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Fruit and Seed Production: Aspects of Development, Environmental Physiology and Ecology (Society for Experimental Biology Seminar Series)
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The topic of fruit and seed production is given a broad and comprehensive treatment, with chapters covering the onset of flowering through to the development and growth of fruits and seeds, and finally to ecological and evolutionary aspects of fruiting.
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Seeds: Physiology of Development and Germination (The Language of Science)
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Handbook of Seed Physiology: Applications to Agriculture
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In response to enormous recent advances, particularly in molecular biology, the authors have revised their warmly received work. This new edition includes updates on seed development, gene expression, dormancy, and other subjects. It will serve as the field's standard textbook and reference source for many years to come.
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This text is intended for plant physiologists, molecular biologists, biochemists, biotechnologists, geneticists, horticulturalists, agromnomists and botanists, and upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in these disciplines. It integrates advances in the diverse and rapidly-expanding field of seed science, from ecological and demographic aspects of seed production, dispersal and germination, to the molecular biology of seed development. The book offers a broad, multidisciplinary approach that covers both theoretical and applied knowledge.
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The plant seed is the source of most human nutrition, and closely related to the development of human civilization. This book represents a comprehensive overview of the growth and development of the seed, and the major storage reserves of the seed: protein, starch, oil. The contributing authors comprise a select group of world experts on these topics who present up-to-date overviews of the molecular genetic mechanisms controlling development of the embryo, suspensor, cotyledons and the endosperm, and embryo maturation and seed desiccation. The special features of distinct types of storage proteins, oils and starches are described, as well as mutations that affect their quantity and quality. Biotechnological manipulation of seed storage materials is discussed. The book is intended for graduate and advanced undergraduate students, and should provide a useful text for courses in plant development and molecular biology.
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New England is comprised of six states: Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. Though many consider that it is at its most glorious in the fall, New England is a wonderful travel destination at all times of the year, because of its history, its special relationship with the sea, its back roads and scenic beauty, its changing seasons, and the great diversity between traveling the coast and the valleys and mountains.
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Berry Ripe Moon
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*Explores and identifies the trains drawing the greatest collector values in the hobby
With a handy and compact format you can conveniently carry this go-to train guide in your car, or keep it in a desk drawer as a quick reference while surfing auctions on the Internet. Sporting an incredible collection of more than 900 color photos, Collector's Guide to Prewar Lionel Trains, 1900-1942 will enable you to take your Lionel train collecting to new dimensions. With trusted train expert David Doyle at the helm, this one-of-a-kind guide with its 2,000 listings - covering 2 7/8-inch Gauge, Standard Gauge, O Gauge, OO Gauge and accessories, plus secondary market prices, is sure to give you an edge over fellow Lionel conductors.
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A valuable guide to keep with you.......2007-04-04
Like Mr. Doyles other new Lionel train guide for post war trains, the Collector's Guide to Prewar Lionel Trains, 1900-1942 is prove to be an important resource for both the buyer and seller of antique Lionel train sets. Containing information on virtually every toy train made by Lionel between 1900 and 1942, the book will prove to be a gold mine of information. However I found two of the appendices at the end of the book to be of particular value. Appendix I, Awakening Sleeping Toys and Appendix II, Setting Up Your Train each contain information important to the collector. There is also a small chapter on Lionel Catalogs and Paper Products and another chapter devoted to Accessories, Toys and Novelties.
All in all this is one you'll want to keep close.
record value.......2007-03-20
Has just about every record ever made with its corresponding value. Only thing not listed are instrumentals.
45 RPM Price Guide.......2007-02-06
I have found this to be the most informitive book on 45's that I have ever read. Not only does it give you a guideline on the value of the records in your collection, but it also gives you information on the artists such as other groups the artist has been with and the groups that have changed their names over their careers
As good as it gets.......2005-07-28
With records becoming more and more plentiful, it does lose a little of the obscure stuff it used to carry. However, it is a MUST for any collector!
