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A visit to Carlsbad Cavern: Recent explorations of a limestone cave in the Guadalupe Mountains of New Mexico reveal a natural wonder of the first magnitude
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"The Freedom Rides were a brief moment in the civil rights movement, but they captured the attention of the nation in a way that few other campaigns in the struggle had. They especially inspired southern Blacks. For several years afterward, anytime a southern Black encountered a civil rights worker, he or she was likely to ask, "Are you one of [the] Freedom Riders?" It didn't matter if the worker was registering voters or leading a sit-in demonstration. The term "Freedom Rider" came to mean civil rights worker, especially to southern Blacks."--James Haskins

Freedom Rides: Journey to Justice is a thorough review of the monumental struggle to end segregation in public transportation in America. James Haskins' vivid detail and moving descriptions bring to life the sacrifice and bravery of the people who tested the Supreme Court decisions that legally desegregated U.S. buses and trains. In presenting famous civil rights leaders and introducing lesser-known heroes, this volume provides a balanced and insightful discussion of what the Freedom Rides were, and why they were so important to the civil rights movement, and to the history of our nation.

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The Presence of Whales: Contemporary Writings on the Whale
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Writers and scientists Barry Lopez, Roger Payne, Diane Ackerman, and others offer revealing facts and stirring tales of their encounters with whales in this fascinating anthology.

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The Presence of Whales.......2007-02-14

Poignant and deeply satisfying. After reading just one chapter I ordered another copy to give as a gift.

Thar they blow -- mostly lousy whale tales.......2006-12-09

This collection, described as "contemporary writings on the whale," is full of fine writing.
Not good. Fine.
Awed, as they all are by the size of whales, almost all the writers feel obliged to say something awesome. Since they don't have any really big thoughts, they fall back on "creative writing" as taught in the lit'ry schools.
Thus we get the inane adjective: "luminous sunlight" (Frank Stewart, the editor, a professor of English literature at the University of Hawaii); and the simile more obscure than the event it purports to clarify: wind rattles a hut until the "walls gyrated like a rocket during liftoff" (Diane Ackerman, writing for the New Yorker).
And padding, including half a paragraph devoted to explaining how "the spout's character changed with wind conditions" (Kenneth Brower).
And unclassifiable nonsense, of which my favorite instance is Charles Bergman's description of a leaping whale as "unavoidably phallic." Now there, despite what I just said, is a man with a big idea.
Despite this, the book is readable, thanks to the whales, about which it is possible to write badly but not dully.
The whales, however, are not the stars of "The Presence of Whales."
The star is Roger Payne, the scientist who turned humpback whales into recording artists in the '60s.
This apparently is because Payne and his wife, Katherine Payne, keep open house for vagrant nature writers, several of whom came away with the impression that Payne discovered the fact that cetaceans make a lot of noise.
Credit for that really is due to Kenneth Norris, one of the two writers in this book, along with Farley Mowat, whose writing is unpretentious. (Norris is not merely good; at his best, he's wonderful. He's the man who described humpback whales as "shaped like a big, grooved tadpole," which beats even the description I heard once from a crewman on the Maui Princess ferry: "Look for a black Cadillac with a radiator problem." None of the professional writers in "The Presence of Whales" comes close to that sort of mastery.)
I don't think that Payne, whose own contribution here is workmanlike, deliberately claimed credit not due. It's all too obvious that most of the writers came to Payne knowing next to nothing about whales, listened to the Paynes, and then did no more checking.
Stewart, with an indifference to consistency that is startling in an editor, lets all their statements stand as written, whether two years earlier or 30. As a result, many assertions about whales in one essay are contradicted in other essays.
K.C. Balcomb, a Washington investigator of killer whales, wrote (in 1991), "It is hard to imagine now, but 30 years ago it was generally thought by both laymen and scientists alike that killer whales hunting in packs were the most ruthless predators of the sea."
They may still, if they believe Gerard Gormley, writing for the Sierra Club in 1990, who describes how a pack of killer whales skins a minke whale and then eats the tongue, all so deftly that though the attack takes a long time, the minke whale stays conscious almost to the end. The killer whales do not bother to eat the blubber or the flesh, and the minke goes into shock and sinks, whereupon sharks rip it to pieces, coincidentally jolting the suffering whale into consciousness for a few last minutes of torment.
Gormley's is the most gruesome portrayal of a death I have ever read that was not inflicted by humans on humans, and many readers may also have seen a remarkable film of killer whales tossing a live sea lion pup back and forth while its mother snuffles pathetically on shore.
Balcomb doesn't say what his standards of ruthlessness are, but they must be pretty high.
As a result of this unselective selection, a casual reader is likely to come away from this book knowing less about whales than when he went in.
Even the essays by professional scientists are unreliable. The Paynes have been careful not to claim that humpback whale sounds are a language (and the fact that they are repeated over and over without variation suggests strongly that they are not); but their acolytes are not so careful. And who can blame them when Katherine Payne is so incautious as to write that the seasonal changes in humpback songs are "not unlike linguistic drift"? In fact, they are nothing like linguistic drift, a complex phenomenon that results from a number of things going on simultaneously, none of them demonstrably mimicked by whales.
Stewart didn't do Roger Payne any favors by reprinting Faith McNulty's 1974 essay, either. McNulty, another New Yorker stablehand, is a very fine writer indeed, describing whale songs as "a medley of ethereal calls such as tiny translucent fairies might make."
McNulty reports Payne as saying that "the whales can't afford to collide" because of their delicate skins, and that they have to "stay far apart while feeding." Those were airy speculations even in 1974, and today every schoolchild on Maui has seen the films contradicting such ideas.
Stewart also did no favors for W.S. Merwin by reprinting his 1967 poem (antipoem, really, since it has no metrical organization) "For a Coming Extinction." This effort is not rendered more comprehensible by its lack of punctuation, but it is about California gray whales. Unfortunately for the antipoet, but fortunately for the whales, they did not go extinct and today are so numerous as to constitute a nuisance.

