Richard P : 304 books
Black Bear Hunting: Part 1 - Learning About Black Bears
Part 1 - Learning About Black Bears
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Part 1 of 6 of Black Bear Hunting. This part covers the life history, biology and behavior of black bears in chapter 1. Other chapters cover how many bears there are in North America, interpreting black bear sign, the oldest black bear on record for North America, how to sex and size bears in the field and the world record black bear bagged by a hunter.
Black Bear Hunting: Part 2 - Hunting With Bait
The Ultimate Reference
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
All you want to know about black bear hunting over bait including dealing with nocturnal bears, why this method doesn’t guarantee success, one of the biggest myths about this form of hunting, how I got my biggest bear and other wildlife that can be seen while using this hunting method.
Great Michigan Deer Tales: Book 2
Stories Behind Michigan's Biggest Bucks
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1998
More Great Deer Tales from Michigan totally different from Book 1. This book is the only one in the series that features all antler measurements from the monster bucks highlighted. Many of the photos are presented in color. Read about the current state record typical taken in Jackson County during...
Great Michigan Deer Tales: Book 4
Stories Behind Michigan's Biggest Bucks
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2005
The fourth in a series of books that each contain a different collection of true stories about the biggest bucks bagged by hunters in Michigan, including some of World Record Proportions. The first two chapters in this book are about the highest scoring typical buck known taken in North America and...
Great Michigan Deer Tales: Book 1
Stories Behind Michigan's Biggest Bucks
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1994
Learn How, Where and When some of the state's Biggest Bucks were bagged. These special tales are about some of the state's outstanding whitetails as well as the hunters who took them. Find out how big a role skill and luck played in each hunter's success. While these stories of success are intended...
Black Bear Hunting: Part 5 - More Hunting Know How
The Ultimate Reference
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Part 5 of 6 about black bear hunting. More hunting methods such as calling bears to you, drives intended to push bears into other hunters and snow tracking are covered here along with excellent advice on what to hunt black bears with regardless of whether you choose to hunt with a centerfire rifle,...
Great Michigan Deer Tales: Book 6
Stories Behind Michigan's Biggest Bucks
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Another new collection of true short stories about how, where, when and by whom Michigan's biggest bucks have been bagged, with one notable exception. That exception is a chapter about the highest scoring nontypical ever recorded for the state, which was found dead more than a month after hunting...
Black Bear Hunting: Part 4 - Hunting Natural Foods
The Ultimate Reference
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Part 4 of 6 about black bear hunting. This book covers hunting natural food sources such as grain fields, soft mast (apples, cherries and berries), hard mast (acorns, beechnuts, hazelnuts, walnuts, hickory nuts) and fish runs. Watching water holes to ambush black bears is included, too. One of the...
by Richard P. Brent
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013
This outstanding text for graduate students and researchers proposes improvements to existing algorithms, extends their related mathematical theories, and offers details on new algorithms for approximating local and global minima. None of the algorithms requires an evaluation of derivatives; all depend...
Love Letter to a Conflicted Church
Promise in Our Anger and Disagreements
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
The book is organized into three divisions, and as the title implies, there is a brief letter in the form of a New Testament epistle to the contemporary church, a portion of which begins each chapter. The first division reexamines the gifts and redemptive possibilities of anger and conflict. The barriers...
Laughter in a Time of Turmoil
Humor as Spiritual Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2012
Here's a different angle on humor--it can be a spiritual practice, an expression of a theology of joy, hope, and grace. Humor is so valuable, for it offers self-care, healing, and renewal, precious gifts in times of pressure and tension. Olson begins by telling of three unforgettable friends who lived...
A Guide to Ministry Self-Care
Negotiating Today's Challenges with Resilience and Grace
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2018
Ministry has never been an easy path, and the challenges of today’s changing church landscape only heighten the stress and burn-out of congregational leaders. A Guide to Ministry Self-Care offers a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of both the causes of stress and strategies for effective self-care....
by Richard P. Stanley, Sergey Fomin
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 1999
This second volume of a two-volume basic introduction to enumerative combinatorics covers the composition of generating functions, trees, algebraic generating functions, D-finite generating functions, noncommutative generating functions, and symmetric functions. The chapter on symmetric functions...
Down Amongst the Black Gang
The World and Workplace of RMS Titanic's Stokers
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
One of the first works to look inside the powerhouse of Titanic-era ships—the manpower that generated the horsepower, including a list of the ship's "black gang" and their fatesDown in the fiery belly of the luxury liners of the Titanic era, a world away from the first-class dining rooms...