Working the Tides: A Portrait of Canada' S West Coast Fishery

Book Description

Commercial fishing boats like the Bluenose on the Canadian dime and the west coast seine boat portrayed for so many years on the five-dollar bill have long ranked up there with grain elevators as key images by which Canadians know themselves, but even those familiar with British Columbia's high-profile salmon fishery probably know little about hake trawling, the sea urchin dive fishery or the geoduck business.

Here is the story of the man who ran away from school at age fifteen to handline coho out of a dugout canoe; the seiner who made his living outsmarting the wiliest of all salmon, the Nimpkish dogs; the crew that knows how to get the best from a fifteen-minute herring opening; the sea urchin diver who got stranded in the middle of a cold, rough sea when his boat drifted off; and the woman who survived a seeming lifetime trapped inside an overturned seine boat.

Working the Tides covers the waterfront, presenting gripping insider views not just of the familiar salmon trollers and seiners, but of the men, women and boats that harvest cod, herring, halibut, octopus, and rockfish - eighty different species in all. Almost all the material in Working the Tides is drawn from the archives of BC's leading commercial fishing magazine, the Westcoast Fisherman, which in 1996 celebrated 10 years of publishing. Like the fishing life itself, this collection ranges from scary to funny to poignant to quietly insightful - with big hauls and "skunked" sets, beautiful secluded fishing spots, hair-raising storms and near misses, goofy sea-going pranks, and even a spine-tingling wheel-watch ghost or two. There is never a dull moment.

Customer Reviews:

Well written and easy to follow descriptions.......2003-07-24

I enjoy all of the Winnett books because they are accurate, fun to read and reliable. This book has little chapters on over 100 trips in the Sierra range, and the descriptions of each trek are a total delight. So often these hiking books neglect to tell you how to reach the trailhead and oftentimes they don't provide detailed instructions. Winnett never makes this mistake. You will not need a separate map to locate any of the trailheads, his maps and written instructions are first-rate. Equally interesting is that this book doesn't merely give elevation gains, difficulty ratings and desriptions of the trail conditions. These are vital to know, but Winnett also includes little bits of information of what kinds of wild flowers you will encounter, birds, wildlife and other little nuggets neglected in other guides.

The book is supposed to be only for overnight backpacking trips, but there are many trails here that can be used for day hikes. These trips will be in the 10-16 mile range and any strong hiker can easily do these hikes in one day. If you do choose to go the multi-day backpacking route, Winnett describes water sources, camping sites and addresses whether bears or marmots might be a problem for you. Most importantly, he tells you where to find water and whether the water source is reliable throughout the whole year.

I can't recommend this guide highly enough. Even if you're an armchair hiker, you'll derive many hours of vicarious joy from this guide.

Great trip planning resource.......2002-10-29

The only thing I would add to the previous review is that Sierra South does not have that big a selection of overnighters. Of the ones they do have, many are 9-ish miles in length (round trip) and I don't like to drive that far to do a couple hours of hiking. It is still a great book, though. Sierra North has more in the way of overnighters.

My key reference book to the southern Sierra.......2002-04-05

Well researched and extremely well written, it is a wealth of accurate information for planning either partial day hikes or multiday backpacks. The single most reached for resource I use for the lower Sierra's trails. The description of the trail, fauna and flora to be expected enroute and access to trailheads are valuable and allows even the armchair hiker a good virtual experience. A companion guide to be used with this book would be a good topo map similar to perhaps those produced by Tom Harrison Maps.

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A great ,To the Point Book

Swedish Review

Must have for anyone studying Swedish

I was a grammar phobe.

Great little Swedish grammar book

Essentials of Swedish Grammar
Ake Viberg , Kerstin Ballardini , and Sune Stjarnlof
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Prisma's Abridged English-Swedish and Swedish-English Dictionary

ASIN: 0844285390

Book Description

This compact volume offers an integrated guide to the major grammatical concepts needed for writing and speaking Swedish.

Customer Reviews:

A great ,To the Point Book.......2007-09-06

What I really liked about the book is that you can actually find the information that you need, you can learn a lot just with it alone. Complements are a must, though...but it's portable size makes it great to have anywhere to take advantage of time...

