We're Sailing To Galapagos: A Week In The Pacific (Travel the World) (Travel the World)

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Tour the Galapagos Islands in a red-sailed boat and encounter many exotic land and sea animals, like giant tortoises, albatrosses, iguanas, lava crabs and booby birds! This rhyming story, which also teaches the days of the week, also includes fascinating facts on Charles Darwin, the Islands and the animals that live there.

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Beautiful Graphics, Nice Writing, and Educational to Boot!.......2006-03-05

A lovely book that introduces exotic animals, talks about days of the week, has a catchy refrain (that we sing), and exudes pure happiness through its words and images. My 2.5 year old daughter loves it!

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Flora of south-eastern Queensland (Miscellaneous publication / Queensland Department of Primary Industries)
T. D Stanley
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The honey flora of south-eastern Queensland
S. T Blake
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A tourist guide in English for Chicago.

Michelin the Green Guide Chicago (Michelin Green Guide: Chicago)

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Michelin the Green Guide Chicago (Michelin Green Guide: Chicago)

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Michelin Green Guide Chicago (Michelin Green Guides)

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Michelin:A Smart, not overly talkative friend in Chicago!

Michelin Green Guide Chicago (Michelin Green Guides)

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ASIN: 2060000610

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This title in Michelin's acclaimed collection of travel publications is your indispensable guide to the many attractions of the great Mid-western city of Chicago. From the Magnificent Mile's glamorous shops to the Loop's architectural landmarks, from the Art Institute's masterpieces to the high-tech trappings of the Museum of Science and Industry, from the ethnic patchwork of the West Side to historic districts of Old Town and the Gold Coast, let Michelin help you discover the "City on the Lake". Excursions from Chicago highlight the best Oak Park, the North Shore, Illinois & Michigan Canal National Heritage Corridor and other attractions.

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Michelin:A Smart, not overly talkative friend in Chicago!.......2000-10-22

I was very happy with the Michelin Green Guide to Chicago both in planning and touring on a recent visit. I could count on the guide for clear, concise descriptions of everything worth seeing -- enough to know if I WANTED to check something out AND very good narrative to help me find my bearings or learn interesting background (but not TOO much!) when I was actually 'on-site'. I never felt either overwhelmed or underinformed by this guide -- which to me is one real test of a travel guide. I also appreciated that phone numbers are listed for virtually everything.

I'm not giving it five stars because it offers basically no help/ratings with local restaurants or hotels (and doesn't really pretend to), and because a more comprehensive listing of web addresses is needed.

Michelin Green Sightseeing Travel Guide to Chicago (Michelin Guides and Maps)

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Michelin Green Sightseeing Travel Guide to Chicago (Michelin Guides and Maps)
Michelin Staff
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Binding: Paperback

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From the lush forests of Appalachia to the frozen tundra of Alaska, and from the tallgrass prairies of the Midwest to the subtropical rainforests of Hawaii, the United States harbors a remarkable array of ecosystems. These ecosystems in turn sustain an exceptional variety of plant and animal life. For species such as salamanders and freshwater turtles, the United States ranks as the global center of diversity. Among the nation's other unique biological features are California's coast redwoods, the world's tallest trees, and Nevada's Devils Hole pupfish, which survives in a single ten-by-seventy-foot desert pool, the smallest range of any vertebrate animal. Precious Heritage draws together for the first time a quarter century of information on U.S. biodiversity developed by natural heritage programs from across the country. This richly illustrated volume not only documents those aspects of U.S. biodiversity that are particularly noteworthy, but also considers how our species and ecosystems are faring, what is threatening them, and what is needed to protect the nation's remaining natural inheritance. Above all, Precious Heritage is a celebration of the extraordinary biological diversity of the United States.

