One Small Place by the Sea

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At the seashore . . .

High tide rushes in to fill a sandy basin with water. At first glance, it may seem like an ordinary puddle. But look again. Do you spy the ochre sea star or the tentacles of the giant green anemones? Look even closer. Now can you see the hermit crabs and turban snails, the barnacles and periwinkles?

In lyrical prose, Barbara Brenner reveals the fascinating happenings in one small place. She explains the recurring formation of tide pools and the remarkable interdependence of their creatures. Tom Leonard's brilliant illustrations take you underwater to a secret world. His detailed, lifelike depictions of sculpins and mussels, algae and seaweed, show the splendor that dwells in the most unexpected places.

So stop. Observe. Explore your natural world. If you look closely enough, you will surely find . . . one small place that is home for many things.

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Great Lakes Steelhead: A Guided Tour for Fly-Anglers
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Fantastic Information.......2005-08-07

There is no substitue for experience on the water, but the "Guides" section in Great Lakes Steelhead comes in a close second, giving the reader the advantage of learning from the masters around the region. Each chapter within the Guides section provides a wealth of information ranging from technique to fly selection. Every skill level can learn something from this book.

Excellent Guide.......2001-06-02

I enjoyed this book on the emerging Great Lakes steelhead fishery. The authors cover the basics on steelhead biology, behaviour, leaders, casting techniques, and flies. I liked the chapters on the guides from Ontario, Wisconsin, Michigan, and New York. Even though Lake Superior tributaries are different form Lake Ontario tributaries you can still apply the same techniques. All of the guides shared their strategies and tips with the authors. The book has a great chapter on popular steelhead flies in colored plates. I also found the fly tying and leader recipes very helpful.

Great Lakes Steelhead.......2001-02-19

The book contained a lot of useful information for both novice and seasoned steelhead anglers alike. I especially liked the drawings and explantions of techniques. Also helpful is the equipment list at the end of the chapters. I only wish they would have included more detailed information on walk-in and put-in locations for fishing the many rivers. Overall a good addition to your fishing library.

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Great Lakes Steelhead: A Guided Tour for Fly-Anglers
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Count Your Way Through France.......2000-08-02

My daughter used this book as a resource for her 2cd grade report on France. The book was very entertaining and interesting. It was great for her to show the children in her class. Information was in terms she could appreciate and understand, illustrations were nice as well. It served the purpose wonderfully.

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Many ecological phenomena may be modelled using apparently random processes involving space (and possibly time). Such phenomena are classified as spatial in their nature and include all aspects of pollution. This book addresses the problem of modelling spatial effects in ecology and population dynamics using reaction-diffusion models.

Rapidly expanding area of research for biologists and applied mathematicians
Provides a unified and coherent account of methods developed to study spatial ecology via reaction-diffusion models
Provides the reader with the tools needed to construct and interpret models
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"Many ecological phenomena may be modelled using apparently random processes involving space (and possibly time). Such phenomena are classified as spatial in their nature and include all aspects of pollution. This book addresses the problem of modelling spatial effects in ecology and population dynamics using reaction-diffusion models.

Rapidly expanding area of research for biologists and applied mathematicians
Provides a unified and coherent account of methods developed to study spatial ecology via reaction-diffusion models
Provides the reader with the tools needed to construct and interpret models
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Authors have played a dominant role in the field for years

Essential reading for graduate students and researchers working with spatial modelling from mathematics, statistics, ecology, geography and biology. "

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Significant, and usually unwelcome, surprises, such as floods, financial crisis, epileptic seizures, or material rupture, are the topics of Extreme Events in Nature and Society. The book, authored by foremost experts in these fields, reveals unifying and distinguishing features of extreme events, including problems of understanding and modelling their origin, spatial and temporal extension, and potential impact. The chapters converge towards the difficult problem of anticipation: forecasting the event and proposing measures to moderate or prevent it. Extreme Events in Nature and Society will interest not only specialists, but also the general reader eager to learn how the multifaceted field of extreme events can be viewed as a coherent whole.

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Cecilia is an heiress, but she can only keep her fortune if her husband will consent to take her surname. Fanny Burney's unusual love story and deft social satire was much admired on its first publication in 1782 for its subtle interweaving of comedy, humanity, and social analysis. Controversial in its time, this eighteenth-century novel seems entirely fresh in relation to late twentieth-century concerns.

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I wish I could be more enthusiastic.......2006-06-14

In some ways I did admire this novel, which seems a reasonably accurate if extreme depiction of what women might suffer when forced to trust their welfare entirely to the wisdom, honor, and good will of the men who governed their lives. For its time it was, I think, surprisingly progressive and feminist in its outlook.

However, I cannot say I actually enjoyed reading Cecilia. Throughout the book, the heroine is thrown into one horrific emotional ordeal after another, with very little respite in between; and for the most part she lacks all power of extricating herself. The religious beliefs of the period, and its strict notions of honor & filial duty, leave her no escape even where legally (and, to my more modern sensibilities, morally), she was free to act as she chose.

