The Essential Freshwater Aquarium (The Essential Guides)

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This price is valid only online at Petco.com. Not available in stores at this price. For local in-store prices, please call your favorite Petco Store.Owning an aquarium is rewarding and fun! Get all you need to know about setting up a freshwater aquarium, choosing the right fish for you and keeping your fish in the best of health in The Essential Freshwater Aquarium. Special features include professional color photos, helpful sidebars and lists and expert tips on how to make your fish a wonderful addition to the family. Learn how to have an aquarium that the whole family will enjoy with The Essential Freshwater Aquarium.Contents include:Fish FundamentalsAll About AquariumsA Quality HomeFreshwater Fish FamiliesChoosing the Right FishFish NutritionTo Good HealthResources, Recommended Reading, and Index

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Great beginner guide and quick reference.......2006-12-13

I used this book to clean up a dying 10 gallon tank and start a 55 gallon tank and the information was invaluable. Two years later I still refer back to this book (in fact I am buying a replacement for my lost copy). I found it to contain all the essential information one needs, plus great information on fish personalities and interactions. The fish descriptions and types are quite abridged, but for a small handy guide this book is the one you need.

It covers the basics from tank setup to the nitrogen cycle to what species do well together. There is a guide to recognizing fish diseases - I can't praise this small book enough. I like things to be concise. For elaboration I go to the library. Keep this near your tank.

A good reference guide.......2003-11-02

I find this to be a solid reference guide when it comes to setting up a freshwater aquarium. Some of the things discussed are fish evolution and biology, tank size, aquarium stands, water chemistry (including the important nitrogen cycle), different types of filters, aeration, heating, lighting, gravel, plants, general maintenance, freshwater fish families, fish selection, feeding, and health. The color photographs are also pleasing. This is a helpful book.

A pleasing book a must for beginers and not advansed.......1999-02-12

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What Fish? A Buyer's Guide to Tropical Fish: Essential Information to Help You Choose the Right Fish for Your Tropical Freshwater Aquarium (What Pet? Books)

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What Fish? A Buyer's Guide to Tropical Fish: Essential Information to Help You Choose the Right Fish for Your Tropical Freshwater Aquarium (What Pet? Books)
Nick Flethcer
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Prospective tropical aquarium hobbyists will find vital information on many fish varieties—cichlids, swordtails, and many others. Readers will find tips on species identification, feeding, behavior, approximate and purchase prices. Quick-check data requirements are given regarding aquarium size, water temperature, food, compatibility with other fish, and much more. This title is one in Barron's new series of pet buyer's guides, all of them filled with practical information and approximately 250 vivid color illustrations.

An Essential Guide to Choosing Your Tropical Freshwater Fish (Tankmasters Series)

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An Essential Guide to Choosing Your Tropical Freshwater Fish (Tankmasters Series)
Gina Sandford
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Volumes in this brand new series present aquarium enthusiasts with virtually all the facts they need to create beautiful and healthful environments for fish and other aquatic life. Dazzling color photographs with detailed, informative captions and step-by-step instructions will quickly turn beginners into capable aquarium hobbyists, while providing advice and ideas that will inspire experienced fish keepers to add variety and interest to their tanks and ponds. Handsomely laid-out pages present essential information at a glance. This volume shows and describes more than 70 freshwater tropical fish suitable for indoor tanks. Tetras, cichlids, angelfish, and many other varieties are described with advice on care and information on compatibility with other fish. More than 200 stunning color photos. Hardcover / 80 Pages / 10 1/8 x 7 1/8 / 2000

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Not worth it.......2003-04-19

I am also a beginner in the hobby. This book has very limited info. If you are interested in the fish that are in the book, it might be worth it. Doesn't cover very many fish either. There isn't any info on what fish is compatable with the fish that they are talking about. It does say the temperment of the fish or how many fish to keep together, but if the different types of fish aren't compatable, what difference does it make how many you have ?? Many better books out there !!

Essential for beginners!.......2002-10-23

Being a beginner aquarist myself, I found this book to be brilliant. It has a few pages on general fish information, as well as an explanatory book outline in the beginning. A page per fish information follows this. Each page on a particular fish has the following information: Large color photo, General information, Size of fish, Compatibility issues if they exist, Breeding habits, Origin. It also has a section indicating the ideal aquarium set-up for each fish that includes the following: Water quality, Temperature, Food, Number per tank, Minimum tank size. I found this book very helpful in choosing my fish and realizing the importance of compatibility. You would need to do some extra research, but the book is essential for beginners!

