Hawaiian Reefs: A Natural History Guide

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hawaii's reefs.......2000-09-06

This book is very informative on general species a snorkeler or diver might encounter. The book gives pictures, names, and general information about the animals. This book covers coral, invertebrates, and fish. It also shows some rare species that are rarely encountered. This book is a definite buy if you're looking for good knowledge. ENJOY!

Gold in the Water: The True Story of Ordinary Men and Their Extraordinary Dream of Olympic Glory
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Water is gold

Just about the best book ever

Great motivating story that will inspire you do follow your dreams...

Gold in the Water - Extraordinary Story!

The Essence of Swimming

Gold in the Water: The True Story of Ordinary Men and Their Extraordinary Dream of Olympic Glory
P. H. Mullen
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin
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Binding: Paperback

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Book Description

Gold in the Water is the highly acclaimed and mesmerizing tale about the remarkable two-year journey an elite team of swimmers takes to the Olympic Games. P.H. Mullen creates a fascinating world of suspense and emotion, where the human desire for excellence rules and where there are no second chances for glory. Above all, Gold in the Water is about the triumph of the human spirit.

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Water is gold.......2007-08-23

Very nice book about swimming as a sport and the people, swimmers and coaches and more, in and behind it. One of few great books about swimming.

Just about the best book ever.......2006-10-23

Seriously inspiring, got me through a lot of long practises.

Great motivating story that will inspire you do follow your dreams..........2006-06-20

P.H. Mullen's Gold in the Water is a story that i first came into contact with a couple years ago. It is a fast paced true tale about average men trying to accomplish their goals. Reading the story over and over has helped me get through the hard times in and out of the pool. You don't need to be a swimmer to appreciate this story, but it does help. As I am in film school now, this is one story that can inspire more people then Remember the Titans with the Olympic power of Miracle. I encourage every athlete, Olympic fan, parent, or anyone who has a goal to accomplish to buy a copy of this book and one for their coach or mentor. It is a book to read over and over again.

Gold in the Water - Extraordinary Story!.......2005-10-24

As an athlete and the parent of a swimmer who's "Gold" is making it to the NCAA Championships one day, I believe this book is one of the few that truly captures the highs and lows of the swimming world. P.H. Mullen brought tears to my eyes with his compassionate, yet brutaly realistic retelling of SCA swimmers going for the gold. This story helps you appreciate what happens everyday with every swimmer who truly dedicates themselves to being the best! The emotional and physical sacrifices made by swimmers all over the U.S. are not paralled in very many other sports. This book should be read by every athlete who has a dream!

The Essence of Swimming.......2005-01-03

If you are not a swimmer already, you will want to be after completing this book. If you are a swimmer, then you will be thankful that someone has captured the essence of what those elite athletes at the other end of the pool do while you slog it out at 5 AM in the morning.

Mullen does an unbelievable job capturing the unrelenting workouts, the devastating highs, the excruciating lows, and reality of what happens when you stick your neck out there to pursue a dream.

Finally, as a competitive swimmer, Mullen is able to capture the awesomeness of these Olympians and at the same time showing that these people are indeed mere mortals. Most of the Olympians that I have seen train and have had the opportunity are much like Tom Wilkens: hard working, determined people who love their sport and are very approachable.

Gold in the Water: The True Story of Ordinary Men and Their Extraordinary Dream of Olympic Glory

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Gold in the Water: The True Story of Ordinary Men and Their Extraordinary Dream of Olympic Glory
P.H. Mullen
Manufacturer: Thomas Dunne Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000MS3XQ8

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Gold in the Water: The True Story of Ordinary Men and Their Extraordinary Dream of Olympic Glory
P. H. Mullen
Manufacturer: Thomas Dunne Books
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000OTEVNE

Protocol (Protocol: The Complete Handbook of Diplomatic, Official & Social Usage)
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An excellent reference

A Must Have!

