Mushrooms of the Adirondacks: A Field Guide

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This is a guide to the most common edible and poisonous mushrooms found in the Adirondack area, but not restricted to it. This book is richly illustrated with over 140 color photographs and corresponding descriptions. Additional similar species are briefly described for each illustration as well. In all, over four hundred species are discussed. Information provided includes common and scientific names, collecting seasons, habitats and edibility. Techniques and helpful information regarding collecting, identifying, preserving and preparing wild mushrooms are also included.

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The biology of Fomes fomentarius (Bulletin / Maine Agricultural Experiment Station)
M. T Hilborn
Manufacturer: University of Maine, the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station
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ASIN: B0007FPUI0

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Journey with our team of photographers along golden beaches under a pastel sunset, or deep into the mesmerising sands of the desert. View architectural details that make the UAE one of the most visually thrilling urban environments in the world, and dive undersea to encounter the reef creatures who live there. Join us in marvelling at the diversity of astounding locations throughout the seven emirates.

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Imagine discovering that your whole life has been a fiction, your identity altered, and a new family history created. Suddenly nothing is as it once seemed; you can trust no one, maybe not even yourself. It is exactly this revelation that turns 14-year-old Adam Farmer's life upside down. As he tries to ascertain who he really is, Adam encounters a past, present, and future too horrible to contemplate. Suspense builds as the fragments of the story are assembled--a missing father, government corruption, espionage--until the shocking conclusion shatters the fragile mosaic. Young adult readers will easily relate to the shy and confused Adam, whose desperate searching for self resembles a disturbingly exaggerated version of the identity crisis common to the teenage years.

First published in 1977, I Am the Cheese provides an exciting introduction to psychological thrillers. This sensitive, emotional, subtly crafted novel by Robert Cormier (author of The Chocolate War) was a New York Times Outstanding Book of the Year, as well as a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year. --Emilie Coulter

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To commemorate the 20th anniversary of its publication, Alfred A. Knopf is proud to reissue I Am The Cheese in hardcover with an introduction by Robert Cormier. "

An ALA Notable Children's Book

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A Horn Book Fanfare Honor Book

A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year

A New York Times Outstanding Book of the Year

Winner of the 1997 Phoenix Award by the Children's Literature Association

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An Interesting and Worthwhile Ride.......2007-10-07

I Am the Cheese is a fascinating story about Adam Farmer, a boy in search of his family and the truth. The plot moves back and forth between the story of Adam's journey to find his father and recorded conversations he has with a psychiatrist. During these sessions, Adam slowly remembers and discloses information from his past. As he does, his history begins to make more sense to him and to us. Cormier does an excellent job of drawing the reader into the story. The plot is clear and easy to follow, but interesting enough that we want to continue reading. Like Adam on his bike, the reader rides breathlessly through twists and turns, desperately hanging on to reach the conclusion. Adam is a real human being, with doubts and insecurities. He is constantly searching for love and stability, reaching out to his parents, as well as to his quirky girlfriend Amy. Readers will find themselves wishing that they could somehow shield him from life's horrors. The ending is very surprising. It has finality, yet the reader is unsettled. Although the conclusion is not optimistic, there are many ideas worthy of later reflection.

The Cheese Stands Alone.......2007-09-25

When I bought this book, it was because it was thirty cents in a library sale. I did NOT think I would finish it in just over a day. I did not think I would love it. But somehow both of these things happened.

I AM THE CHEESE is a novel that is hard to review, because without giving away the ending it has a very basic, even boring-seeming plot. (Boy rides bike across several states to visit his father in a hospital. Thrilling.) But between this are psychiatric sessions with that same boy, Adam, with the psychiatrist an unknown man. Is he good, trying to help Adam recall his dangerous past? Or is he evil, trying to learn Adam's secrets and then dispose of him? Who IS he?

