Haunted by Non-Disclosure, A Horrifying Experience: what every home buyer should know!

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Stephen King's Creepshow: A George A. Romero Film.
Stephen. King
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'I am the Ugandan civil servant; duly enrolled by the Public Service Commission. For many years I read the civil service Rules and Regulation and the Code of Conduct. I used to believe in them. That was until the World Bank and the IMF conspired with the Government to bring Structural Adjustment Programmes, appropriately called SAPs to sap my morale...and they introduced a dangerous animal called retrenchment. Such injustice! I no longer read the pamphlets they gave me...I now follow the Bible...I know I am one of the highly endangered species, what with retrenchment and I find fortitude in the Bible'. A wicked and affectionate portrayal of some common behavioural traits of the archetypal Ugandan, living in (or trying to get out of) Uganda, organised by job or other common activity e.g. politician, foreign investor, civil servant, driver, emigrant, sex worker, NGO, and the President. Joachim Buwembo is a seasoned journalist for the East African and The Sunday Vision in Uganda, and a keen observer of Ugandan society.

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Karpinski provides the first account and critical evaluation of this Polish director's work for the theater, focusing on milestone productions such as his adaptations of Dostoyevsky. Through an analysis of Wajda's aesthetic views and productions, the study also reveals the vital link between his art and contemporary Polish culture. Karpinski is in a unique position to present a comprehensive study of Wajda, since he has collaborated with the director on a number of productions.

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Theater and Politics
Zygmunt Hubner
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TV Living presents the surprising results of the largest survey of television viewing habits ever completed. For five years, 500 people kept a diary of their television viewing, their lives, and the relationship between the two. The results upset and confirmed commonly held beliefs about audiences, such as: television is not a masculine domain, the elderly audience has diverse tastes, and people regulate how much violence, sex, or bad language they watch. This clear and engaging book, which includes actual quotes from diaries, presents an exciting, literate, and thoughtful picture of the complex and fascinating relationship between mass media and people's lives today.

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Excellent, authoritative study.......1999-08-11

This is an excellent book on the TV audience and should be included on every media studies teacher's syllabus. Useful summaries of previous research, plus fascinating new data based on diaries kept by 500 people over five years, equals a great resource. There isn't likely to be another study this big and detailed for a long time.

The best ever book on TV and audiences.......1999-08-06

Brilliant, highly readable book showing the role of TV in the lives of ordinary people, i.e. everybody. Very well-written, and the summaries of previous research make it great for the undergraduate student. The quotes from all the viewers, 500 of them, make it a very easy and enjoyable read. I liked the pages about battles for control of the TV in the family, and about gender. The chapter on news got a bit boring. Overall though this is essential for media studies people, I would have thought.

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Rubik's Puzzles extends the Rubik's brand into full-color puzzle books for the first time ever.

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Cisco authorized self-study book for CCNP routing 642-801 foundation learning

Prepare for the CCNP BSCI exam 642-801 with a Cisco authorized self-study guide. This book teaches you how to:

Select and configure the appropriate advanced IP addressing features and services including VLSM, route summarization, CIDR, NAT, route maps, and IPv6
Understand the principles of classful and classless routing and the difference between link-state and distance vector protocol behavior
Implement EIGRP for scalable networks, and OSPF and IS-IS for scalable multiarea networks
Configure BGP within your network and through either a single or multihomed interconnection
Control and optimize routing updates and packet flow by implementing redistribution, distribution lists, route maps, and policy-based routing, and by changing administrative distance

CCNP Self-Study: Building Scalable Cisco Internetworks (BSCI), Second Edition, is a Cisco authorized self-paced learning tool. It teaches you how to design, configure, maintain, and scale routed networks that are growing in size and complexity. This book focuses on using Cisco routers connected in LANs and WANs typically found at medium to large network sites. Whether you are preparing for CCNP, CCDP, or CCIP certification or simply want to gain a better understanding of the products, services, and policies that help you control traffic over LANs and WANs and connect your network to Internet service providers, you will benefit from the foundation information presented in this book.

