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Pauline is filled with dread at the passion that Teresa has for Maurice. During the long, hot summer, she remembers the way that her possessive passion for Teresa's father eroded her youth, and she is determined to prevent the same happening to her daughter - at any cost. ... Read more

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Explains what heat waves and droughts are, where and when they happen, and what their effects can be. ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Beautiful, (Sittin' On) the Dock of the Bay, My Girl, Ain't No Sunshine, (Love Is Like A) Heat Wave, Mercy Mercy Me, I Want You Back, What's Going On, Respect, Back to Black, Baby Don't You Do It, Dancing in the Street, Please Mr. Postman, Let's Get It On, After Laughter. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Beautiful est le second single issu de l'album Stripped de la chanteuse américaine Christina Aguilera. C'est une ballade écrite et produite par Linda Perry qui évoque la différence et l'acceptation de soi. En 2004, avec Beautiful elle gagne le Grammy Award de la meilleure performance vocale pop féminine (Best Female Pop Vocal Performance). En 2008, Christina enregistre une nouvelle version: You Are What You Are (Beautiful 2) qui est disponible sur son Best-Of Keeps Gettin' Better: A Decade Of Hits. Linda Perry a composé la chanson, qu'elle considère comme vraiment personnelle. Un jour, elle est à la recherche d'une jeune chanteuse avec de la personnalité et de la voix et elle rencontre Aguilera. Elle lui fait écouter le morceau et la chanteuse tombe sous le charme de la chanson mais reste confuse. Plus tard, Christina se confie à Linda Perry et lui raconte son histoire et les difficultés qu'elle a rencontrées à plusieurs moments de sa vie. Finalement Linda arrive à convaincre Christina que cette chanson est parfaite pour elle. Christina accepte d'enregistrer la chanson en studio, Linda Perry lui demande de l'enregistrer qu'une seule fois et de mettre tout son cœur. Depuis, Linda Perry et Christina sont devenus amis et ont collaborés de nouveau ensemble. La chanson rencontre un grand succès mondial, elle se classe n 1 dans de nombreux pays. La chanteuse reprend la chanson avec son public notamme...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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The Long Hot Summer: A French heatwave and a marriage meltdown ... Read more

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A Killing Heat

A wilting summer heat wave -- as well as faculty air-conditioning -- is bringing out the worst in the tenants of Martha Patterson's Greenwich Village apartment building. Martha, a retired attorney blessed with common sense and a septuagenarian's practicality, agrees to join the co-op board to help facilitate some badly needed change. It's a thankless and difficult job -- and a deadly one when the president of the board, Arnold Stern, is murdered.

Martha soon discovers Stern was decidedly unpopular for many interesting reasons. A trail of suspicion leads to several of the tenants, including her neighbor and good friend, an ailing archaeologist whose priceless Greek antiquity becomes a subtle but crucial clue. Ironically, it's the innocent secret of a little girl that exposes the killer -- and unravels a murder prompted by greed, jealousy . . .and undoubtedly, the heat. ... Read more

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Average
This is a fairly straightfirward little mystery.The plot is simple.Martha is a retired lawyer living in New York City's Greenwich Village.She still does freelance work, and though 74, her mind is still sharp.Unfortunetly, she discovered her next door neighbor, the President of the Co-op board, dead.Of course she gets intrigues by this and can't stop thinking about the murder.

We meet all the various neighbors, and learn why they might be the murderer. I found the characters types very sterotypical, for as a lifelong New Yorker, everyone who lives here has their own little quirks, and I thought her characters needed more personality.Everyone we meet is very flat.

I also think this book would work better in 1st person.We see the story through Martha's eyes, but I don't think a narrator is effective in this type of book- it distances the reader too much.It is also a "folksy" type of novel, and dialogue and narrative would work better if we were in Martha's head.

As a who-dun-it, the story was a little weak.It didn't take a genius to figure out who the villain really was, though she tried hard to 'confuse' the reader by introducing about a thousand unimportant, and uninteresting, characters.