Just the think you need for a lifetime hobby........2004-07-17
Ever wondered how much one of those 45s you have is worth? Here's the place to look. Not every artist is listed but with every new edition, more are added. I have a first edition which contains over 30,000 or so entries. The reason why I asked what I did above is beacuse if your collection contains older records or records that look just like the day they were first sold, you could probably have a collection worth thousands of dollars. Some songs are available on different labels, ones that are easy to find rather than ones that are rare on other labels. I saw that a near mint copy of "For Your Precious Love" by Jerry Butler and the Impressions on the Vee-Jay label is worth $10,000. A very good codition of that record is over $1,000. If someone has something rare like that or colored vinyl, they are lucky!! If this is your hobby whether you've started or it's been with you all your life, you shouldn't be without this book. RECOMMENDED!
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Goldmine's Rock 'N Roll 45Rpm Record Price Guide (Goldmine's Rock 'n Roll 45rpm Price Guide)
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Good for Knowledgable Collectors...Hard For Everyone Else !.......2000-04-08
This price guide is an accurate and excelent resource for the serious collector. But, for the inexperienced person, there is not enough information provided concerning quality of the records and sleeves. I would definately suggest this but would also suggest a supplimentary book or other resource for record condition evaluations.
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Dump Your Stress in the Compost Pile: Stress Reduction Through Gardening
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Warrior and writer, genius and crank, rider in the British cavalry’s last great charge and inventor of the tank, Winston Churchill led Britain to fight alone against Nazi Germany in the fateful year of 1940 and set the standard for leading a democracy at war. With penetrating insight and vivid anecdotes, Gretchen Rubin makes Churchill accessible and meaningful to twenty-first-century readers by analyzing the many contrasting views of the man: he was an alcoholic, he was not; he was an anachronism, he was a visionary; he was a racist, he was a humanitarian; he was the most quotable man in the history of the English language, he was a bore.
Like no other portrait of its famous subject,
Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill is a dazzling display of facts more improbable than fiction. It brings to full realization the depiction of a man too fabulous for any novelist to construct, too complex for even the longest narrative to describe, and too significant ever to be forgotten.
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A Fascinating and Convincing examination of how to look at a life lived large........2007-09-16
I was well on my way to reading "everything" about and by Churchill by the time I came across this wise and wholly admirable book. The magnitude of Churchill's life and times, and the tragic figure he cut--tragic in the full Greek sense of all that is necessary to constitute true tragedy--can create among some people an almost insatiable appetite for details. I would have to be counted among them. Frankly, I thought this book might make an interesting "snack" between the stack of Churchill books I'd just read and the stack I was about to. Instead I found that 40 ways... was a full course meal. What the author has accomplished is much more substantial than I would have thought possible in such a slim (for Churchill anyway) volume. You recognize that an individual's greatest strength must necessarily be the source of their greatness weakness, a self portrait reflected in a double edged sword, so to speak. I was impressed by the case she made that the times he lived in floodlight these strengths and weaknesses to further define him, and because there was greatness in Churchill, to help define the very times in which he lived.
I was perhaps skeptical that this reduction and summation, pro/con approach would prove to be "gimmicky" or perhaps a shortcut to a more scholarly undertaking. Now I feel that the "gimmick" was instead an apt and inspired construct for examining an enormously complex thing. (It's a methodology that would be useful to apply to FDR, among others). To Rubin's credit she hasn't used this format to avoid judgment, but to elongate the period of consideration before judgment. I've read enough about the man to have done very well on the true/false test, but I still spent a long time pondering the several questions I got wrong. The test reminded me again that the complexities of his life are almost beyond my ability to assimilate them. Hence the fascination I suppose.
