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Tempo and Mode in Evolution (Columbia Classics in Evolution Series.)
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The International Symposium on Shock Waves (ISSW) is a well established series of conferences held every two years in a different location. A unique feature of the ISSW is the emphasis on bridging the gap between physicists and engineers working in fields as different as gas dynamics, fluid mechanics and materials sciences. The main results presented at these meetings constitute valuable proceedings that offer anyone working in this field an authoritative and comprehensive source of reference.

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The Dodo went from being newly discovered to extinction in less than a hundred years. The flightless, odd-looking bird was seen for the first time by Europeans and then annihilated by Europeans in the course of the seventeenth century. And by the end of the nineteenth century, all that remained of what Portuguese explorers called the ¿crazy bird¿ was a patchwork of tall tales, contradictory reports, incompatible illustrations, and fragments of feather and bone. The dodo had become, in short, an unsolvable puzzle, but a puzzle that persisted in art, literature, and scientific speculation.|Best-selling author Clara Pinto-Correia, in following the bird¿s re-creation, shows in this remarkable book how the human intellect and the human imagination prey on sketchy facts and images, how missing pieces and incomplete lines are merged and fused to make a cohesive whole. By considering the incredibly strong hold of this bumbling, ungainly, and ill-fated creature on our collective scientific and literary imagination, Pinto-Correia teaches us not just about the ill-fated bird from the island paradise of Mauritius, but about our own abiding need to make sense of the world around us.|Clara Pinto-Correia is the author of the best-selling The Ovary of Eve. She has taught in the Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst; served as a research assistant at Harvard University in the Museum of Comparative Zoology; and is currently Professor and Director of the Masters Degree Program in Developmental Biology at the Universidade Lusofona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Lisbon, Portugal.

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Mistaken notions.......2003-09-11

This book pales having arrived just after E. Fuller's recent book "The Dodo from extinction to icon (UK)". From a scholarly vantage it fails utterly.

Firstly the book is quite parochial dwelling at great length on issues very distant from the dodo such as Portuguese navigation and ignoring the fact that the dodo was painted in India completely. The book makes extraordinary claims like "Why do we know so much about what the dodo looked like?" when the text itself makes clear we know very little and makes tremendous claims on behalf of R. Savery, (a relatively poor artist of animals) in the context of his contribution to Western art - why. The best thing about Savery was he did several pictures of the dodo unlike many other artists though Savery's dodos cannot be trusted for accuracy.

Most of the facts in the book such as the numbers of dodo's that arrived in Europe or how much contact R. Savery had with the dodo are either speculative or from doubtful sources. Though references are copious, some important references are not taken up and there is an over reliance on secondary sources. Much of the content it must be said is therefore presumptious.

There are some new translations such as descriptions by Clusius on the dodo's head, but there is little primary material of relevance in a critical style on the dodo itself.

As a celebration of the iconic place of the dodo and the history of the period and the Mascarenes this book has some claims, but you'd be better off reading Fuller. As there are so few good books on the Dodo I think this book is a reasonable start and the author has written it with enthusiasm.

Slender volume but most interesting read.......2003-05-04

At a young age, the author Clara Pinto-Correia heard about the long extinct dodo and became fascinated by the bird's fate. The end result is a well-researched and well-written text that takes the reader from the shores of Europe to a small chain of islands where the dodo and it's genetic cousins made their homes.

Sadly, the dodo and it's genetic cousins were doomed to extinction with the arrival of Europeans (starting with the Portuguese). The plump, flightless animals were slow breeders with a single offspring per mating season and no natural enemies. Add ravenous creatures (Homo sapiens included) into their safe mircosphere and diaster was assured.

Pinto-Correia traces the few captive dodos in Euorpe and the fates of their remains. Now, the only things the modern world has of the dodo are a scattering of bones, some paintings and sketches and the cultural understanding that to be a dodo is to be doomed.

A must read for the natural history reader or devotee.

extinct in less than a century!.......2003-04-26

Subtitle of this book is "The Sad, Strange Tale of the Dodo" and so it is. Pinto-Correia mixes a bit of humor with a pleasant writing style, lots of relevant history and geography, and a sad shake of her head about how rapacious humans are.

It was a marvelously heady period in Europe's awakening after intellectual dark days and Pinto-Correia gives the reader a sense of that emergence. On one level the dodo is a symbol of an eden found and lost on three small islands along the way to spices and riches. In their rush to gather spices, riches and glory men plundered these islands and left them poorer - the islands' inhabitants were decimated and became fearful, the men did not realize what a treasure they had found.

