Fishing Florida's Space Coast: An Angler's Guide--Ponce de Leon Inlet to Sebastian Inlet (Angler's guide)

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A book about fishing Florida's Space Coast, from Ponce de Leon to Sebastian Inlet.

Guide to Florida Salt Water Fishing (Anderson, Robert. Guide to Florida Wildlife and Nature.)

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Guide to Florida Salt Water Fishing (Anderson, Robert. Guide to Florida Wildlife and Nature.)
Robert Anderson
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A guide to Florida salt water fishes (A Dukane publication)

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Bob Bender
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Guide to Florida salt water fish and fishing: Fishing tips; baiting up, where and when : fishing laws : world records

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Guide to Florida salt water fish and fishing: Fishing tips; baiting up, where and when : fishing laws : world records
Robert Anderson
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a book for all Filipinos and lovers of things Philippine.......1997-10-22

First of all, this is a sumptuously illustrated book. It is already worth what you pay for it in the illustrations. This is no wonder though because as the rest of the subtitle states, the book represents seven days in the Philippines with 35 of the world's finest photographers. Add to that well written text and you have truly excellent value in this book. My favourite section is the short Philippine history written by James Hamilton-Patterson. A thinking person's coffee table book.

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MESSAGE BOARD
About Genesis Bell Queensheba at 1:02 a.m.
i’ve heard you’d better not leave your guy alone with her! not if you DON’T want to lose him >:p
It’s not her fault 007ugo at 1:45 a.m.
You got it all wrong! If anyone’s taught Genesis about stealing guys, it was her best friends, The Terribles–CJ and Tasha!
Re: It’s not her fault GenBell at 1:52 a.m.
You don’t know the real story. It’s not what you think. Just read my side of it, and then decide. Okay?

From the Trade Paperback edition.

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Poor Gen! ;-(.......2007-04-10

I loved how the author made the book kinda like a blog but told it like a story. I feel bad for Gen because it wasn't her fault that her friends didn't treat their boyfriends right! I also feel bad for Gen because she dosent really know her dad, and her mom and sister where always away! So they were not very close. But in the end everybody got what was comming to them!

really makes you think about relationships.......2006-09-18

After Gen is accused of stealing her two best friend's, CJ and Tasha, boyfriends, she starts a blog to tell her side of the story (and beat CJ to doing the same thing). Through a series of online journal entries you find out about how the Terribles (as the three of them called themselves) came to be, Gen's eccentric family, her documentary on Fiesta Beach, the biggest party of the year, and what really went down with Gen and CJ and Tasha's boyfriends. Regular commenters on her blog add other people's input so as to make the novel not completely one-sided. Despite Gen's self-proclaimed "boyfriend stealer" status, you will find yourself empathizing much more with her than with the Terrible CJ and Tasha. Written in the perfect style for the internet generation, this novel is about fitting in, getting out of bad relationships (romantic or otherwise), and dealing with crazy family members. Any teen will easily be able to relate to Gen, and will get sucked into her confessions until they're complete.

Unique Book.......2006-08-25

As you can see Confessions of A Boyfriend Stealer has it's own unique personality. Personally, I think it was great to make it a blog instead of a book and you can also see other people's point of view by the responses to the blog. It's a great book for teens

omg.......2006-05-21

omg this is the best book ive ever read. I showed it to my friends and we think of it as a bible now. I mean a girl that her best friends "boyfriends" like. i mean that is just outragously funny! And then add comments in the middle of it. Robynn HAS to make a sequel. I think if she does make a sequel it should be about CJ's blog.^^

Is it stealing if they want to be stolen?.......2006-02-05

So, did Genesis Bell really steal the boyfriends away from her best friends? Or is there another side to the story? Genesis wants to get out the truth, so she starts a blog and confesses all. See, she was part of the clique at school: The Terribles. Her best friends were CJ (the ring leader) and Tasha. But they never really treated her like a true Terrible. She felt more like the one that cleaned up after their messes; the one that never got the guy - she only got to console them when CJ or Tasha walked all over them.

