Florida: Be Aware (Or Beware)!!

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So you want to live in Florida...great! Florida is a wonderful state. But, it is very large and very different from any other state. It offers a variety of climates and lifestyles. Don't let "I should have...," "I could have...," or "I would have," become part of your vocabulary. BE PREPARED before you make your choice.

It is difficult to make decisions about Florida based on experiences in other parts of the country. Much of the information published about Florida is by people or organizations with a vested interest such as builders, realtors, and friends or relatives who have had good (or bad) experiences. Promoters and developers often tell only the facts that make their offerings appear as the best options.

FLORIDA: Be Aware (Or Beware)!! does not give opinions, but gives the reader basic Florida information as well as questions to ask, options to consider, and how to obtain honest and correct information. Learn the advantages or the drawbacks of choices and decisions that you will have to make. Snap judgements and uninformed decisions can lead to wasted time, wasted money and unnecessary aggravation.

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Beware of this book.......2002-08-27

This book is very generic and could be about many areas. The sections of the book that are about on Florida are very vague.
These Florida information sections could fill maybe one page.
Truly this book was the least helpful book I have read about Florida, and it is supposed to be about relocating there?
This book is really not going to help find that perfect location.
It has some good points about moving, but they could easily be about Texas, or Marylans, or Hawaii.
Do you self a favor and stay away from this book, a complete waste of money.

Beware of this book!!.......2002-06-19

Save your money. This book is so basic that it is worthless.

Florida: Be Aware (Or Beware).......2002-04-23

...The information is so basic you could pick up the same data in a newspaper or magazine. For instance, one paragraph tells you to beware of electronic gates because sometimes they don't work. What! Sometimes your garage door doesn't work, does that mean you manually open it. This has provided me the inspiration I needed to finish my "How To" book. Only I will make sure the reader is provided with options, not just a fleeting passage of common knowledge.

BUYER BEWARE!.......2002-03-28

As other customers expressed in their reviews, this book lacks any depth. I was looking for detail information to help my parents in their move to Florida. Instead, I felt they could have wrote this book. Save your money, please. This book is not worth [the money]. It's not even worth the cost of a magazine. It's full of vague or general information that any average American already knows.

Cliff notes on moving.......2002-03-14

Once again proof that good things come in small packages, this book is a great guide to making critical choices.

The book doesn't try to tell you what to do. But it does a super job of giving sound guidelines on how to approach everything from getting a driver's license to selecting a homesite. It's a practical book and well worth the investment.

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Meet Liz, Sam, and Nate--a middle-aged couple and their ten-year-old son. Now meet Irv and Sarah, Liz's aging parents, who have come to live with them in their tiny post-Victorian-era-style home commonly called a Denver Square. Through Stein's cartoons we unravel a heartwarming story of a middle-class family trying to deal with the struggles of various contemporary lifestyles and political issues. Stein touches on everything from renovation and gardening in a desert to Sam's Denver Bronco's shrine. While capturing the spirit of this family, he doesn't shy away from current events and uses his characters efficiently to comment on the shootings at Columbine, the Oklahoma City bombing trials, September 11, the 2001 presidential election vote count, and even the JonBenet Ramsey murder. This is a collection of Ed Stein's best comic strips from his series Denver Square, which appears six days a week in the Rocky Mountain News in Denver, where he has been an editorial cartoonist since 1978. He has won a number of awards for his cartooning, most recently winning in the special category of the 2001 John Fischetti Award honoring America, for cartoons drawn after the World Trade Center attacks. He also has won the 1999 Scripps Howard Foundation National Journalism Award for Editorial Cartooning and many others. He is a past president and board member of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists and is a member of the National Cartoonists Society. He currently resides in Denver with his wife and two children.

Customer Reviews:

Very funny... and relevant.......2007-01-19

I thoroughly enjoyed this book! A true gem, so true to life - touching today's topics with great insight and humor. I want another Denver Square book!

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Nobody knew getting old could be this much fun! It's Great to be Old provides one-liners to help oldsters see the bright side of wrinkles, baldness, waning sex drives and more.

