The Nature of Southeast Alaska: A Guide to Plants Animals and Habitats

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Updated and revised, this popular book is a lively field guide to Southeast Alaska's natural wonders.

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Outstanding Holistic Look at Alaska's Inside Passage.......2001-05-28

In this highly readable book, Rita O'Clair and her co-authors explore the geology, habitats, and animals of Southeast Alaska and how they interact with each other. I haven't found any other source that puts the basic story of the region together in this way. For those getting started learning about the area, this book provides a framework to organize future observations and learning. Those who already know some natural history of the area may be surprised by the connections this book helps make and the gaps it fills in.

Nature of Southeast Alaska, The : A Guide to Plants, Animals and Habitats

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Nature of Southeast Alaska, The : A Guide to Plants, Animals and Habitats
Rita M.; Armstrong, Robert H.; Carstensen, Richard O'Clair
Manufacturer: Vernon Publications, Incorporated
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000KWSES8

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A View from the River: The Chicago Architecture Foundation River Cruise (Pomegranate Catalog, No. A537)
Jay Pridmore , Hedrich Blessing , and Jay Pridmore
Manufacturer: Pomegranate Communications
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The Chicago River: An Illustrated History and Guide to the River and Its Waterways, Second Edition

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Chicago Architecture and Design

ASIN: 0764913336

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There is no better way to see downtown Chicago---a dazzling canyon of glass, metal, masonry, and marble---than by taking the Chicago Architecture Foundation's River Cruise.

The Chicago River affords one of the best vantage points from which to enjoy this city's remarkable buildings and historic sites. The Foundation's open-air boats provide comfort and an unobstructed view, while its exceptionally knowledgeable and witty docents enrich the tour with commentary on Chicago's history and development, insights on how its world-class buildings came to be constructed, and stories of the visionaries who designed them. To round out this mix of visual euphoria and intellectual edification, there's a brief and fascinating overview of Chicago's dominant stylistic influences: the Chicago School, Art Deco, the International Style, and Postmodernism. The tour is a great way for visitors to learn about the city---and a source of fresh perspectives for those who live there.

Forty-three stunning Hedrich Blessing photographs convey the splendor and diversity of downtown Chicago's building---all featured attractions of the Foundation's cruise. The text, by longtime Chicago Tribune contributor Jay Pridmore, tells the story of Chicago's early history and reviews the significance of the Chicago River in the development of one of the most beautiful cities in the world.

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The world-renowned architecture of Chicago is captured in this collection of 60 stunning color photographs taken from the unique perspective of the Chicago River. Additional classic photographs and city history make for an engaging virtual boat tour. Home to sleek, contemporary skyscrapers and majestic, neoclassical buildings, downtown Chicago’s riverfront features views unseen anywhere else in the city once called “Paris on the Prairie.” Readers from Chicago and elsewhere will find themselves engrossed by the cityscape's dynamic character and ongoing development.

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DID NOT RECEIVE.......2005-08-02

I waited over a month and never received it - so I cancelled it and bought it from the author who happenes to live in my home town. I e-mailed her and asked if she had any to sell and she happened to have one. Why does amazon advertise products that are out of stock? I paid more for the book, but it was worth it as she personally autographed it.

A Tour Unlike Any Other.......2003-10-14

I just came back from my second trip to Chicago, and a friend dragged me and four others to this so-called "architectural tour on the river", and I thought, oh, great, another organized tour. I have a natural aversion to organized tours, but how wrong I was for my prejudgment!

Words can hardly describe what an amazing docent that Ms. Joan Lindsay proved to be. All six of us friends were enraptured by what she was saying, hanging on her every word as were the rest of the people on the boat. We soaked in every fact and detail that effortlessly ran from her mouth, and her enthusiasm for her chosen study of architectural appreciation was palpable. She threw in so many funny and witty comments under her breath that had us on the floor. The way she strung all of the buildings together into an articulate, mesmerizing and entertaining tour was almost like choreography.

