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Where is the rest of my book?.......2006-06-02
I wish I did not go through the trouble of ordering from this seller...half of the book is missing!! This seller is misleading with their information in the description of what you are purchasing.
Less than half the book!.......2005-10-08
Be careful! There is nothing in the product description that would alert you to the fact that if you order this "custom core edition" you only get the first 17 chapters.
Awesome Business.......2005-06-10
Really fast delivery. About 2 days. Good communication between the buyer and seller. Brand new book for the fraction of the cost. Thanks
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Richard Alley, one of the world's leading climate researchers, tells the fascinating history of global climate changes as revealed by reading the annual rings of ice from cores drilled in Greenland. In the 1990s he and his colleagues made headlines with the discovery that the last ice age came to an abrupt end over a period of only three years. Here Alley offers the first popular account of the wildly fluctuating climate that characterized most of prehistory--long deep freezes alternating briefly with mild conditions--and explains that we humans have experienced an unusually temperate climate. But, he warns, our comfortable environment could come to an end in a matter of years.
The Two-Mile Time Machine begins with the story behind the extensive research in Greenland in the early 1990s, when scientists were beginning to discover ancient ice as an archive of critical information about the climate. Drilling down two miles into the ice, they found atmospheric chemicals and dust that enabled them to construct a record of such phenomena as wind patterns and precipitation over the past 110,000 years. The record suggests that "switches" as well as "dials" control the earth's climate, affecting, for example, hot ocean currents that today enable roses to grow in Europe farther north than polar bears grow in Canada. Throughout most of history, these currents switched on and off repeatedly (due partly to collapsing ice sheets), throwing much of the world from hot to icy and back again in as little as a few years.
Alley explains the discovery process in terms the general reader can understand, while laying out the issues that require further study: What are the mechanisms that turn these dials and flip these switches? Is the earth due for another drastic change, one that will reconfigure coastlines or send certain regions into severe drought? Will global warming combine with natural variations in Earth's orbit to flip the North Atlantic switch again? Predicting the long-term climate is one of the greatest challenges facing scientists in the twenty-first century, and Alley tells us what we need to know in order to understand and perhaps overcome climate changes in the future.
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The Two-Mile Time Machine.......2007-10-09
This is the book that every ill informed environmental and agenda driven policy wonk should read regarding climate. It is very readable; explains the science of weather and climate (They are two different things), and presents very thought provoking and serious issues. The point of millions of research dollars and tens of thousands of hours of research and study is that what we are experiencing today is not the norm. Humans, for the last ten thousand years, have had the luxury of an unusally stable and begnin climate with only minor weather disturbances as opposed to wildly changing climates of the past. The wild climate changes shift quickly rather than over thousands of years and very likely will do so again. Yes humans contribute some gases to the atmosphere (Carbon being the one most targeted), but water vaper is the biggest greenhouse gas with methane number three. Do we get rid of them too? The point is, that as the earth climate continues to warm (And it will do so without our help)there is only one climate response, and that is a quick return to deep cold (And cold lasts longer than warm), how do we prepare for wild climate swings? How many millions of people will be dislocated by continued warming and then sever cold? How much more energy will be needed to survive longer winters and cold that reaches further south than human history recalls? Where do we grow the food to feed the billions of us?
Excellent Book.......2007-01-10
Richard B. Alley can spin a good yarn. The book was very enlighting, I enjoyed the professional script. My hat's off to him & wish him luck in his future endeavors regarding the issues of past climates.
