Encyclopedia of Lories

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Encyclopedia of Lories.......2000-03-15

This is a must have for any lory enthusist, from pet owner to breeder. Topics within the book are easily found and have been written in a clear and concise manner. In addition to the text, the clear and colorful pictures are worth the price of the book.

Encyclopedia of the Lories Special Edition

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Encyclopedia of the Lories Special Edition
Mark Pendlington
Manufacturer: Hancock House Publishing
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Hives: An entry from Thomson Gale's
<i>Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health</i>

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Hives: An entry from Thomson Gale's Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health
Lory Beck
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
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Binding: Digital
ASIN: B000M4QYSG

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The â€œGale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Healthâ€ is an alphabetically arranged five-volume set of more than 850 entries written for students and professionals in the field. Topics include body systems and functions, conditions and common diseases, issues and theories, techniques and practices, and devices and equipment. The Encyclopedia covers all major health professions, including nursing, physical therapy, occupational therapy, respiratory therapy, medical lab technology, emergency medical technology, dental assistance, pharmacology and nutrition, and features appendices of related organizations, agencies and associations.

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In Just Ella, Margaret Peterson Haddix puts a spin on the traditional tale of the glass slippers. In her version, Ella (sans "Cinder") finds her own way to the ball (there was no fairy godmother, despite the rumors) and wins the heart of the prince. But now she is finding that life at the palace as Prince Charming's betrothed is not as great as she thought it was going to be. In fact, it's downright boring for a self-reliant and active girl to do needlework all day or listen to instructions on court etiquette from the strict and cold Madame Bisset. Worst of all, Ella is beginning to suspect that Charming's beautiful blue eyes and golden hair are attached to a head with nothing in it. Her young tutor Jed, however, talks with her about serious things that really matter. Ella finally gets up the courage to announce to Charming that she doesn't want to go through with the wedding, but when she finds herself locked in the dungeon she realizes it's not that easy to walk away from a politically arranged marriage. In the end, as in all good fairy tales, our heroine and hero do manage to live happily ever after--but with a twist.

Fairy tale retellings are an entrancing form of young adult fiction, as they add psychological insight and turn events around for a surprising contemporary angle. Teens who enjoy this delightful revamping of an age-old story may also enjoy Donna Jo Napoli's Spinners and Zel or the Newbery Honor book Ella Enchanted, by Gail Levine. (Ages 12 and older) --Patty Campbell

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Being a princess isn't all that....

You've heard the fairytale: a glass slipper, Prince Charming, happily ever after...

Welcome to reality: royal genealogy lessons, needlepoint, acting like "a proper lady," and -- worst of all -- a prince who is not the least bit interesting, and certainly not charming.

As soon-to-be princess Ella deals with her newfound status, she comes to realize she is not "your majesty" material. But breaking off a royal engagement is no easy feat, especially when you're crushing on another boy in the palace.... For Ella to escape, it will take intelligence, determination, and spunk -- and no ladylike behavior allowed.

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Blah.......2007-09-17

The Book Reviews made it sound like this would be a fun story about what happens "Happily Ever After." I just couldn't get into it. Everything was so One-Dimensional. I just wanted to get the end to see just how far the author would take the extreme to. I had no desires to re-read the story, just wish I hadn't bought it and only borrowed from a friend or library.

In this story, Ella, has already been to the ball and won the heart of the Prince and now awaits her marriage. She doesn't relate to anything going on around her and decides she doesn't want to marry boring, shallow Prince Charming and that maybe "Love at first sight" isn't really love. Everything is so obvious at what's going on that the book isn't fun to read. At first glance, yeah--Ella isn't happy. Yeah--Ella now thinks her fiancé is a nitwit. Yeah--Ella is attracted to her tutor who's character is actually developed. Yeah--Ella can do anything because she created her own destiny. BORING!

I especially didn't like the ending. I know Ella was happy with her choices, but I hated the idea of the Step-Evils believing that they "won" and didn't end up miserable in their own filth.

A warm, moving story of an almost-princess.......2007-08-07

Soon-to-be princess Ella finds her proposed new life difficult, what with a boring prince, a crush on a non-royalty member of the household, and more. Margaret Peterson Haddix's JUST ELLA provides a warm, moving story of an almost-princess facing many changes and is a fun tale highly recommended for young adult leisure readers.

A Perfect Reality Check For Cinderella.......2007-02-25

This book amazed me! For being the first book I read based on 'what if?'statements, the author knew how to put it together beautifully.

