Callaham's Russian-English Dictionary of Science and Technology

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Authoritative, comprehensive, and up-to-date—an indispensable resource for translators of Russian scientific and technical materials

The spirit of cooperation that now exists between the Russian scientific community and its English-speaking colleagues has opened a floodgate of Russian language technical and scientific documents. To meet the demand for an authoritative and up-to-date reference, the classic Callaham's Russian-English Dictionary of Science and Technology has now been published in a new edition that encompasses the latest additions to the technical vocabulary. The product of decades of painstaking research by distinguished Russian language translators, this essential reference book upholds the high standard of thoroughness and accuracy that scientific and technical translators require.

Technical specialists all over the English-speaking world—translators and interpreters, scientists, and engineers—will welcome the arrival of the Fourth Edition of Callaham's Russian-English Dictionary of Science and Technology.

Over 120,000 Russian terms in the physical, life science, and engineering disciplines, and an additional 5,000 of the most frequently used, nontechnical terms
Entries organized around common roots and arranged in paragraph form for greater efficiency
The most comprehensive translations of Russian verbs found in any technical dictionary, complete with variations in meaning for different contexts
Instructive linguistic information on how Russian prefixes, suffixes, and roots combine to form new words

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Best Russian-English Dictionary by Far.......2000-05-23

This is the most thorough dictionary I've ever used. The definitions are always right, and she doesn't use highly obscure words. It's useful for more than just scientific translation. Too bad it is so prohibitively expensive.

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The Salton Sea is a man-made catastrophe, redolent with the smell of algae and decomposing fish. Nevertheless, the lake's vast, placid expanses continue to attract birdwatchers, tourists and artists. In Greetings from the Salton Sea, photographer Kim Stringfellow explores the history of California's largest lake from its disastrous beginnings—the "sea" was formed when Colorado River levees broke and spilled into a depression 280 feet below sea level—to its heyday as a desert paradise in the 1950s and its current state as an environmental battleground. Like the 400-plus species of birds that use the lake as a halfway point in their annual migration, developers flocked to the water too: they planted palm trees, built golf courses, and hired showstoppers such as the Beach Boys to perform at area resorts. These days, politicians seek to redirect the lake's only source of replenishment—agricultural runoff from surrounding farms—to water golf courses and green lawns elsewhere. Greetings from the Salton Sea's photographs capture the war among policymakers, environmentalists, developers, and the individuals still living along the lake's shores. As Stringfellow aptly documents, it is a war for water and, ultimately, for existence.

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Saline drip.......2006-09-04

The Salton Sea seems to be California's dirty little secret but with the help of Kim Stringfellow's excellent book and growing interest from environmentalists and others this fascinating water and desert area is slowly getting the corrective attention it deserves. In the past this eerie area has had plenty of attention, especially from land developers.

At the start of the photo section of the book there is promotional map from the Holly Corporation showing their early sixties Salton City development. A marina or two, schools, a main street and plenty of landscaped roads are shown, in fact if you look up the City on Google Earth you'll see every road has a name and even the single runway airstrip (naturally called Salton City Airport) is surrounded by curving roads with aeronautical names. You'll also see that very few dwellings were actually built and like so much development around the lake they became victims of the various environmental and flooding problems not too mention the incredible salt content of the water.

A by-product of the failed commercial developments around the shore means that there is plenty of abandoned buildings and just plain man-made rubbish everywhere, this clearly acts as a magnet for landscape photographers it seems. I first found out about Salton from Troy Paiva's book 'Lost America' (ISBN 076031490X) which includes about twenty dramatic photos of the area, Kim Stringfellow visited some of the same sites. The forty-five photos in her book are more of a precise visual record of abandonment, either man-made or natural. In the first twenty-nine pages she writes a very succinct history of the Sea and I was pleased to see in the back a couple of very informative web sites listed.

As this is a photo book there is the usual nonsense of not having the captions with the photos, they are in the back with thumbnails of each image so readers have to constantly keep turning pages to find a simple bit of information. Needless to say the captions could have easily been included with photos if the book's designer was more professional.

Apart from the caption aspect (so four stars) I thought this was a fascinating book about a slightly known area of the Golden State.

