Sex Ratios: Concepts and Research Methods

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This multi-author volume provides both a conceptual context and an instruction in methods for many aspects of sex ratio research. The book discusses theory, statistical analysis, and genetics, as well as research in one of a wide spectrum of animal, plant, and microbial taxa. Sex Ratios: Concepts and Research Methods is primarily intended for graduate and professional behavioral and evolutionary ecologists in this field, but it will also be useful to biologists building evolutionary models, and researchers analyzing data involving proportions or comparisons across phylogenetically related species.

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This 8-12 week course, organized into 60 distinct Skillbuilders, is targeted toward students with lower-level math skills and can be used with individuals or groups. Students gain real-world math skills by working business problems and applications involving interest, discount, payroll, depreciation, retail selling, and checking accounts.

Essentials of Math with Business Applications, Student Edition

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Essentials of Math with Business Applications, Student Edition
C. George Alvey
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And now I found these fancies creating their own realities, and all imagined horrors crowding upon me in fact'. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym is an archetypal American story of escape from home and family which traces a young man's rite of passage through a series of terrible brushes with death during a fateful sea voyage. But it also goes much deeper, as Pym encounters various interpretative dilemmas, at last leaving the reader with a broken-off ending that defies solution. Apart from its violence and mystery, the tale calls attention to the act of writing and to the problem of representing truth. Layer upon layer of elaborate hoaxes include its author's own role of posing as ghost-writer of the narrative; Pym - his only novel - has become the key text for our understanding of Poe. This edition offers eight short tales which are linked to Pym by their treatment of persistent themes - fantastic voyages, gigantic whirlpools, and premature burials - or by their ironic commentary on Poe's mystification of his readers.

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Mesmerizing Account of Tragic Death, Canabalism, Saving from Sea Death and more.......2006-09-06

I have not read this masterpiece until recently. Somehow it escaped my view. But a young Edgar Allen Poe does not dissapoint. This tale unfolds with the desire of a young lad to go to sea against his fathers and grandfathers wishes. Before departing he accidently runs into his grandfather at the fishermans warf and is again warned. But he desires to disobey his family and his hidden on board by his best (only) friend. His friend manages to bring his friends dog with them. It starts out with their plans going array when is friend does not introduce him to the crew once far out to see and this perplexes our hereo. Later he understands that there has been a mutiny and later is introduced to the seamen at a point of starvation. But the story line developes much further with a harsh view of starvation and being cast off at sea with violent mutineers. This is a magnificient story well told and is very griping from the start. Its a psychological terror well advanced for 1834. Poe should have been prouder of this work because he historically did not like.

"I feared I should not be able to write, from mere memory, a statement so minute...".......2006-02-13

Claiming that this is the true narrative of a sea voyage by Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, Edgar Allen Poe records the strange, unbelievable events aboard the ship Grampus in 1827 and on a voyage of discovery to the Antarctic six months later. Published in 1838, Poe's fictionalized narrative, supposedly penned by Pym, a young man from Nantucket, describes Pym's experiences beginning in July, 1827. Stowed away in the hold of the ship and aided by his friend Augustus Barnard, whose father is captain of the Grampus, Pym endures more than a week alone and in almost total darkness before he discovers that a mutiny has occurred onboard.

Macabre details of ghastly deaths and unrelieved bloodlust, the massacre of the crew, and the casting adrift of the captain presage even more gory events. A countermutiny, equally bloody, leaves only four men alive on the Grampus. A gale, a gruesome death ship which passes them, circling sharks, and additional deaths leave only two men alive when the brig capsizes.

The second half of the account details the trip of discovery taken by Pym and the other survivor, along with an English crew from a passing ship, south to the "Antarctic Sea," a voyage in which they go "more than eight degrees farther south than any previous navigators." On this journey they encounter a monstrous "Arctic bear," more than 15 feet long, a cat-like animal with red teeth and claws, warm water with Galapagos tortoises, a series of islands inhabited by canoe-paddling natives, the Aurora Borealis, hot and milky water, white ashy showers, and a huge human figure in white, not the sights reported by later Antarctic explorers.