Predictable.......2007-02-08

Probably all of you have heard the story of Cinderella, the girl whose wicked stepmother and stepsisters made her into their personal slave. Then one night she attended ther prince's party and fell madly in love. She disappeared mysteriously but left behind one glass slipper, so the prince was able to track her down and propose to her.

This book deals with the time immediately after that. Cinderella is living in the castle, awaiting her wedding date--so now what? She has to wear uncomfortable clothes and do boring princess stuf like embroidery and lessons on how to act and eat and dress. She has a nightly meeting with the prince, and she begins to realize that he is not wonderful; he is shallow and stupid and not worthy of being married to her. So the problem for Ella is how to break off an engagement to the prince. And if she does, then what will she do with her life?

I generally like reworkings of fairy tales, but I didn't find the character of Ella overly likable. This book was also very predictable. I suppose fairy tales are, too, but I feel like in a reworked fairy tale, there should be a bit more room for surprises.

Just Ella by Margaret Peterson Haddix.......2007-01-25

Just Ella by Margaret Peterson Haddix is a really good and well writin twist to the clasic story of Cinderella. It tells about a girl's life in the castle with Prince Charming. She thought that she was going to live the best life ever, when she realizes that she is not allowed to do anything. One day she overhears her servents talking about her having a fairy godmother, when she says she doesn't have one and she got to the ball all by herself without any magic. She also realizes that it is really hard to talk to Prince Charming the way she talks to her tutor Jed.

I recomend this book to people who enjoy the classic tale of Cinderella, but are ready to hear it with a little twist.

-A.N.

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Just Ella
Margaret Peterson Haddix
Manufacturer: Recorded Books
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Just Ella

Manufacturer: Aladdin
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0689849176

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In this continuation of the Cinderella story, fifteen-year-old Ella finds that accepting Prince Charming's proposal ensnares her in a suffocating tangle of palace rules and royal etiquette, so she plots to escape.

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Just Ella
MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX
Manufacturer: scholastic
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Binding: Hardcover

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Just Ella
margaret peterson haddix
Manufacturer: simon and schuster childrens publishing
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Sólo para ellas.(mujeres en los deportes)(TT: Just for women.)(TA: women in sports): An article from: Proceso

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Sólo para ellas.(mujeres en los deportes)(TT: Just for women.)(TA: women in sports): An article from: Proceso
Francisco Ponce
Manufacturer: CISA Comunicacion e Informacion, S.A. de C.V.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B00098U2T2
Release Date: 2005-07-28

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This digital document is an article from Proceso, published by CISA Comunicacion e Informacion, S.A. de C.V. on June 6, 1999. The length of the article is 552 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: Sólo para ellas.(mujeres en los deportes)(TT: Just for women.)(TA: women in sports)
Author: Francisco Ponce
Publication: Proceso (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 6, 1999
Publisher: CISA Comunicacion e Informacion, S.A. de C.V.
Page: 69

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Just dream it
Ella Goulden Morris
Manufacturer: The Author
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
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Just Ella
Margaret Peterson Haddix
Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
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Binding: Hardcover

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Just One of Those Things-Jazz
Ella Cdlerc 20013 Va-Fitzgerald
Manufacturer: LRC RECORDS
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Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: 6306588035

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This book offers an intriguing look at the historical context of the repeated controversies during the past 150 years over the relative merits of a high-protein versus a low-protein diet. It puts the protein controversy into a historical perspective that sheds light on the scientific aspects of these questions and their historical development in a way that should be of interest to a wide range of readers in medicine, nutrition, public health, and history of science and medicine.

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The study of macrocyclic ligand systems represents a major activity impinging on a wide range of areas in chemistry and biochemistry. This book contains an overview of the macrocyclic ligand systems and discusses the structure and properties of macrocyclic systems; the synthesis of macrocycles; polyether crown and related systems; metal-ion and molecular recognition (host-guest chemistry); and kinetic, thermodynamic, and electrochemical aspects of these complexes. The author also covers the various categories of synthetic and naturally occuring macrocycles.

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The Chemistry of Macrocyclic Ligand Complexes by Lindoy.......2000-07-09

This book is well representative of the various classes of macrocyclic ligands. It is understandable enough for someone who has a good background in chemistry but isn't very familiar with macrocyclic ligands, yet it would still be quite useful for an experienced inorganic or analytical chemist. Also, there are many illustrations which aid in the visualization of many of the larger ligands.

