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Exceptional and Updated!.......2007-08-15
The 5 Star rating is due to the fact I live in the geographical area that this book is focused toward. (Pacific NW) It gives very clear descriptions and key indicators that help in determining which mushrooms are edible, as well as information regarding those that are not. It explains toxicity, advises about being careful with certain fungi, and informs greatly!
I do wish Margaret was still with us, but am pleased that the book was updated by her colleague.
excellent resource for Northwestern pot pickers.......1998-07-08
The photography in this book is excellent. The book is keyed to the Pacific Northwest, so those who live in or visit the area will find it very easy to use. The descriptors are clear especially concerning edibility. The book fits nicely into a day pack for all you hikers out there. I would highly recomend this book, it is probably one of the best books out there!
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Safe and Sound provides the necessary preventive and proactive approach to assist parents in ensuring that their children--beginning in infancy and lasting through adolescence--come back from any travels safe and healthy.
This book takes parents by the hand and walks them through the various aspects of travel planning and preparation in a variety of situations. It is designed to make parents feel as if they have a pediatrician assisting them before the trip and traveling with them on the trip to help them over the rough spots. It even provides specific guidance regarding the types of issues and at which points in travel planning the parents should be in touch with their child's pediatrician.
More than anything, Safe and Sound helps parents in preparing for known and unforeseen circumstances--making it much more likely that they will bring their children home happy, healthy, and alive.
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Safe and Sound: Healthy Travel with Children.......2007-07-17
Safe and Sound: Healthy Travel with Children is the complete reference guide for caregivers, parents, and grandparents who are planning a vacation, either locally or abroad, with their children or grandchildren. This book covers everything from travel planning through safety to ways to make family vacations run smoother.
This book includes three sections: Travel Planning, Safety, and Well-being; Travel Challenges and Solutions; and Travel Modes. Part One, Travel Planning, Safety, and Well-being, includes chapters on Planning a Vacation; Parent's Guide to Safety at Home and Abroad; Health Guidelines to Follow; and What to pack. In these chapters, the author shares general preparation hints and important health reminders with parents to ensure that both adults and their children have a safe vacation. The author not only includes invaluable health concern alerts but also information on victimization safety and how to deal with potential illness while traveling.
Part two, Travel Challenges and Solutions includes chapters on Other Travel Situations; Grand Trips with Grandparents; and Today's Special-Needs Travelers. Chapters in this section examine special considerations that can easily become awkward situations during family travel. By being prepared and making use of the important suggestions set out in these chapters, difficult situations can be reduced and special challenges can even enhance your family experience.
Part three, Travel Modes, includes chapters on Commercial Transportation; Travel by Car, SUV, or RV; and Family Outdoors. The chapters in this final section look at specific safety concerns that caregivers, parents, and grandparents should be aware of and be prepared for while traveling on their vacation. The author also gives adults some good ideas about how to prepare and keep children entertained during such travel.
Safe and Sound: Healthy Travel with Children is a helpful guide for anyone planning on traveling with a child or children from any grade group. Very complete key information is provided for easy reference while planning any vacation. By taking note of the hints and tips in this reference, parents can reduce the likelihood of unexpected problems and dangerous situations while increasing the potential enjoyment of their special family time.
Move over Dr. Spock.......2005-12-12
As I read this book, one thought kept occurring to me: Why didn't anybody tell me this before? Move over Dr. Spock, there's a new pediatrician in town.
Take your pediatrician with you.......2003-11-04
This book deserves a place in the suitcase of every parent who travels with a child--it is like having a caring peditrician traveling with you. Marlene Coleman values the importance of a family vacation and has created an outstanding guide that ranges from pre-planning for children's behavior patterns and matching accommodations with convenience all the way to providing easy-to-read sections addressing those challenging moments every parent dreads. She has simpified the reading by listing bulleted items as well as color-coded locators for specific categories of medical advice. This is one book that will serve the loving parent in many ways--you do not want to leave home without "Safe and Sound: Healthy Travel for Children!"
Must Have Book for Traveling with Children.......2003-09-10
This is an extremely well written book for parents who plan to travel with children. The author is a pediatrician and shows her knowledge not just of children, including different ages, but of how to make both the children and the parents(!) comfortable during travel. Much focus is put on preparation, with specific hints and tips on how best to prepare to anticipate & deal with issues that might occur. Safety precautions are also discussed in detail.
