Flood Stage and Rising

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What could be safer than Grand Forks, North Dakota, settled on the vast, flat plain of the Red River? There’d be no danger unless the whole town went under water. But in April 1997 that is precisely what happened. Flood Stage and Rising tells the story of that month-long disaster from the point of view of one who lived through it—fighting the flood shoulder-to-shoulder with her neighbors, watching in horror as the water breaks the dikes, fleeing the city only to see, via newscasts, her town burst into flames at the height of the flood—and finally working to put her own and Grand Fork’s life back together.

As she chronicles North Dakota’s disastrous winter and spring—and the tortuous recovery process that continues to this day—Jane Varley gives us a shocking, moving picture of the reality behind the headline news that riveted the nation. A gifted poet and essayist, Varley has crafted a first-rate adventure narrative that is also a love story about a particular place and time, infused with her passion for the natural world, a curiosity about rivers and remote landscapes, and a need for meaning. Her story culminates a life of travels that prepared her—and prepares us—for what we see in North Dakota as the lake bed of the Red River Valley refills with water like a ghost of its ancient past.

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Dive Into This One!.......2005-06-27

I live on the floodplane of the Mississippi River. In flood years, the spring rise threatens my existence in deluging ways, the river flowing into the first floor of my house. I keep a dinghy tied to my back doorknob for quick escape. Jane Varley's book provides haunting and fascinating images of what happens when a river relcaims its rightful place. Always in the counter-balance, of course, is how it wreacks havoc on human life. What does the river give? What does it take? Varley's book tackles both these questions in insightful and poetic ways.

Buy this book. You'll find her story of living in the midst of disaster life-giving and awe-inspired.

A Beautifully Written Story.......2005-04-27

This book is an amazing story of the beauty and strength of nature. Though written as a narrative, the language is beautifully poetic. The author is a fantastic story teller, and shares a personal account of an incredible event.

Why Do We Live Here?.......2005-03-18

This is a question that Jane Varley probes in Flood Stage and Rising. It is thrilling and fascinating that she is writing about midwesterners, and more specifically, Grand Forksians, inhabitants of this Red River Valley---but Varley's explorations in this work move well beyond our area, begging everyone to look closely at their surroundings and experience a sense of place more fully.

Every other chapter in Flood Stage and Rising is about Varley's experiences during the 1997 Grand Forks flood. The other chapters reveal her connections to water, particularly rivers, over the course of her life. She was born during an April flood in Dubuque and in the chapter describing it says, "I was born from water into water."

As a newcomer to North Dakota, Varley maintains a compelling distance from her topic, offering us a view of ourselves that is rich in familiar phrases ("Forty below keeps the riff raff out"), accents ("Ya got cherself in a spot there, didn't cha?") and ways of life ("In Minnesota, kindness can be an urgent business"). Yet Varley reminds us of her transient status: "Was the flood helping me know this place better or preventing me from knowing it, spurring on the feeling that I should leave and find new territory?"

It's a question we ask ourselves: Why do we live here? Varley will not answer this question for you, or even really for herself. You will not want her to; you will read the book and ask questions of yourself, your home, your memories, your observations, and your thoughts. As I stated earlier, people from all parts of the country will relate to and enjoy this book, and we owe an extra thanks to Varley for reminding us where we've been, making us put aside the jokes about living in North Dakota long enough to truly appreciate our own stories. "The stories reveal who we are, full of words, ready to say what happened to us, as well as silent, turning back to the cold muck of a basement, reaching in and ordering a new kind of life."

