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A poet, a mother, a lover of the land, and a student of zoology, Pattiann Rogers is at home in the vocabulary of nature. The Dream of the Marsh Wren reveals the genesis of some of her most admired poems as well as her conception of how and why she writes.
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A Book for Friends, Mainly.......1999-12-29
Rogers' poems are so breathless, so intense, they require the captivated attention of their reader--fortunately they are good enough to command it. This book of Rogers' reflections on the genesis of her poetry is a book for friends and fans only--it is not a neutral enough book on craft, the writers' life, work habits, etc. that a general reader would find useful--I think poets like Mary Oliver, Donald Hall, Lisel Mueller have written better general audience books. Even for a fan of Rogers, the prose reflections are a little sparse and not very deeply probing until nearly half way through the book when Rogers begins dealing with her scientific background and concerns. Had she begun earlier, or had the book been longer, it might have gone in another direction--what does become clear are the motivations, designs, and methodology of Rogers' brilliant writing--all worth the price of admission.
This is an exquisite book of keen wit and redoubtable spirit.......1999-07-20
I loved the poems in this book!. They are pleasantly elusive, requiring thoughtful participation on the part of the reader, but they are not so abstract as to be incomprehensible. Rogers provides images and language, ideas and propositions, that are precise and innovative. This book is a gift that I will reread as a favorite.
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Best Romantic Escapes in Florida, Volume Two
Pamela Acheson , and
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With descriptions of exquisitely romantic places to stay—from elegant five-star resorts to intimate inns and private villas—this book reveals 24 all-new and very different destinations in Florida. Insider information is featured on romantic getaways and activities, from moonlight boat trips and champagne brunches to quiet piano bars and horseback rides along deserted beaches. Perfect for a long weekend or a 10-day escape, this guide reveals the romantic side of this popular vacation state.
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Salvador's psyched. There's a field trip!
Away from school.
Away from family.
Staying in a hotel with a bunch of kids and only two chaperones.
It's supposed to be an academic trip.
But not if Salvador can help it!
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A Quiz Show for Sal,Elizabeth,Bethel,Ron,and others........2005-04-21
When Elizabeth,Ronald,Bethel,Salvadore,Bernadette and Richard take a test,they get a high score to get on a quiz show in Sacramento. Meanwhile Jessica goes out with Damon. Damon's mother,Cheryl dates this guy,Ben who happens to be a brother of this waitress,Betty from Work. Salvadore meets Erin from Smithville Junior High,when he is trying to get a soda,She offers him some of hers. He falls in love with her. Sweet Valley didn't do too good in the quiz. Salvadore made the others look like geniuses.
Sweet Valley Junior High- Three Days, Two Nights.......2002-11-20
Sweet Valley Junior High, Three Day, Two Nights was an interesting book to read because it related to everyday life. It was very detailed in describing the characters, in terms of what they look like, how they act, and what they say. I liked how the author made everything seem so real.
I have many favorite parts in this book but if I had to choose one, it would probably be when Salvador, Elizabeth, Bethel, Ronald, Bernadette, and Richard were play truth or dare on the way to Sacramento. In most books they don't have the characters do what in reality people really do. Such as play truth or dare.
If any story elements were most vivid, the characters and the conflict were. In your mind you can imagin what the characters look like because the description the author uses is so real. With all the conflict in this book you can see and understand why one character would be mad at another because the things the characters fight about with each other and themselves is things people have conflict with eveyday.
Not the best SVJH out there.......2002-04-25
This was a great book but there have been bettter. I liked how the book kind of revovlved around the trip, but still kept you informed about Jessica and Sweet Valley. And I liked how they brought in new people like Erin, but they should've involved Richard more. Other thatn that, it's a good read. For some reason it never gets old.
umm..okay.......2001-06-04
I really didnt like Sal and Liz not being together, that whole fight on the bus was really stupid. Sal was acting so weird bout Lizs answer to that stupid truth or dare question. But I was glad to see Richard and Liz together. What was the deal with that Erin girl??? All in all, this wasnt so bad, but it wasnt my fav. SVJH that's 4 sure.
