Molecular Identification, Systematics, and Population Structure of Prokaryotes

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Systematic biology has a far wider application than merely the provision of a reliable classification scheme for new strains. With the framework of the hierarchic system stabilizing, genomes, noncoding regions, and genes and their products can now be evaluated in an evolutionary context. This book summarizes recent developments in the molecular characterization of cultured and as-yet uncultured prokaryotes, emphasizing the strengths and weaknesses of individual approaches. The chapters of the book are compiled to stimulate students to enter the field of bacterial diversity, presenting a broad spectrum of fascinating multifaceted disciplines that illuminate the paths to ecosystem functioning, communication within communities, symbiosis, life in extreme environments, astrobiology, and more.

Bacterial Diversity And Systematics (FEMS SYMPOSIUM)

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Bacterial Diversity And Systematics (FEMS SYMPOSIUM)
FERGUS, ED. PRIEST
Manufacturer: Plenum Press
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Bacterial Systematics
Niall A. Logan
Manufacturer: Blackwell Publishing Limited
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This is the first book on bacterial systematics at undergraduate level. The first part explains why bacteria are classified and how they are named, and covers the practice of classification including evolutionary studies and identification. The applications of these methods are illustrated in the second part of the book, which describes progress in the classification and identification of the spirochaetes, helical and curved bacteria, Gram-negative aerobic, facultative and strictly anaerobic bacteria, Gram-positive cocci, rods and endospore formers, mycoplasmas, and actinomycetes; and outlines the importance of these organisms.

Computer-Assisted Bacterial Systematics (Society for General Microbiology Special Publication Series, No 15)

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Computer-Assisted Bacterial Systematics (Society for General Microbiology Special Publication Series, No 15)

Manufacturer: Academic Press
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Handbook of New Bacterial Systematics
M. Goodfellow
Manufacturer: Academic Pr
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Index of the Bacterial and Yeast Nomenclatural Changes: Published in the International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology Since the 1980 Approved Lists ... Names (1 January 1980 to 1 January 1992)

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Index of the Bacterial and Yeast Nomenclatural Changes: Published in the International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology Since the 1980 Approved Lists ... Names (1 January 1980 to 1 January 1992)
W. E. C. Moore , and Lillian V. H. Moore
Manufacturer: Amer Society for Microbiology
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ASIN: 9993778125

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Index of the Bacterial and Yeast Nomenclatural Changes: Published in the International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology Since the 1980 Approved Lists of Bacterial Names: (1 January 1980 to 1 January 1989)

Manufacturer: American Society for Microbiology
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Nucleic Acid Techniques in Bacterial Systematics

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Nucleic Acid Techniques in Bacterial Systematics
ERKO,ED. STACKEBRANDT
Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons
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The Systematic Relationships of the Coccaceae, with a Discussion of the Principles of Bacterial Classification

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The Systematic Relationships of the Coccaceae, with a Discussion of the Principles of Bacterial Classification
Charles-Edward Amory & Anne Rogers Winslow
Manufacturer: Wiley
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Bacterial Diversity and Systematics - Cell to System

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Bacterial Diversity and Systematics - Cell to System
F. G.;Ramos-Cormenzana, A.;Tindall, B. J., Priest
Manufacturer: Springer
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ASIN: B000OS5FRG

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When people in First World countries think of tourists in the vast expanses of the Third World today, they typically think of pampered westerners, filling up the luxury hotels and imposing their Orientalist gazes on the teeming masses. As David Gladstone shows us in this fascinating and provocative book, such preconceptions are wrong. Coupling incisive and colorful ethnographic accounts of tourism in India and Mexico with sharp analysis, Gladstone demonstrates the amazing complexity of this industry, which now comprises close to ten percent of the world economy. As he also shows, the vast majority of tourists in the Third World are indigenous people with few resources-often making pilgrimages to religious shrines.
From Pilgrimage to Package Tour is a fresh and entirely original account that stands tourism studies on its head and proves that this industry is far more complicated than it initially appears.

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The story of Comock the Eskimo, as told to Robert Flaherty
Comock
Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
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The Story of Comock the Eskimo, As Told to Robert Flaherty (Fawcett Premier, M573)

Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
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ASIN: B000GX6SCU

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The Story of Comock, the Eskimo as Told to Robert Flaherty
Edmund [editor] Comock; Carpenter
Manufacturer: Fawcett Publications
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
ASIN: B000KX6NPI

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Faberge Drawings.......2007-05-25

If you are looking for drawings this book has Wigstrom drawings. He only produced a small part of the Faberge objects. He was not the main designer and artist. There are a few small photos of actual items. If you want to see the range of Faberge items this is not the book for you.

