The Biosphere: Realm of Life (Earth's Spheres)

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The Biosphere: Realm of Life (Earth's Spheres)
Gregory Vogt
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Biosphere the Realm of Life Study Guide

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Biosphere: The Realm of Life
Robert A. Wallace , Jack L. King , and Gerald P. Sanders
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Biosphere: The Realm of Life 2e Study Guide

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Instructor's manual and test bank to accompany Biosphere: The realm of life, second edition, Robert A. Wallace, Jack L. King, Gerald P. Sanders
William J Tietjen
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Biosphere: The Realm of Life
Robert A.. Et al. Wallace
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A book about earthquakes--how, when, and where the next big one may strike.

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Highly Recommended.......2004-08-20

Pararas-Caryannis leads the reader - professional or layman -
through a detailed background covering earthquakes, tsunamis,
California geography and history, seismology, then finally
summarizing factually the odds of major earthquakes in likely
localities. And he does so in terms that all of us can
understand and appreciate.

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An old one.......2007-05-15

Huge content. Good book with extra information but dont deal with it if you are not taking the assigned course.

Mediocre at best.......2006-10-20

I can't really say I'm a fan of this book. A good physics book has at least 1 of these qualities:

1: Nice balance of mathematical formalism and explanation of the physics (this almost never happens)
2: Enough explanation of the physics to make up for a lack of formalism (any Griffiths text for example)
3: Enough mathematical formalism to make up for a lack of explanation of the physics.

This book doesn't have ANY of these qualities. The only clear part of the book is the Introduction. The rest of it seems fairly scatterbrained. I also don't know why people are raving so much about the problems in the book-- I found them to be more exercises in manipulating/integrating logarithms instead of really giving the reader/student any further insight into the theory. All in all I'd have to say I'm pretty pissed that Berkeley uses this book and that I was forced to deal with it.

The only reason I gave it three stars it seems to be okay for reviewing the material but if you're learning it the first time around it really lacks the detail necessary for a thorough understanding

Poorly manufactured book!.......2006-05-04

I remember when I took this couse as an undergraduate it was very challenging to develop an "intuitive feel" for the subject material and the book seemed to make matters worse. Several years later and after a little mathematical "seasoning", I have revisited Kittel's Thermal Physics and now realize how well the material is presented. However, I am forced to give the book 3 stars because I remember how EVERY textbook in the class(~15 students) fell apart before the semester ended. I remember paying nearly $80 for the book at the time- totally unacceptable for a book in this price range. I was actually hoping to find an inexpensive used copy to replace my original, but after reading the reviews, it appears that the binding problem has not been corrected yet. So, I guess I'll have to tolerate keeping the pages intact as I thumb through the book.

Unclear and unhelpful.......2005-10-25

As a textbook for an undergraduate course on thermal physics, this offering is quite poor. The authors lack the gift of clearly communicating their (obviously quite good) understanding of thermal physics; the writing, particularly when explaining what should be simple concepts, is dense and opaque. Figures often function as nothing more than page-fillers, and do not serve to clarify the text. Important results are scattered, in many cases not even set off from the main text with any sort of visual cue. The problems for each section (and the text itself) will frequently bring in detailed information from other areas of physics or chemistry without making any attempt to explain its relation to the subject at hand. The authors often use the problems as extensions to the text, adding a half page of extraneous commentary after asking a question that takes a single line to state. As another reviewer remarked, the problems in general can take an hour to interpret and five minutes to solve. Overall, the book is very wordy when it doesn't need to be, confusing, and difficult to use.

If you are an undergraduate taking a first class in thermal physics, it will be a tremendous chore to learn it from this book.

cheap Tiwan copies.......2004-04-12

This is a great book for the field but some companies get cheap foreign copies that WILL NOT LAST. I happened to buy one for the statistical mechanics class that I am in and the spine has broken and the pages are coming loose. MAKE SHURE YOU CHECK WITH THE SELLER TO SEE THAT IT IS TRUELY A US OR EUROPEAN COPY.

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A must have.......2007-07-19

If you are interested in the Victorian era, this is a thorough and comprehensive study of the period. A classic!

Not what I expected.......2004-12-02

I am currently studying the Victorian period and bought this book hoping to explore, in greater depth, the social aspects of the Victorian culture. This book has a more philisophical approach than I expected or would have preferred. I did not get a clear picture of the social dynamic of the victorian people - rather I had questions thrown at me left and right: is there a god; are humans naturally good or bad and on and on. These are not things that interest me and reading about them was certainly not my objective in selecting this book. This book is great if you're interested in philisophy and and you'd like to explore mindsets of different periods. I was hoping to read about social issues: the way Victorians were affected by them and how they lived as a result. This book - as is the case with many philisophical books - gives more questions than answers. The author's style of writing was also a turn off - he quoted too much and the things he quoted were unnecessary: he could have easily used his own words and spared me the agony of realizing that I was sifting through a bunch of verbose crap. The only reason that I am so negative about this book is because I have seen better and I expectged more of this book. For my purposes this book was unhelpful and a waste of time. Many of the philisophical points made are ones that would logically be attributed to these people when learning the social history of the Victrian era. It is not necessary to read this book to grasp the Victorian mindset. This book is good for people who enjoy a philisophical format.

