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PICTURE BOOKS
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* Addy, Sharon Hart Lucky Jake
40 pp. Houghton ISBN 978-0-618-47286-4 $17.00
(2) Illustrated by Wade Zahares. Jake and his prospector pa get a pet pig, which sets off a chain of events that leads to their prosperity. Pa talks about having good luck, but Jake believes less in luck and more in action. The sunny story is told in a deliberately deadpan, unruffled tone. The thickly applied, intensely colored pastel illustrations feature odd perspectives and deep purple shadows. Revie...
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AMPHIBIEN AN EINEM STILLGEWÄSSER IN PERU-MIT EINER ILLUSTRIERTEN CHECKLIST DER AMPHIBIEN UND REPTILIEN DES UNTEREN RÍO LLULLAPICHIS/AMPHIBIANS OF AN AMAZONIAN BLACKWATER POND IN PERU-WITH ILLUSTRATED CHECKLIST OF THE AMPHIBIANS AND REPTILES OF THE LOWER RÍO LLULLAPICHIS
Copeia
; ... of amphibians, 65 of reptiles), black and white photos (41 including amphibians, habitats, and species of rotifers), drawings, maps, tables, and audiospectograms. The unpublished dissertation of Schlter (1984) was well known not only to herpetologists in Germany ...
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Experimental set-up and characterization of a mLLDPE-PP co-extruded bilayer system.(linear low density polyethylene)
Polymer Engineering and Science
; INTRODUCTION In the 1990's, the development of metallocene catalysts (homogeneous single site catalysts) made possible the synthesis of polyolefins with structure and properties different from those of traditional Ziegler-Natta ones. The copolymers obtained by these new catalysts show well defined
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Women Rulers Throughout the Ages: An Illustrated Guide.(Review)
Journal of World History
; Women Rulers Throughout the Ages: An Illustrated Guide. By GUIDA JACKSON. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, 1999. Pp. 471. $75.00 (cloth). The idea for this book is very welcome and its scope ambitious. It is a broadly researched work, an extensive encyclopedia of information on women rulers from
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Picturing Yiddish: Gender, Identity, and Memory in the Illustrated Yiddish Books of Renaissance Italy.(Book review)
Shofar
; Picturing Yiddish: Gender, Identity, and Memory in the Illustrated Yiddish Books of Renaissance Italy, by Diane Wolfthal. Brill Series in Jewish Studies, 36. Leiden: Brill, 2004. 283 pp. $146.00. The purpose of this important study is to question a series of assumptions widespread particularly in
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Sikorsky HH-52A: An Illustrated History
Sea Power
; SIKORSKY HH-52A: An Illustrated History, by Lennart Lundh, Atglen, Pa.: Schiffer Military History, 2003. 152 pp. $35.00. ISBN: 0-7643-1782-2. Noted historian and author Lennart Lundh covers the history of the Sikorsky HH-52A, the Coast Guard's short-range rescue helicopter for almost three decades.
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THE BRIDE FROM ODESSA BY EDGARDO COZARINSKY TRANSLATED, FROM THE SPANISH, BY NICK CAISTOR FARRAR, STRAUS & GIROUX, 161 PP., $22
The Boston Globe
; Thirty years old, this young man knows that his own life will always be less interesting than the lives of those who adventured and explored before him. "It sometimes seems to me," he observes, "that my grandparents, in a pseudoheroic manner, and my parents, in an almost grotesque parody, used up
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LUCIA JOYCE: TO DANCE IN THE WAKE BY CAROL LOEB SHLOSS FARRAR, STRAUS & GIROUX, 560 PP., ILLUSTRATED, $30
The Boston Globe
; Lucia, James Joyce's daughter, was an attractive, delightful, impish child who became a talented dancer and artist as a young woman, and then declined into solitary despair, violence, and madness as she grew older. Her last 30 years were spent in an asylum. Thorough and balanced, this biography
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HATCHET JOBS BY DALE PECK NEW PRESS, 228 PP., $23.95
The Boston Globe
; "But tell us what you really think . . ." Words not likely to be uttered in the vicinity of Dale Peck, the brash young novelist-slash- critic (with the emphasis on "slash") who began one infamous review, reprinted here, with the pronouncement "Rick Moody is the worst writer of his generation." The
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THE WHITE ROSE BY JEAN HANFF KORELITZ MIRAMAX, 407 PP., $24.95
The Boston Globe
; Within the comic plot of this lighthearted novel lies a weightier theme. Having played around with disguises, cross-dressing, and self- delusion, the characters happily gain the prize of self-knowledge. Marian, a middle-aged author and professor, surprises herself by falling in love with Oliver, a
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DARWIN AND THE BARNACLE: THE STORY OF ONE TINY CREATURE AND HISTORY'S MOST SPECTACULAR SCIENTIFIC BREAKTHROUGH BY REBECCA STOTT NORTON, 256 PP., ILLUSTRATED, $24.95
The Boston Globe
; In 1844, Darwin had sketched out his theory on the origin of the species by natural selection. He kept this theory to himself until he had sufficient evidence to support it and sufficient credibility in the scientific community to support him. (It was not published until 1859.) His evidence came
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