Good content, poorly organized

Protocol Procedures

Protocol (Protocol: The Complete Handbook of Diplomatic, Official & Social Usage)
Mary Jane McCaffree
Manufacturer: Durban House
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1930754183

Book Description

The Complete Handbook of Diplomatic, Official and Social Usage. Known as the Bible or Red Book of Protocol.

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An excellent reference.......2007-08-21

This comes in handy sometimes in my current job. There are a few things I wish it had that it does not (like world rank equivelents) but you can't have everything.

A Must Have!.......2007-05-14

This is a wonderful resource if you are in the position of having international VIP guests or if you have occasion to travel internationally and associate with high level dignataries. It provides a lot of detailed information that is often overlooked.

Good content, poorly organized.......2006-11-27

The information in this book is indispensable for anyone communicating or doing business with government officials in the U.S. and abroad. However, I must say that it needs some serious editorial attention.

As this is a reference book, I find it incomprehensible that there is no index for the section on titles and forms of address. For example, if I am preparing a letter to a foreign cabinet minister, I should be able to easily find the page number rather than flip through almost 200 pages of listings.

I recommend this book because there apparently are no alternatives on the market. However, if the publisher is reading this, PLEASE consider a more comprehensive table of contents for the next edition.

Protocol Procedures.......2005-07-08

A "must have" book for people working with international organizations and high level military people. An excellent guide for everything from addressing VIPs to preparing invitations.

Protocol: The Complete Handbook of Diplomatic, Official and Social Usage

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es-bus protocol
es-bus protocol

Protocol: The Complete Handbook of Diplomatic, Official and Social Usage
Mary Jane McCaffree , and Pauline Innis
Manufacturer: Devon Pub Co
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0941402045

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es-bus protocol.......1999-03-08

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es-bus protocol.......1999-03-08

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No other recreation combines so many elements--speed, tactics, strategy, timing, execution--and penalizes a failure in any one of these so brutally as sailboat racing. Successful racing depends on putting all elements together, and the winning mix changes with each new leg of the race. Around the Buoys looks at the racecourse leg by leg, buoy rounding by buoy rounding, gathering together the relevant strategic, tactical, boatspeed, and rule considerations where they apply, and showing how they interrelate. Each chapter ends with a question-and-answer section that targets the concerns of beginners. This logically and holistically organized manual is both a primer and a refresher for racing sailors that covers both one-design and handicap racing.

Customer Reviews:

around the bouys - how long I will wait?.......2007-01-21

I still wait for this item (book)

Basic does not have to mean "little content".......2001-01-10

"Around the Buoys" intends to be a primer on basic racing tactics.

It is written as a narrative. I think that a more succinct format with diagrams and bullet point lists of tactical considerations and options would be more helpful for learning. Certainly nothing would be lost. A narrative format seems more appropriate for Walker, Melges, and Perry as they are covering advanced tactics, competitive psychology, and tuning.

It does not have very much content. Even if one were to distill the tactical knowledge from the book, there would not be much.

"Performance Racing Tactics" by Bill Gladstone offered by North Sails is superior in its presentation and content for beginner racers. It also covers some more advanced topics, and would be valuable even to an accomplished racer.

some confusion.......2000-10-02

Pretty good, but there are some concepts that are not explained in a very clear way. Particularly, wind shifts. There are various explanations of playing the shifts throughout the book, based on the idea of predictiing shifts and acting accordingly, but they are often rather mysterious. Also, some ideas are outdated due to rules changes. A new, improved edition would be great.

Excellent Tactics Book for the Beginning Racer.......2000-08-10

I'm a sailing instructor. Many of my students ask me how to get invited out on boats more. I tell them two things. Sign on as crew on a small boat in a one design fleet and, be prepared to not miss a race to establish a reputation for reliability. These things will do more to improve your reputation and skills than anything else.

This is the book I now recommend to my students who want to learn about racing tactics without being put to sleep. I think it is the easiest to understand book on the market for this subject.

I especially enjoyed the section on wakes on pages 103-104.

