The Superior Peninsula: Seasons in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan

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A retired university professor shares his love affair with a special land. Back roads and beaches, canoe trips and hiking trails. Winter waterfalls, summer berries, autumn color and spring flowers. Wanderings among old logging camps and copper mining ghost towns. Discover a region still wild and scenic...the way much of America used to be. Full color photos. Winner: Midwest Independent Publishers Association Merit Award. 2nd printing

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A Rich Expression.......2005-10-01

My family moved to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan just before my 12th birthday. Since moving to Texas 5 years ago I have a deeper appreciation for the U.P. I miss the rugged land, the deep woods, and all the waves and waterfalls where I had so many adventures growing up. Reading Lon's book brings back a lot of rich memories for me. If you love the land or are curious about the U.P. I highly recommend this book. Lon uses a lot of rich language to describe what it is like living in the Upper Peninsula. He mixes his own personal feelings, enjoyments, and reflections about the U.P. with a touch of historical facts. The blending of these two creates a rich expression of life in the Upper Peninsula. He also has a good recipe for pasties in it which I tried while living in Texas to have a taste of home. To my surprise my first attempt at making a pasty turned out really good.

A love letter to the Upper Peninsula.......1999-08-02

Lon Emerick has captured the heart and soul of Michigan's Upper Peninsula--its extraordinary beauty, its people, its history--writing about both enchantment and eccentricities. The book is organized by seasons; you may find a new way of looking at winter! If you've ever been to Michigan--or thought you'd like to--this is the book for you.

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Insight Pocket Guides deliver personal service in a sleek, portable format. Fun, colourful, informative, Insight Pocket Guides give you the inside scoop on you destination, making it ideal for long weekend getaways or for the traveler with limited time to spare. It's like having a tour guide in your pocket or purse. .Full-colour photos and pull-ou map .Tailor-made itineraries .Recommended excursions .Full listings on shopping, restaurants, nightlife and special events

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Princess for president!

Student body president, that is -- nominated by her power-mad best friend, Lilly. This is not how Mia imagined kicking off her sophomore year, but as usual, she has bigger problems to worry about, like Geometry. And now that Mia's one true love, Michael, is uptown at college, what's the point of even getting up for school in the morning? But the last straw is what Lana whispers to her on the lunch line about what college boys expect of their girlfriends. . . . Really, it's almost more than a princess in training can bear!

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Princess for president

Student body president, that is. It's all the fault of Princess Mia's power-mad best friend and campaign manager, Lilly, who nominates her in the first place. This is not how Mia imagined kicking off her sophomore year, even if Grandmère thinks ruling her high school makes good practice for ruling Genovia someday.

As usual, though, Mia has bigger problems to worry about. Sophomore Geometry appears to be just as hard as freshman Algebra, and a shocking B on her first English assignment has Mia reeling. And with Michael, her one true love, uptown at college, what is the point of even getting up for school in the morning? The last straw is what Lana whispers to her on the lunch line about what college boys expect of their girlfriends ...

Really, it's almost more than a princess in training can bear.

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repulsive.......2007-05-13

im only going to comment on one thing because it basically ruined the whole book for me. Michael pressuring Mia into sex and Mia whining about it throughout the whole book. Okay, Michael is 18 and Mia is 15. The age of consent in NY is 17. if these two have sex its called STATUTORY RAPE. it is a CRIME and Michael will go to JAIL. but meg cabot is writing about it like its perfectly normal and acceptable for a high school sophomore and a college guy to have sex. and by the way, this book is marketed to 8 year olds.

NOT COOL. if i could give it a 0 i would.

Btw i listened to this as an audiobook w/clea lewis as the narrator. just the cutesy way she whines about not wanting to 'do it' throughout the book makes it obvious that the author doesnt even take teenage sex seriously. she just keeps writing this garbage to titilate curious preteens and sell more books.

Princess in Training.......2006-09-02

Okay, this reminded me so much of Ready or Not. Just different characters.
Either way, now Mia hears from Lana that now that Michael is in college he'll want to Do It. So she becomes worried, as is Mia, and when she talks to him about it, he says something that makes her worry even more. To Do It, or not to Do It. That's the question.
And inbetween this, Lilly nominated Mia as Student Council President of AEHS against her enemy, of course Lana. Which Mia has no desire to do.
I'm glad that Meg Cabot put the Student Council President part in it, because if it was all about Michael and Mia having (or not having) sex then I wouldn't have been as thrilled with it.
Either way, Mia is still a great character!

Mia is back!.......2006-08-12

Mia is back! She's starred in 7 books, 2 movies, and several self-help guides. And her life is still topsy-turvy. In the latest edition of her escapades, we rejoin Mia in the crazy, wonderful world of....wait for it.... high school! 10th grade to be exact. And she hasn't a CLUE what's going on.