This comprehensive book provides detailed information and easy-to-grasp tutorials on a broad range of topics related to routing, including routing principles, protocol redistribution, and IP addressing features such as variable-length subnet masks (VLSMs), route summarization, classless interdomain routing (CIDR), Network Address Translation (NAT), and IPv6. In addition to new coverage of IPv6 and NAT, this revision to the popular first edition includes detailed coverage of the routing protocols Open Shortest Path First (OSPF), Intermediate System-to-Intermediate System (IS-IS), Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP), and Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). Configuration examples and sample verification output demonstrate implementation and troubleshooting techniques. Configuration exercises appear in every chapter to provide a practical review of key concepts to discuss critical issues surrounding network operation. Chapter-ending review questions illustrate and help solidify the concepts presented in the book.

CCNP Self-Study: Building Scalable Cisco Internetworks (BSCI), Second Edition, is part of a recommended learning path from Cisco Systems that includes simulation and hands-on training from authorized Cisco Learning Partners and self-study products from Cisco Press. To find out more about instructor-led training, e-learning, and hands-on instruction offered by authorized Cisco Learning Partners worldwide, please visit www.cisco.com/go/authorizedtraining.

This volume is in the Certification Self-Study Series offered by Cisco Press. Books in this series provide officially developed training solutions to help networking professionals understand technology implementations and prepare for the Cisco Career Certifications examinations.

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Too much ?.......2006-10-24

I passed my exam using this book, and nothing else beside it.

Having stated that, let me point out a few things:

1- This book covers EVERYTHING you need to know to pass the exam. No question on my exam was not covered somewhere in the book. I find it hard to judge whether the authors took it a little far with the extra material, or not, which brings me to the second point..

2- The book is loooong !! It took me over 3 months to "study" the whole thing ! I know the BSCI exam is one of the hardest exams Cisco offers, but does the book need to be this long ? The Sybex Book wasnt .. and despite that, many of my friends used it, and passed the exam.

3- The language is not very easy, or maybe the writing style wasnt very smooth. This book reminds me of "big" references that we used in college, vice short and to the point text books that sufficed with covering the Syllabus, and only that. This certainly is NOT a text book !!

4- The labs at the end of each chapter ? What labs :-)

5- To do the authors justice, I have to say that this book was worth every penny I spent on it. This may not be the best book to read if your sole concern is to pass the BSCI exam, but it certainly is THE book on routing ! If you're planning on becoming a CCIE one day, this is a must read. You will sweat a little, but it will be worthwhile. I will have to give it 4 stars, not 5, beacuse this is a Certification Self-Study, so it needs to address the length of the book as well as the easiness of the presentation. Otherwise, this is a highly recommended book for all networking professionals.

What a difference!.......2006-08-12

Evereyone has an opinion on a book, so I thought I would share mine. Yes, this book has a ton of information, maybe too much for the exam.

This edition is a far cry from the first one. The Lab configurations could drive you crazy. It was very hard to follow because 1 pod is 4 routers plus a frame switch and 2 Backbone routers! How many people have 7 routers????

The first edition called for 3 routers in a pod and 1 backbone router. This made preparing for configuration exercises easy.

Comparing the OSPF section from the 1st to the 2nd edition is totally different. All the information is the same but the 2nd edition makes for much harder reading.

I acutally returned the book. I was uncomfortable with the layout and organization of it. I am very disapointed with the way the authors changed it. They should have left it exactly as the 1st edition and updated it with new information. Instead they changed sections and made the Labs difficult.

I guess if you never owned the 1st edition, you would think this book is great.

This is the book you need to pass BSCI.......2006-04-25

I used only this book as a reading material for the exam and I passed on my first try. This book contains a lot of valueble material about routing and it is good as a future reference for routing.
A must for future CCNP's.

A must have for BSCI exam takers.......2005-10-05

I am using this Cisco Press Self-Study and Cisco Press Exam Certification Guide for BSCI exam. Generally, I find this book much helpful compared to certification guide. Most concepts are elaborately discussed with good lab examples and I have almost no problem understand all of it at first glance. (I have just begun career in networking while reading this book and I don't have in-depth knowledge of routing protocols). I like the author style of writing and I am looking forward to read another of her certification books.

Note : For those who plan to purchase this book, please read BGP route reflector and probably BGP community, both found in Appendix A before going for the exam.

Covers all material on test.......2005-07-28

I passed the 642-801 with the assistance of this book. However, I would not have passed with just this book.

I should begin by stating that I have no experience in this area. In an effort to better myself and prepare for a new career in the networking field, I decided to pursue my certifications first in an effort to secure a higher paying job. I assume that most taking this test are already working in the networking field and/or working with Cisco products.