The book is strong on tactics, and weak on the finer nuances of shifting gears for maximizing speed. I recommend Buddy Melges or Stuart Walker for more information on those topics--along with a GPS and on-the-water experimentation. See my reviews of other books on sailing for more information.

I'm very happy with the boat. It hold a special spot on my bookshelf, and I won't loan this one out.

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INDEX

1. The Boat

2. Moving the Boat

3. Elements of the Race

4. Before the Race

5. Starts

6. Sailing the First Leg

7. Rounding the Windward Mark

8. The First Reach

9. The Jibe Mark

10. The Second Reach

11. The Second Beat

12. Downwind Sailing

13. The Final leg

14. The Finish

15. After the Race

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Smooth Sailing,

Bart Senior

Ideal for one-design racers in need of solid fundamentals........1998-10-19

This is the book Walker should have written. Huck takes you through a day's race in orderly and intellignet steps. I've been racing one-designs for many years and found this to be a very good reminder and tactical and strategic piece that has helped me quite a bit. A definite buy.

Canaries on the Rim: Living Downwind in the West

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A book everyone should read
A Remarkable Achievement
We all live downstream...
The best part is missing
Welcome to Utah!

Canaries on the Rim: Living Downwind in the West
Chip Ward
Manufacturer: Verso
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1859843212

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The deserts of the world are the birthplaces of great religions, the inspirations for sublime expressions of art and feeling, the treasure houses of exotic beauty and remarkable forms of life. They are also the junkyards of industrial civilization, the resting place for abandoned cars, scrapped airplanes--and a vast array of toxic wastes, nuclear and chemical.

Chip Ward came to one of the planet's most unforgiving deserts, the flat salt pans west of Salt Lake City, Utah, to drive a bookmobile. He has emerged from it, years later, as a spokesman for that forbidding landscape, the repository of decaying plutonium, retired biochemical weapons, and other manifestations of what he calls the "ecocidal schemes" of big business and government. Ward, working with other concerned Utah citizens, has been fighting an uphill battle not only to remove such threatening substances from desert dumps, but also to prevent new lethal trash from being hauled in from other parts of the country. That struggle has not been universally popular among his fellow desert dwellers: while across the country voters have rejected plans for proposed toxic-waste incinerators for toxic wastes, in that part of Utah, he writes, "we had a tradition of trading environmental quality for jobs and revenue"--and there is, he acknowledges, money to be made in lethal detritus, from which substantial fortunes have been born.

Ward documents his group's efforts to clean up their corner of the American desert, a quest that took him into the halls of Congress and before voters across the country. The struggle is ongoing, with no end in sight. He pleads his cause in the pages of Canaries on the Rim to good effect. Above all, he emphasizes that the desert should no longer be seen as a wasteland fit only for hiding our mess. "It is not desolate at all," he insists. "Desolation is what we have carried to it." --Gregory McNamee

Book Description

In the late 1970s Chip Ward and his wife left the Sleeping Rainbow Ranch in Capitol Reef National Park to raise their children in the classic small-town American setting of Grantsville, Utah. There, on the edge of the Great Basin Desert, disturbing tales of local sickness and death interrupted an idyllic life. A seven-year quest to understand a hidden history of ecocide followed. Canaries on the Rim is Ward's firsthand account of that quest and how lessons learned in the wilderness were later applied to building opposition to toxic waste disposal, chemical weapons incineration, industrial pollution, and nuclear waste storage. The secret holocaust that is unfolding along the toxic shadow of America's Great Basin Desert is grim, but Ward's colorful and often-humorous story is not. Canaries on the Rim is a warning and a call to arms, but it is also a compelling drama and a lively primer on environmental activism. If civil action took place in Edward Abbey's West, this is the book that would result.