The reader can assign other levels to the story as Pinto-Correia unfolds it. Science came into its own during these centuries, and the dodo's discovery and extinction is a grand example of the days when alchemy gave way to chemistry and astrology became astronomy. Natural history developed as well, with taxonomy seemingly in the forefront. The dodo was classified and plunged into first one species then another, had little to prove that it even existed, finally was declared extinct - all in less than 100 years.

Pinto-Correia packs information about the hapless bird and the European humans of the era into this book. The reader learns painlessly while realizing this is a learning experience.

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Alhadeff's prose is so wittily precise and casually elegant it's hard to believe she didn't learn English until she was 10--in Tokyo, of all places. Born in Egypt in 1951, educated in Italy, Japan, England, and America, the author comes from a family of cosmopolitan, multilingual Sephardic Jews who "considered ourselves primarily free to be anything we wished"--including Catholic. (Her parents, whose difficult marriage is unsentimentally portrayed, converted.) Lovingly acerbic tales about various wildly individualist relatives combine with personal history in a colorful narrative that trenchantly declares independence from the constraints of "ready-made identity."

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With a brilliant flair for narrative and language, Alhadeff spins a tale--both wildly humorous and deeply affecting--of her beguilingly uncommon family. 272 pp. 12,500 print.

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Fascinating family history.......1997-04-30

Fascinating history of a sephardic family from Inquisition days to modern times. Well told, if a bit self indulgent

History as Gossip.......1997-04-27

'The Sun at Midday' reviewed by Samir Raafat for the "Cairo Times" Thursday, April 17, 1997 IN HER BOOK, The Sun at Midday, the Alexandria-born Gini Alhadeff runs us through the different members of her family which means flashbacks from Tokyo, Northern Italy, Alexandria, Buenos Aires, Auschwitz, Rhodes, Greenville (Mississippi) and back. The habitats range from palatial villas in Alexandria to a two-room flat in Manhattan with a reference to the Italian fashion house of Krizia founded by the author's aunt, Mrs. Aldo Pinto née Mariuccia Mandelli. Gardens are everywhere, all of them heavenly, the scent changing with each season and every repatriation. With the help of a desk top computer and a `Family Tree Maker' software, genealogy buffs will love this book as they eagerly enter a collection of Byronic Mediterranean names belonging to the author's relations: Pinto, Piha, Menashe, Aghion, Tilche, Riches, Alhadeffs, etc., discovering in the process that most middle class Jewish families in Alexandria were connected and that they made good wherever destiny took them. And how, through marriage, they were also related to Lawrence Durrell! Undoubtedly, these colorful relations is what makes Alhadeff's family worth writing about. Of all her ethnic and national identities, the reader senses that Alhadeff is taken in mostly by her Jewish ancestry. Not unlike US secretary of state Madeleine Albright, Alhadeff discovered her rabbinical roots - in this case Sephardi - in her adulthood. A consequence of this revelation is the Judaica which is palpable throughout `The Sun at Midday.' And just in case anyone overlooks the plight of her relations this century thinking it was simply a matter of colorful trips across five continents, Alhadeff gives extensive coverage of her Uncle Nissim's sojourn in several German-run WWII concentration camps. Nissim's story is the longest recit allocated to any single member of the author's family. This lengthy chapter would have been five times as interesting had one not repeatedly stumbled on analogous passages in any of the thousands of books, novels, thrillers, articles, films and CD-ROMS that deal with the subject. And with Alhadeff's book appearing soon after Daniel Goldhagen's encyclopedic work on the subject (`Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust'), Uncle Nissim's episodes seems somewhat parochial. In her character portrayals, which takes up a good part of her book, Alhadeff is both amusing and direct. Yet, when it comes to describing geographic locations, facts and some of the zeitgeist surrounding the events, beware with a capital B. Alhadeff could have made sterling use of a beginner's Atlas and an Almanac. Some elementary cross-checking with regards her family's oral testimonials would have also helped. On the other hand, if Alhadeff's representations of her relations are as spot on as her description of Father Pierre Riches, the Jewish dandy turned Catholic priest, then, Bravo Gini! I met Riches three Springs ago, once at the Jesuit school in Fagalla and again for a beer at my Maadi garden and he is exactly as the author describes him, a man "who drops names the way certain women put on too many jewels." While we accept that history is informed gossip, Alhadeff should have ascertained the accuracy of some of the statements made by her relations. The book is full of what would at first seem as irrelevant misrepresentations, yet looked at collectively, they could be misinterpreted as an attempt to dramatize, especially if the reader is Egyptian, a Japanese Samurai or a member of the Catholic deity. For instance, Alhadeff's places the Egyptian coastal town of al-Alamein at 15 kilometers from Alexandria. While this - some would say extraneous - proximity lends credence to "panic in the city" of Alexandria or "Alexandria being bombarded" making it sound like Normandy or Dunkirk, it is of-course factually incorrect, for Alamein is over 120 kilometers away and the little bombardment that Alexandria sustained during WWII pales next to that received by the remotest European hamlet. Stating that one of the leading cotton experts of Alexandria was German and thus by implication hostile to Alhadeff's Jewish cotton-trading grandfather, invariably projects that certain `je ne sais quoi' salable German-Jewish drama which became so literary delectable whenever discussing the 1930s and `40s. Sorry again Ms. Alhadeff, but Mr. Rheinhardt was Swiss, not German. When Alhadeff's mother "finished school there was no question of her going to university, because there was none in Egypt, because she was a woman, and because of the war." There again, the contrived effects for drama. Yet, a cursory leafing through any contemporary Almanac could have enlightened Alhadeff on the existence of several universities including the co-ed American University in Cairo which closed for only a few months during WWII. Saad Zaghloul (in this instance Alhadeff got his name right) was prime minister once and not five times. And as for old insignias and decorations being returned to the government when receiving new ones... funny yes, but incorrect. Those seeking entertainment will find that `The Sun at Midday' abounds with it. Alhadeff has an engaging style and her stories are punctuated with anecdotes. As oral history goes, her book is informative and her continuous play with fast-back and fast-forward makes it even more compelling. If you've read André Aciman's Out of Egypt and liked it, then I most certainly recommend Gini Alhadeff's book.

