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Vanishing Wilderness: America's Last Wild Places
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Wilderness at your fingertips!.......2003-04-22
This is a lovely hardcover book that has photos that can make you feel like you are out in the fresh air of the wilderness while sitting in your high rise office. Add some pine air freshner, a fan and you are there!
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All-color guide, with hundreds of photos and maps. The authors, one of whom is a Dominican Republic native, share their intimate knowledge of this island nation. Virgin beaches, 16th-century Spanish ruins, the Caribbean's highest mountain, exotic wildlife and vast forest reserves will lure you here. And this book will show you around. Immense detail on the culture, the history, the beliefs of the people (how they relate to one another and to you) plus the economy and politics, so you will be far more than a casual tourist. Diving, hiking, wildlife, parks, tours, getting around, carnivals and celebrations, services, shopping, all are covered in detail. Accommodations run the gamut from luxury resorts to bare-bones camping facilities. The authors recommend places to eat, too, including roadside shacks selling local delicacies. Descriptions of the best nightlife in every town, from Sosua to Santo Domingo and the tiny towns in between. Over 20 town and regional maps plus color throughout.
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The authors - one of whom is a Dominican Republic native - share intimate knowledge of this island nation. Virgin beaches, 16th-century Spanish ruins, the Caribbean's highest mountain, exotic wildlife and vast forest reserves will lure you here. And this book will show you around. Immense detail on the culture, the history, the beliefs of the people (how they relate to one another and to you) plus the economy and politics - so you will be far more than a casual tourist. Diving, hiking, wildlife, parks, tours, getting around, carnivals and celebrations, services, shopping - all are covered in detail. Accommodations run the gamut from luxury resorts to bare-bones camping facilities. The authors recommend places to eat, too � including roadside shacks selling local delicacies. Descriptions of the best nightlife in every town, from Sosua to Santo Domingo and the tiny towns in between. Over 20 town and regional maps plus color photos.
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Explore the Dominican Republic (Adventure Guides Series)
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Formerly called The Adventure Guide to the Dominican Republic. Award-winning author Pariser shares his intimate knowledge of this island nation. Virgin beaches, 16th-century Spanish ruins, the Caribbean's highest mountain, exotic wildlife and vast forest reserves will lure you here. And this book will show you around.
Immense detail on the culture, the history, the beliefs of the people (how they relate to one another and to you) plus the economy and politics - so you will be far more than a casual tourist. Diving, hiking, wildlife, parks, tours, getting around, carnivals and celebrations, services, shopping - all are covered in detail. Accommodations run the gamut from luxury resorts to bare-bones camping facilities. Pariser recommends places to eat, too - including roadside shacks selling local delicacies. Descriptions of the best nightlife in every town, from Sosúa to Santo Domingo and the tiny towns in between. Over 20 town and regional maps plus color photos.
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For city slickers.......2003-07-28
Not much detail if you want to get off the beated path. I prefered Harvey's "Rough Guide". If you're spending a lot of time in the capital [Santo Domingo], this book may help.
Best of the Dominican Republic Guide Books.......2001-04-25
This is the best of the D. R. guide books (the Moon guide is the worst), however.....one still needs to pay VERY close attention to the NEGATIVE REVIEWS of resorts at the web site debbiesdominicantravel dot com. I say this because many who post on that site inexcusably downplay shoddy lodging and abusive treatment of tourists. Usually, the negative reviews are more realistic, especially of tourist traps like the Punta Cana Beach Resort (some of whose bungalows are not even weathertight). This author justifiably mentions the isolation of the East Coast (Punta Cana). Having recently traveled to both the East and North coasts, I say without hesitation the North Coast (Sosua, Puerta Plata) is far superior in every way. The Dominican Republic is a wonderful value overall and the Dominicans themselves are gentle and friendly (unless they are employed by certain resorts). I will probably retire there. There are many tips and strategies in this book not found in other D. R. guides. Your best choice in D. R. guide books.
A Negative Travel Guide Book.......2000-04-10
I found the authors tone in his review of areas to visit in the Dominican Republic to be extremely negative. I was going to go to Punta Cana and after I bought this book and read his review, I felt like I made a mistake. He does not seem to offer general information for all travelers but writes "if you have moola, like large resorts, and want to get away from everything, this area MAY be what you are looking for. I found him very negative, yet there is another book if you are going to the Dominican Republic & Haiti which offered a wealth of information and history, it's Lonely Planet's book on Dominican Republic & Haiti which offers many tips, history and general information. And by the way, Punta Cana is a beautiful place to visit regardless of whether you are wealthy or not.
