NULL MODELS IN ECOLOGY PB

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This book is concerned with the various nuclear activities of two yeasts: Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Schizosaccharomyces pombe. Both are excellent models for higher eukaryotes, including humans.

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Tarnished, but still golden...........1999-12-01

You should be nice to old dying Apaches you find in the desert, they may draw a map in the sand for your kindness, a map to the Lost Adams Diggings, where the gold nuggets are the size of crickets, and they're just laying around on the ground, waiting for a prospector to fill his saddlebags. The dialogue in this book is positively silly. Pelon, the brutish half-Mexican, half-Apache, one hundred percent outlaw bandit speaks as if he was educated at Oxford, and has a sense of honor not normally found in your average outlaw bandit/murderer. Mackenna knows the map to the gold, so Pelon can't kill him, at least not until the location of the gold is pointed out. Mackenna, of course, is busy trying not to fall in love with the beautiful young hostage, and avoiding the amorous intentions of Pelon's Apache sister. Western escapest literature from the early sixties.

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Mackenna's Gold
Will Henry
Manufacturer: Bantam
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
ASIN: B000TY01JM

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Mackenna's gold
Will Henry
Manufacturer: Random House
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000NXMQKG

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Mackenna's Gold
Will Henry
Manufacturer: BANTAM
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000O9NH4S

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Mackenna's Gold (Large Print Hardcover)
Will Henry
Manufacturer: F. A. Thorpe
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000ODUC2E

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This book is a hoot!.......1999-04-22

A friend showed me this book. It reads like a modern low-budget magazine, but its REAL history! And what a twist. Did you know that the hole 'way up high in the pyramid is actually a way for the bees to get out? You didn't? Then read this book and find out more....

Entertaining for young historians, yet educational........1999-02-11

When I first glanced at this odd publication, I wasn't sure what it was. It resembles a catalogue, including quirky ads, but contains news-type articles. The articles trace events in Egyptian history and are written and directed to the reader as they might have been if such a publication existed during the day. The best parts are the numerous ads, soliciting everything from Egyptian housing by "Akhoty's Abodes" to 70-day embalming services by "Dead World". Through these ads, the reader is educated on the different types of housing that existed during the period and the process of Egyptian embalming and entombing (respectively). The illustrations are great! The content is substantial, however, it is presented in a "light" manner which keeps audiences, young and old, entertained.

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Statistical Science plays an increasingly important role in medical research. Over the last few decades, many new statistical methods have been developed which have particular relevance for medical researchers and with the appropriate software now easily available these techniques can be used routinely to great effect. these generalized additive models and bayesian methods. Modern Medical Statistics covers these essential new techniques at an accessible technical level, its main focus being not on the theory but on the effective practical application of these methods in medical research.

Modern Medical Statistics: A Practical Guide

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Modern Medical Statistics: A Practical Guide
Brian Everitt
Manufacturer: A Hodder Arnold Publication
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OVF76M

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Galois module structure deals with the construction of algebraic invariants from a Galois extension of number fields with group $G$. Typically these invariants lie in the class-group of some group-ring of $G$ or of a related order. These class-groups have "Hom-descriptions" in terms of idèlic-valued functions on the complex representations of $G$. Following a theme pioneered by A. Frölich, T. Chinburg constructed several invariants whose Hom-descriptions are (conjecturally) given in terms of Artin root numbers. For a tame extension, the second Chinburg invariant is given by the ring of integers, and M. J. Taylor proved the conjecture in this case. The first published graduate course on the Chinburg conjectures, this book provides the necessary background in algebraic and analytic number theory, cohomology, representation theory, and Hom-descriptions. The computation of Hom-descriptions is facilitated by Snaith's Explicit Brauer Induction technique in representation theory. In this way, illustrative special cases of the main results and new examples of the conjectures are proved and amplified by numerous exercises and research problems. The final chapter introduces a new invariant constructed from algebraic $K$-theory, whose Hom-description is related to the $L$-function value at $s = -1$.

