The catalog for Folkraft Records lists over 700 records (7",
45 rpm) for folk dances from all over the world. Margin notes tell you what each dance is; for example, D’Hammerschmiedsgselln is a Bavarian mixer for two couples or four men, while Szatmari Karikaza is a Hungarian circle dance for women. You get the
idea . . .
Each record is mailed out with accompanying instructions for the dance or dances on it. The Folkraft label also has records for square and contra dances, rhythm studies, and exercise and fitness music. Dance Record Distributors, Ltd., can obtain the recordings of every other record company worldwide for teachers and libraries.
— Denise Partida
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##T Folkraft Records
Folkraft Records
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$3-$4.50
Catalog free from:
Dance Records Distributors
P. O. Box 102
Florham Park, NJ
07932-0102
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##T How Can I Help?
How Can I Help?
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Ram Dass and Paul Gorman approach charitable service as a liberation from the prison of self and separateness, and as a solution to the inarticulate loneliness we feel when we lack a connection to others. The anecdotes are the best part here, and the reader wants more of them. Between people’s stories, the authors narrate simple psychology directed to the helping professions.
— Sallie Tisdale
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##A 01 121641 6
##T How Can I Help?
How Can I Help?
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(Stories and Reflections on Service)
Ram Dass and Paul Gorman
1985; 243 pp.
ISBN 0394729471
$6.95 ($7.95 postpaid)
from:
Random House
400 Hahn Road
Westminster, MD 21157
800-638-6460
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##A 03 142324 5
##T Victorinox SwissChamp®
Victorinox SwissChamp®
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The famous maker of the Swiss Army knives, Victorinox, has given me two golden opportunities at once. I have acquired the ultimate portable toolbox, the new SwissChamp knife, and can become the best-loved uncle of the year by giving away my old Champion model to my 12-year-old nephew.
What does the SwissChamp offer that the Champion doesn’t? Well, pliers combined with a wirecutter (finally), a clever miniature screwdriver that stores inside the corkscrew, a small wood chisel, an extra-small screwdriver, and a high-pressure ball-point pen which stores alongside the toothpick. The chisel means a lot to me, but the pliers made the decision to buy inevitable. This is, however, no longer a pocketknife. Its weight and bulk will wear
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##A 03 142740 7
##T Victorinox SwissChamp®
Victorinox SwissChamp®
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Catalog free from:
Victorinox
151 Long Hill Cross Roads
P.O. Box 846
Shelton, CT 06484-0931
800-243-4032
203-929-6391 CT
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##A 04 236197 5
##T Stretching
Stretching
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A lot of athletes—pro and amateur—are getting into mixing
“hard” sports (football, swimming, running) with “soft” ones
(yoga, stretching, T’ai Chi). P.E. teacher Bob Anderson teaches stretching clinics for professional and college athletic teams. His straight-forward book is a fine introduction to combining tension exercises with relaxation exercises, as U.S. sales of over 400,000 attest. It includes special stretching routines for use before, during, and after running, swimming, cycling, football, tennis, basketball, etc. I’ve been doing his stretching routines before and after running. It makes quite a difference.
— Tom Ferguson, M.D.
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##A 04 236306 6
##T Stretching
Stretching
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Bob Anderson
1980; 192 pp.
ISBN 0394738748
$9.95 ($11.45 postpaid)
from:
Home Book Service
P. O. Box 650
Bolinas, CA 94924
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##A 05 136674 5
##T COUNTRY STORE CATALOGS
COUNTRY STORE CATALOGS
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Like the Amish community it serves, Lehman’s is gentle, bucolic, and competent. Not a trace of tourist-fake-nostalgia in the farm-kitchen gear: gas refrigerators, wood cookstoves, and 50-gallon iron “cannibal” cauldrons. You can still get real Flexible Flyer sleds here! Cumberland General Store has similar country stuff, plus a wonderful selection of horse drawn buggies and wagons. The Vermont Country Store specializes in old-style cotton clothes and household goodies. They still make ’em like they used to.
