Look at the Sky and Tell the Weather

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Delightful blend of serious meteorology and beautiful illustrations takes readers on a voyage of discovery as the versatile author traces a single air mass from the Canadian Rockies to northern New England and its effect on Americans from varied backgrounds — including a bush pilot in Canada, and a New England sailor. 43 black-and-white illustrations.

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Look at the Sky and Tell the Weather.......2006-06-29

Interesting story of how people are affected as a weather mass changes, starting in the Canadian Northwest and crossing each state into New England. This book has interesting stories, not so much dealing with technical aspects of weather.
Interesting, entertaining, and easy to read, it provides weather-wise insight into how our world is affected by the world above us. Adults and children will enjoy this book,which by the way, is Eric Sloane's favorite work.

Look at the Sky & Tell the Weather.......2006-02-26

The author states in the introduction this is the book he was most proud to write. Great stories and the author's pen drawings makes this a most read for those interested in understanding weather. Eric Sloane fans should certainly include this book in their collection. Enjoy. C.

Look at the Sky ...and Tell the Weather, Revised and Enlarged Edition

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Look at the Sky ...and Tell the Weather, Revised and Enlarged Edition
Eric Sloane
Manufacturer: World
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000GZYSIE

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Kingdom of Plants/Book 7 Primary Level (Young Scientists Explore)
Linda Penn
Manufacturer: Good Apple
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ASIN: 086653315X

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From urban luxury to rugged coastal charm, Wilmer describes the very best romantic getaways for adventurous lovers. This new edition offers the most intriguing, romantic and historic inns and resorts along the fabled California coastal route between San Diego and Arcata in Northern California. Discreetly tucked away in coastal canyons or nestled against the Pacific Ocean, this select group of destinations are ideal California getaway experiences. Written in a charming style that explores the unique characterstics of each facility, this helpful guide includes extra information on golfing and wine tours in the area.

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A superb guide!.......2006-01-22

The moment I opened this book I wanted to leap in my ragtop, pick up a lover, then drive up the coast and indulge in one of the gorgeous hotels. The eye-catching cover and lavish, crisp photographs are top-class and bespeak the quality of each hotel selected. Whether it's a sexily trendy city hotel, such as San Francisco's Argent Hotel, or Cambria's dreamily intimate Blue Whale Inn, Tom Wilmer has condensed California's most enchanting inns and resorts into a dream list to suit every mood and occasion.

Reviewed with a professional travel writer's discerning eye for detail, "Romancing the Coast" is also superbly written. Wilmer manages to magically capture the ambience and essence of each property--the mood, the setting, the dining experience--while treating his readers to intriguing anecdotal and historical snippets. Light-hearted yet authoritative, it's also a handily sized, flexible, compact guide that feels just right in one's hands (a bit like my lover).

Anyone wanting to savor the joy of intimacy with someone special--and somewhere special--should buy this book. Whatever your indulgence, it has the perfect recipe for the perfect fling up the coast!

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Pretty Good Book!.......2000-03-24

This book was very helpful in my research of Roman events. It had a lot of useful information. It had pretty good pictures also. I hope you guys think the same.

Ancient Greece Health and Disease (Changing Times) (Changing Times)

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Ancient Greece Health and Disease (Changing Times) (Changing Times)
Richard Dargie
Manufacturer: Compass Point Books
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0756520878

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Finding Faith in Troubled Times
Pat Collins
Manufacturer: Columba Press
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First Book of History: Combines Living in Prehistoric, Castle Times and Roman Times (First History)

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First Book of History: Combines Living in Prehistoric, Castle Times and Roman Times (First History)
Chisholm , and Gee
Manufacturer: E.D.C. Publishing
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Living in Ordinary Time: The Letters of Agatha Rosetti Hessley

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Living in Ordinary Time: The Letters of Agatha Rosetti Hessley
MaryEllen O'Brien
Manufacturer: ACTA Publications
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Living in Roman Times
"Althea"
Manufacturer: Dinosaur Publications Ltd
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To Believe Is to Exist: Theological Reflections for a Time of Crisis

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To Believe Is to Exist: Theological Reflections for a Time of Crisis
John R. Sheets
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Living Roman Times - Hb
Althea
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The Principality of Liechtenstein: A living fossil from the time of the Holy Roman Empire?

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The Principality of Liechtenstein: A living fossil from the time of the Holy Roman Empire?
Graham D. C Martin
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The emergence of the genus Homo is widely linked to the colonization of "new" highly seasonal savannah habitats. However, until now, our understanding of the possible impact of seasonality on this shift has been limited because we have little general knowledge of how seasonality affects the lives of primates. This book documents the extent of seasonality in food abundance in tropical woody vegetation. It then presents a systematic analysis of seasonality's impact in food supply on the behavioral ecology of non-human primates and ultimately applies its conclusions to primate and human evolution.

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Reactions of Organosulfur Compounds (Organic Chemistry Monographs)
E. Block
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ASIN: 0121070506

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Reactions of Organosulfur Compounds (Organic Chemistry, Volume 37)
Eric Block
Manufacturer: Academic Press Inc.,U.S.
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OHMB88

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This book is about problem-solving. In particular it is about heuristic state-space search for combinatorial optimization - one of the fundamental problems of computer science. Its two central themes are the average-case complexity of state-space search algorithms and the applications of the results notably to branch-and-bound techniques. These include best-first search, depth-first branch-and- bound, iterative deepening, recursive best-first search, and constant- space best-first search. Primarily written for researchers in computer science, the author presupposes a basic familiarity with complexity theory. In addition, it is assumed that the reader is familiar with the basic concepts of random variables and recursive functions. Two succesful applications are presented in depth: one is a set of state-space transformation methods which can be used to find approximate solutions qwuickly, and the second is a method called forward estimation for constructing more informative evaluation functions.

