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Spiral bound SCOTT FORESMAN-ADDISON WESLEY D'Nealian Handwriting TEACHER'S EDITION. Contains the pages of the student book (answers in red), with teacher's information in the side and bottom margins. ... Read more

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Contains the pages of the pupil edition in reduced format, with teacher's information in the side and bottom margins. ... Read more

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Need to learn Xcode fast? Try a Visual QuickPro!

Thisbest-selling reference's visual format and step-by-step, task-basedinstructions will have you mastering Xcode in no time. Leading techexpert Scott Neal uses crystal-clear instructions and friendly prose toshow you how to effectively develop applications and other software forMac OS X and introduce you everything that's new in Xcode. Along theway, you'll find extensive coverage of all the program's new features:the Interface Builder, GNU Compiler Collection, improved distributedbuilds, New Target contextual menus items, support for universalbinaries creation, Web Objects tools, and more!

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The oscar is an intelligent and enjoyable fish to own. Fromselection to health and nutrition concerns, this book helps take theguesswork out of taking the best care of oscars in a home aquarium. ... Read more

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Basic......very basic.
This book has many quality pictures but the info would only be helpful to a new aquarist interested in owning an oscar or two.I've counted at least two typos as well.This hints at a hasty release of this book possibly to turn a quick profit.There is not much attention payed to diseases and disorders of oscars.So in fewer words.....this book is meh.

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Very basic stuff
Still it is easy to read, and there are some interesting facts. Primarily for beginners, and as such pretty good in my opinion. ... Read more

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The Encyclopedia of Exotic Tropical Fishes for Freshwater Aquariums is an inspiring resource. The book is separated into two sections, with the first part encompassing six chapters of both general and specific fishkeeping information and the second part offering detailed profiles of 1000 freshwater species. All fish enthusiasts will appreciate the down-to-earth writing style and superb images by some of the world's top photographers. This practical reference also features anatomical drawings, multiple tip boxes, and over 2800 full-color photographs. ... Read more

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THE BEST BOOK REFERENCE
I HAVE WANTED THIS BOOK SINCE IT WAS PUBLISHED, AND WHEN I COULD
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Truly exceptional book
I enjoyed the book immensly. I read it in one day cover to cover all 900+ pages. Very informative and great pictures of fish. I have been a hobbyist for 20 years and I still learned something from it.

A space filler book
The author doesn't even include the temperature to keep the fish.

Disappointing
I wanted one great dictionary for reference as I just got started with my aquarium a few months ago.I found this to be badly indexed, and since it is alphabetical by Latin subspecies and then Latin name within it, they assume a great deal of knowledge right off the bat.Then you need to look up the common name in the index to find the latin name and my most common fish aren't even in there under common name (ie., Molly, Platy).Guppy is under "D" in the index, a typo for "G" - which makes me think this wasn't even proofread.I really didn't need information on freshwater fish like bass and pike, since those aren't aquarium fish, so don't understand who the audience is supposed to be. Many fish in here measure over a foot in length.I have an aquarium, I'm not going fishing.

A Very Good Reference but not Perfect
Unlike many previous Tropical Fish books from the Tropical Fish Hobbyist publisher that were not much more that an unorganized child's picture book, this Encyclopedia is well oganized and has a great common name and scientific name index. A desciption of the fish is on the left page with two corresponding pictures on the right page which makes for easy reading. I would rate this book 5 stars if the descriptions were more detailed. It leaves out temperature range, PH range, sexing information, etc. even though there is sufficient room in the description area for about 40% more verbiage. I recommend this book to be used in conjunction with the 4 Volume set of the Baensch Aquarium Atlas which provides much greater detail of each fish species. ... Read more