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For better or worse, the primary images most non-riders have of motorcyclists come from Hollywood. These images either reflect or exaggerate the reality of the two-wheeled experience. Writer and motorcyclist Mike Seate explores and explains the myths and misconceptions of riders and riding from the post-WWII restlessness of Marlon Brando's Wild One to Britain's Mods and Rockers battles, to the chopper operas of the sixties to today. Takes a long, critical look at the hits and misses of the biker movie canon.

Customer Reviews:

Easy -reader, but biker movie guide, it ain't.......2007-02-18

If you don't know, Mike Seate is a writer and editor for some of the worlds top motorcycle magazines. I bought this book on his credentials alone. He's a good story teller and I enjoyed the book, but it is not the definitive guide to biker movies. I collect bikesploitation films, and Mr. Seat doesn't mention half of them. He doesn't give much historical perspective for the films, except to say that they all fed into the biker paranoia of the 60's, and then made a conversion to biker as hero in the 80's (sort of art-imitates-life-imitates-art). If you want a thumbnail of the genre, this will provide that, but he doesn't stray much from the mainstream.

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This book addresses aspects of popular/public culture in a manner that connects with contemporary political controversy i.e. liberalization, Hinduvata, etc. This volume concentrates mainly on film and mass media, and includes contributions by Ravi Vasudevan, Patricia Uberoi, Sara Dickey,
Nicholas Dirks and a number of first-rate South Asian scholars.

Pleasure and the Nation: The History, Politics and Consumption of Public Culture in India

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Pleasure and the Nation: The History, Politics and Consumption of Public Culture in India
Rachel Pinney, Christopher Dwyer
Manufacturer: School of Oriental and African Studies
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OL117Q

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Author Henry Hook calls CrossQuotes his latest INDY book "because when you solve each crossword, you'll realize 'INDY' is an acronym for I'm Not Done Yet." Why? Because, as in most of Henry's books, the crosswords are only the first part of the fun. Inside, solvers will find:

• 50 original crosswords, with Henry Hook's wild and wonderful imagination evident on every page
• 50 word puzzles—one on the bottom half of each crossword puzzle page—with clues that come from the crossword answers
• 50 pithy quotations—usually funny, always insightful—that result when the word puzzles are solved. Some examples: Traffic signals in New York are just rough guidelines—David Letterman; In politics, stupidity is not a handicap—Napoléon Bonaparte.

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Good intermediate guide

Nearly useless except for the lazy.

Not for the power user

Great book of ideas for enhancing your Blackberry's usefulness

Productivity Booster + some fun

BlackBerry Hacks: Tips & Tools for Your Mobile Office (Hacks)
Dave Mabe
Manufacturer: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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BlackBerry For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech))

BlackBerry Made Simple for Full Keyboard BlackBerries

How to Do Everything with Your BlackBerry, Second Edition (How to Do Everything)

BlackBerry 8700 Quick Source Guide

ASIN: 0596101155

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The BlackBerry has become an invaluable tool for those of us who need to stay connected and in the loop. But most people take advantage of only a few features that this marvelous communications device offers. What if you could do much more with your BlackBerry than just web surfing and email?

BlackBerry Hacks will enhance your mobile computing with great tips and tricks. You'll learn that the BlackBerry is capable of things you never thought possible, and you'll learn how to make it an even better email and web workhorse:

Get the most out of the built-in applications
Take control of email with filters, searches, and more
Rev up your mobile gaming--whether you're an arcade addict or poker pro
Browse the web, chat over IM, and keep up with news and weblogs
Work with office documents, spell check your messages, and send faxes
Become more secure, lock down your BlackBerry and stash secure information somewhere safe
Manage and monitor the BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) and Mobile Data System (MDS)
Create web sites that look great on a BlackBerry
Develop and deploy BlackBerry applications

Whether you need to schedule a meeting from a trade show floor, confirm your child's next play date at the park, or just find the show times and secure movie tickets while at dinner, this book helps you use the remarkable BlackBerry to stay in touch and in-the-know--no matter where you are or where you go.

