Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument: Where Edges Meet

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This large-format book, gives full play to the diverse natural and geological site. Where Edges Meet takes readers through the secret gem of Southwest natural preserves. Fascinating natural history, crystal stars and stunning mountains.

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Excellent overview of Organ Pipe and Sonoran Desert.......1999-06-09

As a college Instructor for a desert ecology-adventure course, I highly recommend this book as a general overview of the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument and the Sonoran Desert. Broyles eloquently covers all the main topics of interest in rich poetic detail, making the book both highly readable and informative. Ecology, or the interaction of biology and physical environment, is the principle theme of the book, with topics ranging from desert plant and animal life, human occupation by native Indians, ranchers and miners, the geology, weather, and seasonal changes, and even astronomy. And the pictures by Huey and overall design of the book are fantastic. A great book especially for newcomers to the desert because of its inspired intelligent overview of the multifarious yet holistically satisfying desert experience.

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Southern California Travel-Smart(r) takes the guesswork out of planning a trip to the region that makes the Golden State golden, recommending itineraries to fit readers' interests, time, and budgets. Destinations include San Diego, Coronado, Los Angeles and its beaches, Malibu, and Palm Springs.

Southern California: Travel Smart Trip Planner (1st ed)

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Southern California: Travel Smart Trip Planner (1st ed)
Gary Gordon
Manufacturer: John Muir Pubns
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ASIN: 1562612530

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Sticky is a beat-around-the-head foster kid with nowhere to call home but the street, and an outer shell so tough that no one will take him in. He started out life so far behind the pack that the finish line seems nearly unreachable. He’s a white boy living and playing in a world where he doesn’t seem to belong.

But Sticky can ball. And basketball might just be his ticket out . . . if he can only realize that he doesn’t have to be the person everyone else expects him to be.

A breakout urban masterpiece by newcomer Matt de la Peña, Ball Don’t Lie takes place where the street and the court meet and where a boy can be anything if he puts his mind to it.

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Ball Don't Lie.......2006-09-16

I liked his book because it was about basketball and I have played basketball for the last nine years. I felt like I understood the book because I know a lot about basketball. It also told of a story about a boy growing up in the foster carte system.
Sticky was the main character of this book. It starts out when he is 16 years old waiting for a chance to play a pick up game at the recreation center. All the guys from the neighborhood like to hang out there. He is the only white player on the court. The other players make fun of his name. It was a nickname his mother gave him so he likes it and gets angry because they wanted him to say his real name or change it.
The book flips back and forth from his rough childhood with his single mother, to his multiple foster parents, to current time. It took him through rough and good experiences with friends and foes.
He meets a girl from high school who he likes and they start dating. They want to go to the same college so Sticky has to try really hard to get a basketball scholarship.
He learned life lessons throughout the book. Most of his lessons were learned on the court at the recreation center. There were lots of fights, laughter, and yelling, homeless people, young and old people.
I give this book a 5 star rating and you should for sure buy Ball don't lie if you don't you'll be missing out.

Ball Don't Lie.......2006-08-15

I loved the book. I was on the edge of my seat waiting to see what happened to the main character, "Sticky." It's not the kind of book you have to use a dictionary all the time. It's written in plain simple language.
The only draw back was the lines that were repeated. Other than that, it was an excelent story. I even got motivated to dig the old basketball out of the closet. Good show!

West Coast Baller Shows Heart.......2006-07-09

I'm not usually a big book guy, but I knew I had to read my boy "Cali's" first book. We play ball together at the Prospect YMCA. So I went and bought a copy to show my support. Then I didn;t read it for about six months. Well I just finished it last night. I couldn't believe how good it was. This dude can really write. And I love the story. It's sad, but in the end you feel like the main character is going to be alright. Speaking of the main character. He's from the west coast which usually means he'd be soft, but this kid has got some heart. so get get a copy of this book and support my boy Cali. You'll be happy you did.

This book is the truth!.......2006-07-08

This book starts out really slow and boring because you are blinded by all of the basketball details. So you think "here's another boring sports book" and by chapter 3 it is already unraveling into a book you just can't put down. Sticky is a ghetto and rough-around-the-edges white guy that has grown up on the streets, moving from foster pad to foster pad, eventually making it to an area where he is daily playing ball with the regular crew down at Lincoln Rec. He knows that he has to have something special to get out of this life he doesn't want to be stuck with forever. It really does suck you in and has you going through every trial with Sticky from past to present making you feel as if it were you telling the story of Sticky's crazy and hectic life.

