Crop Circles: Exploring the Designs & Mysteries

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Throughout the world, mysterious patterns have almost magically started appearing in fields--baffling the farmers who own the land and the scientists who examine them. What are these fantastic geometric figures? Who (or what) is creating them? Two journalists specializing in crop circle research provide revealing answers in this bestselling and visually stunning study. A spectacular 30-page pictorial, which presents an eye-catching survey of the contin-uing phenomenon, will fascinate believers and non-believers alike with its surprising beauty, variety, and complexity.

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Worth the money, even if all you do is look at the pictures.......2004-06-25

While living in Europe, I had the unique experience of seeing a crop circle. It doesn't matter whether you believe they are human or alien made, there is no debate about the fact that crop circles are beautiful and this book does a superb job of showing off their beauty.

The photos are great, and the information provided about the history, origins and stories surrounding them is interesting.

Target audience: Conspiracy theorists interested in crop circles, people who love aerial photos of nature and possibly even just people who live near fields of crops --> as you drive by tall fields of crops, you'll look at them a little differently once you've been exposed to the world of crop circles. It might even be a fun gift for a someone who might enjoy trying to 'fake' a crop circle as an activity.

Natural Magic.......2002-10-03

A beautifully illustrated and well-designed book, the pictures and stories elucidate the feelings of wonder and transcendence that surround the crop circle phenomenon. The authors balance their presentation by including true accounts from some of England's leading circle makers. The section on natural laws and geometry is also original and informative.
(Simeon Hein is the author of Opening Minds: A Journey of Extraordinary Encounters, Crop Circles, and Resonance).

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Biology of Higher Cryptogams
William T. Doyle
Manufacturer: Macmillan
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0023300108

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The biology of higher cryptogams (Current concepts in biology)
William T Doyle
Manufacturer: MacMillan
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: B0006C9ZSK

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Readers and travelers are guided to more than 200 homes and historic sites of America’s greatest writers—from the Jack London Ranch in northern California to William Faulkner’s home in Oxford, Mississippi. Clear driving directions and visitor instructions are combined with unique tidbits about each site and author, such as the story of Jack London’s custom-made furniture and the roll top desk and Dictaphone on display in his study. Literary enthusiasts are guided to the site of Thoreau’s bean field, where they can poke around an exact replica of his cabin. They can drop in on Margaret Mitchell’s recently restored Atlanta apartment or visit John Steinbeck’s haunts in the cozy California seaside town of Pacific Grove. This family-oriented, user-friendly guide teaches literary folk about writers' work, their philosophies, and the forces that compelled them to write. All 50 states are represented, and the literary sites are divided by geographic regions.

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Fascinating Literary Places to Visit.......2005-11-18

Ever since I visited Cross Creek (Rawling's home), I've been on the look out for more author's homes or related sites to visit. It was such a great experience to see her place after reading her books.
Now with Traveling Literary America, readers can visit places associated with Dr. Seuss, Mark Twain, Jack London, Edgar Allan Poe and other admired authors. Besides such well known authors, he includes more offbeat literary figures such as poet Joyce Kilmer's home (New Brunswick, NJ) and songwriter Woody Guthrie's birthplace (Okemah, Okla).
I can't wait to see some of these places and having the book on hand allows me to fit them in wherever I travel in the US.

A Complete Guide To Literary Landmarks.......2005-10-31

Anyone who loves books-which presumeably includes anyone reading this review website, will love Traveling Literary America. It is a hefty (more than 500 pages) and features more than 200 literary sites in nearly all 50 states, including author homes, memorials, poetry walks, exhibits and museums. What's more, author B.J. Welborn offers descriptions of towns associated with a particular writer (Jack Kerouac's Lowell, Mass; Willa Cathers "Catherland" in red Clouod, Neb); unusual literary treasures (Yiddish Center in Amherst, Mass); art colonies (MacDowell Colony in New Hampshire); hiking trails (Edna St. Vincent Millay Poetry Trail in New York), and sidebars on literary movements (Romanticism, the Beat Generation). There is a lot of fascinating stuff in here.

A Must-Have for Literary Tourists.......2005-09-28

I'm sure I'll be using this book as a reference for many years to come. If you do any kind of book-related traveling, you'll be glad you picked up a copy.

Welborn crossed the U.S. several times while researching the book, and her diligence shows. The guide is loaded with excellent facts and useful tips, and it couldn't be easier to navigate.

The book lists over 200 homes, museums, exhibits, memorials, etc., and it's divided into sections by region of the country. It includes historical information about each author and his or her work, as well as little-known tidbits that will make your journeys infinitely more interesting.

If you're looking for a thorough reference on author homes and other literary landmarks, this is the book for you.

