The Archaeology of Global Change: The Impact of Humans on their Environment

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A definitive examination from a distinguished array of scholars.

Is humankind on a fast track to self-destruction? Can society develop ways to live in concert with the environment? Are our environmental problems as grave as they seem? The included essays address these issues and much more. 57 b/w illustrations.

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The 19 detailed neighborhood maps in this guide will help you immediately locate the hotels, restaurants, shops, and sight in Santa Fe, Taos & Albuquerque.

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Where is the new one?.......2007-01-11

I buy and Access guide for any city which I am about to visit. I have found their reviews to be topnotch.

I wish they would publish and updated guide to Santa Fe!

ACCESS Guides are the BEST!.......2003-03-29

I always find the ACCESS Guides to be the best travel guides overall, and look for them whenever I am about to travel to a new location. So far, I have used their guides to Alb/SantaFe/Taos, Seattle, Montreal/Quebec City, Phoenix, San Francisco, Hawaii, San Diego, and London.

I like their format - they are organized by neighborhoods, so you don't have to seach around through the book all day; and they have an empasis on restaurants and shopping, which I find the other guides don't give enough info on and which are my FAVORITE activities when travelling. Also their print is large, clear, and color coded, which also makes it easy to find what you want (restaurants in one color, shopping in another, tourist sites in another).

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The 21 detailed neighborhood maps in this guide will help you immediately locate the hotels, restaurants, shops, and sight of Sante Fe, Taos, & Albuquerque.

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When it first appeared in the mid-1980s, this book transcended the traditional ethological focus on sexual interactions by analyzing male-female relationships outside the context of mating in a troop of wild baboons. Barbara Smuts used long-term friendships between males and females, documented over a two-year period, to show how social interactions between members of friendly pairs differed from those of other troop mates. Her findings, now enhanced with data from another fifteen years of field studies, suggest that the evolution of male reproductive strategies in baboons can only be understood by considering the relationship between sex and friendship: female baboons prefer to mate with males who have previously engaged in friendly interaction with them and their offspring. Smuts suggests that female choice may promote male investment in other species, and she explores the relevance of her findings for the evolution of male-female relationships in humans.

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haha flange?.......2006-04-10

Flange?

A made up word from not the 9'oclock news finds its way into a review?

marvelous

The only guide.......2002-12-12

Despite the title, I'd prefer to have sex and friendship outside of a baboon, but for those brave enough to try, this book is an indispensable guide.

As the great Groucho Marx once said, "Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, of course, it's too dark to read." And I might add--sex and friendship too.

Excellent.......2001-07-20

In this marvelous book Smuts draws from years of painstaking field research in which she followed around a flange of chacma baboons in the Mateti Game Park in Zimbabwe. Her findings inspired the plot of When Harry Met Sally.

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Sex and Friendship in Baboons
Barbara B. Smuts
Manufacturer: Aldine Transaction
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OOKP3E

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Sex and Friendship in Baboons.
Barbara B. Smuts
Manufacturer: 0
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000MU2PHO

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Immolating myself would be more fun..........2003-04-24

This book is the most awful excuse for a review book that I have ever seen. It doesn't explain any of the example questions throughout the chapters, except for the easiest ones. The book fails to give you equations necessary to answer equations, and even neglects to provide some very basic constants. For example, the book does not tell you that R, the gas constant, is equal to .0821 L*atm/mol*k. The book also does not tell you that there are 22.4 L/mol at STP. Unless these are just hidden carefully away in some secret forest of Chemistry values, this is plainly unacceptable. Many of the answers they give you are clearly wrong, there are typos rife throughout the book, and several things are repeated or put in the wrong place. I can't believe I wasted my money on this monstrosity. I will burn this book ASAP.

Peterson's AP Chemistry Book: Horrible.......2002-05-14

At the beginning of the book, the author suggests three different plans one could follow while preparing for the AP Chemistry exam: 10week, 20week, and finally, a "Panic Plan". It seems that when the authors were creating this book, they followed a panic plan of their own. In my short time with the book, there are several incomplete, nonsensical statements I have found, a diagram misplaced, and several problems where the given "answer" is wrong.

