Day Hike! Central Cascades: The Best Trails You Can Hike in a Day (Day Hike!)

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Sasquatch's Day Hike! guides are written for people who want to spend their days in the mountains and their nights back at home. The series uncovers the best trails for the newbie hiker or veteran day-tripper. Day Hike! Central Cascades leads readers through 70 of the best day hike trails selected specifically for day hiking in the Central Cascades, including Snoqualmie Pass, Alpine Lakes Wilderness, and Stevens Pass. Each trail includes an overall rating, mileage and estimated hiking time, elevation gain, trail conditions, difficulty level, best season, map references, driving directions, exploring options, permits required, special notes on hiking with children and dogs, and references for finding more information. Sharp, contemporary black-and-white photos, a quick-reference chart of season and difficulty level, and hike statistics at a glance are also included. Organized by major highways and roads for easy trail finding, the book describes classic day routes—from the easy to the extreme—giving hikers the choices they want, whether visiting the Central Cascades for a day or vacationing with the children for a week.

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A list of marine bacteria including descriptions of sixty new species, (Bulletin of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography of the University of California, La Jolla, California)
Claude Ephraim ZoBell
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Find this book! Buy it!.......2001-08-09

Even though the price in the book title is probably no longer applicable, the recommendations are. Especially the Tropicana Inn in San Jose del Cabo -- clean, safe, great location in downtown area. Near great shopping. Avoid the tourist trap of Cabo San Lucas -- go here! Marita Adair would never steer you wrong. We took a trip to hotels she recommended in Mexico and would go again -- our best recommendation!

Still the classic moderate budget Mexico guide!.......1998-09-29

I have purchased several editions of the Mexico on $__ A Day books, and have found them about the best for my moderate budget needs. And Marita Adair has done an excellent job of keeping the book updated; the 22nd edition may have been the best ever--certainly a classic guide! There has not been a Frommer's budget Mexico guide published since, and I have been very disappointed in the 1998 and 1999 editions of the general Frommer's Guide to Mexico--seem kind of flat with no really new information.

A very good Mexico guide for the budget-oriented traveler........1997-08-02

I used this guide to plan my trip to Mexico in January 1997. Overall, I was impressed with the quality of the research. It is oriented toward budget-conscious travelers, who want clean, comfortable accomodations and bargain eats. It could use some more information about the history, culture and customs of the Mexican people.

Frommer's Mexico from $35 a Day (Frommer's Mexico from $ a Day)

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Frommer's Mexico from $35 a Day (Frommer's Mexico from $ a Day)
Marita Adair
Manufacturer: Frommer
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ASIN: B000O96R3Q

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"When his family nemesis, the evil trapper George Burton, suddenly reappears after a long absence, young Ben Macdonald runs off in fright and soon finds himself being whisked down the Red River in a rowboat without any oars.His father and brother, finding Ben gone and convinced that Burton has gotten him, set off in a desperate search.Meanwhile, Ben drifts into Lake Winnipeg and the home of the Cree tribe, whom he has been brought up to fear.Will Ben ever be able to elude Burton and safely navigate his way through dangerous Indian territory to find his way home?This suspenseful survival story, rich in historical and natural lore, is sure to satisfy the legions of fans of the first story about Ben and his family, Incident at Hawk's Hill, and to appeal to new readers as well."

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Review for Return to Hawk's Hill.......2003-10-20

Return to Hawk's Hill by Alan W. Eckert is one of my favorite books. I think this book can be read or listened to by all ages. The book tells the story through the eyes of the family, Ben and the villagers. While reading the book, you will find yourself comparing what they did in a certain situation with what you would have done. The main theme is the conflict of what people think of others when they act, talk and do things you find are strange.
The story begins with Ben's brother and sisters going home and thinking of what had happened before (read Incident at Hawk 's Hill to understand) when George Burton shows up. Ben feeling like an animal caught runs..., finds a boat..., is found by an Indian boy and brought back to the Indian boy's village, fills fear, lonely and then love. Return to Hawk's Hill is a book you can't stop reading until it's done.

