Book Description
The tragedy of extinction is explained through the dramatic story of a legendary bird, the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, and of those who tried to possess it, paint it, shoot it, sell it, and, in a last-ditch effort, save it. A powerful saga that sweeps through two hundred years of history, it introduces artists like John James Audubon, bird collectors like William Brewster, and finally a new breed of scientist in Cornell's Arthur A. "Doc" Allen and his young ornithology student, James Tanner, whose quest to save the Ivory-bill culminates in one of the first great conservation showdowns in U.S. history, an early round in what is now a worldwide effort to save species. As hope for the Ivory-bill fades in the United States, the bird is last spotted in Cuba in 1987, and Cuban scientists join in the race to save it.
All this, plus Mr. Hoose's wonderful story-telling skills, comes together to give us what David Allen Sibley, author of The Sibley Guide to Birds calls "the most thorough and readable account to date of the personalities, fashions, economics, and politics that combined to bring about the demise of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker."
Customer Reviews:
Lord God, what a book!.......2006-04-01
At the risk of sounding blasphemous let me simply say "Lord God, what a book!" This book belongs on your MUST READ list!
This is a perfect example of how nonfiction should be written. Every school and public library should have a copy of this book. It is a valuable addition to the study of man, nature, and the environment.
Phillip Hoose's wonderful book captures the reader's attention and doesn't let it go till the very end of a beautifully written account of one of the most magnificent birds ever to grace this land. The cover of the book, not to mention the title, immediately attracts attention and after reading it the reader clearly understands why this bird was referred to as the Lord God Bird.
Hoose introduces us to collectors like Brewster and Wayne who helped lead to the bird's demise. There are the corporate villains in the form of the Chicago Mill and Lumber Company and the Singer Manufacturing Company who could have saved the last real refuge of the Lord God Bird but who chose profit over conservation when the Singer Tract was not spared from the woodcutter's ax. There are heroes to this story. You will meet Jim Tanner, "Doc" Allen, and J. J. Kuhn who worked tirelessly to save the species. Having read this book I felt that Jim Tanner was definitely someone I wished that I had known personally.
Educators will find countless lessons on environmental awareness, extinction of species, and the recklessness with which man has "civilized" the wilderness.
Well done Mr. Hoose, well done.
Engrossing Non-fiction .......2006-03-23
I picked this book up based on recommendations from online reader groups who said it would read more like fiction than non-fiction. They were right! Hoose has meticulously researched the plight of the "Lord God Bird", the ivory-billed woodpecker, documenting the efforts to locate the dwindling population and the sad effects of man vs. nature. Well highlighted by photographs, we follow the loss of this magnificent creature as its habitat is swallowed up by man's greed in the first half of the twentieth century. Hoose's writing is vivid and engrossing and caused me to do that rarest of things---go online and research more for myself. Most interesting of all is that just after this book was published, there have been reports of the rediscovery of the ivory-bill! This is a wonderful book appropriate for people of all ages and especially those who are worried about the endangerment of species by mankind's shortsightedness. Recommended!
The Lord God Bird.......2005-11-18
I thought that this book was well written, reasearched, and thought through. But as a 12 year old I didn't enjoy it quite as much as i think an older person would. I think that the author wrote the stories well, and made them very drawing. This book was not one of my favorite books, partially because it was very hard to read. The other reason was beause to me it was a bit confusing. I could see him doing a kids version of the same book, but making it a bit simpler or shorter. I thought that the author did a great job in writing this book, but I think you should wait to read it until you are a bit older. Some people I know thought it was a great book, but they're older than me. So again I thought that this was an o.k. book, but not a great kid's read.
The Lord God Bird.......2005-11-17
I thought that this book was well written, and thoroughly researched, but I didn't enjoy it very much. It was a very sad book. The author did a great job writing the story's fact for fact, but there were some parts where you say "awwww" and feel bad for these birds. In one story he wrote, a man went on a hunting trip to find a "Lord God Bird" and killed a family of them, including two babies. The hunter also killed many more birds that trip. I would not recommend this book unless you enjoy sad stories. It is one of those books that draws you into certain stories, but in between them you really want to put the book down.
Studying the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker and Trying Too Late to Save It........2005-11-08
"The Race to Save the Lord God Bird" is a chronicle of the history and demise of the ivory-billed woodpecker. It was written for children ages 9-12 but is perfectly suitable for adults as well. The book is large format in size, which makes the font bigger, but there is just as much text on each page as in an adult book, and there is nothing conspicuously juvenile about it. The large dimensions allow for nice black-and-white photographs of ivory-bills, their habitat, and the people who studied the birds.
