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12 monthly birthday bears announce student birthdays! 28 pieces. ... Read more

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Many years ago a little brown bear came to town...

In the window of Mr. Winkles's secondhand store, there lives a bear with tangerine fur and an upside-down smile. The Tangerine Bear dreams of having a home of his own, but it seems that on one will ever want him. Until one day, a stranger comes into the store...and something extraordinary happens. If you find yourself on the wrong side of town, where the trains don’t stop and the clocks run slow, look for Mr. Winkle’s second-hand store. There’s a little bear in the window. If you look close, you’ll see that his mouth is upside down and the sun has turned his fur from brown to tangerine.
But things aren’t always as bleak as they might seem, and happiness has no particular address. Maybe the story of the Tangerine Bear will remind you that joy is everywhere. You just have to look around.

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Wondefully touching story of the importance of belonging
This is one of my favourite books, (and my two childrens'). The story of a bear who cannot see the forrest for the trees and who feels left out because he is different and imperfect is wonderful for children to begin toexperience the importance of individuals for their own specialcharacteristics.

This book is great
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Should be called a PAMPHLET
My son loves reading this little book but it's so small - about the size of a CD cover. I was so shocked when it came...I couldn't believe that a paid a couple of dollars for it. IT IS WAY OVERPRICED! It's four pages long and worth about ten cents.

Really a Pamplet
I wanted books that my little onewould like to read. These are just like pamplets; she wanted books like you use in class - You can read, I can read. So these really didn't even get her excited to bother. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Monthly Labor Review, published by Thomson Gale on December 1, 2005. The length of the article is 2936 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Bears, bulls, and brokers: employment trends in the securities industry: employment in the securities industry strongly correlates with stock market value; however, market volume does not exhibit the same relationship with the employment cycle.(Securities Industry)(Statistical data)
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This digital document is an article from The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), published by The Register Guard on May 11, 2009. The length of the article is 585 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Obama errs on polar bear.(Editorials)(He might need a regulatory threat to prod Congress)(Editorial)
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This digital document is an article from Black Enterprise, published by Earl G. Graves Publishing Co., Inc. on March 1, 2005. The length of the article is 533 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Social Security myth vs. reality: true or false? African Americans bear the most cost but receive the least benefits.(Facts & Figures)
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The clearest, most practical guide for steering investors through the Internet’s vast array of financial information, tools, resources, and opportunities . . . from the Internet’s most authoritative and successful source of financial and business information.

The only book investors need to reap the rewards and avoid the treacheries of the investing cyber-jungle.

The Internet world has changed drastically in recent years, but that doesn’t mean you should shy away from online personal investing. It simply means that Internet investors need to be more careful in navigating through a confusing, possibly treacherous cyber-jungle. Who better to guide you than the reporters and editors of The Wall Street Journal Online, the Internet version of The Wall Street Journal, the world’s most authoritative source of business and financial information? In this updated paperback edition, Dave Pettit, Rich Jaroslovsky, and the reporters and editors of The Wall Street Journal Online provide you with the best and most complete coverage of everything you need to know about online investing. The 1990s dot-com euphoria is over, but you can still use the Internet to your investing advantage. You just need to know how. Let The Wall Street Journal Online show you.

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Wall Street Journal Guide to Money and Investments
This book will assist in deciding the proper mix and timing
of your portfolio holdings well into retirement. For instance,
people at mid-life should consider investing in tax exempt
municipals and tax deferred savings. Real Estate is an important asset which you will use while it appreciates in value. Reit
investments should be entered into with great care. Capital
gains taxes associated with sales of capital assets should be
delayed for as long as possible.

The work will assist you in crafting a personal investment
portfolio taking into account risks and rewards.

decent information, bad writing and editing
The WSJ branding led to my buying this book without serious browsing. Found out later that the only saving grace of this book is that there are a number of URLs scattered through out the book, and listed at the back of the book in an Appendix. The other aspects like readibility, classification of information, ease of use, are all pretty bad. There is significant amount of information that is repeated in multiple chapters - almost as if you are reading a collection of WSJ articles accumulated over time. Chapter 2 dedicated to IPOs and Chapeter 3 dedicated to Day trading made me wonder why I bought this book... My more immediate concerns were about MFs, Bonds, and websites for sophisticated tools, preferably low-cost or share ware.MFs and bonds were covered reasonably later.