Transition Metal Complexes of Macrocyclic Ligands

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Transition Metal Complexes of Macrocyclic Ligands
Y. D. Lampeka , Peter Moore , and K. B. Yatsimirskii
Manufacturer: Albion/Horwood Pub
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The more we invest in computer systems, the less we seem to be able to find the information when we need it, especially if it is distributed across organizations. This book presents the recent developments and applications in information systems integration and collaboration which are necessary to understand the new multidisciplinary approaches for their modeling. The main contribution of these models: the design and evaluation of how to integrate and how to collaborate in order to benefit from the information.

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Six entertaining short stories from the foremost science fiction writer of his time. Includes "The Star," a gripping tale about a massive celestial object hurtling towards the Earth, as well as "The New Accelerator," "The Remarkable Case of Davidson's Eyes," "Under the Knife," and 2 more.

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They were very strange to his eyes, and indeed the whole aspect of that valley became, as he regarded it, queerer and more unfamiliar. The greater part of its surface was lush green meadow, starred with many beautiful flowers, irrigated with extraordinary care, and bearing evidence of systematic cropping piece by piece. High up and ringing the valley about was a wall, and what appeared to be a circumferential water channel, from which the little trickles of water that fed the meadow plants came, and on the higher slopes above this flocks of llamas cropped the scanty herbage.

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A Cautionary Tale.......2006-02-01

HG Wells has few peers as science fiction writer. He was both prolific writer and one of great quality. Although his works are now about a century old, they still resonate with the modern reader.

"The Country of the Blind" is one of Wells's less well known works. It is yet to have Hollywood set loose on it. Yet, despite being less well known, it is a marvelous short story.

Here we are introduced to a village where all its inhabitants are literally blind. Sight means nothing to them. Day and night are only of difference due to temperature. Houses have no windows. When there is nothing to see, what purpose does a window serve?

Into this sightless world stumbles an outsider who can see with perfect vision. Surely in the country of the blind, the one eyed man is king? Not so! The locals deem him to be mad. Sight? How can this have any meaning in the country of the blind?

While the story is a very good yarn, it has a deeper meaning that is of very great relevance in today's world. The blind of the tale have there own explanations for how their world was created and what are its limits. The sighted man is a fool. He is also a threat. How similar is this to the world in which we live where the religiously zealous amongst have their own tales of creation and there own explanations that have no intrinsic scientific coherence. Wells was making a cautionary tale. In the country of the blind, we often find the blind leading the blind.

Short stories that have lost none of their appeal.......2004-04-07

The modern fame of H. G. Wells is largely due to the film adaptations of his longer stories. ?War of the Worlds?, ?The Invisible Man? and ?The Time Machine? have all been made into successful movies. The famous radio broadcast of ?The War of the Worlds? will always remain a legend in the history of mass media. However, Wells also wrote many short stories and six of the best appear in this collection.
Martin Gardner wrote a short introduction to each of the stories, explaining some of the story line as well as some of the science and historical backdrop of the story. In no case does he give away too much of the plot and since the stories were written over a century ago, the historical context would prove helpful to many readers.
The stories are excellent; ?The Country of the Blind? is one of the best short stories ever written. The premise is that there is an isolated valley where all inhabitants are blind from birth due to a genetic defect. However, they have adapted very well to their environment, working at night, needing no light in their dwellings and possessing extremely acute hearing. A sighted man from the outside literally falls off a snow-covered mountain into their valley, and immediately believes that he will dominate, citing the old adage, ?In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is King.? Since none of the inhabitants has any knowledge of sight, his explanations of what it is like to see is gibberish to them. To them, he is a fool who cannot even do the simplest of tasks.
The second story is ?The Star?, where a rogue planet collides with Neptune. They merge, the energy of the collision causes them to glow like a star and their changed orbit takes them close to Earth, creating fire and destruction. Third in the list is ?The New Accelerator? about a potion that causes a person to have their worldview accelerated so that they operate at a rate much faster than everyone else. Star Trek fans will recognize this as the basis for ?Wink of An Eye?, an episode in the original series. The fourth story is ?The Remarkable Case of Davidson?s Eyes? where a lightening strike shifts the line of sight of a man from his current location to a point on the antipodal position on the other side of the Earth. ?Under the Knife? is an out-of-body experience, where a man under chloroform anesthesia believes he has died on the operating table. His mind is apparently outside his body and he ?watches? himself die as his physician tries to save him. The final story is ?The Queer Story of Brownlow?s Newspaper?, where a man receives a paper from exactly forty years in the future. The account of his reading the paper is another case of predicting the future, and Wells turns out to be better than most. He predicts the collapse of the Soviet Union, although he was twenty years too early.
These stories have held up very well, largely due to their human themes. They are billed as science fiction, but ?The Country of the Blind? and ?Under the Knife? are about humans reacting to unusual circumstances and it is hard to think of them as science fiction. ?The Queer Story of Brownlow?s Newspaper? is speculation about future events, most of which are social and political. ?The Star? is basically an apocalyptic tale and ?The Remarkable Case of Davidson?s Eyes? deals with clairvoyance. ?Wink of an Eye? is the only story that I would consider true science fiction.
H. G. Wells was a good writer, but the fame of his movies tends to make him under appreciated by modern readers. These stories show him at his best, telling stories that have lost none of their appeal a century after they were written.