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Robert Carter's book is of American History.......2005-04-20

This book represents the viewpoints of a "policing" time for the United States of the North. Without some form of correctiveness, lawlessness and savageness would have ruled the day and Texas would not be a part of the nation today.
It is exciting, horrifying, glorifying, and it is sad at times.
This book must be pulled from the graveyard of literature for open forums to discuss the past. Without actual accounts of yesterday protrayed today, everyone will be able to re-write history to match their own personal or social, economical, and political viewpoints instead. An American treasure is being lost to the dusts of time...James L. Brown

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Comanches & other Indians of Texas
Marian T Place
Manufacturer: Harcourt, Brace & World
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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Comanches and Other Indians of Texas
Marian Templeton Place
Manufacturer: Harcourt
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 0152194517

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COMANCHES AND OTHER INDIANS OF TEXAS
Marian T. Place
Manufacturer: Harcourt
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OJE5XA

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A systems approach to total understanding and applications

Biology: Living Systems is a systems approach to the major concepts of biology. The text narrative presents relationships among major concepts that establish a thematic approach that links together ideas from one chapter to the next. Connections and applications emphasize the relationships between biology and other disciplines. Opportunities for “learning by doing” provide for increased student comprehension and development of critical-thinking skills. This program can be used as a first- or second-year course in biology.

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Data Quality: Concepts, Methodologies and Techniques (Data-Centric Systems and Applications)
Carlo Batini , and Monica Scannapieco
Manufacturer: Springer
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Binding: Hardcover

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Poor data quality can seriously hinder or damage the efficiency and effectiveness of organizations and businesses. The growing awareness of such repercussions has led to major public initiatives like the "Data Quality Act" in the USA and the "European 2003/98" directive of the European Parliament.

Batini and Scannapieco present a comprehensive and systematic introduction to the wide set of issues related to data quality. They start with a detailed description of different data quality dimensions, like accuracy, completeness, and consistency, and their importance in different types of data, like federated data, web data, or time-dependent data, and in different data categories classified according to frequency of change, like stable, long-term, and frequently changing data. The book's extensive description of techniques and methodologies from core data quality research as well as from related fields like data mining, probability theory, statistical data analysis, and machine learning gives an excellent overview of the current state of the art. The presentation is completed by a short description and critical comparison of tools and practical methodologies, which will help readers to resolve their own quality problems.

This book is an ideal combination of the soundness of theoretical foundations and the applicability of practical approaches. It is ideally suited for everyone – researchers, students, or professionals – interested in a comprehensive overview of data quality issues. In addition, it will serve as the basis for an introductory course or for self-study on this topic.

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The Consistency Control Book
Gerald Ostroot
Manufacturer: Tappi Pr
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Binding: Paperback

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Mathematical modeling is the art and craft of building a system of equations that is both sufficiently complex to do justice to physical reality and sufficiently simple to give real insight into the situation. Mathematical Modeling: A Chemical Engineer's Perspective provides an elementary introduction to the craft by one of the century's most distinguished practitioners.
Though the book is written from a chemical engineering viewpoint, the principles and pitfalls are common to all mathematical modeling of physical systems. Seventeen of the author's frequently cited papers are reprinted to illustrate applications to convective diffusion, formal chemical kinetics, heat and mass transfer, and the philosophy of modeling. An essay of acknowledgments, asides, and footnotes captures personal reflections on academic life and personalities.

* Describes pitfalls as well as principles of mathematical modeling
* Presents twenty examples of engineering problems
* Features seventeen reprinted papers
* Presents personal reflections on some of the great natural philosophers
* Emphasizes modeling procedures that precede extensive calculations

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'Elfride Swancourt was a girl whose emotions lay very near the surface.' Elfride is the daughter of the Rector of Endelstow, a remote sea-swept parish in Cornwall based on St Juliot, where Hardy began the book during the first days of his courtship of his first wife Emma. Blue-eyed and high-spirited, Elfride has little experience of the world beyond, and becomes entangled with two men: the boyish architect, Stephen Smith, and the older literary man, Henry Knight. The former friends become rivals, and Elfride faces an agonizing choice. Written at a crucial time in Hardy's life, A Pair of Blue Eyes expresses more directly than any of his novels the events and social forces that made him the writer he was. Elfride's dilemma mirrors the difficult decision Hardy himself had to make with this novel: to pursue the profession of architecture, where he was established, or literature, where he had yet to make his name?

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A fun introduction to Hardy.......2007-07-02

This is Hardy's third novel (1873), and is set in the southwest area of England (Cornwall), where he met his first wife. It is the story of young, impetuous Elfride, and her romance with two men: the young architect Stephen Smith and the urbane, educated lawyer, Henry Knight. As common with his other novels, it reflects elements of tragedy, irony, and class advancement. Elfride and Knight are low middle-class persons trying to advance in society and in love. Though not as intricate and challenging as his later novels, it is an entertaining and illuminating read nonetheless.

