Essential Developmental Biology: A Practical Approach (Cloth)

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Developmental biology is a newly-developing subject that is attracting much interest because of exciting findings being made using a combination of classical embryo manipulation with more modern techniques. This book brings together for the first time, and in comprehensive, easy-to-follow protocols, practical instructions for all of the main techniques, from traditional embryology to cellular and molecular methods. It includes complete reprints of all the stage tables in common use for the main laboratory species. It will become an essential addition to laboratory benches of those using any technique as applied to embryos, cells, or tissues. It will also help teachers to design practical classes suitable for undergraduate and graduate courses.

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A fascinating introduction to one of the most active seismic regions in North America where new earth crust is created as the Baja peninsula (and Borrego) splits from the mainland. Eight field trips journey through deep time in the desert, illustrating major themes of earth science. Numerous maps, photos, and diagrams lend understanding to the exciting story.

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Excellent for the Non Geology Professional.......2001-05-14

This was my first "geology" book, and found Paul's book to be well written, interesting, humorous at times, and has singularly sparked my own interest in paleontology, geology and the Anza Borrego Desert Region. In the two years since I read this, I've devoured many other books of similar vein, looking for the pleasure that this book brought. A great read and field guide.

Geology of Anza-Borrego: Edge Of Creation

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Geology of Anza-Borrego: Edge Of Creation
Remeika-Sunbelt
Manufacturer: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company
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Binding: Paperback

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This two-part text supplies a lucid, self-contained account of classical mechanics and provides a natural framework for introducing advanced mathematical concepts in physics. Topics include Lagrangian dynamics, Hamiltonian dynamics, fluids and sound and surface waves, more. 165 figures. 2 tables. 1980 edition.

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Perfect!.......2006-11-11

This book covers all the main topics that a mechanics course at the advance undergraduate or graduate level should have and more. It starts with a first chapter on Basic Principles where the authors do a general review about Newtonian mechanics, that is, Newton's laws, angular momentum, energy, conservation laws, center of mass motion, two body motion with a central potential and scattering. Then follows a chapter on Accelerated Coordinate Systems where you encounter things like the Corioly acceleration and centrifugal forces. Chapter three is a delight, it is about Lagrangian Dynamics where you learn a much powerfull formalism than newton's equations to solve problems using the Lagrangian function, learning about virtual displacements and generalized coordinates (also D'Alambert and Hamilton's principle). Chapter four is about Small Oscillations, it is very important since here you learn to work with many-particle systems that are use a lot in condense matter physics, the very well known normal coordinates are here introduced. Chapter five is about Rigid Bodies, chapter six is about Hamiltonian Dynamics, this chapter connects very well with chapter three illustrating yet another method to solve mechanics problems by defining canonically momentas for every generalized coordinates and then finding a set of first orders differential equations involving the hamiltonian (as opposed to chapter three where either D'Alambert or Hamilton principle lead to a system of second order differential equations) The hamiltonian is defined as a Legendre transformation of the Lagrangian function, also the Poisson brackets are introduced here and it is even explained how to do the transition between classical and quantum mechanics and also canonical transformations are introduced. This first six chapters make purchasing this book worthwhile but as if this weren't enough there are still another seven chapters more! I will just write their names: 7-Strings, 8-Membranes, 9-Sound waves in fluids, 10-Surface waves on fluids, 11- Heat Conduction, 12-Viscous Fluids and 13-Elastic continua. It also brings 5 appendices. This book is very well written and I always come back to it when I have to remember some mechanics formula or issue to re-study, I say that this book and Goldstein are the best books you can get on classical mechanics.

Nonlinear Mechanics: A Supplement to Theoretical Mechanics of Particles and Continua

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Nonlinear Mechanics: A Supplement to Theoretical Mechanics of Particles and Continua
Alexander L. Fetter , and John Dirk Walecka
Manufacturer: Dover Publications
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ASIN: 0486450317

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In their prior Dover book, Theoretical Mechanics of Particles and Continua, the authors provided a self-contained account of classical mechanics. This supplement and update offers a bridge to contemporary mechanics. The original book's focus on continuum mechanics forms the basis for this discussion of nonlinear continuous systems. 2006 edition.

