Knowledge and Wonder - 2nd Edition: The Natural World as Man Knows It

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excellent, clear presentation of usually difficult science

Knowledge and Wonder - 2nd Edition: The Natural World as Man Knows It
Victor F. Weisskopf
Manufacturer: The MIT Press
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Binding: Paperback

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Excellent!.......2003-11-24

This book was recommended by my college physics advisor to help grasp spacial relativity. Relly well written, a summary of many areas of modern science. Everyone should read this book!

Excellent!.......2003-11-24

This book was recommended by my Physics advisor - to help me understand relativity. A short and all encompassing text, very well written and easy to understand.

excellent, clear presentation of usually difficult science.......1999-10-07

This book clearly describes natural phenomenon in an orderly, logical progression that brings such concetps as the quanta and the expanding universe within the grasp of the non-physics trained mind. The language is normal, non jargon sentences, and the technical terms that are used are clearly explained. Perhaps even more important, it is generally fun to read, not nearly as sleep-inducing as other texts I've encountered.

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Between the midnight feedings and the diaper issue, it's never easy being a new parent. But when you're also a high-school student trying to graduate, the job becomes even more overwhelming. Sam Pettigrew never dreamed he'd spend his senior year pushing a stroller. But when his former girlfriend, Brittany, decided that she couldn't handle being a parent, Sam knew he had to try. Now attending an alternative high school that provides daycare, Sam desperately juggles homework and parenting duties. "The list above my desk said, 'Get Max to sleep by 9:00.' Right under 'Drink out of a cup' and 'nap schedule.' I couldn't even remember what 'nap schedule' meant. " Sam's biggest problem is his lack of support: Brittany has left town to start over, and Sam's widowed father, angry over Sam's decision, refuses to help Sam other than financially. Claire Bailey, another teen parent, only serves to show Sam how alone he is--her family loves to babysit and buy toys for her baby, Emily. Finally, after a disastrous night spent in the emergency room when Max cuts his hand, Sam becomes defeated. How much longer can he keep up this crazy schedule of school and fatherhood? Yet, how can he bear not to keep it up, when giving it up means giving up Max?

With this kind of subject matter, it would be easy for seasoned author Margaret Bechard to slip into didactic "after-school special" mode. Instead she has penned a truly tender, reversed-gender tearjerker with an ending as realistic as it is heartbreaking. A four-hankie recommended read. (Ages 12 and older) --Jennifer Hubert

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It's Sam Pettigrew's last year of high school. And he's spending it figuring out how, at age seventeen, he is supposed to care for his baby son, Max.

Max wasn't part of the plan. He wasn't even part of the backup plan. But he's here now, and Sam is attending an alternative high school with other teen parents like himself. Talk about a wake-up call. But Sam is determined to make it work, to show everyone -- his dad, his new girlfriend, himself -- that he has what it takes to be a good dad.

Trading footballs for diaper bags and college brochures for feeding schedules, Sam gives fatherhood his best shot. Only no one told him it would be this hard. What if his best isn't good enough?

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This Book Was So Great - Finished it in less than a day!.......2007-03-04

I was a bit hesitant at first to read this book, because I didn't want it to be a cliche teenage pregnancy story. But, I proved myself wrong after reading less than a page. I knew this story would hold a special place in my heart - And now that I've finished it, it does.

Without leaking too much of the plot, Sam [The main character and father of baby Max] is dealing with so much stress. I loved how the book went back and forth from present day text, discussing what was going on at that moment, and then the next chapter was a flashback which helped you understand a bit of Sam's thoughts and actions.

The ending of this story wanted to make me cry, I am positive it will tug at your heart strings as well. If you're looking for a story that involves mature, life changing decisions and a different kind of love story, then Hanging Onto Max is your answer.

