The Great Barrier Reef: History, Science, Heritage

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One of the world's natural wonders, the Great Barrier Reef stretches more than 2000 kilometers in a maze of coral reefs along Australia's northeastern coastline. Until now, no biographer has brought the fascinating story behind its mystique into public view. This book provides a comprehensive cultural and ecological history of European impact on the reef, from early voyages of discovery to the most recent developments in reef science and management.

The Great Barrier Reef: History, Science, Heritage.(Book Review): An article from: Pacific Affairs

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Simon Foale
Manufacturer: University of British Columbia
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Title: The Great Barrier Reef: History, Science, Heritage.(Book Review)
Author: Simon Foale
Publication: Pacific Affairs (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 22, 2005
Publisher: University of British Columbia
Volume: 78 Issue: 1 Page: 172(3)

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Depressing and no practical, specific information.......2006-08-19

To be fair, I thought I was buying "Living Abroad in Japan". Please, don't make the same mistake I did.

First of all the entire mood of the book is depressing about how hard it is for foreigners in Japan all the time. Good luck finding something positive. The section entitled "Why go through it at all?" is a short paragraph. As someone who's spent a year in Japan and enjoyed most of it, this book made me think I must be hallucinating.

While the subtitle is "A Guide to Living, Working, and Traveling in Japan", it doesn't give any advice or tips in any of these things, other than saying it's possible. (I'm not even sure it ever mentions traveling. About 85% of the book seems to reference general culture shock and social research, with the remaining 15% being specifically about Westerners in Japan. Replace "Japan" with "France" and most of the book would make sense. It offers no specific advice like how to look for an apartment or open a bank account, but does have charts with labels like "Mortar shells of criticism" and "wall of hurt"

Lastly, the entire focus of the book seems to be for expats to fit in with the expat community. While useful for some, I would have liked to have some information on how to culturally explore Japan rather than form an American cocoon for myself.

The only general information that might be useful to some is exploring the motivations and reactions to tag-along wives/husbands/children (ie: People who didn't really choose to go to Japan) and how to deal with it.

You have the wrong information.......2006-03-14

I cancelled this book an hour after clicking on it. I was comparing the cost of this book from Amazon with the cost of the 2nd hand one and the exorbitant postage costs from Marketplace Books.

Totally unhelpful and a big downer........2004-07-12

It's mindboggling that these authors found a publisher. This book touts itself as a full guide to living in Japan. This could not be farther from the truth. Lacking specific information about the process of finding a home, work, etc, it's basically a dreary account of all the difficulties that await you in Japan, with an intense focus on the psychological trials, which the book seems to portray as inevitable. Worse still, the only advice offered in coping with the pessimistic, matter-of-fact list of challenges is shockingly trite. I do not know why these two authors wrote this book, because it really seems as though their objective was dissuading people from living in Japan, rather than offering solutions.

Great for mental well being, but not what I expected.......2004-02-15

An easy read based on the psychology behind coping, culture shock, and how it will affect you and those around you when you move to Japan, or anywhere else for that matter! Not very helpful as a knowledge base about actual life in Japan, but it is insightful regarding how our minds work when presented with an alternate reality.

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With its hilariously honest look at the single male in America -- from his apartment furnishings to his career struggles to his dating habits -- Bruce Jay Friedman's book The Lonely Guy's Book of Life quickly became a hit when it first appeared in 1978, winning raves from critics and inspiring Steve Martin's classic cult comedy The Lonely Guy. Twenty years later, Friedman returned to the subject with The Slightly Older Guy, finding his quarry no longer alone and not so young anymore, but just as funny. Now these classic humor books are available together for the first time in a single paperback edition from Grove Press. With a new afterword about "The Considerably Older Guy," this edition deals with such topics as divorce and grandchildren. Offering advice on exercise (walk, don't run) and insomnia (read Solzhenitsyn), Friedman took the pulse of the aging American male -- and found him still in need of some good satire.