Customer Reviews:

Good intermediate guide.......2007-06-25

A lot of the first hacks of the book might seem old-hat to a Blackberry 101 graduate. But as the book progresses it gets deeper into the BB's relationship with the servers, but not in an overly-complex way. It seems designed toward folks who have already read the manual and want a little bit more, but aren't quite ready to become systems engineers.

Toward the end it describes, again in simple language, how to download the development environment from RIM, and actually start building simple applications, starting with a simple stock quote Java program, with source, that can then be used as a beginning example for further development. In just a few pages a programmer can start with the sample, build an app, and prepare it for both OTA and desktop installation. It is at about the same level as the first K&R C chapter where we were taught how to write "hello world", compile and link, and run our first program. I always do best when they give me and example rather than trying to explain in english how to do it. And Mabes makes that really simple.

If you want to do more than just use the Blackberry, and want some tips on little known tricks, and want to actually write code for the blackberries, without having to read all of "Professional Blackberry" and ALL of the RIM literature, this is a good place to start.

Mike Jalkut, Embedded Systems Compiler Developer

Nearly useless except for the lazy........2007-03-07

I read some of the warning reviews but as they were directed at power users I thought they didn't apply to me. Wrong! Having bought a Blackberry Pearl and wanting something to bring me up to speed on the Blackberry operating system with some nifty tricks, I was sorely disappointed. There are no real hacks in this book. It is mostly a long compilation of 3 party software available on the web in many cases out of date. Most of the tricks shown are so obvious that I had already figured them out such as how to hide an Icon. How to make your own autotext entries etc. Skip this book unless you want a very bland overview of what you can do with your blackberry. Don't expect any inner secrets to the os to be revealed to you.

Not for the power user.......2006-12-28

Had I read the intro section about what is considered a "hack" for the purposes of this book (in a series of similar ones), I may have had second thoughts about purchasing it. Doesn't take much to qualify as one, apparently. As a result, the book is really a very nicely made operations manual, repeating lots of already documented BB functions with a few of not-so-well-known tricks thrown in. For the power user, I saw only a couple of things I hadn't known about before. Super for the beginner, good for the everyday user, nothing new for the power user.

Great book of ideas for enhancing your Blackberry's usefulness.......2006-11-23

Everyone from the end user to the BlackBerry administrator to the developer will find conveniences in the BlackBerry that don't exist on other platforms. In this book, you'll find clever uses for some of these enhancements and new tricks for using some features that have been there from the beginning. This book can be read from cover to cover, but each hack stands on its own, so jumping around shouldn't hinder your comprehension. If there's a prerequisite you need to know about, a cross-reference will guide you to the right hack.

Chapter 1 uncovers some of the tricks you may not have known your device was capable of. New users will be happy to know what's just below the surface: a clipboard [Hack #2], multitasking [Hack #6], and wireless calendaring [Hack #4]. The hackers in the crowd might like to display the signal strength in decibels instead of bars [Hack #17], use your computer as a wireless headset [Hack #16], or get mobile Internet access on your computer [Hack #9].

Rather than building an organizer and then retrofitting email support onto it, Research In Motion (RIM) designed the BlackBerry for email from the beginning and only then added support for other features. Highly secure, push based email is what has made the BlackBerry so popular in the business world. Every effort was made to allow users to efficiently process the mountain of email messages they receive daily. Email is great, but it can quickly become a burden. There are a number of hidden features of the BlackBerry you can use to your advantage. You can clear a bunch of messages at once [Hack #22], filter your messages [Hack #24], and make your email doubly secure [Hack #28].

Although the BlackBerry is optimized for the suit-and-tie business crowd, newcomers are pleasantly surprised at the graphics capabilities of the device. Currently, Magmic Games has a big lead in the BlackBerry gaming market, which is the subject of chapter 3. There are even some games that you can play against online opponents. While Magmic pushes the limit of BlackBerry games, there are plenty of free games you can download and install over the air in seconds. You could even use the device simulator [Hack #93] to play the games.

