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Every child is a scientist at heart, but most science books are dry and boring. They lecture rather than guide, reciting facts instead of giving students the tools to solve the problem. But not Science Smart Junior! By embedding science in the story of the hilarious misadventures of Angie, Barnaby, Bridget, and Babette, Science Smart Junior helps students understand the science behind such concepts as
··States of Matter
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·The Geosphere
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Aligned to national science standards and filled with page after page of safe, household-friendly experiments, Science Smart Junior teaches core curriculum as it sparks the imagination. Part of The Princeton Review’s award-winning Smart Junior series, this is the perfect book for the curious scientist in every student.
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Great read!.......2003-02-09
An excellent step-by-step guide through the wonders of science. Any curious middle schooler will LOVE this book. My son did.
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Modern Groundwater Exploration: Discovering New Water Resources in Consolidated Rocks Using Innovative Hydrogeologic Concepts, Exploration, Drilling, Aquifer Testing and Management Methods
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New exploration tools and techniques for a breakthrough paradigm of regional groundwater occurrence
Fresh water is undoubtedly our most precious resource aside from the air we breathe, and the only commodity whose cost has steadily risen over time. At the same time, our understanding of the origins, pathways, and recharge mechanisms of the earth's most valuable "economic" mineral-groundwater-remains in the nineteenth century. It is ironic that this scientific anachronism is contributing to a global shortage of available fresh water supplies while oil, gas, and mineral discoveries have proliferated, vastly increasing the world's energy, precious metals, and industrial mineral reserves.
Modern Groundwater Exploration details applications and results of proven twenty-first- century technologies and geological concepts adapted from the oil, gas, and mineral exploration industries for evaluating, developing, and managing previously undiscovered, massive, sustainable groundwater resources. Unprecedented in both its scope and authority, this timely book presents:
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The world's need for clean, dependable water is more urgent-and addressable-than ever before. Let Modern Groundwater Exploration introduce you to the authors' revolutionary megawatershed paradigm, along with the latest concepts and technologies for accessing vast reservoirs of groundwater-still today's safest, cleanest, and most plentiful water resource.
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Discovering Chemistry
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Discovering Chemistry: A Collaborative Learning Activity Book helps students build their communication, teamwork, management, and assessment skills through chemistry work. Each lesson in the activity book corresponds to a section of Zumdahl, Chemistry, 4/e, but instructors can use the activity book with any chemistry text.
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Introduces chemical concepts using molecular models with emphasis on the importance of chemical structure and composition for chemical and physical properties. Begins with simple organic molecules and gradually adds other elements. Students learn to predict structure and bonding of most organic and main group compounds. The text is keyed for use with Personal CACHE. It may be adapted to Hyperchem or Chem 3-D.
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Discovering Polyurethanes
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First published in 1943,
Vitamins and Hormones is the longest-running serial published by Academic Press. In the early days of the Serial, the subjects of vitamins and hormones were quite distinct. The Editorial Board now reflects expertise in the field of hormone action, vitamin action, X-ray crystal structure, physiology, and enzyme mechanisms. Under the capable and qualified editorial leadership of Dr. Gerald Litwack,
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* Mechanism of GnRH receptor signaling upon gonadotropin release and gene expression in pituitary gonadotrophs
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The main focus of this school was to teach about experimental techniques for particle, nuclear, cosmic ray, and medical physics by means of laboratory sessions, lecture courses, and review talks. It was aimed primarily at graduate students with some participation of young post-doctoral students. This volume includes lecture courses on: Particle identification, tracking detectors, front-end electronics and signal processing, triggering and data acquisition general considerations, confidence intervals, as well as calorimetry.
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For 19th-century novelists--from Jane Austen to George Eliot, Flaubert to Henry James--social constraint gave a delicious tension to their plots. Yet now our relaxed morals and social mobility have rendered many of the classics untenable. Why shouldn't Maisie know what she knows? It will all come out in family therapy anyway. The vogue for historical novels depends in part on our pleasure in reentering a world of subtle cues and repressed emotion, a time in which a young woman could destroy her life by saying yes to the wrong man. After all, there was no reliable birth control, no divorce, no chance of an independent life or a scandal-free separation.
Christina Schwarz's suspenseful debut pivots on two of the lost "virtues" of the past: silence and stoicism. Drowning Ruth opens in 1919, on the heels of the influenza epidemic that followed the First World War. Although there were telephones and motor cars and dance halls in the small towns of Wisconsin in those years, the townspeople remained rigid and forbidding. As a young woman, Amanda Starkey, a Lutheran farmer's daughter, had been firmly discouraged from an inappropriate marriage with a neighboring Catholic boy. A few years later, as a nurse in Milwaukee, she is seduced by a dishonorable man. Her shame sends her into a nervous breakdown, and she returns to the family farm. Within a year, though, her beloved sister Mathilde drowns under mysterious circumstances. And when Mathilde's husband, Carl, returns from the war, he finds his small daughter, Ruth, in Amanda's tenacious grip, and she will tell him nothing about the night his wife drowned. Amanda's parents, too, are long gone. "I killed my parents. Had I mentioned that?" muses Amanda.