Author Phillip Hoose follows human interest in the ivory-bill woodpecker from Alexander Wilson's encounter with the bird in 1809 as he was working on his 9-volume "American Ornithology" to John James Audubon's work sketching the bird in natural poses around 1820. By 1900, large scale deforestation in Southern states had made the ivory-bill rare. At this point, "The Race to Save the Lord God Bird" turns its attention to the collectors who were continuing to mine the population when they clearly shouldn't have been and the beginnings of organized conservation efforts, starting with the "Plume Wars" that sought to end the slaughter of birds to decorate ladies' hats. It describes the 1935 Cornell University expedition by Jim Tanner, George Sutton, Arthur "Doc" Allen, and Paul Kellogg to record bird calls of nearly 100 species in the Tensas Swamp in Louisiana. That's followed up by an account of Jim Tanner's 3 years studying the few remaining ivory-bills for the Audubon Society, 1937-1939, from which he wrote his still-famous book.
As Tanner was creeping around in it, the Singer Manufacturing Company sold logging rights to the Singer Tract, where the last known ivory-bills lived, and efforts to preserve the forest by purchasing it failed. The ivory-billed woodpecker was declared extinct. A couple chapters are dedicated to recent searches for the ivory-bill in Cuba and the United States, but this book was published before the announcement in April 2005 that the ivory-bill may still live. In the back of the book, there are maps of the shrinking ivory-bill habitat 1800-present, a chronology of important dates in ivory-bill and bird conservation, a glossary of terms, a detailed list of sources, and an index. "The Race to Save the Lord God Bird" is a readable and informative account of the actions and circumstances that brought the ivory-bill woodpecker to near-extinction in spite of a persistent human fascination with the bird and concerted efforts to save it. For more information on sightings of the ivory-bill since it was presumed extinct in the 1940s, see Tim Gallagher's book "The Grail Bird: Hot on the Trail of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker".
Customer Reviews:
Urban fantasy at its very best.......2004-12-21
This collection of stories is both moving and profound. Fairytales for grown ups touching on everything from the creatures of the wild wood and city scapes to the majic of the southwest. Jilly Coppercorn, Sophie and the others come to life with each and every page. Charles de Lint writes from the perspective of the female mind exceptionally well! And I find myself revisiting the wonderful, frightning and often delightful town of Newford more and more often......... Highly recommended for anyone who loves good stories with a common thread.
Book Description
In the city of Newford, when the stars and the vibes are right, you can touch magic. Mermaids sing in the murky harbor, desert spirits crowd the night, and dreams are more real than waking.Charles de Lint began his chronicles of the extraordinary city of Newford in Memory amp; Dream and the short-story collection Dreams Underfoot. In The Ivory and the Horn, this uncommonly gifted craftsman weaves a new tapestry of stark realism and fond hope, mean streets and boulevards of dreams, where you will rediscover the power of love and longing, of wishes and desires, and of the magic that hovers at the edge of everyday life.
Customer Reviews:
15 stories of Newford.......2006-08-06
"There are two gates of sleep. One is of horn, easy passage for the shades of truth; the other, of gleaming white ivory, permits false dreams to ascend to the upper air."
- The Aeneid, by Virgil
"Any place is a desert when there's more going on underground than on the surface."
- "The Bone Woman"
As usual with de Lint, all but one of the stories herein have appeared previously, half having been written for themed anthologies (noted parenthetically). The Newford stories among them often showcase supporting characters from among Jilly Coppercorn's circle. The style often alternates between third person and first person within a single story.
"Bird Bones and Wood Ash" (original) are the residue left behind when Jaime uses the fey gifts given to her after her lover's death. She enters the dreams of monsters, those who abuse the weak, leaving them incapable of harming anyone again - and that's *before* she meets the protagonist of "The Forest Is Crying". But every action has consequences, actions between people most of all.
Jilly's Geordie first sees "The Bone Woman" accomplishing a minor miracle: getting Ellie the street person to *connect* with her in conversation. But the Bone Woman worries him, even before he hears legends about her...
"Coyote Stories" are stories of Coyote the trickster who's always in trouble, but also stories of the ordinary men who left the reserve for the city. Mostly, it's the story of Albert, who took his lack of money as an omen, quit drinking, then started to stand up for himself and others. "...[Everybody], we're a set of stories, and what those stories are is what makes us what we are."