Bad editing job. I hope the authors can make a book out of these random notes (if they are contemplating a second edition). Definitely needs some good body to glue together all the URLs. ... Read more

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A practical handbook with DVD that shows teachers how to use puppets in the primaryMary Slattery's practical handbook and DVD shows primary teachers how to use a puppet as a language assistant. Available as a Pack with Bear puppet. classroom to encourage more interaction in English. Written by award-winning author Mary Slattery. ... Read more

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This special all-color edition of a classic children's environmental fable tells the story of Clover, the last bear of his kind, and his search for the leaves of the oak tree--the food upon which his life depends! ... Read more

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Cherished Childhood Memory
I first read this book in a car ride from Yellowstone N.P. (where my parents bought it for me) to our home during a family weekend trip.The story was always a favorite memory and more than 20 years later I tracked it down and bought the book again to read and enjoy.It is no coincidence that I have grown into an adult advocating for sustainable living, consciencious of the envenronment, my social responsibility, and making a living doing so.I recommend this book to any child or adult.

An important book for every child and adult
I have come in search of The Last Bit Bear because of my college experience. I have found that since I have been in college very few people have been strong enough to be an individual. The Last Bit Bear is the storyof a bear who is the last of his kind, an individual by default. It is astory of how he searches for other Bit bears but in the end finds that heis the last bit bear; he finds his Self. This book will encourage childrento be individuals and go in search of their Self, adults as well. I loveall children's books but this one in particular because of the powerfulmessage it sends in the classic form of a fable. I applaude the author. ... Read more

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The Treadwell maze
Mike Lapinski's "Death in the Grizzly Maze" is a book about the self-proclaimed eco-warrior Timothy Treadwell, who perhaps doesn't need a closer introduction.

Treadwell lived around brown bears in Katmai (a national park in Alaska) for thirteen seasons in a row, somehow getting the wild bears to tolerate his presence. He became a national celebrity in the United States, claiming to defend the bears from poachers and other threats. In 2003, tragedy struck: Treadwell and his companion Amie Huguenard were killed and eaten by brown bears as they were camping in an area Treadwell called the Grizzly Maze.

Who was Timothy Treadwell? What motivated him to socialize at close distance with dangerous and potentially lethal animals? Could the tragedy of his and Amie's deaths have been avoided, or was it inevitable? Werner Herzog's award-winning movie "Grizzly Man" gives one answer, a rather disturbing one: Treadwell was out of his mind, wanted to cross the line between man and beast, and inevitably failed. Herzog even believes that Treadwell was driven by a death wish. Lapinski's book hints at another answer, perhaps an even more disturbing one: Treadwell was a hoax, a con artist whose primary goal was fame and celebrity status. However, he also has an alternative explanation: the frequently erratic behaviour of Treadwell was caused by bipolar disorder.

Although Lapinski isn't a big fan of Tim Treadwell, he nevertheless has a grudging respect for the man. He never accuses him of being a con man outright. Yet, after reading "Death in the Grizzly Maze", I must say that I veer strongly towards that option. Too many of Treadwell's claims just don't ad up. He claimed to defend the brown bears at Katmai against poachers, and even formed an organization in California to finance his activities. In reality, there are no poachers in Katmai, a national park visited by thousands of tourists every year. Indeed, all of Treadwell's encounters were with tourist guides, tourists, park rangers and competing movie makers. Once, Treadwell even faked evidence for poaching! Treadwell claimed he was carrying out unique research, but his book "Among grizzlies" contains nothing new, except numerous errors or old information taken from works by others. Treadwell also habitually misinformed sponsors and supporters about his activities at Katmai.

But how did Timothy Treadwell manage to survive so long among wild bears? Lapinski believes that the bears at Katmai are, relatively speaking, more peaceful and tolerant of humans than bears in others parts of Alaska or the United States. The Katmai bears aren't even "real" grizzlies, but rather brown bears (the same species but a different population). If Treadwell had tried to socialize with bears in the Rockies or the Alaskan inland, he would have ended up dead much sooner! The author also points out that the Katmai bears are well fed during the summer season, which also lowers rates of aggression. By the time the bears started to starve, Treadwell was usually long gone, having returned to California.

What strikes me most when reading "Death in the Grizzly Maze" is the absurdity of it all. Why didn't park authorities stop Treadwell immediately? Why was he allowed to continue his bizarre antics for 13 years? Why didn't any of his sponsors or supporters call a bear biologist or the park authority to check Treadwell's facts? Why didn't the media question him? (A silly question, I know.)

"Death in the Grizzly Maze" doesn't just raise disturbing questions about Timothy Treadwell. It also raises questions about ourselves. And that maze might be even more impenetrable.