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A book everyone should read.......2005-10-20

This is not a perfect book...but it is a book you need to read. "Canaries on the Rim" is an eye-opening look at the sad environmental state of the American West, and at the health hazards that constantly threaten the West's people: nerve gas incinerators, the lingering effects of atomic testing, chemical weapons manufacturers, air and water pollution, grazing abuse, and more.
Every chapter of the book could stand alone as an article on a certain facet of this huge problem, and together the chapters paint a compelling picture of an environmental disaster and the ways to help fight it, ways Chip Ward has tested out personally.
Chip Ward's information is not always accurate--for instance in his chapter on cattle in the West he states that most cattle ranchers in the West are owned by "big operations that function as tax-sheltering investments for even bigger corporations," when in reality small family grazing outfits exist all across Utah and the West. He also repeatedly says that cattle operations have a hard time in the West due to the West's harsh environment, when in reality the biggest enemy of the Western cattle industry has been the government's restrictions on grazing. And he never addresses what would be so much better than raising cattle out at home on the range. ...Cramped feedlots?
Aside from that chapter, his information seemed mostly trustworthy though, almost always interesting, and always food for thought. The book was well-written (though troubled by weird capitalization), often entertaining, and made me want to read his second book, which I just found out about.
If you live in the West, I highly suggest you read this. No matter where you live, if you care about what you eat and breathe and drink, I suggest you read this. It will make you consider what more you could be doing for our world, and it will make you feel as if there's something you can do.
Because there is.
Chip Ward has proved it.

A Remarkable Achievement.......2000-07-16

This book is a remarkable achievement that describes remarkable achievements. First, although this is Chip Ward's first published work, the book is well written and easy to read. It is by turns lyrical, witty, informative, wise, sensitive, and, yes, angry. It describes how the author raised awareness in his community and made a difference despite overwhelming odds. I found it inspiring and uplifting despite the grim topic of toxic pollution. That Ward can keep his sense of humor in the midst of such adversity is amazing. It is a shame this book has not found a much bigger audience.

We all live downstream..........2000-07-07

I loved the book! And Mr. Ward should be commended highly for taking the actions he did, and writing the book to make other people aware of these terrible problems in Utah. It's outrageous! I feel sorry for the people of Utah, and wonder when we will come to our senses.Whatever the answers are to these terrible environmental problems, I think you can depend that each of us will be unpleasantly surprised by some more of these issues in the future, no matter where we live.

The best part is missing.......2000-06-14

"Canaries on the rim" is as much a story of an environmental movement starting in a small town, as it is a story of the evolution of an environmental activist.

Chip draws the reader in with a sparklingly detailed examination of the environmental effects of a single cow in a single canyon. The apathy of local, state, and federal burocrat towards solving the environmental problems he discovers is staggering. The reader is left with the question; "how can someone afford to fight environmental battles"? Shortly after pondering the question of "breakfast cereal for two headed babies" Chip appears to discover that the most important polluters are those with the deepest pockets.

Chip describes the fame and attention he receives and the changes it brings to his life as a bookmobile driver. Chip's acting locally evolves into national action. As he evolves so does his prose. Examination is replaced by name-calling, detail replaced by assumption. In short, he becomes one of the environmental shock therapists he pokes fun at early in the book. Chip sells out and if through some literary device he was able to see it this would be a truly great book.

Tooele County is pockmarked with environmental problems. Stockton, one of Grantsville's close neighbors, has an arsenic toxic waste site where many towns would have a town square. Overgrazing denudes the deserts. For years cancer-causing pesticide overuse, to attack the grasshopper and cricket blooms, was commonplace. Even natural pollution, in the form of effervescing dust and putrid sulfurous stenches from the salt lake's mudflats, attacks human health. But none of these assailants will pay. It may be necessary to go after the deep pockets to try and patch the broken lives left by health problems caused by life in Tooele County. The fight that Chip's environmental battle evolves into may be a good fight. The changes that Chip goes through in giving up a pure environmental battle based on environmental effect and targeting that battle based on political effect would be a good story. However, that story is only inferred in the later chapters of this book.

Welcome to Utah!.......1999-12-22

When you enter Utah, the Billboards don't tell you that you've entered the largest environmental sacrifice zone in the country. You have to read Canaries on the Rim: Living Downwind in the West to find that out. Ward details what the Army and other government officials are afraid to tell you. He documents the environmental ecocide that has taken place in the once pristine deserts of the Great American West from decades of uncontrolled military experiments and unregulated industrial pollution.

