Forest Plants Of The Southeast And Their Wildlife Uses

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Simple to use.......2007-06-27

This book should be in the collection of anyone interested in wildlife, plant ID, botany or gardening. Quality pictures make identification easy. The information is concise and helpful.

Plant Field Guide.......2007-05-22

This is an excellent plant guide with great photo illustrations. The use of as many as four images to illustrate a plant makes this book one of my favorite plant guides.

Great resource.......2006-11-10

This book is a wonderfully organized reference for anyone. It contains all important details while still remaining concise and efficient.

excellent book.......2006-06-19

This is a very comprehensive guide with clear pictures. I like that it doesn't focus just on wildflowers, but on all types of plants. I highly recommend it for easy plant identification.

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The charming and elegant cities of Charleston and Savannah are some of the only cities in the United States that don't look like they were built yesterday, and the depth of history and southern charisma that cling to these cities make them some of the most alluring cities around. With Moon Charleston and Savannah you can learn about the history of the sister cities, find out where to shop in Savannah or club in Charleston, and get details on biking the Sea Island Coast or finding the best seafood. Mike Sigalas helps you have a truly personal experience in these beautiful hotspots.

Suggested travel strategies and lists of must-see sights provide you with real insights so you can decide where you should go, stay, and eat—without hassles or regrets. Mike details where to hike, bike, shop, golf, stroll, and more. Complete with maps, photographs, illustrations, and special emphasis on leading destinations such as Fort Sumter, Charleston Historic District, Magnolia Plantation and Gardens, Hunting Island, St. Helena Island, Fort Pulanski, Cumberland Island, Saint Simons Village, and the Historic Districts of Charleston and Savannah.

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Get something else.......2007-10-02

The free guides you can get around the city were more helpful than this book. If you want a boring look at the beautiful city of Savannah, GA get this book.

Moon Charleston and Savannah.......2007-06-10

This book was very helpful as a guide for our visit to Savannah and Charleston. We relied on the book for prelimenary and detailed information. It made the visit much more informative and enjoyable. If we had a question, we just looked it up. Good book!

Moon Handbooks Charleston and Savannah (Moon Handbooks)

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Moon Handbooks Charleston and Savannah (Moon Handbooks)
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Since its creation in 1973, the award-winning Moon Handbooks series has become a top choice among travelers who want a completely unique experience, a new perspective -- and a few new stories to tell. Want to know about your destination's history, culture, and social issues? Looking for the lowdown on recreational opportunities, dining and accommodations options, and the most interesting regional sights and entertainment? No problem. Big or small, mainstream or obscure, every worthwhile detail is included in these books. With color photos, illustrations and maps, Moon Handbooks: Charleston and Savannah includes coverage of popular coastal destinations, as well as the four distinct "Golden Isles." It profiles an array of outdoor activities like kayaking, golfing, biking, and more, and features details on beach music and the Shag culture of the South along with discussions on a wide variety of food, from soul to international.

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Don't bother.......2004-09-10

I hoped to kill two birds with one stone with this book as I plan to visit both Savannah and Charleston. I have only made it to Savannah so far, but found this book very sparse on information. There was only a very small section on Savannah which contained one lone page of restaurant listings. There was also only a small piece on Bonaventure Cemetary (two paragraphs), and the book did not include any maps or directions to get you to the cemetary and it is quite off the beaten track! I would recommend saving your money for real guidebook.

A well-written guide.......2004-04-06

I used this book on my first trip to Savannah, and it was great. The author has a lot of personality, and he vividly describes the people, places, and atmosphere of this most unique place. We tried out a number of the recommendations in the book, and they were all good. A highly recommended guidebook to a fantastic city.

Excellently written book!.......2003-09-23

I really enjoyed the details and humor in this Moon book. It's really well written and has great maps! I took it with me on a recent trip to Charleston and found it to be an excellent resource. Mike Sigalas really captures the feel of the region and has great recommendations.

