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This digital document is an article from Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association, published by Thomson Gale on October 1, 2007. The length of the article is 13375 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: Will the circle be unbroken: a history of the U.S. National Ambient Air Quality Standards.(CRITICAL REVIEW DISCUSSION)(Report)
Author: Judith C. Chow
Publication: Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 1, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 57Issue: 10Page: 1151(13)

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casca the eternal mercenary
Awsome, I have read all of Berry Sadlers Casca Books and found myself not being able to put them down.Just wish someone would make a move of the whole collection.

William

Awesome must have
This book is great. I can't put it down. It is an easy read and the chapters are fairly short. The paperback is about 250pgs. I can't say enough good about this book. Please, check it out you will not be disappointed. ... Read more

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This digital document is a journal article from Biological Conservation, published by Elsevier in 2005. 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 small Cape mountain zebra population in Gamka Mountain Nature Reserve represents a third of the entire gene pool of this endangered species and is thus vital for it's conservation. Presently, management of this population is largely hands off, with the belief that it will grow to levels which will allow it to form a source for the mixing of mountain zebra stocks in the future. The growth of this population however, has been slow and we investigated the influence of habitat and fire on this growth. Firstly, we used a diffusion model to perform a population viability analysis. This analysis indicated that the population had a low probability of attaining quasi-extinction in the next 50 years (G=0.0032). However, our findings indicated that less than 30% of the reserve was suitable for mountain zebra and that the preferred habitat would have to be burnt at unnaturally short intervals to sustain the present growth. We therefore argue that the risk of quasi-extinction to this population is greater than predicted and suggest that management options need to be implemented to reduce this risk. These options include; translocation to another protected area; acquisition of adjacent land; burning preferred habitat at unnaturally short intervals; forming a conservancy with adjacent landowners; leasing cultivated land for pasture. We suggest that only the latter two options are likely to stimulate mountain zebra population growth in the short term and that these should receive immediate attention. ... Read more

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Original Fiction by Masters of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and suspense Original Fiction by Masters of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and suspense ... Read more

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A Fantastic Anthology of Short Stories!
I was really impressed with this anthology of morbid short stories themed around tombs and the macabre of death. Forrest J. Ackerman introduced the book to us. It's not for everybody. It's kind for an audience who prefers science fiction, horror, and thriller to melodrama. Some of the material is not for children or for squeamish adults.

The Contents Read as Follows:
Tomb Swift by Forrest J. Ackermman
In trust: Ben Bova
The Amber Room: Ian Watson (One of my personal favorites)
THe Butterfuly Effect: Kathleen Ann Noonan (remember the AShton Kutcher movie, I wonder if it's the same story.)
Epistrophy: Michael Bishop
No Ordinary Christians:
White Lady's Grave: Lisa Tuttle
Burial at Sea: Larry Bond & Chris Carlson (about a submarine's final voyage, another good story,)
The Unchained:Kathe Koja, Barry Z. Malberg (one of my favorites about a gay man dying and his partner in the hospital)
The Time Garden: Ian McDonald
He on Honeydew: Stewar Von Allmen
City Deep: Jeremy Dyson (a great story about the London underground.)
But None I Think Do There Embrace: S.P. Somtow
Tales of Brittanica Castle: Christopher Fowler (another great story about a woman who wants to be free but can't because of her family's past)
Heartfires: Charles De Lint
Drowning with Others: Gary A. Braunbeck( a sad, disturbing tale about a brother's strange relationship with his younger sister.)
Station of the Cross: Colin Greenland
Queen of Knives: Neil Gaiman
God's Bright Little Engine: Stephen Gallagher
The Darkest Doctrine: Brad Linaweaver (another personal favorite about the truth below the Vatican.)
The Land of the Reflected Ones: Nancy A. Collins
The Temptation of Wilfred Malachey: William F. Buckley Jr.
Blue Flame of a Candle: Storm Constantine

So-so
Some good stories, some truly bad, but nothing really stands out. There's nothing really to say more than that, since it's an anthology--read the ones you like, skip the others. Some of the good ones--"White Lady's Grave" and the one about the Church and the dying businessman (can't remember title). The others were either okay or completely a waste of time, but having just read "The Earth Strikes Back", even the worst ones looked okay. I'm not sure if you'd want to spend your money on this--it's not that good, so why not borrow it from a library?

Average Anthology
I don't read too many anthologies. Certainly, this one will only inspire a moderate amount of enthusiasm for me to go buy more.

It's published by White Wolf, which also is responsible for highly successful and intricately detailed RPGs such as Vampire: The Masquerade and Werewolf: The Apocalypse. (One of the weaker stories in the collection is by Steward von Allmen, who appears to be a key White Wolf founder.) I believe I picked this book up at GenCon; it's now out of print.