Venice Don't Lie.......2006-07-01

It is a shame that this novel hasn't gotten more recognition in the literary world. True it has appeared on a couple very notable best-of lists, but it deserves more. No reviews in any major newspapers, no evaluation in the major literary journals, and no pub in the pedestrian sports books like Sports Illustrated and ESPN. That's a disgrace. It merits prominent attention from the tastemakers. Sports fans consistently beg for prose and films that are faithful and sincere depictions of the world they revere with unbridled, rampant passion. Literary folks, in turn, constantly, and quietly, whisper on college campuses, at book readings and within intellectual circles about the pathos of modern fiction. Yet, here sits on the shelves of Amazon a debut, which should be considered groundbreaking and ingenuous to these two separate sets that could not be on further ends of the flavor spectrum.

A reader can feel simultaneously honored and stupefied by the prose of de la peña. Honored because a stranger is ushered comfortably into a world of truth and stupefied because this same candid world can feel so foreign to our "normal" emotional barometer. Venice, CA is a magical place to anyone who has stepped off the well-treaded boardwalk and into the tangled vines of class, dreams and race on its narrow, overgrown streets. de la peña not only steps, he stomps into these neighborhoods, pulling no punches as he acts as a literary translator to the hieroglyph of Venice culture on the papyrus of constricted beach walk-thrus, unrecognized sandy ghettos and voiceless orators of working-class ethos. This author is a troublemaker.

Venice has always been an eccentric enclave by the sea that attracts and rears troublemakers. Usually these so-called troublemakers are castaways from the mainstream. Aging hippies, counter-culture punk-rock surfers, gangsters, skaters, and visionary "deadbeats" historically have made Venice their home. These folks had no place in Outback Steakhouse Americana, so they found their way to a milieu where they could safely and loudly challenge the status quo. After all, Venice had the first major pocket of African-American owned land in Los Angeles (Ghost Town) and Dogtown essentially birthed the X-Games lifestyle here. Folks come to Venice to find themselves and then let the world know that they are here in the most unique and idiosyncratic of voices.

Sticky is a hoarse foster kid that needs to be heard. On the surface, he is a typical Venice knucklehead, looking to throw down with society because that is what is expected of a troublemaker who's been dealt a foldable hand. But dig deeper with de la peña and find a wounded soul in need of a venue to squeeze out some kind of meaningful expression. Like most Venice residents, he burns to take on the median with defying, counter-culture articulation. To do something meaningful, this kid with literally nothing needs magic and, luckily for him, he resides on the streets of a magical enclave.

Basketball, and more specifically the sports' necessary skills honed on the streets, has long been a barometer of heart. Many have stepped on asphalt or hardwood with sick talent only to find that their heart shrank to the size of a pea when the crowds unnerved them. Fear pumps through blood streams at half-court and great talents evaporate on this hallowed proving ground when bodies surround it. You see one can't hide from a crowd. Crowds are an exposure of truth: You either got it or you don't. Venice is known for its crowds as much as it is for its magic.

Sticky finds magic in the soft touch of worn synthetic leather. Between the fading lines of a rundown court filled with Venice troublemakers, he waves a wand made of magical fingertips and stands out from a crowd of dreaming hoop players. In a world of fast-paced, kinetic movement, Sticky is able to curb a debilitating obsessive-compulsive disorder because he sees a playground game in refined slow motion. He thrives on court vision and instinct. And instinct is the main artery of navigation, just like Lincoln Blvd, that runs the width of Venice. A kid with instinct can survive out here. A kid with instinct can throw it all back in the face of the proverbial man. Alva did it on his skateboard, Dennis Hopper did it on his camera, and Sticky will do it with a beat-up basketball stolen from a group home. The question is, as it was with Alva and Hopper, can he simultaneously do it with meaning and go unscathed.

de la peña deconstructs race and class in this book with a hand gentler than Morrison or Wright. Racism and classism can be cruel and there is a sense of the tragically absurd in the cruel life that is Sticky. Humor eases him into questionable mentoring and pushes him into painful rites of passage. That's always been the genius of special works. Hit us with humor and twist the knife in the gut of our protagonist. Denis Johnson does it, Spike Lee does it, and Joe Strummer did it.

