An Atlas of Freshwater and Marine Catfishes: A Preliminary Survey of the Siluriformes

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The best catfish book there is. A must despite the price........1998-03-02

This book contains an incredible wealth of information on catfish keeping, breeding, taxonomy etc., plus a wealth of photos. Unlike too many TFH books, which are just rehashes of old photographs, this book contains real, useful, in depth info, that makes it worth the rather high price.

Atlas of Freshwater and Marine Catfishes: A Preliminary Survey of the Siluriformes

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Atlas of Freshwater and Marine Catfishes: A Preliminary Survey of the Siluriformes
Warren E. Burgess
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Black currant varieties: Their classification and identification ([Gt. Brit.] Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. Technical bulletin)
John Cecil Todd
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ASIN: B0007J53HY

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Cinderella's Castle, Epcot Center, Mickey Mouse, Splash Mountain, Space Mountain, and lines, lines, lines. A vacation at Walt Disney World shouldn't be spent waiting to enjoy the attractions you traveled so far and spent so much to visit. With that thought in mind, Birnbaum's editors have traveled, toured, and tested every attraction and worked with the folks behind the scenes to compile Walt Disney World 1998 to help you get the biggest possible bang out of your vacation buck. This colorful guide, which is liberally illustrated with photographs and full-color renderings of Disney notables, begins with the logical "Getting Ready to Go" advice (hotels, transportation, when to go), moves swiftly into lengthy descriptions of each of the major theme parks--Magic Kingdom, Epcot Center, Disney-MGM Studios, and Animal Kingdom--and then gives the scoop on other sights and activities in the Orlando area.

The most useful information is found in the "Hot Tip" boxes sprinkled throughout the text--sit on the right side of the tram when going through MGM's Catastrophe Canyon if you want to stay dry, for example--and in the descriptions of the rides. Notes at the end of the write-ups call out height requirements or special considerations for those who are pregnant or who have heart conditions (Splash Mountain's "five-story drop into an aqueous briar patch" comes to mind). The guide predicts which attractions are busiest and when, and offers suggestions on where to go when the lines do, indeed, get too long. People who don't have the time to map out itineraries can follow the one- to six-day routes provided by the folks at Birnbaum's. Be warned, though: the plans are ambitious and assume that you will have plenty of energy to make the rounds from morning 'til close. If your true quest is not to see and do everything, but to find and photograph Pooh, Ariel, or Captain Hook, look for the colored boxes that point out the best places to find your favorite characters. Whatever your Disney fantasy, Birnbaum's Walt Disney World 1998 is sure to have you singing "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah" by the end of your trip. --Heidi Robinson

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Be sure to pack the one and only official, up-to-date guide to North Americas most popular travel destinationWalt Disney World. This edition offers an exclusive look at the festivities that will mark Walt Disney Worlds 30th anniversary. Also new are complete details on Disneys latest resort expansion; an expanded sample itinerary section; and the lowdown on Walt Disney Worlds Fastpass system which will drastically cut the amount of time guests spend waiting in line. All the information you have come to expect from the worlds leading travel guide to help you make your stay a magical one.

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A Must Have for a Trip to Walt Disney World.......2004-01-15

This is the most informative book on the market for persons about to journey to Walt Disney World. It is absolutely essential if you want to approach your WDW vacation with knowledge enough to make the most of it. My advice is to purchase the most recent edition, as it is updated each year to include new attractions, and there are always new attractions. The book is filled with information about hotels, restaurants, amusement parks, and attractions throughout the entire Disney property. I have made about 25 trips to WDW, and I buy a new one each year I go so that my information is current. Well worth the reasonable price.

A Must Have Book that You Will Usa and Also Cherish.......2003-03-02

This was the book we used on our first visit to Walt Disney World. We would never have gotten around Walt Disney World without this book. If you have never been to Walt Disney World I recommend that you really get a copy of this book or the most current version of it. If you really enjoy Walt Disney World like we did you may want to hold on to your copy of this book. It is just as much a souvenir as anything else you may purchase on your visit. This book will hold fond and cherished memories for you and your family.

Disney.......2002-11-19

This book is a must to own when planning your trip to Disney. Alot of very useful information that other travel guides do not have. I loved this book alot it helped me plan my trip.

