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Fascinating.......2006-07-30
This is one of the most fascinating books I've ever read. I recommend it to everyone.
David's the Best!.......2000-05-02
David Attenborough is the best science populizer in the subject of biology bar none! He rates, and deserves to rate, up with Carl Sagan and Isaac Asimov (even Isaac rated David's work highly). Find this book. Read it and add 'Life on Earth,''The Living Planet,' and 'The Private Life of Plants' to your permanent library.
About 'The Trials of Life'........2000-01-27
'The trials of life' is one of the several books written by David Attenborough on similar topic. The book is about living beings (except humans). The book is colorful and it will be nice to keep it in a nice bookshelf. Some of the paragraphs are dull. This is compensated to some extent by excellent color photographs. Some of the pages are sad. Some pages give rise to curiosity. I wish that you will never see this book. By S.B.Ota.
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Fodor's Hong Kong 2003: The Guide for All Budgets, Completely Updated Every Year, with Maps and Travel Tips (Fodor's Gold Guides)
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No matter what your budget or whether it's your first trip or fifteenth, Fodor's Gold Guides get you where you want to go. In this completely up-to-date guide our experts who live in Hong Kong give you the inside track, showing you all the things to see and do ? from must-see sights to off-the-beaten-path adventures, from shopping to outdoor fun. Fodor's Hong Kong 2003 shows you hundreds of hotel and restaurant choices in all price ranges ? from budget-friendly B&Bs to luxury hotels, from casual eateries to the hottest new restaurants, complete with thorough reviews showing what makes each place special. The Smart Travel Tips A to Z section helps you take care of the nitty gritty with essential local contacts and great advice ? from how to take your mountain bike with you to what to do in an emergency. Plus, web links and mix-and-match itineraries make planning a snap.
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No summer vacation could be less promising than Bobby Marks's.
Bobby Marks hates hot weaather. It's the time when most people are happy to take off their heavy jackets and long pants. But for Bobby, who can't even button the waist of his jeans or reach over his belly to touch his toes, spending the summer at Rumson Lake is pure torture.
This particular summer promises to be worse than usual. His mom and dad can't stop fighting. His best friend, Joanie, goes home to New York City unexpectedly and won't tell him why. Dr. Kahn, the rich, stingy estate owner who hires him to manage the lawn, is trying to work Bobby to death before he can earn a single dime. And the local guy who worked for Dr. Kahn last summer is lurking around every corner, itching for a chance to catch Bobby alone, to pay him back for stealing the job.
But there's more to Bobby Marks than his 200 pounds. He's about to find out just how terrifying and exhilarating, how dangerous and wonderful, one fat summer can be.
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For Bobby Marks, summer does not equal fun.
While most people are happy to take off their heavy jackets and long pants, Bobby can't even button his jeans or reach over his belly to touch his toes. Spending the summer at Rumson Lake is sheer torture.
This particular summer promises to be worse than usual. His parents can't stop fighting. His best friend, Joanie, goes home to New York City and won't tell him why. Dr. Kahn, a rich, stingy estate owner who hires him to manage an enormous lawn, is working him to death. And to top it off, a local bully won't stop torturing him.
Bobby is about to find out just how terrifying and exhilarating one fat summer can be.
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One Fat Summer.......2007-04-24
Isn't Summer Supposed to Be Fun??
Everyone loves summer...or so I thought. In the realistic fiction book One Fat Summer by Robert Lipsyte, Bobby Marks hates summer. Bobby doesn't hate the swimming, or the weather; he hates how he looks and his weight. Bobby Marks also hates summer because it's a time when people wear shorts and when he wears shorts people can see how heavy he really is.
Every summer Bobby goes to Rumson Lake and this year he met a local bully who makes fun of his weight. He gets embarrassed and very angry. Bobby also gets hired by Dr. Kahn a very tough and stern man who is making Bobby mow his lawns, and do other things around his yard. To top it off, his best friend has left to New York City for the summer and he is really lonely.
Overall, I really enjoyed this book because you can relate Bobby to yourself or to someone else you know. You can also understand what Bobby is going through and how he feels. One of the main themes in this book is standing up for yourself. I would recommend this book from ages ten to fifteen. If you really enjoyed this book there are two other books about Bobby that Robert Lipsyte wrote about called Summer Rules and Summer Boy.
great read.......2007-02-02
i think one fat summer is a GREAT book. i finished it in two days since i liked it so much. now if anyone makes fun of someone for being overweight, tell them to read this book, and see the world through a fat kid's eyes. but that's not the message of one fat summer. the real message behind it is that if you work hard, there is no limit to what you can do or what you can overcome. this one is a must-read!
Fat or Skinny?.......2006-11-22
Would you care if you were fat and people made fun of you?Or if your best friend was fat, would you treat them any different from what they are?I don't know about you but i wouldn't care if my best friend was the fattest person on earth. One Fat Summer by Robert Lipsyte shows a perfect example of what I'm talking about. Bobby (main character) is going to summer camp. He never really wanted to because he knew what might happen. Bullies! I think you may know the rest.
