American Curiosity: Cultures of Natural History in the Colonial British Atlantic World (Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia)

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American Curiosity: Cultures of Natural History in the Colonial British Atlantic World (Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia)
Susan Scott Parrish
Manufacturer: The University of North Carolina Press
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Colonial America presented a new world of natural curiosities for settlers as well as the London-based scientific community. In American Curiosity, Susan Scott Parrish examines how various peoples in the British colonies understood and represented the natural world around them from the late sixteenth century through the eighteenth. Rather than flowing strictly from metropole to colony, scientific knowledge about America emerged from a horizontal exchange of information across the Atlantic.

Delving into an understudied archive of letters, Parrish uncovers early descriptions of American natural phenomena as well as clues to how people in the colonies construed their own identities through the natural world. Although hierarchies of gender, class, institutional learning, place of birth or residence, and race persisted within the natural history community, the contributions of any participant were considered valuable as long as they supplied novel data or specimens from the American side of the Atlantic. Thus Anglo-American nonelites, women, Indians, and enslaved Africans all played crucial roles in gathering and relaying new information to Europe.

Recognizing a significant tradition of nature writing and representation in North America well before the Transcendentalists, American Curiosity also enlarges our notions of the scientific Enlightenment by looking beyond European centers to find a socially inclusive American base to a true transatlantic expansion of knowledge.

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American Curiosity: Cultures of Natural History in the Colonial British Atlantic World.(Book review): An article from: Journal of Southern History
Janet Moore Lindman
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Release Date: 2007-09-05

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Title: American Curiosity: Cultures of Natural History in the Colonial British Atlantic World.(Book review)
Author: Janet Moore Lindman
Publication: Journal of Southern History (Magazine/Journal)
Date: August 1, 2007
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Review of Jeffrey's Complex Analysis (Second Edition)

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Complex Analysis and Applications, Second Edition explains complex analysis for students of applied mathematics and engineering. Restructured and completely revised, this textbook first develops the theory of complex analysis, and then examines its geometrical interpretation and application to Dirichlet and Neumann boundary value problems. A discussion of complex analysis now forms the first three chapters of the book, with a description of conformal mapping and its application to boundary value problems for the two-dimensional Laplace equation forming the final two chapters. This new structure enables students to study theory and applications separately, as needed. In order to maintain brevity and clarity, the text limits the application of complex analysis to two-dimensional boundary value problems related to temperature distribution, fluid flow, and electrostatics. In each case, in order to show the relevance of complex analysis, each application is preceded by mathematical background that demonstrates how a real valued potential function and its related complex potential can be derived from the mathematics that describes the physical situation.

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Review of Jeffrey's Complex Analysis (Second Edition).......2006-11-12
The book provides a very effective and comprehensive development of complex analysis as it could be presented to an undergraduate or graduate class in science or engineering. I was especially impressed by the detail provided in the proofs of theorems and in the summarizing ideas. The diagrams are also well presented and reflect the strong visual learnings associated with complex analysis. The problems sets are particularly useful varying from practice exercieses to further developments of the theory. One of the difficuties that students find with complex analysis is its strong structural connections and its dependency on prior theorems/ processes from both complex and real analysis. This book gives students optimum help in bridging the gap.

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Something that must be said

Honor; Duty; Country ...

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In 1986, Charles Henderson first published Marine Sniper-the incredible story of Gunnery Sergeant Carlos Hathcock, whose 93 confirmed kills in Vietnam have never been matched by any sniper before or since.

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Something that must be said.......2007-09-26
This is a book that tells a story that is little known beyond the ranks of the military. It should be known by all as it is one of the things that has maintained our freedom thru the years. The book is well written and to the point.
Honor; Duty; Country ..........2007-08-05
I believe the following quote best speaks to Carlos Hathcock; the Marine; the man.
" The only guide to a man is his conscience; the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through like without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our calculation; but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor".

I felt compelled to write the above after reading the dual 1-star posts from "a reader" who basically called Mr. Hathcock a liar, fraud and phony.
He starts out with one line of praise then basically says Mr. Hathcock was a phony and his story a con job.
Of course he offers no facts or evidence to support his claims.
Just another who disrespects and spits on those who have served; are serving and will serve.
He should be ashamed.
You sir/"a reader", will never walk among the ranks of honor.
Silent Warrior.......2007-01-09
Fills in lots of the details the Marine Sniper leaves out. Read Marine Sniper first then this and you will have to complete story. There is some repition but not enough to bore you.
Solid Writing, Exceptional Story, Enough Said.......2005-07-06
I purchased this book as I have always been interested in the stories behind war. I am not very interested in the war itself, but rather the stories of the people who fight the wars.

This book is a biography of Carlos Hathcock. Being born after the Vietnam War, the name typically would have meant nothing to me except I ran into the son of one of Hathcock's "trainees" and Hathcock's name always stuck with me.

