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Janice VanCleave's Physics for Every Kid: 101 Easy Experiments in Motion, Heat, Light, Machines, and Sound (Science for Every Kid Series)
Janice VanCleave
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ASIN: 0471525057 |
Book Description
How do magnets work? What makes a curve ball curve? What keeps an airplane in the air? How can a pulley make you five times stronger? Now you can learn the answers to these and other questions about basic physics through 101 fun, safe, low-cost experiments and activities that can be performed at home or in the classroom. In Physics for Every Kid, you'll learn about gravity from funnels that seem to defy nature by rolling up hill. Using a balloon as a power source, you'll make a fluorescent light bulb glow and learn how electrons are used to produce light. And you'll levitate a Ping-Pong ball to understand aerodynamics. Each of the 101 experiments is broken down into its purpose, a list of materials, step-by-step instructions, expected results, and an easy to understand explanation. Every activity has been pretested and can be performed safely and inexpensively in the classroom or at home. Also available in this series from Janice VanCleave: Astronomy for Every Kid Biology for Every Kid Chemistry for Every Kid Dinosaurs for Every Kid Earth Science for Every Kid Geography for Every Kid Geometry for Every Kid The Human Body for Every Kid Math for Every Kid
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janet vancleave review.......2006-07-10
this is an excellent resource for teachers or parents. experiments are fun and easy to do.
This book makes learning physics fun!.......2006-03-15
I would highly recommend Janice VanCleave's Physics For Every Kid. I am a 6th & 7th grade science teacher and have used activities from this book numerous times. There are so many tough concepts in physics and sometimes all it takes is a simple activity that the kids can see. The way I use the activities in this book, along with the others in this series, are to set them up as stations and have the kids rotate through them. It's an easy way to create hands-on learning and the kids LOVE it! This book is divided up into these categories: electricity, magnets, buoyancy, gravity, balance, flight, simple machines, inertia, motion, light, heat, and sound. I think the activities in this book are intended for grades 4-6, but could be adapted for younger or older kids. You won't be disappointed!
Physics is Fun.......2000-10-16
This book is just right for introducing physics concepts to children in the 8-12yrs. age range. My students prefer learning the concepts by "doing" rather than by just reading about them in a science text.
Very disappointing.......2000-01-01
I was very disappointed by the lack of information. The experiments (this book is entirely experiments - which I disliked) take a long time to set up. Even if they work (which they often don't), they will often only demonstarate a simple concept that could be explained in one paragraph. A complete waste of money. I would recomend "Physics the easy way" by Robert L. Lehrman (Barron's Educational Series, Inc.) over this book any day.
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Differential Models
Alexander Solodov , and
Valery Ochkov
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Book Description
Differential equations are often used in mathematical models for technological processes or devices. However, the design of a differential mathematical model is crucial and difficult in engineering.
As a hands-on approach to learn how to pose a differential mathematical model the authors have selected 9 examples with important practical application and treat them as following:
- Problem-setting and physical model formulation
- Designing the differential mathematical model
- Integration of the differential equations
- Visualization of results
Each step of the development of a differential model is enriched by respective Mathcad 11 commands, todays necessary linkage of engineering significance and high computing complexity.
To support readers of the book with respect to changes that might occur in future versions of Mathcad (Mathcad 12 for example), updates of examples, codes etc. can be downloaded from the following web page www.thermal.ru. Readers can work with Mathcad-sheets of the book without any Mathcad by help Mathcad Application Server Technology.
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On Thursday, July 13, 1995, Chicagoans awoke to a blistering day in which the temperature would reach 106 degrees. The heat index, which measures how the temperature actually feels on the body, would hit 126 degrees by the time the day was over. Meteorologists had been warning residents about a two-day heat wave, but these temperatures did not end that soon. When the heat wave broke a week later, city streets had buckled; the records for electrical use were shattered; and power grids had failed, leaving residents without electricity for up to two days. And by July 20, over seven hundred people had perished-more than twice the number that died in the Chicago Fire of 1871, twenty times the number of those struck by Hurricane Andrew in 1992—in the great Chicago heat wave, one of the deadliest in American history.
Heat waves in the United States kill more people during a typical year than all other natural disasters combined. Until now, no one could explain either the overwhelming number or the heartbreaking manner of the deaths resulting from the 1995 Chicago heat wave. Meteorologists and medical scientists have been unable to account for the scale of the trauma, and political officials have puzzled over the sources of the city's vulnerability. In Heat Wave, Eric Klinenberg takes us inside the anatomy of the metropolis to conduct what he calls a "social autopsy," examining the social, political, and institutional organs of the city that made this urban disaster so much worse than it ought to have been.
Starting with the question of why so many people died at home alone, Klinenberg investigates why some neighborhoods experienced greater mortality than others, how the city government responded to the crisis, and how journalists, scientists, and public officials reported on and explained these events. Through a combination of years of fieldwork, extensive interviews, and archival research, Klinenberg uncovers how a number of surprising and unsettling forms of social breakdown—including the literal and social isolation of seniors, the institutional abandonment of poor neighborhoods, and the retrenchment of public assistance programs—contributed to the high fatality rates. The human catastrophe, he argues, cannot simply be blamed on the failures of any particular individuals or organizations. For when hundreds of people die behind locked doors and sealed windows, out of contact with friends, family, community groups, and public agencies, everyone is implicated in their demise.