The amount of information needed to pass the exam and the sheer volume of information contained in this book, presented a problem. I found it was taking me so long to get through the book that I was forgetting items learned in the beginning of the book. I normally would take 2-3 weeks to prepare for an exam, but found myself ill prepared at the end of 3 weeks and completing the book. I then supplemented my study with two items.

I used the CCNP Flash Cards offering from CiscoPress. Flash cards in no way resemble questions on the exam. Flash cards are actually more difficult to answer because they do not give you a multiple choice option. You either know the answer or you don't. This gives you the ability to determine whether you truly know the information or, are just trying to weed the possible answers down to two likely choices.

I also used ExamCram to focus all that I had learned. The exam prep questions help to get you "in the mood" to take the exam.

After all this, and some BCSI simulation software practice, I took the test. I had to use every minute of the exam time (I usually finish early) and was worried that I would not have enough time to complete all the questions (finished with 30 seconds to spare). I found that on this test, there were many more questions framed in the, "View this diagram and select the appropriate answer". A successful test taker needs to be able to analyze a diagram and determine such things as, "which answer would force traffic through RouterC that was destined for the 172.16.X.X network".

In conclusion, if you have no hands on experience with configuring routers in the BGP, OSPF and EIGRP areas, you must supplement this book with items such as ExamCram and Simulation software.

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Sources of The Making of the West : Peoples and Cultures, Volume II: Since 1500
Katherine J. Lualdi , Lynn Hunt , Thomas R. Martin , Barbara H. Rosenwein , and R. Po-chia Hsia
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gives depth to your appreciation of history.......2006-12-08

This little text is a good accompaniment to the main book, "Making of the West". Here, Lualdi takes the student in a tour of excerpts from original source documents. Translated where necessary from other languages.

So you can see a lengthy essay written on the eve of the French Revolution. Asking, "What is the Third Estate?" This Estate was the impotent assembly that represented the French people, as contrasted to the other Estates that drew from the aristocracy. The essay neatly encapsulates the rising demands of the majority of the people; suggesting why the Revolution occurred.

The book has many other examples. All fitting to give depth to your appreciation of modern history.

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Sources of The Making of the West, Volume II: Since 1500: Peoples and Cultures
Lynn Hunt , Thomas R. Martin , Barbara H. Rosenwein , R. Po-chia Hsia , Bonnie G. Smith , and Katharine J. Lualdi
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Lynn Hunt, Thomas R. Martin, Barbara H. Katherine J. Lualdi
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In the days when dinosaurs dominated the earth, their marine counterparts-every bit as big and ferocious-reigned supreme in prehistoric seas. In this entrancing book, Richard Ellis, one of the world's foremost writers on the denizens of the deep, takes us back to the Mesozoic era to resurrect the fascinating lives of these giant seagoing reptiles.

Working from the fossil record, Ellis explores the natural history of these fierce predators, speculates on their habits, and tells how they eventually became extinct-or did they? He traces the 200-million-year history of the great ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs, and mosasaurs who swam the ancient oceans-and who, according to some, may even still frequent the likes of Loch Ness.

Picture if you will seventy-foot dragons with foot-long serrated teeth, or an animal that looked like a crocodile crossed with a shark the size of a small yacht. With its impossibly long neck, Plesiosaurus conybeari has been compared to "a giant snake threaded through the body of a turtle." At a length of nearly sixty feet, Mosasaurus hoffmanni boasted powerful jaws and teeth that could crunch up even the hardest-shelled giant sea turtle. And Kronosaurus queenslandicus, perhaps the most formidable of the lot, had a skull nine feet long-more than twice that of Tyrannosaurus rex-with teeth to match.

The first book about these amazing animals in nearly a century, Sea Dragons draws upon the most recent scientific research to vividly reconstruct their lives and habitats. Their fossils have been found all over the world-in Europe, Australia, Japan, and even Kansas-in lands that once lay on the floors of Jurassic and Triassic seas. Along the way, the book also provides intriguing insights into and entertaining tales about the work, discoveries, and competing theories that compose the fascinating world of vertebrate paleontology.

Ellis also graces his text with a set of incomparable illustrations. Widely hailed as our foremost artist of marine natural history, he depicts vividly how these creatures probably appeared and, through these likenesses, invites us to speculate on their locomotion, their predatory habits, their very lifestyles.

A genuine book of marvels and wonders, Sea Dragons will certainly stir one's curiosity about our planet's prehistoric past.