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Biodiversity.......2000-04-06

The word biodiversity often conjures up visions of tropical rain forests, and for good reason. They contain more species than anywhere else in the world. But, as this lavishly illustrated and well written book attests there is a great deal of biodiversity in the U.S. In fact, U.S. is the richest country in terms of numbers of species for several groups inclulding freshwater mussels and crayfishes. The authors take us through the groups of plants and animals in the U.S. with a combination of natural history descriptions, photographs, maps, and when appropriate, data summaries. The maps are really noteworthy, because they add a great deal to the book both visually and in terms of understanding the patterns. The book is well worthy the cost just for the photos and maps. Later chapters address the patterns of rarity, threats, and protection strategies. In terms of style and content, it rests between David Wilcove's, The Condor's Shadow and Terrestrial Ecoregions of North America: A Conservation Assessment by Taylor Ricketts et al. Precious Heritage belongs on the bookshelves of everyone interested in and concerned about biodiversity in the U.S.

Excellent for both environemtnalist and professionals.......2000-04-06

This book should be on the shelf of environmentalist interested in biodiversity as well as professional conservation biologists. The authors provide a well written introduction to our understanding of biodiversity and the ways that we measure it. They also provide overviews of the geographic trends in biodiversity, the current threats to this diversity, and offer a perspective on the ways that we proactively maintain this "precious heritage". The book also provides a perspective that allows professional conservation biologists to see their work in a large scale biogeographic framework, and provides some of the data needed to allow scientists to move from writing epitaphs for dying species to proactively conserving diversity.

PRECIOUS HERITAGE: THE STATUS OF BIODIVERSITY IN THE UNITED STATES

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PRECIOUS HERITAGE: THE STATUS OF BIODIVERSITY IN THE UNITED STATES
Bruce A Kutner, Lynn S. Adams, Jonathan S. (editors) Stein
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press Oxford, England
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Precious Heritage: The Status of Biodiversity in the United States
Nature Conservancy (U.S.); Association for Biodiversity Information
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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This account reviews current knowledge about the physics of nuclear structure, including the relevance of recent discoveries to cosmology. The latest advances in particle accelerator and detector technology are noted, and the description of nuclear reactions is expanded from the first
edition. Mathematical material is reserved for special appendices in order to facilitate a rapid grasp of the material. This book is an ideal text for introductory courses in nuclear physics.

From Nuclei and Their Constituents to Stars: Proceedings of the International School of Physics "Enrico Fermi", Course Cliii, Varenna on Como Lake, Villa ... School of Physics Enrico Fermi)

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From Nuclei and Their Constituents to Stars: Proceedings of the International School of Physics "Enrico Fermi", Course Cliii, Varenna on Como Lake, Villa ... School of Physics Enrico Fermi)
A. Molinari , INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF PHYSICS ENRICO , L. Riccati , Wanda Maria Alberico , and M. Morando
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This book focuses on the ideas to embed nuclear physics in the larger context of hadronic physics by stressing and deepening its widening overlap with particle, astroparticle and condensed matter physics and to emphasize the unity of the two facets not only of nuclear, but of the whole physics; the theoretical and the experimental ones. Counteracting the ominous trend of enlarging the gap between the two, the danger being of depriving experimental physics of ideas promoting experiments and of transforming theoretical physics into metaphysics. The reader will find modern conceptions on nuclear structure, how atomic nuclei are probed through the scattering of high energy electrons and how they interact when accelerated at ultra-relativistic energies. The item connects to the quest for the quark-gluon plasma, perhaps the central theme of the contemporary hadronic physics, whose unraveling requires a vast and profound knowledge of both nuclear and particle physics, in particular QCD.

Atomic Nuclei and Their Particles; (Oxford Physics Series, No 13)

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Atomic Nuclei and Their Particles; (Oxford Physics Series, No 13)
E.J. Burge
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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ASIN: B000OLFBGS

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Uniquely outlines CFD theory in a manner relevant to environmental applications. This book addresses the basic topics in CFD modelling in a thematic manner to provided the necessary theoretical background, as well as providing global cases studies showing how CFD models can be used in practice demonstrating how good practice can be achieved , with reference to both established and new applications.