As Klinenberg demonstrates in this incisive and gripping account of the contemporary urban condition, the widening cracks in the social foundations of American cities that the 1995 Chicago heat wave made visible have by no means subsided as the temperatures returned to normal. The forces that affected Chicago so disastrously remain in play in America's cities, and we ignore them at our peril.
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A very interesting, if somewhat dry and academic, book.......2007-09-11
On Thursday, July 13, 1995, the temperature in Chicago climbed to 106 degrees Fahrenheit. Over the course of the next week, while the city sweltered in the stifling heat, and power grids failed, people began to die - often senior-citizens that felt trapped in their own homes. Before long, the nation was treated to images of the Cook County Medical Examiner's office storing bodies in refrigerated trucks donated by a meat company, while city officials sought scapegoats. By the time the heat wave ended, after July 20, some 739 more people had died in Chicago than was statistically to be expected, at least 485 of whom had died directly from heat-related causes.
In this book, author and assistant professor of Sociology, Eric Klinenberg, looks at what happened during that long and torturous week, what were some of the root causes of the disaster, and what can be learned from it. Overall, I found this to be a very interesting, if somewhat dry and academic, book.
I do, though, have two minor complaints about the book. First of all, while the author excoriates then recent city-wide reforms that were still in the process of being implemented during 1995, he does not address the problem of Chicago's lack of a health diversity of political opinion (the last non-Democratic mayor was elected in 1927). The problem of Chicago's one-party rule has made it a byword for incompetence, corruption and downright criminality to this day! Secondly, while the present Bush Administration's tepid response to Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans has drawn much criticism, Mr. Klinenberg fails to mention the then Clinton Administration's complete and utter disregard of the events within Chicago.
But, that said, it is an interesting book, perhaps the only one on this terribly tragedy that is now almost completely forgotten.
An Excellent Candidate for Course Syllabi.......2005-02-26
The only think I would add to what has been said already is that this book should be strongly considered for courses that emphasize the interaction between medicine and public health. Unlike other books written about the urban condition, this book focuses on a single public health problem and presents it from both scientific and sociodemographic perspectives. Medical and public health students alike stand much to gain by reading this book.
Heat Wave: Social Isolation in Chicago.......2004-12-18
Over the summer of 1995, the area surrounding Chicago experienced extreme weather conditions that exposed people to a heat index reaching 126 degrees. The result was devastating to the community; a record number of deceased bodies were discovered as a direct result of heat exposure. The hot, humid air stalled over Chicago for one long week. When it was finally dissipated, it left residents of Chicago scared and confused. City streets had failed, electricity use had peaked and many lost power, and power grids had completely collapsed. It was a disaster that was heard around the world.
Between the dates of July 14 and July 20, 739 Chicago residents died from heat exposure. Every year, heat waves kill more people than all other natural disasters combined. However, they often are not heard of or spoken about. This is due to the fact that they are not physically damaging and that most heat wave victims are those who are socially isolated from their community. These groups often are composed primarily of elderly, poor, and those who choose to be isolated.
Heat waves directly are linked to these isolated groups, and until now, were not given any attention. Many are left vulnerable to disaster by not being connected into the community. Eric Klinenberg examines the tragedy that took place in Chicago and draws attention to the social, political, and institutional groups that all were involved in the situation. Heat Wave ties in isolation, inner-city neighborhoods, city services, and the news media as integral parts of the disaster that resulted from the heat wave in Chicago.
The first problem examined by Klinenberg was isolation. Many of the victims perished alone, without any companions nearby. Of the 739 bodies that were found dead, 170 of them went unclaimed showing the intensity of loneliness of those who perished. Klinenberg says that elderly isolation is the result of demographic shifts, crime, spatial transformation, and substance abuse problems. Adding to the problem, many of the elderly people lived in sealed rooms that did not allow for windows to be opened.
In the following chapter, Klinenberg examines the urban neighborhood and relates social structure to the isolation theory. He concludes that high poverty plays an important role when evaluating who is at risk for heat waves. Klinenberg emphasizes that these segregated areas do not allow people to establish social connections. Depleted buildings and violent crimes lead to further isolation. Once isolated, an event such as a heat wave disproportionately places certain individuals at an elevated risk to be affected by a disaster situation.
After examining the urban neighborhood, Klinenberg discovers that services provided by the city were not equally distributed. He concludes that support services should not be in the hands of government control. When you place the power into institutional organizations, services are distributed unequally and only offer aid to certain groups of people. Many people struggle to keep up with those benefiting and give up the chase for the services offered. Without adequate services, such as air-conditioning, people are placed at elevated risks from dying from a heat wave.
