Ecology And Management Of Coastal Waters: The Aquatic Environment (Springer Praxis Books / Aquaculture and Fisheries)

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The development and ecology of coastal waters is an increasingly important topic and one which touches a wide range of areas including oceanography, hydrology, biology, ecology, fisheries science, aquaculture, civil engineering, geography, economics, law and the social sciences. This book provides a balanced overview allowing the reader to understand exactly what is at stake in the development and management of coastal waters. There is no other book currently available which provides such an overview of this important area.
Divided into three parts, the first part provides the background knowledge necessary for an understanding of the physical, chemical and biological phenomena of coastal waters. Part 2 looks at marine ecology from something other than the traditional view of placing organisms at the centre of the problem and considering them in relation to other organisms and environments, instead the authors show how it is possible with marine ecosystems in which the biological, physical and chemical components are equally important when defining an entire system. Finally an exhaustive review of the available technology for various types of development is provided.
All in all, this book constitutes a succint and up-to-date summary of the functions of coastal ecosystems which should be read by all those active in, and with an interest in, the management and development of coastal seas.

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an excellent starting reference.......2002-03-26

This is an excellent book for would be adventure travellers to start with. It has all kinds of excellent information on all aspects of "adventure travel", including travel logistics, cultural sensibilities(ie. how not to be an "obnoxious tourist"), health issues, what gear to bring, and how to plan your budget. The information does tend to be a bit general, but that is the intention to begin with. Once you decide on a location, you will definitely want to study up with more specific sources.

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Is he "It?" You knowthe truly perfect guy? Suddenly Holly isn't sure that her boyfriend is "It." Lina is so sure her teacher Dan is "It" that she begins a risky e-mail relationship with him. Madison's "It" has always been Sean....until she met Stephen. Can there be two "Its?"

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realistic relationships.......2006-06-16

Though not as good as the first book in the series, Breaking Up is Really, Really Hard to Do is still pretty good. Mads, Lina, and Holly are back, and so is the Dating Game. Mads uses an art project to try and get closer to Sean, Lina creates a fake identity in order to talk to Dan on a dating web-site, and Holly decides to break up with Rob, wondering if it's the right decision. This series truly illustrates the hardships of high school.

Pretty good.......2005-10-23

I am an adult who loves reading "teen fiction". I picked up the first book in this series by fluke but I have found myself running after the second and third books.

This series is fun to read. While it does not really tackle many of the daily problems encountered by teens today - or should I say the book does tackle them, but never in any type of serious way, the storylines are cute and witty.

If I had a teen, I would have no problem suggesting these titles. I look forward to more in this series.

Very realistic fiction, with a lot of humor thrown in for good measure .......2005-06-29

Natalie Standiford's second installment in her Dating Game series, BREAKING UP IS REALLY, REALLY HARD TO DO, is another example of fine realistic fiction, with a lot of humor thrown in for good measure.

Holly, Lina and Madison are enjoying the popularity that the success of their matchmaking project has brought them --- Holly is still dating Rob; Lina is still in love with her young teacher, Dan; and Madison is still madly in love with the swim star, Sean. As the novel progress, teenage angst at its best occurs. Holly becomes increasingly annoyed with Rob, most notably because of the cheesy sayings on his T-shirts and the way he asks for Holly's permission before kissing her. Lina discovers a personal ad that Dan has written. She answers, but not as herself --- rather, she responds as a college student who's studying film. Madison decides to use a portrait of Sean as the centerpiece for her art project, showing how her life revolves around her infatuation of him.

Returning are some minor characters, including Audrey, Madison's kid sister; Ramona, the leader of the We Love Dan cult; and Sebastiano, Holly's locker buddy. A new character is Stephen Costello, a fellow artist who becomes pals with Madison.

Like the first installment in the series, this book deals with relationships, friendships, self-esteem, confidence, and a host of other issues that teen readers will be able to relate to. Standiford's strength is her characterization and the realistic voice she creates for her characters. The three main protagonists are likable, believable, and just flawed enough to make them real. There is a lot of humor here as well --- the sayings on Rob's shirts are cheesy but funny, the rapport between the girls is full of zingers, and Ramona's saving of Dan's used napkins is creepy but at the same time humorous.

Standiford already has written the third installment of The Dating Game, entitled CAN TRUE LOVE SURVIVE HIGH SCHOOL? I believe that Standiford's series will survive much more than that.

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the dating game continues.......2005-06-17

The dating game continues in the sequel, Breaking Up is REally, Really Hard To Do. All in All I'd rate this book a three, the whole series is a three as well, i mean i've read better books but if you're bored and looking for a quick read about teenagers and relationships it'll serve it's purpose fairly well.