A must have if you are planning a Disney trip!.......2002-10-02

We just got the book a few days ago, and my husband and I can't put it down! We were already excited about our anticipated trip to Disney World next year, but this book is heightening the excitement! Lots of information on lodging, food and the parks, what more could you want?

Disney Guide Book- Don't leave home without it!.......2002-07-22

I was very impressed with this book. It was very informative and covered every subject concerning a Disney vacation, from what to pack and how to get there, to planning your itinerary and figuring your budget. It also gives info on the different resorts and restaraunts in the Disney park and their price ranges. There are illustrations on every page, my kids can't put it down. It describes every attraction and gives it's location as each park is divided into sections. It covers transportation needs, including the surrounding areas like Downtown Disney,Pleasure Island, Boardwalk, and downtown Disney West Side, and what they entail. Several water parks are also discribed. It even breaks down the Florida weather for each month so you can choose when to go. The book offers tips on saving money, avoiding crowds, and etc. It gives schedules for character meals and labels her "Birnbaum's Best" for best family restaraunts, best dinner shows, best fireworks view, and many more. There are even money saving coupons in the back of the book that are good through December of this year. I plan on taking this book with me on my trip this year to use as a guide.

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Jenna and Jeremy knew their parents' marriage was in trouble. But no one could have predicted what would come next. Now with Mom dead and Dad in jail, Jenna and Jeremy must re-create a family of their own. But each guards a secret that could send their fragile new lives into a tailspin.
Newbery Honor winner Julius Lester paints a dramatic portrait of a family forced to confront the unimaginable.
Reader's guide included.

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Domestic Violence Goes Extreme.......2007-02-09

Twelve-year-old Jeremy and fourteen-year-old Jenna lived a pretty normal life with their parents. Their father was a psychologist and Jenna was always his favorite. Their mother was an artist and Jeremy was her special pet. Recently it seemed that there was a lot of tension in the house, especially between Jenna and her mother. They two of them were constantly fighting about everything, and it seemed like Jenna's father was always taking her side and making things worse. Jeremy and Jenna both thought their parents would probably get divorced, like all of the other kids they knew. But then one day they are pulled out of class and told that their father killed their mother. He shot her twice at a coffee shop and then went home.

Now Jeremy and Jenna don't know what to think. Jeremy hates his father and never wants to see him again, while Jenna still feels like she should have some loyalty toward him because of the relationship they used to have. She goes to live with her father's ex-wife who has remained over the course of the years a very close family friend. Jeremy lives at his mother's studio, surrounded by her artwork.

One afternoon while going through some of his mother's things, Jeremy finds her diary, which goes a long way toward explaining what was going on in his parents' marriage. Meanwhile, Jenna finds out from her father's ex-wife that her father wasn't always completely truthful with her.

Both kids have to decide what to do with their new knowledge, especially since their father's trial is approaching. Should they stand up for the man who killed their mother, or should they turn their backs on their only remaining parent?

I liked the mystery of the family's dynamics, and the way the kids saw little by little what had been going on between their parents leading up to the murder. I liked being able to read the different points of view, to see how Jenna and Jeremy separately were working through their grief. The character of the father was utterly unsympathetic--he was creepy and manipulative, and I couldn't believe that either of his children would ever consider testifying in his defence.

When Dad Killed Mom.......2006-01-09

This book is about how two children are dealing with the fact that their father murdered their mother. "My mother is dead. Dad killed her," is how the book begins. Lester goes back and forth on why Jeremy and his older sister, eighth-grader Jenna, think their father might have killed their mom. Throughout the book you look for clues to why their father, who was a psychologist, killed his wife, Rachel. Jeremy finds information in his mother's diary and thinks of possible reason why. The diary gave clues that their dad may have been cheating on his wife and she found out and was going to divorcee him. The author also shows the children's individual struggles to deal with the aftermath of their mom's death such as their challenges at school, how they have become distant with each other, and how they are ever going to forgive or even talk to their father, all the while trying to find out how he killed her and if their dad was going to stay in jail the rest of his life. The courtroom scene at the father's trial leads to other problems and conflicts in the preceding chapters. Julius Lester did a great job with this book and I would recommend it to everyone in junior high and high school.

