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Few other states in our union have the magnificent topography of the Centennial State.This unique Colorado landscape is beautifully represented in the illustrations of Helle Urban, an the rhyming verse and expository text of Louise Whitney defines those images and expands our understanding of the Rockies, Blue Spruces, Springs, and Yucca plants that paint this land."C is for Centennial" entertains as it educates and its mult-tiered format makes it accessible for readers of all ages and at all elevations. ... Read more

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A Great Book about Colorado!
"C is for Centennial" by Colorado native Louise Whitney is a wonderful and informative book about the beautiful state of Colorado-written in the alphabetical letter format. This delightful book celebrates Colorado's 100 plus years of statehood with rhymes and facts about selected Coloradoans, historical landmarks, natural resources, and even the state song. The text is creatively and well written, the corresponding illustrations are well chosen, complementary, and beautifully done, and the entire book is a treasure to read. Each new alphabetical letter that is introduced is so interesting that you want to immediately turn to the next page to see what the following letter represents!

Many of the well-known sites (especially to visitors of the state) are represented, such as Mesa Verde, Garden of the Gods, Pikes Peak, Four Corners, and the Royal Gorge. But you will be surprised by the numerous additional facts about Colorado that you didn't know about such as herbal teas, the poetess who wrote "America the Beautiful", rodeos, the Pony Express, and even bicycles! Bravo to Louise Whitney for her authorship and extensive knowledge and to Helle Urban for her lovely and life-like illustrations throughout the book and the cover. You can really see in reading Whitney's creative work that she holds Colorado close to her heart.

This book is not only for children of all ages; adults will also enjoy the illustrations and facts about Colorado. It is a real treat to sit back and read about a state well traveled and loved by many. "C is for Centennial" is a splendid book that needs to be in homes and on the shelves of school and community libraries. It will prove to be a valuable resource book for students who may be assigned the task of writing a state report in their classrooms.

Beautiful Book about Beautiful Colorado
This book is just wonderful.I lovedreading it and enjoyed the illustrations.The illustrator got the feel of Colorado just right.Younger children will love the rhyming couplets, and will try to memorize them on the spot.Middle school children will find the sidebar texts interesting and full of fun facts about Colorado. As a Colorado resident, I especially enjoyed discovering the places and people the author featured.As an educator I feel this book would be a great addition to children's non-fiction collections at home and school and will appeal to kids ages 5-14. ... Read more

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Chronicling the extraordinary transformation of Colorado from the frontier era of gold mining and pioneer sodbusting to contemporary ski resorts and sprawling suburbs, William Wyckoff brings a historical geographer`s unique perspective to this state`s history and meaning. Colorado has created a new human geography, Wyckoff shows in this important analysis of Colorado`s formative years. ... Read more

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This book is an adventure story that pulls in the reader.Four kids and a TV talk show host are stuck in a runaway hot air balloon and as they travel around the state, readers try to figure out where they are based on the geographical features glimpsed from above and clues from the characters' conversations.Students get one point for every correct answer.Excellent for a classroom game, school-wide competition or individual reading.This is a great geography skill-builder + encourages research, map reading and more.Free teacher's guide gives specific suggestions and instructions on how to get max educational value from this book.Put this title high on your list! ... Read more

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Put kids on the road to discovery with the series that brings the United States to life, state by exciting state. It's all here - the history and geography, the people and culture, plus colorful photos, entertaining extras, easy recipes, and so much more. For an armchair tour of the U.S., from sea to shining sea, nothing beats these marvelous books - except maybe a tour guide! ... Read more

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The best book I've ever read!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
I especially like the watermelon pictures

Wonderful historical photographs and landscape history
This book includes many, many wonderful historical photographs of Colorado landscape.The authors describe it as "a work of landscape history, landscape understanding, and landscape appreciation."I have no background in landscape history but found this book easily accessible, finely written, and stimulating.I live in Colorado, and this book inspired me to spend more time getting to know this state -- and helped me to see the landscape around me in new ways ... Read more