My favourite Guide Book for the DR.......1999-10-25
My favourite Guide Book for the DR. I use this book everyday for research and information on the Dominican Republic tourism industry. Harry Pariser divulges little tidbits your 'official tour guide' will never tell you!
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Meet Haley Miller. She’s a 15-year-old girl of average height, average weight, and an average sense of style. Installed in her first public high school, Haley faces the toughest choices of her young life. And guess what? She’s all yours.
In this interactive novel, readers lead Haley through the halls of Hillsdale High for better or for worse. Until graduation do you part. Do you guide her away from the pitfalls of peer pressure? Or into the vortex of bad boys and parties? Send her to homecoming with the captain of the soccer team . . . or have her skip the dance to go on a road trip with the hot rebel. Give Haley a makeover or teach her to love herself the way she is. Pick which crowd she’ll hang with. Tell her how often to do her homework. And decide whether she drinks or inhales.
You determine her fortune. Her grades, her friends, her love life, her future. With Haley’s many positive traits, you should have no trouble achieving success . . . or will you? It’s all in the way you work, love, and play with Haley Miller, the girl with the most potential at Hillsdale High.
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A Great Book.......2007-01-22
This was a GREAT book. Okay, so actually, you get to choose your story so i guess anyone can say it's a great book. I mean who deosn't love to choose what happens?
I guess its not that fantastic, but it's original, which I love. So many people these days have similar books. Ugh! It's a great book and it's definitely worth the money because you can read it over and over and over. It's like 4 books in one! Haven't read the next book, but I can't wait!
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Courtesy of Teens Read Too.......2006-12-31
WHAT IF...EVERYONE KNEW YOUR NAME is an interesting idea. It's a lot like those Choose Your Own Adventure books you read as a kid. The story is about Haley, a fairly average fifteen-year-old girl who has just moved to suburban New Jersey and is starting at her first public high school. She starts out average, so that the reader can pretty much choose everything that happens to her as the story goes on.
You make every little decision for her, even the ones that seem really minor, like riding the bus to school or getting a ride from her father. You decide who she wants to be friends with and what crowd she wants to be a part of. You decide everything about her.
While an interesting idea, and fairly well-written, this book isn't for everyone. If you're all about finding out what will happen, this book might not be for you, because you decide what happens. It's a cool concept, though, and a fun read, especially since you can read it more than once, with a different story and outcome. The characters aren't particularly three-dimensional, but I guess they have to be simple enough so that it is believable that they would make any one of the very different choices you choose from. This book is fun, but not a must-read.
Reviewed by: Jocelyn Pearce
What If... Everyone Knew Your Name.......2006-09-20
The book What If... Everyone Knew Your Name by Liz Ruckdescel and Sara James was a realistic fiction novel about a girl who's family takes a road trip, moving from the Golden State of California to the Garden State of New Jersey. She moves to a new school called Hillsdale High and needs to know how she can fit in.
Haley Miller, the 15 year old going into a public school for the first time is scared and ready to be friends with anyone she can. While she wishes she didn't ever move, she meets a neighbor whom she thinks is very god looking. She befriends him and others while the story takes its twists and turns.
I really liked this book because of the way it was, how you got to choose what she did. It really makes you feel as if its you living in the book, not Haley. The book takes you through the up and downs of high school and you get to control everything; her friends, her grades, her love life, her future. You don't know how it will turn out either, so that makes it suspenseful, just like real life because you never know what life will throw at you next. For all you know in the book, Haley could be invited to the next big party, and make a bad decision and drink, or you could have her not take the drink and it turns out the stud she's looking at, doesn't like alcohol either.
I really enjoyed this book and I can't wait to read the other one like it called "What If... All the Boys Wanted You." It sounds just as interesting as the first one they wrote and I can't wait to see what that book throws at Haley this time.
I strongly recommend this book for any teen who likes books that will take them through the happy, and not so happy parts of high school. Some of these things in the book can really teach you some stuff you can use in real life, like many novels about teens. So if you are into real life situations, I defiantly recommend this book to you. It was a great read, and I couldn't put it down until I finished it.
A great book!!!.......2006-08-07
I loved this book! It was interesting and fun to read. I really liked the way you got to choose what the main character does. I would recommened this book to someone who is 11 years old or older and someone who is ready for an adventure. This book is worth your time and money.
