Average customer rating:
|
These Rare Lands
Stan Jorstad , and Mark Strand Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items: ASIN: 0684841126 |
Amazon.com
If a picture's worth 1,000 words, this book--with its hundreds of breathtaking photos of America's National Parks--is a well-stocked bookstore. Accompanied by the words of poet laureate Mark Strand, These Rare Lands is a perfect coffee-table book for anyone who has enjoyed the wonders of nature's wildest places. From a storm over Sequoia National Park in California to the otherworldly stalactites and stalagmites of New Mexico's Carlsbad Caverns and an Atlantic sunset in Maine's Acadia, this is a book that draws you back again and again. Photographer Stan Jorstad's obvious love of nature comes through in the thoughtful approach he takes to his life's work, contained in the pages of These Rare Lands.Customer Reviews:
Terrible photo printing.......2003-09-14
Beautiful Pictures.......2003-01-04
Awe-Inspiring Photos.......2002-01-12
Overall, this book is a great investment for armchair travelers who want to experience the wonders of nature. Very highly recommended.
Breathtaking pictures of nature's beauty.......2000-04-03
Absolutely Magnificent Panorams.......2000-01-02
Average customer rating: |
West Indian Vernoniae
E. L Ekman Manufacturer: Almqvist & Wiksells boltryckeri-a.-b ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B00087XY4Y |
Average customer rating:
|
Stern's Guide to the Cruise Vacation 2007 (Stern's Guide to the Cruise Vacation)
Steven B. Stern Manufacturer: Pelican Publishing Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1589804368 |
Book Description
Whether sailing the Caribbean or the Mediterranean or exploring the glaciers of Alaska, the canals of France, or the fjords of northern Europe, readers can rely on this, the most detailed and user-friendly guide to cruise vacations. Veteran seafarer and luxury-travel expert Steven B. Stern personally inspects nearly three hundred ships every year and rates them in all categories, including: vital statistics: the layout, physical details, and history of each vessel on-board attractions: restaurants, shopping, and recreation travel necessities: concierges, technology, and medical facilities ports of call: including how to make the most of an eight-hour visit The author's Star Awards help readers evaluate quality and value as they plan their cruise vacations. The numerous photographs, actual shipboard menus, and daily activity programs combined with the annually updated text make this the most comprehensive cruising guide available.Customer Reviews:
Excellent Cruise Guide.......2007-05-17
An essential travel guide .......2007-05-09
Too much of the wrong information.......2006-12-09
Average customer rating:
|
Stern's Guide to the Cruise Vacation 2005 (Stern's Guide to the Cruise Vacation)
Stern Steven B. , and Steven B. Stern Manufacturer: Pelican Publishing Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1589802403 |
Book Description
Whether sailing the Caribbean or the Mediterranean or exploring the glaciers of Alaska, the canals of France, or the fjords of northern Europe, readers can rely on this, the most detailed and user-friendly guide to cruise vacations. Veteran seafarer and luxury-travel expert Steven B. Stern personally inspects more than 280 ships every year and rates them in all categories, including: vital statistics: the layout, physical details, and history of each vessel on-board attractions: restaurants, shopping, and recreation travel necessities: concierges, technology, and medical facilities ports of call: including how to make the most of an eight-hour visitThe author's Star Awards help readers evaluate quality and value as they plan their cruise vacations. The numerous photographs, actual shipboard menus, and daily activity programs combined with the annually updated text make this the most comprehensive cruising guide available.
Customer Reviews:
Stern's Guide to Cruise vacation 2005.......2005-10-31
Good, but out of date.......2005-10-13
Average customer rating: |
Guide to the cruise vacation
Steven B Stern Manufacturer: Prentice-Hall ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: 0133693317 |
Amazon.com
Few people can say they've sailed on more than 500 cruise ships, visited every major port of call in the world, and inspected nearly every cruise vessel in operation. With more than 35 years of cruising under his cap, Steven Stern is a certifiable sea dog with a wealth of personal experience to share.Stern's Guide to the Cruise Vacation is an encyclopedic volume covering how to choose a cruise company, how to select your destination, how long to stay, what day-to-day seafaring is like, cruising for singles and with children, as well as cruising for joggers and tennis buffs. One chapter is devoted entirely to reviews of each cruise line and its vessels, including reprints of actual menus and day and evening activity plans, with photos when available. Stern uses "ribbon awards" like a star rating system to highlight the best of what each line has to offer in categories such as service, cabin spaciousness, activities and entertainment, good for singles, and food.