IF you have nothing better to read, it will pass the time, but it is a book to be borrowed, not bought.

fun Martha Patterson Greenwich Village cozy
After ten days visiting her son and his family in California, retired attorney Martha Patterson returns to New York City after an all day trek home.Just wanting to go to sleep in her air conditioned Greenwich Village apartment, Martha finds the cooling device is broken and the hotter than a match stick heat unbearably wilting her brain.Perhaps it is jet lag, a senile moment, or just heat stroke but Martha insanely agrees to run for the cooperative board at the urging of her irate neighbors.

Management representative Rashida Grant needs to obtain a copy of the air conditioning maintenance contract to give to the board's lawyer.Her efforts to reach the board president Arnold Stern have failed and since he listed Martha in case of an emergency she calls her to enter his apartment.They find someone murdered the vilified Arnold.NYPD Homicide Detective White quickly learns that everyone detested Arnold.Though quite reluctantly, Martha begins her own inquiries.

Though the amateur sleuth elements depend too heavily on coincidence, fans will rejoice with the third Martha Patterson Greenwich Village cozy.Martha and the other tenants provide a slice of small village life within the high rise New York tenement.The action is mostly off screen, but fans will enjoy summer in the city with no spoons full of love shared by any of the cast.

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The animals of Mud Flat pay Raymond the Rainmaker to bring relief from the hot weather, but even though he fails, rain finally comes. ... Read more

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An original story based on the popular ABC television series follows the foibles, romance, and everyday lives of Clark Kent, aka Superman, and die-hard reporter Lois Lane, as they pursue dangerous criminals throughout the streets of Metropolis.TV tie-in. ... Read more

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Super Reader
In a scorching hot Metropolis summer, some dodgy Hollywood types are out to sabotage the production of a big budge crappy plot update of the Robin Hood story.

Perry White sends Lois and Clark in undercover to find out what is going on with all the accidents. Lois works it out while Superman runs around saving lots of people from heat-induced accidents.

Great show, great book!
I would definitely recommend this book to anyone who is a fan of L&C. The characters and the tone of their relationship are(is) true to the television series. MJ Friedman really paid attention to detail and it paid off. I really enjoyed this book and found it a fun read. There is great interaction between the title characters, just like in the show, and the plot moves along nicely. Great book!

Great book!
Romance, mystery, show business, and even some *heat*.I love this book

A Great L&C book!
This is really a great book and all FoLCs (Fans of Lois and Clark) ought to really enjoy it.It was just like watching an episode of the series, except with more detail.I truly loved it and will read it again often. ... Read more

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#37 Heat Wave

#38 The Perils of Love

With over 11 million copies sold in the series, Left Behind: The Kids is a favorite of readers ages 10-14. Each book follows a group of teens who were "left behind" when other friends and family members were taken to heaven by God in the Rapture. All they have left is their friendship and their growing faith in Jesus Christ. For them, the last several years have not been easy . . . but the end is near. With background plots from Left Behind #10: The Remnant and #11: Armageddon, these books will thrill even reluctant readers with cliffhangers from book to book. ... Read more

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Great Series!!!!
Very good series for teens and adults alike.Writtin in a very realastic way. Great series of books

Series for adults now rewritten for teens
I have always enjoyed the adult series of Left Behind books.The kids books are just as good.The kids interact with the characters from the adult series, experience the same events, etc.However, since the main characters are teens, these books can appeal to younger readers.So far, the stories haven't had the ups and downs that the adult series has had.The adult series has books that are a lot more boring than others.The kids series seems to be good in every book.These are not for really young kids, but would be appropriate for young teens.I enjoy them and I am an adult. ... Read more

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Droughts. Floods.
Climate refugees.
Global warming isn't just about polar bears anymore.

