Product Description
Every facet of raising and breeding virtually any kind of duck imaginable. Both farmers and hobbyists will value this book's expert advice on general daily care and medical treatments. Close to 70 illustrations are featured, including nearly 30 in full color. Paperback / 104 Pages / / 1989
Customer Reviews:
Solid duck care book.......2007-07-24
This book would be very helpful to they inexperienced duck owner. However, I can't see it taking anyone beyond the basics, and if you own ducks at some point you will have to travel down that road. This book does give a lot of good information. It has everything from basic anatomy of the duck, to diet, housing and environmental concerns, duck behavior, raising ducks, a list on ornamental and domestic breeds, and most importantly it gives you the basics in an easy to understand format.
Having said all this this book has some weaknesses. It does not have a detailed breeds list (only a couple pages). This book does cover a lot of information in under a hundred pages, but it doesn't cover any one thing really well. I prefer Dave Holderreads book "Storey's Guide To Raising Ducks." I feel it is a superior book for both novices and experienced poultry personal. So why did I give this book 4 stars? Simply, this book does everything it can in under a hundred pages, it just doesn't do enough in my opinion. It would be a good book to start with, but you will eventually have to buy or get more information somewhere else.
Duck Handbook.......2005-08-12
Owning a pet duck is a lot different than owning a dog or cat!
This book will help you know how to house, feed and care for that cute little Easter duckling that quickly turns into a big white bundle of feathers.
If you like to feed ducks at the pond, BUY THIS BOOK!!!!.......2001-08-13
I love to go feed the ducks at the local pond. I now know what types come to the pond and why they act the way they do. This book is interesting enough for an adult, but easy enough for a child to understand. This is a WONDERFUL book. Very FUN to read.
The New Duck Handbook.......2000-03-20
This book was very helpful.It answered all my questions.It is also a very good investment because you will always have questions and it always has answers!
The New Duck Handbook.......1999-12-02
Ornamental & Domestic Ducks Everything about Housing, Care, Feeding, Diseases & breeding
Book Description
Ducks can either be kept as pets or raised as farm animals. Duck owners will find all the facts they need on housing, feeding, health care, and more. Barron's Pet Handbooks can be thought of as extra-large versions of our popular Pet Owner's Manuals series. The Handbooks have larger page counts, more color photos, and contain even more information on pet care than the Manuals. Written by breeders, veterinarians, and other pet care experts, they describe their title-animal's traits and present advice on feeding, health maintenance, and all other important aspects of animal care.
Customer Reviews:
Great Quack Quack Information.......2006-11-10
Good information for a new owner. Our duck, "Q", gives the book 5 feathers.
Customer Reviews:
Raising Small Livestock.......1998-08-14
The ideal handbook for those looking for information in a simple format that is complete in detail and content. It is apparent the author has written from first-hand experience on everything from birds to turkeys. A great reference book to have on the shelf when your daughter wants a cage or hutch for her new pet rabbit or you want to know how to tan that hide from your most recent hunting expedition. Want to try your hand at a small farm? This book is a must first.
Customer Reviews:
Touch Holiness.......2000-02-07
This is an excellant resource for those who need to write either worship services or rituals. It is easy to follow and is user friendly. There are whole worship services for the various church seasons. There are also individual prayers, confessions, communion liturgies, etc. that can be dropped into your regular worship service. All of the lituries and prayers have a wonderful spiritual aspect without being over done. One week after purchasing the book I used it to prepare a communion worship service for a women's retreat. I was able to prepare a service that was meaningful and appropriate for the theme without spending all of my energy and time just on this task.
Writer's block on Sunday liturgy? This will bail you out........1999-06-29
Ruth Duck is a poet. Her liturgy speaks to the heart because thats where it comes from. I prefer to write my own stuff. When I can't she is where I turn and she never dissapoints. I just wish she would put out more books like this one.
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A Companion to William Faulkner (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture)
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Arguably the greatest novelist yet to emerge from the United States, William Faulkner received the Nobel Prize for Literature and the Pulitzer Prize, among other awards, for his narrative reconstructions of life in the American South. Since his death in 1962, scholarly interpretations of Faulknerrsquo;s work have flourished, and this comprehensive Companion reflects the current dynamic state of Faulkner studies. Written by leading scholars, the text is designed to guide readers through the plethora of critical approaches to Faulkner. The volume is divided into five sections focusing on: studies of the contexts of Faulknerrsquo;s work; key questions addressed in Faulkner criticism; the genres and forms Faulkner encountered and altered; sample readings of particular works; and responses to Faulknerrsquo;s writing by publishers, film-makers, writers and others. Each contribution both exemplifies current Faulkner scholarship and critically reflects on previous interpretations.