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This digital document is a journal article from Forest Ecology and Management, published by Elsevier in 2006. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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The foliage of five forested sites across a climatic gradient on the South Island of New Zealand were studied to assess whether the distribution of specific leaf area (SLA) and leaf nitrogen (N) were due to the light environment or intrinsic species characteristics. Within both mixed and single species stands, SLA and N were correlated with relative light interception (@t) but varied greatly. For N, this variation was reduced by expressing N values as relative site N (N/maximum site N) that increased correspondence between N and ln(@t) across sites (r^2=0.79). However, comparison of mixed species composition to a monoculture stands showed difference in the N-@t especially in stands with high species richness. The nitrogen extinction coefficient (k"N) was estimated for canopies based on profiles of measured projected leaf area indices (PLAI) and leaf N, with an average value of 0.17+/-0.06 indicating a conservative relationship between N and @t in these forests. Site maximum leaf N is correlated positively with annual incident irradiance further corroborating the N and light relationship as well as providing a potential mechanism for estimating canopy N over larger areas. ... Read more

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Neal Stephenson enjoys cult status among science fiction fans and techie types thanks to Snow Crash, which so completely redefined conventional notions of the high-tech future that it became a self-fulfilling prophecy. But if his cyberpunk classic was big, Cryptonomicon is huge... gargantuan... massive, not just in size (a hefty 918 pages including appendices) but in scope and appeal. It's the hip, readable heir to Gravity's Rainbow and the Illuminatus trilogy. And it's only the first of a proposed series--for more information, read our interview with Stephenson.

Cryptonomicon zooms all over the world, careening conspiratorially back and forth between two time periods--World War II and the present. Our 1940s heroes are the brilliant mathematician Lawrence Waterhouse, cryptanalyst extraordinaire, and gung ho, morphine-addicted marine Bobby Shaftoe. They're part of Detachment 2702, an Allied group trying to break Axis communication codes while simultaneously preventing the enemy from figuring out that their codes have been broken. Their job boils down to layer upon layer of deception. Dr. Alan Turing is also a member of 2702, and he explains the unit's strange workings to Waterhouse. "When we want to sink a convoy, we send out an observation plane first.... Of course, to observe is not its real duty--we already know exactly where the convoy is. Its real duty is to be observed.... Then, when we come round and sink them, the Germans will not find it suspicious."

All of this secrecy resonates in the present-day story line, in which the grandchildren of the WWII heroes--inimitable programming geek Randy Waterhouse and the lovely and powerful Amy Shaftoe--team up to help create an offshore data haven in Southeast Asia and maybe uncover some gold once destined for Nazi coffers. To top off the paranoiac tone of the book, the mysterious Enoch Root, key member of Detachment 2702 and the Societas Eruditorum, pops up with an unbreakable encryption scheme left over from WWII to befuddle the 1990s protagonists with conspiratorial ties.

Cryptonomicon is vintage Stephenson from start to finish: short on plot, but long on detail so precise it's exhausting. Every page has a math problem, a quotable in-joke, an amazing idea, or a bit of sharp prose. Cryptonomicon is also packed with truly weird characters, funky tech, and crypto--all the crypto you'll ever need, in fact, not to mention all the computer jargon of the moment. A word to the wise: if you read this book in one sitting, you may die of information overload (and starvation). --Therese Littleton Book Description
With this extraordinary first volume in what promises to be an epoch-making masterpiece, Neal Stephenson hacks into the secret histories of nations and the private obsessions of men, decrypting with dazzling virtuosity the forces that shaped this century.

In 1942, Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse - mathematical genius and young Captain in the U.S. Navy - is assigned to detachment 2702. It is an outfit so secret that only a handful of people know it exists, and some of those people have names like Churchill and Roosevelt. The mission of Watrehouse and Detatchment 2702-commanded by Marine Raider Bobby Shaftoe-is to keep the Nazis ignorant of the fact that Allied Intelligence has cracked the enemy's fabled Enigma code. It is a game, a cryptographic chess match between Waterhouse and his German counterpart, translated into action by the gung-ho Shaftoe and his forces.