The anthology starts off very unpromisingly, with an embarrassing little number from beloved sci-fi/fantasy/horror fan Forrest J. Ackerman. This is the lowest point of the book, but luckily it rebounds from there. Ben Bova offers a story that has a perfect "Twilight Zone" twist, and Michael Moorcock tosses in an excursion to his Eternal Champion milieu in a tale that has a bit of an "English Patient" flavor to it. Ian McDonald in "The Time Garden" gives us an enchanting and lyrical exploration along the border of Faerie in a story that is reminiscent of the works of Robert Holdstock. (I believe, in fact, this may be why the basic Amazon review shown above claims that Holdstock is a contributor to the anthology, when in fact he is not.)

Jeremy Dyson's "City Deep" is another macabre tale with a dark cinematic flair such as would be found in one of the TV anthology shows. Two other stories are almost poetically elegant yet starkly simple: Charles de Lint's "Heartfires", about wandering Native American spirits losing their way in the present-day U.S., and Stephen Gallagher's "God's Bright Little Engine", with its beautiful and haunting ending. The story provided by Storm Constantine, "Blue Flame of a Candle", while not entirely successful, is nonetheless packed with intricate detail and manages to create a rich history with merely a few suggestions.

Other stories are much less powerful. The joint effort by Kathe Koja and Barry Malzberg is frankly unreadable, while that of Larry Bond and Chris Carlson is at best workmanlike and much more suited for a military-themed collection. Other stories are plain silly or sadly bland. The one by William F. Buckley (!) can only be considered an interesting experiment. Ian Watson's "The Amber Room" never comes together, and Christopher Fowler's "Tales of Britannica Castle" reads like a pointless pastiche of "Gormenghast".

While there is indeed good material to be found here, the lesser works really drag down the overall level of quality. A few of them should just have been jettisoned to save the rest.

Still, this is a suitable sampler for some authors who are rarely seen, and it definitely shows that some, such as Gallagher and McDonald, are worth following. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Semana, published by Spanish Publications, Inc. on March 15, 2002. The length of the article is 653 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: Un relajante de 94 minutos.(Sorority Boys)(TT: Ninety-four minutes of fun.)(TA: Sorority Boys)(Reseña)
Publication: Semana (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 15, 2002
Publisher: Spanish Publications, Inc.
Volume: 8Issue: 472Page: 40

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God Of Death Book#2
Sorry I can't review this, because the person I was to purchase it from found out they didn't have it in stock.So I got a refund.

This twice this has happended, not with the same person but two others.

Better record keeping may help.

William

Heart stopping
I have always enjoyed picking up a new Casca book, and not knowing where Barry was going to take me. Casca has a flash of megalomania in this book, and wishes to make another immortal, one that will share eternity with him on this earth. I won't give it away, but not everything goes as he plans.
Barry brings us back to a time when human sacrifices where not only done, but those being sacrificed where treated as honored. Another fine story that deals with the pains of his curse.

Classic Casca!
This series belongs to those classics such as Robert E. Howard's Conan saga, or Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan. Casca is both memorable and one of a kind anti-hero.

God of Death proves that. High octane action and aventure on a cinematic scale seldom seen. A must read for anyone, both male or female.

EXCELLENT CONTINUATION OF THE STORY
This is the second book of Sadler's Casca Series.As with several of the other books in this series, it is not in absolute chronological order.You have to keep reading the series and put the chronology in order yourself.This is okay though and does not distract from the story one bit.This is classical Sadler stuff.The story line hold true and Casca remains Casca.The story concerns his voyage to the new world with members of his Norse group.Each page is filled with typical Sadler action and can truely be classified as a page turner.I am a Sadler fan and do feel this was one of the better stories in the servies...everyone has their favorite though.Recommend this one highly.

Casca The God of Death
The second book of the series, but oddly the third chronologically, follows on from the Barbarian and tells of the voyage of Casca and his vikings across the ocean to Central America where Casca becomes at first a captive of the ancient Teotec peoples.

After surviving a sacrifice he becomes revered as a god and helps win his people a war, but at a cost.For those who wish to find out more, please read this book as its one of the best in the series.

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The first of two books written for the VCE Specialist Mathematics course. It covers the relevant prescribed content and, in addition, some clearly identified extension material that is useful background for tertiary mathematics courses. ... Read more

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This is the second of the two books written for the VCE Specialist Mathematics course. Each book covers the relevant prescribed content and some clearly identified extension material useful for tertiary mathematics courses. ... Read more