Return to Hawk's Hill.......2002-03-04

I chose to read this book.... I was looking for a novel that seemed interesting. I also wanted to read a book with a different genre from most of the other books I've read...
The main character in this story is a young boy named Ben Mac Donald. Ben Mac Donald has two older sisters,... . and one older brother. Ben is the youngest of the four and also the quietest. He seems to be on the reserved side and it seems like he enjoys being home alone, and keeping to himself. Ben is also fascinated with nature, and loves to go and frolic with the wildlife on the prairie. At one point in the story, Ben even stays with a mother badger in her den...
I really enjoyed this book and I found it very interesting. I love the adventures that he goes on. Sometimes the adventures he goes on are to save the lives of others, other times it's to get away with his own. I give this book a score of 4+/5-; because the book just pulled me in I couldn't put it down. I really enjoy adventures both in books and in real life, and this book had plenty of adventures to keep me reading. I hope to read the next volume of this book series titled Incident at Hawk's Hill and experience more heart racing adventures that Ben Mac Donald goes on. Hopefully, none too dangerous though.

A GOOD BOOK!.......2000-06-04

This sequal to Incident at Hawk's Hill was a great book. It was nice to find out that Ben MacDonold did well in school. When the familie's adventure starts, they didn't know that it would lead to a friendship with indians. This book was full of incredible suspense and action.

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This volume will be a collection of chapters from authors with wide experience in their research field. The purpose is to produce a coherent book that reflects the common theme of theory in medical thinking and multidisciplinary research practice. In this context "theory" relates to frameworks of concepts, facts, models etc that help to inform practitioners (clinicians, scientists and engineers) both within their own fields and as they seek to share dialogue with colleagues from other fields.

The book will therefore be integrative across a broad spectrum of fields within medicine. To achieve this the chapters will be associated with others in a number of meaningful ways. Each chapter will share a number of points of contact that will include at least two of the following:

*similar biomedical area (e.g., immunity, neuroscience, endocrinology, pathology, oncology, haematology, )
*similar multidisciplinary theoretical contexts (e.g., modelling, analysis, description, visualization, complex systems, )
*similar multidisciplinary medical issues and questions (e.g., clinical practice, decision making, informatics, )

· Uniquely explores role of interdisciplinary exchange in the development and expansion of medical theory
· Timely and insightful essays on the growth and development of medical theories from some of the world's top clinicians and medical researchers, including Werner Arber, Frank Vertosick, and David Weatherall
· Assembles diverse perspectives on medicine and physiology from biology, statistics, ethics, computer science, philosophy, history
· Uniquely illuminates the social and historical processes through which theoretical research translates into clinical practice
· Reveals the growing role of technology, especially computational modelling, in changing the nature of Western medicine

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Symposium held in Baltimore, Maryland, January 2003.

The Symposium was jointly sponsored by the SIAM Activity Group on Discrete Mathematics and by SIGACT, the ACM Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory.

Contains approximately 112 papers that were selected from a field of over 408 submissions based on their originality, technical contribution, and relevance. Papers cover such topics as discrete mathematics and graph theory, including combinatorics, combinatorial optimization, and networks. Although the papers were not formally refereed, every attempt was made to verify the main claims. Abbreviated versions of these papers may appear later in more elaborate form in various scientific journals.

This symposium concerns research on the use, design, and analysis of efficient algorithms and data structures, and on the mathematical problems related to the development and analysis of discrete algorithms. Application areas include, but are not limited to, discrete mathematics and combinatorics; combinatorial structures; communication networks; computational biology; computational physics; computational finance; computational geometry; computational topology; computer graphics and computer vision; computer systems; cryptography and security; databases and information retrieval; discrete optimization; discrete probability; distributed algorithms; experimental algorithmics; graph drawing; graphs and networks; machine learning; mathematical programming; molecular computing; number theory and algebra; on-line problems; pattern matching and data compression; quantum computing; random structures; robotics; statistical inference; and symbolic computation. The proceeding's content reflects the themes of the meeting.

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Like the 'Lysistrata,' the 'Thesmophoriazusae, or Women's Festival,' and the next following play, the 'Ecclesiazusae, or Women in Council' are comedies in which the fair sex play a great part. In 'The Thesmophoriazusae' Euripides is summoned as a notorious woman-hater and detractor of the female sex to appear for trial and judgment before the women of Athens assembled to celebrate the Thesmophoria, a festival held in honour of the goddesses Demeter and Persephone, from which men were rigidly excluded.