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The tropical forest of Panama's Barro Colorado Island is a luxuriant community of plants and animals, pulsating with life and offering an astonishing view of nature's myriad processes. What does the forest look like? How do the activities of this forest's plants and animals create a community? Now, in A Magic Web, photographer Christian Ziegler and ecologist Egbert Leigh invite readers to enter the marvelous world of Barro Colorado Island. This book provides a unique combination of the spectacular photography of a picture-book and clear, authoritative text written by an active scientist who has spent half a lifetime trying to understand tropical forests. The photographs provide views of the forest and its spectacular diversity of inhabitants, and show many of the activities that give the forest its character and lend structure to its community. Drawing on decades of work on Barro Colorado Island, Egbert Leigh explains how the forest works. The photographs and text reveal the many ways its plants and animals compete with but also depend on each other: the contrasts between solitary cats and intricately organized armies of ants; the different ways plants struggle for a place in the sun, and the ways these plants attract, or domesticate, animals to pollinate their flowers. Finally, the authors show why this, and by implication all other, tropical forests matter to the people who live near them and to the world at large, what we can learn from these forests, and how they differ from temperate-zone forests.Full of gorgeous full-color photographs accompanied by clear and accessible text, A Magic Web is a must for anyone planning to visit a tropical forest, and for all those who only wish they could. ... Read more

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Six Stars would be Better
The pictures are really extrodinaryand the text is very readable and understandable. I don't tire of looking at the photos over and over. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from The Geographical Review, published by American Geographical Society on April 1, 2002. The length of the article is 4103 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.

From the author: Keywords: alpine, bighorn sheep, biogeochemistry shift, climate change, nitrogen, water acidification.

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Title: Alpine areas in the Colorado Front Range as monitors of climate change and ecosystem response *.
Author: Mark W. Williams
Publication: The Geographical Review (Refereed)
Date: April 1, 2002
Publisher: American Geographical Society
Volume: 92Issue: 2Page: 180(12)

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This digital document is an article from The Geographical Review, published by American Geographical Society on October 1, 2002. The length of the article is 849 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: Virtual Rivers: Lessons from the Mountain Rivers of the Colorado Front Range.(Book Review) (book review)
Author: William Wyckoff
Publication: The Geographical Review (Refereed)
Date: October 1, 2002
Publisher: American Geographical Society
Volume: 92Issue: 4Page: 614(2)

Article Type: Book Review

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Describes the course of the Colorado River, its impact on the land through which it flows and on the people living nearby, dams and canals used to harness the river's water, and controversies surrounding its use. ... Read more

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Surveys the people, geography, and history of the Centennial State. ... Read more

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Traces the source of the Colorado River in the Never Summer Range of the Rocky Mountains and describes the natural and human history along the river as it journeys toward the waters of the Gulf of California. ... Read more

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Colorado’s Sangre de Cristo Mountains draws on the latest scientific findings to show that the battered, beautiful Sangres need us as much as we need them. Focusing on forest ecology, environmental writer Tom Wolf shows how fire, insects, disease, humans, and other disturbances have formed the magnificent, diverse forests we know today. ... Read more

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Great off-the-beaten path scholarship.
If there is a major error in Tom Wolf's deeply researched work on the Sangre de Cristo mountains, it must be the chronic overestimation of human potential. He makes a case for a new sort of "management" of themountain range, one that places control among locals. However, havingevolved over millions of years without human assistance into marvelousthings, mountain don't need management.

Perhaps what Wolf intends is tobetter manage the people who come to the mountains. That is a worthy goal,as long as the people to be managed are wielding destructive devices suchas cars or chain saws. But if he means, as I think he does, that everybodywho wants to take a walk in the mountains should pay five or ten dollars in"user fees", then I oppose him enthusiastically.

Such a courseseems to me to be needlessly commercial, taxing and selling activitieswhich are as basic and essential as breathing. He has doubts aboutwilderness status for the Sangres, because of the lack of revenue fromso-designated land. But what is this foregone revenue to have been puttoward? Management, in a word. He wants to take the levers of control outof the hands of what he calls the Iron Triangle (politicians, specialinterests, bureaucrats), and place them into the hands of a trust composedof local ranchers, community activists, forest rangers, shampoo tycoons,biologists, economists...some sort of Iron Polyhedron. This body would actsensibly when a crisis such as insect or disease epidemic arose. One canassume there would be controlled burns, controlled wood cutting (goingunder the euphemism "harvest"), controlled hunting (going underthe euphemism "harvest"), and controlled entry into thecontrolled wilderness area.