In his last analysis of the Chicago catastrophe, Klinenberg ties in the news media and their relevance to the heat wave in Chicago. The way the news is distributed is tied in to fit what specific people want to hear. For example, suburban residents were often not informed of the underlying problems related to the heat wave. Instead, the mayor spoke only of the event as being a natural disaster that could not have been avoided. Often, the people not affected by disasters are those that speak of the event. They are able to shape what is talked about and displace talk over the social problems related to the disaster.
Together, the factors discussed helped shape the events involved with the heat wave in Chicago. The socially isolated people seemed to be at the highest risk from the disaster. This incident represented how different groups and unrepresented and how certain people can control what is taken out of an event. Klinenberg closely examines the socially isolated to show that connections are important, and one is in threat without having connections.
However, Klinenberg fails to mention how certain people are motivated in different ways. He follows the thought of being isolated as a threat to one's health. Little talk is given to those who choose to be isolated. While some people feel as though they need people around them, others feel that isolation is the only way to break away from the mass crowd. Isolation does not result from one factor alone. People choose to remove themselves from society for many different reasons.
Also, Klinenberg fails to mention what is needed to change the current situations in Chicago. It is important to understand what happened in Chicago, but it would be hard to change the situation without a well-thought plan. Social and political institutions seem to be a starting point for most changes. We need to draw attention on how to change corrupt practice from political institutions. We must establish equal rights again and allow everyone to have access to city services. Without a plan, things will continue to go as they always have and attention on unequal practices will be displaced.
The disaster that occurred in Chicago was not the heat wave itself; it was the underlying social problems that stemmed from the heat wave. This put certain groups of people at elevated risks for heat related death. Attention must be given to heat wave disasters; they cause more deaths every year than all other natural disasters. The victims deserve equal rights and services. By doing so, life can be protected and shared among all groups of people.
Heat Wave.......2004-12-17
Klinenberg's investigation of the conditions and outcome of the 1995 tragedy deals with issues of human interdependence and examines the importance of local and regional communities in preventing future catastrophes of this kind. Heat Wave takes a natural phenomenon and penetrates to issues of economic and social depravity, the echelon of neighborhood that one resides and the solitude that extends from those circumstances.
makes you think about things that you never think about.......2004-12-17
Countless movies and books have been based on natural disasters. After all, what is more powerful or awe-inspiring than an F5 tornado, blowing away heavy machinery as if it were nothing? Who isn't slightly alarmed at the possibility of a dormant volcano suddenly erupting and blanketing a sleep mountain town in lava? But sociologist Eric Klinenberg's Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago examines a quieter, less thought about natural disaster: heat waves. More specifically he examines the famous heat wave that hit Chicago in 1995, ultimately causing over 700 deaths. Furthermore, he examines how, in this day and age, so many people could be so profoundly affected by something that we would appear to have a handle on. The main aspect Klinenberg brings up is that of social isolation and how this pervasive trend could end up ultimately costing us our lives. But how does something like this happen, he wonders; how, with all of our modern technology and community outreach programs are people still "left behind." Furthermore, who are these people and how is it that our society puts certain people in these positions. With a comprehensive account of the event and the culmination of his own data, Klinenberg presents are very interesting view on social constructs in the context of natural, momentous events that are out of human control.
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Look out for the kitty in a life preserver!!.......2003-10-21
Katie Macalister, who does nothing but write 24/7 so that I have lost track of HOW MANY books she has out this year, gives us BIRD OF PARADISE story in this trilogy. It is a gem of a comedy that says big is beautiful and a man and his cat should not be parted! Poking fun at the "reality" telly shows, this one groups a bunch of bachelors and bachelorettes and puts them in competition to find true love. The one that does wins a million dollars. But there is shady dealings doing on, as Adam is not really a contestant - neither is his cat named Jesus!! He is a private eye on the trail of his best friends ex-girlfriend. Girlfriend is fed up with Superjock friend and has joint the hunt for true love, so friend bribes another contestant to let Adam take his place so he can spy on the lady. Only, she spots him and knows what the game is. Into the mix is another not there for romance, Hero. She is there in a last ditch effort to save her job and get the inside scoop on the show for the rag magazine for which she works. Between Adam, Hero and Jesus the cat...love is a forgone conclusion. Katie once again give you a lovable, less than perfect heroine in Hero and anyone who loves kitties will adore Jesus the cat. The Story will have you HOWLING with laughter.
Jennifer Archer offer us BREAKING THE RULES, continuing the theme of men and women seeking romance - and a million dollars!!
Claire and her fiancé, James, are contestants. THey are there because of James' not so brilliant idea - thinking the tropical local would bring them closer. Enters Mitch and sudden that plan is out the window. James not only lose a shot at the girl but the big bucks!!
Sheridon Smythe's entry is HOT SHOT, and is another story of contests. This time Whitney and Rand as centre of focus. Whitney, again is not there for romance, but has come in search of the father she never knew. Daddy dearest is the host of the game show and she figures this is a good chance to see daddy up-close and judge him. Rand is there only because of his dead wife's fruitcake will. Since neither are there for romance, they figure they can give each other a cover and keep the other contestants from bothering them. What they did not count on was find love in paradise.
