The Microbiology of Anaerobic Digesters (Wastewater Microbiology Series)

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Anaerobic digestion is a biochemical degradation process that converts complex organic material, such as animal manure, into methane and other byproducts. Part of the author's Wastewater Microbiology series, Microbiology of Anareboic Digesters eschews technical jargon to deliver a practical, how-to guide for wastewater plant operators.

Biology Of Anaerobic Microorganisms (Environmental and Applied Microbiology Series)

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Biology Of Anaerobic Microorganisms (Environmental and Applied Microbiology Series)
ALEXANDER ED. ZEHNDER
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Wastewater Bacteria (Wastewater Microbiology)

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Wastewater Bacteria (Wastewater Microbiology)
Michael H. Gerardi
Manufacturer: Wiley-Interscience
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ASIN: 0471206911

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A practical guide to wastewater bacteria and the roles they perform in wastewater treatment

Communicating material in a practical manner for operators and technicians who regulate and troubleshoot their wastewater treatment processes, Wastewater Bacteria discusses the effective control and proper operation of aerobic (activated sludge) and anaerobic (anaerobic digesters) biological treatment units to ensure that an adequate, active, and appropriate population of bacteria is present in each treatment unit. It is a hands-on guide to understanding the biology and biological conditions that occur at each treatment unit.

Avoiding unnecessary technical jargon and chemical equations, Wastewater Bacteria, the fifth book in the Wastewater Microbiology Series, explores and explains:
* Bacteria and the wastewater environment
* Enzymes and sludge production
* Nitrogen, phosphorus, and sulfur bacteria
* Floc formation and filamentous organisms
* Nitrification and denitrification
* Sulfate reduction, fermentation, and methane production
* Toxicity
* Foam and malodor production

The goal of Wastewater Bacteria is to enable plant operators to achieve the twofold basic objectives of wastewater treatment-to degrade organic wastes to a level where a significant, dissolved oxygen demand is not exerted upon receiving waters and to remove nutrients to levels where photosynthetic organisms in receiving waters are limited in their growth. This straightforward manual equips plant technicians to meet these objectives with essential information to understand the biological processes and organisms involved in wastewater treatment.

Design of Anaerobic Processes for Treatment of Industrial and Muncipal Waste, Volume VII (Water Quality Management Library)

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Design of Anaerobic Processes for Treatment of Industrial and Muncipal Waste, Volume VII (Water Quality Management Library)

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· Principles, methods, and calculations for evaluating, designing and operating anaerobic systems

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Anaerobic Digestion of Biomass

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Anaerobic Bacteria
Paul N. Levett
Manufacturer: Open University Press
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Anaerobic Bacteria (Tertiary Level Biology Series)

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Anaerobic Bacteria (Tertiary Level Biology Series)
K. T. Holland , J. S. Knapp , and J. G. Shoesmith
Manufacturer: Chapman & Hall
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Anaerobic Bacteria for the Clinical Laboratory

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Anaerobic Bacteria for the Clinical Laboratory
Solomon Silver
Manufacturer: Mosby
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Anaerobic Bacteria in Habitats Other Than Man

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Anaerobic Bacteria in Habitats Other Than Man
E. M. Barnes , and G. C. Mead
Manufacturer: Blackwell Science Inc
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Anaerobic Bacteria in Human Disease
Sydney M. Finegold
Manufacturer: Academic Press Inc.,U.S.
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Binding: Hardcover

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A candid account of the life and career of Tim Fischer, one of Australia's best-known and most respected politicians. It's an inside look at recent Australian politics during a time which saw many difficult issues for rural Australia and the nation as a whole and also a very personal story of a man struggling with the conflicting demands of political life and family life.

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Get this one.......2007-05-04

First of all I'm not an old west officianado, and most every critique of old west books I've seen people always want to go into some rant about the voracity of this story or that. Well, I'll bet even the experts will own a copy of this book even if they claim not to like it. The wealth and wide range of old west personas in this book is everything I hoped it would be. Every entry offers something interesting and you get a real feel of how things must have really been based on all the bits and pieces of information when taken on a whole. I don't know if the experts will ever agree on one perfect old west book, but until they do, I recommend this one.