— J. Baldwin
Ÿ Community Playthings
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##A 05 136950 6
##T COUNTRY STORE CATALOGS
COUNTRY STORE CATALOGS
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Cumberland General Store
Catalog $3.75 from:
Cumberland General Store
Route 3
Crossville, TN 38555
800-334-4640
615-484-8481 (TN)
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##A 05 7650 7
##T COUNTRY STORE CATALOGS
COUNTRY STORE CATALOGS
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Lehman’s
Catalog $2 from:
Lehman Hardware and Appliances, Inc.
P. O. Box 41
4779 Kidron Road
Kidron, OH 4463
216-857-5441
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##A 05 8772 8
##T COUNTRY STORE CATALOGS
COUNTRY STORE CATALOGS
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The Vermont Country Store
Catalog free from:
The Vermont Country Store
Mail Order Office
P. O. Box 3000
Manchester Center, VT 05255
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##A 12 17724 5
##T The Whole Earth Catalog
The Whole Earth Catalog
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The classic handbook of the “small is beautiful” revolution and the grand-daddy of do-it-yourself publishing.
Started in 1968, the Whole Earth Catalog was the first general publication to review personal computers, leading up to the Whole
Earth Software Catalog in 1984.
For our latest advice, use the most recent version, the portable Essential Whole Earth Catalog (Doubleday, 1986).
— Kevin Kelly
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##A 12 2461 6
##T PURPOSE
PURPOSE
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We are as gods and might as well get good at it. So far remotely done power and glory — as via government, big business, formal education, church — has succeeded to the point where gross defects obscure actual gains. In response to this dilemma and to these gains, a realm of intimate, personal power is developing — the power of individuals to conduct their own education, find their own inspiration, shape their own environment, and share the adventure with whoever is interested. Tools that aid this process are sought and promoted by the Whole Earth Catalogs.
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##T FUNCTION
FUNCTION
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The Electronic Whole Earth Catalog is an evaluation and access device. It can help a user discover what is worth getting and how to get it. We’re here to point, not to sell. Text and graphics excerpted here are provided for the reader to aid in evaluating what’s being reviewed. We have no financial obligation or connection to any of the suppliers listed. We only review stuff we think is great. Why waste your time with anything else?
An item is listed in this Catalog if it is deemed:
1. Useful as a tool,
2. Relevant to independent education,
3. High quality or low cost,
4. Easily available by mail.
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##T ORDERING INFORMATION
ORDERING INFORMATION
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Order items from the Electronic Whole Earth Catalog directly from the supplier or publisher. Do not order from us. We sell nothing but information.
Consider these points of mail order etiquette; they’ll make shopping by mail more pleasant for you and for the companies you are dealing with.
1. Write legibly. Say what you want on the outside of the envelope. Writing “mail order” or “subscription order” will speed your transaction. You can usually request free information with an inexpensive postcard.
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##T ORIGIN OF THE SPECIES & EVOLUTION THROUGH THE AGES
ORIGIN OF THE SPECIES & EVOLUTION THROUGH THE AGES
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by Stewart Brand
The Whole Earth Catalog got started in a plane over Nebraska in March 1968. I was on the way back to California from burying my father in my hometown in Illinois — a man who loved shopping in mail order catalogs. The sun had set ahead of the plane while I sat reading Spaceship Earth by Barbara Ward. Between chapters, I gazed out the window into dark nothing and slipped into a reverie about how I could help my friends who were starting their own civilization hither and yon with communes in the sticks. The L.L. Bean Catalog of outdoor stuff came to mind, and I pondered upon Mr. Bean’s service to humanity over the years. So many of the problems I could identify came down to a matter of access: where
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##T STAFF
STAFF
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Senior Editor:
J. Baldwin
Editors:
Jeanne Carstensen
Jonathan Evelegh
Richard Kadrey
Candida Kutz
Richard Nilsen
Production Editors:
Keith Jordan
Candida Kutz
Hank Roberts
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##T THANK YOUS
THANK YOUS
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Thanks to Brøderbund Software:
Doug Carlston
Richard Whittaker
Harry Wilker
And thanks to the folks from Apple:
Steve Cisler
Fabrice Florin
Ted Kaehler
Carol Kaehler
Alan Kay
Sioux Lacey
and especially to Bill Atkinson
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##A 12 18482 41
##T BUSINESS
BUSINESS
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This product is the joint project of three organizations: Point Foundation, Brøderbund Software, and Apple Computer. The content, that is all the words, pictures, and sounds on this compact disk, is the responsibility of Point Foundation.
