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Coast: The Journey Continues
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In Coast, natural history journalist Christopher Somerville takes you on a grand tour of the outer limits of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Beautiful photography, clear maps, and evocative essays all illuminate the majesty and variety to be found where Britain meets the sea. This is, after all, the longest coastline in Europe. From the dramatic cliffs of Eastbourne’s Beachy Head to the spare beauty of the Norfolk salt marshes; from the storm-wracked Cape Wrath at the edge of the Scottish Highlands to the peaceful wooded creeks of Cornwall’s Helford river—whatever kind of coastal area you’re drawn to, you’ll find it here. For those who want to see it firsthand, Coast also features a detailed gazetteer—a region-by-region reference of places, people, activities, natural history, and historic events.
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The Growth and Functionng of Leaves
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Scottish Islands - Orkney & Shetland, 2nd (Scottish Islands: Orkney & Shetland)
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The first edition of Scottish Island--Orkney & Shetland immediately established itself as the leading guide to these mystical islands to the far north of Britain. The authors have now returned to the islands to produce this fully revised second edition.
Orkney and Shetland together consist of more than 170 islands and islets. Once remote from outside influence, they are now reaping the benefits of parliamentary devolution, oil, tourism, and modern communications, while still managing to preserve their individual characters and traditions unspoiled by commercialization.
The islands have much to offer the discerning visitor. Nature lovers will find wild flowers, some of which are found nowhere else on earth, and land and marine wildlife including whales, dolphins, and otters. Fishermen can catch fighting trout and salmon in the lochs while divers will find clean water plus the prospect of diving for treasure off Shetland. Bird watchers can see marlins, skuas, puffins, fulmars, and kittiwakes while those interested in history will find the richest archaeological legacy in the British Isles, including ancient stone circles, standing stones, burial chambers and Viking treasures. Walkers, cyclists, canoeists, yachtsmen, and kayakers can all pursue their individual sports in the islands' stunning countryside.
Scottish Islands--Orkney & Shetland will lead visitors to sights and places that might otherwise be missed, including how to book a bed in a lighthouse or a castle, where to find the best preserved Stone Age village in Europe, how to find the best of the islands' traditional folk music, and where to buy the finest Shetland jerseys and lace.
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Good on sites, unreliable on practicalities.......2005-07-25
I bought this in my local bookstore and tried to use it to plan a weeklong trip to Orkney. Unfortunately, while it helped me decide where to go and what to see, it failed me once I tried to make concrete plans. Many of the B&Bs had changed hands and were no longer accepting guests and those that were had often TRIPLED their prices. Save your money and visit the websites of VisitScotland and Historic Scotland which will do a better job on trip planning for free.
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Charting Russia's Future: Challenges for U.S. Policy
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The genus Macaca is the most widely distributed of nonhuman primates and is found in twenty countries in Southeast Asia and North Africa. Over the comparative short time span of five million years, macaques have evolved diverse forms, from long-tailed arboreal types to robust terrestrial animals, and inhabit a variety of habitats. Although macaques are probably one of the most studied monkeys both in the wild and in captivity, data from long-term studies and pioneering work of little-known species are only just emerging. In this book, world authorities on macaques interpret recent research and present up-to-date syntheses of many aspects of macaque ecology, evolution, behavior and conservation.
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Tabu Search (TS) and, more recently, Scatter Search (SS) have proved highly effective in solving a wide range of optimization problems, and have had a variety of applications in industry, science, and government. The goal of Metaheuristic Optimization via Memory and Evolution: Tabu Search and Scatter Search is to report original research on algorithms and applications of tabu search, scatter search or both, as well as variations and extensions having "adaptive memory programming" as a primary focus. Individual chapters identify useful new implementations or new ways to integrate and apply the principles of TS and SS, or that prove new theoretical results, or describe the successful application of these methods to real world problems.
