Ecology and Natural Resource Management: Systems Analysis and Simulation

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This book explores the theory and methods of systems analysis and computer modeling as applied to problems in ecology and natural resource management. It reflects the problems and conflicts between competing uses of limited space and the need for quantitative predictors of the outcome of various management strategies.

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Faithful

If you don't like baseball stop now

Faithful: Two Diehard Boston Red Sox Fans Chronicle the Historic 2004 Season
Stewart O'Nan , and Stephen King
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Fans watching the 2004 baseball playoffs were often treated to shots of Stephen King sitting in the stands, notebook in hand. Given the bizarre events on the field, from the Red Sox's unprecedented comeback against their most hated rivals to their ace pitcher's bleeding, stitched-together ankle--not to mention the Sox's first championship in 86 years--you could be forgiven for thinking King was writing the script as he went along, passing new plot twists down to the dugouts between innings.

What he was writing, though, along with his friend and fellow novelist Stewart O'Nan, was Faithful, a diary of the 2004 Red Sox season. Faithful is written not from inside the clubhouse or the press room, but from the outside, from the stands and the sofa in front of the TV, by two fans who, like the rest of New England, have lived and died (mostly died) with the Sox for decades. From opposite ends of Red Sox Nation, King in Maine and O'Nan at the border of Yankees country in Connecticut, they would meet in the middle at Fenway Park or trade emails from home about the games they'd both stayed up past midnight to watch. King (or, rather, "Steve") is emotional, O'Nan (or "Stew") is obsessively analytical. Steve, as the most famous Sox fan who didn't star in Gigli, is a folk hero of sorts, trading high fives with doormen and enjoying box seats better than John Kerry's, while Stew is an anonymous nomad, roving all over the park. (Although he's such a shameless ballhound that he gains some minor celebrity as "Netman" when he brings a giant fishing net to hawk batting-practice flies from the top of the Green Monster.)

You won't find any of the Roger Angell-style lyricism here that baseball, and the Sox in particular, seem to bring out in people. (King wouldn't stand for it.) Instead, this is the voice of sports talk radio: two fans by turns hopeful, distraught, and elated, who assess every inside pitch and every waiver move as a personal affront or vindication. Full of daily play-by-play and a season's rises and falls, Faithful isn't self-reflective or flat-out funny enough to become a sports classic like Fever Pitch, Ball Four, or A Fan's Notes, but like everything else associated with the Red Sox 2004 season, from the signing of Curt Schilling to Dave Roberts's outstretched fingers, it carries the golden glow of destiny. And, of course, it's got a heck of an ending. --Tom Nissley

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Early in 2004, two writers and Red Sox fans, Stewart O'Nan and Stephen King, decided to chronicle the upcoming season, one of the most hotly anticipated in baseball history. They would sit together at Fenway. They would exchange emails. They would write about the games. And, as it happened, they would witness the greatest comeback ever in sports, and the first Red Sox championship in eighty-six years. What began as a Sox-filled summer like any other is now a fan's notes for the ages.

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A fan's notes for the ages, Faithful grew from an email exchange last summer. Filled with the heady mix of exhilaration and frustration familiar to all Boston Red Sox fans, Stewart O'Nan fired off a note to fellow Sox fan, Stephen King, who responded with his thoughts on Pedro, Nomar, Manny, Mueller, and Theo. From the supposed Curse of the Bambino to f###in' Bucky Dent to the recent off-season battle for Alex Rodriguez, Sox fans have seen it all since 1918...except for that elusive World Championship. Baseball history has transformed these fans into a "nation" -- not to mention the most dedicated, knowledgeable fanbase on the planet. Stewart O'Nan and Stephen King, proud members of Red Sox Nation, will chronicle the 2004 baseball season from spring training to the last game of the season -- the important plays, the controversial managerial decisions, the significant front office moves, and the spectacular finish (whether heartbreaking or joyous). Attending games together, keeping a running diary of observations and arguments, and occasionally evoking great or tragic events in Red Sox history. King and O'Nan will cheer on their beloved team with the eternal hope that this just might be the year. If you don't have season ticket box seats right behind the firstbase dugout, you can't beat Faithful.