Time Traveler.......2006-09-12
Is global climate change a threat to humanity? Our best evidence comes from an uninterrupted 2-mile ice core taken from the Greenland ice pack. A pristine record of climate events over the last 110,000 years is displayed as delicate annual ice layers containing trapped atmospheric glasses, volcanic ash, pollen, lead levels, and isotope ratios. Dr. Alley's personal involvement in the project gives insight into the hardships and technical hurdles faced by scientists collecting this remarkable ice core. He does a good job of describing the intricate science that leads to a startling forecast -- our peaceful-appearing world is actually subject to wildly gyrating climate changes that can swing 40 degrees within a few years. During the last few millennia, have we have enjoyed a period of anomalous warm stability almost unprecedented in the 110,000 record of the ice core -- a happy condition that could suddenly end due to greenhouse warming from human industrialization. Within the space of a few years, high temperatures could melt the antarctic, flood our shorelines, and stall the gulf stream that brings warm tropical water to the British Isles. By the last half of the century, England might be buried under glaciers, and the distribution of our world's deserts and rain forests could be reshaped by chaotic, planet-wrecking storms. Science fiction? Not according to Dr. Alley -- whose ice cores show many similar events throughout history. The last half of Dr. Alley's book seems less interesting than the first -- perhaps because of his scientific hesitation at predicting what will really happen. The vast cost, the loss of biodiversity, and the potential threat to human lives -- or even our civilization -- is left mostly to the reader's imagination. Nevertheless one fact is clear -- we are riding a climate roller coaster that may soon start to take some sickening dips -- and the key to our survival may be locked within quiet, blue layers buried deep within the Greenland ice mass. -- Auralgo
Want to understand climate change?.......2006-04-12
In contrast to some other reviewers, I did NOT find this book a big yawn. I was fascinated by the exposition of how conclusions can be drawn about climate change. Alley briefly explains several different methods, but goes into detail on how ice cores can be used to make educated guesses about past climate. Very simply, every year there is a new layer on top of the Greenland glacier that can be analyzed chemically and differences in the chemical makeup of the layer reflect differences in the underlying climate (temperature).
I found the book fascinating, although it reads somewhat like a textbook rather than a story. However, my purpose in reading it was to try to understand for myself how conclusions on climate change are being reached, and the book fills that purpose admirably.
What happened?.......2005-05-21
Alley created an excellent Scientific American article ("Abrupt Climate Change", November 2004, available online) in terms of information and engaging writing style. His "Time Machine", though occasionally informative, reads like a slow elementary-school or sagacious politician's overview. "Many clever people are studying things in ice, and learning many things." Yawn. Maybe this was his intent, though nowhere are we forewarned. He's best when reporting his personal adventures in the ice core data recovery field he's part of. A crucial hinge in the unfolding "climate change" arena - what we used to call "global warning" until PR firms (minions of political parties and conglomerates, generously applying political correctness) changed the name to sound less ominous. This book is not about the most recent GRIP, Greenland Ice Core Project, cataloging 123,000 years of earth's atmospheric history in that region (and some 2 million year old plants to boot). It does reveal findings of a previous drilling - good for 110 millennia - and the Vostok ice core, extending back about 450,000 years. (Take that Creationists.)
These cores read like pages in a book, one year's ice layer piled atop another, trapping gases, dust and aerosols in each. According to Alley (repeated by Brian Fagan) the good news is, compared to previous interglacial warming periods, we humans have been remarkably lucky during the Holocene, the last 12,000 years (since the invention of agriculture), with relatively stable climate, except for a few major hiccups. The bad news is plural. Contrary to opinions, measurable, repeatable data shows we have among the highest concentrations of CO2 in these recorded histories; The thermohaline circulation (the ocean's equator-to-pole hot/cold exchange system) is a smoking gun in massive change (which according to NOAA data is shutting down via ice melt freshening); And the biggest news of all - ice cores show dramatic, even catastrophic climate shift, as Alley writes, "in less time than it takes it get a college degree". Oops. Apparently nature has a threshold. Once tripped, it's a long ride back - about a hundred thousand years. Such audacity nature has to act in a nonlinear fashion is inexcusable.
But nature and man are not without their ironies. While politicians, conglomerates and talk show hosts paint their rosy picture of longer summers on the beach (ignoring these beaches may be under water) or flourishing plant life in CO2-rich atmospheres (ignoring they may be fried in heat and dryness), as it turns out ice ages are triggered by warming. Standby. Exciting times coming, except nobody knows when. The Pentagon considers global warming a national security risk (at least enough to fund a study) - though to what generation? We'll keep rolling the dice, but at least Alley is trying to sound the alarm. Unfortunately, to the world's biggest offender, we heard all this in the Sixties, then tried to change the world by collecting litter on Earth Day - that's been a thousand fads ago. Nobody's listening.