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Amerika: The Man Who Disappeared
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Michael Hofmann's superb new translation of Franz Kafka's epic work. Franz Kafka's Amerika (The Man Who Disappeared) at last has the translator it deserves. Michael Hofmann's startlingly visceral and immediate translation revives Kafka's great comedy, and captures a new Kafka, free from Prague and loose in the new world, a Kafka shot through with light in this highly charged and enormously nuanced translation.
Kafka began the first of his three novels in 1911, but like the others, Amerika remained unfinished, and perhaps, as Klaus Mann suggested, "necessarily endless." Karl Rossman, the youthful hero of the novel, "a poor boy of seventeen," has been banished by his parents to America, following a scandal. There, with unquenchable optimism, he throws himself into adventure after misadventure, and experiences multiply as he makes his way into the heart of the country, to The Great Nature Theater of Oklahoma.
In creating this new translation, Hofmann, as he explains in his introduction, returned to the manuscript version of the book, restoring matters of substance and detail. Fragments which have never before been presented in English are now reinstated - including the book's original "ending."
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ignore the haters--this book is great! .......2006-08-11
this book is a delight from beginning to end. it's unfinished, but so are all of kafka's novels (and many of his stories). He was a divinely inspired dilettante, not a professional writer; his stuff should be read the way one reads chaotic, fragmented ancient texts like gilgamesh or the book of genesis, as opposed to polished, narratively coherent modern fiction.
Amerika is by far kafka's most cheerful book. it has his usual themes of elusive acceptance alternating with alienation, but it's quite silly and charming. it's full of absurd situations and odd details, such as perpetual strikers picketing in the streets, an impossibly complicated mechanical desk and a pair of straight-out-of-central-casting crooks. it's a wild european projection of what america was about at the dawn of the modern age.
Basically, It Is Not a Great Kafka Novel, It is Terrible........2006-07-14
This is a new translation by Michael Hofmann along with an introduction by the same person plus extra unpublished fragments of text. Kafka did not like the book and was still doing re-writes when he died. Max Brode edited the final version, and Edwin Muir did the first translation in 1928. Hoffman refers to the books as Kafka's "Cinderella." I think it is the opposite: Kafka's dog, his worst work. One must feel slightly sorry for Hofmann. He does a good job but there is not much of a story here and it ends abruptly with no conclusion - seemingly in the middle of a paragraph.
Much better books are: The Metamorphosis, In The Penal Colony, and Other Stories: The Great Short Works of Franz Kafka" and "The Castle." His other longish novel "The Trial" is a bit disjointed and not as good as "The Castle." None of his novels are long.
Where and how does one start to discuss this incomplete and unsatisfactory novel edited after Kafka's death? It must be his worst - if we can even call it a Kafka novel. By the way, I am not a professor of literature, just a Kafka fan and I have read all of his works, or at least all those available on the market. I have read his short stories including - of course - the brilliant novella "Metamorphosis" and his two other novels: "The Trial" and "The Castle" and I read his collected short stories including "The Stoker."
One is a bit shocked to find that the first and best chapter in "Amerika" is in fact that short story "The Stoker." This chapter is by far the most interesting part of the book. That is a good story that stands on its own. After that we follow a very weak saga in which "K" has a girl friend - a maid - similar to his other two novels and has a series of not very interesting sub-stories. Unlike the other novels "K" has a name: Karl Rossman. Karl spirals down socially and mentally as in "The Castle" and in "The Trial" but more so. He never really gets out on his own and is left in some sort of intermediate zone among some very odd fellow travelers. In fairness to Kafka, perhaps it would have been more interesting and accurate technically if Kafka had finished the work.
There is little here to get excited about. The plot is weak, and it seems to take place in Austria not America. It is neither an American story nor a Kafka story. The police, for example, stop people and ask for their "papers" in the style of a European socialist country, while Kafka places Boston is across the bridge from Manhattan, and the characters use English money, not dollars. The hotel where "K" works seems very European. Obviously, he did very little background research work about America for the novel. There are no references to life in America or to any geographical locations that the reader might relate to. It is about three or four people, not a trip to America. Finally, the story seems to run out of steam after chapter 1.
