Lewis and Clark's Mountain Wilds: A Site Guide to the Plants and Animals They Encountered in the Bitterroots

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The genera Scopulariopsis Bainier, Microascus Zukal, and Doratomyces Corda (Mycological papers)
F. J Morton
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Such a shame it's out of print!.......2001-08-21

I can't believe this book is out of print. Didn't the Astronomical Society of the Pacific carry it?

It succeeds at its unique role: a travel guide for the scientifically inclined. It notes the problem that one can easily walk right by places of great importance in the history of science that are in the immediate vicinity of places everyone knows, mainly for lack of a handy summary of where they are. One example of this is the old Cavendish lab in Cambridge, the nursery of the atomic age and where the genetic code was deciphered, is barely 100 m from Kings College, the most popular tourist spot in the city. Another is the plaque at Oxford commemorating where Robert Boyle did experiments with his air pump, built by Robert Hooke, who built a microscopy and discovered living cells. (If they'd been awarding them at the time, would that have been two Nobel prizes, or three?) It's just down the street from All Souls College.

This book is also a pleasant read, not bad for first-class history of science. The organization is unusual, being geographical, but then, it is a travel guide. Still, the history is thorough and well written: I wish I could use it as a text in a history of science course I will probably be teaching next year.

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Freedom!

It's the moment Alice has been looking forward to for years -- her sixteenth birthday is coming up, and that means getting her driver's licence, with the freedom that entails. And before that important milestone, there's another delicious taste of freedom awaiting Alice and her friends -- a class trip to New York City, promising some serious partying once chaperones have gone to bed.

But sophomore year and driving lessons are a lot harder than Alice thought they would be, and then there's the problem with her new boyfriend, who is sometimes too attached to her. The older Alice gets, the more complicated her life seems to become.

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A Book I Will Always Love.......2007-03-24

Alice on Her Way is such a good book that I have read it 7 times! I think this book is one of the most realistic books I have ever read. Alice is a 16 year old girl trying to figer things out. Her boyfriend is too needy, her friend is having Mom issues, and Alice just can't pass her driving test. But though all this Alice ends up figuring things out. I am 10 years old but I think you shoudn't read this unless your about 13-14.
This book was great. READ IT!

Alice Alice Alice.......2006-10-29

I hate this book. It was pointless and sometimes gross. It was just another gossip girly story with nothing to it.???whats the point??? Alice on her way , alice in lace ,simply alice , including alice. Alice alice alice bloody bloddy blah. *im sorry i seem angry*

anyway, this book wasnt well written and didnt have anything too it. i thought it was just a waste of my time. I didn't make me ever wan't to read anymore alice alice , oh alice books!

i liked it.......2006-10-27

i really liked this book. it was funny, and i really think that i could relate to it. the author can really relate to teenage girls.

BEST ALICE BOOK YET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.......2005-11-30

This Alice book (out of ALL of them) is definetly THE BEST!! Alice gets a new boyfriend, goes to New York City, and gets her driver's lincense. Many things happen to Elizabeth and Pamela too. I won't give away anymore, as I have probably given away too much. YOU GOTTA READ THIS ALICE BOOK!!!!!!!!!

Girl from Northern California(San Francisco).......2005-10-20

In this book (Alice on Her Way) she is going to NYC,one of the best cities in U.S.A. She's been to Chicago(another great city)but NYC? She REALLY wants to go there.Also her dad makes her go to a church so she can learn about sex. She and her boyfriend break up. In NYC she and her friends sneak out of the hotel and have blast.

Calls to Mystic Alice: A Psychic & Her "Spooks" Explain Karma, Reincarnation & Everything Else You Forgot on Your Way to Ea

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Spooks make for an excellent read!
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Calls to Mystic Alice: A Psychic & Her "Spooks" Explain Karma, Reincarnation & Everything Else You Forgot on Your Way to Ea
Alice Rose Morgan
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Alice Rose Morgan, who has been giving psychic readings over the telephone long before it became a trend, has a friendly nickname for the spirits guiding her-spooks. At their urging, she has poured seventy-one years of acquired wisdom into this eye-opening book, answering questions about psychic phenomena, soul groups, the nature of God, and our purpose on earth. Her amazing stories-true-life experiences of her own and her callers-illuminate the strange and wondrous: past life memories, messages from loved ones yet to be born or already passed on, psychic healing, karmic backlash, and countless lessons from the astral plane. This psychic grandmother's sparkling humor and warmth shines through as she gives sound advice on finding love, dealing with death, using affirmations, and understanding our objective for this incarnation. She also shares practical tips for healing, communicating with the departed, solving problems through dreams, and uncovering our innate psychic skills.

