Nature with Children of All Ages: Activities and Adventures for Exploring, Learning and Enjoying the World Around Us (Phalarope Books)

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Nature with Children of All Ages: Activities and Adventures for Exploring, Learning and Enjoying the World Around Us (Phalarope Books)
Edith Sisson
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
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Excellent.......1999-08-17

This book was an excellent resource for choosing an Alaskan cruise!!!!!

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At first Hiram is excited to visit his hometown in Mississippi. But soon after he arrives, he crosses paths with Emmett Till, a black teenager from Chicago who is also visiting for the summer, and Hiram sees firsthand how the local whites mistreat blacks who refuse to "know their place." When Emmett's tortured dead body is found floating in a river, Hiram is determined to find out who could do such a thing. But what will it cost him to know? Mississippi Trial, 1955 is a gripping read, based on true events that helped spark the Civil Rights Movement.

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Mississippi Trial, 1955.......2007-03-30

At first, Hiram is excited about visiting his favorite grandfather in Greenwood, Mississippi. But before long, Hiram begins to feel that the small town of Greenwood is not the same place where he spent the golden years of his childhood. Then he crosses paths with Emmett Till, a black teenager from Chicago who is also visiting over the summer, and Hiram sees firsthand how local white folk treat blacks who "don't know their place." When Emmett's body is found floating in a river, Hiram is determined to make sure justice is served. But what will it cost him?

Mississippi Trial, 1955 begins during Hiram's childhood with his grandpa in Greenwood, Mississippi. His parents could not raise him at the time because Hiram's dad was in the process of getting a master's degree in English at the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss). Hiram's heart was broken when he had to move to Tempe, Arizona for his father's job. Flash forward a few years. When Hiram was sixteen, his father reluctantly decided he was old enough to go back to Greenwood for the summer. Hiram arrived there happy, but as time went on, he could not shake the feeling that something was different. Then he met Emmett Till, a nice young black boy from Chicago. Hiram and Emmett see each other a few times at the Tallahatchie River, where Hiram played and shared food with Emmett (it was a little unusual down there for whites to hang out with blacks, but Hiram didn't mind). A few days later, a body of a young black man was found in that same river. Hiram thinks he knows something about the hate crime. A day before, Hiram's racist friend, RC Rydell, said something about planning to murder a black boy. Meanwhile, there is a huge media blow-up throughout the country about this cruel crime, so Hiram tells the country sheriff about what he heard. Hiram was subpoenaed to the impending trial to present his evidence, despite his grandfather's misgivings about it. At the trial, the defendants, Mr. Bryant and Mr. Milam, explained how Emmett had made rude gestures to Mrs. Bryant the day before the homicide, but neither of them had killed Emmett. The plaintiff, Emmett's uncle Mose, said that Emmett had been kidnapped by the two men and driven off, never to be seen again. However, there was another man in the car, a blue Ford pickup truck by the looks of it. Just as he was about to testify about RC, Hiram discovered that RC had not even been in town the night of the murder, so it could not have been him. The all-white jury found Bryant and Milam innocent of all charges, even though they, in fact, did kill the young man. The morning after the trial, a few men came to pick up grandpa's blue Ford pickup after they bought it from him a couple days beforehand. Grandpa claimed the transmission went bad, but Hiram was not so sure. Finally, Ralph Remington, a neighbor who would talk in circles to anyone, told Hiram the real story of what had happened. Grandpa had been the third man in the pickup and had sold the truck to remove the evidence and perhaps, a little of his guilt. Hiram felt sick to his stomach, as if his whole world was crashing down. A couple days later, Hiram went back home to Tempe, where he and his father finally saw eye-to-eye... Dad had been right, the south was not a good place to be.

Mississippi Trial, 1955 is an excellent book to spite the sad reality of events. There is happiness as well to balance it out in this historically accurate story.

There were many examples of sadness in Mississippi Trial. One was when Hiram was a child, his grandma died. Hiram was very much upset, because he had lived with his grandparents for so long. Another example of sadness was when Hiram's new friend, Emmett Till, was found brutally murdered in the Tallahatchie River. The last bit of sadness was when Hiram discovered that his grandfather, whom he had known and trusted all his life, was part of the group who killed Emmett. That was like the final blow - Hiram felt broken after that.

The examples of happiness in Mississippi Trial were sparse, but nonetheless, they were there. One happy moment was when Hiram's father granted him permission to go back to Greenwood, the small town Hiram loved. Another was when he saw Naomi, the girl whom he rather liked, again. Hiram was happy because now he had someone who would criticize him when he talked about everything that was going on. The last example of happiness in the book was when Hiram and his dad made up when he came home - they did not always see eye-to-eye and they always argued.