I also disliked the hero, Mortimer Delvile. His overblown declarations of admiration and devotion were in themselves offensive, and were moreover continually contradicted by his repeated distrust and misjudging of her: upon finding her in any remotely questionable circumstances, he always jumped to the conclusion most ruinous to her character.

Those parts of the novel which were plainly meant to convey the most extreme pathos, often had me laughing out loud because they were so over the top. I could not avoid comparisons with Marianne Dashwood's illness in Sense & Sensibility, and particularly the exquisitely-limned moment when she is pronounced out of danger - a scene that never fails to move me to tears. Much of the INTENTIONAL humor in Cecilia was of the vulgar rather than the witty sort, though I found Lady Honoria's speeches generally amusing.

I liked the characters of Doctor Lyster and Belfield, who seemed more true to life than most of the others, but I was irritated by Belfield's sister. Though Henrietta's desire to get away from her obnoxious mother was completely natural and believable, her expressions of devotion to Cecilia (like so much in this novel) were too extravagant. Albany's repetitive hectoring and grandiose speeches got on my nerves as well - but at least he had the excuse of being crazy.

The family name, of course, was of much greater consequence in the 18th century than in the 21st, but it still seems a bit of a stretch to me that a supremely sensible and loving mother should be ready to sacrifice her son's happiness solely for the sake of a name. Even old Mr. Delvile believed he had other reasons to object to Mortimer's marrying Cecilia - unlike Mrs. Delvile, who presumably both loved and respected Cecilia above all other women.

Burney was one of the most successful of the pre-Austen women novelists, and Cecilia is worth reading as an important work of the period. To me, it was particularly worthwhile for providing insight into how Burney's writing may have influenced, in some degree, Jane Austen's; but I confess there was not a great deal of pleasure in it.

I have difficulty deciding on this one..........2006-03-31

there are some really interesting minor-ish characters, but I found myself getting pretty fed up with Cecelia and young Mr. Delvile, though they are the hero and heroine of the book.

Cecelia irritated me mostly because she was so perfect... beautiful, intelligent, good, generous, rich- in other words, I totally couldn't relate to her. Unlike Emma Woodhouse, who is "handsome, clever and rich", but also makes a lot of mistakes, Cecelia just seemed too good to be true. She never seemed to do anything silly just because of lack of judgement- she was always compelled to do it by something dramatic, like Mr. Harrel's attempting suicide. Her perfection and the fact that it seemed like EVERY man that set eyes on her was suddenly madly in love with her just didn't seem natural. Her generosity to the poor/her servants also seemed a little overdone- the scene with all the servants begging to stay with her and the poor lining the road to see her off and ask for her charity was kind of too much. Oddly enough, I thought she was much more interesting when mad (though I'm puzzled how she could just wake up one day and be sane again) because at least she was not able to do everything perfectly as usual.

I wasn't much a fan of Mortimer Delville either- he started out pretty well, but I hope I'm not the only one that thought his determination to marry Cecelia was getting a little borderline Henry Crawford-ish (excuse all the Austen references). I always liked Mr. Arnott best anyway as a potential suitor because he actually respected Cecelia's feelings. I felt really sorry for him, actually (poor guy!) because he was by far way more sympathetic than young Mr. Delvile. The other thing about Delvile that sort-of bugged me was his really long flowery speeches that he was continually making to Cecelia after he knew that she loved him. I kept thinking 'whatever happened to "If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more."?'

This being said, I think there was also a lot to like- Henrietta Belfield and her brother were wonderfully drawn characters- I almost think that the story would have been better if it had focused on Mr. Arnott and Henrietta because they both were much more human than the true "heroic" couple. Another well-written part was Mr. Harrell's last- I won't give it away, but it was really quite unsettling and dramatic. Other characters, such as Mr. Briggs and Albany were very interesting and almost Dickensian. As for Mr. Monckton- let's just say that he is not the man he seems, and that he's responsible for a scene that makes one almost feel sorry for his wife, the nasty, elderly Lady Margaret.

I know that Burney was a very talented writer, but I think that she was still working some things out in this book. There are some very interesting moments, but I would still recommend Camilla over Cecelia, any day.

One of the first modern novels - engaging and timeless........2005-04-20

It is a known fact that novelist Jane Austen looked upon Frances Burney for inspiration. Austen must have recognized the genius of this late-18th Century female writer, and whether or not she ever matched Burney's multi-faceted quality is still an open question.

On the surface, this is the tale of Miss Cecilia Beverley, a young, beautiful and wealthy heiress looking for the suitable match - hardly an original theme. But under this veil, there is the dramatic genius of a novelist whose characters impersonate the virtues and vices of her time in vivid tones much more reminiscent of Dickens than of Austen.

Miss Beverley's path to love and marriage winds its way through a series of circumstances, most of which are engendered by her agenda-driven acquaintances, guardians, friends and false-friends. From a dramatic perspective, the pace is quick, and the reader's emotions are immediately engaged for Cecilia - a fresh yet not prudish heroine whose temperate virtues never degenerate into the caricaturesque. Will she find love, or will she succumb to the many traps laid before her? The reader will find many good twists in this regard!

