The Little Book of Snowflakes

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Author Kenneth Libbrecht's microphotographs of real snowflakes show the amazing beauty and science behind nature's creations. This year his photos were honored by the U.S. Postal Service in a set of holiday stamps.

Amazon.com is celebrating the author's work with an exclusive, free holiday snowfall in our store this season, along with a free activity sheet for snowflake fun with the whole family. Click here to open up the virtual snowfall we've created, and forward this page to share the snowfall with friends and family. If there is real snow where you live, print out the activity sheet (in color or black and white) for easy snowflake identification tips and fun for all ages. Be sure to check out Libbrecht's Field Guide to Snowflakes to see what types of snow crystals are falling!

In this season we're reminded how special everyone is in our lives--and that we are all one of a kind, just like snowflakes. We hope you enjoy our virtual snowfall and share the fun with all the unique people in your life. Happy holidays to you and yours from Amazon.com!

Pictured here is a beautiful example of a stellar dendrite, the largest and most familiar variety of snowflake. Click on the snowflake to open our virtual snowfall, and consult Ken Libbrecht's Field Guide to Snowflakes to see detailed photographs and descriptions of dozens more types of snowflakes, some familiar and some surprising.

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Following the success of "The Snowflake: Winter’s Secret Beauty", this companion gift book features new, super-detailed photographs of snowflakes, detailed captions containing the science behind their beauty, and literary quotes relating to snow and nature.

Customer Reviews:

Winter Wonder.......2007-05-30

Very beautiful book. I paired it with a crystal snowflake as a gift and the receiver loved it.

Fascinating Photography.......2007-04-04

Science meets art in this beautiful book about the formation of snowflakes. The photographs will keep you captivated.

Wonderful pictures!.......2007-02-11

This is such a beautiful book! The photography is amazing. Great for anyone interested in the beauty of snowflakes. I got one for a gift and one for myself.

Gorgeous.......2007-01-22

A really gorgeous little book - just incredible photos. My children love this one because of the size - but we also have "The Snowflake". Well worth the price!

gorgeous and enlightening.......2007-01-14

The pictures in this book are incredible. I never knew that snowflakes even came in some of these forms! If you are looking for fascinating pictures as well as great information on snowflakes, this is definitely a worthwhile book!

The Little Book of Snowflakes with Note Cards

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Fascinating Facts and Fotos!
interesting book as an interesting gift

The Little Book of Snowflakes with Note Cards
Kenneth Libbrecht
Manufacturer: Voyageur Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0760329141

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This holiday set includes The Little Book of Snowflakes, the charming gift book featuring Ken Libbrecht’s amazing microphotographs of actual snowflakes, and 12 notecards featuring more of the magical images from the author’s work. The author’s photographs were selected by the US Postal Service for a 2006 holiday first-class stamp set - and these notecards will add even more snowflake fun for the holidays. Set comes in a box with clear plastic cover.

Customer Reviews:

Fascinating Facts and Fotos!.......2007-01-12

Even though it is a smaller book, it is packed with fascinating facts about snowflakes and beautiful, detailed photos. I purchased both the book and notecards. The notecards were special for this year because the U.S. Postal Service published stamps of the author's snowflakes. It is fun to send a snowflake note and use the snowflake stamp on the envelope.

interesting book as an interesting gift.......2007-01-10

I gave this book and note card collection as a gift. Almost everyone can use note cards, and this set was a perfect unique Christmas gift.
Wonderful pictures of real snowflakes adorn the gift cards and the pages of the included little book.
A really charming gift I was proud to give. I've always believed in giving gifts to others that I myself would like to receive , and I would (and probably will!) willingly buy this set!

Heavenly Snowflakes Stained Glass Coloring Book (Dover Little Activity Books)

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Heavenly Snowflakes Stained Glass Coloring Book (Dover Little Activity Books)
John Green
Manufacturer: Dover Publications
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0486449238

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These 8 perfect little gems — each symmetrical in shape, yet amazingly different — won't melt! Just add your own colors, place near a bright light, and enjoy the special glow.

Fun with Snowflakes Stencils (Dover Little Activity Books)

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Fun with Snowflakes Stencils (Dover Little Activity Books)
Paul E. Kennedy
Manufacturer: Dover Publications
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ASIN: 0486266095

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Create an enchanting winter wonderland simply by repeating stencil outlines for 6 lacy snowflakes. Perfect for window decorations, greeting cards, posters, and more, these lovely designs will fascinate young and old alike.

