Journal of a Tour through Pegu & Martaban (Itineraria Asiatica: Burma)

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Ever wonder why some travelers seemingly have it all together, arriving at their destinations poised and polished, while others (like yourself) are a mess of loose ends, forgotten traveler's checks, missed connections, and worse? The difference is planning--and for just five bucks, this pocket-sized guide delivers all that you need to transform yourself from a stressed-out traveler to a stress-free one.

In these pages, author Terry White offers a raft of streamlined advice on how to travel without breaking a sweat. Divided into sections that include flying, in-flight entertainment, packing, accommodations, transportation, technology, and general tips, this budget-friendly booklet makes getting out the door a snap. You'll learn how to acquire those coveted First Class upgrades, what to do if your flight gets canceled, the best way to tote your music, how to take your technology on the road, and more.

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History for Today: Std 9 (For Today)
F. Graves , L. Consul , and et al
Manufacturer: Juta Gariep
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Diversity of Invertebrates: A Laboratory Guide is the only manual of its kind in which nearly all the taxa are covered, thus emphasizing the diversity of invertebrates. Its broad approach includes coverage of the often neglected phyla. This comprehensive manual is appropriate for either your one- or two-semester courses and is based on a taxon-by-taxon approach to functional morphology. Each regional manual covers phyla and specimens particular to specific regions, in addition to core "commercially available" specimens.

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An excellent laboratory manual, and indispensable to any TA!.......1999-11-19

This is such a stupendous laboratory manual, it could almost substitute as a text for the course. Nybakken verbally walks students though the dissections and gives thorough coverage to both external and internal anatomy. For each phylum or group of phyla there are large, clear diagrams of dissections for a huge variety of animals local to the California coast. (There are diagrams for 14 different organisms in the Gastropod section alone, and cover almost all of the animals students could possibly see in lab.) The text also includes taxonomic information and discussions on animal diversity including habitat, external morphology, feeding, behavior, etc. Plus, it is well written, well organized and easy to read!

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The chapters in this book address recent key developments in the theory and applications of transportation science, particularly those based on OR-methods such as optimization, simulation, mathematical optimization, and artificial intelligence.
Audience: Academics and non-academics with a shared interest in the application of operational techniques for solving transport problems.

Operations Research in Transportation Systems - Ideas and Schemes of Optimization Methods for Strategic (Applied Optimization)

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Operations Research in Transportation Systems - Ideas and Schemes of Optimization Methods for Strategic (Applied Optimization)
A.S. Belenky
Manufacturer: Springer
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This is the first book that presents basic ideas of optimization methods that are applicable to strategic planning and operations management, particularly in the field of transportation. The material of the book covers almost all parts of optimization and is a unique reference work in the field of operations research. The author has written an invaluable manual for students who study optimization methods and their applications in strategic planning and operations management. He describes the ideas behind the methods (with which the study of the methods usually starts) and substantially facilitates further study of the methods using original scientific articles rather than just textbooks. The book is also designed to be a manual for those specialists who work in the field of management and who recognize optimization as the powerful tool for numerical analysis of the potential and of the competitiveness of enterprises. A special chapter contains the basic mathematical notation and concepts useful for understanding the book and covers all the necessary mathematical information.

The use of simulation and optimization in the design of rail transportation systems

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The use of simulation and optimization in the design of rail transportation systems
R. G Fenton
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1931. There is no obvious drama in this straightforward narrative. No one could pretend that Roxana reveals either charm or striking personality. The author's art comes from a particular form of realism, in which he stands almost alone. It is built upon absolute simplicity in style, elaborately precise statement of natural detail and a complete absence of emphasis or emotion. We do not judge Roxana for her conduct, but sympathize with her as a woman because Defoe has made her our friend. We believe in her as a real, living, intimate acquaintance who is interesting because her life is crowded with surprising events and fortune treats her with more than its usual caprice.

