Emerging Technologies and Techniques in Porous Media (NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry)

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The study of heat and fluid flow in fluid-saturated porous media is applicable in a very wide range of fields, with practical applications in modern industry and environmental areas, such as nuclear waste management, the construction of thermal insulators, geothermal power, grain storage and many more. The vast amount of theoretical and experimental work reported has attracted the attention of industrialists, engineers, applied mathematicians, chemical, civil, environmental, mechanical and nuclear engineers, physicists, food scientists, medical researchers, etc.
This book covers the full range of theoretical, computational and experimental approaches to the subject, grouped into reviews of: fundamentals, stability, anisotropy, permeability and non-equilibrium, applications, and experimental porous media.

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Considered the best mystery novel ever written by many readers, And Then There Were None is the story of 10 strangers, each lured to Indian Island by a mysterious host. Once his guests have arrived, the host accuses each person of murder. Unable to leave the island, the guests begin to share their darkest secrets--until they begin to die.

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First, there were ten--a curious assortment of strangers summoned as weekend guests to a private island off the coast of Devon. Their host, an eccentric millionaire unknown to all of them, is nowhere to be found. All that the guests have in common is a wicked past they're unwilling to reveal--and a secret that will seal their fate. For each has been marked for murder. One by one they fall prey. Before the weekend is out, there will be none. And only the dead are above suspicion.AUTHORBIO: Agatha Christie is the world's best-known mystery writer. Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language and another billion in 44 foreign languages. She is the most widely published author of all time in any language, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. Her writing career spanned more than half a century, during which she wrote 80 novels and short story collections, as well as 14 plays, one of which, The Mousetrap, is the longest-running play in history. Two of the characters she created, the brilliant little Belgian Hercule Poirot and the irrepressible and relentless Miss Marple, went on to become world-famous detectives. Both have been widely dramatized in feature films and made-for-TV movies. Agatha Christie also wrote romantic novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. As well, she wrote four non-fiction books including an autobiography and an entertaining account of the many expeditions she shared with her archaeologist husband, Sir Max Mallowan. Agatha Christie died in 1976.

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The world's best-selling mystery with over 100 million copies sold! Ten people, each with something to hide and something to fear, are invited to a lonely mansion on Indian Island by a host who, surprisingly, fails to appear. On the island they are cut off from everything but each other and the inescapable shadows of their own past lives. One by one, the guests share the darkest secrets of their wicked pasts. And one by one, they die. The Spectator (London): 'Agatha Christie's masterpiece.' The New York Times: 'The whole thing is utterly impossible and utterly fascinating. It is the most baffling mystery Agatha Christie has ever written.'

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Good quick read.......2007-10-06

A very simple and easy read, but still suspenseful. Its interesting to see how the little indian poem will come to life killing off each character. A good twist at the end.

Very Suspenseful!.......2007-09-27

This story by Agatha Christie is very, very suspenseful. It is also creepy. It does not have a detective, which seemed strange at first, because I am used to following Poirot and Miss Marple as they solve the crimes. I did not really like any of the characters but I was still surprised when each one was killed. When one of the murders took place, pretty much any one of the survivors could have been the killer. Also, you get to read what each of the characters are thinking; the story is not just from one character's viewpoint. Is the killer one of the ten guests on the island, or is there a hidden person? The ending really got me. Of course, you finally end up with only two characters and one of them turns out to be the killer, but he doesn't stop there! You'll have to read the story yourself to find out what happens at the very end. (this review is by M.Charette)

Her Best, And The Finest Whodunit I've Read.......2007-09-24

I don't see how anyone who relishes a quality 'whodunit' could fail to love this book (even though a few Amazon reviews below show that it is the case). I am familiar with quite a number of Agatha Christies (including classics like Roger Ackroyd & Orient Express, etc.), and this one clearly takes the prize. Everything about it is delicious: the inescapable island setting, the strange circumstances, the unfolding pattern, and the overall feeling of a growing and inevitable horror. Most excellent of all is the plot, which is brilliantly conceived and executed. And at the end of the day, the author has played fair (I'll make one complaint below). What more do you want?!

