Amphibian Monitoring in Latin America: A Protocol Manual

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Complete text in English and Spanish.

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Computational Chemistry Using the PC, Third Edition takes the reader from a basic mathematical foundation to beginning research-level calculations, avoiding expensive or elaborate software in favor of PC applications. Geared towards an advanced undergraduate or introductory graduate course, this Third Edition has revised and expanded coverage of molecular mechanics, molecular orbital theory, molecular quantum chemistry, and semi-empirical and ab initio molecular orbital approaches.
With significant changes made to adjust for improved technology and increased computer literacy, Computational Chemistry Using the PC, Third Edition gives its readers the tools they need to translate theoretical principles into real computational problems, then proceed to a computed solution. Students of computational chemistry, as well as professionals interested in updating their skills in this fast-moving field, will find this book to be an invaluable resource.

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I am very afraid.......2002-02-21

In 1990 VCH Publishers, New York, etc. had published a book which
is apparently the same, as this book: R.D. Rogers, "Computational
Chemistry Using the P.C.", although now there is the name of
another publisher. Some two years later I was asked by one of the
scientific journals in the field to write a review about it.
However, from not very clear reasons (or too clear ones: the
publisher of the book and of the journal were the same) it was
not printed there. Finally, my book review appeared in a special
issue devoted to mathematical and computational chemistry of the
journal Croatica Chemica Acta (vol. 66, issue 1, pp A1-A2).
I wish not repeat all my criticism expressed there - there were
serious problems with the basic notions of quantum mechanics and
even freshman's math - only quote my conclusion:

"Keep it out of reach of the students".

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Computational Chemistry Using the PC
Donald Rogers
Manufacturer: NY
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000N7IGQ0

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This book introduces the basic ideas of mathematical proof to students embarking on university mathematics. The emphasis is on helping the reader to understand and construct proofs and write clear mathematics. The authors achieve this by exploring set theory, combinatorics and number theory, which include many fundamental mathematical ideas. This material illustrates how familiar ideas can be formulated rigorously, provides examples demonstrating a wide range of basic methods of proof, and includes some of the all time great classic proofs. The book presents mathematics as a continually developing subject. Material meeting the needs of readers from a wide range of backgrounds is included. The over 250 problems include questions to interest and challenge the most able student but also plenty of routine exercises to help familiarize the reader with the basic ideas.

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absolutely amazing eye-opening look at a forgotten chapter of american history.......2006-04-08

This collection is brilliantly put together, with very informative introductions by the editor that explain each story's historical and personal context. The stories themselves are pure women's voices from different eras of american history and incredibly valuable. they're also just great reads... one woman taken captive as a teenager becomes an active member of her new native american community and tells the fascinating story of her life in an interview at the age of 80. I'd say based on the other customer review, that its not for kids(!) who are going to be thrown off by the early american grammer, but for people seriously interested in womens role in early america and for an unfiltered look at a contemporary white settler perspective on white and native american relationships in the 17th and 18th centuries.

Only BUY if you like Indian Narratives.......2003-09-01

This isn't actually a book you would want to read if you were not required to. These stories are interesting but not a book for a rainy day. Purchase this book only if you are interested in Indian narratives. I had a miserable time reading this- then again it could have been because the book was assigned. The grammar in some of the stories are hard to follow.

A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison

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The meeting of two cultures
Fantastic Indian Captivity Narrative
Fascinating History
Firsthand account of Captive who became tribal Matriarch

A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison
James E. Seaver
Manufacturer: University of Oklahoma Press
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Binding: Paperback

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Captured by the Indians: 15 Firsthand Accounts, 1750-1870
Women's Indian Captivity Narratives (Penguin Classics)
The Captivity of the Oatman Girls Among the Apache and Mohave Indians (Dover Books on the American Indians)
Where the Broken Heart Still Beats: The Story of Cynthia Ann Parker
The White

ASIN: 0806127171

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The meeting of two cultures.......2006-11-07

Though it is nominally written by James Seaver, The Life of Mary Jemison is told primarily through her own words as recounted in her advanced years. The tale is perhaps unusual for its length, but not for its subject matter. It was, in fact, a far from uncommon occurrence that in colonial days the captured victims of Indian attacks would be formally adopted into the tribe as a form of compensation for lost relatives of previous battles. This was the fate of Mary Jemison. The saving grace that made her subsequent life manageable was that the adoption in question was apparently done in full faith. Once enough years had passed for her to lose her drive to return to civilization she was treated every bit as a member of the community.