This guide also provides a list of all of the major ports of call with detailed recommendations for how to spend the usually short periods of 6 to 10 hours allotted for time ashore, including must-see sights and where to dine, swim, and soak up some sun. --Kathryn True
Average customer rating: |
Stern s Guide to the Cruise Vacation
Steven B. Stern Manufacturer: Pelican ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000MPR6XC |
Average customer rating:
|
Stern's Guide to the Cruise Vacation (2006 Edition)
Steven B. Stern Manufacturer: Pelican Publishing Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1589803329 |
Book Description
Whether sailing the Caribbean or the Mediterranean or exploring the glaciers of Alaska, the canals of France, or the fjords of northern Europe, readers can rely on this, the most detailed and user-friendly guide to cruise vacations. Veteran seafarer and luxury-travel expert Steven B. Stern personally inspects more than 280 ships every year and rates them in all categories, including: vital statistics: the layout, physical details, and history of each vessel
on-board attractions: restaurants, shopping, and recreation
travel necessities: concierges, technology, and medical facilities
ports of call: including how to make the most of an eight-hour visit
The author's Star Awards help readers evaluate quality and value as they plan their cruise vacations. The numerous photographs, actual shipboard menus, and daily activity programs combined with the annually updated text make this the most comprehensive cruising guide available.
Customer Reviews:
Okay for newbies.......2007-03-17
Average customer rating:
|
Stern's Guide to the Cruise Vacation 2002 (Stern's Guide to the Cruise Vacation, 12th ed)
Steven B. Stern Manufacturer: Pelican Publishing Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1565549422 |
Customer Reviews:
A lot of information - but absolutely confusing.......2004-02-02
Average customer rating: |
Stern's Guide to the Cruise Vacation 2004 (Stern's Guide to the Cruise Vacation)
Stern Steven B. , and Steven B. Stern Manufacturer: Pelican Publishing Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1589801873 |
Book Description
Whether sailing the Caribbean or the Mediterranean or exploring the glaciers of Alaska, the canals of France, or the fjords of northern Europe, readers can rely on this, the most detailed and user-friendly guide to cruise vacations. Veteran seafarer and luxury-travel expert Steven B. Stern personally inspects more than 280 ships every year and rates them in all categories, including vital statistics: the layout, physical details, and history of each vessel
on-board attractions: restaurants, shopping, and recreation
travel necessities: concierges, technology, and medical facilities
ports of call: including how to make the most of an eight-hour visit
The author's Star Awards help readers evaluate quality and value as they plan their cruise vacations. The numerous photographs, actual shipboard menus, and daily activity programs combine with the annually updated text to make this the most comprehensive cruising guide available.
Average customer rating: |
Stern's Guide to the Cruise Vacation 2008 (Stern's Guide to the Cruise Vacation)
Steven Stern Manufacturer: Pelican Publishing Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1589805003 |
Book Description
This most comprehensive guide on the cruise vacation and all its aspects lists the major ports of call, details on attractions, restaurants, shopping, and recreation, as well as guidelines on how to make the most of an eight-hour stay in port. The history of each vessel, vital statistics, physical details, evaluations in the form of stars, and price categories for over 280 ships are presented. Numerous photographs of ships, decks, and interiors are included, along with actual shipboard menus and daily activity programs.
Average customer rating:
|
One Hot Second
Manufacturer: Laurel Leaf ProductGroup: Book Binding: Mass Market Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0440237831 Release Date: 2004-01-13 |
Amazon.com
Cathy Young, author of the brassy, bold Favorite Teenage Angstbooks Web zine has finally made her mark on the paper publishing scene as the editor of this stellar collection of teen cravings created to make you blush. In "Someone Bold," Sarah Dessen writes about a former fat girl who learns she deserves better than the first sweet-talking boy who comes along post-poundage. Victor Martinez writes poignantly about how desire can quickly be tempered by divisions of race and class in "The County Fair," and Jacqueline Woodson's story of two girls who loved and lost because of death and drugs won't make you blush so much as weep. And in a genuinely funny turn, Jennifer Armstrong's short riff about a girl whose love object isn't another person, but rather something with four wheels and a gearshift will leave teens helpless with laughter. And that's not all--Norma Fox Mazer, Rich Wallace, Ellen Wittlinger, Nancy Garden, Rachel Vail, Emma Donoghue, and Angela Johnson have also contributed their two cents about pounding hearts and sweaty hands, and the results are a truly strong chain of stories with no weak links. The sexy cover, high-caliber writing, and bite-sized reading pieces guarantee that teens will gobble up One Hot Second in about one hot minute. Like Michael Cart's similarly wise and provocative collection, Love and Sex, this is one book that won't linger on the shelf long before teens discover the tantalizing and oh-so-true words that lie within and compulsively share it (pertinent pages tabbed down) with all their friends. (Ages 12 and older) --Jennifer HubertBook Description
Sex. It’s on the minds of every teenager, whether they’re having it, not having it, talking about it, or just thinking about it. In this powerful collection, 11 acclaimed writers for young people capture the various expressions of desire–from first crushes to first times, and all of the charged emotions in between. Here, a sleek new teammate becomes more than a friend; a hopeful date feels his evening unravel; a pale boy delivers a sweet but terrible kiss; a wise girl discovers the real rules about love.Customer Reviews:
Not recommended........2004-01-28
Either you'll like or dislike the stories here. Be prepared to read about sex between all genders: girls and boys, boys and boys, girls and girls. Quite a bit of that in a book that is supposedly for young adults. It's not everyone's taste, and definitely not mine.
