Freshwater Ecology: A Scientific Introduction

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Freshwater ecosystems are under increasing pressure as human populations grow and the need for clean water intensifies. The demand for ecologists and environmental managers who are trained in basic freshwater ecology has never been greater. Students and practitioners new to the field of freshwater ecology and management need a text that provides them with an accessible introduction to the key questions while still providing sufficient background on basic scientific methods.Gerry Closs, Barbara Downes and Andrew Boulton have written a text that meets the requirements of these students. Following an introduction to scientific methodology and its application to the study of ecology, several key concepts in freshwater ecology are reviewed using a wide range of scientific studies into fundamental and applied ecological questions. Key ecological questions are explored in a freshwater context including the role of animal dispersal and predators on freshwater community structure and the impact of pollutants and introduced species on freshwater ecosystems.This book represents the only freshwater ecology textbook that is specifically aimed at an introductory level. It will also be a useful primer for students who have not previously taken a specialized freshwater course but who require an accessible overview of the subject.

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This text is aimed at a one-term course taken by allied health and agricultural science students. It includes annotated reaction summary tables, solved in-chapter examples, integrated applications (industrial, medical, etc.) and essays that describe organic chemistry's impact on the economy, environment, and the quality of life.

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Your Students Will Actually Read It!.......2000-04-01

This book condenses what is usually a gruelling two-semester curriculum into a brief but thorough text that can be navigated in a single semester. Concepts are summarized in easy to understand color tables. Each chapter contains an interesting aside/biography to keep students awake and show that the knowledge has important applications. The periodic table of elements and lists of primary organic functional groups are summarized inside the hard cover for quick reference. A solutions manual for the homework problems is sold separately.

Aromatic Substition by the SRN1 Mechanism (Acs Monograph)

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Aromatic Substition by the SRN1 Mechanism (Acs Monograph)
Roberto A. Rossi , and Rita H. de Rossi
Manufacturer: An American Chemical Society Publication
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The Chemistry of Heterocyclic Compounds, Oxazoles: Synthesis, Reactions, and Spectroscopy, Part A (Chemistry of Heterocyclic Compounds: A Series Of Monographs)

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The Chemistry of Heterocyclic Compounds, Oxazoles: Synthesis, Reactions, and Spectroscopy, Part A (Chemistry of Heterocyclic Compounds: A Series Of Monographs)

Manufacturer: Wiley-Interscience
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ASIN: 0471394947

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The Chemistry of Heterocyclic Compounds series attempts to make the extraordinarily complex and diverse field of heterocyclic chemistry as organized and readily accessible as possible, presenting a basic reference collection for practicing researchers. Volume 60, Oxazoles: Synthesis, Reactions, and Spectroscopy, Part A proves the sole comprehensive resource on the synthetic chemistry of oxazoles–heterocyclic compounds containing nitrogen and oxygen, specifically five-membered, unsaturated rings. Oxazoles have a wide variety of applications in synthetic organic chemistry and have been found in numerous natural products such as hennoxazole, thiangazole, calyculin, halicondrins, pyrenolide, virginiamycin, amphotericin, and phorboxazoles. This volume provides an authoritative review of the literature since 1983, highlights compounds of commerical importance, and includes in-depth coverage of the synthesis, reactions, and spectroscopic and physical properties for each class of compounds. It also discusses in detail the exciting developments on the use of chiral bioxazolines in asymmetric synthesis.

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Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution
R. Taylor
Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons
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Evaluated kinetic data on gas phase addition reactions: Reactions of atoms and radicals with alkenes, alkynes and aromatic compounds,

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Evaluated kinetic data on gas phase addition reactions: Reactions of atoms and radicals with alkenes, alkynes and aromatic compounds,
J. Alistair Kerr
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Nucleophilic aromatic displacement: The influence of the nitro group (Organic nitro chemistry series)

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Nucleophilic aromatic displacement: The influence of the nitro group (Organic nitro chemistry series)
Francois Terrier
Manufacturer: VCH Publishers
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The first truly comprehensive account of this versatile field. Classified and well-documented, it covers:

* the chemistry of SNAr substitutions and anionic o-complexes * nucleophilic aromatic photosubstitutions
* the possible role of electron transfer in some substitution processes * the ANRORC reactions

The volume also discusses for the first time the whole field of nucleophilic aromatic substitutions of hydrogen, a subject of considerable recent interest.

Researchers and students alike will appreciate the book's balanced presentation of mechanistic and synthetic features.

