Acclaim for Yann Martel’s Life of Pi "Life of Pi is not just a readable and engaging novel‚ it’s a finely twisted length of yarn— yarn implying a far-fetched story you can’t quite swallow whole‚ but can’t dismiss outright. Life of Pi is in this tradition—a story of uncertain veracity‚ made credible by the art of the yarn-spinner. Like its noteworthy ancestors‚ among which I take to be Robinson Crusoe‚ Gulliver’s Travels‚ the Ancient Mariner‚ Moby Dick and Pincher Martin‚ it’s a tale of disaster
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TPO 01 4 GROUNDWATER 4 THE ORIGINS OF THEATER 7 TIMBERLINE VEGETATION ON MOUNTAINS 12 TPO 02 16 THE ORIGINS OF CETACEANS 16 DESERT FORMATION 20 EARLY CINEM 23 TPO 03 27 ARCHITECTURE 27 Depletion of the Ogallala Aquifer 31 The Long-Term Stability of Ecosystems 36 TPO 04 40 Deer Populations of the Puget Sound 40 Cave Art in Europe 44 Petroleum Resources 49 TPO 05 54 MINERALS AND PLANTS 54 THE ORIGIN OF THE PACIFIC ISLAND PEOPLE 58 THE CAMBRIAN EXPLOSION 62 TPO 06 66 Powering the
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A History of Thermodynamics Ingo Müller A History of Thermodynamics The Doctrine of Energy and Entropy ABC Professor Dr. Dr.h.c. Ingo Müller Thermodynamik Technische Universität Berlin 10623 Berlin Germany E-mail: ingo.mueller@alumni.tu-berlin.de Library of Congress Control Number: 2006933419 ISBN-10 3-540-46226-0 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York ISBN-13 978-3-540-46226-2 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved‚ whether the whole or
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Encyclopedia of American Popular Fiction GEoFF HAmilton and BriAn JonEs ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AmErICAN POPuLAr FICtION Copyright © 2009 by Geoff Hamilton and Brian Jones All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means‚ electronic or mechanical‚ including photocopying‚ recording‚ or by any information storage or retrieval systems‚ without permission in writing from the publisher. For information contact: Facts On File‚ Inc. An imprint of Infobase
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