By the end of the tour and for the remaining 4 days of the trip, all of our walks through the city and its beautiful buildings had us spewing some fact that we had learned on the tour, as we casually threw in facts about Art Deco and Mies Van Der Rohe into our conversation like nobody's business. I wish I had her for all my lecturers back in college! I would have aced my classes the way I soaked it all in!

While this book is good, the actual tour is amazing. I will never view tours in the same way after this. If you decide to do the tour, don't forget to demand Joan Lindsay - it's absolutely not the same without her!

Praise for "Chicago from the River".......2000-04-19

Imagine yourself lazily drifting down a placid river on a perfect summer afternoon, flanked on both sides by towering monuments erected by the architechtural geniuses of the ninteenth and twentieth centuries, their long shadows passing over you like the ghosts of the men themselves who labored over the planning, design, building, and occupation of these priceless pieces of history.

The sounds of the City surround you and the voice of your guide is almost an aria illuminating the stories behind the breathtaking views of some of the greatest architectural accomplishments of our time in the greatest city of all time...Chicago, Illinois.

Ms.Lindsay's knowlege and enthusiasm, not only of the architechtural importance of the buildings that line Chicago's famous River, but also for the nuances of their unique stories, their histories, and the personalities of the men who created them is contageous. Before you realize it, you are a convert to the wonder of this place and the energies and drives that built it up on the praire.

Ms. Lindsay captures the experience in "Chicago on the River", through breathtaking photographs which she took over the course of the thousands of trips she has made from the mouth of the River to the south end of the city and back, while illulminating and entertaining many many thousands and bringing to them her appreciation for this unique viewpoint.

Read the book and then take the tour...experience the world's greatest city from a truly unique point of view!

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Charts of the Illinois waterway : from Mississippi River at Grafton, Illinois to Lake Michigan at Chicago and Calumet harbors (SuDoc D 103.66:Il 6)
U.S. Dept of Defense
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Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B0001022DC

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Charts of the Illinois Waterway: From Mississippi River at Grafton, Illinois to Lake Michigan at Chicago and Calumet Harbors

Manufacturer: U.S. Army Engineer District Lake Survey
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ASIN: B000LQGWNM

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77 detailed color maps showing waterway features and aids to navigation.

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Chicago River from Your Window
Paul Frisbie
Manufacturer: Friends of the Chicago River
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Binding: Spiral-bound

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Not the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but ...
Why haven't many people heard about this?
Good Research, Biased Conclusions
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Thoroughly researched--great information

Eastland: Legacy of the Titanic
George W. Hilton
Manufacturer: Stanford University Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0804722919

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Not the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but ..........2007-03-29

George Hilton was the first to publish a book about the little-known tragedy of the capsizing of the Eastland at its dock on the Chicago River. As an historian who has extensively researched this disaster from primary sources for years before it ever became more commonly known, I find his treatise to be well researched in part, but of dubious quality because of Hilton's blatant political bias against the regulation of business. His conclusions about the capsizing having occurred because of the addition of lifeboats and other safety features mandated by progressive Republican Senator Robert La Follette's "Seaman's Act" are factually incorrect according to contemporary accounts including the official report concerning the disaster. While his account of the event itself is basically accurate, his conclusions are politically driven, and wrong in the light of his bias.

At the time of the disaster, the Seaman's Act was facing repeal by Congress because of the pressure of the steamship industry against the expenses incurred by them to bring their ships into compliance. The act had been passed because of a series of shipping disasters, most of them freight ships, on the Great Lakes. Other disasters, notably the burning of the General Slocum, contributed to public support for reform of a very corrupt federal inspection system. The act was primarily passed because of the demands of the seamen who worked on these ships. The truth was it was a general practice in the shipping industry, both freight and passenger, to overload ships and equip them with only the absolute minimum in safety equipment, thereby maximizing profit and minimizing cost. It was equally true those who had oversight powers rarely, if ever, exercised them because of corruption with the shipping industry. Once the Eastland tragedy struck, all talk of repeal of the act ended and the steamship industry slowly became adequately regulated. As a result, there have been far fewer ship disasters since that time.

