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In this practical, informative, richly illustrated guide, National Geographic takes you to the best nature sites In the Southwest and tells you what you need to knew -- about the landscape, plants, animals, activities, and recreation -- to experience them fully.
- Over 65 major sites, plus numerous smaller ones, grouped by bioreglon, including national parks, forests, and wildlife refuges; state parks, conservation areas and preserves; and wild and scenic rivers.
- Guided hikes and drives.
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What a way to go!.......2001-09-26
I always knew this area of the Southwest was beautiful, based on my limited firsthand experience. Reading this guidebook makes me want to go back and explore more of the places I missed. Mr. White's use of the language evokes not only the beauty of the area but offers fascinating bits of information about the geology and origins of the places described. Guidebooks are used to guide, obviously, but this one, thanks to Mr. White, also illuminates and entertains. Mr. Huey's photography is first-rate. Highly recommended.
What a Wonderful Guide for Adventures of all Kind.......2000-11-09
This is one of a series of books provided by National Geographic featuring the famous and lesser-known, less traveled parks in the United States. The series is divided into regions and provides invaluable information about accommodations, trails, activities, optimal times of travel, etc. Don't plan a trip without perusing these books!
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Fun.......2000-03-28
This is a wonderful dictionary! It has a logical setup, and most of the terms are defined under more than one biological discipline, making an important distinction between different applications of the term. The best part about this dictionary is the sheer bulk of terms it defines, far more than any other modestly priced dictionary out there. The only disadvantage is that there are still a bunch of terms they are missing, so when reading journal articles only half of my questions are answered without hitting any textbook glossaries. They have a whole slew of ridiculous terms in there as well, making it amusing to flip through. I suggest you buy it if you are a student and have about $20 bucks to burn.
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Derived from the content of the respected McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, Sixth Edition, each title provides thousands of definitions of words and phrases encountered in a specific discipline.
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Disappointing.......2004-04-09
This download is a letdown on many levels. There may be some students who this will help but it misses or fails in many ways to help those wanting a good biological science dictionary.
The content misses out too many important words. In a dynamic field like molecular biology this is understandable, however it also makes the need for a good reference even more important and surely in electronic format the opportunity to update is easily available. Some of the definitions left me unconvinced I understood the meaning of the word. There are no graphics I could find to help explain any of the terms.
The Microsoft Reader user interface is limited and limiting in ability to use the book. It makes the tables in the Appendix unreadable on my screen. I have downloaded Acrobat books and found the user interface superior in comparison.
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Topological hydrodynamics is a young branch of mathematics studying topological features of flows with complicated trajectories, as well as their applications to fluid motions. It is situated at the crossroad of hyrdodynamical stability theory, Riemannian and symplectic geometry, magnetohydrodynamics, theory of Lie algebras and Lie groups, knot theory, and dynamical systems. Applications of this approach include topological classification of steady fluid flows, descriptions of the Korteweg-de Vries equation as a geodesic flow, and results on Riemannian geometry of diffeomorphism groups, explaining, in particular, why longterm dynamical weather forecasts are not reliable.
Topological Methods in Hydrodynamics is the first monograph to treat topological, group-theoretic, and geometric problems of ideal hydrodynamics and magnetohydrodynamics for a unified point of view. The necessary preliminary notions both in hydrodynamics and pure mathematics are described with plenty of examples and figures. The book is accessible to graduate students as well as to both pure and applied mathematicians working in the fields of hydrodynamics, Lie groups, dynamical systems and differential geometry.
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The Mansion.......2007-05-01
I can't find The Mansion on sale individually, so I'm reviewing that here. If you have plenty of time on your hands, you can check my reviews for The Hamlet and The Town. There are spoilers below if you're worried that Faulkner can be spoiled.
The Mansion concludes the Snopes trilogy, and at the end of it, I think that the story being told is not of the Snopes but of Gavin Stevens. Flem Snopes, the ostensible subject, is really never on the main stage during the whole trilogy and is one of the rare undeveloped characters in all of Faulkner. Flem holds no faults that don't show up in the characters scattered throughout the town, and while manipulative, is no more so than any of the townfolk that are dead set against his success.
