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      Biology: Life on Earth, Custom Core (7th Edition)
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      1 out of 5 stars 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.

      1 out of 5 stars 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.

      5 out of 5 stars 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
      Life on Earth Custom Core and Companion Website Access Card Package (4th Edition)
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      1 out of 5 stars 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.

      4 out of 5 stars 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!

      2 out of 5 stars 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.

      5 out of 5 stars 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.

      4 out of 5 stars 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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          At the Earth's Core (Bison Frontiers of Imagination)
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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:

          4 out of 5 stars 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!

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          5 out of 5 stars 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!..

          4 out of 5 stars 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.

          3 out of 5 stars 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.

          4 out of 5 stars 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.
          Pellucidar (Bison Frontiers of Imagination)
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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.

          Customer Reviews:

          5 out of 5 stars 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.

          5 out of 5 stars 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.

          4 out of 5 stars 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.

          5 out of 5 stars 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.

          5 out of 5 stars 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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            Savage Pellucidar (Bison Frontiers of Imagination)
            Edgar Rice Burroughs
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            When David Innes and Abner Perry set out to search for mineral deposits in Perry's newly invented Mechanical Prospectro, they never dreamed of discovering the beautiful, terrifying world of Pellucidar five hundred miles beneath their feet. Cast into a country of fierce fighting men, beautiful women, and vicious beasts, David and Abner take sharply diverging paths. David and his mate, Dian the Beautiful, set out to teach Pellucidar the ways of civilization and succeed in gathering a number of primitive kingdoms into the Empire of Pellucidar. Meanwhile, Abner turns his inventive genius to the science of aeronautics, with dire results for both David and Dian. The seventh and final book in Edgar Rice Burroughs's Pellucidar series, Savage Pellucidar continues the epic story with a masterful blend of action, humor, and suspense.
            Harry Turtledove provides an introduction for this Bison Books edition.
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            Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
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            • worthwhile intro to Pellucidar
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            • IF YOUR A BURROUGHS FAN, YOU WILL LIKE THIS ONE
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            When the inventor Perry fires up his burrowing prospector, it runs out of control, plunging him with his young protege into the centre of the earth. There, instead of being destroyed by the molten lava they expect to find, they discover an inner world of bizarre savagery and unearthly beauty. Here mighty dinosaurs still roam alongside beasts never seen in the world above. And to their horror, they find themselves suddenly enslaved in a land where humans are ruled by the reptilian and evilly intelligent Mahars.

            One of the most profound early influences on the science fiction and fantasy genre, Edgar Rice Burroughs is now most famous for his Tarzan series, although he wrote many tales that have captured the imaginations of generations of readers, including the Martian adventures of the Barsoom sequence, the Pellucidar sequence, of which this volume is the first, and the stories of Carson on Venus.

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            When the inventor Perry fires up his burrowing prospector, it runs out of control, plunging him with his young protege into the centre of the earth. There, instead of being destroyed by the molten lava they expect to find, they discover an inner world of bizarre savagery and unearthly beauty. Here mighty dinosaurs still roam alongside beasts never seen in the world above. And to their horror, they find themselves suddenly enslaved in a land where humans are ruled by the reptilian and evilly intelligent Mahars.

            Customer Reviews:

            4 out of 5 stars Super Reader.......2007-08-04

            A man with a fancy machine decides to do a bit of drilling. Taking a friend along in his contraption, he didn't expect to end up on a journey to the centre of the earth.

            They end up in Pellucidar, where things like time and space work just a little bit differently then they are used to. There they encounter the usual bad guys, beasts and babes.

