The yeast;: A taxonomic study,

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The yeast;: A taxonomic study,
Jacomina Lodder
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Yeasts: A Taxonomic Study

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The yeasts are a phylogenetically diverse group of fungi characterized by unicellular growth. Yeasts have been used for bread making and brewing beverages for millennia, and have become increasingly important in biotechnology for production of fuel alcohol, organic acids, enzymes, and various pharmacologically important chemicals. Other species are serious human, animal, and plant pathogens. Since publication of the 3rd edition of this book in 1984, numerous new species and genera have been described, many because of the application of new molecular biological methods.

Molecular comparisons have now provided a phylogenetic distinction between the yeasts and other fungi, some of which have a unicellular growth phase.

This book is the most definitive treatment of taxonomy and systematics of yeasts available and has been prepared by an international team of experts and is directed at taxonomists, ecologists, mycologists, microbiologists, clinicians, molecular geneticists, and biotechnologists.

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The yeasts; a taxonomic study
Jacomina Lodder
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The Yeasts - A Taxonomic Study
C.P. Kurtzman
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Yeasts a Taxonomic Study
J Lodder
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Yeasts, The ;a Taxonomic Study Fourth Revised and Enlarged Edition
C.P.; J.W. Fell ( Editiors ) Kurtzman
Manufacturer: Elsevier Science Ltd
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If you consider yourself an archeological traveler, Scotland has much to offer, with its Viking settlements, standing stones, and Roman fortresses. This edition of the Oxford Archeological series will help you distinguish your brochs from your oghams, your mottes from your souterrains--and tell you where to find the best examples of each.

Chosen for their good condition, interest to the visitor, and accessibility, the 150 sites included date to A.D. 1200 and are arranged alphabetically by region: Dumfries and Galloway; Borders; Lothians and Edinburgh; from the Clyde to the Forth; Fife, Angus, Stirling, and Perthshire; Argyll and Bute; Aberdeenshire and Moray; Highland South; Highland North; The Northern Isles; and the Western Isles. Each listing includes driving directions and a grid reference to the site's location on the Ordnance Survey Landranger map (which is not included in the book). Many entries are illustrated with site plans, maps, diagrams, and some of the better photographs in this Oxford series. Useful introductions help set each site within the context of human development, covering domestic life, transport, art, and war. Here's an example from a write-up on the Chesters fort near Drem:

The surprising aspect of this fort is its location, which shows a total disregard for defensive strategy. It lies at the foot of a ridge at the mercy of attackers on higher ground with the advantage of overlooking the interior of the fort. This apparently suicidal choice of location must imply that prestige rather than defence was the major concern. With the economic wealth of this fertile coastal plan at their command, the Chesters community may have had no fear of attack.

--Kathryn True

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Steeped in history and renowned for the beauty of its landscape, Scotland offers fertile ground for archaeology enthusiasts to explore. In this authoritative guide, Anna and Graham Ritchie provide fascinating coverage of over 250 ancient Scottish sites, including tombs, forts, cairns,
churches, standing stones, and Viking settlements, dating from earliest times to 1200 AD. Arranged geographically within ten different areas, Scotland makes discovering these sites both enjoyable and intelligible.

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I wish ... I wish ... I wish.......2007-04-04

I've travelled to Scotland twice now and O how I wish I'd had this book with me during those trips. I love exploring historical sites when I'm vacationing, especially the ancient ones ... and this guide would have been so helpful, both in terms of trip planning AND in terms of helping me learn as much as possible about the sites I visited.

With well over 1000 castles alone, Scotland is a land VERY rich in archaelogical sites ranging from stone aged to Roman to WWII ... so rich, in fact, that you often don't realize when you're driving or walking right past something interesting. This book will definitely help you determine what potential points of interest lie along the path of your travels and evaluate which one are likely to be of greatest interest to you. I used this book after my trips to learn about places we went (which was fun) and was surprised to learn how much we didn't even know we'd missed. The map coordinates and general location information will help you find some of the "less obvious" sites (many such sites don't have big signs that direct you to them from the road) and the write ups will give you at least some information about the site itself.

