Baikal Sacred Sea of Siberia

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the spirit of Siberia.......2000-11-25

The hardcover book is a jewel: the pictures are absolutely beautiful, and the texts which accompany them is interesting. The excerpts from Valentin Rasputin's books on Lake Baikal are well chosen. It is extremely interesting to "meet" this controversial Russian author in the way we do through this book. He deserves praise for his environmental work, especially in such a country as Russia. The book definetely makes you wish to visit the place. It sounds loike a spiritual enriching experience, the lake seems alive...

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Baikal : Sacred Sea of Siberia
Peter Matthiessen
Manufacturer: Douglas & McIntyre, Limited
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Baikal Sacred Sea of Siberia
Peter Matthiessen
Manufacturer: Sierra Club
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Fodor's Escape to New Zealand, 1st Edition: The Definitive Collection of One-of-a-Kind Travel Experiences (Fodor's Escape Guides)
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Fodor's Escape to New Zealand will inspire and guide you as you plan your New Zealand getaway. Explore black-sand beaches and misty fjords, hike among volcanoes, or leave your footprints on a craggy glacier. Each of the 18 experiences and sights it highlights are illustrated in 120 luscious full-color photographs. The planning section tells you all about costs, lodging options, how to get there, and more, and a detailed map shows you what's where. Escape to New Zealand is lovely enough to treasure as a dream book, yet durable enough to withstand the rigors of travel, so keep this book by your bedside to sweeten your dreams, or pop it into your tote bag when you hit the road. And get ready for the trip of a lifetime.

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"'What was your name again?'
'Harley... Harley Columba.'
'Harley. Like the motorcycle, eh?'
'No, Harley, like a person.'"

Fourteen-year-old Harley is dead sure that "drunken dragon and his fire-breathing wife" she shares a house with cannot be her real parents. And when she finds a doll with a 12-year-old note signed "Papa loves you forever and a day"--not in her father's handwriting--she knows she's on to something. Her academic and social life begins to spiral down as she pursues her genetic mystery and rebels against her restrictive parents. Soon she's alienated her best friend, hooked up with a drug-dealing crowd, and is watching her grades plummet. Only her remarkable talent as an artist (and the recognition of this ability by a few adults) keeps her from spinning completely out of control. But this Harley won't stop until she's reached her destination--or runs out of fuel trying.

Cat Bauer's powerful first novel of a defiant adolescent girl's search for identity, both creative and personal, will ring true for teenagers everywhere. She hits on all the hot topics: identity, family relationships, drug and alcohol abuse, school achievement, domestic and emotional violence, friendship, sex, and love. (Ages 12 and older) --Emilie Coulter

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Fourteen-year-old Harley Columba is convinced she's adopted. She's nothing like her abusive, alcoholic father or her bitter, romance novel-reading mother. They have brown eyes, but Harley's eyes are blue. They argue and drink and thrive in dreary suburbia while Harley paints, writes poetry, and longs for a different family and a better life. But then she finds a new, startling piece of evidence: a harlequin doll that's been hidden away for years, with a note around its neck: "Papa loves you forever and a day." Now Harley has genuine hope--hope that she can escape the chaos of the Columba household. Hope that she can find her real father.

Tough, funny, and refreshingly honest, Harley, Like a Person is a compelling story of family, the power of creativity, and the enduring strength of self.

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Real places and Real People.......2006-05-26

Though I have not read this book, I have heard much about it. The town that Harley lives in is actually a reference to Pompton Lakes NJ, my home town, and her references to a place called "The Pond Hole" are real as well, it is in the bottom of our high school parking lot, and it's where people hang out to smoke ciggerettes and play hacky sack. A few current teachers at the high school are also referenced, just thought that was intresting.

A real person for sure........2005-07-16

I found this book by a friend that had read it before hand. I was searching by local library and I found this book. And am I glad I did. It is an amazing book with an edge to it.

Anyway, this book is about Harley. She is a girl that lives with her abusive dad and cold-hearted mother with 2 other siblings. When Harley is up in her attic hide-away, to get away from her parents and all of their secrets, she finds a toy clown among the other boxes of stuff, but something is special about the stupid toy. Inside the card it says, "Papa loves you forever and a day" in handwriting that's not her father's. As Harley searches for answers she finds the wrong social crowd, her grades drop, and she ditches her best friend. But Harley knows that her parents aren't really her parents, and if it takes everything to find them, she'll do it. Even as she spirals downward to a point where only her art can comfort her, Harley is sure that if they're is the real truth out there, she will find it.

I really liked the book. It had such a likeable character, Harley, with her search to find her real parents. She has such likeability about her that she makes the book. Not only does she make some mistakes, but she also finds something out all on her own. Which to me, shows that she can do anything, or that we all can.