Okay so the story basically continues about three best friends Holly, Lina, and Madision, and their lives. Lina is still madly obsessed with her teacher even though it is blatantly obvious Walker is interested in her, and that she actually has a chance with him. Personally the whole Lina thing really bores me and pisses me off, I think her crush on her teacher is extremely unhealthy and annoying. Especially when she creates a character Larissa and becomes e-pals/lovers with Dan. Madison is obviously stuck on Sean but also has this huge crush on Stephen, this was really funny to read about especially because Mads is extremely ignorant and shall we say clueless when it comes to really reading into things. Holly and Rob are still dating but she starts getting very critical of him and isn't sure if he is her "IT" guy or not.

This book is very predictable, but it ends on a nice happy note. It's cute, not amazing or anything, but if you're looking for a cute mindless teenage book I'd definitely give this one a look over.

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Many bacteria, animals, and plants produce toxins that can prove lethal to other organisms. Toxins are a form of "biological warfare" that helps their producer to survive and so confer an evolutionary advantage. They display an extraordinary range of complexity, from the formic acid provided by ants to bacterial proteins composed of thousands of amino acids. This Guidebook considers the more complex protein and peptide toxins and groups them according to their mode of action. Topics covered include: membrane-permeabilizing toxins; toxins affecting signal transduction and protein synthesis; cytoskeleton-affecting toxins; toxins affecting the immune and inflammatory response. This class of biomolecules will be of interest to a wide range of researchers in cell biology, neuroscience, and toxicology.

Guidebook to Protein Toxins and Their Use in Cell Biology (The Guidebook Series)

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Guidebook to Protein Toxins and Their Use in Cell Biology (The Guidebook Series)
Rino Rappuoli
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OKY9C6

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Jirel of Joiry, the first of the great female warriors, the beautiful commander of the strongest fortress in the kingdom, would face any danger to defend her beloved country. She wielded her bright sword against mighty armies, the sinister magic of evil sorcerers and fearsome castles guarded by the dead, even daring to descend into Hell itself... Northwest Smith, the scarred and weathered outlaw, the legendary hero of the spaceways, forced to confront the terrible mysteries, the terrifying, mythic monsters of the universe... Jirel of Joiry and Northwest Smith are C.L. Moore's greatest creations and she used them not only to spin spellbinding tales but also to explore the mysteries of the human psyche.

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a lady of the pulps.......2006-11-22

If you want a very good reason to buy this book ,read The Shambleau . Lovecraft liked this story.

Scarlet and Black: A Chronicle of the Nineteenth Century (Penguin Classics)

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A Chip on the Shoulder
the irony of it all
A sound translation
French Politics/Philosophy and the Industrial Age
Incredible, deeply moving and tragic

Scarlet and Black: A Chronicle of the Nineteenth Century (Penguin Classics)
Stendhal
Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0140440305

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If you or someone you know has had a stroke, you need information. The American Heart Association Family Guide to Stroke will give you the facts you need to make the most informed health care choices. It will also give you the confidence and reassurance that there is a lot you can do to recover from this devastating event.

Most people think of stroke as a force of nature that hits without warning -- a real bolt from the blue. In fact, most strokes result from the accumulation of a lifetime's worth of daily habits, small insults that finally add up to a major, life-threatening event. The good news is that researchers have learned a great deal about the causes of stroke, and we now know that there's a lot we can do to change our lifestyles to prevent a first, or second, stroke.

The American Heart Association Family Guide to Stroke explains all these exciting new developments in treatment, recovery, and prevention. In clear, accessible language, it discusses the causes of stroke, those at risk, the warning signs, and how stroke is diagnosed. It offers practical guidance on coping with life after stroke, in both the short and long term, and reviews the most up-to-date medical treatments and rehabilitation techniques that can help stroke survivors get a fresh start.

Stroke doesn't affect just the individual; often the whole family is involved. Traditional family roles and responsibilities may shift; new family dynamics may emerge. This guide is geared toward helping all family members adjust to life after stroke. Dozens of personal stories of stroke survivors and their families underscore the importance of approaching this illness together.

The reassuring message of this guide is that you can learn to take charge of your health, obtain effective treatment, and greatly reduce the risk of having another stroke. No one whose life has been touched by stroke should be without this authoritative, indispensable sourcebook.

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A Chip on the Shoulder.......2007-05-08

This is a translation by Margaret Shaw of "Le Rouge et le Noir" by Stendhal (real name Marie-Henri Beyle), the classic novel of the Bourbon Restoration, commonly known in English as "The Red and the Black" or in this case "Scarlet & Black".