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Spooks make for an excellent read!.......2007-09-26

I enjoyed this book from the moment I began reading. It is filled with information touching on a myriad of subjects. Her use of the word Spooks tickled me, thinking to myself that our guides and protectors on the "other side" must have a wonderful sense of humor!! She and her family weave a rich tapestry of talented individuals with fascinating experiences. ( Her husband who is a dream interpreter I find particularly interesting. I could only hope that one day he would write a book on how he mastered the art of interpretation giving us a peek at how symbols speak to him.) I believe anyone reading this book will find Alice, her spooks, friends, clients and family most fun to read about. I'd love to have 30 minutes available to speak with Alice myself......it would be, I am sure, interesting, humorous, and most likely very informative.

Mystic Alice And Her Spooks Really Deliver.......2007-05-30

Calls To Mystic Alice is a paperback trade book I found at a bookstore during a trip to Las Vegas. I enjoyed it so much that I put aside a new Sylvia Browne book to finish this one first.

Alice Rose Morgan is a senior citizen with a lively wit and some great stories to share. Alice has done readings for people (usually over the phone) for over 30 years. Her husband is a dream interpreter, her children are all psychic and her mother was also a psychic reader.

Alice is assisted in her readings by her guides. She calls them "Spooks" and says they don't mind her nickname for them. In this book Alice looks back on her career as a psychic reader and shares some of the most touching stories about contact with loved ones after death. She also covers the topics of reincarnation, searching for a soul mate, how to accept death without fear, what and how does karma work, overcome phobias and dream interpretation.

I found this book to be a funny, fast read that I just couldn't put down. I even carried it in my purse to read during trips to restaurants or move theaters (I hate the previews). What impressed me the most was how Alice was honest and willing to share the stories of her own family to illustrate the points she covers in the book. This book is a highly recommended read!

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Excellent book. .......2006-07-12

This book is a good read for the novice or knowledgeable person interested in the after-life, karma, what the future holds, and more. The writer is also quite humorous and I found myself laughing outloud on the airplane. Excellent book. I can't wait for the next.

The treasure of the land,: How Alice won her way,

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The treasure of the land,: How Alice won her way,
Garrard Harris
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In Quantitative Trait Loci: Methods and Protocols, a panel of highly experienced statistical geneticists demonstrate in a step-by-step fashion how to successfully analyze quantitative trait data using a variety of methods and software for the detection and fine mapping of quantitative trait loci (QTL). Writing for the nonmathematician, these experts guide the investigator from the design stage of a project onwards, providing detailed explanations of how best to proceed with each specific analysis, to find and use appropriate software, and to interpret results. Worked examples, citations to key papers, and variations in method ease the way to understanding and successful studies. Among the cutting-edge techniques presented are QTDT methods, variance components methods, and the Markov Chain Monte Carlo method for joint linkage and segregation analysis.

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:The author of this volume defines a diffusion flow for a variational problem lacking completeness related to the geometry of a contact form a a and a vector field u in its kernel. He analyzes the ends of the flow lines and finds them to be of two types: one involving periodic orbits of the Reeb (Hamiltonian) vector field x, and the other where asymptotes occur. In the most general case these turn out to be periodic motions for x up to quantic jumps of a very special type along u. He shows that the mathematical results and the physical interpretation fit and provide new points of view useful in the foundations of quantum mechanics.

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It's very good !.......1999-06-12

i just want to read the 2nd chap

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In 1940, when an automobile accident prematurely claimed Nathanael West's life, he was a relatively obscure writer, the author of only four short novels. West's reputation has grown considerably since then and he is now considered one of the 20th century's major authors. This superb volume, edited by Sacvan Bercovitch, compiles all of West's novels and a great number of other documents, including stories, plays, and letters. Novels and Other Writings is the most complete West now available in a single volume. Film buffs will be particularly fascinated by Miss Lonelyhearts, which served as the basis for two intriguing movies and The Day of the Locust, West's final novel, which many consider to be the most withering attack on Hollywood ever written. Among the papers included in this collection are a never-filmed screenplay, Before the Fact, and a screen treatment of West's novel A Cool Million.

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The man who burned Los Angeles.......2005-04-30

The quartet of piquant short novels Nathanael West had published by the time he died in a car accident at the age of thirty-seven occupy a unique niche in American literature. A Hollywood screenwriter who migrated from studio to studio in search of sustenance, West was a humorist with a warped conscience, a young man who had fraudulently gained admission to Brown University and probably belonged there anyway, an intellectual misfit trying to make a living and a name for himself in a glitzy industry. Like Kafka with a comic-strip aesthetic, West saw the world and the people around him as the tortured products of an insane creator, cartoons to be stretched, punched, and mutilated.