1. Her best friend nominates her for student body president...only because she can't nominate herself.

2. Said best friend's geeky ex-boyfriend comes back from summer vacation...(gasp) HOT!! Majorly Hot. Which instantly sends said best friend into tailspin.

3. Geometry is supposed to be the perfect subject for those who can't understand algebra...so why does it not make any sense??

4. Boyfriend is in college. What's the use in dressing up anymore? Who's to see the effort put forth?

5. Best enemy takes it upon herself to inform Mia in the dessert line of the cafeteria that college boys leave their girlfriends if they don't Do It. Ewwww.

6. How to tell said boyfriend that this princess has no desire to Do It?

7. And, umm, there was that tiny matter of dumping 10,000 snails in the Genovian Harbor in the dead of night to eat killer algae...and the teensy-tinsesy matter that Genovia might be kicked out of the European Union for it.

8. How a princess supposed to stay SANE under these circumstances?????

Once again, Meg Cabot delivers a deliciously funny work suitable for almost any taste. Princess in Training works on every level. Mia can be every girl's best friend, and speaks for those of us who have never been popular or pretty. WELL DONE!!

Disappointing.......2006-07-01

Mia is no longer the free-spirited individual she once was. She's become obsessed with current pop culture icons and gets defensive when her English teacher disapproves of her references to them. Mia's friends react in a similar way, treating the teacher as the enemy who overstepped her bounds. This seemed pretty immature, considering that Ms. Martinez (the teacher) was only doing her job and giving Mia constructive criticism. If Mia represents Meg herself, then she's not likely to ever be taken seriously as a writer. I.E., her work isn't standing on its own. Other 'serious' authors, such as Stephen King, do use references but only to enhance the setting of their stories.

Also, even if this is her personal diary, Mia overreacts to situations and seems to bring onto herself most of the drama and stress she feels. Feeling stressed is a choice we make, and Mia complicates the subject of sex by worrying excessively and being grossed-out at the thought of it. She is nowhere near ready for it, and Michael was wise not to pressure her immediately. But him saying he wouldn't wait forever seems unfair. She is only 15, maybe it would have been more appropriate to wait till she turned 18 instead.

I'm most confused with the way Mia let herself get all worked up over a comment made by someone she didn't even like (Lana). If she needed advice or to address an issue, she should have simply asked someone. Like most girls, Mia would prefer to stew and worry and obsess and imagine the worst possible scenario than to simply just be honest and ask someone for help. And she treats direct honesty as 'the hardest thing' she's done. Women create their own drama! This is not a course of action we should be teaching our daughters, yet with such a series as Princess Diaries, the young girls today are learning to do exactly that.

I also found it disrespectful of Michael when Mia was jealous over Tina because Tina's boyfriend, Boris, was 'nice' and let her push him around. Mia wished Michael would do the same. This is a harmful attitude and not one that girls should be learning.

A fine addition to the series.......2006-05-04

I think that people have overreacted to the whole Michael/ sex thing. I bet if you asked other 15yo girls who are part of a relationship with a decent guy for over a year and they would admit to having sex on the brain (not to say that they all intend to act on it though). So, to me it is understandable that this book is about that topic. Also, I really don't think Michael was giving Mia an ultimatum. He says clearly that he knows it takes her a while to get used to things so he wanted to get that seed planted in her head- that he would like to do that sometime in the future. Knowing the characters I think that is not an ultimatum but merely a way of having a discussion about the subject. I do not recall saying that he would break up with her if she didn't "do it." Read more carefully if you think that was the bottom line. Finally, remember that it was Mia that brought up the subject...Michael probably would have gone on for quite a while without bringing it up or moving in that direction.

This book was pretty good all around. I enjoy this series so I will keep reading them till she stops writing them. :) I get a bit bored with how Mia obsesses about 2-3 things per book. After 200 pages it can get a bit old. But, the writing is good...I just skim to get to the plot sometimes.

The Princess Diaries, Volume VI: Princess in Training (Princess Diaries)

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The Princess Diaries, Volume VI: Princess in Training (Princess Diaries)
Meg Cabot
Manufacturer: Listening Library (Audio)
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ASIN: 1400098742
Release Date: 2005-04-12

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It's an all new school year for Princess Mia, with all new classes, all new challenges . . . and all new worries. With a baby brother at home who won't stop crying and a potential eco-disaster in her native land that has all of Europe in an uproar, Mia's got a lot more on her mind than just a case of the sophomore slumps:

• There's Ms. Martinez, the new English teacher who can't seem to stand Mia--or her writing.

• Michael, so busy with his new classes at Columbia, barely has time to IM, let alone make out.

• Lana, who has some disturbing information on just what college boys expect from their girlfriends.

