Cataract Canyon

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I wish there was a book this thorough and readable for every section of the Colorado........2005-09-23

"Cataract Canyon" is an incredibly readable treasure of book, disguised by its subtitle and size as something of a textbook. But it's not just a volume of research material--though it does have excellent accounts of the area's geology, history, and ecological controversy. It's also an incredibly gripping read for anyone who loves the Colorado River, who loves rivers in general, or who loves the West. It tells the story of Cataract Canyon as one might tell an exciting narrative.
Read this book, and then visit Cataract Canyon for yourself. It will be like reading the biography of a famous historic figure, then realizing that person (although ancient) is still alive, then meeting that person and finding out she's more amazing than even the best book could ever tell.
This is an excellent, well-written, scrupulously researched book that no fan of the Colorado Plateau should be without. It contains many excellent now-and-then photos, great accounts of historical figures such as Denis Julien, and a terrific chapter on the portion of Cataract Canyon that's usually submerged beneath Lake Powell. Buy it, buy it, buy it.
(Note however that Robert Webb is only one of the book's three authors; the others include John Weisheit, Conservation Director for the environmental group Living Rivers.)

Cataract Canyon via the Green or Colorado rivers: A river runner's guide and natural history of Canyonlands

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Cataract Canyon via the Green or Colorado rivers: A river runner's guide and natural history of Canyonlands
Donald L Baars
Manufacturer: Canon Publishers
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ASIN: 0961659114

Geology of Canyonlands and Cataract Canyon

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Geology of Canyonlands and Cataract Canyon

Manufacturer: Four Corners Geological Society
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000EGZ410

Geology of the Green river Desert-cataract canyon region,: Emery, Wayne, and Garfield counties, Utah, (Geological Survey)

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Geology of the Green river Desert-cataract canyon region,: Emery, Wayne, and Garfield counties, Utah, (Geological Survey)
Arthur A Baker
Manufacturer: U.S. Govt. Print. Off
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The Great cataract" Effects of Late Holocene Debris Flows on Lava Falls Rapid, Grand Canyon National Park and Hualapai Indian Reservation, Arizona

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The Great cataract" Effects of Late Holocene Debris Flows on Lava Falls Rapid, Grand Canyon National Park and Hualapai Indian Reservation, Arizona
Robert H., Melis, Theodore S., Wise, Thomas W., Elliott, John G. Webb
Manufacturer: Bureau of Reclamation
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ASIN: B000QH1T70

River Runners' Guide to the Canyons of the Green and Colorado Rivers with Emphasis on Geologic Features (Volume 2) Labyrinth, Stillwater, and Cataract Canyons

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River Runners' Guide to the Canyons of the Green and Colorado Rivers with Emphasis on Geologic Features (Volume 2) Labyrinth, Stillwater, and Cataract Canyons
George C. & Gaskill, David L. Simmons
Manufacturer: Northland Press
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000L44ONE

Designating segments of the Colorado River in Utah within Westwater and Cataract Canyons as components of the Wild and Scenic Rivers System, and for other ... Budget Office) (SuDoc Y 1.1/8:101-842)

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Designating segments of the Colorado River in Utah within Westwater and Cataract Canyons as components of the Wild and Scenic Rivers System, and for other ... Budget Office) (SuDoc Y 1.1/8:101-842)
U.S. Congressional Budget Office
Manufacturer: U.S. G.P.O.
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ASIN: B0001051Z8

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Geology of Canyonlands and Cataract Canyon
D. L.; Molenaar, C. M. Baars
Manufacturer: Four Corners Geological Society
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Historical sites in Cataract and Narrow Canyons, and in Glen Canyon to California Bar (University of Utah. Dept. of Anthropology. Anthropological papers)

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Historical sites in Cataract and Narrow Canyons, and in Glen Canyon to California Bar (University of Utah. Dept. of Anthropology. Anthropological papers)
C. Gregory Crampton
Manufacturer: University of Utah Press
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ASIN: B0007EFCNO