Could've been better........2005-11-02

I thought that the book was only OKAY, because there were some parts that I believed were gross and kind of sexual. The book was about a teenage girl and her younger brother who have to deal with their dad killing their mother. The book switches from Jenna's (the girl) point of view to Jack's point of view(the boy). In my eyes Jenna was a mean little brat to her mom, although Jack seemed to love his mom and respect her. Jenna was into GIRLS and their bodies. Jack loved to paint just like his mom, so when she died he took over her studio and went there to paint and to think of her in the hard times he endured.

Great.......2005-09-20

This book was very moving and a real page turner...I couldn't put it down! A must read.

Good reading for older teens.......2005-05-06

In the book "When Dad Killed Mom," Jeremy and Jenna go through a hard time when they learn that their father killed their mother in the middle of the road in broad daylight. The entire town knows, and everyone is talking about what will happen next. Will their dad go to jail? And if he does, where will the kids go? This story is told alternating from Jeremy's to Jenna's point of view, so the tone changes. This is one of the best books I've ever read, but since some of the subject matter is mature, I would reccomend it for older teens. Great book, five stars.

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When Dad Killed Mom

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When Dad Killed Mom.(Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article): An article from: The Horn Book Magazine

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When Dad Killed Mom.(Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article): An article from: The Horn Book Magazine
Deborah Z. Porter
Manufacturer: Horn Book, Inc.
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Title: When Dad Killed Mom.(Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
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When Dad Killed Mom
Julius Lester
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When Dad Killed Mom
Julius Lester
Manufacturer: Silver Whistle
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OJB0OM

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Mammals are our closest relatives in the animal kingdom; most are beautiful, and many are highly intelligent and have intricate social systems. They are found in all kinds of habitats; they may have fur, scales, or spines; they move by hopping, swimming, running, or flying. What all mammals share, apart from certain anatomical similarities, is the unique ability to nourish their young with milk from mammary glands.
Many species of mammals are severely threatened by habitat destruction and encroachment, and some face extinction within the near future. A better understanding and appreciation of mammals by humans is essential to their survival.
This lavishly illustrated book presents in a lively and visually stimulating way the most recent findings of scientific research. Authoritative text written by the world's leading mammalogists is enhanced by over 200 superb photographs and over 100 original paintings, diagrams, and maps to give an up-to-date overview of our knowledge of the fascinating lives of animals.

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* Magnificently illustrated in full color
* Includes hundreds of color photographs and meticulously researched diagrams and maps
* Written by an international team of world recognized authorities

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Excellent reference work.......2001-01-19

What a wonderful book! This well detailed, well researched work includes every mammal, classified by family making individual animals easy to find. Each section includes maps, a size chart,and beautiful full color pictures as well as an extensive fact section. I strongly recommend this for any school age child, as well as adults. Even my 15 month old loves it.

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This new volume is the first systematic review of surfactant-modified, water-soluble polymers. The authors, representing leaders in their fields, offer practical information about associative thickeners and polymer surfactants, including spectroscopic and rheological analysis of these water-soluble polymers in aqueous solutions. In addition, aqueous gels of varying chemical types are studied with respect to their properties in numerous applications. Among the topics covered are: aqueous gels; surfactant-modified, water-soluble polymers; polyelectrolyte synthesis; elongational viscosity; and fluorescence phenomena of water-soluble polymers.

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Clifford Algebras continues to be a fast-growing discipline, with ever-increasing applications in many scientific fields. This volume contains the lectures given at the Fourth Conference on Clifford Algebras and their Applications in Mathematical Physics, held at RWTH Aachen in May 1996. The papers represent an excellent survey of the newest developments around Clifford Analysis and its applications to theoretical physics. Audience: This book should appeal to physicists and mathematicians working in areas involving functions of complex variables, associative rings and algebras, integral transforms, operational calculus, partial differential equations, and the mathematics of physics.

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Dietrich et al. (Eds.) on Clifford algebras.......2000-03-29