Who wins???? I won't tell...you have to read!!
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- Scorchingly hot erotica!
- A rip off
- Hot, hot, hot!!
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Heat Wave: Sizzling Sex Stories
Manufacturer: Cleis Press
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The summer heat sets the stage for these sultry, sexy stories of women and men getting playful in the surf, on the sand, and between the sheets. Taking readers from Rio de Janeiro to the sun-drenched French Riviera, these tales are the hottest summer sizzlers available. Contributors include Michele Zipp, Sage Vivant, Lynne Jamneck, M. Christian, Helena Settimana, and many others.
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Scorchingly hot erotica!.......2005-01-12
Don't burn yourself! These scorchingly sexy tales will make you forget about the cold, dreary weather and warm up real fast as they transport you to beaches and tropical locales where all there is to do is relax and enjoy yourself. These stories of hot summer sex do their job and then some, and certainly made me hot all over!
A rip off.......2004-12-29
Not much on offer here to warrant five stars, let alone one. As usual, Tyler has put out yet another book of monotonous sex stories that all sound exactly the same. Nowhere near as good as the anthology series which this so blatantly copies.
Hot, hot, hot!!.......2004-05-12
This is a red-hot collection of short stories! My favorites were Helena Settimana's "Highway 69" about a motorcycle chick and her outdoorsman, Sage Vivant's "The Yacht" about three women on vacation with three hunky sailor boys (with a fantastic on-deck scene! You could practically smell the suntan oil), the almost indescent "Tan Lines" by Thomas S. Roche featuring a delicious outdoor escapade, and "In Dependence Day" by Savannah Stephens Smith featuring a really hot dom/sub relationship. All of the stories sizzle. If you can't go on a vacation right now -- get this book instead!
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- Mistakes again...
- Weak book in Collins' CSI series
- one of the best CSI books
- One of the best books I've read
- Good summer read
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CSI, Miami: Heat Wave
Max Allan Collins
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Lieutenant Horatio Caine leads a crack team of forensic scientists who investigate crimes amid the tropical surroundings and cultural crossroads of Miami. Together, they collect and analyze the evidence to expose the truth and to bring justice to those who often cannot speak for themselves: the victims.
Crime boss Kurt Wallace was fighting to hold his vast crime empire together -- until a few well-placed bullets ended the struggle. As a host of dangerous "business interests" move in to seize control of Wallace's piece of the Miami underworld, Caine's CSIs must piece together the evidence to discover who was responsible for the crime that all of Miami had a motive to commit.
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Mistakes again..........2005-10-20
First of all, I really like the CSI series, even though I'm a bit concerned about how many spin-offs they'll produce. When I first looked into the novels and graphic novels, I was quite eager, since so much of the things I like about the series are to be found there. Yet, as I went through most of these books, most of them by Collins, I found again and again certain mistakes in the conclusions. As in this one, and not to spoil too much, additional information about an unknown DNA sample - the person is African-American - gets without any reason or explanaition conveniently transferred onto another unknown DNA sample, making a crucial connection. When I read that, I was stopped reading right there, went back in the book to check, then checked it again, but it still didn't add up.
I guess, it's possible that maybe I didn't understand everything right, or skipped these ultimately essential details. If that is so, and someone reads this and knows, please post something here and tell me. Otherwise, mistakes like that ruin the otherwise enjoyable reading experience
Weak book in Collins' CSI series.......2004-09-10
I have become a fan a Collins' CSI books. This one is by far the weakest of the lot. The plot is extremely far-fetched and not written in a way to make it at all believable. The ending is both predictable and laughable.
I was also disappointed in the character development. What has impressed me with Collins' other CSI books is the way he is able to further develop the characters that the television series has brought to life. He does nothing to add to any of the characters in this book and does little to show the personalities that the television series has developed.
I do recommend reading Collins' other CSI books if you enjoy either of the CSI television shows (or even to read them if you are not a fan of the shows because the books are decent stand-alone reads). But this one can be missed. It does not even come close to living up the standards set in his other books.
one of the best CSI books.......2004-09-08
I think Max Allan Collins has much more a feel of the Miami characters than he does for the Vegas ones. This book is very well written, and is very true to the series.
One of the best books I've read.......2004-07-25
Collins did a great job at capturing each charactors personality. Also he did great at showing how well the charactors worked together.
Good summer read.......2004-06-25
After the drive-by killing of crime boss Kurt Wallace, a war between the many gangs of Miami began to vie for control of the Miami's underworld. Soon each gang becomes a victim to an attack, only to turn around and kill out of revenge, leading to the city becoming a bloodbath. Soon after this all starts, a DEA hotshot, Jeremy Burnett, is wounded and his wife killed in drive-by identical to the murder of Wallace, bringing the Feds into the picture as well. Lieutenant Horatio Caine and his CSI team are trying to solve the mystery behind the Wallace murder because they believe that once they find out who started the gang war, they can bring an end to it. On top of this, this all has to be done before the Governor is forced to bring in the National Guard to stop the gang war.