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Birds of the Salton Sea: Status, Biogeography, and Ecology

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Informative, but not a stand-alone volume

Birds of the Salton Sea: Status, Biogeography, and Ecology
Michael A. Patten , Guy McCaskie , and Philip Unitt
Manufacturer: University of California Press
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ASIN: 0520235932

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The Salton Sea, California's largest inland lake, supports a spectacular bird population that is among the most concentrated and most diverse in the world. Sadly, this crucial stopover along the Pacific Flyway for migratory and wintering shorebirds, landbirds, and waterfowl is dangerously close to collapse from several environmental threats. This book is the first thoroughly detailed book to describe the birds of Salton Sea, more than 450 species and subspecies in all. A major contribution to our knowledge about the birds of western North America, it will also be an important tool in the struggle to save this highly endangered area.
Synthesizing data from many sources, including observations from their long-term work in the area, the authors' species accounts discuss each bird's abundance, seasonal status, movement patterns, biogeographic affinities, habitat associations, and more. This valuable reference also includes general information on the region's fascinating history and biogeography, making it an unparalleled resource for the birding community, for wildlife managers, and for conservation biologists concerned with one of the most threatened ecosystems in western North America.

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Informative, but not a stand-alone volume.......2007-07-16

There is much information here specific to the amazing variety of birds to be seen at the bizarre world of the Salton Sea in Southern California. It is a very detailed volume, listing actual occurrence dates of some of the rarer species, along with specific locations, and times of year to be spotted. The main problem though, is the lack of plates. There are just 71 total plates, all black and white photographs- very poor ones at that. In other words, you need to bring along another guidebook if you are not completely familiar with all 400 plus species that may be found there!

The book does have a nice general background of the area and how it was formed, along with a great section chronicling the biogeography of the land. A few pages are dedicated to the controversies surrounding the ecological management of the area, which has burdened local politics for nearly a century.

Salt Dreams: Land and Water in Low-Down California

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A Tale of a Magnificent Disaster
What Every Member of Congress Should Know...
Reclamation/Folly in the Desert
Yet another award for SALT DREAMS
SALT DREAMS wins major awards

Salt Dreams: Land and Water in Low-Down California
William deBuys
Manufacturer: University of New Mexico Press
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ASIN: 0826321267

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William Smythe, a Southern California booster, was not alone when in 1900 he expressed his hope that "the great brown waste which lies on the borders of two republics... will some time be as densely populated as the lands of the Nile, as rich in industry as the Kingdom of Holland."

A century later, the coastal desert of Southern California has indeed become a rich and populous place. The interior desert, however, along the U.S.-Mexico border, is as empty and poor as ever. Historian William deBuys and photographer Joan Myers explore that country, its virtual capital the salt-choked Salton Sea, in the pages of this fine book, which offers a deeply learned but readable study of the politics of water and land use in the arid Southwest. DeBuys remarks that for Europeans and Americans the land has always seemed a geographic tabula rasa, subject to making and remaking, a landscape in which dreams can come true--one of them being to remake an unforgiving desert into an agricultural treasure house. Those dreams, however, can turn into nightmares, as speculations fail and dunes reclaim what is rightfully theirs--for, as deBuys notes, "in low places consequences collect." Desert rats and students of California history will find many rewards in these pages. --Gregory McNamee

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In low places consequences collect, and in all North America you cannot get much lower than the Imperial Valley of southern California, where one town, 186 feet below sea level, calls itself the Lowest Down City in the Western Hemisphere, and where the waters of the Colorado River sustain a billion-dollar agricultural industry. The consequences of that industry drain from the valley into the accidentally man-made Salton Sea, California's largest lake and a vital stopping place for migratory waterfowl. Today the Salton Sea is in desperate environmental trouble.

A second river also ends in the Salton Sea. It is a river of dreams, the remains of which may be seen in the failed real estate developments that sprawl beside the sea. As the ending point of both the real Colorado and this river of dreams, the Salton Sea has become emblematic of much of the history of the American West. Its troubling story is masterfully told here in William deBuys's narrative and Joan Myers's austerely beautiful photographs.

