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People of the River is the first major publication to focus exclusively on the rich artistic traditions of the Native Americans who traditionally lived along the lower Columbia River from the mouth of the Snake River to the Pacific Ocean. In this richly illustrated volume, author Bill Mercer eloquently describes the Columbia River art style as an indigenous development that emerged over the course of countless generations and whose forms reveal a unique combination of designs, motifs, materials, and techniques.
The book includes more than two hundred objects organized into sections that focus on sculptural forms, basketry, and beadwork spanning the pre-contact era to the middle of the twentieth century. People of the River features many objects that have never before been published and provides keen insight into a previously unrecognized area of Native American art. With insightful texts, lavish reproductions, and an extensive bibliography, People of the River promises to be a key resource on this compelling body of work for years to come.
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- We are locals - love this book.
- Excellent Guidebook for an Expansive Trip
- Good guide for sightseeing, but NOT for hotels, restaurants
- Beautiful North Oregon Coast
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It's an enormous region, the Pacific Northwest. Encompassing Oregon, Washington, and Vancouver, it's also an area frequently traversed from stem to stern in one gigantic adventure, or by selective piecemeal, combining forays to coast and desert, island and mountain pass. However you do it, it's handy having the whole territory contained between two covers, so that along with the skinny on history, hotels, and restaurants, you'll know that the Gilbert House Children's Museum (built to honor the man who invented the Erector Set) is in Salem, Oregon; that Hart Mountain and Poker Jim Ridge (3,600 feet above Warner Lakes, in Oregon) are exceptionally beautiful and rich in wildlife; where to hear blues in Seattle; when the ferries go to Victoria, and where to go for scones and clotted cream once you're there. All this without scrambling between a multitude of guidebooks. --Stephanie Gold
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Cloaked in vast wilderness, the Pacific Northwest is sure to inspire any outdoor enthusiast. Prefer indoors? We've got you covered. From Mt Rainier trails and Orcas Island whales to Vancouver plays and Seattle cafes, this guide leads you to the very best of the Northwest.
- lodging for all — from five-star hotels and quaint B&Bs to riverside teepees and beachside yurts
- an entire chapter dedicated to outdoor activities, from fly fishing to night skiing
- more than 90 maps, with detailed Seattle and Vancouver sections
- informative and up-to-date coverage of local environmental issues
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We are locals - love this book........2005-12-30
Full of ideas and covers all the good stuff.
This is not a city resturant guide, however. Someone else gave this book 3 stars because it only told them about the highlights of what makes the Pacific Northwest special, and didn't name the 5-star resturants. I am a 4th-generation Seattle-ite and fancy resturants are not my scene. Go anywhere, eat wild salmon and a latte, then go do some more walks or boat trips or something like that!
Excellent Guidebook for an Expansive Trip.......2005-07-28
I literally just got back from my trip which spanned from Berekely, CA- Vancouver, BC and we used this book throughout the whole trip. The hotel and restaurant recommendations are excellent and for every price range. We did a lot of last minute changes of plans and the book was able to help us with those hotel reservations. It also contains great maps and excellent background history of the area. If you are traveling through the Pacific Northwest I highly recommend this book.
Good guide for sightseeing, but NOT for hotels, restaurants.......2004-10-11
While this book provides fairly accurate guidance regarding natural features and campgrounds, don't use it a reliable guide to travel necessities that are market driven like hotels, restaurants, admission costs, etc. Each time we used the book to choose a hotel, we were surprised and sadly disappointed in either the quality, the cost, or both. The same for recommended restaurants. Admission costs were generally 20% higher than listed. No big deal, but again, for a current publication it fell short in accuracy. It's as if an earlier printing was simply published as current without checking on the accuracy of the contents.
Use it as a guide, but not as a reference. I'm sure there are other sources of more accurate information for travelers.
Beautiful North Oregon Coast.......2004-03-28
This is a really good book for exploring the Pacific Northwest and we had a fantastic trip using it. The only place it left out that we think it should include is the heavenly ZEN GARDEN Bed and Breakfast on the Oregon coast in Manzanita.