Theoretical Mechanics for Particles and Continua

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3.5 Stars -- Good Supplementary Material
Useful only for its continuum mechanics coverage
Excellent introductory Graduate text in classical mechanics

Theoretical Mechanics for Particles and Continua
Alexander L. Fetter , and John Dirk Walecka
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Companies
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Classical Electrodynamics Third Edition

ASIN: 0070206589

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3.5 Stars -- Good Supplementary Material.......2001-05-24

I'm currently taking Professor Fetter's undergraduate mechanics course at Stanford, for which Marion & Thornton's Classical Dynamics is the required text. Professor Fetter provides references to relevant sections in his and other texts as supplementary reading to Marion & Thornton. Of all the others (including Goldstein), his provides the most lucid, complete discussion of several key topics in dynamics:

1. Small Oscillations (coupled oscillators, normal coordinates, eigenvalue problems)

2. Continuous Media (passage from loaded string to continuum limit) 3. Strings/Wave Propagation (e.g. d'Alembert, Bernoulli)

These are the sections I found useful. Others were not. I recommend this book as useful auxiliary material to standard texts like M&T. The level is slightly above M&T, but I found the use of matrix notation (vs. ungodly summations) very helpful. And Professor Fetter is a great teacher!

- A Sophomore Physics Major

Useful only for its continuum mechanics coverage.......1999-12-03

The first half of this text covers the standard graduate mechanics cirriculum, while the second half covers strings, membranes, and other continuum topics. The section on particle mechanics is poorly done: the entire section on Hamilton's method is bad, and the treatment of the Hamilton-Jacobi method is disastrous (of all the topics to mess up!). The discussions offer no insight into the material being presented; both the small oscillations chapter and the Hamilton mechanics chapter are simply collections of formulae. I also disagree with their approach to Lagrangian dynamics. They, like Goldstein, begin with a tedious discussion of virtual work and D'Alembert's principle. I prefer Landau's approach- just introduce the action and get on with it. I don't believe that anything is learned from their method.

Much of the book reads as if the authors are just piecing together the relevant sections from other texts, while removing the copied authors' insights. Indeed, they're caught red-handed in chapter 1. Not only are problems 1.17, 1.18 directly from Landau's text, the wording is identical, the problems are divided into the same parts, and just as problem 1.18 directly follows 1.17 in this text, it directly follows the same problem in Landau's book.

This book really doesn't do anything in partcle mechanics well. It's examples are trivial (a common problem), and modern methods (see V.I. Arnold's book and a dynamical systems text) are omitted. There's no reason to use this for particle mechanics when Landau's beautiful text is available. And although I've never used it, I'd wager that Landau's continuum mechanics book is better than this text's coverage...

Excellent introductory Graduate text in classical mechanics.......1998-05-16

In the same spirt as Herbert Goldstein's "Classical Mechanics" (second edition), Fetter and Walecka covers the basics of graduate classical mechanics, while extending the treatment of the material into its quantum counterparts. The problems and examples, while not as difficult as Goldstein's, are appropriate for a 1st year graduate class.

Of exceptional note is the chapter entitled "Strings" which extends the treament of most of classical mechanics into the quantum regime. This section also gives the student an excellent first introduction to the variational and perturbation methods for finding exact and approximate solutions.

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Theoretical Mechanics of Particles and Continua
Alexander L. Fetter; John Dirk Walecka
Manufacturer: Dover Publications
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ASIN: B000QYFJMO

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Enjoyable retelling of a traditional tale

Cheers for Willa!

Wonderful Willa

A zany tale with vivid illustrations by Heather Solomon

Willa And The Wind (Ala Notable Children's Books. Younger Readers (Awards))
Janice M. Del Negro
Manufacturer: Marshall Cavendish Children's Books
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ASIN: 076145232X

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Enjoyable retelling of a traditional tale.......2006-04-27

Willa and the Wind is an interesting and quirky tale from Janice M. Del Negro about two sisters living alone (with no visible parents) on a farm. When the North Wind comes through and steals their corn meal, the younger sister Willa decides that she is not going to put up with that and journeys to the home of the North Wind to demand compensation. She is clearly a character that knows how to handle herself, and is notable in her refusal to be scared off by the mean and nasty old North Wind. She proudly shouts her name and refuses to leave empty handed. This sets into motion a series of trips back and forth with a mystery to be solved.

