The Green Trees Beyond: A Memoir

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From the northern highlands to the Peninsula islands, Borneo and the city state of Singapore. This book shows how to get off the beaten track, dream beaches for turtles, best of the festivals, saris, silk, spices and Shiva.

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Incredibly detailed with modern as well as historical information. .......2006-10-05

Filled with short, blurb-ish sidebars for quick bites of info as you're bouncing along in a taxi. Could use a few more good pictures, but that's a complaint for most travel guides. :o)

1996 Indonesia Malaysia & Singapore Handbook (Footprint Indonesia Handbook)

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1996 Indonesia Malaysia & Singapore Handbook (Footprint Indonesia Handbook)

Manufacturer: Passport Books
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Footprint Malaysia & Singapore Handbook: The Travel Guide

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Footprint Malaysia & Singapore Handbook: The Travel Guide
Joshua Eliot , Jane Bickersteth , and Tamsin Morrison
Manufacturer: Ntc Pub Group
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Footprint Malaysia Handbook : The Travel Guide

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Footprint Malaysia Handbook : The Travel Guide
Joshua Eliot
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ASIN: 1900949520

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Completely revised and updated, with authoritative information on eco-sensitive travel, Footprint's fourth edition of the Malaysia Handbook is bursting with more facts and advice on the two worlds that constitute the mysterious and unique country of Malaysia. The guide brims on the one hand with up-to-the-minute details on the buzzing metropolis of Kuala Lumpur, and on the other, the wild heart of Sarawak (home to the world's most diverse terrestrial ecosystem, from the world's largest cave and the world's biggest flower) and Sabah in Malaysian Borneo. The guide includes complete, up-to-date lodging listings for any traveler's budget, from luxury hotels to youth hostels, and also covers Singapore. Footprint travel guides are synonymous with discovery and adventure -- their purpose is to convey the very essence of a destination and to feel its pulse. Eye-opening, accurate, and reliable information is given in each guide, ensuring that every trip is memorable, enlightening, and informing. Footprint's guidebooks are the future of travel, stressing a sensitivity to local issues.

Malaysia & Singapore, 6th: Tread Your Own Path (Footprint Malaysia Handbook)

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Malaysia & Singapore, 6th: Tread Your Own Path (Footprint Malaysia Handbook)
Steve Frankham
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ASIN: 1906098115

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Footprint's Malaysia & Singapore guide is back for it's 6th edition. It includes coverage of Singapore, all of peninsular Malaysia and the burgeoning tourist destinations of Sabah and Sarawak. Fully researched and updated this guide is perfect if you want something different. An exceptional background section helps you understand the country's heritage and to find your way around the best of Malay cuisine.

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The End Of Mars.......2004-01-21

For those who picked the book up when it first came out, and where sucked into it's wonderful art and most creative story, then you must know that this series gets better book by book, and as sad as it may be, the ending is perfect for it. Several unanswered questions come into play... will Kira tell Rei about the letter form Sei? How will old characters come into play? Will they be happy or will it end in tears? Only one way to find out! I enjoyed this manga however, because it was a perfect ending!

beautiful!.......2003-12-31

I have loved this series so much that I was almost sad when I picked up this volume...I knew it would end! Normally, I'm not one for dramatic soap operas, but there's something extremely compelling about Rei and Kira's story. The characters of Mars are simply fantastic and a joy to follow along. In this volume, Masao (yes, I groaned, too) reared his ugly head once again and escapes from the hospital only to stab Rei on his wedding night. They really scared me for a few pages when it seemed Rei was going to die (relax, ladies, he's just fine and dandy), and then thankfully, Rei gets back to racing. I can't wait until the Gaiden: Horse with No Name comes out. June...*sigh* Anyway, a great end to a great manga series!

