Enjoying Bluebirds More: A Special Publication from Bird Watcher's Digest

Book Description

Enjoying Bluebirds More is the perfect bluebird landlord manual. Learn how to get the greatest production out of your bluebird boxes in both healthy bluebirds and enjoyment. Dazzling color photographs and illustrations make this comprehensive handbook an outstanding value.

Book Description

This guide gives special prominence to the natural history of these islands which are teeming with wildlife, with a focus on conservation and environmental issues.

Book Description

Reading Essentials, Student Edition provides concise content of the Student Edition written at a lower grade level, making it perfect for struggling readers and ELL students.

Book Description

This volume introduces some basic theories on computational neuroscience. Chapter 1 is a brief introduction to neurons, tailored to the subsequent chapters. Chapter 2 is a self-contained introduction to dynamical systems and bifurcation theory, oriented towards neuronal dynamics. The theory is illustrated with a model of Parkinson's disease. Chapter 3 reviews the theory of coupled neural oscillators observed throughout the nervous systems at all levels; it describes how oscillations arise, what pattern they take, and how they depend on excitory or inhibitory synaptic connections. Chapter 4 specializes to one particular neuronal system, namely, the auditory system. It includes a self-contained introduction, from the anatomy and physiology of the inner ear to the neuronal network that connects the hair cells to the cortex, and describes various models of subsystems.

Book Description

From the reviews: "... the book is written in the best tradition of the beautiful series in which it appears. The material it presents is hard to find in other books. For people working in the structure theory of Banach spaces it will be most valuable as a source of references and inspiration. For those who wish to learn the subject the book deserves a warm welcome too."
Mededelingen van het Wiskundig Genootschap
"... The geometry of Banach lattices is a rich, beautiful, ... and rewarding subject. The proof is in the reading and perusing of the masterpiece."
Zentralblatt für Mathematik

Customer Reviews:

Great Book.......1997-12-08

This book is an excellent survey of Banach Space Theory, and an invaluable resource. It's too terse, but then again, most reference books are.

Classical Sequences in Banach Spaces (Pure and Applied Mathematics)

Average customer rating:

Classical Sequences in Banach Spaces (Pure and Applied Mathematics)
Sylvia Guerre-Delabriere
Manufacturer: CRC
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

General | Science | Subjects | Books

General | Mathematics | Science | Subjects | Books

Mathematical Analysis | Mathematics | Science | Subjects | Books

Transformations | Mathematics | Science | Subjects | Books

All Titles | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books
ASIN: 0824787234

Average customer rating:

Classical Banach spaces
Joram Lindenstrauss
Manufacturer: Hebrew University of Jerusalem
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B0007AOIY2

Classical Banach spaces I;: Sequence spaces, (Ergebnisse der Mathematik und ihrer Grenzgebiete)

Average customer rating:

Classical Banach spaces I;: Sequence spaces, (Ergebnisse der Mathematik und ihrer Grenzgebiete)
Joram Lindenstrauss
Manufacturer: Springer
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B00071VA24

Classical Banach spaces II;: Function spaces, (Ergebnisse der Mathematik und ihrer Grenzgebiete)

Average customer rating:

Classical Banach spaces II;: Function spaces, (Ergebnisse der Mathematik und ihrer Grenzgebiete)
Joram Lindenstrauss
Manufacturer: Springer
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B00071VA2E

Book Description

The second novel by the acclaimed author of Gabriel’s Story, Walk Through Darkness is a story of history infused by myth, the intense narrative of an escaped slave trying to reunite with his pregnant wife.

Walk Through Darkness is the story of two very different men, each on a quest, both tied together by a history of remorse, jealousy, and a love that crosses the barriers of race during the time of slavery.

William, a fugitive slave from Maryland, is driven by two powerful needs--to find his wife, Dover, who is pregnant with his child, and to live as a free man. He undertakes the treacherous journey north to restore meaning to his life, putting him at odds with the law and the sentiments of a nation. Morrison, who fled a painful youth in Scotland, had once hoped to establish a new life in America with his brother, but the unforeseen realities of immigrant life drove them apart.

As David Anthony Durham traces the physical and spiritual journeys of William, Dover, and Morrison he captures in rich, evocative detail the events and the landscape of America just before the turmoil of the Civil War. Interweaving tragedy and hardship with a profound understanding of enduring love and the desire for freedom. Walk Through Darkness is a complex story that is uniquely American, reflecting the tortured nature of the country’s bloodlines and uncovering the deep bonds, and wounds, that exist across racial lines. This is a well-wrought work of "fiction in history" that follows two very different American men's paths to freedom, and places a difficult part of our nation's history under a magnifying glass to search for something beyond pain. In the end, it also presents a new possibility for healing -- for the characters, and for the larger racial divide that still haunts the United States.

Building on the strengths of his extraordinary debut, Durham opens the reader's eyes anew to the eternal odyssey to find a home and identity in America.

Download Description

The second novel by the acclaimed author of Gabriel's Story, Walk Through Darkness is a story of history infused by myth, the intense narrative of an escaped slave trying to reunite with his pregnant wife.