• Lilly, who seems to think Mia has plenty of time in between flunking geometry and her princess lessons to run for student body president.

• And of course Grandmere, who has a plan to keep Genovia from being thrown out of the EU that seems to include making unscheduled appearances in the hallways of Albert Einstein High in her tiara, and forcing her only granddaughter to fondle the body parts of long deceased saints . . .

Really, it's almost more than a princess in training can bear.

From the Compact Disc edition.

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The Princess Diaries, Volume VI: Princess in Training (Princess Diaries)
Meg Cabot
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This timely account provides a comprehensive contemporary analysis of morphogenetic processes in vertebrate and invertebrate embryos. Morphogenesis, the generation of tissue organization in embryos, is an increasingly important subject. This is partly because the techniques for investigating many morphogenetic mechanisms have only recently become available and partly because studying the genomic basis of embryogenesis requires an understanding of the developmental phenotype. Following an introduction covering case studies and historical and technical approaches, the book reviews the mechanistic roles of extracellular matrices, cell membranes and the cytoskeleton in morphogenesis. A detailed discussion of how mesenchymal and epithelial cells cooperate to build a wide range of tissues is also included. The book concludes with a dynamical analysis of the subject. With its extensive literature review (more than 500 titles), this book will interest developmental biologists and will also serve as an advanced textbook for postgraduate and final year students.

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Arakelov theory is a new geometric approach to diophantine equations. It combines algebraic geometry, in the sense of Grothendieck, with refined analytic tools such as currents on complex manifolds and the spectrum of Laplace operators. It has been used by Faltings and Vojta in their proofs of outstanding conjectures in diophantine geometry. This account presents the work of Gillet and Soulé, extending Arakelov geometry to higher dimensions. It includes a proof of Serre's conjecture on intersection multiplicities and an arithmetic Riemann-Roch theorem. To aid number theorists, background material on differential geometry is described, but techniques from algebra and analysis are covered as well. Several open problems and research themes are also mentioned.

Arithmetic Algebraic Geometry: Lectures given at the 2nd Session of the Centro Internazionale Matematico Estivo (C.I.M.E.) held in Trento, Italy, June ... Mathematics / Fondazione C.I.M.E., Firenze)

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Arithmetic Algebraic Geometry: Lectures given at the 2nd Session of the Centro Internazionale Matematico Estivo (C.I.M.E.) held in Trento, Italy, June ... Mathematics / Fondazione C.I.M.E., Firenze)
Jean-Louis Colliot-Thelene , Kazuya Kato , and Paul Vojta
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This volume contains three long lecture series by J.L. Colliot-Thelene, Kazuya Kato and P. Vojta. Their topics are respectively the connection between algebraic K-theory and the torsion algebraic cycles on an algebraic variety, a new approach to Iwasawa theory for Hasse-Weil L-function, and the applications of arithemetic geometry to Diophantine approximation. They contain many new results at a very advanced level, but also surveys of the state of the art on the subject with complete, detailed profs and a lot of background. Hence they can be useful to readers with very different background and experience. CONTENTS: J.L. Colliot-Thelene: Cycles algebriques de torsion et K-theorie algebrique.- K. Kato: Lectures on the approach to Iwasawa theory for Hasse-Weil L-functions.- P. Vojta: Applications of arithmetic algebraic geometry to diophantine approximations.

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In the current information age, "memory" is as likely to be an attribute of a computer as a human being. In Graywolf Forum Three: The Business of Memory, editor Charles Baxter invites twelve creative writers to contemplate the externalization of what was once so deeply personal. The resulting essays address a provocative range of topics: the explosion of interest in the memoir; the recovered-memory movement; America in the grip of an "amnesia plague;" the need for coherent stories of our past to help us organize our present; and forgetfulness--political, cultural, and literary--and the shame and allure it holds. Throughout, these fascinating pieces illuminate the art of remembering in a time when memory has become a highly measurable commodity.

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Charles Baxter
Richard Bausch
Karen Brennan
Bernard Cooper
Lydia Davis
Steve Erickson
Alvin Greenberg
Patricia Hampl
Margot Livesey
James A. McPherson
Victoria Morrow
Michael Ryan
Sylvia Watanabe

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An Immense Pleasure.......2001-08-08

What an immense pleasure! Each of the essays is exquisitely written, and if the reflections of remembering and forgetting don't evoke a torrent of emotions, pinch yourself to see if you're still alive. This book is a must read; a great gift!

thought-provoking investigation.......2000-02-08

I stumbled serendipitously on this splendid title in which a variety of authors investigate their personal relationship to memory, the mind, and memoir as literary form. The essays eventually echo and ricochet off one another as they explore this fascinating terrain. Highly recommended!

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