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Prehensile-tailed skinks are rare, nocturnal and arboreal. Find out how these factors combine to contribute to their demise in the wild. Learn why care must be given to determine compatibility of pairs or groups, how landscape structures need to be designed to accommodate certain behaviors, what time of day food should be offered and everything else you'll need to know for the health and welfare of these strange and lovable animals. 58 pp. B&W.

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Living With Corucia Zebrata.......2004-12-24

Prehensile-tailed skinks, Corucia zebrata (also called Solomon Island skinks and Monkey-tailed skinks,) are relatively rare reptiles from the Solomon Islands which are unique in the skink family in that they have true prehensile tails. These tails allow them to move among trees freely, but unlike some reptiles they are not capable of caudal autonomy (that is they can't drop their tails for self-defense.)

This book is a good guide to picking a healthy skink, housing it, and caring for it. There is an excellent section on group dynamics and social behavior as well as great detail on skink diseases including stomatitis, mites, and tail rot (which may require amputation resulting in a healthy "stump-tail" skink.)

I purchased this book for a friend who is very enamored with skinks, but decided to first read it myself, as my collegiate background was in vertebrate anatomy (although I am primarily a mammologist.) The book is a very quick read (maybe an hour, maximum) but is filled with a lot of good information on skinks. I recommend this book for anyone interested in being a responsible skink owner.

Excellent Information!.......2002-08-09

This was the first book I purchased befor I got my PTS, and I'm very glad I did. It is THE MOST informative one I've found yet, as there is not a lot of information out there on this species. We have been keeping PTS now for 7 years, and have had success with breeding as well. Thanks to the information in this book, our skinks are very healthy and happy critters. I would strongly suggest purchasing this book to anybody interested in PTS.

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Collectibles 101: Fast Food Toys (Schiffer Book for Collectors)
Joyce Losonsky , and Terry Losonsky
Manufacturer: Schiffer Publishing
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Fast Food Toys (Schiffer Book for Collecton)

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Ultimate Price Guide to Fast Food Collectibles

Kiddie Meal Collectibles

ASIN: 076430965X

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Begin your fast food collecting adventures with this pocket-size guide in hand. It displays a multitude of promotional toys distributed by fast food restaurants in approximately 300 full color photos, with current market values, convenient check-off boxes to help you record and organize your collection, and a comprehensive index. From Arby's and Burger King to Wendy's and White Castle, toys from over 24 different fast food restaurants (other than McDonald's) are represented. Whether 3 or 93, all can have fun finding and identifying the hundreds of fast food toys available with this beginner's guide. The one with the most toys wins; so come on, what are you waiting for?

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This examination of Vanbrugh's work as a landscape designer also discusses other contemporary architects, designers, botanical collectors and illustrators such as Hawksmoor, Wren, Archer and Lord Burlington, and provides a survey of all the significant ba

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Not a bad book but not the best

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Raise Your Child's Social IQ: Stepping Stones to People Skills for Kids
Cathi Cohen
Manufacturer: Advantage Books
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The Unwritten Rules of Friendship: Simple Strategies to Help Your Child Make Friends

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Health o Meter HDC100-01 "Grow with Me" Teddy Bear Scale for Babies and Toddlers

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ASIN: 0966036689

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Parents, this book offers direct, sense-making, step-by-step exercises that parents can do with their children to increase their social skills and awareness. Based on the highly successful social skills training groups that have been directed by Cathi Cohen for many years, Raise Your Child's Social I.Q. provides parents with the structure to work on skills at home--how to join a group, how to choose friends, how to notice what people around you are feeling, how to handle angry feelings and much, much more.

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Not a bad book but not the best.......2007-07-16

Not as good as "How To Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk"

Mother of one........2006-10-26

I have been reading this book one chapter per week and talking with my five year old son about the suggestions given. We laugh and make it a fun role playing time. The subject matter is wonderfully on the money and the suggestions for talking or explaining to your child are very enlighting and helpful. A good buy and a really helpful book.