Modules and the Structure of Rings (Pure and Applied Mathematics)

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Modules and the Structure of Rings (Pure and Applied Mathematics)
Golan
Manufacturer: CRC
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Binding: Hardcover

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Rings, Modules and Linear Algebra: A Further Course in Algebra Describing the Structure of Abelian Groups and Canonical Forms of Matrices Through the (Chapman & Hall Microbiology Series)

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Rings, Modules and Linear Algebra: A Further Course in Algebra Describing the Structure of Abelian Groups and Canonical Forms of Matrices Through the (Chapman & Hall Microbiology Series)
Brian Hartley
Manufacturer: Chapman & Hall
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Supplement on Multiplicative Galois Module Structure (Fields Institute Monographs,)

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Supplement on Multiplicative Galois Module Structure (Fields Institute Monographs,)
A. Weiss
Manufacturer: American Mathematical Society
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This book is the result of a short course on the Galois structure of $S$-units that was given at The Fields Institute in the fall of 1993. Offering a new angle on an old problem, the main theme is that this structure should be determined by class field theory, in its cohomological form, and by the behavior of Artin $L$-functions at $s=0$. A proof of this---or even a precise formulation---is still far away, but the available evidence all points in this direction. The work brings together the current evidence that the Galois structure of $S$-units can be described.

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The Father; A Dream Play; Miss Julie; The Ghost Sonata; The Dance of Death `Ibsen can sit serenely in his Doll's House,' Sean O'Casey remarked, `while Strindberg is battling with his heaven and his hell.' Strindberg was one of the most extreme, and ultimately the most influential theatrical innovators of the late nineteenth century. The five plays translated here are those on which Strindberg's international reputation as a dramatist principally rests and this edition embraces his crucial transition from Naturalism to Modernism, from his two finest achievements as a psychological realist, The Father and Miss Julie, to the three plays in which he redefined the possibilities of European drama following his return to the theatre in 1898. Michael Robinson's highly performable translations are based on the authoritative texts of the new edition of Strindberg's collected works in Sweden and include the Preface to Miss Julie, Strindberg's manifesto of theatrical naturalism. Introduction Textual Note Bibliography Chronology Explanatory Notes

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sexual passion and social position.......2004-07-11

I don't care that much for Strindberg's other plays, but I love "Miss Julie." This is one of my favorite plays, a very gripping and powerful drama about a male servant and his employer's spoiled daughter who plays games with him. She's all too aware of her superiority over him in this wealthy household and she loves to rub it in his face. However, her upper-class boredom leads her to spend time with the servant chatting away and killing time, and she doesn't realize that by interacting with him in such a casual and personal way, she's bringing herself more and more down to his social level. She feels trapped in her idle life of money and privilege, and he feels trapped in his badly paid lowly job. But she envies his freedom. Each has the exact opposite of what the other has, and each wants what the other has. Also, there is one other ingredient--they are both attracted to each other in this conflict between sexual passion and social position. This play was coldly received when it first came out in 1888 for its startling modernity. The antagonistic love-hate relationship it shows between the man and woman is refreshingly modern even today.

David Rehak
author of "Love and Madness"

preferable for annotations, but a few minor problems.......2003-06-01

I read The Father and the first part of Miss Julie in the University of California translation and then the rest of the plays in this one, and as far as I can tell neither seems more awkward than the other--but the Oxford translation holds the major advantage in that it contains copious notes on the many obscure literary and sociocultural references throughout the plays. I noticed that in at least some sections in the UC version the obscurities are ironed out (the English translation for "biblia pauperum" is incorporated into the text, and in The Father a reference to a book by an 18th century author unknown outside Sweden, unnecessary to the action, becomes "a book"), but there are many other cases where it is simply passed over without a mention. Granted, if you are buying a copy or multiple copies of the plays in order to perform them, it is unlikely that the references will be useful, but for those interested in a critical reading of them, the Oxford edition will undoubtedly be favorable. It is also mentioned that this edition draws off of the most recent versions of the original works being published as a set in Sweden, but since I have no knowledge of Swedish and there are no examples in either edition of the translation in progress, I can't really comment on that.