A great book, pragmatic but fair
Mike Lapinski, the author, is not that experienced in writing as he is in factual journalism, he's more of a sports writer, not trying to impress, only to inform.To me, this only adds to itscharm. I disagree with some others that he swings in the other direction from Nick Jans (The Grizzly Maze) whom they think was too soft on Tim. Mikegives honest accounts based on interviews--including Tim's and Amie's parents.The idea that Tim and his family were estranged is denied by Tim's parents. OK, Nick Jans' Grizzly Maze is more poetic and stylized as becomes a stylistic writer.But Mike Lapinski's roughhewn sports type journalism Jon Krakauer isn't "poetic," either); he's an unpretentious self-effacing journalist whose style is like Jon K's) and kept me interested. He devoted a whole chapter to Amie Huguenard, the other victim, who --as he laments, has been all but forgotten except that she was also killed that day. She was tough, intelligent, selfless but trusted Tim too much and therefore died. She could've probably used bear spray, I thought she did, from a passage in the book.

The author give Tim a lot of credit when it is due and criticizes him when he deserved it. By opining that these deaths could have been prevented and that Tim might be bipolar (before it was diagnosed) was brought up by Tim's mom, and it isn't swinging in the other direction. In fact, he gives the dude credit for his courage and the fact that he lasted almost 13 years out thre in the Grizzly maze.After seeing the movie Grizzly Man and watching Tim's histrionics and annoying habit of repeating himself three times ("I would DIE for them" "it's what I'm SAYIN'") three times, cursing the sky and the gods including "that HIndu god" (which one? there are thousands!) until it finally rained, then he turned around and apologized and praised them all! At any rate, Mike is right on in interviewing Tim's counselor who had advised Tim several times to quit what he was doing or he'd get himself killed. But Mike isn't nasty or cruel in his critique, only very honest, and gives excerpts from interviews with people who knew Tim, and swung both ways in their opinions.I rate this one 5 stars because of the rough-hewn honesty of Mike. Both Mike's and Nick Jans' books are great, serve their purpose and, like Rocky and Adrian, "fill gaps." But I prefer the more selfless and no-nonsense, on-task journalism reporting of Mike Lapinski.

A well-balanced book on a volatile subject
I'm very glad I wasn't dissuaded by some of the negative reviews of Lapinski's book on this site. I found it to be a valuable book on the bizarre, and strangely volatile, subject of Timothy Treadwell's death. Lapinski's is a calm, well-researched, and reasonable approach that balances Jans's (The Grizzly Maze: Timothy Treadwell's Fatal Obsession with Alaskan Bears) somewhat flashier style nicely.There are contradictions of fact and conjecture between these two excellent authors, but the two agree on the most important facts: that Treadwell endangered himself, his girlfriend, and his beloved bears by his risky actions, and that his claims of poaching at Katmai preserve were simply not true. Also, Lapinski's book provides valuable additional information about Amie Huguenard for those of us trying to form a comprehensive picture of these preventable deaths.

Rip-off?
This book seems like it was hastily cobbled together after reading Nick Jan's article of the same name. Jans did an amazing amount of research, visited the site three days after the deaths of Treadwell and his girlfriend, and personally interviewed the key investigative figures. Read GRIZZLY MAZE. Jans' writing reaches literary quality--it is concise and powerful.

What a disappointment
This book gets one star for its few photos depicting the bears and Treadwell; otherwise it is, without exception, a terrible read.The author is clearly biased in his painfully inept attempt to document the life, and death of Treadwell as he lived among the bears. The insideous message conveyed throughout the book (though the word insideous perhaps suggests that the author artfully IMPLIES his thesis rather PANIFULLY OVERSTATE)is that Treadwell acted foolishly among the bears and so died as a result of his actions....unfortunately it takes the author 165 pages to do so over and over and over again. Especially disconcerting is the author's gratuitous reconstruction of what actually happened during the attack (creative writing 101 perhaps). Interesting how the author is set upon a mission to ferret out the truth of the Treadwell story, yet fabricates Treadwell's demise all the way down to the huffing of the bears and a dramatic imaginative fight scene that he almost appears to enjoy writing. I would have prefered a more even-handed telling of Treadwell's story, not the knee-jerk anti-Treadwell reaction this book appears to be. Absolutely horrible read. ... Read more