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The title says it all: take it for what it is.......2007-08-06

Anyone who thinks that this book should be entertaining to anyone but a Red Sox fan needs to re-read the title. This book was never advertised as anything more than two fanatics game by game reactions to and experiences with each Red Sox game of the 2004 season. For a Red Sox fan, it was a great read, especially knowing how the whole thing ends. For anyone else other than those who are just true sports fans, I can clearly see how it would be a huge bore just as a book entitled "Astrophysics: Two Diehard Scientists Chronicle the History of the Science" would bore the hell out of me. Frankly, I enjoyed the season itself and then enjoyed reliving it through the eyes of O'Nan and Uncle Stephie. It's a shame that more authors haven't picked up on this notion for other sports teams looking at promising seasons.

Look elsewhere.......2007-08-02

I just finished reading this book. My brother wanted to read it afterwards, but I told him not to waste his time. We are both huge Red Sox fans and even as such, I could barely stand the book. From the get-go it is obvious this book is O'Nan's baby and King is just adding his thoughts from time to time (about 30%) so that his name will be on the cover and they will sell more copies. Neither of the fans are "diehard" as they claim to be, missing many games and rehashing what was said on Sportscenter. O'Nan acts like a child and is hard to read - not to mention his other "favorite" team is the Pirates. We don't care. The emails sent between one-another did not sound anything like emails real people would send - they were quite clearly written just for the sake of writing something to take up space. In addition, the authors alleged inability to sleep after a meaningless Red Sox loss or nightmares about the team seemed a bit fake. I only finished it because I had started it but I picked it up each day with a bit of dread. I will never read anything with O'Nan's name on it, and I'm glad I didn't pay a cent for this book.

Great Timing but Not Great Writing.......2007-04-12

"Faithful" is a season-long diary by noted author Steven King and less well-known novelist Stewart O'Nan, both lifelong Boston Red Sox fans. Their editor's choice of season is fortunate--2004, when the Sox won their first World Series championship in 86 years. Both authors include diary entries, which are passioniate and generally entertaining. As a baseball fan, I also appreciated the stories (particularly O'Nan's) about getting to the ballpark and watching the games in person. The book also features some e-mail or instant message traffic between the two--though this is both less revealing and entertaining--mostly dumb. There's no drama as to how the "story" will come out, but there is some uncertainty as to how the authors' mental health will be both when the Yankees take a 3-games-to-none lead in the American League Championship Series and when the Red Sox complete an unprecedented four game comeback to reach the World Series. I'm sure Red Sox "faithful" will love this book; baseball fans like myself will like it; and non-baseball fans will and should read something else.

Faithful.......2007-01-13

The book Faithful written by Stephen King and Stewart O'nan is definitely a five star book. Actually that rating would be different if you were a Yankee fan. If you are a Red Sox fan then you should like it. This book describes every game the Red Sox played in the 2004 season. This book doesn't just show the stats of the games, the games are written from a person's point of view. I liked this book because I am a Red Sox fan and I liked how it was written.

This book shows perseverance. It shows this because when the Red Sox were down 3-0 to the Yankees in the playoffs. The Red Sox didn't give up. They tried their hardest and came back to win 4-3. This is said to be one of baseballs biggest comebacks. Then after the playoffs they went on to play in the World Series. This perseverance is also an example of what Atticus Finch used in To Kill A Mockingbird when he had to defend Tom Robinson. He did not want to do this but it was his job and he was going to get through it. Atticus didn't give up nor did the Red Sox. Like I said I give this book five stars and I would recommend it to Red Sox fans or anyone else. This is a great book!!!!

If you don't like baseball stop now.......2007-01-12

Listen to two die hard fans in what turned out to be a magical season. I stopped being a big time Red Sox fan around 25 years ago when my significant other hogged the TV during baseball games. I never having heard or understood what "Read Sox Nation" meant or why Sweet Caroline had turned into a team theme.

I felt the "thrill of victory, and the agony of defeat" in the voices of the two men who wrote the book. Stephen King is especially interesting as he gets more and more frustrated as the season went on.

If you have ever rooted for the "impossible" to happen, this is a great listen.