I've also found that using this sort of guide (Scotland or other countries) in conjunction with other historical resources (web sites, maps, other books, etc.) was particularly useful. The OAG helped me figure out a "long list" of sites I might want to visit and my other resources then provided more in depth information about these places so I could narrow my list down to a final selection.

If you enjoy traveling to and visiting ancient sites, the OAG's are definitely a tool you'll want to keep handy.

A fabulous resource........2004-06-20

I've used this book extensively on two trips to Scotland. It provides information (including directions to get to the sites) on a wide range of interesting subjects. It was one of the primary sources for planning six weeks of travel. For anyone even slightly interested in Scottish antiquities, this is THE place to start.

Scotland: An Oxford Archaeological Guide (Oxford Archaeological Guides)

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Scotland: An Oxford Archaeological Guide (Oxford Archaeological Guides)
Anna Ritchie Graham Ritchie
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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ASIN: B000OKDM60

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Children of the Sun: The Pueblos, Navajos, and Apaches of New Mexico.
Maudie. Robinson
Manufacturer: Julian Messner
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"A Thoroughly Nasty Business Concern"

Something is Rotten in Cincinnati

Why people hate big business

Horrendous Company

Are they all doing the same practice?

Soap Opera : The Inside Story of Procter & Gamble
Alecia Swasy
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Behind Procter & Gamble's wholesome image is a control-obsessed company so paranoid that Wall Street analysts, employees, and the chairman himself refer to it as "the Kremlin." P&G's wealth and power ensure that it gets what it wants, from tax breaks to the eager services of Washington lobbyists.

In this explosive expose, Wall Street Journal reporter Alecia Swasy tells the chilling story of life within P&G.

Wonderfully readable, impeccably researched, Soap Opera is a sobering look at the price of success in American business.

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"A Thoroughly Nasty Business Concern".......2004-03-09

The following statement, from the preface to C. S. Lewis's "The Screw Tape Letters" could serve as a trenchant summary of all that Ms. Swasy has to say about Procter & Gamble:

"The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid 'dens of crime' that Dickens loved to paint. It is not even done in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed, and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the offices of a thoroughly nasty business concern."

Something is Rotten in Cincinnati.......2004-03-09

The kind of writing you would expect from a writer at the Wall Street Journal, the best written and edited newspaper in America. This book tells it all, and you need to read it: Something is rotten in Cincinnati.

Why people hate big business.......2003-12-12

"Soap Opera" recounts what one hopes to be, though perhaps optimistically, a particularly bad period in the history of one of America's largest corporations, Procter & Gamble in the '80s and early '90s, when led by succeeding CEOs John Smale and Ed Artzt, the company ran afoul of environmental laws, consumer safety, common sense, and basic human decency in truly arrogant fashion. To read the story comprehensively laid out by Alecia Swasy is to gape in astonishment at the true measure of human depravity in search of the holy buck.

Does Swasy have it in for P&G? Yeah, but so would you if you were a journalist and your subject was breaking the law to trample on your rights while you tried to do your job. Things got so out of hand as P&G launched telephone record investigations and had ex-employees brought to Cincinnati police stations to explain why they were talking to a reporter, that the ensuing coverage sparked a national outcry. Pundits and cartoonists weighed in about the KGB tactics of people who make laundry detergent and toothpaste. When finally brought to heel by indignant shareholders, CEO Artzt shrugged and called it a mistake. "The only thing he regretted," Swasy writes, "was getting caught."

