Mycorrhiza: Structure, Function, Molecular Biology and Biotechnology

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This second updated and revised edition puts stronger emphasis on genetics and molecular biology. It contains new chapters written by leading experts in the field.
Mycorrhizas are symbioses between fungi and the roots of higher plants. As more than 90% of all known species of plants have the potential to form mycorrhizal associations, the productivity and species composition and the diversity of natural ecosystems are frequently dependent upon the presence and activity of mycorrhizas. The biotechnological application of mycorrhizas is expected to promote the production of food while maintaining ecologically and economically sustainable production systems.

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molecular technique.......1999-02-14

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A tour guide for bicycle touring along one of the historically and scenically most interesting routes in Europe. Linking the North Sea coast in Holland with the heartland of Germany, France, and Switzerland, this route provides an easily accessible cycling tour.

Detailed route descriptions with route maps and information about the places visited, including accommondations and excursions.

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How honest is the preview web page.......2006-07-31

Of course I think this is a great book - I spent a number of years researching and writing "Cycling the Rhine Route". I had so much information that I had to edit out two-thirds of the original manuscript to fit in with the publisher's requirements and I still had to persuade him to make the book longer than originally planned. So I had to make informed choices about what to leave in and take out, and after having cycled the route quite a few times, in all seasons and weathers, I feel that I have done my best within the constraints placed upon me.
The bibliography contains book titles that are either unobtainable nowadays, or out of print, and it seems that whoever built the Amazon web page has replaced those titles with others which are available. I don't think this is honest, and I have told Amazon this, but with no result. This shouldn't prevent you from owning a book which will give you the opportunity to enjoy a wonderful journey along one of the oldest routes in Europe. Best wishes and happy cycling.

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Motivating with Sales Contests: The Complete Guide to Motivating Your Telephone Professionals with Contests That Produce Record-Breaking Results
David L. Worman
Manufacturer: Business by Phone
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Sales Coaching: Making the Great Leap from Sales Manager to Sales Coach

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ASIN: 1881081028

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This book shows you everything you need to know to run morale-enhancing, sales-boosting, turnover-reducing contests. Plus you get 79 actual, tested and proven sales contests explained in detail you can run immediately! You'll learn, Why and how to keep contests simple How long contests should and shouldn't last What to avoid that's sure to demotivate reps How to keep contests fresh How to keep production, and interest, high at all times How to set goals, who should and shouldn't win What to use and not use for prizes, why money isn't the best choice

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"It's must reading for managers who want to create fresh challenges for their reps and increase sales." John Harris, Fidelity Investments

"It's a great addition to our office!" Claudia Wallace, Southwestern Bell

"I recommend this book to anyone, who, like me, doesn't have the time to be creative." Dawn Mathern, Great Plains Software

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Excellent guide

The Mouse: Its Reproduction and Development.
Roberts, Rugh
Manufacturer: Burgess Intl Group
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Textbook Binding
ASIN: 0808718142

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This is a facsimile reprint of the classic 1968 text that has been out of print for a number of years. The book continues to provide the best available treatment of mouse embryology and the normal development of the mouse. Line drawings, photographs, and sagital, frontal, and transverse
sections for each stage complement the material presented in the text, making this book the best source for reproductive biologists, developmental biologists, embryologists, geneticists, and molecular biologists, especially those interested in the regulation of development or in transgenesis.

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Excellent guide.......2000-05-03

Having worked in the field of mouse genetics for years now, i have found this book to be an incredibly useful source which provides the researcher with many details that could provide the foundations to many projects.

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A MUST FOR POCKET KNIFE COLLECTORS.......1998-01-17

JIM SERGEANT'S EXPERTISE IS UNEQUALLED IN THE AREA OF CASE,REM.ETC. A TRUE GENTLEMAN IN MY DEALINGS WITH HIM.

