Identification of Lichen Substances

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This handbook is an indispensable tool for the isolation, identification and structural analysis of the approximately 700 substances currently known to occur in lichens. The first part covers all necessary methods for the analysis of lichen metabolites; the second part gives the analytical and spectroscopical data of all known lichen substances as well as a key to their identification and differentiation.Besides its high value for all chemists working with these substances as a basis for other products, the book serves as a chemotaxonomical key to the identification of lichen species and as a reference for all those who use lichens for the biomonitoring of environmental pollution.

A new guide to microchemical techniques for the identification of lichen substances (British Lichen Society Bulletin)

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A new guide to microchemical techniques for the identification of lichen substances (British Lichen Society Bulletin)
F. J White
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Completely revised and updated, Let's Go: USA is the perfect travel companion for the fifty states and Canada. This edition, grounded in Let's Go's forty-five years of travel savvy, features more comprehensive information on modern America and expanded opportunities to extend your travels through work, study, and volunteering. While detailed maps, listings, and practical advice make America's largest cities accessible, a new "Out of the Way" feature takes travelers to cool sights and experiences off the tourist track. So whether you'd rather taste doughnuts hot off the assembly line at the birthplace of Krispy Kreme or spot George Washington's initials on a 100-million-year-old natural bridge, Let's Go gives you the latest on how to get there, get around, and get busy.

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Excellent.......2005-09-14

This is a great guide for anyone that is interested in visiting the places tourists would miss. I've encountered numerous eateries and taverns touted by the locals but overlooked by the casual visitor, and most of these have been highly enjoyable. The most notable downside is that it is so comprehensive, meaning that since this particular guide covers the entire U.S. and Candada you will not find much on places like Gainesville, Florida (bustling college town) or Bangor, Maine (quaint hideaway). But if you do intend on visiting various areas in the U.S. and Canada, I would highly recommend it. I've found this guide worth the cost for the Chicago area alone.

Go to the USA with an Earlier Edition.......2005-04-17

Let's Go USA 2005 is nowhere near the quality of previous year editions. Over the past few years many destinations have completely disappeared from this one great informational book with their space being taken up by restaurant and hotel listings which backpackers obviously never use. This is obviously to force backpackers to buy the other localised editions to find out about places in each state or region as well as the main one which previously was all you ever needed. Missing the whole point that backpackers don't have the money to spend or space in their backpacks for twenty odd heavy books.

Canada information in the 2005 edition is a joke. What will 2010 cover just Montreal and Vancouver? Most provinces are no longer listed, they used to be. Winnipeg and the entire province of Manitoba, Regina and the entire province of Saskatchewan, gone! The whole point of backpacking is that we stop at places along the way not just the mass tourism stops. Without these listings you're travelling on your own until you reach Alberta if you're going from Ontario to the West. Even Ontario content is dwindling, what happened to Thunder Bay?

The USA coverage is also going down the drain. Spokane in Washington as well as Bellingham (of major importance as is where backpackers catch the Alaskan Marine Highway Ferry to America's biggest state's panhandle,) Whitefish, Montana
Fargo, North Dakota and a heap of other places have just disappeared over recent editions.

Also what is gong on with the hostel listings? Either hostels have to pay to get listed now (which should be stated so the reader knows they are getting biased coverage) or there's some really sloppy research going on. Fairbanks only lists two hostels I know of at least eight, there's heaps more in Manhattan than Let's Go would have you believe, in fact just about every destination has more. This is disgraceful because backpackers may use up vital money for expensive accommodation believing the only hostel in town is booked out when there are ten alternatives with free beds. Or worse not visit a destination because they think there is no affordable accommodation when there is.

Let's Go needs to have a long hard look at themselves. Backpackers made them their millions of dollars in their initial years and sure the more allocentric mass tourism market may be highly profitable and able to recognise the Let's Go brand name, but why then not have two editions. One for backpackers with more destinations, hostel and supermarket listings and one for hotel users with fine dining and the other stuff backpackers will never use. Let's Go isn't alone, Lonely Plant, Rough Guide and the other competitors are also following track, in fact I'd say they are worse but this is no excuse for Let's Go which use to be a great information packed guide. If you can still find an edition from the late 90's get it instead!