In his book, Ward describes the attitude and mindset of the people who live in one of the most beautiful, yet most polluted states in America, and the polluters who take advantage of their trust. Home to the largest stockpile of chemical weapons in the world, the only nerve gas incinerator in the country, and the largest industrial polluter in America (MagCorps), the people of Utah have been subjected to environmental conditions that boggle the mind.

From atomic testing in the 50's, to open-air biological and nerve agent testing in the 60's, to uncontrolled industrial pollution in the 70's, to the MX missle crisis in the 80's, to chemical weapons incineration in the 90's, the reasons for the skyrocketing rate of chronic illness are not hard to track down.

Ward gives a colorful first hand account of his efforts to uncover the deceipt, corruption, and cover-ups that have plagued the people of Utah. Canaries on the Rim is a humerous tale of the darkness that has compromised the lives and health of Utahns. This is a must read for all Americans, especially those living in the intermountain west.

I SING THE BODY ELECTRIC: The Kilimanjaro Device; The Terrible Conflagration up at the Place; Tomorrow's Child; The Women; The Inspired Chicken Motel; Downwind from Gettysbury; Yes, We'll Gather at the River; The Cold Wind and the Warm
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I SING THE BODY ELECTRIC: The Kilimanjaro Device; The Terrible Conflagration up at the Place; Tomorrow's Child; The Women; The Inspired Chicken Motel; Downwind from Gettysbury; Yes, We'll Gather at the River; The Cold Wind and the Warm
Ray Bradbury
Manufacturer: Bantam Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0553119427

Real Men Belch Downwind: Modern Etiquette for the Primitive Man
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Real Men Belch Downwind: Modern Etiquette for the Primitive Man
Mike Nichols
Manufacturer: Summit Publishing Group
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1565300548

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Men of the 1990s face a dilemma when it comes to manners. Nichols takes a humorous look at how today's man should behave in a variety of circumstances.

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Downwind
Louise Moeri
Manufacturer: Dutton Juvenile
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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Downwind
Lu Jones Waite
Manufacturer: Pub Marketing Group
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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Downwind

Manufacturer: Environment Canada
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Downwind / A Rage to Kill
Bob / Lovell, B.E. McKnight
Manufacturer: Ace
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
ASIN: B000TZBE5G

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So bad that it's good

Downwind from nobody
Joan Wells
Manufacturer: Garden Way Pub
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

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So bad that it's good.......2005-02-05

Met Joan Wells in 1980, in Portland. Wonderful person, but an abysmal writer. Buy this book. Read it. Examine how the author uses, and misuses, the English language. A gaggle of kittens? Of farm implements? I'm using it as a contrapuntal element in a teaching situation, to contrast it against the brilliantly written "The Egg and I."

Obviously the author used this previous (1940's) book as a template. Also, the author decided to retreat into edu-speak and academese when telling an otherwise wonderful story. She has a tin ear for the language, and never, ever, gets the correct word. Some of her sentences are so mindlessly pointless that all you can do is wonder what the f* she was trying to say in English.

This book should be required reading in every level of English education. This is what edumahooticators would write, if someone turned them loose. Joan was too afraid to communicate. Oddly enough, it's a great story, well worth reading. Too bad the author decided to hide behind chalktalk crapspeak. "No geese ply today's skyways, no birds extoll (sic) stippled shelter." Pure horse puckey. This is why most teachers can't teach writing. They've been crippled by their years of education, taught to rant a polysyllabic garbage that is obfuscatory and crepuscular, so that nobody will think they're ordinary, stupid, or worse: uneducated.

When I read Betty MacDonald's book, I think, What beautiful, clear, honest, natural phrasing. When I read Joan Well's book, I think, What a Goddamned shame she went to college. She was a poet. Then she got filled up with edumahootication.

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Downwind from the fires of nothingness
T. L Kryss
Manufacturer: Kirpan Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

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