Difficulties you might face.......2005-05-21

I had to pick a book for an assignment in L.A.. I didn't know which book to choose. Then, Harley like a person got my attention. I was looking at the cover wondering what it meant. I checked the book out of the library and started to read on my bed. When I opened the book, the first sentence caught my eyes. I'm under the bed. The first chapter didn't seem normal to me.
The setting started off in her house, under the bed, hiding from her parents. She's got a drunken father, yelling mother, and her siblings. Then she gets into all sorts of troubles you can think of. Her first boyfriend was just playing with her, and then the second one was on drugs. She's got the problems that you'll never be able to think of that will happen in your teenage years. Maybe... I hope so... This book has the feelings that teenagers have and the problems that we keep it as secrets. It was like Bauer actually knows what we want!
The conflict happens between Harley and her teachers, friends, and her parents. Even her best friend thinks she's crazy; and later she's failing classes. This might actually happen in life and it's not just a story. There can be problems with your friends and teachers. Her only way of escaping those troubles is to draw. (Me too) I found this in common. She likes to listen to Beatles, unlike normal teenagers do. She's got a heart that no other teenagers might. She's faced difficulties that the teenagers usually don't. Maybe that's why this book is so special. You MIGHT get into one of those.
Everyone might have had this question. "Am I adopted?!" I did. Well, Harley wasn't adopted but she was always thinking she was adopted. Then she finds out that her dad isn't her real dad and she's got the talent from her real dad.
My favorite part of the book is the ending, when and her parents get to understand her. They all sit in a row watching the play and her drawing of Anastasia. That's my favorite part of this book. I haven't actually read her other books yet, but I'm looking forward to it.
It is the best book I have read so far this year. Especially if you're a struggling teenager or a person like me who's getting ready for high school should read this. It has what the teenagers think about what's going on in high school life, and what's the problem that they usually have.

~* hArLeY *~.......2003-07-19

I have been searching for a good book for the past two months and to my disarray have not found a one. I have tried the classics (they were too dull), i have tried the science fiction (they were too weird) and even trashy romances (UGH!). So today i went to the library and got something new, something different. It was titled Harley:Like a Person and I read it in one day, one of the best books I have ever read. So now I am in the same situation again, with no good book to read. ...

Completely Real.......2002-12-30

If you like books that will draw you into the real life of a girl on the wrong track then this is it. I read it in 2 days. When your parents lie to you your whole life about who your father is you would flip too. Harley is an artist who is in a swirl of lies and doesn't know what to do. Her friend pretty much leaves her to fend for her self and her parents act like they don't care. She meets a boy who takes her to parties and does drugs. That doesn't last long. She soon goes in search of who her real father is.
This is a great book with a twist of an ending.

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An international research project known as Biological Investigations of Marine Antarctic Systems and Stocks or BIOMASS was a unique, 15-year, international research program established to investigate the ecology of the Southern Ocean. This volume summarizes the results of this monumental research effort and provides a succinct, state-of-the-art account of the ecology of the Southern Ocean, covering the physical marine environment, marine stocks (phytoplankton, zooplankton, krill, fish, and birds), marine systems, and future research endeavors.

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Presents a timely exploration of research topics in environmental chemistry of lakes and reservoirs. Includes coverage of methodological advances in studies of lake geochemistry; cycling and distribution of major elements in aquatic systems; behavior of trace metals, with an emphasis on processes that control their solubility and transport, and behavior and fate of organic contaminants. Valuable reading for chemists, environmental engineers, biologists, and scientists involved in practical aspects of water pollution.

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Banish your fear of Death!.......2007-08-24

Physics of the Soul: The Quantum Book of Living, Dying, Reincarnation and Immortality by Amit Goswami was for me a look at the possibility that life continues on. I am a believer in God, so what was I worried about? Because not much is said about our state of existence in the scriptures, except for resurrection, then heaven. But where is heaven, our personality? Our soul. If there is no such thing as communicating with the deceased, then why do we as Christian profess the "communion with Saints"? I got a clear picture of some of these things in Mr. Goswami's book. By the way you will want to read all of his books!

excellent food for thought.......2007-04-04

As a student of Dr. Goswami, i very much enjoyed his thoughts and the models that he proposes. While so many in hte west have been taught since childhood that we have a 'soul', we're never given much of a context within which to hold that concept. Dr. Goswami provides some interesting models, based on The Upanishads, that i am still thinking about and applying months after first reading this book. If you are a student of consciousness, metaphysics, or just curious about the possibilities, Physics of the Soul is a must read.

Paradigm of The Quantum Monad, Jivaman, Eternal Soul.......2005-05-14

Interesting book. Here Amit Goswami attempts to validate the paradigm of a soul that survives the body eternally based on quantum physics. In this "monistic idealism" he equates the soul with the quantum monad and the Jivaman of Sri Aurobindo and the Atman in Hindu Vedic philosophy. This book is another paradigm that supposedly contains the answers to the surviving soul or quantum monad, the subtle body which enters a nonlocality (a connection of potentialities connecting every point in space an time) and carries our tendencies and phobias with us to our next reincarnation. How the purpose of life is a play or battle of two forces, creativity and entropy

Some of the book is on quantum mechanics, how matter gets bogged down in stubborn paradoxes and quantum measurement paradox, and so his science, as in Sri Aurobindo's, is the subtle, the supramental, mental and vital experiences, a science of consciousness and nonlocality where the quantum jumps take place in webs of interdependent connections.