The Pragamatic and Uncertain Victorians.......2004-01-26

This book could just as well be called The Modern Frame of Mind or more generally The Western Frame of Mind for the issues that perplexed and divided the Victorians have always perplexed and divided westerners and continue to do so. Religion and Science have never been compatible realms of thought and western civilization has always been marked by an unresolved tension between the two. The eighteenth-century is often refered to as the Age of Reason but reason alone does not fulfill all of mans needs and the Romantic period that followed marked a return to faith and feeling. The Victorian Age is marked by a restless search to find a balance between the reasoning head and the feeling heart and soul. Houghton sees the English as a very pragmatic people and though he is careful to show that on no issue did any two Victorians think alike, he does show that the English shared certain habits of mind. Houghton does not mention Nationalism by name but that word was constantly in my mind as I read this book for Houghton shows that the English were aware that they shared certain characteristics with each other which made them distinct from say the French. After 1789 the English saw the French as nation destroyers while they saw themselves as nation builders -- the fact that they defeated the French and presided over the building of the largest empire the world had ever known made them acutely aware that they were part of a special breed. The most famous men of the age did not merely speak to the English masses but preached to them -- and that tone and style of speaking is perhaps even more important and revealing than the actual substance of what they were saying for the English felt they were on a mission. Precislely what kind of mission they were on was impossible to say with any certainty but for a spell the Victorians felt they were a model nation and thus the nation in the best position to mold other nations. This confidence or arrogance peaked around mid-century and by centuries end Englands moment had passed as other nations(USA & Germany) began to dominate the world stage. Historians explain empires in a number of ways, Houghton however is not the kind of historian to make any sweeping generalizations. How such a small island nation could come to rule the globe is something he never tries to answer. He confines himself to analyzing the Victorians patterns of thought for it is the Victorian personality that captures his interest. This is the kind of thoroughly researched book(Houghton quotes from every major text of the era) that gives you a look into the workings of a half dozen exemplary personalities and how they worked through the issues of the day for themselves. Houghton gives extended consideration to the works of Carlyle, Ruskin,Arnold, Mill, Tennyson, Browning, Dickens, &Eliot but he quotes from other lesser lights as well. My personal favorite from this era is John Stuart Mill and the man who introduced the pragmatic Victorians to French Fiction, Walter Pater. Houghton's strength is when he concentrates on the men and women of letters but he is slightly less successful when he deals with what life was like for the average Victorian. Houghton portrays the English as a people in search of a creed and the writers of the age as men who tried to fashion a creed for them. For me the men of letters come across loud and clear but I wanted more concerning the life of the common man and woman ie how many Victorians actually read Carlyle, Arnold etc.....

Also recommended: Asa Brigg's Age of Improvement(this classic scholarly 500 page book is especially good at dealing with economics, social dynamics, and the goings-on within Parliament) & G.M. Young's Portrait of an Age(this 200 page book especially good at giving you an overview of the entire age-- Young's approach is less scholarly than modern students might be used to but he integrates a lot of information into a short and immensely readable book).

A 'Must Have' for those who are interested in that period!.......2001-03-02

I was recommended by a professor in the university to read this book (I am a student studying Victorian Literature) in the first place, and after reading it, I found this book so informative and easy-to-read that it has now become one of my 'handbook' for the Victorian era. This book tells you in nearly every aspect but in a very concise way how the Victorians back then think and believe. I personally think that this is more than just a book about some history and facts of the people living in the 19th century England. Upon reading it, readers will surely be able to appreciate the works of those Victorian writers/poets more because they can then really comprehend how the Victorians' lives and beliefs were like, and how and why they would behave the way they did, and most important of all, that they were not as old-fashioned and conservative as contemporary people think they were.

A Monument of Intellectual History.......2000-08-17

First published in 1957 with the intent to show some of the roots of the "modern mind" (which was then still recovering from McCarthyism), Walter Houghton's book more than accomplishes its stated goals. THE VICTORIAN FRAME OF MIND is divided in to three parts in which Houghton examines Victorian emotional, intellectual and moral attitudes. He bases these discussions on the premise that 1830-1870 was an "age of transition," and that the Victorian English were the first to think of their own time as "an era of change FROM the past TO the future."

The Victorians found the pace of their life compared to that of their grandfathers to be inordinately fast, they both lamented and welcomed the breakdown of old regimes and the coming into its own of the Industrial Revolution. Darwin's theory of evolution made thousands of them quake in their boots--even though so many of them were raised on a wrathful God more than a loving God, the prospect of no God at all sent many running for the metaphorical hills. Throughout the book, Houghton extensively quotes the Victorians themselves (e.g. Ruskin, Arnold, Carlyle, Charles Kingsley) and it is shocking and uncanny how many times what was written a good 150 years ago resembles what you might find in the press and literature of today. This from 1851: "everybody has his own little ISM . . . by which the country can be saved." How about this line from Carlyle's PAST AND PRESENT: "we have profoundly forgotten everywhere that Cash-payment is not the sole relation of human beings."

A key to understanding how Victorians thought about themselves and their world, Houghton points out, lies in accepting the many contradictions and tensions of the age, most importantly their overwhelming optimism balanced against their high level of anxiety. Of the book's fourteen chapters, particularly interesting and provocative are those on "The Critical Spirit--and The Will to Believe," "The Commercial Spirit," "Dogmatism," and "Hypocrisy."

Houghton admits from the start that he's out for the "general sense" of how people thought, and he narrows his purview even further to the literate classes. He therefore makes many sweeping statements that could still meet with criticism--even with the quotations he provides from the writers of the time. THE VICTORIAN FRAME OF MIND is still a useful background text for scholars, though it might put off those with ISMs on their shoulders. Moreover, it is a rich and engaging book for the student or amateur of the Victorian era, which, while different in several important ways from our own American society, is all too eerily similar when you come right down to it. Highly recommended!

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Victorian Literature: 1830-1900
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