"Dead Man's Shoes" (from TOUCH WOOD: NARROW HOUSES, VOLUME 2), according to a new/old belief on the street, must be removed to keep a murder victim from 'walking'. But why would Macaulay care if E walks or not? (Revolves around the Grasso Street Angel, who keeps seeing the victim in her dreams, but can't figure out what he wants.)
"Dream Harder, Dream True" (from TEMPORARY WALLS) Jean, who dreamed of hard-boiled heroes rescuing fallen good-hearted women, found an angel with a broken wing on his doorstep one night. Sophie's family background makes an appearance.
"The Forest Is Crying" (from THE EARTH STRIKES BACK) When a young woman asks the protagonist - a social worker deeply depressed over a little boy's death caused by a woman skilled at befuddling judges - to help save the rainforests, he rejects her, saying that trees don't cry; kids do. But the rainforest girl is interested in more than trees' pain - even a total stranger drinking himself sick in depression.
"The Forever Trees" The viewpoint alternates between 1st-person dreamer, 3rd-person following the dreamer, 3rd-person following her best friend Joe.
"Mr. Truepenny's Book Emporium and Gallery" - the childhood fantasy of the narrator, Jilly's fellow artist Sophie, whom Jilly says has faery blood. Although Sophie still has a rich dream life, she drifted away from the Emporium until a total stranger, seeing her in a store, cried out that she was the person responsible for evicting poor Mr. Truepenny...
"Pal O'Mine" (from CHRISTMAS FOREVER) At Christmas the narrator remembers her best friend, a composer who never fit a mold, who hated the hypocrisy of the season: the once-a-year charity hand-in-hand with conspicuous consumption. A woman of contradictions...
When Jilly encounters Tommy from "Waifs and Strays", he asks her not for the story of her painting-in-progress but of "The Pochade Box" - the antique box of colours serving as one of her tools. Jilly's present narrative alternates with the story-within-a-story of Jilly's encounters with the spirit of the box's former owner. "What's it like when you're dead?" "You still dream."
"Saxophone Joe and the Woman in Black" (see reviews of CATFANTASTIC III) "What gets me is how everybody's looking to make sense of things. Sometimes you don't want sense. Sometimes, the last thing in the world you need is sense."
"A Tempest in Her Eyes" (from WEIRD TALES FROM SHAKESPEARE) follows up "The Conjure Man" from DREAMS UNDERFOOT, but this time Wendy narrates. While she still nurtures her Tree of Tales, she's going through a creative drought until the night her friends take her to the final performance of a run of A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM.
"Waifs and Strays" (see the collection WAIFS AND STRAYS) introduces Maisie and Tommy, denizens of the mean streets of Newford.
"Where Desert Spirits Crowd the Night" Sophie meets a grieving man in the waking world whom she half-remembers meeting in dreams, but his dreamworld reflects the southwestern desert and the Big Reservation, not her own Mabon.
"The Wishing Well" alternates between Brenda - sometime writer/reporter, now the paper's advertising manager - and 3rd person, allowing us to see Brenda as she sees herself, then as others see her. When Brenda buckles down to "get her life on track" - a debt management plan at the bank, cutting up her credit cards, a new diet, and quitting smoking at the same time...it's not surprising that she becomes so stressed that she withdraws to her private place to think - an old wishing well near an abandoned motel, where she can almost hear the memory of old wishes.
So good I teach it!.......2003-06-18
I taught "The Pochade Box" and a student picked out "Dead Men's Shoes" from this collection to be taught by both of us. I read this collection originally some years ago and was delighted how much I loved re-reading it this spring. There are many wonderful stories in here.
More beautiful tales from the streets of Newford.......2001-12-06
This second collection of urban fantasy stories from de Lint's fictional city of Newford is almost as pleasurable as the first. As before, each story can be read and enjoyed on its own, but taken as a whole, they build subtly upon each other, and on stories from Dreams Underfoot, to create a whole portrait of a city that is greater than the sum of its parts. De Lint's lyrical, beautiful prose subtly underplays the magic, making it completely believable that there truly is this greater world beyond the one we ordinarily perceive.