Hanging on to Max Review.......2006-06-01

"Hanging on to Max" is a novel about a teenage single parent who has a young son. Sam is 17 years old and his son in Max. Sam has a hard life he is trying to juggle a million different schedules he has to go to school, do his homework, take care of Max, and hang out with friends. Sam finds out that its hard to take care of his son and try to do things that normal high school students do. Sam feels it is too hard to take care of Max so Sam decides to give Max up for adoption in the end. Sam gives Max up for adoption because he doesn't want Max to make the same mistakes he did and he wants Max to have a better life than he did. That is a quick summary on the novel "Hanging on to Max."
I liked this book a lot, I liked this novel because it can relate to many high school student's lives. It can show high school students how hard it is to take care of a baby and try to do normal high school things. I feel every high school students should read this book because it shows us how much your life will change if you have a child. I loved this book but it was a little jumpy because the author would jump from the present to the past and back to the present. I liked this novel and feel all high school students should read this book. This novel is a great novel and everyone should read it.

Hanging on to Max.......2006-06-01

The book Hanging On To Max is a great book by Margret Bechard. The book is about a teenage boy named sam who is trying to raise a baby boy named Max. max's mother , Brittany, put him up for adoption and sam could not bare to let him go, so sam took the resposiblity to take Max and raise him all alone. At only the age of seven-teen, sam is still attending school and taking care of rasing Max. max and sam go through so much together because Max comes first. He is sam's biggest priority. Having a baby is tuff enough, but going to school and still living a teenage like is much harder. In the story sam meets his high school crush again. Her name is Claire Bailey. She also has a new baby as a teenager and her boyfriend is no longer around to help. Claire and sam are stuck in the same boat, both alone with little kids. They then being doing things together. As a whole they have fun, them and the kids. They go through many obsticals leading up to sam deciding that he must give Max up for adoption. Sam is a young kid who was not ready for the resposibilty of a new son. He had fun with him and Max together, but he does the better for him so he doesn't make the same mistakes he did.

Hanging On To Max.......2006-06-01

The book Hanging On To Max is a very good book but in ways kind of hard to understand due to the way the author wrote it. I liked it a lot though due the fact the i can relate to it my friends are young teenagers and are having kid its sad but its the real world.

A Good Read.......2006-06-01

My group read the novel, Hanging on to Max. This book was about a teenage guy, named Sam, whose girlfriend had gotten pregnant. She decided to give the baby up for adoption and before Sam could even think it through, he told her he would keep the baby. Throughout the novel, you get to see how much a baby really does affect your life. Sam could no longer play sports or hang out with friends. He had to go to an alternative school, where he could bring Max with him. Sam did not realize how hard it would be to finish high school and raise a child at the same time. His dreams of college had faded away and getting a job to pay for his expenses was his main priority. Sam also has to face his disappointed father at different times in the book. The end of the story can be left for you to read!
This novel really does have an important message for all teenagers. It shows you what a little mistake could do and how one life can change dramatically in the blink of an eye. This novel also helps people appreciate teenage parents. A lot of people look down at them because they have a child at a young age. Well, everyone makes mistakes. It gives people a new respect for how hard teen-parents work and the struggles they go through. I think this was a really great book and everyone should read it!

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Tales from the Old West (Unabridged)
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A comprehenive and cutting-edge collection of basic and advanced biochemical techniques for isolating, treating, and analyzing the photosynthetic materials and processes. All protocols follow the successful Methods in Molecular Biology™ series format, each one offering step-by-step laboratory instructions, an introduction outlining the principle behind the technique, lists of equipment and reagents, and tips on troubleshooting and avoiding known pitfalls.

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Physics of Plastics: Processing, Properties and Materials Engineering (Hanser Publishers)
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Everyone should read this book...........1998-02-02

I think that Candide, by Voltaire is a must-read. It mocks the traditonal views of optimism and takes on a almost, humorous approach to telling that story. It also teaches a lesson of contentment and it shows how Candide experienced the contentment of El Dorado and the sybolism of El Dorado to God's kingdom.

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Entertaining.

Masterpiece

Slim Reflections on Ending Worth the Price of the Book

"The choas in my head spun itself into a silk of silence. I had distilled myself to the immediacy of hand, blade, blood, flesh.

