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The Guide to Kansas Birds and Birding Hot Spots

By: Bob Gress,Pete Janzen

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The Guide to Kansas Birds and Birding Hot Spots

By: Bob Gress,Pete Janzen

Kansas is a bird-watcher's paradise, with its key location at the hub of the hemisphere's migration corridors and exceptional habitat diversity; 470 avian species have been documented within its borders. From spectacularly beautiful birds like Painted Buntings to elegant migrants like Hudsonian Godwits, birders can find abundant rewards every time they take to the field. The Guide to Kansas Birds and Birding Hot Spots focuses on 295 species that are most likely to be encountered in the state. It helps occasional day-trippers or backyard observers identify and learn about birds that regularly occur in Kansas, with stunning color photos that enable those new to the hobby to identify their discoveries, plus tips on where to search for these species with the greatest likelihood of success. Gress and Janzen have produced an exceptionally well-organized guide that divides birds into 18 groups based on similarity in appearance, habitat, or behavior, following taxonomic order only partially to make identification easier for the beginner. The entry for each bird gives its size, identifying features (including sexual and seasonal distinctions), and where and when it can be found. And each account includes a brilliant color photo of an adult of the species, with additional views of selected birds to illustrate male, female, or juvenile plumages. The authors point out the best birding locations in the state-more than two dozen hot spots of which they have intimate knowledge-that reflect utterly different bird communities thriving only a few hours apart. They also provide a checklist for all state birds, a calendar of Kansas bird activity, and recommendations for binoculars and other field guides.

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University Press of Kansas

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0700615652

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9780700615650

The Confessions of Jeremiah in Context

Scenes of Prophetic Drama

By: A.R. Pete Diamond

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The Confessions of Jeremiah in Context

Scenes of Prophetic Drama

By: A.R. Pete Diamond

The 'Confessions' of Jeremiah have generally been interpreted as isolated poems interspersed among prophetic oracles. This book endeavours to read the Confessions in their present literary context. Diamond argues persuasively that the more the Confessions are isolated from their setting in the book of Jeremiah, the more opaque and indeterminate readings of them become. When they are allowed to function in the context determined for them by the editors of Jeremiah, they promote the editorial valuation of the prophet's mission-Israel's opposition to Jeremiah becomes the ground for a theodicy explaining the national disaster. Restoring the Confessions to their context in the book finally enables the author to demonstrate that chapters 11-20 form an integrated literary complex.

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313

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A&C Black

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0567263673

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9780567263674

Lost Revolutions

The South in the 1950s

By: Pete Daniel

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Lost Revolutions

The South in the 1950s

By: Pete Daniel

This sweeping work of cultural history explores a time of startling turbulence and change in the South, years that have often been dismissed as placid and dull. In the wake of World War II, southerners anticipated a peaceful and prosperous future, but as Pete Daniel demonstrates, the road into the 1950s took some unexpected turns. Daniel chronicles the myriad forces that turned the world southerners had known upside down in the postwar period. In chapters that explore such subjects as the civil rights movement, segregation, and school integration; the breakdown of traditional agriculture and the ensuing rural-urban migration; gay and lesbian life; and the emergence of rock 'n' roll music and stock car racing, as well as the triumph of working-class culture, he reveals that the 1950s South was a place with the potential for revolutionary change. In the end, however, the chance for significant transformation was squandered, Daniel argues. One can only imagine how different southern history might have been if politicians, the press, the clergy, and local leaders had supported democratic reforms that bestowed full citizenship on African Americans--and how little would have been accomplished if a handful of blacks and whites had not taken risks to bring about the changes that did come.

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393

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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ISBN 10

0807898910

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9780807898918

Becoming a Better Programmer

A Handbook for People Who Care About Code

By: Pete Goodliffe

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Becoming a Better Programmer

A Handbook for People Who Care About Code

By: Pete Goodliffe

If you're passionate about programming and want to get better at it, you've come to the right source. Code Craft author Pete Goodliffe presents a collection of useful techniques and approaches to the art and craft of programming that will help boost your career and your well-being. The book's standalone chapters span the range of a software developer's life--dealing with code, learning the trade, and improving performance--with no language or industry bias.

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362

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"O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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ISBN 10

1491905581

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9781491905586

Eerdmans Commentary on the Bible: Jeremiah and Lamentations

By: A. R. Pete Diamond,David J. A. Clines

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Eerdmans Commentary on the Bible: Jeremiah and Lamentations

By: A. R. Pete Diamond,David J. A. Clines

This extract from the Eerdmans Commentary on the Bible provides Diamond and Clines' introduction to and concise commentary on Jeremiah and Lamentations. The Eerdmans Commentary on the Bible presents, in nontechnical language, the best of modern scholarship on each book of the Bible, including the Apocrypha. Reader-friendly commentary complements succinct summaries of each section of the text and will be valuable to scholars, students, and general readers. Rather than attempt a verse-by-verse analysis, these volumes work from larger sense units, highlighting the place of each passage within the overarching biblical story. Commentators focus on the genre of each text—parable, prophetic oracle, legal code, and so on—interpreting within the historical and literary context. The volumes also address major issues within each biblical book—including the range of possible interpretations—and refer readers to the best resources for further discussions.

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1672

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Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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1467453811

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9781467453813

Uneven Lies

The Heroic Story of African-Americans in Golf

By: Pete McDaniel

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Uneven Lies

The Heroic Story of African-Americans in Golf

By: Pete McDaniel

A fast-moving heart-warming narrative on the history of African-Americans in golf. Beginning with the 1896 U.S. Open where blacks first played in national competition, to the invention of the golf tee by an African-American dentist in 1899, to the early clubs and facilities open to people of color, to the service roles that served as an introduction to the game. And much, much more.

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172

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American Golfer

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1888531371

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9781888531374

Bury Me in a Pot Bunker

By: Pete Dye,Mark Shaw

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Bury Me in a Pot Bunker

By: Pete Dye,Mark Shaw

Dye, the famed golf course architect, offers vivid insight into how he designed his most celebrated courses and reveals anecdotes about some of the world's greatest golfers. 8-page photo insert.

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284

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McGraw-Hill

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0809226812

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9780809226818

The Guide to Kansas Birds and Birding Hot Spots

By: Bob Gress,Pete Janzen

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By: Bob Gress,Pete Janzen

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University Press of Kansas

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Book's by Pete Janzen

The Guide to Kansas Birds and Birding Hot Spots

The Guide to Kansas Birds and Birding Hot Spots

The Confessions of Jeremiah in Context

The Confessions of Jeremiah in Context

Lost Revolutions

Lost Revolutions

Becoming a Better Programmer

Becoming a Better Programmer

Eerdmans Commentary on the Bible: Jeremiah and Lamentations

Eerdmans Commentary on the Bible: Jeremiah and Lamentations

Uneven Lies

Uneven Lies

Bury Me in a Pot Bunker

Bury Me in a Pot Bunker

The Guide to Kansas Birds and Birding Hot Spots

The Guide to Kansas Birds and Birding Hot Spots

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