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From the day it was released in 2000, Keeping a Nature Journal has struck a profound chord among professional, casual, and occasional naturalists of all ages. In response to this groundswell of enthusiasm, we have revised KEEPING A NATURE JOURNAL, updated the interior design, and created a new cover. Undoubtedly the most exciting new element in this second edition is a portfolio of 32 illustrated pages from Clare Walker Leslie's most recent journals, reproduced in full color.
What makes KEEPING A NATURE JOURNAL so popular? It is inspiring and easy to use. Clare and co-author Charles Chuck E. Roth offer simple techniques to give first-time journal-keepers the confidence to go outside, observe the natural world, and sketch and write about what they see. At the same time, they motivate long-time journal-keepers to hone their powers of observation as they immerse themselves in the mysteries of the natural world. Clare and Chuck stress that the journal is a personal record of daily experience and the world around us. Nature's beauty can be observed everywhere, whether in the city, suburbs, or country.
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Excellent introduction to nature journaling.......2007-06-14
I bought this book unseen hoping to get some good ideas for a curriculum development project for elementary school kids I'm working on. I wasn't disappointed. This is a beautiful book. It's well written by 2 authors who are obviously passionate about the subject matter. Reproductions of Leslie's journal pages throughout the book also help you see the sorts of things that are possible and are a real inspiration. Her images are often quickly drawn and a little on the rough side, suggesting that anyone with a few minutes, a few colored pencils, a blank book, and a love for nature is capable of making a gorgeous nature journal. The book covers ideas for how to start a nature journal, the kinds of equipment you need, things you might want to keep an eye out for, and suggestions for improving your artistic skills. As I'd hoped, there is also a section for eductators who wish to use nature journals to teach people, young and old, about nature and the environment in which they live.
This book contains a lot of great information and the images from Leslie's journals are amazing. I think anyone who is into nature journals (as I am) would appreciate this book, as well as those who wish to start one.
Beautiful and Useable Book.......2006-08-11
I love this book- the art is absolutely beautiful and the general layout really shows it off. It talks about how to begin nature journaling, giving tips on both starting the habit and learning to draw! I love the approach it takes, fostering a closeness and syncronicity with nature and its cycles!
Love This Beautiful Book!!!.......2006-04-29
Our family loves this book - we love the examples from actual nature journals and it has really inspired myself and my children to keep our own nature journals. As we do so, we come to have a better appreciation for the amazing creations all around us. The author really helps to encourage even budding artists to keep nature journals, which helps some of the more timid artists in our family.
Wonderful teaching tool........2004-02-03
I coordinate outdoor workshops for women to provide them the opportunity to learn new skills. We hosted a new class,Nature Journaling, and the instructor needed a book to suplement her curriculum. I selected this book based on the Amazon recomendations and further research. Both the instructor and participants loved the book. It was very helpful and useful once they left the workshop.
I think this book is a great resource in any EE/nature/writing library.
Wonderful, inspiring book!.......2002-11-14
This book inspired me to start my own nature journal and gave me the confidence to draw in it! Wonderful, encouraging and instructional. If I can draw nature, then anyone can!
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- Can Be Useful
- Good, and with just a little tweaking could be even better
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The Essential Walker's Journal: Your Companion to Weight Loss, Health, and Personal Transformation
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Using the system she developed in Walk Away the Pounds (January 2005) and Leslie Sansones Eat Smart, Walk Strong (January 2006), Leslie Sansone gives her thousands of fans the best tool yet for achieving physical, mental, and emotional well-being. THE ESSENTIAL WALKERS JOURNAL lets readers document walking progress, eating habits, and overall health improvement from a personally customized routine that has been called the simplest weight-loss program ever. In addition to getting physically fit, readers can achieve mental fitness by using the journals inspiring messages, diary spaces, and self-assessment tests to explore their feelings and transform their lives.
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Can Be Useful.......2007-01-19
Designed for people who use walking as their main form of exercise, "The Essential Walker's Journal" has several parts. The first part explains how to use the journal. The second part asks users to write down their dreams. Next is a space to write down statistics such as weight, dress size, and cholesterol so that users can compare their stats before and after they start their exercise program. Next is a brief section on exercise, fitness, and nutrition. The next section is the journal itself, which is the largest section in the book. The journal is based on a four-month exercise program and there is a page for each day of the week, except for Sunday. Each page is full of useful information to be filled out, such as what you eat for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, how far you walked, how much water you drank, and how many hours you slept. There is also a section titled "A Beautiful Thing" where users can write something good that happened during the day and a space at the end titled "Notes" where users can write down anything they want. At the end of each month there is a progress report section. At the end of the book is a section titled "Four Month Wrap-Up" with a series of questions designed to help users realize how far they've come in their exercise program and help them plan future exercise programs. Interspersed throughout the book are several testimonials from people that have lost weight and improved their health through Leslie Sansone's walking programs.
