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Rare and endangered plants of New Zealand
David R Given
Manufacturer: Reed
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Open Road's Greek Islands Guide
George McDonald
Manufacturer: Open Road Publishing
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ASIN: 1883323401 |
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Beginning with Athens where most travelers begin their odyssey to these beautiful islands, and covering all the major islands in the Aegean Sea plus Cyprus (often excluded from guides to the Greek isles), this second edition brings readers new hotels, restaurants, ruins and museums, beaches, nightlife, activities and much more. Bonus chapters include great cultural and historical background -- including our unique "Who Was Who in Ancient Greece" -- and everything one needs to fish, sail, swim, relax, explore, and enjoy the Greek Islands!
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INDIAN ACCOUNT OF FETTERMAN MASSACRE.......2007-05-01
It's common today to call Fetterman's mistake a 'fight' rather than a massacre, but since I am from the 'old school' of plains history it is a massacre to me.
This book has a couple excellent color maps and many, many colorful drawings that embellish the text to produce a very readable book. Though this is listed as juvenile literature, any reader can enjoy its content. The University of Nebraska Press: Lincoln must have had similiar feelings when they reprinted this book, which was originally printed in 1972.
The author has also issued several other volumes on the plains Indians and whether for your child, yourself, of both time spent with these small books is time well spent, indeed.
Semper Fi.
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This book focuses on the core topics of biology with a friendly writing style and vivid illustrations while exploring current “real world” issues. A seven-part organization covers atoms, molecules, and cells; energy and life; genetics; evolution and the diversity of life; human anatomy and physiology; and plant anatomy and physiology. For anyone interested in increasing their biological literacy – enabling them to make informed decisions at the ballot box and understand the research findings they see in the news.
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Supplement: Student Lecture Notebook - Brief Guide to Biology with Physiology, a 1/E
Pearson
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
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ASIN: 0131962205 |
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This book focuses on the core topics of biology with a friendly writing style and vivid illustrations while exploring current real world issues. A seven-part organization covers atoms, molecules, and cells; energy and life; genetics; evolution and the diversity of life; human anatomy and physiology; and plant anatomy and physiology. For anyone interested in increasing their biological literacy enabling them to make informed decisions at the ballot box and understand the research findings they see in the news.
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Wörterbuch der Textilveredelung / Dictionary of Textile Finishing: Deutsch/Englisch, English/German
H.-K. Rouette
Manufacturer: Springer
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ASIN: 3540432140 |
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Das Wörterbuch der Textilveredelung gibt dem Textilingenieur die korrekten Fachausdrücke für 16.000 Stichworte seines Arbeitsbereiches in englischer Sprache und vice versa. Der neueste Stand der Technik ist mitenthalten. Es schafft außerdem die Verknüpfung zwischen der "Encyclopedia of Textile Finishing" und dem "Lexikon der Textilveredelung" vom selben Autor. Ergänzt wird das Werk durch einen umfassenden Akronymeteil aus dem Textilbereich (ca. 500 Akronyme und ihre Bedeutungen).In the Dictionary of Textile Finishing the textile engineer will find the correct technical terms for 16.000 keywords within his field of activity in German language and vice versa. The terms cover the latest state of the art. The dictionary is the link between the "Encyclopedia of Textile Finishing" and the "Lexikon der Textilveredelung" from the same author. It is supplemented by a comprehensive collection of acronyms in the textile field (approx. 500 acronyms and their meanings).
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Partial Differential Equation Methods in Control and Shape Analysis (Lecture Notes in Pure and Applied Mathematics)
Manufacturer: CRC
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ASIN: 0824798376 |
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"Based on the International Federatiojn for Information Processing WG 7.2 Conference, held recently in Pisa, Italy. Provides recent results as well as entirely new material on control theory and shape analysis. Written by leading authorities from various desciplines."
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A sprawling saga about five generations of a family from Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Fall on Your Knees is the impressive first fiction from Canadian playwright and actor Ann-Marie MacDonald. This epic tale of family history, family secrets, and music centers on four sisters and their relationships with each other and with their father. Set in the coal-mining communities of Nova Scotia in the early part of this century, the story also shifts to the battlefields of World War I and the jazz scene of New York City in the 1920s.
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The Piper family is steeped in secrets, lies, and unspoken truths. At the eye of the storm is one secret that threatens to shake their lives -- even destroy them.
Set on stormy Cape Breton Island off Nova Scotia, Fall on Your Knees is an internationally acclaimed multigenerational saga that chronicles the lives of four unforgettable sisters. Theirs is a world filled with driving ambition, inescapable family bonds, and forbidden love.
Compellingly written, by turns menacingly dark and hilariously funny, this is an epic tale of five generations of sin, guilt, and redemption.
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Madness and Religion.......2007-09-11
Intriguing family saga of the impact of mental illness and spiritualism gone wrong. The dept of emotion within each character - parents and siblings - brings understanding to their seemingly irrational behavior. Strong characters draw you into their thinking and justification of their actions. MacDonald does a fine job of weaving the plot around historial events that lend added dimension to the complex relationships and the story overall. An excellent read.
