2 Minutes a Day for a Greener Planet

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2 Minutes a Day for a Greener Planet
Marjorie Lamb
Manufacturer: Harper & Row
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2 Minutes a Day for a Greener Planet
Marjorie Lamb
Manufacturer: Harper & Row
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ASIN: B000OF44K8

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Told by her brother Parr, this is the story of 18-year-old Evie, her Missouri farm family, and the turmoil created by Evie's love for the local banker's daughter. "Teens will be swept up in the emotion and immediacy of Parr's fast-paced narrative, his voice perfectly pitched between wit and melancholy. It's a story that challenges stereotypes, not only about love, but also about farmers and families and religion and responsibility--about all our definitions of 'normal.'"—BL. "Unquestionably, this is the best Kerr in years, if not ever."—V.

1995 Best Books for Young Adults (ALA)
1995 Recommended Books for Reluctant Young Adult Readers (ALA)
1995 Fanfare Honor List (The Horn Book)
1995 Books for the Teen Age (NY Public Library)
1994 Best Book Honor Award (Michigan Library Association)

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A Little Flat.......2007-02-09

Evie has always been different from most other people in her world. She lives on a farm with her parents and her two brothers, and despite her mother's best efforts she refuses to be more feminine. Her brothers Doug and Parr defend her the best that they can and everyone else in the family ignores her strange dress and actions. She is set to inherit the family's farm with Doug, allowing Parr to escape to college and to a life without farming.

While Doug is away at college, Evie and Parr meet Patsy at a party. Patsy's father is an important banker in the community and has an incredible amount of power. Without Patsy's father's knowledge, Evie and Patsy begin spending a lot of time together. It becomes clear to Parr that Evie and Patsy are gay and have started dating each other. He is upset because Evie isn't doing as much around the farm anymore, and he worries that she will leave, forcing him to take over in her place.

Others in the community, including Patsy's father, are upset about the fact that the girls are lesbians. Nasty things are said to them and about them, and Patsy's father blames Evie for corrupting his daughter. Evie, though, has never been happier. Can her relationship with Patsy survive all of the obstacles in the way?

I liked that Evie was so true to herself and didn't care what others had to say about her. This story lacked much of the angst that stories about gay teenagers often have. I would have liked to have seen things from Evie's point of view, though, to get a more well rounded idea of what she was really experiencing, rather than just hearing about it from Parr.

Very good. .......2005-07-29

One of the things I liked most about 'Deliver Us From Evie' was it's length. I sat down and read it in one sitting, and once finished, the book left me feeling satisfied. I've noticed a couple of the other customer reviews saying there was not enough about Evie in the book. While the title may suggest the book is primarily about her, it does deal with Parr's life as well. Some other lesbian books I've read deal solely with the relationship, and I do enjoy those type immensely, but this book was a nice change. It gave some good insight into the minds of those close to a coming-out lesbian. While M.E.Kerr may have gone a bit far in stereotyping Evie, she was still an enjoyable character.

Not Much Evie .......2005-06-04

This story in this book is told from the perspective of Evie's younger brother. The majority of the tale is about how no one in their poor family is really happy in their small town or on their farm, so all three kids are making life plans to leave. About a third of the narrative is actually about Evie and her lesbianism/coming out via a relationship with the local bank owner's daughter.

This book is very well written, but I think the author took the lesbian stereotype too far with Evie. Also, because it is told by her brother, the book doesn't deal too well with Evie's own journey into herself. If you are a young person with someone close to you who has just come out (to the world or even to just you), this book is a good place to start learning how to provide support. If you're into your 20's or older, there are far better books available to help you deal with this subject.

Interesting..........2005-02-21

I read Deliver Us From Evie several years ago, and then I took it back to the library. Then I checked it out again... and again... there's just something there that sticks with me. I wanted to write this review because I've looked at other reviews here and wanted to add my perspective. Yes, Evie is definitly a secondary character in this story, but what a secondary character she is! She's strong, she's intense, she knows what she wants, and she goes after it. In a way, I think it's very important for her little brother, Parr, to tell the story- I don't know that there is a whole lot of literature about the siblings of LGBT people. Bottom line: I can't quite put my finger on it, but there's something about this book that's important to me.