Campeones mundiales al fin! (Faithful): Como los Medias Rojas lograron ganar la serie del 2004 (Two Diehard Boston Red Sox Fans Chronicle the Historic 2004 Season)

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Campeones mundiales al fin! (Faithful): Como los Medias Rojas lograron ganar la serie del 2004 (Two Diehard Boston Red Sox Fans Chronicle the Historic 2004 Season)
Stewart O'Nan , and Stephen King
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A comienzos de 2004, dos escritores y fanaticos de los Medias Rojas, Stewart O'Nan y Stephen King, decidieron hacer una cronica personal de la nueva temporada, una de las mas fervientemente esperadas en la historia del beisbol. Durante los meses que siguieron compartieron asientos en el Fenway, intercambiaron emails y escribieron acerca de los juegos; terminaron siendo testigos de uno de los mas notables retornos deportivos, el primer campeonato ganado por los Medias Rojas en ochenta y siete anos. Lo que comenzo para dos fanaticos como un verano mas, lleno de expectativas, es ahora un verdadero testimonio historico.

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Faithful: Two Diehard Boston Red Sox Fans Chronicle the Historic 2004 Season (Unabridged)

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Faithful: Two Diehard Boston Red Sox Fans Chronicle the Historic 2004 Season (Unabridged)
King, Stewart, Stephen O'Nan
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This is an ATLAS, not a guidebook........1998-02-10

Please be aware that this is and ATLAS, not a guidebook. Don't make the same mistake I did. It's a beautiful atlas, though!

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Russell Banks (The Sweet Hereafter, Affliction) started out as a poet, and nowhere is this more evident than in his 37 years' worth of exquisite short stories, collected here in one hefty volume for the first time. In a mournfully lyrical phrase, he can evoke his characteristic landscape, the icy northeastern U.S.: "The air was crystalline, almost absent. The fields lay like aged plates of bone--dry, scoured by the cold until barren of possibility, incapable even of decomposition." Though his stories venture to Jamaica and Africa, Banks keeps coming back to New Hampshire and the themes of divorce, poverty, violence, and what he calls "the old father-and-son thing." He's not slumming in his trailer-park tales: his own drunken prole father beat him brutally, and Banks knows how grief and guilt shatter and unite families and small towns.

Characters often crop up in more than one story, giving the setting novelistic depth, drawing us into each life. In "Queen for a Day," we meet the young children of the Painter clan of New Hampshire as their dad is abandoning their mom, who then loses her job. "They run to her and wrap her in their arms... the three of them wind around each other like snakes moving in and out of one another's coils." In "Firewood," Painter's grown children rebuff his offer of fuel for their hearth, repaying his indifference, and Banks gives us a bad-guy's-eye view of their shared loneliness. In "The Fisherman," a $50,000 lottery is won by an old ice fisherman who stashes it in a cigar box, eliciting character-revealing reactions from the trailer-park denizens. "Dis Bwoy, Him Gwan" further reveals why the local pothead Bruce Severance so urgently needs the fisherman's money. The stories resonate and illuminate each other, the dialogue is pitch-perfect, and the collection has the cohesiveness of a 500-page novel. Banks's prose has the stark grace of classical tragedy. He's a poet after all. --Tim Appelo

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With The Angel on the Roof, Russell Banks offers readers an astonishing collection of thirty years of his short fiction, revised especially for this volume and highlighted by the inclusion of nine new stories that are among the finest he has ever written. As is characteristic of all of Bank's works, these stories resonate with irony and compassion, honesty and insight, extending into the vast territory of the heart and the world, from working-class New England to Florida and the Caribbean and Africa. Broad in scope and rich in imagination, The Angel on the Roof affirms Russell Banks's place as one of the masters of American storytelling.

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A great Banks introduction.......2006-01-01

I had not heard of Russell Banks until i heard the man himself read his story THE MOOR on NPR. That hooked me, there's something for everyone here.

This book will grab you immediately........2003-03-16

I'm not much of a reader, but after someone read me one of the short stories in this book, I had to get it. It's great. The plots are fascinating, the characters believable, and many of the stories will make your jaw drop. Each story left me wanting to read the one after it! I couldn't put this book down until I finished it.

