Breaking Away from the Bear

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Breaking Away from the Bear

Manufacturer: Storming Media
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Binding: Spiral-bound
ASIN: 1423558995

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This is a ARMY WAR COLL STRATEGIC STUDIES INST CARLISLE BARRACKS PA report procured by the Pentagon and made available for public release. It has been reproduced in the best form available to the Pentagon. It is not spiral-bound, but rather assembled with Velobinding in a soft, white linen cover. The Storming Media report number is A839153. The abstract provided by the Pentagon follows: The author examines the development of post-Soviet Central Asian armed forces, Central Asian efforts to guarantee their national security, and the implications for the United States of this struggle. She cautions that the United States use its influence and its military- to- military contact programs judiciously. This is a region of great instability, with massive infusions of energy wealth just beyond the horizon. If these states can create viable methods to ensure domestic and regional security, this wealth may produce prosperity and secure well-being for their citizens. If these states fail to create institutions to preserve their national sovereignty, the new century could presage long, lingering chaos and waste on a grand scale. One need only look south to Afghanistan for such a model.

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Memories and Pseudo-memories
Ed Miller
Manufacturer: iUniverse, Inc.
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0595330428

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Imagine that your grandchild, a friend or a reporter found out that you were a U.S. Marine in WWII, who survived the Iwo Jima operation and decided you were worthy of an interview. In addition, your life leading up to that event and the years following it would also prove interesting enough to prompt exploration because being a skinny Jewish kid and a Marine seemed so incongruous.

The grandchild, the friend, the reporter didn't materialize except in my own head and the prompting came from my own psyche. So Memories and Pseudo-memories comes from the need to discuss what they would have wanted to know, in the format that such things come to one's mind, not chronologically as in a constructed biography or novel. Each episode special and unique!

From my birth in Brooklyn, childhood adventures in Rockville Centre, L.I., growing up with relatives and friends in East New York to serving in the 5th Marine Division, fighting the Japanese and then befriending them while in the 2nd Division occupation, is a simple, sit down comfortably and listen, story. The author is a contributor to the exhibit, "Ours To Fight For: American Jews in the Second World War" at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, New York City.

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Testing for bubbles and change-points [An article from: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control]
A. Kirman , and G. Teyssiere
Manufacturer: Elsevier
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Binding: Digital
ASIN: B000RR1VWM

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This digital document is a journal article from Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, published by Elsevier in 2005. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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A model for a financial asset is constructed with two types of agents, who differ in terms of their beliefs. The proportion of the two types changes over time according to stochastic processes which model the interaction between the agents. Agents do not persist in holding `wrong' beliefs and bubble-like phenomena in the asset price occur. We consider tests for detecting bubbles in the conditional mean and multiple changes in the conditional variance of the process. A wavelet analysis of the series generated by our models shows that the strong persistence in the volatility is likely to be the outcome of a mix of changes in regimes and a moderate level of long-range dependence. These results are consistent with what has been observed by Kokoszka and Teyssiere (J. Bus. Econ. Stat. (2002) under revision) and Teyssiere (In: G. Rangarajan, M. Ding (Eds.), Processes with Long Range Correlations: Theory and Applications, Lecture Notes in Physics, Vol. 621, Springer, Berlin, 2003, pp. 251-269).

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Not a good example of historical fiction

A fascinating adventure!

A contrarian's view of Daisy Bates in the Desert.

If you enjoy fantasy and poetry this book is for you

A poor hybrid of the author's life & a biog. of Daisy Bates

Daisy Bates in the Desert: A Woman's Life Among the Aborigines
Julia Blackburn
Manufacturer: Vintage
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Release Date: 1995-08-08

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In 1913, at the age of 54, Daisy Bates went to live in the deserts of South Australia. Brilliantly reviewed, astonishingly original, this "eloquent and illuminating portrait of an extraordinary woman" (New York Times Book Review) tells a fascinating, true story in the tradition of Isak Dinesen and Barry Lopez.

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Not a good example of historical fiction.......2006-01-01

If you have a burning desire to read some historical fiction, I'd recommend "Memoirs of a Geisha" by Arthur Golden as a shining example thereof.