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* Written by the worldâ€™s leading authorities on bioethics
* Provides a fresh examination of the highly controversial ethical and legal implications of genomics * Includes a wide range of case study material from cloning and genetically modified (GM) crops to gene therapy and transgenic animals

From the mid 1990s to the present day, agricultural biotechnology--GM crops and foods--has been the focus of debate and conflict in many European countries. Contrasting views of risks and benefits, trust in science and regulation, the understanding of science, media coverage, and mobilization of the public by civil society groups â€“ all have been cited as drivers of public opinion. Designed in part to allay public concerns about GM agriculture, a European moratorium led to a new regulatory framework. The long running controversy is a signal that the publicâ€™s view cannot be ignored in the development and implementation of new technologies arising out of genomics. Yet, agricultural biotechnologies are but one development in this area. Genetic testing and the uses of genetic information, the cloning human cells and tissues, and transgenic animals are potentially no less challenging for the public and regulators alike.

This volume, by an international group of social scientists from North America, Europe, and Japan, presents a series of comparative perspectives on the social, ethical, and legal implications of genomics. The aim is to capture lessons from the controversies of the 1990s and to raise the level of debate on the societal implications of new developments in genomics.

Genomics and Society Legal, Ethical and Social Dimensions: Legal, Ethical and Social Dimensions (Science in Society)

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Genomics and Society Legal, Ethical and Social Dimensions: Legal, Ethical and Social Dimensions (Science in Society)

Manufacturer: Earthscan Pubns Ltd
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ASIN: 1844071146

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In this new edition, you can enjoy 100 rides that cover the entire state of Utah.

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Great Guide Book!.......2000-06-15

I can't stop singing the praises of this book. I've been biking Utah for a while, and this book exposed me to some trails that I hadn't seen. If you're in Utah and want to find some great trails, or if you're coming to Utah to ride, GET THIS BOOK!

The Mountain Biker's Guide to Utah (Dennis Coello's America By Mountain Bike)

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The Mountain Biker's Guide to Utah (Dennis Coello's America By Mountain Bike)
Gregg Bromka
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"This is the all-inclusive guidebook and mountain biker's 'bible' to Utah," says author and veteran mountain biker Gregg Bromka. The Mountain Biker's Guide to Utah offers eighty routes that explore Utah's unique and diverse landscapes-the rugged mountains in the north to the spacious central plateaus and famed canyon country in the south. Ride through the Wasatch Mountains near Salt Lake City, enjoy endless vistas atop Brian Head Resort, and discover Moab's redrock splendor in and around Arches and Canyonlands national parks. Mountain bikers of all abilities will enjoy the assortment of rides-varying in length and difficulty and appealing to a variety of moods, skills, and fitness levels. Detailed route descriptions, maps, and listings of mountain bike shops in each area will guide you to the best trails around.

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Helpful guide.......2000-06-12

Bromka does a good job of organizing a very large group of rides. His descriptions, however, were often limited and repetitive. Overall, though, I found the book to be very helpful.

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The Mountain Biker's Guide to Utah
Gregg Bromka
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Everyone in the Valley has brown eyes--except 13-year-old Jonathon. Ugly rumors about Jonathon's beautiful red-haired mother are surfacing among the self-righteous Valley folk, as are whispers about her son. He's beginning to worry that he's a "loony-blue," one of the blue-eyed, red-headed Dalriada--the much-feared mountain people who have magnificent horses, mystical powers, and horns growing out of their foreheads. After his mother's sudden death, the whispers grow to angry threats, and Jonathon escapes the Valley and goes in search of his heritage, his manhood, and his true love. In the mountains he experiences a mystical rite of passage that takes him to the Dalriada encampments, through caves echoing with his own spirit voices, to the very top of the world. From the mountain peak he carries back one of the legendary Firegold apples--a gift that brings reconciliation with his father and his rightful home among the Valley people.

Fantasy lovers will enjoy the vivid images and original ideas of this shimmering tale, with layers of philosophy about bigotry, narrow-mindedness, and true identity adding emotional depth. This complex, imaginative first novel bodes well for future titles by Dia Calhoun. (Ages 12 and older) --Patty Campbell

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Thirteen-year-old Jonathon, feared and hated by the brown-eyed Valley people because of his blue eyes, tries to find answers to his true identity in the Red Mountains, home of the Dalriada, a mountain people with magnificent horses, mystical powers, and blue eyes like his.