With the advent of the Mobile Data Service and TCP/IP on the BlackBerry [Hack #37], an entire world of Internet services became accessible on the BlackBerry. Some of the best applications in existence are accessed by using some type of client software (perhaps just a browser), but the real power comes with its integration with a central service where users and data meet in interesting and exciting ways. Very few client-only software packages carry the same importance as one that integrates well with a web service. With your BlackBerry, you can track your to-do list [Hack #47], corral your bookmarks [Hack #46], and even use instant messaging [Hack #44].

Chapter 5 is about free software. If you tried out every commercial program that interested you, you'd be nickeled and dimed to death. Luckily there are custom applications that come free of charge--if you know where to look. Because RIM chose J2ME as their platform for the BlackBerry, the device is seen as a viable operating system by the millions of Java developers worldwide. This chapter includes a small subset of the free applications available for the BlackBerry. You can view the night sky [Hack #55], go shopping [Hack #58], and even put your device through the paces in a stress test [Hack #54] to see how it stacks up. As the BlackBerry third-party application explosion continues, the number of free programs available for the device will continue to grow.

In places where the BlackBerry comes up a little short, there are a growing number of third-party developers ready to fill the void. Chapter 6 showcases the entrepreneurial spirit of the BlackBerry application developer. Most of these providers are small businesses that have found a nice niche with the BlackBerry. RIM's loyal customer base makes a nice, motivated target audience for third-party applications. If you've got a need, there's a good chance there is a BlackBerry application that can fill it. Chapter 6 highlights some useful third-party programs to get you started: a real-time stock quote program [Hack #70], a program to modify Office documents [Hack #68], an alternate web browser [Hack #66], and an alternate email program [Hack #67].

It's fairly easy to get a BlackBerry Enterprise Server off the ground. However, as many a BlackBerry administrator will tell you, it is a difficult and time-consuming chore to keep the service running smoothly. For the most part, it is no fault of RIM's--there are many tools provided that continue to go unused in many BlackBerry shops. There are more than a few tips and tricks to keep the BlackBerry server and your users happy. The motivated BlackBerry administrator will find several gems in chapter 7 from simply adding several users in one fell swoop [Hack #72] to implementing security [Hack #73]. There are several hacks you can use to send yourself proactive alerts when problems arise.

One of the most significant innovations in RIM's short history is the addition of the BlackBerry Browser to the operating system. In combination with the BlackBerry Enterprise Server's Mobile Data Service (MDS), this instantly unlocks entire intranets along with mountains of rich corporate data. Unfortunately though, corporate networks are full of lazily coded FrontPage web sites that were designed for ancient versions of Internet Explorer viewed with large monitors. To make those sites viewable on the BlackBerry, some sites will require minor tweaks [Hack #88]. For others, it might be easier to start from scratch. For especially time-sensitive data, you can push that data [Hack #90] to your users' BlackBerry devices.

The final chapter is about application development. There are applications for getting real-time stock quotes [Hack #70] as well as spellchecking [Hack #65]. If you speak a little Java, you can write your own application to communicate with web servers [Hack #94]. Best of all, there are no license fees to get started--in fact, you don't even need to own a BlackBerry device [Hack #93]. RIM provides free access to the BlackBerry JDE, a development kit that includes an IDE, or integrated development environment. The other nice feature of the BlackBerry platform is there are a variety of ways [Hack #97] for your users to install your program over the air wherever they happen to be.

Productivity Booster + some fun.......2006-11-17

I thought I knew a lot about BlackBerries... I design software for them and use my 8700, 7100T and BlackBerry Pearl all day and part of the night. I learned more from BlackBerry Hacks in the first 30 minutes than in months of combing through forums. The ticks I picked up save me time every day and makes it more fun to use my growing collection of BlackBerries.
Marc
Ascendo

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Chile Since Independence brings together four chapters from Volumes 3, 5, and 8 of The Cambridge History of Latin America to provide in a single volume an economic, social, and political history of Chile since independence. Each chapter is accompanied by a bibliographical essay.