What are the problems?

1. Lots of digression/ babbling/ fillers sections of prose. It seems like a lot of it was inserted to give the book length. If the point of this was to give us an idea of the life of Australian aboriginals, the author could have supplied details to that effect. Instead, we get the author's imagined internal dialogues of a central character that may well have been schizophrenic.

2. Why would Blackburn choose an inveterate liar to characterize the experience of a white living amongst the Aborigines? Were there no other whites that lived among them during that time? One thing that was clear was that there were many different types of whites to be found in contact with the Aborigines at this time. Could we not have seen these Native Australians from the perspective of government officials? Or railroad workers?

3. On the whole, the characters were very poorly developed and one dimensional-- and especially those of the Aborigines. This might have been another vehicle to show us the customs that a reader might be intersted to know, such as language/ customs/ family structure.

4. If this work was supposed to have been historical fiction dedicated to understanding Daisy Bates, the author could have taken artistic license to develop the character of Daisy Bates as it might have been seen through the eyes of an Aborigine. Or several of the government officials with whom she came into contact.

Again: If you are looking for good historical fiction, don't look for it in this book.

A fascinating adventure!.......2002-10-14

Daisy Bates appears to be delusional at times in recounting her adventures with the Aboriginese but this is still one of the most fascinating reads I've had in a long time! If you were to separate her tales from the fact that she lived on her own among the indigenous peoples of Australia during a time when it was shocking for a woman to do so, there would still be an incredible story of courage and perserverance. This is an account worth reading!

A contrarian's view of Daisy Bates in the Desert........2002-08-17

Daisy Bates, a controversial woman who has attained almost mythical status in Australia, was an inveterate liar, constitutionally incapable of seeing herself in the world as it really was. Instead, she created a better world in her own mind and assumed that everyone else recognized her world as real. As Julia Blackburn reconstructs what she believes to have been Daisy's life in Australia's western desert, and her seemingly futile efforts to protect and preserve the aborigines and their culture, she presents a plausible personality with whom the reader can, to a great extent, identify.

Blackburn is successful in making Daisy's dream world seem like an understandable response to the privations and hardships she faced in her early life alone. In Part I, Blackburn describes what Daisy has said about her life, and follows it with what Blackburn has discovered to be the truth as a result of her documented research. In Part II, she allows Daisy, as she understands her, to speak to the reader herself, and we "live" with her in the desert for many years, watching as her original dedication becomes a mission and then a mania, and her insecurity grows into delusion and eventually paranoia. A woman who seems to have accomplished nothing of lasting significance, Daisy might have achieved some of her goals if she had only bent a little. Part III tells of Daisy's life after she leaves the desert.

Blackburn brings Daisy's Australian desert camp to life--the blinding sun, the heat of day and cold of night, the ghostly arrivals and departures of the shy aborigines, the birds and animals who were often Daisy's only company, and the changes wrought by the railroads, settlement, missionaries, and unfeeling governmental bureaucrats. Though she presents Daisy sympathetically, she is not Daisy's apologist, offering no defense, other than Daisy's own personality, for her extreme and solitary viewpoint. Unlike other readers, I found this a very poignant story of a woman who, at the end of a life of the utmost privation and dedication to saving a culture, realizes with sadness that it has all been for naught. Clearly, she never had a clue that most of her failure was her own fault. Mary Whipple

If you enjoy fantasy and poetry this book is for you.......2000-05-24

The author is highly imaginative and tells a lot about her own life in this mish mash. We never learn much about Daisy Bates. the author writes " her body shudders like a dying rabbit and her new husband wakes and stares at his new wife..." But the author is really describing her own childhood dream of an old man with his legs wrapped around her neck!!! Blackburn's "very personal interpretation" of the life of Daisy Bates seems to include Blackburn trying to overcome some of her own childhood traumas and problems with men. If little is known about Daisy Bates' feelings towards her husband, I'd rather have that than a lot of silly conjecture and fantasy. The prose is very good, very flowery and high flown, but it doesn't help tell the story of Daisy Bates. Like other reviewers, I will have to research Daisy, yes even after reading her "biog". It didn't feel balanced at all.