What followed was a life that she tells of that is filled with the usual tales one might expect from that era and community. She formed a family and was given to two husbands who treated her well and gave her several children. Lest we are tempted in this century to romanticize the life of the Eastern Indian tribes, she tells of the many brutalities that were commonplace among her new people. Violence, whether directed outward towards the white communities or inwards towards each other, seemed to be an unfortunate fact of life. Though it did not touch her person, it did touch her life and always for the worse.

Interspersed with her story are various anecdotes about her family members and the occasional other member of the community. In her late years Jemison related tales that she found fit to share for their intrinsic interest to the outsider. Through her words the modern day reader may find a simple glimpse into a world that is cut off from us today. Following her own tales are several appendices covering a few aspects of Indian culture as it was understood at the time (the early 1800's) that related to her story. Overall, I'd say this is a worthy look into a real-life event that straddled the boundary between two cultures.

Fantastic Indian Captivity Narrative.......2003-03-27

This book is an incredible account of the life and times of Mary Jemison, a white woman taken captive during the French and Indian War and adopted into the Seneca tribe of the Iroquois in western New York. This tale covers her more than 70 years living among them through many of the most vital years of the long history of the Iroquois Confederacy.

In November 1823, when she was in her 80s, Mary Jemison, at the urging of many of the friendly local inhabitants, gave her amazing life story to James Seaver to publish for posterity. Though his truthfulness in some details of that account has often been called into question, this book is one of the most important and complete of any of the Indian captivity narratives to come out of the period between the French and Indian War and the War of 1812, which most historians mark as the end of the period of influence of the Eastern Woodland tribes. This account gives unequalled insight into the Seneca Indians and their ways including religion, food, hunting, warfare, culture, etc.

Mary had many opportunities to leave the Indians and return to white civilization but chose not to do so and thus was witness to some of the most amazing events in the history of her adopted people. Her tale is important to not only historians and ethnologists, but to the general public itself as it is a truly amazing story of triumph and tragedy for a proud people struggling to survive in the face of overwhelming odds as a young United States continued to expand, forever extinguishing their way of life.

Fascinating History.......1999-12-05

The narrative is fascinating reading, both in terms of the history revealed in the words of Mary Jemison and in terms of James Seaver who gives us his own version of her story. The effect is a layering of historical periods. With the help of the editing, you can peer through and see not only the period of Mary Jemison's captivity, but also the prejudices of the following time. An interesting example of the simultaneous respect and loathing with which the early settlers viewed the native inhabitants. I first read the narrative in high school, and would recommend it for young and old readers alike.

Firsthand account of Captive who became tribal Matriarch.......1996-05-30

They say if you visit New York State you will find her descendants; many native-americans have her last name. Taken captive; her parents killed - Mary becomes part of a native-american family. She married a Delaware (Lenape) warrior, with whom she was very content and has many children. This is a dramatic, true story, told in her own words. She is in her 80's, and reminisces about her unusual life.

The Captors' Narrative: Catholic Women and Their Puritan Men on the Early American Frontier

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The Captors' Narrative: Catholic Women and Their Puritan Men on the Early American Frontier
William Henry Foster
Manufacturer: Cornell University Press
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0801440599

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Between 1690 and 1760, close to two thousand New Englanders were taken captive by French Canadians and their Native American allies during five intercolonial wars. Puritan propagandists reacted by evoking the vulnerability of New England's homes and Protestant faith with images of captive women in sexual peril, a titillating vision only amplified in popular Victorian and modern portrayals of female captives as stock literary figures.

In The Captors' Narrative, William Henry Foster demonstrates that the majority of Anglo-American captives taken along the New England frontier were, in fact, men. Free French Canadian women (both secular and monastic) routinely became the men's captors and benefited from their labor when they were brought to New France. In testimonials written by returning male captives, Foster finds fascinating instances of protest and resistance against the female authority that Protestant New England deemed "illegitimate."

In the tales of Catholic women captors, Foster uncovers evidence that the control of male captive domestic labor expanded the public roles of the women in charge. The author painstakingly reconstructs the lived experience of both captors and captives to show that captivity was always intertwined with gender struggles. The Captors' Narrative provides a novel perspective on the struggles over female authority pervasive in the early modern Atlantic world.