The rooms are beautiful, it is almost on the quiet, dreamy, seven mile beach, nearly in the forest of the Nehalem Bay State Park, and the breakfast is Huge and DELICIOUS.
Excellent planning guide with lots of background info!.......2001-08-15
We used several guides in planning a recent trip to south and central Oregon, with a stop at Mt. St. Helens on the way home, and this one was by far the most informative! Before we went to a particular destination, I would tell my family, "First you have to listen to this!" Then I would read Lonely Planet's description and historical/geological background of the site we were about to visit. I think we all enjoyed our trip much more because of this "anticipatory set."
Highly recommended, not only for first-time visitors to a region, but for natives to learn more about the beauty and history right in their own backyard.
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The Pacific Northwest, British Columbia, Yukon, and Alaska are famous for their breathtaking natural beauty, attracting thousands of visitors every year. This compact field guide presents all 134 tree species that grow in this region and describes the identifying marks for each. Explaining the similarities and differences between species and defining how to classify leafless specimens, this book is an illustrated key to identifying the trees of the region.
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A one-of-a-kind collection of maps created by the navigators, explorers, and cartographers who first charted the Northwest.
Representing four centuries of discovery and exploration, this unique reference book is a must-have for anyone interested in Northwest history. The Historical Atlas of the Pacific Northwest showcases more than 320 original maps, many never before published. Here are the maps of explorers such as Cook, Vancouver, Bodega y Quadra, Mackenzie, Thompson, and Lewis and Clark. Here too are maps created during boundary disputes, land purchases, the plotting of town sites, and surveys for railroads. Combined with historical background, these maps take the reader on an amazing visual journey through the discovery and development of the Northwest.
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A sense of place.......2002-01-19
The "Historical Atlas of the Pacific Northwest . . ." is an excellent read for anyone living in the Pacific Northwest from Coos Bay/North Bend to Nome, even if you aren't into maps. As someone who relocated here from the Midwest five years ago, this book has helped put the webbing between my toes.
The map research is impressive. Derek Hayes has reproduced maps in this book that I never would have known existed. The narative history is good reading as well (I detect the influence of Ken Burns here). The book has greatly increase my knowlege of the place I have chosen to live, both in terms of its history and the physical landscape.
I also recommend it to any history or geography buff, even if you mispronounce Oregon "Or E Gone!"
Beautiful book of old maps and local history!.......2001-11-02
Ok, so I love maps and I live in the area, but this is still a rightly highly-acclaimed wonderful piece of work! Map fans will love it; locals will love it; others will learn (many) things from it. As well as the maps themselves, you also get a sweeping series of historical vignettes associated with each map. The least you'll get from it is the sheer joy of looking at a fantastic collection of wonderful old maps!
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A must have for naturalists in the Pacific Northwest........2002-12-09
This field guide is well organized with beautiful photos. Each butterfly listed has a key for recognition, variations, life history as well as habitat range and the time of year you are likely to see this butterfly on the wing. A particularly nice feature is is the list of names for each as butterflies often have akas (also known as.)Dr. Pyles broad knowledge of nature allows him to include additional information about the history of butterfly study. This book will supplant other field guides whose scope intends to include the entire continent. The beautiful durable cover will look good on your desk and will function well in your field pack.
The tremendous amount of data collected in these pages reflect a dedication to the study of butterflies that is inspiring to the amateur and professional naturalist.
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Beyond the Rocky Mountains: Report on the Territory of Oregon
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Very Interesting.......2003-06-26
This is an extremely well researched book that offers a very interesting perspective on the "growth" of societies. By exploring how elites in society attempt to further their personal wealth or power, Bodley shows how shifts in the society occur further concentrating the benefits to the elites while spreading the costs to the masses. He mathematically shows how this concentration happens and how it can be predicted. This book is incredible to read using examples from many different cultures throughout history and many different parts of the world.
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Until recently, such phenomena as the volatility of weather systems, the fluctuation of the shock market, or the random firing of neurons in the brain were considered too "noisy" and complex to be probed by science. But now, with the aid of high-speed computers, scientists have been able to penetrate a reality that is changing the way we perceive the universe. Their findings -- the basis for chaos theory -- represent one of the most exciting scientific pursuits of our time.