I strongly recommend it.

Swedish Review.......2007-02-04

Very helpful in my quest to learn the Swedish language and Grammar. I highly recommend this book.

Must have for anyone studying Swedish.......2006-02-04

I am currently studying Swedish independently and needed a good grammar book. This book is great if you want to study the language! The terminology is very simple - you need no knowledge of linguistic terms to understand Swedish grammar through this book. I highly highly highly highly suggest this book for anyone who wants to study Swedish independently or as a good resource for students of Swedish in any area.

I was a grammar phobe........2004-05-26

My mind automatically switches off when anybody even tries to mention grammar constructs (anybody who has studied for GMAT and the sentence correction sections will sympathise). However, this book was easy to get into and, surprisingly left me with greater understanding rather than feeling befuddled and confused. An experience unlike any I have ever had with grammar prior.

Great little Swedish grammar book.......2003-12-12

This is a very well organized, clear, and concise book on Swedish. As a couple of other reviewers have noted, there aren't that many books available on the subject on the mass market, for some reason, and so your choices are fairly limited, unless you have access to a good college library with more academic linguistic books.

Swedish is one of the main Germanic family languages, like English. Supposedly, the language closest to modern-day English is Frisian, a northwest German language, and Frisian and English share features that no other members of the family have, according to an article I read once, although they didn't say specifically what they were. But I do recall that Frisians are sometimes the butt of jokes since they're regarded sort of like "Okies" or rural, rustic folk in the U.S.

Anyway, having studied some German I thought I'd try to learn a little about another Germanic family language, and this book was great for that. Swedish grammar is more complex than English in that it is a more highly inflected language, but it's really no worse than German, so if you have some background in that, you'll be fine.

Nouns are declined for number, definiteness vs. indefiniteness, and the nominative and genitive cases. There are five delension patterns depending on the two letters the noun ends with, and a fifth that is just the bare stem word. Adjectives are inflected the same way, and are no longer inflected according to case as in Old Swedish. There are nominative, possessive, and direct object forms for the pronouns.

Comparative and superlative forms in Swedish are pretty much idential to English. Adverbs come in three types, plain adverbs, older noun or adjective case forms (mostly datives) which have survived as adverbs, and neuter adjectives used as adverbs. The last group is easy to form from the indefinite neuter singular adjective, which isn't that difficult.

Swedish verbs fall into one of five conjugations. The first three of are called "weak," because they've undergone reduction historically and lost the older Germanic stem changes. The fourth conjugation is usually referred to as the "strong" conjugation, and the fifth as the "mixed" conjugation (since it has a "strong" imperfect stem, but a "weak" supine). Strong verbs are those that undergo an internal change in the past tenses, such as in sleep, slept, or sing, sang, sung.

Swedish syntax is very similar to English, except for cases when inverted word order is used, similar to what happens in German. Like English, Swedish has some verbs that change their meaning in combination with other words, such as adverbs, as in phrasal verbs, which are constructions like run up a bill, run out of, brush up on, and so on, where the meaning of the word "run" or "brush" changes. Unlike English, but like German, the Swedish adverbs and particles can shift between being used as a verb prefix or as separate words.

Swedish is one language that has been modelled on a computer since it was regarded as being regular enough to create grammatical macros to produce the grammar. I recently came across an example of such a computer program, and so I thought I'd list the macro for the non-modal auxiliary and finite modal verb-phrase formation rule:

(@vp.aux.vp(Aux,V),

vp:[@tense.aspect(TenseAspect), ...]) --? (Aux,

v:[semanticAux=y, arglist=(V,vp:[...]),

@tense.aspect(TenseAspect), ...]) + (V,

vp:[vform=(inf"/supine), ...].

Anyway, not sure I understand that myself but it sure looked cool.

Book Description

Swedish: An Essential Grammar is a reference guide to the most important aspects of current Swedish as it is used by native speakers. It focuses on the real patterns of use in today's Swedish and is the ideal reference source for any learner or user of Swedish.

