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Biology: Concepts & Connections with Student CD-ROM (5th Edition)
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Biology: Concepts & Connections with Student CD-ROM (5th Edition)
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<B></B> Biology: Concepts and Connections invites readers into the world of biology with a new revision of this best-selling text. It is known for scientific accuracy and currency; a modular presentation that helps readers to focus on the main concepts; and art that teaches better than any other book. <B></B> Biology: Exploring Life, THE LIFE OF THE CELL, The Chemical Basis of Life, The Molecules of Cells, A Tour of the Cell, The Working Cell, How Cells Harvest Chemical Energy, Photosynthesis: Using Light to Make Food, CELLULAR REPRODUCTION AND GENETICS, The Cellular Basis of Reproduction and Inheritance, Patterns of Inheritance, Molecular Biology of the Gene, The Control of Gene Expression, DNA Technology and Genomics, CONCEPTS OF EVOLUTION, How Populations Evolve, The Origin of Species, Tracing Evolutionary History, THE EVOLUTION OF BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY, The Origin and Evolution of Microbial Life: Prokaryotes and Protists, Plants, Fungi, and the Colonization of Land, The Evolution of Animal Diversity, Human Evolution, ANIMALS: FORM AND FUNCTION, Unifying Concepts of Animal Structure and Function, Nutrition and Digestion, Gas Exchange, Circulation, The Immune System, Control of the Internal Environment, Chemical Regulation, Reproduction and Embryonic Development, Nervous Systems, The Senses, How Animals Move, PLANTS: FORM AND FUNCTION, Plant Structure, Reproduction, and Development, Plant Nutrition and Transport, Control Systems in Plants, ECOLOGY, The Biosphere: An Introduction to Earth's Diverse Environments, Behavioral Adaptations to the Environment, Population Dynamics, Communities and Ecosystems, Conservation Biology <B></B> For all readers interested in the world of biology.

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Essential Biology with Physiology
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Essential Biology with Physiology</B></U> is a brief non-majors biology book that combines the clear writing, real-world applications, vivid art program, and powerful media of Essential Biology</B></U>, <B>Second Edition</B></U>, but also includes nine new chapters on animal and plant physiology. Essential Biology with Physiology</B></U> helps readers become informed citizens by focusing on evolution, human applications, and up-to-date information on important issues like DNA technology, cloning, and global warming. For college instructors, students, or anyone interested in biology.

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Biology: Concepts and Connections Media Update (5th Edition) (Campbell Biology Websites Series)
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    The Collected Plays of Neil Simon, Vol. 3
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    Neil Simon
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    3 out of 5 stars Best And Worst Of Simon In The '60s.......2007-03-06

    Neil Simon was the toast of Broadway in the late 1960s, and the plays contained in "The Collected Plays of Neil Simon, Vol. 1" are what put him there.

    They read unevenly today, in ways good and bad a litmus test as to what constituted mass-market humor back then versus now. Simon in his first decade was more motivated to be purely funny than he ever would be again, and his gift for the killer one-liner is in constant evidence from the first play here ("Come Blow Your Horn," 1961) to the last ("Last Of The Red-Hot Lovers," 1970). So too though are his problems with believable characterization and scenarios, skills he shored up later in his career.

    Reading Simon, as opposed to seeing his work performed on stage, loses something anyway. The playwright always had a sense for rhythm and timing, and wrote his lines with the delivery of a professional comedic actor or actress in mind. It's no challenge reading the part of the father in "Come Blow Your Horn" and getting the humor of this put-upon whiner, however lacking in inflection your inner-reading voice may be. More challenging is finding the laughs in the tortured Barney character in "Red-Hot," who might seem bathetic without someone like James Coco at the controls.

    Even with that caveat, Simon comes across less steady in other ways. Especially in this, his first decade, he was aiming for the laugh above all, sometimes with an elephant gun, making it messy when he missed. "The Star-Spangled Girl," Simon's 1967 take on the Bay Area counter-culture, is about as tone-deaf as he gets, as lovestruck boy pursues girl with lines like "Please lower your voice. I'm trying to hear your hair growing."

    Even Simon later called that play a misfire. But his style in 1964's "Barefoot In The Park" is no better. A clean-cut guy tries to make do with a newlywed nut of a wife, who even her own mother is wary of. Wise telephone men, kooky neighbors, every Simon trope is here, everything but a reason why the couple found each other in the first place, or why we should care as much as Simon does if they stay together.

    The two best-known plays here are probably "The Odd Couple" (1966) and "Plaza Suite" (1969), and along with "Promises, Promises" (1968), a clever, sure-footed musical adaptation of the classic movie comedy "The Apartment," represent Simon's best moments here. All make for good if not great reads.