This volume is an unusually inspired collection of papers by some of the most ingenious researchers in Clifford algebras. Since Clifford algebras and the closely related octonion and division algebras are themselves one of the most inspired and ingenious tools in mathematical physics, the reader of this volume cannot go wrong. It is important that mathematicians and physicists learn about Clifford algebras, regardless of their background. Clifford algebras, like most branches of algebra, have a remarkable simplicity that appeals to the researcher's intuition, and they also have a rigor and a logical development and categorization which is hard to beat in any other branch of mathematics. Clifford algebra goes one step beyond most algebras except perhaps Lie algebras and Grassmanian/tensor algebras in that it is applicable to geometry and geometric physics to a degree that is difficult to believe. For example, quaternions (a branch of Clifford algebra) are now being applied to aerospace and space exploration, as several important volumes recently published indicate. Chisholm in Great Britain, Pezzaglia in California, Hestenes in Arizona, Bayliss and Ackermann, Okubo, Benn, and numerous others have applied Clifford algebra to quantum theory (including quantum field theory and quantum gravity), general and special relativity,and so on. The algebra itself seems to lead researchers forward with less effort. Unlike vector analysis, which struggles with inner product and cross product formalisms which are hard to manipulate, Clifford algebras have a natural multiplication reminiscent of ordinary multiplication which cuts through most of the "red tape" of theoretical and applied physics. The reader should obtain a copy of every publication on Clifford algebras, octonions, Division Algebras, etc. As I have pointed out in another review, readers with poorer mathematical backgrounds can always hire consultants and even tutors to help them translate these remarkable treasures.

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The only author ever to win the Booker Prize twice, J. M. Coetzee is, without question, one of the world's greatest novelists. Now his many admirers will have the pleasure of reading his significant body of literary criticism. This volume gathers together for the first time in book form, twenty-six pieces on books and writing, all but one previously published. Stranger Shores opens with "What is a Classic?" in which Coetzee explores the answer to his own question-"What does it mean in living terms to say that the classic is what survives?"-by way of T. S. Eliot, Johann Sebastian Bach and Zbigniew Herbert. His subjects range from the great eighteenth and nineteenth century writers Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson and Ivan Turgenev, to the great German modernists Rilke, Kafka, and Musil, to the giants of late twentieth century literature, among them Harry Mulisch, Joseph Brodsky, Jorge Luis Borges, Salman Rushdie, Amos Oz, Naguib Mahfouz, Nadine Gordimer, and Doris Lessing.

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best on Kafka and SA.......2007-08-10

Many topics. As I expected, Coetzee displays a profound knowledge of Kafka. Amazing how much of it can be communicated by discussing problems of translation.
I found the essays on South African literature and history very informative.
Certainly to be recommended to every lover of Coetzee's candid prose.

Superb and challenging.......2007-02-09

This book is very exceptional. Coetzee's literary criticisms are of the highest level. He discusses a very broad range of writers and books, including; Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe; Samuel Richardson's odd novel Clarissa; Cees Nooteboom's retelling of fairy tales; a critique of William Gass's critique of the poems of Rilke; the difficulty in translating Kafka; the novel The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil, as well as Musil's Diaries published after his death; the most productive years of Dostoevsky; the essays (as well as career and poems) of Joseph Brodsky; a fantastic summary of the career and work of J.L. Borges; another penetrating essay on the serial works of A. S. Byatt; the novels of Caryl Phillips; the career of Salman Rushdie; a review of Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz's The Harafish; a fascinating essay on Daphne Rooke; an essay on Nadine Gordimer's advice to South African writers to look to the Russian intellectuals prior to the fall of Nicholas and Alexandria for resonance with current South Africa's dilema; and a wonderful essay on Doris Lessings life and work.

Coetzee is brilliant, I have loved his novels, but his literary critism is some of the most thought provoking essays I have read in years. This book is highly recommended.

A Good Resource.......2004-07-22

This is, overall, an excellent book, and provides exemplary models of both the literary essay and sympathetic criticism. Coetzee also sets the bar at fluency in (at least) five languages.

The standout pieces are those focusing on T.S. Eliot, Gass's Rilke, Dostoevsky, and Turgenev. Overall, his treatments of German, South African, and Russian literatures are the strongest, and essays are grouped more or less by subject nationalities. There are also thematic threads running between pieces that give the book a sense of organization by chapter, rather than of separate works grouped together. Coetzee is careful to balance the strengths and weaknesses of each author, referring to collective works to find explanations when they are not readily available in the individual pieces. He is highly sympathetic with the process of writing a novel, and treats most of his subjects in light of this recognition.

Given all this, I was a little baffled when I came to his essay on Brodsky. Though he does acknowledge Brodsky's genius in the final paragraph, the piece as a whole feels like the expulsion of a long-held grudge against the writer. He thoroughly undermines Brodsky's philosophies and politics (whose identical characteristics he supports wholeheartedly when they appear in Borges' and Dostoevsky's works); and does so to the exclusion of an actual discussion of Brodsky's writing.