Disappointing Guidebook; Many errors........2003-08-14

I was very disappointed using this book on my first trip to Charleston and Savannah.

The maps contained numerous errors. The index was incomplete, omitting many attractions contained in the book. It was frustrating trying to find information.

The hotel and restaurant listings were skimpy, and omitted helpful information. It took me 30 minutes to locate one restaurant because the map was wrong, and then when I arrived, I discovered that the restaurant was only open on the weekends.

The main strengths of this book are the historical background and anecdotes (some of which were more fiction than fact, according to the docents I met at the museums and plantations.)

I have been a fan of the Moon Handbook series. Their books on Hawaii, Alaska, Oregon, Washington, and Yellowstone Nat'l Park are excellent. This one, however, was bad.

Luckily, I brought a second guidebook along, Fodors. While I usually don't like Fodors, this one was good, and was more helpful than the Moon Handbook. Save your money and buy the Fodors.

Outstanding guide to two of my favorite cities........2003-04-05

I have been to Charleston and Savannah several times, so I picked up this book to see if Mike Sigalas "got it right."

He certainly did.

This book not only tells you the things you ought to see, but also tells you things that you ought to know to really appreciate these two extraordinary places. For example, his extensive history sections help explain why these two cities are not simple clones of each other.

His small articles do not shy away from controversial topics. When writing about the very few remaining slave houses, for example, he explains how these humble structures were not torn down to obliterate any visible remembrance of the bad old days of slavery, but fell the same fate as almost every other working class house from that time.

The book has good maps and directions, and--best of all--in my estimation, it does not sound like it was written by the local Chamber of Commerce. Sigalas's humor comes through without feeling a need to show off.

This book is best read before you go to Charleston and/or Savannah. It will make your visit(s) so much better.

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Many presidential quotations have entered the realm of common knowledge--"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself," or "Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country"--while others, intended for smaller audiences, have slipped undeservedly into obscurity. The World Almanac of Presidential Quotations deals primarily with the latter type, focusing less on prepared sound bites than on passages culled from private journals and informal speeches that reveal the character of the presidents more effectively than a catchy election-year promise.

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More than 3,000 presidential quotes in one volume.

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This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's literature.

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Dieses umfassende Lehrbuch wendet sich an Studenten, Fachleute und Wissenschaftler und liegt somit im Niveau deutlich über den üblichen Sachbüchern zur Bionik. Es wird gezeigt, was Bionik ist, wie sie sich entwickelt hat, wie man Fragen stellt und was Bionik leisten kann. Im Detail diskutiert das Buch ausgewählte Beispiele aus den verschiedensten technologischen Bereichen. Es bietet auch einen Zugang zum wissenschaftlichen und gesellschaftlichen Umfeld der Bionik. Die vielfältigen Facetten dieser interdisziplinären Wissenschaft fügen sich in diesem anspruchsvollen Werk puzzleartig zu einer "Biostrategie in die Zukunft" zusammen. Seit dem Erscheinen der 1. Auflage hat sich die Bionik vielseitig weiterentwickelt. Das Buch wurde daher von Grund auf neu geschrieben, wobei einige bewährte Abschnitte beibehalten wurden. Der Umfang wurde verdoppelt, die Zahl der Beispiele vervierfacht.

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The enormous potential of digital computation to manage new complex systems is impeded by exponential increases in complexity. As the model's dimensionality increases from hundreds to thousands of variables, and as submodels constructed by diverse technical teams are integrated into the total model, the model is likely to become inconsistent and even more likely, the computational requests on the model become unallowable.