Gavin Stevens is the more interesting character and the only one worthy of a starring role in a tragedy. Primarily, Gavin is devoted to a life well lived and tries to bring others on that path. He is an ideal for what a person can become given effort and commitment. Yet he is destroyed by contact with born greatness exemplified in Eula Varner. Eula has done nothing to achieve what she is, she is simply a milepost in humanity. Gavin's brush with greatness renders his commitment to goodness bland and unsatisfying. He never caves to immorality, but neither does he ever surrender to love or commit the great work that he is capable of (retranslating the Bible back into Greek and Hebrew).
The Mansion is the end of the tragedy with Mink Snopes as its vehicle, and there is an interesting suggestion of redemption for him a la Carson McCullers. However, it's unclear why salvation is offered at all unless it is that he like the rest of us are unwitting instruments of the Old Moster. This would be a much more interesting book if it hadn't been blown away earlier in Go Down, Moses.
Perhaps the most confusing writer of all time.......2006-06-19
Well, I quit. I admit it, I can't do it. I WANT to read William Faulkner, I WANT to like William Faulkner, so many people I know claim they love his writing and it's so deep and profound and beautiful and la la la, and I really wanted to get into it, I really did, but...I can't.
Here's a brief exerpt from The Hamlet: "They were young voices, talking not in shouts or screams but with an unhurried profundity of volume the very apparent absence from which of any discernible human speech or language seemed but natural, as if the sound had been emitted by two enormous birds . . . he had a fleeting vision of them as two cows, heifers, standing knee-deep in air as in a stream, a pond, nuzzling into it, the level of the pond fleeing violently and silently into one inhalation, exposing in astounded momentary amaze the teeming lesser subaerial life about the planted feet."
Now, it's not so much that I don't know what he's talking about, although I kind of don't, but it's more that he seems to be trying NOT to say what he's trying to say. I mean, whatever he's getting at in describing these two people, he is taking the longest possible route to get there, and he just loses me, every time. His word choice and sentence structure make Proust look like Hemingway. Next to Faulkner, reading "Ulysses" is like reading the Little Golden Books you had when you were a kid.
He's not a BAD writer at all, I mean he explodes with some amazing images from time to time, but you just cannot follow him, or I can't at least. I'm giving the book 3 stars because Faulkner clearly had tremendous talent, but...well, you know how John Lennon once commented on his genius by singing "No one, I think, is in my tree"? Well, in Faulkner's case, I think no one is in his whole ORCHARD. Maybe even his county.
Treat yourself to a trio .......2006-04-24
These books might be the most accesible Faulkner. They add structure, dimension, and color to the reality of his world of Yoknapataphwa county. The wealth of imagery, metaphor and symbolism is there for those who want it just beneath the surface of an engaging, at times laugh out loud saga of a family of unforgettable characters within a community of equally memorable characters.
Through this portal, one can enter Faulkner's universe, get a feel for his style and an appetite for his work to proceed with momentum to his more complex books.
The size of the book itself, with the 3 novels in one cover, might intimidate some and steer them away. The weight of 3 novels together can be uncomfotable during exended reading. But the text offers the trilogy to be read in succession - the story compels one to do so, and draws one back to do so repeatedly.
Great work from a great writer - a real treat and special component for the library of any reader.
Did Oprah...goof? Should she have chosen 'Snopes'? .......2005-06-07
Oprah's Book Club chose three novels by William Faulkner for the summer months: "As I Lay Dying," "The Sound and the Fury" and "Light in August."
When Oprah speaks, America listens, so the three-volume set of the novels Oprah picked -- 1,152 pages of Faulkner, a bargain on Amazon at $17.97 --- has leapt to #2 on the Amazon bestseller list. Home across the country which only have "The Da Vinci Code" and "Tuesdays with Morrie" on their bookshelves will now greet books by a novelist who would have been lionized by the symbolist writers of 19th century France. That's thrilling.