Aristophanes: Lysistrata. Thesmophoriazusae. Ecclesiazusae. Plutus. (Loeb Classical Library No. 180)

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Local Dialect Detracts from the Plays
Ribald and Raucous

Aristophanes: Lysistrata. Thesmophoriazusae. Ecclesiazusae. Plutus. (Loeb Classical Library No. 180)
Aristophanes
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ASIN: 0674991990

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A brand-new translation of the world's greatest satirist. With a signature style that is at once bawdy and delicate, as well as a fearless penchant for lampooning the rich and powerful, Aristophanes remains arguably the finest satirist of all time. Collected here are all 11 of his surviving plays-newly translated by the distinguished poet and translator Paul Roche.

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Local Dialect Detracts from the Plays.......2006-12-10

Paul Roche, attempting to give his plays a more "familiar" feel to an English-speaking audience goes too far.

He has the irritating habit of occasionally flavoring the words of a minor character in such a way that they sound more like an English country bumpkin than the character they are supposed to represent.

As an example, near the beginning of The Acharnians, Roche does the following; pay close attention to the Crier:

AMPHITHEUS: Have the speeches begun?
CRIER: 'oo wishes to speak?
AMPHITHEUS: I do.
CRIER: 'oo are you?
AMPHITHEUS: Amphitheus
CRIER: That don't sound like a 'uman being.

This is but a single example. If you prefer a feeling of authenticity in your ancient Greek drama, stay away from Paul Roche.

Ribald and Raucous.......2004-04-21

Aristophanes was a ribald playwright whose raucous plays were brilliantly brought to life by Fred Beake, David Slavitt, Palmer Bovie, and Jack Flavin. The first two of the four plays in Aristophanes, 1, The Acharnians and Peace were written during the Peloponnesian War between Athens, Sparta, and their allies. It was a terrible war consuming all of Greece, and Aristophanes was one of the first peace advocates. In The Acharnians, Dikaiopolis (which means "Good Citizen"), tries to convince the Assembly to discuss peace terms, only to be shut out of the discussion. So he hires Amphitheus, who claims to be a son of a god ordered to bring peace, to go to Sparta and make a treaty between Sparta and his family. In Peace, Trygaeus flies to heaven on a beetle to talk Zeus into advocating peace but Zeus went on vacation because he couldn't stand the fighting anymore and left War in charge. War buried Peace and Trygaeus had to rescue her to bring Peace to Athens.

The third play in the series, Celebrating Ladies, was a raucous attempt by Euripides, the famous Tragedian, to send his brother-in-law to the women's assembly to find out what the women are saying about him. So he dresses up as a woman and learns the women want to kill Euripides for writing so many disparaging things about them. Mnesilochus, the brother-in-law, speaks up for Euripides and the women try to kill him too. He's finally rescued when Euripides promises to change his behavior.

Finally, Wealth, represented the last of the extant plays of Aristophanes. Chremylus and his slave discover Wealth, a god blinded by Zeus because Zeus was afraid he might visit honest men. Chremylus claims he can restore his sight if he'll only visit with honest men. Wealth agrees, and with his sight restored, sprreads wealth to honest men and the lying informers are made to suffer in poverty.

The four plays in Aristophanes, 1 span the gamut from Old Comedy to New Comedy. The former was characterized by vulgar and slapstick humor with a Chorus used to interact with the audience. As comedy evolved, the Chorus played less a role and there was a softening of the ribald humor so characteristic of Old Comedy.

To make the plays more readable and understandable without losing any of the humor of the plays, the translators often made references to Twentieth Century phrases instead of the original Greek phrases. This might be annoying to the scholar but makes these plays eminently enjoyable to the general reader

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Aristophanes has some angry women go after Euripides

Aristophanes Thesmophoriazusae
Aristophanes , and Joseph F. Gannon
Manufacturer: Bryn Mawr Commentaries
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ASIN: 0929524047

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Thesmophoriazusae is perhaps the funniest of all Aristophanes' comedies, in which gender inversion and transvestism run riot as the tragic dramatist Euripides is made to take part in a hilarious spoof on some of his own favourite plot lines, with his own life at stake as well as that of his loyal and much-put-upon old relative.

This edition offers a freshly constituted text making use of papyri published within the last few years, together with the first fully annotated English translation there has been of this play.