Besides these annoying problems, the foundation of the book is poor. The setup of the book is awful. Instead of basing the book around important equations, they base it around their overly simplistic questions and mention the equations as an afterthought. If this wasn't bad enough, the answers are immediately after most of these questions. One is constantly having to cover them up with one's hand or a sheet of paper.

To sum it up, the book is unreliable, is organized poorly, and has questions that are far too simple. DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK!

Peterson's AP Chemistry Book: Horrible.......2002-05-14

To sum it up, the book is unreliable, is organized poorly, and has questions that are far too simple. DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK!

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This volume consists of 14 research articles that are an outgrowth of a scientific meeting held in Cortona on the subject of Carleman Estimates and Control Theory. New results are presented on Carleman estimates and their applications to uniqueness and controllability of partial differential equations and systems. The main topics are unique continuation for elliptic PDEs and systems, control theory and inverse problems. New results on strong uniqueness for second or higher order operators are explored in detail in several papers. In the area of control theory, the reader will find applications of Carleman estimates to stabilization, observability and exact control for the wave and Schrödinger equations. A final paper presents a challenging list of open problems on the topic of controllability of linear and semilinear heat equations. The articles contain exhaustive and essentially self-contained proofs directly accessible to mathematicians, physicists, and graduate students with an elementary background in PDEs. Contributors: L. Aloui, M. Bellassoued, N. Burq, F. Colombini, B. Dehman, C. Grammatico, M. Khenissi, H. Koch, P. Le Borgne, N. Lerner, T. Nishitani, T. Okaji, K.D. Phung, R. Regbaoui, X. Saint Raymond, D. Tataru, E. Zuazua

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Following the historic publication of Norton's The Complete Works of Isaac Babel in the fall of 2001, The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel appears as the most authoritative and complete edition of his fiction ever published in paperback. Babel was best known for his mastery of the short story form—in which he ranks alongside Kafka and Hemingway—but his career was tragically cut short when he was murdered by Stalin's secret police. Edited by his daughter Nathalie Babel and translated by award-winner Peter Constantine, this paperback edition includes the stunning Red Cavalry Stories; The Odessa Tales, featuring the legendary gangster Benya Krik; and the tragic later stories, including "Guy de Maupassant." This will be the standard edition of Babel's stories for years to come.

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Babel is not for everyone.......2006-08-20

Reviewers on Amazon tend to self-select; I've noticed that people (including myself) seem more willing to write reviews of books they loved than of books they disliked. This makes sense; I usually don't even finish reading a book I strongly dislike.

But I had to read this book for a class. It was possibly my least favorite work of literature that I have ever read. Babel's writing is sparse, dry, and frequently cryptic; often I struggled to figure out what was actually going on in the stories. I also found his characters opaque and mysterious, and not in a good way. And all his stories are gloomy, and apt to induce misery in an unsuspecting reader. Babel's writing is rich with layers of meaning, but its about as enjoyable to crack as a caluculus textbook. The difficulty I encountered in reading this book just made Russia seem insurmountably foreign to me. Instead of serving as a bridge to another culture, this book aroused a feeling of alienation in me.

I will not be so presumptuous as to say that Babel is a bad writer. But I must attest that Babel is not for everyone. On my scale--1 star.

After Chekhov comes Babel.......2005-11-11

How late I learned the essential things in life! In my childhood, nailed to the Gemara, I led the life of a sage, and it was only later, when I was older, that I began to climb trees"
So we have the image of Babel the pale scholarly youth with 'spectacles on his nose and autumn in his heart" He after Chekhov is the great Russian short story writer.
Babel's greatness as a short-story is related to his realistic precision, and observational power. He sees often it seems into the heart of his characters with an objective and penetrating eye. He portrays soul- wrenching scenes of great violence, deprivation with a kind of detached objectivity. His stories like those of Chekhov perhaps like those of Russian writers especially often involve incidents of great cruelty.
It is interesting that the opening story tells of an eighty-six year old old-time Jew who living with his son and daughter- in law.The son is about to adopt the new faith of the Revolution.The old man realizing that he will have no place in the new order hangs himself- an act which Babel portrays as an act of courage and faith in God. And this while it seems to me showing a certain regrettable contempt for the Torah world to which the old man is bound.
Babel's early stories , the childhood tales of which the most famous is 'On a Dovecote'already have his characteristic realistic precision. The stories which make him most known , "The Red Cavalry " stories in which he tells of the Cossacks he rode with are another important part of the oeuvre.Here there is felt especially the great division in Babel between the world of power and physical force, and a kind sensitive inner life.Then there are the Odessa stories of Benya Krik, the world of Jewish gangsters, and of a colorful and yet cruel life once again precisely observed.
The tale of Babel's later years when under the shadow and threat of Stalin he spoke of himself writing 'in the genre of silence', and of his being murdered is the tale of a great writer cut down too soon.
We don't have all the stories we might have from this great master. But what we do have are the axe which breaks through the icy soul within.