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Complete duck shooter's handbook
Robert Scharff
Manufacturer: Putnam
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ASIN: B0006AV5O4 |
Book Description
Newly re-formatted, The Overstreet Indian Arrowheads Identification and Price Guide, Sixth Edition, puts regional information at your fingertips quickly and easily. With the thumbnail guides and thousands of completely new photos, identification is a snap. This comprehensive guide now provides the broadest coverage ever and includes:
-More types and more regions
-How to buy authentic relics
-Up-to-date regional market reports
-Tips on grading
-Dazzling color section
-Over 900 pages
-Over 5,000 actual-size illustrations
-Chronology of early man
-A special up-to-the-minute article on lithics by John Grenawalt
Customer Reviews:
Great Book for Learning.......2000-04-22
I have enjoyed my copy of this book, finding it particularly helpful in typing points, though not as much so in valuing. In response to the kind reader from Mass., all the point hunters I know, myself included, only hunt sites that are already culturally & historically ruined (i.e. plowed fields), with express permission of the private landowner. We don't go looking for burial mounds,etc. With regards to points being a non-renewable resource, true. BUT, I know of several fields that have been hunted for easily 100 years, and still produce points with each plowing. Many sites were in use as camp or village sites for literally thousands of years. I respectfully suggest that the kind reader turn attention more to construction sites and new road projects when looking for where true historical sites are being desecrated and ignored. Often, these sites are "overlooked" to avoid having projects put on extended (read here, expensive years) hold while the site is thoroughly researched. Happy Hunting!
somewhat dissappointed.......1999-12-02
Although there were many black and white photos there were no 'high quality' color photos. I found the section on my part of the country, the midwest, painfully lacking. I have yet to positively identify any of my twenty or so arrowheads using this book.
Finally a thorough VISUAL guide to arrowheads!!!.......1999-07-21
Great book! Many, many pictures from all regions including the NE. The best book I've found for a vast array of artifacts, many styles, examples etc. A great help for the novice collector! Many great ads for arrowhead sites on the web as well. Finally a visual guide to "see" actual pieces not just sketches!
Lacks ethics.......1998-04-23
This book, while a most comprehensive collection of projetile points, lacks the ethics necessary of such a volume. These artifacts are national treasures, not mere collectables. They represent a non-renewable resource. When a projectile point is taken out of context, it loses all meaning except for its reality of object. It means nothing to history. The collection of arrowheads, and further, the actual pricing of them, leads to the further erradication of informaiton of the past. Books of this sort should not be published, as they promote unethical collecting practices.
I AM NOT IN FAVOR OF THE NEW REGIONALIZED FORMAT........1997-11-18
EASTERN SEABOARDS EXAMPLES ARE DOMINATED BY MUSEUM IN N.C. ALSO PG.211 HARDAWAY G7 $420-$575 THEN PG. 441 HARDAWAY G7$35-$-50 WHAT GIVES ? P.S. LOOKING TO PURCHASE A COPY OF
OVERSTREETINDIAN ARROWHEADS THE FIRST EDITION.
Book Description
The Professional Standard for America’s Oldest Collectible
Indian arrowheads may well be the earliest evidence of man’s ability to create, style, and manufacture objects of symmetry and beauty. As Robert Overstreet, bestselling author and trained typologist, reminds us, “they represent a unique art form crafted by the world’s earliest artist. Unique because, like snowflakes, each specimen is an original and no two are exactly alike.”
The Official Overstreet Indian Arrowheads Identification and Price Guide has been the reference for collectors everywhere. Filled with life-size photographs, collecting points has never been easier: simply hold up your find to the photos and discover its date and value! Organized by the United States’ nine geographic regions, this guide offers the most comprehensive and current information available to any collector, making you the expert.
* More than 8,000 actual-size photographs, plus a dazzling color section
* Thousands of new illustrations covering many new point types that have never been seen before from all over the United States, including Alaska
* The experts’ guide on how to buy authentic relics
* Up-to-date regional market reports
* Tips on grading
Special features include:
Breaking information about the Olive Branch site in Illinois from Dr. Michael Gramly, complete with details of the people who lived there and how their points evolved from the beginning of their occupation till the end.
Man’s first stone tools from the Old World—an illustrated price guide in full color from Homo habilis to Homo sapiens!
BUY IT • USE IT • BECOME AN EXPERT
Customer Reviews:
Very little other refs available.......2006-05-25
Since there are few references available on point types, this was added to my reference library. Disregarding the prices, for the types, descriptions, etc. I have the Texas type book also. What puzzles me is why Overstreet has listed some types for Texas, which are not covered in the current Texas book, nor any of the old books (and I have them back to the second or so book from the 1960s). Example is the Texas point type Overstreet calls Edwards. Not in any other Texas books I find. No explanation by Overstreet. Not a bad reference for types, just wish there was a better one available, more akin to the 1960s book from Texas.
