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EMTREE 2006: The Life Science Thesaurus (EMTREE Thesaurus)
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Soils in Archaeological Research
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Soils, invaluable indicators of the nature and history of the physical and human landscape, have strongly influenced the cultural record left to archaeologists. Not only are they primary reservoirs for artifacts, they often encase entire sites. And soil-forming processes in themselves are an important component of site formation, influencing which artifacts, features, and environmental indicators (floral, faunal, and geological) will be destroyed and to what extent and which will be preserved and how well. In this book, Holliday will address each of these issues in terms of fundamentals as well as in field case histories from all over the world. The focus will be on principles of soil geomorphology , soil stratigraphy, and soil chemistry and their applications in archaeological research.
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A new approach in writing a text book.......2000-07-12
I have read the internet version of the book. The book is unique in its stile. It blenders physics' teaching with web site programming technique. The book will be a pioneer in high school and college teaching.
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Can you name a mystery about bell ringing? Of course--The Nine Tailors, by Dorothy L. Sayers. How about another? Well, this book about small-town British coppers Chief Inspector Barnaby and Sergeant Troy might qualify: it begins when a young female campanologist in the village of Fawcett Green fails to show up for practice. Was Simone Hollingsworth kidnapped for ransom? Was her doting new husband involved? Or does her disappearance have something to do with her snooping neighbors--especially the neighbor's obsessive daughter? As she did so well in Written in Blood, Caroline Graham captures the inwardly seething inhabitants of a supposedly placid village with the skill of an expert entomologist observing an anthill. And Barnaby and Troy are once again the perfect pair: the chief inspector's calm introspection is a fine match for the younger, brasher officer's occasional outbursts and blunders. Not the least of Graham's accomplishments is keeping the subgenre of the traditional British village mystery fresh and meaningful. --Dick Adler
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When bored young housewife Simone Hollingsworth misses bell-ringing practice-her latest effort to find something to do-no one is surprised. In fact, if old Mrs. Molfrey, her neighbor, didn't report it to Detective Chief Inspector Barnaby, Simone's disappearance might have gone unrecorded in Fawcett Green. But ever Barnaby isn't concerned-until a body is found.
Soon Barnaby is uncovering the passionate entanglements beneath the placid surface of Fawcett Green-and perhaps jeopardizing his career. Now, if he misconstrues the clue buried in Simone's garden-and a subtlety of human behavior his experienced eye should spot-a brutal killer may go free...
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Faithful Unto Death.......2006-06-26
The book is very good. It is a little different than the t.v. series but it a good book with lots of little intrigues going on in the village. Of course CID Barney solves the mysteries. He is a well rounded person in the series so I enjoy the series.
the books "Midsomer Murders" are based on.......2006-04-08
If you like "Midsomer Murders" you will like the Inspector Barnaby books by Caroline Graham. The "Midsomer Murders" series is loosley based on Graham's mysteries. You will find the character of Sergeant Troy is quite different in the television show. He is much more likable. I enjoy both the books and the show. Some people are turned off by the character of Troy, and that makes them dislike the books. I think the people in the series are very human. Some are fine and admirable, some are dreary, some are condescending (this is England, after all), some are nazis and chauvenists. Just like real life. I think the "cozy" provides a sampler of characters in the charming setting of the English village, otherwise there would be no story. Just scenery. So don't hate the books just because Troy is repellant. It is kind of different to get inside the mind of someone not so nice. "Faithful Unto Death" is my favorite Inspector Barnaby book. It is quite complicated, and I very much like the characters in this book. It is very good "cozy" reading, and much more intellectual and complex than my other favorite, Agatha Raisin (by M.C. Beaton).