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Fantastic Coming-of-Age Tale.......2006-12-06

I read this when I was in the 8th grade and I found that I couldn't stop thinking about it. I truly admire books that branch out passed the last pages. For anyone looking for a wonderful coming-of-age story, I recommend Firegold a thousand times over!

Amazing.......2005-12-24

I loved this book. I first read it in 4th grade, when I was searching through my dad's bookshelves. I have read it about forty times and it just keeps getting better. I didn't like how the end left off, so I even wrote another chapter to the book. I would recommend this book to anyone.

Excellent, unique book.......2005-11-11

I really got drawn into the world and the cultures and people felt real and interesting.

It's not a fast-paced book, but it's paced just right for the story it has to tell.

The main characters are awesome and believable, and their journeys are satisfying in the end.

Wonderful!.......2004-07-15

I absoloutley loved this book! It is about a boy named Jonothan who lives in The Valley. When strange things start to happen, the people blame him because of his blue eyes and his Mothers red hair. They think he is part Dalriada. He goes to teh Red Mountains, (Where the Dalriadas live,) to find answers. He ends up on a journey for his life. I was annoyed at the end, but it was still a wonderful book.I hope you like it.

Trying too hard.......2004-03-06

The book jumps from 1 thing to the next. I never wanted to turn the page, but I am the kind of person who starts a book and has to finish it. The boy has a journey, which could be exciting to some people--but wasn't to me or any of my friends. Almost all of my class was in agreement, the book was HORRIBLE! The 285 pages of it (paperback) were almost all about brown and blue eyes. The repetitiveness totally ruined the story. Maybe if everything hadn't been said 50 times the book would have been better...but everything was said 50 times! I say if you read the book and find it to be good...you must be reading a different book!

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Firegold
Jeffrey R Daniels
Manufacturer: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan
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ASIN: 0698106792

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Firegold

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Firegold (Sunburst Books)
Dia Calhoun
Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
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ASIN: B000OWWYE4

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This book contains a comprehensive collection of experimental and computational strategies and techniques for microbial genome-scale essentiality studies, developed and presented by the leading groups in the field. In addition to wet-lab protocols, the book describes (i) statistical methods essential for planning successful large-scale essentiality screens, as well for data evaluation and analysis; (ii) in-silico prediction of gene essentiality using genome-scale reconstructed metabolic models; and (iii) data integration and comparative analysis in the context of genomic databases. All protocols follow the successful Methods in Molecular Biology™ series format, each offering an introduction outlining the principles behind the techniques, step-by-step instructions, lists of the necessary equipment and reagents, and tips on troubleshooting and avoiding pitfalls, and are intended for both novice and expert scientists.

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Microbial Genome Methods
Kenneth W. Adolph
Manufacturer: CRC-Press
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ASIN: 0849344107

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Learn to apply powerful molecular biology and genetics techniques to your microbial research with this easy-to-understand, practical guide. Microbial Genome Methods distills complex experimental procedures into fundamental techniques that can be readily adapted to your own research. In addition, this book provides background information specifically relevant to microbial research, as well as descriptions of expected results.The book is divided into two sections. Section one covers eukaryotic microbes, with emphasis on the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Section two covers prokaryotic microbes, focusing on Escherichia coli, and other important bacteria. These microbes were selected because they are widely studied and understood, but all information can be easily applied to the microbe you are investigating. Chapters are written by nationally and internationally recognized research scientists currently active in this field. Don't miss out on the tremendous boost these research techniques can give your work.

