Guide to Marine Mammals of Alaska, Second Edition

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An excellent guide to the marine mammals of Alaska

INCOMPLETE:useful for the most common cetaceans in Alaska

The best available field guide for marine mammals in Alaska

Guide to Marine Mammals of Alaska, Second Edition
Kate Wynne
Manufacturer: Alaska Sea Grant College Program
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Spiral-bound

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ASIN: 1566120446
Release Date: 1997-01-01

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Guide to Marine Mammals of Alaska is the only book that exclusively covers all 29 marine mammal species of Alaska. Each whale, porpoise, dolphin, seal, sea lion, walrus, sea otter, and polar bear is described and illustrated. Color photos and surface profile drawings show all Alaska marine mammals and compare similar species, and color range maps show distribution. Mammal characteristics and descriptions are presented in a format that allows fast, accurate identification at sea. The 80-page, richly illustrated book is printed on durable water resistant paper, and is spiral bound to give years of service outdoors and in the office, classroom, and home. The second edition of this award-winning book has text updates and a few new photos.

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An excellent guide to the marine mammals of Alaska.......2007-01-28

I have found this book to be the most useful field guide to the marine mammals of Alaska. The book is compact and easy to use for the quick identification of animals. Any species not in this book are simply unlikely to be seen.

INCOMPLETE:useful for the most common cetaceans in Alaska.......2001-02-08

I have examined this field guide, but find no place for this on my reference shelf. Although user-friendly, this is an incomplete field guide. A number of whale/dolphin genera/species which occur in Alaskan waters are excluded. Although missing from this field guide, I have personally observed northern right whale dolphin and short-finned pilot whales in the Gulf of Alaska during research cruises. Risso's dolphin and false killer whale have been recorded from Alaskan waters and are also excluded from this book. A number of other ceteceans (especially Kogia spp, Stenella coeruleoalba, and several other Mesoplodon spp. especially M. carlhubsii) are potential accidentals in Alaskan waters during warm-water incursions and these are also ignored. Please consider purchase of a complete guide to cetacean identification instead. Try Leatherwood et al.'s "Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises of the Eastern North Pacific and Adjacent Arctic Waters'.

The best available field guide for marine mammals in Alaska.......1998-02-10

A comprehensive and user friendly guide to marine mammals in Alaskan waters. This book is designed to be used in the field, with enough information on habitat, range and behavioral traits of the various species. Identification is based on more than pictures alone allowing readers to educate themselves beyond mere identification.

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Sequoyah - A Great Leader

Sequoyah: Cherokee Hero
Joanne Oppenheim , and Bert Dodson
Manufacturer: Troll Communications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: School & Library Binding

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ASIN: 0893751596

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The "Native American Biographies" series features the stories of famous Native American men and women and their heroic struggles to protect their land and their freedom. These inspirational accounts of the first Americans are effective tools in helping young readers understand and appreciate different cultures. Illustrated throughout.

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Sequoyah - A Great Leader.......2000-11-17

Sequoyah was a great leader in the Tribal Council. He took Ah-yo-keh, his daughter, with him to the Tribal Council meetings everyday. The white men thought Sequoyah had bad magic and set the cabin on fire to get rid of him. It destroyed all his years of hard work. He was making an alphabet for the Cherokees. Everyone wanted to learn how to read and write. Soon they started their own newspaper called the Cherokee Phoenix. Sequoyah was a great leader and his work was important.

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Sequoyah, Cherokee Hero

ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000GZRDEA

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Sequoyah, Cherokee Hero
Joanne Oppenheim
Manufacturer: Troll Communications Llc
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000W2739C

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This book represents a cutting edge summary of one of the most important fields in innate immunity. Antimicrobial peptides rapidly and directly inhibit infection by microbes and are of enormous importance in the body's natural defense against disease. In addition, the role of antimicrobial peptides in the development of therapeutic agents for the prevention and treatment of disease is becoming increasingly important.
Written by the leaders in the field this book provides an understanding of the implications of antimicrobial peptides in human disease. The volume is divided into sections containing reviews of specific families of antimicrobials, select organ systems that have demonstrated a relevance for antimicrobial peptides and, in addition, a more global discussion of these peptides and organs from distinct perspectives. Alternatively, each chapter can stand on its own, providing the reader with the ability to dive right into the subject of most interest.
Topics covered include cathelicidins, alpha and beta defensins, granulysin, hepcidin, the role of antimicrobial peptides in blood, gut, skin, lung and in the oral environment. A recurring theme is the possibility of creating therapeutics that induce the expression of endogenous antimicrobial peptides for the prevention or treatment of disease.

