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Animals with Novel Genes
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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ASIN: 0521024722 |
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This book is about transgenic animals--animals into which new genes have been artificially introduced. It has chapters by leading authorities on the present state-of-play regarding the application of the transgenic technology to different animal groups. Scientists have conducted experiments on a great range of animal types, ranging from protozoan cells, through nematode worms and fruit flies to many higher vertebrates, and this book provides an in-depth, up-to-date, comprehensive and authoritative account of the work with all such animal types. The likely impact of transgenic animals on the future of agriculture and medicine is very great. These animals provide an unrivaled experimental system for the study of gene regulation, genetic aspects of disease, and gene therapy. One of the objectives of the book is therefore to set transgenic animals in the context of their present and future contributions to science and medicine.
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Rudow's Guide to Fishing the Chesapeake is the most comprehensive guide to angling on all of the Chesapeake's waters from main-stem Bay to tributaries and tidal creeks. Detailed charts show over 550 specific hotspots and 35 public shoreline fishing hotspots, plus 33 reliable public boat ramps.
Specific Bay sportfish and the most effective methods of catching them during each phase of the season are meticulously discussed on a fish-by-fish basis, as are both modern and traditional tackle and rigs.
Never before has a fishing guide tackled each aspect of angling the Chesapeake Bay so thoroughly. Topics are as varied as casting for spring trophy rock on the Susquehanna Flats, jigging for seatrout at the Bay Bridge, wire-lining for flounder at the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel, and ice fishing for perch in Port Deposit are all covered in depth. There are even sections on shoreline fishing for each area of the Chesapeake. If you want to boost your catch rate every time you fish the Bay, this book is the ticket.
Customer Reviews:
Excellent Chesapeake fishing guidance!.......2007-05-07
This book is extremely helpful to someone who wants to either learn how to fish in the Chesapeake Bay or improve on their current talents and knowledge. The book covers in depth fishing locations, techniques, lures and rigs, and specific information on the main fish you will go after. I highly recommend the book.
Not All I Hoped.......2007-01-02
I was hoping for more info for the shore fisherman. It gave tips on a few accsess points and baits/lures. All maps are boating charts.
It's a keeper!.......2006-05-23
I've been fishing the Bay since I was a little boy. The Rudow Guide is truly awesome. A treasure of useful information and easy to read, too. A great guide and a great gift. Go Rudow!
Excellent work.......2006-05-17
Lenny's book is incredibly accurate and loaded with local knowledge. Very helpful to new fishermen and those already familiar with the Chesapeake. It's a must to be kept onboard every fishing boat on the Chesapeake.
Encyclopedia.......2006-05-17
Rudow's Guide to Fishing the Chesapeake is an encylopedia for fishing in the Chesapeake Bay. I especially liked the information to help fisherpeople who do not have boats and fish from shores.
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What happens to recalled meat?
What’s the difference between a serial killer and a spree killer?
How do you stop a lava flow?
Does homeowner’s insurance cover murder?
And what is Ovaltine anyway?
Answers to these and other fascinating questions you never thought to ask, from the writers at Slate Magazine
An entertaining and genuinely informative compilation of answers to some of life's most improbable questions, from the writers of the online magazine Slate. Often inspired by events in the news, the “Explainer” column asks the questions we never think to ask, or that we’re too embarrassed to admit we don’t know how to answer. Filling in these overlooked blanks of our daily lives, the book provides memorable tidbits for conversations, further rumination, or important context as we follow current events from day to day. Full of fascinating information about unlikely but important subjects,
The Explainer will entertain and inform anyone who has ever stopped to wonder who runs Antarctica, how cell phones can reveal your location, or whether one can live off lizard meat.
Customer Reviews:
A Poorly Written "Homage" to a better product........2006-08-01
Slate magazine's little item might not be bad, if somebody else hadn't done it better, years earlier.
Since the 1970s, the Chicago Reader Newspaper has had a column called "The Straight Dope" by Cecil Adams, which provides more accurate information, better writing, & wittier banter.