Fast-forward to the present, where Waterhouse's crypto-hacker grandson, Randy, is attempting to create a "data haven" in Southeast Asia - a place where encrypted data can be stored and exchanged free of repression and scrutiny. As governments and multinationals attack the endeavor, Randy joins forces with Shaftoe's tough-as-nails grandaughter, Amy, to secretly salvage a sunken Nazi sumarine that holds the key to keeping the dream of a data haven afloat. But soon their scheme brings to light a massive conspiracy with its roots in Detachment 2702 linked to an unbreakable Nazi code called Arethusa. And it will represent the path to unimaginable riches and a future of personal and digital liberty...or to universal totalitarianism reborn.

A breathtaking tour de force, and Neal Stephenson's most accomplished and affecting work to date, CRYPTONOMICON is profound and prophetic, hypnotic and hyper-driven, as it leaps forward and back between World War II and the World Wide Web, hinting all the while at a dark day-after-tomorrow. It is a work of great art, thought, and creative daring; the product of a truly iconDownload Description
In 1942, Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse - mathematical genius and young Captain in the U.S. Navy - is assigned to Detachment 2702. It is an outfit so secret that only a handful of people know it exists, and some of those people have names like Churchill and Roosevelt. The mission of Waterhouse and Detachment 2702 - commanded by Marine Raider Bobby Shaftoe - is to keep the Nazis ignorant of the fact that Allied Intelligence has cracked the enemy's fabled Enigma code. It is a game, a cryptographic chess match between Waterhouse and his German counterpart, translated into action by gung-ho Shaftoe and his forces. Fast-forward to the present, where Waterhouse's crypto-hacker grandson, Randy, is attempting to create a "data haven" in Southeast Asia - a place where encrypted data can be stored and exchanged free of repression and scrutiny. As governments and multinationals attack the endeavor, Randy joins forces with Shaftoe's tough-as-nails granddaughter, Amy, to secretly salvage a sunken Nazi submarine that holds the key to keeping the dream of a data haven afloat. But soon their scheme brings to light a massive conspiracy with its roots in Detachment 2702, linked to an unbreakable Nazi code called Arethusa. And it will represent the path to unimaginable riches and a future of personal and digital liberty...or to universal totalitarianism reborn. A breathtaking tour de force and Neal Stephenson's most accomplished and affecting work to date, Cryptonomicon is profound and prophetic, hypnotic and hyper-driven, as it leaps forward and back between World War II and the World Wide Web, hinting all the while at a dark day-after-tomorrow. It is a work of great art, thought, and creative daring; the product of a truly iconoclastic imagination working with white-hot intensity. ... Read more

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Powerful, Wonderful, Epic
A friend of mine gave me a copy of this book for Christmas.I'd never heard of the writer, but John recommended it strongly.I sat down expecting a romping science fiction book.What I got instead was an epic tale of two families from World War II through modern day (late 90's, some of the technology is a tiny bit dated) and all over the globe from England to Scandinavia to the Philippines, to Japan to the high seas in almost every hemisphere to a British protectorate country that Stephenson invented out of whole cloth that sounded so plausible I had to look it up on the Internet to make sure it didn't really exist.

It involves cryptology all the way from England against the Nazi's through very complex security for the Internet and, of all things, card games.The people are all amazing, diverse, human, complex and fully realized.

As many people have said, it ends rather abruptly, but the journey that leads up to that ending is so well worth traveling, I really don't care.This is a book that will go on my "read again and again" shelf, right next to Dalaney's Dahlgren.

Is this Science Fiction?
People keep putting Neal Stephenson's books into "science fiction". Even if they take place today, or 60 years ago. Yes I loved it, but I think his books are increasingly miscategorized.

Or perhaps there's a hidden meaning to "science fiction".

I think it's this:

In order to make a book interesting you have to make something extreme or weird or new. In many books, authors resort to making one or more characters cruel or psychologically tortured, depressed or otherwise dysfunctional.