Swasy was clearly embittered by her experience, and when her narrative flies into polemical flourishes, as in the Epilogue ("[Critics] refuse to buy the Ivory-pure image so carefully cultivated by P&G's years of marketing. We should all do the same"), the book is poorer for it. She does a great job describing, through the voices of mostly anonymous insiders, the noxious work environment of P&G for its employees (and you don't have to be a "Proctoid" to relate to the Dilbert-in-the-Death-Star picture she paints), then editorializes on how P&G advertising nurtures enduring cultural "myths" about a woman's place being in the home. Frankly, this latter angle comes up lame. P&G advertising reflected the culture for years, it sold product, and it has been adjusted to fit contemporary mores, as Swasy notes (just not enough for her liking.) I don't know whether it's so awful the role of the female was once rather more rigidly defined than it is now, but dumping much of the blame on P&G's doorstep seems excessive. Marketing to lesbian soccer Moms in the 1940s would probably have not helped P&G achieve its present level of success.

Where Swasy's book is strongest is the account of Rely, the tampon whose ingredients could cause toxic shock, and were directly responsible for the deaths of several women in 1979-80. Despite the accumulation of evidence, P&G went forward with its marketing. As recounted in a chapter of the book "Guerrilla Marketing") that should be required reading in corporate ethics classes, CEO Smale even planned to roll out a deodorant version of Rely while his underlings worked to silence researchers (mostly successfully) with generous grant money. The chapter is particularly good when it recounts how one trial lawyer and a bereaved husband he represented forced P&G to pay ridiculously low damages and put needed heat on the effort to establish P&G's culpability. Never mind, though. Swasy reveals later on that P&G's lab boys were concurrently doping out how to add the same toxic chemical to diapers.

There are other good chapters on P&G's arrogant practices overseas, its inept handling of domestic retailers (not just the small fry but WalMart, too!), and its stranglehold on a Florida community living around a river P&G polluted. Sometimes, as with the Florida case, Swasy seems too eager to embrace anything the critics dish out, and her noting the death of the P&G snack food Pringles [as of the book's publication in 1994] appears in retrospect to have been premature.

But overall, "Soap Opera" is a solid addition to business journalism. Books like this one only make you look a little deeper than your coupon stash in thinking about what products you buy. And that's a good thing.

Horrendous Company.......2003-09-16

I always thought that P&G was a horrible company because they refuse to stop animal testing, but after reading this book I am certain that P&G is a horrendous company.
P&G started out as a small company, giving people steady employment even through the Great Depression. The people who worked there felt that they were respected and believed they had a job for life. Unfortunately that wasn't to be. Working at P&G soon became a nightmare for a lot of people, especially women and minorities. Women were discouraged from wearing skirts, even during off hours because management wanted them to avoid showing skin. Employees actually had to get their hair cut when their boss thought it was a bit long. No personal items were allowed at your desk and one former worker was even scolded for "not walking fast enough"
P&G was and still is notorious for its blatant sexist ads. Women were made to feel guilty if her family's clothes weren't white or the dishes weren't sparkling. In the 70's, P&G introduced Rely tampons, made of super absorbent fibers. What they failed to tell people, was that they were made with cancer causing agents. At one point P&G was receiving 177 complaints a month, but still did nothing. Women were dying from Toxic Shock Syndrome (TSS) but P&G still assured people that their products were safe. Even knowing this, P&G continued their plan to support Rely and build its share to leadership status.
P&G doesn't seem to care who it hurts, just as long as their products are dominating the market.

Are they all doing the same practice?.......2002-05-30

Since our life is short, one way to learn and to know more is reading other people's life and company's history. I find big firms building image, brand and products in order to get people's money. Therefore, they all have to protect image and recoup the investment. SO that is the ultimate goal, build the name, compete in the market, get the money, grow the business, make sure the numbers look great--if ends justify means, people and companies will keep doing this. It is no different from what famous people or politicians do . This shouldn't surprise anyone. We see it everyday but rarely that someone will actually write it down without getting sued. It would be interesting to read more about other big firms to see if they are the same.
I like the Chinese saying that, 'if you don't want people to know, just don't do it'.
It's a good reading,

Soap Opera - The Inside Story Of Procter & Gamble

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Soap Opera - The Inside Story Of Procter & Gamble
Alecia Swasy
Manufacturer: Times Books / Random House
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000H2KWZ4

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The bold, bright hand-painted designs and extraordinary shapes

of Clarice Cliff ceramics have attracted collectors for decades.