The sense of dread and mystery that permeates this novel makes it the finest psychological horror story I have ever read. As Adam slowly uncovers his past -- a past filled with dangerous escapes, corrupt government, murder, and the ever-mysterious gray man -- the reader starts to understand that something very strange is going on, and perhaps the story of the bike journey is not as straightforward as it seems. Perhaps the psychiatrist is far more than he seems at first glance. Perhaps the song that Adam sings -- the Farmer in the Dell -- and its final phrase, The Cheese Stands Alone, has more meaning for him than just a childhood song. Perhaps Adam himself -- the narrator whose thoughts you hear on the page -- is less trustworthy than you thought.

This is one of the best books I have ever read. Highly recommended.

Rating: Masterpiece

A Super Novel for Adults and Teenagers.......2007-09-23

This mystery really grabs you. A boy takes off on his bike to find his father, but his journey is very strange. I don't want to give anything away, but this 220-page novel kept me reading.

Buy on old paperback with the cover of the boy on his bike. In the background is a farmhouse and a man standing in a dirt lane--a wonderful illustration.

An exciting but crappy book.......2007-07-10

First of all, I must agree with some of the others on that the book was indeed an exciting page turner- it took me only 3 days to read, about an hour each day.
But, alas, I found the plot to be confusing- I think a lot of Adam's (or Paul's) trip was only a dream, as he recalled many people he met on the trip that were actually people he knew from the treatment facility in Vermont that supposedly held his dad (i.e. the fat sweaty man who Adam confronted about his missing bike actually showed up as he was entering the facility in Vermont; and the old man with the veins on his face that was a map- he was at first a worker at the gas station at the beginning, and was then a janitor at that same treatment facility).
Was Adam's trip real, or was it just a trip from the pills his "psychiatrist" repeatedly urged him to take? Also, why did a strange man answer Amy's phone and claim he had lived there for three years? And the "romantic" hotel he had supposedly stayed at with his parents the previous summer, was abandoned for about two years!
Was his memory foggy from that treatment facility in Vermont? And what happened to his father? I wish the author had explained more on the demise of his father, and why, when Adam's mother was killed, why was she "terminated?" And, finally, what happened during that fatal crash? Adam's mind of oblivion gave only vague descriptions- leading the reader to believe that they were hit by a car, although on the side of the road.
I think the author spent way too much time letting Adam whine about his headaches and nausea. I wanted answers, and I did not receive them.

Sad Story, Ending Out of Nowhere.......2007-06-07

Adam Farmer's life is somewhat confused. He thought he had everything figured out when he was in high school. He lived in a small town with his parents, he went to school and had a girlfriend. But then he started getting suspicious. Things just weren't quite right. He remembered leaving another place under stressful conditions, almost like they were escaping. Adam's father often meets with a man who comes to their house and seems very strange. His mother locks herself in her room every Thursday to make secret phone calls.

When Adam starts investigating things at his home, his father is finally forced to tell him a family secret that shocks Adam.

Now it is some time later, and Adam's father is not with him in the small town. Adam decides to ride his bike to bring a package to his father; it is very important to him that he complete this task. Interspersed with Adam's very long bike ride are memories of conversations he has with some sort of therapist who seems to be trying to help Adam to remember his life, to fill in all of the blanks that Adam has in his mind. Who is this man? Why can't Adam remember so many things? What is he trying to bring to his father?

This book was an interesting mystery, trying to find out what Adam had been through and why he couldn't remember his life. I really liked Amy; she was a great character who brought Adam out and made him more confident.

I didn't like that Adam couldn't see that this man he was talking to was not his friend, and I didn't like the ending. There were no clues leading to it and I was disappointed.

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I AM THE CHEESE
Cormier Robert
Manufacturer: Puffin Books
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I AM THE CHEESE
CORMIER ROBERT
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I Am The Cheese
Robert Cormier
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I Am the Cheese
Robert Cormier
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A boy undertakes a despirate journey on his old bike to find his father.