Point Foundation is a nonprofit organization mandated to encourage educational innovation, and to conjure up cultural inventions. PointUs primary activities are community-based electronic journalism (The WELL), and consumer-driven publishing
(The Whole Earth Catalogs and Review). Revealing the process of how things happen, including how our own projects happen, is part of our educational program.
To further its goal of making process transparent, Point regularly
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##T FURTHER
FURTHER
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The large volume of useful news in this disc is a result of our on-going publishing efforts. Beside this hi-density CD-ROM, we also publish a quarterly magazine, occasional books, a weekly newspaper column, and operate a 24-hour electronic meeting house, called the WELL (Whole Earth ’Lectronic Link).
Our magazine, the Whole Earth Review, is 144 pages of unusual news, personal recommendations, unorthodox technical reports, and hard-to-find information. Much of what appears on your screen surfaced first in WER. Much of what will appear in future issues will come from people like you. We are a reader supported magazine: we carry no display advertising, and so are beholden to no one except our readers. We pay for anything we publish,
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##A 12 26630 54
##T GETTING AROUND IN THE DISC
GETTING AROUND IN THE DISC
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This section will explain how to get around in the Electronic Whole Earth Catalog. Don’t be afraid to play around with the different buttons and explore — there’s no way to harm the contents of the disc.
If at any time you feel completely lost just click on the WHOLE EARTH button and you will be returned to the TABLE OF CONTENTS at the beginning of the disc. Think of it as your escape hatch.
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##A 12 29354 71
##T CONTENTS AND INDEX
CONTENTS AND INDEX
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From the Table of Contents another way to get into the disc is to click on the picture next to a Domain name. This will take you directly to a card with an outline listing of the contents of that Domain.
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##A 12 33037 77
##T QUICK SEARCH
QUICK SEARCH
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The fourth way to get into the disc is by using the Quick Search feature from the Table of Contents. It is also an option available from the Pull-Down Menu which is explained later in this section.
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##A 12 40838 82
##T PICTURES AND SOUND
PICTURES AND SOUND
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There are over 4000 digitized pictures in the Electronic Whole Earth Catalog and over 500 Sound buttons.
Here are a few things about these cards and buttons that you should know.
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##A 12 51937 86
##T THE PULL DOWN MENU
THE PULL DOWN MENU
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All cards below the domain level have a PULL-
DOWN MENU presenting you with many options.
Click on “Menu” to see the Pull-Down Menu; then
choose the function you need and release the
mouse. (Any greyed-out functions aren’t
available for the particular card you have on
screen.)
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##T MORE ABOUT QUICK SEARCH
MORE ABOUT QUICK SEARCH
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With Quick Search you can find any single word in the entire text of the catalog and go to the particular card that contains it.
To Use:
Go to the Quick Search stack by clicking on “Quick Search” from the Whole Earth Table of Contents, or selecting “Quick Search” from the Pull-Down Menu.
The Search Card:
Type the word you want to find in the “Search For:” window, then press the “Find First” button. If Quick Search finds your word, it then goes to the Occurrence Card of Quick Search and shows the first occurrence.
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##A 12 39834 102
##T FIRST PRACTICE ARTICLE
FIRST PRACTICE ARTICLE
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This is the first article within the practice Cluster. There are three cards here, all of which are Review cards. Use the Page Turners to move through them. Notice how it wraps around from card 1 to card 3 when going forward, and from card 3 to card 1 when going backward.
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##A 12 40507 105
##T SECOND PRACTICE ARTICLE
SECOND PRACTICE ARTICLE
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This Article has four cards, one of each standard type. This is the Review card.
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##A 12 79807 106
##T SECOND PRACTICE ARTICLE
SECOND PRACTICE ARTICLE
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This is an Access card. It normally follows the Review card(s).
It has information on how to order the book or product reviewed and usually a picture of it.