A Wonderful Book.......2000-08-16

This is an amazing book. The original drawings of the objects, especially when shown near the finished works, help to illustrate the attention to detail that Faberge paid to his work. These illustrations, along with the information on the history, style, and clientele of the firm, put Faberge's work in context and provide a greater understanding of it than most books, which just deal with the completed objects. I highly reccommend this book to anyone who has any interest in Faberge or Imperial Russia.

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If you have a dog please, PLEASE buy this book!.......2000-04-07

In case you're wondering: no, I am not related to the author, but I sincerely believe that this is one of the most effective, accessible, and concise dog training manuals ever written. If you've ever dreamed of having the "perfect" obedient dog, this book will help that dream come true.

I wish that I would have had access to this invaluable information when my family acquired our yellow Labrador puppy 15 years ago. If you are considering a puppy (or even if you already have a dog), please buy this book and make sure every member of your family reads it.

Not only does the author give clear and relevant guidance for training your dog, she also provides revealing insights into a dog's psychological makeup, and the powerful influence of the pack mentality that dogs inherited from their wolf ancestors.

This book is only 63 pages long, easy-to-read, and fascinating. Unless you happen to already be a successful professional dog trainer, there is NO reason not to own this book.

Any dog owner, whether 8 or 80 years old, whether experienced or not will benefit immensely from the guidance provided in this book. You owe to yourself and to your dog to buy this book, read it AND apply its wisdom.

Good luck and Happy Training!

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One of the most recognized villages in the Pequea Valley, Intercourse has a mysterious and refuted beginning. Some have said that the village takes its name from the early races that were held on Old Philadelphia Pike. Folks would say that they were “entering the race course,” which became “enter course,” which became Intercourse. Another version states that it is simply the old way of saying “to mix, to commune.” Regardless, Intercourse and its surrounding towns—Leacock, Paradise, Salisbury, and the entire Pequea Valley—are extremely rich and quite influential in history. This book spotlights one of William Penn's original counties, the birthplace of the Conestoga wagon, and the rich heritage that accompanies each town. Enjoy this picturesque tour of the people and places found within the perimeters of this scenic nucleus of history.

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Images of Intercourse
Tina Skinner
Manufacturer: Schiffer Publishing
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ASIN: 0764320149

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John Dixon Hunt is widely considered one of the foremost of today's writers on the history and theory of gardens and landscape architecture. Gardens and the Picturesque collects eleven of Hunt's essays -- several of them never before published -- that deal with the ways in which men and women have given meaning to gardens and landscapes, especially with the ways in which gardens have represented the world of nature "picturesquely."

Ranging over subjects from the cult of the picturesque to verbal-visual parallels within gardens, from allegorical imagery to landscape painting, these essays brilliantly invoke Hunt's fascination with the idea of the garden both as a milieu -- by which gardens become the most eloquent expressions of complex cultural ideas -- and as a site of cultural translation, whereby one period shapes for its own purposes the ideas and forms inherited from its predecessors.

Architecture, Landscape and Liberty: Richard Payne Knight and the Picturesque

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Architecture, Landscape and Liberty: Richard Payne Knight and the Picturesque
Andrew Ballantyne
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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Binding: Hardcover

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Andrew Ballantyne's study of the prominent late-Georgian critic Richard Payne Knight is based on his writings on aesthetics and his influence on the principles of taste in the eighteenth century. Knight played an important role in the controversy about picturesque taste and its application to garden design, which became a major preoccupation during the second half of the century. Knight's ideas were given concrete expression in his writings and verses, of which his Analytic Inquiry into the Principles of Taste was the most influential.

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A small and admiral memoir that records the experiences of a young Dutch student who spent a year and a half as a novice monk in a Japanese Zen Buddhist monastery.

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is a cloud a member of the sky?.......2007-07-13

"The empty mirror," he said. "If you could really understand that, there would be nothing left here for you to look for."

A Dutch student spends a year in a Zen Buddhist monastery in Kyoto in the late 1950's. He shows up at this monastery not really knowing why he wants to be there; he just vaguely knows he wants to do Zen.

The storytelling is lean and direct; no tangents or wordiness with this narrative. This makes for some very engaging and quick reading.

Van de Wetering is one of those rare people who can produce a compelling first book with such seeming effortlessness; his style engages you from the first paragraph and doesn't let go until the last sentence.