"Few things are sadder than the truly monstrous," West observes in "The Day of the Locust," the last of his novels, which made an indelible impression upon me when I first read it a few years ago. Ironically, sadness is definitely not the note he strikes in his portrayal of a congregation of hilarious cretins who populate the fringes of 1930s Hollywood; it is a very brash and "loud" novel, but incredibly it is more refined and less outrageous than its three predecessors. The surrealistic narrative of "The Dream Life of Balso Snell," by contrast, is not to be read with a queasy stomach. The unassuming Mr. Snell happens upon a giant wooden horse--apparently the same the ancient Greeks used to infiltrate Troy--and, entering through the posterior, finds the intestines inhabited by unhinged writers in search of an audience.

In "Miss Lonelyhearts," the title character (who is a man) is an advice columnist for a newspaper, unable to muster anything better than empty platitudes in response to tearful letters from barely literate and improbably pathetic losers who are mostly beyond help. He is not, however, doing this just as a hoax; he approaches his role soberly because the trust his correspondents place in him forces him to "examine the values by which he lives." If "Miss Lonelyhearts" seems farcical, consider how accurately it prophesies the Jerry Springer era of televised dirty laundry and voluntary public embarrassment.

"A Cool Million" is a relentlessly cruel Horatio Alger parody that follows the misadventures of Lemuel Pitkin, a Vermont boy who goes to New York to try to make a fortune in order to save his mother's house from foreclosure but is foiled continually as he encounters an endless procession of human sleaze: corrupt businessmen, brutish cops, brothel operators and their clientele, rapists, thieves, and con men. (The screen story West wrote for "A Cool Million"--a project never filmed--is understandably so much cleaner and more optimistic that it hardly resembles the original novel.)

The four novels combined constitute only half of the Library of America volume, the rest of which includes miscellaneous fragments, plays, and letters. Among the detritus are the unsuccessful play "Good Hunting," a relatively conventional satire of war and war correspondence, an unfilmed screenplay based on Francis Iles's novel "Before the Fact" (a different screenplay by another author was used by the studio instead, and was filmed by Alfred Hitchcock as "Suspicion"), and a college essay praising Euripides to the stars. This juxtaposition effectively illuminates the two dichotomous worlds of West--the true artist and the commercial hack, the grotesque emerging from the mundane.

Artless?.......2003-05-28

It's beyond me how anyone could describe the prose of Lonelyhearts and Locust as "artless" (as one reviewer did). I can understand how some might find the bitterness and despair of these two works not to their liking. But artless? Years after reading these two novels, I can recall entire passages by heart and picture the scenes vividly. Such effects are not achieved by artless amateur writers, only by those with considerable literary talent.

That said, I must agree with the other reviewers here: The remaining stuff collected by LOA is distinctly second-rate, the product of West on a bad day or before he reached his stride. Only if you are a scholar researching twentieth-century American novelists should you buy this volume. Get the inexpensive paperback book published by New Directions, containing the two imperishable works Lonelyhearts and Locust.

Is LOA Running Out of Good American Authors?.......2002-10-18

As a long-standing and avid reader of the fiction volumes produced by the Library of America, I eagerly awaited this book and now I can't understand why they printed it. I stopped reading after about 400 pages and haven't been able to garner the energy and patience for more. 'Miss Lonelyhearts' was slightly interesting, but a very slight novel written in an artless manner. As for the rest of what I read, I consider it time not at all well spent. Dreiser, another author featured by the Library of America, created artless prose also...but he did so in the context of engaging stories that offered intellectual stimulation. I'll give this book away rather than have it consume valuable shelf space.

Of Greater Academic than Casual Interest.......2002-06-15

Little known during his lifetime, Nathanael West is today considered one of the 20th Century's most influential authors, a writer whose pitch-black satires focus on the emptiness of an American society choking on its own regurgitated mythology. His reputation rests squarely upon two works: MISS LONELYHEARTS, the tale of a newspaper advice columnist who is overwhelmed by the tragedies of those who write to him for advice, and THE DAY OF THE LOCUST, a savage vision of American society turning upon the illusions fosted upon them by a Hollywood mentality.

Both MISS LONELYHEARTS and LOCUST are powerful works, every bit as vital and unnerving today as when they were first published in the 1930s; I recommend both very strongly. But the remainder of West's cannon is extremely problematic. Like the little girl with the curl, when West was good he was very, very good, and when he was bad he was horrid. And with its inclusion of his lesser writings, this Library of America anthology gives us a detailed tour of the latter.