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##A 06 384827 5
##T Caedmon
Caedmon
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The fountainhead of poetry on tape. Originally founded 30 years ago to record modern poets on 78-RPM records.
An illustrious pantheon of great poets and novelists perform their own masterpieces, or those of their mentors. Other great and fascinating literature is memorably recorded by spoken-word artists.
Unfortunately most of the offerings are selections and abridgements. Tape quality varies due to the age of some of the recordings. For sale only.
— Kevin Kelly
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##A 06 241300 6
##T Caedmon
Caedmon
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Catalog free from:
Caedmon
c/o Harper & Row
Keystone Industrial Park
Scranton, PA 18512
800-638-6460
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##A 07 47067 5
##T The Secrets of Consulting
The Secrets of Consulting
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If Machiavelli were alive today, he would be a consultant. This is the book he’d write.
— Art Kleiner
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##A 07 70286 6
##T The Secrets of Consulting
The Secrets of Consulting
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The Secrets of Consulting
(A Guide to Giving & Getting Advice Successfuly)
Gerald M. Weinberg
1985; 228 pp.
ISBN 0932633013
$25 ($26.50 postpaid)
from:
Dorset House Publishing
353 West 12th Street
New York, NY 10014
800-342-6657
212-620-4053 (NY)
There is a tape version available, see card last card of this review for access info and to play an excerpted sound.
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##A 07 23923 11
##T The Secrets of Consulting
The Secrets of Consulting
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The Secrets of Consulting - Tape Version
(A Guide to Giving & Getting Advice Successfuly)
Gerald M. Weinberg
8 - 1 hour cassettes
ISBN 0932633013
Rental—$14.50
Purchase—$64.00 ($66.50 postpaid) from:
Books on Tape
P. O. Box 7900
Newport Beach, CA 92660
800-626-3333
Catalog number 2161
Read by Paul Shay
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##A 08 193882 5
##T Sound Idea Sound Effects Library
Sound Idea Sound Effects Library
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Rocking chair creaks. Dentist drilling. Bottle smashes. Whooshes. Giggles. Children screaming. Windshield wipers. Booms, barrack bugles, and butcher knives sharpening. Harps, applause, and my favorite: Dog, terrier — sneezing. Three thousand human-life-on-earth sounds trapped into a tidy set of 28 compact discs (or 22 discs in digital).
To find a sound, you look it up in the accompanying 431 page catalog. For instance: “207-21-01 Weather, TV Broadcast — Generic Summer Forecast, Wet.” The set is expensive, complete, and the ultimate sound effects source. Perfect for a musician’s or filmmaker’s co-op.
— Kevin Kelly
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##A 08 194250 6
##T Sound Idea Sound Effects Library
Sound Idea Sound Effects Library
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Series 1000 Library
$1250
from:
Sound Ideas
86 McGill Street
Toronto, Ontario
M5B 1H2
CANADA
800/387-3030;
416/977-0512 (Canada)
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##A 08 194519 7
##T Sound Idea Sound Effects Library
Sound Idea Sound Effects Library
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Series 2000 Library
$975
from:
Sound Ideas
86 McGill Street
Toronto, Ontario
M5B 1H2
CANADA
800/387-3030;
416/977-0512 (Canada)
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##A 14 447349 5
##T Musical Heritage Society
Musical Heritage Society
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The Musical Heritage Society is a subscription service offering over 3,000 recordings of a wide array of classical and some other musics, including jazz, spoken word, period instruments, and ethnic. They offer LPs, cassettes and, for many releases, CDs. Their 1988 Master Catalog is a fat book of composers, works, titles and musicians. Membership will bring you a free subscription to the Musical Heritage Review. Each issue offers several selections from the Master Catalog along with many brand new Society releases.
— Jonathan E.
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##A 14 447558 6
##T Musical Heritage Society
Musical Heritage Society
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1988
Master Catalog $5
from:
Musical Heritage Society
1710 Highway 35
Ocean, NJ 07712
212-227-4036
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##A 09 224335 5
##T Hornblower Saga
Hornblower Saga
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One of the all-time great nautical adventures is the Hornblower series depicting British Empire naval action at its best. There’s cutlasses and muskets aplenty, just as you’d expect. Less expected, but very welcome is a highly detailed account of life aboard ships-of-the-line, complete with the deck operations necessary for sailing the huge square riggers. Hot-blooded! Salty! Avast there . . . .(The same author wrote the African Queen.)