Good book.......2000-10-10
I thought that this book was good becuase Elizabeth finally(!) stops obsessing over that loser Salvador. This book is also good because she finally hangs with other people besides Anna and Salvador. Though parts of the book were sorta unrealistic.
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Stem Cells and Cell Signalling in Skeletal Myogenesis (Advances in Developmental Biology and Biochemistry, V. 11)
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Skeletal muscle development is perhaps one of the best understood processes at the molecular, cellular and organismal level due in large part to the fact that primary myogenic cells (myoblasts) will grow and subsequently differentiate into myotubes in culture. With the advent of reverse mouse genetics, many of the observations gained through the study of myogenic cells
in vitro have been directly tested
in vivo. What has emerged is a complex but cohesive story of how myogenic cells are initially specified in the vertebrate embryo and how muscle fibers ultimately achieve their respective identities (i.e. fast versus slow) to perform their function. This collection of chapters is focused on these developments. The book discusses old and new directions for the skeletal muscle field and points out directions where the field may eventually progress.
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Potentiometry and Potentiometric Titrations (Chemical Analysis)
E. P. Serjeant
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The Illustrated Richard Feynman.......2007-01-24
Excellent book for anyone looking for a pictorial representation of Feynman.
From Physics to Touva!.......2003-09-26
My reading of "Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman" was surely "forced" me to read the life of Richard Feynman furthermore: NO ORDINARY GENIUS is a GREAT BOOK. Family, friends and colleagues of Feynman share their views regarding the genius (with bump's-language-style) Feynman. The photos are great and can make a good spot on his life. Truly inspiring especially when he stated that he's an irresponsible man! And also, he couldnt stop to do physics until several days before his death: he's still doing the physics in 70. Feynman also brought the tiny-state named TOUVA to the world: even a geographic teacher wouldn't know bout this region! Buy this book, okay?
fun character fun book!.......2002-05-28
This book made me laughed and it made me cry but most importantly it taught me a lot, not just about feynman but a lot more other stuff like science, life, having fun and reminded me why I got into science in the first place. It was very inpirational as well as fun.
If you want to know a little about what feynman was like, then you must read this book. I said
"little" because there is no way you will ever get to know this man just by reading a book. This book was really good at taking out the really good stuff from other books and integrating it.
I like what his friends and family had to say about him and adventures they had, as much as when Feynman was quoted. It is
really interesting and gives you a really deep insight on stuff he may not had put into his other books.
Even if you don't like to read biographies, or care about feynman, you could read this book like a novel. Its little
stories are so interesting funny (sometimes sad) that you forget that you are reading a biography. I say this because
reading biogrphies usually gets me bored. Not this one however, its and adventure!
After I read this book I felt like I lost a friend and mentor--it was that good or perhaps feyman's life was that interesting--I actually missed a guy I never met before! It sounds flaky, but I guessed Feynman would had liked it that way!
Alex Lee
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A Superb Introduction to an Under-Appreciated Man.......2002-01-18
Richard Feynman was a remarkable man who lived many remarkable lives, most of which are succinctly summarized in this fast, engaging read. Relying upon testimonials from close friends and associates of Feynman's and mostly from Feynman's own recollections, No Ordinary Genius delves into each of these lives, including Feynman's childhood obsession with finding out how things worked (a trait inherited from his father), his work at Los Alamos both as the keeper of the keys to the mainframe processing the mathematical calculations for the Manhattan Project and as the head of on campus hi-jinx and safe-cracking, his Nobel Prize for developing the field of Quantum electrodynamics (and along the way the now famous "Feynman diagrams" which have become the physicist's graphical tool for "viewing" sub-atomic activity), his very early visionary forays into what has become nanotechnology, and his ability to buck the NASA bureaucracy and quickly get to the bottom of what really went wrong with the 1986 Challenger disaster. Along the way we learn of his love of people (including his two wives, the first of whom died when she was only about 20 years old of TB), of life, and of physics (though probably not in that order), and what begins to emerge is a rare character, a multi-dimensional, and apparently "human" genius-one with foibles like anyone else...but one surprisingly devoid (at least as Sykes's book of recollections would have us believe) of the peccadilloes and neuroses of similarly brilliant historic figures. In fact one wonders whether Feynman's relative "normalcy" may have prevented him from being more widely known outside of scientific circles. This is itself somewhat ironic as Feynman was not just a brilliant physicist in his own right, but was perhaps the greatest interpreter (and hence most accessible) of all physicists who tried to explain how the world really worked to the rest of us.