All that starts to change when Nick, CJ's boyfriend and a total player, tries to make nice with Genesis. She's confused and flattered at first, but soon other emotions start to appear (like anger and betrayal) when she tries to come clean to CJ and gets laughed at (as if!) instead. She's had their backs for years and now the Terribles seem to be turning on her.

And then there's Chi, Tasha's very lovable and very cute boyfriend who turns to Genesis for comfort whenever Tasha cheats on him (which is all the time!). He's definitely not like Nick. And maybe, just maybe, he's starting to see the light.

Told through blog entries, the reader follows along on a wild ride. Given that the blog is supposedly started a few months after all the events, it does distance the reader some from the story. I think I would have enjoyed it even more if it hadn't been in blog format. The blog readers who leave comments at the end of each chapter are also a little distracting and don't add much to the story. But, other than those small things, this is a very fast and fun read.

While I'm not a fan of boyfriend stealers, I'm definitely a fan of Genesis. Shoot, I haven't even told you yet about some of the more interesting parts of the story - her family. The Bell family is....well, you'll just have to see for yourself. They defy description and the scenes in which they appear are some of the funniest in the book.

Recommended for ages 12 and up.

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Mutagenesis of the Mouse Genome focuses on articles relevant to mouse chemical mutagenesis, and is dedicated to the memory of the mutagenesis pioneer, William L. Russell. Monica Justice provides an overview of the history of the Human Genome Project and use of the mouse as the primary organism for the functional annotation of the mammalian genome. With special articles by Jean-Louis Guenet describing the history and development of mouse chemical mutagenesis, Liane Russell analyzing decades of data on DNA damage after chemical treatment, Steven Barthold describing how environment can affect mouse phenotypes, Miriam Meisler summarizing the power of allelic series, Molly Bogue describing the variation in mouse inbred strains, and Mark Strivens and Janan Eppig showing how informatics tools can aid in functional analysis, this book is designed to be a handbook and reference guide for mouse genetics in the post-genome era.

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Paper Dolls of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s

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Paper Dolls of the 1960S, 1970S, and 1980s: Identification & Value Guide (Identification & Values (Collector Books))
Carol Nichols
Manufacturer: Collector Books
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1574323946

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This book documents over 1,000 beautiful paper dolls. It covers three specific decades in history and carries information pertaining to the collecting, upkeep, and preservation of paper dolls. The book pinpoints where you can find vintage paper dolls to add to or start your collection. Each paper doll set shown includes photos of the book or box cover, a shot of the doll, and a sampling of clothing for each paper doll set. An up-to-date price guide accompanies each set, based on the research of the author through books, eBay, and her own experience in pursuit of her collection. A helpful photo index is also provided so the collector can easily look up a paper doll. 2005 values. REVIEW: This book will have collectors racing to the bookstores. It is an all-new revised edition, this time organized alphabetically by model name and description for ease in identification. Well over 1,000 photographs are included.

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Paper Dolls of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.......2007-05-10

The book is a history of paper dolls during the period indicated in the title. The paper dolls are of tv and movie stars. There are paper dolls of familiar dolls like Barbie and kewpies. The book consists of pictures of various paper dolls, some are no longer being printed. The book is colorful and interesting. It is a treasure for paper doll collectors and anyone interested in paper dolls.

Sheila!.......2006-04-28

Very nice paper doll book. I wish someone would do some reproductions. I would like to have them in my collection.