It has been a long-standing mantra of Republicans, Libertarians and business that regulations only harm American business and destroy profitability, thereby causing the collapse of those businesses and the loss of jobs. Hilton recognized this disaster, which took the lives of at least 822 mostly poor, working class people, as an opportunity to show "concrete" evidence proving this hypothesis. The problem is, the facts do not in any way support Hilton's conclusions. Long before the safety upgrades to the Eastland, the seamen who worked on her knew her to be an exceptionally unstable ship. The Eastland had numerous documented problems and complaints for years prior to her capsizing. The primary problems appeared to be a poorly designed keel and a horrible ballast system that could not adequately balance the ship. The primary causes of the disaster were the intense overcrowding of the ship and the preexisting design problems. After the offical report on the "sinking", it was established beyond doubt there were significantly more aboard than the allowable 1400 for which the ship was rated. Contemporary experts concluded at least 2400 people had boarded with or without tickets. Hilton actually does a good job at disproving his own hypothesis if you bother to research further.

In its time, steamship travel was often used for more than seeing the sights. They were often a venue for the poor for secret sexual liasons and other activities frowned upon in this post-Victorian era. In just a few years the automobile changed all this and motels and motor excursions became the preferred way to exercise these freedoms. Short-trip steamship excursions lost popularity not because of regulation, but because of the competion of the automotive industry and nothing else. No significant damage was done to the freight business at all. Lately the shipping industry has seen a huge passenger resurgence in the current cruise ships, a newer poorly-regulated industry. Many of these ships are also quite top-heavy and I sometimes wonder if we will come full circle to see another ship "turn turtle" in our time.

Read the book, but borrow it, don't buy it. Then read the other two on the subject, which are far more accurate and honest. And if you really want to know about the disaster, go to Chicago and see the museum exhibit dedicated to this tragedy of greed.

Why haven't many people heard about this?.......2006-07-27

I'm going to cheat. I'm going to write one review and use it on three separate books. No doubt I'll offend the review gods at Amazon, but this subject merits it. Even though I live only 4 hours away from Chicago, I had never heard of the Eastland until I was searching for something entirely different and found a Western Electric website mentioning it. This is an utterly incredible story. I promptly ordered "The Sinking of the Eastland." The book goes into a fair amount of detail about the tragedy itself, yet its primary purpose is to describe the people involved and how they were affected. The author never claims to be a technical authority and instead makes reference several times to another book "Eastland: Legacy of the Titanic." I promptly ordered that one as well and while searching for additional information I learned of a third book "The Eastland Disaster (Images of America)." That one was ordered as well. Since you have read this far, you are obviously interested in my opinions and in my opinion, all three are required reading to grasp what happened. "The Eastland Disaster" is primarily a collection of relevant photographs which augment the other two books. Many more photographs of the events surrounding the ship, the sinking and the aftermath. And finally, "Eastland: Legacy of the Titanic" is much more technically oriented including the naval architecture concepts concerning the ship itself. I found this book to be especially good as it attempts to provide as much of a balanced view as possible, including several contemporary naval experts analyzing the court testimony of a leading architect of the day. Absolutely fascinating stuff. Not only that, but it is interesting to learn our concern for American jobs being lost to China is not a new thing. Ninety years ago people were worried about the same thing as a result of new regulations coming from the Titanic sinking. All three books solidly contribute to gaining knowledge about the disaster.

Good Research, Biased Conclusions.......2005-07-08

The two stars are for the amount of information in this book. The fact that it only gets two is because most of the book is blatantly spun to try and support Mr. Hilton's economic beliefs and dislike of the LaFollette Act.

There are a number of places in the book where it appears that Mr. Hilton deliberately twists or conceals the facts. For example, he states in the prologue that the president of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company announced that his company would be going out business immediately after the application of the requirements of the LaFollette Act in 1915, which he uses as evidence that the Act destroyed American shipping across the Pacific. What he DOESN'T mention is that the company did NOT go out of business and was bought out by another American company, and was still in operation as late as 1949.