Some years ago I was very impressed and moved by a biography of Brahms written by Jan Swafford. Swafford makes the point early that Brahms had been very fortune in both the timeframe he was borne into and in the timeframe of his death. Swafford's take was that the music world of Vienna changed immensely after 1897 and it had been Brahms' good fortune not to live to see it. I was struck at the time by looking at lives that way and Rubin makes a similar and equally valid point about Churchill in her book. He was unlucky to have outlived his time and was in a sense victimized by the nearly indestructible constitution that had served his so well for the first 70 years. There is no shortage of first-hand accounts of Churchill's flirtations with real danger. He was well aware of the historical advantage he might have had if he perished under heroic circumstances. He also enjoyed the adrenal rush these occasions afforded him. Of these accounts, none is better than the biography of his personal bodyguard of approximately twenty years, Walter Thompson, "Beside the Bulldog". More on his book at the close.*
I noted with special interest the author's mediation on the subjectivity of biographers and the essential criteria she establishs for evaluating a life. Her comments on Manchester's "knowing insight" into a single photo of Churchill's mother illustrate the need for caution before you make a commitment to a particular version of Churchill's story and the thousands of pages that may go with it. Rubin has done a service to readers and biographers both, clarified the task for writers to come and possibly even established some ground rules. While the sales numbers for this book (and I've no idea what they are) may not suggest broad influence, I'm confident that the methodology used will have larger ramifications for a future generation of biographers. Would-be great writers long for a subject through which they can imbue their own greatness. This process of subverting one large ego for the other, a process that can subsume many years of the writer's life is full of temptations and seduction. It's almost inevitably that the writer's own feelings influence what gets exposed and what gets tidied up. The end product edges towards a symbiosis of the subject's life and the particular aspects of that life that speak to the author's own experience and or fascinations. By comparison, Rubin's approach in this book feels free of artifice. It's the case where not spending a dozen years of your life on a single project is actually a good thing, not just for the author but for the book as well.
(For Churchill fans, my favorite first-hand account of his life is Walter Thompson's (to be re-released in print in late 2007). If you haven't read this former Scotland Yard detectives' account of the near twenty years he spent by Churchill's side than you have missed a great treat, for nowhere else does Churchill live and breathe as tangibly as in these pages.
Thompson joined up with Churchill around 1918 and stayed with him through the end of WW 2. There were some years during the 1930's that Thompson was assigned elsewhere, but he did accompany Churchill to the US during the Al Capone years of the 1930's and was there when Churchill was hit by a car crossing against traffic in NYC. He was by Churchill's side during many of the secret FDR meetings, on ship and at The White House for Christmas. His take on things goes a long way towards answering many of the questions your book raises, though of course, Thompson hide things as well, both about Churchill, himself and the harsh treatment he received from Mrs. Churchill, who resented his constant presence to the extent that she frequently refused to feed Thompson while assuring her husband that arrangements had been made for him. Thompson's take on FDR, though only a small part of this book will interest historians. Thompson's displays a vivid command of the language, considerable wit, and more uniquely, he conveys an unusually keen sense of place. Marry those talents with his genius for sketching characters with deft precision and you get a compelling book. The panorama of Egypt, Morocco and the Gaza Strip, (eerily unchanged) circa 1920 are but a few locations that unfold before the eye. Add laying bricks next to Churchill at Chartwell, carrying Churchill's paintings materials throughout the world, (most notably in Marrakech and France), meeting Mussolini, dodging shrapnel on rooftops during the blitz and Thompson's fascinating and very favorable account of T.E. Lawrence (which led me to The Seven Pillars of Wisdom)and you've got an account unlike any other. The book Churchill's Bodyguard by Thomas Hickman will be re-released this fall. He substitutes Thompson's exceptional prose with his own dry and rather academic voice and while Hickman's account fills in the storyline for Thompson's own complicated life, it's not a substitute for the original).
Sadly Disappointing.......2007-05-30
I bought this book while I was writing a book of my own in which Churchill is a central figure. I wanted new insights on the man, and listening to the author on a radio talk show, I thought she might be able to provide those for me. I was sadly disappointed when I started reading the book.
The title comes from the fact that Rubin offers 40 exceptionally brief chapters (3 to 5 pages in length) that offer a different "perspective" on Churchill. The idea probably sound very good and innovative as a book proposal, but it is such a shallow account that the reader can be excused for feeling deceived. Chapter three is nothing more than a listing of people Churchill met during his life. Chapter fourteen is nothing other than a listing of facts about the man in bullet format. Each chapter as three complete sentences. Another chapter is a collection of quotes from him and another about him.
I spent good hard earned money on this book, if you choose to read this book I suggest you borrow it from the library instead.
a fresh way to look at Churchill if you already know something about him.......2007-03-12
This book is a good way to get a fresh look (forty of them) at Churchill, but not a good way to approach him if you are starting from scratch. It's not a conventional biography - read at least an encyclopedia article first. The author captures different angles of his life in each chapter, using a variety of techniques. I found it an engaging read and recommend it to anyone who wants to think about Churchill or sort the facts in one's head. I won't spoil what I thought was the most interesting way to look at Churchill suggested by Rubin...