This book contains 51 black-and-white illustrations by the author.

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I'd recomend looking for another book on the subject. .......2007-07-08

Richard Ellis can't seem to decide who his target audience is in Sea Dragons Predators of the Prehistoric Ocean. He alternates between explaining fairly simple concepts in great detail and making passing reference to advanced biological concepts with little to no explanation. He spends several pages explaining why extinct prehistoric animals don't have common names like "the lion, tiger, blue whale, and so forth" clearly catering to the layperson. A few pages later he glosses over how enzymes can be used by a cold blooded animal to function in cold temperatures in a couple of paragraphs.
This book is really just a summery of what is known and the major theories about Mesozoic marine reptiles. The author only once draws his own conclusions and only twice endorses the conclusions of anyone else that he presents (he frequently illustrates the main points of argument between conflicting theories).
This is a fairly new book (2003) and yet many of the theories Ellis details are from the 19th century. A significant portion of the book in fact is dedicated to discussion of politics in paleontology in the Victorian era; mildly interesting to be sure but when given a choice between reading about some of the most fascinating creatures ever to live on this planet and reading about how Edward Drinker Cope and Othiniel Charles Marsh really, really didn't like each other I think I'm going to go with the Ichthyosaurs, Plesiosaurs, and Mosasaurs every time.
Sea Dragons suffers from a lack of organization. The book is broken up into an overview, chapters on Ichthyosaurs, Plesiosaurs, Pliosaurs, Mosasaurs, and extinction. There are many times when information appears in the wrong chapter. Almost half of the chapter on Pliosaurs is actually about Plesiosaurs. It makes sense for there to be some discussion of the relationships between these two groups since they are so closely related but more of a focus on Pliosaurs would have been nice. After anecdotes about Victorian paleontologists clobbering each other over the head to steal each others specimens and the rehashing of everything Plesiosaur there is very little discussion of actual Pliosaurs.
This problem is even worse in the Mosasaur chapter. It is the shortest chapter about a group of reptiles in the book and half of it is spent talking about snake evolution. This starts out with a discussion of the theory that snakes are descended from Mosasaurs. This is interesting and relevant the problem is instead of moving on to further discussion of Mosasaurs Ellis moves on to talk about many different theories on the origins of snakes and weather or not they could revolve limbs.
Another major organizational problem is Ellis's extensive use of foot notes. There are foot notes every few pages some times more than half a page in length. Minor clarifications are not the only things contained in these notes. Many times there are major points contained in the notes that really deserve to be included in the text. In addition to the foot note problems there are many misspelled words (I am quite possibly the worst speller in the world so if I'm noticing then it is bad) in general the book is poorly edited.
There are many conceptual illustrations in the book of fleshed out animals doing what they might have done but surprisingly few skeletal pictures. Most of the skeletal pictures are profiles with no detail. There is only one picture with any bones labeled, a skull of the Plesiosaur Cryptoclidus eurymerus. It is difficult to understand many things talked about in the book with out detailed skeletal drawings.
At one point Ellis demonstrates a lack of understanding of to how evolution works. In discussion of the aspect ratios of Plesiosaur flippers he says
"These creatures did not develop there particular aspect ratios so they could specialize in certain types of pray capture; rather, the flipper types evolved over time, and the animals developed attack strategies commensurate with their capabilities."
While it is certainly true that "flipper types evolved over time" his interpretations of changes in pray capture technique doesn't quite sit well with me. The way Ellis puts it sounds as if the flipper types evolved first and then these Plesiosaurs had to figure out how to hunt with their new fangled aspect ratios. Surely the flippers evolved along with hunting strategies with the most fit individuals passing on there genes gradually changing there form and behavior.
In his discussion of the end Cretaceous extinction Ellis makes one of his few conclusions in the book and he dose not support it well and it is not even about marine reptiles. He argues that dinosaurs where on the way out before the Chicxulub asteroid impact. The evidence he offers for this is extinction of many forms of dinosaurs late in the Jurassic and early in the Cretaceous. He neglects to mention that many of the spices he is talking about had there ecological niches filled by other dinosaurs during the Cretaceous. This is not to say that he might not be right about Dinosaurs being on their way out before the impact just that the evidence he offers doesn't support his argument.
This book is not all bad there is some very interesting discussion of Plesiosaur and Pliosaur locomotion. The chapter on Ichthyosaurs is very good even if Ellis dose spend a little too much time comparing them to dolphins.
I'm not sure I would recommend Sea Dragons to anyone it doesn't present anything new for the professional or serious student and doesn't explain things well enough for the casual reader.

