Methods In Aquatic Bacteriology (Modern Microbiological Methods)

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This beautifully illustrated series points the traveler systematically to the multiple historic treasures of America-to the famous and to those not so famous, which rarely make it into any guidebook. This is a remarkable book, intelligently conceived, beautifully executed and wonderfully informative. The detail, scope, magnitude and depth of background and research are unparalleled in quality. Expert research, writing, photography, and cartography have gone into the book with the achieved goal of being accessible on a nontechnical level. This volume features: 1) 180 color photographs 2) 35 historical paintings, engravings, and photographs 3) 14 specially-commissioned color maps 4) An illustrated architectural guide

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Quite good..........2000-07-31

This book is quite good in that it has detailed commentary on a few of the bigger, well-known streams in California. I'm a bit disappointed that he did not include any commentary on other streams that are actually quite productive with large fish (I own another of Sunderland's books and I know he's aware of other "blue ribbon" streams).

Anyway, it's a good book... but it only really covers a few rivers/streams while leaving many out.

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California Blue Ribbon Trout Streams - Revised
Dale Lackey & Bill Sunderland
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000NSDL2I

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A great book for the busy gardener........2002-10-21

This is a truly wonderful book that will help you rethink your approach to gardening. The emphasis is on careful planning of your garden design and smart selection of plants, all to save you time and work in the future. The most useful part of the book is undoubtedly the "Picking Unpicky Plants" section, which includes lists of vegetables, herbs, annuals, perennials and biennials, bulbs, trees, shrubs, and ornamental grasses. The last portion of the book is "Easy Projects for the Weekend Gardener," an excellent source for quick ideas for your garden, such as "A Quick Walk," a garden path that can be created in a few hours and won't be overrun by weeds.

Despite its limited availability, this book is a must-have for anyone who enjoys having a garden but doesn't want to spend their every spare moment working on it.

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When Clay Aiken took a one-in-a-million shot at music stardom by qualifying for and then nearly winning the American Idol contest in the second season, he captured America's heart. Now, with hit records to his name and a new Christmas album to be released this year, the North Carolina native has a voice that is being recognized everywhere. Veteran celebrity biographer Kathleen Tracy takes readers behind the scenes of one of America's most popular television shows to learn what Clay actually went through to achieve his success. Tracy delivers all the information Clay fans have been waiting for. A thoroughly satisfying read with 160 pages of text! Plus 16 pages of beautiful full-color photos of Clay!

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Author was right on the money.......2007-01-12

I hope more people are exposed to books like this one. Easy reading - factual but interesting.

Good account.......2005-12-30

Tracy does a good job of bringing background to the singer's life, following through his Idol appearances and into early 2004. A good deal of attention is paid to this period in the entertainer's life.

A good read for fans of Aiken who are looking for a little more recent background to the singer's life.

Great book!.......2005-07-22

Although this book is not authorized by Clay Aiken himself, it is a great biography. It provideds accurate information, interesting facts, and awesome pictures! This is a must add to any Claymate's collection. A great alternative to that other book....

Clay AIken: From Second Place To The top Of The Charts.......2005-05-27

I could not put this book down. I watched Clay Aiken Go from a geeky looking kid sanding in front of Simon Cowell telling him that he felt he could have at least made it into the final 10, I have been a great fan of his since that day. It was interesting to read about him and find out what makes him tick. He is an interesting young man and I think everyone aught to read this very interesting book.

This book was not authorized by Clay Aiken.......2005-05-15

This book was not authorized by Clay Aiken, and I know this for a FACT!! She has taken what others have said, and combined this information. We do NOT know what is true if a book is NOT AUTHORIZED, and therefore, should not be purchased!! Kathleen Tracy is trying to capitolize on Clay's name for her own monetary benefit. If she was truly a fan, she would not have done this!! She never interviewed Clay or his mother. I do hope you will post this. If people REALLY want to read about Clay, they need to read "Learning to Sing, and Hearing The Music." THIS IS AN AUTHORIZED BOOK...

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A true story about a wild child in France!.......2004-02-23

Before dawn on January 9, 1800, a remarkable creature crept out of the woods near the village of Saint-Sernin in southern France. He was animal in behaviour, human in form, mute, and naked except for the tatters of a shirt. Eight months later, the wild boy of Aveyron was the wonder of Paris. This book is Shattuck's moving account of an untamed boy and the young French doctor who tried to civilize him-a case that has fascinated intellectual and scientific circles for centures. Captivating such diverse thinkers as Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Bruno /Bettelheim, and inspiring Francois Truffaut's celebrated film "The Wild Child", the compelling notion of the Noble Savage still haunts our imaginations today. "A touching story, told with insight and compassion...evokes the theme and myth, the fantasy of the flight from society, not only to the woods but deeper into self" - Los Angeles Times Quote. "No one has ever addressed the issues of - freedom, humanity, culture, doubt and wonder-with more intelligence and grace" - The New York Times Quote. I found this to be a fascinating and amazing read.

