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Only Two Hours by plane from the United States. Belize is the perfect destination for travelers who want to interact with unbridled nature in the tropics. Here are vast tracts of rainforest and mangrove swamps, the greatest reef system in the Western Hemisphere, more than 170 low-lying islands (or cayes), dazzling white sand beaches, and the "Blue Hole"-made famous by Jacques Cousteau. Here, too, is a dazzling array of wildlife-tapirs, ocelots, jaguarundis, margays, monkeys, crocodiles, and manatees, as well as the only jaguar and howler monkey preserves in the world.
Belize has set aside nearly one-third of its land mass as nature reserves, national parks, and wildlife sanctuaries, and this comprehensive guidebook provides all the information travelers will need for enjoying its rich natural heritage as well as its many historical attractions. Features include:
-- A thorough guide to travel, lodging, and food: resorts, retreats, hotels, guest houses, campsites, restaurants, rental cars, and bus services
-- Comprehensive information on outdoor recreational opportunities, including snorkeling, scuba diving, sailing, fishing, birdwatching, sea kayaking, river rafting, horseback riding, camping, and hiking
-- Reviews of dive charter operators, boat and yacht charters, dozens of islands, and scores of underwater dive and snorkel sites
-- Descriptions of every readily accessible national park, with local site information, descriptions of flora and fauna, recreational opportunities, access, and accommodations
-- Historical background and directions for visiting every major Mayan site, including Tikal, nearby in Guatemala
-- Tips on language, visa requirements, currency, climate, health concerns, and much more
"A wonderful book ... packed with practical information for the scuba diver, adventurer, and nature lover."
-- Therese Bowman Rath, President, Belize Audubon Society
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A Different Guide Book.......2001-06-24
This was a different kind of guide book in a good way. It gave a nice history of the area and gave information to not only the usual tourist places but "off the beaten track" activities that we actually did in Belize.....and had a great time. Would give this one to any friend going to the area.
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The purpose of this clearly-written and fun book is to provide travel professionals with an easy-to-learn method of mastering the Internet so that they can immediately apply their new skills to their jobs. Using the “NAVIGATE” method, a specific set of instructions, the author creatively shows travel professionals how to use the Internet to their advantage by translating the features of technology into useable knowledge. “NAVIGATE” is an acronym for Net knowledge, Access to the world, Validate Information, GDS access and/or by-pass tool, Add services, Tap into your target market, and Evolve. The topics in the book range from the history and applications of the Internet, its terminology, Internet security, privacy, legal and social issues, to why agents should utilize the Internet, Netiquette, validating and finding information, useful Websites for travel professionals, technology options, competition, tapping into a target market, and e-marketing opportunities. This book is appropriate for front-line to management-level travel professionals within the various sectors of the travel industry, including employees of travel schools, tourist boards, travel agencies, travel agency networks/consortiums, airlines, car rental companies, hotel and hospitality corporations, rail tour operators, cruise companies, and wholesale companies.
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50 Fun Ways to Internet: How to Sign On, Navigate and Explore the Net Without Getting Lost in Cybersspace
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Net heads: huge numbers of brain cells may navigate small worlds.: An article from: Science News
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Title: Net heads: huge numbers of brain cells may navigate small worlds.
Author: Bruce Bower
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Date: February 17, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 171
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Conceived and written as a history of the modern world rather than a truncated Western Civilization book, this text is one of the most highly praised history texts ever published. It has been adopted at more than 1000 schools and has been translated into six languages. Lloyd Kramer joins the author team for this ninth edition that includes two new color inserts highlighting fine art, additional pedagogy to guide students through challenging material, and full, up-to-date inclusion of current events. Now packaged with PowerWeb, a dynamic course-specific rather than book-specific supplement that engages your students in three levels of resource materials and provides a true avenue to extending learning about a subject, A History of the Modern World is a necessity in any world history course.
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A History of the Modern World (9th Edition)- textbook of doom.......2006-11-14
After many years of textbooks in both public and private school I have always hoped that one day a textbook that was interesting to read would be assigned. Some textbooks have succeeded, A History of the Modern World has a bit of work to do. The pages are tightly pact with tiny print and the occational pictures. The pages are hard to read with the print size and single spacing. (I have to take breaks often to rest my eyes.)
If you are planning on reading this book cover to cover you will get a ton of information. I advise taking good notes with page numbers, otherwise you will not easily find the information again. Althought there is a lot of good information, the index and table of contents makes for difficult referencing, (definitely a book you will want to tab with sticky-notes.) On the insides of the covers there are world maps for reference, but unfortunately the publishers did not take into consideration that the binding would effect the images (this included images inside the pages too) and there are countries that are either not on the map, not labeled, or the labeling method was difficult to determine to which country the name goes to.
For the student that carries multiple books, you will dread the weight on this one. This book weighs around 5 lbs and has the standard size of a hardback novel and is about 1.5 inches thick.
Verbose and useless.......2006-09-10
This book has no idea what should be prioritized and what shouldn't. Also, the narrative is a rambling mess.