We purchased this book before a family trip to Mexico and were thrilled with the level of specifics detailed, which allowed us to all travel comfortably and had a great time. We're very impressed with this book and will use it for future travel as well!
Safe and Sound, Healathy Travel with Children.......2003-05-08
This book is written with a great amount of caring and professional expertise and is an invaluable resource for every parent as well as for physicians who care for children and thier families. Susan Reynolds, MD (emergency physician and mother)
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The perfect combination of story and standards
Journey Across Time: The Early Ages, Course 2 is an all-new middle school world history program organized chronologically from A.D. 500 to A.D. 1750. Co-authored by National Geographic and Jackson Spielvogel, Journey Across Time: The Early Ages, Course 2's engaging narrative and outstanding visuals transport students back in time. The result is a standards-based program with important geography skills embedded in every lesson.
Journey Across Time: The Early Ages is available in a full volume and also as Course 1 (7000 B.C. to A.D. 800) and Course 2 (A.D. 500 to A.D. 1750).
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Nice but not fast.......2007-08-31
The book was in super shape however it was the last book in the 6 I ordered the same day.
This is dumb.......2005-11-02
I have to use it every day in school, it is so dry you could dump the ocean on it and it would not get wet. I always fall asleep while reading it. This is a boring book in a 12 year olds veiw, I dont know about you but DONT BUY IT! IT SUCKS! Well only nerds and geeks will like it.
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Le Corbusier Sketchbooks, Vol. 1, 1914-1948
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Four of the world's leading ornithologists and ardent conservationists have produced this unique synthesis of the ecological information on all 4,037 species of birds found from Mexico south to Tierra del Fuego. In tables that cover more than 300 pages and include much of their own unpublished data, the authors summarize details on 40 key ecological parameters for each bird species. Additional data and further analyses are provided for migratory species.
Because bird communities are good indicators of habitat type and condition, and because extensive bird surveys can be done quickly, bird communities are critical to rapid evaluations of an ecosystem's biological value and integrity. The authors analyze the bird species of major habitats from a conservation perspective, and develop specific guidelines to illustrate how governments, conservation organizations, and wildlife managers can use this ecological information to anchor conservation strategies on sound biological reality.
"Students of ecology and wildlife management, as well as conservationists, will benefit from this book . . . . Governmental and conservation agencies should use this book when making critical decisions about where to focus their efforts as they work to preserve the environment in fragile regions of the world." —Edward I. Saiff, Science Books & Films
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Next book on tropical birds you buy after the field guides.......2002-02-26
Certainly tropical bird lovers, who have had the thrill of one or more bird trips to Central or South America, will want to begin to make more sense of their experiences. This book is for the birder about to turn tropical ecologist. It makes sense of the habitats, with terrific photos, many by John Fitzpatrick, of representative areas of the key habitats. The database tables in the back of the book, termed "essentially a download of Ted Parker's mind" are the essence of this information. For each of the 4000 species from the Rio Grande to Tierra Del Fuego, there are lists of habitats used by every species, and even a table of the indicator bird species for each region.
The books makes the really important point: you cannot prioritize saving the birds of the tropics only by species, one bird at a time. You have to look at what habitats are being irreversibly destroyed the most rapidly, and use those birds which depend most on these habitats - as info connections by which the habitats are to be recognized in the field, and then saved by appropriate political and economic action. Terrific book! Easy to read.
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The apparent decline in numbers among many species of migratory songbirds is a timely subject in conservation biology, particularly for ornithologists, ecologists, and wildlife managers. This book is an attempt to discuss the problem in full scope. It presents an ambitious, comprehensive assessment of the current status of neotropical migratory birds in the U.S., and the methods and strategies used to conserve migrant populations. Each chapter is an essay reviewing and assessing the trend from a different viewpoint, all written by leaders in the fields of ornithology, conservation, and population biology.
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Summarize existing research and call for more.......2003-05-28
This 1995 publication contains 17 chapters reviewing current research of critical issues of the ecology and conservation of neotropical migratory birds. Although the title implies "management", the number of specific management recommendations varies depending upon the author, taxonomic group or geographic area being discussed. In all the chapters, is an overwhelming call for more research.
Tallahassee's own Dr. James and Charles McCulloch, provided a key paper, on the strength of inferences about causes. Often it is easy to blame one source or another for declines, but this paper helps understand the need for "true experiment".
An interesting series is four chapters on temporal perspectives on population limitation, including a discussion of summer versus winter limitation, habitat use in the neoptropics, and habitat requirements during migration. The chapter on insect outbreaks and other perturbations (such as climate) by Rotenberry et al was important perspective, particular here in Florida, where a hurricane can change the vegetative characteristics of an area overnight.