    "The Odd Couple" features another mismatched couple (fussy but responsible Felix Ungar and his irresponsible slob of a roommate, Oscar Madison). They don't gel nearly as well as they did in the Simon-penned movie, but they do furnish a lot of laughs, page for page the most in the book.

    "Plaza Suite" starts slow and heavy, introducing a miserable lout and his long-suffering wife, before moving on to a pair of far better vignettes, all set in the same Manhattan hotel room. Most everyone enjoys the last of the three, an immersive display of Simon's winning domestic comedy style, but the middle tale, of a jaded Hollywood producer and a starstruck woman who knew him when, is a witty yet sad examination of a pair of decent people who each see something more in the other than is actually there.

    The best play for reading here, "Promises, Promises," was the only one not made into a movie, because it started out as one. It's tempting to say that being given a pre-existing story helped Simon bridge one of his glaring weaknesses, but he does a nice job updating the Billy Wilder film while setting up such Bacharach/David songs as "I'll Never Fall In Love Again." It's the only play here to use more than one set, and feels far less static for that.

    If you are a Simon fan, you will enjoy reading these plays, but not nearly as much as seeing them. Others may find it slower going, a comedic time capsule with a musty odor.

    2 out of 5 stars These plays are not Simon's best........2004-12-27

    "The Collected Plays of Neil Simon, Vol. 1" is a nice anthology, but it's not full of his best works. I loved Simon's "Brighton Beach Memoirs" (his two sequels weren't as good), so I have very high expectations for his plays. Here's a brief review for each play:

    "The Odd Couple" - I went into this play knowing I wouldn't really like it, since I didn't care for the movie or television show. I found it too neurotic.

    "Plaza Suite" - This was a very depressing play. Affairs outside the marriage is such a common theme in Simon's plays, and it's becoming sickening.

    "Barefoot in the Park" - The best play in this whole volume. Witty and sensual. The movie is just as superb.

    "Come Blow Your Horn" - The mother in this play is hysterical, and she's what saves the play from boredom.

    "The Star-Spangled Girl" - By far the stupidest play I've ever read.

    "Last of the Red Hot Lovers" - Simon tried too hard to be funny. You can tell when he wants you to laugh, and I don't like that.

    "Promises, Promises" - He should stay away from musicals! Boring and petty.

    Overall, this volume was a letdown, but one to have - nonetheless - if you're a Neil Simon fan. I "sorta" recommend.

    5 out of 5 stars I never stopped laughing........2001-02-10

    After watching Neil Simon's biography on TV, I decided to read some of his plays. A friend had read this book, and loaned it to me, when I was needing some Neil Simon. I read "Come Blow your Horn" and after that, I don't know if I stopped giggling, or laughing once. When reading a play, sometimes it seems dead in the script, Neil Simon plays are just as extraordinary on paper as on the stage, or in a movie. I was picturing the "Odd Couple" arguing and I started to laugh out loud (I later saw the movie and discovered that Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon perfectly fit the pictures in my mind." I then moved on to "Star Spangled Girl" which had me roaring with laughter, followed by "Barefoot in the Park" which I really loved. It was so sweet, and innocent, yet hysterically funny! Then, I went to a Plaza Suite, where a series of Affairs and arguments take place. On to "Promises, Promises" A play that was funny, and sweet. Finally, I finished this wonderful book with the poignant, and amusing play "The Last of Red Hot Lovers". Now, I am on to the next set of Neil Simon plays, but these six, will always be some of my personal favorites of all time.

    5 out of 5 stars Only reviewing "Only When I Laugh"................2000-04-13

    Neil Simon is one of America's foremost playwrights. His "The Odd Couple" is very memorable as is his play " Only When I Laugh" which tells the poignant story of a rehabed alcoholic actress trying to get back to work, her struggle to pick up a relationship with her teenage daughter and the close bond she shares with an ageing beauty queen friend and a mostly out-of-work gay actor. Do yourself a favour and rent the video starring Marsha Mason (Simon's ex-wife) The scene where Mason's life is falling apart around her and she takes that first swill of the wine glass is worthy, every bit worthy, of her Oscar nomination in this role. Simon punches absolutely brilliant one liners and is a master of the theatre in his telling of relationships, past, present and re-establishing. Other plays include "California Suite"
    The Collected Plays of Neil Simon, Vol. 2
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    Neil Simon
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    5 out of 5 stars Collected Plays of Neil Simon Vol I.......2007-01-12

    Most Neil Simon plays are wonderful and I enjoyed reading them. Some of them were no so terriffic.