Argentina, Brazil and Chile Since Independence

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Argentina, Brazil and Chile Since Independence
Wilgus Ac
Manufacturer: Russell&Russell Pub
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Textbook Binding
ASIN: 0846203375

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Argentina, Brazil and Chile Since Independence
J. Fred, Martin, Percy Alvin, Cox, Isaac Joslin Rippy
Manufacturer: Russell & Russell
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000G9WBIO

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Argentina, Brazil and Chile Since Independence

Manufacturer: Russell & Russell, Inc.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000CMKE5W

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Good information.......2007-06-14

If your trying to find information on cajun history, this book is worth reading.

New Acadia.......2002-05-18

Great book! Somewhat academic, but a very interesting and informative work on the Acadians.

Wasn't the best book i've read.......2001-12-31

Longer than it should have been, a lot of it seemed very repetative. Written like a college thesis. Would not read it again for anything. Had some interesting things in it, but i thing they could have been found elsewhere through a better presentation of information.

New Acadia.......2001-09-26

The Acadians are North Americans of French descent who have been in the Western Hemisphere for nearly 400 years. During that time they have remained a relatively homogeneous group. The early history of the Acadians has been previously well-documented. Dr. Brasseaux, a history scholar-teacher, has been heard telling students to investigate their roots in their studies. In this well researched and written volume, he has done just that himself. He relates in easily readable form the settling of Acadian South Louisiana. He is fortunate to have a large collection of Spanish Colonial documents literally at his fingertips to assist in his research. His book is a "must read" for anyone who wants the real picture of the beginnings of Acadiana.

A great historical reference book on the Acadians in LA........1999-01-22

This book takes you through the history of the Acadian people to their new home in Louisana. It gives the reader a sense of what made the Acadian-Cajun people the way they are today. I recomend it for any one interested in Acadian history or Louisiana history.

The Founding of New Acadia: The Beginnings of Acadian Life in Louisiana, 1765-1803

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The Founding of New Acadia: The Beginnings of Acadian Life in Louisiana, 1765-1803

Manufacturer: Louisiana State Univ Pr.
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ASIN: B000I8TBOK

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Questions Rarely Asked

Decent, but not great.

Some fascinating "why is the sky blue" kid questions!

The Velocity of Honey: And More Science of Everyday Life
Jay Ingram
Manufacturer: Thunder's Mouth Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Why does the journey to a new location always take longer than the trip home? What is the science behind the theory of "six degrees of separation?" Why doesn't honey flow out in all directions?

In this delightful and amusing text, Jay Ingram explores the extraordinary science behind ordinary happenings. Ingram, host of the Discovery Channel Canada's "Daily Planet" and best-selling author of The Science of Everyday Life has written an engrossing work which broadens our knowledge of the everyday world and deepens our appreciation for the mysteries of science. Addressing a diverse set of topics and reaching unorthodox conclusions, he explores the science behind proverbial expressions, delves into the uncharted territory of the connection between history and the contemporary scientific world, and highlights mysterious links between the worlds of art and science.

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Questions Rarely Asked.......2006-04-17

This was a wonderful little volume of essays on various scientific ideas buried in ordinary experience. Who would have thought to study echolocation in humans or that nagging feeling that time is going by faster and faster as we age? And what drove that Italian gentleman to pursue the answer to why stones can be made to skip on water? Frankly, the scientific aspect of the author's chosen subjects takes a clear second place to his simple expressions of wonder as to the diversity of ideas and scientific research; to the applicability of obscure research to the experience of everyday life. This kind of writing is important and relevant because it expands our understanding of the world in which we live. (I had no idea that the physics of curling were so complex and so little understood.) The author teaches his readers the value of asking the right questions and demonstrates that perhaps we don't quite understand our world as well as we think we do.

Perhaps it is just my inability to find the titles, yet I believe that there is a dearth of good writing such as this book--I applaud Mr. Ingram's efforts and hope that he is able to continue to find publishers. I have little patience for those who belittle the efforts of authors who attempt the exceedingly difficult task of communicating cutting-edge scientific principles to the general readership--not every book need be the top of its field. And how is an author to hone his craft if not by steady production of work each better than the last? I highly recommend Mr. Ingram's work and find his style to be excellently suited to convey the excitement of science.