One thing I like about Collins' CSI books is that they aren't based on a specific episode of CSI (like you find with other novelizations of TV series) but are stand alone books. It was nice being able to relate to the main characters of the book since I am familiar with the show. However, I did get very confused with all the different gangs, their leaders, and who was involved with what that I almost had to start taking notes. Unless an author is generous enough to put in a separate listing of cast of characters, I'm not too thrilled when a book gets like this. Other than that, it was an enjoyable, easy read and well worth putting on a summer reading list.
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- Potent, capable, slow-moving, tragic, venomous
- Worth reading but...
- A Summer At World's End
- Another winner from Penelope Lively
- This Heat Wave Is Chilling
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Heat Wave: Novel, A
Penelope Lively
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The weather is blistering but the emotions are chilly in this intimate, elegant novel set in the British countryside during a summer of record heat. A mother is watching the end of her daughter's marriage while confronting her own simmering anger over the infidelity of her own departed husband, years before. Penelope Lively's intense but muted style mirrors the detached anguish of her characters, who are groping toward their true feelings.
Book Description
It is a long, hot summer at World's End, a two-family grey stone cottage in the English countryside. Pauline is editing a romance novel in the smaller dwelling, and the larger part is occupied by her daughter, Teresa; Teresa's baby; and her husband, Maurice, a writer, whose infatuation with his editor's girlfriend is growing.
Pauline fears for Teresa, who is passionately in love with her husband, for she senses Maurice's imminent betrayal. She remembers a time when her possessive passion for Teresa's father eroded her own youth. A stunning and unexpected denouncement irrevocably changes the order of things for this family, whose intimacy the reader abandons reluctantly at novel's end.
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Potent, capable, slow-moving, tragic, venomous.......2004-12-16
Lively is a capable professional writer. As she describes some of the scenes you can see past them to the novelist carefully surveying a place, taking notes and returning to proficiently write them up. The novel moves incredibly slowly, as if Lively can't bear to leave any detail overlooked, any hint of shoddiness.
We get such a strong feeling of being inside Pauline, and Pauline is a triumph of authenticity. Lively, like Lodge, has the sense (and brave candour) to write mainly from the perspective of someone she could best understand - someone almost autobiographically like herself. This is not to say this is anything but imaginative fiction, and the events some sort of thinly disguised `tell-all'. Rather the way the central character views herself and the people around her feels very true. Hey, I'm not an introspective middle-aged woman, how would I know, but I suspect I've got a better idea of it after reading this book.
Slow paced, sure, but Lively analytically explores a classic common domestic tragedy: adultery. She doesn't rage about it - these are educated English characters, there's no swearing, slamming doors or gunplay. But don't mistake it - there is an ice-cool venom here too.
There's also despair at impotence: Pauline watches her daughter's innocent contentment being punctured; she understands to several decimal places exactly what is going on - and what will ensue; how awful and unjust it is; and how there is essentially nothing she can do about it.
The novel eschews the satisfying relief of offering the characters (and the readers) the `answer': "Now listen, Teresa, what you need to do right now is...". Rather it more insightfully forces us to endure the ugly tension of living and conversing with someone who has betrayed and is essentially unrepentant and relatively unscathed. While the one deeply hurt through no personal fault is made to feel guilty. The conversations, the situations, the irresolvable tensions are played out in this awful understated but plausible way. Indeed, we get to feel it twice as Lively seamlessly moves between past and present.
I'm still left a bit uncomfortable with Pauline's (Lively's) utter certainty. In her world, much as in that of Passing On, we know precisely what to think of each character. I don't really like having it spelt out for me quite so restrictively, and I'm forced towards suspicion of her implacable judgements. Oh, she's careful to make sure we know this is not simply an `all men are bastards' diatribe: Pauline has genuine affection for Hugh, and shows motherly care for Chris Rogers. But can we just write some folks off the way they are here? Maybe we can: if I was writing an honest novel about my feelings there'd be some irredeemable turds in there, and I'd not give them the time and space Lively gives to Maurice and Harry. But, as I say, this book gives you no room at all to move.
Spoiler warning:
If you've read the book, you know exactly what I'm about to address. If you haven't read the book, show some sense and stop reading this review now.
Blimey - that was not the finish I was expecting, even if I might have wanted it. Very much like Passing On - all the action is crammed into the last chapter, or in this case, the last pages. Blam. That venom thing I was mentioning earlier .... Here's this articulate, utterly civilised, educated, thinking, academic caring older woman, and the moral to the story: "It'd be better for everyone if you were dead." No, this is not hyperbole.
Lively takes the liberty of fiction to apply a solution that does all it can to shake off the complacency of the adulterer.