In summary, the plot is weak, the story is weak, it is full of technical errors, and it is a couple of steps below his other works. It is far from the greatness and brilliance of "Metamorphosis," and it is far below "The Castle" as a novel.
4 stars is a generous rating. If you have read "The Stoker" you can skip this purchase.
Good for the Initiated, but Read Kafka's Other Works First.......2006-06-12
Kafka never finished this novel--his first--and proceeded to write two of the best novels ever written in any language (The Castle and The Trial). Amerika seems, therefore, not to warrant much attention from the casual reader. Kafka's style, which is unrefined even in Kafka's greatest works, will seem downright coarse, almost as if Kafka never intended for anyone to read the novel. He didn't.
Long narrations, tortuous and confusing descriptive passages, and a dearth of action and plot characterize the novel, and may put off all but the most determined readers. Kafka offsets the novel's flaws, however, by constructing a captivating world for his protagonist, Karl Rossman, to inhabit.
The plot is easy to summarize: Karl Rossman is banished to America, and tries to secure a stable position for himself in his new homeland. Kafka's novel is a meditation on the ironies of liberty, autonomy, and status. He takes us inside Karl's mind to reveal the countless deliberations and reflections that lead to independent decisions, but the decisions never generate the desired outcomes in his new homeland.
Unaccustomed to freedom, Karl makes good, bad, and worse decisions, which direct him to experience the highest and lowest echelons of American society. He lives in a high-rise apartment, stands on a balcony amid skyscrapers, and reflects on the unfathomable network of commerce and traffic teeming below him. Conversely, Karl finds himself relegated to sleep on another high-rise balcony, as the servant of Karl's vagabond acquaintance and his fat mistress.
Somewhere in between, Karl works as an Elevator Attendant in a massive hotel, and continuously moves up and down between floors. Much as in the real present-day America, status is precarious in Kafka's novel. Karl's position rises and falls as quickly as the hotel elevators that he attends to, and he has little or no control over which direction he goes. Karl's destination is determined largely by the whims and preferences of others.
Kafka's brilliant meditations on the ironies of modern life are forward thinking and profound. Readers looking for an introduction to Kafka would be well served to start with the short stories or meditations, and to move along to the novels afterwards. I recommend this novel to anyone seeking a greater understanding of Kafka's works, but only if you've already read and liked his other work.
Disappointed.......2004-01-10
This book is not very good, it is fantastical and epic in scope, but not in prose. The writing is very passive, and all the dialogue is inserted within discription, and it is very frustrating to get used to.
The story is also frustrating, I kept wanting to the main character to use his common sense and not get tricked by the evil characters, but he is too naive to do this.
Since Kafka never actually visited America, this book has an air of myth about it, the way people overseas may talked about America at the time. A place with riches and oppurutunites around every corner, but with just as many unjust people waiting to take advantage of you.
What could have been America.......2003-11-10
The story is a dreamy voyage into a land that could have been America, that would have liked to be America, but (as one realizes from reading this work) turned out to be totally different. It isn't a "a brilliant piece of imagination" as an earlier post said, and it isn't earth-shattering. But it is memorable and unique among novels, in that it is a journey into a world that would be our own world, isn't our own world, and yet has something mysteriously in common with it.
It is also unique among Kafka's work in that it isn't as dreary as the rest. In the course of the disappointments Karl encounters, there is always an air of optimism and cheer, as a breath of fresh air - the story contains adventure and hope within its melanchoy realities. To those looking for an escape from the dreariness that prevails around them - something Kafka definitely needed and must have found in writing Amerika - this story will be a wonderful gift.
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Saladin: All-Powerful Sultan and the Uniter of Islam
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This compelling biography focuses on the ruler's sagacity and intelligence, and explains why Saladin was a man admired--even by his enemies.
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A Great Biography.......2007-03-16
Stanley Lane-Poole's biography of Saladin was published in 1898 but remains the best source of information about the sultan. The author has done his research consulting Christian and Muslim contemporary sources - some of which he quotes from - and conveys Saladin's life in beautiful prose. An excellent example is the following except concerning Crusader ambassadors given the unique privilege of seeing the Fatimid Caliph of Egypt.