The middle six chapters discuss forest management, and other human effects such as agricultural practices (this chapter was particularly eye opening: with 52% of the land area in the 48 contiguous states).
The final section on landscape scale perspectives, provided problems of management at different scales, from a local clear-cut to continental scale. This perhaps might have been frustrating to the land manager seeking to understand how to manage his 1000 acres, or what to do about the cowbirds that are impacting wood thrush.
There are other threats such as West Nile Virus, exotic species, and perhaps global warming that may become important in the future. Perhaps Faaborg's "Saving migrant birds"... may provide other insights.
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This digital document is an article from Wilson Bulletin, published by Wilson Ornithological Society on June 1, 1998. The length of the article is 871 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: Neotropical Birds: Ecology and Conservation. (book reviews)
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MG T Series In Detail: TA-TF 1935-54 (In Detail)
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VelocePress, in close cooperation with Brooklands Books Ltd., has brought this and other repair manuals previously published as part of the Autobooks Owners Workshop Manual Series back into print. The series is an invaluable resource for the classic car enthusiast and a must have for owners interested in performing their own maintenance.
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A series of anecdotes shouldn't by rights add up to an autobiography, but that's just one of the many pieces of received wisdom that Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman (1918-88) cheerfully ignores in his engagingly eccentric book, a bestseller ever since its initial publication in 1985. Fiercely independent (read the chapter entitled "Judging Books by Their Covers"), intolerant of stupidity even when it comes packaged as high intellectualism (check out "Is Electricity Fire?"), unafraid to offend (see "You Just Ask Them?"), Feynman informs by entertaining. It's possible to enjoy Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman simply as a bunch of hilarious yarns with the smart-alecky author as know-it-all hero. At some point, however, attentive readers realize that underneath all the merriment simmers a running commentary on what constitutes authentic knowledge: learning by understanding, not by rote; refusal to give up on seemingly insoluble problems; and total disrespect for fancy ideas that have no grounding in the real world. Feynman himself had all these qualities in spades, and they come through with vigor and verve in his no-bull prose. No wonder his students--and readers around the world--adored him. --Wendy Smith
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The outrageous exploits of one of this century's greatest scientific minds and a legendary American original. In this phenomenal national bestseller, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard P. Feynman recounts in his inimitable voice his adventures trading ideas on atomic physics with Einstein and Bohr and ideas on gambling with Nick the Greek, painting a naked female toreador, accompanying a ballet on his bongo drums and much else of an eyebrow-raising and hilarious nature. A New York Times bestseller; more than 500,000 copies sold.
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Unique insights into a curious and great character indeed!.......2007-09-23
Mr. Feynman is a curious and great character indeed, he's the sort of guy that doesn't take your word for it, unless he's able to experimently verify it himself. Remember, this is the guy that, during the Challenger tragedy hearings, demonstrated the O-ring's inadequacy in-person by using ice-water. He's the kind of guy that believes in seeking the true nature about things, never afraid to ask questions, never too concerned with puppetry or distinguished titles. In short, he's the kind of guy that is an inexhaustible inspiration and guiding star for all of us that is facinated with what science can bring.
Now, the improbable outcome that this guy should end up as a Nobel Laureate, the most distinguished and honourable title of the science community at large, is of course the great irony of it all. This book tells you the background story of this and other improbable events. Be it real or surreal, they are always hilarious, sometimes as a result of Mr. Feynmans highly developed sense of humour, sometimes unintentionally so. The stories date back to young Feynman when he was only a kid, and are told with such warmth and good spirits, that they will make you both laugh and cry. And at the end, you be left with unique insights into a curious and truly facinating character indeed!
An inspiring and fun book.......2007-09-18
Feinerman was an amazing man in so many ways. His life is a real lesson in doing all that you can, and enjoying every minute of your life. Loved this book.
A book you'll wear out and buy again........2007-09-07
I find myself in the funny position of reviewing a book that I never thought enough of to list as a "favorite" or as "deep". It's not a book I would normally bring up in a discussion of "life-changing" books.
That's partly because this book defies categorization. It's not a profound look at a genius; indeed we are given only glimpses into certain facets of Feynman's personality, with only hints of his darker sides. It's not just a book of anecdotes. There is an underlying message, as exemplified by the closing "Cargo Cult Science". On the other hand, it's not trying to be a book with a lesson or moral.