Architectural images of yesterday: European illustrated folios at the Library of Canada : exhibition held in Ottawa from October 8, 1986 to March 15, 1987 ... a Ottawa du 8 octobre 1986 au 15 mars 1987

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Architectural images of yesterday: European illustrated folios at the Library of Canada : exhibition held in Ottawa from October 8, 1986 to March 15, 1987 ... a Ottawa du 8 octobre 1986 au 15 mars 1987

Manufacturer: National Library of Canada
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JOHN'S GOSPEL (AGES 15 AND 16) TEACHER'S BOOK (JAN FEB MAR SERIES B

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JOHN'S GOSPEL (AGES 15 AND 16) TEACHER'S BOOK (JAN FEB MAR SERIES B

Manufacturer: SUNDAY SKL BRD STHRN BAPT CONV
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Mars Vol 15 (In Japanese)
Fuyumi Soryo
Manufacturer: Kodansha COMICS
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Sound Recording Reviews.(Sound Recording Review) (sound recording review): An article from: Notes

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Sound Recording Reviews.(Sound Recording Review) (sound recording review): An article from: Notes
Rick Anderson
Manufacturer: Music Library Association, Inc.
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Binding: Digital
ASIN: B0008DNOKC
Release Date: 2005-07-31

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This digital document is an article from Notes, published by Music Library Association, Inc. on June 1, 2003. The length of the article is 3828 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: Sound Recording Reviews.(Sound Recording Review) (sound recording review)
Author: Rick Anderson
Publication: Notes (Refereed)
Date: June 1, 2003
Publisher: Music Library Association, Inc.
Volume: 59 Issue: 4 Page: 963(6)

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MIKE MARS - Book 1: Astronaut; Book 2: Flies the X-15; Book 3: At Cape Kennedy; Book 4: In Orbit; Book 5: Flies the Dyna-Soar; Book 6: South Pole Spaceman; Book 7: And the Mystery Satellite; Book 8: Around the Moon

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MIKE MARS - Book 1: Astronaut; Book 2: Flies the X-15; Book 3: At Cape Kennedy; Book 4: In Orbit; Book 5: Flies the Dyna-Soar; Book 6: South Pole Spaceman; Book 7: And the Mystery Satellite; Book 8: Around the Moon
Donald A. Wollheim
Manufacturer: Paperback Library
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ASIN: B000GVSMVW

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Molecular Control Mechanisms in Striated Muscle Contraction addresses the molecular mechanisms by which contraction of heart and skeletal muscles is regulated, as well as the modulation of these mechanisms by important (patho)physiological variables such as ionic composition of the myoplasm and phosphorylations of contractile and regulatory proteins.For the novice, this volume includes chapters that summarize current understanding of excitation-contraction coupling in striated muscles, as well as the compositions and structures myofibrillar thick and thin filaments. For the expert, this volume presents detailed pictures of current understanding of the mechanisms underlying the CA2+ regulation of contraction in heart and skeletal muscles and discusses important directions for future investigation.

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This is a rigorous and self-contained monograph on a central topic in theoretical computer science: finiteness conditions for semigroups and regularity conditions for formal languages. For the first time in book form, original results from the last ten years are presented, some previously unpublished, using combinatorial and algebraic methods. These are mainly based on combinatorics on words and especially on the theory of "unavoidable regularities" in free monoids. Many finiteness conditions are considered, formulated in terms of such concepts as: permutability, iteration, repetitivity, and chain conditions. These give rise to regularity conditions for formal languages. Non-algebraic regularity conditions are also investigated. A background in mathematics and computer science is required.

Finiteness and Regularity in Semigroups and Formal Languages.

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Finiteness and Regularity in Semigroups and Formal Languages.