Walk Through Darkness is the story of two very different men, each on a quest, both tied together by a history of remorse, jealousy, and a love that crosses the barriers of race during the time of slavery.

William, a fugitive slave from Maryland, is driven by two powerful needs -- to find his wife, Dover, who is pregnant with his child, and to live as a free man. He undertakes the treacherous journey north to restore meaning to his life, putting him at odds with the law and the sentiments of a nation. Morrison, who fled a painful youth in Scotland, had once hoped to establish a new life in America with his brother, but the unforeseen realities of immigrant life drove them apart.

As David Anthony Durham traces the physical and spiritual journeys of William, Dover, and Morrison he captures in rich, evocative detail the events and the landscape of America just before the turmoil of the Civil War. Interweaving tragedy and hardship with a profound understanding of enduring love and the desire for freedom. Walk Through Darkness is a complex story that is uniquely American, reflecting the tortured nature of the country's bloodlines and uncovering the deep bonds, and wounds, that exist across racial lines. This is a well-wrought work of "fiction in history" that follows two very different American men's paths to freedom, and places a difficult part of our nation's history under a magnifying glass to search for something beyond pain. In the end, it also presents a new possibility for healing -- for the characters, and for the larger racial divide that still haunts the United States.

Building on the strengths of his extraordinary debut, Durham opens the reader's eyes anew to the eternal odyssey to find a home and identity in America.

Customer Reviews:

Great read.......2007-09-17

I read this book because it was assignment in my boyfriend's English class. Usually I'm more of a non-fiction DIY self-help book person but this was definitely worthwhile.

Truth by another name.......2003-12-19

The novel maybe fiction but the story is truth, masterfully told. Truth may hurt and truth may offend but Durham has dared to tell the truth. He has fingered the pulse of America and touched the heartbeat of those years of infamy that have left a scar on the nation until this day.

Walk through darkness is a vivid portrayal of man's inhumanity toward his fellowman. It runs the gamut of the pathos of a people. If pain and suffering could be measured in miles, the agony of the black race would reach beyond the sun. Durham has skillfully conveyed the physical and mental anguish of a people; the strength, tenacity and faith that enabled them to endure the brutality and savagery of those years infamy and still carries them in its aftermath. Anyone interested in learning what it was like in America when it was a young land will find it in the painful pages of "Walk Through Darkness."

How did I love this book? Let me count the ways...........2002-12-03

As he did with his first book, Gabriel's Story, Durham has provided readers with a book that works on many levels. First of all it's a hell of a story. This is an exciting adventure, an intelligent page-turner. Interesting, well-drawn characters, who, like people in "real life," can act in unpredicted ways. These characters rank with those created by Charles Frazier in "Cold Mountain."
If you've ever grappled with imagining the lives of slaves in 19th century America, their struggles and the response of whites to them, reading "Walk Through Darkness" will help.
The story concerns a slave, William, escaping a cruel master and his search for his pregnant lover. Durham intersperses this tale with relentless pursuit of the protaganist by a tracker.
While spinning this fascinating yarn, Durham offers a hard look at a time and place not so distant and the attitudes that pervaded American life.
This is Durham's second book, following the fantastic "Gabriel's Story". He is two for two, having hit both out of the ballpark.

A soul in pursuit of freedom.......2002-11-10

The institution of slavery in America is a chapter rife with the shame of profit made on the backs others. But even more pervasive is the system that allows this condition, not only to exist but to thrive. The damage to the human spirit of enslaved individuals remains immeasurable, but the strength of character and heroic survival against incredible odds is written on the pages of history. Walk Through Darkness is one of those stories.

William, a strong young Maryland slave who has never considered running away, finds himself in the very act when Dover, the mother of his as yet unborn child is sent to live in a city in the North. He walks away in the dead of night from the mind-numbing physical burden that has made each day a burden, where brutality hangs in the air like a threatening fog, ready to pounce on the unwary. William soon learns that the immutable violence follows him, as he is doggedly pursued. One man in particular, Morrison, a Scotsman, joins the posse searching for this particular slave. Morrison nurtures distant memories that will ultimately bring him face to face with William as they take measure of one another.

On the endless days of his terrible journey, William draws nearer to Dover and Morrison to William. In that volatile time right before the Civil War the events of this intense chase mirror the chaos and destruction as the maws of History yield it's most shameful secrets, man's inhumanity to man. Durham's images are as precise as the cold lenses of a camera, as exact and unsparing, but always tempered with compassion for the humanity of his characters

Durham Does It Again.......2002-09-22

David Anthony Durham does it again-he creates a historical novel so deep and believable that the reader is left to ponder whether Durham is really a reincarnation of someone who lived several hundred years ago. After all, how else could he know what happened?

Meticulously researched, Walk Through Darkness leads us through the journeys of several characters profoundly caught in the abyss of slavery-people so emotionally rich that we hunger at times to jump between the pages to intervene in their situations. Durham is a master of dialogue, creating words so beautiful that you go back and read, and reread them, to savor their full impact. The threads of the plot are so carefully woven together that when they converge at a dramatic crescendo, you are left with mouth ajar.

Books:

Books Index

Books Home

Recommended Books