Poe's only novel, in the romantic tradition of sea adventures, presages the publication of Melville's Typee, which is a true story. In this case, Poe plays with the reader's sense of reality, claiming that his fictional narrative is true and that the fictional Pym had "refused" to publish it because he thought no one would believe his tale. Ironies abound, matched only by the romantic embellishments and imaginative "discoveries" in Antarctica that make this fast-paced narrative as full of tense drama as any soap opera. The abrupt "conclusion" remains ironically inconclusive. Breathless excitement and near death experiences, combined with mystical visions and inexplicable events, make this exciting narrative fun to read. n Mary Whipple

Poe's One and Only Novel:.......2003-04-20

In this novel I had the same feeling I used to have watching or reading Treasure Island. It is one of the best adventure novels I have ever read.

It speaks about an adventure seeker, a Mr. A. Gordon Pym. He tries to leave the luxury of his little city Nantucket, where he used to live with his father. One friend of his convinces him to travel. The first voyage was a total disaster. But he did not quit his dream. He went on yet another ... Man, it was the most chilling experience I ever had. It is not like anything you dream, it is even stranger. No goblins nor trolls appear hear, yet still, Poe can really bring the horror to your heart.

A mutiny is added to the singular experience Pym had, and then Cannibalism. And after you thought the story finished, you see that Poe starts a new story which not as impressive as the first, yet turns the attention to some other direction.

The end was a bit shaky. I did not like it at all. I usually do not like open endings. That was the only reason I gave 4 instead of 5 stars.

Overall, I would recommend you to read it in the middle of the night (if you do not have anything else to do), with a cup of tea, and with no one else around! You would enjoy it even more.

A disturbing tale of shipwreck and savagery.......2002-03-13

This story, Poe's only novel, is an endurance test for both reader and characters. I believe it was originally serialized, and reads like a collection of incidents rather than a complete story. However, it is a captivating tale, astounding in it's detail and casual horror. Arthur Gordon Pym was born under an unlucky star. He survives in the most inconceivable circumstances, from a drifting, overturned hulk to the frozen waters of the Antarctic. Each page turned piles more horror in his path, described with a growing clinical distance. Pym himself becomes more desensitized to each incident, until he views the irrational with a casual curiosity. The language is beautifully detailed, and some feel this story is the inspiration for "Moby Dick."

Altogether, a delightfully disturbing story. One of the best I have read.

Poe's Best Long Work -- And His Only, Even.......2000-02-19

At 150 pages or so, Arthur Gordon Pym is the closest Poe came to a novel. Rife with his characteristic polarization and dreamscape plots, this stands, in my opinion, as one of Poe's best. The short stories included only add to the mainstay, and it's a great value.

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (Penguin Classics)

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Adventure, horror, and fantasy as only Poe could conjure them
An odd literary adventure
The white Odyssey!
"[I feared] that the public would regard what I put forth as merely an impudent and ingenious fiction."
The Adventure of Pym

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (Penguin Classics)
Edgar Allan Poe , and Richard Kopley
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The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket is Poe's only novel and his "greatest work" (Jorge Luis Borges).

Reading a newspaper account in 1836 of a shipwreck and subsequent rescue of two men on board, Edgar Allan Poe found the germ of the story he would develop into The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket--his classic gothic sea novel. Published in 1838, this rousing sea adventure follows a New England boy, Pym, who stows away on a whaling ship with its captain's son, Augustus. The two boys, who find themselves repeatedly on the brink of discovery or death, witness many hair-raising events, including mutiny, savagery, cannibalism, and frantic pursuits. It was Poe's unique genius, however, that he imbued the deliberately popular tale with such allegorical richness that discerning readers have been intrigued ever since and his literary successors have employed his motifs. With its rich use of biblical imagery and psychological insights, Poe's masterpiece has resonated throughout subsequent literary history, influencing major works by Melville, Verne, James, Nabokov, and others.

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A strong hand held him on the cabin floor, with a tight grasp upon his throat--still he was able to see what was going on around him. His father was tied hand and foot, and lying along the steps of the companion-way with his head down, and a deep wound in the forehead, from which the blood was flowing in a continued stream. He spoke not a word, and was apparently dying. Over him stood the first mate, eying him with an expression of fiendish derision, and deliberately searching his pockets, from which he presently drew forth a large wallet and a chronometer.

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Adventure, horror, and fantasy as only Poe could conjure them .......2007-01-14

Suspense and horror pervade Poe's full-length story of entombment, mutiny, shipwreck, cannibalism, and more--a veritable catalog of all the human fears and foibles that Poe depicts in his more widely read tales of mystery and imagination.