First book to apply CFD to the environmental sciences
Written at a level suitable for non-mathematicians

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Topology control is fundamental to solving scalability and capacity problems in large-scale wireless ad hoc and sensor networks. Forthcoming wireless multi-hop networks such as ad hoc and sensor networks will allow network nodes to control the communication topology by choosing their transmitting ranges. Briefly, topology control (TC) is the art of co-ordinating nodes decisions regarding their transmitting ranges, to generate a network with the desired features. Building an optimized network topology helps surpass the prevalent scalability and capacity problems. Topology Control in Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks makes the case for topology control and provides an exhaustive coverage of TC techniques in wireless ad hoc and sensor networks, considering both stationary networks, to which most of the existing solutions are tailored, and mobile networks. The author introduces a new taxonomy of topology control and gives a full explication of the applications and challenges of this important topic. Topology Control in Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks: Defines topology control and explains its necessity, considering both stationary and mobile networks. Describes the most representative TC protocols and their performance.

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The ORIGINAL Text Of Shakespeare's Works-First Folio, Published In 1623. A MUST For Any Educated Person.

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Reading from ' the complete works' is more difficult

Gorgeous Collection, for the Bookshelf

Outstanding Classic Updated With Great Introductions

The Complete Works
William Shakespeare , and Peter Alexander
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The new Oxford edition of Shakespeare's complete works reconsiders every detail of their text and presentation in the light of modern scholarship. The nature and authority of the early documents are re-examined, and the canon and chronological order of composition freshly established. Spelling and punctuation are modernized, and there is a brief introduction to each work, as well as an illuminating and informative General Introduction. OUP and Shakespeare's Globe Theatre this year embark on an official partnership to celebrate the plays both in print and performance -- this reissued and rejacketed edition of the complete works underscores the commitment.

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The ORIGINAL Text Of Shakespeare's Works-First Folio, Published In 1623. A MUST For Any Educated Person........2006-11-10

William Shakespeare-the greatest dramatist the world has ever known. With a very impressive output (37 plays, 4 poems and 154 sonnets, all of them beautifully written), he has rightly been called "Not of an age, but for all time." This, coming from a rival poet (Ben Jonson) is high praise indeed. The plays, poems and sonnets are very difficult to review individually, as they are well written. Shakespeare brilliantly captured the essence of human behaviour in his works. Of course, Shakespeare is not for everyone. Regarding film versions of his plays, I strongly recommend Sir Laurence Olivier's three self-directed Shakespeare films ("Henry V," "Hamlet," "Richard III"), Kenneth Branagh's growing output of Shakespeare ("Henry V," "Much Ado About Nothing," "Hamlet," "Love's Labour's Lost") and faithful stage versions of Shakespeare (The Merchant Of Venice [an out-of-print film starring Laurence Olivier and directed by Jonathan Miller], "King Lear" [starring Laurence Olivier and filmed as a movie in 1984], "Othello" [starring Laurence Olivier and filmed as a movie in 1965]). I also recommend Oliver Parker's 1995 version of
"Othello," starring Kenneth Branagh as the villainous Iago and Franco Zefferelli's 1968 version of "Romeo & Juliet," as well as West Side Story," a classic musical featuring music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim (in his debut; he would eventually write "Sweeny Todd") and masterful choreography by Jerome Robbins (he choreographed the dance sequences in "The King & I," "Fiddler On The Roof") which uses the tragic storyline of the play in a modern setting without the dialogue (unlike that idiot Luhrman, who had the c----es to COMPLETELY MODERNIZE the play; "West Side Story" and "Love's Labour's Lost" is as far as you can get to modernizing Shakespeare, the God of playwrights).

His plays, poems and sonnets are rated PG for some violence ("Titus Andronicus," "Macbeth," "Hamlet") and mild vulgarity (sexual references gracefully obscured in Elizabethan English; "Much Ado About Nothing," "Othello," "King Lear," "Venus & Adonis," "The Rape Of Lucrece," etc; though the language of his time was bawdy, Shakespeare DID NOT condone sexual licence). Profanity was also non-existent at the time. He used the words ("Damn," "Hell," "A--," and "B----" [once; in "King Lear"]) in their original definitions. Hell, as a place of torment, damn as in eternal banishment from God, a-- as in the animal also called a donkey and b---- as a female dog. Used improperly, these words immediately become insults of the most vulgar kind.