Nucleophilic Aromatic Substition of Hydrogen

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Nucleophilic Aromatic Substition of Hydrogen
Oleg N. Chupakhin , Valery N. Charushin , and Henk C. van der Plas
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Nucleophilic aromatic substitution in carbo- and heteroaromatic systems is a subject of considerable interest to chemists. This book uniquely addresses the systematic analysis of a vast range of nucleophilic substitutions of aromatic hydrogen.

* This text provides coverage of:
* Nucleophilic displacement of hydrogen (the S N/H reactions) in pi-deficient aromatics, such as nitroarenes, arene-metal complexes, and the like.
* Nucleophilic displacement of hydrogen in heterocyclic substrates such as pyridines, their aza and benzo analogs, pyrylium and thiapyrylium cations, and other heterocycles
* Mechanisms for the S N/H reactions (S N/H(AE), vicarious nucleophilic substitutions, and radical S N/H substitutions

Reactions of Aromatic Compounds (Comprehensive Chemical Kinetics)

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Reactions of Aromatic Compounds (Comprehensive Chemical Kinetics)

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The structures & reactions of the aromatic compounds

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The structures & reactions of the aromatic compounds
G. M Badger
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THE STRUCTURES AND REACTIONS OF THE AROMATIC COMPOUNDS.

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THE STRUCTURES AND REACTIONS OF THE AROMATIC COMPOUNDS.
G.M. Badger
Manufacturer: Cambridge
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An Evaluation of Frequency Domain Ensemble Averging to Improve Aircraft Stability Derivative Estimation

Manufacturer: Storming Media
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Binding: Spiral-bound
ASIN: 1423563727

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This is a AIR FORCE INST OF TECH WRIGHT-PATTERSONAFB OH SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING report procured by the Pentagon and made available for public release. It has been reproduced in the best form available to the Pentagon. It is not spiral-bound, but rather assembled with Velobinding in a soft, white linen cover. The Storming Media report number is A218143. The abstract provided by the Pentagon follows: This research evaluated a process to improve aircraft stability derivative estimation results. The Have Derivatives process used overlap ensemble averaging in the frequency domain to minimize noise on the original time domain signals. The process estimated average complex frequency response functions that were then transformed back into the time domain as a set of discrete pulse responses with far less noise than the original signals. These clean signals were used in a parameter estimation program to estimate better stability derivatives than were estimated with the original noisy signals. Both simulation and flight test data were used to study the effects of various noise levels on stability derivative estimation results and to evaluate the Have Derivatives process to improve those results. The simulations demonstrated dramatic improvement using the Have Derivatives process. The flight test results were not as conclusive. The ensemble averaging step of the Have Derivatives process was not effective enough at reducing noise on the flight test data due to non-uniform frequency content of the flight test input. The overall recommendation was to further evaluate the Have Derivatives process using a broadband flight test input, similar to the input that worked well in simulation.

Frequency-Domain Methods for Nonlinear Analysis: Theory and Applications (Wold Scientific Series on Nonlinear Sciebcem Series a, Vol 9)

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Frequency-Domain Methods for Nonlinear Analysis: Theory and Applications (Wold Scientific Series on Nonlinear Sciebcem Series a, Vol 9)
Gennadii Alekseevich Leonov , D. V. Ponomarenko , Vera B. Smirnova , and C. A. Leonov
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ASIN: 9810221460

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This book deals with the investigation of global attractors of nonlinear dynamical systems. The exposition proceeds from the simplest attractor of a single equilibrium to more complicated ones, i.e. to finite, denumerable and continuum equilibria sets; and further, to cycles, homoclinic and heteroclinic orbits; and finally, to strange attractors consisting of irregular unstable trajectories. On the complicated equilibria sets, the methods of Lyapunov stability theory are transferred. They are combined with stability techniques specially elaborated for such sets. The results are formulated as frequency-domain criteria. The methods connected with the theorems of existence of cycles and homoclinic orbits are developed. The estimates of Hausdorff dimensions of attractors are presented.

Set-Theoretic Methods in Control (Systems & Control: Foundations & Applications)

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Set-Theoretic Methods in Control (Systems & Control: Foundations & Applications)
Franco Blanchini , and Stefano Miani
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ASIN: 0817632557

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This self-contained monograph describes basic set-theoretic methods for control and provides a discussion of their links to fundamental problems in Lyapunov stability analysis and stabilization, optimal control, control under constraints, persistent disturbance rejection, and uncertain systems analysis and synthesis. New computer technology has catalyzed a resurgence of research in this area, particularly in the development of set-theoretic techniques, many of which are computationally demanding.