There are only two (mostly minor) criticisms I would make. IMO, the first keeps this story from being the perfect murder mystery. Namely, there is an early scene in which the killer THINKS a deceptive thought (I won't type it here and ruin the story for any prospective reader), and the reader reads it. This is an unfair slip on Agatha's part. Sure enough the murderer might indeed SPEAK such a deceptive sentence, but to have him/her THINK it silently (and then have the reader simply read it at face value) -- I felt this was stretching credibility too far. For a perfectionist like me, it is a pity that it's in the text, and if only it could be excised! Secondly (and AC probably had no control over this), I prefer the British title of the book - Ten Little Indians - over the American and more popular one, which sort of anticipates and gives away too much (albeit subtly). Admittedly not a huge issue, just a quibble.

At any rate, mystery lovers you're in for a treat. Enjoy and savor the Grand Dame at her finest!

Simply Brilliant, Brilliantly Complicated.......2007-08-12

And Then There Were None, the brilliant masterwork by the much imitated Agatha Christie is a complicated yet accessible murder mystery. Ten guests arrive at an island, each with a different secret, and each uniquely mysterious. When all the guests have gathered, a mysterious voice, U.N. Owen??? indicts each for a crime. The bloodletting follows. Good luck solving this mystery. The Denouement is nothing short of brilliant.

Required reading for Mystery fans. A 5 star classic!

fun read.......2007-08-03

I read this after playing the PC game so the end was blown for me but still a fun story, I would recommend reading this book and then playing the game. (don't think the game ends the same way the book does)

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"Dear Lord, how much longer should I mourn the loss of Jerry Garcia?"
ken boire author of Inherit the Tide
"It's tough to be a smart girl anywhere," (ain't that the truth)
A real gem!
Every character is fascinatingly complicated

Ten Little Indians

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Sherman Alexie, a gifted poet and storyteller, plows familiar yet fertile ground in his third collection of short stories, Ten Little Indians. The book contains nine stories populated by at least one American Indian (usually of Alexie's Spokane heritage, and mostly living in Seattle), but "little" is a bit of a misnomer; the book addresses human (not necessarily Indian), rituals, ceremony, love, loss, insecurity over life choices, and personal sacrifices. A lot of intense basketball is played, too.

When Alexie is at his best, his stories function at a profoundly sad level, where broken down characters are broken down even more, but are fierce-willed enough to attempt Phoenix-like transitions. Unfortunately, the weakest stories appear first, where characters and situations seem far too contrived or forced, the dialogue wooden, and questions or exclamatory sentences appear annoyingly in bunches. In the last half of the book, a married couple, once intensely in love but now lost in life's routines, deal with infidelity ("Do You Know Where I Am?"); a bright basketball prospect attempts a comeback--twenty years after giving up the game ("Whatever Happened to Frank Snake Church?"); and a transient Indian finds his grandmother's regalia in a pawn shop and seeks to quickly raise the lofty purchase price ("What You Pawn I Will Redeem"). Brilliant turns of phrase abound, such as ceremonies being "pitiful cries to a disinterested God," or when a gym rat plays against "Basketball-Democrats who came to the court alone and ran with anybody and Basketball-Republicans who traveled in groups of five and only ran with each other." Ten Little Indians is an uneven collection, but contains some significant, memorable stories. --Michael Ferch

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Ten Little Indians offers eleven poignant and emotionally resonant new stories about Native Americans who, like all Americans, find themselves at personal and cultural crossroads, faced with heartrending, tragic, sometimes wondrous moments of being that test their loyalties, their capacities, and their notions of who they are and who they love. In "The Life and Times of Estelle Walks Above," an intellectual feminist Spokane Indian woman saves the lives of dozens of white women all around her, to the bewilderment of her only child, now a grown man who looks back at his life with equal parts fondness, amusement, and regret. In "Do You Know Where I Am?" two college sweethearts rescue a lost cat -- a simple act that has profound moral consequences for the rest of their lives together. In "What You Pawn I Will Redeem," a homeless Indian man must raise $1,000 in twenty-four hours to buy back the fancy dance outfit stolen from his grandmother fifty years earlier. Sherman Alexie's stories are driven by a haunting lyricism and naked candor that cut to the heart of the human experience, shedding brilliant light on what happens when we grow into and out of each other.