Not easy, but good.......2006-06-08

As someone who's always had a particular interest in Mesozoic sea life, I checked out this book with no small haste. Ellis's artwork and writing are lucid; as always, he is careful to show of a scholarly argument. However, this book is definitely not for beginners; more so than some of his other work, it is heavy on anatomic and taxonomic details. Then again, it *is* about fossils, a subject in which there is little else to go on.

In his introduction, he states in so many words that he wanted to write the definitive text on Mesozoic "sea monsters", in a field with little popular literature, and to that effect I think he's fully succeeded. Definitely recommended for those willing to take the time with it.

Stunned how bad it was.......2006-04-21

I was amazed at how bad this book was. The text is superficial and far too timid. It is disorganized, gets lost in disjointed storytelling rather following the subject and as other reviewers pointed out it gets repetitious, I think this is from his disorganization forcing him to cover the same ground over and over. Also when he quotes several professors to back up his argument and they discuss the same question it gets even more repetitious.

The main problems are;
1) Too many footnotes. When, as is true of much of the book, there is a footnote on every page, (and not just a little reference, they are in some places paragraphs long and lap over onto the succeeding page displacing the extensive footnote on that page), that's bad writing. Either the narrative is important enough to include in the body or it shouldn't be in the book. As a Technical Writing professor told me years ago. "Footnotes are for references. If it's over 3 lines you're probably doing it wrong".
2) He's way too timid. Rather than saying "the consensus is X" he gets lost quoting this researcher and that professor and the other paleontologist, getting all sides of each and every question. The trouble is that when you have several quotes all contradicting each other the reader is left not knowing what our real understanding of the topic is. In the cases where the several quotes agree it gets repetitious and boring. The author needs to get over his fear of being told he's wrong, put his supporting data in a citations table in the back and take a stand.

The only reason I finished this book was because I took it on a cruise and didn't have another.

Decent overview of Mesozoic marine reptiles. .......2005-01-23

_Sea Dragons_ is a companion volume to author Richard Ellis' earlier work on the evolution of life in the sea, _Aquagenesis_. During the course of research for the earlier book, he uncovered so much material about Mesozoic marine reptiles that he made a decision to actually leave them out for the most part. He wrote that the material for _Sea Dragons_ came from the "scrap heap," a statement I find remarkable as they are among the most interesting - arguably the most "charismatic" - extinct marine organisms ever. I also think this book is better written, researched, and illustrated than _Aquagenesis_.

The first section of the book provided an introduction to Mesozoic marine reptiles in general, detailing the history of research into these animals and briefly detailing some extinct marine reptiles that are not explored in greater detail later, notably the mesosaurs (marine reptiles up to 3 feet long that lived in the Permian, about 300 million years ago), sea turtles (including extinct species), nothosaurs (Triassic animals that may be ancestral to plesiosaurs and possibly had a seal-like ecological niche), and placodonts (somewhat turtle like reptiles that fed on shellfish). The idea of endothermic marine reptiles is discussed, Ellis noting that not only marine mammals and birds are endothermic but also that several species of fast-swimming pelagic sharks and tuna as well as the leatherback turtle maintain temperatures higher than the waters in which they swim. Also whether or not marine reptiles were viviparous (meaning they bore live young rather than laid eggs) or not is discussed, a subject explored at greater length with each group in its respective chapter.

The first group of animals explored at length is the ichthyosaurs, a remarkable group who bear a great deal of resemblance in form to fast swimming shark, dolphin, and tuna species. They were a group of marine reptiles that were highly adapted to a marine existence, existing from the early Triassic (about 250 million years ago) and perishing well before the end of the Cretaceous (about 93 million years ago). Their ancestors a mystery, early ichthyosaurs were long and slim, somewhat eel-like in form, though later species were highly streamlined. The group is fairly well known, with one locale in Holzmaden, Germany, yielding about 35 ichthyosaurs a year and having produced all told over 3,000 specimens; from these and other fossil sites we know that they gave birth to live young and it is highly unlikely that they possessed echolocation but instead were highly dependent upon vision. Ellis reviewed many ichthyosaur species, notably _Shonisaurus_ (at 50 feet the largest described ichthyosaur to date though Ellis noted that an undescribed specimen from British Columbia is 75 feet long) and _Temnodontosaurs_ (a 30 foot long species with eyes 9 inches across, the largest eyes of any animal that ever lived).