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I Am the Cheese
Robert Cormier
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I Am the Cheese
Robert Cormier
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I Am the Cheese
Inc Staff Novel Units
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ASIN: 158130580X

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This time-saving, easy-to-use teacher guide includes inspiring lesson plans which provide a comprehensive novel unit--the legwork is done for you! The guide incorporates essential reading, writing and thinking practice. (This is NOT the paperback novel.)

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I Am The Cheese - 94060
Robert Cormier
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ASIN: B000KJO79Q

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I Am the Cheese - Student Packet
Inc Staff Novel Units
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ASIN: 1581305818

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Teachers, these time-saving student packets feature multiple level reproducibles for direct student use. Included are activity sheets, quizzes, vocabulary activities, unit tests and much more for an indepth study of the story. (This is NOT the paperback novel.)

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Thanks to advances in genetics and genomics, research on inner ear development has flourished. Better approaches and experimental models have shed light on the function of a variety of vertebrate genes and their related proteins. This latest volume of Current Topics in Developmental Biology delves into this new research to show how the discovery of more genes involved in the development of the inner ear leads to the generation of new models that examine a wealth of issues -- from the origins of human deafness to the roles of genes during inner ear induction, development and differentiation. The wide variety of experimental approaches will help readers to understand the broad range of issues related to inner ear morphogenesis and other concepts from complementary areas of investigation. This state-of-the-art overview will be essential reading for researchers, clinicians and students alike.

* Scores of high-quality, full- color figures
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* Current Topics in Developmental Biology is the longest-running forum for contemporary issues in developmental biology

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This book is the second of two proceedings volumes stemming from the International Conference and Workshop on Valuation Theory held at the University of Saskatchewan (Saskatoon, SK, Canada). It contains the most recent applications of valuation theory to a broad range of mathematical ideas. Valuation theory arose in the early part of the twentieth century in connection with number theory and continues to have many important applications to algebra, geometry, and analysis.

The research and survey papers in this volume cover a variety of topics, including Galois theory, the Grunwald-Wang Theorem, algebraic geometry, resolution of singularities, curves over Prüfer domains, model theory of valued fields and the Frobenius, Hardy fields, Hensel's Lemma, fixed point theorems, and computations in valued fields.

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Excellent treatment of subject geared toward students with background in linear algebra, advanced calculus, physics and engineering. Text covers introduction to inner-product spaces, normed, metric spaces, and topological spaces; complete orthonormal sets, the Hahn-Banach Theorem and its consequences, and many other related subjects. Includes detailed proofs of theorems, bibliography, and index of symbols. 1966 edition.

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Bachman and Narici's Functional Analysis.......2006-03-17

I find Bachman and Narici's book to be an excellent introduction to functional analysis for students who have had a graduate level linear algebra course and some introduction to measure theory. I completed a course in real analysis last year, and I wish I had immediately begun using this book. It seems to me to be somewhat less difficult than the real analysis course, based on Rudin, while reinforcing and building on topics that were introduced in real analysis and other masters level courses. Bachman and Narici's book seems to me to be a bit easier to follow than other functional analysis books, and to bridge the gap between what I already know and more difficult treatments of functional analysis. The book is excellent for self-study and would probably also serve well for a course.

Clear and organised presentation.......2006-02-04

This book is perhaps the most organized in this field. It is very well written, the presentation really helps build the concepts elegantly and methodically. It is a must have for any one who is interested in learning functional analysis. Some advanced users may find that the book builds a bit slow but it will really help for those who are new in the field.