But..."As I Lay Dying" has multiple narrators who favor the stream-of-conscious style. The first section of "The Sound and the Fury" is narrated by an idiot who slips in and out of the present with only italics to guide you. "Light in August" is a comparatively straightforward "traditional" novel, but it's 528 pages.
I'll be stunned if 10% of Oprah's devotees reach page 100 of any of these novels.
The tragedy in Oprah's summer reading list? There are three books by Faulkner much better suited to her purposes. She just picked the wrong Faulkner.
The right Faulkner? Three novels that Faulkner conceived as a trilogy: "The Hamlet," "The Town" and "The Mansion." Compared to other Faulkner novels, these 1,088 pages ($17.61 at Amazon) read like pulp fiction --- the plot is lurid, the motivations of the characters couldn't be more contemporary, and the style breaks no new ground. They're not Grisham, but they're close.
"The Hamlet" is the story of Flem Snopes, all grown up and just about as unethical as his father, and of Flem's effect on the small, unsuspecting village of Frenchman's Bend. Flem's impotent --- but only below the belt. So when he discovers that Will Varner's daughter Eula is pregnant without a husband, he steps forward and offers to help Will out. That makes Flem the son-in-law of one of the town's leading landowners --- and neatly positioned to start taking over the hamlet. (This book was adapted into a film called "The Long Hot Summer," starring Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Orson Welles, Lee Remick and Angela Lansbury.)
Eula is a sensual woman, with a body that turns any man's thoughts to just one thing. In "The Town," Flem seems not to notice. He's too busy getting promoted --- first to chief of the power plant, then to vice president of the bank. Can the presidency of the bank be denied him? And, along the way, can he get his revenge on the man who's been having an eighteen-year affair with Eula?
In the final volume, justice finally comes Flem's way. But not before Frenchman's Bend has been transformed --- eaten alive, really --- by the kind of man never before seen in these parts. That is because Flem represents the unethical, unrestrained capitalism that only could flourish in the South after the Civil War had stripped it of its codes of honor. Flem has only one goal and one emotion --- power, and the love of it. In our time, we know this kind of man well. And, as often as not, we live in "communities" where people used to be like family to their neighbors and now barely recognize them to wave.
Rapacious capitalism. The loss of our sense of "home." Men who use women to advance their master plans. These are themes that Oprah's fans could really get into. Maybe after they've struck out with the brainbusters, they'll give these books a chance.
Snopes, the way it was meant to be read.......2000-10-06
If you love reading Faulkner, then I recommend the Modern Library edition of _Snopes_. Snopes, probably some of the most unjustly underrated Faulkner, is also a fine introduction to his fiction since it contains some of the stories published separately, such as "Spotted Horses." In Snopes Faulkner works the revolving point of view to great effect with primarily four narrators; V.K. Ratliff, the sanguine sewing machine salesman, Gavin Stevens, the sensitive, meddlesome county attorney, Charles mallison, the young boy who grows up with the 2nd and 3rd books, and finally the community of Jefferson itself as a kind of collective 3rd person. Snopes is an inviting, lyrical novel, one that accomodates the reader as a citizen of Jefferson and privileges that new citizen with as much gossip as any other. It's a rich and telling family chronicle as well as a novelistic treatise on time and change in rural Yoknapatawpha County and the town of Jefferson, with real relevance for our own time since as Cleanth Brooks says, Flem Snopes is himself a harbinger of Corporate expansion and agressiveness. Snopes is also a treatment on money, developing more at times a sense of the value of money from the point of view of those with precious little of it than just those with a good deal more of it. These books do get at the human condition, Faulkner wrests even from the innocuous daily affairs a tangible improvement in the catalog of human understading. He approaches his characters, especially the memorable Mink Snopes, with the passion and understanding that they are human and therefore complex and their reasons complex, even if they are simple and criminally minded. It is a pleasing volume that does not disappoint in the end, the satisfying resolution that the reader comes to believe may not happen but does.
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Snopes Trilogy: The Hamlet; The Town;The Mansion
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SNOPES: A TRILOGY THE HAMLET, THE TOWN, THE MANSION
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