For the most part "The Essential Walker's Journal" was pretty useful. I like being able to track what I eat and drink each day, although there's not enough space to write it all down. It would be nice if I could keep track of how many calories I consume each day. Although the journal entries are dated Monday through Saturday, I ignore that and just put the date down. Since the journal is geared towards walkers, there's a section titled "Today's Walk" where you are supposed to right down how long you walked, but if I do some other type of exercise I make note of that in the space instead. Each day there is some tidbit at the top of the page: quotations, thoughts, diet information, that was fun to read. I also enjoyed the various profiles of people who lost weight through walking.
Leslie Sansone fans (and fans of walking in general) should find this journal to be helpful although they may need to make some modifications.
Good, and with just a little tweaking could be even better.......2006-04-07
I think keeping a log of your daily exercise & food intake can be very beneficial; putting it all down on paper and reviewing it periodically motivates me to stay the course in my goal of leading a healthier lifestyle and also lets me see what areas I need to work on improving. However, this book really needs bigger spaces to write in, especially the meals sections, which seem tiny and cramped. I'd also prefer it if it was set up to check off your daily intake of fruits, vegetables, multi-grains, etc the way it is to monitor water consumption. I do enjoy the inspiring daily "words to live by", and as a cancer survivor who finds something positive in each new day, I really like the space to write in "a beautiful thing" everyday.
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No one could describe NATURE JOURNAL as a blank book. Clare Walker Leslie has transformed what could have been an ordinary diary into something truly unique. The text and illustrations offer just the right amount of inspiration and guidance to help the journal-keeper begin and succeed at making this book his or her own.
First Clare explains to the budding journal-keeper how to get started and suggests some possible formats to follow. She even includes a few sample pages from her own journal as inspiration.
Then come the journal pages themselves. The left-hand page has ghosted-back lines for those who prefer a sense of structure. The right-hand pages are left blank for sketching or writing. Short, inspirational quotes and exercises to help guide the journaling process are scattered among the pages.
At the back of the journal is Clare's mini-field guide, packed with essential information on how to recognize (and draw!) basic families of birds, insects, and trees, thus sparing the journal-keeper the trouble of lugging multiple field guides into the wild. An elastic band keeps paper from flapping while you're writing, holds specimens, and acts as a bookmark. Drop it in the mud. Get trail mix stuck between the pages. This journal can take it! Printed on recycled, acid-free paper with a lay-flat binding.
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Comprehensive.......2007-07-18
If you have ever read one of Clare Walker Leslie's books before, then it won't surprise you that this is a Journal that invites you to go out into nature daily, but gives you ways to make your journal special and your own personal work of art. She shows you the basics of how to draw birds, flowers, trees, etc. to make your time in the outdoors more fun. If you follow her ideas, you will find that you will get down your old journals for years to come and look at them. They will all bring back fond as well as bad memories. You will find yourself putting them all down.
Awesome companion to "keeping a nature journal".......2006-03-28
If you have the original book "Keeping a Nature Journal" then you will find this journal to be awesome. It is for using what you learned in book 1 to make your own recordings. Beautifully bound. Very nice item. Of course it is blank...it is a journal.
Don't Make My Mistake!.......2005-10-23
The editorial of this book is inadequate. It should say in bold: "This book has LOTS of blank pages for you to use."
If you are looking for a book on HOW to journal this is *NOT* the product you want. This book is just as it says:
A journal (i.e. lots of BLANK pages for $11+ dollars!)
If you are wanting a book on how to journal buy her other book... "Keeping a Nature Journal: Discover a Whole New Way of Seeing the World Around You"
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- Leslie's Journal
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In this novel, Stratton takes us into a teen world that reverberates with the emotion and tension of a relationship gone wrong. Here is a book that examines the adolescent girl's deep need for affirmation as a sexually attractive being and how the drive for that affirmation can lead to unimaginable consequences.
For Leslie, grade nine was trouble-filled and grade ten is worse. The V.P. is constantly on Leslie's case for skipping or wearing 'inappropriate' clothes.