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Unforgettable.......2006-01-16

ROXANA is a fascinating book. Too often the title character is measured against Moll Flanders and is found inferior. Yes, she shares several of Moll's traits, including beauty, ambition and a lack of hesitation to use sex to exploit a situation to her advantage. But Roxana is a far more complex character. Whereas Moll started poor, Roxana suffers a calamity from which she must recover. It is through this experience that she develops into the con-artist that she becomes. But what truly sets her apart from all of Defoe's other characters is that she is capable of guilt. She is more psychologically developed in other ways, too. Notice all the complex emotions when she engineers a menage-a-trois with a gentleman and her maid, Amy. Defoe was "pushing the envelope" with ROXANA. Wherein MOLL FLANDERS is a comedy, ROXANA is a primitive thriller. It's a pity Alfred Hitchcock never adapted ROXANA for the screen because there are several very unsettling and suspenseful scenes in the novel as ROXANA's true identity is in danger of being revealed. And the ending is truly unsettling. I don't know why Hollywood hasn't discovered this one (although considering all the terrible film versions of MOLL FLANDERS, perhaps it's just as well).

The form of the novel was new when ROXANA was written. There were no rules. There were no precedents. Defoe came up with something truly extraordinary. There's nothing else quite like it. For me, ROXANA is unforgettable. I first read this book twenty years ago and there are scenes that still haunt me. If you've read ROBINSON CRUSOE and MOLL FLANDERS, by all means read ROXANA, too. You'll be amazed at how avant-garde ROXANA seems in comparison. Of the six of Defoe's major works that I have read, this is one of my favorites. It's not as tidy as CRUSOE and MOLL, but it has more of a plot and covers a broader range of emotions.

Defoe, an early feminist?.......2003-11-28

I read this having recently enjoyed Moll Flanders. They are very different, Moll's story is something of a bawdy, satirical comedy, whereas Roxana's is a tragic tale. I think that other reviewers have perhaps missed the irony that is inherent in Defoe's work. While presenting these tales of 'fallen' women as confessions of repentence, I think that was something of a cover, without which his novels would have been unacceptable to his contemporary audience. He creates strong, autonomous women, driven by economics. He does not judge them and because of that neither do we. Was he in fact an early feminist? He believed strongly in the education of women and advocated equality in marriage in 'Conjugal Lewdness.' I think Roxana is an extention of those ideas.

A woman's place?.......2002-08-05

Told in the first person, this is the tragic story of the life of the social climbing Roxana - it reads (as I suppose it was intended to read) as a guilt-ridden confession.

Abandoned (with her five children) by her profligate and irresponsible husband, Roxana rises to wealth by a series of affairs with well-connected men. Not to give away the ending, but the achievement of wealth does not result in anything like happiness.

Due to the way she was treated, Roxana has a highly critical view of marriage, and advocates equal rights for women. Although he puts such opinions in Roxana's mouth, Defoe makes it clear that (for the time) these were extreme views - Roxana goes too far in her cynicism and amorality. I thought that Defoe's point was that women should be treated far more humanely than they were, but not that they should be treated as equals.

Defoe also explores interesting issues surrounding the moral effects of both extreme poverty and great wealth: "... for tho' Poverty and Want is an irresistible Temptation to the Poor, Vanity and Great Things are as irresistible to others..."

In the edition I was reading, the editor had done his best to maintain Defoe's original spelling and style. You have therefore to put up with the peculiarities and inconsistencies of Defoe's grammar and spelling. Either you're into this or you're not, but I prefered it that way. The lack of chapters or other breaks in the text was a bother: I don't know enough about the literature of Defoe's time to judge whether that was normal, or whether Defoe deliberately avoided the use of such "artificial" stylistic devices in order to maintain the feeling that this was someone giving her confession. Unless you're able to sit down and read the novel at one sitting (I wasn't) it means that you have to judge carefully when to create your own breaks.

Although "Roxana" had plenty of points of interest, I felt that it was over-long. Defoe had made his case long before the end, and although the ending is shocking and tragic, the pathway there could have been shorter.

A way with words.......1999-04-29

Daniel Defoe has a way with words, lovely piece of words. I would advise you to read this book slowly to eat up the words.

Interesting Psychological Study.......1998-12-01

This novel follows the progress of a woman who is left by her husband with only her servant. She vows never to be poor again, and climbs her way back up the social ladder by using men and her body. The novel, while possibly intended as a conduct book to show women what happens to those who sin, reads today as a portrait of a woman trapped between society's views and her own upward movement. A very interesting, and at times disturbing, read.

