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Waterfalls of Grand Teton includes the beautiful waterfalls and cascades in one of hte most scenic parks in America. Evocative black and white photographs and Trails Illustrated Maps assist in locating and enjoying thes special places. The text clearly locates and describes each falls.
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Could be better.......2005-08-27
The pictures in this book are good, all black and white though (Except the front and back cover), It does give a good detail of the waterfall- that's about the only thing saving it from a even lower rating.
The directions are ok, but the writer could have vastly improved the quality of the directions with maps of each falls, like what Mr.Plumb did in his book Waterfall Lovers Guide pacific Northwest.
The writer of this book IMO did a better job on his Yellowstone book.
Wow!.......2000-03-11
This is a GREAT guide to the Grand Tetons-some of the most beautiful country in the world. This book is a great pack-size companion with fabulous pictures! It is a definite for the hiker and the reader alike. Maynard includes history of the area with his trail descriptives.
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Succession following the 1974 Waterfalls Canyon fire: Final report
Kathleen M Doyle
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Pondweeds, Bur-Reeds and Their Relatives of British Columbia: Aquatic Families of Monocotyledons
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You'll never fall into the tourist traps when you travel with Frommer's. It's like having a friend show you around, taking you to the places locals like best. Our expert authors have already gone everywhere you might go--they've done the legwork for you, and they're not afraid to tell it like it is, saving you time and money. No other series offers candid reviews of so many hotels and restaurants in all price ranges. Every Frommer's Travel Guide is up-to-date, with exact prices for everything, dozens of color maps, and exciting coverage of sports, shopping, and nightlife. You'd be lost without us!
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You'll never fall into the tourist traps when you travel with Frommer's. It's like having a friend show you around, taking you to the places locals like best. Our expert authors have already gone everywhere you might go--they've done the legwork for you, and they're not afraid to tell it like it is, saving you time and money. No other series offers candid reviews of so many hotels and restaurants in all price ranges. Every Frommer's Travel Guide is up-to-date, with exact prices for everything, dozens of color maps, and exciting coverage of sports, shopping, and nightlife. You'd be lost without us! Meticulously researched by a longtime resident, and infinitely more detailed and complete than its major competitor, Frommer's Virginia has everything you need for the perfect trip. You'll rely on our honest, in-depth reviews of accommodations in every price range, from colonial inns and distinctive B&Bs to family-friendly motels. We'll bring you the latest on the dining scene, including sophisticated cafes, historic taverns, and down-home Southern barbecue joints. With Frommer's in hand, you won't miss any of the highlights: Jefferson's Monticello, the solemn expanses of Arlington National Cemetery, charming small towns, Colonial Williamsburg, the best trails in Shenandoah National Park, the sun and surf at Virginia Beach, and Civil War battlefields--plus the best fishing, golf, hiking, river rafting, foliage tours, and much more.
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Excellent Guide.......2007-07-27
A very comprehensive guide for the state of Virginia. Even though I am a frequent visitor to Virginia, I found many new interesting places to add to future itineraries.
A good overview of Virginia.......2004-07-24
Concise, up-to-date and useful descriptions of attractions, hotels and restaurants around Virginia. Not a tremendous amount of depth of information on any one spot, but if you're traveling around the state, this is a good guide.
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Frommer's Bed and Breakfast in the Mid-Atlantic: A Selective, Full-Color Guide to the Best of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Virginia
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Frommer's Las Vegas Day by Day (Frommer's Day by Day)
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Features: Las Vegas for Sinners, Best Bets for Shopping, Guide to Gambling, and more
Las Vegas Day by Day is the perfect answer for travelers who want to know the best places to visit and the best way to see the city. This attractively priced, four-color guide offers dozens of itineraries that show you how to see the best of Las Vegas in a short time--with bulleted maps that lead the way from sight to sight. Featuring a full range of thematic and neighborhood tours, plus dining, lodging, shopping, nightlife, and practical visitor info, Las Vegas Day by Day is the only guide that helps travelers organize their time to get the most out of a trip. Inside this book you'll find:
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Cambridge HSC Modern History Study Guide (Cambridge HSC Study Guides)
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Food Plant Sanitation: Design, Maintenance, and Good Manufacturing Practices
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Prevention of food borne illnesses, reduction of product spoilage, and improvements to product quality are ongoing concerns in the food manufacturing industry. Providing broad but practical information, Food Plant Sanitation: Design, Maintenance, and Good Manufacturing Practices shows how to effectively remove soil and microorganisms from the processing environment to prevent unhygienic manufacturing conditions. Using photographs, diagrams, and tables, this reference offers solutions to effective food sanitation. The book begins with discussions on the regulatory requirements of food plant sanitation and the identification of microorganisms of food manufacturing concern. Later chapters explore the principles of sanitary design, the use of proven sanitation techniques, and the means of verifying sanitation, such as adenosine triphosphate (ATP). The final chapters identify sanitary practices for plant personnel and visitors, provide a comprehensive pest management plan, and offer strategies for preventing chemical and physical food safety hazards. Drawing on almost 30 years of industry experience, the author gives real-world examples and practical, up-to-date information. These features, combined with a direct, easy-to-read format, demonstrate how you can use the techniques presented for implementation and training purposes, making this reference ideal for food safety and quality personnel as well as plant managers and designers.
