Authors:Lynne Cherry, Mark J. Plotkin,
Publisher: Sandpiper
Keywords: rain, forest, amazon, tale, apprentice, shaman
Number of Pages: 36
Published: 2001-04-01
List price: $7.00
ISBN-10: 0152024867
ISBN-13: 9780152024864

For thousands of years, in the jungles of the Amazon, shamans have passed their wisdom of the medicinal values of rain forest plants from one generation to the next. The Shaman’s Apprentice tells the story of a Tirio Indian boy who dreams of one day being the tribal shaman, and how he and his people learn the importance of their own knowledge about the healing properties of the rain forest.

Authors:Gregory Plotkin, Rita Plotkin,
Publisher: Lerner Publishing Group
Keywords: recipes, vegetarian, easy, menu, cookbooks, ethnic, low, new, way, russian, revised, expanded, include, cooking
Number of Pages: 72
Published: 2002-09
List price: $25.26
ISBN-10: 0822541203
ISBN-13: 9780822541202

Introduces the cooking and food habits of the Soviet Union, including such recipes as borscht, chicken kiev, and beef stroganoff, and provides brief information on the geography and history of the country.

Author: J. M. Plotkin
Publisher: American Mathematical Society
Keywords: history, mathematics, sources, sets, ordered, hausdorff
Number of Pages: 322
Published: 2005-06-29
List price: $72.00
ISBN-10: 0821837885
ISBN-13: 9780821837887

Georg Cantor, the founder of set theory, published his last paper on sets in 1897. In 1900, David Hilbert made Cantor’s Continuum Problem and the challenge of well-ordering the real numbers the first problem of his famous lecture at the international congress in Paris. Thus, as the nineteenth century came to a close and the twentieth century began, Cantor’s work was finally receiving its due and Hilbert had made one of Cantor’s most important conjectures his number one problem. It was time for the second generation of Cantorians to emerge. Foremost among this group were Er

Author: B. Plotkin
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: mathematics, applications, databases, logic, algebra, algebraic, universal
Number of Pages: 456
Published: 1994-01-31
List price: $139.00
ISBN-10: 0792326652
ISBN-13: 9780792326656

This volume is devoted to the development of an algebraic model of databases. The first chapter presents a general introduction. The following sixteen chapters are divided into three main parts. Part I deals with various aspects of universal algebra. The chapters of Part I discuss topics such as sets, algebras and models, fundamental structures, categories, the category of sets, topoi, fuzzy sets, varieties of algebras, axiomatic classes, category algebra and algebraic theories. Part II deals with different approaches to the algebraization of predicate calculus. This material is inte

Authors:David Plotkin, David Plotkin,
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Keywords: everything, frontpage, microsoft, office
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 2003-09-25
List price: $24.99
ISBN-10: 007222973X
ISBN-13: 9780072229738

A new release in the extremely popular How to Do Everything series, this friendly, solutions-oriented book is filled with step-by-step details on how to use FrontPage 2003 Web site building techniques such as adding text and links, using XML, adding Flash components, and handling a variety of graphic formats.

Author: Henry Plotkin
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: knowledge, nature, machines, darwin
Number of Pages: 292
Published: 1997-04-25
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0674192818
ISBN-13: 9780674192812

Author: Fred Plotkin
Publisher: Hyperion
Keywords: opera, loving, learning, guide, complete
Number of Pages: 512
Published: 1994-12-01
List price: $17.99
ISBN-10: 0786880252
ISBN-13: 9780786880256

Written by an opera insider and featuring an introduction by Placido Domingo, here is a thorough, friendly, and truly complete guide to learning how to love and appreciate the opera. After a brief history of opera, the book includes a guide to operatic terms, a minute-by-minute listener’s guide to 11 central works, a list of recommended books and recordings and much more.