The Little General and the Giant Snowflake

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The Little General and the Giant Snowflake
Matthea Harvey
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In this compelling tale, the “little general” heads an army called the Realists. Every day he and his troops practice battle formations on a field while the Dreamers use it to play strange, peaceful games. The little general's soldiers include Sergeant Samantha, who is very tall and wishes the general would pay attention to her, and Lieutenant Lyle, an imaginative fellow who always seems to get into trouble. One day the little general sees a giant snowflake hovering in his garden and realizes he is suffering from a disease of the imagination. He is very ashamed and pretends not to see it, but eventually he discovers that everyone in his army has a similar problem. What magical message is the snowflake trying to bring to the general, and to the world? In a time of violent military solutions to global problems, this illustrated allegory by a leading poet has a particular, powerful resonance.

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Little Snowflake

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A Little Snowflake (Christmas Foil Books)

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A Little Snowflake (Christmas Foil Books)

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ASIN: 0843102683

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Charles Reasoner, whose clever shaped board books for Halloween have sold nearly half a million copies, has now turned his talent to Christmas. These three foil-covered charmers have a bold, graphic look that will make them stand out from any other Christmas books in the store. Containing the same appealing artwork that makes all of Charles Reasoner's books so successful, these eye-catching little books make the perfect stocking stuffers.

Within a snowflake-shaped book backed by a beautiful prismatic blue, a tiny snowflake drifts on a winter breeze, blowing from one scene of winter fun to another until at last it finds the perfect place to come to rest.

Shiny Snowflakes Stickers (Little Activity)

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Shiny Snowflakes Stickers (Little Activity)
Christy Shaffer
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Twelve metallic images, tinged with a rainbow of colors, present a lovely array of nature's frozen beauties. Attention-getters wherever they're used, the silvery snowflakes will add a glimmering touch to windows, lunch boxes, notebooks, and other flat surfaces.

Snowflakes Stained Glass Coloring Book (Dover Little Activity Books)

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John Green
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ASIN: 0486275310

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Eight spectacular snowflake designs that children will love to color and then hang in the window or near any other source of light — the better to marvel at the glowing "snowstorm" of color they just created! Full-page designs printed on translucent paper.

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Little Book of Snowflakes

Manufacturer: BAXTER COLIN PHOTOGR
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000H98SF8

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Robert Stone's remarkable new novel is a psychological thriller of razor-sharp intensity: mysterious, erotic, and deeply readable. Michael Ahearn, a professor at a rural college, sheds his comfortable assumptions when he becomes obsessed with a new faculty member from the Caribbean, Lara Purcell. An expert in Third World politics, Lara is seductive, dangerous and in thrall, she claims, to a voodoo spirit who has taken possession of her soul. Impassioned and determined, Michael pursues Lara to her native island of St. Trinity, heedless of the political upheaval there. Together they desperately attempt to reclaim all that Lara has lost. Yet island intrigue ensnares them. Lara sacrifices herself to ritual and superstition. Michael is caught unawares in a high-stakes smuggling scheme. In his feverish state of mind, the world becomes an ever-shifting phantasmagoria. He is, himself, possessed. In Bay of Souls, readers will recognize the trademarks of Stone's greatest fiction: the American embroiled in Third World corruption, the diplomats and covert operatives, the idealists and opportunists. Yet here the author's sights are set inward, to a place where politics is superfluous, experience unreliable. Never before has Stone probed so powerfully the psychological depths of one man's mind. What he finds there defies expectations.

Customer Reviews:

That Voodoo You Do.......2007-07-24

Robert Stone explores familiar terrain in this story of a man who gets into the ring with his own myths of masculinity, marital betrayal, and family discord. Stone adds strong drams of voodoo and dark spirits into this volatile, seductive concoction, which promotes a nightmarish carnival ending reminiscent of his first novel, A Hall of Mirrors. While a treat for his fans, this book doesn't reach the artistic peaks set out in Outerbridge Reach or the emotional depths of A Flag for Sunrise.

An Unworthy Tale.......2006-07-05

Robert Stone, one of my favorite authors, has written a novel which is clearly unworthy of his great talents. The book has a thrown-together quality, as one improbable incident follows another. I will not reiterate the plot, as so many other reviewers have done this so sucessfully. But I have to agree with the consensus: the characters are not fully developed, and their motivation is unclear. It almost seems like Mr. Stone just decided that he wanted to write a book that was exciting, frightening, and sexy. Start with a sensitive family drama, then add a little in-the-know power politics, a near death experience while searching undersea for lost emeralds, some terrifying Colombian drug dealers, and end with wild voodoo ceremonies and the wreckage of his home life. What have you got? That's the question.