The only reason I give this book four stars rather than five is the apparent influence that author/attorney Andrew Vachss has on this collection. Vachss's work crusading against crimes against children is indeed an admirable goal. However, several stories in a row in The Ivory and the Horn pick up on those themes--one even mentioning Vachss as someone one of the characters has had contact with--and it lends that particular section a samey sort of feeling, as opposed to the variety I prefer to find in short story collections. Individually, the stories are just fine. I simply would have prefered to see them presented in a different order, to keep the recurring themes from feeling so obvious.
the best De Lint book.......2000-11-15
This is always the book I recommend for those who have never read De Lint's work before. These stories show the magic of everyday life and provide inspiration for surmounting difficulties. De Lint is amazing for his ability to write from a woman's perspective...like one of the previous reviewers, "Bird Bones and Wood Ash" is definitely my favorite story in the collection. Anyone interested in the human condition, whether or not they are fans of fantasy writing, will be drawn in by this collection of stories.
Enjoyable.......2000-09-05
I haven't read a lot of DeLint's work, but this and his other two collections of short stories I found to be enchanting. I espically like that you find the same charachters in several of the stories, but from different perspectives so you really get to know the charachters. It's realistic in the way that people interact with thier circles of friends and the magical element is refreshing and makes you open your eyes to the world around you.......you may find yourself looking for the faries in the park without realising it after reading this book.
Book Description
In this Locus Recommended Read by the author of Mythago Wood, Christian Huxley enters the strange, remarkable world of Ryhope Wood in search of his missing father.
"One of Britain's best fantasists." (London Times)
"The finest writer of metamorphic fantasy now working." (Washington Post Book World)
Customer Reviews:
A diversity of interesting characters........2006-11-12
Gate of Ivory goes back in time in the Mythago Wood sequence to tell us the story of Christian Huxley.
Steven's brother, who has never recovered from his mother's suicide after an terrible attack by a band of Mythago warriors when he was only a small boy, is now a grown man and goes exploring into the Wood. There he joins the Long Person, a makeshift group of forgotten figures from past legends, among which Guiwenneth, with whom he'll deeply fall in love. After living with them for a while, he learns that they're here to help the warrior Kylhuk's Legion in his quests, and soon Christian discovers he has a role to play too.
What I enjoyed in this fifth volume is the diversity of interesting characters and their stories. It was also great to read Christian's side of the story. Indeed in this tome he appears as a much less barbaric and more humane person than in the first one.
Holdstock just keeps getting better.......2005-09-13
Holdstock, if you can get past those swirling, confusing time-and-scenario shifts that he's so fond of, is one of the best authors you will ever encounter, and his novels the most enthralling. The man has a brain like no one else. Each Mythago novel deals with a different main character, and generally you don't need to read them in order, though it helps. Each has a tenuous sort of link with its companions through either mythagos in common, or mutual friends, that sort of thing. Gate of Ivory, Gate of Horn is the story of Christian Huxley, who we met first in Mythago Wood, and who wasn't really a very nice guy. This novel tells the story of how he was captured by Ryhope Wood (and hence became a bit of a ****)- through Guiwenneth, who also fascinated his father; and the larger-than-life figure of Kylhuk, whose quest he becomes embroiled in.
While you're reading this I guarantee there will be moments where you go "WHAT ON EARTH IS GOING ON?!?!" but by god, reaching the end is so worth it. And if you've been paying proper attention, it will all make sense.
I don't even need to talk about his prose. I hope that if you're reading this review then you've read one or more of his novels already, and know how emotive, visual and wide his imagery is. I can't think of any other books where I can see so clearly what an author is describing.
Holdstock's vision is immensely far-reaching - each novel in the series explains something in a different novel, and while I said before that you can read them out of order, NONE of them should be regarded as a stand-alone. If you read one, and your curiosity was even remotely piqued by any loose ends (of if you just love Holdstock ;)), you must read the others. Every novel is typical of Holdstock in that, like I said before, he seems to like writing a story that is highly ambiguous, and quite challenging in ways both literary and emotional. There is only one book in the series, for example, with a happy ending - I won't tell you which if you haven't read it ;). The only possible quibble that I might have with him is that in each novel, the ending is sort of unfinished - but to me that leaves a lot of room for speculation, interpretation, and hopefully -god, SO hopefully - for further novels.
Avoid this book.......2003-09-22
Some like horror; other readers like a good mystery, but don't read this book unless you find confusion entertaining. I have read the other reviews and I have to disagree. Yes the _premise_ is imaginative but as I read, I found myself waiting for something to make sense and the _story_ to begin. The book lacks character introductions, character descriptions and enlightening dialogue. I finally got some dialogue well past the point where I expected it but it did little to clear up matters. Once the book does get underway, watch out for rapid changes in backdrop and characters, usually without warning or transitional language. I found myself having to go back and re-read to decipher what was going on. A technical manual would have been a n easier read. Finally, the gratuitous bodily fluid descriptions are a bit disturbing, all the worse if they are important to the story.