-Taylor, 12
Makes reading a fun experience.......2006-07-21
In this day in age it is hard to make books as exciting and entertaining as the WB channel in the minds of a lot of teenagers, but the What If books are bringing that kind of excitement back to reading. There is so much to talk about with these books -- which choices you made, what happens, etc that it is fun to go back and re-read many times. The dialogue and character descriptions really make the whole book come alive so that I truly feel like I know what it must be like to be a teenager in Jersey -- scary thought! Truly a great new series!!!
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A Saint for Your Name: Saints for Girls
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pretty good.......2007-01-12
I like the set-up of this book because it gives a background on the Saints, however some of the names are just strange, and it definitely leaves out a lot of good saints names. I would recommend this book if you have no other resource for Saints names. We would have rather had a book that included more saints.
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Typos and Gaffes Abound.......2006-08-18
This is a fairly lousy book, but it was the only Cheers' recap book I could find to buy when I went looking for one, and something is better than nothing. The story recaps are short, and often miss the fine nuances that the show delivered. The biographies of the actors/actresses are repetitive, and often whole paragraphs of information are repeated within the section. I read the whole book, but long for a better version to come out.
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1957 A New Directions Book. Hard Cover, 175 pages. Color of Darkness; Eleven Stories And A Novella. 1) Color of Darkness 2) You May Safely Gaze 3) Don't Call Me By My Right Name 4) Eventide 5) Why Can't They Tell You Why 6) Man and Wife 7) You Reach For Your Hat 8) A Good Woman 9) Plan Now To Attend 10) Sound of Talking 11) Cutting Edge 12) 63: Dream Palace.
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Environment (Name Your Adventure)
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NAME YOUR NIGHTMARE (Unfortunate Fate Book)
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Write Your Name (Start Reading)
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Excellent resource.......2005-03-15
This book is used by teachers and students alike. Highly recommended for inquiry based learning activities.
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Photostabilization of Polymers: Principles and Applications
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Extreme Values in Finance, Telecommunications, and the Environment (Monographs on Statistics and Applied Probability)
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Because of its potential to "predict the unpredictable," Extreme Value Theory (EVT) and its methodology are currently in the spotlight. EVT affords some insight into extreme tails and maxima where standard models have proved unreliable. This is achieved with semi-parametric models which only specify the distributional shapes of maxima or of extreme tails. The rationale for these models are very basic limit and stability arguments. Bringing together world-recognized authorities, Extreme Values in Finance, Telecommunications, and the Environment puts to rest some of the myths and misconceptions of EVT. It explores the application, use, and theory of extreme values in the areas of finance, insurance, the environment, and telecommunications. The book reviews the way in which this paradigm can answer questions in climatology, insurance, and finance, covers parts of univariate extreme values theory, and discusses estimation, diagnostics, and multivariate extremes. It presents issues in data network modeling and examines aspects of Value-at-Risk (VaR) and its estimation based on EVT. The final chapter gives an overview of multivariate extreme value distributions and the problem of measuring extremal dependencies. Considered one of the hottest ideas in risk management, EVT is designed to allow anyone faced with calculating risky situations to determine the chances of being hit with one or even multiple catastrophic events. It provides a statistical methodology for dealing with the prediction of events which are so rare that they appear impossible. Presenting information from the forefront of knowledge and research, Extreme Values in Finance, Telecommunications, and the Environment brings you up to speed on current issues and techniques in EVT.
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The Wit and Wisdom of Jane Austen
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Few great writers can have cut so unglamorous a figure in the world as Jane Austen did. The fifth child of a Hampshire clergyman of modest means, Austen was more highly regarded among her family for her skill with the embroidery needle than for the sharpness of her wit. Yet, nearly two hundred years after she first put pen to paper, Austen's insights into human nature are as apt and accurate as when she originally wrote them. A witty and elegant collection of truths, ageless in their relevance. Michael Kerrigan is the author of Who Lies Where: A Guide to Famous Graves.
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Bravo!Jane Austen!.......2003-07-20
Michael Kerrigan had done a good job in extracting funny and witty quotes from Jane Austen novels and letters!I love the pictures illustrated in this pocketsized book!It had divided section and many good advices from Jane Austen point of view.Gosh,she might have been a modern feminist in her time!
It's quite a good guide especially for those who is taking English Literature in A Level.It sure helps me a lot!How about you?