Decent, but not great........2005-06-29

Jay Ingram, The Velocity of Honey (Thunder's Mouth Press, 2003)

There is a kind of niche genre in publishing that involves taking complicated science and stripping it of all its jargon to make it (somewhat) understandable to mortal men. Some authors are good at it. Some are great. The reigning king of "great," of course, is Martin Gardner (Did Adam and Eve Have Navels?), and thus it is that, in general, all books of "stripped-down science" will eventually get compared to Gardner. And thus, we come to Jay Ingram, whose The Velocity of Honey has been all the rage among in-the-know readers for the past year or so.

Jay Ingram is good. His short pieces do a capable job of taking controversial things that require numerous long, unintelligible equations to explain and phrasing it all in such a way that the great unwashed have a chance of grasping the science behind it all. And his topics are by and large interesting, such as the title essay, on why it is that honey does that whole bending-over-on-itself thing when you drizzle it onto your morning pancakes.

But good is not great. When you stack Ingram up against Gardner, Simon Singh (Fermat's Enigma), or Mitchell Waldrop (Complexity, one of the most underrated science books of the past decade), his prose just isn't as readable. And, really, that's what stripped-down science books are all about-- readability. If you wanted its lack, you could just read the relevant articles in dusty book-bound copies of magazines in your library's reference section, right?

It's worth picking up if you're into this sort of thing, but expect to spend far more time on it than you would a comparable tome by one of the greats. ** ½

Some fascinating "why is the sky blue" kid questions!.......2005-05-14

Jay Ingram makes the science of everyday life accessible, fascinating and readable, answering many questions that we've puzzled over since our days as children - why does it always take longer to get there than it does to come home? how do outfielders catch those fly balls? and, just how do the mosquitoes always seem to find us? My personal favourite is a hilarious but perfectly reasonable explanation as to why we're convinced the eyes in that portrait on the wall follow us around the room!

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Why toast lands butter-side down.

The Velocity of Honey
Jay Ingram
Manufacturer: Aurum Press Ltd
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Binding: Paperback

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Why toast lands butter-side down........2006-07-31

Murphy's law states that anything that can go wrong will go wrong, and specifically, that when it is knocked off the table, a piece of toast will always land butter side down. I for one have always taken this is one of the immutable facts of life, just like the inevitability of my football team returning to mediocrity, after brief sojourns into success. As far as the toast is concerned, there is a good explanation of this. It is all to do this the angle of rotation, and the height of the table.

Each chapter in this easy to read book tackles some item of everyday living, and either attempts to explain it, or to explore some of the points behind the topic. All chapters are self contained, with the odd cross-reference, and they are short - 24 chapters in just less than 200 pages. There is an eclectic mix of topics, with most covering items that I had not thought greatly about. The contents will make you think about how or why certain behaviour works. However, it is important to realise that it is not necessary to understand the whys and wherefores to use the item you cannot explain. Not many curling players can explain why the curling stone moves as it does. But they are still enjoying the game, and indeed can be very good at it.

The major criticism I have of the volume is that there could be some diagrams. These would certainly enhance the clear text, and make points with fewer words in more detail. The variety of topics chosen is wide-ranging, from toast and curling, to why honey flows from a spoon as it does, and why the majority of mothers hold babies on the left side of the body. Some items are more nearly "straight science", whilst others have elements of psychology as well as pure formulae.

How do fielders in baseball know where to go for a catch? Ask a baseball fielder (or cricketer if in the UK) and you will find that he does not know why: he just knows where he needs to be. Ingram writes with clarity and lucidity, explaining the science of his subject matter. There are some good pointers to research, including items that are post 2003. Historical analysis of the topics is also given - consider the work of Lazzaro Spallanzani with skimming stones over water in the eighteenth century. Some of his observations were only shown to be correct in 1968, with the use of high speed film.

The chapter on the flight of seeds from trees, the little `helicopters' that bear seeds in autumn, ends with a wonderful little line: "Nature is about making the best of an imperfect situation, yet somehow the results are never dull". Science is important to us all. We don't always know it. With the help of this slim volume, we do now.

Peter Morgan, Bath, UK [....]

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