So, the final score on this one: while very imaginative and original, the lack of characterization, the numerous plot shifts combined with a void of detail on the hero manage to torpedo a promising story.
His best work since Mythago Wood.......2003-06-22
WOW...is all I have to say after reading Gate of Ivory, Gate of Horn. Unlike his other efforts since Mythago Wood itself, this book provided that same stomach-knotting pleasure-pain climax that the original possessed. I highly recommend it.
That's not to say it's perfect. I found Christian's exploits with Legion a bit boring, frankly. Also, Holdstock has taken Ryhope Wood to its most extreme yet in terms of time-space distortion. It got a little confusing.
But Holdstock has succeeded immeasurably in his "Sympathy for the Devil" look at Christian. For those who wondered how he became the monster he did in Mythago Wood, here is your answer, beautifully wrought. The phrase "the road to Hell is paved with good intentions" could have been made to describe the ending of this book. Christian did everything right (he even chose the right gate!), but could not escape his destiny, and in the end just accepted it.
The final chapters and coda of Gate of Ivory, Gate of Horn are well worth every long-in-the-tooth saga of Legion's exploits. The ending makes the reader think, wonder, feel sorry for Christian AND Guiwinneth, and wonder where in the very circular timeline of events could Christian have changed his fate. Also you realize that Steven had the deck stacked in his favor before HIS tale even began. Which leads the reader to re-ponder Mythago Wood, and so the circle continues. The great timeless mythic quality that Lavondyss, among others, lacked is here in droves.
In short, Gate of Ivory, Gate of Horn, while not quite as outstanding as Mythago Wood (which I consider the best fantasy work, EVER - makes Tolkien look like an amateur) is really close. Read it.
His best work since Mythago Wood.......2003-06-22
WOW...is all I have to say after reading Gate of Ivory, Gate of Horn. Unlike his other efforts since Mythago Wood itself, this book provided that same stomach-knotting pleasure-pain climax that the original possessed. I highly recommend it.
That's not to say it's perfect. I found Christian's exploits with Legion a bit boring, frankly. Also, Holdstock has taken Ryhope Wood to its most extreme yet in terms of time-space distortion. It got a little confusing.
But Holdstock has succeeded immeasurably in his "Sympathy for the Devil" look at Christian. For those who wondered how he became the monster he did in Mythago Wood, here is your answer, beautifully wrought. The phrase "the road to Hell is paved with good intentions" could have been made to describe the ending of this book. Christian did everything right (he even chose the right gate!), but could not escape his destiny, and in the end just accepted it.
The final chapters and coda of Gate of Ivory, Gate of Horn are well worth every long-in-the-tooth saga of Legion's exploits. The ending makes the reader think, wonder, feel sorry for Christian AND Guiwinneth, and wonder where in the very circular timeline of events could Christian have changed his fate. Also you realize that Steven had the deck stacked in his favor before HIS tale even began. Which leads the reader to re-ponder Mythago Wood, and so the circle continues. The great timeless mythic quality that Lavondyss, among others, lacked is here in droves.
In short, Gate of Ivory, Gate of Horn, while not quite as outstanding as Mythago Wood (which I consider the best fantasy work, EVER - makes Tolkien look like an amateur) is really close. Read it.
Customer Reviews:
A vast disappointment.......2005-12-17
Comparing this book with Gaiman's Sandman is simply misleading. It has none of the light or spirit that characterizes his work.
I didn't expect it to be this good . . ........2000-03-20
but it is. It's really, really good. No, not as good as Neil Gaiman, but you couldn't have expected that. It's excellent, though. It's also a huge improvement on the first "Dreaming" anthology, Beyond The Shores of Night. Caitlin Kiernan (who wrote two story arcs in this collection made up of 3 issues each) is a worthy successor to the Sandman universe--which is not an easy thing to be--and Peter Hogan (who wrote two short stories) is close.
I shall now discuss each story. The first is "Day's Work, Night's Rest" by someone whose name I don't remember. I didn't really like this one. It started out trying to be serious (as far as I can tell), but ended up with a sort of black comedy that didn't work. And the art was really ugly. Next!
"Ice" by Peter Hogan. Ah, much better. This is the one where the story of Cluracan and his nemesis is resolved. We also get to see Nuala working as a barmaid in New York; she gets a visit from Lucien. I very much enjoyed Hogan's characterization of the Cluracan, and the art is superior.