Roxana: Or the Fortunate Mistress (The Everyman Library)

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Doing what you have to do to make a go of it - and then some
Little known book by Defoe
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Roxana: Or the Fortunate Mistress (The Everyman Library)
Daniel Defoe
Manufacturer: Tuttle Publishing
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ASIN: 0460876767

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Doing what you have to do to make a go of it - and then some.......2006-07-12

This novel is about how the desperations brought on by poverty can lead not only to crime but to a moral vacuum within an individual. Roxana is left a penniless widow with five children at age 22. In order to survive she becomes the mistress of her landlord and eventually bears him a son. Greed replaces need, and she determines to become a "woman of Wealth." After the landlord is murdered in a robbery, she becomes the mistress of an even wealthier prince, refusing to marry him because that would mean having to share her wealth. Eventually, after guilt and repentance set in over her squandered life, she decides to marry the prince, but all does not turn out well: she moves to Holland with him where "I fell into a dreadful Course of Calamities ... and I was brought so low again." One of the most interesting characters in the book is Roxana's faithful maid Amy, who sticks by Roxana through all her tribulations, even once offering her body to the landlord when Roxana appears to be barren. But for the life of me, after reading the ending a dozen times, I can't tell for sure whether Amy actually kills Roxana's menacing daughter or merely threatens to do so. This edition retains all the original spellings and punctuations, so it's a little hard reading at first, but with a little perseverance the eye and mind adjust and the difficulty wanes. Worth the effort.

Little known book by Defoe.......2002-08-08

I love this book. It was as good as "Moll Flanders" and has a very happy and satisfying ending.

A Defoe fan.......2002-02-22

I read "Robinson Crusoe" as a young boy, and never forgot it (55 years later); then, as a mature adult I read "A Journal of the Plague Year" and "Moll Flanders", both of which were execellent reads; and a few days ago I finished "Roxana", so let me share a few thoughts about the book.
First off, when you read Defoe, it is essential to realize that you are dipping into the very beginnings of English literature. Anything that is three centuries removed from the present has to be put into its historical context in order to make sense of it, and contemporary values must be held in abeyance. If you are capable of doing that, you are in for a heck of a good story, as are all of the books mentioned above.
"Roxana" concerns the rise and fall (mostly rise) of a woman left destitute, along with her five children, by her fool of a husband. Circumstances eventually lead her to prostitution as a means of survival, and as luck would have it, her "gentlemen protectors" are uniformly wealthy, and by means of careful marshalling of her earnings Roxana becomes independently wealthy. But what she lacks is social status, which leads her to her final alliance with a Dutch merchant who knows nothing of her past.
Along the way, Roxana begets and abandons about nine offspring here and there(this being the days before birth control), and one of them, Susan, figures in the downfall of Roxana. This novel pays great attention to the psychological aspects of living a life that is generally condemned by society. Defoe shapes Roxana's psychological health around his own ethical views, and, as such, makes Roxana suffer for her choices in the long run. Thus, the novel does not end happily for its central character, an interesting fact, in that this is the only novel of Defoe's that does not end happily for the protagonist.
All told, "Roxana" is a great read. Defoe certainly reflects his ethical biases, but at the same time does a good job of objectively fleshing out charaters who forcefully express points of view that differ from his own.
For me, everything worked beautifully in the novel until the last paragraph, but that happens a lot in literature.

The Fortunate Mistress, Or Roxana. ed R Brinley Johnson.

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The Fortunate Mistress, Or Roxana. ed R Brinley Johnson.
Daniel Defoe
Manufacturer: Abbey Classics 1920.
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000NKEL2U

Roxana : The Fortunate Mistress (Oxford English Novels Ser.)

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Roxana : The Fortunate Mistress (Oxford English Novels Ser.)
Daniel; Jack, Jane (editor) Defoe
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OKP8GC

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ROXANA OR THE FORTUNATE MISTRESS

Manufacturer: World Publishing
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000H38QQA

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Roxana or the Fortunate Mistress
Daniel Defoe
Manufacturer: Fine Editions Press
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000G3HQTY

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Roxana the Fortunate Mistress
Daniel Defoe
Manufacturer: WORLD PUBLISHING CO.
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000OL067M

Roxana the Fortunate Mistress (Oxford English Novels)

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Roxana the Fortunate Mistress (Oxford English Novels)
Daniel Defoe
Manufacturer: Oxford Univ Pr
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 0192553046

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Roxana, or, The Fortunate Mistress
Daniel Defoe
Manufacturer: Fine Editions Press
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Binding: Leather Bound
ASIN: B000MAODKQ

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ROXANA, THE FORTUNATE MISTRESS

Manufacturer: THE BIBLIOPHILIST SOCIETY
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000I73HRS

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