Brilliant snapshots that illumine the greatest man of his generation.......2007-02-18
It is the lot of great men and women to be entombed in biographies the size of the Lenin Mausoleum. And when sub-biographers turn their hand to popularizations one gets, well, sub-biography; the standard judgments taken from the big biographies but in too brief a compass to give the reader much sense of the subject of the biography beyond the biographer's predilections. One way out is through a cutaway like John Lukacs' superb Five Days in London. Another is through the lens of a skilled and constantly shifting pararazza like Gretchen Rubin, who excels in delivering a biographical portrait that is digestible for those with less than Proustian appetites for bulk, but is very far from a "popular" biography.
Someone has distinguished between the simplicity that lies this side of complexity, and the simplicity on the far side. I'm in no doubt where Forty Ways to look at Winston Churchill is to be found.
Nigel Cameron
If you read only one biography in your life, read this one.......2006-09-09
I'm a big fan of biographies, and have read hundreds of them over the years. This one ranks perhaps tops on my list. Rubin not only provides perspective on the differing views of Churchill's life and character, but also deconstructs, in witty fashion, the entire discipline of biography. I was also amused by how Rubin jumped right into topics like sex and booze that other, more hagiographic Churchill biographers delicately avoided. About the only tiny mistep in Rubin's narrative is when she hinted that the great Gandhi was a better man than Churchill. G. B. Singh's "Gandhi: Behind the Mask of Divinity" instead shows that Gandhi himself would have also been a worthy subject of Rubin's perceptive gaze.
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Last Full Measure of Devotion
J. Doby , and
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Irishman from Michigan in ACW.......2006-08-29
This is a history of the author's immigrant ancestors, focusing on his gg-uncle John Edwards, who was born in Co Westmeath in 1826, came to the US in 1849, winding up in Hudson, Michigan in 1851, where he prospered as a bootmaker. In October 1861, he took a commission as 2nd Lieutenant of Company I, 15th Michigan Infantry Regiment, taking part in the battle of Shiloh, siege of Corinth, and the battles of Iuka and Corinth. By the time of his resignation in April 1863, he had been promoted to 1st Lt and was in command of Co I. After some months at home, in August 1863 he became 1st Lieutenant of Company D, 11th Michigan Cavalry Regiment; late in 1864, he was promoted to captain and Company D's commander. The 11th MI fought bushwhackers and Confederate cavalry in Kentucky, and took part in raids into Tennessee, western Virginia (including both battles of Saltville), and North Carolina. It was during Stoneman's raid into North Carolina and attack at Salisbury 12 April 1865 when Capt. Edwards was wounded, dying in hospital 4 days later. Initially buried by the local Masons in the Lutheran church yard in Salisbury, his body was reinterred in the National Cemetery.
Doby's vehicle in telling the story is having Edwards slowly dying in a Salisbury hospital telling his life story to a Confederate POW - a Freemason like Edwards - who has volunteered to nurse him. Edwards starts with his childhood in Co. Westmeath, early adulthood and marriage, the Hunger, emigration to NY, life in Hudson, and his war experiences. While a good chunk of Doby's narrative is based on factual material such as letters, newspapers, military records, etc., family folklore also played a role and plain old literary license was used to flesh out the story. Unless something is quoted, no citations are given, so no, this is not a scholarly history (which is why I give it a 4), but it was a fun read, and appears accurate regarding the 15th and 11th MI. When Doby treads off into sidebar issues, though, there are some surprising historical gaffs, such as:
* Doby's attempt at explaining US Army organization during the ACW has 3 star generals commanding corps and 4 star generals commanding armies. In actuality, Grant was the only one to get a 3rd star during the war, and there wasn't a single 4 star general until Grant in 1866 - after the war.
* Most of the major Union armies were named for rivers, not for States as the book says.
* Ft Wagner is in South (not North) Carolina.
* Discussing 1863 events, mention is made of Jeff Davis' proposing to enlist slaves into the CS Army (well over a year before it happened).
Several of Edwards' letters and family papers are reproduced both within the text and an appendix. While there are photos of officers associated with Edwards, there are none of him - only a drawing - or of his family.
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