Don't settle for this poor copy--go search under Author's Name : "Cecil Adams" in Advanced Search, & buy one of several collection of the better product. Start here---The Straight Dope
SO MUCH INFORMATION.......2005-07-03
Quite literally corresponding with the title of the book, "The Explainer" answers and explains questions you can't easily find answers to. This book deals with issues that are commonly addressed in the news or in the paper, and extrapolates them with more detail.For example, remember this year when Pope died? I always kept thinking to myself, why didn't he just retire if he was so sick he could barely sit up. This book answered my question, "Can a Pope Retire?" which I found the answer to. Also, it is written with easy language, so that the reader without any background knowledge wold comprehend.
This book is categorized into various sections so you can choose which issues that you want to read about. I found "Strange Careers" and "What's the Difference?" categories particularly interesting. You can learn about how much you'd be paid if you were a talk-show guest at the Oprah show, or what exactly is the difference between genocide and "crime against humanity". You can learn about the subtle differences in words (like CEO and Chairman) and question why Bush says "nucular" instead of nuclear. Just have a read through it and you will be shocked how much this book can tell you. This is a great guide to understanding more about the world and once you breeze through it, things on the news will begin to make more sense. AND you can brag off to your friends, you know?
Entertaining.......2005-03-06
Do you have an annoying friend who claims to know everything? Pick up a copy of this book and I guarantee you'll stump Mr./Ms. Know It All.
It's a fun book that you can read all at once or flip through to sections that interest you. Either way, you'll probably learn something new. It even has a section of questions that you want to ask but are afraid to, and no they're not sex related.
Eg. Money Laundering: What is it and how it's done. That's something I've wanted to know about but it's not really a great conversation piece.
*What exactly is Ovaltine?
*Can you patent common features of the Internet?
*Is there cocain on your money?
*What happens to recalled meat?
*Does the president need a passport?
This book is full of useful and of course useless trivia. It would make a great gift for any trivia junkie.
The Explainer by Curbs et al........2004-07-31
This book covers practically every uncommon phenomenon known
to humankind. For instance, the authors explain how to slow down lava in a volcano. The traceability of cell phones by tower records is described in technical detail.
Recess appointments by government officials are explained as to their timing and cause. The contents of this work would provide good conversation at any party or informal social gathering. For this reason alone, the volume is worth the price of admission.
If you wanted to know, but were too afraid too ask.......2004-07-09
The premise of this book is great: The news (print, TV, magazine, and internet) puts out stories with assumed facts in there, yet most people don't know the basis for these facts, since there is just too much information out there for everyone to know. For example, one always hears about some great blizzard, and that 5 inches of snow was layed down. If you are like me, you have heard this, or something similar, many, many times, and you know what it means, but yet you have no idea exactly how they figured out that 12 inches of snow fell last night. Well, this book answers that question.
Another great example is the essay on how corking a bat helps a batter. One not only learns how a bat is corked and how it helps the batter's performance, but you also learn that a corked bat would probably DECREASE the distance of Sammy Sosa's hits. (This has to do with the physics equation p=mv, momentum = mass x velocity. Since a corked bat weighs less than an uncorked one, the momentum for a corked bat, assuming the same velocity for both, will be less than for an uncorked one.)
If you like trivia books, this is definitely a keeper; if you don't like the normal run-of-the-mill trivia books, you will probably like this one, since it isn't your standard question and answer book that lays out the facts without any cultural/political/real-life relevance. Who doesn't want to know what happens to your social security number when you die. Is it retired, or recycled? Read the book, and you'll find out.
Customer Reviews:
Packed with information and pictures........2006-08-13
My children (age 5 & 7) are enjoying this book, though it would be a fun book for older kids as well. (I, too, am learning some things as we read it together for Home school). Each page can take us 15 minutes to get through due to all of the colorful pictures and TONS of fun facts about life long ago. Every few pages there is a simple art project the kids can do related to the page. They have enjoyed those too. I expected the book to be larger than it was when it arrived, but now that we have been reading it I see it is well worth the money.