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From an old (formerly) Lonely Guy.......2005-09-30

This is a simply wonderful book - and the Slightly Older Guy is too - wry, amusing and touching. I love the books of Bruce Jay Friedman (who must be an Older Guy by now) and am always telling people to read him. But, here's the catch, in the UK he's not published (or so I believe). How come? His books - going way back - are great and he is one of America's treasures. Perhaps someone can explain....

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Jessica dates an[so-called] older guy
How un-realistic can you get?
This book is brilliant

Jessica's Older Guy (Sweet Valley High)
Francine Pascal
Manufacturer: Sweet Valley
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ASIN: 0553566377
Release Date: 1995-10-01

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Jessica dates an[so-called] older guy.......2005-03-23

Jessica dates an older guy[so he says] He takes her to the campus coffeehouse,JoJo's[a juice bar] a diner and restaurant in the mountains and even treated her to a walk through campus. Elizabeth becomes friends with Ian. I studious older guy. She tells him she has a steady boyfriend. The twins decide to stay at SVU,and not graduate from SVH,but Enid,Lila and The twins's boyfriends,Ken and Todd decide to have a party for them by making a cake. Elizabeth writes a paper and decides to stay on campus. One day at a party,The twins Boyfriends visit. Jessica's older guy is a high school junior and his brother is a Zeta and his Zeta buddies thought it would be funny if he passed him off as a college student.Jessica lied,too.The twins go back to SVH.

How un-realistic can you get?.......1998-05-06

Okay, so this is not one of sweetvalley's most loving, touching, mushing, exciting books. I almost fell asleep. However, if you are bored in the summer, and need a read, try this. Sure it will bore you, but it will give you something to do.

This book is brilliant.......1996-09-24

Jess and Liz are visiting college, with their older brother Jess falls in love with an older guy, only to find that one of the Theta's, the most exclusive sorority at SVU has her heart set on him. But will her romance turn out as she expe- cted? Liz wants to stay at college, working on the newspaper. But her friends and family don't seem to miss her. Is college really as good as it seemed?

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The Older Guy
reading Books
Not G Rated Material Any Longer
The Best Yet
A Good Read

The Older Guy (Love Stories)
Rachel Hawthorne
Manufacturer: Bantam Books for Young Readers
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ASIN: 0553493752
Release Date: 2001-12-11

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From Kelly’s journal:

Guess who scored a date with the hottest senior guy in school? Me! I can’t believe it. My friends can’t believe it. And if Michael knew my real age, he wouldn’t be able to believe it. So I’m sure I did the right thing by telling him I was a junior and not a freshman. My friends think he and his crowd are way out of my league, but who can’t handle a few senior parties? I totally can. Right?

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The Older Guy.......2003-08-22

This book was great. I have only read three books from the Love Stories series, and so far this was the best one . I think every teen should read this book.

reading Books.......2002-12-15

i think this book was great I recommend everyone to buy it.

Not G Rated Material Any Longer.......2002-07-05

Kelly Carson has been crushing on total hottie Michael McCandles all summer. Finally Michael seems to have noticed her and Kelly is thrilled. But while flirting Kelly and Michael run into a few airheaded freshman who Michael expresses his not so friendly views on. So when Michael asks Kelly, who is a freshman, what grade she's in she lies and says she's a junior. She also ends up lying to him to get herself outta other situatons. I have to give Kelly props though, the girl is inginuative.

The Love Stories series has definately come a long way. It's grown with it's readers and this was a great finish. I'll sure miss it.

The Best Yet.......2002-02-15

Wow! What a way to end the 50 + book series with a bang!

With "The Older Guy" the writers have ventured into slightly new territory. No longer the G rated material of "My First Love." The series has grown up along with its readers.

Too bad this is the end. Just as things were getting good.

P.S. Rachel Hawthorne is my personal favorite author in the series. Does anyone know who's pseudonym that is?

A Good Read.......2001-12-27

Well the reason I first read it was because the girl a the same name as mine. It's a stupid reason I know but I also liked what the book was about. I kinda thought I wouldn't really like. You it would be so airhead freshmen lieing about her age just to get a guy(senior). It actully turned out to be more. I really liked this book. I would also like to say that Kelly has a very big imagination lol. She gets her self out of alot of situtions using her imagination. I also recommend At First Sight that is the best book I ever read. It's a must read to every one!