A minor point with the Oxford edition is that it seems very sloppily assembled at times, which is a bit surprising given the usual quality level in this series. For instance, the page-formatting was done inaccurately, so that whenever a parenthesis for a stage direction falls at the end of a line, it is cut off--and this occurs all throughout the book, not a crucial problem by any means, but just an unsettling indication of carelessness. There are also several spelling errors in the plays, and a couple misquotations in the annotations. Once again, these are not crucial flaws, but a little sloppiness can make the reader wonder what else was neglected which may have slipped past his awareness.

Overall, despite the flaws, this is the edition of Strindberg's major plays to have for a reader who is interested in not only performing but also studying the works.

(Edit, 2/11/04: I've just discovered that the parenthesis usage is standard practice for texts of plays in Britain, so my comments about that issue can be disregarded.)

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Miss Julie and Other Plays
August Strindberg
Manufacturer: Boni and Liveright
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000KGC8LS

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Miss Julie, David Mamet Fan Club, and Other Plays
Lance Tait
Manufacturer: Enfield Books
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Binding: Paperback

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Miss Julie and Other Plays (Oxford World's Classics)
Michael Robinson August Strindberg
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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ASIN: B000OK95OI

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Excellent source for non-beginners

Abridged Version

ibn Kathir on the Life of the Prophet Muhamamd

ibn Kathir on the Life of the Prophet Muhamamd

Ibn Kathir on the Life of the Prophet Muhammad

The Life of the Prophet Muhammad Voulme I
Ibn Kathir , and Dr. Trevor Le Gassick
Manufacturer: Garnet Publishing, Ltd.
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Excellent source for non-beginners.......2005-01-16

This book is part of a 4 book series. I use the word `book' interchangeably with `series'. The series begins with the pre-Islamic period up to and including the events right after the purdah of Prophet Muhammad (SAAS). This book is not an introductory book and as such may be challenging for budding historians or fleetingly curious individuals. The book presents each situation and conclusion with exhaustive research from multiple chains of narration. This book is a great reference guide and a resource for those individuals who are beyond the beginner stage of reading summarized historical accounts and are looking for `the source' of the recording. As such, this book and Ibn Kathir do an excellent job of presenting the narrators, their validity, degree of strength and the slight variations in the accounting that can lead to misinterpretations, especially as the events tie into tafseer of the Quran. I would highly encourage the addition of this series to the library of those individuals who are in search of a detailed analysis and presentation of the events that transpired. I would also highly advise AGAINST the use of any abridged or summarized versions. Such abridged versions may also lead to unintentional indoctrination into the editor's belief, because of the obvious subjective judgment involved in the production of such works.

Abridged Version.......2001-09-10

This is definetely a book to read and have it in any persons library who is interested in Religion. Obviously it is all about Prophet Mohammed (PBH). As is standard of the time, all the narratives starts with list of narrations. For some one who is not familiar with who those individuals are, names are very distracting, but they can not be eliminated either for they are reliable for some and unreliable for others. Major highlights are taken from Ibn Ishak or ibn Hashim, so it is difficult to find what new thing you learn from this book if you eliminate late narratives. For me it is a tremendeous gift from translators that made this book available to me in English. Ibn Kathir certainly one of the great scholars in Islam.

ibn Kathir on the Life of the Prophet Muhamamd.......2000-08-08

The Life of the Prophet Muhammad by ibn Kathir Vol I: 1 873938 16 0

Ibn kathir's the Life of the Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him) is one of the celebrated works in the respective field. As a Muslim theologian, he successfully captures various events unfolding in the Arabian Peninsula that necessitates the advent of a messenger from God. He then goes into sketching the Prophet's life before he is endowed with the mission to establish the religion of God. This volume (which is the first of a four-volume series) comes to an end when the Prophet starts preaching the new faith to the polytheistic Arab and some of them start listening to him.

Even though the book is very informative, ibn kathir, resorting to the practice of his era, provides as many narrations as possible to relate a single anecdote. He even mentions the chain of narrators from whom he related the story. Though his style is an indispensable tool for a Muslim scholar to discern the authentic reports from the false ones, it, however, affects the smooth reading of the material. In addition, ibn Kathir often leaves the reader in the darkness regarding the authenticity of a story being told; thus, making it accessible to a scholar only.