Young Adults Personal Discoveries.......2003-11-20
- Fine!
What did you do today?
- Stuff!"
How often have "annoying" parents encountered this frustrating exchange of dialogue with their adolescents?
One Hot Second: Stories About Desire Edited by Cathy Young has some penetrating answers to these innocent questions.
Cathy Young has carefully chosen eleven award-winning authors to explore the angst and uncertainties of adolescent desire. Every short story is a little gem!
The all-embracing theme of the book is desire. Each individual essay illustrates how desire influences the fragile blossoming of love.
The eleven authors brilliantly describe a gripping synopsis of the microcosm of adolescent turmoil.
Every chapter touches upon a very special subject. Some are heart wrenching, while others are funny, visceral and downright uncomfortable. Stealing, dysfunctional families, crushes, straight, lesbian or ... love, rejection, first kiss, drug addiction, sports, poetry and more, are all covered in a direct down to earth style.
For example, in Rachel Vail's essay, "One Hot Second", Mallory discovers the weird impressions of her first kiss, utterly "wheew! disgusting!"
Or, Nancy Garden's heroin Penny, as depicted in "Loving Meagan," is not worried that she is a lesbian, but that she is attracted to the wrong girl!
"Who Hears The Fish Cry" by Norma Fox Mazer, captures the healing power of music.
Victor Martinez's "The County Fair", introduces us to Roybal who is in love with Carol. And Carol? Well?.
Written in the first or the third person, the dialogues run the gamut from quick, gritty, witty, to profound. Characters are so well developed they come alive.
As an added bonus, Cathy Young writes about her own experience and has asked the authors for their personal involvement with love. Their interesting answers are yours to discover.
After reading these precious gems, you would have to agree with Young's description: "Each of the fine writers in this collection honors the power of desire to push us forward into the unknown, to help us grow. Desire aches, Desire burns, And, thankfully it blooms."
One Hot Second:Stories About Desire is a must read collection for parents and adolescents alike.
hot, smart, fun!.......2002-06-27
Tells the truth.......2002-06-22
Very Disappointing.......2002-06-13
Average customer rating: |
Evolution in Age-Structured Populations (Cambridge Studies in Mathematical Biology)
Brian Charlesworth Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0521459672 |
Book Description
In this new edition, Brian Charlesworth provides a comprehensive review of the basic mathematical theory of the demography and genetics of age-structured populations. The author aims to avoid complicated mathematics, but gives full derivations of major theoretical results for the edification of the reader.
Average customer rating: |
Evolution in Age-Structured Populations
Brian Charlesworth Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000HAYX9W |
Average customer rating: |
Austin and the Reese River Mining District: Nevada's Forgotten Frontier (Nevada Studies in History and Political Science)
Donald Ray Abbe Manufacturer: Univ of Nevada Pr ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0874170915 |
Average customer rating: |
Modelling with Rigid Bodies
School Mathematics Project , and School Mathematics Project Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 052142643X |
Book Description
The aim of 16–19 Mathematics has been to produce a course which, while challenging, is accessible and enjoyable to all students. The course develops ability and confidence in mathematics and its applications, together with an appreciation of how mathematical ideas help in the understanding of the world and society in which we live. This is an optional unit for both advanced and advanced supplementary further mathematics courses.
Average customer rating: |
Modelling with Rigid Bodies Unit Guide
School Mathematics Project , and School Mathematics Project Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0521426545 |
Book Description
The aim of 16–19 Mathematics has been to produce a course which, while challenging, is accessible and enjoyable to all students. The course develops ability and confidence in mathematics and its applications, together with an appreciation of how mathematical ideas help in the understanding of the world and society in which we live. This is the unit guide to an optional unit for both A and AS Further Mathematics courses, and contains an introduction to the unit, stating the objectives, and commentaries on the discussion points and tasksheets in the student text.
Average customer rating: |
Intellectual Property in the New Millennium: Essays in Honour of William R. Cornish
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0521846439 |
Book Description
Intellectual property law is a subject of increasing economic importance and the focus of a great deal of legislative activity at an international and regional level. This collection brings together contributions from some of the most distinquished scholars in this exciting and controversial field, covering the full extent of intellectual property laws, that is, patents, copyright, trade marks and related rights. the contributions examine some of the most pressing practical and theoretical concerns which intellectual property lawyers face.Books:
Recommended Books