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The many differences between formal and informal, written and spoken French are one of the most striking features of the language, and can cause problems even for its native speakers. Colloquial French Grammar provides a practical, non-technical survey of those aspects of morphology and syntax where standard and non-standard French differ. Taking the key areas of grammar in turn, Rodney Ball describes the forms used in everyday French and indicates their level of colloquialness. A basic knowledge of the standard language is assumed, but less elementary points are reviewed and explanations are given of all the grammatical terms employed. Authentic conversational material is used in the examples, and there are a large number of exercises to aid and stimulate the reader. Designed specifically for the language-learner and for others who require a description of informal French structures, Colloquial French Grammar is the first systematic overview of its kind for non-native speakers.

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This digital document is a journal article from Journal of Archaeological Science, published by Elsevier in 2006. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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The analysis of four presumed paleofecal samples (coprolites) recovered from the Pellejo Chico Alto site in Peru is reported herein. The samples were processed using standard methods for paleofecal specimens but were discovered to be large pieces of intact tissue, rather than coprolites. While the results provided information regarding diet and cuisine at Pellejo Chico Alto, it also serves as an instructive lesson in the identification and analysis of paleofecal samples.

Bolivia: sedición en el Alto Perú.(TT: Bolivia: sedition in the high Peru.): An article from: Epoca

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Bolivia: sedición en el Alto Perú.(TT: Bolivia: sedition in the high Peru.): An article from: Epoca
Francisco I. De Cáceres
Manufacturer: Difusora de Informacion Periodica, S.A. (DINPESA)
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Release Date: 2005-07-28

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This digital document is an article from Epoca, published by Difusora de Informacion Periodica, S.A. (DINPESA) on April 30, 2000. The length of the article is 1784 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: Bolivia: sedición en el Alto Perú.(TT: Bolivia: sedition in the high Peru.)
Author: Francisco I. De Cáceres
Publication: Epoca (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 30, 2000
Publisher: Difusora de Informacion Periodica, S.A. (DINPESA)
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