I killed them because I felt a little fatigued and suffered from a slight, persistent cough. Thinking I was overworked and hadn't been getting enough sleep, I went home for a short visit, just a few days to relax in the country while the sweet corn and the raspberries were ripe. From the city I brought fancy ribbon, two boxes of Ambrosia chocolate, and a deadly gift... I gave the influenza to my mother, who gave it to my father, or maybe it was the other way around."
Schwarz is a skillful writer, weaving her grim tale across several decades, always returning to the fateful night of Mathilde's death. Drowning Ruth displays her gift for pacing and her harsh insistence on the right ending, rather than the cheery one. --Regina Marler
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“POWERFUL . . . SUSPENSEFUL . . . RICHLY TEXTURED . . . [A] CHILLING, PRECOCIOUSLY GOOD START TO A BRIGHT NEW NOVELIST’S CAREER.”
–The New York Times
“[A] gripping psychological thriller . . . In the winter of 1919, a young mother named Mathilda Neumann drowns beneath the ice of a rural Wisconsin lake. The shock of her death dramatically changes the lives of her daughter, troubled sister, and husband. . . . Told in the voices of several of the main characters and skipping back and forth in time, the narrative gradually and tantalizingly reveals the dark family secrets and the unsettling discoveries that lead to the truth of what actually happened the night of the drowning. . . . Schwarz certainly succeeds at keeping the reader engrossed.”
–FRANCINE PROSE
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“DEFT AND ASSURED . . . [WITH] STRONG CHARACTERS AND A PLOT LONG ON TENSION AND SURPRISES.”
–Time
“A strong sense of portent and unusually vivid characters distinguish this mesmerizing first novel about horrifying family secrets and nearly annihilating guilt. Drowning Ruth is a complex and rewarding debut.”
–ANITA SHREVE
Author of The Pilot’s Wife
“RIVETING . . . A VERY SUSPENSEFUL TALE, ONE THAT WILL KEEP READERS UP SHIVERING IN THE NIGHT.”
–USA Today
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Deftly written and emotionally powerful, Drowning Ruth is a stunning portrait of the ties that bind sisters together and the forces that tear them apart, of the dangers of keeping secrets and the explosive repercussions when they are exposed.
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1920s Wisconsin without nostalgia.......2007-09-19
From the beginning of Drowning Ruth, I kept wondering, is Ruth's aunt Amanda just kind of crazy, or really crazy? The story begins with Ruth's memory of drowning when she was four, at the time her mother drowned beneath the ice. Aunt Amanda keeps telling Ruth that of course she didn't drown, but Ruth has emotional memories of the time surrounding her mother's death. Drowning Ruth is as much (or more) Amanda's story as Ruth's, a story about the healthy and unhealthy bonds of family.
Drowning Ruth is set in rural Wisconsin starting in 1919. The isolated farms and communities seem to foster private sorrows. Although the farm family's private island is idealized, generally life for these characters is harsh. There's no eccentric charm of Lake Wobegon here. Although I didn't click with any of the characters, the complexity of the puzzle drew me in.
The back of the book blurb describes it as a "psychological thriller". That's a misnomer better applied to The Alienist: A Novel. It's more of a family drama where Amanda's past unfolds piece by disjointed piece as Ruth's life progresses along a chronological path. This book is sold as an Oprah book and a book club book to an audience of women, because the primary material is motherly/sisterly/daughterly love, but it's also a good historical study. This is Christina Schwartz's first novel, and an impressive first one it is.
Well written but depressing as hell........2007-09-10
Read this for a book club. Wish I hadn't. Going back to romances now so I don't have to deal with any more suffering than absolutely required.
I've read this at least three times........2007-08-16
I haven't found an emotional thriller to beat "Drowning Ruth". The fact that I could get so involved with the characters that I wanted to shout at them is a credit to Schwarz's style. The plot twists -so surprising-yet not, in retrospect, reminded me of the last chapters of "Rebecca".
I'm sure this will remain one of favorite reads.
Read it twice.......2007-04-30
This book is an intricate, perfect character study. I enjoyed the writing style and especially enjoyed the mental imagery. Read it once for pleasure. Read it a second time for the subtle jems you may have missesd the first time through. Wonderful!
Surprises.......2007-04-13
This book was given to me as a present, I had not heard of it and I picked it up reluctantly. I was pleasantly surprised by this book, full of interesting characters and a suspense that kept me gripped throughout the entire book.