Mississippi Trial was historically accurate in many ways, although the story about Hiram and his family was all fiction. One historically correct aspect of the book was, of course, the cold-blooded murder of Emmett Till, which aroused the entire nation. Another historically correct part was when Hiram's grandfather explained to Hiram that the Jim Crow Laws were the only thing keeping the southern schools segregated. The last major historically correct element of the story were how the jury was all white men, how the black people had to sit in the back of the courthouse, and how grandpa, a cotton farm owner, said the only reason black people were put on the Earth was so they could work the fields.

Mississippi Trial, 1955 was a very good book - I would recommend it to anyone who is looking for a good historically correct story, but does not mind a little bit of sadness mixed I as well, although there was happiness to balance things.

-Elizabeth H =]

Mississippi Trial, 1955.......2007-03-18

Welcome to the Delta. Back in 1955, slavery was still the way of life in Mississippi. No one cared about crimes committed to colored people. When a young colored boy is murdered for whistling at a white woman, no one but a young white boy, Hiram Hillburn, cared. I recommend this book to people who like reading about history.
This book really makes you appreciate the basic rights that we take for granted every day no matter what color or sex you are. Nowadays if you murder someone, you will suffer the consequences. The two men that murdered the colored boy, Emmit Till, got away with the murder with no punishment just because they were white.
Chris Crowe did an extremely good job of writing this book. The way he describes everything puts a descriptive picture in your mind. When a bully named R.C. Rydell was messing with Emmit Till, you can actually picture R.C. shoving fish guts all over Till's face. You can also see the tears dripping down the cheeks of Till's loved ones.
Suspense is a key factor in a book, but this book barely had any suspense. Once you figure out about the trial, you can already assume how the book is going to end by the reaction of the people in the Delta. Nobody cared about the murder, and some were happy about it because "it showed colored people their place".
This was a mediocre book. It wasn't horrible, but it wasn't good enough. Sometimes it just got really boring and you get tempted to put the book down and never pick it up again. Like when Hiram was dreaming about Naomi Rydell, R.C.'s sister. I only recommend this book to people who like reading about history.
D. Clayton

Unoriginal.......2007-02-26

This novel, Mississippi Trial, 1955 is a fictionalized account of the actual events that happened around the murder of Emmett Till. However, many of the plot elements are unoriginal and very similar to To Kill a Mockingbird.

Mississippi Trial, 1955.......2007-02-17

This book is about a boy named Hiram who goes to stay with is Grandpa in Greenwood, Mississippi. While there he meets an African American boy named Emitte Till. They became good friends. When Emitte is found dead floating in the river. Hiram sets out to find out who it was that killed him.
I thought this book was very good. It is a Non-Fiction book based on a true story. It is a great mystery.

Li-Hsin's book review.......2006-12-04

The title of this book is Mississippi Trial, 1955. The author is Chris Crowe who is a professor of English at Brigham Young University. He has written other books about racial causes and this book was written in 2002. The story takes place in Greenwood, Mississippi. This book is about when there was much racial injustice in the south of the United States. It sees this injustice from the point of view of a teenager.
The main characters are Hiram and his grandfather. Hiram is a sixteen year old boy who lives in Arizona, but in the summers, he visits his grandfather in Mississippi. His grandfather has lived in the Deep South all of his life and actually, Hiram grew up there. One other character, R.C. Rydell, is also important to the story.
The main idea of the story is that a boy Emmett, a black boy, is found shot, dead floating in a river. R.C. told Hiram that he going to talk with Emmett before he was killed. R.C. was a bit of a bully. There are three men who took Emmett away and were going to kill him because they thought that he was rude to a white woman. When Emmett was found dead, two of these men were accused of killing him. It was brought to trial and the judge decided that there was not enough evidence to convict them. However, Hiram still thought that the third fellow was R.C..
My least favorite part was when Hiram went with his grandfather to check the cotton fields. Hiram saw that his grandpa was not nice to the black workers. Hiram was not accustomed to this attitude toward other people.
I give this book four and one half stars out of five because I understand more about racial issues and the issues raised in this book upset me. It was sad to read this book and see that people really do this. I want to add that I liked how the author wrote the book and used such specific details to describe feelings and actions. I would recommend this book for others to read.

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Mississippi Trial, 1955
Chris Crowe
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Research in whale origins is now in an explosive phase, with a cascade of discoveries adding to our understanding of the evolutionary pattern and a suite of new techniques being applied to address new questions. The objective of this volume is to provide a snapshot of this explosion. The volume paints the scene with a broad brush. Taken together the chapters clearly indicate that cetacean origins is a field that is dynamic, multidisciplinary, and that the end of the explosive phase is not in sight.