The novel opens with a prefatory episode, in which Pym describes a truly harrowing night at sea when he and his best friend Augustus, after having far too much to drink, went sailing during a storm. Instead of curing Pym of his wanderlust, the experience and Augustus's anecdotes about sea life fill his head with abnormally romantic visions of "shipwreck and famine; of captivity among barbarian hordes; of a lifetime dragged out in sorrow and tears, upon some grey and desolate rock, in an ocean unapproachable and unknown." It's an accurate summary of what ensues, and although it may sound a lot like Defoe, Poe livens things up with his own special brand of horror.

After this preview, the rest of the novel feels like two main stories patched together around a central character. In the first adventure, Pym stows away on the ship owned by Augustus's father and emerges to discover that there has been a mutiny. The second half imagines a sort of "lost horizon" in the midst of Antarctica; instead of ice, there are temperate islands populated by devilishly affectionate natives.

It's rip-roaring fun, and it slows down only in between, when Pym travels through the Galapagos Islands on the way to the South Pole. These chapters, paraphrased and plagiarized rather shamelessly from contemporary travel accounts, abound in longitudinal measurements (a map will come in handy) and summaries of previous real-life explorations of the South Seas. The interlude as a whole is remarkably similar to Poe's unfinished (and languid) novel, "The Journal of Julius Rodman," published two years later, which also purports to be an account of unexplored territory--in this case, the Rocky Mountains. The fact that Poe had never been to either location doesn't help his fiction.

But don't let these skimmable chapters put you off. Readers who enjoy such classics as "Robinson Crusoe" or "Treasure Island" will find "Arthur Gordon Pym" a thrilling contribution to the adventure genre. It is also one of his more accessible works for young readers, often resembling a yarn of the high seas, without the ponderous metaphysics that bog down some of Poe's shorter pieces of fiction. And fans of science fiction, fantasy, and horror will be interested in the novel's obvious influence on later writers such as Jules Verne (who even wrote a largely forgotten sequel, "The Sphinx of the Ice Fields") and, of course, H. P. Lovecraft (most notably his story "At the Mountains of Madness").

An odd literary adventure.......2006-11-19

Poe only wrote one novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. The novel is a series of amazing adventures that happen to the young Pym. Pym hides in a casket-like box in a ship, along with a rotten ham and several bottles of liquor and a cask of wine. While trapped under the deck, Pym finds that his dog has also joined him in his misadventure. The book takes you through Pym's experiences of being trapped under deck without food or water. He also experiences a mutiny where a faction of the crew take over the ship and kill many of the other crew members before putting the captain and a few honest sailors into a small boat with now paddles or compass. Pym, his friend the Captain's son, and a super strong sailor who participated in the mutiny stick together for survival sake, especially around the African blood thirsty cook who beheads other sailors. The sailor who mentors Pym is half black and half white, which Poe calls a 'hybrid'. They undergo a range of adventures with a death ship full of corpses, and storms so violent that the ship is reduced to ruins. They are reduced to cannibalism and draw straws to determine who will be dinner. They find and eat a dead polar bear. They pass many icebergs until the water becomes warm and tropical as they get near Antarctica. They find a tropical island full of black men who become very treacherous to our heroes. They escape the island and get caught in a giant whirlpool that is going into the center of the earth, where they see a gigantic white glowing figure. Then Poe pulls a fast one on us and tells us that the final 3 chapters of Pym's narrative have been lost and unfortunately young Pym has recently died.

What do we make of this crazy tale? This novel influenced Borges, Melville, and Jules Verne. Yet it is an odd novel, with an abrupt and truncated ending. In some ways it is a series of short stories strung together, each short story meant to give impressions of horror and adventure. Yet, I could not get over a distinct impression that Poe had written himself into a corner with no escape (after all what can possibly come after going into the center of the earth on a whirlpool at the south pole and seeing God or a giant angel?) and thus he wraps up the story in a very untidy manner.

At times, Poe's descriptions of horror are extremely beautiful and masterly. The ghost ship description is especially well done. At other times he develops a careful plot of intrigue and betrayal. The sections about the tribe of black men is very well constructed. At other times he is very abrupt and shocking, such as the immediate stabbing death of the poor man who was sacrificed so that the others could eat him and survive.

This brings up the topic as to whether a good novel must tie up all lose ends for the reader in a tidy plot resolution package? If this is what you seek in a novel, Arthur Gordon Pym is not the book for you. However if you are willing to go on an awkward journey with a skilled but uneven writer,then you will enjoy this unique novel.

