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Reminiscent of nineteenth-century botanical prints, the full-color illustrations in these small nature guides are miniature watercolors, as delightful to look at as they are accurate. Beneath each illustration the reader will find the popular and scientific names, size, range, and a concise description of the habitat or an interesting bit of lore. Ideal for the backpacker or dayhiker, the books fit handily in the pocket. "Painted Ladies" details the butterflies of North America.
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Berlitz Crete Pocket Guide (Berlitz Pocket Guide Crete)
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ASIN: 2831578191 |
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The Crete Pocket Guide is packed with stunning photographs, easy-to-use maps, and all the information you really need to get the most from your visit! Ancient sites, historic monuments, natural wonders, the best beaches, where to enjoy moussaka, pastitsio, meli and other Greek specialties as well as hotel recommendations and language and culture notes are all packed into this handy, user-friendly Pocket Guide.
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Crete Berlitz Pocket Guide
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Crete Pocket Guide: 1998 (Pocket Guides Series)
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Crete (Berlitz Pocket Guides)
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Crete Berlitz Pocket Guide
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ASIN: 044023865X
Release Date: 2006-07-11 |
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It’s the summer after sophomore year and Raina has convinced her best friends since the sixth grade, Kathleen and Holly, to spend their summer as “pink angels” in Parker-Sloan General Hospital’s summer volunteer program. Kathleen is reluctant to do it—she has enough responsibility at home caring for her sick mother. But when she meets Carson, a cute and flirty fellow volunteer, she is happy that she joined the program. Or, at least, she thinks she is. Carson’s “old friend” Stephanie keeps showing up at all the wrong times. And Kathleen’s mother keeps complaining that she needs Kathleen at home. But with friends Raina and Holly by her side and her Pink Angel t-shirt on her back, Kathleen is able to realize that helping others also allows you to help yourself.
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this book is just completely awsome.......2007-04-02
this is probably one of the best books i will ever read. i just ordered the other two in the collection and i cant wait to get them. this book has just the right amount of excitement mixed with romance. it is a story about a girl who really has to find herself through this new boy she meets. his name is carson. he is apparently really handsome. her mom has ms which is a desiese that enables her to do much for herself, so kathleen (the main character) has to take care of her. carson is really rich too. his parents are both doctors at the hospital that kathleen and her friends, raina and holly, are volunteering at for the summer. carson's parents endup having to do sugarey on kathleen's mom when she faints.
i love this book so much i read it in a matter of about 3-5 hours. i couldn't stop reading it. even in class (oops!). but that is such an awome book. i would recommend it to a lot of people. if you read this book you will defanetaly want the other two. i got them really cheap on here. so maybe you will want to get them after you read this book. if you read this book, i can guarantee you will love it. just like i did. bye!
No book will ever be better then this one.......2007-03-30
This is by far the best book i have ever rea in my life and thats saying alot because i dont really like to read so far i have read all three of them and they have taken about one week. I dont do that very often. Kathl;een is the best out of the three but the others are also very good . It may be that i love her work but i totally love this book and that will never change i will never find a better book than this book..EVER. Enjoy
Worth every word!!.......2007-02-24
Omg I never like to read really but once I borrowed this book from my school library I just could'nt put it down!!!! It has everything us kids want to read about today on a scale of 1-5 a 10 is what this book gets! I finished this book in 4 DAYS!! That never happens to me! I am sure you will absolutely love this book and want more and more! I was able to laugh, be scared, cry, and even be angry with characters in this book! If you have'nt already start reading the angels in pink series!!
This is a great book.......2007-01-19
This book isn't like other books. It's really a good book. If you haven't read it yet than I'll give a you a little summary. It's about a girl who's father died, and mother has a serious disease called MS. She also likes this boy but doesn't want to. It's kind of like a regular teens life. She has two best friends and they make sure that she's not constantly cooped up in her house. So they take her to a volunteer group. The rest is left up to you to read.
Unforgettable story. You won't want to miss!!.......2006-12-20
This book will leave you wanting more. Kathleen, Raina, and Holly. Three best friends, three Pink Angles, three unforgettable stories. This book is about a girl named Kathleen and her two best friends and their adventures. This story will touch you. You will not be able to put the book down once you start the book. Kathleen and her friends work as volunteers in a program at the hospital. She only volunteers so she can escape her mother who constantly needs her 24/7. The author makes the book so real it feels like you are really and you are going through the same thing the characters are going through.