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'Up to now, a 'state of the art' summary of research on whale origins has not been available. This book admirably fills that void and should be added to the library of any serious mammologist or paleomammalogist.'
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This work should serve as an introductory text for graduate students and researchers working in the important area of partial differential equations with a focus on problems involving conservation laws. The only requisite for the reader is a knowledge of the elementary theory of partial differential equations. Key features of this work include: Broad range of topics, from the classical treatment to recent results, dealing with solutions to 2-D compressible Euler equations Good review of basic concepts (1-D Riemann problems) Concrete solutions presented, with many examples, over 100 illustrations, open problems, and numerical schemes Numerous exercises, comprehensive bibliography and index Appeal to a wide audience of applied mathematicians, graduate students, physicists, and engineers Written in a clear, accessible style, the book emphasizes more recent results that will prepare readers to meet modern challenges in the subject, that is, to carry out theoretical, numerical, and asymptotical analysis.

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Still the most popular of Hemingway's books, The Sun also Rises captures the quintessential romance of the expatriate Americans and Britons in Paris after World War I. The text provides a way for discussions of war, sexuality, personal angst, and national identity to be linked inextricably with the stylistic traits of modern writing. This Casebook, edited by one of Hemingway's most eminent scholars, presents the best critical essays on the novel to be published in the last half century. These essays address topics as diverse as sexuality, religion, alcoholism, gender, Spanish culture, economics, and humor. The volume also includes an interview with Hemingway conducted by George Plimpton.

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Ernest Hemingway's 'The Sun Also Rises': A Casebook.(Book Review): An article from: The Hemingway Review
Albert J., III DeFazio
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This digital document is an article from The Hemingway Review, published by Ernest Hemingway Foundation on March 22, 2003. The length of the article is 1491 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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This is a great book!.......2006-02-02

As a homeschooling family with 6 children, this book has been used frequently. It is a classic. Fr. Lovasik carefully, and concisely, relates the stories of true Christian heros. The illustrations on every page are lovely. This book inspires readers to live the virtues of faith, hope, and charity.
Our children have enjoyed this book immensely. It also makes a great gift.

Pretty Interesting Book..........2005-06-10

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information & nice illustraitions of over 100 saints.
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them to intercede for me,it's just inspiring to read
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Provocative, refreshing...Calder's grasp of both history and international affairs are impressive, as one might expect of a scholar of his stature...--South China Morning Post

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Thorough review of recent situation, analysis somewhat dated.......2000-06-14

The author did an excellent job of reviewing recent developments (as of 1997) in East Asian security affairs and provided a wealth of information and useful data. He also astutely identified the looming energy crisis in East Asia as the greatest threat to long term regional security.

Unfortunately, as is often the case with analyses of this nature, subsequent turns of events rendered some of his points moot. Under current circumstances some of his arguments appear dated. Yes, China's appetite for foreign oil has continued to balloon but the abject dependency on the Middle East and the vital sea lanes of South-East Asia has failed to materialize. Instead, China has looked closer to home in the direction of ex-Soviet central Asia. The Chinese have invested heavily in oil fields and pipelines in Kazakhstan, increasing Chinese stake significantly in the hornets' nest of a region and laying what can be the fuse to an explosive conflict with Russia. The author touched upon these areas only lightly.

The author was also too ready to dismiss the effectiveness of global trading regimes such as the GATT (the precursor to the WTO) and emphasize the rising tide of economic regionalism. But perhaps there's nothing sinister behind the rising share of intra-regional trade - it could be just that people prefer to trade where the routes are short and the transport costs are low. Ironically increasing liberalization of the global capital market may contribute to the rising share of regional trade, as multinationals invest locally to produce for the regional market.

In the end, in a world of freer trade and greater economic integration, no nation will have much incentive to embark upon risky military adventures to obtain what can be more easily obtained in the market. For this reason alone we should wish the WTO well, for although free trade alone does not guarantee prosperity for all, it does increase the likelihood of peace.

In the event of the failure of trade liberalization, we may well find ourselves in a deja vu world of triangulation between the US, China and Russia, this time along economic self-interests instead of ideological lines. This is a prospect that the author did not forsee, for - perhaps reflecting an extensive background in Japanese studies - he envisioned a triangular stand-off between the US, China and Japan. This is somewhat unlikely, as in the face of a much greater common Russian threat, China and Japan will find their interests broadly aligned. The current obsession with containing Chinese ambitions in the Pacific may prove misplaced, and the real flash point may be between that of an East Asian camp led by China confronting a Russian-Islamist alliance cemented by oil, quite apart from Israeli-Palestinian politics.

Nonetheless, the book is worth a read for the great store of information that it contains.