The white Odyssey!.......2006-05-09

Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket is one of the most relevant and significant novels of Poe. His passionate literary style, told in first person, tells us about the hidden incursion of Arthur in a boat that will make a tour through the east coasts of South America.

The prodigious imagination and febrile mood, make of it an issue of invaluable and beating actuality.

The white color will impregnate the work as another invisible actor. And its final is still one of the most sublime and admired ever written.

"[I feared] that the public would regard what I put forth as merely an impudent and ingenious fiction.".......2006-05-06

The Adventure of Pym.......2005-11-07

This was a fascinating, and often horrifying adventure on the high seas. This is Poe's only full length novel and it is truly terrific. It's got darkness like only Poe can deliver, yet it is also very reminiscent of true narratives that relate the tales of violence and cannibalism in extreme circumstances.
This novel has been accused in the past of not being realistic but I've got two things to say to that:
1. It's fiction, and therefore has license to be fantastical in order to excite the reader
2. This account was inspired by a real newspaper article Poe read and is truly reflective in many ways of narrative exploration history.
The book is 200 pages and a fast and fun read. It's a classic you can sink your teeth into!

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (Audiofy Digital Audiobook Chips)

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The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (Audiofy Digital Audiobook Chips)

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This Audiofy audiobook chip packs Christopher Plummer's full 3 hour reading of "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket" on a tiny memory card. A single Audiofy audiobook chip, hardly larger than a stamp, holds a complete digital audiobook, and saves the last listening position automatically, unlike CDs. With an SD memory card slot or low-cost adapter - like those for digital cameras - this Audiofy audiobook chip can be played on Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh desktop computers or laptops (Microsoft Windows XP/2000/Me/98, or Apple Mac OS X 10.3.9 and above) or transferred to Apple iPod media players. Audiobook chips also move seamlessly to most Palm OS and Pocket PC handheld PDAs with SD expansion slots, as well as Treo and Windows Mobile "smartphones" (Palm OS 5.2 or Windows Mobile 2002 and above)... In 1827, Arthur Gordon Pym stowed away on the brig Grampus, set for the South Seas. Thus begins a sage of mutiny and butchery, recapture of the vessel by a loyal few, subsequent shipwreck and sufferings, and deliverance, by the means of the British schooner Jane Guy. A brief cruise in the Antarctic Ocean leads to a group of small islands and the capture of the Guy, the massacre of her crew, and the escape and wild pursuit of Pym. What follows are the incredible adventures still farther south as the hero of the story drifts toward the South Pole in a canoe - when out of the mist rises a great white figure...

The Complete Tales of Mystery and Imagination, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket & The Raven and other Poems (Masters Library)

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The Complete Tales of Mystery and Imagination, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket & The Raven and other Poems (Masters Library)

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One of the World's greatest and most influential masters of the short story, Edgar Allan Poe has also claimed as the originator of such important styles of fiction. Poe's singular ability to probe into the caverns of the psyche and reveal, through the medium of imaginative prose and poetry, that combination of fear, guilt and obsession common to mankind has insured his permanence amoung the great writers of the world.

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The narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym
Edgar Allan Poe
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The narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym [pseud.] of Nantucket: Comprising the details of a mutiny and atrocious butchery on board the American brig Grampus, ... subsequent horrible sufferings from famine

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The narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym [pseud.] of Nantucket: Comprising the details of a mutiny and atrocious butchery on board the American brig Grampus, ... subsequent horrible sufferings from famine
Edgar Allan Poe
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THE NARRATIVE OF ARTHUR GORDON PYM OF NANTUCKET

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THE NARRATIVE OF ARTHUR GORDON PYM OF NANTUCKET
Edgar Allan Poe
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Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket

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Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
Edgar Allan Poe
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The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (Large Print)

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The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (Large Print)
Edgar Allan Poe
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ASIN: 1425087272
Release Date: 2007-06-15

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"Poes only complete novel that recounts the story of young Pym, a stowaway aboard a whaling ship. His various hair-raising escapades like experiencing a shipwreck and dealing with cannibals keep the reader enthralled. Poe's unique genius is at its zenith as he relates this captivating tale with an allegorical richness that completely satiates the reader."

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket [EasyRead Comfort Edition]

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The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket [EasyRead Comfort Edition]
Edgar Allan Poe
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