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This book is built on a steadfast tradition of accurate science, engaging presentation and media innovation. The readers' experience is enhanced with the new MediaTutor CD-ROM that is integrated into each chapter through the use of MediaTutor Tabs. The result is a program that helps you draw readers into biology through an engaging text and interactive media. This book focuses on the key concepts of cell biology, genetics, evolution, plant and animal anatomy and physiology, and ecology. For anyone interested in introductory biology.
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Life on Earth.......2007-02-18
I thought I was getting the actual book NOT the studyguide. I was completely disapointed in the lack of explanation as to what I was ordering before i ordered it. I want to return the study guide since it is of NO use to me, not even in conjunction with the book, but I lost the reciept so I guess I am stuck with it.
Great intro book!.......2004-08-19
This book is for those wanting an easy reading introduction. Its very informative, well put together and easy to follow with adequate graphics. (I hated the questions at the end of each chapter though, ok lets face it they were easy you just had to really think about them).
I wouldn't recommend for a biology buff but definitely all others!
HARD TO FOLLOW.......2004-07-27
I just finished my biology class with this text book. Over all I was very disappointed in this book. I read each chapter that was assigned to us by the professor and worked my study guides but still came out of the each chapter more confused. With the jargon they put in this text book it doesn't do the student any favors in the layouts you will need to spend time to investigate some of the information on your own to obtain a better understanding of BIOLOGY.
An easy-to-read book that still avoids over-simplification.......1999-03-26
Although Life on Earth is meant to be a textbook, I find it to be an excellent reference book. The design does not force the reader to begin at the first chapter and read sequentially. Terms are explained in clear english, and the glossary is very thorough. Illustrations are well-drawn and fitting, and the layout is easy on the eyes. Also, the chapter summary after each section is invaulable to students. I cannot recommend this book more to anyone who is interested in Biology or needs a reference book about the workings of life on Earth.
easy to understand.......1998-07-10
This book was easy to follow. Unlike a a lot of other books, it does not throw a bunch of terms you dont understand at you.
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For instructors wanting all the detail of METEOROLOGY TODAY, but that don't have time to cover all of the chapters, the new "core version" includes only the first sixteen chapters of the text, eliminating the chapters on air pollution, global climate, and light and atmospheric optics. If there is a better organization to more perfectly suit your course, the text can be further customized using TextChoice, the Thomson Custom Solution. Contact your local Thomson representative to learn more.
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This book provides concise, up-to-date and easy-to-follow information on certain aspects of an ever important research area: multiphase flow in porous media. This flow type is of great significance in many petroleum and environmental engineering problems, such as in secondary and tertiary oil recovery, subsurface remediation and CO2 sequestration. This book contains a collection of selected papers (all refereed) from a number of well-known experts on multiphase flow. The papers describe both recent and state-of-the-art modeling and experimental techniques for study of multiphase flow phenomena in porous media. Specifically, the book analyses three advanced topics: upscaling, pore-scale modeling, and dynamic effects in multiphase flow in porous media. This will be an invaluable reference for the development of new theories and computer-based modeling techniques for solving realistic multiphase flow problems. Part of this book has already been published in a journal. Audience This book will be of interest to academics, researchers and consultants working in the area of flow in porous media.
