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The wonder of animal movement .. with superb illustrations.......2003-10-30
Ever wonder why chickens have both dark and white meat? Ever wonder if a horse ever has all four legs off the ground? Ever wonder how a cat and a rhinoceroses are similar? If you answered yes, then this book is for you.
As a bird watcher, I gained new appreciation for the Magnificent Frigatebird from the chapter of gliding and flying. This book also helped me understand how the elegant V formation of flying geese reduces the number of vortices, and thus increases the efficiency of flight. The books examples cover all taxa, from the 1000 cycle per second flight of the midge insect, to how a jellyfish moves.
There are a few algebraic formulas and some excellent illustrations on both the biological principles and the methods of experimentation. For example, there is a fascinating photo of measuring the oxygen consumption of a walking elephant. The author, as a researcher, has a lot of first hand experience, for example, he relates the smell of a dissection of a Coelacanth.
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In 1992, NASCAR was on the verge of transforming from a strictly-Southern, rural phenomenon into arguably the new national pastime. But the sport was at a crossroads. Richard Petty, the `King` of the sport, was in his final season. Jeff Gordon, the future sensation, was in his rookie season and still an unknown. But the bigger story was a three-way battle for one of the closest championship races in the history of the sport. There was Davey Allison, the young, brash star of one of racing`s most fabled families and veteran `Awesome` Bill Elliott, the soft-spoken Georgian trying to recapture his mid-80`s glory. Then, there was outsider Alan Kuwicki, the college-educated, Wisconsin native who managed to compete with modest resources but unlimited passion. A year later, Allison and Kuwicki would be dead, both killed in air disasters unrelated to racing. This is the remarkable story of their final season, one that would change the course of NASCAR history forever. David Poole, NASCAR beat writer for the Charlotte Observer, takes readers into the pits and the garages for this watershed season. It`s not only the story of a spirited battle between three markedly different men, but an inside look at how NASCAR has exploded into the national consciousness.
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A Watershed Year.......2007-04-30
NASCAR's 1992 season was going to be a year of the changing of the guard; it was confirmed the year before when Richard Petty announced his retirement. Few people had any idea how much impact the year would have. It was the year of the alliance of Bill Elliott and Sterling Marlin with Junior Johnson, and a rebirth of Elliott's championship chances; the year that Davey Allison, injuries, crashes and all, because a championship force; and Alan Kulwicki, the engineering graduate from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, running his own team, an afterthought at the beginning of the year except that Junior Johnson had offered him $1,000,000 to drive his car, which he turned down. Poole looks at these competitors, their races, their personalities, and the exciting 1992 season, truly one of the best, most dramatic in the history of NASCAR. It offers a more profound, in depth view of each man than other books I have read about the year, the culmination of the last race and the championship banquet, and the aftermath of the year. It's an excellent book, one worth reading and having in your library.
Simply Terrific.......2005-07-01
What a yarn David Poole spins in this book.The 1992 Hooters 500 is one of the most famous races in NASCAR's rich history.Richard Petty's last race is Jeff Gordon's first, you have three drivers with a chance to win the championship depending on where they finished in this race,within nine months two of the drivers would be tragically killed in unrelated aviation accidents. Hollywood can't make this stuff up.Yet it happened.And David Poole does a masterful job of bringing it all together. Richard Petty, Jeff Gordon,Davey Allison,Alan Kulwicki and Bill Elliott are the main people in this story.David Poole allows us to get to know and care about all of them and those that Alan and Davey left behind.(long may they run) Read this book.You'll be glad you did.
A Job Well-Done..........2002-09-19
David Poole's Race with Destiny: The Year that Changed NASCAR envisions history from the present, submerging the reader in a multi-layered account of a dramatic year for the NASCAR Winston Cup circuit. The action-filled Hooters 500 race on November 12, 1992 eventually led to the points championship being won by Alan Kulwicki over Davey Allison and Bill Elliott. Poole's crafty and enjoyable read takes his audience not only through a gripping season finale, but also interestingly places the year as a turning point for the sport of stock car racing.