A very clear exposition of the subject.......2000-07-12

Excelent book for graduate level engeneering or science students interested in applied or pure advance mathematics .This book is suitable for advance senior undergraduate students as well

Valued Fields (Springer Monographs in Mathematics)

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Valued Fields (Springer Monographs in Mathematics)
Antonio J. Engler , and Alexander Prestel
Manufacturer: Springer
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ASIN: 354024221X

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Absolute values and their completions -like the p-adic number fields- play an important role in number theory. Krull's generalization of absolute values to valuations made applications in other branches of mathematics, such as algebraic geometry, possible. In valuation theory, the notion of a completion has to be replaced by that of the so-called Henselization. In this book, the theory of valuations as well as of Henselizations is developed. The presentation is based on the knowledge acquired in a standard graduate course in algebra. The last chapter presents three applications of the general theory -for instance to Artin's Conjecture on the p-adic number fields- that could not be obtained by the use of absolute values alone.

A convolutions approach to measuring the differences in simulated distributions: Application to dichotomous choice contingent valuation (Working papers in agricultural economics)

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A convolutions approach to measuring the differences in simulated distributions: Application to dichotomous choice contingent valuation (Working papers in agricultural economics)
Gregory L Poe
Manufacturer: Dept. of Agricultural Economics, New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Cornell University
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ASIN: B0006OZX8O

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not as good as lake of dead languages

Not my Favorite of Goodman's Novels

Enjoyable but flat...

richness

Lovely

Seduction of Water (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
Carol Goodman
Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
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ASIN: 0345450914
Release Date: 2003-12-30

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Carol Goodman's admirable second novel, The Seduction of Water, has much in common with her bestselling debut, The Lake of Dead Languages. Both feature heroines who are at crossroads in their lives and who choose to move backward and inward. In the first novel, the main character returns to teach at the woodsy private school where she had been a scholarship student, triggering the horrible repetition of the violence that had marred her senior year. In The Seduction of Water, the heroine returns to the woodsy hotel in the Catskills where her parents had worked, in the hope of uncovering her dead mother's secrets. Somehow, the book doesn't feel like a reiteration of the earlier novel, perhaps because the tone throughout is lighter and more sure.

Iris Greenfeder is a 36-year-old barely published New York writer and teacher whose long-term boyfriend, an artist, sees her schedule as strict and therefore will not spend the night, because he likes to get up and paint first thing every morning. When one of Iris's stories about her mother is picked up by a small literary journal with a well-connected editor, things start to happen for her. She becomes convinced that a summer out of the city, working as manager of the old hotel, will give her the perfect setting in which to pen a memoir of her writer mother, as well as an opportunity to look for the rumored manuscript of her mother's final book. But there are those who are just as determined to keep the dead woman's secrets in the grave. Only mildly suspenseful, and relying too much on coincidence, The Seduction of Water isn't the page-turner that Goodman's debut was, but patient readers may find it a richer and more satisfying novel overall. --Regina Marler

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Iris Greenfeder, ABD (All But Dissertation), feels the “buts” are taking over her life: all but published, all but a professor, all but married. Yet the sudden impulse to write a story about her mother, Katherine Morrissey, leads to a shot at literary success. The piece recounts an eerie Irish fairy tale her mother used to tell her at bedtime—and nestled inside it is the sad story of her death. It captures the attention of her mother’s former literary agent, who is convinced that Katherine wrote one final manuscript before her strange, untimely end in a fire thirty years ago. So Iris goes back to the remote Hotel Equinox in the Catskills, the place where she grew up, to write her mother’s biography and search for the missing manuscript—and there she unravels a haunting mystery, one that holds more secrets than she ever expected. . . .

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On the heels of her mesmerizing bestseller, The Lake of Dead Languages, Carol Goodman has written a brooding, captivating novel that skillfully weaves fairy tale themes into a modern web of intrigue. It is a novel about the secrets mothers keep, and the daughters who must live in their shadows.

Iris Greenfeder, ABD (All But Dissertation) has just turned forty, lives in Manhattan, and works three teaching jobs to support herself. Recently she's felt that the "buts" are taking over her life: all but published, all but a professor, all but married (to Jack, her boyfriend of ten years). Yet the sudden impulse to write a story about her mother leads to a shot at literary success. The piece recounts an eerie Irish fairy tale her mother used to tell her at bedtime -- and nestled inside is the sad story of her mother's death....

