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The Ends of the Earth: From Togo to Turkmenistan, from Iran to Cambodia, a Journey to the Frontiers of Anarchy (Vintage Departures)
by Robert D. Kaplan
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"The future here could be sadder than the present," writes Robert Kaplan in a chapter about the African nation of Sierra Leone. From Kaplan's perspective, the same could be said of virtually the entire Third World, which he spends the bulk of this book visiting and describing. Kaplan, an acclaimed foreign correspondent and author of Balkan Ghosts, is congenitally pessimistic about the developmental prospects of West Africa, the Nile Valley, and much of Asia. This traveler's tale offers dire warnings about overpopulation, environmental degradation, and social chaos. We should all hope that Kaplan's forecast is wrong, but we ignore him at our peril.
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Kaplan is a superb reporter, expertly weaving his precise, vivid observation of facts at hand into a larger context of global social change.
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Tropical Houses: Living in Nature in Jamaica, Sri Lanka, Java, Bali, and the Coasts of Mexico and Belize
by Tim Street-Porter
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Before opening Tropical Houses, hide your passport. As soon as you get a glimpse of these incredible houses nestled among lush tropical landscapes, you'll want to head straight to the airport. Author Tim Street-Porter spent more than 10 years traveling through Jamaica, Sri Lanka, Bali, Java, Mexico, and Belize, meeting the owners of these Shangri-las and taking interior and exterior photos. Tropical Houses offers intelligent, dreamy commentary and over 272 breathtaking full-color photos. Visit the House of Iseh in Bali and sit in the verdant shadow of the sacred volcano Gunung Agung. Said writer Anna Mathews of the view from the terrace: "Once you have lived in this place you can never be the same again. You are driven mad by beauty." In Jamaica, imagine you're a guest at Good Hope. Originally a plantation, Good Hope is now a 10-room villa that overlooks the Queen of Spain valley and the Cockpit Mountains. To look at these provocative photos is to imagine yourself in another life--one where you lounge on the veranda while white-jacketed waiters quietly replace your empty rum-and-pineapple drink. The owners of these estates have taken great care (at great expense) to create private, tropical paradises. One of the most stunning is Taprobane, an incredible retreat dominating the tiny island of the same name. Built by Count de Mauny-Talvande, the house is "an octagonal villa that allowed for verandahs in every direction; a 1930s folly, which, with small gardens extending through the foliage to the overhanging edges, fully occupied the crest of his island." The careful architecture and landscaping of these estates "opens a world of sensual experiences." When the sky is gray and you don't have time for a vacation, Tropical Houses will lift your spirits and quiet your wanderlust. --Dana Van Nest
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The ambient warmth of the tropics causes architectural distinctions between indoors and out to evaporate, along with the walls that divide them. Houses expand into the landscape, while the sights, sounds, and scents of nature waft through living spaces. Indeed, one of the pleasures of living in the tropics is an awakening of the senses that brings us closer to nature.
Internationally renowned photographer and writer Tim Street-Porter has spent more than ten years traveling through Bali, Java, Sri Lanka, Mexico, Belize, and Jamaica. This book's 272 stunning photographs, supported by Street-Porter's fascinating and informed commentary, capture the appeal and the meaning of the enviable dwellings he found in his journeys. It may be the outdoor bath, a sybarite's delight, with sun filtering through a frangipani tree . . . the deep-eaved verandah, where one sips coffee while contemplating the neighboring valley shrouded in early morning mist . . . or the thatch-roofed palapa, its main supports local tree trunks wrapped in strangler vine.
These wonderful expressions of vernacular architecture -- many the products of the world's finest architects and designers--nest in jungles, perch over volcanic cliffs, stand placidly beside lagoons, and exist always in harmony with the nature that envelops them. These are real places where people really live, but each seems suspended in a setting that is at once dreamlike
and elemental.
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RandMcNally Kids' Road Atlas (Backseat Books)
by Kristy McGowan, Karen Richards, and Chris Reed
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Rand McNally's Backseat Books® series is your source for fighting those boredom blues. Kids' Road Atlas features real road maps, great travel games, state-by-state puzzles, state facts (including the nickname, capital, flower, tree, and bird), an index, and much, much more. An answer key is also included in the back of the book. These colorful, fun-filled books are perfect for keeping the kids busy at home or during those long stretches. Backseat Books®. Boredom cured. 80 pages; 8.5" x 10.75".