A poor hybrid of the author's life & a biog. of Daisy Bates.......2000-05-23

Too much novelistic improvisation and repetition ruin this book. Julia Blackburn is clearly more interested in Julia Blackburn than in Daisy Bates. Julia Blackburn's ideas and dreams are constantly inserted just when you think you might get to read something about Daisy Bates! Julia Blackburn presents Julia Blackburn as a dreamy, visionary person, while describing Daisy Bates as a Liar over and over and over again, and then giving Daisy an "imaginary" life... It could have worked if Julia Blackburn weren't so in love with herself--- I bought this book because life among the Aborigines sounded interesting. But it's really too much about Julia Blackburn and she bores me. I read a lot of novels, biogs, poetry, and history, and this books tries to capture it all and while at times it is eloquent, it often feels false and flat.

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Now in its eighth edition, Community and Population Health provides a comprehensive introduction to the four areas of community health - Preventative Medicine, Public Health, School Health, and Self-care. Reflecting the recent emergence of population health in the community health field, Community and Population Health represents the concept that many populations of concern in health programs are not solely defined by geographic location. This revision continues to present information within a problem-solving framework as exemplified in the issue boxes and case studies throughout the text.

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It does a fairly basic job........2007-09-04

It does well at giving an over view of how community health promotion works in real life. However, it can be a little pie in the sky.

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One of the most useful books in my cooking library

Still a Star Among my Bread Books!

Amys Bread, New York

Complex techniques thoroughly explained.

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Amy's Bread
Amy Scherber , and Toy Kim Dupree
Manufacturer: Cookbooks
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0688124011

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One of the most useful books in my cooking library.......2007-08-18

I have a fairly large cooking library (which my wife regularly induces me to prune...). These authors did more to improve the quality of my product than any others I've read.

The principle of retarding the fermentation of the dough is presented clearly enough. Making a simple poulish or levain is not all that difficult. The only real complexity it adds to your life is planning some bread making ahead of time in order to allow for that slow fermentation to happen.

For me, refigerating dough overnight was the key to creating bread that was very near the quality of what you could buy in an artisanal bakery. I wouldn't have adopted that practice without this book. And trust me, you don't have to harvest leftover grapes from a vineyard to develop a decent starter (although I've done that, I confess). And you don't even have to maintain a starter to get excellent results. Simply modify the recipes to use a simple poulish would be my advice (and is often my practice).

The other major benefit of the book is that it actually attempts to explain how to form the dough into "not-your-usual-loaf-of-bread" shapes. Very few books even attempt to do that. I successfully made her beautiful dried appricot and fresh sage filled sunflower loaf on the first attempt. I get compliments on this very easy-to-make loaf every time I make it.

Finally, I probably actually use more recipes from this book than any other baking book I own. I'm making the sunflower loaf for a picnic dinner at Shakespeare Santa Cruz tomorrow evening, in fact. And I frequently make her white-and-black-sesame-seed-encrusted rolls.

So, my opionated opinion is: buy this book-- you won't regret it.

Still a Star Among my Bread Books!.......2007-07-25

Amy, you need to write another bread book or at least bring out another edition of this gem!

I've been a homebaker for a lot of years and have a large assortment of bread baking cookbooks, but when I want something reliably wonderful I find my way back to this book. I disagree with the reviewer that says this book is mainly for sourdough recipes, there are some in the book, but there are more that are either straight doughs or that begin with a simple overnight biga or poolish.

The focaccias are simply the best I've found anywhere, be sure to try them with sliced tomatoes on top! And for a stellar Thanksgiving bread that will knock your guest's socks off, go for the pumpkin bread and no it isn't the usual quick bread recipe but a wondrous yeasted dough that screams Fall!

Please Amy, I know you've got more to give us, so GIVE!!! :)

Amys Bread, New York.......2007-06-16

June 2007, I had the pleasure of going to Amys Bread in NewYork. I saw the bread making, and the wonderful store. I have been in food service for many years, and baked bread and rolls, cookies, for 500 people. My son, said there was a book.but it is out of print. So ,I purchased it on Amazon. I paid the high price, and it is worth every penny. The story how Amy started the bakery is wonderful. You will not be sorry, if you purchase the book. Happy baking, Nancy.