Now, I have nothing against hunting orlumbering or even wildfires. All are necessary or desirable in their time.But the notion of the sand dunes being ruined because of increased hikers,or of valleys being inundated in a sea of elk droppings, or of forestsbeing denuded by out-of-control herds of deer are far fetched. Similarly,Wolf's assertion that at the end of the last Ice Age, primitive hunters,without the use of guns or horses or sport utility vehicles, indeed withoutanything but "new flint technology", were able to drive intoextinction 32 genera of post-Ice Age mammals strains credibility. Just aswe should cast a jaundiced eye on any of society's plans to"save" nature, we also should guard against giving mankind toomuch of the blame for the ebb and flow of natural cycles.

Wildernessstatus for the highest reaches of the range simply protects it from theexploitation of the sort Wolf detail. If one can take any lesson from hisaccount of the various follies visited on the range, it is that no plan canbenefit the mountains as much as leaving them alone. And yes, I considerhordes of recreational users who are not shooting anything or cuttinganything to be leaving the mountains alone. Crowds of people, if they everdo materialize in the roadless areas, will be as benign a presence as aherd of buffalo. And I'll gladly take 20 random flyovers by jet fighters inplace of every No Trespassing sign put up by the so-called "Ranch forWildlife" crowd. The former are thrilling and harmless, the latteroppressive.

One must take the hat off to Wolf for his monumental effort,however. Who would have thought so much could be written about a backwater,and that it could be linked in so many ways to the mainstream? A greatereffort should have been made in the way of editing so as to correctmistakes such as on p.80, where he states "The Sangres stretch fromthe 42nd to the 41st parallel." These coordinates would put them inWyoming, giving the lie to the title's claim that they are Colorado's.Also, on p.265 Steve McNichols is mistakenly named as the governor ofColorado in 1975. Dick Lamm was governor at that time. But these aretrifling errors... ... Read more

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Chapters: Mountain Peaks of Colorado. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 60. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The geography of Malaysia deals with the physical and human geography of Malaysia, a country located in Southeast Asia. There are two distinct parts to this country being Peninsular Malaysia to the west and East Malaysia to the east. Peninsular Malaysia is located south of Thailand, north of Singapore and east of the Indonesian island of Sumatra. East Malaysia is located on the island of Borneo and shares borders with Brunei and Indonesia. Located near the equator, Malaysia's climate is categorised as equatorial, being hot and humid throughout the year. Annual rainfall exceeds 2000mm a year and the average temperature is 27 °C (80.6 °F). Malaysia faces two monsoon winds seasons the Southwest Monsoon from late May to September, and the Northeast Monsoon from November to March. The Northeast Monsoon brings in more rainfall compared to the Southwest Monsoon. The highest temperature was recorded at Chuping, Perlis on 9 April 1998 at 40.1 °C (104.2 °F). The lowest temperature was recorded at Cameron Highlands on 1 February 1978 at 7.8 °C (46.0 °F). The highest rainfall recorded in a day was 608 mm (23.9 in) in Kota Bharu, Kelantan on 6 January 1967. The highest rainfall recorded in a year was 5,687 mm (223.9 in) at Sandakan, Sabah in 2006. Meanwhile, the lowest rainfall recorded in a year was 1,151 mm (45.3 in) at Tawau, Sabah in 1997. The wettest place in Malaysia is Kuching, Sarawak with an average rainfall of 4,128 mm (162.5 in) with 247 days of rain a year. The driest place in Malaysia is in Chuping, Perlis with average rainfall of only 1,746 mm (68.7 in) a year. Mount Kinabalu, the highest point of Malaysia, is located in Sabah.The total land area of Malaysia is 329,847 km², t...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=56706 ... Read more