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"Dear Lord, how much longer should I mourn the loss of Jerry Garcia?".......2007-05-04

I spent the past weekend soaked in Sherman Alexie. It was a pleasure to find out about Sherman Alexie (through his interview on KUOW's Weekday program). I really loved his short story collection Ten Little Indians. The stories reflect acute, honest observation of life, specifically from an Indian point of view. He doesn't sugar coat any flaws of Indians, or for that matter any other American. The genocide of Indians provides him with enough material to draw upon and every story made me laugh, cry and in some ways touched me deeply. The characters brim with humanity and you almost feel attached to the characters. I haven't enjoyed short stories this much in a long time.

His movie Smoke Signals is equally good and worth watching. But I think his books are far better.

Here are some of my favorite lines from the book:

"If a Poet falls in a forest, and there's nobody there to hear him,does he make a metaphor or simile?"

"It's tough to be a smart girl anywhere, but it's way tough to be on the rez."

"We are people exiled by other exiles, by Puritans, Pilgrims, Protestants, and all of those other crazy white people thrown out of a crazier Europe."

"But I exist, she shouted to the world, and my very existence disproves what my conquerors believe about this world and me, but since my conquerors cannot be contradicted, I must not exist."

"After all, didn't those self-martyring terrorists believe they would be rewarded with seventy-two virgins in heaven? Political posturing aside, didn't a few thousand stupid men believe terrorism was another way to get laid? What would happen if United States offered seventy-three virgins to each terrorist if he would abstain from violence? Instead of deploying an army of pissed-off US soldiers to Afghanistan and Iraq, we could send a mercy team of patriotic virgins."

"God, I'm supposed to be some electric aboriginal warrior, but I'm really a wimpy liberal pacifist. Dear Lord, how much longer should I mourn the loss of Jerry Garcia?"

"Seattle might be the only city in the country where white people lived comfortably on a street named after Martin Luther King Jr."

"I am a Native American and therefor have ten thousand more reasons to terrorize U.S. than any of those Taliban jerk-offs, but I have chosen instead to become a American citizen, so all of you white folks should be celebrating my kindness and moral decency and awesome ability to forgive!"

"The average while male working the graveyard shift at 7-Eleven in the year 2003 is a more educated and advanced and decent human being than the average white male attending an Opera in New York City in 1876."

ken boire author of Inherit the Tide.......2006-10-21

Alexie has generated some top notch writing. "Ten Little Indians" is right up there with others. He tends to do variations of the same themes, but isn't this what most present day writers do? I sort of expect it. I would be somewhat amazed if the top fiction writers of 2006 turned out something outside of their usual pattern. Read the first Grisham, Follet, Roberts, Patterson, Clancy, etc and by the time you read down each list a bit, you will think the writer had some kind of a universal outline.

At least in the case of Alexie there is value in his courage and the insight he offers. One expects the voice of a present day urban Indian, and we get it. Sherman steps to the plate. One feels the pain, frustration, and distrust. It is wrapped around pride with a beating heart.

I liked "Ten Little Indians", I read parts of it twice. I put it on the shelf to read again later.

"It's tough to be a smart girl anywhere," (ain't that the truth).......2006-04-21

"but it's way tough on the rez." From The Life and Times of Estelle Walks Above.