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In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower

the new translation is a joy to read

In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower

In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower: In Search of Lost Time, Vol. 2 (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Marcel Proust
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Release Date: 2005-01-25

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In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower is Proust's spectacular dissection of male and female adolescence, charged with the narrator's memories of Paris and the Normandy seaside. At the heart of the story lie his relationships with his grandmother and with the Swann family. As a meditation on different forms of love, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower has no equal. Here, Proust introduces some of his greatest comic inventions, from the magnificently dull M. de Norpois to the enchanting Robert de Saint-Loup. It is memorable as well for the first appearance of the two figures who for better or worse are to dominate the narrator's life—the Baron de Charlus and the mysterious Albertine.

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Another fine translation..........2007-05-14

Grieve's translation of "A l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs" is a fine follow-up to Lydia Davis's "Swann's Way." This is the first time I am reading the "Search" and, as far as the translation goes, I only have about a hundred pages of Moncrieff to compare it to. I don't feel that there is anything missing from the language, however. Other reviewers have commented on Grieve's use of English clichés to replace the French clichés (this is especially noticeable in the case of M. de Norpois) but I don't have a problem with this - I actually thought it was a good solution to a tricky problem. All in all, I am very pleased with the new Penguin translations, so far.

As for the novel itself, it is divided into two parts, which both have a "blossoming" young female characters. In Part I - "At Mme Swann's" - the young girl is Swann's daughter, Gilberte. This part of the novel was originally meant to be included in Swann's Way, and - if one reads the novels back-to-back - the story continues smoothly between the novels. Gilberte is Marcel's first great, doomed love affair.

Part II takes place in the fictional seaside resort town of Balbec. The girl in question here is Marcel's main love-interest, Albertine. Although people view Albertine as the most significant factor in the novel, I don't find this to be true - she's barely in the story. More significant is Marcel's friend, Robert Saint-Loupe.

What is striking about the novel are its undertones of homosexuality. I don't just mean the literal references to homosexuality, but the narrator's as well. This may anger some readers - they would say that, just because Marcel Proust was gay, that doesn't make his narrator gay. Taken as a character however, Marcel has many gay characteristics - he is a sensitive, sickly, delicate, young man who is obsessed theater, literature, and art. Granted, these things don't make him gay, per se - but the overall tone of the writing gives that impression.

In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower.......2006-01-16

This translation is an impressive achievement if you can get over its two main deficiencies: its overly liberal use of British slang, and slight but noticeable change in Proust's word order.

Like Robert Fagles' translations of Homer, Grieve has written a rather literal translation, of a piece with the rest of Penguin's new six-volume, seven-translator Proust translation. Unlike Moncrieff, who inserted phrases which were not in the original French in order to maintain Proust's distinctive rhythm, Grieve is more concerned with Proust's meaning than the style in which he communicates that meaning; in doing so, however, he makes the grave error of assuming that style itself does not communicate meaning. It's fair to say, though, that he generally handles Proust's intricate sentences and formulations deftly.

What is irksome but not overly so is, first, Grieve's liberal use of British slang. It detracts from the distinctly French atmosphere that Proust evokes. The repeated use of words such as "bloke," "chum," "scotch," etc., is unnecessary when other words, free of British associations, will do fine. Even better, as Lydia Davis does in her translation of SWANN'S WAY, would be to use words with French associations when applicable.

Second, Grieve is not always faithful to Prousts' carefully selected word order. Distinctive of Proust is his tendency, at the end of a multi-layered sentence, full of hesitations and diversions, that captures all of a situation's undercurrents of tension, to end with a staccato word that informs or even reframes the entire thought. It is one of his trademarks. Grieve is unfaithful at times in rearranging this word order and not ending with the "reframing" word, if you will (by adding clauses in the same vein as "if you will" at the end of the sentence).

On the whole, however, this is a bracing translation that, I hope, will encourage more readers to try on Proust.

the new translation is a joy to read.......2005-06-19

Penguin's new translations of "In Search of Lost Time" were just the nudge I needed to read Proust's masterwork again. I was particularly impressed by the job the American writer Lydia Davis did with "Swann's Way". By contrast, I have a few complaints about James Grieves's rendering of "In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower". Where Scott Moncrieff translated "petite bande" (of girls) with the expected "little band," Grieves uses "little gang," which to an American ear sounds rather tough. He mangles one of my favorite quotations. And there's a typo on the bottom of page 95: "not" instead of "now"!