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A solid overview of the possible impacts of global warming
I receive alarmist and conspiracy-theory emails from a dear friend and I love her anyway. Over the past year or so, she has been led to believe, based on the writings of a few with an angry politically-based agenda, that global warming does not exist and that for example, ex-VP Al Gore and others are pushing this "unproven theory" because he has investments in technologies that would "profit" from global warming.
Whew!
My gut tells me their opinions are nonsense. I have been somewhat desperate to find a non-technical book that would explain the science and the documented climate record and the possible future effects on the planet in a way I can understand. I needed a book I could understand while tired at night with one elbow on the pillow and eyelids growing heavy.
This is just the book. Cullen is a seasoned journalist and researcher who writes clearly and piles up her facts well. Personally, I never felt I needed to be convinced about the "reality" of global warming, but if I had some doubts as the rising tide of conspiracy theory emails arrived in my email in-basket, this book put those little doubts to rest.
I recommend this book to the intelligent (like me), informed, but non-science-oriented reader who needs to have a basic understanding of this issue and how it will become ever more pressing and crucial in the days to come.

A striking, dramatic survey key to any general or science lending library
The Weather of the Future: Heat Waves, Extreme Storms, and Other Scenes from a Climate-Changed Planet offers a fine, serious look at how the world will look in 2050 if the current levels of carbon emissions are maintained. Climate change is no longer a future worry: it's a present-day phenomenon that affects current lives. Chapters use the latest scientific research to examining real-world scenarios and at-risk locations around the world in a striking, dramatic survey key to any general or science lending library.

Very disappointing
I was relatively excited when I heard about this book, since our future as a species interests me greatly.It belongs to the genre of post-global warming books, wherein global warming is taken as a given and human inaction is assumed, leading to dire consequences and reflections on our suicidality.Others in the same category include James Hansen's book Storms of my grandchildren, Six Degrees, Requiem for a species, and my personal favourite, Down to the wire.All these are actually better written and more gripping that Heidi Cullen's book.My chief complaint about it is that most of the book is given over to interviews with other climatologists and scientists who discuss their particular expertises.The whole fails to come together as a result, and the author's own opinions are often missing in action.Several chapters appear to be one interview after another stitched together with some relatively boilerplate style writing.Probably this style of overdramatic pronouncement sounds good on TV but it really falls flat for me when read.
In the first section of the book she summarizes the evidence for global warming and the state of current thinking, material which has been covered extensively by now in many, many books.The bulk of the book discusses individual areas of the world and how they will be affected.These chapters are very uneven, with some interesting analyses, and some that simply fail altogether.As an example of the latter there is the discussion about the Inuit, who have a lifestyle obviously completely based on sea-ice and snow.There is no contemplation about how their entire lifestyle will change when there is neither ice nor snow, which is exactly what one would have expected.Instead there is the false dramatic ending: "but they will adapt, as they always have."Will they?If they all wind up on welfare with no lifestyle to speak of, is that adapting, or a very tragic ending to their culture?There is no consideration of these issues.What about the chance that others from further south will come up and take over their land and drive them out?To me this seems a very likely possibility.Another very disappointing ending occurs in the Bangladesh chapter, which we all know will end horribly tragically.Will millions of them move to Russia?Of course not.Yet she has the gall to say at the end of the chapter, millions will be climate refugees into India.Will they?What about the wall that was mentioned earlier, that India is building to keep such millions out of its country? It seems quite obvious that when India is starving itself, it's hardly likely bangladeshis will be welcomed.More likely there will be a lot of starvation and a lot of war, let's hope not world-wide.
The worst chapter is the epilogue, in which she discusses the end of the akkadian empire as a result of changing climate and the tragic story of Easter Island.The latter was much better discussed by Jared Diamond in Collapse, and the author actually quotes from him here.Not an impressive finish to borrow from another writer as a conclusion.
Here is an example of poor writing from the New York chapter I can't resist quoting (or paraphrasing): " in 2050 when Hurricane Xavier sprang up from the bathtub of the atlantic had finally arrived people sat back and watched it like the world series."What?? They watched a hurricane destroy Manhattan like a baseball game ?My jaw dropped when I read this, the last paragraph of the chapter.There was not much imagination applied to the effects of the hurricane on Manhattan here.Simple stating that repairs will be costly is a failure of storytelling completely.

In summary I don't really recommend this book at all, in comparison to the aforementioned post-climate change books, Jim Hensen's in particular is one that I would reread every year (until his prophecies come to pass).