Delightful, nasty little English country mystery.......2005-05-02
Another English inspector mystery starring Chief Inspector Barnaby, this one is a bit of a departure for Caroline Graham. All of the usual characters are still in play here: the villages of Ferne Basset and Fawcett Green, the town of Causton, Inspector Barnaby, his faithful-yet-shallow-yet-extremely talented sidekick Troy, and the usual CID cronies. This book is especially twisty and turny and a very fun ride. I tend to associate Caroline Graham with more straightforward, Agatha Christie-type whodunits, which have fun twists but not at every turn, for heaven's sake! The local village characters are outrageously well drawn; we've all had neighbors like some of these and Graham has captured all of them most perfectly. I didn't see the ending come on this one but I had my suspicions, which went back and forth for the whole book. Such is the good writing where you are forced to glance at everyone in the book with a jaundiced eye!
A Most Wonderful Depiction!.......2003-02-20
Caroline Graham is often referred to as a modern-day Agatha Christie. Certainly her characters, humour and carefully crafted mystery story lines are reminiscent of the great Christie. But her books are also quite different. We don't see the detail in Christie's books that we see in Graham's. This particular book is funny and complex. It is also one of the best descriptions of a psycopathic personality that I have ever read. And it's done with so much class! Barnaby seems to have finally met his match with this villain, and you will have to read it to find out how.
Graham cracks me up!.......2002-03-07
Not only does Caroline Graham weave a great yarn, her characterizations are hilarious. This is a very entertaining who-done-it. If you appreciate English humor, this is the mystery for you!
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Written by Hungary's greatest modern novelist, Be Faithful Unto Death is the moving story of a bright and sensitive schoolboy growing up in an old, established boarding school in the city of Debrecen in eastern Hungary. Misi, a dreamer and would-be writer, is falsely accused of stealing a
winning lottery ticket. The torments brought on by this incident which he is forced to undergo, and from which he grows, are superbly described, as Stephen Vizinczey's new translation unleashes the full power of Moricz's prose. First published in 1921, the novel is brimming with vivid detail from
the provincial life that Moricz knew so well, and shot through with a sense of the tragic fate of a newly truncated Hungary. But ultimately it is the universal quality of the experience captured here, and the author's uncanny ability to rediscover for the reader precisely what it feels like to be
that child, which makes this portrait of the artist as a young boy not merely a Hungarian, but an international classic.
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brilliant!.......2007-08-31
Moricz's evocation of childhood is simply brilliant. It's said that this was his most "accessible" and least ascerbic novel - after reading Relations, I can well believe it. Both books stand proudly on my shelf and Be Faithful is a wonderful novel I will return to....
Incidentally, it's worth checking out the other books in the Central European Classics series. I think they're mostly out of print now, but you can find them quite easily on the net. In particular, I would single out Dezso Kosztolanyi and his novel Skylark, plus anything else of his you can lay your hands on - he's a wonderful writer. But Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz (Polish) and Ivan Olbracht (Czech) are also well worth reading.
Boy Meets World, Misjudges It and Is in Turn Misjudged.......2007-08-21
Moricz wrote this novel, autobiographical in its background details, during his 42nd year. Originally serialized, it was published in book form in Hungarian in 1921. It gives us the world (in this case, Hungary in the year 1892) as seen through the eyes of its twelve-year old protagonist, Misi Nyilas. Misi comes from a time, place, and social group representative of one of the finely graded statuses of the semi-feudal society which the Hungarian gentry sought to preserve - he is from a small village on the great plain, where his father is a carpenter and general mechanic whose fortunes fluctuate wildly, making the support of his family of seven an endless trial. Misi's brains are to be his escape from poverty and obscurity, although it is not clear to him if he really wishes to escape the world of his parents whom he loves and admires. These brains bring him to the old and venerated College of Debrecen (an institution central to Hungarian Calvinism) as a scholarship student, setting the stage for a bittersweet story which unfolds during early adolescence. Note that "college" here embraces the fifth through the twelfth grades of secondary education.
