Amazon

Amazon Fact: Even the tributaries of the Amazon are worthy rivers in themselves. One of them, the Rio Negro, is the second largest river in the world in terms of the amount of water it discharges. It is about 14 kilometers (9 miles) wide where it enters the Amazon.

The Store's Front Door - The store's busy front page tells you at a glance what's on sale today, what the bestselling books and other items are, and where you can go to find out what else Amazon.com can do for you. And if you've previously ordered anything or registered with the store, the page may even greet you by name.

Search the Text of Books - Can't find what you need to know through an Internet search engine? If so, you may have better luck using Amazon.com's Search Inside the Book feature. You can search through the text of thousands of books whose contents aren't otherwise available online.

Top 100 Books - Want to know what's capturing the fancy of book readers? Amazon's list of the 100 bestselling books is updated hourly.

Earn Money with Amazon.com - In return for placing Amazon.com ads or links on your Web site, Amazon.com will give you a share of the revenue. About a million people have signed up, helping make the Amazon.com name ubiquitous.

Presidential Donations - Want to donate to a U.S. presidential campaign? You can do so using Amazon's 1-Click payment system for the several candidates (some of them obscure) who have signed up.

Amazon.ca (Canada) - Just like Canada, most of Amazon.ca's site is in English with much more than a smattering of French. You'll find plenty of books, CDs, DVDs and videotapes in both languages, along with software and videogames.

Amazon.co.jp (Japan) - You'll need Japanese fonts installed in your browser to view this site as it was meant to be seen.

Amazon.de (Germany) - German's the language and euro's the currency in Amazon.de's site for Germany. Click the link at the bottom of the page for the Austrian site, which looks just like the German one.

Amazon.co.uk (United Kingdom) - Of all of Amazon.com sites outside the United States, the United Kingdom site offers the largest variety of goods.

Amazon.fr (France) - If you're looking for books, music or movies in French, Amazon.fr may have the most choices you'll find anywhere.

Price per Share - If you own Amazon.com stock, you'll want to see how it's doing in the financial markets. This chart from the folks at Bloomberg presents all the basic facts on one screen: the latest trading prices, highs and lows in the past year, the annual return and more.

Hot off the Newswires - Want to know what's happening to Amazon.com? This continually updated list from Yahoo links you to more than a week's worth of financial analyses, news items and press releases related to Amazon.com.

The Buzz from Seattle - The Seattle Post-Intelligencer sometimes has the scoop on what's happening in its virtual back yard. The newspaper lists more than 1,000 Amazon.com-related articles in its archives.

E-Commerce Times - Find out the latest by typing in "amazon.com" or its stock abbreviation, "AMZN," in the search box.

Boycott Amazon! - A boycott against Amazon.com, once advocated by a coalition of open-source software aficionados and Internet privacy advocates, is barely a shadow of its old self. If there's any news about the lingering boycott, you're likely to find it here.

Wealth of the Rainforest - The Amazon Rain Forest is nearly synonymous with biodiversity. This site, which includes both youth-oriented material and technical abstracts, is dedicated to the abundant plant life of the region.

Sights & Sounds - This page features pictures and information about the Amazon ecosytem and links to an incredible depth of information from National Geographic.

Journey to Amazonia - This interactive site takes you on a journey to the Amazon and provides a wealth of information about its wildlife, plants and other resources.

An Amazon Adventure: Animals - Insects, eels, frogs, mammals, fishes and birds: you'll find them all in the Amazon Basin. This site includes profiles of dozens of the region's animals.

Amazon Interactive - If reading a static Web site isn't your idea of a fun way to learn about the Amazon, Amazon Interactive is one you'll want to check out (or have your students or children visit). Online quizzes and games are among the activities aimed at helping students to learn.

GreenTracks - GreenTracks organizes nature-oriented trips to the rain forest as well as research expeditions. Some of its trips are centered around a theme such as photography, birds and reptiles.

Travel with a National Geographic Touch - This site screens travel packages offered by other companies and provides both reviews and consumer ratings.

Amazon Adventures - This American travel company works with tour operators throughout South America to offer a variety of trips to the Amazon Basin and surrounding cities.

Amazon River Tours - About's Guide to travel in South America, Bonnie Hamrie, presents this collection of river tour companies.

Amazon Rainforest Excursions - Kon-Tiki Tours is one of the largest tour operators in the region, offering trips to cities in the region as well as cruises and other types of excursions.

World Wildlife Federation - Although the focus of the World Wildlife Federation is international, it pays added attention to the Amazon. Its goals: to protect endangered spaces, to save endangered species, and to reduce environmental threats.

The Rainforest Foundation - The idea here is to help the people who live in the rain forest buy forest land so they can be actively involved in protecting it from development.

Rainforestweb.org - Want to find out who's involved in destroying the rain forest? This organization offers a list of companies involved for better or worse with the rain forests and suggests how you can act to improve their policies.

Amazon Conservation Association - This Peruvian-American organization seeks to protect the biodiversity of the Amazon region. The site icludes current field reports as well as descriptions of the region's many ecosystems.

Rainforest Action Network - If you're looking for a way to get politically involved, but writing letters and other quiet forms of activism aren't your thing, this is the place to come for info about protests, demonstrations and other types of nonviolent direct action.

Who Were the Amazons? - Legend has it that the original Amazon women were warriors who were so dedicated they cut off a breast so they should shoot an arrow better. Here you can find out the real story.

Brave Women Warriors of Greek Myth - The Amazon women are a part of Greek mythology. Here are descriptions of 82 of them. The author says that the Amazons were one of society's earliest symbols for fear of feminism.

Amazons - Here's a page devoted to the Amazons. Click on any of the many hyperlinks for information about other figures of Greek mythology.

Mysteries of Ancient History - A virtual archaeological tour provides the latest discoveries relating to the Amazons.

Amazon Women on the Moon - At least six motion pictures about Amazon women have been made. The most famous of them, 1987's "Amazon Women on the Moon," is an ensemble spoof rather than a look at the women of Greek mythology. The film features numerous well-known actors such as Michelle Pfeiffer, Phil Hartman and Arsenio Hall