Wild New York: A Guide to the Wildlife, Wild Places, and Natural Phenomenon of New York City

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A Guide to the Wildlife, Wild Places, and Natural Phenomena of New York City
Margaret Mittelbach & Michael Crewdson

Breathing new life into the city, Wild New York takes a completely fresh look at the ultimate metropolis. This beautifully illustrated and deftly written natural history uncovers the surprising range of wildlife and natural phenomena that not only survive but flourish within the unlikely confines of New York City--from the bedrock supporting Manhattan's skyscrapers to the hundreds of different animals that dwell, unsuspected, in the city's waterways and parks. Complete with handy maps and detailed excursions throughout the five boroughs, Wild New York is also an indispensable guidebook for the urban explorer. With directions for 33 walking tours, the book encourages readers to explore the city's hidden and not-so-hidden natural corners and to experience the diversity of wildlife inhabiting the city--including peregrine falcons nesting above Grand Central Station, snapping turtles lurking in Central Park's ponds, and jackrabbits living beside the runways at John F. Kennedy Airport.

In addition, Wild New York details the city's flora, geographical features, weather, and ecosystems, revealing a natural side of the city that most people don't know exists. Packed with lively facts and keenly observed descriptions of the city's wild areas--from seashores and salt marshes to forests and woodland ponds-- Wild New York celebrates New York City's rich natural history and shows residents and visitors alike how to experience nature--without ever leaving the city.

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Holy Hiking, Batman, there IS nature in Gotham City!.......2000-09-27

This is, hands-down, the best book I've found yet on the non-concrete parts of this concrete jungle I call home. The illustrations are 1st rate, the maps are very helpful, and the travel directions even help you get there --- like most New Yorkers would --- by public transit. All five boroughs are included, and the book is chock full of tasty morsels about the City's natural side.

Whether a native New Yorker or visiting from out of town, if you have the interest or the inkling to find hundred foot trees, tidal pools, salt marshes, Native American caves, hilltop vistas, or even just learn which wildflowers grow between the sidewalk slabs or which trees are tough enough to stand up to the stress of city life, this book is for you.

Excellent!!!!.......1999-06-18

This book is a must have for anyone who has ever lived in or visited New York. It is extremely well-written, witty, and as well it is filled with interesting facts about New York.

Great stuff for anyone who lives in or visits New York.......1998-10-02

Skip the Empire State Building and Statue of Liberty! Mittelbach and Crewdson know their stuff and their share it in all the fun and interesting details you could want. This is the "big apple" down to the core. I used to live in New York and was excited when this book came out.

This book had excellent brief summaries and graphics.......1998-08-03

Margaret Mittelbach's books is an excellent description of the one side of New York City that no one really knows about, the natural side. The graphics are excellent, providing brief and complete tidbits about the different time periods of New York City's geological and natural history. It is written wonderfully with a sense of humor and keeps the readers attention at all times. In addition, you come away pleased with the new and complete knowledge this book provides about New York City. The walking tours are clear and concise making the reader want to go on one of the walks immediately. Finally, the book design both on the cover and within the book, grabs the readers attention and keeps it throughout the reading of the book. Overall, I would recommend this book not only as a guide book for the natural side of New York but as an extremely informative and fascinating read.

COMPELLING!.......1997-08-24

Excellent writing. Takes you back to very beginning of New York before man and lets your imagination take over to give you a very different historical perspective. The Michener style without the fictional story line. Terrific reading. Read it in one sitting. You will view New York with a different eye after reading Wild New York

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2nd edition

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Truly Fascinating..........2003-02-16

I found this book to be a real eye-opener with respect to all the facets of the this truly magnificent species.

Extremely well written and thought provoking - especially the references to ancient saint cells.

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Travelling with a Venice Directions in your pocket is like having a local friend plan your trip. Providing accurate, up-to-date coverage, the guide Â- with a third in full colour Â- is fully illustrated with specially commissioned photographs. Browse the "Ideas" section with 28 themed spreads Â- from "Death in Venice" and "On the water" to "Venetian oddities" and "Eighteenth-century Art" Â- with each caption cross-referenced to the practical part of the guide. There are critical reviews of the best places to stay, the coolest bars and the shops, all located on our user-friendly maps. Additional chapters cover festivals and special events from the Film Festival and Carnevale to the spectacular Regata Storica. The language section has a useful menu reader and handy phrases to have you speaking a little Italian by the time you arrive.

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The Springer Handbook of Auditory Research presents a series of comprehensive and synthetic reviews of the fundamental topics in modern auditory research. It is aimed at all individuals with interests in hearing research including advanced graduate students, post-doctoral researchers, and clinical investigators. The volumes will introduce new investigators to important aspects of hearing science and help established investigators to better understand the fundamental theories and data in fields of hearing that they may not normally follow closely. Each volume is intended to present a particular topic comprehensively, and each chapter will serve as a synthetic overview and guide to the literature. As such, the chapters present neither exhaustive data reviews nor original research that has not appeared in peer-reviewed journals. The series focuses on topics that have developed a solid data and conceptual foundation rather than on those for which a literature is only beginning to develop. New research areas will be covered on a timely basis in the series as they begin to mature. Each volume in the series consists of five to eight substantial chapters on a particular topic. In some cases the topics will be ones of traditional interest for which there is a solid body of data and theory, such as auditory neuroanatomy (Vol. 1) and neurophysiology (Vol. 2).