Labyrinth, Stillwater, and Cataract Canyons, (River runners' guide to the canyons of the Green and Colorado Rivers, with emphasis on geologic features)

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Labyrinth, Stillwater, and Cataract Canyons, (River runners' guide to the canyons of the Green and Colorado Rivers, with emphasis on geologic features)
Felix E Mutschler
Manufacturer: Powell Society
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The bar code tattoo. Everybody's getting it. It will make your life easier, they say. It will hook you in. It will become your identity. But what if you say no? What if you don't want to become a code? For Kayla, this one choice changes everything. She becomes an outcast in her high school. Dangerous things happen to her family. There's no option but to run . . . for her life.Indivuality vs. conformity.. Identity vs. access. Freedom vs. control.The bar code tattoo.

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Thinly veiled political propaganda.......2007-08-16

The book started off so well and then it went basically into political propaganda about how the oil and medical insurance companies run everything. I was hoping that it would be something like "Gattaca" or "All the Beautiful People", but instead the people are just being segregated because of their health. Realistically, the government would want people to be made smarter and faster and not necessarily healthier (though it would be a nice bonus). I was really disappointed.

good premise, not so good writing.......2007-04-30

After reading the back of the book, I decided to read this. The premise was unique and interesting, and it sounded good. However, after reading it I regret ever having done so. The writing was poor, and the author seemed to flit from one thing to another without a thought of consistency or plot development. One moment she meets new people, then she flees again, then she suddenly develops an aptitude for telepathy. Its hard to figure out where the author is trying to go with anything, and the book as a whole was just a mess. I definitely do not recommend this.

The Best Book.......2007-03-06

I chose to read this book for my book report, i thought it was just another so-so book. I started reading it and in the beginning it was a little bland. After the first couple of chapters it's an amazing adventure. If you like this book, or at least think that you'll like it, then you'll love The Barcode Rebellion.I totally give this book a 5.

If given the choice, I would have put it down after the first page........2007-02-16

I put this book on a list for my Young Adult Literature class, but now I wish I had of saved the space...for something better. Too much is covered in this book. Trying to make me believe we're in the future fighting against the evil Global corporation that controls everything blah blah blah over does the whole book for me. Could someone please refer me to a good Science Fiction novel...for Young Adults!

Prequel to The Bar Code Rebellion.......2007-02-14

Kayla Reed thought her life was over when she didn't get an art scholarship. But that was all before her father died and the Global Officers were after her. In the year 2025, you get coded on your 17th birthday. Kayla's parents had the bar code and her best friend, Amber, had it too, so why was Kayla against it? Kayla's father never wanted the bar code, but she didn't see why until her mother claimed it killed him. Since her father died, Kayla's mother did everything to get rid of her bar code and warned Kayla not to get it. When Kayla wanted to know why, her mother always told her it wasn't safe for her to know.
The bar code tattoo started in Europe and worked its way around the world. It becomes required in the U.S. halfway into The Bar Code Tattoo. Without it you become an outcast. Funny things happen to people who get the tattoo. Some miraculously get promotions, others get demoted until they become nothing. When Kayla discovers the secret behind the tattoos, she is fully against bar codes.
I loved this book because I always wanted to know what would happen next. The Bar Code Tattoo is the prequel to The Bar Code Rebellion. Readers ages 12+ will enjoy this book as much as I did.

-Connie Liu

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Allows users to rapidly and accurately identify or describe particular species. Presents full descriptions of the major anatomical features of different invertebrate groups as well as definitions of the terms used to describe significant variations of these features. It covers 77 living invertebrate taxa, most on a phylum or class level.

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great glossary.......2006-03-13

This book is exceptionally good at providing all of the details needed for marine biology labs... the glossary is accurate and the diagrams are simple and also accurate. I've used it for teaching Marine Biology and Aquatic Biology over the past 10 years. It makes teaching the diversity of life easy!