Hey Guy, Are You? A) Getting Older B) Getting Better? C) Getting Balder? (Take This Simple Test to Find Out)

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Hey Guy, Are You? A) Getting Older B) Getting Better? C) Getting Balder? (Take This Simple Test to Find Out)

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ASIN: B000B8ZP60

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A book of revealing questions for the guy who: wears his hair when he remembers / thinks "out for the evening" refers to his 3rd and 5th vertebrae / believes "fatal attraction" is about an old guy buying a burrito.

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Peter Thorpe
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Politics and Old Age: Older Citizens and Political Processes in Britain

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Politics and Old Age: Older Citizens and Political Processes in Britain
John A. Vincent , Guy Patterson , and Karen Wale
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The Slightly Older Guy
Bruce Jay Friedman
Manufacturer: New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995
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ASIN: B000NXT5XW

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Bruce Jay Friedman
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Teenvirtue Confidential: Your Questions Answered About Gods, Guys, and Getting Older (Teenvirtue)

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Teenvirtue Confidential: Your Questions Answered About Gods, Guys, and Getting Older (Teenvirtue)
Vicki Courtney
Manufacturer: B&H Publishing Group
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

ASIN: 0805441921

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Following up her best-selling editions of TeenVirtue and TeenVirtue 2, Vicki Courtney's TeenVirtue Confidential takes an even more interactive direction than before by offering God-focused answers to real questions sent in from teenage girls. The main topics here are: The Future, Guys, Body Development and Sex, and Faith.

Some featured articles in this bright and fun magazine-styled book series include "Your Top 10 Questions for Guys . . . and Their Answers," "Your #1 Question for God," ""Words of Wisdom from College Women," "Quiz: Are You a Cell-Mannered Girl?," and "Sex Questions . . . We Have the Answers."

Vicki Courtney is a greatly trusted name among Christian moms, and TeenVirtue Confidential is a safe and cool pick for their precious daughters.

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This new series on The Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Fishes grew out of the demand for state-of-the-art review articles in a rapidly expanding field of research. Up to the present, most research literature on biochemistry involved rats and humans, but new breakthroughs in the piscine setting have indicated that the field is ready for a review series of its own. Because of funding and experimental availability restrictions, most research in the field has dealt with fish and insects. Within the insect field, comparative biochemistry and comparative physiology have proceeded along independent paths as opposed to the piscine field, where the tendency has been for the latter to envelop the former.
This volume sets out to make comparative biochemistry and comparative physiology independent of each other within the piscine setting, another important rationale for this review series as well as detailing the phylogenetic evolution of fishes. The goal of the series is to provide researchers and students with an appropriate balance between experimental results and theoretical concepts.

Phylogenetic Perspectives on the Vertebrate Immune System (Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology)

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Phylogenetic Perspectives on the Vertebrate Immune System (Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology)

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This volume describes the evolution of immune systems and covers new molecular information concerning the development of recognition, immunoglobulins, and cytokines. Invertebrates and lower vertebrates contribute to a more complete understanding and clarification of the immune/inflammatory response in higher animals. Chapters detail the major areas of immunology and encourage a more extensive development of invertebrate models as useful and unique in modern immunological and industrial laboratories. In addition, chapters focus on mechanisms of development and immunodefenses in protostome and deuterostome and lower vertebrates. There is a strong emphasis on evolutionary cell biology, phylogenetic inferences, and the evolution of recognition and regulatory systems.

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Richard Feynman, brilliant physicist and inspirational teacher, wasn't much for coats and ties. He lived a life that the adjective "bohemian" doesn't begin to cover, scripting percussion scores for avant-garde ballet troupes, musing over life's imponderables, and delighting and annoying his many friends with odd-duck questions--all the while teaching generations of students at CalTech.