This is a spiritual odyssey without the spirit; the seeker seeking for what he knows not. In his pursuit of this unknown, "Jan-san" is brutally honest about his limitations and cultural alienation; his inept struggling with his koan penetration seems to be the core problem he has.

Yet, his humor underpins much of this struggle: with himself, his fellow monks, and his sense of "What the hell am I doing this for?"

Quite the entertaining read - highly recommend.

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Read for class.......2006-02-21

I had to read this for class. Not great literature, one may even say that it is bad. It is more of a diary about Zen buddism. I would bet that there are better books out there about Zen that are better.

A humorous, grouchy, true story.......2006-01-15

In the summer of 1958 Janwillem van de Wetering showed up at the door of a Zen monastery in Kyoto Japan, knowing pretty much no one, not speaking the language, and without a really good idea what he was doing there. This book describes, with a certain amount of humor and what seems to be quite a bit of honesty, the months that followed (interlaced with Zen stories that he heard during those months, including some that I hadn't heard anywhere else before; I like Zen stories).

There aren't many dates in the book (or I wasn't paying enough of that kind of attention to notice them), but I think he stayed at the monastery for more than six months and less than two years. His descriptions of the time are interesting, funny, warm, vivid, and all sorts of good words like that (and also rather dark, mordant and/or grouchy in tone, often frustrated, impatient, dissatisfied). He did not find the answers to life's problems, his knees hurt alot, he misunderstood the head monk and Zen master frequently, and he (like the other residents of the monastery) cheated and broke the rules with impressive frequency.

The writing is spare and specific; this is the story of what one particular set of months in one particular monastery were like. Any broad conclusions about The Meaning Of Zen Training or anything else are left pretty much entirely to the reader.

The author left feeling that the whole thing had perhaps been a failure; but the master said "now you are a little awake; so awake that you will never fall asleep again". Which altogether is more satisfying, I think, than perky converts describing how happy and fulfilled their new meme complex has made them.

One tiny annoyance that struck me as out of keeping with the tone of the rest of the book: on a crowded train ride during a brief trip away from the monastery to renew his Dutch passport, he concentrates so hard on the feeling of a woman who is pressed up against him that he convinces himself that he is mentally influencing her to rub herself against him, trembling. She got off at the next station (can hardly blame her!), and he concludes that the idea that "someone who has trained his will can influence others, without saying anything, without doing anything observable, had now been proved", but that that's not really the point of Zen and he probably shouldn't do it anymore. He doesn't seem to consider the possibility that he's just proven that he can fool himself, which seems to me much more likely, and something that should have occurred to anyone actually paying attention.

But that's just a nit (I like nits), and perhaps adds as much to the book as it takes away from it. I very much enjoyed reading it (and it didn't take long; it's 146 pages, with little or no bogging down). He has at least two other books about his experiences in other vaguely Zen-related places; I intend to someday maybe read those also.

how many books have been written about my 'trip to zen'?.......2005-06-19

too many - this is one of the first and is the BEST. period.

How to fall off a Zen log.......2005-05-16

You can't fault Jan-san for his honesty.It may even help some people who over-stretch themselves with warped fantasies about the perfect Zendo. Nevertheless, it isn't a helpful account. The experiences which seem to endear many readers to this book are common place, the hops over the wall, night life etc. - obtained without reference to Zen. Given the lethargic atmosphere inside the temple, it is hardly surprising than Jan-san sought stimulation - outside it. Jan-san honestly reports a luck-lustre attitude. If you want apathy - well, life is short.
This 'mirror' - is empty, empty of all the benefits one might find, practicing Zen in earnest.

The Empty Mirror: Experiences in a Japanese Zen Monastery

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The Empty Mirror: Experiences in a Japanese Zen Monastery
Janwillem Van de Wetering
Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000J55ULU

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"What I am writing is not a chronicle biography," cautions Victoria Glendinning of Jonathan Swift, but rather what the early-18th-century satirist and his contemporaries would have thought of as a "character," a prose portrait in which, as she puts it, Glendinning "[circles] a little, gradually zooming in on the man himself, until the central questions about him can finally be confronted in close-up."

Swift (1667-1745) is best known to many as the author of Gulliver's Travels; for others, he is more vividly remembered for A Modest Proposal, in which--with the textual equivalent of a deadpan expression--he offered Ireland's British rulers a solution to Irish overpopulation and poverty:

I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout.