Worth reading but..........2004-11-22
"Heat Wave" was my first Penelope Lively novel. To be honest it took me some time to finish it. Midway, I'd wish there were more incidents to light up the drab life of one middle-class fiftyish copyeditor (Pauline), her daughter and their family snuggling up in a humdrum English rural outpost. The momentum of the book is sustained by flashbacks of her divorced husband's marital infidelities as she watches her daughter and son-in-law plunge into a similar marital crisis of sorts.
It was not that Lively's prose drags (it is wonderfully crisp and at times, witty) but rather that she is describing the mundane everyday going-ons between a family trio (or quartet, if one takes into account the toddler grandson), which the material was stretched too broadly on the canvas to my taste. Lively's observations of suspicion and growing mistrust within a marital union are the best parts of the book. The twist at the end provides a welcoming relief -- I was just wondering whether the "crisis" would drone on indeterminately. What would please other readers is that Lively's characters are well-drawn, believable figures like you and I. Personally I felt that given the paucity of events, the book might do better as a short story or a novella -- however the quality of Lively's prose would surely invite me to read another of her books.
A Summer At World's End.......2004-07-15
It is a May day at World's End. The beginning of a long, hot summer in Pauline Carter's greystone cottage in England, about two hours outside of London. Pauline is copyediting an allegory of romantic love. Her daughter, Theresa and her husband Maurice, and their son, Luke live in the second half of the cottage.
Maurice is a professor and writer and is busy writing a travel journal of local places. He often invites his editor and his girlfriend down for the weekend to help with each chapter. The issue is Maurice's infatuation with his editor's girlfriend. Oh, what memories this stirs in Pauline's heart. She fears for Theresa, who is so in love with her husband.
Years ago, Pauline fell in love with Harry, a professor and bon vivant. Pauline and Harry married much to everyone's surprise. Harry was known as a lady's man and not the type to marry. And, in due course, Theresa was born to Pauline and Harry. Harry was not much of a father, he loved Theresa but was not involved in her life. Much the same could be said of Maurice and his behavior with Luke. Pauline is so afraid for Theresa, she could sense imminent betrayal, and no one was speaking of it. Pauline was much respected by Maurice, but he offered no excuses nor did he feel he needed to excuse his behavior. This type of thing just happpened.
Penelope Lively has given us an elegant portrayal of fragile family dynamics that have already been greatly affected by adultery. Pauline will do anything to assist her daughter, and she opens her heart to Theresa. She discusses her own life with Theresa's father, and the fact that she should have left him long before she did. However, Theresa is not ready to discuss anything about her husband with Pauline at this time- denial is the name of the game. Pauline must take little steps with her daughter and support her as best she can.
This is once again, a book not to be put down. Penelope Lively has a habit of writing this kind of novel. The conclusion adds a form of the unusual and unexpected. I was not ready for this story to end, but the author knows best. We realize that the anxiety and suspicion we have felt has led to frustration, and now we can look at the situation with clearer eyes. This is Penelope Lively's eleventh novel, and I must read each one. She is an author unlike any other. Each book is better than the last, but how can that be? A witty and intelligent author with every novel a number one in my book! prisrob
Another winner from Penelope Lively.......2004-03-29
If you haven't yet discovered this Booker Award-winning British novelist, now's a good time to pick up one of her many books. Moon Tiger is her most well-known novel, but the others deserve equal attention.
In Heat Wave, Lively aims her magnifying glass on Pauline Carter and her married daughter. It starts out as a quiet story, set in a summer cottage in England's bucolic countryside. But with each turn of the page, the tension increases and increases...and increases...until the stunning conclusion just knocks your socks off. At it's base, it's a story of romance. Pauline is editing an allegory of romantic love while watching her daughter, Teresa, struggle with the romantic side of her married life, after realizing that her son-in-law is conducting an affair right under their noses.
About midpoint, you think you know where this book is heading. You would be wrong. Lively, in all her books, is fascinated with the conflict and difference between what is real and what appears on the surface. The serenity of the countryside is offset by the violence of the natural world; the appearance of romance is threatened by cynical adultery; love is marred by jealousy.
Don't miss this book; it's one of her best.
This Heat Wave Is Chilling.......2003-01-09
I had not read a Penelope Lively novel in so long, I had forgotten how brilliant a writer she can be. Her talent is very evident in "Heat Wave." A deceptively simple story with very dark undertones, the book is a masterpiece of "novel-as-understatement."
Long-divorced Pauline, a freelance book editor, is spending the summer at her country cottage, World's End, with her daughter Theresa and her family--husband Morris, baby son Luke. Theresa and family occupy one half of the duplex, and Pauline the other. It's an agreeable relationship that allows each household the privacy it needs as well as the companionship, as the entire family gathers for dinner and other outings.
All is seemingly serene in both houses, but as the weather turns hotter in an unusually strong heat wave, the civilized overlay between the adults gradually melts away. For in an almost obscene coincidence, as far as Pauline is concerned, her daughter's husband Morris is engaged in an affair that is destined to break Theresa's heart--the same as Pauline's was broken many years ago by her husband (and Theresa's father) Harry.