Enter Jason McCready, new at school and ultra-cool. He gives her a wink the first time they bump into each other. When Leslie approaches Jason to prove to the girls they have met, he gives her a kiss -- in front of everyone! Leslie is in love!
She is the envy of all the girls when Jason asks her out, but on their first date he takes her to his place instead of to the movies. He explains that his parents are away and begins pouring scotches, then beers. The lights get dimmer, the music louder, and things get fuzzy. Time seems to stop for Leslie, when suddenly Jason is throwing her clothes at her, stuffing money for a cab in her hand and telling her to get going because his parents are on their way home. It isn't until later that she realizes what has happened.
So begins Leslie's first relationship. Telling Leslie he loves her one minute and teaching her some hard life lessons the next, Jason begins to control Leslie's every move. How is it possible to be so lonely when you are in love? Thank god she has her English-class journal, where she can record everything. It helps to get her feelings on paper. But when Ms. Graham gets ill and the substitute reads the private journals, Leslie's world collapses.
Words like rape and abuse surface. Jason's behavior becomes even darker, and he has pictures he is threatening to show. The principal doesn't believe her anyway and there is no way she will tell her parents. Leslie's nightmare keeps growing. In the end, she must find the strength to fight back to set things right.
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Perfect for troubled teens.......2006-06-21
I thought this was an excellent book. When I picked it up, I was looking for a light read and what I discovered was an emotional waterfall. The content is very real and I believe that because it was written for a younger age group, many youth who have experienced abuse, and may not realize it, will take a second look at their own lives and get help or at least make the first step of self awareness.
Leslie's Journal .......2006-05-09
Why don't people like this book? They say it's awful but thankfully I read the book because my librarian recommended it to me and not because of the reviews, otherwise I would have been missing out on a great read.
I was reminded while reading it of the books Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson and Honey, Baby, Sweetheart by Deb Caletti. Somehow, I kind of thought this book was rushed and didn't have a lot of details, which in some ways left me confused but mostly I was happy because this would be kind of like a teenagers diary. Most teenagers don't spend all their time writing about the unimportant details.
I really liked this book, and the reason I only gave it four stars is because it was rushed and didn't really deal with anything other than Jason and Leslie's relationship. Which is okay, I guess. But still.
Dont trust reviews.......2005-07-11
I wrote a very long review about why I didnt like this novel, and why it was written for grade 6's with content for grade 10+
Unfortunatly, it was removed.
To sum it up. If you read lots of books, or enjoy things like plots, twists and character development.. Dont bother with this books, it is a waist of your time.
If your a 16 year old kid, who loves to read about girls being raped, and how you can steal, lie and be a horrible person, but if you do one morally redeeming thing in the end, everyone will forgive you and you wont get arrested and everything will be fine.
Total garbage. I give it 2 stars because some of the kids in my class liked it, and I guess it is nice that the schools are willing to dumb the books down enough that those kinda people actually read em.
Content for very mature audiences but written for the very immature........2005-06-25
When someone purchases this book it clearly says "A Pick for Reluctant Teen Readers" and once you get five pages into it you know why. The girl is fourteen, in high school, and dresses like she is a call-girl.
Then she meets a boy named Jason who she embarks on a relationship with. The first thing that happens is that he invites her to rave. Remember she's fourteen. Then there is the fact that she is date-raped repeatedly throughout the book, and that Jason starts sending Leslie death threats as the book continues.
This kind of risque writing may make the "reluctant reader" want to read but this book should not be classified as young adult but adult. It doesn't matter how easy of a read this is, the content is too mature for the middler-schoolers that scower the young adult section of the bookstore.
Written for a grade 5 with content for much older.......2005-02-16
I personally was very let down by this book.
Ive read reviews about how realiztic this book is, and how wonderful of a read it is. Personally I found it to be a horrible read.
From the start I was questioning the books value. Leslie is a teenager put in the the over used, stereotypical situation of a divorce, shes a rebel, her friend is a religious zealot, and she doesnt get along with many people or teachers.
Throw in Jason, his hot, his rich, and hes bad. Wow, didnt see that one comming!
Needless to say the book progress and I started to just get annoyed at how rude Lesie was. I dont know anybody who is this rude to their parents or other people. Quite frankly if she just stopped being so arrogant from the start, the book could have ended in the first few pages, and I would have enjoyed the book much more.
But back to the story. Throughout the book, Lesie makes a string of bad, rude, and just stupid choices.