Collecting Paper: An Identification and Value Guide

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Collecting Paper: An Identification and Value Guide
Gene Utz
Manufacturer: Books Americana
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Binding: Paperback

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Paper Collectibles: A Collectors Identification and Value Guide

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Paper Collectibles: A Collectors Identification and Value Guide
Robert D. Connolly
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The Weapon on the Wall Rethinking Psychological Warfare
Dyer Murray
Manufacturer: Johns Hopkins Press
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000UDSNJC

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The Weapon on the Wall: Rethinking Psychological Warfare
Murray Dyer
Manufacturer: The Johns Hopkins University Press
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THE WEAPON ON THE WALL: RETHINKING PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE.
Murray. Dyer
Manufacturer: Balt., Johns Hopkins U.P., 1959. 269 pp. Fine copy of first edition in dust jacket.
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ASIN: B000UE262Q

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Long considered Melville's strangest novel, The Confidence-Man is a comic allegory aimed at the optimism and materialism of mid-nineteenth century America. A shape-shifting Confidence-Man approaches passengers on a Mississippi River steamboat and, winning over his not-quite-innocent victims with his charms, urges each to trust in the cosmos, in nature, and even in human nature--with predictable results. In Melville's time the book was such a failure he abandoned fiction writing for twenty years; only in the twentieth century did critics celebrate its technical virtuosity, wit, comprehensive social vision, and wry skepticism.

This scholarly edition includes a Historical Note offering a detailed account of the novel's composition, publication, reception, and subsequent critical history. In addition the editors present the twenty-six surviving manuscript leaves and scraps with full transcriptions and analytical commentary.

This scholarly edition aims to present a text as close to the author's intention as surviving evidence permits. Based on collations of both editions publishing during Melville's lifetime, it incorporates 138 emendations made by the present editors. It is an Approved Text of the Center for Editions of American Authors (Modern Language Association of America).

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Melville's modernist tour of America's stream of humanity.......2007-02-16

"The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade" is, as its title would suggest, a satirical farce. In spite of its wit and the occasional laugh, however, it is the hardest of all Melville's works to follow, in no small part because its lead character keeps changing his identity--and that is assuming, by the way, that there's just one lead character to begin with. If at times the novel feels like a patchwork, it's because it is: Melville merged a number of stories and travel pieces originally intended for magazine publication into a continuous, claustrophobic cyclorama.

Set on the Mississippi River on April Fool's Day, "The Confidence-Man" follows the interrelated episodes and adventures of a stream of passengers who board and disembark a steamboat. Many of the confidence men (and their prophetic counterparts) may be the same person in various disguises. (Melville's deliberate obfuscation on this point has launched a hundred academic papers.)

The various scoundrels, shills, suckers, and shape-shifters are a parade of American types: "men of business and men of pleasure; parlor men and backwoodsmen; farm-hunters and fame-hunters; heiress-hunters, gold-hunters, buffalo-hunters, bee-hunters, happiness-hunters, truth-hunters, and still keener hunters after all these hunters." Everyone on board is trying to sell something or to swindle someone or to raise money for a charity or to find a job or to convince a fellow passenger of his own integrity. A persistent theme is the typically American monomaniacal pursuit of money.

"I am neither prophet nor charlatan," says a peddler of medicine to a sick man. "But again I say, you must have confidence." Yet only a fool would have confidence, and this insecurity leads to an irrational paranoia. Nobody can trust anyone: "it is one of the imbecilities of the suspicious person to fancy that every stranger, however absent-minded, he sees so much as smiling or gesturing to himself in any odd sort of way, is secretly making him his butt."

For obvious reasons, "The Confidence-Man" is considered the precursor of the modernist novel. As an academic exercise, it's both intriguing and (to use a technical term) "mind-blowing." And there is certainly a steady stream of quotable aphorisms and clever anecdotes. Yet I also found the novel to be frustrating: somewhat like entering a labyrinth from which there is no hope of escape or solution--and at the end of the book you're still stuck in the maze. The farce is a lot of fun initially but it becomes a bit maddening and repetitive after reaching one too many of the novel's narrative dead ends.

