Synthetic Dyes in Biology, Medicine and Chemistry

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The genus Oreomyrrhis (Umbelliferae): A problem in South Pacific distribution, (University of California publications in botany)
Mildred Esther Mathias
Manufacturer: University of California Press
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ASIN: B0007DSFRK

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Baedeker

Baedeker -- the guides to travel with.

Now in fully revised editions, Baedeker guides offer today's visitor a tremendous depth and reliability of information

Completely updated and revisedCompact guide and foldout map in a clear plastic walletHundreds of full-color photos throughoutDetailed maps and floorplansA-to-Z listings of sights or towns with in-depth reviews and detailed descriptions.Baedeker's original star-rating system.Solid background coverage highlighting history, culture, the economy, the people, and moreUseful practical information, facts and figures, hotel and restaurant listings, and language glossaries.

Baedeker Aa Venice (Baedeker's Aa Pocket Travel Guides)

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Baedeker Aa Venice (Baedeker's Aa Pocket Travel Guides)
Ulrich Ritter
Manufacturer: Salem House Publishers
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ASIN: 0861452054

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Baedeker's Venice
Jarrold Baedeker
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
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Baedeker's Venice (AA Baedeker's S.)

Manufacturer: AA Baedeker's
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ASIN: 0749505796

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Baedeker's Venice (AA Baedeker's S.)

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ASIN: 0749511362

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Venice Baedeker Guide (Baedeker Guides)

Manufacturer: Mairs Geographischer Verlag,Kurt Mair
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Baedeker Venice
Printing
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ASIN: B000O92A6O

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Baedeker's Venice (AA Baedeker's)

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ASIN: 0749500492

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Sixteen-year-old Dain Harrington knows there is one thing he's good at, and that's lobstering. It's something he feels he can rely on, even though his father died in a storm at sea while fishing. During the summer before his senior year, Dain has good luck fishing his traps, until someone starts cutting them. Someone wants him off the water. And so begins a lobster war. Dain suspects Roger Gribbin, the local tough guy, who happens to be a friend of Dain's elusive brother, Eddie. Looking for advice and answers, Dain finally tracks Eddie down and asks him some pointed questions: Who is cutting his traps? Should he get off the water? Why is this happening to him? To Dain's shock and ultimate disappointment, Eddie's answers are evasive and unsettling. As heavy fog rolls in, the landscape that Dain knows so well seems less clear than before. He wonders if the same thing is happening with his life, especially with Eddie, who is drifting farther and farther away. A dramatic ocean rescue provides the moving climax to this eloquent first novel set on the rugged Maine coast.

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Lobster War: A teen Summer reading winner.......2001-06-22

Ethan Howland should be commended for not only producing a compelling story that will grab the attention of your kid, but also addressing some very real issues in the lives of teens. The book hits on a conflict that every young person must grapple with: the fall from grace of the hero that is your older sibling, relative or friend. Still, despite the disappointments faced by Howland's protagonist, the love remains. Through the disappointments, our young lobsterman finds strength.

I found the story compelling, exciting, and believable. The climax will keep a young reader revitted. My 13-year old absolutely loved it. Perfect beach reading.

Great book from a new author.......2001-04-25

The book was fantastic and I applaud the author's first work. Howland conveys location, emotion and situation with fantastic clarity. The story moves along pausing only to allow the reader to take in the imagery of the Maine coast and the mixed and conflicting emotions that people face in life. It is too bad that books like this have to be classified as "juvenile fiction" because the writing is much better than many young readers may appreciate. Beautifully written. Interesting story. Nice lesson in life.