The story - one based on events brought about by a false accusation of theft - follows the expected arc of such a "timeless tale" in the setting of a boarding school, but it is in the portrait of the mind and feelings of Misi that Moricz excels, capturing the fluid, intense emotional life of a boy who is perhaps too sensitive for his own good. We see Misi veering between elation, anxiety, hope, and despair in his dealings with the adult world and his classmates (e.g., in his friendship with Gimesi -- equally poor and small of stature, but always firm and defiant -- and his on-again, off-again alliance with the wealthy and somewhat spoiled Orczy). Misi wishes "to know everything, all at once" but is unhappy with the student's life which may or may not be a path to knowledge. His activities beyond the school's walls (tutoring a classmate, reading to a blind man, visiting a family with whom he had boarded) open up new vistas to him: the attractions of women (Bella Doroghy), the mysterious lives of the wealthy (the Orczys), and the bitter dissensions of family life on the verge of disintegration (the Töröks). His involvement in life outside the school also creates the situation that almost brings him down and contributes to his inner confusions about the adult world to which he wishes to belong but which also repels him in its casual betrayals and cruelties. Misi himself is no saint - he commits petty theft as a form of revenge, lies in order to spare himself social embarrassment, and tends to see the whole world melodramatically and solely in terms of its effect on him (these are the natural failings of adolescence). The portrait of the boy does not lapse into idealization (the adolescent as rebellious hero) or sentimentality (the adolescent as pure innocent victim).
His story leads him to the choice of a calling - he discovers he wishes to be a writer. Although he cannot say exactly what it is he can or will write about, he believes that it is a lofty and important calling, especially in his native land (where an artist may be considered, without a hint of irony, to be "the voice of the people" or "the conscience of the nation", even a "teacher of mankind"). His most cherished possession is his finely bound notebook with its blank pages, on which he intends to write his first poem or his first story, but which remains empty throughout the course of the novel - in his mind it represents something like an invitation to greatness, which he is certain he will attain in the future. The idea and ideal of the notebook are charged with the same intense emotional swings that characterize all of his thinking, at times pulling him up into an imaginary world of heroic deeds commemorated through poetry and at other times plunging him into agonies of shame over what he perceives to be his humiliating existence.
Understanding Misi as Moricz's literary alter-ego allows us to judge the author's own boyish commitment to his future as a writer. In this case the grown man fulfilled and far exceeded his juvenile dreams, although Moricz himself said that he did not find his true voice as an author until his 28th or 29th year, after a decade of churning out works modeled on the quick successes of "genre writers". During the remaining three decades of his life he became prolific, successful, and beloved, in a career that progressed through several phases (including one as the "voice of the peasantry", another as chronicler of small-town life, and yet another as the "dissector of the values of the gentry"; this dissection led him into harsh criticism of that traditional class that was hanging onto its economic and political privileges with a vengeance). "Be Faithful Unto Death" combines elements of all of these phases and is one of the better "coming of age" novels -- a category that forms a distinct stream in the broader spate of European literature -- in any language.
The English translation is excellent, as might be expected, since it is by the talented Hungarian-born novelist and critic, Stephen Vizinczey, who, as a post-1956 exile from his homeland, writes in English. Vizinczey also supplies an Introduction and useful end-notes on particular historical allusions in the novel. In this the book is in conformity with the translations of other works chosen for the admirable publication series that goes under the name of "Central European Classics". As long as Vizinczey keeps to literature in general and Moricz's career in particular his remarks are cogent, especially so in his examination of the character of Misi. But this introduction also makes strange departures into history and politics which present an incredibly partial and one-dimensional portrait of Hungary as the "poor eternal victim" of European power politics, a linguistic and cultural orphan floating in and battered by a surrounding sea of unsympathetic nations. Not only is this characterization vituperative in the extreme, it is somewhat inaccurate over the broad span of a millennium, and, worse, it lacks even an iota of self-consciousness (the fortunes of the Magyar nation, or at least its political class, have been up as often as down, and their record as rulers is neither better nor worse than their neighbors'). The reader who has delved into Hungarian history, while understanding the sources of his resentment, will judge Vizinczey's credentials as a historian doubtful (his passing howler about the Roman general Sertorius is symptomatic in this respect). However, in spite of this animus (which might itself be examined in the light of how Moricz's characters philosophize about history, particularly contrasting the "balanced" old geography professor "Nazo" with the fiery young dormitory proctor Nagy) his translation does justice to a wonderful book; in the light of this achievement his sins of omission in the introduction can be considered venial.