Looks can be decieving!.......2004-12-20

Deliver us from Evie is a coming out of the closet book for teens. The book is about Evie Burrman and it is told through the eyes of her younger brother Parr. The Burrman family live on a farm typical of that area in Missouri. Evie has always been a unique girl. Out of the three children she was the one who knew how to fix many of the mechanic things though she was the girl. She dressed like a man and was a loner. Her parents especially her mother knew she was different but tried to change her. The mother thought that inviting over Cord (a boy who liked her) trying to get her to dress more womanly would change her. Everything comes full circle when the banker's daughter started befriended Evie. Parr from his narration conveys the feelings of the family especially how the mom and dad knew this was no ordinary girlfriend friendship. Parr discusses what happens when the relationship becomes known and how he and the family deal with the neighbors when rumors begin to flow. The book not only touches on Evie situation but Doug (the oldest son) going off to college and eventually deciding not taking up a life on the farm and Parr wrestling with guilt of not wanting the farm life and his coming of age with a relationship with a young lady name Angel. I think it is a great book for teens who may also be going through feelings like Evie or not sure of how they feel.

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Deliver us from Evie
M. E. Kerr
Manufacturer: Harper Collins
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ASIN: B000PFQ220

Deliver Us from Evie.(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article): An article from: The Horn Book Magazine

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Deliver Us from Evie.(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article): An article from: The Horn Book Magazine
Maeve Visser Knoth
Manufacturer: Horn Book, Inc.
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This digital document is an article from The Horn Book Magazine, published by Horn Book, Inc. on January 1, 1995. The length of the article is 334 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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Title: Deliver Us from Evie.(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
Author: Maeve Visser Knoth
Publication: The Horn Book Magazine (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 1995
Publisher: Horn Book, Inc.
Volume: v71 Issue: n1 Page: p63(2)

Article Type: Book Review, Young Adult Review, Brief Article

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Deliver Us from Evie
M. E. Kerr
Manufacturer: Harpercollins Childrens Books
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ASIN: B000OEGA06

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Mathematics is essential to the study and understanding of biochemistry yet most undergraduates do not have a grasp of maths. This book sets out all the mathematics needed for an undergraduate course in biochemistry, assuming a minimum of prior knowledge. Emphasis is placed on topics necessary for biochemists and all the examples are relevant to biochemistry. Each chapter contains illustrative boxes and worked examples and also a problem section (the answers are given in the back of the book). The book starts by covering the basic concepts of mathematics such as manipulating fractions, functions, and plotting graphs and then explains exponents and logarithms in depth. The next two chapters cover all the ordinary differentiation and integration required by the biochemist. Partial differentiation is explained in a later chapter. Chapter 6 is about solving equations (linear, simultaneous, quadratic, and higher-order) and the final chapter covers the basic ideas of statistics. Basic Mathematics for Biochemists will therefore be invaluable to all biochemistry undergraduates and will also be useful to more experienced biochemists needing to refresh their maths.

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Basic Mathematics for Biochemists
Athel Cornish_Bowden
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OKLSK2

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A well-written, comprehensive introduction to the field.......2002-08-27

Cellular Automata: A Discrete Universe is a fascinating overview of the wide variety of discrete systems researchers have developed in the past quarter-century, and how these might be used to model a range of natural phenomena, including (in the book's most speculative section) the universe itself. Illustrations are supplied in all the right places--serving to enlighten, rather than overwhelm, the reader. The list of references is superb, making the book not only a great introduction and an important reference, but also a valuable guide to the field of complexity.

disappointing.......2001-09-24

This book is clearly a labor of love and contains a great wealth of material. However, it sorely lacks focus, the presentation is unclear and the results are often out of date. Here is a selection of more particular criticisms. Many rules remain undefined and the reader has to guess their details. The writer seems to be unfamiliar with the last five years worth of research, so particularly the chapter on probabilistic CA is not worth much. Far too many parts of the book are outlines of original papers (or books) with details omitted. Many claims in the said papers are accepted without scrutiny. (Two examples: (1) There is absolutely no evidence that any cellular automaton studied by Packard and Wolfram has a shape that is close to circular. (2) It has been discovered as far back as 1989 that the famous FHP lattice gas does NOT approach the two-dimensional Navier-Stokes equation, due to the fact that viscosity increases to infinity with increasing size of a finite system.) World Scientific editors need to do a much better job.

