Comprehensive Insect Physiology, Biochemistry & Pharmacology : Volume 4

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In this volume, seven of the chapters deal with feeding and diet, which is reasonable since insects consume an estimated l5-20% of all the world's planted crops. Many insects even have a specialized larval feeding stage that usually occupies a different ecological niche to the adult and so does not compete for the adult's food stock. Other chapters describe the means by which insects maintain their water balance, nitrogen balance and temperature balance under a range of conditions. These involve regulation by hormonal and behavioural systems that are also described here. The l4 chapters are all extensively illustrated and referenced and therefore provide excellent summaries of current knowledge. They will be of great value to entomologists, zoologists and biologists in general.

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Brilliant! The best of the Greece books

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The Rough Guide to Greece - 10th edition
Lance Chilton , Marc Dubin , Nick Edwards , Mark Ellingham , John Fisher , and Natania Jansz
Manufacturer: Rough Guides
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The Rough Guide to the Greek Islands - 5th Edition

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Greece, Athens, & the Mainland (Eyewitness Travel Guides)

Lonely Planet Greece

ASIN: 1843532514

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The Rough Guide to Greece is the ultimate handbook to the Greek mainland and the islands Â- from cosmopolitan Athens to the little-known one-village outcrops. The guide includes a 24-page full-colour introduction, with the authors pick of the country''s highlights in the ''things not to miss'' section. Every metre of this diverse country is covered, from the stunning beaches of northeast PÃlio to the dramatic Byzantine town of Mystra. For each area, there are comprehensive and insightful listings of the best hotels, guest houses, restaurants, cafes, bars and clubs. There is also informative advice on a wide range of activities, from bird-watching at the PrÃ©spa lakes to windsurfing at VassilikÃ and hiking on Mount Olympus. Finally, the Contexts section provides detailed accounts of the country''s history, culture, mythology and wildlife.

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Just OK.......2001-09-04

This review compares the Lonely Plantet Greece (4th Edition) with the Rough Guide Greece (8th edition). We spent 2.5 weeks in July, 2001 in Greece, our first visit, and these were our guide books.
A relucant 4 stars to each, and a slight preference for RG. We certainly found the books serviceable, and they gave us good ideas of where in Greece we wanted to go. But they were much less valuable in their listings for individual destinations. They were the least valuable compared to the other LP and RG travel books we've used (Portugal, Italy, Thailand, Tokyo).

As usual, they both overstate their hotel rankings which to me make sense only if you've been sleeping out on the beach from necessity, and now have finally scraped some money together for a room. An exagerration, but I've lost patience with gushing praise for facilities which are usually no better than serviceable and sometimes less than that. And, we're not into spending money on fancy accommodations. Occassionaly the books are on the money, but often not.

On the smaller islands RG usually had more accommodation listings, but occassionally LP did. There were at least two instances when LP had none, just saying that rooms were available.

The ferry schedules in the books, pretty much consistent between them, bore little relation to reality, even though we were there in the high season.

I want to complete with my usual gripe about these and other guide books: we don't know which restaurants and hotels were actually visited by the writers (and by which one) and when. To paraphrase from my review of RG Portugal:

LP is out front in saying that its reviewers do not stay at all the hotels or eat at all the restaurants they list. I would like it if the reviews would be initialized by the reviewers with the date. This would allow us to learn each reviewer's tastes and standards, not to mention seeing which places they actually visited.

One LP writer (not I think an author of this book) in discussing restaurants wrote: "As one of those LP writers I can tell you that it is not physically possible to eat even a 'little bit of a meal' in each of those restaurants :-) What we all tend to do is eat at a broad cross-section within the norms of natural eating times and visit the other restaurants and talk to the owner or even the diners if it can be done discretely. In the same vein we don't sleep at every hotel!"

Talk to the owners for your evaluation! Says it all.

Comprehensive, concise, relevant, practical!.......2001-05-21

We just came back from a 3 weeks, modest-budget, partly backpacking, partly car-rental trip around Rhodes, Crete, and Peloponnese. We deliberately stayed off the beaten tracks as much as possible. We used this guide along with French "Guide du Routard" and Michelin guides. I picked this guide against the Lonely Planet one based on an excellent experience with the Corsica rough guide last year.

This Rough Guide was above all very practical -- it simply is amazingly detailed, and what's more, it's mostly right. The rooms , hotels, and restaurants suggested were spot on. Very few outdated entries.

This guide also includes much relevant background info on Greek history, politics, food, an so on. This made for a much more interesting trip.

The paper was very thin yet high quality, making this guide even more worth its space in my pack.