Reading the book not only takes the reader on a season journey-it also compels the reader to think about the difficult project Poole faced as an author. Given the deaths of Allison and Kulwicki in 1992, Poole's primary sources are obviously not accounts from these racing legends, but other first-hand versions constructed through interviews with some of the sport's well-known staples, such as Larry McReynolds, Bill Davis, Ty Norris, Wayne Estes, Michael Kranefuss, Benny Parsons, Jim Hunter, Monte Dutton, and Deb Williams. Poole does an outstanding job recreating the past from the present by situating the reader as an inside spectator-the book allows readers to imaginatively glimpse the personal dramas facing the teams and drivers. By far, the most successful part of Poole's project is the writing itself, as he obviously gave thoughtful consideration to the process of reading-he allows the reader to comfortably envision and imagine what must have been going on in the minds of Kulwicki and Tom Roberts (Kulwicki's PR agent) as the season unfolded. Poole is a gifted storyteller, as he also provides remarkable accounts of several races over the year, and literally allows readers to imagine themselves "being there" listening to drivers' radios, conversations between crew chiefs and drivers, and press conferences throughout the year.
This book is an excellent read-not only for the seasoned NASCAR fan, but those who are just entering the sport in search of historical background. As an anthropologist currently on tour with the NASCAR circuit, I have found this book to be one of my favorite reads this year, and see myself using it not only as a historical reference point, but for understanding how narratives of NASCAR can be successfully inscribed between the covers.
A Job Well-Done..........2002-09-19
David Poole's Race with Destiny: The Year that Changed NASCAR envisions history from the present, submerging the reader in a multi-layered account of a dramatic year for the NASCAR Winston Cup circuit. The action-filled Hooters 500 race on November 12, 1992 eventually led to the points championship being won by Alan Kulwicki over Davey Allison and Bill Elliott. Poole's crafty and enjoyable read takes his audience not only through a gripping season finale, but also interestingly places the year as a turning point for the sport of stock car racing.
Reading the book not only takes the reader on a season journey-it also compels the reader to think about the difficult project Poole faced as an author. Given the deaths of Allison and Kulwicki in 1992, Poole's primary sources are obviously not accounts from these racing legends, but other first-hand versions constructed through interviews with some of the sport's well-known staples, such as Larry McReynolds, Bill Davis, Ty Norris, Wayne Estes, Michael Kranefuss, Benny Parsons, Jim Hunter, Monte Dutton, and Deb Williams. Poole does an outstanding job recreating the past from the present by situating the reader as an inside spectator-the book allows readers to imaginatively glimpse the personal dramas facing the teams and drivers. By far, the most successful part of Poole's project is the writing itself, as he obviously gave thoughtful consideration to the process of reading-he allows the reader to comfortably envision and imagine what must have been going on in the minds of Kulwicki and Tom Roberts (Kulwicki's PR agent) as the season unfolded. Poole is a gifted storyteller, as he also provides remarkable accounts of several races over the year, and literally allows readers to imagine themselves "being there" listening to drivers' radios, conversations between crew chiefs and drivers, and press conferences throughout the year.
This book is an excellent read-not only for the seasoned NASCAR fan, but those who are just entering the sport in search of historical background. As an anthropologist currently on tour with the NASCAR circuit, I have found this book to be one of my favorite reads this year, and see myself using it not only as a historical reference point, but for understanding how narratives of NASCAR can be successfully inscribed between the covers.
NASCAR's changing of the guard.......2002-08-29
Evidently lost in the shuffle with Joe Menzer's "Wildest Ride" and Ed Hinton's "Daytona," Poole's less-celebrated but fine effort centers on the last race of the 1992 season at Atlanta, where Bill Elliott, Davey Allison, and Alan Kulwicki all had an excellent shot at the Winston Cup Championship and three other drivers were mathematically in the running. The race also marked Jeff Gordon's first Winston Cup appearance and Richard Petty's last, a true changing of the guard, as it developed. Poole does an excellent job at profiling the three drivers fighting for the title, particularly Kulwicki, the eventual title winner, who emerges as a driven outsider, a Yankee in a southern sport and an owner/driver in a period where multicar teams began to take over. Poole shows the difficulties Kulwicki faced handling the pressures of running a small team, as well as the budget problems and sponsor demands arising in all teams, the personality conflicts that arise in top-level racing, and the cameraderie that develops both within and among the racing teams as the caravan heads from track to track through the season. This book does a superb job of showing what NASCAR was like before the explosion of its popularity in the mid-nineties, and while it seems a little silly to be nostalgic for an era only ten years past, it's what you wind up feeling as you close this book. Of course it doesn't help that two of the principal drivers profiled died in separate aircraft accidents in 1993, and Poole speculates briefly about what NASCAR would have been like in the nineties, and who may have been deprived of a top-flight ride, had Allison and Kulwicki lived. A must for NASCAR fans.