Sargent's American Premium Guide to Pocket Knives & Razors: Including Sheath Knives : Identifications and Values

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A MUST FOR POCKET KNIFE COLLECTORS

Sargent's American Premium Guide to Pocket Knives & Razors: Including Sheath Knives : Identifications and Values
Jim Sargent
Manufacturer: Books Americana
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Binding: Paperback

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American Premium Guide to Knives & Razors: Identification and Value Guide (American Premium Guide to Knives & Razors)

ASIN: 0896890902

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A MUST FOR POCKET KNIFE COLLECTORS.......1998-01-17

JIM SERGEANT'S EXPERTISE IS UNEQUALED,PLUS ALWAYS HAS TIME TO TALK TO YOU AT THE SHOWS; AN HONEST MAN!

American Premium Guide to Pocket Knives and Razors: Identification and Values

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American Premium Guide to Pocket Knives and Razors: Identification and Values
Jim Sargent
Manufacturer: Krause Publications
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Sargent's American Premium Guide to Pocket Knives: Identifications and Values

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Sargent's American Premium Guide to Pocket Knives: Identifications and Values
Jim Sargent
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Sargent's American Premium Guide to Pocket Knives: Identifications and Values
Jim Sargent
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Lewis De Soto's debut novel, A Blade of Grass, tells the story of Marit Laurens, a young woman of British descent, recently orphaned, who has moved with her new husband Ben to a remote farm on the contested borderland between South Africa and an unnamed country. When Ben is killed by a bomb in an act of guerilla warfare, she decides to stay on and run the farm. Alone in the world, she befriends Tembi, the daughter of her black housemaid, who has also been killed, in an accident. Struggling to transform herself as the surrounding countryside descends into bloody conflict, Marit finds herself caught between the fear and prejudices of the local Afrikaner community and the shifting loyalties and growing feeling of entitlement of the indigenous black workers. When first the Afrikaners and then the blacks flee the area, and the outside world starts to encroach menacingly on the isolated farm, Marit is stripped of everything that gave her a sense of self and a sense of belonging to this place.

A Blade of Grass is a delicate, if at times naively sentimental, exploration of the arc of a courageous relationship between two women from different societies, each an outcast from her own, during the death throes of apartheid: from the rigid structure of master and servant, through the tenderness of the shared experience of aloneness and defiance in the face of societal pressures, to betrayal. De Soto has transformed the quiet immensity of the South African veldt into spare, luminous prose. He contains everything--repression and ownership, belonging and loss, humiliation and hope--in the small gesture, the seed, the blade of grass. The story's brutality is barely graphic in its depiction, but the terror is present nonetheless, lurking insistently beneath the surface, waiting at the edge of the farm. --Diana Kuprel, Amazon.ca

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Set on the border between South Africa and an unnamed neighboring country in the 1970s, A Blade of Grass is a suspenseful novel about a bitter struggle over a small farm and its dramatic consequences for two women, one white and one black.

The story centers on Märit Laurens, a young woman of British descent, recently orphaned and newly wed, who comes to live with her husband, Ben, on their newly purchased farm. Shortly after her arrival, violence strikes at the heart of Märit's world, leaving her alone and isolated. Devastated, confused, but determined to run the farm on her own, Märit finds herself in a simmering tug of war between the local Afrikaner community that surrounds the farm and the black workers who live on it, both vying for control over the land in the wake of tragedy.

Märit's only supporter is her black housekeeper, Tembi, who, like Märit, is alone in the world. The women are determined to hold on to the farm, but the quietly encroaching civil war brings out conflicting loyalties that turn the fight for the farm into a fight for their lives.

A Blade of Grass is a wrenching story of friendship and betrayal and of the trauma of the land that has shaped post-colonial Africa. Thrilling to read and morally complex in its message, it offers a fresh, profound, and emotionally immediate perspective on what it means to be black or white in a country where both races live and feel entitlement.

$The Town Mutuals: Wisconsin\'s Grass Roots Insurance Industry$
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The Town Mutuals: Wisconsin\'s Grass Roots Insurance Industry
James \"Cliff\" O\\\'Donnell
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ASIN: 1412068037
Release Date: 2006-07-06

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This is the story of pioneer farmers in Wisconsin who decided to form their own insurance companies and save thousands of dollars in premiums. Neighbor protecting neighbor.