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Five hundred miles beneath the earth's surface lies a fantastic, timeless world of eternal daylight, prehistoric beasts, and primeval peoples-Pellucidar. Pellucidar is a world within our world, a place where the horizon curves upward and merges with the sky. Here time stands still, for Pellucidar is illuminated by a miniature sun that never sets but hovers motionless in the sky. Scattered throughout the savage, prehistoric wilderness are communities of distrustful humans and the cities of the reptilian, highly evolved Mahars. David Innes and Abner Perry break through into this mysterious inner world. Their discovery of Pellucidar and the ensuing struggle to unite the human communities and overthrow the Mahars is a top-notch, thrilling tale of conquest, deceit, and wonder. This commemorative edition features an introduction by Gregory A. Benford and an afterword on the science of At the Earth's Core by Phillip R. Burger. Also included are a map of Pellucidar, a glossary of terms and names by Scott Tracy Griffin, a contemporary review, and the classic J. Allen St. John illustrations. Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) is the legendary author of dozens of novels, including The Land That Time Forgot, also available in a Bison Frontiers of Imagination edition. Gregory A. Benford is a celebrated science fiction writer and a professor of physics at the University of California, Irvine. His most recent novel is Cosm. Phillip R. Burger is associate editor of The Burroughs Bulletin.
Customer Reviews:
into the depths.......2007-05-23
I have always been a fan of ERB since I was about twelve. I am over fifty.
As an adult one realizes that ERB might not get published today. His books are simple good vs. evil tales that still have the power to ring your heart with his prose. At the Earth's core was not his best series nor his worst The Venus ones hold that distinction I think. Probably the best book in the series is Tarzan at the Earth's core. This volume is a good introduction and once you have read it you can decide whether to read any of the other's you probably will!
Bill Hash author of AMRA availble through amzon.com
inside the earth.......2007-05-15
outstanding! what a story...the characters were so real that as i read the book i was right along side David and the Professor in their journey to the center of the earth... great reading!..
Welcome to Pellucidar.......2007-04-20
This is the first book in Edgar Rice Burroughs' "Pellucidar" series. After the standard *how I came to know this story* bit, it doesn't take long to get straight into the action. The heroes are an athletic and wealthy young man (David Innes) and an inventive old fellow (Abner Perry). Perry has invented a wonderful digging machine... that gets locked on course. Thus the two men wind up... At The Earth's Core!
They are no sooner in this strange land than they incounter megatheria, ape-men with prehensile tales, ape-men without tales, intelligent pterosaurs, cavemen whose favorite greeting is "I kill!" and the lovely Dian (a wonderful cavegirl with a rather ordinary name). Can they escape with their lives, save Dian, and free the human race from the heartless reptilian overlords?
There are some continuity errors (blame it on the weird timelessness?) and I think the next book in the series is better, but this one is good. Well worth reading, and I've bought it, loaned it, didn't get it back, and gotten it for Christmas.
Through Time and Space With Edgar Rice Burroughs.......2006-08-16
There have been a number of well written citiques of scientific blunders in the writings of Edgar Rice Burroughs. David Langford (1982) makes a convincing case that the notion of a hollow Earth had long been discredited by scientists when Burroughs published the first Pellucidar novel in 1914. Nor does Burroughs seem to have followed any single pseudo-scientific scenario very closely. His "research" was probably limited to a few newspaper and popular magazine articles.
But in _The Trillion Year Spree_ (1986), Brian W. Aldiss argues that such scientific criticism is not relevant in an an evaluation of the settings of Edgar Rice Burroughs. Burroughs "is not interested in the facts of the external world" (163). Rather, he is "reporting from his own internal Pellucidar. Burroughs's Mars, like Ray Bradbury's later Mars, reports on areas which cannot be scrutinized through any telescope" (163). Burroughs "wants us to identify, to sink into his dream countries and exclude the outside one" (165).
Well, then. What are the basic characteristics of this internal Pellucidar? It is a retreat to the primitive. Mars, Pellucidar, Venus, and Africa are all low-tech worlds. It is a rejection of urban culture, something of a protest against the rising urbanization and population growth of the time. It was conservative, offering mythic extensions of the Americain west at precisely the same time that the Old West was closing off. And it was anti-intellectual and somewhat irrational in nature. Burroughs frequently praised the common sense of soldiers, fighting men and "common people" and satirized the follies of scientists. (In _At the Earth's Core_, the inventor Abner Perry is portrayed as loveable but foolish.)