Next Ellis examined the plesiosaurs, a group that is found from the uppermost Triassic to the very end of the Cretaceous (they were around for about 140 million years). Completely unlike ichthyosaurs in form, they possessed long necks with small heads (one species, _Elasmosaurus_, had a neck 47 feet long with 70 neck vertebrae). Much of his chapter on this group noted the many controversies that surround them. How they swam is subject to a great dealt of debate; did they paddle (the limbs moving in the vertical plane, like a human doing a crawl stroke or the movement of a waterwheel in a mill), row (moving in the horizontal plane, in a manner similar to how oars are used on a boat), or "fly" (the limbs moving roughly in a figure-eight pattern, much like modern sea turtles, sea lions, and penguins; and if they did fly did they have two "wings" in use or four)? Did they lay eggs or bear live young? How did they hunt; did they hunt from the surface or well beneath it and what sort of motions were their necks capable of?

The next group are the pliosaurs, a group that some feel is somewhat artificial, either believing the distinction between small-headed, long-necked plesiosaurs and large-headed, short-necked pliosaurs artificial to start with or noting that the pliosaur body plan may have arisen independently several times from ancestral plesiosaurs during the Mesozoic. This group possessed some of the largest predators ever, notably _Liopleurodon_ (most believing it 50 feet in length though Tim Haines, author of the book _Walking With Dinosaurs_ and producer of the BBC TV program of the same name was accused by others of being "irresponsible and sensationalistic" in claims that it was over 80 feet long). Ellis noted several remarkable specimens, such as a pliosaur (_Leptocleidus_) from Australia, "Eric," an almost complete skeleton comprised entirely of precious opal, and one dubbed by detractors "Plasterosaurus," a _Kronosaurus_ specimen that required massive amounts of reconstruction and liberal use of plaster.

The last group examined is the mosasaurs, a kind of marine lizard that appeared in the fossil record 90 million years ago. Not exactly small-sized animals (_Mosasaurus_ reached 58 feet in length), they were arguably the dominant marine predator for about 25 million years, existing after the extinction of the ichthyosaurs (some say there is a connection, though others think that faster, more evasive fish evolved, making ichthyosaur pursuit tactics to metabolically costly and that mosasaurs were ambush not pursuit predators) and during the decline of the pliosaurs. Like the ichthyosaurs, the mosasaurs are relatively well known with many fossils from locations as far apart as Africa, Belgium, Alabama, and Kansas (the Niobrara Chalk formation of Kansas has yielded 1,823 mosasaur specimens, many of which were collected by O.C. Marsh and E.D. Cope in a collecting and naming frenzy that produced such a taxonomic muddle that experts are still confused). I thought Ellis did a very good job in discussing mosasaur physiology and behavior as well as what evolutionary relationship they have (if any) with snakes and found this section particularly enlightening.

Not bad, some of the other reviews note the book's flaws better than I can.

Repetitive, repetitive, repetitive problems!!!.......2005-01-15

Downrated to 3 stars because the author is too repetitive. Although I enjoyed this book, the author repeats the same information several times in the course of a few pages (eg. discussion of tetrapod anapsid versus diapsid skull morp[hology, lifestyles of ichythosaurs, etc). The fact that the each major chapter was reviewed independently really shows. Taxonomy and other topics are treated well and the author writes reasonably well.

Sea Dragons: Predators of the Prehistoric Oceans.

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Sea Dragons: Predators of the Prehistoric Oceans.

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This digital document is an article from Planning, published by American Planning Association on July 1, 1992. The length of the article is 1575 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.

From the supplier: The US/UK Countryside Stewardship Exchange sends teams of resource managers and planners from both countries to plan environmental management strategies for working environments. Exchanges in 1987, 1989 and 1991 alternated between sites in Britain and North America, and a study of Cape Cod, MA, was part of the most recent exchange. Each exchange recommended sustainable tourism and more coordination between governments and private agencies in land-use policies. The exchanges demonstrated that actual progress toward long-term goals depends on the involvement of local sponsoring organizations.

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Title: A fruitful exchange; what a group of American planners learned from their British counterparts - and vice versa.
Author: Suzanne Sutro
Publication: Planning (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 1, 1992
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