Genius of short stories.......2002-05-13

This guy is great. His writing is so spare, so tender and so beautiful it's almost too good! This does mean the book lasts longer than most as you have to keep setting it down to gasp in wonderment, shake your head and think about what you've just read. I love Russell Banks!

The heir to Raymond Carver.......2001-06-05

Russell Banks is known primarily as a novelist, but his collected short stories show him to be a master of the shorter form as well. Some of these stories--like "Success Story" and "Fisherman" are masterpieces--the latter having affinities with Mark Twain's "The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg" and Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery." Banks is at his best when he writes about New England working class people who live in trailer parks, drink lots of booze, and whose lives are bounded and limited by solitude and lonliness. This collection follows in the realistic tradition of Ray Carver's "Where I'm Calling From." Both writers present us with a disctinctly male view of the world, and they have great feeling and empathy for their characters.

A Memorable Collection.......2001-03-13

Russell Banks knows how to tell a story. He can vary his technique from intimate to grand scale and can interchange voices so you're never sure whether he is writing autobiography or pure fiction. In ANGEL ON THE ROOF he gives us stories that span a long period of his output and while each of the stories stands on its own (at times even in a short 5 or 6 pages)there is enough linkage or afterthoughts that somehow tie this collection together. Yes, the stories are intensely interesting individually and do continue to show Banks' feelings about the alienation and abuse of parent-child relationships, and people in general, and yes they can be read individually as a bedside book for finding somnolence. But to stop reading these collected stories as a book would rob the reader of the tangents that make for enhancing the experince as a novel. For sheer clarity of line, pungent descriptions of the quality of air/space/cold/skies etc Banks is as good as contemporary writers get. This is a richly rewarding book on so many levels that it clearly belongs in every library...with frequent easy access!

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Angels on the Roof
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Angels on the Roof a great book!
A down to earth mistery

Angels on the Roof (Laurel-Leaf Books)
Martha Moore
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Release Date: 1999-10-12

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It's not Shelby's fault that she's considered one of the "At Risk" kids at school; it's her mother's fault. Shelby doesn't need socks given to her in charity. She doesn't need help on her homework. She just needs someone to talk some sense into her loony mother, who--in between obsessive devotions to dead artist Georgia O'Keeffe--prepares for yet another move. Shelby is tired of her mother's antics and refuses to move anymore. What are they running from anyway? Martha Moore, winner of the Delacorte Prize for her previous book, Under the Mermaid Angel, has composed this novel like a brook: it seeps slowly, at first willy-nilly, but soon gathers strength and finds enough force to etch itself into the hard rock of our hearts--making a canyon where once there was stone. What will it take for Shelby to learn the truth about her mother and their past? When does love stop being "expected" so that it can become the gift that it really is? Shelby might remind readers of one of O'Keeffe's flowers: it's possible to watch her for hours and still not penetrate her depths.

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Angles.......2003-10-15

Martha Moore constructs a distressing reality world filled with mystery in Angels on the Roof, set in an isolated town in Red Valley, Texas. Fourteen-year-old Shelby wants a normal life but doesn't know anything about her father and yet her eccentric mother refuses to talk about him. If worse then it already is her mother is always constantly moving herself and Shelby everywhere. Shelby just wants to stay put and have a normal teenage life. In next to no time she finds herself heading for Red Valley where she is introduced to unknown food, remote dirt paths, and strange people. One of those strange people is her mother's foster mother, Aunt Onie. Shelby realizes that Aunt Onie may hold the answer to her puzzling past to her unknown father and is determined to reveal her mother's secrets. But in Red Valley, Shelby finds out that the truth can be very risky, and some questions can hurt more then you think.
M. Moore has set an emotional path for the readers and herself. She handles the plot with such compassion and feeling, which captures the truth behind Shelby's past. M. Moore accomplishes the book with such artistic beauty, interweaving the blacks and whites together and completes the variety plot with an over worldly view. Though this book is not that long, it is very complex, and her expression are more like poetry then they are words. The story's appearance about uncovering the past will strike the attention of teenagers in astonishing ways.