Complex techniques thoroughly explained........2006-09-12

I like this book--a lot. My mother gave it to me after trying a few of the recipes and then telling me it was too much effort to make these breads. On one front, she's right, there is a lot of work for the bread, but I think it's worth it. The breads come out amazing if you follow the recipe. My husband won't leave the walnut-scallion bread alone once it comes out of the oven.

I did read the other reviews and agree that there seems to be too much salt in the rosemary bread--IF you use anything other than flaked kosher salt. The use to table salt produces an unbearably salty loaf of bread. However, there is nothing like the rosemary bread made into grilled cheese sandwiches with a bowl of tomato soup...heavenly!

The book is quite easy to follow with great explainations. The one thing that is most important is: expect to put time into the breads. Also, there is a little leeway. You can skip certain steps if you need to, and change certain ingredient measurements, while still producing a great loaf of bread. This book inspired me to start baking using more complex recipies and convinced me that yeast is a good friend to have.

Amy's Bread.......2003-06-04

A fine book but the salt ratio is too high especially in the recipe for Rosemary Bread. It could be a typo but 2 tablespoons of Kosher Salt destroyed the taste. If you buy the book, I would suggest that you match the recipe with other similar recipes to check the ingredients.

Meat pies, fruitcake and running for a cure: baking ministry raises funds and helps community.(Grace Presbyterian, Calgary) : An article from: Presbyterian Record

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Meat pies, fruitcake and running for a cure: baking ministry raises funds and helps community.(Grace Presbyterian, Calgary) : An article from: Presbyterian Record
Amy MacLachlan
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B000BJU31Q
Release Date: 2005-09-23

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This digital document is an article from Presbyterian Record, published by Thomson Gale on March 1, 2005. The length of the article is 741 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Meat pies, fruitcake and running for a cure: baking ministry raises funds and helps community.(Grace Presbyterian, Calgary)
Author: Amy MacLachlan
Publication: Presbyterian Record (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 1, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 129 Issue: 3 Page: 36(2)

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Conservation breads,
Amy L Handy
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Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B0008C1J0U

Second year cooking bulletin: Batters and doughs (Extension bulletin)

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Second year cooking bulletin: Batters and doughs (Extension bulletin)
Amy Kelly
Manufacturer: University of Idaho, Extension Dept
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Stale bread or the glory of flight? (Amy Morris Homans lectures)

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Stale bread or the glory of flight? (Amy Morris Homans lectures)
Marion Ruth Broer
Manufacturer: The National Association for Physical Education of College Women
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A compact example of war time conservation efforts...

War-time breads and cakes,
Amy L Handy
Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Company
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: B0008651D2

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A compact example of war time conservation efforts..........2007-01-17

This is a small book measuring only 7 3/4 in tall and 4 1/4 in wide. Published in March, 1918 by Houghton Mifflin Co., it is authored by Amy L. Handy - also author of "War Food: Practical and Economical Methods of Keeping Vegetables, Fruits and Meats."

The contents are as follows:

Yeasts
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Breads and Biscuits made with Yeast
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Breads and Biscuits made without Yeast
Pancakes
Cakes and Gingerbreads

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Very helpful.......1999-05-25

As a first-time purchaser of a dwarf rabbit, I found this book to be very helpful. The author explains the varying characteristics of the breeds and even reviews the history of each breeding line. The beautiful photographs realy helped me to better visualize the different breeds, assisting in my purchase decision. The author also reviews the medical, feeding and housing needs of dwarf rabbits. This book is of great value to all first-time dwarf rabbit owners.