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Best.......2006-09-03
This is the best book I have ever read about food plant sanitation. Everyone should own it. A superior book for every home kitchen.
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Comprehensive and accessible, Food Plant Sanitation presents fundamental principles and applications that are essential for food production safety. It provides basic, practical information on the daily operations in a food processing plant and reviews some of the industry's most recent developments. The book is unique from others on the topic in that it features the perspectives of more than 30 food safety experts from government, academia, and the food industry. These authorities cover nine major areas of interest: þ Federal and state regulations and guidelines þ Major biological and nonbiological contaminants þ Cleaning a food plant þ Sanitation and worker safety þ Housekeeping þ Product quality þ Commodity processing þ Retail food sanitation þ Enforcement In addition to covering primary sanitation practices, the book touches on the latest information on the Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) program. The mention of the HACCP is of particular importance because it is imperative that a food processing plant has put in place an acceptable sanitation program on principle and in practice before considering the program. Additional topics include the spread of bacterial and viral foodborne diseases, the risks from protozoa and nematodes in food production, and the design and development of self-inspection programs.
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The bacteriology of commercial poultry processing
Millard Fillmore Gunderson
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Current Good Manufacturing Practices/Food Plant Sanitation
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good starter.......2000-07-07
A reference book for start up cgmp's and sanitation on food plant, allways a good help for improve it every day.
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Foodborne Disease Handbook, Volume 3: Plant Toxicants (Foodborne Disease Handbook)
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A study of foodborne disease, focusing on plant toxicants. This second edition contains new chapters on poison centre management of exposures to plant and mushroom toxins; medical management of plant poisoning; prevention and management of plant toxicants in livestock; Clavicepis; mushroom biology, epidemiology, poisoning and medical management; fungi in folk medicine; and more.
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Pesticide Residues in Food, 1990 (Pesticide Residues in Food)
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Spin Glasses: A Challenge for Mathematicians: Cavity and Mean Field Models (Ergebnisse der Mathematik und ihrer Grenzgebiete. 3. Folge / A Series of Modern Surveys in Mathematics)
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In the eighties, a group of theoretical physicists introduced several models for certain disordered systems, called "spin glasses". These models are simple and rather canonical random structures, that physicists studied by non-rigorous methods. They predicted spectacular behaviors, previously unknown in probability theory. They believe these behaviors occur in many models of considerable interest for several branches of science (statistical physics, neural networks and computer science).
This book introduces in a rigorous manner this exciting new area to the mathematically minded reader. It requires no knowledge whatsoever of any physics, and contains proofs in complete detail of much of what is rigorously known on spin glasses at the time of writing.
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very good but..........2003-07-07
the book is great, very well written. and many people were waiting for the first
rigorous text providing the reader with a global view of the subject.
there's just a problem of bad timing: due to the fast rate at which radically new results appeared recently and will keep appearing in the next several months, the book is already old before hitting the market.
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Brecht and Method
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The legacy of Bertolt Brecht is much contested, whether by those who wish to forget or to vilify his politics, but his stature as the outstanding political playwright and poet of the twentieth century is unforgettably established in this major critical work. Fredric Jameson elegantly dissects the intricate connections between Brecht's drama and politics, demonstrating the way these combined to shape a unique and powerful influence on a profoundly troubled epoch. Jameson sees Brecht's method as a multi-layered process of reflection and self-reflection, reference and self-reference, which tears open a gap for individuals to situate themselves historically, to think about themselves in the third person, and to use that self-projection in history as a basis for judgement. Emphasizing the themes of separation, distance, multiplicity, choice and contradiction in Brecht's entire corpus, Jameson's study engages in a dialogue with a cryptic work, unpublished in Brecht's lifetime, entitled Me-ti; Book of Twists and Turns. Jameson sees this text as key to understanding Brecht's critical reflections on dialectics and his orientally informed fascination with flow and flux, change and the non-eternal. For Jameson, Brecht is not prescriptive but performative. His plays do not provide answers but attempt to show people how to perform the act of thinking, how to begin to search for answers themselves. Brecht represents the ceaselessness of transformation while at the same time alienating it, interrupting it, making it comprehensible by making it strange. And thereby, in breaking it up by analysis, the possibility emerges of its reconstitution under a new law.