Thought is conveyed of the six bardos found in the Tibetan Book of the Dead and their relation to the human memory of information that dies with us at death and the quantum monad & quantum memory, which he believes carries the tendencies and habitual patterns in each reincarnation. This of course takes us to angels and higher beings of consciousness, death yoga, karma, maya Akashic memory, techniques of meditation, creative thought verses thought, potentiality and the range of choices of actuality.And the idea of the self is all - solipsism, the ideas of how our consciousness collapses the potentialities, turning it into the reality.

I enjoyed the suggestion of three Tibetan practices of one: the death prayer or the Hindu bhakti yoga of devotion to a deity. This is usually done with a private and personal mantra. Two: living a life of service and sacrifice, the attitude that is, is one of service and applied positive meaning. "Instead of looking at pain and suffering and recoiling from the, we embrace pain and suffering to relieve not any pain but the pain of humanity." p. 194. In this, we mentally visualize ourselves containing all consciousness - solipsism, and the power to heal and extend love to all beings. We sacrifice ourselves in this mental capacity and breathing techniques. And Three: Jnana yoga of effortless contemplation, that of concentrating without concentrating or focusing without concentrating, the paradox of concentrative energy while relaxing your mind and this allows you to enter beyond the discursive thought processes to the silent consciousness of the observer self..

I particularly enjoyed a 4 page thought on Involution and Evolution. While in evolution we expand and raise ourselves to the whole, in involution we contract and lower to separate fragmentation in grosser levels, forgetting itself, and decreasing freedom. It is a play of consciousness where there really is no separation but rather consciousness forgets itself for the sake of play, it pretends to forget.

The last chapter of the book gives a good summary on nine interpretations of the soul and its survival and journey.

On the right track, but..........2004-04-21

Mr Goswami appears to be on the right track with this research, however where the book falls down is that the sources he cites in support of his argument seem to be taken at such face value. I find this lack of 'scientific' methodology quite surprising since he has taught physics for 32 years. Certainly I agree with Mr Goswami that the standard 'proofs' are not available for this work, but even so, he needs to find a middle road, so that it doesn't just end up as just another 'new age' book. And that would be a shame! Somewhat different, but a good example would be 'Old Souls : Compelling Evidence from Children Who Remember Past Lives' by Thomas Shroder. In addition, chatty idea's sessions with his wife, limit one's ability to take his writing seriously. Finally, Mr Goswami should pick up the phone and call his publisher, who just-so-happens to publish 'Astral Dynamics: A New Approach to Out-of-Body Experiences' by Robert Bruce. Goswami will have many questions answered by reading this book. And, in the case of Bruce, I was willing to ignore any lack of scientific method, because from the moment you pick up the book, you KNOW that he knows what he is talking about. By comparison, Bruce's book is a groundbreaker.

The esoteric made understandable.......2002-01-04

When death occurs in the family, our rational minds cry out to know more about life after death. Religions offer consolation that God is love and there is heaven beyond, but we wonder if there are any confirmations from studies of human minds which open doors to the after-life. Accordingly we have eagerly picked up books promising answers only to be quickly disappointed. Too many scientific words such as collective unconscious, determinism, morphogenetic fields, non-locality, etc., at best leave our minds only dimly grasping the author's intent. Reading into other cultures about dharma, maya, moksha, jivanmukta and vedanta, will cause us to send another promising book back to the library, or our lower book shelves, unread.
Aware of this too often encountered problem, the author of Physics of the Soul, has included a thirteen page glossary explaining the meaning and purpose of the lesser known words he has used. To those attempting to become adequate in reading this and similar books, such a service is a godsend. Using Goswami's glossary, we can not only understand his Physics of the Soul, but also, find light from numerous books previously beyond our comprehension.
Amit Goswami, along with other writers who have given many lectures and workshops, is aware of certain frequently asked questions. These he thoughtfully answers in chapter eleven. Here again, Physics of the Soul should draw, and hold, a much wider circle of readers than most books on similar esoteric concerns.

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Ideal for courses in advanced composition, Substance, Style, and Strategy offers a comprehensive guide to develop effective writing in every student. It enables students to form a personal style, to write about issues that are substantial and meaningful, and to use a range of strategies for solving writing problems of all kinds. Recognizing that students often require basic reminders of elementary stylistic principles, the book begins with a review in the first chapter, "Developing a Personal Style," that brings writers up to speed in standard skills. It discusses issues of subject, audience, style, and the writing process. Following chapters examine not only the types of essay writing students must do in college but also ways of writing that will be useful to them as developing writers later in life. The author presents workable, direct, and useful strategies for writing effective personal, biographical, argumentative, familiar, and critical essays. Each essay form is discussed in detail and illustrated through examples that are analyzed in depth; these examples are illuminating and instructive because they offer ways of solving problems that all writers confront. The text concludes with a practical appendix on research materials that outlines the most useful research strategies for modern writers, discussing both print resources and new on-line resources such as Lexis-Nexis, CD-ROM on-line databases and services, and the World Wide Web. Substance, Style, and Strategy stimulates students to develop their thoughts and feelings in skillful, meaningful, and expressive prose, providing them with a thorough grounding in how to be writers for life.

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