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Marking the centennial of the Palisades Interstate Park Commission, Palisades: 100,000 Acres in 100 Years celebrates the unique series of parklands, many within sight of the Empire State Building, that is the Palisades Interstate Park. Beginning with the efforts of Elizabeth Vermilye of the New Jersey Federation of Women's Clubs, who enlisted President Theodore Roosevelt's support to stop the blasting and quarrying of Palisades rock, this book traces the story of the famous- including J.P. Morgan, the Rockefellers, and the Harrimans- and not-so-famous men and women whose donations of time and money led to the preservation of New York and New Jersey's most scenic and historic lands. Despite the involvement of men of great wealth and fame from its earliest beginnings, the Palisades Interstate Park Commission faced an early and ongiong struggle to arrange financial support from both the New York and New Jersey state governments for a park that would cross state lines. The conflicts between developers and conservationists, industrialists and wilderness enthusiasts, with their opposing views regarding the uses of natural resources, required the commissioners of the PIPC to become skilled negotiators, assiduous fundraisers, and savvy participants in the political process. The efforts to create the Palisades Interstate Park was prodigious, requiring more than one thousand real-estate transactions to establish Sterling Forest, to save Storm King Mountain, to preserve Lake Minnewaska, to protect Stony Point Battlefield and Washington's Headquarters, to open Bear Mountain and Harriman State Parks, and to add the other sixteen parks to the Palisades Interstate Park System. The results have been astonishing: an inn and restauant, 350 miles of hiking trails, four large public beaches, 12 swimming pools, two golf courses, 42 miles of bike trails, ten sewage treatment plants, two police forces and a court, highways, parkways, and bridges all requiring almost one thousand employes in the summer season. Because of the PIPC, many millions of people have had the opportunity to enjoy the special beauty of the Palisades. Conservationists, developers, citizen's groups, and politicians from throughout the country have been able to observe cooperation in action, learning from the PIPC the importance of preserving open space within a densely populated area.

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palisades, 100,000 acres in 100 years.......2003-05-25

Excellent story of how to conserve land and create parks.

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DNA "fingerprinting," genetic engineering of food, genetic screening, gene therapy, the human genome project...there is no shortage of news these days about the genetic revolution. The purpose of this book is to take the interested reader behind the headlines to explore the fascinating world of molecular biology. Eschewing jargon, author Susan Aldridge gives an accessible account of the world of DNA and also explores its present and future applications. In the first part of the book, she explains what DNA is and how it functions within living organisms. In the second part, she explores genetic engineering and its applications to humans--such as gene therapy, genetic screening, and DNA fingerprinting. In the third, the author looks at the wider world of biotechnology and how genetic engineering can be applied to such problems as producing vegetarian cheese or cleaning up the environment. Finally, she explains how knowledge of the structure and function of genes sheds light on evolution and our place in the world. Aldridge has written with a light touch full of historical references; her achievement will make rewarding reading for anyone who reads popular accounts of the life sciences.

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Short, clear, yet in depth........2003-11-27

This is a straightforward exposition; it doesn't try to come at the material from a novel angle (cf Ridley's "Genome), nor does it dwell on arguments such as nature vs. nurture. What it does do is explain the science in remarkable depth in a short book. For me, much of the material was review/clarification, but I suspect it would work for those with less background. Aldridge is disciplined in what she covers, writes clearly, uses diagrams when it will help, and seems to choose just the correct level of detail. She includes details you might not expect to find, when they are important: for example, some human proteins cannot be made by bacteria because humans add sugars to these protein molecules AFTER they are created using RNA, and bacteria do not have this capability. I do wish the index were more complete, it just is not helpful enough if you wish to review something covered earlier. Also, in the last section on bio-technology, Aldridge is much less disciplined, tries to cover too much too fast, and I found myself with numerous unanswered questions.

Covers both the pure science and the applications.......2003-04-09

I found myself enjoying this book after punching through the initial chapters that served as the science primer for defining DNA. The author gets credit for laying out the biological concepts that the reader will need to know to understand the material that comes later (e.g., genetic engineering). Assuming you have no prior background, you'll need to learn these concepts before you can follow the various applications of genetic engineering she goes into. The writing style is lean, but doesn't gloss over the complexity of the subject.