One Fat Summer for One Fat Kid.......2006-05-31
I would recommend this book to anyone. It is really great and keeps the readers guessing. It is also interesting hearing how one fat summer could be for one fat kid. Hearing it from his point of view makes the book a lot better. Overall, the book is really good.
Wildcats.......2006-04-03
Last month Southwood readed and dicuss this book.
We really enjoy this book . Thanks for the book.
Southwood Bookclub!!
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Passivhaus-Bauteilkatalog ökologisch bewertete Konstruktionen, Details for Passive Houses A Catalogue of Ecologically Rated Constructions
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Die erste Auflage des ökologischen Bauteilkataloges erschien 1999 in deutscher Sprache. Das große Interesse an einer Sammlung ökologischer Bewertungen und Detaildarstellungen, detaillierten baupraktischen Beschreibungen und bauphysikalischen Kennwerten, machten das Buch schnell zu einem konkurrenzlosen Klassiker. Für die zweite Auflage wurden die Regelquerschnitte im Hinblick auf den Passivhaus-Standard dimensioniert und die ökologische Bewertung aktualisiert und anschaulicher dargestellt, erneut zahlreiche Parameter unter die Lupe genommen und wissenschaftlich ausgewertet. Neu ist, dass die Bewertung auf der Grundlage des internationalen Passivhaus-Standards durchgeführt wurde.
In der zweiten Auflage finden Planer, Architekten und Auslober zuverlässige Baudetails für den Passivhaus-Standard, Kriterien für den Nachweis ökologisch optimierter Planung, Baustoffberatungswissen, Kriterien für die Ausschreibung und natürlich ein kompetentes Nachschlagewerk für die Beratung mit dem Bauherren.
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Oekologische Aesthetik: Theorie und Praxis künstlerischer Umweltgestaltung
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Mit der gestalterischen Transformation landschaftlicher Orte beschäftigen sich zahlreiche künstlerische, landschaftsarchitektonische, wissenschaftliche und theoretische Strömungen. Was so unterschiedliche Ansätze wie Ökologische Ästhetik, Art in Nature, Ecoart und Reclamation Art eint, ist die Suche nach Dialogen mit natürlichen Prozessen. Das Buch beschreibt die vielfältigen Aspekte ökologischer Ästhetik aus der Sicht von Künstlern, Landschaftsarchitekten, Wissenschaftlern, Philosophen und Politikern. Die Landschaftskunst von Herman Prigann, der dieses Übersichtswerk initiiert hat, wird eingebunden in die Darstellung der Arbeiten von mehr als fünfzig Künstlern und Landschaftsarchitekten. Zu den Autoren gehören u.a. Jacques Leenhardt (F), Massimo Venturi Ferriolo (I), Udo Weilacher (D), Malcom Miles (GB), Tim Collins (USA) sowie Jochen Boberg vom Museumspädagogischen Dienst Berlin, dem Kooperationspartner dieses mit Unterstützung der Deutschen Bundesstiftung Umwelt entstandenen Buches.
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Die steigende Nachfrage nach gesundem und ökologischem Wohnen im Altbestand wird zu nachhaltigen Veränderungen am Immobilienmarkt führen. Die Altbauten müssen entsprechend saniert und den heutigen Anforderungen angepasst werden. Architekten, Planer und Investoren finden mit diesem Werk ein praxistaugliches Instrumentarium zur umfassenden Sanierungsplanung von Altbauten. Kapitel zu Architektur, zu baulicher Durchführung und Qualitätskontrolle, Beispiele aus verschiedenen Bauperioden sowie ein aktueller Service-Teil ermöglichen dem Leser einen umfassenden Überblick. Marktwirksame Qualitäten wie die Wohn- und Ökologieperformance werden durch Checklisten fassbar. Unter der Mitarbeit der Autoren: Günter Kaufmann, Erich Panzhauser, Karin Stildorf und Martin Treberspurg.
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Angewandte Landschaftsökologie: Grundlagen und Methoden
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This book provides a synthesis of the patterns, causes and consequences of biodiversity in cold-dominated ecosystems.The first chapters document patterns and causes of genetic and species diversity of plants and animals emphasizing the interaction between historical and contemporary factors in governing biodiversity. The second section addresses how biotic diversity has changed in the past, how it is currently changing, and how it will likely respond to future changes in climate and land use. The third section treats both the conceptual basis and the evidence that biodiversity influences the functioning of arctic and alpine ecosystems. Also included are the implications of terrestrial patterns of biodiversity for landscape patterns and for patterns of diversity in aquatic ecosystems.
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The universe has its secrets. It may even hide extra dimensions, different from anything ever imagined. A whole raft of remarkable concepts now rides atop the scientific firmament, including parallel universes, warped geometry, and threedimensional sink-holes. We understand far more about the world than we did just a few short years ago -- and yet we are more uncertain about the true nature of the universe than ever before. Have we reached a point of scientific discovery so advanced that the laws of physics as we know them are simply not sufficient? Will we all soon have to accept explanations that previously remained in the realm of science fiction?