As one of Melville's contemporary reviewers noted, the novel makes as much sense if the chapters are read in reverse order, and the "characters" are distinguishable not by their personalities as much as they are defined by their wholly predictable actions and reactions. Halfway down the Old Muddy, after meeting the Melville's umpteenth American stereotype, I realized that the novel had no Bartleby or Nippers, nor, for that matter, would readers be introduced to a K. or an Olga. Instead, "The Confidence-Man" is like Kafka without characters.

........2005-01-30

As I read this book, I didn't catch all the subtleties of it, and could never be precisely sure whether each confidence man was evil or not- it seemed ambiguous, or at least, the author never once allows the reader to find out definitively that the 'vicitms' are being gulled. However, by the end of the book, this becomes more clear as the second half settles into sxome extremely thought-provoking conversations and exchanges. After reading literary reviews online, the book in its totality makes even more sense as in retrospect its sublte points become clearer.
That being said, the writing is absolutely superb. Although far more wordy than Hemingway, one cannot avoid comparing to Hemingway's writing, which, like this, is extremely controlled, restrained and pointed. As you read this, you cannot avoid the feeling that the author spent hours on each sentence.
It is therefore very much so worth reading, but don't expect it to be easy. It's certainly not your verbose, nineteenth century romanctic glop, but it can be difficult, as some readers appear to have found it. But try it.

Horrible and overrated.......2003-04-16

This is like a precurser to the Beat movement of the 1950's. The sentences are overly long, it's written like a police report so you become overly aware that there is a narrator which takes much away from the telling of the story. The characters are not interesting and the story is boring.

Not completely worthless........2003-03-13

I consider Melville's more famous work, "Moby Dick", to be perhaps the most overrated book in the English language; in spite of that, I decided to try this one on the grounds that perhaps my dislike of that one was a fluke (no pun intended) and that perhaps some other of Melville's works might be more congenial.

This book definitely has some advantages over "Moby Dick". It's shorter, for one thing, and the digressions are both shorter themselves, and less frequent. But they are, if anything, even more annoying; if there's anything I LESS need to read than dissertations on the nuts and bolts of 19th century whaling, it's chapters in which an author steps outside of his story to defend details of his writing. What's more, while "Moby Dick" is 400+ pages of story with about 50 pages of plot, this book is 250+ pages with absolutely NO plot; all it is is episodic recitations of one character (a man of 1000 faces) swindling numerous other characters, some more well-developed than others. And if the writing style isn't QUITE as pretentious as in "Moby Dick", it's still too pretentious for my taste.

Still, the book is not completely worthless. It brings to mind some interesting points for debate; which is worse, the con man himself, or the people who he CAN'T swindle because they're so cynical and untrusting? Is it worth becoming that cynical to avoid being gulled by such a con man? Is it possible to retain a reasonable amount of faith in people, and still avoid being swindled? What would have been the appropriate response in (pick a scene)? I would recommend that if you are going to read it, do so as a part of a literary discussion group, or something similar, so that you will have someone to discuss it with. That's where its value lies, certainly not as an entertaining read.

Quite an Original.......2001-11-14

Quite an Original

The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade
I am specifically reviewing the Northwestern University Press edition of Melville's "The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade."

There is a Norton Critical Edition of this novel edited by Hershel Parker, but it doesn't seem to be offered by Amazon.com. It is offered at at W.W. Norton's website... The Hendricks House edition edited by Elizabeth Foster is another good edition, but it seems to be out of print at the moment.

On November 12, 1856 Herman Melville and Nathanial Hawthorne took a walk among the sandhills near Liverpool, England. They smoked cigars, and Hawthorne wrote about a week later that Melville spoke of Providence and futurity, and he, Melville, had pretty much made up his mind to be annilated.

"The Confidence-Man" is the last novel that Melville published during his lifetime. I agree with Newton Arvin, who called "The Confidence-Man" "one of the most infidel books ever written by an American; one of the most completely nihilistic, morally and metaphysically."