Useful regional review [US view] Prediction flawed by events.......1999-01-29

Asia's Deadly Triangle: How arms, energy and growth threaten to destabilize Asia-Pacific It is tempting to assume that this book was written throughout as an introduction to Chapter 10. In turn that chapter may have helped get a job as Senior Adviser to the US State Department for East Asian and Pacific Affairs. That post attained, a sensitive person might now want to forget having written and published some of the chapters only a year or two earlier. The ten `Precepts' of Chapter 10 still seem useful for an Adviser. Their presentation there suits the earlier title Pacific Defense, possibly subtitled as defense of US interests in the North China Sea. To be sure - a phrase that appears a lot - the advice should be considered by any smaller power dabbling in the region. Players within the region of course need to know as much as possible about major contributions to US thought. If some of the advice feels like motherhood statements, Mother does sometimes know best. The perils on the horizon at publication time related to an expected energy crisis. The region, using ever more oil, is nearing the end of proven reserves. Imports are steadily rising. Several of the largest military forces on earth are/were rapidly acquiring more sophisticated weaponry in line with growing prosperity. The dangers are assumed to be most concentrated in the "Northeast Asian Arc of Crisis that surrounds Japan" (p.ix). The description probably sits well in briefing papers, but not so well as a locator on a map. A number of the threats make considerable sense, but could be helped by further explanation. The link in time of Chinese ambit claims in the adjoining sea to oil exploration there is made. A map even shows the extent of Chinese claims, but not of the suggested oil rich regions, in the South China Sea. In terms of time and space it is fascinating that "China's most ambitious claims" are said, possibly like one of the early tragic explorers, to "..expire virtually within sight of Indonesia." Among the dangers foreseen, people without predictions in print may be happy that they were therefore spared other omissions. The nuclear rumblings under the Indian Subcontinent can possibly be inferred, but only from references to India's "undeclared" (p.129) nuclear capacity. Pakistan does not figure, except possibly as a buyer of missile technology. It is unfair but irresistible to note (table, p.129) description of the US as "undeclared" under the heading `nuclear capacity'. More serious, and apparently invisible, has been the wave of currency instability. On p.153 there is a very favourable reference to "interdependent global currency markets" ..which.. "handle well over $1 trillion a day in transactions with remarkable ease." That this is around ten times the `daily GLOBAL national product' escapes comment. It is certainly not flagged as an element of risk. A sentence on p.20, "Southeast Asian economies, however, are thus spared the roller-coaster oscillations of Northeast Asia and glide along on a more even keel", might now be modified. Despite such apparent weaknesses of the initial analysis, the Precepts of Chapter 10 are still worthy of attention. If there is an important weakness in the precepts, it may be `super-power consciousness'. It is taken for granted that all parties involved in the region need access to, and means to analyse, plentiful information. Carried from earlier chapters is an implication; that an information collection agency can always be improved by increasing its staff. Some of the shorthand historical insights, and consequent time frames, would be subject to discussion by fellow commentators. On p.24 there is an implication that ICBMs on nuclear submarines were deployed "throughout the Cold War". The one paragraph description of several centuries of European Balance of Power diplomacy on p.127 short changes several motifs. On p.169 there is a sentence starting "Had the Gulf War not ended so rapidly and successfully, from a US perspective,...." There is also an implication on p.199 that US involvement in WWI had it embroiled in a major war in the Pacific. Some technological assertions need further consideration. Much of the description of nuclear power equates reactor plutonium with material suitable for bombs on a short time scale. Validity of that equation depends critically on the definition of a short time scale. The assertion on p.203 that "energy is fungible" may refer only to oil. Even so, a different petroleum source may involve major modification of refinery plant. A paragraph about alternative energy on p.204 swings rather widely in evaluation of existing initiatives without reference to source documents. Long distance "superconductive power lines" are suggested for serious exploration. The appropriate time scale for that may well eclipse those for the rest of the book. Production is agreeably light on `typo's. The word `withdrawl' (p.93) somehow escaped any spell checker. That spell checker would miss `large commercial bands' - presumably `banks' - on p.176. Likewise `as its early driving course' - presumably `force' - on p.194. One might attribute such glitches to production by dictaphone with occasional lapses in proof reading. One reason to doubt that diagnosis is the number of `blockbuster' sentences. At approximately 12 words per line, four line sentences, sometimes more than one per page, must be considered excessive. Five line sentences are easily found but fortunately less frequent. The ten line sentence running from p.207 onto p.208 is rendered less daunting by use of a colon and two semicolons. If a second edition is considered, drastic simplification of syntax should be made. It should also be possible to restructure so that the same information is not repeated in several places. The book seems strongest in foreshadowing political responses to predicted stresses in the region. It does not shine in predicting all sources of emerging stresses. Accurate prediction is, however, disastrously rare. Those studying the region would do well to add the book to their reference shelves.

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Warriors of the Rainbow: A Chronicle of the Greenpeace Movement
Robert Hunter
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