Ostensibly a story about the class struggle and perils of overweaning ambition, it is, in reality, a love story.

Inspired and partly based on a true story, the facts of which form the bookends of this novel, "Scarlet & Black" exhibits the shortcoming of an artist who doesn't know when to set the child of his creation free from its origin and allow it to find its own self.

At 511 pages it is a longish book, and I found it uninspiring for the first third while it is tied to its basis in fact. It is only when the novel leaves that factual foundation that it takes wings and becomes a page turner. This change in character is very marked.

Stendhal has created what, for most, will seem an unlikable hero. Essentially it is Stendhal himself. Here is Julien Sorel, a teenager from a poor and unloving family in rural France after the fall of Napoleon. He is thin and good-looking, with a tremendous intellect. Unfortunately for him, his intellect is matched by an enormous CHIP ON THE SHOULDER, presumably the result of a combination of being poor and talented in an unjust society and seeing a nobody in Napoleon rise above it all to become the Emperor of France. Yes, it is Napoleon he idolises, the tyranny of the class system that he despises and the revolution that he embodies.

It is this great chip on the shoulder that is the psychological foundation for most of Julien's actions. It runs through him like a river, manifesting as insane ego, overweaning ambition, fantastic courage, iron discipline and cold rationality.

This may have been the foundation of Stendhal's character and it does ring of truth, but it makes for repulsive reading; especially in the early chapters where Julien is an ignorant, unrefined, one-dimensional, arrogant animal, newly emerged and white hot from the crucible of rage. To get through this section requires determination and detachment from the protagonist, or a masochistic love of the cringe.

Fortunately for this novel Julien is open to love, at least to some degree, and the two women he has affairs with are able to love him. Furthermore the love is deep in both cases and on both sides. GREAT loves indeed, especially the second, and it is only the greatness of this love that is able to overpower the greatness of the chip on Julien's shoulder, redeem his arrogance and make this book readable.

His second love: Mathilde de la Mole, is a character from Stendhal's own life, the Countess Methilde Dembowski who disdained his court. It is an insight into the twisted mind of the author that it is only the woman who won't have him in real life who falls so tragically for him in his novel. And it is the character of Mathilde de la Mole who is so well drawn and so likeable who saves this book and gives it its energy. The triumph of love over ego, (at least for a while), in the book, is the triumph of love over ego in Stendhal, and this is surely an attractive and palatable vista.

The book is also renowned for its observations of French society at the time, both upper and lower class, provincial and Parisian. It is even more full of political observations about the three power factions at the time: the Church, the Aristocracy and the Liberals, and it is from this that it gains its title: "Scarlet & Black", the Scarlet being the colour of the Military and the black that of the Church. Since Stendhal was a military man and a diplomat himself, it is not surprising that this should form the canvas upon which this love story should be painted. Stendhal's understanding of the complexities of Politics is deep and thorough, and this constant background of struggle and intrigue is one of the finest things about this novel.

Stendhal also exhibits a fine, though over-cynical understanding of people, both men and women, especially those in high society or in positions of power. His characters are consistently plausible throughout a wide range of activities, except for the ending and a few other places where Stendhal's grasp of great love is shown to be not quite deep enough. Still, in all, his understanding is superior to that of Proust.

The most resonant line for me, occurred when Father Pirard offers Julien a promotion, saying: "Your career will be a painful one; I see in you something that offends the common run of men. Jealousy and calumny will pursue you. In whatever place Providence chooses to put you, your colleagues will never see you without hating you..." Such is the petty jealousy of the poor in talent.

A significant, but by no means fatal flaw, in this work is the question whether a man like Julien Sorel could inspire great love, especially from his social superiors. He seems to me too serious, self obsessed, inexperienced, scheming and cold. It is hard to believe such a man could make a good lover. Certainly an intelligent and erudite man with the flash of fire about him may make an attractive alternative to the run-of-the-mill nobleman in the eyes of a young and rebellious woman, as a friend, but it is hard to see the darling of society, with the world at her feet overlooking Sorel's great and obvious flaws and REALLY falling for him as a lover.

This is where Stendhal's fantasy gets the better of him. In reality the Countess did NOT fall for him. It is the reality that is plausible, more than the fantasy. Still, if Mathilde had not fallen for Julien where would the novel be?

The fatal flaw for me is at the end, where Stendhal insists on forcing the path of the novel back to the little story of fact that inspired it. Both the story and its hero have grown far beyond the inspirational basis and to shoehorn them back into a mould that is too small for it simply doesn't work. The way he moulds the love at this point is pure, unbelievable fantasy and Julien's apotheosis from villain to hero of the people is patently absurd.