The Essential Aquarium: A Guide to Keeping 100 Exciting Freshwater Species

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The Essential Aquarium: A Guide to Keeping 100 Exciting Freshwater Species
Michael Friedman Publishing Gr
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Freshwater Aquariums: Today's Essential Guide to Freshwater Aquariums (Aquamaster)

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Freshwater Aquariums: Today's Essential Guide to Freshwater Aquariums (Aquamaster)
Stuart Thraves , Peter Hiscock , and Gina Sandford
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a nice way to get into silhouette collecting.......1998-08-10

i didn't know that such a book was on the market, when i found it in west virgina at antique store, which i was looking for head vase's.. that is a nother store.... ok the book silhouette collectibles by shirley mace is very yes very infomative..she tells of the factory where they are made. she also gives great care about those who collect and the fun it gives... also on a buying note there is a updated price guide ..avalible the isbn# for that is 0-9633674-0-4 .. i can't believe the way people collect these gems, i like the convex glass over the flat glass silhouettes. benton glass co. is the most often found in my area coming from cleveland oh prints marked with bg are form benton glass other company's are in the book too.. this is a very short synopsos of the book there is at least 100 pic. of varies silhouette's in this book with great reference to others and useful info on getting silhouette repaired and the like. happy hunting on that odd pice that you need to mat! ch we all have those...

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On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason (Open Court Library of Philosophy)

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Good Book, Cosimo Classics=Bad Translation
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Lucid and a bit quaint
Essential Reading.

On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason (Open Court Library of Philosophy)
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Good Book, Cosimo Classics=Bad Translation.......2007-08-31

I bought the Cosimo Classics edition of "on the fourfold root" (its the pink one) and basically there is on major problem with this copy, there are entire passages that Schopenhauer uses from other philosophers that are left completely untranslated, rendering null any ability to make sense of an already not too easy volume (that is of course unless you know latin, french, german, etc...)

Minor Problem.......2003-03-13

This amazing treatise on human knowledge has one little fault. The editors at Open Court left out eleven words in the Tranlator's Introduction. This omission should gratify present-day philosophers in that it turns Schopenhauer's words into modern-sounding nonsense. I will surround the omitted words with parentheses. On page xx, Schopenhauer is quoted: " ...so that I cannot hope ever to find a more correct and accurate expression of that core of my philosophy (than what is there recorded. Whoever wishes to know my philosophy) thoroughly and investigate it seriously must take that chapter into consideration." You see, the occurrence of the word "philosophy" twice in close proximity utterly confused them. I notified Open Court but did not receive an acknowledgement. Other than this, I have to judge this book as one of the few life-changing writings that occur a few times every century. For laughs, read Heidegger's "Principle of Reason" and compare the two.

easy reading.......2002-12-27

This work is well written, like the rest of Schopenhauer's books, and many of its arguments stand strong today. That the understanding is active in perception, that percpetion is intellectual, is a huge step beyond Kant. Furthermore, Schopenhauer's claim that causality is necessary for sense experience, though not proving the a priori nature of causality as he thought, is strong and holds true whether one is a realist or an idealist. In the case of realism, sense experience is gotten by the affectation of objects upon the body, and in the case of idealism, sense experience is the production of the individual, and thus causality is necessary either way. One may object to Schopenhauer's attempt to rationalize everything down to human action - that he makes the entire phenomenal world deterministic. But he has strong arguments for this as well which are further explained in On the Basis of Morality and On the Freedom of the Will. Schopenhauer is one of the few philosophers I still enjoy reading, and rather than finding gaps in his system... people would do well to learn from him. While this work prepares the way for his whole system, and is essential to understanding particulary Book One and the Appendix on Kant of his magnum opus, this work should make any openminded empirical realist uneasy, though it does not prove the radical kind of Berkeleian idealism to which Schopenhauer subscribed.