Suitable for either independent study or for students in schools, colleges, universities and adult classes of all types, explanations are free from jargon and emphasis has been placed on the areas of Swedish that pose a particular challenge for English-language learners. Features include a detailed contents list, many tables and diagrams for extra clarity, a separate glossary of linguistic and grammatical terms and a detailed index that includes a variety of key Swedish and English words.

Customer Reviews:

Swedish: An Essential Grammar (Routledge Grammars).......2006-07-10

A really good tool containing concise and well organised material.

Great tool for learning grammar.......2006-03-24

Basically, when you finish this book, you will have the groundwork laid for speaking Swedish.

Excellent concise grammar.......2003-12-16

This is a very well written, interesting, informative, and concise grammar of Swedish. For the hard-core linguist, there is also the Comprehensive Grammar published by Routledge at 95 bucks by Holmes, but this one will do for most people, expecially since it's about 1/6 the price.

I learned a lot about Swedish from this book, and it was fun reading it as the similarities between English and Swedish are still very much in evidence. The two languages still share many features in common. Here are some of the ones that I learned from this book:

1. There are two levels of syllabic stress in Swedish and four in English. This gives Swedish it's sing-song quality.

2. Many words are the same or almost the same. (However, note that the vowel diacritical marks in the Swedish words can't be shown). These words include: fot (foot), finger (finger), gras (grass), hus (house), kna (knee), lamm (lamb), oss (us), skarp (sharp), son (son), tva (two), tre (three), and vi (we).

3. Both have only the nominative and genitive cases:

skepparen i baten (the skipper of the boat)

skepparens katt (the skipper's cat)

4. Both have subject and direct object forms for pronouns:

vi (we)

oss (us)

5. The have similar ways of distinguishing adjectives and adverbs:

dyr (dear)

dyrst (dearest)

6. There are similar methods for comparing adjectives with inflectional endings:

fet (fat)

fetare (fatter)

fettest (fattest)

7. Without inflectional endings, they look like this:

mer typisk (more typical)

mest typisk (most typical)

8. Both have weak verbs with dental endings: (i.e., "d" and "t" in the past tense)

vi cylcade (we cycled)

de kysste mig (they kissed me)

9. Both have strong verbs with internal vowel changes in the past tense:

vi sitter (we sit)

vi satt (we sat)

10. The languages have similar auxiliary verbs:

kan, ska, maste (can, shall, must)

de kan komma (they can come)

11. Verb tenses are very similar:

vi ar har nu (we are here now)

han har redan kommit (he has already arrived)

12. They have similar use of the formal subject:

det ar kallt har (it is cold here)

dett finns ett museum dar (there is a museum here)

13. Both have inverted (verb-subject) word order for questions:

var ar vi? (where are we?)

ar du sjuk (are you sick?)

14. Both have only pre-positional adjectives:

em warm sommar (a warm summer)

den warma sommaren (the warm summer)

However, lest I give the impression that the languages are exactly alike, I should mention some some important differences between Swedish and English. Swedish is entirely phonetic, whereas English is not. Swedish main clause word order is much more labile and flexible than in English. The sentence often begins with word or words that are not the actual subject, and subject and sentence elements can appear in different positions in both dependent and independent clauses.

Nouns have gender in Swedish, but they are either neuter or non-neuter, which is different from the Romance languages, where they are female or male, or in other Germanic languages, like German, where they are male, female, or neuter. Also, adjectives inflect in the definite although not the indefinite declension.

In terms of verb constructions, in modern Swedish there is only one form of the verb for all persons, singular or plural, for all tenses. Like English, Swedish has no continuous form of the verb, and uses auxiliary verbs for the future, perfect, and pluperfect. There are four principle verb conjugation types, with I, II, and III being weak and IV being strong.

These are just a few of the many interesting things I learned about Swedish from this book. Overall, this is an excellent concise grammar of Swedish and one of the few mass market paperbacks out there devoted to this important language. For those who are interested, there is also Ake Viberg's brief grammar, Swedish: Essentials of Grammar, that I can recommend also. They are both relatively inexpensive so I would recommend you just buy both, but either one will give you an excellent background in the subject of Swedish grammar.