The work presents several established and potentially new applications, along with numerical examples and case studies. A key theme of the presentation is the trade-off between exact (but computationally intensive) and approximate (but conservative) solutions to problems. Mathematical language is kept to the minimum necessary for the adequate formulation and statement of main concepts. Numerical algorithms for the solution of the proposed problems are described in detail.

Set-Theoretic Methods in Control is accessible to readers familiar with the basics of systems and control theory; prerequisites such as convexity theory are included. The text provides a solid foundation of mathematical techniques and applications and also features avenues for further theoretical study. Aimed primarily at graduate students and researchers in applied mathematics and engineering, the book will also appeal to practitioners since it contains extensive references to the literature and supplies many recipes for solving significant control problems.

Stability Domains (Nonlinear Systems in Aviation, Aerospace, Aeronautics and Astronautics)

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Stability Domains (Nonlinear Systems in Aviation, Aerospace, Aeronautics and Astronautics)
Lyubomir T. Gruyitch , Jean-Pierre Richard , Pierre Borne , and Jean-Claude Gentina
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ASIN: 0415308488

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Domains of Lyapunov stability properties and practical stability properties are concepts that are taking the stability theory of nonlinear dynamical systems in new directions. Emerging methodologies based on these concepts overcome the inherent drawbacks of the Lyapunov stability concept and strengthen it to the point where it can meet practical engineering requirements. Stability Domains is an up-to-date account of stability theory with a unique emphasis on stability domains. It sets forth and proves stability criteria in their complete form and presents various approaches based on those criteria to estimating stability domains. The author introduces a new Lyapunov-like technique that generalizes Lyapunov's methodology for time-invariant linear systems, and in doing so provides complete solutions to three fundamental stability problems. It allows: · Direct construction of a system Lyapunov function · Stability conditions that are both necessary and sufficient but not expressed in terms of the existence of a Lyapunov function · The determination of exact stability domains This book offers a unique opportunity to explore and acquire expertise in new stability concepts that lead to effective, practical solutions to long-standing real-world problems. It opens the door to new research directions in stability theory and provides tools for its effective application.

Stability Estimates for Hybrid Coupled Domain Decomposition Methods (Lecture Notes in Mathematics)

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Stability Estimates for Hybrid Coupled Domain Decomposition Methods (Lecture Notes in Mathematics)
Olaf Steinbach
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ASIN: 3540002774

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Domain decomposition methods are a well established tool for an efficient numerical solution of partial differential equations, in particular for the coupling of different model equations and of different discretization methods. Based on the approximate solution of local boundary value problems either by finite or boundary element methods, the global problem is reduced to an operator equation on the skeleton of the domain decomposition. Different variational formulations then lead to hybrid domain decomposition methods.

The geometry and number of the root invariant regions for linear systems [An article from: European Journal of Operational Research]

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The geometry and number of the root invariant regions for linear systems [An article from: European Journal of Operational Research]
E.N. Gryazina
Manufacturer: Elsevier
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ASIN: B000PDYSKA

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This digital document is a journal article from European Journal of Operational Research, published by Elsevier in 2007. 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 stability domain is a feasible set for numerous optimization problems. D-decomposition technique is targeted to describe the stability domain in the parameter space for linear parameter-dependent systems. This technique is very simple and efficient for robust stability analysis and design of low-order controllers. However, the geometry of the arising parameter space decomposition into root invariant regions has not been studied in detail; it is an objective of the present paper. We estimate the number of root invariant regions and provide examples, where this number is attained.

Stability domains in barrier island dune systems [An article from: Ecological Complexity]

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Stability domains in barrier island dune systems [An article from: Ecological Complexity]
J.A. Stallins
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ASIN: B000RR6J42