A Pair of Blue Eyes (Penguin Popular Classics)

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A Pair of Blue Eyes (Penguin Popular Classics)
Thomas Hardy
Manufacturer: Penguin Books Ltd
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Binding: Paperback

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A Pair of Blue Eyes (Oxford World's Classics)

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Early Hardy circa 1873
Classic Hardy
Blue Eyes Cryin' in the Rain
Classic Hardy Melodrama
Surprisingly compelling

A Pair of Blue Eyes (Oxford World's Classics)
Thomas Hardy
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0192834827

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This novel is of special interest because of the strong autobiographical parallels between the characters and circumstances of Stephen Smith and Elfride Swancourt and those of Hardy and his first wife Emma Gifford. This was the third of Hardy's novels to be published and the first to bear his
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Early Hardy circa 1873.......2007-04-15

"These eyes were blue; blue as autumn distance-blue as the blue we see between the retreating mouldings of hills and woody slopes on a sunny September morning. A misty and shady blue, that had no beginning or surface, and was looked into rather than at."

In this Victorian tale, two men fall in love with the beautiful and entrancing blue eyes of Elfride Swancourt, and this being a Hardy novel, their actions bring about tragic consequences. There are also moments of wry humor in the novel, but the stunning end of the story as both men scramble to reunite with Elfride, is Thomas Hardy at his melancholy best. This Oxford edition features an enlightening introduction by a noted Hardy scholar, as well as a exhaustive history of the text. And for this price, you can't go wrong! This is not one of Hardy's more celebrated novels, but once you start this one it's hard to put down! An early classic from one of the greatest minds in English literary history.

Classic Hardy.......2005-12-31

This book probably holds most draw for Hardy fans. Due from time period, from a young author, and from particular style, the book is a jumbled read at points-- but the plot is beyond reproach. Overall, quite entertaining. Did not impress me as much as another Hardy book, Jude the Obscure, but still was by no stretch a disappointment. Very interesting quotes on female nature to be had as an added bonus.

Blue Eyes Cryin' in the Rain.......2000-04-24

I've loved every Hardy book, poem, and short story that I've ever read. He reminds me of our own William Faulkner who surely must have read Hardy because he patterned his style in the same manner (Yoknapatawpha County versus Hardy's Wessex, etc.). The blue-eyed girl, Elfride, reminds me of the main character in a book I'm reading now: Clyde Griffiths in Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy, also a book describing the conflicts of class and love and, since it's set in the US, lust for money. A long suit of Hardy's is his wonderful quotes from the peasants ("I have no use for a flower that neglect won't kill," and "dead, but wouldn't drop down." The other thing I like is his many references which enrich the story and educate the reader. Therefore I look for editions that have explanatory notes. Then too I like to have a pile of reference books on hand to get his fuller meaning: the Bible, Shakespeare, books on English literature, etc. And last, like all Hardy novels, A Pair of Blue Eyes has plenty of sex (if you can read between the lines). Hardy recognized that strongest of all drives beside the basic ones of survival, and despite what he called the Grundyism of the period, he conveyed that truth in his books. Read this book and any other by Hardy. A lifetime of pleasure awaits you. But of course that's just my opinion.

Classic Hardy Melodrama.......1999-06-26

I had forgotten Hardy's unique way of making my jaw drop in the last few pages of his novels. If it's been a while since you've treated yourself to his unrelenting destruction of any hope you may be harboring for his characters, indulge. The man never disappoints a cynic.

Surprisingly compelling.......1999-03-26

This book was recommended by Amazon.com and I threw it in my shopping cart for fun. I found it surprisingly compelling. I do not remember ever reading Hardy before. His writing is wonderful and not at all old-fashioned, in fact, it is a modern book in sensibility. If you like books that care about characters and place, read it!

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A Pair of Blue Eyes

Manufacturer: Harper & Bros.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Leather Bound

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Publisher: New York: Harper & Bros. 1895; Full-Leather. First Edition (apparent). 12mo - over 6 3/4 " - 7 3/4 " tall. Softcover covered with brick red leather. Good map of Wessex in back.

THE NOVELS OF THOMAS HARDY: Two on a Tower; Desperate Remedies; Wessex Tales; A Pair of Blue Eyes

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THE NOVELS OF THOMAS HARDY: Two on a Tower; Desperate Remedies; Wessex Tales; A Pair of Blue Eyes
Thomas Hardy
Manufacturer: Macmillan and Company
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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A Pair Of Blue Eyes
Thomas Hardy
Manufacturer: 1st World Library
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Binding: Paperback

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A Pair of Blue Eyes
Thomas Hardy
Manufacturer: Adamant Media Corporation
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ASIN: 0543896684
Release Date: 2000-08-08

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A Pair of Blue Eyes

Manufacturer: Popular
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Regular paperback; not photocopy!

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A Pair of Blue Eyes
Thomas Hardy
Manufacturer: Macmillan & Co., St. Martin's Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

Product Description

1962 Reprint of 1906 Pocket Edition. (4-1/2" x 7" size) First Edition (3 vols.) was printed in 1873.

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A Pair of Blue Eyes
Thomas Hardy
Manufacturer: Paperbackshop.Co.UK Ltd - Echo Library
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