But, just like a disney movie, no matter how bad of a person she is, she does one socially redeeming thing (not willingly I might add) and, bing bang boom, shes a hero!
If only it worked that way in real life. This book is just showing kids that when they act out, and misbehave, things will be AOK in the end. Newsflash! it wont. If your a bad person, if you fight with your parents, get drunk, do drugs, steal from your parents and beg on the streets, somthing is gona happen to you, and it sure wont be what happened to Lesie. This book just encourages teenagers to head down the path of destruction, assuring them that there is a light at the end of the tunnel. There isnt.
Now to the fact that this book could be picked up by a grade 5 and he/she could read the entire book and technically not have a problem with it. Some of the content might be too much for sombody of that age, but the way the book is written, they would have an easy time with it.
Recently, this book has been used in English 11 in my school district.
I gave it two stars because some people seemed to like this book and the way it falsly convayed reality. It's a great twist on life, but for all people say its realisitc, its not.
Personally I would not reccomend it to anybody who has Empathy or anybody who normally reads books, as I found it far too sterotypical, boring, and there was no "morally uplifting" ending. Overall the book was a pain to read, although it was hard to put down when you started, as you were half hoping that it might start to get interesting, but instead it just gets more depresseing, unhappy, and in my honest opinion, bad.
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Reveling in the wonders of nature doesn’t have to be reserved for vacation. By simply taking a few minutes to look up and observe the hawks hovering over their nest at the top of a city apartment dwelling, or to look down and note the variety of weeds growing in a small patch of earth, or just to glance through the window and appreciate the shapes of the clouds moving by, anyone can connect with nature—anywhere, anytime.
Clare Walker Leslie, author of the bestselling book
Keeping a Nature Journal, has spent 25 years teaching and showing people how simple and rewarding it is to notice and record local nature. Nothing is more inspiring than the pages of her nature journals, which feature her daily recordings of small, but amazing natural events she’s seen while walking the dog, sitting in a park with her children, or driving around city streets.
Drawn to Nature features a selection of Leslie’s journal pages, arranged to inspire the reader to do as she does: look up, look down, look out and around, bring bits of nature indoors to observe and study, or take your eyes for a walk around the neighborhood. Using a combination of quick, impressionistic watercolors with more detailed pen and pencil drawings, along with the written word, Leslie invites readers to share in the pleasure of her nature watching, and to experience the joy of seeing and connecting with nature wherever they live, amidst the whirl of daily life.
For journal keepers, nature lovers, birdwatchers, artists, and anyone interested in using nature as a source for self-reflection or meditation, this book will be a welcome companion and source of inspiration.
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Drawn to Nature Through the Journals of Clare Walker Leslie.......2006-09-22
Nice book. Used it to teach nature journaling at a children's camp this summer. Compact, good example of "how to" journal.
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Lord Byron: Selected Letters and Journals
George Gordon Byron
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Byron was a superb letter-writer: almost all his letters, whatever the subject or whoever the recipient, are enlivened by his wit, his irony, his honesty, and the sharpness of his observation of people. They provide a vivid self-portrait of the man who, of all his contemporaries, seems to express attitudes and feelings most in tune with the twentieth century. In addition, they offer a mirror of his own time. This first collected edition of all Byron's known letters supersedes Prothero's incomplete edition at the turn of the century. It includes a considerable number of hitherto unpublished letters and the complete text of many that were bowdlerized by former editors for a variety of reasons. Prothero's edition included 1,198 letters. This edition will have more than 3,000, over 80 percent of them transcribed entirely from the original manuscripts.
Byron's epistolary saga continues con brio in this volume. At the start of 1818 he sends off the last canto of Childe Harold and abandons himself to the debaucheries of the Carnival in Venice. At the close of 1819 he resolves to return to England but instead follows Teresa Guiccioli to Ravenna. In the meantime he writes three long poems and two cantos of Don Juan, whose bowdlerization he violently protests; he breaks off with Marianna Segati, copes with his amorous "tigress" Margarita Cogni, then falls passionately in love with the young Countess Guiccioli; he thinks seriously of emigrating to South America; he takes custody of his little daughter Allegra and becomes increasingly fond of the child. The Shelleys visit him, as does Thomas Moore, to whom he entrusts his memoirs (burned after his death). The letters to friends are a marvelous outpouring of funny anecdotes, practical talk, discussions of his poems, statements of his beliefs. The love letters are in a class by themselves.