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Catalysis, heterogeneous and homogeneous: Proceedings of the International Symposium on the Relations between Heterogeneous and Homogeneous Catalytic Phenomena, held in Brussels, October 23-25, 1974

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Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: 0444413464

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The feedback control of nonlinear differential and algebraic equation systems (DAEs) is a relatively new subject. Developing steadily over the last few years, it has generated growing interest inspired by its engineering applications and by advances in the feedback control of nonlinear ordinary differential equations (ODEs). This book-the first of its kind-introduces the reader to the inherent characteristics of nonlinear DAE systems and the methods used to address their control, then discusses the significance of DAE systems to the modeling and control of chemical processes. Within a unified framework, Control of Nonlinear Differential Algebraic Equation Systems presents recent results on the stabilization, output tracking, and disturbance elimination for a large class of nonlinear DAE systems. Written at a basic mathematical level-assuming some familiarity with analysis and control of nonlinear ODEs-the authors focus on continuous-time systems of differential and algebraic equations in semi-explicit form. Beginning with background material about DAE systems and their differences from ODE systems, the book discusses generic classes of chemical processes, feedback control of regular and non-regular DAE systems, control of systems with disturbance inputs, the connection of the DAE systems considered with singularly perturbed systems, and finally offers examples that illustrate the application of control methods and the advantages of using high-index DAE models as the basis for controller design. Mathematicians and engineers will find that this book provides unique, timely results that also clearly documents the relevance of DAE systems to chemical processes.

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'She was swayed into emotional opinions concerning the strange man before her; new impulses of thought...entered into her with a gnawing thrill.' Hardy's first published work, Desperate Remedies moves the sensation novel into new territory. The anti-hero, Aeneas Manston, as physically alluring as he is evil, even fascinates the innocent Cytherea, though she is in love with another man. When he cannot seduce her, Manston resorts to deception, blackmail, bigamy, murder, and rape. Yet this compelling story also raises the great questions underlying Hardy's major novels, which relate to the injustice of the class system, the treatment of women, probability and causality. This edition shows for the first time that the sensation novel was always Hardy's natural medium.

The Desperate Remedy: Henry Gresham and the Gunpowder Plot

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fascinating historical novelization

The Desperate Remedy: Henry Gresham and the Gunpowder Plot
Martin Stephen
Manufacturer: Little Brown and Company
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0316859702

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Thief. Informer. Double-dealer. Pimp. Will Shadwell may not be the most moral of men, but to gentleman spy Henry Gresham, he is invaluable. In the reign of King James I, a man must know his enemies to survive, and Shadwell is one of Gresham's best sources. Then Shadwell is brutally murdered. Before Gresham is able to establish why, he is summoned by the man he fears most: Robert Cecil, the King's Machiavellian Chief Secretary. Cecil wants Gresham to investigate Sir Francis Bacon's private life, but when Gresham begins his inquiries, he uncovers a plot so audacious it is scarcely believable, involving a conspiring clutch of Catholic lords and a trail of gunpowder underneath the Houses of Parliament.

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fascinating historical novelization.......2003-03-01

Robert Cecil, Chief Secretary to King James I, sees Papal intrigue under every rock. However, he especially feels the opportunity is perfect to consolidate support for His Highness against the growing espionage presence of the Catholic enemies, Spain and France.

While the foreign spies agitate the oppressed English Catholics, Robert seeks proof of sexual depravity against his most dangerous foe Sir Francis Bacon. He assigns Henry Gresham to obtain the evidence that will fry Bacon. He quickly learns how the agitators inadvertently strengthen the position of their greatest oppressor Robert with their anti-James plots, notably a scheme to blow up Parliament and replace the Scot with a Catholic on the throne. Keeping his own confidence, Henry soon realizes that the diabolical Cecil hired the leaders, Guy Fawkes and Thomas Percy, with an apparent double cross in mind to "earn" the favor of the King. Already in danger due to his secret Catholic beliefs, Henry wonders what to do with what he learned because Cecil will gladly string him up along with the other "traitors".

THE DESPERATE REMEDY: HENRY GRESHAM AND THE GUNPOWDER PLOT is a fascinating novelization of a critical moment in English history that vividly provides the audience with a deep look at surviving the civil religious squabbles that engulfed the English throne in 1605. The story line is cleverly devised so that the history with real people is interwoven into a superbly written espionage plot. Fans of historical tales including romance readers though there is no love story will immensely appreciate Martin Stephen's delightful retelling of the Gunpowder Plot.