However, over time, this is a book I've read over and over again. And it always seems fresh, as if I was reading it for the first time. His exploits make me laugh, pause in thought, and inspire me to be curious about the world. That's what draws me again and again to reread it. I honestly think I've read it as many times as all my favorite books put together. And I can't figure it out.
great book and inspirational.......2007-08-14
I guess for a grad student this book is inspirational. It gives guidelines on how research should be done, how to not just "believe" blindly others work, but to try and understand it and prove it yourself. It also points out what is wrong with the way we are taught to think, learn in school, by our teachers. It shows how superficial people are in thinking, and how they prefer just to take things as they are and not think them through!!!
Unimpressive.......2007-07-31
This book chronicles a few incidents in the peculiar life of Noble award winning physicist Richard Feynman. Feynman was a brilliant scientist and an inspiring teacher who led an eccentric lifestyle. Although most readers have loved this book, I found it to be boring and dull. A few of Feynman's so called adventures were pretty interesting and had a sparkle to them (like how he learned to open safes), but I thought most of his stories were boring, especially his adventures with ladies in bars. I was pretty disappointed with this one.
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This winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in physics tells his astonishing life story, a combustible mixture of high intelligence, unlimited curiosity, eternal skepticism, and raging chutzpah.
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Read this book: it's entertaining.......2005-01-28
If you have ever wondered how a dishonest, drunken, whoremongering, bar-room-brawling junkie can also be a Nobel-prize-winning physicist then this book will provide the answer.
At least Feynman was not boring. Considering how many physicists nowadays are, this is no small thing.
A Interesting Look into Mr. Feynman's Life and Physics.......2005-01-27
Surely, Your Joking Mr. Feynman is a comical and interesting book about Mr. Feynman's life and his passion Physics. In this book he talks very in-depthly about his life everything from his very early childhood years to his adult life as a professor. The book is very well written with just enough detail to make you interested in all of his adventures, but not too much that you would loose interest. This book does not use complex equations or terms to explain physics terms, but creatively words each concept so that any level of reader and physics explorer could understand what he was doing. Giving this book great word choice and a nice flow that keeps you wanting to read along. Through all of this, the book is comically written and tells about Mr. Feynman's crazy experiments and pranks he played on people. Everything from hiding a door from a member of his fraternity to casually moving around the information for the atomic bomb from safe to safe. Mr. Feynman thrives on crazy adventures through the physics world and does many crazy things along the way to satisfy his hunger for comedy. This book is recommended for anyone who enjoys a good educational book, but also has a good sense of humor and enjoys practical jokes themselves.
coolio book.......2004-03-04
this is one of the best books ever. being in Geometry and using the pythagorean theorem, deals A LOT with numbers being squared. with the neat little trick i learned in this book, i hardly ever use my calculator if the number is around 50 or any multiple of 50. it has saved a lot of my time and i am not kidding, Mr. Feynman is a genius. WOW!!! =)
Feynman on Audio CDs.......2001-07-15
I read Surely Your Joking for the 1st time in late 1987. My daughter got if for me at my request for my birthday. Actually I asked her for something by Phillip Morrison but while she was shopping in the San Jose State bookstore she forgot what physicist I was interested and got Feynman's book instead.
I'm glad she made that innocent mistake. Feynman knocked me out. Raymond Todd's reading on the 10 CD audio set is outstanding. I'm buying my daughter a set for herself.
Sometimes, Non-Linear Thinking Shines.......2001-02-19
Feynman's thinking style is not "linear." This is the reason he was able to break out of the box, and make the profound breakthroughs that were his mark. One anecdote after another illustrates this in a most enjoyable and enlightening way.
For example, as a lad he wanted to learn real mathematics. The librarian wouldn't allow him to borrow advanced math books, so he said they were for someone else, someone older. Reading book after book, he taught himself mathematics. He ended up learning some advanced math uniquely his way. Years later, while still in graduate school, he was recruited to work on the Manhattan project (which developed the atom bomb). When other mathematicians who used conventional math treatments were stumped, Feynman was able to make breakthrough using a math style unique to him-non-linear.
And, by the way, quantum mechanics is not linear, either. This was one of the most enjoyable reads ever.