Exploring different forms of love.......2007-09-02
This was Ms MacDonald's debut novel It is black and bleak and full of secrets. Peopled by flawed yet believable characters, this was one of the most amazing novels I read in 2003.
While the story starts on Cape Breton Island with James Piper (a poor Scots piano tuner) and Materia Mahmoud (the dauhter of a wealthy Lebanese family) and their relationship and elopement, the main story is of their daughters.
The childhood of the Piper sisters - Kathleen, Mercedes, Frances and Lily - is insightfully written and breathes life into the characters. Their lives on Cape Breton Island and then later in New York is an epic tale of love, pain and death, which also contains joy and triumph.
This novel is so rich in themes and in its development of characters it is hard to try to categorise it. So I won't. Instead, I'll recommend it to anyone who enjoys a good well written story but is also willing to explore some of the darker aspects of humanity.
Highly recommended.
Jennifer Cameron-Smith
Wow.......2007-05-03
This is not my normal book. It is quite dark (Gothic may be accurate) but a page turner, not in the thriller sense but much deeper. The book starts out with a snapshot of a family then goes on to unfold the story of how that family got to be that way. The snapshot makes you keep reading to find out each characters situation. As I read, I kept turning back to it as each piece of the plot unfolded. I finished this 2 days ago and can't get it out of my mind, it was so twisted and multilayered. I keep thinking about the Piper characters and putting them into modern context or comparing them to people I know. While the story covers many issues (poverty, race, prohibition, children taking on adult responsibility, coping with death, incest, small town life, relgion, homosexuality, and the list goes on) it interveaves the topics so well that it is still one elegant, continuous story.
I rarely review a book, but decided to since this book hasn't left me even though I'm halfway through the next. I believe everybody is accurate when they say that they cannot really find the right words to describe this book. All I can come up with is Wow, like when you hear some completely unexpected news about someone that goes against what you thought of them and you just can't put it into context or even categorize it in your brain, yet all you can do is keep thinking about it.
Cursed Family.......2007-04-17
James is an eighteen-year-old piano tuner who has recently lost his mother and whose abusive father has been gone for years. He falls desperately in love with Materia, the twelve-year-old daughter of one of his clients. They elope and Materia's family disowns and curses her and her children.
Within a year the couple has their first child, Kathleen, and the romance has gone from their relationship. James wonders if Materia was always so fat, so unpleasant, so utterly stupid. Materia misses her family and deeply regrets her marriage. To James, though, his daughter Kathleen is an angel. He adores her and brings her everywhere. She is beautiful and sweet and at eighteen months old begins to show signs of an impressive musical talent. James decides she will be an opera singer, and he is determined to give her every opportunity possible.
When Kathleen is twelve, James begins having incestuous thoughts about her. Materia notices, and in an attempt to save her daughter she begins seducing her husband, producing two more daughters, Mercedes and Frances. James recognizes his weakness, though, and decides to join the army and go fight in World War I. As soon as he returns home, he sends Kathleen to New York to study opera. It is not long before Kathleen is home again, though, and scandalously pregnant.
When several tragedies strike the family in quick succession, permanent roles are set for Mercedes and Frances. Mercedes is the responsible and deeply religious one who will hold the family together. Frances is the bad one, the troublemaker who will tear the family apart. Despite their differences, both girls have terrible secrets that will continue to affect their family through the next generation.
This book was very well written, with vivid characters. I especially liked Frances, who was willing to take any punishment necessary to protect her family and to create a safe haven for her little sister.
Parts of this book were awkward, though. The first few pages, describing the Piper home, didn't make any sense until much later in the book. I was left very confused and had to flip back later to place it in a time frame. I didn't like that Kathleen's story was eventually told long after the fact in the form of a diary. I feel this is an overused device and is a cop-out for an author who is unable to figure out how to integrate a person's narrative into the larger story. It was likely supposed to be a shocking revelation, but, really, how many people hadn't figured out the secret of Lily's birth by then? Kathleen had been out of the story for so long by then that I was no longer interested in the details of her life in New York.
Action Packed.......2007-04-07
For the most part this story is delightfully action packed - full of surprises - unexpected turns and twists that keep the reader open mouthed. It is the story of a highly dysfunctional family in New Waterford, Cape Breton Island.
The author's writing style is different, yet very effective. The way Catholicism is worked in here is quite interesting, as is the predicament Lebanese find themselves in. Please don't call them coloured or Arab. They would like to be considered European.
I am still not sure about the character Rose. What exactly is the author saying here?
Also Lily driving,then walking down to New York to meet Rose...what was the point here?
I have to admit that at times I was left with an unpleasant taste in my mouth.
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FALL ON YOUR KNEES
Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
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Fall on Your Knees : A Novel
Manufacturer: Random House of Canada, Limited
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ASIN: B000HJPUEU |
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