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Very confusing.......2007-08-04

Who am I to review Thomas Hardy? I have read almost all of his novels and this was one I had not read. It was so confusing and really got boring during the last third of the book.

Not your typical Hardy, which is almost a good thing.......2002-01-31

I think any Literature course covering Thomas Hardy should include a prescription for Prozac along with the syllabus. Hardy's novels are generally brilliant, beautiful, and throughly depressing. Then you come to come to Hardy's first published novel "Desperate Remedies". Definitely "Hardy-Lite" this novel is a sensational, melodramatic story which is very different from the bulk of Hardy's more recognized prose.

the story centers around young Cytherea Graye, who becomes a servant to Miss Auclyffe, a woman with a troubled past. There, she encounters Aeneas Manston, the incredibly handsome and charming steward of Miss Auclyffe, and also a man with a dark secret. He falls hopelessly in love with the beautiful girl and sets out to win her. But alas, Cytherea is already in love with the kind Edward Springrove. Who will ultimately win her? What is the mysterious connection between the steward Manston and Miss Auclyffe? When will people learn not to set fires next to their thatched houses??

I really enjoyed this novel, though at times the melodrama was so thick it was humorous. It reminded me of "Jane Eyre" in many ways, though I felt it was more entertaining than that supposedly great english novel. A lot of twists and turns, very well-written, and an ending very different from your usual Hardy downers. Classic literature? Maybe not, but a fun read and a glimpse of England's greatest novelist before he had mastered his craft.

Good insight into a young Thomas Hardy.......2000-08-24

This novel provides insights into the young Thomas Hardy, and portends the great things to come. The plot is flawed and probably influenced by his early need to "go commercial", with a quick unveiling of scandal at the end.

The characters are not as well defined, and the writing not as pithy as in his later prose and poetry, and his literary allusions fall somewhat out of context.

Yet it is a good effort for a young architect in his early thirties who has many great novels to come!

lyrical.......2000-03-29

Hardy is a wonder. This book made me hold my breath. It has the lyrical beauty of poems, and yet the characters are very real people...with compelling stories to tell.

Yes, Hardy is long dead, but I hope that every reader will allow themselves the chance to be put under his spell.

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Something is desperately wrong at Chelsea Memorial Hospital. Resident physician Victor Clarke has been shot down in the street only hours before his wife is murdered in their home. The doctor's private nurse is strangled and his respirator is turned off in yet another attempt. When the murderous acts come to light, the public relations nightmare proves too much for hospital administrator Ned Hunt to handle without his childhood friend Edwina Crusoe, the hospital's nurse turned medical investigator. Edwina must step in to save the hospital--and Ned's career--even though she's three months pregnant and more than a little queasy. While Edwina tries to remain serene, she must track a merciless killer without a single clue--before he succeeds in silencing Dr. Victor Clarke permanently.

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Desperate Remedies
Thomas Hardy
Manufacturer: Nonsuch Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Desperate Remedy (Harlequin Romance No. 2903)

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Desperate Remedy (Harlequin Romance No. 2903)
Angela Wells
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5 Titles By Wells - Desperate Remedy - Rash Contract - Love's Wrongs - Viking Magic - Summer's Pride

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5 Titles By Wells - Desperate Remedy - Rash Contract - Love's Wrongs - Viking Magic - Summer's Pride
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5 massmarket paperback Titles By Wells - Desperate Remedy - Rash Contract - Love's Wrongs - Viking Magic - Summer's Pride

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Desperate Remedies
Thomas Hardy
Manufacturer: 1st World Library
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Desperate Remedies
Thomas Hardy
Manufacturer: Aegypan
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Desperate Remedies (1871) is Thomas Hardy's first published novel. After a failed attempt at satire, Hardy turned his talents to writing romances, and thus his first three novels are romances -- very different from his later, darker Wessex novels. Desperate Remedies tells the story of Cytherea Gray, who becomes as lady's maid, although she is in love with Edward Springrove, who is already engaged to marry another young woman. Cytherea then makes a misalliance with the dreadful and possibly murderous Aeneas Manston. With suspense, Aeneas' villainy and treachery are finally revealed, with happy results for Cytherea and Edward. Far different in tone from Hardy's later novels, Desperate Remedies has more Gothic suspense than brooding depression.

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Desperate Remedies
Thomas Hardy
Manufacturer: 1st World Library
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