The thing about Sherman Alexie is that he examines life from the inside out. Or maybe it's more accurate to say that he examines life from the reservation out. He has a way of pointing out these specific characteristics and challenges that one faces growing up on the reservation and beyond. But when you pay close attention to what he's saying (in such beautiful language), you find yourself relating to an emotional landscape that is universal in all of humanity no matter what race, religion, nationality blah blah blah. One is ultimately left with the impression of a genuine and credible storyteller who has experienced personal conflict, triumph, tragedy and joy within the boundaries of the reservation, then again in the vastness of life outside of the reservation and finally within the borderless limits of his own mind on a much higher and more profound level.

Don't expect any glamorized depictions of Native Americans or any other kind of American for that matter. He gives you the good with the bad in painfully honest observations and language. For example, in The Life and Times of Estelle Walks Above (my favorite story in the book), Estelle, a Spokane Indian and the narrator's mother (and a feminist, militant vegan), raises her son in a poor white neighborhood in Seattle, sends him to white schools (plus, in several humorous passages gives him some embarrassing and especially traumatic advice on women and sex) and gets herself a college education (come hell or high water). On page 139, the narrator says the following:

My mother went to college on scholarships funded by white people; she was a teaching assistant to a white professor; she borrowed money from white people who didn't have much money to lend; our white landlord let us pay half rent for a whole year and never asked for the rest; my favorite baby-sitter was a white woman with red hair.
"White people!" My mother should have sung their praises; I should sing their praises! But we didn't sing for them. Indians are not supposed to sing for white people. Does the antelope sing honor songs for the lion?

And there you have it. One of the great American writers of our times.

A real gem!.......2005-10-09

All the stories in this book have Spokane Indians as main characters, but the stories are really about all of humanity, with its humor, tragedy, cruelty, and redemption. Every story made me laugh at some point, and every story touched me deeply at some point. The characters have to deal with poverty, others' preconceptions, their own deeply held stereotypes, good luck, bad luck, and just life in general. One homeless man tries to find $1000 to buy back his grandmother's pow-wow regalia. Another man honors one parent's death by giving up basketball and the other's death by taking it back up in middle life. Every highly readable story grabbed me from beginning to end. This is the first book I've read by Alexie, but it won't be my last.

Every character is fascinatingly complicated.......2004-12-12

Alexie's intelligent depictions of human nature and the Native American experience have yielded a collection of stories unlike any other. His wit is hilarious, unpredictable, and unpretentious. We laugh at all the wrong times and at all the wrong people. He has spun irony in a new direction. The characters are so well developed you think about them long after you've read the last page.

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Ten Little Rabbits
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Ten Little Rabbits
A beautiful Counting book
Great book for indian study and patterns.

Ten Little Rabbits
Virginia Grossman
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This winner of the Parents Magazine "Best Book of the Year" award is a simple counting book that celebrates Native American culture--and rabbits, of course. Each of Sylvia Long's detailed, painterly double-page illustrations has an old-fashioned quality that gives the book the feel of classic children's literature from the turn of the century. The accompanying text is a simple, rhythmic series of rhyming couplets. "Three busy messengers sending out the news" has three rabbits using one of their blankets to send smoke signals across a grassy river valley; "Four clever trackers looking for some clues" shows intrepid little hunters with bows and arrows examining the enormous paw-print of a bear. After "Ten sleepy weavers knowing day is done," an extra panel shows one rabbit hunched over a campfire while the other nine sleep soundly. A cut above the mass of counting books. (Baby to age 4) --Richard Farr

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Weaving, fishing, and storytelling are all part of this spirited book that celebrates Native American traditions as it teaches young children to count from one to ten. The book's whimsical illustrations, reminiscent of Beatrix Potter, glow with brilliant color and are filled with fascinating detail. Each number introduces a facet of traditional Native American culture, such as Pueblo corn dances or Navajo weaving, and the simple, rhyming text is enhanced by a brief afterword on Native American customs. Ideal for storytime or bedtime, this is a book sure to leave children counting rabbits instead of sheep.