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This digital document is a journal article from Ecological Complexity, published by Elsevier in . 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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Early ecological descriptions of barrier island dune landscapes recognized the importance of biogeomorphic feedbacks and thresholds. However, these dynamics have not been formally linked to complexity theory. In this article, I develop models of dune landscape phase states, or stability domains, based on a synthesis of these prior studies and statistical analyses. Data for these analyses were obtained from compositional and topographic sampling along Sapelo Island, Georgia and South Core Banks, North Carolina. These undeveloped barrier islands are at opposite ends of a regional meteorological gradient in storm-forced overwash disturbance along the southeastern US Atlantic coast. The topography and plant functional group abundances on each island were supportive of earlier studies noting the propensity for distinct self-organizing biogeomorphic feedbacks to emerge along barrier coasts. On South Core Banks, where storm forcings of overwash are more frequent, the recovery processes initiated by burial-tolerant species may reduce topographic resistance to overwash exposure and contagion. On Sapelo Island, a greater abundance of dune-building and burial-intolerant swale species may confer a higher topographic roughness and more resistance to overwash exposure and contagion. Conceptually, the biogeomorphic modifications of overwash forcings on each island perpetuate the habitat conditions and dominant dune plant species in a weak positive feedback. To provide more empirical evidence for these models, I tested a suite of hypotheses built from the premise that the biogeomorphic interactions on each island engender unique landscape patterns. These patterns originate in each island's distinctive coupling of extrinsic overwash disturbance processes with intrinsic plant-mediated topographic modification. Via this premise, the properties proposed for each domain model were subsequently supported, through: (1) the structure of compositional variance along principal coordinate ordination axes; (2) differences in biotopographic thresholds measured in cross sections; and (3) the distinctive elevational boundaries and spatial scales over which elevation exerted its influence on species diversity. These two domain models can be used as conceptual templates for the development of dune computational simulations.

Robust Stability and Convexity: An Introduction (Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences)

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Robust Stability and Convexity: An Introduction (Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences)
Jacob Kogan
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Frequency Domain Criteria for Absolute Stability (Electrical Science)

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Frequency Domain Criteria for Absolute Stability (Electrical Science)
Kumpati S. Narendra , and James H. Taylor
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An Act to Restore Stability and Predictability to the Annual Payments Made to States and Counties Containing National Forest System Lands and Public Domain ... and Other Purposes (SuDoc AE 2.110:106-393)

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An Act to Restore Stability and Predictability to the Annual Payments Made to States and Counties Containing National Forest System Lands and Public Domain ... and Other Purposes (SuDoc AE 2.110:106-393)
U.S. National Archives and Records Administration
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a MUST-READ for a book club.......2007-07-15

This novella should fit comfortably beside the plays of Sophocles or Aeschylus or the tragedies of Shakespeare. Don't let that intimidate you: it's more accessible than all of them, and a perfect book for a book club. It's the story of a man who commits a despicable act of violence in his immaturity, against a woman who must live with the consequences all her life - as must he. Questions of justice, repentance, mercy, and forgiveness are raised - and left to readers to answer as best we can. Undset's portrayals of the characters maximize the difficulties of these questions and the discussions which readers will be craving after finishing this fine book. I picked it up to see if I like Undset enough to commit to 1000 pages of Kristen Lavransdatter. I have since picked up that meganovel - and find it, so far, less engaging by far than Gunnar's Daughter, which deserves one of the highest places in the canon of Western literature.

The more things change. . . ........2006-08-01

In writing Gunnar's Daughter, Sigrid Undset had two aims: to show that the struggles of the human person against himself, others, and nature have no history; and to reveal a pagan past as it actually was--cruel and bloody in contrast to the growing Christian faith it encountered. In both cases, she succeeded brilliantly.

Take the first case. You often hear yammering from certain quarters that it is possible for human beings to progress as a society beyond their passions. Myopic nonsense! The characters of Gunnar's Daughter hurt themselves and others, and love as much as they hate, with exactly the same capacity as anyone today. An honest reader will realize that we are no better at heart than the men (and woman) whose stories are told here--but also that we are no worse. What we have hated and loved and yearned for, men and women have always hated and loved and yearned for. In reading this you realize for the first time that you can actually appreciate your ancestors as living men and women, and not as faceless DNA donors.

In the second case, in Undset's time--the early 20th century--there was then as now the movement to glorify the pre-Christian past, the sort of naivety only possible from the safety of the Christianized world. Undset was rightly disturbed by this movement, and in Gunnar's Daughter she draws the picture of bloody, violent, might-makes-right world--and better yet, shows the redeeming effect of Christianity as it makes its way into Scandinavia. Contrast Vigdis' exposure of her healthy but unwanted infant--an unremarkable event in her time, even if, as Undset shows, one not done without lingering sorrow--with the later refusal of Viga-Lyot to expose his deformed and sickly baby expressly because, as he states, he is a Christian, and will not hear of it. This is of even more interest in our day, when the growing nonChristian influence on our society has led us full circle to a time when once again the unwanted baby is done away with--Undset's picture was more prescient than she knew.

All in all, a haunting and true book.