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Aristophanes has some angry women go after Euripides.......2002-05-25

The Thesmophoria was a private festival honoring Demeter and her daughter Persephone, that was sacred to women. The play's title, "Thesmophoriazusae," translates as "Women Celebrating the Thesmophoria." At the festival the women are trying the tragic playwright Euripides in absentia for attacking their sex in his plays. Euripides has one of his relatives, Mnesilochus, attend the Thesmophoria dressed as a woman, to speak on his behalf (and the scene where Mnesilochus is prepared for his role is hysterical).

At the trial Euripides is accused of having made all husbands aware of the failings of women so that the men are all paying closer attention to their wives to make sure they do nothing wrong. Another prosecutor, who sells preparations for sacrifices, accuses Euripides of hurting her livelihood by casting doubt on religion. Mnesilochus makes the mistake of suggesting that Euripides has only revealed a small part of the true evils of women, at which point "she" is put under guard. To save Mnesilochus, Euripides arrives in disguise and engages in parodies of the rescue scenes from some of his own plays ("Telephus," "Palamedes," "Helen," and "Andromeda"). If you have read Euripides then you are well aware of his tendency to use a deus ex machina to resolve his plotlines; obviously Aristophanes and the Athenian audiences were equally aware of this tendency as well.

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Thesmophoriazusae was performed in Athens in 411 BCE, most likely at the City Dionysia, and is among the most brilliant of Aristophanes' eleven surviving comedies. It is the story of the crucial moment in a quarrel between the tragic playwright Euripides and Athens' women, who accuse him of slandering them in his plays and are holding a meeting at one of their secret festivals to set a penalty for his crimes. Thesmophoriazusae is a brilliantly inventive comedy, full of wild slapstick humour and devastating literary parody, and is a basic source for questions of gender and sexuality in late 5th-century Athens and for the popular reception of Euripidean tragedy. Austin and Olson offer a text based on a fresh examination of the papyri and manuscripts, and a detailed commentary covering a wide range of literary, historical, and philological issues. The introduction includes sections on the date and historical setting of the play; the Thesmophoria festival; Aristophanes' handling of Euripidean tragedy; staging; Thesmophoriazusae II; and the history of modern critical work on the text. All Greek in the introduction and commentary not cited for technical reasons is translated.

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Other reviewer didn't even read this book.......2005-06-26

Apologies for the commentary, but I thought it important enough for the unsuspecting to mention that this edition is in Attic Greek; it is not translated as the other reviewer states. In fact, if you do an search on Amazon for "Thesmophoriazusae" you'll find he pasted the beginning of his review on every edition on offer--are we to believe that he's compared every edition and found no differences worth mentioning?

Perhaps it's a ridiculous endeavor to warn other readers of this since few would shell out 90+ dollars for a translation, but I thought it might be helpful nonetheless.

Der Chor in der Alten Komodie (BZA 126) (Beitrage Zur Altertumskunde)

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Der Chor in der Alten Komodie (BZA 126) (Beitrage Zur Altertumskunde)
Anton Bierl
Manufacturer: K.G. Saur (An Impint of Walter de Gruyter)
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In Greek comedy the chorus plays a fundamental role with regard to a better understanding of the dramatic material and the heightening of the comic effect. However, it also reflects the influence of ritual behavior so typical of Greek tragedy.

Ladies' day an English version of Thesmophoriazusae

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Ladies' day an English version of Thesmophoriazusae
Dudley Aristophanes; Fitts
Manufacturer: Harcourt, Brace
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ASIN: B000LC1V5K

The Thesmophoriazusae [EasyRead Super Large 18pt Edition]

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The Thesmophoriazusae [EasyRead Super Large 18pt Edition]
Aristophanes
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ASIN: 1425015085
Release Date: 2007-08-21

The Thesmophoriazusae [EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition]

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The Thesmophoriazusae [EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition]
Aristophanes
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ASIN: 1425030505
Release Date: 2007-08-21

The Thesmophoriazusae [EasyRead Super Large 24pt Edition]

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The Thesmophoriazusae [EasyRead Super Large 24pt Edition]
Aristophanes
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ASIN: 1425040012
Release Date: 2007-08-21

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The Thesmophoriazusae (Large Print)
Aristophanes
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ASIN: 1425000746
Release Date: 2006-11-01

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Through comedy that targets the practices and prejudices of gender is presented in the play.

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