HAS TO BE READ BY EVERYONE !!!!!!!!!.......2005-08-03

There is little more I can say about this astonishing piece of work that has not already been said, but I will add my piece in the hope that it will encourage more people to read what is a genuinely important piece of writing.
Buy this book to appreciate Babel's portrayal of real and raw emotion, his comprehensive understanding of human character, his sparse, tight writing style that is both painfully lucid and beautifully poetic.

The one new thing I think has to be said is a defence of the picture on the front. What has to be understood is why this picture is there and why it looks the way it does; The cheek and mouth are sticking out that way for a very good reason! My only advice is to say if you do not know the full story don't comment on it. In any case, this is a wonderful, life-changing book that needs to be read by everyone.

Short Story Master Stakes Claim to History.......2005-02-12

Reading Babel is no picnic in the park. His words are often hard to understand, let alone relish. In Red Cavalry, as he evokes heartrending scenes of torture, deprivation, and corruption, it is often hard to read without almost begging the author for a point of view, a call to arms. Yet in his sharp, vivid--yet terse, accounts (somewhat naturalistic as characters succumb to the hideous corollaries of civil stife--hunger, unbridled violence, senseless cruelty, inhumanity) his compact, frugal stories are never sentetious or tendetious.

The Odessa Tales, the second part of his ouevre, is nearer and dearer to my heart. Immediately, I fell in love with a rabbi's narration of mythical gangster hero Benya Krik. Benya, a Jewish thug with a code of values, who no doubt has the power to empower the young minds of Jewish boys, commands respect as a charismatic desperado, so alien to the preconceptions of Jews as victims and middle-class pushovers, always dependent on the mercy of the ruling elite. Benya wends his way around authorities--whether monarchist or Bolshevik, not only marching to the beat of a different drum, but subjugating others to the beat. Scenes of Odessa, my hometown, are sumptuous though sparing in descriptions of wealthy and lowly merchants, sailors, criminals, and lackeys.

Having read these and other stories in Russian, I look forward to reading the translation in hopes of better understanding them in my adopted tongue. Babel is not the most facile read, but an important and long ignored voice in the Soviet literary canon. Enjoy.

Fascinating Book.......2001-04-27

A superbly written insider's look at the Russian revolution. Babel can convey the horrors of war with very few words. I enjoyed the best his sarcastic treatement of the bombastic communist rhetoric in such stories as "Salt" and "Treason" (maybe because I was exposed to it myself at one time).

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Isaac Babel: The Collected Stories
Isaac Babel
Manufacturer: S. G. Phillips Incorporated
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

Literary | General | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books

All Titles | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books
ASIN: 0875990096

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Babel, The Collected Stories of Isaac
Isaac Babel
Manufacturer: Plume
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Contemporary | General | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 0452005477

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Babel, The Collected Stories of Isaac
Isaac Babel
Manufacturer: Plume
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Contemporary | General | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 0452005949

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The Collected Stories
Isaac Babel
Manufacturer: The World Publishing Company
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000JI1ZQG

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The Collected Stories
Isaac Babel
Manufacturer: World Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000MSFSGQ

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The Collected Stories

Manufacturer: The World Publishing Co.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000GAOZU0

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Short stories about the world of Issac Babel> Contains is brutal clashes, morbid sexuality, and opposition of moods

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Collected Stories
Isaac Babel
Manufacturer: Penguin Modern Classics
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
ASIN: B000UHR4OS

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The vivid, violent stories of a Russian Jewish writer of genius who recalls both Tolstoy and de Maupassant.

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The Collected Stories
Isaac Babel
Manufacturer: Meridian
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000GR5Q74

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The Collected Stories
Isaac Babel
Manufacturer: Criterion
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000P93W3I

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