Masterwork edition!.......2006-02-24

The egregious and omnipresent figure of this unequaled dramaturge reached a peak of colossal dimensions. Although the elapsed time, his influence and absolute domain of the drama, his delirious visions about the greed, ambition, and power 's thirst seem to revive the glorious splendor of the unbeatable Greek tragedy.

There has not been any other writer who had retaken with such vigor, intensity and unrestrained realism the core of the tragic spirit. As the great visionaries, he introduces in his works and obligates us to be part of it. You cannot avoid it. Passion, luxury, betrayal, murder are fundamental factors that support the most diverse complexities of the human soul.

The extended range of aroused emotions we experience show us the mastery of his genius. Humor ( The merchant of Venice, Merry wives of Windsor, The comedy of errors) the eloquent passion exhibited in Gerona 's lovers, the sublime exquisiteness of A midsummer night `s dream, the egregious domain of the feminine psychology (The taming of the shrew) and his portentous vision of the last consequences of the power (Richard III, Macbeth, Hamlet, King Lear) reveal such penetrating knowledge of the human being that may be considered a continuous and always renovated source of analysis and febrile investigation for all those who had decided to get inside this kaleidoscopic universe.

His radiant brightness endures and increases through the times. Reading him we understand and even anticipate a good part of the past story of the last Century. That is why Albert Camus defined the XX Century as the Fear 's Century, he was thinking and talking in Shakespearean terms.

Perhaps the most distinguished and remarkable aspect to underline resides in the fact his characters are so emblematic by themselves; that frequently defies any logic or defined ideology. They are models in which his kindness, perversity or evilness concern.

Don' t let your life passes over without having been a silent witness of the astonishing, delirious, chilling, fascinating and sublime world of this Giant ` s Literature.

Reading from ' the complete works' is more difficult .......2005-10-26

In one sense I think almost every person feels a special pleasure in having a complete edition of the world's greatest writer. The special experience of knowing that one can turn whenever one wants to such great works of literature, and explore them again is a very real one.
However my long experience with reading has taught me that reading the plays in smaller single - volume more heavily annotated works gives more.
I notice for instance that my own ' complete edition' goes largely unread, and that when I need to read Shakespeare I always go to the single- volume works.

Gorgeous Collection, for the Bookshelf.......2004-07-20

The Arden's Complete Shakespeare is quite gorgeous and very well-presented. The text is easy to read in two-column format, printed on nice paper and equipped with a ribbon book mark. It contains 38 plays and all of the sonnets, which makes the collection more complete than that of Pelican and many others.

However, it is not quite as satisfying as it could be. In particular, there are no footnotes. In the the Pelican Complete Shakespeare, for example, there are ample footnotes explaining obscure references and defining less-common vocabulary. The footnotes and explanations included in the individual versions of Arden's Shakespeare are second to none. The collected works, therefore, is quite unsatisfying. However, I am not too disappointed; I use these footnotes much less than when I began reading Shakespeare.

The net result is that the Arden collection is a really beautiful and easy to read printing of all of Shakespeare's plays but it lacks a lot of input that one would have if the individual plays were collected. I'm happy with the book, but am also thankful I own Pelican.

Outstanding Classic Updated With Great Introductions.......2004-04-12

What is so great about this book is that the complete works of William Shakespeare are not only written, but also given extraordinary introductions to each play that are brilliantly written by Stanley Wells. The plays are presented in chronological order, and the introductions give newcomers to Shakespeare's work an understanding of what each play is all about, as well as the history behind it. "King Lear" is included both as it was originally written, as well as Shakespeare's revision of it years later.
There is an in-depth glossary at the back of the book that will help the new reader of this work understand many of the words that were written in the plays at that point of time. Another wonderful addition is an index to the first line of sonnets, and the page that sonnet can be found on.
This revised book will bring readers of Shakespeare's work closer to their original meaning thanks to the painstaking updating, while keeping the original titles in tact. I highly recommend this book for its wisdom, revisions, and the new understanding you will gain from the brilliance of centuries long gone, that have stood the test of time.
Barbara Rose, author of, `Individual Power' and `If God Was Like Man'

Complete Works of Shakespeare -- The Alexander Text

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Complete Works of Shakespeare -- The Alexander Text
William; Alexander, Peter Shakespeare
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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (The Alexander Text)

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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (The Alexander Text)
William Shakespeare
Manufacturer: Harper Collins
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This edition specially produced for Borders Books by Harper Collins.