This is definitely not the guide for organized tours -- the authors make no secret of their disdain for package tourism and the spoiling it often brings. But, for the independent traveller, this is the best guide I have found in English or French.

Capable enough to get you through high tide..........2001-01-25

Most of my friends often recommend the Lonely Planet books, especially for those of us who can't mortgage our homes for one-night stays in hotels listed by Frommer's and Fodor's guides. But I went with Rough Guide for my trip last summer to Greece, and while some of the maps weren't as detailed as they could might have been, most of the recommendations were spot on.

Many nightspots get renovated; names get changed, etc. That's something the editors can't really help with. But any restaurant or bar I went to (listed in the guide) was above-average, if not better than they claimed.

The historical data was also well-balanced; so you're not bored to tears with it, and yet it's detailed enough to keep you reading through it. Bonus marks for the great inclusion of the Greek music coverage (flawed, but excellent), and the price of the book is decent.

Brilliant! The best of the Greece books.......1999-03-31

A terrific guide to both the Greek mainland and the islands. Spent several months trawling around the country, at first with several guide books, Fodors, Rough Guide, Lonely Planet, etc., but finally found that the Rough Guide knew the country best, and made for a more entertaining travel companion, so I ditched the other books about three weeks into the trip. Absolutely the only book for Greece if you (a) like good food and nightlife and (b) have a serious interest in the cultural context of Ancient Greece. Plus their commentary on modern Greek history was very helpful, must admit I didn't know much about it until I arrived.

You can't go wrong with this book.

humorous, informative, and insightful.......1998-02-28

If you like self-depreciating English humor, you'll like the Rough guide to Greece. This book is densely packed with informative and interpretive pages. Not like the Fodor's, etc. which are mostly pretty pictures and ads disguised as recommendations. Even the most biting commentary turned out to be true. I consider this book to have been crucial to a very sucessful vacation/tour.

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Celestial phenomena in ancient Mesopotamia was observed and interpreted as signs from the gods as well as physical phenomena. Relating the various ways the heavens were contemplated and understood, this study traces the emergence of personal astrology from the tradition of celestial divination and how astronomical methodology developed for horoscopes. Its importance lies in its treatment of Babylonian celestial sciences (celestial divination, horoscopy, and astronomy) as subjects relevant to the history of science and culture.

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A knowledgeable guide.......2006-06-12

Francesca is an amazing instructor at her college, and her years of expertise in the field are truly insightful. The book thoroughly educates and provokes further thought.

Ancient Mesopotamian Materials and Industries: The Archaeological Evidence

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Ancient Mesopotamian Materials and Industries: The Archaeological Evidence
P. R. S. Moorey
Manufacturer: Eisenbrauns
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Ur' of the Chaldees': A Revised and Updated Edition of Sir Leonard Woolley's Excavations at Ur

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Ur' of the Chaldees': A Revised and Updated Edition of Sir Leonard Woolley's Excavations at Ur
Leonard Woolley , and P. R. S. Moorey
Manufacturer: Cornell Univ Pr
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Ancient Iraq: Third Edition (Penguin History)

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Mesopotamian Chronicles (Writings from the Ancient World) (Writings from the Ancient World) (Writings from the Ancient World)

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Mesopotamian Chronicles (Writings from the Ancient World) (Writings from the Ancient World) (Writings from the Ancient World)
Jean-Jacques Glassner , and Benjamin R. Foster
Manufacturer: Society of Biblical Literature
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ASIN: 1589830903

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All the chronicle literature of ancient Mesopotamia from the early second millennium to Seleucid times is collected in this English translation of Glassners Chroniques Mésopotamiennes (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1993). In addition to revising and supplementing the French edition, this volume provides transcriptions of the cuneiform and English translations of every example of Sumerian, Assyrian, and Babylonian chronographic literature as well as seminal essays on the genre and on Mesopotamian historiography in general.

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An instant classic!

Ancient Mesopotamia City
Marc Van De Mieroop
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press
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ASIN: 0198152868

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Urban history starts in Mesopotamia: the earliest known cities developed there as a result of long indigenous processes and, for millennia, the city determined every aspect of Mesopotamian civilization. Marc Van De Mieroop examines urban life in the historical period, investigating urban topography, the role of cities as centres of culture, their political and social structures, economy, literature, and the arts. He draws on material from the entirety of Mesopotamian history, from c. 3000 to 300 BC, and from both Babylonia and Assyria, arguing that the Mesopotamian city can be regarded as a prototype that inspired the rest of the ancient world and shared characteristics with the European cities of antiquity.