The story of Southern California is fundamentally a story about the control of nature. Beginning with the Yuman-speaking tribes encountered by the Spanish in the sixteenth century, deBuys traces the subsequent exploration and development of the region through the Gold Rush of 1849, the government-sponsored surveys that followed, and the inept tinkering with the river by an assortment of irrigation and development interests that resulted in the floods that formed the Salton Sea nearly a century ago. He introduces us to a gallery of rogues and dreamers who saw a great future for this arid wilderness but could never refrain from interference with the forces of nature.

The floods that produced the Salton Sea created a vast desert oasis, but the agricultural exploitation of the region, combined with evaporation, poisoned that paradise. The stark beauty of the desert, the engineering feats that have transformed the landscape, and the eerie spectacle of Salton City and its ruined beaches and abandoned yacht club are the subject of Myers's photographs, made over a period of more than ten years. In the last section of Salt Dreams, deBuys acquaints us with the human and avian denizens of the region, all struggling for survival as the twentieth century draws to a close. The history of chicanery and greed recounted in deBuys's narrative and his empathy with the desert dwellers he and Myers have come to know—hardworking laborers and entrepreneurs who live on both sides of the Mexicali border, eccentrics hiding out in the Salton Desert, pelicans dying of avian botulism—are crucial to an understanding of the border issues of today and the impassioned environmental debate on whether—and how—to save the Salton Sea.

http://www.joanmyers.com/Saltbk.htm

A history of the Salton Sea, which has become a prophetic story of mounting environmental crises that impinge on the water supply of southern California's sixteen million people.

Customer Reviews:

A Tale of a Magnificent Disaster.......2003-03-11

I visited the Salton Sea to photograph birds and found it impossible to describe, telling friends they had to go there themselves to experience the place and the people. Now I tell them to read this book. From the creation of the Sea to the creation of Salvation Mountain, deBuys tells it's colorful history in a prose that fills you with the sounds and smells and people of the Sea and Imperial Valley. Anyone with an interest in man's unlimited folly, vision, corruption, and the coming environmental train-wreck in southern California needs to read this book.

What Every Member of Congress Should Know..........2002-01-28

Bravo! Salt Dreams is the first of its kind to wrap up all of the issues surrounding the Salton Sea and Colorado River delta in one volume. The best since Cadillac Desert in its cinematic portrayal of a complicated host of issues. Awesome writing on the heroism of US Fish and Wildlife staff. My only criticism is that Congressman George Brown is slighted; Sonny Bono often called him "Mr. Salton Sea". Certainly, a book Mr. Brown would have loved.

Reclamation/Folly in the Desert.......2001-07-10

Superlative read revealing the vast natural beauty of the desert and its inhabitants and man's irreversable errors in judging it as a fallen Eden. Together with Cadillac Desert it ranks as a southwest water classic. Beautiful writing and stunning photographs.

Yet another award for SALT DREAMS.......2001-01-18

*Winner of the 2000 Norris and Carol Hundley Award from The Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association.

SALT DREAMS wins major awards.......2001-01-17

*Winner of the 1999 Western States Book Award for Creative Non-Fiction. *Winner of the 1999 Clements Prize for the Best Non-Fiction Book on Southwestern America.

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Not worth the paper it's printed on

Guide to Birds of the Salton Sea
Barbara W Massey
Manufacturer: Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Press
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1886679215

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The Sonoran Desert's Salton Sea is California's crown jewel of avian biodiversity. Second only to the Texas Gulf Coast in avian abundance, the Sea hosts more than 400 species of birds each year. This volume is the first full-length book to focus attention on the Sea's unique natural wonders and importance while providing a wealth of useful information for birders and naturalists. For readers wishing to visit the Salton Sea, this book provides detailed descriptions of 15 birding sites. Each site chapter has a brief description of the area and its vegetation, directions for getting there, a site map, a section on the birdlife, and a table listing birds seen, their abundance and seasonality. For those coming to the Salton Sea to see a specific bird, the book includes species accounts pinpointing where and when each species is most likely to be seen. Guide to Birds of the Salton Sea also includes chapters on nocturnal roosts, nesting, rare species, species of concern, as well as cumulative tables.

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Not worth the paper it's printed on.......2003-08-04

This book has many mistakes. It's worst than Massey's book on the Anza Borrego. It's got lots of people credited with helping with the book, but only a few names are recognized.
If you truly want info on the Salton Sea, then buy the Patten, McCaskie, Unitt book. These are the people who have spent the time out at the Salton Sea.