Well Written and Honest, but Too Wordy

Skin Game: A Memoir
Caroline Kettlewell
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin
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A number of recent books by journalists and therapists have probed the social and psychological forces behind the alarming practice of self-mutilation; this unflinching memoir tells readers what it feels like. Caroline Kettlewell made her first attempt at age 12 with a Swiss Army knife, too dull to perform satisfactorily, but she quickly graduated to razor blades. "There was a very fine, an elegant pain," she writes of her initiation. "In the razor's wake, the skin melted away ... then the blood welled up ... the chaos in my head spun itself into a silk of silence." Describing her tense but not unusually difficult youth, the author doesn't spend a lot of time trying to figure out why she was so unhappy, concentrating instead on making palpable her sense of dread and terror of being out of control, emotions relieved by the act of cutting. Some readers may wish for more self-analysis, but others will find Kettlewell's austere prose and sensibility refreshing. "I kept cutting because it worked. When I cut I felt better, " she explains. "I stopped cutting because I always could have stopped cutting." Not the fanciest way to put it, but those sentences, like the entire book, have the cadences of "the plain and inelegant truth." --Wendy Smith

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Caroline Kettlewell's autobiography reveals a girl whose feelings of pain and alienation led her to seek relief in physically hurting herself, from age twelve into her twenties. Skin Game employs clear language and candid reflection to grant general readers as well as students an uncensored profile of a complex and unsettling disorder. "[This] mesmeric memoir examines the obsession with cutting that is believed to afflict somewhere around two million Americans, nearly all of them female," Francine Prose noted in Elle. "[Kettlewell's] language soars and its intensity deepens whenever she is recalling the lost joys and the thrilling sensation of sharp steel against her tender skin."

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Entertaining........2007-03-08

I'm not a cutter myself, and not sure how I came across this book, but: I have to admit that this book is entertaining. You won't regret reading it but you will be disappointed because, even though that throughout the story the main character proclaims that she's not doing any of it for attention, it really does seem like she's doing all of it for attention. It's the way she goes about showing her cuts, telling others about it, and pretty much every single action she takes.... Perhaps she just didn't want to admit to her self that it was indeed all done for attention, as is usually the case with borderline personality disorder individuals.

It seemed like a relatively honest memoir, but it could have been even more so if the author would have not lied to herself so much.

Masterpiece.......2007-03-01

This book was EXTREMELY well written, and contrary to other reviews, flowed beautifully. I could not put this book down. It doesn't focus as much on the cutting as I thought it would when I bought it, but it paints a very real portrait of a 'cutter'. People have this idea of what a 'cutter' is and most imagine that a person must be a 'certain way' to have this illness, Kettlewell does an amazing job of showing how intimate and personal this illness really is and that it could and does affect many "unlikely" persons.
I would recommend this book to anyone with an open mind who would enjoy a superbly written, honest memoir.

Slim Reflections on Ending Worth the Price of the Book.......2006-11-07

Although the book lacks the great recovery narrative I was hoping for, the author does beautifully lay down a few descriptions of what it's like to be a cutter. Kettlewell writes: "It is desire, say the Buddhists, that makes us suffer. I want, I need, I hunger--I suffer. Imagine how ridding yourself of desire would ease the burden of living. . . . Frustration, humiliation, insecurity, guilt, remorse, loneliness--I cut 'em all out. They were like a poison, caustic and destructive, as though lye had been siphoned into my veins. The only way I could survive them, I thought, was to keep draining them from my blood. . . . So I cut, as one slashes at a snakebite, to drain the venom from my skin." I've not heard anything else that so aptly describes what I've been futilely trying to do when I've cut.