Sticky is a lonely ship navigating the treacherous Venice canals without supervision or necessary guidance. His advice comes at the bottom of a forty proof guttural throat or from the high-pitched nasal whine of an overbearing liberal do-gooder. But, like all of us in this life, advice is only that, advice, and Sticky must make his own way with just the truthful eloquence of a honed skill set to drive him. In this case, that skill set is on a basketball court.

de la peña has put together a powerful memo that puts the powers-that-be on notice: The voiceless will not sit back without voice any longer. There is something daring to this work. It is tangible and magical. Ball Don't Lie will not leave you apathetic.

de la peña should be considered an innovative auteur. He has exposed the ironies of the daily morality, politics and race in this country with a slight of hand that would make the thief in his lead character proud.

Ball Don't Lie is homage to the power of a writer's observation and recollection of environment. It ranks alongside The Bluest Eye as a genuinely groundbreaking first novel. We should all hope that this extraordinary work is the first installation in a powerful chorus of prose to come. It should be a notable book in the New York Times review. It should be mentioned in Sports Illustrated. People are sleeping on this important piece of fiction, but that should be expected. After all, it is about Venice: The land of counter-culture and in-your-face expression. Ball Don't Lie may be overlooked, but it cannot go ignored.

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Ball Don't Lie
Matt De La Pena
Manufacturer: Bt Bound
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This is the second volume in the series Advances in Porous Media. The objective of the series is to provide a forum for publications on developments in this fast-growing interdisciplinary area, with special emphasis on the frontiers of knowledge and on a unified approach by scientists from such diverse fields as civil, mechanical, agricultural, environmental, chemical, ceramic, mining and petroleum engineering, geohydrology, soil physics, powder metallurgy and mathematics. Since the processes in porous media occur in such varied areas groundwater hydraulics, petroleum reservoir engineering, soil physics, soil and rock mechanics, industrial filtration, water purification, wastewater treatment, soil drainage and irrigation, geothermal energy production, filtration in packed beds, powder compaction, metallurgy, ceramics, biomechanics and underground coal conversion, the intended audience includes scientists, engineers and practitioners in these disciplines.

The present volume reviews the transport of reactive solutes in soils, the variety of origins, structures, and occurrences of non-linear waves in porous media, the anion exclusion phenomenon in soils, critical concentration models, electrokinetic flow processes in porous media and various approaches to model flow and contaminant transport in fractured porous media.

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Brings together the diverse experience of those working with and using water-soluble polymers. Gives a detailed description of important advances in inversion emulsion polymerization of synthetic water-soluble monomers. Reports on the tremendous increase in research and the state-of-the-art in fundamental concepts and application performance of water-soluble polymers. Looks at the solution properties of some important carbohydrate polymers, and examines recent developments in the characterization of water-soluble polymers by chromatographic and NMR techniques.

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Employed in a large number of commercial electromagnetic simulation packages, the finite element method is one of the most popular and well-established numerical techniques in engineering. This book covers the theory, development, implementation, and application of the finite element method and its hybrid versions to electromagnetics. FINITE ELEMENT METHOD FOR ELECTROMAGNETICS begins with a step-by-step textbook presentation of the finite method and its variations then goes on to provide up-to-date coverage of three dimensional formulations and modern applications to open and closed domain problems. Worked out examples are included to aid the reader with the fine features of the method and the implementation of its hybridization with other techniques for a robust simulation of large scale radiation and scattering. The crucial treatment of local boundary conditions is carefully worked out in several stages in the book.

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This book presents the algebraic fundamentals of switching theory with applications to the field of telecommunications. In addition, applications are described in such areas as multi-processor interconnections, hardware sorting, fast Fourier transform, and convolution decoding. By linking switching theory to industrial practice throughout the book, readers benefit from exposure to more than a pure mathematical treatment.

Algebraic Switching Theory and Broadband Applications is unique in its focus on developing an algebraic foundation for switching networks. This focus will be of great value to researchers and distinguishes it from others in the field.

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* More than 250 illustrations
* Most relevant mathematical tools are all provided
* Parallel attention to applications and implemental feasibility throughout
* Some applications to parallel computing, multi-processor interconnection, and hardware sorting besides telecommunications
* Topics follow a continuous flow, motivate one another, and pin down basic principles, useful techniques, and feasible designs
* The book contains a large amount of original results accrued during 1986-99 that have not been previously published

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Break a new ground the network switching theory........2002-03-24

Explosion of the Internet pushes the demand of bandwidth to a critical point. Various technologies on opical fibre system enhance the transmission bandwidth in the worldwide communication system. But, a high transmission bandwidth network reveals its bottleneck on the switching bandwidth - how to switch singal and data in tight time bound in various fashions.