Ex: They spend 10 excruciating pages on Stalin's agricultural and industrial reforms, but contrive to cover the entire holocaust in all of 10 LINES! 'Nuff said!
I got a 5 on the AP exam quite comforably, but no thanks to this ridiculous book.
Outstanding overview of modern history.......2006-07-12
I am not exceptionally scholarly, although I would have to say that it takes some scholarly motivation to read over 1000 pages of dense historical writing in one's free time. Yet I found this book, which is often used as a textbook, very easy to read. It doesn't quite read like fiction as some lively historical accounts can, but that would be a difficult task given this broad a subject.
Palmer leaves very few questions unanswered. He adds a good amount of political commentary and speculation to keep it interesting and to show the relevance of events to today's world, but not too much that you feel he's biased in any way. He also gives short, informative bios on important individuals so that, even though he doesn't have time to delve deeply into any particular one, you get a feel for the personal motivations of all. His maps are fabulous, perhaps the best feature. They help to visualize the changes over time. Also, when he discusses territories he tends to explain them in terms of today. This is important because with the territories changing hands so often in history, it is difficult to conceptualize how these past kingdoms relate to the modern nations of Europe. He also is very clear in distinguishing between the natives and the conquering groups, including language differences. This is crucial to understand today, as nationalism movements flourish again after the breakup of the stabilizing and static bipolar international system (i.e. the breakup of the Soviet Union). Palmer's book is very good for this purpose.
I highly recommend it to anyone looking to brush up on their knowledge of history (who has some time on their hands). It's really an excellent book! I plan to use it as my history bible and reference it often. I will also use it as a jumping-off point for further reading. At the end of the book, Palmer includes a comprehensive, 91-page "suggestions for further reading" covering every topic he discusses for further reading/research. It is a goldmine of reading material!
Excellent and prompt service.......2006-03-20
The book arrived within a week after I placed the order. As advertised, it was in very good condition. No highlighting or pen/pencil marks on the interior pages. Was a little surprised by the deteriorating binding near the back of the book which is only noticeable if you open the back cover and turn to the last page of the index. Surprised but not upset as this is to be expected in such an old book. Just happy that the pages are in pristine condition and the rest of the book is in pretty good shape.
This is THE text of Modern European History.......2006-01-29
It is difficult to add to what reviewers have already provided. I used this text when I was a classroom AP teacher for a number of reasons. Among those reasons was that while most K-12 textbooks are the product of a committee, (committee- a terrestrial life form having at least six legs and no brain.) this book is largely the work of the late Dr. Robert Roswell Palmer. It was written as if the author felt that the history of Modern Europe was not a collection of chapters but rather a story, a narrative to be read the way one reads a novel. There is a continuity to the writing and an elegance of prose that can only be achieved by a text like this. Dr. Palmer was a wonderful historian and a marvellously accessable teacher who took the time to answer letters personally on his old manual typewriter. His passing is lamented.
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Calhoun -- last of the Founding Fathers.......2001-08-17
John Calhoun, the revered Son of South Carolina, was the South's pre-eminent advocate of ordered liberty in the nineteenth century. His two most important contributions, Disquisition on Government and Discourse on the Government and Constitution of the United States, are both included in this fine release by Liberty Fund. These two alone are worth the price of the book, and should be required reading for any student of American political philosophy. With the twelve speeches and papers included as well, they give a good overall picture of the man who spawned so much controversy by advocating nullification while sitting as Vice President of the U.S. Some have hailed his theory of the concurrent majority as the only truly original American contribution to political theory. This is surely one of my top ten books to go on the list of any thoughtful American reader.
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Rousseau and the Republic of Virtue: The Language of Politics in the French Revolution
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Primitive Baptists of the Wiregrass South: 1815 To the Present
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Very well documented and interesting reading.......1999-05-16
Dr. Crowley's extensive research makes this book one of a kind for Primitive Baptists in South Georgia and North Florida, and a good historical reference for anyone. It also is written in a vein that holds the reader's interest, and is filled with personal and sometimes humorous anecdotes that make it a book that is not easy to put down.
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Mischief and Marriage by Emma Darcy (Large Print Harlequin Hardcover).......2006-07-28
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Mischief was what Harry Clifton intended when he travelled to Australia in search of an heir. Marriage was the last thing on Ashley Harcourt's mind when she met Harry. But William, Ashley's enterprising young son, had other ideas! He saw Harry and decided he'd make a perfect father. To his surprise, Harry found he liked the idea of an instant family. So, with William on his side, all Harry had to do was prove to Ashley that Mischief and Marriage was the perfect combination ... just like he and Ashley.