A lot of surprises in this book.
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The award-winning author of
The Babes in the Wood and
The Rottweiler brings us another terrifically paced, richly drawn novel of suspense and psychological intrigue.
Weeks went by when Ismay never thought of it at all. Then something would bring it back or it would return in a dream. The dream always began in the same way.
She and her mother would be climbing the stairs, following Heather’s lead through the bedroom to what was on the other side, not a bathroom in the dream but a chamber floored and walled in marble. In the middle of it was a glassy lake. The white thing in the water floated towards her, its face submerged, and her mother said, absurdly, “Don’t look!”
The dead man was Ismay’s stepfather, Guy. Now, nine years on, she and her sister, Heather, still live in the same house in Clapham. But it has been divided into two self-contained flats. Their mother had lived upstairs with her sister, Pamela. And the bathroom, where Guy had drowned, had disappeared.
Ismay worked in public relations, and Heather in catering. They got on well. They always had. They never discussed the changes to the house, still less what had happened that August day. . .
But even lives as private as these, where secrets hang in the air like dust, intertwine with other worlds and other individuals. And, with painful inevitability, the truth will emerge.
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The best mysteries are those plausible.......2007-10-01
This mystery is up to The Grand Master's standards. I have never been disappointed with a Rendell or a Barbara Vine novel. That is extraordinary in itself, and of course some appeal more than others. Highly recommended.
Worst of Rendell .......2007-09-22
I've read nearly everything by Ruth Rendell (and works as Barbara Vine), including all of the Inspector Wexford books. The woman is good, very good, but this book is a disaster. The writing of Water's Lovely is forced, the plot depends totally on improbable coincidences, and worst of all, there isn't a single attractive character in the book.
How can this book average four stars? Come on folks, I read comments that concurred with my observations, but were rather generous with the stars. I cannot recommend this at all. Read almost anything else by Rendell and enjoy.
Not the best Rendell but she still takes you hostage..........2007-09-15
I adore Ruth Rendell and have read almost all her books. The Water's Lovely is certainly not her best but it doesn't matter. Even though there was no breathtaking revelation at the end (It was fairly predictable)and the myriad of subplots often vanished into thin air I was absolutely entranced with the novel. Rendell creates a dark, twisted world inhabited by twinkly monsters and fizzy little demons that are so fascinating it's impossible to stop reading. Even though this book doesn't have a really explosive ending that makes your jaw drop it's so jam packed with deliciously wicked characters who are so superbly crafted I found it impossible to extricate myself from their lives. I believed everyone of these characters and still think their wandering around London somewhere. I adore this writer's ability to get under the skin, to turn people inside out and expose the bubbling brain of a fairy faced girl, a possesive invalid or an aging single embarking on a disastrous romance. Don't wait for the POW at the end -- just read The Water's Lovely to slip into Rendell's mind...You won't regret the invitation.
A Good Read.......2007-09-13
This is the first time I have read one of Ruth Rendall's books and I would definitely read her again. The Water's Lovely illustrates that life doesn't necessarily turn out as one expects. One should also be careful what one wishes for!
Too contrived.......2007-09-11
What are the odds that some homeless person who finds a purse containing a damning tape has a sister who happens to know the sister of the person who made the tape?
So many nasty people in one book. Who would want to spend time with them?
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Drowning Ruth
Christina Schwarz
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Drowning Ruth
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A work of fiction focusing on interpersonal relationships, set on a Wisconsin farm in the early 20th century.
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Let's see. Kathy Bates as Amanda..........2005-10-03
With its vivid depiction of its post-World War I setting in Wisconsin, its nightmarish complexities as a family saga, its carefully developed suspense, and its simplicity of theme, Drowning Ruth has "blockbuster movie" written all over it. Its selection by Oprah has guaranteed its popular success as a novel.
The above statements should not be regarded as negatives, however. Drowning Ruth is a terrific read! The author is precise and careful about building her suspense with excruciating slowness. She has created intriguing characters--at heart, not all that different from you and me--characters who are confronted with difficult problems to solve, some of which are not of their own making and some of which are the unexpected results of desperate decisions made in the long ago past. Her alternations of point of view help to give breadth and depth to the conflicts within the main characters, while the fragmentary memories which Ruth contributes add to both the mystery and the sense of dread.
Although Schwarz ably illustrates the restricted roles into which women had to adapt themselves during the period, the mores which applied to "good girls," and the limited choices open to them, the lack of liberation is so natural a part of her story that her novel and its complications are by no means part of a liberation manifesto. Drowning Ruth is a simple story presented clearly and suspensefully by an author who, like Amanda, is careful to keep her grasp completely within her reach. Mary Whipple
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