Finally, although many have critiqued the author's ending . . . sometimes quitting self-injury comes down to a simple choice based on a simple realization or epiphany. And, although I would've liked more narrative about what it's been like to be in recovery, the narrative she does provide gives me impetus to start my own road of recovery. This last piece is worth the price of the book: "When I stopped cutting, it was only because I could afford to, because my need for it had apparently run its natural course, like the fever the body mounts to fight off an infection, that subsides when the danger is past. . . . I could look back over the evidence of more than twenty years marked in dozens of scars. . . . I had to admit that I couldn't remember the occasion of almost any of them, their catalysts, whether epic or mundane, completely obscured by time. SO MANY MOMENTS OF SUPPOSEDLY UNENDURABLE PAIN, NOW UTTERLY FORGOTTEN. You start to think, Maybe I don't need this anymore. Maybe I never did. . . . I had no power over the flood tide of emotions that drove me to that brink, but I had the power to decide whether or not to step over. Eventually I decided not to. . . . To my surprise, instead, the terrible feelings would eventually, at last, come to an end, and I would find myself still intact. . . . Every new crisis successfully negotiated and survived inches me that much father from the event horizon of despair."

Thank you, Carolyn.

See also Alysa Phillip's "Stranger in My Skin," but forget Victoria Leatham's "Bloodletting."

"The choas in my head spun itself into a silk of silence. I had distilled myself to the immediacy of hand, blade, blood, flesh........2006-06-05

Author Caroline Kettlewell was a self-injurer, a "cutter," for over a decade. She started in seventh grade when her parents cut her off from the older boys she enjoyed hanging out with (Kettlewell was a 12-year-old faculty brat at an all-boys boarding school, so is it any wonder she was slumming around with male adolescents?). Kettlewell freely admits that she didn't understand what propelled her to cut at the time, that as a grown women she can offer many theories, but she questioned her own motives in the moment. Was she crazy? Did she want attention? What was she trying to achieve?

Kettlewell fits the profile of a self-injurer well. She was young, female, and suffering from an ancillary eating disorder, which, in itself, is about extreme control and self-punishment. Many cutters also suffer childhood sexual abuse, and while Kettlewell does not consciously recall any memories of abuse, she certainly had a troubled relationships with the opposite sex. She went through a self-described "blur" of boyfriends and was divorced within a few years of her college graduation.

Kettlewell's memoir, at its core, consists of a series of personal essays. She feels compelled to cram in discussions of therapy and of "life beyond cutting" in the last few chapters, but she hints strongly that these are compulsory chapters, and not the ones she was compelled to write. She's not offering any answers or solutions, or even much scientific evidence. This is both a strength and a weakness of the memoir. Personally, the structure of the book frustrated me. Despite consisting of less than 200 pages, the chapters number thirty-three, and many of those are two or three pages long. No delineation between chapters is obvious to the reader. In fact, in Part Two, chapters repeatedly open with either an allusion to the all-encompassing question of "why?" or a statement to the effect of, "I had no answers at the time."

Frankly, I am torn over my assessment of this memoir. It is certainly beautifully written, and Kettlewell is a master of language. I underlined many phrases to record and reflect on in my personal journal. However, it falls far short of being one of my top-recommended books on troubled childhoods or self-destructive behaviors. It lacks a clear narrative architecture and takes the form of a rambling collection of personal reflections. I didn't take away any message from it. Some may argue that the lack of a message is the strength of the memoir, so if you are seeking reflections and experiences with no larger structure, then this book is for you. My top recommended book on self-injury, however, is Bright Red Scream, which covers topics from scientific opinions to treatment options to personal anecdotes. In YA fiction, Patricia Mccormick`s Cut is recommended.

Well Written and Honest, but Too Wordy.......2005-10-22

Who knew that a book could be too wordy?
Caroline Kettlewell does an amazing job of telling her story, but it seems that she tries too hard to make it sound perfect, which makes it boring. I wouldn't recommend this to young readers.