Not that helpful.......2005-10-20

It just didn't click with the challanges that we are trying to address.

Parent in California review.......2000-08-09

Ms. Cohen's book fills a niche- there aren't many clearly written books available that include experiential exercises for parents struggling with this difficult issue. Raise Your Child's Social IQ provides parents with practical tools and provides a means for them to partner with their children. Thank you!

Grandparent of eight grandchildren.......2000-08-05

As a Grandparent of eight grandchildren, I have read Cathi Cohen's book with great interest and have recommended it to the parents of our grandchildren. It is a simple building block approach to acquiring social skills and self confidence in children who are struggling to be accepted and do not know why they they are meeting with failure. It is extremely beneficial to the parents who may be challenged in trying to help their youngsters meet with success. I only wish I had it available when I needed it.

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When Mikhail Baryshnikov defected in Toronto in 1974, he admitted that he knew only three things about Canada: It had great hockey teams, a lot of wheatfields, and Glenn Gould. In Wondrous Strange, Kevin Bazzana vividly recaptures the life of Glenn Gould, one of the most celebrated pianists of our time. Drawing on twenty years of intensive research, including unrestricted access to Gould's private papers and interviews with scores of friends and colleagues, many of them never interviewed before, Bazzana sheds new light on such topics as Gould's family history, his secretive sexual life, and the mysterious problems that afflicted his hands in his later years. The author places Gould's distinctive traits--his eccentric interpretations, his garish onstage demeanor, his resistance to convention--against the backdrop of his religious, upper- middle-class Canadian childhood, illuminating the influence of Gould's mother as well as the lasting impact of the only piano teacher Gould ever had. Bazzana offers a fresh appreciation of Gould's concert career--his high-profile but illness-plagued international tours, his adventurous work for Canadian music festivals, his musical and legal problems with Steinway and Sons. In 1964, Gould made the extraordinary decision to perform only for records, radio, television, and film, a turning point that the author examines with unprecedented thoroughness (discussing, for example, his far-seeing interest in new recording technology). Here, too, are Gould's interests away from the piano, from his ambitious but failed effort to be a composer to his innovative brand of "contrapuntal radio." Richly illustrated with rare photographs, Wondrous Strange is a superbly written account of one of the most memorable and accomplished musicians of our times.

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Terrific biography of Glenn Gould.......2007-05-14

This is a wonderful biography on one of the world's finest and beloved musicians. The writing is detailed and articulate but never boring. However, if you do not have a background in music, the writings on classical music could be difficult to decipher for the layman. An excellent read!!

A Worthy Biography.......2007-03-19

I can't exactly put a nail on why I have read so many biographies on Gould, but I dare say the story of his reclusiveness, isolation and his pursuit of his art has always intrigued me. Up to this point my favorite biography on Gould had been the Otto Fredrick "A Life in Variations", so I had a pre-conceived notion that this book may just have been be a re-telling of all the stories and interviews I heard in the past.

Bazzana appears to set himself apart here in that he was not asked to write a biography on Gould as he described in the book. There are many snippits of things I've allready knew about Gould here, but Bazzana also tries to put another angle on some of the eccentricities most have heard or read about prior. He encapsulates many different views of Gould, so much so that I feel that I have a bit more insite here. Also, Bazzana appears to set some of the record straight for other biographical sources such as Andrew Kazdin's work called "Glenn Gould At Work, Creative Lying" which is another book I gained knowledge from and did enjoy. It may not be entirely possible to have a true biographical account of Gould, but I still appreciate this additional account of his life although I am only giving it 4 stars because I feel there will never be a complete biography of an individual due to different sources and views, but this one is generally well researched. It does re-hash some of the other interview material, sources etc, but within the book there does appear to be an attempt here to rationalize his behaviour and give a better look beyond the stereotype.

The Enduring Fascination of Gould.......2007-02-18

What is it about Glenn Gould? He's been the subject of books, dvds, and one odd movie made up of a mosaic of short films. Gould's life and music has captured the attention and imagination of people who otherwise would not venture anywhere near classical performers.