A Very Fine Example of the Saga as Modern Novel.......2000-12-24

In this case of medieval date rape and the grim consequences which follow hard upon it, Sigrid Undset created a wonderfully literate experience using the saga "voice". Although I detected slippages in tone, here and there, and felt the ending too contrived and overwrought to be pure saga, I was still swept along by this book, finishing it in a single sitting. It is short, yes, but also a very compelling narrative as it details the tribulations of two would-be lovers who are yet too proud and self-willed for their own good or for the society in which they find themselves. As with the typical viking hero, Viga-Ljot is overly confident of his own charms and impatient of results. And Vigdis, the maid he has set his heart on, is no less aloof and overbearing in her own way than that historical figure, Sigrid the Haughty, who so angered King Olaf Tryggvesson that he slapped her in the midst of their courtship and thereby sealed his doom. Viga-Ljot does much worse in this tale and his fate is thus forever bound up with a woman who cannot forget or forgive him. Like Gudrun Osvif's daughter in Laxdaela Saga, Vigdis bides her time and nurses her pain but, in the end, that pain is not assuaged by the actions she takes, for it is ultimately destructive to everyone it touches.

A good example of the saga form in modern literature indeed, and yet, despite the finely tuned prose of this novel, capturing the nuances and understatement of the saga voice with masterly strokes, there is an underlying stridency here, an almost emotional overreaching which is not, itself, true to the saga form. In some ways this book is too modern and its author's sensibility, at this juncture in her career, almost too young and unseasoned. Undset seems to be reaching for the tragic denouement of the Greek classics to end her tautly told tale rather than content herself with the flatly understated and finely nuanced wrap-up more appropriate to the saga form. But this Greek-like ending left me much colder than the drily tossed-off afterthought of a true saga might have done. And yet, for all that, Undset has here given us one of the better modern novels done in saga form. My hat is off to her.

By the way, for another really fine novel based on the old sagas, one, in fact, that I think outdoes even this one, try SAGA: A NOVEL OF MEDIEVAL ICELAND by contemporary Canadian author Jeff Janoda. Many have tried to evoke the sagas in modern prose but few have done it as well as he has. Janoda has written a contemporary novel that does genuine justice to its original source, Eyrbyggja Saga, while not succumbing to the overwrought sensibility which mars GUNNAR'S DAUGHTER at the end. If you like fiction grounded in the old Norse saga literature, then Janoda's book should be your very next stop.

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Same old same old.......2000-09-05

Undset, Lagerlof, Bjornson, Hamsun, Gustafsson; five stars aren't enough to reflect the masterpieces that they all wrote, and, in the case of Gustafsson, are still writing. Read all their books and grow a lifetime in a couple of years.

I suppose that anything that sells books makes it to the top of the page, although I appreciate that the first review I read about this book was straightforward, unbiased and sans agenda. I have been reading the great writers of the world since I learned to read. I began to explore the works of Undset, Lagerlof, Bjornson, Hamsun, Gustafsson, etc., thirty years ago and it irks me no end that the works of a Scandinavian writer like Undset, who lived in a time when women had all the rights in the world, should be referenced by your commentator from Brattleboro, VT as womens fiction. If she has read "The Master of Hestviken" or "Kristen Lavransdatter", then she must have missed all the suffering endured by the men and women. Great works of creativity do not address personal agendas. They are wrought from the soul. Lagerlofs' "Saga of Gosta Berling", another masterpiece, explores the same moral questions with a male protagonist. I say to you, dear lady from Vermont, that feminism is dead; we are all feminine and masculine regardless of our plumbing, and the last GREAT female poet, Sylvia Plath, lived the pain of that polarity until it killed her. Shame on you Amazon.com for using divisiveness and the promulgation of hatred, fear, and misunderstanding to make a buck. Publish this!!

Fast-paced tale with wonderful Scandinavian folklore..........1999-08-10

Sigrid Undset's Gunnar's Daughter weaves Scandinavian folklore, mythology and violence to ensnare the reader into the period of the Saga Age. In this book, we meet Vigdis Gunnarsdatter -- a survivor in many different levels who is raped and delivers an illegitimate child. As it is said that time heals old wounds, that is not the case with Vigdis. Even with her eventual redemption, peace of mind still eludes her until she takes her very last breath. The scope of history and folklore in Gunnar's Daughter makes this an interesting and quick read. However, it is highly recommended that the reader marks the introduction and notes by Sherrill Harbison -- as they provide much information that makes the book more insightful and pleasurable to read.

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