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Grass Farmers
Allan Nation
Manufacturer: Green Park Press
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Cattle ranges of the Southwest: A history of the exhaustion of the pasturage and suggestions for its restoration (U.S. Dept. of agriculture. Farmers bulletin 72)

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Cattle ranges of the Southwest: A history of the exhaustion of the pasturage and suggestions for its restoration (U.S. Dept. of agriculture. Farmers bulletin 72)
H. L Bentley
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Cultivated Grasses of Secondary Importance (Farmers' Bulletin No. 1433)

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Cultivated Grasses of Secondary Importance (Farmers' Bulletin No. 1433)
Charles V. Piper
Manufacturer: U.S. Department of Agriculture
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The Grass Farmer
David S. Burch
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The book contains 55 thoughtful and beautiful poems.

Grass Roots, The Story of the North Dakota Farmers Union

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Grass Roots, The Story of the North Dakota Farmers Union
Harold V. Knight
Manufacturer: Jamestown, North Dakota: North Dakota Farmers Union, 1947
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ASIN: B000O3MM0Y

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Grass roots,: The story of the North Dakota Farmers Union
Harold V Knight
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The Grass Widow and Her Cow: An Enchanting Account of Country Life in Wartime Britain

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The Grass Widow and Her Cow: An Enchanting Account of Country Life in Wartime Britain
Barbara Paynter
Manufacturer: Robson Books
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Native and adapted grasses for conservation of soil and moisture in the Great Plains and Western states (Farmers' bulletin / United States Department of Agriculture)

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Native and adapted grasses for conservation of soil and moisture in the Great Plains and Western states (Farmers' bulletin / United States Department of Agriculture)
Max M Hoover
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Although many studies have been devoted to Augustine's City of God and its most important theme, viz. the antithesis between the civitas Dei and the terrena civitas,until now no consensus has been reached concerning the sources of this doctrine. Was Augustine decisively influenced by Manichaeism, by (Neo)Platonism, the Stoa or Philo, by the Donatist Tyconius? Or should we look in another direction and refer to preceding Christian, Jewish, and especially to archaic Jewish-Christian traditions? This lucidly written books opens with a survey of the research carried out so far on the aim, structure and central theme of the City of God. Chapter 2 analyzes the essentials of Augustine's life, of his City of God, and of his doctrine of the two cities. Making use of one of the recently discovered letters of Augustine in Chapter 3 the author describes the City of God as an apology and as a catechetical work. Chapter 4 provides an investigation into the possible sources of Augustine's doctrine of the two cities in Manichaeism, in (Neo)Platonism, the Stoa and Philo, and in the works of Tyconius. The idea of two antithetical cities proves to be present most clearly in writings in which, closely related to Jewish thinking, archaic Christian concepts occupy an important place. In a final chapter some pertinent remarks are made on Jewish and Jewish-Christian influences on pre-Augustinian Christianity in Africa.

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a good read, suffers from too psychological an analysis.......2003-08-20