There are a number of works on the life of the Prophet (PBUH) that relate the authentic stories alone. Ar-Raheeq al-Makhtum and When the Moon Split - both by Safiur Rahman Mubarakpuri are some good references on this subject.

Anyway, this book is worth having in your library as a reference to the life of a great Prophet!

ibn Kathir on the Life of the Prophet Muhamamd.......2000-08-08

The Life of the Prophet Muhammad by ibn Kathir Vol I: 1 873938 16 0

Anyway, this book is worth having in your library as a reference to the life of a great Prophet!

Ibn Kathir on the Life of the Prophet Muhammad.......2000-08-07

Even though the book is very informative, ibn kathir, resorting to the practice of his era, provides as many narrations as possible to relate a single anecdote. He even mentions the chain of narrators from whom he related the story. Though his style is an indispensable tool for a Muslim scholar to discern the authentic reports from the false ones, it, however, affects the smooth reading of the material. In addition, ibn Kathir often leaves the reader in the dark, regarding the authenticity of a story being told, and thus, making it accessible to a scholar only.

Anyway, this book is worth having in your library as a reference to the life of a great Prophet!

Book Description

This book examines the uniforms, equipment, history and organisation of the Russian Army that fought in the Crimean War. Field army, infantry, artillery and cavalry are all covered, together with details of High Command and summaries of key battles. Uniforms are shown in full illustrated detail.

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A good solid book .......2005-07-02

While this is not one of the more popular popular Armies of history. (Love him or hate him Cardigan & his ill fated charge is always a popular subject) But considering the hardships, lousy supply system that was inflicted upon the Russians. They did a creditable job when they were going up against the French and the British. Altogether the Author and the illustrator have done themselves proud.

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Learn from a pro the secrets of collecting back child support, court judgments and other "uncollectible" bills by balancing legal issues with street realities. Plus, how to set up your business, attract well-paying clients, ensure delivery of installmentpayments and make sure you get your money up front. For academic study only.

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unrealistic nonsense.......2007-01-29

If you want to keep from being shot at beaten up or go to jail avoid
whatever this author has written.

Do not Read.......2006-10-16

There are very few debt collection techniques that can be used in this book. Unless you care to get fired in the next week for violating the FDCPA, stay away.

Total Waste of my time and money.......2006-02-22

In my opinion, this book is ridiculous and suggests doing things that are highly questionable.

Pure Fiction...do not buy if you're looking for professional text.......2005-11-02

What a sham of a book. This should be retitled,
Hardcore Collections: A financial guide for felons and hustlers.
I returned it after wasting $10 and 30 minutes of my time reading it.

The reader will benefit from first-hand knowledge.......2004-03-03

This book is very well written, and the author is
obviously college-educated, despite specializing in
a risky-area of collections, and treading a thin line
between exerting pressure on debtors and getting into
trouble from law enforcement for crossing the line on
socially acceptable behavior. It's an easy read,
humorous, insightful, but obviously... making the
transition from book to reality is a big step that few
readers will attempt. My guess is that this book is
for the experienced collector, who wants to take the
next step, and open up his own collections agency, as
opposed to operating in the mainstream, or being
employed by someone else.

It reveals a part of what goes on in the marketplace,
between consumers and retailers & banks, for example. In
that way, it's very practical and realistic, and
considering the price, is an affordable way to know
more, and to get out of the ivory tower of university
or college based techniques or theories regarding
how to get results as soon as possible, and get paid
for your work promptly.

Clearly, the author knows his stuff, has made a career
out of it, and is not writing this book from having
seen too many movies or what not. The reader will
benefit from first-hand knowledge. Finally, take the
book with a grain of salt, considering that only a
small percentage of people will actually be physically
fit or mentally skilled enough to undertake the

author's business plan and collections strategies, as
I mentioned above.

