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This important book brings together a wealth of information and techniques for working with maize (corn), a plant of enormous significance as a crop and as a model system for studies in plant genetics, biochemistry, and molecular biology. A distinguished editorial board has coordinated the compilation of protocols on maize cell biology, genetic methods and maps, tissue culture, and molecular biology. This book is a bible for maize researchers, and will be of wide interest to other scientists working on other plants.

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America's great epic of exploration--the journey of Lewis and Clark--was also one of the most successful scientific expeditions in history. In notebooks filled with vivid and remarkably accurate descriptions of rivers, prairies, forests, mountains, native Americans, and wildlife, Lewis and Clark gave the world an image of wild country that has rarely been equaled. In this richly illustrated volume, which features more than one hundred photographs and maps, most in full color, noted ecologist and writer Daniel Botkin traces the footsteps of the two explorers as they journeyed from St. Louis, through the breathtaking vistas of the tall-grass prairie and Big Sky country, over the arduous Bitterroot Mountains on the ancient Lolo Trail, to arrive finally at the Pacific coast and its the rugged, rainy, and darkly wooded landscape. As we travel westward, Botkin introduces us to the natural wonders recorded by Lewis and Clark--still fresh portraits of a pristine land--and recounts their many dangerous, challenging, and sometimes strange adventures. Then in his own words he describes the same sites today, providing unique insights about our nation's changes to the land. For instance, the author recounts Lewis and Clark's travels through the great tall-grass prairie, vast plains that stretched to the horizon in every direction, stunningly beautiful land that, adds Botkin, with the eye of a concerned ecologist, has virtually disappeared today beneath the steel plow. This is only one of the key problems that are addressed on the trail we follow through this wonderful book. Others, such as the endangered grizzly bear and the vanishing California Condor, are brought to the reader's attention in prose both compelling and poignant. By the last page of this chronicle, we are filled with admiration for the natural beauty of the American West, a beauty that is slowly vanishing. An exquisitely illustrated and expertly written account of the western landscape, as it was seen by Lewis and Clark, Beyond the Stony Mountain recounts one of the great adventures of the American past while powerfully relating it to the American present.

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A case of schizophrenia.......2007-05-27

Lewis and Clark at the meridian of time:

Botkin uses the Lewis and Clark expedition as the basis from which to illustrate his lessons on evolution of landforms, flora, fauna, and above all, river ecology and riparian environments. His frame ranges from the earliest geologic eras to the present, using the wonderfully detailed Meriwether Lewis and William Clark diaries as the starting point for comparisons both back and forward through time. The spread of the Anglo-European population along the route of the Corps of Discovery, and the resultant economic pressures, are among the largest of the forces he describes. It's a very bright device, especially because the author quotes liberally from the diaries; the imagery and accuracy of their descriptions cannot be duplicated, and their notoriously inventive grammar and spelling are irresistible.

The charm of Lewis and Clark's naïve use of the English language does not transfer to modern authors, however. While this book has many pluses, a few of which I will touch on below, it is so badly edited that it is seriously distracting. Carelessness with respect to standard usage and other details, including above all, accuracy, casts aspersions (merited or not) on the reliability of an author's message.

Besides some oddities of organization and stylistic peculiarities, there are numerous minor and major grammatical mistakes, awkward punctuation (lots and lots of semi-colons), and factual errors. Here are two examples, the first an incoherent metaphor from page 46:

"The trees grew remarkably fast - some were twenty or thirty feet high and up to five inches in diameter - as thick as a wrist - after five years."

Whether diameter, circumference, or maybe radius, was the intended measure, none conjures up a tree or a wrist of feasible proportions.

On page 4, the identification of the Mississippi and the Missouri Rivers is reversed in the legend for a satellite photograph of the confluence of the Mississippi, Missouri, and Illinois Rivers. Given that the theme of the book centers on watersheds, this is a critical mistake.