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Skin Game : A Cutter's Memoir
Caroline Kettlewell
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Skin Game: A Memoir
Caroline Kettlewell
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin
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ASIN: B000OTE6UC

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Weasel Words: The colorful words that narrow the range of thought, inflate language, avoid responsibility, alleviate the discomfort of a waffling speaker, make the bad sound good, are at variance with the real or purported meaning, are a misnomer, euphemism, evasion, or are simply delightful forms of flim-flam identified by the two distortion detectives.

From A to Zâ€“â€“this hard-hitting, politically savvy dictionary takes on all those American evasions, put-on-holds, distortions, circumventions, obfuscations, and misleading terms that constantly besiege us in todayâ€™s â€œspinningâ€ world, as well as popular catch phrases that simply annoy. Now when you listen to politicians, academics, bureaucrats, and televisionâ€™s talking heads, or get sent on an endless round of recorded euphemisms on the telephone when you are trying desperately to get help or clarificationâ€“â€“youâ€™ll really understand what you are hearing.

The authors, both veterans of government and academia, provide a handbook for deciphering such weaseling jewels as:

Â· amicable often followed by agreement, meaning both sides were mutually disgruntled by the outcome
Â· economically disadvantaged for poor
Â· encore TV broadcast the rerun ad nauseum of previously broadcast television programs.
Â· episode a bureaucratic term used by governments and power companies to indicate a hazardous condition resulting in illness and death due to excessive pollution or radiation leaks.
Â· mild irregularity for the last unmentionable on TV, constipation.
Â· negative economic growth for recession.
Â· mobile home community for trailer park
Â· o.g.a. for â€œother government agency,â€ used by the military at overseas interrogation sites to indicate the Central Intelligence Agency
Â· sound science for anti-environmental policies that ignore scientific evidence.

The authors provide a guide to the rich and varied language of deception, evasion and cant threatening todayâ€™s society useful for students of English, business ethics, government and popular culture. They you and other connoisseurs of clear English and fed-up progressives to help them stamp out weasel words and get to the heart of whatâ€™s wrong with our society todayâ€“â€“one â€œweasel wordâ€ at a time.

From A to Zâ€“â€“this hard-hitting, politically savvy dictionary takes on all those American evasions, put-on-holds, distortions, circumventions, obfuscations, and misleading terms that constantly besiege us in todayâ€™s â€œspinningâ€ world. Now when you listen to politicians, academics, bureaucrats, and televisionâ€™s talking heads, or get sent on an endless round of recorded euphemisms on the telephone when you are trying desperately to get help or clarificationâ€“â€“youâ€™ll really understand what you are hearing.

The authors, both veterans of government and academia, search for the real meaning behind such weaseling understatements of truth as:
Â· economic adjustment for recession when business is bad;
Â· broad abstractions for unacceptable ideas,
Â· preemptive counterattack for an attack on another country when U.S. allies might not agree with our policy;
Â· pre-owned for used when disguising the age of a car;
Weaseling politically correct euphemisms such as:
Â· economically disadvantaged" for poor when politicians are downplaying their needs; and
Â· sound science for anti-environmental policies that ignore scientific evidence.

The authors invite other connoisseurs of clear English and fed-up progressives to help them stamp out weasel words and get to the heart of whatâ€™s wrong with our society todayâ€“â€“one â€œweasel wordâ€ at a time.

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An impressive and encompassing collection of thoughts and descriptively accurate views of modern American word and phrase usage.......2006-03-15

Weasle Words: The Dictionary Of American Doublespeak is an impressive and encompassing collection of thoughts and descriptively accurate views of modern American word and phrase usage. As an excellent reference for what is the true modern vernacular, sayings and understanding of what modern society has twisted the American version of the English language to elaborate or avoid political incorrectness. Very strongly recommended, especially for all non-specialist general readers with an interest in modern politics, culture and linguistics.

An excellent reference for what is the true modern vernacular.......2006-03-09

Weasel Words: The Dictionary Of American Doublespeak is an impressive and encompassing collection of thoughts and descriptively accurate views of modern American word and phrase usage. As an excellent reference for what is the true modern vernacular, sayings and understanding of what modern society has twisted the American version of the English language to elaborate or avoid political incorrectness. Very strongly recommended, especially for all non-specialist general readers with an interest in modern politics, culture and linguistics.