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Excellent format and translation

A Great Allegory for Children!

Nikki's thoughts about pinocchio.

A must for students of Italian

FANTASTIC!

The Adventures of Pinocchio: Story of a Puppet/Le Avventure Di Pinocchio: Storia Di Un Burattino
Carlo Collodi (Carlo Lorenzini)
Manufacturer: University of California Press
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Perella's new translation and introductory essay capture the wit, irony, ambiguity, and social satire of the original nineteenth-century text, finally reclaiming Pinocchio for adult readers. Perella's translation is the first time the whole story has appeared in English. This bilingual edition also includes over 130 drawings by the original illustrator, Enrico Mazzanti.

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Excellent format and translation.......2002-09-09

This edition stands perfectly well on its own in either language for simple enjoyment of the story and prose. It is also a useful learning resource for the intermediate to advanced student of the language. I suggest that you listen to Il Narratore audiolibro tape or CD while you read the text in Italian and then in English. The side by side page format is perfect for this technique. I am on my second iteration and I think I am actually learning. Do not let the 1883 date of original publication bother you. The language seems contemporary and the idioms are thoroughly footnoted. Be ready for a lot of passato remoto in the first and third person singular(this is after all a literary tense) and many very colorful verbs. Forget about Disney or any English language kids' editions. This is real literary fiction. The tranlator's opening essay provides social,linguistic and historical context if you're interested.

A Great Allegory for Children!.......2002-04-07

Since another reviewer has already stated why this edition/transation is the best one to buy, my review will focus on the story, which is a charming allegory for children, no matter what language is used to tell it.

Children identify with Pinocchio because of all his troubles. They understand what it is like to want to and mean to do well, only to fail miserably. They are also very capable of matching his extremes of emotion. Childhood is so full of humiliations that they don't think, "Oh, what an idiot not to have gotten it by now" or "He's overreacting terribly." (In fact, these are things said about _them_.) Instead, they cheer Pinocchio, who commits blunder after blunder--and is rewarded at the end of the book, for finally getting it right.

Also endearing are the puppet's "parents," old woodcarver Geppetto and the "fairy with blue hair." Despite their scapegrace's repeated failures, they forgive him again and again, giving him countless chances to redeem himself. As for the villains who prey on Pinocchio's naivete, they are perfect representations of what children find threatening. Some characters resemble playground bullies; others are more like the monsters under the bed. The talking animals are a little exasperating, but very nice.

"The Adventures of Pinocchio" is as whimsy as Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland": in both novels, anything goes. Unlike Carroll, however, Collodi injected moral lessons into the storyline. Pinocchio does not get into one humiliating episode after another just to amuse young readers; with every mistake he makes, he learns a moral lesson.

The plot structure is "poor"--which works to the book's advantage. This is what-happens-next kind of reading. Children care foremost about what new agonies a protagonist can propel himself into, and so will like the pace.

Accept no abridgements or adaptations. There are wonderful details that are often cut out for economy--or rewritten for somebody's idea of style. For the real Pinocchio, read this book.

Nikki's thoughts about pinocchio........2002-03-06

Pinocchio is a wooden pupet that wants to be a real boy.He tells everyone that he is real,but he nows that he's not real. Every time he lies his nose grows bigger and bigger.Just as his nose gets bigger a fairy god mother comes and grants his wish about being a real boy. This book is a fiction book and is out standing. Carlo Collodi makes this book a outstanding and wonderful to read. Children should love this book. I've loved this book since I was 4 years old. My parents read it to me all the time.
This book was set in a little town on a hill.Gippito is the carver of pinocchio.I truly think he did I good job at designing him. I LOVE THIS BOOK!!

A must for students of Italian.......1999-11-19

Professor Perella's landmark translation is a must for students of Italian. For those who have studied the language in school or on their own it is a wonderful introduction to reading original material as the translation is both literate and rather literal. It is nothing less than a masterpiece. Anyone will benefit from reading it.

FANTASTIC!.......1998-08-07

The translator, the editor, the designer, everyone involved in this project deserves the highest praise... oh, and the author, of course! Of particularly worthwhile note is Perella's lengthy introduction, an essay on the story in context of Italian culture, and also noteworthy & insightful are his endnotes on his translation. This is so much more than a childrens' story (and SO much more than Disney's version) -- it is a story for all ages, all levels of students of Italian language and culture (a great aid to improve reading skills, incidentally) and all those in love with things Italian. Thank you, Nicolas Perella, for your great effort in bringing this landmark story of Italy to the English reader, in clearest, most straightforward style -- if I could give you an award, I would.

The Adventures of Pinocchio: Story of a Puppet/Le Avventure Di Pinocchio: Storia Di Un Burattino

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The Adventures of Pinocchio: Story of a Puppet/Le Avventure Di Pinocchio: Storia Di Un Burattino
Carlo Collodi Nicolas J. Perella
Manufacturer: California
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000LUP7WA

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