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Colleague review.......2005-08-31

New England captivity narratives---accounts by those early Americans who had been captured by Indians or French raiders and later ransomed or escaped their captivity---have become recently popular among historians and literary studies scholars for the information they contain about gender. The prevailing image of the captive is that of a young woman. Several of these women remained with their captors despite the payment of ransom and the pressures of their families to return to America because they found in French Catholic Canada empowerment denied them in Puritan America. Despite the stereotype, Bill Foster has found that boys and men constituted more than 80% of those taken from 1675-1763. Bill's discovery and scholarship significantly and importantly opens up the gender discussion for early American history because these Puritan men found themselves working for and taking orders from French and former American Catholic women many of whom were quite young. This condition the men found shameful and degrading and only a handful became assimilated to the French Catholic culture. Those who returned frequently would not name their captor because of the shame of having been bossed by a woman. Bill's research in the archives in Canada and the U.S. sheds new light on these highly prejudiced male captivity narratives.

Review of the Captor's Narrative.......2003-06-11

As an amateur historian, I found this book a carefully considered and refreshingly factual historical evaluation of an important topic in early American History. The author, a sophisticated prose stylist, writes in a muscular style that carries the reader with ease through the narrative. His wry turn of phrase belies his deep understanding of the complexities of this time period. I heartily recommend this book.

Boundless Faith: Early American Women's Captivity Narratives (Christian Classics)

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Boundless Faith: Early American Women's Captivity Narratives (Christian Classics)

Manufacturer: Paraclete Press (MA)
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ASIN: 1557253390

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In 2001, the Taliban government in Afghanistan kidnapped two American Christian women missionaries. Throughout their ordeal, the women never lost hope or faith that God would sustain them. From the 17th through the 19th centuries, many Christian women had similar experiences, living on the frontiers of a new world. This modern edition of classic captivity narratives includes Mary Rowlandson's The Sovereignty and Goodness of God, and the accounts of Hannah Dustan, Elizabeth Hanson, and Sarah Wakefield.

The Captive's Position: Female Narrative, Male Identity, and Royal Authority in Colonial New England

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The Captive's Position: Female Narrative, Male Identity, and Royal Authority in Colonial New England
Teresa A. Toulouse
Manufacturer: University of Pennsylvania Press
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ASIN: 081223958X

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Why do narratives of Indian captivity emerge in New England between 1682 and 1707 and why are these texts, so centrally concerned with women's experience, supported and even written by a powerful group of Puritan ministers? In The Captive's Position, Teresa Toulouse argues for a new interpretation of the captivity narrative--one that takes into account the profound shifts in political and social authority and legitimacy that occurred in New England at the end of the seventeenth century.

While North American narratives of Indian captivity had been written before this period by French priests and other European adventurers, those stories had focused largely on Catholic conversions and martyrdoms or male strategies for survival among the Indians. In contrast, the New England texts represented a colonial Protestant woman who was separated brutally from her family but who demonstrated qualities of religious acceptance, humility, and obedience until she was eventually returned to her own community. Toulouse explores how the female captive's position came to resonate so powerfully for traditional male elites in the second and third generation of the Massachusetts colony. Threatened by ongoing wars with Indians and French as well as by a range of royal English interventions in New England political and cultural life, figures such as Increase Mather, Cotton Mather, and John Williams perceived themselves to be equally challenged by religious and social conflicts within New England. By responding to and employing popular representations of female captivity, they were enabled to express their ambivalence toward the world of their fathers and toward imperial expansion and thereby to negotiate their own complicated sense of personal and cultural identity.

Examining the captivity narratives of Mary Rowlandson, Hannah Dustan, Hannah Swarton, and John Williams (who comes to stand in for the female captive), Toulouse asserts the need to read these gendered texts as cultural products that variably engage, shape, and confound colonial attitudes toward both Europe and the local scene in Massachusetts. In doing so, The Captive's Position offers a new story of the rise and breakdown of orthodox Puritan captivities and a meditation on the relationship between dreams of authority and historical change.

Teresa A. Toulouse is Professor of English at Tulane University and author of The Art of Prophesying: New England Sermons and the Shaping of Belief.

Heroic women of the West (The Garland library of narratives of North American Indian captivities)
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John Frost
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The Indian Captivity Narrative: A Woman's View (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities)
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Frances Roe Kestler
Manufacturer: Taylor & Francis
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Left by the Indians, or Rapine, massacre and cannibalism on the Overland trail in 1860: The personal narrative of Emeline L. Fuller of the ill-fated Utter-Meyers party
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Left by the Indians, or Rapine, massacre and cannibalism on the Overland trail in 1860: The personal narrative of Emeline L. Fuller of the ill-fated Utter-Meyers party
Emeline L Fuller
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Racial and gender-based dynamics in captivity narratives and slave narratives by women
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Subverting the (dis)course: Mexicana/India voices in Southwestern narratives
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Tey Diana Rebolledo
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