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Inspired by Becoming Jane, the romantic film that could only make you want to know more about Jane Austen, here is a delightful collection of some of her most famous and quotable quotes -- pearls of wit and wisdom on topics like family, the sexes, friends, money, marriage, and of course love -- that are as true today as they were in Austen's time.Jane Austen on Marriage:"My being charming, Harriet, is not quite enough to induce me to marry; I must find other people charming -- one othe person at least." --Emma Woodhouse to Harriet Smith, in Emma"I am of a cautious temper, and unwilling to risk my happiness in a hurry. Nobody can think more highly of the matrimonial state than myself. I consider the blessing of a wife as most justly described in those discreet lines of the poet, 'Heaven's last best gift.'" --Henry Crawford to his sisters in Mansfield Park"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife." --From Pride and Prejudice
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will make you fall in love with Austen.......2007-09-21
I have read and loved Jane Austen's novels for a long time, but I must admit that I didn't know too much about Jane Austen herself. When first glancing at the picture from the Miramax film of the same title on the cover of Becoming Jane, I figured the book was going to be solely about the romance aspect of Jane Austen's novels. I was wrong.
Becoming Jane is a small, fairly short book full of quotations and history about Jane Austen's life. The passion the editor has for Austen and her work comes through in her writing; you can tell how eager she is to show you the things she loves about Austen. Romance and love were important to Austen, and to the characters in her novels, but that is by far not the only theme to her writing.
There are chapters on everything from family to money to fashion to letter writing. She fully embraces humanity, with all of its failures and follies, and rejoices in finding the humor in life. Alongside quotes from Austen's novels are quotes from the many letters she wrote to her family and friends. It was the quotes from her letters that I found the most interesting.
I also enjoyed the historical context at the beginning of each chapter; I learned just how little control and autonomy many women of the time had over their lives. Austen was in favor of marriage and love and accepted in some ways the basic idea of the man as the main breadwinner as it was such a part of the culture she was living in, but she was able, in subtle ways, to poke fun at and expose the double standards for men and women.
For those who already know and love Jane Austen, this book will make you want to go back and reread some of your favorites. For those who haven't read her before and perhaps just saw the film version of Becoming Jane, it's a quick introduction to her wit and wisdom that hopefully will inspire you to read one of her many novels. Its size makes it perfect for a gift.
A nice collection of quotable quotes of Jane Austen.......2007-09-11
Becoming Jane is a collection of quotes from Jane Austen. As author of Pride and Prejudice alone, she would have deserved a place in list of one of greatest romance novelists of English Literature. She wrote six novels, and every novel deals with issues of love, marriage, relationship and friendship. While Elizabeth and Mr Darcy are most well known of her characters, Emma is my personal favorite. In these novels, the language is Victorian, sexual propriety is heeded to (as per the need of those times) and hence as love stories, these novels possess an innocence, a charm that has been hallmark of Austen's style, and has contributed to her popularity with people of all age groups about centuries. Becoming Jane collects her pearls of wisdom from not only her novels, but also from her personal letters.
The book is divided into various sections, each highlighting quotable lines related to say family, vanity, beauty or courtship. Anne Newgarden, the editor, introduces each section with some insight into writing, life and times of Jane Austen. Certain social practices and customs from Austen's time have faded away, and these mini-essays convey what background information is not available firsthand to readers to Austen. But Jane Austen was, like every good novelist, a creator of a world complete in itself; characters who exist outside and beyond their space and time; and hence are going to be always relevant and identifiable.
If you are an Austen fan, and you have read all her books already, you will like this book, as it will bring back the memory of certain passages or personalities from your earlier reading. You will also find additional quotes from her personal life, which are equally enjoyable. If you haven't read Jane Austen, and happen to read this book first, you will see why Jane Austen is so popular.
Here are a few quotes as example, collected in this book:
What dreadful Hot weather we have!- It keeps one in continual state of inelegance.
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
"It is such a happiness when good people get together and they always do." Miss Bates, in Emma
"The ladies probably exchanged looks which meant 'Men never know when things are dirty or not,' and the gentlemen perhaps thought each to himself, 'Women will have their little nonsenses and needless cares.'" from Emma.
".... there are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them" from Mansfield Park
"a lady's imagination is very rapid, it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony, in a moment." Mr. Darcy in Pride and Prejudice
"If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more." from Emma
'A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. It certainly may secure the myrtle and turkey part of it." Mansfield Park
"The person, be it gentlemen or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid." Northanger Abbey
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The Jane Austen Sampler: A Quotable Companion of Wit and Wisdom
Amanda Holmes
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