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Vietnam - the Incomplete Transformation: The Incomplete Transformation (Gdi Book Series, 12)
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The book analyses the history and the major economic features of the Vietnamese reform process. It focuses on the reform of enterprises and the financial sector and gives an overall picture of the reform efforts in the areas of rural development, the social sectors and environmental policy. Despite the early successes of the reforms, the transformation process is by far incomplete. Vietnam is still in the beginning of a long and difficult transition from a low-income economy to a status equivalent to its ASEAN partners. The government still has to implement complex structural reforms in the state enterprises and the banking sector, and it has to correct the regional and social imbalances which occurred during the first phase of transformation. Only through the unequivocal support of the private sector will it be possible to exploit the potential benefits of the integration into the East Asia region and the world economy.
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Vietnam: The Incomplete Transformation.(Review) (book review): An article from: Contemporary Southeast Asia
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Title: Vietnam: The Incomplete Transformation.(Review) (book review)
Author: Russell Heng
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Contemporary Southeast Asia (Refereed)
Date: April 1, 2000
Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS)
Volume: 22
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Page: 228
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Remarkable firsthand account by one of the few survivors of Magellan's epochal journey (1519–1522). Remarkably detailed record of new lands, flora and fauna, shipboard life, etc. Introduction. 28 halftones. Map.
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A Must Read - but not a novell........2006-08-21
First of all, You have to keep in mind that Pigafetta was not a writer. Hes was a noble from Italy, serving on the Diplomatic corps (if could call that in those days) that heard that Magellan was about to start a voyage never done before. The Pigafetta's drive was to see what kind of market was out there and how it would change the geopolitics established.
Globalization. Today we use the web, blackberries and airplanes. In those days it was all about merchant ships, swords and cannon balls.
Not a Fun Read, but a Unique Resource.......2006-06-10
What can one do when your only source for a major historical event like Magellan's circumnavigation of the globe was, in all probability, written by a spy? Antonio Pigafetta was an Italian from Vicenza who is thought to have written his journal for the Venetians, the Pope, or the Emperor Charles V.
It is interesting that Pigafetta wrote very little of the voyage out to the Spice Islands (the archipelago that includes present day Indonesia and the Philippines), and even less about the return under Sebastián de Elcano, who took over after Magellan was killed in battle at Cebu in the Philippines. Most of his relation is concerned with detailed descriptions of the people and lands of the Spice Islands, including detailed glossaries of words in the various languages that might be of interest to merchants trading in the area. Just what you'd think one would do if he were reporting back to someone else.
As a reporter of people and cultures, Pigafetta was far ahead of his time. As a reporter of a voyage of exploration, however, he is somewhat inadequate. It quickly becomes apparent that the workings of the ship are not his concern. After describing the horrendous 98-day voyage across the Pacific, he ends up by smugly saying that he himself did not get ill -- possibly because he may have had his own private food stock. He describes the relatively placid Cape of Good Hope off South Africa as the most dangerous part of the voyage, probably because he had a rare peaceful crossing of the otherwise stormy Straits of Magellan.
This edition is not the most attractive, and typographically it is difficult to read. The maps provided by Pigafetta serve only to show certain islands with respect to one another, and do not help the reader of his relation in the slightest in terms of their topography or even shape. But then Dover is known for producing relatively inexpensive reprints of works that are in the public domain. Any blame on the edition falls on Yale University, who produced the original.
Well Worth it!.......2005-02-28
Just to be clear, this is not a novel. It is a *detailed* account of the first circumnavigation of the globe. It is readable and presents first-hand impressions of the voyage's travelers. It is an interesting piece of history. For those that have travelled to other countries, this book will make you recall some of the first impressions that people have from other cultures.
I wonder how people get interested about this book. For me, it was the nobel prize acceptance speech by Garcia Marquez in 1982 which included generous references to Pigafetta's story...
A difficult "must read".......2003-11-09
I actually bought this book for its description of the Moluccas/Maluku - the very "Spice Islands" this historic voyage set out to find.
While Pigafetta did write more about those islands than about anywhere else they called at, the old-fashioned style made this a hard read. Like those reviewing it before me, I struggled to get through even those chapters relevant to the Moluccas.