The Invertebrates : An Illustrated Glossary

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The Invertebrates : An Illustrated Glossary
Michael Stachowitsch
Manufacturer: NY
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000MU898I

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The Invertebrates: An Illustrated Glossary
Michael Stachowitsch
Manufacturer: NY
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000MUIESS

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- Models of vibro-impact systems are widely used in machine dynamics, vibration engineering, and structural mechanics. - Only monograph on this subject in English language. - Systematically presents the theory of vibro-impact systems by analysis of typical engineering applications. - Experimental data and computer simulations are presented. - Targeted to engineers and researchers in design and investigation of mechanical systems as well as to lecturers and advanced students.

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Simple and Powerful

Oh My Papa...

Love or Lust

A good love story

A romantic story

Swift as Desire
Laura Esquivel , and Stephen Lytle
Manufacturer: Anchor
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Release Date: 2002-08-27

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Laura Esquivel's Swift as Desire, an enchanting and sensuous romance, reflects upon an undying love and the will to overcome an unspeakable tragedy. As in her bestselling novel Like Water for Chocolate, Swift as Desire is rich with metaphor, coated with magic, and very much about the power of desire. Júbilo, a telegraph operator blessed (or cursed) with the ability to hear what people feel, radiates joy from his birth. He spends his life mediating for others and salvaging their relationships, until disaster strikes his own life and causes him to question, even loathe, his supernatural gift.

He who knew that no matter how quiet the air was, there were always hearts beating, planets spinning in the heavens, bodies breathing, plants growing; and all producing sounds, but he hadn't heard anything! He hadn't heard anything!

Writing the novel as a tribute to her father (himself, a telegraph operator), Esquivel integrates her belief in the power of words. Swift as Desire is an engaging and enjoyable story that anyone with the slightest interest in a sensually romantic novel will find quite desirable, indeed. --Yvonne Schindler

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As the millions of fans of Like Water for Chocolate know, Laura Esquivel is a romanticist whose novels explore the power of love and the truths of the human heart. She returns to those themes in Swift as Desire, the story of a loving and passionate man who has the gift of bringing happiness to everyone except his own wife.

The hero of this novel is Júbilo Chi, a telegraph operator who is born with the ability to “hear” people’s true feelings and respond to their most intimate, unspoken desires. His life changes forever the day he falls deeply and irrevocably in love with Lucha, the beautiful daughter of a wealthy family. She believes money is necessary to insure happiness, while for Júbilo, who is poor, love and desire are more important than possessions. But their passion for each other enables them to build a happy life together -- until their idyll is shattered by a terrible event that drives them bitterly apart. Only years later, as Júbilo lies dying, is his daughter able to unravel the mystery behind her parents’ long estrangement and bring about a surprising reconciliation.

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Instead of entering the world crying like other babies, JÃƒÂºbilo was born with a smile on his face. He had a gift for hearing what was in people's hearts, for listening to sand dunes sing and insects whisper. Even as a young boy, acting as an interpreter between his warring Mayan grandmother and his Spanish-speaking mother, he would translate words of spite into words of respect, so that their mutual hatred turned to love. When he grew up, he put his gift to good use in his job as a humble telegraph operator.

But now the telegraph lies abandoned, obsolete as a form of communication in the electronic age, and don JÃƒÂºbilo is on his deathbed, mute and estranged from his beloved wife, Lucha, who refuses to speak to him. What tragic event has come between two such sensuous, loving people to cause their seemingly irreparable rift? What mystery lies behind the death of the son no one ever mentions? Can their daughter bring reconciliation to her parents before it is too late, by acting as an interpreter between them, just as JÃƒÂºbilo used to do for other people?

Swift as Desire is Laura Esquivel's loving tribute to her father, who worked his own lifelong magic as a telegraph operator. In this enchanting, bittersweet story, touched with graphic earthiness and wit, she shows us how keeping secrets will always lead to unhappiness, and how communication is the key to love.

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Simple and Powerful.......2007-01-04

Having reread `Like Water for Chocolate' after approximately 10 years, I got curious as to what else Laura Esquivel had written and came up with this. WOW!
This is very different to `Like Water for Chocolate', and although this story is much simpler (essentially a love story about the lives of an ordinary couple) it is just as powerful and touching - if not more so.
Definitely recommended.