The similarities between Morris and Harry are chilling. Both are authors. Both are self-centered, charming, and careless of their women. Both have affairs with young women who are "editorial groupies." As Pauline watches Morris become increasingly involved with Carol, the vacuous girlfriend of his own editor, Jack, she begins to relive (and re-feel) the horrible emotions she encountered as a young wife betrayed by her own cheating husband. The novel moves effortlessly between the present and the past as Pauline watches her own daughter's betrayal and is helpless to stop it. As her emotions churn, so does the weather. Only Luke, the innocent baby, is unaware of the terrible events unfolding all around him, and only Luke is unscathed in the end.
Similar in tone to the works of Joanna Trollope, "Heat Wave" is just about as good as it gets. It is beautifully written, spare and to-the-point, and it ensnares the reader completely in its seemingly simple story of love and loss.
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Burn
Sean Doolittle
Manufacturer: Ugly Town
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Binding: Hardcover
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Book Description
It's the middle of a sweltering late-summer heat wave in Los Angeles. In the nearby mountains, a seasonal wildfire burns out of control. If not for this fire, authorities might never have discovered wreckage of an Alfa Romeo convertible--or the body of the car's driver--in the dense underbrush at the bottom of Topanga Canyon. But when firefighters happen across the crash site while battling the nearby blaze, it's only a matter of time and basic forensics before the apparent accident is upgraded to homicide. Gregor Tavlin, a southern California celebrity fitness guru, has been murdered. As far as anyone knows Tavlin had no enemies. And the closest thing to a suspect in the case has disappeared.
Such is the spark that touches off Burn.
The fire requires only fuel.
And everybody has their flash point.
Customer Reviews:
Confusing.......2006-04-22
I do not see how anyone can give this book five stars. I'm half way through and am constantly confused! There are SO many characters I forget who's who - and really don't care. I forgot all about the original crime until it was finally reintroduced. I'm starting to scan, just to see why the heck the book is about! I'm not sure - well, other than to find out who killed some guy. I picked this paperback up at a book exchange store for $.50 and I'm not sure it's worth the price.
Cool.......2005-08-09
Elmore Leonard does it best, but this author is on the right track. I'll look for his other work.
Doolittle's on a hot streak.......2003-12-19
Fans of offbeat, fast-paced crime fiction will devour BURN, the latest from the author of DIRT. Doolittle's coming into his own as a novelist, and here he shows why: a body discovered in the aftermath of an LA forest fire sets off a chain of events involving private eyes, thugs, arsonists, and celebrity workout trainers. Doolittle juggles a large cast here, but keeps everything focused tightly, and the plot rips right along.
One of the most impressive things about BURN is how Doolittle perfectly captures the narcissism and weirdness of LA without resorting to the standard expected Hollywood-bashing we've seen elsewhere (such as Elmore Leonard's GET SHORTY). Doolittle stakes out his own territory here, and wise readers can trust him as they careen toward a funny and dark destination.
Doolittle is an author to watch!.......2003-11-30
This is Doolittle's second novel, after the enjoyable "Dirt."
The action is set in southern California, with the Santa Ana winds providing fans for the flames of sporadic wild fires. A very satisfying mystery - a body discovered in the brush in the path of the flames, ostensibly a traffic accident, is identified as a murder victim. His tissues, blood, and brain matter are found in the trunk of his car, making it impossible for him to have driven off the cliff.
Acting on a tip, police visit a beach house where Andrew Kindler is staying. From here, Doolittle begins a wonderful study of the consequences of the choices we all make in life. For reasons he has difficulty articulating, Kindler has left his life in the Eastern US, and is pondering the options open to him now. A parade of uninvited persons begins to show up at his beach house, drawing him unwillingly into the mystery of the dead man near the damaged car.
Doolittle holds a wicked mirror up to some California stereotypes, creates a very appealing group of other characters - a hard working police detective, the owner of a chain of exercise studios, a lovely young woman yearning for news of her twin brother, and assorted cousins, evidence technicians, and security guards.
Don't miss this one! Doolittle is an author to watch!
Burn Baby Burn.......2003-10-28
This was a superb book. The second from this new author (the first was DIRT, and was also great).
It opens with the discovery of the body of a fitness guru and leads to the back door of protaganist Andrew Kindler. Kindler is on the run from his past and hiding out in his cousin's beach house. Trouble comes knocking and seems to follow him everywhere.
This book captures the feeling of Southern California and is so similar to Ross MacDonald it's scary. A terrific read and a page turner to the end.
Jon Jordan
Customer Reviews:
Whoa!.......2007-10-10
This is one of my top 5 favorite romances of all time! It had just enough depth mixed in with all the hot sexy scenes. It was fun and playful, and I really loved how Ian understood her. Don't we all wish we had a guy that really understood us? Sexy, smart man and fun witty woman! Great job Janelle Denison!
Storyline from publisher . . ........2004-06-26
Radio personality Erica McCree really likes sex. Talking about sex, that is . . .
Ian Carlisle has already seduced Erica's imagination. Now he's trying for the rest of her . . .