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Charles Renouvier, Philosopher of Liberty
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Progress in the Reduction, Refinement and Replacement of Animal Experimentation
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Hardbound. New legislation enacted in many countries and regions of the world during the 1980s requires that laboratory animal use be reduced, refined and replaced wherever possible, for ethical and scientific reasons, in line with the Three Rs concept put forward by W.M.S. Russell and R.L. Bnurch in 1958, in The Principles of Humane Experimental Technique. This Congress provided an opportunity for a celebration of the 40th anniversary of the publication of this book, and for a coming together of many of those who are actively pursuing the implementation of the Three Rs in the interests of good science and humane science. Current uses and future prospects for the use of laboratory animal procedures and non-animal methods in the biomedical sciences are considered in five themes: the development of replacement alternative methods; the validation and regulatory acceptance of alternative test methods; reduction alternatives and the testi
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The Sadtler guide to the NMR spectra of polymers,
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Multiscale Problems and Methods in Numerical Simulations: Lectures given at the C.I.M.E. Summer School held in Martina Franca, Italy, September 9-15, 2001 ... Mathematics / Fondazione C.I.M.E., Firenze)
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This volume aims to disseminate a number of new ideas that have emerged in the last few years in the field of numerical simulation, all bearing the common denominator of the "multiscale" or "multilevel" paradigm. This covers the presence of multiple relevant "scales" in a physical phenomenon; the detection and representation of "structures", localized in space or in frequency, in the solution of a mathematical model; the decomposition of a function into "details" that can be organized and accessed in decreasing order of importance; and the iterative solution of systems of linear algebraic equations using "multilevel" decompositions of finite dimensional spaces.
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Since the beginning of his existence, man has used imagination to create magical worlds that would transport him beyond the borders of reality. Art of Imagination is a trilogy consisting of the award winning Illustrated History series: Science Fiction of the 20th Century (Year 2000 Hugo Award Winner), Horror of the 20th Century (Bram Stoker Award nominee), and Fantasy of the 20th Century creating the ultimate collection. It was in the twentieth century that book, magazine, and poster artists reached new pinnacles of creativity in depicting the unknown. This collection of works by artists and designers of movie posters, books, and magazines provides a hearty feast for the eyes of the enchanted reader. These artisans and their works are the subject of this new must-have book for not only collectors of memorabilia, but for every person who has longed to step into his or her imaginary world, be it one of fantasy, flight, or fear -- if only for a moment.
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Lost for days..........2006-01-31
This book is amazing. You will find yourself peering at every full-color nook and cranny for days. There are so many historical, book, and film references, you'll find yourself taking endless notes for things to look up later.
If you consider yourself even the slightest of sci-fi/fantasy/horror fans, you will cherish this book.
It is quite a tome, however. Be sure to work up your bicepts before trying to lift it.
MY HIGHEST RECOMENDATION.......2005-01-08
If ever there was a book that's a treasure trove of images and information, this is it. An incredible array of pulp, comic, paperback and other art of 20th century science fiction, horror, fantasy and the like. The production values of this mammoth book are great, with familiar and totally obscure titles shown and explicated. Buy this book!
A heavyweight vision........2003-11-02
First off I think you should know that this wonderful book's 768 pages weigh a bit over ten pounds. It is a reprint of three very popular Collectors Press 20th Century series, Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy. I bought this copy because I'm interested in visual popular culture and I was very impressed with the historical scope of the subject matter, the 1300 colored illustrations include not only book jackets but covers of magazines, comics and nicely, film posters.
With so many illustrations you can search out your favorites, I like the work of Hannes Bok, Kelly Freas and Jeff Jones and there plenty of examples of their work. Running through all the images the three authors contribute a popular history of each genre but it is the huge collection of covers that make this a knockout book for me.
***FOR AN INSIDE LOOK click 'customer images' under the cover.
BTW, I bought this big book at a huge discount and I suggest you take the trouble to check the title out on the comparison shopping book websites, you'll be surprised at price variations.
Necessary purchase for my collection of art texts.......2003-05-13
Being a professional artist, and a mondo horror fan, I was craving to get my pencil smudged paws on this book. Over 700 pages of lavishly illustrated science fiction and horror history. Art of Imagaination brings to attention the works of the great artists who have worked in this field for over a century. Anyone with even a minor interest in thsi subject would find this text a true page turner. Highly Recommended.
A Trip Through the Fantastic!.......2003-01-17
This book is a must have for anyone who is creative. If you've lost your sense of wonder, this book will bring it back. You cannot help but be inspired by this fine tribute to the illustrators and art directors of fantastic art. You will not be disappointed buying this book. No cheap black & white stroll through memory lane here. It's a full color journey spotlighting the creative talent of imaginative artists from days gone by to today. High quality paper and binding are the icing on the cake. A tip of the hat to the authors and publisher for such an authoritative volume on a thinly treated subject.
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- An Island Scrapbook: Dawn to Dusk on a Barrier Island
- Archipelago : Islands of Indonesia
- Basic Concepts In Neuroscience: A Student's Survival Guide
- Bass Master Shaw Grigsby : Notes on Fishing and Life
- Battling the Inland Sea: Floods, Public Policy, and the Sacramento Valley
- Best Hikes & Walks of Southwestern British Columbia
- Beyond the Outer Shores: The Untold Odyssey of Ed Ricketts, the Pioneering Ecologist Who Inspired John Steinbeck and Joseph Campbell
- Biochemistry: The Molecular Basis of Cell Structure and Function
- Birds of the Puget Sound Region (Regional Bird Books)
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