In "science fiction", the characters are generally intellient, clever, well balanced and otherwise normal....it's just the world they inhabit that's gone arwy.

Something is only reviewed as "serious literature" if the characters are broken in some way, but if the *world* is wrong.... it's called "science fiction".Even if it takes place 40 years ago.

Cryptography front and center in WWII
My biggest question before deciding to read this book was "Will I be one of the ones that like it or am I too old to be able to follow the sidelines and the more current buzz words".Since reading this story is such a commitment of time, I want to make sure you all know my specs:I'm over 50, not a techno-geek, but I do have experience in the world of computers and software, I majored in the sciences so I've had my share of mathematics and physics.I hated math and physics but I loved this story.I do have a great deal of interest in World War II and cryptography intrigues me.I especially love a conspiracy.This book has all of that.Usually I do not like a book that rambles around tangentially to the plot line, but I went into this book knowing that with 1100 pages (PB) there would be some of that.But in this book, there is a lot of it.Most of the book takes trips into the mind of the characters away from the plot.However, that is where the gems of this book are hidden.

There has been a lot made of the Cap'n Crunch detour.I have to tell you, I loved that section.As a matter of fact, I enjoyed the book immensely.The length was long; however, saying that is similar to Kramer on Seinfield, while in a sauna, saying that "it's like a sauna in here".Of course it's long, it's over 1000 pages.If you want a short book, read a graphic novel or comic book.Many didn't like the wordiness and the off plot meandering.If you want the instant gratification of finishing a book in two days, this is probably not the book for you.Although, it only took me about 2 weeks to finish, it was never boring and I never dreaded reading any of it....Okay, I lied a little; I skipped over the bicycle sprocket explanation.But I read all of the rest.And for the most part, there are many sections that if you do not have an interest in them, skipping will not hurt you.

There were not many characters, so that part was easy to follow and the story line was interesting with more than a touch of fact.It was nicely put together and I've given it the highest ranking.I don't see where anyone could say that this book was missing character development.Any more development and the book would have been 2000 pages.

Vast saga and still captivating
So what if it is almost 1000 pages long ?
This should not discourage you, au contraire: covering the last 50 years - from WWII to the Internet, from the Nazi Enigma machine to the modern code breaking techniques, from USA to Europe to Asia, using a language that is so Stehephenson-ique - funny, but still educating, entertaining while teaching us so much.
One of the best Neal has ever produced. I wish his other books would have the same quality, but unfortunately they do not.

My Favorite Book
I'm not a 5-star freak.Very little is truly perfect, but I'm going to destroy my credibility up front by saying this is my favorite book.Ever.What makes me insane about Neal Stephenson's books is that I can't say definitavely what determines "the crack facor."In the first chapter, with the introduction of Bobby Shaftoe clinging to the side of a truck and composing haiku, I was hooked, completely addicted as to a drug.Other Stephenson books have not grabbed me as intensly, namely, and sadly, the somewhat-prequel series The Baroque Cycle.Other of his books are nearly as addictive: Diamond Age and Zodiac to name two.

This book spans decades and follows two families that become intertwined between the events of WW2 and the present day.The depths of love, death, war, math, facial hair, jungle adventure, wisdom teeth, politics, communications and every sub-topic of geekology you can imagine are plummed.I read this book the first time on a back-packing trip to South America, and carried the 12 lb trade paperback for a month after I'd read it because I hadn't found anyone who evinced enough passion over my description to be entrusted with it's ownership.It ended up with 2 kiwis who I hope gave it a good home.I've re-read it many times since and, simply, can't recommend it enough if you want to be intelligently and absorbingly entertained. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Franchising World, published by International Franchise Association on November 1, 2003. The length of the article is 889 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: How to choose a financial partner: picking the right partner can dramatically impact the growth and well-being of your business.(Finance)
Author: Neal Aronson
Publication: Franchising World (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 1, 2003
Publisher: International Franchise Association
Volume: 35Issue: 8Page: 39(2)

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