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The Great Lobster War
Ronald P. Formisano
Manufacturer: University of Massachusetts Press
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Binding: Paperback

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The Lobster Gangs of Maine

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In 1956 the Maine Lobsterman's Association was created to break the stranglehold placed on the group by fish dealers, who the fishermen accused of price fixing. Nearly 4,000 fishermen refused to fish in retaliation for dealers' price reductions of their catch, and these disgruntled seamen tried to persuade the rest of their lobstering brothers and sisters to do the same. Before the strike could make a real impact, the dealers complained to the Justice Department, claiming that the association's striking fishermen were harassing those who chose to continue working. Thus summoned, the Department went on to charge both parties with antitrust violations, instigating a circus-like investigation and trial. Given a cast of rugged fisherman, slippery dealers, and ardent yet misguided federal prosecutors, University of Florida history professor Ron Formisano recreates the trial and its various repercussions from the beginning of the conflict to its unexpected and ultimately inconsequential end. Remarkably thorough, The Great Lobster War reveals much about the character of the fishermen as well as the people of Maine, playing up the confrontation that pitted underdog lobstermen against dealers backed by the power of a market economy.

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The Great Lobster War (Leather Bound)
Ron Formisano
Manufacturer: Gryphon Editions
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Binding: Leather Bound
ASIN: B000OT3IEW

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BRAND NEW leather bound book accented with gilt! ! Facsimile reproduction of original work.

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A sleeper I happened on by chance

Life Between Wars
Robert H. Patton
Manufacturer: Permanent Press (NY)
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Binding: Hardcover

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A sleeper I happened on by chance.......2000-05-17

Having recently heard that the author's highly praised but little known other novel, Up, Down & Sideways, had been optioned by Hollywood, I picked up both that novel and this one and frankly was stunned at how funny, captivating, and ultimately moving these books are. In Life Between Wars, the author's ability to make a boy's experiences through a normal day in high school stand dramatically side-by-side with scenes of Vietnam combat and barroom brawls really captures, I think, the meaning and depth inherent in all of life's moments, from the quiet to the chaotic. This book has punch, a subtle spiritual awareness, and great sympathy for all manner of characters, from children to elderly, poor to wealthy, nihilistic to sweetly naive. Plus it's funny as hell.

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THE LOBSTER POT WARS
BETTIE HAMILTON
Manufacturer: AuthorHouse
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1418476676

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Bettie Hamilton's sequel to "Sea Smoke" is "The Lobster Pot Wars." Again it takes place in the 350 year old fishing town of Marblehead, located halfway between Boston and Gloucester, Massachusetts. Will, lobsterman and fisherman, attempts to work out equitable, commercial fishing regulations between the stringent Fishery Management Environmental Agency and the embattled fishermen whose livelihood is threatened. Bitter feelings lead to murder and reach out as far as New Scotland Yard, England. Julia and Will's artist friend, Lea Lantana has been accused of art fraud taking place on both sides of the Big Pond which New Scotland Yard is investigating. A rock singer, Billy Bob and his groupies are involved. Will tells their tomboy daughter, Annie and her ever present cat, Ignatz, her mother, lovely yellow-haired Julia, was a mermaid he caught in a fishing net and cut off her tail. To prove it he sings a sea chantey he composed, "The Fisherman and the Mermaid." Julia and Will's and their friends recipes are included in the book. Hamilton states: "Cooking is the nicest way to give true love." Her first book was "Marblehead Apples- a Cook Book" about her husband Jack's orchard. "Original cover painting by Bettie Hamilton"

MIKE SHAYNE MYSTERY MAGAZINE-THE LOBSTER WAR-VOL.26, NO.4- MH,1970

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MIKE SHAYNE MYSTERY MAGAZINE-THE LOBSTER WAR-VOL.26, NO.4- MH,1970

Manufacturer: Reown Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000GVUG02

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The Great Lobster War (Notable Trials)
Ron Formisano
Manufacturer: University of Massachusetts Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Leather Bound

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Quarter bound in leather with gold stamp on cover, gilt edging and silk bookmark.

MIKE SHAYNE MYSTERY MAGAZINE - MH 1970 - THE LOBSTER WAR, VOL 26, #4

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MIKE SHAYNE MYSTERY MAGAZINE - MH 1970 - THE LOBSTER WAR, VOL 26, #4

Manufacturer: Reown Publications
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000GVQRA0

MIKE SHAYNE MYSTERY MAGAZINE-THE LOBSTER WAR-VOL.26, NO.4- MARCH,1970

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MIKE SHAYNE MYSTERY MAGAZINE-THE LOBSTER WAR-VOL.26, NO.4- MARCH,1970

Manufacturer: Reown Books
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000GQRK24

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This volume is a one-source guide to the most current information about red blood cell formation and the action of recombinant human erythropoietins. Topics in the fields of erythropoiesis, recombinant protein discovery and production, and treatment of patients with anemia will be covered. The newest theories in erythropoiesis (receptors, signaling), manufacturing, new formulations, and clinical research are discussed. It is of interest to researchers and clinical investigators in academia and biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies, to clinical research associates, clinical monitors, and physician investigators. This softcover volume is an unchanged second printing of the hardcover edition published in 2003.