Overall, though, I like the liberties Grieves takes with the text, and we were certainly overdue for a freshened-up translation of one of the most important books of the 20th century. Unlike Proust's French, Scott Moncrieff's English has come to seem dusty and overblown. (For example, he rendered the title of this volume as "Within a Budding Grove", the literal translation being too racy for his 1920s audience of post-Victorians.)

-- Dan Ford at readingproust dot com

In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower.......2005-02-28

A book of this stature hardly needs another review explaining how great it is, and, not being all that cultured, I can't provide a lot of literary context or comparisons with past translations. I can offer a recommendation, though, as a young modern lay reader who suffers the usual hesitations about approaching classic texts.

With regard to previous translations, all I know is that this volume apparently used to be called In a Budding Grove - which may be the worst literary title ever - and is now called In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower, which may be the best literary title ever. As far as I can tell the translation flows very smoothly, too, and even though Proust's style, as most people probably know, features sentences which go on for a very long time and have complex constructions buried in them (sort of like this one), I thought it was more readable than the likes of Joyce and Pynchon, because the power of the first-person voice often makes the meaning clear. There were a couple of points where I thought the translator used a word that seemed too modern and idiomatic - 'hubby' was one - but it's not that much of a distraction.

Proust's habit is to spend a lot of time discussing small, specific things, but that isn't to say he describes every single event of his childhood in excruciating detail - he often skips over major events, or describes something's prelude in more detail than the event itself, summarizing the things which had the deepest emotional impact on him at the time. The result is a narrative which is very engaging because all of the details in it, however small they might be, shed light on something deeper.

With this specific volume (about the experience of youth), speaking as someone whose own adolesence isn't far behind him, I found it eerily insightful. Reading about people from a different century, I would suddenly come on an insight which might have been a direct comment on me or someone I knew, and what I think really makes Proust one-of-a-kind is that he never stoops to satire, charicature or didactics; it's just straight observation. The people he describes might be the comic relief or even buffoonish villains in the works of a lesser author, but something about the way he describes them so exactly produces sympathy, as if the reader were allied as much with them as with the narrator.

Of all the 'classic' books I've read, ISYGIF is one of my favorites, and I recommend it to anyone able to read it. Like I said, I don't think Proust's style is as hard to grasp as certain other modern authors; but if it does seem difficult, then it's certainly worth the effort of becoming accustomed to it, for the beauty which emerges from it and the uncanny human analysis.

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In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower

In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower
Marcel Proust
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Release Date: 2004-01-29

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Readers and reviewers in the United Kingdom have hailed the new translations of Proust as a major literary event. Soon to appear in the United States, Swann's Way, along with the second volume of In Search of Lost Time, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower, will introduce a new century of American readers to the literary riches of Proust. These superb editions—the first completely new translation of Proust's novel since the 1920s—bring us a more comic and lucid Proust than English readers have previously been able to enjoy.

In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower is a spectacular dissection of male and female adolescence, charged with the narrator's memories of Paris and the Normandy seaside. In it, Proust introduces some of his greatest comic inventions. As a meditation on different forms of love, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower has no equal.

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These new translations are a joy to read!.......2005-05-15

In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower.......2004-11-03

For the second book of Proust's masterpiece, 'In Search of Lost Time', his attention turns away from the black and white realities of childhood to the greyer realms of adolescence, and with that, the deep, burning sensation of unrequited love. In essence, the second book is a 530-page essay on the different forms of young love, from deep obsession to airy neglect, from the savage loneliness of rejection to the dizzying heights of a love returned.