An acute observer of human nature, Burney populates her novel with personality-types that are as current today as they were then - from the regretful young man who married into money in a haste to the empty-headed socialite with more wealth than sense. However, the author never presents these characters from a moralizing position - and her implied judgment of some of the characters never borders on the proselytizing. Drama is always kept alive by highly dynamic scenes (I don't want to give anything away, but I assure you that they are good) and by lots of tension between characters.

The daughter of a famed musicologist, Dr. Burney, the author manages to weave the thread of her own views on aesthetics, which she does tastefully and unintrusively adding a wonderful dimension to the story. At times you feel like you are sitting at a fashionable dinner-table hearing duscussions about the relative merits of Handel's music versus Italian opera.

In all, this remains one of my favorite novels. Although the book is relatively long, the good writing, captivating plot and the tasty character-studies make the read quick and intense. Also, Burney never indulges in lengthy descriptions, off-stage scenes or other tracts that would otherwise slow down the good pace of the story for the modern reader. As a matter of fact, I loved this book and its author so much that I purchased the original 1781 edition.

As an interesting aside, Frances Burney's biography makes in itself an interesting novel. She grew up in a culturally-fertile environment, became and expatriate who married a Frenchman in the height of the trouble-years between England and France, and survived a mastectomy without anesthetic to live well into her eighties.

Why she is not better known as an author and a great personality remains a mystery to me.

Very enjoyable despite length.......2004-09-28

My mom bought this book at a garage sale for very cheap once almost as a joke, because it was so long. I made several attempts to start reading it, all of which failed, until I finally managed to get stuck in. Then I read it fanatically to the end. It was thrilling! All those amazingly overdrawn characters, how about the "parsimonious" Mr Briggs, not to mention the confusing Mrs Delvile (I imagine it's pronounced "Delville"?

It's all very melodramatic, with an attempted suicide, a real suicide, a carriage-crash (or whatever they called them), and the heroine even goes mad at one point (I thought that was completely unlikely - she'd seemed fairly sane before that)! Who said ladies in the old days spent all their time doing embroidery?

One really got a sense of pity toward the poor girl - I thought the whole point of the novel was that she was surrounded by all these very different charcters, none of whom actually seemed to dislikeher, and yet she had absolutely no-one to trust or rely on - she was completely alone in the world (maybe it isn't so surprising she went mad).

All in all a 'corking good read.' You forget the length when you really get into it.

Burney's Best.......2004-07-15

The first book i read by this authour was Evelina and I decided when i finished it that it was definetly the best book she wrote (even though i hadn't read any other book by her then) but my mind surely changed after I read this absolutley AWESOME book Cecilia!!

I would recomened this book to people who liked her other books and who adore Jane Austen's.

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Cecilia Memoirs of an Heiress, Volume I [EasyRead Comfort Edition]
Fanny Burney
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An exceptional love-story with undertones of comedy and wit that enraptures the reader’s attention.

Cecilia Memoirs of an Heiress, Volume I [EasyRead Edition]

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Fanny Burney
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An exceptional love-story with undertones of comedy and wit that enraptures the reader's attention. It satirizes the conventions of the fashionable world through Cecilia, an heiress and the protagonist of this classic. Stimulating and thought-provoking!

Cecilia Memoirs of an Heiress, Volume II [EasyRead Comfort Edition]

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Cecilia Memoirs of an Heiress, Volume II [EasyRead Comfort Edition]
Fanny Burney
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An exceptional love story with undertones of comedy and wit that enraptures the readers.

Cecilia Memoirs of an Heiress, Volume II [EasyRead Edition]

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An exceptional love story with undertones of comedy and wit that enraptures the readers. It satirizes the conventions of the fashionable world through Cecilia the protagonist of this classic. Stimulating and thought-provoking!

Cecilia Memoirs of an Heiress, Volume III [EasyRead Comfort Edition]

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Cecilia Memoirs of an Heiress, Volume III [EasyRead Comfort Edition]
Fanny Burney
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Cecilia Memoirs of an Heiress, Volume III [EasyRead Edition]

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Cecilia Memoirs of an Heiress, Volume III [EasyRead Edition]
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CECILIA or Memoirs of an Heiress (Complete in one volume).

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CECILIA or Memoirs of an Heiress (Complete in one volume).
Frances Burney
Manufacturer: Echo Library
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Cecilia(Large Print Edition): Or, Memoirs of an Heiress Volume 2

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Cecilia(Large Print Edition): Or, Memoirs of an Heiress Volume 2
Fanny Burney
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ASIN: 1426452292
Release Date: 2006-11-09

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Cecilia, this fair traveller, had lately entered into the one-and-twentieth year of her age. Her ancestors had been rich farmers in the county of Suffolk, though her father, in whom a spirit of elegance had supplanted the rapacity of wealth, had spent his time as a private country gentleman, satisfied, without increasing his store, to live upon what he inherited from the labours of his predecessors.

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CECILIA, OR MEMOIRS OF AN HEIRESS
Frances BURNEY
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