Lucid and a bit quaint.......2001-06-22

It is one of the few injustices of Bertrand RussellÕs ÒHistory of Western Philosophy,Ó that he failed to appreciate SchopenhauerÕs thesis for his doctorate. But it is really one of the seminal documents that conclusively closed a debate which had begun with Descartes and included David Hume and Immanuel Kant. Schopenhauer was very much a no nonsense thinker who felt nothing but contempt for people like Hegel (his bte noir) or Fichte. He also had an open mind for the sciences, yet came a bit too early for Gregor Mendel and Darwin. So Schopenhauer proposed his famous voluntarism, a blind, but all-pervasive will behind the shifting spectre of never ending changes. In this sense Schopenhauer holds a middle position like Tycho Brahe had held between Copernicus and Kepler. It is not science yet, but already departing from the realm of pure thought. There are many ways to understand the meaning of philosophy, but I believe Bertrand Russell had put it best: ÒIs there anything we can think of which, by the mere fact that we can think of it, is shown to exist outside of our thought? If yes is the right answer, there is a bridge from pure thought to things, if not, not.Ó SchopenhauerÕs answer to this question is fourfold, i.e. his exposition of the Òprinciple of sufficient reason,Ó and it is as good an answer, as anybody possibly could give, who puts himself under the constrains of BerkeleyÕs idealism. It is not only the epistemological core to SchopenhauerÕs own philosophy, it really takes the fundamentals through the paces and answers to David HumeÕs demolition of causality. In essence it says, that causality is a common bias in human and animal sensibility, which Ôa prioryÕ enables us to operate on our empirical sensations. It is the way how we structure the world, but not necessarily a feature of the empirical phenomena under scrutiny as Hume had already had observed. Then why does a sensibility based on the concept of causality operates so efficiently?

Schopenhauer is still a classical rationalist of the old school. Like his master, Immanuel Kant, instead of postulating a convenient set of inborn instincts or acquired intuitions, he prefers the premise, that there is a LOGICAL reason, a preconceived NECESSITY, for the way we slot and pigeonhole perceptions and employ our operative ideas. So how does this work in the real world? In essence Schopenhauer takes ÒperceptionÓ not to be the product of sensation, but of understanding. In other words what our senses present to our cognition is transformed by the 4 linchpins of common sense: causation, plausibility, geometry, and psychological motivation. So there is a chain of mental events: sensation is converted by an act of recognition to perception. From this it is only one logical step further to SchopenhauerÕs first premise of his mature philosophy that the world is Òmy will and representation,Ó because the Òobjective worldÓ which we naively take to be given to our senses is in fact a transformation from raw data to perception. To illustrate this point just consider how the mind compensates for mild astigmatism: the afflicted still perceives a correct picture of the object. And this is a faculty animals obviously share with us. What makes man different is merely the scope and refinement of his percepts. Schopenhauer is at his best in his exposition of causation. By shifting it from a relationship between things to a relationship between different states of things, he shows the fallacy in HumeÕs scepticism. It is not the sun as such that melts the snow but the heat absorbed which causes a change from crystalline to liquid - 2 states of the same thing: water. This causal relationship between changes we judge to be necessary and not merely to be an incidental regularity. Our exposure to such regularities authorizes what Schopenhauer called a Òhypothetical judgementÓ or in modern parlance a Òcounterfactual inference.Ó But our absolute TRUST in such judgements comes from nowhere but from ourselves - it is a feature of our sensibility, because we actually apply it on every event we can imagine, and not just on actual experience. It makes us intuitively and a priory look for things to happen the way it is expected. (ThatÕs why modern science had such a hard time to get over the hump into quantum physics.) Schopenhauer then continues to explain the age old philosophical adage, that no thing ever comes into being or ceases to be. We observe changes. Matter, which always has existed, undergoes certain transformations; it loses certain properties and acquires others, until, at a given point, it presents itself as a flower. Eventually the flower will perish but its matter doesnÕt simply disappear. It turns to compost, thus feeding the seeds of new plants and so on in infinity, in ever changing configurations of matter. In other words, notions of a Òfirst causeÓ (and its theological implications) are dismissed as nonsense. ÒCausation,Ó Schopenhauer notes, Òis not like a hired cab which one dismisses once it has arrived at its desired destination.Ó Modern science since Schopenhauer seems to be on a speeding train away from such quaint exposition of the works of common sense. We have entered the realm of counter-intuitive phenomena and the facts of modern physics require new logical tools. These days the more respectable section of modern philosophy occupies itself with symbolic logic and algorithms. The rest of us like to think that the world fits into our thoughts because we fit into the world, but it is a bit more complicated, and from a perspective of classical idealism, SchopenhauerÕs thesis presents in a style of great lucidity the final summation for the way the world corresponds with our perception.