An excellent reference for what is the true modern vernacular.......2006-03-09

encyclopedic, entertaining dictionary of words from politics, advertising, etc........2006-02-23

You hear many of them all the time: dialogue, detainees, special event, free market, misspeak. But the authors collect numerous weasel words from government bureaucracy, the military, big business, and marketing, among other fields, that the general reader no matter how well read, is not likely to have heard of: drool-proof paper, hikikomori, MUF, helicopter parents, surgical safari. The author's define or explain each word and usually make a witty, Ambrose Bierce-type, comment on it. There's also a lot of familiar words from the news and political debate--e. g., welfare, downsizing, supply-side economics, price supports--which come in for definition according to their partisan political use. An entertaining guide to the culture and politics of the day.

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In this compelling book, which Bill McKibben calls "the most comprehensive account available of the state of our nation's oceans, and the best reporting on how they got that way," veteran journalist David Helvarg fuses his passion for the sea and his reportorial savvy into a panoramic chronicle of America's maritime history and the challenges that our coastal and marine environments face today. He dives deep into the cultures of those who know the sea in myriad ways--fisherfolk, oil-rig roughnecks, hurricane forecasters, coastal developers, navy personnel, scientists, and surfers--and profiles the growing efforts by coastal citizens and local governments to restore and protect the health of our oceans in the face of wide-open development along our coasts and offshore. Demonstrating how national policymaking on the oceans is enmeshed in a welter of competing jurisdictions, he argues for strong omnibus legislation and the creation of truly protected marine wilderness reserves.
Superbly researched, urgently written, and thoroughly updated, Blue Frontier is engrossing and essential reading for anyone concerned about saving America's ocean wilderness.

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Extremely Important Work, .......2007-01-03

There is so much solid, worthwhile information in this book, including valuable insights in why Western political interests are undermining proper representation of our national oceans, coasts, and Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) in Congress, that I would urge those interested in the oceans (hugely more important to our future than the Amazon or globla forestry, just to make the point), to buy this book, suffer its limitations, and ultimately benefit from the wisdom and experience of the author, for whom my respect is unqualified and whole-hearted. In passing, it would probably be helpful if the first thing we all demanded was that EEZ stand for Exclusive Environmental Zone, rather than treating the oceans as a for-profit target area.

There is one other information-related observation I would make that emerged from reading this book: both the United Nations and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) are clearly doing heroic and deeply important work vital to the future of the oceans--and they are doing a terrible job of communicating the basic information about the oceans and their work to the larger world of voters and concerned citizens. What really came home to me as I reflected on what to emphasize in this review is that there is a very wide, almost impenetratable, barrier between what the UN and NOAA know, and what is being communicated to the citizens who have the right to know (they paid for that information with their tax dollars) and the need to know and the desire to know. From this I would say that the next big step for those who would seek to save the oceans, is to demand that all UN and US Government information paid for by the taxpayer be put online henceforth, available at no further cost to the public. It is this information, the bullets and beans of the information war between corporate and citizen interests, that will decide the future of the oceans.

Great Book On The Plight Of The Oceans surrounding North America!.......2006-11-05

David Helvarg has done a great service for all who cherish the ocean, by showing the devastation mankind has done, is doing, and unfortunately will continue doing (in less the masses become educated on just what is happening) to all the life forms in this realm. It's not all "downer" reading, but also David gives us glimmers of "hope", and some practical solutions for positive change. This book couldn't have been revised at a better time, as of this week (!0/29 thru 11/4) a major study published in the November 3 issue of the journal Science, published by AAAS, the nonprofit science society, warns that the world's wild-caught seafood fisheries could collapse by 2048 if current commercial fishing patterns continue. This is no surprise to anyone who's read David's work. Thanks again David Helvarg for writing such an important book, and also for your tireless conservation mission for the world's oceans.

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