This anti-intellectualism may be seen in Burroughs's treatment of the concepts of space and time in _At the Earth's Core_. Space is distorted in several of Burroughs's settings, but certainly the most spectacular example is the horizonless world of Pellucidar. Here is David Innes's first view of it:
As far as the eye could reach out the sea continued and upon its bosom floated tiny islands, those in the distance reduced to mere specks; but ever beyond them was the sea, until the impression became quite real that one was _looking up_ at the most distant point that the eyes could fathom-- the distance was lost in the distance. (20)
While Pellucidar is actually limited in size, it does not _appear_ to be limited. One of the effects of a horizonless world is that it has no visible boundaries. The sense of disorientation that characters feel in this world gives the reader a sense that it is virtually unmappable. Finally, Burroughs uses a simple but effective trick with Pellucidar to make it appear bigger: He makes Pellucidar three quarters land and one quarter water. Thus, while the total area of Pellucidar is really smaller than the surface area of Earth, the total _land_ area is greater. The reader is convinced that there is in fact an almost unending frontier inside the Earth.
In Pellucidar, time is also distorted (as it is in other Burroughs settings as well). In Pellucidar, the sun at the center of the Earth keeps Pellucidar in perpetual daylight. Since there are no cycles of night and day, Burroughs claims that this results in a world of variable time. (This is sort of like arguing that if the clocks have stopped in your house, so has the passage of time.) Two characters may separate and then rejoin one another. For one character, months may have passed, while for another only hours have passed. Yet Burroughs does not simply claim that time is relative in Pellucidar. He has Innes assert that it is nonexistant. "How may one measure time," he asks, "where time does not exist!" (39)
Why these treatments of time and space? First, I think it is to satirize the rationalism of those egghead scientists. See how ridiculous their theories really are! Second, I believe that it is a bit of a revolt against the Protestant work ethic and factory schedules. But mostly,I think it is to create a world in which heroes and heroines can remain perpetually young, vigorous, and attractive. The new frontier of Burroughs is a kind of perpetual preadolescent state.
Aldiss's attack on scientific critiques of Burroughs has some justification. Surely it is not terribly important at this late date to demonstrate that his work was full of scientific errors. But it _does_ seem reasonable to ask questions regarding Burroughs's logic in the development of his setting. He was reasonably effective in playing tricks with the reader's sense of space. But he was content to use only a few rhetorical tricks in order to suspend the laws of time. His treatment of time must be considered a weakness in his setting.
A strange world.......2006-06-22
This is another one of Edgar Rice Burroughs' "scientific romances". Many early sci-fi writers wrote "Hollow Earth" stories, about civilizations in the center of the Earth. This is ERB's take on that. It is a totally implausible story, but it's darn entertaining. A young man and an old man travel to the center of the Earth by way of a digging machine. There they encounter prehistoric humans, dinosaurs and a race of intelligent reptiles. This being Burroughs, the young man naturally meets a beautiful cave girl and falls in love. It's an entertaining read, especially if you like pulp fiction.
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At the Earth's Core, return to the world of Pellucidar—an exotic, savage land at the center of the Earth, an untamed wilderness where the sun never sets. When American explorer David Innes first discovered Pellucidar, he fell under the spell of the strange world, earning the respect of many, the undying hatred of a few, and the love of the beautiful Dian. Torn from her arms by trickery, Innes vows revenge and returns to the Inner World to seek his lost love.
Innes breaks through the earth's outer crust, far from his beloved, and is forced to cross a fierce, unyielding world to reach her. Innes's epic journey through the many strange lands of Pellucidar, including the Land of Awful Shadow, which lies beneath the brilliantly conceived pendant moon, and his heart-pounding encounters with prehistoric beasts and strange peoples makes Pellucidar one of Edgar Rice Burroughs's most rousing adventures.
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Our trip through the earth's crust was but a repetition of my two former journeys between the inner and the outer worlds. This time, however, I imagine that we must have maintained a more nearly perpendicular course, for we accomplished the journey in a few min- utes' less time than upon the occasion of my first journey through the five-hundred-mile crust. Just a trifle less than seventy-two hours after our departure into the sands of the Sahara, we broke through the surface of Pellucidar.