Does LG stand for Lesbian and Gay?.......2005-02-23

The book tells you where to find gay bars in every major city (and many minor ones too, like Boise, Idaho). It also lists gay newspapers and support groups. I has an essay written by a gay activist who opposes gay marriage on the grounds it could make gays too conservative when their goal should be to make heteros more promiscuous. What this has to do with traveling the USA I'm still trying to figure out. It tells the gay traveller where the best pick up joints are, but doesn't do so for heteros. All in all, this book is great is you are a gay swinger who wants to travel from town to town visiting all the major gay nightclubs. For the rest of us, I don't recommend it. They call themselves LG for Let's Go, but maybe it really stands for Lesbian and Gay?

Let's Go 2005 USA : With Coverage of Canada (Let's Go USA)

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Let's Go 2005 USA : With Coverage of Canada (Let's Go USA)
Inc. Let's Go
Manufacturer: Let's Go Publications
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OTPZNE

Native North American Spirituality of the Eastern Woodlands: Sacred Myths, Dreams, Visions, Speeches, Healing Formulas, Rituals and Ceremonials (Classics of Western Spirituality)
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Native North American Spirituality of the Eastern Woodlands: Sacred Myths, Dreams, Visions, Speeches, Healing Formulas, Rituals and Ceremonials (Classics of Western Spirituality)

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ASIN: 0809122561

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This work makes available for the first time in a single volume a representative collection of the major spiritual texts from the Native American Indian peoples of the East Coast. Elisabeth Tooker, professor of anthropology at Temple University and an editor of The Handbook of North American Indians, presents the sacred traditions of the Iroquois, Winnibego, Fox, Menominee, Delaware, Cherokee and others. What makes this volume so unique is that it gives the reader direct access to the original works (in the words of the Indians themselves) rather than having them filtered through some interpreter. Included here are cosmological myths, thanksgiving addresses, dreams and visions, speeches of the shamans, teachings of parents, puberty fasts, blessings, healing rites, stories, songs, ceremonials for fires, hunting, wars, feasts and the rituals of various spiritual societies.

The Preface to this volume is by William C. Sturtevant of the Smithsonian Institution, who is General Editor of The Handbook of North American Indians.

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Excellent description and understanding.......2003-06-08

Anthropologist Elisabeth Tooker has provided here an excellent understanding of Native North American spirituality with this book. Most of the focus is on the southeastern areas of the continent, but that does not manage to detract from the book's ability to convey understanding of what went on in traditional Native American life.

The language is very easy to read and logical, making this very good reading fo a beginner. Indeed, there is almost no technical terminology in thw whole book.

The early part of Tooker's book is devoted to a study of the cosmological viewpoint of the various tribes mentioned in the book. The book shows very clearly how, from the perspective of the Native American tribes, and how myth describe events in the "sky world" ie. the world above Earth. The Winnebago tribe do not base the existence of spirits on sight and hearing, but in terms of what is felt.

The last two-thirds of "Native North American Spirituality Of The Eastern Woodlands" deals with actual Native American rituals. In very clear language, stages of long ritual are described in a way that even a novice on this subject will always be able to understand. At the same time, the rituals are explained very well, with purpose of even such actions as the sluaghtering of deer being well-explained. There is a particularly moving description of what a Winnebago father will teach his child how to reach their "destination" on a spiritual quest via fasting and helping one's fellow men. There are also accounts of offerings of tobacco and other drugs.

On the whole, this work should be read by all interested in Native American spirituality, especially if you have little knowledge.

Indian Double Curve Secrets: Eastern Woodlands Guide for Stencils (Raven Perspective)

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Indian Double Curve Secrets: Eastern Woodlands Guide for Stencils (Raven Perspective)

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ASIN: 1879418851

Eastern Woodlands Indians (Native Americans)

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Eastern Woodlands Indians (Native Americans)
Mir Tamim Ansary
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Societies in Eclipse: Archaeology of the Eastern Woodlands Indians, A.D. 1400-1700

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Societies in Eclipse: Archaeology of the Eastern Woodlands Indians, A.D. 1400-1700

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Gathering Hopewell: Society, Ritual and Ritual Interaction (Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology)
Hero, Hawk, and Open Hand: American Indian Art of the Ancient Midwest and South

ASIN: 0817353526

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In Societies in Eclipse, archaeologists combine their current discoveries with insights from anthropology, history, and Native oral traditions to examine the cultural transformation among the eastern Woodlands tribes immediately preceding and following the arrival of Europeans. While the profound effects of European explorers, missionaries, and traders on Eastern Woodlands tribes cannot be denied, the archaeological evidence suggests that several indigenous societies were already in the process of redefinition prior to European contact.