Angels on the Roof.......2002-12-18

Angels on the Roof is a very touching book to me it made me wonder more about my family and not to lie to my mother like her mother did to shelby about her dad. I would recemend this book to anybody because it is very good with explaining it's characters, it's plot, and it keeps on wanting you to flip the page and not set it down.

Angels on the Roof.......2001-04-15

One cannot truly understand another without walking one mile in their shoes. This saying is displayed in Martha Moore's novel, Angels on the Roof. This novel takes place during the protagonist's freshman year of high school. The protagonist, Shelby and her mother, Zoe, have a missing link in their mother-daughter-relationship. That link is Shelby's father. Then to make things more complicated for Shelby, her mom is taking Shelby on one of those over-night-impulse trips she gets all the time. Shelby thinks she is going to have to move for the thousandth time, and she is determined to finish 9th grade in one place. So the lucky place they are going to "visit" is Red Valley, an empty town with country hicks. Shelby is miserable the minute she gets there and she wants desperately for the day to end, so they can go home. But things happen that make Shelby want to stay longer. This is an enjoyable novel for pre-teens and teenagers, because it deals with issues that every pre-teen or teenager deals with. Most people can relate to Shelby, which could make someone think that there is someone else who went through the same issues, even though the book was a fictional novel. Here is a good sampling of this idea: "Over the years my mother's had a lot of phases: Ceramics, Sand Candles, Designing with Buttons, and Denim Art, just to name a few. I figured Georgia O'Keeffe would pass and we wouldn't even have to have a garage sale to get rid of her. In the meantime, my mother couldn't get enough. Every day when she came home from work, she sat in the recliner with her lap full of art books. She read out loud whether I was listening or not, spouting off a million loony ideas about an artist who was born over a hundred years ago. I mean, she'd be a skeleton by now." (Page 2) This quote demonstrates how Shelby, thinks that her mom is off her rocker, but at the same time, she still loves her mom and goes along with her mother's bizarre obsessions. I thought the book was a good short novel that one doesn't have to analyze. All one has to do is just read and enjoy it. The understanding that Shelby and Zoe start to reach near the middle of the book makes the reader come to a sense of peacefulness that brings relief in the middle of this mother-and-daughter mess.

Angels on the Roof a great book!.......2001-03-09

Angels on the Roof, by Martha Moore is about a girl named Shelby and her mother who is a little bit crazy. She has moved around many times in her life and is very sick of it. She goes to Red Valley with her mother to find out about her father. By the end of the book she figures out who her father is and she is very upset about it. In the end Shelby realizes that she doesn't need a father and that her mother is enough. I recomend this book to young teens because it is very interesting and is teaches you a lot about life. I realized by this book that family is very important and you shouldn't take them for granted. The reason I liked this novel so much is because it keeps you interested throught the whole book it never gets boring. I think that anyone who likes to read mysteries would love this book!

A down to earth mistery.......1999-12-26

I think every teenager should read this book or if you ever didnot know something about your family you will probably totally relateto Shelby. My english teacher gave us a book list and I just picked this one up without really knowing what it was about. I read it in 4 days. To me it did not seem like a book report book to me. Shelby does not know her father at all. She also goes to Texas for spring break, rather than the beach with her friend Roo and her family. In Texas she meets the woman who took care of her mother and other kids. She thinks this place is stupid because there is nothing out there and does not want to go in the beginning but she turns out to find a bunch more about her family than expected.

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The Angel On The Roof

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Collection of 31 Russell Banks Stories.

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The Angel On the Roof
Russell Banks
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Angel on the Roof
Russell Banks
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The Angel on the Roof: The Stories of Russell Banks

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The Angel on the Roof: The Stories of Russell Banks
Russell Banks
Manufacturer: Harper Perennial
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Angels on the Roof

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Angels on the Roof.
Ilene Smith
Manufacturer: Forward Movement
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ASIN: 0880281138

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Ilene Smith's meditations offer an opportunity to walk the woods and poke around in berry patches and the places of the spirit.

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The Angel on the Roof: The Stories of Russell Banks
Russell Banks
Manufacturer: HarperCollins
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The Angels on the Roof: the Stories of Russell Banks

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The Angels on the Roof: the Stories of Russell Banks
Russell Banks
Manufacturer: New York: HarperCollins, 2000
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