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Max leads a double life. O some, he¹s Josh McGrath, college student with a passion for extreme sports. To others, he¹s Max Steel, secret agent.Accidentally infected with nanoprobes, Max is the first technologically enhanced human. He¹s capable of amazing acts of strength, speed, healing, and disguise.As a super-agent, Max travels the world with a group of agents known as Team Steel. Their aim is to capture the bad guys, of course, but don¹t expect them to do it in any ordinary way! Max still loves extreme sports, and his new abilities let him use his athleticism to the max! ... Read more

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Max leads a double life. O some, he¹s Josh McGrath, college student with a passion for extreme sports. To others, he¹s Max Steel, secret agent.Accidentally infected with nanoprobes, Maxis the first technologically enhanced human. He¹s capable of amazing acts of strength, speed, healing, and disguise.As a super-agent, Max travels the world with a group of agents known as Team Steel. Their aim is to capture the bad guys, of course, but don¹t expect them to do it in any ordinary way! Max still loves extreme sports, and his new abilities let him use his athleticism to the max! ... Read more

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The boreal forest of Quebec/Labrador - some of the most rugged and isolated land in Canada - has captivated avid canoeists for generations. In the latter 19th and early 20th centuries, the intrepid A P Low of the Geological Survey of Canada spent, in total, more than ten years of his working life surveying the area. Employing Aboriginal canoemen and guides, he travelled by canoe, snowshoe and sailing vessel to map and document much of this vast territory. Challenged by the mystique of this extraordinary Canadian, canoeists Max Finkelstein and James Stone retraced Low's routes - by their admission, their toughest canoe trip ever! Using archival sources, oral history and personal experience, they tell the story of A P Low and, in the process, reveal the environmental issues now facing this much threatened Canadian wilderness. ... Read more

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Following the Low path
See Max morosely viewing the map on the floor.See Max glance forlornly at his paddling partner, Jim Stone.Hear Max exclaiming, "We're lost!And we haven't left the house yet!"It's easy to sympathise with Max Finkelstein's distress.He and Stone have set themselves a daunting task.They intend following the path of one of Canada's "iron men", A. P. Low, who explored the vastness of Northern Quebec at the end of the 19th Century.Adding to the usual problems of preparations for the journey, the vagaries of Canadian sub-Arctic weather, and the endless supply of stinging or biting insects, the pair face one condition Low wouldn't have dreamt of - some of the rivers don't run the same direction any longer.

In this fine account of Albert Peter Low's travels in the northern boreal forest, Finkelstein and Stone use an unusual technique.They retell Low's records of exploration, following with their attempts to trace the trail he left.They have one great advantage.Low thoroughly recorded and mapped what he saw and where he traversed.The great disadvantage is that Low left virtually nothing of himself in the annals of Canadian explorers.The chance of bringing A. P. Low "to life", a major factor in any author's attempt to capture a subject, thus eludes these biographers. Yet, as you read this book, you'll see that you're not dealing with but "half a man".

Canoe trips are part of the weave of Canadian history.The voyageurs who brought furs from the upper Great Lakes are honoured by a bus line.Their route, however, quickly became a commute - arduous and not without peril - but the unknown was dispensed with after a few trips.A. P. Low's journeys were nearly all into territory unfamiliar to the "white" European-derived population of urban Canada.He followed rivers on the Quebec-Labrador border, scouting for timber, minerals and potential agricultural sites.He utilised whatever resources he encountered.Aboriginal guides told him of their fur-trade and hunting routes.Hudson Bay Company factories [trading posts] provided records.Low, however, merely used these aids as pointers.It was important to him to see for himself.For Finkelstein and Stone, it was important to trace his paddling and his steps.How they accomplished that makes for highly entertaining reading.

Although they had every modern convenience at their command, the authors found matchingLow's pace through the forests and along the rivers a distinct challenge.Weather wasn't cooperative, although it seems little different than in Low's day.Fires, a frequent occurrence in the spruce forests, sometimes left trees toppled across the trail.That's assuming the portage was visible at all.In a delightful aberration, they recount a live interview for a CBC programme using a cell 'phone.Another device, a Global Positioning System unit, was occasionally dug from the pack, only to be apparently thwarted by heavy cloud!Finkelstein develops what canoeists delicately refer to as "diaper rash", and nauseates himself by adding the wrong "creamer" to his morning coffee.