Next is a 3-part story arc by Caitlin R. Kiernan, called "Souvenirs". It's about the Corinthian, a character I have always found fascinating. And this story is fantastic. I honestly think it ranks up with some parts of Sandman; perhaps "Collectors", only more disturbing. (Yes, more disturbing than "Collectors". This story is not for the faint of heart.) Caitlin Kiernan has a lovely and unique style. She invents words ("cricketwhisper") and makes extensive use of the word "and" to join together phrases and thoughts you wouldn't normally join together, creating startling, unconventional-sounding prose which somehow captures the mood perfectly.
Then there's another Kiernan story arc: An Unkindness of One. I didn't like this one as much, but it was still pretty cool. It's about Matthew becoming a man again temporarily, as Lucien becomes a raven again temporarily. I didn't get some of what was going on, but I think I'd have enjoyed it a lot more if I kept up with "Swamp Thing". Kiernan's prose still shines. Something to note: The f-word is probably used ten times as much in this one book than it was during the entire run of Sandman. :)
Lastly, another Peter Hogan story: My Year As A Man. This concerns Dream's raven Aristeas of Marmora (remember, "the one who came back after he was a man again"). As you may have figured out from the title, Aristeas spends a year as a man, then goes back to being a raven. It's a moderately good story, but Peter Hogan really won me over by putting Thessaly in it--quite a bit younger, and now calling herself Hypata, but still Thessaly. I was thrilled to see her again.
This collection far surpassed my expectations--particularly "Souvenirs". If you were devastated when you had no more Sandman to read, definitely check this out!
A superb comic!.......2000-02-11
Since Caitlin Kiernan took over The Dreaming it's been almost as good as The Sandman, as this collection will demonstrate. She's definitely one of the best writers at Vertigo today.
Neil Gaiman it's not..........2000-01-02
Well, I suppose that if every comic writer were going to be criticized for not being Neil Gaiman I'd have a very long night ahead of me indeed. But still, the fact that these are almost all characters that he created make the comparisons more obvious. While Ms. Kiernan does a workable job with the storylines and characters left hanging at the end of "The Wake," she just doesn't have the flair that Gaiman did. The biggest annoyance for me was that where Gaiman would hint at a million literary, mythological and pop culture references to be discovered like treasures on the third or fourth reading in his comics, with Kiernan the ones that aren't immediately obvious (which are most of them) are nearly always explained within the story. But for anyone who may have found Gaiman's writing too dense or obscure, they may prefer her method. I personally don't. Still, it was nice to have something left of the Dreaming, even if it's more like the Dreaming Lite.
Ms. Kiernan plays well with Mr. Gaiman's characters........1999-12-18
Neil Gaiman's SANDMAN comics series is categorically a classic in the field. Certainly, a certain trepidation about other authors mucking about with his uniquely defined characters is not only understandable, but expected. Not to worry our continuity-riddled grey matter! In this, the second collected volume of THE DREAMING comic, Caitlin Kiernan proves more than apt to the task. Here we have Gaiman archetypes like Mervyn, Matthew the Raven, Eve (yes, THAT Eve, the first one!), the Corinthian (a very bizarre dream who here deals with his addiction to eyeballs --- no twelve-step program was ever like this!), and my personal favorite, Lucien the librarian of dreams. The stories are all handsomely sophisticated with even more than a touch of Gaimanesque erudition. Additionally, while Ms. Kiernan's style, even semantics and syntax, are mindful of Mr. Gaiman, much of her prose is solely her own. As with Gaiman's masterful oeuvre, this is comics in its finest form. A grand introduction to those who have either forgotten or ever known the pleasure of comics.
