Jurassic Park Adventures One Book Review

Jurassic Park Adventures One is a book about a kid named Eric Kirby who has to get to a test safe house to escape dinosaurs on an island. When he tries to get out of the test house, he can't. Some people have to save him. Their plane crashes in the rescue. If you like dinosaurs, this is the book for you. The stars of the book are Spinosaurus, T- Rex & Raptor. Eric makes friends with an Iguanadon & names it Iggy. Eric is a hero. He goes out to save a man, but does not know who he is.

By James

All thirteen-year-old Eric Kirby wanted was a chance to get to see real, live dinosaurs up close. So when his mom's boyfriend, Ben, offered him the opportunity, he jumped at the chance. Eric and Ben will get to parasail over the Jurassic Park Island, observing the dinosaurs from a safe distance. But something goes very wrong, and the two fall from the sky onto the island. Only Eric survives the fall, and he is trapped in a hostile prehistoric environment where he is the prey. It will take all of his wits and courage to stay alive until help arrives - but how can one kid survive among the deadliest predators ever to walk the earth? This was a thrilling story, not only for fans of the movies, but for readers who like adventure stories. The book ended with a cliffhanger that will lead into the new Jurassic Park movie, so now I have to wait until the movie comes out to find out what happens to Eric, which won't be for a whole month, or read the novelization. Still, this was an exciting, although short, book.

I recently did a research paper on coyotes, interested in why they are increasing in the area. I had 18 sources and this book provided the most informative and comprehensive material available; it is also the most current group study available. It provides wonderful insight into the world of the coyote, such as habitat, social hierarchy, breeding, territorial patterns, general behaviors, etc. I fell in love with the coyote after reading it, and was disappointed to hear about the re-introduction of the wolf (predator to coyote) to Yellowstone National Park. The book also contains the most beautiful photographs of coyotes available. Highly recommended!

A friend recommended this book to me after I asked him why coyotes are turning up everywhere in the US. Wilkinson gets at the heart of why persecuting coyotes is a bad idea. If you love coyotes, you won't be disappointed.

Color is what this book is all about. Beautiful pictures follow well-written text that takes one through the different seasons (as expected) in Canada's oldest Park. A real treat!

Texas redneck pursues love interest into feminist Tantric Buddhist sex commune. Undergoes changes. A commentary and companion to the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Contains graphic language, poetry, and explication du texte.

Dolores park uses the situation of the intentional commune to reflect robust experiments with religion, sexual generosity and lifestyle. We follow the main character, Walker, and watch as his mind grows in psychological depth and sophistication while his western ego crumbles under relentless onslaught of sexual ecstasy and group confrontation and spiritual insights.

The books develops from personal romance between Walker and Dahlia, to group psychology and then to exploring the profound effects of the psyche of group marriage.

We follow Walker Underwood just in from Texas exploring the strangeness of California lifestyle in San Francisco as he falls in love with a beautiful woman who belonged to a Tantric Buddhist commune. The story of this romance is one of the most well-written to ever flow through a human observer capturing man's longing for the grace and the lively loveliness of woman's mortal essence. We become involved with him as he attempts to write poetry and as the couple struggle against great odds to be together.

Following in romantic pursuit, we are brought through shifting points of view into the lives and struggles of the people of the commune and the Group Mind at the center of Tantric Buddhist spiritual practices. Eventually Walker finds a terrific sense of self-acceptance as he finally comes home to himself.

Dolores Park records the poignant year that began in the fall of 1982, when the nuclear freeze initiative was gaining momentum, and the AIDS epidemic was just starting to surface. A precious time of inner renewal and sexual self-discovery.

With humor, Walker describes how the experiences changed his attitudes, salvaged his sexual life and enriched his spiritual life.

Rich in psychological insight, flowing with lyrical beauty, and depicting the sadness at the heart of all attempts to live an authentic feeling life, Dolores Park invites the reader to join this hapless southern writer on his journey to a deeper understanding of the divine and the human community.

The book teaches the reader how to read itself gradually, as it develops the literary convention of Point Of View shift into a perfect vehicle to reflect the subject matter of the book --group processing. This simple principle generates a wholeness that at once hides, reveals and contain the energies of an ordinary man's unconscious.

What emerges is the picture of a modern mind imbued in, trusting and enriched by the penetrating abstraction in our world view especially that reflected in the description of how the laws of space and energy are invariants derived from group theoretical principles governing the transformations of symmetry. This perspective is born out in Piaget's account of human consciousness growing in stages from the inter-figural, intra-figural, and trans-figural relations as well as of transpersonal psychology in its maturation of object relations, self-psychology, and group psychology. This is the structure of the book and the story it tells.