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Greater Game: India's Race with Destiny and China
David Van Praagh
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The destiny of America,: With an appendix : Who are the Japanese?
William Gordon Mackendrick
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Writing for the people..........2005-10-12
'Grassroots' by Susan Fawcett is the book we use at the community college where I work for some of our introductory reading courses. We also use this text in our Tutoring Center to help students get up to speed for exams, reading and writing in other courses (as almost every course on campus requires proficiency in reading and writing to a good degree).
'Grassroots' is in many ways a writing workshop in a book. It is not a creative writing text, but rather one that sets a firm foundation from which one can go on to creative writing, technical writing, business writing, website writing, and more.
The first chapter explores the writing process - what is one writing for? Who is the likely or intended audience? How should a finished paper look? Believe it or not, it is on this last point that so many grades have risen or fallen - a paper can be wonderfully written, but if it is scribbled on scrap paper rather than typewritten and neatly printed, it may suffer in grading, just as a letter from a business will not be as well received if it has spelling errors and problems with formatting.
The first major section looks at developing paragraphs, which is a basic building block of letters, stories, articles, essays and other kinds of writing. This includes brainstorming, freewriting, journaling, and outlining to make sure that ideas flow in a logical pattern.
Units 2 - 8 are essentially grammar sections, looking at the mechanics of writing. This includes sentence structure (including avoiding sentence fragments), verbs, joining ideas together properly, being consistent across the sentences, dealing with punctuation (does that comma belong here?), and some spelling review.
Unit 9 has a good selection of short readings that can be used to exemplify the issues presented earlier in the book. These include writing from well-known people such as Maya Angelou, Malcolm X, Dave Barry, Amy Tan, Leo Buscaglia and others.
The book is very colourful, with lots of user-friendly adaptations throughout the text. There are Writers' Workshop and Writing Assignments after each unit, and many Exploring Online sections, including links to many OWL sites (OWL is the acronym for Online Writing Labs). This text also has an appendix dedicated to ESL instruction, and there are pieces throughout the text that link to ESL instruction.
One of the best parts of this text is the incorporation of humour. According to Fawcett, 'Humour is a fine instructional tool.' There are comics, classified-ad bloopers, short stories and jokes throughout the text that make the reading and writing experience more fun.
This is a very good text.
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A longstanding bestseller, Grassroots remains the preeminent worktext for developmental writers. Ensuring that students become successful sentence-to-paragraph writers, the Seventh Edition continues to balance clear, well-paced lessons with engaging exercises and assignments.
- Internet Strategies appear at the end of Chapters 1-5 to help students effectively use search engines, research links pertinent to their own writing, review web sites, and find online writing centers.
- "Looking at a Paragraph from Start to Finish" sections provide enhanced coverage of the writing process and its recursive nature.
- High-interest paragraph and essay practice sets comprise a continuous discourse on proofreading and editing.
- Writer's Workshops reinforce grammar skills through peer-editing exercises in which students revise sample paragraphs or essays.
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Instructor's annotated edition. Grassroots with readings. The writer's workbook, 8th edition. New look, ne features, new technology.
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Grassroots with Readings, The Writer's Workbook.......2007-05-28
I used this book for helpful writing strategies in my 9th grade high school Academic Success class I am teaching. It was helpful for students in determining topic sentences and main ideas. It is also used for introductory English at the local community college. It has some very useful parts that worked well for the students when I copied certain sections for them to work from.
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Writespace Online Writing Program for grassroots With Readings: the Writer's Workbook, 8/E
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Beginning and intermediate artists in all mediums will value Realism in Watermedia's combination of fantastic, realistic art and specific teaching in mixed media. Packaging a popular style with unique, easy-to-follow instruction, author Christopher Leeper:
* Demonstrates how to execute in watercolor, acrylic and gouache, and how to add accents and texture with pastel and colored pencil--sometimes all in the same painting
* Uses a broad range of subjects, such as landscapes, suburbscapes, flowers, animals and people, to appeal to many types of artists
* Offers problem/solution examples and before/after comparisons to simplify painting challenges
Ten mini-demos and 3 full step-by-step demos throughout the book will gradually build readers' skills.
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- History: Fiction or Science? (Chronology, No. 1)
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