Still, it is an important and valuable first hand account of a remote region and of course of a truly historic voyage.
the read's a slog & this edition hinders the reader.......2001-10-29
I bought this book after having found out about it in Daniel Boorstin's "The Discoverers". I thought it was amazing that a firsthand account of the first voyage around the world had survived and yet appeared to be of so little renown. I thought that the reviewer from Lexington, KY's remarks about its readability had to be wrong, I mean, what a find this had to be!
I was wrong. This book is far from arresting. I, too, had to struggle to read more than a few pages a night. The book is not really about the circumnavigation of the globe, it was written as a present to Kings and Queens who, at that time, were mostly interested in the spice islands, where they were, and what their minions could expect to find once they found them. Accordingly, the great majority of the book is concerned with the Moluccas, the islands to be found around them, and descriptions of their respective peoples and customs.
As the KY reviewer pointed out before me, the endnotes are mostly a hindrance to the generalist, consisting almost entirely of really picayune differences between the "Yale MS" and several others. Only a handful of this type of endnote are helpful to the generalist. No attempt is made to separate the endnotes that would help a layman sort out the sense of a confusing passage or word from these others. The introduction is mostly a discussion of the differences between extant manuscripts.
This edition is also poorly constructed -- the text is near the binding so you want to open it wide, but the glue is so hard that you're afraid that you'll crack it, so you end up reading the sections near the binding at an angle. The illustrations reproduced have no geographical value and so much of what would be interesting about them is lost because they are reproduced in black and white.
I only give this two stars because Pigafetta's text is inherently interesting and I don't want to dissuade anyone from reading it. ...
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Scientists have developed a featherless chicken designed to make industrial chicken production more efficient, while specially trained Pacific bottlenose dolphins are being deployed in the Persian Gulf to disarm mines and protect our Navy. Everyone knows Darwin's theory of natural selection, but what about his idea of artificial selection--how humans, not nature, rework natural organisms to meet our needs? Industrializing Organisms brings us to the threshold of the new field of evolutionary history--from the mobilization of war horses in the 19th century to today's engineered plants and manipulated animals.
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DEOXYRIBOSE NUCLEIC ACID, G.C.T.A. AND H.Y.P.E........2007-10-03
This 2005 edition may exhibit an updated text. My own copy of the book is a 2001 reprint of the original text from 1993, and one thing that struck me as I read it was that over those 8 years there appeared to have been no changes made. Not only is genetics a very modern science, its profile has risen spectacularly within the scientific community over a period of not many years, so I expect there must have been a fair amount of updating to do. Nevertheless this is explicitly a book for beginners, the approach taken is chronological in recounting the successive discoveries, the author is a leading and eminent expert who presumably would not have countenanced reprints of any statements he wished to retract, so I have to suppose that the text as I have it remains valid as far as it goes. We beginners have to begin at the beginning, this is the beginning, reviews here are almost non-existent, and it may be helpful in that case if I give my fellow neophytes some idea of what to expect, even if I am not fully up to date.
Professor Steve Jones of University College London is well known, at least in Britain, from television. Everyone has heard of DNA these days even if they do not know what those letters stand for (see my caption above). We have clearly opened another Pandora's box by dabbling in this matter, and in my edition Jones concludes by touching on the ethical and political issues that our new discoveries raise. Whatever additions or amendments he may have added in retrospect, his remarks reflect his mindset, which is level-headed and humane, and his media appearances have not suggested to me that he has espoused any significantly new views in these respects.
The main narrative is historical, in the simple chronological sense. Jones really starts with Mendel and his experiments on peas, having given Darwin only a cursory mention before that. Other major figures are given what I take to be their due mention, the main actors are, expectedly, Crick and Watson the discoverers of the double helix, and subsequent research is also noted in my edition up to `the 1990's'. The picture I gained was much what I would have thought - advances in research have shown the matter to be enormously more complex than even Crick and Watson, let alone Mendel, envisaged. However the basic models that these pioneers created seem to have stood the test of time and look likely to continue to. The tedious debate over creationism is mercifully ignored, although the author readily admits that the phenomenon of being alive, whereby living tissue creates new tissue, remains a mystery, at least so far. Science can now trace the processes at work in detail, but what these processes ultimately are seems unidentified.