Mammalian Auditory Pathway (Springer Handbook of Auditory Research)

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Mammalian Auditory Pathway (Springer Handbook of Auditory Research)

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This multi-volume handbook is the first to cover all questions concerning homogeneous hydrogenation. As such, it presents the catalysts, the scope of their application, mechanistic aspects, asymmetric methods, combinatorials catalysis, recycling methods and industrial examples. In 45 clearly structured chapters, the book includes all hydrogenation reactions catalyzed by soluble transition metal-based catalysts. All authors adopt an applied approach, emphasizing those aspects important for industrial use.
With some 2,000 illustrations and 50 tables, this is a must-have for everyone working in the chemicals and pharmaceutical industries, as well as for graduate students in chemistry.

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Classic of Hydrongenation and Inorganic Chemistry

Homogeneous Hydrogenation

Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Classic of Hydrongenation and Inorganic Chemistry.......2001-06-25

Though published in 1973, Homogeneous Hydrogenation remains the source book about Hydrogenation. The book has an extensive bibliography and the books reviews all literature on the subject up until the date of publication.

Homogeneous Hydrogenation in Organic Chemistry (Catalysis by Metal Complexes, Vol. 1)

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Homogeneous Hydrogenation in Organic Chemistry (Catalysis by Metal Complexes, Vol. 1)
F.J. McQuillin
Manufacturer: Reidel Publishing
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Homogeneous Hydrogenation (Catalysis by Metal Complexes)

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Homogeneous Hydrogenation (Catalysis by Metal Complexes)
P.A. Chaloner , M.A. Esteruelas , Ferenc Joó , and L.A. Oro
Manufacturer: Springer
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Homogeneous hydrogenation is one of the most thoroughly studied fields of homogeneous catalysis. The results of these studies have proved to be most important for an understanding of the underlying principles of the activation of small molecules by transition metal complexes. During the past three decades homogeneous hydrogenation has found widespread application in organic chemistry, including the production of important pharmaceuticals, especially where a sophisticated degree of selectivity is required. This volume presents a general account of the main principles and applications of homogeneous hydrogenation by transition metal complexes. Special attention is devoted to the mechanisms by which these processes occur, and the role of the recently discovered complexes of molecular hydrogen is described. Sources of hydrogen, other than H2, are also considered (transfer hydrogenation). The latest achievements in highly stereoselective hydrogenations have made possible many new applications in organic synthesis. These applications are documented by giving details of the reduction of important unsaturated substrates (alkenes, alkynes, aldehydes and ketones, nitrocompounds, etc.). Hydrogenation in biphasic and phase transfer catalyzed systems is also described. Finally, a discussion of the biochemical routes of H2 activation highlights the similarities and differences in performing hydrogenation in both natural and synthetic systems. For researchers working in the fields of homogeneous catalysis, especially in areas such as pharmaceuticals, plastics and fine chemicals.

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This book contains several new or unpublished tables, such as one on the significance of the correlation coefficient r, one giving the percentiles of the 2 statistic for monotonic variation (with two structural models of variation), an extensive table for the number-of-runs test, three tables for the binomial sum of probabilities, and a table of coefficients for the re-conversion of orthogonal polynomials.

In the case of the more familiar tables, such as those of the normal integral, or Student's t, Chi-square and F percentiles, all values have been re-computed, occasionally with the authors' own algorithms, using the most accurate methods available today.

For each of the fifteen distributions in the book, the authors have gathered the essential information so that interested readers can handle by themselves all phases of the computations.

An appendix, containing supplementary examples that pertain to the various tables, helps to complete the authors' review of current hypothesis-testing procedures. A mini-dictionary of often-used concepts and methods, statistical as well as mathematical, completes the book.

Besides meeting the needs of practitioners of inferential statistics, this book should be helpful to statistics teachers as well as graduate students, researchers and professionals in scientific computing, who will all find it a rich source of essential data and references on the more important statistical distributions.

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Statistical Tables Explained and Applied.......2007-01-03

This book gives all the basic necessary information in a concise way.Great for brushing up quickly on all the density functions learned in undergraduate statistic courses.Examples are given on how to use each table of statistics.Tables are more complete than the average college textbook.

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A collection of Lewis’s complete shorter fiction, including two previously unpublished works, “The Dark Tower” and “The Man Born Blind.” Edited and with a Preface by Walter Hooper.

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Towering Darkness.......2006-12-11

It's easy to see why these stories were not published; they weren't finished. Putting aside the question of Walter Hooper's role (or non-role) in the present presentation of these stories, they lack the polish--even more the point of so much of Lewis's writing.