The greatest strength of this book is that Willa is strong and angry and brave, even though it takes her a while to catch on to the innkeepers' antics. Once she gets it, she proves herself to be highly intelligent and outsmarts the innkeeper to gets all of her magical gifts back. That the audience sees that it is the innkeeper causing the mischief with Willa's gifts makes it all the more satisfying when she finally catches him in the act.

The illustrations by Heather Solomon are exceptional due to their use of multiple mediums. The beautiful watercolors show a vibrant world and simple everyday objects, like Willa's skirt have shocking patches of magenta and orange. The illustrations also incorporate collage for large surfaces, giving the mountains a rocky exterior or the fireplace the look of real bricks. The use of pencil adds subtlety and gracefulness, such as in the tendrils on the wind. Sometimes the art simply illustrates the text; other times it accentuates it. The story is told from the point of view of an emotionally detached omnipotent narrator and the illustrations all the reader to see emotions play across the characters' faces.

Cheers for Willa!.......2006-02-18

My five-year-old triplets and I love this book. It's lyrical, funny, thoughtful and thought-provoking, and we all thoroughly enjoyed reading it.

My mother is a retired first grade teacher who bequeathed to us her personal library of children's books, accumulated during her 35+ years of teaching. It's refreshing to come across a new book like this one that's as memorable and as well-written and illustrated as any of these books from the past.

Wonderful Willa.......2006-02-08

Here is the wonder-filled tale of a girl with the nerve and persistence to confront the north wind . Though the mischievous wind is honest in his dealing the innkeeper she meets is not. Willa meets the challenge with pluck and spirit. My daughters can't get enough of this new hero !

A zany tale with vivid illustrations by Heather Solomon.......2006-01-13

Willa is bold and clever - so she's going to ask Old Windy, the north wind, to return the cornmeal that he stole. Problem is - Old Windy also is bold and mischievous - but fair. He'll exchange something for the missing cornmeal. Soon three bold contenders vie for cornmeal in a zany tale with vivid illustrations by Heather Solomon.

Every Tongue Got to Confess: Negro Folk-tales From the Gulf States

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Telling the truth and shaming the devil...Zora's Way!
Like a Window to the Past
Excellent collection of Black Folklore

Every Tongue Got to Confess: Negro Folk-tales From the Gulf States
Zora Neale Hurston
Manufacturer: Caedmon
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Binding: Audio Cassette

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ASIN: 0694526452

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African-American folklore was Zora Neale Hurston's first love. Collected in the late 1920's Every Tongue Got to Confess, from the celebrated author of Their Eyes Were Watching God, is published here for the first time, beautifully performed by Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis.

Hilarious, bittersweet, and often saucy, these folk-tales provide a verdant slice of African-American life in the rural South at the turn of the twentieth century. They capture the heart and soul of the vital, independent, and creative community that so inspired Zora Neale Hurston.

In Every Tongue Got to Confess, Hurston records, with uncanny precision, the voices of ordinary people -and no two actors better capture this world than Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis. They pay tribute to the richness of Black vernacular -- its crisp self-awareness, singular wit, and improvisational wordplay. These folk-tales reflect the joys and sorrows of the African-American experience, celebrate the redemptive power of storytelling, and showcase the continuous presence in America of an Afticanized language that flourishes to this day.

Performed by Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis

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Telling the truth and shaming the devil...Zora's Way!.......2003-01-30

It was said from those that knew her best, that African-American folklore was Zora Neale Hurstonýs first love. The ability to manifest in, and excel within the margins of her own peopleýswapping lies, telling tales, and giving unique meaning to life from the backhand side. Thus, if any part of her legacy is to prevail, one should pay close attention to this side of her that I feel truly helped to define her writing style. No doubt, the genesis of it all goes back to her Eatonville, Florida roots sitting on the porch of the neighborhood story listening to the older men adhere to the aforementioned. Subsequently as a Barnard student of Anthropology under the guidance of Franz Boaz, she embarked in 1927 on a two-year effort to collect samples of African-American folklore. This sets the stage for Negro Tales From The Gulf States, which can boast of an interesting evolution. This is a book written by Zora that was almost an afterthought, until recently discovered after lying in obscurity for nearly 30 years. All of this time, it was stored in a basement at Columbia University, and 20 more at the Smithsonian before coming to light at the urging of the authorýs estate and others.