Feynman was often criticized for not giving greater weight to the moral consequences of the actions of scientists like him who were responsible for creating "the" Bomb. At one point toward the end of the book, and partially in response to this question about the morality of scientific progress, Feynman observes the interesting irony that it's only in the most free, open, and democratic societies (i.e, the U.S.) that computers capable of infringing the most upon individuals' privacy have been developed. I.e., the countries that would have stood to benefit the most from this advanced "snooping" technology (i.e., the USSR, China, etc.) during Feynman's Cold War days, weren't able to produce the requisite technological infrastructure.
Later, towards the end of the book, the Nobel laureate, Marvin Minsky speaks about a feeling he and Feynman shared about man's soul. "Now here you are, a person, and thirty thousand genes or more are working to make the brain, the most complicated organ. If you were to say it's just a spirit, just a soul, just a little hard diamondlike point with no structure, a gift from some creator, it's so degrading! It means that all of the sacrifice by all of our animal ancestors is ignored. It seems to me [any by implication, Feynman] that the religious view is the opposite of self-respect and understanding. It's taking the brain with a hundred billion neurons, and not using it. What a paradoxical thing to be taught to do!"
So at once you have Feynman then specifying democracy and freedom as the necessary precursors to allow for scientific innovation. Then later he's demonstrating his "belief" in the pre-eminence of reason over non-fact-based belief and religion. Though non-Objectivists and spiritualists could debate his point-of-view, it is particularly refreshing to observe in thought and action a true seeker of the way things truly work. In many respects, Richard Feynman was Ayn Rand's John Gault.
This book should be read as a precursor to getting to know one of the great characters of the 20th century. But it won't suffice if one really wants to understand his genius. For that, one has to read his two books of "Six Easy Pieces", his lecture on Quantum Electrodynamics, or most appropriately of all, his Lectures on Physics.
Does it even need one ???.......2001-08-08
Does a book on the one of the greatest person to have lived need a review. Even a badly written book about Feynmam would be fun to read ! and this is one of the better written one. My only wish is that every person gets to read about this fascinating person.
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No Ordinary Genius: The Illustrated Richard Feynman
Christopher SYKES
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In this wickedly funny, irreverent tribute to mythological “bad girl” goddesses from around the world, Trina Robbins tells 20 nasty, bitchy, utterly enjoyable tales. Her goddesses sleep with dwarves, slip drugs into drinks, have catfights with their sisters, kill, get even, and generally raise hell. Readers meet Innanna, the Sumerian goddess who plies the god of wisdom with beer so she can steal his powers; Norse goddess Freya, the original Snow White, who is after a diamond necklace; and Lilith, created by God to be Adam's equal, but hungry for more.