— J. Baldwin
Ÿ Reading
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##A 09 224638 6
##T Hornblower Saga
Hornblower Saga
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Hornblower Saga
C. S. Forester
1966-1978; 300 pp.
$7.95 each ($9.45 each postpaid) from:
Little, Brown & Co.
200 West Street
Waltham, MA 02254
Fourteen volumes. Audio version of Commodore Hornblower available; go to last card of this review for access info and sound clip.
Audubon’s Wetlands is the best of the Audubon survey guides,
written by one of the finest ecologists to immerse himself in the subject. Appropriately, there is no one fluvial bard, but many, each pouring forth the mysterious solution of water and words. Here are some of my favorites.
— Peter Warshall
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##A 10 211496 6
##T CULTURAL CELEBRATION: INLAND WATERS
CULTURAL CELEBRATION: INLAND WATERS
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Round River
From the Journals of Aldo Leopold
Luna B. Leopold
1953, 1972; 173 pp.
ISBN 0195015630
$3.95 postpaid
from:
Oxford University Press
16-00 Pollitt Drive
Fair Lawn, NJ 07410
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##A 10 210116 7
##T CULTURAL CELEBRATION: INLAND WATERS
CULTURAL CELEBRATION: INLAND WATERS
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Life on the Mississippi
Mark Twain
1961, 1985; 384 pp.
ISBN 0140390502
$4.95 ($5.95 postpaid)
from:
New American Library
Box 120
Bergenfield, NJ 07621-0120
800-526-0275
201-387-0600(NJ)
For two tape versions, see next next two cards of this review for access info and to play excerpted sounds.
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##T CULTURAL CELEBRATION: INLAND WATERS
CULTURAL CELEBRATION: INLAND WATERS
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Life on the Mississippi — Tape Version 1
Mark Twain
8 - 1 1/2 hour cassettes
Rental—$13.50
Purchase—$64.00 ($66.50 postpaid) from:
Books on Tape
P. O. Box 7900
Newport Beach, CA 92660
800-626-3333
Read by Michael Prichard
Catalog number 1069
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##A 10 260023 9
##T CULTURAL CELEBRATION: INLAND WATERS
CULTURAL CELEBRATION: INLAND WATERS
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Life on the Mississippi — Tape Version 2
Mark Twain
1 cassette
$12.95 ($14.45 postpaid)
from:
Caedmon
c/o Harper & Row
Keystone Industrial Park
Scranton, PA 18512
800-638-6460
Selections performed by Ed Begley
Catalog number SWC 1234
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##T CULTURAL CELEBRATION: INLAND WATERS
CULTURAL CELEBRATION: INLAND WATERS
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A River Runs Through It
Norman MacLean
1979; 217 pp.
ISBN 026500578
$7.95 postpaid
from:
University of Chicago
11030 South Langley
Chicago, IL 60628
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##A 10 239934 11
##T CULTURAL CELEBRATION: INLAND WATERS
CULTURAL CELEBRATION: INLAND WATERS
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Wetlands
William A. Niering
1985; 638 pp.
ISBN 0394731476
$14.95 ($15.95 postpaid)
from:
Random House/Order Dept.
400 Hahn Road
Westminster, MD 21157
800-638-6460
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##A 11 221671 5
##T Powers of Ten
Powers of Ten
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Like the famous film of the same name by Ray and Charles Eames, Powers of Ten takes you on a photographic journey from quasars to quarks — 10 to the 25th power to 10 to the –16th power
— in 42 incremental steps, each one ten times the next. The changes in scale are provocative and truly mind-expanding, because you can’t comprehend such matters without the aid of sensitive instrumentation (and some imagination). It’s both jarring and inspiring to see how much of what is really going on is invisible to our five senses.
— J. Baldwin
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##A 11 221863 6
##T Powers of Ten
Powers of Ten
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(About the Relative Size of Things in the Universe)
Philip and Phylis Morrison and The Office of Charles and Ray Eames