Essential Reading........2001-06-21

This work is amazingly still ahead of its time despite being roughly 150 years old. It is essential for any student of science and/or philosophy. It requires focus and energy to read, and rather bogs down toward the end, but upon finishing it you'll most likely be enlightened on aspects of your cognitive and reasoning powers you weren't previously aware you even possessed. Here's why this book is important. The history of humanity's awakening from animal consciousness into the self-aware, abstract reasoning existence marks a movement from the the evolutionary advent of vertebrates to interstellar space probes. It's quite a little drama. The chroniclers of this story weren't really able to swing into action, due to technical difficulties, until a crotchety old cuss from Konigsberg ran off the barbarians of the mind. Kant is not refered to as the father of the modern scientific method for nothing. What Kant attributes to Hume in terms of motivation is also given to Kant on the road to Schopenhauer. Schopenhauer takes up the torch mightily and ushers us finally onto the platform of the empirical epistemology of idealism, which seems like a contradiction but isn't. It is astounding how many supposedly scientific types still do not grasp the necessary idealism ingrained in the neural cognitive machinery and see the human animal as machines of sensation. Whatever graduation requirements in American universities stand responsible for this travesty are dispelled by the concise and unwavering interpretation of Schopenhauer. Read it. Learn from it. The principle of sufficient reason is of course the necessity that all events derive from their concomitant causes, or, that things happen for a reason. Schopenhauer asigns his (arbitrary) classifictions in a workman like manner and demonstrates a means by which a priori knowledge of causation occurs. Other than elucidating the elemental role idealism plays in the human mind's functioning, the main thrust of this book is to put the final nail in Kant's refutation of Hume's denial of causation in an eloquent compliment to what Hume was asking future generations to do; and Schopenhauer rises to the task. Scopenhauer takes from Kant the halter of reality, that marriage of empiricism, cognition, and ratiocination, and leads the old mare firmly into the present. Too bad the present has not worked its way beyond a man dead for over a century. This need not be your fate however. If you have read Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason' then this book is its logical extension and awaits your company. If not, then head to a cabin high in the Himalayas come winter, read the Critique, then read this book. It'll rock your world.

On Schopenhauer's Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason (Philosophy of History and Culture, Vol 8)

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good analysis

On Schopenhauer's Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason (Philosophy of History and Culture, Vol 8)
F. C. White
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Dr White's book is the first to be written on Schopenhauer's important foundation-work, On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason. It presents the arguments and analyses of Schopenhauer's work in systematic form and assesses the worth of those arguments and analyses, with particular emphasis on their positive merits. Schopenhauer divides the phenomenal world into four classes of object, discussing each of these in turn, and the chapters of White's book generally follow that order. But the book also contains a chapter of introduction showing how the Fourfold Root fits into Schopenhauer's general scheme of philosophical thought, and an appendix outlining the historical background to Schopenhauer's views. Given that it is the only work of its kind, White's book will be of use and interest to all students, and it is written in such a way that it should be intelligible to the beginner in Schopenhauer as well as helpful to the more established student.

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good analysis.......2002-12-29

I read this book after Schopenhauer's Fourfold Root after accidentally finding it in a library. It's a shame it costs so much, it's actually quite good. White basically presents Schopenhauer's arguments in the order Schopenhauer presents them, and proceeds to critique them in a fair and reasonable manner. While White puts holes in many of Schopenhauer's arguments, he also shows the merit in others, and the author's knowledge of contemporary physics and mathematics lends to the quality of the discussion towards the end of the book. While I would have to dig through notes to find them, I remember the author having a great many points which I found insightful into Schopenhauer's philosophy - he does not just present the arguments and give his critique in a mundane way like many Kant scholars, but instead allows Schopenhauer's text to remain contemporarily relevant and plausible in many areas, while not completely giving in to Schopenhauer's epistemology.

Two Essays By Arthur Schopenhauer : I. On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason; II. On the Will in Nature - A Literal Translation

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Two Essays By Arthur Schopenhauer : I. On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason; II. On the Will in Nature - A Literal Translation
Arthur Schopenhauer
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On Schopenhauer's Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason.: An article from: The Review of Metaphysics

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On Schopenhauer's Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason.: An article from: The Review of Metaphysics
Christopher Adair-Toteff
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Title: On Schopenhauer's Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason.
Author: Christopher Adair-Toteff
Publication: The Review of Metaphysics (Refereed)
Date: June 1, 1994
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On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason

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On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason
Arthur (1788-1860) Schopenhauer
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On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason
Arthur; E. F. J. Payne trans. Schopenhauer
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On The Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason and On

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On The Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason and On
Arthur Schopenhauer
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On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason and on the Will in Nature Revised Edition

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On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason and on the Will in Nature Revised Edition
Arthur Schopenhauer
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On the fourfold root of the principle of sufficient reason, and On the will in nature: Two essays (Bohn's philosophical library)

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On the fourfold root of the principle of sufficient reason, and On the will in nature: Two essays (Bohn's philosophical library)
Arthur Schopenhauer
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