Chiefdoms and Other Archaeological Delusions (Issues in Eastern Woodlands Archaeology)

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Chiefdoms and Other Archaeological Delusions (Issues in Eastern Woodlands Archaeology)
Timothy R. Pauketat
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This book sweeps away the last vestiges of social-evolutionary explanations of chiefdoms by rethinking the history of Pre-Columbian Southeast peoples and comparing them to ancient peoples in the Southwest, Mexico, Mesoamerica, and Mesopotamia.

Hunters of the Eastern Forest (Native Hunter Series)

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Hunters of the Eastern Forest (Native Hunter Series)
Stephen Irwin , and J. B. Irwin
Manufacturer: Hancock House Publishing
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The Indian Peoples of Eastern America: A Documentary History of the Sexes

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The Indian Peoples of Eastern America: A Documentary History of the Sexes

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ASIN: 0195027418

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Using the human life cycle as an organizational framework, Axtell has gathered a broad range of 17th and 18th century European documentation on Native North Americans. With its lucid introductions to each entry, suggestions for further reading, and bibliography, this sourcebook is invaluable for courses in history, anthropology, and native American and women's studies.

The Moundbuilders: Ancient Peoples of Eastern North America (Ancient Peoples and Places)

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Great Reference Book
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The Moundbuilders: Ancient Peoples of Eastern North America (Ancient Peoples and Places)
George R. Milner , Thames , and Hudson
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ASIN: 050002118X

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Nineteenth-century explorers of the American continent were amazed to find great monuments built of earth in the Eastern Woodlands. Thousands of these mounds were discovered in the plains and forests—some up to a hundred feet high, some merely overgrown hillocks, some conical, others flattopped. Speculation was rife as to the identity of the moundbuilders—could they have been Israelites? Romans? Phoenicians? And what meaning might the mounds have held for their creators?

As George Milner shows, research over the last century demonstrates conclusively that the mounds were in fact erected by the Native Americans themselves. In a period ranging from 3,000 BC to the sixteenth century AD, Native Americans quarried tons of earth to form these monuments, which vary widely in location, size, and purpose. Some contained thousands of burials, others served as platforms for chiefs' residences, and many were low-lying "effigy" mounds in the form of serpents, panthers, and other sacred beasts. Many beautiful objects have been found inside the mounds, including artifacts of shell, copper, and mica.

The Moundbuilders covers the entire sweep of Eastern Woodlands prehistory, with an emphasis on how societies developed from hunter-gatherers to village farmers and town-dwellers. Great strides have been made in recent research, and many of the most impressive mounds, such as Poverty Point, Cahokia, and Moundville, are described and discussed in detail. This wide-ranging and copiously illustrated book, complete with a gazetteer of sites to visit, will be the perfect guide to the region for archaeologists and students as well as for the tourist and traveler. 153 illustrations, 20 in color.

Customer Reviews:

Great Reference Book.......2004-11-23

As a teacher of middle school I found this book to be a great reference in class.

Solid; 3.5.......2004-11-23

This is a very good introduction to the peoples who left behind the impressive mounds in eastern North America. This book is pitched at an undergraduate level. Milner provides a chronologically arranged review of the prehistory of eastern North America. He sticks closely to the archeaology of sites and is careful to avoid speculation beyond what the often modest evidence provides. Milner is a workmanlike writer who does a solid job of describing excavations and their probable significance. The illustrations are very good and there is anice appendix describing sites that can be visited. Deficiencies of this book are that there is relatively little discussion of why cultures changed. Were there climactic factors? Some comparisons with other evolving cultures of the Americas could have been enlightening.