Always adventurous, Feynman was also a careful planner, recounts his friend and fellow drummer Ralph Leighton in this affectionate memoir. When a chance remark happened to dislodge a long-dormant memory of a faraway Siberian land called Tannu-Tuva, Feynman and Leighton set about scheming to get there--a program that included learning the little-described Tuvan language, picking up the rudiments of throat singing, and reading the scattered, hard-to-find literature concerning a place that, in Feynman's fond view, was as close to paradise as the earth contained. It also involved corresponding with scholars in what was still the Soviet Union and wrangling with bureaucrats to secure the necessary papers--all for the sake of seeing a country that had to be interesting, Feynman insisted, just because its capital, Kyzyl, had such an odd spelling.

These picaresque armchair adventures make up the bulk of Tuva or Bust, an unconventional mix of travelogue and scientific biography that's a pleasure to read at every turn. The book yields a memorable picture of Richard Feynman--who did not live to see Tuva, but whose memory is honored there today, thanks to Leighton's refusal to abandon their shared dream. --Gregory McNamee

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As a stamp-collecting boy always fascinated by remote places, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman was particularly taken by the diamond-shaped stamps from a place called Tannu Tuva deep within Outer Mongolia. He hoped, someday, to travel there. In 1977, Feynman and his sidekick--fellow drummer and geography enthusiast Ralph Leighton--set out to make arrangements to visit Tuva, doing noble and hilarious battle with Soviet red tape, befriending quite a few Tuvans, and discovering the wonders of Tuvan throat-singing. Their Byzantine attempts to reach Tannu Tuva would span a decade, interrupted by Feynman's appointment to the committee investigating the Challenger disaster, and his tragic struggle with the cancer that finally killed him. Tuva or Bust! chronicles the deepening friendship of two zany, brilliant strategists whose love of the absurd will delight and instruct. It is Richard Feynman's last, best adventure.

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This book is a fraud.......2007-04-03

I am a confirmed Feynman fan and even met him a couple of times. I was eager to learn more about him and his travels. The subtitle promised details of his "last journey", which, it turns out, he never made. Instead, I was bored with insipid details of the author's attempts to arrange a trip to the USSR and other assorted junk. It did not even spend much time on Tuva itself, but on unrelated trivia. It was apparent that the author was immensely more interested in the trip than Feynman, and that even he wasn't interested enough to stay at it to fruition. The author trades on the Feynman name to shamelessly promote the book and con the reader into plodding through endless drivel. Don't bother.

More than a book..........2006-03-12

It was all just accidental. I stumbled upon this book through a documentary that I rented, called Ganghis Blues. I like all types of music and thought "A documentary about Blues music, cool..." After realizing what a fortune of life I had found in this movie, I was drawn to everything TUVA. SO, to the book I go. The book of course came before the documentary, and obviously was an influence in the boys who produced it. When was the last time a book did something for your soul? This one touches your soul, your heart and your longing to achieve a goal or live out a dream. Aaaah. I loved it.

Off-beat , wonderful video!.......2006-01-16

If you are a fan of Richard Feynman, the nuclear physicist that dreamed of going to Tuva, you will just love this video. If you know nothing of Mr. Feynman, you will still enjoy it. It tells the story of Paul Pena's visit to Tuva in a delightful way. You will like seeing the culture of these peaceful, music-loving people.

Great story, though it loses its steam.......2005-09-05

I would never had read this book had I not recently had the chance to see Huun Huur Tu, a throat-singing voice from Tuva. But now that I am fascinated by this little-known, remote area along the Russian-Mongolian border, I found this book very entertaining. It chronicles the enormous challege of trying to visit such a remote land in the days before Glasnost and a fascinating cast of characters at its heart.
I think my only complaint is that the book loses steam at the end, which I guess is understandable, given the fate of its main protagonist. But overall, it is a wonderful testament to a group of brilliant folks, who spend years trying to follow through on a quest.