Oh My Papa..........2006-03-31

This review refers to the Unabridged audio cassette edition of "Swift As Desire" by Laura Esquivel...

So... after reading "Like Water For Chocolate", also by Ms. Esquivel, and reading some of the other reviews here, I didn't figure that this was going to be anywhere near as great as LWFC had been. But the truth is, I loved this charming,sentimental,sometimes witty, sometimes sad, emotional story. I could not wait to get to it every day. If my phone or doorbell rang, I paused it right where it was, so as not to miss a second of the wonderful reading given by Ellizabeth Pena.I wanted more when it ended and left me with a lump in my throat

Jubilo, was a special human being. He had a way with words. He worked as an all important telegraph operator, long before E-mail was available. He kept people, loved ones, and businesses abreast of all situations. He seemed to have a magical way of being in tuned with the earth's messages even apart from the telegraph. He was a lover of life. Of the gifts nature provided, and the gifts he was able to give back to his wife, his family and the world.It is his story from boyhood to his dieing day, that Ms. Esquivel delights us with. How this very special man, now blind, made communication an art,hearing things as imperceptible as the movement of a grain of sand,how he loved so deeply, and how he played the hand life dealt him, whether it be great triumphs, or huge losses.

Ms Esquivel gives us magical moments with real characters, and a good taste of Mexican and Mayan traditons and heritage.The story of family,the feeling of "Not knowing what you really have, until it is gone", will take you by surprise, and linger deliciously. Elizabeth Pena's("Lone Star") reading is not only delightfully enthusiastic, but lends a great deal of authenticity to the read. She manages to find the distinguishable traits in each, to bring them to life. To feel their joys and pain.

This edition is an unabridged reading. It has some very descriptive scenes of love making, so it is probably not one you will want to play on your stereo with children about. There are 4 two-sided cassettes, with a total running time of about 6 hours.A tray with a slot for each tape, keeps them in order(may be helpful to vision impaired readers). The sound quality is very good. Sometimes, the reviews for all editions of a book are lumped together, so if it is this audio edition that you are interested in the ISBN is 0375419780. Below the picture of the couple kissing on the cover art, there is a green band that says..Read By Elizabeth Pena - Unabridged.

It is a story dedicated to the Author's own father, and after the read, you may feel the need to call your's or at least leave you with thoughts of the special gifts he gave to you.
Enjoy....Laurie

Love or Lust.......2005-04-27

Swift As Desire is the story of an intense love relationship between Don Jubilo and Lucha. Jubilo is born with a very special talent in which he is able to hear what people are thinking and feeling. This special talent bases the entire story. Jubilo finds the woman of his dreams, Lucha, when he is 15 and she is 13. They fall in love immediately and eventually marry. They suffer through many hardships mainly because Lucha cannot live with their lack of money since she is so used to living amongst wealth. Jubilo feels that money is never at all important in finding happiness. Jubilo uses his special talent to become a telegraph operator. While trying to help a friend out, Jubilo cheated someone out by using his talent in a bet. He won, and since he used his talent in a bad way, he lost his special ways. This is hard for him, but he makes it through. He and his wife are very much in love and nothing else matters when they are with eachother, which is what makes their relationship so strong.
Lucha's boss begins to put a burden in their relationship. Jubilo feels very uncomfortable with how he treats Lucha and how he admires her. Eventually Don Pedro (Lucha's Boss) causes some problems.
Throughout the novel, Laura Esquivel switches back and forth between Jubilo's daughter's perspective in the present and back to Jubilo's life in the past. The entire time, the author leaves readers wondering what tragic event happened in Jubilo and Lucha's life that caused them to split up in the future.
Towards the beginnning of this book, I wasn't very interested because all Laura Esquivel talked about was the lovey relationship between Jubilo and Lucha. In the middle I really started to like the book. I loved how there was a huge mystery about what tragic event changed everything in their lives. Laura Esquivel keeps the writing very interesting and keeps readers on the edges of their seats, wanting to read more.
This novel is very similar to Like Water For Chocolate because both stories contain aspects of magical realism. They have a good amount of history on Mexican culture which I thought was very interesting.
Also, in Swift As Desire, the author shows her liking of philosophy and nature through Don Jubilo's character. He is very philosophical and every chapter starts out with how he currently feels and what nature aspects are forming his feelings.
Swift As Desire is an excellent book that everyone should read. On a scale from 1 to 10 I would rate in an 8.