Book Description
On the demand side, exporters and strategic planners focusing on bones, horns, ivory, hooves, claws, coral, and shells in Australia face a number of questions. Which countries are supplying bones, horns, ivory, hooves, claws, coral, and shells to Australia? How important is Australia compared to others in terms of the entire global and regional market? How much do the imports of bones, horns, ivory, hooves, claws, coral, and shells vary from one country of origin to another in Australia? On the supply side, Australia also exports bones, horns, ivory, hooves, claws, coral, and shells. Which countries receive the most exports from Australia? How are these exports concentrated across buyers? What is the value of these exports and which countries are the largest buyers? This report was created for strategic planners, international marketing executives and import/export managers who are concerned with the market for bones, horns, ivory, hooves, claws, coral, and shells in Australia. With the globalization of this market, managers can no longer be contented with a local view. Nor can managers be contented with out-of-date statistics which appear several years after the fact. I have developed a methodology, based on macroeconomic and trade models, to estimate the market for bones, horns, ivory, hooves, claws, coral, and shells for those countries serving Australia via exports, or supplying from Australia via imports. It does so for the current year based on a variety of key historical indicators and econometric models. In what follows, Chapter 2 begins by summarizing where Australia fits into the world market for imported and exported bones, horns, ivory, hooves, claws, coral, and shells. The total level of imports and exports on a worldwide basis, and those for Australia in particular, is estimated using a model which aggregates across over 150 key country markets and projects these to the current year. From there, each country represents a percent of the world market. This market is served from a number of competitive countries of origin. Based on both demand- and supply-side dynamics, market shares by country of origin are then calculated across each country market destination. These shares lead to a volume of import and export values for each country and are aggregated to regional and world totals. In doing so, we are able to obtain maximum likelihood estimates of both the value of each market and the share that Australia is likely to receive this year. From these figures, rankings are calculated to allow managers to prioritize Australia compared to other major country markets. In this way, all the figures provided in this report are forecasts that can be combined with internal information sources for strategic planning purposes.
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On the demand side, exporters and strategic planners focusing on bones, horns, ivory, hooves, claws, coral, and shells in Belgium face a number of questions. Which countries are supplying bones, horns, ivory, hooves, claws, coral, and shells to Belgium? How important is Belgium compared to others in terms of the entire global and regional market? How much do the imports of bones, horns, ivory, hooves, claws, coral, and shells vary from one country of origin to another in Belgium? On the supply side, Belgium also exports bones, horns, ivory, hooves, claws, coral, and shells. Which countries receive the most exports from Belgium? How are these exports concentrated across buyers? What is the value of these exports and which countries are the largest buyers? This report was created for strategic planners, international marketing executives and import/export managers who are concerned with the market for bones, horns, ivory, hooves, claws, coral, and shells in Belgium. With the globalization of this market, managers can no longer be contented with a local view. Nor can managers be contented with out-of-date statistics which appear several years after the fact. I have developed a methodology, based on macroeconomic and trade models, to estimate the market for bones, horns, ivory, hooves, claws, coral, and shells for those countries serving Belgium via exports, or supplying from Belgium via imports. It does so for the current year based on a variety of key historical indicators and econometric models. In what follows, Chapter 2 begins by summarizing where Belgium fits into the world market for imported and exported bones, horns, ivory, hooves, claws, coral, and shells. The total level of imports and exports on a worldwide basis, and those for Belgium in particular, is estimated using a model which aggregates across over 150 key country markets and projects these to the current year. From there, each country represents a percent of the world market. This market is served from a number of competitive countries of origin. Based on both demand- and supply-side dynamics, market shares by country of origin are then calculated across each country market destination. These shares lead to a volume of import and export values for each country and are aggregated to regional and world totals. In doing so, we are able to obtain maximum likelihood estimates of both the value of each market and the share that Belgium is likely to receive this year. From these figures, rankings are calculated to allow managers to prioritize Belgium compared to other major country markets. In this way, all the figures provided in this report are forecasts that can be combined with internal information sources for strategic planning purposes.
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On the demand side, exporters and strategic planners focusing on bones, horns, ivory, hooves, claws, coral, and shells in Canada face a number of questions. Which countries are supplying bones, horns, ivory, hooves, claws, coral, and shells to Canada? How important is Canada compared to others in terms of the entire global and regional market? How much do the imports of bones, horns, ivory, hooves, claws, coral, and shells vary from one country of origin to another in Canada? On the supply side, Canada also exports bones, horns, ivory, hooves, claws, coral, and shells. Which countries receive the most exports from Canada? How are these exports concentrated across buyers? What is the value of these exports and which countries are the largest buyers? This report was created for strategic planners, international marketing executives and import/export managers who are concerned with the market for bones, horns, ivory, hooves, claws, coral, and shells in Canada. With the globalization of this market, managers can no longer be contented with a local view. Nor can managers be contented with out-of-date statistics which appear several years after the fact. I have developed a methodology, based on macroeconomic and trade models, to estimate the market for bones, horns, ivory, hooves, claws, coral, and shells for those countries serving Canada via exports, or supplying from Canada via imports. It does so for the current year based on a variety of key historical indicators and econometric models. In what follows, Chapter 2 begins by summarizing where Canada fits into the world market for imported and exported bones, horns, ivory, hooves, claws, coral, and shells. The total level of imports and exports on a worldwide basis, and those for Canada in particular, is estimated using a model which aggregates across over 150 key country markets and projects these to the current year. From there, each country represents a percent of the world market. This market is served from a number of competitive countries of origin. Based on both demand- and supply-side dynamics, market shares by country of origin are then calculated across each country market destination. These shares lead to a volume of import and export values for each country and are aggregated to regional and world totals. In doing so, we are able to obtain maximum likelihood estimates of both the value of each market and the share that Canada is likely to receive this year. From these figures, rankings are calculated to allow managers to prioritize Canada compared to other major country markets. In this way, all the figures provided in this report are forecasts that can be combined with internal information sources for strategic planning purposes.