Odd.......2005-01-23

Pas terrible, ce roman de Robert Stone. Moi, ma toute première impression était que "La baie des âmes" me semblait terriblement masculin. Le roman s'ouvre sur une scène de chasse où le personnage central, Michael Ahearn, part avec deux amis dans une forêt pour chasser le cerf. Passage dans un bouge pour se procurer du pur whiskey, ambiance locale et rustre, rencontre d'un être ensanglé et vociférant dans les bois... bref ce roman commence d'emblée à me décontenancer. Et puis, l'histoire paraît hésiter entre l'intrigue universitaire et le surréalisme. On se trouve dans une province américaine, où la couleur locale penche sensiblement vers la foi religieuse et non vers l'érudition digne de la Nouvelle-Angleterre. L'ambiance est glauque, on patauge dans la neige boueuse, on suit l'universitaire Michael Ahearn dans ses réflexions sur son enseignement, ses étudiants et l'atmosphère ambiante. Il est marié à Kristin, une épouse de plus en plus suspicieuse, jalouse et distante, père d'un petit garçon intelligent et sensible. Un jour cet homme va rencontrer Lara Purcell, dont la réputation de femme exotique, mariée à un français, ayant parcouru l'Afrique et venu en Amérique enseigner les sciences politiques, annonce un vent nouveau. Michael et Lara vont devenir amants, puis Lara doit partir sur l'île de Sainte-Trinité pour célébrer les rites funéraires de son frère et par la même occasion récupérer son âme perdue. Là, j'avoue que le sens de l'histoire a cessé de m'échapper. D'une province décalée et crasseuse de neige fondue, on bascule sur une île en proie aux soulèvements civils et révolutionnaires, aux trafics de drogue, aux soupçons d'espionnage, etc. A la page 192 (sur 292), j'ai capitulé. Complètement larguée. Ce roman possède très certainement un charme secret mais son histoire, trop embrouillée, envoie son lecteur dans les roses. On peine à décrocher du milieu sulfureux pour se retrouver vers des conflits politiques et autres rituels du vaudouisme. Et l'écriture brute de l'auteur n'accroche pas ma sensibilité féminine.

Bad story.......2004-12-18

I find myself agreeing with some of the other reviewers. This book isn't poor writing style, but the story is so far-fetched, improbable and just plain unbelievable that this book cant be saved. There are two related stories, neither of which really works. First there is a group of professors deer hunting in the winter in a godforsaken part of minnesota (this is the characters' opinion, not to offend anyone). A few strange things happen, and the main character comes home to find his son has been lost in the snow. The son nearly dies, but miraculously pulls through. The main character goes on to meet a woman professor who has just come to teach at the college. She dresses exotically, comes from a ficitious Caribbean island, goes in for a little S&M, and he falls head over heels, despite his jealous wife and little son. After the woman tells him her brother has died of AIDS, has xtolen her soul and given it to a voodoo queen who died two hundred years ago, and how dangerous it is to walk around in a body without a soul (a recitation that would send most men running scared), he decides to pack up and go down to the island with her. Although it's hard to tell what is really going on, things get wilder and wilder, with Haitian voodoo ceremonies, Colombian drug gangs, Latin-American style juntas supported by the U.S. governement. At this point I felt the author was just letting his imagination run wild or he didnt know what he was talking about. If you've read this far, you'll have a hard time finishing, although I did. You''ll wish you hadnt. I cant believe people act like this.

An Adequate First Draft.......2004-11-25

I was surprised to learn, after reading Bay of Souls, that this was Robert Stone's first in five years, because it seemed hastily thrown-together. I thought the story of Kirsten and Michael Ahearn and their son was wonderful and then more or less dropped. According to his blurb at the back, Stone had some interactions with Madison Smart Bell. I wish he'd written about Haiti, instead, essays, and finished the tale he started, which was like Updike with a little more edge. Maybe I'm just not a voodoo guy, but I was sorely disappointed with the promise of the beginning of this book set against its patched-together ending.

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Bay of Souls: A Novel
Robert Stone
Manufacturer: Mariner Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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