Erica knows firsthand that you can hide a lot behind a microphone. Although she's earned a reputation for discussing every aspect of sex on her show, she's never had to back it up . . . until a sexy mystery caller proves to be even more irresistible in person. Their on-the-air chemistry sizzles and they heat up the airwaves, debating any and all provocative issues possible. As the ratings soar, so does the sexual tension. But what will Ian do when he discovers Erica's not the sex expert she professes to be?
Ian and Erica-Heat Waves-SPOILERS.......2002-07-11
favorite scene with erica-
the end where she's pouring out her feelings over the air to ian and her listeners.
favorite scene with ian-
gayle telling ian to go for it.
favorite scene with erica and ian together-
the fight they have about ian buying the company.
Hot read? Oh my!.......2002-04-19
This was the second Blaze I've read and it certainly looks like the series is holding it's own. Janelle Denison's writing is tight, she's drawn up two great characters with hot action, and I will say, yes, the limo scene was hot!
I would like to see a novel on the other two lovers in the book though, I bet it'd be just as hot. But Ian and Erica, wow. Her treatment of Erica's past was handled differently than I expected, which made for better reading. I couldn't put this book down!
HOLY COW!!!!!!!!!!!!TURN UP THE AIR CONDITIONER!!!!!!!!!.......2002-03-06
Ian and Erica, holy cow!!!!!!! All I can say is the limo love scene is worth buying this book for, it is HOT, HOT, HOT!!Oh, and the story is good to!! HIGHLY RECOMMEND!!
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- SIZZLES
- Heat, not Humidity
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Miami Heat Wave
Manufacturer: Bruno Gmunder
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Binding: Hardcover
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Customer Reviews:
SIZZLES.......2005-12-23
Nice..very nice indeed...Eye candy in great abundance. Is this what is meant when the sportscasters talk about the MIAMI HEAT?
Woof.
Heat, not Humidity.......2002-06-17
If I say "I wanna go to Mi-yami!" will it make me sound too whiny?
Who cares? After paging through "Miami Heatwave," the first book to feature the work of talented videographer and photographer Ron Williams, and set against the backdrop of South Florida, who wouldn't be saying the same thing?
Anyone who has ever sampled Williams' video work will appreciate this collection of still photographs. The artistry of Williams lens, the absolute physical perfection of every single male model, and the fine quality of printing (by Bruno Gmunder publishers) combine to make this one of the best collections of beautiful male photography seen in a long time.
The only quibble I have with "Miami Heatwave" is that some models are featured more than others, and the book isn't nearly extensive enough. But then, how could you ever get enough of Manny's big grin, Darren's silken, shelf-like pecs with their chocolate brown nipples, and blond Mark's amazingly perfect torso and six-pack abs? And then there's the famous Aaron, with his blond, boy-next-door gone bad hunkiness. Sigh.
With Williams' discerning eye, I can imagine he probably has material for 40 books in his (no doubt) enormous files, but his reputation for showing only his very best work may prevent most of what he has done to ever see that light of day. What a shame for his fans like me, if only because Williams' work, even on his worst day, easily outshines the best offerings of others working in the same field.
For now, anyway, we will have to be content with what Williams offers us - but let's hope that soon there will be a "Miami Heatwave II," - and III, and IV . . .
Book me the next available flight to Miami!.......2001-09-19
The blurb on the back cover is absolutely right, these guys do create " a desire for summer adventure" If you've never seen a Vista Video this book will certainly get you in the mood to watch one. Many of the Vistamen are here including Aaron, one of the models whose most synonymous with Vista Video, Carlos and Eric (two of the longest serving) and many others. These portraits are sheer works of art thanks to the models themselves and also to Ron Williams' skill as a photographer. The best picture in my opinion is of Jeremy, in a close-up with his arms hugging himself and his head at a cute, almost inquistive angle, as he looks into the camera with a warm heart-tugging gaze. But then all the guys look wonderful and even manage to keep most of their clothes on, except Mark, another of my favourites who cheekily stands nude behind a strategically placed surfboard. Some may find the lack of nudity boring, I think it makes an agreeable contrast to the more revealing nature of Vista Video productions.
This photobook is superb; A stunning book full of stunning men, which should appeal to anyone who likes good looking men.
A Real "Scorcher".......2000-11-02
This book of male models is not a "Heatwave" it's a "Miami Scorcher." Ron Williams has gathered together 14 very handsome, muscular young men, photographed in brilliant color. I usually like black and white photography better because I believe it has more feeling, but this new collection of Ron William's is breathtaking in its exciting photos of men in outdoor surroundings. I especially enjoyed models, "Federico, Aaron & Carlos." What handsome & masculine men they are. Most models are photographed in swimwear, shorts, jeans & underwear. There is no need for frontal nudity, the men are much more erotic shown this way.
Ron Williams is an Emmy Award winning director living in Miami, who has created many corporate commercials in the last 20 years. He is well-known for his VistaMen series of physique art videos showcasing many stunning sensual men who are physique models. I really enjoyed this book & hope to see more books published of his fine photography in the near future.
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