Now, there?s a convenient handbook with pricing, pattern

identification, and a detailed history of Clarice Cliff and her

work ? a unique find in the small selection of books on the

popular pottery.

Readers will find over 500 price listings for teaware, plates,

pots, vases, novelties and more. Nearly 200 detailed, full-color

photos of the most common pattern styles, along with a

convenient shape guide, aid in identification. Includes a

pattern index with manufacture dates and price ranges in

British Pounds and U.S. Dollars, as well as helpful tips on

collecting.

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CLARICE CLIFF COLLECTORS CLUB: THE COMPLETE BOOK OF APPLIQUE.

Manufacturer: Clarice Cliff Collectors Club
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000HHKBQY

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Something is being done to the food we eat. Much of our food is being bioengineered with genes from other life forms and presented to us without identification and with almost no examination of possible consequences. The Whole Organic Food Book provides insight and inspiration for those wanting to grow and eat food that is pure and natural. Whole-food guru Dan Jason encourages and instructs us on ways to regain control of our food supply through sensible, natural gardening techniques. Jason offers growing tips and loads of helpful hints on how to increase diversity and productivity in your garden. Also included are many healthy, delicious recipes featuring whole, unprocessed crops - grains, legumes and vegetables - you can produce from seed. This book will help you enjoy the tasty, nutritious benefits of organic food - food that is good for the soil and good to eat.

The Whole Organic Food Book: Safe, Healthy Harvest from Your Garden to Your Plate

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The Whole Organic Food Book: Safe, Healthy Harvest from Your Garden to Your Plate
Dan Jason
Manufacturer: Raincoast Book Dist Ltd
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Stefanidis' ability to instill luxury into simple surroundings has made him one of the most sought-after interior designers in the world. Nowhere is his attention to the details of comfort more apparent than in this new collection of houses and rooms designed for clients from around the world. Large and small, town and country, main homes or holiday residences, these houses exude atmosphere and individuality thanks to the use of light, color or fabric, by how furniture is placed and beautiful objects are arranged. His ideas combine to make each room stylish and unique. In a chapter entitled "Developing an Eye" Stefanidis discusses his approach to designing a house and its individual rooms, and how he makes use of light, balance, and structure. He reveals where he has found inspiration for his designs and the refinements that are his hallmark. There is also a special section with inspirational details from a number of different houses that covers bathrooms, hallways and stairs, upholstery, paint finishes, and pools. This book will delight and inspire anyone looking to "develop an eye" for design and create atmosphere and effect in individual rooms or throughout a house.

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Living by Design - an Apt Title
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Sophisticated; top-of-the-line; intelligent
Sophisticated; top-of-the-line; intelligent

John Stefanidis Living By Design
John Stefanidis
Manufacturer: Rizzoli
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ASIN: 0847820416
Release Date: 1997-08-15

House & Garden

The book is sprinkled with garden plans, recipes (for an Egyptian condiment called Dukkah and a geranium-leaf sorbet), and ideas for achieving what the designer calls humble elegance. Or, better yet, pastoral panache.

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Living by Design - an Apt Title.......2002-04-27

John Stefanidis does live by design; and with purpose and clarity he also designed his home and gardens, with wonderful results. He used his own textile designs to good use throughout the home, which is indicative of a man who knows his own mind when it comes to design. The results of the transformation of old stables into a comfortable home are spectacularly simple, by design, making the home a most usable, gracious, and gentle environment for him. There are also numerous design elements which any would be designer/decorator could use to good advantage in their own homes.