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On the demand side, exporters and strategic planners focusing on bones, horns, ivory, hooves, claws, coral, and shells in China face a number of questions. Which countries are supplying bones, horns, ivory, hooves, claws, coral, and shells to China? How important is China compared to others in terms of the entire global and regional market? How much do the imports of bones, horns, ivory, hooves, claws, coral, and shells vary from one country of origin to another in China? On the supply side, China also exports bones, horns, ivory, hooves, claws, coral, and shells. Which countries receive the most exports from China? How are these exports concentrated across buyers? What is the value of these exports and which countries are the largest buyers? This report was created for strategic planners, international marketing executives and import/export managers who are concerned with the market for bones, horns, ivory, hooves, claws, coral, and shells in China. With the globalization of this market, managers can no longer be contented with a local view. Nor can managers be contented with out-of-date statistics which appear several years after the fact. I have developed a methodology, based on macroeconomic and trade models, to estimate the market for bones, horns, ivory, hooves, claws, coral, and shells for those countries serving China via exports, or supplying from China via imports. It does so for the current year based on a variety of key historical indicators and econometric models. In what follows, Chapter 2 begins by summarizing where China fits into the world market for imported and exported bones, horns, ivory, hooves, claws, coral, and shells. The total level of imports and exports on a worldwide basis, and those for China in particular, is estimated using a model which aggregates across over 150 key country markets and projects these to the current year. From there, each country represents a percent of the world market. This market is served from a number of competitive countries of origin. Based on both demand- and supply-side dynamics, market shares by country of origin are then calculated across each country market destination. These shares lead to a volume of import and export values for each country and are aggregated to regional and world totals. In doing so, we are able to obtain maximum likelihood estimates of both the value of each market and the share that China is likely to receive this year. From these figures, rankings are calculated to allow managers to prioritize China compared to other major country markets. In this way, all the figures provided in this report are forecasts that can be combined with internal information sources for strategic planning purposes.
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On the demand side, exporters and strategic planners focusing on bones, horns, ivory, hooves, claws, coral, and shells in France face a number of questions. Which countries are supplying bones, horns, ivory, hooves, claws, coral, and shells to France? How important is France compared to others in terms of the entire global and regional market? How much do the imports of bones, horns, ivory, hooves, claws, coral, and shells vary from one country of origin to another in France? On the supply side, France also exports bones, horns, ivory, hooves, claws, coral, and shells. Which countries receive the most exports from France? How are these exports concentrated across buyers? What is the value of these exports and which countries are the largest buyers? This report was created for strategic planners, international marketing executives and import/export managers who are concerned with the market for bones, horns, ivory, hooves, claws, coral, and shells in France. With the globalization of this market, managers can no longer be contented with a local view. Nor can managers be contented with out-of-date statistics which appear several years after the fact. I have developed a methodology, based on macroeconomic and trade models, to estimate the market for bones, horns, ivory, hooves, claws, coral, and shells for those countries serving France via exports, or supplying from France via imports. It does so for the current year based on a variety of key historical indicators and econometric models. In what follows, Chapter 2 begins by summarizing where France fits into the world market for imported and exported bones, horns, ivory, hooves, claws, coral, and shells. The total level of imports and exports on a worldwide basis, and those for France in particular, is estimated using a model which aggregates across over 150 key country markets and projects these to the current year. From there, each country represents a percent of the world market. This market is served from a number of competitive countries of origin. Based on both demand- and supply-side dynamics, market shares by country of origin are then calculated across each country market destination. These shares lead to a volume of import and export values for each country and are aggregated to regional and world totals. In doing so, we are able to obtain maximum likelihood estimates of both the value of each market and the share that France is likely to receive this year. From these figures, rankings are calculated to allow managers to prioritize France compared to other major country markets. In this way, all the figures provided in this report are forecasts that can be combined with internal information sources for strategic planning purposes.
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