Product Description: Leave behind the densely populated southeast coast to explore the woods and hills of this beautiful state. These hikes vary in difficulty and range in length from 1 to 13 miles. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A fully revised edition of the classic hiking guide to Connecticut. Leave the densely populated southeast coast behind to explore the woods and hills of this beautiful state. Connecticut boasts a diversity of parks, sanctuaries, hills, woodlands, and wetlands...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: These are the tales of Samaria, Kansas...the toughest trail town in the Old West! BOUNTY FOR A LAWMAN — Marshal Tom Briscoe is charged with keeping the peace in the wild cowtown of Samaria, Kansas, but at the same time the town council doesn't want him doing anything that might run off the Texas cowboys and the valuable herds they drive up the long trail to the railhead...read more

Product Description: The Netherlands in the 16th Century is wracked by civil and religious strife, but all Greta wants is to be left alone to run her tavern. The most dire prophecies of doom come true when the dead rise from their graves and set out on an apocalyptic campaign of terror, slaughtering everything in their path...read more

Presents travel information and a variety of outer space vacations to such places as the moon and Venus

Product Description: As religious rituals, rites of passage, and celebrations of the body, athletics were deeply woven into the fabric of ancient Greek life. Modelled after physical exercises and competitions that existed in earlier Near Eastern cultures, hundreds of athletic contests were held throughout the ancient Greek world...read more

Provides Greek conversational phrases for travel situations, such as going shopping, booking a hotel room, eating in a restaurant, and asking for directions

Product Description: This work is the third part in an important, five-volume series addressing the unique role libraries have played in building and preserving Western culture. Mr. Staikos has become one of our foremost scholars on library history, writing such books as this as well as works like ""The Great Libraries,"" a classic in its field...read more

Product Description: Empires clash in the Florida swamps in 1816 as England, Spain, and the young United States vie for this rich territory at the southern end of the continent. The native Seminole people make this a four-cornered war as they struggle to claim this land as their home...read more

The scallop farming industry continues to expand, providing an important global source of food and revenue. In recent decades over-fishing has caused a decline in wild stocks and as consumer demand increases, the opportunities for new and existing scallop farming ventures are greater than ever before. In this important new edition, experienced scallop farmer David Hardy offers the reader: Practically oriented advice New technical, environmental and legislative information Key information for running a successful farming operation Scallop Farming, 2nd Edition is an essential tool for all those working in the scallop farming industry and will be an important source of reference for equipment manufacturers and suppliers, traders and policy makers, environmental and marine scientists and universities and research establishments where these areas are studied and taught.

This catalogue contains all the sculptures on display in the National Archaeological Museum. Every entry is supplemented by a full bibliography and is written clearly so as to be readily understood not only by experts but also by the general reading public. A useful short introduction, written for non-specialists, offers readers an overview of ancient Greek sculpture from the Archaic period to the end of Antiquity. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This oversized sticker atlas is packed with information about the land, wildlife, and people of North America. It comes with a pull-out wall chart of the U.S. and Canada highlighting major cities, mountains, forests, wildlife, products, and flora...read more

Product Description: Succulents of the Transvaal describes and illustrates over 100 of the succulents that are found in the Transvaal, the most northerly province of South Africa. This book will appeal to succulent collectors, botanists, people eager to learn more of South Africa's rich floral heritage, collectors of beautiful books, and those who appreciate finely executed paintings...read more

Features errors due to the slip of the tongue, as well as historical accidents and mistaken identities