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This is the first anthology of nature writing that celebrates California, the most geographically diverse state in the union. Readers--be they naturalists or armchair explorers--will find themselves transported to California's many wild places in the company of forty noted writers whose works span more than a century. Divided into sections on California's mountains, hills and valleys, deserts, coast, and elements (earth, wind, and fire), the book contains essays, diary entries, and excerpts from larger works, including fiction. As a prelude to the collection, editor Steven Gilbar presents two California Indian creation myths, one a Cahto narrative and the other an A-juma-wi story as told by Darryl Babe Wilson.
Familiar names appear in these pages--John Muir, Robert Louis Stevenson, John McPhee, M.F.K. Fisher, Gretel Ehrlich--but less familiar writers such as Daniel Duane, Margaret Millar, and John McKinney are also included. Among the gems in this treasure trove are Jack Kerouac on climbing Mt. Matterhorn, Barry Lopez on snow geese migration at Tule Lake, Edward Abbey on Death Valley, Henry Miller on Big Sur, and Joan Didion on the Santa Ana winds. Gary Snyder's inspiring Afterword reflects the spirit of environmentalism that runs throughout the book. Natural State also reveals the many changes to California's landscape that have occurred in geological time and in human terms. More than a book of "nature writing," this book is superb writing about nature.

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California's Unnatural State.......2005-01-02

In his foreword, David Brower writes: "The 2 million Californians here when I arrived have already become 32 million. California wildness deserves a chance to recover, and `Natural State' lets us know why." Well said, but with California's population now at 36 million, and increasing over a half-million annually, a staggering growth rate now totally attributable to post-1970 mass immigration and descendants, the bigger question on recovery is HOW?

While "Natural State" is no downer, packed with 40 eclectic selections, among them John Steinbeck's "Flight" into the unforgiving chaparral, Robert Louis Stevenson's mesmerizing "The Sea Fogs," Jack London's liberating "On Sonoma Mountain," it is impossible to read this book without feeling frequent pangs of loss.

Such loss is sometimes explicit, such as in Wallace Stegner's melancholy "Remnants." At other times the reader knows what's to come. In "Into the [Salinas] Valley," 1860, William Brewer writes about the now extinct California grizzly: "A man stands a slight chance if he wounds a bear, but not mortally, and a shot must be well directed to kill. The universal advice by everybody is to let them alone if we see them, unless we are well prepared for battle and have experienced hunters along."

In "Ramblings in Yosemite," approaching the High Sierra in the 1870s, Joseph LeConte is struck by "the great massiveness and grandeur of the clouds and the extreme blueness of the sky," Mark Twain's "Lake Tahoe" is "not MERELY transparent, but dazzlingly, brilliantly so."

Recurrent is the desire to escape the multitudes. In "Climbing Matterhorn Peak," Jack Kerouac's character, Japhy Ryder, "modeled on the poet Gary Snyder," is determined to camp far enough along so that he and his buddies won't "wake up tomorrow morning and find three dozen school teachers on horseback frying bacon in our backyard."

Ann Zwinger, "Trumpets of Light," writes: "More than 706,000 acres, over 94 percent of [Yosemite], is managed as wilderness and can never be developed. A permit system applies to hikers and groups on horseback who plan to remain overnight, thus guaranteeing that hikers are not falling over one another or overusing one area."

Three cheers for good management, but how rarely it is mentioned in such otherwise enlightened accounts that ever growing future populations will mean, by iron laws of mathematics, ever shrinking nature rations for any given individual.

California does seem to have a few natural features even beyond the ability of man's numbers to overwhelm, such as the Tule fog in the Great Central Valley. David Mas Masumoto writes, "The fog continues to roll in. Where it's heading I do not know. It passes in front of the porch like a shifting cloud. If I stare at it long enough it seems that I start to move instead. I imagine our farmhouse cutting through the gray mist like a lost ship, my porch transformed into the bridge."

Very nice. However, while the fog is still rolling in, unfortunately, so are the subdivisions. California farmland is now sinking beneath them at such a rate that the Central Valley has earned the American Farmland Trust's designation as "the nation's number one most threatened agricultural area."