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Wonderful bawdy.......2005-07-29

Petronius, according to the translator's notes, was a person of unidentified occupation and member of Emperor Nero's court. Chances are that Petronius got by ingratiating himself with the rich and famous, perhaps by amusing them with his stories. It's also fair to guess that he joined some of their debuaches - perhaps some of this is drawn from experience - and that the tales grew in the telling.

The story starts with the narrator Encolpius, with his friend Asclytus, and with the toyboy they share, Giton. What follows is a wandering series of encounters. They split and reunite a number of times, usually around some improbable scheme. Later on, the aging poet Eumolpus takes Asclytus' place in the story, in Giton's intimacy, and in the petty schemes with Encolpius.

At one point, Encolpius is found spying on the ecstasies offered up to one of the gods. The punishment for that lewd interlude is in kind, to have ecstasy thrust upon (and into) him beyond bearing. That's an early passage, and sets the tone for all the other adventures and escapes in this book.

Towards the end, his dissolute ways make him the Cialis poster boy. He seeks an aged witch for aphrodisiac treatment, and she gives it to him all different ways. To his dismay, many ways involve her own aged body in the treatment. A reader with a vivid imagination will see lots more humor than this 1965 translation would have dared put on paper.

But I wonder, is this really the best translation? Yes, it has some integrity - Sullivan has been careful to note breaks in the manuscript. He even adds a chapter of "fragments," too broken and disjoint to guess at. The reader doesn't get a false sense of continuity caused by the translator's patches. On the other hand, the reader doesn't get a full sense of continuity, either. On the scale from academic rendering to storytelling, I wish this were a bit more in the storytelling direction. No matter, it's a great story anyway.

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Darkly Fascinating.......2002-07-17

It was not easy being a poet and scholar in Nero's day. Since the Emperor regarded himself as the poet par excellence, everyone else was ultimately disposable. Both Petronius and Seneca were ultimately requested to commit suicide and did so, lest the Praetorian Guard were called in to "assist" them.

In the earlier days of Nero's rule, when there was some possibility that his would be one of the rare enlightened reigns, Petronius and Seneca joined Nero in a regular after-dinner literary society where the humor was frequently raunchy and the sex more often than not perverted.

The SATYRICON was originally a fairly long episodic spoof of the ODYSSEY: its hero offends the God Priapus by ransacking his temple and is stricken with impotence. He and his friends and bedmates wander through Italy recounting their adventures. The only fairly intact sequence tells of a dinner by a nouveau-riche merchant named Trimalchio who holds an elegant banquet but whose base-born origins are always showing. All the rest of the episodes are fragmentary, though not without interest.

Seneca takes the recently poisoned Emperor Claudius down a peg by spoofing his deification. Starting with Julius Caesar, the Romans turned many of their leaders into gods upon their demise. Claudius -- who was by no means the nice guy portrayed in the Robert Graves books -- gets short shrift in the underworld. A clue: The title is usually translated as "The Pumpkinification of Claudius." Seneca was treading carefully here, as Nero's mother was Claudius' wife and is generally considered to have been the one who poisoned him.

These are not works that you can sit down and read as if they were novels. The introductions are not only helpful, but mandatory to understanding what follows. Both works, along with the works of Lucan, are essential to understanding this darkly fascinating period of Roman history.

A classic that should still be read...........2001-03-27

This book, when, as here it is translated well (i.e. in a fashion that renders it valid to a modern reader as opposed to one in which it is more a word-for-word translation from the Latin), is one of the funniest books of which I know. Roman literature typically seems derivative-- less real, less well-thought out than Greek stuff-- this book is one of the major exceptions to this rule.

If you know of this book and want to read it, this translation here is a good place to start. This is the first novel (whatever that means!), and just an all-around good time....

Do not read and drive!.......2000-05-31

It may be tempting, but my experience with reading this book and operating a motor vehicle came out badly. There was a red light and obviously the book was good enough that putting it down to go twelve blocks was unthinkable, but it ended up being decidedly unpleasant for myself and all involved. I would suggest carving out a couple of hours where you don't need to leave the house for this hilarious mock epic about one man's quest to regain his erection.