Genome-based Methods.(Techniques of classic microbial genetics are used to identify and characterize the function of selected genes regulated by a particular ... : An article from: Food Ingredient News

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Genome-based Methods.(Techniques of classic microbial genetics are used to identify and characterize the function of selected genes regulated by a particular ... : An article from: Food Ingredient News

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This digital document is an article from Food Ingredient News, published by Business Communications Company, Inc. on November 1, 2004. The length of the article is 518 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: Genome-based Methods.(Techniques of classic microbial genetics are used to identify and characterize the function of selected genes regulated by a particular stress response)
Publication: Food Ingredient News (Newsletter)
Date: November 1, 2004
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Environmental Genomics (Methods in Molecular Biology)

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Environmental Genomics (Methods in Molecular Biology)

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The goal of Environmental Genomics is to serve as a manual for an environmental scientist who wishes to embrace genomics to answer environmental questions. The volume is divided into the sections: gene expression profiling, whole genome and chromosome mutation detection, and methods to assay genome diversity and polymorphisms within a particular environment. The studies presented will reduce the uncertainties associated with environmental risk assessment and provide a systematic framework for determining environmental impact and ensuring human health and the sustainability of natural populations.

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This handbook presents the ion trap mass spectra of the most common terpenes (hydrocarbons found in oils, resins, and balsams) found in nature, including relative retention/elution times, an extensive synonymy of common and IUPAC names, CAS registry numbers, molecular formulas, and structures.

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* Includes 502 spectra of essential oils from predominantly plant sources
* Presents an overview of the ion trap system

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This book is the companion text to Simulating Fuzzy Systems which investigated discrete fuzzy systems through crisp discrete simulation. The current book studies continuous fuzzy dynamical systems using crisp continuous simulation. We start with a crisp continuous dynamical system whose evolution depends on a system of ordinary differential equations (ODEs). The system of ODEs contains parameters many of which have uncertain values. Usually point estimators for these uncertain parameters are used, but the resulting system will not display any uncertainty associated with these estimators. Instead we employ fuzzy number estimators, constructed from expert opinion or from data, for the uncertain parameters. Fuzzy number estimators produces a system of fuzzy ODEs to solve whose solution will be fuzzy trajectories for the variables. We use crisp continuous simulation to estimate the trajectories of the support and core of these fuzzy numbers in a variety of twenty applications of fuzzy dynamical systems. The applications range from Bungee jumping to the AIDS epidemic to dynamical models in economics.

Simulating Fuzzy Systems (Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing)

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Simulating Fuzzy Systems (Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing)
James J. Buckley
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Simulating Fuzzy Systems demonstrates how many systems naturally become fuzzy systems and shows how regular (crisp) simulation can be used to estimate the alpha-cuts of the fuzzy numbers used to analyze the behavior of the fuzzy system. This monograph presents a concise introduction to fuzzy sets, fuzzy logic, fuzzy estimation, fuzzy probabilities, fuzzy systems theory, and fuzzy computation. It also presents a wide selection of simulation applications ranging from emergency rooms to machine shops to project scheduling, showing the varieties of fuzzy systems.

A fuzzy-neural hybrid system of simulating typhoon waves [An article from: Coastal Engineering]

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A fuzzy-neural hybrid system of simulating typhoon waves [An article from: Coastal Engineering]
H.K. Chang , and W.A. Chien
Manufacturer: Elsevier
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This digital document is a journal article from Coastal Engineering, published by Elsevier in 2006. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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This study addresses a fuzzy-neural hybrid system of simulating typhoon waves. A membership function based on the fuzzy theory is expressed by a union Gaussian function to illustrate the rapid wave decaying. Four areas separated by two lines which intersect at the Hua-Lien harbor indicate the case of typhoon's position and propagation. Better simulation performance of the peak wave heights and their occurrence time in both the learning stage and the verification stage simulated by the NF2 model than by the NF1 model is identified. The wave decaying due to land effect is well described by the NF2 model. The NF2 model is applicable for well simulating typhoon waves during the whole period of a typhoon approaching to Taiwan.