Glendinning quotes extensively from Swift's prose and poetry, probing the political and aesthetic sensibilities that led him to such dark assessments of human nature, but she is just as strong--if not stronger--in her assessment of the two great romantic relationships in his life, with Esther Johnson ("Stella") and Hester Vanhomrigh ("Vanessa"). Here she draws upon extensive epistolary evidence, as well as contemporary accounts of the affairs. While there are some questions that cannot be conclusively answered--Were Swift and Stella secretly married? Did he ever consummate his relationship with Vanessa?--the ways in which Glendinning frames the possibilities make Swift come alive for modern readers, restoring a personality of great depth and complexity to a figure many know only by the name on a single book's title page. --Ron Hogan

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A prize-winning biographer tells the story of the immortal Swift.

Poet, polemicist, pamphleteer, and wit, Swift is the master of shock. His furious satirical responses to the corruption and hypocrisy he saw around him in private and public life in eighteenth-century England and Ireland have every relevance for our own times. His black imagination, and his preoccupation with the foulness that lies beneath the thin veneer of artifice and civilization, gave a new adjective-Swiftian-to the lexicon of criticism. Jonathan Swift is best known as the author of Gulliver's Travels, and like his Gulliver in the land of Lilliput, Swift is a problem in perspective and scale. Victoria Glinning has taken a literary zoom lens to illuminate this proud and intractable man. She investigates at close range the main events and relationships of Swift's life, providing a compelling and provocative portrait set in a rich tapestry of controversy and paradox. Yeats said famously that he saw Swift round every corner, that his ghost survived.

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Well written personal view.......2003-05-10

This is no day by day chronicle of a life. Rather, a gerneral view and personal description, 'what Swift is to me'. Once this premise is accepted, the book reads easily, the style is great,the few pictures helpful. The author can be seem to be opinionated or not, but she is always in the background. I had a great time reading this,and I knew very little of Swift beforhand. Now I would like to travel to Dublin, so I guess the book achieved at least something...

PARTLY INTERESTING PARTLY TEDIOUS.......1999-07-03

Glendenning's follows an excellent life of Trollope with a soso effort on another writer who spent a lot of time in both Ireland and England- Jonathan Swift. The book is a curious effort... she calls it a portrait but its more an impressionistic portrait then a realistic biography. She dismisses the standard biographical form with an 8 page summary of Swift's life in chapter one. Her style than is more thematatic than chronological and for the newcomer to Swifts life this is confusing... Stella appears and then disapears for many pages...Glendenning is best discusing Swift's literary life in London from 1710-4 when he hung with Pope and Dr. Arbuthnot. These pages are informative as is the discussion of Swift's relationship with William Temple, his benefactor. Overall, Glendenning's effort is tiresome. She does not appear to have much sustained interest in Swift or to really have enjoyed his books.

An ordinary biography about an extraordinary man.......1999-05-12

This is an ordinary biography about an extraordinary man. Swift is the author of some of the greatest satires ever written -- funny, vicious, scatological -- full of the strength of conviction and powered by a great command of the English language. A lot of that comes through in this biography by Victoria Glendinning, but a lot of it does not.

One of the main annoyances with this book is that there is too much of the biographer in it. The biographer talks about the process of her research. She peppers the book with many instances of "I think" and "I believe", often without any indication of why she thinks or believes these things. The reader is sometimes left concluding: why does her perception of things have any more credence than anyone else's? How has she proved her case?

Glendinning's analyses of some of Swift's work also often seem a little thin and obvious. Granted, she does not have the space to provide in-depth literary criticism, but the assessments she does provide are so thin sometimes that the reader feels he could do without them altogether. The same applies to her mini-critiques of the former biographers of Swift.

The book is not all bad though. The writing style is good and plain, and she does not engage in too many speculations based on slender biographical data. She does not "make things up", does not try to paint the (imagined) scene just so the reader can have "atmosphere". The book is readable and the most of the basic facts about Swift's life are there.

The book ends on a bad note with the last chapter, however, with Glendinning engaging in some generalizations about Swift's life and about literary art which come off as very judgmental and facile.

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Swift and His Circle
Jonathan] Jackson, R. Wyse [Swift
Manufacturer: The Talbot Press
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000KVWW46

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Essays on the portraits of Swift (Bohn's standard library)
Frederick Richard Falkiner
Manufacturer: G. Bell
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Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B00089XFT6

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The life of Jonathan Swift: With portrait
Henry Craik
Manufacturer: Murray
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Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B0008CR39G

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A sentimental journey through France and Italy: Written for the universal improvement of mankind / by Jonathan Swift ; with five etchings and portrait by Ed. HeÌdouiÌn
Laurence Sterne
Manufacturer: Nimmo and Bain
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Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B0008650AQ

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