Production values are exceptionally poor. Many of photographs are so dark and muddy that the details the author is directing us to are lost. Several of Botkin's own are flecked with dirt (see, for example, pages 19, 51, 67, 78, and 154.) Even if from pre-digital originals, a careful scan, a few minutes at the hands of a competent PhotoShop user, and the cleaned up new prints with straightened horizons would have added to the clarity, and therefore to the credibility, of this text. Worse, colors in the some of the diagrams and figures are so far off from the keys that it's literally not possible to interpret them.

More suggestions for improvement:

Clear line-drawn maps would have added greatly to the utility of this book, as would a bibliography or further readings list. Finally, there are places in which interpretations of antiquated usages and extreme misspellings of Lewis and Clark quotes would have been in order For instance, on p. 185, Clark's description of river fauna refers to a "bottle nose." It's clear only that it's unlikely he was speaking of a dolphin.

The good news:

Having nailed this book for its distracting weaknesses, I want to emphasize that it nonetheless contains important messages delivered in a useful ways. The concepts are magnified by Botkin's deep appreciation of his objects of study: the geological, biological, and specifically human ecology of two of North America's great watersheds, those of the Missouri and the Columbia. It is also evident, in spite of his failure to demand quality editing (even on his own home page:[...] that Botkin is a competent scholar with a history of academic accomplishment. He served on the faculty at University of California, Santa Barbara, and brings the authority of a doctorate in biology/plant ecology from Rutgers to this work intended for the non-scholarly audience.

Besides retelling the ever-wonderful story of Lewis' and Clark's journey, highlighting their observational powers and dedication to accurately recording what they saw, Botkin's agenda includes enlightening the reader with regard to two popular misconceptions about how nature works.

Received wisdom has it that nature's normal state is one of "balance" and that descendants of the European colonists are responsible for disrupting the balance that existed in North America before their arrival. Commonsense suggests that all we have to do is to restore that balance to make it all right again. Botkin corrects this romantic notion with descriptions of the ever-changing character of the natural world, in which the apparently copasetic is always morphing in response to natural processes, and always vulnerable to major shocks, like volcanism, Biblical-scale floods, shifting continental plates, and ice ages, that completely rearrange the landscape and the flora and fauna with it.

Botkin is careful to point out that idea - contemporary to both Lewis and Clark and to today - that North America was in an Edenic state when the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock is inaccurate, as in fact nature changes constantly with and without interference or remedial action by humans (as he notes on p. 164, "like the fickle Missouri, nature itself changes at many scales of time and space.") He cites evidence that in the era of Lewis and Clark the landscape was not as we imagine it to have been, citing descriptions from their writings of forests intentionally burned by the American Indians for their own various purposes that have since been overgrown by trees and that environmental groups now fight to preserve as "pristine" forestlands.

The author discusses how the first major North American urban areas grew up around rivers, and how their inner cities have survived the test of time as long as the "connection" with the waterways was maintained in social, humanistic, and aesthetic senses. St. Louis, while still economically and industrially attached to the Mississippi, erected effective barriers - such as the unfortunate placement of Interstate highways - to individual relationships with that water. He claims that in spite of expensive public efforts to restore St. Louis' inner city, none have truly succeeded, and it is because of the disconnect with the river.

Elsewhere, Botkin provides a fair discussion of the context in which past ruinations, such as damming the Missouri and Columbia Rivers, were in fact, economically beneficial, allowing riverside agriculture to flourish, at least in years of normal flows. But Botkin's surprising conclusion is that the salvation of the natural environment is in urbanization, positing that the more humans confine their living to the metropolitan, the more we will treasure the wild, and the less we will intrude upon it for living space. I find this to fall more in the "wishful-thinking" column than in the "useful-solutions" column, but it is nonetheless food for thought.

Natural History Exploration of Lewis and Clark Expedition.......2004-11-04

Dr. Dan Botkin has delivered an important and timely contribution to the voluminous literature associated with the on-going commemoration of the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial.