The book shines in its treatment of genetic engineering and biotechnology. And unlike a number of more recent books doesn't get fixated on the human genome project or sequencing in general. Actually, even with the book being several years old, I found many of the topics covered to be of interest even to date. Examples include a discussion of the "selfish gene" (proposed by Richard Dawkins), the theory of endosymbiosis pioneered by Lynn Margulis, the "ice-minus" bacteria used to keep strawberries from frost damage, and the genetically engineered "flavor-saver" tomato.

The applications of genetic engineering described in the book are definitely relevant and important (e.g., cloning, drug discovery, plant science, and environmental cleanup). And to the author's credit, she doesn't appear to take too strong a position on either side of the biotechnology ethic's debate.

A nice tour of the fundamentals.......2000-01-18

I learned a great deal from this book and enjoyed reading it. However I sometimes felt like the "tour" was moving too fast...great breadth but (perhaps unavoidably) not much depth. Additional figures and diagrams would have been helpful. I was surprised that there was no mention of the increasingly important role of computer science / bioinformatics. Still, if you are looking for a primer on the fundamental scientific methods, and an objective presentation of the key issues, this is a good place to start. A great many scientific ideas packed into a small volume.

Terrible, don't waste your money........1999-08-16

I wish I could give this book ZERO stars

Good.......1998-07-22

A pretty nice introduction to genes, sequencing, genetic engineering, and related topics. Ms. Aldridge is mostly very clear, interesting, and impartial. She manages to include a little bit about a lot of the relevant and topical issues.

The Thread of Life: The Story of Genes and Genetic Engineering.

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The Thread of Life: The Story of Genes and Genetic Engineering.
Susan. Aldridge
Manufacturer: Cambridge Univ. Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000NGSZ8A

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THREAD OF LIFE : THE STORY OF GENES AND GENETIC ENGINEERING
SUSAN ALDRIDGE
Manufacturer: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000KUVIFQ

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Gripping, personal account.......2004-03-02

I just read this 343 paged story of the account of my dad's first cousin's experience as a soldier and prisoner of war, and I will never think the same about the sacrifices made by soldiers as I did before reading this.
One can also glean insight into the human heart or nature, when it is threatened, or starved, alone and isolated or in a pack or group.
And for me personally, this story makes me proud of the contribution Bilyeus have made to the United States, not only in wars but many other ways, since the first Billiou (later Bilyeu) landed at what was then called New Amsterdam back in 1661, as Huguenots sailing here from Leyden, Holland, just 41 years after the Pilgrims.

Lost in Action.......2003-10-09

Afer I started reading Lost In Action I could not put it down, it is well written and comes very close to my father's accounts of the Philippines, the Bataan Death March, the various camps and Japan. There are many coincidences, that make me wonder if the author knew my Dad?
I wish the author had included maps, photographs, even the insignia from the Coast Artillery, but I have many of those to refer to. This is not to criticise the verbal descriptions which are very visual.
I feel that this book was very difficult for the author to write for men like my father had a great difficulty discussing the atrocities and the effects upon their fellow prisoners. I am grateful to the author for his courage and the perseverance that it evidently took to write this book which I hightly recommend.

A powerful account that touches the heart.......2002-08-27

This book is a must for anyone who reads stories of war and the affect it has on the soldiers. I praise the author for the courage he had to write it. I love you grandpa...

As I see it........2002-01-01

Although I am the writters son. Based on all the reading I have done over the years. This book comes as close to telling the true story as possible. He had nothing to gain by writing this story. He only wanted to live his life and that he did. Go in peace, Dad!

A personal account to preserve accurate history.......1998-11-24

A dynamic and humbling account of a typical young man, unprepared for the horrors of war, thrust into a maturity beyond his years or of any experience of a reader, lest they were also a participant. A first-hand account of the horrors and atrocities of Japanese soldiers in the Philipines during WWII, aboard relocation ships, most of which were literally sunk beneath him, then finally his account of being interred as a prison "mine worker".He credits the final saving of his life to the atomic bombs dropped on Japan, one of which he witnessed from his final prison camp location in Japan. I was fortunate to have known the author, and had an opportunity to hear first-hand accounts of truths of these atrocities. Dick's book is an invaluable testimony which needs to stand against the "political-correctness" of today that continually re-writes history.

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