Hathcock was just another Marine in Vietnam. He was an elite marksman with a rifle, yet this was ignored and upon arriving in Vietnam, Hathcock was assigned to a desk job in an MP battalion as a watch commander. After serving as an MP for a while, a "freak" occurrence required Hathcock to use his marksmanship skills to take out an enemy shooter who had attacked the base. The enemy solider was to be taken out at his village. From there, Hathcock's career rapidly progresses into becoming a sniper. The book covers Hathcock's legendary career as a sniper. During two tours of duty, Hathcock racked up almost 100 confirmed kills and numerous other unconfirmed kills. Hathcock became so good at what he did, the enemy offered a $20,000 bounty to the person who killed Hathcock or his partner. The enemy formulated several special groups and executed some brilliant strategies to try and take out the "white feather".

My meager words could never do justice to the author. Reading the book is like watching a poetic war drama. The eloquence the author uses in this book is mesmerizing. The scenes are described in such vivid detail, I felt like I was there, hearing bullets buzz above my head, listening to my heart pounding, watching the blood of an unfortunate soldier soak into the earth, as I see the person next to me squeeze the trigger to silence the enemy soldier's rifle. The stories in the book range from humorous, victorious, heroic, then to disheartening. To the people who are unfamiliar with Hathcock's story, the end of Hathcock's days in Vietnam is shocking, but not surprising. I was most impressed by the humanity Hathcock expressed. He never looked at it as killing an enemy solder, rather he saw his job as saving the lives of American soldiers. I also found some of the stories in the book familiar, as I recognized bits and pieces I've seen in movies over the years (probably the most well-known being the "scope" episode, which is in the movie "Saving Private Ryan". I'm guessing this is based on Hathcock's story).

This is by far one of the best books I have read that cover the life of a soldier. I would highly recommend this book to people interested in the life of a sniper or are interested in soldiers of the Vietnam War.
Henderson goes back to the well.......2004-08-07
And well done, Charles Henderson! They say that one's first book is always going to be a preparation for the second, and the book, Marine Sniper, that I read about Carlos Hathcock, just warmed me up for this second go-round of Hathcock adventures. In a way the two books were very similar, since it says in the introduction that they were carved out of the same UR-manuscript and written before Carlos' death five years ago.

SILENT WARRIOR gives a deeper perspective on some of the events and personalities depicted in MS93CK. The drawback for me is that I think to give the book more weight, Henderson resorts to some dubious devices to pump up the volume, including imagining what Carlos was thinking at such and such a time, and also frankly the worst offenders of the story, APACHE and PHILIP METZ, are turned into super-villainous caricatures that Ian Fleming might have dreamed up to torture James Bond. If they really existed, and Carlos killed them, good for him. But the writing is so over the top it's hard to be sure.

This would be a good introduction to the life and death of a great Marine, but we already had the other book which is also a good introduction, so it's a draw.

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Excellent book about British fighters history.......2001-01-25
The Putnam is an excellent series of aviation books. Every books in this series provides detail information of aircrafts,systems, development, performance and history. This book covers the history of British fighters from 1912 to now, almost every fights you can find in other books. Although there are books for individual Britich aircraft company in this series, this is the book to give comprehensive coverage of all British fighters since World War One to current fron line fighters.
Excellent book about British fighters history.......1998-06-20
The Putnam is an excellent series of aviation books. Every books in this series provides detail information of aircrafts, systems, development, performance and history. This book covers the history of British fighters from 1912 to now, almost every fights you can find in other books. Although there are books for individual Britich aircraft company in this series, this is the book to give comprehensive coverage of all British fighters since World War One to current fron line fighters.