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Arizona-based environmental historian Stephen J. Pyne has fought fires on the Grand Canyon's north and south rims, traveled on foot and muleback into its depths, floated its length down the Colorado River, explored its hidden recesses--and spent years looking into its history, especially into what he deems the "intellectual miracle" of the canyon's transformation into a celebrated symbol of the American wild lands.

American explorers, who first came to the canyon's walls after the U.S. took the Southwest as the spoils of victory over Mexico, were inclined to describe it in harsh terms. As Lt. Joseph Ives remarked in a report to Congress in 1858, "The region is, of course, altogether valueless...." But 11 years later, when John Wesley Powell surveyed the length of the Colorado River, he brought to the canyon a poetic, even romantic sensibility. Through Powell and his companions, especially the geologist Clarence Dutton, the harsh landscape of the Grand Canyon would come to be regarded as "the coliseums, temples, and statuary of an inspired nature."

"The Canyon claims standing," Pyne remarks, "not because of its size or antiquity but ... by virtue of its ever-evolving ensemble and the ideas continually made available by which to interpret it." Those ideas--from men and women like Theodore Roosevelt, Wallace Stegner, Joseph Wood Krutch, Edward Abbey, and Ann Zwinger--would come to influence the national discussion on all public lands. As such, Pyne suggests, the Grand Canyon became a laboratory for the environmental movement as a whole, influential far beyond the borders of the arid Southwest--in short, as Pyne calls it, "a planetary monument." --Gregory McNamee

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Dismissed by the first Spanish explorers as a wasteland, the Grand Canyon lay virtually unnoticed for three centuries until nineteenth-century America rediscovered it and seized it as a national emblem. This extraordinary work of intellectual and environmental history tells two tales of the Canyon: the discovery and exploration of the physical Canyon and the invention and evolution of the cultural Canyon--how we learned to endow it with mythic significance.

Acclaimed historian Stephen Pyne examines the major shifts in Western attitudes toward nature, and recounts the achievements of explorers, geologists, artists, and writers, from John Wesley Powell to Wallace Stegner, and how they transformed the Canyon into a fixture of national identity. This groundbreaking book takes us on a completely original journey through the Canyon toward a new understanding of its niche in the American psyche, a journey that mirrors the making of the nation itself.

"This extraordinary document puts the national landmark in the context of nothing less than the intellectual history of Western civilization -- in 200 pages." --New York Newsday

"Unique and revealing . . . offers great grist for discussion, perhaps as deep as the Grand Canyon itself." -USA Today

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Interesting ideas and information, but socially very biased.......2006-05-03

This book like others on the Grand Canyon's history as national monument discusses various visits by European and US explorers. Dr. Pyne's book approaches the topic from a different slant. By focusing on the effect of cultural and psychological filters he explains why the geologic phenomenon has been valued differently through time. Especially in this book as unlike others, the author shows why the canyon was "seen" or not and why parts were included in an individual's perspective or not. This was something new to me, something that is apparent once voiced but not necessarily obvious until pointed out.

I once took a speech-communications class called "persuasion" in the course of which it became obvious that 1. context contributes a great deal to message, and 2. not all communication is intended. At the time it struck me that the dead communicate, namely the most salient point about themselves, ie. that they are dead, however few would say that they "intended" to do so. Likewise, a canyon or other environmental configuration can communicate to an observer, but the message sent and received is determined by the filters of the recipient, his/her cultural, social, and psychological context. Pyne's book makes it evident that the message of the Grand Canyon is different for each age and for each person, and is shaped as much by our expectations and cultural orientations as by anything else. He does an excellant job of showing how the canyon and the Colorado River have changed their cultural identity through time, even in our own time.

For those looking for something of a biography of the discoverers of the Canyon and explorers of the Colorado River system, this is probably a less detailed book than you might like. A more thorough account is available in The Grand Canyon: Solving Earth's Grandest Puzzle by James Lawrence Powell. It does include a bibliography of works, however, including some of the original publications by the 19th century explorers themselves. These might provide you with more of what you're looking for, particularly accounts by John Westly Powell. For those looking for a brief overview, however, this will certainly provide you with a good start. Although I've studied geology, the geology and history of the Colorado was not familiar to me, so I found the book helpful.