    5 out of 5 stars Treasure chest.......2002-04-26

    This lovely volume of eight Neil Simon plays will assume an immediate place of honour on your bookshelf. Well laid out with easy-to-read type, it takes up where volume 1 leaves off. Even those folks not connected with the world of acting can have fun with these scripts. Reading/acting the plays aloud with your family, each person assigned a different role, can be a great activity for quality time -and will hone your comedy timing. Special nuggets include 'Prisoner of second avenue' and 'Chapter Two'. Reading Simon's work reveals greater depth beneath the priceless one-liners that he supplies. That, in fact, is his genius; like Woody Allen and Joseph Heller, Simon first draws you in with laughter only to move you with great humanity. These plays are among his deeper works, as life-experience go into the mix. The stories on these pages are our own, and youll have a ball!
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    5 out of 5 stars I love Nathan Lane!.......2000-04-25

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      The Collected Plays of Neil Simon, Vol. 4
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      The Collected Plays of Neil Simon, Vol. 4
      Neil Simon
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      Since 1960, a Broadway season without a Neil Simon play has been a rare one. For more than thirty years, Simon's wry and astute observations on life, love, and the human condition have been making audiences laugh uproariously even as his beautifully realized characters touch their hearts. These five plays, including the Pulitzer- and Tony-award-winning Lost in Yonkers, show Simon at the pinnacle of his extraordinary career.

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      <LI><B>Rumors

      <LI>Lost in Yonkers

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      5 out of 5 stars i'm a fan.......2006-11-06

      i'm a bit of an amatuer theater buff and purchased volume one of mr. simon's plays just in doing some research (it was cheaper than a single copy of the play i wanted). i read the play that i wanted and went on with life. later, as i was looking for a book for casual reading, i decided to read the other plays in that particular collection. i was hooked. mr. simon will long be remembered as the voice of the american play. now, on the fourth volume, his plays are as vibrant and entertaining as ever. even though some are dated in there setting and references, the stories are timeless. The collected plays of neil simon, vol. 4 is prominantly displayed in my home library--and a early "go to" when i'm in need of some casual reading. this particular volume contains the pulitzer prize winning "lost in yonkers".

      5 out of 5 stars Worth it just for the first two plays.......2006-08-21

      Rumors and Lost in Yonkers are amazing plays. Jake's Women isn't as funny, and the story isn't as strong as the other two, but is has some laughs and a few great monologues. I'm only a little ways into Laughter on the 23rd Floor, but I already love it. This book is a great example of how unique and developed all of Neil Simon's characters are. You won't be disappointed.

      5 out of 5 stars Neil Simon...Volume 4.......2005-02-21

      I believe this is one of the greatest books ive ever had the priviledge to come across. I have also been blessed to have been able to play the part of Ken Gorman from Rumors this past year at my high school. These plays are genius in every way shape and form.

      3 out of 5 stars Dramatic and Hilarious Collection.......2002-02-23

      I laughed so hard and was touched by all the wonderful performances of these characters.

      Neil Simon has a knack for making the characters believable and real, and I thought that some of the works ended too soon. I want to know more about the characters' lives and what happened before and after the play situations. I wish he could go back and do a George Lucas thing and write the prequels and sequels to these fine masterpieces.

      I love these plays and so do all my friends. My High School even performed Rumors my senior year, I was so thrilled to be a part of it. I got to play Glenn Cooper. It was so much fun.

      I bought this book from Amazon.com the second I found it and you should, too. (mainly because you wont find it anywhere else, I checked).

      5 out of 5 stars Collected Plays of Neil Simon Vol. 4.......2001-06-01

      I especially enjoy this collection of plays because it contains so many different genres, each evoking a strong emotion from the reader. For instance, Rumors is an incredibly funny farce that contains both slap-stick and witty humour, while Lost in Yonkers is a powerful drama about the coming of age of two boys forced to live with their grandmother in the middle of Yonkers. The other three plays, London Suite, Laughter on the 23rd Floor, and Jake's Women are also strong pieces and were very enjoyable to read as well. Of all Neil Simon's collections, I would have to say that Vol. 4 contains the most variety and the plays featured consist of some of his best works.

      Authors:

      1. Simons, Paullina
      2. Simpson, Louis
      3. Sinclair, Iain
      4. Sinclair, Jennifer
      5. Sinclair, Upton
      6. Singer, Isaac Bashevis
      7. Andrey Sinyavsky
      8. Skelton, John
      9. Slonczewski, Joan
      10. Smith, Adam

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