No better introduction to this find could be found than John Briggs and F. David Peat's Turbulent Mirror. Together, they explore the many faces of chaos and reveal how its law direct most of the processes of everyday life and how it appears that everything in the universe is interconnected -- discovering an "emerging science of wholeness."
Turbulent Mirror introduces us to the scientists involved in study this endlessly strange field; to the theories that are turning our perception of the world on its head; and to the discoveries in mathematics, biology, and physics that are heralding a revolution more profound than the one responsible for producing the atomic bomb. With practical applications ranging from the control of traffic flow and the development of artifical intelligence to the treatment of heart attacks and schizophrenia, chaos promises to be an increasingly rewarding area of inquiry -- of interest to everyone.
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A readable description of the theory of order out of chaos........2006-12-01
Here is an easy to read exposition of the theory of order out of chaos and how the natural world arises from basic natural processes repeated over and over again. The relevance of fractals to this study is given as well as a description of psychic processes. A must read for anyone interested in the new science. All the more complex theories of interest to the magical endeavor are based on the ideas presented in this book. It's an excellent companion to James Gleick's "Chaos."
A Book Ahead of its Time - still.......2005-02-28
A wonderful synthesis of science at the edge. A grasp of how scientific methodology is changing to accommodate the revelations of chaos theory. The used edition I read was from 1990 and is prescient even now (alas). The informed and illuminating evidence that revolutionizes the current Neo-Darwinistic paradigm of molecular evolutionary theory towards the end of the book was particularly refreshing. John Briggs and F. Peat's thinking is so strikingly lucid, informed, and visionary that this book will fail to make almost any lecture list where it is most needed for years to come.
A step deeper guild of Chaos Theory to layman.......2001-10-28
I've finished this book's Chinese version today. In the last year, I'm trying my best effort to absorb knowledge of Chaos Theory, Complexity, and Catastrophe Theory. It's quite hard to get a in-depth guild of the above knowledge to common people in Hong Kong.
My purpose to get the above knowledge is just in order to find the hidden order of financial market, and, of course, to make profit from the market. That's why I find this book is good to serve my purpose. It explained clearly on fractals, the relationship between chaos and order, and non-linearness.
I knew E. Peters has using fratals / Elloit Wave Theory to analyze financial market. Of course, it needs more intra-day data to try to find such fratals in a small scale period, e.g. in a 5-minute charts. But I guess that, such fractal are existing in the market, if you watching index movement everyday.
On another aspest, the technique of plotting data in a phase space is a tool to get the picture of financial market to me. This tools can be compared with weighted moving average, MACD, or other technical indicators. Though, phase space analysis is quite uneasy to a man without advanced mathematics. I'm quite sure such mathematical technique may apply to financial trading.
Besides, the idea of "quasi-periodic" is likely describing financial market. Though I got less knowledge from the book on this topic. It sounds like some ideas from William Gann, and other cyclist writings.
Hince, I'm benefitted from the book to enlighten new view point to see the world, and the market. I recommend any financial market practitioner to read this Chaos Theory guild and then reread some technical analysis classics, and reviewing their trading strategies. I believe that shall be worthy in one's trading life.
N.B. The picture 2.7 is missing (P.76), and there is some printing errors in its Chinese version which printed in 20.6.1997
Science or Science Fiction.......2001-02-02
While this book does make some interesting points about chaos, I found that the book's blatant disregard for accepted science very hard to stomach. I currently attend Harvey Mudd College, a small, but highly regarded science and engineering school, so I like to think that I know something about the subject.
For example, at one point the authors are describing solitons (a term I had never heard before), states a theory that by generating an extra bit of energy we could put the universe out of the unstable equilibrium it currently exists in and cause it to "begin to boil." While this is all well and good, it makes vast assumptions that the authors neglect to mention. Most importantly it assumes that the universe is in an unstable equilibrium, a fact which although highly unlikely is not impossible. Secondly it assumes that the universe is completely clean of these bits of extra energy currently. They draw this parallel to an example of superheating water because without external particles to build upon no bubbles can form to release the steam. This is also true, but it is still impossible because it is impossible to have a perfect system like this. There are always going to be minute cracks in the pot, or imperfections in the water (fractal theory, covered earlier in the book, even states this!), and so while this might be theoretically possible it will not happen in any real world environment. The book has many other places like this where the authors conveniently leave out details that might weaken their arguments. I find this to make the book as a whole very frustrating to read, even if some of their points are valid.