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The Knee-high Man and Other Tales
Julius Lester , and Ralph Pinto
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Apple For Pinto (Nodding Tales)
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Everyone Knows Gato Pinto: More Tales from Spanish New Mexico

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Joe Hayes brings to life ten charming cuentos (folktales)
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As he did in the now classic edition "The Day It Snowed Tortillas", Joe Hayes brings to life ten more charming cuentos. He explores his own unique interpretations of classic stories while continuing to preserve and honor the rich traditions of Northern New Mexico. These tales are filled with wisdom and warm humor aplenty. Sit back and enjoy this beautifully illustrated collection.

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Joe Hayes brings to life ten charming cuentos (folktales).......2002-01-03

Here you will find wonder, wisdom and warm humor aplenty in these tales: "If I Were an Eagle," "What Am I Thinking," "How to Grow Boiled Beans," "The Coyote Under the Table," "The Golden Slippers," "Caught on a Nail," "The Man Who Couldn't Stop Dancing," "Gato Pinto (The Spotted Cat)", "The Little Snake," and "The Magic Ring." These stories are from the story traditions of northern New Mexico. Those who enjoyed THE DAY IT SNOWED TORTILLAS will also like this.

Cool Tape.......1999-12-19

I think this tape is funny, and neat to listen to. I listen to it alot when I am at home sick.

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The Knee-High Man and Other Tales
Julius Lester
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Rootin Tootin Cowboy Stories Told THE COWBOY WAY
Pinto's Tales
Pinto's Tales

Pinto's Tales
Pat Schutz
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"PINTO'S TALES" is a book of cowboy humor that is written in the lingo of the Old West trail drive era of the late 1800's. The vernacular used in the book is authentic to that period of American history; particularly, the language is that of the old-time cowboys of Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, Wyoming and Montana.

It contains 26 Western tall tales and 12 original illustrations.

Most of the tall tales are original; some of the jokes are old saws that have been sharpened with a distinctly, Old West twist.

This book is popular with people who enjoy cowboy humor, Old West history, authentic American Old West dialects, horses, cattle, and cowboy jokes that make folks groan.

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Rootin Tootin Cowboy Stories Told THE COWBOY WAY.......2000-02-17

Come on over closer to the fire, boys... grab ya a cup a that there java... that's right... now sit down for a spell... You know that old cowboy, name of Pinto Being? Well, all them tall tales he used to tell us around the fire, well, there's whole bunches of 'em in this here new book! Naw, I ain't pullin' yer leg... They's right here! Yup, now just about anybody can read one'a these here stories out loud to their buddies and get a good belly laugh. It's almost like having old Pinto right here with us! My hat is off to you, Pinto, and I can only hope that publisher o' yours brings out a second volume real soon like. Us readers who like cowboys, ponies, shootin' and any story-spinnin' in general have found a true pardner in Pinto Being (Pat Schutz). Now when all a ya's git a chance, order a copy of this here book... You're a daisy if ya do.

Sincerely, Marshal H. B. Thunder

Pinto's Tales.......2000-01-19

The most rip roarin', horse snortin' tall tales and cowboy horse sense I ever read! Highly entertaining for those who enjoy short stories with a western flavor.

Pinto's Tales.......2000-01-16

An excellant collection of short stories told in the cowboy way. Pat Schutz(Pinto) is a wonderfull spinner of "windies". When do we see Pinto's Tales 2?.

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