Everything in the book is spun to support his theory that the Eastland capsized because of its added lifeboats, and that the lifeboats were added because of the LaFollette Act. In order to do this he ignores other theories and information that he must have known because they occur in sources he quotes for other information. For instance, he insists that the Eastland wasn't overloaded with people based on the testimony of the dock agents (who have an obvious motive for lying.) He fails to address a statement in a book by Dwight Boyer which he quotes elsewhere that the dock agents actually let on quite a few more people than the Eastland's capacity because of how passengers were counted based on ticketing.

I feel there are several other omissions and distortions of this type in the book. Let the reader beware, and don't rely on this book for information about the Eastland sinking unless you've read a number of other books and articles on the subject.

a remarkable season of disaster.......2000-08-31

In the year 1915 in the good ol' days as hollywood and others would have it there were three horrible disasters caused by political corruption, corporate greed, and a dishonest judiciary in the City of Chicago. The worst theatre fire in American history the legendary fire at the Iroquios theatre the explosion of the hydrogen airship "Wingfoot Express" ala the "Hindenburg" over a part of the downtown area and the loss of over 800 people in the 15 foot deep Chicago river just north of the downtown area in the capsizing of the tippy excursion steamer "Eastland" the third worst maritime disaster in US history the second worst disaster in US history was explosion of the sidewheel paddle steamboat "Sultana" in 1865 the worst was the burning of the sidewheeler "General Slocum" on the east river of New York City oddly enough this general supervised the arson leveling of the City of Atlanta during the Civil War.The author George W. Hilton, explains through testimony, engineering equipment diagrams, mathematical graphs, a computer designed lines plan of the hull of "Eastland" how this ship sank with such a high loss of life I have been interested in the "Eastland" for years but due to political influence being used not much information was in print this book will probably be the best work on the "Eastland" disaster ever written.

Thoroughly researched--great information.......2000-01-11

Hilton has researched this subject extensively. If you are looking for flowery personal stories of the disaster, you won't find them here. What you will find is a massive source of information about the ship's construction, a detached account of the disaster, and an account of the legal proceedings and investigations following the disaster. The amount of researched facts in this book is unmatched and this amount of information about the EASTLAND cannot be found in any other source.

From the Chicago notebook: Memories of the South Side

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From the Chicago notebook: Memories of the South Side
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Illinois Waterway Navigation Charts; from Mississippi River at Grafton, Illinois to Lake Michigan at Chicago and Calument Harbors

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Illinois Waterway Navigation Charts; from Mississippi River at Grafton, Illinois to Lake Michigan at Chicago and Calument Harbors
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Seventeenth Annual Report of the Department of Public Works with Mayor's Message, Chicago, 1892 (includes Map showing the territorial growth of the city of Chicago plus a map of The Lake Front from the Chicago River to 16th St.)

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Seventeenth Annual Report of the Department of Public Works with Mayor's Message, Chicago, 1892 (includes Map showing the territorial growth of the city of Chicago plus a map of The Lake Front from the Chicago River to 16th St.)

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Soil Erosion in a Coastal River Basin: A Case Study from the Philippines (University of Chicago Geography Research Papers)

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Soil Erosion in a Coastal River Basin: A Case Study from the Philippines (University of Chicago Geography Research Papers)
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History in Action: Std 9 (In Action)
F. Graves , D. Davel , and et al
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Biology Brought to Life is a unique guide for active learning in biology. This lab manual is designed to excite students about science, to foster analytical and critical thinking skills, and to reach a broad group of students with diverse learning styles. Biology Brought to Life features eleven open-ended experiments that illustrate fundamental principles of biology and teaches students how to apply the scientific method to investigation of biological problems. The labs are intended for majors and nonmajors biology courses using inquiry-based labs, active learning strategies, and microbiological examples.