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Moon Handbooks Honduras
by Chris Humphrey
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Where else but in Honduras can you find a seamless blend of powdery soft, palm-lined beaches, untouched coral reefs, Mayan ruins, cobblestone colonial villages, dense jungle, monkey-filled forests, and the nicest people this side of paradise? Honduras's appeal is gaining tourist attention, but it's a slow process. You can still wander small villages and be treated with kind hospitality, without the dollar frenzy of more tourism-dependent nations. Honduras Handbook has extensive coverage of hiking, backpacking, scuba diving, snorkeling, and boating; Reviews of hundreds of restaurants and hotels; 35 detailed maps; a Spanish glossary with Honduran slang; plus articles on the ruins of Copán, the Bay Islands, and the Rio Platano Biosphere Reserve. It's a good time to go to Honduras, and Chris Humphrey's Handbook is an excellent guide.
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Honduras is an adventure traveler's paradise whether they're looking to relax on the beaches of Tela on the Caribbean north coast, comb the Mayan ruins of Copan, trek in the mountain forests near Gracias, or scuba dive on the Bay Islands of Roatan, Utila, and Guanaja. Completely revised and updated, the third edition of Moon Handbooks Honduras is packed with the most current information on sightseeing options, recreation, accommodations, restaurants, as well as color photographs, custom maps, insightful sidebars, a Spanish phrasebook, and a complete coverage of the country's culture, history, and social issues. Independent travelers will appreciate Chris Humphrey's firsthand tips on all aspects of travel in this unspoiled Central American destination.
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Lonely Planet Healthy Travel Africa (Lonely Planet Healthy Travel Guides Africa)
by Isabelle Young
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Getting the most out of your travels means staying healthy. Healthy Travel Africa is a user-friendly guide to minimising health risks for travellers to all parts of Africa, including Egypt. Written by Dr Isabelle Young, with a team of travel health experts, Healthy Travel Africa provides advice on planning your trip, staying healthy while travelling, and what to do if you run into problems. - tailored advice for travellers of all ages and needs
- clear guidelines on treating common travel illnesses
- how to avoid wildlife hazards, from insects to hippos
- safety tips for outdoor action, including safaris and trekking
- comprehensive first-aid section
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Lonely Planet Guatemala (Lonely Planet Guatemala)
by John Noble and Susan Forsyth
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Let Guatemala saturate the senses. Experience it all - the people, colors, food, music, landscape. Soak it up. From the Volcán Fuego to the Monagua Valley, from the vibrant city of Antigua to the hidden villages of the Maya, let this guide be your key to this fascinating country. - information on all major Mayan sites, including Copán in Honduras - maps, too
- lodging listings for every budget
- menu translator for Guatemalan cuisine
- handy glossary of Spanish and Mayan terms
- tips on ecologically responsible travel
- more than 35 detailed maps
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Lonely Planet Central America on a Shoestring (Lonely Planet Central America on a Shoestring)
by Robert Reid
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Scale Mayan pyramids, worship the sun on palm-fringed shores and chill out in the shade of a smoldering volcano. Whatever your passion, Central America is jam-packed with possibilities. Written by experts who travel on your budget, this guide lets you go further, stay longer and pay less for the adventure of a lifetime. • EXPLORE IT ALL - in-depth coverage of all seven Central American nations, plus Mexico's Yucatan and Chiapas • FIND YOUR WAY - 120 user-friendly maps plus detailed bus schedules and crucial border-crossing information • REST EASY - lodging and restaurants that offer bang for your buckplus the occasional splurge! • TALK THE TALK - comprehensive Language, Culture and Conduct sections keep you street-smart and clued-in
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Destination Central America Tiny on a map, Central America packs in more diversity than any comparably sized area on the planet. No matter when or how long you visit, daily adventures are for the taking, and they come in all types - fun, easy, bumpy, challenging, surprising, fulfilling - the sort you'll be talking about for decades. For starters, there are Caribbean white-sand beaches and offshore reefs at laze-out backpacker towns offering cheap scuba-diving courses. On the Pacific there are fewer people and bigger waves attracting expert surfers or first-timers wanting to learn. Inland, coffee-scented mountains reach, Dr Seuss-like, through smoke-ring clouds. In 16th-century colonial towns, Spanish haciendas line cobblestone streets, often under the gaze of lava-gurgling volcanoes that can be climbed or just looked at. In the jungle, bulldog-sized rodents scurry past and howler monkeys commute in the treetops above as you meander to (and up) Mayan pyramids that date a millenium. Getting from country to country can mean open-boat trips over chocolaty waters, and excellent Spanish school make border-crossing study hops a viable option. Best are the people you'll meet. Witness colorful modern Mayan life, not much changed over the centuries. Along the Caribbean sit back in a Garifuna village, home to an African-Carib culture. Stay with a family throughout, while studying Spanish, to open up more insights into daily life. Central America - Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and, for this book, parts of southern Mexico - is distinctly apart from its bigger, more well-known American neighbors. That it remains a mystery to so many, makes the trip all the more rewarding.