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Methods for the artificial evolution of active components, such as programs and hardware, are rapidly developing branches of adaptive computation and adaptive engineering. Evolvable Machines reports innovative and significant progress in automatic and evolutionary methodology applied to machine design. This book presents theoretical as well as practical chapters concentrating on Evolvable Robots, Evolvable Hardware Synthesis, as well as Evolvable Design.

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Rosshalde is the classic story of a man torn between obligations to his family and his longing for a spiritual fulfillment that can only be found outside the confines of conventional society.

Johann Veraguth, a wealthy, successful artist, is estranged from his wife and stifled by the unhappy union. Veraguth’s love for his young son and his fear of drifting rootlessly keep him bound within the walls of his opulent estate, Rosshalde. Yet, when he is shaken by an unexpected tragedy, Veraguth finally finds the courage to leave the desolate safety of Rosshalde and travels to India to discover himself anew.

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Silent Door.......2006-05-06

Hermann Hesse's "Rosshalde" is a slow tale that meanders through the moods and thoughts of its main character Johann Veraguth. Although written in 1914, it was not translated into English until Ralph Manheim's 1970 version was published. The number of characters in the piece is small. Veraguth's family, his wife Adele, his sons Albert and Pierre and the butler Robert are the major ones with the doctor and his friend Otto Burkhardt being the others. There is another silent character which is the glorious paintings that are so meticulously described that they seem real, as if hanging on a gallery wall. In 1914, divorce had a different social status than the common occurrence of modern divorce. Perhaps this is why the book seems to start as it ends. We are interested in what the painter's life in India will hold and the paintings it will inspire. Instead, Hesse takes 200 pages and then closes the book like a silent door. In the end, "Rosshalde" impresses as the prelude to a book that never quite arrived. It is of note in the light of the author's other accomplishments, but hardly a masterpiece in its own right. Enjoy!

His best early novel!.......2005-09-19

In my opinion, this novel (which was based on Hesse's first divorce) is not only one of my favorite Hesse novels but also my top favorite out of all of his early novels. The majority of his pre-'Demian' books are good but just not very complex or memorable. This one, which I read in one day, is the tops. It's a beautiful novel about the painter Johann Veraguth, who is spending what he thinks will be an uneventful Summer at his beautiful estate Rosshalde, when his estranged wife Adele and their older son Albert (whom he loathes) show up. Veraguth had been looking forward to spending Summer catching up with an old friend of his, who has just returned from India and is now gently pressuring Veraguth to return there with him. The one light left in his life after all of these conflicting forces converge on Rosshalde is his precious younger son Pierre, who was conceived and born during a brief reconciliation between Veraguth and Adele, when Albert was very sick about six years ago. Veraguth had been all ready to leave with his friend, but he does not want to abandon Pierre, leaving him with Adele, whom he doesn't like or trust, or the stuck-up Albert. Adele goes so low as to repeatedly use Pierre as emotional blackmail, saying Veraguth will never see his favorite child ever again if he goes off to India.

One day Pierre gets very violently ill, and his illness takes up much of the rest of the book. There's less time for his estranged parents to be constantly fighting once they're taking care of this delirious little boy around the clock. A few times Pierre appears to be improving, but never for very long. This condition is so serious it eventually leads Adele to completely change her tune and declare that if Pierre recovers, Veraguth can take him with him to India and have permanent custody of him. The ending of the book is quite beautiful, poignant, and bittersweet, and full of the hope of begining again. The final line also reminds me very much of the last line of the Chekhov story 'Lady with Lapdog.'