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Deliciously irreverant.......2006-11-26
This book is a must-read for all feminists, Goddess-worshippers, and those interested in mythology and ancient history! It's an incredibly hilarious read, with a healthy tongue-in-cheek tone, an often-irreverant style, and fresh contemporary language. Far from espousing and propagating myths about goddesses being, as Ms. Robbins puts it, "the Virgin Mary with crystals," she really brings them to life in all of their not-so-nice glory. These goddesses are empowered women who aren't afraid to do things that many people falsely assume exist only in the domain of the male deities. She divides the book up into sections, giving us stories with themes such as "G.I. Janes," "Bad Girls of the Bible," "Goddesses Who Love Too Much," and "Tramps and Thieves." The goddesses come from a wide variety of cultures, such as Native American, Hawaiian, Scandinavian, Japanese, Indian, and Greek, and they vary in the nature of their badness. For example, some goddesses merely loved the wrong man, or were warriors, or created magick potions, while others did maleficent things such as killing and eating innocent people or drowning an entire city. There are tales such as Osmotar, the Finnish goddess who invented beer, Freya, the Norse goddess who slept with a pack of dwarves to get a beautiful diamond necklace, Inanna, the Sumerian goddess who got her grandfather drunk to get all of his powers, secrets, and servants, Lilith, the woman who according to legend was created before Eve and whose only "crime" was that she was assertive and didn't want to be some meek little submissive housewife to Adam, and Pele, the Hawaiian goddess who killed her favorite sister because she caught her kissing the husband she had, unbeknownest to Pele, brought back to life just for her. I also loved that there was a chapter on Jezebel, since all of the secular research does bear out that she was not the evil woman depicted in the Bible.
Some people, such as historical purists and serious scholars, might not like the contemporary language and anachronisms, but that's part of the fun quality of this book. It's not meant to be a scholarly treatise on goddesses. As Ms. Robbins points out, a lot has been lost in the move to make goddesses seem all nice and sweet, these loving earth mothers who go around casting positive spells and blessing drum circles. It might have been done to make Goddess-worship seem less threatening to outsiders, but it really robbed these women of their personalities and uniqueness. The only downside for me was that I wished there had been a pronunciation guide somewhere, primarily for the Celtic and Hawaiian names.
A New Spin On Women.......2005-07-22
Trina Roberts book is enlightening in many perspectives. It puts the femenist spin on countless stories, my favorites being that of Lilith and Jezebel. The idea of the book is wonderful, to show that Goddess' are not all the happy, helpful, home and hearth, mother types society makes them out to be. It displays the stories in simple and easy to read ways that are amusing and pleasurable. However, the fact that she mixes the literary ability of a twelve year old and sexual themes could cause some controversy. My only possible complaint on this magnificent piece of work is that the vocabulary of many of the Goddess' she portrays as clever and vindictive are rather pathetic. They say such things as, "You are so hot, lets have sex."
Though the vocabulary can be amusing, after awhile it gets irritating.
Overall this book is, as I said, magnificent. The idea of it is absolutely amazing and the spin on the legends never ceases to bring laughter. This is a book for teenage girls of today to read and find a more simplistic and hilarious spin on their favorite myths and legends.
Bad Goddesses,Good Book!.......2005-01-25
This book covers different mythological goddesses and their stories,as well as women in religion claiming that title,
such as Jezebel,who were bad goddesses and not your ever
faithful and loving type.
This book is well written,well told , interesting and fun.
Trina Robbins is a "sharpshooter" of mythological knowledge
and intelligence.
Take A Walk on the Lighter Side!.......2005-01-16
While I'm a technical writer, I'm not a technical reader. I never read a text in college unless the professor took the exam directly from it. If Trina had written my textbooks, I may have read them! Trina Robbins presents solid mythology in an entertaining, humorous way. I laughed my way through the book and also found the little blocks of history dispersed throughout informative. My favorite story is that of Kali and Shiva's reaction to her aggressive dance. Eternally Bad is a must-have for any Goddess library.
Goddesses behaving badly.......2004-02-10
This book is a refreshing antidote to the rather soppily sentimental view of all goddesses as kind, nurturing mother figures. Here you will find stories of goddesses being cruel, vengeful, lustful, greedy and cunning, and enjoying themselves thoroughly. Trina Robbins tells their stories in a brisk, breezy style, and the book is delightfully illustrated. Great fun.
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