Another reason that I find the book to be very frustrating is that everything is very sensationalized. At the beginning of the description of fractals the authors say that the first person to think of a fractal curve created "a panic among mathematicians that took some fifty years to resolve." I find it truly hard to believe that the entire mathematical community was pulling their collective hair for fifty years trying to explain this curve, but by phrasing it this way the authors make it seem like science as a whole does not want to accept new ideas because it would make them look bad. In reality though I think the scientific community is ready to accept anything that can be strongly proven theoretically, or experimentally (just look at relativity, or quantum).
Because of all of these failings I would not recommend this book. I am sure that there are many other better books about chaos theory that do an excellent job of describing it without disregarding the rest of science, or trying to place it in places where it does not necessarily belong.
IGNORE CHAOS AT YOUR PERIL.......2000-06-05
Very well thought out survey of chaos theory presents a metaphorical mirror as a means to magnify and project into view the hidden world of turbulence. The advent of the computer has brought chaos and fractals out of the closet. Here the authors teach the reader how to navigate in the turbulent world from the submicroscopic realms to the distant galaxies. The authors dish up a huge concept list: fractal dimensions, strange attractors, holograms, soliton bubbles, bifurcation, quantum phase locking, coevolution of species and the earth as Gaia -- all in an attempt to teach the reader the folly of allowing the part/whole dichotomy to rule your perception of the universe.
The book is a stark attack on those the authors term reductionists -- those who seek answers in breaking the whole into ever smaller parts. The authors' pet writers are David Bohm, Lynn Margulis, and Llya Prigogine but they toss in another hundred ideas for irregular stepping stones to get where they are going. Where is that? They composed an evangelical message -- that man now has the tools and knowledge to step through Alice's Looking Glass into an entirely new and mystical perception of the whole. They see chaos as a source of future evolution and life.
I give the authors a high mark for original thought. Although using a hundred other science writers to frame their ideas, they direct the reader to go beyond existing theories and strike a path for the center of the turbulent mirror. The diagrams and illustrations also were very helpful. They pictured the brain as a strange attractor, with thought arbitrating between the two realms of order and chaos. My favorite metaphor was the slime mold which, when food gets scarce, merges from being a collection of individual cells to a collective entity moving across the forest floor. This was to show an example of quantum phase locking which "could provide a bridge joining classical, nonlinear reality with linear, quantum reality" (P. 188). Great Two Thousand year Philosophy.
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Do you want to save the earth? If so, writes environmental activist Geoffrey Saign, you'll need to change a few habits. You'll need, for one thing, to stop buying PVC or vinyl products, which contain unhealthful levels of chlorine; you'll need, for another thing, to stop using chemical fertilizers on your lawn. In this alphabetical directory of topics ranging from acid rain to wind energy, Saign examines the positive and negative effects of human activities on the environment, and recommends steps for undoing harm, ranging from individual efforts to international accords. His book makes for a fine reference for like-minded activists. --Gregory McNamee
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Subtitle says it all.......2000-04-19
"Green Essentials: What you need to know about the environment" is a great handbook for the activist but its should be required reading for every American. The book takes a dictionary approach (A-Z) to dissect every trend and environmental issue possible. It then provides a concise definition as well as sections dealing with what is currently occuring in the area as well as what is to be done. Further, it is merciless in showing how human activity is relentlessly encroaching on habits, destroying resources and in general degrading the planet.
As a research tool, the book includes an annotated bibliography which is excellent in culling sources for nay research project.
Finally, the book contains a exhaustive glossary that explains each term used in the book. All in all an excellent source for anyone concerned about the viability of the human race in the future.
Good Reference for someone who wants to DO SOMETHING.......1998-07-30
This is an encyclopedic overview of all environmental issues, giving background, the effects, what's being done, and what still needs to be done, so you can get busy! Surely you will find an issue in here that you can get behind, and some task you can do to help out.
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