The book is split into two rough sections, the first of which is called 'At Mme Swan's'. Here we are introduced to Gilberte, Proust's first great love. The feelings he harbour's for her are ridiculously exaggerated, and oh so reminiscent of most people's teenage years. Every action, every word, every glance is analysed, studied, explored for meaning and intent. If, one day, Gilberte invites him to tea, the implications and potential meanings behind the invitation are debated internally for pages. If not, then even more pages are spent examining the pit of despair that Proust' soul fall in to. On top of this unhealthily obsessive love, we have his infatuation with Mme Swan, Gilberte's mother. There is almost a sense that Proust loves Gilberte because she is his age and he 'should' love her, whereas his affection towards Odette Swan is more real because there is no obligation or pressure from anyone, but less likely because she is twenty years older than him, and married.

When Proust's love for Gilberte is over - as it inevitably must, in those tender years of a boy or girl's life - the terrifying lows to which his emotions descend is as remarkable as the highs of his spirit not twenty pages previous. He obsessively analyses the ways in which he will get revenge, plotting to make her love him again, just so that he can reject her, to let her know how it feels. He tortures himself emotionally, visiting Mme Swan and purposely avoiding Gilberte.

What we have in this first part is a fascinating study on the tormented, melodramatic loves of early adolescence. Proust is too young at this stage to understand that love may not be forever, and can speak only in grandiose, exaggerated terms. If not for the fact that the prose is written with such grace and intelligence, his despair would come across as teenage angst at its very blackest.

In the second part of the novel, 'Place-Names: The Place', Proust and his grandmother retire to the beach to aid in the recuperation of his body and mind. Always a frail child, the rigours of new love have taken their toll on the young man. He rejects love, deciding that he shall become a writer once more, a passion that he had denied himself when his love for Gilberte had seemed so real and assured. He is introduced to a variety of characters which, we are told during the narrative, will come to play a great part in his later life: Robert de Saint-Loup, the Baron de Charlus and of course Albertine.

It is in this second section that Proust falls under the shadows of young girls in flower. He meets a group of girls, a 'gang' he calls them, and befriends first one, then all of them, reasoning that out of four or five girls, at least one would be worthy of love. Keeping with the true spirit of adolescence, he falls in and out of love with them all, needing only a stray glance or a casual smile to move from one girl to the other. Only two of them, Albertine and Andree, seem to return his emotions, and even then, everything remains chaste.

Interspersed throughout, we have long, insightful remarks on what love can do to the body, to the mind, and to the relationships we have with other people. Speaking as a male recently finished with his teenage years, I can say that Proust has captured the depth of feeling, the obsessiveness, the surety that everything in the universe will be perfect if only the love is returned, the electric thrill of acceptance, the deep darkness of rejection with such skill that perfection is a word that springs to mind.

Other topics are touched on throughout the novel. Early on, Proust is introduced to an author he holds in high esteem, one Bergotte. He is crushed upon discovering that the man does not exactly coincide with the image he had created while reading Bergotte's books, and ruminates on the fact that a man need not display the same intelligence and wit in reality as he does on the page. We must all focus our attention on achieving either a great reality or a great fiction, for Bergotte, his attentions were focused upon the fiction, and his personality and demeanour when interacting with flesh and blood people suffer. For Proust, it is an introduction to the idea that people can have two - or more - identities, and that a certain one is presented to a certain group of people.

The writing is, of course, typical Proust. Sentences are long, paragraphs are longer, and not very much happens. Dialogue is scarce, action scarcer. The reader is there to observe Proust's thoughts, not to use him as a mirror to the world he inhabits. Luckily for us, Proust's thoughts are never dull or boring. He says early on in the novel, 'For genius lies in reflective power and not in the intrinsic quality of the scene reflected', and Proust's reflective power more than reveal the truth of this maxim.

En Busca Del Tiempo Perdido 2 - En La Sombra De Las Muchachas En Flor/ In Search Of Lost Time 2 - In the Shadow Of Young Girls In Flower

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