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Ten Little Rabbits.......2007-09-28

These books were purchased for the opening of a new kindergarten on the Pine Ridge (Sioux) Indian Reservation in So. Dakota. I was told by the children's teacher they are thrilled with the books, particularly as the heroes and heroines are children who look the same as they do, show knowledge of the same culture and share the same mythology. Providing these children with a positive self-image from day one of their school experience will reap future rewards through a love of reading.

Inappropriate Reading Material for Children.......2005-12-07

After reading the children's book "Ten Little Rabbits" I was completely appalled by how this book portrayed Native Americans. The fact that they chose rabbits to represent Native American children, is racist in itself, Native Americans are people not animals. The book lumps ten different tribes into one. If a child picked up the book "Ten Little Rabbits" they would never know that there were different tribes portrayed. This book could be used as a learning experience for children teaching them about how they can be critical readers. In order to do this it would be necessary to point out and discuss possible misconceptions and stereotypes that one could develop through reading this book. From a concerned Graduate Student in Early Childhood Education.

Ten Little Rabbits.......2003-10-04

This was OUR bedtime book for both of my boys when they were very little. We knew it by heart and could chant the text at times of stress to calm them down. WE/I love this book. Just read it again to my 8 year old and am going to buy it for my 2 month old nephew!

A beautiful Counting book.......2002-12-09

Having Native American children I am always looking for books for them. I purchased this for my 18 month old (hard cover version). He loves to look at it. He will pull it out at least once a day to look at it. I've even noticed his 8 year old brother sneaking a peek more than once. I love the vibrant, without being bright, illustrations. They are intracate yet simple. The rabbits are adorable. The book starts with one rabbit and continues through to 10. The rabbits are in Native American regalia and doing traditional Native activites

Great book for indian study and patterns........2000-10-29

I have read this book to my first grade class during a unit on indians as well as used the patterns in the blankets during a pattern unit in math. The children want to read it again and again!! A great read and a great resource for teachers. My students enjoy making sack puppets and designing their own blanket and then acting out the book.

And Then there Were None (Also Published as Ten Little Indians): The Agatha Christie Mystery Collection

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And Then there Were None (Also Published as Ten Little Indians): The Agatha Christie Mystery Collection
Agatha Christie
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Ten Little Indians

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Funny, Sharp, Sad, Witty.......2007-02-20

I am in the process of reading everything by Alexie, and I loved this book -- the 3rd I'm reading by him. He's so SMART it's ridiculous. I particularly loved the story, "Can I Get a Witness?" He's a very honest writer, and he inspires me to be honest in my writing. I would recommend this book highly.

Stories.......2006-07-25

Even as they often make readers laugh, Alexie's stories are driven by a haunting lyricism and naked candor that cut to the heart of the human experience. The result is a short-story collection that has been hailed as Alexie's "best in years" ("Austin American-Statesman").

Agatha Christie's Ten Little Indians ((Formerly entitled And Then There Were None))

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Five Complete Novels of Murder and Detection (Peril at End House / The Murder at Hazelmoor / Easy to Kill / Ten Little Indians / Evil Under the Sun)

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Five Complete Novels of Murder and Detection (Peril at End House / The Murder at Hazelmoor / Easy to Kill / Ten Little Indians / Evil Under the Sun)
Agatha Christie
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Release Date: 1991-02-25

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Ten Little Indians

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Tim Tadpole and the Great Bullfrog, a Day of Winter, Ten Little Indians, the Story of the Snails Who Traded Houses, What Do You Do, Dear?, Outdoor Safety (Tiny Tots Picture Books)

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Tim Tadpole and the Great Bullfrog, a Day of Winter, Ten Little Indians, the Story of the Snails Who Traded Houses, What Do You Do, Dear?, Outdoor Safety (Tiny Tots Picture Books)

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Best in Children's Books #13 Stories Incl: The Sleeping Beauty, Ten Little Indians

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