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Even better than the first book........2007-04-20
This is the sequel to At The Earth's Core. Some of the reviews here say that it isn't quite as good as the first. I happen to think that it's a little bit better. Burroughs seems to avoid some of the continuity errors he made in the first book, and really it's quite a worthy addition to any adventure-reader's library.
Leonaur Ltd. is publishing the definitive Edgar Rice Burroughs 21st century editions........2007-04-13
Leonaur Ltd. is publishing the definitive Edgar Rice Burroughs 21st century editions. These usually contain 2 books of the different ERB major series in order - thus far John Carter, Pellucidar, and Carson of Venus. In the future, possibly Tarzan!
These books are handsome and my rating is mainly based on this - the ERB fan knows best about the rest of it.
This second volume of Pellucidar novels reflects a sharp drop in quality form the first. Nevertheless, for completists, this beautiful edition is a must. And second grade ERB is usually better than most of other fantasy/science fiction/romance writers' first grade.
Lost on Pellucidar.......2006-07-02
This is the sequel to At the Earth's Core. That book ended with the hero, David Innes, back on the surface world and separated from his mate, Dian the Beautiful. In this book, he returns to Pellucidar to get her back. This is a formula in many Edgar Rice Burroughs books; the hero becomes separated from his lady love, and has a series of adventures until he is reunited with her. It may be a formula, but it's a successful one. Sure, the plots may be similar, but there are always different strange, exotic worlds to encounter. There was a reason ERB was the most popular pulp writer of his time. Fans of pulp fiction will enjoy this book.
The return to Pellucidar!.......2005-02-07
At the end of "At the Earth's Core", David Innes, our everyman-now-Emperor, has returned to the outer world, with an ugly reptilian Mahar instead of his lovely Dian.
He vows to return, and here, in the second book of this particular series, he does exactly that.
Once again, Burroughs' simple vivid prose describes one thrilling adventure after another, in full cinematic glory. There are brutal hand-to-hand combat scenes, jungle hunts, mountaineering escapades and even a sea-faring battle. All this in under 200 pages (per my Canaveral Press copy). ERB doesn't waste a lot of words.
You just have to love the lot of characters on display here. The names alone generate all sorts of mental images: King Gr-Gr-Gr, Hooja the Sly One, Ghak the Hairy One, the Mahars, the Sagoths, the massive lidi, the hyaenadons Raja and Ranee...
Over the course of two books, you'll be hard pressed NOT to cheer for the indefatigable David Innes. He's an old-fashioned, capital-H hero; plucky, smart and brave, yet human. After all, this adventure is what happens to him while he searches for his beloved Dian.
There are two high compliments I'd like to offer:
One, is that upon finishing one book I cannot wait to read the next.
Two, is that in this modern age of film, only with computer imagery could they reproduce the fabulous vistas of Pellucidar, with the overhead "horizons" and that low-lying, rotating pendant moon.
The compliment is that it would never be as "fabulous" as those ERB created inside my head.
A Feast for the Imagination.......2003-09-10
In this, his second novel set in the savage world of Pellucidar, Edgar Rice Burroughs returns his hero David Innes to the earth's core. In relatively formulaic ERB style, David's stone-age empress Dian the Beautiful has been stolen from him by Hooja the Sly One, and he sets off against daunting odds across a primitive world to rescue her. He is aided by advanced technology (such as firearms) brought with him from the surface, and the innovations of his dear friend, the scientist Abner Perry.
This is relatively light weight science fiction, but as always Burroughs fast moving plot and adventurous style keep the pages turning like lightning. My father once reccomended this to me when I was in grade school and I simply fell in love with ERB, and I have recently been able to share the pleasure by passing on my small collection of Burroughs novels to my younger brother (now aged 12). . . after rereading them of course. He's become hooked as well, and now will not stop pestering me to find him a copy of book 3.
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