I was not entirely certain I agreed with the author's rather vaunted sense of "elite" and "intellectual," and his negative attitude toward popular-that is middle class-culture. I agree that we are given to commercialism and mass consumerism, but that pretty much cuts across the social boundaries. There are reasons why the 19th century wealthy could endow entire museums with their private art collections and furnish their homes in wall to wall Tiffanies. The difference between middle class and upper class consumerism appears to be the expense of the items purchased. I see no difference in the desire of a middle class individual to investigate the unique in his/her environment than in that of a wealthy, educated individual pursuing his or hers. If anything, it would appear to have been the spread of education throughout society during the latter part of the 19th century and earlier portion of the 20ieth that gave more people access to the information and orientation that allowed more people to appreciate something like the Grand Canyon.

I also disagreed with the author's by-the-by negative attitude toward the "Democrates" at whose doorstep he laid the building of dams and other projects. I do agree that doing so damaged a scenic environment of great value emotionally to the nation, I even agree that it was environmentally an unsound decision. But given the information at the time, the needs and social issues of the time, the decisions made may have appeared acceptable to those who made them at the time. Twenty-twenty hind-sight and values based on modern perspectives is a waste of time. It's usefulness is questionable, like exhuming Attila the Hun and trying him posthumously for crimes against humanity; what's the point? We too will be judged in our turn by the future, and who knows what "crimes" we will be determined to have committed?

Poetic History of the Grand Canyon .......2005-12-29

The author provides a detailed history of the Grand Canyon in a more poetic and spiritual sense. Thus, it may be more appropriate for someone that appreciates prose and an appreciation for language. If you are looking for a more straightforward history of the Grand Canyon, this book is probably not for you. I fell into the latter category and on my vacation to the Grand Canyon; I was looking more for an industrious quick read, which this book is not. I was amused that the author seemed so surprised that the Conquistadors did not write much at all about the Grand Canyon but where we today appreciate the beauty and uniqueness of the Canyon, the Conquistadors in their search for gold may have been more perplexed in how to get to the other side.

Take this off the Gift Shop Shelves!.......2003-09-09

I agree with most of the reviews here. I'm not sure why this book was included at the gift shop at the Grand Canyon. I'd better imagine it gathering dust on a shelf at an academic library, where it belongs. On my honeymoon out west, I continually tried to read this book, but every time I picked it up, I was confused and frustrated with the deliberately obtuse and arrogant language Pyne uses throughout this impenetrable tome. As most other reviewers said--view the canyon through your own eyes and avoid this book at all costs

Great intellectual history.......2002-10-16

This book is a great intellectual history of a subject that tends to be considered so trite as to be mundane. In the course of the 20th Century the wonders of the Grand Canyon have been so often noted that they have become a cliche of commercialism. Pyne takes us back to the Spanish explorers and helps us to understand why their intellectual powers were inadequate to interpret the meaning of the Canyon when they first encountered it. Pyne describes 3 great ages of exploration, and devotes considerable space to the explanation of the geology of the canyon, first discovered in the late 1800's by John Wesley Powell and his associates. He also makes frequent reference to the human representation of the Canyon in art; he considers this, it would appear, to be as significant as its geology. He relates this art to the modernistic movements in Europe. He describes the advent of commercialism and of the ecology movement by men like Joseph Wood Krutch, who wanted the Canyon maintained in its pristine state for the enjoyment of all. He describes how the Canyon has become less important in scientific circles with the advent of the theory of plate tectonics and of crater impact zones, of space exploration.

broad world view.......2002-10-13

Pyne puts the Grand Canyon in the context of world history with numerous references to the "First, Second, and Third Ages Of Discovery", the first represented by Coronado, the second represented by Powell, the third represented by space exploration, and with numerous references to geology, (somewhat surprisingly) to art, and to nature writing. This book details the extensive geologic exploration of the canyon in the late 1800's, the art it produced, and the effects of European trends in art on the Canyon art, and the changing view of the canyon as a result of space exploration and environmentalism. A lucid and compelling work.

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