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Salton Sea
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A Special Publication
An important guide about an invaluable resource

Salton Sea Atlas

Manufacturer: Esri Press
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ASIN: 1589480430

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A comprehensive scientific, historical, and physcial representation of the Salton Sea region utilizing the latest GIS technology

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Salton Sea.......2007-04-02

A beautiful, informative and spectacular oversized book on the Salton Sea. A place that needs to be saved and understood. This book will start your journey.

Excellent.......2003-10-01

--Just wanted to second the comments of the other reviewers regarding the quality and presentation of this book. It's a scientific work undertaken by the Salton Sea Database Program of the Redlands Institute of the University of Redlands, but it's enclosed within a lovely and large glossy coffee table book. It also includes much information about the cultural history of the Salton Sea and its region in a remote part of the southern California desert. I especially enjoyed the beautiful wildlife illustrations and biological information, though most of the book covers the physical science of the Salton Sea. I gave a copy to someone at a Christmas party held many miles away at the Orange County coast, and people literally were waiting and nagging for their turn to look through this beautiful book about this mysterious and controversial inland subtropical sea.

A Special Publication.......2002-11-15

This book is wonderful! I highly recommend it.

The Salton Sea Atlas covers the complex issues facing this very special body of water in a clear, yet comprehensive, fashion (use of graphics and illustrations over exhaustive use of text). It's a beautiful book, and the most wide-ranging piece about the Salton Sea that I've been able to find. You will not be disappointed with it.

Buy this book

An important guide about an invaluable resource.......2002-10-17

The Salton Sea Atlas explores issues and information regarding California's largest lake and most valuable environmental resource -- the Salton Sea.

This book is a must for those interested in the Salton Sea, environmental change, water issues in the American Southwest, history, or geography. Its graphical synthesis of complex social, scientific, and geographic information is superb and can be appreciated by all audiences. This is a wonderful publication.

I recommend it wholeheartedly

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The Salton Sea (Yesterday and Today)

Manufacturer: Kyms Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000CQ4YFY

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A Retrospective look of this unique geographic location from the first part of the twentieth century to the sixties.

Avian Incubation: Egg Temperature, Nest Humidity, and Behavioral Thermoregulation in a Hot Environment (Ornithological Monographs)

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Avian Incubation: Egg Temperature, Nest Humidity, and Behavioral Thermoregulation in a Hot Environment (Ornithological Monographs)
Gilbert S. Grant
Manufacturer: Amer Ornithologists Union
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Binding: Paperback

AAA San Diego Region: Blythe, Carlsbad, El Centro, Escondido, Indio, Julian, La Jolla, Oceanside, San Diego, San Ysidro, Yuma, Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, Colorado River, Imperial Sand Dunes Recreation Area, Salton Sea: California Regional Series (2007 Printing, 730335006872, 43943805)

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AAA San Diego Region: Blythe, Carlsbad, El Centro, Escondido, Indio, Julian, La Jolla, Oceanside, San Diego, San Ysidro, Yuma, Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, Colorado River, Imperial Sand Dunes Recreation Area, Salton Sea: California Regional Series (2007 Printing, 730335006872, 43943805)
Automobile Club of Southern California
Manufacturer: ACSC
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Binding: Map
ASIN: 1564136876

Coachella Valley Desert Trails, Salton Sea Saga And Romance And Sex Life Of The Date

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Coachella Valley Desert Trails, Salton Sea Saga And Romance And Sex Life Of The Date
Shields Date Gardens
Manufacturer: Sheilds Date Gardens
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000E1PN0C

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What to do and what to look for while visiting the Coachella Valley Desert, and a treatise on date culture.

COACHELLA VALLEY DESERT TRAILS; THE SALTON SEA SAGA AND THE ROMANCE AND SEX LIFE OF THE DATE

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COACHELLA VALLEY DESERT TRAILS; THE SALTON SEA SAGA AND THE ROMANCE AND SEX LIFE OF THE DATE
Shields Date Gardens
Manufacturer: Shields Date Gardens
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ASIN: B000OGFMEO

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