            4 out of 5 stars worthwhile intro to Pellucidar.......2006-08-27

            Personally, I greatly enjoyed the Pellucidar series. With some exceptions toward the end, they were all fine adventure stories in the best ERB tradition. This book is interesting in that the hero is not a complete loner as Tarzan, John Carter, and Carson Napier started out but comes with a good friend who serves effectively as the voice of the audience in many parts. Pellucidar itself is picturesque, and Dian the Beautiful is a well-drawn, if fairly standard, pulp heroine for Innes to fall in love with. The Mahars ruling the Inner World are intriguing villains, and Hooja the Sly One comes off as particularly loathsome. Many of the battles Innes fights--most notably with Jubal the Ugly One--are breathtakingly described. Burroughs did well on this and even set us up for a sequel. (Here, I have a quibble though: Rather than building up the sequel with inventiveness, Burroughs relies on uncharacteristic stupidity on Innes' part. It is completely out of character for the man and very jarring for him to make such a huge error--especially with his beloved wife at stake--but aside from this, the book has no serious flaws.) For those who enjoy ERB's work, this is a pleasure to read and the rest of the series should follow quickly. Highly recommended.

            4 out of 5 stars Enjoyable Romp.......2006-01-24

            I like reading ERB. I have a problem with alot of fantasy or scifi authors that are in mass production now, they have a certain pompousness about them that is really off putting to me as a reader. ERB doesn't have that at all, his narrative style is direct and simple. His characters are always enjoyable, this is the first non-Tarzan book that I have read (I have more waiting for me on my shelf) and the first told in first person too. (Though I see from the others that Tarzan seems to be an exception in the third person narration)

            David Innes, like Tarzan is a man forced back into his primal ways by circumstance, with his superior mind though he is able to rise above the creatures that live in the core of the Earth. (Another common theme in ERB, brawn without brains will only take you so far). A sort of pantheon is set up, not unlike the Norse gods, there is Hooja the sly one and Perry, something like an Odin, Ghak as a sort of Thor and David as our hero, duped by Hooja and forever loyal to Perry, supported by Ghak and other noble and strong men in Pellucidar, slaying the dragons and other nasty critters.

            I also enjoyed the character of Dian the Beautiful, she is a little bit more than the average cave woman as he has to come to and she manages to outwit David in certain ways as well, though it seems she is little more than an object of beauty to the other central characters for much of the story.

            David is also in an interesting postion between forces of female power, his love for Dian and his hate for the all female race of the Mahars, his ultimate lifting up of Dian and dooming of the Mahars. One man seems to hold all of the power in this book, but considering the ending of the book he only holds it precariously.

            It took me a while to get into this book, as it is nothing compared to the last ERB book I read (Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar) however once I figured out which animal was what and the story was flowing I was really interested in it. A very fun read and with a little bit of food for thought just for good measure. Its too bad these books are so hard to find now.

            5 out of 5 stars IF YOUR A BURROUGHS FAN, YOU WILL LIKE THIS ONE.......2005-03-10

            This is absolute Burroughs' work. If you like the John Carter series, then you are bound to like this one. Burroughs is one of the God Fathers of current SiFi, i.e. Fantasy Adventure, and this work is a good illustration as to why. While most of the author's work is pretty predictable, it never-the-less never stops moving and is a true joy to read. While the style is a bit archaic, it is quite easy to follow after the first few pages, so give it a chance. This is one of those stories you like to set on a rainy weekend and just get lost in for the simple fun of it. Recommend it highly.

            4 out of 5 stars Enter David Innes.......2003-09-10

            Having already created two highly memorable science fiction heroes in Tarzan and John Carter, Edgar Rice Burroughs begins his third major series with David Innes. With friend Abner Perry, they dive their "mole", or burroughing machine, straight through the earth's surface where they discover the savage land of Pellucidar. Here, where dinosaurs still exist and mankind is enslaved by the reptilian Mahars, David and his friend are forced to face unknown perils and survive in a hostile environment.

            "At the Earth's Core" is another highly entertaining science fiction novel from ERB. Even though his format is formulaic, you're always assured of fast paced adventure in his novels. Not as groundbreaking as Tarzan or as strong as John Carter, The Pellucidar series is still a worthy addition to Burroughs body of work, and it gets an extra star for the nostalgia of being a personal childhood favorite.

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