The Satyricon and The Apocolocyntosis of the Divine Claudius (Classics)

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The Satyricon and The Apocolocyntosis of the Divine Claudius (Classics)
Petronius , and Seneca
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Petronius: Satyricon; Seneca: Apocolocyntosis (Loeb Classical Library No. 15)

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Latin Meneppian Satire

Petronius: Satyricon; Seneca: Apocolocyntosis (Loeb Classical Library No. 15)
E. H. Warmington , Petronius , and Seneca
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Petronius (C. or T. Petronius Arbiter), who is reasonably identified with the author of this famous satyric and satiric novel, was a man of pleasure and of good literary taste who flourished in the times of Claudius (41-54 CE) and Nero (54-68). As Tacitus describes him, he used to sleep by day, and attend to official duties or to his amusements by night. At one time he was governor of the province of Bithynia in Asia Minor and was also a consul, showing himself a man of vigour when this was required. Later he lapsed into indulgence (or assumed the mask of vice) and became a close friend of Nero. Accused by jealous Tigellinus of disloyalty and condemned, with self-opened veins he conversed lightly with friends, dined, drowsed, sent to Nero a survey of Nero's sexual deeds, and so died, 66 CE.

The surviving parts of Petronius's romance Satyricon mix philosophy and real life, prose and verse, in a tale of the disreputable adventures of Encolpius and two companions, Ascyltus and Giton. In the course of their wanderings they attend a showy and wildly extravagant dinner given by a rich freedman, Trimalchio, whose guests talk about themselves and life in general. Other incidents are a shipwreck and somewhat lurid proceedings in South Italy. The work is written partly in pure Latin, but sometimes purposely in a more vulgar style. It parodies and otherwise attacks bad taste in literature, pedantry and hollow society.

Apocolocyntosis, "Pumpkinification" (instead of deification), is probably by Seneca the wealthy philosopher and courtier (ca. 4 BCE-65 CE). It is a medley of prose and verse and a political satire on the Emperor Claudius written soon after he died in 54 CE and was deified.

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Latin Meneppian Satire.......2004-08-27

These two puzzling pieces of literature fall into the playful genre of Mennepian satire, a unique method which blends prose, verse, and dialogue. In this genre, modes of interpretation are various and always open-ended; and it is usually the author's purpose to keep it as such. The first text in this volume is Petronius' Satyricon, a Latin novel which closely resembles the later work of Apuleius, The Golden Ass. The stage for the tales in the Satyricon are set in the rural south of Italy. The stories in the Satyricon are bawdy and full of everything that a hedonist of the Neronian period would agree upon. It would be somewhat unnecessary to lay out the plot line since the narrative is often times difficult to follow and the surviving text is fragmentary. Petronius' merit as an author and poet, for the most part, lies in the effect his writings had on the generations to follow. The second work in this volume is the great Seneca's Apocolocyntosis or Pumpkification of the Divine Claudius. This short work is a biting satire--which is quite humorous--aimed at the shamefully deified emperor Claudius. Essentially, it is a work which purports to "undiefy" the insane emperor and send him to Hades where he belongs. Overall, these two works are moderately enjoyable. For the poet or satirist there is a wealth of material to draw upon, for people like Erasmus and Rabelais found much to digest in them.

Apocolocyntosis (Seneca) with Satyricon (Petronius)

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Apocolocyntosis (Seneca) with Satyricon (Petronius)

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Petronius (Satyricon, Fragments, Poems); Seneca (Apocolocyntosis) (The Loeb Classical Library)

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Petronius (Satyricon, Fragments, Poems); Seneca (Apocolocyntosis) (The Loeb Classical Library)

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Contains the Latin text on one side (with some Greek text, as well), and the English translation opposite it.

Petronius: Introduction, Satyricon, Fragments, Poems and Seneca: Apocolocyntosis

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Petronius: Introduction, Satyricon, Fragments, Poems and Seneca: Apocolocyntosis
Titus and Lucius Annaeus Seneca Petronius
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The Satyricon and the Apocolocyntosis
Petronius and Seneca
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The Satyricon and the Apocolocyntosis
Lucius Annaeus Petronius; Seneca
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