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THE BRITISH FIGHTER SINCE 1912.
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THE BRITISH FIGHTER SINCE 1912: FIFTY YEARS OF DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT.
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-X, Ball, Terrence and Dagger, Richard, Ideals and Ideologies: A Reader, Fourth Edition*\ This highly acclaimed collection of original sources put readers directly in touch with the political thinkers and the ideas that have shaped our world. Present readers with key selections from a wide array of original sources, from classic standards to newly emerging ideologies. A logical organization, introductions to each selection, and new explanatory notes make this book accessible and engaging. For those interested in political science and ideologies.
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Excellent essay collection.......2006-03-02
As a companion reader to Ideals and Ideologies, this reader is an excellent compostion of essays and writings that will challenge and encourage political thought. It is good for anyone wanting a broad overview of many different ideologies, rather than focusing on one in particular. It is historical so I recommend it for non-political readers as well. This work gives a good overview of the diverse ways in which men see government working and ruling in the affairs of men.
Book of Liberal Indoctrination.......2005-05-10
This book is woefully over-rated. Having read it in a political science class, this book was full of oversimplifications, sweeping generalizations, liberal indoctrination, and a-historical information. The breadth was terrible, as was the depth. The authors left numerous critical points out of the book. The fact that they didn't include a chapter on Zionism is proof of this. They also made sweeping generalizations about 9/11 and events which led to the Oklahoma City bombing. These authors are either completely inept historians, or they're blatantly taking sides. Either way, there's no excuse for the poor writing here. It's not necessarily what's written in the book, but what's left out! History cannot be "politically correct". If these authors really practiced ethics in their writing they would have presented ALL the information in a straight-forward unbiased manner, allowing the reader to come to his or her own conclusion. Truly dissapointing. Not recommended at all.
I Love This Reader.......2001-07-27
I reread this wonderful collection of seminal works of political philosophy often. I used it in my course on ideology. Students will find it challenging to work through, if you assign selections indescriminantly. That is why this reader is meant to complement an equally wonderful textbook written by the same authors. The scope here is awe-inspiring. We begin with Euripides and Pericles in the ancient Greece and end with the latest crypto ideological movements, such as feminism, animal rights activism, green politics, and the end of history thesis. I think that all selections are enlightening. This should be a must book for anyone specializing in political theory, intellectual history, or anyone who wants to understand or effectively employ ideological rhetoric. Great book.
A solid and strong collection of original works.......1999-06-01
The editors have done a good job of including most of the major areas of western political thought of the last two thousand years. A bit skimpy on classical works, but well grounded in more contemporary times and the foundational thought of American and Western democratic ideals. The contents have been edited to ensure that the message is not lost in prose, and the average reader should be able to enjoy the readings, also getting a clear sense of what the original author intended to say. Aimed at the Higher Education market it is a little pricey, but a buy for the shelf of anyone interested in this subjecr area.

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Over the past two decades, a growing consensus has emerged among Americans as to the importance of environmental quality. Yet at the same time, conflict over environmental issues has built to a point where rational discussion is often impossible. Efforts to protect unique ecosystems and endangered wildlife are portrayed as threatening entire regions and ways of life, and anti-environmental groups such as the Wise Use Movement are able to use economic insecurity as a weapon in an ongoing attempt to rescind environmental protection measures.
In Lost Landscapes and Failed Economics, economist Thomas Michael Power argues that the quality of the natural landscape is an essential part of a community's permanent economic base and need not be sacrificed in short-term efforts to maintain employment levels in industries that are ultimately not sustainable. He provides numerous case studies of the ranching, mining, and timber industries in a critical analysis of the role played by extractive industry in our communities. In addition, he looks at areas where environmental protection measures have been enacted and examines the impact of protected landscapes on local economies.
Both environmental protection and extractive industry are economic activities that can contribute to local economic well-being. Both generate jobs and income. Both have a significant impact on people's lives. Power exposes the fundamental flaws in the widely accepted view of the local economy built around the "extractive model," a model that overemphasizes the importance of extractive industries and assumes that people don't care where they live and that businesses don't care about the available labor supply. By revealing the inadequacies of the extractive model, he lays to rest fears that environmental protection will cause an imminent collapse of the community, and puts economic tools in the hands of those working to protect their communities.

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Lost Landscapes and Failed Economies: The Search for a Value of Place. (book reviews): An article from: Planning
Harold Henderson
Manufacturer: American Planning Association
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ASIN: B00097KNGA
Release Date: 2005-06-01

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This digital document is an article from Planning, published by American Planning Association on March 1, 1997. The length of the article is 334 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Lost Landscapes and Failed Economies: The Search for a Value of Place. (book reviews)
Author: Harold Henderson
Publication: Planning (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 1, 1997
Publisher: American Planning Association
Volume: v63 Issue: n3 Page: p36(1)

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Lost Landscapes and Failed Economies: The Search for a Value of Place. (book reviews): An article from: The Geographical Review
John B. Wright
Manufacturer: American Geographical Society
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B00097USZG
Release Date: 2005-07-28

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This digital document is an article from The Geographical Review, published by American Geographical Society on July 1, 1997. The length of the article is 1220 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Lost Landscapes and Failed Economies: The Search for a Value of Place. (book reviews)
Author: John B. Wright
Publication: The Geographical Review (Refereed)
Date: July 1, 1997
Publisher: American Geographical Society
Volume: v86 Issue: n3 Page: p411(3)

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Lost Landscapes and Failed Economies: The Search of a Value of Place. (book reviews): An article from: American Journal of Agricultural Economics
Dennis Fisher
Manufacturer: American Agricultural Economics Association
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Binding: Digital
ASIN: B000988M12
Release Date: 2005-07-28

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This digital document is an article from American Journal of Agricultural Economics, published by American Agricultural Economics Association on February 1, 1998. The length of the article is 2078 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Lost Landscapes and Failed Economies: The Search of a Value of Place. (book reviews)
Author: Dennis Fisher
Publication: American Journal of Agricultural Economics (Refereed)
Date: February 1, 1998
Publisher: American Agricultural Economics Association
Volume: v80 Issue: n1 Page: p233(4)

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