"Wondrous Strange" doesn't delve deeply into opinions, or really attempt to explain why people were (and are) so affected by Gould--it simply lays out Gould's life in block-like sections, marking his attitudes and approaches to both music and life. The result is a thick book full of Gouldian lore, with many fascinating passages, that doesn't cohere quite as well as it could have. Bazzana develops themes, drops them, and then revisits them a few chapters on. Pages could have been trimmed where Bazzana is busy repeating himself. It's as if the book were trying to envelope Gould, like an octopus settling on a lobster.

Does it succeed? Mostly, yes. With repeated gleanings, Gould emerges to the reader as something of a "mutant"--a person slightly ahead of his time. He was a reclusive person, who came to hate concert limelight, and found great comfort in the controlled technology of the studio. He (probably correctly) discerned that an artist usually communicates better, and certainly more intimately, through recordings than through concerts.

Gould's belief in the classical music performer's right to interpret and reimagine great works of music put him at odds with many critics, as did his tendency to "sing" wordlessly as he played. These things only served to reinforce Gould's singularity, and mark him as a modernist. Like James Dean, or the Beatles, Gould transcended his time. He was a dreamer who continues to captivate and to inspire dreams in his legion of followers.

Well-balanced biography of a phenominal artist.......2006-09-27

This is a very well-balanced, thorough biography of the Canadian pianist/musician/composer Glenn Gould. Very well written, a joy to read (and a lot easier to read then most of the stuff Glenn wrote himself...)
Having read this book I feel I understand more about Glenn Gould the artist and the person.
A first-choice-must-buy for all interested to know more about Glenn Gould.

the mysteries of a perfect art.......2005-04-05

This unstoppably heartrending biography of Canadian pianist Glenn Gould unveils the mysteries of a perfect art more cogently and beautifully than has any other artist's biography I've ever come across. Kevin Bazzana has opened up Gould's eccentricities and placed them where finally they must sleep - merely deep in the natural whole of one of the inescapable musicians of the 20th century. Those lucky enough to know the meaning of the art of Glenn Gould will always be grateful for that achievement.

This is a tremendous book. The moments when Bazzana's utterly secure love for Gould's art shines through are the most extraordinary aspect of a completely worthy biography. With deep and glistening writing Bazzana evokes every aspect of looking-at-Gould with the same sound character found in Gould's playing - it's an amazing experience! This is biographical literature extensive and schooled, and even wise; reading is like gliding on glass, so perfect is the author's determination, and Gould lives on every page. What could be better?

Was ever a pianist's art more wonderful? Gould's playing is always extraordinary by every standard, and beyond. And not only the playing, of course; his mind, his understanding of music, his humor - these form the scaffolding of a remarkable artistic vision. For all his reclusion, his is the most giving human art, reaching to infinity. Art of the gods obtains dimensions the proof of which can be heard in everything he played. It's a consuming art, yet so freeing. The wondrous thing about it is how Gould kept so much of himself even as he spent lavishly on Bach and Byrd and Schoenberg. Music never overtook Gould - that task inevitably fell to Gould himself.

By literature of this kind, the sadness that still lingers around Gould's death seems entirely transformed. This is a great book that ends too quickly and lingers too pervasively. Afford yourself the wealth.

Wondrous Strange The Life and Art of Glenn Gould

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Wondrous Strange The Life and Art of Glenn Gould
Bazzana Kevin
Manufacturer: Oxford UP
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WONDROUS STRANGE: THE LIFE AND ART OF GLENN GOULD
Glenn (Subject); Bazzana, Kevin (Author) Gould
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Wondrous Strange : The Life and Art of Glenn Gould
Kevin Bazzana
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Wondrous Strange : The Life and Art of Glenn Gould
Kevin Bazzana
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Wondrous Strange: The Life and Art of Glenn Gould (ISBN: 0195174402)

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Wondrous Strange: The Life and Art of Glenn Gould (ISBN: 0195174402)
Kevin Bazzana
Manufacturer: Oxford Univ. Press
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