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Clarence Brown's marvelous collection introduces readers to the most resonant voices of twentieth-century Russia. It includes stories by Chekhov, Gorky, Bunin, Zamyatin, Babel, Nabokov, Solzhenitsyn, and Voinovich; excerpts from Andrei Bely's Petersburg, Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita, Boris Pasternak's Dr. Zhivago, and Sasha Solokov's A School for Fools; the complete text of Yuri Olesha's 1927 masterpiece Envy; and poetry by Alexander Blok, Anna Akhmatova, and Osip Mandelstam.

Edited by Clarence Brown.

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How it was Done in Russia.......2005-01-19

I bought this book for a course in Russian short fiction, and two years later I still find myself coming back to it. There are many great examples of Soviet and pre-Soviet writing in this anthology, the complete text of Olesha's novella "Envy", as well as some excerpts from longer works like "The Master and Margarita" and "Dr. Zhivago".

True to the Russian literary tradition, most of the pieces occupy a bizarre liminal space between incredibly funny and incredibly disturbing. The author I'm most grateful for having been introduced to through this volume is Danill Kharms, an absurdist writer from the early Soviet era. His "Anecdotes about Pushkin's Life" mocks the kind of hero worship prevelant in the literary world by presenting a series of ridiculous one-paragraph stories that make little to no sense, but are quite funny.

Other highlights in this book include Zamayatin's (authour of "We") "The Cave", Babel's "My First Goose", Platonov's "The Potudan River", Zoshchenko's bureaucratic allegory "Bees and People", Gorky's "Recollections of Leo Tolstoy", and Shalamov's Gulag horror story "Lend Lease".

This book is well worth getting, and you'll find yourself returning to it over and over again, each time finding something new.

Contents listing.......2001-09-27

The other review (by the reader from New Orleans) appears to refer to the 19th-century volume, not to this the 20th-century volume. Here's the contents list for THIS volume, copied-and-pasted from elsewhere...

"Alyosha the Pot", Leo Tolstoy
"The Bishop", Anton Chekhov
"Recollections of Leo Tolstoy", Maxim Gorky
"Light Breathing", Ivan Bunin
"Time", Nadezhda Teffi
"A Girl Was Singing" "The Stranger", Alexander Blok
from "Petersburg", Andrei Bely
"The Cave", Evgeni Zamyatin
"Nikolai", Velimir Khlebnikov
"Three Things in this World He Loved" "We're No Good at Saying Good-bye" "Dante" "When a Man Dies", "Courage", Anna Akhmatova
"The Potudan River", Andrei Platonov
"Varykino" "Hamlet" "March", Boris Pasternak
"Theodosia" "The Admiralty" "The Thread of Gold Cordial Flowed" "Leningrad" "O Lord, Help Me to Live
Through this Night" "The Last Supper", Osip Mandelstam
from "The Master and Margarita", Mikhail Bulgakov
"My First Goose" "How It was Done in Odessa" My First Fee", Isaac Babel
"Bees and People" from "Before Sunrise", Mikhail Zoshchenko
"Envy", Yuri Olesha
"The Return of Chorb" "The Visit to the Museum", Vladimir Nabokov
"A May Night" "Last Letter", Nadezhda Mandelstam
"Anecdotes About Pushkin's Life" "The Connection", Daniil Kharms
"Prosthetic Appliances" "A Child's Drawings" "Lend-Lease", Varlam Shalamov
"Matryona's Home", Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"Pkhentz", Andrei Sinyavsky
"Adam and Eve", Yuri Kazakov
from "Faithful Ruslan", Georgi Vladimov
"A Circle of Friends", Vladimir Voinovich
from "A School for Fools", Sasha Sokolov

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The Portable Twentieth-Century Russian Reader (Viking Portable Library)
Clarence Various; Brown
Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OJ9EN6

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The Portable Twentieth-Century Russian Reader.
Clarence. Brown
Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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ASIN: B000OJ9F1C

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