What we have here in borrowing Zoraýs own words ý ýauthenticity to preserve the tale-tellers way of speakingýsavoring the boiled-down juice of human livingý. The book is well written and organized by subject. Read it and revel in how the author used and presented vernacular that would be recognized today as Ebonicsýeveryday idiomatic expressionism. You will witness improvisational wordplay and given an apt explanation of how these folktales were collected, lost, found, and examined for the deep significance they hold today. These lost southern tales are brought to life by Zoraýs commanding use of syntax mixed with a sense of urgency. Most of them are infused with humorous stories making a point that we can all identify with. She makes it pointedly clear that folktales were a direct link to our ancestral background, and served a purpose. I marveled at how she was able to use stories made famous by others in how they were reworked and related from a black point of view, giving them a special cross-cultural ring. For instance, to the story of a woman who promises the devil that she will break up a marriage in exchange for a pair of shoes, or how she gives reasons why God gave women keys to the bedroom, the kitchen, and the cradle. You will die laughing, and you will definitely be amused by the punch lines and the Zora penchant for comedic timing.

If thereýs a reason to want to understand folktales told from the mind of this unique storyteller, youýd want to be enlightened in digesting this type of wit that the author seem to make timeless. In accumulating this body of work, Hurston clearly placed as much emphasis on imagination as on truism. Often she got both. With all the other offering of late alluding to Zora Neale Hurston, you might as well add this book to your collection. You wonýt regret it!

Like a Window to the Past.......2001-12-17

If only Zora Neale Hurston could've published this book during her lifetime! Luckily her papers containing her research were rediscoveredand we now have this gorgeous collection of stories. Some of them were familiar to me from listening to my grandparents tell tall tales, others were completely new. These stories are funny, frightening and enlightening. Our elders and ancestors were amazing people with a tough and even cynical sense of humor. If we are lucky more of Hurston's research will be found and more will be published.

Kimberley Wilson, author of 11 Things Mama Never Told You About Men

Excellent collection of Black Folklore.......2001-12-07

If you grew up hearing older folks get together and swap wild stories, or if you have an academic interest in folklore, then this is for you! Essentially, the great Folklorist Zora Neale Hurston spent 1928 and 29 among rural Blacks in Florida and Alabama jotting down their folk tales and witty sayings. Being a Black Southerner herself gave her an insider's access that made her interviewees comfortable in sharing with her. The final manuscript, "Negro Folktales of the Gulf States" remained unpublished till now. Some of these tales were published in 1935 with a framework story of Miss Hurston's adventures among her interviewees entitled "Mules and Men." But here, the stories exist in their orignial, uncut form without a framework story. Once the modern reader becomes accustomed to the printed approximation of Southern African-American dialect, you can sit back and enjoy the folk wisdom and humorous tales. So imagine that Grandpa, Uncle Wille, and all the others are gathered around your porch with a pitcher of lemonade on a pleasant afternoon and enjoy this African-American equivalent to "Aesop's Fables" and "The Arabian Nights."

Dog Ghosts, and Other Texas Negro Folk Tales: The Word on the Brazos: Negro Preacher Tales from the Brazos Bottoms of Texas

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Dog Ghosts, and Other Texas Negro Folk Tales: The Word on the Brazos: Negro Preacher Tales from the Brazos Bottoms of Texas
J.M. Brewer
Manufacturer: University of Texas Press
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The Book Of Negro Folklore
Hughes & Bontemps
Manufacturer: Dodd Mead & Company
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The Book of Negro Folklore
Arna (Edited by) Langston and Bontemps
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Book of Negro Folklore

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The Book of Negro Folklore

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Book of Negro Folklore
L. Hughes
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Book of Negro Folklore (Apollo Editions, A-228)

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Book of Negro Folklore (Apollo Editions, A-228)

Manufacturer: Dodd, Meade & Company
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This work of 624 pages covers every phase of folk Negro Culture. It treats of all forms of music, such as work songs, spirituals, blues, field hollers and shouts. It includes poetry, animal tales and games, much of it in the old African American dialect.

Iris y El Gato Negro (Fabulas de Familia)

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Iris y El Gato Negro (Fabulas de Familia)
Elli Ot
Manufacturer: Ediciones Castillo
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ASIN: 9702002753
Release Date: 2006-09-05

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In a sad, gray city, people are told that there's no room for happiness. One day agirl called Iris arrives, pushing a handcart full of flowers. The inhabitants are bewildered by this happy go lucky girl but her "perfumed grasses" eventually wins them over.

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