While she is there she meets a cute boy named Carson who nonstop flirts and makes Kathleen melt into a puddle of love. But Carson has a friend named Stephanie, a mean girl (who is also a model) who always finds a way to torture Kathleen. When something bad happens to Kathleen's mom she doesn't know what to do or who to turn to. But lucky for Kathleen she has Carson and her two best friends. There are other book to go along with this one book. The series is sad but it is very good and very well written. In all of the book you feel as if you are walking with the characters and you are going through the same thing with the characters.
Kathleen is very worried that her relationship with Carson will not work out because Stephanie is sure that she will end up with Carson. But Kathleen will not let it happen or will she. Carson says that Stephanie is just an old friend and that nothing is going to happen between them and he only wants to be with Kathleen. Read this book and find out what happens between Carson and Kathleen and a whole lot more. You will love this book and the rest of the series.
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Tutorials in Biostatistics, Tutorials in Biostatistics: Statistical Modelling of Complex Medical Data
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Tutorials in Biostatistics, Statistical Methods in Clinical Studies
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The Tutorials in Biostatistics have become a very popular feature of the prestigious Wiley journal, Statistics in Medicine (SIM). The introductory style and practical focus make them accessible to a wide audience including medical practitioners with limited statistical knowledge. This book represents the second of two volumes presenting the best tutorials published in SIM, focusing on statistical modeling of complex data. Topics include clustered data, hierarchical models, mixed models, genetic modeling, and meta-analysis. Each tutorial is focused on a medical problem, has been fully peer-reviewed and edited, and is authored by leading researchers in biostatistics. Many articles include an appendix on the latest developments since publication in the journal and additional references.
This will appeal to statisticians working in medical research, as well as statistically-minded clinicians, biologists, epidemiologists and geneticists. It will also appeal to graduate students of biostatistics.
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George Ripley's Compound of Alchymy (1591)
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Textile Composites and Inflatable Structures (Computational Methods in Applied Sciences)
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This book collects state-of-the-art research and technology for design, analysis, construction and maintenance of textile and inflatable structures.
Textile composites and inflatable structures have become increasingly popular for a variety of applications in – among many other fields – civil engineering, architecture and aerospace engineering. Typical examples include membrane roofs and covers, sails, inflatable buildings and pavilions, airships, inflatable furniture, airspace structures etc.
The book contains 18 invited contributions written by distinguished authors who participated in the International Conference on Textile Composites and Inflated Structures held in Barcelona from June 30
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The different chapters discuss recent progress and future research directions in membrane and inflatable structures built with new textile composite materials. Approximately half of the book focuses on describing innovative numerical methods for structural analysis of such structures, such as new nonlinear membrane and shell finite elements. The rest of the chapters present advances in design, construction and maintenance procedures.
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Textile composites and inflatable structures have become increasingly popular for a variety of applications in – among many other fields – civil engineering, architecture and aerospace engineering. Typical examples include membrane roofs and covers, sails, inflatable buildings and pavilions, airships, inflatable furniture, airspace structures etc.
The ability to provide numerical simulations for increasingly complex membrane and inflatable structures is advancing rapidly due to both remarkable strides in computer hardware development and the improved maturity of computational procedures for nonlinear structural systems. Significant progress has been made in the formulation of finite elements methods for static and dynamic problems, complex constitutive material behaviour, coupled aero-elastic analysis etc.
The book contains 14 invited contributions written by distinguished authors who participated in the Second International Conference on Textile Composites and Inflated Structures held in Stuttgart, 2-4 October 2005. The meeting was one of the Thematic Conferences of the European Community on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences (ECCOMAS, www.eccomas.org ).
The different chapters discuss recent progress and future research directions in new textile composites for applications in membrane and inflatable structures. Part of the book focuses in describing innovative numerical methods for structural analysis, such as new non linear membrane and shell finite elements. The rest of the chapters present advances in design, construction and maintenance procedures.
This volume contains state-of-the-art research and technology for design, analysis, construction and maintenance of textile and inflatable structures and will be of interest to civil engineers, architects, and materials scientists.
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Putnam 's book may help you read the original Cervantes. .......2006-02-21
The Samuel Putnam's the Portable Cervantes is a very well written book. It is a very helpful book to have around but does not replace the original. To read the original Don Quixote is a unique experience, only comparable to read Shakespeare and Dante in the original.It is no kidding! Cervantes's major work is a fantastic book.
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The Portable Cervantes
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