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Roald Dahl's Goldilocks and the Three Bears is an exciting addition to A&C Black's Roald Dahl series of musicals for schools. It joins the famously infamous Snow-White and the Seven Dwarfs and the very smelly but loveable Jack and the Beanstalk in a glittering line up of wickedly funny productions which children and audiences just love. On trial for her crimes, Goldilocks looks like the sweet littleinnocent who'd give us her last sweetie. Could she really be the brazencrook who stole the porridge from under the snouts of theself-respecting, harmless Bears? The Jury will decide (but who willhave the last laugh?). Let the trial commence! As with every one of these great Roald Dahl musicals, Goldilocks isbased on an orchestral commission by the Roald Dahl Foundation. Theconcert work, from which the schools' musical is derived is by KurtSchwertsik, and schools can use the extracts provided from theorchestral work to enhance their performances. Schools will be able to buy a performance licence online at the brand new A&C Black musicals website (live from March 05), which also has a forum, a Hall of Fame, regular news, updates and free extras to download. Another winner! ... Read more

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One of a series of maths books featuring teddy bears with the educational attributes of colour, size and weight, so that young learners can enjoy counting, matching, sorting and weighing them. The book contains 60 photocopy masters and the 25 activities are in line with the National Curriculum. ... Read more

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The Bear Brook Watershed in Maine (BBWM) is a long-term, pairedwatershed acidification study in northern New England. The West Bearwatershed receives chronically elevated N and S amendments, and theEast Bear watershed serves as a reference. The program of researchintegrates studies of biogeochemical responses of streams, soils, andvegetation. Intensive hydrogeochemical measurements over the pastdecade provide for reasonably accurate measures of whole-watershedchemical budgets. The chapters in this book document atmosphericinputs of chemicals and water, internal cycling, transformation, andexport of measured constituents. The research provides insights intoecosystem processes that govern ongoing N saturation, S retention andrelease, AI and P mobilization, and soil base cation depletion. Thisvolume is of interest to researchers, managers, and policymakersconcerned with the effects of air pollution on forested ecosystems. ... Read more

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These traditional favorite stories are ideal for children. Each beautifully illustrated story is retold in language that students easily understand. Each book includes activities, puzzles, and an illustrated glossary.The cassettes feature two stories. ... Read more

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The Lebesgue integral is the standard tool for mathematics, physics, or engineering. It is used where sequences or series arise and where one might wish to express the integral of a sum of integrals or vice versa. Itis essential in Fourier analysis and for the construction of Hilbert space and other function spaces. This primer gives a concrete treatment, building Lebesgue theory in a way parallel to the Riemann integral of beginning calculus. It makes the powerfultools of Lebesgue theory readily available to those in applied areas. It is a good introduction for those going on in mathematics as well as a refresher holding new insights for those in the field.
Professor Bear gives a clear and engaging account of this important and previously forbidding piece of mathematics, providing readers with a key to many areas of analysis.

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* The Riemann-Darboux Integral
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Brief and abstract!
The book is very brief and abstract. It only presents the main concepts and theorems without much explanation. It lacks examples and practice exercises.
It is a good source of basic theory but it should be complemented with some exercises so as to be able to fully understand the concepts.
The book binding is excellent.

The First Book to Read on Lebesgue Measure!
This book is exactly what it is advertised to be: an introduction to the Lebesgue measure and Lebesgue integral which will give the reader a solid foundation in the subject.I would recommend it to anyone as the first book to read on the subject, and it is particularly well suited for self study.

For the self-study student, there's one small flaw in the book about which it is worth a note.In Problem_5 on page 5, in the review of the Riemann integral, the student is asked toprove that for a Riemann integrable function the upper andlower bounding functions converge to the function being integrated at all but a _countable_ set of points.As a counter example, consider a function which is 0 everywhere except onthe Cantor set, on which it is 1.For any sequence of partitions, consider the (uncountable) set of points in the Cantor set less the (countable) set of points which are endpoints of the partitions.This is a minor point, and more importantly note that the result is true if "a countable set of points" is replaced with "a set of measure zero."Results like this are why the concept of measure is considered so powerful, and the fact that this book does so well in getting the student to think about these ideas is why I recommend it so highly!

The First Book to Read on Lebesgue Measure!
This book is exactly what it is advertised to be: an introduction to the Lebesgue measure and Lebesgue integral which will give the reader a solid foundation in the subject.I would recommend it to anyone as the first book to read on the subject, and it is particularly well suited for self study.

For the self-study student, there's one small flaw in the book about which it is worth a note.In Problem_5 on page 5, in the review of the Riemann integral, the student is asked toprove that for a Riemann integrable function the upper andlower bounding functions converge to the function being integrated at all but a _countable_ set of points.As a counter example, consider a function which is 0 everywhere except onthe Cantor set, on which it is 1.For any sequence of partitions, consider the (uncountable) set of points in the Cantor set less the (countable) set of points which are endpoints of the partitions.This is a minor point, and more importantly note that the result is true if "a countable set of points" is replaced with "a set of measure zero."Results like this are why the concept of measure is considered so powerful. ... Read more