"Beyond the Stony Mountains," provides a synthetic and desperately needed overview of the Lewis and Clark expedition vis a vis the geography of the trail environments. While many of the titles associated with the Corps of Discovery provide detailed assessments of particular aspects, Botkin's most recent contribution provides an ecological historical perspective of the landscape dynamics associated with two hundred years of change. This change, documented in well-researched analysis spanning over ten years of work, highlights the interconnected cultural and ecological factors associated with landscape change. Moving beyond typical social, economic, and political history of the Lewis and Clark expedition, Botkin pinpoints key examples of the historical geography and provides insights unique to the ecological mind.

Moreover, Botkin's analysis proves a key assertion provided by Dr. Gary Moulton, Editor, "the Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition." Despite copious examinations of the data and information contained in the Journals, it is possible to extract additional, meaningful analysis from the pages of the text. This analysis is, of course, dependent on the perspective of the investigator and the particular critical lense through which the Journals are examined. In Botkin's case, we have a holistic, naturalist's approach that defines the heuristic methodology. Again, such an analytical approach presents a substantial contribution to the literature and serves as a point of convergence for many researchers looking to document scientifically specific aspects of landscape dynamics through the story that is the Lewis and Clark expedition.

Botkin's contribution provides a wealth of new information, geographical theses for discussion, and a modern foundation for the continued examination of the significance of change along the Lewis and Clark trail. Provided that change is one of the few constants we can assign to the legacy of the Corps of Discovery, it is important that we dig deeply with Dr. Botkin, beneath the surface, and examine the geographical lessons contained in the Journals. It is only through a scientific assessment of where we have been that we have some sense of where we are and, most importantly, where we are going collectively as nation living in the shadow of the Stony Mountains.

Congratulations to Dr. Botkin for this worthwhile contribution.

Poor editing or ???.......2004-09-30

Factual errors in history or natural history can often be ignored as typographical, as in 'Wagons West' by Frank McLynn where he refers to the West coast tribe near which Lewis and Clark over-wintered in 1805-06 as the 'catslops' (yes, sic, cat slop, why not just call them cat-sick, funnier).

Worse is John Keegan in 'Fields of Battle' having Thomas Jefferson visiting Bent's Fort in 1833. Hope I'm that active at 90 years old, not to mention dead.

But in a book by an ecologist published by Oxford Press and selling at $38.00 retail, I kind of expect better than to find on page 4 a satellite photo of the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri the caption of which, in no uncertain terms, describes the Missouri and the Illinois merging before meeting the Mississippi, both to the East of the Mississippi.

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They've all grown up together on a tiny island. They think they know everything about one another. . .but they're only just beginning to fond out the truth.

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Simon & Schuster's Guide to Gems and Precious Stones provides both the connoisseur and the casual collector with a compact, easy-to-use volume describing more than 100 rare varieties of minerals whose beauty and mystery have possessed our imaginations from time immemorial. More than 450 brilliant photographs accompany profiles of each gem, covering such aspects as appearance, physical properties -- density, hardness, refraction -- occurrence, and how to judge quality and value. Additional sections describe the process of cutting gemstones and the techniques professional gemologists use to evaluate a stone's weight and optical properties.

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Excellent book on gemstone.......2007-08-13

This is an excellent book for anyone wanting to learn about the physical properties of gemstones. It would be especially useful to students interested in the scientific properties of gems. I found it useful because it describes where gemstones are found and how and when they were discovered. I would highly recommend this book to anyone interested in the subject.

The Old Ones are sometimes still the Best.......2007-07-22

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Simon & Schuster's Guide to Gems and Precious Stones.......2007-01-03

an encyclopedia of knowledge on stones and gems.

its my 10th gem book.......2006-06-27

and it is a little more technical than the rest (explains things like twinning, establishment of density, calculating specific gravity, cleavage, moh's scale, refractive indices, law of refraction, genesis, cutting, cutting styles etc).
it includes gem descriptions in much detail (thou the order in which they are arranged is a mystery to me and really bugs me, as i have to flip and flip until i find what i need).
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all in all i see it as a really good (almost) professional level book on gems and precious stones.

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