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Byron's Letters and Journals, Volume VI, 'The flesh is frail', 1818-1819 (Byron's Letters and Journals)
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Byron was a superb letter-writer: almost all his letters, whatever the subject or whoever the recipient, are enlivened by his wit, his irony, his honesty, and the sharpness of his observation of people. They provide a vivid self-portrait of the man who, of all his contemporaries, seems to express attitudes and feelings most in tune with the twentieth century. In addition, they offer a mirror of his own time. This first collected edition of all Byron's known letters supersedes Prothero's incomplete edition at the turn of the century. It includes a considerable number of hitherto unpublished letters and the complete text of many that were bowdlerized by former editors for a variety of reasons. Prothero's edition included 1,198 letters. This edition has more than 3,000, over 80 percent of them transcribed entirely from the original manuscripts.
Byron's epistolary saga continues con brio in this volume. At the start of 1818 he sends off the last canto of Childe Harold and abandons himself to the debaucheries of the Carnival in Venice. At the close of 1819 he resolves to return to England but instead follows Teresa Guiccioli to Ravenna. In the meantime he writes three long poems and two cantos of Don Juan, whose bowdlerization he violently protests; he breaks off with Marianna Segati, copes with his amorous "tigress" Margarita Cogni, then falls passionately in love with the young Countess Guiccioli; he thinks seriously of emigrating to South America; he takes custody of his little daughter Allegra and becomes increasingly fond of the child. The Shelleys visit him, as does Thomas Moore, to whom he entrusts his memoirs (burned after his death). The letters to friends are a marvelous outpouring of funny anecdotes, practical talk, discussions of his poems, statements of his beliefs. The love letters are in a class by themselves.
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Exile in Richmond: The Confederate Journal of Henri Garidel (A Nation Divided: New Studies in Civil War History)
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Expelled from occupied New Orleans by Federal forces after refusing to pledge loyalty to the Union, Henri Garidel remained in exile from his home and family from 1863 to 1865. Lonely, homesick, and alienated, the French-Catholic Garidel, a clerk in the Confederate Bureau of Ordnance, was a complete outsider in the wartime capital of Richmond.
In his faithfully kept diary, Garidel relates the trials and discomforts--physical, emotional, spiritual, and professional--of life in a city entirely foreign to him. Civil War Richmonders were predominantly white, evangelical Protestants in a relatively small, insular city. His living quarters devolved from a private home shared with his family in cosmopolitan New Orleans to a cramped, cold rooming house away from everything familiar.
Trapped in Richmond for the last two years of the conflict and a witness to the eventual Federal occupation of the city, Garidel made daily entries that offer a striking and realistic blend of Southern domestic and political life during the Civil War. From his candid remarks about slavery and race, gender issues, military history, immigration, social class and structure, and religion, Henri Garidel's readers gain a revealing human picture of a major turning point in American history.
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Byron's Letters and Journals, Volume X, 'A heart for every fate', 1822-1823 (Byron's Letters and Journals)
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Byron's Letters and Journals, Volume VIII, 'Born for opposition', 1821 (Byron's Letters and Journals)
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Byron's Letters and Journals, Volume IX, 'In the wind's eye', 1821-1822 (Byron's Letters and Journals)
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Byron's Letters and Journals, Volume VII, 'Between two worlds', 1820 (Byron's Letters and Journals)
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Byron's Letters and Journals, Volume VI, 'The flesh is frail', 1818-1819 (Byron's Letters and Journals)
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Book Description
An enchanting epistolary saga ends with the publication of this volume. 'For Freedom's Battle' contains the letters Byron wrote from Greece between August 1823 and April 9, 1824, ten days before his death. Also included are over fifty letters dating from 1807 to 1820 that have come to light since Leslie A. Marchand began this project ten years ago.
In the letters from Greece a new set of correspondents appears, and a new tone is apparent. Although occasionally playful, Byron is preoccupied with the revolution and his efforts to unite the Greeks in a common cause despite their discord. His chief correspondents are his business agents in the islands and his banker friend in Genoa, Charles Barry, to whom he writes frank accounts of daily affairs. His letters to Hobhouse and to John Bowring attempt to give a realistic picture of the Greek struggle. To Teresa Guiccioli he writes only short, dutiful postscripts in English to the longer letters addressed to her brother.
Among the additional letters that became available too late to take their chronological place in the earlier volumes are those discovered in 1976, locked in a trunk at Barclays Bank; all but one of these fourteen letters were written to Scrope Davies, Byron's witty friend and drinking companion.
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