What The Country of the Blind Really Means.......2002-12-15

A nontheist stumbles into a country so infested with godworship, that his claim to have a nonexistent sense called "reason," enabling him to see that their beliefs are falsifiable fairy tales, causes the inhabitants to assume that he is insane. When he falls for a female godworshipper, his need to belong prompts him to yield to their demand that he be surgically cured by having the organ responsible for his delusion, an organ that they do not have that he calls his "brain," amputated. At the last minute, he realizes that no woman or society is worth a lifetime of brainless conformity, and flees.

In My Opinion.......2000-03-09

In the story "The Country of the Blind" H.G. Wells manages to capture the dark side of humanity and place it in the metaphor of blindness. He does this well and his point is well made. By focusing on how the man thinks himself superior because he can see, Wells illistrates a point most of us can see as obvious. When he thinks it is his right to change thier way of life to his "better" way, I was reminded of all the cultures that have been changed or even wiped out by those who thought they were superior. Also, when Wells turns it around and shows the blind as thinking themselves superior it shows that even when we think we are not like the perfect man, we all are. The first pages dragged a bit, but the content and pace of the rest of the book made it well worth it!

Great stories ruined by editor.......1999-11-17

H.G. Wells is one of the finest writters of science fiction of all time, and these stories are no exception. Unfortunately, the editor of this volume makes this a book to be avoided. There are six stories in this book, and before each story is an introduction by the editor. In these introductions, which range from one paragraph to several pages, the editor not only ruins the story by revealing the ending, but he also explains the mistakes with the science that Wells uses in his stories. We are also given a list of the mistakes that Wells made in his predictions of the future. There would be nothing wrong with these introductions if they were in a book of essays and criticisms on H.G. Wells. But they aren't, and the average reader of this book will be one who has not read these stories before. It would be a much better idea to buy another collection of his stories. Then you could actually enjoy the stories by themselves, without feeling like someone is reading over your shoulder, pointing out what's wrong with the book. Although the stories: The New Accelerator, the Remarkable Case of Davidson's Eyes, Under the Knife, the Queer Story of Brownlow's Newspaper, and the title story are all excellent examples of H.G. Wells supreme story telling ability, they can, and should, be read in another book.

The Country of the Blind and Other Stories (Oxford World's Classics)

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33 short stories of mixed quality

The Country of the Blind and Other Stories (Oxford World's Classics)
H. G. Wells
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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The Country of the Blind is Wells's own selection of his best short stories. They range from light-hearted comic tales like "The Obliterated Man" to breath-taking masterpieces of science fiction like "The Star." In this, the first annotated edition, a new Introduction and Notes place Wells's stories in their historical, biographical, and literary contexts. The text presented here was revised by Wells, and for the first time corrected with reference to earlier and later versions of the stories.

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Your servant, said the man with the scar, bowing. "Funny case, wasn't it? Here was me, making a little fortune on that island, doing nothing for it neither, and them quite unable to give me notice. It often used to amuse me thinking over it while I was there. I did calculations of it--big--all over the blessed atoll in ornamental figuring."

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33 short stories of mixed quality.......1998-08-02

COUNTRY OF THE BLIND is a collection of 33 short stories hand picked by H.G. Wells as his best. The stories were written first published between 1894 and 1906 in both magazines and other Wells' anthologies. Most of the stories are science fiction, though a few are not. Among my favorites were "The Stolen Bacillus," "The Lord of the Dynamos," "Under the Knife," "The Sea Raiders," "The Crystal Egg," "The Man Who Could Work Miracles," "The New Accelerator," "The Truth About Pyecraft," "The Magic Shop," "Empire of the Ants," and "Country of the Blind." "The Crystal Egg" and "The Magic Shop" both appear to have influenced Stephen King's NEEDFUL THINGS. Other stories were uninspired sleepers.

The Country Of The Blind And Other Science Fiction Stories

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The Country Of The Blind And Other Science Fiction Stories
Martin Gardner H. G. Wells
Manufacturer: NY
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ASIN: B000MUFFOE

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