As a whole, however, this is an excellent collection. For those new to literary criticism, it brings a clear and unique insight to the evaluation of (and creation of) a novel's structure; and for those who are much more well-read in criticism, a clear respect for the author and a unique manipulation of a reader's curiosity and intelligence. I think that's enough caveats for one review:) I definitely recommend this book.

he can do better.......2004-06-21

Well, I was somewhat disappointed. I have read most o Coetzee's work, and i found this book rather weak in comparison to others. Though it covers a large variety of writers and different thougths (ranging from translation ones to ones about apartheid and South African politics) I found it that only the first essay "What is a Classic" can stand for grandiousness of thought that I expect from nobel prize writer. Others range from good ones to ones that look like they have been written by High school student. Essays does not offer provoking thoughts, after reading them you will not feel smarter, you'll not thirst for knowledge, and in the world that I inhabit, I value only those kind of essays. I must say that I don't recommend this book, though I reccomended most of them in these pages...

Novelist and literary observer.......2004-03-23

Coetzee writes that T.S. Eliot was invested in his English identity by 1944. Eliot wrote an essay about Virgil, about the Aeneid, about the classics at that time. He sensed the war would bring about change. The classics are what survives. The music of Bach, for example, has survived.

The author disliked watching the TV version of Richardson's CLARISSA. He writes that in 1740 there was an idea of beauty. Lovelace is a rake. Richardson is a Christian, but not a religious writer. Clarissa is trapped in a certain mythic dualism. She suffers ontological damage. Clarissa's self-interpretation carries conviction. Lovelace is a thoroughly debased version of the lover worshipper of female beauty.

The principal subject of the Dutch writer, Marcellus Emants, is love and marriage. He is pessimistic and is interested in psychological processes. The Dutch writer Harry Mulisch wrote a fictional account of the story of his own parents. A theme of his has been the failure of the imagination in the face of the atrocious evil of, say, Auschwitz. Mulisch has an intensely felt personal preoccupation with the historical trauma of European facism.

Cees Nooteboom, another Dutch novelist, is too intelligent to commit himself to constructing the grand illusions of realism. Nooteboom has a version of Andersen's "The Snow Queen." Nooteboom's initial reputation was gained as a travel writer. One of the constants of his life has been his love of Spain. Religious tourism makes up a large part of the tourism industry in Europe.

Coetzee notes that Rainer Maria Rilke was attracted to a non-German identity. Rilke visited Russia and after Word War I visited Switzerland. He was attacked as a cultural renegade but claimed he was merely being a good European. Rilke had a gift for languages.

Edwin and Willa Muir became professional translators. They produced translations of Kafka. Edwin Muir was also a poet of some note. At any rate, the Muir's conception of Kafka was that he was a religious writer. Coetzee claims that the Muir monopoly has assumed a scandalous air in that it has produced numerous misreadings. Their knowledge of German terms pertaining to law and the legal bureaucracy was sketchy. The Muirs are uncertain guides to the everyday material culture of middle Europe. Max Brod, who delivered Kafka to the world, was, of course, no ordinary editor. He saved Kafka's manuscripts from destruction. Coetzee describes Kafka's language as clear, specific, and neutral. His language may have been influenced by the precision of good legal prose.

Robert Musil served the Hapsburg Empire in World War I and died during World War II. THE MAN WITHOUT QUALITIES was left unfinished. In 1938 Musil and his wife became trapped in Switzerland. Musil thought German culture was retrogressive in compartmentalizing intellect from feeling. Nietzsche's influence on Musil was decisive.

1865-1871 were the years of Dostoevsky's greatest achievement. Dostoevsky's biographer calls him a literary proletarian. His second wife was able to divorce his gambling mania from his personality. In Dostoevsky's novels there are competing voices and discourses. Dostevsky's historical intuitions were usually right.

Joseph Brodsky criticizes Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn for refusing to accept that humankind is radically bad. The author writes of A.S. Byatt, Aharon Appelfeld, Naguib Mahfouz, Nadine Gordimer and Doris Lessing in addition to the literary figures covered above at greater length.

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Title: J.M. Coetzee. Stranger Shores: Literary Essays 1986-1999. (book review)
Author: J. Roger Kurtz
Publication: World Literature Today (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 2002
Publisher: University of Oklahoma
Volume: 76 Issue: 2 Page: 249(1)

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