About 150 years after the book was first published, and about fifty since the book was first taken seriously by literary critics, The Confidence-Man is not a settled matter. In fact there remains excessive discord among readers and critics about the worth of this novel. Some compare it to Swift's "Tale of the Tub," others will tell you that this book is static and formless.

The idea is simple enough. On April 1 a devil in the guise of a deaf mute goes aboard a Mississippi river steamboat, and begs for charity. In rapid succession he transforms himself into a crippled Black man, a man with the weed, the man in the grey coat , the gentleman with the big book, the man with the plate and finally the Cosmopolitan. In these different guises he gulls and diddles people. He asks for trust. He is not always successful, but he can take solace in his failures. The reason for the devil's failures is the cyniscim, mistrust and mysandry of his marks. It is their human failings that accounts for his failures. And that's not so bad for the devil.

Melville's control of his material was never greater. I recommend the Northwestern Newberry edition because it contains draft fragments of chapter 14. You can see how carefullly Melville wrote this novel. The blandness of the prose is deliberate. If you read the surviving drafts you will see how Melville purposedly silenced and muted his message. Perhaps Melville was too successful for even close readers get lost sometimes.

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A scathing, razor-sharp satire set on a New Orleans-bound riverboat, The Confidence-Man exposes the fraudulent optimism of so many American idols and idealists--Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and P.T. Barnum, in particular--and draws a dark vision of a country being swallowed by its illusions of progress. It begins with a mute boarding a Mississippi boat and ends without a conclusion: "Something further may follow of this Masquerade." In between, the "confidence man," so well disguised as to avoid clear identification even by the reader, meets and tricks a boatful of unusual characters.

The culmination of Herman Melville's brilliant career as a novelist, and the introduction of a particularly American brand of satire that is as caustic as it is funny, The Confidence-Man creates an elaborate and beautiful masquerade that asks: who in this world is worth our confidence?

Why is Dalkey Archive doing yet-another edition of The Confidence-Man? And why is it doing Melville at all? First, this edition, originally published by Bobbs-Merrill over forty years ago, contains remarkable annotations by H. Bruce Franklin, intended for both the general reader and the scholar. It's an edition we have long admired. More importantly, we believe that The Confidence-Man is America's first "postmodern" novel--game-like, darkly comic, and completely inventive.

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the Frank and Charlie show.......2007-07-10

H. Bruce Franklin's finely annotated Melville is once again available.

Perhaps not the best place to discuss the story, at least let's discuss the edition. I have always thought these footnotes have been a necessary part of this long running joke. The book seems tough and well-constructed. Not everyone's copy will be read through, but the others will be thumbed to death, almost like an airliner in static test destruction.

And what a ride! This is a story about story-telling and about story-telling techniques. One of the longest and most absurd being Wilbur/Thoreau's honking of the story of China Aster. Everyone is fighting over how to tell this tale! Himmlerian Mark Winsome lays down the Party Line, Wilbur trying to strain off the tannins. Frank Goodman tries to redeem it. Melville attempts to hide behind it. I find myself arguing with myself about it. Is it genius? Is it that bad? Is Emerson so hateful? Did The Confidence Man actually get angry -- or did he know the barber was just about set to close up shop for the night.

Melville's greatest work in a clean new lifetime edition, available right now.

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The Confidence Man : His Masquerade
Herman with Introduction By Roy Fuller Melville
Manufacturer: John Lehmann
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000PBESPM

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THE CONFIDENCE MAN; HIS MASQUERADE
Herman; Parker, Herschel, Editor Melville
Manufacturer: Norton
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000PZMSJQ

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The Confidence- Man His Masquerade
Melville
Manufacturer: New American Library
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ASIN: B0000CM7VH

The Confidence-Man (Large Print Edition): His Masquerade

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The Confidence-Man (Large Print Edition): His Masquerade
Herman Melville
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ASIN: 1434643301
Release Date: 2007-08-20

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THE CONFIDENCE-MAN HIS MASQUERADE

Manufacturer: The BOBBS-MERRILL CO.
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