The Incredible Coral Reef: Another Active-Learning Book for Kids

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The Incredible Coral Reef, winner of a Teachers' Choice Award and a Parents' Choice Approval, invites kids to explore the dazzling coral reefs and to learn how we can help protect them. The book has loads of activities! Kids can make a wave bottle or a fish print, learn how to adopt a sea turtle, or explore a tide pool with a viewing box. The author's "Reef Report" is a delightful journal of her underwater adventures, which include swimming with stingrays, exploring a sunken wreck, and holding a baby sea turtle. Her stories inspire youngsters to respect and protect the living reefs, and she gives practical advice on how to do it. The Incredible Coral Reef is meticulously researched, contains up-to-date information, beautiful photos and artwork, and helpful references, including a glossary, a bibliography of books for kids about the rainforest, and lists of environmental organizations and rainforest exhibits. Great teacher resource! Reproducible pages. Grades 3-8.

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Awesome!.......2007-01-19

For any teacher or parent of primary age children interested in the preservation of our ocean habitats.

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Trees of Green Lake
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Salem Days, Life in a Colonial Seaport (Adventures in Colonial America)
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Through dramatic depictions of significant moments in American history, this informative series gives young readers a vivid sense of Colonial American life -- its farms and villages, cities and ports, and the struggles and dreams of its inhabitants. Illustrated and indexed.

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Adventures in Colonial America: Salem Days, Life in a Colonial Seaport
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This book describes modern preparative chromatography techniques and their application in the separation of natural products, synthetic intermediates, metabolites, macromolecules, and biologically active substances, e.g. new lead compounds from microorganisms and both marine and terrestrial higher organisms. The authors focus their book on the applications and aim to provide the reader with a rapid idea on how to obtain milligram or gram quantities for pure constituents from complex mixtures with minimum effort. Descriptions of apparatus and operation procedures together with numerous examples of actual separations - often widely scattered in literature - are provided. This completely revised second edition has been enlarged by chapters on macromolecule and and enantiomer separation and on preparative GC.

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Preparative Chromatography Techniques: Applications in Natural Product Isolation
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Disappointing and Obvious

Good, But Not as Good as Charms for the Easy Life.

There are two Emmas -- one of them was a good character

A reading occasion I haven't forgotten...

Very real

On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon: A Novel (P.S.)
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Polly Holliday of TV's Home Improvement won a Tony nomination on Broadway playing Big Mama in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and she makes Clarice, the matriarch of Kaye Gibbons' Civil War story On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon, sound very big of voice indeed. Clarice is the slave who really runs things on Virginia's Seven Oaks plantation, no matter what her nasty, brutish owner, Samuel P. Tate, might think. Holliday has a good time voicing Tate's fulminations, too, neatly distinguishing them from the heroine-narrator Emma Tate's rather daintier dulcet tones. Not that Emma can't be wicked in her own way: she describes a snobbish socialite, "aggressively plain in the face ... who effused through the front door and into the arms of everyone simultaneously." Ms. Holliday puts as much sly violence into that "effused" as she does into Mr. Tate's rages.

Everyone who read Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain should consider reading On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon, the poetically charged fictional reminiscences of Emma Garnet Tate Lowell, circa 1842-1900. For one thing, it was Frazier's already-published friend Gibbons who, with Frazier's wife's connivance, pried Cold Mountain from his grip and got it into publishers' hands.

But beyond their Civil War setting--a first for Gibbons, who's noted for 20th-century tales--the two books share resonant Southern literary accents, characters with similarly obstinate responses to enormous grief, and a shivery sense of history's stark shadow falling across everyday events. Oprah Winfrey twice recommended Gibbons' fiction (Ellen Foster and A Virtuous Woman), and Walker Percy compared her to Faulkner. Oprah probably liked Gibbons's heroines for their plucky refusal to buckle under oppression--a trait shared by Gibbons herself, who triumphed over the manic-depressive illness that drove her mother to suicide.

Our heroine, Emma, shivers under the tyranny of her plantation daddy, Mr. Tate, who slits the throat of a slave who talks back to him and just might do the same to his half-dozen children. There is no enormity of which he is incapable, this bellowing Simon Legree with an autodidact's education and a self-made man's bottomless urge to rise above his raising. He is, as he might have thunderingly put it, "a pluperfect son of Satan." Only Clarice can fight Samuel Tate to a verbal draw and prevent slave uprisings on the eve of the war. Clarice helps save Emma, as does Emma's impeccable swain Dr. Quincy Lowell, who sweeps in like a cool Boston breeze to dispel the dismal tidewater miasma.

The war, alas, brings a tsunami of blood, forcing Dr. Lowell to make Emma a de facto battlefield surgeon, an occasion he recognizes by fashioning a bit of commemorative jewelry for her from a dead man's silver filling and inscribing the date with a finger-amputation tool. One aspect of Gibbons' Frazier-esque orgy of historical research for the book is an authentic feel for the grotesqueries of the period.

One craves for Emma's hubby and daddy to swap five percent of each others' respectively perfect and perfectly awful souls--the book is not big on startling character revelations. What makes it work, despite its binary morality, is the grace and rumbling life of the narrator's language. The book, which has its sometimes anachronistically enlightened head in the New South and its feet firmly planted in the past, deserves a place next to Russell Banks' John Brown novel Cloudsplitter. At points, it reads like a smarter, nonracist Gone with the Wind, only less windy.--Tim Appelo

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Emma Garnet Tate Lowell, a plantation owner's daughter, grows up in a privileged lifestyle, but it's not all roses. Her family's prosperity is linked to the institution of slavery, and Clarice, a close and trusted family servant, exposes Emma to the truth and history of their plantation and how it brutally affected the slave population.