It is clear to me that this famous work is an attempt on the part of Stendhal to rewrite a part of his life as a fantasy. Unfortunately it is also an improvisation on a theme that is too narrow for its subject matter. So it is, that like many famous works, it is deeply flawed. However it has the splendid and detailed background of the Bourbon Restoration, Stendhal's understanding of people and politics and the theme of great love. Last but not least, it has Stendhal's clear narrative prose, that sticks to the story with military precision and keeps it moving.

the irony of it all.......2007-03-11

perhaps some reviewers are forgetting that Sterndahl had been an officer in Napolean's grand army. where all the marshalls (five star generals), had not held a rank above sergeant (of quartermasters) before the french revolution. Napoleon promoted talent, not birth.

and how his men adored Napoleon. and julien is Napoleonic, an upstart, who takes the citadel. you should also understand the class conflicts in the novel, as zeitgeist for the 1848 revolutions in europe, which were pre-curser to the russian revolution of 1917.

or, in other words, had Napoleon won at waterlolo, the first world war might not have happened (those european dynastic monarchies). the tragedy in the book is bigger than the book.

A sound translation.......2002-05-17

My five stars are for the novel itself - and undisputed masterpiece. In this note I just want to report that I have been checking out this translation against the one in the handsome little Konemann edition - that is, checking each against the French. The Shaw (Penguin) translation is ever so much better than the other (by E. P. Robins). The general level of the English in the Robins is low, and it contais many out-and-out errors in how it renders the French. The Shaw, though imperfect, is much better,

French Politics/Philosophy and the Industrial Age.......2000-02-23

This a classic, certainly a novel of high standard amongst the famous French writers of the time period of pre- and industrial age. It deals with head character Julian Sorel - the student training for priesthood and the master of hypocrisy. His love affairs with Mde de Renal and Madamossiele de la Mole are just the tip of the iceberg. As one can gather without reading Shaw's commentary, it is a story about the Scarlet and the Black, ie nobility and the priest's habit, and the clashes associated with them. Of course Stendhal puts his own political view into it, which in itself is interesting. This book portrays French society during the 2nd restoration (1815-30) and the continuing admiration of Napoleon despite his fall from grace. Of course there is also the clash of sectarian Catholicism and Stendhal vents his anger at Jansenism - this can also be seen in contemporary Austro-Hungarian life in regards to censorship of book publications , especially in the life of France Preseren. Overall a good book, and very educating.

Incredible, deeply moving and tragic.......1997-12-31

I started reading this book by accident, but soon found I couldn't put it down. It has the power to take one to the time it describes, in this instance the early-mid ninteenth century in france. Julien Sorel is an ambitious character who tries to make his way by embracing hypocrisy - this is impossible for someone who isn't completely corrupt and so he is doomed to failure. Julien cannot control his passions or his sense of honour and this is what makes a seemingly calculating and sly character ultimately appear vulnerable and heroic.

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Fascinating reading to encourage one to follow their dreams

Being Black in Scarlet
Lynell L. Nolan
Manufacturer: 1st Books Library
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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Fascinating reading to encourage one to follow their dreams.......2003-12-16

Being Black in Scarlet is an excellent true life story of a visble minority who has worked hard to accomplish his childhood dreams of becoming a police officer. I enjoyed this book because it flourishes with vivid details told in such a clear manner that his life story seems to jump out of the pages.
It is definitely a memorable read and provides the reader with a greater understanding of how this visible minority was able to turn obstacles that he faced in the work place, into an ability to help other minorities achieve their goals.
Through the pages and his recountment of experiences, it is evident that Mr. Nolan is a role model for many.

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Black Gods and Scarlet Dreams
Moore C.L.
Manufacturer: Victor Gollancz Ltd
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000P0Y1FA

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Black Velvet (Scarlet)
Patricia Wilson
Manufacturer: Scarlet Books
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1854879324

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Scarlet & Black
Stendhal
Manufacturer: PENGUIN BOOKS
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000VRJCVA

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Scarlet & Black 2 Volumes
Stendhal
Manufacturer: CHATTO & WINDUS
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000UD0QX8

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SCARLET AND BLACK

Manufacturer: Penguin Books
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000GQOSHY

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SCARLET AND BLACK
STENDHAL
Manufacturer: PENGUIN CLASSICS
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000S03ZG8

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Scarlet and Black
Stendhal
Manufacturer: Penguin 1962
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000WV58X6

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