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Jameson is always brilliant and useful, but ..........2005-12-31
Relatively accessible as this book is in Jameson's oeuvre--short, under 200 pages, 20 bite-sized chapters--it also has all the drawbacks of Jameson's usual dense thinking-out-loud style. His casual erudition is overwhelming, and he comes up with great idea after great idea; but because he's there in the room with you, wracking his brain for the next insight, what he does with his great ideas is uneven. Sometimes he reduces one to a list that belabors the obvious; other times he hits a deadend, and instead of backing off and rethinking and rewriting, he just burrows deeper. The book often has the feel of a Balzac or Dickens novel, scribbled hastily and torn page by page from his hands and rushed to the printer. There are odd errors that make Jameson sound like a non-native speaker of English: "That it might well be possible to reconcile both alternatives is illustrated by THE play like The Good Person of Szechuan." He provides Brecht's original German and an English translation for every quotation, often enough his own; when he borrows an existing translation, he often edits it without indicating that he has done so, often substantially, often strangely. For example, when Brecht writes "so m?ssen wir annehmen, dass wir hierbei an Interessen teilnehmen, die tats?chlich allgemein menschlich waren," and John Willett translates that as "we have to conclude that we are partaking in interests which really were universally human," Jameson tacitly changes that to: "we must suppose that in doing so we are sharing interests that are actually universally human." Some of those emendations are more or less synonymous (conclude>suppose, partake>share, really>actually), no big deal to change, but it IS ethical to indicate such editing; changing Brecht's past tense ("waren") to the present tense ("are actually universally human") is more problematic. Does Jameson really believe that Brecht believed that these interests ARE universally human? We could argue about what Brecht's tense shift (teilnehmen>waren) means, but at the very least it points to a complex temporal dynamic that Jameson either uncritically or puristically eliminates. He's also careless in typing Brecht's German into his book: in that same quote on p. 176, for example, he inserts "Arbeit" for "Art" in "Es findet da eine Verallgemeinerung interessantester Arbeit [should be Art] statt." Each of these cases is fairly minor, but such cases are everywhere, and the cumulative effect is (for me, anyway) to undermine Jameson's credibility.
The biggest problem for me in the book, though, is that Jameson's odd eclectic form of structuralist Marxism seems ill-suited to Brecht's theory and practice of theater. He argues, for example, that Brecht rejected empathy because empathetic identification simply never happens, doesn't exist: "`third-person acting' ... is the result of a radical absence of the self, or at least the coming to terms with a realization that what we call our `self' is itself an object for consciousness, not our consciousness itself: it is a foreign body within an impersonal consciousness, which we try to manipulate in such a way as to lend some warmth and personalization to the matter." This isn't Brecht; this is Jameson's Prison-House of Language, the dogmas of depersonalized death-of-the-subject structuralism. And Jameson doesn't even bother to develop the point out of Brecht--to read it out of some early dismissive remark about emotion and reason (plays "ought to be presented quite coldly, classically and objectively. For they are not matter for empathy; they are there to be understood. Feelings are private and limited. Against that the reason is fairly comprehensive and to be relied on"); he just states it as a bare fact, and uses it to impose a Greimasian model on Brecht. Brecht himself moved from a complete rejection of empathetic/emotional appeal, through various middle stages, to a reluctant willingness to oscillate between empathetic and estranging appeals, to a recognition that even estrangement is a form of empathetic or "infectious" appeal--something that, needless to say, Jameson never mentions.
One last point: in his review on this page, Martin Carrillo calls Jameson's book "the first serious attempt since Benjamin, to interpret the methodology of one of the more important playwrights and formal experimenters of our century." This is absurd, unless what he means is "the first serious attempt by a scholar lionized by current thought." There is a whole Brecht industry interpreting his methodology, and it is very serious. And while it may not have the clout of a Benjamin or a Jameson, it's often far more solidly grounded in the study of Brecht, his theories, his plays, his influences, and his reception, than either Benjamin or Jameson.
Methodical Measures Taken.......2000-11-21
This work by Jameson is perhaps the first serious attempt since Benjamin, to interpret the methodology of one of the more important playwrights and formal experimenters of our century. Jameson's seminars and work at Duke University are captured here in an elegant and intricate map of the Aesthetic which revolutionized theatre and, subsequently film and new media. Jameson understands how important the notion "Brecht" is outside of the man whose personal life remains controversial and open for debate. An excellent piece.
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ASIN: B0008JBLVA
Release Date: 2005-07-28 |
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This digital document is an article from Public Personnel Management, published by International Personnel Management Association on December 22, 2000. The length of the article is 875 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Editor's Introduction.(Public Personnel Management, overview)(Brief Article)
Author: Robert J. Lavigna
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Public Personnel Management (Refereed)
Date: December 22, 2000
Publisher: International Personnel Management Association
Volume: 29
Issue: 4
Page: ix
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Geo-technologies in hurricane research.: An article from: Cartography and Geographic Information Science
Henrike Brecht
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ASIN: B000TAQ82A
Release Date: 2007-07-07 |
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This digital document is an article from Cartography and Geographic Information Science, published by Thomson Gale on April 1, 2007. The length of the article is 1033 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Geo-technologies in hurricane research.
Author: Henrike Brecht
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Cartography and Geographic Information Science (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 1, 2007
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Volume: 34
Issue: 2
Page: 153(2)
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H. D Brecht
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