More than fifty years ago, Iris's mother, Katherine Morrissey, arrived at the Catskills' grand Hotel Equinox penniless, with almost no belongings. Kay was hired as a maid but refused to speak of her past or her family. One year later, she married Ben Greenfeder, the hotel's manager. During the hotel's off-season, Kay wrote the first two fantasy novels of a planned trilogy. There never was a third book. When Iris was nine, her mother left one day for a writer's conference -- and never came back. Kay died that very night in a hotel fire on Coney Island, registered as another man's wife.

Now Hedda Wolfe, Kay's former literary agent, has a proposal: If Iris will return to the Hotel Equinox where she grew up, research her mother's life, and find the third and final manuscript that Hedda is convinced exists, then she can guarantee Iris a huge advance to write her mother's biography.

Transfixed by the notion of a third book, Iris believes that it will hold clues to the mysteries of Kay's life -- and death. But as she begins to peer into the thicket of her mother's hidden world, stinging revelations leave Iris with new questions. When a deadly "accident" befalls the one man who could shed some light on Kay, it becomes clear that Iris is not alone in her deep interest in her mother's past -- or in her search for a lost manuscript that might hold more secrets than she ever expected.

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not as good as lake of dead languages.......2007-03-29

I absolutely loved "The lake of dead languages" and I devoured this book eagerly but it just wasnt as well crafted or as believable. The author seems to strain to tie the plot together.

Not my Favorite of Goodman's Novels.......2007-01-06

I am fan of Carol Goodman's writing style and use of mythology and folklore in her novels yet Seduction of Water wasn't my favorite of her novels. There was something about the story that kept me very detached from the characters.

Iris's struggle to find herself while finding her mother's final novel was intertwined with the Irish folklore of the Selkie, but there were so many parts of this story that were not as memorable as they could have been.
If you are a fan of any of Goodman's other novels I would recommend reading this story, otherwise read her other stronger novels to get a better feel for what Goodman has to offer.

Enjoyable but flat..........2006-07-27

"The Seduction of Water" is a easy read, set at a quick pace and full of dialogue to keep the pages turning. The opening section bears a strong resemblance to Susanna Moore's "In the Cut": a single female teacher, living in New York, finds herself compelled by a potentially dangerous student, and soon finds herself solving a mystery of which he may be a key player. After that similar intro, the books diverge. Goodman's heroine, Iris, returns to a summer resort in the Catskills where she grew up. She soon finds herself caught up in events that lead her to solve a 30 year old mystery involving the death of her mother.

Although the book is marketed as literary, it really is little more than a beach read. Many of the characters (even crucial ones) are flat and many of the twists are obvious. It is better written than "The Da Vinci Code" but has about the same amount of depth. I enjoyed it but don't care to read the author again.

richness.......2006-06-24

I love how Carol Goodman really takes me to a place. I see the buildings, the gardens, the rooms so well. I feel the mood. Very rich.

Lovely.......2006-03-28

This book is so beautifully written. One of those where you wish you could call the author and thank her yourself. I found myself wanting to read faster to see what was going to happen and slower to make it last. I now own 2 more of Goodman's books simply from how well written this one is. The story is lovely, interesting and very visual. It is rather gothic and shadowy - full of beautiful images. Well worth your time - well worth the price.

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Black Water
Oates, John, Joyce Carol Duffy
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THE SEDUCTION OF WATER

Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
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ASIN: B000GQG7ZA

3-book Set; the Drowning Tree, Seduction of Water, the Lake of Dead Languages By Carol Goodman

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3-book Set; the Drowning Tree, Seduction of Water, the Lake of Dead Languages By Carol Goodman
Carol Goodman
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3 book set

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The Seduction Of Water
Carol Goodman
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Seduction of Water
Carol Goodman
Manufacturer: Arrow
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