On the other hand, there is a certain fascinating quality about a first draft which will recommend "The Dark Tower" to fans of writing as well as loyal followers for Professor Lewis. Their notably unfinished condition excites wonder as well as speculation about how the master might have finished them. That he didn't tells us as much as we need to know about the literary quality or place in the Lewis catalog of works.

Only for the hard core Lewis or writing student.

Classic Lewis Fiction.......2006-04-30

This is one of those little treasures most people do not know about, and the story behind them is almost as fascinating as Lewis's characters and his life itself. Edited and compiled by Walter Hooper, who was secretary to Lewis in his later years. The story behind this collection is that one day Walter was walking by the cottage that Lewis and his brother Warnie Shared, and saw Warnie burning some `rubbish'. Hooper asked what he was up to and Warnie replied he was clearing out some of Jack's (C.S. Lewis's) things. Hooper enquired into the contents and found out that they were unpublished manuscripts, stories ... Hooper asked for them and Warnie replied if they were not taken then and there they were going into the fire. A fire which supposedly burned for 3 days. One will always wonder what was lost to us from such a purging.

So Hooper saved this collection and some of the other writings that were published posthumously by the late great C. S. Lewis. These six stories are of a science fiction or fantasy nature. The first story The Dark Tower is of particular interest because it is a partial fourth story in Lewis's Science Fiction Trilogy Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra and That Hideous Strength. This one being set between the first and second book. This story makes up more than half of this collection. Yet one could ask what is a partial story with middle sections and the end missing be worth? Or be worth reading? And to be honest it would be a very good question.

I would have to state an emphatic yes it would! I would declare so for many different reasons. The first is that this is the only time we see Ransom in his office's hanging out with a group of professors discussing life the universe and everything. Does that not indeed sound like Lewis, and Tolkien and the rest of the Inklings who did just that. There has been much debate by many scholars as to the questions of if Lewis inserted himself into his fiction, as `the professor' in the Narnia books, and many believe as Professor Ransom in this series. This gathering of friends is almost a scene out of Lewis's own weekly routine. The second reason is that we meet MacPhee here in this story, which chronologically takes place between book's 1 and 2 in the series. MacPhee does not show up in the trilogy till the 3rd book. This book gives us a tantalizing taste of a story that would give the published trilogy a fuller more rounded flavor and be amusing to read and debate the end of the story and the progression of Lewis's Thought.

Even if you only pick up this book for the first story it will be worth it. But the other 5 short pieces are worth a perusal as well.

Dark Tower.......2006-02-26

Wow, this is definitely a must-read for Lewis fans, especially for readers of the space trilogy.

mostly by Walter Hooper.......2006-01-28

The main story contains two chapters by Lewis and the rest by Walter Hooper who tried to make a novel out of the two Lewis chapters many years after the death of Lewis. You can really tell the difference between the two authors. Hooper's chapters contain Americanisms, theological statements opposite to that of the beliefs of Lewis, and a writing style emphasizing physical actions and not thought processes.

The dead giveaway is that 20% of the novel contains detailed descriptions of apparatus and their use. Lewis hated with a purple peeve such items in literature.

Hooper has also rewritten much of the poetry of Lewis to exclude the allusions to classical Greek and Roman literature.

For more information read "Light in the Shadowlands" and "The C. S. Lewis Hoax". Both books are written by a friend of Lewis.

...Interesting.......2005-08-19

I recently discovered "The Dark Tower" and several other collections of Lewis' short stories and essays. Having read most of his non-fiction and all of his fiction (or so I thought), I was quick to buy and read this collection (and several others). The stories are...unexpected. They're not whimsy like Narnia, nor philosophy like the Space Trilogy, although they all have aspects of both. I would definitely recommend this book for Lewis fans.

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Classic Lewis Sci-Fi
Mostly by Walter Hooper

The Dark Tower and Other Stories
C.S. Lewis
Manufacturer: Fount
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Classic Lewis Sci-Fi.......2006-04-30

Mostly by Walter Hooper.......2006-01-28

Coming Up Down Home: A Memoir of a Southern Childhood (Dark Tower Series)

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Coming Up Down Home: A Memoir of a Southern Childhood (Dark Tower Series)
Cecil Brown
Manufacturer: Ecco Press
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The Dark Tower & Other Stories
C. S. Lewis
Manufacturer: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
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Dark Tower and Other Stories
C. S. Lewis
Manufacturer: Harvest Books
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OK83WI

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DARK TOWER AND OTHER STORIES
C.S. LEWIS
Manufacturer: Fount
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000O8UI32

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DARK TOWER AND OTHER STORIES
C.S. LEWIS
Manufacturer: Harcourt, Brace & Company
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Dark Tower and Other Stories
C. S. Lewis
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Dark Tower and Other Stories (The Man Born Blind, The Shoddy Lands, Ministering Angels, Forms of Things Unknown, After Ten Years)

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Dark Tower and Other Stories (The Man Born Blind, The Shoddy Lands, Ministering Angels, Forms of Things Unknown, After Ten Years)
C. S.; Edited By Walter Hooper Lewis
Manufacturer: Collins
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000O8MLPK

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