Hesse's most honest, most intimate prose.......2003-07-20

In this short but unexpectedly brilliant novel, Hesse crafts a landscape of feelings, terrors, and dreams that reflects itself both in the artistic visions of the story's main character and in the dissembling beauty of the story's setting, the estate Rosshalde. Exposing layer after layer of secret thoughts and frustrations, this book is a rich tapestry of all the colors that belong to the palette of human experience.

The tale begins amidst a failing marriage, a blooming career, and a poisonous atmosphere of thoughts unspoken and wishes unfulfilled. Johann Veraguth and his wife Adele live just a short walk away from each other at the artist's splendid country estate, though their souls have drifted worlds apart. The only connection between them, a spoiled but charming child, Pierre, rather than bringing them together in a time of crisis, becomes a thorn in their side--the one love in both of their lives, and yet the most painful physical reminder of their lost marital happiness. Then a glimmer of light shines on Johann's miserable life: the promise of a new life, a death and rebirth. How the man learns to understand his selfishness and his error, how he comes to grasp the full meaning of his search for beauty and happiness, becomes the horrifyingly honest and candidly autobiographical plot of this book.

Though perhaps not as uplifting as _Siddhartha_ or as epiphanic as _Journey to the East_, this book far outshines Hesse's other works in its unflinching depiction of mental struggle, of discontent, depression, and self-criticism. The way Hesse explores each character's soul--especially in the uncanny synthesis of childish naivete and prophetically mature understanding in Pierre's nightmarish daydreams--is sublime. His final portrayal of hope for an end to self-annihilating unhappiness is not pessimistic, but real and heartfelt.

The pain and yearning in this book is real and heartfelt, and the ultimate hope it breathes equally so. Read it slowly, take in the landscape of Hesse's painting, and leave it with a resolve to live your life, to be you.

Reads Like a Painting.......2001-07-26

In Rosshalde, Hesse draws on his own life experience to describe the feelings of resigned loneliness surrounding the loveless marriage of painter Johann Veraguth and his wife, Adele. The famous painter lives alone in his studio on the same grounds as the house harboring his wife and son. This estate, Rosshalde, becomes the serene backdrop for the melancholy tale of a man whose love for his son has kept him in a stagnant state of resignation. A visit from an old friend finally stirs the emotions that have long been lurking inside of Veraguth, granting him the insight he will need to be free of his own self-made prison. Lyrical and deeply sad, Rosshalde is not Hesse's best work, but it may indeed be his most emotionally sincere.

If your a big Hermann Hesse you will probably like it.......2001-05-31

Good but most definitely not one of Hesse's best. If you're a big Hesse fan like I am you will probably like it just because it has that Hesse style of writing. However, if you have never read a Hesse book before I would not recommend this one to start. Try Steppen Wolf, Journey To The East, or Siddhartha first. This book has the absence of the mind bending and thought provoking aspect Hesse's other books have. Rosshalde is mainly a long drawn out story about a couple whose only reason for living in the same general area is there littlest boy and how this couple fights for the affection, and even ownership, of this little boy. There is a lot more to the story then just that but since I hate to ruin stories this is all I am going to say about this book. So as I said before, if you love Hesse you will probably like this book, but if you don't like Hesse or have never read his works, read another one of his more acclaimed books.

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Rosshalde

Manufacturer: Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Rosshalde
Hermann Hesse
Manufacturer: Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag
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ASIN: B000REFPA4

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German Language edition.

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Rosshalde
Hermann Hesse
Manufacturer: FARRAR STRAUS & * GIROUX
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ASIN: B000SHEHMW

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Rosshalde
Herman Hesse
Manufacturer: Im Bertelsmann
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000VG0I8C

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Rosshalde
Hermann Hesse
Manufacturer: Farrar Straus & Giroux
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ASIN: B000NPG6UU

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Rosshalde
Hermann Hesse
Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Rosshalde
HERMAN HESSE
Manufacturer: KWINTESSEN
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ASIN: 9023411218

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HESSE CLASSIC IN DUTCH

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Rosshalde
Herman Hesse
Manufacturer: BANTAM BOOKS
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ASIN: B000TXI4Y2

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ROSSHALDE

Manufacturer: BANTAM
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