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: The Alexander Text (Collins Classics)

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Good, but incomplete
Best portable complete Shakespeare collection
The Portable Bard

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: The Alexander Text (Collins Classics)
William Shakespeare
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Widely hailed on its first publication in 1951, the Complete Works of William Shakespeare edited by Professor Peter Alexander has long been established as one of the most authoritative editions of Shakespeare's works. Now completely reset in a reader-friendly format, it continues to provide a reliable and straightforward text for the reader. This updated edition includes a brief biography of Shakespeare by Germaine Greer and an introduction to his theater by Anthony Burgess; new introductions to the plays and poems written by a team from Glasgow University; an essay on the significance of the Alexander text; a glossary with 2,500 words and phrases; and line numbering that relates to standard concordances.

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Good, but incomplete.......2004-09-19

While the Harper-Collins edition is nicely laid out and a comfortable size, it is incorrectly called a "complete" collection. It is based on the 1951 Alexander text, which does not include either Edward III or The Two Noble Kinsmen. This edition contains the orthodox canon of yesteryear. With a limited selection of support material included, the reader will have to choose whether it's not worth spending the extra for a more comprehensive edition with expanded notes, glossary and supporting descriptions.

Best portable complete Shakespeare collection.......2004-06-11

I needed to get a book of complete works of Shakespeare, and portability was of key importance. So I went to a theater bookstore where I compared several different collections, including ones by Arden, Stratford, Pelican, and Gramercy. And this collection by Harper-Collins was hands-down the best in terms of readability and portability (and affordability).

The Arden and Pelican ones are the most comprehensive in terms of glossary, essays, and other scholarly stuff, but they also are the heaviest and the priciest. The Illustrated Stratford Shakespeare is surprisingly light (especially for a hard cover), but presumably to save page space, it abbreviates the characters' names before their lines (which I hate), and its font is pretty horrible in legibility. Gramercy's "William Shakespeare - The Complete Works" is the worst, being quite heavy while being extremely hard to read (abbreviated names and no indentation).

Harper-Collins' "Complete Works of William Shakespeare: The Alexander Text" is one of the best in terms of readability, with its good paper, font choice, fully spelled character names, and appropriate indentations to help legibility. It also has a decent glossary in the back for hard-to-understand words. I would have loved to have footnotes at the bottom of each pages instead, but hey, you can't have everything, I suppose. In terms of portability, this one is the second lightest of the five books (Stratford is the lightest). And the price is certainly right.

If you need complete Shakespeare on the go, this is the one to pick.

The Portable Bard.......2003-06-24

This is an edition of the complete works of Shakespeare that I keep next to my bed. No heavier than a large fashion magazine and absolutely readable, it is my favorite. The glossary is useful, the commentary is brief, and the cover folds back for comfortable beach reading. This edition brings Shakespeare into focus as an intimate whose work and life and suffering are not in any way distant from ours. Given the genius of the work, this particular edition encourages an easier relationship because the book itself is so easy to use.(When no one's around, pull it out and read a speech or two aloud) An excellent any-occasion gift that will be used and appreciated, especially by students, because it is so very convenient!

Works of William Shakspeare (Shakespeare), Complete Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copy Left by the Late George Steevens with a Memoir By Alexander Chalmers in One Volume

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The Works of William Shakspeare, Comprising His Dramatic and Poetical Works, Complete..From the Text of the Correctoed Copy Left By the Late George Stevens, Esq.... And a Memoir By Alexander Chalmers. Complete in One Volume

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