Lisa Randall is herself making these extraordinary breakthroughs, pushing back the boundaries of science in her research to answer some of the most fundamental questions posed by Nature. For example, why is the gravitational field from the entire Earth so defenseless against the small tug of a tiny magnet? Searching for answers to such seemingly irresolvable questions has led physicists to postulate extra dimensions, the presence of which may lead to unimaginable gains in scientific understanding. Randall takes us into the incredible world of warped, hidden dimensions that underpin the universe we live in, describing how we might prove their existence, while examining the questions that they still leave unanswered.
Warped Passages provides an exhilarating overview that tracks the arc of discovery from early twentieth-century physics to the razor's edge of today's particle physics and string theory, unweaving the current debates about relativity, quantum mechanics, and gravity. In a highly readable style sure to entertain and elucidate, Lisa Randall demystifies the science and beguilingly unravels the mysteries of the myriad worlds that may exist just beyond the one we are only now beginning to know.
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AMERICA'S GOT TALENT!!!.......2007-09-28
You really don't need my opinion because there are already over 100 reviews. I don't have a serious review to offer because the serious ones have already been done. I will agree with the best of them because this lady author has many great talents in putting such an amazing book together with such STYLE!!!! Many points of praise. I got this book in hardcover and decided I needed another one so I got two.
You go scientists!!!! Please continue writing books like this one that are so so delicious to read and well put together in SO many ways. Keep them (books) real long like this one (or even longer) and packed with lots of goodies. Brian Greene, I still LOVE your work also--ESPECIALLY The Fabric of the Cosmos, so Lisa Randall, Briane Greene and other talented scientists--keep on dishing out books like these that keep us wanting more more more!!!
SOME speculation is HEALTHY SCIENCE. Always know that there is A BEYOND EVERYTHING! Be certain of that. You scientists have now acquired an audience of the MASSES. We will be there to hail you or boo you like the jury of Q in Star Trek The Next Generation. We want more and better and more and better. Ha Ha Ha. Great work!
The Problem With Math.......2007-09-26
Randall, along with many other, such as Susskind The Cosmic Landscape: String Theory and the Illusion of Intelligent Design makes a serious mistake in leaping to the conclusion that reality corresponds to her mathematical models. Along with other string theorists, they assume that if the math they use to build their models contains some number of additional dimensions, then the real world must contain those dimensions. I see this in much of the literature, including, for example Woit Not Even Wrong: The Failure of String Theory And the Search for Unity in Physical Law who debunks string theory, but nevertheless seems to accept the idea that if the math contains extra dimensions, reality must also contain those extra dimensions.
A mathematical model is just that - a model. It is the best math we can construct at this point in time to describe the reality we are trying to model. It is not the reality itself. If the string theorists are successful in constructing a model that includes six or seven tiny dimensions, that does not mean that those dimensions actually exist. All it means is that the best model we can currently construct has to include those dimensions in the math. Susskind really goes off the deep end with this. We must remember that much more math will come along. Someday, we may have a math that describes the same reality without the additional dimensions.
That said, if the string theorists can make a prediction that absolutely, positively depends upon those extra dimensions and if that prediction is confirmed by experimental results, then they may have a case. So far, the string theorists have failed utterly to make such a prediction. Even here, a different math may come along. The night is young.
Readable!.......2007-09-24
In order to keep this short and sweet, this is a very readable book about string, superstring theory, and branes! An excellent job by the author! Also contains references to nice music lyrics and quotes! Fantastic book, highly recommended!
Randall re where we are........2007-08-24
Superb summary of contemporary cosmological crucial questions. Not not for the novice, but she writes so clearly--who knows?
Interesting, the idea is similar to the experiences left by some Buddists and Taoists.......2007-08-10
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Why not use any possible monitoring system to collect the local variatons in space as beings dying, being born and fertilizing? We may find something come from and go to some other dimensions or layers.
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According to some old chinese books of Buddhism and Taoism,(a) some Buddhists and Taoists could see the future, but they could not change the future, (b) the space is layered, (c) there is something called "the singular door and the invisible armour" in Taoism.
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The results of some experiments, such as experiments described in the book authored by "SHE DING MING", in hypnosis are seemly relevant to this dimensional idea.
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Welcome to Purgatory
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The adventure begins when James Michael Sullivan is introduced to the Purgatory Fire Department's A-shift headquarters crew and is immediately thrust into the often-violent world of the firefighter-emergency medical technician. At first unable to comprehend the morbid humor approach of veteran firefighters, he is gradually transformed into a jaded professional, so totally proficient at bottling his emotional responses to horror that he begins to feel his humanity is in jeopardy. His mission: Save lives and property. His goal: Reach retirement age physically and mentally whole. How will the adventure end? The answer lies in a place called Purgatory. Welcome.
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Not For The Faint of Heart.......2006-03-20
This book made me laugh and cry, but most of all it gave me have an even greater respect for firemen and all that they do! The language is spicy, and the scenes are action-packed. I couldn't turn the pages fast enough and I didn't want to put it down until I was finished. If you enjoy action-adventure, or if you've ever had aspirations of becoming a fireman or EMT, this book is a must-read. It provides valuable insight on what you can expect, while highlighting the valuable friendships there are to be made, and the courage it takes to get through each shift.
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