Yes, but..........2002-01-29

The other reviewer of this book gave it five stars, calling it "intelligent and top of the line." Yes, it is a beautifully photographed book, and Stefandis is one of the great decorators of our era. But I was looking for a book that would help me decorate and design my new house, bought in 2002. And, alas, "Living by Design" is already dated. It was published in 1997 but was photographed earlier, AND IT SHOWS.

Sophisticated; top-of-the-line; intelligent.......1999-08-19

Not your ordinary coffee-table book; an essential guide for anyone interested in a house and garden that is original, witty, mindful of place and time. The photographs are unusually good and the text compelling --- it makes the good life seem accessible and within one's means of both pocketbook and imagination.

Sophisticated; top-of-the-line; intelligent.......1999-08-19

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Rooms
John Stefanidis
Manufacturer: Rizzoli
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ASIN: 0847809625
Release Date: 1989-04-15

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"One of the rare decorators who excels at both traditional and modern interiors."--Elle Decoration. No matter what the style, designer John Stefanidis can work with it and improve upon the existing architecture. The full breadth and scope of his talent is on display here, shown in photographs of interiors from a range of very different homes--a Scottish fishing lodge, a Greek villa, a Thameside pied-à-terre, and a Toronto townhouse. First, look at the entire project, with its thematic coherence, and then gaze more closely at individual rooms and savor each wonderful detail. 160 pages (all in color), 10 1/16 x 11 7/16.

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ROOMS DESIGN AND DECORATION
John Stefanidis
Manufacturer: Rizzoli
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ASIN: B000JJODC8

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Stefanidis Designs
John Stefanidis
Manufacturer: Cassell Illustrated
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John Stefanidis Designs
John Stefanidis
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Numerical Operations With Polynomial Matrices: Application to Multi-Variable Dynamic Compensator Design (Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sc)

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Numerical Operations With Polynomial Matrices: Application to Multi-Variable Dynamic Compensator Design (Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sc)
Peter Stefanidis
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ROOMS: DESIGN AND DECORATION
JOHN STEFANIDIS
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Stefanidis Designs
John Stefandis
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Although the importance of Elvis Presley's Southern heritage has long been recognized, few have considered the complex connection between the performer's career and his Southern roots. This study investigates how that identity affected each stage of Presley's career.
Elvis Presley's career can be divided into three phases, each of which is signified by a specific image. Each image is coded by a certain style of music, mode of dress, and arena of performance. The evolution from one career phase to another was instigated by a specific event and represented a deliberate calculation on the part of Presley's manager to attract a wider audience.
The first stage spans the years 1956 through 1958, after the singer was introduced to a national audience and before he was drafted into the army. His image as a notorious rock 'n' roller created a national controversy and was spurred by negative depictions of Presley in the media-many attributing his controversial performing style and appearance to his Southern background. His music was a fusion of rhythm and blues and country-western; or, two types of music indigenous to the South and foreign to the mainstream entertainment industry based in New York City. The second phase of Elvis' career included his stint as a movie star, in which most aspects of his Southern identity were extracted from his leading man image to enhance his appeal to the mainstream. And, finally, the last stage of his career focused on his image as a Las Vegas performer. Despite the gaudy costumes, Elvis reconnected to his identity as a Southerner in the 1970s by returning to country music and songwriters as a source of inspiration. Bibliography. Index

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A must for any Elvis fan........1999-06-01

This is a new interpretation of Elvis'career, based on the fact that he was from the South, and that makes this book different from others. Also, it is a serious look at Elvis from this angle, but it does not trash him. It offers a kinder interpretation of his film career than most authors offer. I highly recommend this book to any Elvis enthusiast. Even if you are not an Elvis fan you will enjoy this book.

Understanding Elvis: Southern Roots Vs. Star Image

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Understanding Elvis: Southern Roots Vs. Star Image
Susan M. Doll
Manufacturer: Garland Pub
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000MBU69M

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