The original text is credited to not just Steve Jones but also to the illustrator Borin Van Loon [sic]. Every page from start to finish, or at least until we reach Jones's `footnote', is larded with illustrative matter, mostly cartoons. Whether some readers may find this style patronising I don't know, but if so I for one was quite happy to be patronised. For all the clarity of Jones's exposition the main text can't avoid being slightly heavy going here and there, and I found that the illustrations lightened my own going very successfully. It all seems very simple to start with, but here and there new terms creep in without prior explanation, although they are usually clarified before too long. The style is basically that of a good lecturer with a sense of how to keep the audience's attention without diluting or over-simplifying the message.
Jones comments wryly that while for scientists the four letters of the genetic `alphabet' are G C T A, now that the subject has got well and truly into the public and tabloid domain H Y P E might sometimes seem to characterise the discussion better. Genetics explains much, and it opens up enormous possibilities in real life, whether these be seen as promises or as threats. In the text as I have it, he hedges his bets and does not over-commit himself to either side of the argument. However he permits himself some down-to-earth observations to the effect that whether or not genetically modified crops may be in some way dangerous, there is no `whether' about it when the food in question is cheeseburgers; and whatever may be said about human cloning the phenomenon is not new but as old as the first ever pair of identical twins.
As an introduction I found this book admirable. We all have, it seems to me, a responsibility to inform ourselves as best we can about subjects as important as this is. When the matter is set out for us as clearly as it is here it is something approaching irresponsible not to take the opportunity we are given, and worse than irresponsible to promote points of view from a basis of culpable ignorance.
In my opinion, the "Introducing" series are well worth the money.......2007-06-14
I've read several in the series, I'd give the Genetics book 5 stars. I'm no where near a Genetics expert, so I can't comment on the correctness of the work, but I did get quite a lot out of it.
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Introducing Issues with Opposing Viewpoints - Genetic Engineering (Introducing Issues with Opposing Viewpoints)
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Plants, humans and microorganisms are all subjects of genetic engineering, a procedure with potential to intentionally eliminate diseases and modify physical traits. But what alterations are safe and ethical? This anthology explores issues raised by the promises of genetic science, genetically modified foods and human cloning.
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Embryonal Stem Cells: Introducing Planned Changes into the Animal Germline (Modern Genetics)
Martin, L. Hooper
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Modern Genetics book series will cover a wide range of topics within genetics, including animal, plant, population, evolutionary and molecular genetics. Individual volumes in the series will cover themes such as sex determination, yeast artificial chromosomes and the genetics of toxicology, drug resistance, eye diseases, cancer and psychiatric conditions.
Embryonal Stem Cells: Introducing Planned Changes into the Animal Germline is the first volume in the
Modern Genetics book series. Genetic manipulation of embryonal stem cells allows a wide range of precise genetic modifications. The chimaeric animals produced can then transmit these modifications to their offspring. This volume provides an up-to-date review of this rapidly developing area of research, covering embryonal stem cells, homologous recombination and gene targeting, germline transmission of planned genomic modifications and research strategies using genetically modified animals. This volume will be of interest to res
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Genetica para todos / Introducing Genetics
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Introducing Genetics
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A. Karp
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Introducing Genetics: From Mendel to Molecule
Alison Thomas
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The book provides an accessible introduction to the three key areas of genetics: Menelian, Molecular and Population. It describes the basic concepts of genetics from the first principles to most recent developments, and will be easily understood by those following a wide variety of different courses both within and without life sciences.
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Don't be fooled..........2005-01-17
Do not be fooled into buying this book just because it's a recommended text for your university course. If you're actually studying genetics you'll need something far more comprehensive than this. If on the other hand you are studying biology, zoology or similar subjects and are taking a 'basic gentics' module, you won't find much in this book that can't be found in more general Biology books such as Life (Purves et al). Also, many of the answers to the questions at the end of each chapter are either confusing, or just wrong.
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Gene Transfer Methods: Introducing DNA Into Living Cells and Organisms
Pamela A., Ed. Norton
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Primary Productivity of Grass Ecosystems of the Tropics and Sub-tropics
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