A true story about a wild child in France!.......2004-02-23

Before dawn on January 9, 1800, a remarkable creature crept out of the woods near the village of Saint-Sernin in southern France. He was animal in behaviour, human in form, mute, and naked except for the tatters of a shirt. Eight months later, the wild boy of Aveyron was the wonder of Paris. This book is Shattuck's moving account of an untamed boy and the yound french doctor who tried to civilize him-a case that has fascinated intellectual and scientific circles for centures. Captivating such diverse thinkers as Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Bruno /Bettelheim, and inspiring Francois Truffaut's celebrated film The Wild Child", the compelling notion of the the Noble Savage still haunts our imaginations today. "A touching story, told with insight and compassion...evokes the thems and myth, the fantasy of the flight from society, not only to the woods vbut deeper into self" - Los Angeles Times Quote. "No one has ever addressed the issues-of freedom, humanity, culture, doubt and wonder-with more intelligence and grace" - The New York Times Quote. I found this to be a fascinating and amazing read.

The forbidden experiment : the story of the Wild Boy of Aveyron

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A Thoughtful Narrative of What It Means to Be Human
Thoughtful, Sympathetic Story of What It Means to be Human
Thoughtful, Sympathetic Story of What It Means to be Human
A beautiful, poignant account

The forbidden experiment : the story of the Wild Boy of Aveyron
Roger Shattuck
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On a cold morning just a few days into the year 1800, the citizens of the southern French village of Saint-Sernin awoke to a strange vision: a hairy boy, naked, who appeared as if by some witchcraft from the nearby woods. Captured while digging up vegetables from a tanner's garden, the boy did not--could not--speak. Instead, he emitted a few weird cries, trying to hide himself from his puzzled captors.

The next day, the gendarmes took the boy to a hospice in a nearby town. From there, writes the historian and literary scholar Roger Shattuck, his path took this "prisoner without a crime," now called Victor, into the studies and laboratories of revolutionary France, where the boy presented a rare homegrown instance of Rousseau's "noble savage" to the civilized world. Much scholarly and scientific debate surrounded him. Finally, Victor, now famed as the "wild boy of Aveyron," came under the care of a sympathetic young doctor who concluded that Victor was in fact an abandoned deaf-mute, intelligent but forlorn, who had somehow been able to survive on his own. Dismissed in a contemporary encyclopedia as "half wild" and "incapable of learning to speak in spite of all efforts to teach him," Victor was eventually forgotten. "A state pension kept him alive, like an animal in a zoo," writes Shattuck, "and when he died no one noticed." Scientific debate about his condition was renewed from time to time, however, and the story of the wild boy was influential in the development of several theories of language learning and human evolution. Shattuck's slender narrative is a fine work of scholarly detection, yielding an instructive episode in the history of science. --Gregory McNamee

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Just before dawn on January 9, 1800, a mysterious creature emerged from a forest in southern France. Although he was human in form and walked upright, his habits were those of a young male animal. He was wearing only a tattered shirt, but did not seem troubled by the cold. Showing no modesty
about his nakedness, he ate greedily, seizing roasted potatoes from a hot fire. He seemed to have no language skills, only grunting occasionally. A cause celebre developed over the question of what should be done with this puzzling wild boy. People wondered: Could he learn to speak? Or be taught to
eat with a knife and fork?

In THE FORBIDDEN EXPERIMENT, the award-winning cultural historian Roger Shattuck offers a captivating account of this fascinating episode in intellectual history. He examines the relationships that developed among the boy, soon named Victor; Madame Guerin, the woman who fed and washed him; and
Itard, the tutor who defiled his colleagues who believed the boy was hopelessly retarded. Shattuck helps modern readers form many of the questions that still haunt parents, special education teachers, guidance counselors, and all students of human behavior to this day: How do children acquire
language? How do deaf and mute children learn? Can children who have been neglected or abused ever learn to trust the world? Like a true-life tale of adventure rolled into a detective story, Roger Shattuck's riveting account of the Wild Boy of Aveyron is an unforgettable telling of one of history's
greatest mystery stories.