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Biology Brought to Life--A GUIDE TO TEACHING STUDENTS TO THINK LIKE SCIENTISTS (Instructor's Version)
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HANDELSMAN
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This volume provides a description of LC/MS applications that are currently being successfully used and of the instrumentation that is now commercially available or under development. Describes the application of LC/MS to the analysis of agricultural chemicals and their metabolites. Examines the influence LC/MS has had upon chemistry for the analysis of both highly polar metabolites and their precursors. Also looks at the impact of LC/MS methods on environmental analysis.

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Variational Methods in Nonconservative Phenomena.
B.D. Vujanovic
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Passing with cinematographic speed across the capitals of Europe, Nobel laureate André Gide’s Lafcadio’s Adventures is a brilliantly sly satire and one of the clearest articulations of his greatest theme: the unmotivated crime.

When Lafcadio Wluiki, a street-smart nineteen-year-old in 1890s Paris, learns that he’s heir to an ailing French nobleman’s fortune, he’s seized by wanderlust. Traveling through Rome in expensive new threads, he becomes entangled in a Church extortion scandal involving an imprisoned Pope, a skittish purveyor of graveyard statuary, an atheist-turned-believer on the edge of insolvency, and all manner of wastrels, swindlers, aristocrats, adventurers, and pickpockets. With characteristic irony, Gide contrives a hilarious detective farce whereby the wrong man is apprehended, while the charmingly perverse Lafcadio—one of the most original creations in all modern fiction—goes free.

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Boring and definitely didn't get to me............2005-04-12

I am used to the fact that whenever I pick up a book by a Nobel laureate, it's usually a pretty safe bet. Unfortunately, this was not the case with Andre Gide's LAFCADIO'S ADVENTURES. To be quite frank, I had a very hard time finishisng the novel.

Lafcadio, the main character, has had a very hard life. His mother went through a series of lovers, whom she made him call "uncle" every single time. These men marked Lafcadio's life each in a different manner. He turns out to be a poor man, both economically and emotionally. All of a sudden he finds out he is the [illegal] son of a very rich man, and his life suddenly changes. Combining his new situation with wit, imagination and a few perverse ideas, provides enough for what could have been an excellent plot and novel.

Together with a close friend, he designs a scam, involving the supposed kidnapping of the Pope, to swindle rich people out of their money. Although the book is supposed to be funny and very witty, I must admit I simply did not get it. Boring is the first word that comes to mind.

As I mentioned before, even the not-so-good books by Nobel laureates are usually above average. In my opinion, not the case with LAFCADIO'S ADVENTURES

Much more here than meets the eye.......2004-05-03

Gide's _Lafacdio's Adventures_ is much more than a book about a young man who commits a senseless crime. It is also far more than just a couple of mascarading crooks who concoct a story of the kidnapping of a high church official as a means of bilking a naive gentleman of his money. Gide has written a marvelously twisty-even slightly twisted-and often hillariously funny crime novel. What places _Lafcadio's Adventures_ far above that genre is its emphasis on the meaning of friendship, loyalty, genuine caring and a real sense of responsibility for another human being that can and often does transform people. Gide takes an interesting look at a social outsider in a fresh and humane way. The result is a truer and far more complex and sympathetic picture of such an individual. Even if I could not quite make out his motivations there is still much to think about in Gide's brilliant study of saints and sinners.

A journey into the mind of a self-fascinated murderer.......1999-02-05

Gide, the novelist's novelist, tends to his wicked garden of amoral flowers in this multi-leveled satire. Defying the formulaic strictures of his day, Gide skewers the pomposity of the French and Italian gentry while soaring above them with gleeful snobbery. My parents forbade me to read Gide, and so of course I did, in secret, only to have "Lafcadio" snatched from my precocious twelve-year-old hands before I could finish the novel--but memories of Lafcadio lay buried for years until they ultimately emerged to flower anew in the mystery/ adventure: "Into the Deep--The Haven" . . . both a companion and handshake to Gide's examination of the motiveless crime. V.E. Rosswell.

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Lafcadio`s Adventures: A Novel
Andre Gide
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