A good love story.......2005-04-27

Laura Esquivel's novel Swift as Desire is enjoyable but not great. The book has lots of love and wimsy but lacks strong characters and plot. The book is completely focused on the love story between Jubilo and Lucha. The story is told from the eyes of Jubilo's daughter LLuvia. She is by the side of her once great father who is now blind and sick with parkensens. She tells the story from a very idealistic point of view. She rarely critises anything her father did. The character of Lluvia is very one-sided, she doesnt evolve or change at all throughout the book. She tells of her fathers birth, how he came out laughing, and was born with the gift of bringing people together and constantly connecting them. He helps relate his myan grandma and spanish mother by speaking to both effectively. This part is very unbelieveable and uses the overdone idea of the mixing of these two cultures too much. The childhood and teen years of jubilo are very typical but when he faces troubles with the love of his life, Lucha, later in their marriage, his multidemensional personality comes to light. However, after he becomes a drunk, he is instantly reinstated in the family. He and his wife remain living together simply for the sake of their daughter(All of a sudden they are amazing parents).
Esquivel's use of mexican culture and history are sparse and random. She does do a good job of glorifying the culture that she loves and using slight magical realism without making the whole book an alternate reality.
OVerall, the book was a fast and easy read. It showed insight into the author's life but not much else. I enjoyed it as a fun read with interesting and believable characters but it was definitely missing the elements to a great literary piece

A romantic story.......2003-11-01

I picked this book up because I thoroughly enjoyed Like Water for Chocolate (and the movie) ~~ and while it doesn't compete with her famous novel, this book is a very sweet story.

A man has a gift to make everyone around him happy ~~ he is able to discern their discontent and find a way to make them feel better. Only one person who he cannot make happy and that is his wife. Lucha is a Mexican girl who has never known want or hunger. Jubilio tries everything in his power to make her happy and succeeded for many years till a tragedy drove them apart.

The story is told from their daughter's point of view ~~ how a man driven to please his woman loses his woman after all ~~ and the secret yearnings of all of our hearts. This is an exquistely-written novel on the heart and love between a man and a woman.

And this is also a reflection on a daughter's love for her father ~~ this is a must-read for every daddy's girl. Sometimes you don't realize how blessed you are till something happens. And sometimes it is too late. This is a poignant story and a reminder that life is ever-fleeting.

Even though it's not written in the same calibar as Like Water for Chocolate, it is still a lovely tome to add to your library or reading list. Sometimes one needs a small novel to remind us of the important things in life.

10-31-03

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Swift As Desire

Manufacturer: Books On Tape, Inc.
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Binding: Audio Cassette
ASIN: 0736676341

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fictional memoir of best-selling writer Laura Esquivel's father, who was a telegraph operator in Mexico

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Swift as Desire
Esquivel Laura
Manufacturer: Random House
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000JPHCXO

An Account of the loss of His Majesty's sloop Swift: In Port Desire, on the coast of Patagonia, on the 13th of March, 1770; and of other events which succeeded, in a letter to a friend

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An Account of the loss of His Majesty's sloop Swift: In Port Desire, on the coast of Patagonia, on the 13th of March, 1770; and of other events which succeeded, in a letter to a friend
Erasmus Gower
Manufacturer: Printed by W. Winchester and Son
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Binding: Unknown Binding

The ministers of Christ desire the salvation of sinners

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The ministers of Christ desire the salvation of sinners
Zephaniah Swift Moore
Manufacturer: Walton and Goss
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