Finally, a comprehensive Swedish grammar........2000-08-03

I have heard even Swedes complain that there is no readily available comprehensive grammar of the language. Now Routledge's "Comprehensive Grammar" series and their "Essential Grammar" series are filling niches long empty. The "Comprehensive" grammars, such as this one, are reference works for students who have some knowledge of the language and want full explanations of the main points as well as full lists of irregularities and explanations of the niceties of usage. This is information that no other Swedish book I know of provides.

Book Description

This logical, developmental presentation of the major aspects of Swedish grammar includes all the necessary tools for speech and comprehension. Designed for adults with limited learning time who wish to acquire the basics of everyday Swedish, this grammar features numerous shortcuts and timesavers. Ideal as an introduction, supplement, or refresher.

Customer Reviews:

Excellent resource for Swedish Grammar.......2007-03-12

This tiny volume has everything you really need to understand Swedish grammar. It covers all the aspects briefly, and in no more complicated terms than a textbook (which are hard to find for Swedish for some reason). There are usage examples, irregular verb tables, and some details on Swedish punctuation. Funny how only one reviewer so far has found the definitions of grammatical terms in the back. As for the 'molecular structure' review, pay that foolishness no mind. If you are looking for a textbook, look elsewhere (and let me know if you find a good one). This is a reference book, and a very good one.

Don't listen to the low reviewers.......2006-07-03

This book is excellent. It goes over every bit of Swedish grammar, with examples. The book is logically arranged for easy reference, with separate sections for nouns, verbs, adjectives, conjunctions, etc. To the one reviewer who said knowledge of English grammar terms is necessary: no, it isn't. The book has a glossary in the back that explains any linguistic terms used, from the most advanced to ones as simple as "noun".

I would recommend this book for anyone who wants to learn Swedish. Linguophiles will love the presentation, but anyone can appreciate a quick course that presents all you need to know about Swedish grammar in under 100 pages.

Need to know the English terms........2003-06-21

This book is useful if you know the English terms for the parts of speech. If you can speak, read, and write in English but can't easily define every part of speech, don't get this book. If you are looking for a book that compares English and Swedish or even gives you DECENT examples--look elsewhere. This book is quick and dirty and only for those who love to diagram sentences.

Useless.......2002-07-23

If you wanted to learn how to bake bread, would you:

a-Go to a world-reknown biochemical expert to get a careful explanation of the molecular structure of wheat and the changes it undergoes when exposed to heat?

b-Go to a baker and see how he does it?

This book is committed to the notion that the correct answer is a.

Not helpful.

Essential Swedish Grammar.......2000-12-06

The Essential Swedish Grammar book is quite a compact and useful book. Contains the essential grammars that we need to know for the Swedish language. Good to have one as the reference if u're interested in or studying Swedish language.

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Essentials of Swedish Grammar
Holmes & Hinchliffe
Manufacturer: University of Hull
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 085958710X

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Swedish (Essential Grammars)
Ian Hinchliffe , and Philip Holmes
Manufacturer: Routledge
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well written, great read!

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good information

A Best Seller!!

a little dissapointing

A Little Work : Behind the Doors of a Park Avenue Plastic Surgeon

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Book Description

If walls could talk! Beyond TV's Extreme Makeover and Nip/Tuck, this no-holds-barred account of what goes on in the most private of plastic surgery practices gives the inside story in a way we've never heard before. Who are the serial surgery seekers? What really happens in a consultation? What is the difference between a tummy tuck and liposuction and who is more suited for which? What mistakes have doctors made and can they be corrected? Dr. Paul Lorenc not only supplies answers but analyzes what drives people-women and men alike-to increasingly request his services. Dr. Lorenc also describes: Why never to have plastic surgery on a Friday What post-surgical recovery really involves The truth about Botox and other "injectibles" Why expensive skin-care products don't work The myth of "lunch hour" procedures and quick recoveryNow at the top of his game, this well-established, dynamic surgeon is perfectly positioned to tell it all.

Customer Reviews:

well written, great read!.......2005-08-10

Dr. Paul Lorenc provides an insiders look not only into surgery but plastic surgery specifically. This book is well written with tactful humor, real cases and is awash in insightful tips for those of us seeking to improve our aging bodies. This book helps you understand why surgery is dangerous business and how to avoid the pratfalls of misguided rhetorical advertising.