There is another, more meaningful aspect of their journeys, however.All those rushing streams, the wildlife depending on them and the Cree who have inhabited these lands for millennia, are under threat.The Quebec government, declaring that the James Bay region must be "conquered" is diverting the rivers to feed the maws of hydro-electric generators.Finkelstein is vividly aware of what the diversion of waters will mean as he travels the Rupert River with paddling partner Alain Filion.There's more than backward-running streams, however.He knows what impact the James Bay Project has had on the Cree peoples.The building of houses and introduction of packaged food has significantly transformed their lifeways.Finkelstein asks "are the economic benefits worth the social turmoil" and emerging health problems.These are questions, he reminds us, that not only the Cree, but all North Americans must ask themselves. [stephen a. haines - Ottawa, Canada] ... Read more

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Some friends should never move in together, but these two do. This novel is about Max and Murray two 23-year-old guys who drink and smoke too much and their hilarious attempt to share a flat and get a life. ... Read more

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Throughout the country, historic preservation has become a veritable industry. In New York City alone, the preservation movement has acquired a great deal of power, saving numerous edifices from the wrecking ball. New York is not alone, across the country, grassroots movements to preserve various aspects of the nation's past-Indian burial grounds, slave quarters and deco buildings.In this volume, some of the best figures in the field have come together to write on preservation movements Giving Preservation a History also touches on the European roots of the historic preservation movement; on how preservation movements have taken a leading role in shaping American urban space and urban development; how historic preservation battles have reflected broader social forces; and what the changing nature of historic preservation bodes for the effort to preserve the nation's past. ... Read more

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NOT A CD! THIS IS THE AUDIOTAPE CASSETTE OF 2 SCREEN DIRCTORS' PLAYHOUSE RADIO PROGRAMS OF 1949! 1) THE EXILE (1/23/1949) FEATURING DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS JR. (REPRISING HIS ORIGINAL MOVIE ROLE) AND INTRODUCED BY ORIGINAL DIRECTOR MAX OPHULS. 2) MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION (2/13/1949) FEATURING IRENE DUNNE (REPRISING HER ORIGINAL 1935 MOVIE ROLE) AND INTRODUCED BY ORIGINAL DIRECTOR (OF THE 1935 MOVIE) JOHN M. STAHL. 1994 METACOM INC./BLOCKBUSTER/RADIO SPUIRITS #J124. APPROX. 60 MIN. PLAYING TIME. ... Read more

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Chapters: Herbert Simon, William Vickrey, Henry George, Max Hirsch, Raymond Crotty, Fred E. Foldvary, Mason Gaffney, Nicolaus Tideman. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 49. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Herbert Simon -Herbert Alexander Simon was born into a Jewish family in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on June 15, 1916. His father, Arthur Simon (18811948) was an electrical engineer who had come to the United States from Germany in 1903 after earning his engineering degree from the Technische Hochschule of Darmstadt. Arthur, an inventor who was granted "several dozen patents", was also an independent patent attorney. Herbert's mother, Edna Marguerite Merkel, was an accomplished pianist whose ancestors had come from Prague and Cologne. Herbert's European ancestors had been piano makers, goldsmiths, and vintners. Herbert Simon was educated as a child in the public school system in Milwaukee where he developed an interest in science. He found schoolwork to be interesting but rather easy. Unlike many children, Simon was exposed to the idea that human behavior could be studied scientifically at a relatively young age due to the influence of his mothers younger brother, Harold Merkel, who had studied economics at the University of WisconsinMadison under John R. Commons. Through his uncles books on economics and psychology, Simon discovered the social sciences. Simon received both his B.A. (1936) and his Ph.D. (1943) in political science, from the University of Chicago, where he studied under Harold Lasswell and Charles Edward Merriam. Among his earliest influences, Simon has cited Richard Elys economics textbook, Norman Angells The Great Illusion, and Henry Georges Progress and Poverty. In 1933, Simon entered the University of Chicago, and following those early influences, he studied the socia...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=14205 ... Read more