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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman: Adventures of a Curious Character (Chinese Edition)
Richard P. Feynman
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton/Commonwealth Publishing
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Unique insights into a curious and great character indeed!.......2007-09-23
Mr. Feynman is a curious and great character indeed, he's the sort of guy that doesn't take your word for it, unless he's able to experimently verify it himself. Remember, this is the guy that, during the Challenger tragedy hearings, demonstrated the O-ring's inadequacy in-person by using ice-water. He's the kind of guy that believes in seeking the true nature about things, never afraid to ask questions, never too concerned with puppetry or distinguished titles. In short, he's the kind of guy that is an inexhaustible inspiration and guiding star for all of us that is facinated with what science can bring.
Now, the improbable outcome that this guy should end up as a Nobel Laureate, the most distinguished and honourable title of the science community at large, is of course the great irony of it all. This book tells you the background story of this and other improbable events. Be it real or surreal, they are always hilarious, sometimes as a result of Mr. Feynmans highly developed sense of humour, sometimes unintentionally so. The stories date back to young Feynman when he was only a kid, and are told with such warmth and good spirits, that they will make you both laugh and cry. And at the end, you be left with unique insights into a curious and truly facinating character indeed!
An inspiring and fun book.......2007-09-18
Feinerman was an amazing man in so many ways. His life is a real lesson in doing all that you can, and enjoying every minute of your life. Loved this book.
A book you'll wear out and buy again........2007-09-07
I find myself in the funny position of reviewing a book that I never thought enough of to list as a "favorite" or as "deep". It's not a book I would normally bring up in a discussion of "life-changing" books.
That's partly because this book defies categorization. It's not a profound look at a genius; indeed we are given only glimpses into certain facets of Feynman's personality, with only hints of his darker sides. It's not just a book of anecdotes. There is an underlying message, as exemplified by the closing "Cargo Cult Science". On the other hand, it's not trying to be a book with a lesson or moral.
However, over time, this is a book I've read over and over again. And it always seems fresh, as if I was reading it for the first time. His exploits make me laugh, pause in thought, and inspire me to be curious about the world. That's what draws me again and again to reread it. I honestly think I've read it as many times as all my favorite books put together. And I can't figure it out.
great book and inspirational.......2007-08-14
I guess for a grad student this book is inspirational. It gives guidelines on how research should be done, how to not just "believe" blindly others work, but to try and understand it and prove it yourself. It also points out what is wrong with the way we are taught to think, learn in school, by our teachers. It shows how superficial people are in thinking, and how they prefer just to take things as they are and not think them through!!!
Unimpressive.......2007-07-31
This book chronicles a few incidents in the peculiar life of Noble award winning physicist Richard Feynman. Feynman was a brilliant scientist and an inspiring teacher who led an eccentric lifestyle. Although most readers have loved this book, I found it to be boring and dull. A few of Feynman's so called adventures were pretty interesting and had a sparkle to them (like how he learned to open safes), but I thought most of his stories were boring, especially his adventures with ladies in bars. I was pretty disappointed with this one.
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People Behind the Peace: Community and Reconciliation in Northern Ireland
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Born in suburban Boston, where being Irish is a badge of social status, Edith Shillue traveled to Ireland's northeast corner in the wake of the Good Friday Agreement—the historic 1998 peace treaty that promised to end war as a way of life in Northern Ireland. Spending time in both the middle-class environs of South Belfast and the rougher areas of Derry's housing estates, she recorded the prevailing moods of this long-troubled land as she lived and worked with its plain-speaking citizens. Whether reading in a library, listening to a café conversation, or transcribing legal documents, her keen powers of observation are always on display. The result is a revealing portrait of a people and a place caught between past and future during a time of profound change.
Shillue's encounter with Northern Ireland evokes comparison with an earlier journey she took to Viet Nam, another "post-war zone." Here, as there, she examines the function and protection of coded language, the burdens of tradition, and the comic yet painful testing of allegiance to ethnic identities. In daily conversation, the physical landscape, and the small, persistent gestures that help people survive difficult circumstances, she observes the separate identities of Ireland and describes their collision in both personal and political arenas. In so doing, she reveals her own Irish and American identities, both of which elicit warmth and understanding from her Irish acquaintances.
Customer Reviews:
wonderful look at Northern Ireland.......2003-05-26
Prior to reading this book, I'd not known much about the Northern Irish problem--just that there was one. Shillue has opened my eyes to the culture and the deep-seated and intractable issues at play here. She perfectly captures the warmth, natural intelligence and enormous humor of these people. One comes to know and appreciate people on both sides of the divide and realize how difficult this situation will be to reconcile. A wonderful place to begin learning more about this culture and issue.
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