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Evolution of the Insects
by David Grimaldi and Michael S. Engel
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'A landmark contribution, not just to entomology and evolutionary biology, but to the life sciences as a whole. Beautifully conceived, splendidly written, and exquisitely illustrated Bound to remain a primary scientific reference for years to come. A must for naturalists, young and old. Truly a definitive work.' Thomas Eisner, Cornell University, author of For Love of Insects
' insects deserve the immense, sumptuously illustrated monograph text Grimaldi and Engel have now provided. Evolution of the Insects is a hugely impressive achievement. Throughout, the writing is clear and lively, the scholarship outstanding and the amount of information summarized vast. The enthusiasm of the authors for entomology shows in every aspect of this book, but the task of creating or assembling the images alone has evidently been a colossal labour of love. for its wealth of insights, as well as its unprecedented scope and depth, this superlative synthesis should have a durable appeal not only to entomologists, but also to biologists in general.' TRENDS in Ecology and Evolution
'There are a number of good entomology books on the market. Few, however, have integrated the living and fossil record as seamlessly as David Grimaldi and Michael Engel's Evolution of the Insects. None, moreover, has combined this integration with so much student-friendly text and such a wealth of illustrations (more than 900). The book shows that lavish photography and lucidity need not be the prerogative of popular entomology Whatever is in store, Evolution of the Insects superbly documents the rich and colorful history of hexapods.' Science
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This book chronicles the complete evolutionary history of insects--their living diversity and relationships as well as 400 million years of fossils. Introductory sections cover the living species diversity of insects, methods of reconstructing evolutionary relationships, basic insect structure, and the diverse modes of insect fossilization and major fossil deposits. Major sections then explore the relationships and evolution of each order of hexapods. The volume also chronicles major episodes in the evolutionary history of insects from their modest beginnings in the Devonian and the origin of wings hundreds of millions of years before pterosaurs and birds to the impact of mass extinctions and the explosive radiation of angiosperms on insects, and how they evolved into the most complex societies in nature. Whereas other volumes focus on either living species or fossils, this is the first comprehensive synthesis of all aspects of insect evolution. Illustrated with 955 photo- and electron- micrographs, drawings, diagrams, and field photos, many in full color and virtually all of them original, this reference will appeal to anyone engaged with insect diversity--professional entomologists and students, insect and fossil collectors, and naturalists. David Grimaldi and Michael S. Engel have collectively published over 200 scientific articles and monographs on the relationships and fossil record of insects, including 10 articles in the journals Science, Nature, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. David Grimaldi is curator in the Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural history and adjunct professor at Cornell University, Columbia University, and the City University of New York. David Grimaldi has traveled in 40 countries on 6 continents, collecting and studying recent species of insects and conducting fossil excavations. He is the author of Amber: Window to the Past (Abrams, 2003). Michael S. Engel is an assistant professor in the Division of Entomology at the University of Kansas; assistant curator at the Natural history Museum, University of Kansas; research associate of the American Museum of Natural History; and fellow of the Linnean Society of London. Engel has visited numerous countries for entomological and paleontological studies, doing most of his fieldwork in Central Asia, Asia Minor, and the Western Hemisphere.
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apocritan wasps, corbiculate bees, tegminous forewings, photic organs, austral disjunctions, specialized inquilines, subgenal sulcus, ceous ambers, living sister group, fossorial forelegs, glossatan moths, most diverse lineage, protibial spur, paranotal lobes, austral disjuncts, silky lacewings, paraphyletic stem group, anal fan, modern roaches, third axillary sclerite, costal brace, pleural sulcus, panorpoid orders, primitive venation, female terminalia
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New Jersey, North America, South America, Late Triassic, Miocene Dominican, Dominican Republic, Santana Formation, New Zealand, Late Carboniferous, Eocene Baltic, Northern Hemisphere, Early Permian, United States, Costa Rica, Old World, Early Miocene, Mazon Creek, New World, New York, South Africa, Yixian Formation, Green River, Southern Hemisphere, Central America, Cretaceous of Asia
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