About Southern California, Joan Didion corrects the misconception of an endlessly bland climate, the reality being "infrequent but violent extremes." And Californians experience ever more destructive extremes as greater numbers of people continue their lemming-like advance onto shorelines, cliff edges, floodplains and wildfire zones.

Nor does Los Angeles smog go un-represented. Hildegarde Flanner, "A Vanishing Land," writes, "From the foothills above Pasadena I can see for sixty miles or more ... All this delights the eye, the mind, the heart, with romantic geometries and the pride of home. But not for long. Gradually all those remarkable harmonies and differences of texture fade and flatten while a horizon of spectral murk advances ... a mobile, drifting wall." A problem no longer confined to LA, as anyone can attest who has been enveloped by the enormous wall of Central Valley smog pushing up against the Sequoia.

An eloquent afterward by Gary Snyder advocates "a non-nationalistic idea of community, in which commitment to pure place is paramount [and] cannot be ethnic or racist. Here is perhaps the most delicious turn that comes out of thinking about places from the standpoint of place: anyone of any race, language, religion, or origin is welcome, as long as they live well on the land."

Yes, a greater sense of community, but isn't it a little late in the day to be betting the farm on reinventing humankind? Could one warning sign be that among all the peoples of Earth it is probably only those of European heritage who would consider making ethnicity irrelevant to place "delicious"? Or even think it remotely possible?

And how would this work? Would a household, likely European, that champions feminism, live serenely next door to one that devoutly practices female circumcision--all because everyone is joyously wrapped up in a overriding commitment to preserve, say, the Sacramento River watershed? With all due respect, this is what comes of environmentalists living too much within their own heads.

A popular way to avoid taking a position on any controversial un-PC problem, such as Third-World-immigration-driven overpopulation, is simply to call for a "we must" thought revolution. Yes, what a wonderful world it will be once everyone agrees with you and me! But until that great day comes, calling for a thought revolution provides a convenient way to appear courageously visionary and A Nice Guy, while hiding from controversy--as nature burns.

Among its other strengths, Steven Gilbar's fascinating book should serve as a constant reminder of what we are losing--and how fast. The fact remains that population growth is California's, and America's, number-one nature-flattening machine, a machine that is mostly fueled by relentless mass legal and illegal immigration.

What is being lost? Read this excellent book to find out.

Good Form and Style, but Lacking in Substance.......2000-07-08

Though NATURAL STATE is a diverse and well-written collection of essays on natural history and the general natural landscape of California, it lacks substance. By this I do not mean that the essays themselves have nothing to contribute to one's overall understanding of natural history and its appreciation. Far from it- the essays have plenty to contribute. However, the form their contribution takes irked me as I read the volume. Many of the essays are simply vapid descriptions, while others are so scholarly and technical that one wonders why they are in an anthology constructed for the supposedly "general" reader. Still, NATURAL STATE does a decent job of spanning California's many natural facets, and the diversity of subjects is broad. A better anthology (though I think it's out of print) is Hal Borland's OUR NATURAL WORLD, which is most likely available at local libraries.

"A Hypertext Festival For The Senses".......1998-07-27

This is a landscape experience in which the real, observed landscape leads to an internally experienced landscape that is far richer and more personal. The focus of this work is the heart and mind's eye and it truely is an erotic and vicarious festival for the senses.

NATURAL STATE, by Steven Gilbar and David Brower, describes the landscape of California, picturesque and natural, infinite and primal-- the most geographically diverse in the world. This is a much called for collection of popular as well as academic writing, from geologic and metaphysical creation, to realism and fantasy, and modes of destruction. The chapters by the Cahto Indians, John Steinbeck, Mary Austin, Henry Miller and Joan Didion are poetic essays; those by Barry Lopez, Ann Zwinger, Wallace Stegner, Jane Hollister Wheelwright and Gary Paul Nabhan are in the professional scholarly mode. Another 30 stories stretch between thos! e two poles.

I cannot wait to see the movie. Bravo!

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