Existing router and switch vendors use network flow probability models to simulate the performance and blocking probability of a switching matrix design. This trial and error approach has no guarantee on the performance and implementation complexity.

Prof. Li breaks a new ground by using algebra calculation in the switching fibric representation. By his 20+ years research, his algebra algorithm has an unique ability in handling non-blocking switching, Time-Space-Time 3-phase switching and concentrator/sorter implementation. And he suggests some interesting implementation oriented design in reducing implementation complexity in a manhatten VLSI layout.

This book covers Prof. Li's lifetime work and his research in switching, probability models and information theory. It worths any information engineers for a deep look, and it's a fanastic reference book for any switching researchers...

Break a new ground the network switching theory........2002-03-24

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This book gives a comprehensive introduction to the application of nonlinear dynamics to electronic systems, providing both the theoretical and experimental foundations for this research field. All relevant electronic circuits with chaotic behaviour are described and discussed in detail. Audience: The book is suitable for graduate students and researchers whose work involves circuits, control systems, and the mathematics of engineering.

High-Level System Modeling: Specification and Design Methodologies (Current Issues in Electronic Modeling)

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High-Level System Modeling: Specification and Design Methodologies (Current Issues in Electronic Modeling)

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ASIN: 079239660X

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In system design, generation of high-level abstract models that can be closely associated with evolving lower-level models provides designers with the ability to incrementally `test' an evolving design against a model of a specification. Such high-level models may deal with areas such as performance, reliability, availability, maintainability, and system safety. Abstract models also allow exploration of the hardware versus software design space in an incremental fashion as a fuller, detailed design unfolds, leaving behind the old practice of hardware-software binding too early in the design process. Such models may also allow the inclusion of non-functional aspects of design (e.g. space, power, heat) in a simulatable information model dealing with the system's operation. This book addresses Model Generation and Application specifically in the following domains: Specification modeling (linking object/data modeling, behavior modeling, and activity modeling). Operational specification modeling (modeling the way the system is supposed to operate - from a user's viewpoint). Linking non-functional parameters with specification models. Hybrid modeling (linking performance and functional elements). Application of high-level modeling to hardware/software approaches. Mathematical analysis techniques related to the modeling approaches. Reliability modeling. Applications of High Level Modeling. Reducing High Level Modeling to Practice. High-Level System Modeling: Specification and Design Methodologies describes the latest research and practice in the modeling of electronic systems and as such is an important update for all researchers, design engineers and technical managers working in design automation and circuit design.

Mathematical Models in Electrical Circuits: Theory and Applications (Mathematics and Its Applications)

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Mathematical Models in Electrical Circuits: Theory and Applications (Mathematics and Its Applications)
C.A. Marinov , and Pekka Neittaanmäki
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VLSI Planarization: Methods, Models, Implementation (Mathematics and Its Applications)

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VLSI Planarization: Methods, Models, Implementation (Mathematics and Its Applications)
V.Z. Feinberg , A.G. Levin , and E.B. Rabinovich
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VLSI planarization is one of the basic stages of the so-called topological approach to VLSI design. This book considers the intense recent development in this field. Although it features an analysis of the problem and the results of different authors are classified and generalized, this volume is mainly based on the investigations conducted by the present authors during the last fifteen years. This included work in the field of design and research in mathematical methods applied to the mentioned approach for computer-aided design, and in the field of designing concrete industrial design systems. The theory and methods discussed here may be applied to printed-circuit boards, hybrid circuits, etc. This work concentrates on `essentially' hypergraph models of electric circuits and their planarization techniques. It is just this aspect of the topological approach to design that has not been adequately investigated before.
Audience: This book will be of interest to theoretical and applied mathematicians whose work involves VLSI design, algorithms, graph theory and complexity theory, and EDA tools developers.

Mathematical Models in Electrical Circuits: Theory and Applications.

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This digital document is an article from English Literature in Transition 1880-1920, published by Thomson Gale on September 22, 2003. The length of the article is 1585 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: Savage pessimist.(The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad. Volume 6, 1917-1919)(Book Review)
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