In an introduction to another Moricz novel available in English translation, "Relations" (sometimes called "The Relatives"), G. F. Cushing brings to light some facts which have a bearing on the work under discussion. Here one reads that the intensity of Misi's final rejection of the College of Debrecen (a place that he had idealized earlier in the story) was meant, according to Moricz himself, to obliquely reflect the bitterness the author felt toward the Horthy regime's attempt to marginalize him because he had supported land-reform undertaken during the brief post-war government of M. Karolyi. Moricz was surprised that his Hungarian readers missed this aspect of the story. This is instructive, for it shows that even the author's intentions in this regard could not "contaminate" the self-contained nature of this well-made novel, which succeeds in its depiction of the turbulent self-consciousness of adolescence without respect to such political considerations.
A moving story by a great author.......2002-10-19
I love Moricz`s style, and the way he captures the fragility of our existence. A great book.
A beautiful book.......2000-12-05
I don't see how one of the previous reviewers could complain about the main character of this novel being weak and naive...after all he is a small child! This book is one of the finest depictions of of child's coming of age that I have ever read. The book should not be taken as indicative of Hungarian mentality, but it does reflect the tragic tone of the Hungarian society at the time the book was written: just after World War One. The writer projects these feelings back into an autobiographical child's world of 1889. If you can't understand this book, then you must have forgotten what is was like to be a child: confused by the behavior of adults, often scared, and undoubtedly impressed by your own potential to grow. Another good book by this author, translated into English is "Relations", published by Corvina.
A difficult read.......1998-06-15
I have read this in English and Hungarian both and find it quite dry either way. The translation is fine, but Móricz has an unfailing knack for putting me to sleep. I really want to enjoy this novel, bearing in mind its stature and popular esteem, but I can't seem to.
I find the hero, Misi Nyilas, too hard to relate to. He is weak, wishy-washy, and indecisive and seems to have no good traits to offset these. He's frustrating and while reading the story I often have an urge to shake him. The plot is näive and unsurprising, and the ending is a perplexing muddle which seems to offer no hope or even resolution. Móricz is traditionally praised for being grim and unyieldingly realistic but in a novel of this length he becomes overbearingly bleak.
Read this if you have an unrelenting interest in Hungarian literature--and only after reading Kosztolányi's novels and Móricz's short stories, which are much sharper.
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Surprisingly uplifting.......2003-11-19
This wonderful book tells the stories of a group of young sixteenth century Anabaptists, who stood firm in their faith, in spite of all the costs. Divided into fifteen chapters, the book actually covers sixteen young people (one chapter covers a pair of sisters); thirteen eventually became red martyrs (murdered for their faith), two became white martyrs (suffering intense torture for their faith), and one who stood by his mother, through her suffering and eventual martyrdom. But, this is not merely a recitation of tortures and murders; instead, it is an uplifting look at these people's faith and love for their fellow humans, with the people speaking for themselves through the writings that they left behind.
This is an excellent book, one that is surprisingly uplifting, considering what it is about. In all ways, I found it to be superior even to Foxe's Book of Martyrs. The author's use of the people's actual words adds a real dignity to what they did, and cannot help but leave you feeling as if you touched them yourself. I loved this book and highly recommend it to anyone interested in the Anabaptists, and even those who aren't!
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Be faithful unto death (Hungarian library)
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