Everyone can explore a pond. Just a net, a few jars and a hand-lens, and you can discover a world teaming with every kind of life. It is a self-contained habitat, and follows a surprisingly uniform pattern all over the globe.  This quite remarkable book introduces the pond and its inhabitants in over 400 superb color photographs, accompanied by an authoritative text.  The photographs were taken by Oxford Scientific Films, and reveal an extraordinary variety in the intricate lives of the pond's plants and insects, fish, snails, and amphibians, and among the birds and mammals at its edges. They show in stunning detail how a water spider traps air bubbles in its web to form a diving bell, how a mosquito emerges from its pupa, and many other stories on and in the water, arranged in sequence from the simplest creatures to the most sophisticated. Representative types of all the important forms of temperate pond life are included.  Text and captions describe the natural history of the pond's organisms and, together with the illustrations, allow identification to family or genus.  There is an introduction to the ecology of ponds in general, lists of taxonomic orders, and a color key to all the plants and creatures featured, as well as advice on how to collect and study pond life.  All of the authors are associated with Oxford Scientific Films, Ltd., a company which has become world-famous for its outstanding work in natural history photography and films. Gerald Thompson, who spent his early years in the concrete jungle of inner Glasgow, founded the company and was appointed an officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1982 in recognition of his contribution to the understanding of Zoology. Jennifer Coldrey is a stills manager and has written a number of natural history books for children. George Bernard is stills photographer and one of the leaders in this field.

Pond

Science & Math

Thompson, Gerald

Nature & Ecology

Wm. Collins Sons & Co.

The Pond

Coldrey, Jennifer

Bernard 1949, George

Biological Sciences

HarperCollins, Publishers

Everyone can explore a pond. Just a net, a few jars and a hand-lens, and you can discover a world teaming with every kind of life. It is a self-contained habitat, and follows a surprisingly uniform pattern all over the globe. This quite remarkable book introduces the pond and its inhabitants in over 400 superb color photographs, accompanied by an authoritative text. The photographs were taken by Oxford Scientific Films, and reveal an extraordinary variety in the intricate lives of the pond's plants and insects, fish, snails, and amphibians, and among the birds and mammals at its edges. They show in stunning detail how a water spider traps air bubbles in its web to form a diving bell, how a mosquito emerges from its pupa, and many other stories on and in the water, arranged in sequence from the simplest creatures to the most sophisticated. Representative types of all the important forms of temperate pond life are included. Text and captions describe the natural history of the pond's organisms and, together with the illustrations, allow identification to family or genus. There is an introduction to the ecology of ponds in general, lists of taxonomic orders, and a color key to all the plants and creatures featured, as well as advice on how to collect and study pond life. All of the authors are associated with Oxford Scientific Films, Ltd., a company which has become world-famous for its outstanding work in natural history photography and films. Gerald Thompson, who spent his early years in the concrete jungle of inner Glasgow, founded the company and was appointed an officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1982 in recognition of his contribution to the understanding of Zoology. Jennifer Coldrey is a stills manager and has written a number of natural history books for children. George Bernard is stills photographer and one of the leaders in this field.

Arts & Photography

OXFORD SCIENTIFIC FILMS

Bernard, George

Photography & Video

Mit Pr

The Bosque Redondo Reservation Experiment - 1863-1868.

The Army and the Navajo: The Bosque Redondo Reservation Experiment, 1863-1868

History

World

University of Arizona Press

The Army and the Navajo: The Bosque Redondo Reservation Experiment, 1863 1868

Computational Economics/5.25 Disk

Business & Money

Scientific Pr

Computational Economics/3.5 Disk

Economics

Reflections of an Oreo Cookie: Growing Up Black in the 1960's

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Library Research Associates Inc

Heaven: It's Out of This World: Delightful Discoveries of Life After Death

His Glory Press

Through a series of fortuitous acquisitions, John Schmidt, a Volga Deutsch immigrant, finds himself master of an 11,000-acre bonanza farm. His pathway to becoming one of Cass County’s largest wheat producers has taken him through the rigors of farming the northern prairie, the edge of financial ruin and, ultimately, to the doorstep of untold riches brought by the Second Dakota Boom and the Agricultural Revolution. 
The Schmidt family’s journey begins in 1763 when their forebears escape war-ravaged, feudal Germania answering Catherine the Great’s appeal for colonists to settle the Russian Steppe. The Czarista promises each “land most advantageous to himself", raw materials to build homes, tools essential to his trade and, “unhindered freedom of religious worship.” Catherine’s intentions are good, but her Manifesto is thwarted by duplicitous bureaucrats who divert funds for local government or personal gain. For more than a decade, the Deutsch settlements are beset by privation and disease and the Czarista's experiment hangs in the balance. She discovers the treachery and intervenes to ensure the colonists are provided the trappings necessary to tame the wild grasslands. 
Catherine’s diligence is rewarded many times over. By mid-century, the Russian Steppe becomes a cornucopia, but Alexander II, Catherine’s grandson, is suspicious of colonies that speak Deutsch, practice the religion of their homeland and show only token allegiance to the Crown. He imposes constraints intended to make the colonies more Russische, among them conscription with its attendant six years of military service. 
Faced with the loss of their most treasured resource, the Schmidt family again turns to immigration—this time drawn to America by the Homestead Act and western railroads eager to establish settlements along newly laid tracks. Their path takes them across Eastern Europe and a foreboding ocean bound for Hays City, Kansas. The party’s leader is John’s father-in-law, Peter Schafer, whose desire is to create a colony in the image of Pfeifer, the village left behind in Russia. 
John sees the proposed quasi-communal structure as the antitheses of America—confinement rather than freedom and independence. He and his new bride take advantage of a serendipitous opportunity to buy a small farm in Dakota Territory. There John Schmidt takes a few hundred acres to an 11,000 acre collosus navigating countless perils, both man-made and natural.. 
Before the farm reaches its full potential, he loses a decade long battle with Parkinson’s disease. The Schmidt farm falls to John's first-born daughter and heir apparent, Morgan. Her siblings, Clara, Calvin, and Tavendar, have left—or plan to leave—unhappy with the dawn-to-dusk drudgery of farm life. 
The twentieth century opens on the crest of innovation coupled with an exponential growth in demand for agricultural products. As John's executor and master of the farm, Morgan sees a marked increase in profits and purchasing power—. well beyond that experienced in the non-farm sector. Her siblings watch as Morgan’s personal wealth parallels the farm’s growth. Excluded from management, the siblings’ can only access the farm’s new-found prosperity through a vague reference in John's will suggesting that all children share in the farm’s abundance. Morgan sees this participation as a yearly dividend, not a windfall. Her sister and brothers, and their spouses, want more. The disparity leads to conflict with Morgan and her siblings facing one another in the District Court of Cass County. The outcome changes their lives forever, and a once trusted friend turns on Morgan and the desires of her late father.

Dakota Willows: A Story of Volga Deutsch Immigration

Literature & Fiction

United States

Gerald Thompson

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