Her father, Samuel P. Tate, has an aggressive and overpowering persona that intimidates many people -- including Emma. But she refuses to conform to his ideals and marries a prominent young doctor. Together they face the horrors of the Civil War, nursing wounded soldiers, as Emma begins the long journey toward her own recovery from the terrible forces that shaped her father's life.

This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.

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Disappointing and Obvious.......2007-07-19

I should have been suspicious of the pages and pages of literary raves at the beginning of this book - including the one that says "Better than Gone with the Wind" Give me a break. This story seems to be a sanitized version of the civil war south. The sainted main character and her even more perfect husband seem to have an unlimited supply of money, energy and tolerance for every needy character they minister to during the war and never seem to lose their virtuous patience On the other hand, the character of Emma's father is purely bad, a foil to all that goodness I suppose. All in all you get no subtlety, no complexity and you as a reader gain very little believable insight into why these characters behave the way they do. On the other hand, you do get plenty of overt preaching about the evils of war and racism - Duh!

Good, But Not as Good as Charms for the Easy Life........2007-01-13

While one can absolutely be provoked to feel the same sense of dread and loathing for Emma Tate's cruel and abusive father Samuel, pitying the rest of the family, and having great respect for Clarice, this book never lets up on loads and loads of misery.

Gibbons's Emma is drawn more to being like her kindly mother who is constantly tortured in some way by Samuel until he makes her so sick from her headaches that she dies. He destroys the lives of his children if they allow him to, and has killed a slave with a knife for talking back to him. There is very little light in this tale of misery for the reader to catch a second wind. One of the few bright spots is when Emma marries Dr. Lowell and has three daughters with him, but that too is terminated by the Civil War and Samuel being driven from his home to theirs with sister Maureen, where he attempts a reign of terror there too that is strongly resisted.

Powerful and emotional, with a history timeframe I am grateful we are not living in, one comes away wondering how anyone can use a phrase like "the good old days." Where and when have those ever occurred, and in what 15 minute span of time? This novel was indeed good, but I recommend Charms for the Easy Life to all you new Gibbons readers first. It is a truly impressive and beautiful portrayal of three generations of women in coexistence, their similarities, differences, and what makes their relationship work.

There are two Emmas -- one of them was a good character.......2006-10-31

Emma Garnet's wealthy, sheltered childhood with an abusive, domineering father and a loving and refined mother was top notch -- insightful and at times heartbreaking. Gibbons was writing what she knew about and it felt like she lived some of those scenes

But after Emma's marriage, it was a different book. To quote Mr. Tate, everything was "pluperfect". Perfect husband, perfect children, perfect family life -- except for one unlikely incident at a dinner party when Emma is asked about her unfortunate brother and which felt manufactured to put some distress in Emma's perfect life.

I believed in Emma the child but Emma as an adult lost me and lost my sympathy. The child's sensibilities -- treating slaves like people, and not calling them "slaves" but "servants" -- this didn't transfer to adulthood. Why else would Emma not tell her servants that they were free? Emma should have realized how patronizing that was, not to mention simply cruel.

Much is made (by Emma) of her love for her beleaguered mother, yet she kept Clarice with her -- her mother's only bulwark against the father. Emma had wealth and status and protection and she didn't fear her father, yet in twelve years she couldn't visit her mother? The child Emma would have brought mom home for a visit and kept her.

After her mother dies, she worries for her sister Maureen and writes to her father, "You monster, send Maureen to me now." Then nothing. She could have rescued her sister, but she did nothing.

What happened to the strong, resourceful, fearless child we met in the first part of the book? Someone swapped her for Melanie Wilkes.

The only scenes that felt real in the second half of the book were Emma and her doctor husband caring for wounded soldiers, and the privation they suffered. Everything else felt like a fairy tale, with a bit of an apologist slant.

A reading occasion I haven't forgotten..........2005-12-03

Even though I finished reading this book months and months ago, I'm still thinking about it. Told from the point of view of Emma Garnet Tate-Lowell, it traces the woman's life from her youth right up to her death during the 1800's. A gracefully told Civil War story, as well as a story of how a strong woman endures her bullying father, death of loved ones, and nursing wounded soldiers alongside her husband during the war, it is one of those novels that will stick with you for a long time. Anybody who read Ellen Foster and enjoyed that (or Gone with the Wind) will enjoy this marvelous tale told by a very gifted, talented writer.

Very real.......2004-03-05

The writing was so excellent in this book, and the descriptions so real, that I felt as if I KNEW what it was like to have lived during the Civil War.

So many comparisons have been made between books. Some have compared McCrae's "Bark of the Dogwood" to "Confederacy of Dunces" and some have compared "Secret Life of Bees" to "To Kill a Mockingbird." Now people are comparing "On the Occasion" to "Gone With the Wind." I'm not sure about any of these comparisions, but I do know that "On the Occasion" can stand by itself and actually gives us a little MORE than GWTW, but without the length == Thank goodness.

The characters in Gibbon's book are so well-developed and they intertwine with each other in such a way as to make the read satisfying and easy.

Do yourself a favor and buy this book. Good writing by an intelligent author.

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On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon
Kaye Gibbons
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Kaye Gibbons
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