The sky is falling!
This book is adisappointment; it is not a legitimate work of science, despite the author's impressive credentials. It is fear-mongering, with worst-case scenarios presented as our future.To be fair, the book starts out well, with some good background on the history of climate science. Unfortunately, after that it becomes simply an attempt to scare the reader with dire predictions. These predictions are far from certainties. I don't know, for example, what the weather in New York in 2050 will be--and I don't think Dr.Cullen does either.

A climate scientist named Mike Hulme has once said, "The language of catastrophe is not the language of science." The Weather of the Future would make an interesting Hollywood movie, but it fails as a persuasive analysis of climate change.There are far better books on this subject, for instance, Claire Parkinson's recent book, Coming Climate Crisis. If your goal is scaring your friends, get them Weather of the Future. If you want a rational analysis of the issue, try another book.

The Weather of the Future (Harper)
For a look at what the world may look like in the event that we do little or nothing to combat carbon emissions and greenhouse gases, comes "The Weather of the Future" (Harper) by meteorologist/climatologist, Heidi Cullen. Cullen, a research scientist at the non-profit outfit, Climate Central, (and former host of the Weather Channel's `Forecast Earth') describes in detail what is likely to occur at seven different hot-spot locations around the planet in the wake of elevated temperatures and rising waters. Using predictive modeling from a variety of accredited sources, Cullen describes what effects can be expected in areas from New York City (major hurricanes, rampant flooding) to Bangladesh (becoming a massive refugee state) to the farm regions of Central California (massive drought) as well as the implications for Australia's Great Barrier Reef, Greenland's arctic ice cap and others. Using data models from NASA, the IPCC, MIT, the California Climate Change Center and others, Cullen predicts a seismic shift in global weather patterns, sea life, agriculture and terrain that, while may be off in some meaningful ways (as expected in a 50 year prediction) certainly cover the range of detailed possibilities awaiting our future. Her personal, yet readable account, is of course, speculative in nature, but with all the research and modeling referenced here and elsewhere, it's hard not to believe that somewhere in these patterns lies our own inconvenient truth. ... Read more

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Mitch Stevens is keen to spend July at a hockey camp in Muskoka--half the time on the ice, and the other half drinking in the sun on the lake.

But things start to go wrong right away: his best pal Zack is assigned to a different cabin, and then Zack makes friends with Mitch's worst enemy, Eddie. As they all struggle to make the camp select team, Zack faces a crisis that brings the friends back together--closer than ever.

Hockey Heat Wave shows how young hockey players' ambitions can strain friendships--and make them stronger. ... Read more

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Insightful
This is an outstanding book. It skims the theory -- he is quite explicit about this -- but shows well how the methods work. You could call this "why separation of variable works". If you read more in functional analysis this book will serve as great mathematical "motivation". All his explanations are very clear, and there are a lot of examples.

Perfect for mathematicaal physics courses
This book is for a one year course on functional analysis. It would replace a traditional course course on mathematical physics with advantage.The first two chapters are on ordinary differential equations. They are very good.The third chapter is on Hilbert spaces beggining with the vibrating string , fourier series , etc, thus motivating the last section on Hilbert Spaces.The fourth chapter is on eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of second order differential operators The remaining of the book covers the Schrodinger equation in one dimension , Bessel's Fuctions , Eigenfunctions of the Laplacian and the Fourier transform .The book explain difficult concepts in simple terms. Things like Lebesque integral,Absolutely continuos functions, etc Everything is carefully explained.Let me quote this passage on page 419: "The elements of this Hilbert Space are functions of two variables.The Hilbert spaces we considered in earlier chapters consisted in functions of one variable. Does this confuses us? Not us!"In fact the book is almost perfect

A nice and unsual textbook
This is an interesting book which combinesHilbert spaces, differential equations, and Fourier analysis at very elementary undergraduate level. This textbook may have the best elementary introduction to Schrodinger equation without being a functional analysis or quantum mechanic course. Its applications to Laplace operators and Sturm Liouville problems are very well motivated and developed. This is not a standard textbook, its content and examples are not easily obtained from other sources in the same context. Their early editions were very expensive and hard to find, so this new paperback reedition is welcome. ... Read more