen VHS: Lincoln Assassination (2pc) home  impressum - about us