Happy Consumer.......2005-06-10

At age 50, I finally got permission from On High to act: My special-order bras were 34 KK; without them, I could roll my breastfeeding-bedraggled bosom up on a pencil and tack 'em to my chin with a pin. Hyperbole? Not the 34-KK part...

To my physician-husband Jon: "I'm getting rid of these things!" He protested, "Why? I like 'em." If I could have taught school with drooping appendages like the braless teacher on South Park, it would have been less painful, but I'd have been an unemployable laughingstock.

The University-of-California-faculty physicians explained to us, "We'll have to remove the breast tissue, replace it with silicone which will harden after a couple of years, slice off your nipples and sew them back on. They'll have no feeling, and later may fall off." Horrified, Jon insisted on a second opinion.

Z. Paul Lorenc seemed shocked when we repeated what the other doctors had said: "What WE do is leave enough tissue to fill the cup size you want, pull the nipple up through the front with the blood and nerve lines attached and sew it into the circular hole I'll fashion in the front. What he DIDN'T tell me was *clicking heels* I'd never have to wear a bra again!

In person, Z. Paul and his dermatologist twin Marek balance modesty with a refreshing sense of humor. If Z. Paul is righteously proud of his work, it's because he's an artist. After he re-crested my albatross chest, I decided: Facelift Time in the West! He insists in A Little Work that he's better now than he was then. I don't see how! Folks still can't believe I'm 65. Jon loves the book too. He says that Z Paul is an excellent physician, but he's a sculptor first.

good information.......2005-05-03

`A Day in the Life', or `Taking the Plunge', to name a few, are chapters in the book, A Little Work; Behind the doors of a Park Avenue Plastic Surgeon. Both of these chapters, in particular, are useful for people who are considering plastic surgery, as well as pre-med students. The author, Paul Lorenc did a fine job at focusing on how plastic surgery and its industry work, along with how each surgical procedure is performed through his clear and concise writing.

Lorenc handled the topics in his book very well, and discussed each issue completely. He has the capability and knowledge of accomplishing this through his education, experience, and expertise. For example, Lorenc took the reader through a day in his life. He started from when he woke up and walked to work, through dinner with his wife. He began his day with walking to the office and doing going through his patient's actual exams and visits. He also used several different examples of procedures, and explained how they work, along with what to expect when receiving them, from the initial visit through the recovery, in his chapter, `Taking the Plunge.'

Overall, the book is very thorough when it comes to the topic in general of becoming a plastic surgeon, having plastic surgery, and knowledge about specific plastic surgeries. It is very important for a doctor to be aware of these three main topics because they deal with these specific topics on a daily basis. Doctors need to have knowledge of plastic surgery in order to gain trust from their patients. Everyone wants to be able to trust a doctor's opinions as well as what he is doing.

If you are looking for a book to give you information on becoming a doctor, as well as, different surgical procedures and the technology advancements that come along with being one, then this is the book for you. It will give you a sufficient amount of information on what it takes to be a plastic surgeon or have plastic surgery.

A Best Seller!!.......2004-12-03

This has given me a wonderful outlook on having plastic surgery oneday soon. It was a easy read and at times I could not put it down. After reading it, I enjoyed it so much I started to read it again! Dr Lorenc sounds like a doctor I want to use for all of my illnesses.

a little dissapointing.......2004-11-13

I just finished reading this book and despite its recent media attention, I have to say that I was quite dissapointed. While entertaining, this books fails to offer practical information and the information the authors do share is not very sophisticated. For pure enjoyment, this book is OK. If it is practical information you are in search of, this book is not for you. No pictures are offered and the authors recommendations are vague. I much prefered Secrets of a Beverly Hills Cosmetic Surgeon by Dr. Robert Kotler. I highly reccomend his book for those interested in practical information on cosmetic surgery.

A little work : behind the doors of a Park Avenue plastic Surgeon

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A little work : behind the doors of a Park Avenue plastic Surgeon
Z. Paul Lorenc
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press
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