"They were led by mysterious corridors and through guarded doors, where stalwart Sudanis saluted with naked swords. They reached a spacious court, open to the sky, and surrounded by arcades resting on marble pillars; the paneled ceilings were carved and inlaid in gold and colours; the pavement was rich mosaic. The unaccustomed eyes of the rude knights opened wide with wonder at the taste and refinement that met them at every step; - here they saw marble fountains, birds of many notes and wondrous plumage, strangers to the western world..."
Mr. Lane-Poole provides an invaluable look at the world of Saladin giving us the history of the Seljuk Turks and the First Crusade, and the life of Saladin is presented with no information lacking and with a critical eye for his subject. The struggle between Christians and Muslims is well presented and we are given completed accounts of the Third Crusade from both sides. The book is illustrated with many photographs, maps and drawings; it also includes a list of the principle contemporary historians of the period.
I wanted to know more about Saladin having seen the film Kingdom of Heaven, and this book was perfect.
an excellent book.......2006-03-10
I really enjoyed reading this book. It is a facsinating story of a great warrior who fought for his country. I can recommend this book to anyone interested in the histroty of the muslim world.
The life story of a truly unique leader.......2002-10-07
Written by the late British historian Stanley Lane-Pools (1854-1931), Saladin: All-powerful Sultan And The Uniter Of Islam is an informed and informative biography of the great warrior, statesman, and faithful believer in Islam, Salah ad-Din ibn Ayyub, more commonly known as Saladin (A.D. 1138-1193). From his early years in a Kurdish military family to the beginning of his military service at age fourteen, to his conquest of Jerusalem marked by an unprecedentedly humane treatment of the citizens within, to his belief and application of civilized justice, Saladin: All-powerful Sultan And The Uniter Of Islam is the life story of a truly unique leader who deservedly earned his legendary status both in the West as well as throughout Islam.
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The Leibstandarte IV/1
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Hard cover, small format (6" x 9"), 360 pages, 53 photographs, includes a separate 44-page full-color map book for volumes IV/1 and IV/2. Covers the SS LAH Division from late 1943 to September 1944, with extensive coverage of its battles in Normandy. Many personal accounts of the fighting.
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Voice and Equality: Civic Voluntarism in American Politics
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This book confirms the idea put forth nearly a century and a half ago by Alexis de Tocqueville, that American democracy is rooted in civic voluntarism--citizens' involvement in family, work, school, and religion, as well as in their political participation as voters, campaigners, protesters, or community activists.
The authors analyze civic activity as none have before. They have created an original survey of 15,000 individuals, which includes 2,500 personal interviews, that focuses on the central issues of involvement: how people come to be active, their motivations, their resources, and their networks. We see fascinating differences along cultural lines, among African-Americans, Latinos, and whites, as well as between the religiously observant and the secular. We observe family activism moving from generation to generation, and look into the special role of issues that elicit involvement, including abortion rights and social welfare.
This far-reaching analysis confirms that some individuals have a greater voice in politics than others, and that this inequality not only results from varying inclinations toward activity, but also reflects unequal access to such vital resources as money and education. This deeply researched study illuminates the many facets of civic consciousness and action and confirms their quintessential role in American democracy.
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Understanding participation.......2000-07-26
This book provides several useful ways to understand the phenomenon of political participation -or the absence of it. Verba and his collaborators examine several variables that encourage people's involvement in politics, showing clearly that if differential rates of political activity reflect not different motivations, but differential resources, democracy is potentially threatened. The book is theoretically and empirically well-grounded -two characteristics of Verba's previous work that appear here again. In spite of being concerned exclusively with the American case, I think it will be a worthy reading for any person interested in politics in other countries, as it was for me.
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The Science of Instream Flows: A Review of the Texas Instream Flow Program
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The Science Of Instream Flows A Review Of The Texas Instream Flow Program
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