A Great Reference .......2005-03-22
Despite the emotional opinions of some, on the whole monetary value issue, I found this book to be quite a valuable reference guide in terms of tool typing, and assessing style variations and aiding in establishing era. In fact I've not seen a more comprehensive reference guide. In addition to this being a fine guide for the collector, it is also a nice reference for the amateur or serious archeologist. I have participated in several responsible, (academic), archaeological digs and have witnessed more than one academic reference this book for regional typing purposes.
The issue of affixing value to antiquities is always subjective (and it is reality on a Global scale) I believe the author is simply providing a range of what collectors have paid for certain examples. Again, this may be useful information to some collectors, or for Museum curators in establishing the 'street' value of collections for insurance purposes.
Very Informative.......2004-08-03
I bought this book to figure-out the monetary value of pot hunted artifacts, in order to change pothunters of federal and state crimes. Very informative. Thank you.
Pothunters beware.......2003-10-14
This book and the whole collection of Overstreet guides are a unsubstantiated ruse! DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK. The author seeks to mislead and misdirect the general public by putting a monetary price on human history. is the value of an artifact monetary? Can riches be made from stealing the history of the public? This book would like you to think so.
One large discrimination of this book is the fact that the prices within are set by a bunch of country yahoos sitting around a swap meet, spitting tabacky into priceless ming vases. The fact that there is little mention of the money it may cost you if you collect artifacts on public land and the fact that looting significant archaeological sites for arrowheads can land your butt in jail, is barely mentioned.
Do yourself a favor, take a class in archaeology from your local junior college, pick up the Bruce Bradley video called Flintknapping or Andrefsky's lithic book from Cambridge and start making your own arrowheads. Then go to your local swap meet and sale them to dumbasses that buy this book!
Remember price is only what you can get some country bumpkin to give you for an arrowhead, and looting sites on public or private land will only land you in jail, or even worse get you filled with lead from an angry landowner.
Solid, encyclopaedic, good reference manual.......2002-04-02
Purchased to study projectile points. I was not disapointed with the packed information and photos on this subject. Used as well, as a price guide for collectors, I none the less use it as a reference manual. It lists point artifacts from each part of the country broken down in groups of states. It then shows most of what is common for that area as far as shapes, sizes, etc. It is a good guide for the beginner to learn both projectile shapes and nomenclature. I carry it as a supplement to other books on archaeology and prehistoric American Native studies.............
Book Description
For more than a decade, there’s been one authoritative resource for true enthusiasts. Determined collectors, top dealers, and serious historians agree: The Official Overstreet Indian Arrowhead Identification and Price Guide is the best book of its kind!
This all-new edition of the classic guide features:
· A new, fully illustrated feature article by noted historian Michael Gramly, Ph.D.
· More than 12,000 actual-size photographs of arrowheads, many of them in full color
· Price listings organized in 10 geographic sections with up-to-date market reports for each one
· Valuable advice on identifying, grading, and pricing arrowheads
· Up-to-date reports on trends in each market region
Book Description
PROFESSIONAL GUIDANCE AND EXPERTISE FOR INDIAN ARROWHEADS COLLECTORS
This is the only reference source for arrowhead collectors everywhere. Dividing the United States into nine geographical regions, this guide offers the most comprehensive and current information available to any collector, making you the expert!
Collecting points has never been easier: simply compare your find to the life-size photographs inside to discover its date and value.
• Over 12,000 actual-sixe illustrations of point types
• Thousands of new point types never seen before
• Completely revised and expanded Western section with new point types and illustrations
• Dazzling color section with more than 350 illustrations
• A complete market review to help you evaluate your arrowhead collection
• Important tips on how to grade, classify, find, and buy points
BUY IT • USE IT • BECOME AN EXPERT
Customer Reviews:
Continues to be the classic reference...........2007-07-18
This guide continues it's tradition of being an excellent resource of current pricing and point identification. The pictures and identification of the points are worth the price alone.
"The Book".......2007-02-09
This is a complete reference and price guide for anyone interested in Indian Point design and collecting with current retail pricing. It contains good photographs of the known Indian Points. You will find page after page of photo's to compare your points to and assist you in point identification. If you only buy one book on Indian Point collecting this is "The Book" that every collector and dealer will recomend that you buy. Back editions contain articles that are always interesting reading so always keep your back editions in your collection.
Official Overstreet Indian Arrowheads ID 9th Edition.......2007-01-09
This is a very good book. Full of good illustrations and info.
The Official Overstreet Indian Arrowheads Identification and Price Guide 9th Edition .......2007-01-04
Very helpfull,easy to understand.
A must have for the serious collector!.......2006-08-31
This paperback is chock full of useful information about collecting and estimating the value of the pieces in your collection written in plain English.
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