This biography dates from 1976 and leans noticeably towards a psychological profile of the William Pitt. Pitt is portrayed as a manic-depressive, who spent many years in the political wilderness of opposition in the British House of Commons, being anathema to King George II (and later George III). The book gives credit to his oratory, his ability to make life almost impossible for those, in power, who he opposed. Pitt became part of the government (`The Ministry') during the Seven Years War, and was seen as driving the most successful phase of that war - The conquering of French-Canada, India, West Africa.
Alying is at his most effective when dealing with Pitt and his family. Pitt's grandfather Thomas was a thunderous influence, Pitt's relationship with his elder brother and the various of his sisters was intense, emotional and volatile. The various family connections to the Grenvilles and how this played out in the politics of the day are very clearly illustrated.
There are two areas of difficulty for this reader - one is the basic problem on English Aristocracy, when someone of the characters becomes a Lord. In the text a key player (e.g. Sir Richard Grenville, becomes Lord Temple, John Chateret an early
adversary of Pitts becomes Lord Granville, William Murray becomes Lord Mansfield). It becomes hugely confusing when these people are initially established by their common names to have them change midway into their titles.
The other major problem I had with the text is that it does not give a flavour of the vast effort put into the resourcing of the armed forces in Britain at the time. There are references to the difficulty in raising money and manpower, but the sheer effort involved in keeping the war underway was phenomenal - better books in this regard are `The Bells of Victory' by Richard Middelton and `The Sinews of War' by John Brewer. The main implication of this fault is that it lends too much credence to the `great man' theory ie. that Pitt's superhuman energy alone, shifted the country from lassitude to almost unconditional victory, and as a corollary that Pitt was surrounded by weak-minded ministers who ultimately concluded an unsatisfactory peace. The Duke of Newcastle is the chief victim of the flip side of this `great man' emphasis.
Perhaps as a consequence of this the absolute public outrage which is associated with Pitt's initial acceptance of the previously corrupt post of Paymaster General , and later with his acceptance of his pension and peerage, is underplayed. Pitt spent many years in opposition, deriding the corruption involved in government, for this he was the Whig most admired by Tories, also he was admired by small traders and `the public', their disappointment was therefore most intense when he was seen to abandon his principle.

The book does well on Pitts personal life - he was irritable and irritating, unable to form close friendships, though his seems devoted to his wife and children.
He was frequently in physical pain through gout, and the book lends a lot of credence to the manic-depressive theory of the stages of his life. He is portrayed as a close friend of America, both during its struggle with French Canada and later, with English taxation, which ultimately lead to the Revolution. More detail on this aspect can be found in Fred Anderson's magnificent `The Crucible of War'.

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This study examines the life of William Pitt the Elder - a political outsider who rose to direct policy in the Seven Years War. This title charts his rise and fall and should be of interest to all those studying the 18th century, empire and politics.

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For scholars only ..........2003-08-08

Anyone interested in rigorously researched late XVIII century English politics will probably enjoy (and learn) from Mr. Black's book. His work about William Pitt, after just a brief, usual part of a chapter on his parents, grandparents etc., dips immediately into maneuvers, conter maneuvers and consequences of ever shifting moods within the parliament.

Unfortunately the reader is presumed to know everything about the Seven Year War, the beginnings of America's revolution etc., as well as about England's major political parties and politicians at that time. The reader is supposed to be looking just for how Mr. Pitt and his opponents politicians handled these issues. So quite important historical events pass by as faint backgrounds.

Although this is somewhat intended to be a biography of William Pitt, and not the history of England in the 1700's, one would look for such a towering individual as a wonderful way to see big world events through England's government eyes. Instead we get a vey narrow perspective of these events. Probably that is the way most politicians see things nowadays ...

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Character vindicated and misrule exposed in the expulsion of L. Garrett, L.E., by F.E. Pitts, p. elder, and others, of the Methodist E. Church
Lewis Garrett
Manufacturer: Baptist Office
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Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B00089688Q

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THE ELDER PITT
Stanley Ayling
Manufacturer: Collins
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000O8MJ8Y

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The elder Pitt,
Karl Alexander von Müller
Manufacturer: Massie
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Final project report Ministerial Training in Eldercare to At-Risk Black Elders, Administration on Aging grant number 90AT0516 (SuDoc HE 1.1002:M 66/11)
Jacquelyne Johnson Jackson
Manufacturer: Shaw Divinity School
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Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B00010LGGQ

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The MTEARBE black church manual on eldercare for at-risk black elders in Pitt County, North Carolina (SuDoc HE 1.1008:M 66/2)
Jacquelyne Johnson Jackson
Manufacturer: Shaw Divinity School
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Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B00010LGJI

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Pitt the Elder
Jeremy Black
Manufacturer: Cambridge University
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000O61CSE

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