Ancient Earthen Enclosures of the Eastern Woodlands (Ripley P. Bullen Series)

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Ancient Earthen Enclosures of the Eastern Woodlands (Ripley P. Bullen Series)

Manufacturer: University Press of Florida
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Binding: Hardcover

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This collection of essays is designed to revolutionize the way archeologists approach the study of enclosures, clearly illustrating the difficulties in interpreting these sites, and showing that their builders had widely diverse purposes. (Archaeology/Anthropology)

Copper Artifacts in Late Eastern Woodlands Prehistory

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Copper Artifacts in Late Eastern Woodlands Prehistory
Claire Garber Goodman
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OLAP enables users to access information from multidimensional data warehouses almost instantly, to view information in any way they like, and to cleanly specify and carry out sophisticated calculations. Although many commercial OLAP tools and products are now available, OLAP is still a difficult and complex technology to master.

Substantially updated with expanded coverage of implementation methods for data storage, access, and calculation; also, new chapters added to combine OLAP with data warehouse, mining, and decision support tools
Teaches the best practices for building OLAP models that improve business and organizational decision-making, completely independent of commercial tools, using revised case studies
Companion Web site provides updates on OLAP standards and tools, code examples, and links to valuable resources

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Unclear and wordy.......2007-06-04

I had high hopes for this book since I am a data miner who senses the need for alternatives to the slow tools commonly used to assemble large data sets for analysis. Unfortunately, I found this book to be overlong and I did not emerge with a clear picture of what distinguished OLAP tools from the alternatives.....

Time is valuable. This book is not worth a developers time........2006-11-01

I have never written a book review, but I felt compelled to write about this book because there are not many good books on OLAP - and this one really misses the mark from a developer's perspective. If you want a book with good examples to get you going with Microsoft's Analysis Service I can highly recommend "MDX Solutions".

I can only give the book two stars because
a.) I don't want to seem schrill.
b.) There may be people out there willing to devote a large amount of time reading a defensively written tome about generic concepts that don't translate into real world products - which in 2006 are way ahead of this book.

Fundamental Olap principles.......2003-03-31

I was impressed by the quality of this book; this is probably the most complete book on OLAP theory and is a fundamental reading for professionals involved in the design of olap systems. In most cases it gives all the details and information needed to master this technology. It also contains some practical examples that are very useful to see how the theory can be applied in the real world.
I didn't read the first edition, but the second edition contains new sections and many updates, like a description of SQL-99 OLAP extensions.
The author chose to be vendor-independent, so all practical examples are based on a multidimensional language that he created, called Located Contents (LC). However, when I read it I had already used a couple of OLAP tools (Microsoft Analysis Services and Microstrategy), and I think that this helped me understand many of the concepts contained in the book.

Good OLAP Methodology.......2002-12-02

OLAP is a somewhat arcane corner of the IT universe and this book is a good guide to it for information and business professionals. It covers the basics well and provides decent exaples to get you going.

Of course, the hardest part of OLAP is making the conceptual leap from relational databases and transactional processing to the world of analytical processing, but finance experts and accountants will appreciate OLAP and its ability to summarize data in a way that is hard to do in most ERP and legacy systems.

A must read for anybody involved in Olap design.......2002-09-05

A book which gives you a comprehensive theoretical foundation together with useful, pratical techniques to design Olap solutions.
In the first half of the book the author explains you all you need to think clearly in N dimensions, in the second half he guides you through the design of a rather complex application, stepping into the purchasing process, the material inventory analysis, sales & marketing, and activity-based management. He teaches you using maieutics, Socrates' way of teaching, via a dialogue between two designers. This way, a lot of questions that usually arise during real-life development are examined and solved.
Whilst the examples in the first edition of this book were based on TM1, in this second edition they are written using a vendor-independent language, called LC (Located contents), which provides you with a solid, logically based foundation to multidimensional design.
The vendor languages, like those used by Microsoft Analysis Services (MDX), Applix TM1, Oracle Express and Hyperion Essbase, are kind of Plato's shadows in the cavern of this ideal language (which is sort of a tautology for MS Plato...), so if you start thinking in LC, you'll be able to work with all of these products.
Ideal complements to this book, if you use Microsoft Analysis Server, are "MDX Solutions" by George Spofford, and "Microsoft Olap Solutions", by Thomsen (again!), Spofford and Chase.

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