Michael Lyons is a freelance writer of fiction, technical manuals and theatre performance in San Francisco. He received his B.A.in Natural Philosophy from the University of Texas, Austin. Dolores Park is the thrid novel in a projected series. It is followed by Zenobia and A Blue Moon in August. He is author of several novels including two in his little house on the prairie trilogy --they are The Secret of the Cicadas' Song, and Knight of 1000 eyes, also published by HiT MoteL Press. The third novel in this series, Knight of 1000 eyes will come out in August 2001

"Neo-Confucianism" is a term that refers to a broad range of thinkers and intellectual movements that developed in the "middle ages" in China, and then spread to Korea and Japan. Neo-Confucians sought to explicate, propogate, and defend the Confucian tradition against Buddhism and Taoism, which they saw as decadent. However, many people (including myself) think that Neo-Confucianism is itself heavily influenced by Buddhist metaphysical concepts (especially Zen Buddhist ideas). Nonetheless, Neo-Confucianism is a very interesting philosophical movement in its own right.

As this book's title indicates, the "four-seven debate" is the most famous controversy in Korean Neo-Confucianism. The topic initially seems pretty dry. The issue is how to reconcile the list of FOUR emotional reactions that the ancient Confucian Mencius identifies as the basis for human virtue (e.g., sympathy is the basis for benevolence, disdain is the basis for righteousness, etc.) with the list of SEVEN emotions that appears in texts such as the Mean. Now, before you say "Who cares?" and click on another link, let me give you an interpretation of what this is really about.

Neo-Confucians think that everything in existence is composed of LI ("principle"), an underlying metaphysical structure shared by all things, and CH'I, which is variously translated, but refers to an intrinsically unstructured "stuff." "Principle" cannot exist without CH'I to inhere in, but CH'I cannot exist without "principle" to structure it. So far so good. But in both Chinese and Korean Confucianism a question arises about how principle and CH'I are related. People in one tradition (that associated with the philosopher Chu Hsi, see Daniel Gardner's translation, Learning to Be a Sage) hold that the principle can be conceptually abstracted from its embodiment in CH'I, and that doing so makes it easier for us to be guided by principle. However, those in the other wing of Neo-Confucianism (that associated with the philosopher Wang Yang-ming, see Philip J. Ivahoe's Ethics in the Confucian Tradition) hold that it is a distortion to separate principle and CH'I even conceptually.

The importance of this debate is that the Chu Hsi wing thinks you can read the classic texts to learn the abstractions of principle, and thereby cultivate yourself ethically. The Wang Yang-ming wing insists that all right action is inherently context sensitive, so you have to rely more on your innate moral sense than classic texts.

Scholars will note that I have oversimplified a bit, but I hope I've brought out some of the reason that this book is interesting. I should also note that the translation seems very good, and that the parties to the debater wrote very clearly about this issue, so if you're willing to think carefully about philosophical issues you can follow the debate.

I really love this book. I'd been buying Michael Frome's National Park Guides for years (he used to publish for Rand McNally). I've been looking for his next edition for years and just recently found out that he retired shortly after publishing this issue. Good for him, but sad for his loyal readers. I'll hang onto the issue I have. The best audience is the car traveler who takes day hikes. There is a "Practical Guide" section for each National Park, that is very useful. It tells what is the best season, how long it takes to adequately see the park (from the road w. day hikes), nearby accommodations, and major sites.

Michael's first encounter with wolves was at age 12 and he can't get enough of them. He considers himself very lucky to have been drawn to the natural world at a young age and this beautifully written book shows it. I'm not just saying this; I really like his writing style because it's so down to earth. The timber wolf has had a bad rap and it's about time we realize its importance in the natural scheme of things. Incidentally, there's a great chapter on Algonquin Park's annual wolf howl event, which is in August. Ever been to one?

The photos alone are worth the price of this oversized paperback. Mr. Anderson has assembled a detailed and engaging history of the "pioneer" period (1850-1930) at the South and North rims of the Grand Canyon (and the cliffs, slopes and water in between). The familiar names of trails and canyons are fleshed into the first hardy folks who endeavored to eek a livelihood out of northern Arizona's unforgiving desert canyon. We meet explorers, entrepreneurs and industrialists. Prospectors stake their claims, both legitimate and fraudulent. Mormons seek refuge from the laws of their own home state. Individuals fight their losing tugs-of-war against the Railroad/Concession/Park Service aliance. While treatment of prehistoric and early Spanish events is adequate to set the stage for discussing the later periods, it is not intended to be comprehensive [see On the Edge of Splendor]. This comfortably readable volume has finally clarified for me the preferential treatment of Fred Harvey Enterprises, the unmistakable ambivalence of the National Park Service toward its patrons (visitors), and the puzzling destruction of historic sites and abandonment of remote access roads by the NPS. This is great reading for any Canyon junkie.

This book is great, especially if you're a hiker, but whitewater rafters wont find info in here on Cataract.

This book is still in print. It is invaluable to anyone who is interested in the Sale and Closure of the first great urban amusement park in the United States.