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A Thoughtful Narrative of What It Means to Be Human.......2002-08-11

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"The Forbidden Experiment: The Story of the Wild Boy of Aveyron" is a fascinating exploration of what it means to be human and how our humanity is, in a sense, created by the society in which we live, defined by our communications and relationships with others. In telling this story, Roger Shattuck has thoughtfully and sympathetically interwoven the factual story of the Wild Boy with the philosophical, psychological and historical background that ultimately makes this story so interesting. Thus, Shattuck explores the historical peculiarities of the Languedoc region from which the Wild Boy came (known for the poetry and song of the troubadors, as well as the Albigensian heresy), the historical forces which made him such a topic of interest (he was a boy seemingly straight from Rousseau's state of nature at a time when the French Revolution had given way to Napoleon), and the philosophical and psychological forerunners (Locke, Condillac, Rousseau) that provided the intellectual impetus for marking this "tabula rasa" of humanity. Shattuck's book also provides interesting appendices containing other published accounts of the Wild Boy of Aveyron, other cases of isolation and deprivation (including Kaspar Hauser, Peter of Hanover, The Elephant Man, and Helen Keller), and a short essay on Francois Truffaut's 1970 film, "The Wild Child," which is based upon the story of the Wild Boy of Aveyron.

While simple in the telling, "The Forbidden Experiment" is a book which poses the deepest and most enigmatic of questions, the question of what it means to be human. Read it, ponder it, learn from it.

Thoughtful, Sympathetic Story of What It Means to be Human.......2002-07-27

In January, 1800, a boy of about eleven or twelve years old walked out of the woods near the village of Saint-Sernin in the Languedoc region of southern France. Except for a tattered shirt, he was naked. He had no shame or concern for his nakedness and had no ability to speak. He made only strange and apparently meaningless sounds and cries. While human in appearance, he lacked any qualities which otherwise would suggest that he was part of any human society.

The boy was captured by a villager, transported and kept for several months in an orphanage in a nearby town, and eventually transferred to Paris in June, 1800, where "The Wild Boy of Aveyron" was claimed "for science and humanity" by the newly-formed Society of Observers of Man. In Paris, the boy was given over to the Abbe Sicard, a famous educator and the head of the Institute for Deaf-Mutes. "Miracles were expected of Sicard, for some of his deaf-mute pupils had made a reputation by their intelligence and wit in answering written questions before large audiences." Sicard, however, apparently believed that he could never train the seemingly wild creature and made no efforts to do so. Instead, he left the boy to run wild at the Institute and a commission appointed by the Society of the Observers of Man subsequently declared him to be an incurable idiot.

It is at this point, however, sometime in the summer or fall of 1800, that the course of the Wild Boy's life took a different course. A twenty-five year old medical student, Jean-Marc Gaspard Itard began working at the Institute and became interested in the boy. More or less simultaneously with the declaration by the Society of the Observers of Man that the boy was an incurable idiot in November of that year, Itard was hired and given a room at the Institute for the sole purpose of working with the boy. Itard named the boy Victor and went on, over the course of the next six years and with the able assistance of a motherly figure by the name of Madame Guerin, to train the boy in accordance with principles Itard had derived from the writings of Locke and Condillac. These principles were intended to give the boy the ability to respond to other people, to train his senses, to extend his physical and social needs, to teach him to speak, and to teach him to think and reason logically. While Itard was never fully successful in achieving all of his objectives, his work was remarkably original and his observations and experiments have left the world with a fascinating picture of the Wild Boy of Aveyron.

Thoughtful, Sympathetic Story of What It Means to be Human.......2001-08-30

A beautiful, poignant account.......1999-07-11

Shattuck writes a beautiful, poignant account about an event that forever influenced the course of modern day psychology. Shattuck not only discusses "Victor" himself (behavior, reactions, etc.), but also discusses the recupercusions his capture, attempted treatment, and attempted enculturalization had philosophically, morally, and psychologically. This is definitely a well written, well researched, 3-dimensional book. It explores the subject on every level possible.

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The Forbidden Experiment - The Story of the Wild Boy of Aveyron
Roger Shattuck
Manufacturer: Farrar Straus Giroux
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FORBIDDEN EXPERIMENT, THE, The Story of the Wild Boy of Aveyron

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FORBIDDEN EXPERIMENT, THE, The Story of the Wild Boy of Aveyron
Roger, with a New Introduction By Douglas Keith Candland Shattuck
Manufacturer: Kodansha Intl.
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000VBBOJE

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