Something To Do.......2004-05-06

A peculiar book: Ralph Leighton's TUVA OR BUST isn't really about Richard Feynman, who, the more one reads about him, begins to seem a genius, yes, but more than a little insufferable. He does instigate this whimsical notion of visiting Tannu Tuva (which had become Tuvinskaya of the U.S.S.R. (the book takes place from the late 1970s to Feynman's death in 1989), but the ball is picked up by Leighton, and Feynman is merely a supporting actor in the book.

The quest carries itself through many frustrations, mostly having to do w/ the hermetic paranoia of the Soviet Union, which seems to work like an enormous rural county: If you know someone, then things can be smoothed out; if not, then the official channels will be little help.

I'm not sure why anyone would read this book. There's no reason to if you're interested in Feynman, because, besides his concoctions to fit in at Esalen, amongst the New Age mumbo-jumbo, his mind is absent from the book. His personality & his drumming are there on occasion, but Feynman's thinking, no.

Leighton is not intrinsically interesting, and though a fluent writer, gives little sense of character. All the foreigners are forgettable, so the index is very handy. When a name turns up on page 150, say, then one can look it up to see which person this is.

As one reads, one begins to have the same thoughts about oneself that one has about Leighton's attempts to visit Tuva: Why am I going on?. Moreover, I think that one comes up with the same answer: Just to get through the damn thing. By the time that Leighton reaches Tuva (without Feynman, who died just a smidgen too soon), the appearance is anti-climactic, and the land is colorless: A Nevada trailer-park suburb, but with yurts instead of double-wides.

TUVA OR BUST! becomes a critique of bureaucracy. The slow, spirit-killing, mind-numbing bureaucracy of the Soviet Union ensured that Feynman would die without reaching Tuva. Our world, in which stupid little men can control our lives, is death to the spirit, and is death to the spirit of Feynman, insufferable though he may be, and inexplicably kow-towed to by everyone (you get the feeling that Feynman never opens a door for anyone or shuts one for himself).

TUVA OR BUST!, in its pedestrian prose, preaches, unwittingly, I think, for a freedom for whimsy, for the spirit, for the individual. At the same time, excepting the author and his male friends (his wife is also colorless), the book has no individuals. So, by the end, nothing: No Tuva to speak of, no more Feynman, nothing but an accomplishment to scratch off the list.

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Tuva of Bust, Richard Feynman's Last Journey
Ralph Leighton
Manufacturer: New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1991,
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000OMIEN4

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TUVA OR BUST!: RICHARD FEYNMAN'S LAST JOURNEY.
Ralph: Leightob
Manufacturer: W.W. Norton
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000LY2CVK

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Tuva or Bust: Richard Feynman's Last Journey (plus 33 1/3 Record)
Ralph Leighton
Manufacturer: W W Norton & Co Inc
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000MREGNI

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TUVA OR BUST! RICHARD FEYNMAN'S LAST JOURNEY
Ralph Leighton
Manufacturer: Penguin Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000NUL1SM

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The uniformity of graphic design in contemporary paperback and critical editions of the eighteenth-century novel no longer conveys the visual appeal of early editions. Janine Barchas explains how the novel's material embodiment as printed book rivalled its narrative content in diversity and creativity in the first half of the eighteenth century. Prose writers such as Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, and Henry and Sarah Fielding experimented with the novel's physical appearance from the beginning of its emergence in Britain.

Print, Manuscript, and the Search for Order, 1450-1830.(Graphic Design, Print Culture, and the Eighteenth-Century Novel)(Book review): An article from: Wordsworth Circle

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Print, Manuscript, and the Search for Order, 1450-1830.(Graphic Design, Print Culture, and the Eighteenth-Century Novel)(Book review): An article from: Wordsworth Circle
Andrew M. Stauffer
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ASIN: B000R38688
Release Date: 2007-05-21

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This digital document is an article from Wordsworth Circle, published by Thomson Gale on September 22, 2006. The length of the article is 1123 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Print, Manuscript, and the Search for Order, 1450-1830.(Graphic Design, Print Culture, and the Eighteenth-Century Novel)(Book review)
Author: Andrew M. Stauffer
Publication: Wordsworth Circle (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 22, 2006
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Volume: 37 Issue: 4 Page: 214(2)

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