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Beautiful illustrations, excellent book!.......2006-08-10
My children are very excited about this book. It is full of wonderful illustrations and information about different climates/regions (desert, jungle, mountains, etc...). In each region it also explores various related topics such as walking through the jungle, volcanoes, avalanches, conquering Everest, the death of rainforests (these are headings in the book). I would highly recommend this. It seemed a bit small in size when I received it, but upon opening it and sharing with my children I can see it was worth the money. We are using it for homeschooling.
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"Can you find any more fun stuff like this?".......2001-08-31
Last night, as I was digging through the books and resources my children and I studied during our Great Egypt Semester, my 12 year old looked at our copy of Angela Wilkes' Deserts and said, "Dad, can you find any more fun stuff like that for our history?"
What a great little book, easily read by our then-first grader, enough full of fun facts to hold the attention-and seize the memory-of my older two a couple of years later.
This book (recommended to us in The Greenleaf Guide to Ancient Egypt), is chock full of fascinating pictures and facts about deserts around the world. In fact, Deserts helped us introduce a much-needed science component to our history study, since the history of Egypt was so influenced by its desert terrain.
I recommend this book heartily for any child who can read. If your child can't read yet, read it to them and then talk about it.
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Finding Out About Our Earth (Explainers Series)
Jane Chisholm
Manufacturer: Educational Development Corporation
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The Film Explainer
Gert Hofmann
Manufacturer: Minerva
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ASIN: 0749396407 |
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The Film Explainer was first released in Germany in 1990, hailed as a work of comic genius. In it, a boy tells of the life of his grandfather, Karl Hofmann, who worked in the Apollo theater in Limbach/Saxony as a film explainer and piano player. As the Nazis rise in power, Grandfather goes along until a bomb falls on the Apollo. Beneath the surface of this seemingly simple tale are complex undercurrents--the folly of Grandfather's life, the grandson's memoir, the glory of the cinema, the choices of the German war generation--all told in Hofmann's quick, comic dialogue that earned him critical praise for both his novels and radio plays.
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One note samba.......2003-12-17
Nothing in this book evolves, despite the advent of Hitler and then WW2 - or is that the point? An inflated novella, or a one-note samba!
This book deserves more attention.......2003-01-27
This book has so much to recommend it. The really outstanding thing is the child narrator's voice - it's always exactly appropriate to the child's purported age. Nothing precocious - only what the child could really know and say.
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Finding Out About Sun, Moon, and Planets (Explainers Series)
Lynn Myring
Manufacturer: Educational Development Corporation
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ASIN: 0860205800 |
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In this 30-day companion workbook to
There's No Such Thing as "Business" Ethics, bestselling author John C. Maxwell demonstrates how we can live with integrity by using the Golden Rule as our standard-in business and in life. In fact, Maxwell suggests the higher standard of exceeding the Golden Rule-by treating people better than they treat us, helping those who cannot help us, doing right when it is natural to do wrong, and keeping promises, even when it hurts.
An ethics guide for any situation, each "day" of
The Power of One offers a
Drilling Down section which features a case study or story that illustrates the day's topic,
Summarizing Principles on the subject, penetrating questions for
Making Evaluation, and points of application for
Taking Action. Maxwell reveals the factors that can "tarnish" the Golden Rule and teaches how to develop the Midas touch in personal integrity.
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- Architecture of Ecology - Architectural Design Profiles 125 (Architectural Design)
- Assessing The Ecological Integrity Of Running Waters (Developments in Hydrobiology)
- Backroads of Michigan: Your Guide to Wild and Scenic Backroad Adventures in Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Indiana
- Behavioral Genetics: The Clash of Culture and Biology
- Bewitch a Man: How to Find Him and Keep Him Under Your Spell
- Beyond the Cognitive Map: From Place Cells to Episodic Memory
- Bioelectrodynamics and Biocommunication
- Biogeochemistry of Environmentally Important Trace Elements (Acs Symposium Series)
- Bioindustrial Ecosystems (Ecosystems of the World)
- Biomonitors and Biomarkers as Indicators of Environmental Change Handbook (Environmental Science Research Volume 56) (Environmental Science Research)
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