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Fascinating, though scholarly.......2002-06-18

In this book, Professor Van De Mieroop looks at the Mesopotamian city, from earliest Sumer to the Babylonian and Assyrian empires. Included in this work are chapters covering everything politics, organization of neighborhoods (districts might be a better word), clans, economics, and more. The author's grasp of the subject is obviously profound, and any student of Mesopotamia can gather a great deal of information from this book. On the downside, though, the book was obviously written for an academic audience, rather than for general readers. This means that the book is often dry and verbose. However, that said, it is a fascinating work, one with a great deal to offer anyone interested in the Mesopotamian city.

An instant classic!.......2000-02-20

This book is a long overdue survey of the urban experience in the first literate society. This work goes beyond the 'origin of cities', to tell us how they worked, and what really went on! Informative and accessible, I would recommend this book to anyone with an interest in ancient history.

The Hittites: The Story of a Forgotten Empire

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The Hittites: The Story of a Forgotten Empire
Archibald Henry Sayce
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ASIN: 1402174489
Release Date: 2005-11-30

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This Elibron Classics edition is a facsimile reprint of a 1903 edition by the Religious Tract Society, London. With 13 illustratios. Reprinted from the third edition.

Prophecy in Its Ancient Near Eastern Context: Mesopotamian, Biblical, and Arabian Perspectives (Symposium Series (Society of Biblical Literature), No. 13.)

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Prophecy in Its Ancient Near Eastern Context: Mesopotamian, Biblical, and Arabian Perspectives (Symposium Series (Society of Biblical Literature), No. 13.)

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Mesopotamian Poetic Language Sumerian and Akkadian: Proceedings of the Groningen Group for the Study of Mesopotamian Literature (Cuneiform Monographs, 6)

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Mesopotamian Poetic Language Sumerian and Akkadian: Proceedings of the Groningen Group for the Study of Mesopotamian Literature (Cuneiform Monographs, 6)

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The Mesopotamians: Conquerors Of The Middle East (Ancient Civilizations)

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The Mesopotamians: Conquerors Of The Middle East (Ancient Civilizations)
Katherine Reece
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Delights from the Garden of Eden: A Cookbook and a History of the Iraqi Cuisine

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Buy 3 and give them to friends
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Delights from the Garden of Eden
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Delights from the Garden of Eden: A Cookbook and a History of the Iraqi Cuisine
Nawal Nasrallah
Manufacturer: Author House
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ASIN: 140334793X

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This new Iraqi cookbook contains more than four hundred recipes covering all food categories. There is ample choice for both vegetarian and meat lovers, and many that will satisfy a sweet tooth. All recipes have been tested and are easy to follow.

Introducing the recipes are thoroughly researched historical and cultural narratives that trace the development of the Iraqi cuisine from the times of the Sumerians, Babylonians and Assyrians, through the medieval era, and leading to its interaction with Mediterranean and world cuisine.

Of particular interest are the book's numerous folkloric stories, anecdotes, songs, cultural explications of customs, and excerpts from narratives written by foreign visitors to the region. Arabic calligraphy, and photos, paintings and sketches add to the pictorial appeal of the book.

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Buy 3 and give them to friends.......2007-02-03

A great cookbook. Easy to follow for those not familiar with Arabic/Middle Eastern Cooking. Good back stories and illustrations. A true one of a kind work. Be sure to buy this treasure before it goes out of print. A delight as the title suggests.

Just what i was looking for!!!.......2006-08-05

Thanks to Nawal for writting this excellent cookbook which includes almost all the iraqi recipes in such nice order.

As a kurd I found many recipes that brought back memories from my childhood, even the terms/words used!

I looked through the whole book briefly, the recipes look easy and well written, not many pictures but I doubt they are needed. Can't wait to try more recipes.

I know I will treasure this book for life..

making Iraqi cooking appealing (five stars).......2006-03-28

This book is unlike any other cookbook that I have pruchased or read. It is written with clarity and with great efforts to simplify every resipe to anyone who is not familiar with Iraqi cooking. The author explains every dish; its orgion, its flavor and its popualrity in Iraq. I bought five copies and gave them as gifts. everyone got it enjoyed reading it and cooked some dishes

Delights from the Garden of Eden.......2005-10-12

This is the second copy that I have ordered because I gave mine away as a gift. I love this cookbook, and although there is not any color photos the author does a good job of explaining. I would tell anyone who is a food lover to get this book. It is full of wonderfull recipes,as well as indepth history of origin.

great book.......2005-09-07

This book contains great recipes, knowlagable look at the history of food in Iraq and sweet stories from the auther's own life there.
Great book and worth having. Nawal deserves an award for this book. And you could tell that she had worked and researched a lot for it.

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