THE DREAM LIFE OF BALSO SNELL, West's first novel, was an experimental tale that parodies intellectual pretentions through religious, mythological, and aesthetic motifs--but while it has a number of fascinating ideas and conceits, it is at best an interesting failure. A COOL MILLION, West's third novel, is a satire on the Horatio Alger myth; it is considerably more readable than SNELL, but it lags far behind both LONELYHEARTS and LOCUST.

The rest of the anthology consists of a failed Broadway play, an unfilmed screenplay, unpublished stories and fragments, juvenalia, and personal letters. Both the play and screenplay--GOOD HUNTING and BEFORE THE FACT respectively--are written very much against the grain; it is not difficult to see why the play failed and director Hitchcock (who filmed BEFORE THE FACT as SUSPICION) ordered a completely new script. The remaining items are mediocre at best, dire at worst, and although West's letters are interesting from a historical standpoint they have no literary merit per se.

West's life was cut short by an automobile accident just as he seemed to be finding his true voice, and it is interesting to speculate on how his writing might have developed if he had lived to write more. This is an important collection--but it's importance is largely of an academic nature rather than a literary one, of more interest to the serious student of American literature than to a casual reader. If you fall into the latter catagory, I strongly recommend that you read MISS LONELYHEARTS and DAY OF THE LOCUST (both of which are available in inexpensive editions) rather than purchase this particular volume--and only after, if you like so many others among us find yourself fascinated by West's work, contemplate purchase of this anthology.

hard work by Harvard grad students.......2000-04-30

Thanks to the efforts of a bunch of Harvard grad students, this is the only book you need to become a cocktail party expert on Nathanael West (born Nathan Weinstein, 1903; died in Hollywood in 1940). My favorite part of the book is the capsule biography in the back. He drops out of high school (like me!) and alters his transcript to get into Tufts. He flunks out of Tufts but gets hold of a transcript for another Nathan Weinstein, who was apparently a pretty good student. He uses this to get into Brown and becomes an Ivy League graduate in 1924.

Oh yes, the writing... West's prose could easily pass for a New Yorker story circa 1985. Furthermore, his characters behave a lot like our contemporaries. None of this struck me as remarkable but I think it accounts for why he was so widely admired by good writers of his day and so roundly ignored by readers during the 1930s (perhaps 6,000 copies of his books were sold during his lifetime). Even if his writing style hadn't been so modern, releasing the bleak Miss Lonelyhearts in 1933 cannot have been an inspired marketing idea (the publisher went bankrupt just as the book was released).

If you want to read just one West novel, my personal choice would be Day of the Locust (1939), his last work. It is about the people destroyed by their dreams of California and Hollywood, seen through the eyes of a journeyman studio artist. He's obsessed with an aspiring actress, Faye Greener: "Her invitation wasn't to pleasure, but to struggle, hard and sharp, closer to murder than to love. If you threw yourself on her, it would be like throwing yourself from the parapet of a skyscraper. You would do it with a scream. You couldn't expect to rise again. Your teeth would be driven into your skull like nails into a pine board and your back would be broken. You wouldn't even have time to sweat or close your eyes."

The strangest novel in the collection is A Cool Million, wherein a Candide-like young man, Lemuel Pitkin, goes out to make his fortune in what a variety of Panglosses keep telling him is the Land of Opportunity. As in a Horatio Alger story, Pitkin meets a lot of rich and powerful men who are in a position to help him. West departs from Alger in that Pitkin is cheated and mutilated by all of his encounters with the rest of humanity.

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The Complete Works of Nathanael West: The Dream Life of Balso Snell; Miss Lonelyhearts; A Cool Million; The Day of the Locust.
Nathanael. West
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The Complete Works of Nathanael West : The Day of the Locust, Miss Lonelyhearts, the Dream Life of Balso Snell
Nathanael West
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The Day of the Locust and the Dream Life of Balso Snell" (Penguin Modern Classics)
Nathanael West
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The Complete Works of Nathaniel West : The Day of the Locust, Miss Lonelyhearts, the Dream Life of Balso Snell & A Cool Million
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The Complete Works Of Nathaniel West: The Day Of The locust; Miss Lonelyhearts; The Dream Life Of Balso Snell; A Cool Million
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Novels and Other Writings The Dream Life of Balso Snell, Miss Lonelyhearts, A Cool Million, The Day of the Locust
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NOVELS AND OTHER WRITINGS. The Dream Life of Balso Snell, Miss Lonelyhearts, A Cool Million, The Day of the Locust, Other Writings, Letters
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Novels and Other Writings: The Dream Life of Balso Snell, Miss Lonelyhearts, a Cool Million, the Day of the Locust, Other Writings, Unpublished Writings and Fragments, Letters
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